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- 0:00it's laced up let's go it's time for banter with
- 0:04the boys oh hello what's going on welcome back
- 0:18to banter with the boys gridiron updates our
- 0:21tent talk episode damn it justin i was laughing
- 0:25sorry it's actually really fast for you All right.
- 0:30Sorry. Lots of things are going on off air here.
- 0:34Yeah. So we're here. Nothing weird. Anyway, Roberto's
- 0:39here. He's recovering right now. I'm here. Smelty's
- 0:43here as well. That's me. Yes. To my Larry, it's
- 0:47Jake, a Ravens fan. Hi. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
- 0:51Yeah. No, I hear you. And then next to Roberto,
- 0:54Justin, our Packer fan. What's up? Back at it
- 0:58again. And then, of course, Kev behind the camera
- 1:00and the computer and all of the stuff over there.
- 1:03Probably some sports cards and other things.
- 1:05Actually, I don't. Did you bring all the sports
- 1:08cards upstairs? Holy crap. I just noticed that.
- 1:12Kev, Justin, and I are massive in the cards.
- 1:14So anyway. What are we doing? Injuries, yes.
- 1:18Okay, so there's a lot of injuries that happened
- 1:21this week, actually, but I only put down the
- 1:23ones for playoff teams. Did that matter? Okay.
- 1:25No, they all matter. Like Geno Smith, high ankle
- 1:28sprain, that sucks, but wasn't even going to
- 1:30mention it. You just did. So anyway, Trent Williams
- 1:34left the game after the first snap, I believe,
- 1:38with a hamstring issue, and that's very concerning
- 1:42for the Niners. They did okay without him. the
- 1:46course of the entire year. They did, but listen
- 1:48here. And would you rather have him? Hell yeah.
- 1:50So are you saying him next week? But I guess
- 1:52it's like, we'll talk to the Chargers then. That's
- 1:56up to Trent. Yeah, that's up to Trent, I guess.
- 1:58With a man that big, I'm going to let him make
- 2:00his own decisions. They did do okay. They did
- 2:02do okay without him. All right, okay. Darnell
- 2:05Washington, excuse me. Tight end for Pittsburgh,
- 2:09that gigantic man. Broken arm. Season likely
- 2:13over. Yep. So... Whatever. That sucks. I mean,
- 2:17Darnell, get well. I traded for you in Madden.
- 2:20Thanks, dude. He's massive. I think that's going
- 2:23to have a significant impact on the Steelers
- 2:25against the Ravens. Just that big third tight
- 2:28end. Just a block. And then Aaron Rodgers felt
- 2:31comfortable just tossing it down to him all season
- 2:34long. Just like, oh, security blanket. Big man,
- 2:37go. You're going to miss him. D -tackle for Green
- 2:41Bay Jordan Riley. Torn Achilles. He was just
- 2:44signed off the Giants practice squad. I don't
- 2:45even know who that is. I was going to say, I
- 2:47don't think he did too much since he got signed
- 2:49off the Giants practice squad. I think he was
- 2:52just a depth player. Let's see. Rashid Shahid.
- 3:00Seattle's like receiver kick return, whatever.
- 3:02Yeah. Pretty much won the Rams. Yeah. Correct.
- 3:06Season ending concussion. They just, they said
- 3:10it's a concussion. They straight up said it was
- 3:11season ending, not protocol like done. So that's
- 3:14kind of, that's kind of concerning. Yeah. Concussion.
- 3:17So hopefully quick recovery. Just heal up. No,
- 3:20it doesn't need to be quick. Just heal up. Your
- 3:22season is done, buddy. Healthy in life. No doubt.
- 3:25Yeah. Let's see. Jake's cousin, Lamar Jackson.
- 3:29Heck yeah. Back is still. Cousin Lamar. Cousin
- 3:33Lamar. I just put in the thing here. Back is
- 3:34still a thing. Sure is. You would think he's
- 3:37going to play in this game, though. Jury's still
- 3:39out. We won't. Probably have a better idea until
- 3:41after practice on Wednesday. Does his big toe
- 3:44hurt, too, still? No, all of the focus and the
- 3:47attention is the contusion on his back. And I
- 3:50think they're using the language hope, which
- 3:51I think they're hopeful that it'll progress.
- 3:53But to your point, they have to get to Wednesday.
- 3:55What percent does he have to be for you to send
- 3:57him out there? One. No. Over Tyler Huntley? He's
- 4:02not that bad. 80%. I would like to see him at
- 4:0680 or higher. Because that Steelers defense is...
- 4:09still gonna ball out for sure uh and you need
- 4:11to be healthy and one wrong hit i feel like you
- 4:14know one wrong sack or even hit after the throw
- 4:17is not gonna yep could not end well so um but
- 4:21if you don't win you're not in so that's right
- 4:22i don't know because if he doesn't play and doesn't
- 4:28make the playoffs i mean if the coach is going
- 4:30there he'd magically say what so we're gonna
- 4:33go there What? Just go on. Well, if they don't
- 4:36make the playoffs. Tread lightly. I know, honestly.
- 4:38He's going to sit there all offseason and go,
- 4:41I should have played. I get it first. So I think
- 4:45if he gets the checkmark by the medical staff,
- 4:48we're having multiple conversations. No, no,
- 4:50no, we're fine. We're not talking about the conference.
- 4:52That's all I got. Okay. He didn't go where I
- 4:55thought you were going to go. I thought we were
- 4:57going to talk about Lamar's legacy if he doesn't
- 4:59play in this game. No, I would consider that.
- 5:02I mean, that's a back intuition. Right. That's
- 5:06a lot of running and twisting and bending. Why
- 5:10do you think this would be a legacy question
- 5:13for non -Lamar fans? I'm not. It's in your head.
- 5:18Well, it's because it's like the news feed. Everyone's
- 5:21like, oh, trade Lamar. Lamar's legacy. Are these
- 5:24Baltimore news feeds? Are fans sick of them?
- 5:27there's Baltimore news feeds. There's other media
- 5:31outlets that are also having these converse or
- 5:34like posting these, not my circle, these news
- 5:36articles. Well, you have a port group of friends.
- 5:40Yeah, guys. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you're not hanging
- 5:44out with Ravens fans or more of them. Um, I got
- 5:48a deal for you. Okay. Uh, you guys eat half the
- 5:51money and we'll just give you a third round pick
- 5:53and we'll take one more off your hands. Half
- 5:58the money Half the money? Half the money Let
- 6:01me think about it. I'd put him down at what?
- 6:03Like $27 million or something? Yeah, he's only
- 6:06getting like $55. Oh, even better. Yeah, half
- 6:08a million. We still got a Porsche in the garage.
- 6:11We still got to drive and see what we got. Oh,
- 6:13I know. I know. He's got to charge up for it.
- 6:17He's asking at Brosmer, though. There's a lot
- 6:20of legacy questions that are always flying around
- 6:22Lamar about whether or not he's the quarterback.
- 6:24Is he going to be able to get the Ravens over
- 6:26the hump? Is he going to win a big game? That
- 6:28kind of stuff. So he's getting more like the
- 6:31toy, not toy command, but Josh Allen. Josh Allen
- 6:36isn't one that got over the house yet. Yeah,
- 6:38but there's Jim Kelly. Tony Romo. There you go.
- 6:40Tony Romo's a good example. Really great quarterback
- 6:43in the regular season. Can he get it done in
- 6:46the postseason? Can he get him into the postseason?
- 6:49I mean, they don't make him much better than
- 6:51that. Right. Every time he just walks better.
- 6:55I love that. I get annoyed, and I give a virtual
- 7:00finger to all of the news articles that are like
- 7:03trade Lamar or fire John Harbaugh. All right,
- 7:06Raven fan, you hear that. Keep Lamar. Keep John.
- 7:09Let's go. He wants to keep the squad together.
- 7:12That's right. All right. Well, with us talking
- 7:14about. Does he sit or not this week? Another
- 7:16quarterback that may sit or not. Josh Allen.
- 7:19Does he sit this week? That foot obviously bugging
- 7:22him. We talked about it in our preview episode.
- 7:24If you did not listen to that, go check that
- 7:26out. Week 16. I'm sorry. Recap episode. Our week
- 7:2917 recap episode. Jeez, I'm just spewing words.
- 7:34Just spewing words. You know what I mean? It
- 7:35was smooth. But he was seeing limb in through
- 7:38some plays and stuff. So it's just like. Do you
- 7:42risk becoming the seventh seed if you lose and
- 7:46sit Josh Allen out and you roll Mitchell Trubisky
- 7:49and see if he pulls it out? I'm not sure. You
- 7:54know, I think I said I'm personally. I think
- 7:57I've seen enough from the Bills that they can
- 7:59they can make a run from the seventh seed. What's
- 8:01the playoff scenario there for the Bills? You
- 8:04said anywhere from the 80s to the seventh. I
- 8:06mean, at this point, like we were talking about,
- 8:10doesn't matter. Six, seven, five or five, six,
- 8:13seven. Doesn't matter to me. Have you seen the
- 8:17videos on kids at, like, college basketball games?
- 8:20No, let's not even start talking about it. Oh,
- 8:21my God. Dude, they go crazy. Like, it's nothing
- 8:24like I've ever seen before. Great. Now it's going
- 8:26to be in our algorithm. We're going to talk about
- 8:29it. That's perfect. We'll get views. We'll get
- 8:31views. It's fine. All right. Anyway, actually,
- 8:34funny enough, I was, like, driving through a
- 8:36neighborhood this week. I'm sorry, not this week,
- 8:38this year. It was, like, a couple months ago.
- 8:40And these kids were just standing in the front
- 8:43yard. I was just driving by, and they were like.
- 8:45but they were like doing it on their chest. So
- 8:46I was like, I didn't know what six, seven was.
- 8:48So I was like, are they like, is it like the
- 8:50milkshake? What's going on here? And then I found
- 8:54out about six, seven. I was like, Oh, that's
- 8:56probably what they were doing that day. But they
- 8:58coached. Oh my gosh. There it is. Moving on.
- 9:04Anyway, another, another quarterback that is
- 9:07sitting out this week is Justin Herbert. They've
- 9:10already announced. that he will not start against
- 9:13Denver, which is big, because I think Denver
- 9:16has to win to lock up the number one. They're
- 9:18going back and forth between them and New England.
- 9:21So this is really big. So Pats fans are probably
- 9:23pissed. They saw that news. They're like, oh,
- 9:26they're just handing it to them. I forget who
- 9:28the heck Herbert's backup is right now, though.
- 9:31Hold on. I mean, could they still win? Probably
- 9:34not. I'm working on it. I should know this, you
- 9:38know, as a flam. well i'm pulling it up it's
- 9:43right here it's right here trey lance awesome
- 9:44so we get to see some trey lance this weekend
- 9:46rejuvenate the career get traded to minnesota
- 9:49the old course yeah who's the who's the coach
- 9:52down there for who chargers harbaugh harbaugh
- 9:56oh yeah so we call him the jimbo qe whisper now
- 9:59after lance's return all right no i'm not excited
- 10:04about that all right um no not at all and then
- 10:07the only one oh Let me figure out words here.
- 10:10The only other one that I had down was Jamal
- 10:12Dean. He's a corner for Tampa Bay. Shoulder was
- 10:15kind of hit or miss during the whole game, so
- 10:17I ended up kind of pulling him out. So we'll
- 10:20see a big one coming up this weekend for him.
- 10:22Any other injuries that you guys need to throw
- 10:24out there? Other than Lions fans. Ooh. Their
- 10:29souls, hearts, all of it. Oh, wow. Their tears.
- 10:33And Cowboys fans. They're always hurt. We ended
- 10:37their season, too. Permanent IR. I'm just trying
- 10:39to take my competitive W as well. Hey, I understand.
- 10:43I understand. Let's head into just a slight bit
- 10:46of news here. Did your name end in digs? Oh,
- 10:48me? Yeah. No. Okay, good. Because this is a bad
- 10:51news day. If it is. Smooth. Nice. That was nice.
- 10:55Stefan Diggs in the news as well. Not great.
- 10:59I'll just let you go find that out. Trayvon Diggs
- 11:02getting released. Do you think they did that
- 11:05so he can try to join with a contender? Or are
- 11:09they just like, bro, you just burned too many
- 11:11times, man. I don't think they wanted to pay
- 11:13him injuries. Sure, sure. Just not what they
- 11:15signed up for when they gave him that contract.
- 11:17The whole shebang. They don't want to pay him
- 11:19another half a million dollars just to play.
- 11:20Was there like a roster bonus at like week 18
- 11:23or something that saved him some? Because it's
- 11:25weird that there's one more week. Yeah. You know,
- 11:27like why not? Something happened? I feel, yeah,
- 11:30something weird must have happened. Stefan Diggs
- 11:32get him in trouble too? Or maybe he had to go
- 11:36do emotional support for him or what? I don't
- 11:39know. I don't know. Anyway. Is his throat hurting?
- 11:41I shouldn't say that. Oh, my gosh. Too far. Packers
- 11:45fans. Yeah, you have to excuse him. He's a little
- 11:49messed up in the head. Packers are supposedly
- 11:51one of the two teams that are most likely to
- 11:54pick up. Cheryl Killer. You see that? Wow. I
- 12:01mean, the Packers could use another cornerback
- 12:03for sure. I mean, that was their number one question
- 12:05mark coming into the season. Was their secondary
- 12:08going to be any good? And they've actually played
- 12:10pretty well. Yeah, they've been okay. I mean,
- 12:12for what I thought they were going to be. For
- 12:14sure. I thought it was going to be a lot more
- 12:16disastrous. Nixon's played pretty decent. He's
- 12:20a little handsy, like so old. But now I'm going
- 12:22to get on a whole different tangent. Okay. We
- 12:26gone. The Bills are about to play their final
- 12:29game. At Highmark. Yeah, that'll be it. The Ralph,
- 12:34as Bills Mafia calls it, I guess. I did not know
- 12:36that, but I found that out. I mean, that's what
- 12:39it was before they added the corporate name to
- 12:41it. Clearly, I paid. You weren't born before
- 12:44corporate names. Before they sold the naming
- 12:45rights. I wasn't born before corporate names.
- 12:47You're right. Oh. Sad. Another thing I saw today,
- 12:51the Hall of Fame class is down to... the 15 finalists.
- 12:56Yeah. So that's, so that's cool. Uh, I would
- 12:59have it up, you know, if I was prepared for a
- 13:01podcast, I have mixed emotions and feelings about
- 13:06the. Why? About the 15 finalists. Why? Who do
- 13:09you not like on it? Some PPE participants. Here,
- 13:12let me read the list really quick before you
- 13:14give us your deal here. Willie Anderson, he played
- 13:17for your Baltimore Ravens for a year, I think.
- 13:19Yeah, just a year. I think he spent most of his
- 13:21in NOLA. Bengals. Oh, NOLA, okay. I was thinking
- 13:24of the wide receiver. Drew Brees, Jahari Evans.
- 13:27He's in. Larry Fitzgerald. I did have. Did I
- 13:32screenshot these? No, I didn't. I did have like
- 13:35how many times there have been up for Hall of
- 13:37Fame. Oh, it's right here. This is Drew Brees'
- 13:39first year. Yeah. And Larry Fitz. Let's get through
- 13:41the list. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My bad. My bad. Larry
- 13:44Fitzgerald. Frank Gore. Not in. His first year.
- 13:48Torrey Holt, his seventh year. Luke Keekly, his
- 13:51second year. Eli Manning, second year. Terrell
- 13:54Suggs, second year. It must be him you don't
- 13:56like. Adam Vinatieri. Second year. Reggie Wayne,
- 14:00his seventh year. That seems crazy to me. Yeah,
- 14:02but it's taken that long for him to get in. Torrey
- 14:05Holt, too, to me. Yeah. Kevin Williams, his first
- 14:08year. Skol. Jason Witten, his first year. Deron
- 14:12Woodson, fourth year. Marshall Yanda, second
- 14:15year. Who are you upset about? So, it's... it's
- 14:21the wide receivers. I mean, to me, Larry Fitzgerald's
- 14:24automatically in, but like Tori Holt, Reggie
- 14:26Wayne, not, you don't think they're, you don't
- 14:28think Wayne's in. So, and I've been, I've been
- 14:32chewing on this for a lot of the day. And I think
- 14:34it, I think Peyton Manning. Yeah. My jaw hurts.
- 14:39And so does my cheek. Cause I bit my cheek a
- 14:41couple of times too. So that's a little, a little
- 14:43raw. Once you hit it the first time, it happens
- 14:45a couple more times. And every time. Yeah, it's
- 14:48frustrating. I feel like if you put Reggie Wayne
- 14:54on a different team, you don't get the same productivity.
- 14:57I think the same thing with Torrey. As far as
- 14:59like why. Right. But I think both of them are
- 15:04more products of the system and the QB and the
- 15:07QBs that they played with and not necessarily
- 15:09they themselves as like premier. elite wide receivers.
- 15:15Cause Larry Fitzgerald did it with so many different
- 15:18quarterbacks. He's got to be in for it. It's
- 15:20his first year. He's got to go. And I think you
- 15:23look at D hop. I think D hop is hall of fame
- 15:26worthy. And he did it with so many, his productivity
- 15:28with so many different quarterbacks too, but
- 15:32his PD thing or whatever is going to catch up
- 15:34maybe with them. You think for HOF or not? I
- 15:37think he has that six game suspension for some.
- 15:39Yeah. I think the PD thing is less of a thing
- 15:42in the NFL than it is. in Major League Baseball.
- 15:45Because in Major League Baseball, it's like,
- 15:46yeah, PD, we're not going to touch you with a
- 15:5010 -foot pole. Right. And then I have different
- 15:53thoughts about that, which we can't talk about
- 15:56because that's not football. Yeah, right. Fair.
- 16:00Interesting, though. I want to hear about that.
- 16:01And then offensive linemen are always hard to
- 16:03judge because it's like they just stood there
- 16:06and blocked. So how do you really determine that?
- 16:10I feel like a guy like... you know, Trent Williams
- 16:12is HOF, you know, or no, no, you don't think
- 16:15so. No. Part of the, part of the Williams. Oh,
- 16:19was he really good? He's been the best left tackle
- 16:21in football. Sure. For five, eight, 10 years.
- 16:25Unfortunately, I don't know Willie Anderson very
- 16:27well. No. Oh, I thought we were talking Kevin
- 16:30Williams here. Your defensive. Oh yeah. De -tackle.
- 16:33Yeah. Like I don't tackle for the 49ers. Well,
- 16:35yeah, I think he's in. I didn't know you were
- 16:38talking about de -tackles. Cause there's like
- 16:40the, Like, for some of those tackles or offensive
- 16:44linemen, there's an aura about them where you're
- 16:46like, you see them, and you're just like, oh,
- 16:47God, I got to get around this thing. Yeah, yeah.
- 16:49Or this man. Which no one ever does. So I think
- 16:52there's some of that. Yeah, Kevin Williams, I'm
- 16:54not sure. I'm happy he's a finalist. I don't
- 16:57think Luke Keekly gets in either. Wicked smart
- 16:59guy. Which is too bad. His career was cut way
- 17:00too short. You don't think he gets in at all?
- 17:02No, I don't think he does. Because I thought
- 17:04his career was super short, too. But he did play
- 17:06nine seasons. He made it to a Super Bowl, right?
- 17:08I mean, they didn't win, obviously. And he was
- 17:11like the best tackling linebacker in the NFL.
- 17:13For some time, yeah. Well, he was competing against
- 17:17Patrick Willis. Eli Manning. Yes. And I think
- 17:20for me, it's because he's the only one to beat
- 17:22Tom Brady. He should have been first. battle
- 17:25hall of famer agreed two super bowls is automatically
- 17:28dead yeah i don't know if he gets in and i think
- 17:32there's like a weird i think there's a weird
- 17:35There's a weird connotation about him that I
- 17:37think people can't get past for some reason.
- 17:40Is it the confused look on his face all the time?
- 17:44Does he deserve it by his resume? 100%. But I
- 17:47think there's something there that could prevent
- 17:49it from happening. I'd love to see it happen.
- 17:51Just because he doesn't have the same attitude
- 17:52as Phillip Rivers, who everybody thinks. He's
- 17:55not his brother either. Peyton Manning's yelling
- 17:58at his position players, or Tom Brady even, get
- 18:01in the effing spot. Eli's not doing that. He's
- 18:05just a very different person, but that shouldn't
- 18:07be the reason why you're not a first ballot Hall
- 18:09of Famer. Two Super Bowls, that's all. Moving
- 18:11on. And I think Frank Gore should be in, too.
- 18:15I don't. He did it for a long time. I don't think
- 18:17he should do it for a first ballot. I think it'll
- 18:21be a few attempts for him. How many do they get
- 18:25in each year? So it's four to eight technically,
- 18:28but it's for overall because there's modern and
- 18:31then there's like a group of other ones. But
- 18:34for the modern, it's usually like three or four,
- 18:36they say. Maximum of five. How many years can
- 18:41you be on the ballot? Good question, because
- 18:43Darren Woodson's been on the frickin' ballot
- 18:45for 18 years. So now this year he's not on the
- 18:49ballot? No, he is. He is. He's a finalist again.
- 18:51I don't think Darren Woodson's a finalist again.
- 18:52I don't think Darren Woodson's a finalist again.
- 18:54If you make it to the top seven. And you don't
- 18:57get put into the hall. It's an automatic bid
- 19:00to get into the finalists next year and the top
- 19:0315 the following year. Gotcha. Clear as mud.
- 19:06I don't know if Marshall Yonda should be in the
- 19:08Hall of Fame, so I'll poo -poo a Raven. Like,
- 19:10Marshall Yonda was great. He was a great guard
- 19:13for the Ravens. I don't know if he is necessarily
- 19:16Hall of Fame worthy. I love that he's in the
- 19:18Ring of Honor in Baltimore. deserving of it um
- 19:22uh and i also think t sizzle not getting uh first
- 19:27ballot hall of fame was kind of a smack to the
- 19:30face too and i think he's all right all right
- 19:33well we have some uh skewed thoughts we'll say
- 19:36on the last one i gotta know drew brace 100 in
- 19:40no I'm just kidding. I was like, you know, it's
- 19:44too many NFL records. That was like making my
- 19:46brain twist. I was like, why? All right. All
- 19:49right. All right. Let's move on. All right. What
- 19:51do we got? Oh, that was the last thing on my
- 19:52list. Damn. Okay. Um, well, uh, um, Justin, that's
- 19:57your name. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for being here,
- 19:59buddy. Appreciate it. Of course. Who else is
- 20:03here? Roberto is here as well. He's going to
- 20:05be here for the next one, too. Yes, I am. I'm
- 20:07ready for the next one. More football. Jake,
- 20:11you're not. Your ride's outside. I'm going to
- 20:15be riding the Derrick Henry bus. If he's in the
- 20:18game. Jake, thanks for being here, buddy. There's
- 20:21plenty of gas left in that man's tank. Okay.
- 20:25Kev, thanks for being here, man. I don't know.
- 20:28I'm uncomfortable. Yeah, we're going to leave
- 20:29it alone. That's why we're moving on. I'm just
- 20:31smiling and looking at the camera. Smile and
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