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EP 64: Which NFL Division Is Actually The Worst? + What Would You Do At QB If You Were The.....? · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks.
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Welcome to three guys 6 Balls NFL podcast.
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Welcome to episode 64 of three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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I'm your host Joel and I'm here with my two Co hosts Will and
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Avery. How you guys doing today?
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Did you guys enjoy your Memorial Day weekend?
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I was sick the whole weekend, the whole weekend throwing up.
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Me too really thing. Yeah, I got sick from my kids.
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I just barely recovered. I have kids.
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It's not a thing. Disagree.
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Firm just agreement here. I just don't get sick.
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You just tell your brain, well aren't you cool?
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That's what you do, no? No.
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You see your brain, you tell your brain, no, I'm not sick.
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And your body goes, oh, you're right, we're stronger than this.
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We don't get sick. You know, as much as that might
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be a joke, I did hear unironically that when it comes
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to hiccups, if you convince your brain and body that they're not
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real, that they stop. Like apparently it's some
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evolutionary thing that like humans like evolved past.
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If you just like literally like believe that they're not real
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and that you don't need to hiccup that like it'll stop.
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You heard that It's a meat suit. Our body's a meat suit
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controlled by our brain. If your brain tells your body
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it's not happening, then it's not happening.
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Yeah, it's literally just a bag of bag of, I don't think.
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That's how it works. With an electrical current.
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Pretty sure that's not how it works.
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You need stronger intestinal fortitude.
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I think you'll be fine, but you might have Vegemite.
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You eat. How do you?
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How does anything permeate? Your body.
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I haven't eaten Vegemite for years, OK.
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Well, there's the problem. Get back on that Vegemite train
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morning, noon and night. Or morning tea and night.
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Or whatever it is. Vegemite, Vegemite.
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That's the one. Morning, noon and night.
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That's the one. Yikes.
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Put your baked beans on your toes in propaganda.
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Well, Will, since you weren't sick, how was your weekend?
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You know, it was pretty good. Went over to a small rural town
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in Oregon. Like half of the towns in
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Oregon. At least half.
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It's probably more like 90% of the towns in Oregon.
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And there's a over in Two Rivers, there's a music festival
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that I helped my brother out in his food truck.
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We just hung out, sold tacos all day.
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Yes, me, this white has a brother actually wider than me
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is 50% owner of a Tamale truck actually.
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And he does make his sell tamales.
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Yeah. And so we did that all weekend
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and that was fun time. And so just hanging out with
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family and I wasn't my kids, hanging out with his kids,
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cousins. And so it's always does.
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That be. Fun now, Sam, the other brother.
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Not the one in the podcast. The one that doesn't care about
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sports. That's right.
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That's right. Well, I'm glad at least one of
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us enjoyed their weekend and wasn't sick, so good for you.
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Yeah, but anyways, we've got a good episode for you guys.
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Today. We're going to talk about some
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quarterback situations and what we would do if we were the GM or
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coach of that team. However, before we do that,
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right before we started this episode, we just got a
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notification about Packers running back Josh Jacobs being
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arrested for domestic violence charges.
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What do you guys think about that?
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Now he has not been charged anything yet, just arrested on.
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So the way the American government, Nope American
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judicial system works is innocent until proven guilty.
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Given professional athletes and their abilities to settle
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outside of courts, I imagine he suits up the Packers this year.
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I would imagine so. Having seen the Ray Rice video,
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I don't want to see this video. I don't need to see this.
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I just. Just didn't want to see it.
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Well, that Ray Rice video went viral back before viral was even
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a thing. Like that was everywhere.
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Him dragging that girl out of the elevator, I was like, good.
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Yeah, Hell yeah. Just crazy.
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I I have no interest in seeing this.
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I'm sure there's video of it because everything is on video
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nowadays. And I truly hope that the swift
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arm of the law handles this the most just way possible and we
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don't get another millionaire out there getting away with
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crimes they should not be committing of any Case, No.
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We will 100%. I feel 20272 game suspension
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coming on, three-game suspension Max, and then the NFL was done
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with it. Our hands are clean of this.
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Our hands are clean of this. Because we suspended him for
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three games and because he's a millionaire, he's good.
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That's exactly what's going to happen.
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He'll pillar Kobe and just change his number again and
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it'll be fine. I'm looking at it.
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Jeez. The video.
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Is he dating some model? No, I'm just looking at a few
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articles. I mean I but.
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Back to Spectre Real Sports. Sorry, real quick here.
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That leaves the Packers in a bit of a lurch for running back.
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Their backup is Chris Brooks, and behind that's Marshawn
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Lloyd. Yeah, but they don't have to
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worry about that till 2027. You're right, that's an extra
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problem. He'll be on the field this year
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and the Packers do an internal investigation.
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That'll take this entire season and the NFL will step in about
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WE 20, which is playoff time. I know there's no actual Week
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20. And then they will be like, we
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will, we will, it's playoff time.
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So we will rule on this in the offseason and by that point
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everyone will have forgotten. Yeah, just look at the Rushy
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Rice situation. That's kind of the guideline
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that's going to happen with this whole situation too, because the
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NFL is just going to do the exact same thing, exact same
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process. That's pretty much what's going
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to happen. Well, before we get to our
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actual topic, I do have a starter question for you guys,
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as I like to often have. So today's question is which
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division is the worst in the NFL?
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OK, Are we talking they're going to have the worst record, like
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like the worst overall record between the four teams next
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year? Let's just go based off of last
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year, so the current standings from last year.
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OK, but which division is the worst in the NFL?
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Oh well then probably the NFC South, AFC North or NFC South.
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Probably. Yeah, I can agree with that.
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Well, hold on, hold on. Hold on the FC South.
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Is actually. Surprisingly better.
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Are you counting the wins? Because that's cheating.
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Actually, I'm, I'm just, I'm just looking at, I'm looking at
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records right now from last year.
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Is that cheating? No.
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OK, so I'm not counting wins. So the NFC East only had one
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team that had a winning record. The NFC South had 0.
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Actually is actual 0. Yikes.
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Yes, that is true. Yes, and.
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I guess the NFC East was pretty bad too.
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I just remember the Steelers were the best team in the NAFC
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North and I didn't even think they were good.
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The Ravens sucked too so I just felt like the AFC North was
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rough. Bengals, Browns Yikes and the
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NFC South only because I'm a Bucs fan.
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I mean, the Panthers won that while trying their hardest not
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to. Yeah, they had a net -69 points,
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a -69 net points on this season. Oh.
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Geez. So what would you guys say is
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the answer to the question? Probably the NFC South.
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I think I have to agree. They didn't have the worst
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teams, the worst individual team, but as a, as a
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conglomerate, no, no one wanted to win that division.
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Everyone in that division went three and three inside the
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division. All of this.
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Is correct. That is correct.
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Yikes. So everyone says the NFC South
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is the worst division in the NFL because they didn't have a team
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with a winning record last year. But what they did have is 3
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teams with eight wins, and it combined thirty wins in that
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division, which is more than the AFC North at 29 wins and more
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than the NFC East at 27 wins. Did the NFC East have a team
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with a winning record? Yes, but they also had three
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teams with less than eight wins. Did the AFC North have a team
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with a winning record? Yes, but they also had two teams
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with less than eight wins and one of those teams is the
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Browns. Every team in the NFC South last
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year was three and three in division games, meaning they
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were all knocking each other off and fighting each other for that
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division. So I guess you can say that it's
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4 bad teams fighting against each other, but at the same time
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people think the AFC West is awesome because they had the
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Broncos and Chargers win 11 plus games last season.
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But you know what they don't. Look at the fact that that
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division had two teams that went one and five in division games
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and the one win each of those teams got was against the other
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team that went one and five in the division.
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The Chiefs beat the Raiders and the Raiders beat Chiefs, so both
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the Broncos and Chargers got four wins against two really bad
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teams in that division. Now, the AFC West did have 34
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wins compared to the NFC South 30, but it's not like the AFC
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West was the NFC West last year. Out of eight divisions, the AFC
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West was actually the fifth best division, but people just
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elevated because they had two playoff teams.
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Having a team with a winning record and then having two or
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three really bad teams doesn't mean that your overall division
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is better. Does it look better on paper?
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Sure, but it doesn't mean that the division as a whole is
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better. I'm just tired of the NFC South
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slander because they were not the worst division in football
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last year. That title belongs to the NFC
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East, So the NFC East can suck the NFC South's balls.
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Sorry Dwayne. I know I didn't swear, but I
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feel like I owed you a sorry Dwayne on that one.
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Especially with me leaving Will's Ask Your Mom commenting
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from last week's episode. So he texted me about that I.
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Don't know, I I, I feel like, I mean.
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I mean, we question right Every. We named all of the worst ones.
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We did such a good job. I mean, if, if you're, if the
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slander you're talking about is that they're not the worst,
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they're the second to worst or at best the 3rd to worst.
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I mean. They're the 3rd to worst
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division. They are not the worst and they
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are not second worst. Everybody says the NFC South is
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the worst division and that is just not correct.
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Statistically, it is not. Correct.
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They are the losingest. They didn't have a single winner
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in that division. That is true whether the rest of
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it, but whether it was more bottom heavy than other
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divisions, no, that's true. There were worse teams in other
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parts of the league. So because one team in the NFC
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East was good, that means it's better than the NFC South?
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It means that team because. One team was good, the.
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NFC South, It means it was better than all of the other.
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Teams as a division as a whole. That's not better, but I mean,
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that's but but but that's my thing is if if we just have to
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like if it comes down to the definition of bad to define if
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it's the worst, it's like, well, compared to this definition, we
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are not the worst. We're the third worst.
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It's like, yeah, I don't know. I feel like anyone that's, I
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mean, we're all, we're all, we're not even fighting for
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first place here. We're just fighting for not
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last. I just feel like at that point
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everyone arguing about this online, it's like, all right
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guys. Like I think some of these
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teams. Are fighting for who's the best,
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not who's not the worst. Who's the We're not the worst,
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you're the worst. We're not.
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We're. The worst somebody's being
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overworked there with the NFC East drill.
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I think it's the fact that the Commanders didn't have Jayden
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Daniels. But you can't use injuries as an
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excuse for one team and not use it for another.
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Certainly I can't. This is an NFL.
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This is the way. No, no.
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It's like if you ask, I had this argument I had, I had this
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argument with the Seahawks fan on Instagram the other day about
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Emeki Ibuka. He was upset that I called him
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out for the Buccaneers beating the Seahawks.
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And he was like, whoa, the Seahawks didn't have Witherspoon
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and they didn't have this other guy.
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And I was like, the Buccaneers didn't have half their team.
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You can't use that as an excuse for the Seahawks losing to the
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Buccaneers when the Buccaneers probably had more overall
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injuries than the Seahawks did at that time in the NFL.
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You can't use the injury excuse for one team and not use it for
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another. You just can't do it.
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I mean, you can, but it's not a fair argument.
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So then let's flip the script here.
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If every if all 32 teams had every single starter and backup
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on their team healthy, I still would not take the NFC South
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over any other division like they would be.
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We're not playing on Madden with the injury mode turn off.
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Right. But that's what I'm saying is
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that if we're making the argument from who was the worst
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Division, I think if you have if you have all of the starters in
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the game and we're playing one, here's what the matter how much
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we're playing. I don't think the AFC North is
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worse than NFC South. I don't think if every starters
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and I don't think NFC East is worth in the NFC South.
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I, I think the NFC South because of the way the Saints and the
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Falcons and truly the Panthers have played consistently.
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I think on the average, those teams are just worse now.
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Last year, the Panthers played better than the rest of the NFC
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South. The Buccaneers were right there
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too. The Falcons were right there
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too. And call it whatever you want to
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call it, injury or coaching or whatever, But if if every
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starter is in for every team, I think the Buccaneers rise above
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everyone else in that division. But then you get an A this year
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NFCE scenario, but you've got one team that's 11 and six and
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nobody else can can get over 500.
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But at the same time, if that was the case, would the NFC West
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have won as many games if every single team had all their
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starters? No, probably not.
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So you. Could make that same argument
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for any team and any division. Right, I agree, but I'm I'm what
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I'm saying is if every if every team had every player available
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they have on their roster to them healthy in their this year
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prime, they will never play better this year than they are
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in this one game. I think on average the NFC
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South, the way those rosters are built are worse than any other
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division. I think the Buccaneers, sure.
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It's just, it's absolutely just. Hypothetical, but that's not a
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real situation because in the NFL you always have injuries,
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right? Every single team will have
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injuries every single year. I wish they wouldn't.
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We'd get a better product. But if I think if if you're
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asking me what I think is the worst division in football, I'm
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going to go NFC South because of the way the teams are built, the
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way the way the rosters are structured, injuries be damned.
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It's statistically. Wrong.
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I know. That's fine, I know, and I'm
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fine with that anyway. Any more to add there?
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We're we're, we're fighting over third worst.
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But it's not last if. If if someone says, well, you're
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all bad, no one can argue back. We're all bad.
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All right. Well, let's move on to our main
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topic for this episode. So again, what we're doing is
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talking about quarterback situations for several teams
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around the league and what we would do either long term or
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this season with that situation if we were the GM or coach of
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that team. And our first team up is the
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Pittsburgh Steelers. So if you guys want to get into
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this season specifically, you can, but I feel like this one is
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more of a long term situation. So Will we'll start with you.
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If you were the Pittsburgh Steelers, what would your long
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term plan be at quarterback? OK.
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I will answer this question, but first if you are we anywhere to
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get through all these teams today?
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We'll do as many as we can. OK, so if you're a fan of the
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Steelers, Vikings, Browns, Cardinals, Falcons, Dolphins,
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Jets and Raiders prepared to be pissed off because we're going
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to slander your team out the ass.
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Sorry, Dwayne, OK, if you're the Steelers, look you did a thing
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and you signed Aaron Rodgers for 222 and a half, $1,000,000 for
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this year. Great or well he's signed for
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that much. I'm so happy for you.
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He is not a long term solution and you don't like your long
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term solutions you because you keep talking about cutting Will
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Howard. He dropped it in the where'd he
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go? Excuse me?
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He's wrapped in the sixth round last year.
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You've got Mason Rudolph, who somehow is still in the league
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after hitting Miles Garrett in the head, but he but Miles
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Mason. Rudolph got hit in the head.
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He got hit in the head. You're right, you got hit in the
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head by Miles Gary. That's the wrong way.
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That's my bad. That's my bad.
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Still somehow in the league after that, I'm sure if Miles
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Gary hit me in the head of the helmet, I would die.
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So let's just go to show show how much of an athlete Mason
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Rudolph really is anyway. And then you drafted Drew Allard
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this year in the third round. None of these options, Mason
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Rudolph, Will Howard, No matter what I think about Will Howard,
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none of these options are like right now, next year, you are
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our starting quarterback. You have no real options this
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year. You're just riding with Rogers.
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The best you could do is hope that Tyler Murray shows up this
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year and you can steal him as an unrestricted free agent because
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he's on the contract here this year.
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Baker Mayfield, he's going to go back to Tampa Bay, I'm sure of
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it. Deshaun Watson's in a contract
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here, and you probably won't have to pay him near as much
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because he's a from the Browns. We'll talk about it.
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He was never proven. You don't want any.
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Part never proven guilty all right I'm not saying he's a good
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guy all I'm saying is he was never proven guilty.
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Another guy who just changed his number and moved on with life.
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But the, the quarterbacks coming off of out their contract years
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at the end of this upcoming season.
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Matt Jones is an option. You don't have a good options.
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And, and I, if you're trying to build a new franchise, drafting
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a first round quarterback early, because I don't think you're
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going to have an early pick. You're probably going to have a
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late teens pick because Rodgers will keep you in most games and
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you'll be right where you were last year.
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I think there were 2020 this year, 21 something like that
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this year. So I, I, I don't know what I
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would do I, I'm, I'm riding Rodgers out and then I'm as AGM,
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I'm retiring as well. Mike McCarthy, he's wiping his
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hands. But you know what?
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This is the next guy's problem. I, I, I don't know because,
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because you've got, you've got your, your young guys coming in.
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But but as we see what the Raiders doing this year, and
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we'll talk about them later, as of right now, they're not
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starting their number one pick, Mendoza.
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They're just not starting it. And that is the right way to do
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it. So you're working to bring in a
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veteran again. Oh, that man, this is worse than
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I thought. You lose.
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Good luck. Buckle up.
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You're in for a decade of disappointment.
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You've already been in a decade of disappointment ever since Big
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Ben left. But you're in for another one
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that's just not gonna be good. I agree with you Will.
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I have no idea what the long term plan is at quarterback for
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the Steelers. Ben Roethlisberger retired in
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2021 and since then they've drafted Kenny Pickett, who
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shouldn't have been a first round pick.
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And the only reason he was drafted that high is because he
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did a cool fake slide in college.
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They brought in a wash up Russell Wilson for a year.
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They traded for Justin Fields who was there for one year.
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They drafted Will Howard last year.
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They drafted Drew out of this year.
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And right now they've got a 42 year old Aaron Rodgers who's
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going to lead them to another first round playoff loss at
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best. And then he's saying he's he's
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retiring at the end of the year. It's starting to feel a little
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bit like the Browns just bringing in quarterback after
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quarterback after quarterback and just staying in the same
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place. The difference is, is instead of
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being bad, the Steelers are just staying in this area where
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they're either right on the outside of the play offs or
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they're the worst team to make the play offs.
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And so they're not getting worse, but they're also not
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getting better. What are we doing here,
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Steelers? Nothing you've done has shown us
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you know what your long term plan is at quarterback.
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Also want to say that I'm very upset that the Steelers passed
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on Jackson Dart in last year's draft because if Jackson Dart
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ended up on the Steelers, there is a 100% chance I would be a
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Steelers fan right now. You know how easy it would have
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been to go from being a Cowboys fan to being a Steelers fan when
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my father-in-law and my wife are both Steelers fans and then on
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top of that they get Jackson Dart who was my favorite
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quarterback in that draft. I could have become a Steelers
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fan, Jackson Dart would have led the Steelers to the Super Bowl,
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and my wife and I could have made some Steelers Super Bowl
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babies together. But that dream was ruined by the
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Pittsburgh. Steelers, you still can.
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Anyways, I'm just mad about it. I just don't understand what the
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Steelers. Are doing.
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Cock blocked me and my wife. The Steelers never do it again.
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It was a Steelers. He like this message.
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I hate this. I hate Jack and Dart.
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Anyways, I don't know what their long term plan is.
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I don't think they even know what their long term plan is at
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this point. So hopefully Avery has some
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thoughts because I I got. They can't possibly know what
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their long term plan is, right? All right, hiring Mike McCarthy
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as their head coach. Look, I'm very pro.
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Mike McCarthy here. I'm very pro.
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Hire. Yeah, very progress.
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And I I said that that exact same thing when they hired him,
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but it's just not it. And Rogers is like he said, 42.
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You who the current free agent quarterback shots right now,
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you're left with Russell Wilson and Jimmy Garoppolo as your best
20:05
available options. It's just wild to me.
20:07
Russell Wilson wasn't. I think I saw a photo of him at
20:10
the Met Gala. Dude, you're unemployed.
20:14
What are you doing like? His wife isn't though, that's
20:17
why he was there. I I know, but I think that just
20:20
kind of shows you why he's unemployed.
20:22
It's like, all right, dude, no team wants you.
20:25
You can still play. And yet here you are dressing
20:29
up, going to the Met Gala, dude, get to work, man.
20:34
Like, I, I mean, I don't know what's going on with him.
20:38
If that's just maybe that's kind of telling.
20:40
Like, yeah, you married some celebrity.
20:42
Like, maybe this is what you wanted.
20:45
You just wanted to social climb a little bit, be the man for a
20:48
bit, and now it's just not working for you.
20:50
You don't really know how to put the work back in.
20:52
I mean, I don't know. I think he's cooked.
20:55
I think he's done. He made almost $316 million over
20:59
his career just out of contracts, not counting
21:02
endorsements and things like that.
21:03
I hope he can just do live happy and just go be Mr. Unlimited
21:10
somewhere else. He's Do you have any thoughts on
21:13
Steelers? Yeah, I think Will Howard's The
21:15
Future, and if not, definitely Drew Aller.
21:19
Jeez, Drew Aller, I think Oregon broke him and that entire Penn
21:27
State team. I mean, I know they lost to UCLA
21:30
like the next week and then the entire rest of the Big 10 the
21:34
rest of that season, but I really feel like Oregon broke
21:38
that team's back. Like that was basically what
21:42
that marked the end of Coach Franklin.
21:44
I Drew Aller looked like a scared little boy after that.
21:49
I mean that dude, I think he was he not like the top rated
21:53
quarterback going into the season.
21:56
I'm pretty sure he was top two at least, yeah.
21:58
It wasn't Mendoza. It might have been who Dante
22:01
Moore who going in this was. If Aller had gone into the draft
22:06
the year before, he would have been a first round pick.
22:09
No, no, no. Well, maybe I I I'm talking
22:11
about I guess technically like pre season rankings going into
22:15
the. Previous, I think you're right.
22:17
I think Drew Aller was the top guy.
22:20
Now I'm like trying to remember there might have been someone
22:23
else. I'm looking at it right now it.
22:25
Wasn't Mendoza? Definitely it wasn't Mendoza.
22:28
No, it wasn't Mendoza. I know. 25 draft, right?
22:32
Yeah. No 20.
22:34
Maybe like back? 2026 draft. 25.
22:38
I mean this is it would have been 25 pre season college.
22:43
I mean I don't even know if you'll be able to find it
22:44
because you'll have to find a mock draft from like 8 months
22:48
ago or not a mock draft whatever.
22:50
A preseason like Heisman hopeful, but they just keep
22:53
updating those, so it's hard to like go back in time on those.
22:58
OK, so I have this thing here it says pre spring quarterback
23:01
rankings for all 68. Oh wait, this is 2026, this is
23:05
not OK. Nevermind, nevermind.
23:08
But anyway, Drew Aller was a top guy.
23:10
And then, yeah, just just paper tiger.
23:14
Dude, they just folded, folded so hard.
23:16
But yeah, I I mean, hey, maybe he does a little better now.
23:20
Probably not. I mean, Will Howard had a much
23:22
better last season in college, won the national championship
23:26
and he's still not, you know, really get anywhere.
23:28
I feel like he's kind of one of those Alabama quarterbacks that
23:32
like. Never.
23:34
OK, I got something. Anything.
23:36
Other than I got something here. Win a championship.
23:38
What'd you get? I got something here.
23:40
So this is ranking college football's 10 best quarterbacks
23:43
in 2025. So this is from a website called
23:45
College Football HQ on SI. So is.
23:48
This going to be like wait, wait, let me let, let, let, let
23:51
me guess. I think Carson Beck's going to
23:53
be up there. John Mateer is going to be up
23:56
there. John Mateer is not on this list.
24:02
Whoa, I don't. Know no maybe.
24:07
Maybe let me just. Trinidad drew our is ranked at
24:10
#2. Oh.
24:12
Number one was Cade Club. Cade Club Nick?
24:14
That's right. Clemson boy.
24:17
Yep, that's right. And then Garrett Nosmeyer was #3
24:20
#4 was Carson Beck. Number 5 was Arch Manning.
24:24
That's right. That's right, Cade.
24:27
I thought John Matier was higher.
24:28
Interesting. Dang, he's not.
24:30
He's not draft eligible. Chambliss is draft eligible.
24:34
He was draft eligible in 2021 and.
24:38
Then he's sued to try to go back to college.
24:41
He's still got another year she's.
24:44
All right. Do you guys have any more
24:45
thoughts on the Steelers before we move on?
24:48
Just buckle up is all I'm saying all.
24:50
Right. So our next team up is the
24:51
Minnesota Vikings. And for this one, I'd like to
24:53
start off with a question. Do you think the Vikings signing
24:56
Kyler Murray shows more that they want to challenge JJ
24:59
McCarthy or that they don't believe in him?
25:01
Oh, unless believing in him means we only need you, no
25:06
backup, and everything will be fine, then no, I don't think
25:09
they believe in him. I think everything That that.
25:15
What's his name? Jerry O'Connell.
25:18
What's the coach's name? What?
25:20
Kevin. Kevin O'Connell.
25:22
Kevin O'Connell, No. You got it, Jerry McGuire.
25:28
Show me the money. Jerry O'connell's that that
25:32
actor from Stand by Me. No, I, I mean, ever since he's
25:37
been the coach that I mean, if anything, I mean, they've always
25:40
needed more depth at quarterback.
25:42
Quarterbacks are dropping like flies over there.
25:45
So I think no matter what, like you need to have a contingency.
25:47
But also, I don't think anybody at this point, remember last was
25:51
at the beginning of last season where like the coaching staff
25:55
had the media convinced or vice versa that that 9 was like the
26:01
future of Minnesota. Like, oh, we have full
26:05
confidence that this boy is going to lead us to the promised
26:07
land. And like I think at this point
26:09
in a year's time. Like that word now?
26:12
What? Boy which?
26:15
Boy. Careful, careful.
26:17
If anything I'll be, I'll be vindicated like like well was.
26:20
Plus he's white, so it's fine. It wasn't that.
26:23
The whole issue is that he wasn't.
26:25
Is that the guy that we were talking?
26:26
About no, that's the one, that's the one.
26:28
That's the one. Full time pick, Don't don't
26:30
forget it. Full time pick.
26:31
Take it after Drowler, by the way.
26:33
Yeah, yeah. No, but I, I, I just think like,
26:39
no, I don't think anyone has is that high on 9 right now.
26:42
I don't think I will to be fair, though to be fair, I don't think
26:46
that it's, I don't think enough time has passed where enough
26:50
games have passed to call him a bust yet.
26:52
I think we're going to watch this horse get beaten to death
26:56
real slow before we all unanimously say like, I think we
27:00
knew this like a couple years ago.
27:02
But yeah, I think Kyler Murray will start.
27:04
And I think the only reason 9 whatever start or touch the
27:09
field is because Murray can't play.
27:11
Either he gets hurt or it just really sucks even worse.
27:15
But I, I think this is, I think this is Murray's team at this
27:18
point. Something else caught me off
27:19
guard here. Do you know when Caleb Banks is
27:22
supposed to be coming back? They expect to be full cleared
27:24
for participation in June, having foot surgery in March,
27:28
back in June. Weird how that quickly that
27:30
goes. You know, that's not that's not
27:33
the point here. We're talking about 9 versus
27:36
Kyler Murray. Look, we're talking about the
27:37
teams in a rough spot right now. And we could have put the Rams
27:41
on this list, right? Like that could have been up
27:44
there because after after they after Stafford retires, what are
27:47
they going to do? That's not what we're doing
27:49
here. We're talking about the Vikings.
27:51
And I was very loud about how much I think JJ McCarthy is bad
27:56
at football. And, and guess what?
27:58
I was right. I don't like to say it like
28:00
that, but I was not wrong. We put that way.
28:03
And then they brought Kyler Murray in, who also is not good.
28:08
Isn't this the guy who they had to put in his contract?
28:11
You're only allowed to play so many video games a week or a day
28:15
or something like that. Is that real?
28:17
He's the same guy. Is that true?
28:19
And there's no, no, just go ahead and just give that a quick
28:23
Google search. I'm 90% on this one.
28:25
I don't give it to full hundo P What about 90% on this one?
28:28
He was part of the phase clan, which if you're a Call of Duty
28:33
person, it's like a big yeah, I see the recognition.
28:36
It's a big thing. It's not a Call of Duty thing,
28:38
that's a video game thing in general.
28:40
Yeah, it's a full thing, but I believe he was a Call of Duty
28:42
guy to where he wasn't watching game film and wasn't prepping
28:46
for games. And the right games.
28:49
Alleged alleged that they would give him tablets with no videos
28:54
loaded on it to take home and then when he came back and
28:59
didn't or didn't say hey where's this video where the videos at
29:02
where am I supposed to be watching?
29:04
They just knew he wasn't watching game film which which
29:07
is a real gotcha moment for your starting quarterback.
29:09
He drafted in the first round, but.
29:11
I guess they removed that in 2022 by the way.
29:15
But it was there, yeah. It was there, yes.
29:19
OK, thank you. Perfect.
29:20
Appreciate that. Now 20/22 was 4 full years ago
29:25
and part per our Gregorian calendar.
29:27
So lots of change, lots of change by then.
29:30
He's still very short. He's still not great at throwing
29:32
the football. He's fine.
29:34
But what we're really mad about and by me by we are really mad,
29:38
what I'm really mad about is we're wasting one of the top
29:41
three best wide receivers in the NFL were just wasting their
29:44
career throwing all these just shit quarterbacks.
29:47
Sorry, Dwayne, I don't know how else to say this at him.
29:50
No one can throw Justin Jefferson the ball and he's
29:52
still doing amazing work and so it.
29:55
Doesn't really matter if they have JJ McCarthy.
29:58
Well, you're right and nobody can.
30:00
They just, he's just doing what he can And.
30:02
And I, I think they should trade.
30:06
I don't know. I, I don't know, man.
30:08
This is I, I thought this was going to be an easier topic to
30:10
talk about. I, I really prep work and all
30:13
this stuff. And this is a terrible topic to
30:15
talk about because after Kyler Murray, you've got McCarthy and
30:18
you've got Carson Wentz and then Max Brosmer.
30:22
Rose. What?
30:23
Yeah. I hardly know her, right?
30:25
I don't actually know her. I just.
30:26
Correct. I just think Brosmer sounds
30:28
cooler. I think Kyler Murray is going to
30:33
do well. I don't.
30:35
It's Minnesota. I I think.
30:36
Put it on the spreadsheet. Put it on the spreadsheet.
30:38
He's best available. He's best available, please.
30:40
Explain for the socials. Please explain for the socials.
30:44
I think Kyler Murray is going to do, I want to say fantastic, but
30:50
better than they did last season and much better than he did in
30:54
Arizona. I think that he's going to be a
30:57
lot better than JJ McCarthy. And I think this is going to
31:01
breathe new life into Kyler Murray's career, at least a lot
31:05
more life than he's got in it right now.
31:07
Clip it. I don't disagree with the way
31:10
you said the words you said. Now you can never say Kyler
31:14
Murray's going to be good. I.
31:17
Didn't say he's going to be fantastic.
31:18
I didn't say I, I, I, I think, I don't think he's going to be Sam
31:22
Darnold on the Seahawks, but I don't think he's going to be
31:25
much worse. I don't think he's going to be
31:28
much worse than Sam Arnold on the Seahawks.
31:32
I think the best thing that Kyler Murray has going for him
31:35
now versus in Arizona is that they have a legitimate run game
31:39
that can stay healthy. Not that the card was never a
31:41
legitimate run game. We just couldn't stay healthy.
31:44
And additionally, he has a defense since that is that.
31:47
I mean, the defense is the only reason they want to eat any game
31:49
slash. Excuse me.
31:51
And so the pressure will be taken off of Kyler Murray.
31:54
And it's very possible that he will excel in that.
31:57
And Kevin O'Connell is a proven quarterback whisperer.
31:59
We've seen him multiple Times Now.
32:01
I think you have a good point. He will be better than he was in
32:05
Arizona. I don't think he's going to be
32:07
fantastic. I think they are.
32:11
They are fighting for a playoff spot, maybe near double digit
32:15
wins, but that is maybe I. I don't know if Kyler Murray's a
32:21
long term answer. He's not, but the thing that
32:23
really sucks for the Vikings with their quarterback situation
32:26
is they have a defense and a really solid overall team to win
32:29
now, but they just don't have a quarterback.
32:32
With as bad as JJ McCarthy was last year and with them having
32:35
three different starting quarterbacks, they still won
32:37
nine games last season. So the Vikings actually have a
32:39
really good team, but they just don't have a guy at the position
32:42
that you have to have to win game.
32:44
So if they can get just an average season out of Kyler
32:47
Murray, I think this is a playoff team because their
32:50
overall team is actually really, really good.
32:53
Maybe they may come mid season trade for like Deshaun Watson.
32:58
I mean, I, I know I keep bringing him up.
33:00
He's not talking about that guy. Next year, next year is his last
33:03
year in his contract. So you're not trading away a
33:06
lot. Maybe Matt Jones here's that's a
33:08
better name. Maybe they trade mid season for
33:10
Matt Jones, who next year is his final year of his or is it this
33:15
year, this final year of his contract?
33:16
Excuse me. And so you're you're basically
33:18
borrowing a player. But I think Matt Jones do very
33:21
well there. I think he's not getting the
33:23
credit he deserves currently and didn't in New England either.
33:27
I would not be surprised if some of these backups that are on
33:29
expiring contracts start moving around a lot more this year than
33:33
we've seen in the past. Well apparently it's OK to give
33:35
a backup who's played like 4 games 67 and a half million
33:39
dollars now. Malik Willis got a three-year 67
33:42
and a half $1,000,000 contract for doing nothing.
33:44
He started six games his entire career and he got paid that much
33:47
money. Deshaun Watson has done less for
33:52
so much more. I would love to be Deshaun
33:55
Watson right now. I see him on the bench and at
33:57
first I was like, that poor guy. And I'm like no.
33:59
Yeah, just think of all those massages.
34:00
That guy has to. That guy has to wipe the smug
34:03
smile off his face all the time. He's he knows he's on camera.
34:07
He's like I cannot be caught grinning right now.
34:11
That's let's do a Matt Flynn thing right?
34:14
Matt Flynn was Aaron Rodgers backup, came in, played for like
34:17
4 games, and he's had a big contract with the Seahawks in
34:20
the same year they dropped to Russell Wilson.
34:22
I mean, you can, yeah. Brian Hoyer, Jimmy Garoppolo,
34:25
Matt Castle, go through Tom Brady's backups who played half
34:29
a game like, oh, they must be good at football.
34:32
This is what happens. Anyways, let's move on to our
34:37
next team so Will can officially talk about Deshaun Watson and
34:40
how good he is. This is the Cleveland Browns.
34:43
So I have a question to start this one off for you guys, and
34:46
it's a pretty obvious question, but who do you think should be
34:48
the starting quarterback for the Browns?
34:50
Deshaun Watson, What are we going to say here?
34:53
Do I think he's a good person? No.
34:56
Do I think he should be in the league?
34:58
Questionable. He never actually was proven
35:00
guilty. He settled outside of court.
35:02
So like, what? What am I supposed to say here?
35:04
Dude's a freak, man, Dude's a freak.
35:06
Dude is a freak. He's getting paid like it.
35:08
And he paid like it so. Go out there and football, dude.
35:13
It's about time. If he can play like he played
35:16
his last couple years in in Houston, the Browns are going to
35:19
be a dangerous team in the North.
35:21
If he can, it's not happening. If he can, it's not happening.
35:24
It's not happening. If I'm the Browns, I'm not
35:26
starting Deshaun Watson. I know they.
35:28
Can't trade him. But if it were me, I'd want
35:31
nothing to do with that guy. I don't want him in the locker
35:33
room. I don't want him on the field.
35:35
I just want to be done. I would tell Deshaun Watson look
35:39
we owe you $46 million guaranteed, just don't show up.
35:43
I will pay you $46,000,000 to be as far away from here as you can
35:47
be. If I'm the Browns, I want as
35:49
little to do with Deshaun Watson as possible because it's a waste
35:52
of time to have in there. If the Browns are holding out
35:54
hope that they can get the Texans version of Deshaun
35:57
Watson, that is a big mistake because he's not the same player
36:00
he was and that player isn't coming back.
36:02
If it were me, I would start Shooter Sanders because he only
36:06
started seven games last year and you truly can't judge a
36:08
rookie based on 7 starts. And if you want to bounce around
36:12
Queen Shooter Sanders, Dylan Gabriel and Taylor Green, that's
36:14
fine with me. Explore the young talent you
36:16
have at quarterback and see what happens.
36:18
Anything is better than having Deshaun Watson as your starting.
36:21
Quarterback. Anything is better than that.
36:24
Defend that take. Defend that take.
36:26
What has Deshaun Watson done? Were we talking recently or
36:29
like, like in his career? Like when he's hurt or.
36:32
Recently. What is he?
36:33
Why would you pay this man $40 million to stay away?
36:37
Why don't we pay? Why don't we pay just?
36:40
Why don't we the team? More than Chador Sanders, I'd
36:43
pay him $40 million to stay away.
36:47
Didn't he have the statistically like the worst season ever last
36:50
year? And we're like, maybe he'll be
36:52
the guy? What?
36:56
I'm not saying soon as the last is the guy.
36:59
No, you're, you're paying the man.
37:01
No, dude, you get your Sean Watson isn't the guy.
37:04
You get your swampy ass out there and you.
37:05
Having Deshaun. Watson.
37:06
Sorry, Dave, having Deshaun Watson as your starting
37:08
quarterback is a waste of time. It's a waste of time.
37:11
In the four years he was in Houston, he threw for almost
37:16
13,000 passing yards, 85 touchdowns to 28 interceptions.
37:20
To Joel's credit, that ended six years ago.
37:24
Sure. No, no, I'm not saying, I'm not
37:27
saying he is the same guy. I, I'm not at all.
37:29
Is he the same guy? He's older, he's more mature,
37:33
hopefully and older for sure, more for sure.
37:36
Hopefully having the having lived this life experience, I
37:39
hope that he is a more mature man out of it.
37:42
He was suspended, served as noble.
37:45
Now we're moving on. And I just think that he is
37:49
probably the best option and as a as a ball thrower, no pun
37:53
intended, that the Browns have. And if your goal as a coach or
37:56
GM, which we are playing the part of right now is to win
38:00
football games, then I want to put the most experienced, best
38:04
player I possibly can on the field, specifically in the
38:09
position I need to lead my team. Now.
38:11
I don't need Deshaun Watson to be the rally around me guy.
38:16
Hey, I'll sit in the middle and you circle around me.
38:19
He's lived that life. That was a Houston life he was
38:21
living. Everyone was just circle around
38:23
him it up. That's not what we're doing
38:26
anymore. We are, we are playing football
38:30
and we are we are moving forward.
38:36
And you didn't answer. I mean the Browns.
38:40
I actually didn't hear your question.
38:42
What? Were they massaging in that
38:44
circle? Well, to begin with, his actual.
38:49
Bank account. His bank account.
38:51
And in the end, with his singular muscle, any of whom
38:57
even in 2023, he went five and one with the Browns before he
39:01
got hurt at 2024, he went one and six, but still in seven
39:05
games threw for over 1000 yards. I just the Browns have not been
39:10
the definition of good football for I mean, this is baser was
39:15
there really and and so that's not to even have an opportunity
39:20
to get back to that. I think you have to start to
39:22
start Deshaun Watson and the fans we damned.
39:25
It is what it is. You want us to win football
39:28
games or do you want the TikTok meme out there?
39:31
We can throw the lefty from Morgan out there if you want
39:33
because he was good. We can throw the mean guy out
39:36
there if you want that way we can hard for our farm aura if we
39:41
want to do that. Throw your watch up, buddy.
39:43
That's so cool. What or do you want to win
39:46
football? Games.
39:47
I got to stop you. So you said in seven games in
39:50
2024, Deshaun Watson threw for over 1000 yards and you tried to
39:54
make that sound good. If not, double that.
39:57
If you double that to 14 games, he threw for just under 1200
40:02
yards. If you double that, it is 2400
40:05
yards in 14 games. That is not good.
40:08
But who was actually 24? Who was on the Browns in 24?
40:12
Who's on the Browns ever? The problem was he was going.
40:15
So when Jameis Winston played, he played twelve games and threw
40:20
for what, 2100 yards and 12 games?
40:24
No one was throwing anything. Nobody was doing good in the
40:26
Browns that year. It's the Browns, right?
40:28
At the end of the day, who cares?
40:31
Deshaun Watson is the best quarterback on the team and a.
40:34
100% a hundred. Percent should should at least
40:38
start all of the games that he can physically.
40:41
I think the only reason Chador has talked about is because of
40:44
who he is. If you replaced his name with
40:47
any other like low drafted quarterback and after he
40:54
performs that well last season gone, he's done.
40:58
Everyone's like, is it going to be Deshawn or is it going to be
41:01
Chador, dude? I mean, unless Dion comes in and
41:06
like threatens the coach or the GM or pays them some of that
41:09
Affleck money, like there's no way.
41:11
There's no way Shidor is like coming back.
41:17
We can move on. All right, let's move on to our
41:19
next team, which is the Arizona Cardinals.
41:21
And this is interesting because they're starting quarterback.
41:23
Jacoby Brissette is holding out for a new contract right now as
41:27
he seeks starting quarterback money.
41:29
But if I'm the Arizona Cardinals, there's no way I'm
41:32
giving Jacoby Bessette a pay raise.
41:34
Jacoby Bessette started 12 games for the Cardinals last year and
41:37
went one and 11 in those games. You don't get to go 1:00 and
41:40
11:00 as the starter and then ask for pay raise.
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You don't get to do that. Jacoby Bessette had a nice
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season last year statistically, but when it came down to it, he
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just wasn't good enough to get the job done.
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And I know what Will's going to say.
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Sure, you can say, well, the defense was really bad, so of
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course they didn't win. But you know how many points the
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Cardinals average with percent as their starter?
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21 points. Which would have been good
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enough to be the 22nd ranked offense.
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That's not good. Now the difference did give up
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an average of 32.6 points in those. 12 better than third
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worst. And asking him to score 33
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points per game is too much to ask.
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But 21 points per game is not good enough.
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If he had averaged 25 points per game, then I think it'd be fair
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for him to ask for a raise because that would have been
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good enough to be the 11th ranked scoring offense.
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And four points per game does make a huge difference in the
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NFL despite the number not looking that much different. 4
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points a game is a huge difference in the NFL.
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So if I'm the Cardinals, I'm looking at percent and saying
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you didn't do good enough to deserve starter level money.
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We've got this young guy we just use a third round pick on and
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Carson Beck. So we're just going to play him
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and see where it takes us. I bet we can win at least one
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game with him at quarterback 2. I'm not paying you Kobe percent
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if I'm the Cardinals. Five of those losses, five of
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those losses were one score games where I can almost
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guarantee I have not looked at the footage, I have not gone
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back and watched. I can almost guarantee four of
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the five, if not all five of them, the Cardinals scored late
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in the game and then their defense couldn't stop a wet
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paper bag. They couldn't do anything.
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That defense was abysmal. And of course, you can't score
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when it gets late in the game and you're down 27 to 40, they
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know you're going to throw the football.
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And the Cardinals didn't have a good enough offense to support
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the Peyton Manning style. You know, we're throwing it.
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We're going to throw it anyway and do well.
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The Cardinals did not have the type of offense to support that.
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You know what we're doing? We're doing it anyway and doing
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it successfully. I think Jacoby Brissette is
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underrated. I think the Cardinals are doing
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him a disservice. I think he should be holding out
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to an extent. You, you start to put the
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destiny of your team that you're under contract for.
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That's not out on it. But I, I don't disagree with him
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saying, hey, you want me to start on this team?
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You actively choose not to make our team better.
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They drafted. Oh good golly.
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Can I throw another wrinkle in? Two defensive players last year.
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They drafted 2 defensive players in the draft.
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Their defence is abysmal. You may throw a wrinkle in.
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I'm going to throw another wrinkle in.
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If the Cardinals are taking for a quarterback in 2027, why pay a
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guy who thinks that he is a starter level quarterback?
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Why pay him if you're just going to draft another quarterback
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next year? There's no reason to do that.
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I don't disagree with that specifically.
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Or does that take? Specific.
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Percents specifically, right? I have an ocean size problem
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with it though. Jacoby Percents, 30, 35 years
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old this year. We're seeing the model.
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He's 34 right now. He's 35 this year.
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Is he? I'm pretty sure he's not.
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Oh, no, he he's 33 now. He turns 34 in December.
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That's my bad. You know what?
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December 11th. Oh, he's a year younger?
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OK, actually does. Everything.
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Yeah. Yeah, it does.
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Not really. Sign him to sign him to a
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three-year deal. Get your draft your guy in the
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first round sitting behind Bersette who is a ball thrower.
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That dude slings the rock pretty well.
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Have him learn behind Bersette for a few years and then move on
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from Bersette. Do what the Rams are doing.
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Do what the Packers did with Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love.
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You draft a guy high, have him sit behind somebody who's above
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average. And I don't know if you could be
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besides actually above average or not.
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And I just, I think you pay the man.
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If you want to win more games than you won last year, you pay
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the man. I think the Cardinals are in an
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interesting spot. I think they're in a very cool
45:38
spot. They have very, very little to
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lose. And I think if you're Jacoby
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percent, I think you should be asking for starting quarterback
45:48
money. But if I was the Cardinals,
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anytime his agent reaches out, I would just kind of laugh and
45:55
then just ignore it. I would just act like I don't.
45:58
I do not care, dude. Dude, there's not many more
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games we can lose more than last year.
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Like dude, you're Jacoby Brissett.
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No one cares dude. I will.
46:08
Carson back went to the championship game last year.
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Like I'll let him. I know he's right now chomping
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at the bit to play. If I were you I would be
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terrified that this Skeletor looking white boy is out here
46:19
just craving every additional Rep he gets while you're while
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you're her chopped old ass is over here asking for starting
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quarterback money. Dude in Arizona, dude, like
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honestly every time he reaches out saying like I want more
46:35
money, just freeze him out. It's like dude, your entire team
46:39
is out here playing and you're sitting out here at 33 years old
46:44
asking for just starting job money.
46:47
Dude, the only reason you're asking for that is because no
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one else around is a starting quarterback.
46:53
You're not a starting quarterback.
46:54
You play in Arizona, dude. Get out on that field and earn
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some money. I just, I, I, I think both.
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I think Arizona should ignore it.
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I think Jacoby Brazette should ask for it.
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And I think Carson Beck is foaming at the mouth right now
47:09
that he has this amazing opportunity that's fallen in his
47:13
lap. What was the third round pick?
47:16
He has the clear cut opportunity to be the starter in Arizona
47:20
dude. He's third string currently by
47:22
the way. Who Carson?
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Yeah, yeah, but Gardner Minshew, second string.
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Oh, yeah, no, yeah. Everything I said still stands
47:31
100%. Yeah, yeah, sure.
47:33
The only thing but the way it's currently listed is is Gardner
47:36
Minshew. You know he's wearing those
47:38
shorts across Arizona right now. Yeah, they're getting swampy and
47:44
they. Just signed from Kansas City
47:46
this this offseason. Gardner mentioned did a lot over
47:49
there in Kansas City. I just think, I just think
47:50
everything over there is going great.
47:53
I think it's super entertaining. I think that Jacoby is doing
47:57
exactly what he should do and I think Arizona is right for just
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kind of laughing at him and ignoring it.
48:02
It's like, dude, we're nothing here.
48:03
Dude. We don't have to pay any of you
48:05
guys. Like who's this whole team is
48:07
getting cleaned out anyway? That's all I got.
48:12
All right, we've probably got time for one more team.
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You guys have a team you would prefer to talk about as our last
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team here, we got the Falcons, The Jets, the Raiders and the
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Dolphins. Let's talk about the Raiders.
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OK, so we'll do the Las Vegas Raiders as our last team.
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And I wouldn't say there's much of A quarterback controversy
48:30
here because the Raiders have made it pretty clear what their
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plan is. But Will, if you were the
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Raiders, what would you do with their current quarterback
48:37
situation? I start Kirk Cousins the entire
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year. I don't let Mendoza get a single
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look. I just seem to sound terrible,
48:49
but I don't let him get a single first team snap in practice.
48:52
He doesn't get a single first team snap in warmups.
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He doesn't get a single first team snap in the game.
48:58
He sits his behind on the bench all season.
49:04
He holds that clipboard. He takes all the notes.
49:07
He learns all of the things he learns.
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Well, new head coach, His name. What's his?
49:14
What's on your head coach's name?
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Kubiak. Yeah.
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Clint Kubiak. Yeah.
49:17
Kubiak. Yeah.
49:18
He earns Kubiak's entire offense from the sideline this whole
49:21
first year. And then they take Kirk Cousins
49:26
and they trade his ass. Sorry, Dwayne.
49:28
They get him out of there. Hey, to who to?
49:31
Who a retirement home? He'll be 16 years in the league.
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Arizona would take him. They pay him starting money.
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Kirk Cousins has a way of swindling teams into paying him
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like the the top quarterback in the league.
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Hey, let me ask, let me ask. For two years.
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Real quick, if Kirk Cousins and what's his name, Jacoby Berset
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switch teams, who would start in Las Vegas?
50:07
I think you start, Mendoza. OK OK, so if the guy that
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shouldn't even touch the freaking ball this year would
50:15
start over the guy that's asking and thinks he's entitled to
50:18
starting quarterback money in in Las Vegas, a team that got the
50:23
first pick, if that guy won't even play, dude cooked.
50:30
I guess not. I.
50:31
I stand by what I said though. I think that's, I mean it's fit,
50:36
right? The ball is just lower down
50:37
South, it's just lower. You you don't care much for
50:41
something. You don't care about Bessette.
50:43
But he's not a full on proven starter in the league, no.
50:47
And. And so that's that's why that's.
50:50
Only like $4 million. That's the difference to me,
50:52
yeah. I agree with Will with what he
50:56
said about Las Vegas. The other thing you can do.
50:58
Cousin starting. Is you wait until you get close
51:01
to the trade deadline and if Mendoza has made enough progress
51:06
where you think he can be OK, I think this is the wrong move.
51:09
But there are teams that are going to be chomping at the bit
51:13
to get a veteran quarterback in because Malik Willis didn't work
51:16
out Aaron Rodgers toys other Achilles or because Jacoby
51:20
Brissett is still holding out and Carson Beck is terrible.
51:23
And like there's just or Kyler Murray and both 9 both 1:00 and
51:29
9:00 up there in Minnesota. You know what, let's bring back
51:32
Coco chains back to to Minnesota or Jane Daniels gets hurt again.
51:37
Let's bring him back to Washington.
51:39
Let's get this boy's been ever, pardon my language.
51:42
This individual has been all over the NFL.
51:47
Send him anywhere. Maybe, maybe recovery doesn't go
51:51
well for Bo Nicks and he goes up to Denver because we know
51:54
students. Get that, he got to hurt.
51:56
That Jeez, yes. Forget about that.
52:01
I just, yeah, last last week we were joking with Lincoln that
52:05
Week 1 we're going to have Jared Stidham versus.
52:09
I remember who the Chiefs backup is now.
52:11
Oh, shoot, I can't. Justin Fields.
52:13
That's right. Jared Stidham, Justin versus
52:15
Justin Fields, Monday Night Football.
52:19
Is Bonex not going to be back by the beginning of the season?
52:22
Who knows? Sometimes injuries take 15
52:25
months to recover from. Sometimes they take three.
52:28
We don't know that recovery. It's not.
52:29
It's not our troops, it's their troops.
52:35
All right, well, if you guys don't have anything else to add,
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we'll go ahead and wrap up this episode.
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At this point, nothing productive.
52:43
OK, all right. Well, as always, don't forget to
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keep your balls played with. We'll see you next time.
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Bye now y'all. Also, Mark Davis's haircut still
52:51
sucks.