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Micah Parsons: I Was WRONG About Chiefs, PRAISES 49ers & Raiders, More Week 3 Takes · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Edge. I'm your boy, Micah Parsons.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm with Q Avery. And this is where it
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  Speaker 1: goes down. Week three. Man, oh man. Has football been crazy?
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  Speaker 2: It's been a lot of wild stuff taking place out here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a lot of wild stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the Vikings, who are one
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  Speaker 2: of the five teams that are currently undefeated in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, they got the win versus Green Bay. Went
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  Speaker 2: over to Chicago in a sloppy game and they beat
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  Speaker 2: up on a banged up Bucs. San Francisco 49ers, 3-0.
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs 3-0, Las Vegas Raiders 3-0, Buffalo Bills 3-0.
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  Speaker 2: So how would you rank these teams?
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  Speaker 1: You know, ranking them is tough. I would say most impressed,
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  Speaker 1: not shocking because it's the NFL, but who I'm most
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  Speaker 1: impressed with the 3-0 is I would say Raiders and Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: Raiders, I definitely agree there.
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  Speaker 1: Raiders and Chiefs. I would say Chiefs because they were
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  Speaker 1: low on my did they have enough talent in replacement issues.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing really good football offensively and defensively right now.
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  Speaker 1: They were someone, and I can admit when I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong when I, you know, I didn't thought
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  Speaker 1: they were going to have the year they had. Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes came back from the ACL and LCL playing good ball,
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  Speaker 1: not turning the ball over. Kenneth Murray came in. Kenneth Walker,
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  Speaker 1: the right back? Kenneth Walker, my fault.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to fool.
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  Speaker 1: He's going crazy. Kenneth Walker. So it's like they had
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  Speaker 1: a plan, and that's what I mean. What is the
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  Speaker 1: plan for when you're signing these free agents? What placement
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  Speaker 1: are they going to be in? And, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: guys they drafted are playing really good for them. They're
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  Speaker 1: making a difference in their lineup. They knew what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing. And for how much they let go, I
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  Speaker 1: did not think they would be able to do this,
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  Speaker 1: but they're starting the year off really good. And all
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  Speaker 1: their wins are really good wins. Like, they're not like, oh, like,
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  Speaker 1: they dominated Denver. Who was the other two wins again?
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  Speaker 1: We got Denver. They beat Indiana. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then they beat a Miami team.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Miami, you know what I mean? Miami's working
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  Speaker 1: through some things. Yeah, Miami's working through some things. But
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  Speaker 1: Denver and Indiana, they're big wins. They're big wins.
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  Speaker 2: And why are you impressed with the Raiders?
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  Speaker 1: Because they were another one. I didn't know that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like they added Nicole B. Dean, Quay Walker. They added
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  Speaker 1: a lot to that defense. But offensively, they've been playing
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  Speaker 1: good ball. They've been playing very good quality football. Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Cousins has been playing. Kirk Cousins. But what did they do?
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  Speaker 1: They drafted Mendoza, but they also brought in veteran leadership.
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  Speaker 1: And Kirk's a guy you can learn from. Yeah. This
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  Speaker 1: is a team with a plan. That's why I say
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  Speaker 1: some owners and, hey, you know who's one of the
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  Speaker 1: owners now? Tom Brady. He's came in. He has involvement
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  Speaker 1: with this. But this is all part of the plan.
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  Speaker 1: Set your picks up for success. What does my veteran
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  Speaker 1: look like? What is the rooms I'm walking into look like?
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  Speaker 1: And this is what it means.
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  Speaker 2: And they got Kansas City next week. What do you
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  Speaker 2: think the rest of the season looks like for the Raiders?
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  Speaker 1: Ooh. You know, the league is week by week. It's
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  Speaker 1: not how you start, it's how you finish. So we
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  Speaker 1: can't throw too much at them right now. But I
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  Speaker 1: would say the game against KC would tell us a
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  Speaker 1: lot where they're going. Are they going to be a
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  Speaker 1: playoff team? They can be.
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to be a playoff team?
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  Speaker 1: They can be.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody can be.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody can be. It's only week three. It's only week three.
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  Speaker 1: But we got to see how they're going to play
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  Speaker 1: that game. I think both sides, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be like a very good game. What are we going
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  Speaker 1: to see?
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  Speaker 2: I know you're impressed by those guys, but let me
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  Speaker 2: get a ranking. Who's your number five team?
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  Speaker 1: Got to be the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: They've been winning ugly. Very ugly. Very ugly. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it's sustainable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Flores is doing some stuff now.
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  Speaker 1: Flores is doing some, but it's ugly wins. I think
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  Speaker 1: they said... The game.
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  Speaker 2: Against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, lowest EPA by two teams
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL all season.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, they said they're the first team to
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  Speaker 1: be undefeated and have less total yards in each game
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Like yards are often. So floors go,
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  Speaker 1: but like it's ugly wins. I don't know if it's sustainable.
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  Speaker 1: Who you got it for? This one gets hard. Raiders
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  Speaker 1: four at three. I'm going to take San Fran. What
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  Speaker 1: do you like about the San Fran team? They just
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  Speaker 1: play so well together, bro. They just play so well together.
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  Speaker 2: I think Brock Purdy's playing better than any quarterback in
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  Speaker 2: the league right now.
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  Speaker 1: He is. He's playing extraordinary right now. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're facing so many injuries again. So many injuries. That's
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  Speaker 1: what worries me about this team. That's the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that worries me. They're just facing so many injuries.
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  Speaker 2: They got to get away from that energy plant or
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  Speaker 2: whatever that thing is.
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  Speaker 1: It's something.
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  Speaker 2: The data center, whatever that thing is behind a practice facility,
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  Speaker 2: we got to get out of there.
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  Speaker 1: It's something.
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  Speaker 2: Who we got it to?
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  Speaker 1: We got the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs left.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go KC. KC? I'm going to say KC.
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  Speaker 1: And then what do.
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  Speaker 2: You think about the Buffalo Bills that makes themselves such
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  Speaker 2: a strong team?
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  Speaker 1: Everything has been good for them. Everyone's healthy. Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: is playing great football, and our defense is playing complimentary
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  Speaker 1: right now. Like, they're playing, they have the leading sack leader,
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  Speaker 1: Greg Rousseau. Okay, yeah, yeah. He's leading the league. Their
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  Speaker 1: D tackles are playing crazy right now. Just all around,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing very good football. And Josh is playing, if
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  Speaker 1: not top three quarterback in the league right now.
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  Speaker 2: I saw them in a joint practice with the Browns
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  Speaker 2: this year. I was nervous for the Browns after that practice.
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  Speaker 2: But seeing how good the Buffalo Bills are now, it
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  Speaker 2: all makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Big news today.
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  Speaker 2: The New York Giants traded for J.J. McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie. I'm disappointed in the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: for that. Wow. Talk to me. I'm so disappointed. You know,
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  Speaker 1: love it for the Giants because obviously they need a
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterback. But this is the guy's, what, third year
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  Speaker 1: in the league?
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  Speaker 2: Third year.
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  Speaker 1: And he's traded. Top 15 pick. It's like he was
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  Speaker 1: injured his rookie year. And Sam Darnold started. Sam took off.
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  Speaker 1: They decided not. Like, the whole point of not letting
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold come out of the building was he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be the franchise guy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He was the 10th overall pick, just so we're clear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, 10th overall. Okay. Even worse. Even worse. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're saying, hey, we're not going to pay Sam Darnold,
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  Speaker 1: who's a Super Bowl champion now, and, you know, like,
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  Speaker 1: what are we doing? As a front office, like. Like,
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  Speaker 1: how are we going to keep allowing this? And this
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  Speaker 1: is just across the league. Do you think we've given
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  Speaker 1: up on quarterbacks too early? Way too early. I've seen, like,
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  Speaker 1: I would say from this generation, right, we've seen guys
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  Speaker 1: develop later than earlier. And, like, we see the special
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  Speaker 1: guys develop earlier, but not everyone develops at the same rate. Like, honestly, like,
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  Speaker 1: him getting traded in his third year is, like, And
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  Speaker 1: to say, like, he's the third quarterback behind Wentz was crazy. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: When he's the third quarterback, though, that says something. That's like,
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  Speaker 2: we really not rocking with you. You not our guy.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the disrespectful part because, like, if you're injured
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  Speaker 1: your first year, you come in your second year where
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  Speaker 1: your line is banged up. The whole year we can
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  Speaker 1: say the Vikings offensive line probably played two full games together. Like, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you really look at it, like, I
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  Speaker 1: think O'Neal went down. Derrissaw went down. Jackson went down
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  Speaker 1: a couple games. Will Fries went down a couple games.
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  Speaker 1: The center went away. Like, you know, he's fighting for
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  Speaker 1: his life. Like, the reads, the anticipation. I think there
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  Speaker 1: was a video that Purdy came out and said was
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  Speaker 1: majority of the quarterbacks can't see where they're throwing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't see over the line. No one does. It
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  Speaker 1: was a dope, like, interview, but he was like, 40%
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  Speaker 1: of the game on my throws are anticipation. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a young guy, right, and this is
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  Speaker 1: where we say as football players, we need more guys
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  Speaker 1: who've played this sport to be in general manager positions
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  Speaker 1: than guys who just say, hey, we watched a lot
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  Speaker 1: of football. Because if I'm watching J.J. McCarthy, where has
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  Speaker 1: he come from? Michigan. Michigan, yeah. But in that Michigan
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  Speaker 1: time frame, what were they doing? Running the ball. Running
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  Speaker 1: the ball. They were running the ball, running play-action scheme. Great.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't draft this quarterback at 10th overall and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we need you to drop back 30 times a game
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  Speaker 1: and live in shotgun. That's not his world. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: going to Harbaugh's world because what they do, They're going
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  Speaker 1: to run the ball. They're going to run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Play action scheme. We're not going to ask you to
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  Speaker 1: drop back 30 times a game. So it's like, what
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  Speaker 1: are we watching and what is our outlook on this
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  Speaker 1: team when we draft these players? So many people get
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  Speaker 1: mad at the players. It's like, oh, he didn't do this.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't do that. It's like, bro, what are you
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  Speaker 1: drafting him to? What's my plan? I was lucky. I
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  Speaker 1: had Dan Quinn. He said, we're going to drop you
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  Speaker 1: in situations and we're also going to rush you. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to put you in a position to win. Are
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  Speaker 1: you okay with that? I say, yes. Give me those challenges.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have enough of those coaches anymore.
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  Speaker 2: 100%. And now he's with Harbaugh, the brother of his
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  Speaker 2: coach in college.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he's.
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  Speaker 2: Going to go to the Giants with the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: be their future, or is it going to be Dart's
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  Speaker 2: job and he's just going to be a long-term backup?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie, he could be in a
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  Speaker 2: situation where we might not see J.J. McCarthy for, you know,
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  Speaker 2: four or five years, and he might get a starting
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  Speaker 2: role for injury and take off and flourish. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: say that Jameis is going to be the starter as
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  Speaker 2: the season, like he's going to remain the starter until
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  Speaker 2: something changes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this could be a blessing in disguise for
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  Speaker 1: him because as we've seen, you know, half these quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: are all coming off of, guys in front of them
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  Speaker 1: get injured. You know, unfortunately for Dart, obviously, prayers up
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  Speaker 1: for Jackson Dart. He looked like he was having a
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal pace, phenomenal year, and go down to knee injury. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Giants fans. Sorry to Dart. Pray and wish that never
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  Speaker 1: happens to no quarterback. But, you know, Through the history
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  Speaker 1: of the league, that's been our biggest opportunity to see
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  Speaker 1: what guys can do. And I think allowing Jameis to
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  Speaker 1: be in that locker room because, for one, where I
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  Speaker 1: believe their biggest mistake was they didn't have a veteran
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  Speaker 1: for McCarthy to learn from. Now, I'm not saying Jameis
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  Speaker 1: is perfect, but Jameis, he's a winner, national champion, first
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  Speaker 1: pick in the draft, and he's had a really good
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  Speaker 1: NFL career. Is he a Hall of Famer? No, we're
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  Speaker 1: not saying he's a Hall of Famer, one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest all the time. But is he a great locker room?
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  Speaker 2: Great locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Great teacher and a great person and player? Yes. He
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  Speaker 1: checks every single one of those boxes. See, he busts
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  Speaker 1: in disguise. And to say, like, no offense, but, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think what people say, that was the reason why
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  Speaker 1: they kicked Kyler out of Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, he probably really wasn't learning there. And
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  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, I don't know. We don't know. You know, but.
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  Speaker 1: Now he has a great opportunity to learn from people
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  Speaker 1: in front of him, learn from a great coach, and
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  Speaker 1: be a part of a great organization where they're actively
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  Speaker 1: trying to build something special there. And the Giants look
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  Speaker 1: like they're building something special. They do. But, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: need to hold everyone accountable. Okay. I'm telling you this
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  Speaker 1: right now. Their penalties is getting out of control. They
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  Speaker 1: got to let the players play. It has to come
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  Speaker 1: to a point where these penalties are so pivotal in
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  Speaker 1: these moments that they have to be replayable. not just
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  Speaker 1: defensive pass interference, but roughing the passer, defensive holding, OPIs,
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  Speaker 1: like all these calls have to be replayed. Like, bro,
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  Speaker 1: football is so fast now, like in a game has
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  Speaker 1: expanded so crazily that like you literally can't just, like
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  Speaker 1: one person can't see everything with one look and be
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  Speaker 1: 100% right. Like it's just impossible.
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  Speaker 2: So I saw three pivotal roughing the passer calls. Patrick Mahomes,
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  Speaker 2: where he landed on him. We had Bryce Young. Cleveland's
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  Speaker 2: got him. And then Deshaun got one from the Carolina Panthers.
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  Speaker 2: Those three calls, I feel like, change games. They do, like,
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  Speaker 2: automatic first down and 15 yards. That's pivotal, especially when
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  Speaker 2: the ball's starting at the 30, pretty much no matter
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  Speaker 2: what now. So that means you're already at the 45.
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  Speaker 2: If your kicker's good, you.
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  Speaker 1: Get one first down or a big chunk, you're already
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  Speaker 1: in field goal position. 15 yards is a chunk play. Bro. Explosive.
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  Speaker 1: They say 10-plus is explosive. Like, that is so pivotal.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, the ones that I've seen that
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  Speaker 1: is so lopsided and how we view it is combative
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  Speaker 1: between DB and wide receiver. If you're going to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to let them play and the DB grabs back,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do that because how much the offensive guys
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  Speaker 1: are pushing off now. They're literally full extension. And not
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  Speaker 1: calling it.
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  Speaker 2: I got to ask you about another big penalty, USC game.
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  Speaker 1: You see that? The hit against Tim Moore? Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: actually been a major topic.
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  Speaker 2: So as a defensive player, when somebody slides that late,
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  Speaker 2: how do you respond? Or what is your feeling on that?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's been so much fake slides. And honestly, bro,
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  Speaker 1: you can't really respect the QB slide right now because
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  Speaker 1: how dangerous quarterbacks have been in college and the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League. It's not like, respectfully, Dante Moore, he's a runner.
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  Speaker 1: He's toting that thing. So imagine he fake slide or
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  Speaker 1: he decides to cut. I want my defenders, the people
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  Speaker 1: playing behind me, coming with that same tenacity if that's
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  Speaker 1: a running back. Because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you can't predict someone. If I'm running, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: mind you, coming off ACL reconstruction, de-selling is one of
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  Speaker 1: the hardest things to do when you have a new knee.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to just say that. I learned that, like,
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  Speaker 1: when you got healthy knees, you don't realize the blessings
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  Speaker 1: we have when, you know, it's right there. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're running full speed, post, right side of the field
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  Speaker 1: or middle, and a dude is coming at you with
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  Speaker 1: full speed, your intentions isn't to brace. Like, I want
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  Speaker 1: my DBs coming with bad intentions, right? But you can't
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  Speaker 1: say last minute, I'm going to take a cop out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: his actions after that was crazy. He was wilding. I
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  Speaker 1: am not condoning the actions after the penalty. Tripping. I
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  Speaker 1: would never condone that because once someone's getting carted off,
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  Speaker 1: that is inexcusable behavior from really anybody. But up until
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  Speaker 1: that point, sliding late, quarterbacks have to initiate the slide
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  Speaker 1: earlier or refs got to say, hey, Or, bro, just
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  Speaker 1: don't run the ball no more. Or do we say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: after you get a certain yards, QB runs don't matter
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  Speaker 1: no more.
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  Speaker 2: We got to find something different. As a quarterback, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sliding feet first. I'm going to dive head first,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to figure it out from there.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be some balance for sure. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Head first might be dangerous too.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like you can't knife. If I dive at
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  Speaker 2: your knees, you're not going to be able to dive.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be safer. Yeah, you're going to try
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  Speaker 1: to jump over. I see that. I see that. I
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  Speaker 1: see that.
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  Speaker 2: We already talked about Jackson Dart injury. There's been a
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  Speaker 2: few others. We got Baker Mayfield down. Devin Aitken down,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Burns down, Breeze Hall went down, Justin Jefferson, Jaden Daniels.
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  Speaker 2: You're not back yet. We've seen a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: coming in to step up, help their team out. Marcus
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  Speaker 2: Mariota gets a win for the Commanders. Jameis comes in
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  Speaker 2: and gets a win for the Giants. What would you
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: argue is the most valuable position group with that information?
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  Speaker 2: We're losing guys, but some teams are able to bounce
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  Speaker 2: back and battle through it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie, quarterback, and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: see why Um, you know, they kind of get the
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  Speaker 1: MVP for wins and losses because, you know, Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: had what, three turnovers last week and you lose to a,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a guy that's 14 for 22 and under
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  Speaker 1: 120 yards passing. It's easy to control the game like that.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: So it's like playing turnover free football and playing like, Hey,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: we can't beat ourselves that. that's good football. You know
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, if you got a guy that
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: can just maintain the game, just keep us in it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Don't lose the game. And, you know, that holds a
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: lot of weight. It definitely does.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: What position is the most undervalued? Like, what position are
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: people not seeing that has value that's coming up?
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Honestly, running backs. I was actually thinking about this, like,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: last night. We might be in, like, There's been some
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: great running backs over the history of football. But the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: guys I see in the game right now, this might
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: be the greatest generation of running backs that the NFL
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: has ever seen. Who we got?
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: We got Jamar Gibbs.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Gibbs. Saquon. Saquon.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Those are the two I think of when we're talking
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: about greatness at the running back position right now. B.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: John. Oh, my bad, my bad. I absolutely meant B.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: John because he's cold. B.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: John, CMC.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: You know who does not get enough credit?
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Cook. Yeah, James Cook.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: He be balling.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Balling. Like Derrick Henry. When you're talking about majority of
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: these teams that are winning, Kenneth Walker, these 3-0 teams,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: great run game.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you say it like that, yeah, we got
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: a bunch of really good running backs in the mix. CMC,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: James Cook. James Cook. What's the guy from the Raiders? Oh,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Ashton Gentry.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Barkley.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: We got Henry. Minnesota Vikings. Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Those two together make a solid run game, even though
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: they haven't been throwing the ball really well.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Like Jonathan Taylor. This is literally undervalued. When you look
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: at how many times Like, there was a stat when
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: we was preparing to play the Falcons. They said B.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: John Robinson is averaging seven yards every time he touches
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the ball. You know how crazy that is? That is wild.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But do you think this is better than, like, you know,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: we had Adrian Peterson, Tomlinson, Chris Johnson. We had those guys.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It's like they had that, like, no, you're right. You're right. Like,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: it's hard to take that away. Like, those are just
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: MVP guys. Yeah. But like.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the 90s, we had the Barry Sanders, the Emmitt Smiths,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: all those guys. We're seeing high-class running backs right now.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like, this right here is like crazy.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that this group is different because they're
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: so involved in the game fully. They can catch the ball.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about versatility. Like, don't get me... LT, versatility. AP,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a little... One of the great hands.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I don't even want to block him for real.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Barry, yes. Barry, yes. Um... You know, you can keep going.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: But this right here, like, coming out the backfield.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Put them anywhere.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Like, Gibbs and Bijon are literally carrying their offenses right now.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: They can play running back. They can play wide receiver.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: They can do whatever. They're earning every bit of that
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: $ 25 million.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: They need more than that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: They might need $ 40. We might have to bump the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: cap up.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Hey, look, I don't know what the quarterback is getting,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: but the quarterback should not be making more than either
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: one of those two on their ball.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Thanks. Thanks. So it's like, I'm not going to lie.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Those guys have been taking over. And I forgot. What?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Back in the day, 2K would win you MVP. For sure.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: That's not winning you MVP no more.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: No, you might get Offensive Player of the Year.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: You're not getting MVP. You're not getting MVP. So it's
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: a different era right now for sure.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: So we're looking at the elite players. I want to
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: start talking about MVP rankings. Let's go to your top
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: five there. The current favorites to win, Josh Allen, Brock Purdy, Lamar, Mahomes, Burrow, Stafford, Hurts, Gibbs.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I know Bajon and those guys are one and two,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: but I think he should be in.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: The running as well. No, he should definitely be in
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the running. If you're going right now.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Let's go five to one.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Five to one, I would take probably Gibbs.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Gibbs at five? Gibbs at five. I would take, actually,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you know what? Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: We're going to put, see, I'm going to put Lamar
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: at five. You know, I think that Saint lost last week.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Kind of. But that Cowboys win really made them jump up.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And the reason why is just these next two guys
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: have just been like. Who's your four? Four? I'm probably
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: going to go. I'm probably going to go Gibbs. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go Bijan.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: What are those two guys doing at four and three?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: They're just touching the ball. And they're having so much
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: success in carrying the offense at just such a high rate. Like. Like,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: this guy is, I told you, he's had seven yards
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: average every time he touches the ball, whether it's screen,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: whether it's at the backfield, whether it's touching the ball.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: That's an insane success rate.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: What got you thinking Bajon over Gibbs, though? I mean,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Gibbs is carrying his team. They got a better record.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Bajon's doing it with less.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Bajon got, he got outside. He got London. He got
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: pizza tight end. They just got a quarterback. He just
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: got that. He still went for 200.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Fair. You know what I mean? But even without the quarterback,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: he was doing it. Yeah, he going to get it
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: done no matter what happens. To me, that kind of
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: put it over the top. Now, they're right there. But also,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Gibbs is surrounded by Amon Singh Brown, top 10 receiver.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff, very underrated. Yeah, Jared Goff, Laporta, Jamo, which is,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you know, he's electric. So it's not like, I'm not
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: saying that, like, those players, like, make him worse. I'm
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: just saying, like, what Bijan has done without having that
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: elite quarterback play. It adds value. Yeah, it just adds
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: a little bit more value. Okay. Because, like, everyone knows
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: where the ball is going. That's the crazy part.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And they still can't stop it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And his cuts is, like, a little bit better.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I would say it's a little bit better. His vision. Like,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Gibbs got the speed. Like, when I played him, like,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: that speed is just, like, Like, oh my God. Like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: oh my God. You was on the sideline.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: You seen, you seen Bijan work.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I seen it firsthand. He had a cutback. I love Zaire.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: That cutback he had when Zaire had a free run,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: he stopped and started as fast as I think a
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: human has ever stopped and started in real life.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Bro. To me, like, seeing it firsthand, like seeing it
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: on film, you like, oh man. But seeing it in person, Like,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: how he's able to stay so square and then make
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the sudden cut is just, like, the best I've ever
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: seen in the league. Who we got at two? At two,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take Purdy. I'm going to take Purdy.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Why Purdy at two, not one?
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Just Josh Allen. When I'm looking at the wins, like,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you know, and what Josh has done with his legs
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and arms so far, that just puts it over him.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the running element Josh has.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that just adds it. But, like, that Houston team,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Josh coming out and dropping over 30. You know, Danny
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: sees Detroit, Detroit defense. They ain't no, like, slouches, but
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: coming out there, drop 30 again. And then he go
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: see the Chargers and do what he do. What was
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the score last week?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: The score last week? Let me find that for you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I think I turned it off at the second half.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: They started again. 24-16. You know, but, you know, I'm– 24-clip, like,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you know, he's just playing good football, bro. Good, smart football.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And they were behind.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: He had a comeback victory.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: On the topic of the Texans, they started 0-3, joined
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the Rams, the Patriots, and the Cowboys. Teams who didn't
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: start their season quite as expected. The Packers were the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: last team to join the Rams, Super Bowl, and the
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Patriots as teams with one and two starts. Which of
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the teams in the sole start surprised you the most? Man,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I would say the Texans. The Texans surprised me a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: little bit. But then I look back at the history,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: like this is who they are.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Last year 0-3. They started off 0-3, then went on
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a run. That's just kind of what they do. They
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: just go on runs. They're a very run team. Now
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I'm panicked. And also, Cesar Strauss is playing really good
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: football right now.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: He's been balling.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: They just have to put more around him.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's really difficult when your number one
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: receiver is out, though.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: His number one and number two and number three. Like,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Nico's out, Jaden Higgins is hurt, and Takedel's coming back
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: from major need. Like, it's hard, bro. Yeah. And, like,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Don Schultz, like, his tight end, like, very good player,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: been in the league a long time. But he's not
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Trey McBride. He's not Tucker Craft. He's not Kyle Pitts. Yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: They've been on the struggle bus. Like, it's just different.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: The Cowboys, one and two, team you talked about very
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: highly of before the season.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: What do you think is missing with them?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Nothing. They just got to find ways to win. You know,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: losing close games hurt.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: When you see a game like yesterday, I'm not sure
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: if you saw the finish.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I did. I did.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: When you're in a situation like that and your coach
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: kind of puts you in a situation where you probably
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: should win a game, at least go to overtime, and
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: they kind of mess up the clock management in the
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: way that he did, how does the locker room respond
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: to that?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Honestly, like, coaches don't have too much power. Right. Like,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like, us players have
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to take over the game plan. And, like, we have
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to trust our abilities out there. And, like, the reason
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: why we're on the field is our coach trusts us
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that we're going to be in the right situation at
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the right time. At the end of the day, how
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: much time they had on the clock, like, as long
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: as the, like, and we're, like, okay, and let's not
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: get this wrong because there's a series that led up
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to that event. which people like to skip too much.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: The false start killed the drive. It did. You cannot
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: have false starts in the red zone. That's not coaching. Right.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: That's player discipline. It kills you. You can't go from
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the first and goal to now it's first and eight.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: It's hard to get 10 yards in the NFL, especially
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the red zone where everything's tight and condensed. Because you
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: don't have to respect too many routes. You're not backing up.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: You're not just going to the end zone. Yeah. Yeah,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: feet at the goal line. So, that hurts. Then it's
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: just the plays after that. Like.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: The timeout was big. The timeout was like, yo, what
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: are we doing?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was big, too. But it's like, with 10,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: 11 seconds on the clock, and it's third down, you
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: have your timer. Just take your looks. Like, I don't
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: think that was, like, so urgently. And then, like, give
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: them you leave seven seconds like that's my thing my
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: thing like that part was a little bit of bad
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: management but at the same time on a drop back
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: pass you had a chance to win the game with
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: ten seconds why not take it's not like you were
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: running for your life or like you just had to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: get rid of it like there was pressure like that
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: like I didn't understand the waist down in that situation
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: like I don't think ten seconds on the clock and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: they had a timeout.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Or no they did have a timeout that's the timeout
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: they used later With too much time on the clock
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: when they could.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Have let it run down. Did it have one timeout left? Yeah.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: That's where I don't understand. Because it's not a waist-down situation.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I think the way he explained it. Like, where you
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: can't stop the clock. Yeah, he explained it pretty well,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: kind of why he did it. But, yeah, it was–
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I don't love it. Like, I want to touch on it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Let's figure it out. Yeah. My thing is, like, if
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you can stop the clock, what is the importance of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the field goal besides turnover? Yeah. Like, I get it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Don't throw it across the middle. Don't put the ball
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in jeopardy. Mm-hmm. but still have a chance to win
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: So are you going to be mad at your coach
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: at the conclusion of this game?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not mad. I don't get mad at losses because
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: losses is learning points. Dak's going to get better from that.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Brian Schoenheimer's going to get learned from that. Like, you know,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: experienced coach, you know, coming to second year, maybe a
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: bad decision or overcoaching point in a hostile environment, important
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: must-win game against, you know, a good AFC team, I
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: get it. It's a mistake, but it's probably not a
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: mistake that neither of them is going to make again. Yeah.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Especially if it's early in the year. Those type of
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: losses don't hurt you, especially because it's not really a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: division matchup. So it's not too many.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Not too much riding on it, but you want to
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: win those games.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Then we got another team that's struggling a bit, the Rams.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Not off to the greatest start. One and two. What
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: do you think about those guys?
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Lost to a good Niners team, one of the best
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: teams in the league. And, you know, they kind of
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: got hosed last night, respectively.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they had some unfortunate breaks.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Like, these are the games that, like, you're like, how
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: did we lose that game? Like, that was like our
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Minnesota game. Like, penalty, penalty, penalty. That's what I'm saying. Like,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: these are such costly penalties. Like, they're deciding games. They're
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: deciding games. Like, these have to be reviewed. Like, I
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: don't understand how, like, we're letting one man decide games. Bro,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it's hard to see everything on your one view. Like,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: just review it. Real time. How fast... Things happen. Sometimes
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: when my kids are playing, I'm like, dang, what happened?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: You don't see everything in real time. Even though you're
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: paying attention right there, it just happens.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: So these teams, which one has the best chance of
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: making a playoff run?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: They both do.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: You got the Rams?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they can still make a playoff run. The Cowboys? Yeah,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: for sure. The Texans? Yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: What about the Patriots?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Ah. Ah. Did you see yesterday?
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Drake May look like he was nearly in tears on
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: the sideline talking to Graves.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie. You have high hopes for
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: those teams because of the QB play. He has to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: play better. You cannot make a playoff run without your
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: quarterback playing at an elite level at the end of
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the day.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: He definitely can't lose you the game. And he's lost
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: a bunch of games. He has nine fumbles and ten
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: interceptions since the start of last preseason. That's ridiculous.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but, you know, We've seen good football to him.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: He got to go find his happy place.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: So what's the difference between an elite player, elite play quarterback,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: you know, making that run, and then a quarterback like
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: we talked about earlier who's just not.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Losing the game? You know, it's hard because sometimes they
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: can fall into the contents of the same side. Sometimes
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: your quarterback's just not hot. But sometimes, like, he's blazing hot.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: So in a sense of if we look at it
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: like– Sometimes your quarterback can go throw for, you know what?
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And the people say all the time, but Jalen Hurts,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the year they won the Super Bowl, all he had
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to do was not lose him the game. And he
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: was throwing for a 180, 220. He didn't really have
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to get into his toolbox. Now, have we seen big
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: games out of Jalen Hurts? 100%. We've seen him play
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: at elite level, make crazy throws, win games. Like you said,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: he finds a way to win. But also he had
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: an elite defense that year where he was like, yo,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: all I got to do is not turn the ball over.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: My defense is going to carry me to the torch.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: So I feel like that's where you can find that
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: line of like sometimes you get elite play, sometimes you
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: get that quarterback, just don't lose the game. Okay. And
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: that's coaching too. Hey, we got a lead. They can't
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: move the ball on our defense. Hey, let's manage the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: clock a little bit. Let's, you know, like we– Our
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: defense got us. Like, let's just play smart. We don't
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: got to force plays, chunk plays. We're going to get
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: a rhythm soon, but we don't got to force it.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: So, elite play can really look like just being a
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: really good game manager.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And I think that's what, you know,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: people were coming at Purdy for. But I think Purdy
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: has taken another step, too, this year.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: He's continued to rise. So, of those four teams, can
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: you give me two you think are going to make
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: the playoffs?
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Um... I'm going to say Rams is going to make
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. And who was the other three? We got
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the Texans. We got the Cowboys.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: We got the Patriots.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys can make the playoffs too.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I think the Texans. My other team for me is
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: going to be the Rams and the Texans. But I
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: can see it.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie. If the Texans can't get
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: healthy and stay healthy for 14 more games, they just can't.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: They don't have enough. At least– You know, last year,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: you know, it was like their defense was playing so
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: crazy where it's like, all right, if it was 7-0, 10.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: They can win the game.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: They can win the game. But the defense has been
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: giving up, you know, 14-plus, 20-plus. So it depends if
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: that defense gets back to what it was.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Not the same team as last year. Got to talk
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: about the elephant in the room. We got the Packers.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: They sit at 1-2. Mm-hmm.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: We saw you on the sideline during the loss of
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the Falcons, being super vocal with your teammates, looked like
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: you were really being a leader. What do those conversations
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: look like?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: You know, I think just for me, it's like a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: trust thing. You know, I have this thing, like, and
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I've been telling people, like, I've been in such a
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: good place, like, mentally and spiritually. I just want to
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: be able to be an asset. Like, there's nothing that
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I can gain from... not helping my teammates. You know
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: what I mean? But by helping them and letting them
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: grow and getting into the mind of like, hey, you
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: can be great and these are the things to look
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: out for, that's going to make them play better and
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: play faster. When I return, we're going to be playing
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: at such a united level. It's going to be like–
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: so I'm trying to still stay involved even though I
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: can't always be there.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: So you're like on the sideline, like you're talking– right
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: now are you are you building that guy up on
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the sideline or you tell them hey look out for
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: this look out for this this was coming yeah this
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: was coming look out for this this is what the
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: tackle is doing these are the cues i'm seeing from
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: the offense from this side of the ball they're running
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: here they're doing this this is what the pass sets
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: are this is how you can win and you know
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: i you know them guys are already so good like
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: we did so much that during camp in the offseason That,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: you know, I just told Luke, Baron, BC, and the
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: rest of the guys, like, just go be free now.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Like, you are who you are. It's time to make
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: people pay. 100%. Like, it's time for you to get paid. Like,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I tell them, like, yo, I got paid. Like, I'm
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: not saying, like, you know, I'm not hungry because even
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: when I was, you know, got paid, I still had
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a great year. But, like, I'm like, bro, I want
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to see you get paid. Like, I want to see
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: you reach the highest success of your career. Let you
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: reach your goals, like. You know, for me, it's unlikely.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I'm coming back from an injury. I got to overcome
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: some things and then get back to the field. But,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: you know, I think that's where I was able to
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: grow as a person and a leader is through the injury. Like,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: being firsthand on seeing the coach's view and the player's
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: view and how can I help. This was the first year, like,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I was able to really, like, lock into each individual because, like,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you know– I'm going through my process. Like, I'm trying
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: to find ways for myself to get better. But this
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: was the first year I could really, like, find ways
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: for others to get better and find opportunities for others.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And it's been helping me grow, like, with my film study, like, players, relationships, coaching. Like,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I also found, like, a new passion for myself. Like,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I said, I want to be a coach when I'm done. Like,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: not in NFL, though. You're going to high school? Like,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: high school, yeah. But, like, I found a passion and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I really, like, found gratitude of coming in every day
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: and enjoying it. So, it's been fun.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: We had two captains come out. X said, everybody needs
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: to calm their nerves. I understand it's week three. Stuff,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: he used a different word, could look a lot different.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: And then Tucker Craft comes out and lets people know
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: that we trust Matt, being Matt LaFleur. What are your
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: kind of thoughts on those two and what they're saying
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: in the media?
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: You know, they're basically just saying like, hey, we played bad.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: They got the best of us and You know, we
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: got to trust our coaches and our leadership. That's the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: best thing the players can do. You know, but also, like,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: you know, we got to be a player-led unit and
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: we got to find a way to hold each other
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: accountable and bring the best out of each other in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the locker room also. You know, that's what the best
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: teams do. So, you know, I think everyone take the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: loss on a chance and they're ready to go 1-0
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: this week. You know that's how the NFL is. You
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: got to go 1-0 every week. It doesn't matter who
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: you play.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: If you guys are 2-2, it looks a lot different.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: The thing that the fans want to know the most, though,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: and you tell us as much as you can, is
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: there an injury update you can give us? Matt came
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: out and said you will not be at practice this week.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Just follow whatever Matt says.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Whatever Matt says is what it is.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just follow whatever Matt says. I respect it. Hey,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: that's a wrap. I want to thank you guys for
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: tuning in to The Edge. This has been another amazing episode.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I would like to thank Q Avery for coming in.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Dropping dimes, and also, I can't wait to see you
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: guys soon, on and off the field.