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Ep.47: Gut check · Football Junkies podcast

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  Double back alert, double back alert, double back alert folks.
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  That's right.
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  We got a loaded episode, okay, full of twists and turns, ups and downs.
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  You already know how these episodes go.
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  Okay.
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  We got a back alert on top of trades.
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  Okay.
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  Man, old man, the trade deadline continues to never fails us folks.
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  I called it.
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  I called it.
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  I said at least two blockbuster trades were going to happen.
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  We had one, well two if you want to count Zidarius, but I only count one with a March
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  on Laddermore, but who cares all about that?
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  Okay.
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  Because guess what?
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  Jonathan Cooper gets paid.
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  Chubba Huber gets paid.
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  Bering Brown is traded to the Cardinals.
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  Dennis Allen gets fired.
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  The Raiders lose and in doing so clean the offensive staff completely.
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  The Cowboys are cooked, Habachi style.
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  The commanders continue to win.
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  The Bears are struggling and I mean struggling.
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  You would think that it is hibernation season for them folks.
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  The Ravens finally get back into the winning column.
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  The Eagles barely get a win.
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  The Chiefs of Bucks, we have to talk about it even though Thursday night football happened.
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  Maybe we'll talk about that as well.
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  Trade deadline recap and gut check time.
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  Yeah.
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  That's right.
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  Gut check.
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  It's time that we have some uncomfortable conversations about where certain teams are
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  at at this point in the season.
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  Okay.
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  All of this and more on the 47th episode of the Football Junkies Podcast.
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  Okay.
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  I am your host with the most.
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  Okay.
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  I'm your chief Bagrodamus.
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  I'm your chief head of the table.
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  Okay.
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  Chief bag meteorologist.
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  Okay.
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  But most importantly, I am your GM who currently is not on a team right now.
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  But don't you worry about it.
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  Okay.
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  Don't you worry your little mind about that.
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  Okay.
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  Because guess what?
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  I know it's been a while, but guess what?
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  It's time to give you guys the football fix that you guys need before this week because
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  we're going to have some loaded games this week and I cannot wait.
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  So guess what?
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  On three.
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  One, two, three.
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  Let's lock in.
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  All right, folks, let's get into the meat and potatoes of everything that is going on
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  in the league and let me tell you something.
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  A lot has happened in this week alone for the league.
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  Okay.
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  So let's just go into everything.
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  Let's not waste any more time.
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  Okay.
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  Jonathan Cooper outside linebacker for the Broncos gets paid four years, $60 million,
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  $33 million guaranteed.
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  That's around ballpark around maybe 15, 14 to 15 million a year depending on the incentives
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  and all those different things.
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  Okay.
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  So let's look at his stats for 2023.
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  70 tackles, eight and a half sacks, one interception.
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  Okay.
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  This is what I will say for somebody who was a seventh round pick to be as productive as
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  he has been with the Broncos, definitely says a lot.
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  And you know, he is definitely emerged as one of the bright spots on that Broncos defense
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  outside of Patrick Sertain.
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  You could probably make a strong case that he probably is one of the most important people
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  on that defense and he continues to show it.
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  And you know, if we're being real here, this is a deal that is somewhat of a team friendly
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  deal.
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  This isn't a deal that, you know, it's going to break the bank or it's going to, you know,
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  put them in a bad spot and as the years go down the road, no, it's a fairly really good
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  deal.
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  You take care of a young player while at the same time, you know, it doesn't necessarily
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  break the bank, which is great.
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  Because again, the Broncos are in a spot where, you know, they're going to have a lot of catch
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  trace moving forward and that's going to allow them to continue to build onto this team.
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  Because again, let's be real here.
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  The Broncos are really good team.
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  That defense has been playing phenomenal.
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  Okay.
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  And mind you, this is a defense that doesn't have a whole bunch of talent outside of PS
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  two, their safety and then Jonathan Cooper.
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  Now if there's anybody else that I'm not thinking of my apologies to you, no disrespect to you
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  OG, but you know, the Broncos are in a really good spot.
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  And you know, as much flack as we for the, for the handling of Russell Wilson, sometimes
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  it has to get ugly before it gets good.
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  And now they're in a good space.
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  And as long as they maintain this consistency, they will be able to be a problem for the
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  Chiefs moving forward.
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  Now moving on to Chubbahubbitt, all right, running back for the Carolina Panthers.
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  He inked a four year 33.2 million dollar deal that has a max value of 37.2 million.
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  Okay.
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  That's about 15 million give or take fully guaranteed.
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  So he'll be making about eight to nine million a year.
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  If I'm not mistaken, I could be wrong.
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  I don't have my calculator with me.
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  But when we look at the stats though, okay, 238 attempts for 902 rushing yards, 3.8 rushing
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  yards per carry, five touchdowns and 21 rushes of 10 plus yards or more.
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  Now for him to be as productive as he has been in the situation that the Panthers have
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  been in, definitely says a lot.
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  Chubbahubbitt has been doing his thing.
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  He has been balling.
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  He minds you, he's doing this behind a very lackluster offensive line and we can be honest
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  here.
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  And, you know, for him to do this, you know, it's only up from here.
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  It really is.
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  It's not a deal that's going to break the bank.
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  It's not a deal that, you know, they're going to have to restructure, you know, as the years
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  go by and whatnot.
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  No, this is very team friendly deal.
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  The running back market is fairly, you know, I wouldn't say average, but it's very, it's
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  very low, right?
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  Outside of, you know, the big names, the Christian McCaffrey's, the Alvin Cameras, the Jonathan
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  Taylor's, the Derek Henry's of the world, everybody under that really isn't making a
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  whole lot of money.
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  So you're taking care of a position that, you know, the team must, you know, must value
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  a whole lot while at the same time, you're making sure that you are not overpaying for
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  somebody.
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  So all in all, great situation for them.
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  Now let's get into this bearing Browning trade before we get into the other trades.
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  Okay.
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  So bearing Browning former Denver Broncos, our past rusher was traded from the Broncos
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  to the Cardinals.
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  The Cardinals, of course, received bearing Browning and the Broncos received a sixth
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  round pick.
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  Now, when we look at this, you know, bearing Browning at this point really didn't have
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  a spot with the Broncos, especially with Jonathan Cooper being as productive as he has been.
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  And so the best thing to do is to just send him into another, you know, another place
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  where he would be a starter and that he can have a chance to be, you know, honestly speaking
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  here, like, you know, it's a good situation because again, the Cardinals have been looking
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  for a productive past rusher, you know, for a while and they were able to find it without
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  having to give up a whole lot to get it while at the same time, you know, a young piece that
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  you can build off of.
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  Right.
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  And again, this Cardinals team, low key has been playing fairly well.
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  They have.
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  They actually surprised me.
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  If you would have told me that the Cardinals would be playing as well as they have played,
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  I would have called you a liar.
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  And you know, hats off to the head coach for doing what he's doing.
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  I mean, they're playing well.
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  They're playing well on both sides.
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  And again, this is the recipe for these young teams to be ultra competitive, not only in
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  their division, but, you know, in the league as a whole, you have a young team, young core,
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  you keep things fairly low as far as like, you know, spending and, you know, trading
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  for people and whatnot.
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  And you just build off that.
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  And so far, they're in the right direction.
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  Now they have to go through some bumpy roads.
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  Yes, they did.
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  They did have to go through, you know, some a little bit of turmoil, but guess what?
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  They're on the other side of it.
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  And it's only up from here at this point.
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  As long as they maintain, you know, the course.
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  Now if they try to go left with it, then that's when you that's when you're going to start
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  to see, you know, the worst of it.
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  Now onto one of the first games that we have to cover.
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  And that is the Saints versus the Panthers.
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  Okay.
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  So before we get into all the stuff related to Dennis Allen, well, we'll go there when
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  we go there.
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  Okay.
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  So Bryce young was 16 for 26, 171 passing yards, one touchdown on one pick, 6.6 yards
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  per attempt in a 61.5 completion percentage.
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  Okay.
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  Chuck Hubbard 15 attempts for 72 rushing yards, 4.8 rushing yards per carry, two rushes of
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  10 plus yards or more.
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  Jitavion Sanders, five targets for four receptions, 87 receiving yards, 21.8 receiving yards per
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  carry.
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  Derek Carr 18, 31, 236 passing yards, one touchdown on 7.6 yards per attempt in a 58.1
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  completion percentage.
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  Okay.
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  So, John Camara 29 rushes of 155 rushing yards, 5.3 rushing yards per carry and three rushes
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  of 10 plus yards or more.
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  Taysom Hill, five targets for four receptions, 41 receiving yards, 10.3 receiving yards per
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  reception.
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  Now, when we look at this, you know, this was definitely a game where, you know, if the
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  Saints would have won, it would have, it would have tamped down the flames, right?
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  It would have tamped down a lot of the outside noise that was starting to, you know, grow
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  and grow and grow.
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  Basically, because, you know, at this point, one can make a case that Dennis Allen, you
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  know, was basically playing for his job.
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  And you know, for him to lose to the Panthers, it's not good.
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  The Saints have lost seven games straight, seven games, seven games.
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  That is unacceptable.
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  And I get it.
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  This team doesn't really have the best roster, I get all of that, but still to lose seven
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  straight is unacceptable.
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  That is the reason why, you know, the owner decided that she wanted to go in a different
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  direction and fire Dennis Allen.
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  But before we get into her quote, I'm just going to read to you his coaching record since
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  2022, right?
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  So here we go.
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  In 2022, seven wins, 10 losses in 2023, nine wins, eight losses in 2024.
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  He was two and seven.
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  He lost and as I just said, he lost seven straight.
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  If we're being real here, the only good record was probably 2023.
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  And even then, that's not even really good.
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  It's only good now because we're about to hit an 18 week season.
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  That's the only reason why.
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  Outside of that, these are not really good records.
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  These are not.
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  These are unacceptable records.
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  And granted, for the longest time, the Saints were, you know, that dominant team in their
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  division and as time progressed and, you know, once Drew Brees retired, they didn't properly
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  prepare, you know, for Drew Brees, you know, to retire, let alone did they really prepare
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  to, you know, to do whatever they needed to do.
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  Once Sean Payton decided that he wanted to leave the Saints and granted, I get it.
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  It's hard to, you know, go behind a legendary, you know, head coach and try to find your
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  own way.
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  I get all of that.
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  But, you know, this was a game where you could sort of, you know, have some momentum
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  and sort of regain your locker room because at this point, it's probably safe to say that,
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  you know, a lot of those players, especially the veteran players have checked out mentally
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  like they, they're over the season.
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  They just want to get through with the season, get their money, go on vacation and figure
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  out what they want to do, you know, with their career moving forward.
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  That's just where they are.
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  And, you know, it sucks, you know, it sucks for someone like a Cam Jordan, who, you know,
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  he's been there this entire time.
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  And this is probably the lowest low that he's been a part of.
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  Like this is probably one of the worst teams.
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  And, you know, once you lose your veterans in the locker room, that's it.
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  And you can tell by his body language, if you, if you guys haven't seen the video, there's
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  a video circling around of Cam Jordan walking.
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  He's just, he's just trying to get some fresh air, just trying to, you know, calm his nerves.
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  And Derek Carr is running behind him, trying to like, you know, talk to him and whatnot.
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  And you can just see in his face that he's just like, he's done.
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  He's over it.
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  He doesn't want to, you know, he doesn't want to continue to go through the sense and the
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  foolishness that is this team right now.
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  And, you know, it sucks.
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  It really does.
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  But let's get into this statement and continue to move forward.
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  So this is what she says in that quote, talking about Dennis Allen, okay.
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  He is highly regarded within the NFL.
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  He has been extremely loyal and professional and most importantly an excellent football
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  coach for us.
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  All of this makes today very tough for me in our organization.
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  However, this decision is something that I felt we needed to make at this time.
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  I wish nothing but the best in the future for Dennis and his family.
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  He will always be considered in the highest regard by me and everyone within our organization.
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  That is a statement to where basically saying you were okay, but it's time we go a separate
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  way because this is not working.
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  This is not working.
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  We're not winning.
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  We're not being competitive.
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  It's just not, it's not good for business.
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  And it shows, it shows.
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  If you are a Saints fan right now, especially a season ticket holder Saints fan, you are
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  probably wanting to sell a lot of your tickets because there's no point in really going to
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  the games.
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  It really isn't.
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  And if I'm Alvin Camara, I'm low key sort of second guess in my decision about signing
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  signing that extension.
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  But granted, you know, he probably wanted to be, he wanted to, you know, retire a Saint
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  and that's perfectly fine.
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  I get that.
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  But bro, the amount of talent that you had, if you went on one of these winning teams,
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  man, you would be, you will be putting up cool, cool for Cocoa Puffs type numbers, man.
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  But again, I can't, you know, have, have a conversation with Alvin Camara.
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  So let's get into this Raiders and Bagels game.
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  Okay.
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  So let's get into the game.
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  Man, what, what can you say about this game?
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  This game was a bad game for the Raiders, but Raiders be the Raiders, right?
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  But let's get into these stats.
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  Okay.
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  So Gardner mentioned was 10 for 17, 124 passing yards, 7.3 yards per 10 and a 58.8 completion
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  percentage.
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  Okay.
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  Desmond Redder 11 for 16, 74 passing yards, one touchdown, 4.6 yards per 10 and a 68.6
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  completion percentage.
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  I've been wondering why am I listing Desmond Redder because Desmond Redder came in for
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  Gardner, meant you, uh, after he was bounced.
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  Okay.
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  We're just going to leave it there.
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  Now, Alexander Madison, nine attempts for 36 rushing yards, four rushing yards per carry.
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  Okay.
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  Jacoby Myers 11 targets for eight receptions, 105 receiving yards, 13.1 receiving yards
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  per reception.
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  Joe Burrell 27 for 39, 251 passing yards, five touchdowns, one pick, 6.4 yards per
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  attempt and 69.2 completion percentage.
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  Okay.
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  Mike Kaseki, six targets for five receptions, 100 receiving yards, two touchdowns, 20 receiving
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  yards per reception.
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  Chase Brown 27 attempts for 120 rushing yards, 4.4 rushing yards per carry and two rushes
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  of 10 plus yards or more.
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  Now, when we look at this, you know, the bangles are starting to, you know, show that they
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  are that dark horse that people are going to have to be concerned about.
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  Joe Burrow, as of this point is probably having statistically his best year.
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  Okay.
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  You were talking about somebody that is throwing multiple touchdowns in one game.
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  I'm talking about two and three, maybe even more touchdowns a game just to win.
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  And a lot of that has to do with, you know, the defense being, you know, crappy and whatnot.
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  So there's more weight put on his shoulders, but hey, they paid him the money that they
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  paid him because they believe that he could do this.
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  And so far he's been balling out as of right now, if we can be honest here, I think, and
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  this is just my opinion, I can definitely be wrong.
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  I think the MVP race is definitely between Lamar, Jerry golf, Joe Burrow and Derek Henry.
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  I think those, those are the ones that right now, those are like the runner-ups for MVP.
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  Now, can someone like Josh Allen, could he sneak in there?
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  You probably most likely, could there be other other people that could, you know, sneak in
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  there as well?
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  Yes.
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  It's definitely Lamar, Joe Burrow, Jerry golf and Derek Henry, 100% of the way.
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  Now for the Raiders, you know, this Raiders team is not good.
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  And you know, it sucks for someone like a Max Crosby because, you know, you have basically
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  given your whole career to a team that really has not been competitive for a very long time.
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  Out of that one year where they had Derek Carr and Darren Waller and Josh Jacobs and,
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  you know, Hunter Renfrow and company, outside of that, they really have not been that good.
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  And you know, it's just bad.
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  It's a bad situation for Max Crosby.
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  And I would have thought that, you know, the Raiders would have just, you know, traded
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  him and put him in a different situation, not necessarily sending him to the Chiefs,
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  but you could just send him out of the conference in its entirety, send him to the Lions.
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  And you could have gotten probably a King's ransom for it.
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  Honestly speaking here, like, let's be real here, this Raiders team on both sides of the
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  ball is not competitive.
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  That offense, let me tell you the offensive rankings for the Raiders.
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  Okay.
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  So their passing offense is ranked 19th in the league.
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  Okay.
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  So they have a 63.7 pass play percentage, 203.3 passing yards per game, which is the equivalent
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  of 5.2 passing yards per play and nine touchdowns.
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  That is not good, folks.
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  That is below average, if we can be real here.
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  Now when you look at their rushing offense, it is dead last, dead last in this league,
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  76.9 rushing yards per game, which translates to 3.5 rushing yards per play in seven touchdowns.
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  It's not good.
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  It's not good.
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  And that is exactly why Antonio Pierce decided that he was going to clean house for the offense.
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  And in doing so, he has fired offensive coordinator, Luke Getze, online coach, James Craig, and
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  quarterback coach, Rich, uh, Scurrangelo.
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  If I'm pronouncing your last name, my apologies don't mean to do an old purpose.
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  You know, this is what I will say.
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  The Raiders have a lot of big decisions that they have to make moving forward, not only
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  for, you know, positions, but as well as coaching.
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  Because at this point, what is the bright spot outside of Max Crosby?
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  Please, can somebody tell me what is the bright spot for the Raiders?
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  There is none.
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  There, this Raiders team has been playing very mediocre.
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  And if you are, you know, an owner of this team, well, not even an owner, but if you
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  are a shareholder of this team, you should be disappointed to know that you put your
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  money into this team and this team has not done anything.
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  You got the big stadium.
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  You got, you know, all these different types of things.
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  You have loyal fans that continue to show up for these games, knowing that this team
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  is not able to compete.
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  I guarantee you right now, if you had the Raiders and the Panthers go up against one another,
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  I guarantee you the Panthers were probably put up 30 points on the Raiders head.
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  And that's sad.
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  That is honestly 100% sad.
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  And if you are a quarterback for next year's draft, oh, you better, you better think about
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  it because if you wind up with the Raiders, best believe that rookie year is going to be
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  hell.
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  Now onto another game that we have to talk about that is the Cowboys versus the Falcons.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  I already know.
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  I already know.
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  So let's just get into everything before we talk about all of the stuff.
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  Okay.
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  So that press got 18 for 24, 133 passing yards, one touchdown, 5.5 yards per attempt and a
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  75 completion percentage.
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  Cooper Rush, 13 for 25, 115 passing yards, one touchdown, 4.6 yards per attempt and a
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  52 completion percentage.
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  Jake Ferguson, 10 targets for seven receptions, 71 receiving yards and 10.1 receiving yards
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  per reception.
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  Rico Dow, 12 attempts for 75 rushing yards, 6.3 rushing yards per carry and three rushes
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  of 10 plus yards or more.
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  Kirk Cousins, 19 for 24, 222 passing yards, three touchdowns, 9.3 yards per attempt and
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  a 79.2 completion percentage.
• 22:17
  Bijon Robinson, 19 attempts for 86 rushing yards, excuse me, 4.5 rushing yards per carry
• 22:23
  and two rushes of 10 plus yards or more.
• 22:26
  Darnell Mooney, 9 targets for five receptions, 88 receiving yards, one touchdown, 17.6 receiving
• 22:32
  yards per reception.
• 22:33
  Now, this is what I will say.
• 22:35
  Yeah.
• 22:36
  The Cowboys season is really over.
• 22:37
  Like the Cowboys are like really, really done.
• 22:40
  And it sucks because now Dak is probably going to be out for an extended period of time with
• 22:45
  reports coming out that he basically tore his hamstring off the bone.
• 22:50
  The bone, ladies and gentlemen, the bone.
• 22:53
  That's not good.
• 22:54
  That is not good at all.
• 22:56
  If you are a Cowboys fan, I am very sorry for you, but at the same time, I am not sorry
• 23:02
  for you simply because your owner slash GM slash every other title you could possibly
• 23:08
  think of decided that, you know, you wanted to spend your entire off season trying to
• 23:14
  resign both Dak and CDLM instead of trying to at least make this team a little bit competitive,
• 23:21
  just a little bit because as of right now, this Cowboys team is not going anywhere.
• 23:27
  It's not going anywhere for a long time.
• 23:29
  And, you know, it sucks for Mike McCarthy because the last two seasons, they've been
• 23:34
  dominant.
• 23:35
  They've been doing their thing.
• 23:36
  They were winning a lot of games.
• 23:38
  They were ultra competitive.
• 23:39
  The office was putting up numbers.
• 23:41
  The defense were doing their thing.
• 23:43
  But you know, he's going to be the sacrificial name in this.
• 23:48
  Everyone's going to say, oh, it's Mike McCarthy's fault that the Cowboys are where they are.
• 23:52
  No, not really.
• 23:53
  Jerry had had an opportunity to get someone like a Derek Henry.
• 23:58
  Why couldn't afford them?
• 24:00
  Why I don't know the Cowboys of old are gone.
• 24:05
  Let's just be real here at the time where, you know, Jerry was a little bit aggressive
• 24:09
  and free agency.
• 24:10
  And, you know, he was able to use his influence to bring in players and whatnot.
• 24:16
  That time has passed.
• 24:17
  It's gone.
• 24:19
  And what you have now is basically a team who is more about glitz and glamour and having
• 24:25
  prime time games and looking nice in their uniforms compared to wanting to, you know,
• 24:31
  be competitive and try to win games and, you know, try to at least make it to the playoffs
• 24:36
  and maybe even win the Super Bowl.
• 24:38
  That's just what it is.
• 24:40
  This Cowboys team could have been very, very, very, very competitive, not only in their
• 24:45
  division, but in the entire league had they done certain things, you know, two or three
• 24:50
  years ago compared to now.
• 24:53
  You continue to want to take care of your star players.
• 24:56
  I get that.
• 24:58
  But at some point, sometimes you have to make certain changes if it means that you have
• 25:03
  a better chance of not only just winning regular season games, but playing in January and February.
• 25:09
  And Jerry doesn't want to do that.
• 25:11
  He doesn't.
• 25:12
  He wants to continue to have his power over this team.
• 25:16
  And as long as Jerry Jones has power over the Dallas Cowboys, the Cowboys will not go
• 25:22
  anywhere.
• 25:23
  And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
• 25:27
  He couldn't bring someone like a Bill Belichick or a Mike Vrable or someone like that.
• 25:32
  He couldn't do it because why those type of coaches, they're going to run things their
• 25:37
  way or the highway and they have no problem going somewhere else.
• 25:41
  They have no problem, you know, sending out another year.
• 25:45
  It's no problem for them.
• 25:47
  And you know, if we can be real here, this offense is not that good.
• 25:51
  Zeke at this point just needs to retire.
• 25:54
  He does.
• 25:55
  He he's lost his burst.
• 25:57
  He's not that, you know, that same running back to how he was a few years ago.
• 26:02
  And he has just aged like bananas.
• 26:06
  Yeah, those bananas that that's in your grandmother's, you know, fruit basket that's in the middle
• 26:11
  of the kitchen that's been sitting there for about two or three weeks.
• 26:14
  Yeah, it's mushy.
• 26:15
  It's ugly.
• 26:16
  It got a little smell to it.
• 26:18
  That's exactly what it is.
• 26:19
  His offense is not good.
• 26:22
  And you know, it sucks.
• 26:25
  It does because for the amount of prime time games that the Cowboys get, especially those
• 26:30
  things, those Thanksgiving games, they need to get that up to somebody else.
• 26:34
  Let's let one of these other teams have a slot to play for Thanksgiving because nobody
• 26:38
  wants to see the sorry Cowboys continue to get decimated.
• 26:44
  And it sucks because Dak tried.
• 26:47
  Dak really does try, he's not a he's not a quarterback who is going to point the fingers
• 26:52
  and say, you know, always is this person's fault or try to put blame on somebody else
• 26:57
  or throw somebody under the bus.
• 26:58
  He's not one of those people.
• 27:00
  He's someone that he wants to win.
• 27:02
  He wants to, you know, just do the right thing.
• 27:06
  And he continues to have to overcome, you know, mountains and hills just because this
• 27:13
  team is not built to be competitive.
• 27:16
  Why?
• 27:17
  Why hasn't this team been competitive because of Jerry Jones?
• 27:21
  Because Jerry Jones decides, hey, I want to prioritize my players instead of trying to
• 27:26
  bring in some better players that could possibly be much used to us compared to bringing in
• 27:33
  players who are at the tail end of their careers, who are most likely going to at the end of
• 27:38
  this season.
• 27:39
  Now, moving on to the commanders and Giants game, which is actually a really good game,
• 27:44
  believe it or not.
• 27:45
  So before we get into all the rigmarole with that, let's just get into the stats.
• 27:48
  Okay.
• 27:49
  So Jaden Daniels was 15 for 22, 209 passing yards, two touchdowns, 9.5 yards per attempt
• 27:55
  in a 68.2 completion percentage.
• 27:58
  Noah Brown, six targets for five receptions, 60 receiving yards, 12 receiving yards per
• 28:03
  reception.
• 28:04
  Chris Rodriguez, 11 attempts for 52 rushing yards, 4.7 rushing yards per carry and one
• 28:09
  rush of 10 plus yards and more.
• 28:12
  Daniel Jones, 20 for 26, 174 passing yards, two touchdowns, 6.7 yards per attempt in a
• 28:18
  76.9 completion percentage.
• 28:20
  Malik Neighbors, 11 targets for nine receptions, 59 receiving yards, 6.6 receiving yards per
• 28:26
  reception.
• 28:27
  Tyrone Tracy Jr., 16 attempts for 66 rushing yards, 4.1 rushing yards per reception and
• 28:33
  two rushes of 10 plus yards and more.
• 28:36
  Now, as I have always said and I will continue to say, the vision games are very hard to
• 28:43
  predict.
• 28:44
  And the reason why I say that is because it'll be the team that you think is out of it.
• 28:48
  They're not going to go anywhere.
• 28:49
  They're not going to go to the playoffs.
• 28:51
  They're probably just, you know, trying to see where, where they fall in the draft and
• 28:55
  whatnot that will give you a run for your money.
• 28:59
  And that's exactly what happened.
• 29:01
  This Giants team was fighting tooth and nail towards the end with the commanders and of
• 29:07
  course the commanders won.
• 29:08
  But you know, you're starting to see a little bit of Danny Dimes, you know, do his thing.
• 29:13
  You are, but I still think it's not enough.
• 29:16
  I still think that this offense needs more talent.
• 29:19
  I still think this offense needs more firepower with the receivers and whatnot.
• 29:24
  And I just feel like, you know, it's reached a point to where, you know, Daniel Jones is
• 29:30
  probably playing to fight for his job at this point because I would not be surprised if
• 29:36
  the Giants first pick next year is a quarterback.
• 29:39
  I would not be surprised because again, uh, who was it?
• 29:42
  Who was it?
• 29:43
  Who was it?
• 29:44
  Brian Dabel?
• 29:45
  It was Brian Dabel.
• 29:46
  Brian Dabel wanted Jaden Daniels.
• 29:47
  He liked Jaden Daniels.
• 29:49
  Even Joe Shane's son said, you need to get Jaden Daniels.
• 29:53
  Jaden Daniels is a once in a lifetime type of player and he decided that he wanted to
• 29:59
  stick with Daniel Jones.
• 30:00
  Now granted, I understand that, you know, you gave him, you know, his deals or you want
• 30:04
  to try to, you know, see how, how things go and whatnot, but you know, you're in the
• 30:09
  business of winning.
• 30:10
  You're not in business, you know, to justify certain contracts.
• 30:15
  If a player is not playing, you know, up to the standards of the contract that you gave
• 30:19
  them, then you need to move off of them and you need to be able to figure out what you're
• 30:23
  going to do moving forward.
• 30:24
  Because if you don't, what's going to happen is you're going to be in a situation where
• 30:30
  the team isn't going anywhere and you're basically being dead weight.
• 30:34
  That's what it is.
• 30:35
  That's really what it is at this point.
• 30:37
  If Jaden Daniels was on this Giants team, who knows?
• 30:42
  Maybe the roles would be switched.
• 30:44
  Maybe the Giants will be in the commander shoes.
• 30:48
  Who knows?
• 30:49
  We will never know.
• 30:50
  But at this point, I feel like the Giants are going to have some very tough decisions
• 30:54
  that they are going to have to make, you know, once this season is over with, it's reaching
• 30:59
  a point where some band-aids are going to have to get ripped off.
• 31:03
  Some tough decisions are going to have to be made just for the betterment of the team,
• 31:07
  just so they can try to be a little bit more competitive, you know, than what they already
• 31:12
  are at this point.
• 31:13
  But let's go into the Bears and Cardinals game.
• 31:16
  So a lot has to be said about this, but I'm going to hold off onto it once I read off
• 31:21
  the stats.
• 31:22
  Okay.
• 31:23
  So Kyler Murray was 13 for 20, 154 passing yards, 7.7 yards per temp, and a 65 completion
• 31:29
  percentage.
• 31:30
  James Conner 18 attempts for 107 rushing yards, 5.9 rushing yards per carry, and three rushes
• 31:36
  of 10 plus yards or more.
• 31:38
  Trey McBride four targets for three receptions, 35 receiving yards, 11.7 receiving yards per
• 31:44
  reception.
• 31:45
  Kayla Williams 22 for 41, 217 passing yards, 5.3 yards per temp, and a 53.7 completion
• 31:52
  percentage.
• 31:53
  DeAndre Swift 16 attempts for 51 rushing yards, 3.2 rushing yards per carry, and two rushes
• 31:59
  of 10 plus yards or more.
• 32:00
  Ruma Dunes, a seven target for five receptions, 104 receiving yards per reception, and 20.8
• 32:07
  receiving yards per reception.
• 32:08
  Now this is what I will say.
• 32:11
  The Bears continue to do bear things and what is that exactly?
• 32:15
  You're probably wondering it is losing, losing winnable games.
• 32:19
  Okay.
• 32:20
  If you would have told me that the Bears would have the amount of talent they have on both
• 32:26
  sides of the ball, you would think, Oh, this team is going to be a playoff team.
• 32:32
  They have not shown it.
• 32:33
  They have not played well.
• 32:35
  They have not been coached well.
• 32:36
  And clearly it seems like there is some, you know, some problems going on with how things
• 32:42
  are going within the locker room and whatnot.
• 32:45
  Now for the Cardinals, on the other hand, the Cardinals continue to persevere and continue
• 32:50
  to be competitive despite the lack of talent that they have on both sides of the ball.
• 32:56
  Colin Murray has been playing fairly well.
• 32:59
  He has.
• 33:00
  He's been playing fairly well.
• 33:01
  And, you know, when you have, you know, pieces in James Conner and trade McBride, and then
• 33:06
  you have Marma Harrison Jr. as well.
• 33:09
  And let's be real here.
• 33:10
  James Conner, since he's been with the Cardinals has been playing phenomenally well.
• 33:15
  You haven't heard a whole bunch of injuries and him being out for two or three games like
• 33:20
  how he was with the, with the Steelers.
• 33:23
  And you know, that's great for him.
• 33:25
  That's honestly great for him.
• 33:26
  I can say that as a Steelers fan, you know, I definitely was rooting for James Conner.
• 33:30
  And sometimes you have to go, you know, in a different environment just so you can really
• 33:34
  thrive and really show, you know, your skillset.
• 33:37
  And so far he's found a home with the Cardinals.
• 33:40
  Now trade McBride, trade McBride continues to show why he is one of the rising stars
• 33:47
  in this league.
• 33:48
  He continues to do so.
• 33:50
  And, you know, since last year, maybe even the year before that, he's been balling.
• 33:55
  He's been doing his thing.
• 33:56
  Okay.
• 33:57
  Keep your eye on trade McBride moving forward.
• 33:59
  He is definitely, you know, someone that can make a case that he could possibly be a superstar
• 34:06
  moving forward.
• 34:07
  Now for the Bears back to them, you know, the Bears are just not, they're not, they're
• 34:14
  not coached well.
• 34:15
  They're not.
• 34:16
  And, you know, I would not be surprised if they do clean house completely because right
• 34:23
  now Matt Ibrafus is not it.
• 34:25
  He is not it.
• 34:26
  And, you know, at this point, I think K the Williams needs an offensive minded head coach.
• 34:33
  He needs an inadequate offensive coordinator.
• 34:36
  He needs an adequate offensive staff that is going to help him because right now all
• 34:42
  he's doing is trying to play hero ball instead of making the routine throws.
• 34:47
  If you make the routine throws, no one's going to say anything.
• 34:50
  But if you're always trying to make the big play, the memorable play, the highlight play
• 34:55
  nine times out of 10, you're not going to make it.
• 34:59
  And you know, this is somewhat of a of a roadblock that, you know, a lot of rookies hit and now
• 35:04
  K the Williams is hitting and he has to realize that.
• 35:08
  And you know, for the defensive side, the defense really has been playing well either.
• 35:12
  And they got, you know, Montez wet and, you know, Jalen Johnson and Tremaine admins and
• 35:18
  company like this just has not been a good, you know, second half of the season for the
• 35:24
  Bears.
• 35:25
  And, you know, if I'm ownership and if I'm management, if I want to make sure that we
• 35:31
  continue to stay competitive, I have some tough decisions that I have to make.
• 35:36
  And I have to start creating a board of who I would want to target for offensive coordinator,
• 35:41
  head coach and a slew of other, you know, coaching position.
• 35:45
  Now let's get into this Ravens and Broncos game.
• 35:48
  Okay.
• 35:49
  So Lamar Jackson was 16 for 19, 280 passing yards.
• 35:53
  Three touchdowns, 14.7 yards per 10th and 84.2 completion percentage.
• 35:58
  Derek Henry, 23 attempts for 106 rushing yards.
• 36:02
  4.6 rushing yards per carry, two touchdowns and two rushes of 10 plus yards or more.
• 36:07
  Zay flowers, six starters for five receptions, 127 receiving yards, two touchdowns and 25.4
• 36:13
  receiving yards per reception.
• 36:15
  Now, bone nicks.
• 36:17
  All right.
• 36:18
  19 for 33.
• 36:20
  223 passing yards.
• 36:22
  One pick 6.8 yards per attempt in a 57.6 completion percentage.
• 36:26
  Coralton sun 10 targets for seven receptions, 122 receiving yards, 17.4 receiving yards
• 36:33
  per reception.
• 36:34
  Javante Williams 12 attempts from 42 rushing yards and 3.5 rushing yards per carry.
• 36:40
  Now this is what I will say.
• 36:43
  The Ravens continue to be dominant on the offensive side, but it is the defense that
• 36:48
  is being an anchor to this team.
• 36:51
  And, you know, it's not good.
• 36:55
  It's not good.
• 36:56
  The amount of talent that is on that defense, they should be just as dominant as the offense
• 37:01
  is.
• 37:02
  They should.
• 37:03
  And, you know, this is a coaching thing.
• 37:05
  This is not necessarily a lack of talent.
• 37:07
  They have all the talent in the world.
• 37:09
  You have Rokwon Smith.
• 37:11
  You have Kyle Hamilton.
• 37:13
  You have Marlon Humphrey and Nate Wiggins and Nomadi Metabeekay and in company.
• 37:19
  You have talent.
• 37:20
  It is a coaching thing.
• 37:22
  And you know, if I am the Ravens, I may have to look into getting a defensive coordinator
• 37:27
  at this point, not necessarily firing Zach or but bringing somebody in that growth of
• 37:33
  how to be a defensive coordinator and how to sort of be creative when it comes to the
• 37:41
  play call.
• 37:42
  Because at this point, this defense will be the Achilles heel on why the Ravens do not
• 37:48
  go to the Super Bowl.
• 37:50
  If they do not get their act together by Thanksgiving, we're going to have some tough problems.
• 37:57
  Because again, doing their thing, they are coming out in games all cylinders ago, you
• 38:04
  know, beating you in the air, beating you on the ground, just being dominant everywhere
• 38:08
  on all phases of the offense.
• 38:10
  It is the defense that are that just things are clicking.
• 38:15
  And at some point, when are they going to click?
• 38:18
  Now, for the Broncos, I understand that the Broncos did lose, but at the same time, these
• 38:24
  are stepping stones.
• 38:26
  The reason why I say that is because bow nicks has to go through the growing pains of being
• 38:30
  a rookie quarterback in the national football league, let alone in the AFC.
• 38:34
  You're going to go through a phase where you're going to be, you know, punched in the mouth
• 38:38
  by a team like the Ravens.
• 38:39
  It happens.
• 38:40
  But for a bow nicks to do what he has done so far, definitely says a lot.
• 38:46
  And it definitely shows that, you know, the Broncos made the right pick in, you know,
• 38:51
  selecting bow nicks.
• 38:52
  Now, for Cortland Sutton, you know, the question is, do you want to stay there and, you know,
• 38:58
  continue to grow with bow nicks?
• 38:59
  Or do you want to go somewhere, be competitive and possibly win a Super Bowl?
• 39:03
  That is the question.
• 39:05
  But again, as I've said before, this Broncos team, they're going to be a problem, you know,
• 39:11
  moving forward as long as they continue to maintain this path of building, not necessarily
• 39:18
  overspending for people and reaching for people in a draft and reaching people for trades,
• 39:24
  but just continuing to maintain consistency and continue to build up yourself piece by
• 39:30
  piece, brick by brick.
• 39:32
  That is how you prepare yourself and prepare the roster to be ultra competitive for not
• 39:39
  just a one to two year window, but to be competitive for three to five years or three to 10 years.
• 39:46
  Now moving on to the Eagles and Jaguars game.
• 39:49
  Okay.
• 39:50
  Jaylen Hertz 18 for 24, 230 passing yards, two touchdowns, 9.6 yards per attempt in a
• 39:56
  75 completion percentage.
• 39:58
  Seguan Vekwa got Barclay 27 attempts for 159 rushing yards, 5.9 rushing yards per carry,
• 40:06
  one touchdown in six rushes of 10 plus yards or more.
• 40:10
  Devonte Smith, six targets for four receptions, 87 receiving yards, one touchdown, 21.8 receiving
• 40:16
  yards per reception.
• 40:17
  Trevor Lawrence 16 for 31, 169 passing yards, two interceptions, 5.5 yards per attempt and
• 40:24
  a 51.6 completion percentage.
• 40:26
  Travis Etienne, three attempts for 24 rushing yards, eight rushing yards per carry and one
• 40:31
  rush of 10 plus yards or more.
• 40:33
  Evan Ingram, 10 targets for five receptions.
• 40:36
  45 receiving yards and nine receiving yards per reception.
• 40:40
  Now this is what I will say.
• 40:42
  This was a game that the Jaguars could have won and be in the Eagles.
• 40:46
  And if they did, wolf, would we have a different conversation about the Eagles?
• 40:52
  But again, the recipe for the Eagles to be successful is you give the ball to Seguan.
• 41:00
  If you give the ball to Seguan, you are more likely to win games.
• 41:04
  Okay.
• 41:05
  Because at this point, I don't know what it is.
• 41:08
  I don't know if it's the head coach, Serrani.
• 41:11
  I don't know if it's the offensive coordinator, but somebody is going to be gone come next
• 41:17
  season.
• 41:18
  Somebody is not going to be on this team and it's looking like more likely it's going
• 41:22
  to be Serrani.
• 41:23
  I don't know what it is, but the Eagles continue to do Eagles things and they continue to win.
• 41:29
  And for Seguan to do the move that he did and to jump backwards, come on, man.
• 41:35
  He continues to prove that he is one of the best running backs in the league and continues
• 41:41
  to prove why the Giants made a dumb decision and not re-signing Seguan Barkley.
• 41:47
  I'm going to leave it there.
• 41:48
  I'm not going to go any further.
• 41:49
  But on the Jaguar side though, if you're the Jaguars, you probably have some tough decisions
• 41:55
  that you have to make moving forward and you have some decisions that you really have to
• 42:02
  really think about because this team last year was ultra competitive.
• 42:07
  They were looking good.
• 42:08
  They were winning games.
• 42:09
  They were beating teams.
• 42:11
  They were doing their thing.
• 42:12
  But so far this year, Trevon Lawrence looks like a deer in headlights.
• 42:17
  I don't know what it is.
• 42:18
  It's not looking good.
• 42:20
  It's not.
• 42:21
  And if I'm the owner, if I'm the GM, I'm probably looking at that contract and I'm probably
• 42:28
  thinking to myself, man, maybe we should have never given him that deal.
• 42:33
  We never should have overpaid him.
• 42:35
  And granted, I get it.
• 42:37
  The quarterback market is a little bit higher than what it has been recently.
• 42:40
  I get all of that.
• 42:42
  But sometimes it's best to pay a quarterback like a Trevon Lawrence who you don't really
• 42:47
  know if he is an elite quarterback or not.
• 42:50
  You pay him a little bit less so that you are able to surround him with talent just so
• 42:55
  you can make things look pretty.
• 42:57
  Because if you don't, this is what happens.
• 42:59
  Okay.
• 43:00
  This Jaguars team, it ain't it.
• 43:05
  You're not that guy, pal.
• 43:06
  You're not that guy, pal.
• 43:07
  Trust me.
• 43:08
  You're not that guy.
• 43:09
  Now, on to the chiefs in Buccaneers game.
• 43:12
  A lot has to be said about this game.
• 43:14
  So let's just get into it.
• 43:16
  So Patrick Mahomes, 34 for 44, 291 passing yards, three touchdowns, 6.6 yards per attempt,
• 43:22
  and he's 77.3 completion percentage.
• 43:25
  Travis Kelsey, 16 targets for 14 receptions, 100 receiving yards, 7.1 receiving yards per
• 43:32
  reception.
• 43:33
  Karim Hunt, 27 attempts for 106 rushing yards, 3.9 rushing yards per carry, one touchdown
• 43:38
  and two rushes of 10 plus yards or more.
• 43:41
  Baker Mayfield, 23 for 31, 200 passing yards, two touchdowns, 6.5 yards per attempt, 74.2
• 43:50
  completion percentage, folks.
• 43:52
  74.2 completion percentage.
• 43:54
  Baker Mayfield has been doing his thing since being with the Buccaneers, but that's another
• 43:59
  conversation for another day.
• 44:00
  Kate Oden, 11 targets for eight receptions, 77 receiving yards, one touchdown, 9.6 receiving
• 44:07
  yards per reception.
• 44:08
  Bucky Irving, seven attempts for 24 rushing yards, 3.4 rushing yards per carry.
• 44:13
  Now, this is what I will say.
• 44:15
  Why in the world would the Buccaneers not try to bring somebody down or to have somebody
• 44:22
  try to cover Travis Kelsey a little bit better?
• 44:26
  Because there was a drive, I forget what's drive it was, where Travis Kelsey was basically
• 44:31
  getting a first down almost every single time.
• 44:34
  He was basically running the same route, the same route, the same small little route and
• 44:38
  he was boop, get the ball, run a little bit, first down, boop, get the ball, run a little
• 44:42
  bit, first down.
• 44:43
  What are we doing?
• 44:44
  What are we doing?
• 44:45
  And granted, I understand that you can't have Levante David, you know, go up against
• 44:50
  Travis Kelsey because Travis Kelsey is going to eat that up.
• 44:53
  But I mean, come on guys, come on, what are we doing, man?
• 44:58
  This Buccaneers team, you know, they have their highs and their lows and you know, that
• 45:02
  is expected.
• 45:03
  But you know, they are a team that is probably not going to go to the playoffs, but it's
• 45:07
  not really, it's not really, it's not really looking that good.
• 45:10
  It's not looking that good friend.
• 45:12
  But the Chiefs continue to do Chiefs things.
• 45:16
  That's just what it is.
• 45:17
  The Chiefs continue to do Chiefs things.
• 45:18
  They continue to be dominant, that defense is starting to come together.
• 45:23
  DHOP and Patrick Mahomes are really starting to develop a real connection.
• 45:28
  And I guarantee you, once they get a lot of their other players back from injury, ooh,
• 45:35
  the Chiefs are going to be on all cylinders and it's going to be all gas, no breaks.
• 45:41
  Okay.
• 45:42
  This team is going to continue to dominate on both sides of the ball.
• 45:47
  But granted, Patrick Mahomes, statistically speaking this year, hasn't had the best season
• 45:52
  and has been carried by the defense a few games.
• 45:56
  And that's fine because they have reached that point in this dynasty to where they are
• 46:02
  the Patriots, to where a lot of times, you know, Tom Brady in the first half of the season
• 46:07
  wasn't playing the best.
• 46:09
  Of course they were winning games, but they really wasn't playing the best.
• 46:12
  And you know, a lot of questions were being asked and whatnot.
• 46:15
  And then there were some games that the defense was winning them games and there was other
• 46:18
  times where, you know, they just made a spectacular playing whatnot.
• 46:22
  But you know, that's just what it is with the Chiefs right now.
• 46:27
  The Chiefs are continuing to do Chiefs things.
• 46:30
  They continue to defy every and all reasons of why they are undefeated.
• 46:36
  If you would have told me by now that the Chiefs would be undefeated still be undefeated,
• 46:40
  I would have called you a liar.
• 46:42
  But who knows, maybe when they go up against a certain team in Christmas day, maybe they
• 46:47
  might lose.
• 46:48
  Who knows?
• 46:49
  I don't know.
• 46:50
  Just saying.
• 46:51
  You heard it from here.
• 46:52
  Did you really hear it?
• 46:53
  Who knows?
• 46:54
  Now let's get into these trade deadline recaps because, whew, man, oh man, they got a whole
• 47:00
  lot of trades.
• 47:01
  Okay.
• 47:02
  So start with Zidarius Smith.
• 47:03
  Okay.
• 47:04
  So Zidarius was traded to the Lions as expected by a lot of people.
• 47:09
  So this is basically what happens.
• 47:10
  Cleveland receives a 20-25-5th and a 20-26-6th round pick.
• 47:15
  Detroit receives Zidarius and a 20-26-7th round pick.
• 47:20
  Now the Lions have been looking for an adequate pass rusher and they finally found somebody
• 47:25
  that is productive, that is still a pass rusher that teams have to be concerned about at this
• 47:30
  point.
• 47:31
  Okay.
• 47:32
  Because let's be real here.
• 47:33
  The Browns are not going anywhere.
• 47:35
  They're not going anywhere this season.
• 47:36
  They're not making to the playoffs.
• 47:38
  At this point, they have to prepare themselves for the future.
• 47:41
  And so what better way to prepare yourself than to get some capital back with a productive
• 47:47
  player and Zidarius Smith?
• 47:49
  So this makes the Lions more competitive once again.
• 47:53
  Who knows?
• 47:55
  Maybe they'll try to see if they can make it as far as they can until A&H Singh can probably
• 48:01
  make a late comeback.
• 48:05
  Who knows?
• 48:06
  But again, there were reports that were coming out that if the Lions made it, I think, to
• 48:11
  either the NFC Championship or the Super Bowl, there is a chance that A&H Singh could come
• 48:16
  back.
• 48:17
  And you have Hutch as a Darius Smith or one line.
• 48:21
  Who knows?
• 48:23
  Who knows?
• 48:24
  Now Khalil Herbert was traded to the Bengals.
• 48:27
  So Chicago receives a 20-25-7th round pick and the Bengals of course receive Khalil
• 48:33
  Herbert.
• 48:34
  This is in part to them losing and running back for the rest of the season.
• 48:38
  So they just wanted to add an insurance policy in place.
• 48:43
  And this takes Khalil Herbert out of a dysfunctional situation with the Bears and puts him in a
• 48:48
  position where the Bengals could probably make it into the playoffs this year.
• 48:53
  Who knows?
• 48:54
  Now, on to the most earth-shattering trade in NFL history that has happened.
• 49:00
  Former Panthers receiver Jonathan Mingo has been traded to the Cowboys.
• 49:04
  I know.
• 49:05
  I'm losing my mind right now.
• 49:06
  I'm going crazy.
• 49:07
  So this is what happens.
• 49:09
  Okay?
• 49:10
  Carolina receives a 20-25 fourth round pick and Dallas receives Mingo as well as a 20-25
• 49:16
  seventh round pick.
• 49:17
  Now, you know, if you would have told me that the Cowboys would give a fourth round pick
• 49:23
  for Jonathan Mingo, who, believe it or not, he was actually a really good receiver coming
• 49:28
  out of college.
• 49:29
  He definitely was.
• 49:30
  But a fourth round pick for Mingo?
• 49:33
  Really?
• 49:34
  Come on, count.
• 49:35
  What are we doing?
• 49:36
  What's going on?
• 49:37
  What is going on in Dallas?
• 49:39
  Is it the water?
• 49:40
  Is it the brisket?
• 49:41
  What is going on?
• 49:42
  But at the same time, Jonathan Mingo is still on his rookie deal.
• 49:47
  So that probably maybe had a factor in to this trade.
• 49:51
  But you know, it's another receiver for either Cooper Rush or Tray Lance because I don't expect
• 49:57
  that to be playing the rest of the season.
• 50:00
  I don't.
• 50:01
  Anytime you have anything to basically tear off the bone, yeah, that's not good.
• 50:07
  You know, all in all, another receiver, another piece, another weapon, somebody that they
• 50:11
  can definitely throw to a deep threat, you know, with his size and versatility, who knows
• 50:17
  what will happen and how will they use him.
• 50:20
  Now, onto the big trades, okay?
• 50:22
  The big dogs, the big fish of the trades, okay?
• 50:26
  Marshall and Lattimore former Saints quarterback has been traded to the commanders.
• 50:30
  And I know commanders fans are probably pausing this right now.
• 50:33
  You're probably losing your mind and you're probably screaming, oh my God, it's great.
• 50:38
  Great, great, great.
• 50:39
  Shut up.
• 50:40
  Okay.
• 50:41
  Just shut up.
• 50:42
  All right.
• 50:43
  So Washington receives a Marshall and Lattimore in a 2025 fifth round pick.
• 50:46
  New Orleans receives a 20, a 2025 third and fourth and a six.
• 50:52
  Now, when we look at this, you know, this is definitely a really good trade for Washington
• 50:57
  because they were looking for a, another corner and you got one of the best corners, you know,
• 51:03
  in the league and Marshall and Lattimore have somebody who was able to go one on one mono
• 51:08
  and mono with a number one receiver and hold his own.
• 51:12
  And that exactly was one of the missing pieces for this Washington defense.
• 51:16
  So now you have Marshall and Lattimore.
• 51:18
  This takes them to a whole nother level.
• 51:21
  I'm telling you guys, this Washington team is not a team that you can sleep on.
• 51:26
  Okay.
• 51:27
  I would not be surprised if they try to give him an extension and try to keep him because
• 51:34
  again, if you have him, Emmanuel Forbes, Mike Sandstru, Jonathan Allen, Doron Payne
• 51:41
  and company on this defense, this defense is going to be dominant.
• 51:46
  And so, you know, kudos to Washington for pulling the trigger on this.
• 51:51
  Now for the saints, you know, you have reached the point where it's time for you to hit the
• 51:55
  reset button.
• 51:56
  I'm going to leave that there where we'll get more into that when we talk about gut check
• 52:00
  time.
• 52:01
  Now, you know, the compensation that they got back, you know, from Washington is actually
• 52:05
  really good because now that allows them to continue to stock up on draft picks and be
• 52:10
  able to really build this team that, you know, in the way that they really want to.
• 52:14
  Now, Mike Williams, yeah, that's right.
• 52:16
  Mike will was traded from the Jets to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 52:21
  That's right.
• 52:22
  The six time, six time, six time, six time, six time Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 52:32
  That's right.
• 52:33
  Omar Khan doing his thing, cooking things up in the kitchen, in the lab, whatever you
• 52:39
  want to call it, pulls this thing off.
• 52:42
  So New York gets a 2025 fifth round pick.
• 52:46
  This is what I will say.
• 52:47
  You have a big body and Mike Williams was somewhat of a matchup nightmare when it when
• 52:53
  going up against certain corners who was able to be a willing blocker who is able to get
• 52:59
  those 5050 balls and be a deep threat.
• 53:02
  Okay.
• 53:03
  You have him paired with George Pickens, two players who are able to really be the best
• 53:09
  when it comes to catching those contested catches, man, oh man, oh man, do we have a
• 53:14
  problem here?
• 53:15
  This is another weapon for Russell Wilson slash Justin Fields to do their thing.
• 53:21
  And you know, with someone like a Mike Williams, they can use him in different ways.
• 53:25
  You can put them in the slot.
• 53:27
  You can put them in the outside.
• 53:28
  The creativity is there.
• 53:31
  Okay.
• 53:32
  This team is not playing.
• 53:34
  This team wants to be competitive.
• 53:36
  This team doesn't just want to win just one playoff game.
• 53:39
  Okay.
• 53:40
  They're trying to go somewhere.
• 53:41
  Okay.
• 53:42
  And kudos to Omar Khan.
• 53:43
  And for all those people that were saying, oh, Omar Khan is starting to look like Kevin
• 53:48
  Colbert.
• 53:49
  He's doing the Kevin Colbert thing again.
• 53:51
  Let me tell you something.
• 53:52
  Yes, I understand Kevin Colbert wasn't the best towards the end of his tenure.
• 53:57
  I get all of that.
• 53:58
  But the fact of the matter is Kevin Colbert is probably going to be a Hall of Fame GM,
• 54:04
  one of the best GMs of all time.
• 54:06
  And he had two Super Bowls.
• 54:09
  He created two Super Bowl teams.
• 54:11
  So before we go and we start comparing people, let's just wait things out.
• 54:17
  Okay.
• 54:18
  Let's just wait things out.
• 54:19
  And plus, if you want to say that Omar Khan is Kevin Colbert, well, then that's somewhat
• 54:23
  of a good thing than a bad thing.
• 54:26
  Because so far, Omar Khan has hit on a lot of his draft picks.
• 54:31
  Roger Jones is still a little bit and don't even get me started with that because then
• 54:36
  that's another two hours of a whole rant that we'll just go on, but we'll just leave it
• 54:39
  at there.
• 54:41
  He's hit well on his draft picks as well as as well as his free agent, you know, signings.
• 54:46
  He clean house with the quarterback room brought in a competent offensive coordinator brought
• 54:51
  in two competent, you know, quarterbacks right now.
• 54:56
  What exactly has he done wrong?
• 54:57
  What exactly has he done wrong?
• 54:59
  He granted I understand at that time when he traded away Beyonce Johnson, I get it.
• 55:05
  It was it was uncalled for.
• 55:06
  It was unnecessary.
• 55:07
  I get all that.
• 55:08
  But still, sometimes you have to whiff on on certain decisions and you know, you try
• 55:16
  to rewrite your wrongs.
• 55:18
  And so they did and they got Mike Williams.
• 55:20
  Now me personally, I would have thought they would have tried to go after de hop first
• 55:24
  than Mike Williams, but you know, all in all cannot complain, we got another receiver.
• 55:29
  So we have another weapon.
• 55:30
  So kudos to them.
• 55:32
  Now onto the other trade that the Pittsburgh Steelers did the sixth, you know, I'm not
• 55:37
  going to do it.
• 55:38
  I'm not going to do it.
• 55:39
  I'm not going to do it.
• 55:40
  I'm just not the Steelers traded for Preston Smith.
• 55:43
  Okay.
• 55:44
  So Green Bay receives a 2025 seventh round pick.
• 55:46
  And of course, Pittsburgh receives Preston Smith.
• 55:48
  Now this is what I will say Preston Smith has definitely been a pass rusher that has
• 55:52
  definitely caught my attention since coming into the league.
• 55:55
  I remember when he was with Washington, he was, he was doing his thing.
• 56:00
  He was.
• 56:01
  And you know, the reason why that the Packers, you know, let him go for, for so cheap was
• 56:07
  because you know, Preston Smith wasn't really fitting into the system that they're running
• 56:12
  now.
• 56:13
  Right.
• 56:14
  So now with the new defensive corner that they have, I think they run a four three instead
• 56:20
  of a three four, like how they used to.
• 56:22
  And so you have somebody in Preston Smith who can play both in and outside linebacker,
• 56:29
  but in our system, he will play outside linebacker, which is great because you want to try to reduce
• 56:35
  the snap count for someone like a TJ Y and Alex Heisman, because as of right now, if
• 56:41
  I'm not mistaken, I don't have the official number with me, but TJ Y is playing 90 plus
• 56:46
  percent.
• 56:47
  That's not even a real step, but I think it's 92 percent of the snaps.
• 56:53
  If you want to, if you want him to be able to play in the playoffs, you have to be able
• 56:57
  to reduce the amount of snaps that he's playing because if you don't, you increase the likelihood
• 57:03
  of him suffering an injury.
• 57:04
  And we do not want that at this point.
• 57:07
  Now the only thing that I will say about this is, you know, this is sort of the blueprint
• 57:12
  of what Andy Wildo did when he was with the Eagles.
• 57:15
  You have a constant rotation of patch rushers and defensive linemen coming in to continuing
• 57:21
  to create constant pressure on the quarterback and it was successful.
• 57:27
  And now it's going to work over here because now you have a rotation of TJ Y and Alex
• 57:33
  Heisman and then you have Nick Herbie and then Preston Smith, which is good, really
• 57:37
  good.
• 57:38
  And granted, you know, for the people that say, well, Jeremiah Moon just really wasn't
• 57:41
  that good.
• 57:42
  Yes, he wasn't.
• 57:44
  I view him more as a special teams asset than, you know, a patch rusher.
• 57:49
  So all in all, great, great move.
• 57:52
  I think the only position that I think that I really wanted them to go after was defensive
• 57:57
  tackle because, you know, outside of Keanu Benson, you really don't have anybody else
• 58:01
  that you can really rely on.
• 58:03
  And the way things are being, you know, worded with with money atoms, it sounds like he's
• 58:08
  going to be out for, you know, an extended period of time, maybe even the rest of the
• 58:12
  season.
• 58:13
  So you need to bring somebody in to, you know, help with Keanu Benson.
• 58:18
  And granted, they, you know, they were able to do that.
• 58:21
  Now necessarily it wasn't the person that I had, you know, personally wanted.
• 58:25
  I would have preferred maybe, you know, David Gottschau or Kalea's Campbell or, you know,
• 58:30
  somebody of that caliber.
• 58:32
  But you know, they did what they did.
• 58:35
  And so, you know, here we are now on to the other trade.
• 58:38
  White is traded to the Ravens, so the Rams receive a 2026 seventh round pick and Baltimore
• 58:45
  receives trade white in a 2027 seventh round pick.
• 58:49
  Now, I don't know really what to say about this.
• 58:53
  Honestly speaking, me personally, I would have thought the Ravens would have went after
• 58:56
  a patch rusher because, you know, outside of Calvin, no, they don't have a consistent
• 59:02
  patch rusher.
• 59:03
  But doffy away is not, it is not kind of get he's not.
• 59:07
  And there were multiple patch rushers that they could have went after that, you know,
• 59:11
  if they would have added them to the Ravens, it would have helped them out substantially.
• 59:16
  Like if they would have, if they would have tried to get, you know, Aziz Ajalari from
• 59:21
  the Giants, that's great.
• 59:23
  That's a great pickup right there.
• 59:25
  You got a young patch rusher that is having a crazy season so far that honestly speaking,
• 59:30
  you probably give him, you know, a small extension and then, and, you know, it helps both parties.
• 59:37
  But you know, for them to go after a corner, I don't know, that's a way and see, you know,
• 59:44
  type of situation.
• 59:45
  Now, Khalil Davis, this was the buzzer beater, you know, when it comes to the trade deadline.
• 59:49
  So Khalil Davis, former, I think Steelers and of course Texans was traded to the 49ers.
• 59:56
  So the Texans receive a 2026 seventh round pick.
• 59:59
  Now this is what I will say, you know, they definitely needed, you know, a a a detackle
• 1:00:06
  and, you know, they finally was able to get somebody.
• 1:00:09
  It doesn't necessarily break the bank.
• 1:00:11
  It's a death piece.
• 1:00:13
  Nothing more to say.
• 1:00:14
  Honestly speaking, there's nothing more to say.
• 1:00:16
  Now, there were rumors and, you know, rumblings that they were going to try to see they could
• 1:00:21
  get the Florida's Buckner or David Gotchell.
• 1:00:24
  Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful in both of them.
• 1:00:27
  But you know, here we are.
• 1:00:29
  Maybe the 49ers, you know, start to make a comeback.
• 1:00:32
  Who knows?
• 1:00:33
  Only time will tell.
• 1:00:34
  But it's time for Gotchell time.
• 1:00:37
  Now these are just my honest opinions about certain things, certain teams and where they
• 1:00:41
  are.
• 1:00:42
  So if you get offended by it, hey, well, then that means that it must be corrected.
• 1:00:47
  So here we go.
• 1:00:50
  So to start things off, Cowboys need to prepare for the future.
• 1:00:53
  Now this now the reason why I have this is because, you know, at this point, you know,
• 1:00:59
  players are starting to become more expensive and, you know, they just need to begin to
• 1:01:04
  prepare for the future.
• 1:01:06
  Okay.
• 1:01:07
  Whether that mean you start trading away some people in the off season, you just let some
• 1:01:10
  people just go, you bring in a new regime in different, you know, culture, whatever the
• 1:01:15
  case may be.
• 1:01:16
  It's time for them to focus on the future long term because, you know, sure you locked
• 1:01:23
  in Dak and CELan, but we're all forgetting about my comparisons.
• 1:01:27
  So that right there is going to be somewhat of a difficult process as well because he
• 1:01:31
  has been, he was playing before he got hurt.
• 1:01:35
  He was playing at a pretty good level.
• 1:01:36
  So, you know, do they resign him?
• 1:01:39
  Do they now?
• 1:01:40
  What exactly are they going to do with that?
• 1:01:41
  Then you have to worry about Zach Martin.
• 1:01:43
  You have to worry about D-Law.
• 1:01:45
  And then you also have to worry about Trevon Diggs because ever since he's gotten that
• 1:01:47
  deal, he hasn't really been playing the best.
• 1:01:50
  So you know, they have a lot of tough decisions that they're going to have to make.
• 1:01:53
  And you know, if you go through somewhat of a soft rebuild instead of like a hard rebuild,
• 1:01:59
  you'll be able to bounce back a little bit quicker compared to, you know, going through,
• 1:02:05
  you know, this hardcore rebuild where you're not winning any games for like two or three
• 1:02:09
  years straight.
• 1:02:10
  And, you know, you're just stocking up on a whole bunch of draft picks and everything
• 1:02:14
  like the Cowboys don't, don't have to go through that.
• 1:02:17
  They just have to address certain parts of the team, bring in adequate coaching and they
• 1:02:21
  will be perfectly fine.
• 1:02:23
  Okay, the next one Washington will be serious, will be a serious playoff contender in the
• 1:02:27
  near future.
• 1:02:28
  Yes, I believe in that.
• 1:02:30
  I'm putting all of my money on the table for that.
• 1:02:33
  They have everything they need to be successful.
• 1:02:37
  Ownership, a stable front office and a stable head coach.
• 1:02:41
  They have stability now in Washington.
• 1:02:44
  And now that is going to be a lucrative, you know, spot for a lot of players who are going
• 1:02:50
  to be pending free agents to go to because now they're winning.
• 1:02:54
  They have adequate offense.
• 1:02:56
  They have a good defense, good coaching staff, good front office.
• 1:03:00
  Everything is just good.
• 1:03:02
  And so that right there is going to bring in the big fish free agents that, you know,
• 1:03:08
  that they may want to try to go after.
• 1:03:09
  And then not to mention, you know, you have a quarterback on a rookie deal.
• 1:03:14
  So you could honestly really build this team up into being a really super dominant team
• 1:03:19
  in the next two years that they really wanted to.
• 1:03:22
  Not to mention the needs that they have are relatively small and minute and they could
• 1:03:26
  be addressed, you know, fairly split between, you know, the draft and free agency and not
• 1:03:32
  have to really break the bank.
• 1:03:34
  Now for the Ravens, the Ravens having an elite offense, but an underperforming D defense.
• 1:03:41
  Yes, I truly believe it simply because we see time and time again, the Ravens defense
• 1:03:48
  failed them.
• 1:03:50
  Like last night, there was a play where Joe Burrell just threw a straight up to Jamar
• 1:03:54
  Chase and he got in first play touchdown.
• 1:03:58
  Like, you know, at some point we have to have a conversation about this Ravens defense.
• 1:04:02
  It is underperforming.
• 1:04:04
  It is not good.
• 1:04:06
  And you know, coaching does have a big play in this.
• 1:04:12
  The coaching for the defense has probably been one of the worst that I've seen, you
• 1:04:17
  know, in a very long time, and I'm not saying this as a, as a Ravens fan, but just looking
• 1:04:21
  at last night's game against the Bengals.
• 1:04:24
  If you eliminate the game, if you eliminate how, how the game ended and who won and who
• 1:04:30
  lost, Joe Burrell stats and Jamar Chase stats phenomenal, phenomenal.
• 1:04:36
  You would have thought that they would have been going up against some pop Warner football
• 1:04:41
  defense.
• 1:04:42
  You would have thought so.
• 1:04:43
  That's how bad it was.
• 1:04:44
  And they have to clean that up and they have to address it now.
• 1:04:47
  Now on the next thing, Joe Burrell will carry the Bengals into the playoffs.
• 1:04:52
  Yes, I do believe, I do believe it simply because Joe Burrell has been playing the best that
• 1:04:57
  he has in his entire career so far.
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  And he continues to put this team on his back and win games.
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  Now maybe the defense will step up a little bit more.
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  Maybe they'll start making some key plays.
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  Who knows.
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  But at this point, Joe Burrell in the playoffs right now is dangerous.
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  He's dangerous against the chiefs.
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  He's dangerous against the Ravens.
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  He's definitely dangerous against the Steelers.
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  Now on to the next thing.
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  Steelers do have a real legitimate playoff contending chance since starting Russell Wilson.
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  And that is true because why Russell Wilson so far has been playing fairly well.
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  And that's no slide to Justin Fields at all, but Russell Wilson has somewhat unlocked another
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  step for this offense.
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  Right?
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  George Pickens is doing his thing.
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  Calvin Austin is doing his thing.
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  Van Jefferson is starting to really start to contribute to the offense.
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  Najee Harris is playing fairly well.
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  So you have all of that together.
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  This offense is looking really good.
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  And if they continue to keep going with this and then the defense continues to get better,
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  this team could legitimately make a real playoff run.
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  Okay.
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  Bears cleaning the entire coaching staff.
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  We did talk about it a little bit.
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  But you know, for them, the question is, are they going to try to get somebody from the
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  college world?
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  Are they going to try to get somebody from, you know, from the NFL, you know, pool?
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  Exactly would be a good fit for Caleb Williams and this offense because again, this offense
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  has a lot of firepower.
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  You have DJ Moore, you have Roma Dunes, you have the Andre Swift, you have Cole Comet.
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  If I'm not mistaken, they have to get an offensive minded head coach.
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  I understand that the Bears culture is defense and whatnot.
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  But listen, it is 2024, not 1985.
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  Time to do things a little bit different.
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  Okay.
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  So the defense need to hit the reset button on the offense.
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  Yes.
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  It is time that you figure out exactly what is the identity of this offense because for
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  too long, nobody really knows what is the, what is the identity of this offense and granted,
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  they could have, you know, easily been identified, had you kept safe one, but you didn't want
• 1:07:19
  to keep him because you don't value paying running backs that much.
• 1:07:22
  Well, now it's backfiring you and it's hurting you.
• 1:07:25
  And you know, outside of Darius Slayton and Tyrone Tracy, what do you really have?
• 1:07:32
  What do you really have?
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  Jaylen Hyatt, he's been a ghost.
• 1:07:36
  He's been a ghost.
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  He's not been good.
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  Theo Johnson, rising star for sure.
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  But everybody else, I don't know what you really do with it.
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  I really don't.
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  And this is going to take, you know, some serious decision making and some honest conversations
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  that are going to have to be had.
• 1:07:53
  Brian Dable has to be successful with a rookie quarterback.
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  Daniel Jones is not the, is not the savior of the giant.
• 1:08:02
  He is not the option.
• 1:08:03
  It's time to rip the bandaid off.
• 1:08:06
  The Saints need to hit the reset button as well simply because the Saints team is not
• 1:08:11
  good anymore.
• 1:08:12
  They continue to go through this, you know, this phase in the off season where they're,
• 1:08:18
  you know, 40 and 50 and 60 million over the cap and they basically have to restructure
• 1:08:23
  everybody's deal just to get under, you know, the cap, the cap space regulations and barely,
• 1:08:30
  barely do anything to sign all the Baruches and maybe try to go after one or two low level
• 1:08:36
  free agents.
• 1:08:38
  And then for the jets, the jets do need to prepare for, you know, Aaron Rogers, a successor.
• 1:08:44
  I do think, you know, after the season, I think they do need to have an honest, honest
• 1:08:48
  conversation with Aaron Rogers and say, listen, if you want to stay, you can stay, but we're
• 1:08:52
  going to restructure your deal and we are going to draft you a successor because at
• 1:08:57
  this point you are, you have regressed tremendously and it's time for us to go in a different
• 1:09:04
  direction and prepare for the future.
• 1:09:07
  And you know, another thing that they do need to bring in is an adequate offensive coordinator.
• 1:09:12
  They do because with the amount of firepower that this offense have, they have been, you
• 1:09:18
  know, in underperforming and it shows if you would have told me that an offense that has
• 1:09:22
  Garrett Wilson, Malachi Corley, Alan Luzard, Devonte Adams, Braylon Allen and Breeze Hall
• 1:09:29
  would be underperforming, I would have called you a liar.
• 1:09:32
  Okay.
• 1:09:33
  This offense has not been playing well.
• 1:09:35
  The offensive line has basically been patched together with baby tape and glue.
• 1:09:42
  And you know, they really have some tough decisions that they're going to have to make
• 1:09:46
  moving forward with this offense because again, there's no reason why this Jets team could
• 1:09:51
  should be, you know, you know, halfway off a cliff with their season.
• 1:09:56
  It shouldn't be, but you know, people making dumb decisions.
• 1:10:00
  I think I'll just leave it at that.
• 1:10:02
  Now Jacksonville, as well, they need to figure out what they're going to do with Trevor Lawrence
• 1:10:07
  and you know, let's be real here.
• 1:10:11
  Trevor Lawrence has not lived up to that contract.
• 1:10:14
  That contract is going to aged like milk and you know, it's going to start backfiring on
• 1:10:20
  them in order for Trevor Lawrence to really truly be successful.
• 1:10:24
  They're going to have to surround him with real talent and granted they have Brian Thomas.
• 1:10:30
  That's a good, you know, starting point right there, but they have other things that they
• 1:10:34
  need to figure out moving forward.
• 1:10:37
  They probably need to figure out what they're going to do with Doug Peterson and they also
• 1:10:41
  need to figure out what they're going to do with the coaching staff as a whole because
• 1:10:48
  this coaching staff on both sides of the ball, it's not cutting it.
• 1:10:53
  It is not cutting it.
• 1:10:54
  They have to do better.
• 1:10:55
  They have to be better with the amount of talent they have on both sides of the ball.
• 1:10:59
  And finally, the Browns have tough decisions to make moving forward.
• 1:11:05
  And the reason why I say this is because, you know, when we look at this, that whole
• 1:11:10
  decision to go after Deshaun Watson was probably one of the worst decisions they could have
• 1:11:15
  ever made for their franchise because now they're in a situation where you are tied
• 1:11:20
  to this player, you know, for the, for, for whatever the term is of this deal.
• 1:11:27
  And you know, he has been playing well.
• 1:11:31
  He has not been playing well.
• 1:11:32
  He has underperformed.
• 1:11:33
  And, you know, Joe Flacco did more last season with the same players, same offense, same
• 1:11:43
  scheme, same everything did more than what Deshaun Watson has ever done for the Browns.
• 1:11:48
  And mind you, they got more pieces for Deshaun Watson just so he can be more successful.
• 1:11:55
  And he still hasn't done anything.
• 1:11:57
  At this point, I think they have to consider, you know, possibly drafting a quarterback.
• 1:12:04
  Now I'm not saying that have to, that has to be their first pick, but they probably
• 1:12:07
  do need to get a quarterback in and, you know, have them sit and learn possibly and maybe
• 1:12:14
  just, you know, become a sponge for maybe the first two or three years and then figure
• 1:12:19
  out what you have in them.
• 1:12:21
  Because again, this Browns offense is not good.
• 1:12:24
  I mean, granted, they traded away Mara Cooper and, you know, they paid Jerry Judy.
• 1:12:30
  This offense is not good.
• 1:12:31
  This team is not good.
• 1:12:32
  This team is not going to go anywhere.
• 1:12:34
  They are wasting talent on both sides of the ball.
• 1:12:38
  And you can tell that, you know, some people are probably going to lose their jobs, you
• 1:12:43
  know, with this whole decision for Deshaun Watson.
• 1:12:46
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• 1:12:48
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