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- 0:00Speaker 1: A good day to all of you, and podcast Land
- 0:02Speaker 1: game preview guy here with a breakdown of all the moves,
- 0:05Speaker 1: teams and the NFC South made ahead to twenty twenty six.
- 0:09Speaker 1: If you've never heard me before, you just haven't caught
- 0:11Speaker 1: an NFL game preview or an NFL throwback video in
- 0:15Speaker 1: like the last ten or so years. If that's the case,
- 0:18Speaker 1: get on it already. There's plenty to choose from, and
- 0:20Speaker 1: I'll be back under the bag here soon for another
- 0:22Speaker 1: season of previews. But that's neither here nor there. NFC
- 0:27Speaker 1: South seems up for grabs. None of the teams come
- 0:30Speaker 1: off a winning season, so maybe nine wins is enough
- 0:33Speaker 1: for the crown. Carolina hoping Bryce Young takes another step forward,
- 0:37Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has Baker and lots of new defensive blood.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Saints feel like a new rookie wide receiver along with
- 0:44Speaker 1: Chris o'lavae will lead to an even better Tyler Shuck
- 0:48Speaker 1: who flashed lots of promise late in twenty twenty five,
- 0:51Speaker 1: and Atlanta new head coach Kevin Stefanski has to decide
- 0:55Speaker 1: between Pennox and Tua at quarterback, but they feel like
- 0:58Speaker 1: they're Bjeon Robinson offense is still good enough to lead
- 1:02Speaker 1: them to the top, regardless of who their quarterback is.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons eight to nine and twenty twenty five not
- 1:08Speaker 1: good enough for the dirty Birds.
- 1:10Speaker 2: He'll be all good man. Steve tug to.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Fight Raheem Morris out as head coach. Time to see
- 1:15Speaker 1: if Kevin Stefanski can get these birds to rise up.
- 1:19Speaker 3: I've told Matt there's a quote I love where smooth
- 1:21Speaker 3: seas do not make skillful sailors, and I think it's
- 1:24Speaker 3: it's something that's important as all of us understand, some
- 1:27Speaker 3: of those tough moments are going to make us better.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Stefanski's top priority get consistency out of the quarterback position.
- 1:34Speaker 1: To Michael Pennox had several games where he flashed top
- 1:42Speaker 1: ten potential nine tds against only three. I INT's put
- 1:46Speaker 1: it to the ends.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Out houts down Drake London.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Two hundred and twenty yards per game over his twelve contests.
- 1:52Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Atlanta is threatening here.
- 1:57Speaker 1: He is coming back from a torn acl and it
- 2:00Speaker 1: did add to a tongue. I Looa picked up after
- 2:03Speaker 1: being discarded by Miami, has some fine seasons on the resume,
- 2:07Speaker 1: but left South Beach off a fifteen interception year.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Back to pass fires that didn't accept it.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Atlanta's offense didn't even muster twenty one points per game.
- 2:16Speaker 5: Rush up, ball counts down ball cuts out.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Only two teams were worse on third down second being
- 2:27Speaker 1: bad on third down and not scoring even twenty one
- 2:30Speaker 1: a game. With the best back in the NFL.
- 2:33Speaker 4: Passan bounces inside the ten katsus fait at the bop
- 2:37Speaker 4: spends into the hand zone.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Bijon racked fourteen hundred plus yards for the second year
- 2:42Speaker 1: in a row.
- 2:42Speaker 4: They're gonna handle Robinson right side through the first wall
- 2:45Speaker 4: around the corner there, bos Passan Robbinson keep.
- 2:48Speaker 1: This fait five to one to carry a career.
- 2:51Speaker 5: High hit the backfield by Jackson breaks the tackle, turned
- 2:55Speaker 5: the corner.
- 2:55Speaker 1: And he threw in seventy nine catches for eight hundred
- 2:58Speaker 1: and twenty receiving year yards.
- 3:02Speaker 6: Stop.
- 3:04Speaker 1: His previous high was four eighty seven.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Puj On twenty twenty fifteen ten five touch down at Lanta.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Can't let all that go to waste again fail.
- 3:15Speaker 2: It's a pot rice house, tom Are you serious?
- 3:18Speaker 1: Atlanta has that good O line too, But if b
- 3:21Speaker 1: brought not one.
- 3:22Speaker 2: For bosal On thirty twenty five Roberson on his beak.
- 3:25Speaker 1: They had to go with outright tackle Caleb McGarry all year.
- 3:29Speaker 1: He's been replaced by Juwan Taylor, former chief good protector,
- 3:33Speaker 1: is flag prone. He's the only new hog Molly. Though
- 3:37Speaker 1: four of last year's five starters are back, the team
- 3:40Speaker 1: only allowed twenty six total sacks, fourth fewest. Right bro
- 3:46Speaker 1: right all right big on new Bijon backup Tyler Algier
- 3:50Speaker 1: is gone. Chipped in five hundred plus rush yards a
- 3:53Speaker 1: career high eight rushing tds for touchdowns. Brian Robinson brought
- 3:59Speaker 1: in to fill his shoes. Four hundred yards as the
- 4:02Speaker 1: sub in San Francisco last year, seven hundred plus yards
- 4:06Speaker 1: his three previous years in Washington. Joe's gonna take it
- 4:08Speaker 1: into the touchdown pass catchers. They have their one in
- 4:12Speaker 1: Drake London.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Michael step Suits a town, but they aluga.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Nine hundred plus yards in just twelve games.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Drake's London is gone it again. This is an unbelievable
- 4:22Speaker 2: drab a dupe.
- 4:23Speaker 1: So would have been a thousand yard guy back to
- 4:25Speaker 1: back years had he not got hurt.
- 4:27Speaker 2: I slipt got.
- 4:33Speaker 1: You got a good got I got eight hundred and
- 4:36Speaker 1: fifty plus yards all four years in the pros.
- 4:39Speaker 4: Rips it London stretches the ball across. That's a touchdown
- 4:43Speaker 4: for Atlanta and.
- 4:44Speaker 1: They have a top shelf tight end. Kyle wasn't the
- 4:47Speaker 1: Pits at all last year in the nine hundred plus
- 4:52Speaker 1: yards after back to back six hundred plus yard seasons,
- 4:56Speaker 1: his bets touchdown lad looked as good as he did
- 4:59Speaker 1: as a rook when he dropped one thousand plus.
- 5:01Speaker 4: Wow, alright, what gow what Kyle Pitts touch down Atlanta
- 5:08Speaker 4: twenty eight, twenty six Tampa.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney no longer in the picture, left town off
- 5:13Speaker 1: a four hundred plus yard season.
- 5:15Speaker 2: Go down, Honey, touch down It.
- 5:18Speaker 1: The new options. Zachariah Branch picked up in the third
- 5:21Speaker 1: round of the draft.
- 5:22Speaker 7: He's got legit track speed coming out of high.
- 5:25Speaker 2: School and it is quick hitters galore.
- 5:27Speaker 7: We talk about average depth of target that's about zero.
- 5:30Speaker 7: I mean they just spit the ball out to him
- 5:31Speaker 7: city and let him go.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Maybe Johan Dotson finally lives up to first round status
- 5:36Speaker 1: as a Falcon. Two five hundred yard years with Washington
- 5:40Speaker 1: followed by two hundred plus yard years in Philly and
- 5:43Speaker 1: I just cut and.
- 5:44Speaker 8: Then pro touch down Johan Dotson.
- 5:47Speaker 1: They brought back Olamide Zachias, who spent his first four
- 5:51Speaker 1: years in Atlanta, three hundred plus yards in Chicago last
- 5:54Speaker 1: year five point thirty three. His peak over his seven
- 5:57Speaker 1: years is that keys.
- 5:58Speaker 6: Fights the exits lunching.
- 6:01Speaker 1: How about that defense? Overall numbers don't jump off the page.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Part of why they let so many guys walk. They
- 6:07Speaker 1: gave up close to twenty four points per game. Hot YWD,
- 6:10Speaker 1: We're fifteenth in yards per game allowed, seventeenth on third down.
- 6:15Speaker 1: But that's improvement compared to years past. The passic charts
- 6:21Speaker 1: and they had stretches where it was all clicking. Twenty
- 6:24Speaker 1: three takeaways was top seven. Good, he's got a bro,
- 6:27Speaker 1: I got enough top rise up was like, what's going
- 6:30Speaker 1: on down? There are our guys rushing the quarterback?
- 6:33Speaker 4: My goodness, Falcon's got to Tyler shuck today and made.
- 6:37Speaker 1: It get say hello to an actual pass rush. How
- 6:40Speaker 1: about fifty seven QB takedowns second most in all the land?
- 6:45Speaker 2: Hey, you stop takes best.
- 6:51Speaker 1: And that led to improved play versus the pass. Often
- 6:54Speaker 1: does Atlanta held quarterbacks to a sub ninety rate sixteen picks.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Say Jay Henderson a diving.
- 7:01Speaker 1: They'd like to play the run better, though they gave
- 7:03Speaker 1: up four to six. A pop down low.
- 7:05Speaker 6: He gets out brings up to thirty five.
- 7:09Speaker 1: James Pierre set a high bar for himself. Started his
- 7:13Speaker 1: NFL career off with ten and a half sacks.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Looking at he sucked James Pears junior.
- 7:19Speaker 1: They're excited about what they have up front. Yes, brand
- 7:22Speaker 1: with door defensive end. Brandon Dorless broke out in his
- 7:26Speaker 1: second year with eight and a half bags. London's calling
- 7:31Speaker 1: twice on the same team dt Lakale London thirteen games,
- 7:36Speaker 1: five sacks. First time he's been given a real chance
- 7:38Speaker 1: to show his steph in his three year career.
- 7:40Speaker 4: Well, they've running, but he can't get a lisped out
- 7:43Speaker 4: at the fifteen yard line.
- 7:45Speaker 1: They said goodbye to Ruke Aurora Row three and a half.
- 7:48Speaker 6: Sacks, escaping man will be tracked out.
- 7:51Speaker 1: They said goodbye to Arnold Ebaghetti only made it home
- 7:54Speaker 1: twice and to Leonard Floyd just three and a half sacks.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Stafford's in trouble and wrapped up.
- 8:01Speaker 1: Defensive end Zach Harrison nabbed four and a half qbs
- 8:04Speaker 1: only played seven games.
- 8:05Speaker 7: Oh is that and recovered by Divine Giablo, but pressure K.
- 8:10Speaker 1: And defensive tackle David Anyamata isn't returning either. Only had
- 8:14Speaker 1: one sack, but did put up a career high sixty
- 8:17Speaker 1: two tackles.
- 8:18Speaker 4: Oh and trouble and they're gonna plow the whistle before
- 8:21Speaker 4: he gets dumped on his wallet.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Second level also will have a new look. VET linebacker
- 8:26Speaker 1: Caden Ellis left off a three and a half sack
- 8:28Speaker 1: one hundred plus tackle year.
- 8:30Speaker 2: Yeah, hocket collapsing and he's brought down.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Divine Diablo is back, though only got in thirteen games,
- 8:36Speaker 1: probably would have joined him in the ce note club
- 8:38Speaker 1: had he stayed healthy. Seventy three tackles. Played the pass
- 8:41Speaker 1: well too, knocking down a career high seven passes. Damn
- 8:45Speaker 1: Field and I soon complete intended for it's a team
- 8:49Speaker 1: with a backside. Ludo would be impressed by star corner
- 8:53Speaker 1: AJ Terrell held passes his way to a sub ninety eight,
- 8:56Speaker 1: knocked down twelve passes. Still a shadow boxer two, he's
- 9:00Speaker 1: usually in the ring with wr Ones.
- 9:02Speaker 2: It's broken up.
- 9:04Speaker 1: By Charrell Atlanta figured since mister and Missus Terrell produced
- 9:08Speaker 1: one elite corner, why not too drafted. AJ's little brother
- 9:12Speaker 1: Avion in the third round.
- 9:13Speaker 7: He is a good player in my top fifty, and
- 9:15Speaker 7: he's quick footed. He's not as big as his brother,
- 9:18Speaker 7: but he's very smooth and fluid. You've referenced that combine
- 9:22Speaker 7: workout earlier Rich It was outstanding, and you can see
- 9:25Speaker 7: it in all of his movement.
- 9:26Speaker 1: He's very tough and feisty.
- 9:27Speaker 7: If you're gonna be a little bit undersized, you gotta
- 9:29Speaker 7: play bigger, and he absolutely does. He is not afraid,
- 9:32Speaker 7: as we like to say, to stick his face in
- 9:34Speaker 7: the fan.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Rookie cornerback Billy Bowman also had a good year against
- 9:38Speaker 1: quarterbacks when he played small sample size just six games,
- 9:42Speaker 1: but sub ninety eight in his first year in the
- 9:44Speaker 1: Big Rodeo.
- 9:45Speaker 2: Coma junior, coming up with the interception.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Vet corner Mike Hughes twelve games played, rating a loud
- 9:51Speaker 1: ninety nine, gave up five tds and their Mandalorian safety
- 9:59Speaker 1: duo Jesse Bates ninety eight tackles three I n T's.
- 10:03Speaker 4: Sit back across the middle and accepted on the backside.
- 10:06Speaker 1: The den Jarrin of the two, holding it down to
- 10:08Speaker 1: a sub seventy eight second team All Pro good.
- 10:11Speaker 4: Jesse Bates twenty fifteen ten five house tall.
- 10:16Speaker 1: It is the way baby Grogu. Xavier Watts with ninety
- 10:20Speaker 1: six tackles picked off five passes as a babe in
- 10:23Speaker 1: a land of bounty hunters.
- 10:24Speaker 2: It's intercept Xavier Watts.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Torner d Alford is gone played well for them too,
- 10:30Speaker 1: twelve passes a defense, three iron t's for a nice
- 10:33Speaker 1: low eighties rate in his fourth year.
- 10:34Speaker 2: Other day breaking intercepted by the.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Offer change at kicker they landed nick fulk Vet takes
- 10:41Speaker 1: Zane Gonzalez's place. Fulk has led the NFL and field
- 10:44Speaker 1: goal percentage three straight years.
- 10:47Speaker 2: The kick is on the way. It's a line drive
- 10:49Speaker 2: towards the upright sass.
- 10:52Speaker 1: So Atlanta's looking at pretty much the same secondary they
- 10:55Speaker 1: rocked with in twenty twenty five. Bowman Terrell Hues at corner,
- 10:59Speaker 1: another Terrell joining the fund, Bates and Watts backing them up.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Added safety Sydney Brown for depth. Former Eagle front seven
- 11:07Speaker 1: defensive tackle Mason Smith is new bench guy for the Jags.
- 11:11Speaker 1: A year ago, this will be his third year. They
- 11:14Speaker 1: also signed to Sean Hand thirteen games with the Chargers
- 11:17Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, one and a half sacks. Outside
- 11:20Speaker 1: linebacker Samson Ebucom was a cult not a starter last year,
- 11:24Speaker 1: but was in twenty twenty three when he tallied nine
- 11:26Speaker 1: and a half sacks. Harris takes Ellis's spot at linebacker.
- 11:29Speaker 1: Former Texan heading into his year five. Came off the
- 11:33Speaker 1: bench last year but was one hundred plus tackle guy
- 11:35Speaker 1: in his second season, and the playmakers on offense Pennix
- 11:39Speaker 1: and Tua. The options at quarterback wasn't clear early in
- 11:42Speaker 1: the off season who would get the nod even if
- 11:45Speaker 1: Pennox was healthy, Dotson, Lamide, Branch, all incomers at wide receiver,
- 11:50Speaker 1: Mooney and Sills that departed b Rob takes Algier's place
- 11:53Speaker 1: as Bijon's backup. New head coach and questions at quarterback,
- 11:57Speaker 1: plus a pretty tough schedule could make twenty twenty six
- 12:00Speaker 1: a challenge for the Dirty Birds. They have the thirteenth
- 12:03Speaker 1: hardest schedule. If you look at their opponents twenty twenty
- 12:06Speaker 1: six expected wind totals. They're lying in the sand sits
- 12:10Speaker 1: at seven and a half. Let's put on some Luda
- 12:12Speaker 1: glasses to figure out how high these birds could rise up.
- 12:16Speaker 1: This assumes they get top notch QB play from somebody
- 12:20Speaker 1: start off with wins over Pittsburgh, Carolina, a Micah list,
- 12:24Speaker 1: Green Bay, and the Saints take the Bears, sink the
- 12:28Speaker 1: Bucks ship, then rip off five straight to end Cleveland, Washington,
- 12:33Speaker 1: sweep Tampa Bay, New Orleans and Carolina for a dozen wins,
- 12:37Speaker 1: ceiling that would snap their eight year streak of losing records.
- 12:41Speaker 1: They always seem to come up short no matter what
- 12:44Speaker 1: they do in the off season. Their history of having
- 12:46Speaker 1: something sink them, plus that schedule makes it hard to
- 12:50Speaker 1: find eight wins for the Birds. In the game preview,
- 12:52Speaker 1: guy bag, can you picture?
- 12:54Speaker 7: Can you imagine where we could go if we play
- 12:56Speaker 7: together like that every game? I'm product what we're doing though,
- 12:59Speaker 7: if the process and we keep pushing it and we
- 13:02Speaker 7: keep growing.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers trying to take the next step in twenty
- 13:06Speaker 1: twenty six when Needle bumped up to eight last year,
- 13:09Speaker 1: good enough to win the NFC South. Come on now
- 13:15Speaker 1: they hope to go Eugene Struthers and take it to
- 13:17Speaker 1: a whole nother level.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Our young guys like this because say, that's.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Not how he says it, but you get it. It's
- 13:25Speaker 1: all about Bryce.
- 13:26Speaker 6: Silent Chalker palls it in for a touchdown?
- 13:31Speaker 1: Is young the franchise quarterback they thought he was when
- 13:34Speaker 1: they took him with the number one pick?
- 13:36Speaker 2: Pro Recro makes the catch for the touchdown.
- 13:39Speaker 1: He is at least trending in the right direction.
- 13:41Speaker 5: Plus to the outside. He's got the quarter, he's got
- 13:43Speaker 5: the five, the two for the touchdown.
- 13:47Speaker 1: From eleven tds as a rookie to fifteen to twenty
- 13:50Speaker 1: three last year, we know what it looks like.
- 13:52Speaker 2: We start that.
- 13:53Speaker 7: Here you go.
- 13:54Speaker 1: His passer rating has risen each season.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Two, No boy quarter, this is where we finished. This
- 13:59Speaker 2: is where we finished.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Let's hitting at eighty seven and twenty twenty five.
- 14:02Speaker 6: Y's talk out field talk by lead get it.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Side by forty passing yards per game up to one
- 14:09Speaker 1: eighty eight on the left side.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Pour league yet begs the catch touchdown Carolina.
- 14:15Speaker 1: But kay dot will tell you it's not enough.
- 14:17Speaker 6: By suppose caught by Evotts chartle points hold to the episode.
- 14:22Speaker 8: For a touchdown.
- 14:24Speaker 1: Had a few solid games, but it's not enough. Twenty
- 14:26Speaker 1: seventh in yards per game.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Presunfield DeVos tap then intercepted.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Twenty fifth on third down.
- 14:33Speaker 2: Don't get trouble and he's sacked. The ball comes out
- 14:36Speaker 2: of the.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Ten yard twenty fourth in the red zone.
- 14:39Speaker 2: And that's picked off a lotta Taylor.
- 14:41Speaker 1: Only eighteen points per game. Somebody's got to get on there.
- 14:47Speaker 2: You know he's hit Hey sacked. That's Colliss Cavo.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Don't turn the TV off, though, wouldn't want to miss
- 14:53Speaker 1: what TEDAROA McMillan has in store.
- 14:56Speaker 2: Rose to the episode.
- 14:57Speaker 1: McMillin left corner, begs the got t maac over one
- 15:01Speaker 1: thousand yards and sevent tds to take home the oh roy, what.
- 15:05Speaker 2: About a cell? The California connection, Rice Young, the teneral
- 15:11Speaker 2: of a Kimillin.
- 15:12Speaker 1: You hear that AI voiceover guy read o R O
- 15:15Speaker 1: Y and didn't realize it's offensive Rookie of the Year.
- 15:18Speaker 1: They can't afford a real person or a better program.
- 15:21Speaker 2: That's the cut of the twenty. He's got the top.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Carolina can't afford to half McMillan be the only real
- 15:30Speaker 1: threat again. Jalen Kocher put up some big games, only
- 15:33Speaker 1: played eleven though.
- 15:34Speaker 6: It's Coberts cups.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Touch down Carolina, so only three hundred and ninety four yards,
- 15:43Speaker 1: but the potential for him to morph into a good
- 15:46Speaker 1: too is there.
- 15:47Speaker 5: Holker, thanks the touch of tyrocks the sideline into the
- 15:51Speaker 5: end zone for a fuck down.
- 15:53Speaker 1: XL was supposed to be that guy. Xavier leget three scores,
- 15:57Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty plus yards in his second seat.
- 16:00Speaker 1: He went for close to five hundred yards as a rookie,
- 16:03Speaker 1: so regressed production wise.
- 16:05Speaker 5: Rolling right now, Young rolls back to his left, eyes
- 16:08Speaker 5: up the crows axel diving Betsy yet touchdown.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Carolina used a third round pick on wide receiver Chris Brazil.
- 16:16Speaker 2: He's an over the top receiver.
- 16:19Speaker 6: What you would expect from Tennessee with that type of offense?
- 16:22Speaker 6: What do you call it?
- 16:22Speaker 2: Offense?
- 16:23Speaker 8: Again?
- 16:23Speaker 2: Joel deep choice off there you go?
- 16:25Speaker 1: Would be nice if they had a better tight end game.
- 16:27Speaker 1: Jatavian Sanders also kind of disappointed. One hundred and ninety
- 16:31Speaker 1: yards over thirteen games. Tommy Tremble two touchdowns, close to
- 16:35Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty yards.
- 16:37Speaker 2: Double rights across, but Bill he's got the third.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Cuba Hubbard gets to be the man again. Sort of
- 16:42Speaker 1: fell out a favor early, came back around, finished with
- 16:45Speaker 1: over five hundred rush yards. Cuba good for nine hundred
- 16:48Speaker 1: plus yards the previous two years when he wasn't splitting carries.
- 16:53Speaker 2: Up the battle Subar Hobb, but.
- 16:56Speaker 1: He takes over as RB one because they let Rico
- 16:59Speaker 1: Suavee down Walk Dowdell went for one thousand yards on
- 17:02Speaker 1: the ground, half dozen paint jobs for six around.
- 17:06Speaker 2: Oh, he's got the third trouble runab up gets a
- 17:08Speaker 2: plus fifth.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Real Panther's O line. We'll have a different flavor to
- 17:12Speaker 1: it this year. They used their first round pick on
- 17:15Speaker 1: tackle Monroe Freeling. They also signed tackle Rashid Walker. He
- 17:19Speaker 1: gave up seven sacks as a packer last year. They're
- 17:22Speaker 1: having to work around left tackle Iakean Mguanu's injury, which
- 17:26Speaker 1: he suffered in their playoff loss. Unclear when they'll get
- 17:29Speaker 1: him back. He gave up a team high eight sacks
- 17:31Speaker 1: during the regular season. Also signed Luke Fortner to play center.
- 17:35Speaker 1: He gave up five sacks. Made ten starts for the
- 17:38Speaker 1: Saints last season, taking the place of Cad Mays, who
- 17:41Speaker 1: only gave up two made twelve starts. Guard Robert Hunt
- 17:44Speaker 1: coming back from a two game season, Tackle Taylor mowten
- 17:48Speaker 1: guard Damian Lewis both still in the mix. Their line
- 17:51Speaker 1: overall allowed a high pressure rate last year, but only
- 17:54Speaker 1: thirty five sacks taken which was top twelve good. They
- 17:57Speaker 1: could live with that again.
- 18:00Speaker 8: In the pocket, try at played a sack.
- 18:02Speaker 6: He does most back of the exta be touch down Carolina,
- 18:09Speaker 6: he go by.
- 18:09Speaker 2: That's you guys on bread. We got a few more
- 18:11Speaker 2: in it.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Panthers offense has lots of room for improvement. Their defense
- 18:16Speaker 1: kind of does too.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Throw my right the ND, this's go, it's gonna beyond us.
- 18:20Speaker 2: It's gonna beyond us.
- 18:21Speaker 1: But they made major strides.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Fields nowhere to go and he gets tackled.
- 18:25Speaker 1: They were the worst defense in football in twenty twenty four.
- 18:29Speaker 8: Intercepted but Jackson.
- 18:32Speaker 1: No team gave up more yards per game or points
- 18:35Speaker 1: per game than last year. Sixteenth in yards per game.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Let's sacked by a Sean Robinson.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Fifteenth in points per game.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Loud intercepted again, picked off.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Panthers secondary gets a ton of credit for the turnaround.
- 18:49Speaker 2: Picked off the thirty picked up good Carolada.
- 18:53Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four, Carolina gave up the highest rate then
- 18:57Speaker 1: last year, held quarterbacks to a sub ninety rating. Fifteen
- 19:01Speaker 1: interceptions top eight good.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Horny coverage. They read it all the way.
- 19:05Speaker 1: They loved their musical cornerback tandem.
- 19:08Speaker 6: As intercepted what Carolina.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Billy Jean might not be anybody's lover, but Mike Jackson
- 19:15Speaker 1: held his targets to a sub seventy eight led the
- 19:18Speaker 1: league in passes defense with nineteen picked off four balls.
- 19:21Speaker 1: Except and then there's JC Horn may have ninety nine problems,
- 19:28Speaker 1: but covering pass catchers ain't one career high five picks
- 19:32Speaker 1: in his fifth year.
- 19:33Speaker 2: An episode one handed takeaway, two interceptions for.
- 19:40Speaker 1: JC corner Chaw Smith Wade the raid allowed, jumped thirty
- 19:44Speaker 1: points from his rookie season to his sophomore campaign, did
- 19:48Speaker 1: see more reps and made fifty six tackles, and his
- 19:51Speaker 1: one iron t was of the house called variety. Safety
- 19:58Speaker 1: Nick Scott's play versus the pass last year also not
- 20:01Speaker 1: as good as twenty twenty four. Gave up a rating
- 20:03Speaker 1: over one point fifteen. Did make a career high one
- 20:06Speaker 1: hundred and eleven tackles the.
- 20:08Speaker 2: First interception, and he has thrown six week.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Ran Safety Trayvon marreg also cracked the one hundred tackle barrier,
- 20:16Speaker 1: second year in a row he's done so, but he
- 20:18Speaker 1: comes off a good year versus the pass, posting a
- 20:20Speaker 1: sub ninety rate.
- 20:22Speaker 5: Thanks a shot back down veiled in the triple coverage
- 20:24Speaker 5: had been accepted by merit.
- 20:26Speaker 1: Rookie safety Laithan Ransom got in six starts, got his
- 20:29Speaker 1: first pick over fifty tackles.
- 20:31Speaker 2: Rookie cops up with one of the biggest plays of
- 20:35Speaker 2: this season.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Now, if their backside could get a little more help
- 20:38Speaker 1: from their front he dropped.
- 20:40Speaker 2: Bonta, calling the Fires down.
- 20:41Speaker 1: A little touch, they could find themselves more In Jessica
- 20:45Speaker 1: Rabbit Samahayak territory. Only thirty sacks in the lowest pressure rate.
- 20:49Speaker 1: That doesn't look good even with beer goggles on.
- 20:52Speaker 8: I love it.
- 20:53Speaker 2: Beats the hot on makes the cat that goes all
- 20:56Speaker 2: the way to the dsill.
- 20:57Speaker 1: And they gave up four to four a carry so
- 21:00Speaker 1: they can play the run better as well.
- 21:02Speaker 2: Darks it to the open and he is g oh
- 21:05Speaker 2: and he gone.
- 21:06Speaker 1: Don't blame defensive end Derrick Brown, he bawled after missing
- 21:10Speaker 1: twenty twenty four with injury. Over seventy tackles, five sacks.
- 21:14Speaker 1: He's underrated and a beast dj Ron. The ball won't
- 21:21Speaker 1: have the assistance of vet Ashawn Robinson sixty five tackles,
- 21:25Speaker 1: two and a half sacks for him last year. Dominate
- 21:29Speaker 1: means Bobby Brown. We'll see more action. It's not my prerogative.
- 21:33Speaker 1: It's facts. Five starts last year, thirty one tackles, and
- 21:37Speaker 1: he's yanked out joining them in the trenches. Second rounder
- 21:41Speaker 1: Lee Hunter.
- 21:42Speaker 7: They got themselves a big nose tackle and this is
- 21:45Speaker 7: the very first play of the game. Tell me if
- 21:46Speaker 7: this looks good for a guy who's three hundred and
- 21:48Speaker 7: thirty pounds just chucking a dude and then swallowing the
- 21:51Speaker 7: running back for a tackle for loss.
- 21:53Speaker 6: And he made plays throughout this entire game.
- 21:55Speaker 7: Look at him working sideline the sideline here and they
- 21:57Speaker 7: need more than nine games out of Turshawn Wharton.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Wharton with a couple of sacks, that sis good, That
- 22:03Speaker 1: is set. He was signed away from Kansas City off
- 22:06Speaker 1: a career high six and a half sacks in twenty
- 22:08Speaker 1: twenty four. Across from him will be Jalen Phillips, one
- 22:12Speaker 1: of two big defensive free agent signings they made. He's
- 22:15Speaker 1: capable of more than the five sacks he put up
- 22:17Speaker 1: between Philadelphia and Miami last year. Started his career with
- 22:21Speaker 1: eight and a half bags heads into his year, six.
- 22:24Speaker 4: Hoops away from Carter and now more pressure and it
- 22:27Speaker 4: gets drilled that ball is out.
- 22:28Speaker 2: I don't see a whistle.
- 22:29Speaker 1: They're hoping outside linebacker Patrick Jones can stay healthy. Only
- 22:33Speaker 1: played four games for Carolina after being signed away from
- 22:36Speaker 1: Minnesota off a seven sack year. They let dj wanham
- 22:40Speaker 1: bounce only wrangled three quarterbacks.
- 22:42Speaker 2: Back into the pressure sack by one.
- 22:46Speaker 1: The new linebacker in town, Devin Lloyd, signed away from Jacksonville,
- 22:50Speaker 1: made second team All Pro in his fourth year. First
- 22:53Speaker 1: year in the league with fewer than one hundred tackles,
- 22:56Speaker 1: But how about five interceptions from the linebacker spot one
- 23:00Speaker 1: ninety nine yard house.
- 23:01Speaker 6: Call boding dead fun, that's down.
- 23:06Speaker 1: He takes over the spot vacated by Christian rose Boom.
- 23:09Speaker 1: He did lead the team in tackles with one twenty
- 23:11Speaker 1: two good Christians. Trevin Wallace returns heads into his year three.
- 23:19Speaker 1: Only twelve games, played, sixty one tackles, two sacks, which
- 23:23Speaker 1: is what they got from him his rookie year.
- 23:25Speaker 2: Trevn Wallace got enough of Tyler Shuck.
- 23:28Speaker 1: They need Ryan Fitzgerald to channel his own fits magic
- 23:31Speaker 1: this season. Missed five field goals and three extra points
- 23:35Speaker 1: as a rookie, but also hit a number of game
- 23:38Speaker 1: winners over the season.
- 23:39Speaker 5: Art puts it down, Fitzgerald swings the leg, the kick
- 23:43Speaker 5: is good, and the Panthers walk it up and over
- 23:47Speaker 5: time again.
- 23:48Speaker 1: What's all that looked like? Condensed? They're rolling with the
- 23:51Speaker 1: same five key dbs that made up their twenty twenty
- 23:54Speaker 1: five secondary Smith, Wade, Horn and Mjack at corner, Scott
- 23:58Speaker 1: and Marrag at safety. No new free agents, couple of
- 24:02Speaker 1: late round draft picks and returnees from last year. The
- 24:05Speaker 1: backups front seven. The rookie Lee the only nubie up
- 24:09Speaker 1: front expected to see significant snaps. He replaces Robinson the Wharton,
- 24:14Speaker 1: Brown and Brown Law firm, expected to start in the middle,
- 24:17Speaker 1: Phillips for Wanham on the edge, Lloyd for Rose, Boom
- 24:20Speaker 1: at the one inside linebacker spot, and their playmakers on
- 24:24Speaker 1: offense are pretty much the same, sans Rico. Cuba's backup
- 24:28Speaker 1: Jonathan Brooks, who they had high hopes for when they
- 24:31Speaker 1: drafted him. He didn't play at all in twenty twenty
- 24:33Speaker 1: five and only played three games as a rookie in
- 24:36Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. T Mac hoping to up the ante
- 24:39Speaker 1: in his year two, Coper seems like he could round
- 24:41Speaker 1: into a nice two. How far they go tied to
- 24:45Speaker 1: how much better Bryce plays Carolina's schedule is going to
- 24:48Speaker 1: make getting better a real challenge happens when you finish first.
- 24:52Speaker 1: You play a lot of first place teams. They have
- 24:55Speaker 1: the third hardest track based on their opponents twenty twenty
- 24:58Speaker 1: six expected win totals, they themselves have been tabbed as
- 25:02Speaker 1: a seven and a half squad. Let's put on a
- 25:04Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors number thirty Jersey to come up with
- 25:08Speaker 1: their ceiling. Give it the optimist treatment. Kick off the
- 25:11Speaker 1: year with a win over the Bears, take Atlanta and Cleveland,
- 25:15Speaker 1: flex against the Bucks, copple New Orleans, double up on Tampa,
- 25:19Speaker 1: then Minnesota, followed by a sweep of the Saints, take
- 25:23Speaker 1: down Pittsburgh, and finish with a second win over the
- 25:26Speaker 1: Falcons that would get them to ten wins. My game
- 25:29Speaker 1: preview guy Bag doesn't see it though, hard to see
- 25:32Speaker 1: clearly with this thing on my head, But I'm just
- 25:35Speaker 1: not a fan of their schedule more than anything. But look,
- 25:38Speaker 1: nobody was giving them credit last year to win eight,
- 25:41Speaker 1: So why not shook up the world again? Right the flag?
- 25:44Speaker 7: When they're down to the day now today, be selfish,
- 25:49Speaker 7: do it for yourself and that do it for everyone around.
- 25:52Speaker 8: Oh love it went on three two.
- 25:55Speaker 1: Yeah, New Orleans Saints six and eleven, and year one
- 25:57Speaker 1: of Kellen Moore finished the year strong two.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Oh here here we go, Here we go.
- 26:03Speaker 1: Unlike that stormtrooper, they may have found the droid they
- 26:06Speaker 1: were looking for. If Tyler Shuck builds off his nine
- 26:11Speaker 1: game case test, who dat will be set at the
- 26:13Speaker 1: most important position in football.
- 26:16Speaker 6: Shot touch down for Tyler Shuck.
- 26:20Speaker 2: That is now the new longest run for the stakes.
- 26:24Speaker 2: This year.
- 26:25Speaker 1: Shuck went five and four as starter.
- 26:27Speaker 2: Fifteen Shot was gonna get him second blessing touchdown of
- 26:31Speaker 2: the game.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Completed sixty seven percent of his passes.
- 26:35Speaker 6: Breaks it down for the touchdown on the left side
- 26:37Speaker 6: of the end zone.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Ten tds against six iron T's a very respectable ninety
- 26:44Speaker 1: one ratings.
- 26:45Speaker 2: Go.
- 26:46Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 26:46Speaker 8: Let's drive it down, baby, Let's drive.
- 26:47Speaker 1: It down through for two hundred and forty plus yards
- 26:50Speaker 1: six times.
- 26:51Speaker 6: Stuck close touch down Chris Olae in the corner of
- 26:57Speaker 6: the inZone.
- 26:58Speaker 1: Oh I got, oh I got to He's equipped with
- 27:01Speaker 1: a nice wr one in Chris o'lavaew.
- 27:04Speaker 2: Throwst at the end zone. Paula who goes high and
- 27:07Speaker 2: brings it down again.
- 27:09Speaker 1: One hundred catches on the nose last year, nine trips
- 27:12Speaker 1: to the twilight zone, eleven hundred plus yards. He's one
- 27:15Speaker 1: of those guys you can expect one thousand plus from.
- 27:18Speaker 1: Has racked a k plus in three of his four
- 27:21Speaker 1: years and the only one he fell short in was
- 27:23Speaker 1: due to injury.
- 27:24Speaker 6: Chris O lovely touchdown.
- 27:27Speaker 1: New Orleans Shuck has a top shelf tight end. Juwan
- 27:31Speaker 1: Johnson went from five hundred and forty eight yards in
- 27:39Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to a career best eight hundred and
- 27:42Speaker 1: eighty nine yards in its sixth year on the job.
- 27:45Speaker 8: Throws it across a bit o'clock by Jewan Thompson down.
- 27:48Speaker 2: To the thirty two yard line.
- 27:50Speaker 1: The problem last year, those guys were kind of it.
- 27:53Speaker 2: Carland Saints a twenty nine to six.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Which is why they drafted wide receiver Jordan Tyson in
- 27:59Speaker 1: the first round.
- 28:00Speaker 7: He's got the most shoots. You're not necessarily gonna run
- 28:02Speaker 7: the fastest forty, but he's just.
- 28:03Speaker 8: Got so much twitch and you see it.
- 28:05Speaker 1: You can see him get inside outside. He's real sudden
- 28:08Speaker 1: in his round.
- 28:08Speaker 7: Look how quick he's able to get up the top
- 28:10Speaker 7: speed and then tracked the ball really naturally over the
- 28:13Speaker 7: shoulder down the field for a home run. How about
- 28:15Speaker 7: the ability to just hover in the air, just floating
- 28:18Speaker 7: in the air against Baylor in this.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Game, maybe he can help spark up an offense that
- 28:22Speaker 1: averaged eighteen a game.
- 28:24Speaker 8: Wan rather witness.
- 28:26Speaker 2: Now here comes pressure.
- 28:27Speaker 1: Who was twenty thirty yards per game?
- 28:30Speaker 6: What's John rush type?
- 28:31Speaker 1: Pode turned the ball over twenty four times? Calf coming
- 28:36Speaker 1: out and where the team to disappoint Scott Hansen more
- 28:39Speaker 1: than any other.
- 28:40Speaker 6: At it and then he went to the ground. Buddha
- 28:42Speaker 6: Baker ripped it out.
- 28:43Speaker 1: Everybody but rookie left tackle Kelton Banks missed three plus
- 28:47Speaker 1: games on their O line last year. Banks was tagged
- 28:50Speaker 1: with seven and a half sacks allowed. Center Luke Fortner,
- 28:53Speaker 1: who filled in when they lost Eric McCoy, gave up five.
- 28:56Speaker 1: The one newbie David Edwards at guard former Buffet low Bill.
- 29:01Speaker 1: That group needs to do a better job of keeping
- 29:03Speaker 1: pass rushers. At Bay Saints quarterbacks took forty nine sacks.
- 29:10Speaker 8: He's gonna be phase hit the backfield.
- 29:12Speaker 1: Sack playmaker room. They have Devon Veley two hundred and
- 29:15Speaker 1: ninety three yards, two tds and thirteen games.
- 29:18Speaker 2: What was in the back of the intern and that
- 29:20Speaker 2: is con Is it a touchdown?
- 29:22Speaker 1: It is Mason Tipton, though he didn't get many reps
- 29:25Speaker 1: in his second year and their rush attack struggled, which
- 29:28Speaker 1: is why they signed Travis a Chan. Yeah, no more
- 29:31Speaker 1: etn machine puns. A Chan went for one thousand plus
- 29:35Speaker 1: yards for the third time in his four years in
- 29:37Speaker 1: the NFL, over eleven hundred yards a year ago, seven
- 29:41Speaker 1: scores respectable four to three a carry.
- 29:43Speaker 6: About scored again.
- 29:47Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara only eleven games played and they weren't good
- 29:50Speaker 1: ones held to three point six per attempt. Kamara's body
- 29:53Speaker 1: of work suggests he can make a difference, and if
- 29:58Speaker 1: the Saints offense can make little more of a difference
- 30:01Speaker 1: on the scoreboard, they could have something. Because they believe
- 30:04Speaker 1: they have a playoff worthy defense.
- 30:06Speaker 6: They be thirty thirty that I get them.
- 30:10Speaker 1: The Saints held teams to twenty two a game, which
- 30:12Speaker 1: was better than it looks when you account for the
- 30:14Speaker 1: offensive ineptitude they were dealing with.
- 30:16Speaker 2: Come on, D, Come on D.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Top ten in yards per game allowed on third down
- 30:21Speaker 1: and in the red zone, he goes down.
- 30:23Speaker 5: No Chay Shy has a before Chay shot thirty five
- 30:26Speaker 5: side Chay shot twenty Dad Chay shuck.
- 30:29Speaker 1: See you light up the strength of last year's unit.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Their front held runners to for a carry the beef
- 30:38Speaker 1: at the first level. Drafted Kristin Miller with their second rounder.
- 30:41Speaker 7: This dude, man, he's gonna be one of the first
- 30:44Speaker 7: off the bus. You can see why he was a
- 30:45Speaker 7: big time coveted recruit. Massive size, three hundred and twenty
- 30:49Speaker 7: one pounds on that six almost six foot four frame.
- 30:52Speaker 7: They can work through contact with the line of scrimmage
- 30:54Speaker 7: and also flashes some of this quickness slip a block
- 30:57Speaker 7: and make a play in the backfield.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Nathan Sheppard had three bags forty seven tackles from the
- 31:02Speaker 1: nose tackles, Spot honey, Respectable.
- 31:04Speaker 6: Brady is gonna go down the balls out the balls
- 31:07Speaker 6: on the ground.
- 31:08Speaker 1: Don't have vet defensive tackle. Jonah Williams anymore chipped in
- 31:11Speaker 1: three bags, now.
- 31:12Speaker 6: Comes back and due is tracked out.
- 31:15Speaker 2: Jonah Williams gets up to.
- 31:17Speaker 1: The crown Vet DT. Devon Godshaw his usually burly sell
- 31:21Speaker 1: versus the run. Forty three tackles. He's been good for
- 31:24Speaker 1: forty raps in eight of his nine seasons.
- 31:26Speaker 2: There's White White Well do get care.
- 31:30Speaker 1: They may not have gotten many QB takedowns from their
- 31:33Speaker 1: inside guys, plenty from their outside blokes. The team came
- 31:37Speaker 1: up with forty five sacks top ten.
- 31:39Speaker 8: Good.
- 31:39Speaker 2: Every time that argues about Russell, I'll.
- 31:42Speaker 1: Y thirty Seve cam Jordan decided to strap up for
- 31:45Speaker 1: one more rodeo and why not led the team with
- 31:47Speaker 1: ten and a half bags in twenty twenty five.
- 31:49Speaker 6: Ax what he runs right into, Damn Jordan.
- 31:53Speaker 1: Chase Young was their most dangerous guy once he got
- 31:56Speaker 1: on the field.
- 31:57Speaker 6: Back by Chase Young, first Donny.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Who ten sacks in just twelve games, first time in
- 32:03Speaker 1: his six year career with double digit bags.
- 32:06Speaker 6: It is gonna be chased on to get it from
- 32:08Speaker 6: the backside.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Carl Granderson sealed the deal a half dozen times. Randerson
- 32:13Speaker 1: five and a half to six sacks in three of
- 32:15Speaker 1: his last four years.
- 32:17Speaker 4: Brian Brazi got their first Jones broke free, but Granderson
- 32:21Speaker 4: there to.
- 32:22Speaker 2: Clean it up.
- 32:22Speaker 1: But longtime Saint de Mario Davis moved on left off
- 32:26Speaker 1: of a good year one hundred and forty plus tackles.
- 32:29Speaker 2: It's cycred.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Every time you're gonna Tessa TESSAs field, it's cycred to
- 32:33Speaker 1: be a part of this beout in his place. Kyden
- 32:36Speaker 1: Ellis started his career with Nola. Comes off a three
- 32:39Speaker 1: and a half sack, one hundred plus tackle a year
- 32:41Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Third straight year he's cracked triple digits.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Yeah, hocket collapsing and he's crought.
- 32:47Speaker 1: Down Pete Warner eighty one tackles.
- 32:49Speaker 2: As they chase him down with Pete Warner.
- 32:52Speaker 1: Rookie linebacker Danny Stutzman came off the bench for fifty
- 32:56Speaker 1: three tackles in his first go of it.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Oh please feet by Danny touch.
- 33:02Speaker 1: But their play versus the pass wasn't perfect, but they
- 33:04Speaker 1: held teams to one hundred and seventy nine yards per game.
- 33:08Speaker 8: Was that man that is going to be picked off?
- 33:10Speaker 8: Two d per dixtrame.
- 33:11Speaker 1: Held quarterbacks to a nice low six eight per attempt.
- 33:19Speaker 1: They were very pleased with their two rookie DBS. Corner
- 33:22Speaker 1: Quincy Riley ten passes defensed, held his targets to a
- 33:26Speaker 1: sub ninety eight in his first year on the job.
- 33:28Speaker 6: That suppressor throwing him the.
- 33:30Speaker 2: Sideline and that is picked off quick.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Riley didn't bring back corner a Lante Taylor rating aloud
- 33:37Speaker 1: over one hundred but ten passes defensed and two.
- 33:42Speaker 6: Picks good enough to pick off a lot take tailor.
- 33:44Speaker 1: Corner kool Aid McKinstry gave up eight that's oh no material.
- 33:50Speaker 1: In Arizona, free safety Jonas Sanker, the other rookie we
- 33:53Speaker 1: mentioned who shined out of the gate sub ninety eight couple.
- 33:56Speaker 8: Of picks.
- 34:00Speaker 6: Accepted by Sacker.
- 34:02Speaker 1: And free safety Justin Reid played the pass well too.
- 34:05Speaker 1: Sub eighty rate over seventy tackles. We've got big just
- 34:10Speaker 1: that year and kicking it. Charlie Smith, who took over
- 34:13Speaker 1: late last year, needs to be better than seventy five
- 34:16Speaker 1: percent this time round, though.
- 34:17Speaker 4: Charlie Smith, the Pride of Ireland, will kick to the
- 34:21Speaker 4: Saints to victory.
- 34:23Speaker 6: They are the NFC South leading killers.
- 34:26Speaker 1: The mile high view of it all. Their secondaries made
- 34:29Speaker 1: up mostly of guys who patrolled it last year. They
- 34:32Speaker 1: took a flyer on Martin Emerson at corner, didn't play
- 34:35Speaker 1: at all in twenty twenty five, was a solid dude
- 34:38Speaker 1: for the Browns for a spell before that. Blackman only
- 34:41Speaker 1: played in one game a year ago. Riley only made
- 34:44Speaker 1: five starts. So they have a few guys who will
- 34:46Speaker 1: see expanded roles front seven. They added Anfernie Jennings, a
- 34:51Speaker 1: bench guy last year with the Pats, couple of sacks,
- 34:53Speaker 1: and Tyree Wilson, a former Raider first rounder. He gave
- 34:57Speaker 1: him four bags in twenty twenty five. Miller, the first rounder,
- 35:01Speaker 1: will look to steal a job from one of the
- 35:03Speaker 1: big boy vets. Ellis takes over for Davis offense added
- 35:07Speaker 1: a few pieces to their puzzle. Maybe Kamara rebounds with
- 35:10Speaker 1: more rest. This is year ten for him. Tyson looking
- 35:13Speaker 1: to make an impact on the outside, which would help
- 35:16Speaker 1: Shuck and the offense as a whole. The path back
- 35:19Speaker 1: to the playoffs for the Saints isn't too rough. In theory,
- 35:23Speaker 1: they have the second easiest schedule based on their opponents
- 35:26Speaker 1: twenty twenty six win total projections. Their own mark sits
- 35:30Speaker 1: at seven and a half. To get an idea of
- 35:32Speaker 1: their ceiling, we've applied the idea that they could be
- 35:35Speaker 1: every team on their slate with over unders of seven
- 35:39Speaker 1: and a half or less and win games against any
- 35:41Speaker 1: eight and a half squad who they draw in the Dome.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Using that criteria, they start with two losses but then
- 35:48Speaker 1: rip off seven straight wins. Vegas Atlanta, Minnesota at home,
- 35:53Speaker 1: g Men, Pittsburgh at home, Cleveland, and Carolina before going
- 35:58Speaker 1: on a three game skid.
- 35:59Speaker 2: Take care.
- 36:00Speaker 1: Carolina again lose to Tampa Bay at their crib, but
- 36:03Speaker 1: finished with three wins over Arizona, Atlanta, and Tampa Bay
- 36:07Speaker 1: in Nola for an eleven wins ceiling. Didn't find any
- 36:11Speaker 1: beads in the game preview, guy bag, what do I
- 36:14Speaker 1: have to do to get those again? But I did
- 36:16Speaker 1: find eight wins, though that's banking on Shock being the
- 36:19Speaker 1: real deal. If he's not, though they don't make it
- 36:22Speaker 1: to that.
- 36:22Speaker 2: Many protect this hard shit. We don't love here, Protect
- 36:26Speaker 2: every plate of bread.
- 36:27Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers disappointing eight to nine finish in twenty
- 36:31Speaker 1: twenty five, not good enough for the playoffs.
- 36:33Speaker 2: First out in the thirty seven of Tampa.
- 36:36Speaker 1: But Tampa didn't waiver. Head coach Todd Bowles still at
- 36:40Speaker 1: the controls at all come back, but changed up their
- 36:43Speaker 1: OC hoping to make Baker great again.
- 36:46Speaker 8: Carlos, let's go score fifth.
- 36:49Speaker 1: Zach Robinson now calling the Bucks offense.
- 36:53Speaker 8: Touchdown Tampa.
- 36:55Speaker 1: He's a Sean McVay guy, same way Liam Cohen was.
- 36:58Speaker 2: I not to wait a battle though, keep going you've gone.
- 37:00Speaker 1: The idea being maybe Robinson can get the Baker man
- 37:03Speaker 1: cooking like he did in twenty twenty.
- 37:05Speaker 6: Four Touchdown Tapa.
- 37:09Speaker 1: When he threw for forty one touchdowns and their offense
- 37:12Speaker 1: popped for twenty nine a game touchdown Tapa Bay last
- 37:17Speaker 1: year twenty two points per game, twenty first in yards
- 37:20Speaker 1: per game, not good in the red zone, and.
- 37:24Speaker 8: How the game was over.
- 37:25Speaker 1: But as much as the play calling might have factored,
- 37:28Speaker 1: the injury bug infestation they dealt with was part of
- 37:31Speaker 1: it too. Four of their five starting a lignemen, they're
- 37:36Speaker 1: starting running back, and three of their four key wideouts
- 37:39Speaker 1: all missed significant time.
- 37:41Speaker 8: They feel got to go down sack.
- 37:43Speaker 1: Tampa Bay only had sixty one plays with Mike Evans,
- 37:46Speaker 1: a Mecca of BUCA, and Chris Godwin Junior on the
- 37:49Speaker 1: field at the same time.
- 37:53Speaker 6: Touchdouts.
- 37:55Speaker 1: On those plays, they averaged six point five yards per play,
- 37:58Speaker 1: which would have led the NFL.
- 38:00Speaker 4: Flat pass catch touchdown my Evans touchdown.
- 38:04Speaker 1: Buck of their Baker Mayfield was an MVP candidate early
- 38:08Speaker 1: last year when he had most of his amigos with him.
- 38:11Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
- 38:12Speaker 6: That is vintage Baker Mayfield. That's why he's the leader
- 38:16Speaker 6: in the clubhouse for MVP so far.
- 38:18Speaker 1: And he played through a bum shoulder many games.
- 38:21Speaker 7: He's got a run hey field with a forty hey
- 38:23Speaker 7: field with a forty five yard line.
- 38:25Speaker 8: He's stripped up with the forty seven.
- 38:26Speaker 1: He still threw for twenty six touchdowns against just eleven.
- 38:29Speaker 8: I in T's bought ball touched out Tababye.
- 38:32Speaker 1: He's thrown for twenty six plus tds three straight years.
- 38:36Speaker 2: Pot Top touched down taba bet.
- 38:38Speaker 1: But he won't have Evans for any games this season
- 38:41Speaker 1: as his time in Tampa is over.
- 38:43Speaker 8: Touchdown catch, Bye Bye.
- 38:45Speaker 1: Kevin Evans only played eight games three hundred and sixty
- 38:48Speaker 1: eight yards, so at least they're not having to replace
- 38:51Speaker 1: big time production.
- 38:52Speaker 2: Nick The ball got away from Mike Kevins. Watch this,
- 38:55Speaker 2: he has to take it back away from Kobe Bryant.
- 38:59Speaker 1: And if god would stays healthy, only made it on
- 39:02Speaker 1: the field nine times. They feel like there's still plenty
- 39:05Speaker 1: well equipped on the outside.
- 39:06Speaker 8: Puss Godwok.
- 39:11Speaker 1: Godwin has spent a lot of time hurt two years
- 39:14Speaker 1: in a row. He was a thousand yard dude four
- 39:16Speaker 1: or five years from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty three.
- 39:19Speaker 1: He spent lots of time rehabbing with Jalen McMillan. He
- 39:23Speaker 1: only got in four games.
- 39:26Speaker 2: Makes the cash.
- 39:27Speaker 1: They expect even more from a Mecca Abuca this year.
- 39:33Speaker 1: He had a good season last year, over nine hundred
- 39:35Speaker 1: yards inside the test.
- 39:36Speaker 8: The fuck would you have touched up Tamba Bay?
- 39:39Speaker 1: Many against CBE one types too.
- 39:41Speaker 2: He makes the catch at the fifty yard line with
- 39:44Speaker 2: one hand.
- 39:45Speaker 8: Incredible play.
- 39:46Speaker 6: What an amazing cat.
- 39:48Speaker 1: Half a dozen scores as a rookie. Fellow rook Tesz
- 39:59Speaker 1: Johnson got more reps than expected. Scored five times over
- 40:02Speaker 1: three hundred yards.
- 40:03Speaker 5: What a catch by ted Johnson and then gets up
- 40:07Speaker 5: and does what does he call it a gainer or whatever?
- 40:11Speaker 8: They did some kind of flip in the end zones.
- 40:13Speaker 8: Pretty impressive.
- 40:14Speaker 1: Added ted Hurst to the collection via the third round
- 40:17Speaker 1: of the draft. At tight end, Kate Aughton fifty nine
- 40:20Speaker 1: catches for the second year in a row, five hundred
- 40:22Speaker 1: and seventy two yards. He's gone for four hundred and
- 40:25Speaker 1: fifty to six hundred yards three of his four years
- 40:28Speaker 1: in the NFL.
- 40:29Speaker 2: That was all the time zone. The Taylor is all
- 40:32Speaker 2: the time.
- 40:33Speaker 1: Bucky Irving yet another injury casualty last years talent only
- 40:41Speaker 1: ten games played. Bucky went from eleven hundred plus yards
- 40:44Speaker 1: on five to for a run.
- 40:45Speaker 8: He's got running roll outside the number to.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Five hundred and eighty eight yards on three to four
- 40:50Speaker 1: per TAD.
- 40:52Speaker 8: Touchdown tableway Bucky Irving first touchdown of the season.
- 40:56Speaker 1: He'll have a new backfield buddy, where Shad White departed
- 41:00Speaker 1: four to three per attempt five hundred and seventy plus yards.
- 41:03Speaker 4: Totchnow Tapa Bay Buccaneers take the lead at twenty to nineteen.
- 41:07Speaker 1: Taking over his role. Kenneth Gainwell, former Steeler four hundred
- 41:11Speaker 1: and eighty plus receiving yards, three tds, five hundred and
- 41:14Speaker 1: thirty plus rush yards five scores popped at four seven
- 41:18Speaker 1: per two day.
- 41:19Speaker 2: Well Well score of Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown.
- 41:23Speaker 1: The O line injuries we talked about. Left tackle Tristan
- 41:26Speaker 1: Wurfs spent five games with Hawkeye and Pierce oh.
- 41:29Speaker 4: Touts out to an algeble receiver Trisped wharves a little
- 41:33Speaker 4: strict battery.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Bren Bretteson spent six with JD and Turk. Cody Mock
- 41:38Speaker 1: only played two games. Right tackle Luke Adecki missed six
- 41:41Speaker 1: contests only center Graham Barton avoided having to meet with
- 41:44Speaker 1: doctor House. So finishing middle of the pack and sacks
- 41:47Speaker 1: taken and top ten in pressure rate allowed was a
- 41:51Speaker 1: win to some degree.
- 41:52Speaker 9: This man, dude, hello, let it one day, I'll get there, Betty,
- 41:57Speaker 9: dirty Dan man, dirty Dan, dirty Dan with a dirty.
- 42:02Speaker 1: Mullet defense Bulls Specialty gave up twenty four points per
- 42:06Speaker 1: game up.
- 42:07Speaker 2: To the house. How the Texas lead Tampa.
- 42:11Speaker 1: Bay nineteenth and yards per game allowed and dead last
- 42:14Speaker 1: inside the twenty trouble.
- 42:17Speaker 6: Escape tip and now he does estate to twenty fifteen
- 42:20Speaker 6: ten shot is gonna get his second lesson touts down
- 42:23Speaker 6: of the game.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Some figure they're showing on that side of things alone
- 42:28Speaker 1: would lead to bulls walking the plank.
- 42:30Speaker 2: Got no shot at catching that man pad back and.
- 42:33Speaker 1: Don't must have Captain Jack skills. How many planks did
- 42:37Speaker 1: that do to escape?
- 42:38Speaker 2: The ends up for tis reaches hup comes down.
- 42:41Speaker 1: Bucks need to play the pass better. They give up
- 42:43Speaker 1: a ninety seven rating twenty fourth.
- 42:45Speaker 2: Thought ons one back of the ends on the zard
- 42:48Speaker 2: makes the catch.
- 42:49Speaker 1: Only five teams allowed more yards per game, gave up
- 42:54Speaker 1: over seven and a half yards per attempt.
- 42:57Speaker 4: That's not good to say crowd seven yards in the
- 43:01Speaker 4: Lions strike first.
- 43:02Speaker 1: Zion McCollum looking to rebound after giving up a one
- 43:05Speaker 1: hundred plus rating due to allowing a team high seven touchdowns.
- 43:10Speaker 2: Rocket Roll put a nine yard touchdown path.
- 43:13Speaker 1: Rookie corner Jacob Parrish allowed a team high six hundred
- 43:16Speaker 1: and seventeen yards, mitigated it by picking off two passes,
- 43:20Speaker 1: knocked down seven balls, and made seventy six tackles. Good
- 43:23Speaker 1: to great first year, depending on who you ask.
- 43:26Speaker 8: He's going to be phase hip hop backfield sacks.
- 43:28Speaker 1: Fellow rookie Benjamin Morrison allowed a rate north of one
- 43:31Speaker 1: point fifteen in his ten games.
- 43:33Speaker 2: Really wait to the forty thirty five twenty five twenty.
- 43:36Speaker 1: Speak sil job do have to go forth without their
- 43:40Speaker 1: top twenty twenty five corner no more Jamel Dean, and
- 43:44Speaker 1: he posted the lowest rate of any corner.
- 43:49Speaker 2: They loved.
- 43:50Speaker 1: Their safety duo Antwine Winfield held quarterbacks to a sub
- 43:54Speaker 1: eighty rate while making ninety three tackles, and he made
- 43:57Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl.
- 43:57Speaker 8: They got away by the look at Your Best Toddler's
- 43:59Speaker 8: No Doubt Web video.
- 44:01Speaker 1: And Tyke Smith one hundred tackles on the nose in
- 44:04Speaker 1: his second year. They have some really good young dbs.
- 44:07Speaker 8: Buccaneers come up with a brick. The first take away.
- 44:10Speaker 1: The eight bucks pass rush did at least pressure quarterbacks
- 44:13Speaker 1: at the third highest rate last year, which was aided
- 44:16Speaker 1: by blitzing third most.
- 44:18Speaker 8: Ship behind it rough he fubble the football.
- 44:21Speaker 1: Need to seal the deal more often. Thirty seven sacks
- 44:24Speaker 1: south of middle of the pack. Nobody on the team
- 44:27Speaker 1: with eight bags puts.
- 44:28Speaker 2: Back to his left. He's down the left side. Life
- 44:30Speaker 2: your favor.
- 44:31Speaker 1: Two big moves they hope will lead to more bean
- 44:34Speaker 1: bags actually going through the corn hole, so to speak.
- 44:37Speaker 1: Drafted ruben Bain in the first round.
- 44:39Speaker 7: I don't think they imagined in a million years that
- 44:41Speaker 7: ruben Bain would be staring at him, and they get
- 44:44Speaker 7: a much needed edge rusher to add to that defense
- 44:46Speaker 7: and get them back on track. When you look at
- 44:48Speaker 7: the video of him, this is a bully. He is relentless,
- 44:52Speaker 7: and it's not just with the physicality, it's also with
- 44:54Speaker 7: the effort with which he plays.
- 44:56Speaker 2: He's gonna check your brakes. If you're a.
- 44:58Speaker 7: Tackle, He's gonna try and walk you right back to
- 45:00Speaker 7: the quarterback and then, much like his teammate, Mesidor, who
- 45:03Speaker 7: will probably talk about later. These guys kick inside, they
- 45:05Speaker 7: rush over guards and it's just a mismatch. And pity
- 45:08Speaker 7: the tight ends, those poor tight ends that want to
- 45:10Speaker 7: try and block you.
- 45:11Speaker 1: And they signed Alkwoodeen Mohammad, who comes off and impressive
- 45:15Speaker 1: eleven sack campaign in Detroit. Eleven sacks in twenty twenty five,
- 45:19Speaker 1: fourteen combined his first seven years. So just hoping he's
- 45:23Speaker 1: not a soft cell.
- 45:24Speaker 2: Look at Dan he goes.
- 45:27Speaker 1: Tainted love anybody. Elijah kantsy eracked seven and a half
- 45:30Speaker 1: quarterbacks in twenty twenty four, then only played three games
- 45:33Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. That was a big loss. So
- 45:36Speaker 1: it would be a big gain to have him back
- 45:38Speaker 1: all year.
- 45:39Speaker 2: And they'll take the play which is a loss of two.
- 45:41Speaker 1: Yah Ya Diyabi who led the team with seven.
- 45:44Speaker 2: Ya Ya Diyabi ad it waities this morning.
- 45:47Speaker 1: Still have vet outside linebacker Anthony Nelson dropped three signal
- 45:51Speaker 1: callers quarterback sack.
- 45:52Speaker 8: Was that Anthony Nelson for the second time today.
- 45:55Speaker 1: He's been a three to five guy five years running.
- 45:57Speaker 2: Anthony Nelson.
- 45:58Speaker 8: Anthony Nelson would a force fuffle of a pitch sex.
- 46:02Speaker 1: Beat a Veya made it home four and a half
- 46:04Speaker 1: times from the nose tackle spot, vea four plus sacks
- 46:08Speaker 1: each of the last four years while being a beast
- 46:11Speaker 1: against the run.
- 46:12Speaker 8: East loafering a sack by feet Aveya.
- 46:14Speaker 1: Outside linebacker Sawn Reddick didn't really pan out only two
- 46:17Speaker 1: and a half sacks, so they cut bait on him.
- 46:20Speaker 8: He's gotta be hitting sacked well the first time.
- 46:22Speaker 1: But I also out the door that defensive tackle Ray
- 46:26Speaker 1: Gains seventeen games two sacks as well as Logan haulled
- 46:30Speaker 1: one and a half bags thirty nine tackles ar Rookie
- 46:35Speaker 1: defensive tackle Elijah Roberts planted two quarterbacks, got nine starts
- 46:39Speaker 1: in solid start to his career.
- 46:41Speaker 6: Third and five from the pocket pressure and trumped at the.
- 46:46Speaker 1: Thirty five ye They added vet Ashan Robinson at DT
- 46:50Speaker 1: sixty five tackles two and a half sacks for the
- 46:52Speaker 1: Panthers in twenty twenty five. Impressive production from the inside
- 46:57Speaker 1: sixty plus tackle cat four of his last five years.
- 47:03Speaker 1: Rush defense last year four to three per carry on
- 47:06Speaker 1: handoffs twenty four to three isn't great, but it was
- 47:12Speaker 1: better than the league average at least, and they'd take
- 47:14Speaker 1: holding teams to less than one hundred yards per game. Again,
- 47:17Speaker 1: let's go man. First it was the Evans News, then
- 47:20Speaker 1: Levonte called it quits. David retiring off a three and
- 47:24Speaker 1: a half sack, one hundred plus tackle year, bucks legend.
- 47:27Speaker 2: Well talking man put it old tape, pot, old tape
- 47:30Speaker 2: is the.
- 47:30Speaker 8: Part of the night.
- 47:30Speaker 4: Four.
- 47:31Speaker 1: They did at least replace him with the top tier
- 47:33Speaker 1: guy in Alex Anzeloni, another lion who made them move
- 47:36Speaker 1: to warmer climates. Ninety five plus tackles three of the
- 47:39Speaker 1: last four years, two and a half sacks, eight passes
- 47:42Speaker 1: defense and to pick last year's Hansaloni put back left
- 47:46Speaker 1: side an Sloni.
- 47:47Speaker 2: It's not the thirty five.
- 47:48Speaker 1: They also drafted Josiah Trotter in the second round.
- 47:51Speaker 7: Look at the size of big linebacker and he's an
- 47:54Speaker 7: explosive striker. And you mentioned his dad. This is the
- 47:56Speaker 7: family business and you see that especially in the run
- 48:00Speaker 7: the defence. Hey's someone that when you're watching him Charles,
- 48:04Speaker 7: when he pulls the trigger and goes, he can really
- 48:06Speaker 7: hit it. Now, some of my concerns were in coverage.
- 48:08Speaker 7: I thought there were some issues at times. That's gonna
- 48:10Speaker 7: be Airy needs to continue to grow and develop.
- 48:13Speaker 1: And here comes the Boom. Christian Click click Rose Boom,
- 48:16Speaker 1: crossed enemy lines. He led Carolina and tackles with one
- 48:19Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two one hundred and twenty plus raps
- 48:22Speaker 1: back to back seasons, two questions and looks they can
- 48:28Speaker 1: still pass the Servasier Dennis wrapped one hundred and one
- 48:31Speaker 1: guys up in his third year. First he got to start,
- 48:34Speaker 1: blitzed his way to three quarterbacks. He is closed when
- 48:38Speaker 1: it's tight. Chase McLoughlin kicking it missed six field goals
- 48:41Speaker 1: last year, but only missed one extra point and was
- 48:44Speaker 1: eleven for twelve from beyond the.
- 48:46Speaker 7: Ar well Chase, Come all, Chase, Come all, Chase, Come all, Chase.
- 48:50Speaker 2: Kickey's on the way kick is God.
- 48:54Speaker 1: Recap Secondary didn't change much. McCollum, Morrison, Parrish return at corner.
- 49:00Speaker 1: Parrish's role will expand he'll start more than the five
- 49:03Speaker 1: games he started last year, So that's why we have
- 49:06Speaker 1: him as the Dean replacement. Winfield and Smith still backing
- 49:09Speaker 1: them up. The big changes to their front seven. Kansey
- 49:13Speaker 1: is hoping for a full year after missing time, Hurt
- 49:16Speaker 1: Robinson slides in for Hall, Bain and Muhammed their new
- 49:19Speaker 1: edge guys Trotter, Anzaloney and Rose Boom, all new to
- 49:23Speaker 1: the ship. David will be missed. No one has to
- 49:26Speaker 1: replace a full Evans year on offense, at least being
- 49:29Speaker 1: he missed so much time. The pass catchers are returning.
- 49:32Speaker 1: Bucks save the rookie Hurst. Gainwell takes white spot in
- 49:36Speaker 1: the running back room, hoping Irving can stay healthy all year.
- 49:39Speaker 1: Baker the lead pirate once again. The good news for
- 49:42Speaker 1: Fire the Cannons. Tampa's the only NFC South team with
- 49:46Speaker 1: an eight and a half over under designation. Atlanta, Carolina,
- 49:50Speaker 1: and New Orleans are all set at seven and a half,
- 49:52Speaker 1: which means supposed to be another close call. On the downside,
- 49:56Speaker 1: the Bucks have the tenth hardest twenty twenty sixth schedule
- 50:00Speaker 1: if you go off their opponents projected win totals. What
- 50:03Speaker 1: if Blackbeard was predicting their season. Let's put on a
- 50:06Speaker 1: pirate hat and see what their ceiling might be. Bengals
- 50:09Speaker 1: is a road game, but then have them beat Cleveland
- 50:12Speaker 1: and Minnesota plus Green Bay since Micah won't likely be
- 50:15Speaker 1: back for that one. Dallas always overrated, so why not
- 50:19Speaker 1: they can beat Pittsburgh, Carolina, Atlanta, Chicago has questions. Defensively
- 50:24Speaker 1: a road lost to Detroit, but sweep Carolina, beat the
- 50:28Speaker 1: Chargers at home, and then sweep up the Saints and
- 50:31Speaker 1: Falcons to finish with thirteen wins. That's a little too
- 50:34Speaker 1: rich for my blood and wild Game preview Guy feels
- 50:38Speaker 1: about Baker the way the Bobs felt about Michael Bolton.
- 50:41Speaker 1: I'm a fan and celebrate his entire catalog. I don't
- 50:43Speaker 1: feel the same way about bulls, especially facing consistently tough competition,
- 50:48Speaker 1: so I feel like they'll end up tune to the
- 50:50Speaker 1: ocho when it's all said and done.