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Set 1: Mike Tomlin Calls, What Do You Do? (w/ Brady Quinn) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: And there's Dan Lanning out there because no one can
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: yell at him. There is Lanning out on the field,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: not focused on the opponent, not focused on his team,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: not focused on the game.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: He is focused on making Pat McAfee laugh.
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: Enough.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: Terrible. Terrible job by Lanning.
• 0:19
  Speaker 4: Dan Lanning is the Nick Saban of Mike Norvell's.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: Who the hell is Dan Lanning?
• 0:24
  Speaker 4: Could at least give us Ben Johnson might be the
• 0:26
  Speaker 4: greatest coach ever.
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: Uh, no.
• 0:30
  Speaker 4: Knock if you agree with me.
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: Give me the frozen dungeon.
• 0:33
  Speaker 4: I know we're doing overreaction Mondays.
• 0:35
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 0:35
  Speaker 4: I would still be surprised. And it's Tuesday. You got
• 0:38
  Speaker 4: nothing right there. It's time to get your pint.
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: Tomato, tomato.
• 0:43
  Speaker 4: There is no worse surprise than surprise Gouda.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: I felt so bad for Arch Manning playing so poorly.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: I was saying to myself, he doesn't have it. He's
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: not a Manny.
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: Everyone is a fraud.
• 0:53
  Speaker 6: This is Steve Spurrier, former Gator head ball coach, and
• 0:57
  Speaker 6: you've been listening to Stugatz and Company.
• 1:00
  Speaker 7: Everyone is a fraud. Surprise Gouda.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: It is Stugatz and Company presented by FanDuel and the
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: FanDuel Sportsbook. Brady Quinn coming up in about 15, 20
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: minutes or so. last night the Atlanta Falcons get a
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: big victory. They needed it, 35-14. I'm not certain what's
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: the bigger story here. Is it the Falcons getting a
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: much-needed win? And that team is talented. And Michael Penix
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: played good enough for the Falcons to show just how
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: good they are offensively. What's the bigger story for you, Taylor?
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: How the Falcons played or how the Packers played?
• 1:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's the Falcons. I think the Falcons might
• 1:34
  Speaker 4: have saved their season because it felt like last night
• 1:37
  Speaker 4: we entered the game thinking, The Falcon season was the
• 1:39
  Speaker 4: one on life support, and we left that game feeling
• 1:42
  Speaker 4: that the Packers season is now on life support.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: The rare switching of life supports within a single game.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: How do you have this life support thing working? It's
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: like they came in with, they needed help breathing. They had, like,
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  Speaker 1: how do you imagine that to look? Life support for
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: a football team.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's like that meme where it's like somebody called the
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  Speaker 4: ambulance and the guy's like crouching over and the Falcons
• 2:11
  Speaker 4: were crouching over and they were like, somebody call an ambulance.
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: And then the Packers let their guard down and then
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: the Falcons lift up and go, not for me. And
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: they pull out a gun on the Packers.
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: I was so impressed with the Falcons of Michael Penix.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: I put a little flyer on the Falcons to win
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl right after the game.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: This feels like what we've been talking about with this
• 2:31
  Speaker 4: Falcons team, though.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 2:33
  Speaker 4: You look at Drake London and you look at Bijan Robinson.
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: There is so much talent at those skill positions. You
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: just figure out the quarterback position. That team, Bijan Robinson
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: by himself, should be able to carry you to seven,
• 2:46
  Speaker 4: eight wins. I did not watch Barry Sanders, but I
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: have a hard time believing that Bijan Robinson isn't the
• 2:52
  Speaker 4: closest thing we've had. Two Barry Sanders since.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: Different kind of runner, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, different. Yeah, different, different.
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  Speaker 4: He glides, Mikey. It is beautiful when Bijan runs.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: But Barry was so low to the ground, it was different.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: Barry would, like, scatter. He'd be in one place, and
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: then he'd be gone. Bijan's more power, I feel like.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: Right, Mike?
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  Speaker 5: I'm convinced Barry Sanders could teleport. Like he would be
• 3:15
  Speaker 5: over here and then you'd think, I got him. And
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  Speaker 5: then all of a sudden you blink and he's three
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  Speaker 5: yards down the field the other way.
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  Speaker 4: Bijan does have an element of that to his game
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  Speaker 4: where it looks like a hole is closed and he
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  Speaker 4: cuts back so fast where it's like, it looks like Bijan,
• 3:32
  Speaker 4: like the game is moving in such slow motion for
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  Speaker 4: him to where he's able to process like a juke
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  Speaker 4: move or a spin and before the defender could even
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  Speaker 4: comprehend what's happening. And my favorite part in that game,
• 3:44
  Speaker 4: Micah Parsons is on the sideline, and the sideline reporter
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  Speaker 4: is telling him what Micah Parsons is telling the team.
• 3:49
  Speaker 4: She's like, Micah Parsons is telling the team, just break
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  Speaker 4: down and tackle Bijan Robinson. Not the easiest thing in
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  Speaker 4: the world.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They've won one game since Micah Parsons went down. It
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: was against the Jets.
• 4:02
  Speaker 5: All right, guys, settle down and win the lottery, okay?
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  Speaker 5: That's what you need to do right now.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: The most basic advice, the most obvious advice that Micah
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: Parsons could give.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, wrap up Bijan Robinson. They're going to give him
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  Speaker 2: a ball.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, Jesus.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny that you say bijan robinson could carry them
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  Speaker 5: to to seven eight nine wins uh he's.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna have to he got the ball he was handed
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  Speaker 3: the ball.
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  Speaker 5: 29 times yesterday yeah that can't keep up all season
• 4:31
  Speaker 5: like it was it was fun to watch he had
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  Speaker 5: 194 yards on the ground he also had two catches
• 4:36
  Speaker 5: for 19 yards but like you can't you need to
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  Speaker 5: have an offense outside of one guy getting the ball
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  Speaker 5: 31 times.
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  Speaker 2: In a game.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that, but they did have two guys getting
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: the ball. Drake London also had a big game. But
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I understand your larger point. You can't give B. John
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: or really any running back these days 29, 30 carries
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  Speaker 1: per game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Atlanta was averaging 5.9 yards per carry where
• 4:58
  Speaker 4: the run game was working and they were establishing themselves
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: at the line. And when you have as talented a
• 5:03
  Speaker 4: running back as B. John Robinson, I'm here for the
• 5:06
  Speaker 4: Michael Pennix redemption story because that first couple of drives
• 5:09
  Speaker 4: for him, looked about as bad as a quarterback could play,
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  Speaker 4: where he starts one for five with an interception. After that,
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  Speaker 4: he was 17 of 20, 239 yards, one touchdown. no interceptions,
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  Speaker 4: and Atlanta finishes the night with 500-plus total yards of offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, got off to a shaky start.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: That's why I said quarterbacks would leave their current situations
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  Speaker 1: to go be the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons.
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  Speaker 2: Drake London is the ultimate. Just throw it up to
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  Speaker 2: him and see if he can catch a guy, right?
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not even certain he's open half the time they
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  Speaker 2: throw it to him.
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  Speaker 3: He's that big. He's that good.
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  Speaker 5: But Michael Penix, the redemption story is so interesting because–
• 5:48
  Speaker 5: We had him written off because they're like, oh, they're
• 5:51
  Speaker 5: bringing in Tua because they know Penix isn't going to
• 5:53
  Speaker 5: be any good. And he's showing right now that he
• 5:58
  Speaker 5: could probably lead this team to a couple of wins.
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And when you have Bijan Robinson, when you have Drake London,
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: you should have a good amount of confidence. And I
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  Speaker 4: thought Penix was surgical after that rough start throwing across
• 6:11
  Speaker 4: the middle of the field. And I have this stat
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: from Michael F. Florio that highlights how good Drake London
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  Speaker 4: is when he plays with Michael Penix.
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: Is it Michael F.
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  Speaker 3: Florio?
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  Speaker 4: It's a different Mike Florio. Michael F.
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  Speaker 7: Florio.
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  Speaker 3: A better Florio. A better Florio.
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  Speaker 4: So this stat is Drake London has now played 15
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: career games with Michael Penix Jr.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: In those games, he's gone for 100 catches, 1,480 yards,
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  Speaker 4: and nine touchdowns.
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  Speaker 7: Jesus!
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  Speaker 4: With Michael Penix, he's as close to a wide receiver
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  Speaker 4: one as like a Jamar Chase, a Pukunuku, a JSN.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and with Michael Penix in that division where you
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: have no idea who can win that, all four of
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  Speaker 1: those teams can win that division.
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  Speaker 2: Why not the Falcons?
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  Speaker 7: Why not us?
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  Speaker 4: The Dirty Birds.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I put a little flyer on them.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're ever going to put a flyer
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  Speaker 1: on them, you put the flyer on after an impressive win.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: A quarterback comes back. He has a redemption story. They're
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: off life support because now Green Bay is on life support.
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  Speaker 1: That's when you put a flyer on the one and
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  Speaker 1: two Falcons.
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 4: When is the last time you guys watched a Packers
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: game and you came away impressed by a Matt LaFleur team?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm tired of him. LaFleur.
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  Speaker 3: I would say like mid to early last year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Probably because they were bad at the end of the year.
• 7:32
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: And they've been, by the way, Stu.
• 7:35
  Speaker 5: How upsetting is that Jets loss to the Packers, having
• 7:39
  Speaker 5: watched them now just completely shit the bed against this
• 7:45
  Speaker 5: Falcons team?
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  Speaker 2: It's all I was thinking about last night. I mean,
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: I took a little stroll around the block.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about it 17-7. I was also taking
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: a stroll because I had the Falcons on the money line.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: When you're up 24-7, you go smoke a joint and
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: walk around the block.
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  Speaker 4: Mikey, there is an element to it where the Jets
• 8:02
  Speaker 4: come away disappointed that they blew that game against the Packers.
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: But in the back of the Jets' mind, they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: the Packers should be a good team. We had a
• 8:10
  Speaker 4: really good performance. We looked like a competent team. We
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: looked like a competent team for, what, 95% of that game?
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: And then you're watching Thursday Night Football yesterday. And if
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: you're now the Jets going up against the Detroit Lions,
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: you're like, uh-oh, we might have our work cut out
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  Speaker 4: for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Taylor, I am fully invested in Jets Twitter. And one
• 8:29
  Speaker 5: of the funniest things was a Cowboys fan tweeted, and
• 8:32
  Speaker 5: we've got the Packers' first-round pick.
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: How great is this? And everybody's like, no, you don't.
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: The Jets have it.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Yep. By the way, LeFleur said, this is after the game,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: right now, I don't know what we're doing well offensively.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: You're the head coach, man. How about you figure it out?
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Why is he regarded as one of the great head
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: coaches in the NFL? I will never understand it. His
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: teams get to the playoff fairly consistently. Once they get there,
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: they get bounced out pretty quickly. And for a coach
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: to say, I have no idea what we're.
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: Doing well offensively after a game, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Your job to know what you're not doing well offensively
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  Speaker 1: and then go out and fix it, LaFleur.
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  Speaker 4: I have LaFleur getting to the coaches meeting and he
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: just sits down at the table with the coaches and
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  Speaker 4: he just goes, any ideas?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, can you guys got something? Can you guys help?
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: No bad ideas.
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Why does he make me so mad? Matt LaFleur. It's
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: the name. I don't think it's the name. I mean,
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: he's a good looking guy.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: I just think people regard him as one of the
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: great coaches in the NFL and he's done nothing.
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: I think it's because he ran Aaron Rodgers out.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe.
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: I think part of it is the Packers have been
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: such a pillar of stability in the NFL that it
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: feels like any coach that goes there should have a
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: good amount of success with with that ownership and with
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: their history and lafleur constantly feels like he underachieves there
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: to where he gets to the playoffs and normally it's
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: shanahan bouncing him.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Out right has his number yes he does.
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: Let me run a scenario by you tell me what
• 10:13
  Speaker 5: you think okay please do Packers miss the playoffs. LeFleur
• 10:17
  Speaker 5: gets fired. Jets miss the playoffs. Glenn gets fired. Jets
• 10:22
  Speaker 5: call LeFleur.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: Are you happy?
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just ripped the guy. No, I'm not happy.
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: Just making sure. I'm just making sure you're going to
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: keep that energy.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 7: I will.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: I have a question for you guys. Mike Tomlin calls
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: the Packers today.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: What do you do? You pick up, you.
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: Pick up and you ask him, when can he be
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: in green Bay? And when can he start?
• 10:47
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: Because I think, I think Tomlin at least has the
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: reputation of getting the most out of his teams. The
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: last couple of years, he was hamstrung with, with an
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: Aaron Rogers at quarterback. That was pretty disappointing. You would
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: assume that Jordan love is an upgrade from what Aaron
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: Rogers currently is at the quarterback position.
• 11:03
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: Mikey, what do you do?
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, of course you answer the phone.
• 11:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, it, it, You don't let it be known
• 11:11
  Speaker 5: that you answered the phone, but you answer the phone.
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: And you hope.
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: What if LeFleur is in the office when the phone rings?
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Do you still pick it up and have that conversation
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: with Tomlin?
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: How do you do that?
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: Hey, I got to take this. This is my sister.
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: He hasn't earned the benefit of being kicked out of
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: the room.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: I have the conversation with Tomlin right in front of LeFleur.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: So the way I have the situation playing out is
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: LeFleur's in his weekly meeting with the owner. And the
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: phone starts ringing, and you can see the caller ID
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: on it. And it just says, like, Tomlin and, like,
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: a Pittsburgh area code number.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Well, do you look at LeFleur and you say, you
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: want me to answer that? You want to figure out
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: what our offense is doing wrong, or what do you
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: want to do? Yeah, LeFleur's just looking at it like,
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: are you going to pick this up? Because now I'm
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: feeling uncomfortable here.
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: Go to Chris answers the phone. Mikey T, you think
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: about what I said?
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: All right. He initiated the conversation. Yes, even worse.
• 12:11
  Speaker 4: The biggest problem that I had with this game yesterday
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: was Packers tight end Tucker Kraft. They asked him yesterday
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: about fans booing at the home opener.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: Shut up.
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: And this was Tucker Kraft sound.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty tough.
• 12:28
  Speaker 8: You know, like everyone pictures Lambeau Field and the not booze.
• 12:33
  Speaker 7: I don't picture booze.
• 12:35
  Speaker 8: I picture my home stadium.
• 12:36
  Speaker 7: That's tough.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: It's pretty disappointing. Especially for a home opener.
• 12:40
  Speaker 7: Especially for a home opener. It's pretty disappointing.
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  Speaker 3: It's not going to help us win.
• 12:45
  Speaker 8: I don't know what people think that's going to rally
• 12:48
  Speaker 8: us or something like that.
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: But we're growing, man.
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  Speaker 8: We're mentally strong enough, capable enough to get back on
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  Speaker 8: the field and play ball. But it would probably be
• 12:56
  Speaker 8: much easier with the 70,000 people behind us rather than
• 12:59
  Speaker 8: opposing us.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Them cheering is also not going to help you win.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: How about you just play better? Not helping. Sorry, that
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: was me getting... I'm a little flustered. I'm choked up
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: because I'm at Le Fleur.
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: So, where Tucker Crabb loses me is when he says
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: it's not going to help us win. I think you
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: could be disappointed that fans are booing.
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: No.
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: But you can't then turn it on the fans. Like,
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: the reason they're booing is the reason why you're losing.
• 13:23
  Speaker 7: Because.
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: If you're a Packers fan, you know what's disappointing? Spending
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: all that money to go to a game, spending all
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: that money on parking, spending all that money on concessions,
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: and then you get to your seat and you get
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: a garbage product like they put out yesterday.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: The Falcons, right. You're on life support now. Yes.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: You pay all that money, you go to the game
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: to find out your team, who wasn't on life support
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: before the game, is now on life support and needs
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: help with oxygen.
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: Although, if I'm a Packers fan... I know your team lost.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: I think Bijan Robinson is worth the price of admission
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: at this point.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, they got their money's worth when you consider that,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: that he ran for nearly 200 yards.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Mikey?
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: This is the same guy that said he wouldn't want
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: to see a no-hitter if it was thrown against the Yankees,
• 14:07
  Speaker 5: but he's okay with Bijan Robinson running for 200 yards
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: against the Packers if you're a Packers fan.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Come on, man.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: He's wildly inconsistent, and so is sports radio, and that's
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: why I'm proud of him. I mean, whatever he said
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: the day before, the week before, the month before, it
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't matter. You're the only one who remembers.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: No one else does.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: Sports radio. I'm glad you just mentioned sports radio. I
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: have a classic for sports radio today.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Before you do that, can I just talk about Tucker
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Craft for a second?
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Those aren't normal fans. Correct me if I'm wrong. Those
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: are owners of the team. They own a small percentage.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: With your seat license, you get a small percentage ownership.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: They don't have an owner. This is one of the
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: best fan bases in the NFL. They show up to games.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: They sell out every single game. They don't care if
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: it's 15 below. The Green Bay Packers mean everything to
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: those fans, and those fans are also owners.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: And if they want to boo because you're not playing well,
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: get the hell over it.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: And who is Tucker Kraft to call out the fans?
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not Jordan Love, and if he did it,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I'd have the same opinion. Leave the fans alone. I've
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: said this forever. Fans pay a price to get to
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: the game. They make an effort to get to the game.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: When things are going well, they will cheer for you.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: When things are going poorly, they have every single right
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: to boo you in your home stadium.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Play better, Tucker Craft. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Tucker Craft was four catches for 26 yards on eight targets.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: How much better can you play?
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Well, now he's on life support.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: If I'm a Packers fan and I hear this quote,
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I'm making sure I'm going every game and booing for
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: the rest.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Of the season. Yes, before it even starts. Play better
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: and I'll stop booing.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: So my sports radio staple today.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Sorry, yes.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: I've got a who says no for you guys, and
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: I think I'm the first person who's bringing this exact
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: who says no to the table.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: The Packers send the Giants Jordan Love. The Giants send
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: the Packers Jackson Dart a first and a second because, Mikey,
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: you mentioned they don't have a first-round pick next year.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: You recoup that first-round pick if you're the Packers, and
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: then you could also start the quarterback cycle over. getting
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: somebody like Jackson Dart. You're taking a flyer on Jackson
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Dart coming back next year and basically just punting on
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: this season and saying it's a lost cause. And then
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: the Giants, you're getting a franchise quarterback where, The question was,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: is Jackson Dart a franchise quarterback? Jordan Love is a
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: franchise quarterback, and maybe putting him in Harbaugh's system gives
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: him more structure to kind of elevate his performance.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I would say there's questions as to whether or not
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Jordan Love is a franchise quarterback. I understand what you're saying.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Who does say no in that scenario, Mikey? And you're
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: saying doing it right now. Doing it right now. Okay,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: so Jackson Dart goes to the Packers, a first and
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: a second goes to the Packers, and the Giants get
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: back Jordan Love. I don't know if Jordan Love is
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: good enough for the Giants to part ways with Jackson Dart,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: with a first, with a second, where Harbaugh is going
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: to feel confident that if I get Jordan Love, I
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: have a great shot at winning that division and a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: great shot of going deep in the playoffs.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think Jordan Love is that guy.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: I think the Packers are closer to saying no in
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: this scenario than the Giants.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I think Harbaugh is closer to saying no.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: I do.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I do. I think the Packers say no. You just
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: don't know what Jordan Love is.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: And to punt on a season is really hard to
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: sell to, as you said, owners of the team who
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: are also fans.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Give me a break on owning like 0.07% of a team.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: It matters, but it matters that much.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: They frame that certificate.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Does he know what that, let's say it is 0.7.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: How much that would be?
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: 0.07.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Do you know how much money that would be if
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you had 0.07% of the Yankees?
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I'm just, it's just such like a, I'm just so
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: tired of always hearing about Packers fans owning the team
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: when it's like, Okay, you owe like a $ 50 share
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: of the team. Okay, congratulations. Sell that stock to somebody
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: who actually cares.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Get over yourselves.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: But, Mikey, if I'm making the argument for the Packers
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: to make the trade, there's three scenarios that you could
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: potentially enter next season if you make this move and
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: you ship Jordan Love to the Giants. You enter next
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: season with one of these young quarterbacks, Darian Mensah preferably
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: from Miami, and Jackson Dart, in a quarterback battle for
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: training camp. And at the worst-case scenario, you probably have
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: the best backup in the NFL, and we're seeing the
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: importance of having good backups when six, seven teams right
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: now are playing their backup quarterback. The second option is
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: you draft somebody with that first-round pick that you now
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: recoup for Jackson Dart and kind of strengthen that team
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: with him coming back from getting his knee restructured. Or
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: if you really love one of those quarterbacks, you flip Dart,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Because you're telling me Dart wouldn't be in demand as
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: an asset around draft time?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: He would be. He's really hell-bent on this trade.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I think it's a good trade for all parties involved.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: He really is. He wants this to happen.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Have you heard this take before?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: No, and I hope to never hear it again.
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• 21:05
  Speaker 1: here on Fox Sports Radio. We're headed into a big
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: college football weekend. Taylor greeted Brady today by saying, you physically, just,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you know, physical appearance, you are the guy of all
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks who have ever played in the NFL and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: college football, you physically most look like a quarterback.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: What'd you make of that? Was that a compliment? What'd
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: you think?
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: No, I guess I'll take it as a compliment. That's
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: a good thing. Some people, when they see me, they're like, man,
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: do you play linebacker?
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: I'm like, no. We used to be, as quarterbacks.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: A lot bigger back in the day when you had
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: to play under center and you didn't get the protection
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: these guys are getting nowadays.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: So, no.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: But I appreciate that, Taylor. It was a nice compliment.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Who looks most like a quarterback to you, Brady Quinn?
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Oh, man.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go– I mean, obviously I was a
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: big Tom Brady fan growing up.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: He's a little ways older than.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Me, so I'd obviously say him. But Danny Marino. I'd
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: say Dan Marino just looks like that guy. It's like
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: that's the leader of a team. You want to go
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: grab a beer with. Just looks like a gunslinger. Looks
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: like a quarterback, you know?
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Brady, who's the college football team?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And we're early in the season, obviously, but I'm wondering
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the team that has surprised you the most in.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: A good way.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Louisville's been one that I really wasn't anticipating, thinking that, like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: all right, we might have some competition in the ACC.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Lincoln-Keenholes has been phenomenal for them. You know, I think
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: he's a great fit for Jeff Braum. And Jeff Braum's
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: got such a propensity as being a former quarterback, but
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: for developing them. helping those guys play to the best
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: of their ability. He just runs a very quarterback-friendly system.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: It feels like every year, whoever they've got there, like
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: when I put on the tape and watch, they're always
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: maximizing what they're capable of. And Keenholz is a really
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: good athlete. He's more of a dual-threat quarterback than people
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: probably realize from seeing him at Ohio State. So that's
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: a team that I think defensively has been pretty solid.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: It's been a better debut so far for Louisville and
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Lincoln Keenholz than I anticipated coming into the season.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Is there a player that has surprised you the most
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: where you think to yourself, wow.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that guy could do that?
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: I don't know that I would put it that way.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: There's been probably two, one good, one bad. Kamario Taylor
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: has just been phenomenal. His tape, it was fine last year,
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: but this year, just how much more efficient he's been, accurate.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: the timing rhythm to the offense. Like he just feels
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: so much more comfortable and poised in the pocket. He's,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: he's special. Like that, that young man is incredible and
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: he's got to have people at the next level drooling
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: over his upside and what he's capable of because he's big.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: He's got a cannon for an arm.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I've seen a ball come out
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: of a guy's hand and spin it the way he
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: does and make it look so effortless.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: I mean, I, I don't even want to say, I
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: was going to say maybe since Jamarcus, like Jamarcus.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I was going to say since Marino.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Marino.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe Marino, but I was going to say, I mean,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: I wasn't, I was young when I watched, when I
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: watched Marino back as the pros, but I would, I
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: would say like, and I know that comparison is going
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: to be a lot of, you know, mixed reviews because
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: of what happened with Jamarcus, but I just mean as
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: far as the ease in which he throws and the
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: velocity that's on that ball and how, when he, like
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: when you throw a go route, especially with there, if
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: there's a trajectory on it, Some guys have to worry
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: about the middle field safety, maybe making a play on it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: His is, it's like, it doesn't matter. Like that guy's
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: never going to get there in time. It's just, it
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: gets up, it gets down. It's right where it needs
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: to be.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: It's perfect.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Like he's, he's been incredible to watch so far. And
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: I know they've got a big one this week. And
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: then probably on the, on the negative side, I'd say material.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Like I really was looking forward to a healthy job.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: It's here.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: He's been in that system with Ben Arbuckle for really
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: four years, dating back to the time in Washington state.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: And he's, He looks at times lost.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: I mean, even his touchdown pass this past week, you know,
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: he was searching all over the field and kind of admitted,
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: like he heard the crowd react to Isaiah Satanga being
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: wide-ass open in the.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: Middle of the field. And by the way, that's their
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: number one receiver.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Like that's the guy who they look to, you know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: more often than not with his first read or almost
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: on any play they.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: Designed in their past game.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: So it's just a bit surprising to see him struggling
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: at this point the way he has. The Michigan game
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: was tough, tough environment, tough defense to go up against. But,
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: you know, since then, really, it's just he's just not
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: really recovered.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Brady, with Ole Miss traveling to the Swamp to take
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: on Florida this weekend, how worried would you be for
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss with the emotional hangover after that Lane Kiffin game? Hmm.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: I think it'd be a lot harder if you were favored,
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: but I think Pete Golden can just turn around and
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: look at his team and say, you know how much
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: people value that win you had last week?
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: Zero.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: Zero.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: Because they've got you as a dog on the road. Now,
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: three and a half point last time I looked, dog,
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: going to the swamp. So that's how much they care,
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: and that's how much they believe in you guys being
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: able to be one of the top teams in college football.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: So go prove them wrong.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm arguably the biggest stage– With all the
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: drama that went into that game, I understand the theory
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: behind the letdown. I just feel like this team's built
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: the fabrics stronger than that. With the way Trinidad Chavez
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: has played so far and led this year, the way
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: that defense has responded, which Pete Golding obviously remains, so
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: I wasn't overly concerned about what they look like defensively.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: But here's a skip to Pete, and he's making a
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: case for being the best quarterback in college football.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: With a handful of other guys.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: How do you think his game translates to the NFL?
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: Extremely well. He's got such a strong arm.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: He can create, he can hurt you with his legs.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: The way he's throwing the ball this year too, in particular,
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: like at all three levels, that's where I've seen a
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: bit of that development. I mean, he's, he's putting balls
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: in spots in that intermediate range, you know, from 10
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: to 20, 10 to 25 yards where you've got to
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: be able to throw balls into windows or up and
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: over a defender, but in front of the next one,
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: he's displayed that a lot more this season too. And
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: it's just, it's fun to watch because he's kind of
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: coming into his own. And you can tell he's playing
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: with so much swagger and confidence. It's a pleasure to
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: watch his tape, as weird as that sounds to admit.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Brady, it's such a great weekend of college football.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to go through some of the big
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: games here and just get your thoughts on them quickly.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Texas at Tennessee.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: This is a test, obviously, for Texas because that environment
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: is one of the toughest I ever played in my
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: college career down in Neyland.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: But I also think it's a test for Josh Hype
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: on his system.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: You know, the quarterback's a young player taking on a
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: Texas team that's already got a pretty big win and
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: was able to kind of eliminate or at least shut
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: down Ohio State enough to find a way of beating them,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: you know, in Austin. But I also think it's like, hey,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: can this scheme, can this offense really like surpass what
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: people view and who they look at as the number
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: one team? Because it seems like there's a ceiling there.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: And so it could be a pretty big win for
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Tennessee fans. Really, Josh, I would kind of put a
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: stamp on, you know, what what the ceiling is for
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: this Tennessee Volunteers team.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Iowa, Michigan. What are your thoughts there?
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: A lot of punting. No one's afraid to punt in
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: that game. In all seriousness, two very well-coached teams, very
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: sound teams. It's going to come down to who makes
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: the most mistakes. I worry for Michigan because of the
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: youth on offense, but we've already seen them in a
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: really big game earlier this year. And, you know, the
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: way they ran Bryce Underwood, the game plan they put
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: together for that, it makes me think you're going to
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: see a heavy dose of him again in the run
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: game with some shots mixed in. And he's developed chemistry
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: with JJ Buchanan. He's become their kind of go-to receiver.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: But Marsh is... Very capable, too, of getting behind secondaries.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: So I like Michigan in that one. And I think they,
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: you know, again, it being in Ann Arbor, to me,
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: makes all the difference in the world. Because that defense
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: is one of the best. They're hard to throw on.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: It's hard to get to edges with the way they
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: kind of pin inside and down.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: So I think the advantage is theirs to Michigan, for sure.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: This game is so fascinating to me.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: USC, Oregon.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: It's one of those narrative dictating games, right? For Dan Lanning,
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: they've been building towards something in Eugene. And obviously they
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: stumbled this year versus Oklahoma State. And there's no way
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: of getting around it, but you're on the road again.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: And your defense hasn't been as good as you have hoped.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: Your offensive line has struggled a bit too. Dante Moore,
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: to me, has made up.
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: For some of that.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: But it's going to be a test. And I think
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: it all comes down to the physicality. This SC team
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: is more physical than they have. been in the past
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: however there's some concerns for me with their defense you
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: know the Gary Patterson addition I thought was going to
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  Speaker 6: be lights out and this was going to really catapult
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  Speaker 6: them up into one of the top teams in college
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  Speaker 6: football but when you allow Rutgers to keep that game
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  Speaker 6: close last week and I get it it's a West
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  Speaker 6: Coast team on the East Coast I It's hard to
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: get up for that, especially in that environment where there's not.
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  Speaker 7: Many people there for it. Those are just a bunch
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: of excuses.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: If you're as good as you think you say you're
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  Speaker 6: going to be with Lincoln Riley and that window's open,
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  Speaker 6: this is a game that you need to dominate. You
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: need to be the more physical team, running the football,
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  Speaker 6: stopping the run in your house. And so that's really
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: what's at stake here. Because if they don't win this one,
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: it's like, when's it ever going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of two teams that need to win, LSU
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  Speaker 2: and Texas.
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  Speaker 8: A & M.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a bounce back game really for both quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 6: I thought Marcel Reed looked a little bit better game
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  Speaker 6: one this season. And since then, he's kind of fallen
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: off a bit. Just doesn't seem overly comfortable. Seems to
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: throw much better to his right than his left and
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: breaking down some of his tape. And I'm sure the
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: LSU defensive staff is very aware of that. But on
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: the flip side, Sam Leavitt, it hasn't been a great
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: two-game swing for him. Basically after Clemson, which there was
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: even some throws and some things you saw there that
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: made you a bit concerned. But that first half of
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: Law Tech versus Law Tech was awful. And then watching
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: back last week's tape, it's like he's leaving clean pockets,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: missing some throws. I mean, he's doing a lot of
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: what I saw at Arizona State, where if the first
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: read's not there, he struggles a bit to see the
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: field and stay patient with the progression. Define number two,
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: number three. And I get he's an athletic guy, so
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: he can hurt you with his legs. But there's also
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: a point in time where when you do escape the
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: pocket and you roll to your left, you're cutting the
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: field in half and you're throwing on the run to
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: your left as a right-handed quarterback, which is a much
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: lower percentage completion throw. So you're almost playing in the
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: defense's hands. So he's got to get more confident with
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: his protection and more confident with Charlie Weiss Jr.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: And Lane Kiff and the system they have for him
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: because the plays are there. Charlie Weiss Jr.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: Doesn't get enough credit for being the brains behind that
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: entire operation.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: It's just Sam Leavitt has to trust it and has
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: to go out and execute. And you see glimpses of that.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: It's almost like he needs to be tired out a
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: little bit and just settle down at the beginning of games.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: And once he settles in, he's fine. But it takes
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: him a little bit to find that rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: I'd ask you about Notre Dame, but we're still waiting
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: for them to play someone. I mean, let's go.
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, come on, man.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Go watch Wisconsin be better than people think.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: Hey, who's Miami playing? Do we want Notre Dame to
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: go play Florida A & M? Is that what we want?
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Is that where this whole thing's going?
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: You're 100% right, but I didn't play at Miami, nor
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: did I go to Miami, nor do I care about Miami.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I know where you live. I know
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: where you live.
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  Speaker 5: All right?
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: Look, I would say this.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: They've done exactly what they were supposed to do I
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: always felt like last week, I know there were people
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: who were frustrated with not covering the spread, which now
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: it's like a thing now. It's like a team under
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: a cheese if they don't cover the spread.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: If they don't win you money.
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: I get that. But that game, that was an inflated line.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: You knew Pat Fitzgerald would come up with a plan
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: to limit the amount of possessions that Notre Dame got.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: The weather forecast played a big factor, particularly the second half.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: All those things. you're just kind of like, that's.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: One of those, you go win, you get out of
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: there with a double digit win, be happy with it
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: and move on. Like there's, there's too much of this
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: box score.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: What was the spread?
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, we, we didn't, we didn't appease the odds makers
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: that are, that's going on right now in college football.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: I think for a lot of us who've been in
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: it and played it, um, It's just one of those
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: things where a win's a win, man. Take it and
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: move on. There are some things to clean up, but
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: that wasn't one where I came away overly concerned about
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: Notre Dame. I think they've played a little better schedule
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: than people want to give them credit.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Brady, as a former Browns quarterback, I'm curious your take
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: on their quarterback situation where Deshaun Watson came out yesterday
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: and said he's ready for support from Browns fans this weekend.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: Well, that's nice to hear. I mean, the last time
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: you came out and said something about Browns fans, it
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: was the exact opposite, right?
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: So it feels like someone gave him the cliff notes
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: to how to respond to the fan base before your
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: home opener.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: That's good. Glad we got that book. Maybe that was
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: like the.
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the book for dummies, whatever it is. It's like,
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: here's what you do. Read from this.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Can responses.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: You don't want to take shots at your fan base
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: before a season starts and you name the starter.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: I would say this.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: What's concerning is everything that came out before the game
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: last week versus Tampa and how that.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: Comes out, why that comes out. You know, nothing is.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: Is random.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: There was obviously someone leaking out messaging that a, if
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: things don't go well, based on how they went in
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: week one and how they might look week two, we're
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: going to reevaluate the quarterback position. And you have to
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: say to yourself, if you're a Browns fan. So we
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: spent the entire off season with these two in a
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: quarterback battle. And then we get into the season and
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: name one of them. And after basically one or two games,
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: both on the road, which is hard to win in
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: the NFL on the road, we're just like thrown into
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: town saying, well, we got to go reevaluate it again.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: I mean, I just, it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: Seems like the Browns organization can't get out of their
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: own way at times. And this is one of those instances.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: Like if you want to play Shador, cause you're curious
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: what you have in him, then let him go play.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: You know, if you already feel like you have what
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: you have in Deshaun Watson's, what you have that, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: you're kind of looking more to the future, then, then.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Let it be the backup.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, it just, none of it makes any sense
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: to me either be behind the guy who's quarterback one
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: or don't, but there's, there had to be something to
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: a lot of the reporting that came out. And so like,
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: I think Browns fans will support him maybe until the
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: first incompletion or interception, but like, You know, they want
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: to win. Browns fans are some of the best in
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: the world. Like, they want to win.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: And so, you know, as a quarterback, you don't need
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: to give them any reason to not, you know, want
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: to cheer for you. And obviously, there's a lot of
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: things in Deshaun Watson's past, whether it's poor play or
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: things before he even got to Cleveland, that would give
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: him the reason not to. But I think they'll be
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: supportive to a certain extent. And if things go, you know, sideways,
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: I think they'll be kind of back going again.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think they'll all be supportive. Yes, fans want
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: to win.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Not all fans want to win at all costs. it's
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see when the entire fan
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: base gets behind him.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Like, let me present this scenario.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: If they beat Carolina, then Pittsburgh, with Deshaun Watson, he
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: plays well, they're 3-1.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: That entire fan base is getting behind him, right?
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: I mean, look, and that was, again, like, why when
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: they initially brought him in. There were a lot of
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: people who were like, ah, I don't feel great about it. But, hey,
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: he was talented in Houston, so let's go. Like, he's
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: our guy. You know, he did his contract. So, you know, again,
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: fans are willing to talk themselves into– rooting for their
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: team or their player, despite, again, maybe some character flaws.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: And that's part of sports. So I'm with you on that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: I think if things go well, and I'll be very honest,
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: I think this is a really good pairing between Todd
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: Munkin and the type of system he can run for
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: Deshaun Watson and really Watson's skill set. This is a
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: match made in heaven for Deshaun Watson to resurrect his career.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: With what Kevin Stefanski wants to do, how he likes
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: to do things more with the outside zone scheme and
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: some of the stuff maybe more in the center. Those
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: sorts of things, I always thought were going to be
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: difficult to get the best out of Deshaun Watson with
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: what they wanted to do and what Watson does best.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Two pros and a cup of joe. Weekday, 6 to
• 37:13
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• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Brady Quinn with us. We appreciate the time, man. We're
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: quick today. We kept it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Listen, we kept it sports, man.
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  Speaker 3: We did.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: You proud of us?
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: We did. There's a lot of other things we could
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: have talked about. We kept it sports.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it next time when we have more time.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I appreciate your time, though. Thank you, buddy.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: All right, man.