Speaker 1: Smith going deep that field and opens and making the
Speaker 1: catch for the touchdown. Tyreek Hill and hold opened up
Speaker 1: Lord Shark, Kendrick western Hill is off to the races
Speaker 1: and he is gonna go all away. Tyreek Hill then
Speaker 1: is a seventy eight yard return. Little December football with
Speaker 1: major playoff implications. Chiefs take out the Raiders twenty one
Speaker 1: to thirteen in a frigid night in Kansas City. And
Speaker 1: it just had that meaningful December field to a Chris Westley,
Speaker 1: and I was loving seeing my boy tyreek Hill light
Speaker 1: up the scoreboard and the defense of the Chiefs ultimately
Speaker 1: finish off this Raiders offense. What what? What's stuck with you?
Speaker 1: I think it was Alex Smith's out of body experience
Speaker 1: in the first half. Yes, turned into a mad bomber,
Speaker 1: attacking down the field, slicing and dicing the Raiders defense
Speaker 1: that allows the most yards per play in the NFL. Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Last week he hit a couple shot plays,
Speaker 1: which he has not done all season against Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: then this week he does it. I believe the staff
Speaker 1: from PFF he's he had three of his five passes
Speaker 1: of the season that traveled over thirty yards in the
Speaker 1: air in this game. All of them were massive. And
Speaker 1: the reality is the Chiefs have outplayed the Raiders both
Speaker 1: times they played, and Alex Smith outplayed Derek Carr in
Speaker 1: both of those games. How about that give the defense
Speaker 1: credit for the Chiefs. You pointed out that it three
Speaker 1: turnovers that the Raiders forced in Chiefs territory, accounting for
Speaker 1: three points in fourteen total yards. That is some outstanding
Speaker 1: defense under pressure in that cornerback trio of Marcus Peter,
Speaker 1: Stephen Nelson and Terence Mitchell one as decisively as I
Speaker 1: can remember against a wide receiver Corps twenty six targets
Speaker 1: for sixty two yards, which anemic as you will ever hear.
Speaker 1: We weird game for Marie Cooper and card you know,
Speaker 1: the young leaders. Car said after the game his pinky
Speaker 1: was fine. He said, it was not a fact. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that for a minute. I I don't either,
Speaker 1: you know. To his credit, he wasn't making any excuses,
Speaker 1: just said they gotta be back and be better. Drops
Speaker 1: were definitely a factor. Uh. Cooper just kind of stopped
Speaker 1: on a ball that looked like it could have been
Speaker 1: a long touchdown. He said after the game. The ball
Speaker 1: moved on him late in that play. I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened there because why what else would be the
Speaker 1: explanation be? But he wasn't car through short of the
Speaker 1: sticks too many times, misfired on easy throws. And we
Speaker 1: sat here a month and a half ago saying that
Speaker 1: brock oswaters performance against the Broncos, when he averaged just
Speaker 1: over three yards per attempt on forty one attempts, was
Speaker 1: one of the worst we've seen. Derek Carr average two
Speaker 1: point eight five yards attempts, which is the second lowest
Speaker 1: figure of the Super Bowl era. What really period two
Speaker 1: point eight five yards? I thought I saw something. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was a Jamacus Russell level stat line. I think
Speaker 1: they were extenuated circumstances, as we've already mentioned, But that
Speaker 1: does not take any credit away from the Chiefs. The
Speaker 1: defense was put in a bad spot again and again,
Speaker 1: and they kept delivering. As you said, the Raiders had
Speaker 1: thirteen drives in this game, only ended up with two
Speaker 1: four yards, And for for all the troubles the Raiders
Speaker 1: defense had, they only gave up two touchdowns. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill had the punt return touchdown the second half.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs did not get on the scoreboard, and the
Speaker 1: Raiders defense delivered two beautiful turnovers. So this is a
Speaker 1: game where it's not on the offensive line of the Raiders.
Speaker 1: They played well. They ran the ball very well enough
Speaker 1: with Chris Collins were you know, bringing up Collecchio semily
Speaker 1: every two seconds. They ran the ball much better than
Speaker 1: the first matchup when they didn't when they had Assemily.
Speaker 1: So they ran it, they protected Car, the defense played
Speaker 1: well enough to win. It was all on Car and
Speaker 1: the passing game. And uh, for the Chiefs, we have
Speaker 1: bemoaned for a few years now their lack of playmakers.
Speaker 1: If you're still be moaning that lack of playmakers, you're
Speaker 1: not paying close enough attention because Tyreek kill is a
Speaker 1: different and it took a Jeremy Macklin groin injury for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to feature Travis Kelsey in their passing game.
Speaker 1: And he's now got four straight one yard games, just
Speaker 1: the third tight end ever to do that. Without Rob
Speaker 1: Gronkowski this year, he's now the best tight end in
Speaker 1: the league. Yeah, he's the best one left, without a doubt.
Speaker 1: And and their playmakers are on both sides, you know,
Speaker 1: Justin Houghton didn't have a monster game, but he had
Speaker 1: a good game and he got a big time hit
Speaker 1: of Derek Carr in the key spot late in the game.
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters quiet night relatively was beaten at least one
Speaker 1: time deep by by Jalen Richard, but he made a
Speaker 1: great leaping, uh deflection at the end. So they've got
Speaker 1: they've got playmakers, and they've got coaches, and they showed
Speaker 1: tonight to you know, it's not just all about turnovers.
Speaker 1: They won a game for the first time in forty
Speaker 1: four years where they lost the turnover battle by three.
Speaker 1: So they can win games in any kind of way,
Speaker 1: and they're now in first place in the a f
Speaker 1: C West. Unfortunately, for the second time in three years,
Speaker 1: they lose Derrick Johnson to a rupture achilles tendon. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's a big loss and we'll see how that affects
Speaker 1: him going forward. Hate to see that for a guy
Speaker 1: who's nearing the end of his career. Yeah, that it sucks.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the best Chiefs team he's been on,
Speaker 1: and he was on a team with Trent Green and
Speaker 1: Priests Homes. He's been around so long. On this team,
Speaker 1: I would say for all the Raiders fans out there,
Speaker 1: not that they need that they need picking up. There's
Speaker 1: a long way to go in the CFC West. Both
Speaker 1: of these teams have three tough games left each. The
Speaker 1: Broncos are only one loss back and get to play
Speaker 1: both of these teams again, and so I think this
Speaker 1: race can go anyway. It's a huge win for the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean you just slide them into the
Speaker 1: number two seed or the number one seed in the
Speaker 1: a f C. I know we don't give the Chiefs
Speaker 1: enough at it on this podcast. Traditionally, I've been thinking
Speaker 1: trying to concoct ways over the next over the past
Speaker 1: month that they can overcome Alex Smith's limitations, and these
Speaker 1: playmakers are the key. And Ian Rappaport reported Thursday that
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles is targeting the first week of the playoffs
Speaker 1: to return. That's another playmaker. Pretty soon you've got them
Speaker 1: coming out of your ears and you can make up
Speaker 1: for Alex Smith's limitations in an a f C field
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a clear favorite. Yeah, I agree, And
Speaker 1: he's kind of saying showing maybe those limitations aren't as dramatic.
Speaker 1: H and some well plays. The last couple of put
Speaker 1: Tyreek kill Jeremy Macklin and Travis Kelsey with any quarterback
Speaker 1: they should produce, so the Chiefs get a big win,
Speaker 1: sets up a fun final few weeks in the a
Speaker 1: f C. West. It's a really good Week thirteen slate.
Speaker 1: And for that, let's send it over to Dan Hansis
Speaker 1: and the rest of the boys. Do you Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast? Sleeps in the soft fare of Andy Reid
Speaker 1: stands well? Back to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Jansas, and I am
Speaker 1: joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling,
Speaker 1: and Greg Rosenthal. What's up? Boys? Wrong to say that
Speaker 1: we sleep there? There are plenty of other people in
Speaker 1: this company who are completely asleep at the wheel that
Speaker 1: we see shots fired. Yeah, you get the Bunsen burnt
Speaker 1: out early? Maybe I do. Do you want to name names?
Speaker 1: People will know who it applies to. Oh, if they're listening, Bill, Oh,
Speaker 1: Mark's talking. M I was gonna get all excited about this, uh,
Speaker 1: final quarter of the season, best prime time slate. You
Speaker 1: know it's funny you should say that, because that's what
Speaker 1: I was going to say before Mark took his to
Speaker 1: left field a little bit with the assassinations of some colleagues. Um,
Speaker 1: what a slate you just heard from the scientists the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Who is it? Mark? Who are some of these people
Speaker 1: that need to be put on blast to either save
Speaker 1: their jobs or improve their uh they're working situation for all?
Speaker 1: It is not It is not useful for anyone listening
Speaker 1: to this to know their names anyone inside the building.
Speaker 1: It would be painfully obvious to the eye. The multiple
Speaker 1: people I'm discussing if you work inside the building, painfully
Speaker 1: obvious to the eye. Last question, would any of our
Speaker 1: listeners know any of the people that are on this
Speaker 1: hit list that you have? Can't say, won't say? Okay,
Speaker 1: the Mailman and NFL Networks, Greg Rosenthal just talk to
Speaker 1: you about Raiders and Chiefs. But that is not the
Speaker 1: only great primetime game. This is maybe the best late
Speaker 1: of prime time games ever in the Thursday Sunday Monday era.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it because I love the Sunday night matchup. Uh,
Speaker 1: Cowboys at Giants and then you got Ravens at Pats
Speaker 1: on Monday night. Beautiful stuff. Um, a big week of
Speaker 1: NFL action, No, no teams on buy for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. So we have fifteen games to talk
Speaker 1: about here, and uh, I don't know, unless we have
Speaker 1: anything Mark, unless you have anything else to add, maybe
Speaker 1: we'll just get right into it. I think the schedule makers,
Speaker 1: who have taken a lot of critique this year are
Speaker 1: given the big middle fingered everyone this week. You couldn't
Speaker 1: be more right. This is a great slate of games.
Speaker 1: And how about one last note here before we get going.
Speaker 1: We are seven and one in our last eight locks
Speaker 1: of the week, and and I better come up with
Speaker 1: one and and West and I both picked teams that
Speaker 1: beat teams that we're riding six game winning streaks. So
Speaker 1: now the stakes are raised. And also the stakes are
Speaker 1: raised for Westling who went viral? How does how does
Speaker 1: West the Showman take this? Does he going? So he's
Speaker 1: going to scream louder because I don't know. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: is no West the Showman. See West likes to pretend
Speaker 1: what West pretends like this is all me being natural.
Speaker 1: I'm just who I am. No, there's a showman there,
Speaker 1: and he's he's been plotting it all week, just like
Speaker 1: he's had his Lock of the week locked up since
Speaker 1: Sunday night. And he's pretending, Oh, let to pick one
Speaker 1: out because this is all just the farst to me. Ultimately, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's what you have them. Match showman Freddie Mercury. I've
Speaker 1: plotted the podcast, plotted nothing except that Giants demise this year.
Speaker 1: There's one unlock you could do. All right, here we go,
Speaker 1: let's get into it, and let's start, gentlemen with a
Speaker 1: nice saucy a f C matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills. And uh, the Steelers, Greg Rosenthal, Um,
Speaker 1: you know you're starting to feel a little good about them.
Speaker 1: They've had some duds this year when you start to
Speaker 1: get excited about him, but those times might be passing.
Speaker 1: And then you have the Buffalo Bills, Greg, who They're
Speaker 1: a frisky team. You never know what to expect. How
Speaker 1: do you see this one playing out? I like the
Speaker 1: Steelers chances and I like to think this is one
Speaker 1: of the big games in Tyrod Taylor's career. Really the
Speaker 1: next four weeks we were talking about it downstairs, Dan
Speaker 1: kind of his future. You were surprised that he's taken
Speaker 1: so much heat. He has this option in his contract
Speaker 1: where they can get out of the contract very easily
Speaker 1: after this season, and if if they keep him, he's
Speaker 1: going to be paid like a top shelf guy. It's
Speaker 1: a big story up in Western New York right now.
Speaker 1: It's gotten to Tyrod Teller a little bit who has
Speaker 1: been kurt with the media. Uh. He doesn't like all
Speaker 1: the criticism. And I know that he's been a little
Speaker 1: hot and cold this year. But I've seen games of
Speaker 1: Tyrod Tellor. I look at him like as a Jets fan,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I wish I had that guy. He could
Speaker 1: be explosive. I'm a little surprised that it seems like
Speaker 1: he's playing for his Bill's future right now. I think
Speaker 1: he's hot and cold because he has very strong strong
Speaker 1: points and some quite obvious weaknesses. I think you know
Speaker 1: Greg has said, and I think you echoed this, that
Speaker 1: he's the best running quarterback in the NFL. I believe
Speaker 1: it's Russell Wilson, But either way, that's the strength in
Speaker 1: the Bills because of Tyrod Taylor have the statistically best
Speaker 1: running attack in the NFL. But also he walks his
Speaker 1: way into sacks, holds the ball, doesn't see the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, and has trouble getting the ball to
Speaker 1: his numb one. I think we forget how brief his
Speaker 1: career has been too as a starter, and to have
Speaker 1: gone from essentially a bench position behind Flatt Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: in Baltimore where you never played, to what he's done
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. You know, Rex Ryan was attracted to Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor because he's always liked running quarterbacks, because he knows
Speaker 1: as a defensive coach that it's harder to prepare for
Speaker 1: that type of quarterback. Now, you know he's never had
Speaker 1: I think that I'm not a football coach, so I
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to that. But Rex Ryan certainly
Speaker 1: believes that because it's consistent through his whole career quarterbacks
Speaker 1: he's tried to bring in gadget players, he tried to
Speaker 1: bring in to do Wildcat five years after the Wildcat
Speaker 1: and any relevance in the NFL. The fact that this
Speaker 1: is like the fourth or fifth time that Rex Ryan
Speaker 1: is non endorsed Tyrod Taylor is disruptive. Well, it's tricky
Speaker 1: because he's obviously better than many starting quarterbacks. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: even right in the in the middle because of those strengths.
Speaker 1: But I think you're seeing some of the limitations because
Speaker 1: everything else their offense is working out perfectly. They are
Speaker 1: literally on pace to set a record of turning the
Speaker 1: ball over the fewest amount of times, So you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get any better than that. They're the number one
Speaker 1: running game in the league. And yet when I watched
Speaker 1: that game against the Raiders, it reminded me of the
Speaker 1: Bills Eagles last year where Taylor played a pretty solid game,
Speaker 1: but it was the game they needed to win to
Speaker 1: stay in the playoff race, and their last three or
Speaker 1: four drives he could not make a throw. And that
Speaker 1: was what happened in that Raiders game. He was missing throws,
Speaker 1: and I think you see the limitations of are you
Speaker 1: worried this is the ceiling for this offense. The biggest
Speaker 1: joke attached to this, though, is the idea you're just
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of Tyrod Taylor and Buffalo is gonna
Speaker 1: quickly go find a franchise quarterback. Not that easy. I
Speaker 1: agree with he's perfect quarterback, but he's a guy that's
Speaker 1: flashed things, and maybe he gets better or maybe he
Speaker 1: stays where he is and he's the seventeenth or eight
Speaker 1: teams best quarterback. It could be worse things if you're
Speaker 1: a team to prode yourself on the running game of defense.
Speaker 1: Isn't a million dollar option, yeah, and it's it's really
Speaker 1: over a couple of years. So for those two years,
Speaker 1: he'll get paid in over twenty million a year and
Speaker 1: he'll be, you know, a real top quarterback, right, And
Speaker 1: this is a tough matchup. I know you've been getting
Speaker 1: exciting watching the young Steeler secondary, which is coming around
Speaker 1: a little John Davis making plays and I think already
Speaker 1: Burns is doing well. Even on old veteran like William
Speaker 1: Gay is having a good year. This secondary was supposed
Speaker 1: to be the achilles heel of this defense, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it has been lately. And I think Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: who has been really up and down this year. For
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, I don't think it's been one of his
Speaker 1: best years. He's stabilized the last three weeks or so.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a nice, boring Ben Robinsburger. That's good,
Speaker 1: by the way. The Bills are tough at home. But
Speaker 1: I have a hard time not remembering what happened a
Speaker 1: week ago in the second half against the Raiders. I
Speaker 1: mean you, the floor absolutely fell out on this defense
Speaker 1: and the Steelers when they are on are not unlike
Speaker 1: New England. They can attack you week to week in
Speaker 1: such completely different ways. One way, we're gonna go completely
Speaker 1: left one week, We'll totally levan Bell next week completely
Speaker 1: through the air, and it's it's buffalo. I think it's
Speaker 1: a tough spe love Pittsburgh. How confident are you? I
Speaker 1: am so confident and I am going to are you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to lock it up. I'm not gonna try
Speaker 1: to top West's gigantic scream from the middle of the Earth.
Speaker 1: I just like I'm gonna just like you almost forgot.
Speaker 1: I had to give you like seven Oh wait, can
Speaker 1: I say one thing about lock it up? Game plan? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We got another bushel of lollipops at this point. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much to Joseph Breen in a mystery center
Speaker 1: as well, who might have just not sounds dangerous. Have
Speaker 1: we checked for razor blades? I've looked at one of
Speaker 1: the lollipops in the flavor is breast milk. What that
Speaker 1: is the flavor of the lollipop Network figure NFL media
Speaker 1: figure downstairs that jumped at the opportunity to uh he
Speaker 1: is one of the people in my anti doghouse, he's
Speaker 1: in my positive checklist, so I gave him a breast
Speaker 1: milk flavor lollipop. What is he in your positive checklist?
Speaker 1: My positive checklist? Anti doghouse man, you're just you're settling
Speaker 1: scores and and letting people know who's on your team
Speaker 1: and who's again on my team. Uh, but at the
Speaker 1: same time very secretive and as well. It's like you're
Speaker 1: letting us know everything and nothing at all. You're like
Speaker 1: the best way to operate. NFL Media, Santa Claus, you
Speaker 1: have a naughty and nights here. Let's uh move on
Speaker 1: against seven and one in our locks of the week.
Speaker 1: Since week their team, let's keep it going, fellows. Since
Speaker 1: week twelve. The Denver Broncos at eight and four, coming
Speaker 1: off um a ho home win over the Jaguars after
Speaker 1: of course that Sunday night UH painful loss in the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: so they bounced back there. They're eight and four, but
Speaker 1: need to keep winning here and now they travel uh
Speaker 1: to Tennessee, Mark Sessler to face a Titans team that,
Speaker 1: with Marcus Mariota in the last you know, let's say
Speaker 1: two months now, are a dangerous team and a team
Speaker 1: that you cannot uh take lightly, especially if you're on
Speaker 1: the road. The good news is Trevor Simeon looks like
Speaker 1: he's on the path to be back in the lineup. Man.
Speaker 1: They need Trevor Simeon back, and that's something I never
Speaker 1: thought I would have said back in April February March.
Speaker 1: Watching Paxton Lynch last week, that offense just was extremely limited.
Speaker 1: And it's not just it's not just him. They were
Speaker 1: playing around him to some degree. But they are now
Speaker 1: talking about Justin for Sett who's been dumped by two
Speaker 1: teams as a split the carries lead back in Denver
Speaker 1: shows you how desperate that ground game is, and they
Speaker 1: they just I think losing Capri Bibbs, who showed he's
Speaker 1: he had some good quickness. I thought he was. He
Speaker 1: was responsible for their one touchdown drive. I mean he right,
Speaker 1: I mean he he wheeled himself into the end zone
Speaker 1: with some help of some lineing. But they're a ground game.
Speaker 1: If you're Denver, if you're Gary Kuback, you want to
Speaker 1: be closer to what the Titans are. We want to
Speaker 1: control the game on the ground, and they don't seem to.
Speaker 1: Their offensive line is greg you guys have mentioned for
Speaker 1: weeks is a major issue, and you cannot run on
Speaker 1: Tames the way you want to. This game is quietly
Speaker 1: fascinating to me. I know all the primetime ones, but really,
Speaker 1: this is Tennessee's chance to make a move. This is
Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champions, and this is the easiest
Speaker 1: game left on their schedule. Uh, They've got the Chiefs, Jaguars,
Speaker 1: and Texans. So i'd say, do the Broncos still of
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. No, I'm talking Titans. Sorry, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: the easiest game left on the Broncos schedule, and yet
Speaker 1: they have so little going for them offensively. But last
Speaker 1: week I kind of talked about in the defense, all right,
Speaker 1: if you're the Super Bowl defense, you've had some things
Speaker 1: go against you lately, let's start winning some games on
Speaker 1: their own. And they did. It was against Jacksonville. But
Speaker 1: this is no lollipops. Well, I'm gonna give them. They
Speaker 1: did get The Jaguars had sixteen drives in that game.
Speaker 1: They had to win the game on their own. They
Speaker 1: scored ten points on their own. There was no difference
Speaker 1: between the Jaguars and the Broncos. The only difference is
Speaker 1: the Denver defense scores. This is a team that's setting
Speaker 1: a record in terms of QB hits per game. So
Speaker 1: it's obviously a great defense, and they're going up against
Speaker 1: one of the toughest guys to get to one of
Speaker 1: the best offensive lines. And that's why it's an exciting matchup.
Speaker 1: That's all. Since Week six, Marcus Mariotta has the highest
Speaker 1: passer rating, the most touchdowns, and the Titans have the
Speaker 1: highest scoring offense in the NFL. Greg, you made the
Speaker 1: point before the show. They haven't faced the defense like
Speaker 1: the Broncos yet. They haven't really been tested nearly to
Speaker 1: the extent they will in this game. But the Broncos
Speaker 1: defense has been giving up runs. Yep, they're not great
Speaker 1: against the run, and DeMarco Murray and Derrick Henry are
Speaker 1: coming at him after a week and a half to
Speaker 1: prepare for this game, I think this is a good matchup.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to. Derrick Henry finished out that game too,
Speaker 1: I mean the last game they played against Indianapos. It
Speaker 1: was interesting to see him. Should finish Denver's defense. If
Speaker 1: they really want to really threatened to repeat here, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to get more dominant because as good as
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon looked against Kansas City. You don't want to
Speaker 1: put too much on his plate, and like we need
Speaker 1: Trevor Simmeons to come back and save the days. It's
Speaker 1: very similar to saying from here on out, you've got
Speaker 1: a you what you did last year, that is that's
Speaker 1: not easy for NFL teams to do too, but as
Speaker 1: your defense rather than the young quarterback. Right. But this
Speaker 1: is if there's a secondary that can do it, this
Speaker 1: is it. I mean last week, Chris Harris, who's having
Speaker 1: another amazing year. Uh, he's gonna have to match up
Speaker 1: maybe against for Shard Matthews, who has played well away
Speaker 1: to you know, stop Delaney Walker. These are two teams
Speaker 1: that are very different late in games. Though Broncos plus
Speaker 1: seventy eight in the fourth quarter, Tennessee's hasn't closed well,
Speaker 1: didn't close out. The Bears were very lucky to win
Speaker 1: that game, had two chances to beat the Colts late
Speaker 1: in that game, couldn't get any points on the board.
Speaker 1: So the Broncos are confident team landing games. Let's move on, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: talk the Washington Redskins traveling to Philadelphia to face the Eagles,
Speaker 1: who uh, you know are looking very bad right now,
Speaker 1: lost fourteen to Cincinnati last week, and the Redskins. We're
Speaker 1: all fans of the Redskins and and the fact that
Speaker 1: they're an exciting offense west, but they're six five and
Speaker 1: one and they cannot afford to slip up here against
Speaker 1: the Philly team that seems like it's on the verge
Speaker 1: of irrelevance. Yeah, I think that you have to say
Speaker 1: the Redskins have to be the heavy favorites in this
Speaker 1: game because when you watch the Eagles offense, it feels
Speaker 1: like you're watching the Jaguars offense. I'm not saying Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz his Blake portals, but right now, with his mechanical flaws,
Speaker 1: six batted passes last week, which you never ever see
Speaker 1: in the NFL, six batted passes at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: three interceptions, three more dropped by the Bengals, I'll never
Speaker 1: pick the Eagles offense. I'll never pick the Eagles to
Speaker 1: win again this year until I see signsists offenses turning
Speaker 1: around and there they're playing a defense that isn't great,
Speaker 1: but they're not. They don't have to be great because
Speaker 1: you would expect the Redskins offense to eat in this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, where is the Philadelphia Eagles defense been. That's
Speaker 1: where we forget how much team has changed during the season.
Speaker 1: It's the top five defense early in the season. They've
Speaker 1: been a bad defense for about five or six weeks
Speaker 1: now eight points a game in the last three weeks alone.
Speaker 1: But it goes back further than a little bit of
Speaker 1: a Pierre Garson and de Sean Jackson vible going on
Speaker 1: in Washington. I expected, you know, kind of hearing about
Speaker 1: the game that Kirk Cousins maybe played worse than I thought,
Speaker 1: and Arizon he played fine. Yeah, that pressure got to him.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure on Kirk Cousins last week,
Speaker 1: and they got to be concerned with that lot of injuries.
Speaker 1: Huge if they get Jordan read back. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think that he is the centerpiece of that offense. He
Speaker 1: is Cousin's security blanket on many levels. And I I'm
Speaker 1: with you. Guest wrote a great piece on Carson wentz
Speaker 1: Uh this week about his issues, his many issues. But
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like the Eagles feel like the seasons
Speaker 1: a little bit of a rap. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: quite know where they're going at this point. They've got
Speaker 1: a lot to address in the offseason. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you a little fantasy fantasy corner. I'm going on the corner.
Speaker 1: Been over here in Awhile picked up a little nugget.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz leads the NFL and past attempts over the
Speaker 1: past three weeks, but he ranks twenty four and fantasy output.
Speaker 1: What's your conclusion. My conclusion is if you think in
Speaker 1: your little fantasy playoffs, which hopefully ends soon enough, that
Speaker 1: you're going anywhere with this guy in your team, nobody's
Speaker 1: starting Carson Wentz. So that's quarter. Listen, this time there
Speaker 1: were no There were no clear homicides on the corner
Speaker 1: this time, which is an upgrade from August. So what
Speaker 1: part of town are you hanging out in? I don't know.
Speaker 1: They need to They dropped me off here in a cab.
Speaker 1: I was blindfolded. They gotta keep they gotta keep working
Speaker 1: with the wins in the off season. They gotta get
Speaker 1: some weapons, which I'm sure they will. There's been some
Speaker 1: buzz about the Sean Jackson making a Philly return, which ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Here's the stat Carson wentzas zero touchdowns and seven interceptions
Speaker 1: on downfield throws in his last nine games, so they
Speaker 1: obviously need somebody to stretch the field to help this
Speaker 1: kid out. So that's keep an eye on, Uh what
Speaker 1: happens next with young Carson Wentz moving on unlocked that
Speaker 1: one up? Oh, I have to pick a lot the showman.
Speaker 1: This is all. This is all willie nilly to me.
Speaker 1: You know, you know I don't take it serious. Just
Speaker 1: everyone makes sure everyone knows that I don't take it
Speaker 1: serious at all. Yeah, you did, you picked it last
Speaker 1: Sunday nights. I'm scaring. I'm now trying to find I
Speaker 1: see right through the Arizona Cardinals at Miami Dolphins. Uh,
Speaker 1: look out for the Cardinals, I say, Greg Rosenthal team
Speaker 1: that uh really was looking like them old they're old
Speaker 1: selves against Washington last week, and then he got the
Speaker 1: Dolphins on the other side. Uh, you know, big big
Speaker 1: spot for them. Uh, the old Zeus are predicted December swoon.
Speaker 1: They certainly looked like that in week thirteen. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see more Dolphins suckage this week, I think. So it
Speaker 1: really shows you how little we believe in the Dolphins
Speaker 1: because it's one of the games that we picked on
Speaker 1: our NFL pick Them show airing every Saturday eight thirty Eastern,
Speaker 1: then twelve thirty Eastern, and then one thirty in the
Speaker 1: morning Eastern. I was told I had the wrong times
Speaker 1: last week. Week you guys gave me. That explains the rating.
Speaker 1: You've got to prioritize this show. It's the holiday season.
Speaker 1: It's a nice time to be his children and wives
Speaker 1: and husbands. Ditch them and watch all three episodes. Lock
Speaker 1: it in all day long. Tell them to go to
Speaker 1: the mall. Yeah, DVR, it's all good. Season. We all picked.
Speaker 1: We all picked the Cardinals, and I don't think we
Speaker 1: need to, you know, stay away from spoiling this game.
Speaker 1: It's because we want to believe in this card A.
Speaker 1: We want to believe in this Cardinals team. We we
Speaker 1: see what they did last week and it gets our
Speaker 1: juices flowing because they were aggressive like they were last year.
Speaker 1: They blitzed Kirk Cousins like crazy, and for the most
Speaker 1: part at work, they knocked him out of his rhythm.
Speaker 1: They go for it on fourth down in their own ends.
Speaker 1: They were aggressive offensively, and you're thinking, maybe this team
Speaker 1: is not done yet. The worst part about this when
Speaker 1: we all agree on a game is that we think
Speaker 1: we're always wrong. No, the listeners always think that, like
Speaker 1: we have strong feelings on it, and we don't. Really.
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Cardinals are a lock to
Speaker 1: beat Miami at all. I think this is a pick
Speaker 1: them game. I think it's a coin flip. I just
Speaker 1: kind of like, like you said that the Cardinals were aggressive.
Speaker 1: They were going for the juggular late in that game.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen David Johnson's run in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field where he looked like a gazelle
Speaker 1: on snow skis like Kent Summer's, the Arizona Republic said,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a running back slow him down the
Speaker 1: field before. I've never seen a running back make that
Speaker 1: move before. It was incredible. You know, Mark to not
Speaker 1: to go on your corner. But my fantasy season ended
Speaker 1: without a playoff earth because of my Marcus Mariota decision.
Speaker 1: But I will say, well, having David Johnson, that was
Speaker 1: my favorite fantasy season I've ever had from a player.
Speaker 1: What a brilliant year for twelve straight thirteen straight weeks.
Speaker 1: What a stud And he'll go number one in every
Speaker 1: draft next Yeah, and Miami is the worst, the second
Speaker 1: worst run defense at home of any team in the league.
Speaker 1: So the idea that David Johnson's gonna finally get shut down.
Speaker 1: What He's a hundred plus yards of scrimmage twelve games
Speaker 1: this season. Why doesn't anyone try to treat him the
Speaker 1: way Belichick did with Marshall falk Back and what was
Speaker 1: its Super Bowl thirty six or something. Can't stop this man,
Speaker 1: this can't It'll be interesting to see how the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are bond. I mean, they were overmatched physically. I never
Speaker 1: would have seen that coming. I know you you thought
Speaker 1: the Dolphins might crash, but thirty eight to six. Whoever
Speaker 1: heard of us a team on a six game winning
Speaker 1: streak losing thirty eight to six? And they were pushed
Speaker 1: around how current NFL? Why is anything that's surprising? I'm
Speaker 1: just being honest, And it was like, none of these
Speaker 1: results are that surprising. When I think wins and losses
Speaker 1: aren't surprising, beat downs like that where both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball were absolutely destroyed, was surprising and maybe it
Speaker 1: exposed something. Kiko Alonso's now out in this game, and
Speaker 1: their linebackers were so bad as it was in the
Speaker 1: first place. Here's some of their their here their linebackers
Speaker 1: right now, Spencer Pay, singer Mike Hall, and Donald Butler,
Speaker 1: who's been on three different teams lately. So you can
Speaker 1: you can expose this group. I mean Dan loves this
Speaker 1: because Dan with an ongoing issue with our friend nfl
Speaker 1: uk hand candas on any of your lists, No, he's
Speaker 1: he's off. He's on your he's not on your I
Speaker 1: don't he's on my positive list. But I mean it's
Speaker 1: kind of sticks in my crawl a little bit that
Speaker 1: every time I go up to the third floor, the
Speaker 1: I t s up there on my keyboard, Uh ran
Speaker 1: out of batteries today, and I see not one but
Speaker 1: two young two young servants bringing multiple food dishes into
Speaker 1: Henry's office. Yeah, so ridiculous. Well, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to call them. They're where they the guys like the
Speaker 1: greased up, muscle bound guys with just the bow ties on.
Speaker 1: One was male, one was Female's very well dressed. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna like this. Henry is not gonna like this
Speaker 1: coming up again. I'm just gonna let you know he's
Speaker 1: becoming more and more powerful in this company, and I'm
Speaker 1: distancing myself right now. Now, let me tell you something here.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins. Who are Hanks team? Uh yeahty six? Who
Speaker 1: saw that coming? But the Dolphins, for all their glory run,
Speaker 1: weren't really you know, kicking anybody's But during that stretcher
Speaker 1: they have some good players they made. Yeah, they have
Speaker 1: some nice players, but it wasn't like they were playing
Speaker 1: out of their minds. Uh during that winning streak, they
Speaker 1: just are straighten together. Was a nice job by them.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, Wait a second, I did
Speaker 1: it last week. WHOA what's coming here? And I never
Speaker 1: looked back. I said the Dolphins in December dung, and
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna continue to be dung. And you
Speaker 1: know what else, I think you're gonna do it? Well,
Speaker 1: Greg already said the Carlins are gonna that. I said
Speaker 1: the Carlins are gonna way. But I'm gonna lock it up.
Speaker 1: Lock it up again. Come at me, Dolphins fans. You
Speaker 1: don't want that. I didn't say you were. I didn't
Speaker 1: know you were gonna lock it up. I locked it up.
Speaker 1: Can I offer a rejoinder to the fantasy community, Yes
Speaker 1: what head out to the core? Yeah, yes, slum it
Speaker 1: out on the corner. Go ahead, let me yell this
Speaker 1: from the shop. I thought you're you're in the lab,
Speaker 1: aren't you. You don't need to go to yell this
Speaker 1: from the mountain from the building tops for the common
Speaker 1: If you would have listened to the Around the NFL
Speaker 1: Fantasy preview this summer, you would have drafted David Johnson
Speaker 1: first overall. You group think fantasy community. Oh, we can't
Speaker 1: drill David Jones because he hasn't broken out yet. Give
Speaker 1: me a break. He should have been the number one
Speaker 1: overall pick in August if you would have if you
Speaker 1: would to listen to our podcast to you would have
Speaker 1: taken Blake Portals in the third round. That is not true. Um,
Speaker 1: but we didn't get everything right. But definitely David Johnson
Speaker 1: is a stunt. Let's move on the Minnesota Vikings. Oh
Speaker 1: they are the team. Still almost forgot that was not
Speaker 1: the right drop either. Let's face it. Um, well, don't
Speaker 1: have any concerns this week. Yeah. I haven't even spoken
Speaker 1: to the Vikings. It just feel like, you know, like, well,
Speaker 1: you know what. Thank you, it's over. Shout out to
Speaker 1: the Vikings Twitter account, who sent out a tweet this
Speaker 1: week that said Rosenthal Colan Vikings can still make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Thanks I'm not giving it up on you desperate, desperate
Speaker 1: two people that know the truth, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to see it. All right, Well, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: Vikings for a second here, because they have They had
Speaker 1: the best defensive performance I think you could argue by
Speaker 1: any team in the NFL all season in a primetime game,
Speaker 1: and it just kind of for it was quickly forgotten.
Speaker 1: I know they're special teams in their offense, I know,
Speaker 1: but it was a special team. I mean, they handed
Speaker 1: it to the Cowboys. Don't they get any credit for
Speaker 1: absolutely man handling this offense that all we've done all
Speaker 1: season is give them credit. I mean, they were more physical.
Speaker 1: They essentially gave up ten points on thirteen drives against them.
Speaker 1: All of their guys really played well. I think maybe
Speaker 1: they were inspired. For Mike zimmer I I really thought,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm biased here, Maybe that's a performance you can
Speaker 1: build on that we're that good blo touchdowns a game
Speaker 1: and that's right, build on it, build on it to wear.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. I mean, I I think I appreciate
Speaker 1: I don't see that that that positive and they did
Speaker 1: not difference between other than the Cowboys, who who are
Speaker 1: a really good team in the Seahawks. It's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know anyone. I think the Vikings have offense found
Speaker 1: ways to to fall out of these games too. It's
Speaker 1: just as much that as there is their defense. You're right,
Speaker 1: they're gonna beat a team in Jacksonville because Jacksonville. I
Speaker 1: sat through this game last night on game Pass watching them,
Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you something. Talk about a team
Speaker 1: with zero identity right now. That's that's the number one
Speaker 1: reason why coaches are are whisked out utterly on offense.
Speaker 1: Zero identity. You've got You've got guys that you didn't
Speaker 1: even know we're on the roster making catches, leading the
Speaker 1: team and catches last week. You know it's weird too,
Speaker 1: and you don't hear about this. Minnesota is ranked third
Speaker 1: overall defense, Jacksonville the number four ranked defense. In the
Speaker 1: end of that, part of the tragedy of this season
Speaker 1: for the Jags is Gus Bradley's defense is coming together.
Speaker 1: I know they're not forcing turnovers, but they've been a
Speaker 1: very good defense for the last six or seven weeks.
Speaker 1: And that's all going to be thrown out the window too,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna get fired. Yeah, but you know, before
Speaker 1: we go and pick the Vikings here, to take a
Speaker 1: team that defense that's playing very well and put him
Speaker 1: against the Vikings offense that doesn't score points, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: assume here the Vikings gonna waltz the victim. It could
Speaker 1: play out victory. Looks like every team does against the
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles. I wanted to kind of for once not
Speaker 1: talk about Blake Bortles during our Jaguars segment. Saw say
Speaker 1: Telvin Smith deserves to make the Pro Bowl, and now
Speaker 1: I'll talk about Blake Borders because here's what happened in
Speaker 1: this game. Down seventeen to ten, with five minutes left
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, the Jaguar is called a third
Speaker 1: and ten run right down, one touchdown, then the next
Speaker 1: possession with two minutes and seventeen seconds left, they punted
Speaker 1: on fourth and six and they got the with two
Speaker 1: minutes and seventeen They have zero faith in their quarterback. Well,
Speaker 1: they're running the ball much more over the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: which is a direct reflection of what you just said, right,
Speaker 1: And t J. Yelden is not not playing well. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of teen is such a just a guy,
Speaker 1: He's a jack Blake Bortles is so bad that how
Speaker 1: can you evaluate a player like t J Yelden. How
Speaker 1: do you know if he's good? I totally agree with
Speaker 1: Telvin Smith. By the way, in the Broncos game, he
Speaker 1: had two or three plays that we're amazing. He has
Speaker 1: been incredible the second half of the season, and this
Speaker 1: defense has kept them in one score games pretty much
Speaker 1: every week. Last week, you know, at the very end
Speaker 1: that got away from them. Then Marks finally made some
Speaker 1: place too. So they're defense play well. You would expect
Speaker 1: this game to be close, and yet I just have
Speaker 1: I just have ultimate faith in this Vikings team. I
Speaker 1: have ultimate faith in I mean I have ultimate faith.
Speaker 1: They've won one game in two. I don't think this
Speaker 1: is not scared of this team is done yet or
Speaker 1: Neil Sterling. And that's why I think when they go
Speaker 1: on the road, I think it's gonna happen. I don't
Speaker 1: know where I've gotta ay lock it up. That was
Speaker 1: interesting was now he works shopped at he workshopped at
Speaker 1: Live and locking up a team against How did that?
Speaker 1: How far have the Vikings sunk that we're allowed to
Speaker 1: lock up the Vikings again? You know, the men in
Speaker 1: the Desert. This isn't exact this than like a blowout
Speaker 1: type of By the way, Harrison Harrison Smith not playing
Speaker 1: in this game might not be playing the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. That's a bad ankle injury. Uh So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. Let's move on, guys. We've gotta
Speaker 1: keep moving, you know why because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: football to talk about. Still. The Houston Texans at six
Speaker 1: and six, um lot losers are the last two games,
Speaker 1: including green Bay last week. Now travel to Indianapolis to
Speaker 1: face the Colts. We all know what happened with the
Speaker 1: Colts on Monday night against the Jets. They destroyed New York.
Speaker 1: But you would think Houston will put up a bigger fight.
Speaker 1: This has big ramifications. Chris Westling in the AFC South,
Speaker 1: It has huge ramifications. And I'm looking at this game
Speaker 1: wondering if there's a single reason why I should pick
Speaker 1: the Texans to win. Can anyone help me out? Their
Speaker 1: Their defense is better, you know, significantly than you might.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling here, but you know they they've got a
Speaker 1: better team defense, certainly than than the Colts. How about this? No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Cults are not a consistent team, but there's
Speaker 1: still at home. If this is in Houston, I would
Speaker 1: maybe be able to play that angle up. But on
Speaker 1: the road this I mean, remember this game the first time.
Speaker 1: The Colts absolutely dominated them for fifty five minutes. One
Speaker 1: of the craziest comebacks of the season that that Houston
Speaker 1: pulled off, or else they'd really be buried in this division. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Colts really manhandled them in that game, and and
Speaker 1: they well, I want to say they deserved to win,
Speaker 1: but they outplayed them and then just gave it away.
Speaker 1: You know, do you think Bill O'Brien is a good coach?
Speaker 1: I think over the not this season, but the two
Speaker 1: previous seasons he did a lot with a little on offense.
Speaker 1: He he's had good defensive talent all along. I think
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien is certainly someone they should keep around. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's a bad coach. They've been They've been
Speaker 1: handcuffed by a terrible quarterback situation and at one point
Speaker 1: there were six and three with no J. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: I could give him a pass, but he's gonna get
Speaker 1: just like the GM and the head coach, they're all
Speaker 1: gonna get flushed out of town of this bast do
Speaker 1: you think Jimmy Johnson is a good coach? Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson said the worst thing you can do as
Speaker 1: a coach is not admit a mistake, because then you
Speaker 1: have to look at it every day. O'Brien refuses to
Speaker 1: admit a mistake. I don't know if he has the
Speaker 1: choice right camp. He does have a choice. Everybody, everybody
Speaker 1: is giving him a pass. He does have a choice.
Speaker 1: He's a nice one right, by the way, it isn't
Speaker 1: a nice when we're right about something, since it almost
Speaker 1: never happens that when they're six and three and we're
Speaker 1: just saying this is the worst team we've ever seen,
Speaker 1: and now they've come back to six and six, so
Speaker 1: thank you. The one thing whenever you talk to I mean,
Speaker 1: relationships matter more than anything inside the building. And Bill O'Brien,
Speaker 1: I don't think he can just necessarily say what we
Speaker 1: want him to say about brock Osweidler when there's a
Speaker 1: lot more the owner. If the owner is backing, here's
Speaker 1: brock Ostwiler. You can't just go rogue as a coach
Speaker 1: and say no, this is a huge mistake. It doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way. Here's my problem with Bill O'Brien hard
Speaker 1: knocks the summer before this past summer, sat there and
Speaker 1: told everyone, nobody respects our quarterbacks. I'm gorm with Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 1: It's his job. It took him three quarters in the
Speaker 1: season opener to pull his starting quarterback. Then he spent
Speaker 1: the entire season vacillating between quarterbacks, and now because they
Speaker 1: sunk a windfall into Brock Osweiler, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's loyal to his starting quarterback. The only thing, though,
Speaker 1: that doesn't connect there is that you're saying if you
Speaker 1: don't want to stare at the face of mistake. He
Speaker 1: acted too quickly on Brian Hoyer initially last year and
Speaker 1: thought he made a mistake, only to learn that he
Speaker 1: acted too quickly in that case, and we were killing
Speaker 1: him for pulling Brian Hoyer that quickly by the time
Speaker 1: Hoyer came back and played well last It's easy. It's
Speaker 1: easy to admit your mistake when you haven't sunk a
Speaker 1: bunch of money into it. It's a lot harder when
Speaker 1: you say we've got a thirty siza heist. I hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying. But the problem is it's not just
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's mistake to own himself if he if he's
Speaker 1: going to own it for the whole organization, there needs
Speaker 1: to be buying from the owner on down. If the
Speaker 1: owner is four days away from saying our quarterback is fine,
Speaker 1: you see the fix that Bill O'Brien is in. Brian's
Speaker 1: got a coach for his job, doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of season left here. If they could somehow win this
Speaker 1: game the Texans, which I don't, I wonder if they'd
Speaker 1: be they have a sweep over the Colts and they
Speaker 1: get the Jags and Bengals at home in Houston the
Speaker 1: next two weeks. It's they'd be in good shape if
Speaker 1: they could win this game. I still wonder how much
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, who met Brock Osweiler the day of the
Speaker 1: introductory press conference, how much he even had a role
Speaker 1: in the Brock Ostler coming to Houston narrative situation in
Speaker 1: the first place. It's just a messy situation there. He
Speaker 1: sat there and said, I scouted him. I looked at
Speaker 1: every throw and he checks all the box. What's he
Speaker 1: supposed to say, Well, I don't think he would have
Speaker 1: said I watched every game and every throw if he
Speaker 1: wasn't on board. I think the biggest beneficiary is all
Speaker 1: the teams that might shy away from doing the same
Speaker 1: thing this offseason with the next version of brock Os Swoidler.
Speaker 1: Big big game. Also for Andrew Luck He's you know,
Speaker 1: me and him, we've been talking later. He's noticed he's
Speaker 1: been climbing up the QB indext. He's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you want he could maybe get the NFL Network green room.
Speaker 1: He could maybe get up to number one by the
Speaker 1: end of the year of the ways website tweeting this
Speaker 1: out about you you know, we need to check in
Speaker 1: on the QB index perhaps next week. Let's move on
Speaker 1: an interconference matchup here between the San Diego Superchargers, who
Speaker 1: blew their season last week against the Bucks. They're five
Speaker 1: and seven, need to win out and get all sorts
Speaker 1: of help most likely now to make the playoffs. They
Speaker 1: travel to Carolina, UH to face the Panthers, who got
Speaker 1: whipped and and look bad doing it on Sunday night
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. And you have to wonder, Greg at
Speaker 1: this point, is Caroline is just gonna pack it in
Speaker 1: this season? Yeah, this game, you know, we we might
Speaker 1: need to catch up a little We're a little behind pace.
Speaker 1: I mean, this game has no impact anymore. The Chargers
Speaker 1: have no chance to come back. And the most interesting
Speaker 1: thing I think right now is to watch of Cam
Speaker 1: Newton how he plays the rest of the year, because
Speaker 1: I hate being the sort of Cam Newton criticism guy.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite what I would be new right,
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's one of my favorite players, but he's
Speaker 1: not playing well, and I think it's it's a weird
Speaker 1: career when he goes from the m v P to
Speaker 1: a guy that no one would make the cases playing
Speaker 1: like a top ten quarterback. This yeah, I saw disturbing
Speaker 1: nugget in our NFL research packet that Newton is the
Speaker 1: first QB to complete fewer than his throws in three
Speaker 1: straight games since a quarterback in two thousand third team
Speaker 1: named Josh Freeman Josh Wow. According to Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: is adjusted completion percentage, the three least accurate quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the NFL this year are Colin Kaepernick, Josh McCown and
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. Now, I think part of it is they
Speaker 1: guys haven't been making place for him. I think that's legit.
Speaker 1: The offensive line have been making plays either they keep
Speaker 1: dropping his interception. They also asked him to make tough throws,
Speaker 1: but he's just throwing off his back foot and yep,
Speaker 1: wild and high and what he does. Let's track Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: Here's another game with not much riding on it, but
Speaker 1: we will talk about at the Cincinnati Bengals at four
Speaker 1: seven and one travel to Cleveland to face the Browns,
Speaker 1: and Mark we were talking about this downstairs. The Browns
Speaker 1: now running out of time to get that that that win,
Speaker 1: to avoid infamy. Uh, this to you might be their
Speaker 1: last best chance. Oh it might be because after that
Speaker 1: you play the Steelers, that's a loss. You go on
Speaker 1: the road to to the Texans, which okay, possibly, then
Speaker 1: you're home against the Ravens. So you know, you you
Speaker 1: would have thought at this point you'd be dealing with
Speaker 1: three playoff type A f C North teams. The Bengals
Speaker 1: are not that right now. I still don't like the
Speaker 1: matchup for Cleveland, and I I understand why they're playing Griffin.
Speaker 1: They want to get a look at him, and Hugh
Speaker 1: Jackson desperately wants to win. But as a Browns fan,
Speaker 1: and I may not know the Browns fans may disagree
Speaker 1: with me. I don't know. I don't understand the same
Speaker 1: way you don't really see Fitzpatrick on the Jets having
Speaker 1: any use at this point for New York. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see Griffin is the future of the Browns.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're doing. I think maybe, if
Speaker 1: if I had to take a guess at it is
Speaker 1: Hugh and he's emotional and everyone is feeling the pressure now,
Speaker 1: he still believes that r G three can be a
Speaker 1: guy that can provide a spark and thinks maybe he's
Speaker 1: the guy to steal this win. Well, you've been through
Speaker 1: every other quarterback and he was your Week one starter
Speaker 1: that went out by injury. I think that that you
Speaker 1: know this is a bad matchup Cincinnati. It's worth noting
Speaker 1: in that Week one I think plenty of quarterbacks for
Speaker 1: Cleveland have had better starting weeks than r G three
Speaker 1: did in Week one. We have no reason to believe
Speaker 1: that r G three is a good quarterback, nor do
Speaker 1: we have any reason to believe he can stay healthy
Speaker 1: for four quarters of a football game. And one note
Speaker 1: on the Bengals. They benched UH two thousand for fifteen
Speaker 1: first round right tackle Cedric A. Buller and for the
Speaker 1: first time oh year did not allow a sack. A
Speaker 1: real optimist could point that. Let me you know, no
Speaker 1: A J. Green. Here, you get Tyler Boyd, who looked
Speaker 1: good the last few weeks. Maybe Cody Core becomes something.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you build up something in these last
Speaker 1: few weeks, get them something. I think Tyler Eifert will
Speaker 1: blow up. One quick note, I talked to our friend
Speaker 1: Peter Schraeger from Good Morning for listens to the show. Well,
Speaker 1: he listens to the show, and he remembered that you
Speaker 1: mentioned in a couple of shows ago Greg, but he
Speaker 1: was down on the Bengals sideline and he said that
Speaker 1: you get it. You get a different perspective of some
Speaker 1: of the players down there. He talked he saw Vante's
Speaker 1: perfect and said that it was the most disruptive player
Speaker 1: that he's maybe ever seen in person na game. Last week,
Speaker 1: Perfect come back to us, WHOA what is that? Vontes
Speaker 1: Berck had a pretty good game. Interesting little shot. Even
Speaker 1: four quarters of Vontes Bervick wasn't even close to what
Speaker 1: Justin Houston did in one quarter at Denver. Well, he said,
Speaker 1: paid West West. He said of games he's been to
Speaker 1: in person so you know, in context, my friends Fair
Speaker 1: and Peter is doing a great jobs. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, you try to help a friend out and
Speaker 1: West just pulls out the knives in the axe, he
Speaker 1: said of games he's seen in person. Apologies Peter Schreger,
Speaker 1: who was a heck of a nice guy and good
Speaker 1: at his job. Let's move on the Chicago back pedaling.
Speaker 1: They're like Peter, I don't want to get on his bandside.
Speaker 1: I like him. Um, he's a vengeful man. Well now
Speaker 1: now you're casting a spursion on his carroc Notice how
Speaker 1: any of the enemies that ever propped up around Trego's
Speaker 1: life have disappeared. He doesn't like to be called Trego either.
Speaker 1: And the authorities they don't even like look into because
Speaker 1: they know they they the authorities are not strong enough
Speaker 1: as a group to deal with that. Remember the other
Speaker 1: original cast member of Good Morning Football who wore a
Speaker 1: lot of sweaters? Would he? Where where is that guy?
Speaker 1: Guy's gone? That guy's in the meadow lands underneath. Let's
Speaker 1: move on. The Chicago Bears are three and nine and
Speaker 1: uh they stink. And now they travel to Detroit to
Speaker 1: face the Lions. Look out the Lions after a really
Speaker 1: nice effort in uh taking down the Saints at the
Speaker 1: Superdome or eight and four leading the NFC North, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Chris Wesley, is it time to
Speaker 1: believe at Motown? I think it is. And the reason
Speaker 1: why is Tarall Austin's defense. Would you believe that the
Speaker 1: Seahawks have allowed more points over the last six weeks
Speaker 1: than the Detroit Lions. Wow, the have not allowed more
Speaker 1: than twenty points in a game since mid October. Played
Speaker 1: a lot of bad defenses, but then they played New
Speaker 1: Orleans and that kind of takes that away. Well, I
Speaker 1: think it's fair to doubt. Okay, you stopped the Blake Bortles,
Speaker 1: you stopped Brockoswhiler, you stopped the Minnesota Vikings offense twice,
Speaker 1: and now you stopped the Saints, So that gives it
Speaker 1: some legitimacy. I think so too. And but it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you played some bad offenses, but what what we were
Speaker 1: thinking about Detroit's defense two months ago was an utter disaster.
Speaker 1: They have a legitimate playoff chance, you know, maybe even
Speaker 1: a bye because of their defense, not just their offense.
Speaker 1: And it was I thought Matthew Stafford last week watching
Speaker 1: that Saints game. So many of the things that made
Speaker 1: him such a frustrating quarterback to watch in the past
Speaker 1: are gone. And Golden Tate. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: you've got to not have Marvin Jones on the field,
Speaker 1: but Golden Tate did some incredible things. That one catch
Speaker 1: against Delvin bro Is he leaves the league in yards
Speaker 1: after the catch, which he seems to do that every
Speaker 1: well on the ball about just based on the first
Speaker 1: four weeks of the seasons league in uh, being pleased
Speaker 1: with himself after everybody I saw that that look, that
Speaker 1: look that he has, Like, yep, I'm awesome. It's weird
Speaker 1: because Stafford this season, everyone always uses a you know,
Speaker 1: the thing they don't say about him is his underrated athleticism.
Speaker 1: They basically, you know, announcers say that about every white
Speaker 1: quarterback basically in the league. But I think that Stafford
Speaker 1: truly does have underrated running skills. He's running better and
Speaker 1: he makes so many plays running away. It's He's ranked
Speaker 1: as the fifth best or most valuable running quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league according to QBR. Give I know we love
Speaker 1: Do you like Cooter? I love that Couter always have
Speaker 1: you know, Bill Walsh in the seventies when he was
Speaker 1: with the Bengals. You can see this in my long
Speaker 1: form NFL dot com slash Ohio River offense says, when
Speaker 1: you gain four yards on the ground against the D,
Speaker 1: they think you're kicking their ass. When you gain four
Speaker 1: yards in the passing game against the D, they think
Speaker 1: they're kicking your ass. Four yards is four yards. They'll
Speaker 1: take it anyway, get it, and Jim Bob Cooter is
Speaker 1: the logical extension of that. He has such a wide
Speaker 1: variety of passing formations and calls designed to get four
Speaker 1: to eight yards. It's the substitute for the running game,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the reasons why Stafford's having such
Speaker 1: a great year. Hit it go ahead. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the Ravens. They have a really strong armed quarterback
Speaker 1: with a horizontal offense, and we don't like it because
Speaker 1: it doesn't work for the Ravens, but it works for
Speaker 1: the Lions. It does. I mean T. J. Jones. He
Speaker 1: was hitting on these quick sideline routes. And this is
Speaker 1: a team that has not had a hundred yards rushing
Speaker 1: in ten consecutive games, which is the longest Lions franchise
Speaker 1: record going back to but it doesn't really matter if
Speaker 1: you're finding a way to essentially mask that with this
Speaker 1: kind of past, and they're they're a tough defense to
Speaker 1: think on defense that they're really that exciting because they're
Speaker 1: big time players. You know, Darius slay Is is good,
Speaker 1: but you know Zeke Goans has had a quietyear playing
Speaker 1: a little better tackle. But one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: you don't know any of them. They had ten different
Speaker 1: defensive linemen last week. Get ten snaps in that game.
Speaker 1: Who has a ten man rotate? No wonder, you don't know.
Speaker 1: And even because they're all just in and out for
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty plays, but it really works like two cowboys
Speaker 1: talking about Jeerge. I mean, Jimmy Johnson used to have
Speaker 1: his waves of defensive lineman. But ten they did lose
Speaker 1: to the Bears. It's worth noting in week four that happened.
Speaker 1: And yet we'll head into the third week of December
Speaker 1: barring a catastrophe. Browns nine and four. Yes, I just
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Speaker 1: for all your needs. I just like this is a
Speaker 1: transition in the Lake games onto the late games. The
Speaker 1: New York Jets are three and nine. They stink, we
Speaker 1: all know it. They head to San Francisco to face
Speaker 1: the Niners, who have not won since um, Monday night
Speaker 1: of the first week of the season, one and eleven. So, uh,
Speaker 1: this is a stinker of a matchup, Greg, Uh, here's
Speaker 1: my concern. Well, I'm I'm I'm a little you know,
Speaker 1: torn as a Jet fan because I want Bryce Petty
Speaker 1: to have a nice game in the second start of
Speaker 1: the season. But I also would like the Jets to
Speaker 1: lose at this point and sneak. What an indignity to
Speaker 1: lose to thet I don't care about that. What does
Speaker 1: it game me to win at this point? For a
Speaker 1: little bit of recent Jets history of people may have forgotten,
Speaker 1: the Jets are all lined up to get either Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariotta or Jamis Winston a few years back too meaningless
Speaker 1: December games at the end of the season. That thank you,
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan, Yeah, that's the final his final f you
Speaker 1: to John Iszi. That's a great call. I'm surprised. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that a get Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. This Jets team. It doesn't matter. Bryce
Speaker 1: Petty doesn't look good. Nick Mingolds shut down for the season.
Speaker 1: It sounds like and uh, the one thing, the one
Speaker 1: thing I'm interested in is it's not just Rivus and
Speaker 1: and some of the older player Mohammed Wilkerson has had
Speaker 1: a disastrous here, and Sheldon Richardson has had a disastrous year.
Speaker 1: Or he's a guy last week that that that didn't
Speaker 1: even play in the second half of that game. So
Speaker 1: I'm wondering about their future. I think Wilkerson I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's ever been right physically after the broken leg,
Speaker 1: and also has had some attitude issues. Richardson, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be back. I don't he's on the
Speaker 1: trade market. I think it's amazing. You had the deepest,
Speaker 1: most ferocious defensive line for years in football, and now
Speaker 1: one by one these guys are vanishing. I'm gonna question
Speaker 1: Len Williams though having lear Williams making the leap cauntidate
Speaker 1: actually came throw. That's true, but you need more than
Speaker 1: one person along the defense. Just ask the Lions. They
Speaker 1: have ten of them. What were you gonna say, Oh,
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask this question. I feel like I've
Speaker 1: asked us with the Jets with a pull in a
Speaker 1: couple of different situations. I I just don't like love
Speaker 1: the way they're built right now? Sorry, Dan, but would
Speaker 1: you rather from scratch you can have the Niners roster
Speaker 1: or the week game? Well, could you always say absolutely not,
Speaker 1: I'll take the Jets roster. Could you always name like
Speaker 1: the worst team in the league whenever you do this,
Speaker 1: I think I'd have to take the Jets. I take
Speaker 1: the Jets Jet. I think the forty Niners might be
Speaker 1: thirty two out of thirty two in that department, worse
Speaker 1: than the Browns. Yep, I don't know about that. You
Speaker 1: got I know Joe Thomas is getting up there. But
Speaker 1: you got Joe Thomas, Corey Coleman, Terrell Prior. You know
Speaker 1: you've got some running backs? Yeah, I mean that Boddy Calhoun.
Speaker 1: Here's players I like I like on the Jets, Brandon Marshall,
Speaker 1: Quincy and Noon, Leonard Williams, Eric, Eric deckerd uh Well, Wilkerson,
Speaker 1: Sheldon Richardson. Alright, what are you like this or or
Speaker 1: the core of your team right now? What are the
Speaker 1: Niners have some pieces, a lot of holes, but some
Speaker 1: pieces seriously term the Niners. That was a disaster. They
Speaker 1: they they handled the Jim Harbaugh thing terribly and it
Speaker 1: seems like the football gods have smited them ever since.
Speaker 1: And I don't think they're close to out of the woods.
Speaker 1: Is this the tank bull m I mean Bryce Patty
Speaker 1: starting for one team and then the other team. One
Speaker 1: of the best all around football writers in the country
Speaker 1: sent Greg and I message asking if we thought the
Speaker 1: forty Niners tank last week in Chicago. They're punting and
Speaker 1: decision making. It was like a team almost China. But
Speaker 1: who who? On whose orders? Chip Kelly's not asking chim
Speaker 1: Kelly's not coming back? Was I think that a few
Speaker 1: players I've seen. That's a big grenades a lot by
Speaker 1: the team. I just don't think Kaepernick's a snow quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're tanking. But nine are much better
Speaker 1: at home than Let's let's move on, maybe not much,
Speaker 1: let's try to find some relevance on the schedule. The
Speaker 1: five and seven Saints, who you know, they had it,
Speaker 1: They had the season in their hands at home against
Speaker 1: Detroit and let it slip away. So now they're in deep,
Speaker 1: deep trouble at five and seven, they travel to Tampa
Speaker 1: to face the Bucks, and you know the Bucks are
Speaker 1: now everybody's Darling Mark Sessler at seven and five. But
Speaker 1: are they gonna Are they gonna kind of come down
Speaker 1: to earth and make everybody seem silly for getting so
Speaker 1: excited about him in the last couple of weeks. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is last year's Tampa Bay team
Speaker 1: in that way where they got up into the NFC
Speaker 1: Wild Cards standings. I don't. I don't see that at all.
Speaker 1: I think Winston's really over the last month been a
Speaker 1: phenomenal quarterback. And if there there's one player that I'm
Speaker 1: watching and if he's healthy and he comes back, and
Speaker 1: it's Charles Simms, and it allows that running game to
Speaker 1: be more versatile. You know, Dirk Cotter came out and
Speaker 1: called that that ground game out this week. I think
Speaker 1: he's that it's not what they had last year. So
Speaker 1: to see Winston playing the way is without Doug Martin
Speaker 1: being Doug Martin, without Charles Sims in the lineup that
Speaker 1: I I you know, you get him back and you
Speaker 1: have Mike Evans, this this team is not gonna crumble
Speaker 1: at home. I'd be concerned if it were in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: but not at home. Well, Doug Martin didn't seem to
Speaker 1: be healthy at the end of the game. They're talking
Speaker 1: up to Quiz Rodgers getting a bigger role this week.
Speaker 1: I don't see the Buccaneers making noise making the playoffs
Speaker 1: without a Doug Martin being Doug Martin like maybe they
Speaker 1: if they, if they, if they go too and two
Speaker 1: down the stretch and go nine and seven, that is
Speaker 1: a huge victory for this organization this year. Even if
Speaker 1: they go one and three and they've they finished eight
Speaker 1: and a. To me, the expectations they've already exceeded exact. Well,
Speaker 1: you've got that if you're the Bucks, You've got the
Speaker 1: Saints game, You've got the Cowboys, then you I don't
Speaker 1: like when they do this. You've got the Saints again, yawn,
Speaker 1: and then um, then you got the Panthers to close
Speaker 1: it out. About three games right there that you could
Speaker 1: if you're the better, if you're the team people think
Speaker 1: you are, you win those three games. Here is a
Speaker 1: big stat that explains their turn partly explains their turnaround
Speaker 1: for the Media Guide. The Buccaneers have a plus twelve
Speaker 1: turnover differentials this week. Five that's the best in the
Speaker 1: league in the first four weeks, negative nine, which is
Speaker 1: thirty first league. So they completely turned that on. I
Speaker 1: think you'd see most worms in the league flip their
Speaker 1: win loss to some degree when you see that kind
Speaker 1: of a turnover split. Well, that game flipped on a
Speaker 1: bad call when Hard Graves absolutely interfered with Tyrelle Williams
Speaker 1: on Lavante David's pick six, and they got away with
Speaker 1: a game, game changing call. And they got away with
Speaker 1: a drop from Travis Benjamin on one of the best
Speaker 1: throws of the year by Philip Rivers that have been
Speaker 1: an eight yard touchdown, a little bit of luck. But
Speaker 1: I think the turnovers, you have to give Mike Smith
Speaker 1: some credit, their defensive coordinator. That's what he did in
Speaker 1: Atlanta to they always forced turnovers. It's kind of playing
Speaker 1: that safe defense, that old bear style, and it's working.
Speaker 1: And let's give a little credit to Mark Ortega's boy.
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy tried to make the case that he was
Speaker 1: better than Aaron Donald Dago works on our desk downstairs.
Speaker 1: For people that don't know him personally, yeah, or follow
Speaker 1: his excellent uh music blog. Oh yeah, give him a
Speaker 1: follow on Twitter. He's great on music. He is great.
Speaker 1: Jerald McCoy is playing like a superstar in the last
Speaker 1: five or six weeks, so he deserves a little love.
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of quarterbacks, young quarterbacks compared to
Speaker 1: a young big bend over the list a few years.
Speaker 1: I like Greg in his Quarterback Index compared Jamis Winston,
Speaker 1: and I see that every time I watch him play,
Speaker 1: because he shakes off sackers so easily in the pocket
Speaker 1: so routinely. He waits until late in the down to
Speaker 1: throw the ball or waiting to play late in the
Speaker 1: play to throw the ball, and he attacks downfield like
Speaker 1: Big Ben did when he was younger. I see so
Speaker 1: many I think he's one of those guys like you
Speaker 1: hear Big Ben in the in the clubhouse. Any kind
Speaker 1: of game you take out, he's winning that game. Cornhole,
Speaker 1: free made up free throw shooting. He's just a natural athlete.
Speaker 1: People say Winston doesn't seem as athletic as some other quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I bet he's one of the best athletes in the league.
Speaker 1: Maybe not from a leaping and running standpoint, but just
Speaker 1: an incredible innate athlete. And if people you know, if
Speaker 1: you you want to get on Blake Bortles, you've gotta
Speaker 1: wander wear his heads at Lately, it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles is advertised as sort of an all in
Speaker 1: type dude who lives, eats, breeds, sleeps football. Winston portals
Speaker 1: like have this come back around on thee. But that's
Speaker 1: a guy who I think a lot in a game Blake.
Speaker 1: In the last summer, people would have said, maybe you
Speaker 1: take Blake Bortles over over Jamis Winston some people. And
Speaker 1: Winston though, from day one, and we don't care about
Speaker 1: as much as coaches do and as much as they
Speaker 1: care about the locker rooms. They say, this guy's leadership
Speaker 1: is second to none. We care. Oh and remember the
Speaker 1: biggest bust on him or knocking him going into the
Speaker 1: draft is that he was a knucklehead. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, the way he was legs with all these
Speaker 1: other things that were going on behind the scenes, some
Speaker 1: some more serious things as well, some allegations that they faced.
Speaker 1: But he's turned into a guy. It seems like a
Speaker 1: real leader in that locker room. And despite all that,
Speaker 1: this is a pick um game. I know the Saints
Speaker 1: are coming off just about their worst performance of the year,
Speaker 1: they have not been a different team on the road
Speaker 1: and home. This year they've been basically the same team.
Speaker 1: And these are two evenly matched teams. It would not
Speaker 1: it would not surprise me to see the Saints not
Speaker 1: come on to two things, and then we'll move on
Speaker 1: to the next game. Mark Ortega's blog, which is very good.
Speaker 1: He goes to bore concerts than anyone I know, past
Speaker 1: the Oggs, dot CEO O o U x uh and
Speaker 1: number two. I liked it much better when West didn't
Speaker 1: like Jameis Winston and there was a lot of heat.
Speaker 1: Now you're coming around on him, and now you got
Speaker 1: all the scientists are kumbaya together. I like the better
Speaker 1: when there was heat that was all used starting to
Speaker 1: pot I never disliked Jameis Winston. I just didn't think
Speaker 1: he he hard to be mentioned every time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was a bit, but there was certainly
Speaker 1: podcast heat, and we've got the tape to prove it.
Speaker 1: So you know, yes, you guys are getting along more,
Speaker 1: and it's bad for you guys. You guys aren't like
Speaker 1: very they're both they're both playing too well. How could
Speaker 1: how can you find something else to get mad at?
Speaker 1: Each other. Sorry quarterback in text, which involves twenty or
Speaker 1: so hours of work writing and watching and has done
Speaker 1: spectacularly every week. Is there anyone else's battle you want
Speaker 1: to slap? We've got We're getting down on the desk.
Speaker 1: We're doing it for each other. Anything else we want
Speaker 1: to do before we get onto the next a lot
Speaker 1: of service today Cults website? Anyone else the excellent work
Speaker 1: on that Colt's website. The Atlanta Falcons are seven and five. Um,
Speaker 1: they're coming off lost to Kansas City, a wretched loss
Speaker 1: on a two point in diversion run back. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what loss? And now they travel to Loss Angels to
Speaker 1: face the Rams and you know West, I'll say this,
Speaker 1: go watch this game live. West. Falcon's gotta be careful here,
Speaker 1: thank you. Dalcin's gotta be careful you and I know
Speaker 1: that they don't their favorite here. I'm saying they've now
Speaker 1: lost enough of these close games. Now they're seven and five,
Speaker 1: they're not They're not totally safe here. They need to
Speaker 1: pick up some wins and get into safe playoff position.
Speaker 1: They're fine. They're facing off against like Bryce Petty's older
Speaker 1: brother this week or something. The number one pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. You hate prospects. That's that's what quarterback like
Speaker 1: I I make it. Make a decision on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Don't give them a chance to develop. They stink. All right,
Speaker 1: I got you west Hey, you you picked the Rams
Speaker 1: to win every week, and see how you do. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do that. Stand beyond Jeff Fisher. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody understands the extent of the dysfunction in this franchise.
Speaker 1: Read Albert Brier's column on Monday Monday Monday Morning. Quarterback
Speaker 1: really got it. It's it's being talked about behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Is uh L a Junior High? Rams Junior High? Right now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the investments they've made. They
Speaker 1: trade for Nick Fools, who has the worst QBR in
Speaker 1: the league. They start Case Keenum, who has the worst
Speaker 1: QBR in the league. They trade a windfall for Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: who's worst in case Keenum and has the worst QBR
Speaker 1: in the league. They trade up. They they select Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: they select Trey Mason, they select Isaiah Pete. They have
Speaker 1: no running game, They have the worst rushing attack in
Speaker 1: the league. They select trade Tavon Austin. They trade up
Speaker 1: for him. He's one of the least productive whiteouts in
Speaker 1: the league, one of the most overpaid players in the league.
Speaker 1: Are these bad players or is it bad coaching? Because
Speaker 1: I think there's some talent on this team and they
Speaker 1: continue to put out the worst players at the position
Speaker 1: on offense every single year, no matter who's coordinating this attack.
Speaker 1: They made one point though, that Jeff Fisher keeps hiring
Speaker 1: ultra inexperienced play callers. And it's not just play callers.
Speaker 1: Your coordinator runs the show, runs meetings, and it goes down.
Speaker 1: If you don't have an experienced coordinator, you don't hire
Speaker 1: experienced position coaches underneath them, And then where is the development.
Speaker 1: It's not that these players are poor. You know, we
Speaker 1: see other teams do this. You take trash off someone
Speaker 1: else's roster and suddenly that player that's right and in
Speaker 1: the rams on offense, on defense, yes, on offense, no,
Speaker 1: there's no developmental players have that and that's you know,
Speaker 1: they talk about Fisher's asset is kind of a leader
Speaker 1: of men, you know, stability a topic organization. But part
Speaker 1: of that, you know, such a big part of that
Speaker 1: is hiring the right people and the hired coaches that
Speaker 1: have led the team to very last place in first downs,
Speaker 1: yards and points. My question is, you're one of the
Speaker 1: longest tenured coaches in the league, and why would you
Speaker 1: not have the ability to get one of the better
Speaker 1: play callers. Why would you not be getting the pristine,
Speaker 1: premier offensive guys that want to come in and pair
Speaker 1: with what you bring on defense. It just looks very
Speaker 1: suspect over the last couple of boars didn't quite pass
Speaker 1: the smell test when watching hard knocks the season. I
Speaker 1: don't know enough about his schemes to say that he's
Speaker 1: a good or bed offense coordinator, but it's not working out.
Speaker 1: The previous offensive coordinator was a private eye that they
Speaker 1: asked to be a football coach. Obviously got Frank Signetti
Speaker 1: private eye. Um, and prior to that, I believe it
Speaker 1: was a shoddy right bright Shottenheimer, who was nobody's example
Speaker 1: of a a shining light uh in schemes. But you know,
Speaker 1: at least he had some experience. Well, it's worth noting
Speaker 1: Julio Jones's status is up in the air as we're
Speaker 1: taping this. I mean, that's a that's a pretty that's
Speaker 1: pretty important. Mohammed San News status is up in the
Speaker 1: air as we're taping this. I mean, I think the
Speaker 1: Falcons are going to find a way to win this game.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Vic Beasley, h West so you had on
Speaker 1: your your guys who deserved the first time Pro Bowl nod.
Speaker 1: Another another thing, why is it not their offense the
Speaker 1: up forty something points when the Rams gave up forty
Speaker 1: something points two weeks ago? And and honestly we're just
Speaker 1: watching the Patriots against the Rams. They just ran right
Speaker 1: through them. I I don't think the Falcons should have
Speaker 1: any problem with this game. Now, I agree, but if
Speaker 1: if Julio and Sinua are both out, that's that's a
Speaker 1: factor on the road. Falcons lost last week for two reasons.
Speaker 1: They blew their chances and the Chiefs created chances. They
Speaker 1: got out. Coach was the second reason, Andy Reid out
Speaker 1: coach Dan quinn. Uh. Here's this Sunday Fox Game of
Speaker 1: the Week. The Seattle Seahawks eight three and one, but
Speaker 1: now without Earl Thomas, who's out for the year after
Speaker 1: suffering suffering a fracture of his lower leg. Uh travel
Speaker 1: to Green Bay to face the Packers, who are um
Speaker 1: looking a lot better these days. Now six and six,
Speaker 1: but six. But this is a big test right here,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal Ken, the Packers sustained it against a good
Speaker 1: Seahawks team playing without one of their very best players.
Speaker 1: I I am really excited for this game, more so
Speaker 1: than the than the Sunday night game. Not that that's
Speaker 1: some bold statement. I mean, this is a rematch of
Speaker 1: one of the all time playoff collapses. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a matchup really of the best two teams in the
Speaker 1: NFC this decade, uh to, you know, or organizations, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot there's more at stake in this game
Speaker 1: because the Packers they gotta they gotta get this one,
Speaker 1: and this is an ultimate test of Aaron Rodgers playing
Speaker 1: this well. But you gotta go up against the defense
Speaker 1: that I know they don't have Earl Thomas, but you're
Speaker 1: getting career year out of kJ right probably kJ Wright
Speaker 1: and Wagner have never been any better as a tusome
Speaker 1: together a to. You know, you got Bennett back April.
Speaker 1: You've got plenty going on here to shut down any offense.
Speaker 1: And so it's just a great test of a great
Speaker 1: player in Rodgers who's kind of peaking against this defense.
Speaker 1: I think when I leave this industry, it will be
Speaker 1: out of frustration for things like people obsessing over Cam
Speaker 1: Newton's tie in this game. When you've got Thomas Rolls
Speaker 1: and Tyler Lockett explosive playing like they did in two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, that should have been the story of this night,
Speaker 1: because that's good football. And now the Seahawks might have
Speaker 1: their most explosive offense of the Russell Wilson area. And
Speaker 1: and and you're right. I was thinking if Rawls Rawls
Speaker 1: look great in that game, just his movement. He's almost
Speaker 1: the second or third most valuable guy in that team
Speaker 1: at this point, because if you lose him, you're just
Speaker 1: taken away this whole element. But now it feels like
Speaker 1: they've got their running game back with him, which is
Speaker 1: just a massive and locket played through an m c
Speaker 1: l or earlier in the year, he was not explosive
Speaker 1: until this game. He's all the way back. Now They've
Speaker 1: got so many weapons. Jimmy Graham, Doug Baldwin is always
Speaker 1: one of the most underrated players in the league. This
Speaker 1: is this is gonna be a tough game for the Packers.
Speaker 1: I have already relinquished the fact you guys can preview
Speaker 1: it and review it when it's over. I already know
Speaker 1: Green Bay is going to the playoffs and they're gonna
Speaker 1: win this game. Wow, wait, where are you the same
Speaker 1: guy who like four weeks ago said the Packers were done?
Speaker 1: You were done with them? But exactly like I, I
Speaker 1: realized that it was you know I was. I was
Speaker 1: wishing that to happen, and it won't. They were making
Speaker 1: the playoffs the Seahawks, by the way, it was kind
Speaker 1: of snuck up on me a little bit. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: clinch the NFC West with a win here in an
Speaker 1: Arizona loss, so they are they have everything to play for.
Speaker 1: They're playing for that bye bye is massive. You know
Speaker 1: they're not going to get the one seed, but they
Speaker 1: can they can get to buy We haven't even mentioned
Speaker 1: the biggest story of this game, revenge. Revenge game. You
Speaker 1: knew where I was going. Kristen Michael, see what takes
Speaker 1: out the Seahawks and his his final act as super
Speaker 1: here By. I would be fine with less Kristen Michael story.
Speaker 1: I won't talk about Victor Cruze ever again. If Sea
Speaker 1: Walk doesn't do anything in this game, if you guys
Speaker 1: stop talking about this it's fair. He looked okay last
Speaker 1: week when hard to tell in the snow, but he
Speaker 1: certainly was more explosive than James Starks, and they gave
Speaker 1: him more carries than anyone else, and they he'll run
Speaker 1: for d in the CFL, and we'll be doing news
Speaker 1: items on the guy. You got you gots a big
Speaker 1: seawalk fan. I'm sticking by I've got a I've got
Speaker 1: a theory that the Packers should root for it to
Speaker 1: snow for this game, because I feel like Aaron Rodger,
Speaker 1: if you're thinking of a you want the snow, just
Speaker 1: kind of making things up running around as you go.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the guy. Well, yeah, one thing we
Speaker 1: said Sunday night that all these other players were slipping
Speaker 1: in that game, and he was. He seemed absolutely fine,
Speaker 1: And that's snowy in the snowy footage. Like having Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers back and and Jordy Nelson back. I know the
Speaker 1: numbers have been okay throughout the season, but I really
Speaker 1: feel like he's starting to look a little more like
Speaker 1: that leaping catchy had at the end of last week's game.
Speaker 1: Was Aaron Rodgers has not lost a home game in December.
Speaker 1: Since two thousand and eight, when Greg was twenty three.
Speaker 1: I have in my notes tread here Rogers arm strength.
Speaker 1: Are you going with that? That I'm young? I wish
Speaker 1: Rogers arm strength of backfoot on Adam's throw, Wow, all weather, QB,
Speaker 1: all balance throw to Jordy, No issues with the elements.
Speaker 1: That was impressive, Aaron Rodgers list. Let's check in on
Speaker 1: the notebooks, mark no notebook this yet? You just had?
Speaker 1: What I do? Is that is I bring it? I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't read my own writing, so I just I'm
Speaker 1: just ringing highlighted more and west. You're journal is looking immaculated,
Speaker 1: pretty very nice, really nice handwriting, no shakes at all,
Speaker 1: clearly very straight. Uh. Greg's cards. In addition, it looks
Speaker 1: like a madman. Your net cards are much better handwriting
Speaker 1: than normal. Yeah, I just right in all caps if
Speaker 1: I really want to be able to read it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Sunday Night football. The Dallas Cowboys eleven in one. Wow.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a long winning streak. Eleven straight now
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. And now they play the only team
Speaker 1: that has beaten the Cowboys this year, and it was
Speaker 1: the New York Giants were eight and four the Giants.
Speaker 1: UH came down to earth against Pittsburgh last week teen
Speaker 1: loss the Cowboys, as Greg was getting all excited about,
Speaker 1: really struggled UH to move the ball against Minnesota, but
Speaker 1: that that's been a rarity of this season. They've basically
Speaker 1: done what they wanted almost against everybody else. So I
Speaker 1: love this game. Mark Sessler, how do you see it? Well?
Speaker 1: I think it's fascinating how how different this matchup is
Speaker 1: than what we saw in earlier in the year when
Speaker 1: these teams played and we didn't really know what the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys would become. I I don't see any issue
Speaker 1: for Dallas to win this game. We've asked the Cowboys
Speaker 1: week after week to come up against opponent A, B
Speaker 1: or C, deal with whatever the team's strength is, and
Speaker 1: come out on the other side before they, you know,
Speaker 1: prove to us that that they're the NFC's best team.
Speaker 1: I think at this point it's all very clear to
Speaker 1: us that they are, and they're probably you know, you're
Speaker 1: dealing with the Giant team that doesn't have Jason Pierre
Speaker 1: Paul and the Cowboys. At this point, it's a huge loss.
Speaker 1: It's a huge loss, and the Cowboys are running the
Speaker 1: ball consistently week after week, Right, you weren't You weren't
Speaker 1: in love with they with what they did against the Ravens.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying the Ravens did about as good
Speaker 1: a job as anyone containing Elliott about until the last
Speaker 1: few minutes. And the point is, I mean, if that's
Speaker 1: containing the cowboys, that's not enough to beat the cowboys.
Speaker 1: And so I I just I think Dallas takes care
Speaker 1: of business here, and the Giants, according to West, are
Speaker 1: heading you know, big time south as it is, They're
Speaker 1: gonna wish they were in the South because winter is
Speaker 1: upon us. Winter is here, Winter is here to the
Speaker 1: extent that what what are you going to do? This? Look,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be lit. I'll locking it up the showman. Alright,
Speaker 1: the lock is lit. Everyone clearly feeling the pressure. Uh,
Speaker 1: you like the Dallas Cowboys in a lock? You know,
Speaker 1: That's that's fair, That's fair. But I see this as
Speaker 1: a close game. I don't know if I can pick
Speaker 1: the Giants, that's that That would be real ballsy to
Speaker 1: pick the Giants. Well, if you were, if you were,
Speaker 1: what would be here? Here's the strength of the giants defense,
Speaker 1: uh is against the run. They're ranked fifth in the
Speaker 1: league against the run, so mans been good. Slow down
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me, slow down, Ezekiel Elliott. Uh, it is
Speaker 1: in prime time at Giants Stadium. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: imagine that Giants are gonna get the doors blown off
Speaker 1: in that in that scenario. And yeah, as big as
Speaker 1: a problem as ELI has had at times this season,
Speaker 1: Uh do would it blow my mind if Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: had a big game here under the lights against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and we're we're staring at a really good game
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. I see it as a close game,
Speaker 1: and I'd probably pick the Cowboys because the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: great this year. But I don't think this will be
Speaker 1: a cake walk. I think this is this could be
Speaker 1: the last truly big game left for the Cowboys if
Speaker 1: they win. If they win, I mean they could end
Speaker 1: up clinching home field this week with a few things
Speaker 1: breaking their way. Certainly by next week, it's only a
Speaker 1: matter of time. Uh. And I think They're gonna be
Speaker 1: so up for this game. I think this is a
Speaker 1: really important month for the Cowboys to continue playing at
Speaker 1: their extremely high level. And I have no reason to
Speaker 1: think that they won't do it in this game, and
Speaker 1: I think they'll want to prove after last week's game
Speaker 1: against Minnesota that they can get back on track offensively.
Speaker 1: It's two straight games where their formula has not been
Speaker 1: there for them. In the last two games, they the
Speaker 1: other team has had the time of possession win thirty
Speaker 1: three to twenty seven. The last two games, the Redskins
Speaker 1: and the Vikings had twenty more plays each. They won
Speaker 1: the games. They deserve credit. Dak Prescott keeps making the
Speaker 1: right decisions, but that's not their formula because their defense
Speaker 1: just isn't that good. I think they want to get
Speaker 1: back to doing what they do and I think they
Speaker 1: can do it. I think they can dominate even a
Speaker 1: very good Giants. It's such a to win. If this
Speaker 1: becomes a twelve game win streak, that is remarkable and
Speaker 1: to be a Cowboys franchise record, which is saying a
Speaker 1: lot considering how decorated this franchise has been. I think
Speaker 1: along the way, you're gonna win some games to pull
Speaker 1: you out of your for formula. You don't want to
Speaker 1: end the season with five or six. Like totally agree.
Speaker 1: You got the Buccaneers next week. If your cow if
Speaker 1: your Cowboys, then the Lions and the Eagles, that the
Speaker 1: next two weeks are not easy and they're not in
Speaker 1: a threat to lose the number one seed necessarily, But
Speaker 1: if the Seahawks clean house down the stretch, Dallas is not,
Speaker 1: they can't coast yet They've got they've got to probably
Speaker 1: seal up the next two I really don't think people
Speaker 1: realize the extent to which the Giants offense is broken.
Speaker 1: We talked about Odell Beckham because he's the face of
Speaker 1: that offense. This offense ranks with the Browns and Bears
Speaker 1: in the NFL since mid season, since Week six, they're
Speaker 1: broken and they're trying to take deep shots the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. I've watched it. Certainly in the Cleveland game,
Speaker 1: they have one of the worst offense. They're just they're
Speaker 1: trying to take deep shots because I think they realize
Speaker 1: that they can't survive and think of that, but they're not.
Speaker 1: They don't hit any of them there. I mean, do
Speaker 1: you think anything has to do with teams realize him
Speaker 1: that the Giants run eleven personnel on essentially percent of
Speaker 1: their plays this season, that maybe they're easier to prepare
Speaker 1: for than some of these teams that show you so
Speaker 1: many different looks. I think you'd have to ask a
Speaker 1: coach or player that I really don't know, Dan, I know,
Speaker 1: because they would have mixed up their personnel if they
Speaker 1: thought it was a major problem. There's your answer. I'm
Speaker 1: a coach. Nice. Finally, a little Monday Night football. The
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens seven and five, uh just dismantled the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins in Week thirteen, and now they have a big
Speaker 1: test ahead of them. They travel to Gilette Stadium to
Speaker 1: face the Pats, who are tenant to Chris westling Um.
Speaker 1: This is a game where the Pats will not have
Speaker 1: Rob Rob Gronkowski, but there's still the Pats and that's
Speaker 1: why you love them in this game, don't you, Wes?
Speaker 1: I don't, Oh, I don't. I'm I love this game.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this game big time. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun one to watch. I think
Speaker 1: it could be a preview of January, but only if
Speaker 1: the Ravens win, because they have to win this game
Speaker 1: and the Patriots do not want to see the Ravens
Speaker 1: in January. Because this Ravens team is number one in
Speaker 1: the NFL and a lot of defensive categories. They're coming
Speaker 1: off their best offensive game in the year, and there's
Speaker 1: reasons to believe that that offense is about to break
Speaker 1: out because we've been waiting for it all year. They
Speaker 1: have the talent, the offensive line is finally healthy. The
Speaker 1: veteran receivers are playing well. Breshad Perriman has been inches
Speaker 1: away from big plays, had a big play last week.
Speaker 1: I think I think this Ravens team is for real
Speaker 1: right now, and they're hitting their straw if they need
Speaker 1: to show that that was a sign of things to
Speaker 1: come last week, because it looked like a team getting unlocked.
Speaker 1: Then again, you know we've what we've seen for eleven weeks.
Speaker 1: You can't just ignore that. But this team, to me,
Speaker 1: has such a high ceiling because the players are there
Speaker 1: and the defense is absolutely there. So if the players
Speaker 1: on offense just get them to be average, to me,
Speaker 1: they're as good as any a f C and the best,
Speaker 1: the best kicking game in the Leaette, which we should
Speaker 1: not overlook in close games in December. Justin Tucker is
Speaker 1: having in a historically great season this year. Uh not
Speaker 1: only has not missed any kicks, is burying kicks from
Speaker 1: fifty yards on a weekly basis now, so that could
Speaker 1: be a major factor. And the kicker on the other
Speaker 1: side of New England, we're gonna see what happens with
Speaker 1: him down which he's been a problem. Well, he played.
Speaker 1: He had a good game last week and and I
Speaker 1: know it was against the Rams, but obviously for a kicker,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. They had a lot of encouraging performances
Speaker 1: from guys that they want to see down the street.
Speaker 1: Jabaal sheared, Guskowski had a really good game, which was
Speaker 1: nice to see. It's been a while. Uh Rob Ninkovich,
Speaker 1: who has been very quiet this year ago is your boy.
Speaker 1: Barkiva Smingo doing he doesn't do anything. And Kyle van Noy,
Speaker 1: guy they got from Detroit, has been a big factor
Speaker 1: for them. So they've had some people gave victory there.
Speaker 1: That was the most. He's nothing, he's a special team.
Speaker 1: The most encouraging performance out of everyone was Malcolm Mitchell
Speaker 1: that you can see Tom Brady trust him and with
Speaker 1: Gronk out, he's being targeted as much as anyone. Also,
Speaker 1: he's great. He's I got a little excited over Kenbrell
Speaker 1: Tompkins when he was a rookie. This could be the
Speaker 1: best outside receiver they've drafted. Malcolm Mitchell is going to
Speaker 1: have a playoff game where he crosses the two hundred
Speaker 1: yard barrier. We're gonna find ways to be teams inside,
Speaker 1: which is a loss. I s no. I appreciate all this,
Speaker 1: all this Ravens praise. I will not tolerate the Ravens
Speaker 1: going to the Super I will not tolerate it. I've
Speaker 1: already been there to see them win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: It's not happening again. This defense is enough, is super
Speaker 1: Bowl worthy. People. There's a perception that this isn't as
Speaker 1: great as some of those old Ravens defense as well,
Speaker 1: it's not as great ASO, but in terms of a
Speaker 1: lot of the great Ravens defenses, it's there. In terms
Speaker 1: of the run defense, it's historically good. And it's because
Speaker 1: they're top players. Maybe aren't as as sexy, but they
Speaker 1: have such incredible depth. Like their seventh starter, their eighth
Speaker 1: best defensive starter, their ninth best player, Tavon Young, who's
Speaker 1: a fourth round rookie, is playing incredible. Zach Or is
Speaker 1: playing better than c. J. Mosley, Timmy Joern. Again, like
Speaker 1: they just got people coming coming out. Newsome was tiring
Speaker 1: of hearing about John Elway is the best GM over
Speaker 1: and over, and I'm gonna quietly rebuild this deepest how
Speaker 1: Ladarius Webb and one of the best inner options of
Speaker 1: the year. It's just like every guy's a factor. I
Speaker 1: don't wanna be reckless here, but I'm gonna connect the
Speaker 1: dots a little bit. Mark just threatened the Ravens and
Speaker 1: has been on record saying that there will be no
Speaker 1: final in Super Bowl fifty one. Oh okay. I also
Speaker 1: threatened to build a train called the Mouser, a scattered
Speaker 1: Scattered Ravens franchise to pay for this train that goes
Speaker 1: from essentially Los Angeles to where to hucka poos for West, Right,
Speaker 1: that was actually that was last year's Christmas gifts. We
Speaker 1: had did a secret Santa Um. That was Mark's gift
Speaker 1: to West. We'll do that again. We're gonna run that
Speaker 1: back at the end of this month for Christmas. You
Speaker 1: know what, Mark, that was a more thoughtful gift than
Speaker 1: any of my ex girlfriends have ever given me. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean probably not, unlike your ex girlfriends. The gift
Speaker 1: doesn't actually exist yet. So let's pick this game and
Speaker 1: the score mark, and then we're going home. Patriots thirty eight,
Speaker 1: Ravens three at West Ravens Patriots twenty. I love it
Speaker 1: and I'm afraid of it, and I love it. The
Speaker 1: Patriots will fall. The Ravens are hot and getting hotter.
Speaker 1: I don't feel good about this one. You guys know
Speaker 1: my rules. I don't pick against the Patriots, so so
Speaker 1: they win seventeen. But I don't like Martella's ben It's
Speaker 1: not healthy. Eric Rowe, who has been their starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: he's not healthy. Pay Okay, their offensive line. I wanted
Speaker 1: to say, it's been getting better throughout the season, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna need it. The Ravens are gonna lose. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be seven and six and two weeks from now
Speaker 1: when they lose to the Steelers, we're gonna be singing
Speaker 1: a different tune in this room. You'll be singing, Yes,
Speaker 1: I will. How about you actually singing if the Patriots
Speaker 1: beat them on Sunday and then they lose again to
Speaker 1: the Steelers, will you sing for us? Yes, you have to. Sure,
Speaker 1: not for a long period of time, but I'll sing
Speaker 1: a few notes. I mean money sing report, I mean
Speaker 1: Sydney is really the breakout singer of this group. She
Speaker 1: now charges for that because everything is about money for
Speaker 1: her now. It's ridiculous. Um, I think I want it
Speaker 1: would be great if now if all our interactions with
Speaker 1: Sydney she's in song, you know it's like a musical
Speaker 1: like that would be maybe get annoying after a while,
Speaker 1: but I love the idea as well. I thought, get
Speaker 1: him trying me some wraps from Hamilton's. I'll wrap everything
Speaker 1: from here and out. Are you listening, Lynn Manuel, I
Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say if all of our interactions have
Speaker 1: to go through her agent now money because of that? Sae.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll be back on Sunday night, our flagship
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