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Will The Real NFL Teams PLEASE Stand Up? · Fanatically Speaking with Kent

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  What's up everybody welcome to another episode
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  of fanatically speaking I'm Kent the co -host
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  and promoter. I am log off the log off legend
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  the hater of social media I'm the co -host and
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  producer of the show. Thank you for tuning into
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  another episode of fanatically speaking We're
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  actually going to change the format just a little
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  bit this show What we're going to do is we're
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  going to go into the real versions of football
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  teams We've got a list of teams that have been
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  bipolar in a lot of ways where you don't can't
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  tell whether or not they're good or you're going
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  to say to say the least to say the least like
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  week to week and uh you know week 10 just happened
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  and and we're still thinking about these teams
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  some have uh you know hot new stories some it's
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  just their play in general Like you said, week
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  to week, we don't know what we get. Yeah, no
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  idea whatsoever. So we're going to put that to
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  the test this show and we're going to try to
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  find out who are the real versions of these teams.
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  We're going to go ahead and start with the New
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  York football Giants. New York football Giants,
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  please stand up. And we saw what happened with
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  them this past week, but the big story coming
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  out of the Giants locker room is they fired their
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  coach. They got rid of their head coach. And
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  this was the gentleman that you called out earlier
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  this year. And I believe I'll put this in a group
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  chat that you wanted his head on a stick earlier
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  this year. You were like, yeah, this guy's horrible.
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  This guy's terrible. Let's go ahead and get him
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  out of there. When you saw the news, what was
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  the first thing that crossed your mind? I wasn't
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  surprised. Brian Dayball getting fired this season
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  alone. Blown four, four leads. That they had
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  the game won a couple of double -digit three
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  double -digit. They were leading by double digits
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  and blew the game and and to me Even though Jackson
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  dart rookie quarterback has shown a lot of potential
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  and promise Scatterboot of course got hurt They've
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  got some weapons there on offense neighbors got
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  hurt too. So it's not so much the offense They've
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  been able to do that, which is what Dave all
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  does but that defense is pretty good So for them
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  to be blowing leads like this It is going to
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  come back to coaching. So yeah, not surprised
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  after this past week as well, blowing another
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  game and just having a horrible record too. I
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  mean, going from that first season where he was
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  coaching a year, nine wins, they win a playoff
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  game. And then since then, it's just been a gradual
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  decline. Yeah, gradual decline. And that's, that's
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  fair. I've, I actually liked the Giants chances
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  this season. But first out of the, and I'm, you
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  know me, man, I've never been a big Russell Wilson
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  fan. It's not for football reasons though. I
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  just think he's you know lame corny, but he's
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  corny, but he Russell Wilson was playing well.
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  I Thought he was playing well struggling out
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  of the box in the first game versus Washington
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  But he had that big game against Dallas, you
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  know where they lost in overtime. He put up 450
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  yards Okay, then he had one bad game after that,
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  you know where against Kansas City I mean, go
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  figure. And then it's like, oh, OK, let's go
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  ahead and get Jackson Dart in there and get him
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  some reps. So they were been up and down all
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  year in that regard. Like you said, we've seen
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  some flashes with Jackson Dart. I do think he's
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  got a future. I don't know how, you know, how
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  I think he could be a nice middle of the road
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  quarterback that could be a starter in this league.
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  But I mean, I think from coaching staff, offense,
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  defense and special teams just as a whole. They
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  weren't going to be a playoff team no matter
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  what and I know we look at The division the NFC
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  East it's it's what I tell everyone every year
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  You know if you talk about the Eagles you talk
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  about the Giants talk about the Giants It doesn't
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  matter or the commanders they beat each other
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  up all season every season But always happens
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  is one team, you know rises to the top and ends
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  up winning the division lately. It's been the
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  Eagles but This is a competitive division, which
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  I mean, and I don't want to sound too biased,
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  but I think it's I think it's one of the better
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  divisions in all of football in the NFC. And
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  it's because those teams know each other so well
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  and they're always competitive. And no matter
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  how bad they are, you're always going to get
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  a team's best shot. But the Giants are done like
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  their season is over. And I think right now they're
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  just pretty much trying. I don't want to say
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  tank. It's hard to tank in football. But I think
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  they're going to try to just sit the rest of
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  this out and, you know, just kind of ride the
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  wave into the end of the year. Try not to get
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  any star players hurt. You know, cut some guys,
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  sign some guys, get another head coach and then
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  just try again next year. Yeah. And when we talk
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  about the Giants and we say with the real New
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  York Giants, please stand up. Here's kind of
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  what I thought about was you go back some years,
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  right? They hired day ball. They got them at
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  the time. Daniel Jones, Saquon Barkley. They
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  decide not to keep Saquon. Not that they blame
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  Saquon, but they say, OK, we don't want to pay
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  you, but we also don't want this and that. And
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  ultimately he goes to Philadelphia and thrives
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  and wins the Super Bowl. Then they blame Daniel
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  Jones, even after giving him a huge contract.
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  Ship him out, right? Get him out of there. So
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  now, Dayball has really nothing and the Giants.
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  So you see this, right? Saquon, Daniel Jones.
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  Then they get Jackson dart right eventually so
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  they started with Russell Wilson like you said
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  But it was only a matter of time soon as that
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  I told people I told a Giants fan I said As soon
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  as it starts going south they're going to Jackson
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  dart why because Dave all's got to do whatever
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  he can to save his job which which goes in that
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  conversation of wise dart out there running why
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  is he getting concussions or You know check for
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  concussions Dayball is coaching for his job.
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  Anytime you make that switch, he's trying to
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  save the season. They did bring energy. Dart
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  brought energy. Scatterboo brought energy. They
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  beat the Eagles. So they had something going.
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  And again, that defensive line is unbelievable.
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  So again, them blowing these games, all that.
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  Joe Shane still has a job, somehow. And he's
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  the one making the decisions about Saquon, Daniel
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  Jones, other things. Again, I like a lot of the
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  players they have, and they're kind of in that
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  injured, like I said, injuries hit them hard
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  with neighbors and Scadaboo, and now Dart. But
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  again, it's like, will the real giants stand
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  up? Like, who do you blame next? And it's going
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  in the order that you blame, right? The first
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  day, they couldn't make up their mind on quarterback,
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  running back. Then they kept the coach. They
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  got the rookie in there. Now the coach is gone.
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  So will they fire, uh, you know, Joe Shane, the
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  GM at the end of the year? We shall see. Uh,
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  but these are, but we want to know like, what,
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  what is your plan? Because again, you put all
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  your, your eggs into Daniel Jones basket and
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  now that's over. Now you got Jackson Dart. They
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  got a good, they got, they got good, uh, they
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  got good pieces, good young pieces to build a
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  winner selfishly. I don't want to see that, but
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  then like you said, do they just kind of tank
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  because the biggest thing I would say is they
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  got a pretty good defense. Obviously picking
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  a coach is going to be important, but you know,
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  they got a draft, like get, get that offensive
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  line straight. You got that. You got your, who
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  you think is your quarterback, get the offensive
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  line, protect your quarterback, get healthy.
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  And I think they can get it right, but it will
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  depend on who they hire as a head coach. And
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  I agree with that. And I'm just going to, to
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  kind of bring the point home of the real version
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  of the Giants and whether or not they're going
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  to stand up or stay on their back where they
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  are right now. They haven't had stability in
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  that franchise since Tom Coughlin. So let's just
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  put that out there. Here are their coaches and
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  their successors since Tom Coughlin. Tom Coughlin
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  to Ben McAdoo, to Steve Spagnolo, to Pat Shermer,
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  to Joe Judge, and then Brian Dable. And then
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  they just got him out. So in the last decade,
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  that's their coaching carousel that they've had.
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  Like you said, you've mentioned all the players
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  that they've had and that they let go and, you
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  know, they brought some guys. It just, it's never
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  worked out in the past 10 years. It's been unstable.
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  And, um, out of all those coaches that were there,
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  like their records are horrible. It's just one
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  of those things where out of all those coaches
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  that I named, none of them have a winning record.
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  So it. I have no idea who they're gonna go try
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  to get. I mean, it's the Giants. The names that
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  they had post Tom Coughlin, I was never impressed
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  by anyway. And maybe that's just them trying
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  something new. I feel like they need to go out
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  and try to get a winner. And just in my opinion,
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  what I think they should do is try to go find
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  a good, young, up and coming coach in the college
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  ranks that they can bring in. I've got some names,
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  but I think that's what that franchise needs.
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  They need a new energy, man. They just kept,
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  they just, I feel like they were doing the same
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  old thing over and over again and it hadn't been
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  working for them. You got nothing to lose. You
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  might as well go ahead and try to do something
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  different. Oh yeah. Go, uh, break the bank. Yeah.
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  Break the bank. Yeah. Just go get some, go get
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  a new young guy. It's super easy, man. There's
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  plenty of them out there. Make a splash. Splash.
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  All right. So, so next team we would like to
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  we like for the real Green Bay Packers. Would
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  they please stand up? Please stand up. Please
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  stand up. So Packers played the Eagles. You know,
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  wasn't that game in Lambo? It was at Lambo. It
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  was at Lambo. Okay. Cold game. It was an ugly
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  game. All right. It was an ugly game. Although
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  I will say I was entertained by it just because
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  every it felt like every It felt like every snap
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  had the potential to be a big play because you
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  knew it was a game that was lacking those plays.
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  Um, we'll get into the big plays that the Eagles
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  made later. I'm not going to gloss over that,
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  but the Packers up and down year, man. Um, I
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  picked them to be my team to come out of the
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  NFC and boy have they let me down. I, I wanted,
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  I thought this would be where love, you know,
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  as their, as their franchise quarterback gets
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  over the hump. Showed that he can go and win
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  close games games like the one that they played
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  Against the Eagles they don't have it. It's you
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  know, they made the Michael Parsons trade So
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  they bring him in their defenses stout, you know
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  for you to be able to hold the Eagles to ten
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  points That's a win. You can stop all those guys
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  and and especially at home and a big game with
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  all the eyes on it It's a win for them As a success
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  of what they did even though they didn't actually
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  come with a win in the win column But from the
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  game, what are your thoughts on it Eagles Packers
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  with a game the season? Look at their look at
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  the time likes it they get they went got Micah
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  Parsons. They went out and got him right and
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  That was supposed to be the difference maker
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  This is gonna put Green Bay over the top over
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  the edge makes them the favorite heavy favorite
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  even though right The Eagles are the top team,
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  so they go. They this season though they have
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  lost to the Browns. They tied with the Cowboys.
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  And now they've lost to the Panthers. And then
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  on a back to back week they lose to the Eagles
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  at Lambeau. No shame in losing to Philadelphia,
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  even at Lambeau. But this was a big game. This
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  was a huge game for them. Because it has playoff
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  seeding implications. So now this just puts the
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  Eagles a notch above the Packers but stick them
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  to Packers against you lose to the Panthers At
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  home again defense really not giving up a lot
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  of points the same in the Browns game Now the
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  Cowboy game was a shootout, but you tie so You're
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  not where you thought you were gonna be Anytime
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  you have a tie on your record You're never gonna
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  be where you want to be but so now they got that
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  tie. They got these losses Browns are not really
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  that good, Panthers either. They're in the middle
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  of the road. Cowboys too. So it's not good for
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  them. And again, I think what everybody's watching
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  is Jordan Love is kind of been the difference.
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  If you watch some of the, even without Tucker
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  Kraft now and Matthew Golden was out last at
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  the game against Philadelphia. But they show
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  these replays where he's not seeing the open
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  guy. He's missing or Aaron throws fumbles taking
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  bad sacks So the offense isn't clicking and that's
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  not all on Jordan love But when you're the quarterback
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  you are the leader of the offense and you see
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  the frustration in Matt LaFleur And I think it
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  was Chris Canty on ESPN today I was listening
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  and watching and he said Jordan loves gonna cost
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  Matt LaFleur his job So it's the Packers, you
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  know, not that if that I still think they make
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  the playoffs, but if they fizzle out and don't
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  compete, you never know. This league, they have
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  a short memory of the success you had in the
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  past season or two seasons, whatever playoff
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  run they had that one year with Jordan Lovin
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  and LaFleur. They're going to forget about that.
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  You got to produce now in a competitive NFC,
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  and they are falling back behind everybody. And
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  that's the thing that... I wanted to make sure
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  we were keeping an eye on. They're only five,
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  three, and one. The tie does hurt because it's
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  a half game at best. But five and three would
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  be a good record. I think anybody within any
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  NFL fan say, hey, look, going halfway through
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  the season, your team's five and three, do you
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  take it? I think most people say, yeah. So that's
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  a success in that regard. This does fall on Jordan
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  Love. And it's because the games that they lose
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  is just a lack of being able to produce points
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  that office isn't that terrible and we've seen
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  the flashes where they can go out and score you
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  know uh... thirty one points against you know
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  uh... you know that the lions they could put
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  forty on the on the on the cowboys even though
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  it is in a tie you know uh... twenty twenty seven
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  on the lions You know, 27 against the commanders,
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  like we know they have the ability to score,
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  but when you come out in 13 versus the Panthers,
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  one touchdown at home versus Philly, it reflects
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  poorly on Jordan Love. And one thing that you
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  said about Matt LaFleur, if I'm Matt LaFleur,
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  I change nothing about what I'm doing. I go out
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  and coach games the same way I'm coaching. I
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  don't feel like he's coaching that team to lose.
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  They just so happen to be losing. However...
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  If Matt LaFleur, if right now we're recording
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  this at 6 15 p .m. If Matt LaFleur got fired
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  right now, he'd have another coaching job offer
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  at 6 17. He would have the New York Giants job
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  at 6 17. He would be, he would be lined up within
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  minutes. His agent would have offers for him
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  to get another job. And honestly, You know, he,
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  he's had, he's gotten, he's had a lot of excuses
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  as a head coach. I know he's a good coach, but
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  I mean, I wouldn't want to coach Aaron Rogers
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  as great as he was, you know, kind of a pain
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  in ass, but the success at the, at the highest
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  end of football. you know coaching he hadn't
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  been able to to accomplish but if i'm him and
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  this is an opportunity i feel like if he does
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  get let go no one's going to look at him and
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  say hey he failed that franchise no someone will
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  give him another opportunity to coach damn quick
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  so when to kind of get back to the question the
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  real green bay packers i think we see them up
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  and down stagnant offense defensive stout which
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  in a lot of cases will win you games. But when
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  your offense can't get you into double digits,
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  so that way you have an opportunity to win at
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  the end of games. Yeah, man. It's just there's
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  nothing you can do. So maybe they'll make the
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  playoffs. I don't know, man. It's hard to say.
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  I don't know if I trust them enough to win enough
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  of these close games to put up enough points
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  to be able to make a playoff run, even if it
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  is a wild card spot. We're going to step into
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  the team they played. So next we go into the
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  Philadelphia Eagles. So with the please will
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  the real please will the real Philadelphia Eagles,
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  please stand up because I want to lead off on
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  this because okay, you know, we know the talent
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  the Eagles have Super Bowl champion it came back.
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  Okay, they won the Super Bowl. They're gonna
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  get everyone's best shot this year and watching
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  the game versus the Packers, the thing that stood
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  out the most to me was I feel as if that offense
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  isn't necessarily, they're not trying to lose.
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  I feel like they're trying to not lose games
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  as opposed to trying to go out and do the things
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  that an offense can do. And I'm just going to
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  bring up the two plays. It was the huge, you
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  know, Saquon run catch out of the backfield.
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  The prettiest spin move ever, man. Oh my God,
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  his moves are, it's crazy. And then obviously,
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  you know, the Devontae Smith catch touchdown
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  in the end zone just went out and got it. When
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  he knew they needed a big play, he snagged it,
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  scored them a touchdown. Awesome. We know they
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  have that ability, but the thing is, is just
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  being able to move the ball down the field and
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  score a touchdown and then get your defense back
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  out there to give your offense a rest. I feel
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  like their offense is just out on the field too
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  long. all game and it wear again. Okay. You get
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  to wear down their defense, but you saw the Packers
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  are ready for that the entire night. They were
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  like, Oh, bring it. You're going to try to run
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  Saquon again. Ah, we only going to let him get
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  a half a yard. He's going to get, he's going
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  to make some big plays. We know that he's too
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  explosive, but you're not going to be able to
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  win longterm. And I think they're trying to play
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  like a, like a early version of playoff football.
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  To get to the playoffs to play playoff football
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  and I would rather them just go out there and
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  take chances I don't care if hurts throws and
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  deceptions I don't care if if they throw some
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  trick plays in there just to pick up big chunks
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  of yards I just want to see them try more and
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  I feel like they're a little too a little too
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  much of a happy meal type offense, where you
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  know exactly what you're gonna get out of them,
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  and then it's just a matter of whether or not
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  my guys are better than your guys. Yeah, they're
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  kind of, again, we talked about this before,
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  they're kind of accounting on a big play, and
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  that one big play to work. Now, last night it
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  did, right? Like, Saquon made the one play. And
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  then... He did. And Devontae, you know... slightly
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  under thrown ball, but Devontae made the play.
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  But I gotta get into, I got a couple things to
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  hit on the Eagles from the game. Positive, they
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  gave up no sacks from this Green Bay Packer defense.
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  Wow, I didn't realize that. Wow, no, that's a
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  good stat. Look at you pulling out the stats.
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  So that was very good on the offensive line,
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  who Lane Johnson went out for a while. They had
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  Toth at center instead of Jerrigans. He was out.
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  So they had to put in Fred Johnson some for Lane.
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  And then when they had their heavy package, they
• 20:10
  had Pryor in there too. And credit to Jalen Hurts
• 20:14
  as well for escaping the rush from Parsons and
• 20:17
  others. So that was a big thing, by the way.
• 20:21
  That's huge. Just to say that yeah, the offense
• 20:24
  is kind of stagnant. They don't. They haven't
• 20:26
  ran the ball very well and they don't have these
• 20:28
  explosive plays a lot of yards. But at the end
• 20:30
  of the day, giving up no sacks was big. And then,
• 20:34
  like I said, we've seen them have big plays.
• 20:39
  I don't know why they don't do more. They sometimes
• 20:43
  can be predictable with the run, but it's like
• 20:46
  how do you only throw to AJ Brown twice? At one
• 20:51
  point because I'm gonna get to the one time they
• 20:53
  the other time they they did and I nearly lost
• 20:55
  my mind They they they they're only targeting
• 21:00
  him a little bit and I might man he's he's too
• 21:02
  good That's where you again we talk about the
• 21:05
  creativity and we saw that the prior game against
• 21:07
  the Giants where you know, he had the big plays
• 21:10
  the touchdowns It's like this is what we expect
• 21:12
  every game when you have Devante and AJ Saquon
• 21:17
  Goddard you have weapons They need to open this
• 21:20
  offense up, and that's what I say. One week they
• 21:23
  do, the next week they don't. And we have to
• 21:25
  go back and forth with this on what kind of offense
• 21:28
  does this team have? The defense is getting better.
• 21:31
  They've added some pieces. Jalen Phillips played
• 21:35
  really well. His first game as an eagle. Odore
• 21:39
  Jackson is still should be the target of every
• 21:43
  team. So hopefully Jair Alexander can get to
• 21:46
  play soon. So they're looking better. Nolan Smith
• 21:48
  came back. So the defense props to them as well
• 21:52
  for holding the Packers to seven points and I
• 21:55
  would only say this I kind of be a little negative
• 21:57
  is that I felt like on that drive to for the
• 22:00
  Packers the Eagles played really soft defense
• 22:02
  They did not play the same defense. They had
• 22:04
  played all year. I mean the whole game. I'm sorry
• 22:06
  the whole game. So I really do And again, they
• 22:11
  had the other drive with Jalen Hurts fumbled
• 22:13
  and he was almost down. It got not it happens
• 22:16
  right when your quarterback runs his fumble was
• 22:18
  definitely not as bad as Jordan loves Trying
• 22:21
  to make something out of nothing as he's getting
• 22:23
  sacked and he ends up just you know fumbling
• 22:25
  the ball away But then I have to also hit on
• 22:29
  that Nick Sirianni decision. I've got his back.
• 22:32
  I've got there. I've got all their back but at
• 22:35
  fourth and six And you have to, at this point,
• 22:39
  they gotta give the ball back to the Packers.
• 22:42
  The smart decision, because of where the ball
• 22:45
  was at, they're like 35 yard line, the Packers
• 22:49
  35. So if you don't get this fourth and six,
• 22:53
  then the Packers get the ball right there and
• 22:54
  they're about 20 yards or so from field goal
• 22:56
  range, ish, right? So of all things. One, they
• 23:03
  stop the clock because they decide to throw a
• 23:06
  deep pass to AJ Brown, a basically up for grabs.
• 23:10
  AJ, just go get it. Jump up, moss this guy and
• 23:14
  catch a touchdown. Now, if you watch the game,
• 23:17
  they did not get it. They gave the Packers in
• 23:20
  a field goal. They're up by a field goal. They
• 23:22
  give the Packers the ball with 30, was it 33
• 23:24
  seconds? I believe. They give them the ball back.
• 23:30
  Luckily, The Packers had to try a 64 yard field
• 23:33
  goal. But honestly, that was one of the dumbest
• 23:37
  things I've seen. A dumb coaching decision. I
• 23:40
  know we're in this new age of football with analytics
• 23:42
  and you do this and you try this, whatever, whatever.
• 23:47
  I don't know for the life of me why they would
• 23:49
  not punt that ball to try to pin them in. Worst
• 23:52
  case, touchback, they get it at a 20 instead
• 23:55
  of. You know right there one good pass by Jordan
• 23:58
  love and they're gonna be in field goal range
• 24:00
  and they almost was in today's NFL a 64 yard
• 24:04
  field goal now is like a 30 yard field goal So
• 24:06
  they got lucky that was a stupid decision cannot
• 24:10
  have that and that there again Nick Sirianni,
• 24:14
  please stand up and You know, are you gonna coach
• 24:17
  like an idiot? Are you gonna coach like a Super
• 24:19
  Bowl champion? Which one are you gonna do? So
• 24:22
  I'm not gonna let you do this I'll let you get
• 24:25
  that out. I'm not going to let you do this. You
• 24:28
  started that off by saying that you wanted them
• 24:32
  to be more aggressive, that you wanted. You did.
• 24:35
  I didn't make that up. You said it. There's a
• 24:37
  time and place. You want to be more aggressive.
• 24:38
  There is a time and place. I agree with you.
• 24:41
  And here's the thing. Even if it was a dumb decision
• 24:45
  to go forward on fourth and sixth, if you make
• 24:48
  it... and they make it you're glad that he that
• 24:50
  he had the balls to take a shot like that and
• 24:53
  here's the thing it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't
• 24:56
  to their detriment he was gauging the way the
• 24:59
  game was being played and the way the Packers
• 25:03
  defense you saw how impactful they were man like
• 25:06
  they they were making fantastic reads and i think
• 25:11
  it was that fourth and six play the reason the
• 25:14
  only reason why i like it is the only reason
• 25:15
  why i like it because you see so many teams fake
• 25:20
  like they're gonna make that like they're gonna
• 25:22
  go for it and then they don't and then they chicken
• 25:25
  out and then they call a timeout and then they
• 25:27
  put their punt unit back out there to punt the
• 25:28
  ball and he's like you know what what we got
• 25:31
  to lose we're holding our own own against them
• 25:34
  on the road against this defense you know we
• 25:38
  show that we're happy that we have the ability
• 25:40
  to go out there and score points we have the
• 25:42
  better offense we got a better quarterback we
• 25:45
  got a better coach We've got a better running
• 25:46
  back. Let's go out there and see what we can
• 25:48
  do." And they tried it. It didn't work. I don't
• 25:52
  think this is something that Nixery Yarn is going
• 25:53
  to do every week. So I understand dunking on
• 25:57
  them because it didn't work. But if it had worked,
• 26:00
  I don't think you'd be bringing it up. And you
• 26:04
  talked about airing it out to AJ Brown. You have
• 26:08
  to in a lot of these situations. You've got to
• 26:11
  take those shots. It's no different than the
• 26:13
  pass that was thrown to Devontae. It's going
• 26:16
  to happen. You've got to take those shots. You've
• 26:18
  got to take those chances. As great as the players
• 26:21
  are within the offense, they aren't polished
• 26:23
  enough to be able to run perfect sequential plays.
• 26:27
  You have to take your chances and pick your spots
• 26:29
  when you can. So personally, I don't have much
• 26:32
  of a problem with it. And if they would end up
• 26:36
  losing that game, Yeah, I understand you being
• 26:39
  upset about it. You will point right back to
• 26:41
  that one play, right? Well, because of the situation.
• 26:45
  I mean, you just can't give them the ball right
• 26:47
  there with the game on the line and they could
• 26:49
  tie it with a field goal. If they were up by,
• 26:51
  I would felt better if they were up by a touchdown
• 26:53
  or six points and say, you know, Packers got
• 26:57
  to go down and score a touchdown. We're going
• 26:59
  to give them the ball here with 33 seconds. Good
• 27:02
  luck. But the fact that they're one pass away
• 27:04
  from field goal range, you just can't do that.
• 27:07
  That's all. That's what I mean. I just, I can't
• 27:10
  agree with it. And they've done this before on
• 27:12
  fourth and long or fourth and shorts where they've
• 27:14
  thrown it deep and it worked, right? They hit
• 27:16
  AJ. But with the game on the line in that situation,
• 27:21
  I don't know another coach that would have done
• 27:23
  that. And again, he does this sometimes in past
• 27:27
  seasons and I'll get over it because they won
• 27:29
  the game. But but still I stand I stand firm
• 27:33
  I stand firm So, okay, so let's in terms of the
• 27:39
  real Eagles Let's go with what you want to see.
• 27:42
  Do you? Do you want a coach who doesn't take
• 27:46
  those chances at all? So even when it's to his
• 27:49
  benefit even when it's to the benefit of the
• 27:51
  team even it's to the benefit of getting a guy
• 27:55
  who is You know, he might be the, I mean, he's
• 27:59
  the whiniest wide receiver that I, I mean, AJ
• 28:02
  Brown is the whiniest wide receiver in a long
• 28:05
  time that just kind of just every week. It's
• 28:07
  like, Oh, that's not the situation. No, no, no.
• 28:10
  I'm saying you've got to take those shots. You've
• 28:13
  got to take those chances. Not in that situation.
• 28:17
  So you're saying the goal, but what situation
• 28:20
  specifically be specific was it was. They're
• 28:24
  out of, you know, they can't, it's fourth down.
• 28:27
  They have to, they have to give the ball back.
• 28:30
  You're either trying a long field goal, you're
• 28:32
  gonna punt, or you're gonna go for it, right?
• 28:35
  And it's fourth and six. And it's, again, at
• 28:39
  the 35, in between the 35, 40 yard line of the
• 28:41
  Packers. So in that situation, with a game on
• 28:45
  the line, right? So Packers are out of timeouts.
• 28:49
  you're going to have to give them the back unless
• 28:51
  you go for it or kick a field goal, which in
• 28:53
  that weather, you're not going to kick a field
• 28:55
  goal because then if you miss, you're really
• 28:57
  giving it to them damn near midfield. That's
• 29:00
  what I'm saying. In that situation, the goal
• 29:03
  is to win the football game. And they did. Barely.
• 29:08
  They got lucky. A win is a win. But I'm saying
• 29:10
  the play, that doesn't change that the play call
• 29:12
  was bad. So so let me okay, so I'll try to put
• 29:16
  it on this because I don't I don't want to turn
• 29:18
  this into like the fourth and six segment I got
• 29:21
  you right the the only the only thing I'll say
• 29:23
  is I'll ask you I'll ask you just two questions
• 29:27
  one when it comes to fourth and six Do you feel
• 29:32
  like that team was capable enough as an offense
• 29:36
  to get those seven yards that they needed? If
• 29:40
  it may be in a different spot of the game Right?
• 29:44
  Not in that spot. And truthfully, again, look
• 29:47
  at the game, right? Not a lot of yards, not a
• 29:50
  lot of offense. Either way, fourth and six is
• 29:52
  like, that's a long ways in that game also. If
• 29:56
  you're asking me that, that's tough. You do realize
• 30:00
  that that offense, you do realize that that offense,
• 30:04
  the Eagles offense that we're talking about has
• 30:05
  four Pro Bowl caliber starters on it. Hertz,
• 30:09
  Saquon, Brown, Smith. And you're telling me they're
• 30:12
  not capable of getting you seven yards and make
• 30:14
  a big play when you - I didn't say they're not
• 30:16
  capable. I said on that night, on last night,
• 30:20
  that's a tough task with the game on the line
• 30:22
  where you're trying to win. And they haven't
• 30:26
  done anything. And that's what we're talking
• 30:27
  about, right? The real Philadelphia Eagles stand
• 30:29
  up. Yeah, like sometimes I'd be like, yeah, go
• 30:32
  for it. Fourth and sixth, not in that situation,
• 30:34
  though, ever. But middle of the game, you want
• 30:39
  to go for it? Go for it. You don't feel comfortable
• 30:41
  in kicking a long field goal? Go for it. Like
• 30:44
  Greg Olson said, more and more teams are going
• 30:46
  to be going for it right in that area instead
• 30:49
  of kicking the field goal. I have no problem
• 30:51
  with it. I just got, like I said, that. last
• 30:53
  on that game that night that situation I did
• 30:57
  not like it. It worked out. Sometimes you get
• 31:02
  lucky and we'll take it. I'll certainly take
• 31:07
  it. Hell yeah. I'll take it. A win is a win.
• 31:12
  Oh yeah for the next one we'll go to your Carolina
• 31:15
  Panthers. Not mine. Not mine. Our home, our home
• 31:20
  team. Yeah. The hometown Charlotte, Carolina
• 31:24
  Panthers. We, you know, with the real Panthers,
• 31:26
  please stand up. Uh, I think the real Panthers
• 31:29
  have been in front of us all season. They've,
• 31:33
  they've been opportunists. They've been winning
• 31:36
  the games that they were just good enough to
• 31:40
  win. Um, I don't even know the stats, you know,
• 31:44
  Oh, I don't even know the stats of their, their
• 31:47
  last, actually their last one when they, when
• 31:49
  they beat Green Bay, um, I believe, I believe
• 31:54
  Bryce Young had 102 yards and I think I'm doing
• 31:57
  that and I think I'm doing that from memory.
• 32:00
  Now, so they, their opportunists in the way that
• 32:05
  when things happen to their benefit on the football
• 32:09
  field, they capitalize on it. Their run game
• 32:11
  is crazy. Okay, they are fantastic moving the
• 32:15
  ball up and down the field and they've had opportunities
• 32:18
  to to win games whenever they need to however
• 32:21
  this is a If if if the entire league is broken
• 32:27
  up into three tiers The Panthers are in the bottom
• 32:31
  tier disguised as the team that's in the second
• 32:33
  tier they're not a great team man and and and
• 32:37
  and you know, you could say that their record
• 32:39
  is their record but All in all, I don't think
• 32:42
  anyone has any confidence in the Panthers to
• 32:44
  do, didn't have a lot of confidence in the Panthers
• 32:47
  to do anything of significance this season anyway.
• 32:51
  And even if they do make the playoffs, I don't
• 32:53
  care who their matchup is, you're going to bet
• 32:55
  money that they'll get smoked. So for them to
• 32:59
  play against a division opponent in the Saints
• 33:02
  and to lie down the way that they did in that
• 33:06
  game, I don't think it surprises any of us. It's
• 33:09
  just is one of those things that's going to happen
• 33:11
  with a team like this. They're still trying to
• 33:13
  figure things out. Bryce Young, as a starting
• 33:17
  quarterback, very undersized. He looks really
• 33:20
  scared out there sometimes. He lacks the arm
• 33:22
  strength to drive the ball down the field. I
• 33:25
  saw so many weak armed passes from him over this
• 33:29
  past weekend. It frustrates me because their
• 33:34
  line tries their best, but when he starts to
• 33:37
  feel pressure, he panics a little bit and he's
• 33:40
  not a big guy that can just push the ball and
• 33:43
  get it to where he needs to get it. You know,
• 33:46
  tipped passes, short passes, passes hit the dirt,
• 33:49
  interceptions. It's just things that you just
• 33:52
  can't, you have to account for those happening
• 33:55
  in your offense and you have to coach the game
• 33:57
  around it, which is why they run the ball so
• 33:59
  damn much, but good for them. You know, their
• 34:03
  record, what are they? Right at 500 now? Five
• 34:07
  and five, yes. So they're five and five. I mean,
• 34:11
  you wouldn't be surprised if they lose their
• 34:13
  next three games. It's just they're not a good
• 34:16
  team. It's been a great season for them. This
• 34:19
  is a good year for them. Oh, yeah. They're learning
• 34:21
  a lot, right? Yeah. But they're not a good football
• 34:25
  team. And I think anybody who's honest with themselves,
• 34:27
  they know that. Yeah. When they, I told a Panther
• 34:31
  fan this, Shout out to them that if the Panthers
• 34:35
  finish eight and nine That's a win. It's a success.
• 34:40
  You know nobody's expecting them to win the division
• 34:44
  even make the playoffs really I heard chirps
• 34:47
  of that in the offseason and then you watch them
• 34:49
  play their first two weeks and you're like, yeah
• 34:50
  This is not a playoff team because when they
• 34:52
  have lost normally they get blown out and they
• 34:55
  look really bad That's the best the biggest thing
• 34:57
  that stands out to me. But again each week we
• 35:00
  don't know Like, one week at home, they're dominant,
• 35:04
  and they shut out the Falcons. They beat the
• 35:06
  Dolphins, beat the Cowboys. They go to Lambeau,
• 35:10
  beat the Packers, but then... And then they play
• 35:13
  the Patriots and lose 42 -13. That's what I'm
• 35:15
  saying. Patriots, 42 -13. Let's see, the Bills,
• 35:19
  40 -9, which they had Andy Dalton that game.
• 35:22
  But still, they have looked bad in their losses.
• 35:28
  and their wins are kind of like, you just never
• 35:31
  know. Like they, they toughed it out against
• 35:32
  the Jets and Bryce Young, like you said, they,
• 35:35
  you know, I'm pulling for them. I'm rooting for
• 35:38
  the Panthers. Like you said, a hometown team.
• 35:40
  I want to see them successful, but you see those
• 35:43
  throws like Bryce and not being able to throw
• 35:45
  over the line and bigger guys. And like you said,
• 35:48
  getting that push to the ball. I see a lot of
• 35:50
  those throws and you see that, but then there's
• 35:52
  times where you see them and he's smooth and
• 35:55
  especially out of the pocket. He does a lot better.
• 35:58
  He makes great throws and I don't know what the
• 36:01
  same I told you know about the Saints earlier
• 36:02
  this year Kellen Moore He's got him playing really
• 36:05
  well even in losses But it was kind of weird
• 36:09
  For them to come in and pretty much dominate
• 36:11
  the Panthers. I know 17 -7 doesn't seem like
• 36:14
  domination But you know when you turn the ball
• 36:17
  over Like the Panthers did and then just let
• 36:20
  a rookie quarterback in Tyler Shuck come in and
• 36:22
  beat you like that and they just traded you know,
• 36:25
  Shaheed to Seattle. So they're less, they're
• 36:28
  one less weapon and you still get beat at home.
• 36:32
  And the Panthers have been good at home. And
• 36:33
  that's what I think was biggest for me was losing
• 36:35
  at home to the Saints. I don't care about divisional
• 36:38
  game or not, because the Falcons who I think
• 36:40
  are better than the Saints, they came in and
• 36:43
  couldn't do anything. So we don't know week to
• 36:45
  week again. This is what we're talking about.
• 36:47
  I don't know what team week to week the Panthers
• 36:48
  are going to be. I don't know if Bryce Young
• 36:50
  is gonna look like he could be the future. And
• 36:52
  then the next week he looks again back like he's
• 36:55
  a middle school kid trying to play in the NFL.
• 36:59
  And again, like Bryce, pulling for him. But once
• 37:03
  again, week to week, we don't know what this
• 37:05
  team is gonna do. And if you do, they are a building
• 37:09
  team. They're trying to build something. I think
• 37:12
  this season will be an improvement. Like I said,
• 37:14
  already at five and five, I think any Panther
• 37:16
  fan from the past few seasons will take that.
• 37:20
  I'm still not ready to say Bryce Young is the
• 37:22
  answer for quarterback for this franchise. But
• 37:25
  we shall see. And you're talking about the real
• 37:29
  version of the Panthers and how we don't know
• 37:31
  what you're going to get out of them. I know
• 37:32
  exactly what we're going to get out of them.
• 37:34
  We're going to get more losses than wins the
• 37:36
  remaining of this year. And here's why. They're
• 37:39
  playing the Falcons, division opponent. They
• 37:41
  blinked them in the first game. I don't think
• 37:43
  that happens again. Not in Atlanta. No, not in
• 37:46
  Atlanta. They play. So, they play the Falcons.
• 37:49
  Then, they play the 49ers. Still going to be
• 37:52
  a competitive game even though the 49ers aren't
• 37:54
  great. Then, they play the Rams. Then, they play
• 37:56
  the Saints again in New Orleans. Then, they got
• 37:59
  to play the Bucks who are injured and I still
• 38:01
  bet my money on the Bucks. Then, they got to
• 38:04
  play right now currently top of their division,
• 38:08
  NFC West, Seahawks, and then they close out again
• 38:11
  in Tampa. So, if If I'm putting any money down
• 38:15
  and I'm not a gambling man, I say they lose more
• 38:18
  than half those games, which means that they
• 38:20
  have a losing record and most likely they missed
• 38:23
  the playoffs because they're not going to get
• 38:24
  a wild card spot spot with a losing record. Not
• 38:27
  in today's NFL is too many good teams. So, you
• 38:30
  know, I think this is the second half of the,
• 38:32
  this is the, if this is the bad time of the year
• 38:36
  for you to lose the types of games that they're
• 38:38
  losing and I think that's the thing that kind
• 38:42
  of hurt them the most. They started off hot.
• 38:44
  They won some games that kind of shocked the
• 38:46
  league. And everybody's like, oh, look at the
• 38:47
  Panthers. They're kind of hanging. They're holding
• 38:49
  their own. But now things are about to start
• 38:51
  to get ugly. Imagine those same wins on their
• 38:54
  record now going into this schedule that they
• 38:57
  have in front of them. You feel completely different
• 39:00
  about them, even though they're the same damn
• 39:02
  team. You still feel different about them because
• 39:05
  they went and got the wins that you knew that
• 39:08
  they were capable of getting. Yeah, I think I
• 39:10
  think the Saints game just stands out like I
• 39:12
  can get with the other But you know the Saints
• 39:15
  Packer game kind of cancel each other out now,
• 39:17
  but that's a game that they could have won You
• 39:20
  know been six and four instead of five and a
• 39:21
  five and like you say yeah, you look at their
• 39:24
  schedule I think at best they they might win
• 39:26
  two of those games so they might not get to that
• 39:29
  eight nine, but No, no, I don't think so. No,
• 39:32
  I do I don't think they win Wow, yeah, I don't
• 39:36
  see them winning three more games. No, I just
• 39:39
  don't math mathematically I don't see it and
• 39:42
  I think the other teams that they're playing
• 39:45
  are more equipped To get the win versus the Panthers.
• 39:49
  Yeah, stop the run limit Bryce Young win the
• 39:53
  game, you know, yeah, and they go. Yeah So let's
• 39:58
  roll to the Baltimore Ravens will the real Baltimore
• 40:02
  Ravens, please stand up a little unfair, okay?
• 40:05
  Because we know Lamar Jackson has been injured
• 40:07
  for a large chunk of the season. And they tried
• 40:11
  their hardest to put the team on Derek Henry's
• 40:14
  back. I'm gonna love Derek Henry forever, man.
• 40:19
  He is a football player's football player through
• 40:22
  and through. Their defense has been horrendous
• 40:25
  most of the season. Wow. They're starting to
• 40:29
  kind of find their groove. you know middle of
• 40:31
  the year as common we've seen that happen from
• 40:34
  time to time but when it comes to the ravens
• 40:37
  as a whole you from the very beginning you said
• 40:40
  this from the beginning of the season you said
• 40:42
  you better watch out man because they're struggling
• 40:44
  but if you but if you mess around and let the
• 40:47
  ravens make the playoffs is going to be ugly
• 40:49
  for you go ahead go and give me what you yeah
• 40:52
  especially now when you see the Steelers they're
• 40:54
  like a game behind Pittsburgh they're getting
• 40:56
  Lamar Jackson back they're getting healthy And
• 40:59
  I think they would have turned it around if Jackson
• 41:01
  hadn't gotten hurt, right? They started the season
• 41:03
  off rough. And we were just like, OK, but they're
• 41:08
  good teams. They're losing, too. But still, what's
• 41:11
  wrong with them? And then Jackson goes down.
• 41:12
  Of course, then they lose some games when they
• 41:15
  were trying to play Cooper Rush. Then they bring
• 41:18
  in Huntley. So they play better with him. So
• 41:21
  now they got Jackson back. They're right there.
• 41:23
  And like you said, I said it. I said don't let
• 41:26
  the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs because
• 41:29
  healthy beginning of the year we we talked about
• 41:31
  who do we trust who we believe in who are the
• 41:33
  teams and it's the Chiefs it's the Bravens and
• 41:35
  the Bills we'll get into the Bills in a minute
• 41:37
  but those are the three teams right those are
• 41:39
  the norms that we expect to come out of the ASC
• 41:42
  so now here we are even back coming back from
• 41:45
  one and five now to four and five at the moment
• 41:48
  they have Jackson and their schedule if you look
• 41:52
  at it I think they could get in. They play Cleveland,
• 41:57
  they play the Jets, they play Cincinnati, Pittsburgh,
• 42:00
  Cincinnati again, Pittsburgh again. So let's
• 42:06
  see here. So you look and say one, two, three,
• 42:10
  four. I think they can get four to five wins
• 42:14
  out of that schedule. I think they split a lot
• 42:16
  of the divisional games. They got to go to Green
• 42:18
  Bay, but again, we already talked about them.
• 42:20
  We don't know what they're going to be. And Lamar
• 42:22
  Jackson's a baller. Look at his numbers. All
• 42:25
  he does is put up great numbers and normally
• 42:27
  all he does is win. So I say for the AFC, all
• 42:31
  those Patriots are looking great right now, okay?
• 42:34
  We know the Chiefs are the Chiefs. We expect
• 42:36
  the Bills, again, gonna talk about it, but we
• 42:38
  expect them to be right in the mix. But again,
• 42:42
  the Baltimore Ravens, what were they, a drop
• 42:44
  pass last year from going to the next round in
• 42:48
  the playoffs, right? So. of beating Buffalo,
• 42:51
  yeah. So getting that match up with the Chiefs.
• 42:53
  So I think again, let's not discount Harbaugh.
• 42:58
  Let's not discount Lamar and this team. They're
• 43:01
  still a good football team. They were figuring
• 43:04
  it out. Then they got the injury bug. So once
• 43:07
  again, don't let them into playoffs. That's all
• 43:10
  I say. Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with
• 43:13
  you. Looking at the rest of their schedule. I
• 43:16
  think they only lose two more games the rest
• 43:19
  of the year. Oh, wow. Browns, Jets, Bengals,
• 43:22
  Steelers, they played them twice. I think they
• 43:24
  split that. They played the Bengals twice. I
• 43:28
  think they, you know, I think they split that.
• 43:30
  I think they embarrassed the Patriots, even though
• 43:33
  they're a well -run team. It's in Baltimore,
• 43:35
  yeah. I think they can... Yeah, I think that's
• 43:39
  enough for them to win and especially to win
• 43:41
  that division where we've seen Aaron Rodgers
• 43:44
  struggle. We've seen him struggle the last couple
• 43:47
  of weeks and we know he's great. He's always
• 43:51
  been a great quarterback, but he's still in his
• 43:53
  40s. He's coming off an Achilles tear. All those
• 43:57
  miles add up and he looks more hesitant as a
• 44:00
  quarterback than he ever has in my eyes. I've
• 44:03
  never seen him hesitate so much standing in the
• 44:05
  pocket. So I, and that's one thing that Lamar
• 44:09
  Jackson does not do. That dude don't blink. He's
• 44:12
  going to go out there and do whatever he needs
• 44:14
  to do to get an extra yard, to make that extra
• 44:16
  pass. I, I think it's their division to win their,
• 44:22
  their, you know, four and five currently. I think
• 44:27
  it's, I think, I think it's not, it's not out
• 44:29
  of the realm of possibility for them to only
• 44:30
  lose two more games the rest of the year and
• 44:32
  win that division and host a playoff game. I
• 44:35
  think it's absolutely possible and um total and
• 44:39
  the other thing i'm going to do is give them
• 44:40
  credit their defense man playing the bears was
• 44:43
  their get right game you know they held them
• 44:46
  to 16 points and you know nana played the dolphins
• 44:48
  held them to six points vikings you know held
• 44:51
  them to 19 points They've been able to kind of
• 44:54
  figure out what they need to do to just stop
• 44:55
  teams from scoring, holding them to field goals
• 44:58
  and keeping the score low. Now you got Lamar
• 45:01
  Jackson back and it's like, okay, now we're going
• 45:02
  to go down and run up the score on these guys.
• 45:04
  So good for them. Perfect time of year, middle
• 45:07
  of the season. They can go ahead and make their
• 45:09
  runs and move things up. And I like their chances
• 45:12
  of making the playoffs easily. So I'm going to
• 45:14
  go ahead with it. I'm going to go ahead with
• 45:15
  my Colin Cowherd, Skip Bayless, Steven Atake,
• 45:19
  Hot Take, the Baltimore Ravens. will win the
• 45:24
  division. Stop it. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
• 45:27
  You mean the division or do you mean the AFC?
• 45:29
  The division. Okay. I'm not crazy, man. I'm just
• 45:35
  making, no, I mean, no, Skip Bayless would say
• 45:37
  the AFC, you know, like we all know Patrick Mahomes.
• 45:42
  Yeah, we already talked about it. Ain't nobody
• 45:44
  picking right now anybody to win it yet like
• 45:48
  that. But the division. They will win the division.
• 45:53
  You know what? I'll do it. I'll take the Baltimore
• 45:58
  Ravens to win the AFC. Wow. You're even going,
• 46:02
  you're even going like, I'll take the, I'll take,
• 46:04
  I'll take the Baltimore Ravens to win the AFC
• 46:06
  because I like their chances against every team
• 46:11
  in the AFC matchup was the way that they're playing
• 46:14
  defense. Lamar Jackson being back. I don't think
• 46:17
  they rushed him back to play this. Not at all.
• 46:20
  If there was a chance that he would, he was more
• 46:22
  injury prone than what he was at the beginning
• 46:24
  of the year, he wouldn't be out there. He's their
• 46:26
  franchise, man. And everything was going horribly.
• 46:29
  So I'll take it. Bills out of the picture. No
• 46:33
  one as great as the Patriots have been. I don't
• 46:35
  think anybody really trust them, even though
• 46:37
  we know that they're solid and they're well -coached
• 46:39
  and they're playing well. They're looking good.
• 46:41
  I'll take the Ravens. I'll take the Ravens to
• 46:44
  make it to the Super Bowl. You can put my name
• 46:47
  on it, and if I'm wrong, you know, sue me. We
• 46:49
  got it. We got it on tape. So let's jump to the
• 46:55
  other team that we discussed. We talked about
• 46:57
  one more team. Those Buffalo Bills. With the
• 47:00
  real Buffalo Bills, please stand up. With the
• 47:02
  real Josh Allen, please stand up. Reigning Defending
• 47:06
  MVP, please stand up. Yeah, this is a tough one
• 47:11
  for me, man. I prematurely declared Josh Allen
• 47:17
  the best quarterback in the league. I think that
• 47:19
  was week two. Yeah. Week two, week three, when
• 47:22
  they were out there blasting teams. So okay,
• 47:28
  let's talk about it. They've been playing up
• 47:32
  and down football all year. you know, they go
• 47:37
  and they win their Super Bowl by beating the
• 47:41
  Chiefs. Well, they do that every year. They do
• 47:43
  that every year in the regular season. Yeah.
• 47:45
  And then they go out to the Dolphins, which,
• 47:49
  I mean, we've been firing his coach every week
• 47:52
  for five weeks. That's definitely somebody I
• 47:54
  want to have. They don't even have a coach. That's
• 47:56
  definitely who I want to head on a stick. Head
• 47:59
  on a stick. We wanted to get Mike McDaniels the
• 48:01
  hell up out of there. His gold rim glasses. You
• 48:05
  lose to them without Tyree Hill. You go and you
• 48:09
  lose to the, now again, that is a division game.
• 48:12
  We know how division games go, but you score
• 48:14
  13 points on them. And as you look at the remaining
• 48:20
  schedule that they have, their inconsistency
• 48:24
  is so weak to weak that it's hard for you to
• 48:29
  project how they're actually going to play. So
• 48:31
  they play the Bucks, the Texans. the Steelers,
• 48:35
  the Bengals, Patriots, the back half of their
• 48:39
  schedule is really AFC heavy. And you don't know
• 48:45
  what Josh Allen you're going to get. We know
• 48:47
  that that dude's great. Again, MVP level caliber
• 48:51
  player, but he can't do it all by himself. And
• 48:54
  I think that's evident. I am I'll admit this,
• 48:59
  you know, on record, I didn't watch the Bills
• 49:02
  Dolphins game. I just didn't have it up. But
• 49:05
  as I was watching just kind of the ticker, you
• 49:07
  know, you can't watch every single game from
• 49:09
  beginning to end. I was trying to figure out
• 49:11
  like what happened. I'm like, did somebody get
• 49:12
  hurt? Like, you know, was there a major injury
• 49:14
  that I'm missing? And it's just like, no, he
• 49:16
  just played poorly. You know, the team was unable
• 49:20
  to produce. And here's the interesting thing.
• 49:23
  I'm going to point this out to you because I
• 49:24
  don't know if you caught this and then I'm going
• 49:26
  to shut the hell up and let you go. Now, some
• 49:30
  of this could have been garbage stats. Josh Allen
• 49:33
  was 28 for 40, 306 yards, two touchdowns, and
• 49:37
  a pick. To me, that doesn't signify 13 points.
• 49:42
  He also fumbled, lost the fumble. There you go.
• 49:46
  Now, okay, so that's two turnovers. So, two turnovers,
• 49:49
  two touchdowns, 300 yards passing. It's to the
• 49:54
  Dolphins, which are bad across the board. every
• 49:59
  aspect of their team is bad. So it's a terrible
• 50:02
  loss. But even with all that, man, they're still
• 50:04
  six and three. They're still at the top of their
• 50:07
  division. Like they're close. They're right there.
• 50:11
  And I still don't, I don't trust them. It was
• 50:16
  my fault, man. It was my error for trying to
• 50:19
  give Josh Allen the credit too early in the year,
• 50:22
  instead of making him prove it. And especially
• 50:24
  have him prove it in the playoffs, which he's
• 50:26
  never done. So I'll lay on my sword for that
• 50:31
  one. That was something that I probably shouldn't
• 50:33
  have done. But what was your takeaway from the
• 50:36
  Bills and just kind of how they're flailing this
• 50:38
  year? Man, we talk about this. We talk about,
• 50:41
  you talk about how you don't trust anybody. And
• 50:43
  we talk about these teams and they had these
• 50:45
  losses. We brought up the Packers already. The
• 50:48
  Bills, of course, I think are even more favorite
• 50:50
  in the AFC. You think Josh Allen got that AVP
• 50:53
  finally. They're going to take that next step.
• 50:56
  But it seems like they're the same Buffalo Bills
• 50:59
  from every year is They give you they they make
• 51:02
  you think and give you hope especially if you're
• 51:04
  a Bills fan But then you you lose to the Falcons
• 51:08
  like you mentioned the Dolphins like you score
• 51:10
  13 You only score 14 against the Falcons So those
• 51:16
  are the losses right the Patriots beating you
• 51:18
  in Buffalo was a shocker and Then you had these
• 51:21
  two bad losses. So again Buffalo be a team. They'll
• 51:24
  be in the playoffs But these games that you look
• 51:27
  at, I think that Tampa game going to be tough.
• 51:31
  In Houston will be tough. Even though, depending
• 51:35
  on who the quarterback's gonna be for Houston,
• 51:38
  at New England will be tough. Philadelphia comes
• 51:41
  to Buffalo, that will be tough. And I'm sure
• 51:44
  the Jets on that last week of the season, if
• 51:46
  it counts, I mean, they're gonna try their best.
• 51:48
  And don't discredit the Jets. They play tough,
• 51:52
  they play hard. I mean, they're not great. They're
• 51:54
  not good at all, actually, but a divisional game.
• 51:58
  But the main thing is to me is the same Buffalo
• 52:00
  Bills as I see every season. They have ups and
• 52:04
  downs, and then everybody's going to pick them
• 52:07
  and tell me that Josh Allen is the greatest football
• 52:09
  player. Not you, though. But I just feel like
• 52:15
  every year, this is what we get. And I don't
• 52:17
  try to fire coaches, and I'm not trying to put
• 52:19
  that out there on McDermott. because he always
• 52:23
  has them there. But what if they don't win the
• 52:26
  division? How does that look on the MVP that
• 52:30
  a second year quarterback and Vrabel in his first
• 52:33
  year lead the Patriots to win the division? That's
• 52:37
  a bad look on Buffalo because you got, like we
• 52:39
  talked, they're the favorite. They're one of
• 52:41
  the favorites out of the AFC. We talk about the
• 52:43
  Chiefs, we talk about the Bills, and of course
• 52:45
  we mentioned the Ravens. So again, to me, it's
• 52:48
  just inconsistency. year to year from Buffalo.
• 52:52
  Now they could go on, they get hot sometimes,
• 52:54
  they could go on a run. But we want to see, they
• 52:57
  need to cut out these bad losses, that's for
• 52:59
  sure. Like any team, and I think this year we've
• 53:02
  seen that from a lot of teams, but that's the
• 53:05
  biggest thing. I think they're the same Buffalo
• 53:08
  Bills as every year. And just like we talked
• 53:10
  about the Ravens, until you get to the playoffs,
• 53:13
  until you beat Patrick Mahomes, until you get
• 53:16
  over that hump to the Super Bowl. It is what
• 53:19
  it is Yeah, man, and I God bless them. They they
• 53:25
  have a shot every year. They're competitive every
• 53:28
  year. I I Think they'll still be competitive
• 53:33
  in the AFC. Like if they make it to an AFC championship
• 53:36
  game I don't think either of us would be shocked
• 53:38
  just because we know that Josh Allen is that
• 53:40
  talented. He's one of those guys man He is that
• 53:43
  dude. Yeah, and you know and I think I mean,
• 53:48
  I guess if you have to say the top three quarterbacks
• 53:51
  in the league are all AFC quarterbacks, I think
• 53:54
  in whatever order you want to pick, you go Mahomes,
• 53:56
  Allen, Jackson. Is that fair to say? I think
• 53:59
  some would say that, yeah. I don't think it's
• 54:02
  bad to say that. No, I mean, but in terms of
• 54:05
  like top three, and there they are all in the
• 54:07
  AFC. So all three of those guys are capable of
• 54:11
  putting their team on their back and supermaning
• 54:14
  their way through a win. So Josh Allen's going
• 54:18
  to have to show it. And I'll, I apologize to
• 54:22
  the universe for trying to, for trying to take
• 54:25
  Patrick Mahomes throne as the greatest quarterback
• 54:27
  in the league currently. I mean, I was going
• 54:30
  to give it to Josh Allen because I felt as if
• 54:32
  he'd earned it with the way he played last year
• 54:34
  and the way he started off the season this year.
• 54:36
  But yeah, I mean, he's going to have to, he's
• 54:38
  going to have to, you know, he's making me look
• 54:40
  like a fool, man. You know how like, you know,
• 54:42
  like when Skip Bayless uh... you know uh... call
• 54:45
  someone great and then they start feeling that
• 54:47
  he bashes and i'm not going to have to josh allen
• 54:50
  now we don't know anything here he is great yes
• 54:54
  so i'm just gonna i'm gonna give him some time
• 54:56
  i'm gonna give some grace because i think we
• 54:58
  know he has that in him and if he turns this
• 55:00
  thing around as a crazy run the rest of the season
• 55:03
  and blows to the pre -op playoffs it was a super
• 55:06
  bowl neither one of us would be surprised Hey,
• 55:11
  so so to end to kind of end this before we get
• 55:14
  into the fun stuff, which I think is all fun,
• 55:17
  but. Right now, really quick. Give me like maybe
• 55:23
  three to four teams that you believe in or do
• 55:27
  we? So I have said, I believe I said it twice
• 55:35
  that I don't trust none of these motherfuckers.
• 55:37
  That is true. Oh, man. Okay, so three, okay,
• 55:42
  so I'll do this. I'll give you three to four
• 55:44
  teams. I'll pick two from each conference And
• 55:49
  the AFC I am going to have to go with the Chiefs
• 55:55
  and the Ravens, okay And the NFC that's it's
• 56:01
  a tougher question the only team The only team
• 56:07
  I really trust for certain is the Philadelphia
• 56:16
  Eagles. And if I have to pick another one, I'll
• 56:24
  give them their credit for winning and losing
• 56:29
  in consistent fashion, but always trying to give
• 56:32
  themselves the best chance to win. I see you
• 56:36
  Detroit. Yeah. I'll give it to the Lions. Okay.
• 56:39
  So yeah, so there's so that's my four so I'll
• 56:41
  go Kansas City Baltimore Philly and Detroit Okay,
• 56:47
  so here I go I've got three NFC and I got one
• 56:51
  AFC the AFC. I'm just going based off of right
• 56:54
  now Like you said, I don't know that I trust
• 56:58
  them But the Patriots are what they are at the
• 57:01
  moment. Okay They are what they are. They're
• 57:04
  sitting up there at the top I think I trust them
• 57:07
  more than the Colts, because we talked about
• 57:11
  the Colts before. I like what you said. I like
• 57:14
  that Ravens and Chiefs. Again, Chiefs, they're
• 57:16
  the team until they get knocked out. And then
• 57:18
  my other three are the Eagles, the Lions, and
• 57:21
  the Rams. Why the Rams? I'm just curious. Just
• 57:24
  real quick. I mean, Matthew Stafford, to me right
• 57:27
  now, if Jalen Hurts is not the MVP, then Matthew
• 57:31
  Stafford is the MVP right now. And their losses.
• 57:35
  were one to the Eagles, one to the Niners in
• 57:38
  which they decided to just not tie the game and
• 57:41
  go for it. It is, you know, divisional game,
• 57:44
  Thursday night game. So to me, I think, I mean,
• 57:48
  they don't really have a bad law. I mean, even
• 57:50
  though the Eagles came back to beat them, the
• 57:52
  Eagles are the Eagles. They're the Super Bowl
• 57:54
  champs. No shame in that. So I really like the
• 57:58
  Rams. But yeah, Rams, Lions, Eagles, and then
• 58:03
  AFC really is a toss -up right now. But the Patriots
• 58:06
  are sitting up there. They're playing the best
• 58:08
  football. So I'll give them on this week, on
• 58:11
  this episode, the love. So I'll say this, man,
• 58:15
  and I just want to make this point. Matthew Stafford
• 58:20
  has been playing incredible football. Yes. Matthew
• 58:24
  Stafford right now currently has 25 touchdowns
• 58:27
  to two interceptions. Unbelievable. And you know
• 58:33
  how this goes. It's typical sports talk when
• 58:37
  you mention how someone has a very low this or
• 58:40
  a very high percentage of that, and then they
• 58:42
  go out and have a three interception game. So
• 58:45
  I hope I didn't jinx them, but 25 touchdowns
• 58:50
  to two picks at this point in the year is insane.
• 58:54
  If Patrick Mahomes was doing that sports media
• 58:58
  personalities, all over every network and every
• 59:01
  internet platform would be having convulsions
• 59:03
  on the floor if Mahomes was doing this and putting
• 59:05
  up these types of stuff. Chris Collinsworth would
• 59:07
  be losing it. Chris Collinsworth, oh my god,
• 59:09
  yeah man, his eyes would be rolling in the back
• 59:12
  of his head right now. He'd have his O face,
• 59:14
  but right now I'm gonna give it to Stafford,
• 59:17
  man. Your boy's cooking, so no, the Rams are
• 59:21
  a damn good pick. I'm gonna give you that. Fun.
• 59:28
  F -U -N. Now we're having fun. Now we're getting
• 59:32
  into our fun random topic. Today is a little
• 59:35
  comparison. I don't think there's a wrong or
• 59:38
  right answer here. We just thought it'd be fun
• 59:40
  to talk about. We saw this quote from Travis
• 59:43
  Hunter. I think you said it was earlier this
• 59:46
  year, just saying that it was harder to play
• 59:49
  both sides of the football in, I mean, both sides
• 59:52
  in football, offense, defense. than doing like
• 59:56
  Shohei Otani, who is pitching and hitting. All
• 1:00:01
  right, you're the baseball guy. Go. All right,
• 1:00:03
  so first off, I will say, obviously, physically,
• 1:00:07
  the physicality of playing football is tougher,
• 1:00:10
  right? He's not wrong. Like, if you're playing
• 1:00:13
  defense and offense in the National Football
• 1:00:16
  League, that is obviously very, that is tough.
• 1:00:20
  Shohei, on the other hand, he pitches every five
• 1:00:23
  days. If he's healthy, right, pitch every five
• 1:00:27
  days, he's hitting in every game. And I guess
• 1:00:31
  you would look at that and you would say, yeah,
• 1:00:34
  that's obviously not as tough as playing both
• 1:00:37
  sides of the field in football. Now I will say
• 1:00:41
  though, it's tough to do what Shohei's doing
• 1:00:45
  to hit 50 some home runs and then also dominate
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  pitching. So it's a little bit different there,
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  right? Now obviously again, he's not playing
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  every every game in the field. He doesn't play
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  the field. So at least he is pitching and pitching
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  is putting that that's that's work to pitch six
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  innings seven innings 90 to 100 pitches and then
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  go out there and when it's your time to hit crush
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  the ball like we talked about before. This is
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  something baseball's never seen. It's it is not
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  like another baseball. Normal baseball players
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  you talk about. because he can and I think I've
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  even said it I was like well he doesn't play
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  the field but he does pitch pitching is a little
• 1:01:28
  bit harder than just playing the field you might
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  get a ball hit to you in your position right
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  and then you go up there and hit so they act
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  like you know Shohei is not doing something just
• 1:01:38
  because he doesn't play the field and he's the
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  dh but then like I said when he is asked to play
• 1:01:43
  he is pitching Again, that's a lot of work on
• 1:01:45
  him. That's a lot of that's a lot of work and
• 1:01:47
  and again for him to do it as well as he does
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  We have to give again. I always say everybody's
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  giving him credit. He's about to be a four -time
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  MVP. So In that respect it is tough what he's
• 1:02:01
  doing to dominate pitching and hitting But again,
• 1:02:05
  I'm no dummy again physically it is tough to
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  play both sides of the field in football I will
• 1:02:12
  say though I don't see anyone dominating both
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  sides of the field in football. Dion was really
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  good at defense, obviously, one of the best cornerback
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  ever. And then he was a pretty good receiver,
• 1:02:28
  right? But he was also returning kicks as well.
• 1:02:32
  So we could really say Dion was playing three
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  phases of the game, maybe the greatest athlete,
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  he should be up there in the greatest athlete
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  ever. So for Travis Hunter, again, I think if
• 1:02:42
  you play every down, Like college, Travis Hunter
• 1:02:44
  was the man, right? He was dominating both sides
• 1:02:46
  of the ball. So if you play a lot of the snaps
• 1:02:51
  on both sides and you're getting the picks and
• 1:02:53
  you're getting the catches and the touchdowns,
• 1:02:56
  then we got a lot to say there. But obviously,
• 1:02:59
  once again, just to get back physically, there's
• 1:03:02
  no brainer. Football is tougher to physically
• 1:03:05
  play. But then on the flip side, again, baseball
• 1:03:08
  is, again, to hit a baseball is the hardest thing
• 1:03:10
  to do in sports. You really you really played
• 1:03:16
  both sides there, man. I know I don't have a
• 1:03:19
  take, you know I think it's just a fun conversation
• 1:03:21
  to break down both ways, right? It is and I and
• 1:03:25
  I will say I Valid points and you're right. I
• 1:03:29
  I wanted I Do think if you took if you took both
• 1:03:32
  of them and put them side by side It's harder
• 1:03:36
  to do it in football because of the physical
• 1:03:38
  nature of the game and not only that but the
• 1:03:41
  unpredictability of what can happen on any plane
• 1:03:44
  where with with pitching you see the ball coming
• 1:03:49
  you know with when you're batting you see the
• 1:03:54
  ball coming you know running bases and like it's
• 1:03:57
  just like the injuries that take place in in
• 1:04:00
  baseball is just different yeah there's there's
• 1:04:03
  not the chance of you I mean, obviously, technically,
• 1:04:05
  there is a chance in any sport. But the chances
• 1:04:08
  of you having something happen to you that you
• 1:04:10
  don't see coming is just, it's slimmer than it
• 1:04:12
  is in football. So that's just on one thing.
• 1:04:16
  But I'm going to switch this just a little bit.
• 1:04:18
  And I'm going to use Deion as an example, because
• 1:04:21
  the comparisons between Travis Hunter and Deion
• 1:04:23
  are obvious. Clearly, Travis Hunter played for
• 1:04:25
  Colorado when Deion was the coach, recruited
• 1:04:27
  him there, star player, playing on both sides.
• 1:04:31
  We got all of that. But what I'd like for Travis
• 1:04:35
  Hunter to do is to take a look at Dion Prime
• 1:04:39
  Tom Sanders right now and take a look and see
• 1:04:45
  The suffering that his body has taken. Yeah as
• 1:04:50
  an older who's still in great shape You see that
• 1:04:54
  he's had, you know, cancer, which obviously this
• 1:04:57
  may or may not have, you know, been football
• 1:04:59
  related and what not, but he's had, you know,
• 1:05:01
  toes amputated. He's walking with a little bit
• 1:05:03
  of a limp. He's a beaten up former athlete, one
• 1:05:08
  of the greatest athletes of all time. And in
• 1:05:12
  his golden years when he has an opportunity to
• 1:05:14
  be a really, really good coach, his health is
• 1:05:17
  suffering. And I want Travis Hunter to take this
• 1:05:19
  as an opportunity to say, hey, I have a chance
• 1:05:23
  to pick one. So either play defensive, be a great
• 1:05:26
  defensive player, or be a fantastic wide receiver.
• 1:05:30
  And I think he has the talent to be able to pick
• 1:05:33
  one and be great and amazing at it. I'd like
• 1:05:36
  for him to just consider it because one thing
• 1:05:39
  that Deion had that Travis Hunter doesn't really
• 1:05:42
  have is Deion was stout. Like Deion was a bigger
• 1:05:46
  guy. Travis Hunter's really slim. He's a lighter
• 1:05:50
  guy and he's young and his youth and athleticism
• 1:05:54
  are gonna carry him for these first couple of
• 1:05:55
  years Then shits gonna start to hurt then it's
• 1:05:59
  gonna be tougher for you to get out of bed and
• 1:06:02
  So I would like to see him and not only that
• 1:06:06
  this is just his first year. So I'm gonna be
• 1:06:08
  fair to him This is his rookie year he's he's
• 1:06:11
  now coming in and he's trying to find his way,
• 1:06:15
  but The way this season is going for him statistically
• 1:06:18
  on both sides, I think it'd be smart for him
• 1:06:21
  as a player to sit down and try not to reinvent
• 1:06:24
  the wheel and try not to do something that insurmountable
• 1:06:30
  as to play on both sides and just pick one thing
• 1:06:33
  and be a master of that and then allow that to
• 1:06:38
  translate your greatness to everyone. Maybe they
• 1:06:40
  throw them in if they need a super athletic guy
• 1:06:43
  on a big play, sure, but Week to week, game to
• 1:06:48
  game, I just don't think it's wise for him, and
• 1:06:51
  I think it's tougher. It's different for Shohei,
• 1:06:53
  man. At some point, Shohei Otani's gonna stop
• 1:06:56
  hitting and pitching. It's gonna happen. He's
• 1:06:57
  not gonna do it for his entire career, I guarantee
• 1:07:00
  it. I'll put any amount of money on it, and it'll
• 1:07:02
  be quicker than you think, because I really think
• 1:07:04
  he's only got about three or four more years,
• 1:07:06
  and then they just say, you know what, dude,
• 1:07:07
  we're just gonna make you our ace. we don't need
• 1:07:10
  you to bat his numbers are going to fall as he
• 1:07:12
  ages these are the things that are going to happen
• 1:07:15
  it's great while it lasts but i'd like to see
• 1:07:18
  him shift the both of those guys i'd like to
• 1:07:20
  see them ship things because you only get one
• 1:07:22
  paycheck they can't pay you for playing two positions
• 1:07:26
  as great as otani is and as great as hunter is
• 1:07:29
  so so to respond to that dion obviously anytime
• 1:07:33
  you play football for a long time We see all
• 1:07:37
  these football players, you know, it takes a
• 1:07:39
  toll on your body. And I didn't even mention,
• 1:07:41
  like I said, he's playing, he played three phases
• 1:07:42
  of the game and then he went and played baseball.
• 1:07:45
  So, and played baseball. But you see with like
• 1:07:47
  Travis Hunter and Shohei, Shohei, Travis Hunter
• 1:07:49
  now out for the season with an injury. So like
• 1:07:52
  you said, his body is already his first year.
• 1:07:54
  He didn't make it through half the season. So
• 1:07:57
  he's already hurt out for the year. Shohei's
• 1:08:00
  already had arm, arm issue surgery. He bounced
• 1:08:03
  back. Pitched this year, obviously won the World
• 1:08:05
  Series, pitched in it. But yeah, for Shohei,
• 1:08:09
  I would be, I agree with that. I don't, he will
• 1:08:12
  not do both forever. I give him three, four more
• 1:08:15
  years. He will give up the pitching and he would
• 1:08:18
  just be a DH because obviously normally you can
• 1:08:23
  last longer hitting than pitching. We do have
• 1:08:25
  the, you know, every once in a while you get
• 1:08:27
  the Nolan Ryan, Justin Verlanders that pitch
• 1:08:30
  into their forties. So. Max Scherzer, again,
• 1:08:34
  he just pitched in the World Series too. So every
• 1:08:36
  once in a while, but arm issues are real in baseball.
• 1:08:39
  That's the biggest thing. Like you talked about
• 1:08:40
  injuries. So for Shohei, if we're talking about
• 1:08:43
  now picking a side, yeah, eventually I think
• 1:08:46
  he probably will be just a DH and hit. And Travis
• 1:08:49
  Hunter, again, it's up to him and the Jaguars
• 1:08:51
  to figure out, because they gave up a lot to
• 1:08:53
  get him. So they got to figure out then what's
• 1:08:56
  best and where's he going to help them the most
• 1:08:58
  and what's his best position. Yeah, and I and
• 1:09:03
  I the only thing I'm going to disagree with is
• 1:09:06
  this isn't a decision for the Jaguars We see
• 1:09:09
  what the Jaguar the Jaguars will run you into
• 1:09:11
  the ground. It's not a decision for them to make
• 1:09:14
  I think it's on hunter Okay, I think he needs
• 1:09:16
  to be smart. I think he needs to be smart and
• 1:09:17
  he needs to think about Forget I mean I went
• 1:09:21
  way into his his post football future Okay, even
• 1:09:26
  if he's just thinking about his actual football
• 1:09:28
  future his literal football future And look at
• 1:09:32
  what happened to him in year one, where everyone
• 1:09:35
  is a supreme athlete that you're on the field
• 1:09:37
  with. Your teammates and the defenses that you're
• 1:09:39
  playing. And it ended this season early, halfway
• 1:09:42
  through the year with an LCL injury. So keep
• 1:09:46
  those things in mind, young man. The league is
• 1:09:48
  never going to protect you. Because if he shreds
• 1:09:50
  his knees up and he's done. I mean, just think
• 1:09:52
  about it. We talked about this a couple of episodes
• 1:09:54
  before. Think about how fantastic RG3 was, man.
• 1:10:00
  RG3 was a stud athlete. One knee injury ruined
• 1:10:06
  his career. As a quarterback, ruined his career.
• 1:10:10
  So as great as Travis Hunter is, this could set
• 1:10:13
  you back and ruin your production to bake a living
• 1:10:17
  in the NFL. And you mentioned past episodes,
• 1:10:21
  we talked about the frailty of like a Jaden Daniels
• 1:10:24
  and Bryce Young, and we weren't even thinking
• 1:10:26
  about non -quarterbacks like Travis Hunter. He's
• 1:10:29
  a slim guy gotta bulk up a little bit and then
• 1:10:32
  you know Probably smart then if you know if you're
• 1:10:34
  gonna be small then you got to pick a side Yeah,
• 1:10:38
  pick a side man and just imperfect it and he's
• 1:10:40
  great enough at both sides to where if he doubted
• 1:10:44
  to be the league's best DB He can absolutely
• 1:10:48
  do it. Same thing with the wide receiver. If
• 1:10:50
  you want to be the guy who's celebrating in the
• 1:10:52
  end zone scoring touchdowns, you can focus and
• 1:10:54
  do that too. But, but doing this back and forth,
• 1:10:57
  playing both sides of the ball, thinking that,
• 1:10:58
  you know, you're, you're the iron man. Those
• 1:11:01
  days are numbered. I'm gonna close this out.
• 1:11:04
  I mean, I don't know how fun a topic that was,
• 1:11:06
  but I think it's fun if you think about which
• 1:11:09
  one's tougher and which one's better, which one's
• 1:11:11
  easier. I'm not gonna give you an answer, but
• 1:11:13
  I think we can both. I mean, I don't think there's
• 1:11:17
  an answer. I mean, like you said, I think we
• 1:11:18
  agree it's tougher in football, but I think we
• 1:11:21
  both can agree you are a superior super athlete
• 1:11:24
  if you're doing what either of these men are
• 1:11:26
  doing. Well, and I'll end it with this, and this
• 1:11:31
  is to give Shohei his flowers, even though he
• 1:11:32
  doesn't need them from me. We see what his greatness
• 1:11:37
  is and what has resulted in winning World Series.
• 1:11:42
  For him to be able to do that at the highest
• 1:11:44
  level. It answers the question. We know that
• 1:11:48
  it's a very hard, difficult thing to do. He did
• 1:11:51
  it at the highest level on the world's stage,
• 1:11:54
  and it results in championships. So kudos to
• 1:11:57
  him. And it is a tough thing to do, and it's
• 1:12:00
  the only reason why the only people that can
• 1:12:02
  compare him to is Baber. Yeah, and that right
• 1:12:05
  there says enough, right? Just show he plays
• 1:12:08
  against more than white people. That's all I
• 1:12:10
  got to say. Yeah, he does. Yeah, those Dominican
• 1:12:14
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• 1:12:18
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