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Episode 13 - The So-Called Sports Analyst · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Welcome back to finally another episode of
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the so called Sports Anna Lists. I'm your host, Alfonso Portill. I
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know it's been a long time since the last podcast, but we are going
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to be more consistent in every single Tuesday we are going to be uploading and
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there's plenty of stuff I'm want to get into, from MLB college football to
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the NFL. So we're gonna go ahead and get straight after it. And
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the biggest news obviously this weekend was the Dallas Cowboys losing to the Arizona Cardinals
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twenty eight to sixteen in an upsetting loss which the Cowboys were favored by twelve
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and a half points. Yes, they did not have four of their offensive
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alignment, but that is no excuse to be losing to one of the worst
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teams in the NFL. And I do not know what was wrong with this
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team on Sunday. So this is coming from a Cowboys fan who I try
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to be objective as possible. I know it's hard at times, but this
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is one of the worst games I've seen the Cowboys play in a while,
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just from offense to defense. And the biggest thing that stood out was there
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was thirteen penalties from the Dallas Cowboys and there were one for five in the
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red zone and those are big no nos as far as winning a football game,
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and the Cardinals they just simply outplayed the Dallas Cowboys, no question about
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it. But the biggest thing that everybody is going to be talking about is
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as far as Dak Prescott, is that the interception late in the game,
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which don't get me wrong, that was a terrible play by Dak Prescott,
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But the only reason that the Cowboys were in the game was because of Dak
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Prescott. The defense was not helping this team out at all. I guess
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losing Trevon Digs was a bigger loss than what people thought. Because this team
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was getting gashed like crazy. There was no pressure put on Joshua Dobbs and
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maybe over these past two weeks of what the Arizona Cardinals were doing was building
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something and to eventually getting to win against one of the best teams in the
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NFL. And I'm not saying that the Arizona Cardinals are now one of the
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best teams in the NFL, but they beat one of the best teams in
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the NFL, so that proves that just because they are quote unquote tanking for
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Caleb Williams doesn't mean that they're going to be a push over every single week.
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And this just shows that any given Sunday you could be beaten by any
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team, no matter who's on the other side of the field, because the
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talent disparity was crazy. You cannot tell me a single group of the Arizona
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Cardinals was a better group than the Dallas Cowboys. Maybe on Sunday they were,
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but before the game, you could not have told me that. And
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everybody they're going to be overreacting as far as the Cowboys, trust me.
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I was reading all the Cowboys Twitter Monday and Sunday after the game, and
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everybody's saying division around Exit Samuel Cowboys, whatever, whatever, whatever. But
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me just trying to be optimistic here. I believe that the Cowboys are going
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to win these next three games, which are against the New England Patriots,
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the San Francisco forty nine Ers, and the Los Angeles Chargers, then everybody
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will be back on the bandwagon as far as the Cowboys winning the Super Bowl.
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And I'm not the type of fan to say that the Dallas Cowboys are
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going to the Super Bowl, But plenty of fans gonna say that, even
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though a bunch of them jumped off the ship just yesterday. So I'm just
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here to say that there's no need to overreact to what the Cowboys did against
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Arizona Cardinals. Trust me, it's a bad loss, but it happens in
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the season. Sometimes you just get out coached. It's just not your day
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any given Sunday. Like I said, no matter which team is out there,
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speaking of one of the other teams that was out there in one of
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the worst blowouts I've ever seen in my existence. Yes, I'm only nineteen
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years old, but still, that's plenty of football games. The Miami Dolphins
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beat the living hell out of the Denver Broncos seventy to twenty. Seventy to
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twenty, that is a maddened score. That is ridiculous. I don't care
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how bad a team is, There's no way a team should be allowing seventy
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points against them. And the Miami Dolphins offense is the best offense in the
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NFL. Mike McDaniels, in my opinion, is a top three coach in
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the NFL. I'm not to argue who's the best as far as rankings,
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but he is a top three coach in the NFL. And the craziest thing
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about this game is they didn't even have Jaylen Waddle in this game, So
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just imagine what they would do with Jalen Waddle And now Davon a Chain,
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who's now everybody's going to pick up in fantasy football, but now he looks
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like a promising young running back. You have where he mostered, who's more
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than capable to get the job done, and Jeff Wilson he's on ir right
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now, but he's gonna be back. So you have more than serviceable running
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backs. You have one of the best offensive lines in the league and a
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top three left tackle in Toronto Armstead. Again, I'm not here to argue
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from rankings, but he is one of the best left tackles in the league.
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And now my only concern for the Miami Dolphins as far as being a
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Super Bowl contender is Cam Toowa stay healthy. That was the biggest question last
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year too, because they got out to this hot start last year and yeah,
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there were three old last year. Two the biggest thing is is Cam
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two Wa stay healthy and can the defense just be serviceable to hold them on
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key third downs or turn touchdowns into field goals. That's the biggest thing,
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and next week we will see how they do. I know the Buffalo Bills.
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They they may not be rated as high as far as people Super Bowl
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contending teams, but they are still one of the best teams in the NFL,
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and we'll see how they look against them. And I believe they match
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up well against every single team in the NFL. As far as their offense
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against anybody's defense, I don't care if it's the San Francisco forty nine Ers,
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the Pittsburgh Steelers, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys, I don't care
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what defense you line up in front of them. They're gonna score at least
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twenty four points against you. I don't care. Just the biggest thing is
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two us health because now after seeing these games what the Dolphins have done.
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The first game, they were in a track race against the Chargers, and
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they proved they could win in clutch situations. Then they go to Foxborough and
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they're in a tough, gratty defensive game against Bill Belichick, one of the
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best head coaches in the NFL, and they win in an ugly fashion,
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being able to run the ball, play good defense, and then they do
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this against the Denver Broncos. They are, as of right now, the
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best team in the NFL. I don't care. You could say the Niners,
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you could say the Eagles. They are the best team in the NFL
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because they have been the most dominant team. And one of the other Key
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Markey games that I wanted to discuss before I discuss all the other games is
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the Los Angeles Chargers and the Minnesota Vikings. And this game you could already
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tell that this is going to be a high scoring game. Both of these
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teams were owing two trying to avoid owen three, which one of them.
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They were going to be oh and three no matter what, obviously, but
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the charges were able to prevail. But instead I feel like they none of
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these teams deserve to win the game right here. They both had questionable calls.
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For example, the Chargers going for it at their own twenty four or
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yeah it was their own twenty four late in the game to try to win
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the game with the questionable play call instead of putting it in justin Herbert ten.
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Then you have Kirk Cousins in the Minnesota Vikings making questionable calls laid in
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the red zone and running which I'm obviously I'm not a head coach, but
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I feel like I understand football to a certain degree, and I feel like
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these red zone plays were were not the smartest red zone plays. And not
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to mention these turnovers that they always have, I guess they just have a
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turnover bug this year. But like they always say, the Vikings, they're
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one of the last or last year they won eleven close games. That was
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one of the most in NFL history, and usually the next year it usually
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flips a script. So now they're losing all of these close games, which
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is down to happen because you repeat that or you go back to the medium
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of what the team actually is. So they probably hit their ceiling last year
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and look where it got them a wild card loss against the New York Giants,
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and which teams believe aren't aren't that good and had a bit of luck
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last year. But as far as the Chargers, they yes, they did
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win this game, but they had a big blow as far as to their
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offense, losing Mike Williams. He's out for the year twin ACL which sucks,
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and for some reason the Chargers they cannot stay healthy offense and defense.
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They cannot stay healthy at all. But yes, they got it done.
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That's why you draft a rookie receiver in Quentin Johnston. Hopefully he starts to
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progress and pick up for some of the slack that Mike Williams, or pick
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up for some of the slack that the void that Mike Williams will have.
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So I still don't think even though they won this game, yes, so
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one and two, there's still plenty of time, but you still have the
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Kansas City Chiefs in that division and they will win the division. It's going
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to be no surprise, but yes, they will win the division. The
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Raiders they'll put up a fight against the Chargers. I actually think the Raiders
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they'll split against the Chargers this year because for some reason, the Chargers defense
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they keep taking a step backwards with all of this talent that they have,
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which I don't get. You have Brandon Staley as your head coach, who
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is a defensive head coach, and they keep progressing every single year. So
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it would be like if Kyle Shanahan called the offense for the San Francisco forty
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nine ers, but they kept getting work getting worse every single year. If
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anything, you should be getting better every single year with this, With all
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this talent they have, with Joey Bosa, Khalil Mack, darn Win,
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James Asante, Samuel J. C. Jackson, you should be theoretically a
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top ten defense in the NFL. But you're not even a top twenty defense
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in the NFL. If it wasn't for these turnovers that the Vikings had,
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they would have lost this game. So even though they won this game,
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I still don't believe they're going to be getting anywhere. But let's go in
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and get into the recap of all of the other games. So on Thursday
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night, the San Francisco forty nine Ers woke the New York Giants thirty to
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twelve. Yes, it was close in the first half, but there was
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an inevitable of the San Francisco offense and defensive line finally wearing out the Giants.
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But the Giants, they did put put up some fight which they didn't
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in their first game, and in the first half of their second game against
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the Arizona Cardinals and Daniel Jones, He's won and eleven in prime time.
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They play the Seattle Seahawks next week. Monday night. Hopefully they can win,
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but I don't know. I don't see that happening. But we're not
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gonna get into that yet. We're gonna get into that a little bit later.
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The Detroit Lions beat that Atlanta Falcons twenty to six. The Lions just
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find a way to win at home, and they're looking legit this year.
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Their defense looks better. Jared Golf isn't turning the ball over. You had
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Jamire Gibbs looking really nice. I think you had over one hundred scrimmage yards,
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and you had Sam Laporta, their second round pick, looking like one
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of the best Titans in the league. And it's scary. It's scary for
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the Lions because they're only gonna be getting better because they're young, so they're
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gonna be getting better later on in the season. And this team believes in
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Dan Campbell and what he stands for, so they're gonna be fighting for him
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on a week to week basis, and it's gonna be a tough team no
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matter who it is that's stepping out on the field. If they were able
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to go to Arrowhead opening night, I know there was no Travis Kelsey or
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Chris Jones, but they were able to beat him, so they could be
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any team in the league, and they should the way that they're playing make
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the playoffs bearing any big injuries. All right, then the Packers they beat
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the Saints eighteen to seventeen after the Saints were up seventeen to zero. Yes,
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I know Derek Carr went out, but it's still inexcusable for any team
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to be up seventeen to zero in the fourth quarter with eleven thirty left,
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I believe and give up a big league And yes, I know the field
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goal kicker he missed it, but it's part of the game. And something
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that's not being talked about is as far as the analytical side. So whenever
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they scored their touchdown, they went for two so they could make it seventeen
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to eleven, which the analytics say you should do that because you're quote unquote
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more likely to win the game. And look what they did. They were
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able to get the ball back score touchdown and the analytics proved right this week.
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But it's always flip flopping back and forth, so we'll see how it
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tunes out next week. One of the other one o'clock games was the Texans,
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which is this is one of the craziest games or just the most shocking
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games that during this week. The Texans won thirty seven to seventeen against the
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Jaguars, the Jaguars who had high hopes this year, and they just looked
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terrible. Calvin Riley who went down early. I still don't know exactly what's
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wrong with Calvin Ridley. I don't believe there's nothing out on him yet.
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But one thing I can say is that c J. Stroud he looks like
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a legit quarterback and I believed through the first three games he has the most
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passing yards out of any rookie ever as far as quarterbacks, so he had
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I know, justin Herbert he was up there and Cam Newton was up there
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and he already surpassed them, which is a ridiculous stat And also not to
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mention that Damiko Ryans has this defense playing very well, and they look like
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a team that's gonna be a feisty team. I believe they're gonna be what
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the Lions were last year as far as a young team, a head coach
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that that nobody really knows about, but that's gonna be fighting every single week,
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not meaning they're gonna get a lot of wins, but they're gonna be
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fighting every single week. Then you had the Browns beat up the Titans,
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which this will surprise seems to me. Not that I expected the Titans to
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win, but I expected this to be a close game the Browns they won
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twenty seven to three. Deshaun Watson finally looked good in a game, and
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I know that he looked bad in these first two games, but also got
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to understand. He went up against the Cincinnati Bengals Week one, would say
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one, twenty four to three, but it was pouring rain like crazy,
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so it was more of a run game environment. And Week two, yes,
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Deshaun Watson lost that game completely. I'm not even gonna argue with that,
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but it's against the Steelers defense, who have one of the best defenses,
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in my opinion, the third best defense in the league. So he'd
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looked good against a good defense. And this team is head coached by Mike
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Rabels, so they're not going to be unprepared, and they just beat the
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hell out of him, which I'm surprised. And even though they don't have
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Nick Chubb, they still look like a team that can make the push for
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the playoffs. Then you have the Buffalo Bills. They beat the Commanders thirty
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seven to three, and Josh Allen, I guess it was just that first
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game he looked bad because the Commanders have statistically one of the best defenses in
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the league, and it looked like it was no problem for him, and
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they just pieced them the Shreds and James Cook is starting to provide a run
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game that the Buffalo Bills have never had, because these past few years what's
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been keeping the Bills back is they haven't had a running back that can run
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the ball for him and chew the clock down. And instead of having to
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throw the ball all down or down the field, or put the ball in
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Josh Allen's hands all the time, you're able to hand it to your run
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back and say, all right, chew five six minutes off this clock and
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we could win this game. Then another one of the one o'clock games was
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the Colts and Ravens. The Colts, they beat the Ravens in overtime twenty
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two to nineteen Minshew Mania, it's back because Anthony Richinson. He was out
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this week with the concussion, And honestly, I have no clue how the
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Colts beat the Ravens. It's just any given Sunday, same thing with the
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Cardinals and Cowboys, any given Sunday. The Colts, they were just able
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to manage, manage to pull it off. There were some questionable calls that
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weren't called as far as pass interference, but again, part of the game
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Colts won. They're leading the division in the AFC South. I don't know
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how long that's going to continue for, but hey, they're at the top
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right now. Nobody expected that. Everybody expect them to oh and three by
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now, but hey, enjoy enjoy this for now because I'm pretty sure this
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won't last for long. Then. One of the ugliest games was the Patriots
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versus the Jets. The Patriots one fifteen to ten, and other than that
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big play from Mac Jones, which it was a trick play to the tight
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end, there was nothing really that went on in this game that was a
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big play. Zach Wilson. I guess you could say it looked a little
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bit better, but he still was bad. He just didn't look as bad
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bad as he did against the Cowboys. And I believe that they're just wasting
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all the talent that they have on this team this year. I believe that
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they should at least gold trade for a backup quarterback that could give them a
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chance, maybe like a Jameis Winston, Cooper Rush or I know I've heard
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the Kirk Cousins rumors. They're not going to get Kirk Cousins, but just
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a backup that will give you a better chance than Zach Wilson. Because this
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is one of the better defenses in the league. I know the offensive line
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it's subpar, but you still have Garrett Wilson, and you still have Lazard
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Cob, you still have Breees hal Dalwin Cook. So you still have a
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bunch of pieces on this team where you can go compete for a playoff spot
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and then if Aaron Rodgers comes back, you could be making that next step,
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maybe to the conference championship or maybe even Super Bowl the following year.
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Because it takes steps to win the championship. You can't It's rare for a
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team like what the Tampa Bay Bucks did in twenty twenty to go from seven
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I believe there are seven or nine and then make the Super Bowl with Tom
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Brady. But again it's Tom Brady. Tom Brady pulls off the miracles.
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It's again it's Tom Brady. He he's the goat. So yeah, they
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need to do something with the quarterback. I don't care Zach Wilson, he's
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terrible. Patriots much less. They're terrible too. Cowboys are gonna bounce back,
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and I believe they're gonna whoop the crap out of the Patriots. Then
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starting into the three o'clock games, the Seahawks, they beat the Panthers thirty
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seven, the twenty seven, the Seahawks run game, look back Seahawks after
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losing against the Lions. They bounce back and it looks pretty much the same
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like last year. Run the ball with Ken Walker, Zach Charbonnet, he
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got a little bit more burned with them and just play action over the top
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and leading Gino Cook. It looks reliable and it looks like something that could
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get you on a spot for a wild card or for a wild card team.
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Then one of the other games, it was the Cheese versus the Bears.
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But obviously this game wasn't good enough. So everybody was talking about Travis
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e seem Taylor Swift. But yeah, the again, this game, it
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was, it was terrible. It was it was kind of like the Dolphins
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and Broncos. The Chiefs, they put up thirty four points in the first
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half, which is ridiculous. So honestly, I stopped watching this game after
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the first half. I don't know what else to say. Really, Chiefs
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looked like the Chiefs. Bears looked like the Bears. Oh and three for
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a reason. Justin fields. He's slowly starting to digress, but hey,
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it's the Chicago Bears. They can't figure out offense for some reason in their
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whole franchise history, so it's really expected, all right. And then the
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Sunday night game, it was a Steelers versus the Raiders. Steelers won twenty
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three to eighteen. Only big thing out of this is, thank you DeVante
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Adams. He won me a couple of fantasy football leagues. Anyways, Dallas,
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if you're hearing this, I just want to say I appreciate you're getting
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me a couple of wins in fantasy football. But anyways, the biggest thing
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was, this is Mike McDaniel or Josh Josh McDaniel, not Mike McDaniel kicking
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a field goal. Kicking a field goal when they were down eight points with
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four minutes left, in the ball game. And yes, I know you
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had two timeouts in the two minute warning, but questionable play call. And
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this is it proves Josh McDaniel he should be a head coach. And Jimmy
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Garoppolo he was a system quarterback for the San Francisco forty nine ers and that's
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why it worked. Look, they have Frock Purty as quarterback and they're winning
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these ball games. No disspect to Rock Purty, but at the end of
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the day, he's a seventh round pick. All right, next game,
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we're going to the Monday night games that happened earlier on. So the Eagles
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won twenty five to eleven. This game wasn't closed. Yes, I know
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both of them were undefeated, but offensive defensive line for the Eagles just dominated.
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And Baker Mayfield, yes he had he had his run where he went
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to and oh but Baker Mayfield came back down to earth and looked like Baker
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Mayfield. And the last Monday Night game or last Monday Night game was the
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Cincinnati Bengals versus the Rams. Bengals won nineteen to sixteen. And the Bengals
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they needed this. They were owing two they couldn't afford to go owing three,
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Joe Burrow playing through the calf stream, and personally I agree with him
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playing through the calf stream because you have a super Bowl window that you have
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right now, and super Bowl windows they could close at any instant. So
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you have this team right now, You're gonna need to pay te Higgins,
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You're gonna need to pay Jamar Chase, Joe Mixon. So you have all
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this talent on this team, so you need to go all in, even
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injuries, even with injuries that Joe Burrow has, you need to go all
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in because next year is never guaranteed. And all right, So now that
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we got done with the Week three games, I'm gonna just give you a
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quick preview a Week four and who I think is gonna win? So Week
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four, Thursday night, we have the Packers and Lions. I think the
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Lions are gonna win. Yes, it's in Lambeaux, but the Lions are
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starting to look like a legit team. If it wasn't for the Saints having
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a ridiculous choke job, then the Packers there would be there would be one
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in two right now. So Falcons Jaguars first international game. I believe what
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the Jaguars are showing it looks it looks real. So what I believe that
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line of Falcons are gonna be able to run the ball with their stud running
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back in Bijan Robinson Tyler our gear and be able to win that game Rams
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versus Colts. Rams, they had their first win of the season. I
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know week one, but Anthony Richardson is going to be coming back, and
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I believe the Colts are gonna only be getting better. Yes, I know,
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I said it's not gonna be lasting for long. They're gonna be in
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the division division leaders, but I think the next week it continues. Ravens
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Browns. I think the Ravens are gonna win after a loss that happened against
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the Colts. They're gonna bounce back, be stronger, and they're gonna take
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it out against the Browns. And Lamar Jackson just owns the Browns. Vikings
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Panthers. I think the Vikings are finally gonna get their first victory. I
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don't know if Bryce Young is gonna come back, but Andy Dalton he looks
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serviceable to keep this a close game. But I wouldn't be surprised if the
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Vikings lose because all these damn turnovers they have, but I just think they're
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finally gonna breakthrough and get their first win. I just can't see no way
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they're gonna be owned four beg tight ends. I think the Bengals they're gonna
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use that momentum against the Rams that they had as far as clicking with Jamar
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Chase and Joe Burrow, and they're gonna go into Tennessee and they're gonna beat
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them, and they're gonna start to get on a roll like they did last
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year. Bucan your Saints. I think Saints are gonna win. Baker fall
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fell back down to earth very very hard, and and even though Derek Carr
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isn't playing, I think Jamis he could get the job done. Dolphins Bills
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one of the best games that we're gonna see on Sunday. I think Dolphins
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are gonna win again. This offense is just ridiculous, and I think Josh
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Allen he's gonna have a little bit of a regression week because he's looked so
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great these past two weeks, so he's gonna go down from here. And
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this Dolphins offense is just rolling. And you're in Buffalo, Yes, I
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know, but it's not cold yet it's still September. So if favors of
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Dolphins, Dolphins win Bears and Bronco's one of the ugliest games we're gonna If
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I had to pick a team, I guess it'd be the Broncos. Nothing
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really to discuss from their commander's Eagles. I think Eagles win. Eagles.
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They just have the better team overall. Somehow, he doesn't look so good.
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Eagles win. Stiller's texts and c J Strout even though he's looked good.
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I'm gonna have to go with Distillers because that defense is just nasty.
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And then can you pick it, He'll just make those place Raiders Chargers.
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I believe the Chargers they're gonna win. They're gonna go to two and two,
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finally get five hundred or be five hundred, and they should be able
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to have their way with the Raiders. Secondary Niners, Cardinals. If the
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Cardinals play like how they did last week, I think they'll only lose to
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the Niners by twenty points. So in that case, Niners win. Patriots
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Cowboys Cowboys. After an embarrassing loss, they'll bounce back and they'll take care
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of business sending that game, which is Ugly Chiefs Jets. Chiefs they win
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probably like thirty eight to thirteen something like that. Seahawks Giants, Giants,
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they need this win. But no sae Quon Barkley. Even though it's in
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New York, I'm still gonna have to favor the Seahawks. Seahawks run game
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just looks nice right now. They're not asking Gino to do too much,
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and obviously he has those weapons with DK Jackson Smith and you have Tyler Lockett.
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So Seahawks win this one, but I think it's a very close one.
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Now that we cover the NFL, I want to get to college football,
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and I know right now the biggest story in college football is Colorado.
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Even though Colorado lost, they're still what everybody is talking about. And they
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got their teeth kicked in by Oregon forty two to six. But it was
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bound to happen because I'm pretty sure any realistic person would have known that Colorado
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was not going to be undefeated the entire season. What I could say is
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at Colorado next year, depending on all the transfers and the recruits that they
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get, they'll may be able to compete as far as being top ten,
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maybe playoff, but I feel like I'm pushing it there. The biggest thing
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for them isn't the skill positions, skill position players, even with Travis Hunter
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being out. It's not the skill position players. It's the offense and defensive
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line, and that's what wins you games. This game against Oregon, it
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showed that they had none of those Shader Sanders guess he's looked great. He
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was an early front runner as far as for the Heisman, but he had
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no time back there, and he's gonna be facing up against a tougher back
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half of the schedule, especially with USC next week, and they're just gonna
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be outmatched from now on. Just you need an offense and defensive ring to
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win these games, especially against these great teams. Because Oregon was able to
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gash them like crazy, and I can only imagine what USC is going to
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do to that Colorado defense. I do think that the Colorado offense will look
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a little bit better. I don't think they're gonna be held to six points,
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but I still believe that they're going to be getting blown out. And
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even though that they're going to be getting blown out, I still think that
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they're a great story. That one win last year, they were one and
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eleven. So again, what Deon Sanders was able to do with this team
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as far as turn them around, do it completely, win eighty and just
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change the program and just change the narrative culture for this team, it's amazing.
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And all the people that are really hating as far as on this as
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far as what Deon Sanders was able to do is as just aren't embraced in
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a new college football way now with is in with the NIL deals in the
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Tramps Reportal, It's just part of it. And that's just what has his
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team's winning now, the Tramps REPORTAL and the NIL that is king now.
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And speaking of some teams that have taken advantage of that, two teams that
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I want to talk about, I guess I'm being a little bit biased here.
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So I am I don't know if I mentioned this in the past,
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but I am a Florida State Seminoles fan, and this is the best season
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so far they've had since the Jameis Winston era, which was twenty fourteen,
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and we're ranked number five right now. We barely squeaked out a win against
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Clemson. We won thirty one to twenty four and overtime, and man I
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was very nervous watching that game, even though these past two games for Florida
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State they've looked very shaky. They beat Boston College the week before thirty one
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to twenty nine, and I know they have no business this competing with Florida
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State. Of Florida State, they had a couple of injuries Jordan Travis,
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he wasn't the best. So that bye week that they got right now is
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very important and they got it at the right time to recover for the back
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half of the stretch. And I do believe that they're going to make the
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college football Playoff, not because it's the most impressive, but because there will
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be undefeated. And if anything, there's been a history as far as college
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football not keeping out an undefeated team, and I know these next two years
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it's going to be or I don't know if it's in two years that it's
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going to be a twelve team playoff format, but as of right now,
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it's a fourteen playoff format, and I think Florida State they're gonna be undefeated.
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I felt like this was the toughest game. Yes, I know they
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have Duke, they have Miami on their schedule, but they just match up
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with them better and they will be healthier. These past two games, Florida
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State hasn't been healthy. So I'm just very excited. This is the first
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time in a while I could say I'm very excited for my college football team
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and another team that has been the talk of college football other than Colorado.
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It's obviously the most popular team in college football, which is Texas. Texas.
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Maybe they're back, but we'll see. I know a couple of people
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that are Texas fans, my dad. I know he's all over Texas right
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now. What I could really say is that defense looks really nice. Quentn
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Elwards, he has spurts of being great. My only problem with them is
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just Quentn Elwards as far as him being consistently great. Because when you're gonna
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go up against a team like Georgia who have one of the best defenses,
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Michigan who have one of the best defenses, Ohio State, Florida State who
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have, like I said, best defenses in the league. I know we
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proved it against Obama, but after what Obama did against All miss they showed
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that they're not the same Obama that we're used to seeing. So my biggest
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thing is can you do this consistently. I'm not saying they're not gonna make
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the College Football Playoff. They're gonna take care of business against Kansas this week
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and then I believe they have Oklahoma the following week. I feel like they're
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gonna take care of business and they're gonna be another team that's undefeated. So
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that's not my problem. It's just can Quinn Awards be the savior that Texas
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they've been looking for since the cult McCoy era, and maybe Texas is back.
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But we'll see. There's still plenty of football or college football games to
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go, and I'm just excited to see a couple of teams that I like
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that are in the running. But as far as for the college Football Playoff
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predictions, I'm gonna go ahead and give my predictions. I know this isn't
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at the beginning of the season, so it's not as as far as amazing
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as far as these predictions, but I'm not looking for that. I'm just
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going based off for right now. So I think it's gonna be Georgia one,
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Texas two, Florida State three, and USC the is squeaking as four.
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I just believe that Michigan. They're gonna slip up this year. I
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know Michigan last year they made the playoffs, but I just don't think that
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they're gonna be Ohio State this year. I just don't. I don't think
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that gonna They're gonna be Ohio State. And yes, then you could say,
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okay, well then Ohio State should be making the playoffs, but you
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you're going up against Penn State and they barely squeaked out against Noorter Dame and
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again Ohio State Michigan play So what I'm thinking is going to happen is that
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Ohio State is gonna be Michigan, but Ohio State's gonna lose to Penn State.
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So they're gonna both knock each other out, if that makes sense.
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But all right, there's a couple of minutes left, so I'm gonna go
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ahead and talk about the MLB playoffs coming up very very soon. So it's
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very interesting. I know I haven't talked about baseball on this channel, but
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my knowledge is slowly getting better for baseball, and my favorite team is the
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Atlanta Braves. No, I'm not no bandwagon fan. I've been a Braves
38:43
fan for a while. I've been through the misery. As far as the
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Cardinals putting up I think it was eleven runs in the first inning and against
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the Braves and the wild card round twenty nineteen. No, it was yeah,
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twenty nineteen. Then losing a three one come back to the Dodgers that
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was very sad. But and then but it's just time for the Braves this
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year. The Braves, they're finally back. They are the best team in
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the MLB. Yes, I know they've had a skid as of late,
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but I believe they'll give back to normal. Max Free. They put him
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on IO. He's not going to be back to the nlds, but which
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we already clinched the buy, so there's nothing really worried about. Just give
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your picture that extra rest. We saw what happened when we gave Max Free
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rest the last time. We went on to win the World Series. Same
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with Charlie Moore in and Spencer Strider looks great. I believe he's nineteen and
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five, nineteen and five in the starts, so one of the best pictures.
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The biggest thing for the Braves is the bullpen, which you have the
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talent on the bullpen. You have Rossilli griff Elisias, you have Mentor Jesse
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Chad has just came back, so you have the pieces there that you could
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have one of the best pitching staffs in the league. But the biggest thing
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with baseball is not necessarily This isn't like the NFL, or M or NBA
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as far as the best team usually wins. In MLB, it's usually the
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hottest team in the league or the team that's streaking into the playoffs usually wins.
40:29
And what I believe is going to be big down the stretch. I
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believe there's nine or ten games depending on who's played win. This is Tuesday,
40:38
so it's different for everybody. They need to be streaking into the playoffs.
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And I'm not saying you have to win these last few games in a
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row, but they need to have at least a two three game win streak.
40:51
And your bast need to start getting better better, your bullpen needs to
40:54
start sharing up on some things so they could make this stretched down the run.
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And I really think it's between in my opinion, the American League,
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it looks weak this year. Yes, I know the Astros they're still there.
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They won last year. They have that championship pedigree, but they're not
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the same team that they were last year. They're not and it's gonna be
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between the Braves and Dodgers. In my opinion, they've looked like the best
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two teams all year. No disrespect to the Baltimore Orioles, but I just
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believe that they're too young and they're not ready to make that step yet.
41:39
I just think you need a couple of years in the playoffs to get that
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experience underneath you to make that deep run. That's why the Astros won,
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That's why the Braves they won the year the year prior, and that's why
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the Dodgers is the one the year prior. You have these veteran teams that
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have been there and know how to go through the ups and downs to be
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able to make that World Series run. But speaking of the playoffs, so
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the playoff pick, sure, I'm gonna go from the American League. So
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far, the Orioles they have the one seed clenched up the Rangers, they
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are two and a half games ahead right now. They beat the Angels today
42:19
and the Astros they beat I believe it was the Mariners, so right now
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they have the six seed. Right now, it's close. Rangers have the
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two seed, Twins have the three seed, Rays and Rays have the four
42:32
seed, blue Jays have the five seed, Astros have the six seed.
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So as of right now, Orioles and Rangers would have the buy which,
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well, it's gonna be tough to see if the Rangers hold onto their by
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again playing a baseball left so I don't know, it's a toss up,
42:52
but hopefully the Rangers do hang onto it because it's just good scene. So
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I'm from Texas, it's good seen a Texas team do good, and so
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we have in the National League obviously Braves one one seed, the Dodgers two
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seed. Then you have the Brewers a three seed, Phillies the four seed,
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Diamondbacks surprise team which is the five seed, the Cubs a six seed.
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I believe the Cubs they have a little bit of an advantage right now
43:24
over any other team in the NL, so I believe that theoretically the Padres
43:34
still have a chance, but they'll need the Cubs to lose a few games
43:38
and they'll need to win a few games. So I don't think it's gonna
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happen, but I've seen crazier things happened before. And who I think is
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gonna make the playoffs I'm gonna go or the World Series. I'm gonna go
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in and predict it. Right now, I'm gonna say that Atlanta Braves,
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they're gonna go up again. One of the other best offenses in the league,
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the Texas Rangers. These are the two best offenses in the league.
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Yes, I know they have mediocre pitching as of right now, but again,
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nowadays, it's a new analytical baseball. The offense, it wins championships
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and being aggressive, and I believe the Braves they will win the World Series.
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Call me biased or not. They've been the best team all year and
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they will continue to be the best team. But we're gonna go ahead and
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wrap it up. I appreciate you guys tuning in again. Like I said,
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