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NFC East Betting Preview with Connor Hughes · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Favorites, your go to NFL betting show.
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Speaker 1: We are part of the Action Network family of podcasts.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Brandon Kravitz. Back at it with the
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Speaker 1: First Lady, Kendra Middleton on today's episode. The divisional previews continue.
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Speaker 1: Only three lefts and we're past the midway point of August,
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Speaker 1: so we are almost there, folks, NFC East today with
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Speaker 1: Connor Hughes, Big Dog Guy, Kendra and I'm sure that
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Speaker 1: you will have a lot to say about that.
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Speaker 2: We know that I love a good waffer.
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Speaker 1: It does feel like Jackson, your Jackson has become a
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Speaker 1: bigger star on the show ever since your news setup
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Speaker 1: where you can kind of see everything that's happening behind you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's certainly, he's certainly a piece of work. I
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Speaker 3: think I've mentioned on this show before that I in
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Speaker 3: the last couple of months have gotten really into the
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Speaker 3: vibration plate.
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Speaker 2: He's also really into the vibration plate.
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Speaker 1: What is the vibration plate? Is that like a workout thing.
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Speaker 3: It's sort of you can do workouts on it, but
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Speaker 3: it literally is just like a plate that vibrates. It's
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Speaker 3: supposed to help with recovery and lymphatic drainage and stuff.
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Speaker 3: I'm kind of addicted to it, even if it's placebo.
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Speaker 3: I really kind of love it. So I'll do that
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Speaker 3: with my red light panel in the morning, and he
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Speaker 3: does red light therapy with me and loves the shake plate. Also,
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Speaker 3: my shrimp and my spider are doing red light therapy,
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Speaker 3: which was certainly something to explain to a pet sitter
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Speaker 3: when I was leaving for weeks at a time.
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Speaker 1: My goodness, she continues to find ways to Outcrunchy herself
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Speaker 1: on every single episode. My dog's getting old, I think
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Speaker 1: I started being Is that the answer? He started barking
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Speaker 1: at random things. Either he's getting old or my house
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Speaker 1: is haunted. I'm not really sure with red light therapy.
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Speaker 1: A quick note before we get into the meat of
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Speaker 1: the show. Talking NFC East, Vitavea signs a new deal
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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars, giving him one extra year on his deal,
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Speaker 1: some new money for this year. Essentially it's a pay
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Speaker 1: raise just to get him back out onto the field.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of contracts, this Christian Gonzales thing, it's getting a
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Speaker 3: little crazy. Like Witherspoon put the outline out there, and
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Speaker 3: that really kind of in my opinion took the pressure
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Speaker 3: off of the Patriots put it on Christian Gonzalez because
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Speaker 3: the framework is there. If you want one or two
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Speaker 3: million extra dollars, fine, You're basically interchangeable players. The only
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Speaker 3: I think a better option with Christian Gonzalez is his side,
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Speaker 3: his size over Witherspoon.
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Speaker 2: But it's making it.
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Speaker 3: Seem like Christian Gonzalez might be a little bit of
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Speaker 3: a diva. Allegedly he might even be asking for, you know,
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Speaker 3: forty million dollars a year, maybe a percentage of the
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Speaker 3: salary cap in coming years. I think the longer this takes,
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Speaker 3: the worse it makes Christian Gonzales look.
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Speaker 1: Christian. You're very good at what you do. But the
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Speaker 1: dude over in Seattle just won a Super Bowl. So
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Speaker 1: to just get on his level, maybe get a penny
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Speaker 1: more agent. Move the hell on. You gotta be happy.
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Speaker 1: By the way, if you have a Bucks NFC South
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Speaker 1: ticket plus one seventy is around the range it's been
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Speaker 1: sitting at throughout the offseason. I'm just I'm not I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm not advising you bet it. I think that's a
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Speaker 1: terrible bet. But if you have it already and Vidave
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Speaker 1: is on the field, it's at least a positive that way.
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Speaker 1: Rookie Ruben Bain, who is a workout warrior by the way,
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Speaker 1: in practice, people love him. Down in the Great State
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Speaker 1: of Florida, players are dropping like flies. Kendra Jordan Tyson
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Speaker 1: out for two months with a hamstring, so we're not
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Speaker 1: gonna see him at the start of the season. Alvin
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Speaker 1: Kamara mcl sprain, he's out for a month. So Travis Ashan,
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Speaker 1: do you I guess you have to say that, now.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that injuries truly and I'm sure that
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Speaker 3: Evan has statistics on this, but do you think that
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Speaker 3: they truly are more plentiful each and every season or
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Speaker 3: is it just the current flavor of the week.
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Speaker 2: That's what it feels like.
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Speaker 1: I don't think enough people have done proper research on this,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna have We're gonna have doctor chow on
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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season, and we're probably gonna
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Speaker 1: ask him that every other week and hopefully he gives
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Speaker 1: us some numbers on that. I do think that the
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Speaker 1: injuries are up. I think injuries are up slightly and
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Speaker 1: awareness is up like three hundred percent, And so with
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Speaker 1: the combination of those two things, it feels like it's
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Speaker 1: just it's worse than ever. And maybe that's the case,
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Speaker 1: but I think we overrate how bad it is because
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Speaker 1: of the awareness we know. Someone I know about Kyle
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Speaker 1: Mnung Guy's knee injury. I wouldn't have known that ten
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Speaker 1: years ago.
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Speaker 3: Actually, I feel like I just had a brain blast
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Speaker 3: from Jimmy neutron.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I.
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Speaker 3: Remember doctor Chow saying it wasn't that there. I think that,
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Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken, he said that there are more
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Speaker 3: injuries because humans are getting bigger, faster, and stronger, but
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Speaker 3: there's only a certain capacity the human body can handle.
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Speaker 2: Did I just have a brain blaster? Am I making
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Speaker 2: it up?
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Speaker 1: No, that's that's completely accurate. I have a good friend
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Speaker 1: of mine as a personal trainer, and he said that
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Speaker 1: exact statement to me years ago, that you're tendons are
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Speaker 1: really not all that different from when we were cave people.
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Speaker 1: And yet we look at the players in the NFL
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Speaker 1: and compare them to just players in the league fifteen
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Speaker 1: years ago. They look like different humans. And now you're
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Speaker 1: putting that you're putting added torque and muscle onto tendons
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Speaker 1: that haven't gotten any stronger since we were hunting the triceratops.
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Speaker 1: Don't quote me on the timeline of that with human history,
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Speaker 1: I don't think that we weren't on the No, we
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Speaker 1: weren't on the earth together. That's besides the point. The
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Speaker 1: Chargers already dealing with offensive line injuries. Great transition, Jayden
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Speaker 1: Higgins wide receiver, year two for Houston. Done for the
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Speaker 1: year with an ACL bubble wrap. These people already throw them.
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Speaker 1: Are your Jags doing okay? I saw they've been all.
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Speaker 2: Over the shut up and get to our guest.
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Speaker 1: Zip it NFC East previews on the way in a moment,
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Speaker 1: cue the cool transition. Time to put the NFC East
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Speaker 1: under a microscope with our guest, Connor Hughes, NFL reporter
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Speaker 1: or s n Y TV. Big fan of his dog.
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Speaker 1: From what I have come to learn. What kind of
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Speaker 1: dog are we talking here? Connor?
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Speaker 4: Beagle Terrier? She is?
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Speaker 5: I will say that likes as we've gotten older on
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Speaker 5: an age and having two kids now, the dog is
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Speaker 5: it's the the fanness is coming down the dog.
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Speaker 4: The dog is. Uh. We love her to death. We
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Speaker 4: love Lucy to death.
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Speaker 5: But who the two kids plus a dog is a trio?
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Speaker 4: I don't think I was ready for.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, see, Kendrick, you're not ready for that. The dog
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Speaker 1: that your dog is your number one, But when you
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Speaker 1: start having kids, it's just impossible to stay where they're
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Speaker 1: at in the household power rankings.
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Speaker 3: I'll stick with the dog and all of my other
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Speaker 3: weird pets over the kids.
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Speaker 2: Boys.
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Speaker 1: Connor, We've been doing these vibe checks for every division
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Speaker 1: that we've been previewing in the NFL. Where are we
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Speaker 1: on the NFC East. I mean, obviously you would come
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Speaker 1: in a little bit biased here, but in terms of
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Speaker 1: the if we were to take a wider view judging
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Speaker 1: this division versus the others in the NFL from an
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Speaker 1: intrigue level, where do you have the nfcas I.
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Speaker 5: Think it's up there. I mean, you've got the Philadelphia
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Speaker 5: Eagles right now that are are I think you look
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Speaker 5: at a talent perspective and they are one of the
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Speaker 5: two three, four, and I don't I think four is
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Speaker 5: probably pushing it. Most talented teams in the NFL. Even
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Speaker 5: after they let go a J. Brownman, that defense is
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Speaker 5: going to be elite with Vic Fangio, you have Jalen Hurts,
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Speaker 5: you still have saquon the offensive line, is still really
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Speaker 5: really good as long as Lane Johnson's healthy. Of DeVonta Smith,
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Speaker 5: you added Mkayelomon, Like there's so much there to like
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Speaker 5: about that team, and it feels like everything kind of
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Speaker 5: now rests on the shoulders of Jalen Hurts. And even
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Speaker 5: though he's already been to two Super Bowls and even
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Speaker 5: though he's already won one and he's been a Super
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Speaker 5: Bowl MVP, it's like there's still so much pressure, which
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Speaker 5: probably just comes from being in a Philly market, of
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Speaker 5: like can they do it? But from a talent perspective,
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Speaker 5: it really is they're going to go as far as
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Speaker 5: the quarterback takes him. I mean, if they if Jalen
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Speaker 5: has a really really good year, there's no reason that
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Speaker 5: team shouldn't be in the NFC Championship. And then I
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Speaker 5: think I'm probably more high on the Dallas Cowboys than
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Speaker 5: a lot of people because I think that offense is
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Speaker 5: going to be elite and I think that defense is
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Speaker 5: going to be better. And when you pair that offense
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Speaker 5: that's probably go an average twenty seven.
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Speaker 4: To twenty eight points per game.
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Speaker 5: All you need is the defense is going to let
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Speaker 5: up twenty four you're probably going to be in the playoffs,
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Speaker 5: So that's going to be a really fascinating battle to
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Speaker 5: look and battle watch there. And then you have the
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Speaker 5: two teams that come after them, with the Commanders, which
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Speaker 5: what was it two years ago, They're in the NFC
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Speaker 5: Championship game. Last year, very very bad. Dan Quinn's on
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Speaker 5: the hot seat. Did they do enough around Jayden Daniels.
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Speaker 5: There's all the Jayden Daniels LSU controversy now around so
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Speaker 5: their team, and then you have the Giants, and I
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Speaker 5: think if you're looking at the pecking order, it probably
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Speaker 5: goes in that linear numbers that I just mentioned with
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Speaker 5: the Giants then coming in the Seller. I mean, they
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Speaker 5: like where they are with John Harbaugh. Internally, they're really
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Speaker 5: really high on themselves right now. They like Jackson Dart
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Speaker 5: a lot, but I still see far more deficiencies on
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Speaker 5: that roster and things that still need to be fixed
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Speaker 5: before you can put them in the class of the
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Speaker 5: Cowboys or you can put them in the class of
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Speaker 5: the Eagles.
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Speaker 1: We're going to go team by team here and preview
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Speaker 1: each team inside of the NFC East. The Eagles did
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Speaker 1: something last year that hadn't been done since two thousand
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Speaker 1: and four and let's win the NFC East for consecutive season.
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Speaker 1: Before we go team by team here, this division has
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Speaker 1: been a revolving door of champions. Simply put, Will we
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Speaker 1: have a new champion in the NFC East this year?
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Speaker 4: I think so. I think the Cowboys are gonna win
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Speaker 4: it this year. I do. I mean, like I said,
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Speaker 4: I just I love that Eagles roster. I do.
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Speaker 5: And my wife's family's off from Philly, so I'm reminded
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Speaker 5: of the Eagles quite often anytime I'm out of family dinner.
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Speaker 5: And I still look at the Cowboys, though, and see
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Speaker 5: that as a team that's just hungry.
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Speaker 4: I honestly like the coaching staff.
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Speaker 5: A lot too. I really really like Dak Prescott. I
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Speaker 5: don't know if you can do it in the playoffs,
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Speaker 5: but we can do it in the regular season. And
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Speaker 5: I think this is the year where I think Dallas
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Speaker 5: gets it done.
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Speaker 3: Are you expecting any big changes with the Eagles and
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Speaker 3: Sean Mannion now kind of being the guy on offense
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Speaker 3: over there.
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Speaker 4: So it's so tough.
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Speaker 5: Like I remember talking when I want to say, this
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Speaker 5: was like two years ago ish, maybe a year ago
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Speaker 5: with the with the Eagles, and it was when they
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Speaker 5: were kind of in the middle of their their spiral down.
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Speaker 5: And I think it was the year before they won
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Speaker 5: the Super Bowl, when you know, they started red hot
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Speaker 5: and everything fell apart and everyone and their uncle was
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Speaker 5: screaming and yelling about the Eagles need to throw over
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Speaker 5: the middle of the Eagles need to throw over the middle.
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Speaker 4: Eagles need to throw over the middle.
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Speaker 5: And I remember talking to a head coach and he
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Speaker 5: was like, Connor, do you know how many offensive guys
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Speaker 5: are on that staff, like between the offensive coaches, the
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Speaker 5: positional coaches, the assistants, the quality controls guests, and then
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Speaker 5: you can loop in all the pro personnel people in
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Speaker 5: the scouty. He goes, don't you think that somebody in
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Speaker 5: that building might have thought, hey, let's target the middle
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Speaker 5: of the field, and maybe Jalen just can't like think
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Speaker 5: about that for a minute. And then you see the
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Speaker 5: offense last year and he's still not really doing it.
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Speaker 5: You saw the interception the Eagles tweeted the other day
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Speaker 5: where it's the pass over the middle that just looks
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Speaker 5: ugly that Quinion Mitchell picks off. Like as good as
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Speaker 5: Hurts is as a leader, as a runner, he can
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Speaker 5: throw the deep ball absolutely there are limitations to him.
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Speaker 5: There are physical limitations that can hold an offense back.
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Speaker 5: So I think, yeah, many and might go into this
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Speaker 5: with an idea of I want to do this, this, this, this,
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Speaker 5: but ultimately you have to build a scheme around your
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Speaker 5: players and what your players do well. And if the
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Speaker 5: Eagles can do that, and they can get back to
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Speaker 5: the offensive line that's blowing people off the ball and
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Speaker 5: Saque's running for a buck twenty a game, and that's
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Speaker 5: going to ease things up for Jalen to then drop
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Speaker 5: back with the play action kind of see othered boxes,
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Speaker 5: so it's opened up in the secondary. I think that's
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Speaker 5: when you can have an offense thrive like it did
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Speaker 5: a couple of years ago, as opposed to what we
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Speaker 5: saw last season.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned loss of a j Brown off the top.
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about that a little bit more.
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Speaker 3: The Patriots and the Eagles are obviously having joint practices.
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Speaker 3: The rivalry that's going to be Boston and Philly between
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Speaker 3: this between you know, Jalen Brown and AJ Brown making
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Speaker 3: a switch is going to be really entertaining this year.
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Speaker 3: But yesterday he told the Philadelphia media that he wanted
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Speaker 3: to stop answering questions that would lead to negative and
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Speaker 3: about Jalen Hurts, do you expect this to be a
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Speaker 3: huge loss for that offense or do you think it's an.
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Speaker 2: Addition by subtraction situation.
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Speaker 5: It's it's a very tough question to answer right now.
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Speaker 5: And what I mean by that is what AJ Brown
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Speaker 5: is taking the field in twenty twenty six. And so
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Speaker 5: you see this often with players that are physical specimens
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Speaker 5: and physical freaks like AJ is. I mean, he's not
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Speaker 5: the best route runner in the NFL. What makes him
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Speaker 5: so superb is there are very few people walking planet
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Speaker 5: Earth who are that big, that tall, that fast like
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Speaker 5: there just aren't that many people. The problem with players
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Speaker 5: like that is that when they get older, the fall
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Speaker 5: off the cliff cliff is usually very steep and it
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Speaker 5: approaches very quick. And once they fall off and they
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Speaker 5: don't have that same burst off the line, that same speed,
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Speaker 5: they're not as strong, they're not the same player.
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Speaker 4: If you're telling me.
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Speaker 5: That the AJ they saw last year was a bad year,
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Speaker 5: but say two years ago and three years go, if
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Speaker 5: that's the AJ that now is revitalized and he's still
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Speaker 5: got some more thread on the on the tires, and
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Speaker 5: that's the guy that's in New England. Yeah, the Eagles
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Speaker 5: are going to miss that because no rookie is going
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Speaker 5: to fill that for it. I think DeVonta Spent's a
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Speaker 5: hell of a receiver. But again, you had Smith end Brown,
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Speaker 5: So where's the end in this equation? And I just
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Speaker 5: don't think again like that's where I would say, like, yeah,
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Speaker 5: you're really going to miss him. The flip side of that, though,
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Speaker 5: is say Aj isn't the Aj of old, Say last
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Speaker 5: year was a sign that he was starting to fall back,
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Speaker 5: and now the Eagles, and honestly, I would probably bank
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Speaker 5: on this, knowing how things always seem to go Howie
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Speaker 5: Roseman's favor, and they have all the metrics and all
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Speaker 5: the numbers. If they're like, hey, this guy's about to
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Speaker 5: drop off, why don't we sell him earlier rather than later,
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Speaker 5: then I think you can look at it and say like, look,
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Speaker 5: say AJ finishes this season with seven hundred and fifty
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Speaker 5: eight hundred yards and three or four touchdowns, Like an.
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Speaker 4: Eagle is really going to miss that.
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Speaker 5: No, But if you're telling me AJ is going to
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Speaker 5: go out and catch fourteen fifteen hundred yards and ninety
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Speaker 5: to one hundred balls, Yeah, they're going to miss that
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Speaker 5: kind of production. So it really depends on what kind
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Speaker 5: of a player Aj is in twenty twenty six and
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Speaker 5: coming off last year. I don't know if you can
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Speaker 5: say that with any certainty at the moment.
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Speaker 1: It also feels like they're trying to replace AJ Brown
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Speaker 1: with more variety in the offense because it's been so
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Speaker 1: everything's been so funneled to control the game with Saquon
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Speaker 1: Barkley and some of the legs of Jalen Hurts, and
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Speaker 1: then it's AJ Brown, DeVante Smith and Dallas Goddard. Nobody
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Speaker 1: else touches the football. It feels like with Sean Mannion,
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Speaker 1: they want to be a little bit more creative. Mikay Lemon, though,
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Speaker 1: is having a hard time getting on the field. They
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Speaker 1: spent a first round pick on this guy if they're
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Speaker 1: depending on DeVante Smith and a thin wide receiver corps
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Speaker 1: Dontavian Wicks, who I've I've tried to buy in fantasy
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Speaker 1: for the last couple of years and I just never
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Speaker 1: get what I want out of that. But it feels
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Speaker 1: like they're asking a lot of players that aren't quite
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Speaker 1: as talented. The other thing that I wanted to mention
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Speaker 1: connor Is Kendram mentioned the offensive system. Do we realize
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Speaker 1: that Jalen Hurts now entering his eleventh season, If you
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Speaker 1: go back to college, this will be his tenth offensive
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Speaker 1: play caller in the last eleven seasons. I know that
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Speaker 1: this guy gets a lot of flak even though he's
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Speaker 1: had massive success at every level. But do you think
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Speaker 1: that that is some of what's been holding him back
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Speaker 1: from delivering on consistency, that he's had to learn a
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Speaker 1: new systemstem pretty much every year going back to Alabama.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 5: I there can be some Yeah, there's absolutely some some
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Speaker 5: merit to that, and that's that's an argument you can
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Speaker 5: make on his behalf. But I when I watch Jaleen,
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Speaker 5: I think it's almost that the NFL is a game
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Speaker 5: of chess, and it's once just shows somebody something they're
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Speaker 5: going to defend it, and it's it's always like read
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Speaker 5: and react.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 5: It's why the remember when when Kaepernick and RG three
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Speaker 5: lit the world on fire with the with the RPOs
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Speaker 5: and the read options, and all of a sudden, it
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Speaker 5: was like, oh my god, no one in the world
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Speaker 5: can stop this. Those guys are scoring god knows how
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Speaker 5: many touchdowns averaging thirty a game, and then all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden, one defense does something that kind of works,
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Speaker 5: and another defensive coordinator season that and builds on top
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Speaker 5: and builds on top and builds on top of it,
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Speaker 5: and suddenly you don't see those schemes and those offenses
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Speaker 5: run nearly as much as it looked like they were
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Speaker 5: going to run when Cap and RG three were tearing
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Speaker 5: up the league. However, many years ago, that was I
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Speaker 5: think Hurts is kind of like that, like he burst
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Speaker 5: onto the scene. He had really well, actually I shouldn't
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Speaker 5: say that. It took him three years before he really
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Speaker 5: got going. But after that breakout year that he had
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Speaker 5: and then he had a really good season, I think
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Speaker 5: teams started getting some film on what he does well,
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Speaker 5: what he doesn't, and what defensive coordinators will do if
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Speaker 5: they're good.
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Speaker 4: Is they and they have the talent to do it.
16:29
Speaker 5: Is they funnel players into doing what they're uncomfortable with,
16:32
Speaker 5: and they funnel players and doing things that they're.
16:33
Speaker 4: Not particularly good at.
16:35
Speaker 5: And when they can do that, that's when all of
16:37
Speaker 5: a sudden you start to see flaws and then it
16:39
Speaker 5: flips back to the offense, like how can you evolve?
16:41
Speaker 5: How can you now find a new aspect of your
16:43
Speaker 5: game to get better at to still have success? And
16:46
Speaker 5: I just I think it's more that than it is
16:51
Speaker 5: the consistently changing offenses, because again, like Jalen's at the
16:55
Speaker 5: point where they're going to do what Jalen does well,
16:57
Speaker 5: and with Jalen wants, he's established enough where he's going
16:59
Speaker 5: to do that. It's not like somebody going to come
17:00
Speaker 5: in and try to reinvent the wheel. So I would
17:02
Speaker 5: probably put it more in that bucket than anything else.
17:04
Speaker 1: I've got to be able to run the football. Though,
17:06
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson says that Saquon Barkley is going to return
17:09
Speaker 1: to his twenty twenty four form. That was something he
17:12
Speaker 1: had mentioned to the media recently. Is that realistic or
17:16
Speaker 1: has that ship sailed not only for him but the
17:18
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's still really good, but is it as
17:21
Speaker 1: good as it was when Jason Kelce was on the team.
17:23
Speaker 1: Probably not. He went from two thousand yards two years
17:26
Speaker 1: ago to eleven hundred yards rushing with the same games played.
17:30
Speaker 1: So is that version of the Eagles running attack with Barkley?
17:35
Speaker 1: Is that gaunt? Or do you think they can rediscover that?
17:38
Speaker 4: Well?
17:38
Speaker 5: I'm fascinating now because they got a new offensive line
17:40
Speaker 5: coach as well, which is you know, again you're moving
17:44
Speaker 5: on from one of the best in the NFL to
17:45
Speaker 5: kind of do something different. So I still think Saquon
17:49
Speaker 5: Saquon now? Is he the Saquon he was three years ago?
17:51
Speaker 5: The same that burst that acceleration, don't I don't know,
17:54
Speaker 5: you know, running backs were just talking about aj running
17:56
Speaker 5: backs are very similar where there's usually a cliff of
17:58
Speaker 5: twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine years old, and when
18:00
Speaker 5: they go off, it doesn't you usually climb back up
18:02
Speaker 5: the cliff. It's just a gradual and steep decline. I
18:06
Speaker 5: would still say, though, you give Saquon daylight and he's.
18:09
Speaker 4: Gonna make you pay. That's just the fact.
18:11
Speaker 5: And last year he didn't have that daylight. And that
18:14
Speaker 5: Eagles team was funky.
18:15
Speaker 4: A year ago. I mean they really were.
18:17
Speaker 5: Like I remember talking to a defensive coordinator that was
18:20
Speaker 5: game planning for them late in the season and late
18:23
Speaker 5: in the season I'll put it at and I remember
18:25
Speaker 5: saying to him, like just kind of talking to him
18:27
Speaker 5: on the phone, like dude, like what's wrong with the Eagles?
18:29
Speaker 5: Like like I look at the roster and I feel
18:31
Speaker 5: like they should be blowing everybody out. And if you
18:33
Speaker 5: look at their games that even they won last year,
18:35
Speaker 5: a lot of them were one score games.
18:36
Speaker 4: And he told me, he goes, it's a lion playing.
18:40
Speaker 5: With its food, and it's basically they know they're more talented.
18:43
Speaker 5: They're batting around their food for a while, and then
18:46
Speaker 5: they're like, oh crap, we're about to lose this game,
18:48
Speaker 5: and then they somehow pull it out, and he goes,
18:50
Speaker 5: that can work in the regular season. That doesn't usually
18:53
Speaker 5: work when the game start really mattering and in the playoffs,
18:55
Speaker 5: and that's why you saw them loose to the Cowboys.
18:57
Speaker 5: That's why you saw him loose to the forty nine ers.
18:59
Speaker 5: As they played with their food, they bad around, they
19:00
Speaker 5: were never able to turn it on. And maybe that
19:02
Speaker 5: was a Super Bowl hangover, which absolutely could be the case.
19:04
Speaker 5: But I think similar to Saquon, similar to everybody, it's
19:08
Speaker 5: like they just have to return to format. I'm not
19:10
Speaker 5: as worried about Barkley as other aspects of that. Like
19:14
Speaker 5: I think Saquan, as long as you open up stuff
19:16
Speaker 5: for him, he's gonna he's gonna be fun.
19:17
Speaker 3: Before we move on, you said you expect the Eagles
19:20
Speaker 3: to be a top of this division.
19:21
Speaker 2: The schedule kind of scares me a little bit. But
19:23
Speaker 2: what sets them apart for you.
19:26
Speaker 4: Talent at the end of the day, like talent.
19:28
Speaker 5: Talent rules in the NFL, and very rarely do you
19:31
Speaker 5: have as much talent as Howie Rosman is compiled on
19:33
Speaker 5: that side of the ball, on both sides of the ball.
19:35
Speaker 4: And lose, you know what I mean?
19:37
Speaker 5: Like, I think the Eagles can have a bad year
19:39
Speaker 5: and still find themselves winning ten or eleven games, you
19:40
Speaker 5: know what I mean, And then a good year, you're
19:42
Speaker 5: talking about fourteen to fifteen wins, Like that's what they
19:44
Speaker 5: can do if Jalen returns to the form that he
19:47
Speaker 5: wasn't at Super Bowl against the Chiefs.
19:48
Speaker 1: Before we move on, Kendra, best way to bet the
19:52
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles? What would you? What would you say?
19:56
Speaker 2: They're under?
19:56
Speaker 3: I just think their schedules too tough and the divisions
19:58
Speaker 3: catching up quick.
20:00
Speaker 1: Under ten and a half very much juiced minus one
20:03
Speaker 1: forty if you want to take the under on that,
20:05
Speaker 1: but it's going to be really tough for them to
20:06
Speaker 1: surpass that. I'll take Lane Johnson's word. Saquon Barkley over
20:11
Speaker 1: ten ninety nine and a half in terms of his
20:13
Speaker 1: rushing yards. He hit the over on that last year
20:16
Speaker 1: and he wasn't even all that good. So let's move
20:18
Speaker 1: on to the New York Giants, a team that you
20:21
Speaker 1: know well and good. Even though they won four games
20:24
Speaker 1: and they fired their coach, Brian Daboll, it kind of
20:27
Speaker 1: felt like the Giants found something last year. I think
20:29
Speaker 1: it was early glimpses of a young corps maybe is
20:32
Speaker 1: why there's some optimism there. Obviously, the addition of John
20:36
Speaker 1: Harball helps a lot, but he's not going to take
20:38
Speaker 1: that job if there's not something there that he sees
20:41
Speaker 1: potential in Jackson Dart flash promise as a rookie fifteen touchdowns,
20:45
Speaker 1: ran for nine. The Patriots went from four wins to fourteen.
20:50
Speaker 1: Do the Giants have that sort of turnaround in them?
20:53
Speaker 1: A lot of people out there are predicting that.
20:55
Speaker 4: I would say no. I would be very surprised.
21:01
Speaker 5: Here's the thing is that I think Jackson Dart is
21:04
Speaker 5: a quarterback. And this was my opinion, and I surveyed
21:08
Speaker 5: this to all the many many people that I know
21:10
Speaker 5: around the league, whether that's GMS, executive coaches, you know,
21:14
Speaker 5: that kind of stuff like it, especially guys on the
21:16
Speaker 5: defensive side of the ball, and several of them who
21:17
Speaker 5: gained planned for Jackson last year about that.
21:19
Speaker 4: Like how good can Jackson be?
21:21
Speaker 5: And the resounding response that I got regarding Dart was that,
21:27
Speaker 5: coming off of year one, he's a quarterback that can
21:30
Speaker 5: win when everything around him is pretty good. So you
21:33
Speaker 5: give him the line, you give them the receivers, you
21:35
Speaker 5: give him the running back.
21:36
Speaker 4: He's gonna win football games.
21:37
Speaker 5: You take Jackson Dart, you put them on the Philadelphi Eagles,
21:39
Speaker 5: it was probably gonna win twelve thirteen games. What they
21:41
Speaker 5: don't know and what nobody knows yet and what we're
21:43
Speaker 5: gonna find out this season is is Dart the guy
21:46
Speaker 5: who can take himself from say a top twenty quarterback
21:49
Speaker 5: to a top fifteen quarterback and be one of those
21:51
Speaker 5: dudes that can elevate the play of everybody around him.
21:53
Speaker 5: And right now, I think I still lean towards Dart
21:57
Speaker 5: being a guy that needs a system and a scheme
21:59
Speaker 5: to signed around his skill set.
22:01
Speaker 4: Guys, because he's not, at least from what I've seen.
22:03
Speaker 5: Maybe he can surprise me this year and make me
22:05
Speaker 5: look like a fool saying this, But like he's been
22:08
Speaker 5: a quarterback and looks like a quarterback that it's not.
22:11
Speaker 4: It's not gimmicky. I wouldn't say gimmicky is the right word.
22:14
Speaker 4: But he's the quarterback that kind of runs.
22:16
Speaker 5: Those RPOs, that read options, plays out of the shotgun,
22:19
Speaker 5: uses his legs, lowers his shoulder like, plays that improvisational
22:22
Speaker 5: backyard style football. That's what he does, and that's what
22:25
Speaker 5: he does so well. I don't think he's a traditional
22:28
Speaker 5: drop back quarterback. In fact, I talked to one defensive
22:30
Speaker 5: coordinator who game planned for the Giants last year and
22:33
Speaker 5: they had a lot of success against Dart, and I
22:35
Speaker 5: remember asking like, hey, what was your like what did
22:37
Speaker 5: you do to slow him down? And he goes Connord
22:40
Speaker 5: just made him play quarterback like that was our point.
22:42
Speaker 5: We make quote made him play quarterback unquote, that's what
22:44
Speaker 5: we did. And I was like, okay, And now, like
22:47
Speaker 5: watching him in camp this year, what Brian Dable did
22:50
Speaker 5: was he built an offense that was similar to Ole Miss,
22:52
Speaker 5: similar we did in the high school like cond of
22:53
Speaker 5: that college y offense, and Dart looked at times really
22:57
Speaker 5: good last season. He got, you know, look bad also
22:59
Speaker 5: at times that game against the Vikings, but when he
23:01
Speaker 5: had his good moments, it was using that Brian Dable offense.
23:04
Speaker 5: This year with Matt Naggy, who's the Giants offensive coordinator, Guys,
23:07
Speaker 5: they're running a lot of three five seven step drops.
23:09
Speaker 5: He's under center. It's almost like they're trying to run
23:12
Speaker 5: Andy Reid's scheme with Jackson Dart, and I don't necessarily
23:15
Speaker 5: know if that's the best fit for Jackson. In this
23:18
Speaker 5: scheme that Matt Naggie runs. From what I've heard, it's
23:20
Speaker 5: not exactly quarterback friendly. I mean, it is very complex.
23:23
Speaker 5: It relies on making the immediate read, seeing things before
23:27
Speaker 5: they happen, throwing with anticipation, And I don't know if
23:29
Speaker 5: Dart is there yet. I think he might be able
23:32
Speaker 5: to get there, but I don't know if he's there
23:33
Speaker 5: yet in year two. So I know there's a lot
23:35
Speaker 5: of hype because John Harbaughs here and I know it's
23:37
Speaker 5: New York. So, I mean, I ever feel like I've
23:38
Speaker 5: covered this team for five years now, so like I
23:40
Speaker 5: feel like every year with the Giants, it's the people
23:42
Speaker 5: internally are like, Hey, we're gonna be good. We're gonna
23:44
Speaker 5: be Good're gonna be good. All of a sudden bom
23:45
Speaker 5: they win five games. I think they're probably like a
23:47
Speaker 5: seven win team this year. But that idea they're winning
23:50
Speaker 5: twelve thirteen, I don't know about that.
23:52
Speaker 2: I will take eight wins please. We'll get to that
23:55
Speaker 2: at some point later.
23:56
Speaker 3: But why are there so many retreads at receiver this team?
24:00
Speaker 3: I understand the need for depth, but is it Jersey Sales?
24:03
Speaker 2: Is it bodies?
24:04
Speaker 3: Is it them looking for some sort of leader in
24:06
Speaker 3: the locker room?
24:07
Speaker 2: What is with all of the old dudes?
24:09
Speaker 5: Jalen Hyatt was a third round pick that has been
24:12
Speaker 5: a bust. Wandel Robinson was a second round pick that
24:15
Speaker 5: hit but now is playing for the Tennessee Titans. The
24:17
Speaker 5: Giants are basically left with one. They paid Darius Slayton,
24:20
Speaker 5: but now he's had was beay Terry Satan last year
24:23
Speaker 5: and then he had a horrific year and a down year.
24:25
Speaker 5: So like it's they had to turn to the well
24:29
Speaker 5: of veterans like Mooney and Calvin Austen and bringing back
24:31
Speaker 5: Odell because they don't have anything opposite.
24:34
Speaker 4: Melik Neighbors and I think one of the reasons.
24:36
Speaker 5: Why Jackson has struggled so much in spite of the
24:39
Speaker 5: new offense that clearly he's just uncomfortable with at this point,
24:42
Speaker 5: which is understandable, but still he's uncomfortable with at this point.
24:45
Speaker 5: I think one of the reasons why he's struggling also
24:47
Speaker 5: is like there's no one there that's just getting open.
24:49
Speaker 5: I go to Jets camp as well, and you see
24:51
Speaker 5: Ady Mitchell, and you see Garrett Wilson and even Omar
24:53
Speaker 5: Cooper at times, and granted, the Giants, the Jets secondar
24:56
Speaker 5: is pretty horrific, but like you see these dudes just
24:58
Speaker 5: get open, and Gino or Kate Klubnick, like they're throwing
25:01
Speaker 5: passes to guys who have a yard of separation, Like
25:04
Speaker 5: that's wide open in the NFL because they're getting open
25:07
Speaker 5: the Giants receivers. It's like every time Jackson drops back,
25:10
Speaker 5: he's got a threat a needle, and it's.
25:12
Speaker 4: Not obviously a good thing.
25:12
Speaker 5: Now, granted, things will open up when Malik is truly
25:15
Speaker 5: fully back, because suddenly, okay, there's your one that everybody
25:17
Speaker 5: needs to pay attention to. So now Darius Slayton and
25:20
Speaker 5: Mooney and Austin they're not your ones, they're your two
25:22
Speaker 5: three fours, and that makes it very much easier for
25:25
Speaker 5: them because now you also have a bona fide.
25:26
Speaker 4: Number one in Neighbors.
25:27
Speaker 5: But I don't think they want to bring in all
25:30
Speaker 5: these veteran guys. I think they'd love for to know, like, Oh,
25:33
Speaker 5: Jalen Hyatt, we invested a draft picking you. Guess what
25:35
Speaker 5: You're now our third option on offense, our deep threat,
25:38
Speaker 5: like a legitimate player. Wandell, Yeah, you became a thousand
25:41
Speaker 5: yard receiver last year.
25:42
Speaker 4: We paid you.
25:43
Speaker 5: You're a lockdown slot, our number two guy. They would
25:45
Speaker 5: love that. They just don't have that luxury.
25:46
Speaker 1: I watched the preseason games on recording. I feel like
25:50
Speaker 1: it's the only way to do it. That way, I
25:51
Speaker 1: can fast forward through the crap that doesn't matter, which
25:54
Speaker 1: is most of it. But I saw Odell Beckham junior
25:59
Speaker 1: out there. I was like, oh, I put on an
26:00
Speaker 1: old Giants game and I didn't even realize. That's like
26:03
Speaker 1: a crazyess Malik Neighbors. I've been hearing mixed reviews. If
26:06
Speaker 1: you listen to the fantasy guys that are out there,
26:08
Speaker 1: they saw him cutting at practice and that was all
26:11
Speaker 1: they needed to draft him high. If you listen to
26:13
Speaker 1: the NFL guys, I think it's much more. There's much
26:17
Speaker 1: more pessimism surrounding his health that it might take another
26:20
Speaker 1: year for him to return to athletic form. What do
26:24
Speaker 1: you know, what have you seen as far as neighbors,
26:26
Speaker 1: How healthy is he going to be?
26:28
Speaker 5: I mean the neighbors that we saw pre injury. Yeah,
26:32
Speaker 5: I mean that's probably next year. I mean, but that's
26:35
Speaker 5: not uncommon. Like most dudes who blow out their knee
26:37
Speaker 5: like he did, unless you're Adrienne Peterson, Like, you play
26:40
Speaker 5: the next year, but you're not yourself yourself until another
26:43
Speaker 5: year down the road. Like that doesn't mean Melie can't
26:45
Speaker 5: go out there and catch eighty passes for eleven hundred
26:47
Speaker 5: twelve hundred yards and five or six touchdowns.
26:50
Speaker 4: But like the guy who looked like as.
26:52
Speaker 5: Close to Jamar Chase as we've seen from Jamar Chase
26:55
Speaker 5: in terms of a play style.
26:56
Speaker 4: I don't know if he'll be that this year now.
26:58
Speaker 5: Everything the Giants had done since training camp began was
27:02
Speaker 5: with the goal of getting the Leak ready for week one.
27:04
Speaker 5: That's why he didn't go on the pup list. That's
27:06
Speaker 5: why he was out there doing individual drills on day
27:08
Speaker 5: one of camp. That's why they're starting to work him
27:09
Speaker 5: into team drills this week, albeit in a red non
27:12
Speaker 5: contact jersey, So he's doing all of these things to
27:15
Speaker 5: get ready now. In my opinion, I think most likely
27:19
Speaker 5: we're probably looking at Malik playing Week one, but not.
27:24
Speaker 4: With a sixty seventy play workload.
27:26
Speaker 5: I think they're still going to have him out there
27:27
Speaker 5: just because of what a difference maker he is in
27:29
Speaker 5: terms of even just garnering attention from the defense, but
27:32
Speaker 5: it's probably going to.
27:33
Speaker 4: Be on a play limit.
27:34
Speaker 5: And then late October November, I think that's when you
27:36
Speaker 5: really see the training wheels come off and they'll say, okay,
27:38
Speaker 5: Malik go.
27:39
Speaker 3: A question I've asked all of our guests during these
27:41
Speaker 3: divisional previews has been are you more concerned about the
27:44
Speaker 3: offense or the defense? I think a lot of casual
27:46
Speaker 3: with football fancy Jackson, Dart and camp Scattabow and think
27:49
Speaker 3: the defense is the question. But their defensive line last
27:52
Speaker 3: year was a highlight.
27:53
Speaker 2: Of the team.
27:54
Speaker 3: There is definitely more concern for this offense Locally, I
27:57
Speaker 3: assume yeah.
27:59
Speaker 4: I mean I think so the Giants.
28:00
Speaker 5: Their offensive line I think at baseline is average, which is,
28:03
Speaker 5: you know, an average offensive line of the NFL still
28:05
Speaker 5: probably top ten, like I mean it's there's not a
28:07
Speaker 5: lot of great, great offensive lines in the league.
28:09
Speaker 1: That's a huge improvement for the Giants over Yeah, yeah,
28:11
Speaker 1: they may had some bad lines.
28:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, they made a step last year, and you look
28:15
Speaker 5: at everyone that bringing back and then you turn around
28:17
Speaker 5: you ad like c. C. Mawiinoa, who's a you know,
28:19
Speaker 5: a top ten pick here and you put him in
28:21
Speaker 5: a guard like that should make a legitimate improvement off
28:23
Speaker 5: of Greg ben Roten. Like there's little things like that
28:25
Speaker 5: that they did that that's it's significant, it should be
28:28
Speaker 5: a significant boost to this grouping.
28:31
Speaker 4: I think I have equal concerns about both right now.
28:35
Speaker 5: And the offense is primarily dark because I don't I
28:38
Speaker 5: haven't We're on three weeks of camp and I was
28:40
Speaker 5: a week there in West Virginia and now I split
28:43
Speaker 5: week by week with Jets and Giants, And like, I
28:46
Speaker 5: haven't seen Dart look good.
28:48
Speaker 4: I mean, there have been good moments, but.
28:50
Speaker 5: I haven't seen him have a consistently good practice. And
28:53
Speaker 5: that's a little concerning because I don't think the Giants
28:55
Speaker 5: secondary is very good. So like this isn't and I've
28:57
Speaker 5: been enough of these camp guys camp camp practice guys,
29:00
Speaker 5: said my first one was actually when I'm still at
29:01
Speaker 5: momoth in twenty fourteen, and like, you can tell when
29:04
Speaker 5: a defense just kicks an offense's teeth and the defense
29:07
Speaker 5: is a great practice, Like I haven't seen that from
29:09
Speaker 5: the Giants defense. It just looks like an offense that's
29:11
Speaker 5: discombobulated at times. And I worry now, having made a
29:14
Speaker 5: handful of calls a few days ago about Matt Nagina's offense,
29:17
Speaker 5: like is this a fit for Jackson start?
29:19
Speaker 4: Is this going to work?
29:20
Speaker 5: Like I have those reservations and concerns before you loop in, like, hey,
29:23
Speaker 5: who's wide receiver two three and four? Hey, is Malik
29:25
Speaker 5: Neighbor's going to play? Hey, they just signed Naji Harris.
29:27
Speaker 5: That's a sign maybe they don't believe entirely in cam
29:29
Speaker 5: Scattaba was RB one, or maybe they want him more
29:32
Speaker 5: as a compliment.
29:32
Speaker 4: So I have issues there.
29:34
Speaker 5: Defensively, I love their pass rush, like Cavon Brian Burns
29:37
Speaker 5: at dual card.
29:38
Speaker 4: They're gonna be able to rush the passer.
29:39
Speaker 5: But the big issue with the Giants last year is
29:41
Speaker 5: those guys didn't have the opportunity to just pin their
29:43
Speaker 5: ears back and go because they were one of the
29:45
Speaker 5: league's worst teams at stopping the run, and they're hoping
29:48
Speaker 5: without Dexter Lawrence. So they're gonna be able to do
29:50
Speaker 5: it with Harris and DJ Reader in the middle. And
29:53
Speaker 5: I that to me, even if like you get what
29:55
Speaker 5: you want out of Harrison Reader, I still look at
29:57
Speaker 5: that interior defensive line as like, Okay, maybe it can
30:00
Speaker 5: be like a little blow average. I still think it's like, oh,
30:03
Speaker 5: those two guys fix your run defense. I don't and
30:05
Speaker 5: maybe I'm wrong, Like I could be wrong. Wouldn't be
30:07
Speaker 5: the first time, wouldn't be the last time. But I
30:09
Speaker 5: have I have great preview for the Giants. I have
30:12
Speaker 5: equal reservations about both offense and defense.
30:15
Speaker 1: They've got to get better in terms of sacking the
30:17
Speaker 1: quarterback and whatever form that comes. They were. With the
30:19
Speaker 1: talent they have, they have no business not ranking inside
30:22
Speaker 1: of the top ten. There were seventeenth in the league
30:24
Speaker 1: in terms of getting after the quarterback last year. I
30:28
Speaker 1: was already liking the Giants under seven and a half
30:31
Speaker 1: after listening to you, Connor, I am foaming at the
30:34
Speaker 1: mouth to go and bet this. I will. I haven't
30:36
Speaker 1: done it yet. I will be doing that the moment
30:37
Speaker 1: we are done here, Kendro.
30:38
Speaker 2: What can you be on the opposite side?
30:41
Speaker 1: Well not or yeah, I'm not buying it.
30:43
Speaker 4: Here's the equalizer, here's the schedule.
30:47
Speaker 1: I don't know.
30:48
Speaker 5: I wouldn't to me, I'm like, I've heard the schedule.
30:51
Speaker 5: May I was just covering the I'm so beaten down
30:53
Speaker 5: by just covering terrible football.
30:54
Speaker 4: But again, Jets and Giants.
30:56
Speaker 5: I said so, like I covered my first NFL to
31:00
Speaker 5: college at the time. My first one was twenty fourteen,
31:02
Speaker 5: and then I was full time in twenty sixteen when
31:05
Speaker 5: I graduated. In that time, I have covered two winning seasons,
31:08
Speaker 5: the Giants when they went and they want they beat
31:11
Speaker 5: the Vikings. I was covering the Giants at that point,
31:13
Speaker 5: and then the Jets when they went ten and six,
31:15
Speaker 5: but they lost the Bills in Week seventeen and were
31:17
Speaker 5: eliminated from the playoffs. So I don't know how that's
31:19
Speaker 5: twelve years and two winning seasons. So I've been beat
31:21
Speaker 5: down by like expectations and then just no, the team's terrible,
31:24
Speaker 5: I will say with the Giants, and this is the
31:27
Speaker 5: difference that John Harbaugh brings. And like, again you talk
31:30
Speaker 5: about Baltimore and they were complaining about he was never
31:32
Speaker 5: winning super Bowl.
31:33
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. Super Bowl is a playoff success.
31:34
Speaker 5: There was just a baseline competence, baseline professionalism. That is
31:38
Speaker 5: a big school, big time ball coach on the sideline
31:41
Speaker 5: where the floor for I don't know if they're ceiling
31:44
Speaker 5: raises with John Harbaugh, but their floor does. Like this
31:47
Speaker 5: is going to be a team where I mean, you
31:49
Speaker 5: guys know this, Like when the Giants bottom out in
31:51
Speaker 5: recent years, they'd went three or four games and be
31:53
Speaker 5: just a disaster, Like I don't see the bad bottom
31:56
Speaker 5: gown anymore. Like a bad season for the Giants moving
31:58
Speaker 5: forward is probably gonna be seven to eight wins again,
31:59
Speaker 5: which is what it was like under Kaughlin and so
32:01
Speaker 5: many of the coaches before him, Like that was a
32:03
Speaker 5: bad year, you know, like people were talking about fire
32:05
Speaker 5: and Coughlin after eight and eight and stuff like that.
32:06
Speaker 5: So like I think that's what you're gonna get to,
32:09
Speaker 5: where seven eight wins is a bad year for the Giants,
32:12
Speaker 5: and that's because Harball is just a professional, detail oriented
32:15
Speaker 5: knows what he's doing. Like I think that's what you're
32:17
Speaker 5: getting where even if the Giants aren't good this year,
32:20
Speaker 5: like they still might find a way to win seven
32:22
Speaker 5: games because they're just gonna be that feisty team and
32:24
Speaker 5: have coaches on the sideline that know what they're doing.
32:26
Speaker 1: We're gonna be battling on this one, Kendra until the
32:29
Speaker 1: bitter end. But listen to the last three games of
32:31
Speaker 1: the schedule at the Lions, at the Cowboys home against
32:35
Speaker 1: the Eagles. So if you need that victory to get
32:37
Speaker 1: the over, you're gonna be a little nervous.
32:40
Speaker 3: Well, they start out like they have every opportunity to
32:44
Speaker 3: stay healthy until the I would say end of November,
32:48
Speaker 3: and that's when shit's gonna hit the fan. But they'll
32:50
Speaker 3: steal one or two of those and they play the
32:52
Speaker 3: Browns whatever.
32:54
Speaker 1: I look forward to those days, all right, Kendra, I'll
32:57
Speaker 1: let you decide you want to go Commanders or Cowboys next.
33:00
Speaker 2: Let's see the Cowboys for last, all right?
33:02
Speaker 1: Good idea A big time letdown season for the Commanders.
33:05
Speaker 1: After a charmed twenty twenty four year NFC title Game appearance,
33:10
Speaker 1: they and everything just went to hell. Jayden Daniels played
33:13
Speaker 1: seven of seventeen games. He wasn't good when he was
33:15
Speaker 1: out there, and frankly, this team doesn't have enough in
33:19
Speaker 1: other areas to overcome that I feel like this read
33:22
Speaker 1: is pretty simple. Connor. Either he gets back to a
33:24
Speaker 1: superstar level and puts this number five bullshit behind him,
33:28
Speaker 1: or it's gonna be a long year for Washington. I
33:31
Speaker 1: really like dan Quinn, but I don't know that he
33:33
Speaker 1: can survive another bad season. How do you need it?
33:35
Speaker 5: I'm I'm much less high on the Commanders than I
33:39
Speaker 5: am any other team. I mean, I think the Giants
33:42
Speaker 5: are better coaching. I think the Giants have with Milik's healthy,
33:46
Speaker 5: I think they've better playmakers.
33:47
Speaker 4: I think the only thing that Washington has right now
33:50
Speaker 4: is Jayden and Daniels.
33:51
Speaker 5: And if you go back to what you saw his
33:52
Speaker 5: rookie year, that quarterback looked special, like he's the guy
33:55
Speaker 5: that if you're going off his rookie year, looked like
33:58
Speaker 5: the player who can elevate everyone around him and just
34:00
Speaker 5: even when it's muddy, and even when it's ugly, and
34:02
Speaker 5: even when things aren't supposed to work, he finds a
34:05
Speaker 5: way to make it work. And if you get that
34:07
Speaker 5: Jayden and Daniels this year, that's when you can say, Okay,
34:09
Speaker 5: the Commanders are better than the Giants, Because I think
34:10
Speaker 5: Jade's a better player than Jackson Dart, so like that's
34:12
Speaker 5: when you can say it.
34:13
Speaker 4: But now you throw in this.
34:15
Speaker 5: Like lawsuit with LSU, and you start to have like
34:17
Speaker 5: these little rumblings and grumblings of what's working and what's not.
34:20
Speaker 4: Like to it's it's it's to.
34:22
Speaker 5: The point here, guys where like I wonder if there's
34:25
Speaker 5: gonna be such dysfunction around washing it. This is just
34:26
Speaker 5: a really bad year that ends in dan Quinn getting
34:29
Speaker 5: fired and a borderline reboot at the end of the
34:31
Speaker 5: year where you keep Jaden Daniels but you kind of
34:33
Speaker 5: just system reset everything around him.
34:35
Speaker 3: I have so many thoughts about this team. I could
34:37
Speaker 3: talk about them for hours. Most of their defense is
34:40
Speaker 3: already injured. They have two Patriots retreads joining the team
34:45
Speaker 3: this year in Kylevon Chason, who is questionable to start.
34:47
Speaker 2: The season, and Stephan Diggs.
34:50
Speaker 3: Do you expect I kind of want to talk about
34:51
Speaker 3: these two editions just because I think that they're rather
34:53
Speaker 3: large for the team. Do you expect Kaylevon to be
34:56
Speaker 3: able to continue the level of play that he had
34:58
Speaker 3: last year? And do you think that Stephan Diggs does
35:00
Speaker 3: anything for this team? Do you expect Mike Rabel was
35:04
Speaker 3: constantly commenting last year about how much of a leader
35:06
Speaker 3: he was. I think he completed like eighty nine percent
35:09
Speaker 3: of the catches that were thrown to him at a
35:11
Speaker 3: catchable rate last year. Just insane, which for once again
35:14
Speaker 3: talking about old receivers, pretty impressive. But when do you
35:17
Speaker 3: expect that drop off to kind of happen for both
35:20
Speaker 3: of these guys.
35:20
Speaker 4: I already saw it.
35:21
Speaker 5: I think you've already seen it with the I mean, look,
35:24
Speaker 5: it's about squeezing a little bit more out of the lemon.
35:26
Speaker 5: And I think more about Diggs, like, I think the
35:28
Speaker 5: guy can still play somewhat, But what are you looking for?
35:31
Speaker 5: Do you want a guy that's going to have six
35:32
Speaker 5: hundred to seven hundred fifty yards this year?
35:34
Speaker 4: Yeah?
35:34
Speaker 5: I think Diggs can do you that can give you
35:37
Speaker 5: that if if Terry gets banged up again and starts
35:39
Speaker 5: dealing with injuries and suddenly you're looking at him and saying, hey,
35:41
Speaker 5: is Terry mclaur.
35:43
Speaker 4: In an issue?
35:43
Speaker 1: Now?
35:44
Speaker 5: Like, I don't think Diggs is like a wide receiver
35:46
Speaker 5: one or two. So I think that's where you kind
35:47
Speaker 5: of run into problems with the commanders and specifically that grouping.
35:50
Speaker 1: I really like Sonny styles. I love this on defense. Yeah,
35:55
Speaker 1: I mean they should be better O de Fayoway from Baltimore.
35:58
Speaker 1: I don't think that should be overlooked either. I mean
36:00
Speaker 1: this pass rush isn't gonna like strike. Yeah. I mean
36:04
Speaker 1: they have to get healthy, they have better leadership. Now,
36:08
Speaker 1: it's not a defense that's gonna scare opposing ocs, but
36:12
Speaker 1: I do think it should be better. And I think
36:14
Speaker 1: dan Quinn is a good coach, so if you give
36:17
Speaker 1: him some talent, he should be able to make chicken
36:19
Speaker 1: salad out of chicken scratch.
36:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get that.
36:21
Speaker 5: I don't think even if they're better, like, I don't
36:23
Speaker 5: think they're returning to I think that, like you said,
36:25
Speaker 5: like everything went their way, like every even in the
36:28
Speaker 5: game where they beat the hell out of the Lions,
36:30
Speaker 5: like it took like the entire Lions roster being decimated
36:33
Speaker 5: by injuries for the Commanders to do what they did.
36:34
Speaker 5: A healthy Lions team beats the Commanders, Like that's just
36:37
Speaker 5: that's what happens in that game. So I it really
36:41
Speaker 5: all and it's it's such a cliche thing to say,
36:43
Speaker 5: but it really all falls on Jaden, Like I don't
36:45
Speaker 5: think they have the roster yet to be put into
36:48
Speaker 5: the Class of the Cowboys, of the Eagles, or certainly
36:50
Speaker 5: not any of the other top tier teams in the NFC,
36:52
Speaker 5: Like they're not in that class. What you're gonna need
36:55
Speaker 5: is Jalen to be special. And if Jalen is special,
36:58
Speaker 5: maybe this team can get a nine or ten win,
37:00
Speaker 5: But I'm sorry to have some reservations about that and
37:03
Speaker 5: also his ability just to stay healthy.
37:05
Speaker 3: What are your expectations for Bill Krofsky Merit this season?
37:09
Speaker 3: He was obviously a huge piece of that offense last
37:11
Speaker 3: year a little bit of a breakout season.
37:12
Speaker 2: For the kid. What do you expect from him?
37:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was actually just talking to somebody over with
37:17
Speaker 5: Washington a couple days a couple of weeks ago now
37:19
Speaker 5: about him, and he said, he goes, he's in fifty
37:21
Speaker 5: to fifty split, Like it's going to be a fifty
37:23
Speaker 5: to fifty split and he's going to be just as involved,
37:25
Speaker 5: like a one two punch at defense or one two
37:27
Speaker 5: punch in the backfield.
37:28
Speaker 4: And so yeah, that's what I'd expect from him.
37:31
Speaker 5: Again, Unfortunately, it's so weird, like there's not that many
37:33
Speaker 5: bellcout running backs in the NFL anymore, Like even Breese
37:35
Speaker 5: Hall with the Jets like Braylen Allen's going to get
37:37
Speaker 5: a lot of touches, like Cam Scataboo. Yeah you want
37:40
Speaker 5: to No, it's not camp because you're going to have
37:41
Speaker 5: now Harris and Tyrone Tracy can carries. Like there's very
37:43
Speaker 5: few guys that you can just hang your hat on.
37:45
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, he's going to get twenty five touches
37:47
Speaker 5: a game. But Bill is going to be very involved
37:49
Speaker 5: in that offense.
37:50
Speaker 1: That's just such a weird team. I for all of
37:53
Speaker 1: these previews, just like the first thing that I do
37:55
Speaker 1: when I jump into my prep is I do a
37:58
Speaker 1: ranking of the offensive lines, ranking of the overall offense.
38:01
Speaker 1: I do a ranking of the defense. They are third
38:05
Speaker 1: or fourth in all of those. I just think there's
38:08
Speaker 1: just not a lot to love. And now I think
38:10
Speaker 1: it all goes back to I think they're the toughest
38:12
Speaker 1: team to preview in this division because it's just like, Okay,
38:16
Speaker 1: it's on you, Jaden, that's it. Everything else around him.
38:21
Speaker 1: The wide receivers are mid, the running backs are mid. Defense, like,
38:24
Speaker 1: none of it's terrible the offensive line. But I think
38:29
Speaker 1: the best case scenario is Jayden Daniels is an MVP
38:32
Speaker 1: finalist because everything else will fall into place if that happens.
38:36
Speaker 1: I really like Sunny Styles, Kendra. I think the best
38:39
Speaker 1: way to bet this team is defensive Rookie of the
38:42
Speaker 1: Year eight to one Sunny Styles. That'd be my bet
38:44
Speaker 1: on the Commanders.
38:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that.
38:46
Speaker 4: Look.
38:47
Speaker 3: I am very intrigued to see how the season goes.
38:49
Speaker 3: I once again, I'm on the under on this team.
38:51
Speaker 3: I think that they are going to be a bottom
38:54
Speaker 3: five team in the NFL. I know that's kind of
38:55
Speaker 3: a hot take, but I think they're going to be bad,
38:59
Speaker 3: and I got to be honest, Like, the number one
39:01
Speaker 3: thing we talked about this entire conversation about them is
39:04
Speaker 3: Jaden Daniels. I don't think that he is the type
39:07
Speaker 3: of player to not let this drama seep into what's
39:12
Speaker 3: going on. When you have a literal government accounts, you know,
39:16
Speaker 3: kind of making fun of you and your mom at
39:17
Speaker 3: the end of the day, there's no way that that's
39:19
Speaker 3: not going to seep in.
39:21
Speaker 4: I agree.
39:22
Speaker 1: Do you think Connor that he's able to put that
39:24
Speaker 1: out of his mind because his mom handles so many
39:27
Speaker 1: of his affairs that he can actually unplug from everything else.
39:32
Speaker 1: Because I'm not of the belief that he had anything
39:36
Speaker 1: to do with any of this. If we if we're
39:38
Speaker 1: all dumping the blame on mom, then then he's just
39:42
Speaker 1: an innocent bystander that.
39:44
Speaker 2: Will say goods about your mom.
39:45
Speaker 1: Ro Yeah, hopefully, hopefully he's like Lebron's going zero dark thirty.
39:51
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, I have doubts on that. I have
39:54
Speaker 4: doubts on that.
39:55
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Dallas Cowboys. Dak Prescott coming off
39:58
Speaker 1: of another explosive season. Perhaps it's his best. You could
40:01
Speaker 1: argue that third most passing yards in the NFL, fourth
40:03
Speaker 1: most passing touchdowns, number one in completions. The defense stunk,
40:08
Speaker 1: but they've rebuilt that thing from the ground up. Micaeh
40:10
Speaker 1: Parsons is gone. Quinnin Williams, I love him in the
40:14
Speaker 1: interior where Shaun Gary is added to the defense. They
40:16
Speaker 1: draft Caleb Downs, who doesn't love him? Out of Ohio
40:19
Speaker 1: State Malachia Lawrence for my neck of the woods at UCF.
40:23
Speaker 1: This team is oozing with talent on both sides of
40:25
Speaker 1: the ball. Now, I have a hard time not falling
40:28
Speaker 1: in love with the Dallas Cowboys. Am I going to
40:31
Speaker 1: have egg on my face?
40:32
Speaker 4: Connor, in what capacity you fall in love with them, Like,
40:37
Speaker 4: are you falling in love with them?
40:38
Speaker 1: I think they're going to win the division.
40:40
Speaker 5: That's what I would fall in love. I'm right there
40:41
Speaker 5: with you. Now once you get to the playoffs, it's like,
40:43
Speaker 5: can Dak perform in the big game? Is DA gonna
40:45
Speaker 5: win the playoff games?
40:46
Speaker 4: Like? I don't know, Like they could be one and
40:47
Speaker 4: done in the playoffs, But.
40:48
Speaker 5: No, I there might pick to win the nfcas like
40:50
Speaker 5: I like the Dallas Cowboys a lot. I think the
40:52
Speaker 5: defense is going to be a lot better. I love
40:54
Speaker 5: Dak Prescott. I think that offense with all the weapons
40:56
Speaker 5: around him, is going to average like twenty eight game like.
40:58
Speaker 5: And then the defense it needs to not be the
41:00
Speaker 5: disaster it was a season to go, and that team
41:02
Speaker 5: should find a way to win ten, eleven, twelve games
41:04
Speaker 5: this year. So those Eagles Cowboys games are gonna be
41:07
Speaker 5: fun to watch, man, because they're gonna be They're gonna
41:08
Speaker 5: blood each other up and it's just see who's the.
41:10
Speaker 4: Last man standing. So no, I'm very high on the
41:13
Speaker 4: Cowboys this year.
41:14
Speaker 3: What needs to be perfect for you to really buy
41:18
Speaker 3: in on them making a deep playoff run.
41:20
Speaker 5: The offensive line needs to stay together. I think that's big,
41:26
Speaker 5: and then for me, the defense needs to be to
41:29
Speaker 5: make a deep playoff run, the defense needs to be
41:31
Speaker 5: above average. I think they make the playoffs and win
41:34
Speaker 5: the NFCS with an average defense. They need to be
41:36
Speaker 5: above average too good on defense to win because once
41:38
Speaker 5: the weather gets cold, once you're in the elements, once
41:41
Speaker 5: you're traveling somewhere, once the like, you're playing the best
41:43
Speaker 5: of the best teams in the league, like the Rams,
41:45
Speaker 5: and average defense.
41:46
Speaker 4: Against the Rams isn't gonna get done.
41:48
Speaker 5: Like the Cowboys can score thirty four in a Rams defense,
41:50
Speaker 5: which I don't think is gonna happen, and the Rams
41:52
Speaker 5: will go out there and score thirty eight, you know
41:53
Speaker 5: what I mean. Like they're they're that good the Rams are.
41:55
Speaker 5: So that's the team you're trying to that's the team
41:57
Speaker 5: you have to match. That Rams defense is gonna be
42:00
Speaker 5: able to shut people down on defense, and their offense
42:02
Speaker 5: is already elite. So you're going to have to have
42:04
Speaker 5: a good to definitely a Bob average, but also a
42:06
Speaker 5: good defense if you want to try to make a
42:08
Speaker 5: legit run in the NFC this year.
42:09
Speaker 3: So I'm in the camp that they need good rookie
42:12
Speaker 3: production for them to be over the edge. As far
42:15
Speaker 3: as a deep playoff run, Kravitz mentioned Caleb Downs, Malachi
42:18
Speaker 3: Lawrence Drew Shelton I think is going to be a
42:20
Speaker 3: huge addition for them on the offensive line if he
42:23
Speaker 3: can move into a starting role there. What are your
42:26
Speaker 3: expectations for Caleb Downs and Malachi Lawrence specifically Hi.
42:30
Speaker 5: Especially Downs, Like, I think Down's probably more than anyone
42:32
Speaker 5: else is high on now. I've remember people talking to him,
42:34
Speaker 5: like comparing him to like Kyle Hamilton, Like he doesn't
42:36
Speaker 5: have the range that Kyle Hamilinton does, but he's just
42:38
Speaker 5: so much stuff. And if you get him with a
42:40
Speaker 5: good defensive coordinator and someone who's going to design a
42:42
Speaker 5: role for him, I think he'd be a real difference maker,
42:44
Speaker 5: you know, Honey Badger, Like where you have him in
42:46
Speaker 5: the nickel, you have them back deep, you have him
42:48
Speaker 5: near the line, you're blitzing them, then he's dropping back.
42:50
Speaker 5: Like he can just do so much that when you
42:52
Speaker 5: have that X factor weapon in the secondary, it can
42:55
Speaker 5: really make a difference for your group.
42:57
Speaker 1: Gary Jones wants this one desperately. The guys, you know,
43:01
Speaker 1: thirty years this.
43:02
Speaker 2: Is the thirtieth anniversary nineteen.
43:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, nineteen ninety six. I was a I
43:08
Speaker 1: think I was in fifth grade the last time they
43:11
Speaker 1: were in the Super Bowl. I was so young. I
43:13
Speaker 1: was still a Dallas Cowboys fan for no other reason
43:16
Speaker 1: than that they were good.
43:18
Speaker 2: That was That was where I was, you and every
43:20
Speaker 2: other child in the nineties.
43:21
Speaker 1: Cramitz, it was Cowboys. It wasn't very imaginative. It was Cowboys.
43:26
Speaker 1: It was Chicago Bulls. You know, they were all the
43:29
Speaker 1: great teams were kind of laid out in front of
43:30
Speaker 1: you in that regard. I'm all in. Connor's all in.
43:34
Speaker 1: I think the best way to bet them is to
43:36
Speaker 1: win the division plus two fifteen. You can find that. Kendra,
43:40
Speaker 1: What about you? Are you as high? Are you going
43:42
Speaker 1: to join us on this Dallas Cowboys kool aid parade?
43:46
Speaker 4: Yeah?
43:46
Speaker 3: But like for me, the thing is is that I
43:48
Speaker 3: think Dallas wins this division not because they're world beaters,
43:52
Speaker 3: but because I just think that the rest of the
43:55
Speaker 3: division has either the rest of the division's just taken
43:58
Speaker 3: a step back or you know, minute school step forward
44:00
Speaker 3: with the Giants because of coaching. I'm really concerned about
44:03
Speaker 3: the Cowboys schedule. I know a lot of you know
44:05
Speaker 3: talking heads in the football media world don't take the
44:08
Speaker 3: schedule seriously, especially after covering the Patriots last year so closely.
44:11
Speaker 3: I think it definitely matters so and the meat of
44:14
Speaker 3: their schedule is at a point in the year where
44:16
Speaker 3: nobody's healthy. So I think they win this division not
44:18
Speaker 3: because they are an incredible team, but because the rest
44:21
Speaker 3: of the division has taken a step back.
44:23
Speaker 1: All right, pod, bet here on that nine and a half,
44:26
Speaker 1: by the way, is the win total for Dallas. So
44:28
Speaker 1: if you didn't want to go all the way, if
44:30
Speaker 1: you think the Eagles are going to be great, Dallas
44:32
Speaker 1: is gonna be good too, you can get plus money
44:35
Speaker 1: on over nine and a half. It's right now, juice
44:38
Speaker 1: to the under at minus one twenty the schedule. If
44:41
Speaker 1: you look at the Vegas forecasted win totals of your opposition,
44:46
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys are only outranked in terms of difficulty
44:50
Speaker 1: by the Commanders, Panthers, Dolphins, and the Cardinals. How did
44:54
Speaker 1: the Dolphins of the Cardinals get them get schedules as
44:57
Speaker 1: hard like? They're up against it enough people, we don't
44:59
Speaker 1: need Connor Hughes, our guest here today a phenomenal conversation
45:05
Speaker 1: with you really enjoyed the nowhere you can find his
45:08
Speaker 1: work on sny TVs. Tell that beagle.
45:12
Speaker 4: We said, hello, I appreciate you guys.
45:14
Speaker 1: We've previewed this division top to bottom. Kendra. NFC East
45:18
Speaker 1: wildly entertaining division this year. These matchups are always on primetime, seemingly,
45:23
Speaker 1: so let's plant our flag, best bet in the division,
45:28
Speaker 1: flag in a shut up.
45:30
Speaker 4: I'm trying to plant my flag here.
45:31
Speaker 2: Okay, you're really planning your flag in that thick.
45:34
Speaker 1: I love the Cowboys this year. This is one of
45:36
Speaker 1: my favorite preseason bets. Cowboys Division winner plus two fifteen.
45:40
Speaker 1: Rarely do you get value from the sportsbooks on the
45:44
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, but I think a enough bloom is off
45:48
Speaker 1: the rows for this franchise over the years. They'ven't been
45:50
Speaker 1: to the playoffs since twenty twenty three, but I think
45:52
Speaker 1: they're going back and I think they take the crown
45:55
Speaker 1: in the NFC East.
45:57
Speaker 3: That was what mine was going to be because I
45:59
Speaker 3: had given out the Giants over so many times.
46:01
Speaker 2: So I'm with you on that.
46:02
Speaker 3: But I've already logged the Giants over seven and a
46:05
Speaker 3: half into the app. It's currently minus one ten. Another
46:08
Speaker 3: thing that I do every season. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: I did this with you guys last year, but I
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Speaker 3: know I did it on my other show. I like
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Speaker 3: to pick a rookie receiver week one, four and anytime.
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Speaker 3: I think that there's a lot of noise trying to
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Speaker 3: cancel out my boy Kaye Lemon right now, but I'm
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Speaker 3: going to give out in any time Week one against
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Speaker 3: Washington for him.
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Speaker 2: I hit huge with Xevier Worthy for two.
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Speaker 3: Touchdowns anytime in his first game ever, so I'm running
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Speaker 3: it back. We're gonna go with mckaye lemon for in
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Speaker 3: any time as well.
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Speaker 1: All right, hopefully he's on the fields, but if that happens,
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Speaker 1: I think they'll want to get him work early on.
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Speaker 1: I've really wanted to see him in the preseason. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if we're going to, but hopefully he's ready
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Speaker 1: for Week one. So Kendra likes mccayki Lemmon. Anytime in
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Speaker 1: week one, I'm going Cowboys Division winner plus two fifteen
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Speaker 1: and she's with me on that pot. Bet on the Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: Who are we right?
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Speaker 2: I'm sure Gifford will be in.
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