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Are BAKER MAYFIELD and JUSTIN HERBERT Top 5 quarterbacks in the NFL? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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and she's all ready to impress all her managers, her directors
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or her producers, whoever. Yeah, we have a great show lined
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up for you guys. Tampa Bay Buccaneers came back
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late in the fourth quarter to beat the Houston Texans 20 to 19
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to improve to two and O on the season.
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The Bucks quarterback Baker Mayfield LED an 11 play 80 yard
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game-winning touchdown Dr. scoring with six seconds left in
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the game. The Buccaneers dominated on the
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ground, gaining over 169 yards at 5.6 yards a clip between
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Mayfield, who scrambled for 33 yards, and running backs Bucky
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Irvin, who's fantastic, and Rashad White, who scored the
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game-winning touchdown. Rookie wide receiver A Mecca
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Hold on Egg Buca scored another touchdown, his third in the
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first two games of this season and his career.
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The Texans fall to zero and two and have now allowed nine sacks
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in the first two games while being one of only, I'm sorry,
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one of the only three teams that don't have 100 yard receiver so
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far this season. Since 1990, only 12% of the
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teams that have started O and two have made the playoffs, but
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the Texans did pull that off in 2023, CJ Stroud's rookie year.
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The Chargers also improved to two and O with a 20 to 9 win
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over the Raiders in the second game of a Monday night
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doubleheader. Justin Herbert had 200 and 42
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yards and two touchdowns and is third in passing yards and 2nd
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in passing touchdowns to begin the season.
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Geno Smith struggled greatly, going 24 for 43 for 180 yards
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and three picks. Since 2022, Gino's Gino leads
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the entire NFL with 39 interceptions.
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Ashton Gente's slow start is still a concern.
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I don't know about that, as he had just 11 carries for 43 yards
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and three catches for just one receiving yard in the game.
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He is averaging only 2.7 yards per carry two games into his
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rookie campaign. I want to go into the first
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game, the Buccaneers and and the reason why I want to get into it
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because I I stand for a lot when it comes to a guy like Baker
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Mayfield. Baker Mayfield is a guy that is
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one of my favorite players in the NFLI.
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Love watching him play, his personality, the passion that he
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has to play the game. And when he went to the
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Buccaneers, there were a lot of questions over there with the
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Buccaneers taking over for a guy like Tom Brady, a team that won
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a Super Bowl, and Baker Mayfield.
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Really after you left the Browns, he jumped from one team
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to another and, and, and finally found a place that he felt more
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comfortable in and had the weapons to succeed.
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Todd Bowles is the defensive coordinator.
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He took over the job over Bruce Arians and, and a lot of people
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question Todd Bowles because Todd Bowles failed with the New
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York Jets. He was there for what, 3 1/2
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years and then was fired. And, and you look at Todd
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Bowles, we know what he is as a football player is one of the
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best safeties of the 80s, late 80s and early 90's.
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The guy was just superb type of defensive type of player.
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But over the years, Todd Bowles as a defensive coordinator has
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really succeeded under Bruce Arians.
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Nobody really believed that this guy can succeed as a head coach.
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But over the last two and a half, three seasons, he's really
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developed a good understanding on success in the NFL and in a
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division that the Buccaneers are in, where you don't really have
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to worry about much. I mean, you have the Carolina
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Panthers trying to rebuild with a new coach in Canales.
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You have the Atlanta Falcons that have a new coach and have a
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rookie quarterback. You understand that the position
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that the Buccaneers are in every single year is to win the
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division. Mike Evans is a borderline Hall
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of Famer. This is a team that has a great
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running game. And Irving, who I think is a
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sensational running back, I have them.
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Bucky Irving is one of my my guys are one of my fantasy
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teams, one of my first picks of the first two rounds.
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He's a sensational player that really transitioned as an NFL
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player last year. When you look at the Buccaneers,
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you try to question what this team really is.
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Are they an offensive sound team or are they a defensive sound
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team? Usually one team is stronger
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than the other at a certain side, offensive or defensive
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side. But with the Buccaneers, I think
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they're strong on both sides of the ball.
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I think they have one of the best offensive tackles in the
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league and worth. I think he's as good as anybody
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in the league. He's proven to be.
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If he could stay healthy, the guy is unbelievable.
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Their defense front 7 is one of the best in the league.
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They put a lot of pressure. They got good strong safety
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play. Even their corners are pretty
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good. Then you need those weapons.
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You have the running backs in White and Irving, like I was
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just saying. You have the wide receivers and
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Evans who has stuck out. Now there's another wide
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receiver that needs to get healthy.
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But we're watching a nice young player in a Mecca IGBUCA really
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start to flourish as a young wide receiver in the NFL.
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He needed to be #2 this year because of the injuries that the
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Buccaneers usually have in the beginning of the season.
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And he hasn't disappointed. And, and the crazy thing about
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the Buccaneers is I don't know if they have to chase because
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they're in such a poor division. It might be the worst division
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in football. You argue maybe the AFC East is
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that bad too. So I, I, I could go back and
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forth because I'm a Jet fan and the AFC East is just not good
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right now. New England's not good, Miami's
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not good. The Jets are not good.
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The only team really is good in that division is Buffalo.
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Buffalo looks like they're going to run away with that division.
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The fact is, when I look at the NFC, we talk about the
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powerhouses, we talk about the Eagles, we talk about the ramps.
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That's what we talk about. We talk about the commanders, We
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talk about the North, where you could go with the Lions, the
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Green Bay Packers, the Vikings. Doesn't look like Chicago's
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going to be any good. You look at the Buccaneers and
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do the Buccaneers really stick out like a sore thumb like the
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teams I just mentioned? The answer would be no.
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Because if you look at the quarterback play, a lot of
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people will look at Baker Mayfield as a mediocre
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quarterback. But over the last two seasons,
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especially in the second-half of games, Baker Mayfield is one of
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the best second-half quarterbacks in all of the NFL.
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If you look at the numbers, numbers don't lie.
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And Baker really stands for a lot more than just a football
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player. He's a guy that was always
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undersized. He was a guy that was always
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looked at as a troublemaker playing for Oklahoma.
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He was a guy that a lot of people question, was he a first
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round draft pick? And the fact that the Browns
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took a chance that year where you had a bunch of quarterbacks,
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you had Josh Allen, right? Am I right?
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Lamar Jackson, Sam Darnold, you would have thought that Baker
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Mayfield probably falls in the second round.
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But when you look at that quarterback class and you look
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at Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, who are obviously the two top
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three quarterbacks, 2 of the top three quarterbacks in the
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league, Baker Mayfield now has become a top ten quarterback.
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You could argue Baker Mayfield could be a top seven
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quarterback. Now you look at that draft class
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where you thought Sam Darnold or Rosen, we're going to be those
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type of quarterbacks. Sam Darnold, he's a borderline
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decent quarterback. He had a great season last year
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with the Minnesota Vikings. Now he's playing for Seattle and
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he's chasing. Rosen's not even in the NFL
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anymore if you look at Lamar Jackson.
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Lamar Jackson is a two time, two time MVP and could be three time
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after this year. Josh Allen wins his first MVP
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last year. Baker Mayfield has never been
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looked at as an MVP type of player, but what makes him an
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NVMVP type of player to me is the way he his team perceives
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him to be when he steps on that field.
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This guy is a leader. He's a born leader.
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You can see that every single teammate follows this guy, win
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or lose. Nobody speaks bad about this
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guy. Nobody speaks bad about Baker
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Mayfield. And that to me, makes me wonder,
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can Tampa surprise the NFC this year and come out of the NFC?
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Everybody keeps talking about Green Bay and the Eagles and the
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Rams with Sean McVay and the talent defense that they have,
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the Eddie Devante Adams, they have Matthew Stafford, who's won
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a Super Bowl, They have Puka Nakua.
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Can the Buccaneers with the defense they have and if they
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can get healthy, can they come out of the NFC and surprise the
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NFC and the Super Bowl gods as we say?
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And I would say yes, I think they can.
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I really do. I think they have everything to
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win and come out of the NFCI. Don't know about top balls.
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I don't know if he's a Super Bowl champion, but I've said
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that about Kyle Shanahan and Kyle Shanahan's taking taking
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his team to a Super Bowl 2 times and was an offensive coordinator
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for the Atlanta Falcons after choking against the New England
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Patriots. They have the opposite clock
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management issues. I think Todd Bowles can, is very
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capable, very capable of taking his team to a Super Bowl.
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And remember, he was the defensive coordinator of the
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Super Bowl champion Buccaneers. So yes, I think they could.
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And then when you get a chance to watch the Texans this year, I
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mean, I there's a lot of problems for the Texans.
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They decided to part ways with their offensive, their number
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one offensive tackle in the offseason.
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They traded them away. Now I understand he was
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expensive, but that offensive line anchored from him and they
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decided to part ways with him and trade him and you could see
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this offensive line. This is arguably one of the
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worst offensive lines right now in football.
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One player has changed CJ Strout and is understanding how to move
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inside and outside of the pocket and make high school throws.
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CJ Stroud has made a lot of mistakes so far this year and
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when you hear these numbers as we pulled out in the monologue
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is he doesn't have one wide receiver that's broken over 100
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yards yet this year. And you've got some good young
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players like Nico Collins. Everybody thought Nico Collins
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was going to be a top five wide receiver in a league and the guy
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hasn't broken over 70 yards yet. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
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is a problem. They don't have a running game.
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They're betting on a guy that just came back from another
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major injury in Chubb. They have nothing that I believe
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to get this team to sneak into the playoffs in an AFC that is
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especially a division that everybody thought they were
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going to run away with. The Colts are the best team in
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that division. I don't even think you could
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argue that anymore. The Jaguars, you know, the
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Jaguars are the Jaguars. That division is going to be won
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and ruled by one team, the Daniel Jones Indianapolis Colts,
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because there's no way the Texans, with their schedule, the
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way it's set up and the way this offensive line is played in the
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first two games, is going to win more than six games.
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There's no way. Just think about this.
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Everybody was talking about their coach winning coach of the
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year last year. This was one of the best teams
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in the AFC last year and now deciding to part ways with their
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starting offensive tackle, it's ruined everything for them.
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It's put them in a bad situation and that's what stands out to
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me. It was the battle of two teams,
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one team that could be a contender and another team that
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is a pretender. They have been a pretender
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before. The season started because I
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drafted CJ Stroud as my second quarterback.
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I saw that CJ Stroud last year was a top seven quarterback in
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fantasy. This year he fell out of the
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top. He fell out of the top ten.
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Why? And now I'm starting to realize
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that. Lermi Tonsil, what's the reason
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why? Think about it, The guy that was
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smoking weed during the first round of the draft that
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everybody was questioning if this guy's going to be an NFL
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player. That is the guy that is affected
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the offseason and that is the guy that's affected this Texan
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team to succeed. So, I mean, it's crazy to think
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this and the Buccaneers 2 and O guess where they're going?
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They're heading home against who?
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The New York Jets. What are the chances The Jets
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are going to pull out a win against a team that is starting
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to figure out what their identity is 2 games into the
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season and they're still they're still not even at full strength.
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Think about that. They're arguably their second
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best wide receiver is still out and might not be back until Game
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6 or game eight. They don't even know when he's
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coming back yet. Think about it.
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That's how good this team could be.
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And, and by the way, they have a pretty good tight end as well.
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So I mean, Baker Mayfield. I love what Baker had to say
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after the game. He said this team's never out.
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We believe we can win every game, doesn't matter how far we
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fall behind. We believe in each other.
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We believe in our coaches, we believe in what we can do on a
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football field and we believe we can compete with any team in the
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NFL. And then there's the Chargers.
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I believe Jim Harbaugh is one of the best coaches and has been
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one of the best coaches in professional football and
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college football for the last 10 years.
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You saw what he did with Stanford.
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You saw what he did with San Francisco taking over for
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Singletary. You saw what he did for Michigan
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finally winning a national championship.
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Did he cheat? Everybody cheats.
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The Chargers last year under the helm of Jim Harpo, remember, he
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took over a team and and a a bunch of players that were not
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his guys. They were not his guys.
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He inherited Slater, who by the way is not healthy.
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He inherited Justin Herbert, by the way, last year wasn't
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healthy. This team with the weapons they
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have, adding back Allen, you see the difference in what Allen
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gives to Justin Herbert. It gives him a blanket, a guy
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that he trusts in the open field need be.
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He needs to make a play. He's getting the ball to Keenan
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Allen and they have one of the best tackles we have seen in a
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very long time. And Alt taking over for Slater
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is out for the season. You just paid Slater in the
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offseason. You move, you shift this guy Alt
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Johalt to the left tackle from the right tackle position.
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We know he was a left tackle in college and statistics would
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tell you he's the best tackle right now in the NFL.
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And it's not even an argument. You can't even argue that right
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now. The Chargers showed you in week
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one they can beat a Super Bowl contending team as everybody
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believes the Kansas City Chiefs are contending this year.
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Beat Patrick Mahomes. I'll play Patrick Mahomes in
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Brazil, a national television on a Friday night game and made
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that 19 yard run that won the game for the Chargers.
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With the weapons that this team has, even without Slater this
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year, can they win the AFCA? 100% can, as long as Justin
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Herbert is standing on his two feet and he has the running
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game. Now, there's a lot of questions
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with this running game. They have a young kid.
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They got a bunch of veterans here.
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They got to stay healthy. They stay healthy with Jim
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Harbaugh as their head coach. I mean, he's got these like
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thick glasses. I mean, he looks a little old
23:02
and he still wears those ugly khakis.
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He looks a little out there sometimes.
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I'm surprised he doesn't wear suspenders.
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He would look pretty good with suspenders, Jim Harbaugh.
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But nevertheless, they're two and O, and you can argue they're
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the best team in the AFC West. You look at the Broncos right
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now, they have not played well. Bo Nicks has a sophomore year.
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If this is a sophomore year, this might not be a big year for
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Bo Nicks. Kansas City, they're old.
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They look old. They do.
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They don't have a lot of weapons.
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You're going to bet on Xavier Worthy or you're going to bet on
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Hollywood Brown. You got to wait for Rice.
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Do they make a trade to bring in Tyree?
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Kill if it if it becomes avail if he becomes available.
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Don't worry, they have Jeff's boy.
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Taekwonda Thornton. Patriots legend Vegas.
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I'm not betting on Vegas. Pete Carroll's first year, Geno
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Smith made a tremendous amount of mistakes against the
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Chargers. Don't worry, I'm going to get
23:56
into Geno Smith. The Chargers right now you can
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argue is the third best team in the AFC.
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You can argue this if you think about it right now, Buffalo is
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better than them, Baltimore is better than them.
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After that, I'm going to tell you this right now when I've
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watched their defense and by the way, I've I love the Chargers
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defense now they they did lose a very important piece to their
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defense. I don't know if he's out for the
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season, but he's. At least on IR.
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So he's out at least four games. Khalil Mack is, is a beast.
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You see how big he is? I mean, his arms are about the
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size of mining Jabba's put together.
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The guy is, is unbelievably, you know, built like a friggin
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Hercules. The guy's a beast.
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Losing a guy like him, it does affect your defense.
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But what they have in the secondary and what the, how they
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play and the way they play their defensive side side of the game.
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I, I, I think that this team has all the cylinders to be a top
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three team in the AFC, maybe even a top two team.
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Pete Carroll looks old. He he is old.
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I know he's the oldest coach in the NFL, but he looks like a
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deer in the headlights now. I love that he runs up and down
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the sidelines every single time. He can.
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He can kill some gum too. Wow, that guy could run up and
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down the sidelines for a 7374 year old man.
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That guy's got some stamina, man.
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He could do it. But you could see that maybe the
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game has passed them by. Maybe it has now.
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I I'm not worried about Ashton Gente.
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I'm not. I know the numbers won't.
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They don't really stick out to you like a sore thumb.
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I'm not worried about him. The offensive line is not good.
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This is not a premier offensive line.
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I believe that Pete Carroll's going to have to use Ashton
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Gente in the open field. Some of these screen passes.
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He's going to have to be used a little bit.
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Like I would say more like, I wouldn't even say Saquon
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Barkley, not Montgomery. Who's the other guy?
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What Gibbs? Gibbs.
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I I would use him more like a Gibbs.
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That's what I would probably do. Jamir.
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Jamir Gibbs is a guy that likes to catch the ball in the
26:11
backfield, use his speed and his power to run on the sidelines.
26:15
I think that's what they're going out.
26:17
If they want to open up the offensive books or offensive
26:21
playbook for a Gente, you're going to have to use the speed
26:25
on the outside. The Gente provides.
26:27
We saw it on Boise State. We saw what he did in college
26:30
last year. I believe the Heisman Trophy
26:32
winner, I want to see more of that.
26:34
They have to use Ashton Gente for for to open up the offense
26:40
for a Brock Bowers. Brock Bowers is still playing
26:42
well, but Brock Bowers is not going to be as good as we
26:46
thought he was going to be unless they find a way to have a
26:49
running game and they don't have a running game in the first two
26:52
games. Geno Smith stinks.
26:54
He stinks. Now I understand why Pete
26:57
Carroll decided to go after him in the offseason when he took
27:01
over this coaching job, because Geno Smith knows his offense and
27:04
he succeeded over there in Seattle when he took over for
27:06
Russell Wilson. He did.
27:08
He was good, but this is a different team.
27:12
This is a much different team. He doesn't have DK Metcalf.
27:17
He doesn't have Tyler Lockett. That is a good slack guy that
27:21
you can, you know, in the prime of his career.
27:23
Tyler Lockett was a pretty good wide receiver.
27:26
They don't have the running game that Walker provides or Zach
27:33
Charburnet. They don't have that kind of
27:35
running game. They don't.
27:37
And I like Aston Gente, but he's one guy.
27:39
He's 1 weapon. They don't have a double double
27:42
head monster in the backfield. They don't have that.
27:45
They really don't. And their offensive line, which
27:48
by the way, Seattle's offensive line, thanks to the New York
27:52
Giants, is pretty damn good. They have a good offensive line.
27:56
They have two guys on the corners, offensive tackle and
28:00
and cross, who the Giants should have drafted, by the way,
28:03
decided apart, not draft him. I they drafted somebody else
28:06
who's Evan Neal, who is not even starting as a guard or a tackle.
28:11
So they made a mistake there. Cross, it looks like pretty it
28:13
looks pretty good. And that offensive line is
28:15
pretty damn good. Over the last couple years, he
28:17
wasn't very good with Russell Wilson, but after Geno Smith
28:20
took over, they gave Geno Smith weapons on that offensive line.
28:26
They don't have an offensive line over here with the Las
28:30
Vegas Raiders. They don't.
28:31
This offensive line is again a bottom tier offensive line and
28:36
you could see that the defense, even though the defense at some
28:40
points this year, especially in game number one, look like they
28:43
could play. They're just there.
28:46
There's so many deficiencies that they have the linebacker
28:49
position. I don't think they have a very
28:51
good bunch of linebackers. They have one linebacker, but
28:54
the other two aren't really that good.
28:55
They're they're corner play, not very good.
29:00
I just don't know if the Chargers this year are going to
29:05
make noise, especially in a division that is going to be
29:07
dominated by the Broncos, the Kansas City Chiefs and the
29:12
Chargers. I believe that three teams, at
29:15
least 2, is coming out of the West.
29:18
I believe it. But I'm going to tell you this
29:20
right now, it's not going to be Vegas being one of them.
29:24
So I, I mean, Geno Smith did not look good in game #2 And I think
29:28
Geno Smith, I don't care what Geno has to say at the end of
29:31
the game, I give him a lot of credit because he didn't throw
29:33
anybody on the bus. But you could see him on the
29:35
sidelines. He was unhappy.
29:37
You could tell it some of the guys were not running the routes
29:40
that he wanted them to run. Maybe he was forcing the ball a
29:43
little too much. That's why he threw 3
29:44
interceptions. He didn't look good.
29:46
Ladies and gentlemen, Justin Herbert did, Baker Mayfield did.
29:52
CJ Stroud didn't. Two out of the four look good.
29:55
The other two look like they're going to have very long.
29:59
Season speedy yes indeed, because we knew the Raiders
30:02
talent deficiency was always going to be a big problem I
30:04
didn't think the offensive line going into the season was going
30:07
to see consider one of their really bad deficiencies though
30:09
it wasn't like it was a great offensive line but they have
30:11
some good players Jackson Powers Johnson who was one of the
30:14
better center prospects out of his draft.
30:15
You have Colton Miller, solid tackle, Dylan Param, a gem that
30:18
Jon Gruden found. I think like the 6th or 7th
30:20
round. They have talent on this
30:21
offensive line. So it's really surprising how
30:24
Gentie has really struggled to start the year just because the
30:26
Raiders offensive line, especially blocking on the
30:28
interior just has not been good enough.
30:30
And they we knew they didn't have outside weapons outside of
30:32
Brock Bauer. So Geno Smith tried to force the
30:34
ball deep downfield like he tries to do.
30:36
It's not really an ideal strategy when you don't have a
30:38
real deep threat at the wide receiver position on this team.
30:41
And their defense has held their own, but they can only hold
30:43
their own to extent. Oh, you don't like Jacoby Myers?
30:45
He's. A slot guy, he's fine.
30:47
I mean, he's, he thinks he could be a number one guy.
30:49
He's not a deep threat, though. He.
30:50
Says he's the number one guy and he should be paid like a number
30:53
one guy. He's not, he's not a deep
30:55
threat. He's a traditional slot type
30:56
that's decent. He's gets short catches, get
30:59
good route runner, but not a guy that you would want to force the
31:01
ball down the field. And Geno Smith just does the
31:03
opposite of that. As far as the Chargers, you're
31:05
seeing on Justin Herbert saying there's a lot of people that
31:08
have been surprisingly critical of him.
31:10
Oh, he struggles in the fourth quarter.
31:12
Oh, he doesn't win a playoff game.
31:14
Oh, he makes some bad decision making.
31:15
He's been statistically speaking a top five quarterbacks since
31:18
he's come into the league. And now he's finally showing it
31:20
to all the the casual fans, I guess you would call it that,
31:23
have been blaming him for a lot of the Chargers issues over the
31:26
years when they had a really bad defense.
31:27
They had one of the worst coaches at recent memory and
31:29
Brandon Staley that did not know what he was doing and play call
31:32
it wise and a roster that was very old at one point that has
31:37
now gotten young because of Jim Harbaugh and the way they
31:39
drafted last year. It was a defensive
31:41
transformation that was overnight.
31:43
The Texans, I'm really worried about their offensive line.
31:46
I think Jim Harbaugh is the only coach I believe that has taken
31:51
over a team that could take over any NFL team right now and
31:55
transform this team in about a year and a half.
31:58
I don't, I don't think there's any coach in the NFL that could
32:01
do what Jim Harbaugh has done, what he did with San Francisco
32:05
and what he has done with the Chargers.
32:08
Like a like a championship winning team or just like
32:10
winning. I mean, think about it.
32:11
Yeah, I think the Chargers are a borderline championship team
32:15
right now, even without Slater. They can absolutely come out of
32:19
the AFC, Absolutely. If Justin Herbert stays healthy
32:23
and they can protect him and all keeps playing the way he is and
32:26
they play dominantly at the line of scrimmage.
32:28
Why couldn't they? They have the one of the best
32:31
secretaries in football right now.
32:32
You can't argue that they have the best free safety in
32:35
football. The best.
32:37
I don't even think you could argue that now after what he has
32:40
done in Week 1 and Week 2. This is also a defense too, that
32:43
remember in 2023 was the historically worst pass defense
32:47
we've ever seen in NFL history. They obviously lost a lot of
32:50
those players because they struggled that year and Jim
32:52
Harbaugh brought them a lot of these younger guys, entrusted
32:55
those younger guys in the defense, and they were a top 10
32:58
defense in a lot of categories last year and are still playing
33:00
like it this year. That's the only three.
33:01
And I wasn't sure on them this year because I thought, OK,
33:03
maybe they're a regression candidate.
33:04
They haven't regressed at all. They've still played really well
33:07
transitioning out of the Texans. You recap everything with the
33:10
offensive line and why it's going to be a big problem for
33:12
them because. It's amazing how one guy can
33:15
change. That one guy, one in tonsil that
33:17
again, he's been a good player career, but he's also been
33:19
injury prone and the Texans never had these.
33:21
Kind of. He's a pro ball player.
33:22
He's not just an OK player, he's a pro ball player.
33:25
Yeah. And you're seeing now, between
33:27
that and the lack of an inside run game, that the Texans are
33:30
going to have a lot of problems with those two elements of their
33:32
game. Because we knew they had to do a
33:34
little bit different things with all the receiver injuries that
33:37
they have. And they can't even get anything
33:39
of the sort going when you try to just bring in 2 running
33:42
backs. They thought, OK, we're right
33:43
there. Usually teams bring in veteran
33:45
running backs when they're like, think of it as the missing piece
33:47
type thing. They try to have that final
33:49
philosophy. They're still far from there.
33:50
And maybe they're just showing that maybe they're just been a
33:52
product of a weak division over the years and not as big of a
33:55
Super Bowl contender as it is. And then there's Tampa, you
33:57
mentioned Tampa, I had them in the NFC Championship game at the
33:59
start of the year and a lot of it was how good their offensive
34:01
potency can be. Even without Godwin there at
34:04
Buca is showing how good he is that offensive line.
34:07
You want to talk about bad they were Bradys last year.
34:10
They transformed into one of the best units in the league,
34:11
probably a top ten offensive line in the league and.
34:14
You could argue that probably have a top three offensive
34:16
tackle in football. Easily and then they have two
34:18
really good young. Interior.
34:19
Who would have thought that worth would have been, and I'm
34:22
just saying this out of that class and Thomas was in that
34:25
class. I I mean, Makai Becton was in
34:27
that class. Everybody was like, this is
34:29
going to be one of the best offensive line classes we've
34:32
seen. And that was during COVID.
34:33
I remember it and that was the first year COVID.
34:36
That was the first draft where they were sitting at home and
34:38
they were doing the draft. It was like something of a video
34:41
game that we watched on television.
34:43
And everybody was like, well, we're good, but you know, it
34:47
might be too small for a tackle. They there was a lot of
34:50
questions about him. Can he stay healthy?
34:52
The guy's been the best and more and probably the most healthy
34:57
out of all the tackles in that class.
34:59
Yeah, I remember I was bashing the Browns for not taking him at
35:02
10 because I like Thomas too, at the time, obviously that I was.
35:04
Neil was in that draft, Cross was in that draft.
35:07
That was a good draft when it came to offensive tackles.
35:09
Yeah, the. I liked, I wasn't mad at Andrew
35:12
Thomas, I liked him at the time, but obviously Werfs was the best
35:15
pass blocking guy. He's definitely has been showing
35:17
his whole career and you're seeing now it's how it's really
35:19
elevated everyone else. And he's another one that had to
35:21
move to left tackle too, because he was a right tackle most of
35:23
his career. Dude he punches people in the
35:25
throat. When you watch that guy he is
35:28
mean. He is a mean man and I've I
35:31
heard Baker Mayfield. I watched some documentary with
35:34
with Baker Mayfield where he dressed up like some I forget
35:37
what he called himself and he tricked werf and everything.
35:41
He looks like a teddy bear. The guy looks like the nicest
35:44
guy but when he plays football you can hear him on the football
35:47
field. You watch the game and you put
35:49
it loud. You can hear him on the outside
35:51
just talking crap, whoever standing in front of him, and
35:54
he's beating the hell out of him.
35:56
And you're seeing now also too, like you talk about the
35:58
leadership with Baker Mayfield that was kind of questioned at
36:00
different points in his career being obviously being cocky kind
36:03
of in college and everyone's worried, oh, is he going to be
36:05
working as. Not cocky, he's confident.
36:07
Yeah, exactly. And I think they've all rallied
36:09
around that because after after Brady retired, like we were
36:13
thinking of this as probably like a 5 or 6 win team.
36:15
They had good players, but they still need to transition.
36:18
Like I said, a lot of key positions, offensive line, their
36:20
secondary was still kind of questionable.
36:21
And how good of a head coach would Todd Bowles actually be?
36:23
And it's a second stint now after what he was saying.
36:26
Now, there are still some questions of him, like I said,
36:28
with the clock management and sometimes can get too
36:30
conservative at points. But he's still a good, really
36:33
good team culture guy. And even with this defense, a
36:35
very young defense has transformed them.
36:37
I think this is definitely a Super Bowl contender.
36:39
I I would put them right there with the Rams and with the
36:41
Eagles. Rams and Bucks was my NFC
36:42
Championship game and pick at the start of the year and they
36:44
play well against. The Eagles, so depends on Justin
36:47
Herbert if he could stay healthy.
36:48
That's what worries me. He reminds me of Joe Burrell and
36:51
this guy has all the tools to be lead of the elite.
36:55
I think Justin Herbert could win the MVP this year.
36:59
Joe Burrow would sell his soul to have Joe Alt block for him.
37:02
That team has the absolute worst offensive line in the NFL and
37:07
it's embarrassment. And you take half of Joelt, half
37:11
of Joe Walt, you know, cut them up 1/2 on the left side, 1/2 on
37:13
the right side, better than what they got right now.
37:16
You know what I mean? Like it's that bad.
37:18
And it's so curious because they we said in the offseason how
37:21
dumb it was to pay both Higgins and Chase because then you can't
37:24
put put other guys around on the lineup.
37:26
Well, the Raiders did something almost as dumb.
37:28
They got a good pass blocking lineup, offensive line, and
37:34
drafted a running back at six and they can't open holes from
37:37
you know that he's the only. The Raiders are the only team
37:41
that average negative yards before contact in the league.
37:46
So he gets hit behind the line of scrimmage every play on
37:51
average. No other team is that bad on the
37:55
run blocking in the offense. And how are you supposed to be
37:57
good? We saw Saquon have to do that
37:58
same crap with the Giants for years.
38:02
Even Saquon could barely eke out 1000 yards doing that.
38:06
Gentie's not going to be able to do it if they don't.
38:08
If they can't run block, they're an embarrassment.
38:10
Run blocking only to be surpassed by the embarrassment
38:13
of the Texans that we saw, which can't do anything.
38:17
They literally can't do anything.
38:18
And it's the scariest part about the Texans is they lost their
38:21
their tackle and it's only Week 2 and they have no depth.
38:25
At least the Giants, I know they suck and they tackle is coming
38:29
back, but at least I know they have depth.
38:31
This is scary for CJ Stroud. I'd be surprised if he makes it
38:36
through the season upright. It's going to be real tough for
38:39
him to stay healthy. Maybe we should trade the.
38:41
Better deal, I might make up an excuse or an injury or something
38:44
if I'm CJ with what he's doing. Those are tough games to play.
38:49
I feel bad. I feel bad for CJ Stroud because
38:52
CJ Stroud in the last two years, even last year in his sophomore
38:57
year, he had a decent year. He wasn't bad.
38:59
He was pretty good, especially in the second-half.
39:01
He really helped his team out with some of the deficiencies
39:04
they had. But they they still had tonsil
39:06
there and their offensive line was much better than they look
39:10
right now in the first two games.
39:12
You look at their team right now, they don't have mixing.
39:14
This year, mixing might not be back for the rest of the year.
39:16
You're going to bet on Chubb, who just had an absolutely
39:19
disgusting injury last year. We saw that leg just bent right
39:22
back. I mean, it was hanging on a
39:24
limb. It was disgusting.
39:25
It looked like it looked like Paul George's leg.
39:28
Remember that for Team USA when his leg went wrapped around.
39:32
It was disgusting. And the fact that Trump is
39:34
playing NFL football right now is says a lot about him and his
39:38
personality and why he wants to show people he could still play
39:41
as at an elite pace. But right now I look at all four
39:46
of these teams that the two teams that I believe that could
39:50
and both these I could, I could argue that this could be the
39:53
Super Bowl. Why couldn't the Buccaneers play
39:55
the Chargers? I mean, not well, they can't be.
39:58
Yeah, they could play the Super Bowl.
39:59
The Buccaneers and the Chargers could play in the Super Bowl
40:02
against one another. Baker Mayfield against Justin
40:04
Herbert, two number one picks. Well, Justin Herbert wasn't the
40:09
number one, Kyla Murray was. So that's right.
40:12
That's right. I didn't understand that either.
40:15
Justin Herbert. And by the way, I remember the
40:17
Giants were trying desperately to move up to get Justin
40:21
Herbert. Remember that?
40:23
They were trying desperately to do that and they decided to go
40:26
Daniel Jones. And I don't think the Giants
40:28
were wrong. We don't know what Daniel Jones
40:30
is because the Giants didn't really help them.
40:32
They didn't put him in a bit. If if Justin Herbert was on
40:35
those Giant teams, he fails, he fails, He probably is moved.
40:40
They probably let him go and let him go to the Indianapolis Colts
40:43
and succeed over there just like they did with you.
40:45
I'm not saying Daniel Jones is Justin Herbert, I'm not saying
40:49
that. But what I'm saying is Daniel
40:51
Jones is proven. He's a competent quarterback.
40:54
And what we've seen with Justin Herbert when he stays healthy is
40:57
the man can throw it and the man can step outside of the pocket,
41:01
use his legs like he did for Oregon when he was over there
41:04
and and and everybody said was sucked for the Duck.
41:06
Remember that when he was going to be the number one pick and
41:08
then he decided to go but one more year back to college and he
41:11
fell out of everybody's good gracious because everybody
41:14
thought Kyla Murray and you know, the offensive coordinator
41:17
right now for the commanders, Cliff Kingsbury thought, hey,
41:20
you know what, I coached this guy.
41:22
I want him instead of Justin. Could you imagine?
41:25
Think about it this way. If Justin Herbert was the guy to
41:30
be picked by Arizona and Kyler Murray was the guy to get
41:35
drafted by the Chargers, does Jim Harbaugh take that job?
41:40
Think about it, does Jim Harbaugh take that Charger job?
41:45
Because I'm going to tell you this right now.
41:47
Jim Harbaugh knew what he was doing when he decided to take to
41:50
interview and take that because he had he interviewed the year
41:53
before from Miami. Remember that?
41:54
And the Raiders and the Raiders. And he didn't want any of those.
41:57
He wanted nothing to do with those jobs.
42:00
But as soon as that Charger job became open, he knew what he was
42:04
doing. He knew that Justin Herbert was
42:07
the guy that he wanted to coach. But that's my question for you
42:10
guys. If Kyla Murray was the starting
42:13
quarterback for the LA Chargers, does Jim Harbaugh take that job?
42:19
I don't think so. I think Kyler Murray is the one
42:22
that obviously wanted Kingsbury and he was kind of kind of
42:25
egotistical about it at the time even too like, oh, I want to
42:28
Cliff Kingsbury did. Wasn't going to take any other
42:30
NFL jobs I think at the time besides Arizona.
42:34
And I think Kyler Murray adds A leeway to it.
42:35
So who says I wouldn't have done the same thing with Harbaugh,
42:37
who's kind of the opposite coach of Kingsbury?
42:41
It must be the khakis and I, you know, I, I personally, every
42:44
time I coach a game, I go full horrible every time.
42:47
We got to tuck it in, got the khakis going.
42:49
You got to have the sneakers. His wife makes fun of them.
42:52
His wife. Makes fun.
42:53
That's fine. He wins.
42:55
Keep doing it. He does.
42:56
That guy's a winner. It works it.
42:58
Must be I'm going to tell you this too.
43:00
I'm going to tell you this too. If if Horrible was still with
43:03
San Francisco, they win a Super Bowl.
43:06
If he go, if he went to back to if he went to those Super Bowls
43:09
against Kansas City, he would have found a way the second
43:12
Super Bowl to knock off the the Andy Reid Kansas City Chiefs.
43:17
I believe it. I absolutely believe it.
43:19
There's no way Jim Harbaugh loses back-to-back times against
43:23
Kansas City. I can't see that.
43:25
Jim Harbold's too smart of a coach.
43:27
He understands how to read coaches and read players and
43:31
defenses where he would have figured out, remember, this guy
43:34
was a quarterback. He was a pretty good quarterback
43:36
in the NFL. You know, you see these coaches,
43:38
they they're quarterbacks. They played as a backup
43:40
quarterback and they weren't any good.
43:43
Think about it more Kellen Moore, he was an NFL
43:46
quarterback. He wasn't good.
43:47
If you go up and down the NFL teams that have X quarterbacks
43:51
that are coaching now in the NFL, they were not good.
43:55
Jim Harbaugh was a good quarterback.
43:57
I remember him with Indianapolis Colts.
43:59
He was very good. He was a good quarterback, just
44:03
had a big mouth and didn't know when to shut it.
44:05
He was the Aaron Rodgers of his time.
44:09
That's what he was. He was a guy that didn't have a
44:13
muzzle. He liked to open up his mouth.
44:15
He liked to throw people under the bus, including teammates.
44:18
Remember John Kitna? He played with him.
44:20
He threw John Kitna under the bus.
44:22
I remember that I there was I. Mean John John Kitna prayed
44:27
before every single play. That's not what I'm saying.
44:31
That's. John Kitner rubbed a lot of
44:33
people. The right way he threw him under
44:35
what I John Kitner is harmless. I mean, think about it.
44:39
Look at that guy besides. One of the most annoying guys in
44:41
this. He had the biggest Cavs for a
44:43
quarterback, by the way. That.
44:45
Might be true, I remember that he he could kind of throw flat
44:47
footed because he. Was dude, he had some of the
44:49
biggest Cavs I've ever seen. I mean, I've seen offensive
44:53
lineman and defense. This guy as a quarterback had a
44:56
set of Cavs on this man. I mean, it looked like an
45:00
offensive or defensive lineman with the Cavs that this guy had.
45:03
It was crazy. I think we we learned something
45:06
that in this game that we haven't really no one's covering
45:10
and it's that Jesse Minter is going to be a head coach in this
45:12
league next year. The defensive coordinator for
45:14
the Chargers. Harbaugh brought him with him
45:16
from Michigan. People mentioned him as a
45:19
possible candidate, but again, young guy is even 40 yet.
45:23
I don't think he's a man. In there were a lot of teams
45:25
that might have taken him on as a college coach if it wasn't for
45:28
the. Sanctions and he he seems to be
45:31
excellent. Some of it's scheme, but a lot
45:33
of it is coaching guys up and teaching them how to play the
45:36
right way. There's so many guys that are
45:38
talented when they get to this level, but not all of them get
45:41
great coaching. I have a feeling that Harbaugh
45:43
picked this guy for a reason, to be his defensive coordinator and
45:46
won't let him go until he eventually gets a job that's
45:48
equal to him. And that's what I think's
45:50
happening. I would be shocked if he's not a
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head coach in the league next year.
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Anyways, that's it for our show. Ladies and gentlemen, thank.
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So thank you all the fans tuning in and checking out and giving
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me all their ridiculous remarks. I got to say they are
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ridiculous. And yeah, that's it.
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We'll be back on Monday, Speedy. Who do we have on Daryl Reed,
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former Colts and Broncos? Defensive defensive lineman,
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he's been on our show a lot time to be determined.
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He didn't give me a time yet, but he said Monday is good.
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I like Daryl. He's he knows his stuff.
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Yeah, he's. He's a good personality, very
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funny, so yeah. He is and he he loves attacking.
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Me. So you guys are like that.
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Daryl is he's been on our show before and I've attacked his
47:04
takes on the Atlanta Falcons. So interesting personality, no
47:09
question. And who do we have on on
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Wednesdays? Our our friend from the.
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Pittsburgh Steelers Mister Jack's Ferry will be joining us
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on Wednesday. Oh, I can't wait to hear.
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Jack's bull crap that comes out of his mouth.
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Fresh off the Steelers versus. Jets game please.
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That's the only thing he could brag.
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About that's about it that the buckle of a game in game number
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2 was just absolutely pathetic and I drafted one of his running
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backs and he just absolutely embarrassed me yeah so Jack's
47:36
Ferry we are working on some big guests and you know me and job
47:41
have been speaking about it. So we I I promise you guys over
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the next couple of weeks we're working on live shows as well.
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We're going to be doing some live shows before the new year.
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So we're working on that. So when when the things start to
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roll and we get closer to it we'll let you guys know we'll
47:57
make an announcement so but thank you to all the fans.
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We really appreciate you guys. Listen to the Weekend Crunch
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night. I'm sure you're going to love
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