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EP 28: The Search For A New NFL Team Continues, Panic Meter For 0-2 Teams & Week 3 Fantasy Football Start/Sits · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks.
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Welcome to three guys 6 Balls NFL Podcast.
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Welcome to the episode 28 of Three guys 6 Balls NFL Podcast.
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Today we are joined by a special guest, our first two time guest
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on the show, Lincoln Cook. He is one of our childhood
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friends and he was supposed to be on a few weeks ago, but he
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ditched us for his children and so he had to, he had to rain
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check that one. So he's joining us today.
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Well, we might have a couple extra guests on this episode,
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you never know, but thank you. For having me back any time.
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So as you guys may know that recently Will and I have
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announced that we are leaving the Dallas Cowboys to find a new
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NFL team. And Avery has left.
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We have left the Cowboys. It's not.
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Yes. Correction.
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Yeah. Correction.
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Will and I have left the Dallas Cowboys to find a new NFL team,
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and Avery is in pursuit of a favorite NFL team for the first
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time ever. And there is nobody more
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qualified to help us find a new team than one of our childhood
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friends who grew up with us. We played football together in
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the church gym. We watched football together,
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fantasy football. So there is no one more
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qualified to help us find a new team than our friend Lincoln
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Cook. And so he's going to start us
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off today by giving us some notes and thoughts on who he
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thinks we should we should pick as our new NFL team.
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He has been very excited to tell us.
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He's been texting me and letting me know that he has been eager
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to let us know his thoughts. So Lincoln, take it away.
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Let that Beaver loose. Yeah, Oh.
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Careful now 'cause you're eager. You're eager, Beaver.
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She didn't let the Beaver loose. And as a resident Oregon State
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fan, I stand by that. OK.
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So when I heard. Go Ducks.
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Oh, it's a it's a tough year every year, but we play baseball
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and that's what's true. Yeah.
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OK so when I heard this task I got really excited for multiple
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reasons. One because I got made fun of my
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entire childhood for being a Chiefs fan living in Salem, OR
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which didn't make sense, Still doesn't make sense.
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But I stuck through it and guess what I found Jesus in the form
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of football Jesus, which is Patrick Mahomes, which has been
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amazing. I was like all.
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Right. Where are you going with?
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This, I mean, I did find Jesus elsewhere, it just took some
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time there too. That said, knowing you 2 both as
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Cowboy fans for my entire life and like the first people I
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think want to think of Cowboy fans are you 2.
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Avery, you're a nomad. You do whatever you want.
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This divorce, I'm glad it's happening and I'm scared of you
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guys returning. So what my goal in this is, hey,
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you never know, hey? Lincoln, I want to, I want to
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cut in here and say I told them I'm only doing this if this is a
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search for a wife, not a side piece.
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If they win the Super Bowl, if they become a new dynasty, must
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be great for that fan base, not for you guys.
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You guys are not coming back. And they said.
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That is, that is the goal. I'm like, all right.
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And as someone who has experience in this field, let me
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tell you when you can make the full cut off, it's a lot better.
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So this is comparable to Danny we are looking for.
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Divorced. I get it.
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Yeah, yeah, very good. Thank you, Will.
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Thank you. Oh my God, so we're looking for
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a spouse here. We're not looking for a
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girlfriend. We're not looking for a long
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time girlfriend or a short term fling.
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We're looking for a spouse. So that is not just a couple of
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qualities that we want in in that new person.
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It's not just, you know, pretty but no substance.
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We're looking for multiple factors leading into this.
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You follow me. So 1st, and I think this is one
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of the most important factors, maybe not necessarily the
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sexiest, but we're looking for a good organization.
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Coming from Jerry Jones. You don't want crappy
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leadership, you don't want crappy management.
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You want to have faith and confidence in the direction of
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the organization. Allah, the Chiefs and Clark
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Hunt, albeit their families, a little bit janky.
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He's stood by the Chiefs and will make the best decisions for
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the Chiefs not to line his personal pockets like Jerry
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Jones. Second, we're looking for solid
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coaching leadership. So you want to, you know, top
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down, right coat or organization GM, all those factors.
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Head coach and coaching history is also important.
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You don't want an organization that has moved on from coach to
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coach to coach to coach. That's very frustrating.
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It is hard to find long term qualities that you like in the
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partner when you're changing every two to three years.
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Next, we're looking for a younger quarterback to root for
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or get behind, whether that is a current franchise quarterback or
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just someone that you can at least root for and be excited
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about when you watch the games. It's enjoyable to watch and 4th
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and I think this is a big factor for me because I'm typically not
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a front runner bandwagoner. I'm trying to look for a team
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that's like semi under the radar.
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So we're not looking for hype teams.
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We're not looking for teams that are already, you know, knocking
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on the door to the Super Bowl. We're kind of looking for that
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next year where they could make the jump.
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They have the structure. So we're we're kind of factoring
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in multiple pieces here. And the fifth piece is easy on
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the eyes. Are they nice to look at?
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Is it just going to be like, are you going to be excited to to
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look at them and and to watch them play every week?
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So we're we're making comparisons between dating and
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football here, but we're having a good time.
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OK, so I listed out each division and all the teams in
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the division and started to cross them out one by one,
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taking away some of these factors.
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So the first factor, easy nose, we took off the NFC East.
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You guys were just there. You don't need to root for a
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team that you just actively rooted against for the last
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what, 20 years? Right.
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So that that takes off the eagles, giants and commanders or
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red birds or red fared people, whatever you want to call them.
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Say it for us, Avery. Redskins.
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Well, that's Avery can say that because his skin is red.
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Often it is. Currently.
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Still, currently she can. Tell a little bit better.
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Jeez, you are hail under there. No wonder you wear long seeds
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all the time. I'm the Washington Redskins now.
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Next, we are looking for or we're going to eliminate the
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teams that are just as miserable as the Cowboys have been
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historically. That's going to eliminate a
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couple of teams that you could potentially throw into the hey,
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if I really like them, you can date with them.
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However, this is, to me, a couple of red flags.
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We're going with the Bears, the Saints, the Browns, the Raiders,
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and The Jets. All those teams are historically
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as cursed in our lifetime. Why would you change from the
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Cowboys to one of those teams? It doesn't make sense to me.
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I also have the Steelers and Dolphins as question marks on
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this list because they're both, you know.
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Steelers are my secondary team. They're forever my secondary
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team because of my wife. So they're.
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Very good. And then I have a the Panthers
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as a question mark. We'll swing back to them in just
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a second. We're also going to eliminate
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the hyped or two good teams right now, which eliminates the
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Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens, the Bengals and the Eagles,
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which we already eliminated. So that's that's a big chunk
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right there. And then I have a a list of kind
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of just like I can't really recommend them for you guys,
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mostly just because like I can't.
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And that's also the Steelers, the Patriots.
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They were too good for our childhood.
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I'm not going to recommend them. Sorry.
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Jaguars kind of curse maybe on the list with but I I can't be
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on. I can't get behind the head
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coach that goes Duval. It just it haunts me every time
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I see him. And then also the Colts.
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Don't know why, just can't recommend them.
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Danny Dimes. You know, if you like Danny
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Dimes then go for it. Anthony Richardson.
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I don't know. So that leaves us with a cut
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down list We have now the Texans, Titans, Chargers,
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Broncos, Vikings, Packers, Panthers with a question mark,
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Falcons, 49ers, Cardinals, Seahawks, and Rams.
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Fact. I wrote all this before your
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last week's episode so I've factored in what you guys have
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said with that as well. Which is going to eliminate the
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Seahawks, the Packers, the Rams, and the 49ers.
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Rams are quarterbacks too old, plus they won a Super Bowl semi
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recently. 49ers and Seahawks are both too close to home.
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I'm not recommending those for you and Packers too painful.
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However, I'm kind of into the Packers this year low key.
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They're looking good. And then there's two other teams
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that I had to eliminate that I just don't believe in enough.
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And I don't think that they'll get to get over the hump.
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And I want you guys to be happy as as your long term friend.
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I want you guys to be happy. So that also eliminates the
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Titans and the Panthers for me. I don't believe in Bryce Young
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and the Titans. I don't know if I believe in
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their organizational leadership. So that leaves us down to six
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teams remaining. There's two that I can't
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recommend for Joel and Will because I'm a Chiefs fan.
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However, for some reason, I feel like it's right up Avery's
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alley, and that's the Broncos and the Chargers.
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They fit the bill. They are both Oregon Ducks
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quarterbacks, pun intended, on fitting the bill, but they're
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AFC West, so I can't recommend them.
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Avery, you're welcome to do that.
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You're your own, you know, loose cannon over here.
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So that leaves us down to four teams remaining.
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Those are the Texans, the Vikings, the Buccaneers and the
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Falcons. OK.
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Part of me wants to eliminate the Buccaneers because they won
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a Super Bowl semi recently. They're a completely different
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regime. That's a different order.
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It's not a dynastic kind of Super Bowl.
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That's. Yeah, they wanted a diamond.
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Brady for the Yeah. Exactly it was it was a one off.
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So I I the the. Plus, the bucks were out there.
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I watched the game last night. They were a lot of fun to watch.
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It's fun to see Baker Mayfield almost break his leg and then
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get up to just talk crap to Will Anderson.
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You know, I, I, I respect. That CJ Gardner Johnson CJ
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Gardner Johnson. Absolutely.
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So we got the Texans with CJ Stroud, a young quarterback,
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D'amico Ryan's a solid head coach and an organization that
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shipped away, albeit kind of on nasty terms, they shipped away
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Deshawn massage Watson to get off of that kind of, you know,
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Yeah, thank. You love it, love it.
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Love it. And then we have the Vikings
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with JJ McCarthy, if you believe in him.
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Yeah, OK. That's a no.
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That's a no from Will. Kevin O'Connell, who I love as a
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head coach, I think he's one of the best head coaches in the NFL
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currently. They're kind of under the radar.
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Their fanbase is super strong and across all of America, but
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they're not like a hype organization, if that makes
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sense. And then my number one
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suggestion, albeit unpopular, but again, I'm just presenting
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my information in my opinion on the matter, is the Falcons with
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Michael Pennix junior and Raheem Morris, who I love.
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Raheem Morris. I loved him when he was with the
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Bucks. I thought he got a bad rap
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there. But they're very under the radar
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team right now. And if you can get behind and
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under under the radar team, I don't know.
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I think it's pretty sick. Plus, it's kind of fun that
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there's two lefty quarterbacks that have played for the
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organization that both have one character letter away from a
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phallic name. So that's cool.
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And I think they have cool, like team history.
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It's kind of, you know, they're kind of a grubby team, a little
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bit under the radar. Real, real scrappy dog.
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Faggy team. You know, they, they fight
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dirty. They, they, they, they got that
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dog in them, if you know what I mean.
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So that's my information. That's my soliloquy.
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What are your guys's thoughts? I don't know if you can see the
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the vein of my neck that was popping because I was rolling.
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The only thing that gives me any sort of hesitation with the
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Falcons is being associated with 28 to 3.
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That's, you know, you weren't the only thing.
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You weren't part of that, so I don't I.
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Don't think that's a, that's not even a bad thing.
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There's way worse. I feel like that's like, yeah,
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they screwed that up, but it wasn't like like some Manti Te'o
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stuff where it's like, dude, this is just embarrassing for
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you. You know.
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Some Jerry Jones stuff where it's like, dude, don't make me
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try to defend this at work. Like don't make me do that.
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Yeah. So those are the teams that I've
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presented. I have obviously have your
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followers. Here but but yes, let's hear it
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will. So you recommended AFC West
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teams for Avery. Why specifically not for Joel
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and I? I'm better than you.
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Well, one, I don't want to look at you guys as enemies, Avery.
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He'll probably drop his team in five years anyways, so we'll see
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how long he sticks with it, but I.
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Can't take I can't take any of Lincoln's advice because it's
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not real, genuine advice. It's just that you could play
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around with this toy here for a bit.
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Only though, I can see Avery opposing me and being an AFC
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West foe to me. However, I don't want all three
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of you as AFC West foes to me. I don't think about any of you
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guys nearly enough to care enough to pick a team that you
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guys oppose. Like just.
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That's fair. That's fair.
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Again, Avery is the nomad. That's fair.
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I'll stick with a team. That's why I haven't chosen
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A-Team. And the big thing for me, as you
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mentioned, current players, I don't give a rats about current
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players. This is the team that my
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children will root for, like Danny Dimes, Like he'll be gone
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in two years, Max. Like all of these guys even, I
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mean, like with the Broncos, I mean, I like, I love Bonex, like
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Sean Payton. I'm like, yeah, I don't expect
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them to be there for the next 10 years.
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So for a lot of this, it's more about like, I mean, the visuals
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for me. I'm like, hey, what kind of gear
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do I want to wear? You know, I don't want to wear
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something dumb, but also. Like you got to look.
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Pretty a little bit is is proximity.
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The other thing is like, whatever team is like doing well
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right now, I'm like, I mean, I would say that right now, being
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honest, I have no intention of joining the Chiefs.
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So I'm just using this as an example.
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But like, if I wanted to join the Chiefs fandom right now, I
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mean, I guess that's technically a bandwagon.
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I mean, if I was a new football fan and I joined the Chiefs,
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that's like, OK, just because, you know, they're good.
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But if if you've been watching, it's like, dude, you're entering
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at the tail end of this dynasty unless it, you know, keeps
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going. But historically, you know, 3 or
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4, you know, championships is kind of like, yeah, and then now
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contracts get in the way and ego's getting there.
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So I'm like, if I join the Chiefs, I mean, I'm basically
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Buck, I'm joining it Sunday afternoon and then Monday's
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tomorrow. Like that's kind of the way I
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see it. Potentially, yeah.
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I mean, and that's the thing I, I wish all the best and like, I
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don't want, you know, the teams to, you know, fall apart and
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stuff. But that's usually professional
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sports. That's what happens.
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So like, if I choose a team, that's why I haven't because I'm
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like, I don't want to root for someone.
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I I love these players. They trade them to the far of
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you trade them to Minnesota. I'm like, what?
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I would hate this if I was really into this, if I was
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really into this football team, if I love Brett Favre, if I see
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him go to the Vikings, I'm like, dude, don't put me through that.
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And I. Believe it's, I believe it's
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Favre, but yes, point. Taken Favre, yeah, but that I
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just want to say that the current players has very little
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bearing. It's more about location, like
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just design, colors, logo and then general organization.
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So I can see kind of where they're going.
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I mean, like the Chiefs organization looks fantastic.
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Did it look fantastic before they got Mahomes or hired Andy
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Reid? Like, not necessarily.
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I mean, maybe they weren't troublesome, but no one would go
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out and say the Chiefs organization is superb.
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It's like what they had success and now you can tell, oh, there
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there's no infighting, there's no ridiculous decisions.
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They're keeping the drama low. I'm like, that is genuinely
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impressive. I mean, it's like more like, I
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don't know how you've always been, but during this era you've
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been very good at like keeping everything intact.
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I mean, I I've all always said Patrick Mahomes greatest
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strength is the fact that he's kept his wife and his brother
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relatively quiet for like. I get your house in order.
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There was a part of me that wondered if this whole Taylor
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Swift thing was set up just to get Brittany and Jackson to shut
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the hell up. Like can we get?
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Them. If so, the sacrifice was worth
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it. Yeah, can can we get them off
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the field? Can we get them not doing TikTok
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dances on a memorial? Can we get her to stop pouring
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champagne over all of the fans? Can we get her and him out of
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the news? Taylor, you're up to Travis.
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Sorry, you're up. And so then.
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It's all good. Yeah, I I know.
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What are your Avery? Joel, you've been awfully quiet.
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What do you think? Well, I will, I'm not going to
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say which team, but I will say this and then we'll move on to
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the next segment. One of the four teams that you
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said I am strongly, strongly considering.
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I will not say which one, but before you told me that it was
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already a team that I am very strongly considering.
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So I appreciate you you giving us your feedback and I will take
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that into consideration. Very good.
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So who's? Not going to give us anything,
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Joel. Give us, give us a chat, some
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little bites to eat, give us some crumbs at least.
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You have a 25% change, he just said.
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One of the four teams, and we all know it's not JJ McCarthy or
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any team that ever would support that.
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Guy, I don't know that. I know that that's not the case
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for you. I don't know about Joel.
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Wait, actually a clarifying question.
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Are all three of you agreeing on one team?
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No. Or are you you not?
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Necessarily. Could it could land that way, it
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could land. That we don't we don't.
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Choose your own adventure route here.
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Not not on purpose. We're not going to land on the
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same team on purpose. Anyway, there's pros and cons to
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both. We also don't want to become a
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podcast that's now like a fan podcast of a team.
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So it's a little A. Little different and before we
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before we switch off sorry before we switch off that real
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quick I like what you said every this is what my kids are in a
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room for but I I sat down with my wife and we went over all 32
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NFL teams and we looked at the logo and we looked at their
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color schemes and we looked at all of these things like what do
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you think about this Do you like this logo?
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Do you like these colors? And there were some she's like
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this looks dumb. Dolphins, I'm looking at you.
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That meant bluey thing and that orange.
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That's child's play. Stop doing that garbage.
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And so like that. We I it is a family affair in
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this house. And I think it's going to come
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down to I have three or four teams here and I asked my son,
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which one of these do you like best?
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And that's just kind of what we go with.
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And he keeps pointing to that orange helmet and you're like,
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stop son, stop the. Browns will not be up there.
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Quit it. Yeah, I actually, I actually did
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the same thing. I.
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Love them Dad, don't take them away from me.
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I actually did the same thing with my son.
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I, I showed him a picture of all the NFL logos and I said, which
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of these three do you like the best?
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And he, I mean, he picked like 12 of them, but he.
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Yeah. Do you think some bad ones?
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2 two years a point of picking A-Team now that your kids will
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root for you almost need a little bit of an origin story to
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defend your fan base or defend your switch over right?
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Mine is mine is Tanner Morgan's Madden 2000 that I played on the
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N64. That was what got me to be a
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chiefs fan because I did a random team and it was the
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Chiefs and they had Priest Holmes and Tony Gonzalez and
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Dante Hall and an all pro offensive line and I destroyed
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my buddy with them, Eli Bond. And then I was like, oh cool,
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this team must be really good. I know nothing about football,
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but that was like what got me to like them, right?
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You have to have a grab, you have to have a hook.
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You have to have you have to be attracted to the team, as we
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said. Well, as part of my I'm actually
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kind of taking back the Vikings because that yellow and purple,
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I just. That purple is terrible.
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I do love their their iced white jerseys though, those are sweet.
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But the Bengals have the same Snow Tiger jerseys, and those
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are sick. Yeah, but I'm not going to
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recommend True bro. Nobody recommend and he's out.
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And I'm not going to recommend the Raiders because Mark Davis's
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haircut still size. Is terrible.
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It's the biggest drive back for the Raiders is the ownership.
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I look forward to it at the end of every episode.
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Well. It's like, dude, if you can't
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get the right haircut, how can we trust you to get the right
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team, dude? You're not wrong.
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Dude if if Brock Bowers can grow a better haircut than Mark Davis
21:38
then. All right.
21:43
All right. So let's move on to our next
21:45
segment here. So we're going to do the panic
21:49
meter for O and two teams. And so the there are currently
21:53
ten NFL teams that are O and two.
21:55
We've got the Chiefs, Texans, Saints, Jets, Dolphins,
21:59
Panthers, Bears, Browns, Titans, and Giants.
22:02
We are going to rank their panic meters on a scale of zero to 10,
22:07
with 0 being no panic at all and 10 being extreme panic.
22:11
And we're not going to rank all of their panic meters because
22:15
for the Saints, we don't need to rank the panic meter because
22:18
everybody thought they were going to suck anyway.
22:20
So there's no panic. No one's panicking over the
22:23
suckiness. Exactly.
22:25
But there are three teams that we're going to rank the panic
22:28
meters for. And what I would like to do is,
22:31
since there is 3 of you, I would like to have each of you take
22:35
the lead on one of these teams. Obviously, I'm going to start
22:39
with Lincoln and give him the lead with the Chiefs because
22:42
he's a Chiefs fan. So, Lincoln, on a scale of zero
22:46
to 10, what is the panic meter for the Chiefs right now?
22:49
Like zero to 10 is a three as in there's there's concern.
22:53
This is the first time the chiefs have been O and two, we
22:56
play the the giants this week. So that instills a little more
23:00
confidence, if at least to the giants panic meters a a A9 like
23:04
we're we're stressing out here. However, compared to some of the
23:08
other O and two teams that are considered potential playoff
23:12
bound teams and looking at our division, like, you know,
23:16
obviously we got the chargers who look really good right now.
23:19
The Raiders and Broncos are both one-on-one, but they're you're
23:21
not overly scared like they're still going to be tough games
23:25
there. There's a long rest of the
23:26
season. The Chiefs can build themselves
23:28
back up, win some divisional games, whatever it is, blah,
23:30
blah, blah, But with missing our two top wide receivers and in,
23:35
everybody can say it's about injuries and about, you know,
23:37
blah, blah, blah, whatever fill in the blank excuse you want to
23:40
use. I'm not concerned in totality of
23:44
where the Chiefs are heading, but I am frustrated, if that
23:48
makes sense. It does one thing I don't
23:52
understand, and maybe you can shed some light on this a little
23:54
bit. Lincoln is, I feel like the
23:57
Chiefs are trying to force the ball down the field too much.
24:00
Like like I see Patrick Mahomes doing overthrows and just his
24:04
passes don't look as good as they were before.
24:07
And maybe it's because they're guys are hurt.
24:09
I don't know. But I feel like, like I said
24:11
this on a a TikTok live that Will and I did when somebody
24:15
asked us about Travis Kelsey, like why don't they just do
24:18
short, quick passes to Travis Kelsey because the Eagles
24:21
wrecked them in the Super Bowl. Everybody knows that and like
24:25
it. It's the same thing.
24:26
Like it wasn't as bad this time around, but they still lost.
24:30
But why don't they just do short, quick passes?
24:32
Like I feel like that's like what Tom Brady did when he was
24:34
going against a tough defense. It was just short, quick passes.
24:38
And then he ended up winning the game because he's not sitting
24:40
back there waiting to be sacked, like, and he's not making the
24:44
overthrows of his receivers downfield because he's not
24:46
trying to force it downfield. To me, it feels like the Chiefs
24:49
are trying to force the ball down the field.
24:52
And maybe it's because they think Xavier where he's still
24:54
there and he's not. But I don't, I don't know the
24:56
exact reason, but it feels like they're forcing the ball down
24:59
the field when I feel like they should be just doing shorter,
25:02
quicker passes and it would be more efficient.
25:05
You're correct. They are forcing the ball down
25:06
the field. And that's because if you watch
25:09
all 22, the Chiefs have the the distance that the safeties are
25:15
back compared to the Chiefs and compared to the rest of the NFL.
25:19
It's like almost a standard deviation closer to the line of
25:22
scrimmage. And so the safeties are just
25:25
creeping up because they know they're just trying to hit Juju
25:27
across the middle. Kelsey on short, little, you
25:30
know, crossers on the inside, running back screens, blah,
25:33
blah, blah. They're trying to push the ball
25:35
in the field to get those safeties to back up a little
25:37
bit. Granted, they don't have Xavier
25:39
Worthy and Hollywood Brown is not as much of A field stretcher
25:42
as I thought he was going to be. But they're throwing the ball to
25:45
Taekwond Thornton, who's made a few plays, even though Patrick
25:48
Mullins has missed him a few times.
25:50
But I mean, you have to push the ball.
25:53
You have to show that you're willing to push the ball to just
25:56
get teams to watch that and then adjust their game plan
25:59
accordingly, right? Because if you just throw dink
26:02
and dunks, which is what the Chiefs did the last two seasons,
26:04
the Eagles in the Super Bowl, they didn't have anybody deep.
26:07
They just played everything super short.
26:09
And guess what they rushed for? They played a shallow drop
26:14
coverage and the Chiefs had nothing to do with it.
26:17
There's no openings. They didn't hardly play any man.
26:20
You couldn't run any man meters off of it.
26:22
They dropped seven in coverage, every single down, like just
26:26
directly 7 yards from the line of scrimmage, she said nowhere
26:29
to go with the ball. And with a good tackling team
26:31
like the Eagles, they rallied and got on every single pass,
26:35
every single ball carrier. There's nothing.
26:38
Granted, I also think part of it is that our running game sucks
26:42
with Kareem Hunt and Pacheco just does not look like he's got
26:47
it. He looks like he's not as angry
26:48
as the ground at the ground as he used to be, which is
26:51
unfortunate. But honestly, and I hate to say
26:54
this because I know how homerish this sounds when we get Rasheed
26:58
Rice back after his suspension, which why do we have these guys
27:04
that just like, why do we take these problem characters and we
27:07
we smooth them over and we make it work mostly.
27:10
And then he drives Lamborghini into the back of somebody car,
27:12
somebody's car, 120 miles an hour.
27:14
I don't know. But when we get Rasheed Rice
27:16
back, I think that's going to add a huge dynamic on top of
27:20
Kelsey. It's going to take Juju off the
27:22
field. It'll be a better compliment to
27:24
Hollywood Brown. And I believe Xavier Worthy is
27:26
supposed to come back this week, if not next week for sure.
27:29
Adding, you know, those two dynamics and just here a few
27:33
weeks, I think that'll open up the middle of the field because
27:36
you're going to have different levels of the field opened up
27:39
there. Because right now, Kelsey can't
27:40
go more than 5 seven yards down the field, and Juju can't do the
27:44
same either. You think Kelsey retires up this
27:47
year? 100%.
27:50
He's getting married, he's got to focus on that.
27:54
And conspiracy. I think that they're planning on
27:57
having a child soon. Dude who's that's?
28:00
Not like conspiracy, that's just natural like.
28:02
Maybe, yeah, maybe not conspiracy, but that's just like
28:05
a. Man loves a woman.
28:07
Like before they get married or after they get married?
28:10
Sometime after. I probably a questionable
28:14
timeline. To mess with butt, we rush a
28:19
quick. Way to be like take that butt,
28:21
Kerr. No, I think, I think they want
28:23
to start having kids, but I think they want to get married
28:24
1st. And so I know that he's
28:26
concerned about not concerned about that.
28:28
I know that that's taking up a huge focus of his life.
28:29
I don't know why we're talking about this anymore.
28:31
Next O and two team. I love talking about Travis.
28:34
Shows he's crouched. What are you talking about?
28:35
He's sick of wearing a rubber man.
28:39
Who's not, though? Come on.
28:41
Come on. Can we hurry up and get this
28:44
ceremony over? I would.
28:46
I'd rather have it than not, let's just say.
28:48
That just just do what I did and go get snipped.
28:50
Snip snap, snap, snap snap snap right Shout out Michael Scott.
28:56
We all it's still 6 balls. It's still 6 balls.
28:58
It is. Are there both still there but
29:00
they just don't function? If they wanted, if they needed
29:03
to, if we chose. I don't know about.
29:05
The episodes that I'm on, we just go off the rails.
29:08
I don't know, I smelt the burning.
29:10
I don't think they work anymore. Oh.
29:12
No. Every man who's had a vasectomy
29:17
knows exactly what I'm talking about.
29:20
It's my time, Sir. We've had a lot of three guys on
29:22
this show. We have not had a lot of balls
29:24
talk. I'm glad we're finally doing it.
29:27
You know. There's, there's some fans that
29:28
are like. To the balls.
29:30
The testicular discussions have been lacking for sure.
29:33
You guys keep talking about football, which is fine, but at
29:36
some point, let's circle. Back.
29:39
I mean, they're the unsung hero. They are the undercarriage that
29:44
keeps us going. OK, I'm going to reel us back in
29:47
here. OK, the seat.
29:48
Of life. OK, so since 2020 when the NFL
29:53
started having seven playoff teams, there has been 42 teams
29:56
that have started O and two and only five of those teams have
29:59
made the playoffs, which is 11.11%.
30:03
Yep, 11.9%. Three of those five teams that
30:07
started O and two made the playoffs last season, which is
30:11
the Broncos, the Rams, and the Ravens.
30:14
So just because the Chiefs are O and two, it does not mean that
30:17
they are not going to make the playoffs.
30:20
I mean, it doesn't mean they're going to make the playoffs
30:22
either, but it doesn't mean they're not going to make the
30:23
playoffs. I think like you said, Lincoln,
30:25
if they lose to the Giants, then there's some extreme panic
30:28
there. But I personally ranked it their
30:30
panic meter as a 5 just because it's right in the middle.
30:34
I feel like people have thought about the possibility of the
30:37
Chiefs not making the playoffs, but also they're still confident
30:40
that the team will make the playoffs.
30:42
So that's why I ranked them as a 5.
30:43
It's just. So unusual.
30:45
However, there's also What is it 37% of teams that have started 2
30:51
and O have missed the playoffs as well so.
30:54
So question for you, Lincoln. You guys have the Giants next.
30:58
And let's just say you win that one in New York, then you're
31:02
home against the Ravens. Let's say you lose that one.
31:04
Now you're one and three. Does your panic meter move at
31:07
all? Panic meter definitely.
31:09
I mean, losing to the Ravens is almost like expected.
31:13
And then we have the Jags and then the Lions.
31:15
So it's like we're not. You go.
31:17
We're not. Easy hard, easy hard, easy hard
31:20
throughout the entire. Season, which by the way, that
31:22
by the way, that's followed by the Lions are followed by the
31:26
Raiders, Commanders, Bills and Broncos.
31:29
And then the Colts, who are currently undefeated.
31:32
Correct, who have not punted yet this season.
31:35
Who have not punted yet this season at all.
31:37
First team to ever do it's. Wild it's.
31:40
Crazy. So yeah, I mean, we knew this
31:43
was going to be a tough schedule.
31:44
I think if the Chiefs end up as a wild card team, I'm not going
31:49
to be mad about it. I would obviously rather win the
31:52
division to keep our street going.
31:54
But panic Reno right now is out of three.
31:56
If we lose to the Giants, that's Trump jumping up to a nine.
32:00
And if we lose to the Ravens were you'll see Chiefs Kingdom
32:04
at like Defcon do. You What would the chances be of
32:07
making the playoffs if they. Lose OH and four, I think OH
32:11
drops on like 2%. It's like 2%.
32:14
Only to OK, I thought it would have been more for some.
32:16
Reason it's only happened like 4 times in history.
32:19
We have an extra game this year or this, you know, era of the
32:23
NFL to there's also. From more teams in the playoffs
32:26
at 14 now rather than 12. Correct.
32:30
Now let's just say worse comes to worse, you guys go oh, and
32:32
four, do the shoes have a fire sale?
32:35
Are you starting to trade people?
32:38
I mean, you don't really, I don't really sound mean about
32:40
it, but you don't really have other resources to trade.
32:42
You guys are kind of home grown or like nearing the the end of
32:47
their NFL life. Like like Juju's probably not
32:51
going to be on another team or a valuable player on another team.
32:54
Hollywood Brown could be a peace on another team, but probably
32:57
not going anywhere. These guys.
32:59
Are expiring. Yeah, even Xavier Worthy.
33:03
You're not going to. There's only so much you're
33:05
going to put up with on another team that because you guys
33:08
drafted to see if you're worthy. Yeah, correct.
33:11
Yeah. And so, so there's there's not
33:13
he'll go to another team, but what kind of level is he going
33:15
to play at there? And so.
33:17
Even take Mahomes at this point. That's your one piece that
33:21
you're probably not going to trade.
33:23
I mean, you got Chris Jones. He'll probably be somewhere
33:25
else. Yeah, well, no, Jerry wouldn't
33:28
do it, although he would get. He wouldn't trade.
33:30
Patrick, he would get Mahomes and then still start back.
33:35
Because he's buying it more. Because 2 is better than one.
33:39
Yeah. No, I don't think that there is.
33:43
Better than what? You have all 4/4.
33:48
Olympics. That's just mad, baby.
33:50
No, I don't think, And that's part of my recommendation in
33:53
teams for you is the organizational structure, right?
33:57
The Chiefs have a confident organization that they're not
33:59
going to panic, at least not as much as the fan base is.
34:03
If they do start owing for right, they're going to, you
34:05
know, ready the ship. They're going to turn to Patrick
34:07
Mahomes and Travis Kelsey and Andy Reid as their leadership
34:10
and, you know, do what they need to do.
34:13
Is it going to be easy? No.
34:15
Or am I, am I confident right now?
34:16
A little nervous, but you know you roll with it.
34:21
There's no way that the Chiefs are starting owing for it If if
34:24
the Cowboys can beat the Giants, the Chiefs are beating the
34:27
Giants. That we should not have beat the
34:28
Giants. If the Cowboys can do it, the
34:31
Chiefs are going to do. Hey, Cowboys put up a fight in
34:34
the last two weeks. Yep, let's hope every team at
34:38
least put up a fight. I think the hey, I didn't have
34:42
the Chiefs in my playoffs. Did you see the Ravens game?
34:44
Truly, you didn't. I mean, it was told you you'd be
34:46
the most, right? But it was rushed.
34:48
But it was. That's just the way the cookie
34:50
crumbled there. Yeah, and that was the thing.
34:52
I mean you can, you can take 1 moment out of every single game,
34:56
but if Travis Kelsey makes that catch and scores a touchdown,
34:58
the Chiefs go from down 7 on that pick 6 or almost pick six
35:03
and then a touchdown scored right afterwards to up 7 changes
35:06
the complete next outcome of the game.
35:08
Then you don't have the whole tush push BS that I'm so sick
35:12
of. I wasn't sick of it until this
35:13
last week and now I'm sick of it because you can't officiate it.
35:17
I didn't care. I didn't care about the play.
35:18
Before I was like, yeah, if you're tougher than us, then
35:20
great, you deserve to get the extra yard.
35:22
However, when you're cheating doing it and you can't actually
35:25
officiate it, that's where I start having problems.
35:27
Even like the head, even like the head guy was like on, on TV,
35:31
he said. I'm sick of this play.
35:33
That was my story yesterday, literally.
35:35
I have no dog in this fight because I didn't care about
35:38
either team, but I remember watching that and be like this.
35:40
I don't want to see another Tosh push but they get like third and
35:43
one. I'm like.
35:45
OK, I'm so like. Skip ahead.
35:46
Like, yeah, I'm like, can we just like give them the free
35:49
first down? Because I don't.
35:50
I don't want. The first down give them a yard
35:52
to 1st down. Let's keep going.
35:53
I don't want. If you if you're about to tackle
35:56
Saquon at like a yard short, just pull him an extra yard and
35:59
give him the first down. I don't care.
36:00
Like it's so annoying. It's not a football play.
36:04
I wonder what Eagles fans think of that, because I can see
36:07
obviously most of them will be like, we love it, we love it.
36:10
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, but have you ever
36:12
talked? To a a rational Eagles fan.
36:15
It's like, how would you feel if that kept happening to you?
36:17
Like, do you enjoy that? Just this like, well, everyone
36:20
can do it. It's like, yeah, you guys are.
36:23
Yeah, that's why. That's why I was a Chief fan.
36:25
I was like able to brag because I was like, nobody can do what
36:27
Mahomes is doing. And now quarterbacks can do.
36:29
But like, at that point when Mahomes is doing it, I was like,
36:32
yeah, nobody can do it. So it's like super fun to have
36:34
that advantage. Tosh Bush is like, OK, this is
36:36
just like ridiculous, but. All right, let's move on to our
36:40
next team and I'm going to have Will take the lead on this one
36:44
because it is Will's favorite team, the Chicago Bears.
36:48
The bears, dear. Will what is the?
36:50
What is the panic meter for the? Chicago Bears right now, I don't
36:54
know. I don't know if it's that high
36:56
unless you're in Chicago. If you're a Bears fan that
37:00
doesn't live in Chicago, you're like, this is where we expected
37:04
to be at. Yeah, we had Ben Johnson, but we
37:06
played the Lions and the Packers.
37:10
Do we really expect to beat either of those teams?
37:14
And then I guess they were home versus Lions, but even home
37:17
versus Lions, you can't even bear them live.
37:19
When we had him on, he said they were going to lose that Lions
37:22
and he thought they were going to beat the Packers, He also
37:24
said. That I remember him saying they
37:25
were going undefeated though actually.
37:26
Well, that when we did. The actually until we made him
37:29
do it by. Game we did the week by week
37:31
thing. Then they came out to 13 and 4.
37:34
Yeah, which was bonkers. But hey, you can win 13, your
37:39
next 15. That's not going to happen.
37:42
I mean, it's got to be high, right?
37:43
You expected Ben Johnson to come in and be the guy.
37:46
We've got Ben Johnson now. We can do the same.
37:49
And then you realize that Ben Johnson doesn't coach defense,
37:53
which is why the the Lions are hanging 52 on you and throwing
37:56
the ball like they are down by 52 in the third quarter and
38:00
fourth quarter. And then you get some real pop
38:02
order bull crap when Dan Campbell's apologizing in his
38:06
post game press conference. And so I, I think it's got to be
38:10
high because you they think you got you.
38:13
You got your guy Caleb Williams, you got your coach Dan here, Ben
38:19
Johnson, you've got your pieces in place.
38:21
You've got you've got the running back you thought you
38:23
had. You've got your receivers.
38:26
They don't. They're not that.
38:28
I don't think they're that injured right now.
38:30
They're a pretty healthy team and they still are not putting
38:32
it together. And Caleb Williams looks worse
38:35
than last year. I don't know if that's possible.
38:38
If he looked bad last year. Is it 4000 yards?
38:40
The Bears have never had a passer or is it 3000?
38:43
Yeah. So 4000.
38:44
So a lot of people were saying would be, will be, will be what
38:48
they had. They did have Jake Cutler.
38:51
Yeah. Everyone thought, oh, this is
38:53
the year that we're that Kelly Williams should be a 4000 yard
38:56
passer. He shouldn't be just like he was
38:57
at Ohio State, Oklahoma. He'd be USC wasn't as good.
39:02
Oklahoma, he was pretty good. We've got our guy, Heisman
39:05
Trophy winner, number one overall pick and he's been
39:07
straight trash. He's been bad.
39:09
That team is bad. And if you unfortunately, most
39:14
irrational fans go into the every single year thinking this
39:17
is our year, we're going to do good this year, and then you
39:20
started off getting bodied twice in a row by divisional rivals
39:25
and I don't know. If they were, they were in the
39:26
Vikings game. They just pissed the pants and
39:29
let the Vikings win it. But.
39:31
Oh, yeah, They put the Vikings on the Packers.
39:33
That's right. Thank you.
39:35
Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. You get them in the fourth
39:38
quarter, you were beating the Vikings and all of a sudden you
39:40
let old broke leg JJ McCarthy went, he came back and win.
39:46
This guy who sat out an entire year and then now it's not just
39:52
crap by JJ McCarthy, although I will never miss an opportunity.
39:55
He's played eight quarters of football, won't play for the
39:57
next two to four weeks, probably before for being honest.
40:00
He's had one good 7:45 quarters. He's played eight quarters of
40:05
football. One of them has been good and it
40:06
was a fourth quarter against the Bears.
40:09
So you had, you stopped them for 3/4 and then you just stopped
40:12
playing defense and you stopped playing offense because you
40:14
couldn't do anything here either.
40:15
Although they they could play offense, they had to.
40:18
It was a back and forth fourth quarter.
40:20
This better team is bad and they're going to keep being bad.
40:23
I would say the paint reader should be high if you're
40:26
irrational, but this is where you should expect to be if
40:29
you're a Bears fan. So it should be in the middle.
40:32
This is what we expected. Yeah, I mean, to that point,
40:36
everybody in the non Bears fandom expected the Vikings to
40:40
be sold this year, expected the Lions to be an NFC contender
40:43
this year, right. So starting out losing those
40:46
games is not unrealistic or not like out of it's not like, Oh my
40:51
gosh, they they lost to the Saints and the Panthers.
40:54
Like, no, you, like, it's not unrealistic to say that you
40:58
expected those losses. I think it's the way that they
41:01
lost them that is probably frustrating Bears fans the most.
41:04
Yeah. And it's the fact that, I mean,
41:06
there, there's two pieces of it. Ben Johnson was thought to be
41:10
like this mastermind, right? He needed a cerebral quarterback
41:15
like Jared Goff to actually execute his offense.
41:18
Whereas we've we're now learning very quickly that Caleb Williams
41:21
is not a cerebral quarterback. He's very talented physically.
41:25
He's a freak, but he's not cerebral.
41:27
He doesn't know how to watch film.
41:29
Like that's that was a storyline that came out this offseason.
41:31
It's like he doesn't know how to watch film.
41:33
He's making excuses. Some guys writing a book about
41:35
him and then it was like 31 anonymous coaches came out and
41:40
talked about how terrible of a off the field quarterback he is.
41:44
There's 32. Well, no, it's like like
41:47
quarterback coaches and oh, OK, yeah.
41:49
They all came out. We're anonymous like that's.
41:51
All right, like former, like college coaches and and like
41:59
ancillary coach coaches for the Bears last year because they
42:02
cleaned house pretty much. And also it's the defense.
42:05
They thought that the defense was going to be kind of the like
42:08
steady ship for them because their defense was actually
42:10
really solid the last two seasons.
42:12
I want to say they finished in like the top five in like most
42:16
major statistics last year, especially DVOA over the back
42:20
half of the season. So they expected the defense to
42:22
pick that up. And then you blow 52 to the
42:25
Lions, like, what are we doing? So I talked to one of my friends
42:31
from Cheesehead and the Bear Podcast and his name is Brendan.
42:34
So shout out Brendan. I texted him and I asked him
42:37
what the panic meter was for the Chicago Bears.
42:39
And I asked him to give me a panic meter for this season and
42:42
long term. And so this season he said 8
42:45
long term, he said 5. And I agree.
42:48
And I want to give a comparison to give Bears fans kind of a
42:52
long term outlook for their team.
42:55
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to compare Jared Goff to
42:58
Caleb Williams and then I'm going to compare the Lions to
43:02
the Bears. So Jared Goff was drafted in
43:05
2016, number one overall to the Rams.
43:08
His first season he was not very good at all.
43:12
He was not very good. Then his next season, Sean McVay
43:15
comes in, he's a little bit better, but he still wasn't on
43:18
the level of what you want from a franchise quarterback who was
43:22
drafted number one overall. It wasn't until 2018, his second
43:26
year with Sean McVeigh, that he took the Rams to the Super Bowl.
43:31
That was the year that Jared Goff really started to take off
43:34
in his career. Now to compare the Lions to the
43:38
Bears. The first season that Ben
43:41
Johnson was with the Lions as offensive coordinator, they went
43:44
9:00 and 8:00 and they did not make the playoffs.
43:47
It was not until the second season that Ben Johnson was the
43:50
offensive coordinator that the Lions were really, really good.
43:54
And so I've said this before and I'll say it again, it's going to
43:58
take time for Ben Johnson to find all the right pieces for
44:01
the Bears to replicate what he had with the Lions.
44:06
It's. They did make a lot of nice
44:08
moves in the offseason. They had a nice draft.
44:10
They made a lot of good moves in free agency.
44:12
Bringing in Ben Johnson as the head coach was huge, but it's
44:16
going to take time for Ben Johnson to put in place what he
44:20
wants to put in place. It's not going to happen right
44:23
away. So it's with Jared Goff compared
44:25
to Caleb Williams. It's going to take time for
44:29
Caleb Williams to understand what Ben Johnson wants him to
44:32
do, just like it took time for Jared Goff to understand what
44:36
Sean McVay wanted him to do. And when he understood that, he
44:39
was really good. And then same thing with the of
44:43
Lions and Bears. It's going, it took time for Ben
44:45
Johnson to get the Lions to where they wanted to be and it's
44:49
going to take time for him to get the Bears to where they want
44:52
to be. So long term outlook, I think
44:54
the panic meter is A5. But I do think this season that
44:57
Bears fans are probably panicking because of all the
45:01
hype that was surrounding this team.
45:03
I mean, also, would you rather have a first year coach of the
45:07
year and Matt Nagy and then have it tank from there?
45:10
Or would you rather build and have a kind of rough first year
45:14
and then, you know, Ben Johnson establishes himself more and
45:17
more in the organization, quarterback, offense, scheme,
45:20
everything and have a rough first year and then build from
45:23
there? You know, I think I'd take that
45:25
side, but. Yeah.
45:28
All right, so let's move that. Nagy sucks.
45:32
All right, so let's move on to our third team here, which is
45:35
the Houston Texans. And so Avery will have you take
45:37
the lead on this one. What's the panic meter for the
45:40
Houston Texans right now? I would say probably.
45:45
I mean, I'd say probably 5. I mean they were ten and seven.
45:49
The past, I think like two seasons.
45:51
Yeah. Then again though, I kind of see
45:54
this like I would have thought Lincoln would have given a
45:57
higher grade. I understand he's a fan, but I
45:59
guess I kind of see it compared to like what success they
46:03
expect. And I feel like because the
46:06
Chiefs are the Chiefs, because I agree that like a three is like
46:09
it's probably accurate because I wouldn't be super concerned.
46:12
It's like, hey, we just started. There's plenty of time to
46:15
correct the ship. But also it's like, hey, like we
46:18
should be like better than this. Like we've been an established
46:23
team. I feel like the Texans have just
46:26
perpetually just been right on the cusp.
46:29
Just like good enough to to get a playoff berth, but not bad
46:36
enough to get a good draft pick. And they just sit in that zone.
46:39
I don't think they look very good at all.
46:42
So I would kind of panic a bit. They can't get a first down to
46:45
save their life. Maybe that will change, I don't
46:49
know, but it doesn't look great. I've not been a fan of CJ
46:53
Stroud. Like I, I, I feel like he's been
46:56
over hyped for a while. I think he had some of that kind
46:59
of rookie success, kind of that Deke Deke Jack and Zeke just
47:04
called him Deke now that kind of that rookie year, kind of like,
47:08
Oh yeah, we're we're off to a hot start until everyone, you
47:11
know, figures this out. I just don't think he looks
47:13
like, I mean I, I he looks like a starter but not any anyone I
47:20
would trade for or anything. After his rookie season he
47:23
looked like an All Pro quarterback and now he looks
47:25
like an average quarterback. Yeah, and, and I'm also I'm, I'm
47:29
a, I'm a quarterback apologist to a degree.
47:31
Like I can tell like K, like if your line isn't good, if your
47:36
receivers aren't catching the ball, they hit them in both of
47:39
their hands and it drops. I'm like, OK.
47:42
Or if they tip it, they they're they're running their route,
47:44
they put their hand up and just, and just just set the ball up
47:47
like a volleyball player to ADB and it's a pick.
47:51
And I'm like, OK, that's what are you doing.
47:54
That being said, that is not CJ Stroud.
47:56
I don't. I just don't think he's that
47:57
good. I think other quarterbacks have
47:58
those issues where it's not really their fault.
48:01
Burrough comes to mind. Cam Ward recently.
48:05
Yeah, I just, I'm like, OK, if this give the man a chance here,
48:09
I just see him running for his life on every highlight play.
48:12
Just Burrough, Just constantly. Yeah, there was offensive line
48:17
and it didn't like. No, no they did not.
48:21
And they they scored nine points against the Rams and 19 points
48:24
against the Bucks. Their defense, I mean, held the
48:27
Rams to 14 points, held the Bucks to 20 with the kind of a
48:30
game-winning drive there. So either defense is still
48:33
solid. And I love D'amico Ryan's.
48:35
I think he's such a solid head coach.
48:36
Like Jamaica rhymes with the Chiefs head coach.
48:38
I'd be stoked because I know my defense is going to be solid
48:41
regardless. And they've got key defender or
48:44
they've got a great secondary. They've got Daniel Hunter and
48:47
Will Anderson rushing off the edge.
48:48
Like they've got good pieces in place.
48:51
It's all on CJ Stroud right now. And I think CJ Stroud is feeling
48:55
a lot of that pressure and trying to maybe over perform.
48:57
So it's kind of pushing things. Yeah, with the Colts being two
49:01
and oh, I'd be like, wait, what's going on?
49:03
Like am I did I did I have a bad dream about this or something
49:06
like that. But with a soft division, I
49:09
don't know if they should be panicking too much because they
49:12
do get to play the Colts twice, the Jaguars twice and the Titans
49:15
twice. Those are pretty soft wins.
49:18
I mean, no win is easy in the NFL, but those are pretty soft
49:21
wins in comparison to the Broncos and the Chargers, right?
49:25
Like so the odds of them winning their division are high.
49:29
However, I don't think that if somebody else wins the division
49:32
that they are going to take a wild card spot.
49:34
I think there are too many good teams in the NFC North and or
49:37
sorry, the AFC North and the AFC West that I don't think there's
49:41
extra space for two teams in the AFC South.
49:44
The other thing is the Texans have the Jags and then the
49:48
Titans coming up next, and I feel like that is a after those
49:53
two games, I think we'll kind of know.
49:55
You better get right. Yeah, exactly.
49:57
You can't lose these games. These are the games you're
49:59
supposed to win to pad your record after you lose to the
50:02
real teams. Yeah.
50:05
All right, well, we'll, we'll skip to our last segment here
50:09
and just for the sake of time. So what we were going to do is
50:12
we're going, we're each going to do 1 Fantasy football Week 3
50:16
start and sit. But I think for the sake of
50:19
time, we'll kind of cut it in half.
50:21
So will do, two of us will give a week 3 start and two of us
50:26
will give a Week 3 sit. So is there anyone who would
50:29
like to do the starts? Avery?
50:32
OK. And.
50:34
And I get to choose the other. *.
50:38
That's why it's you. Because I chose you, that's why.
50:43
Wait, who did you choose? Me.
50:47
Who did you choose? Yeah, I just.
50:48
Told the start in your fantasy? No, just for you to be the other
50:51
starter. OK, so Avery and I will do the
50:53
Week 3 starts and then Will and Lincoln will do the Week 3 sits.
50:57
All right, so Avery, take it away.
51:00
Give us your Week 3 fantasy football start.
51:05
I was going to say Jake Browning, but because I think I
51:08
think I think after all those picks he threw, I think he comes
51:11
in right. But I'm going to go with Danny
51:13
Dimes. I think at this point, I mean,
51:17
and I'm looking at this from our unique perspective as fantasy
51:22
owners of Dak Prescott and Michael Pennix.
51:27
It's one of those things you're like, look, Dak could go off,
51:30
but if we start him, he's not going to do well.
51:32
And if we play Pennix, he's not going to do well.
51:35
And I feel like Danny Dimes might be one of those guys where
51:38
as soon as you pick him up, as soon as you start him, he's
51:41
every defense is going to figure him out.
51:43
And I'm hoping, I'm hoping that New York was the issue here and
51:47
that he's actually a really good quarterback and we just haven't
51:50
seen it. But I'd still pick him up.
51:52
I think that that guy's, their offense is clearly rolling
51:55
fantasy wise. I think he's he's looking like a
51:58
good pick. I'll just say this about Daniel
52:02
Jones. I I told myself that if he could
52:06
repeat his success from week one against the Broncos defense that
52:10
I would start to believe because we have seen Daniel Jones have
52:14
good fantasy games in the past. You would start to think about
52:18
potentially believing in him. Yes, yes.
52:21
Preliminarily, yes. Yeah, because we have seen him
52:25
have really good fantasy games in the past, but then it just
52:28
fades away into nothing. And so we've seen this before,
52:32
but I feel like this is a much better situation that he's in
52:36
now. He's only been sacked one time
52:38
in each game. And I think, I don't remember
52:42
exactly what year was, but I believe in 2023, the Giants
52:47
allowed 85 sacks, which is insane.
52:53
And so he was just getting absolutely wrecked when he was
52:56
with the Giants. And you can kind of see that a
52:58
little bit now with Russell Wilson.
53:00
Like he's running for his life out there.
53:02
That offensive line is not good. And so with an actual JIT
53:07
offensive line, he is doing very well.
53:10
And so that's one of the biggest reasons why I think he can
53:13
continue to have a success at least a little bit longer than
53:16
he's had in the past. I credit the Ursay woman.
53:20
Who's over? There looking the whip on the
53:21
sideline, making sure them those those boys know what they're
53:25
doing. She sit there taking her on that
53:27
notepad. Dude, she's been doing that for
53:29
years. I don't know if you had her
53:30
husband. She's been doing that for a long
53:32
time. But now that Jim, everybody.
53:33
Here, they're bringing attention to it now, yeah.
53:36
And has she, has she realized that they know what they're
53:37
doing yet? Or is she still trying?
53:38
To figure it out. So Jim Mersay passed away.
53:41
Rest in peace, Jim Mersay. So now the three or say
53:45
daughters, Carly, I don't know who, all their names.
53:48
Yeah, it doesn't. They are now running the team,
53:51
all three of them. And she has been the one part
53:55
and she's been on the field for years now.
53:57
It's been, it's been multiple years that she has had a headset
54:01
on and is on the field because she has to know that her coaches
54:05
are making the right call. She allegedly, she's not
54:08
stepping in Jerry Jones style and saying no, run right here or
54:12
pass right here. But she is listening in to make
54:15
sure her coaches know what they're talking about.
54:19
OK, I have two questions. The the 1st is does she have any
54:23
say before the play actually happens or is she simply
54:27
monitoring it? No, she's simply she's.
54:29
Simply monitoring it. Why doesn't she just watch the
54:32
game? We can all see what the coach
54:34
called. Why do you need to hear it
54:36
beforehand? Is it like?
54:38
Because if you're right there and the coach called makes a bad
54:41
play or a bad call or does something else, you have to walk
54:44
your ass up to him and ream ream him right then.
54:48
Why does Tom Brady, wearing a headset in the coach's booth
54:51
when he's a minor, a partial owner of the.
54:54
There's. A lot of reasons that.
54:57
That's, I mean, I think he could give some some.
55:01
I just feel like with this moment, it's like, Kate, you're
55:03
listening to the calls. Like is it just like I know I
55:07
can see the call on the field. I just want to know who so the
55:11
call, was it the coordinator, was it the coach?
55:12
And how did you recall? It's also about the
55:15
communication. She wants to hear the
55:16
communication happening. She doesn't want to see the
55:18
play. She's not just seeing the play
55:20
happening. It's hearing the communication,
55:22
which you could do from anywhere.
55:24
But I'm sure being down on the field, it's just a different
55:28
aspect to it. The same reason why Jerry Jones
55:30
used to be on the field. He doesn't do as much anymore,
55:32
but like the last five minutes of every game.
55:34
Jerry used to stand there on the sideline right next to the head
55:37
coaches. He used to piss me off every
55:38
single week. Like get your behind back in
55:42
your box. It is.
55:44
It's not who it is. I think it's different from
55:47
Carly Orsay, though. I I don't know why.
55:50
I just view it as different from her.
55:52
Someone described her as striking and when I when I heard
55:56
that term, I was like, oh, is she like pretty?
55:59
No, she is striking. She's striking, dude.
56:02
Yeah, she's very striking. That's a.
56:04
Great way to describe her, that's how.
56:06
We are brows. Striking, dude.
56:10
All right, anyways, Lincoln, give us your Week 3 fantasy
56:13
football sit of the week. You know I'm going to bring my
56:17
Chiefs insight. Isaiah Pacheco is an easy sit
56:20
this week sadly against the Giants D line which low key is
56:25
like one of the best D lines in the NFL and with the Chiefs
56:29
running back room being as convoluted as it is, this is an
56:31
easy sit sadly. I've got him in both my leagues
56:34
which is lame and unfortunately until we can actually see it I
56:40
got to say to bench my guy Bill Croskey.
56:43
He's the running back for the commanders.
56:46
The dude can speak Braille and I heard he once killed 2 stones
56:51
with 1 bird like he is a menace. I love Bill Croskey, but until
56:57
we actually see some legitimate stats build up from him, he's
57:00
got to be a bench for now all. Right, well for my week 3 fan I
57:07
guess. Football start, can I guess?
57:09
Yes, go ahead. It's Cam scataboo.
57:12
It is not. It's not.
57:13
Wow, that legitimately surprises me.
57:15
I was. Out against the.
57:16
Chiefs, I was Jackson Dart. He's putting out a hit on
57:20
Wilson. I wish it was Jackson Dart.
57:23
OK, so for my week 3 fantasy football start I have Bears wide
57:26
receiver Rome Adunze. Love it.
57:29
And the reason why is because he leads the team in not only
57:33
targets, but receptions and touchdowns.
57:36
He's actually the only Bears receiver who has a receiving
57:40
touchdown in both games. He's the only one who has caught
57:44
a receiving touchdown for the Bears, and he is playing a
57:48
Dallas Cowboys defense that just let Russell Wilson throw for 450
57:54
yards, 450. Let Russ cook, bro.
57:59
Dallas has allowed the third most passing yards through two
58:01
weeks. And it doesn't matter how you
58:05
feel about Caleb Williams, if you have Roma Dunze on your
58:08
fantasy team, start him this week because not only has he
58:11
been the best receiver for that team, he is playing an
58:15
absolutely awful defense. Absolutely terrible.
58:21
Love it. I'm I'm on board.
58:23
I wish I had him. I I got a Mecca booklet though.
58:25
So you starting to Mecca all day?
58:29
We have him, we have him on both of our teams and we have started
58:32
in both weeks. Love a Mecca?
58:35
All right, will give us your fantasy football Week 3 sit.
58:39
I don't like to do this. I don't like to say this out
58:42
loud. I actually like this player a
58:43
lot. But he missed all the training
58:45
camp with the holdout and he until I, like Lincoln said with,
58:51
with Bill Croxy, until I start seeing production and I don't
58:54
think it's going to happen till like Week 5 when he finally gets
58:56
his feet under him with Jayden Daniels.
58:59
It's got to be Terry Mclaurin. He went, he had 9 targets last
59:03
week, brought in five balls for 48 yards, which is not horrible,
59:08
no touchdowns. He had 27 receiving yards a week
59:11
before. So it is improving week to week
59:13
in our two week sample size, but he's not the main focus in that
59:17
team right now. All balls run through Debo, and
59:20
that's truly is a shock to me because before the season, Debo
59:25
was out there looking like Grimace from, you know, Grimace.
59:32
He's on the right team. If he was on the Vikings, boy
59:35
howdy, I'm shocked he was getting the production he is.
59:38
But at the same time, Deebo was there all offseason.
59:41
Deebo was there during training camp.
59:43
He was there to put in the work with Jayden Daniels and Dee and
59:46
Terry Mcorn wasn't. And so I think it should be
59:48
another couple weeks before Terry and and Jayden Daniels get
59:51
their feet back under them. Today, all three of them,
59:54
Jayden, Deebo and Terry, get their synergy together, to use a
1:00:00
corporate word. They synergize together and and
1:00:03
start meshing well. So I I think.
1:00:05
That's a big word for. You I know it's a four syllable
1:00:07
word synergy. Appreciate that.
1:00:13
I I just don't think he's worth worth to start right now and I
1:00:16
get there playing the Raiders. Wait, it's only three?
1:00:23
I was trying not to lose us. Oh.
1:00:33
Shoot, I don't wait until you started saying the next thing to
1:00:38
say it anyways. I would like to give this, I
1:00:43
would like to give just one more sit for Week 3 of fantasy
1:00:46
football because it's related to what Will was saying about
1:00:49
Mclaurin and it's related because of who this this person
1:00:53
is playing. So Will was just just mentioned
1:00:57
Terry Mclaurin, who just played the Green Bay Packers.
1:01:00
I would sit in Week 3 of fantasy football, I would sit Jerry Judy
1:01:03
versus the Green Bay Packers. The Packers have played the
1:01:05
Lions and they had played the Commanders and they made the
1:01:08
Lions look like the Browns and they made the Commanders look
1:01:11
very average. Now, the Packers have been not
1:01:14
kind to almost every single position for fantasy football
1:01:18
except for tight ends. The only position that they've
1:01:22
been kind to is tight ends. So other than that, the running
1:01:26
backs have not done well. The wide receivers have not
1:01:28
really done very well at all. They have not allowed a running
1:01:32
back to rush for or any player to rush for more than 25 yards
1:01:35
in two games. And the they have not allowed a
1:01:39
receiver to get more than 48 yards in two games.
1:01:43
So if you have any player who's on the Browns except for a tight
1:01:48
end, do not start them against the Packers.
1:01:51
All right, so that's going to wrap it up for this episode.
1:01:55
Thank you again to Lincoln for coming on and for sharing your
1:01:57
thoughts about who we should choose as our new favorite NFL
1:02:01
team. We will take that into
1:02:03
consideration and we look forward to any more advice that
1:02:06
you have for us in the future as.
1:02:08
We When's this decision being made?
1:02:11
We have a a deadline of before the start of next season.
1:02:16
I think it's going to, I think it's going to be well before
1:02:19
then, well before then, but that is at least a week.
1:02:22
That is the that is the deadline.
1:02:24
Like you have to have a new team before next season starts.
1:02:30
I I imagine, I don't want to speak for all of this, but I
1:02:32
imagine we all pick during this season, probably before
1:02:35
playoffs, but yeah. I would think so, but just so
1:02:39
with that, we have a, a, some sort of timeline in there.
1:02:42
That's what the timeline is. I'm not patient enough to wait
1:02:44
until then, that's my reason. True.
1:02:46
Not really. Yeah, if I if this.
1:02:48
Was like, I thought this was like a mid season acquisition
1:02:51
sort. Of thing, if I I think we're
1:02:52
trying to draw it out for content.
1:02:54
Not many people are watching this part of the podcast, but
1:02:56
let's let's be honest, we're trying.
1:02:58
To. I'm going back to the Cowboys.
1:03:01
That's just going to happen. I got to go before.
1:03:03
Trying to mill. And just deny that this thing
1:03:05
ever happened, just like I don't know what.
1:03:07
You're talking about, talking about.
1:03:10
Not the digital footprint that this is left.
1:03:12
I love Jerry Jones. What do you mean?
1:03:16
And that's what I'm afraid of. Well, we can't go back.
1:03:19
This is a full sign the line separation.
1:03:23
Agree. We were on a break.
1:03:30
Well, I was to another school. Well, I have two things to tell
1:03:34
you. One is that that that Google doc
1:03:38
that you have I I looked, I saw how would you put in there?
1:03:43
So just look at that. Just look at the note I left
1:03:45
you. On.
1:03:47
And and the second thing is, if you ever think about going back
1:03:50
to the Dallas Cowboys, just remember that he said.
1:03:52
Derrick Henry would not have done well on the Dallas Cowboys.
1:03:56
I'll just leave it at that. I don't.
1:03:59
Know I I don't. List.
1:04:00
Are you doubting Jerry's ability to make that team suck?
1:04:06
You know such little faith in Jerry that you don't think they
1:04:09
could bring on Derrick Henry and still miss the playoffs.
1:04:12
That is on the list of reasons why I'm no longer a fan.
1:04:15
If Will goes back to the Cowboys, you guys will have to
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rename your team to three guys 5 balls podcast because that's
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what will happen one of. Us.
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I can spare both of us. They're both cut.
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It's fine so I need him for balance or anything.
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That's going to wrap it up for episode 28 of Three Guys, 6
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Balls NFL Podcast. Once again, thank you to Lincoln
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for coming on. And as always, don't forget to
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keep your balls played with. We'll see you next time.
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I know y'all and so Mark Davis's haircut still sucks.