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NFL Divisional Round Recap - 2024 · Banter with the Boys

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You're listening to Bantor with the Boys, talking all things sports.
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Get laced up.
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It's time for Bantor with the Boys.
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What's up everybody?
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Welcome back to Bantor with the Boys.
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NFL divisional round weekend has come and gone.
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What a weekend of football it was.
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We are here to discuss it and as always, got my main man Smelty with me.
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How we doing, how we feeling?
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I mean I can't believe the season is already almost over to be honest with you.
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Like it was just like yesterday we started this NFL trip.
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What?
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Week 5 I think is when we actually started.
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We didn't start from the beginning but it's almost over.
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What a year it's been brother.
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What a year it's been and it brings a little tear to the eye knowing we only got two weekends
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of real football left.
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I don't include the Pro Bowl in that.
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No absolutely not.
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No no no.
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But if the Pro Bowl games though that might be kind of fun.
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I haven't watched that yet.
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Have you watched it?
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No it's not worth really watching to be honest with you.
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I don't need to watch adults play dodge ball.
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No right.
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I'm just curious.
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Well you know the ESPN thing back in the day when we were growing up right.
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So that was like a skill showdown type thing.
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But I guess this is the same thing.
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They should do more of that type stuff though.
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Like the one thing that is cool is the quarterback, the throwing one because it is pretty much
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the OG one to be honest with you.
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You know what I'm talking about.
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Yeah yeah yeah for sure.
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And then you have like the like seeing like the longest throw.
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Right dude.
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That would be cool.
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The lineman with the bench press.
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I want to see some of that.
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Yes bro.
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Like bring that.
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Yeah that was super cool.
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Sorry to go on a little tangent.
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And they had like a team of guys.
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You know they like teamed up and like the Pro Bowl guys were like throwing.
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Yeah that was super dope.
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That was super dope.
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They should bring that back because there's no way I'm watching adults play flag football.
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Or Pro Bowl ever again if they ever did bring it back just because it's just like they don't.
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It's like the NBA All-Star game.
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There's no defense right.
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That's yeah.
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So in the Pro Bowl nobody's getting tackled really.
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They get brought to the ground but nobody's getting cracked.
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No.
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Unless you're Sean Taylor destroying a punter.
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Hey listen.
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That's one of my favorite football moments of all time.
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Yeah I'll never forget that.
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RIP Sean Taylor.
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One of my favorite players of all time.
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I actually have a.
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Well I don't have it anymore.
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I had it in high school.
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I bought a NFC Pro Bowl Sean Taylor jersey.
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Cool.
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From one of my buddies.
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You don't have it anymore?
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No I got a whole bunch of stains in it in the party ages.
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Was it white?
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Yeah.
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No it was blue.
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Oh okay.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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NFC the blue ones.
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Yeah.
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It got destroyed in the after high school years.
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Oh well.
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Oh well.
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But let's talk football brother.
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First game we're going to talk about here.
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The Houston Texans storybook ending or storybook season finally did come to an end.
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They went up to Baltimore took on the Ravens.
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Ravens were a nine and a half point favorite and they didn't they could have used a couple
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more there.
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Ravens took this one pretty handily.
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They won the game 34 to 10.
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Were able to catch this one brother.
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Oh yeah for sure.
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And I mean it was the ending that we all kind of thought was going to happen.
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However I will say at halftime I was questioning some things.
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I thought we had a game.
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I was like whoa doggy.
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Like there's there's something here.
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And then obviously the second half adjustments were made for Baltimore and they just ran
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away with it.
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But I mean I want to talk about that Texans team.
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I mean I think their future is a lot brighter than people were giving them credit for you
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know before the season even started.
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Including probably myself.
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I figured CJ.
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Everybody.
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Nobody nobody nobody would have think the Texans would have done what they did this
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year.
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I mean CJ would play better than Bryce and that we're two years three years out from
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determining who will end up being better right now.
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Obviously it's CJ right.
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He looks light years ahead of where Bryce is at.
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But like the Texans are their future again like I said the future is bright in Houston.
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I don't know.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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And I mean going into the year they had very very little expectations.
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I mean you had the number one pick for a reason last year.
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Is it easier to go off for 10 wins when you know there's fewer expectations of you.
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Oh absolutely.
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I would say because you're not playing with any pressure because there's nobody's looking
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at you to to to actually go out and compete.
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And which is perfect for a rookie quarterback and how young the offensive and the defense
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too but how young that offensive core is with the Nico Collins tanked out before he got
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injured.
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That's what's surprising to me the most tanked out was the most electrifying player on that
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offense outside of number seven.
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And he got hurt.
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He out for the season.
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Yeah.
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And they didn't skip a beat when CJ was in until they ran into this Ravens buzzsaw of
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a defense man.
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Because even if you look at this first half like their offense didn't score it was a punt
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return.
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Right.
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That's the only reason the game was like I mean granted the Ravens only scored 10 points
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in the first half but it's the only reason it was close.
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No for sure.
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I mean that Ravens defense is just ridiculous.
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I mean honestly Roquan Smith and Patrick Queen together is just so nasty.
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I love it so much.
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And like they're used in the appropriate manner.
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And Baltimore seems like they're still not a heavy blitzing defense right now.
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They don't need to.
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That's what I mean.
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It's wild.
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They don't they don't necessarily have to bring pressure.
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No they don't.
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They only gave up three points.
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Yeah.
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This Baltimore defense has been consistently a top three defense in the league this year
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and the only defense is the NFL like the media has talked about is the Niners Browns and
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Cowboys.
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They've gotten no love in the national attention that they deserve.
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They really haven't.
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No.
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Let's be honest like they held the Niners.
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Sorry I can't think right now.
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Held the Niners you know to a low scoring game and they went off on offense against
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what is supposed to be one of those top defenses.
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If not the top defense.
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Other than Baltimore.
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Like you have to like Baltimore has the like from top to bottom they have to be considered
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the best defense in the league.
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CJ has been balling as of late.
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They shot him down 19 to 33 for 175.
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That's I don't think we've really seen that this year out of CJ.
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Not yet you know no tuds but no picks you know or sacks.
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Oh you're right.
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Yeah no sacks at all.
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So I mean he yeah 19 for 33 but he's still like in a sense in quotations right.
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He still took care of the ball.
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He didn't turn over the ball but he still played you know you got to look at the season
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as a whole.
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You can't take that last game to determine CJ's season or the Texans season as a whole
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in general.
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But man I mean between CJ and then almost the re-emergence I guess you could say of
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Nico Collins.
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He showed glimpses early and then kind of I don't know it was hidden for a little bit
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and now he's been more consistent.
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It's only his third year yeah.
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Yeah that's what I mean.
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And who did he have his quarterback last year?
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I don't even know.
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Who was it?
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I can't remember.
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Long neck fella.
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Davis.
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Davis Mills?
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Oh yeah.
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No Davis Mills yeah who actually wasn't even that bad.
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But no don't get me wrong CJ is the move.
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No no no I hear you.
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I hear you.
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But you know you just add Tank Del back to that mix next season.
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You get I don't know everybody just gains more experience.
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It's a young team.
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They're gonna be just fine.
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I think we could see them win the division next year.
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No absolutely I mean I don't see why they wouldn't next year unless if AR makes a huge
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huge jump and Indian stays on the field and if Trevor continues to progress although I
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don't necessarily say he did progress this year.
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That whole division could be a conversation in itself.
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Titans aren't gonna be anything for a little bit I don't think.
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Well not to but yeah you're right.
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The other three.
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Yeah yeah yeah there's a lot of young talent in that division though man.
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This is gonna be a division that you know you go back to when it was like Colts Texans
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when you know JJ was on in Houston and the Colts had Andrew Luck and they were like two
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pretty darn good teams and they you know it was just fun to watch.
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That's what I can see happening now with that's what it's turning into.
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Yeah I mean the Texans deserve all the flowers they can.
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They ran into like I said an absolute buzzsaw of a Ravens team.
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They just look unpenetrable at this point.
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You know you just you can't get through to their defense and Lamar is continuing to show
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why he's the MVP.
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Yeah I mean we gave the Texans their flowers and just like you said Lamar is showing every
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little bit of why he deserves the MVP.
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Eleven carries for a hundred yards are you kidding me?
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Two tuds.
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I mean that's that's hard to stop.
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It's hard to stop and he's the thing about Lamar is like I think we probably talked about
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this last year on the pod even or whatever like last calendar year is that you know everybody
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was saying that Lamar's just a running back blah blah blah blah blah.
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He continuously shows people week in and week out why he's a quarterback in the NFL.
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Yeah he can run obviously but like he is the pinnacle of dual threat.
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Oh absolutely he's the the future of what this quarterback is going to go into.
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Now granted not not entirely.
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I think more of a Pat Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, not that they're the same player, Josh Allen
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you know he's he's running with the ability he has more so because of his size than like
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you know straight up agility and athleticism.
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Not that he's not athletic don't get me wrong.
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Like but Lamar is just I don't know if Lamar will ever be replicated with his sheer athleticism
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and the ability to throw the ball because who's he throwing the ball to?
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Mark Andrews has been out for almost for you know for a hot minute.
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He has Zay Flowers, Odell Beckham, and Rashad Bateman with Isaiah likely.
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Like that that doesn't scream oh my I'm scared.
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And what was a they had a good receiver throughout the season too when they had some injuries
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uh Dunn sort of the D Dunn.
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Oh Devin Duvernay.
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Duvernay yeah he was good for a couple weeks too but uh yeah no doubt I mean without Mark
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Andrews which allegedly we'll get to he could be back this week we'll see.
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Um that offense just looked unstoppable dude.
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Like anything Houston was doing it just wasn't working.
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It just wasn't working.
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I don't I don't know who's gonna stop Baltimore.
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I I seriously don't.
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I don't see it.
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And like not to go off on a tangent but like you know blah blah blah and it felt scripted
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right everybody's like oh it's gonna be Baltimore versus San Francisco.
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Everybody's seen it.
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The colors of the Super Bowl logo ironically are the same colors as the teams and blah
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blah blah same thing last year.
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And again like I said going on a tangent but like Baltimore is legitimately the best team
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in the AFC in my opinion and San Francisco is legitimately probably the best team in
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the NFC.
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Yeah.
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And they just they just keep proving it you know and I just I don't see I don't know you
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know obviously we'll get to the other game recap in the AFC as you guys know the Chiefs
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won but like I don't see I don't know if the Chiefs will have enough.
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I don't know it's gonna be tough man.
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This Ravens team right now they're just playing and do you can you name the Ravens defensive
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coordinator.
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Absolutely not.
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So I couldn't either going into this podcast so I just looked it up and it's Mike McDonald
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McDonald.
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Why have you not heard that name in the coaching rings?
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I've like why haven't this guy gotten his flowers.
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Yeah I've never once heard that name.
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And the thing about Baltimore is they have absolute studs at key positions.
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Don't get me wrong.
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Just to throw this in there we could also be complete idiots and maybe we just haven't
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heard his name before but you know a lot of these coaches and like keep up with a lot
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of them or at least have a lot of knowledge of them and if you ever heard I obviously
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I haven't but if you haven't heard it like to me that's surprising.
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Like again like it like you said he hasn't got his flowers.
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Why is that?
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Now granted he joined after in 2022 it's only his second year being the DC he came from
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Michigan.
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That was when I believe Wink left and went to the Giants.
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If I'm not mistaken Wink Martindale.
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If I'm not mistaken that's how that transpired.
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But is it just because he's he's fresh out of college and it's like I don't understand
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it is John Harbaugh in that much control of the defense.
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I don't think so I think Harbaugh is more of just an overlooking coach and he puts his
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coordinators in the right positions.
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100% and he hires the correct staffs.
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Now obviously he has an input.
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And he has a defensive background more so than an offensive background in terms of his
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coaching tree.
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But it's I just don't understand it.
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Like I would love for you know Green Bay to make a little spendy little offer over to
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Mr. McDonald but I just I that's surprising to me to be honest with you with and especially
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when you look at like the the Eagles offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator they
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both got fired but there was one of them was is like up for a coaching like in the head
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coach rink after both of them had an abysmal season after the guys left last year.
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So that I just I just don't understand that.
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So is Mike Mike McDonald that's his name.
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So has he ever coached in NFL before even a position group or anything that you know
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of hold for momentary look up when you say he came from Michigan like University of Michigan
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or correct.
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Yeah so he was actually on the Ravens from he started as a coaching intern in 2014 then
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moved up to a defensive assistant then he was actually the DB coach in 2017 of the Ravens
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of the Ray.
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This is all with the Ravens and then was the linebackers coach from 2018 to 2020 then went
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one year at Michigan and now he's back as the D coordinator in Baltimore.
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Yeah.
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So so yeah I mean I guess he spent his entire NFL career I mean since 2014 he's had one
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year not with the Ravens.
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So I mean it's kind of back what you said maybe it was he D coordinator for Michigan
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sorry yes I said that.
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Okay so maybe kind of like you said maybe since he's still you know fresh at least in
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a coordinator role maybe OCs just don't know his stuff yet you know maybe they don't quite
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know how to crack it yet.
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Maybe that is the thing.
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I don't know.
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I don't know I mean I would just think that if it's it's just so crazy to me how they
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don't bring a lot of pressure like I should really dive deeper into his in his defense
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but it's just crazy to me how they don't really have to.
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I mean even the thing about him like yeah not being a coordinator for very long but
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you hear all the time of these assistants these coaches get promoted and this guy's
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been in the system since 2015 and I mean on top of that he was learning under Wink Martindale
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and Harbaugh in Harbaugh and so I was I was right so in so Wink was with with the Ravens
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as I mean he's been with he was from 2010 2012 through 21 so the entire time he was
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with the Ravens prior to this last two years he was learning under Wink.
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So you know and Wink's highly regarded as one of the best D coordinators in the game
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he has been for a hot minute so I don't know man interesting but we got to move on here
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Smelty let's move on to the saddest game of the week.
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My Packers went over to San Francisco technically Santa Clara lost 21-24.
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This game just pissed me right off.
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We did cover the nine and a half that was a slap in the face I still don't understand
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that one bit but man we should have won this game Smelty.
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It's we you know we're in pretty much control of the game although we didn't win you know
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we weren't in leading throughout the whole thing obviously but it was even when the Niners
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went ahead they didn't have that huge momentum shift that the game just shifted and win in
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that direction.
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I you have to be happy as a Packers fan we made it this far especially with how we were
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in the middle of the season check back a couple weeks on our podcast you will certainly hear
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me talk about that but this is just traditional Niners beating the Packers in the playoffs
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and they did it in the same darn fashion.
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Right it's like you know same stuff different day right.
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I guess as a Vikings fan I don't really know what to tell you go buy yourself something
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nice to feel better.
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I don't know I'm used to mediocrity but I guess what you can take away is you know who's
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going to be quarterbacking your team for the future and really I truly did think the Packers
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had a legitimate chance to win this game pretty much the entire game.
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Unfortunately it came down to that throw by Jay Love which man throwing it in the double
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coverage across the field across your body just not a not a good idea but if he would
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have gotten more on it I can see what he was trying to do and like what he saw but it just
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I hate that play but with how much time is left it was first down Smelty.
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50 seconds left yeah and like did you have any timeouts I don't think so but you had
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50 seconds left like you know we had two timeouts you had plenty of time there's there's no
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need to try to rush that and force it which is what he did throw the ball out of bounds
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but that's a learning experience right what he's done these past five six weeks or whatever
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you haven't seen that so now you saw a little bit of it in pressure but he played under
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pressure the whole game just fine so it was a mistake yes but like if I'm you I'm feeling
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pretty good about next season about the Packers maybe challenging the Lions for the division
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100% I mean as a Packers fan like I said is to hold this Niners team to 24 points and
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put up 21 on their defense you know it is it's commendable Aaron Jones was the first
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hundred yard rusher this team has had and it's just a stupid amount of games you know
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I don't remember the exact amount I suppose I could look it up but it was silly so we
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got the run game going Jay Love wasn't under a lot of pressure when he was he escaped the
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pocket the Niners didn't really get their hands on him they didn't get any sex but they
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really didn't even get their hands on him and you got Bosa and Chase Young coming at
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you so Packers O'Line played great they run the run game great J Love didn't play bad
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21 to 34 he had the two picks the first pick and is what it is it wasn't a terrible play
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by any means through the two tugs Dobbs got going it was this game came down to four plays
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we already spoke about one of them the J Love interception where you like you said learning
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curve you see what he was trying to do he just couldn't get enough mustard on the ball
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oh but at the same time should not throw that ball can't throw that ball throw that in that
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situation he was under pressure and just like you're not even in the pocket get rid of the
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ball just get rid of the ball live for second down you still got all you need is a field
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goal which blows to us the second most important or the second play Anders Carlsen missing
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the field goal Daniel Carlsen Daniel Carlsen's his brother who plays for the Raiders Anders
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is the kicker for Green Bay really damn I thought you guys signed Daniel Carlsen this
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whole time no we drafted Anders Carlsen in the in draft this year where did he go to
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college yeah yeah you're welcome yeah dang he looks just like Daniel to there you put
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him next to us like an idiot the Packers Raiders played each other this year and there's you
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know they got the media coverage of like the brothers meeting up whatever and yeah they're
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identical holy crap I wish we had Daniel Carlsen stupid I really wish we had Daniel Carlsen
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the miss kick I'm so far that was the miss kick no I don't remember how far it was but
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actually I mean I can probably see that pretty quick here not the biggest yeah but that was
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huge man and it'd be one thing if it was like a one-off situation where he's like this but
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this has been him all year he missed five extra points this year and he missed he missed
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six field goals throughout the year so this is something we've seen now granted he's a
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rookie he's a young guy we got to give him his time but man oh man it just sucks seeing
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that I know I'm just I was gonna say I'm gonna tell you because the Vikings drafted Daniel
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Carlsen same deal was great but kind of like kind of sputtered a little bit had a couple
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mistakes kind of like that and they let him go and now look at I don't know Vikings drafted
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him yeah oh yeah they drafted him even I think it was like six round it wasn't even like
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I was like I gotta look it up now because I'm curious but no they drafted Daniel Carlsen
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and then they let him go I don't know if it's after his rookie season or year year two
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but like they decided to let him go because of a couple sputters and now look at him what
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he's doing now in Vegas dude and that totally threw me off bro I still can't believe Anders
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is in the league because I didn't know I thought this whole season that they somehow signed
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Daniel Carlsen I was like that's crazy I don't know why the Raiders would let him go you
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know that's wild so you guys drafted him in the fifth round fifth round released him after
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his rookie year during the year you caught him that's insane he went to Oakland or maybe
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not maybe it was after the yeah no it was during the year went to Oakland in 2021 second
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team all-pro 2022 first team all-pro no comment wow comment so hopefully we get that same
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thing what I'm saying is do not let him walk yet it's not time for that no and I mean it's
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shown enough to keep him one more year it's not the kickers seem to have a short leash
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though and then if I'll as a whole yeah but it's not a Packers move you you invest a draft
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pick and a guy you're not gonna cut him after his rookie year it's as simple as that we
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will bring in somebody for competition which I'd love which is normal that's fine gotta
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do that yep but it's it's I also saw a stat that it's like six of the best kickers ever
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if you look at the rookie years they're pretty comparable and like even those guys had like
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two or three missed extra points when it was from the two yeah instead of the 15 right
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now you see that I mean how many rookie kickers also also out there had similar years that
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were cut after the rookie year and didn't play in the league again I'm sure there's
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a heck of a lot more how many other rookie kickers played this season I don't think there's
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that many yeah it was a couple I mean first team all-pro Brandon Aubrey from the Cowboys
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he was a rookie but he's also like 27 he's played professionally it's just in the NFL
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it's something like that I don't know if he's that old but it's it's something like that
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he's actually played professional football but yeah that's that's just that's just it
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so that's number two the third play was the opening drive for the Niners Darnell Savage
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dropped a pick that was right in his hands he had to peak Kyle Juszczyk to get a pick
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six that would have put a touchdown on the board at that time we would have been up 10
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to 0 assuming Carlson makes the extra point but that was huge I remember that yeah straight
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away drops it put us out we went drove down the field got in the red zone our red zone
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offense was terrible in this game that's another thing that cost us I'm not sure the red zone
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but even from like the 35 in that cost us and then the other play was Devondre Campbell
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dropped a pick in the end zone was that was either Devondre Campbell or it was Jonathan
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Owens it might have been Jonathan Owens but dropped a pick in the end zone he was now
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the Niners we held them to a field goal that drive so it didn't end up being you know too
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bad but a field goal was a determining factor in this game that's still three points yeah
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it is it is so it's just those four plays is what really I would say cost us this game
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you know if you and who's to know what would have happened after any of those but it's
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just I it just sucks man it just sucks but if you're looking at it and it comes down
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to four plays when you guys were not going to make the playoffs at one point this year
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and you like almost you you only lost to the 49ers by three points I mean I'm still feeling
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good like don't get me wrong as a fan like I'm sure you were like oh we're winning this
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like feeling good which I was confident that the Packers would win too actually I feel
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so good the way they played against Dallas dude like it's just it's just I I would feel
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fine if I'm the Packers like yes you're disappointed that's gonna hurt for a solid month right
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but then you start looking at next season Super Bowl ends whoever wins that blah blah
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blah but then I probably start getting excited as early as March you know for next season
23:35
if I'm a Packer fan I'm not that's the difference between a Packers fan and a Vikings fan when
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the Packers lose in the playoffs that's not really an expectation and we don't get happy
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about that hey when you don't make the playoffs as often actually the Vikings are one of the
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I think they're they have a pretty good playoff winning percentage actually if you believe
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it or not historically they just can't win a Super Bowl yeah yeah but yeah no in all
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honesty I mean no all joking aside you gotta be happy not a lot of people thought the Packers
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had a fighting chance in this game a nine and a half point underdog I mean from the
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books that says enough right there for us to hold like I said hold and I thought this
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game really was gonna be like a 31 28 game I really did I thought it was gonna be a little
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bit more offensive than it was Packers defense impressed the heck out of me in this game
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you know we held CMC under 100 yards rushing granted he you know made up for that in in
24:27
receiving solid 98 yards hey man hey man it's just but holding a single rusher of his caliber
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to under 100 yards receiving for the Packers or sorry 100 yards rushing for the Packers
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with especially against in the Niners in the playoffs that's huge right that's huge you
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know so it's uh it was mainly that one bigger run that he kind of got through and missed
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39 yarder yeah the touchdowns what it was but yeah I know you know I mean as a Packers
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fan I'm very very very happy with how this season transpired I really am you know the
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other great thing is we don't have a lot of pending free agents so it's not like we have
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to go out and sign big name guys like Keishon Nixon is the biggest free agent we need to
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retain him I think he'll stay and then um John Runyon is like the second biggest free agent
25:16
we have he's a right guard that's coming off of his he sounds familiar um yeah he's actually
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John Runyon juniors Pops played in the league actually played with uh Tom Brady at Michigan
25:25
um but it was just it's just so I'm looking forward to it man Christian Watson was hurt
25:31
a lot of the year we get this young offense I don't know it's it's you're right it's a
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good place to be a Packers fan and and we already won the offseason so we'll get to
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that later so let's move on here we had the I'm sorry do you want to finish up anything
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with that game I certainly have nothing else to say about the Packers absolutely not I'm
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just you know there's really nothing else to say about the 49ers either you know I want
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to say they are who we thought they were but at the same time I'm a little bit more concerned
25:59
heading into a game against the Lions I think the Lions secondary doesn't really have what
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it takes and we'll talk about that later but you know I just you know we'll see I'm a little
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bit concerned with the 49ers struggles against the Packers now I'm not saying that's not
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a hit on the Packers by any means they earn their chance to be in that game but it's just
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I don't know man I mean the NFL script says the Niners are gonna win so yeah we'll see
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the other thing with this game too is Deebo went out pretty early yep he's a game changer
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on that offense so you know if he's back this week going forward it's gonna be pretty pretty
26:36
tough but everybody else still showed up George Kittle, Joanne Jennings had a great game he
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did and then Iuk's always a sneaky fella in there so it's just I don't know even without
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Deebo even if they don't have Deebo this week I still see the 49ers having a pretty good
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up yeah anyway and then the other thing Chris Conley bro I don't even know Chris Conley
26:56
was still in the league I remember him playing on the Chiefs and he had one catch for 17
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yards he was a one of the biggest plays of the game if not mistaken it was a third down
27:04
it was an out route perfect ball by Brock and it's just like Chris Conley what?
27:09
Dude Brock keeps looking good man I want to hate the guy so bad I do just because like
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I don't know I just I don't know like I just don't think he's in the same conversation
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as a lot of these quarterbacks in the league but he keeps showing up he keeps winning games
27:24
you can't argue with that so Dan Marino kept winning games too but he didn't win no freaking
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Super Bowl for the sake of how loaded this pot is I'll let that we'll talk about that
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one another time we'll probably get to that next week but let's move on well we'll go
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to the Bucks and the Lions he's keeping that the receipt on that comment huh no yeah we'll
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come back to that that's a discussion for another time but we had the Bucks taking on
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the Lions traveling up to the Motor City Lions came in as a six and a half point favorite
27:53
and the they showed why the Lions were in control of this game from start to finish
27:57
they ended up winning this one 31-23 Lions offense looked good as expected and their
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defense looked surprisingly good I really didn't think I thought the Buccaneers were
28:13
gonna have a field day with this defense to be honest with you Melzi I mean they looked
28:16
probably better than we expected but I mean it's just yeah they gave they still gave up
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349 yards to Baker but yeah they got the two picks it's just I don't know man I Buccaneer
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showed me a lot a lot more than I thought like I did not think they were really gonna
28:33
have that much of a shot but winning beat beaten who was it Philly the week before I
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mean that's that was a huge statement so we knew it would be at least a battle but I did
28:44
I still didn't I saw two scores you know to be honest with you I saw a two score game
28:49
happening and the Bucks had a chance at the end there they really did and kind of a similar
28:55
thing to Jordan Love not as a great like egregious but you know Baker just didn't get enough
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on it again you saw what he was trying to do at the end of the game he just didn't get
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enough on it but again not the time for that type of throw you don't have to get it all
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in one play homie you know you got time I think there's a minute thirty left at that
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point even that you have time there's no need to rush it down the field but you know so
29:18
you know looking looking forward I mean the Buccaneers also have a pretty good outlook
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if they can retain Baker Mayfield which I thought would be a pretty like easy thing
29:28
to do you know succeeded well with them took them to the playoffs made a surprising run
29:34
but now I'm not so sure like maybe maybe there's gonna be a couple of teams out there that
29:40
are willing to spend money Vikings they're willing to spend money and maybe try to bring
29:44
Baker in I don't know I don't know man even with Baker Mayfield I I don't think the Bucks
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are formidable team in the league they're in you can make a very very strong argument
29:55
for the worst division in football no no I mean so it's just they're not a young team
30:02
smell see they have they're not a lot of older players at pivotal positions now they have
30:06
some young studs Antoine Winfield jr. Rashad White looks really good at the running back
30:12
by Palmer's young to Trey Palmer he's young but you got I mean Mike Edmonds Mike Edmonds
30:19
Mike Evans who's gonna be a free agent as well Chris Godwin's getting older he signed
30:23
but he's getting older I like Kate Odden I like what they I like what I'm seeing in that
30:28
cat see a first-year player is he a rookie no no okay he's younger though any yeah okay
30:34
I know for a moment yeah I mean he's 24 uh Bicha but yeah no I don't know man I is that
30:41
enough rookie is that enough to get Baker to resign with you for like a three-year deal
30:47
do you think do you think Baker wants that does he want to be in Tampa I mean the outlook
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to potentially win the division let's say he signs a three-year deal that looked at
30:56
least when your division for those three years is probably pretty good I don't know if I'd
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agree with that you don't think so yeah I mean the Saints and the Falcons just have
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a lot more young pieces in place so they have can be something soon the Falcons if they
31:07
get a quarterback yeah I think the Falcons are a really really really good team they
31:11
have foundational pieces where they need them they just need that you can't win in this
31:15
league without a quarterback you just simply can't and I mean I don't know I mean the Baker
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did more than impress this year do I think he's a quarterback that will lead you to a
31:26
Super Bowl absolutely not so if you are one of those other teams willing to spend a little
31:30
money are you gonna sign a Baker Mayfield as a Packers fan I'd love to see the Vikings
31:34
sign him I bet but do you you don't you don't feel he's rejuvenated himself enough to get
31:41
somebody like the Vikings to try to get them to sign him and try to take him on a run I
31:47
think what hurts the market right now is there is not a lot of quarterback needy teams there's
31:53
really not the quarterback needy teams are in the position in the draft where they could
31:56
get a rookie on a rookie deal and see what they got pretty much other than the Vikings
32:01
but those quarterback needy teams outside of Atlanta are also not a quarterback away
32:06
from going to being a contender right correct so why would you want to go out and spend
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the money on someone who's not a he's a proven commodity I will certainly give him that like
32:15
I said he deserved he deserves a top 15 probably this season maybe set wise right but like
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would he be a top so I mean I take the stats kind of out of it in terms of looking at the
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top because it's like you look at quarterbacks that aren't the stats wise aren't gonna be
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up there because of the situations are in and that's what I mean should things change
32:32
right I would have to I would have to be looking at the list of quarterbacks to make that determination
32:37
which which kind of says enough as it is that you'd be right on the right on the line right
32:42
yeah yeah I would have to see a list of quarterbacks because I mean there's a lot of quarterbacks
32:46
I would take over him he deserves to be a starter in this league yeah I will certainly
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say that you know there's not a backup out there that I would say should be deserving
32:53
starting over him it's Trabaski I'm just kidding I mean moving on but the Lions were in control
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this game from start to finish they they really weren't I mean yeah I was tied going into
33:04
the fourth quarter but it did the Lions had control of this game they got the run game
33:07
going golf deserves to be in an extension talk here what he's done with this team and
33:13
in the consistency that he's shown he's not making those interceptions he's not gonna
33:16
make the flashy plays but he's not gonna make the interceptions he's gonna take care of
33:20
the ball and he's gonna put it where it needs to go that's just it the Tom Brady always
33:24
make the flashy play no and I'm in no way comparing Jared Goff to Tom Brady but he didn't
33:28
always make the flashy play but he won Super Bowls you don't need to that's all Jared Goff
33:33
is trying to do right now he just wants to win a Super Bowl you don't need to be the
33:37
guy who goes and makes the flashy plays you don't need to be a Pat Hulme guys for that
33:41
that's just get it to those guys that's the thing put it in Gibbs hand put it in Amon
33:46
Ross Saint Brown's hand put in Laporte's hand that's all you got to do it's like then that's
33:49
what he's doing exactly he's doing exactly what needs to be done to win this to me the
33:54
Lions are good they're they're they're always gonna come down to their defense the defense
33:57
is playing pretty darn good Aiden Hutchinson's on OG he's just a wrecking ball right now
34:01
he's having fun to play man he's having a big game now yeah but it's uh you know like
34:07
I said Lions control this game they they won it from start to finish although the score
34:11
didn't necessarily represent that they they really weren't I wasn't worried with the Lions
34:14
losing this game they showed their power they showed what they've shown us all year and
34:18
they're legit they're showing us that these are not the Detroit Lions from our childhood
34:22
these Detroit Lions are legit and have an absolute chance to win to win this weekend
34:29
and go to the Super Bowl I 100% agree and to be honest with you Smelty I like it I've
34:34
lived in this world for 31 years this is the first Lions playoff game that I heard the
34:38
Lions success that I've been able to see and I would I would much rather see the Lions
34:43
having success than the Bears oh yeah I agree with that you know yeah I agree with that
34:48
at the end of the day you're still not gonna be scared of the Lions yeah right right right
34:52
and all the NMC North games are always pretty close they are man it's so fun they are always
34:56
pretty close but even the own 16 Lions would give you a run in those NMC North matchups
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yeah you're always gonna get a game man you're always gonna get a game yep all righty so
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we're gonna wrap this weekend slate up here with the game of the week and boy it didn't
35:12
end up being the game of the week the Cincinnati Chiefs went up to Buffalo took on the Bills
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Bills coming into this game is a two and a half point favorite and to me this game was
35:22
a pick them the spread kind of depicts that not often you get you know a half point one point
35:26
spread and what a game it was Smeltie man it was two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL showing
35:31
what they've shown in the playoffs like they did the last couple of years this time in Buffalo
35:35
which I thought was going to play a lot bigger factor than it ended up doing outside of the
35:40
duplication of the snowballs got to kind of expect that out of Bills Mafia at this point
35:45
but man was this a fun game to watch Smeltie no no doubt another classic and we knew that going in
35:51
we knew exactly what this game was going to be it was exactly that pretty much like the last two
35:56
playoff games between these two teams but I can't lie like I'm I'm disappointed I low-key wanted
36:03
the Bills to win this game same and that's going to be to the disappointment of my one buddy that
36:09
I just saw today as he gets out of his truck wearing a Patrick Mahomes jersey but like it's
36:15
just and it's not like I hate Mahomes I respect who he is because I honestly think he's you know
36:20
we're you know every sport you're looking for the next LeBron James right you're looking for the
36:24
next Tom Brady Mahomes is probably that guy he's gone to going to his sixth straight AFC championship
36:30
every season he started he's gone to the championship that's hard to argue bro that's
36:34
hard to argue he's one of the best in the league potentially will go down as one of the best to
36:38
ever do it but I just I wanted to see the Bills get over that hump of Kansas City that that is
36:45
what's keeping the Bills from winning a freaking Super Bowl now do I think the Bills have enough
36:49
to beat this year's Baltimore team I don't think so I think the Bills had a better chance of
36:53
beating Baltimore than the KC does really that's interesting that's interesting okay fair enough
36:59
fair enough um but we just we just saw it again it's almost the same game every time it is you're
37:06
gonna have your big players show up you know digs was a little quiet but on Kansas City side you know
37:10
Kelsey showed up you kind of knew that on Buffalo Kincaid showing up as a as a formidable uh you know
37:17
option it's just it's the same thing including the result of the game so it just disappoints me a
37:24
little bit I'm 100 with you man I thought this was finally giving me the time that Alan got the better
37:28
of my homes because that's what this game is it's not Bill's Chiefs it's Alan versus my homes at this
37:32
point it is it's Brady versus anybody says that's what this is it's 100 what it is it's Brady versus
37:38
Manny man it is it is that and we've we've gotten to that and I love to see it because they're both
37:43
young exciting quarterbacks to watch and and just see play but man I was pulling for the Bulls in
37:49
this game or the Bills in this game man I really was I just thought that the run they were on the
37:54
downfall that the Chiefs has kind of been on I thought this was finally going to be the time
37:59
in their home element and they just they just couldn't close the game they couldn't do anything
38:04
in the fourth quarter that's exactly it they couldn't close the game I don't I just don't
38:09
understand what that is is this the play calling at the end of the game is the coaching staff
38:14
getting antsy is Josh Allen getting antsy like what what what do they need to do to get over that
38:18
hump of KC like I just I don't know I don't have an answer I you know I don't know if it's like I
38:26
the offense doesn't necessarily change the offense does what it needs to do to go out and do what they
38:30
do I think it's more of Steve Spagnola and that Kansas City defense just making the in-game
38:35
adjustments day in and day out against Josh Allen and his team and he is just their kryptonite Steve
38:41
Spagnola is Josh Allen's kryptonite especially in only in the playoffs the Bills get the better of
38:46
them in the regular season all the time and that's just it right these two teams know each other real
38:50
well real well even the regular season games we know that's going to be a classic matchup again
38:56
that's just how this is how it works um yeah man I just it was a great game I'm not saying it
39:05
wasn't it was like I said it was exactly what we expected but it's just that that Mahomes magic too
39:12
you know Kansas City's offense I just feel like they can literally do anything doesn't matter who
39:16
the receiving core is Patrick Mahomes is just gonna make it happen and and he keeps showing us that
39:23
and as long as they can keep Pacheco going like he is that just it lifts so much weight off of
39:28
Mahomes shoulders that was a big factor in this game too I know he didn't go over 100 he was damn
39:32
close to one he 97 whatever he averaged six and a half yards per carry man like you're you're that
39:38
literally in the law of averages is two plays for a first down every time but so far this playoffs
39:43
nobody's been able to stop Pacheco dude he runs so hard that nobody can tackle the guy and he's
39:48
he's not my bad uh drop my pen there if you heard that lol but he's he's not even big bro he's 5 10
39:55
216 he just runs that's he's thick he just runs 10 to 16 don't get me wrong I'm 5 7 and I'm not
40:01
gonna save my weight but I'm 6 2 to 10 he's more than me and he's three inches short you're thick
40:07
yeah I'm 215 5 7 215 I'm a thick boy I'm a thick boy but like Pacheco bro he just runs it's it's
40:14
how aggressive and how hard he runs he runs he runs people over and he's 5 10 it's just it's
40:20
just crazy to me did you see him address like the uh like people how he there's all the internet's
40:25
taken over and now like Pacheco runs like he's like trying to eat the grass he runs like he's a
40:30
toddler he actually like they asked him when he came about he's like yeah the funniest one I think
40:34
I heard was like he runs like he's trying to like eat the grass like bro I ain't trying to eat grass
40:39
it's just so funny because he has the most unique running style you can see his running styles like
40:45
in lack of better terms like dramatic right like he's like you know he's all over bro it looks
40:50
like a toddler running it looks like a toddler running it works he gets it he gets it done so
40:55
now he's fast so now if you're saying it's a toddler running now as a defensive player now
40:59
you're getting ran over by a toddler that sucks you know what I mean bro and he's so it's not even
41:04
that he's just like he's powerful because he's super powerful but he's so fast and twitchy
41:09
he just like there were so many times he disappears in the pile and he shoots out for four four yards
41:14
yeah no no doubt I mean to close out Pacheco I mean uh seventh round pick every single team in
41:21
the NFL could have drafted that fella seventh round pick numerous times you never know you never
41:27
know you never know but Chief's got the better of the bills uh Smelty and I were both on the
41:32
bills on this one that is the first game that I've actually told you how Smelty and I ended up so uh
41:37
my apologies for that but for the record for the week I went one and three Smelty went two and two
41:42
which brings our playoff records to myself at three and seven and Smelty at four and six
41:47
again listeners at home do not listen to us right yeah we're not gonna make you any money
41:54
but not yet anyway we'll get better we will indeed get better we are also in a state that does not
41:59
allow sports betting so maybe when we actually have skin in the game we'll start thinking a
42:03
little differently and we'll lose money with you but hey then we'll be a part of the group we'll
42:07
be a part of the group but that's all we got for divisional weekend for you guys we are gonna move
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on to tent talk boy do we got some news to talk about
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911 what's your emergency all right so let's pop into some tent talk as always we're gonna start
42:21
with some injuries probably the biggest news mark Andrews full participant for full participant in
42:29
practice Wednesday is expected to play this week Smelty wow what a time for him to come back no
42:35
doubt and I did see some video of him running around here this morning and stuff like that and
42:39
he dude he looks pretty good so that's gonna be a huge addition to the offense that's already
42:44
humming so why not just add mark Andrews to that for the aFC championship game not that they need
42:49
to be put over the top because they're already there that's just the cherry on top bro you pair
42:54
him with Isaiah likely throw some 12 personnel or just split one of them out man oh man does that
42:59
offense could even scare you yeah nope need him in there he's gonna be in there likely uh uh we'll
43:05
see we'll see how Kansas City defense can handle them they got enough they got enough to worry
43:09
about and now if you just throw mark Andrews into that after you've been game planning this whole
43:13
time without him it's just it just throws a wrench into it it really does that's the huge thing
43:16
because even if he doesn't play this week Casey still has to game plan 50-50 with the game plan
43:20
with or without him so it just disrupts a lot of things and that changes probably it's probably
43:23
gonna be more like a game time decision you see him out there warming up in pads you're like son
43:28
of a b you know yeah exactly exactly the Ravens really only have one other injury to speak on and
43:34
that's Marlon Humphrey he's questionable at this time he did return to practice today as a limit
43:39
today being Wednesday as a limited participant so you know you're expecting to see him go
43:44
with how big this game is but worth mentioning any any defensive player that we mentioned right now
43:50
you need him I think offense you can get away a little bit more depending on who it is unless
43:55
it's a quarterback but any defensive player to make to make a deep run you got to have them
44:00
absolutely absolutely let's switch over to the other team then the Chiefs
44:05
Willie Gay he has a neck injury he was limited in practice Wednesday that's actually really good
44:10
news he is he's he's missed some time so with him in that defense in the middle of him and Nick
44:15
Bolden that would be huge against this Ravens run game yeah honestly defensively Kansas City is
44:21
gonna need everything they have they really are and I still think it's gonna be enough but
44:26
they gotta be they gotta be at 100% I think they need everything they have and to bring back prime
44:31
Jared Allen okay so according to Tyler Kansas City will lose because Jared Allen is uh
44:38
retired I love Jared Allen though did you like Jared Allen as a Packer fan? I loved Jared Allen
44:42
other than like when he would sack the quarterback but I still loved it because what he did after
44:46
the sack you loved that he loves his celly yeah dude Jared Allen's one of my favorite defensive
44:50
players of all time he really is he's just a heck of a guy yeah nice um and he wore 69 yeah I mean
44:57
just a troll of cherry on top but he wore 69 I'm not like that but I just thought that was funny
45:02
it's just like it's the most Jared Allen Jared Allen thing to do um so on the same on the defensive
45:07
side of the ball for uh the Chiefs they're secondary a little bit banged up you got
45:11
Ligeria Snead with the calf injury he was limited in practice Wednesday as Smelty mentioned here
45:16
that would be huge he's he's arguably the best cornerback in the league right now you're very
45:20
underrated yeah you definitely need Snead you need him but the other thing as well Smelty when you
45:25
see somebody's limited in par-tech practice he's a little bit more of a player than you think he
45:30
somebody's limited in par-tech practice Wednesday you're playing on Sunday most likely yeah most
45:34
likely yeah they're just not trying to let anything else on at this point to the media or who could
45:39
twist it and do all this other crap with it you don't want the other team to fully 100% know so
45:45
I would I'd be willing to bet that you hit it right on the head the limited in practice I'd be
45:50
willing to bet they're playing that's why they're limited in practice so they can play yeah if it
45:54
was week five against the Panthers it's different than going into the NFC AFC Championship yeah 100%
46:01
so like I mentioned the secondary a little bit banged up Mike Edwards he has made some big plays
46:05
for this Chiefs defense in the postseason especially he is in the concussion protocol
46:10
he is in the concussion protocol knowing that concussion protocol he's likely to play this week
46:15
as well don't need to speak too much on that moving on then to the offensive side of the ball
46:21
Isaiah Pacheco with that toe injury kept him out of Wednesday practice however that is not considered
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serious and with how he runs like he's obviously gonna just run right through it right right through
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the pain if there is some but it's probably more of like an annoyance and nagging thing than anything
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but even that man with the way he runs and how much like pressure he does have I was paying every
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time he puts his foot down I'm sure yeah with how aggressive he runs with not only the power with
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the twitchiness even if he's limited that could be huge they need a full go Isaiah Pacheco
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at his best on Sunday and what will not help with that Joe Zuni one of the best leagues in the
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one of the best guards in the league has a pectoral injury no practice this week is considered unlikely
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to play yeah I mean a pec injury there's no way as a guard there's no way he's fine man that sucks
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that sucks he's one of the best bro yeah that's a huge out for them he's one of the best let's move
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over then to the NFC championship championship game we'll start with the San Francisco 49ers
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there's only one guy to talk about smelty Debo Samuel left last week's game
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was a non-participant at today's walkthrough however he was seen on the side and even did
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full seed sprints during the portion of the session open to the media so it's more than likely he'll
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play and I know Debo's you know you're a Debo guy I know you mentioned before I was a Swiss army
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knife I completely agree with that I just you know if they don't have Debo I don't you know I
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don't see it as big of a deal as if they're without like CMC or something you know what I mean like
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100% I think they're they're fine without him but if you know if he can go then I obviously you'll
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want him out there but only if he can go 100% if it's me like if Debo can go 100% what otherwise
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what are you using them for just quick little hits you know if he can run around but if he can't well
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yeah there's that and if you don't let on that you're not 100% you know but I suppose decoy that's a
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good point that's the only thing I could think or I mean even that even an 80% Debo at say 60% snaps
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I'm still taking that that's fair I mean as an MCJ MG game gotta have gotta have it you gotta have
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it you gotta have it and then switch over to the other side of the field the Detroit Lions
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Frank Ragnow centerpiece of that offensive line that guy's an absolute stud sprained knee and
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sprained ankle he is unlikely to play this week man not good and he's unfortunately he's not the
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only one on the O line that's gonna miss the game for the Lions but like that's like that's a huge
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L they need that excuse me while I learn how to speak English again but for the Lions like their
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their success so that double-headed monster in the backfield relies on that old line so not having
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Frank Ragnow is a big freaking deal to me oh that's huge that's a big freaking deal huge against that
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front seven for San Francisco Fred Warner's gonna eat without a center coming at him bro
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so not only that Jonah Jackson he had surgery for a minor meniscus tear very unlikely to play this
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week after a surgery you know it all depends on on how well that recovery goes in the short amount
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of time it is it is the NFC championship game you got to be out there if you can but without those
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two guys in the middle brother that's it's gonna hurt really bad yeah and then switch over to the
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other side of the ball Alex Anzaloni has a ribs injury he was limited in Wednesday's walkthrough
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is he a captain yeah he's over 34 is he okay no trust me I know Anzaloni if you don't know
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who Anzaloni is you haven't been watching football because you can't miss that hair
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yeah dude you can't miss that hair his new AJ Hawk you saw it in in New Orleans for years like
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you don't miss the hair bro um and I kind of feel like he's definitely that's why I asked if he was
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a captain because he definitely feels like a leader for most of his career you know he just
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goes out there and does the dirty work dude he does everything whether like in New Orleans he
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was on special teams a lot and all that crap and was like fourth on the depth chart for linebacker
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you know but like he did all of it dude and now now he I just love seeing him in there and as a
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captain I mean and he's I think the defensive play caller as well on the field so it's just
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it's just great to see him in that role and they they could definitely use him out there just for
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his experience I think you know as an NFL vet 100% I mean and what player on the lions depicts
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Dan Campbell more than Alex Anzaloni yeah no doubt no doubt you know what I'm saying that guy he's
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just that grinder that dog he's gonna bite some kneecaps Dan Campbell's grit that is that is him
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he he resembles that I love that comparison that's great I he resembles him 100% yeah and I love
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seeing that hair fly around on the field so I hope seriously what who did you compare him to for the
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hair AJ Hawk AJ Hawk yeah yeah yeah AJ Hawk Clay Matthews had the hair too for a while yeah he's
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an outside guy Alex is inside with AJ so that's right but I'll Clay had his whole career AJ ended
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up cutting it those freaking linebackers for the Packers growing man I can't freaking yeah I love
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yeah we'll talk about that in the offseason I think it'd be fun to talk about our teams growing up
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I would be talking about some of those players yeah anyway sorry another tangent all right let's
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move on to some news then the Lions also making a big splash here signing Zach Ertz what do you
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think about that I think it's interesting I think the Lions uh you know bless his heart can't
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remember his name they're back up tight end broke his arm or something right rock right yeah broke
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his arm or something last week so I mean probably the best available tight end right now so why not
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somebody that did he have does he have Super Bowl experience Ertz I can't remember
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yeah yeah I think he was yeah he was he had to be yeah yeah yeah so bringing a guy like that
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who has experience in an NSC Championship game let alone a Super Bowl I think that's a that's a huge
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deal too absolutely now you know we always say this right people like us that do podcasts or even
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you see the fellas on ESPN CBS blah blah blah all that crap um they're always talking about the
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experience the playoff experience how much you know I'm curious how much that matters you know
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we say it like it does matter and I do believe it does matter and we're not professional football
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players we're not in the locker room we don't we're not in those conversations but what do you think
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a conversation like that looks like like you know what I mean when we say having playoff
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experience is a big deal what does that even look like in the locker room you think like just the
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way they prepare um depends if they're a vocal guy or not I guess you know you know I'm trying
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to ask yeah I think it's huge to have that veteran guy in there not even necessarily the
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playoff experience just a big veteran in the room you look at this Lions team especially
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offensively outside of golf they're very young and Ertz isn't a nobody you know I mean he was a he was
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in the top three a top two tight end in his heyday with Philly man yep and and he still showed he
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can make some plays so even if he's in 20 25 percent of the snaps you throw him in a red zone
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package throw him into those third and shorts or you need a reliable guy you line at 12 personnel
53:26
with him and sam laporte bro yeah yeah no doubt I don't know if we should go have him block bosa
53:36
come on double team go double team bosa um so the uh other really news we have we're gonna get into
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some big coaching news here we kind of separated that but the other news we have is uh Jair Alexander
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yeah tell me what what exactly it was because I heard about it I didn't hear exactly what it was
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but I heard scripted so I was like that doesn't seem good for a packer fan so on Instagram he
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came out and he posted a post with you know the the 10 slides of the pictures with the packers
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the first one him in the Lambeau tunnel shaking hands signing autographs signing hats right was
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that picture from the last game no he's in short just in general oh yeah so it's uh it's probably
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after a warm-ups and it's at Lambeau the last game wasn't in Lambeau's same friend you're right um
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with this caption thank you god thank you Lambeau for six years thank you to those who showed love
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throughout my journey how much more cryptic can you get it's with with Jair this year is he a
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top cornerback in the NFL yes when he's healthy when he's on the field when his mind's right
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do I want him as a packer yes you can't deny the talent that's on the field especially if you look
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at how young our defensive back room is he is that veteran and like I said when he's on top of his
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game his play speaks for itself no 100% saying that the dramatics this year bro there's been
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the dramatics him declaring himself a captain and then almost messing up the coin toss in Carolina
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now he should have been a captain that game he's from the area he should have been a captain that's
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something the Packers should have had addressed and then known about beforehand and then but then
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the health too this year you know he wasn't healthy the full season house has been a thing his whole
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career he I don't think he's ever played a full season now granted he usually only missed one or
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two games but it's just he's getting paid a lot of money he's the highest paid cornerback in the
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NFL would we get a big package in return for a trade yes you would you know it'd probably be
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something similar to a Jalen Ramsey type trade it's similar maybe not as good but I don't know
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what to think of it brother I really don't yeah I mean it's it is cryptic like you said it really is
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so just just to because we were curious you know just how many games he's played 2019 and 2022 he
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played 16 games which was the full season at that point he had a 13 game season a 15 game season so
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he's there but 2021 four games 2023 this year seven games so and in between that a full season
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though so it is there is something to be said about his health right now it is probably a concern
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whether he leaves Green Bay or not is he a free agent no so what is he talking about then he's
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got no power in this then unless he's like holds out and they decide to trade it's 2024 the players
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hold on to power you want to be trading you're gonna get traded no they do they do you're right
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um well since we're on the topic where does he go then if it's not Green Bay I really don't think
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he goes anywhere I um he was is this where now Jordan loves takes reign of the team and goes and
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has a little chit chat with old Jai here um I don't think Jordan loves to that level quite yet
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he's on his way he 100 is on his way 100 is on his way but he still has two years he still has
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two years left and then a third year um either player option void year something I don't know
57:09
I'm looking at Spow Track contracts get confusing especially on Spow Track it's just yeah it's it
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shows you what you need but to understand it's a little story more years including next season
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right yeah so that that's also ups his trade value yeah you're paying him yeah but he's
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under contract but he got him for two years you know he's not a one-year-old yeah yeah um so I uh
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you know we can't cut him there's there's 19 million next year in dead cap 10 million the
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year after that we can't cut him it's not as simple as that so 26 years old he's so young
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a little bit of health issues yeah I you're gonna get a first rounder somebody will take a shot at
57:47
him if he wants out the Packers are gonna grant them that somebody though they will find a trade
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for him somebody's gonna trade yeah yeah I just I just really hope it's not it I like his personality
57:58
you know the pack is back with the news interview that I don't know you probably saw it and he
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locked he could lock down JJ we've seen it a couple times he's able to lock down JJ which
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not many people can do in the league right now yeah when Joe Berry decides he wants to be a
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defensive coordinator and play smart he puts him on it but hey we'll get to that here shortly old
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Joe Berry um so I don't know like I said I'd love to see him back he deserves a contract he's had
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with his play his health is another story but you know he's he's an exciting guy to watch he's a
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leader of that defense he wore a c on his chest when he's in the game he's a game changer yes
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no he he's a big part of any defense he would be a part of all right so let's move on to some
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coaching news smelty your biggest coaching news that there could be stole all the headlines is
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going to continue to steal the headlines ah maybe not the biggest one double b might say something
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about that but Jim Harbaugh finalizes a deal to become the Los Angeles Chargers new head coach
58:54
he's out at Michigan after winning the natty that he was chasing yep and now like like we kind of
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you know pointed to last week or maybe the week before but like now that he's won the natty
59:07
what's that next thing he's eyeing up the super bowl his brother's got one
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guess what he don't he don't have one that's got to be a weird holiday his brother don't have a
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national championship i don't think as a coach but like you don't you don't have no super bowl
59:20
so he's gonna have to uh go get him one of those puppies so i think the chargers is a good situation
59:25
we've talked about it before what probably one of the best coaching situations you could walk into
59:30
you have a quarterback that's established he needs some work but he's established obviously he doesn't
59:36
need work he needs an offensive play call he needs a head coach that trust him and we're gonna
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and we're gonna see if joe i mean he wouldn't have taken the job if he didn't if he didn't think it's
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a good situation for him either that's just the best situation you can walk into i mean you name
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a coaching gig in the last five years that's a better situation to walk into than the chargers
59:54
good luck the fight let's listen the vikings are damn close before they hired koc that year they
1:00:00
were the best coaching situation for sure that year yeah and harbaugh interviewed there and then
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decided nah i want to stay in michigan which i feel but then he went out to work all right then he
1:00:09
went out and won it yeah yeah blah blah blah then he went and won the natty but um like as a also a
1:00:15
chargers fan like i'm cool with it yeah i wanted one of the top coaches available and he is quote
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unquote available you know he was searching he was interviewing um so i can't be too mad at that to
1:00:26
be honest with you i don't know he hasn't been in the nfl now for a minute um but but he has his
1:00:31
last in the nfl he was he was successful yeah he hasn't been in the nfl in a minute but he's been
1:00:37
running the nfl system in college well and that's just it the scheme doesn't change and that's just
1:00:42
it right so now you're going to a team that has justin herbert that has keen and alan um oh gosh
1:00:48
what's the young receiver there i can't i can't catch a ball mr quentin johnson yeah quentin johnson
1:00:53
maybe fix him you still have eckler for now uh the defense isn't you got pieces on defense brother
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horrible no you got pieces they're aging but they're not horrible yeah but the defense you still have
1:01:04
asante samuel he's nice and young you got derwin james back there you got joey bosa colomax aging
1:01:10
colomax had he's gonna be a free agent this year colomax might be a free agent maybe he's got one
1:01:14
more i can't remember but whatever he still got bosa if he comes back healthy when he's healthy
1:01:18
he's just as good as his brother yeah so you do have pieces there yeah but yeah i like to hire
1:01:25
i really interesting you know i'm also a low-key chargers fan there there's two aft teams i follow
1:01:30
and it's the broncos and the chargers which doesn't make sense i know but that's like me being a
1:01:35
gopher fan in michigan state fan don't make sense yeah the broncos is something that's recent um
1:01:40
chargers is i've liked the chargers since lt why do you like the i i feel the g on the chargers
1:01:45
because lt is what brought me into the chargers and i liked antonio cromardi and i i can name off
1:01:49
chargers players forever but why do you like the broncos i'm just curious a couple years ago one of
1:01:53
my buddies passed and he was a huge broncos fan so i kind of that'll do it inherited it per se
1:01:58
oh i respect that yeah i hated the russell wilson thing i bet i bet how do you feel about
1:02:03
champaign just curious i'm not with the tangent okay i was curious um but uh let's move on here
1:02:08
let's move on to two that were expected you got antonio pierce signing with the raiders and droid
1:02:13
mayo signing with the patriots that was always going to happen with the patriots that was the
1:02:17
the plan that was put in place antonio pierce you loved him after mcdaniels left because it felt like
1:02:21
for a long time mcdaniels was the next guy in new england but once he left then it was okay
1:02:26
okay that was yeah it was i left for like the third time honestly smelly i think that's why
1:02:32
mcdaniels did leave is because they were going the direction of mayo just from there and then
1:02:37
that's why i think because ever since because mayo was drafted by them i remember that because i got
1:02:41
a couple of his rookies but then he was a part of their staff ever since he retired pretty much if
1:02:46
i'm not mistaken yeah he was brought on right away so um i was i thought steve belichick would have
1:02:51
had a lot bigger chance um but i i think steve belichick needs to leave the patriots go be a dc
1:02:59
somewhere and run himself exactly because no matter what when he's with his dad like no matter what
1:03:06
he's always going to be in that i don't want to say shadow but like almost right it's what it is
1:03:10
so like i think you're right he needs to leave go establish himself and then maybe get his opportunity
1:03:15
which he could and i don't think that's going to happen i think he's going to follow pops wherever
1:03:19
pops goes i think so yeah because i could i could also see this mouth see i could also see them
1:03:24
going together being a package deal in quotations and then belichick don't got more than five years
1:03:29
left right so let's say three four years and then little guy takes over i can see that too
1:03:36
so why why would a team take a chance on a bill belichick then if they know most likely that they
1:03:41
may only have three to say five years you're getting the greatest coach of all time i mean yeah
1:03:46
yeah that i mean that that's a silly question but that was a silly question but i don't care
1:03:51
if you got them for a year the chances of what you're gonna do in that year what you're gonna
1:03:54
instill in the system what you're gonna instill in the culture what you're gonna instill in the
1:03:58
the facility itself that's fair going to go for a while 100% doesn't just leave right no you
1:04:04
what do you think draud mayo's doing continuing that continue that you know what i mean so he's
1:04:08
not gonna change much i would imagine yeah yeah antonio pierce um he was a shoe in for it you
1:04:14
know when max crosby said he would he was gonna come out and request a trade if they didn't hire
1:04:17
him i mean that's enough within the week that says enough yeah um i love to hire what he did to that
1:04:23
team since he took over was actually pretty respectable and he did it all without a quarterback
1:04:27
and the players bought into whatever he was selling so why not exactly exactly davante could even be
1:04:34
there next year now i don't think that's gonna happen but again another concept contract yeah
1:04:38
contract wow conversation in work mode too much another conversation for a another day so that
1:04:45
moves us to a surprising one smelty brian callahan getting hired by the titans i didn't really see
1:04:50
brian callahan's name in the the ranks too much um i like the hire he's a he's a good offensive mind
1:05:00
you know what he's done with stafanski in cleveland has been pretty respectable
1:05:03
and um he he's also with that cleveland system you know it's a running system so i think that's
1:05:10
the best chance you have of keeping derek yeah yeah that's true it's just it's just weird for me
1:05:16
to let go of variable variable excuse me mutual oh that's right that was mutual i wonder why what
1:05:23
because i think rable's a great coach i think i think he's a great coach i love my grave you
1:05:27
know he's probably my second favorite head uh third favorite head coach in the league he's gonna find
1:05:32
him a job but i just i don't know it just must have been a relationship thing between him and
1:05:38
ownership him and gm whatever it may be do they have the same gm the titans i do not know that
1:05:43
information i don't know either but that could be a thing but um yeah it is more of a surprise but
1:05:49
it's a good point to bring up the rushing deal i mean derek henry was looking like he could be on
1:05:54
his way out maybe he stays now yeah i mean you look at ever since arty smith became the coordinator
1:05:58
the head coach down in atlanta derek hunries has taken a hit yeah so i i think that it's good for
1:06:05
the i like to hire for the derrick henry leave you think or no then do you think derek henry is still
1:06:10
in a tight uniform next season i think that i think that decision is up to derek henry
1:06:15
the titans are more than a quarterback away from being a caliber playoff caliber team let alone
1:06:21
contender so does derek henley want to go to a team and ring chase or just give himself the
1:06:26
best position i think derek henry still has some good football left in him i do i just see him
1:06:31
going to dallas i don't know it's just a gut thing i hate picturing that with a passion i know me too
1:06:36
i'm not a dallas fan at all i hate that crap but like you know i just all of a sudden like my gut
1:06:41
was just like it churned too when i said it like dude derek henry to dallas i was like oh god as
1:06:46
soon as you said that i just pictured it because that's probably gonna happen if anything were to
1:06:51
and i just hate that with a passion um so that leaves us with four head coach openings
1:07:01
that leaves us with four head coach openings smelty we have the falcons panthers
1:07:05
seahawks and commanders where do you think balachek goes
1:07:10
i mean with everything that's been said and going on i guess atlanta i just never thought it would
1:07:15
be a thing um but it's just looking increasingly likely he's gonna end up in atlanta
1:07:20
um honestly vrabel i could see in washington just my two cents i don't know there's a weird
1:07:26
another weird thing i don't know if he wants to take on the panthers and the seahawks
1:07:31
i don't know why the seahawks aren't gaining more attention i thought that'd be a little
1:07:35
bit better situation falcons are probably the best out of the four um i don't think the commanders
1:07:40
are honestly that far off but they got to build but the seahawks i mean great fan base great
1:07:46
great city i don't i don't know i don't understand it with the seahawks either i mean in terms of
1:07:51
answering the question what i would like to see balachek in atlanta vrabel in seattle
1:07:57
what i think is going to happen balachek in atlanta vrabel in carolina carolina i do i do i
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think vrabel is going to go into carolina tepper carolina's owner he's only going to keep him for
1:08:09
a year he needs to make a splash hire he needs to bring somebody in that's going to change the
1:08:14
locker room and get them bought into the panther system it's a guy to do it he can't go he it would
1:08:19
be stupid saying all of that if he would hire a young bright head coach to say a ben johnson
1:08:24
out of detroit um i don't think that would be a smart move for the locker room and what he's
1:08:29
trying to accomplish then houston's ocdc interview one of those jobs too uh oc yeah uh his name's
1:08:37
slipping my mind brian sloak if i'm not mistaken then he interviewed for the carolina i'm pretty
1:08:41
sure it's atlanta actually atlanta okay um but if uh like vrabel you get vrabel you're going to get
1:08:47
a good coaching staff he has the pedigree to hire coaches you got an owner that's willing to pay
1:08:52
coaches true you know you look at like a situation like detroit when you got an owner that's going to
1:08:57
open up the checkbook a little bit for dan camel to get who he wants in there he got who he wants
1:09:01
in there and look at that team yep so i i think honestly vrabel is a good fit in carolina as long
1:09:07
as he gets a good offensive coordinator to work with bryce in that offense um and bilichek just
1:09:12
makes sense in atlanta it just simply makes sense well we'll see i it just yeah it'd be crazy that'd
1:09:18
be crazy i'd be pretty excited if i was an atlanta fan and brought in billy b but i guess we'll see
1:09:24
yeah for sure for sure that's gonna take us on to then the packers firing joe berry oh boy did that
1:09:38
make me so happy when i saw that smelty i mean in my opinion we already won the off season that's
1:09:42
the only thing i needed the packers to do we don't have any friendly big free agents the draft's
1:09:47
gonna be probably not a disappointment but an initial disappointment that tends to be how it
1:09:51
goes boy oh boy smelty we got rid of the enemy who do you want them to bring in mike vrabel
1:10:00
so that's right we did talk about that earlier off off air but that's not gonna happen in all
1:10:06
from a realistic point of view i would love to see wink martindale in green bay
1:10:10
is he available yep party ways with the giants um i would love love love love love to see wink
1:10:16
martindale um there's there's some other options out there one that might surprise you a little
1:10:20
bit but i would also not mind seeing because we get a younger guy in there is jim lennard
1:10:24
where's he he's currently a senior and um analyst or consultant whatever for illinois uh the fight
1:10:30
in the lion eye university of illinois he was a badger head coach played for uw um played in the
1:10:36
league and then he actually went down to be the uh ls used no that was dave aranda um can't remember
1:10:43
where he went when he left wisconsin but when we hired um buddy luke fickle he left lennard left
1:10:48
then um that actually was when he became the consultant for illinois um so i would love to
1:10:54
see that young guy in there you know he's gonna bring a different different scheme mindset is there
1:10:59
any steam with that right now like is there any talk about him even making it not even just the
1:11:04
packers but just making that jump to the nfl i i don't know i mean it would be expected with the
1:11:08
success in what he did in college he he ran an nfl like type defense um i i think it's it's a
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good move it would be a good move for him and i don't think if it was the packers he wouldn't
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be in consideration because he's a scotty boy ah okay sure sure well and i was wondering originally
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how you even knew who the heck this guy was and then as soon as you said badger head coach i was
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like of course but um but no it makes sense i mean who knows if he was running an nfl type
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defense anyway yeah he played in the league for a good amount too he was a safety but more of a
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return guy he was a he was an all-conference player for uh for his return skills he he was
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he was pretty electric did he go to wisconsin too yeah yeah of course yeah okay um so but but
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those are the two guys i would like to see uh variables out of the question you know that's
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a pipe dream he's gonna get hired as a head coach but boy if that happened i would be six to midnight
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pretty quick smelty oh well all right so let's move on to my favorite segment of the week we have the
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bonehead move of the week by your mr smelty what do we got brother genius yeah so uh kind of a random
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little bonehead this week uh not much going on other than great football but at the end of that
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buccaneers game there's a little bit of uh just an interesting decision by their head coach todd
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bowls uh so baker mayfield threw a pick obviously it was like a minute 30 left in the game whatever
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something like that right and uh so all the dines got to do is knee the ball out well
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while they were kneeing the ball out they weren't really running the play clock down
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which is kind of weird so on third down goff knees the ball with 30 seconds 36 seconds left
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no time out
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um so when todd bowls was asked about that at the end of the game
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he pretty much just said quote no sense in proline the obvious and that quotes from cbs nfl
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so why why you're not you're not going to take a time out not not only are they now going to have
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to kick that field goal they're in field goal range it's like going to be a 49 yarder or whatever
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right and allegedly the kicker i can't remember his name has a career field goal percentage
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between 45 and 49 yards of like 59.1 percent so so that means there's still a 40 percent chance he a
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not only 40 chance he may miss that field goal or who knows they could muff the snap the snap could
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get messed up you could get the ball at almost a 50 yard line with again with 30 some seconds left
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in the game at that point so you're not going to take the time out because you're just quote no
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you're just quote no sense in prolonging the obvious there's two bonehead moves in there right
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there's the lions not taking the play
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but the bigger one is like how do you tell like like that meme that that went around whatever
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months ago tell me you don't have any faith in your team without telling me you don't have any
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faith in your team no doubt like so not only could they have had them off whatever they could have
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blocked the kick and return it for a touchdown that too so not only that those percentages
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whatever they you said how i bet you those percentages are not in the playoffs without
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the pressure on the line right like what are you doing tod bowls you have to call the time out you
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cannot give up on the guys that have had the blood sweat and tears to get to that point in the season
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then over exceeded all of the expectations for them and you give up on your guys that you that
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cannot simply happen likelihood of making the field goal yes and is the game over when he makes it yes
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okay great you throw a couple hail marys and you see what happens you have the same freaking outcome
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but you have the trust in your guys that they can go out there and possibly make a play and without
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him taking that time out forcing them to kick the ball you will never know what could have happened
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in that moment in time it's the nfl playoffs i joke about there being a script but it is so hard
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even if it was right it'd be so hard to script a mistake a quarterback throwing a ball and a db
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making a crazy play to make a pick or something you can't script that garbage no and you know
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the center hiking the ball over the place the placeholder for the for the field goal who knows
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or they block it like you said like it's worth seeing you have to take that chance what are you
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talking about no you know prolonging the obvious get out of here with that dude that's bogus that's
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just such a weird like that's a loser mentality to me you should always feel like you have an
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opportunity to win the game even if you're down by two scores i feel it right like yeah
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we know you're gonna lose but if it was two square if it was two scores i would understand
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it different i would understand it it's an eight point game yeah but it's it's just disappointing
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to see and like baker going off for the season he had we already talked about baker maybe moving
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teams if he did is that a factor is that like whoa so if we do if i do help put the team in
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a situation is my coach is not gonna trust us to try to make something happen i think this is the
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kind of move that makes the front office look at the coaching oh you have to that's why you have
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to take a look it's just such it's just weird man it's just weird like and for him to have the
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the reason it's one of those situations where you might think it but you can't freaking say that
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no doubt no doubt he also goes on to say quote it's kind of pointless you kind of know when the
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game is over and the game was over there was a quote he said that but does it
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that's insane bro that's not a way to keep a head coaching job in the nfl to me
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no i like whether it be 12 seconds let alone 36 38 whatever it was like 38 seconds if they missed
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that and you get the ball at you know they would have gotten the ball at around the 40 yeah yeah
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so they would have gotten the ball around the 40 that's you don't have any timeouts okay that's
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you're a couple out routes away from being in their 30 you're you're you're three to four
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i would say you're you're legitimately three plays away from being in the red zone
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yeah like especially with mike edvins chris godwin kade otten kade was playing well yeah dude like
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trey palmer will sneak in there trey palmer gives you the option to maybe take the top off
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and catch him lacking baker was slinging that thing yeah he just threw that pick the drive right
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before but he was still slinging that thing you give him another opportunity who knows dude who
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knows one thing about baker too is that guy loves playing with the chip on his back he just had the
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biggest chip by throwing that interception who do you think wants to write that wrong more than
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baker freaking mayfield yeah and that's what he said is best exactly crazy man crazy well let's
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move on smelty we are down to the second to last weekend of real football championship sunday upon
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us we're gonna kick this week off with the chiefs going up down to well over i guess to baltimore
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taking on the ravens raven coming ravens coming into this one as a three and a half point favorite
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i think that is fairly accurate i think it's gonna be a four to seven point game saying that
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i got the ravens big dog i don't i just don't know you're coming at me with some crazy thing here
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and we're tied overall for the season too so i don't want to make a mistake here right
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for those of you keeping track um don't know why i just talked like it was golf but anyway
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uh yeah the ravens um at home three and a half point favorite if it was three i'd feel a little
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bit better you know there's something about patrick mahomes magic you know magic mahomes
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in the playoff playoff p i don't know whatever the heck you want to call them um i don't know
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i just pulled that out of my hair sorry but i don't know the ravens i believe the ravens
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will take it too they're just too good it's an all-around thing the whole team is just too good
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in every aspect right now and they're they're firing on all cylinders you saw it in the houston
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game a houston team that was playing with a lot of confidence too a lot of momentum and they they
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handle them well uh yeah i think i don't know dude i don't know i'm going with the ravens but
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it'd be interesting to see mahomes go over the top yeah i'm in 100% agreement with you the thing
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that solidifies this for me is the possible return of mark andrews it is a game changer
1:19:37
no it is a game changer that's a little fuzzier for me so we're on the same page there let's wrap
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this thing up smelty we have the detroit lions led by mr mc dc motor city dan campbell going out on
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the west coast mc dc i like that is that his nickname or did you just come up it's a padmacafé show
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okay so shout out padmacafé show um so we have uh we have the lions going out to the west coast
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taking on the 49ers 49ers coming in at this game with the seven point favorite that's a scary line
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brother that's ridiculous that is unacceptable there's no reason the no they shouldn't be the
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lions have been good all year they've proven it i'm picking the lions i don't care they're gonna
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win and cover uh that's some bs they're gonna come in and just i don't know dude that that really
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frustrates me seven points are you kidding me have the lions done nothing to show anybody that they
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are capable of actually they are capable of beating the 49ers do i think the lion secondary holds up
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no it could be rough at the end but i i think i think they have enough right now to to beat
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the 49ers and mess up the whole script bro yeah i couldn't disagree more and that's fine so we're
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not gonna finish this week tied um but i think in this one i don't love the seven points it seems
1:20:58
egregious to me it it does but when the san joseco is that good but sorry when the books had it at a
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nine and a half point spread against the packers that last week this makes sense to me that it's a
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seven point game against seven point game against the lions and to be honest with you to answer one
1:21:14
of your questions that you didn't really ask what have they done this year they haven't beaten
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anybody good outside of the lions and the chiefs week one they have not beaten anybody good they
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beat the bucks last week i'm not gonna sit here and say the bucks are good they beat a beaten down
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eagles team who has no identity manhandled them that i will say the eagles have no identity right
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now i mean even last week they they beat the rams sorry that was yeah yeah so the week prior they
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beat the rams like that that doesn't scare me the rams over exceeded expectations 100 the ramps
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should have been in the playoffs they played well though yeah they did they did but that's the thing
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but that's the thing is are the rams and the bucks playing well or the lions playing down to their
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level and now they got to go face that crazy offensive monster in san francisco that's the
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thing it's it's offensively the lions are going to put up 24 to 28 points defensively they're going
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to allow 28 to 34 points yeah that's what it's going to come down to and that's fair that's what
1:22:15
it's going to come down like i you know 49ers will probably win this game but i had to make it
1:22:19
interesting no you did you did and uh that seven points i don't love is just crazy i don't love
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that seven points bro so to me this is how i would break this down with debo seven to ten point
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spread without debo four to eight and debos not officially six points and debos not officially
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like out for the game so not so if he gets listed out for the game does that number change before
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kickoff oh 100 not not not before kickoff i think they i don't think the books work that way
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do they not no they do they do because then you get it for whatever you place the bet at you could
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place another bet right so if they change you could place another bet at that but you still have to
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honor that first bet oh sure so even if it were to like grow to you know like one tomorrow and we
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place the bet now we'd still get that seven points if debo misses the game what does it change to you
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think is it that drastic or is not really like that we're talking six and a half like maybe
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uh i think it's a two to two and a half point spread difference with debo i really do wow okay
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sure i really do that's crazy um i'm curious now i want to i want to look at that now now saying
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that if you take a look at my record this year you have no reason to trust or believe in that
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me either um but you know the thing is melty we have four of consistently throughout the season
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the top six to seven teams in the league and i love to see it i'm excited for this weekend of
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football it's going to be a true test of grit and who shows up man no 100 did you mention that the
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chiefs ravens are our game of the week banner the boys game of the week oh i did not mention that i
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did not mention that we have many games to choose from but yeah it kind of goes as you can imagine
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the super bowl will probably be game of the week we're actually gonna have the uh puppy bowl
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