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- 0:06[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to a special edition of the Colts Report with Will and Dave Rutherford, their preview of the Colts game in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
- 0:16[SPEAKER_02]: It's only on the central Indian sports report.
- 0:21[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Colts fans and welcome Dave and Will.
- 0:24[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Greg Mengelt, your host.
- 0:26[SPEAKER_02]: And I said at the beginning of the year, this is the one game on the schedule that I thought was an automatic loss.
- 0:34[SPEAKER_02]: Sunday in Pittsburgh coming back from Europe going to the House of Horses, but after the last couple of weeks and seeing the Steelers the last couple of weeks, particularly their offense, I'm not so sure anymore.
- 0:49[SPEAKER_01]: This Steelers team sucks, they fired microcar Fiat's the same team, really, there's not a team I hate more than the Steelers in terms of just what they do and try to out a week in a week out, I think Aaron Rogers, as much as I respect, I think he's the greatest throw in the football ever, it's about time to hang them.
- 1:06[SPEAKER_01]: He looks awfully slow a bit too combative.
- 1:11[SPEAKER_01]: I think sometimes on the offensive side of the ball I love Aaron Rogers.
- 1:15[SPEAKER_01]: I really do and you know he's not having some awful season I don't love a 57 and a half
- 1:22[SPEAKER_01]: completion percentage, but they are inefficient and what they have at the receiver position.
- 1:27[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Jeremy Benard is getting snaps.
- 1:29[SPEAKER_01]: He's a rookie slot receiver and he's at times playing, you know, meaningful minutes, DK Metcalfs not necessarily rebounded from what we saw last year in terms of his production with the Steelers.
- 1:40[SPEAKER_01]: So, Michael Pippman's not been healthy either.
- 1:43[SPEAKER_01]: And,
- 1:45[SPEAKER_01]: saying Rogers probably has had a ton of help, but at the same time they've got a pretty good run game, I think they have an awfully versatile back in Jalen Warren, I think that there are two tight ends in Pat Firemuth and Darnell Washington are awfully talented, so it's still a good offense.
- 2:04[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure that they're probably jumping at the mid to the cold's defense.
- 2:08[SPEAKER_01]: I just hope that we're able to effectively establish a running in the way we can.
- 2:13[SPEAKER_01]: That's how you win on the road.
- 2:14[SPEAKER_01]: Just by running the ball down, the other teams throw and control in the clock, playing good special teams, controlling field position, if the colds can do that, I think they have a chance to be off the successful on Sunday.
- 2:27[SPEAKER_02]: Dave, honestly, it will's right.
- 2:32[SPEAKER_02]: Aaron Rodgers that the weakness of this team right now, for sure.
- 2:38[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, his numbers are worse than Daniel Jones and we've been talking about how bad he's been.
- 2:44[SPEAKER_00]: So.
- 2:46[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably just a father time has has come and it's time for a new regime there and Rogers needs to go into the Hall of Fame, but it's still Aaron Rogers.
- 2:58[SPEAKER_00]: We know that he has maybe maybe we'll have a little bit more left in the tank and we're going to have to still go and play our best game.
- 3:06[SPEAKER_00]: I think we'll write about us establishing the run and making a long day for their defense on the field.
- 3:14[SPEAKER_00]: If we can do those things, even though I know our defense struggles at times, there's nothing exciting about this stealer offense that I don't feel like we can't stop.
- 3:25[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it could be a good day and Pittsburgh.
- 3:32[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, honestly, I think it's a really good stealer's offense.
- 3:36[SPEAKER_02]: It's been hamstrung by Rogers and like you will, I think Rogers is probably the most talented quarterback in the history of the NFL and a definitely a top 15 quarterback of all time, performance wise.
- 3:48[SPEAKER_02]: I have a ton of respect for the guy as a quarterback, but he looks awful.
- 3:53[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I will say this, a couple of games this year he hasn't looked awful, and last year was horrible leading up to the Colts game, and then was pretty good against the Colts, so I don't know exactly what to expect on Sunday.
- 4:05[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think he's just limited his mobility is decreased a lot the last few years, especially since had Achilles injury and so he's not been able to utilize his legs to help give him time and play kind of a Patrick Mahomes style where you know the defense on the asked to stop you know the first play but then they have to stop the play after the play where.
- 4:24[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it breaks down and it's a scramble drill and that's where I'm Rodgers is the best of the Colts can model him up for him to be a pure pocket passer.
- 4:31[SPEAKER_01]: In the arm talent, always going to be there, he's going to be able to, you know, dot the ball wherever he needs to.
- 4:36[SPEAKER_01]: But you're going to be able to limit his opportunity to push it down the field, you know, kind of force him into check downs,
- 4:54[SPEAKER_01]: big explosive shot, explosive plays and kind of play Pittsburgh's together football where you are able to limit and make the other team play left hand and offensively.
- 5:07[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I need to see Luin a remote do.
- 5:10[SPEAKER_01]: Can they?
- 5:11[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
- 5:11[SPEAKER_01]: This is a limited defensive team.
- 5:15[SPEAKER_01]: I think that we have two great corners that aren't really playing like great corners.
- 5:19[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that after watching the film Mooney Ward played a little better than I gave him credit for on Sunday, but sauce gardener was bad.
- 5:26[SPEAKER_02]: There's just no other way.
- 5:28[SPEAKER_02]: He was bad on a couple of plays.
- 5:30[SPEAKER_01]: He wasn't bad all game.
- 5:32[SPEAKER_01]: A still.
- 5:34[SPEAKER_01]: The whole issue in what he's going to really struggle to establish his colds fan base, colds give up an awful lot to get him.
- 5:40[SPEAKER_01]: I know that's not his fault, but you got to play up to the town.
- 5:43[SPEAKER_01]: You got to play up to the contract.
- 5:44[SPEAKER_01]: You have to play up to the future that was kind of sold off for you to be here.
- 5:48[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not seeing that.
- 5:49[SPEAKER_01]: So I hope that that can improve.
- 5:51[SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
- 5:52[SPEAKER_01]: This is a Steelers receiving cord that is kind of limited to.
- 5:56[SPEAKER_01]: I.
- 5:57[SPEAKER_01]: really kind of all comes down to his Michael Pittman play because I you know he's going to have a huge revenge game against this cold scene that really kind of wrote him off and said I played through a spine injury last year so I'm sure he's going to play if he's an able to play at all.
- 6:12[SPEAKER_01]: DK is really kind of one of those interesting case studies where it's like he can really
- 6:18[SPEAKER_01]: come in and go off for 150, eight catches in a couple of touchdowns.
- 6:22[SPEAKER_01]: He can have games.
- 6:23[SPEAKER_01]: He has two or seconds for 20 yards too.
- 6:25[SPEAKER_01]: It's very streaky, very kind of up and down, especially if the Steelers aren't making it a priority to get it to him.
- 6:32[SPEAKER_01]: I expect to see a healthy dose of Darno, Washington and Pat Fryer Muth both.
- 6:36[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's what concerns me.
- 6:38[SPEAKER_01]: In the middle and also in a screen game, that's where I see the more.
- 6:42[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Jim, Jim, Jerry, very versatile
- 6:47[SPEAKER_02]: in the past game for our youth Washington Warren.
- 6:49[SPEAKER_02]: That's what concerns me more than Metcalf in pitmen of heat plays.
- 6:54[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's where Rodgers isn't his skill right now.
- 6:58[SPEAKER_01]: And his lack of mobility is that those guys see a lot of targets because they kind of and try to kill us.
- 7:06[SPEAKER_01]: And they have, they do, because we haven't done a very good nickel, but I'm very good lineback in court.
- 7:11[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's kind of a fee-stay, Pat Firemouth is licking his chops, getting ready to play this cold stain.
- 7:17[SPEAKER_01]: He thinks he can go for 100 yards.
- 7:19[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure.
- 7:22[SPEAKER_02]: And well, and Dave, we talked a little bit about this and the colds report this week.
- 7:26[SPEAKER_02]: I think.
- 7:28[SPEAKER_02]: This entire game comes down to the strength of the cults, their offensive line versus the strength of the Steelers, their defense of line, whoever wins that wins this game.
- 7:40[SPEAKER_00]: And if that's the case, I honestly, I like our chances in this game, because I think we've got a top five offensive line from the left side to the right side.
- 7:50[SPEAKER_00]: They've proven over and over and over again.
- 7:54[SPEAKER_00]: that they can run block, that they can pass block.
- 7:58[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like even with a solid defensive front that Pittsburgh has, we're gonna manhandle that.
- 8:05[SPEAKER_00]: And so, given that, I like our chances.
- 8:09[SPEAKER_00]: If we're comparing strengths to strengths, I like our strengths.
- 8:15[SPEAKER_02]: Man, that's dealer's front is awfully good, couple of Hall of Famers and a couple of underrated guys too.
- 8:22[SPEAKER_01]: Greg, I really think the chess match in this game is how can the coal to utilize Tyler Warren in space versus a very good nickel in Jalen Ramsey and Jalen Ramsey is on the injury report, so I'd be curious to see his availability if he's able to go on Sunday.
- 8:37[SPEAKER_01]: I surely would expect him to, and a big game like this where both teams are two and two early in the season.
- 8:43[SPEAKER_01]: But I can train strike and use his chess piece, and I think that that's what Todd O'Rorn really has to become.
- 8:49[SPEAKER_01]: I expect that the Steelers kind of you Jalen Ramsey in the same light.
- 8:53[SPEAKER_01]: can the cults take advantage of zone matchups at the Steelers give them in terms of getting a guy like Josh Shounds open space, getting a guy like Tyler Warner for an open in space.
- 9:04[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm going to be looking and paying attention to can make force them into a bit of a cover seven where you know one one side of the formation we've got four guys on three and the other side of the formation you've got three defending two.
- 9:19[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I am hoping
- 9:21[SPEAKER_01]: I can see Shane Stike and coming with a good game plan in the first 15, kind of scripted up, give us an idea of what we're going to see from this Pittsburgh defense.
- 9:29[SPEAKER_01]: And then in the second third quarter, kind of play off of that.
- 9:32[SPEAKER_01]: See if you can't hit him with a little bit of trickery, something, you know, that they've shown on film, a tendency that you see on third and eight, that they have the ability to kind of sink into and rely on their front four.
- 9:44[SPEAKER_01]: And you can win a
- 9:49[SPEAKER_01]: is as good of an opportunity as they have to beat the Steelers in some time because they don't have Mike Tomlin there.
- 9:56[SPEAKER_01]: Mike McCarthy hasn't seen the Colts in a while.
- 9:58[SPEAKER_01]: He did see him in Dallas a few years ago and it was a close game until it wasn't in the fourth quarter.
- 10:05[SPEAKER_01]: on some of my football, you know, the colds have an opportunity here to kind of set a positional advantage and they did kind of start to get the upper hand with Shane Stike and against Mike Tom on the last few years when they did beat a Met and in the apples a couple times.
- 10:18[SPEAKER_01]: So this is a colds team that hasn't all out in front of them.
- 10:22[SPEAKER_01]: They have to be really good in the put game, can't have touch backs.
- 10:25[SPEAKER_01]: They have to utilize field position the best way they can.
- 10:29[SPEAKER_01]: you hope that it's calm whether it does look like there is some tropical depression potentially from this hurricane hitting the golf.
- 10:36[SPEAKER_01]: So I'd be curious to see what that does to the wind, might limit the effect of a Spencer Schrager, but Pittsburgh's got an awfully good kicker and Chris Boswell too.
- 10:45[SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be the game within the game, the small chess pieces.
- 10:49[SPEAKER_01]: I think that the colds can hopefully establish an advantage and then you know get on a happy flight
- 10:58[SPEAKER_02]: Very good chance of rain, by the way.
- 11:01[SPEAKER_02]: That'll you mention it.
- 11:02[SPEAKER_01]: That'll help our wolves.
- 11:05[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe.
- 11:06[SPEAKER_02]: All right, guys, we'll take a quick break come back to make our predictions.
- 11:13[SPEAKER_02]: David Will and I will be back on Sunday with our reaction to the colds game against the Steelers and Pittsburgh.
- 11:22[SPEAKER_02]: Love an earlier version.
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- 11:36[SPEAKER_02]: Big enough game on Sunday that we're going to have Jim Nance as the announcer.
- 11:42[SPEAKER_02]: How do you feel about JJ Watt calling his brother game?
- 11:44[SPEAKER_02]: Have any problem with that?
- 11:47[SPEAKER_01]: I don't.
- 11:48[SPEAKER_01]: I think JJ Watts been a consummate professional in his broadcast career.
- 11:53[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's really good.
- 11:54[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what the guy think that him and Jim have gotten into their stride together yet.
- 12:00[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like any team worker, any team work setting where you're alive on other people to be good.
- 12:06[SPEAKER_01]: I think that does take time to get some chemistry, obviously Jim and Tony Rambo had been working together for eight years.
- 12:10[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, they were smooth.
- 12:12[SPEAKER_01]: They did kind of work through all the teams that they had maybe early on.
- 12:17[SPEAKER_01]: I like JJ a lot.
- 12:18[SPEAKER_01]: I think that he's a very good representative of the NFL.
- 12:20[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a good man and always appreciate.
- 12:25[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he is a great personality and I appreciate all the, you know, relief work and money he gave to Houston after the hurricane there and the 2010s.
- 12:35[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember exactly what year was, but he's just a good man.
- 12:38[SPEAKER_01]: You can tell he very down the earth.
- 12:41[SPEAKER_01]: Good dude and, you know, I'm very happy to see him have success.
- 12:45[SPEAKER_01]: in this broad casting career he's ventured into.
- 12:49[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, I agree 100% I don't have an issue with it.
- 12:52[SPEAKER_00]: You know, for all the same reasons you guys mentioned and good for them.
- 12:56[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully I'll get a chance to go out for supper and spend a little time together and but come game day I have no doubt that they're both going to do their jobs and hopefully TJ doesn't do quite as well at his as JJ on Sunday.
- 13:12[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully they go out to dinner after the game and cry about a loss.
- 13:16[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I can live with that little bit more JJ way instead of JJ want.
- 13:25[SPEAKER_02]: I was gonna ask you've never seen that.
- 13:27[SPEAKER_02]: I love so much eight wins in 36 games against the Steelers and Inpitsburg.
- 13:35[SPEAKER_02]: I think two wins all time and it's just awful there.
- 13:40[SPEAKER_02]: So now it's time for to make our predictions.
- 13:43[SPEAKER_02]: Well, do they get it done?
- 13:46[SPEAKER_01]: I think so, I think it's gross and I get whether probably plays a factor in and I think that the rain probably affects the cults and appear running game and necessarily the Steelers.
- 13:55[SPEAKER_01]: So, is it perfect to know it's going to be sloppy?
- 13:58[SPEAKER_01]: I hope that they can keep the ball that they know Jones' hands as much as possible.
- 14:01[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a walking turnover waiting to happen right now and I think they do that.
- 14:05[SPEAKER_01]: I think Taylor goes for a buck 20, a couple of tugs and they win 23, 17.
- 14:12[SPEAKER_02]: like it.
- 14:13[SPEAKER_02]: Dave, I think it's going to be a game almost exactly like last year.
- 14:18[SPEAKER_02]: That's the way I see this one going a lot of short games by the Steelers, a lot of long drives.
- 14:25[SPEAKER_02]: I think the culture going to be able to score as well, but I can't consciously pick the cults to win a game in Pittsburgh.
- 14:33[SPEAKER_02]: That's insane.
- 14:34[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to take the Steelers to win 26 to 21.
- 14:43[SPEAKER_00]: I'll break the tie.
- 14:44[SPEAKER_00]: I think that this cold team is coming off a couple of big wins and still have not played their best game yet.
- 14:51[SPEAKER_00]: It's trending that way.
- 14:53[SPEAKER_00]: The Steelers are not the Steelers of the past.
- 14:56[SPEAKER_00]: And I believe the colds go into Pittsburgh and they get it done.
- 15:00[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's gonna be pretty low scoring.
- 15:02[SPEAKER_00]: I think either offense or I should say that the colds offense can put up points
- 15:09[SPEAKER_00]: But I think the Steelers' defense is good enough to prevent some of that.
- 15:13[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to say the cults when 1916.
- 15:18[SPEAKER_02]: You guys are insane.
- 15:20[SPEAKER_02]: They're coming back from Europe.
- 15:21[SPEAKER_02]: It's in Pittsburgh.
- 15:23[SPEAKER_02]: The ball doesn't even float right from quarterbacks hands in Pittsburgh.
- 15:28[SPEAKER_02]: You guys have seen that through the years, right?
- 15:30[SPEAKER_02]: You've watched games in Pittsburgh, right?
- 15:32[SPEAKER_02]: It's the weirdest place in the world, and they're not winning that game.
- 15:35[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
- 15:39[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, we do.
- 15:41[SPEAKER_02]: R. T. D. B. Yeah, answer.
- 15:43[SPEAKER_02]: I would've been saying it for about a decade now.
- 15:47[SPEAKER_02]: Gotta run behind that big line, man.
- 15:49[SPEAKER_02]: They are so good.
- 15:51[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so this appointed last week that they kept throwing the ball.
- 15:54[SPEAKER_02]: What I had to do was run down that team's throw, and they could have all day.
- 16:00[SPEAKER_02]: It worked out, but that was frustrating a little last week.
- 16:03[SPEAKER_02]: And again, I've been impressed with Shane Steiken's game plans.
- 16:08[SPEAKER_02]: For the most part, the last couple of years, but man, they got to get the ball in his hands early and often.
- 16:16[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I think it comes down to this, the, with this cold team, Greg, it's like, you know, it's tough going and playing in Pittsburgh.
- 16:23[SPEAKER_01]: But,
- 16:24[SPEAKER_01]: I would say Jacksonville going to win there.
- 16:27[SPEAKER_01]: I'd say Houston can win there.
- 16:29[SPEAKER_01]: What if the colds want to be where they think they can be, then this is a situation where they need to go in and win there?
- 16:36[SPEAKER_02]: Steelers make the playoffs every year, even when they're not good, because they don't lose all.
- 16:40[SPEAKER_01]: They have two organizations in their, their division that go win games like this went when backs against the wall and it's a tough game that the goal would do that maybe not Jack's Miller store, but Jack's full the last six years does and so that's the company they have to keep to expect to be worthy of a playoff spot come January and if they can't get it done then you got a question are they road warriors can they run the ball well away from a home crowd
- 17:09[SPEAKER_01]: And that's stuff that I, the jury still out on.
- 17:12[SPEAKER_01]: But they did go and play in Kansas City.
- 17:14[SPEAKER_01]: I got performed very well in a very hostile environment.
- 17:17[SPEAKER_01]: I, I like the cut of the Colts Jib.
- 17:20[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that they can go into Pittsburgh and win.
- 17:24[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I want to stop short of seeing it's a must win because it's only week five.
- 17:29[SPEAKER_00]: But we're already down on the tiebreaker scenarios with Baltimore and with Kansas City.
- 17:35[SPEAKER_00]: And we just can't simply cannot afford it to also add Pittsburgh that list.
- 17:40[SPEAKER_00]: So I think this is a game that is getable.
- 17:44[SPEAKER_00]: They've got to go continue to keep the trend going upwards.
- 17:49[SPEAKER_00]: The defense has been better.
- 17:51[SPEAKER_00]: The offense has been good enough.
- 17:54[SPEAKER_00]: And there's nothing special about this dealer's team truthfully at this point in time.
- 17:58[SPEAKER_00]: This is as good a chance as we have to go in to Pittsburgh and get it and much rather do it now than have to do it later in the playoffs.
- 18:10[SPEAKER_02]: If they win this game on Sunday, in Pittsburgh, something they never do, they're three and two.
- 18:16[SPEAKER_02]: After having three of their first five games against Baltimore, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh, and that would be a really good place to be with the remaining schedule.
- 18:24[SPEAKER_02]: There has some tough games, but it also has a lot of very winnable ones.
- 18:28[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I, I completely agree at, oh, I used them to use them for it.
- 18:33[SPEAKER_01]: Houston's a good Owen for various such things to them, they're still the scariest Owen 14 I would.
- 18:40[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
- 18:41[SPEAKER_01]: I think this game gets it markedly more important of Jacksonville wins at 930 on Sunday because then your two games out and you've got to play Jacksonville yet.
- 18:51[SPEAKER_01]: and you know that you're not winning both of those games, so you kind of have to hold serve a little bit.
- 18:58[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that really, and can the cults be a wildcard team, absolutely, but kind of like that's I don't think it's going to be a huge deal with KGC and things that probably going to win the West, but Baltimore, you know, may or may not win the North, and those are teams that you're competing for wildcard spots with.
- 19:15[SPEAKER_01]: So it is important that they are able
- 19:21[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're typically right around the same record at the same, you know, shitty 899 and 810 and 7 stuff and every year and so you got to kind of expect that this game is going to be important when the entire case has been heard in the jury's making their decision in January.
- 19:42[SPEAKER_02]: I have no idea who's any good in this league.
- 19:45[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
- 19:47[SPEAKER_01]: I know Kansas City is good.
- 19:51[SPEAKER_02]: They're good.
- 19:52[SPEAKER_01]: They're good.
- 19:52[SPEAKER_01]: Can't see.
- 19:53[SPEAKER_02]: The only team I know for sure the Rams.
- 19:55[SPEAKER_02]: That's the only one.
- 19:56[SPEAKER_02]: I think the bills are too.
- 19:57[SPEAKER_02]: You know when I know for sure the Rams.
- 19:59[SPEAKER_01]: I know I know the chiefs, the Jaguiers.
- 20:04[SPEAKER_01]: The.
- 20:06[SPEAKER_02]: I think the bears are possible.
- 20:09[SPEAKER_01]: I think the bears are good.
- 20:13[SPEAKER_01]: I think what scares me the most about Jacksonville being in the AFC South, this is cold team.
- 20:18[SPEAKER_01]: It's like they're not just beating teams, they're breaking teams, you know, they're beating the shit out of teams.
- 20:25[SPEAKER_01]: And that's when you're doing that early, when you're doing that in weeks where one score games are awfully common, the first five or six weeks when teams are figuring out Jacksonville's up 35 to six on New England,
- 20:39[SPEAKER_01]: quickly, that's concerning.
- 20:41[SPEAKER_01]: And that's kind of where I see Kansas D2.
- 20:43[SPEAKER_01]: There are always going to be in that situation where, you know, it's going to be close, but you know, my home is going to kind of get it done.
- 20:51[SPEAKER_01]: It's Cleveland good, Greg.
- 20:52[SPEAKER_01]: I don't.
- 20:54[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they're bad, they're going to be an incredibly difficult week-to-week game.
- 21:00[SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to want to play them.
- 21:02[SPEAKER_01]: But we're glad.
- 21:03[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 21:04[SPEAKER_01]: That's what makes the NFL so great is that you really don't know all these teams are so good.
- 21:08[SPEAKER_01]: The parity is so good.
- 21:10[SPEAKER_01]: The difference between 0 and 4 and 3 and 1 and a few cases is like three place.
- 21:18[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think anybody has separated themselves and this leg at this point in time.
- 21:21[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why partly I really like the position that we're in.
- 21:25[SPEAKER_00]: We're two and two.
- 21:26[SPEAKER_00]: We still haven't played well.
- 21:29[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's lots of, you know, things to be hopeful for in this cold team and nobody is separating themselves away from the rest of the field.
- 21:39[SPEAKER_00]: So I think we're in it, we're in this, just, you know, to write it out and see where it goes.
- 21:47[SPEAKER_00]: But I like our chances as well as anybody else's.
- 21:50[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 21:51[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and we've shown our, you know, East Coast bias because San Francisco and the sea
- 21:57[SPEAKER_02]: Very good.
- 21:58[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, very good.
- 21:58[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's mostly the FC I'm talking about.
- 22:01[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Rams are also very very good, but yeah, I mean, San Francisco is they've done this and they who's there Mike Evans and then who else Mike Evans and the mailman.
- 22:11[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's their receiving call right now and therefore no went to Australia and dog walk the Rams week one.
- 22:18[SPEAKER_01]: When we said all that Rams held this Ramstein might they might go 25 and out might be the first team to somehow win more games than they had on their schedule.
- 22:25[SPEAKER_01]: That's how good this team is.
- 22:27[SPEAKER_01]: and they're two and two and they were almost one and three and Philadelphia, right?
- 22:31[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, what the hell is going on in Philly?
- 22:34[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Lane Johnson retires.
- 22:36[SPEAKER_01]: They'll the week and then they trade their starting center.
- 22:41[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the hell is going on there?
- 22:45[SPEAKER_02]: Man, so much to talk about this league.
- 22:49[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much for your time, guys.
- 22:51[SPEAKER_02]: Going a little extra bonus time there.
- 22:53[SPEAKER_02]: Talking about the NFL, we need to do that more, that's for sure.
- 22:56[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 22:57[SPEAKER_02]: We need to talk more NFL.
- 23:00[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely going to be picking up our pace on talking some NFL here in the next few months.
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