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Strictly Bias with Will Retherford: All-NFL Edition (Aug. 19, 2025; Podcast 2.2.4) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the brand new strictly bias with well-reathered course wealth and with me from the very beginning, but this is the new format, new version, new title.
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[SPEAKER_01]: On today's podcast, we'll talk to NFL and on the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to strictly bias with Will Reatherford.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's your host, Will Reatherford.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, everybody, to the first edition in season two of the Centron Gita Sports Report of strictly biased with myself Will Reatherford.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guess hosted tonight by Greg Mengal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Really weird being in this chair will.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel a little weird actually talking to you like you're not the one that should be doing my job right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, it's yours now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The tides have turned and we are
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[SPEAKER_03]: Finally out of place where I am ready to take on more of a roll.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With my show our show will air on Tuesdays and Fridays twice a week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll have Tuesdays as more of a- At least during football season more of a preview.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll be on Fridays more of a review of the following weekend and Monday night football will be on Tuesday nights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Friday will focus strictly on football.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tuesday, we might talk about some other stuff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, not really a whole lot going on right now, outside of the fever and baseball and the PDA.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a pretty slow time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's slow for us, but we've got what two weeks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll call it football starts in next week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a pretty good one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you have a lot to say, but first, I want to know what you want to know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, what would you, what is one question, pressing Greg Mendegale this evening?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think as we head toward the NFL season, I want to know, is there a team that we're not thinking of in the NFL that could win the Super Bowl?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody's thinking about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I like that question, because I feel like there's a few teams that we've briefly talked about on our show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It begins with the Chargers and Broncos.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Minimal Conversation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think if we're string away from those two, I think a team that I really think has the potential to be a Super Bowl caliber team in the NFC is the Arizona Cardinals.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they take a big leap forward.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that they have, I mean, really all the tunnel on paper, is it a stretch?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But as we've mentioned, I'm not sure that there's really much of a shout-out side of maybe six teams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Plus who's going to win the West?
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, buddy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they're all going to be fighting, I think, for third place, probably in that division.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see the forty-nine or staring at it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see the seawks doing it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: the rams of staff or I don't know what's going on there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like the rams are definitely warranted of that conversation too, but I feel like the the the cardinals and the rams are the two sleep routines.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody's really talking about the West.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it time to start talk about football contenders already?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You feel like
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like if we have to go into the conversation of assuming that the best happens for everybody, and if that's the case, then there are six teams we're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If if injuries happen, if
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[SPEAKER_03]: Things just don't go the way that they're supposed to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I guess there's a chance for some more teams to probably step in and take a chance.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Cool.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That may be being that contender.
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[SPEAKER_03]: See, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if the cults can do it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to say that they, I like their chances to potentially make the playoffs, but I don't think that they're not a Super Bowl team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think if all, I mean, when we talk in injuries, we're talking Josh Allen,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Lamar Jackson, Mahomes, like those three go down.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think you probably throw those.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jail and hurts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I feel like, say, one car is probably more of an impact loss as far as what he provides to that team the way that he is dynamic both in between the tackles and outside the tackles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: His ability in space to make people miss.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I believe what he was the second or third leading wrestler in the league last year without getting touch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe he led the league and yards or would have been there before any contact.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, I mean, then it's not hard to hand ball off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of people can hand them all off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So part of that was scheme.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Part of that was blocking.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think it's all, I think the offensive line has a lot to do with it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But if you remove jail of hurts from that team last year,
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[SPEAKER_03]: how much different is their season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Look, I don't think they're not a Super Bowl champion.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Probably not a Super Bowl champion back there in NFC championship team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Probably just with the talent on their roster alone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's fair to say like it's fair to say that he elevates them and he is a top eight quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's great and Barkley's great in the toast portion all that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That team won that championship because that defense came of age.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They came of age and they're, I mean, they just won the trenches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They bully teams, both offensively and defensively.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Online, their front seven was phenomenal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, Dijin was great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Lincoln chip really took a huge role in the step forward as the strong safety last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They just have all the pieces there to be a really good defense for years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Question popped in my head today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Who are the best three past rushers in the NFL?
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[SPEAKER_03]: If we're just, we're not even talking statistics, just like skill-wise who are the three past pressures that you fear the most.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because they're for the jump out to me, and I'm wondering how you would order this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ed, your interior.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm really afraid of wild scare.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that if he's on the field of healthy, he is bar non-probably the best edge in the league talent-wise.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think I mean, there's an argument with one and Garrett and Parsons.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I see, but I think he's such a just a liability.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he's just in the media.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm talking about past Roger.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He is a special defensive player.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's really good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that he is a tier below, law and Garrett, just with their longevity as far as they've done it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's first four years have been phenomenal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not taking that away from him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do question the health a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's Crosby on that same level or CEO level being on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's a tier behind, but I think that in a way he almost plays a bigger role because he doesn't come off the field at all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that he always will run away.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He has a bigger impact.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Jalen Carter, I think isn't it's over scary.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was one of the best past rushing seasons of post seasons.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've ever seen for a defensive one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, ever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's a building too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The numbers won't even tell you what he did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, Brady was a denial hunter probably has warranted to be in that conversation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's you know what I'm we're forgetting somebody because of the injury of eight nudges and this probably not top four.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I would say my top four would be Garrett what Hutchinson and I'll give you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You put Hudson ahead of bars.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think Hutchinson's are really, really good football player.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just think we didn't get to watch him play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we just had a absolutely freak injury now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who's great?
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[SPEAKER_03]: How does he come back from that injury?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, but he was the heart and soul of that defense, and he was, I mean, up to that point, defense, a player that you're probably running away with it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When he first started playing, do you ever think there was any chance TJ What would be equal or better than his brother?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because he is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Probably not better, but I don't think he's better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's a different era.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, different type of player, but he's yeah, he's much more of kind of a jungle cat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that his brother was more of a bull.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If that, you can think about that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Watts a lot, stealthier, probably a little faster, but JJ just had so much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was, he was so good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, so good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You hated watching Pults Texans games because you knew that TJ Watts or, excuse me, JJ Watts was going to be there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And last week, we talked a little bit about the, uh, and I'm really interested in your thoughts on this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: For the first time, we started talking about the teams that are going to be in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you seem to think you know who's going to be in the playoffs already.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to, I want to know if you can clarify that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I want to know where the bingles are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, uh, I think in order to really know, you're going to have to know who's going to win the West on the South and the NFC.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So my AFC, I think it's pretty easy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The bills are going to win these.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that
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[SPEAKER_03]: Give me the Texans in the south probably just based strictly on I think they have the best starting off the Jacksonville.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just trying to give me a sneaky suspicion as well, but I'm getting just for this sake for the division winner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've been on Houston for a long time for the division winner.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to say Houston.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They want it two years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they want it six of the last eight years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So they've proven that they can, you know, that they're kind of run the south
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[SPEAKER_03]: I really think the Ravens will probably win the North.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know hate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if it's handedly, but I think they win the North.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you think Pittsburgh's gonna be there with him?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Even with my comment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think I'll keep them close.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think the Ravens are gonna run away.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They might, you know, might come down to the last week at who wins.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that the Ravens will ultimately prevail.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel as if the Steelers are kind of one of those teams where they're just going to be there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to be there in that conversation that they can win the division and then they will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because this based on you believe in Aaron Rogers or whoever's quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just think that their roster's good enough with, I mean, Rogers elevates, and I mean, they were a playoff team last year with who playing quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, for the last seven years, I mean, so the college is, yeah, I mean, crazy guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's been, I mean, can you pick it, Mason Rudolph, like, if those are the names you're listening off Rogers as a four tiers above all of those guys, so fetus is competent, their run game scares me a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't,
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, obviously, the Caleb Johnson kind of shores up, but I mean, they've got kind of a one to punch between Jalen Warren and Johnson.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I guess it just comes down to kind of are those to able to establish and can they can they can their front five establish the ability to run the ball?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they've got Johnny Smith that they traded for.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've got move.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've got
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[SPEAKER_03]: Washington is there, you know, big six seven tied in guy looks like a power forward in the NBA out there catcher passes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just above the low Houston Pittsburgh and Baltimore locks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I Pittsburgh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, not Houston's not either.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So much from that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My locks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My locks are Kansas City Buffalo Baltimore, Denver, and the Chargers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think you're going to get three from the west.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to lock three teams from the same division.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's wild.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They all three got in last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I understand, but you're going to lock all three to the south and get into.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could see Houston Jacksonville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: getting there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could see the cults in Houston.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they will, but I definitely could see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could also see New England Cincinnati Cincinnati.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the other team that is on the outside.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could see the Raiders possibly spoiling that and being pretty good and making it so it's impossible for three teams.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that could happen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That could happen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I do because you're a lot of different ways.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're getting two from the West.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the only division that I feel confident that you're getting to from Porsche.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone else.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that all three are definitely favored to get in the play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In the NFC.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we go to the NFC.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I like the Cardinals a lot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they're going to win the list because I think the Matthew staff for Zingeries bigger than they're letting us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Justin fries the difference.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do think they're offensive law.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's a great teacher of the game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think that you hear what his issues were at Ohio State and it was recruiting.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's got, I think, to believe two of his offensive tackles, I know at least one pair of Johnson, who is an Arizona that was at Ohio State in Justin Friardy has a relationship with.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I believe that Kyler Murray is a capable, he's a phenomenal athlete and a capable quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They have McBride, they've got James Conner, they've got Marff,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like they've got enough talent, offensively.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If they're against a good defensive coordinator kind of flies under the radar, you wouldn't necessarily think he is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So everyone I know what's got to be a Cardinals family.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, if it's not the colds, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm only running for the colds.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a great for Justin Fry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I also not know how to state fan doll either, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you guys were cheering at Oregon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I would have been quite happy seeing him lose at the Rose Bowl when we were there in attendance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, Justin.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I disagree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sorry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate what you've done for football, especially everything that you did for Elwood.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As a football coach.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In your dad was awesome.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But respectfully, I couldn't give two shits if you, if Ohio State won the National Championship because you were in the last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's civic pride at all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, I mean, these colors don't run.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, with the Eagles, we're making the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I, I, I, as much as we've talked about in the conclusion, I, they're still going to make the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I believe that a Washington will make the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that that's a really good roster.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But the Terry McClellan situation on the scares.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the Vikings and the Lions make the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's five right there that we four that we've looked five that we've listed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then you think the Vikings are better than the Packers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I, well, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that the, I think the Vikings defenses.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that if JJ McCarthy is just even okay football, the Vikings are making the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like you, as far as their skill level across the board,
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[SPEAKER_03]: You've got Addison, who's going to be suspended for three games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm aware, but you've got Addison, Nailer, Jefferson, as your wider receiver core.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You've got Hawkins, and you've got Aaron Jones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you're just competent, a good offensive line.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a nice B offense.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They made Sam Dorn.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If that's a B offense, then I don't know if there's an A offense.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they have the problem, maybe the best play caller as their head coach and Kevin O'clock.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was just getting Joshua Dobbs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, three hundred yard passing games, three touchdown games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: See how it goes in that division this year for one with with McCarthy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's been there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why than there with my car.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying we'll see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't say what you want had some experience and he has some ability.
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[SPEAKER_02]: McCarthy has no experience and it's possible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't even really have a great ability.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's it's a possible but I do feel like that I can I can say the finish in the last I can sit here and say that he's better than the external level.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now seven and ten for the Vikings.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're bears are going to finish below the Vikings.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So seven and ten for the Vikings eight and nine for the bears.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The lions and packers are bet definitely making a play also.
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[SPEAKER_03]: than I guess we have our teams, and we've got whoever wins the south of the books.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If I was, I'm not certain about much in the NFC.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, I don't know if I was certain about Philly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I've been on the record saying that too, and I'm not going to say that they are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The only thing I'm certain is that the lions are playoff team because they have such great depth on their team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think the Packers are because they're so young,
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a step back coming from Detroit though, I think a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're not going to be one of the best teams of the league.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think you're right about that, but they're definitely making the playoffs.
17:17
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel convicted in my choices.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I really do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this is awesome.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The longer we do this, the more you're going to take over, and it's going to be our twenty minute podcast, maybe thirty sometimes, it gets really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be eighty five percent you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But for now, I'm still going to kind of push my way around.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I want to talk to him and I felt because I haven't much yet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We don't have a cold sky cemented yet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My cuddle is going to be our NFL guy, but he's in the middle of his busy season at work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we haven't talked much NFL.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I've been pretty excited about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have to, I, it's great when it comes around.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I am, I am a real sucker.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The feeling of baseball coming back means a lot more to me than the NFL coming back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Look at that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But it, it isn't very nice to have NFL football talk about the same time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me ask you this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, my favorite, uh, a favorite sport for sure is basketball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite team without question is the Pacers in the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But just as far as intrigue in a league since I was in nineteen seventy eight it just is so fascinating that different cities and colors and it's just such a cool experience the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The league tries to ruin it and from time to time the players have tried to ruin it and they tried to
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[SPEAKER_02]: message just the death with the stupid PC crap and they jump on board every fad that they think's gonna get them better ratings.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's idiotic and still you just can't help but love it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's so great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's ingrained in American culture.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, South Palantonia wrote a book about it of how everything connects to football.
19:01
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's important, I think, just
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a family structure thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You get to watch the game with your family.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You get to go to church on Sunday, you come home, you turn on the NFL today, you turn on the NFL and Fox, and you watch the countdown shows, and then you're just able to relax.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a time of the year where, I mean, really, for half the season, the weather's kind of bad, like you're not really going out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like baseball, there's a million things in the summer, conflicting with you sitting down and watching a baseball game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: at your house, or listening to him a radio, the football there's not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody has Sunday off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, service industry doesn't, but like for the most part, most of America has Sunday off, and it's something that people just rally behind.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you brought up Christmas day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How much I love the NBA?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's an NFL day now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that the fact that it was getting argued
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[SPEAKER_02]: But my only argument was Michelle saying it didn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It matters.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Of course it matters.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But the Christmas is the NFL's day now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As it does, whatever day it wants to make black Friday is the NFL's day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It is all whatever the NFL wants it to be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If college football ever started to war with the NFL, they would lose so much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, and that's why they don't.
20:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And there's such bullies and they're often the bad guy in the NFL in a lot of ways.
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[SPEAKER_02]: a bunch of slimy rich guys who are playing with toys.
20:29
[SPEAKER_02]: And yet they still can't ruin it, because it's such a great sport and such a great league.
20:33
[SPEAKER_03]: And what the NFL has done, the other leagues haven't, is they've really capitalized on the parody, they've capitalized on everybody basic.
20:41
[SPEAKER_03]: All the franchises basically being worth the same amount of money, everybody can spend this much.
20:47
[SPEAKER_02]: They're real smart with the Madden's stuff.
20:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, they just really provide
20:52
[SPEAKER_03]: the consumer with the, it's one of the few sports and baseball's a lot like this.
20:57
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you know, you're sixty in a hundred and two Rockies are going to win sixty times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to change the C sixty wins, but you're also going to change C sixty losses.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to tell the one and four team team can lead a playoff team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I just think it's the parody of the league.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's any given Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to get everyone's best.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's what makes it important.
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