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Mac & Bone Show - Zach Gelb Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Zach gel, compass media joins us here on the Mac
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  Speaker 1: and bone show to help us cope with what's happened.
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  Speaker 2: The last two games, Galby what's happening, man. What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: I know what Fitty could do. So Fitty's got the
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  Speaker 3: bosoms to dress up as Belichick. So he dresses up
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  Speaker 3: as Belichick and he brings a little play calling sheep.
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  Speaker 3: That's his phone to be able to watch the UNC Miami.
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  Speaker 2: That's a hell of a plan about the hell of
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  Speaker 2: a plan. He's got the Can you get Maddie to
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  Speaker 2: dress up like Jordan Hudson? That would be a hell
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  Speaker 2: of a costume. I think she's going as a carrot.
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  Speaker 2: I saw the outfit last night. We'll just leave it
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  Speaker 2: at that. You know what?
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  Speaker 3: She's going as a carrot. That's basically baby food. Probably
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  Speaker 3: the same food that Jordan Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Galby, this Panthers season has just taken a turn, a
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  Speaker 1: hideous turn. What are you, what are you thinking? I mean,
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: everything's so hard. The offensive line injuries, the cornerback injuries.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of this team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The team's banged up. And once the interception happened last night,
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  Speaker 3: it was like the air just got let out of
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  Speaker 3: the balloon. Like I was agreeing with Herb street earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the game. It's like, you look at Bryce young
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  Speaker 3: and he has Moxie and he has toughness, but you
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  Speaker 3: look at the defensive side of the ball. That's the
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  Speaker 3: alarming part for me. Like, I feel like we talk
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  Speaker 3: about this each and every week, the defense stinks. Like
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  Speaker 3: they got issues right now. uh, golden and Watson and
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  Speaker 3: then Watson, uh, coming out of the, uh, the hospital
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  Speaker 3: back onto the, uh, you know, onto the sideline. It
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  Speaker 3: was just, uh, it was the game that I, it
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  Speaker 3: didn't go the way I expected it to. Cause early
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  Speaker 3: on I go, okay, it's just going to be a
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  Speaker 3: high octane offensive game and they're going to be going
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  Speaker 3: back and forth. But by the end of it, it
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  Speaker 3: was like, man, the Panthers forgot to play in the
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  Speaker 3: second half.
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  Speaker 4: On the offensive side, obviously, it was a defensive problem
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday against Tampa. Yesterday, the offensive line was terrible.
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  Speaker 4: Do you put most of that on the offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: or do you put some on Bryce? What's your assessment
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  Speaker 4: of what you saw yesterday, offensive line versus Bryce's performance?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would put it more on the offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: but it's like the weapons around Bryce. I know Ted
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  Speaker 3: is coming off a rookie of the year, so I'm
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  Speaker 3: not crushing him, but I just thought there would be
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  Speaker 3: more explosive plays for this offense in a game like
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  Speaker 3: that last night. And, you know, early on after they
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  Speaker 3: got in the end zone, it was just what I
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  Speaker 3: expected them to look like was the complete antithesis last night.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been like that the last two weeks, man.
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  Speaker 1: This team's averaging 16 points a game. They're averaging five
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  Speaker 1: and a half sacks a game allowed. Do you like
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  Speaker 1: when you watch that.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of remind me of the team comp I would
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  Speaker 3: give them right now? is they're kind of looking like
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  Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Eagles where both of these teams, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they have the talent where the offense should be better.
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  Speaker 3: But when you have offensive line injuries and you have
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  Speaker 3: a unit not playing well, it really just takes away
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  Speaker 3: from anything that the offense can do.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing you can't scheme around it. You can't, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? You can't get the ball downfield
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  Speaker 1: because there's not enough time. Now, do you think is
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  Speaker 1: bright Bryce losing money right now? Is that safe to like,
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  Speaker 1: have you, are you changing your feeling about the Panthers
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  Speaker 1: needing to resign Bryce?
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to evaluate him in games like this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. Here's the thing. I think we all
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  Speaker 3: know that price should not get $ 55 million a year,
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  Speaker 3: but when you're a good quarterback, you sometimes get great money.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll just ask this question. If the Panthers say
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to pay Bryce young, like who's going
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  Speaker 3: to come in and replace them. Like the guy has
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  Speaker 3: been a good enough quarterback for you guys. The other
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  Speaker 3: thing you got to just look at is the parameters
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  Speaker 3: of the division. Like if he was thrown in an
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  Speaker 3: actual division, we maybe would be talking about him differently,
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  Speaker 3: but even last year, it's not as if they really
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  Speaker 3: earned the right to go to the postseason. They backed
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  Speaker 3: their way into winning the NFC South. So I look
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  Speaker 3: at Bryce and I go, maybe there could be a
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  Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield deal out for him. It's probably going to
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  Speaker 3: be richer than what Baker got. I'm talking about when
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  Speaker 3: he first did go to Tampa Bay, but who knows?
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  Speaker 3: Eventually I would like to think that all this quarterback
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  Speaker 3: money is going to even out and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: get back to a point of sanity. But once the, the,
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  Speaker 3: the cat is out of the bag and, and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Pandora's box is open. It's tough to get everyone back,
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  Speaker 3: you know, into one place of, of, of a normal
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  Speaker 3: common sense in the quarterback paying department.
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  Speaker 4: We have a text question for you, Gil. Do you
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  Speaker 4: think this could get bad enough where Canalis would get
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  Speaker 4: on the hot seat?
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  Speaker 3: Potentially. I like, I would like to think last year
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  Speaker 3: gives him a year to get it right. If this
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  Speaker 3: one does go South, uh, especially how bad of a
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  Speaker 3: job that was when things did go over. But, uh, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Tepper could only be quiet for so long.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I really haven't ever since he threw that drink on
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  Speaker 3: that fan. We haven't really heard much, uh, from David Tepper.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that is just, uh, just a volcano
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  Speaker 3: waiting to erupt. So I will not say that that
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  Speaker 3: is crazy, but if I'm going to operate on how
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  Speaker 3: football teams should operate, I would like to think Canales
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  Speaker 3: will be back next year, but if they go lose
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  Speaker 3: six in a row, seven in a row, then, then,
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  Speaker 3: then that's a different story.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't fall apart like that, but my God,
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  Speaker 1: with this offensive line, this group that is playing right now. Jeez,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to see the way out. We're talking with
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  Speaker 1: Zach Gelb. I'll ask you this question, Gelby. Richard Sherman
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  Speaker 1: was asked this question after the game. I guess in
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  Speaker 1: the pregame, he was saying that the Panthers are the
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  Speaker 1: best team in the South, which I would have still
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  Speaker 1: been saying in the pregame myself yesterday. After the game,
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of hemming and hawing about it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: who do you think's the best team in the South
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  Speaker 1: right now? Is that even an answerable question?
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  Speaker 2: I would. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, who's the tallest dwarf, you know, that's pretty
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  Speaker 3: much the way that, that we operate that one. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Like I, I would answer it this way. B John
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  Speaker 3: Robinson is the best player. So in a division where
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  Speaker 3: you don't need to be a good team to win
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  Speaker 3: the division, Can B. John Robinson get the Falcons to
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  Speaker 3: eight wins and maybe have a tiebreaker go their way? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I would say so. I think them, the Panthers and
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  Speaker 3: the Falcons are the two best teams in this division.
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  Speaker 3: But I was bullish on the Saints going into this
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  Speaker 3: year because of the quarterback. Maybe they get back into
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  Speaker 3: the race like you guys know this. It doesn't take
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  Speaker 3: much to get back into the race in this division. Definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Yo, big trade yesterday. The Bears get Jeffrey Simmons from
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  Speaker 4: the Titans. When you look at the Bears' big game
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  Speaker 4: with Seattle on Monday night coming up, are you now
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  Speaker 4: thinking the Bears are a legit Super Bowl contender if
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  Speaker 4: they get a defense to go with that Ben Johnson offense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like Ben Johnson. He comes off to
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  Speaker 3: me as so insufferable. But I thought that before the
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  Speaker 3: season started, they were a legitimate Super Bowl contender. Here's
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  Speaker 3: the fun part about... not only the NFL, but also
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  Speaker 3: college football. There's a lot of parody the last two,
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  Speaker 3: three years. Who would have thought last year, the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: and the Patriots would have been in the Superbowl. Who
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  Speaker 3: would have thought Indiana would have won the national championship.
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  Speaker 3: Both of these sports seven, eight weeks into the season
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  Speaker 3: are very open. So I look at that deal and
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  Speaker 3: I say, yeah, Tennessee initially won the trade because they
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  Speaker 3: got two first round picks for a player that that
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  Speaker 3: they wanted to get rid of who was a great player,
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  Speaker 3: but they're nowhere close to winning. So you go get
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  Speaker 3: the most draft capital. But if you're Chicago, that 2027
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  Speaker 3: pick is going to be later on in the first round.
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  Speaker 3: And then as long as your quarterback stays healthy, you
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  Speaker 3: would like to think in 2028, you're still going to
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  Speaker 3: be a playoff team. So I respect that the Bears said, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to go swing big because there's a chance
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  Speaker 3: that they could get to the Super Bowl this year.
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  Speaker 3: Because you look at the NFC, I know the Niners
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  Speaker 3: just suffered their first loss of the season, but they're
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  Speaker 3: banged up with injuries. Seahawks, they made the big trade
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  Speaker 3: this week for Quinn and Nelson. The NFC East is
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  Speaker 3: a disaster. The NFC South is a disaster. So it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: to go to the Super Bowl this year should probably
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  Speaker 3: be from the West or the NFC North.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're in a spot where it's probably worth
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  Speaker 1: going for it the way the Bears are. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a problem with what they gave them.
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  Speaker 3: That organization has been down and out for a while.
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  Speaker 3: You can only hold on to what happened in the
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  Speaker 3: 80s for so long. I know they had that Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl appearance where they lost to Peyton Manning in 2006.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like you look at it right now. yeah,
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  Speaker 3: with that coach and, and, and also with that quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: it reminds me a lot of the Detroit lions from
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  Speaker 3: a few years ago. And the lions almost got to
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  Speaker 3: a super bowl. They, they probably should have when, when
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  Speaker 3: they blew that game to the, to the 49ers in
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  Speaker 3: the NFC championship game.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Galby, you are the man. It's good to,
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  Speaker 1: good to hear from you again on Friday. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like you were nice today. I feel like you could
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: have obliterated the Carolina Panthers after their offense blinded all
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  Speaker 1: of America.
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  Speaker 2: With that crappy performance. I appreciate that from you. Gelby.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm in the Halloween spirit. I'm hoping when 50
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: is going trick or treating that he gets me some
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: Reese's peanut butter cups and some KitKat bars. That's what
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. I think it's worth it. I think
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  Speaker 2: what you did was worth it.