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Get laced up. Let's go. It's time for Banter
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with the Boys. Welcome back to Banter with the
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Boys. Gridiron updates. This is the week three
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preview and picks. We won't spend a lot of time,
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but, you know, we'll get our opinion, which is
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why you're here, right? Yeah, they can yell at
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us on the internet. Right. Yeah, especially comment.
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Love it. Smash the comments. This is why not
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everyone should have a podcast. Exactly. Rob,
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thanks for being here, man. Thank you for the
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invite. This week, last week, and the week before.
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For sure. You're invited next week, too. Ooh,
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yes. Yeah. Dom, also here this week. What's up,
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boys? It's always good to be here. As our featured
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guest. Appreciate having you on. Mr. Consistency.
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Yes, sir. Kev, behind the camera, obviously.
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As always. He waved. Sorry, I'm just tipping
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things over back here. It's all good. Nothing's
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spilt. We're fine. Almost got electrocuted. Yep.
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Maybe. Cardinals at 49ers. That's what's going
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on. Both 2 -0. Cardinals traveling to the Bay.
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Who do you got, Rob? Well, it's one and a half
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per Vegas. Interesting. Cardinals have showed
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up so far. 2 -0 to start. 49ers are Mr. Purdy.
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missing, which Mr. Mac Jones filled in nicely
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last week. Definitely did. You know who has a
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lot of Mac Jones memorabilia? Or like a good
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chunk. Bill Belichick? It's somebody that's been
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a guest on here. You. Last year. No. No, no,
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no. Graham. He's a Chiefs fan. Oh. He's a Patriots
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guy, too, before he was a Chiefs fan, because
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he grew up in New York. So he wasn't a Giants
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and Jets fan. No, New Jersey. Sorry, Kat. He
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probably punched me in the face. I just said
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New York. He grew up in New Jersey. Holy crap.
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But anyway, sorry. A little tangent. We got into
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the human side of you. So Kyler Murray, he's
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played okay. He's a quarterback, yes. Defensively,
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I feel like the Cardinals will be really interesting.
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I'm still going to go 49ers. I think they're
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the dog in the division next to the Rams. I think
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they'll be that second, third tier Cardinals,
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but it'll be interesting. Their offense, I don't
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know if it's... enough firepower to overcome,
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I think, the 49ers. Because I think their defense
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is pretty solid, and they can really get after
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Kyler. I think they've won the last two times
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against them. I think they dominated them last
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year. Yeah, they swept them last year. So I'm
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going to go three in a row, baby. 49ers. Three
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in a row. Three in a row. Yeah. What do we got
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going on, Dom? I mean, I got to ride with the
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Niners in this one. I mean. I feel like for the
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Cardinals, we got to see more Marvin Harrison
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Jr. He's a top five draft pick. Yeah, for sure.
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He's not really looking like a one. Yeah, he's
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starting to look like a two. And you just got
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to get him some more touches. They got Trey McBride.
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They got Benson. They still got James Conner
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on there. I mean, he's a solid back. But like
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you said, that defense is just strugglesome.
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You know, that secondary against, I know that
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Ricky Pearsall, he's a solid receiver. You know,
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he's having a good year so far. He's a first
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-rounder, wasn't he? Yeah. Or second -rounder.
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I mean, he had a bad situation coming in, unfortunately.
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But when it comes to Ricky Pearsall, and they
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still got Christian McCaffrey. Yep. I mean, I
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know that he's injury -prone, but at the same
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time, right now, he's looking like his old self
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at the moment. He's still got it. He's still
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got something in the tank. He's still got a little
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shimmy and a little shake still left in him.
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Yeah, so, I mean, this week I'm going to just
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– I'm going to – pretty easy pick for me. I'm
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going to take the Niners to go over the Cardinals.
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Kyler Murray is going to have to show me something
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special this week to pull something off like
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that. So, for me, I think he will show you something
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a little special this week. Okay. But I think
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the thing that could be a problem for the Cardinals.
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will be that if Will Johnson and Garrett Williams,
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their other corner, don't play, I think that
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could be a problem for the Cardinals. I think
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we'll see it. I think the Cardinals maybe are
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finally ready. They're not going to go undefeated
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or anything crazy. I'm not going to go too crazy
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right now. But they were in a lot of games last
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year, you know what I mean? Yeah, they was in
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a game against us. I feel better about Kyler
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Murray compared to a quarterback we were talking
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about earlier, Trevor Lawrence. I feel much better
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about my chances with a quarterback like Kyler
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Murray or Trevor Lawrence. You take Kyler over
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Trevor? Over Trevor Lawrence I would, yeah, 100%.
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He just gives me. definitely he's always a threat
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to get out yeah when he gets out of the pocket
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he's dangerous he's a he does have that element
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to him oh yeah 100 that helps you know what i
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mean but There's enough there. He's still got
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a ton of talent. So, I don't know. I'm going
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with the Cardinals this week. Okay, okay. Nothing
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wrong with it. If the Cardinals win, it's probably
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going to be close. I mean, it's a divisional
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game. You know what I mean? That is true. It's
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a divisional game. So, I mean, it's going to
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be a good game. But, like I said, defense has
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got to show me something. And you get some more
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touches to Marvin Harrison Jr. in the red zone,
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he can be deadly. And they got Trey McBride.
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The Cardinals in general red zone last year,
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I don't think, were really awesome. And it's
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like you got a red zone running back in James
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Conner. You got a red zone. You should be a red
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zone tight end in Trey McBride. And you got Kyler
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Murray. And you got Kyler Murray. And then, yeah,
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add in Marvin Harrison or something in there
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and make a little funny business happen. Which
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I think that's where he would excel. Exactly.
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You know? He did that all year. And he only went
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one tutty last year? Yeah. So we'll see. You're
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two for Marvin, so we'll see. Okay. We'll see
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what happens. He picked him. He got him. Yep.
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Lock him down. Yep. Lock him in. We're going
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to win five. Steelers traveling to New England
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this week. A little AFC matchup. Dom, we'll start
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with you. A little Drake May action. Drake May.
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Who I really wanted two years ago for the draft
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for the Vikings. Yeah, I mean, it would have
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been. And he's starting to look kind of nice.
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He's starting to look good. He's developing.
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I mean, this is going to be the old school versus
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the new school. Yes. Truthfully, you know, I
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mean, I know the Patriots is an old school team,
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but they got a lot of new school players right
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now, you know, and the Steelers, they got the
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old squad, you know, Aaron Rodgers. You got DK
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Metcalf. Do you want any of the injuries of people
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that weren't already out? Looks like they're
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pretty. They got Joey Porter out, and that's
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going to be tough on the defense questionable
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at the moment. Yes, sir. You know, let's shake
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it up and let's bake it up with new school Drake
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May. Let's go with the pass. Let's go with Vrabel.
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Let's go with Vrabel. Yeah, let's go with them.
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He was looking a little slow running down the
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sideline this pass. He was looking a little slow
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on the sideline running with that punt return
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to the house. But, yeah, we'll take Drake May
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just with an upset. I mean, they're both 1 -1.
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I don't know if I would even consider that an
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upset. A lot of people are really high on the
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Patriots. It's only one. It's that one. It's
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only one. I guess I would just say the past probably
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the last couple of seasons, the Patriots and
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the Steelers last year, you probably would have
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took the Steelers compared to this season. For
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sure. You know. New head coach. I mean, I think
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they're two different teams really. Right. I
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mean, even though some of the players are the
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same. So, yeah, I'm going to take the pass to
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take down Rogers. Rogers. Down goes Rogers from
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Mr. Consistency. Let's see if it happens. Smelty,
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what are you feeling on this game? I have a feeling
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that you're going old school. That's just what
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I got. I'm going with the Steelers. I think the
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defense is going to be just freaking nasty as
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always. I think neither team really has an extremely
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strong running game per se right now. I like
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Jalen Warren. Yeah. I think he's, you know, I
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think he's better. I'd take him over Ramonder
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Stevenson on the other side. They got to get
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Henderson. Other bad goings. I'm just saying
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it's not there yet. You know what I mean? 100%.
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But I think I'm going to ride with that Pittsburgh
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Steelers defense. I think that's the main difference
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for me in this game. And I think Aaron Rodgers
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will do just enough to get by. He's looking okay.
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He's looking better than he did in a Jets uniform
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to me. For sure. So, you know, I think he'll
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do just enough. Good test for Drake May. It is
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a good test for Drake May and kind of let us
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know where he's at right now. For sure. But I'm
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going Steelers. With the Steel Curtain, I am
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going completely opposite with you. I'm going
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with Mr. Consistency over there, and I'm going
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with Drake May, too. The Steelers are not very
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good at stopping the run, and I think that's
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going to be the difference maker, which is allow
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Drake to set up a little play action and get
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it done over the top. So you're going with...
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The Pittsburgh Steelers not having a good run
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defense. Not necessarily the Patriots rushing
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attack. I think that they're not good at stopping
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the run as the Patriots running will do well.
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But I just don't think... We'll see. Is what
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I'm going with. So, yeah, I just... It's going
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to be a close one. I think they also... Which
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one do you trust more? Do you trust that the
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Steelers rushing defense is just so poor? I'm
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going to go with Henderson and Stevens, I think,
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are good enough to establish a run against a
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poor rush defense. That's a better way to say
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it, to run through between your two ears. But
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yeah, I mean, it's... I'm going to the Patriots.
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I feel like the little difference. A little fun
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fact, though. They're going to do a thing at
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halftime for Bill Parcells there. The honorary
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legendary coach there. Because he was a coach
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way back there. Right. So that's kind of cool.
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Well, before. Wait. Probably before my time.
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It was like the 70s. How old do you think Rob
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is? It doesn't matter right now, does it? 29
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all the time, baby. Hey, I'm going to start saying
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that myself. Yeah, write that down. What, 29
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all the time? 29 all the time. Yes. You know
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what I'm saying. All right, all right. We got
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to move on. Let's see here. Oh, I'll start this
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one, no problem. Broncos at the Chargers. At
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the Chargers, 2 -0 Chargers. You're kind of wearing
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your pick. Who, me? Unless he's going to go somewhere
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else. Who, me? Yeah, no, I'm going with the Chargers
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all the way. I mean, there's no question. Justin
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Herbert's came out and been playing pretty solid
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to start the season. Very solid. Hampton's been
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serviceable at least, so I'm feeling all right.
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Feeling all right about the Chargers right now.
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Losing Khalil Mack sucks, but. Man, he got his
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hand smashed. Yeah, that was disgusting. That
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did not look good. That was disgusting. That
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did not, yeah, like Gus just said. You know,
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at home. Is that a factor? Do you think that's
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actually a factor? It's becoming more of a factor.
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It's becoming more of a factor. It didn't feel
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like a factor, but, like, when the Vikings played
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there the last time, I got to bring up the mics.
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Because you were there, you have life experience.
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This is a great example to use here. No, they've
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played in L .A. before, too, at SoFi. I was not
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there. Oh, you weren't. I was there when they
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played here. They've been playing the Chargers
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a lot lately. What is going on? Anyway, I think
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there is a little bit more of a home field advantage
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there in the Chargers. I mean, 2 -0 helps. I
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was going to say, as they continue to win, the
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popularity is going to go up. Oh, yeah, I guess
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I'll go watch, you know, whatever. I don't know.
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Bo Nix hasn't been as polished to start the season,
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so that's what I'm a little worried about, heading
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into not a hostile environment by any means.
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I mean, they should have won last week against
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the Colts. They should easily be 2 -0. Yeah,
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fumbled and bumbled that one for sure. So looking
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at it in that aspect of it, I'm going the Broncos
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for sure on this one. Yeah, laugh at me. That's
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fine. No, I think it's going to be a really good
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game. This is the game that, you know, it could.
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decided division oh yeah it's going for the chiefs
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i mean well the chiefs could be two and old just
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as easily you know they were in both games too
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so they're not winning the division yeah we both
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picked them too but yeah i mean it's just nicks
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versus herbert herbert's looked really well like
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i said nix has been okay um broncos defense They
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haven't looked quite as sharp as I originally
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thought they were going to be. Right. So it could
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be interesting to get a bounce -back game. You
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know, their pass rusher, what's it? I can't even
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think of his last name. He's going to be going
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against the left tackle. They're playing Slater
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for the Chargers. So I think that'll be intriguing.
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Starts with a B. I can't think of his name. Nick.
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DN for the Broncos. Nick Burrito. Burrito. There
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you go. Burrito. Put some hot sauce on that.
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Ooh, I like that. So, yeah, we're going Broncos
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in a close one. Broncos in a close one. What
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do you got, Dom? I guess we got to put some hot
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sauce on the burrito, guys. Let's go with the
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Broncos. Yes. I like Bo Nix, you know. I liked
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him when he played at Oregon. He's coming into
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himself. Like you said, he's not looking the
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sharpest right now. But for me, what it's going
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to come down to is the run, J .K. Dobbins. He
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could be a real big difference maker. You know,
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he can catch the ball and he can run it. He could.
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We got to get some more play to Corlin Sutton
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when it comes down to the red zone this week.
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Do you have a Teddy last week? I think he has
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one. He's got one so far. But, yeah, for me.
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They got to be able to stop Justin Herbert. He's
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coming out slinging. Like I said last week, he
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hasn't thrown for 4 ,000, and right now he's
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definitely looking like he could. He's thrown
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for 4 ,000, just not under Harbaugh. Like four
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years ago. Was it? Yeah. Oh, okay. I looked it
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up. Someone commented on you, and I was like,
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oh, I got to look it up. And I'm like, oh. I
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guess I was wrong. Sorry, folks. He meant under
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Harbaugh. Nice. I was looking you up. I was looking
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you up. Never mind. But, yeah, we'll still ride
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with Bo Nix. Put the hot sauce on it. Actually,
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I think you're through for 5K one year. Right,
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right. Let's keep it going here. We got Lions
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at Ravens. Sunday night football, big matchup.
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You were already mentioning it's going to be
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a high -flying game, high -scoring game. I would
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imagine that to be correct. I don't think...
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I feel like the Lions are going to struggle a
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little bit against Derrick Henry, but at the
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same time, I think Baltimore can't stop anything
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right now either at the moment. I think you hit
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it right. It's a shootout. I guess I'll just
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go. I think for me, it's going to... Oh, man,
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it's tough. I like both offenses a lot right
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now. I think it's going to be Baltimore. I think
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it's going to be Baltimore to win the shootout.
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And I really don't trust that defense right now,
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just in general, all the way around. I'm just
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not getting it done. Yeah, I mean, I could go
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either way on this. I'm going to go Lions. I
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just got an odd, weird feeling that it's who
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has the ball last, and the Lions are just going
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to have that opportunity in the shootout. Both
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aerosol versus Jackson's kind of dual threat
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dynamics, so it's going to be high scoring. Adrian
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Hutchinson I think will be a factor. And I don't
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know if Baltimore's D, like against the run of
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Montgomery and Gibbs, and that's where I could
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see them having a couple of tutties and both
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having some nice games. It's just going to be
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a good classic high, I mean, mid -30s kind of
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game. I do not expect it to be defensive. So,
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I was Vegas got it on 51 and a half. So, that's
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a high number. Yeah. So, yeah. I'm just going
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to go Lions on a random one. Says the Lions den.
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Yeah, the roar's been restored for two weeks
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in a row maybe. I mean, you love that too much.
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The war has been restored. You know what? It's
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kind of weird. It's kind of weird. It's not even
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mine. He's questioning your loyalty. No. As he's
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wearing a charger. Right, right. I'm all viking
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now. Are we questioning loyalty at this moment?
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It just sounded a little questionable. What do
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you got, Dom? Let's see. Lions Ravens. We're
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talking about a Madden game going on right here,
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I feel like. It's going to be a high school,
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like you said. Circle spin move. A lot of triangle.
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A lot of triangle. But I'm going to have to ride
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with my boy Lamar this week. Lamar Jackson, he's
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going to do his thing. Derrick Henry, King Henry
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as they like to call him. He's got to show us.
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What he did against the Bills. He's going to
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bounce back this week. Yeah. He can bounce back
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easily. You know, they got, they got, who's the
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DN for the Lions? Hutchinson. Hutchinson. I was
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going to say Henderson. Hutchinson. He's going
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to be a big playmaker coming off the injury.
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And. I think he finally got his first sack last
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week. Yeah. Against, against Caleb Williams.
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But yeah, I'm going to ride with Lamar and the
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Ravens this week. Get them done. Get them done.
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I wonder who Jake's picking. Oh, definitely Lions.
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Yeah, 100%. Jake, put them down for the Lions.
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He loves golf and golf, so he's got to go with
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the Lions. Right, Jake? Nothing wrong with a
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good old golf game. All right, all right. Our
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final game, the Bengals traveling to Minnesota,
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fresh off that L. Bengals coming in 2 -0, obviously.
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The Jake Browning versus Carson Wentz matchup
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that everybody's waiting for. That's a hot topic,
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I tell you what. If you bought this ticket before
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this happened, you know you're kind of frustrated.
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But I'm not going to lie. If Joe Burrow didn't
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go down, I was going to take the Bengals. When
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I was riding here, I was like, if they had Burrow.
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I would have gave you that compared to me taking
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the Bears in a week. Yeah, but. I mean, skull
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to the bowl, get one before we die. Flores and
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Carson Wentz and KOC, let's show them what we
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can do. We got to establish the run this week,
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guys. I know we got to – I know – I hope Derrissaw
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can come back this week. I've heard that there's
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a chance he can come back, but he was also a
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chance he could come back last week. Yeah, we
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need him back. We've got to establish the run.
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Down Jones and Chandler. No, Chandler, is Chandler
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down too? He was. I heard Cam Akers is on the
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way over again. Yeah, we just picked up Cam.
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At least he knows the offense so much, so we'll
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call that a win. Did we actually pick up Cam
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Akers today? I did saw a picture. I did not see
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that. I didn't know if it was official, but it
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wouldn't surprise me. He always finds his way
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on my roster since KLC got here. Hey, we'll take
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him at this point. Yeah, we got to get a great
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pass rush to mix up Jake Brown this week, make
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sure the Browning doesn't become a Brownie, you
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know. Yeah, no doubt. Harrison Smith still questionable.
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Andrew Van Ginkle still questionable right now.
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Some pieces missing, man. We went from one to
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seven guys injured. I know, I know, for sure.
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In a matter of moments. And that's how it goes
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in the NFL, that quickly. You can have a solid
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team, and then suddenly you're missing a third
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of them. And then the other third are probably
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just banged up and they're playing through it.
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Actually, they're all banged up. None of them
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are 100 % from the rest of the season. None of
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them will be. Only thing that sucks, I just truly
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feel like not playing that much preseason is
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kind of hurting us right now a little bit to
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me. That's just the new trend. I don't think
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they're going to go away. Both are a story. Rob,
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who are you going with? I am going to go with
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the Vikings. Naturally. Just naturally. For me,
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it's all about what Carson Wentz knows in the
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offense and how much of Kevin KOC's very complex
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playbook he can take. He is a veteran quarterback,
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so I'm assuming that he gets a lot of the concepts.
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I don't know if he's played in any of that kind
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of that same system that KOC runs anywhere. Where
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was he last year? He was with Andy Reid last
21:14
year. He was with the Chiefs last year. Chiefs,
21:16
they run on kind of a west coast. He's on the
21:17
coast. Yeah. He's played for the Commanders.
21:20
But we need to establish a running game for sure.
21:23
And then defensively, like you said, we have
21:26
to get him and stop Chase and Higgins from going
21:29
off. Chase Brown, he can be a real threat real
21:33
quick. I mean, he's not B. John Robinson level.
21:35
No. But he's crafty in between the hackles. He
21:38
reminds me of a young Austin Eckler. Yeah, 100%.
21:43
He can catch the ball out of the backfield like
21:45
no other. That's almost his biggest threat. So
21:47
that would be an interesting matchup now that
21:49
we don't have Blake Cashman. And now we're going
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to have to depend on Wilson to pick up him out
21:55
of the backfield. Or Pace got to just step up
21:57
and play some. Or Pace play a bad game. Yeah.
21:59
He didn't look that good to me. No, it was, like
22:00
I said. A lot of tackling air against Dijon.
22:06
Well, for me, it was just Pace not making the
22:08
right reads, not fast enough. There was a specific
22:12
play. It just seemed like he was just thinking
22:14
out there, not playing just so much, just standing
22:16
there. But the play happened so fast, as we know.
22:21
Sorry. So you're going Vikes. I'm going Vikes.
22:24
And then mainly because the Bengals, they're
22:26
not very good against the run either. So hopefully
22:29
that'll be enough advantage. And then hopefully
22:32
the crowd noise really messes up. We need a 12th
22:36
man. We definitely need a 12th man to help us
22:39
out. Like that first quarter was very loud against
22:43
Atlanta. Yeah, they took it. That was so fun
22:47
to watch. Let's hope we can make it happen again
22:50
this year. Watching our offense for the last
22:51
two weeks, I don't know if it can really. Less
22:54
than 100 plays in two weeks. Come on, guys. You've
22:58
got to do something. I think it can be a little
23:00
more effective, at least, with a veteran quarterback
23:04
than what we've been getting. KLC just got to
23:06
simplify things. It might be 1 ,000 checkdowns
23:10
that we see to Mason and to TJ. Something like
23:15
that. Maybe your boy, your other tight end that
23:18
you love. Josh Oliver? Josh Oliver might even
23:21
get a couple catches out of the deal. Did you
23:25
pick what direction you're going? Nope, I'm going
23:27
Vikes. I'm not worried about Carson Wentz at
23:30
all. He's a veteran. They're going to do just
23:33
fine. If they simplify it, good, because obviously
23:35
it's too complicated in general anyway. We're
23:37
not doing anything offensively, so we might as
23:39
well just simplify it up, throw Wentz into the
23:41
fire, see what happens. Get the old Josh Dobb
23:44
offense. No, it'll be better than that. It'll
23:47
be better than that. Dobbs succeeded for us because
23:50
his feet made it happen. You know what I mean?
23:52
Astronaut. So I'm not too worried about that
23:56
at all. I'm just hopefully our defense. I mean,
24:00
again, it's not like our defense played poorly
24:02
last week. It's just they were given poor opportunities,
24:05
you know. I think there was at least one short
24:08
field opportunity and, again, held them to a
24:10
field goal. Good in the red zone, horrible between
24:12
the 20s. Yeah. So going with the Vikes, hopefully
24:16
they can handle that high -powered offense, but
24:19
Joe Burrell is at least. So we'll take it. Yes,
24:23
sir. We'll take it. Did not see that coming.
24:25
What is the Vegas odds on this one? I think Vikes
24:28
by three and a half. Vikes are favorite, yeah.
24:30
Interesting. So, skull to the bull, baby. Skull
24:34
to the bull. One till we die. Rob, thanks for
24:37
being here, of course. Thank you for letting
24:39
me. As always. Dom. Successful featured guest,
24:44
I'd say. I appreciate y 'all being here. Fellow
24:46
Vikes fan, of course. Oh, yeah, definitely. Riding
24:48
with the Vikes every day. Don't worry about that.
24:50
We'll get them back on the pod. Of course. Don't
24:53
worry about that either. Kev, thanks for getting
24:55
everything done behind the cameras, as always.
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