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Welcome back.
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The missing the point NFL power rankings were every week.
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Matt ranks 32 teams, and I spend the next hour figuring out which part of the list was written during a gas leak.
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The Rams are 2-4, despite having a roster that looks like somebody turned the salary cap off in Madden.
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Stafford, Puka, Devontae, Aaron Donald, Miles Garrett, and they just lost 18 to 16 at home to Arizona, a team we already buried, and we held her funeral, said a few words, lowered them into the ground, and they climb back out specifically just to beat the Rams, I guess.
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Sean McVay doesn't need an offensive coordinator anymore.
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He needs an extra assist.
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And somehow the Chargers are even funnier.
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They're 0-6.
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They went into Kansas City, got to the one-yard line, and somehow turned that into a field goal like they were trying to solve a football escape room on hard.
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We crossed them off weeks ago, and every Sunday they come back just to say, hey guys, great call.
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Great call, guys.
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Great, like great decision, honestly.
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Green Bay beats Dallas in another uh exciting display of both teams being completely incompetent.
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Congratulations to the Packers, but let's not pretend Dallas didn't contribute heavily to their victory.
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Um then there's Philadelphia.
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We're definitely gonna come on to talk about that.
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I'm not making fun of Jalen Hurts having blood clots.
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That's a serious and scary situation.
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I am, however, making fun of the idea that your quarter billion dollar franchise quarterback has a clot issue and somehow winds up on a plane to London.
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Um that's definitely something we're gonna need to talk about.
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Uh he's not your uncle's check engine like, guys.
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He's a pretty valuable asset.
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I think it's probably a good idea not to kill him with a pulmonary embolism.
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The 49ers are 6-0, the Chiefs are still the Chiefs, the Vikings are 5-0, and Matt has finally decided they exist, it looks like, based on these power rankings.
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We love that.
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My Chicago Bears are 4-2 with Caleb Williams coming back.
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Drake May is coming to Chicago, and we're gonna save that till the end.
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I'm gonna hand it off because the MTP Boston guys, Mike
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and Zach, are here to join me in Matt to talk all things football, but especially that.
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So we'll dedicate a nice large chunk to everything.
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Patriots, Bears on a short week in Thursday night football.
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But I do want to start off with this Rams team.
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Uh, Zach immediately ran to a gleeful level of Schaden Freud in the group chat when they decided to lose to the Arizona Cardinals.
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Again, a team that we already crossed off, killed, buried, died dead long ago.
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Not in any way relevant until they do things like this.
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So, Zach, I'll go to you first since you seem the happiest about the demise of the Los Angeles Rams in this Uber roster that they've assembled.
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Can they bring it back?
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Do you want them to?
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What's wrong with Sean McVay's eyes?
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All questions that people want to know.
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I I mean, I said in the prediction show they would be like, you know, close to undefeated, and and look quick, look at me.
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Look how stupid I look now.
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It's great.
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Who would have thought?
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Not me.
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Certainly not me.
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Uh yeah, I think 19th might be maybe too high in this uh in this rankings here.
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I still would have put them below the Cardinals because man, I I don't know.
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And especially uh Devontae Adams now going down with a grade 27 hamstring sprain.
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Like you really have to uh you're really gonna lie.
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No, no, I couldn't I couldn't even keep a straight face for that one.
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God damn it.
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Uh yeah, I mean Adams going down too.
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That's uh that's another huge loss, but might not be because I mean they had this whole super team assembled and they've just been playing like dog shit the whole time.
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So I don't know.
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It's just uh the wheels are coming off really fast, and I really I know it's early.
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Six games is really not much, but at the same time, when you're losing key guys in your offense and your team overall, I don't know.
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It might maybe the defense might step up, but I think the offense is gonna uh kind of fall apart.
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Mike, I hope this isn't true of all of them, but it seems McVeigh is the latest, bitten by this offensive guru, great offensive mind, sort of can't manage a game book that seems to be going around the place for offensive coaches a lot of the time.
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Um we saw it with former fired coaches, we've seen it with, you know, even the great minds, the Shanahans of the world, I think have been guilty of it at times.
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The additional part of this with McVeigh, though, is he seems to be unable to manage a game properly, even though he is this great offensive mind, and also he seems to be cracking the fuck up, dude.
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So you and I have always been pretty high on Sean McVay, Mike, as if I if memory serves.
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And and now I'm a little bit like, ugh, should have trusted that the haircut was a sign of a bigger problem.
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Well, I I think uh I think it's both a catastrophic uh season so far, and it's also too early.
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Uh, because I I think historically, when you look at when you look at a Sean McVay team, his teams, when they are uh preseason ranked like in the top five, do not perform.
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They won the Super Bowl going into that the going into that season, they were like a top 18 team, right?
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Uh last year, or was it two years ago when they started out, was it five and five, and then they just rattled off I think it was six straight wins uh to win that division.
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Listen, I think we've seen we've seen this in other sports, like when the Heat compiled their super team, they did not figure it the fuck out until year two.
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I think bringing Aaron Donald back was is all great on paper, but uh if he goes next game without a sack, it will be the longest uh stretch in his career that he's uh that he's gone without a sack.
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Right now it's four games, uh, he's never gone five.
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You haven't had um oh god, uh Miles Garrett healthy, and then I I just still trust him.
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I trust McVay in a playoff scenario more than I trust any other coach in that division.
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And the Super Bowl champion is in that fucking division.
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So I don't know what that says about me or if that says it about Sean McVay.
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I do think it's reasonable.
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You're being very reasonable.
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That's not what we're doing here.
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We're here to uh we all piled in to laugh at them.
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No, you are being reasonable.
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I I think it's still fair to say it's m it's moved from a disappointing start into an alarming start.
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I mean, they've they're coming close to as close to a must-win game in October as you can come with their next game uh at Las Vegas.
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And Matt has them at 19
in his power rankings.
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They were 12th last week, so yeah, that like you're right around disappointing last week to all of a sudden like shit.
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19 might even be too high if if you're like they're still right, and I understand why they're here, Matt.
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I'm not even criticizing the placement, but it's the idea of like they're 19th because of the fumes of the expectations of the beginning of the season, right?
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Like it's not because of anything they've really done over this two and four run, right?
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No, yeah, it's they're only here, they're only not at the bottom just because every team beneath them, I think, is absolutely dead in the water.
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And I still think with this much less in the season left in the season, they have the opportunity to turn this uh scheming pile of shit around.
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Um, but man, it has been so much fun watching this.
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I I love this more than that year that the Yankees would spend like like two million, two billion dollars in the postseason, come out and lose the first 30 games.
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I could watch this team struggle all day long.
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Sean McVeigh is doing the best SNL character of a coach that's lost his mind I've ever seen.
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I'm so about it.
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He is.
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His eyes are crazy.
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Stop touching your microphone and desk.
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So the moving moving right along, and I by since we're here in the West, we might as well might as well round it out and finish the uh the NSC West.
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Um I if I was looking at your rankings, the 49ers, last week they were one, this week they're one.
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Spoiler alert, everybody.
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That's fine.
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Everyone's fine with that.
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No one's got any dissenting opinions there.
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Perfectly reasonable.
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The Seahawks are eighth.
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Last week they were sixth.
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I might put this to the group as maybe a little bit too high.
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Losing 17-14 at Denver, dropping its second consecutive game and third overall.
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The defending champs are now 500 and three full games behind Division Leader San Francisco.
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The NFC is floundering to a certain degree.
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It seems like who's who's gonna make the playoffs is basically the NFC North and Friends.
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Uh, that's I don't understand how that seems to be occurring, but whatever.
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Um, at this point, number eight, I don't know.
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I think it's it's given an awful lot of credit for what we thought they were again, instead of what they've actually been recently.
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And they're coming up, and I do always say this to you, and I know you're you're not necessarily supposed to be factoring this in, but it's looking really like a three-and-four Seattle Seahawks team considering their next opponent is the Kansas City Chiefs.
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If they beat Kansas City, all complaints disappear, but Zach, I mean, how do you make what do you make of the team that defeated your New England Patriots in the Super Bowl?
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Are you taking a little bit of a victory lap on this?
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Because overall the Pats look better than them this year.
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Uh no, I I wouldn't take a victory lap.
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I think I think uh any game in Denver, no matter how good or mediocre the Broncos are, is always a tough uh, reasonable and fair about you, also.
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Fuck you guys.
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Just kidding.
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Go on.
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Well, you're welcome.
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But you know what?
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I it I mean it is eight's kind of interesting.
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It is, but I I don't know.
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They are the Super Bowl champs, they're it you do kind of factor that in, even though you shouldn't.
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It's a new season, new year, different players.
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Um I don't hate the placement.
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I think eight's good.
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And uh yeah, good job, Matt.
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Mike, any chance you hate the placement?
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Yeah, I hate the placement.
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I don't I don't think you can have a you can have a three and three team in the top fucking ten uh the NFL power rankings.
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Like you just you just can't.
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And uh it you told me Matt a couple weeks ago, it is about what I I've seen so far and what I think is going to happen.
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So what the fuck have you seen so far that you think they're in the top 25% of the NFL?
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Well, what I think is gonna happen is I think the team's gonna start to just start.
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That's not what I asked you.
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That's not what I asked you.
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Listen, uh what here okay.
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So what I've seen is I've seen the team go up and down, I've seen them beat some competitors, I've seen them lost some really tough ones.
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And I just here's my thing.
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When I look below them, other than um the Ravens, with your uh favorite quarterback being out, uh I don't know who I'd put above them as far as who I think the better team is.
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I just it's not the Packers, it's certainly not the Jaguars who lost a way tougher game in home stadium.
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It might just be the Jaguars, the Packers, the Panthers, the Lions, the Steelers.
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So listen to the Packers just dog the Packers just dog walked your team, TK.
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Like this happened.
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And then yeah, we were fucking terrible that day.
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Imagine getting dog walked by the fucking Packers, dude.
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Holy shit.
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Time out, time out, time out.
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Hold on, hold on.
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The Packers and are like that one cousin that's always bullied the Bears, like that doesn't count.
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Them losing to them in October is not a really high marker of how good either team is.
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Shit happens.
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It's the oldest fight we have.
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If the Jaguars had beaten the Bills 45 to 17, whatever the fuck they beat us by, and it wasn't that they beat us, you would have the Jaguars ranked higher than the fucking Seahawks.
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That's just a fact.
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How many wins did Houston have before they just beat them?
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One.
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Okay, so okay.
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So what am I gonna do?
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I'm gonna punish the the the reigning champ for losing a tough one to what could have been their Super Bowl opponent because the Jaguars beat a bunch of high school players?
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Can I make a can I ask you one question?
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I I do think you've defended this position quite well, but I I just want to ask you one question.
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No.
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Would you be able to defend Sam Darnold being a bottom 10 QB so far this season?
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Because like if if you don't think he's a bottom 10 QB and you would actually defend the point that he isn't a bottom 10 QB this year, I would refer you to the eye test.
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That dude has looked like he is has suffered a grade 27, as Zach would put it, head injury this year.
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And I I like, I don't know.
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Get him a fucking Guardian cap, or at the very least, take the Dunce cap that he's been wearing off and let him play some actual fucking football.
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I can't believe you guys lost to Sam Darnold now that I think about it.
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Like,
that's what I'm saying.
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We didn't, we didn't.
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We lost to uh Drew Locke.
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So if that makes me right, it's even worse.
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I forgot he wasn't even healthy.
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I wonder if he would have won if he had played.
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I would I would I would I would have I wonder if uh yeah that's a two point I think the Patriots probably could have won if Sam Darnold played.
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I mean we could have won this.
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Might have been better.
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Yeah, Jake May didn't throw three interceptions in the fourth quarter, but like all those things happen.
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Right.
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That's a long time ago now.
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You guys are like a completely different team.
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Um all things all things revert to the mean eventually.
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Look, I'm just saying Sam Darnold's quarterback play has really made it hard for me to justify that the that you can say the Seahawks are a top 10 team because I mean I guess it's crazy though, because like the Vikings are a top five team.
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So uh yeah, it's kind of it is hard.
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I mean, Kyler kind of looked all right, I thought.
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Um, but we'll come on to that.
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Yeah, the NFC West is is interesting.
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It's certainly not up for grabs anymore.
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I I think that the San Francisco 49ers are gonna walk that division, and then the Seahawks are already.
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I mean, six games in, the Seahawks are already looking at a at a wild card berth here in the NFC, which is that's fucking nuts to think about.
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Um not to not to show your like your thunder here, TK, but would and would you or anyone else still be surprised if by the end of the season the Rams are are have a better record than the Seahawks?
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Nope.
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Yeah, but they're not gonna win their division, though.
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I mean, this is the key.
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No, no, no, no, I know.
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Like they're they're not I don't think they're gonna be a wild fan.
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No, I wouldn't.
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I mean, they're only one game off each other.
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Uh I that wouldn't surprise me at all.
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I think the ra I think your point earlier was well taken.
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I think the Rams can kind of turn it around.
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The the thing that's really freaking me out about the Rams in the context of this NFC West uh division is
the look on Sean McVeigh's face.
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Like he it's really not filling me with any confidence that that team is gonna turn it around.
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And I'm a body language guy, I'm a vibes guy, uh you're a stats guy, you know, and I and I and I understand the data is important.
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Um, but I don't know, man.
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Like if my if if the guy setups if the guy who dug my foxhole had the look on his face that Sean McVeigh had on his face, I'd be uh I'd be thinking about maybe getting into my rations a little early, you know.
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Uh get but maybe have one of those uh freeze-dried cigarettes or whatever the fuck was in there because it doesn't seem like it's going well in Los Angeles.
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Um, I mean it never is.
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This place is a fucking hellhole.
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But uh but yeah, I don't know.
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I mean the Cardinals certainly aren't winning that division.
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I I don't know if anybody but the 49ers is uh are.
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Um I think the Seahawks and the Rams will definitely be in a kind of a death battle by the end to get that, get like a seventh or eighth spot in the NFC overall.
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So we'll see how that goes.
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Uh the issue with it is you know, you have the NFC North right there, like only one person can win that division, and it looks like all four teams have the potential at the very least, and I'm not big enough my team, but it's all four teams have the potential at the very least to be playoff teams.
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So it seems like it's gonna be a crowded field like fighting for second across the board here, you know, which is why why I would worry about the Rams and the Seahawks, is that yeah, they might get their act together, but are they gonna be relevant come you know January?
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I I I have my my doubts, and I did not think that leading into the into the year.
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Um can we talk about just to touch on a couple of important points here?
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And I and I do uh appreciate that the the fundamental hierarchy of the power rankings here is is to put them first, but storyline-wise, that's pretty crazy that they let Jalen Hurts get on a plane, Matt.
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Um I I don't I know I knew the Eagles ran their organization like uh like a cheap body shop in the middle of nowhere, but I didn't know it was this fucking bad.
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Holy shit.
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What do you think that is?
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Do you think that they just like know he can't throw over the middle, so they wanted him to die so they could collect the insurance?
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Like, I don't understand.
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Well, I here's listen, I understand now very clearly that uh Mr.
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Soriani is not a medical expert, so um you know he's not a Mensa member either, let's be honest.
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Holy shit, he said that 15 times.
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Watching his face, him and McVeigh.
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You have medical experts that literally work for you, though, sir.
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We need him and McVeigh to get into like some some like golden mitch boxing class or something.
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I watch these guys fight for who's got the crazier eyes.
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Um, it's a tough look, it's a tough looking feeling.
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I'm starting to love that thing more and more because they're so quick to cannibalize their own people.
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It is a beautiful thing.
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They would eat their own young if they were a little hungry.
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Those cheesesteaks are not filling them up down there.
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Uh what do you think the cheese sticks are made of, dude?
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Or really Nick Soriani if he keeps it up.
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Yeah, no, they will.
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They'll turn on you real fast.
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That's a group of people that are not the best.
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Um, Mike, well, I just your managerial experience.
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Would you ever put somebody in a situation like that?
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No, it's no, this is it doesn't make any fucking sense to me.
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A like okay, so I don't think we have all the information.
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Uh well, the information that we have, this this looks like malpractice of every fucking level.
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Yeah.
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And and it looks like Jalen Hurts is the new owner of the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Like at the very least.
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Uh like that should fucking.
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Do you want that?
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I'm not a doctor.
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No one here is a doctor.
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We all know that if you have a blood clot, you should get on a technically.
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I I know it might sound hard to believe, but technically you have to.
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Like, what's your what's your doctor of the law?
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Yeah, I'm a doctor of the law.
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I have a doctorate.
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It's pretty crazy.
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I know.
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I know.
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Once you get to know him, it becomes more and more ridiculous.
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I'm not too
much.
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You call me doctor.
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I won't.
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Yeah, doctor Dipson.
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I don't know how you're the Hollywood upstairs medical school.
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I don't know how you let him play a game.
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And then after all of that happened and you all know that on the inside, how the fuck do you let your head coach even answer a question?
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Like, don't even put him out there.
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Do not put him out there.
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Put the team medical uh, you know, doctor out there and just say, We're gonna tell we're gonna tell you what we know and we're gonna be looking at.
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But the fact is, you tell you said this in uh the pre-show, the NFL doesn't give a shit uh about about the players.
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It's never been more highlighted than this.
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They conducted an investigation, they found that the uh the Eagles did nothing wrong, and you pointed out it's because all the owners hired uh Goodell.
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He works for them.
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So what investigation is actually gonna yield anything, right?
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I I don't I don't see or I don't see a scenario where Jalen Hurts doesn't sue and make a fuck ton of money.
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Sue his own team.
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Uh he might not he he might not be able to play again.
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I wonder, Matt, uh, can you speak to this?
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Would he be under some sort of anti-arbitration clause in his contract?
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That's a thing.
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I I often have to sign non-arbitration agreements when I work for companies to basically say like they can mistreat me as much as they want, and I can't sue them because I'm protected by a union.
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And like these players are protected by a union, so it's like you're you follow your union guidelines, we're not here to protect you.
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There's I I sign those agreements all the time.
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I'm sure, I'm sure they do, but in case of gross negligence, there's always like a waiver to that kind of stuff.
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Like, and there's always somebody you can sue if you can't sue the team in the league directly.
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There's always someone you can't sue, Matt Wilcox.
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How do we do, baby?
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We've got to put it on the fucking business card.
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Ask the Mass State police about me.
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We figured it out.
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They think they're able to watch this.
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Uh, that's funny.
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Um, I don't know, man.
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I mean, Zach, if this is your friend or brother or or you know, even mild acquaintance, you're you're advocating for him to get something out of this, surely.
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Like, he's gotta be furious, right?
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Oh, you have to be.
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Like you said, like this could potentially end his career, which is insane.
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That's a life.
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I mean, it could have killed him, yes, but it could it's it seems like it might end his career, which is fucking unbelievable.
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Yeah, you if you're and like it should not surprise anyone about the NFL conducting a one-day investigation and then concluding it was fine.
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Right.
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They they try to uh they try to cover up the whole concussion uh issue for decades and let you know Junior Sale kill himself and all these other players go through God knows what.
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So yeah, this this is not surprising whatsoever from the NFL standpoint.
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On three separate occasions in a week, they put that they put Jalen Hurts's life at risk.
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They flew him to London when he had this, when he had this.
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They then kept him up for 36 hours, London playing a game, and then they flew his fucking ass back.
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Oh for oh, sorry, you're forgetting one four ways.
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They also let him live in the city of Philadelphia.
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Um, the uh the I mean that's just a fucking that's just a risky endeavor for anyone involved, I gotta say.
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Um while he's going to Sinai in New York, he can live with LeBron.
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So perfect.
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They can commute together.
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Yeah, LeBron won't even live there, you see.
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Um LeBron, your your basketball players won't even live in your city, guys.
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Shit hole.
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Um the the best TV show about the city of Philadelphia is about how the worst people in the world live there.
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Um, and and the title is ironic.
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Um, I guess if you look at that division as a whole, I mean the Cowboys are just a fucking joke.
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I I I couldn't believe them.
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I I didn't understand uh why they feel that the gang can't shoot straight against the Packers.
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I think anybody would have looked good against the Dallas Cowboys.
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I will admit, begrudgingly, the Packers have looked a lot better than I have assessed them over the last two
weeks.
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That being said, uh deep balls are a wide receiver stat, and that's a hill I'll I'll die on.
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Uh Jordan Lowe still stinks, and uh I I I mean there was about five dudes running around completely wide open all day in prime time, and they still dropped a bunch of passes.
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So I'm Golden dropped three of them.
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Yeah, that's bad.
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That's I mean, we are gonna talk a little bit about AJ Brown too, sorry to say.
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But I uh you know, there were there was some there were some pretty bad drops across the course of the NFL week six, but I I mean honestly, I I don't think it says much about the Packers beating the Cowboys.
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I think it says more that they beat the Bears, despite it being a divisional game.
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I do think the Bears played absolutely trash in that game.
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And yeah, we had a backup QB in there and we lost four starters in the first quarter in our defense.
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I don't really want to make those excuses.
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You can't lose to Green Bay um if you're trying to be a winning team in Chicago.
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It's it's fucking embarrassing.
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Even if it is at Lambeau, even if it is, etc., etc.
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You can't make Jordan Love look like Joe Montana on television.
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That's it's just completely unacceptable.
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So hopefully they learn from that.
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But overall, I mean, uh the Cowboys, I just hope Bobby doesn't get Cowboys games on whatever planet he's currently living on because I don't think it's uh good watch.
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I I their defense is is atrocious.
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Their offense seemed like a bunch of talented guys that just met, which seems to be a yearly occurrence for the Cowboys.
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I don't know.
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Mike, what the fuck is going on in Dallas?
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What's going on in this division?
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And Are the Giants gonna win it?
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Like, is that actually what's gonna happen?
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Cam Scattabu had zero touches.
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That was the big that was the big uh story coming out of out of the NFC East.
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I don't know.
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Were the Giants our steel, Zach?
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Yes.
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Yeah, because you guys had them at like two wins, right?
00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:17.519
Uh TK.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I would four wins?
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They're already gonna streak by both of us.
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No, I I I think I said I I I could see eight, so Zach probably made me pick six.
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Um but I think I listen, I thought Washington was gonna be better.
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I thought Philly was gonna be better, I thought New York, I thought the Johnson be better, I thought Dallas was gonna be exactly who we fucking thought they have always been.
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They are high-powered offense, but they they are inept.
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And in not, you know, not cut in time, Dak does always fuck up.
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And this is not all his fault because this defense, while it's not what was it, 2021 or 2022 level like atrociousness, they're just not they don't have really any playmakers actually making plays.
00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:08.960
No, they do have Joey Porter Jr., he's just not doing anything.
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They do have that lineman that they got from Green Bay, he's just not doing anything.
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Uh so they they need a playmaker.
00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:21.839
Uh, and I think, yeah, they're they're gonna be one of those teams that just has a good offense and and wins seven or eight games.
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For the record, in our NFL prediction show, we put them at five and twelve, and you guys did steal, and you put them at eight wins.
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So you're actually looking pretty good.
00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:31.039
Um, Zach didn't talk you.
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I mean, I don't know why he caught a stray there in a hypothetical, but he did not talk you down from uh from eight to six.
00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:38.000
Uh maybe you wanted ten.
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I don't know.
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Maybe you really believed in this Giants team and w whatever version of a person you were at that time.
00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:44.960
Um yeah, I've I've grown a lot since then.
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Yeah, yeah.
00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:51.039
I I've really I've really felt the maturity uh when I get like Caleb Williams memes in my inbox on a daily basis.
00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:55.519
The um I don't fucking make them, yeah, but you share them, which is an endorsement.
00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:58.480
Hold on, he's been sending them, he's been sending them directly to me now.
00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:00.319
We're not even sharing them to you, so oh right.
00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:02.240
Yeah, we're just talking about trying to shield you.
00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:04.000
Yeah, I'm trying to shield you from it.
00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:05.279
Yeah, that's real love.
00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:06.880
Appreciate that, mom.
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Um okay.
00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:12.960
Anything, anybody have anything else to say about the fucking absolute dumpster fire that is the NFC East?
00:24:13.039 -->
00:24:19.920
I really thought that the NFC South was going to be the NFC East, but it turns out the NFC South is still just the NFC South, which is also strange.
00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:22.799
But the NFC East is just I I have no idea.
00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:24.160
I don't even know what to make of these guys.
00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:25.440
Anyone got anything on this team?
00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:27.279
Any any big bold predictions?
00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:31.759
They're just marching to the beat of their own drum and that drum's a uh trash can.
00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:33.200
So yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:39.680
It's it's four teams that get an extra 30 minutes on every test, you know, in a s in a special room when they're when they're not done yet.
00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:54.000
Is the quarterback that they that they got from Minnesota is he actually going to be good until Jackson Darrell comes back, or is that just they weren't yeah, like did JJ McCarthy show that he could actually play quarterback in the NFL in that fourth quarter?
00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:56.400
He's he's doing it.
00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:56.799
I agree.
00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:00.400
People don't game plan for him, and then when they do, it goes really badly for him.
00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:04.640
I mean 243 yards and a quarter is fucking nuts.
00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:07.200
Yeah, but I mean then you just figure him out again.
00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:10.319
You know, like then the next team that actually can be competent just figures him out again.
00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:11.839
I'm just I I've from the time he got dragged in the back.
00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:14.400
Did you start him over over Jameis?
00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:16.319
I always like a Jameis game.
00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:18.400
He's a fucking weirdo.
00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:19.599
I I like him a lot.
00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:20.720
I just like him as a guy.
00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:21.680
I would like to hang out with him.
00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:24.720
I he's he's a starter in our hearts, if not on the field.
00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:27.200
Um, who else is interesting?
00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:30.559
Talked about the NFC West, we talked about the NFC East.
00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:33.440
I don't really want to touch the NFC South yet.
00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:34.559
It's a very strange division.
00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:37.359
And yeah, the Panthers, the Panthers are interesting.
00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:39.039
The Panthers have been interesting.
00:25:39.200 --> 00:26:04.960
I mean, it to me it seems like this this Bryce Young uh got benched, you know, took a look at himself, took a long look in the mirror, uh, realized the mirror was too tall, had the mirror lowered down, uh, looked again in the mirror and said, you know, you even though despite your obvious physical um impairments, you you can make something of yourself in this league, despite the fact that your name is Bryce, which is like I think consensus the worst name you
can have, other than, I don't know, Adolph.
00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:08.799
Uh it's it's a terrible, it's a terrible situation he was born into.
00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:12.559
And I really believe in in the power of overcoming adversity.
00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:16.480
And I think the Panthers are a real uh dis display in that.
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:20.000
But the Falcons are better than their record, they're better than two and four, I think.
00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:20.799
Um the safety.
00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:22.079
They're better than their quarterback.
00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:23.680
Yeah, I would I I don't know.
00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:24.960
I think Penix is alright.
00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:29.839
I I rate him a little higher than you do, but maybe not as high as Matt does because Matt tied his flag to that mask on the show.
00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:33.200
I really have to release because it's just becoming contextually ridiculous.
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:36.319
I'll do a little uh intro at the start of that game.
00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:39.119
Um the books, I I don't know.
00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:42.559
I I thought they could maybe get feisty, but it doesn't look like it.
00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:48.000
Um, that kid doesn't seem like he really is NFL caliber.
00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:49.599
I mean, he's better than we thought he was.
00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:50.240
I I don't know.
00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:52.000
He he's gonna get confused with the other one.
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:53.279
Uh maybe they can trade it.
00:26:54.240 --> 00:27:02.160
Did you see that his that his wrist uh full of plays got knocked off and they took it to the opposing sideline and then they just shut him down the rest of the game?
00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:03.839
Because they knew exactly what the fuck he was calling.
00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:05.279
That's crazy.
00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:05.759
Oh no.
00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:06.559
That's nuts.
00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:07.920
You should are you allowed to do that?
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:12.160
I mean, I guess if you just like hand intelligence over to the other army, like they're allowed to use it.
00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:16.480
He got hit so hard that it came off his fucking wrist, and the opposing team just picked up and walked over to their side.
00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:17.519
What are they gonna do?
00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:18.640
I think you should know the plays.
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.000
I don't think you should have one of those wrist things.
00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:20.960
What do you what do you think?
00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:21.759
I love that.
00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:24.960
I mean, every every quarterback in the NFL has ever had that, so yeah.
00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:26.079
Not all of them.
00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:26.960
Some of them don't play with it.
00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:29.119
Brady Brady had him, he's the best one of all time.
00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:31.440
Okay, but just because Brady did it doesn't mean it's okay.
00:27:31.519 -->
00:27:34.400
He also mouth kisses his child, which is which is fine.
00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:34.799
It's fine.
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:39.680
I mean, I'm just saying, but him doing it doesn't make it right, you know.
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:41.200
His 12-year-old child.
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:43.119
Well, he did it and it was fine.
00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:46.000
Yeah, don't kiss your kid on the lips if he has object permanence.
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:46.799
I agree, Mike.
00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:51.039
So the uh like do it before he knows enough to get fucked up by it.
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:53.119
I'm I'm totally in Mike's in Mike's camp on that one.
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:54.160
It was weird as shit.
00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:56.640
No, I mean I'm putting plenty of players don't have them, I think.
00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:59.119
I feel like, and also like, shouldn't they be at least in code?
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.240
You know, like shouldn't they be like hard to figure out if the other team gets them?
00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:05.440
Like it just says the plays, it just says like mesh spots on your phone.
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:12.240
We know Jordan Love does not have it because he literally just takes a nine-step drop back and just heaves it and just hopes that one of his receivers doesn't drop it.
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:12.640
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:13.599
Just doesn't need all of that.
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:16.319
He couldn't read, so that would go, you know.
00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:19.839
Who Mike Tomlin never had one because he couldn't read, so you know it's not big deal.
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:21.200
Mike Tomlin wasn't a quarterback, Matt.
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:22.400
We're talking about the little wrist things.
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:24.799
I'm pretty sure he had a play.
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:26.880
So dumb it's the playoffs.
00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:30.400
Um, Mike Tomlin is universally loved at this point.
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:32.240
Like his stock is like on the rise.
00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:35.279
Like he's really great at the end of games uh on NBC.
00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.519
So I don't know why you're so against him.
00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:38.160
Is it a race?
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:41.200
Lots of quarterbacks have lots of quarterbacks have the have the wrist plays.
00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:43.440
Well, Mike Tomlin doesn't he can't ring.
00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:44.559
What the fuck are you talking about?
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:46.400
You're just trying to shoehorn something in there.
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:46.880
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:51.200
Michael Penix Jr.'s name when he's out there kicking ass.
00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:53.279
Us penis riders, we're gonna keep riding for him.
00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:55.599
Yeah, dude, he sucks at playing football.
00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:57.279
I wouldn't go that far.
00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:57.759
He's okay.
00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:02.319
On panics?
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:03.920
Yeah, that guy smells.
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:08.240
Smells like he's got a couple wins in his in his cleats there, huh?
00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:08.720
Yeah.
00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:10.640
I didn't say how he smelled, it just smells.
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:16.720
All right, let's go to the AFC and just run through these fucking actually good teams.
00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:20.559
Um, okay, uh, the AFC West, the Chiefs, the Broncos, the Raiders, the Chargers.
00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:22.960
The Chargers have lost six games and won none.
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:24.640
Uh first coach fired Harbaugh.
00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:26.640
I mean, it's a matter of time now at this point, right?
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:27.759
It's it's any second.
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.279
We've seen a GM fired, but we haven't we haven't seen any.
00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:32.559
I mean, I don't know why it's a contract.
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:35.519
I really hope they just hold on to him for the whole season.
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:36.799
For the value of the entertainment.
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:43.759
Dude, this is like I mean, I don't know if there's any value in them tanking to be the to get the number one overall draft pick.
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:50.240
I don't know what the mock drafts are saying, but regardless, I just think it'd be great.
00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:56.960
That's the only thing making them relevant right now is just seeing how stupid Harbaugh sounds every week and just how bad this team is.
00:29:57.279 --> 00:29:58.799
So why not just keep him out there?
00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:04.000
Every time they pan over to him on the sideline, it I he just looks like Biden in that in his fucking last debate.
00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:05.680
Like he's just not there anymore.
00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:07.440
He's not fucking there.
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:10.160
And I think they're gonna keep him.
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:20.400
I think they should, he should be like, you should embarrass him because he decided when he took over that team, he was gonna get rid of as many skill players as possible and try to build that offense from the line out.
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:24.240
Turns out the lineman that he drafted can't stay fucking uh injury free.
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:24.960
They're always hurt.
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:28.720
Don't just doesn't have a ball sack.
00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:30.240
Yes, Justin Herbert.
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:34.640
I will I was gonna come on to admit that your take is completely in stone on that one.
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:35.839
You were totally right about him.
00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:42.400
He's not, he's regressed basically year on year, um, across across the time he's spent playing well.
00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:44.640
And I think you're totally correct about him.
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.400
Um, I think I thought he was Trevor Lawrence and Trevor Lawrence was him, and I was wrong.
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.640
But the and uh yeah, I am
confusing blonde white people because you're allowed to do that.
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:53.519
Okay, you're allowed.
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:58.720
And and I'm getting old, my gray matter is calcifying, and if I'm gonna do that, let me at least do it with the whites.
00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:06.799
But I have to say, every single pick they picked up on the line was not injury prone coming in.
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:07.920
Like, there's been some bad luck.
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:14.559
Like, Joald had the best injury stats of anybody in college, like he he played the most snaps of like any human being on a collegiate level.
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:20.480
Like, maybe that's why, but like it's just I but the data that they had, they couldn't have known that.
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:22.000
Uh, that's my one defense of them.
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:29.039
And what I will also say is as we start to talk about mock drafts and tanking, as Zach just brought up towards towards the end of the season.
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:33.039
Um, I really do need to release that game because that uh we draft Arch Manning.
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:38.000
We tank for Arch Manning thing is crazy because really you're gonna need like the 15th pick to get him at this point.
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:39.839
So uh he might get benched.
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:50.559
Yeah, so um uh yeah, I I mean uh on name alone, if it was if Matt was power ranking him, you know, he would definitely apply the context, but um not playing well.
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:52.559
His his draft stock going down.
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:54.640
The Chiefs are looking likely to win that division.
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:57.200
The Broncos are a kind of a weak four and two, I would say.
00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:59.279
I don't think they've looked that convincing being four and two.
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:02.720
And the Raiders kind of are just starting to look like a team you don't really want to play.
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:10.000
Um they they look like a team you should beat, but at least an annoying hurdle in your season that I'm sure that you guys have have experienced firsthand.
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:13.839
I mean, you won the game, but it's you're not a hundred percent sure going in.
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.000
They might actually have something about them, it turns out.
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:20.480
So it is a bit of a kooky division, the AFC West, but um I don't know.
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:28.319
Chiefs look like the Chiefs again, and it it's to the point where we're not talking about them at all because they are just inevitable, you know?
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:33.119
And it's like you don't want to talk about Thanos too much because then he comes true, you know.
00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:40.960
It's but it's a little bit different Chiefs team, and this this kind of flies in the face of everything that I've said on this podcast, and I'm just gonna say it now just so get out of the way.
00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:42.960
It's Kenneth Walker has changed that team.
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:44.319
I know he's so good.
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.799
Wow, that's very big of you, Mike.
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:48.960
I really really big of you, too.
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:50.559
Now he's not the best player on that team.
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:54.240
Patrick Mahomes still is, so if they win a Super Bowl, it will be because of Patrick Mahomes.
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:56.319
But Kenneth Walker has changed that team.
00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:59.200
No, no, it's just nice to hear you give running backs credit.
00:32:59.279 --> 00:32:59.839
It's great.
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:01.519
Yeah, you do hate running backs.
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:02.079
I hate him.
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.839
Oh, I no, I don't hate them, I just don't value them.
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.400
There's a difference.
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:06.960
Well, yeah, you're in Pittsburgh Steelers front office.
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:12.640
I mean, it's just like they just they're not they're not a highly uh coveted uh skill position for you.
00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:13.119
I get it.
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:21.119
I mean, I you're a data guy, and like they're mostly made up of how good their run blockers are, if you sort of correlate the statistics of every running.
00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:22.799
I'm also a quarterback guy.
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:24.480
Yeah, Michael Bay Jr.
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:27.039
No, like one that says healthy.
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:33.759
I will say, like, they do look like a pretty legitimate force and and they do have multiple um offensive weapons now.
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:40.160
Uh they handled the Chargers 22-6, exactly what an undefeated heavyweight is supposed to do to an 0 and now six team.
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:53.359
Um, they continue to occupy, I think, like a very annoying territory where you, like I was saying, like you sort of take them for granted because winning five straight doesn't qualify as news for them, which they reseated themselves in that position so quickly.
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:56.160
The last team I saw do that was you fuckers.
00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:58.160
Uh so it's it's difficult.
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:00.000
They are playing Seattle Sunday night.
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.000
Definitely the toughest environment they've gone to uh in a primetime game.
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:06.880
So let's see uh what the what the actual test is there.
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:09.039
And honestly, we we talked about Seattle.
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:12.079
I mean, their backs are against the wall, they're gonna have to try to really come out and win this game.
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:12.800
It's important.
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.360
So um I got I'm flagging that one.
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:16.559
I got my eye on that game.
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:30.320
Um moving right along through the rest of the AFC, unless uh anybody got I I got I got one knit to pick, one bone to
pick with Matt, really, and the rest of the AFC, and then we can launch into the Bears Patriots conversation if you guys are ready.
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:31.920
But um the only bone.
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:32.480
Go ahead.
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:38.480
Well, the Pittsburgh Steelers were last week were 16, and now they're 16, and they just beat Tampa Bay 26-19.
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:39.440
They're four and two.
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:47.519
You're I just think your long-standing refusal to respect them in any way, shape, or form is becoming increasingly difficult to defend, but maybe you'll be able to do it this week.
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:51.840
You just haven't really yeah, it's yeah, you you've pretty much admitted it's a bias at this point.
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:57.760
So they've got the same record as Cleveland and Baltimore, and they've been winning enough different types of games that this doesn't look like a fluke to me.
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:01.840
Aaron Rodgers, and this is not fun for me to say, is playing really well.
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:03.760
He's playing genuinely really well.
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:04.559
He just is.
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:14.320
Uh, I again I don't know how sustainable that is for a 57-year-old, 63-year-old, 71-year-old man in December of this year, in which he will have turned 82.
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:17.920
But I don't know, they're about to go play New Orleans and they're gonna be probably five and two.
00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:19.840
And I just I it's I don't know.
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.840
The Saints did show signs of life, so it's a little bit more interesting of a game, but come on, man.
00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:25.440
16 and they didn't even move.
00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:38.719
Well, so I could I could sit here and I could go back to my point about the Seahawks and the Jaguars, not respecting the Jaguars being a one-win team, and relate that to the Steelers coming out and being a dog shit Tampa Bay team and having to do it in overtime, which is like kind of embarrassing.
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:43.679
But really, what it is is this is my list, and where they are is where they are.
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:49.360
I I I do completely agree about them beating Tampa.
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:54.719
I was watching the game thinking to myself, like, aren't they uh aren't they supposed to be better?
00:35:54.880 --> 00:36:03.119
As an aren't people hyping up Aaron Rodgers and how he's playing, and here they are going overtime against terrible Tampa team and they're they back up QB.
00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:04.239
We all thought they're gonna be good.
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:05.599
We all thought they're gonna be able to cross them off right now.
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:08.559
Oh, Tampa's Baker, yeah, Baker's not playing.
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:09.039
Right.
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:14.159
They got they got Jaden Daniels' uh third long lost cousin uh at quarterback.
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:17.679
Like, what I don't know what you're gonna do at this current moment, they are terrible.
00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:23.920
So and in this current week when the Steelers played them, they should have not gone to overtime.
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:24.719
So I don't know.
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:27.760
I mean, it feels like we apply this logic like when it suits us.
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:28.880
You know, it's like we're gonna be able to do that.
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:30.960
Well, yeah, that's that's the whole point of me being on this book.
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.559
What else are we doing here?
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:33.760
I just I don't know.
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:41.760
I don't mean to bring down the whole house of cards, but it's like sometimes when it's the Patriots, it's like, well, they can only play with put in front of them, and it's like, well, yeah, any NFL team can beat you.
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:44.880
I mean, go on overtime, you never know what's gonna happen, blah blah blah blah blah.
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:47.599
And then it's like, oh, the Steelers should have beaten Tampa worse.
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:48.400
I don't know.
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:52.639
I mean, I'd I imagine that you guys aren't gonna apply.
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:54.880
Here's a this is a perfect segue, DK.
00:36:55.039 --> 00:37:00.480
I'm just you right now would would say that the Bills are a really good team.
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:00.960
Right.
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:05.440
I mean, I have huge question marks about their defense at this point, but sure they're a good team, yeah.
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:06.239
Okay, I'd say good.
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:12.320
They haven't they have an easier schedule this year than we did last year, when nobody nobody's even talking about it.
00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:13.280
So there is bias.
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:14.559
People are talking about it.
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:15.679
I think people are talking about it.
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:17.760
There's definitely bias, but bias towards the Bills, though.
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:23.440
I mean, I pointed it out last week on this show that that when Josh Allen makes a mistake, when he throws a deep interception, they call it like an arm punt.
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:29.360
Like, I don't, you know, like I I when they barely beat the Raiders, it was like, oh, they got by a pretty good Raiders team.
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:30.400
Like, we again we beat them.
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:33.280
They said the same thing about seventeen.
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:35.599
No, but they said, but but they they applied the same logic.
00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:38.400
It was like, oh, they fucking like they waxed the Raiders.
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:40.079
Like it's just the Raiders, like, no big deal.
00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:41.039
Like, this is what I'm saying.
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:45.519
They like the goalposts move all the time based on how you beat teams, and I really think the metric should be.
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:46.719
Yeah, I think so.
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:50.960
I I think it's I should maybe my tone is as aggressive, but I just think no, I agree with you.
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:53.599
It's it's like, sorry, no, I am I am purposely agreeing with you.
00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:58.159
It's like it's uh but but I think you're also agreeing with my point in relation to the Steelers.
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:01.679
It's like I think so when if you win a game, you win the fucking game.
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:02.960
That's what I think the metric should be.
00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:04.960
It's like, oh, they didn't win the way we wanted them to.
00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:06.719
I just don't know if that's necessarily fair.
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.920
I mean, the fucking Packers barely beat the Buccaneers.
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:19.519
If the Steelers barely beat the Buccaneers, like both, like nobody, you didn't hear anyone in the NFL media other than me uh be like where I was applying the logic differently to suit my agenda then.
00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:23.519
Uh the it's you didn't have anyone be like, oh, the Packers only barely beat the Bucs.
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:28.719
No, everybody had a had their fucking yellow and green dicks in their mouth right away, right afterwards, right?
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:30.400
So it's like, whatever, they won the game.
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:32.239
Like you got you gotta pick a lane here.
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:33.920
I mean, I don't, but everyone else does.
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:36.880
What diseases would make their dicks yellow and green?
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:43.039
I don't know, but there's something in the fucking water up there in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a place I will never visit, because why would you go there?
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:49.440
No, trust me, it's definitely so if it was if it was Bears Packers NFC title game, you wouldn't go there?
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.800
Uh to Lambo Field to see the Bears.
00:38:53.039 --> 00:39:13.840
Um to your point though, about like how these teams win games in the like I think there is something a lot different for regular season games, and especially for these power rankings, that if you win your game in the playoffs, you're going on to the next round, the other team's gone.
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:22.880
And yes, you can debate the quality of the win and what have you, but at the end of the day, if you win the last game of the year, you're Super Bowl champs, and that's all you can really be judged by.
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:38.639
But for these regular season teams in these rankings, for the sake of saying which team is better, I mean, there is an ultimate goal to look at these rankings and say, this is who we think are the best teams in the NFL and who's gonna be the last men standing going into playoff time.
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:39.599
Yeah, I think it's true.
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:44.960
I mean, you aren't desperately trying to figure out who's good and who's not all all for the first like half of the season at the very least, right?
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:46.639
Like it's you're it's a bit of a scramble.
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:59.440
Aaron Powell Yeah, because these team records are gonna be kind of uh Fugazi in a way, with you know, I think the Vikings 5-0 record is just gonna be a total sham when they finish the year like eight and nine or whatever.
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:08.960
Uh so I think the same thing applies for the Steelers that these you know that they're playing well, Aaron Rodgers playing great so far, but is his 89-year-old ass gonna keep up by week 17, 18?
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:09.440
Probably not.
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:10.960
And they're gonna look like shit by the end.
00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:15.599
I think he's gonna I think he's gonna have a renaissance here because he's told everyone this is it.
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:16.400
You know what I mean?
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:21.519
I I I think I and I hate the fucker, but he he does he does look pretty good.
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:23.599
I do think you have to look at it in context.
00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:26.480
Like, I what if take both things, right?
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:27.920
Take both scenarios.
00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:35.119
Like if you look at all the the situate, the whole situation on like why you think he might he might crap out or the Steelers might crap out, right?
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:43.280
Injuries, his body being old, uh fossilized, corpsified, um, you know, these are all like easy things you can reach for.
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:53.199
What I will say is having an offensive system guy in McCarthy, come coach an Aaron Rodgers team, a guy he knows how he plays.
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:59.360
Like, I I don't know if there's a ton of gas in the tank, but with that combination, but it is a championship-winning combination.
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:09.280
It is uh it is a combination that, yes, of course, not at his age now, but it they did play some pretty electric fucking football over the years in Green Bay, you know, as difficult as that is for me to admit.
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:14.159
So, you know, can they go to the well for championship level?
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:20.800
No, but I think 16th worst team in the NFL as uh at four and two across these many weeks is my only point.
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:22.559
You know, I I just think yes.
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:30.320
If it was a can they sustain it power rankings, if it was a what what were they, what we think the power rankings are gonna be in December power rankings, maybe.
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:33.840
But as of right now, you're just going off the body of work, right?
00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:46.960
And and you know, if you're if you're taking and applying the context of what we thought they were gonna be coming into the year, at least some of it has to be what they are, which is a four and two team in a tough division playing good football.
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:48.480
I that's
the only thing I'll say about it.
00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:55.920
So, do you know what's what's funny is uh I'm pulling up the ESPN power rankings, they have Pittsburgh at 17.
00:41:58.559 --> 00:41:59.440
That's funny.
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:04.960
Um so Matt likes the Steelers more than ESPN and all the experts there.
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:06.639
So super fair to the Steelers.
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:14.400
I don't know why it needs to be said that way, but it actually it it sounds better for a podcast when you stand across the room and tap away from the microphone.
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:15.199
I was celebrating.
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:18.159
Next time I'll celebrate on camera, you're right.
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:18.480
I'm sorry.
00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:19.119
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:21.119
Because ESPN is the end all and fucking be all.
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:25.280
And you're if you're aligned with them, you're really aligned with the top sports minds in the world.
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:28.159
Yeah, that's the rule that we're gonna go on here at our competing podcast.
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:29.599
Talk my power racing.
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:32.079
Oh man.
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:33.280
Yeah, they suck though.
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:35.760
They suck, and they don't take enough ivermectin, that's clearly the problem.
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:37.440
And maybe if they took a little bit more, they'd be better.
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:38.000
I don't know.
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:39.599
Topical joke there, Matt.
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:44.320
Uh it would be and I'm not, I don't want to put this into the universe, but let me just put this into the universe.
00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:53.119
It would be wild if McCarthy and Rogers uh won a championship uh for the team that they beat for that same championship 16 years ago.
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.679
Yeah, that's there's there's something to that.
00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:56.559
Very good point.
00:42:57.519 --> 00:42:58.239
I mean that now.
00:42:58.559 --> 00:42:58.800
You know what?
00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:03.039
That sounds I don't know, maybe it's just like a dumb brain moment.
00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:05.519
Completely forgot they beat the Steelers together.
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:06.719
Completely forgot about that.
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:08.800
Just didn't cross my mind.
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:16.079
I sometimes forget that Aaron Rodgers won a championship because he had so many years of just being really good and fucking irrelevant.
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:20.000
Anti-science beat anti-consent, and it was uh it wasn't that close of a game.
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:25.599
He shouldn't have actually uh neither of those teams actually should have been there if you look at the whole context of that Super Bowl.
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:30.000
The Bengals were actually the best team in the uh AFC and Burger.
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:30.880
Carson Palmer.
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.119
Carson Palmer, I
mean, got hurt, got his leg absolutely pulverized that that season.
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:37.599
Yeah, just exploded.
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:39.119
And they went to the Super Bowl.
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:44.079
And honestly, if you look at all the advanced metrics of that season, the the that was gonna be the Bengals year.
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:51.679
And uh the Bears met the Packers in the NFC um championship game, and Jay Cutler quit and started riding the bike and smoking a cigarette on the sidelines.
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:59.599
I blacked out so hard that I was screaming um uh 70% of the earth is covered by water, and the rest is covered by the Bears defense.
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:01.519
At the commercial breaks, I'm told.
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:02.000
I don't know.
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:03.280
I don't I don't remember this.
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:06.719
I was screaming at the television and I kind of came too and they had lost.
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:12.239
Um, Cutler quit, obviously, and uh the rest is history, but yeah, it was a year.
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:27.199
And I uh sorry, Matt and uh Zach, I just had to ask DK this one one last question about this because I did put this into the universe two years ago and I was like, I think Aaron Rodgers is gonna be the Steelers, and I put that out there and kind of wrecked his entire summer, and then it happened.
00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:34.000
If it's the Steelers versus the Bears in the Super Bowl, what happens if Aaron Rodgers is?
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:35.039
Is that really a question?
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:36.400
Is that really a fucking question?
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:38.480
Or you ask me where my loyalties are gonna lie?
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:39.039
No, no.
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:42.960
What happens when Aaron What happens if Aaron Rodgers beats you again?
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:56.000
I it the scenario you're painting to me right now is what if the Bears get to the Super Bowl and then the other side of that game is a 40-something year old Aaron Rodgers.
00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:59.679
I will fucking bite your hand off for that scenario, my friend.
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:02.320
I would fucking love it if that was the case.
00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:05.199
If I could like, it doesn't matter that he's an old man.
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:06.800
I still want that ass whooping back.
00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:08.000
I want it wouldn't happen.
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:08.639
Wouldn't happen.
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:10.559
Wouldn't that something I would even fucking entertain?
00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:11.280
Would not happen.
00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:12.880
Absolutely would not fucking happen in a minute.
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:16.239
How miserable would you be to deal with if what I just said happened, happened?
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:17.920
Um week after for the show.
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:23.519
I mean, you'd have to, it would be probably miserable for Leah to organize my funeral arrangements, I guess,
from the suicide.
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:25.199
I don't otherwise, like, I don't know.
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:26.480
I wouldn't be that hard to deal with.
00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:27.440
I'd be dead.
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.559
So um uh yeah, that's uh that would go.
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:32.639
Don't fucking paint these pictures to me, please.
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:34.159
I uh this is like very upsetting.
00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.039
The February 16th podcast is gonna be great.
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:40.079
You just hear fucking undertaker bells.
00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:43.360
Um it's like, oh, the music's different.
00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:45.280
All right.
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:48.079
Uh we've we've kind of jumped around all over the place.
00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:56.079
I think it's probably time we talk about this Pat Spears game, uh, a thing I wasn't necessarily looking forward to doing uh with the three of you, but I am gonna hand over hosting responsibilities now.
00:45:56.320 --> 00:46:02.719
Yeah, I don't know why you're not looking forward to this because uh uh I'm not gonna do what we do on Instagram or what we do in the in in the chat.
00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:05.760
I'm gonna be I'm just gonna be as honest as as I can.
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:08.719
I was rooting for this game for the Super Bowl last year.
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:13.920
These two quarterbacks are my favorite quarterbacks uh that come that that that that came out of that draft.
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:17.039
Right now we have the Patriots at four and two, the Bears at four and two.
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:21.280
Drake May had an abysmal first three games, and he's turned it on the last couple of games.
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:29.519
Uh and Caleb recovered from his injury, came back, and beat the shit out of uh a terrible quarterback in uh the Falcons.
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:33.760
So I I think Vegas has this right.
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:36.000
Like right now, uh the Patriots are underdogs.
00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:37.519
Uh, I'm not gonna go to you, DK, first.
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:38.480
I want I want to go to Matt.
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:43.519
Matt, do you think that the Patriots are a worse team than the Bears?
00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:45.360
Should they not be favored in this game?
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:48.719
Uh I think that the line is the accurate line.
00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:50.880
I think it should I think it should be Bears minus three.
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:52.960
Um, not because I I don't think they're a better team.
00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:55.360
I think the teams are are shockingly evenly matched.
00:46:55.519 --> 00:47:00.880
Um but I think when you look at our injuries and you look at the offensive line, I think that's the right line.
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:02.320
I'm I'm I'm nervous about this game.
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:04.159
We're in Chicago, it's a Thursday night.
00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:09.039
Um, I think historically Drake has not performed that well
midweek, which is always fun.
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:10.559
Uh it's a fun stat to look at.
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:12.960
But uh I think it's a fair line.
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:13.760
I think it's a fair line.
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:15.119
I think the Bears look very good.
00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:16.400
I think they look very competent.
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.599
I think they've got fingernails uh my hamstring hurts back.
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.480
Um and I think that this is a real test for Drake.
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:24.000
See, I didn't do that.
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:24.880
I did not do that.
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:30.559
Uh Zach, uh is is do you think based on everything that you've seen so far that uh that that that the line is right?
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:33.440
We should be underdogs going into Chicago?
00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:39.199
Uh I think the old school logic is always that uh you give the home team for three points.
00:47:39.360 --> 00:47:43.840
It's not exactly the real logic, but that's just kind of the uh the saying there.
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:47.440
So they kind of think it's like uh pick them at this point.
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:56.719
Um I mean yeah, I if you were to tell me uh if you're to tell me hey, you have to pick one of these teams to be a favorite, yeah, I would say Chicago for sure.
00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:06.800
Uh getting the quarterback back, he's looked more I mean I know Drake May is Yeah, he's he's looked more electric out, I would say.
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:09.280
Uh excellent, but electric electric.
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:10.880
No, electric is well.
00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:12.800
Like, I mean, there's more exciting plays.
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:24.960
I I feel like they I feel like Drake May still, even though he's played well these past few weeks, he's still trying to figure it out, and this is gonna be the first real test for him since looking like dog shit the first three weeks.
00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:30.079
Uh so I I mean that Chicago defense is is good as well.
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:33.519
Like it's just not at you think that is he right now.
00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:35.360
You don't DK, you don't you don't think it's it's good?
00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:45.039
Is he right in saying that the Chicago defense is the first test as opposed to like Buffalo or the Buffalo is what week three or week four?
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:46.480
No, week four week four.
00:48:48.320 --> 00:48:49.360
Early enough.
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:52.239
Is the Bears defense defense?
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:54.239
No, no, Bears defense is good.
00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:55.519
Buffalo's defense is horrible.
00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:57.360
No, no, the Bears defense is not good.
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.719
We're we're riddled with injuries, uh, first and foremost.
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:03.199
We have a lot of we have a lot of high profile injuries.
00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:06.719
Um we have four four very important starters out coming
into this.
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:08.639
They're weird, is what they are.
00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:10.639
They're a strange defense, is what they are.
00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:21.920
They they Dennis Allen, I think, recognized the personnel that he was given both last season and this season, and there's just gaping, gaping holes in in our actual personnel room.
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:34.880
I think what he does really well is he knows that if he teaches the right things and he goes for explosive defensive plays, that will paper over some of the every down cracks that the Bears have.
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:44.800
I think one thing he's done really well efficiency-wise, is he somehow, and I'm not really sure how this how he did this, but it's some sort of reverse of the way Ben Johnson thinks about the offense.
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:49.119
We somehow became the best third-down defense in football over the first uh six weeks.
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:52.320
And you guys are actually the best third down offense in football.
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:58.480
I don't know if you knew that, but that combination I think immediately favors you because I think it's a fake stat for the Bears.
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:00.320
Like I think we I think we lucked into that.
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:01.840
I don't know how we fucking started that.
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:02.960
I really have no idea.
00:50:03.199 --> 00:50:10.159
Our entire secondary is made up of rookies and a clapped Jalen Johnson who just looks a shadow of his former self, and now we're hiding him.
00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:11.840
We hid him in the in the Falcons game.
00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:12.719
That's what we did.
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:20.239
And anyone that thinks he just didn't have a bad game is realizing, is not realizing that we made the rookie safety just come and cover his side every single play.
00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:22.320
So it's not great.
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:28.159
Um we can't get pressure on the quarterback with four guys, so I wouldn't worry that much about your O-line.
00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:31.840
I think you're gonna get a lot of encouragement, and Drake's gonna get a lot of time.
00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:35.280
Uh, I I'm very worried about the Chicago defense.
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:36.960
Like, I really they give up a lot.
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:43.840
They they statistically somehow have like slid into the middle ground in the NFL of like not looking entirely incompetent.
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:47.519
But and they do we do get turnovers, which is nuts.
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.920
I don't know, I don't know really how, but like we seem to just be riding a lot of luck in that regard.
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:53.119
Like it just seems to work out.
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:58.079
But and they are like you put the opposing team in a in a sh in a position where they only they can only throw.
00:50:58.159 --> 00:50:59.519
Like you know that they're gonna have to throw to the biggest.
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:02.400
Yeah, but look look what we did when we did that to Green Bay.
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:03.679
Like, it was bad.
00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:09.840
Like, uh, you guys have deep shot ability with AJ Brown, and I don't think he's gonna just like I don't think he just forgot how to catch the ball.
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:13.119
I just think he was coming back from an injury and he like looked a little fucking rusty.
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:19.119
Like, I'm really worried that he's just gonna murder us in in in the in in deep ball situations.
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:25.760
And I think Drake, Drake Maya essentially, over the last season and a bit, has been the best deep ball quarterback in the NFL.
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:27.280
So I'm entirely worried.
00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:34.719
Yeah, like I just watched this get fucking cut up by deep balls, and now this guy's fucking coming to town and he's pretty fucking good at him.
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:35.840
So, like, yeah, not great.
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:40.239
AJ Brown, best deep ball receiver in the NFL for for the you know the majority of his career.
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:41.599
I don't, I don't know, man.
00:51:41.679 --> 00:51:43.440
It's not, it doesn't feel great.
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:45.119
It really doesn't feel great.
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:55.199
Um, there's one bright spot, and that's Kyler Gordoner, who I think is one of the more athletic players in the NFL coming back um after this weird foot thing that he had, and you know, three sacks of forced fumble.
00:51:55.360 --> 00:52:02.400
He looked fucking electric coming off the line and and blitzing, but uh, I mean, I I'm hoping my offense can score more points than your offense.
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:03.440
That's that's what I'm hoping.
00:52:03.519 --> 00:52:06.079
That's that's my absolute fingers crossed situation here.
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:08.800
I I don't think that the defense is gonna win us this game.
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:16.800
Matt, how good are you feeling going into this uh game after a you know, just the eye test, like a a bad win against the Jets.
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:19.519
Like again, Drake May did not have a great stats, right?
00:52:19.599 --> 00:52:25.119
But he the one thing that he did do that game was not turn the ball over, because if he had turned the ball over, we would have lost the fucking game.
00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:25.360
Right.
00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:28.719
So all he had to do was just play, you know, play a safe game that way.
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:39.679
Uh, I guess my question is knowing what you what you know, Caleb goes 30 of 36 or 300-something yards and four touchdowns or three touchdowns against the Falcons, they can score at will.
00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:43.199
How worried are you about our offense being able to keep up?
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:44.000
I am worried.
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:44.639
I'm absolutely worried.
00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.920
I'm worried about Kyler
Gordon coming up the side and killing Drake.
00:52:48.079 --> 00:52:52.960
I'm worried about him having to improvise too much against uh you can you can insult your secretary you want.
00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:55.119
They're very fast, they fly across the field.
00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:57.360
I don't think that's very good when you have to be mobile.
00:52:57.440 --> 00:52:59.679
It's a Thursday night, it's a loud crowd.
00:52:59.920 --> 00:53:01.920
Um yeah, I don't feel good.
00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:02.800
I don't feel great about it.
00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:07.920
Um I I thought that um here's here's here's my real problem.
00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:12.960
Atlanta had a late push for uh some points that game.
00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:17.039
I'm not gonna say his name, I'm not gonna bring up Hanks, I promise.
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:21.119
Um but 24 for 24 from a clean pocket for 250 yards.
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:23.440
Um your boy Caleb's on fire right now.
00:53:23.599 --> 00:53:28.559
He looks uh like a like a beast, and the improvised plays where he has to get out of the pocket, those look good too.
00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:33.199
That makes me really nervous when our defense is is is damaged and I hate our offensive line.
00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:35.280
Like I really hate our offensive line.
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:37.360
It drives me nuts watching them out there.
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:39.840
I'm just I'm not I'm not very confident about this game.
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:51.280
If I was gonna tell you my worry though, uh on the other side of the ball, honestly, it's it's it is that is because the the Patriots defenses looked incredibly competent over the first few weeks.
00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:54.159
They allow 18-ish points a game, right?
00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:55.519
Like that's really good.
00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:57.840
And it's essentially what the team's built on.
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:01.599
I mean, what there's all this talk of Drake May, but it's Mike Vabel in a defensive team, right?
00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:03.519
Like that's what that's what your identity really is.
00:54:03.679 --> 00:54:08.559
Of course, the the narratives are going to be around Drake, and yeah, like you're gonna win and lose games at the quarterback position.
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:09.199
I I get that.
00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:11.039
I'm not saying that that that's not important.
00:54:11.119 --> 00:54:15.039
I'm just saying that if like Christian Gonzalez is back, right?
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:22.719
So you can put Caleb in a situation that honestly doesn't benefit him a lot of the time, and it's what Minnesota did.
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:27.119
They can start to put pressure on him, which makes him drop back a little bit too much, hold the ball a little bit too much.
00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:30.639
This is still a quality in his game that I've that that's lurking around this season.
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:32.480
24 out of 24 in a clean pocket.
00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:36.800
The
biggest thing I take from that, yes, great, unbelievable efficiency, 100% efficiency.
00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:38.800
He had 24 passes in a clean pocket.
00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:41.519
The Patriots are not going to give him 24 passes in a clean pocket.
00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:43.360
That is not on the fucking table on Thursday.
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:44.639
It's just not going to happen.
00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:48.960
So if he takes the layups, if he remains patient, sure.
00:54:49.199 --> 00:54:55.840
But playing the Patriots defense on a short week and playing Atlanta and the way they looked, very different kettle of fish.
00:54:55.920 --> 00:55:01.039
Also, I think Christian Gonzalez is one of the better, if not the best, uh secondary players in the NFL.
00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:03.519
And he's gonna decide who to take off the field.
00:55:03.679 --> 00:55:06.239
And I think he's gonna not take Roma Dunze off the field.
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:10.239
I think they're gonna be smart enough where he's gonna realize that he's gonna go cover Luther Burden.
00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:14.400
It's gonna be an incredible matchup, but I it's one that I don't think Burton's gonna win.
00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:18.159
Unless maybe you give him to him in the flats and let him make plays.
00:55:18.320 --> 00:55:18.719
We'll see.
00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:19.840
We'll see how it goes.
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:26.480
But I there's to me, and this might just be worry on my part, but to me, there's just so many more ways New England can win this game.
00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:29.840
There's so many more things that can go wrong for Chicago, in my opinion.
00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:35.760
Our secondary, if say, for instance, right, like what's been Drake's big thing this year?
00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:37.519
If you can get to him, right?
00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:41.360
If you can get to him, you can sort of eliminate that the Patriots offense.
00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:43.440
He hasn't played well once once under a lot of pressure.
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:49.920
Dennis Allen's big thing is he gets addicted to blitz if they start to work, and if they stop working, he still blitzes.
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:56.559
And and I really feel like I've seen Drake achieve way wonderful things in that exact situation.
00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:58.880
And I'm just I'm just a little worried about that too.
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:00.480
I get it because I play Madden.
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:01.760
I get addicted to blitzing too.
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:08.559
I totally understand what like what happens in your head when when you start just pressing blitz every time, like it's gonna work this fucking time, strip sack.
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:09.760
But I don't know.
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:12.559
I I I I appreciate the compliments, but I'm shitting myself.
00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:13.679
I'm out.
00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:15.039
You guys talk amongst yourselves.
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:16.800
I got Ajina.
00:56:17.280 -->
00:56:20.079
But if we're gonna go coach versus coach, it's fucking Ben Johnson.
00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:21.760
I mean, he is like, come on.
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:26.880
I love Raybell, and you know, again, we're seeing he would, but uh, it's fucking Ben Johnson.
00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:31.199
He has looked so confident in in these past couple weeks.
00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:34.880
Uh your quarterback goes 24 for 24 for a clean pocket, but that's amazing.
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:36.079
He's not making mistakes.
00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:38.079
That goes to your offensive scheme.
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:39.760
That is all planning and preparation.
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:40.880
That's all that that is.
00:56:41.360 --> 00:56:47.039
Um so I think I give obviously uh Chicago the nod, or at least the the edge on the coaching decision.
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:49.920
So scare me the most, Zach.
00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:51.519
Um I'll just throw this right to you.
00:56:51.679 --> 00:57:01.840
Uh the things that if we the things we don't do well is rush rush the passer, which as Matt and DK just pointed out, if if you give him a clean pocket, he's perfect.
00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:05.119
And we also don't protect the passer that well.
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:13.840
So do you think that our strengths are bet like uh good enough to overcome uh our weaknesses against a really high powered offense?
00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:16.079
Ugh man.
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:18.159
I mean are we a really high-powered offense?
00:57:18.239 --> 00:57:19.440
That's hard for me to accept.
00:57:21.119 --> 00:57:22.000
Accept it.
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:32.559
Yeah, I if I were to pick one to be more concerned about in terms of like not getting the quarterback or protecting Drake May, definitely protecting Drake May is the issue right now.
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:35.360
Well, they got three injuries on the offensive line last game.
00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:45.360
Uh it's just been rotating guys left, right, center, up, down, god knows who's maybe we'll have a tight end playing center this week at some point.
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:46.159
Who knows?
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:57.599
Uh, but that's that's definitely my bigger concern whether or not DK thinks that the uh the uh Bears defense is actually legit or not or good or not.
00:57:57.679 --> 00:58:08.960
I I still think when you have or even banked up, but regardless, I think when you have this many offensive linemen going through, it's it is a concern.
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:13.199
Thankfully, they've actually looked pretty decent these past few weeks despite the injuries.
00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:16.800
I I guess it's because they're just not facing great defenses.
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:17.599
I don't know.
00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:25.199
Um, but I mean you put they held up against Max Crosby, so whatever you want against the Raiders, they they they kept him in check.
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:27.119
And I would say that that means that they did a pretty good job.
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:32.320
And I and I'll say this about like the coaching matchups too, like because Matt brought it up.
00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:49.840
While I do think Ben Johnson is probably one of the more creative offensive minds in the NFL and a great offensive coach, and a lot of Patriots fans give Josh McDaniels a lot of shit and have for two decades, despite the fact they've won six Super Bowls in that time.
00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:55.840
I do think Josh McDaniels is extremely under what's that?
00:58:56.320 --> 00:58:57.840
He was there for three of them, but it's fine.
00:58:58.079 --> 00:58:59.039
Wasn't he like an assistant?
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:00.320
He was like an assistant coach.
00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:01.519
Yeah, okay.
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:08.800
Yes.
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:15.280
The point being though is he's he's underrated in the sense of getting the most out of what he's given.
00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:23.360
And especially when there's injuries and they need to focus on certain players to make sure they don't ruin their day.
00:59:23.679 --> 00:59:28.480
Uh big example would be Aaron Donald in Super Bowl 53.
00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:31.119
You didn't hear his name pretty much at all.
00:59:31.360 --> 00:59:34.159
Um, but you know, it's not to say that it's perfect either.
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:41.280
I mean, Miles Garrett had a billion sacks last year, but he also set the single season record in sacks last year as well.
00:59:41.440 --> 01:00:05.360
So uh, but it does always feel like when you feel like shit's gonna go sideways or there's gonna be some sort of issue that uh Josh McDaniel somehow cooks up something that is not necessarily some home run ball or crazy stat padding type of uh result, but more of just making sure it's it's uh it's cutting down on the potential disasters.
01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:08.239
I think I think you should be playing home run ball, to be honest.
01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:13.360
Our biggest issue, the biggest defensive issue the Bears have is we give up a shitload of explosive plays.
01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:24.079
Like we have the craziest, we have literally, if we kept the time of possession stats throughout the whole, like on average, throughout the whole rest of the season, we'd be number one in NFL history by like a million miles.
01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:32.400
Like it's we've had the we hold the ball for so long, and yet still we give up such crazy explosive plays that we let and yeah, we pulled the starters, like whatever.
01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:42.719
You know, this has been a debate in Bears' circles all week after the the Falcons mounted like a kind of whimpery comeback, but I got nervous, like I fucking sure shit cut the shits up me for sure.
01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:46.800
And I just I you know I think he should be making home run plays.
01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:50.559
I think the Bears have put enough on tape to say like we should be going for these fucking guys.
01:00:50.719 --> 01:00:56.880
That if he can do that with getting the ball out of Drake's hands relatively quickly, I think you could you guys can honestly slice us up.
01:00:57.039 --> 01:01:07.039
I I what I would watch for just for to give you guys a little perspective on because you haven't watched the Bears as closely as me, and I would love the you know similar insight on the on the other side.
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:12.000
If you if we can establish the run early, I think you might be a little bit in trouble.
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:25.519
I I I think if we if we like the Bears are number one running team in the NFL right now, I don't think Manungai is gonna play, which is big, but essentially the blocking for the run game for the Bears looks really, really competent.
01:01:25.599 --> 01:01:27.760
Like they really just look like they can run the ball.
01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:35.280
And if you can start to get us in second and long situations early, I think that's a really, really big um positive for you guys.
01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:45.760
I I think that's gonna be the main defensive game plan for Vrabel and the Patriots is stop the run because there's a little, you know, look at the left hand, look at the left hand with Ben Johnson where it's like, look at Caleb Williams.
01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:50.880
Like, look how many times he threw the ball against against uh Atlanta, look how good he was in the clean pocket.
01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:52.559
Everything we do is based on the run.
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:54.480
Absolutely everything we do is based on the run.
01:01:54.559 --> 01:02:04.960
And like Caleb, he might be able to yank victory out of the jaws of defeat at at any given time if we can keep the game close, but we're not gonna convincingly beat you unless we can establish the run.
01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:11.119
And as much as I love Caleb Williams and I think he's a great quarterback, and I and I love that it's basically definitive now.
01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:17.199
And I was wondering if we were going to talk about this, but I love that it's basically definitive that there's two guys in that draft class and it's my guy and your guy, and I love that.
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:18.079
I really do.
01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:25.360
But I think and whatever happens, Johnson builds his whole offense behind the run.
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:27.280
So keep an eye on that early.
01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:29.440
I would say to Patriots fans, just keep an eye on that early.
01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:33.920
Longer second downs, longer third downs, that's a really, really good sign for New England.
01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.800
And that's when I start to get worried when I watch this Bears offense.
01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:44.880
Yeah, I was really gonna say, DK, my biggest concern was that if we if we can't force Caleb to throw, we're in trouble.
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:56.559
Because one of the biggest pitfalls of the Patriots uh is our run defense is not good, but
we've been able to uh overcome that or just kind of mask it by the fact that we on offense uh recently have been scoring a lot of points.
01:02:56.639 --> 01:03:00.079
So other opposing offenses can't run against us, they have they have to throw.
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:05.840
I mean, we were able to beat a pretty competent Raiders team with our starting four corners out.
01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:10.400
So I'm not worried about our our secondary for whatever reason they can figure that out.
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:17.280
My big worry is our offensive line, our ability, inability to stop the rush, and then your X factor.
01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:20.400
I think your X factor outside of Caleb Williams is Luther.
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:23.760
And I and he I don't know what the Patriots have.
01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:27.599
I don't like I would say, like, is Pop Douglas that on our side?
01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:28.000
I don't know.
01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:31.920
I think Lutheran, yeah, but I think Luther is a step above that.
01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:32.719
I agree.
01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:33.440
I agree with that.
01:03:33.679 --> 01:03:33.920
Yep.
01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:41.840
I would also take a look, also uh, you know, as you start to watch these drives unfold, and I'm sure we'll be like texting about it or whatever.
01:03:41.920 --> 01:03:45.760
And as much as everyone's hearing us talk right now, and it's like, oh, they're all being very reasonable.
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:47.599
That's not how the group chat goes.
01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:55.920
So uh I don't know what changes the dynamic, but it just didn't basically stop talking to each other on on Monday nights after football week until until this show.
01:03:56.239 --> 01:03:59.920
Um yeah, unless there's like a funny meme about Caleb Williams that you want to send me.
01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:14.559
But um uh uh the important thing to I think watch out for is if we start to move the ball on you early, I wouldn't even get that worried because we have a really inefficient, surprisingly inefficient red zone offense um this season.
01:04:14.639 --> 01:04:17.599
I I think if you play Ben Don't Break, it might really work.
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:27.119
Um that being said, like for all the the jokes and the backs and forths about uh the quarterbacks and everything, like Drake May is playing phenomenal football the last couple of weeks.
01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:32.960
I I did I I am so flabbergasted as to how they turned it around as quickly.
01:04:33.039 --> 01:04:44.719
And I think to Zach's point, McDaniels deserves a lot of credit there, but I I I don't know if I've ever seen a quarterback play as badly as he played for those couple of weeks and as well as he's been playing in such a in such a swift turnaround.
01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:47.599
And I think it's a it's a credit to the fact that he's gonna be around a while.
01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:54.239
Like I think he's he's they're gonna be debating who who would you have drafted, who if all things go according to plan, who would you have drafted for a while?
01:04:54.320 --> 01:04:56.079
And no one's saying Jaden Daniels anymore.
01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:57.119
So here we are.
01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:59.599
You know, I mean, a bit Bo Nicks is a meme.
01:04:59.760 --> 01:05:11.360
Uh it it's all reverted to the mean a little bit, and and I do I do like that these guys are gonna be inextricably linked forever, and I think that they're both hopefully have decently sized forever, if that makes sense.
01:05:11.519 --> 01:05:13.920
So I would love for this to be a Super Bowl preview.
01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:15.039
Let me ask you guys this.
01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:19.280
If this is their first time meeting in the pros, and like you said, this could be going on for the next 10, 15 minutes.
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:21.760
First time meeting in the pros?
01:05:22.320 --> 01:05:28.239
No, the Patriots beat the uh beat the Eberflus um Bears uh their rookie year.
01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:30.320
They played the killer start that game?
01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:32.000
Uh yes.
01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:32.559
Yes.
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:33.840
Did Drake play that game?
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:35.679
I don't think one of them wasn't playing.
01:05:36.400 --> 01:05:37.119
Well are you sure?
01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:37.760
I think so.
01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:40.480
Right, because did I look it up, but continue time.
01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:41.840
We had Jacoby Brissett.
01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:46.639
We went we went because Drake made his first his his rookie year.
01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:47.760
Yep, that's right.
01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:53.199
So let me ask you this right now, as we stand right now that this early stage of their careers, who would you have drafted at the moment?
01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:54.639
Me?
01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:55.840
Everyone.
01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:56.880
I think that's the one.
01:05:58.400 --> 01:05:59.360
Nobody can say yeah.
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:00.960
Has to say their guy.
01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:02.639
No, I would take Caleb at the moment.
01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:04.159
Interesting.
01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:05.760
I like the way he plays, man.
01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:08.320
I like that, I like that fast-paced fingernails flying in the air.
01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:08.960
I love that.
01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:13.360
You also like fingernails panic, so I'm not really sure that this is an added bonus.
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:19.679
I I would say it's it's a toss-up, but it it's it's so much of a toss-up that I think you gotta take your quarterback.
01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:20.960
You know, like that's fair.
01:06:21.119 --> 01:06:28.800
Yeah, I wouldn't find it offensive if TK was like, you know what, I would take Drake, and I would say I would take Caleb because I think it's that that can that comparable.
01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:32.480
Caleb hasn't gotten that first three games of the season that we saw this year, though.
01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:34.480
You saw a crack in the phone in the foundation year.
01:06:34.639 --> 01:06:35.599
That made me a little nervous.
01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:40.079
Right now, probably I'd stick with Drake, but overall, he went two and ten his rookie year, dude.
01:06:40.159 --> 01:06:43.679
We we like he Yeah, well, one of those wins, I did just look it up.
01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:45.039
It was against the Bears.
01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:45.760
He did play.
01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.880
Uh he was 15 for 25, 184 with a touchdown and a pick.
01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:50.880
He also carried the ball four times for 24 yards.
01:06:50.960 --> 01:07:01.280
And Caleb, 16 for 30, 120 yards, no touchdowns, no picks, and was sacked nine times on his way to that uh most sacked ever rookie QB record that he still holds.
01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:04.480
So that's an everfused loss, not a Williams loss.
01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:05.360
Let's hope so.
01:07:05.440 --> 01:07:14.559
I will also say Caleb did not, maybe it was because he didn't have to, but he didn't scramble at all in the uh in the win against the Falcons, and I do think that that is hamstring related.
01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:22.960
So if that's something that's keeping him on a short week, if that's something, if that's a weapon he doesn't have, he was elusive, but he didn't scramble, if you know what I mean.
01:07:23.119 --> 01:07:28.800
Like he in situations where he had to not get sacked, which I will say, I mean, he's fucking hard to sack, dude.
01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:32.719
I hope this isn't a jinx, but goddamn, Caleb Williams is fucking hard to sack, bro.
01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:35.360
Like he's he's got some crazy elusive tendencies.
01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:43.360
Make sure you clip this uh for either one, either if he if he gets if he gets sacked 12 times or if we never sack him, that's the perfect clip.
01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:44.400
I know, I know.
01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:47.280
I don't I really don't want to have any influence over this game whatsoever.
01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:49.280
I just I want to be completely kept out of it.
01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:50.719
It's really the stakes.
01:07:51.039 --> 01:08:00.719
I I would be such a liar if I was not saying that the stakes are higher when playing the Patriots because I have to talk to three fucking Patriots fans every week about the fucking NFL, right?
01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:02.320
Your whole life, your whole life.
01:08:02.639 --> 01:08:05.599
Yeah, my entire life I've been surrounded by by the by you goons.
01:08:05.760 --> 01:08:23.840
So it's just it's the the fact of the matter is I've always liked being from New England and leaving gave me great clarity on the New England Patriots because what I did get to witness in the Brady Belichick era was greatness, and I know what I want my team to be uh striving for now.
01:08:23.920 --> 01:08:35.119
But what I need you guys to understand is that we're different, we're we're made of completely different football DNA because of what I've seen and what you've seen out of your team and my team respectively.
01:08:35.279 --> 01:08:37.439
I've seen nothing but trauma and damage.
01:08:37.600 --> 01:08:38.880
I come from a broken home.
01:08:39.039 --> 01:08:43.439
I I'm Eminem in the trailer in 8 Mile, and you're you know, you're living across.
01:08:43.520 --> 01:08:46.640
They didn't make a movie about you guys because it was too boring because everything went too well.
01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:51.119
So, like, I I'm just saying, like, I don't know how to deal with this.
01:08:51.279 --> 01:08:53.119
I don't know how to have the conversation.
01:08:53.279 --> 01:09:01.680
I I mean maybe I can pull from other teams in my life, and and I I know how to win in certain sports, but in football, I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, guys.
01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:07.600
Like, I'm still waiting for this of when when K I thought Caleb's hamstring was done, was actually his Achilles, and that was the season.
01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:12.560
The the yeah, a darkness and a sadness descended on me, and and hello, darkness, my old friend.
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:15.119
But all I could think was like, of course, of course.
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:17.600
I this is why I don't get to have nice things.
01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:22.319
So the idea that you know you're saying things like you have a high-powered offense, I'm like, shut up, dude.
01:09:22.399 --> 01:09:23.840
Like, what if God hears?
01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:25.199
He'll take it from me.
01:09:25.439 --> 01:09:28.000
So, like, I don't I don't know how to deal with this.
01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:29.119
So I really don't.
01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:36.560
I mean, I to the point where I was so defensive coming into this, I had so many mean things written down to say, and then you guys were generally sort of nice.
01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:39.039
So I don't like I don't know.
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:44.399
So in that analogy, is that in that analogy is Rex Grossman your mom if you're Eminem?
01:09:45.039 --> 01:09:47.359
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:50.720
I I love I love thinking about him.
01:09:51.199 --> 01:09:54.319
I know that you said you don't want to have any uh any impact over this game.
01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:56.159
Uh uh and I appreciate that.
01:09:56.239 --> 01:09:57.680
So give me your prediction.
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Um I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be Bears 38 and Patriots 31.
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Matt Patriots 21 Bears 38 Williams.
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Apparently he's having the worst day of the season so far.
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I think he's gonna be the name of both the boys.
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I mean, it is Thursday.
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You don't you have no idea what's gonna happen on a Thursday, that's the other thing.
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Uh 24-21 bears.
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Wow.
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Trying to reverse jinx it, I see you.
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Uh at 31-28 Patriots.
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That'd be a fucking thing.
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We're all predicting the most electric Thursday game of all time except for Matt.
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Or it's gonna be 9-6.
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Yeah, it is Thursday.
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I know.
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It will it will not be in between.
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It will either be the worst game ever or the most exciting game we've ever fucking seen in our game.
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It might be it might be nice for all of us if nobody leaves with bragging rights, like if everyone just plays like shit.
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It's like, alright, I hope the rest of the season goes well.
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It just like to that point about Mike about like being either like the high-flying best game or just like shit.
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It just really all comes down to how the offensive line is for mainly the Patriots, but I guess both teams.
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Both teams, right?
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Yeah.
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Because it if if Drake has time and is able to launch it down, uh I know you mentioned you know AJ Brown, best deep ball.
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But the like every thursday night always has weird shit, and there's always just the one Kyle Williams game, and this is gonna be the Kyle Williams getting a 69-yard touchdown, and it's just gonna be something stupid.
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Uh so I mean it could be a really high-scoring game if the offensive lines can keep it up, but I don't know.
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Just between injuries and all that, I just I'm really nervous that I don't want to be all hyped up for this game.
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This should this should have been a Sunday night game.
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Really should have been, and they put it on Thursday and it's sucked.
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On Monday.
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Yeah, that's true.
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I think it it does kind of suck that it's on Thursday.
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And I take every bear snap personally, so yeah.
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And like, I mean, they they they know what the schedule is.
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Well, they know who the opponents are beforehand.
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Like you would think that they would just throw, you know, Titans Jags on a Thursday or something.
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I know they but they also thought this was gonna be two good teams coming into the season and like playing relatively well.
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So it's like that's why they're doing it.
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Yeah.
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They're doing it for the sake of Thursday night football, which nobody wants.
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Nobody wants to such a waste.
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And no one hears at all.
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One more fun thing about the game, it's gonna be 60 degrees with a light breeze.
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So you're not getting any weather here to impact either guy.
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It's who's ready to go.
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This might be the last time that the Patriots play the Bears in Chicago.
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It might be in Indiana next time.
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Oh, well, I wonder, I was wondering if an Indiana uh reference was gonna come limping over the horizon.
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I think that's it for uh I turn it back over to you, DK.
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Yeah, thank you so much.
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What mean stuff did you have written down?
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Yeah, uh I can go where's my head?
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I got one right here.
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I said I said that the blue better have might all in it for Caleb.
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Um you said that out loud.
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But nobody heard it.
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I didn't hear it.
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My head my headphones are smaller than yours, Mike, so I didn't hear it.
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Where are my notes?
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Give me a second.
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That's fine.
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I love watching this humility on Dave because I know he's blood in this situation before.
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This is a beautiful thing.
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I had this this is a little a little uh you guys said a lot of my things, which was kind of surprising.
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But I um I had why are you why is your team three and my team is seven?
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Both are four and two, and Vegas has me favored.
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And then you started with the with the thing, so I was gonna start off aggressive, but it didn't it didn't work out that way.
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Um, and I was gonna say something along the lines of congratulations on Drake's six game volume stats.
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Caleb missed three games.
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We can't compare them because I thought maybe Mike was gonna talk about overall numbers, which he didn't do.
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Um I had May had six interceptions in his first three games.
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Like, that's a fucking clown show.
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I had that.
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Um I said that I had the 24 for 24 from a clean pocket thing.
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Then Matt brought it up.
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That was annoying.
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Uh I had the Bears are better on third down on both sides of the ball.
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That was gonna be a that was gonna be a declarative statement.
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Um, but I didn't really have to defend them.
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You guys were like, I don't know, I don't know how it's gonna go.
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Um and then uh I had you're about to play the number one rushing offense with a damaged offensive line on the other side, which uh didn't need to say because you guys are being nice.
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Um and then I was ready for I think Matt to say that the four and two is fraudulent because Bajan and Keenum won two games.
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And I was gonna say that's actually an argument for Ben Johnson, and then Matt made that point, which uh was annoying.
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And then if they bring up Green Bay, I was ready to be like, yeah, we got fucking murdered, and then my quarterback came back.
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I was ready to say that.
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Uh and I was gonna say um uh a whole thing about how if the draft happened again today, uh I might take Caleb Williams first, but Drake would hope that I would take him because of what a dumpster fire the Patriots organization has been since he got drafted, which would have been too mean.
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So I'm glad I didn't say that.
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Um there you go.
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That was that that was my mean things that I had that I didn't say.
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So McLamore.
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Um McLamore.
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Um, yeah, I mean, listen, this was a really fun power ranking show.
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I always love when we get uh the four of us together.
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Nice little mini MTP Boston embedded in there.
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Glad that you guys had me on that show.
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Thank you so much for the invite.
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And uh yeah, Bears Patriots Thursday night.
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I'll get this show out as soon as I can so that it has a little time to marinate and um good luck.
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May the best man win.
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I don't mean that.
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And uh, you know, that's a good idea.