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Hour Two | Pelicans Talk, Matt Flynn’s NFL QB Rankings & Saints Football · Off The Bench

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Speaker 1: With Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
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Speaker 1: Where the plays get broken down and science gets denied.
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Speaker 2: Dude, they said I gotta come off the bench.
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Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench, live from the Raising
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Speaker 1: Cane Studio.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in. Hour number two of OTV.
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Speaker 2: Here live from the Raising Cane Studio. Jake, Flynn, Alondra,
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Speaker 2: Tay-Tay all here with you. Last night, I had a
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Speaker 2: full slate of NBA action, real action, regular season action.
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Speaker 3: Can I say something before you start this? Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You want me to tell you how you know I
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Speaker 4: was sick without me telling you I was sick?
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Speaker 2: You watched the NBA?
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Speaker 3: I watched the Pelicans. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It was really good.
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Speaker 3: You had to put some on.
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Speaker 5: That's actually sick.
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Speaker 6: It was really good. I bet that made you feel better.
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Speaker 2: Until it wasn't. And they got outscored by 13 in
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Speaker 2: the second half. They got outscored by nine in the
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter. They lose late to the Pacers, 123 to 120.
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Speaker 3: If you think about it, though, pick and roll is
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Speaker 3: hard to defend.
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Speaker 6: It's a newer concept, for sure.
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Speaker 3: A new concept. They started running the fourth. Wow. Shocking.
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Speaker 2: Siakam had 30 points for the Pacers. Terry's Halliburton's back.
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Speaker 2: He had 23 for the Pacers.
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Speaker 3: He's so good.
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Speaker 2: Zion, though, 22 points. Hit all his free throws. Two
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Speaker 2: of four from beyond the arc. Had a chance. He
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Speaker 2: actually shot the last ball for the Pelicans with a
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Speaker 2: chance to try to tie it up.
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Speaker 3: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: Murray had a big night. Derrick Queen had a big night,
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Speaker 2: 18 minutes, 10 points, 10 boards.
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Speaker 6: Derrick Queen's good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: He got a little jawing match with Halliburton. Whatever his
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Speaker 4: name is.
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Speaker 6: I think I'd take a queen in that matchup.
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Speaker 2: You probably have a card of Tyrese Halliburton.
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Speaker 3: Halliburton.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So the rotation looked pretty good. You played 10 guys.
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Speaker 2: The roster looks deeper. But surprise, surprise, you still can't
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Speaker 2: close out games. I just hope that's not going to
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Speaker 2: be the common theme. Because, again, there was a lot
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Speaker 2: of good there for the Pelicans.
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Speaker 6: Let's just hope the roster stays deep.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 6: That's my biggest concern, as it should be for everybody.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Look, I didn't watch any last year. I know people
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Speaker 4: kept saying they can't finish, they can't finish. I did
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Speaker 4: watch a team last night, probably the first time I've
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Speaker 4: ever locked into a Pelicans game. I did see a
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Speaker 4: team that didn't just poo down their leg, though. Pacers
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Speaker 4: played really well at the end. They couldn't miss a shot.
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Speaker 6: I mean, last year, DeJounte Murray was hurt most of
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Speaker 6: the season, so fears probably had to play a little
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Speaker 6: bit more than you wanted him to. He's still a
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Speaker 6: young guy. If he could stay healthy, that's a good backcourt.
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Speaker 6: At least it felt like it was loud in the
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Speaker 6: blender last night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was rocking.
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Speaker 2: Meecy was awesome last night. He had 13 points, 14 boards,
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Speaker 2: five assists, three blocks. You got a new coach, and
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Speaker 2: he's definitely going to be your five on this team.
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Speaker 2: And I think Derek Queen is going to come in
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Speaker 2: in different roles. Again, he only played 18 minutes. Meecy
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Speaker 2: played 30 minutes. And now Fierce, he's in the starting lineup.
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Speaker 2: He played 21 minutes. That's going to be one of
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Speaker 2: your young players. But, I don't know, interesting to see
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Speaker 2: how it works out. First game of the year. I'm like, Matt,
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Speaker 2: I was dialed in. I was watching. I was enjoying it.
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Speaker 2: Found myself enjoying it until I didn't.
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Speaker 6: I mean, at least it's something you really kind of expected,
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Speaker 6: you know, in the back of your mind, you're like, Hey,
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Speaker 6: this is going really good. Something new Orleans is going
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Speaker 6: to do is going to backfire here down the stretch.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. And you saw like how different of a human
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Speaker 4: Halliburton was in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 3: Like, that's why he's... I mean, he's... That's why he's
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Speaker 3: an all-star right there.
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Speaker 4: And you could tell, like, if you had to pick
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Speaker 4: at one person and be like, oh, that's the guy.
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Speaker 4: Maybe he didn't have the best... I don't know if
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Speaker 4: he had the best stats on the court.
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Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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Speaker 4: But he's one of those guys you can just tell
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Speaker 4: when it's in his hand.
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Speaker 3: You're like, you probably feel really good.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Your Pacers fan, you didn't feel very good.
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Speaker 6: When the game's on the line and he's got the ball.
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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 6: You look at him, you're like, we don't got a
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Speaker 6: guy like that.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: Like, in the third, I started watching the third.
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Speaker 2: And one he got at the very end.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: When I started watching the third... I didn't really notice him,
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Speaker 4: but I did in the fourth. And that's kind of
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Speaker 4: the difference.
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Speaker 6: I mean, dude, he took that Pacers team to the
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Speaker 6: NBA Finals two years ago. People forget about that because,
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Speaker 6: you know, he tears the Achilles and that ultimately wound
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Speaker 6: up being a short series. But Halliburton in the playoffs
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Speaker 6: and in crunch time, like, he's one of the best
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Speaker 6: in the league.
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Speaker 4: The only thing that I noticed that I thought that
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Speaker 4: they poo-pooed down their leg on was they got into
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Speaker 4: foul trouble with 845 left in the fourth.
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Speaker 3: Like, they were in the bonus. Is that what you
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Speaker 3: call it?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Did I know it? That would be it.
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Speaker 6: What's after the bonus, Mike?
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Speaker 3: I'm like over myself watching myself on the radio right now.
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Speaker 6: What's after the bonus?
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Speaker 3: Double bonus?
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Speaker 6: Hey, look at our guy.
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Speaker 3: Is that really? Is that it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Hell yeah.
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Speaker 2: You nailed it.
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Speaker 6: You're already dialed in.
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Speaker 2: NBA correspondent Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 3: Not a big deal. Pick and roll, though. We need
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Speaker 3: to go back to the basics on D.
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Speaker 2: All right, so the Pelicans have the Jazz coming up
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Speaker 2: on the road, and that's going to be on Friday.
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Speaker 2: Then they've got a game at Denver. Then they host
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Speaker 2: Denver on October the 24th and the 28th. Last night
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Speaker 2: did look better. Still not good enough, and we'll see
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Speaker 2: if they can find a way to change their fortune
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Speaker 2: at the end of the game.
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Speaker 3: You know what? When at the end, they scored on
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Speaker 3: a pick and roll like three or four straight times.
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Speaker 4: Just straight possessions. They ran the same play every single time.
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Speaker 4: It made me feel like LSU versus Kentucky. and thrown
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Speaker 4: to the tight end. Three plays in a row.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, do something.
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Speaker 2: Here you go, Willie.
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Speaker 3: Come on.
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Speaker 2: Here you go, Willie Rodriguez.
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Speaker 3: Don't say they can't do it again, because they can. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's true. Make them not.
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Speaker 2: Every great coach that I ever played for would do
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Speaker 2: just that. If a play was working.
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Speaker 3: Every now and then, yeah.
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Speaker 2: If a play was working like that, they'd be like,
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Speaker 2: run it back. Flip it. Same play, flip it. If
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Speaker 2: we picked up, like, I don't know, seven yards on, like,
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Speaker 2: a stretch lead to the left, you could bet your
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Speaker 2: bottom dollar Norv's going to say flip it. That's all
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Speaker 2: he'd say, flip it. And we'd run it to the right. No,
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Speaker 2: he'd say flip it. Like this. Flip it.
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Speaker 6: We knew we weren't huddling because we were doing the
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Speaker 6: same play. We had NASCAR. Just get up there and
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Speaker 6: go fast. If it was the same, it was NASCAR flip.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Go fast, turn left. Go fast, turn left.
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Speaker 2: Starting to get him back, y'all. Starting to get him
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Speaker 2: back a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Getting delusional.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. You know, now that you've given us this information,
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Speaker 2: you're going to be the basketball correspondent, right?
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Speaker 4: Well, as long as I'm sick for the next five,
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Speaker 4: six months, I got you. It's the only way I'm watching.
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Speaker 2: Not all heroes wear capes, bud. We'll take it.
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Speaker 3: Yep. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: LSU still got an exhibition, right? Against Florida State in Tallahassee.
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Speaker 2: And then you start off the season against what the
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Speaker 2: artist formerly known as UNO.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, LSU New Orleans now.
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Speaker 6: Still the privateers there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Women's got an exhibition tonight.
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Speaker 2: We were LSU Shreveport. We were the pilots.
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Speaker 6: Didn't they set like some sort of Juco baseball record?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they went undefeated. Whole year.
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Speaker 6: It went like, was it like 40 straight or whatever
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Speaker 6: it was?
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Speaker 2: 50 something. Setting a betting line on Flint here.
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Speaker 3: Over under.
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Speaker 2: Over under 9 a.m.
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Speaker 3: That's a good line. That's a good line.
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Speaker 2: I'm going under.
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Speaker 6: I'll take. Wait, meaning he'll lead before?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I'll take over.
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Speaker 2: Those eyes have gotten pretty puffy.
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Speaker 6: I think Matt actually makes a double show.
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Speaker 1: Oh.
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Speaker 3: I hope you're getting plus money.
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Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. That's a long shot. My return
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Speaker 6: is going to be great.
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Speaker 3: Plus $ 3, 500. Yeah, I'm just.
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Speaker 6: Playing the odds at this point. All right.
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Speaker 2: So maybe this isn't his Jordan flu game.
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Speaker 3: Jordan didn't play the whole game.
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Speaker 2: He scored 38, I think.
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Speaker 3: 36, 38.
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Speaker 6: You haven't scored anything.
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 5: I'll give you two points for this NBA.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: He hit a three. He hit a three. He did
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Speaker 2: the mellow. He hit a side of his head.
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Speaker 3: I made y'all laugh once earlier.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That's like worth 10.
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Speaker 6: I don't remember laughing.
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Speaker 3: That was a double-double.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really remember laughing.
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Speaker 3: Double-double flu games. Solid.
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Speaker 2: You can go.
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Speaker 3: See ya.
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Speaker 5: Just leave now.
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Speaker 6: You got that in the first half. We'll see you, bud.
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Speaker 4: I might go see our guy, Dr. Stephen Etheridge.
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Speaker 2: You might dabble.
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Speaker 3: You might dabble.
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Speaker 2: You might dabble. I'm going to guess that the Matt
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Speaker 2: Flynn top ten quarterback rankings aren't available.
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Speaker 3: I have them ready.
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Speaker 2: You have them ready? All right. Well, let's take a break.
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Speaker 2: And when we come back, let's see if you can
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Speaker 2: get through them. It might be the last thing we
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Speaker 2: get from you today.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see if we can get through your quarterback rankings.
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Speaker 4: All righty.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in. OTB here live from the Raising Cane Studio. Good?
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: All right, we are going to get Matt Flynn's top
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Speaker 2: 10 NFL quarterback rankings before we get him out of
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Speaker 2: here today.
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Speaker 3: We did it. We prepared. Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
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Speaker 2: It does. All right, y'all ready?
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Speaker 4: Well, week six, NFL quarterback power rankings. A little shake
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Speaker 4: up here in the back end of this. A couple
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Speaker 4: people towards the back end of this top 10 could
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Speaker 4: have been swapped out, but everybody, a little curveball. Let's
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Speaker 4: start with number 10, Mr. Kirk Cousins. He remains up
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Speaker 4: there because he remains Mr.
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Speaker 3: Consistent.
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Speaker 4: The more he can play well and the more Fernando
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Speaker 4: Mendoza cannot have to play this season, the better it
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Speaker 4: is for the longevity of the Las Vegas Raiders and
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Speaker 4: Fernando Mendoza's career. If Kirk would have played bad, I'm
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Speaker 4: sure he would have gotten thrown in there and got
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Speaker 4: some good experience, but we've all seen it happen.
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Speaker 3: A.K.
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Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes, when you sit for a while and then
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Speaker 4: you get to play, a lot better things happen. He's
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Speaker 4: learning how to be a professional from Kirk. thuggins right
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Speaker 4: there so we're going to keep him up there he's
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Speaker 4: got 14 touchdowns five interceptions 98 qb rating this year
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Speaker 4: and yes they started out hot they've lost a little
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Speaker 4: bit but they were at three um they lost by
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Speaker 4: three points on the road against a 501 buffalo but
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Speaker 4: they played a hell of a game so i'm going
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Speaker 4: to give kirk a little more credit and we get
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Speaker 4: a little bit more runway here on the top 10
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Speaker 4: but they got to win a game here pretty soon
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Speaker 4: number nine boom drake may We're going to see him
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Speaker 4: play tonight against Caleb Williams. A couple of 2024 draft
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Speaker 4: class first rounders going head-to-head tonight.
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Speaker 3: Looking forward.
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Speaker 4: He's a guy that I think the first week of
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Speaker 4: the season maybe had the Sam Darnold scene ghost effect,
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Speaker 4: but has played his ass off as of late. Over 1,463
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Speaker 4: yards this season. 11 touchdowns, 7 interceptions, but recently it's
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Speaker 4: been a lot more. Now, he's got the most interceptions ever.
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Speaker 4: than anybody on this board at seven. But I do
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Speaker 4: got to give him a lot of credit. A lot
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Speaker 4: of those came early in the season. And he has
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Speaker 4: turned his play around, which, in fact, has turned the
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Speaker 4: whole Patriots season around. And last week, he was my
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Speaker 4: Flynn-credible performance of the week. So give him a lot
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Speaker 4: of credit. All right, this next one's going to shock y'all.
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Speaker 4: It shocked even me when I put it on there.
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Speaker 4: My pencil was trembling when I did it. I didn't
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Speaker 4: feel good. I still don't feel great about it, but
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Speaker 4: I did it. I'm going to stick behind. I'm going
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Speaker 4: to say it with my chest up. Ooh, CJ Straub, Texans.
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Speaker 4: I picked them to go to the Super Bowl this year.
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Speaker 4: So I'm putting a lot of positive vibes towards CJ
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Speaker 4: right now. I'm putting positive. No one talked worse about
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Speaker 4: him than I did last season in the offseason. But
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Speaker 4: as of late, I watched that game because I was curious.
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Speaker 4: They'll be like, I watched the game last week because
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Speaker 4: I was curious, why aren't they winning games? They are
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Speaker 4: so good. Their defense, we saw it last year, incredible.
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Speaker 4: CJ has had like, he hasn't looked like a shadow
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Speaker 4: of himself in years.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 4: Kind of feels like he's found that love and feeling
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Speaker 4: a little bit. He's playing really well, not making a
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Speaker 4: whole lot of mistakes. He's got nine touchdowns, one interception,
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Speaker 4: triple-digit passer rating on the season. He's also got nearly
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Speaker 4: 100 yards rushing as well. So, yes, their record isn't great,
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Speaker 4: but he is taking care of the ball. Last year,
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Speaker 4: they lost because of him. This year, it's a whole
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Speaker 4: different story. Yeah, they can't run the football.
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Speaker 2: A lot of this. They can't. He's doing everything.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they can't. He's having to do a whole heck
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Speaker 3: of a lot. But you know what?
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Speaker 4: Look, I picked him to go to the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 4: so I'm still hoping that my pick comes true. So selfishly,
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Speaker 4: I'm putting him on the top ten. All right, let's
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Speaker 4: go to number seven.
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Speaker 3: Mr.
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Speaker 4: Joe Burrow moving up one to my number seven spot. 1,361
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Speaker 4: yards passed at 11 touchdowns, three interceptions, touting a 104.4 QBR.
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Speaker 3: Got a Russian touchdown as well. 3-2 as a starter.
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Speaker 3: Let's see.
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Speaker 4: They had a bye week, but they're 3-2 leading up
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Speaker 4: to that point. So, you know, he pulls a Lamar
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Speaker 4: and gets to move up.
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Speaker 2: Do you have Ravens this week? I believe so.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: He's got the fourth best rating among regular starters this season.
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Speaker 4: His rating only behind Purdy, Goff, and Trevor Lawrence. He's
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Speaker 4: also the most accurate passer on the board at 71.4% completion.
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Speaker 4: All right, go to number six.
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Speaker 1: Mr.
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Speaker 3: Bryce Young. Look, pretty sure he had a bye week, right?
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Speaker 2: No, they beat Philadelphia on the road.
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Speaker 3: Oh, they did. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: He did have a really good game. I moved him
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Speaker 4: up just because somebody else had to move in. I
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Speaker 4: could not ignore it. But, you know, 1,549 yards passed,
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Speaker 4: 11 touchdowns, two interceptions on the season. My guy, just
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Speaker 4: keep playing well. He is playing well. I hope you
17:42
Speaker 4: don't against the Saints, but, like, look, Panthers are for real.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: They ain't playing around. They made the playoffs last year.
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Speaker 3: We kind of laughed it off. We were like, that
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Speaker 3: was cute. That was fun. Good. Great job.
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Speaker 2: Good tries.
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Speaker 4: Getting into the playoffs in a bad division. Well, it
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Speaker 4: turns out they might have been on to something. So
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Speaker 4: they're pretty good. Do you wish you still had that card?
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Speaker 3: I do. I do wish I still had the card.
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Speaker 3: I'm still holding out hope that I got it.
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Speaker 2: And Huck's lying to you?
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Speaker 4: I think I made a cash deal. Can't confirm that.
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Speaker 4: I should have taken a picture or wrote down a note.
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Speaker 4: But Bryce Young, playin'. The best football by far in
18:14
Speaker 4: his career.
18:15
Speaker 3: All right, top five, Trevor Lawrence. 120 of 184 on
18:20
Speaker 3: the season.
18:21
Speaker 4: 1,480 yards, 14 touchdowns, four interceptions, 106.2 QBR on the season.
18:27
Speaker 4: Four and two, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Look, they are one
18:30
Speaker 4: of the best teams in the NFL. I'm not going
18:32
Speaker 4: to say top three best team in the NFL, but
18:35
Speaker 4: they continue to get better.
18:37
Speaker 3: They continue.
18:38
Speaker 4: That arrow is pointing up for the Jaguars, and they're
18:41
Speaker 4: just the team. That's well coached. They got a lot
18:44
Speaker 4: of talent. And they are going to be a tough
18:48
Speaker 4: out for anybody. Anybody's going to have a tough out
18:51
Speaker 4: with these guys. So, why is he here? Jaguars loss,
18:56
Speaker 4: but it's not because of him. Four touchdowns and 306
18:58
Speaker 4: yards on the last game.
19:00
Speaker 3: In a loss, in a losing effort.
19:02
Speaker 2: Jaguars.
19:03
Speaker 3: All right, number four.
19:05
Speaker 2: Jared Goff. Yeah.
19:07
Speaker 3: All right. Falls to number four, but I'm keeping him
19:09
Speaker 3: in that top five.
19:10
Speaker 4: He's just sitting there. I mean, it's just unsexy, but
19:13
Speaker 4: he's just so good. He's got, let's see, he's got
19:18
Speaker 4: 191 attempts without a pick right now.
19:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:21
Speaker 3: Not bad.
19:22
Speaker 4: Elite efficiency, no turnovers through the air. He's in a
19:29
Speaker 4: bye week, so he slips. Didn't have an opportunity to
19:31
Speaker 4: jump to number one.
19:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, big game this week.
19:33
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll tell you, these top three, they better
19:38
Speaker 4: not half-step in any week because Jared Goff's coming for you.
19:41
Speaker 2: It's a big week for Jared Goff. You know who
19:42
Speaker 2: they got coming to town?
19:43
Speaker 3: Nope.
19:44
Speaker 2: Your team.
19:45
Speaker 3: Packers. Yeah.
19:46
Speaker 2: It's a big week.
19:47
Speaker 3: It was a big week. Again.
19:49
Speaker 2: Four and two versus three. and two in Detroit.
19:53
Speaker 3: That is going to be a big game.
19:54
Speaker 2: Packers defense playing good.
19:55
Speaker 3: We get flexed?
19:56
Speaker 2: 330 games. You got to assume, yeah.
19:58
Speaker 3: Fox.
19:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.
19:59
Speaker 2: I think it's Fox the game of the week.
20:01
Speaker 4: What's really impressive is 128 of 191, 1,485 yards, 12 touchdowns,
20:08
Speaker 4: Zero interceptions.
20:10
Speaker 3: That's right.
20:10
Speaker 4: Zero interceptions. He takes care of the football. He reads
20:13
Speaker 4: the defense. He is an absolute weapon. Let's go to
20:16
Speaker 4: number three. Patrick Mahomes falling to number three. Why did
20:22
Speaker 4: he fall? Well, didn't have any touchdown passes Sunday against
20:26
Speaker 4: the winless Chargers.
20:28
Speaker 3: Allen. Maybe Josh Allen's still on the sport. I don't know.
20:33
Speaker 4: Maybe that was a bad tease by me. But he
20:36
Speaker 4: got outplayed by a quarterback this past week. But, look,
20:40
Speaker 4: they're a good team. The Chiefs are just– they just
20:43
Speaker 4: do what they have to do to win games. Like,
20:45
Speaker 4: when they're good, when they're at their best, they just
20:47
Speaker 4: do what they– if Mahomes has to throw for five touchdowns,
20:49
Speaker 4: he'll do it.
20:50
Speaker 3: If he's got to throw for zero touchdowns, he'll do it.
20:52
Speaker 4: They're not afraid. They don't have egos on that team.
20:55
Speaker 4: The Chiefs are a force this year. I expect– are
20:59
Speaker 4: we going to get one of them famous AFC championships
21:01
Speaker 4: between Mahomes and the number.
21:03
Speaker 3: Two person on this list, Joshua? God, that'd be awesome.
21:09
Speaker 3: We all should hope and pray for that. That would
21:10
Speaker 3: be so sick.
21:11
Speaker 4: AFC Championship, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, and Arrowhead. I'd like
21:16
Speaker 4: it to be Arrowhead.
21:17
Speaker 2: Really?
21:17
Speaker 3: I don't know. What do you think?
21:19
Speaker 2: I don't know.
21:20
Speaker 3: Are you a Chiefs hater?
21:20
Speaker 2: I don't really care either way.
21:22
Speaker 4: There's a lot of Chiefs haters. And I get that
21:25
Speaker 4: because dominance kind of stinks. But, oh, man, Patrick Mahomes.
21:28
Speaker 3: Watching him play. Just enjoy watching him play. Why he plays.
21:32
Speaker 2: Going to their training camp and seeing their process gave
21:35
Speaker 2: me a newfound respect for them.
21:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:37
Speaker 3: And you know they've had it.
21:38
Speaker 1: Yeah.
21:39
Speaker 4: He threw no touchdowns last, but he probably could have.
21:42
Speaker 4: Probably could have. They just did what they had to
21:44
Speaker 4: do to get a win. Josh Allen, he continues to
21:47
Speaker 4: be Superman every single week. I know he's fluctuated on
21:51
Speaker 4: my list because we know who Josh Allen is.
21:53
Speaker 2: We know it.
21:54
Speaker 4: He's not going to really change. My opinion of him
21:57
Speaker 4: will never change, probably. I think he's one of the
21:59
Speaker 4: best to ever do it. I think he's Superman. I
22:01
Speaker 4: think he might be the best player.
22:02
Speaker 3: In the NFL.
22:04
Speaker 4: Where he falls in the list just depends on how
22:06
Speaker 4: everybody else is playing, in my opinion, at that time.
22:09
Speaker 4: But I could not ignore what he did this past week. Again,
22:13
Speaker 4: putting Superman's cape on and willing a team.
22:17
Speaker 2: Well, if he's number two on your list, you only
22:21
Speaker 2: have one spot left on your list. It's got to
22:24
Speaker 2: be J.J. McCarthy, who just got named the starter for
22:26
Speaker 2: the Giants, right?
22:27
Speaker 4: If he's not, he's got to be at least feeling frisky.
22:30
Speaker 4: He did throw for a nearly NFL record in the
22:32
Speaker 4: fourth quarter. Against the Saints.
22:34
Speaker 2: Well, Justin Herbert, Cam Ward, and Malik Willis don't have
22:37
Speaker 2: a total that high in a game yet this season.
22:40
Speaker 2: But he threw in the fourth quarter.
22:41
Speaker 3: The one quarter?
22:42
Speaker 2: Yeah.
22:42
Speaker 4: So he might throw for 1,000 this week.
22:44
Speaker 2: Good.
22:45
Speaker 3: If he plays the whole game, he'd average it out.
22:48
Speaker 2: So he's number one?
22:48
Speaker 4: Dumber thing's been said on the show. I think JJ's
22:50
Speaker 4: going to throw for 1,000 this week.
22:53
Speaker 3: Number one. JJ.
22:57
Speaker 1: Ah.
22:57
Speaker 2: Ah. Oh, man. Okay.
22:59
Speaker 3: It must be a typo.
23:00
Speaker 2: Must be.
23:01
Speaker 3: Brock Purdy remains at the top of the list.
23:02
Speaker 4: Why? Because he's the best quarterback. Playing the quarterback position
23:05
Speaker 4: the best in the NFL right now. There's nobody playing better.
23:08
Speaker 4: There's nobody commanding what they are trying to accomplish on
23:11
Speaker 4: offense better than him. Nobody placing the ball in a
23:14
Speaker 4: better spot than him. Nobody has got more confidence. There's
23:19
Speaker 4: no team out there that's got more confidence in their quarterback.
23:22
Speaker 3: Now, I get it.
23:22
Speaker 4: There might be some that have as much confidence in
23:24
Speaker 4: their quarterback. But they know that Brock Purdy is going
23:27
Speaker 4: to do the right thing with the ball at the
23:28
Speaker 4: right time. They know they're going to give him a friendly,
23:30
Speaker 4: easy to catch ball. And he just looks like this quiet,
23:34
Speaker 4: humble dude that everybody kind of rallies around. It's kind
23:37
Speaker 4: of like the quarterback for Georgia. Gunner Stockton. His whole
23:43
Speaker 4: team loves him. Doesn't say a whole heck of a lot.
23:46
Speaker 4: And you're like, man, they just gravitate towards that man.
23:49
Speaker 4: I think the same thing is with Brock Purdy. I
23:52
Speaker 4: think people just gravitate towards him, but It's not everybody
23:55
Speaker 4: else that's making him play good. It's not the system.
23:57
Speaker 4: I know Shanahan is one of the best, but it
24:00
Speaker 4: ain't just him. Brock Purdy playing his ass off.
24:03
Speaker 2: How good is Kyle Shanahan?
24:05
Speaker 3: Really good.
24:06
Speaker 2: No matter who's out there, no matter what the cards
24:08
Speaker 2: look like, the hand he's dealt.
24:10
Speaker 4: Mack Jones started for a handful of games last year,
24:13
Speaker 4: and he was playing better than anybody in the league.
24:16
Speaker 6: They went 12-4 last year with all those injuries.
24:19
Speaker 3: 12-4.
24:20
Speaker 2: We were talking about this yesterday on my NFL show.
24:23
Speaker 2: How many teams... would not flip their coach right now,
24:28
Speaker 2: throw him to the curb for Kyle Shanahan?
24:30
Speaker 3: It should be 31.
24:32
Speaker 2: I think probably. I quickly said 27 teams wouldn't even
24:39
Speaker 2: think about it.
24:40
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson.
24:42
Speaker 2: I said Ben Johnson, McVay, Andy Reid. And then I
24:47
Speaker 2: was kind of like.
24:48
Speaker 3: I mean, McDonald's a reigning.
24:50
Speaker 2: That's what I said. He was a coach. And then
24:52
Speaker 2: Sean Page. I didn't know how Denver feels about him.
24:57
Speaker 2: It feels like he's got a lot of power there.
24:59
Speaker 3: It does. It feels like he's got a lot of power.
25:02
Speaker 3: I'm taking Shanahan.
25:04
Speaker 2: I'm taking Shanahan over almost everybody but Andy Reid. I
25:10
Speaker 2: might take him over everybody but Andy Reid.
25:12
Speaker 3: I think Ben Johnson's good.
25:13
Speaker 6: If I need somebody to win a game.
25:17
Speaker 2: Ben Johnson's really good. Kyle Shanahan can do it with
25:20
Speaker 2: duct tape and super glue.
25:21
Speaker 4: Like, if I'm choosing between Shanahan and Ben Johnson, I'm
25:23
Speaker 4: choosing Shanahan. But if I'm going to have to, like,
25:25
Speaker 4: go through the steps of firing and all that stuff,
25:27
Speaker 4: I'm probably just going to stick with it. Now, there's
25:30
Speaker 4: a lot of– that is not disparaging towards everybody else.
25:33
Speaker 2: No, that's just trying to highlight Kyle Shanahan.
25:35
Speaker 3: I mean, he's really damn good.
25:37
Speaker 4: So he's got Brock Brady, highest passer rating among full-time
25:40
Speaker 4: starters at 118.1. Pretty solid. All right, let's go to
25:45
Speaker 4: the superlatives. Kicked out of the top 10.
25:47
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson. Superlatives. Not a big deal. Matthew Stafford, you're
25:52
Speaker 3: out of there, pal. I love you. I tried. I've
25:55
Speaker 3: been trying. I've been out here just taking bullets for you.
25:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, you really have.
25:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have.
26:00
Speaker 3: And I did it, but you're out, bud. You're out.
26:02
Speaker 3: Prove me wrong.
26:03
Speaker 4: I hope you do, and I'm pretty sure you will.
26:05
Speaker 4: Feeling frisky. Hello, Jordan Love, Caleb Williams, Aaron Rodgers. Starting
26:11
Speaker 4: to feel frisky. Look for J.J.
26:13
Speaker 3: McCarthy next week.
26:14
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:15
Speaker 3: Holy moly. And my friend, Flynn Credible, and performance of
26:18
Speaker 3: the week, Mr. C.J. Straub.
26:20
Speaker 4: Why? Because it's like a comeback player of the year
26:24
Speaker 4: type deal. He was so bad, and now he's playing good.
26:28
Speaker 4: I've never looked at CJ and been like, man, that
26:32
Speaker 4: guy's got mental fortitude. That guy's mentally tough. I had
26:35
Speaker 4: never said that once. I said he's got a baby brain,
26:38
Speaker 4: and he's weak.
26:39
Speaker 2: I mean, Chris Pratt would say there's only one better
26:41
Speaker 2: comeback than what he's done this year.
26:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. I get it.
26:44
Speaker 2: Good.
26:45
Speaker 4: But what he was able to do to put the bad,
26:48
Speaker 4: to put everything aside and play, maybe it's lucky.
26:50
Speaker 3: I don't know.
26:50
Speaker 4: It doesn't seem to be. We've seen him do it before.
26:53
Speaker 4: We just hadn't seen it in years. So I gave
26:54
Speaker 4: him an incredible performance of the week. It wasn't the
26:57
Speaker 4: best performance of.
26:58
Speaker 3: The week, no.
26:59
Speaker 4: But what he was able to do after where he's been,
27:03
Speaker 4: they got to get rolling. And they got to get
27:05
Speaker 4: rolling now. A lot of it's that defense has got
27:07
Speaker 4: to pick it up. And I still think they're going
27:10
Speaker 4: to end up being one of the best defenses in
27:12
Speaker 4: the league.
27:13
Speaker 3: They're going to need him to get to the Super Bowl.
27:15
Speaker 7: So you don't have to– you can be ranked and
27:18
Speaker 7: still be a superlative?
27:20
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
27:21
Speaker 3: Okay. Look, I got sick.
27:23
Speaker 2: Okay.
27:24
Speaker 6: I mean, it's not like.
27:26
Speaker 5: Your list ever had any parameters anyway.
27:29
Speaker 2: Yeah.
27:29
Speaker 5: But I was just curious.
27:31
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:31
Speaker 3: It's like that game in Big Daddy. It's called I Win.
27:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fine.
27:34
Speaker 3: It's rules.
27:34
Speaker 4: I win.
27:35
Speaker 5: Yeah.
27:35
Speaker 3: I don't know. Just do what I want.
27:37
Speaker 5: That's fine.
27:39
Speaker 2: Just asking a question.
27:40
Speaker 3: I kind of like that it's a good question because
27:42
Speaker 3: I thought about it too.
27:43
Speaker 7: Yeah.
27:43
Speaker 2: Yeah.
27:44
Speaker 3: No, I've got to make the rules up. No, I know.
27:46
Speaker 3: It's kind of like when you're introducing somebody.
27:48
Speaker 2: You know how you work.
27:49
Speaker 3: Like when you teach somebody at your house the rules
27:52
Speaker 3: of Boo Ray. Oh, yeah.
27:54
Speaker 4: Every couple hours, there's a new rule that you introduce
27:57
Speaker 4: because that situation didn't happen yet. You're like, well, yeah,
28:00
Speaker 4: that's how we played at this house.
28:01
Speaker 2: Yeah.
28:01
Speaker 3: It's house rules.
28:02
Speaker 5: I get that.
28:03
Speaker 3: So this is a work in progress. We'll have it
28:05
Speaker 3: ironed out by 2030.
28:07
Speaker 6: Might be my favorite top 10 you've had. Really?
28:10
Speaker 3: You get to choose one, two, and four teams.
28:13
Speaker 2: To make a run, Texans or Rams?
28:18
Speaker 3: Texans. Yeah.
28:19
Speaker 2: Yeah.
28:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm taking the Texans.
28:21
Speaker 2: I don't know.
28:22
Speaker 5: I don't know.
28:23
Speaker 7: I haven't watched a lot of the Rams, so I
28:25
Speaker 7: guess I'll go off of what y'all are saying and.
28:27
Speaker 2: Say the Texans.
28:28
Speaker 3: There's something wrong with them.
28:29
Speaker 6: Well, Devontae Adams is out.
28:30
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is.
28:31
Speaker 6: Looks like a pretty extended period of time. Garrett still hasn't.
28:36
Speaker 6: We don't know what's going on there. Their special teams
28:39
Speaker 6: is terrible. I think they were, what, 31st or 32nd
28:42
Speaker 6: in the league in special teams. You can't win like that.
28:44
Speaker 5: MVP curse.
28:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, Texans need to go get a running back. Montgomery's out.
28:49
Speaker 2: Woody Marks ain't going to be enough. Their offense line,
28:52
Speaker 2: run blocking-wise, is not good. We had a guy call
28:55
Speaker 2: in from Houston yesterday. He's like, well, they're not good
28:58
Speaker 2: at run blocking. Why don't they just throw it all
29:00
Speaker 2: the time? I was like, because you can't go Big
29:02
Speaker 2: 12 air raid in the NFL. You can't do it.
29:05
Speaker 2: You can have some stats. You're not going to win
29:07
Speaker 2: games if you try to go air raid in the NFL.
29:09
Speaker 2: They got to get better at running the football.
29:11
Speaker 5: I mean, the Saints will tell you that.
29:13
Speaker 3: Anybody have any additions or omissions on him?
29:17
Speaker 6: My only thing is, man, I'd probably drop Stroud and
29:22
Speaker 6: Burrow a spot and put Drake May at seven. Drake
29:24
Speaker 6: May's playing damn good. Okay, you can look at the 11-7.
29:28
Speaker 2: First three weeks, one touchdown. He didn't start out great
29:30
Speaker 2: last week. He finished strong.
29:32
Speaker 6: He finished strong, but like one touchdown, six picks through
29:35
Speaker 6: the first three weeks. Ten and one the last three weeks.
29:39
Speaker 2: I'm still trusting Joe Burrow over Kirk Cousins right now.
29:43
Speaker 2: And C.J.
29:43
Speaker 3: Stroud. Well, and also, I did this.
29:45
Speaker 2: Sorry, then Drake.
29:46
Speaker 6: I did this last week, and so I got to
29:48
Speaker 6: stick to it. I don't like a guy rising off
29:50
Speaker 6: of a bye week. Like, he shouldn't drop.
29:51
Speaker 7: Which one?
29:52
Speaker 3: Who was on the bye?
29:53
Speaker 2: Burrow.
29:53
Speaker 3: I wasn't going to throw C.J. in front of him.
29:56
Speaker 3: I could have done. I could have put Drake in there.
30:00
Speaker 3: I could have put him ahead of Joe.
30:03
Speaker 6: And again, that's minor.
30:04
Speaker 4: Of all the feeling frisky people, I know this guy
30:08
Speaker 4: probably is going to be in here. Look out for
30:10
Speaker 4: this guy. Look out for Jordan Love. The guy's playing
30:14
Speaker 4: with nothing. Good receivers.
30:17
Speaker 2: No run game. They're 32nd and rushing by 20 yards.
30:23
Speaker 6: And I know, look, take your feelings out of it
30:25
Speaker 6: and everything.
30:27
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs. He could be back this week, potentially.
30:31
Speaker 2: No, he probably will be. They're offense line. Right.
30:33
Speaker 6: I mean, how much is it going to make a difference?
30:34
Speaker 6: But maybe it'll help a little.
30:35
Speaker 2: It'll help a little, for sure. He's by far the
30:37
Speaker 2: best back in that room. I would say, I kind
30:43
Speaker 2: of mean.
30:44
Speaker 4: CJ was a tough one. CJ was a, that was,
30:48
Speaker 4: I put him up there because that's how I felt
30:50
Speaker 4: when I wrote it.
30:51
Speaker 1: Yeah.
30:51
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't hate it. But then I was like,
30:52
Speaker 3: I was arguing with myself.
30:53
Speaker 2: Then, you know.
30:56
Speaker 6: Drake's maybe been a little bit hotter, but C.J. 's
30:58
Speaker 6: probably actually been more consistent. So, I mean, I think
31:00
Speaker 6: you're splitting that. Tonight's going to be big.
31:01
Speaker 2: You know somebody that I know why he's not on here,
31:05
Speaker 2: and I completely understand it, but it's really not him.
31:08
Speaker 2: It's more those around him. It's Dak Prescott.
31:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. He just– it's something about his face
31:13
Speaker 3: this year.
31:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got like C.D. Lamb just like falling down
31:18
Speaker 2: when he's throwing. He's throwing an in-round. C.D. Lamb's just
31:22
Speaker 2: falling down.
31:23
Speaker 7: I have Jake Ferguson on one of my– Fantasy teams, like,
31:27
Speaker 7: what is he doing?
31:29
Speaker 4: He's not doing anything. It's something about Dak's body language.
31:33
Speaker 6: I was about to say, he's got a little bit
31:35
Speaker 6: of that Jay Coddler, right?
31:37
Speaker 4: A baby poo face.
31:39
Speaker 5: I mean, the dude's frustrated, I guess.
31:40
Speaker 4: He's frustrated. I am knocking him on that, but I
31:45
Speaker 4: understand it. It's probably real. It seems like the same
31:48
Speaker 4: thing's happening to them every single year. He keeps playing
31:52
Speaker 4: some of the best ball of his career. But because
31:55
Speaker 4: of his baby poo face and bad.
31:56
Speaker 3: Body language, he's out.
31:58
Speaker 7: I thought he was going to have like a MVP
32:01
Speaker 7: type season because, you know, like he just called off
32:04
Speaker 7: the wedding. I was like, oh, it's revenge season for
32:07
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott.
32:07
Speaker 3: He probably wants it to be.
32:09
Speaker 5: He wants it to be so bad, but nobody else
32:11
Speaker 5: on his team does.
32:12
Speaker 3: And CD did follow. CD's playing pretty good.
32:14
Speaker 6: Yeah.
32:18
Speaker 2: He's one week Superman, then next week Clark Kent.
32:21
Speaker 4: Right.
32:21
Speaker 6: Like, he was Clark Kent last week, and then, like,
32:23
Speaker 6: two weeks ago, he had, like, what, 17 catches?
32:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
32:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought they were going to have a big one, too.
32:28
Speaker 4: You got Pickett, who was like, when was he ever
32:31
Speaker 4: content and happy with the– he, like, took that franchise tag.
32:34
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah.
32:35
Speaker 3: Absolutely. It's fine.
32:35
Speaker 6: I'll be the number two.
32:36
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I was like, okay, they got something there.
32:39
Speaker 5: Yeah.
32:40
Speaker 3: Players only meeting last week.
32:42
Speaker 6: Oh, Quinn and Williams called that meeting, by the way.
32:45
Speaker 3: Oh, defensive line. Mm-hmm.
32:47
Speaker 2: Can't be a D lineman.
32:48
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32:49
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Speaker 6: She loves me Maybe you would understand Why I feel
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Speaker 2: All right, so we were in the middle of the
36:02
Speaker 2: flu game. MJ stayed for four quarters. Matt stayed for half.
36:12
Speaker 2: We got those quarterback rankings, and he said, you know what, guys?
36:14
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to Christian Bale on you.
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Speaker 6: He did his part, though.
36:20
Speaker 3: He knocked them out.
36:24
Speaker 2: If he plays golf today.
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Speaker 5: You know he's going to.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's 100% playing golf.
36:28
Speaker 2: That's why he left. Then we have to call him out.
36:32
Speaker 2: If you're sick and you can't be here for the Wolfpack,
36:34
Speaker 2: you can't be out there on the links either.
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Speaker 6: I think he left for golf because he gave kind
36:39
Speaker 6: of a sketchy answer earlier. I said, Matt, when's your
36:41
Speaker 6: tee time? He's like, I'm not sure. I was like,
36:45
Speaker 6: that seems important.
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Speaker 4: Hmm.
36:54
Speaker 2: QB1 Energy. All right. Saints are in Paris getting ready
36:59
Speaker 2: to take on the Steelers. And they've been there all
37:01
Speaker 2: week because it makes all the sense in the world
37:03
Speaker 2: because the Saints and their ties to the country. And
37:07
Speaker 2: we talked about it. The Florida League and every NFL
37:10
Speaker 2: team is assigned to different countries. And obviously France is
37:12
Speaker 2: going to be assigned to the Saints. So they had
37:14
Speaker 2: a lot of festivities there. And I do think for
37:17
Speaker 2: me in that situation, I always am going to favor
37:20
Speaker 2: the team that has been over there acclimated to the
37:22
Speaker 2: time change. And I think that is a big advantage
37:25
Speaker 2: for that team. These teams, and we saw it in
37:27
Speaker 2: the opener, the team going to Australia at the last
37:30
Speaker 2: minute looked like they flew to Australia in the last minute.
37:35
Speaker 2: So a couple of things to point out for this game.
37:38
Speaker 2: So five things, and we'll get to them over the
37:41
Speaker 2: next two segments. And I'd love to hear from Alondra
37:44
Speaker 2: and Tay-Tay here as well. But five things that I'm
37:46
Speaker 2: looking forward to in this matchup that I think are
37:49
Speaker 2: going to decide this matchup. The first thing, first bullet point,
37:54
Speaker 2: Can the Saints turn one win into momentum? And I
37:58
Speaker 2: feel like Lou Brown from Major League. Like, if we
38:01
Speaker 2: win another one, that's called a winning streak. It has
38:04
Speaker 2: been done before. Because that's what it feels like. It
38:07
Speaker 2: feels like you've got to let everybody know that you
38:10
Speaker 2: can't have a winning streak. You can't string a group
38:13
Speaker 2: of games together and not just one. We know New
38:16
Speaker 2: Orleans beat the Giants last week 34-27. They got hairy
38:19
Speaker 2: at the end, but like I've said all week, I
38:21
Speaker 2: do not care. You don't have the luxury right now
38:23
Speaker 2: of caring about style points. So you're 2-4. Beating Pittsburgh
38:29
Speaker 2: would send you into your bye week at 3-4 with
38:32
Speaker 2: a chance to change the season's direction. All right? So
38:38
Speaker 2: I'm going to be looking at was last week a
38:40
Speaker 2: turning point or was it just a Band-Aid on a
38:42
Speaker 2: bullet hole? I think it can be a turning point.
38:45
Speaker 2: And if you get to your bye at three and four,
38:47
Speaker 2: it's not where you want it to be. But it
38:50
Speaker 2: can be a place where you can live, get better,
38:54
Speaker 2: figure some things out. And remember, at the back end
38:57
Speaker 2: of your season, your schedule, that's where all of your
39:00
Speaker 2: division games are. So if you want to have a
39:04
Speaker 2: place where you have it figured out for the Saints,
39:06
Speaker 2: it'd be at the back end, not the front end.
39:09
Speaker 2: I know Matt is not a huge fan of the
39:11
Speaker 2: way they won last week. Matt's used to being on
39:14
Speaker 2: really good teams. I don't think the Saints can afford
39:18
Speaker 2: to care how they win, right? You had to win.
39:22
Speaker 2: You've been bad. You lost three straight home games. Yeah.
39:30
Speaker 7: And as someone who's kind of on the same boat
39:32
Speaker 7: with Matt, a win is a win, but you won
39:35
Speaker 7: so ugly that you have to win this next game
39:38
Speaker 7: in order for me to feel any sort of way
39:41
Speaker 7: about it. Because you also beat a team that didn't
39:43
Speaker 7: have Jackson Dart, their starting quarterback. Cam Scadaboo wasn't in either.
39:48
Speaker 7: And So I'm not– I'm glad the Saints won.
39:54
Speaker 5: You needed it.
39:56
Speaker 7: But I don't feel as positive about it as a
39:59
Speaker 7: lot of other people do because you still have a
40:01
Speaker 7: lot of very glaring issues on this entire team. And
40:06
Speaker 7: I don't know, you're– I get it's technically a home
40:10
Speaker 7: game for the Saints, but you're in Paris. The Steelers
40:14
Speaker 7: are starting to look a little like they're gelling.
40:16
Speaker 2: Four and two.
40:17
Speaker 5: DK Metcalf. is a problem.
40:21
Speaker 7: And I don't know, like I just, I don't feel
40:24
Speaker 7: great about this game.
40:27
Speaker 6: One thing I'm watching on each side of the ball
40:29
Speaker 6: that I think is going to be critical to this.
40:32
Speaker 6: One's your pass rush. Like it was actually Russell Jackson
40:35
Speaker 6: put out these stats the other day and I found
40:37
Speaker 6: it interesting. Chase Young and Carl Granderson are both top
40:40
Speaker 6: 10 in the NFL and sacks.
40:41
Speaker 7: Yeah.
40:42
Speaker 6: They have nine and a half between the two of them.
40:44
Speaker 6: Also the Steelers, both tackles, they've only allowed three sacks,
40:48
Speaker 6: but they've given up double digit pressures. Can you get
40:50
Speaker 6: after Aaron Rogers? Look, this is a pro Aaron Rogers show,
40:54
Speaker 6: but let's call it like it is. He's 42, right?
40:56
Speaker 6: He's not the most mobile quarterback in the world at
40:58
Speaker 6: this stage in his career. Can you get after him
41:01
Speaker 6: and help out that secondary? That's been suspect on the
41:04
Speaker 6: flip side of things. You got to find a way
41:06
Speaker 6: to run the football. Can you manufacture some sort of
41:08
Speaker 6: running game? Like, A screen pass, short passing game is
41:12
Speaker 6: kind of an extension of the running game. Flynn talked
41:14
Speaker 6: about it the other day. Can Tyler shock? He's going
41:15
Speaker 6: to have to use his legs a little bit more
41:17
Speaker 6: to get something going. Because if you can't run the football,
41:19
Speaker 6: you can't stop the run. You can't win games. And
41:22
Speaker 6: Rico Dowdle looks like he's going to be back in
41:25
Speaker 6: the fold, at least some sort for this team. So
41:27
Speaker 6: they got two good running backs. Got to figure something
41:29
Speaker 6: out running. You got to get after Aaron Rodgers.
41:32
Speaker 2: You no doubt do. And a couple of other bullet
41:34
Speaker 2: points I have. We'll kind of finish some of these up,
41:36
Speaker 2: but I'll get to the second one. Protecting Tyler Shuck
41:38
Speaker 2: has to drive the game plan. How aggressive can this
41:42
Speaker 2: Saints team be while keeping their quarterback protected? What do
41:45
Speaker 2: you mean protected? Well, we know the reports. He's playing
41:47
Speaker 2: through a broken bone in his non-throwing hand. That is
41:51
Speaker 2: something that taking snaps under center, handing the football off
41:55
Speaker 2: to your left is going to be a factor in
41:57
Speaker 2: this game. Now he's going to face against TJ Watt,
41:59
Speaker 2: Cam Hayward, some really good pass rushers. So are they
42:02
Speaker 2: going to emphasize quick throws? Are they going to have more,
42:05
Speaker 2: you know, God, I hope not, seven-man protections to try
42:08
Speaker 2: to take a hit off of him, avoid obvious passing
42:12
Speaker 2: downs because to Taylor's point, they haven't been able to
42:14
Speaker 2: do that. So even though it's his non-throwing hand, that
42:17
Speaker 2: is something to pay attention to. Again, under center. That's
42:19
Speaker 2: still like left over right, right over left does not matter.
42:23
Speaker 2: You're going to feel that. And then obviously when you're
42:25
Speaker 2: handing it off to your left, how heavy can you
42:27
Speaker 2: do if play action? If you don't have strength in
42:30
Speaker 2: that hand to be able to hold on to the football,
42:32
Speaker 2: all of those are things to look out for. We'll
42:34
Speaker 2: get to some more points about this game. I've got
42:37
Speaker 2: a couple more bullet points I want to hit. We'll
42:39
Speaker 2: do it when we come back on OTB.
42:41
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is Off the Bench.
43:57
Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in.
44:00
Speaker 2: Before we get back to the Steelers and the Saints,
44:04
Speaker 2: we do have a little bit of an injury update, Alondra,
44:07
Speaker 2: I believe.
44:08
Speaker 7: Yeah, so Aaron Rodgers starting, obviously, 42 years old.
44:13
Speaker 2: 42 years old. That's a year older than I am. Right.
44:15
Speaker 7: Also a year older than his backup quarterback, Matt Flynn.
44:19
Speaker 7: Matt Flynn's sideline with the sniffles.
44:21
Speaker 2: Oh, man.
44:23
Speaker 5: Shout out to Nacho Man.
44:24
Speaker 2: You're telling me Aaron Rodgers at 42 years old is
44:28
Speaker 2: traveling across the world to take on the New Orleans Saints,
44:31
Speaker 2: and his backup today is out with the sniffles?
44:34
Speaker 5: Left an hour and a half into the show, yeah.
44:36
Speaker 6: I'm sure Matt took as many hits last week as
44:38
Speaker 6: Aaron did. It's probably around the same, huh?
44:40
Speaker 2: Wow.
44:41
Speaker 5: Shout out Nacho Man in the chat for that.
44:44
Speaker 2: Nacho, appreciate the injury update there, buddy. All right.
44:48
Speaker 5: It's brutal. It's a tough look.
44:50
Speaker 2: Tough look.
44:50
Speaker 5: It really is.
44:51
Speaker 2: Tough, tough look. for QB1 here on the show that
44:55
Speaker 2: his 42-year-old guy is out there playing against the Saints.
44:59
Speaker 2: If he golfs today, though.
45:01
Speaker 6: He is golfing today.
45:02
Speaker 5: He's going to golf today.
45:03
Speaker 6: I don't think he has another golf sick day. How
45:05
Speaker 6: many times has he canceled this damn thing?
45:07
Speaker 2: If he's golfing today, he's suspended without pay, and we
45:10
Speaker 2: get to split his pay.
45:11
Speaker 7: Do you know how many times this golf tournament has
45:13
Speaker 7: been used as an excuse for him not being able
45:16
Speaker 7: to do something?
45:16
Speaker 6: He's hoping it gets canceled so that he can use
45:18
Speaker 6: it again.
45:18
Speaker 2: At least seven. At least seven.
45:21
Speaker 5: It keeps happening.
45:22
Speaker 3: I know.
45:23
Speaker 2: It was actually the quarterfinals of the tournament. 64-team tournament.
45:27
Speaker 5: He changes the name of it every single time. He
45:32
Speaker 5: loses the playoffs.
45:33
Speaker 2: All right, if you see him out there at Baton
45:34
Speaker 2: Rouge Country Club and you see him hitting a golf ball,
45:36
Speaker 2: please report back.
45:37
Speaker 5: Take a picture of it.
45:38
Speaker 2: Take a picture.
45:39
Speaker 5: We need evidence. Send it to our text line because I.
45:42
Speaker 2: All right, so we will dive back into.
45:47
Speaker 5: Not a foxhole.
45:47
Speaker 2: Not a foxhole move. We'll dive into... Some more of
45:50
Speaker 2: the matchup. We are going to have Chef answer your
45:53
Speaker 2: munchie questions coming up in about 15, about 20 minutes
45:56
Speaker 2: from now. So we still have all of that coming
45:59
Speaker 2: your way. We'll take a look at LSU versus Auburn
46:02
Speaker 2: as well there on the Plains. Again, we'll kind of
46:04
Speaker 2: recap some of the things we talked about in our
46:06
Speaker 2: number one, no trade as green on the injury report.
46:10
Speaker 2: Is that something that's actually going to happen? Is that, hey,
46:15
Speaker 2: we'll warm him up. Maybe he plays, maybe he doesn't.
46:17
Speaker 2: We'll see. A little gamesmanship there. Something we have to
46:21
Speaker 2: find out because, man, oh, man, is that going to
46:24
Speaker 2: be a difference maker if he's able to go for
46:26
Speaker 2: the Tigers? All right. Talk a little Saints and Steelers.
46:29
Speaker 2: Continue that conversation when we come back. Hour number three.
46:32
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
46:34
Speaker 2: All right. Tomorrow. Is it Thursday? Yep, it's Thursday. Tomorrow
46:38
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46:48
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47:02
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47:05
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47:08
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47:11
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