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Ep.57: An ok time.... not a long time · Football Junkies podcast

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I'm gonna be really honest with you guys. I did not expect to record
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But just because of the Kirk cousin news and the miles Garrett news as well as the two games that happened this past weekend
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We got to talk about it. Do I have to give you guys?
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Just a small little gift
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Just before I unravel my gifts for Christmas. So here goes
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Kirk cousins gets the boot
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Miles Garrett gives the browns and ultimatum
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Steelers and Ravens recap and
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Chiefs and Texans recap. Okay on the 57th episode of the football junkies podcast. Okay. I am your host with the most
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Okay, I am your chief back row diamonds. Okay. I am your GM who currently is not on the team right now
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But don't you worry about it? Don't you worry about it? My fellow junkies. Okay. I am all these things and more
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Okay, but most importantly the most important thing that you must remember is I am your host kale
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You already know what I'm getting ready to say. So guess what?
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Happy holidays for everybody. Merry Christmas for some happy Hanukkah for others happy Kwanzaa for others
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But guess what? Here's how we're going to celebrate things. One two three. Let's lock in
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All
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Right folks, let's just get into the meat and potatoes of everything that is going on in the league right now
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So let's just get into it. Okay. Kirk cousins is expected to be cut by the Falcons. Okay
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But here are a few junkie nuggets that we have to bring up
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Concerning this situation. Okay. So for one, he has a no trade clause in his contract. So most likely they are not going to trade
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They're probably going to cut him either dead cap or try to spread the dead cap
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So they can try to soften the blow now Adam Schefter is reporting that it is too early to tell if the Falcons are going to trade
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Or release him me personally, I think they're just going to release him and then just try to figure out what they're going to do with the dead cap
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Because I don't think nobody's going to want to try to take on the deal that Kirk cousins already has
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I think for Kirk cousins. I think anywhere that he would want to go to I think they really wouldn't be as interested to give up draft compensation
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To get him. That's just you know, my my personal opinion as a former GM. Okay
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Now we do know he is expected to garner some interest
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due to
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a poor shaky
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And if I'm going to be honest here not really good quarterback draft class next year as well as the free agency
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Quarterback class isn't good either. So he is probably going to garner some interest from some of those teams
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But at the same time though
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I do question. Why would they make this move now?
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Because granny, I understand Michael pennies, you know has a lot of upside to his game
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He has a lot of experience
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He's similar to bone X as far as you know, they're they're college football journeys and whatnot
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But at the same time you just gave 90 million dollars to Kirk cousins
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And now you're about to just let him go for nothing
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And now you're about to be in the same situation that the Broncos were in with the whole Russell Wilson situation
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Which is you're going to have a whole lot of dead cap that you're going to have to figure out
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Either can you you know spread it through you know the next two or three years to soften the bloat?
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So that you can still have cap space to surround Michael pennies with talent or you just take it in
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You know for one year and then you just figure out what you're going to do
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You know the the years afterwards. So all in all it's still a weird questionable
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Decision but at the same time I'm not surprised that they would make this move
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Simply because the last few weeks Kirk cousins has not played well Kirk cousins look
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Old he looks diminished. He looks washed
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You can definitely tell that he has not really fully recovered from that Achilles injury
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And it's moves like these that mess up the quarterback market because
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There's going to be quarterbacks that are going to be looking for deals and guess what they're going to point to this particular situation because
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guess what
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They can pull up whatever stats that they want, you know from espn pff pro football reference wherever and can say oh
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I have better stats than curcums. I want to deal similar to curcums or whatever the case may be
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And it's these type of situations that mess up the markets for these type of positions for a long time
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case in point
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Uh christian curf the christian curc deal that messed up the receiver market for a long time
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And if we're being real here the receiver market still hasn't been able to properly
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You know fix itself and it's continuing to balloon
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Even more especially next year because we know that
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Wherever jamar chase goes. He is going to be the first 40 million dollar receiver
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I don't care where anyone says right now. He is playing at a triple crown level
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And when he does win the triple crown, that's it. He's going to reset the market again
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Curcums was here for an okay time not a long time
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That's what it is
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It wasn't a good time because it really wasn't good. It was just okay. It wasn't you know phenomenal
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It was an okay time not a long time. That's it for them to just get off of him this quickly
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I don't know if this was an ownership move. I don't know if this was a front office move
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I don't know if this was a coaching move
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But I do know this
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If they're moving off of him this quickly
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There is something that they see with michael pennix that they like that they want to surround him with talent with
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And believe that he is their best option for winning games
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Okay
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Moving to the other pressing topic that needs to be talked about and that is miles garret giving the browns an ultimatum
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All right. So so this is what miles garret said and I quote. I'm not trying to rebuild
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I'm trying to win right now and I want that to be apparent when the season is over and we have those discussions
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I want them to be able to illuminate and illustrate that for me
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So that can be something I can see in the near future in quote
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Now this is what I will say
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And I'm I'm going to give miles garret a little bit of bail here
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When he was drafted he was drafted into somewhat of a bad team
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And since he has been there they have not got it together
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Honestly speaking here. There's probably only been maybe one year where you can say hey
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They got it
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There's a there's a legitimate chance and that was the year when they beat
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You know pittsburgh and the playoffs when juju said, you know, the browns will be the browns
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Outside of that
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They've always fallen short to the standards and you cannot say
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That the browns haven't had talent
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They've had
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One of the best defenses in the last three or four years
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consistently
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The offense has been doing their thing consistently somewhat
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Depending on the depending on who the quarterback is in okay when it comes to the shine watson
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No, when it came to joe flacco, you already know what she was getting with joe flacco same thing with james winston
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What sense does it make that you have backup quarterbacks who have been more productive with the same weapons that the person that you moved
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Multiple first round picks for and you gave him the first in only fully guarantee contract
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And what has he done lately nothing the team isn't going anywhere. The starting quarterback is
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out, you know for the season
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The backup quarterback is basically falling off a cliff
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The team right now has multiple positions that need to be filled with young talent
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What am I supposed to do?
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And it sucks for someone like a miles Garrett who's been holding this team down who's been staying positive despite the
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You know circumstances that have been around him, but at the same time
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It's starting to hit a point where the frustrations are starting to overflow
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And at some point if you are the browns front office
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Just trade them
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trade him away give put him in a better situation to win because right now
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You don't want him to be in the same situation like a joe thomas. No disrespect to joe thomas joe thomas
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Is one of the greatest left tackles of all time
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And the fact that he was never able to experience an afc championship to experience the super bowl
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To experience any of those different things because of the browns being the browns
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That sucks
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And miles Garrett probably realizes I don't want to be that same type of player. Sure. I'll be you know
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In shrine as as one of the greats, but I want to be able to hold up that trophy. I'm trying to get me a ring
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I'm trying to get a chip and I can't get a chip on this team and that is the truth
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You know that the browns need a left tackle
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You know that the browns, you know, they have they have spots that they have to fill in the defense as well in the offense
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Not to mention you don't even know what's going to happen with the head coach
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And granted I understand, you know, they've already said that Kevin Stefanski is safe. I don't believe that
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Just because of how bad this season has went
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But if you are the browns
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And if you realize hey
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We're going to have to go through a rebuild again and we're going to we're going to need multiple draft picks
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Miles Garrett is your option because you know
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You can garner at least two first round picks for miles Garrett at least
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Now if you take on his guarantees and a majority of his money
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Somebody might even give you three first round picks if we're being honest here
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That's just something you have to look into
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And miles Garrett realizes. Hey
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Sure, I want to defense a player of the year that I probably shouldn't have won
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We're not going to get into that because you know, I'll go on a complete rant. I'm not going to do it
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Sure, I'm one of the best pass rushers in the league right now
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But what do I have to show if I'm always one and done every single season?
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Or if or if we never make it to the playoffs or if we never make it to the AFC championship
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It's useless. It's pointless
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The amount of time that it takes for him to prepare himself to get ready for the season to recover and
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Clean up any any, you know injuries that may be bothering him in the season and you know
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Preparing himself in the summer and all those different things just for him not to go anywhere
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I would lose my mind. I would go ballistic every single time
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But at some point the Browns you have to admit your mistakes
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Same thing with max Crosby. He's in the same situation
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You have two of the best pass rushers in this league right now on teams that are not going anywhere
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On teams that have gone through multiple rebuilds multiple head coaches multiple front office changes
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Multiple multiple multiple and they still have not got it done
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At some point they're they're going to want to go somewhere else into win and if I'm the Raiders move off of max Crosby
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You can get two or three first round picks for him same thing with the Browns
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You can get those picks and you can try to you know really build this team and the way that that it really needs to be built
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because again
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You're not going to go anywhere if you keep on trying to piecemeal
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You know every single season and then you fire a head coach and then you bring in another head coach
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It really isn't that good and they surround the you know the team with you know
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Coaches that aren't really that good and then you underperform and then everyone's upset. It's just a whole bunch of hoopla
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Okay, but this is the cycle and this is the curse
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Of being the first especially for Miles Garrett because I think he was the first overall pick in that draft
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But let's get into these games. Okay, I'm going to make this thing fairly short
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I keep on telling you guys this episode is going to be short
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So Steelers and Ravens let's just get it over with right now. So Russell Wilson 22 for 33
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217 passing yards two touchdowns one pick
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6.6 yards per attempt in a 66.7 completion percentage
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Jaylen Warren 12 attempts of 48 rushing yards
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Four rushing yards per carry and one rush of 10 plus yards or more
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Calvin Austin the third five targets or four receptions 65 receiving yards 16.3 receiving yards per reception
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Lamar Jackson 15 for 23 207 passing yards three touchdowns one pick
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Nice at nine yards per attempt in a 65.2 completion percentage Derek Henry King Henry
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Okay, he earned his title back this game 24 attempts for 162 rushing yards
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6.8 rushing yards per carry and seven rushes of 10 plus yards or more save flowers
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8 targets for five receptions 100 receiving yards and 20 receiving yards per reception now
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This is what I will say about this game
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This was probably the one of the best games
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That the Ravens have had against the Steelers in a long time because usually our games as everybody knows
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Our low scoring games. They're the 1813's the
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2016's it's 22 to you know 14 or just random crazy numbers, right?
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But this game was a very dominant run heavy game for the Ravens. They dipped their toe in the water and they say, huh?
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It's not that hot
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It's not that cold. Oh, it's just right. Oh, come on in fellas. Come on in come on in
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Uh, do a do a frog splash do a do a cannonball, you know do a 360, you know
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No scope do whatever if you know, you know all my call of duty fans shout out to y'all but
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But when we look at this, you know just to be serious here
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This was a situation where the Steelers could have secured and locked up the division if they would have won this game
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But because they lost this game, they have now left the door open, which is a great song by the way
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for the Ravens to possibly win the division if the Ravens went out and the Steelers lose
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I think their last two games
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so
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On one hand, I understand, you know, all the you know Steelers fans frustrations and whatnot. I get all that
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But we had to be real here and we have to be honest
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Do you really think we were really going to be able to win that game? Especially without George Pickens?
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We are now seeing what this offense looks like without George Pickens playing now granted
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There was multiple mistakes that were made that but never should have happened
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That you know could have probably kept us in the game
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But when Russell Wilson tries to you know extend a little bit farther than what he should have instead of just sliding
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And then causing the fumble, you know, it comes back to haunt you and then not to mention you threw a pick six
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Which just sealed the game in its entirety. So when you have those two things that happened and then on top of that
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You couldn't stop the run. Of course, it was going to happen
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and so now
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You are in a situation where you
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sort of have to you know
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Win this game against the Chiefs and then you know you're going to have to beat the Bengals
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And we all know right now the Bengals are playing with house money
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The Bengals low-key could still sneak into the playoffs. Sure, they would need a whole bunch of help
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But right now they are still holding on by the thinnest
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Strand of string that you can possibly think of think of it like those spider webs
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The spider webs that you don't see
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But when you angle it a little bit towards, you know towards the light you can see this ginormous spider web
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That's exactly what the Bengals are holding on to right now
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but if you are the Steelers
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You want to try to maintain the third seed and you want to try to at least have home field advantage
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For at least one playoff game at least just one. We have to talk about the final game
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Chiefs in Texans, okay
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This game proved that Patrick Mahomes's ankle is perfectly fine. He is a okay
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There's nothing to worry about. There's nothing to fear. He proved it because he went on a crazy run
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Patrick Mahomes is doing Patrick Mahomes things, especially this time of the year for the Texans though
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It sucks because you lose tankdale again with that horrific, you know lower leg injury, which was very horrific
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I didn't realize how bad it was until I was able to see the replay again. That's really bad for the people that are saying
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You know CJ Stroud. You can't show emotions. Why you're on the field? He's human
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That's his guy that that's his go-to guy and to see him
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You know go through everything that he went through
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You know when he got shot at and then you know for him to you know lose the season again because he basically breaks his leg again
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Like that's a lot. It's gonna make you emotional. So
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I don't understand why people are saying and criticizing and CJ Stroud for showing emotions. That's just that that's ludicrous to me
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But I'm not surprised though Patrick Mahomes 28 for 41
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260 passing yards one touchdown 6.3 yards per temp in a 68.3 completion percentage
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Kareem Hunt 11 attempts for 55 rushing yards five rushing yards per carry
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One touchdown and one rush of 10 plus yards or more Xavier worthy 11 targets for seven receptions
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65 receiving yards one touchdown and 9.3 receiving yards per reception
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CJ Stroud 23 for 39 244 passing yards two touchdowns two picks
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6.3 yards per tip in a 68.3 completion percentage
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Joe mixing 14 attempts for 57 rushing yards
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4.1 rushing yards per carry and two rushes of 10 plus yards or more tankdale seven targets for six receptions
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98 receiving yards one touchdown and 16.3 receiving yards per reception
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Which is crazy because prior to his injury tankdale low key was going off
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The Texas low key could have won this game, but
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Ultimately he got hurt which you know prayers to him and whatnot, but for the Texans this season
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It's just been a roller coaster of a ride
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They have their highs and their lows just like any other team
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But you can definitely tell that the offensive line have definitely
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Play CJ Stroud a lot especially with his performance. You can definitely tell that you know with them losing Stefan Diggs early in the season
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It's definitely taken the toll on them as well, which is why they went and they claimed Deontay Johnson yesterday off of waivers
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so
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While I expect the team to you know still be dominant
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I do not believe they are going to make it as far as they did last year in the playoffs
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I just don't I I believe that they
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Have a lot of things that they have to overcome
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And I just think right now, you know when you have a team like the Ravens who are low key red hot and you have
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You know the Broncos and the Chargers who are low key hot as well
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And you know that their fronts are a little bit more, you know better against your offensive line
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You're not going to make it that far. I just don't believe they're going to make it as far now
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Would I would I have love for them to make it far? Yes for sure
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Especially, you know on the defensive side when you have DeNeal Hunter and will Anderson doing what they were doing this season
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Of course I would but you know, I just don't see it
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But I will say this
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Most likely their first pick is going to be an offensive line because their offensive line has just been atrocious
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Yeah, I'll just leave it there. I'll just leave it there. Just know I'm giving you guys a heads up right now
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When the season is over, we're going to do something like a gut check. Okay
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We're going to go through every single team
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Give out some recommendations. What what positions they should address in free agency and what positions they should address
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You know in the draft. I'm giving you a heads up right now
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But the one thing that has proved this season for the chiefs is
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We can win in multiple ways. We can win based off of the defense. We can win based off of the offense
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We can win, you know in the most craziest ways there is now. I will say this
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I do believe
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The chiefs do have the upper hand against the Steelers tomorrow
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simply because if I'm not mistaken, they are still undefeated when it comes to
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One score possessions
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They're undefeated now some of that is because of you know tackles holding and
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putting pass rushers and choke holds and
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Getting off of the line, you know
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Three or four seconds earlier before everybody and you know, just just put them out there just letting it be known
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you know the chiefs have you know
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Gone away with a few questionable calls, you know, just putting it out there for everybody to know, you know
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Just want you to you know pay attention to that on Wednesday
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Just putting it out there just saying not assuming anything not trying to you know, put out any any fake
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You know allegations or anything, but you know just just want to bring it to your attention
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But if I can make a prediction on Wednesday, but between both of these these matchups
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Chiefs and Steelers and Texans and Ravens. I do believe the Ravens are going to impose their will
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on the Texans. I think the Ravens are
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Are different. I think they
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You know have benefited off of that laid by to you know rest recuperate get them
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You know get their minds ready and whatnot right now
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They're on a high you're on a two game win streak
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You crush the Giants and then you crush the you know the Steelers you silenced all the naysayers
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Because leading up to that game everyone was saying well
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Can Lamar beat the Steelers Lamar has been playing well against the Steelers
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Which we're going to talk about the MVP stuff before this episode ends but back to this though
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I do believe it's going to be a close game
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But I think the Ravens are going to seal the game
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Defensively just putting it out there now for the Chiefs though. I think that's going to be
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a hard game to call simply because
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The Steelers are going to want to try to play physical. They're going to want to try to you know playing the mud a little bit
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Now the question is will the Chiefs be willing to want to play the mug with them as well?
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Who knows but I will probably say Chiefs win against the Steelers 28 to
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19 and for the Texans and Ravens, I'll probably say
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27
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20
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Yeah, I like that now for this I have to bring this up because I'm seeing a little bit of delusion
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Especially on Twitter. Okay, because people are saying that Josh Allen has locked up the MVP news flash. He has not okay
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With Lamar winning against the Steelers on Saturday, especially the way that he won
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That evens things up right now for the MVP race. Okay, and if Lamar wins out
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And he wins the division the division by the way that the Steelers were supposed to win on Saturday
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But they weren't able to do it
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That automatically gives Lamar the MVP
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Compared to what Josh Allen has done. Sure. You got crushed against the Rams and yes, you were struggling against the Patriots
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I'm sorry. You have to account that you know when it comes to the MVP voting, but
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Unfortunately, I'm not on that list, you know for for when it comes to the MVP, you know MVP voting
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So, you know, you won't be hearing it from me here
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But I am completely exhausted right now. So I'm definitely taking a break
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Most likely we probably may not have an episode until the start of the playoffs
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Is what I would say if there is no news or anything crazy that doesn't happen
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But we all know I'm probably gonna be taking a small break and then we're gonna be back into this thing
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So I'll let you guys know you'll probably you know realize them when I put out another episode of one up
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I am going to take me a break get some rest recuperate and you know
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Be prepared to give you guys the new year's junkies fix that we all need
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To start the year off the right way. Okay, so as always, I hope I gave you guys the fixes you guys need happy holidays
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Merry Christmas to each and every one of you guys from my family to yours. I love you guys
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I appreciate you guys so much. Don't drink and drive drink water. Have fun
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Be responsible peace and love. This is kale signing out later