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NFL Week 5 Recap · Banter with the Boys

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Welcome back to Bantor with the boys.
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We are back at you with some NFL talk.
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It's been far too long and we are back.
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We're going to be doing this weekly, recapping some of the NFL season.
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We're a little bit into it at this point, obviously, as week five is upon us.
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But today I have with me Mr. Smeltzi.
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How you doing?
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How you feeling, good sir?
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Hey man.
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Well, I'm just happy to be back at this NFL pod.
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It's been too long.
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I'm happy to talk some more football.
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And I'm still not a millionaire.
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So let's talk about these professional millionaires here and try to get some change.
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Let's do it, man.
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Let's do it.
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So typically we would also have our brother Kyle with us as well.
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However, he is under the weather this week.
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So he is going to take a week off and hopefully be back with us next week.
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We wish you the best in wealth, quick recovery here, Kyle.
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And as always, we have Mr. Kevin on the ones and twos, couldn't do it without your brother.
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We do appreciate you, good sir.
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Well let's get into meat and potatoes here, Smeltzi.
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We have week five just happened this past weekend.
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Going into Monday as well with my Packers playing.
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Well, I mean, I guess they did play a game.
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You can't really say they showed up.
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But before we get into that, we're going to kick it over to your Vikings, sir.
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Big match up against Patrick Mahomes and the Swifties, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Oh my God.
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They're probably going to have a fan section now called the Swifties.
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You know, this is going to happen.
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Actually, during the game, I did see somebody with a custom jersey that had 87 on it and
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then said Swiftie as the last name.
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I was like, oh Lord Jesus, it's already started.
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It has already started.
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But yes, my Vikings did play a game against the Chiefs, a winnable game.
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They played well.
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I think defensively they played very well.
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It just wasn't enough.
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It just wasn't enough.
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I mean, the Viking season as a whole right now is weird, right?
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I mean, last year they were 11 and 0 in one score games.
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And so far, every game they've played this year is a one score game, which means they
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are one and four in one score games this year, which actually a lot of us fans that are at
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least can understand the game knew that that was a possibility.
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I mean, going 11 and 0 in one score games, how likely is that to happen again?
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Very unlikely.
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However, you know, as a fan, you know, we felt we had a pretty good team going into
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the season.
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And again, like seven, we've given not not we, right, especially not we right now.
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I don't play for the Vikings.
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Let that be known.
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Smelty does not play for the Vikings.
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Just so y'all know, you're right.
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Like I stated earlier, I'm not a millionaire.
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But so far, they've given up, given up seven turnovers in the first quarter alone through
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five weeks.
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That's just crazy.
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I mean, you look at this past game, first offensive drive, big free agent, tight end
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signing John Oliver fumbles the football.
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You just you just can't do that against the Kansas City Chiefs team.
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I literally saw that play and I'm really good at throwing my hat.
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I guess I threw my hat on the ground just in my living room, you know, whatever, and
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discussed because I just I couldn't believe it.
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I literally said, you cannot make this shit up.
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You can't.
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They keep turning the ball over to start the game.
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You can't start a game like that.
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Yes, it's how you finish, right?
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Not how you start typically in anything, right?
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But it's just it's so unacceptable.
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And it's the same deal every week.
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What are they going to do to change it?
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I have no idea.
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I have no idea.
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So looking at the game itself, you know, two quarterbacks both played pretty well, I would
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say Patrick Mahomes is just an absolute freak of nature what he what he can do.
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The no look passes, the sidearm stuff.
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He throws it when you don't think he's about to throw it.
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It's ridiculous.
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It's nasty in a good way.
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So obviously we know the Vikings took the L twenty seven twenty.
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There is a couple negatives to come out of that game from both teams, actually.
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So J.J.
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Justin Jefferson actually just went to I.R. this morning.
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So he is done for at least four weeks.
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He got Travis Kelsey, which I believe was a lower ankle sprain or strength sprain.
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My bad, my bad.
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I believe he might actually play.
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I think they play on Thursday.
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The Chiefs, if I remember correctly.
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So he could play if it was a high ankle sprain, it would be a much bigger problem.
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But I thought I read that his low ankle sprain.
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So he let's say he's questionable for Thursday.
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But other than that, it looks like you had a question for me, Tyler.
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Yeah, man.
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So as a Vikings fan, it's you had the utmost luck last year with 11 and 0 in the one score
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game.
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The luck has turned around this year.
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Do you think this is something that they can right the wrong?
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Can they get the ship going?
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What's it going to take to get out of this little slump here?
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Like this season, you're saying?
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This season.
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What can we do to turn around this season?
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Correct.
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You know, it's a one in four start.
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I'm going to tell you what, they have to beat the Bears this week and we'll get into that
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a little bit later.
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But they have to beat the Bears this week.
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Let's say they lose to the Bears, right?
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I don't think Kirk Cousins goes anywhere.
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I think you're running out of time for that.
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I think like the Jets, right, would maybe make a move.
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I think you're running out of time for that.
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I think you see Daniel Hunter get traded.
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I think he's gone.
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He's on a one year deal.
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I think 20 mil.
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I don't see him back in purple next season anyway.
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I think you get what you can for him and go from there.
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I do believe, I'll leave you at this.
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I do believe that if they see JJ as their long term plan, so he's under contract this
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season and next season, if they want to keep JJ here, they need to re-sign Kirk Cousins.
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Unless they have some sort of magic plan for some other veteran quarterback.
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But I don't think if you tank, I don't know if JJ's really going to have the patience
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for a rookie quarterback.
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He likes Kirk.
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He came out this spring and said, I like Kirk being my quarterback.
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I love catching passes from him.
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And yeah, that could be a PR move, right?
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You're on the same team as the guy.
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You don't want to piss him off right before the season.
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But I think that's like, I think he wants to play with a veteran quarterback.
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I don't think he's going to have the patience to want to play with a rookie quarterback.
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So I think that's something to keep an eye on.
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That's interesting.
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That's interesting.
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I've got a lot of Vikings fans here in Minnesota right now that A, want Kirk back, two, think
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he's coming back, or three, think he'll be here by the end of the year at this point.
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But I've yet to actually hear anybody say that it's what it's going to take to get JJ
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back.
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I don't know if I would necessarily agree with that.
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I think the veteran quarterback, that's out of the equation.
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There's nobody that you're going to sign that's going to give you a better chance of winning
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and capitalizing JJ's prime than someone like Kirk Cousins.
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They did just veteran top tier quarterbacks just simply don't hit the market.
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So I think, I don't know if the Vikings will end up having a bad enough season to get a
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Caleb Williams.
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I just don't know if I could see, I don't think it's going to be that extent.
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But you know, there's the prospects of the Drake Mays, the Bo Nixs, the Shudder Sanders.
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Would that be tempting enough for JJ to give it one or two years and maybe sign a one or
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two year deal, which is the kind of direction the receivers are going so they can re-up
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again when that market increases?
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I don't know.
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That's interesting.
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I don't, if I was JJ, whether it's Kirk Cousins or a rookie quarterback, if I'm going to re-sign
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with the Vikings, I don't think I would sign more than a two year deal with maybe a third
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year player option.
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So if the Vikings lay down some fat deal right in front of JJ, you think he may not sign
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that with the uncertainty at the quarterback position you're saying?
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Because I mean, I agree with you, because I think that's true, right?
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And I also agree that I don't think the Vikings will have a bad enough season to land a Caleb
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Williams, even though the Vikings, low key, are one of the five teams that he unofficially,
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but officially, but still unofficially said that he would want to play for in the NFL.
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I don't think Bo Nix is enough.
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Drake May, maybe.
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Listen, listen, I like Bo.
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I like Bo, and he's doing better in the organ system than he did in, I believe he played
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for Auburn.
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I remember seeing him in the SEC.
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I don't know, bro.
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We'll have to see Bo in the NFL, but I don't think that's enough to keep JJ here.
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But I like your idea, though.
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Sign a two year deal and see what the Vikings do.
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You put it in their hands, then.
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You sign two years, let's say the Vikings don't do anything.
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Okay, now you leave, for sure.
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And that's from a Vikings fan, that hurts, because JJ's like a second coming at Randy
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Moss, I'm serious.
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But I feel it, I feel it.
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But enough about my Vikings, we've already talked way too long about a team that's one
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in four right now.
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What about your Packers, bro?
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Because I saw a game last night that was on TV that didn't go the way of some of my local
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friends here.
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Too many Packer fans in Minnesota as is, but what did you see?
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Well Smelty, I can't say I really enjoyed watching any part of that game that I did
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bear witness to last night.
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The Packers, I don't know, man.
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Is Aaron Jones that important to an offense where if you look at our week one, even week
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two and three, yeah, we didn't win the week two game against the Falcons.
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But this offense is just flat without Jonesy in the backfield.
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AJ Dillon doesn't seem to know how to find a hole, let alone hit one.
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The guy's huge and I don't know, that's a whole nother story.
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He's a complimentary back.
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He's nothing more than a complimentary back at this point.
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He's in a contract year.
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He says how much he wants to stay in Green Bay, but at this point, why would we keep
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him?
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Saying that, he did have his best performance with 76 yards.
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However, he only averaged 3.8 yards of carry.
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We didn't have a huge semblance of a run game and that led to Jordan Love doing apparently
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what he's going to do this year and hover around the 50-55% completion percentage mark.
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I just don't simply seem to understand how you can do that in a Matt LaFleur offense
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that's designed on those underneath, those get the ball out of your hands really quick
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and then open up that free agency, or sorry, not free agency, open up that play action
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to get that ball down the field.
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We took a couple of shots.
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We hit Christian Watson on one that was a blown coverage by the Raiders.
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On that play, you could argue that was one of the plays of the games with Marcus Peters
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actually horse-collaring Christian Watson and preventing him from scoring a touchdown,
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which then the Raiders held the Packers to a field goal.
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The story of the game is the offense and the Packers just coming out flat.
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Jordan Love is not anything close to what we saw in the first two games of the year.
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I just don't know.
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I'm a lucky guy with being blessed with Farve Rogers, just this awesome quarterback play,
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Hall of Fame legendary quarterback play.
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Being in a Packers fan, I never really had to worry about a losing season.
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Missing the playoffs is rare.
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I feel like this is going to be a rebuilding year.
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We're the youngest team in the league.
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Our offense is obviously young.
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David Boctiari being out, don't know if he's ever going to play down with the Packers with
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the $40-plus million cap it next year.
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Why would we even want to bring that back at this point?
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It's this year is going to be a lot of disappointment because I feel like we're going to hang around
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and be in the games because our defense is pretty good.
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But I just don't see us winning games.
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Even look at the Saints game, it took Jameis Winston running the Saints to come back in
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17 points in the fourth quarter.
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We beat a Jameis Winston led Saints having to come back from a 17-point deficit that
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Derek Carr put him in and a Bears team that was apparently a different team than the last
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two weeks because they've looked incredible the last two weeks offensively.
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So I don't know what to really say at this point.
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Just disappointment across the board.
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Well defense looked good.
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Holding the Raiders to 17 points.
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Granted, it's the Raiders, their offense is pretty miserable too.
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Well I mean you've got Devondre Campbell on the defense, Minnesota boy.
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But yeah he's got hurt, he hasn't played in three weeks.
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Oh really?
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Yeah, I don't even know if he's going to be.
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So we've got a bye week next week.
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Oh my god.
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Hopefully he'll be back after that.
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So not only that, Quay Walker got hurt, got in I believe if I'm not mistaken it was a concussion.
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So we're already playing with Quay Walker and Isaiah, or is it Isaiah Duffy?
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One of them, yeah it's Isaiah Duffy on the Packers.
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Trent Duffy is the chief.
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So we're already playing with the third string in as the backup with, yeah so.
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Yeah I like Quay, that's a loss too.
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That dude, I like the way he plays.
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He's an athletic fella.
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Bakhtiari, 40 mil cap hit next year?
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Yeah what a great deal.
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Holy cow.
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It was designed where they're going to restructure at whatever void years or whatever you want
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to do, but yeah man it's a hefty cap hit.
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No that handcuffs you guys bad.
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Yeah that's crazy.
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Well that is the luxury of having such a young team, is we don't have any of those huge contracts
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on the books really.
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Not yet, not yet.
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Jordan Love's going to want a contract.
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If I'm not mistaken, well this is his fourth year, so he has next year, yeah so he has
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this year and next year left on his deal.
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I mean it's got to be Aaron Jones.
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That's got to be the biggest difference, you know, because obviously AJ Dillon's not getting
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it done on the ground right now for sure.
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So it's got to be Aaron Jones.
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That's a huge loss for your offense right now.
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Yeah and he's always been one of the most underrated backs in the league in my opinion.
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He's never really gotten his due credit.
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I mean when you got 12 playing behind center it's hard to give anybody else credit, but
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like he's a really good freaking back and he's missed.
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So hopefully the bye week gets him right and he comes back and we can turn it on because
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the NFC is just wide open right now.
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It's a pitiful conference.
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You know there's two powerhouses at the top.
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One of them got exposed, which we'll hop into right now.
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Unless if you have anything else on the Packer game you want to talk shit about with.
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Nah, let's run it.
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Alright so we had America's team, the Dallas Cowboys, traveling up to Santa Clara and going
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to play the San Francisco 49ers who are just an absolute buzzsaw right now.
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Wow, that offense is buzzing.
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That defense is just ferocious.
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I don't know what else to say at this point.
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That mixed in with Dak looking bad.
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Dak looked bad this weekend.
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He did.
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He, in my opinion, he had time to throw the ball.
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He had time to go through his reads for the most part right.
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That first pick by Dak, that was horrible.
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Now I get it.
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I think his first pick came when they were down 28 to 10 and he throws a deep ball on
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man coverage and you have a sit and but the Niners had safety help over the top.
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How do you not see the safety help bro?
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How do you not see that dude?
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Because he blended in with the, were they home?
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Were they in Dallas?
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Weren't they?
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No, they were way out of the 49ers.
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So dude just blended in with the logo then.
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The logo on midfield.
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I don't know.
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I don't know how you don't see the safety going over to help the man.
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And it's not like the receiver had his man beat.
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He didn't.
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It was great man coverage.
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I don't know who the corner was.
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Great coverage.
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And he still threw that ball.
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And then his second pick was a little tip pick.
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I don't blame him too much for that but he's still throwing to a receiver that was covered.
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And the third one was bad.
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Just bad.
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The third one was hilarious.
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He threw it straight to him.
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He threw it straight to him.
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He overthrew his receiver by 10, 12 yards?
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Yeah dude.
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So no that was the first one.
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That's the first one I'm talking about I'm pretty sure.
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The safety comes over the top and he overthrows him by a long shot.
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I know what you're talking about.
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I'm pretty sure that was that first one.
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Gotcha.
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Gotcha.
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The third one was like a middle linebacker, outside linebacker or whatever covering the
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flats or whatever.
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He throws it right to him.
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He throws it right to him.
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That was ridiculous.
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I don't know what he's looking at.
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Obviously he's trying to make a play.
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They're getting 28, 10.
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That's not good.
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I don't want to say you're getting blown out but you're on the way to getting blown out
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which happened.
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I don't know.
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It looked bad compared to Purdy.
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Let's talk about Purdy.
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How much longer can we say that he's a product of Kyle Shanahan's system?
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17 to 24, 252, 4 touchdowns, 140 yards.
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44.4 quarterback rating.
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He has the weapons.
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He has all the weapons.
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He has, in my opinion, it's not far and away the best weapons in the league.
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Him and the Dolphins or him.
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The Niners and the Dolphins I would say are 1A, 1B in terms of the offensive weaponry
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and talent but there's a steep decline after that and the guy doesn't make mistakes.
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He's smart and he's putting the ball in windows.
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That good quarterbacks put him in and bad quarterbacks just don't make the throws.
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His pocket presence too.
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Like yes he got good protection this weekend but knowing when that pocket is collapsing,
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a lot of that is almost uncoachable.
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You have to feel it.
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You have to sense it or catch it out your peripheral, whatever it may be.
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As you watch him play and how he moves inside the pocket, that's next level.
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He's doing his next level.
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You almost cannot, he'll always be Mr. Irrelevant but he's living up past that name for sure.
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You look at Mr. Irrelevant, how can the Niners build the team around him and get all that
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weaponry and that talent?
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Because you're paying for a seventh round quarterback.
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The Jaguars are paying for the first overall pick in Trevor Lawrence two years ago.
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Yeah, they've been able to put talent.
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They've spent money the last two off seasons but you can't go out and sign the players
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the Niners are signing.
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Now don't get me wrong, John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan are drafting spectacularly as well and they're
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great schematic fits.
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It doesn't matter who's coaching the Niners defense at this point.
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They've been through Raheem Morris, D'Amico Ryan, now Steve Wilkes.
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The defense doesn't change.
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Their perennial top five, I would even argue top three defense, their plug and play guys
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outside of the Fred Warners, the Nick Boses.
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Don't get me wrong, those are generational talents.
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But you look at their secondary, there's not one star studded secondary player.
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The only one you can make an argument for is Tardavious Ward.
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Now Talanoa Hofunga has popped off the last two years but you also really didn't hear
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of him after week five or six last year when he had that hot start.
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They're just an all around built solid football team.
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So are the 49ers the best team in the league right now?
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I don't think you can say they're not.
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Their offense can't be stopped.
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Their defense isn't going anywhere, hasn't gone anywhere for the last handful of years.
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The defense seems to only be improving.
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I mean Nick Bosa didn't have any sort of off season with the team so he's only going to
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get stronger.
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He really hasn't been a presence this season yet.
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If you really look at it and think about it, yeah he's more than just stats, what he brings
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to the defense.
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But I just don't see, in all honesty, I really don't see a weakness on this football team.
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Their special teams are stout.
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Yeah, I mean that's fair.
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They do rank number two in offense right now in the league and number three in defense.
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They are probably the best team in the NFL.
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I do think that Philly can challenge them.
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I think Philly's offense is good enough.
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I think their defense is young.
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They have a really good young defensive core that has already won a national championship
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at Georgia.
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So I think you just need to give them a little more time and go from there.
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Now you have an aging Darius Slay back there for Philly.
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But I mean, we'll see.
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We'll see.
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I think Philly would challenge them though for the NFC crown at least.
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I would agree.
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I think Philly's the only team in the NFC that could even give them anything close to
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a run for their money just because of their offense.
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And their defense, when they need to make a big play, they make a big play.
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Yeah, they've given up quite a few points this year.
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But overall, I mean, they're solid foundational pieces at every level of the defense.
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They have the experience.
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They are young, yes, but they have the SEC prowess, the playoffs the last couple of years.
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There's not too many players left on the team that played in the Super Bowl, but there's
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still a handful left over.
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And I just don't think that to me, when you look at the Niners and the Eagles, you could
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go back and forth all day in terms of the overall talent.
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I think ultimately what it comes down to is Kyle Shanahan versus Nick Sirianni.
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And I'm taking Kyle Shanahan every single day of the week.
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I think I can agree on that, no doubt.
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Yeah, I guess I got nothing else to say on that matter of it.
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So what about the AFC?
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Who do you think in the AFC?
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Because the AFC, I mean, if you were to ask me three weeks ago, I would say the Dolphins,
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no question about it.
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But then the Bills presumably figured out a way to shut down that Dolphins offense.
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And then the Bills laid an egg in London.
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Fluke.
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I think that's a fluke.
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I think the Dolphins offense is stupid.
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Well, give it time, right?
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We're only five weeks in.
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Anything can happen.
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You're going to have more injuries.
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That's just a matter of fact.
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You look at the Bills and injuries, though.
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The Bills have gotten the injury bug every single one of the last couple of years and
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they have it right now.
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And they were still able, they lost Trey White in that game against the Dolphins.
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Have they won a Super Bowl yet?
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Have the Dolphins?
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The Bills.
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No.
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They've overcame the injuries, but they keep falling short.
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I think the Dolphins have what it could take to go that extra bit to win the AFC.
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Do I think they beat the Chiefs?
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No.
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I think the only reason I would disagree with you in terms of the Dolphins having what it
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takes, the defense can't stop a fucking nosebleed.
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And they had a lot of injuries early.
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The only key component, it's a big one, that they're missing on their defense right now
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is Jalen Ramsey.
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Facts.
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But Jalen Ramsey doesn't affect the run game.
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Isn't Xavier Howard out too?
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Xavier Howard's been playing.
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I thought he was out to start the season at least.
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The biggest concern for me with the Dolphins though, it's not so much their secondary because
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they do have, you know, when Xavier Howard is healthy and playing, he's a top six, seven
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quarterback in the league.
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Jalen Ramsey's top one or three, obviously, he's top three.
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And then they have Javon Holland back there at safety, who's young, but he's a stud.
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He doesn't get any flowers that he's due, but he's a stud.
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So I think they have the pieces.
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I'm more worried about their front seven in their run game.
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And they have not been able to pressure the passer.
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They traded for Bradley Chubb, gave him all that money.
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He hasn't been worth a damn.
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Yeah, for sure, for sure.
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And it turns out I'm tripping on Xavier Howard anyway.
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Like I guess he did play since the first week.
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So whatever.
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I could have sworn they lost him and Jalen Ramsey.
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So just ignore me.
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Whatever.
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That's fine.
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But yeah, I mean, in the AFC, for me, it's still the Chiefs.
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It still runs through Arrowhead because of Patrick Mahomes.
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He I want I don't want to I'm not saying I want to hate him, but I'm trying to find
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flaws in his game.
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Every game I happen to catch of his whatever, of course, they just beat the Vikings.
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But every time I see him play, I try to find a flaw or something like, oh, he's got to
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work on that.
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Right.
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But like, I don't know.
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The only thing that I could say to that is he forces the ball in a lot of situations
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and he gets bailed out, I would say more so more so than other quarterbacks with the
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defense is simply dropping interceptions.
25:09
It's an impossible thing to really track.
25:12
And if you're going to have a flaw as a quarterback, the defense dropped the ball.
25:16
If that's the only thing you can pinpoint when it's not something that is consistently
25:19
happening by any means.
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But if you if you can't improve anything besides when you do get that one throw that the defense
25:24
might drop, I'd say that's a pretty damn good flaw to have is you're throwing the ball so
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good the defense can't even catch it.
25:31
So the biggest thing where I think the Chiefs are going to start excelling more so to is
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they've actually started to get Pacheco in the run game involved to getting him going.
25:40
So they have some sort of balanced offense.
25:41
They're not just relying on Travis Kelsey.
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We all know the struggles they've had at the receiving corps.
25:46
So I think with that balanced offense and then was Steve Spagnuolo as the defensive
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coordinator, he's probably one of if not the best schematic defensive coordinator in the
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game.
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He can scheme against any high profile offense and just seem to shut down the piece that
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makes them excel.
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Yeah, no doubt.
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I mean, I agree with everything you're saying about Pacheco.
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I think Pacheco and Clyde Edwards-Halair are low key becoming like under the radar one,
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two punch.
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They still used Edwards-Halair this weekend more in like a power back role.
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I guess we'll see, right?
26:21
And then you had Chris Jones return on the defense this year, which was a big deal.
26:25
I think he sat out, was it just the first game?
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It might have been the first two, just the first game.
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So we'll see.
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We'll see.
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But enough talk about the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes.
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Another quarterback in the AFC I'd like to mention would be Lamar Jackson.
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They had a big game this weekend against the Pittsburgh Steelers, division game.
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Yeah, it was a really sloppy game with a Lamar pick in the fourth quarter in the end zone.
26:55
That was ugly.
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With four minutes left, that was an ugly pass, shouldn't have happened.
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And then he fumbles.
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They get the ball back and then Lamar fumbles with just over a minute left in the game.
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Now I'm not saying, you know, ultimately the Ravens lost this game, as you may or may not
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know.
27:13
The Steelers took the lead in the division now at three and two.
27:17
The Ravens are also three and two, but obviously the Steelers now have that tie break.
27:21
But it wasn't all on Lamar.
27:23
His receivers had a lot of drops.
27:25
Almost, or not almost, it was eight drops and almost two of them could have been TDs.
27:31
If your receivers are out there dropping, not sure TDs, but closest thing to it without
27:36
it being a sure thing, you can't win those games.
27:40
So I just, I don't know.
27:43
Zay Flowers fell on a deep route that was six.
27:47
It's just one thing after another for the Ravens, man.
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So that was the only thing I really wanted to mention about it was how sloppy it was.
27:56
And TJ Watt coming up at the end with a sack to seal it.
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But Pittsburgh's got to work on their, oh, it's stagnant.
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You have George Pickens.
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That's it.
28:06
That's all you got right now.
28:07
Pickett's looking iffy.
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I guess we'll see with Pittsburgh, but at the moment they lead the AFC North.
28:13
Yeah, I don't know how many more games the Pittsburgh's going to go with Matt Canada
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behind the offensive play calling.
28:18
I mean, what more do you need to see to prove that this guy just simply isn't it?
28:24
They have talent.
28:25
They came into the years, what was projected to be a really good offensive line.
28:29
They have vastly underplayed.
28:31
They have talent on offense.
28:32
I mean, you have Najee Harris.
28:34
He hasn't done a damn thing.
28:35
Jalen Warren's come out, been impressive.
28:38
You have George Pickens, just throw the guy the damn ball at this point.
28:43
Why wouldn't you?
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The guy goes up, he makes these stupid catches and he comes down with the ball.
28:50
No kidding.
28:51
I mean, I was just thinking earlier today, I don't know if you remember when we were
28:54
kids there was that show called Sports Science.
28:57
I don't remember what channel was on Discovery, maybe, I don't know.
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But they did a little football segment all the time or what, Sports Science, whatever.
29:05
So it was whatever sport.
29:06
I want to know what George Pickens catch radius is because like you said, you just throw the
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ball up to him, man.
29:12
And then you have, what's his name?
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The tight end, Pat Fairmuth or whatever.
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Hey, that dude can get you a first down.
29:18
There's your first down, man.
29:19
You got your, I don't even want to say deep threat, your whatever threat in George Pickens.
29:24
And then you got to get the run game established with Najee Harris.
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He's a good back.
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Get him going, man.
29:30
You got to get that run game going to open up the passing game.
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Yeah, this offense is just stagnant.
29:37
It's sad to watch, to be honest with you.
29:41
You know, I mean, Kenny Pickett, I was pretty, I thought Pittsburgh was a great fit for him.
29:46
Hometown kid goes into Pittsburgh.
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It's who everybody wanted in Pittsburgh.
29:53
I don't know how much we can put it on Kenny Pickett at this point with how elementary
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this play calling is.
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You look at the pass to Pickens, puts them up this 17-10 lead that they eventually won
30:05
by the game winning score.
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They go to the box.
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Everybody in the offensive box is just rearing, cheering, roaring, cheering.
30:12
Matt Canada is stone faced.
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Looks like he's up.
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He looks unhappy to be there.
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It might not have been his play call then.
30:19
You know what I mean?
30:20
So it wasn't his play call.
30:21
If you actually look at it.
30:22
So Matt Canada called the play, the play that Pickens scored on.
30:26
Kenny Pickett audible, the Randy, Randy, which everybody's leading to believe it's Randy.
30:31
Moss, Pickens.
30:32
So Pickett, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful play at the line, recognizing what you have.
30:37
You have Pickens outside against man coverage, no safety help, and he's pressed up against
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him.
30:43
Randy, Randy hits him on that deep ball, scores the touchdown.
30:46
You want to Matt, is he upset that Pickett audible out of it and scored and just showed,
30:50
well, hey, maybe Kenny Pickett should run this offense.
30:53
Right.
30:54
Yeah, no doubt.
30:55
I mean, that's gotta be what it is.
30:57
It's gotta be what it is.
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So I don't know.
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With that, Steelers are in the lead of the North.
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Yeah, Raven's got some work to do.
31:07
Needless to say, they got a, I don't know if they got to hit the jug machine this week
31:10
for the receiving room or what, but they better be ready to play against the Titans this week.
31:17
Well that's enough about week five.
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So we haven't really prefaced how we're going to do this podcast.
31:22
So I'll do a little intermediate in the middle of the podcast.
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If we had better planning, more so on my behalf, I probably would have done this from the jump,
31:30
let you know how this podcast is going to go.
31:31
But hey, we play it by ear around here.
31:34
So the first thing we're going to do every week is we're going to go over a recap of
31:37
last week's predictions.
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So as we didn't have a podcast last week, we just had to just recap a couple of the
31:43
games that we thought were the marquee matchups.
31:45
But going forward, we will have five games every week that we will predict and then also
31:49
recap the following week's podcast with two of those games will be the Packers or Vikings
31:54
just due to our hometown fan hood.
31:56
And just, you know, that's really why we watch football is to watch our favorite teams play.
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In the case of a bye week, for example, the Packers this week are on bye week.
32:04
We'll just pick another game that week so we can always have that five game slate, which
32:08
we will then predict the slate at the end of the podcast and then have a running tally
32:13
each week.
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We'll keep you updated on that.
32:15
And as we all know, I'll probably finish up top anyway.
32:18
So oh my God, I'm sorry.
32:22
I was so late to that.
32:23
I was like listening to what you were saying and I was like, yeah, this is all really good.
32:27
And then you came with like complete bullshit at the end.
32:30
But I guess whatever, like you got to make filler filler info, right?
32:34
Oh, I love it.
32:35
I love it.
32:36
So before we get into the five marquee or the five games we're going to do next week,
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we're going to get into the injuries.
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So we're going to call this the tent talk segment of the podcast.
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It could be big injuries that happened the week before.
32:48
It could be some big signings that happened.
32:51
It's the NFL.
32:52
We don't really have the trade deadline like we do in the NBA.
32:55
But if there's any big trades that happen, we'll just look at everything kind of all
32:59
together and lump it into this section.
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We're going to call tent talk.
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As you know, there is the blue tent on the sidelines of the NFL now.
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So we're trying to be kind of as witty as we can here.
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But 10 talk for you this week.
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The first thing we're going to start with is just a couple of big injuries that we saw
33:13
in the league.
33:14
The biggest injury you can make an argument for in the whole, you know, the whole the
33:18
whole slate of games was Matt Milano on the Buffalo Bills going down with a fractured
33:24
right leg.
33:25
He is done for the year.
33:27
As we know, the Bills also lost Trey White to an Achilles injury last year.
33:30
He's also done for the year.
33:31
You can make an argument.
33:32
Those are the two best defensive players on that team.
33:35
Now they do have the safeties.
33:36
You can make that argument for with against with Vaughn Miller coming back.
33:39
He's always going to be up there.
33:41
But if you look at the integral pieces of that team, Matt Milano, he's been one of the
33:45
most underrated backs in the league for a number of years now.
33:48
He finally got some recognition last year with some all pro and all pro bowl recognition.
33:53
But that's a huge hit to that Buffalo defense, who when you look at the inside linebacker,
33:58
just the you know, those middle backers in there, they lost Tremaine Edmonds to the Bears
34:01
in the offseason.
34:03
Matt Milano is expected to come in and fill that role.
34:05
They don't have anybody to step in right now.
34:07
They're relying on, you know, first and second year players to fill that role.
34:11
And that's a tough ask to do in that loaded AFC West with, well, I guess what once would
34:16
believe the loaded AFC West before Rogers got hurt.
34:20
But I think that's going to be a really, really lasting, important injury for the Bills success
34:25
this season.
34:26
No kidding.
34:27
I mean, a huge loss defensively for the Bills.
34:30
Right now, Josh Allen doesn't I mean, he's playing well.
34:33
Right.
34:34
And I think a number of like high end analysts are claiming him to be the MVP of the league
34:38
right now.
34:39
There's is him and somebody else.
34:40
I can't remember who.
34:44
But to be honest with you, what I've seen from Josh Allen the last few years, I mean,
34:47
he needs all the help he can get on defensively, defensively.
34:51
I mean, and losing both those guys is just such a huge loss.
34:56
We'll see how they can recover from that.
34:58
Honestly, I guess we'll see.
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I do want to mention another AFC injury, if that's okay with you.
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Anthony Richardson going down with a possible sprained AC joint.
35:11
It could be a lengthy injury.
35:13
I saw a tweet today that said six to 12 weeks, but again, anybody can go on Twitter or rather
35:19
X or whatever the heck it's called now.
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So I don't really know, but not looking good.
35:27
And for those of you that want to say that Anthony Richardson needs to kind of, you know,
35:33
take a step back a little bit or maybe, you know, stay in the pocket a little bit.
35:38
I want to agree with you so badly, but I think he's just gotten unlucky this season, to be
35:44
honest.
35:45
Seeing the plays that he's gotten injured on, I think it's just unlucky.
35:48
But one thing I will say is, you know, watching Lamar, we just touched on the Lamar Jackson
35:53
game against Pittsburgh.
35:56
And one thing I did see from him that I think Anthony Richardson should start doing is stay
36:01
in the pocket more.
36:04
Go through your reads first before you run.
36:06
Anthony Richardson is almost, he's not run first, but he's as close as you can get, you
36:10
know.
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And that was Lamar Jackson right away.
36:12
And Lamar was getting injured and injured and injured.
36:15
And now you're seeing him stand in the pocket more, move around the pocket a little bit
36:19
more and find an open receiver rather than using his legs.
36:23
However, when he does use his legs, it's killer, right?
36:27
And that's Anthony Richardson to a T. Same deal.
36:30
He can be killer if he uses his legs.
36:32
It's just a matter of when, right?
36:34
He needs to start making his reads first and just kind of go from there.
36:39
One other injury thing I did want to mention.
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Oh, you got someone, Anthony Richardson.
36:43
What's up?
36:44
Yeah.
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So the thing with Anthony Richardson, I do agree with you where I think the learning
36:50
to stay in the pocket and be comfortable in the pocket, that comes with time.
36:53
He's a rookie.
36:54
He's five games into his NFL career.
36:56
You know, he's going to learn that over time.
36:58
But I agree, the people saying that he needs to protect his body more, stop running and
37:02
scrambling as much, you're taking away what makes the kid great.
37:06
He's going to extend the play.
37:07
He's going to give you that read option, run play, running ability.
37:11
Do I think he needs to learn how to avoid contact better?
37:15
Maybe take some to a jujitsu classes to learn how to fall?
37:19
No, not necessarily.
37:20
I mean, I think it just comes with time.
37:22
You look at this past weekend, it was a routine tackle.
37:26
He fell on his shoulder.
37:28
To me, it just reminded me of when Rogers broke his collarbone when Anthony Barr tackled
37:33
him.
37:34
You know, the plays are different with Bitt Barr hitting them in the backfield and going
37:37
for the sack versus Richardson running.
37:40
But the way they fell, the injuries looked very similar.
37:44
Now, Richardson, less degree, didn't break a collarbone luckily.
37:49
But it's, you also, you can't hide the fact that the kid's played in four games and he's
37:56
gotten hurt in four games.
37:59
No doubt.
38:00
And again, it's like a play style, right?
38:04
So Anthony Richardson at Florida, Lamar Jackson at Louisville, you can rely on a guy's legs
38:10
at college, even at the D1 level.
38:13
If they're good enough, Sanders, you know, he can run too.
38:17
But it's not his main thing.
38:18
At Colorado, he throws the ball.
38:20
You know, he still looks downfield first and then makes the play, right?
38:24
I'm not saying he's better than these guys by any means, but I'm saying, I guess the
38:27
point I'm trying to make is like Lamar at Louisville, Anthony Richardson at Florida,
38:32
like you can carry, you can almost carry the team fully on that.
38:36
Now you get to the NFL, it's a little bit different.
38:38
They already know what they got coming in.
38:40
That defense week one knows, hey, this dude killed it at Florida with his legs.
38:45
We're going to key on that.
38:47
We're going to make sure we're paying attention to that quarterback.
38:49
If they're going to try to run some crazy option, we're going to know, you know?
38:53
So it's just, I guess getting used to the NFL game and I can't talk, right?
38:58
I've never played quarterback in the NFL.
38:59
I have no idea, right?
39:01
But it's just something to keep an eye on.
39:05
I did want to mention one more AFC injury that actually may be the opposite, right?
39:10
So we might be getting Austin Eckler back for the LA Chargers by Monday night's game,
39:16
which would be a huge advantage for their offense.
39:19
They've been missing them all year.
39:20
The Chargers are starting to figure it out.
39:23
So I don't know, look forward to that.
39:26
Huge piece of that team.
39:28
That's a big get not only for the Chargers, but for a lot of fantasy owners out there.
39:33
Me included, me included.
39:35
But I just, I don't know, it is a big deal, right?
39:37
Again, like we were mentioning with teams earlier, you got to establish the run in order
39:43
to open up that deep passing.
39:45
And then once you start throwing it over the top, now teams are going to start playing
39:49
back.
39:50
They're going to start playing their linebackers back.
39:51
Their safeties are going to maybe start playing a little further back.
39:54
They're going to play more zone.
39:56
Now you can run that maybe that inside zone run or whatever it may be.
40:00
And now they're playing back up, blitzing.
40:03
Now you throw it over the top.
40:05
Football is a game of chess.
40:06
It really is.
40:07
You got to kind of feel what your opponent is going to do and kind of make a play off
40:10
that.
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Well, that's enough tent talk.
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Let's get into this week's slate.
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We have five games for you guys.
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My packers are on a buy, so unfortunately I don't get to predict them.
40:22
Well, let's say fortunately, because it's going to be hard for me not to predict them
40:25
to win.
40:26
And I really just don't think they're going to do a lot of that.
40:28
So we have a special guest this week.
40:31
We might do this every week.
40:32
We might not.
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It's the first week.
40:34
It's a pilot.
40:35
Let's see what happens.
40:36
But we're going to get the X's and the O's in the pod here.
40:38
Mr. Kev Dogg is going to give some predictions.
40:41
Now just a little to preface this here a little bit.
40:44
Kevin doesn't follow football.
40:46
So he's basing this simply strictly off of.
40:48
Well, I don't know that that's for anybody to really decide.
40:52
So you have a little bit of educated guesses here with Smelty and I.
40:56
Now you can use the word educated very lightly, but we'll at least have a little bit of knowledge
41:01
going into it.
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So we're going to kick this slate off.
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We have the Minnesota Vikings traveling down to the Windy City, taking on the Chicago Bears.
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Bears have looked good the last two weeks.
41:12
The Vikings, however, go down to Chicago as a two and a half point favorite.
41:16
Smelty Vikings on the road.
41:19
Bears look good.
41:20
What do you got straight up?
41:21
A non homer pick.
41:23
The Vikings.
41:24
I know they're a better team than what their record shows.
41:29
Bears are a dumpster fire.
41:31
Vikings figure out how to get a win on the road.
41:34
Probably getting T.J.
41:35
Hockinson a little more involved and we'll look for a little bit more run game out of
41:38
Madison and acres.
41:41
What do you what do you think in Tyler for the Vikes Bears?
41:45
This one means it's honestly hard to predict.
41:47
Jefferson, not in the game.
41:49
That's huge.
41:50
I think the person you need to watch this week, Jordan Addison, I got him for a buck
41:54
twenty five to touchdowns.
41:57
Vikings are going to cover that two and a half point spread.
41:59
Kev dog wrap us up, buddy.
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All right.
42:02
As Tyler mentioned, I don't really follow football.
42:03
Hockey is my jam, but I'll jump in here on this one.
42:06
I'm going to go with the Bears.
42:07
I don't know a ton about what's going on with them, but I do know that my boss is a diehard
42:10
Bears fan and was pretty stoked about some stuff that happened earlier in the season.
42:14
So we're going to ride the coattails of whatever she was happy about and go with those guys.
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So we have Kevin being the lone dog this week, picking the Bears.
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All right.
42:23
Next game we have on the slate.
42:24
To be honest with you, not a lot of marquee matchups this week.
42:27
It's early in the season.
42:28
There's not a ton of divisional playoff implications yet, but we chose four more here.
42:35
We have the Cowboys going on to the West Coast, taking on the L.A. Chargers.
42:41
It is a home game for the Chargers, but let's be honest.
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They don't really have much of those.
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It's predominantly going to be a Cowboys fan base, and the Cowboys go in with a two and
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a half point favorite.
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I'll kick us off on this one.
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I think the Cowboys are going to bounce back from this week.
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The Chargers defense is underwhelmed ever really since they had the marquee free agent signings.
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Cleo Mack has shown himself two weeks ago with the six sacks, but I just think this
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Cowboys offense is just too loaded, and it's a get back game for that Cowboys defense.
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Cowboys win this game by a touchdown.
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Kev Dogg, Cowboys, Chargers.
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Again, don't follow football here, but we're going to go Chargers on this one.
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I'm thinking the home team takes it.
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Obviously, the Cowboys had their issues that you guys mentioned earlier on in the pod.
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So short and sweet.
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I'm going to go Chargers on this one at the home.
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Smelty, what do you got?
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Yeah, so I'm going Chargers, right?
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If Eckler is back healthy, ready to go, Chargers get the win.
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I'm not going to change it up.
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Even if Eckler's not ready to go, I think Herbert's starting to find a little bit of
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rhythm.
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I think the Chargers get the win at home.
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Next game we have Lions, the brand new Lions.
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Going down to Tampa Bay, taking on the Baker Mayfield led Buccaneers.
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Lions favorite in this one, three points.
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Kev Dogg, what do you got?
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Going with the favorites here again.
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I don't know a ton about the Lions or the Buccaneers, but I just think the Lions are
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going to do pretty well this week.
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Just got a hunch.
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Smelty, what do you got?
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Yeah, to be honest with you, I'm going Lions too.
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I know the Buccaneers are three and one.
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I think this is a week that they slow their roll and figure out, hey, we're not as good
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as we think we are.
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I think the Lions are the real deal.
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They're going to run the NFC North this year, as much as that hurts my soul.
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Look for Jared Goff to have a big game.
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What do you got, Tyler?
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I would have to agree with you guys on this one.
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The Lions are the crown jewel of the NFC North at this point.
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I really do think they're the third or the fourth best team in the NFC.
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I don't believe in Baker Mayfield in the Bucs at this point.
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I need to see more.
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The NFC South is pitiful.
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Not quite as bad as the NFC North, but I think the Lions are going to take this one.
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The three points honestly kind of scares me.
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I could see this being a three point game, but I got the Lions by they're going to cover
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that three points.
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Second to last game on the slate for us here today, we have the Colts going down to Jacksonville.
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Duvall taking on the Jaguars.
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Jaguar is surprisingly coming in at this one as a four point favorite.
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Smelty, how do you feel about that?
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In Jacksonville, no Anthony Richardson for the Colts.
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However, Gardner Minshew is shown when he can come in.
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He's not that bad, but the fact that you got to say not that bad means he's still that
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bad.
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I'm going to go ahead with the Jaguars at home.
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Kev, what you got, bro?
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I'm going to agree.
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Jaguars at home.
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I feel like a four point spread is going to be tough.
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Just short and sweet.
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Tyler, bring us home, buddy.
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I'm going to have to disagree with you fellas on this one.
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I like this Colts team.
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I really do.
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They have young talent across the board.
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Their defense looks rejuvenated.
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Darius Leonard playing back to what he's capable of.
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DeForest Buckner is a force inside.
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I like Gardner Minshew.
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I think I don't think you could have scripted a better backup.
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He knows the system.
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The young receiving corps looks good.
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That Josh Downs last week looked good.
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And I think Justin, sorry, Jonathan Taylor is going to come back and go back to his original
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performance.
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But Zach Moss looks damn good this year.
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So I got the Colts in this one.
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I think they're going to cover that four points and I actually think they're going to win
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this game.
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Wow.
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Sorry, I'm just wowing.
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I don't know.
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We'll see.
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We'll see.
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It'd be crazy to see that.
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I just don't think it's going to happen.
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But anyway, go ahead.
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Go ahead.
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My bad.
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I think the big thing here is even if the Colts don't win, that four points just seems
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a bit too big for me at this point in the season.
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With how good the Colts have actually looked.
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The Jaguars beat the Bills last week, but that wasn't the Bills team we're used to seeing.
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So I don't know.
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I just I got a feeling about this Colts team this year.
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That might be the game of the week for us because I'm a little I'm a little torn on
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that, but I get what you're saying.
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I like what you're saying.
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I'm interested to see how that one plays out, to be honest with you.
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You know, Smelty, we were going to save this next one for the game of the week, but I don't
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think I could disagree with you.
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We got the Colts, Jaguars is the game of the week game to watch this week.
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What's your favorite matchup in that game, Smelty?
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I'm going to have to say, I don't know, I guess Jonathan Taylor against the entire Colts
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defense.
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I mean, I'm sorry, Jonathan Taylor against the entire Jaguars defense.
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I'm just curious to see if he's ready to play, you know, truly, because he got he did not
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get that many carries this past weekend.
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He's probably kind of on a lack of better terms, a pitch count, you know, he might still
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be on a pitch count going into this week.
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So I guess we'll kind of see what they have.
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But I guess my matchup is Jonathan Taylor against the Jaguars defense, specifically their defensive
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line.
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I would have to agree.
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I think the big thing is going to be the Colts running game, getting on the ground, getting
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running, relieve some of that pressure off of Minshew in this game and allow the Colts
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to to eat offensively.
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I would have to agree with you there.
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All right, we're going to wrap up the predictions for next week here with the Seahawks traveling
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to Ohio, Cincinnati and playing the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Bengals looked rejuvenated last week.
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They played the Cardinals.
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Let's take it with a grain of salt.
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The Bengals are coming in here as a two and a half point favorite.
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I like what I saw in the Bengals last week.
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I'll kick this one off.
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I think the Bengals are going to cover that two and a half points as much as I have DK
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Metcalf and Kenneth Walker on my fantasy team.
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Let's hope they have a good week.
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But I like this this Bengals team, what they looked like last week.
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They're who we expected.
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They start slow every year with Joe Burrow.
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He's looking more comfortable as that calf recovers.
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I just think the Bengals have something to prove right now and they're going to come
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and they're going to get theirs this Sunday.
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Kev Dogg, what do you think?
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I'm going to agree with you.
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I think the Bengals got it.
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Home team.
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I just think home teams usually do all right, at least from my experience in the NFL.
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Obviously, I don't pay too much attention to it, but I like to think that there's a
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big deal there and a home field advantage.
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So going with the Bengals.
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Just my thoughts.
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Smelty, take us home, bud.
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Yeah.
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Do you know, do the Seahawks for sure get Kenneth Walker back this week?
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Still questionable.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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I think that's a big factor.
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I think that's a big factor.
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Again, establishing that run game.
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Kenneth Walker is not a game changer yet, but he's shown glimpses of it.
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I mean, he's a good back.
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With or without Kenneth, I think I'm still going Bengals.
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I think the Bengals can still figure out their season.
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They kind of started figuring it out last week.
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It was fun to finally see Jamar Chase actually get open.
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So I guess we'll just see, but I'm going Bengals this week.
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What do you mean see him get open?
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He's always open.
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According to him.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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For sure.
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For sure.
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He's always open according to him.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Talk about backing up your talk, man.
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Talk about backing up your talk.
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Comes out, says he's always open, then goes off for three tides.
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Hey, listen.
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I mean, Joe Burrows also got to get the protection, right?
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To be able to get to, it depends on the reads, right?
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If you're supposed to read the inside receiver for, you know, whatever, whatever the reads
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are, you got to, I don't know.
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I don't think he was open every time he says he was.
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I think he's as good as he says he is for sure.
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100%.
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I don't know.
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We'll see.
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I think more what he's meaning is he's always open.
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He can be double covered.
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You throw that ball up.
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I still give him a 25% chance anytime he goes up with that ball.
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He's just, he gets his hands on the ball.
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So I think that's more what he's meaning.
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You said 25% chance?
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Against double coverage.
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Oh, against double coverage.
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Okay, okay.
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That's fair.
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Single coverage.
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Raise that bad boy up.
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That's fair.
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That's fair.
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I mean, that's low for a good receiver, but okay.
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Yeah, against double coverage.
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Fair enough.
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Well, this was an absolute blast.
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I had fun.
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I'm looking forward to see how these predictions turn out the rest of the week.
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We have them tracked here.
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We'll let you know exactly how they did come next week.
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And this was an absolute blast, boys.
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I'm glad we got this ball rolling.
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We'll be back next week for week six recap.
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