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EP 35: Grading NFL Trades Made At The Trade Deadline · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL takes.
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Welcome to three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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Welcome to episode 35 of three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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I'm your host Joel and joining me as always is my Co host Will
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Not. Joining us as always is our Co
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host Avery who is still in Vegas after our Vegas trip this last
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weekend. We went to the Jaguars and
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Raiders game and I had a lot of fun.
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How about you Will? Oh, it was a blast, absolute
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blast. I mean, it's always going to be
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when you're in Vegas hanging out with the boys.
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I'm in the OG boys, right? We've known each other for what,
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25 years now? I think this is our first big
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trip together, just the just the three of us.
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Now I realize Avery was down there with his girlfriend and
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some of his other friends, but but still we hung out.
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I mean it was all day Sunday. I mean we picked him up at what
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10 in the morning and then dropped him off at at like 9:30
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at night or something like that. At least it felt like it.
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If not we were hanging all day. Good day to on the strip.
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Good day with at the game. Good day at the strip again,
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just fun. Just a fun, fun day.
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Great time. I first time in Vegas.
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I absolutely loved it. Want definitely want to go back.
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Yeah, that was the best trip we've had since Boy Scouts.
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Oh yeah, can't Merryweather, Right.
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We were all like, can't Merryweather.
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Yeah, we were all deep. Cut I I was not there for that.
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Lost up everybody, Just everybody.
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Just as if I was there. Yeah, exactly.
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Everyone thinks I was there because of course I was.
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I was not. All right, well, well, let's get
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this show started. So the NFL trade deadline has
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come and gone. And so today we're going to be
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grading some of the trades. We're not going to do all of
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them because there's a lot of smaller ones that nobody really
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cares about, but we're going to do some of the bigger trades
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that happened throughout the NFL.
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But to get us started, we'll go ahead and give us your Week 9
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recap. Week 9, Week 9 started down in
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Miami, Ravens at Dolphins. Lamar Pine is showing his first
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week back down there in Miami, proving the Ravens are going to
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be a different team for the second-half of this season.
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And the Dolphins? Not good.
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I'm shocked they weren't more. They weren't bigger sellers
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today. Yeah, me too. 49ers at Giants
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CMC is an absolute animal. It does not matter what team he
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plays for, he is the team and and every single week, I said
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last week, I said the week before, every single week, Matt
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Jones is making this question if they're going to put Brock Purdy
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back in the lineup. Remember, this is the same
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coaching staff that put in Brock Purdy over Trey Lance.
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They traded the farm for Trey Lance.
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So what you know what, Mr. Mr. Irrelevant last pick in the
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draft, we're going to go with that guy instead.
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So they have no problem benching their quote UN quote good
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players for the best guy available.
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So Trey Lance was not. Good.
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No, he wasn't. This may end up being like we're
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seeing in Arizona right now, a soft benching, they're calling
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it, where maybe this brought pretty injury.
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Just kind of keeps lingering and lingering and lingering, and now
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all of a sudden the season's over and they had to figure out
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what to do. So we'll see what happens there.
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We had Chargers at Titans. I did not realize this until
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this week. Chargers and Titans, same exact
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team, different luck. The Chargers win another one
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score game that on paper they should have been absolute
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blowout. I truly hope these Chargers fans
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are doing OK because if I was a fan of this team I would not be.
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This team does not look good, but their record says otherwise
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was that I am just absolutely torn down the middle.
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Then we had Vikings at Lyons, J McCarthy was in the Detroit and
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wins a big one. But before we crown JJA good
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quarterback. OK, let's come on pause.
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His receivers did a really good job of getting open.
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And I mean like high school and college open, not NFL open.
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And those are different things. Kevin O'Connor did a good job at
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the game plan for this game and that Vikings defense did an
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amazing job shutting down the Lions had it not been for a
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fumble. And he was fairly late in the
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game. And I've been for that fumble
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there where the Vikings get the ball inside their own 30.
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I think this is a different game, but you know, that's the
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way it goes. Falcons at Pat's, you never know
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what you're going to get to the Falcons.
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They get blown out or they they get blown out by 30 to the
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Panthers and they beat the Bills by 10.
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You surely never know. I don't fault the Patriots for
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this is all. The Falcons are better than
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their record says. Drake London has three ties but
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three touchdowns. Excuse me, Drake 100 * 3.
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Drake London has three touchdowns, but it doesn't even
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matter because you still have to make the extra point after all
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three of them. Colts at Steelers, Colts turn
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the ball over six times and still only managed to lose by 1
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score. Not a great sign for the
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Steelers, but the winners win. They'll take it and they're
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going to need it because the second-half of their schedule is
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not looking great for them. Broncos at Texans Well, let's
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hit the game winner down in Houston this Broncos.
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But this is Broncos team really, really good.
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Or they just playing down to their opponent, CJ Stroud.
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I got a concussion early in the 2nd and they still had to have a
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last second field goal to win this game at his Broncos team to
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kind of feel like a fraud more and more each week.
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It's kind of the game of the week, which should have been on
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paper terrible. Bears at Bengals here.
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I don't know what sales say besides this Bengals, besides
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what the Bengals offense is saying.
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Just get one stop. That's all they need to just get
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one stop. So if I could put him just put
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them up by by points and they were up by 4, I think 3,
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whatever it was, they were up by three with like 2 minutes, less
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than two minutes to go and they still couldn't do it.
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Joe Flacco is ninth this year in yards and passing yards.
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He's playing way too good for how old he is and for this
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defense to be letting them down to where they are.
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Just just wrap up. I mean, this is, this is like
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4th grade football level stuff. I, I referee 4th graders and
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their coaches are yelling from the sideline.
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Just wrap up, quick shoulder tackling.
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And you see in the last meaningful play of that game,
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when Colston Loveland just bounces off, the two guys just
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run into him with his shoulder. Just just put your arms around
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him and just fall down now, not hip drop, not that, but just
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just wrap up. And yeah, I don't know.
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I'm, I'm mad about it. They didn't.
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Even they didn't even try to like trip him, like they didn't
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even try to like reach their hand out and.
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Like, no, they just ran into his midsection with their shoulders
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and he all of the every single player in the NFL, including
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alignment, are too good at athletes and have too much
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athleticism. So if you run into them with
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your shoulders at the hips or above, they're not just going to
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fall down unless they don't see the hit coming or they're not
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braced for it. These guys have too much
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athleticism just to fall down like that.
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You have got to do something else anyway.
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Bears win. Oh, it's all that matters.
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Panthers at Packers. Packers go excuse me, Panthers
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go in the Lambo and win the football.
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Overwatchers the the football College.
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Everyone recall them are being very consistent this season.
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If you wear a bad uniform, you will lose.
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If you pick a good throwback, you will win.
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That has been consistent all season long.
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Panthers I I guess they're OK. Who knows, maybe the Packers
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aren't as good as we all think. Saints at Rams, Staffords throws
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for four tides, Rams win shut. A really rough draw for his
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first NFL start, but that's the way it goes sometimes.
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Raiders at Jags, as mentioned, we were at this game.
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This would have been the Milktoast game of the week.
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But then the fourth quarter and overtime happened.
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Brock Bowers had three, eight touch, three touchdowns, just
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like Drake Horn did. An NFL record was set.
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It was the kicking record 68 yard field goal by by Cam Middle
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which I was all right this time. Pull the curtain back.
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We were at the game when this record was set.
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I was at the urinal midstream when this happened.
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Holding Will's pizza. Now that is not a euphemism.
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He actually was waiting outside the bathroom holding my pizza
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for me. We were going to do a whole swap
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seat. I was standing shoulder to
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shoulder to Avery. We were both midstream.
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We hear. We hear over the the speaker in
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the bathroom. He hits the 68 yard Fugo and I
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go, oh, well, I guess this would be my memory forever.
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So that anyway, this game goes into overtime, takes all 10
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minutes of overtime. I do love the call to go for it
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with 16 seconds left in overtime, go for two.
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This is Vegas. We're going to gamble on it.
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That's just the way it works down there.
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That's the way it should work everywhere, right?
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We don't want any more ties. We don't need any more ties in
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the NFL. Let's just let's just end it.
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We can we win or we lose. My team is better than your
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team. We are not equal here.
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That's that's what's going on and we got Chiefs at Bills,
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Bills a big win over the Chiefs in the regular season, which
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people are saying is a bad thing.
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We of course they win. It's the regular season.
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OK, but it's better than losing that game.
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And then also they're wanting to play off.
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So you should get one win out of it.
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The Holmes gets hit a lot in this game, like like a good
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amount. There was a couple heads.
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I'm like, oh, there's no way that that wasn't a flag.
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And I haven't gone back through to see if all of them were
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flagged. But he got hit a lot.
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Still over 700. The total offense from both
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teams combined. 1 lone turnover late in the game, late in the
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fourth. There's a big difference.
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Mahomes threw 1/3 and 10 deep ball and it being picked and
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people are calling it an arm punt and Oh yeah, it was third
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and 10. You just threw it up.
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You have a third and 10 when you're down by 7.
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So 1 score game. You had to get your 10 and keep
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moving because it was it was just over 4 minutes left in the
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game. That was, it was a big crucial
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turnover right there. We got Seahawks at Commander Sam
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Donald put on that clinic in the first half and then in the
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second-half. Seattle team's looking real good
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right now. They have a tough schedule to
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finish it up, but they're built all around it, built pretty well
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all around to finish it out. And hold on, we'll get here in a
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second. I'm not not missing Jayden
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Daniels. We'll get down just a second at
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Cowboys, at our Cardinals, at Cowboys.
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I'm not sure if Marvin Harrison junior finally remember how to
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play football from his college days or the Dallas secondary is
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just that bad. Jacoby percent looks like an
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absolute All Star out there. But to be fair, so did that.
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That looked really good. That defense is just absolutely
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abysmal. And and truly, I mean, there was
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a lot of injuries. Joel, Joel and I Monday morning
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in Vegas were watching the the Pat McAfee Show and they were
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going over all the injuries that happened this weekend.
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There was a lot of injuries this weekend and some major injuries
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and I, I, I feel bad for him. Jane Daniels, Joe Alt, I didn't
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even remember them all, but there was some key, key injuries
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to a lot of big teams. And those are going to be huge
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difference makers when you come down the line like Washington.
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I'm not saying they're out of it, but when your starting
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quarterback goes down and now you're left with Marcus Mariela,
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who's been a perennial backup. He's great overall, but he's not
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the guy you that took your team to the NFC championship last
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year. He's not that guy.
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And then same thing with the Texans.
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What's his bucket? CJ Strav gets that concussion on
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a totally legal hit. Mind you, they threw the flag,
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They picked it up in review. That was a completely legal hit.
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He slid late. The defender was already in
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motion, shoulder padded across the chest.
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I don't want to hear about it. Completely legal hit.
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His head just hit the turf real hard and he goes out and it's
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concussion protocol. And so he'll probably be out for
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next week, if not 2. I mean, he will be out for next
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week, if not two weeks. Just a lot of big injuries in
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the NFL this week that contributed to a lot of a lot
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closer games. If you if you think back to two
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weeks ago out of blowouts and then this week a lot of close
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games. So, good week in the NFL overall
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good, good week. All right, yeah, I agree.
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And I just got to say, when we're at the Jags and Raiders
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game, I thought the game was going to be just terrible, not
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going into it, but like at half time it was 6 to 3.
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Yeah. And then it ended up being a 29
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to 30 game. The Raiders go for two and they
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lose on a pass that just hits the hits the ground.
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So I it ended up being just a great game in the second-half
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after the first half just looked like it was just going to be a
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dud. But it ended up being really
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good. So I'm glad we went.
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I had a lot of fun. But yeah, I would also.
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I'd also like to add real quick before we move on from that,
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with the Raiders not having the season that maybe they hope this
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year, I was a little concerned with, hey, how's the environment
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going to be in the stadium? Are we going to be loud or we're
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going to be involved? Having no rooting interest in
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either team? I was like, how?
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How is the vibe going to be in this stadium?
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Offense gets announced. So if you don't know, NFLNFL
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games are sometimes one game. The offense can announced in the
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defense in the special teams. They don't do the entire
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starting roster every single week like you see on TV.
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So they don't do the starting offense.
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When the offense is out there, there's any events.
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That's ATV thing. That's not the way the stadium
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goes. So the offense got announced
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this week, which would have been cool if the defense did have
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been great to hear Max Crosby come out.
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But Gino Smith got announced last and when Gino got announced
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and he ran out, the whole stadium was booing him.
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It was loud booing. I even mentioned it to Joe
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Neighbors. Oh, I wonder if Gino gets booed
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here. And then lo and behold, he got
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booed loud. And that's when it started
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before opening kickoff. And the vibes in that stadium,
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the fandom that that Las Vegas has was really good.
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It was a really good place to be.
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The vibes were great. The fans were involved, some
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ignorant, but that's just the way fandom is going to go no
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matter what stadium you're in. And I just, I hey, shout out Las
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Vegas. You are a town of transients.
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People are there and they happen to see a game because they're
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already there or they're going there just like us, just to see
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the game. Not a lot of people, our
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lifelong Vegas residence. And so you're going to have all
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the in and out fans, but but those that were there, they let
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everybody know they were there. It was a good time, real good
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time. It was, it was.
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And since we're talking about the Jaguars and the Raiders, we
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might as well just get started with the with the trade that the
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Jaguars and Raiders made, they must have just, you know, stayed
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after the game and just been like, look, we want this guy, so
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let's make it happen. I mean, he for sure gets on the
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team playing and goes home with him.
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Yeah, might as. Well.
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Might as well. But anyways, first one.
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That was the first one this morning, yeah.
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I think there was 1 before. That.
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Well, the first big name I guess.
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Maybe. Maybe I don't remember the
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order, but we'll we'll get started with this trade.
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So the Jaguars and Raiders made a trade.
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So the Jaguars get wide receiver Jacoby Myers and the Raiders get
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a fourth and a sixth round pick. So will what would you grade
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these two teams on this trade? I like this trade for both
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teams. I witnessed it right.
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They're not using Jacoby Myers the way that he could be used.
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I witnessed it in person in that game.
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Will actually said, oh, no, it was Avery.
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It was Avery. Avery during that game, he was
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like, do the Raiders even have any receivers at all?
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Like they're just throwing through the tight ends.
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That's it. It was it was two or three
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different tight ends and action Genti and that was it.
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That was it, which is pretty, which is pretty on brand for
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Pete Carroll, which Seahawks fans will come at me for that,
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But I don't really care. He's a big he's a big running
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back and and tight end guy. And so I like this trade for
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Bolton's. Obviously the the Raiders are in
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rebuilding. I don't think they're scrapping
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the whole thing because if they were, they did fire be careful
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already, But I, I think they're in rebuild and so getting draft
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picks in. I give this one probably AB,
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maybe AB minus all around. Because it's not you're not if
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you're the Jaguars, you're not getting anything major right.
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You're getting a filler piece. Travis Hunter, he went over IR.
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Brian Thomas apparently has a high ankle sprain or low grade
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lower ankle sprain. I don't know which way.
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It's a low grade ankle sprain with a tire low, I don't
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remember. And so he's going to be hindered
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if nothing else for a while. And so you bring an extra help.
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It's a guy who's had at least 700 yards in all of his seasons,
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at least 700 yards and all, all of his seasons there.
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So he's a, he's a proven veteran.
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He's a he's a role player. He's not going to be your your
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absolute starter, but you should help take some pressure off of
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1. Trevor Lawrence and two, Byron
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Thomas junior so And maybe this means that they can commit
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Travis Hunter to the defense a bit more rather than having him
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play so much offense. So I was actually going to ask
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you. So I actually have the same
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thoughts I was going to ask. Like, do you think that the
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Jaguars trading for Jacoby Myers let's the Jaguars play Travis
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Hunter on the defensive side more?
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I do, I think it, I think you add maybe not an equivalent
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skill wise. I think I think Travis Hunter
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may be a better athlete than Jacoby Myers, but Jacoby Myers
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is a more refined wide receiver than Travis Hunter.
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And so, so I think you had a bit more skill and that was or in
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that sense. And so I, I think we will see
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less Travis Hunter because it's already happening.
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He's all right. He's on IR right now, which
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means it's at least four weeks. And so if you're getting hurt in
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your first season and you're playing both sides of the ball,
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we're going to go ahead and pick because you're getting worn
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down. Your body is going to get
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degraded way too soon, deteriorated, degraded as
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something different. My bad, everybody.
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Same. Thing body degrading full
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different topic anyway, but his body's deteriorating already and
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it's his first year and so let's let's just have him pick a side.
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We like him better this corner. I like him better as a corner as
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well. Feel like good corners are
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harder to come across. If he's going to be good, which
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I do believe he's been pretty good at in the secondary, then
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let's go ahead and just move him over there.
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Right. And I agree, I, I agree.
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I think the Jaguars seeing that Travis Hunter is has been hurt
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and the way that they're using him, I think that they're going
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to use him more specifically on the defensive side of the ball.
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And I think getting Jacoby Myers allows them to do that.
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I think they still will use Travis Hunter on offense, but I
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think it's going to be more for like a more specific role, like
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very specific plays on offense. And I think it allows him to
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just play a more specific role in the secondary and on defense
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and allows him to get better at that that position rather than
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just, you know, doing 50% of time here and 50% of time there.
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So I think having Jacoby Myers just gives them a more
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consistent option that they can use on offense and allow Travis
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Hunter to specialize in one thing rather than doing both,
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even though I know he wants to do both.
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And I think they still will use them at both, but just a little
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bit less on offense and more on defense.
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So for this trade, I give both sides ABI think the Jaguars.
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It's a it's a solid move. It's a solid move.
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It doesn't do anything to make me think that the Jaguars are
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going to be contenders. I still don't think they're
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contenders, but it's a solid move overall.
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And and really the biggest reason I say it's a solid move
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is because Jacoby Myers is 1. He's a solid player.
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And two, what we just talked about with Travis Hunter, it
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allows him to be in a more specialized position rather than
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splitting time here and there for the Raiders.
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I think it's a solid B because Jacoby Myers was not going to be
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there next season anyway and they just needed to trade him to
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get something back. And so, you know, he already
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requested a trade. He's on the last year of his
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deal. He's not going to be there next
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season. So you just trade the guy
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because you're already in a losing situation.
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You're not going to be in the playoffs, you're not going to
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win anything. And so you just get something
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back for him. It it wasn't like a, it wasn't
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like a lot of compensation, but it's a fourth and a sixth round
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pick. So you got something for a guy
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who's not going to be there and who didn't want to be there.
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So I think it's a solid trade for both sides.
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Will, I'm going to Will, I'm going to let you go ahead and
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pick the next trade we talked about here.
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We'll just kind of swap. We'll just go.
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I'll pick one, you pick one. Yeah, let's see what the wide
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receivers Seattle Seahawks obtained from the New Orleans
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Saints wide receiver Rashid Shaheed for a fourth round pick
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this year and a fifth round pick this year.
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Please, Angel. So for the Seahawks, I'm going
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to give it an A. And the reason I give it an A
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for the Seahawks is because you already have JSN, who is
20:24
unguardable. This year.
20:26
Nobody has been able to guard JSN, and they do have some other
20:29
really nice weapons. Sam Donald is just balling.
20:32
He's getting the ball to everybody on that field.
20:34
He's getting the ball to guys that we've never heard of
20:36
before, but now you have a legitimate deep threat in that
20:41
offense, a guy who runs A43 fourty, a guy who is known as a
20:44
big play guy, and he comes into this offense and it's only going
20:48
to help Sam Darnold. It's only going to help JSNII.
20:53
Really, really like this move for the Seahawks.
20:55
I think they maybe gave up a little bit too much, maybe just
21:01
a little bit too much, which is why I didn't give it an A plus.
21:03
I still love the move though, because the Saints got more for
21:07
Shaheed than the Raiders got for Jacoby Myers.
21:10
So the Seahawks gave up more. But I feel like with what they
21:15
already have on their offense and what they needed in that
21:18
offense, this is a a perfect move for the Seattle Seahawks
21:22
and for the Saints. I think it's a ABI give it ABI
21:26
mean the Saints are bad. They're going to be bad.
21:29
You know, the reason I, I give it a, a solid B is because four
21:34
years ago when Shahid came into the league, he was undrafted.
21:37
So just four years ago, the Saints spent literally nothing
21:40
on this guy as far as draft capital to get him on their
21:43
team. They developed him and now
21:45
they're getting picks back for him.
21:48
So it's four years later, but you're getting compensation that
21:51
you didn't originally spend on this guy.
21:53
So I think it's a solid trade. The Saints weren't going
21:56
anywhere. I, I don't think he didn't want
21:58
to be there, but I think it's a, you know, you might as well, if
22:02
somebody's looking for him and you can get something that's
22:04
going to help you build your team in the future, you might as
22:06
well do it right. It's not like he's a superstar.
22:09
He's not a superstar by any means.
22:10
You didn't trade away a superstar.
22:12
He's just a solid guy who can be a deep threat.
22:15
And that's what the Seahawks are getting.
22:16
They're getting a deep threat who's going to open things up
22:19
even more for JSN, which is crazy because he's just always
22:23
open, it seems like. And so I actually, I really love
22:26
the trade for the Seattle Seahawks.
22:27
They're looking scary right now. I don't.
22:32
I don't want to say this because I absolutely hate, I hate this,
22:36
but the Seahawks could actually be the best team in the NFC
22:39
right now. Well, top two, number two.
22:47
The Seahawks are scary, man. They're scary, right?
22:49
Now, yeah, they're like I said, they're very good.
22:52
They are. They are very well built.
22:54
They're very well coached. MacDonald is it?
22:58
It's not Mike. What is that McDonald?
23:00
Yeah, OK, this is Mike. Yeah.
23:02
Their coach has come in and he has proved himself to be his own
23:05
coach. And so I I think the Seattle
23:08
Seahawks are, they're well coached all around and they've
23:11
got a good team. I don't want to say wonderful
23:13
because I don't like the Seahawks.
23:15
It's a personal thing, but they're very good.
23:19
It doesn't honestly, it doesn't really like pain me to say that.
23:21
Truly. They are like it's it's
23:22
inarguable. That team is very good.
23:25
They offensively and defensively.
23:27
One thing I like about this trade is that so two weeks where
23:30
they had to buy week and then this week Cooper Cup still out
23:33
with a lingering heel and hamstring injury.
23:36
And so you get a person in who, like you said, is I think this
23:41
is his fourth year in the league, right?
23:44
Hers is his fourth, Shaheed. Yeah, this is his fourth.
23:46
Year, this is fourth year he used to come in, he used to
23:48
learn under Cooper Cup. Cooper Cups got skills that
23:52
every single wide receiver in the NFL can learn from.
23:55
And so it's come in and and even though he's not playing, word
23:59
from Seattle is that he's been more like a coach and mentor to
24:02
like the rest of the players. And I think that has a huge
24:04
benefit as to as to what why they're being so successful.
24:08
And so you bring another piece. And so when Cooper cups healthy,
24:11
you to put Cooper in the slot, have him be your your short
24:15
route guy, maybe your mid route guy, have JSM be your short
24:18
route guy who's going to break things open and you actually
24:20
heat downfield as your downfield threat.
24:22
I like your grades a lot. Pretty, pretty milk toast for
24:26
the for the Saints, right? The same thing as the Raiders.
24:29
You're looking to to get rid of somebody who you can live
24:32
without because you're bad. Anyway, The old is that Matt
24:37
Nagy with the Bears said that, oh, our defense was bad.
24:40
We called which, which Khalil Mack should be bad without him.
24:43
One of those kind of things that yeah, but you know, he's a real
24:46
good player anyway. And so, so you get a couple
24:50
pieces in 4th and 5th and, and I, I think a big, a big piece of
24:54
this, and this will come up later when we talk about the,
24:56
the sauce garden trade, is that you as the Saints are valuing
25:02
your player, who you got undrafted against, what you're
25:06
giving up or what you're getting.
25:08
So we're giving away 1 undrafted guy for a guy who's supposed to
25:13
be on paper better. He's a fourth or, and a fifth
25:16
round pick. And so, and so I, I like that.
25:20
I, I like it a lot for the Saints, but it's pretty milk
25:23
toast. I think this gets, this gets
25:26
probably AB plus for the Seahawks for me, and either AC
25:30
plus or AB minus for the Saints. It's it's this is.
25:33
It's nothing. All right, so while we're on the
25:35
topic of the Seahawks, will I got to ask, is Jackson Smith and
25:39
Jig with the best receiver in the NFL right now?
25:44
Because Pook has been hurt off and on throughout the season,
25:47
it's hard to argue with. I, I don't know if I can make
25:49
that statement with divinity, but that going through all the
25:55
stats looking up, I mean, it's hard to argue with though.
25:58
He came out before the student Sergeant said he wanted to be
26:00
and he's making a real good case for himself.
26:05
I think JSN is the number one receiver in the NFL right now.
26:10
He is to me, he is by far the top receiver in the NFL right
26:13
now. He is crazy good right now.
26:16
He is unguardable. He's 5th in receptions.
26:18
He's first in receiving yards. He's averaging 16.3 yards per
26:22
catch. He's on pace for over 2000
26:24
yards. If you compare his season to how
26:28
good Jamar Chase was last season, you know there's some
26:32
things where Jamar Chase was better, but overall JSN is
26:36
crushing it right now. So you look at Jamar Chase.
26:38
So last year he had seven games with eight plus catches and he
26:43
had five games with 100 plus receiving yards.
26:46
Jackson Smith and Jiggles worst game this year is 4 catches for
26:49
79 yards. He's played eight games.
26:52
He has six of those where he has 100 plus yards.
26:55
One of those is for 96 yards and he has 8 plus catches in six of
26:59
those eight games. That is insane.
27:02
That's very good, yeah. Very good at at worst.
27:06
At worst, I think JSN is a top three receiver right now.
27:09
At worst. I, I, I I think it's safe to say
27:13
he is best right now. Yeah, the the guy's just playing
27:17
out of his mind. I mean, Sam Donald and JSN right
27:20
now, they're a scary combination.
27:22
It's it's scary. But yeah, I think JSN is the
27:25
best receiver in the NFL right now.
27:27
All right, so we'll move on to the next trade.
27:30
So let's go with some Colts and Jets here.
27:34
This was a good one. So the Colts traded for
27:38
cornerback Sauce Gardner and The Jets get a 2026 and a 2027 first
27:44
round pick, plus wide receiver AD Mitchell.
27:48
So will what grades would you give the Colts and The Jets in
27:51
this trade? Man, OK, I think for The Jets,
27:58
I'm giving this either an A minus or AB plus.
28:04
OK, I, I, I mean, nobody even had Sash Gardner on the might be
28:11
traded list to start today. And all of a sudden that news
28:14
breaks and it's like, Oh my gosh, what?
28:17
There wasn't even a rumor about it or anything.
28:19
No, this was very under wraps and then some reports have come
28:24
out and said that the the Colts and Jets have been working this
28:27
for a few weeks. So this isn't like a make a
28:30
phone call today thing. This is a few weeks.
28:34
Carly Ersay gets on the phone, puts the headset down, says
28:36
listen, we doing this or not. Now I obviously have no idea
28:39
which one of the the earth say big three made the deal, but I I
28:44
like this a lot for both teams. I think I think this is an A
28:49
probably just a solid a for the for the Colts.
28:52
They get an extra piece in that in that secondary they are
28:55
betting on themselves. Chaos is a is a wonderful,
28:58
wonderful player. He's super, super good.
29:01
I didn't know the right adjectives to use here.
29:04
He's great. He's one of the best corners in
29:06
the game. Like, like he's one of the best
29:08
corners in the league. And so they are betting that
29:11
they won't be able to find that quality of player at the end of
29:15
the first round this year or probably what was most likely to
29:18
be the end of the first round this year or what they're hoping
29:21
is the end of the first round next year.
29:23
Right now they're projecting pick 31 or 32 or something like
29:26
that with just based on records, I would say it's whoever wins
29:29
the Super Bowl gets the last pick and runner up and so on and
29:31
so forth. And so they're thinking that
29:33
we're going to have pick 30 through 32 right now.
29:37
And so we're not going to find the guy of this quality and and
29:41
because we're getting them in here, we're going to be in the
29:44
same boat next year. We're getting picked 31 or 32.
29:47
And so I like this pick a lot from the Saints.
29:50
What the Colts, excuse me, the, The Jets just signed sauce to a
29:57
four year deal. And so they don't have to worry
29:59
about that. They just get the whole
30:00
contract. They're paying them like 700,000
30:03
for the rest of this year. They're paying them a bag of
30:05
rocks for the end of this season to come in and go on the Super
30:08
Bowl run. Now it it will be a financial
30:11
burden the next couple years. It's like an average of 25.1
30:14
million over the next three years after this.
30:16
And so so it's going to be a big hit because you're going to have
30:19
to pay guys like Daniel Jones needs to get paid.
30:22
I think John Taylor's contract is up.
30:24
Like, there's some big pieces they're going to have to get
30:26
paid in that Colts team. But with what we've seen in the
30:28
NFL, that just doesn't seem to matter.
30:31
It seems like there's just money for everyone.
30:33
Not quite baseball, no salary cap money.
30:36
But the way these contracts are working out, it's OK.
30:38
So we're going to pay this guy $7 million this year, but next
30:42
year he'll get he'll get $30 million.
30:44
And this other guy, he'll get 30 million this year, but next year
30:46
he'll get 7. And he's doing this like
30:48
balancing act where everyone's getting all the money they want
30:51
and it just seems to be working. I don't know how it works.
30:54
Obviously I'm not a financial guy.
30:56
I'm not in the NFL financial world, but it's working for him.
31:00
I like this pick our earliest trade a lot for for the Saints
31:04
flip that's twice. I like this pick a lot for the
31:08
Colts and The Jets. The trade here.
31:11
I I said pick again, man, I'm doing real good today.
31:15
I'm just so good at this. I I professional podcast right
31:18
here, guys. Don't ever forget it.
31:20
But anyway, what do you think about it?
31:22
So just going off of the contract thing real quick, I
31:26
think that I don't think it would be a problem for the Colts
31:30
moving forward with the contract because I I know that, you know,
31:34
like Daniel Jones and guys like Jonathan Taylor are going to get
31:36
paid, But I don't see them. And I could be wrong here, but I
31:40
don't see them being like, I want to be the highest paid
31:43
quarterback. I want to be the highest paid
31:45
running back. Like, I don't see that happening
31:47
because I feel like they've been losing for so long that when you
31:51
finally get that taste of success, you want more of it,
31:54
right? And so if it was me, I would
31:57
still want to get paid, but I don't think I would go out there
32:01
and be like, I want to be the highest paid player in my
32:03
position because I want I want to keep winning.
32:07
Those players want to keep winning.
32:08
They don't want to just win for one season.
32:10
They want to keep winning because none of them have won
32:13
anywhere. They haven't won anything.
32:16
It was just a couple years ago that Jonathan Taylor did hold
32:18
out for the first three or four games of the season for a
32:21
contract. But but now he's winning.
32:25
It's different now. It's.
32:27
Different now and you're only able to do that and this this is
32:31
a this is a know your work scenario.
32:33
You're only able to hold out so many times for the whole NFL
32:37
says we're not touching this guy.
32:38
Yeah, Jonathan Taylor, very, very good, probably has a maybe
32:42
1-2 more holdouts left in him. But it's not something you want
32:45
to be consistent about because you get you get like black
32:48
listeners. Oh, he he's going to get held
32:50
out or he's going to be a holdout.
32:52
He's going to fight us for the contract that he wants.
32:54
And that's not really what these players are trying to do.
32:57
So anyway, continue. Right.
32:59
And, and if it was either of those guys, I think it would be
33:02
Jonathan Taylor, But I, I definitely don't see Daniel
33:05
Jones being like, I'm going to, I'm going to be the highest rate
33:07
quarterback in the league. Like I feel like everybody would
33:09
just be like, no, sorry, we're not doing that.
33:11
But I don't see him doing that anyway.
33:13
But I feel like because they're getting a taste of winning and
33:15
they want more winning. I think that I don't, I don't
33:19
see that happening. But for the Colts, I give this
33:21
trade an A+. They knock this out of the park.
33:24
They are going all in right now. They they're putting all their
33:27
pieces in this season. This reminds me of when the Rams
33:30
traded for Jalen Ramsey. And I'm not, I'm not saying the
33:33
Colts are going to win the Super Bowl, but they're definitely
33:35
going to have a shot at it, that's for sure.
33:37
They they're going all in. They're going all in right now.
33:39
They're trading their picks to get a guy who's going to help
33:42
them. He's going to be a shutdown
33:43
corner for that team. And really what I love about
33:46
this, why I gave it an A+ is because they addressed their
33:49
biggest need on defense. They're a solid defense overall.
33:54
They're tied for fourth most sacks.
33:55
They're 7th in points per game allowed.
33:57
They're fourth in rushing yards allowed.
33:58
They're top five in takeaways. They're one weakness.
34:01
They were 26th in passing yards allowed, 26th and you get a shut
34:06
down corner now to solve your biggest weakness on defense.
34:10
So not only are you going all in, but you're going all in by
34:13
solving a problem for your team. I love this trade for the Colts,
34:17
absolutely love it for The Jets. I give it AB Plus, their team
34:21
sucks. They know they're not going
34:23
anywhere. They just needed to get rid of
34:24
guys. And if they're going to get rid
34:25
of guys, get as much as you can back, right?
34:29
The you know, it's not an A for me because those first rounders
34:33
are going to be late first round picks.
34:36
And I just don't, you know, they probably didn't have a whole lot
34:38
of options because I don't see a team that's, you know, like in
34:40
the middle tier, like trading for a guy like Sauce Gardner and
34:43
giving up what they gave up to get him.
34:45
So they probably didn't have a whole lot of options.
34:48
But that's the reason why it's not an A.
34:49
Also, the fact that The Jets, they have all these picks now
34:52
and they're probably going to fumble it somehow.
34:56
So that's why I didn't give it an A.
34:57
It's hard to give The Jets an A at anything because of just,
35:01
they're The Jets. So I give the solid B Plus,
35:05
though I think it's a good move for both sides, but the Colts
35:08
absolutely knocked this trade out of the park.
35:10
So the Colts also have Kenny Moore.
35:13
Is that the right guy? I'm thinking of that sounds he's
35:15
another quarterback. So they've got they've got 2
35:18
very well paid shutdown corners. I think Kenny Moore has been
35:21
hurt a little bit this year. And so I I think that that
35:24
contributes as to why their their past defense has been
35:27
subpar. But I like this movie a lot for
35:30
the Colts. It's one of these things that
35:31
you're going out with and it just kind of needs to pay off
35:33
before I can fully grade it, right?
35:36
And these are just. These are just instant
35:38
reactions. Sure, sure, sure.
35:40
It's kind of like the draft, like you think that somebody has
35:42
a good draft, but you have to wait like, you know, three years
35:45
before you can really know what the what the the grade is.
35:49
So I will you're next pick. Pick us another trade.
35:53
Let's stay with The Jets. This is a good one.
35:57
Yeah, Jets acquire Mozzie Smith. Yeah, that's the end of this
36:02
deal we want to talk about. Dallas Cowboys acquire Quinn and
36:08
Williams from the New York Jets for first round draft pick.
36:13
The highest Dallas pick, which I'm not quite sure what that
36:17
wording means. Is that either The Jets or
36:19
either the Packers or Dallas? Trevor one is higher.
36:24
Is that what that means? I was under the impression that
36:27
it was Dallas's pick, but it was never very.
36:31
It was never very specific anywhere that I saw it, so I
36:34
don't actually know if it's the Packers pick or the Dallas pick.
36:38
Everything I saw said it was Dallas's pick, but it wasn't
36:41
very specific so I'm not actually sure.
36:44
Interesting. Anyway, that's next year's pick.
36:46
Next year's first round pick and this year's second round pick,
36:50
as well as Mozzie Smith. So they get Quinn Williams.
36:54
They trade away a first round pick next year, a second round
36:58
pick this year and Mozzie Smith to bring in Quinn Williams.
37:02
Drill initial thoughts and reactions.
37:05
Let me just let me just get started by saying this.
37:07
Can we just give a round of applause to Jerry Jones for
37:09
doing literally anything at the trade deadline?
37:12
Just as there's a round of applause?
37:14
Yeah, just literally anything. It has been years.
37:18
I mean, I'm a bit shocked when he came out and said, well, we
37:23
got picked now and what's to say we don't trade him right now?
37:25
And then we went nine weeks and nothing happened.
37:28
I imagined we were going to go another 10 weeks, season was
37:31
going to end and nothing was going to happen.
37:33
Dallas has not often been big buyers.
37:38
I think that's fair to say at the trade deadline.
37:40
Often isn't even. Isn't even.
37:43
Yeah, I'm just, I'm just putting qualifiers on.
37:45
It's not getting roasted on the Internet.
37:48
But they're they're often very quiet.
37:50
That's a trade deadline. And their entire fandom is
37:52
yelling please do something. We are 8 and eight for the 10th
37:56
year in a row under Jason Garrett.
37:58
Please do something. And so obviously that's not the
38:02
scenario. Now, I understand they have a
38:03
different coach, different, different everything.
38:05
Just bear with me. But but here they are making a
38:09
big move here anyway. Continue.
38:12
All right, so for the Cowboys, I feel like Cowboys fans are going
38:16
to really love this trade, but I'm giving this trade AB minus
38:19
for the Cowboys. And the reason I'm giving this
38:21
trade AB minus for the Cowboys is because I feel like the
38:24
Cowboys are just going in circles at this point.
38:27
You trade away Micah Parsons, who is a generational pass
38:30
rusher, the best player you have on your team.
38:34
Some could even say the best defensive player in the league.
38:36
Some could. You could make that argument.
38:38
And then you bring in Quinn Williams, who is a very good
38:41
player. I don't think he's a
38:42
generational player by any means.
38:43
He's a very good player. But you originally got in return
38:48
for Michael Parsons, you got two first round picks.
38:51
Now you give up a first round pick to get Quinn and Williams.
38:55
So if you look at it just from a Cowboy's perspective, just
38:59
without the other teams involved, just from a Cowboy's
39:01
perspective, here's what Dallas gets and what Dallas loses.
39:05
Dallas gets Quentin Williams in a 2026 first round pick, and
39:09
they lose Micah Parsons in a 2026 second round pick and
39:14
Mozzie Smith. It doesn't feel that great.
39:17
And a 2027 first round pick? Well.
39:21
Did I say that round? You.
39:23
No, you. You just missed a piece.
39:25
You said they trade, they get a 2026 first round pick.
39:29
No, no, because they gave that up.
39:31
Oh, because I see, I see, I see, I see.
39:34
You're zeroing things out. Right, exactly.
39:37
So that's why I'm just looking at it strictly from the Cowboys
39:39
perspective of what they have now and what they lost.
39:43
And it's right now. I'm sorry I.
39:45
Didn't follow that. Yeah, so just to review that, So
39:48
what? After all the trades, after all
39:50
the trades, and just from a Cowboys perspective, without the
39:52
Packers or The Jets involved, the Dallas Cowboys now have
39:56
Quinn and Williams and a 2026 first round pick in addition to
39:59
their 2026 first round pick. So they have one additional
40:02
first round pick and they lost Micah Parsons, a generational
40:06
pass rusher. A 2026 second round pick, which
40:10
by the way is only going to be about 15 picks worse than the
40:15
2026 first round pick and Mozzie Smith.
40:19
It doesn't feel like it's that great.
40:20
Honestly, I would rather have, I would rather have the two first
40:26
round picks and I know they're going to be, they're not going
40:29
to be super great picks. They're going to be in the in
40:32
the 20s, probably late 20s, although who knows what you're
40:36
getting with the Packers. They're going to be in the 20s
40:37
somewhere, They're going to be in the 20s somewhere.
40:40
But I personally would have the two first round picks.
40:44
That's just me. I feel like it's kind of just
40:47
going in circles. You get rid of Michael Parsons,
40:49
you bring in Quinnie Williams, you get a first round pick, you
40:51
lose a first round pick and you lost the second round pick.
40:55
Right. I think they need an upgrade.
40:56
I think they obviously need an upgrade.
40:58
Different tackle. I, I, I do, this is going to be
41:03
a bit of ignorance. Does Dallas run a 3 four or a
41:05
four three? Do you know or do they swap a
41:08
lot? I stopped caring about Dallas's
41:11
defense a long time ago. So so they're going to have to
41:15
start running a four, three, if they don't already, they're
41:18
going to have to. They've got Kenny Clark and now
41:20
Quinny Williams. You're not going to leave one of
41:23
those two guys in the sideline. You're playing both of those
41:25
guys all game long. I don't know.
41:28
You're trading. You're trading an edge rusher.
41:30
When all is said and done, you're trading a good pass
41:33
rusher to stop the run. That's what you're doing because
41:37
you're clawed in the middle and you're trying to stop the run.
41:39
Right. And, and we've talked about this
41:41
before, Will is what's been the biggest problem for the Cowboys,
41:44
specifically in the play offs, is stopping the run.
41:46
They can't stop the run. Now that this move looks good to
41:51
stop the run, it looks good, but what about everybody else on
41:56
your defense with Quinn and Williams, you probably have one
42:02
actually really good player on your defense, right?
42:06
And that's not to say that some of the other guys aren't good.
42:08
I love Deron Bland. I love Deron Bland as of a
42:11
former Cowboys fan. He did, he did and and CD Lamb
42:16
let everybody know about it too. Did you see his face?
42:19
Did you see his face after that? I did not.
42:21
Yeah, he was just on the sidelines, like, oh.
42:24
Dude, I mean roasted. Was that on the touchdown on
42:27
Marvin Harrison's touchdown? Yeah.
42:31
Oh man, that was as soon as that happens.
42:32
He was such. Oh, that was bad.
42:35
Yeah, CD lambs on the sideline. He's just sitting there and he's
42:38
like, oh dude, he just got cooked.
42:41
So I I love to Ron Bland. Like, he's a solid player, but
42:44
he's not a star. Dallas's defense now has one
42:48
legitimately good player that you can consider a star.
42:51
And it was the same thing with with Mike Parsons.
42:54
It's just a different position. My defense was bad with Micah
42:57
Parsons. It's still bad.
42:58
Now it just feels like the Cowboys are just going in
43:01
circles. That's why I give it AB minus
43:04
and it probably could be lower aside from the fact that Jerry
43:08
Jones actually did something. So that's why I gave it a little
43:12
bit higher over grade. But it just it could be AC
43:15
honestly, it it just kind of just cancels out.
43:17
But for The Jets, I think that this is an A and this has kind
43:22
of has to do with the the other trade that they made because
43:25
they're just stockpiling picks right now.
43:28
Right. So The Jets now have two first
43:31
rounders in 2026 and two second rounders in 2026, and they have
43:35
three first round picks in 2027. If that's not an AI, don't know
43:41
what is. I wonder, I mean, just like you
43:47
said, we don't trust The Jets to make the right picks though.
43:50
Then then that's The thing is I'm not basing it off of who
43:53
they pick at all because we just don't know.
43:55
This is just and this is just pick value, right?
43:58
This is right now. This is like Madden status, like
44:00
this is like Madden franchise mode and you just traded all
44:03
your good players for a bunch of first round picks and hopefully
44:06
you get something good. Like obviously in Madden you
44:09
can, you know, you can cheat, you may get really good.
44:13
Yeah, you can make it happen. But like right now, like the IT
44:17
feels like The Jets are like on franchise mode and Madden and
44:20
they just got a whole bunch of first round picks to just get a
44:24
whole bunch of good players. And that that doesn't have, you
44:26
know, my grade has nothing to do with who they could pick because
44:29
we just don't know. They'll fumble it somehow.
44:32
They'll fumble it just like the Browns do.
44:33
They're fumble. They'll fumble everything, but
44:37
this is this is not based off of that at all.
44:39
This is just the pics that they received.
44:41
This is to me, this feels like Kevin Costner's coming in draft
44:45
day status to to Dallas or back to Indianapolis and and they
44:52
trade, they trade back. Like we'll give you this bag of
44:58
rocks and you're going to give us our first round pick back
45:00
kind of thing. Or, or actually, we don't want
45:02
our first round pick. You're going to give us your
45:04
first round pick and we're going to give you, I don't know,
45:09
Dwight Freeney, who's been retired for 10 years, just
45:12
something like something like that.
45:13
It's something going to happen with these Jets, which is too
45:16
bad to say about The Jets, but I mean, they're just not trustable
45:21
currently. Right, exactly what are your
45:23
grades for this trade will. For The Jets, I actually think,
45:27
and this to me is strictly because I don't trust them.
45:31
I'm not just going off pick value.
45:33
I think this is this is future facing.
45:36
I actually give them AB minus for this.
45:39
Their defense got worse today. You are, if you're playing The
45:44
Jets the rest of the season, you are salivating.
45:47
Your offense is solid and you're like, thank goodness we don't
45:50
have to play against S Gardner or Quinn and Williams anymore is
45:55
the Bills. I don't even know if the Bills
45:57
play The Jets again this year. They may have already played
45:58
them twice. I don't think so.
46:01
I think they play. I think they play him one more
46:03
time. Schedule moving forward Oh my
46:06
gosh, they play the Browns. Could you imagine how much I, I
46:11
mean, if you were Dylan Gabriel and you are struggling through
46:16
your first 5 starts or whatever it's been and then three days,
46:20
what, 5 days, excuse me, Before you play the Browns or before
46:23
you play The Jets. They get rid of their two best
46:25
defensive players and you're like, I'm sorry, Now we can run
46:28
and throw the ball on them. This is going to be great.
46:32
And then they play, I mean, they've got the Patriots and
46:34
then the Ravens and the Falcons. The Dolphins, by the way, hey,
46:38
we might actually get in the win out of this thing.
46:40
The Saints probably looking for a win here.
46:42
Now they, they do play the Bills last game in the regular season,
46:45
but it's not going to matter at that point.
46:47
I mean the I don't know, I give this I, I give this a bad grade.
46:55
I see for the for The Jets, I think around the land, because
47:00
you made your team works today. Your team will not get better
47:04
until 2027 based off of the moves you made today.
47:09
You did not, you did not win. You didn't win and it's it's
47:17
it's not provable that you won for two more years.
47:21
That means you didn't win. You're making risks today that
47:24
have a two year payout in a league is all about winning
47:28
right now. The entire NFL is when did you
47:31
last win? When was your last Super Bowl?
47:33
When was your last championship game?
47:35
When was your last this that and the other players get paid based
47:39
off of statistics, which is what did you do this year?
47:42
It's not a what can you do potential gets you cut from the
47:46
lake stats and right now get you paid.
47:50
And right now The Jets made their team worse today.
47:52
They made their team worse. So this gets AC.
47:55
I'm probably down grading this to AC minus for The Jets.
47:59
Honestly, the more I talk about, the worse equation to keep
48:02
getting now for Dallas, kind of like you said, I don't think
48:08
Dallas's defense is better to well, actually I take that back.
48:12
I do think Dallas defense is better today than it was 3 weeks
48:18
ago because you got you got a big upgrade, a big upgrade at
48:23
defensive tackle. Mozzie Smith, not great.
48:26
He's not horrible, not great. Corny Williams is great.
48:30
I'm sure we haven't talked about yet.
48:32
You got Logan Wilson. They had the worst middle
48:35
linebacker starting in the league.
48:37
I mean, you can just, you can watch all the film you want in
48:39
this guy that yeah, I don't even know what his name is.
48:42
He is terrible. He doesn't know how to play man
48:45
coverage. He doesn't know how to play his
48:46
own coverage. He can't stop the run.
48:49
That guy was terrible. And so your defense did get
48:52
better off of this. Right now, I don't think you're
48:55
doing enough to make your team a contender.
48:58
I don't think you're doing enough to make your team a
48:59
playoff team. And so was that.
49:01
And and this is where I'm going to talk a circle here, giving
49:05
away your future when you're not good enough to be good.
49:09
Like with the Colts, they are thinking we have, we have a
49:12
late, late, late, late 20s, early 30s pick here.
49:16
So we're going to be good. So we can we can finance our
49:20
future a little bit to stay good right now.
49:22
But when you're already not good, you should not be
49:25
financing your future. Dallas should not be getting rid
49:28
of their picks for the future for good players right now.
49:31
I felt like they were buyers when they should have been
49:33
sellers. Not that they should be selling
49:35
anyway on that team, but they but they weren't buyers when it
49:39
needed to be buyers a few years ago.
49:41
And so for for Dallas, I give this trade ABB plus maybe right
49:47
in between B&B plus because you did get better, but the cost may
49:52
have been too high. Yep, I agree.
49:57
But one more time, let's just applaud Jerry for just doing.
49:59
Really. And just real quick here,
50:01
Dallas, Dallas also acquired from the Cincinnati Bengals
50:05
Logan Wilson and middle linebacker, the linebacker from
50:09
the Bengals for a seventh round pick.
50:11
I give this an A for Dallas and I give this an F for the
50:15
Bengals. You got a seventh round pick on
50:18
a defense that is abysmal. And if you were, as the Bengals
50:21
were going to go on a fire sale, sell them.
50:25
Don't get rid of one of your better players.
50:27
Get basically nothing back in return.
50:30
I mean I was expecting more moves from the Bengals today and
50:33
it did not happen. And this is a good pick up for
50:36
that. Was a bad pick up, bad loss for
50:38
the Bengals. Yep.
50:42
All right. So let's see.
50:44
Probably got time for one. There's a lot of other trades
50:47
out there, but probably got time for one more trade.
50:50
And this one's kind of a collection because it's with the
50:53
Philadelphia Eagles and the Philadelphia Eagles made several
50:56
trades, just to name a few. So the Eagles get edge rusher
51:00
Jalen Phillips from the Dolphins for a third round pick.
51:03
So they gave up a third round pick to get him.
51:05
They traded for cornerback Gyre Alexander and a 2027 seventh
51:11
round pick. And they gave up a twenty 26th
51:13
6th round pick. They traded for corner Michael
51:16
Carter and a 2027 seventh round pick and gave up wide receiver
51:21
John Mechi and a 2027 sixth round pick.
51:27
So the Eagles made a few trades. We're kind of going to grade
51:29
this as a collective here now from the Eagles.
51:33
Just we're not going to grade the other teams on this one just
51:36
because there's we're doing just the Eagles as a whole.
51:38
But I think the Eagles get an. AI can.
51:40
Get an A. Yeah.
51:42
And here's what I don't understand.
51:47
If you're if you're a team in the NFL, why would you trade?
51:51
Why would you trade a player? I'm just trying to sorry, I
51:55
can't. I can't.
51:56
I can't even say this. If you're a team in the NFL, why
51:59
would you trade a good player that makes the Super Bowl
52:03
champions better? Why would you trade a good
52:05
player to the reigning Super Bowl champions to make them
52:08
better? It doesn't make any sense to me.
52:11
You got a third round pick for Jalen Phillips.
52:14
Could you not have got a third round pick from any of the other
52:16
30 teams in the league? Why would you trade a good
52:20
player? He's not a great player, he's
52:21
not a superstar. He's a solid player that makes
52:24
the Eagles better. Why would you trade a solid
52:27
player that helps the Eagles to the reigning Super Bowl
52:30
champions? And it's not even about the
52:33
Eagles. It's any team that's the
52:35
reigning Super Bowl champions. If the Rams win the Super Bowl,
52:38
the Bucks win the Super Bowl, the Eagles win the Super Bowl,
52:41
the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, why would you trade a good
52:45
player to the reigning Super Bowl champions that makes them
52:50
better? It makes zero sense to me and
52:52
will. I don't know if you have any
52:54
opinion on this at all, but it makes literally no sense to me
52:57
to do this. I I don't understand it at all.
53:00
I mean, this makes sense from the Eagles, right?
53:03
Eagles. Have been I think even buyers
53:05
100%. I think the Eagles are buyers
53:07
almost every year, aren't they? At the trade deadline, Yeah.
53:10
I don't think the Eagles give a single crap about their draft
53:13
picks. They just keep bringing more and
53:16
more veterans. They buy every year.
53:18
Like, yeah, let's just keep stacking it.
53:20
That's why I don't understand. We'll take them.
53:23
That's why I don't understand it, because why do teams just
53:25
keep giving the Eagles these guys that just keep being
53:28
successful with the Eagles? Don't trade with the Eagles.
53:32
And again, it's not even about the Eagles don't trade with the
53:35
reigning Super Bowl champions. Why would you make the reigning
53:39
Super Bowl champions better? It makes no sense, Yeah.
53:43
I don't, I don't have an answer there.
53:46
I don't know if anybody does besides maybe it was the only
53:49
offer they were actually getting.
53:51
Maybe maybe it was, hey, we'll try to take away from their
53:55
future if they give us a draft pick and they don't get it in
53:59
the future. And but really round three, pick
54:02
32, pick 30, pick 28. I mean, you're not, you're going
54:08
to get a guy. You have to develop still.
54:10
The Eagles also have The Jets third round pick and they're
54:13
going to get another third round pick from a compensatory pick.
54:16
The the Eagles literally gave up nothing.
54:19
Yeah, it's like they literally gave up nothing.
54:22
Which. Is why they're doing it.
54:23
That's that's why they're doing that deal, which is.
54:26
Exactly why it makes no sense for anybody to trade to the
54:29
Eagles. But good job by the Eagles, not
54:32
Hugh Laurie. That's Doctor House, Hugh.
54:36
How we long? Yeah.
54:37
Howie Roseman. There it is.
54:39
Good golly how we go. It's a rough day for me.
54:42
Every week we worked. Bear with me.
54:44
We worked. Always bear with me.
54:46
I listen. Same time zone.
54:49
Absolute jet lag. I did not even leave the time
54:52
zone. The amount of time I spent in
54:56
airports over the last what? Saturday, Sunday.
54:59
Monday, Sunday, zero hours between Saturday and Monday I
55:05
spent probably 12 if not more hours in an airport or on an
55:10
airplane to go 2 hours away. It was too much.
55:15
I'm I'm mentally beat. Sorry everyone, not my best
55:19
performance. Yeah, overall, I think the
55:24
Eagles knocked their trades out of the park as they usually do
55:28
so. Overall, not a bad day for the
55:30
NFC West E good flipping golly, I need to go away now.
55:35
We need to we need to close this one out.
55:37
All right, Well, that's all we got for this episode.
55:39
Yeah. Thank you.
55:42
All right. Well, yeah, it was a, it was a
55:45
really good trade deadline. I think there was a lot of
55:47
really good trades, a really a lot of really interesting
55:49
trades. Yeah, it was very exciting.
55:51
It was kind of hard to keep up with, honestly.
55:53
Like I was like scrambling to like try and put all the pieces
55:56
together. I can't imagine how Adam Shifter
55:59
and those guys do that. That is insane.
56:03
If you want entertainment to see somebody who's more stressed out
56:07
than you, go back and watch the Pat McAfee Show today.
56:11
He calls, he FaceTime calls Adam Schefter 3 or 4 different times.
56:16
One time Adam Schefter answers the FaceTime while on his other
56:20
phone and says hey guys, I I can't.
56:22
He looks so disheveled all day so just shipped through until
56:26
you see Adam Schefter's face. It is worth a laugh at somebody
56:30
who's more stressed out than you.
56:32
Yeah, I don't know how those guys do that.
56:34
That is absolutely insane. But yeah, so yeah, it'll be
56:39
interesting to see how these teams do moving forward.
56:41
But I think there was a lot of really good trades and some
56:44
teams set themselves up for the future really well.
56:46
So that's all we got time for on today's episode, guys.
56:49
Next week, we'll have Avery back with us.
56:51
And as always, guys, don't forget to keep your balls played
56:54
with. We'll see you next time.
56:56
I know. Y'all Also Mark Davis's haircut
56:58
still sucks.