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Speaker 1: so kind of show you what the priority of positions are.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about quarterback first and foremost, talking about then

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Speaker 1: edge rusher, talking about offensive tackle, you're talking about corner

431
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Speaker 1: like those are kind of the premier marquee positions in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Then you can even put like receiver. They're

433
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Speaker 1: starting to get paid big, big money, those top tier,

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Speaker 1: top flight weapons. When you look at this Colts team

435
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Speaker 1: and how they've kind of turned things around and really

436
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Speaker 1: if not for some kind of blown leads and or

437
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Speaker 1: you know, tough heartbreak losses, including one of the Ravens Uh,

438
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Speaker 1: this team would be even in a better position. But

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Speaker 1: I can make the strong argument that the Colts top

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Speaker 1: three player is on their roster. Jonathan Taylor is a

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Speaker 1: running back, Darius Leonards a linebacker, Quentin Nelson's a guard.

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Speaker 1: Whatever order you want to put those three guys in,

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Speaker 1: I think those are the three best players. Now, there's

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Speaker 1: other really good players, you know, with the fourth Buckner

445
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Speaker 1: and company on there. Ryan Kelly's a solid player. They've

446
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Speaker 1: got other really good players, But they're three best players

447
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 1: are not at the priority positions. Talking about guard, talking

448
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Speaker 1: about running back, talking about linebacker. Yeah, and and and

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Speaker 1: it's it's different because you don't see that happened. Like

450
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Speaker 1: we we talked about everything is about the quarterback in

451
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Speaker 1: the passing game, and so we've always talked about like

452
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Speaker 1: the offensive tackles you need to have, you gotta have

453
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Speaker 1: the market quarterback. Now has become increasingly important to have

454
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Speaker 1: a playmaker on the perimeter, whether it's a wide receiver

455
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Speaker 1: or tied in defensively, is the pass rushers in the corner.

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Speaker 1: And then when I look at the Indianapolis Colts, you're right,

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Speaker 1: they don't have any of that. And in fact, it's

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Speaker 1: so uh to not see them with maybe a premier

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Speaker 1: pass rusher, a premier corner, elite wide receivers. I mean

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Speaker 1: that is not the norm. But you know what they

461
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Speaker 1: have DJ which is is funny, is they have a

462
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Speaker 1: team that kind of adheres to what we call the

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Speaker 1: old principles of how you win games in any sport. UM.

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Speaker 1: A long time ago when I got to the league. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I had a coach, Dick Gerond, who played at you

466
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Speaker 1: know who's the defense coordinated Jacksonville. He said, it never

467
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Speaker 1: changes in any sport. You have to be strong right

468
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Speaker 1: down the middle. So and football is is right down

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Speaker 1: the pipe. So when you talk about quarterback, defensive tackle,

470
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Speaker 1: mike linebacker, safety, it's like, get to have strength in

471
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Speaker 1: those areas. Baseball the same way picture catcher, middle, infeders,

472
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Speaker 1: center fielder. That's how you got in basketball. Back then

473
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Speaker 1: it was you know, you need to point guard in

474
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Speaker 1: the center to be able to do it well. When

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Speaker 1: I look at this team, their frank right has constructed.

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Speaker 1: They're kind of strong right down the pipe. You know

477
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Speaker 1: the forest book on the inside. Darius Leonard and Mike Linebacker, Um,

478
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Speaker 1: you can pick either one of their safeties and talk

479
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Speaker 1: about how good those guys are. And then up front,

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Speaker 1: you know they invested top picks on the interior. Quinn

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Speaker 1: Nelson is the most notable, but you know Kelly at

482
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Speaker 1: the point of attack is is a good player. Then

483
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor behind Carson Wentz being able to run right

484
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Speaker 1: down the middle. So the strength of their team is

485
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Speaker 1: right down the middle of their team. And it's something

486
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Speaker 1: that we're not necessarily used to see because we always

487
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Speaker 1: think about the edges in the perimeter. Yeah, I think though,

488
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Speaker 1: when you go back and look at when we talked

489
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Speaker 1: about the championship foundation, you know, we talked about having three,

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Speaker 1: you know, top tier offensive lineman they have. It's just

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Speaker 1: not the left tackles, not one of them, right, because

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Speaker 1: Bradon Smith is a really good player, um, and then

493
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Speaker 1: even even Glewinsky is a solid player. But Ryan Kelly,

494
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Speaker 1: Brandon Smith and Hugh and Quentin Nelson. You've got your

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Speaker 1: three right there. Then we talked about the playmakers, having

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Speaker 1: a couple of playmakers. Well, obviously Jonathan Taylor is that

497
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Speaker 1: is that dude, UM and big time premier playmaker at

498
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Speaker 1: the running back position. And you've got solid guys, you know,

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Speaker 1: with Pittman uh t wise older passal like that, you've

500
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: got okay guys, but really kind of that one premier

501
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 1: guy um in the running back. And then on defense

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Speaker 1: we talked about two pass rushers, Well de Forrest Buckner

503
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Speaker 1: gives them one. And then I think it's kind of

504
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Speaker 1: a collection of those other guys. I don't think that

505
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Speaker 1: there's an elite player there, but you've got some interesting

506
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Speaker 1: players that can that can make some things happen. When

507
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Speaker 1: you think about Quity Pays a young guy, um kind

508
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Speaker 1: of what he can do. Um, They've got options there.

509
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Speaker 1: And then I would say playmakers. You know, when we

510
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Speaker 1: think of playmakers, we think of maybe more you know corners,

511
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Speaker 1: but for their playmakers and those two linebackers, so it's

512
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Speaker 1: just different, like it's it. They've got you know, key pieces,

513
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Speaker 1: but they're not exactly where most teams would be searching

514
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Speaker 1: for them. No, And I think I think this is

515
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Speaker 1: why it might be a little different, because they almost

516
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Speaker 1: have a Hodgepodge in philosophies uh melting together to formed

517
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Speaker 1: a team because remember when Frank Reich was hard this job,

518
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Speaker 1: Arisin was one of Josh McDaniels, and so they had

519
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Speaker 1: already kind of outfit the staff. Matt Eberflus and those

520
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Speaker 1: guys were gonna handle the defense. Josh from Games, gonna

521
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Speaker 1: handle the offense and go so Josh from Ganges backs out.

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Speaker 1: They bring in frame, right, but they kept the defensive staff. Now,

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Speaker 1: part of the reason Um they kept the defensive staff

524
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Speaker 1: and why the defense was picked the way they do.

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Speaker 1: His pick, Chris ballard Um was heavily influenced by his time.

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Speaker 1: I think in Chicago with Chicago with Rob mary Nelly

527
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Speaker 1: and Lovey Smith and that defense, and so I love

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Speaker 1: the way that that defense allowed young players to get

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Speaker 1: on the field, Love the way that defense was constructed.

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Speaker 1: And going back to Rob mary Nellie's days when he

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Speaker 1: was with Tampa, you had Warren Stap on the inside.

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Speaker 1: You had those guys Derek Brooks and um others on

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Speaker 1: the inside plane. John Lynch was a key piece at safety.

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Speaker 1: But then let's think about those Chicago Bears teams. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if they had a dominant pass rush of

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Speaker 1: those Bears teams under Lovey Smith, like you had her

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Speaker 1: Lacker and Lance Briggs, you had Mike Brown as safety.

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Speaker 1: Think about that. It's a very yeah. And and then

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Speaker 1: Pep came doing there, but they didn't go to the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl with pep like who the who their players

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Speaker 1: on the inside, like they had a dominant player that

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Speaker 1: had someone on the inside. I can maybe Tommy Harris

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Speaker 1: was there. I think Tommy Harris might have been playing

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Speaker 1: in the mix. But but that's it. So he's basically

545
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Speaker 1: is taking that model that he went to the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl with in Chicago and put that in practice on

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Speaker 1: on defense. And then Frank Wich. You look at his background,

548
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Speaker 1: Frank Wright comes from the Buffalo Bills, but I know

549
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Speaker 1: Frank Wright from dealing with Maryland. And if you go

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Speaker 1: back to his background in Maryland where he played under

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Speaker 1: Bobby Ross. Bobby Ross was thirty nine and nineteen in Maryland,

552
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Speaker 1: but they won three straight ACC titles. Boomer was a

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Speaker 1: quarterback there, Frank Wright was a quarterback there. Neil O'Donnell

554
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Speaker 1: was a quarterback there, and they were a team that

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Speaker 1: was built on toughness. And when you listen to Frank

556
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Speaker 1: right talk, he talks about toughness and physicality and playing

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Speaker 1: with force and being able to move people. He had

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Speaker 1: I would say probably an atypical philosophical approach for a

559
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Speaker 1: former quarterback because most of time quarterbacks will talk about

560
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Speaker 1: throwing it and passing him, but he always talks about

561
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Speaker 1: being able to run the impound it in doing those things.

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Speaker 1: And so I think what you have is just old

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Speaker 1: school philosophies kind of messing, and it does go against

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Speaker 1: the grain. But I think it's also because their counterculture.

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Speaker 1: I think they're also one of the teams that you

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Speaker 1: don't want to have to deal with in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: I also think when you think about er Lacker and Briggs,

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Speaker 1: you think about long, big, physical guys that can run,

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Speaker 1: and you think about what they have uh with with

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Speaker 1: the Colts. Now with Bobby I I pronounced Bobby okar

571
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Speaker 1: Riki for a long time, but now I guess it's ok, okay,

572
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: I've been getting it wrong. I don't know I've got

573
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Speaker 1: that jack that. But with him and Darius Leonard, maybe

574
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: a little bit leaner body types, but really really long

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Speaker 1: guys that can really cover and can run um. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's some similarities there. That's an interesting assignment,

577
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Speaker 1: could be a good notebook thing for you, comparing this

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Speaker 1: this Colts team maybe to that Bears team, because that

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Speaker 1: Bears team was Rex Grossman at quarterback, right that they

580
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: took the ball out of his hands too, so you know,

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Speaker 1: you know what the similarity is. Though, The similarity is

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Speaker 1: they turned the ball over at a crazy rate in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: their defense was their best offense because at the time

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Speaker 1: it was her Lacker, it was Briggs, it was Peanut Tillman,

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Speaker 1: it was Mike. They were knocking the ball out, picking

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Speaker 1: it off and taking it back. Well, the end and

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Speaker 1: up of his colts right now are tied for the

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Speaker 1: league with thirty one takeaways. They're taking the ball away

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00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: whether they're punching it out, because we've seen um Darius

590
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: Lennard punched the ball out in key moments. We've seen

591
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard and the rest of the guys pick off passes.

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00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: They are utilizing some of that Chicago Bears blueprint to

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Speaker 1: have success. And I will say this about the edge players.

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Speaker 1: They may not have a dominant edge player, but they

595
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: certainly have a sweet tooth for those guys that are

596
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Speaker 1: super athletic, energetic, and relentless when it comes to their playings.

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00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: Because Quitti pay is all of that. And what the

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00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,479
Speaker 1: kid that they got from Perdue who also plays. They

599
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: got the kid from Vandy. Oh, he's study. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So he's the guy man and he fitsed. He fits that,

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00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: he fits the mold. So they just have so much

602
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Speaker 1: explosiveness with those guys that they're having a ton of success.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting, all right. Well, it's a different way of

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Speaker 1: doing it, and it's it's working right now for the Cults.

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Speaker 1: So I want to continue on this conversation with the

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Speaker 1: Colts being a wild card team, and right after this break,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come back and talk about who we think

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Speaker 1: is the most dangerous of those wild card teams and

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Speaker 1: why we'll do that right after this all right, Buck,

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Speaker 1: we look at these wild card teams if the season

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Speaker 1: ended right now, I'd be curious who you think is

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Speaker 1: the most dangerous when you look at where it stands

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Speaker 1: you've got in the a f C. The wild cards

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Speaker 1: as of right now would be the Indianapolis Colts, Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers, Buffalo Bills. Those are your three wild cards.

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Speaker 1: If you could take one of those teams and buy

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Speaker 1: stock in it, who are you buying it? I mean

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Speaker 1: it's him. We just talked about it. But does make

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Speaker 1: for We just talked about the Colts. If you like

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Speaker 1: the Colts, you take the Colts I mean, I do

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Speaker 1: like the Coasts, and I like the Coats because in

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Speaker 1: the postseason, the things that I'm thinking about is can

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Speaker 1: we get stops on defense? Can we control the game

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Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form. And I think the

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Speaker 1: Colts are able to do it. They can do it

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Speaker 1: because the running game. Jonathan Taylor is an absolute monster DJ.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you thought about him coming out.

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Speaker 1: I did not know he was gonna be this kind

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Speaker 1: of playmaker for the end of his coat. I did

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Speaker 1: not know that he had this kind of get down

631
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Speaker 1: in his game, and he has been able to dominate

632
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Speaker 1: the way that he played on Saturday against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: When he goes for one seventy, but he does it,

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00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: it's an easy one seventy, right, just a just a

635
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: steady drip of production coming from him and then the

636
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: defense's ability to take the ball away. I think that

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00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: is a game change, and I think that gives them

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to be able to do it because if

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Speaker 1: you can control the game, which you're running game and

640
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: shorten it, it was a lot of pressure on the opponent.

641
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: They have to throw and make plays, and that kind

642
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: of plays into their hands as a team that wants

643
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: to sit back in his own and kind of rally

644
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: and run to the ball. This is a It's a

645
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: hard matchup for teams, and I believe their confidence comes

646
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: from the fact that they really believe like they are

647
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: a tough, physical team and that the toughness will give

648
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: them a chance against anybody. Alright, So Jonathan Taylor coming out,

649
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: He's my thirty five player. Ultra productive running back, outstanding

650
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: strength and speed on inside runs. Sudden carries his pads

651
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: load to the ground, shows the balance to bounce off

652
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: tackers while keeping his legs alive. Isn't overly shifty, but

653
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: he avoids taking flush hits. He always falls forward for

654
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: extra yardage. Has plenty of speed to capture the edge.

655
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: Once he gets in space, he can run away from

656
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: everyone in the passing game. Very effective on screens. You

657
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: can set up blocks and collect big chunks of yards.

658
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: Trust his hands and attacks the ball when he's out

659
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: in the route. Didn't have a lot of reps and

660
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: pass pro in the games I studied. Overall, Taylor's an

661
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: explosive home run hitter with upside in the passing game.

662
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: So this is a classic case of a super talented

663
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: player who's one one little nick on him and one

664
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: little complaint is okay, well he's not a little shifty.

665
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna have if you're not great up

666
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: front and it's gonna be real messy and muddy, maybe

667
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: not the perfect fit. When you get a knockoff the

668
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, offensive line like to have there that

669
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: can give him just a little bit of runway. This

670
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: guy was made for. That's what he was at Wisconsin.

671
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: But that's it's it's a perfect match, yes, perfect match.

672
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: And so one of the underrated UH components UH in

673
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: evaluation that we don't talk enough about is fit in scheme.

674
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: How does the play it fit into the scheme? And

675
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is a perfect fit for what the Indianapolis

676
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: Coats want to do. A couple of things you talked about.

677
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: You talked about him being physical, you talked about being

678
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: a little more straight line, not having to wiggle, and

679
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: those things. Well, when you go back and you look

680
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: at Wisconsin, where Wisconsin run most of their plays in

681
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: between the tackles, primarily right up to good he's coming down,

682
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: are running power over and over and over again. Well,

683
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: when you look at the Indianapoli schools, and you look

684
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: at how their offensive line is constructed. We talked about

685
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: those three linemen that are doing it. Yes we have

686
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: the right tackling Brady Smith, but right up the good

687
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: Kelly and quint Nelson that coming downhill, coming right at you.

688
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: And so I give them a lot of credit for

689
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: being able to match up a need and a want

690
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: with how the scheme plays out because it works. And

691
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: then defensively, it's the same thing. Um, they have a

692
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,959
Speaker 1: great feel for filling out the personnel and what they

693
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: want to have on this defense. This is a hit

694
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: and running cover defense. It's about the second level their

695
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: playmakers are able to get it. We talked about the

696
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: length from their linebackers and how it really works and

697
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: expands their zone. And man, they play so fast and

698
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: they're so long that they just create a bunch of

699
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: chaos off tip balls and overthrows and just making it very,

700
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: very challenging for the quarterback. That's a really good team

701
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: and it's a team that's getting hot at the right time.

702
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: And we're talking about them a walker, but the Tennessee

703
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: Titans a fade and fast. They may end up snatching

704
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: the division and being a team that's a division winner

705
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: as opposed to a Walker squad. Yeah, no, they're they're

706
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: dangerous group. I would just argue I can argue on

707
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: the Chargers side of things that I think when they

708
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: get everybody back and healthy, now they're gonna be They've

709
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: had COVID issues, so they're they're gonna be without Joey

710
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: Bosa this week potentially could be without Corey Lindsley Um

711
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: as well and Eckler as well, so that they've got

712
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: they've got to navigate around the COVID thing. If they

713
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: can get everybody healthy for you know, the playoffs, and

714
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: you get Assante Samuel back in that secondary and then

715
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: you have a healthy Derwin James, they they've got a chance.

716
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: And there's other teams that have lost guys for the year.

717
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: The Chargers have been fortunate where they really haven't had that.

718
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: So if they can just get everybody on the field

719
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: and healthy, I can tell you they're Achilles heel has

720
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: been their ability to stop the run. But now that

721
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: they've got Linvall, Joseph back healthy and Justin Jones who

722
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: missed a bu to time early in year healthy. Um,

723
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: you look at the last couple of games, Kansas City

724
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: eighty six yards rushing. The Giants had a hundred and

725
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: thirty five, but a lot of it came late in

726
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: the game and kind of give up runs. The game

727
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: before that, Cincinnati had ninety six. This was the worst

728
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: run defense in the league. They were giving up like

729
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixties something yards a game on the ground.

730
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: So they didn't have to be great, like they just

731
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: couldn't be dead last. If they could just kind of

732
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: get in the middle of the pack, which is kind

733
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: of what they've done over the last month or so. Um,

734
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: that was a big Achilles heal for them because if

735
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: they can put you in passing situations, they can hunt.

736
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: They can hunt a little bit with their pass rush.

737
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: So I think it's a really dangerous team. And I

738
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: think the quarterbacks as good as anybody in the NFL

739
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: when you get in the tournament. That that to me

740
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: is why if I was gonna say, and I get

741
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: the Colts. The Colts are physical, all that, but I

742
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: just get in the playoffs, Buck, you gotta make those

743
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: three or four throws to win those games. I don't

744
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,919
Speaker 1: have that. I mean, as much as we both loved

745
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: Carson early in his career. Frank Reich shows you he

746
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of confidence in him. He pulled

747
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 1: him way back last week. I just us more, Herbert

748
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: more to be able to make those three or four

749
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: throws in that type of game. Okay, So I can

750
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: understand your confidence in the Charges, and the confidence and

751
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: the Charges stands from a different part of the game

752
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: than the party we outline for the in Annapolis Coast.

753
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: We talked about the Coast. We talked about toughness, physicality,

754
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: talked about running it, controlling it more ball control type game.

755
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: The reason why you have the utmost confidence in the

756
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: Charges because you got stud I mean, you have the

757
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: top five quarterback. I mean you can make the argument

758
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: that like Man, he should be in the conversation for

759
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the game based on what we've

760
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 1: seen from him, because he has big time talent and ability,

761
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: and I believe he has more swag and more confidence

762
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: this year than he had last year. The other thing

763
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: that he has he has caught a coach that has

764
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: the most confidence in his ability to win the game,

765
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: and he is willing to put the ball in his

766
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: hands and let him go do it. DJ I can

767
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: only tell you, having been around it a few times,

768
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: I would say, when I was in Buffalo, when Jim

769
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: Kelly was near the end of his run, but they're

770
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: going to four straight Super Bowls. Marv Leaving leave that

771
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,479
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly could do no wrong, he could walk on water,

772
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: he could let him have it. And because he trusted

773
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: him implicitly, they want a ton of games because he

774
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: would make it happen. When I was in Green Bay,

775
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: bread Father won three straight m vps. Mike Hogan had

776
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: the ultimate confidence and the quarterback. And so when that

777
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,439
Speaker 1: head coach believes that this quarterback can get it done,

778
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: it's not only about the coaching staff believing in him.

779
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: The entire team believes in his ability to get it done.

780
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: We talked about franchise quarterbacks to one trade that they

781
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: give the entire team is hope. Hope, and if you

782
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: give Justin Herbert the ball in a two minute situation,

783
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: you believe that you're gonna get it done. And so

784
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: the charges are dangerous because he can get hot. The

785
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: wide receivers on the on the programmeter our problem, Mike

786
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: Williams and Keenan Allen are big. They win fifty fifty balls.

787
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen is a street ball player who can get

788
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 1: open versus anybody. But the thing that happened Thursday night

789
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: that opened my eyes to them. If they can run

790
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: the ball like they ran the ball against the Kansas

791
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, they are a problem because the tree or

792
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: running backs that they were rolling in there and the

793
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: physicality that they played with. We hadn't necessarily seen the

794
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: Charges that we don't associate it with the powder blue uniforms.

795
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: If they're able to do that, that's playoff ball because

796
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: running the ball gives them a chance to slow it

797
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 1: down and control it. It also puts a different pressure

798
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: on the opponent to have to play a certain way,

799
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: which makes them play into the Charges wheelhouse of being

800
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: able to rush the past and play coverage. So yeah,

801
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: they're a very dangerous team. And I think with all

802
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: of the teams that we talked about, it is stylistically

803
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: who they're matched up against in the tournament, because the

804
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: tournament is going to be fascinating because I know that

805
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: no one wants to see the Charges. I know that

806
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: no one wants to necessarily deal with the Indianapolis Coos

807
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: because for two different way to different reasons or different reasons.

808
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: They give you problems. Yeah, the charge the charges are handful.

809
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: You just have to be there for a front row seat. Yeah,

810
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: and then what you are we on the same page,

811
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 1: Like I think you can make the case Colts Chargers,

812
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: however where you want that. I would say the Bills

813
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: would be third for me because those two teams. Yeah,

814
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: because here's here's the thing about the Bills. Um, at

815
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: some point, you are what you are. And we can

816
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: talk about them fixing the running game and doing all that.

817
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: And Devin Semeterary ran for eighty six yards on twin

818
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 1: carries the other day against the Panthers, and the Panthers

819
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: have just kind of lost their way. But at the

820
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the Bills are a team

821
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: that hangs on Josh Allen's performance as a single wing quarterback.

822
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: And we saw it versus the tam Bay Buccaneers and

823
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: kind of like a must win game, they unleashed him.

824
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: He ran it seventeen times, he threw it all over

825
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: the yard, and he can dominate and take over. I

826
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: don't know if he can take over for three straight

827
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: games in the postseason, though I know we can do

828
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: it for a one and done in a wild card game.

829
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can do it. I don't

830
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 1: believe you can do it for three straight. Defensively, it's

831
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: a really good team defense, really solid. Uh. They do

832
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: a bunch of good things really well. They run to

833
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: the ball. I know people will kind of make light

834
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: of the fact that they've given up big rushing days

835
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: against him um, but I don't know if there are

836
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: a team that can suffocate you in terms of that,

837
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: because if you have a quarterback like Joshton who has

838
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: to play like that, you gotta give them more chances.

839
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can suffocate you enough to

840
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: do it. And they're at the top of the charts

841
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: in defense. I think that they were number one points allowed.

842
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: They near the top of the charts and turnovers. It's

843
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: just a different defense. It's a team defense rather than

844
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 1: a star driven defense. And in the postseason it's star wars.

845
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: Your stars have to be able to take over. I

846
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: don't know how they have enough stars on defense to

847
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: be able to take it over. All right, we use

848
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: a lot of our time. They're on the a f C.

849
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: So we'll go quickly through the NFC. Uh Rams, Vikings, Niners,

850
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: who would you buy and that in that group. I

851
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: I think we know each other well enough. I think

852
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna say the same team. But but go ahead,

853
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Niners, and I'm gonna say Niners

854
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: because of um run game is creative and dominant. I mean,

855
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: they can run with anybody back there. I mean, I

856
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: think they can put you and I back there. I

857
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: think we could go half of we go for half

858
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,919
Speaker 1: a baby, you can get fifty yards yards. I feel

859
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: like cal Shanahan can make that happen. Um Deebo Samuel

860
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: and George kittle Uh are problematic because they are outstanding,

861
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: and we talked about the playoffs being about stars stepping up.

862
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: I think both of those guys have shown the ability

863
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: to step up and make big plays. Cayl you Check

864
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: is an underrated weapon that they can utilize in the

865
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: past game. He's also a dominant blocker. And then defensively,

866
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a team that's kind of

867
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: finding their way and Nick Bolsa can close it out.

868
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if if it's if it becomes a Broadway

869
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: show and we need to close it out, I mean,

870
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: he's the finisher. He can do it. He's coming off

871
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: the edge, and man, you you watch him play, you

872
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: kind of forget that he's coming off in a c

873
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: L a year ago. I mean he I mean he

874
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: is as good as it comes off the air. And

875
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: Frey Warner on the inside and some of the young

876
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: guys that are beginning to emerge in the secondary. It's

877
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: a really good team and they're playing really well. And

878
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: I don't think you can underestimate the super Bowl experience.

879
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: They are two years removed from going to the super Bowl.

880
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: When you get into the tournament and the game changes

881
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: and the intensity rise in the game becomes faster, they

882
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: have enough guys that have kind of experienced that to

883
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 1: adjust to it. That makes them a dangerous team in

884
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: my estimation. Here's what I'm looking at with them. Okay,

885
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: they're eight and six right now, but they have won

886
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: five of their last six games, and in those games

887
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: thirty one on the rams one to ten Rams or

888
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: a playoff team, right they beat the Jags thirty to ten. Jacks,

889
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: think the Vikings thirty four six. They're they're they're a

890
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: playoff teams. So that's two playoff teams. Um. They lost

891
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: the one game he lost us to Seattle. They put

892
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: twenty three up. They beat the Bengals playoff caliber team

893
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: twenty six to three, and they beat the Falcons, the

894
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: Falcons of the Falcons thirty one to thirteen. So when

895
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: I look on there and I seeing them consistently putting

896
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: thirties on the board each and every week. You're getting thirties,

897
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna win playoff games, man, because they're getting thirties

898
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: and they're gonna when they're playing with the lead. You

899
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: just mentioned Bosa. That team's made to play with the

900
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: lead because not only can they heat you up with

901
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: their pass rush, they can end the game with the

902
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: run game the game is over like that. They are

903
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: of any team I think are equipped to jump on

904
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: you and then it's it's night night time because they

905
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: can put you away. They can put your away, and

906
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: they found a different way of putting your way. They

907
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: can hit you with that. I mean, just a steady

908
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: diet of just runs at the beginning of the game.

909
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: We've seen DJ like against the Rams, against the Jaguars,

910
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: I want to say they started out with like fifteen

911
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: plus play drives. The entire quarter is almost gone. It's

912
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: a different pressure for the opposing play caller trying to

913
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: figure out like, man, if we don't if we don't

914
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: score now, they we may not see the ball back.

915
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: We may not get it back into the end of

916
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: the half. Like they have the ability to shrink the

917
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: game in a way that it puts so much pressure

918
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: on the opposing defense, but also their offense to be

919
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: efficient because you don't have as many possessions. And I

920
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 1: feel like cal Shanahan heard all the criticism, heard everyone

921
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: taking shots at him about well, maybe he's not the

922
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: group that we kind of anointed him to be. And

923
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: I've seen a more diverse, more creative, more efficient offense

924
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: since it kind of reached a fever pitch dangerous team. Man.

925
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: You know in the postseason about the hot team, And

926
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: depending upon the matchup, the Niners are the team that

927
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't want to see because it plays to

928
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: like they can negate what the Cowboys do well on

929
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: defense because they run right at them. They won't let

930
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons have the field and have the circus plays

931
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: and those things. So when you're looking at the tournament

932
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,919
Speaker 1: and those things, they match up well with if they're

933
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: a last team to come in and they have to

934
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: play the Cowboys. They match up well in my estimation,

935
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: um against some of the other teams that are in there,

936
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: and it just depends on how it breaks. But you

937
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: don't want to be the Cards having to face them

938
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: in a division and you don't want to be the

939
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: Rams having to face them in a division game like

940
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: in the wild card, right, you don't want to have

941
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: to face them the third time. Yes, the problem I

942
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: don't know if they match up well against the Buccaneers

943
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: because the Buccaneers run defense. Yeah the Dominican No, no, no,

944
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: we're not doing it, you ha. So that's the bad

945
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 1: matchup for them. But the rest of the teams, Yeah,

946
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: I'll take my chance with San Francisco and now no doubt.

947
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: All right, this has been a fun one man. Hopefully

948
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: you've got all your Christmas shopping done. You're done. You

949
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: don't always shopping? Oh you know, I'm I'm the guy

950
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: I like to wait for Christmas Eve. I don't like

951
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: I like pressure, like pressure. I like to run around

952
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: and and do that. But you know the other thing

953
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: is there's nothing wrong with the gift card or just

954
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: something flat. My man, you're speaking like I love that.

955
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: All right, this has been a fun one man one

956
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: of his Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, everybody out there for listening,

957
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging with us, and we'll catch you next time.

958
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: Right here on, move the sticks.