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[SPEAKER_03]: What's happening everybody?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome into another edition of the Mac and Reed show right here at second city grid are in fall at second city grid are in for all your bears news subscribe to the YouTube channel if you're watching live with us feel free to chime in get the only only versions on Spotify iTunes et cetera you're missing out but like subscribe to the front of two
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[SPEAKER_03]: uh... look up the great articles are cohorts right up as well as when he city grid aren't at wc grid aren't on social media i'm at the real event mac joined as always by my co-host he is conflicted about summer being over and the fall season is upon us he gave a twelve minute standing ovation to weapons when he saw it with two other people later a week ago the proud owner of some new savage fenty sleepwear note i didn't say jack strapped he is at rosary on social media it's rosary folks
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go to Miami for one weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You come back because I'm spent here sleep where I get it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's how it be.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We should just take the next forty five minutes and break down the thirty three thousand documents to house just release on the F. Team cases.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we're interested in talking about the bearers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's not related to that tonight.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I should also throw in Ross broke something when he like most of us when he heard Mike a person signed
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[SPEAKER_03]: with the Packers will talk about that bad news for the division for these quarterbacks that are not part of the Green Bay Packers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But in this episode right before we're less than a week away from this Bears kickoff game against the Minnesota Vikings week one is here only a couple days left before we get some real football action.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll go over the Bears record at length and we will give our predictions for the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to get you a lot of heat for mine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I already know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As I did just went through it today, I'm probably gonna be waffling predictions for, you know, milestones, player milestones like yards for DJ Moore or yards for Caleb William things like that leading Russia.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, other bears stats that we will keep an eye on throughout the season as well, who's going to Super Bowl, who's winning kind of a preview for this coming weekend as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then surprises along the way as usual, but Ross, I trust you had a great Labor Day and that
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[SPEAKER_03]: fake place Miami and what a way to end the summer so to speak.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great to see, you know, being Miami being South Beach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was literally pulling into a Miami liquor store when the micoparscence news broke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's just say I bought an extra bottle of tequila to get me through that weekend after hearing that crazy news.
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[SPEAKER_03]: extra bottle that a boy crazy news and we'll dive into that in a little bit of course but uh right now let's talk bears and uh no like nothing of note really breaking of course this week before uh you know the there's been some minor I feel like waiver adjustment since we talked about the fifty-three man roster and when it came out last week
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, did anything move the needle for you, Ross, as far as, and, you know, obviously, I feel like it's just kind of special teams and looking at defensive depth, but we know pretty much the eleven starters on either side of the football at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm able to give you things changed drastically.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We knew Braxton Jones was going to be the starting left tackle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was trending that way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully he is healthier than normal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: them not adding a running back was was telling right you've got you've got Rochon Johnson and in common on guy as the backup's a swift so you know hopefully those guys are healthier.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would say people might glance at the beginning of Luther Burden the rookie receiver Resecumround pick being a lower on the depth chart than Omaid is a keyis, but I think Omaid is a veteran he's been in this league for a while.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Luther got a little late to camp that too much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he had a little bit of an injury coming in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think you want to ease in the rookie and you don't want him taking a ton of snaps right away, especially against a very blitz happy defense and Bryan for us that you're going to see Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Burden probably played about eight to ten snaps on Monday night, but right now I know Ben Johnson probably trust OZ more than anything else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just think the overall lack of defensive end depth is probably the most clearing issue right now on this roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you don't have awesome Booker now for four games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's hurt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's not going to be out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're really rolling with a happy dose of day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm Montes, sweat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then a bunch of guys rotating in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I think that's a little bit of concern.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The good news is it sounds like as of now, Jalen Johnson, you're all pro caliber.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number one corner, your best player, arguably one team is trending towards playing Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He said he had a really severe growing issue in your off season and he hasn't been able to really practice participating training camp.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully they can give him ramped up a little bit and he can play Monday night because
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[SPEAKER_01]: If God Justin Jefferson is going to be a security blanket, obviously, for the factor rookie and Jason McCarthy is going to play it down in the NFL before they don't have Jordan Madison because he's suspended for the first three games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he's got Adam Theland back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm Theland, who's the thirty five years old, let's see what he has left in the tank.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think Justin Jefferson, who's also
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[SPEAKER_01]: nursing a hamstring injury self is is probably going to be targeted early and often by the by the quarterback McCarthy and you really need jailing out there to try and Cover him and walk around with him as much as you can no question getting
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[SPEAKER_03]: The defense in the offense, healthy, starting eleven or neither said like I mentioned into week one versus the Vikings, it was very paramount.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So without further ado, let's just get into it with that Vikings match up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You mentioned the players to watch out for and it starts and ends with JJ McCarthy and that bears game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I feel like obviously both quarterbacks, young, taken in the same class, JJ had missed last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Caleb Williams coming off a three five hundred plus yard passing season, you know, various predictions to to go over four thousand yards and just build on that success.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So with that said, you know, the offense rolling and in terms of just having this great depth at the wide receiver core with constant loveland, you know, your new gadget tight end and just freak tight end, hopefully.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then the defense with Dennis Allen, he's tweeted to his specifications and we'll see how it does hold up against some tough weapons, especially in the receiving core when you look at Hawkinson and you look at Justin Jefferson.
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[SPEAKER_03]: really can and and what you may say Adam feeling thirty five still had a pretty solid year with the Panthers last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I've got the bears win in this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll just go ahead and say it on Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Emperor eighth opening up a soldier field you know it's going to be a crazy environment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the defense helps carry them you know the offense having some some early struggles maybe with learning Ben Johnson's offense but I said they start off one and a
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[SPEAKER_01]: I grew a few.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got the bears winning this game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll put a score on it of twenty to sixteen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A fairly low scoring game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the line is set right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll top my head is like forty three twelve points in the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe forty three and a half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These are two very veteran defensive coordinators and usually the defenses have the early advantage to start the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I expect both offensive coordinators slash head coaches to try and slow this game down and grind the clock out for their young quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a lot of running and a lot of misdirection and a lot of short, you know, short yardage passes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You get to use the ball at least quarter X hands quickly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's this to a low scoring game, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, teams are going to come out tight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a very hostile environment in soldier field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got one side, the home team and Kale's going to be amped up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to want to put on a show and it's one of their footballers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and it's all the hoopla that comes with that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it might be a little over-empt up to start the game in the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: On the flip side, you've got a kid that has, we have, last time we saw him was a national championship game over a year ago, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know he's very poised, but you can't tell me walking in the soldier field on a Monday night and playing your first NFL football game is not going to be hostile.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here is to see what we do indeed see from JJ McCarthy and his rookie star or, you know, sophomore.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It is truly, you know, missing his rookie season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I should say, getting that first start for the Vikings, but it's going to be leaning on Justin Jefferson.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we'll see what this leads, you know, talk about fantasy implications to Justin Jefferson and his numbers this year as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And not having Jordan Edison for four games is a pretty big loss.
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[SPEAKER_03]: again, tipping towards the bears as they head into week two and miles want to know two
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[SPEAKER_03]: Detroit with Ben Johnson's old team, the Lions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I just got a loss there because it's that first road game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think Caleb comes back down to Earth a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, you know, what Jared Goff and that offense is still able to accomplish.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think we'll carry them, you know, this season Ben Johnson aside, Dan Campbell, you know, great head coach for sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the bears just sort of stumble on that road.
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[SPEAKER_03]: first road game and they start off on and on and split it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I grew a few.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a tough spot for the bearers to come.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You've got back the back division games, not the going to road.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a hospital environment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think killer rooms did play well into trait last year and that one game that we saw them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the big game that led to the upper food firing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: after that because he got the clock at the end there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this is where my concern with the bear is offered.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Defend some wine really comes in the play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you give Jerry golf a clean pocket and he's allowed to sit back there and pick your part with those weapons.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Laporta and and and and and James and Williamson and I'm on Ross same brown and he's got Jamir Gibbs coming out the bath field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I think the bear is defense just does not match up right now with the explosiveness even without you know they're they're play call from a year ago Ben Johnson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is my concern game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Caleb and company can try and keep it close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a huge fan of Detroit's defense either, although they do get in Hutchison back, which is going to be really big for them for their past rush situation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know if the bear has been quite score with the Lions this early in the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe in the later in the season, if they get their sea legs on a meet them with this offense, things get better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for now, I do have the Lions winning that game too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You figure they still got that great running-back combination of Montgomery and Jamir Gibbs that's just going to create real havoc on that defensive line for the bears and just going to be a very, very tough test for that defense and they're going to learn real quick.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's into the next home game for the bears and week three, the Cowboys, a three, twenty-five Fox game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You'll get Tom Brady and company there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How about it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be in the building.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I like there's chances against the cowboys, you know, losing Mike of Parsons as we talked about to the Packers that's a huge hole in the defense and a huge pass rushing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not not just pass rushing, but what Mike of Parsons does and from an individual basis, you know, you can harken it to certainly TJ water, other just game records out there, one man wrecking crew, so losing him and I feel like deck
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's defense.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll have a tough time stopping deck and CD lamb, but I'm not impressed with the this running game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, you know, and again, I look tired and spent tired, which is a huge loss.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like I don't know if you remember Ross, but huge left tackle for them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like the bear is going to play very well at home this year and and learn a lot from that Detroit loss.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think they improved to two and one going into week three against
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[SPEAKER_03]: or after the Cowboys game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got them winning this game as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A couple of things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, losing micro Parsons is ginormous, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No more past rushers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's one of the best past rushers in the league right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so there's a struggle there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They get Kenny Clark back in the deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kenny Clark is a little bit on the back side of his career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's not the same player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He used to be the bear.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you have to throw the football in this game assuming that the weather is pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, you also look at, you get an old friend and Matt Everfluce's defensive coordinator.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to try and play a shell, Ben don't break defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that sets up well for what Ben Johnson must do and get his weapons involved.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you get on the head for me with
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[SPEAKER_01]: on the on the Dallas side of things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got city land was an amazing wire receiver, the amazing weapon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got George Piggins as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They got the trade from from the Steelers and he's in a contract situations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to try and ball out too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I just can't stand to run a game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have a viable running back on that roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's going to put a lot of pressure on deck press got this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to try and throw for post to five thousand yards.
14:08
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think in this environment in Chicago, a home game, in the afternoon in October, I'm as excuse me, in September.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got the bear's squeeze net at one now to their favorite already by three points in the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, that line moved depending on what happens the first two season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think Vegas is telling you right now, the bear should be the better team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the couple is mine actually struggled, you know, vitally this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of Vegas, they travel the bear's travel to Vegas that fall in week on September twenty eighth and week four another three twenty five game this time on CBS and you know in the off season Vegas getting their quarterback in Gino Smith who is really had some great success in Seattle now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: get an ashton gently running back as huge they got a mary Cooper for a little depth to take some pressure off to Kobe Myers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Brock powers we know is a freak and will be tough to defend for this bears defense and their defense led by max crossbees is very nasty so with the bears.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they get momentum from that cowboy's game, though, and I think they, you know, feel the by-week coming, and this is seriously a toss-up game, because I feel like these teams will have sort of similar struggles to start out the season, but if action-genity has anything to say about it, he'll cause problems for the bears, but I still see the bears sneaking out of winning a close one and heading into the by-week three and one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got them winning this game too, and in the last time, the bear has played in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was Justin Fields for a start as a Chicago bear, and they also eaked out of win that one too.
15:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's the thing with it with the Raiders.
15:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't love their offensive line situation, which means I think that, you know, Ash and Gentie, while he's a dynamic rookie, he's going to probably struggle a little bit to start the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't love their wire receiver situation either, so their offense, me, I don't know how they're going to score points consistently.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on the flip side of it, Max Crosby's awesome, but I'm not a big fan of your lineback in court, and so I do think that you can A, run on that Raiders team, and I also think B, you could throw on them in the middle of the field.
16:08
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a game where you start to lean on your two tight ends, love land, commit, and you just work the middle of the field, and you start getting these guys open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think also you get a couple weeks underneath the belt for a guy who's a burden, you can start to unleash a package for him as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just think the bears have B,
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[SPEAKER_01]: better team on both side of things.
16:26
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I have a lot of respect for Pete Carroll.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're the better team this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think this should be able to win it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Also, factor in Vegas, big, big spot for various fans to travel to as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's going to be a lot of various fans in the house and Vegas, which is going to kind of neutralize home field advantage over for the readers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Indeed, they get the by week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What the earliest, they could get a by week and week five.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then they got another Monday nighter at Washington.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that game, of course, against Jayden Daniels and Bear's fans get reminded of it constantly with the Hill Mary and Tyreke Stevenson taunting the crowd and Tyreke Stevenson will certainly remember it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully play a little better and keep his eyes on the field in that game a tough one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm curious to see how Jayden Daniels builds on his just phenomenal rookie year and leading the Washington Commanders back into the playoffs, Washington football team packing the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, they, he's got weapons, and they figured out their terrible orange situation, got a good offense around them, and a pretty solid defense.
17:27
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I feel like the bears, as it pains me to say it, but they lose this Monday nighter, and they lose the sort of revenge game against Jane Daniels.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this just adds to, Jane Daniels' resume, and all the haters of Caleb Williams saying, should have gotten Jane Daniels at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is...
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[SPEAKER_01]: probably the most difficult game for me to pick on the schedule, especially the first half of the season, because, you know, last year, Washington was something crazy like only of twenty five and fourth down last year.
17:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And they won like six of six wins last year, we're in one score games within six minutes left on the clock.
18:05
[SPEAKER_01]: They just really won a lot of games last year by a lot of smoking daggers and
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[SPEAKER_01]: Smoking mirrors I should say and daggers too for them matter and and a lot of luck and I look at their roster It's an older group you bring in like deep O Samuel some guys and defense were older.
18:24
[SPEAKER_01]: They they traded for landly tonsill and I question how all of them are going to hold up long-term now It helps them if you get this game early in the season It's a Monday night game.
18:35
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a hospital environment the various had a win last year against them
18:39
[SPEAKER_01]: with a really bad coaching staff and just some bonehead moves.
18:43
[SPEAKER_01]: You talked about Terry Stevenson.
18:45
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't even talk about Doug Kramer and getting the football at the goal line, right?
18:49
[SPEAKER_01]: They had a chance to really kind of ice that game a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this, to me, is a true pick-up game.
18:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I know Washington, you know, had a very successful year last year.
18:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that if I were picking now, I would say Washington wins this game.
19:04
[SPEAKER_01]: But Washington is one of those teams to me.
19:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Washington's year.
19:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Every year you get
19:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Four teams in the playoffs that weren't there last year and four teams out of the playoffs that were there last year.
19:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I took a little step back this year and be a I don't know if they're going to run it back like it did what they did last year.
19:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Not more slump is kind of real when we look at it in recent memory too.
19:26
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like for quarterbacks and then hopefully, you know, I say that with the grain of salt with Caleb Williams, hopefully making a step forward with an improved everything offensive line, head coach and all that.
19:35
[SPEAKER_03]: And to your point, Ross, there was so many games last year, where it was a one score gamer came within a field goal or, or, you know, not calling a time out in time.
19:45
[SPEAKER_03]: of the bears ultimately winning that game, so I would not be surprised for it to go down to the wire like that, but I certainly don't see it going that way against the Saints the following week where that team, I just were to begin with them, I feel like they're in football purgatory right now, just basically announcing their quarterback situation there in just Alvin Kamara.
20:06
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of stinks that he just end his career.
20:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe with this team at this point and spend his latter days, but I feel like the bears.
20:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, playing well at home, they can take advantage of this offense that's not going to be anything to really blow smoke at this whole season.
20:25
[SPEAKER_03]: And they get a win right after that loss against Washington.
20:29
[SPEAKER_01]: New Orleans probably is the worst team in football.
20:31
[SPEAKER_01]: If it's not them, it's the Cleveland Browns, but they're certainly the worst team in the NFC in my opinion.
20:35
[SPEAKER_01]: They got the Lisa Montana, they don't have a quarterback on their roster that I trust, this should be one of spanking of blowout.
20:44
[SPEAKER_01]: The bulls, the bulls, the bear should win by double digits against the New Orleans Saints.
20:50
[SPEAKER_01]: That's again, that I would be at this year as well.
20:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is one of those games where you look at a schedule, especially when you look at the backup, what you have to go through, and you say, we gotta keep proud about these guys.
21:03
[SPEAKER_01]: We need one of those, like, really get my games, because the next one we talk about, you and I will be at, it gets, it gets spicy.
21:10
[SPEAKER_03]: It gets tough right after the Saints and yeah, I would love to predict a blood as well.
21:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Just they need a handy win because it gets very tough in a two-game stretch against Baltimore and then the Cincinnati Bengals, of course.
21:23
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's tough when you have to draw this very tough AFC North, which is notorious for defense and Cleveland aside.
21:32
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like great defensive players and Baltimore and Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.
21:39
[SPEAKER_03]: focusing on that Raven's game.
21:41
[SPEAKER_03]: That one's tough because I feel like they split the series with Baltimore and Cincinnati or they split those games with the win on the loss with Baltimore.
21:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Again being at the game and being in a hostile environment with the Ravens Lamar Jackson who is just a magician back there at quarterback is so incredible and Derek Henry.
21:59
[SPEAKER_03]: It's tough to imagine the bears having a lot of success stopping the running game, which will ultimately help open up
22:07
[SPEAKER_03]: you know, Mark Andrews and say flowers along the way to to to the Ravens having some success, but but I feel like Caleb Williams will have be it sort of midseason form.
22:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the offense of men Johnson for that matter will be able to create some opportunities.
22:22
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think they they really everybody I've talked to picks this as a loss and I feel like I got to go against the grain.
22:27
[SPEAKER_03]: I want them to get that win.
22:29
[SPEAKER_03]: or head to the Cincinnati.
22:30
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
22:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I got them splitting the next two games here, but I'm taking the Ravens to beat the bears in this matchup.
22:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think, I think the Ravens are the second most complete team in the NFL right now from the on both sides of the football.
22:48
[SPEAKER_01]: You know probably the biggest question mark right now is the kicking situation now the Justin Tucker's gone, but I just I'm picking them we go to the Super Bowl and if I'm picking them we go to the Super Bowl I'm picking them the beat the bears at home and a game like this.
23:02
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just with the one of those games where Lamar does his Lamar thing and Derek Henry does his Derek everything.
23:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't trust this Chicago defense to be able to slow down anyone of those two guys for four horses
23:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and then it gets tough again when you go into Cincinnati, uh, noon game November second, we're in week nine, and you're playing Joe Burroughs who's also incredible MVP caliber guy, uh, who's, you know, had sort of on on enough injury issues, but you can't deny having T. Higgins and having
23:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Chase Brown having Jamar Chase who's just an incredible weapon at his disposal is great.
23:38
[SPEAKER_03]: They figured out their whole situation with tray Hendrickson signing him now so that defense can can breathe easy that they have their great edge rush or back.
23:49
[SPEAKER_03]: And I feel like going into this this hostile territory and Cincinnati the bears take a loss they they can split these games between Baltimore and Cincinnati and and they take a loss before they go come back home against the Giants.
24:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is where the bears winning.
24:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is a little sneaky like kind of like games where you're on the road, but
24:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's gonna be a good one.
24:12
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if it's gonna be a good one.
24:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Six thousand yards and fifty touchdowns and they still missed the playoffs because they can't stop in those tweets.
24:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is one of those games where you're just watching, you know, on TV and you're like, holy crap.
24:38
[SPEAKER_01]: This game is thirty five to thirty one with ten minutes left in the fourth quarter and I think Caleb.
24:44
[SPEAKER_01]: can really put on a show in this game and speak out a big three.
24:48
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's one of those games where, you know, people are flipping their red zone and they see what's going on.
24:54
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's where it's like, all right, Caleb is starting to kind of like, people starting to take notice and he's starting to put up some numbers and some points.
25:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe we've got something here from the first overall pick from the year ago.
25:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the one in this game.
25:07
[SPEAKER_03]: And you'd love to see it either.
25:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it'd be such a confidence builder and and so key when you think about pushing through the playoffs at this point to to get it when either in Baltimore or in Cincinnati and and hopefully they get one.
25:20
[SPEAKER_03]: Those games.
25:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was going to say as well as games, it was like, you'll be watching the ESPN next day and you're like,
25:26
[SPEAKER_03]: Zack Taylor just lost at home to get him Johnson and he's got it like it's just one of those like actually even I already for a lot yeah and then Sunday November ninth against the giants another team that that's just kind of you know has some stars and milk neighbors and dextralor and some some really all world guys but then
25:51
[SPEAKER_03]: It's still just, you know, not getting it quite together.
25:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Russell Wilson in their quarterback, the old man coming in to.
25:59
[SPEAKER_03]: Or will he?
25:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
26:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Could be Jackson Dartsime by that.
26:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my God.
26:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
26:02
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good point, Ross, as we're already in week ten at this point.
26:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I got them winning handily against the Giants beating whoever's out there quarterback.
26:11
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think, you know, feasting off these these home games these week opponents at the home.
26:15
[SPEAKER_03]: They get these must must have wins.
26:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I grew a few.
26:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I got them within that game, like I said, that could be Jackson Dart time by that point, just because we don't know if Russell Wilson can move around for four quarters for entire season anymore and dart my give them some juice and you got a coach in a general manager there trying to save their job.
26:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Giants.
26:33
[SPEAKER_01]: very good front four.
26:34
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm be interested to see how that front four locations talked about Lawrence.
26:38
[SPEAKER_01]: They got up to a Carter, who they drafted this year.
26:41
[SPEAKER_01]: They got Kava Antibuto as well from the first one I picked from a couple years ago.
26:45
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's the line.
26:46
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to get feisty.
26:47
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's going to be up to Caleb and Ben Johnson to get very creative on how to keep the pressure off of them.
26:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I just hold on to giant score points.
26:55
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the biggest thing.
26:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't see how they can score points consistently.
26:58
[SPEAKER_01]: So I got the bears winning that game.
27:01
[SPEAKER_03]: be kicking a lot of field goals folks.
27:03
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the bears travel to Minnesota and their second game against the Vikings that season.
27:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I got them having the Vikings number the season.
27:10
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't I don't know.
27:11
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really see JJ McCarthy.
27:14
[SPEAKER_03]: doing a ton.
27:14
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Jordan Anderson will be back at this point.
27:17
[SPEAKER_03]: And I just feel like he's, he's just going to struggle, mightle against not only the NFC North, but in the NFL.
27:23
[SPEAKER_03]: And I have the bears winning that game at Minnesota.
27:27
[SPEAKER_03]: November, sixteenth.
27:28
[SPEAKER_01]: November, sixteenth, there would be nice to see the bears stack some wins in the vision, right?
27:33
[SPEAKER_01]: At this point, we would have only had them winning.
27:36
[SPEAKER_01]: One, which was, which was one, they've only played the lion so far after this.
27:40
[SPEAKER_01]: So as much as I would say, I want them to get through second-winded vision.
27:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I can pick one here.
27:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I got a loss and a heartbreaker just because I can't see them sweeping the Vikings at this point in the Ben Johnson regime.
27:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to do it.
27:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to see it.
27:59
[SPEAKER_01]: And Ben does do well against Flora as in that defense, but I got them splitting this one.
28:04
[SPEAKER_01]: So I got them taking a loss here.
28:06
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, you know, NFC North game close game like this.
28:10
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll be traveling.
28:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Great road game to go to.
28:13
[SPEAKER_03]: And then hosting the Steelers is as a great game, late November game November, twenty-third.
28:18
[SPEAKER_03]: You can game on CBS.
28:21
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I got them losing this game because that's still as defense is just so impressive and one of the best in NFL every year.
28:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna put pressure on Caleb Williams.
28:32
[SPEAKER_03]: TJ Watt is just so nasty and
28:35
[SPEAKER_03]: They're linebacking cores so good.
28:37
[SPEAKER_03]: They just do everything well defensively and then offensively I feel like they're going to surprise people with the running back tandem and figure that out and have some success there and just yep, this will be I mean, this is like the first loss I have the bears taking at home in that game.
28:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to win here and I got to win here because it's too full that they got some point.
28:59
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got to say the Aaron Rogers demon and I don't trust any past four year old quarterback not named Tom Brady.
29:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't think that he's going to have a successful season.
29:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this experiment is going to blow up in their face.
29:14
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is the year, you know, somebody has to end this run of Mike Tomlin finishing five hundred or better.
29:21
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Aaron Rodgers actually wanted to take that opportunity.
29:25
[SPEAKER_01]: And it starts with one of these games.
29:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, you go back to that first take Monday and here, Rodgers lost in Chicago and his Mike Tomlin on the hot seat and we go through that.
29:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the Brisbane in this game.
29:38
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a weird looking offense when you look top to bottom.
29:41
[SPEAKER_03]: It's guys, you know, of course Aaron Rogers leading the way there, but then, you know, you look at DK Medkaff and a stealers uniform at this point in old Pat fire, fire, move offensive line, who was pretty, you know, decent when it was Russell Wilson in the past couple years, but aging.
29:58
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're thinking, you're thinking, stealers could have a tough slog for the next five years and be, you know, in that Browns and the United States conversation.
30:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't love Arthur Smith, either call him plays.
30:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't love Arthur Smith and Aaron Rogers, possibly budding heads.
30:13
[SPEAKER_01]: They're running back situation.
30:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Is Jalen Warren, Kenneth Gainwell, and then Caleb Johnson, who they drafted from Iowa this year, and I don't trust Arthur Smith to do what he needs to do, which is just make Caleb Johnson your RV one.
30:26
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think he's going to mess around.
30:27
[SPEAKER_01]: What a hell is Ken and Gainwell, even above him right now in the depth charts.
30:31
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I'm just like, I'm out on this.
30:33
[SPEAKER_01]: He wasn't sure.
30:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm out.
30:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Caleb Johnson is still kind of one of the best drafts.
30:37
[SPEAKER_03]: at Philadelphia.
30:39
[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's a great idea game.
30:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh boy, and that's that's a loss for me against the champs in in Philly where it will be.
30:48
[SPEAKER_03]: He've rock is, um, you know, will be a lot of hungover and
30:54
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Shane Poole, in fact, a Philly fans for sure.
30:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Jalen Hurts, we know the defending chance.
30:59
[SPEAKER_03]: We know what they bring offensively and defensively, just so well balanced.
31:02
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I, you know, I foresee just kind of looking ahead in the rest of our show, just then repeating a lot of that success they had last year and doing what the Chiefs did last few years and really having owning the NFC.
31:18
[SPEAKER_03]: And Jalen Hurts just having a great game.
31:20
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think that they went handily in this one, unfortunately, for the bears.
31:24
[SPEAKER_01]: completely great, best team of football.
31:26
[SPEAKER_01]: There is the most complete team in football from top to bottom, little bit of the defending champs.
31:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I got them going back through some of the world this year, so I've already given away my Super Bowl picks with the two team.
31:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Did.
31:36
[SPEAKER_03]: And, uh, nice.
31:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
31:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
31:40
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are a bear's fan going to this game, just, just, just, just be careful.
31:46
[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be some, there's not a jump fans.
31:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Some dude is going to be in a Santa costume throwing batteries and and just be very careful.
31:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Make it back home safely.
31:54
[SPEAKER_01]: But I got that there is losing this more pretty handle.
31:56
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll end up in a fight with the the fanatic or gritty or one of those guys.
32:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
32:02
[SPEAKER_03]: And then at Green Bay also yeah tough to two game road swing there for the bears and I got them taking a loss even though they they went out with a win last season against Green Bay.
32:14
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that.
32:16
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, just just tough to play in Green Bay comes to it was going to come to know do a very close game this first game of December December seventh for the bears and yeah, just this what it is.
32:28
[SPEAKER_01]: This is where I'm a surprising people and I'm giving away my prediction for later in the season, but you get the packers two times now near the end of the year.
32:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the bears actually sweep in the packers this year.
32:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's my first hot take of the season.
32:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I get it.
32:43
[SPEAKER_01]: You got Michael Parsons.
32:45
[SPEAKER_01]: He's amazing and he amplifies your team.
32:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I am not a believer in joining love.
32:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't the Jordan love to stay healthy.
32:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he can stay consistent.
32:54
[SPEAKER_01]: You're putting a lot of pressure this year on a rookie receiver in Matthew Golden and you've got, you know, Jayden Reed.
33:01
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know if Christian Watson would be back by then and what he's going to look like.
33:06
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just think that
33:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Caleb Williams is a superior quarterback.
33:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's comfortable playing in Lannable Field.
33:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think this is spot where I trust, I trust Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams at this point in the season to find a way to score more points than Jordan Love.
33:23
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is me just betting completely on Jordan Love this year.
33:25
[SPEAKER_01]: At some point,
33:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, karma has to catch up to the packers.
33:28
[SPEAKER_01]: We've had some successful years now since I've been a child.
33:32
[SPEAKER_01]: And you do this person's trade.
33:36
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just a lot of pressure on Jordan a lot.
33:39
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just don't think he's going to be able to hold up for it this year.
33:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I got the bearers win in this game and sweeping the season series.
33:48
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that Ross already looking ahead to that Packers game in week sixteen, but yeah, I feel like Josh Jacobs, they're going to lean heavily on him and then the Prashan Gary and Micah Parsons are just going to be real tough to defend against for sure regardless of who's playing at left tackle for the bears in the soft fence of wine and their healthy at that point, but they follow however that turns out they follow that with a winning against the Browns for me Sunday December, fourteen because like we talked about they really lucked out getting the Browns and giants and
34:16
[SPEAKER_03]: and one season here, uh, what do you say about this?
34:20
[SPEAKER_03]: They might, they might try to out your dirt at this point in the season, you know?
34:23
[SPEAKER_01]: You might see Sanders at this point in the season.
34:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the bear is for the two worst teams in the NFL this year in the Saints in the Brown.
34:29
[SPEAKER_01]: So you got to, you got to put guaranteed W's on the board for both of those teams, especially when they're coming in your home building.
34:35
[SPEAKER_01]: The bear is another double digit when should be as we head into.
34:40
[SPEAKER_03]: week.
34:41
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
34:43
[SPEAKER_03]: You got them beating the Packers.
34:44
[SPEAKER_03]: I also have them beating the Packers at home in early Christmas present for the Bears fans on a Saturday game.
34:51
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, they split the series.
34:54
[SPEAKER_03]: They've been man.
34:55
[SPEAKER_03]: I would love to see them sweep the Packers of course.
34:58
[SPEAKER_03]: And then that's ain't Francisco.
34:59
[SPEAKER_03]: That's that's a tricky one.
35:00
[SPEAKER_03]: They're their wones Sunday night game if I'm not mistaken.
35:04
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure that.
35:05
[SPEAKER_03]: And so they're going to San Francisco San Francisco is in, you know, this is a get right season for them right with Christian McCaffrey coming off that injury, Brock Perti getting the bag.
35:14
[SPEAKER_03]: They lost Ebo Samuel, like can they're receiving core, you weld this George Kittle have a lot in the tank left.
35:20
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, if they're healthy and, you know, the offensive line is into old and can their defense really, you know, and can they help out the offensive enough and can couch in a hand just reclaim that.
35:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Success, yeah, I think it's a close one, but I think the bears lose this last home game against San Francisco.
35:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you.
35:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the forty-nine as one in this football game as well.
35:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the forty-nine are assuming they stay healthy and they haven't been able to stay healthy for a few years now since they're last who will run.
35:50
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think the forty-nine are still a really good football team.
35:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of people are sleeping on that team.
35:57
[SPEAKER_01]: And the defense should be a little bit better than what it was last year.
36:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you maybe back by this point?
36:06
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Chris McAfrey, peace stays healthy.
36:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that offense is just too tough for this bear's defense to slow down.
36:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Calshanna hand absolutely shreds the the bear's defense as if we saw last year as well.
36:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously different personnel, different coach, but I think it's still the same result.
36:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the bear's going to be able to slow down that shit and him offense in San Francisco.
36:26
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, we'll see if Ricky Persal has a great year this year too.
36:30
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of expectations for him.
36:32
[SPEAKER_03]: We know an all world linebacker with Fred Warner and that defense and Nick Vosa, hopefully playing healthy, so they'll see what kind of pass rush they can generate against the bears, but tough place to play there.
36:42
[SPEAKER_03]: Do they end with a win against the lions in their last home game week, eighteen?
36:47
[SPEAKER_03]: I say yes.
36:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I also say yes, this is a potential flex game.
36:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is a game that could be a playoff position, a game for both of these teams.
37:00
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this game could get flexed into like a Sunday night football situation, or they use some day game situation.
37:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the bears winning at home to squeeze into the playoffs as a potential seven seed this year.
37:14
[SPEAKER_03]: So what's the overall record?
37:15
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you got?
37:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I would have nine or ten games.
37:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a man nine, I think.
37:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you're nine.
37:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's right.
37:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a ten and seven of very optimistic ten and seven.
37:28
[SPEAKER_03]: I knew we were going to be like one game within each other there.
37:30
[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, yeah, I was going to say this is the thing is
37:34
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this year, the NFC is pretty wide open, right?
37:36
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got your top heavy teams like the Eagles.
37:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're the true cream of the crop in the NFL, but after that, there's not one team in the NFC where I'm completely scared of.
37:47
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's why, you know, we do our predictions at this point, but anything could happen throughout the course of season and obviously injuries come in the play.
37:55
[SPEAKER_01]: But for me at the end of the day, I'm just going to bet on two things.
37:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to bet on Ben Johnson being one of the three best play callers in the league, and I'm betting on Caleb Williams to be at the end of the year, one of the ten best quarterbacks in football.
38:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Most two things happen, the bear should win anywhere between nine and ten games this season.
38:11
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38:38
[SPEAKER_03]: What else do you like right now, Ross?
38:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I like that one.
38:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Caleb Williams over twenty five touchdowns as well.
38:45
[SPEAKER_01]: My prop pick for this game on Monday, though, is Caleb Williams.
38:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm the ground though.
38:51
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't have he had zero rushing touchdowns last year, zero, which is very surprising.
38:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a couple call back.
38:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he gets that one off the way early Monday night.
39:00
[SPEAKER_01]: A little trickery with Ben Johnson on a read option.
39:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Go for Caleb Williams anytime rushing touchdown for Monday night.
39:05
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the over under change while Ross was was saying, forty three and a half to forty four and a half.
39:12
[SPEAKER_03]: That's hilarious.
39:12
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, lines that I'm subject to change of course, but, you know, if you want to play that game, forty four and a half for the Bears Vikings game Monday nights.
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[SPEAKER_03]: for new subscribers only in auto-renews until canceled digital games and commercial use excluded restrictions apply additional NFL Sunday ticket terms at youtube.com slash go slash NFL Sunday ticket slash terms limited time offer and we're back so talking about the milestones for the bears players and and Caleb Williams again we talked about plus one seventy five we go over four thousand yards passing the season plus two sixty to throw over thirty touchdowns uh... which would be
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[SPEAKER_03]: Great, just, you know, blue sky for me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like you already went out and said that Caleb goes over this four thousand passing yards.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm inclined to do the same when the bears have never done this in franchise history.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's going to be pretty pass heavy for a lot of the Ben Johnson scheming and in these losses, you know, having to sling the ball late.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I feel like you got to book that one, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You look at him last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He came pretty close against any very inferior offense, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's still had thirty five hundred yards last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he finished on the five hundred yards short.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He did play every single game that last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that helps out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But he has some he has some duds obviously in the middle of the season changing coordinators.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just think this offense is going to look drastically different than what we saw last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He did have some sort of three hundred yard games, a lot of garbage time stats, but I just don't think that Caleb Williams is assuming he plays all seventeen games this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to finish anywhere below four thousand yards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to make him be the franchise leader for a single season in highest passing yards ever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now the record is helped by
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[SPEAKER_01]: Eric Cramer who's got like thirty eight in change and I didn't even shake up their got the four thousand yards so he would be there is first ever uh four thousand yard passer in a single season which would be sad and shocking.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Adam jogging at the same time but it'll be a monkey off the bears franchise.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like that's for sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you've talked about
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, Caleb Williams and throwing last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He got off to a slow start, right, where it was like, hundred, fifty yard game, a two hundred yard game and throwing interceptions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But then that was like, under him had some some great success there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that with those bad games and sacks that he took a side two, thirty, five hundred yards, you figure he can crank out at least another five hundred or so.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Twenty touchdowns and six interceptions last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you like, do you like him going over thirty TDs?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like him going over dirty cities.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a little rich.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think given the left tackle situation in the fact that they did beef up, the interior part of your offensive line, Ben Johnson's going to run running from he's going to want to run the football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He did run the football a lot in Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a big misconception about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to play a lot of twelve personnel this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got Caleb Williams right at that, twenty five to twenty seven passing touchdown situation, which
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think if you look around the league last year, you've got your super high level guys, you know, your, your, your, your, your, your bars and your burrows and guys like that, but for most part, for the rest of the league, they're in that compression of, of twenty five to twenty seven touchdowns now, mostly because defenses are, are playing too high and they're taking away the deep past from from teams and they're making you work it out on the, on the ground or leave, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think especially if Rosha and Johnson is healthy and they get around the goal line, and Johnson is going to want to ram that football into the end zone with the one game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got killed in that twenty-fiveest range.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, which has been to the running game and thinking about who the leading Russia will be and how much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And at this point, it's DeAndres Swift, his job.
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[SPEAKER_03]: plus two-thirty to go over a thousand yards.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It seems like some easy money to me based on his production last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The only thing they'll get in the way of that is perhaps health.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Again, at his advantage when Rochon Johnson is struggling to get healthy, Kalmanungai, as a rookie.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't foresee him taking the lead back role.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, you're going to see a heavy dose of Deondre Swift, I would think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, you'd hope so, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, his year in Philadelphia in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am very intrigued to see the running of that rotation situation as early as this Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And how those guys get rotated in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if my non guy and Rocha on Johnson cut into swifts carries, especially as they get compressed and they get near the thirty into the red zone at the goal line, that could really bring down swifts total rushing yards because it doesn't have that brick away speed that we talked about the last part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll rip off a couple runs here and there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now he really is a three point five four yard running that kind of guy and he doesn't quite have a power that you're looking for either where you get closer to goal line and you want to ram that football into the Amazon.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It seems like pretty easy money with DJ Moore and talking about receiving and DJ Moore going over a thousand yards at plus one hundred right now, for example.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm curious, yeah, where you put, well, for one him and then Rome, a doonset and how close he gets to DJ Moore's total.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is where I got a little bit of like, I don't know, is DJ, I think Roman Dunesay will be your wide receiver number one sooner than later.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When I saw him that last preseason game, he's lining up in the slot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you get a big body like that and explosive wide receiver.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do want him to make more of those contested catches down the field, especially with his size.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think DJ Moore at this point is career is going to be more of a gadget kind of guy is going to get some touches and some weird spots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Rome is going to be your true wire receiver number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're not shocked me if both guys are very, very even with each other in terms of who's leading the team and receiving yours this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do like the fact that DJ Moore wants to get someone's hands.
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[SPEAKER_01]: can make some plays in space, and he is a very strong and compact, and it tends to boil guys over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this is a big thing, because there's a lot of footballs that go around here with in Dunesay and DJ, and Burton, and Zee, and Comet, and Loveland, and Swift, and there's a lot to spread around, and that's going to eat into some statistics for a couple of guys, and DJ Moore might be the one that sees his number dropped the most.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, as a result of that, you know, DJ Moore last year, for example, didn't crack a thousand yards, but Keenan Allen and Rome were ten yards within each other, which is how spread around it was, and then Cole come at the odd man out at four, but you figure Cole's in love, I'm going to get a lot of touches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, it all hopefully it should be two Caleb Williams going over four thousand yards for sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The only other one, you know, I got my own was
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, TJ Edwards was all over the field and him and Kevin Byrd were in a neck and neck for a while there, but he, I would think again, just being all over the place as he is with Lee the Bears and tackles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then the one no one wants to talk about is the sack later for his Bears teams because they would be really lucky to get a double digit guy at this point.
47:51
[SPEAKER_01]: you got to give months of sweat back and back to having a productive sex season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I would like to see him get at least ten times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I haven't had much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's going to have to improve.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to have to nearly double that number.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm worth you there on TJ Edwards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to be a monster all over the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm going to play a lot of two line-backer situations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to use Edwards and Chamade.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Edwards, Edmunds, excuse me, out there a lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to rely on guys like Brisker and Cal Gordon to really help out and run support.
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[SPEAKER_01]: which means those guys are also going to accumulate a lot of tackles.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need to form a prescription to stay healthy this year because he is a very vocal leader on that field with them and he kind of brings the energy that that defense needs so to speak.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited to see him back out there again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Remember that defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: fell apart last year when him and Billings went out with injury.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's another one, two, Billings being able to clog up some space and eat up some space also helps guys like TJ, where his car is in fullbacks, offered them to be able to make tackles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, uh, that's all I got for bears as far as this preview before and predictions before this week one game against the Vikings, uh, you know, stay tuned for any injury updates anything like that, but it looks like all starters or go for the bears and we should see this full compliment of offensive weapons for Caleb Williams and get Jalen Johnson out there for
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[SPEAKER_03]: Bears is huge and a healthy Montez sweat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see what kind of pass for us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They can generate against the Vikings, JJ McCarthy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's exciting and it leads into, you know, this pool have every game done in a way.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we'll just have our full focus on the bears, which is just the gift that keeps on giving.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is, it is, it is happy to said to be here on Tuesday nights.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Either two days are moved for a game or in this case one day removed from a game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm excited for Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, you know, the first weekend is always exciting to get a game Thursday night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We get a game Friday night or Brazil game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We get a whole Sunday sleigh and then we finish off with the bear's Vikings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to say,
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is not a must win situation, but you really want to start on a high note at home under a new era, second year, you know, first of all, quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then also, you know, you don't want to lose a JGM McCarthy at home in that spot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that would be really tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it would be a very long six days before their next game on the road and Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you really want to start this season off on a high note.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Play good football in all three phases.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Last year, they were one and all, but they had a crap offensive game and they really needed the heroic of real lovers throwing the football to the bearers to be able to eat that one out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You want to do a little bit cleaner than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and the year before that, it was the monsoon game worth adjusting for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's have a more cleaner offensive game, please.
50:48
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll rely on some top cooler to get a win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It should be nice Chris Monday nights and really cooler.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're cooler coming up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's bare weather.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, slip it and Ross.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sent in the tone to start the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Very important.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, those first four games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Very important before that by week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's going down.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Seven, fifteen Monday night against Vikings.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you gave your Super Bowl predictions as far as the the bird ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ravens and Ravens and Eagles.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The swirl this year is in Santa Clara by Matt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not mistaken.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the part outside San Francisco.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Taylor storming the.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do think she's getting that not as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's I'm just going out there right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She'll get that, but you know, haven't helped those people out there if they get a Baltimore versus Philadelphia Super Bowl because.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Was there also two very very fun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Very exciting, very rowdy band basis, but I think it would be good to lead to see a guy like Omar Jackson finally is bull run and then obviously, you know, we know about her since cyclone and Syrian, I mean, the characters on that side of things, but I think that would be a very, very exciting Super Bowl.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here at Henry, one of the best running bags we've seen of all time to see him go to the Super Bowl would be really talented.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like a throwback where it's like, you know, two teams that play very sound defense and fundamentals and will I heavily on their run games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's really fun to see a throwback to a, I'm watching that Cowboys documentary on Netflix and, you know, that's kind of how they built their teams was heavy dosage of MSMIV.
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[SPEAKER_03]: you know, trade men, you know, and that's be so the style quarterback play getting those, uh, much needed yardage when they need to by themselves.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Buffalo and Baltimore right now, favor two, do go to the Super Bowl at this point, uh, the Eagles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's really a falloff after the Eagles and Chiefs following them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and I can't believe this, just to circle back as we're running out of show here, but Micah Parsons is that much of a needle mover to put
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[SPEAKER_03]: the Packers at the fifth best odds to go to the Super Bowl this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like they haven't been watching, everything you mentioned Ross with Jordan Love's health with the offense and how it's run.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I get the defenses stepped up mightily by Mike Parsons, but you can compare that with
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[SPEAKER_03]: the cowboys wherever they were before.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they weren't even in the top fifteen to make the Super Bowl.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's just banana land crazy to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you know, and for them to be favored of the Detroit Lions is just absurd to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, parts right now is got a little bit of an injury situation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's got a backs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I need up a durability and play this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, listen, it's, you know, objectively, it's a home run for the Packers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, those two first rompics, if you're good, they're going to be late.
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[SPEAKER_01]: first round picks anyway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it doesn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Cowboys of basically with a lot of those picks anyway, you move off of Kenny Clarke, like we talked about earlier, is an aging player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just dumbfounded by, you know, what the Cowboys do here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, listen, this is what happens when you have an eighty-some-year-old owner who's also your general manager and he's stubborn as hell.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was listening to David, we'll get a, who's part of his age and he was on first take today and he was like, listen,
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[SPEAKER_01]: We wanted to make a deal and even if we didn't get a deal, he was going to play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's where I have the issue with trade the most is you picked the exact wrong time to do this trade.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Two picks in Kenny Cart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would have been there in
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[SPEAKER_01]: October in January and March.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you going to got that before this draft and actually use those picks on one of those picks at least on capital for yourself this year instead you trade in right before the season and you know he he was never going to sit out games these guys were never going to risk getting fined a million dollars a game
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[SPEAKER_01]: to prove a point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was always going to show up, and that's what his agent said today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He would have been there week one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the Cowboys and Jerry Jones specifically acquired and getting away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you're a Cowboys, if you're a deck plus guy in C lamb, and you're brand new coach and Brian Shotnam, you're like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: What the hell do it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you just really tanked their season before it even started.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just leaves a bad taste.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And how do you feel as a Dallas fan?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You just lost a good dockage and microparses and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Brand chized players.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, I was weird hearing about his agents take on it and how.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Dallas would negotiate directly with players for example and have like a handshake deal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, what are you talking about?
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is some old old school stuff that these tend to be put to paper agents need to be in the room like really illegal like it's and they said technically it's
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[SPEAKER_03]: not for some reason, but also, yeah, just speaks the way Jerry Jones negotiate things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you know, the Packers swooped in, we're able to get it.
55:54
[SPEAKER_03]: And you pretty much called it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You said they were the top team to potentially swoop in last show before we signed off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll see he's making, he's going to be making life live in, live in hell for, for acts and Jones come.
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[SPEAKER_03]: come that that first time against the packers and a lot of quarterbacks in the NFC north for for that for sure playing them twice a year but quickly before we sign up and a super roll tip I like Buffalo I think they get over that hump this year and I think the Eagles go back and we might be seeing that dynasty similar to the chiefs just going right back
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[SPEAKER_03]: Black like the like the chiefs did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Howard Roseman is the best in the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's the best Joe in the manager in football right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He has built a very complete roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would not be surprised as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Eagles are our juggernaut and I think they're going to win the
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[SPEAKER_03]: In full swing for now we say do so is be good to each other.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's all on everybody.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Peace.