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"Auld Lang Syne" episode 198 · DMV Mess Hall

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Hi folks, this is Rick Doc. Walker to DOC this.
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Is John Kime and you're listening to the mess hall with
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Rally Captain and Tailgate 10. What's going on?
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Rally You ready for the season to be almost over?
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Well, that's why I'm wearing blue Ted, because I'm blue, but
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at the same time I'm seeing red. So you see, I've got all the
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gamuts of the colors here. I'm blue that the season is
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over, but I'm I'm red because of how the season ended up, if that
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makes sense. But to make a Long story short,
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yes, let's get this thing out of here like 2025 and start the
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2026 year new. What about you, man?
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I can't wait for the season to be done, man, which it pains me,
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right, because in a couple of, you know, maybe a month or two,
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we'll be just kind of dying for football again, all right?
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And yeah, I've got DC defenders season tickets and they're
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defending champion, but it's not the same that even come close.
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Nothing comes close to the NFL, right?
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And it's but right now I I was looking at my my FanDuel bets
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that are not settled yet and like Jane Daniels, MVP Dan
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Quinn, coach of the year commanders to win the NFC East
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thinking I don't know that's a loser.
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That's a loser. Like can you just take it off my
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list now because right, winning the east, Jane's not getting
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MVPDQ would definitely getting coach of the year.
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Some people think he's on the hot seat and should be gone or
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not us. But you know, it's just word
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around out there. So 25 was it was frustrating,
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man. And I know for those wondering,
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it's the 30th right now. So New Year's Eve, Eve, and I
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cannot wait until 2026 comes around.
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More importantly, football 2026. And we still got a ways for that
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to go. But yeah, it's I'm feeling right
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there with you, man. Definitely blue.
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But is that a wizard's hat? Because there's no way that's a
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commander's hat. Yeah, it's a wizard's hat.
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OK, all right. It it's tough to see on the Zoom
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screen. I'm sitting looking at her like
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I know my eyes are going bad ish, but OK.
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I was going to ask Mehta what the hell that was in your head.
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But man, it's a we didn't do a show after the Cowboys game
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because obviously that game was on Christmas and then it was a
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Friday after Christmas and spending time with the family
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for the holidays. But couple of takeaways from
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that game. I'm I'm proud of the fans that
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showed up, right. We had more people than I
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expected out there. There were more fans than I
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expected in the stadium considering.
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And I think the weather helped out with that.
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I mean, what was your perception walking around that day?
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Well, I knew that I was going to see a lot of blue and silver.
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I mean, we already talked about it.
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It's Christmas. You got a lot of people who
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decided when the schedule came out, hey, we're going to make
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this my family's Christmas gift coming to the nation's capital.
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So I knew that was going to happen.
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I got to tell you, I was happy that fans did show up and and it
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was a pretty good game on on top of that.
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So you know, I I said in my live on Facebook, it's very hard to
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win with the third string quarterback, no matter what team
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you play for. It's just not our team.
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It's any NFL team. Josh Johnson came out and gave
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the old, what, 2016 try? I think he's been on I.
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Think he's been on 20 some odd teams, but he gave it his best
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shot. And I and I think that
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truthfully, we may see, I'm going to speed up a little bit.
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We may see a better Josh Johnson against the Eagles than we did
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against the Cowboys because he's getting first string, first
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string reps, excuse me? And he's got the playbook a
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little bit better underneath his belt and what he got to lose.
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Ball out, baby. Yeah, I mean, I was surprised
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with Josh right when I was telling you the topics before
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the show, you're like, he did Well.
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I was like, well, I expected Josh to just poop the bed right
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when we went down. What was it?
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Was it 21 to 3? I don't even remember, right.
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I'm just, I'm sitting there in the stands and I literally I see
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people leaving and it is the maybe the second quarter like,
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and I don't blame them. Who wants to spend their
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Christmas Day like that to get blown out by the Cowboys?
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But they actually made it interesting.
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They made it, I don't want to say a game, but we were, we were
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within reach of that game right towards the end.
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We only lost by 7. And I appreciate them making it
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competitive. It could have been like the
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Seahawks game all over again or the Vikings game where we just
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got completely shut down. And I don't think anyone would
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have gave him a hard time about that considering, right?
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Like you said, we're on our third quarterback.
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Mariota is out or was out that game and odds are he's going to
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be out this week. I mean, he's got stitches on his
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hand. This is DQ.
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Talk about Marcus. What is the chances of Marcus
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playing in the final game? Yeah, Nikki, we, he wasn't ready
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today to participate, you know, like we had a very light jog
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through. So he wasn't to that spot yet.
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So until it gets to full speed and can really cut and stop and
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start, that's when we would say, so I'll have a better sense when
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I visit with you on Wednesday and if he's able to, you know,
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resume the type of movements that we had.
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But as it was today, it'd been a stretch to get there.
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But I'm hopeful as I have for a few days to see what it could
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look like. And if he could, like, really be
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himself, then he'd have a real shot at it.
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But I don't know that today. So this is what doesn't make
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sense to me about DQ's combat. I thought he wasn't playing
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because he's got the stitches on his hand and his hand is
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swollen, so I don't know what cutting and all that stuff has
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to do with the guy not being able to throw the ball.
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I think DQ is ready for the season to end and he thought
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that they were asking about a different player, but I mean.
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The other Marcus? Yeah, and that Tyler be honest,
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isn't going to play this week, right.
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Tunsil isn't going to play this week.
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Cosmy isn't going to play this week.
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So that is three of your five starting offensive lineman that
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are out. So really, you know, and we we
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talked about the last show. DQ said we're going to see those
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guys in two weeks. The same players aren't going to
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be there from, you know, two weeks ago to this week.
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So and one of my debates in questions and this kind of came
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up on the junkies listening to them and I asked JP Finley and
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Steve Zabin this on JP show when Zabe was filling in for B Mitch
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Valdez brought up the fact and those that don't know, Valdez is
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one of the producers for the sports junk.
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He's a one O 6-7 the fan. Why keep Marcus Mariota?
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Why not just keep Josh Johnson? Because Mariota is making $8
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million this year and as a starter, he's one in five is his
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record. He hasn't lit the world on fire.
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Next year, just like everything, price go up, price goes up.
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So odds are he's going to make I'd say maybe around $10 million
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next year, assuming Mariota wants to stay and he doesn't go
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to some other team as a starter. Like Minnesota could use a
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starter or, you know, Atlanta maybe or some other teams.
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Do you want them to pay him that money knowing what we've seen
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from him over the past two years?
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Or do you want them to go with a cheaper second string
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quarterback? Then they can invest that money
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into the top, possibly another position.
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Well, First off, let me say this, My hat goes off to Marcus.
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I don't think that there's a team that's going to put him in
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a starting position. I think that ship is sailed.
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I love Marcus. I'm just looking at the body of
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work that that he said. I I don't believe that there is
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a team that would give him an opportunity to be the starting
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quarterback. I think they've seen enough work
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from him to say at best, you're going to be our backup.
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So with that being said, does he want to stay?
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That's, that's, that's the big question.
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I'd love to have him, but at the same time, if we're talking, you
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know, dollars and cents, you might want to look at being
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going with a younger quarterback, even Josh Johnson,
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a younger quarterback, hell, even Sam Hartman, another
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quarterback, because he hasn't played for whatever reason.
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I I don't know he hasn't played. I mean, if it means bringing the
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kid who they who did they just bring from from Arizona up here
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Driscoll, if it means he's the backup now, let it ride at the
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at this juncture, I have no true answers about this team.
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I really don't Everywhere I thought we were going to shine.
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You know, we we we haven't and I know that injury plays a lot
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into it. I and and no matter what this is
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my squad so so for for everybody that's listening no, I'm not
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wavering at all. I just don't know where we go
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from here Ted I I I really don't now do I have faith that they
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will figure it out? Yes, I have faith that they will
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some shape form fashion figure it out.
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We've got a whole offseason, whether it's throw money at
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somebody, a lot of people that is because, you know, we can't
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just throw money at one person. We've got to freaking be a throw
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a hand grenade and it's got to disperse to a lot of different
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places. So that's the question.
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Injuries are a huge part of it, right?
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Nikki Javala without a tweet on Christmas, 30 players missed a
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total of 140 games, right? Just let that part sit.
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Can't win like that. But I think part of the problem
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is roster construction, right? Noah Brown missed 12 games.
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You never should have counted on Noah Brown, right?
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And I'm not saying pay Diami Brown or pay OZ all that money,
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but you never should have counted on Noah Brown to play
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all those games. Austin Eckler missed 14 games,
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went on IR with an Achilles. Austin has not played a full
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season in quite a long time, right?
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Dietrich Wise missed 14. OK, that's kind of a fluke
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thing. Javonte Jean Baptiste missed 12.
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Or you've got guys that have missed games.
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But we're not the only team in the NFL that's injured.
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I think part of the problem is we had a roster that when
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healthy can compete with anybody, but when not healthy,
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our true depth showed that the cover was bare, that they were
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just sort of lipstick, you know, putting lipstick on a pig last
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year with Jayden and that young man is so special that he could
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make a subpar roster look amazing.
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Well, he's gone. Jayden missed eight games with
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his knee, his hamstring and his elbow.
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And guess what? That roster, all the warts are
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there, front and center. You can see everything.
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And I think part of that is all right.
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We went all in after being four quarters from the Super Bowl,
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but we didn't address the depth problems that we've had since
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before Rivera was here. And we mortgage a future to
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bring in guys like Tonsil, to bring in guys like Lattimore.
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And that recalibration that they talked about last season.
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If Jaden's hurt, it's a rebuild. It's not a recalibration.
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No, yeah. That's what has me concerned
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about 2026 right now. Well, Ted, as I said earlier,
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where are you going to put your money or where are they going to
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put their money? What are they eyeing?
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What do they see? Because we as fans have an idea
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of what we want. But obviously we we've been in
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this game long enough to know that what we want doesn't always
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transfer to what they want. So at this time, I got to tell
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you, man, I can't even think about that, Ted.
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I'm just like you said, we were four quarters removed from going
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to the Super Bowl and here we are.
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I think what's going to happen is, yeah, I, I think what's
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going to happen is this is going to play out similar to the Ron
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Revere era. For everybody that's talking
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about DQ being on the hot seat. I don't believe the he's on the
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hot seat is when Ron Revere had all those injuries and we all
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remember that we we survived the Ron Revere era.
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He went back to them and basically said, you guys can't
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fire me because of the injuries that we had.
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If I had a healthy squad, I would have been better.
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They kept them. This is going to be the same
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thing for DQ. He's going to go to them and
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say, you guys see it. What can I, my hands are tied.
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Give me a give me a, a healthy year.
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And then let's revisit this. Even if they're even looking at
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it, which I don't believe that they are.
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No, I don't think they are right.
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But to me personally, Adam Peters himself, I'm questioning
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a little bit, right? I still trust him in his moves,
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but he's got to have a good offseason, right?
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And we saw Johnny Newton have 3 sacks.
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You know, the other day against the Cowboys, we saw Ben Senate
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have a couple of catches, right? And we've seen Jalen Lane
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produce, right? When Luke was in there, he was
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doing well, but some of his free agent pickups have not panned
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out, right? So I need to see Peters do a
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little bit more from that standpoint.
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OK, when we were, when we were still in it to some degree in
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Dallas, what did Johnny Newton do?
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And I know you don't have those stats available, but I'm there's
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a reason why I'm asking. I'm posing this question.
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I like to know what Johnny Newton did when we were
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truthfully still had something to play for when we played
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Dallas. Well, he probably didn't get a
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ton of snaps most likely. That's my guess.
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The only reason he got snaps this past week was because Duron
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was hurt. And OK, you and I talked about
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it. Duron's probably not going to
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play against the Eagles, so that's another chance for Johnny
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to do it against an actual good offense.
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I mean his weekly PFF grade then was a 58.
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OK, where I'm where I'm going with that is this Dallas had
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nothing to play for. There was no true.
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Don't get me wrong, I always my biggest thing that I always try
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to get across to you and our listeners are that no matter
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what, those guys are human and they had nothing to play for.
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Johnny, on the other hand, he has something to play for
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because he could be out the door.
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Everybody saying that he hasn't lived up to what he was pegged
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to be. Well, Dallas is out of it.
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They they are, they were. So I think there was a little
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less effort and and yeah, the Cowboys and and they got a
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opponent offense. But bro, I, I just saw some
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things that made me just say, OK, Dallas didn't play to the to
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their potential. They really didn't.
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If we, if we want to look, if we want to say something, they
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didn't play to their potential because they were out of it.
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I think some guys didn't. I, I, I think Dak did.
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I think Turpin did. I don't think CD did.
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I don't think Pickens did. I think I saw those guys making
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business decisions. I saw those guys not jumping for
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balls. I saw those guys not reaching
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for balls because they didn't want to get hit.
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Some guys definitely did not play up to the potential.
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I mean Dak is playing in Week 18 right?
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The fact that DAC is starting the last game of the season when
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they literally have nothing to play for other than he doesn't
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want to have a losing record to end the year so that's why he's
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playing. But I do agree with you.
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But the big thing about Johnny is all anyone is focused on is
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his sax. He got pretty much the worst
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run, block, run defensive grade for a defensive lineman that
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game, right. And that to me is it's more than
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just being able to stack the quarterback, right.
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You've got to actually stop the run as well.
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And he didn't do that, right. So that's he is the reason why
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people passed on him on the draft 'cause he was supposed to
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go higher was he is a undersized defensive lineman and the reason
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why he hasn't gotten snaps over to Ron is Duron just a bigger
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boy. But the fact that Ken Law, who
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they brought in here is a free agent, has 0 sacks and has
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played a hell of a lot more snaps in Johnny and Johnny has
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three sacks. So you know that that to me goes
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back to the bringing in some of these free agents that have not
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panned out to a degree. And you know, Kim Law has been
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there, he's been healthy, has not missed games.
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So that's one reason why I'm saying not that I don't trust
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Peters, I just want to see more out of him because he is the one
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buying the ingredients and DQ is the one cooking the meal and
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some of these ingredients, some are on the discount shelf.
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And, and, and we're the ones who have to eat it and it doesn't
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taste good. So, you know, do you go to a
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different restaurant? You know what, what do you do?
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But I'm with you, you know, we, we were happy that he came on
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board because we saw what his resume brought to the table.
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And we are trying to hold on because we've so many years
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we've been so just mediocre to where we always said, now we see
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the adults are in the room. We've we've said that
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continuously. And last year with us having a
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winning record, we say, ah, we see what the adults in the room
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are finally able to do. But now we have a turn of the
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bad, if you will, and now we're questioning it.
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And so we really, we shouldn't do that, even though I
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understand why we're doing it, we shouldn't do it.
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We got it. We got to keep our nose down to
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the grind and and keep rolling and roll with them because if he
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hits and we don't have the injuries next year, then we'll
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be right back praising them again.
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So I say right now, as hard as it may be, curtail the the the,
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the thoughts on judging him for right now next year.
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Oh, we'll be like Philly fans and we'll be blowing the hell
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out of everybody, you know, because we, we basically are
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giving everybody a pass because of these injuries.
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Yeah. I mean, we have to.
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We bought. Himself some time.
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Right, yes, going to the. NFC Championship game You bought
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yourself some time right? So they're they're good, but if
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they have a repeat in 2026 injuries be damned like they've
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had in 2025, then all bets are off.
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Oh, it's. Going to be some furniture
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movement, no doubt about it. No doubt about it.
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I only bring that up because I see people on your rally captain
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page. I see people on Instagram, on
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Twitter talking about Drake, May, talking about Caleb.
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Right. And this was a debate a couple
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weeks ago because there was some different shows talking about
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doing a redraft and where Jaden would go in that redraft.
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And I already know what you're going to say, but Drake May
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right now is leading the MVP debate.
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So if. You want.
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Of course he is. Yeah, if you want to put money
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down on the kid. But The thing is, I don't think
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a lot of our listeners understand how easy this young
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man has had it and they've only played one team with a winning
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record. So it goes back to reminds me of
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our season last year where you can only play who's on your
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schedule, right? And the MVP comes out before the
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playoffs start. So that is solidified way before
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the playoffs. We all saw what Jayden did
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during the playoffs and he beat teams with a winning record.
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Take it out, Tampa, take it out Detroit, right?
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And to me, to want to redo the draft.
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And fans are saying that Peters is going to regret passing on
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Drake May seeing what he's doing now, right?
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I think that's just, that's hindsight, right?
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I, I don't regret it. To me, it is way too early to
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say which quarterback is better than the other quarterbacks.
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And they're all forever going to be compared to each other.
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You put Drake May on this same squad that we had this year and
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the results will be the same point blank period.
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Yeah. How many times when we were the
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the Skins did people say, oh, if we had a Peyton Manning?
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And I say bullish, if we had Peyton Manning, Peyton Manning
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would would be sacked as well because we had no offensive
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line. Do you remember those talks back
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in the day when people would always try to compare?
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Well, if we had Tom Brady and people like no, Tom wouldn't be
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able to stand up because the line was terrible.
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It was porous. So that talk is is is ish to me.
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It really is. So do we need a lot of work?
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Yes, we do. But that whole talk as far as
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Drake made man, no, I guarantee. How, how about this OK, flip
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flop. If Jaden was on the patriots,
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I'm sure he'd be doing the exact same thing or even more if he
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was on the patriots and and may probably would not be doing that
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what he was doing here if you if he was, if he was with us.
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So come on, guys, I understand what you're trying to do, but
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Sima, Sima down straight up. You know, I, I, I don't, I hate
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that type of talk. Oh, I'm right there with you,
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actually. I chimed in.
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And I I've been off of social media for, you know, maybe a
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week and some change, but it it drove me crazy.
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And I chimed in on your rally captain page when someone
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posted, right, Drake May blah, blah, blah stuff.
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It's like the Patriots have had the 30th toughest schedule,
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right? The third schedule.
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Yeah. So, I mean, let's see what they
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do next year like we had to do this year when they face a lot
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tougher schedule, right? Let's see what happens.
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And who would have thought that the year that the Patriots
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possibly are going to get the number one seed, Patrick Mahomes
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and the Chiefs are gone, right? There's so many things that have
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changed. And that's what the NF LS about.
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It's about being able to go from worst to 1st constantly.
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The Patriots have two Pro Bowl players on their roster, right?
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Drake May and Christian Gonzalez.
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It's not like they've got this stunt team.
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And I understand the Pro Bowl is a more of a fan vote than
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anything. But to me, it still shows you
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how many players on that team would potentially start on other
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teams, right? And I think it's a little bit of
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a barometer from that side of things.
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So before people start going and saying I wish we would have
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taken Drake over Jayden, I think that's just, it's foolish
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because you guys go back and watch the highlights from last
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year, go back and watch what that young man did.
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But I do think part of the problem is we just need more
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than him, right? We need more than 5 on the field
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or five and 17. We need a real and don't get me
24:31
wrong, Bill had two nice touchdowns, but we need a more
24:36
dominant running back that can do more than just run the
24:38
football. I need someone that can actually
24:40
catch and use his hands. I need someone that doesn't make
24:43
the offense one-dimensional because when Bill's in there,
24:46
he's not in there to pass block for the most part.
24:49
He's not in there to catch the ball on a screen or anything
24:51
else. He's in there to run the ball.
24:53
And guess what? That lets the defense know, all
24:56
right, we're coming, right? They probably audible to a run
25:00
blitz or fill some gaps and this and that.
25:02
And he burned him a couple times.
25:04
But for the most part, I I just, he's a seventh round kid that's
25:10
done a great job with the time he's had.
25:12
But this offseason, I want a different running back.
25:16
I want a better. You're ready to move on.
25:18
It's not move on. You need to have a couple of
25:20
running backs on your roster. Dynamic.
25:23
Yeah, you need a dynamic running back.
25:24
You need a power running back. And I wanted to see Chris
25:28
Rodriguez do that against the Cowboys, and I feel so bad for
25:32
that young man. He was named team captain.
25:35
He was supposed to start that game.
25:37
He got the flu, so imagine how sick he must have been.
25:41
He had his whole family there for the game.
25:44
Imagine how sick he must have been to miss his opportunity.
25:47
And kudos to Bill because I'm sure he didn't get as many reps
25:50
as C Rod did in practice and he took advantage of it.
25:53
But I just, I need a more consistent bruiser that's going
25:59
to be able to get those tough yards.
26:01
And I just, I don't see that out of Bill.
26:03
I need someone that can be that pass catching threat and it's
26:07
nice that Mcnichols comes in and can do that, but I love a guy
26:11
that can do both right. So.
26:13
So Bill can't catch the ball. He's had less than a dozen
26:16
catches this season. Not saying he can't, but he
26:20
hasn't. I don't.
26:20
I don't. I don't really remember seeing
26:22
him them throwing the throwing the ball though.
26:24
I mean, maybe I'm wrong and it's been a long season so a lot of
26:28
things didn't go our way. So maybe I'm I just, I'm missing
26:31
it, but I didn't think that they threw the ball to him that much.
26:35
And that's to where he. They they don't, right?
26:38
So there's got to be a reason why they're not throwing the
26:40
ball. Austin Eckler caught the ball
26:44
and ran the ball a ton. Brian Robinson, before we traded
26:47
him, would catch the ball out the backfield.
26:49
They always said he's got good hands and they don't use them
26:51
like that. So maybe that's something to
26:54
Bill. Bill needs to invest in a judge
26:55
machine or someone can get him one and he can practice on
26:59
catching the ball because it's obvious it's something that they
27:02
don't use in his game for whatever reason and take
27:06
advantage of probably because it's not a strength in his game.
27:11
OK, yeah, because I can't say I've ever really seen him throw
27:14
the ball to him, and I can't say I've seen him catch the ball,
27:18
even though I know they probably have.
27:20
I just, like I said, it's been a long season and right now it's
27:23
in a blur. I want to, I just want to get up
27:28
with this, this 4:00 PM kick in the Eagles.
27:30
I really do, man. He's got but anyway.
27:34
He's got 9 catches this season, right?
27:36
The entire. How many attempts?
27:38
How many attempts? I don't know how many times he
27:40
was targeted. Let's.
27:41
See. OK, see The thing is, that tells
27:43
me that he can't catch the ball. 9 times.
27:46
I can catch the ball 9 times if you throw it to me.
27:49
Hey brother, how many? He was targeted 13 times, OK, 13
27:54
throws to him. He caught nine of them, right?
27:56
But that to me is he should be more of a receiving threat if he
28:00
can actually catch. I just don't think that
28:02
Kingsbury and the coaches have seen that in practice out of
28:05
him. So they're just not calling the
28:06
play. Who have they thrown the ball
28:09
out of the backfield to the most?
28:11
Who did? Mcnichols and the Pickles.
28:15
In Debo, it's not really the backfield, but the line of
28:18
scrimmage. Debo, but yeah.
28:22
I bet they could probably not line that young man up and he'd
28:24
throw them the ball and he'd catch it.
28:27
I just, you know. If he's not doing it now, in
28:30
week 17, it's not like they don't practice these things.
28:33
So I just, I want to see him step up.
28:36
Like for him to be a true #1 back, right?
28:39
And I don't. Find out he's got Butterfingers
28:42
in in practice. Well, I mean, he did fumble the
28:45
ball a couple of times on his butterfingers and that.
28:47
Yeah, but that's not going the ball out of the backfield,
28:49
though. I mean, I I hear what you're
28:51
saying. He yes, fumble, Ruski fumble,
28:53
lie. He he did do that.
28:54
He put the ball on the carpet. But to what you're saying to
28:59
make him more versatile, try to get him the ball out of the
29:02
backfield. We have to this how look at it.
29:05
You got to open canvas in the last game to do whatever you
29:09
want to do. We we can't go up and we can't
29:12
go down. We, we are right there.
29:15
So show me something, show me something.
29:19
And that's what I want to see. And and that's something that
29:22
because I really didn't realize that much like you said, Ted,
29:24
that they didn't get him on the ball out of the backfield, But
29:28
I'm sure he caught the ball in college he had.
29:31
I knew you were going to say that.
29:32
Guess how many times? How many times?
29:35
7. His whole college career.
29:39
His whole college career. 7 catches for 72 yards, one was a.
29:43
Touchdown I I need I need more to go on.
29:46
I need more to go on. I'm just saying it's like I
29:51
Jayden needs he needs to stop being Superman 24/7.
29:55
If we can. Get some other guys to be, you
29:58
know, let's get the Justice League around them, right?
30:00
Let's get a no Aquaman there. Let's get Batman there, right?
30:04
Terry's probably, you know, whoever the hell you want to
30:06
pick out of that group, right? Let's, we need someone to be the
30:10
Flash, right? I need someone to be that guy.
30:13
So Jane's not pulling it all into him because the young man
30:16
is a fighter and does not want to lose and has not learned that
30:20
sometimes it's OK to give up on a play.
30:24
Sometimes it's OK to throw the ball away and just not go balls
30:28
to the wall every time. And honestly, it was a matter of
30:32
time before Mariota got hurt because we saw him run so many
30:36
times when plays got blown up. I'm thinking to myself, oh, OK,
30:40
hopefully Marx doesn't go down, but we'll get to see Hartman.
30:44
Hartman's not playing. And this is actually DQ talking
30:47
about who's going to play this week.
30:48
If it can't be Marcus, Marcus can't go on Sunday.
30:52
How do you see the quarterback situation playing out?
30:55
Yeah, we'd lean and start with Josh again, Scott, and then as
30:59
far as behind him, we'll just still discuss that between Sam
31:03
and with Jeff. But if Marcus couldn't, then
31:06
we'd lean in with Josh again. And there was honestly a lot
31:08
that I liked in the game. I know it was a short week, but
31:11
the preparation of what and how we featured him I thought was
31:15
the right space. And you know, like from a
31:17
decision making process, I thought, you know, Josh did a
31:21
lot of things correct that I liked.
31:22
So we would lean in that way again for sure if if Marcus
31:25
can't. I'm good with that.
31:30
I want to see what Josh can do. He's actually older than Marcus.
31:32
You said you know someone younger before, But I want to
31:36
see what Josh can do against an Eagles team that is still
31:39
playing for something. I want to see what Johnny Newton
31:42
can do against an Eagles team that is still playing for
31:45
something. Let me ask you this.
31:47
Would you have? Would you rather have Jameis
31:48
Winston or Josh Johnson? I think I'd rather have Jameis
31:53
because we could serve crab legs at the tailgate, right?
31:56
I mean, and you've been. So have you watched Hard Knocks
31:59
yet? I had I is there a new one out?
32:04
No, no, the new one comes out tonight.
32:05
But have you? Are you all caught?
32:06
Up. I'm caught up.
32:07
I'm caught up, yes. So part of me, I've been
32:10
watching it with Misses Tailgate, part of me doesn't
32:12
want to do it anymore because you know how good they are.
32:15
Like she's starting to like the Cowboys.
32:18
Like when they were doing Turpin time Who?
32:21
Started like the Cowboys. Certain players on the team,
32:24
right? Cavante, Turpin, how they were
32:26
hyping him up. Misses Tailgate.
32:27
What? Yeah, right.
32:30
And then the whole the, I can't remember whoever the Samoan guy
32:36
is for the Eagles that was doing the Christmas stuff and singing
32:40
and being nice with the kids, you know, like those feel good
32:43
stories behind the scenes, like off of the football field.
32:47
It's like, I don't think I want you watching this anymore.
32:49
Because it's their job to make these people look good.
32:52
And the team gets final say on what is allowed to be shown and
32:56
what's not allowed to be shown. So they're not going to show
32:57
someone being a complete ass. They're not going to show
33:00
someone. You know, who was it Diggs just
33:03
got charged with, I think, strangling his.
33:08
Yeah. Like.
33:09
I was basically strangling and assaulting his assistant or
33:12
someone that works for him, right?
33:14
Let's just say if they're on Hard Knocks, they're not going
33:16
to let Hard Knock show that or put that on there or do that
33:18
stuff. But it's it's been kind of nice
33:24
to see some of the behind the scenes, but also a little bit
33:27
frustrating because our behind the scenes, it ain't really
33:30
there. And you saw Jameis, you know,
33:33
he's to me, he's kind of a jokester, right?
33:35
To me, I can see Jameis booking dinners for the team and being
33:38
the vibes guy that Sam Hartman is.
33:41
The only problem is Jameis is going to require a whole lot
33:43
more money than Hartman does. And it was nice that Hartman
33:46
went to the Ronald McDonald House and did stuff there for
33:48
the kids and the families. I used to cook there a couple
33:50
times a year. But the fact of the matter is he
33:53
is still last on the deck chart and we're not going to see him.
33:58
Like, why is he here? Like let me see Hartman and let
34:02
me see Driscoll, because odds are, I hate to say it, we're not
34:07
going to win this game, right? And you would you put it on
34:11
Twitter and on X everything else on Instagram.
34:14
Why is the game not 1:00? For those that don't know, the
34:17
Eagles are playing for the two seed.
34:20
The two seed means they could potentially host an NFC
34:23
championship game. All right, so they're going to
34:26
play as all the probably not all their starters, but as many as
34:30
their stars as they possibly can.
34:31
So they do have something to play for.
34:33
They're fighting with the Bears for that number two seed and I
34:35
don't know who the Bears opponent is.
34:37
I got to pull that out but. Well, I posted that, but I, I
34:41
knew that that's what they were playing for.
34:42
I posted that because I wanted it to be a 1:00 game.
34:46
It just helps it, it's, it's a selfish thing.
34:48
It helps me get up there and get back down back home, you know,
34:53
before it's too late. And now this just puts me back
34:55
home. Roughly 11:00.
34:59
Yeah, some people. Just don't know, right?
35:01
They just see like the post or what's going on.
35:04
Like you literally had lurks from the sports junkies not
35:06
realizing that the Eagles are playing for the two seed all day
35:10
yesterday. He was talking about like, oh
35:12
what you know, why are they even going to start their starters
35:14
like they're playing for the two seed.
35:16
Like I want to text lurks and say This is why they're going to
35:18
do it right. And the the bears are playing
35:21
the lions. The lions, they got humiliated.
35:24
They're they're done. So we'll see what happens there.
35:28
I don't know who has the tiebreaker, but believe it or
35:31
not, the worst we can pick this draft is seventh.
35:37
Guess what the highest we can pick is?
35:40
3. It's actually 20.
35:45
A lot has to happen, but the highest we can actually pick is
35:49
2. And this was per a tweet from
35:52
Grant Paulson, right? Because it falls down to
35:55
strength of schedule because our schedule was tougher than those
35:59
other teams. Let's just say these other teams
36:01
get some wins and we're all tied at four.
36:04
Our strength of schedule is tougher.
36:06
So it goes to that, right? And the Giants actually played
36:10
themselves out of another one pick the other day.
36:14
So technically, if the Giants win, even though we have beat
36:18
the Giants twice, it goes to strength of schedule first.
36:23
So our strength of schedule is worse or harder than theirs was.
36:28
Harder. Yeah, so interesting and very
36:31
interesting. So OK, let let's just play this
36:34
thing out. We get the number two pick.
36:36
What do you, who do you pick? Do you pick offense or defense?
36:40
Assuming we're not trading out, all right, assuming that we're
36:43
staying there, I go defense. I need a defensive lineman.
36:48
That puts just the fear of God in coordinators.
36:52
A dog you need you need a dog. We just, we don't have that.
36:56
I mean who do you go with position wise?
37:00
See, I, I, I think you got to have some hunters.
37:05
So linebacker somebody you, but you got to have somebody that
37:11
can hunt. I believe you can get receivers
37:14
a dime a dozen, but you got to have somebody who, who can hunt
37:19
that ball down. So like you said, who's a dog
37:22
and the, the cat from Philadelphia who came from
37:25
Georgia, who, who had the, the speeding issue or reckless
37:30
driving or whatever have you. That guy's a dog.
37:32
You need somebody like him. He's a game changer.
37:34
I can't think of his name, but do you know who I'm talking
37:36
about? He came from Georgia, pays for
37:39
the Eagles defensive tackle. That guy's a he, he's he's a
37:44
he's a, he's a beast. But while you pulling that up, I
37:47
got to ask you a question. What was Netflix doing, walking
37:52
around and all the tailgates and everything and interviewing
37:55
everyone? Have you seen that footage yet?
37:57
Yeah, they were. So Netflix owned the rights for
38:01
the Christmas games other than the last game that night.
38:04
So Netflix was the broadcaster for our game and the broadcaster
38:09
for the Lions game, right. So they did a pregame show with
38:16
their guy in the lot. And that Burt guy, who I have no
38:19
idea who he is. I'm sure he's a funny dude.
38:22
He I think he's got a, a show coming up on Netflix like some
38:24
comedy show. And Anthony Anderson were going
38:28
through the tailgate lots, just like how Jason Kelsey and those
38:32
guys go through the lots for their coverage.
38:34
And I know you're at all the games, so you don't really get a
38:36
chance to see it for the most part.
38:39
But they were just going through and hanging out and doing that.
38:41
And the red zone lot is the busiest lot around the stadium
38:46
because it's got the bigger spaces and everything else.
38:48
And they promote it as the tailgate lot, which is another
38:51
reason why opposing teams always bypasses in that lot, which kind
38:55
of sucks. But yeah, they never came by
38:58
ours just because ours would have been a little a little
39:01
depressing to come and put on Netflix.
39:04
Yeah, I, I was there basically and, and the cameras I guess
39:11
shot me, if you will, but I didn't see anything.
39:15
I didn't hear anybody. No one said anything.
39:16
Normally when, when you know, there's a camera involved and if
39:20
someone sees you on TV, they tag you in something.
39:22
So I was just wondering how they, how they aired it.
39:25
But obviously they did because it was for the IT was pregame
39:30
kickoff. Yeah, pregame kickoff.
39:32
It was live, so I I think a lot of people might have been
39:36
watching the local coverage since, you know, you don't have
39:39
to have Netflix to catch up you. Don't want to pay for it, right?
39:43
Yeah, so I mean, I have Netflix, right?
39:46
So I'm I'm sure people have it, but to have to flip back and
39:49
forth, like I hate watching the Thursday night game.
39:52
I always forget it's on Prime because then if I want to flip
39:55
to another channel, I got to switch out of Prime to just go
39:58
back to that. And it's just it's I sound like
40:00
an old man, but it's a pain in the ass, right?
40:03
I just, I go to Channel 5 like Fox, I go to CBS, right it.
40:07
Was nice. Yeah, like did you watch any
40:10
football on Sunday since we didn't even play?
40:13
Did I watch football on Sunday? Yeah, I did watch some football
40:18
on Sunday. I watched a little bit, but I
40:22
but I had to be up to work on Monday, so I didn't watch as
40:27
much as I would have liked to have.
40:29
Yeah. I, I caught the Eagles in the
40:32
Bills game because I really want the Bills to win.
40:34
I'm a huge Josh Allen fan or anyone that's playing Eagles fan
40:38
at this point. So but it was it was nice
40:41
sitting there just getting kind of a chance to enjoy it.
40:43
I'm glad I didn't have to go back and forth to an app to have
40:46
to pull it up. But yeah, that was I saw some
40:49
footage. You know, I'm glad the guys from
40:50
the command corner got featured on that.
40:53
Like chopping guys over there do a good job.
40:56
So it was fun. But going back to your question,
40:59
I mean, the Cowboys ran 87 plays on offense.
41:03
They actually called 90 plus plays, but a couple of them
41:05
didn't run because of, you know, dead ball fouls before the ball
41:09
got snapped. But 87 plays on offense they
41:13
ran. You get a stud defensive
41:15
lineman, then hopefully they get a chance to shut that down.
41:20
And I know fans are going to say we had, you know, Chase Young
41:24
here, we had, you know, John Allen here, we had, you know,
41:28
Montez Sweat here. I just I get it.
41:32
Those guys didn't pan out, but you can't sit there and harp on
41:36
that. We are obviously missing the
41:39
right pieces of this puzzle right now.
41:41
And I think it was a funny Danny was talking about how the 49ers
41:47
were upset because they lost Joey.
41:49
They lost Nick Bosa for a little bit, right?
41:51
And he hasn't been around. We're complaining because we
41:53
lost Dietrich Wise, right? Dietrich Wise would not be a
41:57
starter on any of these playoff teams that are in the hunt right
42:01
now. But yet we're upset because he
42:02
missed a bunch of games for us, right?
42:04
That is the lack of talent that we have on our team.
42:09
Yeah, and and it sucks, but you can only do what you got.
42:16
Work with what you got. And so here we are.
42:20
And once again, we it goes back to what you said.
42:23
How will Adam handle this? And I know that they're behind
42:29
closed doors crunching. I know they are and and they're
42:33
scouting team and and and everybody who's involved with
42:36
recruiting is concerned. I and player development.
42:40
I know that they're saying we got to do better, you know,
42:44
before they go to Cancun next week, you know, I know they are.
42:49
So once again, I don't get paid. You don't get paid to to do it.
42:55
So we got to just sit back and let them figure it out.
42:59
But man, like you said, a a, a true dog.
43:04
So a defensive end or defensive tackle.
43:06
I want an end I. I want a defensive end that can
43:11
make a difference and get in there from a linebacker
43:14
perspective, right? I got my boy Rafiq texted me
43:18
randomly. 0 context and just sent me some name.
43:24
I'm thinking what's what what the hell is this about?
43:26
And I guess the the dude's a stud linebacker from Ohio State
43:31
Arvel Reese. Like I don't I don't watch
43:33
college football so I'm thinking who the hell is Arvel Reese?
43:36
That's all he said he sent this to me yesterday at 9:48 in the
43:39
morning and I didn't reply to him till today because I didn't
43:42
see it. He said he's a first round
43:44
option for Ohio State. Like I don't even care about
43:48
that right now. I just know player wise what I
43:51
want. Now if we have the second pick
43:53
in the draft, my ass wants to trade back into the first round,
43:58
like farther back and then get more picks because if we get to
44:00
pick that high, best be sure if someone's going to want to come
44:03
up. If we're the 7th pick, I don't
44:06
know if we get as many chances to trade that thing back or even
44:09
get a good shot at getting something else.
44:11
But rehashing the injury thing, Nick Bosa missed 14 games this
44:18
year, right? Brock Purdy missed eight games.
44:21
George Kittle missed six games. Fred Warner missed 11 games,
44:26
right? These are all studs on offense
44:30
for their team. These are all Pro Bowl players,
44:34
all pros. And guess what?
44:37
The 49ers record is, right? I mean, definitely ain't 4:00
44:42
and 12:00 right? They're 12 and 4.
44:45
Well, but here's the thing also, the 49ers have had an
44:50
institution of great picks from, from way back in the day to
44:57
where they they, they just did they they didn't just have a
45:01
blank canvas, if you will. They have always had great
45:05
picks. And so we're just in our second
45:07
season. So with that being said, you
45:11
know, how much time are our fans going to give us?
45:15
Because realistically, San Francisco has had time to
45:20
manipulate that, that, that, that that schedule.
45:23
They've had their player personnel, they've had time.
45:27
So I don't know if people don't want to hear, well, it shouldn't
45:30
take us five years, but to what you're trying to do, it's going
45:34
to take two years, three years to be able to invest in those
45:39
players, to have those great backup moments.
45:42
So it's not like it's going to happen overnight.
45:46
So it may not seem like it's going to hit now, but you're
45:51
you're you're looking for the future.
45:54
So maybe there's a shining star that's on the on the roster
45:58
right now who they're grooming, I don't know.
46:02
But I, I just believe that it's not going to happen in year 2
46:07
and we're in year 2. We're going into year 3.
46:10
And yes, they've got a, they've got a lot to clean up, a lot to
46:16
clean up. And we know that.
46:18
But we got to give it time. And I know we don't want to hear
46:21
that. I actually hate, it's a love
46:23
hate thing. And you'll appreciate what I'm
46:25
about to say. I hate that we went to the
46:27
championship last year. I was just thinking that, man, I
46:30
hate to, yeah. Yeah, I, I hate that we went to
46:34
the championship last year because it gave everybody these
46:36
these these expectations and it was luck.
46:42
It, it, we got to call it what it was it, it we, I mean, we
46:46
were, we had basically if we were playing blackjack and you
46:52
had 18, you know, and you said hit me again and everybody's
46:59
saying no, no, but all of a sudden he, they roll that three
47:03
out and you, you got 21 and you did it again.
47:06
Can you, Can you imagine that? Let's just put that into
47:09
context. You're playing blackjack, right?
47:12
Look how many times we won that. That means that means those,
47:18
those improbable odds we hit on and everybody at the table
47:22
saying no, don't, don't take another hit.
47:24
And you're like hit me and all of a sudden, bam, blackjack.
47:29
You know, so that's what it was like.
47:32
And so we went back to the blackjack table and we bust all
47:39
these games and you're like, wait a minute, When I played
47:42
last time, I, I, I won. So here we are now we got a, if
47:49
we want to put it in context of or, or the card aspect of
47:53
things, we need to reshuffle. Give me a new deck I need, I
47:58
need a new deck. So we're going to we're getting
48:01
a brand new deck and we're going to see how these cards unfold.
48:06
And I, I, I've been thinking about that, right?
48:10
Last year was so much fun and I am glad that we have not.
48:19
I'm glad that it happened because there were so many
48:22
younger ones in this fan base that have never seen us win
48:26
before, right? And being in Spain for the game,
48:31
right? I asked those guys out there and
48:33
girls out there that I met, like one of our fans from Dublin that
48:36
listens to the show and another one from Scott.
48:38
And like, out of all of the NFL teams, why did you decide to
48:43
root for us? Like, you can easily switch to
48:46
be a Chiefs fan or be a Niners fan or be like another team that
48:52
has not been a perennial just underdog loser, right?
48:56
I'll judge you if you're going to be an Eagles fan, but you
48:58
could easily choose one of those other teams that you can
48:59
actually watch in the playoffs and play in the Super Bowl.
49:03
But yet you chose to be a fan of the Burgundy and Gold.
49:06
And for those fans, I am happy for them that last year
49:10
happened. You and I are going to be here
49:12
whether we are, you know, one in 17 or 17 and one doesn't matter,
49:17
right? We'll ride or die.
49:18
But there are some that needed last year to happen, especially
49:22
with the ownership change, especially with the name change.
49:25
And if that did not happen, I don't know if there are as many
49:28
people that are on this bandwagon still this day with
49:32
us, even though the season has been so bad, right?
49:36
I don't know if there's many people excited about RFK 2 point
49:39
O if last season never happened. So I never want to take that
49:44
away or act like it wasn't a thing.
49:48
There are some out there They're wondering, was last season the
49:52
outlier for five or can he actually repeat that and do that
49:57
again? And to me, time will tell.
50:00
What I think a lot of people aren't talking about, because
50:03
it's not a fun conversation to have, is we are still paying for
50:07
the sins of Ron Rivera, the GM, right?
50:11
The fact that none of our first round picks who are supposed to
50:15
be starters on your team or even on this roster, right?
50:19
That's a huge problem. It's a huge hole that Adam
50:23
Peters has to fill in. And let's just say Jaden can
50:27
mask losing two of those first round picks.
50:32
But losing all four of those first round picks to not be on
50:35
your roster, that's a lot for one player to have to hide.
50:38
This isn't basketball where one guy can take over the entire
50:42
thing. All right, I'd say the NFL is
50:45
the Ultimate Team sport. Hockey.
50:47
A goalie can immediately dominate a hockey game or a
50:51
hockey series and win that thing himself, right?
50:53
Basketball, we've all seen what one player can do there.
50:57
Baseball, we can see what a a pitcher can do to just shut down
51:00
an entire team. Look at what freaking Shohei did
51:02
right. Football is the Ultimate Team
51:04
sport. There is nothing like it and
51:06
you've got to have a couple of studs and unfortunately we
51:10
missed one of our studs for majority of the season with
51:12
Jaden and also with Terry and on defense, give me a stunt on
51:17
defense that would start for a different team that would start
51:21
for let's just say the Eagles. I I can't think of 1 the.
51:25
Stud. The stud is the cat who I was
51:27
telling you about, who came from Georgia.
51:28
No, no, no, from our team who from our team on defense would
51:32
play on the Eagles defense would start on the Eagles defense not.
51:37
I don't expect you to know their roster front and back, but to
51:40
me, the. Fact that maybe pain.
51:45
Yeah, I don't even think he would, man.
51:46
I don't think Duron would start over who they have on their
51:50
team, right? And I, I that to me is the
51:53
problem, right? Our defense does not have an
51:55
identity. Everyone knows Bobby Wagner
51:57
because he's Father time and he is so close to, you know, being
52:02
there and breaking a Lunnen Fletcher's record for most
52:05
tackles, which is great, but it doesn't move us in the right
52:09
direction. Freaking Quan Martin got benched
52:14
basically because of the Turbine play he got. 2nd.
52:18
Yeah, right. And Sandra still took a little
52:21
bit of a step back because he's playing a completely different
52:23
position than he played last year.
52:25
But on defense, we don't have an identity.
52:28
And that's what something we need to really focus on this
52:31
offseason, whether it's in the draft, whether it's in free
52:34
agency. And that to me is also why if
52:37
Johnson or Driscoll can do something against the Philly
52:41
team that has something to play for this week, then save the $10
52:44
million. Thank you Marcus Mariota, I
52:48
appreciate the time you put in, but you only having one win for
52:51
me this season, that ain't going to cut it.
52:57
And we know that the NFL is a cutthroat organization.
53:01
We do know that. And as I said earlier, I don't
53:05
think that there is going to be someone knocking on the door to
53:08
make him a starter. I, I, I don't see it.
53:11
So if you're trying to basically what you said, we'll see what
53:16
happens during this game, who plays the best and then we may
53:21
have seen, well, this will be a lot of people's last game with
53:25
us with the Burgundy and gold. I mean that that's just that's
53:28
just how it it's going to be. Time will tell bro.
53:33
Yeah, it's it's going to be they're guys playing for
53:37
contracts or Sam Cosby was on with Congrats to Sam and his
53:41
wife for having their baby boy. He was born on the 26th.
53:46
So I think she won the labour on the 25th and then came out the
53:48
26th. So, you know, I'm happy for
53:51
them. But there are a lot of guys who
53:53
say that they're playing for contracts, right.
53:55
They're playing to put up tape for the next coaching staff that
53:59
comes in like the next defensive coordinator who is not married
54:03
to this system and showing what he can do truly given a chance,
54:08
right? And I'm looking at a list of 30
54:11
NFL quarterbacks. I mean, Cam Ward in Tennessee.
54:15
You can't tell him Mariota would wouldn't do a better job than
54:18
him, right? Looking here, the freaking who
54:22
the hell is the Raiders quarterback, right?
54:24
It's just I I do think Marcus would have a potential chance
54:29
someplace else if he wants to Jacoby percent in Arizona.
54:33
I mean, they still got Kyler. So it is what it is.
54:36
But I don't know. I just to me, I'm not breaking
54:40
the bank to sign him as your number 2.
54:45
And I this week what I'm watching for is that clock to
54:48
strike 000 because that means this nightmare of a seat has
54:51
ended. But right, I, I want to see
54:55
another Burke sighting, right? And please, God, like don't make
55:01
it so it's Burke's throwing a pass because did you see
55:04
Kingsbury call another Wildcat play with Burke's back there and
55:08
he was going to throw the damn ball.
55:09
It's just like, I'm so done with some of these stupid play calls.
55:14
It just, it drives me insane and I'm hoping DQ starts holding
55:20
this guy accountable for some of the just idiotic things he's
55:23
doing. So question.
55:26
We know that Wit was relieved of his duties.
55:30
Is he still on the roster? Or is he still on the score?
55:32
He's. Still there he.
55:34
Was he was relieved he'll be play calling.
55:36
Do you think he'll be there after the season?
55:39
No, I can't see what happening. They're not going to.
55:42
Coaching contracts are guaranteed, so he's going to get
55:45
paid, right. I don't think they're going to
55:48
demote him at that point or he would take the demotion.
55:52
But there have been rumors and Mark Bullock put this out there
55:57
that Dan Quinn tried to hire and I want to say it was Al Harris
56:04
from the Cowboys at one point and tried to bring him over, but
56:08
the Cowboys blocked it and wouldn't let him come over.
56:12
So he has a chance to. Now NFL teams, if it's a lateral
56:18
move, can block you. Requesting that interview.
56:22
If it is a move that's vertical, meaning they're going to get a
56:26
promotion, it cannot be blocked. Right, they can't block you.
56:30
So chance he comes here, don't know what the role's going to be
56:35
or what's going on, but I cannot see DQ wanting to call defensive
56:39
plays again and doing that because it's just it's a lot on
56:43
his plate and I cannot see Wit being there.
56:47
And I feel that there's some in the fan base that want to hold
56:52
on to coordinators too long. I like, I remember when people
56:56
didn't want North Turner to go for the longest time.
57:00
And you know, it was it Scott, his son when he was here, right.
57:06
And I, I am OK if they do decide to move away from Kingsbury
57:11
because Kingsbury gets a job someplace else.
57:14
Because yes, it is the same person that called the place
57:17
last year. But one of my buddies, Burrows
57:20
Brian, likes to bring up year three in a Kingsbury offense.
57:26
Not even year three-year 2 defenses somewhat figure out
57:29
what he's trying to do. And is this just a case of lack
57:34
of talent because he hasn't had the weapons out there?
57:37
But really the only person the offense missed was Terry.
57:42
And OK, yes, Jayden to a degree, but when Jayden was out there,
57:46
still didn't like the world on fire.
57:51
I was wondering if if Cliff would be here, you know, do you
57:57
bring in someone different, different concepts, different
57:59
ideas, you know, different work ethic.
58:05
We basically did have a blank canvas.
58:11
I mean, we've, I mean, you, you've got some art that's
58:13
there, but we've got a blank canvas almost to, to do whatever
58:18
we want to do. And, and, and it's going to be
58:20
interesting to see the first coach to get fired or replaced,
58:26
shall I say, because we know it's going to happen.
58:29
And the fans just be prepared that the people who you, who you
58:36
may like may not be there and, and people that you don't like
58:43
may that may be there. So just be prepared.
58:47
And that's a thing that I feel like fantasy football somewhat
58:51
changed the way people fan, right?
58:54
We're not here to police the way people fan or this and that.
58:56
But I'm just saying, sometimes people care more about the name
59:00
on the back of the jersey than the one on the front, right?
59:04
And to me, I stopped buying players jerseys because I got
59:09
tired of wasting money, right? I think it was a segment on B
59:13
Mitch and Finley, like the most random piece of memorabilia you
59:17
have that nobody would want, right?
59:20
I have a autographed Case Keenum jersey when he was on the
59:24
Redskins, right? And the team gave that to me one
59:28
day. And I'm sitting here thinking
59:30
like, oh, yeah, thank you. Look what the I haven't gotten
59:33
rid of it just because it's signed.
59:34
Am I ever going to frame it or put it anywhere?
59:37
No, I I don't know what I'm still doing with the damn thing.
59:41
Right. And it's not even a nice one.
59:42
It's a screen print case Kingdom Jersey.
59:45
So yeah, it's like I should just donate it and get like a
59:49
Mcchicken or something from McDonald.
59:51
I don't know. But I don't know.
59:55
I don't know where I'm going with this, but I think you're
59:58
right. There are going to be people
59:59
here that you're just. You kind of wondering, but to
1:00:02
me, the burgundy and gold is who I root for, right?
1:00:07
The players on the back, the names change on the back.
1:00:11
It's still always going to be Washington on the front for me
1:00:13
or commanders or, you know, whatever for other people.
1:00:18
Yeah, I agree with you on that. And I always say players come
1:00:21
and go, coaches come and go and yes, even owners come and go,
1:00:25
but the fans for the most part stay the same.
1:00:27
So it's, it's going to be very interesting.
1:00:29
And regardless of all that, we got one more game to play.
1:00:32
We got one more game to play, brother against those that,
1:00:35
that, that gangrene. We've got one more game to play.
1:00:39
And I, I hope that they once again, they pull out all the
1:00:42
stops to beat these guys 'cause if we, if we win, do we, do we
1:00:47
go up in the ratings or no matter what are.
1:00:50
We going to sell it no matter what.
1:00:52
No matter what, so go. Ahead, we have to sell it no
1:00:54
matter what. Ball out, show me something,
1:00:57
show me something. Go out going hard.
1:01:01
Don't go out making business decisions because we know that's
1:01:04
how you get hurt. So go out here and just light it
1:01:09
up to the best of your ability. Yeah, I mean, if we could, the
1:01:15
Eagles need to win and the Bears need to lose for them to get the
1:01:19
two seed. The Bears are playing the Lions,
1:01:22
so odds are right they're not going to lose that game.
1:01:27
It's at Soldier Field. I just have a feeling the Bears
1:01:30
are going to win. So if we could go, and luckily
1:01:34
the game is being played at the exact same time, I'm sure
1:01:35
they're going to be scoreboard watching and the coach will be
1:01:37
scoreboard watching. If it's a blowout, they're not
1:01:40
going to risk having the guys out there.
1:01:41
And let's just say it's a close game.
1:01:42
If we could beat a true Eagles team that is playing for
1:01:46
something, we could carry that momentum in the next season,
1:01:49
right? And I will say that the way last
1:01:52
season ended 55 to 23 against them, that negative momentum
1:01:58
affected us this year. We had a bunch of questions.
1:02:02
So to get some positive momentum going into the new year to me
1:02:06
would be a great thing. The players are going to be
1:02:09
different next season on this roster.
1:02:11
There's going to be a lot of turnover, a lot of change.
1:02:12
A lot of guys are one year deals.
1:02:13
A lot of guys are just not going to pay.
1:02:15
I don't think we see Depot back this year, next year, right?
1:02:18
I think it's tying up almost $60 million at the wide receiver
1:02:23
position is a lot of money to give up because that's what
1:02:25
Debo's going to demand between him and Terry, right?
1:02:28
So, but to carry some kind of positive momentum into next
1:02:33
year, I think to me would be a good thing.
1:02:37
Yeah, I I see them going younger than Debo, and he didn't want to
1:02:44
take a picture with me anyway in California.
1:02:46
So, you know, Good. Good riddance, Devo.
1:02:49
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he did once.
1:02:51
Once you gave the guilt trip, she laid down on him.
1:02:54
But no, I obviously I want players to stay.
1:02:59
But when it comes down to dollars and cents, we talk about
1:03:02
business decisions. We've got a a lot of pieces that
1:03:07
need to be solidified. And if you're costing me too
1:03:11
much money, I'm afraid I've got to let you go.
1:03:14
I, I can't, I can't do it because the juice really wasn't
1:03:18
worth the squeeze. He, he really didn't, he played
1:03:21
well, but he just didn't light it up like everybody thought
1:03:24
that he was gonna light up. And everybody was saying, you
1:03:26
know, oh, you guys got the fat Deebo or you guys got this Deebo
1:03:29
or you got that Deebo. And and so, but we were like,
1:03:32
Nah, he looks good, which for the most part he did look good,
1:03:36
but he didn't, he wasn't that spark.
1:03:38
He didn't light it up like we thought he would.
1:03:41
Yeah, he wasn't that game changer, right?
1:03:44
And maybe because he didn't have a true number one beside him,
1:03:47
right? To me, I am not paying a #2
1:03:49
receiver 30 plus $1,000,000. And to me Debo was a #2 he is
1:03:54
not a number one. And that I just, I can't invest.
1:03:57
It's not my money. We say that all the time.
1:03:59
But to me, there are other things.
1:04:01
We need to give that money to a stud defensive player, right?
1:04:06
A nice linebacker. Because if Jordan McGee is not
1:04:09
the heir apparent and he still needs more time to inherit that
1:04:11
throne from Bobby, then give me someone else pick up another
1:04:15
linebacker that can fill in those spots.
1:04:17
But we have way too long and offseason to talk about that.
1:04:20
There are some wondering, is there a rally this weekend?
1:04:26
There will not be a rally this weekend and that's all I want to
1:04:31
say about that. I hear you and I, I get it,
1:04:36
right? Knowing that the game was a 425,
1:04:39
knowing that it's up there, it actually just gives people more
1:04:42
time to get up there later on in the day versus getting up there
1:04:45
earlier. So I do know there's people that
1:04:47
are probably happy about that. But for those of you going up
1:04:50
there, I'm not saying do what I do and pretend you don't speak
1:04:55
English. All I'm saying is be safe, have
1:04:59
a good time and I can't wait to catch you guys down the road.
1:05:04
I will see you guys there who's ever going, I will see you
1:05:08
there. And hey, Bernie and gold till
1:05:12
they were dead and cold. Forget that gangrene.
1:05:16
So let's get it. And I hear old anxiety being
1:05:20
played. You guys have a great, great,
1:05:24
great New Year's and thank you once again to everyone that
1:05:27
voted for me for fan of the year.
1:05:29
I keep telling you that we are still in the running for the
1:05:32
ultimate Fan of the year. The DMV has never won that
1:05:36
award. So it'll be great to bring the
1:05:38
ultimate fan back to the DMV. So please continue to keep
1:05:43
voting for me. I, I greatly appreciate it and
1:05:46
let's win this thing for the DMV and let's win Sunday so we can
1:05:52
carry that into 2026. Remember, you RIP it hard.
1:05:58
You don't RIP it at all. Tailgate Ted rally captain.
1:06:03
We'll see you on the other side of 26.