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Speaker 1: I like New York two game winning streak for the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Join nol Michaels, kirkhurb Street, Kaylee Hartungu. These AFC East rivals, Well,

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Speaker 1: All right, that was fun instant reaction. Atlanta twenty two

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Speaker 1: to twenty one. So in the off season I picked

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Speaker 1: Atlanta to win their division. I thought they could win

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Speaker 1: twelve games. I think they're a really good football team.

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Speaker 1: I think in Week one Atlanta was at a coaching

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Speaker 1: disadvantage because Arthur Smith, their former coach, was now a

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Speaker 1: Steelers offensive coordinator. That's a huge advantage. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: a really weak one advantage that you're just not going

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Speaker 1: to get some insight on personnel. And Pittsburgh's got a

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Speaker 1: very very good defense, and they gave kirk Cousins a

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Speaker 1: lot of trouble. I thought he had a little more

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Speaker 1: he was static. He just stayed in the pocket. But

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Speaker 1: I thought tonight he moved a little better. He told

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Speaker 1: Troy Aikman, he's one hundred percent in the pocket. He's

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Speaker 1: not one hundred percent yet. But I think two things

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Speaker 1: are very clear about these two teams. Those were two

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Speaker 1: good offensive lines and two good run games. And Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurts obviously part of Philadelphias run game. But Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty, three hundred and seventy yards, a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: no picks, and a great final drive, just pick pick picked,

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Speaker 1: nice passes. And by the way, when they paid for

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and they drafted Michael Pennix, I said, you're

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Speaker 1: telling me that's a mistake. Look at all the rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks right now. They're brutal. You know who isn't Michael

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Speaker 1: Pennix sitting behind like Mahomes who sat behind Alex Smith.

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Speaker 1: Michael Pennix is sitting behind Kirk Cousins and learning the

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Speaker 1: game of football, just like a Tom Brady did with

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Speaker 1: the Drew bledsoe. He's just sitting on the sidelines and watching.

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Speaker 1: That's what Mahomes did, you know, It's what Carson Palmer,

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Speaker 1: I believe, did this idea. Lamar Jackson sat for like

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Speaker 1: ten games behind Joe Flacco. So this idea that bringing

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Speaker 1: in Kirk Cousins to mentor and I said, I think

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Speaker 1: they can win the division. I love their personnel at

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Speaker 1: Their offensive line's great. They have multiple running backs. John

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Speaker 1: Robinson was under used last year. He's fantastic, but you

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Speaker 1: just and the Eagles have a good defensive front. They

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Speaker 1: So I think Atlanta's a real team. I Philadelphia, you know,

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Speaker 1: I know they feel terrible about this loss, but Philadelphia lost.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what are upsets? San Francisco just got housed

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Speaker 1: think you looked at two teams that will probably or

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Speaker 1: at least could The Sames look pretty good, could win

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Speaker 1: their division. So you know my take on Philadelphia, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes you just lose games. And I mean, hell Atlanta

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Speaker 1: with that Drake London, you know, taunting penalty late. Thank

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Speaker 1: God they have one of the best kickers in the league,

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Speaker 1: or they could have missed that extra point. So you

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Speaker 1: know it's it's I don't I don't think Philadelphia is

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Speaker 1: a bad football team. I think I think Atlanta and

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Speaker 1: Michael Pennix is just sitting back learning how to play football.

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Speaker 1: You're not winning that game with Michael Pennox tonight. You're

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Speaker 1: football games, Big stage. Kirk Cousins, after he started terribly.

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Speaker 1: You know, there used to be these discussions he didn't

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Speaker 1: But you know Philadelphia, you know these offenses. I got

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Speaker 1: But nobody's playing starters, and you've gone from four preseason

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Speaker 1: it's kind of explainable starters aren't playing snaps on linemen

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Speaker 1: and the quarterbacks are paying the price they're on their back.

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Speaker 1: They're getting hammered. Also, I think because the owners are

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Speaker 1: Coordinators move off quarterbacks early. I also think part of

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Speaker 1: six hundred million dollars. Yeah, you know, you don't want

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Speaker 1: write that check to win games. Because now teams, you know,

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Speaker 1: these owners now were getting massive checks. They're less patient.

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Speaker 1: But another one is nobody's playing starters in the preseason

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Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. So Saquon's obviously, you know, is a nice

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Speaker 1: going to win them some football games. Simultaneously, the Giants

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Speaker 1: at least should, and Atlanta's one of them. So nice

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Speaker 1: Atlanta's a real team, Saints look like a completely different franchise,

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Speaker 1: the preseason. These teams in the NFC that are starting strong,

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Speaker 1: we don't know how they'll finish. There may be ceilings

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Speaker 1: for Sam Darnold and Derek Carr and Baker Mayfield and

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Speaker 1: Gino Smith, but it is an advantage having you know,

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