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9-09-26 - Coach Sanford slandered us/NFL POWER RANKINGS WITH TIERS/The MAC takes a stand · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
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  Speaker 2: As I tuned in to the morning show, Mosher Lombardi
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  Speaker 2: and Cain, I was struck by the lack of confidence.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, we're terrified of everything about the
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs. The Kansas City Chiefs were the absolute
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City cheeks last year, and that was when Patrick
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  Speaker 2: Mahomes was healthy. You've got the number one defense in football.
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  Speaker 2: Your defense last year was better than the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: champion Seattle Seahawks in terms of yards per play that
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  Speaker 2: you gave up. You were number one. You've got a
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  Speaker 2: healthy Bo Nix that we watched every single day. in
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  Speaker 2: training camp look like the quarterback in year three that's
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  Speaker 2: been poised to make the next right step. You lost
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  Speaker 2: nobody of major consequence on a roster that is the
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  Speaker 2: continuity-rich Denver Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: And in fact, you added one of the best route
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  Speaker 3: runners in the game. It's a walking, explosive play in
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Waddell. What are we doing around here? We're scared
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  Speaker 3: of the Chiefs? Yeah!
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  Speaker 1: Huge yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Can we let the record show, Nelly, that I was
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  Speaker 4: the one arguing that we should not be scared of
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  Speaker 4: the Chiefs?
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  Speaker 3: It's freaking game week, man!
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  Speaker 4: Can we let the record show? I had, uh, we
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  Speaker 4: were in a meeting after the show yesterday, and I
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  Speaker 4: get a phone call.
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  Speaker 3: It's from Sanford. I'm like, isn't he on the air?
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  Speaker 4: So I stop in afterwards or in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: a break and he goes, so why are you so
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  Speaker 4: scared of the chiefs? And I go, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what you heard on the show. He was talking about
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  Speaker 4: me specifically. I was like, I don't know what you
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  Speaker 4: heard on the show. That was not what I was
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  Speaker 4: saying at all. Now, Vic and Moj gave some pushback
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  Speaker 4: on this, but I was detailing the exact same reasons
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  Speaker 4: why I wouldn't feel that way. I've been arguing that
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  Speaker 4: the chiefs are now just a decent, good football team.
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  Speaker 4: And the entire allure is, Of them and the fear
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  Speaker 4: that they would strike in people across the league, if
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  Speaker 4: you have any of that, it's all based on nostalgia
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  Speaker 4: and not something that's real. That's how I look at it.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm explaining all this to Sanford. He goes, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I must have heard that wrong, at least on your part.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of ripped you there for a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, well, can you set the record straight?
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  Speaker 3: Well, hey, this must be an infomercial because, but wait,
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  Speaker 3: there's more. It's freaking game week, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's NFL game week. And we're scared of the Kansas
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  Speaker 2: City Cheeks. Get out of here with all that, man.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Denver freaking Broncos. This isn't the era of, is.
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  Speaker 3: Osweiler a quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wait, is- Is Nathaniel Hackett going to be prepared?
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  Speaker 2: Does he need a guy to be able to deal
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  Speaker 2: with his clock management? Is Russell Wilson just too cheesy
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  Speaker 2: and too old? Is he more concerned about all of
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  Speaker 2: his other interests? No, this is the Denver freaking Broncos,
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  Speaker 2: the mature Broncos, the Broncos that just came off of
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  Speaker 2: back-to-back seasons, of making it to the postseason, and they
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  Speaker 2: have everybody back in their prime. Quit being scared, little Vic.
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  Speaker 2: Quit being terrified, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Mosier.
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  Speaker 2: Kaner, you're predicting a loss. What are we even doing?
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  Speaker 3: Did not say that! Little Vic.
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  Speaker 4: That's why he said to me, he goes, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: why I ripped you a little bit. He said, I
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  Speaker 4: thought you said they were going to lose. He said, no,
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  Speaker 4: I said the Broncos are capable of losing this game.
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  Speaker 4: You're playing at Arrowhead and the Chiefs are a decent
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  Speaker 4: football team. You're capable of losing. It's not like you're
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  Speaker 4: playing a team that's going to go 2-15. I don't think,
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  Speaker 4: I'll call it right now. I mean, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing's going to change before Monday. I think the Broncos
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  Speaker 4: are winning this game.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: A little thick.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Broncos are just better.
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  Speaker 4: And look, a lot of this is based off of, yes,
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  Speaker 4: what I believe and what I feel about the Broncos
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  Speaker 4: and what they have coming back and what they did
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  Speaker 4: in the offseason as far as bringing in a guy
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  Speaker 4: like Jalen Waddell, I think that's going to be a
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  Speaker 4: massive help to your offense.
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  Speaker 3: But it has a lot to do with what I
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  Speaker 3: feel about the Chiefs. You know, I've.
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  Speaker 4: Tried to explain this to people, and this is, how
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  Speaker 4: can I even compare this to something? Trying to do
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  Speaker 4: my best Colin Cowherd and find an everyday life situation
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  Speaker 4: that would make sense. By the way, if you're listening
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  Speaker 4: right now, we have something very special.
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  Speaker 3: You're in for a treat.
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  Speaker 4: I usually wait until Thursdays, but the season starts on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: We have our NFL power rankings with tears coming up
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  Speaker 4: here in about 10 minutes. Because some people do the
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  Speaker 4: power rankings and some people do tears.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody does both. You know who does? Your boy. Your
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  Speaker 3: boy does it. Just for you. So you guys are
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  Speaker 3: in for a real treat. Buenos dias! But I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to find a way to explain this to people.
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  Speaker 4: In that, all right, how about this? You know the
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  Speaker 4: dog from the sandlot? God, this might be bad, but
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  Speaker 4: we're just going to go for it.
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  Speaker 3: You know the dog in the sandlot, the beast?
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  Speaker 4: The beast was something that you can't mess with. If
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  Speaker 4: you ever did, you were going to get bit. He
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  Speaker 4: was going to eat you. And you just didn't even
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  Speaker 4: want to look on the other side of the fence.
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  Speaker 4: And for a while, that was the Chiefs. The Chiefs
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  Speaker 4: were that. They were a team that no matter where
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  Speaker 4: they were, what they did, what you had, you were
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  Speaker 4: going to.
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  Speaker 3: Get eaten by the beast.
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  Speaker 4: And then you looked over the fence because you had
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  Speaker 4: to get that Babe Ruth signed baseball.
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  Speaker 3: It turns out it's just a big dog. That's the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 4: Like, there's still, like, if you saw that dog, you'd
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  Speaker 4: be like, oh, that's a big dog. But the Chiefs
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  Speaker 4: aren't this behemoth. And what I hate, and I need
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  Speaker 4: people to explain this part to me, the reason they
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  Speaker 4: had that aura surrounding them was a very simple thing.
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  Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes... who makes the AFC championship game every year
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  Speaker 4: and makes the Super Bowl all the time and wins
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  Speaker 4: three of them and is already getting in conversations with
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  Speaker 4: Tom Brady and Joe Montana and everybody else for the
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  Speaker 4: greatest quarterbacks who's ever lived. I want you to show
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  Speaker 4: me the last three years of his numbers and tell
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  Speaker 4: me if this is the same thing we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 4: And you can point to last year and say, well,
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  Speaker 4: last year's the only.
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  Speaker 3: Year that they didn't really win at the same clip.
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  Speaker 4: And I would agree with you. But this has not
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  Speaker 4: been just a one-year anomaly in the case of Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 4: This has been three straight seasons. You look at his numbers.
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  Speaker 4: This is not something that is going to blow you away.
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  Speaker 4: When I tell you 21 touchdowns and 11 picks, oh, well,
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  Speaker 4: he got hurt.
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  Speaker 3: He played in 14 games. 22 and 11.
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  Speaker 4: The year before that, 26-11. The year before that, 27-14.
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  Speaker 4: All three of these seasons, 3,500 passing yards, 3,900, 4,100.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to go look.
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  Speaker 1: At the numbers.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to do this research yourself because I
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  Speaker 4: feel like if I say it to you, you're not
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  Speaker 4: going to get it. I want you to give me
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  Speaker 4: the comps of players with those numbers around the league
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  Speaker 4: and tell me who's there. 22 touchdowns, 11 interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: 11 interceptions, by the way, is a lot. I'll give
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  Speaker 3: you a name.
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  Speaker 4: One guy had 23 touchdowns and 11 picks last year
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  Speaker 4: in two more games than Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 3: You know who that was? Bryce Young.
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  Speaker 4: Bo Nix, by the way, 25 and 11. And it's
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  Speaker 4: well documented that Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 4: Bo Nix had plenty of times where he wasn't very
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  Speaker 4: good last year. And plenty of moments where he was
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  Speaker 4: really good. Jacoby Brissett had 23-8 last year. CJ Stroud, 19-8.
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  Speaker 4: These are the names that we're talking about. And it's
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  Speaker 4: been like this for three straight years.
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  Speaker 3: Now, is Mahomes still good? Obviously. Yes, he's still good.
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  Speaker 3: All I'm telling you is.
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  Speaker 4: The aura that surrounds the Chiefs is based off of
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  Speaker 4: something that's not evidence in recent history.
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  Speaker 3: And this is, it feels like the same thing, Nelly,
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  Speaker 3: when the Nuggets were going through their title run.
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  Speaker 4: Back in 2023. And they're facing the Lakers in the
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  Speaker 4: Western Conference Finals. And I have to have this conversation
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  Speaker 4: now because if Mosher gets here, he is going to
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  Speaker 4: lie to you.
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  Speaker 3: And say, oh, I was with you, Brad. I said
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. He didn't.
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  Speaker 4: It was Moshe and Vic when there was, it was
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  Speaker 4: the Western conference finals against the Lakers and they were panicked.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even blame them. They've had a lifetime of
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  Speaker 4: the Lakers ruining any Honest in real chance of the
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  Speaker 4: Nuggets winning a title or getting to the NBA finals
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  Speaker 4: or anything like that. It's reasonable to feel that way.
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  Speaker 4: What I told them was the fears that you have
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  Speaker 4: are not based in the reality of 2023. They're based
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  Speaker 4: in the early 2000s. Quit being terrified, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Mosier.
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  Speaker 4: Or late 80s or 90s or whatever. It was all
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  Speaker 4: things that you had recessed in the back of your brain.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why you feared it. And it's the same
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  Speaker 4: type of thing with the Chiefs here.
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  Speaker 3: These are not the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 4: That were putting up 5,000 yards of passing and 50
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  Speaker 4: touchdowns in a season with Tyreek Hill. And I've explained
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  Speaker 4: this a few times in the offseason, but for those
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  Speaker 4: who have missed it, the reason why I think the
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  Speaker 4: Chiefs are just going to be your run-of-the-mill good football team, good,
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  Speaker 4: good football team, is because the things that they possessed,
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  Speaker 4: especially on offense, that gave them such an edge combined
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  Speaker 4: with the brilliant play of Patrick Mahomes is they had
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  Speaker 4: a tight end that will go down as one of
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  Speaker 4: the best in the history of the league in his
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  Speaker 4: prime that was wrecking football teams.
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  Speaker 3: They sustained.
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  Speaker 4: Guys like Tyreek Hill exiting.
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  Speaker 3: But they always had one thing. They had Mr. Swift.
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  Speaker 4: And for a number of years, that guy was uncoverable.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't matter what you threw at him, he would
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  Speaker 4: be open. He would make plays. He'd rack off 100
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  Speaker 4: yards and.
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  Speaker 4: Or I'm sorry, 100 catches and 1,300 yards and 10 touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: But as Travis Kelsey has aged, it feels like that
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  Speaker 4: offense as a whole has aged.
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  Speaker 3: And the one thing they haven't.
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  Speaker 4: Done, which they've tried, just haven't found it. They've had
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  Speaker 4: no replacement for the talent they've had at wide receiver.
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  Speaker 4: Once Travis Kelsey started to get older.
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  Speaker 4: They tried to find Tyreek Hill. I got an idea.
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  Speaker 4: Let's draft Xavier Worthy. He runs a 4-2-40. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 4: can he run routes and catch? And the answer is like, uh, kinda.
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  Speaker 3: Not Tyreek. I mean, you look at last year. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: let's see.
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  Speaker 4: Xavier Worthy had 42 catches for 500 yards and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so did Marvin Mims. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not scared at all. I think that the
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  Speaker 4: Broncos will win this game. I think they're capable of losing.
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  Speaker 3: Because the Chiefs are still good.
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  Speaker 4: And it's at Arrowhead, and it's the return of Mahomes
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  Speaker 4: and all these things, but you put anything down on paper,
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  Speaker 4: guess who's better?
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  Speaker 3: You are.
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  Speaker 4: Your offensive line is better. Your playmakers are better. Think
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  Speaker 4: about that for a second. You have better playmakers than
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  Speaker 4: the Chiefs do. Chiefs defense still good? They have a
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  Speaker 4: ton of questions in the secondaries. Trade-off Trent McDuffie, bring
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  Speaker 4: back LeJarius Sneed, who's been beat up a lot. You
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  Speaker 4: know who they're starting, by the way? You know what
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  Speaker 4: I found out yesterday, Nelly? You want something to keep
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  Speaker 4: in your back pocket for Monday night?
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  Speaker 3: I got you. Remember this. If nothing else, remember this
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  Speaker 3: going into Monday.
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  Speaker 4: Khalil Benson looks like he's going to start at left
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  Speaker 4: tackle for the Chiefs. Nelly, he's an undrafted free agent
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  Speaker 4: from this year's draft. Never played a snap in the
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  Speaker 4: NFL in his life. You know how many games he
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  Speaker 4: started at left tackle in his college career?
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  Speaker 1: None.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it was zero. I think he played on
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  Speaker 3: the other side of the line. He was a right tackle.
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  Speaker 3: They're playing him at left tackle.
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  Speaker 4: The guy who's responsible for protecting the blind side Monday
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  Speaker 4: night of Patrick Mahomes, who's coming off a pretty devastating
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  Speaker 4: knee injury, is an undrafted free agent who's never.
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  Speaker 3: Played that position before. There's a lot of reasons to
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  Speaker 3: feel good about the Broncos on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: A lot.
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  Speaker 4: We get to this a lot more as we go
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  Speaker 4: along this week, but the time has come. We got
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  Speaker 4: football tonight, which means it's a yearly tradition. NFL power
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  Speaker 4: rankings with tears. It's coming your way next.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's the greatest time of the year. Everybody stop
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  Speaker 3: It's freaking game week, man. Nobody else does it. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: does it but me. And I do it for you.
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  Speaker 4: I grind the tape like I did last night to
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  Speaker 4: not just give you who I think is going to
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  Speaker 4: be the number 32 team in the league. but to
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  Speaker 4: also give you tears along with it. And we got
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  Speaker 4: all 32 teams that we got to get.
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  Speaker 3: To, so.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get the garbage out of the way first. Our
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  Speaker 4: first tier, the might not win a game tier, and
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  Speaker 4: that's your 32nd ranked team in the league. It is
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  Speaker 4: the Miami Dolphins, 182 million in dead cap. The quarterback
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  Speaker 4: they paid a ton of money to. who has 1,300
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  Speaker 4: passing yards, only six touchdowns through four years in his career.
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  Speaker 4: That seems like a great idea. A roster of only
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  Speaker 4: a couple of guys who make over $ 10 million. They
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  Speaker 4: signed seven players off of waivers after cut down day.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that's ever been done in the history
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  Speaker 4: of the league. Greg Dulcich is their starting tight end,
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  Speaker 4: for crying out loud. This team is going nowhere. They're
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  Speaker 4: in a rebuild year to get to a rebuild year.
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  Speaker 4: They legitimately might not win a game. I'm setting a
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  Speaker 4: max of like two for them. Miami Dolphins number 32
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  Speaker 4: in the league in a tier of their own. The
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  Speaker 4: next tier is a rudderless ship. That takes us to.
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  Speaker 3: The 31st ranked team in the league, which is the
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns. We all know the situation.
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  Speaker 4: Deshaun Watson's a disaster. He's hated by his own fans
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  Speaker 4: and his own coaching staff, I think. They're forced to
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  Speaker 4: play him. He's going to play terrible. And they don't
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  Speaker 4: have the nuts to cut him or just not start him,
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  Speaker 4: which in some ways is an indictment of Shador Sanders.
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  Speaker 4: Their coach feels like a lame duck from the hire
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  Speaker 4: that changes when they're able to get rid of Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 4: Their roster that was actually decent defensively lost their defensive
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  Speaker 4: MVP and and young talent's not going to be enough
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  Speaker 4: to overcome at their 31. In the same tier at
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  Speaker 4: number 30 is the Arizona Cardinals. Now, I think a
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  Speaker 4: very talented team in Arizona, but their quarterback is still
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  Speaker 4: Jacoby Brissett, which is a stopgap quarterback. They have good
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  Speaker 4: talent on offense. They should be a fun team, but
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  Speaker 4: their schedule is brutal.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: Their season starts their first 11 weeks. Chargers, Seahawks, Niners, Giants, Lions, Rams, Broncos, Cowboys, Seahawks, Rams, Chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: The only game that you could say is maybe easier
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  Speaker 3: is the Giants.
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  Speaker 4: All the other teams are probably going to be in
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs or right on the borderline of it. I
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  Speaker 4: think their schedule is too brutal to get through, and
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  Speaker 4: with Jacoby Brissett, it's just not going to be enough,
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  Speaker 4: even with some talent that they have, and they will
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  Speaker 4: finish near the bottom of the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: At number 29 is the New York Jets. Same thing.
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  Speaker 4: I think they've acquired some talent, but with Geno Smith,
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  Speaker 4: who had one hell of an offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Feels like his career is over.
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Glenn needs to win early to solidify his job
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  Speaker 4: status at the beginning of the schedule, but it's as
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  Speaker 4: brutal as, not as brutal as the Cardinals, but still
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  Speaker 4: pretty tough. They play all of the NFC North, essentially,
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  Speaker 4: in that first month of the season. They have questions
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  Speaker 4: on defense, young talent, but I think it's going to
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  Speaker 4: take a while to come together.
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  Speaker 3: They're at 29.
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  Speaker 4: And at 28, in the final of the rudderless ship tier,
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  Speaker 4: is the Atlanta Falcons.
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  Speaker 3: Two is not the answer. Everybody knows it.
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  Speaker 4: They don't even want to start him, but they have to.
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  Speaker 4: So he's going to be replaced the second that Penix
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  Speaker 4: is healthy. But Penix needs to prove he can stay healthy,
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  Speaker 4: which he hasn't through his professional and college career.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they have Bijon. Yes, they have Drake London.
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  Speaker 4: But they have no confidence in the place that matters
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: the most, They might win some games in a bad division,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: but it's an uphill battle to do anything of substance.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Which takes us to our next tier. The Bridge Year Blues.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: And at number 27 is the Tennessee Titans. Cam Ward
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: has some promise. They're looking for him and Carnell Tate
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: to get a little connection together. But I think they're
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: still miles away from competing at a high level. They're
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: looking for some bright spots to point to to keep
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: the arrow moving forward. I think they can do that
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: with Robert Sala maybe making the defense a little bit better.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: But they're going to be at 27. At number 26
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: is the Raiders. Starting cousins at the beginning of the year.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: They will go to Mendoza at some point this season.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I'm convinced of it. They have Bowers. They have Jenty.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: But outside of that, I think they lack playmakers on
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: the offensive side, especially at wide receiver. I think they're
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: going to be better than last year, but in a
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: division filled with Denver and the Chargers and the Chiefs.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: It's going to make it impossible to compete for anything meaningful.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: They're at number 26, number 25. I'm not as bought
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: in on this dart scataboo thing for the Giants as
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: other people are.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: They got a lot of pub last year, but they
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: never won.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Even when those guys were healthy and playing together, they
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: were fun, I guess, but they didn't win. And so
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: they both need to learn how to be less risky
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: with the hits that they're taking. Jackson Dart learned how
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: to slide this offseason. I suppose that's a positive. And
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Scadaboo said, I'm going to play the way that I play.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: And I go, well, that's going to lead to you
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: missing a lot of games.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: John Harbaugh should give them some discipline and give them
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: a little bump to make them better.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: But they're still a ways away from anything competitive. They're
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: at 25.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: At number 24, interesting team in the Saints. Tyler shock
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: showed that he had some ability at the end of
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: the year. Last year, they started winning when he took
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: over that starting spot. He didn't like the world on fire,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: but made them better. They found some young talent, but
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Jordan Tyson's going to start the year on IR. That
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: would have been an interesting thing with him and Chris
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Olave and some other guys in the offense all playing together.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: But with him on IR Alvin Kamara looks like he's
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: on the, the 17th green of his career, as far
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: as being an impactful running back in this league, still, um,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: It's going to land a lot on Tyler Shuck carrying
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: the load for that team and winning some games with
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: his arm, and I don't know if he's quite ready
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: for that yet. They're at number 24. And at number 23,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I think the most talented team that I have in
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: the back portion of this, it's the Minnesota Vikings. They're
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: talented in a bunch of different places. They are, like,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: from a straight roster perspective, a really good football team.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: but they're being sabotaged by bad quarterback play. It happened
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: last year, and I'm not buying even that Kevin O'Connell
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: is a quarterback whisperer that he's going to do the
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Sam Donald thing with Kyler Murray, especially in a division
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: where everybody finished over 500 last year. Somebody in that
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: division is going to have to take a step back,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: and I think it's Minnesota just because of their quarterback situation,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: and Kyler Murray is not the answer. So that takes
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: us to our next tier, which is doesn't pass the
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: smell test. At number 22 is the Carolina Panthers. Yes,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: they won their division. Yes, they made the playoffs. But
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: they were 8-9 last year. And the fact that they're
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: going into this season not even knowing if Bryce Young
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: is going to be the answer or not is a
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: big problem. He's starting at a point in the season
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: where if he doesn't perform in a bad division, they're
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: picking a quarterback in the draft that's never a great
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: place to be. I think some teams in the NFC
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: South are going to bounce back, so we'll get to
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: that in just a bit, but they're at number 22,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: the Panthers are. At number 21 is the Steelers. Aging
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers, no more Mike Tomlin, and a whole bunch
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: of questions. Are they going to be a decent football team?
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I suppose.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: But I don't buy that McCarthy is going to do
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: the same stuff that Mike Tomlin did. I don't think
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: that Aaron Rodgers has anything left in the tank. This
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: feels like just a lost year for where the Steelers
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: are at. I don't see another 500-plus season coming like
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: they had with Tomlin every year. They're in a division
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: that if Burrow and Jackson stay healthy, I don't think
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: they can be close to competitive with them. Steelers are
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: at 21. At number 20, this is an interesting team.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I think this is the team with maybe the most variance.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I have the Commanders at number 20. They were in
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: the NFC Championship game just a few years ago. But
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: questions about, was that a fluke year from Jaden Daniels?
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: They relied a lot that year on aging veterans like
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Austin Eckler and Bobby Wagner and guys like that. They're
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: no longer on that team. It's left them without a
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: ton of depth. There are questions within the running game on.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: How effective that can be.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: They can win, but there's a consistency factor with them
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: that I just don't find as trustworthy.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: They could find themselves in the top 10 by the
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: end of the year. I don't know.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Like I said, a lot of variance with this team,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: but for now, I'm not buying in. It'll be at
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: number 20. At number 19, a round out that doesn't
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: pass a smell test. The story of the first two
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: months of the season last year was the Indianapolis Colts
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: and Danny Penny's.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: There's a big question of whether that was real or
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: not with Daniel Jones.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: He was great to start the year, but even before
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: his injury, you saw the production start to fall off
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: and maybe teams started to figure it out. And now
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: it's like, do I trust Daniel Jones' best eight weeks
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: of his career? Or do I trust the few weeks
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: afterwards and the rest of what we've seen of him?
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I'm going to rely on the bigger wealth of evidence
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: and say he's not going to return to that form.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Alec Pierce coming off ankle surgery. Keenan Allen, who they
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: just signed, who's 34 years old, is going to be
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: a big part of their offense.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: That seems tough.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: They're at 19. Now we get to, Nelly, these are
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: going to be some of the contenders. We're at number
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: 18 here. Let's switch up the music.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Switch it up. Give me the music. That's what I'm
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: talking about.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: We get to the one obvious flaw category, and that's
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: where I put the Dallas Cowboys at number 18. There's
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: no question on Dak. He's proven he's a great quarterback
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: in this league. They have all talent in the world
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: at wide receiver.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: They have a good running game last year.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: It's a matter of if the defense can improve or not.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: If they get that together, the Cowboys are a playoff
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: team with potential, but if not.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Smiles and glory holes. They're just a good team that
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: can't get over the hump.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: It all is going to depend on their defense, and
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: I still don't think they've done enough to improve that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: They're at number 18. At number 17 is the Texans.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: They're great everywhere.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: You talk about a defense that's a monster, they have
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: a defense that's a monster. They have good wide receivers.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: They got a good tight end. They brought in David
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Montgomery for the running game. I don't trust CJ Stroud
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: at all. One obvious flaw is you've got a quarterback
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: where you're like, I don't know what the hell this
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: guy's going to do.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Turn the ball over a ton in the playoffs.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: It's just not trustworthy there at number 17.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: At number 16, it's the Bears.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: They have so much promise with Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: but things that aren't sustainable are crazy amounts of takeaways
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: that they had and turnovers and one-score wins.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Can they do that year over year?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: It's going to be incredibly tough, especially with a defense
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: that wasn't top five in the league last year. There's
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: another thing with Caleb Williams that I want to see
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: how this turns out. He was terrible in completion percentage
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: last year. Now, the completion percentage numbers are something that
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: has maybe changed the most with touchdown-interception ratio over the
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: last 30 years for quarterbacks. If you can't complete passes
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: at a high clip, you have tough times on third down.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: They were okay in that category last year, but when
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: you're completing 56% of your passes, it makes it tough.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: I think the Bears are good, It's just a matter
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: of consistency for them. They're at number 16, borderline playoff team,
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: especially in a tough division. Now, next tier. The division
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: might be their saving grace. The teams in there are
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who I have at 15. Good
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: quarterback play. If they stay healthy, they should be able
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: to win their division. It's theirs to lose. They bring
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: back Vita Vea and Baker Mayfield on contract, so they're
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: happy now.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Bucky Irving's a player.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: But it doesn't feel like they're much more than a
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: division winner in a pretty bad division, but they could
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: be interesting.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: They're at 15. At number 14, the Jags.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Won their division last year. Should have a great shot
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: to do it again. Really talented on both sides. If
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Lawrence has actually turned a corner, then they're a good team.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: But I think they're a wild card team for now.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: They have a tough schedule. Should be good enough to
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: overcome that. I just don't know if I can put
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: chips in the middle of the table on Trevor Lawrence
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: So they're at 14.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Number 13 is the Chiefs. Finishing where they did last
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: year gives them something they haven't had in a while,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: which is a non-first place schedule. Add in a healthy
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes. Maybe they got something. There's offensive line questions.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: The talent offensively. At the playmaker spot, huge question marks
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: on that part. Walker helps their running game, obviously. But
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: if their offensive line can't protect Mahomes and that secondary
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: that they've tried to patchwork since losing guys like Trent
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: McDuffie can't get better, I still think this team isn't
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: finishing first in the AFC West. And finally in this
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: is the Niners. Finishing third in their division with 12
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: wins last year is huge. A 12-win team gets a
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: third-place schedule?
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: That's big.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: But they're still behind the Rams and the Seahawks right now.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Questions about injuries are always a problem with the Niners,
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: but they're talented and as well coached as any team
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: in the league. They could find themselves very easily in
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: the top tier of this, but for now, they're at
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: number 12.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: New tier.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: If they can stay healthy, at number 11 is Cincinnati.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: This is all about Burrow and their defense.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: That's everything.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: If Burrow stays healthy and Chase stays healthy and Higgins
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: stays healthy, then they'll be good. If their defense can
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: improve even marginally, they can be really good. But those
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: are big questions for a team that suffered awful defense
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: over the last few years and quarterback injuries. But if
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: they get both of those things, they'll be fine. At
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: number 10 is the Lions. They had injuries everywhere over
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: the last couple of years. Defensive guys, like eight starters
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: on defense out two years ago. They had 12 different
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: offensive line combinations last year due to injury. I think
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: if they can stay healthy, Detroit's as good and as
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: talented as anybody. But that's a big question in a
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: really tough division that featured every team finishing over. 500.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: And then at number nine is the Chargers. Everyone loves
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: the potential. The offensive line problems and injuries over the
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: last couple of years have been a problem. The Oddish,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: their center is already out for the year, so that's
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: a bad start. If they lose Alt or Slater, it's
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: going to be the same story. But they're just as
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: talented as anybody else in the league. They're at number nine.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Next tier, bleep or get off the pot. It's like
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: these teams need to do something or leave my life forever.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: It's the Green Bay Packers. Every year you hear about
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Jordan Love and the potential of Green Bay, and it
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: just never comes together. I do think they're the best
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: team in the NFC North. I think a healthy Micah
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Parsons changes everything for that defense, but this year is
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: about Jordan Love. Is he a Favre Rodgers quarterback, or
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: is he just another pretty good one that's in the NFL?
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: If he makes the leap, gets rid of the turnovers,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: they can take the division and compete for a Super Bowl.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: If not, then it looks like another early playoff exit.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: At number seven is the Ravens. Lamar Jackson, MVP year
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: after year. When he's healthy, they have defense, they have offense,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: they have Derrick Henry, they have everything, but it's about
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Lamar making the Super Bowl jump. Do it or don't.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: They've changed the head coach. It feels like this is
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: on him. Get the job done or leave my life forever.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: And then at number six, Philadelphia. They've won a Super
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Bowl with their head coach and quarterback. Bleep or get
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: off the pot is this. They won a Super Bowl,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: made a couple with the same coaching quarterback, and they
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: seem to hate both of them. And if they don't
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: do that this year or at least get close, I
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: think somebody's getting the Ziggy. So the Eagles are at
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: number six. Now, two more tiers to go. To believe
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: or not to believe. At number five is Buffalo. It
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: could have been in the same category as the previous
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: one with Josh Allen.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: They have talent. He's the MVP.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: He needs to win playoffs games. He's been close. He's
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: had excuses, but the time to do it is now.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: There needs to be questions whether he wins in the clutch,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: and he needs to.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Answer those questions.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Also, there's questions whether Sean McDermott is the right guy
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: for the job. I think a lot of that gets
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: figured out this year. Buffalo's at number five. At number four...
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: is the Denver Broncos. Bo Nix is the main thrust here.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: They have everything else. They have all the pieces a
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl team needs. They feel a lot like the
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Seahawks last year. They were an ankle injury away from
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: playing in that Super Bowl, from having a chance to
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: be what the Seahawks were. But this will be Bo
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Nix's year to prove whether he's worth a $ 55 to
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: $ 60 million contract or not. A much tougher schedule and
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: tough start may prove too much to replicate what last
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: year was, but obviously a very good football team that's
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: going to be in the playoffs and have a chance
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: to compete for a Super Bowl.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: And number three is the team that beat him last year.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: The only reason why I have the Patriots at three
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: and not the Broncos is because the Patriots won. And
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: we can make the excuses that we want to about
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: injuries to Bo Nix or whatever, but they were there.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: They got great quarterback play from Drake May. I'm going
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: to give him benefit of the doubt that he was
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: hurt in the playoffs last year, and that's why he
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: didn't look as great as the regular season. But to me,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: there's no excuse for the Patriots not to repeat their dominance.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: They were great all year last year. They had MVP
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: caliber play from their quarterback. They should be right back
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: in that discussion.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Then finally, the elites of the elite at number two
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: is the Seahawks.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: The defending champs, they have all the marquee names. Sam
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Darnold needs to repeat what he did from last year.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Losing Kenneth Walker should hurt, but not too much. They
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: bring in Jadarian Price to make up for that, and
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: then the only thing standing in their way is the
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: number one team, which is the Rams. League MVP, Miles Garrett,
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Aaron Donald, Trent McDuffie, Puka, Devontae Adams. They're the best
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: team on paper, and it's just a matter of getting
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: over a very tough division.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: But I think they can handle it, and they're the
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl favorites.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: So.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: That is NFL power rankings with tears. I realized something
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: in my hastiness to get through all of that. Sean
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: McDermott is not the coach of the Bills anymore.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: It is Joe Brady. Give me a check mark on
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: that one, please. Mark that.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I was rushing through because I saw Nelly's face when
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: he was looking at the clock. We just had a
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: discussion with the boss yesterday about this.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: We were rushing.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: But.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: We made it. NFL power rankings with tears.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: You have one extra second on the clock.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: I would suggest using it to throw to break, Brett. Break.
• 35:06
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• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Aaron Donald will not be a part of that. He
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: stayed home.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Feels like you can't just jump back into football, you know,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: a week before the season starts and have everything ramped up.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: So he's going to chill back and I'm sure play
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: maybe next week or maybe the week afterwards. Now, in
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: some other things around the league, Around football, I should say. So,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: the SEC filed all these, I don't know what you
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: call them. Is this restraining orders or whatever they were?
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: To get the ability to expel LSU from the SEC
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: if they wanted to. I'm so sick and tired of
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: everything in college football, becoming some throw it to court
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: and see what the judge says. Now it felt like
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin was just playing this game to see how
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: far he could take it.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Cause they just filled out.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: You can have 105 players on a roster and they
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: just locked in their last two guys. They were not
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: the professional players that they were kind of holding out for,
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: for all this stuff. Um, It's part of the reason
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: why I kind of like that Lane Kiffin's just sort
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: of a bleep hole here. Doesn't care about his conference,
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: doesn't care about anything. He's just like, yeah, let me
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: just mess around and do some stuff, see what happens.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: But everything within college football has become a court case,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: and that now, I guess, might include the finish to
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Michigan and Western Michigan. Here's the statement that the MAC gave,
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: which is the Conference of the Western Michigan Broncos.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: I think they're the Broncos, right? Whatever they are.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Upon the conclusion of Western Michigan-Michigan football game, the Mid-American
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Conference in Western Michigan contacted the Big Ten office to
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: seek clarification regarding the replay review and the placement of
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: time back on the game clock. The Big Ten explained
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: the ball touched a player who was out of bounds, blah, blah, blah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: We all know that. It says, I.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Commend Western Michigan for an outstanding effort and well-played game,
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: and I offer my congratulations to Michigan. I also appreciate
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: the collaborative efforts in the Big Ten office and its
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: prompt response in reviewing the play and providing the requested clarification.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: They want this thing overturned.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: And I don't know if that's even, like, going down
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: that road is going to be an absolute mess. Um,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: You aren't going to get the result of a game overturned.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's been maybe a few times in American
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: sports history where that's happened. I remember the George Brett
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: Pintar game was one of them. But there's too much
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: that's already gone on since that game ended. You weren't
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: going to go back and take a win off the board.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: The damage has already been done to Michigan. The bummer
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: is that Western Michigan doesn't get to claim that. Now,
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: I will say this. I think in both cases, if
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Michigan got upset by Western Michigan, it would be a
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: funny little footnote in the week one upsets in college
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: football history.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: The fact.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: That we're still talking about this days later proves that
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: this is much worse. Like Western Michigan's loss will be
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: remembered more than if they just blew the game dead
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: at the end of that missed Hail Mary. Michigan, again,
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: it would be a footnote in, oh, that's silly. Michigan
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: lost to Western Michigan to start the year.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Weird.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: And now it's become this whole thing that's going to
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: go like historically. for all the great wins that Michigan's
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: had in their history, it's also going to be like,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: as noteworthy as many wins that they've had in the
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: history of their organization. But as the texture points out
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: and what I wanted to get to, imagine what happens here. Now,
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know how many people had Western Michigan on
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: the money line. But what happens then? If they were
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: to overturn that and say, you know what? Actually, Western
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Michigan won. How many different sports books are going to
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: be bombarded with tickets?
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Saying, well, if they overturned it, then I want to
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: get paid my money. Not happening. Not happening at all.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: But are we just going to keep going to court
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: cases here?
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Are we just going to continue to let some judge
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: decide what's happening in sports? And I think, where do
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: you draw the line on what's going on in college athletics?
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: I think at the point where.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: You have a judge deciding things. How about you just
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: let the sports take care of it?
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Very simple. And a lot of people are like, screw
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Michigan on here. I agree with you.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: I think it is criminal that Western Michigan doesn't get
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: a win chalked up. But the damage is now done.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Michigan's feeling all of it. This will be held against them.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: I don't think they're good enough to make this matter anyway. But, man,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: the bigger impact to me is not so much the
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: win and loss. It's the explanation of even though you
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: think you might be seeing what a game clock actually is,
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: we have a different one that you can't see, and
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: that's a big problem. If the whole thing turns into, well,
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: you can't believe the clock that you're seeing on the field,
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: how do you trust anything?
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: It's a pretty important thing.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: By the way, Nelly, if that's true, that the clock
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: that was in the stadium was off, well, what's the
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: entire sideline offensive coordinators and quarterbacks using to judge how
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: much time they have left?
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: The unofficial one?
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: How does that make any sense? So pretty stupid. But
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: we got the NFL kicking off tonight. Football is back.
• 42:19
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• 42:22
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• 42:39
  Speaker 4: tonight in Rhino. So a whole bunch to get to today. Um,
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: We have to play this audio for you. Sean McVay
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: talked about the first time he met Nikola Jokic, which
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: is hilarious.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: That will get to it a little bit.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: It's also some audio from the Rockies game last night
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: where they had a very little league moment. And Drew
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Goodman and the boys let them have it, and they
• 43:05
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• 43:08
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• 43:11
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