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Ep.41: Revenge week · Football Junkies podcast

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Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go
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Here we go folks revenge week as I call it, okay
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There's gonna be a lot of division rival games this week
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And we gotta go over just a few that sort of catch my eye
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You know what I mean as a as a football junkie, okay?
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As well as we got to talk about last night's game because you know what there's a lot of things that need to be said
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About last night's game and we're just gonna go into it. Okay?
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Steelers and Jets
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Eagles and Giants Chiefs and 49ers Browns and Bengals
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Lions and Vikings. I'm telling you this is gonna be if there is a player
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That went from the other team to the to another team that's in the division best believe they might be having a great game
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This weekend say quang the quad god me
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Team in the week listen if you play Madden, you know, you know what team the week is
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But guess what if you don't don't worry about it, but guess what I am all these things and more, okay?
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I am your host with the most. Okay. I am the chief
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Bagrow Domus, okay chief
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Bagrow Domus. I want to say that again chief Bagrow Domus, okay?
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I am the GM who currently is not on a team right now, but don't worry about that because guess what?
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I'm still cooking up mock draft
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I might just even put out a mock draft in the next coming weeks. Who knows?
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Okay, I'm all these things and more but most importantly. I am your host, okay? Your fellow football junkie
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Okay, your fellow person is going to give you the football fix that you need. Okay?
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You already know who I am. Okay. Okay on the 41st episode of the football junkies pocket. That's right 41st
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When we best believe we will be 50 episodes in
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Before we sit down at the table and eat turkey. Okay on three one two three. Let's lock in
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All right folks, let's just get into the meat and
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Potatoes of everything that's going on in the league right now. Okay now
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I'm gonna let you know right now if you are a Saints fan. Guess what don't even listen to this episode because
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Some things are gonna be said that you may not agree with or things that you do agree with who knows
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I don't know but let's just get into this. Okay, so last night's game happened and
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And what is the best way to put it the Saints?
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They they got annihilated. Okay, they got annihilated. They got hit
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They
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They had the beatdown. Okay, and granted. This is the same Saints
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Team that you know had a monster game against the Cowboys and since that game they have looked absolutely horrendous. Okay, I mean
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Geez, this is this is not looking good. This is not looking good for a saint
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You know not forcing for the Saints right now. It really is not looking good
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But you know, I think this does open a convert a few conversations that do need to be had
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But before we get to that point, let's just talk about
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Last night's game. I'm gonna say tonight's game, but tonight's game
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So bow nicks was 16 for 26 164 passing yards 6.3 yards per 10 in a 61.5 completion percentage
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Javante Davis was 14 attempts for 88 rushing yards
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6.3 rushing yards per carry and three rushes of 10 plus yards or more
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Okay, Troy Franklin was six targets for five receptions 50 receiving yards and 10 yards per reception
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Okay, so that's the Broncos now for the Saints Spencer Radler 25 for 35
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170 172 passing yards 4.9 yards per attempt in a 71.4 completion percentage
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Keondre Miller six attempts for 36 rushing yards six rushing yards per carry one rush of ten yards or more
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Cedric Wilson Jr. Seven targets for six receptions
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57 receiving yards one touchdown at 9.5 receiving yards per reception. Now when we look at this, you know
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Let's just be honest here, right? This was somewhat of a revenge game for Sean Payton, right?
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somewhat of a
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You know just letting people know like hey like you know, you guys miss me and that's basically what it was because
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Let's be real here
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Dennis Allen at times look like a deer in headlights, especially when it came to his play call
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He got out coached. He got out coached by the person that was once the head coach for the Saints
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And you know when when we really look at things, you know his
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He he was already on the hot seat, you know going into this season
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But I think you know as time progresses and as the season progressed, you know
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I think that the chair is gonna get a little bit hotter
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You know, I do believe that there's going to be a change, you know at at head coach for the Saints
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I truly believe that I do think you know
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There's a chance that they may stick with who they have, you know internally with Clint Kubiak
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It may be elevate him into a head coach or you know, they may try to see they can get somebody else
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But you know the the fact of the matter is you know
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The the Saints coming into this game were banged up and they were banged up pretty bad, you know, Chris alive. He was out Caesar
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Ruiz was out Rashid Shahi was out Pete Warner was out and then not to mention they lost somebody last night
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He broke his you know, he broke his leg, you know prayer prayers out to him and whatnot
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Then March on a lot of more got hurt like it just it was just a never-ending, you know
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Rotundra of just injuries and you know that remember this is the same Saints team that was you know looking phenomenal
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And having a monster game against the Cowboys and now they're just like
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They look like they have no gas in the tank whatsoever and granted I get it
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You know when Chris alive is out and and and you know, take some hill and Derek car and stuff like that
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You know the offense is gonna move, you know a little bit more
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sluggish per se, right, but you know this this
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It's just not good. It's not I think it's time that you know
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You hit the reset button if you're the Saints because it's time that you you know make that transition and
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You know either go for you know go forward with Spencer Radler or
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Figure out what you're gonna do moving forward now granted. They have pieces in place, right?
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They do have pieces in place you have Chris alive a you have you know, they drafted a Fouaga in this past draft
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You have Alvin Camero, but I don't know how long
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Alvin Camero really wants to stay there simply because they didn't give him an extension this offseason
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And that's probably and that's why he held out for the small period of time that he did was because he was looking for more money
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So it's like there's a chance. There's a big chance. You're probably gonna lose Alvin Camero
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So you got figure out what you're gonna do with that
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And you know even for the defense the defense it's it's up in age, right?
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You got Cameron Jordan who even though he's still playing at a pretty good level, you know
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You want to put him in a better situation?
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You probably want to put watch out a lot of more in a you know better situation even time I'm Matthew, right?
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You want to put all of these different veteran players into maybe better situations?
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And you know if I'm the Saints I will somewhat have of a mini fire sale. I would stock up on your draft picks
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Let some of these contracts expire dead cap hits all those different types of things and then rebuild this team again
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It's time. Okay, because for the past three or four years
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What have you been doing? You've been basically, you know
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Resetting things with your cap trying to you know maneuvering cuts and people restructure restructure restructure cut cut cut cut cut cut
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Restructure restructure restructure boom you got cap space, but you know that trick only works a few times
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It only does and there's a it comes to time and point where you just have to accept that. Hey
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We're we're gonna go through this price of this process and cycle that every team goes through
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We're gonna, you know be bad for for maybe one or two years, but it's okay
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Right because if you don't you're gonna hurt yourself more and you're gonna delay the inevitable
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Longer than to just try to you know face ahead on and just admit. Okay, we're gonna go through rebuild
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We got a patch up this this this this and this and we're good, right?
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Now pivot to the Broncos the Broncos are actually in a better situation than what people think people think they are
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Honestly speaking here because all the Broncos have to do is hit on two draft classes the next two draft classes and
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Maybe you know one really good free agency class if they do that
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They are going to be a problem not only in their division
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But you know just against a lot of teams because they have the foundation in place Sean Payton
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I guarantee you probably went to ownership and he probably told him listen
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What I'm about to do
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It's gonna it's gonna draw a lot of criticism
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Not a lot of people gonna like it, but you have to follow me and you have to trust me if we do this now
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Then we can you know we can position ourselves to be in a in a better place
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You know next year or the next two or three four years, but we have to make this move now
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And what was that move let go Russell Wilson?
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I think that was probably the best decision that they did
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Bonics does look good now in my same bonus looks you know better than Russell Wilson
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I don't know that only time will tell but you know they do have certain things in place and I think you know
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The defense has been playing really well
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That defense balled out last night that defense balled out. They were doing their thing. So I mean, you know
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From from the defense doing their thing that offensive line look
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You know look pretty good as well. And then the run game was also, you know doing a phenomenal job, you know
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The Broncos are in a really good situation. They are and you know, I would not be surprised
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Within, you know, maybe less than three years. They're giving the chiefs problems
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I will not be surprised because they have it in place. You have PS2 you have
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Coral and son, maybe you can do an extension with him moving forward
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You have Devontae Williams the offensive line looks good. You have things in place. You just have to build off of that
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That's it
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That's all you have to do and though and with them taking on the the dead the dead cap hit
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This year that opens things up for the for the following years so that so that they're able to
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Land the you know, the the big free agency big fish that they want they can do that because why?
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They went through a season one season of taking all the dead cap from either one or two players
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Realize, okay, that's what we're gonna do moving forward and you know the now
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and I know I'm going everywhere, but you know that
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It happens sometimes, but they do all this nine times out of ten. You'll probably have a
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Middle-ish type of draft pick you you're not gonna have you know a draft pick that's you know low like super low
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But you'll have a draft pick to where you know if you want to move up two or three spots to get somebody you can do it
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If you want to move down to a three spots you can still do it and it won't and it won't necessarily
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affect you in a negative way and
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You know if I'm Alvin Camero, I wouldn't maybe I would try to you know test the waters request a trade
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See what happens because there's there's a few teams right now that will love to have an Alvin Camero
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I guarantee you if the Cowboys had Alvin Camero on their team. Oh
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My god, would there be problems?
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Big problems and then not to mention
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Maybe even the 49ers. I
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would say so personally because again
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You truly do not know when Kristen McCaffrey is gonna come back
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You don't and granted I get you know, there's people that are saying hey, he may come back in November
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He may come back in he may I mean not him
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He may come back, you know here or you know this week or that week you cannot do that
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You can't you know just rely on that right now
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You are in a position where you have to win this year and if it means that you have to make a move
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Then this is the move that you make because guess what even if even if Christian McCaffrey comes back
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Afterward after the trade deadline and you do trade for Alvin Camero
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That's a one-two-punch combo right there because guess what you have two running backs who are great coming out the backfield
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Who are good receiving backs as well?
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And you know that if you put them in a great situation, they are going to flurs especially Alvin Camero, but again
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This is you know, this is the Saints being the Saints and you know it
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I don't know man. I don't know there. There's a lot of questions that are gonna have to be asked
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Moving forward for the Saints. I truly believe that now moving on to the games are supposed to be coming on Sunday
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Okay, there's just a few games and a whole lot of games and catch my eye, but this is a few games, okay?
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And we got to talk about the Steelers. Yeah, we got we got to talk about the Steelers and the Jets because apparently
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recently
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There are rumblings going around that George Pickens may have accidentally
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Leaked out who is going to be the starter for Sunday and apparently he said Russell Wilson now granted Mike Tomlin said in a
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Press conference this afternoon after practice that you know, he was gonna keep that decision
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You know in house quote-unquote big big air quotes
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But the fact of the matter is you know, the writing is on the wall that Russell Wilson is is going to be the starter
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it is and
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Granted, I understand that you know, they probably told him like yeah, you know
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You're in quote-unquote pole position to be the starter and you know, you're at your position
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Won't never be you know taken away and whatnot and all those different types of things
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but the fact of the matter is I probably would have waited to make this decision I would have because
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Yes, Justin Fields was going through a slump. He was he was going through a slump since the Colts game
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He was going through a slump where you know, he wasn't they the team was winning
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But his personal performance was not good
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it wasn't good enough and
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There were games where he was winning because of his legs and there were games were you know
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Where he was winning because of his arm
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But the fact of the matter is if you wanted to make a move and
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And to make a switch you should you should do it during the buy instead of you know
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Waiting to do it now where you have a game that has you know, gonna be not only a prime time game, but you know
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It's it's a very important game. It's a very very very important game, you know, and you know, I I get it
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You know the offensive situation has not been good. I get all of that
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But still I have legitimate questions about Russell Wilson running this offense. I really do
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simply because like yo
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You're coming off of this calf injury even though you say that you're 100% I truly do not believe that this
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This offense sort of requires you to be somewhat athletic
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And you're gonna have to be good when it comes to the rollouts play action of boots
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All those different types of things
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Can you really can you really do that?
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Can you really do that like you know, it's it's been a while since you since you've been on the field and since you've
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Done something Russ. I'm just saying you know, I
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just I don't know I'm as a fan
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I am a little bit torn about it because
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You know one hand you want to be able to you know, give that room of growth for Justin Fields
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But at the same time, you know, the team, you know
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Has basically said publicly and probably privately especially with their moves that they want to win a playoff game this year
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So, you know, I I get all that but again, I just have a lot of questions about this offense
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Moving forward. I just I really do because
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Arthur Smith system it just does not look good
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It does not look good and granted, you know, this is something that that I said to to a Steelers now be writer
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Derek Bell DB shout out
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Shout out DB if you guys if you are a Steelers fan and if you are not
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He breaks down a lot of film and he breaks it down in a way that you can understand it and his
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takes his takes, you know, definitely definitely makes, you know, a lot of sense and
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One of the things that I definitely brought up in in the comments was
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You know, is it safe to say that, you know, some of the coaching could could be the reason why we haven't seen the the best out of the
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Offense and granted I understand that you know, the offense
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Does is lacking of talent. I see it's it's reeking of a lack of talent everywhere
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I get it but at the same time like, you know, I
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Wonder would will we get more production it had we chosen Greg Roman?
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Right because Greg Roman was an offensive coordinator for a mobile quarterback
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Who somewhat is like Justin Fields and Lamar Jackson, right?
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And you know when Lamar won his MVP, he didn't have a number one receiver
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He did have a really good tight end and Mark Andrews
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You see that connection you you see it you see it the run game and all those different types of things. So I
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just wonder what
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What exactly, you know, is the ceiling for this for this offense?
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Because I in my mind, I feel like it's very low. I really do. I don't think I really do not trust this offense
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This offensive scheme. I feel like this scheme is very lackluster. I feel like it's somewhat outdated
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With how, you know, with our quarterbacks are
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Nowadays and I just feel like, you know
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It's it just hasn't done enough
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It hasn't you have to put you have to put points on the board
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You have to put points on the board and granted
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I understand you have two quarterbacks who are not really good at attacking the middle of the field
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Whose vision might be, you know, a little bit off in in some games. I get all that
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But the fact of the matter is
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We we could do more the offense needs more. It's time for the offense to get back and to be productive
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Okay, I'm not saying it has to be
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Productive as the killer B era. I'm not saying that but the offense has to pick up their slack
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Okay, because the defense is is doing a lot
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The offense is barely getting by and that's not how you win games. That's not how you go to the playoffs
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Let alone win a championship. It's it's just not and you know for the love of god
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Can we please start investing more money into the offense instead of the defense?
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granted
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I understand they put a whole bunch of money into that defense and sometimes it it pays off and sometimes it doesn't
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But we have to start where you know, we're reciprocating that for the offense as well
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This offense is lacking. Okay
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And you know this offseason this upcoming offseason next year
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You got to do you got to hit on on receiver
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You have to hit on receiver
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Even if it means that you got to pay a little bit more money for big fish
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Go ahead and do it
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But you have to do it at this point if you really want to be competitive
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If you really want to be able to compete with not only teams within your division
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But with the chiefs and the 49ers and the eagles and all these other teams that we consider
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Super Bowl teams you have to be able to do it if you don't guess what's going to happen
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You're going to struggle. It's like base. It's like trying to swim with the anchor around your ankles
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You're not going to get far because why you're dragging the anchor. That's all the way down. That's that is it's not moving anywhere
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And if it does it's going to move very
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Just slightly just a little bit. That's it
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But you know who who cares about that? But you know, these are just some some junky nuggets that that I definitely
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You know caught caught my eye
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Um, lead leading up to this game. So the jets are coming off of the day. Uh, I came to speak the jets are coming off a
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divisional loss to the bills 20 to 23 while the Steelers are coming off a 32 13 victory over the Raiders
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Steelers defense are first against rushing under the center design runs quarterback
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scrambles rushing outside the tackles and second and rushing in the red zone
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Okay, the jets defense are sixth against rushing in a light box ninth against quarterback scrambles
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24th against rushing in the red zone in 18th against rushing inside the tackles
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The Steelers have the lowest blitz rate on third downs at 9.3 percent
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And when not blitzing the jets have recorded a 36.5 pressure rate percentage. Okay
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fourth
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Fourth in the league fourth in the league. Okay, and second in converting uh,
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26 of their non blitz pressures into sacks. Okay, and the Steelers this is the final one here
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The Steelers are 20 of in points per game at 20.6 while the jets are 22nd
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Uh in in points per game at 18.8 now do I think that's probably going to go up since they've probably you know
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Since since they traded for uh, devontae Adams for sure
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For sure, but my question is how will the Steelers be able to cover?
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You know those receivers because remember they have alan lasar
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Now devontae Adams garret wilson and malachi corley
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And they still have mike williams as well. So you have five capable receivers
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Five capable receivers and of those five malachi corley is probably the smallest one
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Everybody else are big body receivers. So the question is are they going to play more zone or or or man?
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Now if it was me personally, I would probably have to play more zone simply because
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You have devontae Adams who's a who is an elite route runner
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You have alan lasar who is a big physical big body, you know receiver
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Who is probably going to be moved and probably going to play both outside and in the slot
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And you're going to have to figure out who was going to be able to cover all these guys
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And you know beanie bishop is not going to be able to cover alan lasar 101. He's just not so
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What how in the world are we really going to do things and you know, even when it comes to blitzing
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You don't want to blitz and rogers because he's he's he's going to do well when it comes to the blitz. He probably wants us
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There's us to blitz, right?
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And so you have to hope and pray that you know tj y and alex highsmith
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And alex highsmith create enough pressure
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That you know, it can throw off and rogers just a little bit
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But you know only time tells but moving on to the eagles and giants. Yes the eagles and giants
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Now this game is going to be a really good game
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And the reason why I say that is because you know, this is going to be the first matchup of seikwan going up against the giants
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Yes
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Yes, and this is going to be good. This is going to be really good. Okay
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Now he's here's just you know some some nuggets that that I decided to you know to write down
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So the eagles are coming off a w from the browns 2016 the giants are coming off a loss against the bangles
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17 to 7 okay
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Eagles have the second highest missed tackle rate in the league at 15.5 percent
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The giants have generated the fifth highest pressure rate at 48.5 percent when blitzing and 17th when not blitzing
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Jalen hurts
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averages 12.4 yards per attempt on downfield passes with aj brown on the field at 53.4 percent
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Compared to nine yards per attempt when aj brown isn't on the field since 2022. Okay
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Dexter Lawrence has generated 21 pressures of
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108 pass rush
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Pass rushes which is the second most pressures among the tackles. Okay the eagles are 18th and in points per game at 21
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21.2 and the giants are 20 knife in points per game at 16 now when we look at this, you know
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This is this is a this is a game of get right
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As I call it
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This is a game to get right and the reason why I say that is because you know the eagles could really impose their will
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On the giants this game. They really could offensively and defensively
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They could really impose their will but I think it all depends on
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If nick if nick siriani, you know wants to be a little bit more aggressive this game or not
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I really do. I think you know, I think they're really going to give the rock to seiquan
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And they're just going to let him go. I really do because you know
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That giants defense aside from Dexter Lawrence and brian burns
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It's not that strong
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It's not that strong and you know the the eagles the eagles need to start, you know
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Stacking up more wins stacking up more wins stacking up more wins rebuilding that confidence, you know
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Re repairing the the the cracks that are probably in that locker room and whatnot. They have to do that because again
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They made a they they made a big move this offseason getting seiquan
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They're trying to position themselves to go back to the super bowl
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And you can't do that if you're not, you know stacking up wins when you need to stack up wins
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And you're not, you know really trying to make a comeback and position yourself to be great
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But at the same time if you are daniel jones, you know
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You have to prepare yourself because you're probably you're you're going to get pressured. You're going to get pressure a lot
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Okay, this this eagles d-line
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They're going to try to go after them and they're going to try to go after them hard, especially with andrew thomas
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Basically being out for the season. They're really going to go after daniel jones
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They are going to put a bruising on daniel jones and this this game, you know
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Means more to seiquan than anybody else because may I remind people?
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You know the the gm basically walked out. They they basically allowed seiquan to walk
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Even though the owner of the giants told him hey, listen
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We got to figure out what we're going to do with the seiquan situation
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We're going to lose a lot of sleep if we let uh seiquan walk
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And he let him walk and he told himself, you know what it's perfectly fine. We can get somebody else in here
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There's no problem. There's no need for us to pay a whole bunch of money to seiquan bark me
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The offense don't look the same without seiquan. I'm just saying I'm just saying
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I'm just saying, you know
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I mean, it's just clear this day that you know daniel jones don't look like danny dimes to me. He looks like
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danny pennies at
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This point because he he's he's just not been playing that good. He's not that offense does not look good
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They whiffed on trying to you know rewrite the wrongs if it was me personally
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And what's crazy is the gm's son even said it draft jaden daniels
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I would have probably tried to go after jaden daniels
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Because jaden daniels looks amazing right now
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And daniel jones
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With you paying all that money to him. He has not looked good at all
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He has not why is that?
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Something that has to do with seiquan barkley. Some of it has to do with him just not being good at all
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He just had one good season and that's it
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That's all it was now moving on to the chiefs and 49ers game now this game
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Is a super bowl rematch and you know that there's definitely going to be some black
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Black bad blood between the two
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But you know, I do think this would favor the chiefs more than the 49ers, but we're going to get into that right now
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so
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according to
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yahoo sports via pro football talk
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Andy reads record when coming off of a buy is 21 and 4 that is the best record for any coach coming off a buy
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Now granted in my mind
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I think this is when the chiefs the chief season really starts
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When they really start to really get in their bag and really start to
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You know pull out those crazy plays that I that we know that andy and patrick mighomes are going to pull out
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now
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For the 49ers, you know, I I definitely want to see can this can this defense, you know
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Put a bruising on on the chiefs and give the chiefs their first loss
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I think that that is something that that's definitely, you know caught my attention. I definitely want to see
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You know as well as
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Can this offense continue to be somewhat productive?
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Despite christian mccaffrey not, you know still being out
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I think that is something that needs to be talked about needs to be analyzed and you know
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If the if the run game isn't getting any better should the chiefs try to I mean not the chiefs of the 49ers try to
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You know make a trade and possibly go after a running back
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That's so that that that's just all I'm saying that that's just all I'm saying because again
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We realize that Kyle shanean has been leading has been leading more on the running game in the past few years since getting christian mccaffrey
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And it has worked and you know with with the uncertainty in christian mccaffrey's situation
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Why wouldn't you want to try to go after?
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another productive running back
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why
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Because again if you do that and if he matches somewhat of the same skill set as christian mccaffrey
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I mean it's a win-win situation now you have two super productive running backs that
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You know you can use in in multiple situations
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I'm just saying but let's get into it. Let's get into these nuggets
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Okay, so chris jones is tired for the second most pressures among defensive tackles at 21 pressures
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nick bolsa leads the league in quarterback pressures at 34
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George kiddo has caught 14 receptions for 114 yards and three touchdowns against man coverage
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patryma holmes leads the league in drop-backs success rate against the blitz at 68.4
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percent the second person the person that's behind patryma holmes lamar
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He is second at 61.7 percent and the chiefs receiving core
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Average is 7.5 yards per reception after the catch now. This is what I will say
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I think after this game will definitely show
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You know is there is there a legitimate?
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urgency in the chiefs to want to try and to upgrade this receiver room because granny
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JuJu has been looking good and everybody else has been looking good
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But I I do believe that you know
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They probably believe that hey if we get someone like a de-hop
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You know, I think that takes things to the next level if we get someone like
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Deontay Johnson that takes things to the next level if we get some you know another really productive receiver
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It's going to take us to another level and we know that you know mohomes loves his receiver. So
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You know, I
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I want to see it. I really do. I think this game is is going to be a back-and-forth game
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I think this game is definitely going to say a lot, you know moving forward
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And you know, I do believe that the chiefs defense are really going to try to you know, put the squeeze
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On property. I really do but you know only time will tell now moving on to the browns in bangles. Yes
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AFC north rivalry. Yes
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Now this is what I will say
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This game means more to one team than it does the other. Okay, if you're the browns, you probably would tank
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I'm just being honest here assembly because
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You know, you're your team
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Is not doing the best your offense looks stagnant
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It looks horrible the quarterback that you traded for and that you moved all these resources to get looks like a bust
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And you know, it's just time to to go in a different direction at this point
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it does because
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When you have the browns who are coming off a loss from the Eagles 16 and 20 and the bangles are coming off a win from
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from the Giants 17 to 7
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And you know, the the bangles
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Have more have more to gain and more to lose. Yeah, if you're the browns just tank tank
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Tank
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Because all you're doing is just wasting people's time and trying to sell
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Your team that hey, we can still make this comeback. We can still be competitive
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We can still do all these things and more when it's like no, you can't
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You can't you simply cannot this browns offense is not good
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Especially now that they traded a mari cooper away. Oh my god, it's really not be
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It's really not gonna be good now granted
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They may still have a little bit of hope because nick chubb is supposed to be coming back
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But even then I think I think internally
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I think that locker room is probably so split and there's so many people that have you know somewhat mentally checked out
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there's just like
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It's just not good the Sean Watson looks horrible
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And it's not like, you know, they have Joe flakill that they can just rely on
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And you know just say hey, we're gonna put you in for a few games. We'll see what happens
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No, because why they let him walk and so now all you have is james winston and even then
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Is james winston that good?
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No, no, he's not no. He is not at all
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But let's get into the rest of these nuggets. Okay
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The Sean Watson leaves the league in sacks when dropping back at 12.4 percent
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The Browns have allowed the third most missed tackles at 329 the Browns have the third lowest
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Pre-snap
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Motion rate in the league at 48.9 percent. This offense is not good. It's not doing enough and granted
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I understand that they got a lot of you know talent on that on that offense
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But I mean when you have the offensive line that's banged up
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Your quarterback looks very inconsistent and you know, he he just looked like he's he's just basically done with football
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What can you really do?
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What can you really do there's and it's nothing
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It's nothing that you can do that can make me say that okay
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If the Browns win this game that everything is going to be different and that they're going to make this crazy comeback
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And all this other stuff. No
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It it doesn't it just doesn't but you know for the bangles
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I think I think they can still be a nuisance within the division. I still believe that because
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As long as Joe Burrow was playing
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They always they'll always have a chance. I don't know why but
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Every time that you know
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Joe Joe Burrow does Joe Burrow things. That's just what it is
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And you know, I think the the Achilles heel for the for the bangles is the defense
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Everybody knows that the bangles defense isn't is not as good as how it was a few years ago
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So, you know, it they they have to rely more on the offense to bail them out. I don't even know what I
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Don't know man. It's both of these teams are bad
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Both of these teams are really really bad. Okay?
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And you know, the the question is who is who is worse?
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Who who is more bad than the other? I think that's the number one question because again
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Both teams
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In my mind, they do not look like they're good. They do not like they are competitive. They do not look like they are
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You know, just good. I I just don't I think they're going to be
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The third and fourth in the division. I do think the bangles are going to miss the playoffs this year
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And you know, it's going to have a really bad ripple effect in that offseason
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But on to the final game lions and vikings one word to describe this game
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fireworks
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fireworks, I think that's the best way to
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To describe it this game is going to be a back and forth type of game. Okay?
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You have two teams that you know have really good defenses and really good offenses
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And they're both in the same division. So, you know, it's going to be ultra competitive
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So let's just get into these junky nuggets. Okay, so
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Both teams are top five in points per game. The vikings are fifth at 27.8 games
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27.8 points per game the lines are first with 30.2
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Points per game. Okay, both teams are coming off a dove, which is great
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Sam darno has thrown a pick in four of the five last games
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The line's defense has four has forced seven interceptions this season and has a pick in every single game
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David Montgomery, okay
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Has scored a touchdown in every single game this season and the vikings had the second highest
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Blitz on early downs rate at 48.1
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100% whether we want to in manner or not folks, you know
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This vikings defense goes after
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They they they go after the quarterback. They put pressure on the quarterback. They make plays
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Okay, now granted the the vikings defense on paper, you know, they may not have the all pro
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They may not have this person and that person, you know as a pass rusher
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But they may do with what they have and it's worked so far and they've been giving a lot of teams
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Uh problems they they have I don't know what it is
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But brian flores has been coaching his ass off and it shows. Okay. Now the real question is how will this lions
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You know, you know pass rush look without hutch
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I think that's that's the real question that that I want to see because I think this game will determine
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If they're going to be aggressive in trying to get a hasan reddick or a miles garret or a max crossby or
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As a derrius smith or you know, whoever else because they do need another pass rusher
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They do need another productive pass rusher, you know, and you know
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I'm not really worried about the the lions offense because I know the lions offense is they're going to do what they do
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They're going to do what it do. Okay. They're going to put points on the board. They are going to beat you in the air
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They're going to beat you on the ground. They're going to beat you everywhere. Okay, when you have
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Sam lupor to playing out his mind the one two punch in david mcgurray and jamir
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Jamir gives you have a mon roce brown playing crazy. You have a top three offensive line that is
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Blocking at a phenomenal level. This is going to be a great game. This is going to be a great game
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Honestly speaking here me personally just saying it no offense to steve's fans
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