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Talkin' Pros & Amateurs with Joe DeLeon · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, presented by Draft Kings. The crown
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Speaker 1: is yours. We are an Action Network podcast.
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Speaker 2: I'm Brandon Kravitz, your host, back at it with the
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Speaker 2: first lady of the podcast, Kendra Middleton, returning once again.
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Speaker 2: We've got a season preview with Joe Dalleone coming up.
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Speaker 2: Joe does NFL draft content, college football content, NFL content
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Speaker 2: in general for a to Z Sports also on the
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Speaker 2: twenty four to seven Sports channel. So we're we have
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Speaker 2: a lot to dig into. Excited to talk about some
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Speaker 2: of the teams that we're buying stock on before the
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Speaker 2: NFL season. We've got some Heisman questions, a.
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Speaker 1: Lot to discuss. But I have a lot to discuss.
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Speaker 2: The lady that is looking at me via the virtual
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Speaker 2: site that we're on right now, the returning Kendra Middleton.
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Speaker 2: Your summer of fun is just about wrapped up? How
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Speaker 2: is the latest trip to Albania of all plays?
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Speaker 3: Just yeah, just about ending.
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Speaker 4: I do have to pack up my microphone after this
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Speaker 4: because I am doing a staycation in Provincetown next week,
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Speaker 4: so I will be broadcasting from Peetown because you know,
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Speaker 4: why not?
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Speaker 3: But it was good.
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Speaker 4: I loved Grease more than Albania, I have to say,
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Speaker 4: And I.
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Speaker 3: Didn't think that it would be that way. But Albania
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Speaker 3: was good. It was great. It's just the culture over
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Speaker 3: there was a little strange, like everybody was kind of
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Speaker 3: they were kind of I don't want to say that
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Speaker 3: they were rude, but they were like kind of mean.
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Speaker 4: And it's like I live in Boston, so like I'm
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Speaker 4: used to massholes, but they were just like a different
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Speaker 4: kind of asshole.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. And the food wasn't that good.
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Speaker 4: It was beautiful and very affordable, but I I preferred
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Speaker 4: grease you guys. I gotta say, I'm glad that I went.
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Speaker 4: I'm glad I explored. I'm glad I checked it off
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Speaker 4: my bucket list.
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Speaker 1: I guess.
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Speaker 3: One funny story was we went on like a.
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Speaker 4: Boat tour one day and this the captain of the
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Speaker 4: boat had the skipper asked me on a date for him,
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Speaker 4: and I said, absolutely not.
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Speaker 5: Be a man.
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Speaker 1: You got to step up to the flight. You want
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Speaker 1: to take the swing, come on me to be your wife.
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Speaker 3: If you can't ask me on a date, bitch, get
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Speaker 3: out of here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, We've got standards here.
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Speaker 2: Would we do not accept your your forward progress here
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Speaker 2: on the favorite podcast I will admit is you've called
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Speaker 2: me an uncultured Swan a few times during our time
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Speaker 2: podcasting together. I did have to look up where Albania
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Speaker 2: was on the map.
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Speaker 4: I will say, if you're going to go to that
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Speaker 4: part of the world, Croatia next question, not even close.
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Speaker 4: My favorite place I've ever been Croatia. Before it gets
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Speaker 4: too popular or expensive.
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Speaker 1: Go.
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Speaker 2: I have used to work in the bar and restaurant industry,
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Speaker 2: and I've worked with a couple of cooks from Croatia.
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Speaker 1: Some of the coolest people that I've ever.
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Speaker 4: Met, the best, great great food, Greek culture, great people,
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Speaker 4: my favorite, very.
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Speaker 1: Direct but friendly. It's kind of the vibe that I got,
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Speaker 1: and I love people. I love people like that. There's
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Speaker 1: the honest cut through the bullshit. But they're but.
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Speaker 2: They're not rude like I guess the Albania Sorry I
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Speaker 2: found Hey Albanians are listening. Uh So we have much
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Speaker 2: to discuss here. You tell me where you want to focus.
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Speaker 2: I've got a uh I've got a list that I've
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Speaker 2: formed on my on my phone.
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Speaker 4: And we go through your list and I give you
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Speaker 4: like one sentence or less synopsis.
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Speaker 1: Perfect. I love when we show prep on the fly, like.
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Speaker 2: This, Tony Romo pulled over for a dui. I watched
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Speaker 2: all three minutes of this video. It was so embarrassing.
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Speaker 2: I was just cringe watching this. Let me let me
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Speaker 2: call my attorney. No, sir, you have to step out
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Speaker 2: of the car. Then he starts warming up, says.
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Speaker 3: He wasn't drinking.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was drinking because he was he was golfing
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Speaker 2: on a for a USGA events like you wire first
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Speaker 2: of all, but uh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: An gave me the act. Do we think he keeps
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Speaker 3: his job?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I think you do.
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Speaker 4: You know how drunk you have to be in Wisconsin
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Speaker 4: to get a dui? By the way, they have like
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Speaker 4: multiple my mom's families from Wisconsin. My uncles a cop
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Speaker 4: in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 3: Do you know how fucked up you have to be
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Speaker 3: to get a dui?
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Speaker 2: There?
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Speaker 1: Bad?
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Speaker 2: I think that's the dui capital of the country. I
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Speaker 2: believe far Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Because they like yeah, yes, because you had yes.
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Speaker 1: Okay, next question, Okay, Tony Romo keeps his job.
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Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan is actually getting some credit for something that
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Speaker 2: he did wrong. Kyle Shanahan got into a bad car
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Speaker 2: crash driving his Tesla, and admitted that the reporting was inaccurate,
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Speaker 2: that it was the twenty.
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Speaker 1: One year old that hit him.
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Speaker 2: It was actually his fault because not because he was texting,
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Speaker 2: because he reached for his phone that dropped in between
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Speaker 2: his seats.
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Speaker 1: Do you give him credit or blame?
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Speaker 4: I have a hot take on this, Actually, Kyle Shanahan
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Speaker 4: might be a bad guy because it took you two
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Speaker 4: weeks to say this.
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Speaker 3: Well, you knew this poor girl was.
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Speaker 4: Getting bashed online and how the media was going to
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Speaker 4: handle this. You assumed that the beat reporters in San
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Speaker 4: Francisco in the Bay Area were stupid and not going
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Speaker 4: to follow up on this or do any actual research.
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Speaker 4: And you were correct, because now they're giving you the
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Speaker 4: benefit of the down being like, oh, you're a great guy,
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Speaker 4: when in reality, for two weeks you were happy to
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Speaker 4: cover this up and let this girl take the fall.
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Speaker 1: Well, but this wasn't public information for two.
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Speaker 3: Weeks though, because they covered it up for two weeks.
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Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is I don't think that this
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Speaker 2: whoever hit him was getting crucified by people online because
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Speaker 2: they didn't even know that this happened.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you knew that that's what was going to happen.
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Speaker 1: I figured it was power plant related.
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Speaker 2: But moving on, Jalen Carter extended biggest contracts in NFL
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Speaker 2: history for a defensive tackle. They've moved on from aj Brown.
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Speaker 2: They paid the guy that anchors their defense. I imagine we
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Speaker 2: both give this two thumbs up. It's kind of a
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Speaker 2: move that you have to make. He's one of the best.
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Speaker 3: Yes, move you have to make. Two thumbs up. Just
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Speaker 3: make sure you don't let him buy a new car
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Speaker 3: and that he keeps us spit in his mouth.
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Speaker 2: By the way, how much of the Quarterback Documentary have
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Speaker 2: you made your way through?
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Speaker 3: On half of it?
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Speaker 1: Did you see the part where Baker Mayfield was talking
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Speaker 1: shit to Jalen Carter in the bucksho So you're still
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Speaker 1: spitting it people?
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Speaker 3: So yep.
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Speaker 4: I've grown a lot to love Baker Mayfield in this docuseries.
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Speaker 4: I feel bad that I'm like shitting on him for
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Speaker 4: the season, but I've learned to really love and appreciate
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Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield through the Quarterback Documentary on Netflix.
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Speaker 2: I agree on all fronts, the Bucks fade, but also
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Speaker 2: the Baker Mayfield love prove us wrong.
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Speaker 1: Baker as you love to do.
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Speaker 2: Justin Herbert engaged to his pop star wife with a
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Speaker 2: rock that is the size of an iceberg.
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Speaker 3: You better take her last name. That's all I have to.
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Speaker 2: Say, Justin Beer, that would be pretty cool. Is this
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Speaker 2: the only ring that he wins? I will steal a
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Speaker 2: popular refrain from the social media. Okay, your boy Drake
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Speaker 2: May off target quite a bit with AJ Brown. AJ
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Speaker 2: Brown also said already saying that Drake May is not
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Speaker 2: throwing the ball enough, and so it sounds like we're
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Speaker 2: getting some birds vintage AJ Brown early on into his experience.
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Speaker 1: Is that accurate? I love it.
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Speaker 4: I think it's going to poison this locker room even
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Speaker 4: more than Rabel already has any kind of listen. I
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Speaker 4: the more that I work in this industry, I'm just
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Speaker 4: here for the storylines, baby, That's all I care about,
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Speaker 4: all right.
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Speaker 2: Final thing is one of the quarterbacks that I've unfortunately
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Speaker 2: hitched my wagon to financially is to a tag of Ailoa.
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Speaker 2: He is sidelined with what the team considers a flare
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Speaker 2: up of an undisclosed injury, so he's not practicing now.
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Speaker 2: Michael Pennix is still doing seven on seven drills, so
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Speaker 2: he's not a full participant in practice either. They have
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Speaker 2: since added Cooper Rush because somebody has to throw the
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Speaker 2: ball at Falcons practice. Should I hyperventilate into a brown bag?
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Speaker 4: Yes, But I've been telling you that since you started
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Speaker 4: this whole debacle.
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Speaker 3: I think to and Os he sucks.
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Speaker 4: I think he knows he's losing the starting job and
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Speaker 4: he doesn't want to embarrass himself, so he's going.
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Speaker 3: My neck, my back.
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Speaker 1: That's all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my hold or less.
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Speaker 2: Those very well done. I wanted Penix the whole time.
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Speaker 6: video games, so it's it's satisfying my taste.
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Speaker 4: Okay, gamer to gamer, what do you play on Xbox
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Speaker 4: PlayStation PC?
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Speaker 5: I'm on Xbox too.
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Speaker 6: I've been stuck with Xbox all the way through since
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Speaker 6: I was a child. I will not switch off. PC's
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Speaker 6: a little too nuance for me.
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Speaker 5: I can't do that.
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Speaker 2: I'm one of the rare few that started as an
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Speaker 2: Xbox guy and then transition to PlayStation for some reason.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was so I got caught
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Speaker 2: between generations or something like that, but I had theg
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Speaker 2: the og Xbox when that came out.
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Speaker 1: So I remember playing the original Halo.
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Speaker 2: I think my character is still lost in space somewhere,
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Speaker 2: but anyway, let's move on.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to see if you could either gas.
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Speaker 2: Us up or throw some water on some of our
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Speaker 2: wildest predictions, or at least our boldest takes. Going in
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Speaker 2: to the NFL season, Kendra is on the New York Giants.
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Speaker 2: Cam Scattabo is probably a walking human concussion with the
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Speaker 2: way that he plays. He saw him do the backflip
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Speaker 2: heard around the world that he did not land at
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Speaker 2: least a four. If we're grading that in the gymnastics world.
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Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors now multiple knee surgeries in the offseason, But
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Speaker 2: they got a new coach in John Hartball over under
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Speaker 2: seven and a half wins is where they're sitting right now.
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Speaker 2: Where are you with this team.
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Speaker 6: I've got a lot of cautious optimism for the Giants
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Speaker 6: because I see where the buy in is.
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Speaker 5: I see that you have an actual adult in the
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Speaker 5: room leading this team.
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Speaker 6: My biggest criticism of Brian da Ball was that it
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Speaker 6: just very clearly he was not the guy that was
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Speaker 6: able to get everybody locked in and focused. There were
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Speaker 6: just too many little issues, lack of preparation, too many
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Speaker 6: penalties and silly moments, blown assignments, and then Abdul Carter
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Speaker 6: wasn't even showing up when he needed to be in
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Speaker 6: the facility. It just went to show that they needed
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Speaker 6: somebody who was more of a disciplinarian, somebody who was
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Speaker 6: a culture builder like Harball, and I think we're going
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Speaker 6: to see rapid improvements. I think that defensively this team
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Speaker 6: is going to be really good. I think that it's
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Speaker 6: a no brainer that their pass rush is going to
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Speaker 6: be disruptive. I think their secondary is going to improve,
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Speaker 6: and I love what they're doing at linebacker, but offensively,
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Speaker 6: it could go so many different ways. I don't really
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Speaker 6: feel very safe with how the receiver room looks right now.
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Speaker 6: Neighbor's coming off of the second operation. Now he's off
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Speaker 6: the pup list, which is exciting, which is great positive news.
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Speaker 6: But even if he does get back, he's ready to
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Speaker 6: go at the beginning of the year. I don't feel
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Speaker 6: threatened by the second third receivers in this room. You know,
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Speaker 6: is Darius Slayton ever actually gonna do anything? Can Darnell
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Speaker 6: Mooney show a little bit of juice? Can Calvin Austen
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Speaker 6: be a solid player in the slot because we know
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Speaker 6: that Dart loves to target guys in the slot. Is
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Speaker 6: Isaiah likely just going to be that replacement for whoever
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Speaker 6: would have been a quality wide receiver too?
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Speaker 5: In this offense that remains to be seen.
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Speaker 6: Are they gonna be able to run the ball the
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Speaker 6: way that they're expecting to And is Dart as good
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Speaker 6: as everybody hopes that he can be. You showed positive signs,
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Speaker 6: but there's plenty of quarterbacks that have decent, solid rookie
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Speaker 6: years that go on to collapse, especially with a new
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Speaker 6: OC and a new head coach, so I got to
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Speaker 6: see this offense start to hit the ground running. It
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Speaker 6: probably won't happen until the middle of the year, after
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Speaker 6: everything's been figured out and what the identity of this
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Speaker 6: team is going to be. But seven and a half
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Speaker 6: is low enough that I'm willing to take the risk
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Speaker 6: on it and to jump on that. Where if they
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Speaker 6: go eight to nine, or if they go nine to eight,
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Speaker 6: they just barely get into the playoffs, they just barely
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Speaker 6: miss the playoffs, whatever it is. I think that that
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Speaker 6: is attainable. Looking at their schedule, it is accomplishable for
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Speaker 6: them to get that done.
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Speaker 3: I want to follow on your disciplinarian take.
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Speaker 4: I hear so often that the new generation of football
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Speaker 4: player is so so often you have to manage these
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Speaker 4: young kids so differently. The Giants are a really young team,
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Speaker 4: and we find so often, like the mcveigh's of the world,
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Speaker 4: those tight pants offensive minds who are younger guys and
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Speaker 4: can relate to their players being successful with younger teams.
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Speaker 4: What do you think the kind of ceiling or floor
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Speaker 4: is with the ability for him to be able to
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Speaker 4: relate to such a young locker room?
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Speaker 3: Is that going to hinder them or help them.
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Speaker 6: I think it's going to help them because again, a
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Speaker 6: lot of their problems last year were things that stemmed
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Speaker 6: from poor overall coaching and kind of to the regard
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Speaker 6: of you know, Dave Ball was a younger coach, he
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Speaker 6: was the offensive mind.
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Speaker 5: He was way too loose. He was just way too
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Speaker 5: loose with how he was handling the team. It showed
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Speaker 5: up in so many instances where there would be a brutal.
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Speaker 6: Penalty with awful timing, a miss assignment on defense, somebody
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Speaker 6: would just be left.
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Speaker 5: Wide open, a big play would be created.
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Speaker 6: There were plenty of visinesses with reports of concerns with
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Speaker 6: the team just being bought in overall. And I think
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Speaker 6: that Harbaugh, maybe disciplinarian might not have been like the
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Speaker 6: total perfect word for him, even though he's by modern standards,
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Speaker 6: is a disciplinarian. But I think that both Harbaughs have
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Speaker 6: shown that they know how to connect with younger players,
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Speaker 6: but know how to get the most out of them,
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Speaker 6: and I think that's what the team was missing. It
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Speaker 6: was less about needing somebody who was going to put
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Speaker 6: their foot down and treat them very sternly, but more
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Speaker 6: so somebody who knew how to get the most out
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Speaker 6: of the roster. I think that Adol Carter is a
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Speaker 6: guy who needed to be motivated. Not every single guy
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Speaker 6: is going to be intrinsically motivated to succeed. Not saying
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Speaker 6: that Carter is lazy, but you sometimes need the right
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Speaker 6: coach in order to get that player to see what
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Speaker 6: the vision is for their success. Sometimes when you're Ablol
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Speaker 6: Carter and you're at Penn State and you're kicking everybody's butt,
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Speaker 6: you're going to think that, Oh, I just need to
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Speaker 6: show up and do my thing. I don't need to
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Speaker 6: do anything beyond that. If I miss a meeting, I'm
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Speaker 6: Abdul Carter. I was the third overall pick. But you
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Speaker 6: can't do that in the NFL. You need a coach
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Speaker 6: that's going to be able to instill Hey, I've been
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Speaker 6: around this long, I've won a Super Bowl. You need
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Speaker 6: to be a part of this so that you can
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Speaker 6: follow the track of the guys before you.
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Speaker 2: With that division the NFC East, I'm having trouble like
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Speaker 2: I am with a lot of these divisions because we
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Speaker 2: spend so much time gassing these teams up, trying to
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Speaker 2: figure out who's going to finish and last. And it's
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Speaker 2: kind of the latest project that I've been taking on
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Speaker 2: in looking at my divisional previews. Because we spend so
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Speaker 2: much time at the top, somebody's got to finish in
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Speaker 2: the last place. The Giants are catching hype. I'm really
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Speaker 2: high on the Cowboys this year. The Eagles probably aren't
17:12
Speaker 2: going away completely, and the Commanders already had their slide
17:16
Speaker 2: last year. If you had to pick a fourth place
17:19
Speaker 2: team in the NFC East, who is it.
17:23
Speaker 5: It's such a tough question.
17:24
Speaker 6: And when I've done like win total projections for some
17:29
Speaker 6: of these teams, I have approached the NFC East with
17:32
Speaker 6: the thought of, like, I think a lot of these
17:33
Speaker 6: teams are gonna split with one another for the most part,
17:36
Speaker 6: But I think that sadly, you do have to go
17:39
Speaker 6: with the Giants to probably finish in in last, which
17:42
Speaker 6: is kind of crazy considering I said I'd be willing
17:44
Speaker 6: to take the over on their win total. But if
17:47
Speaker 6: we're just comparing roster to roster and where all these
17:50
Speaker 6: teams are situationally, the Giants are in the circumstance where
17:54
Speaker 6: they're probably gonna finish at the bottom. They have the
17:56
Speaker 6: worst quarterback in the Division. Just put it as simply
17:58
Speaker 6: as that Jackson Dart is not better than Aid Daniels.
18:00
Speaker 6: He's not better than Dak Prescott. He's not better than
18:03
Speaker 6: Jalen Hurts, at least not right now. I think that
18:05
Speaker 6: he could maybe play catch up with some of those players.
18:08
Speaker 6: But when they have all of those question marks on
18:13
Speaker 6: offense and the rest of the division is gearing up
18:16
Speaker 6: to go on runs, it puts the Giants in a
18:19
Speaker 6: really difficult spot. It doesn't mean that they can't, to me,
18:22
Speaker 6: unexpectedly beat teams that they're not supposed to on their
18:25
Speaker 6: upcoming schedule and hit that projection like we're talking about,
18:28
Speaker 6: but the commanders of the team that are going to
18:30
Speaker 6: get brought up as the potential team to finish in
18:32
Speaker 6: last and I loved what the Commanders did this offseason.
18:34
Speaker 6: I think that defensively, Sonny Styles and then all these
18:38
Speaker 6: other pieces that they brought in are only going to
18:40
Speaker 6: set up this team to be increasingly better than the
18:44
Speaker 6: really shaky twenty twenty five that they had. So Dan
18:47
Speaker 6: Quinn's too good of a coach for me to doubt
18:50
Speaker 6: him and to believe that with the roster that he
18:52
Speaker 6: put together in his vision with a lot more flexibility
18:56
Speaker 6: with more money to spend in early draft picks that
18:58
Speaker 6: they won't get back on track and at least be
19:01
Speaker 6: the third team in this division.
19:02
Speaker 4: The Cowboys have the roster to win this division, but
19:05
Speaker 4: it's always the big question of can they put it
19:07
Speaker 4: together for the entirety of a season.
19:09
Speaker 3: They also have an extremely easy schedule.
19:12
Speaker 4: In a lot of people's opinions this year, what do
19:14
Speaker 4: you think about them and how much.
19:15
Speaker 3: Do you take an easy schedule into consideration.
19:18
Speaker 5: I think the.
19:19
Speaker 6: Upcoming schedule is obviously very important now those things. It's
19:22
Speaker 6: a little lot less for me than like with college football,
19:25
Speaker 6: where you can go into the season expecting certain teams
19:28
Speaker 6: to be within a spectrum of how good or bad
19:31
Speaker 6: they are. But I feel like in the NFL, strength
19:34
Speaker 6: of schedule before the season always ends up completely flipping
19:37
Speaker 6: on its head because there's always gonna be plenty of
19:39
Speaker 6: teams that completely regress in some that deal with a
19:42
Speaker 6: major injury, whatever it might be.
19:43
Speaker 5: But the Cowboys.
19:45
Speaker 6: Are really unpredictable to me because their roster it's shaped
19:50
Speaker 6: up to be really successful this upcoming year. Their offense
19:53
Speaker 6: was ridiculously productive last year. They have all the pieces
19:56
Speaker 6: I think that their offensive line continues to be the
19:59
Speaker 6: epit of consistency, even though they have had stretches where
20:02
Speaker 6: they haven't been up to that normal standard. But defensively,
20:06
Speaker 6: they did everything that they needed to. Everybody that they
20:08
Speaker 6: brought in is setting up this defense to be so
20:12
Speaker 6: much better.
20:13
Speaker 5: They were awful last year, the very.
20:14
Speaker 6: Bottom of the NFL in every major metric that you
20:17
Speaker 6: look for, not just statistically in terms of how many
20:20
Speaker 6: yards they gave up, but like efficiency metrics, they were terrible.
20:23
Speaker 5: If they're marginally.
20:24
Speaker 6: Better with an offense that was as productive as it
20:27
Speaker 6: was and Dak plays as good as he did last season,
20:30
Speaker 6: this team should be in the playoff picture, and there
20:33
Speaker 6: was a major jump in the personnel in the interior
20:35
Speaker 6: of the defense. The draft selection of Caleb Downs I
20:39
Speaker 6: think could end up being one of the best picks
20:42
Speaker 6: of the twenty twenty six NFL draft, because you're dropping
20:46
Speaker 6: in the most cerebral player of the class, one of
20:50
Speaker 6: the most instinctive prospects that I've evaluated that any many
20:53
Speaker 6: people have evaluated. He is going to realistically improve a
20:57
Speaker 6: unit that was all over the place mess and they've
21:00
Speaker 6: gotten new defensive direction with Eberflus gone. I think that
21:06
Speaker 6: there is a lot to get excited about with Dallas,
21:08
Speaker 6: but just naturally, it feels risky to get invested in
21:13
Speaker 6: Jerry Jones and Schottenheimer when they continually keep falling short.
21:18
Speaker 6: But it just doesn't seem like it's gonna be a
21:20
Speaker 6: season where they don't at least finish in second in
21:23
Speaker 6: the division.
21:24
Speaker 2: You gotta find their way back to a super Bowl
21:26
Speaker 2: at some point before Jerry leaves God's Green Earth, So
21:30
Speaker 2: that would not that that should be factored into your analysis.
21:33
Speaker 4: But I don't even get I watched his press conference
21:37
Speaker 4: this morning with his.
21:38
Speaker 3: Stupid hat on, and I was just like, Ah, I
21:40
Speaker 3: hate you.
21:43
Speaker 1: The guy's a goof, but he cares.
21:44
Speaker 2: The guy gives a shit, and I appreciate that about
21:47
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones. Stuck stucky is big on the other team
21:51
Speaker 2: in Texas, that is, of course, the Houston Texans. This
21:57
Speaker 2: could be a sleeper to win the AFC Championship. Defense
22:00
Speaker 2: is top of the line. We don't worry about that.
22:02
Speaker 2: There's zero question marks on that side of the ball.
22:05
Speaker 2: But it's hard to shake the memory of CJ. Stroud
22:09
Speaker 2: with four interceptions against the New England Patriots. They added
22:12
Speaker 2: some depth to that offensive line. David Montgomery's there to
22:16
Speaker 2: help an anemic run game. That's huge. If he's able
22:20
Speaker 2: to be a factor on offense for them and actually
22:22
Speaker 2: play that CJ. Stroud is that's like his safety blanket.
22:27
Speaker 2: Having tanked Dell out there, Where are you on the Texans?
22:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're might pick for the AFC South, and I
22:35
Speaker 6: also agree with the notion that I think that they
22:38
Speaker 6: could be an AFC sleeper. I'm more excited about this
22:42
Speaker 6: Texans team than I am about the Bills or the Ravens, which,
22:46
Speaker 6: if I recall correctly, they're higher up in the odds
22:48
Speaker 6: to win the Super Bowl this upcoming year. Defensively, we
22:52
Speaker 6: know how good they are the unreal loaded defense. They
22:54
Speaker 6: somehow got better by drafting Kid McDonald, who I thought
22:57
Speaker 6: was the perfect pick for them in the second round
22:59
Speaker 6: to drop him into that defense. He's so good at
23:02
Speaker 6: eating up space, he doesn't need to do anything more
23:04
Speaker 6: than that. You have Will Anderson and daneil Hunter, which
23:07
Speaker 6: is arguably best pass rush tandem in the NFL right now.
23:11
Speaker 6: Your secondary is unbelievable. It's just such a well coached,
23:14
Speaker 6: consistent defense. But they needed to address helping CJ.
23:19
Speaker 5: Straft. To put it simply, they needed to.
23:21
Speaker 6: Support him better and they were aggressive about that. They
23:25
Speaker 6: did what they could in order to bring in veterans
23:27
Speaker 6: along the offensive line. I like the Kaitlyn Rutledge pick
23:31
Speaker 6: I think that he is very underrated. It was he
23:33
Speaker 6: was draft a little higher than I would have taken him,
23:35
Speaker 6: but quick, he's mean, he's a finisher. And I like
23:39
Speaker 6: the David Montgomery pick up as well, because they didn't
23:42
Speaker 6: run the ball.
23:42
Speaker 5: Effectively last year.
23:44
Speaker 6: A lot of that stem from the offensive line. But
23:45
Speaker 6: when you've got a dude who's willing to fight through
23:47
Speaker 6: contact like Montgomery, you can get a lot out of
23:50
Speaker 6: him in Marx. Now that you've got a more developed
23:53
Speaker 6: tandem and Tank Dell returning isn't even like the biggest
23:57
Speaker 6: piece for this receiver room. I think that the Jayden
24:00
Speaker 6: Higgins Jalen Nole development going into their second years could
24:03
Speaker 6: be even bigger. But knowing all these different options that
24:06
Speaker 6: Stroud has, this is a make or break year for him.
24:09
Speaker 6: I think that if they don't get at least to
24:13
Speaker 6: the second round of the NFL playoffs and they don't
24:14
Speaker 6: start to go towards a little bit of run be
24:16
Speaker 6: knocking on the door of the AFC Championship Game. I
24:18
Speaker 6: think that that would be an underperformance, and then we
24:21
Speaker 6: can start to call in the question is Stroud really
24:24
Speaker 6: capable of entering the upper echelon of quarterbacks.
24:27
Speaker 1: In the NFL?
24:28
Speaker 4: Did you see the video of him walking into the
24:30
Speaker 4: facility yesterday where he looked like he pooped his pants?
24:33
Speaker 1: I did.
24:33
Speaker 6: That's a bad, bad fit, bad haircut. I'm sorry, CJ,
24:38
Speaker 6: but that was a bad look. It made me kind
24:41
Speaker 6: of regret because I've done a number of videos on
24:43
Speaker 6: the Texans now where I've talked about him, and I
24:45
Speaker 6: saw that video of him walking in. I was like,
24:47
Speaker 6: oh my god, I might need to change my pick
24:49
Speaker 6: after that.
24:49
Speaker 2: For real, I'm not cool enough to use the word riz,
24:52
Speaker 2: but I don't know what else to use here.
24:55
Speaker 1: He has none, no riz for.
24:59
Speaker 3: Okay, there's no motion you cannot get in.
25:02
Speaker 4: Okay, this is where we are going to become enemies
25:05
Speaker 4: or friends.
25:05
Speaker 3: Talk to me about my Jacksonville Jaguars.
25:09
Speaker 5: Oh no, I don't like their offseason. Their draft was terrible.
25:14
Speaker 5: I'd just be quite honest. I don't think.
25:17
Speaker 6: They didn't make any major free agent moves that make
25:20
Speaker 6: me feel secure about what they're doing.
25:22
Speaker 5: And their draft class didn't really excite me.
25:25
Speaker 6: They didn't bring in any pieces that are taking the
25:28
Speaker 6: team over the top. Maybe there's some development or building
25:31
Speaker 6: of depth that nobody understands and it's just on like
25:34
Speaker 6: a different plane that we're not selling. Please, maybe one
25:39
Speaker 6: of those guys pops off. Maybe Bo Kirker ends up
25:41
Speaker 6: being a decent tight end. But I find it a
25:44
Speaker 6: little bit hard to believe because they took a lot
25:46
Speaker 6: of players earlier than many people projected that they were
25:49
Speaker 6: gonna go. I know it was the whole nuanced debate
25:52
Speaker 6: about consensus board and all that crap. We don't need
25:54
Speaker 6: to get into it, but I just think that you're
25:57
Speaker 6: banking on a lot of guys stepping up in replacement
26:01
Speaker 6: of players that are leaving. Like as much as Etchien
26:05
Speaker 6: was inconsistent, like is Mishal toutin? Like, is that gonna
26:09
Speaker 6: be a player for you that ends up emerging as
26:12
Speaker 6: a big play threat? Can he maybe be like the
26:14
Speaker 6: Bucky Irving of this team. I think that as well,
26:18
Speaker 6: like Travis Hunter needs to emerge as a more impactful player,
26:23
Speaker 6: he needs to stay healthy. I think that they need
26:24
Speaker 6: to be more direct about what his role is going
26:27
Speaker 6: to be. But it felt like a lot of things
26:29
Speaker 6: went their way last season, and it just I'm very
26:33
Speaker 6: I've got a lot of cautious I've got a very
26:35
Speaker 6: cautious outlook for them because their offseason was one of
26:38
Speaker 6: the least exciting out of any team in the NFL.
26:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a Jags podcast. Okay, so watch yourself.
26:45
Speaker 2: I know, no pleasure talking to you. We'll catch you
26:47
Speaker 2: next time. Okay, is that here?
26:51
Speaker 4: I disagree with you about Travis Hunter just because he
26:53
Speaker 4: when he was healthy, was the most statistically impactful person
26:56
Speaker 4: on both sides of the ball. But on the offensive side.
26:59
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on BTJ? He didn't show up
27:02
Speaker 4: to this little like throwing thing that Trevor and the
27:05
Speaker 4: rest of the offense did.
27:06
Speaker 3: He was notably missing.
27:07
Speaker 4: He has put on good weight. I know that it's
27:09
Speaker 4: a make or break season for him. Hot take time.
27:11
Speaker 3: Is he going to be back to rookie season? BTJ?
27:14
Speaker 3: Or is he cooked?
27:16
Speaker 6: I don't think he's cooked. I think that naturally a
27:18
Speaker 6: lot of guys. It's progression and growth as a player.
27:21
Speaker 5: It's not linear. Just because he had a down year
27:24
Speaker 5: last year. I think it just was the fact that
27:27
Speaker 5: he set such high expectations for himself.
27:29
Speaker 6: I think that also, you have a new offensive play
27:32
Speaker 6: caller and a new identity offensively, so like it's not
27:36
Speaker 6: going to immediately flow into the next year. I'm hold
27:39
Speaker 6: out hope because he's tremendously gifted. He is explosive, he's smooth,
27:43
Speaker 6: he is capable of being a.
27:45
Speaker 5: Huge, big play threat. I'm hold out hope.
27:47
Speaker 6: I think that he's going to be fine because he's
27:49
Speaker 6: only shown us what he's capable of. If he can
27:52
Speaker 6: bridge the gap of the low of last season in
27:54
Speaker 6: the really high quality twenty twenty four, if we can
27:56
Speaker 6: kind of meet in the middle, he's one of the
27:58
Speaker 6: better receivers in the end.
28:01
Speaker 2: So kind of going down the list of teams that
28:04
Speaker 2: we have planted our flag on throughout the course of
28:07
Speaker 2: the offseason, and while I'd be remissed if I didn't
28:10
Speaker 2: mention a team that I've been talking about since last
28:13
Speaker 2: year's Super Bowl, when I placed a way too early
28:16
Speaker 2: bet on the Atlanta Falcons, and I have since tripled
28:20
Speaker 2: down on that not for the Super Bowl. That was
28:23
Speaker 2: perhaps hasty and nature, but I do like them to
28:26
Speaker 2: win the NFC South, another division that is nearly impossible
28:30
Speaker 2: to figure out.
28:31
Speaker 1: I think they're the most talented team in the division.
28:34
Speaker 2: Obviously, we've got questions at quarterback that are only getting
28:37
Speaker 2: louder as both Tua and Michael Pennix are not practicing
28:41
Speaker 2: with the team right now. You can still get them
28:43
Speaker 2: plus four to twenty five to win the NFC South,
28:45
Speaker 2: a division that is completely up in the air, skill
28:48
Speaker 2: position players everywhere, and some real talent on defense, especially
28:52
Speaker 2: if James Pierce is able to evade prison.
28:54
Speaker 1: So where are you on the Atlanta Falcons.
28:59
Speaker 6: I think that the quarterback stuff is enough to get
29:02
Speaker 6: pretty scared about, and I understand that defensively, they went
29:06
Speaker 6: under the radar one of the best sack producing teams
29:09
Speaker 6: in the NFL last year, and whole James Pierce Junior
29:12
Speaker 6: things a little complicated to navigate because I don't think
29:15
Speaker 6: anybody expected that he'd be able to step on in
29:18
Speaker 6: the field this year with everything that went down with him.
29:21
Speaker 5: I just have a lot of pause because two is
29:25
Speaker 5: just not good.
29:26
Speaker 6: And you're already there was a report today on Wednesday
29:29
Speaker 6: that he's already dealing with lingering stuff, and he's just
29:32
Speaker 6: been constantly banged up over the past few years, and
29:36
Speaker 6: there's been a regression in his decision making.
29:39
Speaker 5: Is just overall, I don't feel threatened by him.
29:42
Speaker 6: I think that he was in the perfect situation to
29:44
Speaker 6: have produced the way that he did to earn the
29:46
Speaker 6: contract that he did with Tyreek and Waddle and a.
29:50
Speaker 5: Great play caller.
29:52
Speaker 6: Understandably, there's a lot of great pieces on this Falcons team.
29:55
Speaker 6: But I just I don't know if I trust him.
29:58
Speaker 6: I don't really trust Pennix because he's even more the
30:01
Speaker 6: crepit than to his whole entire career. Since college, he's
30:05
Speaker 6: been dealing with like serious major injuries that are starting
30:09
Speaker 6: to now catch up to him in the league, which
30:12
Speaker 6: is just frightening. Shoulders, knees, all these things are very
30:15
Speaker 6: very problematic. My pick that I like for the NFC
30:18
Speaker 6: South is the team that's right above them in the odds.
30:20
Speaker 6: I love the Panthers at plus three ten. I just
30:23
Speaker 6: think that this Panthers team is a team that focused
30:27
Speaker 6: very aggressively on all, right, what are the things that
30:29
Speaker 6: held us back? What are the position groups that we
30:31
Speaker 6: need to buy into and to go and spend on
30:34
Speaker 6: and use draft capital on.
30:36
Speaker 5: They did it very very very deliberately so.
30:40
Speaker 6: Jalen Phillips, who top sack producer or pressure producer, one
30:44
Speaker 6: of the top pressure producers last year. He's not a
30:47
Speaker 6: big finisher when it comes to sacks, but generating pressures
30:49
Speaker 6: is very important. I think that even though they lost Scourton,
30:53
Speaker 6: Uman Miellen is underrated and could maybe emerge as a
30:56
Speaker 6: key piece in this pass rush. I loved the Lee Hunter.
31:00
Speaker 6: I think that this defensive line could be one of
31:02
Speaker 6: the better ones in the NFL, very sneakily, and I
31:04
Speaker 6: think that their secondary has been great when jac Horn's
31:07
Speaker 6: on the field. I think offensively drafting Mountain Roe Freeling
31:10
Speaker 6: was an awesome selection, but I also loved them taking
31:12
Speaker 6: Sam Hesht And then lastly, this team lacked explosiveness.
31:17
Speaker 5: Through the air.
31:18
Speaker 6: They were one of the they just didn't have like
31:20
Speaker 6: a lot of like true like big plays. Ttero McMillan
31:23
Speaker 6: was awesome, Jalen Coker is awesome. But because Zavier Leguett
31:26
Speaker 6: never really emerged as the deep threat that I think
31:29
Speaker 6: that everybody hoped he would, they went to Chris Brasel,
31:31
Speaker 6: and I think that there's a chance that Chris Brasel
31:33
Speaker 6: has a quietly productive rookie season. Maybe it's like a
31:37
Speaker 6: six seven hundred yard year and a couple of big
31:39
Speaker 6: touchdowns that helped them win games. I'm hinging a lot
31:42
Speaker 6: on Bryce Young improving and being a lot better and
31:45
Speaker 6: actually playing the same game to game instead of completely
31:49
Speaker 6: collapsing and then having the three hundred, four hundred yards
31:52
Speaker 6: or wherever he had against the Falcons last year. But
31:54
Speaker 6: I think that they're capable of finally playing to what
31:58
Speaker 6: everybody's been hoping that they were will be coming.
32:01
Speaker 2: And that's the thing with this division is like I've
32:03
Speaker 2: gone on this quest, as I mentioned, of finding who's
32:06
Speaker 2: going to finish last in every division. Good luck with
32:09
Speaker 2: the NFC South, And I've got Bucks Twitter, these homers
32:13
Speaker 2: in my stadium.
32:14
Speaker 3: You've weren't eaten alive the other day that I agreed
32:17
Speaker 3: with this.
32:18
Speaker 1: These people are.
32:19
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that the Bucks had that many fans,
32:22
Speaker 2: but they were.
32:23
Speaker 1: These These folks were all over me.
32:26
Speaker 2: If I'm looking at I like all of these teams,
32:28
Speaker 2: and if I'm looking at who's gonna sink, what boat
32:31
Speaker 2: is going down, it's probably Tampa's. They feel like the
32:34
Speaker 2: one team in that division that's if you can get
32:37
Speaker 2: past the quarterback thing with the Falcons. I get that
32:39
Speaker 2: that's a major issue, and I'm probably over hyping them,
32:42
Speaker 2: but the Bucks feel like a team that's arrows just
32:45
Speaker 2: pointed in the wrong direction right now.
32:48
Speaker 6: And there's been a gradual regression that only enough people
32:51
Speaker 6: have been paying attention to, and and it's aging like
32:55
Speaker 6: this is one of the worst things that a team
32:57
Speaker 6: could go through, is that they're just slowly getting older
32:59
Speaker 6: and there's not really been a young, up and coming replacement.
33:03
Speaker 6: I think I love a book I think that a
33:04
Speaker 6: Mecha Booka is going to be an awesome receiver for
33:06
Speaker 6: this team, but a little troubling the second half finished
33:09
Speaker 6: to the year where there was less production for him.
33:11
Speaker 5: Mike Evans is gone.
33:13
Speaker 6: So is a Buka going to just emerge as this
33:16
Speaker 6: elite receiver for this team or is he more of
33:19
Speaker 6: a productive wide receiver too. We have to determine that,
33:22
Speaker 6: you know, God wouldn gonna be a good player for
33:24
Speaker 6: this team is as well without Evans.
33:26
Speaker 5: There's just so much that needs to be proven.
33:28
Speaker 6: And you know, Baker another guy who was in consistent
33:31
Speaker 6: with his health where he was awesome at the beginning
33:34
Speaker 6: of the year. He's got lingering problems. He's playing through it,
33:37
Speaker 6: but he just doesn't feel like the same player. That
33:39
Speaker 6: was also a troubling issue. The last part with that
33:43
Speaker 6: is defensively, your best player wants out, and I know
33:45
Speaker 6: that this is a posturing for a contract extension, but
33:49
Speaker 6: I don't know if they're gonna pay him what he's
33:51
Speaker 6: looking for.
33:51
Speaker 5: And if Videvea leaves, that defense is not as good
33:54
Speaker 5: as it it once was.
33:57
Speaker 6: As much as I think that Ruben Ban could be
33:58
Speaker 6: a kick ass rookie, if they don't have Vea plug
34:01
Speaker 6: in the middle of the field, that unit does not
34:03
Speaker 6: work the same way that it did previously. Bain's ceiling,
34:06
Speaker 6: I don't know if it gets hit without they being
34:09
Speaker 6: there to cause disruption. Not to mention the fact that
34:12
Speaker 6: their secondary was a pretty big liability last year. I
34:15
Speaker 6: think the Buccaneers, even though they have the best odds
34:17
Speaker 6: right now to win the division, I think that they're
34:19
Speaker 6: the team to pick to finish in last All.
34:22
Speaker 1: Right, we have finally found we found some consensus. Joe,
34:25
Speaker 1: I like this. It took us a while to get here.
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Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, so far, we haven't really
34:30
Speaker 4: been on the same page in the NFL.
34:31
Speaker 3: So maybe before you find some.
34:32
Speaker 4: Collegiate common ground, we've given you our hot takes for
34:35
Speaker 4: the NFL season. What are your biggest hot takes that
34:38
Speaker 4: you're tying your wagon to.
34:40
Speaker 5: The one that I'm I feel pretty vindicated on.
34:44
Speaker 6: I really really think that the Chicago Bears are going
34:48
Speaker 6: to emerge as the one seed in the NFC. I
34:51
Speaker 6: think that they're going to take a step and they're
34:53
Speaker 6: going to start to separate from the rest of the
34:56
Speaker 6: teams in the NFC. Now, there's going to be a
34:57
Speaker 6: tight race, as we see every single year, but I
34:59
Speaker 6: feel like the NFC is generally up for grabs, even
35:03
Speaker 6: though Seattle and Los Angeles and everything happening in the
35:07
Speaker 6: NFC West is a very very tight race.
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Speaker 5: I wonder if maybe they end up beating up on.
35:11
Speaker 6: Each other enough that Chicago can sneak their way through
35:14
Speaker 6: and have the best record. The Rams are still gonna
35:16
Speaker 6: be the best team, They're probably gonna win the Super Bowl.
35:18
Speaker 6: But I could totally see a world where Caleb Williams
35:22
Speaker 6: second year in Ben Johnson's system. Ben Johnson's regarded as
35:25
Speaker 6: this brilliant mastermind, the best offensive mind in the NFL.
35:29
Speaker 6: He's just at the end of the season figured out
35:31
Speaker 6: how to use all these pieces, and now they're stepping
35:34
Speaker 6: into a year where Colston Lovelin can take a step,
35:36
Speaker 6: Luther Burden can take a step.
35:37
Speaker 5: Hopefully Roma Dunze takes that step as well.
35:40
Speaker 6: Williams started to show us glimpses of those ridiculous plays
35:44
Speaker 6: that he made when he was a Heisman Trophy winner
35:46
Speaker 6: at USC and those little glimpses I think are going
35:49
Speaker 6: to become a weekly occurrence with him.
35:51
Speaker 5: He feels so much more confident.
35:53
Speaker 6: In a confident Caleb Williams is something that the NFL
35:55
Speaker 6: should not want to deal with now. The one pause
35:58
Speaker 6: here is did they do enough defensive for them to
36:01
Speaker 6: be prepared for going on a run like this and
36:04
Speaker 6: being the best team and the number one seed in
36:06
Speaker 6: the NFC. That remains to be proven. I think that
36:09
Speaker 6: their defensive line is missing maybe one more piece, maybe
36:12
Speaker 6: to go and get Videvea, which has been one of
36:14
Speaker 6: the projected landing spots for him. But I think that
36:18
Speaker 6: Caleb Williams is so gifted and he's been so doubted
36:22
Speaker 6: early that this season sets up for him to shock
36:24
Speaker 6: the NFL again.
36:26
Speaker 2: Joe da Leone works for twenty four to seven Sports
36:29
Speaker 2: as a podcast, the or a Fino and Joe show.
36:31
Speaker 1: You can check that out.
36:32
Speaker 2: They deep dive into college football, so much good content
36:36
Speaker 2: on that YouTube page. If you love the college football world,
36:39
Speaker 2: please go and check that out.
36:40
Speaker 1: So let's transition Joe, Indiana and Miami in the title
36:43
Speaker 1: game last year, just as we all predicted. Does that
36:47
Speaker 1: make you want to run for the hills?
36:48
Speaker 2: In terms of trying to predict who's gonna end up
36:50
Speaker 2: in the college football playoff final that we have just
36:54
Speaker 2: it has become quite unpredictable as far as the what
36:59
Speaker 2: teams are making it to the finish line here, especially
37:01
Speaker 2: with this expanded playoff.
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Speaker 6: I don't think it necessarily makes me want to run
37:05
Speaker 6: for the hills. I think that to a degree, it
37:07
Speaker 6: kind of makes it easier because we can be more
37:09
Speaker 6: open in projecting potential options that could get to the
37:13
Speaker 6: national championship. One of the mistakes that I felt like
37:14
Speaker 6: I made going into last year is that it was
37:16
Speaker 6: too finite in projecting who I thought was going to
37:20
Speaker 6: get There. Was really big on Texas. It was a
37:22
Speaker 6: year early on what Texas could accomplish. But I think
37:25
Speaker 6: the better way to look at this is that once
37:26
Speaker 6: that first month of the season happens, it's a little
37:29
Speaker 6: bit easier to understand where everything's converging. After I saw
37:33
Speaker 6: Miami beat Notre Dame, I declared that Miami was going
37:36
Speaker 6: to get.
37:36
Speaker 5: To the national championship.
37:37
Speaker 6: Getting to see these teams up close and personal, to
37:40
Speaker 6: see the way that they're going to perform against other
37:42
Speaker 6: top contenders, I think it's a little bit easier to
37:44
Speaker 6: establish who is.
37:45
Speaker 5: Capable of going on that run.
37:47
Speaker 6: But as unpredictable as it is, I think it's super fun.
37:50
Speaker 6: I think that this is awesome now that while parody
37:54
Speaker 6: has been misdescribed in college athletics, that you know now
37:58
Speaker 6: like a team like Louisville could be a really team.
38:00
Speaker 6: I don't think it's like that. I think it's more
38:01
Speaker 6: so you could have ten teams that are competitive enough
38:05
Speaker 6: in a playoff field that any of those ten teams
38:08
Speaker 6: could go on a run and could get to a
38:10
Speaker 6: national championship.
38:12
Speaker 5: And when you have.
38:13
Speaker 6: Engagement and involvement from all of those fan bases, it
38:16
Speaker 6: makes it way more fun to talk about.
38:18
Speaker 5: It makes it way more fun to follow.
38:20
Speaker 6: But to kind of sum this up into your point,
38:23
Speaker 6: I'm sure that whatever prediction I put out right now
38:25
Speaker 6: is going to be proven wrong by week two of
38:28
Speaker 6: the season.
38:29
Speaker 3: I'm an SEC girl, so I'm an SEC truther.
38:32
Speaker 4: However, it feels like a lot of people are talking
38:35
Speaker 4: about that the SEC might be dead. Where do you
38:38
Speaker 4: stand on maybe the Big Ten taking over college football?
38:41
Speaker 3: Is the SEC dead?
38:42
Speaker 4: Is there any value on getting in on an SEC
38:45
Speaker 4: team future?
38:47
Speaker 5: I don't think that the SEC is dead.
38:49
Speaker 6: I just think that the past couple of years have
38:52
Speaker 6: benefited the Big Ten programs that have financially invested very
38:56
Speaker 6: aggressively in building up their teams. But there is a
38:59
Speaker 6: lot of investment with a lot of the top teams
39:00
Speaker 6: in the SEC as well. To me, there's two clear
39:04
Speaker 6: teams that are worth putting futures on, and then there's
39:07
Speaker 6: the third that I think is a sneaky team that
39:09
Speaker 6: could shock a lot of people, could be the Miami
39:11
Speaker 6: of this year. Texas and Georgia are the easy ones.
39:14
Speaker 6: Texas has Arch Manning. He started to prove that he's
39:17
Speaker 6: capable of being the best quarterback in the country. When
39:20
Speaker 6: you have the best quarterback in the country and an
39:22
Speaker 6: underrated offensive line that improved dramatically, Melvinciani and Trevor Goosby
39:28
Speaker 6: could be first round picks. You have Cam Coleman, who
39:31
Speaker 6: could be a top fifteen pick. You've got a defense
39:33
Speaker 6: that's led by Colin Simmons who should be a top
39:35
Speaker 6: three pick. There's just elite not just NFL town, but
39:37
Speaker 6: elite NFL talent all over that roster, led by a
39:40
Speaker 6: supremely gifted quarterback who's now confident that team is capable
39:46
Speaker 6: of going to a national title. I think that they're
39:48
Speaker 6: going to have a really strong record in the SEC
39:52
Speaker 6: this year, and they're going to be able to beat
39:53
Speaker 6: many of the teams that they square off with. Georgia
39:56
Speaker 6: to me, is an experienced squad that runs the ball well.
39:59
Speaker 5: They're bringing back most of their offensive line.
40:01
Speaker 6: I think Gunner Stockton is underappreciated in Heisman race because
40:05
Speaker 6: he's super gutsy. He's willing to put his body on
40:07
Speaker 6: the line. He makes clutch plays when needed. Their defense
40:10
Speaker 6: needs to figure out their pass rush, but they're still
40:12
Speaker 6: both those teams are are primed and capable of going
40:15
Speaker 6: toe to toe with any of the top teams in
40:18
Speaker 6: the Big Ten. I like Oklahoma, though, is the sneaky
40:20
Speaker 6: pick to win the SEC or at least to go
40:23
Speaker 6: on a national championship run if they don't win the SEC.
40:26
Speaker 6: I can see them going ten to two, losing to
40:28
Speaker 6: Texas and to Georgia, running through the rest of their schedule,
40:31
Speaker 6: and then shocking a few teams in the College Football
40:34
Speaker 6: PLAYFF because they have the best defense in the SEC
40:37
Speaker 6: in my eyes, one of the best defense in the country,
40:39
Speaker 6: top two behind maybe Oregon and John Mattier dealt with
40:43
Speaker 6: a lot of problems last year because of his hand.
40:46
Speaker 6: I think that as he starts to get his confidence back,
40:48
Speaker 6: now that his hands healthy and he's added some bulk
40:51
Speaker 6: to his frame, he's going to perform better. The offense
40:53
Speaker 6: is going to perform better. The offensive line should improvement.
40:56
Speaker 6: Oklahoma is a really intriguing option for me that could
40:59
Speaker 6: do damage in the SEC in twenty twenty six.
41:03
Speaker 2: So Texas is clearly among these teams. So if I'm
41:07
Speaker 2: looking at who are the dominant teams going into the season,
41:11
Speaker 2: the teams that just have a next level amount of
41:15
Speaker 2: talent on their roster, Texas is one. You mentioned, Georgia,
41:19
Speaker 2: I'm guessing they're on the list. Oregon has been recruiting
41:23
Speaker 2: really well. Ohio State am I missing anyone or are
41:27
Speaker 2: any of those teams.
41:27
Speaker 5: Not on the list in terms of cap in terms
41:31
Speaker 5: of just.
41:31
Speaker 2: Like we're if we're tiering teams, not based on odds
41:36
Speaker 2: or what you expect or coaching, just simply they have
41:40
Speaker 2: the most NFL talent on their roster that if we're
41:44
Speaker 2: betting on the talent, then those are the teams.
41:47
Speaker 1: That are are in a sort of a group of
41:49
Speaker 1: their own.
41:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that all those teams definitely fit it.
41:52
Speaker 6: And I think that Miami and Notre Dame. I think
41:55
Speaker 6: that also fit into that picture as well.
41:59
Speaker 1: Notre Dame.
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Speaker 5: Their offense outside of CJ. Carr, it's solid.
42:04
Speaker 6: There's a bunch of new receivers that they brought in,
42:06
Speaker 6: and I think that they're gonna be a little bit
42:09
Speaker 6: more explosive through the air, but defensively, for the past
42:12
Speaker 6: two years since they got to a national title, they've
42:15
Speaker 6: had some really premier talent on defense. Kingston Villiamo, assa linebacker,
42:21
Speaker 6: is a guy that is highly regarded in NFL circles.
42:24
Speaker 6: Bubakar Treori as well as a potential Top one hundred pick.
42:28
Speaker 6: Leonard Moore is possibly a top five pick at corner.
42:32
Speaker 6: He's such a rare prospect. Hey Johnson's one of the
42:35
Speaker 6: best safeties in the country.
42:36
Speaker 5: Drake Bowen's a really good player as well.
42:39
Speaker 6: There's just so many different experienced defensive pieces on that
42:42
Speaker 6: team that this roster has the core pieces capable of
42:46
Speaker 6: winning a title this upcoming year. They've got a really
42:48
Speaker 6: easy schedule. It kind of begs the question, and I
42:50
Speaker 6: think can be challenged enough outside of that Miami game
42:53
Speaker 6: to be ready for the war ahead in the college
42:56
Speaker 6: football playoffs. But they certainly have that roster. And I
42:59
Speaker 6: think that this Miami team as well, I've been projecting.
43:02
Speaker 6: I think Darien Mensa, he's been my heisman pick. I
43:05
Speaker 6: think that he with bar Kate and with Tony it's
43:08
Speaker 6: going to be so much more explosive. It's going to
43:10
Speaker 6: look so different from what it did a year ago
43:14
Speaker 6: on offense, where they had to lean on their run game.
43:16
Speaker 6: Now they get to take shots like they did when
43:18
Speaker 6: they had cam Ward. Shannon Dawson wants to attack downfield,
43:21
Speaker 6: and Darien Mensa throws such a beautiful deep ball. I
43:24
Speaker 6: think that there's so much talent at receiver. I think
43:26
Speaker 6: there's a lot of talent on their defense. Amon Moten
43:29
Speaker 6: and Justin Scott could both potentially be first round defensive tackles.
43:32
Speaker 6: Damon Wilson could be an early top one hundred draft pick.
43:36
Speaker 6: Marquis Lightfoots, a former five star Athletesavier Lucas is a
43:39
Speaker 6: player to watch, as well as oj Frederic at their
43:42
Speaker 6: corner spots could be drafted relatively highly. I think Miami
43:45
Speaker 6: and notre name absolutely fit in that picture with the
43:48
Speaker 6: you know, the Ohio States, the Oregons, the Georgia's, and
43:51
Speaker 6: the Texas' of the you know who has the best
43:54
Speaker 6: rosters in college football conversation?
43:57
Speaker 4: So in order right now, the favorites to win the
43:59
Speaker 4: national championship or Ohio State and their name, Texas, Indiana, Oregon,
44:04
Speaker 4: Georgia followed by Miami. Are there any of these teams
44:08
Speaker 4: that you think are or are expecting to have a
44:10
Speaker 4: huge falloff that you wouldn't touch in any kind of future.
44:15
Speaker 6: I don't think that any of those teams I would
44:19
Speaker 6: see much of.
44:20
Speaker 5: A falloff on.
44:22
Speaker 6: And I know that it almost kind of sounds naive
44:25
Speaker 6: to say that because last year Penn State and Clemson
44:27
Speaker 6: were at the top of those conversations that the odds
44:31
Speaker 6: last year, and they it wasn't like Texas. Texas lost
44:35
Speaker 6: a game that they weren't supposed to and lost tight
44:37
Speaker 6: games against some of their best opponents, and they went
44:39
Speaker 6: nine to three for that marginal slight step back of
44:43
Speaker 6: expectation doesn't fit the same narrative to me. But last
44:47
Speaker 6: year we had disastrous seasons from Penn State and from Clemson,
44:49
Speaker 6: So I'm a little wary to state that. But at
44:54
Speaker 6: the same time, I don't. I think that all these teams,
44:57
Speaker 6: the rosters are way too talented to reject that there
45:01
Speaker 6: would be some drastic collapse. The big thing that might
45:05
Speaker 6: change that is if there is an injury, like if
45:07
Speaker 6: Arch Manning got hurt. I don't trust the quarterback room
45:11
Speaker 6: at Texas.
45:12
Speaker 5: If CJ. Carr got hurt, same thing.
45:15
Speaker 1: They don't.
45:16
Speaker 6: They've got too many young quarterbacks. And it's been like
45:18
Speaker 6: a big talking point in Notre Dame circles is if
45:21
Speaker 6: cr Car goes down, what the hell are you supposed
45:24
Speaker 6: to do? Your run game is not going to be
45:25
Speaker 6: the same as it was with Jeremiah Love and J
45:27
Speaker 6: Darnin Price. Is there going to be somebody that could
45:30
Speaker 6: step in if Car gets.
45:31
Speaker 5: Hit with an injury.
45:33
Speaker 6: It's not like with Oregon or even a you know,
45:35
Speaker 6: team like LSU or Georgia where there is deep recruiting
45:38
Speaker 6: a quarterback where you could survive.
45:40
Speaker 5: So those are probably the.
45:41
Speaker 6: Only two teams that could maybe fail to meet expectations
45:44
Speaker 6: if there was some sort of an injury at quarterback.
45:48
Speaker 2: We haven't seen a preseason favorite for Heisman Trophy win
45:52
Speaker 2: the award since Marcus Mariota in twenty fourteen. Why do
45:58
Speaker 2: we get it wrong so freaking with this award?
46:02
Speaker 6: I just think that the award itself, the preseason conversation
46:08
Speaker 6: is always around the player. But then when it comes
46:12
Speaker 6: time for the award, for the most part, a lot
46:14
Speaker 6: of times we talk about the best player and the
46:16
Speaker 6: best team. Now, I know, you had Jane Daniels win
46:18
Speaker 6: it because he just put up gaudy statistics, and you
46:21
Speaker 6: Travis Hunter win it because he did something otherworldly that
46:24
Speaker 6: nobody's ever seen. But I think that naturally, over the
46:26
Speaker 6: course of the season, as much as we might like
46:29
Speaker 6: certain players, the narrative shifts.
46:32
Speaker 5: To the team that we're all talking about the most.
46:34
Speaker 6: It's how you know, the media's narratives are built is
46:38
Speaker 6: always around the collective team rather than the player.
46:40
Speaker 5: Because it's such a team centric sport.
46:43
Speaker 6: I just think that there's always way too much that
46:45
Speaker 6: can change for a singular, particular player that leads to
46:50
Speaker 6: such a variance of outcomes by the end of the year.
46:53
Speaker 6: And it creates these opportunities for these players that come
46:56
Speaker 6: completely out of nowhere, like a Fernanda Mendoza, to you
46:59
Speaker 6: rise up and to end up winning it like you
47:01
Speaker 6: did this past season. So there's a you know, probably
47:05
Speaker 6: a long essay that could be told on this story.
47:07
Speaker 6: But I think that it's just the difference in the
47:09
Speaker 6: way that it's talked about before the season at the
47:11
Speaker 6: end of the season, it's it's starkly different.
47:13
Speaker 2: It's an interesting point because I think it works both ways.
47:17
Speaker 2: Where you have the media tends to gravitate towards the
47:21
Speaker 2: teams that are excelling, but if the team as a
47:23
Speaker 2: whole is excelling too much, we have a star running
47:27
Speaker 2: back of star wide receivers, the defense is great.
47:30
Speaker 1: Look at Ohio State.
47:31
Speaker 2: Julian Sayin, I think was held back in the Heisman
47:34
Speaker 2: conversation because his team was so good, whereas you have Mendoza,
47:39
Speaker 2: who their team was really good, but he got most
47:41
Speaker 2: of the credit.
47:42
Speaker 1: So you kind of have to have. It's a good
47:44
Speaker 1: point that you bring up, but it has to kind.
47:46
Speaker 2: Of fit that that narrow margin of your team is
47:50
Speaker 2: really good.
47:51
Speaker 1: But you're the one that gets the credit for it.
47:52
Speaker 2: Okay, we have a bet to make and we can
47:54
Speaker 2: plant the flag on a Heisman Trophy winner.
47:57
Speaker 1: You and I might be aligned and how we're thinking.
48:00
Speaker 2: But Milburn Deli, I have been told that this is
48:04
Speaker 2: one of the best places that you can eat in
48:07
Speaker 2: the New Jersey, New York area. I have not eaten
48:10
Speaker 2: there myself, but since it did land on our show doc,
48:14
Speaker 2: I did a little bit of research on this place.
48:17
Speaker 2: The menu is short, which I think always is always
48:20
Speaker 2: a tell that the food is phenomenal because you don't
48:23
Speaker 2: have to overload the customer with options. I was really
48:27
Speaker 2: blown away with what I saw. But overrated, underrated, properly
48:30
Speaker 2: rated on Milburn Deli.
48:33
Speaker 1: Well, first of.
48:33
Speaker 6: All, you might have been looking at the wrong menu,
48:35
Speaker 6: because if you go in person to the Milburn Deli,
48:38
Speaker 6: maybe it's the online menu if you go in person.
48:40
Speaker 6: They've also opened up a couple other locations that aren't
48:43
Speaker 6: in Milburn. The list is like the list on the wall,
48:47
Speaker 6: is comically long. Maybe they've shortened it recently.
48:49
Speaker 5: I haven't been back.
48:50
Speaker 2: You know, the odd the online one that I looked at,
48:52
Speaker 2: there are about five sandwiches.
48:54
Speaker 1: They all looked great.
48:55
Speaker 5: More than that, there's way more than five. I should
48:58
Speaker 5: ask how many was on there.
48:59
Speaker 6: There's there's a long long list of available sandwiches.
49:02
Speaker 1: That they have.
49:03
Speaker 6: Best sandwich that if you're ever near Melbourn The Godfather,
49:06
Speaker 6: which is chicken cutlet, Russian dressing, mozzarella, cheese, bacon on
49:11
Speaker 6: like like a subrole.
49:12
Speaker 5: It's so good.
49:13
Speaker 6: I think it is underrated. I think it's incredibly underrated.
49:17
Speaker 6: The one story that I was able to tell I
49:19
Speaker 6: when I went to college. So I'm from Milbourn. For
49:20
Speaker 6: anyone who's kind of like wondering why we're talking about this,
49:23
Speaker 6: but when I went to college, I played football Rhode Island.
49:27
Speaker 6: I would just tell everybody, I'm like, my town's known
49:30
Speaker 6: for the deli that's in Melbourn. It's the best deli
49:33
Speaker 6: in New Jersey. And everybody would kind of scoff at me.
49:37
Speaker 6: My current roommate and my roommate from college, he would
49:40
Speaker 6: always battle me on food takes. So finally I bring
49:43
Speaker 6: him a sandwich and he immediately conceded. I gave him
49:45
Speaker 6: a godfather. I'm like, you need to try this. He's like,
49:48
Speaker 6: this is the best sandwich I've ever had in my life.
49:50
Speaker 6: So it's underrated because I think that people automatically get
49:54
Speaker 6: up in arms when you tell them that their deli
49:56
Speaker 6: is not as you know, as good as the one
49:58
Speaker 6: that you're projecting Milbourne Dellies, the best deli that you're
50:00
Speaker 6: ever gonna go to in your life.
50:02
Speaker 1: I'm sold. I'm all in. I'm all in. You had me,
50:06
Speaker 1: You had me at bacon and Russian dressing.
50:08
Speaker 2: All right, let's plant the flag on a college football
50:12
Speaker 2: conference champion or a Heisman Trophy winner so you can
50:15
Speaker 2: choose your future path the one that suits you best.
50:20
Speaker 1: Mind the flag in a shut up. I'm trying to
50:22
Speaker 1: plant my flag here. Okay, you're really planning your flag
50:25
Speaker 1: in that deck.
50:26
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get this one out of the way because
50:28
Speaker 2: it's gonna otherwise sound like I'm stealing from our great guest,
50:31
Speaker 2: Joe da Leone. I like Darian Menzilan the Heisman as
50:35
Speaker 2: well twelve to one on Draft Kings. The last four
50:38
Speaker 2: Heisman winners have been transfer portal babies, so there's some
50:42
Speaker 2: sort of trend that's forming there. We also have a
50:45
Speaker 2: healthy rotation of different conferences that have been represented over
50:48
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. Everybody but the ACC, so
50:52
Speaker 2: it's their turn to step right up. He's got elite
50:54
Speaker 2: weaponry with Malachai Tony, the team should be good. He
50:58
Speaker 2: checks a lot of those boxes for me, So I'm
51:00
Speaker 2: with you, Joe. Let's go ahead and hammer that Darien
51:03
Speaker 2: Mensa future bet.
51:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.
51:05
Speaker 6: I think that I was debating maybe pitching one of
51:09
Speaker 6: my picks for one of these conferences, but like the
51:12
Speaker 6: ones that I feel vindicated in are like Miami to
51:14
Speaker 6: win the ACC and Texas Tech to win the Big Twelve.
51:17
Speaker 6: But that's not fun because their odds are. I mean,
51:19
Speaker 6: it's minus one forty five for Miami to win the
51:21
Speaker 6: ACC and it's plus one hundred for Texas Tech.
51:24
Speaker 5: To win the Big Twelve.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna stick with the Darry Mansa take because it's
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Speaker 6: one that I have been planting my flag in.
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Speaker 5: I've done this previously.
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Speaker 6: I said that cam Ward was gonna be the first
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Speaker 6: overall pick, well before anybody was hyping him up. And
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Speaker 6: I think a lot of that had to do with
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Speaker 6: Ward stepping into the right offense with the right pieces
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Speaker 6: for him to put up gaudy stats. Carson Beck was
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Speaker 6: just not the type of quarterback that I think that
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Speaker 6: Dawson Shannon Dawson.
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Speaker 5: Needed to like really really produce.
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Speaker 6: Offensively the way that we were used to. They made
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Speaker 6: the right adjustments to lean on the run game, to
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Speaker 6: lean on Fletcher and on Brown. But I think that
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Speaker 6: now that they've got a guy who's good at improvising,
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Speaker 6: who's got really good touch, He's a natural thrower, not
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Speaker 6: as strong of an arm as cam Ward, he's gonna
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Speaker 6: put up similar stats to what kim Ward did. He's
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Speaker 6: at least going to be a finalist in my eyes.
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Speaker 6: I mentioned it earlier. His ability to throw a deep ball.
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Speaker 6: It's the best that I've seen of any of the quarterbacks.
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Speaker 6: He always just puts it in the right spot so
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Speaker 6: those guys can come down with it.
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Speaker 5: They don't have to really adjust or contort or anything.
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Speaker 6: You've got Barcade who has already thrown those deep balls
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Speaker 6: too along the sideline. Now we get the chance to
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Speaker 6: see Alekai Tony explode to to be able to do
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Speaker 6: more within this offense that they can attack downfield. I
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Speaker 6: think it's just a no brainer to buy into this
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Speaker 6: because all these other players that at the top of
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Speaker 6: the odds, there's too many contingencies.
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Speaker 5: CJ.
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Speaker 6: Carr to the new receivers mesh with the offense effectively.
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Speaker 6: Does Archie Manning have a consistent year and he's got
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Speaker 6: a tough schedule ahead?
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Speaker 5: Is Chambli is gonna build off of.
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Speaker 6: The magic that he had a year ago, saying had
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Speaker 6: trouble against teams that sent a lot of pressure at him.
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Speaker 5: So there's too many questions.
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Speaker 6: I think that Mensa is one of the more question
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Speaker 6: free quarterbacks, which kind of sounds crazy to say.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Malachai Tony could end up stealing some of
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Speaker 2: that shine because he's versatile and Heisman voters love that versatility,
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Speaker 2: but quarterbacks tend to win the award. Kendra, what is
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Speaker 2: your plant the Flag bet this week?
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Speaker 4: My choice is a little bit chalky, but I'm gonna
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Speaker 4: go with Georgia to win the SEC. They didn't have
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Speaker 4: a ton of roster turnover obviously at coaching continuity. As
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Speaker 4: far as I'm aware, there is no true freshman gonna
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Speaker 4: be starting on defense, and I don't trust arch Manning,
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Speaker 4: so I'm gonna go with the Chalk the Chalky choice
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Speaker 4: here in the SEC and take Georgia to take it
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Speaker 4: home Georgia.
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Speaker 2: To win the SEC for Kendra and Joe and I
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Speaker 2: and lockstep with Darien Mensa twelfth to one to win
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Speaker 2: the Heisman Trophy Award. Joe Dalleone make sure you go
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Speaker 2: can find on YouTube via twenty four to seven Sports
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Speaker 2: Joe phenomenal conversation.
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the time. We really appreciate it.
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Speaker 6: Appreciate it, guys. It was great getting to chat and
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Speaker 6: talk some ball. Except for the season start now, I'll
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Speaker 6: do it.
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