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- 0:00Speaker 1: Time to dive into some AFC North football game preview.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Guy here with a look at what all four of
- 0:05Speaker 1: their teams did ahead of twenty twenty six. I am
- 0:08Speaker 1: not related to Alexa or Max Headroom or Pinocchio. I'm
- 0:12Speaker 1: a real boy who is super appreciative that the NFL
- 0:15Speaker 1: chooses to rely on humans to narrate things like NFL
- 0:18Speaker 1: game previews or NFL throwback videos or season preview material
- 0:22Speaker 1: like this. AFC North ravens new head coach preseason division
- 0:27Speaker 1: favorites with an eleven and a half over under mark.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Only other team to get that high of a bar
- 0:32Speaker 1: the Rams. Bengals with Joe Burrow Jamar Higgins could give
- 0:37Speaker 1: them trouble if their d can just play at average levels.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Steelers get one more year of a Rod, hoping adding
- 0:44Speaker 1: Michael Pittman makes their offense more dangerous, and Cleveland all
- 0:48Speaker 1: eyes on the quarterback battle. Will it be to Shaun
- 0:51Speaker 1: or Shadoor? Time for another new era in Cleveland football.
- 0:55Speaker 1: The Kevin Stefanski Browns are no more. It's time to
- 0:59Speaker 1: see if Todd Munkin can get them going in the
- 1:01Speaker 1: right direction.
- 1:02Speaker 2: They cut a check with my name on it. You
- 1:05Speaker 2: know what they expect a freaking kick ass football team.
- 1:09Speaker 2: That's what they expect. You know what they want. They
- 1:13Speaker 2: want to become a winning franchise. But our fan base
- 1:16Speaker 2: in our region.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Is proud of Monkin's first order of business, figure out
- 1:20Speaker 1: who should run his offense.
- 1:24Speaker 3: Hotel.
- 1:25Speaker 1: He could go with Primetime Junior.
- 1:27Speaker 4: Got a touchdown rounds or with it a score.
- 1:31Speaker 1: See if he can make him look the part of
- 1:33Speaker 1: a bona fide NFL quarterback.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Well, we get poll Buck pas it bear your.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Tick, pall Shador Sanders had some moments.
- 1:42Speaker 5: The entertainment, a jog Town touchdow some not a ton though.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Seven tds against ten iron t's a sub seventy eight
- 1:52Speaker 1: Sanders looking, So maybe it's Deshaun Watson didn't play at
- 1:57Speaker 1: all in twenty twenty five, but remember twenty two twenty.
- 2:00Speaker 1: While most of us would like to forget it all together,
- 2:03Speaker 1: Watson threw for thirty three tds only seven iron t's
- 2:06Speaker 1: over three hundred yards per game.
- 2:08Speaker 6: Watts, He's gonna take a shot.
- 2:12Speaker 1: A long time ago, though, right could decide. Dylan Gabriel
- 2:15Speaker 1: is the guy too. He has options, if nothing else
- 2:21Speaker 1: or any of them good enough to improve an offense,
- 2:23Speaker 1: even Oscar the Grouch didn't want to live next door
- 2:26Speaker 1: to Last year on a board bro come on a
- 2:30Speaker 1: go second fewest points per game at sixteen per contest,
- 2:34Speaker 1: a coming thirtieth in yards per game twenty ninth.
- 2:40Speaker 7: On third down, receiver felled out.
- 2:42Speaker 8: I just picked off of the far sideline.
- 2:44Speaker 1: So no shock. They went heavy on offensive guys in
- 2:47Speaker 1: the draft. Took wide receiver Casey Concepcion in the first.
- 2:51Speaker 6: You will see how dynamic an electric this guy is,
- 2:54Speaker 6: especially with the ball in his hands. He is someone
- 2:56Speaker 6: who had returnability and that shows up once he catches
- 2:59Speaker 6: the foot fall again, got to get better, more reliable
- 3:02Speaker 6: catching it. But once he does, you see this just
- 3:05Speaker 6: it's over. It is a boat race. That is a
- 3:07Speaker 6: speedboat with a bunch of canoes trying to catch up
- 3:09Speaker 6: to him. Here he is showing the ability to.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Flucking go added white out Denzel Boston in the second.
- 3:14Speaker 6: El Boston power forward. This is a nice compliment to
- 3:18Speaker 6: what they have in Casey Concepts. You own Casey concepts.
- 3:21Speaker 6: Jon can work in the slot, can return kicks. Denzel
- 3:24Speaker 6: Boston is gonna play outside as a big, smooth, fluid
- 3:27Speaker 6: mover with a big catch radius.
- 3:29Speaker 1: And with their first first rounder they took tackle Spencer Fan.
- 3:32Speaker 6: Now, he's got excellent intelligence and awareness. You can see
- 3:35Speaker 6: it in this play. He also has some nastiness to
- 3:38Speaker 6: be able to drive and finish. When you get outside
- 3:40Speaker 6: in the run game and then out in space you
- 3:42Speaker 6: want to throw screens, you want to pull him. He's
- 3:45Speaker 6: more than capable of doing that.
- 3:46Speaker 1: They hope he and others can help give whoever's behind
- 3:49Speaker 1: center more time he's in trouble. Heavy sacked Cleveland quarterbacks
- 3:54Speaker 1: took fifty one sacks, face the highest pressure rate in
- 4:00Speaker 1: the NFL.
- 4:03Speaker 7: Paul cuts loose.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Only Joel Botonio played all last year. They lost to
- 4:07Speaker 1: Wan Jones after just three games. Right tackle Jack Conklin
- 4:11Speaker 1: allowed a fifteen percent pressure rate. That's not good.
- 4:16Speaker 3: Looking for the touchdown Gabriel.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Left tackle Cam Robinson twelve sacks allow Cambril kids dumped
- 4:30Speaker 1: Fano Joins. Three other new faces in the trenches guard
- 4:34Speaker 1: Zion Johnson with the Chargers last year red flag there.
- 4:37Speaker 1: They also gave up a ton of sacks right tackle
- 4:40Speaker 1: Titus Howard, former Texan. They did draft tackle Austin Barber
- 4:44Speaker 1: in the third round as well. Their lines play last
- 4:47Speaker 1: year made it hard for Quinn Shawn Judkins oh three
- 4:53Speaker 1: six a run, but he's building off a nice rookie year. Nonetheless,
- 5:00Speaker 1: Ah we the best rookie class.
- 5:02Speaker 3: Oh for sure, overally, Holy, overly for sure.
- 5:06Speaker 8: He shot down.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Over eight hundred yards and seventy d's quin shot.
- 5:17Speaker 8: Shut hit for forty six.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Yards to the house.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Dylan Sampson also showed some promise thirty three catches a
- 5:24Speaker 1: couple of receiving touchdowns in his year one.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Now he's the rider thirty five.
- 5:29Speaker 5: It took foot right, He's gone.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Step Harold Finn and Junior ended up leading the team
- 5:35Speaker 1: in targets receptions with seventy two.
- 5:37Speaker 6: Her career touchdown catch from Harold fannin.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Yards seven and thirty one and receiving touchdowns with six.
- 5:50Speaker 1: He'll get even more looks this year with David and Joe,
- 5:53Speaker 1: who departing scored four times on his way out.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Good shit touchdown.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Jerry Judy returns on the outside fifty catches over six
- 6:02Speaker 1: hundred yards, and Isaiah Bond only eighteen catches but a
- 6:12Speaker 1: hefty eighteen yards per catch for over three hundred yards
- 6:16Speaker 1: and his first go of it at the pro level.
- 6:18Speaker 8: It hit another home run ball, divy.
- 6:22Speaker 1: If they can make up any kind of ground on
- 6:24Speaker 1: the offensive side, they make some noise because they feel
- 6:27Speaker 1: like their defense is playoff caliber.
- 6:30Speaker 7: Step So why he's blasted.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Despite its own offense working against it at times they
- 6:34Speaker 1: held teams to twenty two points per game.
- 6:36Speaker 9: Smit hit and he doesn't throw it. It's Devin Bush
- 6:40Speaker 9: who smothersome.
- 6:42Speaker 1: The fourth fewest yards per game and we're seventh hardest
- 6:45Speaker 1: on third down.
- 6:47Speaker 10: Is actually like a sack. That's a fumball almost because
- 6:49Speaker 10: I don't think he was throwing it. He just gets hit.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Strength. Of course, the pass rush top five in sacks.
- 6:55Speaker 7: That was a party at the quarterback.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Quarterback hits and sack percentage.
- 7:00Speaker 8: Soy, and now he's sacked out at twenty five.
- 7:02Speaker 1: They are no longer armed, of course, with Miles Garrett,
- 7:05Speaker 1: who racked twenty three of their fifty three sacks.
- 7:08Speaker 6: He's going down at the ten, Miles Garrett.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Everybody, but they got a stud back in that blockbuster.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Jared Verse may have only dropped seven and a half quarterbacks,
- 7:19Speaker 1: but he was a force in La.
- 7:21Speaker 10: Come on, hey, I mean right.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Well, twenty seven quarterback hits. He's a dude more than
- 7:29Speaker 1: capable of cracking double digits on the regular. He's only
- 7:32Speaker 1: entering his third year too.
- 7:34Speaker 8: You're not going hard that run. You're not going harder.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Than that boy.
- 7:39Speaker 1: I don't no Offensive end Isaiah McGuire made eight starts
- 7:42Speaker 1: a couple of sacks.
- 7:44Speaker 8: McGuire and Hall.
- 7:45Speaker 1: Defensive end Alex Wright fourteen games, five and a half
- 7:48Speaker 1: QB takedowns.
- 7:50Speaker 7: Alex Fright brings them down.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Shelby Harris, their depth guy in the middle,
- 7:55Speaker 1: filled in some from elite Collins, who racked six and
- 7:57Speaker 1: a half quarterbacks in just twelve games.
- 8:00Speaker 3: Rob breaks away.
- 8:01Speaker 1: He's going down q samor skid row more youth gone wild.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Mason Graham debuted with forty nine tackles, seven
- 8:09Speaker 1: for a loss, four passes knocked down us five FTEs
- 8:13Speaker 1: lit up behind him. The reigning defensive Rookie of the
- 8:16Speaker 1: Year linebacker Carson Swassinger, kicking off his career with one
- 8:20Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six tackles, two and a half sacks,
- 8:23Speaker 1: and two picks.
- 8:24Speaker 10: You got.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Brother, he will have a new partner though. They let
- 8:31Speaker 1: Devin Bush and his one hundred and twenty five tackles
- 8:33Speaker 1: leave for Chicago pick Devin Bushi. Devin Bush, linebacker Jerome
- 8:42Speaker 1: Baker bounced as well, and so did linebacker Mohammed Diabodi.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Seventeen games, forty nine tackles. Swesssinger's new partner, former jack
- 8:54Speaker 1: Quincy Williams for one hundred plus tackle years on his
- 8:58Speaker 1: seven year resume. The team games last year eighty three tackles,
- 9:02Speaker 1: three and a half sacks.
- 9:04Speaker 6: Fourth set of Gabriel and it's Quincy Williams.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Their front held runners to four to two per attempt,
- 9:10Speaker 1: which was top ten good. Both their safeties were in
- 9:19Speaker 1: on the action. Ronnie Hickman with over one hundred tackles
- 9:23Speaker 1: while holding quarterbacks to a nice low sixty three rating,
- 9:26Speaker 1: two interceptions. Grant Delpit almost ninety tackles while holding his
- 9:34Speaker 1: targets to an eighty five rate.
- 9:36Speaker 5: Happy Happy Barday right now.
- 9:45Speaker 1: Dropped a second round pick on safety Emmanuel McNeil Warren.
- 9:49Speaker 6: This is stealing in my opinion. You talk about a
- 9:51Speaker 6: physical presence of someone who could go he has a
- 9:53Speaker 6: hammer in the middle of the field, and then he's
- 9:55Speaker 6: a turnover machine. We've seen this on a few guys today.
- 9:57Speaker 6: The ability to punch the football out forced fumbles throughout
- 10:01Speaker 6: his career, and he can take the ball away as well.
- 10:04Speaker 6: Look at his ability to range over the sideline here,
- 10:06Speaker 6: you want to play him in the deep path, he
- 10:07Speaker 6: can do some of that.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Both their primary corners come off good seasons. Denzel Ward
- 10:12Speaker 1: sub ninety eight nine passes defense complain the p Tyson
- 10:18Speaker 1: Campbell played twelve games with the team after coming over
- 10:21Speaker 1: via trade. Twelve passes defensed, low eighties rate, looked good
- 10:25Speaker 1: in Orange corner. Miles Harden gave up a team high
- 10:30Speaker 1: five touchdowns in his year two a one ten plus rating.
- 10:34Speaker 8: Jared Gold checks him into the right play.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Cleveland held quarterbacks to a respectable nineties rate, only gave
- 10:40Speaker 1: up one hundred and sixty seven passing yards per game,
- 10:43Speaker 1: third fewest.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Devin Bunch, he's had the twenty and he's at the
- 10:46Speaker 4: twenty five rock round.
- 10:51Speaker 3: I've never to hear good.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Andre Schmidtz creak yet another rookie last year made eighty
- 10:56Speaker 1: eight percent of his field goal tries twenty five for
- 10:58Speaker 1: twenty six on extra points. So they're running it back
- 11:12Speaker 1: with most of the secondary they rocked with last year.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Added the rookie in the draft said bye bye to
- 11:18Speaker 1: safety Jenkins, but Ward, Campbell, Harden, Delpit, and Hickman all
- 11:23Speaker 1: return and should walk out Day one Front seven the
- 11:27Speaker 1: big change verse for Garrett. By all accounts, it was
- 11:30Speaker 1: the right move to make for Cleveland at linebacker Quincy Williams,
- 11:34Speaker 1: and for Bush. It's still a pretty stout looking group
- 11:37Speaker 1: with elite youth a key part of its makeup. The
- 11:40Speaker 1: offense is the same too, unless Watson takes over a
- 11:43Speaker 1: starting quarterback. That's the big question. Who will it be
- 11:46Speaker 1: and how well will they work under Monkin? Who's going
- 11:49Speaker 1: to be calling the offense. The O line is a
- 11:52Speaker 1: big X factor in all this. Fannin isn't really replacing
- 11:55Speaker 1: in Djokub, but he's the only semi key playmaker who
- 11:58Speaker 1: isn't returning. If you go buy their opponents expected win
- 12:02Speaker 1: totals in twenty twenty six, they have the fourth easiest
- 12:06Speaker 1: slate in the NFL. Now, their own over under is
- 12:09Speaker 1: just six point five, so it still projects as an
- 12:13Speaker 1: uphill climb. But let's apply the idea that they could
- 12:16Speaker 1: come away with wins against all the teams at seven
- 12:19Speaker 1: point five over unders or less. That gives them victories
- 12:23Speaker 1: over Carolina, the Jets, Tennessee New Orleans, Vegas, Atlanta, the
- 12:28Speaker 1: Giants and the Colts throw in a win versus Pittsburgh
- 12:32Speaker 1: for good measure, and you have a nine win ceiling.
- 12:35Speaker 1: That's a tough sell with their quarterback stitch being what
- 12:37Speaker 1: it is even for a dufus in a bag. The
- 12:40Speaker 1: game preview guy guess is fewer than seven wins. I
- 12:43Speaker 1: feel like a six pack is on its way, or
- 12:46Speaker 1: maybe the six pack I put down is fuzzied. What
- 12:48Speaker 1: little football sense I have.
- 12:50Speaker 4: Terrebral towels are out and a sold out crowd at
- 12:53Speaker 4: Actor Sure Stadium is ready.
- 12:55Speaker 1: It was a time when the Pittsburgh dads of the
- 12:57Speaker 1: world had hope they could land Brittany available again.
- 13:01Speaker 3: Hands up, Hands up.
- 13:03Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh debs were doing their workouts on Nintendo. Whee's
- 13:06Speaker 1: first ever tweet went out. Maybe it announced the hiring
- 13:11Speaker 1: of Mike Tomlin. Twenty years later they call it X
- 13:14Speaker 1: and it announced his departure. A Native Yinzer taking the
- 13:18Speaker 1: reins as we begin a very very new chapter in
- 13:21Speaker 1: the AFC North.
- 13:22Speaker 8: What Bob happened?
- 13:24Speaker 1: It was two thousand and six, You don't have to
- 13:26Speaker 1: look it up. And yes, saying Native Yinzer was redundant
- 13:29Speaker 1: like ATM Machine and theory regardless, Mike McCarthy steps in
- 13:35Speaker 1: for Mike Tomlin, hoping to rekindle a little cheesehead magic.
- 13:39Speaker 8: Hey got a great quarterback.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers came away from his off season Magical Mystery
- 13:44Speaker 1: Tour with visions of playing a twenty second year.
- 13:47Speaker 8: What a grab by Connor Haywark.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Rogers impact on Pittsburgh's passing attack wasn't monumental. Two hundred
- 13:58Speaker 1: and seven yards.
- 13:58Speaker 8: Per game touchdown John u Spi.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Twenty one tds a mid nineties rate.
- 14:04Speaker 3: Fire is it for the score.
- 14:08Speaker 1: They were middle of the pack on third down, twenty
- 14:10Speaker 1: fifth in yards per game.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Rodgers has time climbing the pocket. Here, cuts Khalil Neck
- 14:14Speaker 3: in the end zone, he drops up.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Those are the key areas they can fare better at
- 14:19Speaker 1: this year.
- 14:19Speaker 3: With the ball, we know what kind of game is
- 14:21Speaker 3: going to be. We got score points, a lot of them.
- 14:23Speaker 1: They didn't turn the ball over much.
- 14:25Speaker 4: Throws slammed right, touchdown Pittsburgh Steelers.
- 14:29Speaker 8: It's dk metcap.
- 14:30Speaker 1: We're solid in the red zone for a twenty three
- 14:32Speaker 1: point per game Average's former touchdown Pittsburgh Steeler points per
- 14:37Speaker 1: game average. Rogers also was pretty decisive. He was quick
- 14:41Speaker 1: draw McGraw after the snap.
- 14:43Speaker 8: Here's a pass out to the left Flatford game Well gets.
- 14:45Speaker 3: To the edge.
- 14:46Speaker 1: That minimized the number of backwards plays they were top
- 14:49Speaker 1: ten and sacks taken.
- 14:52Speaker 8: Wow, and he somehow caught it.
- 14:54Speaker 1: The quick release approach made it harder to rack up
- 14:57Speaker 1: chunk plays. DK Metcalf finished with a career low eight
- 15:07Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards.
- 15:09Speaker 7: Boots it out for Metcalf, elevates and makes.
- 15:12Speaker 1: The catch that still led the team.
- 15:15Speaker 4: There's a casualty on full display.
- 15:17Speaker 1: And it means he's been good for eight to fifty
- 15:19Speaker 1: plus all seven years in the NFL. Only one other
- 15:26Speaker 1: receiver with more than one hundred and seventy yards, which
- 15:28Speaker 1: is why nabbing Michael Pittman is such a big deal.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Pittman led the Colts in receptions with eighty and receiving
- 15:35Speaker 1: touchdowns with seven over seven hundred and fifty yards.
- 15:38Speaker 6: He's in he stretched the ball across the goal line.
- 15:41Speaker 1: They also picked up Jeremy Bernard in the second round
- 15:44Speaker 1: of the draft.
- 15:45Speaker 6: He's instinctive and incredibly smart. When you talk to the
- 15:48Speaker 6: folks at Alabama and you talk to Ty Simpsons. I
- 15:50Speaker 6: had a chance to. He raved about the intelligence Jeremy Rnard,
- 15:54Speaker 6: all the different things they can do with him, and
- 15:55Speaker 6: the toughness that he brings. You see it as a blocker,
- 15:58Speaker 6: and you see it in his ability to win the
- 16:00Speaker 6: middle of the field. He's a real crisp route runner,
- 16:03Speaker 6: and when he gets the ball in his hands, he
- 16:05Speaker 6: looks like a running back. He's built powerfully that way.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Making room for him in the locker room. Calvin Austen,
- 16:10Speaker 1: who departed Pittsburgh off a three hundred and seventy plus
- 16:13Speaker 1: yard year.
- 16:14Speaker 8: Touchdown Pittsburgh Steelers. It's Calvin Austin in the end zone.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Moves check this out. Five hundred plus yards year one,
- 16:22Speaker 1: then seven hundred plus, three hundred plus, then six hundred
- 16:26Speaker 1: plus last year, four hundred plus fires down, touchdown. So
- 16:37Speaker 1: a monster year of eight hundred plus coming or bust city, right,
- 16:41Speaker 1: I don't make up the Origami rules.
- 16:43Speaker 4: Towards the end zone touchdown, he finds Pat fryar.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Mooon fellow tight end Darnel Washington aka Mountain on legs.
- 16:52Speaker 8: Oh, he's shut down a man, and then flowers.
- 16:55Speaker 3: His shoulder, grumbling down the left.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Sideline career high three hundred and sixty four yards. He
- 17:00Speaker 1: could probably start at left tackle on a lot of teams.
- 17:03Speaker 8: And fine Darnell Watchingston.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Who will they trot out as they're starting five on
- 17:08Speaker 1: that O line. Week one, though, Steelers drafted tackle Max
- 17:11Speaker 1: Ecanachor with their first round pick.
- 17:14Speaker 11: Basketball player all the way through high school, did not
- 17:17Speaker 11: play any football doll until he got a junior college.
- 17:19Speaker 11: But one year of junior college, remember he and his
- 17:21Speaker 11: family game here when he was thirteen years old from Nigeria.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Then they took guard Jennings Dunker in the third. They
- 17:27Speaker 1: let guard Isaac Sayamalu walk still have left tackle Broderick Jones,
- 17:32Speaker 1: who was blamed for eight sacks and is recovering from
- 17:35Speaker 1: a neck injury and saw the team decline. Picking up
- 17:38Speaker 1: his fifth year option guard Mason McCormick gave up six
- 17:41Speaker 1: and a half sacks. So they could go a number
- 17:43Speaker 1: of directions with this group. At running back, Jalen warren
- 17:47Speaker 1: O touchdown steel career high in rush yards in twenty
- 17:52Speaker 1: twenty five, and he.
- 17:53Speaker 8: Is in for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Touchdown nine hundred and fifty eight and a half dozen
- 17:59Speaker 1: tdss into the.
- 18:02Speaker 8: End zone with the Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Four to three plus yards per carry all four years
- 18:08Speaker 1: in the Bigs.
- 18:09Speaker 8: Straight up the middle of the into the end zone.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Won't be sharing time with Kenneth Gainwell again. Four hundred
- 18:15Speaker 1: and eighty plus receiving yards, three tds, five hundred and
- 18:19Speaker 1: thirty plus rush yards five scores hitting at four to
- 18:22Speaker 1: seven per pop.
- 18:22Speaker 5: Took pig Hole into the end zone. Touchdown Pittsburgh Steelers
- 18:27Speaker 5: in his place? Ankle mccringleberry. What first off that gave
- 18:34Speaker 5: Rico Dowdell game preview guy goat status?
- 18:38Speaker 8: Steal keep pele can't peel sketched.
- 18:40Speaker 1: Second, that ref clearly doesn't know the.
- 18:43Speaker 8: Rules and they're gonna get a personal foul.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Dowdell went for one thousand yards on the ground for
- 18:48Speaker 1: Carolina last year, back to back thousand plus yard seasons.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Half doesn't paint jobs In twenty twenty five on four
- 18:55Speaker 1: to six, a run.
- 18:56Speaker 7: Gets out of the field for this crucial moment and
- 18:58Speaker 7: punches it all. But Pittsburgh.
- 19:00Speaker 1: His offense has ground to make up, and so does
- 19:02Speaker 1: its defense.
- 19:03Speaker 8: Our father arn heavans.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Fourth quarter stops be thy name twenty sixth the yards
- 19:10Speaker 1: per game allowed by Hicks.
- 19:12Speaker 10: He's at the pit boot tap five.
- 19:14Speaker 1: Touchdown, twenty fifth on third down.
- 19:18Speaker 7: Daln nailers perse touchdown.
- 19:20Speaker 1: This year they held teams to twenty two a game
- 19:22Speaker 1: that's solid.
- 19:24Speaker 8: Coming campward with the sack.
- 19:27Speaker 1: Oh wow, fourth most takeaways to keep things in check.
- 19:34Speaker 8: His most hand, but it's pick up, but it's recovered
- 19:37Speaker 8: by his deelers.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Their pass rush didn't produce a super high pressure rate,
- 19:41Speaker 1: but forty eight sacks was good for sixth most Jalen
- 19:44Speaker 1: Ryans coming in and they still have a loaded front
- 19:49Speaker 1: that's recover Tja TJ Watt should still be a problem.
- 19:53Speaker 1: Sack total not as high as expected. Seven and fourteen games.
- 19:57Speaker 12: The wat FA.
- 19:58Speaker 3: Old Tom Sat.
- 20:00Speaker 10: I mean, if he's gonna pass my record, that's one.
- 20:03Speaker 7: Hell of a way to do it.
- 20:04Speaker 1: But three forced fumbles, two I iNTS, splash plays a plenty,
- 20:08Speaker 1: it's kind of his thing.
- 20:09Speaker 3: Ooh, did justin fields get walloped?
- 20:12Speaker 1: Pittsburgh will test tackles like few others and it's non stop.
- 20:15Speaker 1: They have three top shelf types out there.
- 20:18Speaker 8: Alex Heismith comes up with his sack.
- 20:21Speaker 1: Alex Highsmith comes off a career high nine and a
- 20:23Speaker 1: half bag shopping spree. And the guy who gives them
- 20:27Speaker 1: a rest, Nick Herbig, who sealed the deal seven and
- 20:30Speaker 1: a half times, which, oh, and it doesn't stop in
- 20:35Speaker 1: the middle. Defensive tackle Derek Harmon, looking to build off
- 20:38Speaker 1: a good rookie year three QB takedowns in twelve games.
- 20:41Speaker 10: At maya sacked back of the forty one yard line.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Kean Ubenten with five and a half sacks from the
- 20:47Speaker 1: center of the storm, career high in year number three.
- 20:52Speaker 1: And the old man Cam Hayward three and a half
- 20:55Speaker 1: sacks along with over seventy five tackles.
- 20:58Speaker 8: I bet let that go.
- 21:00Speaker 10: Let that go. You can't run over here.
- 21:01Speaker 1: That was year fifteen. That's ridiculous.
- 21:03Speaker 8: Don't wait, go ahead, fast head and look at go.
- 21:06Speaker 1: Their secondary, though, needs to do a better job of
- 21:09Speaker 1: feeding off heat. They gave up a rating of ninety two.
- 21:12Speaker 10: Pace going to the ground makes the catch.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Only three teams allowed more passing yards per game.
- 21:18Speaker 10: It is.
- 21:21Speaker 1: There wasn't much special about how they played the pass.
- 21:24Speaker 8: Got us bad cutting up to the five to the.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Ends out Jalen Ramsey hoping to rebound after giving up
- 21:30Speaker 1: eight touchdowns and a rate in the one twenties. It's
- 21:35Speaker 1: they'd be happy with more of the same from several
- 21:38Speaker 1: other guys, though, Corner Joey Porter Junior held it down
- 21:41Speaker 1: to a low sixties rate knock down fourteen passes, and
- 21:44Speaker 1: that was just a year three junior. Third starting cornerback
- 21:51Speaker 1: will be new. James Pierre isn't coming back. Had a
- 21:54Speaker 1: career high eleven passes defense to a low fifties rate
- 21:57Speaker 1: ahead of his seventh year.
- 21:59Speaker 8: It's picked up by yeah, racing down the left side line.
- 22:02Speaker 1: His departure might have stung a little bit, but they
- 22:04Speaker 1: picked up Jamel Dean and he posted the lowest rate
- 22:08Speaker 1: of any cornerback while playing in Tampa Bay last year.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Corner Brandon Eckles a low eighties rate and a couple
- 22:16Speaker 1: of picks. Suck safety game no more. Chuck Clark gave
- 22:22Speaker 1: up a rating over one forty, so no harm, no foul,
- 22:25Speaker 1: and no Kyle Dugger, though he held quarterbacks to a
- 22:28Speaker 1: respectable ninety right two interceptions.
- 22:31Speaker 8: It's Gucker Gucker to the forty yard.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Line, taking his spot. Safety Jakwan Brisker ninety three tackles
- 22:37Speaker 1: in Chicago, but also gave up a team high seven touchdown.
- 22:41Speaker 8: What's in Whisker, It's Stafford got.
- 22:43Speaker 1: It go safety to Sean Elliott hopes to play more passes,
- 22:47Speaker 1: only got in five games.
- 22:49Speaker 8: The middle of the field knocked away.
- 22:51Speaker 1: Pittsburgh also needs to get stingier against the run, allowed
- 22:55Speaker 1: four to three a try. Not that they don't like
- 22:59Speaker 1: their line back, though. Peyton Wilson got more snaps in
- 23:02Speaker 1: his second year. Racked one hundred and twenty six ball
- 23:05Speaker 1: carriers was loose?
- 23:06Speaker 3: Is this a fumble? Oh?
- 23:08Speaker 8: My goodness?
- 23:09Speaker 1: And Patrick Queen was who they thought he was? One
- 23:13Speaker 1: hundred and twenty tackles. He's been a ninety eight plus
- 23:15Speaker 1: tackle dude all six years in the NFL.
- 23:18Speaker 4: HI by Patrick quid untouchdeat nails?
- 23:22Speaker 1: What the last of the Killer Bees still booting it?
- 23:25Speaker 1: Chris Boswell good on eighty four percent of his tries
- 23:28Speaker 1: in the regular season, almost a lock on extra points.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Good thumbnail recap. Then front seven looks the same. They
- 23:37Speaker 1: did add defensive end Sebastian Joseph Day who was with
- 23:40Speaker 1: Tennessee last year. But it's Harmon Benton, Hayward, Watt, Queen
- 23:45Speaker 1: and Wilson as the starting seven. Secondary will utilize two
- 23:49Speaker 1: new starters Brisker for Dugger at safety, Dean for Pierre
- 23:53Speaker 1: at the one corner spot, order Elliott and Ramsey all
- 23:56Speaker 1: returning to fill out their starting five. So to speak.
- 24:00Speaker 1: On offense, Rogers is going to have three new playmakers
- 24:03Speaker 1: to work with Pittman and Bernard joining DK in the
- 24:06Speaker 1: wide out room. That should upgrade their passing attack by
- 24:09Speaker 1: a considerable margin. Dowdell takes gainwell spot in the backfield,
- 24:13Speaker 1: sharing carries with warren Mouth and Washington back at tight end.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Even without Tomlin, the prognosticators have Pittsburgh as a team
- 24:21Speaker 1: capable of finishing over five hundred. They're over under sits
- 24:25Speaker 1: at eight and a half. Their opponents win total projections
- 24:28Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six has them in the middle of
- 24:31Speaker 1: the pack when it comes to their strength as schedule.
- 24:33Speaker 1: How many games above five hundred could they finish? If
- 24:36Speaker 1: Rogers goes out bon Jovi's style in a blaze of glory,
- 24:40Speaker 1: start with a win over Atlanta, beat Cincinnati at home, Cleveland, Indianapolis,
- 24:45Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, defeat the Saints, sweep the Browns. That post
- 24:50Speaker 1: by run is going to be tough, though, at Cincinnati,
- 24:53Speaker 1: at Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, and then at Jacksonville, followed by
- 24:58Speaker 1: a home game versus Baltimore. But give them that win
- 25:01Speaker 1: plus Carolina and Tennessee, which would buy them ten dubs.
- 25:06Speaker 1: Nine of their games are against teams who are expecting
- 25:08Speaker 1: to be strong. Game preview Guy respect for Tomlin dictates
- 25:12Speaker 1: they fall below five hundred in their first year without him.
- 25:16Speaker 7: Oh, we got it all.
- 25:17Speaker 3: We need what la?
- 25:20Speaker 1: Remember when Mimes was explaining why he was hot and
- 25:23Speaker 1: you were not.
- 25:26Speaker 10: Everything what to do?
- 25:27Speaker 1: Remember when we lost Anna Nicole. Remember when Brittany lost
- 25:30Speaker 1: her hair? When the Sopranos abruptly cut to black, that's
- 25:36Speaker 1: the world we were living in the last time the
- 25:38Speaker 1: Ravens started a season with someone other than John Harbaugh
- 25:42Speaker 1: as their head coach. But plenty of reasons for the
- 25:45Speaker 1: flock to keep on believing.
- 25:46Speaker 8: As it were, They've gotta go, they gotta go.
- 25:49Speaker 1: Hey, they gonna go. It's time to launch the Jesse
- 25:53Speaker 1: Mintor era in Baltimore. Young dude, former Chargers DC had
- 25:58Speaker 1: their defense rocking.
- 26:00Speaker 12: Plan on calling the defense great question.
- 26:02Speaker 11: Uh.
- 26:02Speaker 12: I think that's a strength of mine. I think that's
- 26:04Speaker 12: one of the reasons I'm sitting here. But I also
- 26:06Speaker 12: think it's it's my leadership qualities, and I really look forward.
- 26:10Speaker 12: I have a really good process. I feel to do
- 26:12Speaker 12: what I need to do to be ready to call
- 26:14Speaker 12: the game, but also have the ability to be the
- 26:16Speaker 12: head coach.
- 26:17Speaker 1: He plucked Declan Doyle away from Chicago to run the offense.
- 26:21Speaker 1: He was Ben Johnson's o C. You know the questions
- 26:24Speaker 1: in those situations, was he really calling the offense.
- 26:27Speaker 3: Reels up Hey Rose and as.
- 26:33Speaker 1: But we've seen it work plenty of other times with
- 26:36Speaker 1: other Cats, and he's not taking over your standard O.
- 26:38Speaker 3: Face touchdown Mark Andrew.
- 26:43Speaker 1: He's working with a one two punch like no other
- 26:46Speaker 1: in the Nflyandy Lamar Jackson is still a defender's nightmare.
- 27:00Speaker 1: Teen games last year he posted a one oh three rating.
- 27:03Speaker 8: Second of ten.
- 27:03Speaker 9: They're gonna throw it again for Hopkins, and Andre Hopkins.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Has got it and led the NFL in yards per
- 27:10Speaker 1: completion to the d He's got.
- 27:12Speaker 4: A bad He's got up DeAndre Hopkins his first catch
- 27:18Speaker 4: as a Raven.
- 27:19Speaker 1: Now that six and seven record, the first sub five
- 27:22Speaker 1: hundred record of his career.
- 27:24Speaker 10: YEP has intercepted him. Adrias Knight running it.
- 27:26Speaker 1: Back, didn't average a ton of yards passing per game.
- 27:30Speaker 3: Throws up in the middle, completes or Mark Andrews the
- 27:35Speaker 3: hell you are going and.
- 27:36Speaker 1: His three hundred and forty nine rush yards.
- 27:38Speaker 3: In touchdown Lamar Jackson.
- 27:41Speaker 1: The first time he's finished under six ninety five for
- 27:44Speaker 1: a season, which only emphasizes how ridiculous he can be
- 27:48Speaker 1: when everything is right with him.
- 27:50Speaker 3: First left side is in touchdown, LaVar.
- 27:53Speaker 1: Doyle also has the king to play with the twenty
- 27:58Speaker 1: the cake of the tap, and he didn't get that
- 28:02Speaker 1: title from exploiting the workers, as Dennis might argue.
- 28:05Speaker 10: Outstanding blocking to get Dereck Henry into the ends.
- 28:08Speaker 1: Derrick Henry one thousand plus yards seven of his last
- 28:11Speaker 1: eight years to fifteen hundred plus five of his last seven.
- 28:21Speaker 3: And we've waited about the heir lebar.
- 28:25Speaker 1: Ten plus tds, eight straight, sixteen paint jobs, fifteen hundred
- 28:29Speaker 1: and ninety five yards.
- 28:31Speaker 3: Touch down Derrick Henry.
- 28:34Speaker 1: On five to two carry in twenty twenty five.
- 28:37Speaker 8: Dude, touchdown right, and.
- 28:40Speaker 1: At times it still felt like he wasn't being used enough.
- 28:46Speaker 1: No autonomous collectives around here, and even with Lamar's injuries,
- 28:50Speaker 1: we're talking about an offense that basically averaged twenty five
- 28:54Speaker 1: a game. Still Doyle company are looking for levels closer
- 29:02Speaker 1: to twenty eight a game Flower's work.
- 29:04Speaker 7: He gets reader, runs endos on man.
- 29:06Speaker 1: And he doubles has to clean up the red zone
- 29:09Speaker 1: play where they finished twenty seventh. That's glaring with Lamar
- 29:12Speaker 1: and Henry at your disposal, Darren. They were middle of
- 29:17Speaker 1: the pack in yards per game.
- 29:18Speaker 8: For the football right side and it's going.
- 29:20Speaker 1: To be and they gave the ball away way too often.
- 29:30Speaker 1: Also would like to cut back on sacks taken, which
- 29:33Speaker 1: comes with the territory with Jackson.
- 29:35Speaker 7: Jackson looking stepping up. Now he's going to get hit.
- 29:38Speaker 1: But the forty five they took last year also led
- 29:41Speaker 1: to many of those turnovers down out, They're going to
- 29:46Speaker 1: be sporting a brand new interior drafted Benga Yuana with
- 29:50Speaker 1: their first round pick, Tyler.
- 29:52Speaker 6: Lenderbaum's gone. He's now a raider, so they replace him
- 29:54Speaker 6: with a guard who can do a lot of the
- 29:56Speaker 6: things lender Bomb does. It's a bigger, more powerful version,
- 29:59Speaker 6: providing me at brandis sure when he was coming out
- 30:01Speaker 6: of college, just big and powerful. He is a tone center.
- 30:04Speaker 6: If you want to watch guys get thrown to the ground,
- 30:06Speaker 6: you're gonna enjoy watching his tape. He does not stop
- 30:08Speaker 6: and once he gets his hands on you, it's not gonna
- 30:10Speaker 6: end well.
- 30:11Speaker 1: They brought guard John Simpson back. He played for Baltimore
- 30:14Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three before spending the last two years
- 30:16Speaker 1: with the Jets. Those two replace Daniel Failele, who gave
- 30:20Speaker 1: up five sacks, and Andrew Vorhees. They also have a
- 30:23Speaker 1: new snapper after Pro Bowl center Tyler Linderbaum bounced to Vegas.
- 30:27Speaker 1: Ravens have their wr one and Za Flowers.
- 30:30Speaker 3: He's got a man them.
- 30:31Speaker 1: Touchdown comes off a career year eight hundred and fifty
- 30:35Speaker 1: plus yards as a rook then one thy fifty nine.
- 30:38Speaker 3: He's got him, say Flowers, watch down right then.
- 30:42Speaker 1: And then over twelve hundred last year, eighty six catches.
- 30:49Speaker 1: They just spent too many games with him being a
- 30:52Speaker 1: one man show.
- 30:53Speaker 6: Why don't say Blowers of at thirty Flowers in the
- 30:56Speaker 6: twenty ten five touch down.
- 31:01Speaker 1: Rashad Bateman a guy whom many predict will bounce back
- 31:04Speaker 1: with the new approach. Bateman landed a big contract after
- 31:07Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four season that saw him go for
- 31:09Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty plus yards in ninety d's two
- 31:12Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four and two last year.
- 31:15Speaker 3: And they lost his golf Jackson.
- 31:17Speaker 1: They let DeAndre Hopkins look for a job elsewhere. He
- 31:20Speaker 1: chipped in three hundred and thirty yards, turned around and
- 31:23Speaker 1: drafted Jakobe Lane in the third round.
- 31:25Speaker 6: This is a basketball player on grass. When you watch
- 31:28Speaker 6: Dakobe Lane, if you want to talk about wow catches
- 31:30Speaker 6: the best highlight reel, you could make a strong case
- 31:33Speaker 6: that he has it in this draft class with unbelievable
- 31:36Speaker 6: one hand wow catches. How about this one just cupping
- 31:40Speaker 6: the ball with his left hand, And it was all
- 31:43Speaker 6: throughout his career at USC.
- 31:44Speaker 10: You just keep watching it.
- 31:45Speaker 6: You saw incredible plays where he'll go up, climb the ladder.
- 31:49Speaker 6: He takes big shots.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Isaiah likely also not a Raven anymore likely with just
- 31:54Speaker 1: over three hundred yards Sunday Fun Day, Mark Andrews is
- 31:58Speaker 1: back just over four hundred yards.
- 32:01Speaker 7: Caught Andrew's in touchdown Ravens.
- 32:05Speaker 1: Did at least score five times touch down.
- 32:08Speaker 10: Fuck.
- 32:11Speaker 1: None of this insinuates mentor himself doesn't have plenty of
- 32:14Speaker 1: work to do with their defense either. Giving up twenty
- 32:16Speaker 1: three a game and being twenty fourth in yards per
- 32:19Speaker 1: game touchdown isn't really the Baltimore way.
- 32:23Speaker 7: Holding left side dumps it protect What the fuck?
- 32:26Speaker 3: Touchdown?
- 32:27Speaker 1: Might need to play some more Black Street in their
- 32:29Speaker 1: locker room ahead a kickoff. This year just thirty sacks
- 32:32Speaker 1: only a few teams with fewer only three had a
- 32:35Speaker 1: lower pressure rate. Fuck, no diggity, you gotta bag it
- 32:40Speaker 1: up more often than that.
- 32:42Speaker 10: Anyway, He's got it.
- 32:44Speaker 3: Wow.
- 32:44Speaker 1: So say hello to mad Max. No, wait, say hello
- 32:47Speaker 1: to Trey Hendrickson only seven games last year, thirteen and
- 32:51Speaker 1: a half sacks four of the previous five seasons with
- 32:54Speaker 1: the Bengals.
- 32:55Speaker 10: And he gets hit by Trey hendricks.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Despite getting little help from their front Baltimore Secondary isn't
- 33:01Speaker 1: coming off a bad campaign. They held quarterbacks to a
- 33:04Speaker 1: sub ninety rate.
- 33:05Speaker 3: Quick accepted Marlon Humphrey.
- 33:09Speaker 1: Not to say they don't have issues to correct either.
- 33:11Speaker 5: It's a nice baked by May to get onto the
- 33:13Speaker 5: boot and Hunter Henry's wide open.
- 33:15Speaker 1: They gave up gobs of passing yards.
- 33:17Speaker 10: Plans it down the middle of the field, Ufree bush.
- 33:20Speaker 1: And while it's reflective of volume.
- 33:22Speaker 3: He has it, he falls across the sideline.
- 33:25Speaker 1: It also shows teams weren't afraid to throw on them.
- 33:28Speaker 8: What a fire in the middle.
- 33:30Speaker 3: He's got whats in ten of the fire to.
- 33:32Speaker 1: The ends up they weren't especially stingy against the pass
- 33:35Speaker 1: and several key metrics either.
- 33:37Speaker 3: All right, huge gain.
- 33:38Speaker 4: All this talk about no air yard completions by Rogers
- 33:42Speaker 4: in the last month, they come right out with a
- 33:45Speaker 4: bomb down the right sideline.
- 33:46Speaker 1: But look at the dudes they have back there. Vet
- 33:49Speaker 1: corner Marlin Humphrey knocked down thirteen passes, picked off four
- 33:52Speaker 1: sub eighty right.
- 33:53Speaker 10: And it's intercepted by Humphrey.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Young cornerback Nate Wiggins three I in T's fourteen passes
- 33:59Speaker 1: to fense a low eighties rate looks every bit the
- 34:03Speaker 1: part of the CB.
- 34:03Speaker 3: One interception lad wigans with a pick.
- 34:07Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton heads into his year five off of first
- 34:10Speaker 1: team All Pro season, made his third Pro Bowl in
- 34:13Speaker 1: a row one hundred plus tackles back to back years.
- 34:16Speaker 3: Think that Amilton makes his presence, got right away.
- 34:20Speaker 1: Keep rocking the skid row. More youth gone wild. Safety
- 34:23Speaker 1: Malachi Starks kicked off his pro career with over eighty tackles,
- 34:26Speaker 1: a sub eighty rate, and two picks.
- 34:28Speaker 3: I'll thought that Mabi Bouse water boy all up the
- 34:31Speaker 3: odd of him.
- 34:32Speaker 1: He had. Vet safety Alohi Gilman next to him won't
- 34:35Speaker 1: this season. Nine passes knocked down, ninety raps, Hello Bill
- 34:40Speaker 1: pick up the added safety Jalen Hawkins comes off a
- 34:44Speaker 1: career year, held his targets to a fifty five rating,
- 34:48Speaker 1: and picked off four passes for the Patriots.
- 34:50Speaker 3: Instead of diving next in.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Interception, Ravens kept ballcarriers to four to two per attempt.
- 34:56Speaker 1: Not amazing but top ten good.
- 34:58Speaker 7: At least ball comes down right and recover.
- 35:01Speaker 1: The guy that can tilt things drastically both against the
- 35:04Speaker 1: run and the pass. Nom de Madubique.
- 35:06Speaker 8: Steps up and he sucked.
- 35:09Speaker 3: Josh Allen sacked for the first time tonight.
- 35:11Speaker 1: They lost him after two games last year, and they
- 35:14Speaker 1: felt it he was a back to back pro bowler
- 35:16Speaker 1: the two previous years. Had neck surgery, so it's unclear
- 35:19Speaker 1: when he returns, so a little insurance in Kaleis Campbell
- 35:23Speaker 1: six and a half sacks as an eighteenth year guy
- 35:26Speaker 1: last year.
- 35:27Speaker 3: He's sacked. That's Elias Camba.
- 35:29Speaker 1: He'll be next to defensive tackle Travis Jones, who racked
- 35:32Speaker 1: five quarterbacks from the inside, a career high in sacks
- 35:35Speaker 1: and tackles.
- 35:36Speaker 8: He is sucked back of the five yard line.
- 35:39Speaker 1: DT Broderick Washington, another dude who lost twenty twenty five
- 35:43Speaker 1: to injury, only played three games. Outside linebacker Tavius Robinson
- 35:48Speaker 1: only played ten games, four and a half QB takedowns
- 35:51Speaker 1: in that window, career high in sacks in his third year.
- 35:54Speaker 3: Pocket collapse at black of a hideous sack back up Blue.
- 35:58Speaker 1: Baltimore needs its outside linebacker to make it home more
- 36:01Speaker 1: often this year, though Mike Green did so three and
- 36:03Speaker 1: a half times as a rookie, most of his snaps
- 36:05Speaker 1: coming off the bench.
- 36:07Speaker 3: Mike Dream with his first NFL sack and it could
- 36:10Speaker 3: not have a better time.
- 36:12Speaker 1: No more Kyle than noy though he only picked up
- 36:15Speaker 1: two sacks after going for twelve and a half bags
- 36:17Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four.
- 36:19Speaker 8: What's the throw pocket collapsing?
- 36:20Speaker 3: He is sucked back of the thirty two yard lot.
- 36:23Speaker 1: And they didn't keep Draymont Jones either. They added him
- 36:26Speaker 1: via trade last year.
- 36:28Speaker 3: Hold down, but behind Draymond Jones with the suck.
- 36:32Speaker 1: Drafted Zion Young in the second round, so he should
- 36:35Speaker 1: get plenty of chances to show out.
- 36:37Speaker 6: Zion Young. He's gonna knock you back, especially when you
- 36:39Speaker 6: can give him a little bit of a runway. He
- 36:41Speaker 6: can get a little bit of a runway to get
- 36:42Speaker 6: built up and going. He can really knock you back
- 36:45Speaker 6: into the quarterback. Here's the power through the contact to
- 36:47Speaker 6: get your hands on him, and he's able to work
- 36:49Speaker 6: through it and tight ends. Again, you're not gonna lock him.
- 36:53Speaker 6: Just forget it. You better bring somebody else to help him,
- 36:55Speaker 6: because he destroys tight ends on a consistent basis.
- 36:57Speaker 1: Rope one is waiting at the second level as usual
- 37:00Speaker 1: Smith of Pro Bowler four straight years, one hundred plus
- 37:04Speaker 1: tackle guy, seven of eight years.
- 37:07Speaker 6: Guy.
- 37:10Speaker 1: He was joined by rookie linebacker Teddy Buchanan, who kicked
- 37:13Speaker 1: things off with ninety three tackles in fourteen games. The
- 37:17Speaker 1: Rabbit sack stafford on fourth a kuse five on the defense,
- 37:22Speaker 1: and they still have Trenton Simpson two and a half sacks,
- 37:25Speaker 1: sixty six tackles in his third season on the job.
- 37:27Speaker 9: He'll lose a yard back to the nineteen yard line,
- 37:31Speaker 9: so that should be the first sack of the game
- 37:33Speaker 9: for the Rave.
- 37:33Speaker 1: And finally, hopefully Tyler didn't put that last kick on
- 37:37Speaker 1: a loop. The rookie had a fine first year otherwise,
- 37:40Speaker 1: thirty for thirty four on field goal attempts forty four
- 37:42Speaker 1: for forty six on extra points, So this is what
- 37:45Speaker 1: it all looks like. They're front seven, adding Kalais and
- 37:48Speaker 1: Hendrickson and the rookie young losing Jones and van Noyt.
- 37:53Speaker 1: Nomdi probably misses some time before making it back. One
- 37:56Speaker 1: key change to their secondary Hawkins slides in for Gilman.
- 38:00Speaker 1: They have Chadobi a Woozia at corner two, so Hamilton
- 38:04Speaker 1: could simply slide back to safety. He plays everywhere anyway,
- 38:07Speaker 1: so they have flexibility, and their playmakers on offense are
- 38:11Speaker 1: pretty much the same as twenty twenty five. Devontes Walker
- 38:14Speaker 1: could see more snaps at wide out lane, the rookie
- 38:17Speaker 1: joining the crowd. Lamar King, Flowers and Andrews still at
- 38:22Speaker 1: the core of how they do their thing. Only the
- 38:25Speaker 1: Rams and Ravens have over unders of eleven and a
- 38:28Speaker 1: half this year, so the expectation meter is as high
- 38:31Speaker 1: as it always is for Lamar, and they have the
- 38:34Speaker 1: sixth easiest schedule when you rank teams by their opponents
- 38:37Speaker 1: twenty twenty six win total expectations. That means they have
- 38:41Speaker 1: as high as ceiling as you're gonna find, because right
- 38:44Speaker 1: now anyway, they'd be favored against every team they have
- 38:48Speaker 1: on their slate. It's unrealistic to say they'd go seventeen
- 38:51Speaker 1: to know, so let's give him a loss to Buffalo
- 38:54Speaker 1: on the road. The Bills the only ten and a
- 38:56Speaker 1: half team they even face, and Mark and Ell in
- 38:58Speaker 1: their road game versus Houston. I know, a fifteen wins
- 39:02Speaker 1: ceiling seems crazy after last year, but they have one
- 39:05Speaker 1: of the best rosters in the game. I wouldn't bank
- 39:08Speaker 1: on fifteen myself, but they are set up to grab twelve.
- 39:11Speaker 1: Plus a new voice on the sideline might be what
- 39:14Speaker 1: they needed. Jackson and Henry have to be as hungry
- 39:17Speaker 1: as they can be, maybe even desperate.
- 39:19Speaker 8: Know what to do, you know how to do it?
- 39:21Speaker 4: Expect greatness, Expect greatness, greatness all three one, two.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Three, Cincinnati Bengals six and eleven and twenty twenty five.
- 39:29Speaker 1: It's what happens when you don't get a full cup
- 39:32Speaker 1: of Joe, so to speak.
- 39:33Speaker 3: Hey, we got to remind everybody who we aret of it.
- 39:36Speaker 1: So if they can get one of those broke girls
- 39:38Speaker 1: to top it off for twenty twenty six and their
- 39:40Speaker 1: new additions on defense pan out, they should be cooking
- 39:44Speaker 1: with gas again.
- 39:48Speaker 3: Take the way, put out the way.
- 39:50Speaker 1: It's not rocket science or the kind Walter and Jesse
- 39:53Speaker 1: performed in their RV. Give the Bengals a full year
- 39:57Speaker 1: of Joe, Shisty, Jamar and Higgs compaired with anything that
- 40:01Speaker 1: remotely resembles a defense, and they're a threat. Things just
- 40:06Speaker 1: crazy jets being their O face looks pretty much the
- 40:10Speaker 1: same as it did in twenty twenty five. Let's start
- 40:13Speaker 1: with the big question mark their defense. Any true Bengals
- 40:21Speaker 1: fan knows it will dictate how far they go. In
- 40:24Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, got a man touchdown. The big move
- 40:29Speaker 1: trading the tenth pick in the draft for DT Dexter
- 40:33Speaker 1: Lawrence for.
- 40:33Speaker 3: Them to you know, you know, bring me in the
- 40:36Speaker 3: way they did and you know give up.
- 40:38Speaker 11: What they did is I owe it to them to
- 40:40Speaker 11: go out there and you know, dominate on that field.
- 40:44Speaker 1: The d law trade sparked lots of debate. Here are
- 40:46Speaker 1: the two ways to look at it. He's a dude
- 40:49Speaker 1: that was a pro bowler from twenty twenty two to
- 40:51Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, second team or two of those years.
- 40:54Speaker 1: Nine sacks in twenty twenty four, seven and a half
- 40:57Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. Can be a beast in the trenches.
- 41:00Speaker 6: Nexi Dexi, the leader of that defensive front.
- 41:03Speaker 3: You'll get a special meal from.
- 41:04Speaker 5: His wife, Donna, who's.
- 41:06Speaker 12: A chef executive secutive chef, executive chef.
- 41:10Speaker 10: He's oldest.
- 41:11Speaker 1: And then there was his twenty twenty five half a
- 41:14Speaker 1: sack in seventeen starts and was the man in the
- 41:17Speaker 1: middle of the rush defense that gave up five point
- 41:20Speaker 1: three yards per carry, worst in the league.
- 41:23Speaker 6: He wanted an upgrade on his contract, which owed him
- 41:26Speaker 6: twenty million dollars this season, despite the fact that he's
- 41:28Speaker 6: coming off statistically his worst year in the NFL.
- 41:31Speaker 1: Take to the comments section with your takes on the matter.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Lawrence isn't the only new face added to their front.
- 41:37Speaker 1: They also added Vett defensive tackle Jonathan Allen, who made
- 41:41Speaker 1: close to seventy tackles as a Viking last year. Three
- 41:44Speaker 1: and a half backs.
- 41:45Speaker 9: That goes hurts again, he steps up, heave, avoids a.
- 41:48Speaker 8: Hit, and then he kept head again.
- 41:50Speaker 1: And they snagged boy a laffe to come off the edge.
- 41:53Speaker 1: Only two trips home last year for Seattle, but had
- 41:56Speaker 1: nine in twenty twenty.
- 41:57Speaker 7: Three walk down.
- 42:00Speaker 10: By Maffey.
- 42:01Speaker 1: Plus they used their second round pick on Cassius Howell,
- 42:05Speaker 1: also expected to help heat up the quarterback time fastball.
- 42:09Speaker 6: This is one of the elite get off to look
- 42:10Speaker 6: about David Bailey having the best get off of anybody
- 42:12Speaker 6: in this draft. This might be number two right here,
- 42:14Speaker 6: looking at this ability to win early and get underneath
- 42:17Speaker 6: this year edge blockers, that's that same move, that little
- 42:20Speaker 6: dip and rip, and guys don't even get a hand.
- 42:22Speaker 1: On a couple of other new faces we'll get to
- 42:24Speaker 1: in a second, but there isn't a new face guiding
- 42:26Speaker 1: it all. Al Golden is back as DC, and he
- 42:36Speaker 1: was the guy in charge of their defense last year.
- 42:40Speaker 1: Cutsdown has to fix all three facets of their defense.
- 42:44Speaker 3: Touchdown Denver twenty eight.
- 42:46Speaker 1: Points per game allowed in twenty twenty five.
- 42:48Speaker 8: Under the metal part it is Josha.
- 42:51Speaker 1: Only two gave up more. Only one team giving up
- 42:54Speaker 1: more yards per game.
- 42:55Speaker 8: Touchdown John u Spit not.
- 42:57Speaker 1: Good on third down or in the red zone into the.
- 43:00Speaker 7: Ten till five yard line into the end float.
- 43:04Speaker 1: Need to play the pass better ninety nine rating allowed
- 43:07Speaker 1: twenty sixth.
- 43:08Speaker 8: Slows towards the end zone. Touchdown he fines pat.
- 43:11Speaker 1: Fire twelve yards per catch allowed. To the end zone,
- 43:15Speaker 1: totty sudden and twenty ninth in yards per attempt allowed
- 43:25Speaker 1: would help to bother the quarterback some a touchdown, twenty
- 43:31Speaker 1: second in sacks and pressure rate, gets.
- 43:34Speaker 9: Hit, gets the pass away left side into the end
- 43:36Speaker 9: zone and it is caught for a touchdown by Drey mcdriye.
- 43:40Speaker 1: And how about we slow some runners down a bit, fellas.
- 43:43Speaker 6: Right to the en zone.
- 43:45Speaker 1: Five point two yards per carry allowed second most next to.
- 43:49Speaker 3: The five next to the goal line touchdown denver.
- 43:52Speaker 1: And most yards per game allowed at one.
- 43:55Speaker 7: Thanks somebody I missed inside the plot.
- 43:57Speaker 8: Get to the pilot.
- 43:59Speaker 1: They had two one hundred plus tackle linebackers too, Just
- 44:03Speaker 1: need to make those tackles sooner. Demetrius Knight with one
- 44:06Speaker 1: oh six three sacks, two picks and a forced fumble,
- 44:10Speaker 1: not bad for a rookie.
- 44:11Speaker 10: Ye have intercepted tom Adrias Knight running it back.
- 44:15Speaker 1: His rookie partner Barrett Carter, with the same one hundred
- 44:17Speaker 1: and six tackle total kicked off the ball, throws a.
- 44:21Speaker 7: Pass to thirty down picks.
- 44:24Speaker 1: Barrett Carter wenebacker Orrin Burks seventeen games, nine starts, forty
- 44:29Speaker 1: eight tackles. They brought back most of the starters from
- 44:32Speaker 1: their front two. TJ Slayton fifty two tackles three sacks.
- 44:36Speaker 3: He's in trouble. Sanders breaks away and he is nailed.
- 44:40Speaker 8: TJ.
- 44:40Speaker 3: Slayton was the first one there.
- 44:42Speaker 1: That BJ Hill sixty six tackles four sacks.
- 44:46Speaker 10: Here comes Miles Murphy. He couldn't get them, but BJ
- 44:49Speaker 10: Hill goes and they're hoping.
- 44:51Speaker 1: Shamar Stewart steps up and plays at a first round level.
- 44:54Speaker 1: Eight games eleven tackles one sack in his rookie year.
- 44:58Speaker 10: He'll be sacked. Schamar's Stewart the.
- 45:01Speaker 1: Metas Miles Murphy ended up seeing more action than expected.
- 45:05Speaker 1: Third year guy finished with five and a half QB takedowns.
- 45:08Speaker 3: Messy Pot did escaping again.
- 45:10Speaker 1: Chase by Loy put down, but they won't have the
- 45:13Speaker 1: services of Trey Hendrickson left off a seven game four
- 45:16Speaker 1: sax season.
- 45:17Speaker 10: And he gets hit by Trey hendricks Hit.
- 45:20Speaker 1: No more Joseph Asai either, he gave him five bags.
- 45:24Speaker 10: Pot hit hid down.
- 45:28Speaker 1: The new faces that will roam the secondary. Kyle Duggar
- 45:31Speaker 1: comes over from Pittsburgh to interceptions.
- 45:34Speaker 3: You've got the.
- 45:34Speaker 4: Left sideline picks Jaspas Ted waltzes into the end zone.
- 45:38Speaker 1: They hope safety Brian Cook can help. We'll have to
- 45:41Speaker 1: play the pass better than he did. For KC gave
- 45:44Speaker 1: up a rating close to one twenty. At least he
- 45:46Speaker 1: came up with eighty five tackles, knocked down six passes.
- 45:51Speaker 7: And let's say complais chop breaking it up by Cook.
- 45:54Speaker 1: They cut ties with safety Gino Stone, who gave up
- 45:57Speaker 1: a one oh five rate but two picks and over
- 45:59Speaker 1: a hundred tackles.
- 46:01Speaker 10: Ten five touchdownn Jeno Stone.
- 46:05Speaker 6: And no more.
- 46:06Speaker 1: Cam Taylor Britt at corner had a rough twenty twenty
- 46:09Speaker 1: five when we played in eight games. Returning cornerback Dax
- 46:13Speaker 1: Hill held his targets to a sub ninety rate. Ten passes,
- 46:16Speaker 1: defense made eighty eight tackles, all.
- 46:18Speaker 9: Started from the Pressler and Dax Hill danceIt.
- 46:21Speaker 1: Cornerback DJ Turner held it down to an eighty two rating,
- 46:24Speaker 1: picked off two balls and knocked down a hefty eighteen passes.
- 46:29Speaker 7: And almost picked off incomplete Dicks.
- 46:32Speaker 1: Corners Jalen Davis Josh Newton fared well enough with their
- 46:36Speaker 1: limited reps, both sub ninety rates. Safety Jordan Battle four interceptions,
- 46:41Speaker 1: two forced fumbles, one hundred and twenty five tackles a
- 46:44Speaker 1: sub ninety rate.
- 46:46Speaker 10: Go up here coming for rush. It passed over the
- 46:48Speaker 10: middle and it is intercepted off of ricochet by Jordan Battle.
- 46:53Speaker 1: And they drafted to Carrio Davis in the third round as.
- 46:56Speaker 6: A big old corner just under six foot four, one
- 47:00Speaker 6: hundred ninety four pounds. To see the cop right there
- 47:01Speaker 6: at the bottom, we can jump to that and Reek
- 47:03Speaker 6: Wollan here You see his recovery ability to go track,
- 47:05Speaker 6: get the football down the field. Reek Wolan had ball skills.
- 47:08Speaker 6: This dude does as well. It's just rare to find
- 47:11Speaker 6: this highweight speed combination when you're almost six foot four
- 47:14Speaker 6: and you're someone who runs a four to four one.
- 47:16Speaker 1: Joe Burrow in company don't need that group to play
- 47:19Speaker 1: like the eighty five Bears. Just can't look like a
- 47:21Speaker 1: fifty year old dad playing Madden for the first time
- 47:24Speaker 1: against his twelve year old gamer son.
- 47:26Speaker 10: Oh hey, what twenty one?
- 47:30Speaker 1: Heck, even with Burrow out half the year, Bengals offense
- 47:34Speaker 1: still put up twenty four a game.
- 47:36Speaker 10: Sit down the middle of the field feb.
- 47:38Speaker 1: Fifth best on third down and second best in the
- 47:41Speaker 1: red zone.
- 47:42Speaker 10: Chase Bridans camp.
- 47:47Speaker 1: Half four burrow, proving Cougars and Bengals can get along.
- 47:51Speaker 1: Just find this offseason, by the way, truly, Joe still
- 47:56Speaker 1: has Chase out there.
- 48:00Speaker 10: All right, Chase going to the ground, makes the catch.
- 48:03Speaker 1: Jamar could probably put up one thousand yards in a
- 48:05Speaker 1: year with Daredevil at quarterback.
- 48:08Speaker 2: Jamar Chase turning defenders into invisible.
- 48:13Speaker 1: Men over fourteen hundred yards one and twenty five catches.
- 48:17Speaker 10: He does a jungle jump.
- 48:20Speaker 1: Eight tds between two Joes and two JB's last season,
- 48:24Speaker 1: this is caw.
- 48:26Speaker 8: Oh my goodness.
- 48:28Speaker 1: Matt Murdoch could track him and the defender's heart beats
- 48:30Speaker 1: and footsteps, so that's not really a stretch.
- 48:33Speaker 10: Few what No.
- 48:34Speaker 1: One eight T Higgins eight hundred and forty six yards
- 48:37Speaker 1: eleven scores.
- 48:38Speaker 10: Hot by Higgins. He's in the ten five.
- 48:41Speaker 1: Touchdown miss two games otherwise goes for a k again.
- 48:46Speaker 8: Oh no, what to say? Good forday to be great.
- 48:49Speaker 1: Andre Yoshibosh there for the scraps. Four hundred and thirty
- 48:53Speaker 1: five yards Zoe touchdown, Yo s boss, He's a good receiver.
- 48:58Speaker 1: There's just only so much pizza to go around.
- 49:01Speaker 10: Fires caught over the metal.
- 49:03Speaker 1: And Cincinnati's tight end has to eat too, though they
- 49:06Speaker 1: said goodbye to Noah Fant. Three tds close to three hundred.
- 49:09Speaker 10: Yards of the field that is caught by Noah bat.
- 49:13Speaker 1: That leaves Drew Sample and Mike Gasicki two scores and
- 49:16Speaker 1: over three hundred yards for him.
- 49:17Speaker 3: Burrough slated one to the end zone.
- 49:20Speaker 1: It's Kasicki not to mention Chase Brown, who caught sixty
- 49:24Speaker 1: nine passes out of the backfield, five receiving touchdowns.
- 49:31Speaker 10: The up Chase down to fucking gone, he's touchdown.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Brown quietly had a really nice year my practice Bay,
- 49:41Speaker 1: Let's go four hundred and thirty seven receiving yards.
- 49:44Speaker 8: The song has run by Chase though, how song over one.
- 49:47Speaker 1: Thousand rushing yards.
- 49:49Speaker 10: And he scores on a twelve yard touchdown run.
- 49:52Speaker 1: Six tds down low too, That's a big time Chase Brown.
- 49:56Speaker 3: I was such a sick run base.
- 49:58Speaker 1: Bengals even got improved past protection from its line. Double
- 50:01Speaker 1: on pressure eight faced middle of the pack, thirty six
- 50:05Speaker 1: sacks taken. Also mid at least right tackle Marius Mims
- 50:13Speaker 1: gave up six and a half sacks. Left tackle Orlando
- 50:16Speaker 1: Brown eight and a half pass pro plagued them in
- 50:19Speaker 1: past years, so even slight improvement makes a difference. All
- 50:23Speaker 1: five guys from last year return and they're happy with
- 50:26Speaker 1: Evan McPherson kicking made eighty nine percent of his field
- 50:30Speaker 1: goal tries forty one of forty four from the proverbial
- 50:33Speaker 1: free throw line.
- 50:34Speaker 10: Here's yeah, yeah, God have the Bengals have knocked out
- 50:40Speaker 10: the Steelers.
- 50:41Speaker 1: So not much different with their offense. They're running it
- 50:44Speaker 1: back with the same group that trotted out Week one,
- 50:47Speaker 1: and why not. It's as lethal a group as you're
- 50:49Speaker 1: gonna find. Burrow, though has missed significant time three times now,
- 50:54Speaker 1: this will be your seven for Joe to their defense.
- 50:57Speaker 1: That front is deep. Is it good? Mafey replaces Hendrickson,
- 51:01Speaker 1: though it's not a full year of Trey production. He's
- 51:04Speaker 1: replacing Howell, Infosi and check it out. Murphy, Allen, Lawrence, Mafey,
- 51:10Speaker 1: and Stuart are all former first rounders. Secondary a blend
- 51:15Speaker 1: of new and old. Cook, Dougger and Davis new to
- 51:19Speaker 1: the stripes. Rest of the guys expected to play plenty
- 51:22Speaker 1: of snaps played plenty for the Bengals last year. Now
- 51:25Speaker 1: to the schedule, they have the third easiest schedule in
- 51:29Speaker 1: the NFL. If you go by twenty twenty six expected
- 51:32Speaker 1: win totals. That's good news, being Cincinnati's been given a
- 51:36Speaker 1: nine and a half over under chip. They have a
- 51:38Speaker 1: pretty high ceiling because of that. They only hit it
- 51:41Speaker 1: if their defense isn't a train wreck. Again, but let's
- 51:44Speaker 1: say they win every game against teams under that mark.
- 51:47Speaker 1: They beat Tampa Bay, lose on the road to Houston
- 51:50Speaker 1: since they're on equal ground. Take Pittsburgh, beat Jacksonville since
- 51:54Speaker 1: that's a home game, Beat Miami Tennessee all four of
- 51:58Speaker 1: those seven and a half teams as well as Cleveland.
- 52:01Speaker 1: Take Carolina and Indianapolis and sweep Cleveland. That would be
- 52:06Speaker 1: a nice thirteen win year. Looking inside the game preview,
- 52:10Speaker 1: guy Bag, I don't know if I see thirteen wins
- 52:13Speaker 1: because I'm not sure I trust that defense to that level.
- 52:16Speaker 1: But Burrow, Higgs, Chase and Chase plus that schedule worth
- 52:20Speaker 1: more than nine dubs, right,