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Speaker 1: Welcome to Table Talk here at the Philadelphia Sports Table
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Speaker 1: podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show
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Speaker 1: in the world, twelve years strong. And we got a
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Speaker 1: great discussion coming your way on Table Talk this week.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be looking into and digesting, I should say,
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Speaker 1: week one of this NFL season, what we saw from
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Speaker 1: so many various teams. And we got a great guest
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Speaker 1: from Acmepackingcompany dot com, great sp Nation site. He runs
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Speaker 1: a show over there, fantastic content. Our good friend Evan
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Speaker 1: Text Western Text, Boddy.
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Speaker 2: How you doing, my friend, Jeff, I am. I am great.
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Speaker 2: If anybody who watched the backers feed up on the
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Speaker 2: line yesterday should should understand why I feel that way. Yes,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, man, we haven't talked since the Micae Parsons
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Speaker 2: straight happened. Gosh, that was only still only like ten
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Speaker 2: eleven days ago, I know, not even like two weeks
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Speaker 2: at this point. It's it's crazy, man. It has energized
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Speaker 2: this fan base and this team like not a lot
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Speaker 2: of things have in the last thirty years. And and
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Speaker 2: and really I mean it, the vibes are you hate
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Speaker 2: to compare it to the Reggie White signing in ninety three,
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Speaker 2: like too much, but like it. That's that's where the
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Speaker 2: vibes are around Packers fans with this, just the way
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Speaker 2: that they went about it and and actually pulled the
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Speaker 2: trigger on a big move like this, and then for
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Speaker 2: him to come out and have a really really fun
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Speaker 2: debut and make some big plays. Yeah, it's it's great.
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Speaker 2: And you know, it's great to be one game up
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Speaker 2: on the probably the toughest other team in your division
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Speaker 2: after Week one. Absolutely feeling good, feeling really good.
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Speaker 1: You should be, because it was an incredible performance on
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Speaker 1: the field that the Green Bay Packers put on against
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Who and you know, we're going to
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Speaker 1: get into the Packers. We're going to get into the defense.
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Speaker 1: But I'm watching that game thinking to myself, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: this Packers offense, this Packers defense is going to be
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Speaker 1: perhaps unstoppable given what the Detroit Lions have been, you know,
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Speaker 1: over the past couple seasons, a very formidable team. And
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Speaker 1: of course we know, we know they have some weaknesses
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Speaker 1: on offense in terms of the line, which we're going
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Speaker 1: to get into in a bit too. But man, if
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Speaker 1: I were you, I'd be like riding really high right now.
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Speaker 2: My friend. Yeah, absolutely, And I mean, well, well, I'm
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Speaker 2: sure this will touch on this a couple different times,
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Speaker 2: but it starts in the trenches. It does. They dominated
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Speaker 2: on defense in the run game and especially against Detroit.
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Speaker 2: If you can do that, that that just sets up
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Speaker 2: you sets you up so well for success in every
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Speaker 2: other phase of the game.
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Speaker 1: How many times have we talked about it on this
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Speaker 1: podcast platform. I know you've talked about it as well.
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Speaker 1: I mean, success in the NFL comes in the trenches.
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Speaker 1: It's not the flashiest thing in the world, but success
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Speaker 1: comes in the trenches when you've got blockers, when you've
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Speaker 1: got pass protection, when you've got defenders who are able
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Speaker 1: to pursuit to the ball. That's where it really starts.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we are going to get into both
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Speaker 1: of our teams here right off the bat in terms
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Speaker 1: of our discussion here, but I really wanted to before
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Speaker 1: we get in Packers and Lions game here from week one,
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Speaker 1: wanted to get your take watching the Philadelphia Eagles and
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys game from this past Thursday night. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this was this was a game that the Eagles could
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Speaker 1: have easily lost in my opinion. A lot of other
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Speaker 1: opinions out there as well. If I'm being completely honest,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we do on this show. We are
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Speaker 1: very honest, my co hosts and I when we do
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Speaker 1: our regular show every week, We're honest. It wasn't the
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Speaker 1: greatest performance from the Philadelphia Eagles. We know that they
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Speaker 1: lost their best defensive player with some stupid crap spitting incident.
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Speaker 1: Of course, before the first and half of the game.
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Speaker 1: The Eagles defense they frankly played soft the first TAFF.
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Speaker 1: They allowed the Cowboys offense to drive on them. Cowboys
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Speaker 1: offense hitting some big plays down the field, had the
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Speaker 1: run game was working really well during the first half.
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Speaker 1: Yet some of that rust and that lack of discipline
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Speaker 1: that we saw from the Eagles, this is a team
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Speaker 1: that still.
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Speaker 2: Ended up winning. You know.
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Speaker 1: So, I'm wondering, as you're watching Thursday night game, the
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Speaker 1: game that kicked off this season, what is your honest
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Speaker 1: assessment texts of what you saw from the Eagles this
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Speaker 1: past week and that matchup against the Cowboys. The Eagles
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Speaker 1: the defending champions.
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Speaker 2: Here, what are your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, I think
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Speaker 2: it boils down to they didn't play anywhere near their
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Speaker 2: potential right this is is obviously a defending, defending Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl champion team, and there's there's so much talent on
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Speaker 2: both sides of the football, and they they were off
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Speaker 2: their game, I think in large, in large parts and
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Speaker 2: in a couple of different facets of the game. I
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Speaker 2: think it seemed to me that pass defense, the second
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Speaker 2: cornerback position in particular, is going to be a major problem. Boy.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna have to figure something out there
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Speaker 2: because a Dori Jackson is not going to cut it
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Speaker 2: if he's out there. Yes, he's cooked.
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Speaker 1: He was cooked when they brought him in, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of us with an Eagles nation are thinking, how
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Speaker 1: is it possible that he not only started, but ended
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Speaker 1: up finishing the game as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean, certainly the the and and again
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Speaker 2: it comes down to the trenches. You don't have one
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Speaker 2: of your best defensive linemen that's gonna then have a
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Speaker 2: knock on effect with with effect your your secondary and
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Speaker 2: but I think that's that's an area where I think
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Speaker 2: Philly can be vulnerable defensively, is to explosive plays. And
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Speaker 2: we talked about it when we preview the Packers earlier
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Speaker 2: this summer that I thought explosives would be one of
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Speaker 2: the Packers big strengths. Yes, area where I would love
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Speaker 2: to see, you know, Matt Leafleuur dial up some man beaters,
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Speaker 2: some play action you know in that Week ten game
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Speaker 2: when when the Packers welcome Philly into into lambeau Field.
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Speaker 2: But no, and and the passing game for for the
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Speaker 2: Eagles offense didn't really seem to be very in sync either.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask about your thoughts with regard to
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Speaker 1: aj Brown not getting targeted until about a minute and
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Speaker 1: what forty six seconds left in the fourth quarter, Like
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Speaker 1: as as somebody who's on the outside, Like how how
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Speaker 1: how did you perceive that?
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't understand why you don't take give
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Speaker 2: him a shot for a contested catch somewhere along the line.
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Speaker 2: And I know, you know, like Jalen Hurst is a
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Speaker 2: guy that we know. He doesn't like to throw intermediate
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Speaker 2: to deep stuff over the middle very much. It's it's
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Speaker 2: all sideline stuff. But I would have thought at least
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Speaker 2: a shot or two, you know, dial up a play
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Speaker 2: action shot to Brown up the sideline somewhere along the
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Speaker 2: line to try to take the top of the defense
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Speaker 2: a little bit. Yeah, I don't know if if there
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Speaker 2: was something schematically that that Dallas was doing, I'd have
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Speaker 2: to look back a little more closely at what they
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Speaker 2: were doing defensively, if they were playing a lot of
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Speaker 2: too high and really you know, keeping the safeties out
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Speaker 2: at the numbers or or what they were doing.
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Speaker 1: But we're playing too high, I mean they really were.
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Speaker 1: They were playing a lot of Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And and that's a you know, that's a risk against
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Speaker 2: you know, a team that can run the ball the
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Speaker 2: way that Philly can. So you know, it is kind
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Speaker 2: of a pick your poison a little bit with that
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Speaker 2: Philly offense. But I think that's that's one where if
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Speaker 2: teams are going to do that, Jalen Hurts is going
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Speaker 2: to have to start throwing some intermediate balls over the
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Speaker 2: middle because that's where the that's where the soft spot
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Speaker 2: in that zone is going to be. So I think that,
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Speaker 2: you know, that'll that will sort itself out. I think
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Speaker 2: they'll they'll look at the tape and probably identify that
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Speaker 2: as an area where they can probably exploit some defenses
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Speaker 2: if they're going to keep playing that too high shell
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Speaker 2: quite a bit. Yeah, but yeah, that the Eagles have
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Speaker 2: way more than what they put on tape on Thursday.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think they were probably lucky
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Speaker 2: to escape with a win. But you know, fundamentally, they're
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Speaker 2: they're want to know and absolutely that's what it boils
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Speaker 2: down to. And you know, there's there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: teams that that didn't get so lucky. I'm looking at you,
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Speaker 2: you know out in Kansas City, where where one score
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Speaker 2: regression finally hit. So so my my math noted him
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Speaker 2: was very happy that regression finally finally hit those guys. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Look, yeah, the team that you cover, the team that
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Speaker 1: you've been a fan of, the Green Bay Packers, I mean,
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Speaker 1: they are definitely looming as a real and viable threat
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Speaker 1: to the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles this season.
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Speaker 1: In fact, in my season preview, I actually have the
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Speaker 1: Packers playing the Eagles in the NFC Championship Game. And
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Speaker 1: if that comes down to it, I think it's going
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Speaker 1: to be phenomenal. And I'm saying based on what we
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Speaker 1: saw this week from the Packers, my gosh, texts, they
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Speaker 1: played some amazing football this Sunday against the Lions, and
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Speaker 1: what was most notable was for me was just the
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Speaker 1: sheer dominance of the Packers defense. I mean, they were
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Speaker 1: just swarming the ball. Their pursuit to the ball with
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Speaker 1: some of the best I've seen from them, and I
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Speaker 1: can't even tell you how long. What are your thoughts
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Speaker 1: on how the Packers defense may actually dominate this season?
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Speaker 1: Or and I say this with a little hesitation, or
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Speaker 1: was this a situation here from Week one where you
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Speaker 1: had three new starters for the Lions offensive line who
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Speaker 1: were really getting their feet wet and were just kind
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Speaker 1: of overwhelmed matched. Is this really a dominant Packers defense
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Speaker 1: or was it like an offensive line that was just
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Speaker 1: really trying to trying to figure out their way.
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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts here? Yeah, you're You're absolutely right
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Speaker 2: in terms of the aggressiveness and the tackling and taking
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Speaker 2: angles to the ballcarriers. That was one of the best
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Speaker 2: performances from this team since probably you know, the Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl year. It's been a while. Yeah, yeah, And I
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Speaker 2: think part of it is. Part of it is personnel.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they've got second year at linebacker and Eddrian Cooper,
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Speaker 2: who I firmly believe is going to be an All
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Speaker 2: Pro this year. They've got you know, Xavier McKinney was
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Speaker 2: an All Pro last year. Kawai Walker played better in
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Speaker 2: that game than I think I've seen him play at
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Speaker 2: any point in his his first three years in the NFL.
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Speaker 2: And then we get to the Micah Parsons factor, and
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Speaker 2: what a jolt he brought to this defense, to the
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Speaker 2: Lamba field. Honestly, yeah, I mean he was. He was
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Speaker 2: the last guy to get introduced as part of the
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Speaker 2: starting defense before before the game started, and Lambo just exploded.
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Speaker 2: And again, I mean the energy around this team, that
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Speaker 2: the fact that with Parsons out there, teams have to
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Speaker 2: game plan for him. So now you're getting Rashan Gary's
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Speaker 2: getting one on ones. You're getting Lucas van Ness, who
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Speaker 2: looks like a much improved player this year already in
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Speaker 2: a small sample size, he's getting one on one. You know,
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Speaker 2: Kenny Clark was the big trade piece, right for going
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Speaker 2: back to Dallas in that trade, but the Packers didn't
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Speaker 2: look like they needed him. They got really good play
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Speaker 2: out of their defensive tackles that I think was probably
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Speaker 2: in part influenced by that young offensive line on the
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Speaker 2: interior that you mentioned for Detroit. Okay, I don't know
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Speaker 2: that I expect the Packers interier line to hold up
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Speaker 2: quite as well long term as they did in this game,
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Speaker 2: but certainly off the edge. I mean this team it
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Speaker 2: has now embarrassment of Riches, super explosive and Parsons, you know,
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Speaker 2: he forced a pick, he forced the three and out
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Speaker 2: on the first drive. And the Packers really had a
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Speaker 2: great flow for this game. They had they really hit
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Speaker 2: head control all the way through. I mean, they come out,
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Speaker 2: they get the ball, they go down, long touchdown drive
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Speaker 2: right off the bat, force the three and out, come back,
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Speaker 2: you kick a field goal. Well, then Detroit goes down
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Speaker 2: and takes nine minutes off the clock, but you get
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Speaker 2: a stop in the red zone. You hold them too,
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Speaker 2: a field goal. It's ten to seven, and then the
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Speaker 2: Explosives kick in. Two plays later, Packers score a touchdown
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Speaker 2: forty eight yard bombed Dobs, a seventeen year touchdown to
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Speaker 2: Jayden Reid, and all of a sudden, it's a two
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Speaker 2: touchdown game. Midway through the second quarter. And now the
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Speaker 2: Lions can't really do all of the funky run game
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Speaker 2: stuff that they like to do, and they have to
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Speaker 2: throw the ball a little bit more, which gives Parsons
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Speaker 2: more opportunity to tee off as a pass rusher, and
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Speaker 2: the game state was just as ideal as it possibly
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Speaker 2: could have been for a Matt Lafleur coach team. And
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Speaker 2: then for the situation that the Packers were in wanting
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Speaker 2: to kind of get Parsons involved as more of a
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Speaker 2: situational pass rusher. I mean, you had basically the entire
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Speaker 2: second half where he didn't need to leave the field
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Speaker 2: because that was all that Detroit was going to be
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Speaker 2: able to do is throw the ball. So he ended
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Speaker 2: up playing almost half of the defensive snaps. I think
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Speaker 2: if it's a more if it's a closer game and
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Speaker 2: Detroit's in their normal offense for more of that game,
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Speaker 2: you probably only see him playing thirty thirty five percent
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Speaker 2: of those snaps, but he probably played an extra ten
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Speaker 2: or twelve snaps because simply Detroit had no choice but
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Speaker 2: to throw the ball in the second half. And if
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Speaker 2: that's a you know, if that's an indication, don't. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that. I think he's gonna have a big
12:24
Speaker 2: uptick in playing time for this week, especially on a
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Speaker 2: short week with the Packers playing Washington on Thursday night.
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Speaker 2: That's right, yeah, coming off of the mini bi after
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Speaker 2: Thursday night, Week three, in Cleveland, I think is when
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Speaker 2: we're going to start to really see him worked in
12:36
Speaker 2: a little bit more as an every down player, working
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Speaker 2: him in on bass downs, when he's had a little
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Speaker 2: more more of time to get to know the playbook
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Speaker 2: and have some more practices, installing some of the Jeff
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Speaker 2: Affley concepts.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to tell you, it's going to be
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Speaker 1: interesting watching this Packers defense, especially the front seven. My gosh,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be really fun watching them. But I
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Speaker 1: also have to say, you know, as we're moving along
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Speaker 1: with the conversation here in terms of the NFC, what
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Speaker 1: is going to be fun to watch, at least for me?
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Speaker 1: In terms of the NFC East as well, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be fun watching the New York Giants. It really is, Manse. Look,
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Speaker 1: I don't think many of us in the NFC here
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Speaker 1: need to worry about the New York Giants. I mean,
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Speaker 1: what a complete freaking mess this team is. I usually
13:16
Speaker 1: don't take much joy in this type of stuff, but
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Speaker 1: I've got some friends out there. I've got some acquaintances
13:21
Speaker 1: out there who for years and years to the Eli
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Speaker 1: Manning years and him. We're getting two Super Bowls, Oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, They're the greatest thing since sliced bread. Look,
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Speaker 1: I know it is just week one here, text, but
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Brian Dabele is the head coach
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Speaker 1: of this team at the end of the season based
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Speaker 1: on what we saw just in week one, for God's sake, here,
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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on the Giants and the dumpster
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Speaker 1: fire that they were right out of the gate?
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Speaker 2: Man, I think it's gonna be a race between Brian
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Speaker 2: Dable and Mike McDaniel in Miami as to who might
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Speaker 2: get canned first this season.
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Speaker 1: I really thought I was thinking after the Miami game too.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not sure if McDaniel's gonna make it
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Speaker 1: to week two. Seriously, I never think it was before
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Speaker 1: that was.
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Speaker 2: Rough, man, But I mean I couldn't believe that. This afternoon,
14:06
Speaker 2: apparently Dable announced that Russell Wilson is going to start
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Speaker 2: for Week two again too. So man, Wilson, Wilson looks
14:13
Speaker 2: like he needs to hang him up too, absolutely, and
14:15
Speaker 2: and and really just yeah, that Giants team was a
14:17
Speaker 2: mess all the way around. And I saw I saw
14:20
Speaker 2: bits and pieces of that game. I didn't watch the
14:23
Speaker 2: whole thing, but what I saw, I feel like didn't
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Speaker 2: really give me any read on the Commanders because it
14:28
Speaker 2: felt like they were barely going up against NFL competition
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Speaker 2: in that game. I would have liked to have seen him,
14:34
Speaker 2: you know, have to play a little bit of a
14:35
Speaker 2: tougher matchup in Week one to to get him a
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Speaker 2: little bit more banged up heading onto a short week
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Speaker 2: and heading up to Green Bay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're going to be playing the Packers.
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Speaker 1: That's certainly gonna be the test, right Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, but no, it's it's it's ugly out there, man.
14:49
Speaker 2: And and I've got as as a fantasy football guy,
14:52
Speaker 2: I've got Tyrone Tracy in a couple of leagues and
14:54
Speaker 2: he cashed in pretty big for me last year. But boy,
14:57
Speaker 2: there there's not much to to like.
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Speaker 1: Their offensive line, right, Yeah, their offensive line is absolutely horrendous. Well, folks,
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Speaker 1: I want to get into the AFC now. We did
16:53
Speaker 1: a lot of NFC talk right out of the gate,
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Speaker 1: and I think one of the biggest surprises for me
16:59
Speaker 1: from week one one digesting it was really the AFC
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Speaker 1: West and the teams that we saw performing on the field.
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Speaker 1: I mean the Chiefs, they really didn't look like the
17:09
Speaker 1: Chiefs that we've been used to seeing over the past
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Speaker 1: maybe like six seven years or so.
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Speaker 2: Here.
17:13
Speaker 1: I thought the Broncos offense and bow Knicks would come
17:16
Speaker 1: out swinging and be a complete force. I mean, as
17:19
Speaker 1: a prediction that I had on our preview show, they
17:22
Speaker 1: really weren't doing much. With Bownicks turning the ball over
17:25
Speaker 1: as much as he did. The Chargers played some real
17:28
Speaker 1: tough football with the Chiefs winning that game. I was surprised,
17:32
Speaker 1: quite frankly, and just surprised where the AFC West is here?
17:35
Speaker 1: What surprised you the most about this division? Again, the
17:38
Speaker 1: AFC West, Like right out of the gate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, can I say that the Chargers didn't blow it late? Right?
17:45
Speaker 2: Charges it up right? And again I mean I mentioned
17:49
Speaker 2: I joked about it earlier, but the one score game
17:51
Speaker 2: thing with that Chargers Chiefs game, I was again, I'm
17:56
Speaker 2: I was kind of happy that they that that streak
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Speaker 2: of whatever it was, like fourteen straight one score games
18:01
Speaker 2: or something, Yeah, that the Chiefs had won got got broken.
18:04
Speaker 2: Because we're big regression to the mean people when it
18:09
Speaker 2: comes to unsustainable trends over acne packing companies. So nice
18:13
Speaker 2: to see things balance them out a little bit. But
18:15
Speaker 2: I mean, one of the other things to me was
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Speaker 2: that Jim Harbaugh let justin Herbert cook a little bit.
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Speaker 2: He did. That was a little surprising to me because
18:22
Speaker 2: that that is very kind of unhrball like just in general,
18:25
Speaker 2: with his general attitude towards, you know, how football should
18:29
Speaker 2: be played and how to construct an offense. So the
18:32
Speaker 2: fact that Herbert went out there and I mean had
18:34
Speaker 2: a phenomenal game, and I was also really I was,
18:39
Speaker 2: I was impressed that Harbaugh didn't just kind of try
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Speaker 2: to run out the clock late with with the running
18:45
Speaker 2: game and just run three draws or three halfback dives
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Speaker 2: up the middle. He actually let, you know, let Herbert
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Speaker 2: get out on a bootleg to give him the run
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Speaker 2: pass option to and then he you know, ends up
18:55
Speaker 2: scrambling and having that awesome slide to finish off the game.
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Speaker 2: So that was maybe the biggest surprise to me was
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Speaker 2: was seeing how the Chargers played and how Harbaugh really
19:06
Speaker 2: kind of opened up that offense.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, there were a lot of surprises here in
19:10
Speaker 1: Week one, especially in the AFC two. I was also
19:14
Speaker 1: surprised text at how we saw a rather anemic Bengals
19:19
Speaker 1: offense play against the Cleveland Browns. And I know the
19:21
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns have a pretty good defense, but it was
19:24
Speaker 1: actually the Bengals defense that kind of led the way
19:28
Speaker 1: to their seventeen to sixteen victory over the Browns. Joe
19:32
Speaker 1: Burrow and his star wide receivers and Jamar Chase and
19:35
Speaker 1: T Higgins, that wide receiver duo that got some big
19:39
Speaker 1: Buco contract extensions and money. They really didn't do much
19:43
Speaker 1: through the air at all. And I'm somebody on my
19:45
Speaker 1: fantasy teams who has a little bit too much T
19:48
Speaker 1: Higgins out there, and I was none too please at all.
19:51
Speaker 1: Were you surprised at how bad I should say quote
19:55
Speaker 1: bad that the Bengals offense really looked and should this
19:58
Speaker 1: be a bigger storyline heading into we too? What do
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Speaker 1: you think?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's definitely surprised anytime you
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Speaker 2: have that many big weapons and there's basically no production
20:07
Speaker 2: out of those guys. I still have major question marks
20:11
Speaker 2: about the Bengals offensive line, and I don't think they've
20:15
Speaker 2: I don't think they've answered many of those questions over
20:17
Speaker 2: the last probably five basically Joe Burrow's entire tenure practically
20:22
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati at this point. So I mean he takes
20:25
Speaker 2: he takes about as many hits as anybody, but maybe
20:28
Speaker 2: like Akla Williams in the NFL these days. So I mean, again,
20:33
Speaker 2: it comes down to the trenches, right, it starts there.
20:35
Speaker 2: If he can get some time to throw, I think
20:37
Speaker 2: you're you're in a much better position. But obviously, again,
20:40
Speaker 2: you know you mentioned that the Browns have a good defense.
20:42
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett is Miles Garrett, and certainly that's gonna I
20:46
Speaker 2: mean think he had two sacks in that game, So yeah,
20:49
Speaker 2: he was certainly a big factor there. But yeah, I
20:54
Speaker 2: selfishly hope that they don't find their strident until at
20:56
Speaker 2: least like week seven or eight, because the factors get
20:59
Speaker 2: the the Bengals coming coming into lambo in week six,
21:03
Speaker 2: so they can wait a couple of weeks to figure
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Speaker 2: it out as far as I could.
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Speaker 1: Say, absolutely. All Right, well, buddy, before I let you go,
21:09
Speaker 1: you know that we are always talking about under the
21:12
Speaker 1: radar storylines here on the PSD podcast show, So I
21:15
Speaker 1: know it's a general question. You're a football fan, you
21:18
Speaker 1: watched a lot of football this past weekend here, what
21:20
Speaker 1: do you think is one of the most underrated story
21:22
Speaker 1: or I was sorry, one of the most under the
21:24
Speaker 1: radar storylines from a player or a team in the
21:28
Speaker 1: NFL after digesting what we just saw in Week.
21:31
Speaker 2: One, Yeah, I'm gonna go with I'm really just intrigued
21:37
Speaker 2: to see how all of the rookie receivers this year
21:41
Speaker 2: sort of develop within their different often likes like you've
21:44
Speaker 2: got You've got a bunch of these guys in the
21:46
Speaker 2: first round. I mean, Matthew Golden had a kind of
21:48
Speaker 2: a quiet Week one for the Packers. He played a
21:51
Speaker 2: decent amount of snaps, but I think he only had
21:52
Speaker 2: one target. He had a punt return, but a Mecca
21:56
Speaker 2: Buca had a great game in his debut for Tampa,
21:58
Speaker 2: a couple of touchdowns. I mean, he looks like with
22:00
Speaker 2: Chris Godwin still hurt, I mean, he's gonna be thrust
22:03
Speaker 2: into a big time role on day one, and he
22:06
Speaker 2: certainly stepped up right away for for Tampa. Men tem
22:09
Speaker 2: McMillan out in Carolina. Kind of how he comes along
22:13
Speaker 2: with with his chemistry with Bryce Young and what that
22:15
Speaker 2: offense does. He had a decent, decent start to the season.
22:19
Speaker 2: So you know, personally, again being a Packers fan with
22:22
Speaker 2: Golden in Green Bay, I'm gonna be kind of following,
22:25
Speaker 2: you know, following that trajectory and kind of seeing where
22:27
Speaker 2: those guys end up kind of slotting in throughout the
22:30
Speaker 2: season and how they produce relative to one another. But
22:33
Speaker 2: I do think it's going to be really fun because
22:35
Speaker 2: I think all three of those guys in particular just
22:38
Speaker 2: have phenomenal talents. You know, I would have been ecstatic
22:42
Speaker 2: with any one of those three in the Packers' uniform
22:44
Speaker 2: this season. Didn't even mention like some of the second rounders.
22:48
Speaker 2: Jadon Higgins, I really like coming out of Iowa State
22:50
Speaker 2: the guy for the Texans. So there's a lot of
22:53
Speaker 2: exciting young playmakers and it's just gonna be a lot
22:57
Speaker 2: of fun. I think to watch these guys because I
23:00
Speaker 2: think a couple of them are are going to have
23:01
Speaker 2: some pretty big breakout seasons. The bookend receivers for forever
23:05
Speaker 2: right has been it's not till year two, maybe year
23:07
Speaker 2: three that they start to break out, and guys has
23:09
Speaker 2: started to break that mold. Jefferson really was the big
23:12
Speaker 2: one a couple of years ago. Chase did it too,
23:14
Speaker 2: But I think you got a good chance that, you know,
23:16
Speaker 2: all three of those first rounders could be, you know,
23:18
Speaker 2: approaching a thousand yards receiving by the end of this year,
23:22
Speaker 2: and so it'll be it'll be a fun thing to
23:24
Speaker 2: track as the season goes along.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a great under the under the radar storyline
23:28
Speaker 1: for sure. And folks again, he is Evan techs Western
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Speaker 2: Buddy.
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Speaker 1: It was great having you on our table talk interview
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Speaker 1: show this week. Always a great time come back join
23:42
Speaker 1: us down the road. I'd love to have you back
23:43
Speaker 1: on the show again. My friend.
23:45
Speaker 2: Definitely, Hey, week ten. Week ten will be a fun one,
23:48
Speaker 2: so hopefully we'll we'll we'll have a chance to chop
23:51
Speaker 2: it up before Packers Eagles in a couple of weeks.
23:52
Speaker 2: It'll be a good time.
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