Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast has unfollowed the official NFL
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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis.
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Speaker 1: Remember when Alex Smith, I'm gonna get to Mr Smith
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Speaker 1: Uh this week, And you're like, man, this guy he
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Speaker 1: All right, big show today. So we got the Warrior
Speaker 1: with us uh, and we are going to roll through
Speaker 1: uh two more games on the week thirteen slate. Impossibly,
Speaker 1: We're not done though. There is a Tuesday game of
Speaker 1: course between the Cowboys and Ravens and me and the
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Speaker 1: Uh so stress on extra extra content from the A
Speaker 1: t N podcast. This show will focus on the two
Speaker 1: Monday games and also it's been a while headlines from
Speaker 1: the future as we look to the end of the
Speaker 1: regular season. We have those mystical powers and we will
Speaker 1: use them. We're not afraid to use them. In fact,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. So let's dig in and we'll
Speaker 1: start in the order in which the games were played
Speaker 1: on Monday. Let's head to Hines Field rather tipped up
Speaker 1: in the air and intercept intercepted by John Buffet takes over.
Speaker 1: With the three point lead, we were absolutely well, I
Speaker 1: guess it pays to be lucky. And because man Montess
Speaker 1: went great job tipping that ball. Wow, yeah, kill that music.
Speaker 1: This is not Monday Night Football, not branded by ESPN
Speaker 1: or Disney or any of its subsidiaries. This was just
Speaker 1: a game and you probably couldn't even watch it because
Speaker 1: it wasn't nationally televised anyway. The call Bram Weinstein, D'Angelo
Speaker 1: hall and that was Julie Donaldson of w T E.
Speaker 1: M Monte Sweat Knox that the Ben Roethlisberger passed up
Speaker 1: in the air, it is picked off by Mr Bostick,
Speaker 1: and that John bost That was Mr John Bostick, and
Speaker 1: that was the difference. Uh. The Washington football team knocks
Speaker 1: off the Pittsburgh Steelers twenty three to seventeen, the first
Speaker 1: loss of the season, and I think it's only fair
Speaker 1: of that. I t up Mr Greg Rosenthal who predicted
Speaker 1: Washington would knock the Steelers from amongst the ranks of
Speaker 1: the unbeaten, and they were the only one. Greg, How
Speaker 1: did they do it the way they've been doing it
Speaker 1: all year by like being better than the some of
Speaker 1: their parts. When you watch them, it it's tricky. I
Speaker 1: don't like getting into this nebulous area of like, oh
Speaker 1: they're mentally tough, you know, like they're a mentally tough team.
Speaker 1: But when you watch them, I see it. I see
Speaker 1: them competing hard as hell every week on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball, especially defense. And I think that tip
Speaker 1: pass was fitting because this was a day where they
Speaker 1: didn't they barely touched Ben Roethlisberger, you know, I think
Speaker 1: they had three quarterback hits and in about fifty five dropbacks.
Speaker 1: But they just keep coming and they keep making it uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and they tackle and they play like their hairs on fire,
Speaker 1: and the offense seems to find a way to do
Speaker 1: just enough in a game where they lose their most
Speaker 1: dynamic offensive player, Antonio Gibson right off the jump, they
Speaker 1: lose the key to their offensive line, Brandon schurf Uh
Speaker 1: in the third quarter of this game. They just keep pushing,
Speaker 1: and I think heavy wears the crown of an undefeated
Speaker 1: team in December. I think these teams they they don't
Speaker 1: want to lose, but I think it's just a lot
Speaker 1: to be carrying. I think the Steelers were due and
Speaker 1: they played a team like no other, the football team.
Speaker 1: I thought that the goal line stand that Washington produced,
Speaker 1: um little moments, Um, I made the mistake, you know.
Speaker 1: I was. I think we're all writing on Monday, and
Speaker 1: then suddenly the game is starting and it's like, wait,
Speaker 1: I've got overlapping duties here and in Washington. Washington went
Speaker 1: down at one point where the Steelers dropped to their
Speaker 1: second touchdown. I I tweeted out game over, which is
Speaker 1: never a good move. Um, about fourteen minutes into a game.
Speaker 1: But I really was convinced that that Steelers were quite
Speaker 1: angry coming off the nationally televised Raven game where they
Speaker 1: were I thought they looked confused, out of rhythm, and
Speaker 1: they doubled down in this game and looked looked completely
Speaker 1: out of sorts. And you know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: if Greg it's it's a mentally tough um other side
Speaker 1: of the coin for the Steelers, But the drops, uh,
Speaker 1: like the decision to throw to Anthony McFarland when you've
Speaker 1: got you know, four or five white outs on the
Speaker 1: field in a key situation, a guy that's not someone
Speaker 1: who's been a go to guy for Ben. This seemed
Speaker 1: out of sorts and and and you know, we can
Speaker 1: get deeper into the game. But one thing I find
Speaker 1: interesting is when these probably two of Pittsburgh's worst games
Speaker 1: happened back to back on I realized some people didn't
Speaker 1: see this game, but essentially a low isolated alone out
Speaker 1: there for viewers to watch. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: really um agitated Steelers fans that feel disrespected, and I
Speaker 1: get that. Um At the same time, they've they've not
Speaker 1: looked like a best record in the league team at
Speaker 1: all over the past two weeks. They've got to sort
Speaker 1: themselves out I thought it was interesting that Montez Sweats
Speaker 1: said that they all knew they were gonna win this game.
Speaker 1: That's fine to say it, but Chase Young told add
Speaker 1: that we did because Baltimore exposed some things. He said,
Speaker 1: So I just you know, there's you get that little report,
Speaker 1: and I wonder, um, if there's some sort of carbon
Speaker 1: copy out there for teams to follow. Well, I think
Speaker 1: the copy to follow, right is to be a solid team.
Speaker 1: And if not for that James Washington fifty yard touchdown,
Speaker 1: because the way this Redskins defense is, oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: no slur jar. Alright, we're going in the slur jar.
Speaker 1: That's like the first in years by the way, um,
Speaker 1: and and Clay Bonn's defense, he's on a heavy amount
Speaker 1: of drugs, right, totally, not not at all, not not heavy,
Speaker 1: that's light amount. But honestly, Um, the way that they're structured,
Speaker 1: kind of build front to back, Um, they're gonna be.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to make you work. Right, So Fuller misses
Speaker 1: the tackle on James Washington, the Steelers score an easy one,
Speaker 1: and and that's really the only relatively easy score that
Speaker 1: they had. And when things are as Mark mentioned, like
Speaker 1: not going as perfect as they could for the Steelers
Speaker 1: that they run into this opponent, Um, it's gonna fight
Speaker 1: you for for every yard and it just didn't work out.
Speaker 1: And as far as like feeling slighted or disrespect it's
Speaker 1: really hard to win every game like everybody, everybody doesn't
Speaker 1: do that. So as far as the sky is falling
Speaker 1: and all of it, like yeah, like we're saying that
Speaker 1: they're not this world be there unbeatable, unbreakable team, nobody is.
Speaker 1: But you you play a game against the team that's
Speaker 1: hot quarterbacks, got a great story and um montes what
Speaker 1: makes the play a guy who people literally questioned his
Speaker 1: heart right coming into the draft. Uh, they don't know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna be able to hold up and and
Speaker 1: now he's he's coming to his own. This defensive line
Speaker 1: is great then, um and they just this team is
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. They they don't mess up a lot. They're
Speaker 1: they're not gonna wow you with a bunch of great plays,
Speaker 1: but but they're gonna show up and they're gonna give
Speaker 1: you a B minus. And if if you don't play
Speaker 1: B plus, then you're you're gonna lose. I think that's
Speaker 1: well said. This is not a world beating Washington team. U.
Speaker 1: But they are well prepared and well coached, and the
Speaker 1: quarterback doesn't make mistakes, even if he'll drive you crazy
Speaker 1: at times with some of his uh predictable underneath passing,
Speaker 1: But even that in the second half changed, He just
Speaker 1: he just was. He just played such a great game,
Speaker 1: and again off seventeen surgeries and he entered. The only
Speaker 1: reason he really made the team was because of his
Speaker 1: salary and how prohibitive it would have been to cut him.
Speaker 1: And he ends up being the starter. And now they're
Speaker 1: in position to make the playoffs. And and Greg, I'm
Speaker 1: with you on the Steeler side of things, um in
Speaker 1: terms of the pressure and the heat that comes with
Speaker 1: being undefeated as you approach mid December. And I gave
Speaker 1: them a pass for what was really an ugly game
Speaker 1: against the Ravens last Wednesday. And I thought of it
Speaker 1: at the time as uh, throw that one out. It
Speaker 1: was just stupid. It was delayed multiple times, COVID issues,
Speaker 1: everybody's knocked off their schedule. But really what it what
Speaker 1: we saw was that this was now an extension of
Speaker 1: that where guys dropping passes. There's just a little they're
Speaker 1: a little out of sink and maybe pressing with the
Speaker 1: spotlight on them the way it has been in such
Speaker 1: an unusual way. And the one thing I would think
Speaker 1: from their offense, which is kind of weird. It's a
Speaker 1: bit of strange offense the Steelers where they can go
Speaker 1: into these deep funks and then they come out of
Speaker 1: it for a quarter and they get the game on track,
Speaker 1: but then they could slip back under. They need to
Speaker 1: figure out this running game because they cannot. There's there's
Speaker 1: nothing they can do, it seems when they need short
Speaker 1: yardage other than like dial up another Ben Roethlisberger quick
Speaker 1: dropback and pass and that works a lot, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't always work. Would be much better to have a hammer.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's James Conner when he gets healthy. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: calling a snake for big breeze. And by the way,
Speaker 1: he's never been more big breeze than this one fifty three.
Speaker 1: It took about fifty four throws to pass. Uh. It's again,
Speaker 1: that's not totally an insult. I'm talking about like a
Speaker 1: fairly effective breeze in cold weather. These receivers have dropped
Speaker 1: a lot of passes. These last two games would have
Speaker 1: looked a lot different uh, if that didn't happen. That said,
Speaker 1: they's they're a station to station offense, so they don't
Speaker 1: have as much um room for error to survive these
Speaker 1: jobs because they're getting no big plays. And the running
Speaker 1: game has gone from like a problem to one of
Speaker 1: the worst, if not the worst in the league the
Speaker 1: last month. And it's gone from like bad to like
Speaker 1: it's it's a sinkhole. Mark You're you get the last word, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I need the last word, but
Speaker 1: I mean getting James Conner returning. It's not the same
Speaker 1: thing as like s Kwon Barkley returning. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think they had issues with James Conner too. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: They're an imbalanced offense. Some of that goes back to
Speaker 1: play calling to a lot of people not happening. You
Speaker 1: get Pouncy back, you might get Stephen Nelson back, but
Speaker 1: you lost Joe Hayden in this game, and it sometimes
Speaker 1: it is just like magic though. I mean these the
Speaker 1: biggest player of the game to me was Cam Sims
Speaker 1: turning in one of those short Alex Smith throws on
Speaker 1: a third and fourteen to a big time game and
Speaker 1: Cam Sims makes an insane one handed catch later in
Speaker 1: the in the game, and even in the field goal
Speaker 1: drive to end the second quarter. It's like they're young players.
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas, he's been cut fourteen times. How about that
Speaker 1: for a comeback story in his career. He's he's like
Speaker 1: riding to a big time game. And and that's my
Speaker 1: version of the last word. Couldn't You couldn't give Cessa
Speaker 1: the last word? Greg, Now, I hadn't. I'm too excited
Speaker 1: about the football team coming through. Well, it's a great prediction.
Speaker 1: I'll give you that. All right. That was the last
Speaker 1: word by Mark cecil. It's head to the real deal,
Speaker 1: Holy Field, Monday night football game. All right. Here they
Speaker 1: are at the five yard line of Buffalo in the
Speaker 1: Shark information third and goal for an honors low snap
Speaker 1: around the knees, picked up by bones. No one's open.
Speaker 1: He breaks one tackle, he moves up in the pocket.
Speaker 1: Those are short pashets that they're gold line, but grabbed
Speaker 1: by both the running back and White, the defensive back.
Speaker 1: And they grabbed it at the same time. And they're
Speaker 1: going to call it an interception. Oh my goodness. Disaster
Speaker 1: for San Francisco. Disaster for San Francisco. Yes, you gotta believe.
Speaker 1: You gotta believe when it comes to Tremaine Edmunds that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the one that comes away from all
Speaker 1: the Bills roll over the San Francisco forty niners. And
Speaker 1: it was a good effort by the Bills. Defense is
Speaker 1: a good all around effort by the Bills. But really,
Speaker 1: to me, the story is josh Alan Patrick Laban thirty
Speaker 1: two of forty three, seventy four touchdowns, no picks, the
Speaker 1: first quarterback and Bill's history to complete seventy of his
Speaker 1: passes with four touchdowns? Are you buying in on the
Speaker 1: Bills ceiling being lifted after this show? Look, if you
Speaker 1: can't get a new pressure on Josh Allen, especially with
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs playing the way a good night, there's just
Speaker 1: there's limited opportunity for you to have success. And I yeah,
Speaker 1: I said it last week as as far as being
Speaker 1: wrong about a football player, especially after after the draft,
Speaker 1: after his rookie year, after his second year, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know the ceiling is sixty completion percent. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's past that. He's he's well into the sixties.
Speaker 1: He's um feathering balls like over the middle. Uh, there
Speaker 1: was a great throw um just just out of the
Speaker 1: Fred Warner I believe, who is like six three fully outstretched. Uh.
Speaker 1: It was just a perfect past and he had several
Speaker 1: on the night. So I've never been as wrong about
Speaker 1: a player as that was wrong about Josh Allen. And
Speaker 1: if you can't bother him, and like the Rams did
Speaker 1: in the second half of that game, um, and in
Speaker 1: all of their losses, you're able to get pressure on
Speaker 1: Josh and kind of not that he is as mistake
Speaker 1: prone as he was, but he still wants to make plays.
Speaker 1: And sometimes when you try to do everything, um, it
Speaker 1: can go horribly wrong. But if he's if he's just
Speaker 1: able to stand back there, that you're just gonna lose
Speaker 1: the game. I think there are these games with Josh
Speaker 1: Allen where you can tell ten twelve minutes into it
Speaker 1: that he's in a place of total calm, And that
Speaker 1: just seemed to be him last night. And when Josh
Speaker 1: Allen plays that way, and when you're not making life
Speaker 1: tough on him, and you've got one of the better
Speaker 1: receiving groups in the league. Cole Beasley um playing one
Speaker 1: of the best games of his career. I think they
Speaker 1: can beat any team in the a f C or
Speaker 1: the NFC. I mean that's their ceiling when all things
Speaker 1: are coming together. I mean their running game was not
Speaker 1: great last night, it didn't really matter. Josh Allen was unstoppable.
Speaker 1: He was in a place of total zen and I
Speaker 1: thought it was captured well at the moment when, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, after a Cole Beasley touchdown, when John Feliciano,
Speaker 1: the guard, the big lineman is just cradling him like
Speaker 1: a little baby in his arms. I don't like a
Speaker 1: lot of these end zone celebrations, but that's what exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was just perfect, and I thought it
Speaker 1: encapsulated the total piece that the Bills were feeling and
Speaker 1: taking apart a discompopulated Niners team that had moved to Arizona.
Speaker 1: I mean, when he's good, he's breath taking. That was
Speaker 1: as good a half as any quarterbacks played all year,
Speaker 1: because you know, he had the three or four just
Speaker 1: insane wow throws that very few quarterbacks could possibly make.
Speaker 1: But he also had all the open receivers and the
Speaker 1: really good decision making, which kind of puts him over
Speaker 1: the top when he's feeling. He said after the game, uh,
Speaker 1: that he was in his zone and that you know
Speaker 1: when it's spinning, when you know what the ball is doing,
Speaker 1: when you know what the tail is doing, and I
Speaker 1: think he means the tail of the ball um like
Speaker 1: that's that's when you feel everything's great. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a unique sort of quarterback. It's why I'm almost
Speaker 1: bored of myself continuing to bring up Cam Newton when
Speaker 1: it when it comes to Josh Allen. But man, I
Speaker 1: I love the comparison. And you saw the graphic last
Speaker 1: night that they were the first two quarterbacks to have
Speaker 1: a certain amount of rushing yards, touchdowns, passing yards that
Speaker 1: like a younger Cam Newton. And now that poor man's
Speaker 1: Cam Newton stuff I tried to put on Alan Early
Speaker 1: is so wrong. He reminds me of Cam Newton in
Speaker 1: prime Cam Newton that he's streaking, and I think Cam
Speaker 1: Newton was like that as a throw that obviously he
Speaker 1: can make every throw that there ever is, but he
Speaker 1: does it in a way where he has like a
Speaker 1: feel uncertain days that he maybe doesn't have every single day,
Speaker 1: but when he has that feel, and Cam was I
Speaker 1: think among the streakiest great quarterbacks in NFL history, It's
Speaker 1: like you're not stopping that dude. Yeah, he when he's
Speaker 1: locked in, it is scary. And Mark I totally agree.
Speaker 1: I thought the same thing. How completely at ease he
Speaker 1: seemed to be in the pocket. And there was even
Speaker 1: an incompletion uh late in the game where he scrambled
Speaker 1: to his right and scrambled and scrambled and scrambled, and
Speaker 1: most quarterbacks would either take a sack or panic and
Speaker 1: throw it over the middle late or just throw it away.
Speaker 1: He was so confident that he kept his eyes up
Speaker 1: the whole time. He eventually did throw it away, but
Speaker 1: even like you can see the lineman kind of chuckling
Speaker 1: with him, He's like he wasn't giving up anything. And
Speaker 1: because I think he believed he complete complete any pass
Speaker 1: yesterday and when Alan is playing with that confidence, and
Speaker 1: again this is against Robert Sala sala defense that we've
Speaker 1: been talking up in a forty Niners team that we
Speaker 1: saw as a team potentially ready to make a rise,
Speaker 1: and he just made them, um look like an EXFL team.
Speaker 1: And if I'm the if I'm the Chiefs, if I'm
Speaker 1: the Steelers, and if I'm any any an FC team
Speaker 1: that fashions itself a true Super Bowl contender. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: taking a big gulp there and be like, oh, because
Speaker 1: if this version of Josh Allen shows up in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: they can beat anybody, and that includes the Chiefs well,
Speaker 1: and they have Pittsburgh next. And I would mention along
Speaker 1: with Sala Brian Dable, who you know, he has hung
Speaker 1: around in Buffalo for a while, and I think it's
Speaker 1: been a perfect partner for Josh Allen. He helped them
Speaker 1: a lot down the stretch last year when they changed
Speaker 1: the pace of the Bill's offense. I think it helped
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Last night, I mean, the two of them,
Speaker 1: they made mincemeat of the forty nine secondary one that
Speaker 1: a week ago made the Rams look foolish. So it
Speaker 1: is such a week to week league because the Niners,
Speaker 1: to me, never found that groove that the Bills did.
Speaker 1: And Dan, I saw that you tweeted like where was
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel and all this. They just never got into
Speaker 1: their groove. And sometimes I love Kyle Shanahan and his
Speaker 1: running backs, but like seven people had essentially rushing attempts
Speaker 1: in that game. You gotta settle it down at some
Speaker 1: point and get get one guy. Maranahant No, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, why not give why not say
Speaker 1: like today is Rheim mustered today to run the ball
Speaker 1: twenty five times? I mean, just because Belichick likes to
Speaker 1: use a bevy of backs, and it's not every game
Speaker 1: you're You're just gonna get shocked at. Some dude out
Speaker 1: of nowhere is gonna blitz you for two hundred yards
Speaker 1: in a week sixteen and leave you dead. The debo
Speaker 1: thing was weird because he was so awesome last week
Speaker 1: and the fact that he was not part of the
Speaker 1: game plan until the game was basically out of hand,
Speaker 1: and then Nick Mullin starts feeding him late in the
Speaker 1: game and he's making plays almost every time the balls
Speaker 1: in his hands because he's Deebo Samuel, I for one,
Speaker 1: is like you Mark tread carefully when criticizing the great
Speaker 1: Kyle Shannon, But I thought Clayban that the game plan
Speaker 1: was a little off with not having Deebo Samuel will
Speaker 1: have a bigger role here. I think sometimes the circumstance,
Speaker 1: the defense of the matchup, and Kyle Shanahan draws a
Speaker 1: picture in his mind of the way things are going
Speaker 1: to go out, and that's the way things going to
Speaker 1: a plan and when it works, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is very devo Samuel, because you know, he's he's back
Speaker 1: for the first time, he looks healthy, he's got one
Speaker 1: thirty one and eleven targets. UM. And when it doesn't work,
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, where where are these football players that
Speaker 1: have contributed so much? You know what, why can't we
Speaker 1: get Julio more than four targets in the Super Bowl? Um?
Speaker 1: But it's UM. I think that's just one of those
Speaker 1: cal Shannian things where sometimes it's one of those times
Speaker 1: one of the great NFL catches of all time. It was,
Speaker 1: it was the best catch in the game. We know that. UM.
Speaker 1: But in terms of Shanahan, it's uh. He the Josh
Speaker 1: Allen thing is, uh is tough to compete with, especially
Speaker 1: when they can't get stops and it's tough for his
Speaker 1: offense to to do what it needs to do on
Speaker 1: the ground and they don't have that gear, right, I
Speaker 1: mean the forty Niners don't have that gear as good
Speaker 1: as Nick Mullins is you know, shot off to Spain
Speaker 1: Park High School, my wife's alma mater. UM. You know
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not um. It's it's not everything that
Speaker 1: you'd like to have have on an offense, especially uh,
Speaker 1: you know, on a road home game, which they did
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of making, um making it look
Speaker 1: like Levi's almost with the tarps and stuff. Pull back
Speaker 1: a little bit and it's like, that's not Santa Clara,
Speaker 1: but the bottom, the big bell. Bottom also doesn't have,
Speaker 1: you know, quite the charmer personality of old Candlestick, even
Speaker 1: though it's a much better facility and not a ton
Speaker 1: of personality. So you're throw in another red, modern stadium.
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, let's go. The Bill's defense, I think,
Speaker 1: has come out of their bye week playing their best
Speaker 1: two games of the season. You get Matt Milano back
Speaker 1: last night. I think that's huge because if they defenses
Speaker 1: are fickle and uh, if they're if they're back to
Speaker 1: being somewhere close to the Bills defense from nineteen, then
Speaker 1: then then you really start thinking about them as a
Speaker 1: super Bowl team. The last last thing I do on
Speaker 1: a point I was like, can we can we just
Speaker 1: slow down? The Robert Salad needs to be hired by
Speaker 1: the Lions thing. It's almost like they're telling me so
Speaker 1: much that they at one point they said the Lions
Speaker 1: would be so key if they were even able to
Speaker 1: talk to them. I mean the idy he's like the
Speaker 1: dolly Llama that they should be where at that time
Speaker 1: of year though, when you're in December and the coordinators
Speaker 1: having a nice year, these guys look like absolute like
Speaker 1: Belichick clones, you know, lock it in for twenty Super
Speaker 1: Bowl titles. That was Matt Patricia during the end of
Speaker 1: his Patriots run. I mean, Greg, at least, you know,
Speaker 1: the Texans don't believe that they'll be able to speak
Speaker 1: with anyone, so they've shut down all searches and just
Speaker 1: they're gonna wrap you know, Romeo Cornelle up in Christmas
Speaker 1: wrapping paper for themselves as their present. The problem is, Greg,
Speaker 1: You're asking for moderation from Monday Night football and they
Speaker 1: do they do nothing, like they tiptoe into nothing. If
Speaker 1: it's a discussion of a coach an issue, and they're
Speaker 1: they're going to give you the full treatment. You could
Speaker 1: tell they love them though. And Leavi said at one point,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping he misspoke because people made a deal.
Speaker 1: I was picking on Levy all the time, and he
Speaker 1: literally said Salah Sala said that he was going to
Speaker 1: have his pick of all the job, which either a
Speaker 1: bad job by Levy for revealing Salas said that, or
Speaker 1: he misspoke um because real I can't imagine he's puffing
Speaker 1: his just out that much where he's like, yep, gonna
Speaker 1: be choosing by everyone, Like the last few weeks, you've
Speaker 1: been coming after leaving a little bit and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you got testator fired up at you a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. You want to mess with the Leavy.
Speaker 1: You see that guy works out. I don't know if
Speaker 1: mess out um Big Tech. By the way, it could
Speaker 1: help the Houston Texans, our company, our startup which claim
Speaker 1: on if you want to get in on absolutely you
Speaker 1: could buy into the company. Yeah, if if, if it's
Speaker 1: just a simple internet connection issue, we have modems for
Speaker 1: days at Big Tech for the Texans if they want
Speaker 1: to start their head coach search. Uh. And my final
Speaker 1: thought is, uh, Greg, sometimes you can be premature in
Speaker 1: saying someone uh did a premature forking, you know a
Speaker 1: little bit. Everybody getting so crazy about the forty niners
Speaker 1: on the rise, Well they hadn't even got the five yet.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good about marketised for ye're the one that
Speaker 1: picked him in this game. I picked the bills. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying Playoff Spot has has some potential to be
Speaker 1: ugly down the stretch. I'm not I'm not in love
Speaker 1: with any of these seven seeds, and it it could be.
Speaker 1: It's kind of under the radar that eight and eight
Speaker 1: could be that seventh seed right now. So I don't
Speaker 1: even say the forty Niners are out of it. And
Speaker 1: you know, Dan, I I would go back to giving
Speaker 1: us credit for what we did on the Godzilla Mini
Speaker 1: pod where we forked the Niners, and you know, people
Speaker 1: were critiquing us and I and and let's look at
Speaker 1: our our integrity as journals. Um, I'm quite pro Niners
Speaker 1: and had to had to go there, you know from
Speaker 1: an analyst standpoint that night. And I feel that we're
Speaker 1: we continue to stand on very strong down ground. So
Speaker 1: you know, let's um, we could down the show right
Speaker 1: now and feel good about what we've done. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Is anyone else a little bit annoyed? Uh? Fresh out
Speaker 1: of surgery? How good Claybron looks with this lighting on
Speaker 1: him right now? Like? What is up with Clay Bron
Speaker 1: being so much better looking than us? I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find out with this like copy three six laptop that
Speaker 1: they got me. Like why, I can't why it looks
Speaker 1: like it's pitch black, darkened here like I'm doing an
Speaker 1: interview with It's just like the light is hitting that
Speaker 1: beautiful face and it's just like this, it's almost like
Speaker 1: an angel. Yeah, I mean we also spoke for about
Speaker 1: five minutes before because Dan could not get over Claybonn
Speaker 1: lost the beard post surgery. Maybe it's a different looking
Speaker 1: clave on these days. One thing that helps. I've just
Speaker 1: given imant peace with the fact that I'm about a
Speaker 1: five point six and it's well, it's not gonna you
Speaker 1: know when you feel good about that, and you just
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta eight, you know how like it you
Speaker 1: gotta age to just though you know, for for for
Speaker 1: a man of your age, bump it up to six
Speaker 1: point six. Well, it's yeah, Mark, you're a six and
Speaker 1: a half. You are all north of eight. I will
Speaker 1: say that that is not a that is not yours.
Speaker 1: Not true. Let's move off this topic because it's depressing
Speaker 1: for three of us. Um all right, now that's the
Speaker 1: football for Monday again. We have one more Week thirteen
Speaker 1: game Ravens Cowboys. Mark and I will hit that very quickly,
Speaker 1: Like you'll be surprised how quickly we hit it. To
Speaker 1: the point is like why do they even bother doing this?
Speaker 1: You guys, all this honking, you're gonna end up with
Speaker 1: like something seismic is going to happen in to know,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a Minko like flash. All right,
Speaker 1: let's uh now transition to a place that other podcasts
Speaker 1: fear to tread. In fact, they don't even have the
Speaker 1: possibility to go into the future. Nine a d more
Speaker 1: than a generation away, and yet dreams traveled faster than light.
Speaker 1: And even though scientists and planners are shaping the lives
Speaker 1: of our children and will live in the twenty one century,
Speaker 1: how will they live? Perhaps no honeycombs trunch like this.
Speaker 1: Take take a journey with our podcast into the future
Speaker 1: century beckons as we make predictions, no premonitions, headlines from
Speaker 1: the future. It's all couched in stadgy old print journalism.
Speaker 1: Give us a headline, tell us what's gonna happen when
Speaker 1: football ends on week seventeen. I believe it's January three,
Speaker 1: two thousand one. I will get us going, by the way,
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, it should be said, if you're someone who
Speaker 1: looks at the NFL season as a television show, you
Speaker 1: probably don't want to watch the finale right now if
Speaker 1: you're in the middle of the season, and if you
Speaker 1: if you engage in um, you know, I activities in
Speaker 1: the desert, it would not be ethical to listen to
Speaker 1: what we're about to tell. It's like when you're watching
Speaker 1: the show anyway and they promo what's coming up in
Speaker 1: the next segment and it spoils. It's like, I'm already watching.
Speaker 1: Just just just check out now, any I like that?
Speaker 1: We have yess, That's that's true. It's time to get
Speaker 1: rid of that. Let us now go into the future.
Speaker 1: The headline out of Baltimore, The Baltimore Sun, a thriving
Speaker 1: print outlet. Quote raven nevermore open parathetical losing clothes parenthetical
Speaker 1: the Ravens. We'll win out m wow, finish eleven and
Speaker 1: five and be the number five seed in the a
Speaker 1: f C playoffs. Don't worry, Mark, the Browns will still
Speaker 1: be in the dance. But the future tells me that
Speaker 1: the Ravens are about to flip the switch, a switch
Speaker 1: that we wondered. We wondered if it would ever be flipped.
Speaker 1: If this was just one of those years where nothing
Speaker 1: works out. But listen to the schedule down the stretch
Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens home against Dallas. Also, as you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, you probably already know the result. It's
Speaker 1: one the better when a lot of pressure. I feel
Speaker 1: I have more pressure on Eve than the Pittsburgh Skillers
Speaker 1: right now that during yesterday, then at Cleveland, Cleveland will
Speaker 1: never beat the Rads, not in this fine not at
Speaker 1: this time. Home Jacksonville home gra Assets at five and
Speaker 1: oh you already know they beat the Cowboys eleven and five.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, Dan, I am in um.
Speaker 1: You provided the analysis, but I think I should I
Speaker 1: should offer one of my headlines next because we are
Speaker 1: in complete lockstep um. And this happened without any sort
Speaker 1: of conversation. We had similar visions. And this is from
Speaker 1: the Baltimore City Paper. Um A, it's not the Sun,
Speaker 1: but it's sort of one of those papers. It's in
Speaker 1: one of those machines you open. It's got the Wire
Speaker 1: Weekly Baltimore, the Baltimore Weekly something. Um. It goes like this,
Speaker 1: mark ingram on playoff bound Ravens colon rest of a
Speaker 1: FC better be wearing there depends Mark wo is See,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be feeling themselves. Um. The Ravens come playoff
Speaker 1: time after what they after what you've just described that
Speaker 1: they will do, Dan, and they will be at full
Speaker 1: power Corona deep in the distance, and uh, it will
Speaker 1: be a scary sight in the future. I'm loving all
Speaker 1: this Ravens backing out of nowhere. I've been getting picked
Speaker 1: on for my belief in them. Well, you've made excuses
Speaker 1: for them all year. But yeah, that that that they
Speaker 1: could respond there there, there's still some issues here. Um
Speaker 1: already have responded there. They're in the playoffs right. Well,
Speaker 1: they also already beat the Cowboys today, breaking that losing.
Speaker 1: That's true that Monday night game against the Browns, and
Speaker 1: it's it's too bad your Brown's lost, Mark, Um. There
Speaker 1: there aren't many games left on the entire schedule more
Speaker 1: excited for than the Ravens Browns. With the Browns a
Speaker 1: chance to get a little revenge. Ah, well, seventeen Ravens
Speaker 1: be Cleveland. So you can still watch it, Greg, but
Speaker 1: the results will not be unknown to you. Do you
Speaker 1: give you a spoiler alert? You can't get upset with
Speaker 1: our podcast right now. But in all seriousness, there is
Speaker 1: a there's also a very obvious chance or not I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say obvious, but a very real chance that the
Speaker 1: Ravens plays. You know, the season continues in a similar script,
Speaker 1: they go, Let's say, I I feel like their floor
Speaker 1: here is probably nine and seven, and maybe that's good
Speaker 1: enough to get in the playoffs. Maybe it's not, um,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. There's just too much talent here.
Speaker 1: There's there's there's I just believe in them to get
Speaker 1: hot um anybody else would would anybody be stunned if
Speaker 1: they want out here? No, not again. Schedule, they might
Speaker 1: be favored in every game. Cleveland will probably be a
Speaker 1: toss up, but there they they're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: to ten wins. It's it's not it's not simple for that.
Speaker 1: I I don't think there's any chance in nine win
Speaker 1: team or very little chance in nine when team gets
Speaker 1: the f C. Alright, Patrick, take us to the future,
Speaker 1: all right, give me that music. I want to I
Speaker 1: want to get into the zone because some people are
Speaker 1: gonna tell me this as a prediction doesn't warrant all
Speaker 1: the pomp and circumstance, But this is a headline from
Speaker 1: a paper that means something to me. It's the Gatesville
Speaker 1: Messenger headline after week seventeen, Gaze is out. Dan and
Speaker 1: you say, Patrick, why were you telling me this in
Speaker 1: December when we know that this is already going to happen. Well,
Speaker 1: it's because the subhead turmoil at the top comes to
Speaker 1: an end as a name in football returns to the
Speaker 1: National Football League to bring consistency to the franchise. Jim
Speaker 1: Harball is the head coach of the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: Things didn't work out in college football. You think you
Speaker 1: get to pick the players, but you really don't. In
Speaker 1: the National Football League, you have an opportunity to secure talent,
Speaker 1: and with a name like Hardball, you can stand the test,
Speaker 1: this theoretical test that somehow the air the pressure is
Speaker 1: different in New York. It turns out the field is
Speaker 1: still the same link the football still weighs the same.
Speaker 1: Unless Tom Brady's playing. You can win in New York
Speaker 1: and Dan can finally rest as a happy Jets fan.
Speaker 1: Congratulations fan, I really hope Jim Harball works out for you. Well,
Speaker 1: this is this is quite a spoiler, um, But you
Speaker 1: know the Jets, the Jets have been I'm not you
Speaker 1: got the Jets have been sniffing around Jim Harball before that.
Speaker 1: So this this makes a lot of sense. And then
Speaker 1: you have to the old Chris Westling line, which I
Speaker 1: love so much. History is instructive. The last time that
Speaker 1: the New York Football Jets bottomed out in true humiliating
Speaker 1: fashion from a season standpoint was under rich Coe type
Speaker 1: when they followed a three and thirteen with a one
Speaker 1: in fifteen and they went and they got Bill Parcels
Speaker 1: from the Patriots, and that was the beginning of a
Speaker 1: really fruitful era for the organization. And I I get
Speaker 1: the feeling that the Jets are gonna want to make
Speaker 1: a similar splash here at a time where again I
Speaker 1: didn't look and I should look into the future, and
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to see if they had Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrences their number one pick, but we don't know yet,
Speaker 1: But at a time where they could have the best
Speaker 1: college prospect UH to come out of the draft since
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck, when they have more free agent money than
Speaker 1: anyone that when they have all these first round picks
Speaker 1: UH to now bringing a big name a head coach,
Speaker 1: that to me feels like a move that Johnson's might
Speaker 1: try to make here. So not only do I not
Speaker 1: question your premonition, Clay Bond, because I would be foolish
Speaker 1: to do so, because obviously you're right here. It all
Speaker 1: passes the smell test for me. Sounds sounds like the
Speaker 1: type of mistake the Jets make a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: the general managers in place and he has no say
Speaker 1: over a coach who's gonna wind up having more power.
Speaker 1: When when these Bill Kawer rumors came out over the
Speaker 1: last couple of days, where Boomerissiasin is saying that, like
Speaker 1: cour it might be interested in the Jets. My initial
Speaker 1: that is like even the Jets aren't falling for Bill
Speaker 1: kaor Oki dok. I mean it's like, what what does
Speaker 1: agent call all the reporters and they're like, now, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna go with this. So they're like, well, Boomer
Speaker 1: will float it for you. I mean, give me a
Speaker 1: break on on Bill Kauer Um. This actually reminded me
Speaker 1: of a headline that just got cut on the cutting floor,
Speaker 1: So in case you are curious about that, number one,
Speaker 1: we'll pick. Unfortunately, the January fourth headline on the New
Speaker 1: York Daily and he was one of them, is going
Speaker 1: to be darn it Sam Submarines tank for tread with
Speaker 1: last second win over the Patriots. Darn it Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that I could see that happening. But uh, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: Jim Harbor would be a terrible move. But I I
Speaker 1: guess what are the alternative Who's the who's the number
Speaker 1: one name in this head coaching search? And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a crowded and competitive field anyway. I get Brian
Speaker 1: day Ball for instance, Eric Enemy, Eric b Enemy. Uh,
Speaker 1: you could say Arthur Smith perhaps, I mean, all these
Speaker 1: guys have positives to them, but is there a slam
Speaker 1: dunk higher if you could pick anybody you want. Maybe
Speaker 1: Harbaugh has passed his expiration date, I wonder, and he's
Speaker 1: I think he might be a little bit nuts, So
Speaker 1: also worry about that in New York. But you know,
Speaker 1: if if the Jets aggressively Wanta or Harbor, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: hate it, and probably would blow up in their face
Speaker 1: just because we're going off the the history of this organization.
Speaker 1: But I honestly would not hate it if that was
Speaker 1: the path they took. Any concern that Michigan is a
Speaker 1: raging disaster, I don't know anything about college football. Made
Speaker 1: a comment that you don't actually get. This is particularly
Speaker 1: why like I saw this in my vision of the future,
Speaker 1: that this is something like a vast majority of football
Speaker 1: fans in New York don't care what happens at the
Speaker 1: University of Michigan. Uh, they're going to see the name
Speaker 1: Jim Harball. They're gonna look at the old stuff and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, okay, and he'll get a chance,
Speaker 1: he'll like him, a chance that that maybe like an
Speaker 1: Eric the enemy wouldn't get or any of these Bob
Speaker 1: Sala probably wouldn't get. Uh, there's a lot of scrutiny
Speaker 1: that comes without having this this resume that brings all
Speaker 1: those other things with it that Jim Harball has. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's I think it just it's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So there we go. I mean, it's the future. Like Carcels,
Speaker 1: the best few years um of a Harbor administration are
Speaker 1: always the first few. So you know that happened in Michigan,
Speaker 1: that could happen with the Jets, and then it started.
Speaker 1: Then he burns himself out. And do you have any
Speaker 1: other negative wish casting to put on my team. You're
Speaker 1: mad that I'm saying Jim Harbaugh wouldn't work. I mean no,
Speaker 1: but you also predicted that Donald's gonna blow the Trevor tank.
Speaker 1: I mean, at what point do you does it run out?
Speaker 1: This this wish? I thought you wanted them to win.
Speaker 1: I I could just imagine them being the Patriots. Let's
Speaker 1: go to another headline. I'm going now, let's that was
Speaker 1: my backup headline, but I figured, like topical. It was topical,
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it topics. You're a jerk, believe me,
Speaker 1: I'm you don't want Jim Hartman. Here we go, jack
Speaker 1: pot Pole, Raiders in disarray after disappointing and to the season.
Speaker 1: That's written by Bill Bradley over at the Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Review Journal, our old NFL media colleague, now the sports
Speaker 1: It that's great, Double B caught a bird. This Raiders
Speaker 1: team taking on a little bit of water as the
Speaker 1: season ends reminds me a little bit of the last
Speaker 1: John Gruden team in Tampa, and UH like that team.
Speaker 1: I think if things went sideways down the stretch here
Speaker 1: you have the Colts, you have the Dolphins. You find
Speaker 1: a way to lose maybe another division game and you
Speaker 1: end up at eight and eight just feels like a
Speaker 1: recipe for a lot of whispers about everything going on
Speaker 1: in that Organs is Gruden's not going anywhere. But Gruden
Speaker 1: on a losing streak to end the season just feels
Speaker 1: like a guy who's got to get wild and blows
Speaker 1: some things up. Say say what you say? What you mean? Greg?
Speaker 1: What is he gonna do? He's gonna fire Mike My
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, I don't know. I'm saying the
Speaker 1: rate that the Raiders are are ending the season, uh
Speaker 1: with a very disappointing finish, just like the year before,
Speaker 1: and that John Gruden is an emotional man who will
Speaker 1: who will change some things. I do not think Mayok
Speaker 1: would be would be in any t have to be
Speaker 1: Derek Carved then. I mean, if it's not car Mayock
Speaker 1: or Gruden, the low the news element to it is lower.
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, what else does the Vegas
Speaker 1: Sports section have on January three? You're telling me the
Speaker 1: Raiders not bumbling to the finish line? Is it a
Speaker 1: big deal after being where they were and all the
Speaker 1: excitement that they had if they finished seven and nine
Speaker 1: or eight and eight, which I do feel like is
Speaker 1: on the table. I think I think a lot of
Speaker 1: things could change, but certainly the coordinator um but also yes,
Speaker 1: the quarterback I think would be would be in play,
Speaker 1: even though I think Derek Carrs played well, I just
Speaker 1: I don't I think it would be in play. I'm
Speaker 1: the biggest Raiders booster on this podcast, but I have
Speaker 1: to admit my faith is now shaken after these back
Speaker 1: to back performances. They shouldn't have beat the Jets. The
Speaker 1: only reason they beat him is because Greg Williams got
Speaker 1: himself fired with the worst play call of the year.
Speaker 1: And of course we know what happened against the Falcons
Speaker 1: that low, so they seem like a team. Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and this is why the NFL is
Speaker 1: the most popular sport in the country. Just when you
Speaker 1: think you have it off, it's the old Roddy Roddy
Speaker 1: Piper quote. Just one you thought yet all the answers
Speaker 1: I went and changed all the questions. I feel like
Speaker 1: the Raiders, that's so obvious that they're gonna go in
Speaker 1: the tank. That would it totally stunned me if they
Speaker 1: go and beat the Cult, who, by the way, didn't
Speaker 1: look so Hot themselves, uh, in their Week four team game.
Speaker 1: I just think the week is the league is such
Speaker 1: a week to week thing that I don't want to
Speaker 1: put too much into these two games. And by the way,
Speaker 1: they did win their last week, so so there's seven
Speaker 1: and five. But I do I do acknowledge as the
Speaker 1: Raiders fan of this podcast, apparently there's reason to believe
Speaker 1: that this premonition will be accurate. Well, I mean, they
Speaker 1: had no business winning that game. Why discount Greg's fortune
Speaker 1: telling it all? I mean, where everyone else has been
Speaker 1: taken as you know, I mean it seems like it was.
Speaker 1: It would be as clear as anyone else's. So it's
Speaker 1: a premonition. How different would you feel if Jack Pott
Speaker 1: hall That's pretty good. If there was a close loss
Speaker 1: to the Falcons and then they are a close win
Speaker 1: against the Falcons and then the opposite happens against the Jets,
Speaker 1: Like what we feel? Well, we feel that much different?
Speaker 1: Like Sam Donald through the hail Mary, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: is is there is there that much of a of
Speaker 1: a difference over the course of the week versus how
Speaker 1: I feel? I think we're getting into my favorite part
Speaker 1: of every episode. Clay Bonn logic, take me through it.
Speaker 1: So what are you saying, Patrick, I'm just I'm saying
Speaker 1: Greg has seen the future, and we see the future,
Speaker 1: and whether it happens, uh this last week or this week,
Speaker 1: I think this Raiders team is kind of what what
Speaker 1: it looks like. They are the same thing they were
Speaker 1: last year. A potent offense and a defense that that's
Speaker 1: really not gonna bother anybody that much. And so it
Speaker 1: all comes down to Derek Carr making these throws. And
Speaker 1: if you know, if Greg Williams splits his thirty seven
Speaker 1: people and you've you've got Lamar Jackson out there with
Speaker 1: nobody within thirty yards and Henry Ruggs can run past them, Uh,
Speaker 1: they can beat you. But if you don't do that, then, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be a little tougher on them.
Speaker 1: I don't know what John Gooden would do exactly, Like
Speaker 1: you know, it just feels like, if you know, in
Speaker 1: his third season, if it goes bad at the end,
Speaker 1: he's just got to do something like angry phone call
Speaker 1: to Bill Bradley. Maybe he just has a wild you
Speaker 1: know night out, um, you know at the Mirage. I
Speaker 1: don't really know, but it feels like he's gonna do something,
Speaker 1: all right, If you are just tuning in, we are
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Speaker 1: pretty good. Up next, from the Detroit Free Press known
Speaker 1: locally as Free a Lion in sunset, I'll take you
Speaker 1: to Sunday morning. It's a report that goes live on
Speaker 1: our website at exactly six am. From NFL Network insider
Speaker 1: Ian rappaport Ian's report, the Lions game against the Vikings
Speaker 1: is expected to be Matthew Stafford's final start for Detroit.
Speaker 1: Ian further goes on that the Lions are planning a
Speaker 1: complete tear down under their incoming regime, and they are
Speaker 1: complying with Stafford's wishes for a clean break at this time.
Speaker 1: No bad blood, but Mr Stafford is ready to move
Speaker 1: on to whatever comes next in his career while the
Speaker 1: Lions blow it up and listen, we saw it just
Speaker 1: this week. Matthew Stafford through for four yards lead the
Speaker 1: Lions to one of those great fund Matthew Stafford comeback wins.
Speaker 1: That's not really what they need right now. Then, in fact,
Speaker 1: it kind of hurts them that he is at that level.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about Stafford actually, so you have the
Speaker 1: you have a Dalton line established by Chris Weston two
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen, and he is the prime meridian for a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. If you're this is you know, maybe a
Speaker 1: little out of date at this point. But if you're
Speaker 1: better than Dalton, you're a true franchise starter. If you're
Speaker 1: behind him, you're not. You're not the guy. I feel
Speaker 1: like Stafford is the Stafford line is for that next
Speaker 1: tier for top quarterbacks, and like that's how you differentiate
Speaker 1: if a guy is a true franchise star quarterback or
Speaker 1: someone closer to the middle of the pack. And I
Speaker 1: feel like his coming off this season, it's been a
Speaker 1: little up and down, but he's still UH in his
Speaker 1: early thirties. He's got a lot of good football with him.
Speaker 1: I think he would be a fascinating UH player in
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady role. From last offseason. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he would have to be a trade or
Speaker 1: away where he gets out of his contract and he's
Speaker 1: a proper free agent. But that's what's coming. I'm sticking
Speaker 1: to the prediction, though we're keeping this within the seventeen
Speaker 1: weeks of the regular season. The prediction is that the
Speaker 1: Lions will be clear and open about this, that this
Speaker 1: is the end for Matthew Stafford in Detroit. I think
Speaker 1: we're blown away. Um, I'm with you. I could see
Speaker 1: him in Denver next season, in Washington, a number of places. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I it's not totally without wait that his wife
Speaker 1: has been popping off about the state of Michigan, about
Speaker 1: the Lions, about Detroit in general. She seems relatively unhappy
Speaker 1: with she did. I mean, I mean it's it seemed
Speaker 1: like a more of a citizen's complained about Michigan. Basically,
Speaker 1: there's some other lockdown um antics. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just maybe maybe Stafford is half the equation. Very
Speaker 1: ready to move on. Elf. I if I someone put
Speaker 1: a gun to my head and say, list your top
Speaker 1: five most memorable Matthew Stafford moments, I would struggle to
Speaker 1: But I don't like what what That's weird and it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like this is worth it. Well, you know
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but I put that more on the
Speaker 1: Lions than Matthew Stafford. I would love to see him
Speaker 1: in a different uniform. I just would so Dan, I
Speaker 1: trust start crystal ball here Thanksgiving when he had all
Speaker 1: those injuries of that game against the Browns where he
Speaker 1: had the NFL films thing on the wire. They made
Speaker 1: the playoffs that one time. Oh my god, A terrible
Speaker 1: way to go. Stafford was asked earlier this month, and
Speaker 1: I thought this was interesting if he still has the
Speaker 1: patience to go through another reboot, another regime change. And
Speaker 1: he's been there. He was the number one overall pick
Speaker 1: in two thousand nine. He's been there twelve years, and
Speaker 1: he's been a good soldier. Uh for the four it's
Speaker 1: over that time. He's played almost all the time. He's
Speaker 1: heard a little bit in the beginning of his career.
Speaker 1: I know he had the back issue last year, but
Speaker 1: otherwise he's played every week. His answer and asked if
Speaker 1: if he would have that patience was I'm not going
Speaker 1: to limit myself to anything, which I thought was an
Speaker 1: interesting answer because it would be very easy to just
Speaker 1: give an answer that didn't give you anything to think about.
Speaker 1: But that makes you think that he's thinking about a
Speaker 1: fresh start. I like this, Greg, I like the idea
Speaker 1: of what he would bring uh to the NFL in
Speaker 1: terms of intrigue the spring too. To Cayl Shanahan offense.
Speaker 1: Maybe um, there's a circumstance we'll check offense. I don't
Speaker 1: know sure that would be good either. One. His contracts
Speaker 1: very tradeable. People think these guys are paid a lot.
Speaker 1: In reality, I think any contract that wasn't you know
Speaker 1: that you don't have to give the guaranteed money up front.
Speaker 1: They're all good contracts. So he's under contract for a
Speaker 1: couple more years at you know, plenty of reasonable rate.
Speaker 1: This would be a Lions type of thing where he
Speaker 1: they're putt in a tough spot before they even have
Speaker 1: a GM coach that they don't really have the you know,
Speaker 1: leverage or choice whether to keep him or not, and
Speaker 1: he's making the power play. You know that that would
Speaker 1: be problematic for them, But I also could see that
Speaker 1: time he's playing out that way. It has before. Let's
Speaker 1: move on Patrick paying a picture for you. The season
Speaker 1: has just ended. Expectations have been met by some teams
Speaker 1: and not met by others. But the headline in Miami.
Speaker 1: Pick your favorite newspaper. It's um there's so many in
Speaker 1: Miami Beach. Miami. He not thin ish as to a
Speaker 1: tongue of viola. And the Miami Dolphins knockoff presumptive contender
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills in the final week of the season.
Speaker 1: S t A. Shine Finns went what shorter that time,
Speaker 1: looking into the future, seeing the southad recognizing the way
Speaker 1: things go. Dolphins underrated newspaper corps really and beat beat
Speaker 1: writer group in Miami. You got the Herald, you got
Speaker 1: the Palm Beach Post, you got the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Speaker 1: Most towns down to one paper one uh, you know,
Speaker 1: great local coverage. Miami still got three. Still well, you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of older people that remember the concept
Speaker 1: of reading newspapers in a younger city. There are some
Speaker 1: people that have never done that. So it's a good
Speaker 1: point and they still have them to read, which is
Speaker 1: which is keywhere That's the week seventeen game, and they
Speaker 1: are one game behind the Bills right now. The Bills
Speaker 1: one their previous matchup this year, so obviously, for multiple reasons,
Speaker 1: Dolbins need to win. That would then be the tied
Speaker 1: and the head to head and then if they assume
Speaker 1: they're tying their final record or I shouldn't assume that
Speaker 1: they just they get in. They get in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You don't need to win the division, gotcha. They have
Speaker 1: the toughest schedule of any team down the stretch. They
Speaker 1: do not play a losing team. They play the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: they play the Patriots, they play the Bills. Forgetting who
Speaker 1: the fourth team is, I said, I think it's the Raiders.
Speaker 1: So that is a playoff stretch. That is a tough slate.
Speaker 1: And if they can get out of there two and two,
Speaker 1: I think is reasonable. I think you get to ten wins,
Speaker 1: and I think Brian Flores wins Coach of the Year
Speaker 1: in this deep of a field. I think they might
Speaker 1: need to get to the playoffs to sway those voters,
Speaker 1: because I think that all those Coach of the Year
Speaker 1: votes are going to be split. I feel like the
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year might go to someone in the
Speaker 1: a f C East. I still think Belichick could get
Speaker 1: it if they make the playoffs. You gotta win out.
Speaker 1: You got Stefanski, you got Sean Payton went in with backups.
Speaker 1: You got Tomlin, you got La fleur and so you
Speaker 1: go in a lot of dude, pretty crowded field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right up next, Mark sess, well, I you know,
Speaker 1: I know that we UM. We've spoken at length on
Speaker 1: during this segment. I'm gonna offer too quick um NFL
Speaker 1: business headlines that will create some issues at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. Both comes to your head, your head,
Speaker 1: Sue stop, Sue stop. No, it wasn't Stafford that got stopped.
Speaker 1: Now we're past that. Now shall I continue this? Mark
Speaker 1: Maski from the Washington Post bubble Butts Colin n f
Speaker 1: L p A votes no on Puerto Rico postseason safe space.
Speaker 1: Now when you read this, it's bubble butts b u
Speaker 1: t s as in a bubble but nice idea, but
Speaker 1: we aren't doing it. The NFL p p A will
Speaker 1: not be into the idea of UM gathering as a
Speaker 1: playoff field in Puerto Rico after too many arguments in
Speaker 1: the United States over where that would take place and contingencies.
Speaker 1: Second quick business headline, yummy, yummy, put this game in
Speaker 1: my tummy. This one is concerning Phil Mushnick of The
Speaker 1: New York Post that that old dog he grinding. Bach
Speaker 1: Goodell says Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday games and quotes a possibility
Speaker 1: for and beyond. You know, they're loving these standalone operations
Speaker 1: here in the middle of the fall and early winter.
Speaker 1: Games every day, mimicking baseball and football are little lives
Speaker 1: that used to be contained to simply Monday, Sundays and Thursdays.
Speaker 1: No law, younger family, chaos ahead. This will be the
Speaker 1: first season in the history of the National Football League,
Speaker 1: our league where there are games on all seven days
Speaker 1: of the week. I was reading the New York Times
Speaker 1: a COVID nineteen coverage at four am this morning, because
Speaker 1: that's what I do now to clear my mind. And
Speaker 1: uh there was a comment that with the vaccine now
Speaker 1: ready to be rolled out and it has begun over
Speaker 1: there in the UK, congratulations to everybody there us and
Speaker 1: and hopefully uh coming here soon and it works and everybody,
Speaker 1: we can move past this. There is a belief, according
Speaker 1: to the New York Times, that we will return to
Speaker 1: a normal life potentially by the fall of which lines
Speaker 1: up perfectly for the old National Football League potentially, uh
Speaker 1: to if they can just get through the rest of
Speaker 1: this month, through the playoffs the Super Bowl. That the
Speaker 1: way the schedule sets up, the NFL will have dodged
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen uh for the back half hopefully of this wretched,
Speaker 1: wretched disease. Is it a disease? Whatever? We could have
Speaker 1: used our some of our fortune telling skills on actual
Speaker 1: matters such as that, but we um, we stuck with
Speaker 1: divisional races in wildcuard entries. Weird that Muchneck seemed to
Speaker 1: be addressing that headline to use specifically keep working batches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so what he's sort of like he doesn't
Speaker 1: you know, he can pick and choose what he feels
Speaker 1: like covering up. He's a little cranky. Yeah, maybe he
Speaker 1: could get a vaccine for being a horrible person. I
Speaker 1: don't know him personally, is he is? He not a fun,
Speaker 1: fun gentleman. I think if if we were to extend
Speaker 1: trash takes for you know, the duration, he would be
Speaker 1: he would be a pie on the list. Yes, he would.
Speaker 1: All Right, close this out, Greg Rosenvalk, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure. Um Alright, Week Week seventeen just ended January
Speaker 1: four morning. They're still doing the New Orleans Times pigun
Speaker 1: three times a week. I believe I wish it was
Speaker 1: every day. What a paper headline from Jeff Duncan here
Speaker 1: time to live on Taysom Hill question Mark Breezes December
Speaker 1: struggles opens the door for new QB, but he'll he'll
Speaker 1: live on comes back totally considered in this scenario. Maybe
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill starts this week against Philly, maybe it doesn't,
Speaker 1: but either way Breeze comes back. Looks like you would
Speaker 1: expect a forty one year old human who had just
Speaker 1: had all sorts of rich Is he forty one um
Speaker 1: to to play in a in a highly competitive physical
Speaker 1: sport um with some struggles in December reopening um a
Speaker 1: order back question potentially even for a number one seed.
Speaker 1: We have this conversation. I was on The Good Show
Speaker 1: with Ben Ennis and J. D. Bunkus up in Toronto
Speaker 1: this morning. We talked about this very topic and my
Speaker 1: take on where they're at right now with this quarterback
Speaker 1: battle or potential battle or showdown is Taysom Hill, if
Speaker 1: he plays this week against the Eagles and lights up
Speaker 1: the Eagles, plays that basically the level he played this
Speaker 1: past Sunday. It gets really interesting. I think if he
Speaker 1: if he either heads to the bench on Sunday and
Speaker 1: Breeze takes over, or he plays closer to his first
Speaker 1: two starts, I think that takes some of the air
Speaker 1: out of the balloon of this drama. But if he
Speaker 1: lights up the Eagles, I still think Peyton goes back
Speaker 1: to Breeze because of the loyalty factor in and the
Speaker 1: fact it's almost like a Peyton Manning uh and Gary
Speaker 1: Kubiak in Matt Manning's last season when they went back
Speaker 1: to him, even though maybe you weren't sure if it
Speaker 1: was the right move. But if he does struggle and
Speaker 1: and and Peyton has that memory of those last two starts,
Speaker 1: by by taste, how could you not consider they're all
Speaker 1: in for a Super Bowl. I mean, if you have,
Speaker 1: if you have a better option at quarterback, how can
Speaker 1: you ignore it. I think it's all about Breeze if anything.
Speaker 1: I think the way that game ended, if that happens
Speaker 1: to be last taste and start, will be a pretty
Speaker 1: bitter um taste in Sean Payton's mouth. Fumbling twice in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, including just a ghastly one which which
Speaker 1: almost lost the game for them. I you know, going
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes without scoring is something I think that
Speaker 1: you know, against Atlanta, I think is something that Sean
Speaker 1: Payton is gonna remember, but I'm basing this more on
Speaker 1: Breeze that if he comes back at at his age,
Speaker 1: he's had some struggles this year and understandably looks his
Speaker 1: age off those injuries. That then that opens the door
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to think about it. I wonder
Speaker 1: if they've ever platoon each for like a half or something,
Speaker 1: But I don't know, Greg, it's your prediction, so you
Speaker 1: you could actually answer that question, but I'll wait for
Speaker 1: the trauma to unfold. Well, at this point, I'm just
Speaker 1: setting setting you up that Breeze has his struggles and
Speaker 1: it and it becomes very much an open question. But
Speaker 1: the struggles that that anybody could have, uh late and
Speaker 1: late in the season, Um, the struggles the easily that
Speaker 1: that Taysom Hill could have. But as Gregg has seen
Speaker 1: the future, right, um, we don't. We already know there's
Speaker 1: not much future for Drew Brees left. And so whether
Speaker 1: it's if if we don't even see jamis right, It's
Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of presumed that, well it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tayso Tom right, if we don't, if we
Speaker 1: don't see James through this stretch, then then what else
Speaker 1: would the Saints do in the absence of Drew Brees. Well,
Speaker 1: it might be a media thing too, But yeah, you're
Speaker 1: just I'm very curious to see, like, let's say that
Speaker 1: he comes back for Chief Saints week fifteen. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just curious to see how Drew threes.
Speaker 1: We now, ladies and gentlemen, close the curtain, the mystical curtain,
Speaker 1: and take you out of the future and bring you
Speaker 1: back to the reality of the present. Tell no one
Speaker 1: of what you heard today, what's next. The things you've
Speaker 1: seen are technically possible. It remains only to apply what
Speaker 1: we now know to fulfill these dreams of tomorrow. The
Speaker 1: world and beyond is limited only by the boundaries of
Speaker 1: our imagination. Today, I just got dark there. I'll think
Speaker 1: we made it. We're stuck, all right, Before we go,
Speaker 1: let's look ahead now, a little bit closer into the future.
Speaker 1: No predictions here, but Thursday Night Football, the beginning of
Speaker 1: week fourteen. And Greg, I know you are very excited
Speaker 1: about this match. It's the battle for my household, you know,
Speaker 1: my my two kids on the opposite side of Rams Patriots.
Speaker 1: My wife started become a Rams fan. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: extinguish the memories of Super Bowl fifty three for Rams fans.
Speaker 1: But I do think it would be a nice game.
Speaker 1: Was what a memory? Um? I do think it's It
Speaker 1: would be an important hill the climb for them because
Speaker 1: they shouldn't lose this game. They are more talented, they
Speaker 1: are more balanced, and I think if they did lose
Speaker 1: to to an admittedly frisky Patriots team, it would probably
Speaker 1: because Jared Goff was outwitted and that the Ram we're
Speaker 1: out coached. They they they have more talent, and this
Speaker 1: is a spot when you look at their schedule. They
Speaker 1: should win the NFC West if they beat the Seahawks
Speaker 1: in Week sixteen. The only way they could trip up
Speaker 1: is lose a game that you shouldn't and I would
Speaker 1: put that into this category. The Patriots are going to
Speaker 1: try to ugly it up with with long drives on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, really and keep the score low.
Speaker 1: And and that wouldn't surprise me if that happens. But
Speaker 1: they they should have more. They really should have more
Speaker 1: than the Patriots. I wouldn't be shocked at this. The
Speaker 1: final score, we're kind of close to that weird Super
Speaker 1: Bowl score that no one predicted. I mean, maybe not
Speaker 1: as severe for the Rams, but I look at the
Speaker 1: Patriots the four and one over the last five games,
Speaker 1: and even forget just the last two games, what they
Speaker 1: did to Kyler Murray Um, what they did to Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: what Stephan Gilmour did to DeAndre Hopkins fifty five yards
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen last week forty eight yards. No receiver or
Speaker 1: n back for the Chargers had more. They they erased
Speaker 1: that offense. Uh. And I mean, I understand that's Belichick
Speaker 1: versus rookie quarterback, but Golf, to me is also vulnerable
Speaker 1: in similar ways to Um. Excellent defensive coaching, and so
Speaker 1: I think this is a This is a get over
Speaker 1: the hump, proved people wrong game for Jared Goff, who
Speaker 1: people probably from a distance, could say this will be
Speaker 1: one where he'll hub trouble. Um. Let's see if if
Speaker 1: if that can be something different, if the storyline could
Speaker 1: be different. This is one of the few Super Bowl
Speaker 1: rematches where a lot of the characters are gone. But
Speaker 1: I think if you're Sean McVeigh, this matters a lot
Speaker 1: to you. Cam Newton has five touchdown passes this entire season.
Speaker 1: I mean that this is a good quarterback game because Newton,
Speaker 1: despite continuing to be good with the football, running the
Speaker 1: ball and finding the end zone that way, geez, what
Speaker 1: is he going to look like in this game against
Speaker 1: a Rams defense that is stellar? Um? That is that
Speaker 1: is a big, a big test for Newton who's struggled
Speaker 1: all season, Uh, and especially in the last month or
Speaker 1: so to move the ball through the air. And they're
Speaker 1: they're overmatched all the time though, right, I guess Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey gonna travel with Jacoby Meyers, right like? Um, like,
Speaker 1: so this this idea that there there there there's this
Speaker 1: mismatch talent wise offense. It's true every week. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna come specially Yeah, it's it's certainly the case
Speaker 1: this week. But what we've seen, Um, we saw the
Speaker 1: Flores versus Jared Goff and Sean mcveigh's situation. Perhaps if
Speaker 1: if you believe in such things, there could be a
Speaker 1: similar Belichick uh defensive performance even though they're missing most,
Speaker 1: if not all, of those guys from that defense. They've
Speaker 1: played like that in the Super Bowl. I I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do you guys, I see a close game. Um, and
Speaker 1: the Patriots are a little bit hot, but I don't
Speaker 1: I don't really know how much mean we're how much
Speaker 1: meaning we're gonna be able to extrapolate from this from
Speaker 1: from either team, I think they're both kind of just
Speaker 1: mired in this middle and there's something missing. Squads right
Speaker 1: the way the Patriots are playing are insane. I mean,
Speaker 1: Camas career lowest for passing in their last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and it was two of their best games of the season.
Speaker 1: He has eleven rushing touchdowns. They are they are, they
Speaker 1: are a nineteen seventies team. But the defense is why
Speaker 1: I give them a chance. Because Adam Butler is playing
Speaker 1: great Chase win of his josh Cha like they they're
Speaker 1: coming together defensively, and they could ugly this one up.
Speaker 1: And and gun Chefski is gonna do something magical. I got,
Speaker 1: I got the Rams twenty to sixteen. What do you guys?
Speaker 1: It sounds about right. Maybe I'll steal that for the
Speaker 1: old game picks golum there that score Patriots nineteen ramst Wow, right,
Speaker 1: So there you go. Tune in Thursday and uh and
Speaker 1: we'll have a recap on that to Shorty on that
Speaker 1: as well. In addition to of course Mark and I
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