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Bills DOMINATE Lions, NFL Week 2 Predictions, LSU at Ole Miss Preview · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The volume what is going on everybody how are we
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  Speaker 1: doing john middlecoff three and out podcast hopefully you are
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  Speaker 1: doing well on this fugazi friday one guy who is
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  Speaker 1: boy Joe Brady. They are lighting the world up. Back-to-back
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  Speaker 1: big wins, 2-0. We'll dive into that game. Dan Campbell,
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  Speaker 1: people aren't happy in Detroit. Defense doesn't look good. Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin returns to Ole Miss after ditching him, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: nine months ago. We'll talk about that, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: dive into some– some of the weekend action for Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Cause we got a, got a lot, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: games in the morning, decent slate actually in the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: and then Colts chiefs at night. Uh, so a lot
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  Speaker 1: of football to talk about. It's football season, the best.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just dive into the Thursday night action. 41-31, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, the game didn't feel that close. At
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  Speaker 1: one moment late in the game, really the Bills' final,
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  Speaker 1: the touchdown before their final drive where they basically knelt
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  Speaker 1: out the clock, they had 33 first downs on 65 plays.
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to get Belichick or some historian on the line.
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  Speaker 1: But that feels like, from a ratio standpoint, if you
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  Speaker 1: have more than 60 plays, as good as you're ever
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  Speaker 1: going to see. That is insane. And Josh Allen obviously
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  Speaker 1: dismantled the Lions, whose defense is just horrendous. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's terrible. I mean, they can't stop anybody. We saw
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  Speaker 1: last week in the second half, Tyler Shuck looked like
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  Speaker 1: a taller Drew Brees, and Josh Allen today looked like
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen in the peak of his powers. As most
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  Speaker 1: people would agree, the best quarterback in the league, one
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  Speaker 1: of the best players of his generation, one of the
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  Speaker 1: most talented players we've ever seen. Kind of hit me tonight,
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  Speaker 1: it's like if peak Big Ben and peak Cam Newton
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  Speaker 1: had a baby, they would be Josh Allen. The power
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  Speaker 1: of the arm, the keeping plays alive behind the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, the running. These type guys are pretty rare.
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  Speaker 1: And what's crazy about his plight and his trajectory as
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  Speaker 1: a player going back to when he was coming out
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  Speaker 1: of high school to where he's at now, All the
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  Speaker 1: other best quarterbacks in the NFL, and really even if
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  Speaker 1: you go back a generation with Brady and Manning and
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  Speaker 1: Phillip Rivers, Eli Manning, you could throw Rodgers kind of
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  Speaker 1: in that group to Drew Brees. They played at real programs.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Patrick Mahomes, like, well, he played at Texas Tech. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that might not be Ohio State or Texas, but by
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  Speaker 1: the time Patrick got there, Mike Leach had turned them
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  Speaker 1: into a national brand. They had been one of the
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  Speaker 1: best offenses in the country for like seven, eight, nine
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  Speaker 1: years straight. I mean, some of the guys that came
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  Speaker 1: off that tree, like Eric Morris, the dude at Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: State who just beat Oregon, played and coached there. Literally
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  Speaker 1: coached Patrick Mahomes for Cliff Kingsbury. And Lamar Jackson played
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: at Louisville. Sometimes I think we act like he played
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  Speaker 1: at Cal Poly. I bet if we looked over the
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  Speaker 1: last 25 years, how many wins a year is Louisville averaging? Eight,
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  Speaker 1: eight and a half, nine? I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people think if they win this weekend, probably going to
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  Speaker 1: go to the playoffs. And when Lamar was there, they
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  Speaker 1: were winning 10-9 games. They were a real program. Justin Herbert, Oregon,
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, Clemson, Joe Burrell, Ohio State, and LSU. Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: out of junior college, was begging Fresno State and programs
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  Speaker 1: like San Diego State to offer him a scholarship. Both declined.
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  Speaker 1: He had to go to Wyoming. And what he's become
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  Speaker 1: over the past seven, eight years to what he's at now,
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  Speaker 1: which feels like the best version of his career, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that could be directly correlated now with this
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  Speaker 1: coaching change and this guy that started as a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: coach or as a quality assistant all the way up
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  Speaker 1: to offensive coordinator and now as head coach, it feels
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  Speaker 1: like he's completely unleashed. And it has a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a vibe. Now, their team is not as good,
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  Speaker 1: but like Steph Curry was pretty special defensively. And then
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  Speaker 1: when Steve got there, like the MVPs and one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest players of all time, he became that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I think was already considered one of the
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  Speaker 1: best players in the league. If not the best player
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  Speaker 1: in the league, he's won an MVP. Uh, You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's played well in the playoffs. His defense has let
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  Speaker 1: him down. But whatever we've seen the last five days,
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  Speaker 1: Sunday versus Houston and tonight against the Lions, obviously on
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: the polar end, opposite end of talent on defense. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Aiden Hutchinson is really good, but most of the other
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  Speaker 1: guys don't feel that way. I just don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you do. And I think sometimes the story of him
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  Speaker 1: gets lost because what he's become. And even Al Michaels,
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  Speaker 1: who I hate to say it, and I've been saying
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  Speaker 1: it for a while, but it was pretty evident tonight. Like,
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  Speaker 1: he's pretty lost out there. You know, you're in your 80s,
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  Speaker 1: not quite sure what's going on. Don't blame you. I mean, I...
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  Speaker 1: It'd be difficult. Most 80-plus-year-olds I know could not function
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  Speaker 1: in that job, couldn't even attend an NFL game, let
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  Speaker 1: alone call the thing. But as Al mentioned tonight, my dad,
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  Speaker 1: when I was really young, used to work up and
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: down the valley and go to places like Fireball. And
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  Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen, I've never been to Buffalo. But
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  Speaker 1: I think he feels pretty comfortable there, clearly. And Al, who's,
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  Speaker 1: I think, pretty good friends with him. I think they
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  Speaker 1: play golf in the offseason. Josh Allen's an L.A. guy now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretty special marriage. And that's what's great about
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. This is a problem the NBA is at.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball has this. If you're not in the right market,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, well, you can't keep him. In baseball, it's
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  Speaker 1: like he's going to hit free agency and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to leave. In basketball, it's like he's going to demand
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  Speaker 1: a trade to a bigger market. In the NFL, Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes in Kansas City is going to play his entire
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  Speaker 1: career there. Josh Allen's in Buffalo, probably never leave. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers never wanted to leave Green Bay. Gutekins, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of forced him out. Same thing with Brett Favre.
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  Speaker 1: And I think what makes the NFL special is when
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  Speaker 1: you get one of these generational players. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: Bills are littered with that late 80s, early 90s team.
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  Speaker 1: They were full of Hall of Famers. This is the
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  Speaker 1: best player they've ever had. And he gives them an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to win a Super Bowl. Now, I do think
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing he can't do. And the running element is,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: as someone that was against him in fantasy this week,
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  Speaker 1: it's an unstoppable force. But do I want my quarterback
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  Speaker 1: lowering his shoulder constantly and and going through guys and
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  Speaker 1: getting tackled. There's got to be a little balance as
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  Speaker 1: we go to the next five, ten years of his career,
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  Speaker 1: and even as this season goes on and the next
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  Speaker 1: couple seasons. Because, like I said, Big Ben, Cam Newton
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  Speaker 1: had a baby. It's Josh Allen. That really kind of
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  Speaker 1: destroyed Cam Newton's career. All the hits he took from
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  Speaker 1: running quarterback power, which at Auburn and then early on
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  Speaker 1: in his career, what are you going to do? Stop
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  Speaker 1: a guy 6'5, 240, who is faster and more powerful
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  Speaker 1: than you? Like, no, you're not. And it's why Cam
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  Speaker 1: Newton typically won. It's why Josh Allen typically wins. Especially
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: in a league that is much more predicated now on...
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  Speaker 1: Smaller might be the wrong way to put it. You
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: have taller guys still, but you don't have 260-pound middle linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are all leaner and built for speed to
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  Speaker 1: go sideline to sideline. I grew up on Greg Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Some of Gary Plummer was the 49ers.
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  Speaker 1: Ken Norton Jr. Those guys don't exist. It's all three
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  Speaker 1: down linebackers who can run and cover, in theories. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Lions and the Bills would like a couple guys
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  Speaker 1: that could. But those guys aren't going to be able,
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  Speaker 1: when he has a full head of steam, to tackle him.
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  Speaker 1: But you're still putting a lot of contact on your body. Which, again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying this as someone that just loves football. someone
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  Speaker 1: that would love to see Buffalo win a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: it would, if not this year, within the next couple years,
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  Speaker 1: it would be incredible. It truly would. That stadium, which
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  Speaker 1: I'm always a little hesitant on these new stadiums, it
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  Speaker 1: takes a little bit away from, especially in places like Buffalo,
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City, that have these historic venues that feel so
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  Speaker 1: collegiate and so special when you're watching a night game.
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  Speaker 1: That felt pretty sweet. That felt really, really cool. The
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  Speaker 1: opening with Bruce Smith, it was like, this is badass.
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  Speaker 1: And I know on the internet, people complained about the
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  Speaker 1: prices and the sight lines and the PSLs. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: look like there was a soul in that building not
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  Speaker 1: having the time of their life. Because when you buy
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  Speaker 1: a ticket and your squad, and there's no one going
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  Speaker 1: to a Buffalo game that isn't a diehard Bills fan,
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  Speaker 1: has the best player in the league, has the best
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  Speaker 1: player in the history of the franchise, it's a party
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  Speaker 1: every time. And the one thing you know as a
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  Speaker 1: season ticket holder and a guy that's going to go
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  Speaker 1: to games for your squad, the only way that Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen's not going to be playing is because he's injured.
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  Speaker 1: And last time I checked, he's been pretty freaking durable,
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  Speaker 1: which is why I get back to the running around,
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  Speaker 1: which is a major point of difference for the guy.
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  Speaker 1: I got a smile on my face on the one
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  Speaker 1: run when he slid. It's like, yeah, you can do
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit. Because right now, the other thing is,
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  Speaker 1: their personnel on offense, I mean, James Cook, how good
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: is that guy? How good is Kincaid? Dalton Knox, your
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: number two, that's pretty good. Remember when Joe Brady was hired,
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  Speaker 1: the Keon Coleman situation came up because last year it
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  Speaker 1: was a nightmare. And he specifically said, I was one
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: of the guys pounding the table for this player. And
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: then by a second game, what did Keon Coleman do tonight?
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  Speaker 1: He had six catches for 63 yards. And you felt
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  Speaker 1: his presence there. And I would imagine as we go,
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  Speaker 1: you could utilize that guy in the red zone. If
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: you remember back to on Monday night, LSU played Florida
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  Speaker 1: State three, four years ago. The year Florida State ran
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: the table and they got left out of the playoff
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: because their quarterbacks got injured. He lit up as a
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  Speaker 1: transfer for Michigan State. LSU for three touchdowns. And it
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: was just mossy. I remember he had one in the
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  Speaker 1: corner of the end zone. I was like, this guy
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  Speaker 1: is sweet. And he was. And he was a major
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  Speaker 1: reason they were really, really good that year. And, you know,
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: for as much, Josh Allen was excellent before Joe Brady
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  Speaker 1: ever showed up. But I think we have to acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: that once Joe got there, it feels like he's become
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  Speaker 1: an even more complete player. Feels like he's more a
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: buttoned up player. Feels like he's a more unstoppable player.
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  Speaker 1: And you watch Joe Brady tonight, like I told you
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  Speaker 1: where I stood the moment I met him at the combine,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm a believer. And there's a swag to him.
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  Speaker 1: There's a play calling ebb and flow. If you've watched
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  Speaker 1: these last two weeks, you're like, this guy kind of
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  Speaker 1: has it. They feel much more explosive. Tonight was somewhat,
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  Speaker 1: I mean a lot, a product of the defense that
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  Speaker 1: they were playing. But I feel confident speaking about them
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: because I just saw them against a defense that I
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: think we all believe is going to be really, really
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: good in Houston. They've been one of the best defense
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  Speaker 1: in the league for the last several years. And he
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: lit them up like a Christmas tree. And their ability
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: to utilize different personnel packages, you know, get your defense
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: to change with these three tight ends and then run deep,
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays. But part of coaching is having guys who
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: are struggling and And then once I become the boss,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: within a couple games, I see that. Who was one
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: of the most disappointing young players in the league last year?
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: It was Abdul Carter. It was kind of a disaster
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: for the Giants. Who'd you notice immediately week one against
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys with John Harbaugh running the show? Abdul Carter.
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  Speaker 1: That's what coaching is. That's the impact of a guy
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  Speaker 1: that knows what he's doing. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady knows anything about defense. And, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: hired Jim Leonard. Their personnel is obviously a little limited.
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  Speaker 1: Their defensive line is good, but I don't love their secondary,
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  Speaker 1: which is going to be a major question mark for
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  Speaker 1: this team. Big picture. Because not every game you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have 35 first downs. Not every game you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to put up 40. There are going
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  Speaker 1: to be games when you score 17 to 20 points.
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  Speaker 1: And can you hold the opponent that, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: neutralize to win a game that I don't know, 19
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  Speaker 1: to 17. Something weird. This is football. The weather changes. Hell, Buffalo. Snowstorm.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: It gets freezing cold. Your wide receivers, you're not going
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: to be able to catch the deep ball. But I
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: know Joe Brady's impact on the offensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: on the confidence in his quarterback, on the development of
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  Speaker 1: a young wide receiver who they drafted really high, on
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  Speaker 1: the explosion of James Cook over the last couple years.
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  Speaker 1: These tight ends look as good as they've ever looked.
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  Speaker 1: I know DJ Moore got banged up, but He was
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  Speaker 1: a ready-made plug-and-play guy for him, and look at him now.
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  Speaker 1: Joe's known him since he was the offensive coordinator for
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  Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. So it's hard not to buy a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Buffalo Bill stock. It really is. I think
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that just has been a question mark
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  Speaker 1: that is not going to change for this franchise is
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be on the defensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Can they get enough stops? Because everyone's going to be
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: shitting on the Lions tomorrow. Jared Goff was 26-38, and
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: he threw four touchdowns. And he got sacked four times,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: and honestly, it felt like he got sacked nine times.
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  Speaker 1: He was under duress all night long. The rookie right
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  Speaker 1: tackle's out. It felt like the right side was getting smoked.
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  Speaker 1: They were chipping over there. The right tackle got one-on-one,
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  Speaker 1: getting spun like a dreidel. Didn't have a shot to
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  Speaker 1: slow anybody down. The interior of the offensive line was
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: getting worked. And we know Jared can't really move. My
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: wife looked at me as the game was kicking off.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, what's that quarterback for the Lions named? Geoff?
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what did you just say? Geoff? So I
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: called him Geoff the entire night. But their offense is
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: not going to be the problem. It's just not. Gibbs
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: is one of the most talented players in the league. St.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Brown is the heart and soul of that operation. Laporta
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  Speaker 1: looks healthy and good. Jameson Williams adds the explosive element
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  Speaker 1: of it. The Tesla Y is fantastic. They like him
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Exciting young player. Panay Sewell is one of
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  Speaker 1: the best left tackle. They will get the right tackle
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  Speaker 1: and the left guard back. Hopefully they're not out too long.
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  Speaker 1: But offense is not going to be their problem. They
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: are one of the most putrid defenses in the league.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw people on social media and it gets
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  Speaker 1: talked about. Well, they got Kirby Joseph and Brian Branch
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  Speaker 1: past week five can return. Is that really going to
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: do much? Like, everyone's acting like Dan Campbell's some village idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Their personnel on defense stinks. Aiden Hutchinson is an elite player.
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  Speaker 1: An elite player. And you saw there were moments tonight
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  Speaker 1: where it's like, what's he supposed to do? He's got
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: to hit the quarterback every play for this team to
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  Speaker 1: have a shot. 33 first downs in 65 plays? I
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: don't want to speak out of turn, but that feels
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: like an NFL record. I mean, that is insane. Now, personally,
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  Speaker 1: I was entertained tonight. You know, it's Thursday night. It's
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: early in the season. That's not the type of football
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  Speaker 1: I love. Like, not at all. That is not what
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  Speaker 1: I grew up loving football about. And as I have
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  Speaker 1: grown and talked about football for a living, worked in football,
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  Speaker 1: just watched as a fan, like, even in its heyday
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  Speaker 1: with Texas and Oklahoma– And Mike Leach, who I love.
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  Speaker 1: The Big 12 wasn't really my style. I like a
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: more physical brand of football. I like defenses that are
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: hard to get a first down against. I like teams
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  Speaker 1: that hit hard. They don't just allow gaping holes for
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  Speaker 1: running backs to gash you for 20-yard runs or quarterbacks
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to gash you for 15-yard runs. 17, 20, 30-yard pass
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  Speaker 1: plays with ease, guys wide open. I'm not inclined to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: love that style of ball. And if this was every game,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: every week in the NFL, it would turn me off
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Clearly, the NFL loves it. But this
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: wasn't because of the rules. This is because the personnel
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: for the Lions cannot cover a soul. And this defensive coordinator...
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Young dude, former player, takes over for Aaron Glenn. But
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: it's like, you go back to Aaron Glenn when they
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: start getting banged up. Their personnel has been an issue
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  Speaker 1: in the secondary. Terryon Arnold, they drafted in the first
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: round to be an impact player. One, even when he
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: was on the team before the kidnapping situation. Which is
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: crazy to even say out loud. I mean, think about that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Arch Manning goes viral for a fake video
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that didn't exist and actually nothing actually happened. And it's like,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: this guy got cut because he got arrested for kidnapping
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: people that he thought stole something from him that they
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: actually didn't steal something from him. They all got kidnapped
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: and pistol whipped. Like, that's a situation that actually took place.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And they cut him. And they would be better with
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: him on the team... But he wasn't Darrell Revis. You know,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: he wasn't who they have, Darius Slay, who they drafted
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: once upon a time and Matt Patricia couldn't stand. Talk
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: about a guy that was one of the worst head
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: coaches you'll ever see. But everyone's like, oh, they should
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: have hired Ben Johnson instead of, you know, and fired
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell. You're going to hear a lot of that, right?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: What would Ben Johnson have had Jared Goff throw one
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: more touchdown? He threw four touchdowns, threw 325 yards. Looking
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: at Ben Johnson, and I'm not acting like I wouldn't
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: want Ben Johnson over Dan Campbell, but my point is
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell's an offensive guy. Their defense stinks. Ben Johnson's
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: defense stinks because even if you have Belichick in his
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: prime or I give you Fangio or Flores, if your
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: players stink, there's nothing you can do. And in a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: league where the rules, it's not like, well, we can
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: just get by, we'll just take out everyone that comes
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: over the middle. You're not really allowed to do that
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: anymore either. So you basically just have to have guys
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: who can run with other guys. And they clearly, they
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: look slow, they look lost. So I'm sure there's a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: scheme element to this. But their personnel is not good. Like,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the Bills' personnel, I think we all agree on defense, eh,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: kind of average. If they don't win the Super Bowl, like,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: their defense is going to be the thing more than
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: likely that lets them down. They feel like the 85
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Bears or the 2001 Ravens or the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: compared to this Lions operation. And Aiden Hutchinson led the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: league in pressures week one. Tonight, he's all over Josh
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Allen throughout the game. It does not matter. It does
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: not matter. And then when you're also getting gashed on
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the ground, I mean, Cook had, I think, a buck
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: 32 or buck 35. What are you going to do?
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: But everyone tomorrow you watch is going to act like
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell. They did have 24 first downs. They had
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: 355 yards of offense. I just don't think their issue
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: is like a team issue. Their issue is a side
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of the ball issue, which I'm sure some scheme, but
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: to me it's players. They don't have the players. And
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I was someone, I thought the Lions were going to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: be really good. And I still think offensively they're going
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to be able to hang. But your ceiling is so
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: limited when you can't play pass defense against anybody. Right?
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Because week one, you're like, okay, you know, Tyler Shuck
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: got hot. Alave went off. Tonight, when it was 14-0,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: let's be real. The game was basically over in the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: first quarter. Because of the environment there, it felt like
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a religious experience for everyone in Buffalo and Bruce Smith.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: And then the way the game starts, they drive right down.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And then they get three and out, and they drive
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: right down again. It's like, this is over. And there
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: were a couple moments like if the Lions can get
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: a stop. The Lions don't get stops. That does not happen.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: They don't just get off the field on, like, even
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: if you have an incompletion, it's second and 10th. They
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: were getting first downs most of the time on second down.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: That's what was so crazy tonight. And then after a while,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: it's like, they got no shot. And there was one
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: series tonight when it went 21-0. Then the Lions score.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So it's 21-7. The Bills get the ball back, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I wrote down two runs from James Cook, and they
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: were in the red zone. I'm like, you don't have
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a chance to this. And this is week two where
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: your guys are fresh. What's going to happen as the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: season goes and the attrition plays a factor and your
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: legs get heavier and you have some injuries. It's like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: what is it going to look like? But I don't know.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: There's no answer. But Dan Campbell's going to take some shit.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I just think like if he's in charge of the draft...
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And he has a huge hand in it. I'm not
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: saying he's not responsible for the part of the defense.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And he did this last year with Johnny Morton on offense.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to have to think long and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: hard about making some sort of tweak on defense because
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: they have absolutely no shot doing what they're doing now.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: They really don't. Brian Branch is not Ed Reed. You know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Kirby Joseph isn't Ronnie Lott. Those guys aren't fixing things overnight.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: And their offense and the difference is like Jared Goff
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: stats look really good. But everything's going to come from
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: him within the pocket. There were a couple of moments
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: tonight he has to move a little bit. He's done.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Especially he has to ad lib with guys. That's where
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen's like, okay, I got to move a little bit.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: See ya. Adios. I'm going to get 17 yards here.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get eight yards here. I'm going to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: score a touchdown here. They don't have that in the back.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: So that's where the offense is just at a different
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: level in Buffalo because of his legs. And I don't know. I...
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I do not feel confident that this Lions team, the playoffs,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: your defense is like that. You got major, major question marks. And, yeah,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football, you saw the, you know, one thing
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: they showed Al Michaels when he's like, oh, there's Roger
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Goodell sitting with the CEO of Amazon. Now, this is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Amazon's opening game, Buffalo opening game, star player, in Josh Allen.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: It's not that crazy that Roger would be there, that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the CEO of Amazon would be there. But the way
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: those guys were talking, like, I've been around businessmen my
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: whole life. What do you think they were talking about?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Or what do you think came up over the course of,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: you know, 60 minutes? Maybe they both had a beer.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe they had some pretzels and some nachos. Shooting the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: shit about future deals. And continuing to do this. Because
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I know this about Amazon. This has gone pretty well
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: for them. This package on Thursday night, which is going
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to need a little bit of rehabilitation from the booth.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, this feels like it's got to be Al's
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: last year. And then if Al doesn't come back, I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: think you just let Herbstreet stay in college. There's got
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to be someone there. that is viewed as some version
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: of like Phillip Rivers. Hell, at this point, I'd take
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Drew Brees. Just give me something different. But I would
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: imagine they're going to have somewhat of a new booth,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: which as you've seen with Joe Buck, I mean, if
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you're a big name, I mean, it pays pretty well. But,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you know, is there a chance Amazon, who has unlimited money,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: who clearly really likes this partnership, could be like, hey,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: how about this? In the next go-round, we'll take Thursday
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Night Football, and we'll take Sunday night football. Or maybe like, okay,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: ESPN and Disney's gonna stay. That relationship clearly has grown
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a lot. Maybe you could move ESPN to Sunday night football.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: We'll take Thursday and Monday night football. We'll take the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: two one-off nights. I'd be a little stunned. You know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I think I saw something. My friends at Netflix, like
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: they might not be that interested in the Sunday night package.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: They kind of like the one-off events. which has worked
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: pretty well. I mean, that dude that climbed the building
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in Tokyo or whatever was fascinating. I mean, they just
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: like big events. A couple football games here and there,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: opening game, Christmas. This Thursday night thing has gone pretty well.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And you see that guy sitting right next to Raj.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I would wonder if they would get much more aggressive.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: And I could see, now just talking it out, like
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, Monday night, and then ESPN moves back to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Sunday night, who actually owned that package when I was really,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: really young. It was actually before I had cable. I
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: remember being at my grandma's house one time, maybe in
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: like 1996, 7 range, and being over there on a Sunday,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and there's a Sunday night football game on. It was
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: like Paul McGuire, Joe Theismann. I'm like, wait, we didn't
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: have cable in my house at the time. There's NFL
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: football on right now? I was pissed off. I think
• 27:17
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• 27:20
  Speaker 1: never look back. But what a night. And the Bills, man.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: The other thing is, the Patriots, the Bills are winning
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: this division. The Bills are winning this division. Patriots had
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a good season last year, got to win the division,
• 27:36
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• 29:50
  Speaker 1: let's talk some Lane Kiffin. Five years ago, for the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: first time since he left him, in 2010. So there
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: was an 11-year gap. A lot of animosity in that move, obviously.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I have some stats for you that I found online.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: There were almost 48,000 alcoholic beverages sold that night. There
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: was $ 580, 000 in revenue from alcohol alone. There were 51
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: ejections and 18 arrests. I think the intriguing part about
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: this game is everything around the game, not even on
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the field. Just the pure... chaos, which I think is
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: what college football brings more than the NFL. Like the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: NFL where it's like, is Cam Ward going to be
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback in eight weeks? Is so-and-so coach going
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: to survive? Where's JJ? You know, it's a lot about like,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: can this guy play? Can this guy coach? What's going
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: on here? Does this team need to make a trade?
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: In college football, it's like, are they going to burn
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the stadium down going after Lane? Now for me personally, Listen,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I've been to enough crazy events in my life. Big crowds,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of intoxication. I heard someone, Tyler Siskey, he
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: lives in Ole Miss. He used to work for Nick
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Saban and Hugh Freeze. He was telling, he does a podcast,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: AJ McCarron. He's got good SEC nuggets. And he was
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: saying that like less than 30,000 people, not counting the students,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: live in this town. And on given game weeks, that
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: number can approach like 150,000 people with, you know, crowds
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: coming in for a game. They are expecting to have
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: four to 450,000 people. And I, listen, sometimes I'm kind
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: of a sicko. I'll go on Nextdoor, the app, just
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: for entertainment. And, you know, it'll be like an old
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: lady posting this dude like kicking down her front door.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And it's like a 17-year-old kid. It's like, and then
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: all the comments will be like, it's a TikTok trend.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: And a lot of things now, people go, like the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: majority of people that are going to be in Oxford,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Mississippi this weekend are not going to be there attending
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the football game. They're going to be there for the event.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: And I do think even different from 2021 when Lane
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: returned to Tennessee and Like social media, so many people
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: just do things to post, to attempt to go viral,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: and just to capture the chaos, which I think adds
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: to more chaos. Like there is a chance there are
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: parts that just don't feel safe. I'm not even necessarily
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: talking about inside the game. I'm talking about everything around it.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: It is going to be a bleeping zoo. And the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: game doesn't, it's a night game. So you have all Friday,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: all Saturday to drink as much as you want. And
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: whatever those alcohol numbers were in the stadium, I think
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: they're going to be obliterated. The alcohol outside the stadium,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you know, especially with the LSU crowd coming in, is
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: going to be just a lot of intoxication. And I
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: think the guy loving this the most is Lane. I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: think Lane lives for this crap. I think he loves
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: being the center of attention. And I don't even blame him.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Like over a course of a decade, you would choose
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: LSU over Ole Miss. And I don't blame Ole Miss
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and those people for being mad that he left. You go,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: we got the best quarterback. We got a star running back.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: We have money to pay players. And we're literally better
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: than LSU right now. Lane, I know this year they
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: have a $ 50 million roster. Some think it's right there
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: with Ohio State. Texas and Oregon is the most expensive
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: roster in the country. I understand what he did. I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: understand leaving Ole Miss. I mean, hell, he begged for
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the Oregon job. They weren't interested. He desperately wanted to
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: replace Nick Saban. They wouldn't even give him the time
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: of day. Lane's a little toxic because what he brings
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: to the table, it's why he's perfect. Some marriages are
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: just perfect for each other. Like, you're just like, God,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: this is a perfect couple. That's what I think when
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin and LSU made for each other. And if
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Lane is given the funds over the course of the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: next three or four years, like, they're going to have
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: legitimate chances to win the national championship. This year, I
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: got to see a little bit more with the quarterback.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's playing some games with the
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: quarterback's injury. Some claim that he actually hurt his shoulder.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: But this is reality TV with football mixed in. This
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: is the Lane Kiffin experience. It's actually the complete opposite
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of Brian Kelly. who I see now doing media. I
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: despise guys who hate the media or are miserable with
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the media, and then they go into the media, like
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: a guy like Brian Kelly. It's like, you're such a fraud.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I always thought Jim Moore Jr. was a little bit
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: like that. He could just be such an a-hole when
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: he dealt with them, and then the moment he'd get fired,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: he'd go right to the media. It's like, you'll do
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: anything for a paycheck, which I understand, but you literally
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: hate this profession. Even Saban sometimes, if you watch him
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: on game day or when he's being interviewed, like McAfee,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: he can't help himself. Like you guys in the media,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: it's like, Nick, ESPN's paying you millions of dollars to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to work like four hours a week. You get to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: play golf. You get to do whatever the hell you want.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Like this media has been pretty good to you, bro.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Obviously you earned your lot in life being this legendary person,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: but like you're in this profession. I wish Nick would
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: say a little bit more. I feel like he's a
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: little too cookie cutter on TV. It's like, yeah, I've
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: heard you like make your football analogies, but like, I
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: know you don't like everybody. I just know you don't.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: You can let it rip, bro. It's okay. Let it fly.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: But that's maybe my expectations are too high. I am extremely,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and I mean extremely excited for this game. And honestly,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: on the field, I don't care as much. I want
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: everything off. Listen, I got a reality TV side to me.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I got a drama train wreck. I'm inclined to be
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: drawn to that. And I can't wait. And listen, kind
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: of room for Ole Miss because I think that makes
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the story even better. If Lane goes in there and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: wins 40 to 20 or something and just dominates the game,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: that'll suck because he'll be proven right. If he loses,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: he'll never hear the end of it. I mean, at
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: least in the short term. So it's going to be fantastic.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: And before we dive into the NFL... It's Fugazi Friday.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And I think one of the great Fugazis over the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: course of the last 18 months took place in Chapel Hill,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: North Carolina. When Belichick got hired and Lombardi was saying
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: they're going to be the 33rd NFL team, then they
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: didn't let any scouts in the building. They had no
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: NFL prospects. And with less than three games into their
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: second season, The GM, who is Bill Belichick's best friend, resigned.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: And his son, who was the defensive coordinator and highest
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: paid coach on the staff, also resigned. His wife puts
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: out a statement trying to like gaslight people, being like,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: you guys don't know the real story. Health comes first.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: We get it. No one's saying if you got drug issues,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't get those figured out. But as I texted
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: around today, I think most people in football are in agreement.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Bill Belichick
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: is the coach of North Carolina in 2027. Maybe I
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: was a little more bullish on this than many in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: college football. Not that I thought he would turn them
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: into like Ohio State or, you know, some powerhouse. He
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: was just going to turn into Kirby overnight. But I
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: expected it to be decent. I did not expect the
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: fallout in which has happened. And I think it shows
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: you that Belichick and his crew, like, you know, in
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the NFL, as long as you win, you don't have
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to answer to shit. You can blow lines in your office.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want. And no one cares.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: But the moment you start losing and the moment you're
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: on a college campus and you're dealing with the Board
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: of Regents and a president and a recruiting staff that
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: is mainly women, like, you better be a little buttoned up.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: And this Belichick experience, I just don't think could have
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: gone worse. I really don't. His own son had to resign?
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: His own son. Like, I think a lot of people
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: thought the Lombardi thing was going to be a disaster.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: A lot of people were after Lombardi. They just hate
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: the guy. But his son, like, coming from Washington... and
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: doesn't even coach a game into year two and just quits.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: It's one thing, hey, I got a health issue. I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: got a drug addiction. I can't coach. There are some
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: legalities that support the employee. When you tap out of
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: that $ 1. 4 million salary, some of those rumors flying around
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that his wife's like, not true. Something must have been
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: true to send in that resignation letter. That's sure what
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: it feels like to me. Unless dad's stroking you guys
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: a check to just be like, we don't need the
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: drama right now. Just some of the shadiest shit going
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: on in a sport, in college athletics, kind of shady.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Like it's just natural. kind of shady to begin with
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and these guys just didn't last very long and you
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: talk about Belichick kind of going full ski mask on
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: North Carolina completely robbing them and while he robbed them
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: he embarrassed them didn't just didn't see it coming Okay,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: let's dive into the National Football League. Hand up. I
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: think I mentioned this early last week, but my wife
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: gets the nighttime scaries with Jack just because he's a
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: wild card. A couple nights ago, basically got up once,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: slept 11 of 12 hours. It was incredible. Best night's
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: sleep we've had in months. It felt like an angel
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: came down. He's like, I'm going to take care of
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: you guys tonight. Then last night, he's like, oh, you
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: guys think you got this shit figured out? But I
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: get the scaries. When I turned on those eight games
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: on Sunday morning, I realized I'm a little rusty. I've
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: been doing it in college over the first couple weeks.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: But in college, I don't have to watch every game.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not breaking it down and talking about it and
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: having to have takes on every single team. That's just...
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I just kind of get to enjoy it and pick
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: a couple games that I know are going to be
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: big and really dial in on those. In the NFL,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to watch everything all at once, and it
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: can be difficult. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not building
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: bridges here. I'm not fighting on the front lines of
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: a war. But given what I do for a profession,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: it can be a little challenging. It takes a second
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: to just kind of get into the swing of things.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: So we did this last week. Here's the slate on Sunday.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: We'll just fire through it really quick. We got Panthers
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: at Falcons. That's terrible. Minnesota at Chicago. That's not bad.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Eagles at Tennessee. They stink. Not the Eagles, the Titans.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh at New England. Green Bay at New York. Cleveland
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: at Tampa. The Saints at Baltimore. Sneaky big game. Cincy
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: at Houston. Another sneaky big game. Jacksonville at Denver. Sneaky
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: big game. Vegas at Chargers, Vegas home game. Washington at
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Seattle at the Arizona Cardinals in my backyard.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Miami at San Francisco. And Sunday night is the Colts
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. So what I did last week is
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I said my four main games in the morning slate
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: that are going to get the four box. And then
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I learned like depending on the networks and It can
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: be difficult to get the exact four games you want
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: and kind of got to play with it, but here
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: are the four that I'm picking for the morning. Pittsburgh
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: at New England, New Orleans at Baltimore, Cincy at Houston,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: and Minnesota at Chicago. Let's start with Pittsburgh at New England.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: That was a rough watch. I think we all agree.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Falcons have like two starting quarterbacks and
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: they're both injured. The Falcons currently are kind of a joke.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're pretty, it's rough sledding in Atlanta. I
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: feel for Falcons fans. It's just, it's not going well.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, your quarterback situation is a disaster. I don't
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: know what the hell is going on with Pennix. Tua
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: gets hurt in warmups in a practice. Cooper Rush is
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: also injured. I mean, just a lot of issues going on.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: But Pittsburgh struggled, man. I mean, you kind of dive
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: into Rodgers' numbers because you looked up. It wasn't like
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: he threw the ball 20 times. He had 40 pass attempts.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf had 10 targets. But you're like, what's going
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: on here? DK only had four catches. Rodgers only averaged
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: five and a half yards a catch. There was just
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: something missing from the offense. They didn't run for over
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: 60 yards. And you would think it's Mike McCarthy's baby.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: They will be better on offense. But the one thing
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: you'd say about New England is they're a pretty good defense.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: And they've had a long, long rest advantage because they
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: played on fucking Wednesday. So you look at the situation.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: To me, the number one story in this game is
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Drake May. I mean, he was an MVP candidate last year.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: And he had three interceptions in the fourth quarter. One
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: of the worst interceptions you will see all season long
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: given the situation. So the pressure of that market, like
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: that market's intense. It's one of the rare markets where
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: the sports radio station rates like it would have 20
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: years ago when we had way less options and we
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: couldn't connect our phone to the car. They do massive shares. WEEI,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: the station that has the Patriots, is an absolute cash
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: cow for a reason. They have a lot of people listening.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: And I've seen some clips over the course of the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: last 10 days. They are destroying him. They really are.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: And you come into this game like A.J. Brown's gone
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: for who knows how long. Your second wide receiver is
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: this guy you give all this money to that Packers
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: fans are like, we told you. And it did not
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: go well week one. I mean, he was atrocious. I mean,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: every time they tried to get on the ball, there
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: was either an interception, a drop, or he basically just
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: got tackled on the spot. So you look at the situation.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: You got Drake May, his top wide receiver. There's going
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: to be some legitimate pressure here. Now, I think if
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: you're New England and Vrabel in the defense, you go,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not losing too much sleep. But I saw a
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: quote today. I don't know if Rodgers talked Thursday or
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Wednesday about But he's like, I'm not going to stop
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: going to DK. Like, he personally loves DK. I mean,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: they went on that, like, Montana or wherever the hell
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: they went in the hills to ride horses and, you know,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: do who knows what by a campfire. And that's his guy.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: And shit, it's my guy. He's on my fantasy team. Tempted.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I don't even think I'm going to put him in
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: my starting lineup this week. But I think they are
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: going to be very dependent, just like they were last year. Like,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: he's got to be impactful. He just does. We'll dive
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: into who I like in this game a little bit later,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: but this is an interesting game. Because if you're New England,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden Pittsburgh comes there and wins, and
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: you're 0-2, and Drake doesn't look good. It could get weird,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: and it could get weird fast. I mean, any time
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: a team that just has playoff aspirations start 0-2, I
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: think I saw today on TV the chances of making
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: the playoffs when you're 0-2 is like 15%. It's just difficult.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: You've got an uphill battle. New Orleans and Baltimore, you
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: guys know where I stand on the Saints. I mean,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I just like them a lot. And I wasn't feeling
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: good after the first half, but by the end of
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: that game, I went, hey, I know they lost, but
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: that's one of the better losses of week one. And
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I love the way that he went for two. Now,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I don't love, you know, a two point play when
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: you kind of run like a fast hitting guy in
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: the flat or like a quick out route and he's
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: covered in which they ran to Olave. Like, I just
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: like running a normal play if you're not going to
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: run the ball. And I'm not opposed to running the ball.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: in that situation. I just don't like just doing half
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: the field in a red zone situation. The field is
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: much more compact than it is long. You just get
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: limited options really fast. I actually think the Saints might've
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: been better being at like the seven yard line than
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: at the two yard line. That being said, I mean,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the quarterback threw for 410 yards. Alave did leave practice
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: today because of a hamstring. They claim precautionary reasons. Makes
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: me a little nervous. I mean, he was exceptional last week.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: But the Ravens, I mean, say Flowers missed practice. Jacoby
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Lane's on injured reserve. Now, I saw like the top
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: 10 all-time rushers. Derrick Henry's like two seasons away from
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: being in the top three. I think Emmitt Smith said
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: this week, it's not inconceivable that he passes me. He's
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: like 5,000 yards behind. So let's say he's in his
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: prime these next couple years at like 1,500, 1,500. All
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're just a couple thousand yards away.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: You're 34 years old. I probably wouldn't bet on it,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: but when all the dust settles, assuming he just stays
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: healthy this year, he is going to jolt way up.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Like all of a sudden, he's going to be a
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: top five rusher of all time. And that feels right.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: So even with some of these wide receiver, just not around.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I saw a bunch of quotes from the offensive coordinator.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: He does feel pretty impressive. He does. I'm quick to
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: change my opinion on these things when it's like, you know,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know. And then it's like, okay, the more
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: and more I see you in your element, see you
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: in the line of fire, see you in the arena,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: see you talk, you can win me over pretty quick.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: and this guy's starting to win me over a little bit.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: He just is. So this is a big spot for
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: New Orleans. This would be another one. You could go 0-2,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: but if you go toe-to-toe with them, I think you'd
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: feel pretty good about your chances, especially because literally everyone
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: in your division has not won a game by 0-4.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: It's not like, well, you're 0-2, and this team's 2-0. No,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: that's not the case. So listen, Lamar, Derrick Henry... This
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: game's in Baltimore. It should be pretty raucous. But I
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: think the Saints, man, they got some firepower. Kamara's coming
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: back this week. Houston. Cincinnati at Houston. Last year, Houston
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: got off to that terrible start. And then started rattling
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: off the wins and still had a chance to win
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: the division by the end of the season. They just
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: couldn't make up the ground. And Jacksonville just kept playing
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: really well. That was a... massive loss given that you're
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: coming into this game and it looks like Nico Collins
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: is not going to be able to play. So, Nico
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Collins had seven catches for 75 yards and a touchdown.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: And just his presence out on the field, like, he's
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: just a unique player. I mean, he's a freak. And
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: I think most of us like what we saw from
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: CJ given the intensity of, uh, I guess the negativity
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: surrounding him. But you go 0-2, because let's face it,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati's defense is probably going to be pretty good all season,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: especially right now when they're healthy. They forced four turnovers
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: last year. They were peppering Baker Mayfield last week. So
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: if Nico's gone, all of a sudden, you go 0-2
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: at home, and I'm someone that loves Houston. But this
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: type makes me nervous. Now, Joe Burrow's like, yeah, my
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: back's tight. It's like, Joe, you mean like you feel
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: a little tweak or like you feel it when you
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: throw or you're not able to pass at practice? You
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: were just hurt the majority of last season. Is this
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: something that's going to be an issue? Are you going
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: to end up missing games? Could this get worse in
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: a game? What if, you know, Will Anderson or one
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: of those cats blindside you? Are you going to be
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: able to get up? Are your back going to tighten up?
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Definitely makes me nervous. Now, Jamar Chase had two catches.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: You would think they're going to involve him more. The
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: problem is, is, you know, Houston, you know, Stingley is
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: the best or one of the best corners in the league.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, last week, basically what they did is I
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: was an NFL buddy was telling me they basically came
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: out in a three tight end situation to change the
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: personnel for Houston and then just attack linebackers on the
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: tight ends. And we basically are just going to Laster's
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: side of the field every time. And Laster's a good player,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: but we're not going after the cream of the crop
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: on the right side. And does Joe Burrow do something
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: like that? Is he much more inclined to spread around
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: no matter what just because if Jamar Chase is on him, whatever,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I like my chances. Obviously, LSU on LSU on LSU
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: crime right there, Jamar Chase, Stingley, and Joe Burrow. But
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: it's a big game. You know, if Cincinnati wins, it
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden is like, okay, you beat Tampa,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: who they're not what they probably were a couple years ago,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: but they're still probably an eight or nine win team.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: You beat Houston that people like me thought they had
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: a chance to be the number one overall seed, even
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: if that doesn't necessarily play out. Like, I think we
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: would all agree more than likely. Even if Houston went 0-2,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: they're still probably a 10-win team. It's a big game.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: To me, if Joe Burrow is playing well, this is
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: probably the best game of the day. Then last but
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: not least, Minnesota at Chicago. It's like, what can you
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: do to follow up a 59-point performance? I saw it's
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: gone pretty viral this week about PFF. They gave Caleb
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Williams a shitty grade. and Collinsworth, who I like, posted
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: something today, even though he sold that company to another company.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I think at this point in time, no one gives
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: a shit about these grades. I don't give a shit.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I don't pretend to give a shit. I can't even
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: pretend to get worked up on a grade that's like, oh,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: he said he was the fifth. Who cares? To me,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: it felt like it used to matter more. It doesn't
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: feel like it's as relevant anymore. Now maybe more and
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: more teams utilize some of the data, but I think
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: it's more personnel than the grades. Whatever some dude in
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: a room that you have no clue who that human
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: being is giving her... It's never really meant that much
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: to me personally, but I did understand the discourse. In 2026,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: I can't even pretend to think it's that relevant. I
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: really can't. Not after multiple sales and random people now
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: working there. I just don't care. But if I was
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: a Bears fan, I'd be like, double middle finger, screw you.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: You're saying he didn't play well? Because I think we'd
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: all agree, like, listen... No one's acting like this is
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the greatest game of all time. But we all watched it,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: and it sure looked pretty good to me. You know?
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Sure looked pretty good to me. It's like he threw
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: an interception. Yeah, the play didn't count. It's like, so
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: you count plays that don't count? That's... I saw Collinsworth
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: was like, well, it was an awful play. The play
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: didn't count. Like, if there's a penalty, even if it's
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: the worst play of all time, the play did not count.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: So you are counting something that literally doesn't exist in
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: the football archives of actual gameplay. Because it was a
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: penalty and it was negated. But, yeah, it kind of
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: is what it is. I mean, we got the Carson
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Wentz experience, J.J. McCarthy, one snap away. You got to
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: give Kevin O'Connell some credit. Even once... Kyler gets KO'd.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: They still found a way. I mean, obviously the bomb
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: was pretty sick. That play where he came in motion
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: and kind of reached out to the pylon, like, Justin
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Jefferson's a badass. You know, that guy is a menace.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: That guy's a problem. So, I don't know. I mean, this...
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: These divisional games can get weird. Obviously Flores blitzes like
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: literally every single play. Are you going to bring all
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: this pressure against Caleb who can run like 21 miles
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: an hour and looks to be much more accurate? Feels
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: like a little bit more of a give and take
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: than versus like, let's face it. I mean, Ben Johnson
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: and Caleb strike more fear in most people than Matt
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: LaFleur and Jordan Love right now. Even though I thought
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Jordan Love was playing pretty well until he wasn't. But
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: that's the thing. When you're blitzing all the time, if
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: some of these start getting home, if some of these
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: start rattling you, it can unravel you really, really quickly.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: So this is just, this to me is a very,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: very interesting game. I just, like how many points are
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: Chicago going to score? Like, can you imagine going into,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: is it just going to be, that's the thing with
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: week one, week two. Score 59 one week, like are
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: they just going to score 20 this week? Could they
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: have just an awful game and score 15? Or are
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: they just going to score like 45? And through two weeks,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I think I saw Big Cat say, that Eberflus' last year,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Caleb's rookie year, it took them four weeks to score
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: 59 points. Now, this is clearly a different animal. You know,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Rome had that sweet catch. It's the ninth pick in
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: the draft. I mean, as... They score 59 points, and Loveland,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: I don't even think, had a point in fantasy. Which,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: if you would have said they score 59 points, you'd
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: be like, I bet Loveland scores a couple touchdowns. It's like, no,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: he didn't do anything. Kalief Raymond looked like Jerry Rice
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: out there. But that's part of having a great offensive coordinator,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: is you get random guys. This is what I always say.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: You can manipulate offense. You can dominate with random players. Now,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Rome Adunze is not a random player. Obviously, DeAndre Swift isn't.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: But my point is, in a good offense, there are
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: going to be role players that excel. And even Rome.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's viewing Rome like Justin Jefferson or
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Jamar Chase or CeeDee Lamb. But Luther Burden, that's a
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson guy. Just this Carson Wentz. I saw Florio writing,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: is Carson Wentz ever giving his gig back? And if
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: they were to win, like, no, he ain't giving his
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: gig back. They keep winning. They're paying Kyler Murray a
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: million dollars. They'll do whatever it takes to just keep winning.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: So if you tell me that they win this game
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: in Chicago and they're 2-0 and they're leading the division,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: I'm recording this part before the Thursday night game, so
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: they technically could be tied if they were to win it.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: But this is... I mean, if Chicago wins, all of
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: a sudden you got a win against the Panthers, who
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: were a playoff team, and I think still going to
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: have a very good chance to compete to win that
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: division if their offense is going to play like that.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: In Minnesota, who is just going to be extremely feisty
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: because of their coaching staff, and they do have some talent.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: You're feeling pretty good to start the season. You're feeling
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: pretty good to start. Remember last year, the Bears started 2-2,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: and it didn't start great, right? Because Caleb and Ben John,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: it was just kind of weird. It doesn't feel weird
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: at all. But that's the thing with football. All it
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: takes is one loss, one weird moment. Things can change
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: in a dime. That's what makes this sport so great.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Because there's no such thing as an overreaction. We are
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: just literally reacting to the games. And every game matters.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Meaning that every reaction is going to be pretty intense. Right?
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: And that's, I think when you look at some of
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: the other games, I don't think there's any coach going
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: into this week that has more tangible pressure on them
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: than Matt LaFleur. You lose to the Jets, I mean,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: you could convince me that he doesn't make it to Halloween.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: Because once you start slow and then you lose a
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: game that no one three weeks ago thought you would
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: ever lose, it could come unraveled. And you're still Micah Parsons,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: who knows when he's coming back. Josh Jacobs probably never
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: coming back. It could get really weird. Here's the thing
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: with the Jets. You just look at their box score
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: on offense. They're not just playing with me and you.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, Brees Hall is a highly paid running back.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson was a top 10 pick who's also a
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: highly paid guy. Those two guys would probably start on
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: basically every team in the league. Every good team would
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: utilize both those guys. Omar Cooper was drafted in the
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: first round. Kenny Sadiq, first round pick. Their offensive line
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: has multiple high picks. Geno Smith before with other talent
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: around him has looked like a solid quarterback. So all
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: of a sudden you start looking around and you go,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: this is not the shittiest version of, this is not
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. That's the thing with the Arizona Cardinals.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, they got some pretty good players like
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: Trey McBride all pro level guy Mike Wilson really good
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: wide receiver Marvin Harrison top 10 pick they drafted Jeremiah
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Love third overall they got when you're playing a team
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: like that with firepower and early in the season when
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: they get a little momentum especially like the crowd is
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: just is going to believe at this point in time
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know man I I don't feel confident at all,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. I really don't. Now, if you
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: told me they end up winning by 15, 20 points,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked. But if you tell me this is
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: like 17 to 17 midway through the third quarter, I
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: think that is 100% on the table. I'm rooting for
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn. I love that Lions team a couple years
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: ago when they had Ben, Aaron Glenn, Dan Campbell, and
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: were just making runs a couple years ago to the
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. You know, he seems a very, very
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: tough job, but I understand that they played the Titans
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: week one, but they just look pretty capable. I mean,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: they did because they have more than capable talent on
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. Now, defensively, like Jordan Love,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Christian Watson, Golden, like those guys should probably kind of
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: get loose. And I was thinking that There was a
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: quote today, not a quote, I mean he said it.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward was asked, or maybe Cam Ward said, I
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: think I'm a great player. Which I saw Coward had
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: a rant about Deshaun Watson of like, the thing that
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: kills more quarterbacks in the NFL isn't arm strength or
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: mobility or being able to understand the offense. It's like
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: no self-awareness. Like if you're not a runner, don't run.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: if you don't have the arm strength, don't make that pass. Like,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: know your limitations. Understand your situations. I do think Cam
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Ward feels a little lost, like in the wilderness. And
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's trying to talk himself into
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: confidence because some people try to do that. Like, it's
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: not going well. You had 80 plus yards in the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: middle of the fourth quarter last week. Like, you've kind
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: of been an embarrassment and your franchise has. It's not
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: all your fault. Your team sucks as well. But like,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: you're pretty terrible. And then the reporter followed up like, well,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: if you're a great player, shouldn't you show great results?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't you just look like a great player? And it
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: kind of got a little weird after that. This week,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: you're playing Vic Fangio. This thing in Tennessee, you know,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: like everyone assumes the Browns are just going to suck, right?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: No one thinks the Browns have any shot. Tennessee gets
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: to fly a little under the radar, right? They're in
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: an area where college football's king. They've just been out
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: of sight, out of mind for a while. This is
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: one of those that, what if it looks exactly like
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: last week? Obviously, the Eagles are just better. I saw
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: some of these clips on Landon Dickerson, like a breakdown.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: I was like, God, he looked really, really bad. Well,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: they put him on injury reserve. So whoever is playing
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: is just going to be a major upgrade there. I
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: think the Eagles, after that game, was a little closer
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: than they would have liked. This is one of those,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: especially early in the season. If you told me this
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: was late in the season, I'd be like, yeah, things
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: get weird when you're playing a crappy team. Week two,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: you're kind of trying to prove some stuff. This is
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: a game where the Eagles should win by like 20
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: points and just smother them. And definitely defensively with Fangio,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: this could get really, really ugly for Cam Ward. This
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: would be one of the last people you would want
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: to play. If you just needed to kind of take
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: a deep breath, there would be so many teams that
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: you would choose. Hell, you'd rather play the Bears. You'd
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: rather lose 50 to 25, right? You play Fangio, all
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: of a sudden it's like, ah, they have 17 yards
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: at halftime. Weird stuff like that, and all of a
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: sudden everyone in the area is like, this guy isn't
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: just a complete bust. He cannot play. He cannot play.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: And I don't think we're that far away from that
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: conversation really kind of growing on a national level. This
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: game is just fantastic. Like, to me, the afternoon window,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: there's a lot. I mean, the Niners are, like, almost
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: a two-touchdown favorite. Seattle's coming off a 10-day break, and
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Arizona's kind of feeling themselves. Washington-Dallas, like, that game doesn't
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: do that much for me. But Jags-Denver? I mean, last year,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: the Jags went into Denver and won by two touchdowns
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: and kind of beat the crap out of them. Parker-Washington
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: just went nuts. Denver's coming off, I mean, just an
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: absolute embarrassment In front of 20, I think I saw
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: 4 million people watch Monday Night Football. And the Jags
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: are good. I didn't pick them to make the playoffs.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Part of it, I just didn't really want to. But
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: while I do talk some shit about the franchise and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: its relevancy, I will not diminish how awesome their head
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: coach has been, how good Trevor Lawrence has looked under
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: their coach, how many talented players they have on defense.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: They're a real team. If you told me they won
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: 13 games, would not discount it. And if the Colts
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: are just going to be in free fall and Houston's
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: got some issues, maybe they just win it again and
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. But this is the type of game,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: if you're Denver, it's twofold. Embarrassed in front of the country.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Your quarterback, I mean, looked like a peewee football, like
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: a JV football player. And the team you are playing
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: beat the shit out of you last year. Like, this
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: has got to be a little, you know, draw a
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: line in the sand moment. And even Liam Cohen joked
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: this week that Sean Payton came up to him at
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: the owners' meetings like, I've been thinking all offseason about you.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: I'm coming for you. Kind of tongue-in-cheek, but also, like,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: you embarrassed me last year. I can't let that happen again.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: This is a fantastic game. You know, I mentioned this
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: to Haberman. I think Liam Cohen, even Sean Payton said
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: it last year about during that week, they're a great
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: team from a little small market. Kind of took a
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: jab at them. But it's kind of true. There's a
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: reason the Jags, if the Cowboys were as good as
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: the Jags, they'd lead every show. I mean, they just would.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: If the Packers were as good as the Jags, if
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: the Steelers were as good as the Jags, they would
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: lead the majority of these shows. But when you're in
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: that market, you're in that division, You get to fly
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: under the radar, but all of a sudden you win
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: this game and you've won 13 games last year. You
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: start 2-0 this year. It'd be hard to say anything
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: about this franchise. A couple other pressure. The Dallas Defense
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: coordinator needs to have a good night. He really does.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: Because there was the video that went viral of him
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: dealing with the players and Obviously, from a scheme standpoint,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: guys were wide open. No one knew where to line up.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: No one knew who to take. I guess people knew
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: where to line up. They didn't know where to go,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: which I don't care who you're playing in the National
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Football League. If you don't know where to go and
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: where to stand and where to be, your defense is
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: going to be horrendous. And when you get to the
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: spots where two guys are chasing one guy and there
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: is just open grass, you're going to get smoked every time.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: I've seen everyone say, and I agree, it's the best
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: I've ever seen Jackson Dorter play. A lot of those plays, though,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: he's thrown to wide open guys. So it's like probably
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: be a different animal for him on Monday Night Football
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: against the Rams. The snowball of pressure and the intensity
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: of a football season is can really grow on you.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: That's why I thought week one, the most important team
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: to win a game was Cincinnati. It's like they had
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: these crazy high expectations. They were playing a solid team
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: at home. It was a must win. All of a sudden,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: you start 0-1, people would just be like, what? Same
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: old song and dance. Even more important than Buffalo. If
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Buffalo had lost to the Texans, I don't think anyone
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: would have freaked out. And I think... When you're the
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator and you were viewed as the
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: guy that was going to save it, and I kind
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: of bought into it, but it shows you you're 34
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: years old, young guy, kind of fast riser. It's like
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: he's a fan geo guy. Well, so is Brandon Staley.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Just because I worked for Bill Walsh doesn't mean I'm
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: the next Mike Holmgren. And it makes me a little
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: nervous as someone that has the Cowboys winning this division.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: The Niners play the Dolphins. I mean, that game. I'm
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: playing multiple Niners on my fantasy squad. like Mike Evans, Debo,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: if you've got Christian McCaffrey, Purdy, I mean, I think
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: they landed home, what Habermas said, like Friday afternoon. They
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: didn't work Saturday. They didn't work Sunday. He gave them
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Monday off. They had Tuesday as a mandatory day off.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: Like they're back on their time. And this is not
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: one of those where you just look at the Dolphins
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: and you go, okay, they're 0-10. It's week two. It's
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: what I do like about some bigger spreads is with
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: good teams playing bad teams it's like week two you
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: still should get a really good effort from the good
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: teams against the bad teams in terms of the week
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: of practice and preparation sometimes it can get weird in
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: november or december i've always defended teams if you lay
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: an egg but you win it's like yeah these guys
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: are humans like i'm playing like one of the worst
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: teams in the league and i think the dolphins are
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: probably going to end up being the worst team in
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: the league. So the Browns might have something to say
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: about that as well. But Niners should murder them. Okay,
• 1:09:09
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  Speaker 1: by my friends at Pauly Market. Maybe I'm just a
• 1:10:00
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• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just still holding on to Kellen Moore's greatness
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: from Boise State. But if you take the Ravens, no,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: to cover the eight and a half, $ 100 pays 187.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: Eight and a half's a lot of points. I mean,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: no Zay Flowers, no Lane. I saw Declan Doyle, which
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: is a great name, talking about how they're going to
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: feed Rashad Bateman, get him more involved. You know, they're
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: coming off that huge win. If they could just... Now,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: this is a problem. Jameer Gibbs ran for 160 yards. Now, granted,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: they gave him the ball like every play, but I'd
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: probably like Derrick Henry's chances against that defense. Kamara's back.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: I think eight and a half's a lot if you're
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: someone like me and think the Saints are like a
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: nine-win team. Like if they're a nine or ten-win team,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: like eight and a half, that could even be a
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: backdoor cover, right? You could be down, I don't know,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: 14 points with five minutes to go and all of
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: a sudden Tyler Shuck does what Tyler Shuck does. He
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: leads a touchdown drive late in the game. New England-Pittsburgh.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I just, maybe I'm kind of out on New England.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: I was coming into the season. After watching Drake May,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: I definitely don't feel that much better about it. A.J. Brown, out. Dobbs,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: definitely do not trust. If you take New England to
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: not cover the 5.5, $ 100, like the previous game, pays $ 187.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: I'm taking Pittsburgh in this spot. Pittsburgh's defense looked pretty solid.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: You would think Rodgers would be a little more crisp
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: a game in. You know, DK Metcalf is going to
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: be way more explosive than anything New England's bringing to
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: the table. You know, New England trades the LSU guy
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: right before the season to Houston. Then AJ gets injured.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Now we got question on Dobbs. And this position that
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: was like a position of strength all of a sudden
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: is like, how good is their weapons? Now the one
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: thing New England always has and is going to have
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: as long as they're relatively healthy is their defense is
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: pretty solid. But like Pittsburgh, they just play in kind
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: of ugly games. I mean, it'd just be like 13-13
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: late in the third quarter. This is the most boring
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: game on television. That's kind of what the Steelers have
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: done last year with the Rodgers and what they did
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: through one game this year with the Rodgers. So I'd
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: expect this game to be kind of close. And last
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: but not least, this gets back to the Fangio against
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward. You talk about a mismatch. It'd be like
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: a light heavyweight getting in the ring against a heavyweight.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they just don't really have a shot. Especially
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  Speaker 1: if that light heavyweight isn't that good and the heavyweight
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  Speaker 1: is good. Now, I know they had a 5-3 and outs.
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  Speaker 1: People have been firing in my DMs, Middlecoff, Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: played better than... We get it. He makes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of big plays. I would expect even more big plays
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  Speaker 1: against this defense. This roster just isn't very good. So
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  Speaker 1: if your roster isn't very good, and your quarterback might legitimately...
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: be like not your starting quarterback next year and you
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  Speaker 1: drafted a number one a year ago and it's been
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  Speaker 1: that big of a disaster and the media every single
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  Speaker 1: day keeps like asking him, why aren't you good at football?
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  Speaker 1: Like this gets like, you know, even if you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of struggling, the conversations that Cam Ward and Deshaun have
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  Speaker 1: feel a little bit different. Now, I hate comparing Cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward to Deshaun. To my knowledge, never been in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: And I think Deshaun would say, I might suck now,
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  Speaker 1: but I was once kind of good. There's some truth
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  Speaker 1: to that. I've been to a Pro Bowl, made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. Like Cam Ward at this point in time,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be like, that doesn't look like he's going to
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  Speaker 1: get a second contract. If you take the Eagles to
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  Speaker 1: cover seven and a half, $ 100 pays $ 207. This just
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  Speaker 1: feels like it's going to be a pretty tough spot
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  Speaker 1: for Tennessee. If you were Tennessee, I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles would be one of the last teams you'd want
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  Speaker 1: to see. to just try to get the train back
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  Speaker 1: on the tracks. And listen, some quarterbacks, some draft picks
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  Speaker 1: are just fugazis. You know, they're just like, regret that one.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes you force the quarterback. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: good lesson when it comes to drafting, specifically quarterbacks. But
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  Speaker 1: you could just argue like forcing needs. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: where you get in trouble. Like, do you truly believe
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  Speaker 1: this guy's a number one overall quarterback, or are you
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  Speaker 1: just so desperate to get a quarterback? Because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't truly believe it and you're just desperate, just take
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Abdul Carter. Take a guy that is legitimately worthy of
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: being a top five pick, and a couple years later
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  Speaker 1: be like, listen, is it the best first round pick
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  Speaker 1: of all time? No, but we thought he was the
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  Speaker 1: best player in the draft. We didn't think the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: was worthy of it. And then where you really get
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  Speaker 1: in trouble as a GM is when you do take
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  Speaker 1: that guy and then it's just a nightmare when another
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  Speaker 1: guy in that guy's draft has success. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if Jackson Dart is going to continue to do
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  Speaker 1: what he did, but it does feel like Jackson Dart's
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  Speaker 1: going to be pretty solid. It does feel like Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Dart has a lot of potential to be a really
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  Speaker 1: good player in this league. Where it's like Cam Ward,
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  Speaker 1: what does he bring to the table? What are his strengths?
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  Speaker 1: And you kind of look back, they just kind of
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  Speaker 1: played freestyle ball at Miami. You kind of run around,
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  Speaker 1: throw it around. It's like, okay, that's not really working
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. He's not a super great athlete, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have the biggest arm. He just kind of was a playmaker.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you've got to be very careful with
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: quote-unquote playmakers. Like, Caleb's a playmaker. Josh Allen's a playmaker.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty unique. Hell, Jalen Hurts is a playmaker. Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: didn't start out at Incarnate Ward. He started out at
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: Alabama in the peak of their dynasty. And then Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: Riley wanted him. You know, Cam, and listen, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to go to some big-time school to be a
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  Speaker 1: big-time player, but when you're going to be the playmaker type,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen is an all-time outlier. Typically, like, went to Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: the peak of their dynasty. Went to Alabama, the peak
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  Speaker 1: of their dynasty. Like, that's Caleb Williams, number one overall
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  Speaker 1: recruit to Oklahoma, then USC, fall in Lincoln. Like, blue chippers.
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  Speaker 1: Cam was the opposite of a blue chipper. He was
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  Speaker 1: literally like, clearly no one wanted him if that's where
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  Speaker 1: you're going to start at Incarnate Work. I actually listened
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  Speaker 1: to a podcast. Part of my take had Eric Morrison, who,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: fascinating story, like played for Mike Leach, worked for Kingsbury,
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  Speaker 1: coached Patrick Mahomes. The kid he's coaching now, Mestenberger or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: didn't even start a game in high school. It's like
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: the Matt Castle of college football, but probably better than that,
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  Speaker 1: is sometimes going to be concerning. And maybe he peaked
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  Speaker 1: at Miami. Like, maybe that was his peak, Miami. Because even,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: let's look at some of the guys, like, I know
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  Speaker 1: he hurt his ribs and hasn't played since, but like
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: Carson Beck. It's like, Carson Beck sucks. Well, he was struggling,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: he was banged up, and then by the end of
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  Speaker 1: the Miami run, you're like, okay, this guy's a legitimate player.
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  Speaker 1: But then you look, it's like, he went to Georgia
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  Speaker 1: out of high school. Went to Georgia. To me, that
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  Speaker 1: matters a little bit. It does. It doesn't mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the end-all, be-all. But it's like, this guy was
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  Speaker 1: fucking pretty good. And sometimes you kind of look back,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, eh, kind of no wonder this guy wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a huge recruit. Because this isn't the NFL, like 32
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  Speaker 1: teams pass on you. You're talking like 100 plus Division
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  Speaker 1: I teams passed on you when you started at a
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  Speaker 1: place like that. So I just think this... I think
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, I think the Niners... Who are the Browns playing?
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: You could just go with the logic to... to basically
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: just short the awful teams. The Browns playing at Tampa.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: The Titans hosting the Eagles. The Dolphins at the Niners.
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  Speaker 1: I think Atlanta stinks. I would throw Atlanta in that category.
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  Speaker 1: I would remove Arizona. A couple years ago when the
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Panthers looked like the worst team of all time, I
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: called them the port-a-potty Panthers. Because they smelled and looked
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: as bad as the worst version of going into a
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: porta potty. In like a summer event. Like I was
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: thinking about when I went to the Ryder Cup. And
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: I went to the porta potty at the end of
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: the day. It's in New York. It's hot. It couldn't
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: be any more disgusting. It's like humid in the porta potty.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: The porta potty is full. I would say the Browns
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  Speaker 1: and the Titans kind of lead the charge here. I
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  Speaker 1: think Atlanta is going to be right there as well. Arizona,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: you cannot say that at all. And the Jets so far. far,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: you cannot say that at all. I think Tennessee and
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Cleveland are clearly... Miami, I respect what they're doing. Ultimately,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: in a weird way, I don't really respect Cleveland. I'm
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: kind of like Tomlin. When he's like, Browns is going
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: to Browns. I'm kind of in agreement. I just don't
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: have any respect for that operation. None. I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just kind of a clown show. It
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: really is. I was in the steam room today. Actually,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: I was coming from the steam room. I went in
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: the super hot sauna. I only last like five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: But right when I walked in, dudes were talking football.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: And it must have been a finance guy because he's like, yeah,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: we were representing the... One of the guys was in
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: the bidding process for, so it must be a guy
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: from a bank or something, but they were talking about
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: Seattle playing the Cardinals this week. And this guy had
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: lived in Arizona for a long time, just clowning on
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: the Bidwells, just clowning on the family. He's like, you know,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: this franchise has been around for like 105 years and
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: they've won seven playoff games. I'm like, say that again.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, they're basically averaging a playoff win every
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: 15 years of franchise existence. And that there are just
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: certain franchises that are just hard to respect for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean they don't have individual players on the
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: team that you don't respect or a coach on the
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: staff that doesn't respect. But it was like that with
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: Snyder in Washington. Like, this is a clown show. Or
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: back when Donald Sterling owned the Clippers. And whatever's going
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: on in Cleveland, it's like, what the fuck? The Titans...
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: I'm a solid guy. I want to like Borgonzi. But
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: if something isn't working, you can't hold on to a
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: draft pick like an anchor in the ocean and let
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: it sink you. You cannot do that. You have to pivot. Now,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: he's got to get more reps and more of a
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: sample size. But Miami's the youngest team in the league.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: They're literally trying to nuke the building. Cleveland's been doing
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: that forever. It's like, is this just Hugh Jackson all
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: over again? You guys try to lose all the time.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: This just sucks. It's back to the Pittsburgh thing. It's like,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: why don't they ever bottom out? Because they refuse to.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: And this is why Tomlin, I think, is prideful about
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: talking shit about the Browns. We have nothing in common
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: with you. Nothing in common with you. Because our mindset,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: our operational focus on what we care about has... Listen,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: it doesn't mean we're going to win playoff games or whatever,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: but you guys are literally trying to lose. Literally trying
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  Speaker 1: to lose. And rolling out Watson each and every week
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: is one of the most embarrassing things I've seen in
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: a long time. It truly is. Beside the media acting
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: like arch... It felt like by the end of like
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: the week, it felt like the media was acting like
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: Arch actually physically beat up a woman. It started with
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: crazy reaction to the AI video reaction to like two
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: days later. It's like, he's got to be accountable for...
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: You can send him to jail. It's like, shut the
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: fuck up. You whack jobs. And that's what I think
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns. Bunch of whack jobs. who just
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: aren't going to win any games. So let's enjoy the
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: weekend of football. All of a sudden, you'll just look,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: and it'll be like week seven. You're like, football's flying by. Remember,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: it wasn't that long ago that it's the summer. It's like,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: when's football going to be here? Now it's here. And
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: now we're humming. I'll talk to you next week. Adios.
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  Speaker 1: The Volume.