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NFL Week 8 Reaction: Commanders DEFEAT Eagles on SNF, Broncos STUN Chiefs, Lions OUTLAST Vikings + Bears-Seahawks MNF Predictions · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The Volume. What is going on everybody? John Middlecoff, Three
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Speaker 1: and Out Podcast. Hopefully you are doing well. Had a good,
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Speaker 1: happy Halloween. Hopefully everyone enjoyed it. Ate way too much candy,
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Speaker 1: as we all do during this time of year. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh, uh, I think we can officially
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Speaker 1: say they are done. Commander survived, live another day. Dan
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Speaker 1: Quinn had the hat on backwards. You know, he's ready
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Speaker 1: to coach when that's the case. Lamar Jackson out for
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Speaker 1: the seat. A lot going on. We'll dive, we'll go
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Speaker 1: through the whole day. Um, we'll get, we got a
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Speaker 1: huge Monday night game. The Chicago bears going to Seattle. That,
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Speaker 1: that is just a fantastic matchup. We will dive into
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Speaker 1: that at the end. And, uh, We also had a
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Speaker 1: podcast I did earlier as I do every Sunday with Colin,
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Speaker 1: so you can obviously listen to this podcast on Colin's feed.
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Speaker 1: You can listen to that podcast on Colin's feed. You
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Speaker 1: did an instant reaction before the Sunday night game of
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Speaker 1: should the Chargers trade Justin Herbert, which I thought they
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Speaker 1: would never do, but maybe now's the time, or at
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Speaker 1: least I've I mean, you've got to have some tough
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Speaker 1: conversations in that building. We threw that thing up on YouTube,
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Speaker 1: so you go check out the YouTube channel. We throw
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Speaker 1: content up there as well. And let's just dive into
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Speaker 1: the night and the day. I think big picture in
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Speaker 1: this game... It did feel like the Eagles, who are
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Speaker 1: playing a quarterback that would start for no one else
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, a team that is bruised and battered,
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Speaker 1: whose best offensive weapon is on the sideline in street clothes,
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Speaker 1: playing a bunch of random O-linemen whose defense is falling
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Speaker 1: apart at the seams, kind of must win for my
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Speaker 1: bald brother, Dan Quinn. And the backward hat was back.
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Speaker 1: You could tell the urgency. I do think there were
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Speaker 1: some soft rumors and buzz like, you don't win this
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Speaker 1: game at home. Night game. Might get fired in the morning.
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Speaker 1: And Dan Quinn didn't just win the game. They won
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Speaker 1: by multiple scores. So he just kind of quieted everything down.
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Speaker 1: They definitely played much harder. You know, it's funny. When
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Speaker 1: you watch Jaden, you know, it's like Jaden's sitting within
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Speaker 1: the pocket and a guy's open. He can just deliver
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Speaker 1: a strike that Bo Nix couldn't even dream of doing.
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Speaker 1: He makes some plays where you go, okay, this guy's ceiling,
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Speaker 1: if he could ever stay healthy, is obviously really high.
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Speaker 1: We saw it as a rookie. The problem is, every
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Speaker 1: time he hits the ground with his Barry Bonds contraption
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Speaker 1: or Gronkowski contraption on his arm, You think it's just
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Speaker 1: going to snap right off at the screws and his
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Speaker 1: arm's going to be pointing in different directions. You kind
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Speaker 1: of hold your breath when the guy hits the ground,
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Speaker 1: but made some beautiful plays tonight, made some big pass
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Speaker 1: plays tonight. I mean, him throwing the ball compared to
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Speaker 1: Tanner McKee is like they're playing a different sport. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Eagles had no chance. So I think Dan Quinn survives.
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Speaker 1: The commanders are 2-4-1. They're not any good, but... If
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Speaker 1: you could ever keep Jaden healthy, you see the physical
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Speaker 1: skills there. Sonny Stiles is flying around crushing people, but
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Speaker 1: obviously the story of Nick Sirianni, I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: a team that's been to the playoffs eight of the
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Speaker 1: last nine years and isn't just not going to the
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Speaker 1: playoffs when right before I hit record, I was going
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Speaker 1: to look for their box score, and I went to ESPN.com,
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Speaker 1: and instead of going to the score, so I had
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Speaker 1: to scroll through, I just went to the standings, and...
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Speaker 1: for some reason it popped up conference wise. And when
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Speaker 1: I scrolled to find the Eagles, they were in dead
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Speaker 1: last in the conference below the saints. This Eagles team
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Speaker 1: is going nowhere fast. And, you know, you can see
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Speaker 1: it on people's faces. I remember in the, in the
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Speaker 1: height of Jack's no sleep, you'd come in to record
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Speaker 1: a podcast and, you know, in the business I'm in,
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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of looking at myself or, This is
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Speaker 1: the way it works. You just stare at yourself when
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Speaker 1: you record for the video portion, and you're like, God,
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Speaker 1: I look terrible. I look like I haven't slept in
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Speaker 1: weeks because I haven't. And I do think you can
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Speaker 1: see that on Sirianni's face. I mean, maybe he does
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Speaker 1: the Ryan Day and he dyes his hair, but it
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Speaker 1: feels like he has quadrupled in the grays on the beard.
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Speaker 1: He looks awful. And listen, stress is as you get older,
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Speaker 1: you realize the anxiety and stress in your life is
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Speaker 1: something that can kill you. I mean, it's something that
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Speaker 1: can derail you as a human being, which is I've
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Speaker 1: always had a lot of respect. And I get these
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Speaker 1: coaches make a lot of money, but the hours they
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Speaker 1: work when they're not winning, the toll it can take
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Speaker 1: on just your life. And you see it on Sirianni's face.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he looks like a guy that knows what
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Speaker 1: inevitably is going to happen here. He's not going to
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Speaker 1: be the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles much longer. And
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Speaker 1: at this point in time, I think you could put
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Speaker 1: the best coaches in the league on this team and
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have much of a shot. With Tanner McKee, with,
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to say a broken down,
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Speaker 1: but definitely a diminished Saquon Barkley. They're like, yeah, his
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Speaker 1: hamstring's fine, but his back's a major problem. All their
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Speaker 1: other running backs are on injured reserve. They're rolling out
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Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell. This is a team that has no chance.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're kind of offensively going into these games,
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Speaker 1: you know, a gunfight with a butter knife. And let's
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Speaker 1: face it, defensively they've completely fallen off a cliff. And
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Speaker 1: Collinsworth was mentioning it on the broadcast. I mean, one
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Speaker 1: of their calling cards over the last several years was
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Speaker 1: their limitation of explosive plays. And how many big, I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't exactly call the commanders the 07 Patriots. And they
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Speaker 1: were hitting big play after big play on them in
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Speaker 1: the passing game. And this goes back to last week
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Speaker 1: where you thought you were going to get a more
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Speaker 1: spirited effort because I would imagine Philly radio, the newspapers,
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Speaker 1: the talk of the town was like, did you guys
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Speaker 1: just quit? Have you guys just waved the white flag
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Speaker 1: on the season? They definitely played. with much more effort tonight.
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Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, the disconnect with the talent in
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Speaker 1: which they have on the roster, that side of the ball,
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Speaker 1: because they do have talent. They've obviously paid a lot
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Speaker 1: of money for it. And the production and the impact
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Speaker 1: they get out of it are just, if we're doing
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Speaker 1: a chart on the whiteboard, there is a wide gap
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Speaker 1: between the two. And at this point in time, when
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Speaker 1: you've lost this many games, when your quarterback has blood clots,
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Speaker 1: is not coming back, And this isn't a Raven situation
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Speaker 1: where you lose Lamar Jackson, who before he got injured
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Speaker 1: was like an MVP-level player. Obviously, Jalen was struggling. But
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Speaker 1: at least you feel that if he ever gets in
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Speaker 1: a rhythm in a given game, he's in a different
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Speaker 1: stratosphere than Tanner McKee. They're just up Schitt's Creek without
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Speaker 1: a paddle. And there's nothing you can do. And sometimes...
7:23
Speaker 1: In football, in all of our businesses, you get into
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Speaker 1: a position where you just don't have answers to fix something.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes you just got to hit rock bottom. And
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Speaker 1: that's really what it feels like for the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Speaker 1: That rock bottom is only going to continue because they're
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Speaker 1: just not going to be able to win. And next
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Speaker 1: week they play the Giants who... I think you still
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Speaker 1: have to question, is J.J. just going to play like
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Speaker 1: that continuously? If he does, they will smoke the Eagles.
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Speaker 1: They will destroy them. These rumors that come out on
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Speaker 1: Sunday mornings, it's always the first thing I do when
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Speaker 1: I hear that the young fella cried about somewhere between
8:04
Speaker 1: 5.45 and 6.15 in the morning. seven days a week.
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Speaker 1: So on Sunday mornings, you're just like, oh, see what
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Speaker 1: Adam Schefter and Rap Sheet are putting out there. It's like,
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Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley, Max Crosby, start listing all the top players. Untouchable.
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Speaker 1: That's actually the bat signal for, give us a call,
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Speaker 1: but you better make sure your offer's real. And that's,
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Speaker 1: I've been saying this, I don't think Saquon has much
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Speaker 1: value because he makes a ton of money and he's
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Speaker 1: clearly not close to 100%. So, I would take him
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Speaker 1: on my team, but you'd have to eat money and
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you a valuable pick. I've
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Speaker 1: worked for Howie Roseman. I've followed his career extremely closely
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Speaker 1: for 15 plus years. That's not really how he does deals.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't just give guys away and eats money. So
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Speaker 1: when the story on him, like, yeah, I don't think
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Speaker 1: Saquon's really available because there's not much of a market
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Speaker 1: of any pick probably higher than like 150. And I'm
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Speaker 1: sure people want them to eat some money on. And
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Speaker 1: it just doesn't really make sense. So I think the
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Speaker 1: Eagles are just kind of stuck. The value on their players,
9:10
Speaker 1: given that most of them are banged up or playing
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Speaker 1: at a really, really low level, limits their ability to
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Speaker 1: get any value. Think about when they trade Jeffrey Simmons
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Speaker 1: for two ones. The Titans are terrible. Even the day
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Speaker 1: when they play good, they find a way to blow it.
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Speaker 1: But universally, everyone's like bestie tackle right now in the league,
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Speaker 1: playing his ass off, kicking ass and taking names. So
9:34
Speaker 1: it's like his value doesn't just maintain. It actually is
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Speaker 1: more impressive because you're like you're playing with a bunch
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Speaker 1: of losers. You have consistently now for years played around
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Speaker 1: a bunch of coaches that feel like they don't know
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Speaker 1: what they're doing. Your quarterback situation is a disaster. Your
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Speaker 1: team just lose every week. Yet when we throw on
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Speaker 1: the tape, you're kicking ass and taking names. And that's
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Speaker 1: usually how a really good player on a bad team
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Speaker 1: is like, well, just watch this guy play. It's why
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Speaker 1: the value around the league for Max Crosby is so
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Speaker 1: high and has been even over the years where the
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Speaker 1: Raiders were terrible. Because even when they're, last year, the
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Speaker 1: number one pick in the league, it's like, well, if
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Speaker 1: you just pick week five or week eight or week 10,
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Speaker 1: no one on the TV is playing harder than Max Crosby.
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Speaker 1: Yet you watch the Eagles over the course of the
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Speaker 1: last month. It's like, yeah, I'm not really seeing it.
10:23
Speaker 1: It's like, what is going on with Cooper Dejean? It's like,
10:27
Speaker 1: just maybe put him in the box more. I don't know.
10:30
Speaker 1: It's been a very, very weird, disastrous year. And listen,
10:35
Speaker 1: sometimes disaster strikes. I wrote down... Disaster rankings from the day.
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Speaker 1: Remember Apollo 13, Houston, we have a problem. Today there
10:45
Speaker 1: were some moments where you're like, oh my God. We've
10:49
Speaker 1: had some flood warnings in Arizona. And every once in
10:52
Speaker 1: a while your phone, it's like when a child gets
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Speaker 1: abducted or someone gets kidnapped or something, that Amber Alert
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Speaker 1: thing goes off. We've been getting those flood warnings. I
11:02
Speaker 1: think there are some teams that will just like gigantic beep, beep, beep, beep.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think anyone today, when you factor in
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Speaker 1: the hopes of the team, the momentum they had with
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Speaker 1: this guy coming back, going against the Bills, feeling pretty good,
11:20
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone had a worse day than the
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Speaker 1: Ravens today. That's one of the more, I mean, the
11:25
Speaker 1: Ravens now for, I feel like three or four years,
11:29
Speaker 1: have been like the betting favorite to start the season
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Speaker 1: every year to win the Super Bowl. Not to make,
11:34
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl, which seems kind of crazy.
11:36
Speaker 1: They haven't made a Super Bowl since like Ed Reed
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Speaker 1: and Ray Lewis were around. But I think everyone agreed
11:44
Speaker 1: if Lamar's humming, they're probably going to be pretty good.
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Speaker 1: But the major question mark was like, does Lamar ever
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Speaker 1: hum anymore? And then earlier this season, you're like, God damn,
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Speaker 1: he looks good. And then he gets rolled up on
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Speaker 1: in Tennessee, disappears, comes back today, and immediately shatters his
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Speaker 1: thumb and is potentially out for the season. And then
12:05
Speaker 1: Snoop Huntley, who they've actually functioned with, has turf toe,
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Speaker 1: which could potentially ruin your season. All of a sudden,
12:13
Speaker 1: I'm watching the UConn undrafted free agent sling the pill around.
12:18
Speaker 1: I'm like, you went from a Super Bowl contender to
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Speaker 1: now potentially having to start this undrafted free agent the
12:29
Speaker 1: rest of the season? And you have a coach... first-time
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Speaker 1: head coach, a guy, 31-year-old offensive coordinator, you're done. The
12:40
Speaker 1: Ravens season officially ended today. I think every Ravens fans
12:44
Speaker 1: know it. And I think you've got to ask yourself, like,
12:48
Speaker 1: you know, we talk about the Eagles selling people. Could
12:51
Speaker 1: they go, hey, we're open for business. We're not going anywhere.
12:55
Speaker 1: Here's the other elephant in the room. Is that the
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Speaker 1: last time Lamar Jackson ever suits up for the Ravens again?
13:01
Speaker 1: The contract situation was weird enough when he was healthy. Now,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't finish last year. I guess he comes back
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Speaker 1: at the end of last year, but he misses games
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Speaker 1: last year. He's banged up. This year, misses game for
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Speaker 1: an ankle injury. Now, it's a thumb injury. Granted, random
13:16
Speaker 1: freak could happen to anybody, but still, if it ends
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Speaker 1: his season, like he's going into next year, which is
13:22
Speaker 1: the last year of his contract, the going rate for
13:25
Speaker 1: a guy like that is worth hundreds of millions of
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Speaker 1: dollars in guaranteed money. They were uncomfortable doing it before
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Speaker 1: all this. How are they going to be more comfortable
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Speaker 1: doing it now? I'm not acting like you get rid
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Speaker 1: of Lamar, he's an easy guy to replace, but anyone
13:42
Speaker 1: with a working brain goes, this is a weird situation.
13:45
Speaker 1: It's going to get way worse because his team's going
13:47
Speaker 1: to lose a ton. They are done. Do you start
13:51
Speaker 1: putting guys, now it's like, I'm not in the business
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Speaker 1: of trading players like Kyle Hamilton, but, and I, listen,
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Speaker 1: the market for safety's even though he's a very unique player. Like, well,
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, well, he already has his version, who's on
14:04
Speaker 1: a rookie contract. I just think this Ravens day, I
14:08
Speaker 1: just don't think it gets any worse. Because you'd be like,
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Speaker 1: I'd have number two, the Cowboys. But like, the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: weren't a contender. Cowboys defense couldn't tackle me or you
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Speaker 1: in the open field. Cowboys defense just made Gardner Minshew
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Speaker 1: look like Joe freaking Montana. They made Tyler Algier look
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Speaker 1: like Barry Sanders in his prime. Every time I looked up,
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Speaker 1: I had them on a second small TV because I
14:31
Speaker 1: just assumed, stupid of me, Cowboys playing the Cardinals? I mean,
14:36
Speaker 1: this is, I don't care how bad Christian Parker is.
14:39
Speaker 1: I don't care how poor their defense played. They're going
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Speaker 1: to win this game by 10 plus points. And then
14:43
Speaker 1: you look up and they're winning by double digits. Then
14:46
Speaker 1: all of a sudden I started peeking and every time
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Speaker 1: I'd see, and then Jeremiah Love gets injured, hurts his
14:51
Speaker 1: other ankle. And then you start looking up and 22, 22, 22.
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Speaker 1: Mint you to Wilson. Mint you to McBride. And then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're losing in overtime. And they
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Speaker 1: got lucky to go overtime because the guy missed the
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Speaker 1: extra point. And Jerry's pissed off. It's like, Jerry, you...
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Speaker 1: And Colin and I talked about this on the podcast.
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Speaker 1: When they had three straight years of going 12-5, for
15:13
Speaker 1: two of those... I guess three of those years, it
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Speaker 1: was Mike McCarthy and Dan Quinn as defensive coordinator. Like,
15:20
Speaker 1: that's a... real NFL tandem at OC and DC, right?
15:25
Speaker 1: They're not perfect, but compare Mike McCarthy and Dan Quinn
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Speaker 1: to Brian Schottenheimer, Christian Parker, slash Mike Pettin. It's like
15:36
Speaker 1: comparing a UFL team to the Jags. It's not comparable.
15:41
Speaker 1: It's like comparing Fresno State to Alabama or Georgia. And
15:46
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys, you get what you pay for,
15:48
Speaker 1: and he keeps going cheap on these coaches. You could
15:51
Speaker 1: knock the personnel. Today was, and I'm someone that had
15:56
Speaker 1: picked the Cowboys to win the division at the start
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Speaker 1: of the year. I know technically they're still alive, but
16:03
Speaker 1: I'm just out. I just don't even take them seriously anymore.
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Speaker 1: This was, I thought the Titans and the Colts would
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Speaker 1: both do one, two, three, we quit. Titans fought. The
16:16
Speaker 1: Titans actually gave the Bengals everything they could handle. And
16:19
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for Dayball at the end of the game,
16:22
Speaker 1: calling a pass play on third and three from the 45,
16:24
Speaker 1: instead of just being a little more conservative, they probably
16:26
Speaker 1: would have had a pretty good chance for Joey Slide
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Speaker 1: to hit the kick, probably win the game. Instead, they
16:31
Speaker 1: call a pass. Dexter Lawrence throws him down like a ragdoll.
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Speaker 1: Go to overtime. The rest is history. They lose. No
16:37
Speaker 1: team blows it in a game in which they probably
16:40
Speaker 1: should win, quite like the Titans. But I give them credit.
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Speaker 1: They trade their best player and they fought their ass off.
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Speaker 1: Sala was into the game. Cam Ward was playing well.
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Speaker 1: They tried. I give them an A for effort. The
16:54
Speaker 1: Colts all-time 1-2-3 quit. At least the Chargers off the
17:00
Speaker 1: bye had an early lead. Showed up to play a
17:04
Speaker 1: football game just over the course of the game. Herbert's
17:09
Speaker 1: melting down. Their defense just sucks. They're in shambles. But
17:14
Speaker 1: the Colts, you looked up, it's like, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown.
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Speaker 1: And these touchdowns were like, guys running around, guys. Guys
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Speaker 1: breaking tackles. Guys running through three guys. Making a guy miss.
17:23
Speaker 1: Walking the end. It's like, what is going on right now?
17:27
Speaker 1: And the Jags, I think historically, over the Ballard era,
17:31
Speaker 1: I know it technically is over, but if you continue
17:33
Speaker 1: this year, have been owned in Jacksonville. But today was,
17:38
Speaker 1: as Barkley always said, the 1-2-3 Cancun. The Colts are done.
17:45
Speaker 1: And I said earlier in the week that I'm sorry,
17:50
Speaker 1: but when you have no picks, when your quarterback situation
17:53
Speaker 1: is a complete disaster, and the owner is just standing
17:59
Speaker 1: looking over your shoulder, right? Like, Jerry's a pain in
18:03
Speaker 1: the ass, but during the game, at least he's out
18:05
Speaker 1: of the way. Woody Johnson is a disastrous owner, but
18:08
Speaker 1: at least he's not standing right next to you during
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Speaker 1: the game. The Colts, man, I think the sad part
18:17
Speaker 1: is it could get uglier, kind of like the Chargers.
18:21
Speaker 1: They hired Mike McDaniel, and I don't know if I
18:26
Speaker 1: necessarily believed it, but I thought their roster was good.
18:29
Speaker 1: I thought they would just be what they've been, a
18:33
Speaker 1: team winning double-digit games, And just be, if Herbert could
18:37
Speaker 1: ever have a good playoff game, be like a real squad.
18:41
Speaker 1: They are the complete, the Chargers are much closer to
18:43
Speaker 1: the Colts than they are to what we witnessed out
18:46
Speaker 1: of the Broncos or the Chiefs. And speaking of those
18:50
Speaker 1: two teams, I do think Veach, they got to get
18:54
Speaker 1: really aggressive. And another guy like the Crosby bat signal
18:58
Speaker 1: went out. The Saquon bat signal went out. I can't
19:02
Speaker 1: even remember. It's kind of late. about if the Garrett-Wilson
19:06
Speaker 1: bat signal truly went out, or they were just subtle
19:10
Speaker 1: leaks that some of the media guys have talked over
19:12
Speaker 1: the last three or four days. I heard Palosaro talking
19:14
Speaker 1: about this. They have just been, hell no, hell no.
19:18
Speaker 1: Don't ask. I do think if you're Veach, you can
19:21
Speaker 1: get pretty aggressive with him. The Jets have three first-round
19:25
Speaker 1: picks this year. Right now, I haven't checked the latest
19:29
Speaker 1: after today. There's a chance those three first-round picks, they were,
19:32
Speaker 1: I think, 6, 9, and 11 picks. all the teams lost,
19:36
Speaker 1: they might now be like three, six, and eight. I mean,
19:41
Speaker 1: when the dust settles, those picks could be like one, two,
19:43
Speaker 1: and three. Definitely two of them could be in the
19:46
Speaker 1: top five. You're not going to need three first-round picks.
19:50
Speaker 1: So what if I'm Veach and I go, hey, listen,
19:52
Speaker 1: we'll give you a second this year. So you got
19:53
Speaker 1: three first round picks, a couple twos, and we'll give
19:56
Speaker 1: you our first in a year like some of these
19:59
Speaker 1: other moves like A.J. Brown. So you will have back-to-back
20:03
Speaker 1: years of having insane amount of ammo. Is someone offering
20:06
Speaker 1: you a better pick than that? Because it's pretty clear
20:09
Speaker 1: like Kenneth Walker's a really good player. He's been neutralized
20:15
Speaker 1: a little bit these last couple weeks, right? Today, it
20:17
Speaker 1: didn't impact him as much because their fifth-round rookie from Nebraska,
20:21
Speaker 1: Emmitt Johnson, was incredible. He was, through three quarters, the
20:26
Speaker 1: best player. Really, the whole game. Even their last drive,
20:30
Speaker 1: he took the kickoff out to midfield. He was unreal.
20:36
Speaker 1: So you have two running backs who are clearly really good.
20:40
Speaker 1: Kelsey's already banged up. Your wide receiver room is a nightmare. Listen,
20:45
Speaker 1: you've invested there. It's Rice you just can't trust. Worthy,
20:49
Speaker 1: like you picked him at the end of the first round.
20:51
Speaker 1: He's just, for whatever reason, him and Mahomes, it just
20:54
Speaker 1: doesn't work. And sometimes that happens. It just, when you
20:57
Speaker 1: have these all-time great quarterbacks, sometimes for whatever reason, a
21:01
Speaker 1: specific wide receiver just doesn't work with the guy. I'm
21:04
Speaker 1: going to give Mahomes the benefit of the doubt and
21:05
Speaker 1: say it's Worthy's problem. To me, for a guy with
21:08
Speaker 1: his insane amount of speed, a little stiff. You know,
21:12
Speaker 1: I like my speed demons to kind of have a
21:15
Speaker 1: little bit more change of direction, to be a little
21:17
Speaker 1: bit more of a fluid athlete. If we're going to
21:19
Speaker 1: get like nerdy scouting terms. To me, Xavier Worthy is
21:23
Speaker 1: a straight line player. And he's not dynamic enough to
21:27
Speaker 1: make up for that. So like, I'm out on him.
21:30
Speaker 1: They just need to get a real wide receiver that
21:32
Speaker 1: I can just funnel the rock to. Like you watch,
21:35
Speaker 1: and again, the Chargers are a joke. But they basically
21:39
Speaker 1: do this every single game. Throw it to Puka every
21:42
Speaker 1: single play. And at least Garrett Wilson would give you
21:45
Speaker 1: the ability to be like, we're just going to target
21:47
Speaker 1: this guy like 12 times a game with our two
21:50
Speaker 1: running backs and our tight end group, and that'll kind
21:52
Speaker 1: of balance out the offense a little bit. But that's...
21:56
Speaker 1: Chiefs up 24-3 in the fourth quarter to lose that game.
21:59
Speaker 1: I did think, like, I'm not trying to be some
22:03
Speaker 1: Chiefs homer because I know these guys, but I did
22:05
Speaker 1: think that offsides... There are some that are pretty blatant.
22:09
Speaker 1: And remember we had that stretch where I think it
22:11
Speaker 1: was the Chiefs where I almost said Jawan Jennings. Jawan
22:16
Speaker 1: something would always jump. And I thought that. Again, I
22:21
Speaker 1: had it on mute. We were about to start recording.
22:24
Speaker 1: I didn't think he jumped. And they obviously scored a touchdown.
22:26
Speaker 1: And then it gets pushed back. And then they don't.
22:29
Speaker 1: But listen, they put themselves in that position. Because Bo Nix,
22:33
Speaker 1: here's who Bo Nix is. He is a physically gifted
22:38
Speaker 1: player who can make plays when he's moving. But if
22:42
Speaker 1: you keep him within the pocket, where all the best
22:45
Speaker 1: quarterbacks can function at a high level, right? Look at
22:48
Speaker 1: the top quarterbacks. Mahomes can function in the pocket. Josh Allen,
22:52
Speaker 1: function in the pocket. Lamar, where he became a dominant
22:56
Speaker 1: player is when he stopped kind of just being the runner-only,
22:59
Speaker 1: run-around guy to like, I can do both. Joe Burrow,
23:04
Speaker 1: dominate within the pocket. Jared Goff can dominate within the pocket.
23:07
Speaker 1: And when I say dominate, just complete fucking passes. You
23:11
Speaker 1: don't have to hit the most miraculous. Can you just
23:13
Speaker 1: hit a pass? Bo Nix cannot. And it's like, we
23:18
Speaker 1: all crushed the Davis Webb situation. What if it wasn't
23:21
Speaker 1: his fault? Like, you're just calling basic plays and the
23:24
Speaker 1: guy can't complete them. But when you get him on
23:27
Speaker 1: the move, that's where he does all his damage. That's
23:29
Speaker 1: why typically late in these games, the last couple years,
23:32
Speaker 1: why they've had all these comebacks, because it kind of
23:34
Speaker 1: becomes a scramble drill. When it becomes him sitting in
23:36
Speaker 1: the pocket, hit Jalen Waddell, who's wide open on a
23:39
Speaker 1: throw that if you're a good NFL player, you're hitting that,
23:43
Speaker 1: you're definitely hitting him in a radius. He like skipped
23:46
Speaker 1: the ball outside of his shoulder. It was terrible. But
23:50
Speaker 1: they still figured it out and somehow got the win.
23:54
Speaker 1: I'm still kind of shell-shocked. I need to tell you
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25:47
Speaker 1: has the exact same resume as Mike Tomlin, as John Harbaugh,
25:52
Speaker 1: as Sean Payton. He just doesn't have the PR campaign.
25:56
Speaker 1: And I've been beating this drum for a while. If
26:00
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy was 50 pounds lighter, I think we would
26:03
Speaker 1: talk about him a lot differently. In a day and
26:06
Speaker 1: age where definitely all these college coaches, Liam Cohen, they're
26:10
Speaker 1: pumping the don't eat the food shot through their veins.
26:16
Speaker 1: Mike's just eating more hamburgers. It feels like he gets
26:19
Speaker 1: bigger every year. But I think he's doing a fucking
26:21
Speaker 1: phenomenal job. He is scheming a 300-pound tight end wide open.
26:29
Speaker 1: Some of the plays they ran for him weren't freak plays.
26:32
Speaker 1: They were scheme plays. Because, I mean, DK Metcalf is terrible.
26:37
Speaker 1: He is... The ball he dropped today, he's had some
26:40
Speaker 1: bad drops. That's probably the worst drop of his career.
26:44
Speaker 1: Especially when you factor in that it led to an interception.
26:47
Speaker 1: And it was an awesome throw by Rodgers. Like, stepped
26:49
Speaker 1: up in the pocket, threw an absolute rope, hit him
26:52
Speaker 1: in the numbers. They are paying DK a ton of money,
26:56
Speaker 1: and he is a zero. But it doesn't matter. Because...
27:01
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are playing really well. Now, their ceiling,
27:03
Speaker 1: because of their offensive weapons right now, has got to
27:07
Speaker 1: be a little limited, but they are playing. Listen, they
27:10
Speaker 1: have not lost to this team in two and a
27:13
Speaker 1: half decades at home, and today, to me, that was
27:16
Speaker 1: my favorite pick on the board. They kicked their ass.
27:20
Speaker 1: They kicked their ass with basically no wide receivers. Mike
27:25
Speaker 1: McCarthy deserves some credit. The other thing is, in that division,
27:29
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, 462 yards, five touchdowns, he had a rushing touchdown,
27:35
Speaker 1: and three interceptions. The 450 plus yards, five touchdowns, and
27:39
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown, it's the first time anyone's had that
27:45
Speaker 1: stat line since 1951. Because I saw those numbers, I'm like,
27:49
Speaker 1: that can't happen very often. But definitely it's the only
27:53
Speaker 1: time anyone had that stat line with three interceptions. He
27:57
Speaker 1: made some throws today that were the one chase touchdown
28:00
Speaker 1: over the middle of the field. It's like, that is
28:03
Speaker 1: football porn. Like, stepped up, like, ran up in the pocket.
28:07
Speaker 1: Your boy somehow had him on the bench for fantasy.
28:11
Speaker 1: I mean, I fucking hate fantasy. I can't stand fantasy.
28:14
Speaker 1: It's like the Thursday night game. If you got other
28:16
Speaker 1: stuff going on, if you're working, if you got a life,
28:18
Speaker 1: and the game kicks off, and all of a sudden
28:20
Speaker 1: you got Bryce Young in your lineup, and you're like,
28:22
Speaker 1: I don't want Bryce Young. I want Joe Burrow. And
28:24
Speaker 1: then Joe Burrow has today... Makes you want to quit
28:27
Speaker 1: playing fantasy for life. But I also don't understand. I mean,
28:33
Speaker 1: another time that you just think that the Titans are
28:36
Speaker 1: going to have a little quit in them and you
28:37
Speaker 1: look up and they're up 13-0. How do the Bengals,
28:40
Speaker 1: this is multiple games in recent memory where they end
28:43
Speaker 1: up winning, where they're down 13-0. Like if you're not
28:46
Speaker 1: super dialed into the game in the first quarter, you're
28:48
Speaker 1: watching other games. And you look over and you're like, wait,
28:52
Speaker 1: the Bengals are down to the Titans by two scores?
28:55
Speaker 1: What is going on? And they even asked Jamar Chase
28:57
Speaker 1: after the game, he's like, yeah, you got to ask Zach.
28:59
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know what Zach does in
29:02
Speaker 1: terms of for years, like they always started slow in
29:05
Speaker 1: the season. Now they figured out a way to just
29:08
Speaker 1: start slow in these games. Something at practice, something with
29:13
Speaker 1: the first 15 plays, something with the pregame message. I
29:17
Speaker 1: don't know, but they are way too talented to, To
29:20
Speaker 1: just start this slow, it shouldn't be this difficult. But
29:24
Speaker 1: you've got a Joe Burrow who's currently on pace for
29:28
Speaker 1: 48 touchdowns, 4,700 yards, and 72% completion percentage. Underrated. I
29:35
Speaker 1: don't even know if it's a sleeper, but like, you know,
29:37
Speaker 1: I wouldn't, you know, his name could... enter the MVP discussion.
29:45
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield went 0-3 today. He didn't get benched. He
29:51
Speaker 1: did not complete a pass. And they blew out the
29:55
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. What I don't understand, the Bucs ran for
29:59
Speaker 1: like 700 yards. Bucky Irving had a couple runs today
30:02
Speaker 1: that legitimately looked like Barry Sanders. He looked like one
30:06
Speaker 1: of the best players in the league. Him, Gibbs, Tyler Algier.
30:10
Speaker 1: There were some running backs today where you're like, Jesus,
30:13
Speaker 1: this guy's good. How could Kevin Stefanski be watching what
30:18
Speaker 1: they were doing and be like, let's call another pass
30:21
Speaker 1: for Michael Penix, who looked like someone you'd be playing
30:25
Speaker 1: on the playground with you know, in like junior high,
30:29
Speaker 1: when it would be raining, and he's like, I'm the
30:31
Speaker 1: all-time quarterback, and he's a terrible quarterback, and he can't
30:34
Speaker 1: grip the ball, and balls are flying all over the place.
30:36
Speaker 1: Michael Penix, I don't know if anyone had a worse
30:39
Speaker 1: game than him today. Maybe Daniel Jones. I mean, he
30:42
Speaker 1: threw four picks, three picks in the first half. He
30:45
Speaker 1: was just horrendous. I just don't know why Stefanski kept
30:47
Speaker 1: calling plays. This goes back to like Sarka, Texas. I
30:50
Speaker 1: remember one time he lost a game. Was it to
30:52
Speaker 1: Kansas State? He lost to somebody, I remember, with B.
30:56
Speaker 1: John Robinson, where B. John had like two touches in
30:58
Speaker 1: the second half. I was like, Sark, you have the
31:01
Speaker 1: best running back in the country, and probably a guy
31:04
Speaker 1: who is like 20 years old would start for like 90%
31:08
Speaker 1: of the NFL teams right now. Just give him the ball.
31:11
Speaker 1: Just hand him the ball. Why didn't Stefanski just hand his, like, hey,
31:14
Speaker 1: we're just going to do exactly what the Bucs are doing.
31:16
Speaker 1: We're just going to run it. We're just not going
31:18
Speaker 1: to throw it. Because when we do throw it, our
31:21
Speaker 1: quarterback is throwing it to the other team. And I'm
31:23
Speaker 1: not mad at him. I hammered the Bucs today. But
31:25
Speaker 1: it just didn't quite make sense. It made absolutely no sense. Like,
31:31
Speaker 1: I just, that game was, the Bucs are, they were dead.
31:35
Speaker 1: They're definitely not dead now. Their defense is flying around.
31:39
Speaker 1: They're running game. Whew. I don't even know if Baker
31:44
Speaker 1: can throw. I mean, we don't even know. I mean,
31:46
Speaker 1: they've won back-to-back games where it's like, Was his thumb work?
31:49
Speaker 1: Who knows? It could just be broken. He could be
31:52
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson and no one knows it. The Lions
31:55
Speaker 1: and the Vikings. Minnesota, actually, I came away even more
32:00
Speaker 1: impressed with Flores. In the first half, it was basically
32:03
Speaker 1: Brian Flores versus the Lions. It's like, can Brian Flores
32:07
Speaker 1: single-handedly win this game? It's like, is he going to
32:10
Speaker 1: do it? A couple times, he hit Goff with some
32:12
Speaker 1: blitzes that kind of made it look like Daniel Jones
32:14
Speaker 1: from a week ago. where he just golfed them from
32:17
Speaker 1: all angles. I think the Lions are in a little trouble.
32:20
Speaker 1: And then the problem is, when you cannot score, and
32:24
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings cannot, Kyler Murray just is not a
32:27
Speaker 1: functional quarterback. He's so bad that Justin Jefferson, who is
32:33
Speaker 1: like one of the nicest, easiest going guys in the league,
32:36
Speaker 1: just like storms out of the locker room. Won't talk
32:38
Speaker 1: to anybody. No media after. That's like stuff Jalen Carter does.
32:44
Speaker 1: Not Justin Jefferson. But it's like, it's just not going
32:47
Speaker 1: to work. It is not working. It's why anyone that
32:52
Speaker 1: watched them play went like Flores is doing. This is
32:55
Speaker 1: not sustainable. You can't score 15 points a game and
33:00
Speaker 1: have a chance to beat the better teams. And they
33:03
Speaker 1: gave the Lions all they could handle. And the Lions
33:06
Speaker 1: scored 19 points and they lost by four. And the
33:09
Speaker 1: Lions lost during the game four defensive players. Obviously the
33:13
Speaker 1: scariest one by far was the Jack Campbell moment, who
33:18
Speaker 1: is currently, as of recording this, typically I feel in
33:22
Speaker 1: these situations that the team will put out a statement like, listen,
33:27
Speaker 1: he's got all his feeling back, he's doing well, he's
33:30
Speaker 1: resting with his family. They never mention feeling in his body,
33:34
Speaker 1: it's just he's resting, he's doing well in the hospital.
33:39
Speaker 1: And then you watch some of the, when Aiden Hutchinson's
33:41
Speaker 1: crying on the field, it's just, It was pretty jarring.
33:45
Speaker 1: I feel like that's one of the longer, I would say,
33:50
Speaker 1: injury breaks. It's not quite the same as a primetime
33:55
Speaker 1: game where it's on a four box, you see another
33:58
Speaker 1: action going. But they came back. Then they would wait
34:01
Speaker 1: there for a minute. Everyone huddled up. Then they go
34:03
Speaker 1: back to commercial. They went back and forth to commercial
34:05
Speaker 1: like three different times. I'm like, is he alive? And
34:09
Speaker 1: then you start seeing players cry. Like, do we have
34:11
Speaker 1: a DeMar Hamblin situation going on? And clearly it was
34:16
Speaker 1: not good. So hopefully by the time we're all waking
34:20
Speaker 1: up that everything, news comes out that we have avoided disaster.
34:23
Speaker 1: But it's definitely a scary situation. Brian Branch, who is
34:28
Speaker 1: back off injury, knocked out a defensive lineman. He knocked
34:33
Speaker 1: out his own teammate. They had to like help the
34:36
Speaker 1: teammate get to the cart because he couldn't walk straight. Branch,
34:42
Speaker 1: who you thought was going to shake it off and
34:43
Speaker 1: be fine, he gets KO'd. I mean, the Lions lost.
34:48
Speaker 1: Their defense is already in question. Jack Campbell is like
34:52
Speaker 1: the team captain. Aiden Hutchinson is the best player. I
34:55
Speaker 1: would say Branch is clearly, when healthy, one of their
34:58
Speaker 1: best players. And the D-lineman that he knocked out I
35:02
Speaker 1: think was a rookie who's been playing really well. I mean,
35:04
Speaker 1: guys are just getting KO'd left and right. And they
35:07
Speaker 1: still found a way to win because you're playing Kyler Murray.
35:09
Speaker 1: And he's just simply not good enough. And he hasn't
35:14
Speaker 1: been good in a while, but he's... It's pretty bad.
35:17
Speaker 1: And this is going to be something to monitor. J.J.
35:21
Speaker 1: doesn't need to play like that every week. But if
35:23
Speaker 1: he could just play like a serviceable starter and make
35:26
Speaker 1: big passes to Malik Nabors, Isaiah Likely, Malachi Fields, like
35:31
Speaker 1: they're an explosive offense down the field, you'd be like, well, Kevin...
35:35
Speaker 1: How could you not figure this out? And listen, I
35:37
Speaker 1: supported it. I was like, hey, personalities, you give up
35:40
Speaker 1: on a person. We've all worked, especially when you work
35:44
Speaker 1: in a building. You spend a lot of time around
35:47
Speaker 1: other people. There comes a point where we've all had,
35:50
Speaker 1: I think it's very relatable, where you just, you might
35:53
Speaker 1: not like hate the person. Like there's something about them
35:57
Speaker 1: though that rubs you the wrong way. You're like, I can't,
35:59
Speaker 1: I can't work with this guy. And you try not
36:02
Speaker 1: to be a drama queen and be able to stand
36:05
Speaker 1: out in the office setting, but you're just like, this
36:07
Speaker 1: is not going to work. This is not a productive relationship.
36:12
Speaker 1: And that clearly happens a lot with quarterbacks and offensive
36:15
Speaker 1: coordinators where they just turn on each other. It doesn't
36:17
Speaker 1: work personalities. But it's not a good look if you
36:22
Speaker 1: go down the ship with Kyler and you start losing.
36:24
Speaker 1: You play the Bills, you play the Packers, you play
36:26
Speaker 1: the Niners, you start losing all these games. And the
36:28
Speaker 1: Giants just make the playoffs, even if it's nine wins, nine, seven,
36:32
Speaker 1: and one. And J.J. just looks good and saved their season.
36:37
Speaker 1: It helped John Harbaugh kind of resurrect the franchise. It'll
36:41
Speaker 1: be tough because there is no guarantee the better teams
36:44
Speaker 1: they play, just because you go 6-0, that you just
36:47
Speaker 1: are a lock to make the playoffs. If you can't
36:49
Speaker 1: beat any team with a pulse at quarterback... Because your
36:53
Speaker 1: offense is so terrible. Especially when you have this incredible,
36:57
Speaker 1: all-time great defensive performance so far. But that's the way
37:01
Speaker 1: it's trending. I guess we could just end with the
37:05
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football game. On paper, this is about as
37:10
Speaker 1: good as it gets. This is actually a great start
37:12
Speaker 1: to the week. Because it's some great college football games
37:17
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Kind of sets the tone. We go Monday night.
37:21
Speaker 1: See who's playing Thursday night. We have a good Thursday
37:26
Speaker 1: night game. Jacksonville at the Ravens. That would have been
37:31
Speaker 1: good if Lamar was playing, but that's a tough spot
37:33
Speaker 1: for an undrafted free agent. So this has to set
37:38
Speaker 1: the tone. Jacksonville might kill them in that game. This place,
37:43
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, I vividly remember a game a long
37:47
Speaker 1: time ago. where Drew Brees, this was like maybe the
37:52
Speaker 1: early LOB or like the peak of LOB, played a
37:56
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football game. I don't even think they gave
37:57
Speaker 1: the ball past the 50. They couldn't hear themselves. This
38:01
Speaker 1: place is, and this is like in the peak of
38:03
Speaker 1: like Drew Brees, Sean Payton, and they got humiliated. This
38:07
Speaker 1: is a really, really tough place to play. There just
38:10
Speaker 1: aren't that many places like this in the NFL. There
38:13
Speaker 1: just really aren't. You know, most venues you play in,
38:17
Speaker 1: even if it is loud, You're kind of numb to it.
38:20
Speaker 1: These guys have all played, a lot of them, in
38:22
Speaker 1: big college environments. This is as loud as it gets
38:28
Speaker 1: in all of football. When you have a great defense,
38:32
Speaker 1: which Seattle does, what a great test. We have two
38:37
Speaker 1: of the best at what they do. Mike McDonald calling
38:41
Speaker 1: the defense with elite defensive personnel. You have Ben Johnson
38:45
Speaker 1: calling the offense with pretty elite offense. I mean, they're
38:48
Speaker 1: missing a couple players, especially Menonjai. But, I mean, Caleb Williams.
38:54
Speaker 1: What a great, just nerdy football matchup. How will this look?
38:59
Speaker 1: Because you know that one thing he wants to do
39:03
Speaker 1: is he wants to run the ball. Well, one thing
39:05
Speaker 1: Seattle doesn't let you do is run the ball. No
39:08
Speaker 1: one's rushed for 100 yards on him. Going back until
39:13
Speaker 1: week 8, 2024. So something's got to give. And then
39:17
Speaker 1: when you factor in that John Schneider just traded for
39:20
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson, who I saw walking out to practice, was
39:23
Speaker 1: that Wednesday or Thursday? Looks just like a complete badass.
39:27
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons is a legitimate badass. They're going to go
39:31
Speaker 1: up against each other. Regardless who else gets traded, it's
39:37
Speaker 1: hard to get bigger trades than two all-pro level guys.
39:41
Speaker 1: I mean, in the peak of their powers. So you
39:45
Speaker 1: add this kind of juice to the game and It
39:48
Speaker 1: really is fantastic. This type game, if Chicago goes on
39:55
Speaker 1: the road and wins, especially if Simmons is causing havoc,
40:00
Speaker 1: I think one headline and feel that will come out
40:03
Speaker 1: of the game is this team can win the Super Bowl.
40:06
Speaker 1: And you'll feel, because a buddy of mine, the biggest
40:09
Speaker 1: Bears fan I know, I ran into him two days ago.
40:13
Speaker 1: He's like, God, I like the move, but it was
40:15
Speaker 1: a lot. Because anytime you see two first-round picks, For
40:18
Speaker 1: a guy, it's pretty jolting, right? But I understand why
40:22
Speaker 1: they did it. Ryan Poles was– I think he did
40:26
Speaker 1: a press conference this week. I just saw the clip
40:28
Speaker 1: where he's like, we did a study, and every team
40:31
Speaker 1: since like 2018 has had an all-pro defensive tackle. And
40:36
Speaker 1: let's face it, the just basic math and basic geometry,
40:40
Speaker 1: it's quicker to get to the quarterback when you're lined
40:43
Speaker 1: up over the center or the guard than it is,
40:46
Speaker 1: you know, the– The nine technique over the outside shoulder
40:53
Speaker 1: of the tight end or the tackle. So you have
40:58
Speaker 1: a quicker route to create chaos. And when you're such
41:03
Speaker 1: a dominant interior pass rusher, which he is, and he is.
41:08
Speaker 1: He's a fantastic elite player. And I think he's the
41:12
Speaker 1: type of guy that if he had been on a
41:14
Speaker 1: more prominent team, he would probably be discussed like some
41:16
Speaker 1: of the star defensive linemen in the league. And typically,
41:20
Speaker 1: if you're on a shittier team, but you're an end,
41:23
Speaker 1: you get more hype. And I think this guy will
41:26
Speaker 1: be jolted in immediately as just kind of like one
41:29
Speaker 1: of the top dogs. I mean, he technically is in
41:32
Speaker 1: terms of production, but when you play on a god-awful
41:34
Speaker 1: franchise that no one watches, you get to fly under
41:36
Speaker 1: the radar a little bit. So, I'm geeked. I mean,
41:41
Speaker 1: this is just the physicality of this game. Like, Can
41:44
Speaker 1: the Bears and their receivers like Luther Burden and Rome
41:48
Speaker 1: going into that environment against that defense? I mean, those guys,
41:52
Speaker 1: they hit you and they hit you hard. The other
41:54
Speaker 1: thing that, you know, since Caleb came back from this,
41:57
Speaker 1: he's been so good throwing the ball. Like these guys
42:01
Speaker 1: are going to create some pressure. He's going to have
42:03
Speaker 1: to move a little bit. And a couple weeks ago,
42:06
Speaker 1: it's like you could tell, you know, the ham's a
42:08
Speaker 1: little tight. Like is he a 100% movement wise? Because
42:11
Speaker 1: last year, in the peak of his powers, and even
42:13
Speaker 1: earlier this year before he got injured, he was hauling ass.
42:18
Speaker 1: And I get it. Carolina's god-awful on defense. They just
42:20
Speaker 1: fired their defensive coordinator. But just his speed in that game.
42:23
Speaker 1: You're like, geez, Luis. This guy's closer to Lamar Jackson
42:27
Speaker 1: as a runner than I think people realize. So if
42:30
Speaker 1: he's got that back, it could be some fireworks tomorrow.
42:37
Speaker 1: Just physicality, big plays. I mean, JSN, Sam Darnold. One
42:41
Speaker 1: thing the Bears, I mean, last year they led the
42:43
Speaker 1: league in turnovers. I mean, does he turn the ball over?
42:46
Speaker 1: Because he definitely has had a problem doing that of late.
42:50
Speaker 1: And if you turn the ball over, whether it's a
42:52
Speaker 1: red zone, middle of the field, and you give Caleb
42:54
Speaker 1: and Ben Johnson extra shots, that's how you blow a game.
42:57
Speaker 1: This is a big game. This is a big game
43:00
Speaker 1: for Chicago to just kind of be like, we're truly,
43:03
Speaker 1: if not the best team, we're as good as anybody
43:05
Speaker 1: in the conference. And for Seattle, all of a sudden
43:08
Speaker 1: you go back-to-back wins against the Chiefs in Chicago. Like,
43:11
Speaker 1: You kind of gained all your momentum right back. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's do some predictions brought to you by my friends
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Speaker 1: at Pauly Market. I personally, I don't feel great about this,
44:47
Speaker 1: but I just think you got to do it. I'm
44:49
Speaker 1: going to take Seattle to not cover the three and
44:52
Speaker 1: a half. And $ 100 pays $ 179. Again, I... I could see, like,
45:02
Speaker 1: it wouldn't stun me if Seattle wins by, like, 8
45:04
Speaker 1: or 10 points just because that environment. I'm a big
45:07
Speaker 1: believer in the Bears. I just have so much respect
45:09
Speaker 1: for this venue, so much respect for kind of this defense,
45:14
Speaker 1: this iteration of this defense, back to the L.O.B. defense
45:16
Speaker 1: in these primetime games. I just think they get so
45:19
Speaker 1: amped up for them in Seattle that it's a mother.
45:23
Speaker 1: But I'm leaning on Ben here, leaning on the Caleb magic.
45:28
Speaker 1: I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I would love just tie
45:30
Speaker 1: game five minutes to go and just let's see what happens.
45:33
Speaker 1: The other thing is this guy just fucking makes big
45:36
Speaker 1: plays every single game. I mean, you could argue he's
45:38
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver in the league. There would be
45:41
Speaker 1: a couple other guys up for the argument, but there's
45:43
Speaker 1: no one better right now than JSN. Anytime touchdown on
45:48
Speaker 1: Pauley Market, $ 100 pays $ 199. I don't think you'd go
45:53
Speaker 1: wrong taking JSN to score every single game he plays.
45:56
Speaker 1: So let's hope this game lives up to the hype.
45:59
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons, Quentin Nelson, there's something special about Seattle. We
46:04
Speaker 1: just don't get that much in the NFL, right? You
46:06
Speaker 1: get it a lot in college. LSU, Bama this week,
46:09
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Miami, BYU, Utah, these just passionate rivalry night games,
46:15
Speaker 1: the craziness, the pageantry. Seattle's one of the lone venues
46:21
Speaker 1: at night that feels just pretty unique. And you feel
46:25
Speaker 1: it in the opponent with how hard it is for
46:28
Speaker 1: them to communicate, how hard it is for them to operate.
46:30
Speaker 1: It's really been like that for a long time now.
46:33
Speaker 1: I think tomorrow night's going to be, I guess if
46:36
Speaker 1: you listen to this on Monday, just absolutely nuts. So
46:39
Speaker 1: can't wait. You can find me on the couch while
46:42
Speaker 1: I'm on Mountain Time now at 6.15. Well, I might
46:45
Speaker 1: open up at 6 because that article on Troy Aikman
46:47
Speaker 1: that Seems like not the easiest guy to work with.
46:50
Speaker 1: I always hate just taking the view of an article
46:53
Speaker 1: that's posted that's clearly all coming from one side. But
46:56
Speaker 1: I would say if anyone is a subscription holder to
47:00
Speaker 1: The Athletic and read that article about Aikman, maybe it's
47:04
Speaker 1: part of the reason I like him on air because
47:06
Speaker 1: he's kind of grouchy and edgy. Seems like he also
47:08
Speaker 1: carries that into working with his producers and maybe not
47:13
Speaker 1: the most well-liked guy in the operation. and maybe that's
47:16
Speaker 1: why they're not giving him a contract extension. So I
47:18
Speaker 1: might actually turn it on right when they come to
47:20
Speaker 1: air because I'm fascinated by this duo just hating each other.
47:24
Speaker 1: But we'll end on that, and let's hope for a
47:27
Speaker 1: good Monday night game. The Volume.