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Ep68 The Great NFL Playoff Exposition of 2024 Oh and Coaching · Sports Allegedly

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And coming to you live from Kenny's basement apartment where the ghosts are in the
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system, and I'm mean bad because there's some technological fullyy going on if sports
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allegedly. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome everyone, Thank you for joining us.
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January twenty twenty four. We've got a lot to talk about today. We're
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going to obviously dive really deep into the NFL playoffs the matchups. We're also
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going to talk about coaching changes in the NFL, and we're going to do
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our predictions for the playoffs, and then we'll move on from there. But
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first breaking news today that we'd heard just two hours before this podcast was Alabama
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head coach Nick saban Is officially, according to Chris Slow from ESPN, is
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retiring after so I think it was seventeen years at Alabama. That was called
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We called that, called that earlier. I said he was going to retire,
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kind of talked about that a little bit earlier in the year. Now,
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I think that one of the reasons that probably helped him retires as good
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as year as they had, and I don't think that most people in college
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football thought they were going to be that good, especially how they started off
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losing to Texas, UH South Florida. I believe was a loss or a
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lost a close game, that's right. That was where Milroe got benched and
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they put in and so they so they were having gun they were having quarterback
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issues as we we. I think it was early this week or maybe Thursday
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Friday. Kevin Steele, first year defensive coordinator, obviously been around college forever.
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UH. He announced his retirement and I thought, man, after one
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year, it seemed odd that that was going to be. It was crazy
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that still was like I'm out. It's like also that they and so it
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makes a little bit of sense now. So now you look ahead after all
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the years that that Nick obviously was there, took over a program at Alabama
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that once was mighty and glory was pretty downtrodden for very good Yeah, you
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know, I was. I was there when Brett came in for a good
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uh the mid nineties to There's there's a certain coaches name that you do not
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mention. Would that be shoeless hate? That's that's that's something that I can
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attest to. Well, six national times his name was a six national titles
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at Alabama, UH sets the coaching he is he does have the coaching record,
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and he is he is because definitely a modern day because you look at
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what he done. You know, he's at Toledo one year. I think
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he went to Michigan State, built him up a little bit left, and
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went to ls L s U. And I think he was there at four
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five. Uh yeah, and uh and then he was four or five at
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l s U and and they wanted to ask and then and then took the
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NFL job, and really that the NFL is a terrible place for college coaches.
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And you know, I didn't look. I wonder what was his record
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at the Dolphins. Was it that horrible? I mean, I didn't think
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it was like Super Chuck. No, I think that they I think what
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happened was is and it wasn't a good team that he had taken over.
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And and he went two years and Alabama came and but seventy two years old,
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just turned seventy two in October, you know, Nick, and he
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says he's going to wrap it up head coaching. Now, is he going
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to go back to Kent State? And I think I think what he's going
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to do. I see him Alabama goes to Kent State for a nice,
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easy, soft job. I wonder if he gets back, if he stays
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and he did pretty well on TV, I thought so. I think that
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that would be something if he's interested in doing that. Of course, he's
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a West Virginia guy. I didn't have to go to DC and Cleveland before
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he came back. Yes, he was d C and that was with he
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coached, He coached with Belichick. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about those
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years and then went to Michigan State. I wonder that's where he gets a
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sunny demeanor. Yeah, and then the two years at Miami and then Alabama.
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Of course got in two thousand and seven. Told he wasn't that long
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in Miami. No, two years, it was two seasons. Yeah,
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of course of Michigan State, four years of lou and then you know just
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that one year that he he get fired halfway through. Let's go find that.
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We're about saving he quit or did he he quit? He quit?
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He took call it, yeah, he took the he took the elevator job.
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Hurricane Oh I thought that said Hurricane Kittener. It was like, was
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he still so? So? Was he too? Was he too? Six
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and ten? One year? This is six and ten, and then year
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he went down too far. Yeah, it's all written and stupid. I
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just Ron Brown in his back lost two games of Bills finished six and ten
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in his first losing season as the head coach. I don't see anything from
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that. Yeh see so that and look at you know right there, it
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tells you that his second year, the defensive ranked in the top ten in
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the NFL. They just they their offense was horrible. You know. They
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they didn't take Drew Brees if you remember, they took Dante Culpepper. Then
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they had Joey Harrington. So I mean that was some of the things that
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that hurt him still, and it shows you how important the quarterback is,
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no matter what a team making bad decisions on players, No, not at
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all. I mean, let's look at Temper. Temper could have had Stroud.
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Frank right wanted Stroud. I don't think that's what David Temper did.
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I don't think Bryce David. I don't think I'm not gonna go price.
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Yeah, but look at but look look at how those two turned out.
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I don't think that playability. I think that the Houston was a better,
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better setup. I think the team was just better period. Going in the
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new coaches. I think that Houston has had a lot of number one draft
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picks or top you know they over the past years because they've stunk and you
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look at bad, bad drafts for Carolina. I'm not saying that, but
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I mean, can you think of anybody besides Stealing that came over to Carolina
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that was worth a ship at all? You know, player, there was
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a there was a yeah, but I mean you can't. That's what I'm
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saying. There's nobody. I mean, you know Laramie Tunsil, He's one
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of the best tackles I'm going to tell you right now. So for Houston
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that, I mean, they've got some good players and then of course they
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brought in the freshman host a good set up, yes they did, and
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it was, but it also attests to the coaching of Jamaico Ryans Well.
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I think that was that's fine, we got guys in and set up.
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But I mean Davis Mills read well, I was reading the article on on
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the offensive coordinator that he brought in for c. J. Strow that he
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you know that he had brought in himself. Slowick slowick, yeah, slow,
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yeah, we do need to talk he's going to be. He's going
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to be. He's being interviewed right now too. So anyway you think Mark
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is going, well, I've got him all. We'll talk about him after
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the playoffs. No, I want to talk about him going after day ball.
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Yeah, so give me your Have you thought anything about as we leave
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college? Did you got any thoughts on who might be taken over? You?
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Can you give me three or four guys that stick out in your head?
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Do you think they'd bring Bill O'Brien back from No, that's a definite.
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No, I got I got three to four possible. Well, we
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know they're gonna go after. We know they're going after uh uh Debo.
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See, I don't think so. I think he's I think he's damaged.
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But they're gonna go after, and they're gonna talk to fans won't be happy
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with it, Honestly. I can't you think what they're gonna try to bring
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Sarkisian over. I think they talked to him and I but I don't think
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you should leave. I think Texas is still a better job than Alabama.
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I think there's more resources just size the state, I mean I now,
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and less pressure. You know, there's there's gonna there's gonna be less pressure
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on Sabing that Texas now since he made the final four, he's gonna have
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two years probably to sit there and go, okay, well even if weble
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so no, so then you I like Lanning. I think Dan Lanning is
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a choice to look at to come back to the SEC, even big money
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Oregon to come to. I don't know. There's been a lot of coaches
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that have left Oregon. I mean, you look at will Willy, He's
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another one. I don't know he would have a good personality to be the
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replacement for Nick Saban because he just doesn't give a ship. So I think
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that's going to be the hardest thing about that job. I think that's going
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to be the hardest thing about that job is the pressure of just following Nick
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Saban. Yeah, the success and you're gonna have to be successful. But
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it could be a surprise. I mean, Lincoln Riley's name has floated around
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that that would be the only job he would take in college, even though
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he said that about Oklahoma and then took the USC job, which I think
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he's damaged. Do you think yeah, I do you think they know?
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But I'm just throwing out names that now you can have a high powered offense,
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but everything else is just what interesting thing that I don't know how true
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it is, but that the I was reading something that that Arthur Blank for
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the Falcons is really intrigued by Kirby Smart. So if that's something that Smart
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looks at to go to learn something from, it's possible. But college then
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when Nick left, versus college now is night and day. I mean,
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the work is the worth the work is just that much more the working.
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Dan's going to leave the NFL to come back. No, No, I
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don't think you're going to find any NFL head coach coming in to take that.
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He wasn't sent back at Central Michigan. I'm just looking at the coaches,
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so you don't think they're definitely not hiring Jim Bo one thing. One
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guy that one guy that might be and I don't if I don't even know
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if he's got any connection. But look at Mike Norvel from Florida State.
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He's built that team, he's had some good recruiting classes. He's wanting to
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get the hell out of that conference and they're kind of in a mess right
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now, and he could and he would have availability to bring all of the
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players defense. And he is a guy that he was a Memphis coach.
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He knows the I mean, he knows the recruiting ground there. So uh
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so that's just somebody. I don't know if a lot of people's mentioned that,
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but I'm gonna go I would be surprised if it wasn't Landing, Norville
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or Lane would be my three choices when it comes to the coaches. Not
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that I think those are all the best, but I think that now if
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Kirby Smart Leeds and goes to the NFL, Dan Lanning's head coach number one
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at Georgia hands down, So there's no doubt about that. So it'll go
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into a Jones We forgot about Butcher Jones, Joe Judge, all right,
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anything else, anything else, And there's a lot, I mean, the
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coaching tree has been so that went up to the NFL that it came from.
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It's kind of why you look at these guys that are and some of
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them you see. One of the things that you've seen is guys that go
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to the NFL and then come back to college. They have an easier time
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with that transition. But I don't think coach going from college to the NFL.
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Very very few exacts, but rarely, but you see it as a
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head coach. That's what I was getting ready to say. You see a
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lot of assistance assistants move up and they stayed there for a minute and like
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like this, come down and they'll go back up. Uh So Pete Carroll
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want to get back in the college game. After being fired by Caryl said
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he took an analyst job. He took a what he's took an assistant analyst
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job. He's no, he's got another job. He's staying. He's got
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a job within the Seattle, but it's not a coaching job. I don't
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think I think it's sixty two. I think he's done too. I think
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he's older than sixty two. I thought he was sixty two. Gosh,
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I think he's I think that dude is like a mean and lean seventy That
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guy. That guy looks not that he's going to go back And how did
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you get a headlight it? I would go, yeah, no, no,
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the guy's like the best seventy two in shape. But I think he's
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ready. I think that I think that he is ready to just sit back
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and relax, stay within the organization. I don't think, but not I
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think it gets I think I think there's gonna be teams right now that you
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think to college. I don't know about college. I mean, he did
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so well, but it's been so long. But I can see it.
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I mean, couldn't you see Carolina or Atlanta going, hey, you want
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to come to John Yes, I can see Carolina, especially because culture,
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Yeah, I mean culture guy. He's a young seventy two. I don't
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think he's done. I don't I would I would hope that he would be
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got what to Super Bowls. The rumor had it was that this came down
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national title, This came down to a Geno Smith thing and ownership, whether
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it be management, ownership, whatever. Wasn't a big Geno Smith fan he
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was, and then Gino kind of you had got But yeah, that's what
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I was gonna say. So we didn't have like a horrible year, but
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he went to bat for him. They signed him to a mega contract,
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and I think that's kind of what And that might have been some conversations,
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Hey, we're gonna go a quarterback route, and Pete Carroll went, yeah,
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I wish you wouldn't or I don't think you should, and they're like,
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well, piss off. No, the best thing they could have done
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was get a quarterback, keep keep him, keep keep Geno, and get
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a quarterback this year and then what's possible. That's the talk, and then
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have that work out. You know, I grieve, so, but congratulations
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saving Hey, glad you're leaving the SEC baby, I mean we're coming in
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exactly. There is no doubt that we and and you know that's gonna be
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It's gonna be sad because Alabama comes to you next year and we don't know,
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we don't know who the head coach is gonna be. So it's gonna
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be interesting, uh to see that. All right, let's move on.
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We'll do a little bit of talk about you want to recap the National Championship
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and keep going with coaching. No, we'll get to the NFL. On
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that, we'll talk about the NFL. We just started. You want to
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know, I was I was comparing maybe p coming to college. I mean,
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I'm not saying That's what I'm saying coming back. So that's why I
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was trying to segue there. We can segue in the NFL. If you
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don't want to talk about Pete. You don't want to talk about the National
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Championship game. I mean, oh well, I tried to get you talking
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about the National Championship game right after I was depressed. Were you No,
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I wasn't, And I told you what was told you what they needed to
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do. They established the run game. They couldn't get down early. They
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got down and they got everything I said they needed to do, they did
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not do. Washington did not well know, and everything we said Michigan should
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do they did. I mean it was like we Michigan just had to go
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play and and it was so many times I watched that game that Washington was
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only down by seven and they had the ball I think four or five strong
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possessions, and you just could not do anything. And it was just the
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most frustrating. It was weird because you look it at it, You're going,
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Okay, they're gonna do it. They're moving, they're moving, and
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then they just stole. Of course, you know, I'm not going to
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count the fourteen point swing at the end. I mean that was when it
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was over, especially that last touchdown. Who got who got away on that
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got away? One of them he did, yes, one of them he
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did so hey, and and and give credit to Michigan. I mean they
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played now. In my opinion, like I said before, I thought they
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played one of the weaker schedules because I thought the Big Ten was down offensively
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and obviously how State was down their their their non conference wasn't you know,
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the greatest. And I thought Washington played a much tougher schedule and and McCartney
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didn't have to do much. Pennicks had two turnovers that were bad. Penis
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could not get it to it well and his receivers, but there was a
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couple of times he missed some of them pretty bad day. The first one,
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the one that Dunsay got opened right there. It was disappointing, it
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really was, and it was it was a miscommunication between the both of them.
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He threw farther than the doones. They thought that he was supposed to.
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I know, I thought that that was probably I wouldn't say it probably
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was their worst game they played. I know, one game against Washington was
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pretty bad. But but you have to give credit to Michigan because the defense
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probably made them play a little bit that way. I thought they I mean,
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I thought Michigan tackled well. They did everything, and they played good
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team ball. You got all of your touchdowns off running. Yeah, and
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they just kept running. J. J. McCarley only had one hundred What
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was their total rushing Sean over okay, three or three and Washington had forty
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six, which we talked about Dylan not going to be healthy Dylan Johnson for
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Washington, and he tried to give it a go, but they could.
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They never could get the run game going, and and that hurt them the
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most because they became so one dimensional. Yeah. I said that they didn't
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have a superstar running back after him, like they don't. They They've got
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good running backs, and they don't have any superstars. I mean, look
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at what you're running. You're running eleven times and George nine, you got
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Nixon who they had in the most. Did you see Georgia though, just
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killing Michigan though? Yeah? I could, I could see. I Mean
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that was the disappointing part of it, you know, because and how you
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set back and being a Georgia fan, you got to sit there and go,
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how the hell to Alabama? Betas you know, was that our off
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game? You know? Because I thought Georgia. I thought Georgia the whole
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year was the best team in college football, and and hey, what's going
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to be great is we've got four We had a four playoff team. Next
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year moves to twelve, and we're not going to see those one game.
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You know, if you mess up the one game and it's in the in
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the playoff, that's your bad. But you know, maybe losing in the
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in the an SEC championship or or the rivalry game at the end of the
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year is not going to ruin your season, like we saw something this year.
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Like generally it doesn't affect it, then all of a sudden it has
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an effect on it. What the championship game? TCU lost their title game
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and they got in, Yes they did, And so every year up until
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now it didn't matter. I think you win in lost a game, got
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in Ohio State. I think they did the same thing. I think has
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done it well. I think what happened was you had an undefeated Florida State
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kind of messing everything up there because they well, no, but it just
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had to put Georgia behind it, you know what I mean, you just
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had to. I mean that was but also honest, Texas had somehow shackled
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Alabama all season. Oh, we can't. We can't get them behind them.
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We can't get them behind them. Yeah, I know, tell till
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the end. I'm confused by this. We've we've never done it this way.
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We have never never in the history of uh well sports rankings have ever
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been oh well, we can't do it. But wasn't it wasn't it Texas
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that didn't move up four spots after beating o issue at the end? You
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know, so they had moved up because Georgia and Alabama and I'm sorry Georgia.
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Who was it else that had? Oh in Oregon was the other one
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that had to drop down? So no, I mean, I I don't
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know. I thought Texas was was worthy. I just really thought that Georgian
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honestly was better. But they you know, and we've been the benefactor of
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that is we've been the benefactor of But but like I said, it never
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mattered until this season. That's what That's one thing that we got into it
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about. Was You're like, oh, they have to take it, they
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have to. I was like, no, it's never mattered. Sudden it
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mattered. They had to. Yeah, that's how well it was because they
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kept keeping It's like, how you watch them ranked. Congratulations, consistent.
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Congratulations to Michigan Wolverines. JJ McCarthy. You now enter into a list of
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some people have got him in the top ten, you know, you know,
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you know, into the list of recent recent title winning quarterbacks. Stetsn't
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Beenett. He seems to be the more challenge. Who is the other guy?
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He seems to be job, Yeah, he seems to be. He
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seems to be one of the guys. Yeah, I'm dogging on all the
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quarterbacks. I wouldn't draft him. And after watching you, definitely, after
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watching Penix, I don't know. I think I've moved him down a little
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bit. And like, hey, like I said, I have said from
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the beginning, I thought that none of the quarterbacks I saw, I saw
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much I would take. I saw Mark trade unless you know the Bears had
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traded out and somebody had put Phoenix Junior and Adnesday. We could trade down.
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Yeah, trade down where we're right above. Yeah, that tenth,
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ninth one, and then you have your other yeah, two in a row.
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Yeah, just double it up. This good and this guy. Yeah
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no, but I Hey, congratulations Michigan. The game was pretty good because
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Michigan for a while couldn't pull away from them, and that was what was
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making exciting because it was you know, it was I think it was seventeen
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to ten forever, and then I think seventeen, Yeah, seventeen to ten,
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and I think I really think that miss if I can remember counting,
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because I was so frustrated. Washington had four to five series where they just
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could not do anything and was stopping Michigan too. You know, the defense
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kind of played better, you know, and kind of held them in.
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They held them in run check for a while. This is where we were
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getting skag because it was seventeen to three and then they scored the touchdown right
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before halftime. Yeah, and gave Michigan a chance to score again. But
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but look at that scored with eight fifty eight and it was seven points.
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And then when was the next time that they scored, See it was seven
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left. It's so all that series about mid third, yeah, third quarter
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was mid third mid foes are sitting there going, man, come on,
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let's get this done. But they just couldn't do it. You look at
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the two big plays, you know, panties anyway, congratulacenses does harball stay
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er go. That's the question, what do you think, Oh, he's
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already been talked to. I know he's been talking to by Tepper or wanted
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to talk to by Tepper. Uh Russian. Well, it's it's really hard
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because what NCAA sanctions are gonna come out of the cheating skins not gonna affect
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them in the NFL, though, Yeah, Well, I don't think those
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penalties will go don't I don't. I don't think so. There's not going
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to be a show cause or anything. Show cause is the worst. And
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what are they going to suspend him one game in the NFL? I don't
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think anybody. Yeah, I don't pay. Yeah, I don't buy that.
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So and I don't even think that affects his mentality of choosing a job.
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But he doesn't care. You know, the NCAA's one of the weakest.
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You know, he stays, he come in. He can deal with
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all these new teams, these new big pack twelve teams coming into the prediction
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with him, I honestly, I have no idea. I think he's gone.
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I think I have NFL. I have no honest clue about what he's
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going to do. His goal when he said that, because he's an alum
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at Michigan. He said, we're going to bring them back. I remember,
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we're going to make We're going to make them relevant. And I thought,
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okay, so now they've won the championship, what more are you going
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to do now? I mean, you're not gonna win it next year would
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be my predictions coaching, you know, So I think he goes I think
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he goes to it all really depends about Tapa. No, it depends on
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Belichick. Really, that's the one that Oh god, nobody, But I
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don't know. Because see as we as you know, segue into the coaching
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right now before we get to the playoffs. It's okay, let's do that.
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We'll talk about Harbord. Okay. So there's a lot of coaching going
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on a lot. So you've got you've got Rabel fired. Surprised, I'm
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not because they fired John Robinson because it should have happened last year. No,
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I don't think so they fired John Robinson last year, the guy that
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then the GM they were close. So now they's talk of Rabel going into
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New England. Yeah, but Jared Mayo defensive coaches is high on Craft's picks
24:37
of being the heir apparent and that's kind of what I am leaning to thinking,
24:44
is that a GM comes in and relinquishes that Belichick and Mayo gets moved
24:49
up to like some sort of associate head coach or blah blah blah, and
24:55
he's almost the coaching waiting. And Arthur Smith he got out and Atlanta,
25:00
Atlanta right after he you have a little victory formation, and the boys for
25:06
New Orleans decided they wanted to the open damn door. Hey somebody here,
25:14
so do you know it? So anyway that what we were talking about the
25:19
coaches, Uh, my little one come out, because anyway the coaching,
25:23
as far as the coaching goes, Yes, Arthur Smith, I know that.
25:27
There there's talking. Rabels out. I'm sorry, Rabels out, Rabels
25:33
out, Arthur Smith out. Frank Wright was already out. Staley was out.
25:41
Not really was Hey, hold on, we're still we're still up there.
25:48
Okay, we're still in there in in New England. Uh, Chicago's
25:51
looking for an offensive coordinator, offensive every staff the yeah, they fired the
25:59
whole staff. So Rabels out, We've got Arthur Smith out, Pete Carroll's
26:03
now Raiders. Coaches are the Raiders still? You think Pierce is leaning that
26:10
way, I would hire Pierce that he's got the team, Mark Davis,
26:15
you've got Carolina finally. Yeah, well Mark Davis needs to finally just say
26:19
I'm going to hire the guy who's keeping the locker room together. He had
26:22
that chance before he brought in McDaniels, that's correct, and he screwed that
26:27
up. What was that guy's name? That was it? You know it's
26:32
Green Bay's special teams coach, Chromium. But anyways, he did great.
26:40
But yeah, he got Brick Brick Basasia. Yeah, that was it.
26:45
I mean I could see the guy said his name, so you think he's
26:52
gonna bite the bullet. So what happens though? If you can get a
26:56
hardball at the Raiders instead of a Peers, is that the way you go?
27:00
Because Pierce is really going to be a coveted defensive coordinator and it looks
27:03
like the Giants. No, he won't stay, but the Giants are gonna
27:07
want him and probably pay him pretty well as a d C because Wink's gone.
27:12
Apparently that was as ugly and you fire his special assistant, it gets
27:19
uh, I just I just I've read that. He just he said his
27:23
piece slammed the door and walked it, got into a fight and was done.
27:26
So no, I think that was it was. That's interesting because I
27:33
thought that defense was doing better and I like him. Oh yeah, door
27:38
and there we go. So yeah, yeah, I don't I don't see.
27:45
So they're blaming They're blaming Wink Martindal and the defense for their collapse,
27:49
even though I had read in the last few games Martindale had gotten praise and
27:56
it was their offense that just wasn't working. What are you doing? Need
28:03
to go over there? We go? Okay, No, what would you
28:06
say? It was the what? It was the what now that the teams
28:11
that he had they had played but his schemes and stuff with Martindale's schemes for
28:15
the last few games, he had gotten high praise from the other team because
28:19
of what he had done and how he you know, stopping everybody, finally
28:22
getting everybody on track. Giants were third to last an offense, so I
28:26
don't think anybody needs to worry about that deal. But they blamed the deed
28:30
I know, and they were more talented. I thought. Now the front
28:33
line on guarded it with what's his nuts? Oh fucking goofy eyes Daniel Jones.
28:40
Every picture I saw him. That guy look low. I don't think
28:44
he looked like he needed a handler just to take him to the bathroom.
28:48
But I don't think Dave All likes him either, So I think that's gonna
28:49
be an interesting you know, and he might be on his way out after
28:52
this year. All right, So you've got you've you've got Ben Johnson's obviously
28:57
the hot commodity. O see. I like Todd Monkin from UH. I
29:04
think you'll leave the Ravens. I think that Lamar Jackson's looking much different as
29:08
a quarterback and much better. Not his run heavy first. He's still running,
29:14
he does, but he's still throwing. Of course, they're still leaning
29:17
on the offense. But you know, the Ravens finished in the top five.
29:21
You could remember that even the Bills are looking for offensive coordinator, but
29:23
they finished in top No, they're not. Joe Brady's gonna stay. And
29:26
that was another thing, is the Buffalo Buffalo and the Ravens. They just
29:32
well, he's in m C, but he's gonna stay because their offense got
29:36
better. The record got better still, but they ended up finishing top the
29:41
Steelers, the top six. They did moving that guy better, catching quarterbacks,
29:48
to go ahead and talk about Kenny Patty. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
29:57
And no to think that I haven't left to pick a trade A long
30:00
time. I jumped on that party train. You know that. No,
30:04
No, I love this is all right, Well, there's your coaching moves.
30:07
We've got a lot of predictions. But I mean it's gonna there's not
30:11
They're not done yet, so it's gonna be any need to find out what
30:14
happens in college, to find out what happened. Well, not only that
30:17
is we're waiting on New England fall and I think that's gonna show a lot.
30:21
What does this have to do? But anyway, let's talk. Let's
30:23
go, let's talk about let's talk about the inn ladies and gentlemen. This
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big. Man, that's pink. We'd like to think that we'd like to
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thank our computer and just forgiving us all kinds of I don't even know where
30:44
this goes from. All right, let's start, let's go NFC. Actually
30:48
you've got that pull. Did you want to finish closing? Closing game that
30:52
got everybody in. No, no, I don't think there was really anything
30:56
exciting. There really was Saints the Texas and was about it, Tampa Bay
31:00
not scoring a touchdown. All they said was we need to win. We
31:06
had a quarterback in Carolina. Hey hey, no, no, no,
31:08
but this, okay, this interesting stat this was this was this was the
31:14
this was the Week eight teams always the worst. I hate Week eight team.
31:18
You've either got teams that are playing for positioning or playing to get in,
31:23
or you've got teams that are already like, okay, well we're here.
31:26
We're gonna set everybody correct. Okay, So that's what happened with San
31:30
Francisco and they got beat by lay by one point. Now LA is the
31:37
hottest team going in. From what I heard they were, they're the hottest.
31:42
They're getting healthy. But they only did and and of course that was
31:47
with Carson Wentz. They already knew they were in, so they played Carson
31:49
Wentz. This is a Sam Darnold Carson Wentz Bowl. I think it's what
31:57
you know. I mean, give Rams credit. I mean they ten and
32:00
seven. It was a big turnaround from last year. They got healthy and
32:04
I thought the Bills, even though that they only won by that seven.
32:07
I thought the Billidings that was what that was the funnest game it was.
32:08
But I thought the Billings. Those two teams are trying because Dolphins wanted to
32:12
keep But I thought about but that that game never led me to believe that
32:16
that Miami was gonna win. That The Colts and Texans game, to me
32:20
was more exciting because that went down to the end and the guy missed that
32:22
one, okay, And the one thing that happened, and the one thing
32:25
that happened in Miami was a lot of their starting defense got injured. Oh
32:30
well, and they had they had no Tyreek and they had no most Well,
32:35
that's what I'm saying that Dolphins too. Yeah, you know, I
32:37
just never felt that they were gonna win. And uh and then you go
32:40
to h you go to that Giants Philly game. But Jalen Hurts started,
32:46
No, he heard a finger, Yeah, he dislocated a throwing him.
32:51
So what does that do going into the playoffs. I don't know. That's
32:53
just that's that's the weirdest team. Let's move to the NFC. We'll talk
32:57
about the matchups. I mean, running through the man's the matchups for this
33:04
week. I mean, none of the other games really matter to me.
33:07
I mean that the Jacksonville blew it, that was another game that they blew.
33:10
Uh. It goes on to my thinking that Trevor Lawrence is never going
33:14
to be an elite quarterback in the NFL. I've said that from day one.
33:16
Never would have drafted him number one, and I just don't because I
33:21
just I don't see it that that team actually regressed last year. So the
33:24
crazy thing is is ANFC starting on the Saturday and then on the Sunday is
33:31
when we have a f C. The NFC you have they have they have
33:38
one game and then they go to two games. So it's it's weird.
33:42
I hate the setup. I really hate that. I don't know, I
33:45
hate the scheduling. I don't I don't like the Monday games, but I
33:49
but I do because I mean, I think, no, I know,
33:52
but it gives a disadvantage to the Monday night winter But I do. As
33:55
long as you play on Sunday, that's definitely Tampa Bay. But so well
34:00
let's talk about that. Let's let's go to that. So uh is you
34:07
know, uh Hurts is going to have the the what's the word I'm looking
34:14
for he's gonna have. He's gonna get another day. He's gonna get an
34:19
extra day to be healthy to fix that. Yeah, yeah, so you
34:22
know that extra day of rest. But see, I never really thought that
34:23
the offense is the problem with Eagles right now. I think it's the defense
34:27
in the secondary. And it's a home game. Here's the problem. Home
34:30
game the Buccaneers from We have a winning schedule going into the South. But
34:34
here's the problem is is that their weakness is going to have to be something
34:37
that Baker Mayfield plays very well and makes no mistakes, tries to hurry that.
34:42
But you guys, you guys, we've seen some turnovers in the line.
34:45
Yeah, but you guys are also on running. We are, we
34:49
are. You have a great but Eagles have been giving up a lot of
34:52
passing. So it's it's I don't I am. I just wanted to say
34:55
that for all the Baker Mayfield haters, cow turned for one look at what's
35:00
cool. Encountered over four thousand yards passing twenty eight touchdowns, ten interceptions.
35:06
Tampa is more than likely to resign. The Baker is not going to be
35:08
an NFL quarterback Tampa is more likely is probably going to sign him, and
35:13
I think they should pay him to two three, you know, two year
35:16
maybe fifty. Yeah, because their biggest their biggest concern right now is the
35:22
offensive line of running back. Yes, offensive I think our running backs talented,
35:25
but there's no one, there's no right but there's no offensive line to
35:30
help that running game. So I can't really blame him. But no,
35:32
they've got to sign Evans. You've got win Field, so you have two
35:37
thousand yards and this is a third time they've done it two thousand yard running
35:43
backs or wide receivers, Godwin and Evans. So what does that say?
35:49
What what does that say for that line? In Baker being able to get
35:51
the ball out, Well, he's had to throw and run for his life
35:54
because we because the offensive line has just not been So that's what I'm saying.
35:58
His decision making the guy that it's been better is gonna make it.
36:01
Yes, and he's gotten better as the year. Philadelphia is favored by three.
36:06
I uh oh. And another thing is is there's only been one NFC
36:09
team, There's only been one NFC team make the playoffs in the last four
36:15
seasons and that's been Tampa Bay out of all the other NFC teams because doesn't
36:21
matter. I mean, because they say we have to take this team,
36:23
but they wanted they didn't do that. They won't guarantee you if they didn't
36:27
do that, we have to take this team from this division. But they
36:30
want to. They would be. They won a super Bowl and the and
36:32
the cheated again. They always cheat. That's all that Tampa does. It's
36:38
cheat. I'll be hating cheating Tampa. All right, let's move on to
36:42
real men, play real football in the noise. Move on to the game
36:46
that doesn't excite me near as much is go to the Yeah, I just
36:51
I don't. I don't see this being a game. Now. Hey,
36:53
I must take about I have to take a few props because of my love
36:59
prediction. You know Zach and I don't remember if you did, but you
37:01
guys, someone I know z that did definitely should on love. And he's
37:06
had a really good year. He's had a good year. They finished nine
37:09
and eight, and it wasn't that you know, those eight losses, A
37:12
lot of them wasn't because of him. I thought he had a pretty good
37:15
year. I don't like le fraud as the coach. But but they made
37:19
the playoffs, so the seventh seed, they're gonna play the count in a
37:22
job for how many years now, Well, he's had good quarterbacks and he
37:23
had another good year of quarterback play, so he's gonna get credit for that
37:28
shitty Aaron Rodgers year. He still kept his job even though I say that
37:31
love that thing is blowing it. So seven and a half point uh spread
37:37
for the Cowboys at home. This is this is for ESPN bets. Yes,
37:42
I didn't pull up inside her because I'm about to sleep. I'm about
37:44
to die. Yea, I'm about to die. But so uh that that
37:49
was the But that's gonna be about right, and it's what I've seen.
37:52
I don't foresee any issues. Now. There is a lot of talk that
37:54
Mike McCartney will be fired if they lose this game and dan Quinn will be
37:58
named head coach. My prediction is dan Quinn's already talking to Seattle, the
38:04
Seahawks, and already so dan Quinn's already in conversation with much So you think
38:12
that Green Bay's got a shot? No, no, not against Dallas and
38:15
you and you're picking the Eagles to be Tampa. Yeah, I'm just just
38:20
on Uh, it's it's really hard with the way that the Eagles have been
38:24
playing, uh to pick them. I might actually pick Tampa. I don't
38:32
know. I just defense defenses. Oh, that's a coin toss. That
38:40
game is a coin toss. I don't they go against them? Either team
38:45
whoever they go against is gonna lose. Yes, you're off the Eagles train
38:50
this year. Yeah, I know. I'm on the pretty train, baby.
38:52
But you don't you don't think that we can't talk about it, you
38:54
know, because they're not playing. You don't think that Tampa. You don't
38:59
think Tampa could beat the Lions. I think that's a very close game.
39:05
But no, I don't think they'd be I mean that's I mean that would
39:08
be the be the matchup. Well, that's gonna be the matchup if if
39:14
Tampa wins and uh no, shoot, Tampa did up in Dallas. Yeah
39:19
they would, they would. Yeah, no, Tampa would. No,
39:22
never mind, Tampa would have to play the forty nine ers and that would
39:24
be a lot because they'd be the fourth seed. Truck Tampa would play.
39:28
Yeah, so that's what you look that's exactly what you're looking at. What
39:31
direction do you want to go, Well, do you want Green Bay to
39:34
win and you know have that the Rams to win? If I thought you
39:39
have that, Hey, if I thought Tampa had a legitimate shot to go,
39:43
we need to talk. We need to talk about that return game.
39:45
If I thought they had an I littlemate shot but they don't, so well,
39:49
a Detroit, that's gonna be a fun game. We return. Let's
39:52
move on the team that gave up on a quarterback in the title or a
39:58
team that gave up on a quarter that had went to the Now they didn't
40:02
up on him. They actually did him a favor, but they took the
40:06
golf in the draft picks with that. Yeah, and it was like,
40:09
hey, you know what I mean? And I think both has been a
40:12
pretty big win for both for both definitely. And I have always kind of
40:16
shipped on Golf a little bit when he was at even when his first wikie
40:21
game, even when he was at the Rams. You know, even they
40:23
went to the Super Bowl game when they pulled case Keenum and stuck golf in
40:30
Dolphins was sitting fifty yard line. He did decent. I forgot they were
40:36
playing the terrible Miami time. So you came to yeah, yeah, yeah,
40:40
this was, this was it's been This is a long time ago that
40:45
you were still playing at the coliseum. No, but okay, so let's
40:50
talk about Lions and Rams. You know what, I was looking at the
40:52
statistics for these playoff teams. Most everybody is listed in the top for offense,
40:58
and this is a funny stat to offense. I had everybody every team
41:01
in the playoff was top ten except New Orleans an offense. New Orleans snuck
41:07
in there at nine. Then I looked at the playoff teams for the defense.
41:10
Everyone was in the top seven except New Orleans. They snuck in at
41:15
number eight there. So, but you've got teams down there on the defense.
41:19
You've got the Eagles, Detroit, and Miami benefited from the fact that
41:25
Seattle blew. Did they lose the last game? No, they killed Atlanta.
41:34
That's what put me in tied for first. Oh I didn't even see
41:38
that. I don't remember, because I know that they were because they could
41:45
have gotten in. New Orleans could have gotten in had Tampa lost, Yes,
41:51
that would have been true. And uh but Tampa's seventh defense. But
41:55
you know, Atlanta because they were a statistical you're looking at the matchups.
42:00
Yeah, I know what you're doing at the predictions. If it's not Ravens
42:05
and forty nine ers, it would it's just it won't even fit according to
42:08
that. You know, it would be perfect to fit for the Ravens forty
42:12
nine ers because forty nine ers are three in both and the Ravens are one
42:15
and four. But here's the secret to all this, everybody, it's coach.
42:20
The secret is no one is giving. Let's talk about the Rams and
42:23
the Lions. Do the Rams have the top and the top running back in
42:30
the league rookie rookie rookie, Yeah, rookie and uh and Detroit just lost
42:35
their top rookie tight end Tom Askin. I don't know if he's gonna pack.
42:38
You're picking Detroit in that one. I think that's the best game at
42:42
all of them my in my opinion, just because of the whole you know,
42:45
the drama, the coat, the quarterbacks. No, it's a it's
42:51
a Detroit home game. How long has that been? The eighty Stafford won't
42:55
be passed so because that Troit secondary is really good. Uh, but I
43:04
do. But but both rushing rushing both the Rams and and the Detroit was
43:10
in the bottom half of defensive statistically, bottom half of the league of Detroit
43:19
Detroit or for defense is what I'm saying. Oh my god. And obviously
43:22
did Detroit pull a fucking Minnesota. They're down there, Yeah, they're down
43:25
there. That's horrible. But Eagles actually had ended up being the worst.
43:30
There's seventh of the defense, way down here on offense twentieth. So that's
43:35
what I'm saying. I mean, I'm going to take Detroit. I am
43:38
now we got we also got to see if Williams will catch the damn ball.
43:45
I'm seeing that he's been a huge, huge disappointment in Detroit. Williams
43:52
Jared went h jameson, Yeah, the guy that you drafted, I know,
43:57
he hasn't played much and of course he was out for Was he the
43:59
game one guy out for? Yeah? H what a surprise. Probably we
44:07
talked. We talked about the Rams had had probably the best draft class that
44:14
that nobody knew about. They build fast. Karen Williams too. I mean,
44:16
that guy can run like who done it? And and you know it's
44:22
It's one of those things. I don't think that Niko is gonna win Rookie
44:27
of the Year. I think it's gonna be Stroud. Oh yeah, they're
44:29
they're simply for the position and because they're going to playoffs and YadA, YadA,
44:31
YadA. But I think he's gonna be right there. No, that's
44:36
what I'm saying. He's gonna be a close second. Okay, See here's
44:37
here's one of the problems. The problem is is that they don't really look
44:40
at a lot of ship. They don't really look at at your stat stats.
44:45
They look at your media hype. Oh well, definitely gonna be Stroud.
44:49
Then a lot of Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Watch football in
44:52
l A. No one really is it Chargers like everybody that well, they
44:58
watched they watched their team play. That's that's the whole thing. Well,
45:00
there's been more media because the Rams actually had a good years. There has
45:06
and has been up there. But it'll be a surprise if Nikola or Kyne
45:09
I would I would go actually would Uh. There's generational talents that we did
45:15
not see. The generational talents and the Kenny's generational talents have all faltered.
45:21
No, they didn't. Jalen Carter didn't have I mean he had super Bowl
45:29
team. You have already super Bowl team. He started what I was thinking.
45:35
His coach didn't play him right, and that's why he's fired. That's
45:40
why definitely good one used some freaking Yeah. No, I think that going
45:47
back to No, I think so, and I think Gibbs is going to
45:52
be the same way. I mean, I think it needs. It's just
45:54
some of these kids ain't when they come. I told I told you taking
45:59
a rookie running back or even wide receiver is dangerous because he went in right
46:05
behind David Montgomery had David Montgomery had just signed the big contract. So that's
46:08
why they had was going to get. But at the end, Gibbs was
46:13
getting more of the car Now did they did they not both have a thousand
46:15
yard season? No, Gibbs was a little bit below, okay, but
46:19
the carries were quite a bit different. Yeah. So you've got even even
46:23
got the Lions reality Detroit close. I can't even tell you it was because
46:30
it's going to be a seventeen to twenty score. How about that? What
46:34
yep, seventeen twenty is that's your prediction. That's it, That's that's all.
46:37
It's gonna be tight that Oh what was your Eagles tampas for? Oh?
46:46
H thirty four thirty eight. Let's go with that, Philly. What
46:53
thirty four, Philly? That's a lot of scoring. See, I didn't
46:58
have to see. I'm totally opposit. Sid. I think that the Tampa
47:01
game is going to be low scoring, and I think that this game is
47:04
going to be little high scoring. Is what's your prediction? I'll go I'll
47:07
go thirty eight thirty one for what? Oh four? About thirty eight thirty
47:10
four? What are you doing? Did you know? Who? Who?
47:14
Yeah? I got it right up here. It's okay, okay, yeah,
47:16
So what's your pick? What do you think? I just told you?
47:21
Repeat Detroit for me second? Write that day? I forgot already.
47:24
I know you say, like seventeen fourteen or seven? Crazy? No,
47:28
no, no, no, twenty to seventeen okay, oh no no,
47:30
no, not that crazy. Okay, let's do twenty four, twenty four,
47:35
twenty twenty four, twenty I'm goundy race, all right. I don't
47:39
write though. So that's what's our third game? Review? Third game?
47:44
Oh, let's go, Dallas? Oh, third game? Oh? Yeah,
47:46
for the for the blue Boot review, for the view. I don't
47:49
know where I'm at. Where did that go? Dallas? Dallas definitly.
47:54
I mean, yeah, this is kind of another story line, you know,
47:58
McCartney going back to Green Bay and think that's gonna they're gonna try to
48:00
make that up a little bit. They're gonna try, They're gonna try.
48:04
Dallas is definitely the more the complete team. Are we sleeping on Dallas?
48:09
Okay, they've gotta, they've gotta. They've got a thirty five to ten.
48:15
Oh my god, I hate Green Bay? How much I hate Green
48:21
Bay forty twenty four. I can't even use turn yellow and poop green twenty
48:27
four. Yeah, from the green Bay fan, all right, I mean
48:30
for the Chicago fan green Bay, thank you, af Ski af skis.
48:37
We have a uh, the Steeler one. Let's start with that one.
48:39
It's the most boring fine steel Steeler's going to Buffalo. I know, cold
48:50
as Ship looks like it's gonna be about That's the other game. Will Time
48:53
says twenty three, So that's probably he said three. It's gonna be,
48:57
but it's gonna feel like that twenty four degrees seventy seventy six percent chances it's
49:02
gonna be heavy run game for both teams. Gonna I'm taking the Bills seventeen
49:07
to fourteen. Really yep, alright, I'll go twenty eight seventeen. T
49:14
J. Watt is still questionable. Yeah, I saw that that injury.
49:16
There was some huge that that people that played a little later than they should
49:21
have. I know, well, they were playing to get in so they
49:23
had to keep playing. That's what I'm saying. You get these injuries of
49:28
guys that have to keep playing to get in a right Moving on, what's
49:32
the next game? I mean, is there anything? I mean, Bills
49:36
are my super Bowl sleeper, so they're gonna have to win. My U
49:38
the only team out of the AFC that I'm looking forward to. Hold on,
49:43
Let's do this traction? Yeah, No, Kansas City, Kansas City,
49:49
Miami. You think that's Tyree's gonna go there? And I tell you,
49:52
if something goes wrong, this joke has already been made. Nothing a
49:55
storyline. Hyrate's gonna go back, and if it goes wrong, Tyres going
50:00
to give a Toddler a lighter just set the place. Oh boy, they
50:04
pulled that one? Who done it? Uh? There is no way in
50:09
hell that if I was in Vegas where we could actually legally bet here in
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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stick, can you get that ship going please? He's too
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busy fighting with the name. I would lay the farm on the Chiefs on
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this one. I would too. Potentially the lowest starting game in history in
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Miami is going to be crazy. Miami does not play well in They don't
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at all. And I'm not talking this cold. They have some statistic when
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it's like below thirty. This ship's at one one negative. Well it says
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there, but it's supposed to be one at kickoff. But it's going to
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get colder, and that's going to be a night game. Oh yeah,
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seven pm. And we you know we have that weather system. That's that's
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why we're in it. We're in it too, so in the city where
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it is. That's also. Now let's reverse that little bit. Would this
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be one of the best wins Dolphins I've ever had in playoff history if they
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win. That's what I thought too, because I thought everything going against them.
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The Chiefs haven't played real well. But it doesn't matter. It's still
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it would be a better win than than when they beat the Dallas in the
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snow. Well that was it. That was yeah, but it was not
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a playoff game. But That's what I'm saying. It's better than that because
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that was a fun game. All right, let's see that was the game.
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Let's hear your prediction. Oh, I'm taking this. I'm taking this
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at twenty twenty two, twenty two to ten. I had twenty four to
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fourteen, so we were pretty close. So now the hell you're gonna get
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twenty two safety three? Come over? Okay, this is a kicking game.
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All right, let's move on. That's what I'm saying. Let's move
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on to I think the biggest NFC game or AFC, I mean, I
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know, I know is the Browns at the Texas. I'm an old man
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Flacco who was just roaming around in a bathtell what three to four weeks ago,
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like old man Kenny. Top ten. Now they've moved that top ten
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and offense first is the striking the future, the future, that's his nickname
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now CJ. Stroud the future. I've never rooted for Ohio state quarterback,
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but come on, I think you're on record of saying they're all trash.
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Draft still exactly what still wouldn't draft them? I the trash I wouldn't draft.
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Take what I wouldn't draft? Quarterback? Either. So that'll put you
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down as a wrong on on Cjtroud. That's not even that's your child.
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Absolutely, I hate that. Wrong, I hate that. But alright,
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eleven and six Browns, ten and seven Texans spread is actually Cleveland's favored.
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Does that surprise you? What? No? No, no, no it
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doesn't. Cleveland's defense is uh is statistically better than now. Cleveland's defense actually
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moved down a little bit after overall it was the fourteen. But the one
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thing you were looking at was that they go on a lot of points,
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and it's the running defense and the things, yeah really eat those down.
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Look if you look at points, Yeah, if you look statistically, now
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this was overall, so points they were a little higher. Slip slip it
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over start looking and this is what you and I have had an argument about.
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How do they how do they figure complete defense and offense? Well,
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they play too much into points. But that doesn't matter at the end,
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That's what I'm saying. So, I mean, that's that is what matters
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in the Yeah, but you can lose a game nine to nothing and you
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know that goes against your points, even though you gave if you should be
53:43
more of a you can lose a game or win a game thirty one to
53:45
thirty. You give up a lot of points on defense. It could have
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been just one of those games. So anyway, C J. Stroud rookie
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at your Rookie of the Year, I think forty one yards, twenty three
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touchdowns, five interceptions. I want to say that he he he is.
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But like I said, media has been a surprise to Dell before he go
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down. Yeah, I mean, so they've done good and obviously the defense
54:08
is good too. I said take above. Yeah, so they're Jay Lennon
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Carter, so they are their defense is I mean? So their offense their
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defense was actually aheads overall of the Browns. But the Brown's on paper or
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I'm sorry, when you look at them play, they're just better. And
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now my deal is, is Flacco keep this going? Is he going to
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be able to do that? The Browns look at the record three and five
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away, they play very boring. I think that's the thing I don't like
54:37
about Stefanski. But it's getting them there. Show With the Browns, you
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have a quarterback that's been there before, it's been to the playoffs, that
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knows how to do it. Coming in with a team from Houston, who
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has not been in the playoffs since probably that debacle when its Kansas City when
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they were up you know four, it was Bill O'Brien, Deshaun Watson was
55:05
the coach, quarterback, and Bill Brown was a quarterback or coach and they
55:08
had John Hopkins. Yes, yes, so uh you know, like I
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said, this kids are coming in and they have not been there before.
55:15
And then it plays out almost like a book that what's your prediction. I'm
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taking the Browns. I'm taking the Browns in a maybe twenty seven to twenty
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three. So you and here's I want to say that the Texans are going
55:34
to be marching at the end of the game to try to win, and
55:37
it's gonna be something happening. But like I said, Flacco has been there.
55:39
There's guys on that defense that have been there, so you you do
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have got them. Sound like Kenny I'm saying, oh my lok, I
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know, so you do have. So you do you do have leadership that
55:54
has been there that knows what's going on. Now. Second game probably not
55:58
gonna be in the same way, but yes, the Browns do go and
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beat the Texans. I'm sorry Houston fans It's just it's how it's gonna have
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to be. You got young kids. They're gonna repeat next season, and
56:08
you know, yeah, I'm gonna disagree with you. Yeah yeah. And
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I think I think that Houston wins. And I tell you why. I
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think that the Browns had the benefit this year of playing against a nod up
56:22
to par Bengals team. I think they also had the advantage of playing against
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even though I think they split the Steelers offense, wasn't that good? And
56:30
then who am I missing who? And the Ravens obviously, well they're the
56:35
cream of the crop. But I don't know. I think that something about
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this Texas team. I think they're gonna come in hungry. I think they're
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gonna play a little more lights out than than Cleveland. And that's what I
56:45
think. The thing about them is is they play boring football, which is
56:50
kind of that, you know, Midwest type NFL football. I agree with
56:52
that, But the Texans are going to be a lot of showmanship, a
56:55
lot of run, a lot of go go go, And I think I
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think I'm gonna give that one. I'm gonna give it thirty twenty seven close.
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I think this more points are scored in this game than most people think.
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And I like the advantage of being at home for the Yeah, oh
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yeah, that's gonna nobody has any effect. Is there a game that is
57:15
not in it? Is that the only dome game this week? Oh no,
57:17
there's plenty of dome games. You've got Detroit, Dallas. Now the
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Tampa Bay we didn't talk about count You can retract them. They're gonna have
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it close. They're gonna have it closed. And I think Tampa that The
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issue about that too, which I didn't like Tampa to is it looks like
57:31
it's gonna rain. Well, obviously Temperau is gonna be fine, but looks
57:35
like rain, and we don't run the ball well. And that's why I
57:38
think the Eagles will will run that down. It's got some precipitation by Marcus
57:45
Mariota. Now that's a possibility, and that would be disappointing, wouldn't it.
57:52
So all right, well there's our picks this week for NFL. We'll
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be back next week after Tuesday. Tuesday, and we'll be back to No.
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We'll be back Tuesday after the Monday playoff game to recap all the games.
58:08
We'll talk about coaching updates about who's taking what job and where they're going,
58:12
specially when it's now that's what he says, but it's never going to
58:15
work out. We'll do it. We'll be here. We'll see you tuesdays.
58:19
You said you're off Tuesday. We'll be here tuesday. Baby, we
58:22
will be here Tuesday. These are lies and promises that come to you.
58:27
We'll be here Tuesday, and we'll have a guest on Tuesday out here.
58:30
We're not gonna mention yet who it's gonna be, but we'll have a third.
58:32
Hey, we've we've had numerous guests, but we're gonna have a part
58:36
and we don't we're gonna be in person guest. But we had a child
58:38
here for five minutes. Going to be huge, and the coaching is going
58:44
to be huge, because that's always one of my Yeah, well we'll know
58:45
better, we'll know better. Well, there's also still staff that needs to
58:49
get fun. There's still firing, people are ill. Check was ambiguous when
58:52
he left. He told everybody it's business as usual and just left it at
58:57
that. So that's the that's another what is happening. I'm leaning it.
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I'm leaning the Jared Mayo associate head coach. Like I said in a general
59:07
manager of mean pig, that's my pig, so I'm gonna lean that way.
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So until we see you next time, Thank you all for joining us,
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and we'll see you next week, right O.