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NFL Week 12 Recap · Banter with the Boys

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  You're listening to Bantor with the Boys, talking all things sports.
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  From betting and brawls, Superball to Stanley Cup Finals.
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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 another episode of Bantor with the Boys.
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  Week 12 is come and gone.
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  We are on to week 13.
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  But first let me introduce my fellow podcaster here, Mr. Smelty.
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  How you doing?
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  How you feeling good, sir?
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  Personally, I feel pretty nice, but I can't speak for all Vikings fans today.
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  But I guess we'll touch on that a little bit later.
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  Oh, why is that?
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  Let's hear it a little bit right now.
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  No, no, no, you can wait.
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  All right, I kind of have my inkling there, but Smelty was able to even go to that game
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  last night.
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  So I'm sure it was fun, even though it did not get the result you did indeed want.
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  Still recovering from getting Liddy McCitty, as the kids say.
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  That is great.
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  That is great.
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  Well, brother, let's get into the slate.
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  We had a longer football weekend with Thanksgiving having it, having, you know, been during the
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  football week here as well.
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  Do want to wish everybody a Thanksgiving.
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  I hope everybody had a good time with friends and family, whoever you did decide to celebrate
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  with.
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  It's always a nice time to just, you know, sit back, be thankful and eat some damn good
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  food.
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  Amen.
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  All righty.
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  So the first game we're going to talk about is the game that kicked off the weekend on
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  Thanksgiving.
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  We had my Green Bay Packers travel to the Motor City, take on the Detroit Lions.
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  Classic Thanksgiving Day game.
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  Lions are always going to play and the other Packers do usually get that game as well.
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  Going into this game, not a lot of betting faith in the Packers.
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  The Lions were indeed a seven point favorite.
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  Oh, those odds makers wrong, Mr. Smelsey.
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  Packers ended up not squeaking this one out.
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  It was a pretty dominant win, although it was only a seven point win at the end of the
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  day.
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  You know, I wasn't ever really worried or scared, which has not been a common theme
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  this year for the Packers, but they did win 29-22.
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  I'm sure you did catch this game as it was Thanksgiving.
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  Hopefully did have the day off of work.
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  But Jordan Love, man.
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  Every time I sit here and say he's washed, not washed, he can't be washed if he were
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  never great.
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  But every time I sit here and say that there's something going on, he just comes out and
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  proves me wrong, man.
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  What a game by Jordan Love.
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  Yeah, no doubt.
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  I mean, like you said, they kind of just had control the entire game and Love looked really
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  comfortable probably for the first time this season, really, like truly.
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  And in front of a Detroit crowd that was ready to erupt for anything, especially when their
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  team is doing so well this season.
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  But to walk in there and get the job done, hats off to the Packers this week, to be honest.
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  Yeah, and it was a game that hasn't really gone like a lot of the year has.
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  The Packers jumped out, got the seven point lead.
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  Then we got the Jonathan Owens fumble recovery for a touchdown.
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  That was so immediately jumped out to a 14-0 lead.
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  We're a second half team this year and that didn't kind of come to fruition this year.
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  I mean, that's where it gave me a little bit of doubt was in the second half when we kind
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  of let the foot off the gas pedal and the offense started sputtering a bit.
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  Helpful with some Dan Campbell decision making in there as well.
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  But let's talk a little bit more about J Love, man.
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  22 for 32, so he had that nice good completion percentage, threw three touchdowns, didn't
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  get sacked once, wasn't really pressured throughout the game too terribly much.
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  And he had a quarterback rating of 125.5.
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  So great game all around.
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  He was spreading the ball out, Christian Watson got involved, had that nice long 53 yarder
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  with the touchdown on the day as well.
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  But I was very, very impressed with Jordan Love, man.
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  Yeah, and like you said, he didn't really get a lot of pressure in his face that game,
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  which again, maybe one of the first times this season, honestly.
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  But the Lions didn't even get a sack on him, not a one, and only hit the quarterback allegedly
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  four times.
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  That's not enough.
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  So Love finally had protection, you saw what he could do, the three tugs.
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  He made plays with his legs again.
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  I don't know, that was a great showing for Jordan Love.
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  Christian Watson catching some balls, honestly.
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  5-7 on targets, man.
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  That offense all around looked way better than we've seen off season.
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  No, absolutely, absolutely.
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  And on the other side of the ball, defense looked good throughout the game.
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  Letting up 22 points, that's not great, but this Lions offense is pretty high powered.
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  And Rashawn Gary.
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  Dude, I was about to say Rashawn Gary, wow, what a game for him.
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  What a game.
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  Three sacks, this guy.
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  Fumble recovery.
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  And with the fumble recovery, yep, yep.
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  And I wasn't a huge fan of him the first two-ish years.
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  It was that first round pick.
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  I thought we could have gone elsewhere with that pick, but he's proving to be a top tier
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  edge threat in the league.
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  And he's always in the quarterback's face.
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  He's always in the quarterback's face.
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  Yeah, no.
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  I mean, he's obviously, I don't know, would you say he's the best player on the defense
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  right now today?
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  I always want to give it to Devondre Campbell, but.
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  He's not the best Devondre Campbell is he?
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  I mean, in my opinion, it's between, to be 100% honest with you, I think Quay Walker's
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  playing better than Devondre Campbell right now.
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  Quay Walker's a straight up athlete.
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  That dude's all over the field.
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  If the play's going away from him, you bet he's going to be damn close to making the
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  play if somebody else doesn't.
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  He's right there to clean everything up.
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  He's so fast.
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  He is.
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  He really is.
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  He's so athletic.
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  He's so quick.
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  He needs to make a little bit more to better decision making.
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  But to me, it's Rashawn Gary or Jair Alexander.
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  And Jair just, he's had a little bit of a down year.
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  You know, no, a down year fight for Jair still makes him a top 15 cornerback in the NFL.
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  You know, it's not like he's just a scrub now, but he's just not that that perennial,
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  you know, top three corner in the league that I was expecting this year.
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  And Carrington Valentine, Carrington Valentine has just been playing incredible on the back
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  end.
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  I touched on him last week, went out and showed it again this week, man.
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  Like it's making the trade that we got rid of Rasul Douglas looking pretty damn good
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  right now.
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  Like, OK, so that's what I was just about to bring up.
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  I mean, with the trade and all that shit, I mean, you're pretty you're comfortable.
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  Does it make you more comfortable as the weeks go on here seeing Valentine being consistent,
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  not just a one hit wonder, you know, obviously can't make that decision until I see who we
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  draft with the pick we got.
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  That's what we do.
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  That's fair.
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  You know, has it.
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  What did you get?
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  What was the pick again?
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  There's a second round, if I'm not mistaken, was either second or third round right now.
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  But I'm almost positive it was a second rounder.
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  OK, but yeah, I mean, it's made it a lot easier.
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  That's for sure.
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  That's for sure.
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  Yeah, I'm just talking about Quay Walker earlier.
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  Another five tackles for me and the dude just all over the field.
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  God, I love watching him play.
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  Third rounder third rounder.
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  OK, the Packers actually gave up a fifth rounder.
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  Give up.
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  Yeah, Douglas and a fifth rounder to get the third.
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  We'll take that.
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  That's not bad.
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  But yeah, Jordan, sorry, Jared Goff, you know, he didn't look too bad in this game either.
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  He did have the three fumbles, but a lot of that was, you know, the one the first one
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  that Jonathan Owens recovered that was he was throwing the ball.
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  He got hit and the ball came out.
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  Not much you can really do on that one.
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  But Sean Gary, two of those sacks were forced fumbles as well.
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  So we had the sack fumbler fumble sack, you know, stripping their strip sack was what
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  I'm trying to say.
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  So it's what are you going to do when you got number 52 in your grill all game?
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  No, for sure.
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  And again, like, you know, the stars showed up for the Lions on offense.
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  You know, Goff, the the dynamic duo in the backfield was OK.
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  They weren't at their best, I would say, but they good enough to win the game for sure.
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  I mean, not at their best.
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  If any of the Packers running backs not at their best, we're averaging four point seven
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  and four point nine yards nine yards per carry, brother.
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  She that sounds like a packer problem.
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  But I'm just I'm just saying seeing from what they've been doing these past few weeks, you
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  know, obviously, and then Amon Ra with nine receptions for 95 yards, you know, Laporta
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  up there, Jameson Williams.
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  Who the hell is?
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  Well, how do you say his first name, Califf, Califf, Califf, Raymond?
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  He's a special cat.
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  He's a returner.
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  I'm thinking of Josh Reynolds.
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  My bad.
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  But OK, he's a returner.
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  OK.
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  Do you know anything else about that guy?
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  He's a returner.
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  He's quick.
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  He's quick.
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  He's quick.
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  All right.
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  Sounds good.
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  He's a gadget player.
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  He's a reception, so yeah, for him to have five targets is not very common for the Lions
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  offense.
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  You know, that's why I haven't heard of him before.
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  But yeah, all in all, a good game for the Packers.
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  Surprising game for me.
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  Honestly, I figured the Lions would want to come out more dominant at home in front of
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  their crowd on Thanksgiving.
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  On Thanksgiving.
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  It's their game.
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  I just I don't know the little bit of the momentum the Lions are gaining in the second
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  half and then Dan Campbell going for it on on their side of the field.
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  Like that's just I don't know.
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  Again, you didn't have a ton of momentum, but you were gaining it slowly.
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  But it was there.
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  And then as soon as you lost that, I mean, it was all gone.
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  That was it for me.
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  I was like, OK, well, that's it.
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  And it ended up being that.
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  But not only that, it's you.
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  It's not only that he was even going for it.
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  You're at your own twenty three at the point you're down twenty three, fourteen.
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  Like if you're going to go through it in a fourth and fourth situation, don't run a fake
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  punt your Dan Campbell.
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  Everybody expects you to run a fake punt because that's what you've shown to do.
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  Like at least have an uneducated good play call and go out and go for it.
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  Right.
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  Yeah, I agree.
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  You're right.
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  You're right.
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  Like it's not the fact of going for it in that situation.
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  It's the fact of that how they went about it and the execution of it, but mainly the
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  play call.
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  Yeah, I that one.
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  True.
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  Boggles my mind a little bit.
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  But I think that's enough about the Packers Lions.
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  Like I said, Packers came out on top.
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  We're at a sit in that five and six.
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  We're still in the hunt for the playoffs, which you asked me three weeks ago, I would
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  say is not even a chance.
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  And you know, I was kind of on the side of just lose all the rest of the games.
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  But I don't know.
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  I mean, we're not my bad.
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  I still have one more question actually about the Packers.
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  Go ahead.
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  So last week you mentioned that every game that you've put your daughter and her Packers
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  cheerleader outfit or something they've won.
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  Did you put her in it this week?
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  We did.
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  We did.
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  So we made the trick back to I'm originally from Madison.
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  So we made the trip back to Madison as soon as we got there, put her in the Packers outfit.
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  Game started shortly after that.
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  And yeah, man.
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  So so she's wearing it again next week.
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  Then she's wearing it again next week.
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  It didn't work.
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  So no longer wanting.
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  So no longer wanting to lose games now that there's other NFC North wildcard teams that
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  are sputtering at the moment.
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  I don't know.
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  It's if Jordan Love continues the way he's playing the last two weeks, I want to see
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  us continue.
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  But at the end of the day, like, do you expect to get out of the first round?
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  No, I mean, first round maybe.
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  But like, we're not going to beat the Niners or the Eagles.
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  And that's my pick to play in the conference championship.
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  Could we beat the NFC South division winner?
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah, right.
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  I feel you.
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  And if see if it's like that, well, we wouldn't play the Cowboys.
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  Well, if we won the division, we might play the Cowboys.
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  The Cowboys, I don't like our odds in that game with that offense and high hop Howard
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  it is and even the defense.
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  Yeah, they have some injuries, but they're still studs.
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  Although the Cowboys in the playoffs aren't a good look lately either.
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  That's true.
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  So I don't know hypotheticals, hypotheticals.
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  It's hard to say like, do we need the draft capital?
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  Would I like a higher pick?
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  Yeah, but I don't like what comes with that because that means you didn't have a successful
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  season and at the end of the day, Love is proving to be a quarterback in the NFL.
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  And, you know, I think I also need to tailor my expectations a bit just because I'm so
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  used to Rogers.
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  But if you look at the so I've seen this stat all over the place.
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  But if you look at Rogers and Love through their first, I want to say it's 11 games,
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  exact same padding passing yardage, exact same amount of touchdowns.
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  Love has one more interception and their completion percentage are around two percent different.
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  Wow.
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  I have not seen that.
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  That's interesting.
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  Crazy.
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  Now, again, we're not going to sit here.
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  That's not me saying that, you know, Love is projected to be like Rogers.
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  I don't think that'll ever be replicated again.
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  But you're ordering a Jordan Love jersey now, probably.
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  Can't do that.
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  We haven't even picked up this guy's fifth year option dog.
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  Although 10 is my favorite number.
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  So if I were to get one, you know.
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  Oh my God.
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  But yeah, enough about the Packers Lions.
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  Let's shift focus over to the Monday night game this week.
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  We had for the record, I did pick the Packers.
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  I didn't think the Packers going to win that game.
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  I really didn't.
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  But seven points is just too much with the way our defense is playing.
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  And on Thanksgiving, it always gives you that extra juice.
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  Smelty did take the Lions in that game thinking they would cover that seven points.
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  So one up, one up for the good guys on that one.
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  Let's shift focus to the Monday night game, a game that you witnessed firsthand.
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  What a terrible fucking game to go to.
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  One touchdown the entire game.
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  The Vikings couldn't take it, couldn't come out on top.
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  They were the three point favorite going into the game and the Bears won, kicking four field
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  goals.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean, it was
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  not a fun game of football.
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  I mean, both defenses played well.
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  You can say that they really did.
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  I mean, the Bears came out and played great defense.
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  I don't think the Bears played that great a defense.
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  Dobbs is told.
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  Yeah, we'll get to Dobbs.
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  But I mean, the Vikings defense looked nasty.
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  As always, Blitzen, probably 50 percent of the time, I'd say again, I'd have to look
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  exactly.
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  I mean, Flores is not afraid to send guys, so I love that.
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  But it's just so frustrating as a Vikings fan because, you know, a couple of years ago,
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  our defense was really good and our offense was crap.
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  OK, well, now we have a somewhat decent offense, but now our, you know, defense is crap and
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  now it's kind of switching again.
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  And now the offense looked like shit last night, man.
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  And Dobbs, the pastor, not capital N.O.T. not.
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  Man, those four picks are rough.
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  I mean, they were not where they needed to be, obviously.
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  It's just I. I don't know.
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  KOC has luckily the Vikes are on a bye week, so KOC has a decision to make.
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  I mean, if Jaren Hall is ready to play the rookie that only made it too serious against
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  Atlanta before he had this had his concussion, it was looking OK.
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  Who do you start?
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  I don't know.
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  I guess I really have to see the bye week.
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  I mean, JJ is expected to be back.
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  So I don't know.
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  But it's Madison again didn't do enough.
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  But we know that.
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  I wouldn't agree with that.
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  Madison had 10 carries for 52 yards.
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  He averaged five point two yards to carry.
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  It is probably the most he's had and for an average the past few weeks.
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  Feed him the ball.
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  He was he was being productive in the first quarter, the second quarter.
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  He was productively running the ball.
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  So he wasn't like his typical this year.
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  But you just stop feeding him the ball.
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  It was also just too many three in outs.
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  I mean, the offense could not get any momentum at all.
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  And I mean, yes, four picks is going to really take that momentum away from you.
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  But I mean, it was just more than that.
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  The play calling seemed really elementary.
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  And again, you know, you have Dobbs and there has only been there for whatever for weeks.
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  But like no longer an excuse.
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  That's what I'm saying.
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  Three, three to four weeks in a system.
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  You're learning that system for sure.
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  So OK, so you as an outsider, non biased Vikings fan, obviously Dobbs two and two.
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  Are those two weeks, those two wins just a factor of teams not game planning for him?
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  You know, and now teams have been planning on it.
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  Yes, the Denver game, you argue, could have been either way, honestly.
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  But last night just showed straight up like the Bears game plan for it and shut him down.
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  Yes, he threw bad passes through behind receivers.
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  All of it.
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  You saw it all.
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  But what two and two right now for jobs?
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  I think the game plan and aspect of it's huge.
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  If you look at what the Bears did defensively right now, Dobbs didn't get outside the pocket.
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  That's where Dobbs makes his place.
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  Two rushes for 11 yards.
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  He couldn't get outside and extend the plays.
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  And then, you know, the occasions he did, he couldn't put the ball in the right spot.
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  He didn't do anything with it.
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  He couldn't put the ball in the right spot.
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  You know, so it's two of the picks were deflections.
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  You can make an argument whether that ball should have been caught or not.
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  They weren't in the perfect spot, but they were catchable balls at the end of the day.
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  But even there, you take those two picks away, he did.
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  He still threw two picks, you know, he didn't still didn't look good.
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  No, he didn't look good at all.
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  His reads were just not great.
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  I don't know.
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  And you're not playing against a top tier defense.
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  The Bears defense is Swiss shredded cheese.
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  And it's not like and it's not like fields on the other side of the ball played better
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  than him.
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  He didn't outplay him.
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  Fields didn't play that great either.
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  First quarter, he looked great.
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  Fields looked great.
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  You know, he had a high completion percentage, but everything was two to four yards down
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  field.
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  He wasn't, you know, getting the ball down field at all.
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  D.J. Moore was the only one he wanted to seem to target.
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  The only guy that was getting open though, consistently all game.
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  Co-comment was too, but again, it was all underneath.
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  It was all underneath.
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  Right.
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  Your check down.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  I mean, it but then but then, you know, at the end of the game, this frustrated the hell
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  out of me.
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  You get the fumble away from fields at the end of the game, like three minutes left or
• 17:12
  whatever, and then you proceed to go three and out again right there.
• 17:15
  What?
• 17:16
  I mean, the defense has given you all they can against a team that's already not good,
• 17:22
  but they're giving you everything.
• 17:24
  The Bears are trying to lose that game.
• 17:26
  That's what it felt like.
• 17:27
  You know, that's what it felt like.
• 17:28
  And the Vikings just kept shooting themselves in the foot.
• 17:30
  Even those four picks, they didn't capitalize on them.
• 17:32
  No, three.
• 17:33
  What did you say?
• 17:34
  Four field goals.
• 17:35
  Yeah, yeah.
• 17:36
  Unbelievable.
• 17:37
  Yes.
• 17:38
  I don't even have much else to say about my Vikings other than, like I said, KOC has some
• 17:43
  decisions to make and he refused to name the starter for the first game out of the bye,
• 17:49
  which I can't remember who the hell that even is right now.
• 17:52
  But he didn't he didn't name a starter.
• 17:54
  Oh, that's right.
• 17:55
  Yeah, you're right.
• 17:56
  Writers.
• 17:57
  So we'll see with an expected J.J. back.
• 18:00
  I don't know.
• 18:01
  I think you got to stick it with Dobbs.
• 18:03
  I mean, you think so?
• 18:04
  He's he's shown flashes and it's I don't know.
• 18:07
  That's tough.
• 18:08
  You know, if they were playing like Philadelphia, San Francisco, even like New Orleans and he
• 18:13
  played like he did, I would have a lot better time accepting it just because of how good
• 18:17
  their defenses are.
• 18:18
  Accepting accepting accepting his play that in this previous game, just because of how
• 18:21
  good their defenses are.
• 18:23
  The Bears have a bottom five defense in the league.
• 18:25
  Right.
• 18:26
  So there's no excuse for how he played.
• 18:28
  I just I don't get it.
• 18:29
  Like I don't even know how many sacks the Bears had.
• 18:33
  I didn't.
• 18:34
  He was under pressure a lot, but he was able to get out of some of it.
• 18:37
  Yeah, two sacks.
• 18:38
  But even when he he had the chance to get out, he still didn't do anything with it.
• 18:42
  Like you're saying.
• 18:43
  Yeah, he was hit nine times.
• 18:44
  I mean, they were in his face.
• 18:45
  They were in his face all day.
• 18:46
  They were in his face.
• 18:47
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 18:48
  Good luck, likes.
• 18:49
  But I mean, they they need this bye week.
• 18:50
  Couldn't have came at a better time.
• 18:51
  I mean, you take the heartbreaking loss to Denver that you absolutely could have and
• 18:52
  you know, you're going to be able to get it.
• 18:53
  You're going to be able to get it.
• 18:54
  You're going to be able to get it.
• 18:55
  You're going to be able to take the heartbreaking loss to Denver that you absolutely could have
• 18:59
  and should have won.
• 19:00
  Should have won that game.
• 19:01
  No questions.
• 19:02
  And then lose at home to the Bears.
• 19:04
  Another game you should have won.
• 19:06
  The Vikings could easily be eight and four eight and four.
• 19:10
  Yes, it should be one game out of the division lead.
• 19:13
  So yeah, yeah, I mean, I did.
• 19:16
  Bye week's huge this week.
• 19:18
  Yeah, it couldn't come at a better time.
• 19:19
  I'm curious if anything will change.
• 19:21
  I doubt anything will change.
• 19:22
  Like I said, I still think you need to give it to Dobbs just because I think if you're
• 19:25
  you're giving the reins over to a rookie quarterback, you're kind of just throwing the towel in
• 19:30
  on the season.
• 19:31
  But that was the plan was to see how the rookie would play.
• 19:34
  So they probably are no, you know what I mean, what they want to do in next year's draft,
• 19:38
  right?
• 19:39
  Yeah.
• 19:40
  And it also hinges on, you know, Kirk and blah, blah, blah, all that shit.
• 19:42
  All that shit.
• 19:43
  Yeah.
• 19:44
  So that's why I mean, like, I don't know, I could go either way, but I would imagine
• 19:47
  they would lean Dobbs because of what he's done already.
• 19:50
  And getting JJ back and with more trust in Dobbs, he has yet to throw to.
• 19:55
  Right, right, right.
• 19:56
  So neither really has Jaren Hall.
• 19:58
  True, true.
• 19:59
  You know, he wasn't getting any reps with him in training.
• 20:01
  Can't appreciate whatever he wasn't getting reps with Jaren Hall really didn't look bad.
• 20:05
  His again, but it's too serious.
• 20:07
  Even when he came in against the Packers, he didn't look good.
• 20:10
  But that again, that doesn't matter.
• 20:12
  He started against Atlanta.
• 20:14
  He looked good in his start until he got the concussion.
• 20:18
  I'm not saying he would have won the game.
• 20:19
  Who knows?
• 20:20
  I mean, the first two series weren't bad.
• 20:22
  No, for sure.
• 20:23
  For a rookie.
• 20:24
  For sure.
• 20:25
  The bright spot here for the Bears was Montez Sweat showing why they went out and got him
• 20:27
  and paid him in one and a half sacks on the day.
• 20:30
  But he was in, you know, he was in Dobbs' face all game.
• 20:34
  He only had the two quarterback hits, which came on, you know, the sacks.
• 20:36
  But he was he was just a game wrecker and he was the one who was really did not allow
• 20:40
  him to get outside.
• 20:41
  The Bears set the edge so well in this game.
• 20:43
  Yeah, no doubt.
• 20:46
  Well let's move on.
• 20:47
  I'm going to kick it over to the first ever Black Friday game.
• 20:52
  We had the 49ers traveling up to Seattle and taking on the Seahawks.
• 20:57
  Forty Niners came into this game as a seven point favorite and showed why they dominated
• 21:03
  this game.
• 21:04
  Smelty just dominated from start to finish.
• 21:06
  Brock Purdy looks back.
• 21:08
  You know, he didn't have an overwhelmingly great game in terms of numbers with but that's
• 21:13
  really only because he threw the pick is why his quarterback rating so low.
• 21:17
  Now granted, that pick was pretty bad.
• 21:19
  What's up with Geno Smith, brother?
• 21:20
  So I don't know.
• 21:22
  I was watching that a little more in this game and he seems to make OK reads.
• 21:27
  It's just by the time he makes now, granted, his first pick of the day was horrible, but
• 21:32
  he threw another pick later that I was like, well, that seemed like the right read.
• 21:36
  What do you mean, Geno Smith?
• 21:37
  He only had one interception, boss.
• 21:39
  Oh, I'm thinking of something else, then they must have called that other one back then
• 21:43
  or something.
• 21:44
  That's weird.
• 21:45
  I swear I saw two picks, but maybe it was just a pass breakup later then.
• 21:48
  But there was one later that looked like the right the right read.
• 21:53
  But then he just threw it too late.
• 21:55
  Like he's reading the right guys.
• 21:57
  But it's like it's not connecting.
• 21:58
  His brain isn't telling his arm to throw that shit fast enough to me.
• 22:02
  I think he just got to get rid of the ball quicker.
• 22:05
  He looks nothing like he did last year.
• 22:07
  This is the Geno Smith that was on the Jets and the Giants.
• 22:09
  This isn't the Geno Smith of the Seahawks last year.
• 22:12
  I don't know what happened.
• 22:13
  It's the same supporting cast, if not better, with Zach Chardonnay, Charbonne coming in
• 22:17
  K9 with another year under him, adding Jackson Smith.
• 22:21
  I can't say his last name, but JSN.
• 22:24
  So I don't know.
• 22:25
  Offense is the same.
• 22:26
  Ne'Gba, Smith Ne'Gba.
• 22:27
  OK, we'll stick.
• 22:28
  We'll go with that.
• 22:30
  One big one in a catch for him, too.
• 22:32
  Yeah, yeah.
• 22:34
  But I mean, on top of that, this 49ers front seven, adding Chase Young to that team is
• 22:38
  just it's not fair, dude.
• 22:40
  One, sorry, six sacks.
• 22:42
  Just what are you going to do?
• 22:44
  Not only that, they hit Geno 12 fucking times.
• 22:47
  Nothing, nothing.
• 22:48
  So that's what I mean.
• 22:49
  I mean, San Francisco's defense dominated the game.
• 22:52
  Yes, their offense looked good.
• 22:53
  Pretty looked really comfortable to me.
• 22:55
  Super smooth with his progressions.
• 22:57
  He was accurate with everything he threw.
• 23:00
  But for me, it was the defense.
• 23:01
  I mean, they just absolutely dominated from start to finish.
• 23:04
  They gave Seattle no hope at all at any point in the game of coming back.
• 23:10
  Really did.
• 23:11
  I mean, they held the Seahawks at 220 total yards on offense.
• 23:14
  Brock Purdy threw for 209.
• 23:16
  Right.
• 23:17
  So the Seahawks had 11 more yards as a team than Brock just did passing.
• 23:20
  And McCaffrey ran for a buck.
• 23:22
  Oh my God.
• 23:23
  McCaffrey ate like always.
• 23:24
  We already know, you know, smooth as ever again.
• 23:28
  But Debo coming up with some big catches.
• 23:30
  Debo had himself a game.
• 23:31
  I like them using Debo in the run game, but he just went out this week and showed you
• 23:35
  again, hey, don't sleep on me in the receiving game either.
• 23:38
  And a couple of those catches are big time.
• 23:40
  They were.
• 23:41
  They were.
• 23:42
  He's these.
• 23:43
  I'm a huge fan of Debo, bro.
• 23:44
  You know, there's no other player in the NFL like him.
• 23:46
  The closest player to him in the NFL, I would say, is actually McCaffrey with that dual
• 23:50
  capability.
• 23:51
  But I mean, Debo is obviously a lot more like accomplished receiver as McCaffrey is runner.
• 23:55
  But it's I love just what you just want to get the ball in their hand.
• 23:57
  No, exactly.
• 23:58
  Exactly.
• 23:59
  Debo on the lineup, wherever on the field, you know, and if even like his.
• 24:03
  I don't know.
• 24:04
  He's just so fun to watch.
• 24:05
  He's he's not a huge guy, but he's just one solid muscle.
• 24:08
  And you just can't get him down.
• 24:10
  An arm tackle is not going to bring him down.
• 24:12
  He's going to initiate contact.
• 24:13
  Yes, he will.
• 24:14
  He's that old school kind of like mentality, but a new school player.
• 24:19
  Yeah.
• 24:20
  With that gadget.
• 24:21
  You're going to kill.
• 24:22
  But he's so much more than a gadget.
• 24:23
  You think of a gadget player like a special teams returner comes in for a jet sweep where
• 24:26
  that's not Debo.
• 24:27
  No, he's he's over Swiss Army now.
• 24:29
  Yeah.
• 24:30
  OK, fair.
• 24:31
  I put maybe taste some hill on more of a gadget.
• 24:34
  Yeah, I would agree.
• 24:36
  But I would say Debo.
• 24:37
  I like that.
• 24:38
  I literally actually thought of that earlier today and I was like, no, not Swiss Army.
• 24:41
  I was trying to think of something cool or like something to tie into him.
• 24:44
  But I had no idea.
• 24:45
  I mean, Debo even had a pass in this game.
• 24:46
  Yeah, I know.
• 24:47
  He didn't complete it.
• 24:48
  But but still.
• 24:49
  But still.
• 24:50
  Yeah.
• 24:51
  And then you got teams, you know, keying in on Debo and McCaffrey and Kittle.
• 24:55
  And then you got a guy like Brandon Ayuk who just sneaks in there and runs some nasty
• 24:58
  routes that touchdown.
• 25:00
  He's so low key that touchdown.
• 25:02
  Beautiful route.
• 25:03
  Great route.
• 25:04
  But that ball placement by Purdy, it was in.
• 25:05
  No, I mean, he wasn't quadruple team by any means, but it was in between four defenders.
• 25:10
  It was just a beautiful, perfect through the picture as throw and route.
• 25:15
  Just beating that zone to a tee.
• 25:17
  But yeah, I mean, good fun game to watch.
• 25:19
  You know, my pops is a 49ers fan, so I was able to catch that game with him on Black
• 25:22
  Friday.
• 25:23
  So that was that was pretty cool.
• 25:25
  But it's as expected, man.
• 25:27
  Smeltzi and I both took this 49ers in this game, and it wasn't even a game.
• 25:31
  Literally the only like highlight for Seattle was D.
• 25:34
  Eskridge's 66 yard punt return.
• 25:37
  You know, he didn't go for a tug, but it was a hell of a return.
• 25:40
  He's fast as hell.
• 25:41
  But like, that's probably the most excitement they got all day.
• 25:45
  It was, man.
• 25:46
  Like that was just I just want to know what's up with Gino.
• 25:48
  When a comeback player of the year last year thrown for over 4000 yards and then this year
• 25:52
  he's just a shell of that player.
• 25:54
  Is it another year of father time getting to him?
• 25:57
  I don't know.
• 25:58
  But it sucks because I'm a big Gino guy.
• 26:01
  I like seeing the resurgence in his career.
• 26:02
  I thought Seattle was a great fit for him with that peak girl system and everything.
• 26:06
  And it's just it kind of sucks because I thought the Seahawks were a dark horse contender in
• 26:09
  the NFC this year.
• 26:10
  Who did they play last week?
• 26:12
  Seattle, do you remember?
• 26:13
  I'll top your head.
• 26:14
  I don't, but I can look it up.
• 26:15
  You know, like, of course, they're going to run into the force that is the 49ers right
• 26:20
  now, you know.
• 26:21
  So no matter who you are, you're just not going to look good.
• 26:24
  They played in lost to the Rams last week and they looked pitiful.
• 26:28
  Just terrible.
• 26:29
  That's right.
• 26:30
  Horrible in that game, too.
• 26:31
  And then beat Washington before that and got absolutely killed by the Ravens before that.
• 26:36
  So they beat all the teams they're supposed to.
• 26:40
  Yeah.
• 26:41
  But they're not going to beat anybody top tier.
• 26:43
  Right.
• 26:44
  Yep.
• 26:45
  Well, let's move on.
• 26:46
  Smolci, we have the game of the week.
• 26:47
  It might even it's one of the games of the year so far in terms of the game itself.
• 26:51
  We had the Philadelphia Eagles host the Buffalo Bills.
• 26:57
  Eagles went into this game as a three point favorite.
• 26:59
  The oddsmakers got that one right as the Eagles did squeak this one out.
• 27:03
  Thirty seven, thirty four.
• 27:04
  So it was a push on the odd, the spread there.
• 27:07
  But what a game it was, Smolci.
• 27:08
  Jalen Hertz, two words, all you got to fucking say.
• 27:11
  Yeah, no doubt.
• 27:12
  I mean, he showed you again.
• 27:14
  I mean, both quarterbacks showed you a little bit.
• 27:16
  But Hertz again showing you he's a threat on the ground.
• 27:20
  That walk off, Tuddy, what do you I mean?
• 27:24
  You can't write it better than that for Hertz right now.
• 27:26
  No, you really can't.
• 27:27
  I mean, it's he is a very, very, very fun player to watch.
• 27:32
  And it's going to be a very fun player to watch and grow in this league as the years
• 27:35
  go on here.
• 27:36
  This Philadelphia team, I don't think offensive wise is really going to get any worse.
• 27:41
  You know, once Kelsey and Johnson do hang him up, obviously, those are two perennial
• 27:44
  all pro pro players that will hurt them and they're going to miss them.
• 27:47
  But man, the crazy thing is Smolci, the Eagles sit here at 10 and one on the year.
• 27:53
  I don't think they've played a solid, full, fundamentally sound game of football this
• 27:58
  year.
• 27:59
  They still have so much where they can improve, which is so scary.
• 28:03
  That's scary as hell.
• 28:04
  No, it is for sure.
• 28:06
  And the thing about Jalen is just like you can game plan for that guy all you want.
• 28:12
  You know, we're talking about how you game plan for Dobbs and how that's changed.
• 28:15
  You can game plan for Jalen Hurts all you want.
• 28:17
  It's still not going to be enough because he can similar to Mahomes, right?
• 28:22
  He can still go make a play whatever, you know, he's going to alter that game himself
• 28:26
  if he has to.
• 28:27
  He's never going to give up.
• 28:28
  And the poise that he shows at his age is incredible.
• 28:32
  He's never bothered by anything.
• 28:34
  Even if you look at when the Eagles hit the field, go to push it to overtime, they fanned
• 28:38
  him on the bench and he's sitting there like shaking his head, just thinking like, how
• 28:42
  the hell did it come to this?
• 28:43
  Right?
• 28:44
  No, 100%.
• 28:45
  The guy is like the poise of Jalen Hurts is what's impressive to me the most.
• 28:48
  He's a natural born leader.
• 28:50
  He has that dog mentality as Nick Shuriani loves and just an impressive game.
• 28:55
  And you can't take away anything away from the Bills.
• 28:57
  Putting up 34 points is going to win 90 percent of the games in the NFL.
• 29:01
  You know, it's Josh Allen played good, not great.
• 29:05
  51 pass attempts is way too much, especially when the Buffalo rushing attack, they ran
• 29:09
  for 173 yards.
• 29:11
  So what I mean, let's talk about 40 carries.
• 29:13
  Let's talk about Josh Allen, though.
• 29:15
  Like why?
• 29:16
  What is going on with we talk about almost every week or every other week, like what's
• 29:19
  going on with Gino, which is relevant.
• 29:22
  But Josh Allen's kind of flying under the radar, too, as more of like what the hell
• 29:27
  is going on with Josh Allen?
• 29:28
  Because he's like hit or miss some weeks, too, right now.
• 29:31
  Like Kirk Cousins was probably on track to have a better season than Josh Allen.
• 29:34
  Oh, I mean, Kirk Cousins was going to have a top three quarterback season this year in
• 29:38
  the league.
• 29:39
  He was playing the best ball of his career.
• 29:40
  But I agree, man.
• 29:41
  Josh Allen, like you think Gino looks like a shell of himself.
• 29:44
  Josh Allen can't control can't take care of the damn ball.
• 29:46
  He's missing another overtime game.
• 29:48
  He's 0 for 8 and overtime like they he was one of the driving forces of why they changed
• 29:52
  over him over time rules and he's 0 and 3 since the change of rules.
• 29:56
  So like, I don't know, man.
• 29:57
  Like he made it happen on the ground.
• 29:59
  But we know that we know he's capable of that.
• 30:01
  He came up with a couple of tuds and crucial times, but why?
• 30:05
  I just don't understand what's going on.
• 30:08
  It's like it's just not enough.
• 30:11
  It's just not enough to win games anymore.
• 30:13
  It's not.
• 30:14
  And I think the biggest reason is losing Trey White and Matt Milano on your defense.
• 30:20
  Those are the two like cornerstone pieces of your defense and leaders of that defense.
• 30:25
  I think losing those two kind of hurt the team's morale as a whole.
• 30:29
  And it's just not something that they've been shown to be able to get over.
• 30:33
  You look at the bills, they're 10th in the AFC right now.
• 30:35
  You couldn't pay me going into the year to say that the bills will be 10th in the AFC
• 30:38
  going into week 13.
• 30:40
  No, no doubt.
• 30:42
  But this is my problem because I was just curious looking at the stats again.
• 30:45
  I was like, OK, something's weird here.
• 30:48
  And looking at the possession time, Buffalo had the ball for 40 minutes compared to Philly's
• 30:55
  26.
• 30:57
  Dude, you got to capitalize on your opportunity.
• 31:01
  And they were.
• 31:02
  And well, they missed two field goals.
• 31:03
  They missed the two field goals and that killed me in fantasy.
• 31:06
  That could be the difference right there.
• 31:08
  Now fucking Basman Tyler.
• 31:09
  I know.
• 31:10
  Trust me.
• 31:11
  I've killed me in fantasy.
• 31:12
  Now, what I will say about Buffalo that I liked is, you know, each week that passes,
• 31:17
  you're kind of seeing a little bit more out of James Cook a little bit.
• 31:19
  He's starting to get more of that flash, you know, every week.
• 31:23
  You know, we know probably what he's capable of, but he's starting to show it more.
• 31:27
  Yeah, I mean, you look at the yards between the two.
• 31:29
  The Buffalo had five hundred and five total yards as a team to Eagle to the Eagles, three
• 31:34
  seventy eight.
• 31:35
  You don't lose that game.
• 31:36
  No, no, but they did.
• 31:39
  They did.
• 31:40
  So what's next for the Buffalo man sitting that tenth in the AFC?
• 31:44
  You know, they could still make a run.
• 31:46
  They could still make a playoff push as a wild card.
• 31:49
  I don't think they're going to win the division with Miami playing like they are.
• 31:53
  Here's here's Buffalo's next three.
• 31:55
  At Kansas City.
• 31:58
  Cowboys at home and then at L.A. Chargers.
• 32:02
  You got to beat the Chargers.
• 32:03
  The Chargers are just fucking terrible.
• 32:05
  But Dallas and you have to go to you have to win two of those three games to be in contention.
• 32:10
  You have to.
• 32:12
  And they still have to play Miami again this year.
• 32:14
  Yep, they still got Miami.
• 32:15
  Yeah, Miami as well in Miami.
• 32:18
  They got a long road ahead of them and I think we're looking at a possibility that the Bills
• 32:23
  could miss the playoffs.
• 32:24
  I think so.
• 32:25
  I mean, yeah, you're right.
• 32:26
  They got Chiefs, Cowboys, Chargers, Patriots, Dolphins after the bye week this week.
• 32:30
  By week couldn't come at a better time to regroup, kind of re kind of get your mental
• 32:34
  right.
• 32:35
  And, you know, that that five games, I really only see them.
• 32:40
  I'm confident they'll win two of those five games.
• 32:43
  Yeah, the Chargers and New England, which would bring them to eight and nine.
• 32:46
  And that's not making the playoff.
• 32:47
  No, that is crazy.
• 32:49
  I don't know.
• 32:50
  We could we could be staring at the Bills not making the playoffs.
• 32:53
  And if you would have told me that at the beginning of the season, I don't know.
• 32:57
  That's why I wouldn't believe that shit for a second.
• 33:00
  That's wild.
• 33:01
  All righty.
• 33:02
  Well, let's move on.
• 33:03
  Smelty, we have what ended up being a pretty damn good game as well.
• 33:06
  AFC South Showdown with the Jaguars going down to Houston, taking the Texans, taking
• 33:13
  on the Texans going into the game.
• 33:15
  The Jaguars were indeed a one and a half point favorite.
• 33:18
  Did cover that spread and won twenty four twenty one.
• 33:20
  Yeah, I mean, and ultimately a pretty good game for the Jaguars in Houston.
• 33:26
  Shout out to the Texans.
• 33:27
  Those all red jerseys with the chrome red helmets.
• 33:29
  Them bitches is clean.
• 33:30
  Yeah, I was like, wow, that looks nice.
• 33:33
  I mean, again, I don't even know who to talk about first, because like you said, this was
• 33:36
  a great game.
• 33:37
  Trevor Lawrence looked great.
• 33:40
  He looked great, even got himself a rushing touchdown.
• 33:42
  He finally and it was in the second half that he really started looking better for me.
• 33:46
  Him and Ridley finally started getting a real good connection that second half.
• 33:51
  And Ridley is another guy that runs great routes, fast feet.
• 33:56
  I don't know.
• 33:57
  Big field goal.
• 33:58
  Go up 10 to start the fourth.
• 33:59
  I mean, they just they controlled the game.
• 34:02
  The Jaguars did, I feel like they did.
• 34:04
  And this was the game that you could hope for.
• 34:06
  Who would have thought the Texans would be sitting at six and five after this lost on
• 34:09
  the year?
• 34:10
  And they make the playoffs with the season ended right now.
• 34:14
  So I certainly I'm sorry.
• 34:16
  You're one game out of the playoffs right now tied with the Colts.
• 34:18
  So it goes to the division record.
• 34:19
  But it's it's been it was a really fun game to watch.
• 34:23
  CJ Stroud, man.
• 34:25
  This cat is going to be an absolute stun the NFL.
• 34:27
  He's already second in the league in passing right now, only behind who would have thought
• 34:30
  Sam Howell.
• 34:31
  But not only CJ Stroud, Tank Dell, Tank Dell, dude, some huge catches and crucial moments.
• 34:37
  CJ Shouds a runaway for offensive player rookie of the year this year.
• 34:41
  But you have to put Tank Dell in that conversation.
• 34:43
  I mean, between him and Puka Nakua.
• 34:46
  I could put.
• 34:47
  Yeah, Puka has been nasty.
• 34:48
  It's been the crazy thing is, is CJ Shouds were known advised there like recommended
• 34:53
  the Texans draft Tank Dell because he watched highlight videos.
• 34:55
  I mean, like the way he run routes.
• 34:57
  Really?
• 34:58
  And they listen to him.
• 34:59
  I did not know the Packers would have listened to Aaron Fucking Rogers, one of his what,
• 35:02
  19 years.
• 35:03
  One of right.
• 35:04
  But no, CJ's his ability to kind of like Rogers Rogers ask actually his ability to
• 35:11
  extend the play just by running around in circles, dude.
• 35:14
  The dude left the pocket.
• 35:15
  I watched this play just literally running around in circles.
• 35:18
  Defenders dive in all over the place.
• 35:19
  They looked like idiots.
• 35:20
  And then he throws a strike, you know, and he can make any throw on the field.
• 35:25
  He has a very, very strong arm.
• 35:27
  I think the biggest thing that hurt Houston in this game is their their inability to run
• 35:31
  the ball.
• 35:32
  CJ Shoud with six carries for 47 yards.
• 35:34
  He can't be your leading rusher.
• 35:35
  No, you need to see more out of Singletarian Pierce for sure.
• 35:38
  Especially with Pierce, this is his first game coming back after a couple games missed.
• 35:42
  I thought they would have incorporated him a little bit more, but he only ran the ball
• 35:45
  18 times on the day.
• 35:47
  Shit.
• 35:48
  Tankdale had one rush and almost outrushed both of them.
• 35:52
  That's hilarious.
• 35:54
  But the other the other piece of this Houston offense that that's that I'm a huge fan of
• 35:57
  is Nico Collins.
• 35:58
  Big bodied receiver goes up, makes those contested catches.
• 36:01
  You know, not an elite route runner, but he's the only second or third year in the league.
• 36:05
  You know, he'll develop that.
• 36:06
  When he shows he he doesn't have that top end speed where he's going to take the take
• 36:09
  the the top off the defense.
• 36:11
  But he's big enough where he's going to go up and win those one on ones and like give
• 36:15
  you a lot better chance at it.
• 36:16
  Yeah, you can you can trust him like, you know what?
• 36:18
  It's one on one.
• 36:19
  I'm throwing it up to him.
• 36:20
  We'll see.
• 36:21
  Exactly.
• 36:22
  He has the ability to climb up and get it.
• 36:24
  He does.
• 36:25
  He does.
• 36:26
  But the story of the game, in my opinion, in this one was, like you said, Trevor Lawrence,
• 36:29
  man, what a what a fun AFC South we have for years to come is weird.
• 36:34
  When you look at Trevor Lawrence, CJ Stroud, Anthony Richardson and whoever the hell the
• 36:40
  Titans do with their life.
• 36:42
  Will Levis has shown flashes.
• 36:44
  They look horrible.
• 36:45
  Yeah, some flashes.
• 36:46
  But I'm excited then.
• 36:47
  Who would have thought going into this year, the AFC South would be a division to watch.
• 36:51
  Yeah, no.
• 36:52
  I mean, right now, any division game for AFC South, again, Titans going to be what they
• 36:57
  may.
• 36:58
  But any division game in the NFL is a little bit extra in that game.
• 37:00
  But yeah, any AFC South division game right now is lit.
• 37:06
  Question mark, which is just weird to say that shit.
• 37:08
  Growing up, you know, the AFC South we know growing up wasn't shit.
• 37:14
  No, it was dominated by Peyton and the Colts.
• 37:16
  Just dominated.
• 37:17
  It wasn't even a division.
• 37:19
  But I mean, you look at right now, you got Jacksonville at the third best in the conference.
• 37:25
  Then you have the Colts at seven, Texans at eight.
• 37:27
  So you got three teams in the top eight with two of them being playoffs.
• 37:30
  And let's be honest, you got the Browns ahead of the Texans right now.
• 37:35
  What's getting Texans and Colts?
• 37:36
  But I don't think the Browns are going to win very many more games this year, personally.
• 37:40
  No.
• 37:41
  And could we see three teams from the AFC South make the playoffs, Melty?
• 37:44
  Let's do it.
• 37:45
  Why not?
• 37:46
  I'm here for it.
• 37:47
  I'm here for it.
• 37:48
  The one thing I would like to see Jacksonville get going better is the run game.
• 37:53
  Travis Etienne has a lot of talent, a lot of ability, and 20 carries for 56 yards.
• 37:58
  They definitely gave him the opportunities, but he only averaged 2.8 yards per carry.
• 38:03
  And I mean, 20 yards of that came on one run.
• 38:05
  No, for sure.
• 38:06
  And you're hitting it right on the head there.
• 38:08
  I think they need a little bit more of a push up front for Jacksonville.
• 38:14
  They do.
• 38:15
  And losing Cam Robinson certainly does not help.
• 38:16
  No, no.
• 38:17
  Well, then that's just it, right?
• 38:20
  But I think Jacksonville is losing the games they have lost this year.
• 38:23
  I think they've lost them up front straight up.
• 38:25
  I would agree.
• 38:26
  The games won in the trenches more or less than the modern day NFL, kind of back to the
• 38:30
  OG NFL.
• 38:31
  You look at how the teams are built right now with the Eagles, the Niners, the Cowboys.
• 38:36
  The only team that's not really built around the trenches that's like a perennial playoff
• 38:39
  contender is the Chiefs.
• 38:40
  Yeah, true, true.
• 38:42
  Yeah.
• 38:43
  And it's not like they got Scrubs.
• 38:44
  They got Kareem, or sorry, Creed Humphreys, one of the youngest bright stars on offense,
• 38:49
  and then Chris Jones on the defensive side of the ball.
• 38:51
  So the centerpieces are there on both sides.
• 38:53
  But I really, really wish the Texans would have made that field goal.
• 38:57
  I know.
• 38:58
  With 2.32 left.
• 38:59
  And hit the crossbar.
• 39:00
  Oh, it looked so good.
• 39:01
  I thought for sure it was going.
• 39:02
  It looked so good, man.
• 39:03
  I was like, damn.
• 39:04
  I really wanted to see this game continue.
• 39:05
  It was such a fun game to watch.
• 39:07
  And I think CJ Schaub deserved it.
• 39:09
  He did.
• 39:10
  No, he did.
• 39:11
  He did.
• 39:12
  You know, I just want to point out, too, another big game for Josh Allen of the Jaguars.
• 39:17
  Got himself two sacks in big moments.
• 39:20
  Maybe even got him another half sack, actually.
• 39:22
  I can't remember if he ended up splitting that one.
• 39:25
  He did, yeah, two and a half then.
• 39:26
  And then, I don't know, pretty good game for him as well.
• 39:30
  Force on the defensive side of the ball.
• 39:31
  But yeah, no, you're right.
• 39:33
  CJ definitely earned the chance just to see what would happen.
• 39:36
  CJ versus Trevor O'Tee, who doesn't want to see this year?
• 39:39
  Who doesn't want to see that?
• 39:41
  That's for sure.
• 39:42
  That's for sure.
• 39:43
  Yeah, man.
• 39:46
  It's not the Josh Allen we thought we'd be talking about.
• 39:48
  It's funny, too, because...
• 39:49
  It's the one that always goes under the radar because of other Josh Allen.
• 39:52
  Yeah, so he actually prefers to be called Joshua now.
• 39:55
  He changed the way he wants to pronounce it, Josh Allen, now to just prevent confusion.
• 39:59
  My only guess at it.
• 40:01
  But let's look at the Texans for the rest of the year.
• 40:03
  They have a cakewalk of a schedule.
• 40:05
  The only game that I think they have that's left that...
• 40:08
  Go through it real quick.
• 40:09
  There's only five left, right?
• 40:10
  Six.
• 40:11
  Six?
• 40:12
  Because they don't have a bye week.
• 40:13
  Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 40:14
  And the Broncos next week is going to be a pretty good game.
• 40:16
  That's going to be a good game.
• 40:17
  And then we have Jets, Titans, Browns, Titans, Colts.
• 40:21
  Win, potentially win.
• 40:23
  That Colts week 17 game, I think, is going to be a lot of playoff implications if the
• 40:27
  both teams continue the success they're having.
• 40:29
  We could see the Texans...
• 40:31
  I could see the Texans going bare worst, 4-2 in that remaining schedule, and that puts
• 40:36
  them at 10-7.
• 40:39
  I think that's enough to squeak into the wild card spot in the AFC.
• 40:42
  Is that enough to beat out Jacksonville for the division?
• 40:46
  Does Jacksonville win their next six?
• 40:48
  Let me take a look at what they have left.
• 40:49
  I'm curious.
• 40:50
  I'm curious because I don't think it is.
• 40:53
  So Jacksonville has Bengals.
• 40:56
  Win potentially.
• 40:57
  Browns.
• 40:58
  Win potentially.
• 40:59
  Ravens.
• 41:00
  No.
• 41:01
  Buccaneers.
• 41:02
  Yes.
• 41:03
  Panthers.
• 41:04
  Yes.
• 41:05
  Titans.
• 41:06
  Yes.
• 41:07
  I mean...
• 41:08
  That's a pretty cakewalk there.
• 41:09
  It's going to be that AFC North games that are going to determine the rest of Jacksonville's
• 41:10
  season.
• 41:11
  Those two games.
• 41:12
  Those two games should be it for them, the last two.
• 41:15
  But those AFC North matchups right there.
• 41:18
  Yeah.
• 41:19
  That'll determine if Jacksonville wins the division or not.
• 41:23
  Well enough about week 12 smelty.
• 41:25
  Let's get into the news with the NFL with 10Talk, brother.
• 41:30
  Let's start with the Browns.
• 41:31
  They got the injury bug on Sunday.
• 41:33
  Miles Garrett, Dorian Thompson Robinson, and Amari Cooper all had injuries.
• 41:39
  Now Miles Garrett played through his, but after the game he had his left arm in a sling
• 41:45
  and said he felt something pop in his shoulder.
• 41:47
  He did indeed get an MRI and it came back negative, which is good.
• 41:50
  So there's no structural damage.
• 41:52
  He is not expected to miss any time and play through his soreness.
• 41:56
  But if he misses any time, that's a pretty big impact on the defense.
• 41:59
  Yeah, no doubt.
• 42:00
  I mean, you need Miles Garrett to even have a shot right now to be honest with you.
• 42:05
  I mean, if you're the Browns, for sure.
• 42:07
  You do.
• 42:08
  He's a top three defensive player in the league.
• 42:09
  So big loss potentially there.
• 42:11
  And then you have mentioned DTR too with his head injury.
• 42:16
  Do we know if he's playing this week?
• 42:17
  I'd imagine probably not.
• 42:19
  He's in concussion protocol.
• 42:20
  You know, he's there, which is like day to day, right?
• 42:23
  They just check you out every single day.
• 42:25
  Yeah, there's certain requirements you have to meet to get out of concussion protocol.
• 42:28
  So right now it's kind of up in the air.
• 42:30
  You know, I would fully expect PJ Walker to start that game.
• 42:33
  I'll try PJ.
• 42:34
  I was going to say who's there?
• 42:35
  Who's their other guy?
• 42:36
  But yeah, PJ, that's right.
• 42:37
  If I'm not mistaken, they also signed Joe Flacco.
• 42:39
  It was them or the Bengals.
• 42:42
  No I feel like it was the Browns to their practice squad.
• 42:45
  Yeah.
• 42:46
  Did they sign him to the active roster yet?
• 42:47
  I don't know if they signed him to the active roster, but I know he was on the practice
• 42:49
  squad.
• 42:50
  Yeah, no, no.
• 42:51
  I think you're right.
• 42:52
  I think it is the Browns.
• 42:53
  And then another integral piece of that offense, Amari Cooper.
• 42:55
  Got hit in the ribs.
• 42:57
  Left the game.
• 42:58
  X-rays came back as negative.
• 42:59
  So there's no, again, like serious damage.
• 43:02
  He's hoping it's not something that will sideline him.
• 43:05
  But at this point, everything's up in the air.
• 43:07
  And another guy that you need on that offense, especially to help out DTR.
• 43:10
  How about anybody who's throwing quarterback?
• 43:12
  No, no kidding.
• 43:13
  PJ, DTR, don't matter.
• 43:15
  Whatever letters you want to throw in there, you got to help them out.
• 43:18
  You do.
• 43:19
  You do.
• 43:20
  And he's kind of had a resurgence this year.
• 43:21
  He's looked good with very inconsistent quarterback play.
• 43:23
  Him and Deshaun were kind of trying to, we're building their...
• 43:26
  Amari's not a bad receiver.
• 43:27
  He's really not.
• 43:28
  I think he's always kind of gotten a bad rep.
• 43:31
  And I don't know why.
• 43:32
  That's what happens when you go play in Dallas.
• 43:33
  Yeah.
• 43:34
  Well, actually he had that before Dallas.
• 43:35
  He had it because of his edit.
• 43:36
  Oh, cool.
• 43:37
  He's been in Vegas.
• 43:38
  I mean, Oakland, yeah, my bad.
• 43:39
  Yeah.
• 43:40
  That's really where it stemmed.
• 43:41
  Yeah, but he's a star player.
• 43:44
  The guy has all the talent in the world.
• 43:47
  But enough with the Browns.
• 43:48
  Let's move down to the NFC South.
• 43:49
  Chris Olave left the game after another big hit there.
• 43:52
  He's in the concussion protocol as well, man.
• 43:54
  Yeah, same deal.
• 43:56
  Same deal as DTR.
• 43:57
  I mean, not much else to say about that other than the fact that obviously that New Orleans
• 44:00
  offense needs him.
• 44:02
  Oh, they do.
• 44:03
  They do.
• 44:04
  Their offense is kind of sputtering as it is.
• 44:06
  They have the defense to go out and compete.
• 44:08
  But without Chris Olave, I mean, and Michael Thomas being out, you're putting a lot of
• 44:12
  trust in A.T. Perry's hand.
• 44:13
  That's all right.
• 44:14
  See what happens.
• 44:15
  We'll see.
• 44:16
  I mean, the NFC South.
• 44:17
  Who else do they have behind?
• 44:18
  Oh, they have Shahid?
• 44:19
  Yeah, Shahid.
• 44:20
  Is that him?
• 44:21
  Yeah, number 22.
• 44:22
  Weird number for him.
• 44:23
  Yeah, he's not bad.
• 44:24
  No, he's a good deep ball, but he only offers much for a deep threat.
• 44:26
  Sure, sure.
• 44:27
  And you always got Alvin Kamara in the backfield as well.
• 44:29
  So that never hurts.
• 44:30
  Got to get him going then.
• 44:31
  You do.
• 44:32
  You do.
• 44:33
  And as we shift our focus to the Indianapolis Colts, Jonathan Taylor had surgery on his
• 44:37
  thumb.
• 44:38
  He's not going to the IR.
• 44:40
  They're hoping that it's you know, he's only going to be out one to two, maybe three weeks.
• 44:46
  And that's a big loss for the Colts.
• 44:48
  Yeah, no doubt.
• 44:49
  And I mean, you know, NFL fans, Colts fans specifically can be as disappointed as they
• 44:54
  want.
• 44:55
  Nobody is more disappointed than Jonathan Taylor.
• 44:56
  I guarantee you that now that they didn't they resign him this year to to an extension,
• 45:02
  Jonathan Taylor.
• 45:03
  Like now he wants to get out there, man.
• 45:06
  So nobody's more disappointed than him.
• 45:07
  I guarantee it, especially in that AFC South and an outside chance to sneak into the playoffs
• 45:12
  at this point.
• 45:13
  Yeah, especially with with how productive Zach Moss has been.
• 45:16
  You know, you could make an argument where they you could make an argument.
• 45:19
  They have the best one to punch.
• 45:20
  You know, it's hard to get rid of that Detroit combo right now.
• 45:24
  But I mean, outside.
• 45:25
  They can make an argument.
• 45:26
  You can make an argument, man.
• 45:27
  Zach.
• 45:28
  I don't think you're going to win the argument.
• 45:29
  No, no.
• 45:30
  But you can make that argument.
• 45:31
  You know, he was putting up numbers when he was the lead back when Taylor was out.
• 45:35
  So you have that, you know, to kind of fall back to.
• 45:39
  But you need Jonathan Taylor to.
• 45:41
  But I mean, they're saving grace as their schedule is not very complex.
• 45:43
  It's not very difficult going forward.
• 45:45
  So then we have the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 45:48
  Lane Johnson was a surprising scratch from last week's game against the Bills with a
• 45:53
  groin injury.
• 45:54
  It stems from the issue he had last year.
• 45:57
  He's considered day to day right now.
• 45:58
  He is hoping to play this week against San Fran.
• 46:01
  They sure as shit need him against San Francisco.
• 46:04
  And I get the practice of how much of a participant he is in practice this week is really going
• 46:07
  to tell the story.
• 46:09
  But at the same time, he was a full participant participant every day last week.
• 46:13
  Yeah.
• 46:14
  And I mean, he straight up is saying to like he expects to be ready to play.
• 46:18
  But I feel like every player wants to say that, to be honest with you.
• 46:21
  So it's really going to be up to the combination of him.
• 46:24
  And I'd imagine the medical and coaching staff at that point to figure that out.
• 46:28
  But he says he expects to play.
• 46:30
  Yeah, I don't.
• 46:31
  I mean, in that regard, I doubt any player takes themself or holds out of a game.
• 46:36
  It's usually the medical staff that's going to prevent them from going in.
• 46:39
  Right.
• 46:40
  You got to be kind of a goon to go play in the NFL anyway.
• 46:42
  So like, I'm ready to go go play and hit somebody.
• 46:46
  Right.
• 46:47
  So yeah, somebody's going to tell you, no, you're not playing.
• 46:48
  Exactly.
• 46:49
  Your screws all can't be intact.
• 46:53
  That leads us to Cam Robinson.
• 46:55
  Big loss for that Jaguars offensive line.
• 46:57
  He's going to the knee to the I.R. with a knee injury.
• 47:01
  He is expected to be back for the playoff run, barring any setbacks.
• 47:05
  That's a big loss, man.
• 47:06
  No, no doubt.
• 47:07
  I mean, they really need him back for that playoff push at least.
• 47:11
  They were saying three to six weeks.
• 47:13
  But now I are obviously that's a minimum of four.
• 47:15
  So you know, if they're looking pretty good, do you hold them until the playoffs start
• 47:20
  at that point?
• 47:21
  Or do you try to work them into that last game of the season, maybe last two games of
• 47:24
  the season to get them back into form, as we say?
• 47:28
  I think the last game for sure.
• 47:30
  Just get them back in game shape and kind of keep that form, build that rhythm back
• 47:33
  in.
• 47:34
  I don't like players coming back for a playoff game.
• 47:36
  Just for the playoffs, I know.
• 47:37
  Yeah.
• 47:38
  So especially if it's an extended absence, you know, four to six week loft, like there's
• 47:41
  no way you can completely, 100 percent, keep your conditioning right to stay in game shape,
• 47:46
  especially this late in the season.
• 47:48
  But I mean, with the trainers out there, you know, disposal, I'm sure they can be damn
• 47:52
  close, but there's no way they're going to be able to train 100 percent, obviously, with
• 47:57
  the injury.
• 47:58
  Well, that's that's the thing as well with a with a knee injury.
• 48:00
  It's not like he can sit on a treadmill and condition, you know, you got a broken wrist.
• 48:03
  You can still have your conditioning up intact where you're fairly limited when you have
• 48:07
  a knee injury because you don't want to put any stress on it.
• 48:10
  And you know, your conditioning does take a hit.
• 48:13
  Right.
• 48:14
  Yeah, no doubt.
• 48:15
  Let's switches this over to the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 48:17
  We had Zach Cunningham go down with a hamstring injury.
• 48:20
  He had an MRI actually today being recording this on a Tuesday or pending the results of
• 48:24
  that MRI.
• 48:25
  But he is not expected to miss a lot of time.
• 48:27
  They need him to miss zero time.
• 48:29
  They do.
• 48:30
  He's an integral part of that defense, man.
• 48:32
  I don't think he will miss zero time because hamstrings are are the real deal.
• 48:37
  I mean, you pull that or strain that at all.
• 48:39
  You're I mean, you feel that for quite a while.
• 48:42
  You got to be 100 percent.
• 48:43
  Otherwise, you're just risking aggravating it again.
• 48:46
  And now you're just prolonging that recovery.
• 48:49
  No, exactly, man.
• 48:50
  I think in the way the Eagles are sitting right now, I think you give him all the rest
• 48:54
  that's needed and you need him for a playoff run.
• 48:56
  Yeah.
• 48:57
  So that's a good that's a good point.
• 48:58
  I mean, they're sitting.
• 48:59
  What are they?
• 49:00
  Ten and one, right?
• 49:01
  They're sitting at ten and one might as well just settle.
• 49:03
  Yeah.
• 49:04
  You know, unless he's for sure 100 percent good to go.
• 49:07
  And then that leads us to Zach Cunningham.
• 49:09
  I'm sorry.
• 49:10
  We he is Zach Cunningham.
• 49:12
  That leads us to Shaq Leonard.
• 49:14
  Shaq Leonard has there's some teams interested in him right now.
• 49:18
  The two biggest being the Cowboys and the Eagles with the Cunningham injury going down.
• 49:22
  I could very much see Leonard getting a visit with the Eagles.
• 49:25
  And I think if they do get a scheduled visit, he does not leave that facility without a
• 49:29
  contract.
• 49:30
  There's no way he does.
• 49:31
  Like you said, with the uncertainty of the Cunningham injury, who knows?
• 49:34
  He could be back next week.
• 49:35
  He could be back.
• 49:36
  He could go to I.R. for four weeks, to be honest.
• 49:39
  We don't know yet.
• 49:42
  So if he gets a visit, I think you're right.
• 49:44
  If they know the outlook on Cunningham and if they can agree to the right dollar amount.
• 49:49
  I think at this point, I don't think it matters the status of Cunningham, whether they're
• 49:54
  going to sign him or not, just because going into the playoffs, you want the depth at the
• 49:57
  position that's a weak spot of their defense this week.
• 50:00
  And if he's your depth going into the playoffs, I'm feeling pretty solid.
• 50:03
  No, hell yeah.
• 50:04
  Hell yeah.
• 50:05
  And I mean, from the money perspective, the Colts are still paying them a good chunk of
• 50:08
  money.
• 50:09
  So they're not going to I think, you know, they're not going to throw eight, nine, ten
• 50:12
  million dollars at them.
• 50:13
  And I don't think they need to.
• 50:15
  At this point, he wants to play for a contender right now.
• 50:18
  That's exactly what I was going to say.
• 50:19
  No, you're good.
• 50:20
  You're good.
• 50:21
  At this point in his career, it's you know, he's made his money.
• 50:25
  He's a free agent at the end of the year.
• 50:27
  So he's going to be able to sign with anybody next year.
• 50:29
  Why not ring chase?
• 50:30
  It's time to win a ship.
• 50:31
  And if and if the two teams that are looking at you are the Cowboys and Eagles, two Eagles
• 50:36
  for sure are contender.
• 50:37
  And I mean, I'd even float the idea that the Cowboys are legit contender, whether or not
• 50:41
  playoff deck shows up or who decides to play.
• 50:44
  That's up to them.
• 50:45
  But I mean, yeah, I mean, it's probably one of those two teams.
• 50:50
  I think he does sign, though.
• 50:51
  There's no way he doesn't play somewhere the rest of the season.
• 50:54
  No, I agree.
• 50:55
  I agree.
• 50:56
  And I think it's one of those two teams.
• 50:57
  Your boy, Justin Jefferson, activated off IR, is expected to come back after the bye
• 51:03
  week this week and play against the Las Vegas Raiders.
• 51:07
  After this game against the Bears, boy, do you guys need him?
• 51:10
  Well, and the thing is, is not only is he an elite receiver himself, but he's going
• 51:14
  to draw the best DB on the field and he's going to draw potentially double coverage,
• 51:20
  which then opens it up for T.J.
• 51:21
  Hockinson, K.J.
• 51:22
  Osborne, Jordan Addison.
• 51:24
  You know, it just opens it up for those guys.
• 51:26
  It also opens up.
• 51:27
  It helps in the run game, you know, because you can't just stack the box.
• 51:30
  Not that you would stack the box against the Vikings, but.
• 51:33
  Or have to right now.
• 51:34
  Yeah, that's the thing.
• 51:35
  It's not AP back there.
• 51:36
  Right, right, right.
• 51:38
  So it's you know, he draws that extra look.
• 51:41
  So even a play action, you know, there's so much you can't take a play off with him.
• 51:44
  You can't.
• 51:45
  You can't.
• 51:46
  You can't.
• 51:47
  Although I feel like defenses can take plays off sometimes with low key T.J.
• 51:51
  Hockinson and K.J.
• 51:52
  Osborne, like Jordan Addison.
• 51:54
  I think we're realizing, hey, that dude, that dude will make you miss.
• 51:57
  So you can't you can't take a play off with him.
• 51:59
  But I think teams do take some plays off of T.J. and K.J.
• 52:02
  So if they're shut down and your only guy you're looking at is Addison, well, you just
• 52:07
  got not enough targets.
• 52:09
  So Jefferson coming back would be would be huge for that offense.
• 52:12
  Yeah, I agree.
• 52:13
  100 percent.
• 52:14
  I agree.
• 52:15
  100 percent.
• 52:16
  He's one of the best players in the NFL.
• 52:17
  Top two.
• 52:18
  I mean, the best receiver in the NFL, in my opinion.
• 52:21
  I think it's close.
• 52:22
  It's damn close.
• 52:23
  Ty Hill.
• 52:24
  But I think it's close.
• 52:25
  He might edge out Ty Hill.
• 52:26
  And I do Ty Rieck's nasty, dude.
• 52:30
  Yeah.
• 52:31
  Yeah.
• 52:32
  I mean, I would agree.
• 52:33
  I would agree.
• 52:35
  Well, that leads us to our last segment here in 10.
• 52:37
  We have our Rogers watch.
• 52:41
  Rumor has it's multi.
• 52:42
  He is targeting a Christmas Eve return.
• 52:44
  Now that is obviously barring any setbacks with the Achilles recovery and the Jets do
• 52:49
  have to be in playoff contention.
• 52:51
  You know what else is rumored about that?
• 52:53
  What's that?
• 52:54
  That he's a big fat liar.
• 52:56
  I don't believe it.
• 52:57
  But allegedly, it might have not have been an Achilles just because people are saying
• 53:04
  it just because he could potentially return Christmas Eve.
• 53:08
  He's not saying he will.
• 53:09
  He's saying there's the potential of it.
• 53:11
  And like you said, the Jets would still have to be in playoff contention for him to do
• 53:14
  that.
• 53:16
  But is he lying?
• 53:17
  You're his buddy.
• 53:18
  I don't think so.
• 53:19
  That's a crock of shit, dude.
• 53:21
  You're not going to.
• 53:22
  The thing is, is you have an NFL player, especially someone of Rogers caliber, that motherfucker
• 53:30
  wants to win another Super Bowl.
• 53:32
  So bad.
• 53:33
  That's why he left Green Bay and was able to build a team around him.
• 53:37
  I just don't think he's going to fake an injury.
• 53:40
  The funny thing is, is how funny would it be?
• 53:44
  Because he would have to play, I think it's 75 percent of the snaps this year for the
• 53:47
  Packers to get a first round pick from the Jets.
• 53:49
  Anything less than 75 percent.
• 53:51
  It's a second rounder.
• 53:52
  How funny would it be that he just didn't play that 75 percent simply so the Packers
• 53:55
  got screwed over of a first rounder?
• 53:57
  Do you think you would do that at this point?
• 53:58
  No, no, no.
• 53:59
  Again, again, he wants to win a Super Bowl.
• 54:02
  He had the Jets are a quarterback away from being a Super Bowl threat.
• 54:05
  They have no and they went out and got the guy that they could have.
• 54:09
  I mean, not the best quarterback they could have got.
• 54:11
  You're not trading for a Lamar or Patrick Holmes.
• 54:13
  We were talking about this in the summer, you know, in the offseason, like who could
• 54:18
  they go target?
• 54:19
  Who could they go get?
• 54:21
  And the Jets and Rogers were thrown around a lot and they made it happen.
• 54:25
  I think he is your guy to set you over that edge.
• 54:28
  I would agree.
• 54:29
  I would agree.
• 54:30
  And the other time as well is like if it wasn't Rogers that's doing this, it's not talked
• 54:36
  about it with this conspiracy.
• 54:38
  It's just because it's Rogers and of course, the media just loves in quotation Rogers as
• 54:44
  much as they actually truly hate him.
• 54:46
  So it's it's just people that want clicks.
• 54:48
  You put Rogers name out there.
• 54:49
  You're going to get the clicks.
• 54:50
  I think it's so stupid to even like consider that as even in a conversation.
• 54:55
  No, I just I saw it somewhere and I was like, oh, I'm bringing that up.
• 54:59
  Genius.
• 55:00
  Well, let's move on to everybody's favorite segment, Smeltz's bonehead move of the week.
• 55:05
  What do you got for us this week, Smeltz?
• 55:07
  Yeah, and it's actually it's not a player and it's not a former player even this week.
• 55:13
  It's we're talking about an owner, Panthers owner, David Tepper, as you know, let go of
• 55:19
  his his coach this week, Frank Reich.
• 55:22
  That would make six coaches since 2018.
• 55:25
  So the reason why he's kind of the bonehead move of the week here is, you know, he always
• 55:32
  preaches like patience with the organization and he's got all this patience and whatnot.
• 55:38
  Well, that's your sixth coach since 2018.
• 55:41
  Three of them head coaches, three of them interim coaches, but that's your sixth coach
• 55:45
  overall since 2018.
• 55:48
  What I'm just curious what and I got something else for him, too, that kind of puts him in
• 55:52
  the bonehead because it's kind of sus and weird and whatever, but just that first part
• 55:56
  there.
• 55:57
  Like, what's your definition of patience?
• 55:59
  Because I don't I don't know, right?
• 56:01
  You know, as an owner, I'm sure you want results immediately.
• 56:04
  But in pro sports, it takes time to build something.
• 56:07
  Yeah.
• 56:08
  And I mean, preaching the patience, it's like he says that, but he's also known for having
• 56:13
  a ridiculously short leash.
• 56:16
  He's the second richest owner in the NFL.
• 56:19
  So paying for all those coaches and their contracts don't matter because to him, because
• 56:23
  they don't count towards the salary cap.
• 56:25
  So we can afford to do that.
• 56:27
  But it's I don't know what his definition of patience is.
• 56:30
  That's what I mean.
• 56:31
  And then there's no continuity in your organization.
• 56:33
  None.
• 56:34
  So how are you supposed to get any sort of rhythm, flow, momentum, whatever the hell
• 56:38
  you want to call it, even just in the front office.
• 56:41
  And then that stems down to the coaching staff, which stems down to the players.
• 56:46
  I don't know.
• 56:48
  It just it really throws me for a loop when he preaches patience.
• 56:51
  And now he's like, oh, another coach, Granit, they're one in ten, not doing shit.
• 56:55
  But the thing about it, the thing about it, what do you what did he expect out of the
• 56:59
  Panthers this year?
• 57:01
  You had the number one overall pick, granted, because you traded for it.
• 57:05
  So you were the not the ninth pick.
• 57:07
  You are the ninth worst team in the league last year.
• 57:10
  You didn't make a huge acquisitions.
• 57:12
  You signed Miles Sanders, you drafted Bryce Young, you brought in Adam Thielen, which
• 57:16
  was supposed to take them to the Super Bowl, probably Adam Thielen looking ass.
• 57:21
  But at the end of the day, like, what did you honestly expect?
• 57:24
  Well, and so and so let's talk about taking Bryce at number one overall.
• 57:28
  He also made some kind of weird comments to me.
• 57:31
  So he said he's confident in the pick.
• 57:34
  He just said this in an interview like this past week, and I'm pretty sure.
• 57:38
  And he's still referring to Bryce as a pick.
• 57:40
  But he said he's he was confident with the pick.
• 57:43
  And then he goes on to say how more or less he was confident as more reporters keep asking
• 57:49
  questions.
• 57:51
  He goes on more or less to say, well, I was confident in my team or in my coaching staff's
• 57:56
  pick.
• 57:57
  He never he never like said himself or anything like.
• 58:01
  And then he goes on to say that their original plan, because they didn't think they were
• 58:04
  going to get number one.
• 58:05
  Their original plan was to trade up to number two and take CJ Stroud.
• 58:09
  And now saying that at this point in the season, after seeing what CJ is doing and what the
• 58:13
  Panthers are doing, I just feel like that's really weird timing to be bringing something
• 58:16
  like that up.
• 58:18
  And maybe people are just pestering and making stories, which is media in general.
• 58:22
  But like the way he if you go watch the interview, the way he kind of beats around the bush of
• 58:26
  that Bryce Young question and then says, like, I trust or I trust my team or my coaching
• 58:33
  staff with their pick or whatever, just how he says it.
• 58:36
  It's just like it was a coach and the front office.
• 58:38
  He said he trusted the pick.
• 58:41
  But why?
• 58:42
  You know what I mean?
• 58:43
  I don't know what it is this year.
• 58:45
  But they like Ron Rivera is doing this.
• 58:47
  Frank Reich was doing this.
• 58:48
  And now David Tepper is doing this.
• 58:50
  You got to stop saying what you think.
• 58:55
  That's for us to do.
• 58:56
  You have a you have to have a filter when you're in such a high position.
• 59:01
  You are one of 31 people in the world, not 32 because the Packers are owned by the fans.
• 59:07
  But you are one of 31 people in the world.
• 59:11
  You aren't on the same pedestal as you as I as I'm not going to say we're media, but
• 59:15
  pundits.
• 59:16
  I mean, that's even a stretch at this point.
• 59:18
  Hey, whatever, whatever.
• 59:19
  We'll take it.
• 59:20
  At the end of the day, like like we can say that the media can say that you can't come
• 59:25
  out and say that shit.
• 59:26
  I know.
• 59:27
  How much do you want to just like like Bryce Young's confidence can't be great right now.
• 59:31
  No, make it worse.
• 59:32
  Right.
• 59:33
  No shit.
• 59:34
  That's what I mean.
• 59:35
  That's what I mean.
• 59:36
  The dude's already not having a hell of a stellar year, but it's not the end of the
• 59:38
  world.
• 59:39
  Look at Trevor Lawrence.
• 59:40
  It's not the end of the world.
• 59:41
  You can still develop, but how are you supposed to develop if you you got a new coach every
• 59:46
  other year and you have no talent?
• 59:48
  There is no there's nothing else.
• 59:50
  There's nothing.
• 59:51
  Adam Thielen is still a good receiver in the NFL.
• 59:52
  He's not going to.
• 59:54
  He's not.
• 59:55
  You can't build around.
• 59:56
  He's not even like a one a one B. I mean, it's a stretch to say he's a he's your slot
• 1:00:02
  was Wes Welker type to get you a first down is what he is at this point in his career,
• 1:00:06
  which is great.
• 1:00:07
  You need that.
• 1:00:08
  You need the outside guys on a young team, you need that veteran presence in the wide
• 1:00:11
  receiver room, just in the offensive room.
• 1:00:13
  And he's the guy to do it.
• 1:00:14
  He is.
• 1:00:15
  But it's like but well, Myles Sanders was the free agent signing.
• 1:00:19
  Right.
• 1:00:20
  Right.
• 1:00:21
  But if you look at the Panthers like like both sides of the ball, can you name a foundational
• 1:00:25
  piece on either side of the ball?
• 1:00:27
  Absolutely.
• 1:00:28
  Bryce Young, Bryce Young, I'm not going to say is a foundational piece yet.
• 1:00:30
  I got to see more.
• 1:00:31
  You drafted him to do that.
• 1:00:32
  So I would say at the moment, maybe for the Patriots also drafted Mack Jones to be that
• 1:00:38
  whole.
• 1:00:39
  That's a whole.
• 1:00:40
  But at the end of the day, the one player you could make that argument for is Brian
• 1:00:43
  Burns.
• 1:00:44
  He's a stud.
• 1:00:45
  Sure.
• 1:00:46
  And you need that edge rusher in the modern day NFL.
• 1:00:48
  Yeah.
• 1:00:49
  But you have one foundational piece on your team.
• 1:00:51
  Now let's switch over to the Texans.
• 1:00:54
  They don't have any foundational pieces on their team outside of maybe CJ Stroud who's
• 1:00:58
  earned that.
• 1:00:59
  That's what's going on.
• 1:01:00
  And they are excelling with what they're given.
• 1:01:02
  You look at the divisions.
• 1:01:04
  They're both not.
• 1:01:05
  I mean, the AFC South has turned into a good division, but going into the year, I would
• 1:01:09
  say you could make an argument going into the year that they might be the two worst
• 1:01:13
  divisions in football.
• 1:01:14
  Yeah.
• 1:01:15
  Going into the year.
• 1:01:16
  Now let's change what the AFC South and what they're doing.
• 1:01:19
  But what the fuck, dude?
• 1:01:21
  Yeah, I know.
• 1:01:22
  I know.
• 1:01:23
  So if you're Bryce now, right, and you've seen that interview, I'd imagine he's watched
• 1:01:28
  it by now.
• 1:01:29
  Maybe not.
• 1:01:30
  Who knows?
• 1:01:31
  I'd imagine.
• 1:01:32
  He has at least heard of it.
• 1:01:33
  What's your mentality going into your next game then?
• 1:01:36
  I mean, obviously just do the best you can, right?
• 1:01:38
  But at this point, if you're on the Panthers, it's almost more about branding yourself.
• 1:01:42
  And I hate to flaunt that or try to not flaunt it, encourage that type of mentality to boost
• 1:01:49
  your own brand.
• 1:01:50
  But I don't know what else Bryce can do right now.
• 1:01:53
  I mean, if your owner's not really buying into you fully, he says he is kind of beating
• 1:01:58
  around the bush kind of way.
• 1:01:59
  But if he's not-
• 1:02:00
  What David Tepper says don't mean shit for what he actually thinks or does.
• 1:02:03
  You don't think so?
• 1:02:04
  Like, do you think they want to stick with-
• 1:02:05
  He says he's patient.
• 1:02:07
  He says he has Bryce Young's, like, he's confident in the pick, but then he fires his coach.
• 1:02:12
  He has no patience.
• 1:02:13
  And he comes out and says that, yeah, we probably should have drafted CJ Stroud.
• 1:02:15
  He didn't say that explicitly.
• 1:02:16
  Or we were going to draft CJ Stroud is what he said if we got up to two or whatever.
• 1:02:20
  And they ended up getting one and took Bryce because they trusted all their analytics and
• 1:02:24
  blah, blah, blah.
• 1:02:25
  And he went into that whole tangent.
• 1:02:27
  But it's just such a weird thing to say to me, man.
• 1:02:30
  And you know the worst thing about it for the Panthers?
• 1:02:33
  They don't got their first round pick next year and it's going to be number one.
• 1:02:37
  Oh, the Panthers.
• 1:02:40
  Are they the epitome of the NFL right now?
• 1:02:43
  Like what Detroit was like 15 years ago?
• 1:02:46
  It's too early to say that.
• 1:02:47
  I know.
• 1:02:48
  They're not that bad, right?
• 1:02:49
  They're not going 0-16 or now 0-17, but that's not the case.
• 1:02:53
  But-
• 1:02:54
  I mean, at the end of the day, they did the, like, they were the ninth worst team in the
• 1:02:57
  NFL last week.
• 1:02:58
  They're in, that's middle of the pack.
• 1:03:00
  But they went the wrong way.
• 1:03:02
  They did go the wrong way.
• 1:03:03
  They did go the wrong way.
• 1:03:05
  But it's, the team is so young and they have potential, like milestone foundational pieces
• 1:03:11
  in like CJ Stroud.
• 1:03:13
  I can't remember the tackle's name.
• 1:03:15
  It's like, they drafted him in the first round last year, the year before.
• 1:03:19
  It's like Enfano, Enfano or something like that.
• 1:03:21
  I know who you're talking about.
• 1:03:24
  They don't really have like a potential receiving threat.
• 1:03:27
  Right.
• 1:03:28
  You know, like-
• 1:03:29
  Well, the Texans?
• 1:03:30
  No, the-
• 1:03:31
  Oh, the Panthers, the Panthers.
• 1:03:32
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:33
  Sorry.
• 1:03:34
  Yeah, no, they really don't.
• 1:03:35
  There's nobody else.
• 1:03:36
  Who the hell else is even there?
• 1:03:37
  DJ Chark.
• 1:03:38
  Cool.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah, dude!
• 1:03:40
  Cool, sweet, sweet.
• 1:03:41
  So yeah, I mean, that's probably fine for the Bonehead of the week, but yeah, David
• 1:03:48
  Tepper, man.
• 1:03:49
  Bonehead.
• 1:03:50
  To week 13, Smelty, we have five games on the slate.
• 1:03:55
  One of them not being your Vikings because they are on a bye week.
• 1:03:58
  Thank God.
• 1:03:59
  Give you a little bit more time to recover.
• 1:04:02
  Let's start it off with the Packers.
• 1:04:04
  We have the Kansas City Chiefs traveling up to the Lambeau, taking on the Packers on Sunday
• 1:04:08
  night football.
• 1:04:10
  Packers are a six and a half point underdog.
• 1:04:13
  And I honestly don't know how the hell to feel about this, Smelty.
• 1:04:16
  They've looked real good the last two weeks.
• 1:04:19
  Defenses look good.
• 1:04:20
  J-Loves look good.
• 1:04:22
  But we haven't played the Chiefs.
• 1:04:24
  But this is the test right here.
• 1:04:26
  I am curious how they'll play.
• 1:04:28
  And they're at home at Lambeau, you said, right?
• 1:04:30
  So hey, them fans better bring it.
• 1:04:33
  They better bring it because who knows?
• 1:04:36
  And Taylor Swift has confirmed earlier in the year she will be at this game.
• 1:04:39
  Why?
• 1:04:40
  Because it's probably because it was like her.
• 1:04:42
  Who doesn't want to go to Lambeau, but why?
• 1:04:44
  Her and Simone Biles, I think, were like talking about or whatever because Jonathan Owens on
• 1:04:48
  the Packers is married to Simone Biles.
• 1:04:49
  So I don't know.
• 1:04:50
  I mean, she came out and said that.
• 1:04:51
  I mean, I don't know how much of it.
• 1:04:53
  I want to go to a game.
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  I want to go to Lambeau.
• 1:04:55
  You have to.
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  You really should.
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  I do.
• 1:04:58
  Make it a point to see a Vikings Packers game at Lambeau.
• 1:04:59
  I've toured there.
• 1:05:00
  I've been in the locker room and I touched all the grass and shit.
• 1:05:02
  See, I haven't even done that, but I've been to like five or six games.
• 1:05:05
  It was cool.
• 1:05:06
  It's a very historic state.
• 1:05:08
  It was a cool vibe.
• 1:05:09
  I don't want to go in on the Packers.
• 1:05:10
  I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
• 1:05:12
  I'm taking the Chiefs on that game, though.
• 1:05:14
  I'm curious to see how the Packers offense does do.
• 1:05:19
  But the Chiefs are just too much, man.
• 1:05:21
  They look good.
• 1:05:22
  They're one of the AFC favorites, rightfully so.
• 1:05:25
  And they could we could see them in the big dance again this year for sure.
• 1:05:28
  I'm torn on this one, bro.
• 1:05:29
  I really am.
• 1:05:30
  Six and a half points is a lot.
• 1:05:32
  You know, it's a touchdown spread, essentially.
• 1:05:34
  It's what scares me is Steve Spagnola's ability to game plan and take out the best offensive
• 1:05:42
  like not threat per se, but the best thing your offense has going for you.
• 1:05:47
  Now, Aaron Jones is kind of expected to come back and play this week, which would be huge
• 1:05:51
  not only in the run game, but that check down ability shows up, though.
• 1:05:55
  He's got to show up if he plays.
• 1:05:57
  Yeah.
• 1:05:58
  And we got to give him the ball.
• 1:05:59
  Yeah.
• 1:06:00
  You know, so I think the biggest what this game really comes down to is three players
• 1:06:04
  were Sean Gary, Preston Smith and Lucas Van Ness.
• 1:06:07
  They're the edge threats for the Packers, containing Patrick Mahomes and not allowing
• 1:06:13
  him to get outside and do the Patrick Mahomes thing.
• 1:06:16
  I think control on the edge and not allowing him to scramble and make those plays, in my
• 1:06:21
  opinion, is going to be one of two things is going to be the deciding factor.
• 1:06:25
  The second factor is, do we have the ability to slow down the Kansas City rushing attack?
• 1:06:30
  They're not great top tier by any means, but Pacheco runs hard and he runs efficient,
• 1:06:36
  efficiently and he's shifty as hell.
• 1:06:38
  So I think I think that that right there, I think that's key.
• 1:06:42
  If you can shut down their Kansas City's rushing attack and just kind of dial in on Mahomes
• 1:06:46
  a little bit.
• 1:06:47
  Why not?
• 1:06:48
  Quay Walker, let's go.
• 1:06:50
  I think Quay Walker is the player to spotlight in this game because he's probably going to
• 1:06:54
  be tasked with like double covering and then we're going to obviously have safety help.
• 1:06:57
  But you know, it's I don't know if it's going to be Devondre or if it's going to be Quay
• 1:07:00
  that's going to be lined up with Kelsey.
• 1:07:02
  But Kelsey is going to have we're going to have to stop Kelsey to win this game.
• 1:07:05
  But saying that I'm taking the Packers to cover the spread.
• 1:07:08
  I don't know if they're necessarily going to win it, but six and a half points is just
• 1:07:11
  too much for me with the way that the Packers are playing right now.
• 1:07:13
  Fair enough.
• 1:07:14
  All right, let's move on.
• 1:07:15
  The Seattle Seahawks traveling down to Dallas.
• 1:07:19
  Cowboys are nine point favored in this game.
• 1:07:21
  Smelty.
• 1:07:22
  I get it with the way Seattle looked last week, but nine points is just way too much.
• 1:07:25
  I got the Seahawks in this one covering that nine.
• 1:07:27
  I'm going Cowboys for 17.
• 1:07:31
  I think the Cowboys are going to dog walk Seattle.
• 1:07:33
  Geno Smith is off bad right now and they're in Dallas.
• 1:07:39
  That place is going to be rock and they love them boys down there.
• 1:07:42
  So no way.
• 1:07:44
  I know nine's a lot, though, but I just it's a lot, dude.
• 1:07:48
  I'm going to take that risk.
• 1:07:49
  Just Dallas.
• 1:07:50
  They're just too good.
• 1:07:52
  Yeah, I'm hoping that the Seahawks can can game plan something good offensively.
• 1:07:57
  I hate the Cowboys personally, so I'd love to see it.
• 1:08:00
  I'd fuck my pick like I'd love to see Seattle beat them in their own house, but I don't
• 1:08:05
  I don't see it happening and not even not even not even the nine.
• 1:08:09
  I don't see it.
• 1:08:10
  Yeah.
• 1:08:11
  And saying that, I don't think the Seahawks are going to win this game, but I see this
• 1:08:14
  as a five to seven point game and just nine just too much for me.
• 1:08:17
  So I got the Seahawks in this one covering that spread.
• 1:08:20
  That leads us to the Broncos taking on the team.
• 1:08:22
  We just spent a lot of time talking about the Houston Texans.
• 1:08:25
  Texans are going into this game, hosting the Broncos as a three and a half point favorite.
• 1:08:29
  So this is low key borderline game of the week.
• 1:08:33
  No, it's not even close.
• 1:08:34
  Almost.
• 1:08:35
  I know.
• 1:08:36
  Well, compared to what our game is.
• 1:08:37
  Yes, I agree.
• 1:08:38
  Wasn't even a consideration.
• 1:08:39
  But like this is going to be a good game.
• 1:08:40
  I'm excited for this game.
• 1:08:41
  I really am.
• 1:08:42
  Two somewhat hot teams.
• 1:08:43
  Yes, the Texans are coming off an L, but but they look good.
• 1:08:46
  But they're looking good.
• 1:08:47
  I think this will be a really interesting matchup.
• 1:08:50
  I think they match up well.
• 1:08:51
  I think this one's going to be close.
• 1:08:52
  What do you got?
• 1:08:53
  So who's favorited again?
• 1:08:54
  Texans.
• 1:08:55
  Yeah, I got to go Texans.
• 1:08:56
  I got to go Texans.
• 1:08:57
  I'm going to disagree.
• 1:08:58
  I got the Broncos winning this game.
• 1:08:59
  I almost went Bronco.
• 1:09:00
  It's going to be a good game.
• 1:09:01
  I got Broncos money line.
• 1:09:02
  I would take the money line on this one.
• 1:09:03
  I don't need the three and a half points.
• 1:09:04
  And now for the sake of our segment, I'm going to take the three and a half points.
• 1:09:05
  But the Broncos look real good right now.
• 1:09:06
  You know, it's it's a good game.
• 1:09:07
  I think they're going to win this game.
• 1:09:08
  I think they're going to win this game.
• 1:09:09
  And now for the sake of our segment, I'm going to take the three and a half points.
• 1:09:18
  There's some inconsistencies.
• 1:09:19
  However, their defense is just top tier.
• 1:09:22
  It really is.
• 1:09:23
  That's a matchup for me.
• 1:09:25
  Their defense versus the Texans because Justin Simmons ran that defense when they played
• 1:09:30
  the Vikings and he shut everything down.
• 1:09:32
  So we'll see.
• 1:09:33
  I think it'll be a great game.
• 1:09:36
  That takes us then to Lions Saints down in the Superdome.
• 1:09:41
  Lions did not look good last week, nor did the Saints really.
• 1:09:44
  So that's tough, man.
• 1:09:46
  Lions are four and a half point favorite.
• 1:09:48
  I don't know what to make of the Lions at this point.
• 1:09:50
  I would make an argument the Saints have a better defense than the Packers.
• 1:09:52
  Now, I think that's gotten a lot closer than what it once was.
• 1:09:55
  But I'm not confident in saying the Saints have a better offense than the Packers right
• 1:09:59
  now, especially with a lot of a possibly being sidelined.
• 1:10:04
  This is a tough one for me, Smelty, just because of how and even last week, it's not like the
• 1:10:08
  Lions looked poor.
• 1:10:10
  The three fumbles by Goff is what cost them the game at the end of the day.
• 1:10:13
  And, you know, I don't know if Goff is going to continue that.
• 1:10:16
  You know, it's I don't see.
• 1:10:18
  And I don't think so.
• 1:10:19
  I think he'll clean it up.
• 1:10:20
  But I think this one's going to be closer than we would have thought.
• 1:10:25
  Another bucket list stadium to go to for sure.
• 1:10:28
  Another place that you do not want to play as a visiting team.
• 1:10:31
  I think Detroit wins, but man, I don't know if they'll fucking get that.
• 1:10:36
  I don't know if this matters, but I'm taking the Lions to cover that four and a half.
• 1:10:39
  I got this game is a 31 24.
• 1:10:41
  I think that's a good that's a good that's a good prediction.
• 1:10:44
  Yeah, I'll just go Lions to cover.
• 1:10:47
  I just don't think the Saints have enough.
• 1:10:49
  Like you said, especially with a lobby out, I mean, Alvin Kamara would really have to
• 1:10:53
  show up.
• 1:10:54
  And he's been another guy hit or miss any given week this week or this year.
• 1:10:59
  Yeah, the only game we've agreed on, sir.
• 1:11:01
  It's going to be.
• 1:11:02
  Yeah, it's the only game we've agreed on so far.
• 1:11:05
  So it's good.
• 1:11:06
  That's interesting.
• 1:11:07
  So we definitely got to come with some standings next week.
• 1:11:09
  Yeah.
• 1:11:10
  Yeah.
• 1:11:11
  And apologies, listeners.
• 1:11:12
  We did not do the homework and get that done this time.
• 1:11:13
  We will.
• 1:11:14
  We will.
• 1:11:15
  It's just been it's been busy, man.
• 1:11:17
  So that leads us to our actual game of the week.
• 1:11:20
  NSC Championship game rematch from last year.
• 1:11:23
  Forty Niners go into the city of the brotherly love or more commonly known as the brotherly
• 1:11:28
  shove nowadays.
• 1:11:29
  Take it on the Eagles.
• 1:11:30
  The Eagles are actually an underdog.
• 1:11:32
  Three points in this game.
• 1:11:35
  Forty Niners favored by three.
• 1:11:37
  This to me is a pick them.
• 1:11:38
  I don't even like the three point spread.
• 1:11:39
  I think this is a half point, one point odds here.
• 1:11:44
  And I really don't know which way to go.
• 1:11:46
  If this game was in 49 in San Fran, I'm taking the 49ers all day to cover that three points.
• 1:11:51
  But playing in Phillies real hard.
• 1:11:54
  I want to say Philly, but I don't know if they cover.
• 1:11:57
  They don't need to cover.
• 1:11:58
  Oh, they're the ones favored by three.
• 1:12:00
  I thought of their underdog San Fran.
• 1:12:01
  OK, so I think I did you in.
• 1:12:04
  I think Philly wins.
• 1:12:06
  I think at home is tough.
• 1:12:07
  However, if they're going to lose a game this year right now, this is the one that they'll
• 1:12:12
  lose.
• 1:12:13
  I think this is your NFC preview.
• 1:12:14
  NSC Championship preview right here.
• 1:12:16
  Absolutely.
• 1:12:17
  I think it's going to be the two best.
• 1:12:19
  They're hands on the two best teams in the NFC.
• 1:12:21
  Who else can contend with them?
• 1:12:22
  Maybe Dallas on a good day.
• 1:12:24
  That's a good day.
• 1:12:25
  Other than that, I don't see anybody else beating these two teams.
• 1:12:28
  The Lions just don't have the defense.
• 1:12:30
  I think this is...
• 1:12:32
  Did this get flexed at all?
• 1:12:34
  Or is this going to be a noon game?
• 1:12:35
  No, it's a three o'clock game.
• 1:12:36
  Three o'clock?
• 1:12:37
  OK, OK.
• 1:12:38
  It's too early to flex yet.
• 1:12:40
  Yeah, OK.
• 1:12:41
  Fair enough.
• 1:12:42
  So no, I think that's going to be a great game.
• 1:12:43
  Big test for that Eagles defense.
• 1:12:45
  And Brock Purdy, too.
• 1:12:46
  I don't know.
• 1:12:47
  All in all, a great game.
• 1:12:48
  I think the Eagles will pull it off, but that's going to be fun.
• 1:12:51
  I think if you would have asked me this question four weeks ago, it's Eagles, no question.
• 1:12:55
  I think with that Chase Young edition, Chase Young and Nick Bosa on the outsides, I don't
• 1:12:59
  think Hertz is going to be able to extend the play like he has.
• 1:13:03
  You're not going to be able to stop the brotherly shove.
• 1:13:06
  I don't think that's possible.
• 1:13:07
  Numbers would agree with me there.
• 1:13:09
  But this 49ers defense is just...
• 1:13:11
  They're just too good right now with that addition of Chase Young.
• 1:13:14
  And even losing...
• 1:13:15
  What's his name again?
• 1:13:16
  Hafanga?
• 1:13:17
  Hafanga, yep.
• 1:13:18
  Last week, they looked fine.
• 1:13:19
  They got it done.
• 1:13:20
  They just beat...
• 1:13:22
  And it's that 49ers offense.
• 1:13:24
  I don't see Philly being able to stop Kittle, Debo, and McCaffrey.
• 1:13:30
  Well that's just it, dude.
• 1:13:31
  There's so many weapons.
• 1:13:32
  This is the true test for that defense.
• 1:13:34
  I know we literally say this shit every week.
• 1:13:37
  Well, we need them to see a true test.
• 1:13:38
  We blah, blah, blah.
• 1:13:39
  This is it.
• 1:13:40
  That three-headed monster right now, if you dare add Brock Purdy to that third head, but
• 1:13:45
  with McCaffrey and Debo and Purdy, look out for IU, look out for Kittle.
• 1:13:50
  That's the thing.
• 1:13:51
  They got weapons everywhere.
• 1:13:52
  You throw in IU, who's kind of gone under the radar, per se, and he's leading the team
• 1:13:57
  in touchdowns.
• 1:13:58
  Because think about it.
• 1:13:59
  You're keeping an eye on McCaffrey, probably number one.
• 1:14:01
  Close number two is Debo.
• 1:14:03
  Kittle's right...
• 1:14:04
  I mean, dude, no wonder Brandon IU flies under the radar.
• 1:14:07
  Oh, for sure.
• 1:14:09
  So saying that, I got the 49ers covering that three points.
• 1:14:13
  That's gonna be a great game.
• 1:14:14
  I don't like it.
• 1:14:15
  I don't like it.
• 1:14:16
  That's gonna be a great game.
• 1:14:17
  Just as a one-point spreader, a pick-em, just even at that.
• 1:14:20
  I don't like picking the Niners here, but I just think that that defense is just playing
• 1:14:24
  out of their freaking mind right now.
• 1:14:26
  And I just...
• 1:14:27
  I don't know, man.
• 1:14:28
  Like I said, the Eagles haven't put a full game together.
• 1:14:31
  I think they're gonna need their best and a full game to win this game.
• 1:14:35
  If the Eagles played like they did against the Bills, the 49ers dog walk them.
• 1:14:39
  Yeah.
• 1:14:40
  Well, yeah, I don't know, dude.
• 1:14:42
  It's gonna be a great game.
• 1:14:44
  I'm excited for it.
• 1:14:45
  I'm excited for it.
• 1:14:46
  I'm excited for the game of the week.
• 1:14:47
  That's all for this podcast, guys.
• 1:14:49
  Week 13 is upon us.
• 1:14:50
  We are excited.
• 1:14:52
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• 1:14:55
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• 1:14:58
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• 1:14:59
  Cheers, everybody.
• 1:15:00
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• 1:15:01
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• 1:15:06
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