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Strictly Bias with Will Retherford: NFL Week 5 Reaction + MLB Postseason & NHL Contenders · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back everybody to the latest edition of strictly bias with yours truly will rather for we are here for our week five NFL recap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am joined today by the man himself, the man of the hour, El Presidente of the Central Indian sports reports.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a way too long to say legend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The legend, then Greg Mingo.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, Will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, we're going to have done a little baseball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: NFL postseason.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are in the divisional series in HL also does start today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we might
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were a little tidbit in there right at the end if anybody is interested, but yeah, when they were Weak of NFL football when a slate that just did not look very good performed for us in every time slot, and how about producer Suzy?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's unreal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's been doing in that the pick-up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I You text me and it was not surprising because she's been spot on but some of the game She's picking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like you are getting really lucky because I don't know what you were seeing
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[SPEAKER_01]: that we weren't, but she saw it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So here's the deal everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Every week I put will up against the other members of the Central Indiana Sports Report, including producer Susie, as we mentioned, and some of the local media and producer Susie is in the lead.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She wasn't really going into the week and then had the most points this week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's because last week she was the only person to pick the giants this week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She was the only person to pick the
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[SPEAKER_02]: Patriots, and she also had the Titans and some other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So here she is in the lead.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me go over real fast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Will and I know we usually do this on Friday evening will, but I just want to go over the standings real fast because I'm so proud of my life who scored 45 points last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was second with 39.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You were third with 37 micro rich our Pacers guy 35
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elijah Poe, our indie car guy in of the Ball State Daily News, and Grant Shows, our IU guy in of the Action Sports Network, both scored 32.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So producer Susie has 207, I have 200, and Will has 190, we are first second and third, and you have a 14-point lead on fourth, which is Elijah Poe, one point behind him is Mike Rich.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So just wanted to recap that because I'm really proud of my wife for.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, not only doing it, but taking it seriously and doing her homework and she's seen the board really well I mean, she's gotten really good every week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mocked her both weeks when she made those picks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah And she said we'll see and you know what I that's the thing and you give him Sunday Really not at all the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're friends and bills through that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There were a couple.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean that Titans pick We're gonna talk about that We are good, but yeah, we are Greg, I've got a lot to say but first what would you like to know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Will in the realm of reality, are you starting to think of the cult as a Super Bowl championship contender?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're really good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The metrics are there, like it's not just that either.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All of those not in the lead team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't look like it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that there's a really elite team in the league either.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That you've seen up to this point, it's still so early.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, elite teams will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The bill's probably could be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can think of maybe two teams that I would say are, I would consider probably right on the outside of the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the culture right there, I mean, all of like I said, all of the underlying numbers, kind of back up all of the statisticians, the Saber metrics, they point to the cults like being illogiate really good offense and a capable defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think if they continue to score the way they've been scoring, they're going to be really hard to stop.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you and I are going to talk more about that on the cold report on Wednesday, I broke down the film.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have a lot to say positive and negative.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Believe it or not, in a 46 to win one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought there were some negatives there too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would be surprised to see if your negatives are the same as mine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Plop the wait and see, but yeah, I think the culture and elite football team, they're playing really well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have all the talent and I'm really excited for the culture port to break down the tape and kind of show people what we are seeing and what they should be seeing as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we have a lot I think on both sides winners and losers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's only five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it is, you know, kind of condense kind of the storylines that I thought were the most important in my takeaways.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go losers first, winner second, winners always to enter that second.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And for storylines.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this week was by far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess that we've had it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we.
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[SPEAKER_02]: figured a lot of things out and things got a lot murky here in some instances.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, my number five for the losers, the Philadelphia Eagles finally.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's in a row, yeah, I'm in the losers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's more than natural losses.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Finally, there, any efficiency gets exposed against Denver.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Their Philly's defense is light out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to take anything from there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are so good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But their offense just cannot find their groove.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have a new offensive coordinator and play caller this year and that offense is just simply not getting it done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's changed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I mean, you know, say quam barclay talking about stats.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He has 83 carries for 267 yards and three touchdowns this season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a three point two yard average.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy that had over 2,000 yards last year and set the
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[SPEAKER_01]: postseason and regular season record for most yards from skrimmage in an entire season last year and he just cannot find his footing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Can I play devil's advocate a little?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The last four weeks, they played the Rams, the Buccaneers, the Broncos, and they played four elite teams in a row.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, but they played elite teams last year and still, correct, we're able to get it done on the, they weren't even a sure playoff team until late in the year, were they?
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[SPEAKER_01]: they were pretty.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they they kind of turned about the midway point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was kind of up and down up and down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they could do that again, but the things that we've been talking about are starting to have.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would have him higher on my list because of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think something is up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know where in the system it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It could be the offensive lines not yelling as much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It could be that, you know, say, one just hasn't had the holes because it's getting clogged up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're playing around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're forcing hurts to try to air the ball out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Another issue that I find with this is AJ Brown continues to be a cancer for this team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've been calling it on the positive de vante Smith is taking advantage of the opportunities that he's been given with Tark converting targets into catches four yards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that the fantasy numbers don't pop off and that's what people look at.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But as far as just when the ball's been thrown his way, he has delivered, I'm just one of the top route runners and the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why do receivers?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the league.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No doubt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure what to make of this team yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have way too much talent, but they also have a lot of cancer to go with that talent as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've been predicting the implosion for a long time now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a matter of time, they're still really good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number four, maybe they shouldn't be on the list, but I think they should be the Miami Dolphins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're up 17 nothing going into the, going into halftime.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I say they shouldn't be on the list because are we really going to win?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because there are losers anyway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's time talking about the Miami Dolphins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Darren Waller, this is a second eambac, he has five recepions for 78 yards, and it's touched on in the first half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He has zero recepions in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Riddle me that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do you not find your 65 tied in the ball somewhere in the course of an entire half of football that's baffling to me?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Two struggles in the big moments again, they're struggling to get Devon A chain going.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What was once the most creative run game in the entire league under Mike McDaniel has, I think, just been figured out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's just defenses are getting smarter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's five years of tape to see how they're operating, but they're just not able to move the balls efficiently as they have been their season as over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe they had a chance to climb back with a weak schedule, but this loss, I think, is the bullet in the foot that is going to be fatal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The only choice now is to start losing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, try this jail and water and get it over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Panthers found a way behind Dallel and his 206 yards on the ground, but I still think McDaniel will be out of Miami when the year is over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: if not before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number three, maybe a surprise to you, the L.A.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Chargers, they started 3 and L now they're 3 and 2.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Two bad losses too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Offensive line struggles are starting to show it is why I was not high on them as a potential soup, not just a superball team, but as a playoff team all together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You didn't pick them to be in the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I did not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was the reason that you mentioned.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I knew you were right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I also know that Jim Harbaugh is a great coach and I thought he'd figure it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's still
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's only five weeks into the season that a lot of time to figure this out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Herbert is on pace actually to get hit more than Andrew luck through his first six years of his career and Andrew luck had to medically retire.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's not always a stat that you'd love to see for your franchise quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Herbert looked great the first three games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's looked more pedestrian the last two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't really know what to make of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could just be a one-off, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Quentin Johnson has been a huge surprise for this team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He has really showed out in year three as a potential.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can start to see it toward the end of last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As a breakout number one for this team, but a team that's got Keenan Allen, Anlad McConkey on there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But he had a costly phone-borne the second quarter that I really think kind of affected just the momentum and the tide of the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of let the commanders get a one-up, 10 pushups.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But is it time to worry a little bit about this team?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, to me, they look like a matchup team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If they have a team, if they play a team that has an elite pass rush, they're going to lose.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like the lot of giants do, which is when, you know, and you said, all you didn't see it coming, I didn't say on the podcast before that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you not worried about the chargers going?
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[SPEAKER_02]: to play the Giants a team within the lead defensive line against their offense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I still end up picking the chargers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe in Jim Harbaugh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't believe in slapping him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and but yes, there's definitely reason for concern, which is another reason I brought up the question that I brought up at the beginning of the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, teams like the chargers and the Ravens for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The chiefs don't look like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of the ravens there, number two on my list, they did have their seven highest paid players out during week five, which is kind of crazy when you actually sit back and look at how a team of structures, as far as contracts and towards the salary cap, that's ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have your seven highest paid players out?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, if I remember that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: still these are professional football players they got to be by 34 points like that's not a good look at home uh it's just unacceptable that tight seven players makes a lot of difference those will the Texan struggled all year to move the ball before that was a match and the Ravens made them look like worldbeaters uh Henry in his last four games uh you'll love these stats he only has 44 characters have an 11 a contest for a hundred and 48 yards and two touchdowns
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I get the Ravens have been down in some of these games, but you got to get your best player with all like you can't abandon the script and and say Cooper Rush Why don't you go?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Be our backup quarterback and try to throw the ball 25 times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He threw three picks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, they just didn't get enough plays.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He threw three picks and the offense wasn't the biggest problem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, but like why is there a cannery?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not getting the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like you just have to find a way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even if it's a screen game like find a way to get him involved.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's your best playmaker on your team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Ravenstein, the played Sunday was the worst team in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree with that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And ironically, they're still the betting favorite in the AFC North to win the division.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think there's a little more Jacksonville.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think their season is on the road.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's on the road, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Big time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another reason why I asked the question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I did it the beginning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a lot of these.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The biggest loser of the week is the Arizona Cardinals.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That loss is potentially the worst loss.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've witnessed in my years of watching the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Plus, their coach should have been fired immediately.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The most unserious organization in the entirely and I don't think it's remotely close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is what the Arizona Cardinals always do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Amari D. Mercado drops the ball to go up 286 in the fourth quarter, which is that's game over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like three score game game over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He fumbles it through the back of the inzone half a week after Adney Mitchell just in his volts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How does that happen?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're a professional football player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How can that happen?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You understand AD Mitchell's way more than you understand him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just like it's the news of the week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not even yourself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't ever do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not only that in the red zone, they picked Cam ward off on a tipped pass.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interception was later fumbled and was batted into the Inzen that resulted in a Titans, Tyler Locke specifically who jumped on the ball, touched down to make it a two-point game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Cardinals.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They fund him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Cardinals sit back and cover two shell and let ward get comfortable in the second half, especially on the last drive where they were exclusively in zone and just kind of let him do whatever the hell he wanted to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they just played so conservative they completely uh... they just didn't even try to date they played not to lose the game we had this conversation last week when you play coaching malpractice when you play not to lose football games you lose every single time it's just a a tale is old not every single time but it's likely to get you to be a situation like this with the air is on a cardinals that it's every time it's every time
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, well, the cardinals were the elite franchise of the 1920s and have not been even a factor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Kyler's the only quarterback, I think, probably NFL history to have to leave to get checked for a concussion protocol because a snap hit him in the head, like are you kidding me?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you've got to bring Jacobi reset in for two drives.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They are a winner because they got Marvin Harrison Jr.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Who can just talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're actually going to talk about that a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the entire game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Four catches for a 90 back problem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Four catches for 98 yards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Guess how many of those targets came in a second half?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Zero.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Guess how many came in the fourth quarter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He did score 10.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Zero.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He did score touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The touchdown got called, got called down at the one yard line for the session of the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: zero times in the fourth quarter you've got Marvin Harrison Jr.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on the outside of playmaker and you just don't get him the ball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Man, when they did get in the ball, how good was it?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a playmaker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You see, you see, I firmly said after last week, hey, maybe it's an issue with as far as just Marvin's not Kyler's quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think this week is
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[SPEAKER_01]: Marves the guy in Kyler's got to figure it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just baffling to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're got a quarterback bro.
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[SPEAKER_01]: His usage in the slot has increased a little bit, but like why not get him involved in the screen game?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do you see you see Justin Jefferson Jamar Chase?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Both of those receivers are used in the screen game all the time just to get the ball on the hands of your best playmaker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How are you a quarterback and not thinking I got to get the ball to this guy?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how you don't force feed it to him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You see, he, he mosses two defenders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, a ball front in the double coverage and all honesty should have been picked off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Marv Harrison goes up high points, the ball comes down with it for what really look like a touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I get his butt came down in the one yard line, but come on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can we, I'll put it like that, can we call that a touchdown?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly, like on people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do the right thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, make the rules just common since I agree that look like a touchdown It smelled like a touchdown and he comes down actually forgot that he didn't the one you are All right Well, who are the winners of the week?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well the number five and by the way, I can't believe you didn't have the cheese in it I will talk about that
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number five, the Tampa Bay Buck in years, it is the first name in NFL history where two quarterbacks completed 80% of their passes and threw for over 300 yards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sam Darnled, Baker may field both teammates in Carolina, both got cut and found their way to different franchises.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's laughable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking, I can't believe you didn't have Carolina on your list of losers just because of that, man.
16:43
[SPEAKER_02]: How did you give up on Baker Mayfield?
16:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I was playing D-line, Scout D-line.
16:53
[SPEAKER_02]: I understand there was a time where Baker Mayfield wasn't taken seriously as a quarterback but at the very least he's a decent backup if you don't think he's good and most of us believe that he He was I think average.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He looks like a top five quarterback league since he's landed in Tampa without question.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's been great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bucks just seem to find a way they're going to find a way there that.
17:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Baker is the perfect gun slinger for this offense, although he has been incredibly efficient for a gun slinger prototype.
17:21
[SPEAKER_01]: You kind of, that's a, you know, high touch down high interception.
17:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Brett Varve coming.
17:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
17:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Brett Varve, James Winston, maybe the best gun slinger in NFL history, 330 season.
17:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
17:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Outrageous.
17:32
[SPEAKER_01]: A Mecca Agbuca is an alpha
17:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I mean, what is their team captain, do you know that?
17:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
17:43
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a rookie.
17:44
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a team captain.
17:46
[SPEAKER_02]: They said the moment he walked into the locker room, he was their leader.
17:49
[SPEAKER_02]: It's crazy.
17:50
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he's that good.
17:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I probably shouldn't say this.
17:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell me.
17:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Lies me a gerer rice.
17:58
[SPEAKER_01]: He's always open.
17:58
[SPEAKER_01]: He's always open.
18:00
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not the most elite athlete in the world and I think he's a good one when he's a good one He's just not Marvin Harrison.
18:08
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a very good one, but what he does is he knows exactly where to be on the field at all times and Baker loves him That's a team with
18:17
[SPEAKER_01]: two really good white receivers already established and add this well he has been if it's from Evans being out and got one but yeah and i think that the numbers will come down a little bit once once Evans gets in there he's made feel better guy but he's great he's he's awesome he looks very good they also they have an excellent running back tandem between Rashad white and buckierving who did miss this week but Rashad white was
18:41
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, comparable in his absence, Sean Tucker is their third string.
18:45
[SPEAKER_01]: They've got a good, they're offensive line is also great.
18:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I think their defense does some work.
18:50
[SPEAKER_01]: They give it those points.
18:51
[SPEAKER_01]: And they've got a lot of old guys over there.
18:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Their D line is good, though.
18:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I have their D line is is very good.
18:56
[SPEAKER_01]: But I believe that their ability to win close games will pay dividends in January.
19:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a team we're going to be seeing in the Super Bowl.
19:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
19:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Me, we both said it.
19:05
[SPEAKER_02]: We, we both said it.
19:06
[SPEAKER_02]: And nothing has changed my mind.
19:07
[SPEAKER_02]: The only loss they have is because of a block field.
19:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
19:11
[SPEAKER_01]: 2 Blockfield 4 San Francisco 49ers Mac Jones takes one of the most beat-up teams in football, maybe only behind the Ravens and they might.
19:21
[SPEAKER_01]: The 49ers might actually be number one.
19:25
[SPEAKER_01]: but he goes in there with Kendrick born as his number one receiver and wins a game in L.A.
19:30
[SPEAKER_01]: The 40 honors defense looks really good too.
19:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's not a fluke.
19:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Like they look.
19:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I get there and lost their best two players.
19:36
[SPEAKER_01]: You talked about age, but I think they still look awfully good.
19:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Shayna hand usually struggles as a dog, his record, as an underdog in games is not good, but he does have Sean McVay's number, and I believe that he has done an absolutely terrific job coaching this team so far, and this season might be a stunt.
19:57
[SPEAKER_01]: My coach of the year if I had to pick right now.
20:00
[SPEAKER_02]: We both said they were a candidate for the number one pick.
20:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, not that we thought that they would.
20:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't think it'd be shocking.
20:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
20:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you said I did.
20:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Because they were old and if McAfrey goes down again, yes, you know, those kinds of things.
20:12
[SPEAKER_02]: And parties just not very good.
20:14
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been good when he's had elite players around him.
20:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
20:17
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see how good he is when he does it.
20:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, I think Mac Jones is just as good as party.
20:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think either one of them is very good, but they're still.
20:27
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I think there's a quarterback controversy.
20:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Matt Jones just good.
20:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Matt Jones I don't think he looks better than Perti ever has in this season.
20:36
[SPEAKER_01]: He was the guy Shana Hand wanted and and they drafted trail ant instead and I mean how if if Matt Jones is three and I was a starter I mean you know he could they continue to win Perti's still out next week He goes for Noah as a starter.
20:52
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you not have a controversy?
20:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I get that you just paid Perti, but boy
20:58
[SPEAKER_01]: party can get traded somebody will be willing to take him on because he's he's a good enough quarterback.
21:04
[SPEAKER_02]: He might get started.
21:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I I tend to agree.
21:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that he's been vastly overrated most of his grabbing a bunch of all families around him.
21:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
21:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Pro bowlers and through week five weeks though, did we expect the 49ers to have sole possession of the number one seed in the NFC West
21:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, well, there's a Monday night football game late in the season.
21:25
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the Colton 49ers and when we did all our picks for the games.
21:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I said, America is going to just love Colts 49ers in the week 60.
21:33
[SPEAKER_02]: It might be a good one.
21:35
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to love it.
21:37
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I was being sarcastic when I said I know you were.
21:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not being sarcastic.
21:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not either.
21:40
[SPEAKER_01]: My number three winner, the New England Patriots.
21:45
[SPEAKER_01]: They go into Buffalo on Sunday night, football, and steal a game.
21:49
[SPEAKER_01]: That defense is starting to look like a variable defense, and Drake may is the future.
21:54
[SPEAKER_01]: He is so good.
21:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Clutch when he needed to be.
21:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Stuff on digs is doing what stuff on digs does for young quarterbacks.
22:02
[SPEAKER_01]: He just seems to elevate their gameplay wherever he goes.
22:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I know he's a diva, but boy, hey, when he's a diva, because he says when I get the ball, I'm going to make something happen.
22:12
[SPEAKER_01]: He does.
22:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I truly believe in that.
22:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw a lot of Josh Allen and Drake may.
22:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I said just in her words, my comp, but maybe it's Josh Allen.
22:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
22:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you're going to give me feedback on this.
22:26
[SPEAKER_02]: The label is his head coach.
22:28
[SPEAKER_02]: The whole rest of the week leagues and trouble in the future.
22:31
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm going to be hot to trouble on this because this game in particular is a game that shows why I picked them to make the playoffs.
22:36
[SPEAKER_01]: They are just too well coach, not to succeed, even with a down roster.
22:40
[SPEAKER_01]: They have the two most important positions filled on their team.
22:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Head coach and quarterback Josh McDaniels also has been a good Offensive play caller for that team.
22:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm that was a great higher for Mike Raeble Watch out.
22:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw us that division's awful.
22:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I said I think the Patriots are gonna be closer to competing for the division than then Not I still think that's true.
23:04
[SPEAKER_01]: They've got one game Really on the bills.
23:07
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see
23:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Can they hold serve at home?
23:09
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
23:10
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, but Buffalo is going to be my 30 points next time.
23:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
23:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
23:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
23:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Rainbow loses games by 30.
23:19
[SPEAKER_01]: They might lose, but it'll be close.
23:21
[SPEAKER_01]: He just finds a way to do it.
23:23
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just I still can't believe the Titans let him go.
23:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Just I'm so glad he's out of the AFC South because he was another organization that's hard to take seriously.
23:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
23:32
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no kidding.
23:33
[SPEAKER_01]: My number two.
23:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Denver Broncos.
23:37
[SPEAKER_01]: They go into Philly, they knock off the champs Philadelphia had been in the previous three years 24 and five at home before this game.
23:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Simply put, Bo, next is a winner.
23:47
[SPEAKER_01]: He played poorly in the first half and then looked absolutely incredible in the fourth quarter.
23:51
[SPEAKER_01]: When it mattered, the most, the Broncos defense is also a huge problem for others.
23:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Benito, Sir Tan,
23:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Franklin Myers, watch out, Sean Payton's got the boys rolling.
24:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like my pick of them winning the F.C.
24:06
[SPEAKER_01]: West at this moment right now.
24:09
[SPEAKER_02]: And they could very well win it and I wouldn't be shocked at all, but it won't be because of Bonax.
24:14
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll be because they have a really good roster.
24:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Bonax is a is a guy.
24:18
[SPEAKER_01]: He might be.
24:18
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a guy.
24:19
[SPEAKER_01]: It's boss.
24:20
[SPEAKER_01]: He figured out that defense and he's the only quarterback and go back and watch the games.
24:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that he plays worse when he has a first 15 script.
24:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a better improvisor quarterback.
24:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he plays better.
24:32
[SPEAKER_01]: He's good at it.
24:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Late in the game.
24:35
[SPEAKER_01]: after you get through those first two drives.
24:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's where he really shines.
24:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what it is.
24:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
24:40
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't even know if they do script plays.
24:42
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the question.
24:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel vision for sure.
24:44
[SPEAKER_01]: That'd be a question that you would have to ask Sean Payton about.
24:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I tend to think they probably do if I know Sean Payton because I have red rubries as book and he talks about it a lot.
24:54
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think Bo Nixon's an improviser
24:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that he is a very talented quarterback and I still think in 10 years, we will look back at that draft and say, Bonix was the guy that should have gone number one and nobody said it, but I did.
25:09
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to ride my high horse today.
25:12
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm gonna roll my eyes.
25:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my number one winner, I think that you probably know who it is because what an incredible game we got to watch last night, but it is the Jacksonville Jaguires.
25:24
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a franchise that never, ever, ever wins that game in that moment on prime time football, ever.
25:32
[SPEAKER_01]: And they found a way to do it.
25:33
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the biggest win for the franchise during a regular season game and at a long time.
25:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Their defense looked porous.
25:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought Kansas City had a great match up as far as what they out.
25:44
[SPEAKER_01]: The homes was able to accomplish.
25:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the jags did force a huge turn over turn it into a touchdown.
25:52
[SPEAKER_01]: The special teams looked really good.
25:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Cam Little is a top three kicker, probably in the league as a massive leg.
25:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Lawrence delivered one that mattered the most.
26:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this week, maybe, maybe Jacksonville's bad for him one team.
26:04
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very possible that that could be the case.
26:07
[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know how you can look at what that game I think meant to that city.
26:11
[SPEAKER_01]: That organization last night.
26:18
[SPEAKER_01]: the chance that they can turn this into a real season that we look back at this moment and say this is where it all changed.
26:28
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe it when they do it week after week.
26:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
26:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm, you know, they're like the cult's position, right?
26:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I do too.
26:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I really do.
26:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm, they're a week five winter.
26:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I also think the cheese are not good.
26:40
[SPEAKER_01]: See, you know what?
26:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I,
26:43
[SPEAKER_01]: It depends on what context you say they're not good at, because I thought the offense looked pretty good yesterday.
26:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, really, are they only pundit twice?
26:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they're very good.
26:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're rundown a little bit like I agree.
26:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're just going to stroke.
26:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a nine and eight team.
27:01
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see.
27:02
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to be gentle.
27:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with that.
27:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think rice coming back will be a big help.
27:08
[SPEAKER_01]: That implements a true one into that receiver room.
27:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're lacking right now, but
27:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, the jack's just kind of seemed to figure it out.
27:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, that Lawrence is fumble there on the quarterback's nick.
27:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that goes in work.
27:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Jacksonville's up to school was when it's all said and done.
27:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, they scored 31 points really probably should have been 38 if we take away what a play by Nick Bolton that was to have the wherewithal to punch that ball out.
27:39
[SPEAKER_01]: That was never seen that.
27:41
[SPEAKER_01]: That was exceptional.
27:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see it.
27:46
[SPEAKER_00]: And well, who are the five teams, first fight we can win, so close, 60 in the play?
27:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, do I get that?
27:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I do.
27:56
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I've got a good list right now, my number five is the cults.
28:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Why not like they're good.
28:05
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a good team.
28:06
[SPEAKER_01]: They're only one of them in the top five, but I get the argument.
28:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I. Why the F.C.
28:10
[SPEAKER_01]: South.
28:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're probably going to win the division.
28:13
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're, their schedule's backloaded.
28:16
[SPEAKER_01]: It is tough down the stretch, but I mean, I think that there's a chance that they.
28:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Win 10 games because they just win so many games early, and then they're, I guess, can afford to lose game.
28:25
[SPEAKER_01]: You can never afford to lose games, but, you know, there's some that they're going to give up, but.
28:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Why not the Colts?
28:31
[SPEAKER_01]: This strictly bias, I'm a huge Colts fan.
28:33
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to put them there.
28:35
[SPEAKER_01]: My number four is the Broncos.
28:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that that defense turned a corner in a way that they hadn't done.
28:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I think previously in the year, obviously that game against the Bengals they were great, but that Bengals offense was horrible.
28:50
[SPEAKER_01]: out they just they're looking like the broncos that everybody touted them to be and and like you said I think the chiefs are down.
28:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not convinced the chargers are as good as what they looked in the first three weeks and the raiders.
29:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the raiders are really bad.
29:04
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I like the broncos.
29:06
[SPEAKER_01]: My number three, the bills didn't move down a little bit.
29:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Their run defense is not great.
29:11
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think their back ends particularly great either.
29:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they'll find
29:20
[SPEAKER_02]: But it becomes great with Josh Allen.
29:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that's what everybody's saying.
29:25
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think the bills deserve the drop just a little bit.
29:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Number, I saw number one.
29:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Number two is the lions.
29:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there are as good as they were last year if not better.
29:35
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they will run away with that division.
29:39
[SPEAKER_01]: So I know we had the Packers that I don't know the thing about the Packers.
29:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's that was a good by a week for them because they got a lot of stuff to figure out.
29:47
[SPEAKER_01]: They needed a self scout week to kind of piece together what they're doing wrong and where they can improve.
29:52
[SPEAKER_01]: But I I really like that lines team my number ones the books I.
29:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I'm paper, they're the best team in football, but when you, they pass the eye test when you watch them, they can score points and bunches, they, I think that their defense will get better.
30:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think their defense will play in January in a way that it doesn't probably play in early October, just with their run defense.
30:14
[SPEAKER_01]: And play off football just gets a little gritty or the scores go down a little more.
30:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the team that can run the ball better.
30:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Will win a lot and I like the bucks run offense a lot.
30:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that both Bucky and Rashad are both very good running backs and There's a lot to like with that team all together.
30:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I love Baker.
30:36
[SPEAKER_01]: So give me the bucks at one.
30:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it's changed a lot Over the course of the year.
30:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's been maybe like 12 teams that have been on the most likely when the Super Watch is definitely more than there was last year because I felt like last year
30:50
[SPEAKER_01]: keeping basically the same five teams the whole year, but to why to open right now.
30:56
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so wide open, it's great.
30:58
[SPEAKER_02]: their games like the cowboys who start to look around and think that hey maybe we can compete with anybody level of they were the sixth winner.
31:06
[SPEAKER_01]: They were the one winner that got left out in my opinion because big wins.
31:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that they yeah, I was a huge win.
31:11
[SPEAKER_01]: They struggled typically on the road and they go to pick the jet.
31:14
[SPEAKER_01]: They go I also picked the jets and they go into New York and they figured out that that looks great great.
31:21
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think if he can continue to play this level, that's going to be it's going to be really tough team to be especially at home.
31:26
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been the best quarterback of the NFL so far this year, that includes Josh Allen.
31:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I absolutely, I think with Barton, I mean, other he had a poor week one, but really outside of that, he's been lights out for that team.
31:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, well, let's talk to him baseball, Yankee's Cubs Philly's, which is the most likely to come back and win the series.
31:52
[SPEAKER_02]: None of them.
31:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Yankees, I think you're right.
32:02
[SPEAKER_01]: The Phillies just look bad.
32:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that the scores have been closer than they should be because the Dodgers bowl pin is struggled, but like the Phillies, Schwarber Turner, Harper, like they just disappeared at that time.
32:16
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's why I might take Phillies.
32:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Those guys haven't been very good and they still have been in games and I really thought they were gonna win that in an idea yesterday.
32:24
[SPEAKER_02]: and you mentioned the Dodgers bullpen struggles.
32:27
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think that's going to get better.
32:29
[SPEAKER_01]: No, but I just think the Yankees at home.
32:31
[SPEAKER_01]: It's they are division arrivals.
32:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
32:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Blue Jace probably sweep and get it done tonight, but if not, if you let the Yankees get one at home,
32:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you, I think if the Yankees get one, they're getting two, and I think you're going back to Toronto, just to fur just decisive game five, the cops have no chance of winning that.
32:56
[SPEAKER_01]: The Brewer's have just flexed their muscles and then some.
32:59
[SPEAKER_02]: The Brewer's could just Brewer all over the place.
33:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Brewer's.
33:04
[SPEAKER_01]: We always joke that the brewers always find a way to lose, but boy, they have found ways to win.
33:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the cubs put a three spot up in the first inning last night in the brewers immediately respond with three of their own.
33:16
[SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't happen very often.
33:17
[SPEAKER_02]: The cubs often didn't have nothing.
33:19
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
33:20
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
33:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that brewers pitching staff is built.
33:25
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I think like if it's Dodgers brewers, I think the edge goes to Milwaukee because I think that their bullpen,
33:31
[SPEAKER_01]: is way better.
33:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that the starting pitching is comparable how far do you go?
33:36
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're only going your first your starter going for the two turns through the lineup and he's getting pulled at the lead off hitter of the third turn.
33:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like Milwaukee's spulpin, to find a way, and I just think that the way the Milwaukee scores runs, they don't depend on the long ball to score, they're very much put the ball in place, see what happens, they're good top to bottom, high average, they run the base is really well, maybe this is Milwaukee's year at, they just, they've looked all the part so far.
34:14
[SPEAKER_03]: and you have the Mariners in five, you still like that.
34:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just think they're pitching staff a lot last a Troy.
34:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, school won't realistically only be able to start one more of these games.
34:23
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think maybe the
34:25
[SPEAKER_01]: tigers get that one.
34:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Scoob obviously lost game one, but I mean, like tonight is Gilbert and Flair to get it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's Gilbert's got a huge advantage there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just think that their depth will be able to prevail in that series.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Seattle's going to have the pitching advantage against any team left in the American League.
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[SPEAKER_01]: for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Toronto's lineup neutralizes a lot of the pitch and things because I think that their lineup is really just that good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If LADS plan like this, I think we're staring down on Toronto Milwaukee world series because that bad is just raking hot right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Alejandro Kirk has been awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is without Boba shit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're talking about the guy that
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[SPEAKER_01]: Usually is it right there the top getting everything started he's not even playing in this series So if you think he's coming back for the the ALCS boy I mean you you add that back back into line up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's Rano team is awfully dangerous Last thing will the Pacers preseason begins tonight as does the NHL regular season which is just way too freaking long Who you like this year
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really think Edmonton, if they can put it together as far as the back end, if they can be better than they were last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like it's them.
35:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that the loss of the Panthers not having Sasha Barkov on their roster this year out with a season ending knee injury, which is unfortunate, but he is a guy that... Let's three in a row just doesn't happen.
36:02
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard just by the length of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they've played so much hockey, physical, mentally taxing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the winner probably comes out of the west of this year.
36:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like Vegas.
36:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that there are a team that has all the skill really at all three levels of hockey between their forwards, their defensemen and their bolt.
36:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that they really present teams with a lot of problems.
36:30
[SPEAKER_01]: But as long as comic David's there,
36:33
[SPEAKER_01]: You may have two of the two best players in the league on the same team between dry side and McDavid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's really hard to stop.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were down last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They really struggled.
36:43
[SPEAKER_01]: They kind of had to play their way into the playoffs, which seems crazy to talk about.
36:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I think if they play better in the regular season, then they're able to play at home a little more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be the difference.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All true.
36:53
[SPEAKER_02]: But let me play Devils Ed Rick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
36:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Fuck Canada.
37:03
[SPEAKER_01]: What was, what's the last, I can't be very 93.
37:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
37:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the year after I graduated high school.
37:10
[SPEAKER_01]: That's, yeah, that's outrageous.
37:12
[SPEAKER_01]: If I had to pick a sleeper, I, I think Detroit's going to be better.
37:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if they're going to surprise people.
37:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if they're a playoff team, but I think that they'll be better than they were last year.
37:25
[SPEAKER_01]: And they've kind of toggled that 500 line for a while.
37:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Carolina will have an excellent regular season.
37:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Brenda Morris,
37:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Game plan is really easy to play against and the postseason especially when you're playing each other for games.
37:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
37:40
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hockey so different because
37:44
[SPEAKER_01]: injury skin really kind of derail your season.
37:46
[SPEAKER_01]: You have a couple guys go out on a team and in a fell if you're if you're quarterback goes out.
37:51
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to recover, but you can withstand the loss of an off its alignment or a skill player.
37:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Hockey your leading score goes down.
37:59
[SPEAKER_01]: That's really hard to to find that.
38:02
[SPEAKER_01]: But also the trade deadline makes such a big difference because there is so much moving from team to team.
38:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Another team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think
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[SPEAKER_02]: Fuck, Canada.
38:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
38:14
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, uh, what about the black rocks?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is the year that you hope to see them turn that corner.
38:18
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
38:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
38:18
[SPEAKER_01]: That roster still awfully weak.
38:19
[SPEAKER_01]: So I, I, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
38:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
38:31
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard because I'm such a big black hawks fan, but it's like we're getting so far from like when they were like good and relevant again to see them now, it's just, I don't know.
38:43
[SPEAKER_01]: And I get, I was spoiled.
38:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they, they won three cups and five years.
38:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm well aware of that, um, but they haven't won it, but it's really hard to see your team suck no matter how great the past.
38:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's just hard because it's like, it's just, you know, when I was younger, it's just not, they were always good.
38:59
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're always betting on, you know, wins the playoffs, come around, we're half fun watching them beat the hell out of the rest league.
39:06
[SPEAKER_01]: And then when the postseason gets here, that's when it really starts.
39:10
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's not probably going to happen again.
39:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I at least for a couple of years.
39:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they've got the gold to nerf air it out and Spencer Knight will see.
39:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
39:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, can I just say last thing, I'm so ashamed of your father for letting you be a Blackhawk's fan?
39:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I kind of got dad into Hawke.
39:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you did.
39:29
[SPEAKER_01]: So I would say it.
39:30
[SPEAKER_02]: It is fault, though.
39:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, he knows the capitals are the good guys.
39:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody knows that.
39:36
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't believe he let you go down this road.
39:41
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a franchise that needs to move on.
39:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Those are Cub's fans, cheering for your team.
39:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, but who I mean, lot I'm going to be able to do.
39:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I could say, no, no, what was your name?
39:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to be a blues fan.
39:52
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you say that, no, but I've told you this.
39:55
[SPEAKER_01]: You've heard the story of why I'm a lifehawks fan a million times.
39:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to bore the listeners with it, but you know why.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So capitals, things will.
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