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Broncos Beat Seahawks Reaction, 24-Team College Football Playoff, NFL Week 7 Predictions & Ohio State-Indiana Preview · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The Volume. The Denver Broncos beat the Seattle Seahawks 17-14
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. We will dive into the game, but first,
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• 0:26
  Speaker 1: I think we need to begin with the quarterbacks because
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  Speaker 1: that is going to be the headline from tonight's game.
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  Speaker 1: And I do want to start with Sam Darnold, the
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  Speaker 1: reigning Super Bowl champ. Obviously, Seattle at. 500 in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of October is surely not what they expected. They've
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  Speaker 1: lost to kicking the nuts games in a very, very
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  Speaker 1: short period of time, take a deep breath, gather themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and pray to God they can get their running backs
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  Speaker 1: to return because right now their running game is really
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  Speaker 1: forcing them to play a way that they don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: And specifically Sam Darnold, who had two awful picks. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the first pick, getting hit, letting the ball go, getting undercut.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone involved, awful. Luckily, they have an elite defense. They
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  Speaker 1: get the ball back and they're able to drive right
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  Speaker 1: down the field and get a field goal, send the
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  Speaker 1: thing to overtime. Obviously, the play in overtime is about
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  Speaker 1: as easy of a pick as a safety is going
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  Speaker 1: to have. And I don't pretend to be Mike Shanahan,
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  Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak, Gary Kubiak, Clay Kubiak here. But I do
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  Speaker 1: know in that spot, you either have to hold the
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  Speaker 1: safety with your eyes or to basically give your guy
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  Speaker 1: more space in Shahid or get him the ball immediately
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  Speaker 1: when the corner drops off. And obviously Sam did the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: He made it a very easy play, which led to
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  Speaker 1: the game-winning field goal for the Denver Broncos. But I
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  Speaker 1: think you have to take a macro view of the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks team. I was texting with my buddy Guy,
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  Speaker 1: who just called the Niner game last week in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, the one thing that's evident from the
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  Speaker 1: booth is these backup running backs they have cannot run
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  Speaker 1: the outside zone run because they're too slow. They're not
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  Speaker 1: getting out there. Their running game is non-existent. So tonight,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking. I'm like, how many attempts did Darnold have?
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  Speaker 1: He had 51. When I say 51 attempts and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be successful in the NFL, do you know
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  Speaker 1: what names come to mind? Matt Stafford. Probably about it.
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  Speaker 1: We saw Mahomes try to do that last year, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a nightmare. Josh Allen just played a game.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't even have 20 pass attempts. Stafford is kind
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  Speaker 1: of a unique figure. Maybe Goff if they're rolling. But
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  Speaker 1: even then, now with the emergence of Gibbs, they want
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  Speaker 1: to hand the ball off a lot. There aren't many
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  Speaker 1: players that operate like that. And him, because he's a
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  Speaker 1: turnover-prone player, it's going to get him in very precarious
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  Speaker 1: situations that turn into disasters. Like tonight. I mean, let's
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  Speaker 1: face it. If we're going to call a spade a spade,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: I shit on Arch Manning. last week against Oklahoma for
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  Speaker 1: two interceptions that cost his team the game. Well, two
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  Speaker 1: of their last three possessions, he threw a pick. And
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  Speaker 1: obviously the one in overtime just is essentially a game ender.
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  Speaker 1: Even with another quarterback. Like, I do believe this. When
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  Speaker 1: you watch these primetime games, the quarterbacks, one comes off
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  Speaker 1: the field, the other comes on the field. I think
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's playing a different sport than Bo Nix. And
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine most people's opinion after that game is
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold sucks. Sam Darnold's regressing. Well, if he is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what Bo Nix is. UFL player? Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you are going to force him to play this way,
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  Speaker 1: and this was a thing going back to the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: I remember hearing from people on the inside, when Sala
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  Speaker 1: got the job, I think they had planned on keeping
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold because they brought LaFleur, who is now the
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  Speaker 1: head coach in Arizona, and the game plan was the
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan offense were going to run the football and you
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  Speaker 1: were going to throw the ball less than 30 times
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  Speaker 1: a game. And half of those are going to be layups.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to need you to make a couple plays,
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  Speaker 1: but that is how the offense is constructed. Brian Fleury,
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  Speaker 1: this new offensive coordinator, who I would imagine locally tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: on Seattle local radio with the Heward brothers and all
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  Speaker 1: those people are going to be questioning this guy. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know him personally, but I do know how he
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  Speaker 1: was trained, and he was not trained to throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball 51 times a game. That's not in his playbook.
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  Speaker 1: His playbook is to dominate on the ground. And right now,
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  Speaker 1: with their starting running back out, their other returning running
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  Speaker 1: back coming back off injury, they're dealing with guys who
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  Speaker 1: are backups, probably more close to practice squad than starters.
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  Speaker 1: And it puts a lot on Darnold. And you got
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  Speaker 1: probably an average tight end. JSN is, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: fucking Jerry Rice. He is incredible. I mean, you watch
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  Speaker 1: him tonight, you're like, he's the best wide receiver on
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  Speaker 1: this field by a mile. I mean, the throw and
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  Speaker 1: catch that he made in a triple coverage was elite.
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  Speaker 1: But they are very dependent on Shahid to be a
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  Speaker 1: number two. And, you know, I think in a perfect world,
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  Speaker 1: he's a number three. And obviously a return guy. And
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cupp, like, like, bro, I, He was a sure-handed,
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  Speaker 1: great possession wide receiver in his prime. And tonight he's
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  Speaker 1: like dropping out routes. So their passing game, if it's
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  Speaker 1: not 2-11, is extremely questionable. And then they're asking Sam
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  Speaker 1: to play like Stafford. That's going to be a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Because you watch their defense. You know, early on, you
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  Speaker 1: know what it looked like? They had heavy legs. Like
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  Speaker 1: they had just played the most violent game of the
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  Speaker 1: season three nights ago. It was like, okay, as that
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  Speaker 1: game went on, those guys were out to embarrass Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nix and embarrass Bo Nix they did. It was Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton versus McDonald and those 11 guys. And McDonald and
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  Speaker 1: 11 guys dominated. They had 38 yards going into Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nix last drive of the second half. They annihilated them.
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  Speaker 1: Their offense is a disaster right now. And honestly, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't great last week. The fumble in the end zone
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: against the 49ers, they really got bailed out as the
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  Speaker 1: Niners kind of separated. What happened in the third quarter?
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  Speaker 1: Purdy threw a pick, short field. Debo blows the hammy,
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  Speaker 1: Caleb style, ball just falls on the ground. So they
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  Speaker 1: were gifted a couple short possessions. It is a difficult,
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  Speaker 1: tall task for them to sustain drives when it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: if this ball doesn't go toward 11, what are we
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  Speaker 1: going to do? Because I think defensively, they're exceptional. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they are, as that game got going, it's like the violence,
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  Speaker 1: the speed in which they played. And the other thing is,
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  Speaker 1: as a buddy texts me, Sam got sacked for the
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  Speaker 1: fifth time. Some of it's on him. I think I
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  Speaker 1: saw Orlovsky put a stat on some show I was
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  Speaker 1: watching him on. He's holding the ball like, four-tenths of
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  Speaker 1: a second longer than last year, which is the longest
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  Speaker 1: in the league. He's clearly a little rattled back there.
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  Speaker 1: He has plays where he looks fine, and others where
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  Speaker 1: Herb Street pointed it out tonight. Got a little happy feet.
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  Speaker 1: And I think this gets back to the simple fact
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  Speaker 1: that he's not built as a player to carry you
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  Speaker 1: 50-plus time attempt to game guy. That's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be his strength. Just like the majority of players in
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  Speaker 1: the league are not built to do that. This goes
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  Speaker 1: back to Mahomes, who coming into last year, I think
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  Speaker 1: we would all agree, is one of the greatest players
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  Speaker 1: of all time, who's the best and most accomplished player
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  Speaker 1: of his generation. And that just takes a toll on you,
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  Speaker 1: throwing 45, 50, 55 times a game. especially if your
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  Speaker 1: offensive arsenal is kind of limited. And they've got to
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  Speaker 1: find a way to get these running backs to have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to function on offense. I still will be stunned,
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  Speaker 1: assuming those guys can come back over the course of
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  Speaker 1: the next couple weeks, if this isn't a double-digit win team.
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  Speaker 1: Their coach is too good. Their defense is too good.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes you live by the sword, you die by
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  Speaker 1: the sword. Sam's going to turn the ball over. And
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  Speaker 1: the more times you put them in these positions, just
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  Speaker 1: carry us with your arm. That can happen, especially against
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  Speaker 1: a good defense. Like Vance Joseph and that defense is good. Like,
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  Speaker 1: are they as great as I think we once thought
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  Speaker 1: they would be? Clearly not. You know, Fung is out.
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  Speaker 1: But they're still pretty good. Well-coached, fast, physical. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Singleton's a monster linebacker. Their D-line's good. DBs are just well-coached.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there were a couple of plays that JSN made. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you supposed to do? Like, I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: covering him like they're Deion Sanders or Darrell Rivas. And
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  Speaker 1: on the flip side, like, I remember Doc Rivers said,
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  Speaker 1: your talent has to outweigh your problems. And looking at
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix, his production definitely doesn't outweigh his lack of
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  Speaker 1: football intelligence. Tonight, he made two of the dumbest plays
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen. The second to last drive on a
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  Speaker 1: ball or on a play where he's just getting flushed
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  Speaker 1: out of the pocket, where most quarterbacks, as right before
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  Speaker 1: they go out of bounds on first and 10, they
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  Speaker 1: just flick the thing to the sideline and they just
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  Speaker 1: live to fight second and 10. Nothing you can do.
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  Speaker 1: No one even thinks twice about it. He just ran
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  Speaker 1: out of bounds. And then on their last drive, of
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  Speaker 1: the second half before Seattle got it back and drove
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  Speaker 1: the field. Seattle had to use all their timeouts. They
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  Speaker 1: had three timeouts, had to get a three and out,
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  Speaker 1: get the ball back, give themselves a chance to either
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  Speaker 1: win it or obviously tie it. One third down, they
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  Speaker 1: called this screen, which I thought was like, I would
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  Speaker 1: just run the ball. But it's like, okay, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you trust the quarterback. The screen clearly was not there.
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  Speaker 1: So instead of just hitting the ground and forcing them
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  Speaker 1: to use a timeout, it's under two minutes. When he
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  Speaker 1: did that, when he threw the ball, there was a
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  Speaker 1: minute 16 left on the field or on the clock.
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  Speaker 1: And he just threw it right at the Seattle defender.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, this gets to the Jaden Daniels thing last week.
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  Speaker 1: Part of being a quarterback. I remember one thing I
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  Speaker 1: learned in scouting. The smartest players aren't necessarily 4.0 GPA guys, right?
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  Speaker 1: Having a high football IQ, having a high basketball IQ.
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  Speaker 1: I remember my family was big Cal athletics fans. Loved
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: Cal football and Cal basketball. And my dad loved the
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Jason Kidd basketball teams with Lamar Murray in the early 90s.
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  Speaker 1: They were really good. And obviously, Jason Kidd was like,
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  Speaker 1: should never have been a Cal. I'm not quite sure
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  Speaker 1: how he ended up there. Might have been a Mercedes involved.
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  Speaker 1: But there were stories that, like, you know, took him, like,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of times to get the minimum SAT so
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: he could qualify to get in the Cal. Now, in fairness,
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: your boy had to take the SAT a couple times, too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a standardized test taker either, Jason. But you
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: know what? It's like, yeah, I don't know how smart
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  Speaker 1: he was in the classroom taking a test, but Jason
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  Speaker 1: Kidd's one of the smartest basketball players in the history
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  Speaker 1: of the sport. So having a high football IQ is
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  Speaker 1: just knowing basic situations. There are some complicated rules that
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  Speaker 1: happen every once in a while that we all just
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  Speaker 1: agree upon. Like, I'm not sure any of us knew that.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't feel like anyone's dumb. It's like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I've been watching football 30 years. I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen that called. Never seen that happen. Like back in
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: the day when I was in high school and the
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  Speaker 1: tuck rule happened, everyone's like, what the fuck is that? Right?
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  Speaker 1: But there are situations like this, like, hey, The clock's ticking.
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  Speaker 1: There's a defender right in front of you. He's not open.
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  Speaker 1: If you just hit the ground, they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: forced to use another timeout. Instead, he just throws it
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  Speaker 1: and the ball hits. I am out. I mean running
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  Speaker 1: for the hills out. Denver's 4-2. They're clearly going to
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: win a lot of games. I don't want to say
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  Speaker 1: a lot, like 10, 11, 12 range. 12 feels strong
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  Speaker 1: the way he's playing. This guy, and I understand Seattle's
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: got a good defense, but it's the same stuff every week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if he was like a third-round pick, you'd
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: be like, do you got to bench this player? At
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  Speaker 1: one point in time in the second half, it's like
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: they cannot move the ball. I mean, every drive. Let
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: me read you their second-half possessions. They're up 14-13. And
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  Speaker 1: let me give some flowers. Their first drive of the game,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it was the second drive of the game
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  Speaker 1: because they went three and out. The game started, three plays,
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  Speaker 1: two yards, punt. I think it's the best drive he's
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  Speaker 1: ever had in a regular season. 16 plays, 74 yards, 839.
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  Speaker 1: They got a couple third downs. They got a fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: It was a clinic. I'm like, God, he looks good.
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  Speaker 1: And then the game went on, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of this. Punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt. They
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  Speaker 1: punted every possession in the second half. Three plays, three plays,
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  Speaker 1: five plays, three plays, three plays, four plays. He's unplayable. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's Sean Payton's play calling. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. But, like, we can be critical of Sam,
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  Speaker 1: made some disastrous decisions, but you can't watch that game
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  Speaker 1: and go, one guy's playing quarterback, and I don't think
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  Speaker 1: the other guy even knows what he's doing. Has he
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  Speaker 1: lost his confidence? I don't know. I watched him last
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  Speaker 1: year kind of look like this too. I think we
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  Speaker 1: have to come to an agreement. Clearly, Denver, they have
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  Speaker 1: a really good offensive line. If you have a good offense,
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  Speaker 1: you can win a Super Bowl with their defense, especially
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  Speaker 1: when they get some of their guys back. Sertan, Hufanga,
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  Speaker 1: all those guys. But what that is playing quarterback, and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, you're playing a good defense. You still
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  Speaker 1: can get a couple first downs. You still can complete
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  Speaker 1: a pass. He just stands there. But to me, what
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  Speaker 1: did it were those two plays at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game. When he ran out of bounds... And then
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  Speaker 1: when he threw the ball in that situation when they
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  Speaker 1: had a timeout. And I understand the worst play from
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  Speaker 1: then on out came from Darnold. But I can never,
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  Speaker 1: like how we can never unsee Dan Quinn and Jaden Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: I can never unsee that from Bo Nix. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's a low football IQ player. And that was, I
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  Speaker 1: can't even imagine what Sean Payton, who had 15 plus
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  Speaker 1: years of of a guy you would say is one
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  Speaker 1: of the highest football IQ players of all time in
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  Speaker 1: Drew Brees. who is basically having, obviously, a Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame player, but a coach on the field with his
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  Speaker 1: mind to go to this. So I'm going to absolve
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Davis Webb got absolutely obliterated. Everyone took a giant dump
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  Speaker 1: on the guy's career. Maybe it wasn't his fault. Because
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Bill Walsh or Vince Lombardi in their
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  Speaker 1: prime could do much with that. That was really, really bad.
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  Speaker 1: And I get it, it's Thursday night, you're rushing in,
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  Speaker 1: but at home, in a situation where you're up 14-13,
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  Speaker 1: or excuse me, 14-3, coming out of half, like, bro,
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  Speaker 1: you get like one more touchdown drive, the game is over.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did they not get touchdown drive, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: even sniff like midfield. They gained nine yards, four yards,
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  Speaker 1: three yards. 18 yards, negative 10 yards, two yards. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking like a total of like 25, 30 yards.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, it looked worse. It's not like they got
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a bunch of scrubs playing over there. So I think
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: big picture, the Broncos have a major, major quarterback problem, major.
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  Speaker 1: And I think Seattle has an offensive problem if they
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  Speaker 1: can't run the ball. They're not going to be a
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  Speaker 1: successful offense if they don't have the run game going
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  Speaker 1: because that is the coordinator's background. That's why they hired
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: him to replace Kubiak. Now, if they had a run game,
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  Speaker 1: would we act like he's some dynamic guy? I got
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  Speaker 1: no clue. It's obviously hard to call plays. But he's
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  Speaker 1: got no shot, and Sam Darnold is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be successful if they're throwing it 51 times a game.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, they're not even down. They're down 14-3 the
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  Speaker 1: majority of the game, and they can't really rely. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like they have to pass over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again because they've got no run game. So, rough
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night game. For the large majority of it, at
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  Speaker 1: one point, my wife looked over. She's like, Does this
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  Speaker 1: game suck? I'm like, yeah, it's kind of the struggle
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: bus right now. Kind of the struggle bus. I tried
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: to give Seattle a little bit of the doubt based
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: on the game they just played. Bronco fans would be like, well,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: we just were on the road. You play the Chargers,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: who I think would be in the running for the
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  Speaker 1: biggest joke of the league. So physically, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that game was quite as taxing. And the other
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: thing is like your quarterback looked the same in that game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the same thing every week. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's funny is Sean Payton despised Russell Wilson,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: hated him. And I think some of it was the
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: perception he had when he got the job of this
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  Speaker 1: kind of diva, superstar kind of quarterback and that stuff.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Like he already had a negative perception when he came in.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously Russell by then was not a good player,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: but how mean stuff he was. It's funny, like This
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  Speaker 1: is his hand-picked guy. So you can't– you're not going
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: to just treat a guy like that that you kind
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  Speaker 1: of need. But it has to be crossing his mind now.
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  Speaker 1: This is not going to work. This is– it is
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  Speaker 1: one thing to have a game. He's kind of been
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  Speaker 1: playing like this his whole career. He just had some
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: magical moments in these fourth quarters, which we all saw
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: and were awesome. But I remember some of the games
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: like last year against the Raiders that never really flipped around.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: And that's what it feels like is happening every single week.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. It really is. And Sam obviously just turning
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the ball over. I mean, he threw two picks last week.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, it throws a lot of picks. I mean,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: you can live with picks. You got to have touchdowns.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Right now, they don't have the touchdowns. It's why Seattle
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: is kind of licking their wounds. And they just got
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: to figure it out. I mean, this is... I still
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: think their defense is elite. I think their defense is
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: absolutely big time and can carry them to the playoffs.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: But they're going to need Charbonnet and they're going to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: need Jadarian Price back and fast. And their offensive line,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you know, I think in theory should be good, but
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it's last two weeks. A couple of those surely are
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: on Sam holding the ball, but there are some where
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he's just getting he's getting fucking peppered. I mean, at
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: one point in time tonight, they shot to him probably
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: like early in the third quarter. He's he's covered in blood.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he's got red hair. He's got
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: red arms. I mean, it's just he's just he looks
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: like a gladiator, you know, like fighting, you know, in
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Rome back in the day, just covered in blood, just
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: getting hammered. This is not sustainable. So I would imagine Mike, John, Schneider,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: they got to figure– like we got to do something
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: with the running back situation if these guys aren't ready
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to come back because this is not possible to function
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: this way. And maybe Sean will just grab John Elway
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: before he leaves and see if he's got anything left
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in the tank at like 65 years old because I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: can't believe what I– honestly, I was at a loss
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: at the end Of the second half with Bo Nix,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: those two decisions. I mean, this is, I would say
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: pretty basic, like football 101 type. stuff you learn in
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: like junior high, let alone for a guy that's like
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a five-year college starter, three-year NFL starter. I mean, he's like, bro,
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• 21:50
  Speaker 1: You know, on this Fugazi Friday, it was announced today
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: that the 2014 playoff is 100% happening. I think it
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was fair to say within the last couple years that
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that has felt more than inevitable, right? It's like the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: bowl games are dead. All these coaches are pushing for it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: The conferences are pushing for it. And at the end
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: of the day, ESPN is in bed with these conferences
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and wants to make more money. And this notion, I've
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: heard this universally said by everyone that covers college football,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: talks about college football, loves college football. This isn't needed.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: This is unnecessary. I would say that happens a lot
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: of the times in sports. And you know what? A couple, five,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: ten years later, it just becomes the norm. If I
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: would have told you 20 years ago, there was going
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to be multiple extra teams in the wildcard round. Oh yeah,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: there would be a Monday night football game during the playoffs.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: You'd be like, that's insane. Like, no, it's been happening
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: now for years. It's kind of sweet. We talked about
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: this yesterday with Thursday night football. If you would have
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: told someone when I was in college that, hey, There
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: is going to be a Thursday night game every single
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: week of the year. Some teams are going to play
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: multiple times. You mean like coming off a bye and stuff? No,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: like they're going to play Sunday and then they're going
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to play again like three and a half days later.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Like that's going to happen. Every week. Forever. Oh, and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: this service called Amazon. You mean the thing that delivers books? No, no, no, no.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: They actually deliver packages. They're like the biggest company in
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the world or one of them. they're going to stream it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: So you just press a button and you just watch it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: It gets streamed, not on cable or anything, not on
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: linear TV, just streamed. Things change. I was watching the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Saban documentary, which I think is just fantastic. And that
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: is content made for me. And in the third episode,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: it's the buildup. Saban had turned around Alabama basically overnight.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: He got, listen, it shows you, luck is involved in
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: everyone's life. He takes over Alabama's program and his first
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: recruiting class, I would imagine in the history of the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: state of Alabama, it's got to be one of their
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: most fruitful years ever of players led by Julio Jones.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And he landed them all. And it completely changed the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: trajectory of the tide, you know? So sometimes luck, and
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: it's no different when he got to LSU, there were
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: two recruits that wanted to know part of LSU in
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Marcus Spears and Michael Clayton, and he convinced them to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: come to LSU. And obviously they were huge pillars in
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: his turnaround there. Well, luck and things out of our control.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Play a huge role in all of our lives. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I've really worked on this like... Complaining about things in
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: my life... That I have absolutely no control over. And
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: when I see all these people... That aren't... On governing
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: boards at schools... That aren't ESPN management... Complaining about... Guys...
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: It was clear this was inevitable a couple years ago.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: They've been talking about this forever. This wasn't just some
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: pie-in-the-sky idea. This was something. There was so much money
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: on the line. These bulls are dead. But back to
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the Saban documentary, the build-up in the third episode is
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the rematch because they got good his second year, but
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: they played Tebow in Florida and lost in the SEC Championship.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And by the third year, same thing, both teams undefeated.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: A combined 24-0. That happened literally last year. Ohio State
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and Indiana. And do you know what happened when it
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: came down to the national championship? Indiana was the one seed,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Ohio State was the three seed. But that was the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: equivalent not that long ago. Whoever lost that game, their
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: season was essentially over. And that's what Alabama did to
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Tebow his senior year. Beat them, I think, 32. The
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: final score was 32-13 or 33 or 32-20. And they
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: were done. Because, and even Saban and Urban were talking
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: about this in the documentary, that basically the entire existence
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of college football, most years, you could not afford a loss.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: A loss derailed your entire season. And I see all
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: these people that hold on to the history of college football,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the importance of the regular season, I don't feel like
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that's really changed at all. Honestly, if anything, we see
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: so many games that are terrible. I mean, unwatchable. I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: got no issue with the 2014 playoff. Is it ideal?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Would I rather have 12? I know this. Two teams,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: not enough. Four, I don't think enough either. 12, not enough.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: you know, might be pushing it, but would I rather
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: have 24 as long as you do this? We need
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to get in a room and all agree because the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: number one thing I saw today, a bunch of people saying,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: now no one is going to play anybody in the non-conference.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't it be the opposite? Shouldn't we get to a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: point where we corral all of our money and just
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: play each other? I don't know exactly how you do it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: It'd be hard with the strength of schedule because like
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Ohio State would play, You know, like Georgia and Miami
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: every year. So that wouldn't be fair. But they're some
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: rotating thing like the NFL does. And we only play
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: each other. And the 2014 playoff is our playoff. And
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: then the group of six teams. How about they get
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: their own playoff? We already do that. I went to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Cal Poly. D1AA. You know what happens when you have
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a decent season? You go to the playoffs. You know
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: who's not in that playoffs? Fresno State. USC. Washington State,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: you just play other D1AA teams. And this notion that
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: there's going to be 24 teams, 19 at large, and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: one non-Power 4 team. Like, what the fuck are we doing?
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Why are we still placating to that? How about we
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: just have a separation of church and state here? So
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: my overall take is I'm not going to complain about
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: this because it was a 100% lock once people really
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: started saying, God, there's way too much money to not
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: do this. There's way too much unused real estate here.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: The bowl games have been useless for years now. Once
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: they went from those Saban versus Urban, winner goes to
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the national championship, bowl games still mattered then. Because only
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: two teams played for the Natty. It was just the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: national championship game. The Rose Bowl mattered. The Sugar Bowl mattered.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: The Peach Bowl mattered. Those no longer independent of the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: playoffs mean a goddamn thing. You know why? Because players,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: whether I'm going to the draft, I'm out. Or whether
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about transferring, I'm out. So no one's participating
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: in these games. They have lost the luster. So you
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: now just work in the playoff games to the bowl
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: structure and work it that way. But to me, the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: number one key for this to be successful is And
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the number one key to still, I would say, hold
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the regular season in high regard is to play each other.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: No longer circumvent and then just play your conference games.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: No longer do what Indiana's been doing. I mean, Nick
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Saban played one big game and it was on a
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: neutral site. Then he played nobodies. Those days have to
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: be over. And if you tell me that they can
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: come to some regularity and all get on the same
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: page about that, I'm on board. And I'm not going
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to complain about something that, like, what they were doing
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: currently with the bowl system. The bowl systems currently exist
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: for people to bet on. And you're betting on a
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: lot of times like wait seven of their starters opted
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: out remember it was a big deal years ago it's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: like McCaffrey or Leonard Fournette now it's everybody and it's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: not even weird I wouldn't play either this game's always
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: been an exhibition but now it's truly stupid so I
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I I just do believe this everyone is gonna hammer
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: ESPN it's only about the cash well that's why do
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you think Adam Silver just added the NBA Cup and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the play-in games. Why do you think baseball added wildcard games?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Why do you think the NFL added the wildcard Monday
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: night football? It's all about the money always. This is
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: big business. And you could argue that college football, more
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: than the professional leagues, I know people in finance who
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: have tried to create business plans for them and work
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: with the TV networks and the universities think it's the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: most undervalued business in America based on their earning potential.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: For as big as it's become in these rosters, a
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: lot of people view it as an untapped future, like
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: an untapped oil well. There's a lot to be desired,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: even despite its current success, which is the number two
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: sport in America. I mean, there are probably going to
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: be 10 plus million people watch Ohio State at Indiana.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It's going to be bigger than any regular season or
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: probably playoff game, not including like the Dodgers, Knicks or
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Lakers or Yankees. But when you have all this differing
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: of opinions, people pulling in different direction, everyone with different agendas,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that's what scares me. Overall, adding 24 teams, like we're
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: going to watch a bowl game the second week of December,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: no matter what. Would you rather have it be Oklahoma against,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know, pick, uh, or for a playoff spot,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: or would you rather have it be the Sony TV Bowl?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And that's where we've been at for a while, for
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: years now. So everyone's complaining about it. I just think
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the key is for the structure around it moving forward.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Are there going to be some bad games? Of course.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: You ever watched a 1-8 matchup in the NBA playoffs?
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: It's unwatchable. Have you ever watched some of the first
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: game usually that was on NFL Network forever in the playoffs?
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: It's usually pretty bad. Not every game's great. Not everything
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: is Ohio State-Indiana in the conference championship game last year,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: which all reports are conference championships games are going to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: be dead. What I would do, you know, I don't
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: even know if they're going to need this, but there's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: going to be some subjectivity because you're getting 19 at-large bids.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Why don't you just have some play-in spots for the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: at-large bids? And conference championship week basically becomes two teams
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: on the fringe playing for a spot. I said that
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: last year because if you look at this upcoming year,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: if you're undefeated, if you're Georgia, if you're Ohio State
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: or Indiana and you haven't lost a conference game going
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: into that, what is the... prerogative to play that game
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: risk of injury risk of just wearing terror on your
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: guy's body when the other teams that might be a
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: five or six seed that get to skip that week
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: now you go well you win that game you get
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a bite well what if you don't then all of
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: a sudden you got to play a team who just
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: rested and has a massive rest advantage we talk about
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it all the time in the nfl so i i
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: think this fugazi the the reaction by everybody's like guys
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: this was a lock to happen And I just do
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: not understand why people complain constantly. This is all about money. Yeah,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: no shit. I mean, where have you been? It's honestly
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: crazy to look back how they used to do things.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: It shows you how ass backwards everything was. It really is.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: And sometimes that Saban documentary, you see Jimmy Sexton, like
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the advantage he has negotiating with academia. There's a reason
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: all his guys have 50, 60, $ 70 million buyouts. It's
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: not a fair fight. It wouldn't be like that, and
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: it's not like that when Jimmy's negotiating with the NFL teams. Why?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Because they're in the business of these negotiations. So I
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: just think the overreaction to some of this stuff is
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: just hilarious. A couple big stories today before we dive
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: into some games. Jalen Hurts had blood clots, which it's
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: pretty nuts to think that he played in that game
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: with blood clots. Now, I would imagine it complicated it
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit that they were overseas when this injury
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: popped up. I don't think anyone put him out there knowing, well,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: you got blood clots, just play through it. But looking back,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: you know, it just... We have seen guys, I mean,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: derail their career, ruin their career, right? I mean, guys
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: miss an entire season. You have no clue if he's
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: coming back this year, if he's out for the year,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: if he's ever able to play through it. Just a
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: lot of unknown. It's clearly a really scary thing. Pretty
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: crazy looking back at that Jacksonville game, knowing that he
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: played a game with blood clots, which I guess... He
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be the first player who's probably played with something
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: not knowing what it was and then finding out after
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the fact. But I saw Herbstreet tell a story today.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Adam Schefter retweeted it that it happened to him and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: he got very lucky that the blood clot passed through
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: his heart. Typically where people have heart attacks and die.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: And he's taking blood thinners. I don't know how long
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: ago that was, but he said he's been on blood
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: thinners ever since and he'll do them until the day
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: he dies. So pretty big. moment for the Eagles, right?
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have now, one, you hope the guy, obviously,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: from a health standpoint, he's okay. But I think you
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: have to look at it realistically and go, there's no
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: guarantee that he ever plays a game again this season. And,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: you know, you could be wrong with Tanner McKee and
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a bunch of random guys. I mean, they have a
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: million injuries. They've lost like 17 running backs. They have
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: all these new offensive linemen. There was a quote today
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: by Landon Dickerson, if he viewed himself as a long-term guard.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, you got to, I don't know,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: next time Howie and Nick Sirianni have a joint press
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: conference together, but that'd be a good question for them.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: It's like, Jesus, some weird vibes here. So your quarterback's
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: got blood clots. Your star right tackle, Hall of Famer, retires.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: You trade your guard. He's still in the concussion protocol
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: for the Ravens. You have a million other injuries of
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: star high-end players on offense. Just a lot of weird, bizarre,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: you know, season from hell, disastrous season. We thought it
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: was last year. It feels like it's trending a little
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: bit more that way right now. Lamar, who I just
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: assumed was going to battle back because there were some reports,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: didn't practice again. You know, watching some of their players talk,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like he's a lock to play this week,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: which if he did play and was fully healthy, I
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: was all in on the Ravens, might have to pivot.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: We can talk about that in a second. The other
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: story that kind of went viral today is like Caleb Williams,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: who's clearly back and going to play this week, is
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: getting peppered about this hamstring injury. And you could tell
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: he's pretty annoyed today. I will defend him here. Literally,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: every single person on the internet calls you a pussy.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: When your entire career, you've proven to be a guy
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: that doesn't miss games, has gotten sacked a million times
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: at USC and then early on in your NFL career,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: who last year played in games in frigid conditions, which
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I think exposes weak-minded people. I would fall under that category.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: It was 60 degrees today. I had sweatpants, a beanie.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I put Jack in a blanket. I'm just walking down
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: to the grass, take the dog out. So I don't
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: do the cold. Most people don't. Remember, we saw Tua
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: play in the cold. That went about as well as
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: a turd in a punch bowl. And he's proven to
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: be tough. Now, could he have overreacted a little bit?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I said it at the time. If
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: you've never played in the NFL, other NFL players, they
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: can chime in on that. I think there are a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: lot of people in their mom's basement on social media.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: A lot of media members thinking it. Players want to
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: say that, no issues. But to me, when it comes
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: to Caleb's toughness, I think he's kind of established that.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And I would also get, if every single person's calling
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you a puss, and you're like, haven't I proven my
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: worth here? Like, haven't I proven my toughness? Like, yeah,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: he's annoyed. He didn't take it well. Don't blame him.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is, it's not like he missed
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: one game. He missed three. You missed three games, which
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: could have derailed their season. For as bad as Bajent
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: played last week, they didn't win two games. So if
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: you go two and three with your backup quarterback, it
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: kind of saves your season in a situation like that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: So I don't have as big of an issue with
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: his reaction of like, basically, fuck you guys. Christian Parker
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: is moving up to the booth. Never a great sign.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I saw... Who was it? Was it... Oh, it was Tomlin.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Says anytime you have a players-only meeting, you're cooked. Yeah,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably not a great sign. I... I'd
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: go to me there's probably a lot of sneaky players
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: only meetings maybe not like in the main conference room
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: where you get the whole players like all the players
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: say every guy on the roster show up no coaches
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: yeah it's not an ideal sign but I do think
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: you're doing players meetings as position groups as as um
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Offensive defense all the time. I think it's a way
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: bigger red flag. Like, yeah, middle of October. We're so
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: bad on defense, we need you to change spots. And
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: then you bring in Mike Pettin. Cowboys are grasping at straws.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I did want to start with some predictions brought to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: you by my friends at Polymarket. I saw a good
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: stat that a team coming off an international game, playing
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: a team off a bye, has happened four times. The
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: team off the bye is 4-0. I don't like the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Panthers this week. I love them. This goes back to
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the Lander Dickerson comments. Obviously, Jalen Hurts' blood clot. all
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the moving parts on their offensive line, all the injuries
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: they have on offense. I mean, they're down to like,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: they're pulling running backs like out of the UFL. They're
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: completely desperate. I honestly don't really know what the Eagles do.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: And this, you get to a point where you have
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: so many injuries, there isn't much you can do. And
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: you're playing the Panthers off a bye after all this
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: weird shit. You know, you're coming home, which in theory
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: should be good, but it actually to me can get weird.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I've been to a lot of games in that building.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: We've all watched a lot of games on television for
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the Eagles playing at home. And they get edgy. They
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: get angry. They will boo if shit goes bad. Now,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: this is the first real game. You know, we started
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the game at the end of the season. But, like,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Tanner McKee's thrown into the fire. And honestly, if it
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been for Jalen getting flagged for the– for
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: the potential concussion a couple weeks ago against the Bears
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: when he had to leave and then Dalton comes in
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and throws the pick. I do wonder if Dalton gets
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: cut in that situation because remember they wanted to leave
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson on the roster and they kind of got
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: rid of his roster spot. Is Andy Dalton in a
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: different world if Jalen Hurts doesn't get hit like that
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and just runs out of bounds? Is he actually the
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: guy starting a quarterback? Did they actually foresee... Because Jalen,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: one thing he's proven is to be a pretty durable player.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Did they think that this was their best option two
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and a half weeks ago? Or did that one interception
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: just be like, fuck it, what are we even doing here?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I just think there's a lot of weird stuff going
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: on here. I love Carolina. I mean, honestly, I couldn't
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: love them anymore. That line is flying up the charts.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: It's now at three and a half. I'm taking them
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: on Pauley Market to cover. $ 100 pays $ 193. I do
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: think there's a chance that Carolina wins this game by
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: double digits. And, you know, the Eagles have really, really
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: struggled with Hurts. What's it going to look like with
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: a backup quarterback? With a bunch of injuries at wide receiver.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: With no decent running backs in sight. With offensive linemen
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: who just started playing together literally last week. You know,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: it's very dependent. They would need a Herculean effort out
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: of Fangio in the defense. They would need like a
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: six-sack day out of Jalen Carter. And I don't know, man.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I see this thing going really, really bad. The other game.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect, and I said this,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: his accomplishment making the team as an undrafted free agent
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: is pretty incredible. Jalen Daniels winning the backup job is just–
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: That's as good of an accomplishment at a training camp
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: that can be had. Because a lot of undrafted free
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: agents make teams. That's not abnormal. But to make it
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: as a quarterback and them to give you the nod
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: as the number two quarterback is borderline unprecedented. I'd have
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: to chat GPT it, but I would imagine in the
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: internet era, maybe it happened more back in the day.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: There can't be many times that has happened. I remember,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: was it the Bills game? Jeff Toole, the Washington State guy,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: they had a bunch of injuries started in the game.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was an undrafted free agent, though
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: he might have been a seventh rounder. But he was
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: solid last week. Relative to the standard of an undrafted
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: free agent on a short week, you could say he
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: was really good. Because how low the expectations were. I
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: do think there's a little bit of a different animal
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: against the Steelers. I would also kind of expect this
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to be a Steelers home game. Now, the Steelers are
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: missing a million wide receivers. Skronick's out. Pittman's out. They're
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: missing another guy, too. They're missing a bunch of wide receivers,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: which is kind of what Rodgers was used to last year.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: It's like DK Metcalf, the tight ends, and Jalen Warren.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: My thing is less about their offense. I think they'll
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: just figure it out and manipulate enough points. Rodgers is
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: actually playing pretty well, and Jalen Warren's going nuts. It's
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: more about an undrafted free agent, like back-to-back weeks. And
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I know he gets a little extra rest because they
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: played on Thursday last week. But is he going to
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: string together good games? Because if he does, I'm willing
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: to go down. I'm taking the Steelers here, minus 2.5.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Yes pays, Hunter pays 183. I just assumed, I don't
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: know why I did this. Maybe it's because I think
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Schefter said he's trending to play. And then you look,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: you're like, well, I don't know if Lamar's going to play.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: And then Derrick Henry's talking today, like, we're prepared to
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: play with Snoop Huntley. Sitting here right now on Thursday afternoon,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming Huntley's going to play. And then I saw
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: this clip of Marlon Humphrey talking in his locker. And
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: he's like, to be honest with you, weird shit just
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: happens in Cleveland. Like, we expect this game to be weird.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: And I saw some stats on Deshaun Watson earlier. And
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to, I've disrespected PFF a lot, but
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: PFF is just crushing him. The eye test last week
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: definitely passed it. And if you go back to the
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: game they won against the Steelers, he was trying to
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: give them the game away. So he did show some
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: signs of life early in the season. I do think
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: he's resorting back to what we all assumed he was,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: not a good player anymore. So it makes me a
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: little nervous, but I do think what Marlon Humphrey said
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: is just so true. Games get weird. They're especially divisional games. Now,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: if Lamar played, I would have liked the Ravens by
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: like 14, 20 points. I would have liked it huge.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Even if they were a pretty big favorite on the road,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I would have been comfortable with it. But I don't
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: know if I'm comfortable with the Huntley backup quarterback on
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the road, everyone banging the side. I expect weirdness. And
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: if you're going to give me three and a half,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: like I'll take the Browns. 100 pays 193. Uh, You know,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I typically do the four box. This is a pretty
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: bad week. I think you could make the argument that
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: it's like, what would you even create? Houston plays Jacksonville
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: in London, which is a pretty big game for Houston.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: And Jacksonville's kind of, you know, very, very fortunate to
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: be 4-1 right now. Right? I mean, that game was
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: lost until Sirianni's like, yeah, kick it to them. I
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: kind of like Houston in that spot. But then this
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: is our morning slate. Chicago at Atlanta, which it looks
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: like Penix is going to play, but I could see
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: him not last and a half. Baltimore at Cleveland. Titans
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: at Indy. New York at New England. New Orleans at
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: New York. Panthers at Philly and Pittsburgh at Tampa, which
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: we talked about. Those are our games. Now, some of
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: these games are going to be extremely entertaining. I will
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: be excited to watch once they're on. But we all
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: have to agree on paper. It's like, the Jets going
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: to New England, they're getting like seven and a half points.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Tennessee at Indy. Indianapolis is not very good. They're favored
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: by a touchdown. This is bad. And this is what
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: we talked about, about Thursday night thriving, the bye weeks.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: You get a stretch here and the London game. There
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: aren't that many good options. Like I would be hard pressed. Chicago,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Atlanta for sure. Carolina at Philly. Would I just go,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: you know, if Huntley plays, it's like, I don't know,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: New York at New England? New Orleans at New York?
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: This is rough. This is rough. Even the afternoon. Cardinals
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: at the Rams. They're almost a two-touchdown underdog. The Chargers
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: playing Kansas City. The Chiefs are favored by eight and
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: a half points. Buffalo at Vegas, which is not terrible
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: in theory, unless the Vegas team we just saw last
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: week is more who they were than the team that
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: we saw the previous week against Kansas City. I'm hoping
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: they're competitive because that has a chance if Vegas is
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: competitive to probably be one of the better games, not
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: the best game of the day. So even, you know,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Dallas Green Bay is a great brand game, but I mean,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: those teams are pretty flawed and the Niners are playing
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: the Commanders. I Monday Night Football. So listen, I love
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: football as much as the next guy. But this is
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: a pretty rough slate here. You could argue the best
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: game of the weekend is Ohio State at Indiana. Like
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: that is, I understand he went 16-0, and Indiana is
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: viewed as a top-notch, powerhouse now and it's incredible what
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: he's what he's done I mean it's it's unheard of
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: he literally showed up took the worst program of all
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: time two years later won a national championship Now, it's
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: less unheard of in the day of NIL and when
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: you got Cuban and Rich Guy stroking your checks. This
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago. But regardless, you
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: can only deal with the rules and the stipulations that
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: are at hand. And he handled it really, really well.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Crushed it. I mean, a lot of people could have
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: had Fernando Mendoza. Now, in fairness, it's not like Fernando
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Mendoza was a gem. He literally chose between Georgia and Indiana.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: So it's like, I mean, good teams wanted him too.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: But if you beat Ohio State back-to-back years, that might
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: be as impressive of going 16-0. Now, I get it.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: You're playing them at home. Jeremiah Smith right now, 48 catches,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: 916 yards, and 11 touchdowns. I cannot get over how
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: much respect I have for this guy. In this NIL era,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: he is making so much money. He was basically minted
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: at the end of last season. Like, yeah, this guy's
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a top five lock. We've seen guys in that situation
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: before be very uncomfortable because you can't really play football.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: You either play it like kind of half ass and
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: it shows or you just play football. And not only
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: because like, you know, Leonard Fournette and Clowney, remember, they're
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: just like, I don't, I play not to get hurt.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe Leonard Fournette did it. Maybe I'm thinking about someone else.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: But it's just a weird predicament to be in, right?
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: And this guy is playing. And I said this weeks
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: ago when he was going nuts in like back-to-back weeks
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: going for like 500 yards. Like he's trying to earn
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: his roster spot. Like he's trying to prove himself. Now
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: people push back and go, well, John, he's never won
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: the Bolitnikoff, he's never won the Heisman. It's like, okay.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's already won a national championship. He's clearly
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: viewed as one of the best non-quarterbacks in the country.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: And by this point, he's viewed as the best player
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: in the country. I just don't know how they slow
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: him down. And even I was watching Cignetti talk about
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: it this week. He's like, yeah, just ultimate freak. And
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the one thing Indiana's really hung their hat on is
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: they played in these tight games over the last couple years.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: They just did it at Nebraska, and they pull them out.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: And if you do that back-to-back years against Ohio State
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: who looks really, really good and has a guy that
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: is basically unstoppable, and this goes back to the Saban
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: thing you watch when they really got going. It's like
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Saban just say, hey, great, throw it to Julio. John
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Parker Wilson, throw it to Julio. Like that was their
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: offense sometimes. Just in the passing game, throw it to Julio.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: And if I'm Arthur Smith, like, yeah, let's throw it
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: to four. Yeah, let's run another play for Jeremiah. Yeah,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: look for four. It's pretty obvious because no one can
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: stop him. And Indiana last year had Pawns, who was
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: just an elite college player. We'll see how his NFL
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: career turns out. But they're clearly not as dominant on defense.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people are like, well,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Fernando to Hoover. It's like, I watched their offense. Their
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: passing game is going to be fine. Their offense is
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: not going to be the thing that holds Indiana back
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: when the dust settles. It's when you play the best teams,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: can you slow them down? I mean, I watched them
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: play Northwestern a couple weeks ago, and it was hard. So,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: it's just in this transfer portal era, you know, you're
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: just going to miss on some guys. Or the guys
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: that you paid aren't going to be as good as
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: you thought. And this game is, can you imagine telling
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: someone like five years ago, yeah, one of the best
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: games of the year on paper is, Ohio State at Indiana.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: You're like, what? You mean Ohio State at Michigan? You
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: mean Ohio State at Oregon? No, Ohio State at Indiana.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Is it USC in the Big Ten? You mean like
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: USC at one? No, Ohio State at Indiana. Must watch.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Get your popcorn out. It is, could be a Final
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Four preview. People think you aren't drugs. It's like, I
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: can't wait to watch this bad boy. Let's do a
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: couple mailbag questions. We got some new Stanleys in my
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: house because of Prime Day. They had a big sale. Okay,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: let's start with Max. Had a question on UDFAs. Watching
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: my Patriots this year, Efton Chisholm has made big plays
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: and Elijah Ponder, Cal Poly, leads the team in sacks.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: It never ceases to amaze me that guys who go
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: undrafted every single year have immediate impact around the league.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Back to your scouting days. Did you ever identify sign
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: a UDFA who went on to have success in the league? Uh,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: I don't remember when I was with the Eagles. It's
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: like nailing some UD. Uh, yeah, we had, uh, Austin, uh,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: left tack or use right tackle. He got, he, signed
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: a big contract with the Jets. I wasn't a part
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: of it. When I got hired, he was a rookie.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: I forget his name. But I think a huge part
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: of undrafted free agents, you use Chisholm, where'd he go?
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Eastern Washington, Ponder, Cal Poly. If guys had shown what
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: those guys showed at the smaller schools, just at random,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: like at Kansas State, at Boston College. You just don't
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: fly under the radar. But anytime you're at really small schools,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: and usually it's like, you know, chisholm size, maybe you
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: ran a slow 40, maybe, you know, your production wasn't
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: as good because of a scheme. Like, there's always a
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: bunch of factors that play into it. Plus, like, there's
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys in a draft class every year.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is like, uh, A huge part
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: of the draft process is overanalyzation. Because the last time,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: like Cal Poly, their last game was probably November 20th. Well,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: the draft wasn't until the end of April. So you
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: kind of get lost in the shuffle. Paralysis by analysis.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: You start overthinking it. You start messing with the board.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: And honestly, if you, in this day and age too,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: it's like, well, why was the guy at a school
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: like that? Because why didn't he get a transfer portal deal?
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: And I don't know these guys' exact backstories, but it's
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts of training camp is because
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: everyone gets so excited, right? April 25th happens, 26th, 27th,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: and you get the draft class. You're like, God, I
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: remember that fourth rounder at Alabama. We got that dude
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: in the sixth. I remember watching him at USC. See?
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: And then two weeks into training camp, you're like, it
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: looks like he's getting lapped by this guy I've never
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: heard of. It happens every single training camp I've ever
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: been to. Every single one. Obviously, the first and second
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: round picks are just kind of on scholarship. But you
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: see every single year, it's like, that undrafted free agent
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: guard is better than the guard we drafted in the
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: third round. Now, you've got to be, you know, the teams...
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: especially the GMs, aren't going to come out and say that.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Because that's a reflection on them. But internally, they're talking
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: about it. And in their personnel meetings and the coaching
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: staff's talking about it. And then you can just, by
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: the time the preseason starts going, guys rotate in different spots.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: And then they work up. It's also much more difficult.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Like you talk about someone running a race. Let's say
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: I was going to race the fastest person that runs
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: a mile in America. Well, let's say my mile times,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: like right now I could probably run like mid-eighths. Well,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: if that guy's running four, like let's say he spots
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: me a couple laps. He is at a big disadvantage
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: even if he's hauling ass. If I just, you know,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: if somehow I run like a seven-minute mile, it's going
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: to be really difficult for him to beat me. Right?
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: It's no different if I'm the third-round pick. I am starting...
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: on a level the moment training camp, OTAs, pads come on,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: much higher than the undrafted free agent. He has to
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: dig himself out of the hole. It's like when you
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: see one of these stories like, the guy started in
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: the mail room. That is an incredible climb to the top.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: That is not easy. You gotta fucking hustle. Same thing
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: as an undrafted free agent. You gotta separate yourself, you're
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: gonna get limited reps. with your mind knowing the plays,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: and then your limited plays in the first preseason game
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: jump off the screen right away. So both those guys
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: impress the position coach. Okay, you can impress the position coach.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: He's not the decision maker. Okay, I can impress the coordinator.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: He's not the decision maker. I've got to keep working
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: my way up to the head coach. The more advocates
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: you can get in the building, the better. But it
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: is a difficult uphill battle these guys fight. And that's
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: why a lot of them go on to have solid
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: careers because. their mental toughness to me is pretty special,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: if you're going to make it at that. If you
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: were John Lynch, which positions would you shore up before
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline? Also, the progression of Green and Mustafa,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I think I called him Mike Mustafa, which is Mike Moustakis,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: the baseball player. It's Malik Moustafa, along with Raheem Morris
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: is doing a great job. There's a fine balance, right?
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: If you could get a high-impact guy, I'd be interested
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: in giving a first-round pick for basically any position. D-line,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a wide receiver worth that. Plus,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: you've got reinforcements. You just drafted... Stribling, who I heard Barros,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I listened to a 49er podcast, he said he's still
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: in a boot. He might be back a long time
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: from now. But Debo missed a couple weeks. He'd have
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: to be the right guy. And there's not going to
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: be a guy worth the first round pick at wide receiver.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: You know, you can never turn down defensive linemen. But, like,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: is Crosby going to be available at this point? I
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: don't see that many big-time names being on the chopping block.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I would kind of just take a deep breath and
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: just let this play out. If you find yourself 6, 7, 8, no, 9,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: and 1, it's like, do you need to make a
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: big-time trade? That would be my question. And you had
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: to tell me, like, if Crosby's available, would I be
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: hyper-aggressive 1,000%? But it's like, what are we? Brandon Cooks.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: They just found him on the street, didn't have to
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: give up anything, scored a touchdown against Seattle. I think
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: they're in a pretty good position right now where they
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: can just let everything play out. Do you think this
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: may be starting to happen, has already happened, or maybe
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: just a weird-ass look into the future? A head coach
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: or OC in the pros stopped designing their own plays
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: and just ran entire schemes stolen from old plays. Between
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: the TV, YouTube, and all 22, there must literally be
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: 1 million plays already designed and run with various degrees
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: of success. Even worse, AI designing plays. Opposing defenses may
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: struggle to know what you're running at first. It's not really, quote,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: your scheme, and until the week of the game, you
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: didn't even know what you were running. It's a hell
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: of a question. A lot of plays, in general, are stolen. So,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I would say every play that's ran on Sunday, this
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: upcoming Sunday, there have been versions of those plays, if
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: not the same exact play, run hundreds of times in
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Maybe they add some dressing to a motion,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: move a guy in a little different position, maybe offset
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: a back. Who knows? You can do little tweaks. I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: don't think anyone is really designing new stuff. There are
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: tweaks to plays, and maybe you have a route from
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: the slot receiver that is a five yard in, you
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: change to like a post or a hitch. I mean,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: I think that is already happening. The other thing is this.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: If I just ran a query, if I were these guys,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: and picked the 50 best plays against cover two, because
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I'm playing a defense that only runs cover two or
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: cover four, you know, blitzes their linebackers a lot. And
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: they give me all these plays. If I don't know
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: the ins and outs of why they blocked a certain
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: way and what the, I would say, tweaks are, if
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: they give us different looks, then how do I coach
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: my players to know that? I think that is a
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: big deterrent on a lot of coaches today. trying to
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: install plays that they have no knowledge on. Or definitely
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: play books, because they don't understand the why behind it.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: For all the Shanahan guys, they have a pretty good
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: feel for the Shanahan run scheme, which is the inside
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: and outside zone. The people that came from Bill Walsh
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: to Mike Holmgren to Andy Reid, all those offensive guys,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: it's changed dramatically, but had a base knowledge of the
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: West Coast offense and the terminology behind it. Zebra, tiger,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: all these terms that determine different personnel groupings. I would
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: imagine Andy still has some of those personalities, still calls
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: them that. Three wide receivers, one running back, one tight end.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: two running backs, they all had different names. And they
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: had carried over for decades. And the plays, at least
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: the core plays, which I would imagine are dramatically different,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: carried down from generation. But those people knew the ins
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: and outs of that play. When you work somewhere, And
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: it's a company, let's say Apple, Google, fucking the volume, whatever.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: You have a core philosophy as an organization. You have
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: certain ways you do certain things. And if you're there
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: long enough, you have a direct understanding and knowledge of
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: the way that they want it done and why it's
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: done that way. And then you become comfortable implementing that
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: in however you do things, right? But if you just
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: go somewhere else or try to copy someone else based
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: on a book you read or something you saw on
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: the internet, do you really understand it? So I hear
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: what you're saying, and I think people steal individual plays
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: all the time. Signetti just said last week against Nebraska,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: the game-winning play to Marsh. Stole it from Kansas. So
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: it's like Andy Reid's been stealing plays from the 30s before.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: But an entire playbook... it becomes a little more difficult.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Because if you do have questions, who do you ask?
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Is AI like Sean McVay? Sean McVay's decision not to
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: go for two Monday at the end of regulation is
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: a catastrophe. The defense was getting exposed the entire second half.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Mevis has already missed a kick. How do you not
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: go for two while Stafford just went five of five
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: for like 50 plus yards while surgical against a poor secondary?
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Just as salty as a Pats fan knowing. I would
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: say pretty consistently, because I have the same thought. Jameis
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: is lighting up the commanders. Back-to-back touchdown drives, carving them up.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: My guy Shane, diehard Giants fan. I get on the
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: text thread here at the volume and I go, we
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: going for two? And everyone's like, no chance. I think
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, I think in college you see it
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: much more often. I think in the NFL, they play
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: for overtime. I also think it's easier. I know they
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: had the Devontae success in the red zone. You would
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: have said, whatever the percentage chances, if they ran a
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: two-point play, it would have been higher than 50-50. But
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: coaches just do not. They just don't. And fair or not,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a void criticism, because if
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: they just drove the field with like three seconds left
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: or however many seconds were on the clock when Kieran
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Williams walked in the end zone, if they ran a
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: play and it doesn't work, because the one thing on
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: the two-point play, you kind of know right away, especially
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: if you don't have a mobile quarterback. So if they're
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: running a pass play, And it doesn't open up right away.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Stafford can't extend it with his legs. The one thing
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: about the two-point spot is the field is way more compact. Right?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: Because you don't have any length to spread it out.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: It's just the nature of... That's why some offenses are
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: actually like, I'd rather be on the eight-yard line sometimes
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: than the three. Because I have sweet wide receivers, let
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: them run around a little bit, utilize their athleticism. And
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: I think your margin for error with a non-athletic quarterback
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: in that spot, it's like, yeah, had they already used
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: a couple to bang home some touchdowns? So I didn't
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: have a problem with them playing for overtime. After watching
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: the end of the Niner-Seahawks game and the weird cup
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: ruling where we all learned about the ball is considered
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: out of bounds when it crosses the sideline, I can't
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: help but think about all the other instances where that
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: seem to be inconsistent with this. What about when a
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: wide receiver is a tiptoe catch on the sideline, reaching
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: the ball, which has already crossed the line out of bounds,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: or when a kick returner running back is running tight
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: on the sideline, carrying the ball in their outside arm.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: There has to, there's gotta be times where the ball
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: has crossed the imaginary out of bounds line. What do
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: you think of these instances? well it doesn't matter if
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: the ball is out of bounds of your feet are
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: in bounds my issue with that play and I thought
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: it was a first down I always thought and guys
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: do it all the time when you were in the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: air you have not touched the white lines yet and
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: you were reaching the ball it happens it's happened my
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: entire life Definitely in the modern era. And guys, reach
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: it out. It's just when you end up hitting where
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: the ball was. It's why the moment the Cooper Cup
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: caught it, I thought automatic first down. I remember going
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: to so many Raider games. Derek Carr did that his
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: entire career. And it just turns out it didn't matter.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Unless they're really reaching it before it even crosses. I
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: don't know. To me, running with the ball, it doesn't
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: matter if your feet are inbounds. The other one, receiver
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: has a tiptoe catch on the sideline. Again, as long
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: as your feet are inbounds, you're good. I just always
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: thought if you were elevated, like in the air, above
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: the white line, the ball was... That's why guys reach
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: the ball out. Which I wonder if a lot of
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: guys just didn't know that rule. I wonder if coaches
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: didn't know that rule, which would seem crazy. If Bryce
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Young keeps playing like this, there is no doubt he
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: should be in the MVP conversation by the end of
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: the year. Do you think he has a legitimate chance
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: to win? A legitimate chance to win the MVP, it
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: feels like a stretch. I would say for him to
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: win the MVP, I mean, Josh is already 4-1. Purdy's 5-0.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: What are the Panthers? 2-2? I think he'd have to
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: win 12-plus games to even have a shot. And what's
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: his stats right now? Like 11 touchdowns? 9 touchdowns? 2 picks?
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: I think if he threw like 40 touchdowns and they
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: won 12 or 13 games, he'd 100% be in the conversation.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at... I kind of like Carolina.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: Carolina is who I wish I would have picked instead
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: of the Saints. So you get Philly this week. That's
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: a big game. Terrible slate. Ton of people are going
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: to be watching that game. Big spot for them. Tampa,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: like that's a game not many people are watching. At
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: Green Bay, Thursday night football. Huge spot. Denver, a lot
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: of people are going to be watching that game. New Orleans,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: not as many. Baltimore, massive game. At Minnesota, massive game.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, massive game. At Pittsburgh, massive game. Seattle, I
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: mean they got non-division, they got some big time games.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're getting to 11 with this schedule.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: If they beat Philly, then they probably get Jalen Daniels.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: They could be 4-2 pretty easily. Everyone connects the former
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Washington staff, McVay, Shanahan, LaFleur, who are offensive guys and
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: have become head coaches. But the Rams, Niners, and Packers,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: they constantly rank low in special teams. Is this a
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: coincidence or a byproduct of a philosophical coaching tree that
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: consistently neglects special teams? I was thinking about this the
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: other day because I've been asked this before. I think
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: I just answered a somewhat similar question recently. Think who's
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: good at special teams. CEO head coaches. Because CEO head
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: coaches tend to be defensive guys. And a huge part
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: of special teams is like a physical element. You know,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: part of like Kyle Shanahan, he has nothing to do
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: with defense. He's not coaching up, tackling him or McVay.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: So when they fuck up on special teams on punt
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: or kickoff, like he doesn't care about those. And when
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: you say punt or kickoff, you think the kicker and
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: the punter. if you're a defensive guy, like a John Harbaugh,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: a Mike Tomlin, like that's kind of right up your alley.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Covering a kick, break it down, being physical, shedding blocks, right?
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: And I think a huge element to CEO head coaches,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: you have no excuse to not be good at special teams.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: I think those guys are just obsessed with their plays.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: They want to call offense. Like that's their baby. So
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: like talking about field goal block bores the shit out
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: of them. Where I think a lot of the CEO
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: head coaches kind of like you can kind of get
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: hands on with that stuff. So I think a lot
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: has to do with the nature of the individual play.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: It's just like this is so stupid. I think it
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: was Bobby Jones that said putting should be outlawed in
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: golf because you could hit a great drive You could
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: hit a pro shot to five feet, and then you
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: miss the birdie putt. You're like, how does the putt
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: have anything to do with my two elite shots? I
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: just hit a 300-yard drive. I hit a buttercup five iron,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: and then I miss a putt. It's like, yeah, that's
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: the game. Kickers and punters are part of the game.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: There's a reason Mivas can wear the same uniform as
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, Devontae Adams, and Matt Stafford. That guy Mivas
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: was literally just on the same team as some of
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: the best players in, like, I mean, Aaron Donald's one
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: of the greatest players in NFL history. Devontae's one touchdown
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: pass away from passing Larry Fitzgerald. Putin Akua is like
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: a $ 150 million player. Stafford's a Hall of Famer. And
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: Mivas was just his teammate. Like, just taking a piss
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: in the same urinal pregame. Probably using, you know, the
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: same soap dispenser in the shower. Getting ready to leave
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: the stadium. Think about that. We'll end on this. What
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: if a team like the Lions or the Cowboys just
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: elected to onside kick after every score? If they're going
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: to give up 30 plus points, then why not try
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: to steal an extra possession or two for their offense?
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Worst case scenario, they get scored on anyways. Because even
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: if your defense is horrendous, you are going to get
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: some third down stops. If you just hand the other team,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: and the likelihood of getting onside kicks is extremely low.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Let's chat GPT it. Percentage of onside kick success. It's
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: been as low as 3.7 to 5%. Pre-2018, historical average
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: was around... It was a pretty wide margin. Let's just
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: go to the last... several years. 7%, 13%, 4%, 21%, 16%.
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  Speaker 1: The difference though is they used to not know it
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  Speaker 1: was coming. I guess you're talking about literally just line
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  Speaker 1: up for an onside kick, but I would imagine some
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: of these are surprise onside kick. Now you have to
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  Speaker 1: let them know you're kicking the onside kick because of
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  Speaker 1: the new kickoff rule, which I think would add to
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  Speaker 1: a lower percentage. I think we're The last couple years,
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  Speaker 1: it's been under 5%. Because when they know it's coming,
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  Speaker 1: their likelihood of getting it is extremely high. I also
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  Speaker 1: think you should be able to get a couple off
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  Speaker 1: the field and a couple third downs. If you just
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: hand the other team 30 or 40 yards, their point
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  Speaker 1: per possession would skyrocket. So if your defense was already shitty,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to get one five out of 100
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  Speaker 1: onside kicks... You're never going to win. Especially if your
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: offense has a bad day, you're going to get blown out.
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  Speaker 1: I like the outside-of-the-box thinking, though. Can you imagine if
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer did that one week? Just onside kicked it
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  Speaker 1: every single possession? You think Jerry would fire him right
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  Speaker 1: after the game? Because I think there would be a
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: decent chance he would. Have a great weekend. Enjoy Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Probably a little more on Sunday. Hopefully, if your team's
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: a big favorite, they win. And if your team's a
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: big underdog, they pull a rabbit out of the hat. Adios.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: The Volume.