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Breaking Down the Big Week 14 Games · NFL explained.

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  Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel, Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
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  Speaker 2: What's up? Everybody? Welcome to move the sticks?
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  Speaker 3: DJ, Bucky, Rhett with you and uh I feel like Buck,
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  Speaker 3: we've done the same thing at the start of all
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  Speaker 3: these episodes when Ret's with us, is that we always
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  Speaker 3: comment on him wearing some eye you gear.
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  Speaker 2: We give him, we give him. We talked about a big.
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  Speaker 3: Win that they've just had over I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 3: a Minnesota or an Iowa somebody.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's somebody all.
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  Speaker 3: Wart program in the in the Big ten. But now, hey,
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  Speaker 3: look it's he gets what he wants. I know what
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  Speaker 3: I know, Rhett. He likes to uh ye and they
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  Speaker 3: yeah got the they got the in state rival that
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  Speaker 3: won't play him. They got notre name rehtt How fired
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  Speaker 3: up are you for that whole thing?
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  Speaker 1: Hey? They will they won't even come join us in
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  Speaker 1: the conference. You know.
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  Speaker 5: It's like I don't want any part of us. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they've been scared since nineteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the case. They've dominated here.
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  Speaker 2: Are you gonna go? Are you going to the game?
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  Speaker 1: I will be there.
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  Speaker 2: I will be there. Oh wow, look at that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yep, freezing cold in South Bend. Ready to rock
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  Speaker 5: and roll? Man, who's yours ready?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want I don't want to ruin the I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to ruin the timing of this because as
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  Speaker 3: we're recording it and things could change efforts. But we
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  Speaker 3: have tons of We're gonna ge throw all these games.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm sorry, We'll get there. But Buck, what in
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  Speaker 3: the world is going on at your alma mater? What
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  Speaker 3: in the world is going on?
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  Speaker 4: What are we talking about? You talking about Bill Belichi?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Look, the best player that he ever coached was
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  Speaker 4: Lawrence Taylor.
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  Speaker 6: Like he understands the pedigree of player and athlete that
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  Speaker 6: comes from there. He wants to have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 6: get it at the ground level. I heard him on
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  Speaker 6: TV talk about it today. I was always skeptical, like, man,
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  Speaker 6: does he really want to?
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  Speaker 4: Like why would he do it?
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  Speaker 6: But the way that he outline some of the things,
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  Speaker 6: like the unlimited coaches where you could almost split it,
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  Speaker 6: like you just have coaches coach and some recruiters recruit.
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  Speaker 6: That was the biggest thing. And then the coaching part
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  Speaker 6: of it is whatever. I mean, Look, he's seventy two
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  Speaker 6: seventy three years old. Would he be for long? I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, but like at this point when you're looking
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  Speaker 6: around the landscape, tu lank CoA said, no, Barry Odom
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  Speaker 6: goes to Purdue. Some of the other candidates that they
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  Speaker 6: talked about, like have going elsewhere. I think you getting
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  Speaker 6: to the point where Carolina is just trying to find
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  Speaker 6: a notable name that could excite the fan base.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just I just laughed, because the
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  Speaker 2: whole the whole.
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  Speaker 3: Premise of the change with Matt was, hey, Max LOLd,
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  Speaker 3: we gotta get some fresh blood in here. Kind of
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  Speaker 3: reminds me of being in high school and breaking up
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  Speaker 3: with a girl and being like, you know, I just
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be in a relationship right now, and
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  Speaker 3: then two days later eating somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: Here, you know what I mean? Like, Yeah, well, you
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  Speaker 2: say what you got to say.
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  Speaker 4: You say what you got to say.
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  Speaker 1: Get on to the next stet, get on to the
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  Speaker 1: next tit.
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  Speaker 3: Get to the next seme of the games here. Let's
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  Speaker 3: start with last night Sunday night football. I just got
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  Speaker 3: back when you talk about a long night when you
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  Speaker 3: got the East Coast game, uh, a night game, you
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  Speaker 3: get home late. So I rolled into the bed about
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  Speaker 3: six am this morning off that game last night. But
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  Speaker 3: do you know what, I didn't even need to watch
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  Speaker 3: the tape of this game. I got up and watch
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  Speaker 3: them of these other games because I've seen this game
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  Speaker 3: fifty times since I've been calling Chargers Chiefs games. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they are the same every single time. Chiefs can lead,
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  Speaker 3: Chargers end up coming back, Chargers in a position to
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  Speaker 3: win the ball game. But you look up and Patrick
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  Speaker 3: Mahomes has the ball in his hands less than five minutes,
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  Speaker 3: and you know the script. He's going to use his
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  Speaker 3: legs to get a big third down. He does that
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  Speaker 3: every time, and then he's going to extend to play
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  Speaker 3: and somehow Travis Kelcil uncover and they'll get the key
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  Speaker 3: first down that they need. And then why not just
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  Speaker 3: have a little extra Chiefs black magic at the end
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  Speaker 3: of this one buck and just bank one off the
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  Speaker 3: upright with your third string kicker.
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  Speaker 6: I'm telling you, man that the Kancity Chiefs are kind
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  Speaker 6: of becoming like the old historic Boston Celtic is where
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  Speaker 6: you kind of have the luck of the Irish, the
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  Speaker 6: lucky leprechaun or whatever that is. Because they've won games
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  Speaker 6: in every conceivable way this year, to the point that
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  Speaker 6: you do wonder if some teams are going to have
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  Speaker 6: a little issue in dealing with the Chiefs in the
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  Speaker 6: fourth quarter when you get to the postseason, because they've
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  Speaker 6: won so many games at the buzzer and they've been
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  Speaker 6: in so many different ways.
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  Speaker 4: I look, man, you have to give.
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  Speaker 6: Them credit because they obviously are good enough to close
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  Speaker 6: these things out, even though we can say that and
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  Speaker 6: in the same breath say that this is the most
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  Speaker 6: vulnerable Chiefs team that we've seen during their dynastic run ow.
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  Speaker 5: Nine straight AFC West Division titles, second only to the
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  Speaker 5: Patriots run where they got eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like you going back and.
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  Speaker 5: Listening to you talk about DJ the you know it's
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  Speaker 5: going to come down to a third down.
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  Speaker 1: He's it.
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  Speaker 5: There was Dane Henley had a shot, right, But you
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  Speaker 5: just really didn't have a shot because in that scenario,
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  Speaker 5: Mahomes always wins, right, and then Bam finds, Kelsey, uncovers,
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  Speaker 5: and they just run out the clock. Like It's just
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  Speaker 5: we have seen that too many times. I will say
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  Speaker 5: the couple things that I came away encouraged with, I
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  Speaker 5: thought Quentin Johnson played a nice game for the Chargers.
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  Speaker 5: He had been he had been, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 5: less than in terms of game playing an impact over
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  Speaker 5: the course of the last month. But it's had some
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  Speaker 5: good moments this season. Feels like this is going to
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  Speaker 5: be a year for him to really build on. Josh
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  Speaker 5: Palmer came up with six scrabs in place, you know,
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  Speaker 5: without Ladd McConkie. Those two guys, you know, combining for
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  Speaker 5: eleven and almost one hundred and forty yards. It thought was,
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  Speaker 5: you know, was good for the Chargers. Ultimately, you got
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  Speaker 5: to be able to run the ball a little bit better.
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  Speaker 5: Weren't able to do that as much as I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: the Chargers would have liked, but they're gonna be all right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I left there. It was interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I left the stadium and the first half of the
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  Speaker 3: Chargers couldn't do anything offensive. In the second half, they
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  Speaker 3: got it going. They actually ran the ball a little
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  Speaker 3: bit better in the second half. Gus had nice runs,
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  Speaker 3: come Oni by Dell had a couple of nice runs.
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  Speaker 3: But you're you're leaving there going okay. You try and
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  Speaker 3: fast forward it and go okay. If we get to
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  Speaker 3: the postseason and the Chargers were to trot that same
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  Speaker 3: team in there. Now they have to get by somebody
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  Speaker 3: in the wildcard round to get there, which you know
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  Speaker 3: might not be easy in terms of where.
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  Speaker 2: You could go.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm like, okay, well, if you get off that
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  Speaker 3: plane and all of a sudden, now you've got JK. Dobbins,
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  Speaker 3: You've got Ladd McConkie, you've got Denzel Perrim and all
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  Speaker 3: three of these those guys who will be back, and
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  Speaker 3: you've learned, Like every opportunity for this new coaching staff
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  Speaker 3: against the Chiefs is a learning opportunity. They lose seventeen
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  Speaker 3: to ten at home without their starting you know, without
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  Speaker 3: both starting offensive tackles, without Derwin James, with the hobble
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  Speaker 3: Justin Herbert, and then you go on the road and
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  Speaker 3: you lose on a literally the last play of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sitting and going, man, I think could bring a
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  Speaker 3: full compliment of players back there.
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  Speaker 2: I think you've learned something.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the lessons I think that you learn
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  Speaker 3: is that if you go back and I haven't done
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  Speaker 3: it yet, but I saw it live. When Derwin James
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  Speaker 3: was lined up with Kelsey, he put the clamps on him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he just he jammed with the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't do anything. But on the biggest play of
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  Speaker 3: the game, the one that we just showed on that
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  Speaker 3: third down, he wasn't he wasn't lined up over him.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a lesson that you can learn and
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  Speaker 3: don't make that mistake again.
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  Speaker 2: But Buck, I'm watching them and it's so weird.
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  Speaker 3: You know, first of all, the game, in the pregame,
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  Speaker 3: they're showing the Bills game up on the big screens
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  Speaker 3: in there, and then as the Rams take the lead,
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  Speaker 3: which we'll get to that game, the fans went nuts.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm sitting there. You know, they're they're thinking obviously
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  Speaker 3: big picture in playoffs and home field advantage. But then
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  Speaker 3: I sit and watch this game and I watch DJ Humphries,
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  Speaker 3: who's taken over for Janya Morris yon Ye Morris was terrible,
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  Speaker 3: has been awful this year, and they turned DJ Humphries
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  Speaker 3: inside out. I mean Khalil Mack Joey Bosa two week
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  Speaker 3: below too. They were wearing those tackles out on their
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  Speaker 3: other side as well. Even though ju Wanta Telex get
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  Speaker 3: a little early start every single snap, which is another story,
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  Speaker 3: but they were wearing them out and I'm sitting here
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  Speaker 3: going like, it's so weird to say because this team's
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  Speaker 3: record is unbelievable, the best, the best record in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: back to back super Bowl champs, but you watch it
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  Speaker 3: live and you're like, man, I'm looking at Buffalo. I'm like, Buffalo,
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  Speaker 3: would you rather play the Chiefs or the or the
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  Speaker 3: or the Steelers or the Ravens like I found Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'd be okay with that.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'd be okay going into Kansas City.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing else.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know what I'm saying. I'm just telling you.
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  Speaker 2: I know the record, and I know and I know Rings.
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  Speaker 3: I know Rings, But I just looking at the roster
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  Speaker 3: out there, I'm like, they don't have much team speed
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  Speaker 3: on offense. They've got one guy who can run on
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  Speaker 3: their whole offense, and then their tackles are terrible, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just weird. It's a weird. It's
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  Speaker 3: a weird thing to see a team with the record
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  Speaker 3: and the trophy case as full as it is, yes,
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  Speaker 3: and to leave the stadium and to leave the stadium
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  Speaker 3: going like this is not I mean, I've been in
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  Speaker 3: that stadium when they were humming and you're like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 3: this is a juggernaut.
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  Speaker 5: Man, le's than three hundred yards of total offense. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it's they finding ways to win those games.
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  Speaker 1: Is the skills?
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  Speaker 2: It's sure.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know, But what do your take on that, buck,
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm just sitting there going.
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  Speaker 6: Like, I mean, you know I've seen this movie before, right,
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  Speaker 6: I feel like this.
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  Speaker 2: Movie a billion times.
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  Speaker 6: The early the early two thousand Patriots, Like the early
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  Speaker 6: two thousands Patriots that won three out of four. When
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  Speaker 6: you looked at them on offense, you wondered, how in
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  Speaker 6: the world are they winning these games? But there's something
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  Speaker 6: about the belief, the confidence, and then I would say
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  Speaker 6: the con distancy of doing it that you just kind
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  Speaker 6: of know when we get into these moments, we can
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  Speaker 6: do it. And oh, by the way, when you got
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  Speaker 6: the best quarterback in the game, it certainly helps. But
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  Speaker 6: to me, I believe the Can City Chiefs just feel like,
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  Speaker 6: if we get the ball to the fourth quarter in
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  Speaker 6: range number fifteen, can.
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  Speaker 2: Get us over. He's not going to be denied. It happens.
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  Speaker 4: It happens time and time again.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, Now you got to knock him out. You got
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  Speaker 3: to knock him out. You don't want to go you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to take that to the judges, because if
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  Speaker 3: you take that late into the ballgame, it goes to
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  Speaker 3: the judges. Patrick Mahome's going to make a play and
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  Speaker 3: he's going to rip your heart out. He does it
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  Speaker 3: ten out of ten times. So you've got to handle that.
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  Speaker 3: You got to handle your business a little bit earlier
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  Speaker 3: on in the ballgame. But again, it was a playoff.
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  Speaker 3: Atmosphere was fun. It was a fun evening in a
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  Speaker 3: good football game, all right. I mentioned Buffalo, Buffalo and
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  Speaker 3: the Rams next game here, Rhett Man A million different
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  Speaker 3: ways we can go. Bucky and I were talking about
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  Speaker 3: this on the pod during the week and we said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: be careful this one, this one is and lo and behold,
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  Speaker 3: that's what they found. They found themselves in a shootout
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  Speaker 3: with Matt Stafford and Josh Allen on their eight games.
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  Speaker 5: No, what's scary is being a linebacker or a defensive
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  Speaker 5: back going up against the Rams and having to follow
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  Speaker 5: motion on every single way and just back and forth.
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  Speaker 5: You're moving all over the place across the formation. I
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  Speaker 5: was just I went and watched all the all the
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  Speaker 5: pooka and Akua targets and catches, and you know.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty cool to have one hundred million dollar receiver
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  Speaker 5: lineup is essentially a full back on every play because
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  Speaker 5: on every receiver, my gosh, every single one of those
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  Speaker 5: Pookaakoula catches. You got Cooper cup just delivering a lead
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  Speaker 5: block out there. I don't know how many guys out
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  Speaker 5: there are doing it the way that Pooka and Cooper
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  Speaker 5: do it, the way that they asked them to go
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  Speaker 5: out there and block. He's also blocking Von Miller in
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  Speaker 5: pass pro on one of those deep Puka Nakoula catches there.
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  Speaker 5: So and and the other thing is like when we
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: talk about the motion, it's obviously it's nothing new within offense,
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  Speaker 5: but you know it's oftentimes like when Pooka's getting the ball,
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  Speaker 5: it's somebody else moving right and you're understanding than what
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  Speaker 5: the defense is trying to do if you're seeing man.
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  Speaker 5: They had a great bunch look versus man coverage in
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  Speaker 5: this game that got Pooka wide open.
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  Speaker 1: And then just the now throws right.
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  Speaker 5: I counted one, two, three, four five, I believe in
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  Speaker 5: the net, like just right now, Cooper Cup out there
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  Speaker 5: blocking the most dangerous man, and Puka just knifing up
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  Speaker 5: the field like. They don't mess around either. When they
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  Speaker 5: get the ball in their hands right now they move upfield.
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  Speaker 5: They're just so well coached and so willing to help
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  Speaker 5: their teammates and help their offense get the ball down
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  Speaker 5: the field. Maybe a little bit different than what we're hearing,
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  Speaker 5: at least from the Philadelphia Eagles locker room, because the
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  Speaker 5: Rams are a selfless outfit. Don't care how they get
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  Speaker 5: it done. They get it done, whether it's on the
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  Speaker 5: ground or through the air man. It's a lot of
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  Speaker 5: fun to watch it. Just to just put the knife
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  Speaker 5: in the bills here. They become the first team in
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  Speaker 5: NFL history or in the Super Bowl era, let's cause
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  Speaker 5: that we'll go that far back super Bowl era. Despite
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  Speaker 5: scoring six touchdowns and not committing a turnover, they lost.
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  Speaker 5: Teams had been two hundred and forty five and zero
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  Speaker 5: in that scenario where they score six touchdowns and do
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  Speaker 5: not commit a turnover, they'd won all of them. Josh
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  Speaker 5: Allen first player in NFL history with three plus passing
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  Speaker 5: touchdowns and three plus rushing touchdowns at a regular season game.
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  Speaker 1: And it's at a loss, What more do you want
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  Speaker 1: from them?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 6: Look at a fantastic effort by the Buffalo Bills in
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  Speaker 6: terms of their quarterback and their offense and the efficiency
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  Speaker 6: in those things. But sometimes I think this comes at
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  Speaker 6: the right moment for the Buffalo Bills because it's a
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  Speaker 6: reminder of who they are and how they really need
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  Speaker 6: to play. As exciting as that offense was when they
• 12:46
  Speaker 6: went up tempo and they're racing up and down the.
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  Speaker 4: Field, what we saw is the exposure of the.
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  Speaker 6: Defense and how they have a defense that is not
• 12:53
  Speaker 6: a lockdown, shut them down defense. To me, it's a
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  Speaker 6: great reminded to Joe Brady, to Sean McDermot and guys.
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  Speaker 6: Control of the game is everything speeding it up, slowing
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  Speaker 6: it down, But using your offense as the best defense
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  Speaker 6: might be the best path for the Buffalo Bills to
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  Speaker 6: make it to Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a great point, Buck, And you know, look,
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  Speaker 3: you got to play complimentary football. It's great to fill
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  Speaker 3: up the stat sheet and scoring points never a bad thing,
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  Speaker 3: but I do think you can alleviate some of that
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  Speaker 3: stress with how you play offensively on your defense. The
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  Speaker 3: different thing, though, is that how many of these environments
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  Speaker 3: like this, are the Bills going to find themselves in
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  Speaker 3: the postseason If you look at who they're going to
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  Speaker 3: play and where they're going to play, They're not going
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: to be playing in this type of environment. And I
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: think playing in the cold, playing in the snow and
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: bad weather, wind, all those things, I think that does
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  Speaker 3: tend to slow you down a little bit, if that
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  Speaker 3: makes any sense at all to me. I just think
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: this is kind of a weird one off, But I
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  Speaker 3: do want to spin it real quick to the other side.
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  Speaker 2: With the Rams, they are a team that you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I know.
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  Speaker 3: Orlavsky got a bunch of grief ret because he said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I f had the Eagles or you know,
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: the Lions. I don't know that I want to see
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford when the Eagles just beat the living stuffing
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  Speaker 3: out of them at their place like a week ago.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not forget that.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think that this Rams team is the
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: opposite of what we're saying about Buffalo.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: The Rams.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: In the NFC, you're gonna be playing a lot of
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: these environments indoors, you know, warm weather situations where Matthew
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Stafford kind of reminds me of like a you know,
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: like a you know, like a Max Scherzer type or
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: a Justin Verlander who maybe is a little bit old.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know that you're gonna get this a A
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: plus game from Matthew Stafford every week, but he can
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: give you one or two of them, and that's enough
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: to knock out one of the favorites in the conference
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: if they get in the tournament.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: No doubt.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: And that's why we I mean, we talked about this
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago on the pod. You know
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: that the man what watch out for the Rams, watch
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: out for this. You know, they're not done in this
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: NFC West, the way that that division is going. They're
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: just one game back in the Seattle Seahawks right now.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: They could end up being a division winner here getting
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: a whole playoff game. And but yeah, as you look,
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: got it, really the only place that you're worried about
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: going to play right now, you know, in terms of
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: adverse environment is Philadelphia. Maybe you know, it's funny, you know,
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: any Minnesota's indoors, maybe Green Bay if they you know,
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: depending on where they're at.
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: But I'm glad you brought this up at about the
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: Rams and just the way you talked about. We were
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: talking about the unselfishness of their wide receivers and Cooper
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: Cup and what he's able to do with Pooka Nakua.
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: And when I think about that, that that group, right,
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: you have Matthew Stafford, two skilled wide receivers, and then
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: I look to Minnesota and what they're.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Able to do with two.
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: I do wonder for some of these teams if the
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: new building model is going to be two polished wide receivers,
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: not necessarily the speed merchant or whatever, but guys that
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: are able to kind of play interchangeable roles. Because when
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: I look at it in La and then I look
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: at it in Minnesota, it does become an unstoppable force
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: when it's clicking and it's going in all the right direction.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that goes back to the Rams team
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: that was, you know, in their first Super Bowl that
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: they lost. All those guys are changeable. You know, they
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: could all play spreading cooks. All those guys they could
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: all move around and do whatever you wanted them to do.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: That's kind of been when their offense is at its
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: absolute best. Let's stay though. Rams seven and six in
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: the NFC West let's stay in the NFC West in
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: a big game where Seattle buck is. Uh, they found
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: their little bit here. Now they're eight and five, they've
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: won four in a row. The defense has got a
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: good feel now under coach McDonald, they've you know, the
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: pieces that they swapped out at the second level their
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: defense have made a difference. But I feel like you
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: kind of look up and you're like, I think most
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: people are like, oh, what do the Seahawks were they.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Five hundred right now? Like, oh no, hey, grain five.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Like this is a team that's that's gonna punch their
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: ticket and kind of a play free, nothing to lose,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: dangerous opponent.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: The funny thing is it reminds me of their throwback Ara,
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: but with a better offense. Complimenting when I think about
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: this defense, this defense has really been a work hard,
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: try hard defense.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: They get after it. They play with great energy and enthusiasm.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Mike McDonald's done a great job of like getting these
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: guys to really buy into paying attention to the details
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: and as their players have said, a little more disciplined
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: when it comes to being held accountable for the things
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: that they do between the lines. To me, this is
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: the best version of that defense as we saw I
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: play out against the Arizona Cardinals did a really good
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: job of controlling the game, setting the offense up and
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: offensively Geno Smith in this wide receiver corps jsn DK
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: Metcalf and some of the other guys that have it's
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: problematic and the running game to the add this is
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: a very well balanced team. Just a tough out, a
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: tough team to play when we think about the postseason
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: and how some.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Of these matchups could end up winding up.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Look, I kind of went in on that run game
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: a little bit and just kind of started watching it. Man,
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: they're getting those offensive linemen on them. I felt like
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: I was watching Lincoln Riley in the in usc Like
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: the amount of counter they ran in this game thirty
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: percent counterplays.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: One hundred and twenty eight of their rushing.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Yards of their one hundred and seventy six total came
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: on nine counterplays. I mean, they were destroying Arizona with
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: those offensive linemen on the move, you know, and it's
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: gt counter And I think Abe Lucas coming back into
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: the lineup at tackle on the right side for Seattle
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: I think has really helped their run game difference there
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: for sure, And then you know, Charles Cross over there
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: on the left side was doing a good job matching
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: people they run, they run counter a lot. Now teams
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: run counter against the Cardinals quite a bit too, you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: top five in the league against that Jonathan Gannon defense.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: In terms of that run concept, teams average almost six yards.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Of pop running counter on the Cardinals.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: So maybe there's something there with the way that the
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Cardinals are defending it. So like, if you look at
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: the way the teams run outside zone against the Cardinals,
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: that's obviously the most you know, frequent run concept there.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Teams are averaging about forty yards of pop, but it's
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: almost six a pop. Now, It's obviously a smaller sample size,
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: but that's something to kind of look at moving forward.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Here. What the Cardinals got to figure some things out? Man,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: They just.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: You know, from where they were three weeks ago, four
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: weeks ago, and then kind of what's happened And Kyler
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: is not really locked in right now now. It's a disappointing.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I was impressed when I saw him in person earlier
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: this year. I thought they were kind of playing above
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: their talent level, and I think maybe now they've bucked.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: They might have fallen down a little bit to their
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: talent level, because I don't think this is one of
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: the more talented team's overall roster wise.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: No, and I think it looks ultimately they did come
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: back to their talent level.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: They were playing great.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: They're playing kind of I would say, punching above their weight.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: But now they're playing these meaningful games. People are really
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: exposing their week spots. And when Brett talks about the
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: counter and the difficulty and defending the counter man, it
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: takes a defensive end that can smash that thing back
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: and box it, and then it takes speed running it
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: down from the backside. And when we look at this
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: team defensively, they have some worker bees, but I don't
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: know if they have a lot of blue chip talents
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: right now as they're presently constructed.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's going to be an interesting division.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I think of all the divisions, it's still pretty bunched
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: up right now. And I don't know that expectations exist
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: for whoever does come out of this division. But I
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: know watching the Seahawks team over the last month, it's
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: a dangerous squad. Watch the Minnesota Vikings, Sam Darnold, welcome
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins back home. Well one a little bit better
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: for one side than the other.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Rhtt. I'll leave it open for you there.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: You know what the only good thing of you knowell,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: let me rephrase this.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: You know what the best thing about being on a
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: cruise is is that you can you can get whatever
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: you want at dinner, right, you can order the lobster
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: and the prime right, Yeah, whatever you want or yeah,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: it doesn't even have to be the buffet, like whatever's
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: on the menu.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: You just give me all of it. They'll bring it in.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: That's what Sam Darnold had on offense with Jordan Addison
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: and with Justin Jefferson. He had the lobster, you had
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: a prime rib and you know, maybe you got a
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: little bit of caviar with his cheesecake for dessert, like
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: I mean all of it, okay, And so that was
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: great right for the Vikings. And then on the flip side,
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: like Kirk Cousins started this game, he was on fire
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: in his return. He was excellent in the first quarter
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: and now made a couple of one bad decision, one
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: bad throw, and the wheels were just off the bus
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: because of how good the Minnesota Vikings was I feel
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: like because of the interceptions, this this is going to
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: turn into a narrative on Kirk Cousins. But I'd be
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: more concerned with the Falcons defense than I am with
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins at this point. The way they let Sam
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Darnell knife them up through the air in this game book.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you talk about the defense having problems, but I mean,
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: everybody should struggle against the Minnesota Vikings when they're fully
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: healthy and everyone is available in the lineup. We've talked
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: about it on the podcast a few times. When they
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: have their A team Jordan Addison, Justin Jefferson, TJ. Hockinson,
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Aaron Jones in the backfield, it's really hard to match
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: up with their group. And even though the offensive line
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: has been weakened with Derisha going out, Cam Robinson has
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: been pretty solid for them left tackle since he arrived.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: This is a really good team. And I'm gonna say this,
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: and we've talked about it. Hass off to Kevin O'Connell
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: for having a vision for how Sam Donald could play
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: in this offense and really maximizing the talent that Sam
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Donald had.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: And look, he's made a lot of the people that
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: had big.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Grades on Sam Donald made them those those old notebooks.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: And I'll say this, I think it's a great problem
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: to have because so many people are ready to say, hey,
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: the Minnesota Viking's got to usher them out and this
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: and that not so fast?
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Why give up on.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: A good second, get rid of this.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, when you've done all of this work and you
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: got them up and going, I think it's a great
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: problem to have.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: You can never have too many quarterbacks.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: The Minnesota Vikings have put themselves in a nice situation
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: with Sam Donald this year, and who knows what it
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: looks like next year, whether it's him, Danie Jones, whoever.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Else they put it at quarterback spot.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: So two quick thoughts.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: First of all, my favorite thing to do on a
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Monday after an NFL Sunday is to pull up the
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: projected stats going forward Sam Donald, where you could see
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: he's on pace, he's all the way back on pace,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: he's all the way back thirty thirty seven touchdowns, thirteen picks,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: forty three hundred with eight point five per attempt. So
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: here's my here's my one. Sam Donald thought, h rhtt,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I'll get it to you. Kick it around the horn. Uh,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: and we keep the train moving here. But as someone
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: who has been in quarterback purgatory with the Jets and
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: with the Panthers before a brief stop off with the
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: forty nine ers as a backup, If I'm Sam Donald,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I you know everybody, there's been a lot.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I guess hear somebody.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chefter had a report saying that they haven't engaged
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: him on long term talks. If I'm Sam Rhett, I'm
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: going to the Vikings. I mean like, hey, look, I'm
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: gonna this has been great for me and I want
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: to do I want to give back to you. I'll
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: come to you with a deal and it'll be the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: It'll be an extremely team friendly deal. I know I
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: can go I know you could trade me, or I
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: could just be an unrestricted free agent. I can go
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: on the market and I can make probably what fifty
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: million a year because the quarterback draft class isn't very
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: good and there's a lot of teams that need a quarterback.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I can go get. You know, let's just be you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: forty to fifty a year up in the upper echelon
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: of that. I would just be like, look, what's the
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: difference to me between you know, the thirty five and
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: the forty five, you know, and I'm just going arbitrary
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: numbers out here. Like I've been on crappy teams. It's
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: no fun. Like I'll do you a solid. I'll come
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: to you with a team friendly deal. Let's lock this
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: thing in. I want to stay here. I want to
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: play here for another you know, five to seven years,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: and just with this group of players, with this play caller, Rett,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Money's not everything, is what I'm getting at.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: We just go do the Baker Mayfield deal. Why don't
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: we go do what he did?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: But what is that three four hundred deal?
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: Three three for a hundred and so is that thirty
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: thirty four thirty four to thirty five?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so so then so then what you do. Let's
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: add let's add ten million for inflation. So let's just
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: make it three. Let's make it three for one ten.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: And everyone is happening. I mean like yeah, I mean
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: like it makes sense for them to want to keep
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: him because he is only improved over the course of
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: the season and you can just see him getting comfortable.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: And what we saw was the explosive element against the
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: Atlanta Falcons where they would really is the thing to
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: be in attack mode?
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, the biggest, the biggest piece of it, Bucky
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: and just Kevin O'Connell doesn't exist everywhere, right, I mean,
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Justin Jefferson and Jordan Edison don't exist everywhere. And I
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: get much better you No, I'm talking about the three p's.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: It doesn't get much better in the Minnesota Vikings right
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: now for a.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Quarterback, no question. Yeah, I don't know.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I just I'm sitting here in a Monday where everbody's
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: talking about Wuan Soto going to the highest bidder for
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: you know, what could be eight hundred million dollars and
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: just you know, taking the most money you could possibly get.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: I just, hey, wait, what's the difference with seven six
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: when you sifty million?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: What's the difference?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: What's difference? So that's what I don't I don't get that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I know that on the agent side of things, you
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: want to get the big number to be able to use.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: But let's go where you're happy.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: You go where you're having fun, Like do you look
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: forward to going to the office every day like that?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: And maybe that's once so it always going to look
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: for that. But I don't want to get sidetracked. But
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I'm just like I've seen if I'm if I'm if
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I'm Sam, I've seen how bad this is other places.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Why would I want to go through that again for
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: you know, an extra eight to ten million bucks or
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: whatever else you would be able to get.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: That's uh, that's just my thought there.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: We easy to say what it ate your money? Right?
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: No?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I know, but I mean what are you going to get?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: What do you? I mean, how many golf memberships?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Do you?
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Only so many hours iday? What else you do there?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: All right, let's keep the train moving here, Let's get
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: to Vegas, Tampa Bay. I don't you know, Buck, I
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: don't think we need to spend a ton of time here.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: But we were just talking about Baker Mayfield. I guess
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: we can keep it on that on that subject here.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: I think it's another learning lesson in quarterback play and
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: just how important the environment is for quarterbacks. And when
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: you look at what Baker Mayfield has been able to
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: do first last year on the day of Canal, it's
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: been now on the limb Cohen and Tampa, like he
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: just has kind of figured out who he is and
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: what he needs to be to be a successful NFL quarterback.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: We're really a franchise quarterback.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: And this team has lost a lot a lot of
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: offensive personnel, but yet here they are still doing it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: Ty Bowles has done a really good job with this defense.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: And even though look they're playing a lightweight and the Raiders,
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: you still got to win these games. And so it
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: puts them in a position to capture the NFC South
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: if they take care of business over the next month.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Man, I looked I was watching this game.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: This was one of our games on the early window
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: of Game Day live on NFL Network, and we're watching
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: the say and the Bucks are running down and looks
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: like they are going to put up fifty. I mean
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: it was fourteen, nothing like that. And I'm like, all right,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: it was about the last we're going to see this
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: this game. We're going to keep it moving and I mean,
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: like low and behold though the Raiders stay in this thing.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: And I mean they tried to get blown out in
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: this game with the turnovers. They had a bad quarterback
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: center exchange. I actually had a couple of turnovers that
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: were reversed that end up, you know, not being turnovers,
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: but could have been disaster for the Raiders. They stayed
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: in this game towards the end, and then you know,
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: O'Connell went down and things kind of went off the rails.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: But bottom line is they've got a front end front line,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: top line talent and Brock Bowers and not a whole
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: lot else. I mean, like, I remember calling Sincere McCormick's
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: utsa game against Army back in twenty nineteen, and I'm like,
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: holy smokes, he is starting at tailback for the Las
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Vegas Raiders here in Week fourteen, Like you know, and
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: with the respect he played pretty dang good in this
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: game too.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: But they got a lot of work to do.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Like if you're Sam Darnold and you're looking at quarterback
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: needy teams, like, I don't know if I have play
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: caller here. I definitely don't have playmakers here. Probably don't
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: have protection here either. It's not a pretty picture out
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: there for teams that are going to be in the
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: quarterback market, you know, that want to find success relatively quickly.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Raiders got a lot of work to do on that front.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to completely contradict everything that I just
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: said five minutes ago, just for the sake of this segment.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Buck just for a fun factor here, right, this is
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: just for fun factor, fun factor conversation all full disclaimer.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: So let's just say Sam Donald the Minnesota says, we
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: have an unbelievable year, but we're not. We're gonna go
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: with JJ going next year. So Sam gets to the market,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: the Raiders sign Sam, don't if you give a draft
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: draft pick form. They just pay him handsomely. You got
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: the first pick, you go get Travis Hunter. And now
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: on the billboards as you drive around, maybe it's on
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: that big with a sphere or whatever, and it's it's
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Brock Bowers Travis Hunter, Sam Donald like watchability wise, the
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Raiders got kind of fun right there. I mean they
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: still can't block a soul, no offensive line, but from
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: an entertainment for me to entertainment city would be kind
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: of fun.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I mean it would be fun.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a lot of smoking.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: And teller Man Vegas.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of a lot of a lot of
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: a lot of magical stuff.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Sam.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot of Yeah, there's gonna be
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: a lot of conversations. You can have Uh, in the offseas,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I may take Trey Smith, Pam and free agency come
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: over and fortify the interior that offensive line, and we
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: all have the time to fix the Raiders. That's a
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: longer discussion than just a Monday recap pod. All right,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: let's uh, let's keep the train moving here. Let's get
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: to this next ballgame. Uh, Carolina Philly, Look, Buck, we
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: can we can go to Philly kind of winning ugly.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I continue to look at Carolina, Man, they gave the
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Chiefs everything they could handle, which is the best team
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: in the AFC, and they turn around and should have
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: beat I mean, should have beat the Chiefs, turn around,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: should beat the Philadelphia Eagles. I mean, this is kind
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: of a it's a perfect result. To be honest with you,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: they won't they would never say that. But organizationally, Bryce
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Young's playing well. You're playing competitive football against some of
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: the best teams in the NFL, and yet you're still
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: protecting your draft status for a team that obviously is
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: not going to the playoffs.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: I give Dave Canals a lot of credit, Like, the
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: hardest thing to do is to continue to adapt, particularly
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: is your first year as a head coach and he's
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: been able to do that. I think he's been a
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: much better uh head coach the second half of the
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: season what he's done with Bryce Young.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Bryce Young is playing with.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: More confidence, more decisiveness, and that has led to better
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: production from their offense.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: And then defensively, they're playing hard.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: So it's a horror playing team as a team that
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: is inching closer towards being very competitive and eventually winning
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: these games. Yeah, so you like the progress that's being
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: made On the other side, though, I'm a little concerned
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: when I see A J. Brown and DeVonta Smith kind
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: of going at a little bit on the sideline. You know,
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: I know that not a lot of balls flying over
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: the yard in the passing game, but I let upset
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: about them guys trying to figure out what's going on,
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: you know, and.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Now here here's a couple of things.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Are the Eagles a better offense when AJ Brown is
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: involved in a big piece of the puzzle, Absolutely, unequivocally yes.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: But they just wanted they just won a game. I
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: get it.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Was it the most convincing, you know, game you've ever
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: won in your life against a team that has only
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: has three wins on the year.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: But Sakwan Barkley breaks the record.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: He's now the Eagles single season rushing record holders, passes
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Leshawn McCoy in this game. I just don't know that
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: we need to leave our postgame commerence up for interpretation
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: about our dissatisfaction with the way that we won a game.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: This is like what we were talking about with the
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Eagles last year. I thought we put all this stuff
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: to bed, Like, we don't need to be bringing this
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: back up a week fourteen while we're making a push
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: to win this in the NFC East Division. We're within
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: striking distance of the Detroit lines at the top of
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: the conference, right, I mean, like, hey, I just I
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: get it.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You want to be a part of the game play,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the win. But
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: just there's better ways to hop about that.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I feel like I would say though at that the
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison Senior, I guess have to be specific. Now,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: those are few and far between. The guys who play
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: that position, who just quietly go about their business. If
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: they get balls, they get balls. If they don't, they
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: don't like this is the norm. This isn't the exception.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: This is normal standard operation.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: We have seen this derailed the Eagles. Hey, we saw
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: it last year. There was discontent everywhere.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, no, I yeah, look, I'm gonna let's
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: see where it goes going forward. But you know, there's
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: my takeaway on this one. On the Eagle side of things,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Buck is not just being in a stadium with Chris
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Jones and seeing a guy who in playoff games has
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: just taken over and literally finished games and been a closer.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Jalen Carter is a closer like he is someone who
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: is a nightmare to block inside. I think he had
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: five pressures in this game from the interior and as
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: well as playing on the other side of line of
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: scrimmage against the run. He's somebody I think keep an
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: eye on him. You get in the postseason, you're looking
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: for a defensive lineman who could kind of get hot.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Obviously Aaron Donald we've seen him get, you know, going
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: on an epic run in the postseason. Chris Jones has
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: done it. You know, there there's one there. I think
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: the Bucks team when they won their Super Bowl, those
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: their edge guys went off. I think Jalen Carter's getting
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: to that level.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Look is dominant player and the thing that stands out
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: this year, they can go harder for longer. They're still
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: rolling people in and out, but to me, they're just
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: in better physical condition and that is going to be
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: a huge benefit for them as they get into the postseason.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: If Jalen Carter can continue to operate at this pace
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: where he's really destructive and he is able to be
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: disruptive in key moments, it gives them the edge over
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: even the Detroit Lions depending on where the game is.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: There's still so much promise, so much to like about
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: this team eventually being the best team in the NFC
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: and the team that may represent the NFC and the
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: Super Bowl.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Hey, quickly on the Panthers here, DJ, you know, it's
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: just it's awful for Jonathan Brooks. The same ACLI tour
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: last November at Texas, he tears it again and this
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: was his third game back, I believe, and you could
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: just see it right away. What just felt it, you know,
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: kind of in that right knee, and man, I just
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: feel for him, feel for the Panthers as days you're
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: going to embark on another rehab and look it certainly
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: would be surprised if we see him at the start
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: of next season.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, look, you know who he needs to call.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: He needs to call Frank Gore. Yeah, and get some
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: encouragement from somebody who's done the same thing and battled
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: through multiple ACLS and historic long career. So hopefully the
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: same happens there for him as he recovers from that injury. Chicago,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: San Francisco, guys, we've been pretty positive today.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I think for the most part. Let me turn, let
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: me change that.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I you know, I've said, I think Kayleb Williams is
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: extremely talented, and the box score in this game does
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: not matched the video. When I went back and watched it,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: the box score didn't look that bad in this ballgame.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: But goly, he's got to stop holding the ball so long, man, Buck.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: He's just he's just got to let it rip. I
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: don't know if it's if he's not seeing it because
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: he is hanging on one for way too long, or
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: whether he just is still got a little bit of
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: that fear of failure and doesn't want to make a mistake.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: But I mean, the forty.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Nine ers, they're still hanging around at six and seven.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Their season's not over. They've got a chance, even with
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: all their injuries. To fight back into it and we
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: can get to the forty nine ers in a second.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: There was a good reminder watching the tape on this
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: that don't box scor scout. There's been games where he
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: has had ugly numbers and I thought he's played better.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: This is the opposite. I thought the numbers looked a
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: little bit better than the performance. I was a little
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: disappointed on that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, and they played against a team that was
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: fighting for the lives that was dis kind of like
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: the last Hurrah, and they came with full aggression. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: the thing about Kayla Williams that's frustrating is you see
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: him operate at a high level in moments, but he
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: just can't sustain it. Like you see the ball come
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: out on time, you see him read, you see him
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: scramble when he needs to, all of those things.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: But then there're other times you're like, man, like, just
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: make the game easy.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: And naturally, first year player is going they're going to
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: have some ups and downs and go through growing pains,
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: but you.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Would just like to see him kind of do like.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: Some of his classmates are doing right where you kind
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: of felt like the trajectory was on the up. You're
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: just getting too many up and downs from the number
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: one overall pick and you just like to see him
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: smooth it out as we hit them stretch.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's not just offensively though, I mean
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: they let up ten explosives, Georget.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Freaking running through them like switching going through the second
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: level of their defense.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: It was, yeah, obviously not great.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: And I think you that's that's what you lose a
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: little bit right when now you've you know, you have
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: Matt Eberflu's gone for not just the game management portion
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: of this Chicago Bears team, but of the defense to
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: and man, the wheels fall off the bus on.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: That side, Robert Solid, I mean, look at the Jets
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: defense since you fire him. It's this unintended consequence when
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: you get upset with maybe not using a timeout or
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: this side or the other, when a guy runs one
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: side of the ball. It's not just the head coach
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: that's getting let go. It's so anyways, we don't need
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: to go much further.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: There, Buck. Do you have any hope for the for
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the for the Niners going forward?
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: I mean nope, you got another interview Grendo like, Yeah,
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: it's just it's it's look that the NFC West is
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: going to keep a minute. They're two games out and
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: that they can keep staying afloat, keep bringing back some reinforcements.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe that was.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: That was very exciting. That was riveting there, guys. I'm
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: fired up. If I'm a forty nine Ers fan, listen
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: to that.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, guys.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Cleveland Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh's rolling man. A game that they would
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: probably be their worst game of the year at Cleveland, Well,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: didn't happen that way. In Pittsburgh. They handled business. Russell
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Wilson was excellent. They beat the Browns at home for
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: the twenty first straight time. Are you kidding me? Twenty
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: one straight? That's insane? What an insane number. Gosh, that
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: was a part of that was a part of a
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: couple of those losses with the Cleveland definite.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Goes back a man.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Uh, look when when you watch this game, the defensive
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: front of Pittsburgh was outstanding and they've got so many
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: guys like you. For Kem Benton had a pick in
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: this game on a screen where he makes an unbelievable
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: play where he sees it, sniffs it out. Uh, makes
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: the play. They've got a lot of bodies they can
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: roll through there. Then you go over to the other
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: side of the ball. Russ Is he's playing confidently, he's
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: working in seams with firemouth. You don't even have your
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: best offensive weapon and George Pickens in this game. It
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter. Jalen Warren's running really, really hard. As their
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: nice compliment, I don't think you want to overuse him.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: I think he's at his best when he's sharing that
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: with Naji. But man, he's he's a nice piece for
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: them and they're gonna be a tough out when they
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: get into the postseason. So a big win for Pittsburgh
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: over clevelandt the Jets and the Dolphins.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Did you subject yourself to that?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, watch that one for sure. Watched you
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: know what this.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: Jets passing attack was supposed to look like, you know,
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: as Aaron Rodgers in one hundred yards to Garret Wilson,
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: one hundred yards to Devonte Adams and their scoring some
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: points and touchdowns, and it just.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: It wasn't enough.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: They couldn't deal with what the what the Dolphins had
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: in the pass game.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Now they stopped the run.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: Now that's something I'd be a little bit concerned about
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: it from the Dolphins moving forward have not been able
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: to run the ball with a ton of effectiveness over
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: the course of the last couple of weeks, but tyreek
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Kill and Jalen Waddell were impactful in this game. And
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: then John Neu Smith, who was held basically without a
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: catch for the entirety of the game, comes off and
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: sponsors the overtime walk off winning drive and catches ends
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: up with three catches, forty four yards and a touchdown,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: saving my fantasy season, sending me to the postseason, and
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: all the while keeping the Miami Dolphins in the postseason.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: I was sweating that for the fantasy team, right, we
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: were all great one news. We can all rejoice on
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: that Jackson Jacksonville, Tennessee as we're going rapid fire games
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: a bar burner.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: But I think the lesson that you learned here is
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: players not plays, and the Jackman Jaguars offensively couldn't move
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: the ball at all until they had the epiphany in
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: the second half to say, you know what, maybe we
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: should get the ball to Brian Thomas Junior, and Brian
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: Thomas Junior having zero receptions in the first half, to
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: finish him with eight and what he did, he lit
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: up the offense he may plays. He confirmed why he
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: is one of the promising young wide receivers that look,
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: he is going to be in that conversation being elite
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: really quickly. He has all the goods, all the tools
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: to do anything that he wants to do on a perimeter.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: When the Jaguars got them the ball, their offense open up.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: It's a lesson to be learned. Good players make good offenses.
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: Get the ball to your best players, and your offense
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: has a chance to operate at.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Ilum Buck last year, at the end of the year,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Herbert was missing some games, and I thought about when
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: you do your expenses, you send them in when you're
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: calling these games. I thought, maybe pain and suffering an
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: extra five hundred game. I don't know what you're thinking there,
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: but you might as well see if mister Connell give
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: you a little extra subjecting your eyeballs to this product
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Man, it's a different approach. It's a different approach.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: It's a different approach.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: When you're out of it and your star quarterback is
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: not there. It's a different approach.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: But they played hard, so there was some solace in
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: watching the team play hard.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Well, there you go, rhtt.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I give you the floor here for New Orleans and
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: the Giants here in a game which I was following along,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I was watching it. I was following along in the
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: press box at the stadium in Kansas City.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: It was there really really early.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: And I was just following different games, and I just
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: would update it and be like, Drew Luck, oh for six,
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Drew Luck, I'm like, did we.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Get a completion? Did we complete a ball in this
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: ball game?
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: It turns out like he came alive in the second
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: half a little bit and going twenty one to forty
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: nine down the stretch.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: And he also he.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Had to have started out like oh for eight or something,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: because I mean, I kept updating it as someone who's
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: not going to the Fantasy playoffs because I couldn't get
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Molik Neighbors loose in that ball.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: And that's why I want that's right.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: If I actually I could actually tell you this because
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I'm looking.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: At the game was over eight.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: Drew was six for nineteen in the first half for
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: fifty two yards, so he ended up completing fifteen passes
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: in the second half. Shockingly, the Giant's had a chance
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: to win this game, or at least tie this game
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: at the end, and somehow didn't you know. The most
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: notable thing that came out of this game is another
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: unfortunate injury for Derek Carr.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: It's got a fracture in his hand.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: It sounds like and this is probably the end for
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Derek Carr this season in New Orleans. Happened on that
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: play right there, the Saints blocked dere Rizzy. I'll tell
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: you what, man, You know, here's one interim head coach
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: who has not let his side of the ball slip right.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: So we talked about that a couple of times.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: They fired us.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: That special teams unit for New Orleans has stayed up,
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: and they come up with a block field goal at
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: the end on a chip shot from Graham Gano, and
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: they preserve and get persevered, get the win, and now
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: five and eight, and I guess not out of the playoff.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Fun Buck, I'll leave you with this happy note here
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: on the Giants side of things, I was just looking
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: up some of the PFF ultimate numbers and going through
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: the weekend, and I always look to see the leaders
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: and see what stands out. So I'm looking at pressures
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: for the week have you seen this rhet so Chase Young.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Chase Young had twelve pressures that game, twelve, which was
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: the most in the league. You know who was behind him,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Carl Granderson, his teammate had eight. I'm gonna go out
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: and lemon say the Giants offensive tackles were not very good.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: What I'm gonna say twenty pressures off the edge?
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: Five years running now, we've been talking about this offensive
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: line this way, like something's got to change.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I think one of my I think josh A
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Zuda was playing out there. But don't worry about that, Carolina,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: because Bill Belichick is gonna come come to North Carolina.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: We're going to start producing a little bit better product.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Heels are.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know that's right where we are.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Maybe as a significant other that wants to go to grad.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: School, I don't know.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, rhtt you want to jump in here, Cincinnati, Dallas,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: you got some pressing thoughts on this one that.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Would be a negative.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's Dallas. You're not fired up for this.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Alboys had been playing some better football.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, if you have the big ros get
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: you fired up, doesn't that?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: And look it's another opportunity to watch. You know, the
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: best quarterback that keeps going underappreciated right now, Joe Burrow
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: because you know, his team just can't find a way
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: to get wins and it's tough, but I love watching
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: Joe Burrow play this position. And man, anytime you get
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: a chance to watch that dude spin it, it's it
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: is certainly worth the price of admission.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: And like, yeah, I'm interested.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: That's one I'll tune every time we get the Bengals
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: on offense and the Cowboys on defense, Like let's go.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Hey Buck real quick.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: You know what Burrow and Chase remind me of is
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: and when, at least when we were growing up. I
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: think the rules have changed. But with like high school basketball,
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: so if you if you transferred back in the day,
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: like you know, you still have to sit out right
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: in high school, don't make you sit out.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: But back in our day, they could play JV.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: So you like, two of the best basketball players in
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: the county, they transfer to your school, but they got
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: to play in the JV game. Like that's like watching
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Burrow and Jamar Chase like gos, these guys are incredible.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: You know, it'd be fun to watch them play in
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: the varsity game.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: They are They are unbelievable.
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: They have a nice like synergy to connection Joe Burrow
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: just running this offense. I mean people are talking about
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: the defense, and rightfully so, but just doing it for
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: the offense, like don't worry about the defense, like let
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: them score so can get the ball back. But offensively, man,
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: they do some fun stuff. It's a fun team to watch.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: That in itself makes it watchable the Monday night football
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: game because you.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Will see some points.
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: You see this offense go up and down the field,
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: even against the Cowboys defense.
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: DJ, you're gonna watch The Simpsons all cast on Disney Plus.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you. I never got into The Simpsons.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I'm probably rare for a no no.
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: Like three of us group.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't want just the fact that the fact.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: That it was on for twenty plus years it is
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: still on. I don't know like it just but it's running.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: I think in Living Color was on forward or after
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: it right, I loved anything. I watch a Living Color
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: every week, but I was not. I just know I'm
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: not a I'm not I'm an adult. I don't watch cartoons.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: A cartoon any day.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, cartoon guy, look at us. Sounded like the old
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: man on the pod.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: All right, it's fine, just get off our loan, all right,
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: this is a fun one. I hope RHTT didn't win
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: the rookie draft again. Well, I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: I'm nervous. We have brock Bowers. Yeah, I don't know.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: Tune in tomorrow, Suit in the podcast tomorrow. Thanks for
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: hanging with us. We'll see you next time. I'm moving sticks.