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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas and I have joined in
Speaker 1: a room that is filled with heroes. Mark Sessler, Chris
Speaker 1: Westling and Greg Rosen thought, what is up? Boys? Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Shoe Week eight? Whoa we a lot of
Speaker 1: football to talk about, boys. I know you're excited, Mark,
Speaker 1: I am excited. I think this is a special time
Speaker 1: of year, getting through the bulk of Week eight games
Speaker 1: and writing too week nine. The special time of year
Speaker 1: is getting through the bulk the weekend. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know sometimes when you open the show, I have like
Speaker 1: it just flows out of me what I want to say.
Speaker 1: That time was the opposite. I had no idea why.
Speaker 1: I just made that correct. You give it a shot.
Speaker 1: Last Wembley game of the year. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: good to get that six already wake up out of
Speaker 1: the way. But it was another another solid day. Well
Speaker 1: convinced everyone in the room woke up at six thirty.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I certainly did not. I remember that there
Speaker 1: was a London game about nine one Pacific time. On
Speaker 1: my way to the office, I was like, oh, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to check that one out. On the
Speaker 1: old game passer I was involved in Shenanigans in the
Speaker 1: old Juser's garage last night until about eleven o'clock, so
Speaker 1: I wasn't getting up at six thirty. We watched the
Speaker 1: baseball We watched um a wretched stand up special that
Speaker 1: we had a bail on. We had a parachute out
Speaker 1: of it, probably watched each other drink multiple glasses of
Speaker 1: Tito's mixed with something else perhaps, and then uh, we
Speaker 1: had a Beyonce video of viewing party with it wasn't
Speaker 1: just me and West or some ladies in the garage
Speaker 1: as well. So it was a nice, nice Saturday night.
Speaker 1: I learned who um Sean Carter is. Check my Instagram
Speaker 1: at Dan dot Hansas if you want to hear West
Speaker 1: actually learning. Uh that jay Z has the name that
Speaker 1: is not Jay Why did you go dot between Dan
Speaker 1: Hansens has that already used by someone else? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. It seems like an odd choice, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember what else he got over there, Mark, No,
Speaker 1: I got nothing else. Just that that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: that stood out to me. It's a very odd strategic move.
Speaker 1: Al Right, a lot of games to get to, but
Speaker 1: why don't we start? There's only one undefeated team in
Speaker 1: the NFL entering Week eight, and they got another test
Speaker 1: and they passed. I'm from a yard deep in the end.
Speaker 1: So all thet task marks coming up. Fielding's Montgomery and
Speaker 1: he's barreled down here the twenty yards line ball and
Speaker 1: they have it. It's as Angelo's football got the twenty
Speaker 1: yards line of Green Bear tie. Montgomery turns it over.
Speaker 1: Oh you hear it in the voice of Larry McCarron
Speaker 1: and Wayne Lara Vie of the Packers radio network, despair.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the Packers were all set up for
Speaker 1: some more late game magic, but time Montgomery's kickoff return
Speaker 1: fumble with two minutes to play cost Green Bay of
Speaker 1: the ball and the game. The Rams forced the huge
Speaker 1: turnover held on for win at cal Seum a Colisee
Speaker 1: and pack the Cheeseheads Los Angeles reaches the midpoint of
Speaker 1: its schedule at eight. No, West Rogers didn't get his shot.
Speaker 1: This game was like a an Emmy Award winning TV
Speaker 1: show at the height of its powers, with all of
Speaker 1: the leading characters, all of the iconic characters nailing their parts.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and DeVante Adams for the Packers. Clay Matthews
Speaker 1: and Blake Martinez on defense, Mike Daniels and then they're
Speaker 1: rolling this whole game. Todd Gurley, it feels like the
Speaker 1: Rams jumped on his back. He gave them a jewel.
Speaker 1: Johnny Hecker, possibly the best punter in history, gave them
Speaker 1: a huge jewel. Aaron donald Sacks, Robert Woods continues to
Speaker 1: make plays every week. This game was living up to it,
Speaker 1: and then, as usual, Bones Fossil Specialty Games Crew swings
Speaker 1: the game in its favor and is the decisive We
Speaker 1: didn't get are like Aaron Rodgers moment because of the
Speaker 1: Rams special teams and because time Montgom refumbled with the
Speaker 1: game on online. I thought another star in this game,
Speaker 1: of this drama that you're discussing was Mike Petton out
Speaker 1: of the gate, Yes, whose defensive scheme absolutely was working
Speaker 1: on third down. Right, if you thought that you could
Speaker 1: get the Rams to open with five punts, you would
Speaker 1: like your chances with Aaron Rodgers's your quarterback. They still
Speaker 1: wind up scoring twenty nine points. Right, It's a it's
Speaker 1: a reminder how difficult it is to beat the Rams
Speaker 1: because there's so many good things we want to talk
Speaker 1: about in this game. In terms of how they got
Speaker 1: pressure on golf. The throws that Rogers bad. And you
Speaker 1: look up at the end of the game and the
Speaker 1: Rams had it for seventy five plays and the Packers
Speaker 1: had it for fifty two. They had more, you know,
Speaker 1: fifty or sixty more yards. Todd Gurley is the closer
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And this is not the first game
Speaker 1: that Todd Gurley has helped to close out, not just
Speaker 1: on the go ahead field goal drive, but after they
Speaker 1: get the ball back, to put the ball inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line and make sure there's no chance for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers magic. He is the number one closer in
Speaker 1: the NFL, along with that offensive line, and it's like
Speaker 1: you have to do everything perfect to beat them. You
Speaker 1: look at Golf and like he he got hit today,
Speaker 1: what was it, four sacks if not more, hit almost
Speaker 1: twenty times. His final line is three hundred yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks. You just can't see on the from the
Speaker 1: box score that anything here went anything but right for
Speaker 1: the Rams going back to West and it was well
Speaker 1: put that it was, you know, a TV show at
Speaker 1: the height of its powers. Mount Gary fumbling that ball
Speaker 1: was like loving you know, fifty minutes of an hour
Speaker 1: long episode and then like the cable cuts it was
Speaker 1: the Seinfeld finale. Yeah, that's I was gonna say it
Speaker 1: was the sel finale. It was it was like we
Speaker 1: tuned him for this. Well, you had mentioned where where
Speaker 1: is time Montgomery in this game? And then he makes
Speaker 1: the biggest play. He was out of the running back
Speaker 1: rotation and they still should be given the ball to
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones more often, but but there wasn't much money.
Speaker 1: Was a different example, because the Seinfeld finale was completely lucky,
Speaker 1: so that would have been if the game really wasn't good.
Speaker 1: This was almost like the Sopranos finale, where everything else
Speaker 1: was building up nicely, and then right when it cuts
Speaker 1: at the diner to end, you're like, wait, wait what else?
Speaker 1: There's gotta be more. You're expecting this amazing ending, and
Speaker 1: and it does a little bit. And this Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: has got the horse shoe with him this season because
Speaker 1: I did not like his decision to run the ball
Speaker 1: um and take the field goal to go ahead field
Speaker 1: goal as opposed to being aggressive and trying to win
Speaker 1: the game. Given basically you're asking your defense to stop
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers uh in those last two minutes. And I
Speaker 1: get that you respect your defense. It is one of
Speaker 1: the best units in the league. But Rogers has been
Speaker 1: killing teams his whole career. Like that, I feel like
Speaker 1: that the special teams kind of bailed out McVeigh, who
Speaker 1: got a conservative, which surprised me. That is a fair criticism,
Speaker 1: but I loved when the Packers are up tend to
Speaker 1: nothing controlling the game. The Rams can't do anything over
Speaker 1: and over and over again on third down, so they
Speaker 1: have a fake punt and it gives it just gives
Speaker 1: the team a Joel And I don't know how many
Speaker 1: you just do that, but they know they have the
Speaker 1: best special teams going right, and then the pitting the
Speaker 1: ball on the one yard line former Packers Sam Shields
Speaker 1: getting Hecker's punt to set up a safety. It's it's cliche,
Speaker 1: but all facets really do contribute for the Rams, not
Speaker 1: just special teams, defense, offense, but every like position group
Speaker 1: you can see making an impact. Even on a day
Speaker 1: where they missed Cooper Cup, they still are getting production
Speaker 1: from Josh Reynolds, from Gerald Everett making a player or two.
Speaker 1: It's like it's just such a deep team and I
Speaker 1: think the Packers have to feel better about themselves, but
Speaker 1: their schedules so tough. It's like you can't have too
Speaker 1: many moral victories. You have to start beating these good
Speaker 1: teams that are in the rams. Mean while they get
Speaker 1: out of here with a win. You have the Saints, Seahawks,
Speaker 1: and Chiefs over the next three weeks. If you can
Speaker 1: get to your by with three more wins, then you
Speaker 1: could really start talking about undefeated. I would love, by
Speaker 1: the way, and it's it's certainly in the realm of possibility. Although,
Speaker 1: like Greg said, you gotta win some of these games
Speaker 1: Packers to make the playoffs. But this feels like a
Speaker 1: divisional playoff rematch possibility right back in the coliseum. They
Speaker 1: they are in New England, Seattle, and Minnesota in three
Speaker 1: of the next four weeks, with a home game against
Speaker 1: Miami in the middle of that. Those are three tough
Speaker 1: road Gotta get some dubs. Put Robert Woods on your
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl ballot this year. Do it? You heard West,
Speaker 1: Let's move on play action, Wentz running, He's looking, he
Speaker 1: is firing. Did his complete telling the fire breaking the tackle,
Speaker 1: get full of cuts down it is Garden tell us
Speaker 1: Gunn Merrill Reese w i p with the call. Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz three through three touchdown passes, including that tossed the
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard, and the Eagles held on for victory over
Speaker 1: the sliding Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium. It concludes the
Speaker 1: three week run London games. UH this season, Greg, the
Speaker 1: Eagles haven't done a great job closing out games this season.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, they got it, Dug. They did with a
Speaker 1: little he from the Jaguars. The Jaguars had the ball
Speaker 1: down six late in the game. They had been moving
Speaker 1: the ball pretty well in the second half. Blake Blake
Speaker 1: Blake Boarders played well and they had seven short yardage
Speaker 1: plays in a in a in a quick span second
Speaker 1: one second, one second in third one, fourth and one,
Speaker 1: and then the same thing with third and two seconds
Speaker 1: to fourth and two. And they threw on all six.
Speaker 1: On one of them, Boarders ended up taking the ball
Speaker 1: and running with it. He went over for six on
Speaker 1: those throws. And I and I just I'm thinking, kind of,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are so far from the team that Doug
Speaker 1: Maron wants to be. When you see that that that
Speaker 1: was my big takeaway is he's so afraid of running.
Speaker 1: Carlos Hider yelled in, who had a combined eighteen yards
Speaker 1: on eight carries, that they're throwing out a shotgun seventh
Speaker 1: straight times in a situation like that. And the Eagles
Speaker 1: defense did their job today and they got out of there.
Speaker 1: I thought, if you're the Eagles and you know that
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose your right and left tackle in this
Speaker 1: game early on and have to deal with that, that
Speaker 1: it was one of the more impressive performances in the
Speaker 1: second half to shut down the jack Wars in terms
Speaker 1: of they were the ones that we're able to run
Speaker 1: the ball, and Josh Adams, the rookie, played well. It
Speaker 1: was a bit of a different type of game for
Speaker 1: the Eagles and the team that comes out of here
Speaker 1: three and five, since percent of teams that are three
Speaker 1: and five make the playoffs do not. And now the
Speaker 1: need this and the Texans. We we've said the South
Speaker 1: is open, and you know, maybe eight or nine gets
Speaker 1: it and then the culture in it. But the Texans
Speaker 1: ultimately are five and three with an easy schedule of
Speaker 1: their own and coming into their own with a win
Speaker 1: over the Jaguars. So there, it's you can't just count
Speaker 1: on getting the eight or nine wins and getting the playoffs.
Speaker 1: If you're the Jaguars, don't let the Jaguars. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: lock it up. We're getting hot, maud See Dan and
Speaker 1: I could be on the same team. Sometimes we can
Speaker 1: celebrate together. This is good. Not only that you guys
Speaker 1: both jumped on my previously said one and I freaked
Speaker 1: out jumped off it, and so it was a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Should have just read back shirt joke? What was that?
Speaker 1: What shirt joke? One thing I wanted to point out
Speaker 1: was that even though you look at the box score,
Speaker 1: four catches thirty five yards for alshon Jeffrey, he has
Speaker 1: been awesome since he came back from injury, with so
Speaker 1: many key plays, and on two of the key moments
Speaker 1: of this entire game, third and long, he beats Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey one on one to keep drives going. And and
Speaker 1: those were two big moments in a game where it
Speaker 1: was kind of like you're just asking which quarterback is
Speaker 1: gonna make a better play on their own on third
Speaker 1: and long, and of course Carson Wentz is gonna be
Speaker 1: better at that. Speaking of Ramsey, don't let this Jaguars
Speaker 1: defense off the hook. I thought that was the story
Speaker 1: of the game. Blake Bortles brings them back into the
Speaker 1: game and you're hoping for a stop. So you can
Speaker 1: see Blake Bortles with the game on the line, and
Speaker 1: you never get that chance because the Jaguars couldn't stop
Speaker 1: the Eagles in the second half. Let's move up. Newton
Speaker 1: fakes to McCaffrey, frowze chipped jumping catch, so on the
Speaker 1: chip ball in the end zone, it's a touchdown McCaffrey
Speaker 1: four times. The heavens just look down on you and
Speaker 1: smile mc nixon Panthers Radio Network with that call. Cam
Speaker 1: Newton completed twenty nine passes, two nineteen and two scores,
Speaker 1: including that very fortunate ricochet touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: The Panthers take care of the Ravens thirty six to one.
Speaker 1: That is nine straight wins at home for the Panthers.
Speaker 1: We don't usually connect the Panthers with having a massive
Speaker 1: home field advantage, but they are cooking and Charlotte West,
Speaker 1: the Panthers deliver another reminder that they are a beast
Speaker 1: in the West. They are and as Greg has mentioned,
Speaker 1: you can't trust top defenses in this league anymore. The
Speaker 1: Ravens had the number one overall defense and number two
Speaker 1: past defense going into this game. They jumped out to
Speaker 1: a seven oh lead, scored on the opening possession, and
Speaker 1: then due to a mixture of basically self destruction and
Speaker 1: bad luck, the game was over by halftime. Uh Cam
Speaker 1: Newton looked good. DJ Moore because Tori Smith was injured,
Speaker 1: got a much bigger role in this game, and he
Speaker 1: took over a ninety nine yards scoring drive with chunk
Speaker 1: plays of thirty three and set thirty seven yards and
Speaker 1: an eleven eleven yard and around on the same play.
Speaker 1: But this was this was one of the more impressive
Speaker 1: all around wins by a team UM against quality competition.
Speaker 1: So you made a great point, and you're right up
Speaker 1: that sometimes it's lucky or it's it. It smiles on
Speaker 1: a team to have a veteran go out of the
Speaker 1: lineup and have more in this case step in and
Speaker 1: do have a role that he didn't have from previous weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the old saying you're only an injury away from being
Speaker 1: a good team and it's your own injury. Tori Smith
Speaker 1: allowed a better, more explosive player to get in the lineup.
Speaker 1: I remember hearing over the last couple of drafts. You know, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's this idea. We're gonna surround Cam Newton no more
Speaker 1: these Dave gettlman, power forward, lumbering receivers. Let's get a
Speaker 1: fast team around him. And I think today was an
Speaker 1: example of you're kind of starting to see that. I
Speaker 1: know Curtis Samuel isn't a huge factor, but he made some.
Speaker 1: He made some. He plays in this game, right, he'll
Speaker 1: make a player two here and there. D J. Moore
Speaker 1: certainly add speed, Christian McCaffrey obviously does. And you're starting
Speaker 1: to see an offense that is more than carrying their share.
Speaker 1: They have room for growth with these young receivers and
Speaker 1: Greg Holson greg Olsen get a little healthier. And there
Speaker 1: don't forget their right and left tackle have been out
Speaker 1: the first half of the year. They might come back
Speaker 1: in the second. We saw this offense explode for one
Speaker 1: answer unanswered points against the Eagles in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: last week. UH this week, four straight drives in the
Speaker 1: final sixteen minutes of the first half, UH to pour
Speaker 1: it on to make seven. So this offense sometimes you
Speaker 1: get into funks, like any offense. But when it gets rolling. Uh,
Speaker 1: it could change a game very quickly. So the Panthers
Speaker 1: are looking good. In the Ravens, the a f C
Speaker 1: is hard to figure out because, Uh, the Jaguars a
Speaker 1: month ago, everybody said, oh, look out for them, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix. The Ravens just when you
Speaker 1: start to get confident in them, now the defense takes
Speaker 1: a step back and the offense simply isn't good enough
Speaker 1: to pick up. The slack of the defense is going
Speaker 1: to come down to earth. It does matter scheduling, looking
Speaker 1: at it when the schedule comes out means nothing. But
Speaker 1: it always was on my radar that the a f
Speaker 1: C North got each other, which they eat each other
Speaker 1: up for the first part. Then you get the NFC
Speaker 1: South and they've run into a two game thorn bush.
Speaker 1: They're like a little child that just rode his bike
Speaker 1: into a thorn bush. Because it's like the Saints and
Speaker 1: the Panthers back to back. Now you're four and four.
Speaker 1: Last Sunday morning, you were four and two. Now you're
Speaker 1: four and four. Have to go deal with the Steelers
Speaker 1: next and and they lost like that. Their offensive line
Speaker 1: had Ronnie Stanley going in and out of that game
Speaker 1: and then had a walking buddh On Marshall Yonda went
Speaker 1: in and out of that game, and they already were
Speaker 1: missing a couple of starters. So it's like when you
Speaker 1: have that many injuries at the same position groups, things
Speaker 1: can go wrong, and tangibly it was a factor. Horonics Grasso,
Speaker 1: who is filling in for an injury, missed the block.
Speaker 1: Nice and he missed the block, and Kyle Love, Panthers
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, went unblocked and blew up Alex Collins to
Speaker 1: start to cause a fumble and basically set the Panthers
Speaker 1: up for any as he touchdown. And there were little
Speaker 1: mistakes like this that happened to the Ravens throughout the game.
Speaker 1: Nice interconference conversation, guys, But let's let's move back to
Speaker 1: a full A f C matchup. He snaps it to Huber,
Speaker 1: Huber puts it down. The kick from Randy Bullock is
Speaker 1: on its way. Has just kicked to a thirty seven,
Speaker 1: thirty four win at the Gun. Dan Hard and Dave
Speaker 1: Lapham the Bengals Radio Network with the call Randy Bullock,
Speaker 1: Big Bone, Randy, he cares not for your love of
Speaker 1: fits magic his forty four yard field goal in the
Speaker 1: final play of regulation lifted the Bengals to thirty four
Speaker 1: win over the Tampa Bay Bucks, and since Andy Dawlton
Speaker 1: engineered the game winning drive after Ryan Fitzpatrick replaced an
Speaker 1: ineffective Jameis Winston and brought Tampa Bay back from the
Speaker 1: dead mark. We'll get to the winning team in a moment,
Speaker 1: but this Bucks QB drama won't go away. I think
Speaker 1: this is the kind of game that potentially alters destinies
Speaker 1: for Tampa Bay under center, because there are now whispers
Speaker 1: out there that Jamis went. They would listen to offers
Speaker 1: for Jamis Winston before the trade deadline. He was dreadful
Speaker 1: in overtime against the Browns last Sunday, they want to
Speaker 1: spite him, and then today through four killer picks, the
Speaker 1: final pick six costing them an extra point. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're my one question from a Dirk Cotter angle
Speaker 1: is why did you need to get to four interceptions
Speaker 1: to replace him? He was totally ineffective. You're in a
Speaker 1: tight game and you waited that long to put Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: back in who we already know that if Fitzpatrick earlier
Speaker 1: in the season, despite one ill contest, played very well
Speaker 1: with this offense. I did see some criticism that it
Speaker 1: made sense the lift Winston at the half dark Cutter,
Speaker 1: of course, was he knew he was gonna be asked
Speaker 1: after the game what the next move was the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Here's what he had to say, Today's not to day.
Speaker 1: I have to decide that, right. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: have any problem making decisions, and I'll make it when
Speaker 1: it's comes right. But now it's probably not the right
Speaker 1: time to make it. That to me often feels like
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit down with the person who was your
Speaker 1: starter today and have a conversation about putting Fitzpatrick in there.
Speaker 1: It would be very surprising I think if you didn't
Speaker 1: stick with Fitzpatrick because of the way he played when
Speaker 1: he came into the game. I believe they went touched down,
Speaker 1: they went field goal touchdown, punt touchdown, and obviously no
Speaker 1: turnovers in that span. So you put up seventeen points
Speaker 1: in a in a quarter, I don't think you're gonna
Speaker 1: come back out that's this is a franchise shifting move.
Speaker 1: Like Mark you alluded to it. If you bench Winston
Speaker 1: for performance issues to put in the thirty five year
Speaker 1: old quarterback what is the next move for this organization?
Speaker 1: I mean only because probably the coach won't be there.
Speaker 1: Someone can come in and spit whistle Dixie all offseason
Speaker 1: about we're gonna get the real Jamis Winston. But how
Speaker 1: much longer do we need to make a decision on
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston. I don't even want to bury Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: It's more about Dirk Carter for me, Like does he
Speaker 1: just hate magic? He hates being relevant. Every time Fitzpatrick plays,
Speaker 1: the whole nation pays attention. Every time Winston plays, nobody
Speaker 1: watches be because you're not exciting, You're not fun, Your
Speaker 1: team isn't his into it, your locker room isn't is
Speaker 1: into it. And this guy made the bonehead decision of
Speaker 1: the year to take Fitzpatrick out of the lineup. Um,
Speaker 1: what about on the Cincinnati side, Mark, what do we see?
Speaker 1: I mean you just listed Greg the fourth quarter drives
Speaker 1: for Tampa Bay. I mean the Bengals built a massive
Speaker 1: lead in this. It looked like it was a get
Speaker 1: right game after the embarrassment against the Chiefs, and they
Speaker 1: did everything they could to allow Tampa Bay back in
Speaker 1: Their final six drives were punt punt punt, punt, punt,
Speaker 1: and then that field goal by fat Randy Well. But
Speaker 1: four straight touchdowns to start the game. But but they
Speaker 1: that's my point is they SiZ I don't know if
Speaker 1: I don't want to say, but we should give Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton cells out a photo of Andy Dalton did what
Speaker 1: he needed to do. After the touchdown of two point conversion,
Speaker 1: it seemed like the Cincinnati Bengals shame spiral was about
Speaker 1: to be complete, and he did kind of save the
Speaker 1: day with drive, some passes d J. Green got them
Speaker 1: set up in the bull kick the makeuple fields his
Speaker 1: fourth game winning drive this year in the final minutes.
Speaker 1: But it's also because their defense is putting them in
Speaker 1: position where he has to go do So that's my
Speaker 1: concern with the Bengals. You need to drive, you just
Speaker 1: call it Andy Dalton. Well, he's the modern day one
Speaker 1: thing on Winston those four picks they weren't tipped and
Speaker 1: then oh it's not on Winston. These were There were
Speaker 1: some awful decisions made by can't you give Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: the lovely deserves right now? What I thought we did?
Speaker 1: Just say he's he's the most special ginger quarterback to
Speaker 1: ever play this game for Iget about Jason Garrett. Is
Speaker 1: that true? Who else is in the running? There's not
Speaker 1: a lot. Brandon Weedson, Todd Marino. I think Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: con and Carson Wentz was unbelievable. Parson Palmer is sometimes
Speaker 1: called a redhead. Carson Wentz has reddish He absolutely has
Speaker 1: reddish hair. I don't know if he's a he's but
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's like a raging ginger. And I submit rubenesque
Speaker 1: Randy for Bullock. That Ruben. He's not even big anywhere
Speaker 1: there right as all right, let's move on. We're gonna
Speaker 1: give it off on a shovel pass, Kareem Hunt breaking
Speaker 1: tackles outside the ten hurdles, a Bronco dragging Broncos all
Speaker 1: the way to the end zone, touchdown ch City on
Speaker 1: fourth that inches the Chiefs fire Pasuka on a shovel
Speaker 1: pass to Kareem Hunt. Another Hunt, hurdle of it and
Speaker 1: a great call from Mitch Holness of the Chiefs Radio network,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes through yards and four more touchdowns. He's up
Speaker 1: to twenty six on the year. Sammy Watkins went over
Speaker 1: a hundred two touchdowns and yes, uh, Kareem Hunt once again,
Speaker 1: acrobatic and dynamic. A Chiefs a thirty twenty three win
Speaker 1: over the Broncos at Arrowhead. Uh, they sweep the season series.
Speaker 1: They are total control of the a f C West
Speaker 1: at seven seven and one West. It wasn't as easy
Speaker 1: as usual, but the key the Chiefs keep on with it.
Speaker 1: It's like the Portland Trailblazers trying to beat the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors. The talent differential is just too wide. Who
Speaker 1: are you gonna stop on the Chiefs this pick your
Speaker 1: poison offense and they picked Sammy Watkins. The other team did.
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins burned them. He had a big game. Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt had another one of those personal high highlight real
Speaker 1: plays where he hurdles a guy, breaks a couple of tackles,
Speaker 1: runs into the end zone. This offense, I mean, they
Speaker 1: ran out to thirty points and then basically just shut
Speaker 1: down for the rest of the way. But that's all
Speaker 1: they needed. And the defense, the pass rush is coming
Speaker 1: along nicely. I think d Ford had another three sex
Speaker 1: This guy's having I think he might be first team
Speaker 1: All Pro right now. That outside linebacker Chris Jones had
Speaker 1: a sack for a fourth consecutive game, you can run
Speaker 1: on this team. The Broncos, I mean Phillips, Philip Lindsay
Speaker 1: looks phenomenal every week. He had another good game. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think that Chief's pass rush, he's really coming
Speaker 1: alive a little bit. Mahomes has twenty six touchdowns. Not
Speaker 1: to pick on Alex Smith, but that that ties Alex
Speaker 1: smith career high Kansas City, which was last year where
Speaker 1: which was Alex Smith's best season, And that's the best
Speaker 1: one to one comparison, because obviously this Chief's team is
Speaker 1: very talented and they figured out some things schematically. But
Speaker 1: the fact that he's done it in half a season,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. It's amazing to think how that move was
Speaker 1: considered a little gutsy in the off season when they
Speaker 1: made it, because it was obviously such a clear decision,
Speaker 1: clearly smart. One note on that touchdown total. He joins
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning and Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks ever
Speaker 1: to have twenty five touchdowns by mid season. So are
Speaker 1: you less concerned about the defense or is it more
Speaker 1: the opponent they played? About the Chief Stephens, I think
Speaker 1: you can still run on them, and um, the secondary
Speaker 1: is still very subpar. I just justin Houston's gonna come
Speaker 1: back at some point. De Ford is playing lights out,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones is playing well. Those rookies, Briland Sparks had
Speaker 1: another spect sack today. I think there's some talent there
Speaker 1: on the front sidment. You never know. If Eric Barry
Speaker 1: ever helps this team out, that would be nice at
Speaker 1: this point that he's going to be the same player
Speaker 1: when at this point that would be a surprise. But
Speaker 1: I do think there maybe the number one team to
Speaker 1: watch on Monday and Tuesday. With the trading deadline. There's
Speaker 1: a few cornerbacks that could be available that maybe not
Speaker 1: Maybe they won't. It won't be generous Jenkins, who's a
Speaker 1: big name, but maybe it'll just be a solid starter
Speaker 1: type that can help their second day. Well, Bridget really
Speaker 1: liked my Patrick Peterson trade possibility. That would be great.
Speaker 1: Cardinals don't see you were in my garage. By the way,
Speaker 1: you didn't see Bridget because I don't share Bridget. She
Speaker 1: lives in your garage. I keep her. Yeah, I talked
Speaker 1: about on the Thursday show. She's let's say I'm closer West,
Speaker 1: I need to. I had to move her to a
Speaker 1: different part of my home because Bridget is mine How
Speaker 1: does the rest of your family feel about this arrangement?
Speaker 1: They don't know. Did anyone listen to the show? Does
Speaker 1: anyone in your family? My wife is not aware that
Speaker 1: Bridget is in the home. M Bridget, are you there?
Speaker 1: Dan is hot and masculing to hold theisser. I think,
Speaker 1: if anything, it's the intellectual connection and the ability just
Speaker 1: to conversate about anything. You and Bridget, so she's always
Speaker 1: coming up with new ideas and ways to express herself.
Speaker 1: You can't buy that kind of affirmation. Anyway. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to the game the Broncos and again keep an
Speaker 1: eye advanced Joseph here is he safe? Because? Uh, they
Speaker 1: got a tough schedule coming up here. They get at Chargers,
Speaker 1: I mean home to Texas at Chargers, home to Steelers. Uh,
Speaker 1: they gotta figure out way how to win games. And
Speaker 1: they're sloppy. Ten penalties for eighty three yards, Uh, penalties
Speaker 1: that wiped out big gains. Uh. You know the Broncos
Speaker 1: started to know now the three and five what I Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have the Browns and Cardinals before that showdown
Speaker 1: with the Rams might be the Marius Thomas's last game,
Speaker 1: but seven targets thirty thirty yards hasn't really gotten a going,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure if other teams are really gonna
Speaker 1: bother to give up a late pick for him. Let
Speaker 1: us move own. Drabinsky floats are passed, cut wide open.
Speaker 1: There goes to a forty midfield quick luck to the
Speaker 1: thirty to the twenty Angleton fund ends up touchdown Babe,
Speaker 1: the Blitz touchdown Bears. They've got the laid Cohen seventy
Speaker 1: yard catching run Jeff Johnny a w BBM with the call.
Speaker 1: Tarik Cohen makes big plays every week. This time it
Speaker 1: was a seventy yard catching run on a perfectly executed
Speaker 1: screen pass. The biggest play and the Bears is thirteen
Speaker 1: win over the Jets at Soldier Field. The Bears played
Speaker 1: without Khalil Mack. He was held out after a pregame
Speaker 1: workout that I suppose didn't go too well. Was the
Speaker 1: first game he's ever missed, but it didn't matter much
Speaker 1: against the banged up and predictable Jets offense that didn't
Speaker 1: even cross midfield until late in the third quarter. So
Speaker 1: the Bears, the team of around the NFL always difficult,
Speaker 1: very difficult with the team around the NFL plist gets
Speaker 1: your favorite teams. There was a lot of personal conflict,
Speaker 1: but ultimately, who's the team of a t again this year?
Speaker 1: They are the four and three Chicago Bears. You've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of support down the um, but they they
Speaker 1: got they took care of business here. It was the
Speaker 1: right move to bench or to sit Mac because he
Speaker 1: hasn't been the same guy the last two weeks. If
Speaker 1: the Bears are an actual player in the NFC, which
Speaker 1: I'm not totally convinced that, but if if you want
Speaker 1: to make that case, Mac has to get back to
Speaker 1: being what he was before the ankle injury. I would
Speaker 1: even honestly think about sitting him next week to on
Speaker 1: a trip to Buffalo and see if your defense can
Speaker 1: do the same thing it did against the Jets and
Speaker 1: let this guy get right. But Allen Robinson also sat
Speaker 1: out this game. I guess he's their number one receiver.
Speaker 1: He hasn't had much of an impact this year, but
Speaker 1: the defense did the job. As I said at the top,
Speaker 1: so many injuries in the jets y receiver group and
Speaker 1: now without Paul that the field is so small for
Speaker 1: Donald's like a ten yard field, no downfield threat, and
Speaker 1: the Bears just sat on it and they're very not
Speaker 1: an exciting team to watch right now, A tough watch.
Speaker 1: The Jets are so the Bears not an incredible effort here,
Speaker 1: but take care of business game and Mitch Drubisky still
Speaker 1: spooks you a little bit with some of his erratic
Speaker 1: throwing missing open receivers. But I do I do like
Speaker 1: watching him. I know he's not a complete player and
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of work to do west, but
Speaker 1: I like, uh he does make throws and then his
Speaker 1: ability to make plays with his legs. I still find
Speaker 1: it to be an intriguing talent. I think he's fun
Speaker 1: to watch. And ESPN s QBR metric is not perfect
Speaker 1: by any means, but I've always had a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for it. They've got him with a ninety one
Speaker 1: point seven QBR, which is a great QBR ranking for
Speaker 1: this game. Did they QBR in general pumps up running quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I mean that's just good because Gasser rating doesn't give
Speaker 1: him nearly like Tyrod always is super high Kim Newton,
Speaker 1: but that's I think it's that's good to have different measures,
Speaker 1: and it does does show you his his legs have
Speaker 1: so much value and you do look at their schedule.
Speaker 1: Next week they're in Buffalo. They they'll have played the
Speaker 1: four a f C East teams in a row. You
Speaker 1: don't see too often from from a nonconference opponent. And
Speaker 1: the one thing I'd worry about with them, You look
Speaker 1: at their schedule and they're coming along at four and three.
Speaker 1: Maybe they get to five and three. I think the
Speaker 1: other NFC North teams are gonna want to do better
Speaker 1: than two and two against the a f C East.
Speaker 1: To me, that's a good nonconference schedule to have. You
Speaker 1: want to beat the Bills, the Dolphins, and the Jets.
Speaker 1: And how much happer you'd be as a Jets fan
Speaker 1: to have Matt Neggie attached to Donald because that's why
Speaker 1: you feel like Trabisky can grow as well, because of
Speaker 1: the scheme he's in and because of the history of
Speaker 1: that scheme, and you look at Donald, it's impossible to
Speaker 1: evaluate him. And I rich Samina your boys, and I
Speaker 1: thought appropriately came out of this game sort of lashing
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls for over complimenting the effort of the Jets today,
Speaker 1: sort of saying they really played that. You know, he
Speaker 1: was impressed with the effort, X, Y and Z come on.
Speaker 1: I mean they were flat. Come on. It was not
Speaker 1: a great effort by the Jets. They hung around early
Speaker 1: because the Bears quite frankly, weren't playing very well on
Speaker 1: offense early on. But uh, I think Bowls is in
Speaker 1: deep trouble. I think he'll survive the season, but I
Speaker 1: barring some type of big turnaround, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if if it's in this Jets team, especially with their
Speaker 1: current state, for that to happen, I think he I
Speaker 1: think he's done. I think he's in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1: I don't think the offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates is a
Speaker 1: guy that's probably gonna survive this either. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. But the Bears get the W and uh
Speaker 1: we move on. James with the rock Briggs three twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen ten five Hey Jim touchdown. James Conner doing his
Speaker 1: thing against Bill Hill Grow Steelers Radio Network, Bill Grow
Speaker 1: with the call. Uh Ben Roethlisberger through two touchdown passes
Speaker 1: d Antonio Brown. James Conner did his thing again, scoring twice.
Speaker 1: The Steelers beat up on the Brown Mark Sessler. The
Speaker 1: Browns remained winless in Pittsburgh since two thousand three. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Steelers overcame a slow start, but the game ultimately
Speaker 1: followed a familiar script. It did, and how far of
Speaker 1: a different path these two teams have taken since we
Speaker 1: were in London and watched them fight towards a tie,
Speaker 1: because I watched Cleveland's offense and I'm nothing but concerned
Speaker 1: about Baker Mayfield's physical safety behind a line that has
Speaker 1: no concept of how to block for him. Where the
Speaker 1: Steelers and it had a lot to do with the
Speaker 1: Steelers have stars, the Browns have prospects, and Pittsburgh just
Speaker 1: leaned on the familiar faces of Antonio Brown. But also
Speaker 1: the second half usage and production of James Conner is
Speaker 1: one of the more fascinating halves I've watched in years.
Speaker 1: He absolutely took Cleveland apart and he can do it all,
Speaker 1: and I don't I'm not getting into the Levi on
Speaker 1: Bell comparison game. It's just that they've found they do
Speaker 1: a great job grooming these running backs. And if you're
Speaker 1: Todd Hale, you had to hate watching this because your
Speaker 1: job isn't is now completely on the hot seat in
Speaker 1: that world, as is that entire coaching staffs where the
Speaker 1: player that you were with last year looked like one
Speaker 1: of the best players on the field of any NFL
Speaker 1: game today. You know what you describe sounds like the
Speaker 1: old Steelers running backs Jerome Bettis, you know, Barry Foster
Speaker 1: or Bann Morris, where you just let them take over
Speaker 1: in the second half and just run it down the
Speaker 1: other team's throat exactly, And like, how familiar is this
Speaker 1: all for the Browns and the Steelers. The day starts
Speaker 1: with competing reports, or essentially a bunch of different reports
Speaker 1: that agree on one thing, which is that Todd Haley
Speaker 1: and Hugh Jackson aren't getting along and depending on the
Speaker 1: results of this game, one of them could be fired,
Speaker 1: but not sure which which is a ridiculous a ridiculous thing,
Speaker 1: which I don't doubt is true at all, But it's like, well,
Speaker 1: we'll figure out which one to fire after the game.
Speaker 1: And then you also have the Steelers who are looking
Speaker 1: at a division where I know the Bengals won, but
Speaker 1: they don't look as good to me right now, and
Speaker 1: that we're rounding into mid season and the Steelers look
Speaker 1: like the class of the division again. Yeah, we're a
Speaker 1: month A month ago we were like, oh, can can
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh handle all this drama, except every year this happened.
Speaker 1: What they do think there? They look fine to me.
Speaker 1: I think the just said I think Todd Bowles survives
Speaker 1: at least still Black Monday, I don't. I still think
Speaker 1: Hugh's in deep trouble in the here and now he's
Speaker 1: a week next week. Let's say, let's say he survives
Speaker 1: this week. Who knows? You got the Chiefs, then the Falcons,
Speaker 1: then the bye I don't know if I see a
Speaker 1: wind coming before then the way they're playing right now,
Speaker 1: and that would be the time if you, I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy's three thirty six and one. At a certain point,
Speaker 1: you just gotta move on and get the spirit and
Speaker 1: the demons out with him. Uh, this Brown season slipping away?
Speaker 1: At what point do you just say the Hugh thing
Speaker 1: didn't work. We gotta move on to the next step.
Speaker 1: I think what they tried to do was in the
Speaker 1: sake of continuity, because they had such a history of
Speaker 1: you know, it's flipping schemes every two seasons. This is
Speaker 1: a this is the wrong fit and it for me,
Speaker 1: it's not just on field, it is every autumn. There
Speaker 1: are there's in fighting, there's channels of gossip and whisper,
Speaker 1: and you're here again, and we've been here a thousand times.
Speaker 1: Credit to Pro Football Talk for this that of all
Speaker 1: the coaches in NFL history, there is only one with
Speaker 1: a worse record than Hugh Jackson. Bert Bell, who went
Speaker 1: on to be the commissioner for it, went on to
Speaker 1: I don't think that's Hugh Jackson's destiny. But he went
Speaker 1: on to coin the phrase any given Sunday too. I
Speaker 1: think you could come up with any given Sunday type one.
Speaker 1: I actually could see here not being the commissioner, but
Speaker 1: being one of those guys who ends up like working
Speaker 1: in the league office just because people like him, just
Speaker 1: like he's like the head of operations or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's about not liking him. It's just
Speaker 1: this is not yeah, like he'll get an offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: job after this if this doesn't work out. But if
Speaker 1: that doesn't work out, then he'll probably be working with
Speaker 1: like Michael Snarsi in the NFL office. I don't know
Speaker 1: who that is a name that comes up again. I
Speaker 1: think you're thinking of Michael Signora the company. Actually the
Speaker 1: high powered league employee. Lot of pr job is to
Speaker 1: shoot down all of your best ideas, there's there's where,
Speaker 1: there's where Hugh was heading. Let's move on. Is gonna
Speaker 1: throw back shoulder more makes a catch, he's in touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Seahawks the snap, throw back shoulder to the youngster David Moore,
Speaker 1: who tipped it up in the air and tipped it
Speaker 1: right to himself in the ends from fifteen yards out
Speaker 1: off the top of his helmet, and the Seahawks score again.
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel Seahawks broadcasting what they called Russell Wilson throw
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes in the second quarter. That's what they needed,
Speaker 1: That's all they needed. They beat the lines to fourteen
Speaker 1: uh greg. After the game, Russell Wilson said, quote, we
Speaker 1: can do whatever we want right now. They're feeling themselves.
Speaker 1: If you're feeling I am, and they should be feeling themselves,
Speaker 1: because this was like Brian Schottenheimer's offensive image come to life.
Speaker 1: Just Chris Carson running people over, Russell Wilson being protected well,
Speaker 1: not having to throw too much. And then you almost
Speaker 1: plan to have the occasional third and long where he
Speaker 1: just runs around, figures out what he wants to do,
Speaker 1: and then he gets about one or two shot plays
Speaker 1: a game and They're the two of the prettiest shot
Speaker 1: plays that any team runs all week, and at the
Speaker 1: end of the game he has three incompletions on only
Speaker 1: seventeen attempts, three touchdowns. They let the lines back into
Speaker 1: it a little bit, but this team is really impressive
Speaker 1: and has changed really all the the cliches of what
Speaker 1: we thought was bad about the Seahawks going into the season.
Speaker 1: I was wrong about the Seahawks. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people thought they were an also ran team this year,
Speaker 1: but their defense especially, I mean this whole the big
Speaker 1: conversation around them as well, the legion of boom it's over.
Speaker 1: This a team in transition, but they've managed to very
Speaker 1: quickly put back together a defense or rebuild on the fly,
Speaker 1: and they're winning games with this defense, not to mention
Speaker 1: a running game that has been an issue for them
Speaker 1: for years. It's a great job by keep Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: And you know, we heard a lot in August that
Speaker 1: he's rejuvenated by this by getting rid of, you know,
Speaker 1: the backbone of that dynasty that he loves having all
Speaker 1: of these young, hungry players and that plays to his wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: And it's it's come true. They're not just physical on
Speaker 1: defense and on the offensive line, which has done a
Speaker 1: good job run blocking and protecting their physical receiver. And
Speaker 1: that was a huge difference in this game. Your boy
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, David Moore, he's just he's just become your guy.
Speaker 1: He was dominating, he's just winning one on one. They're
Speaker 1: throwing balls up to him. They're throwing balls up to
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, who's small. But somehow turn around started when Ken,
Speaker 1: when David Moore replaced Brandon more contested catches and these
Speaker 1: guys were too physical for Tease Taber and some of
Speaker 1: the smaller lines secondary. But I don't mean to keep
Speaker 1: hitting the schedule, but you have the Chargers, Rams, Packers
Speaker 1: and Panthers next. That feels like a a f C
Speaker 1: NFC combined playoff runt. But think that makes it fun
Speaker 1: to root for them, because if they can get through
Speaker 1: some of that without the wheels falling off, it's it's
Speaker 1: all right to be completely wrong about things sometime or often.
Speaker 1: And we were I was about Seattle and it's fun
Speaker 1: or if you're a Pete Carroll fan. Pete Carroll seemed
Speaker 1: like he was being kind of eased into retirement and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's got a team that's in
Speaker 1: the mix. He said after the game. He's still mad
Speaker 1: about how the season started when they got off to
Speaker 1: that slow start, because they would be a real story
Speaker 1: in the league right now if they had to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to win a couple of those early games. Well,
Speaker 1: they're so good at coaching defense that it's it's like
Speaker 1: a safety friendly offense. I know, Earl Thomas, I mean defense,
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas isn't in there, but they're two safeties, Bragley
Speaker 1: McDougald and t Drich Thompson are playing really well. They
Speaker 1: they signed a slot cornerback or traded for Justin Coleman
Speaker 1: from the Patriots two years ago. Justin Coleman's but one
Speaker 1: of the best slot cornerbacks in the league right now,
Speaker 1: made a huge play an interception to intercept to take
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. It's like they do a better job coaching
Speaker 1: up defense and certainly defends back then the Patriots. You
Speaker 1: can look at it when when they have similar players.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh, you know, let's address what we really
Speaker 1: are here to address. The streak is over, Chris Wesley.
Speaker 1: The streak is over. Long live. We got out coached.
Speaker 1: We we overthought, um, we we We went into this
Speaker 1: week fired up about the Colts, but knowing that we
Speaker 1: couldn't look ourselves in the mirror and take them. We
Speaker 1: had a feeling about the Packers and probably should have
Speaker 1: taken them, even though they ended up losing and we
Speaker 1: got two cute We thought we'd we'd do uh, we'd
Speaker 1: run back that Broncos one and back to back to
Speaker 1: start the season, trying to go for like an identity.
Speaker 1: It was a heat check. It was it was, you know,
Speaker 1: but we owned this loss. We're gonna learn from it,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna move on to next week. A total
Speaker 1: round to applause for an amazing run seven straight. But
Speaker 1: you should know, Wes, that you built up a nice
Speaker 1: little lead. But the Zeus is on a four game
Speaker 1: winning streak himself, just two games out with a lot
Speaker 1: of season left over here in the west Leyan household,
Speaker 1: we do not take our competition lightly or seriously. And
Speaker 1: you're good at your job. A lot of press conference, Um, alright,
Speaker 1: any other thoughts on this game? Chris Carson doing things
Speaker 1: hundred seventy six yards rushing for the Seahawks. You haven't
Speaker 1: seen them a lot in the post um. Marshall Lynch
Speaker 1: now getting snacks. Snacks. Actually, Damon Harrison made a couple
Speaker 1: of plays for the Lions, but that alone isn't gonna
Speaker 1: change their defense. This game could have gone a few
Speaker 1: different ways. It didn't necessarily need to be so one sided.
Speaker 1: I think Matthew Stafford had one last he had one
Speaker 1: last fumble, he had one interception. It was not a
Speaker 1: heavy possession game. But that's what Seas does to you,
Speaker 1: is you better make your possessions count or else the
Speaker 1: game side. I don't like Detroit coming out of last
Speaker 1: week's run heavy. Everyone's all excited about them. They run
Speaker 1: for thirty four yards. It's good dog. Come on, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on running Defenders over tension in Yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't usually go with the TV calls on Sunday, but
Speaker 1: when Andrew Catalan references Billy Madison out of nowhere, bring
Speaker 1: it up, deep cinephile. That's who he is exactly. The
Speaker 1: cults are building momentum. Andrew Luck through three touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack went off for buck thirty two and two
Speaker 1: scores win over the Raiders at the black Hole. Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler another cinephile, like you like the silver screen, like
Speaker 1: the silver screen, perhaps more. Oakland fought hard in this game,
Speaker 1: but the Colts attack was too much in the end.
Speaker 1: This was one of these games that go watch this
Speaker 1: list week on on game Pass and watch it soon,
Speaker 1: because it was just like, not you didn you don't
Speaker 1: have to take the other two guys a possession for possession,
Speaker 1: and you got the best game of the year that
Speaker 1: Derek Carr has offered. He played great after a week
Speaker 1: of criticism and uncomfortable criticism. Let's face it about if
Speaker 1: he was a man, and that's a real thing that
Speaker 1: he faced this week. Are you crying on the field
Speaker 1: of your teammates like you you're gonna be traded? You
Speaker 1: trade his number one wide receiver. And I watched a
Speaker 1: lot of this game. I thought he played tremendously well
Speaker 1: and it kind of reminded me of now it feels
Speaker 1: like forever ago, but when they were eleven and one
Speaker 1: or whatever it was three about three years ago, and
Speaker 1: he was playing like a near m VP candidate. There
Speaker 1: is good. There is great I don't want to say greatness,
Speaker 1: but there is supreme goodness within Derek Carr. And I
Speaker 1: would think twice if I was John Greden about getting
Speaker 1: rid of him, I don't know if that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But he played so well. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get rid of him. I'm not sure what the continuity
Speaker 1: plan would be there, unless you know you're gonna get
Speaker 1: the topic in the draft and get some quarterback that
Speaker 1: you're going to develop. But that could that's exactly something
Speaker 1: John Gruden do. They wouldn't. I guess we shouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised by anything. Trade for Jamis Winston, which really sounds
Speaker 1: with you. I'm not kidding that go. Do you think
Speaker 1: that Bruden would would look at Derek Carr and Winston
Speaker 1: and say that Winston is the preferable option though next week?
Speaker 1: Because he he seemed to love Winston so much coming
Speaker 1: out and and when he spoke about him on TV.
Speaker 1: But then again the same was true for Derek Carr
Speaker 1: and most other young quarterback So that that's just this.
Speaker 1: I thought this game came down because it was just
Speaker 1: you're waiting for someone to make a mistake. The Doug
Speaker 1: Martin fumble, and Doug Martin ran really hard, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you know Marshawn Lynch and there we've talked about
Speaker 1: at Cooper's gone, and I just thought this was going
Speaker 1: to be a game where Oakland just did not show up,
Speaker 1: and then the opposite happened. But Andrew Luck on the
Speaker 1: flip side, is running one of the more exciting offensive
Speaker 1: league wide, and they trust their running game. They're in
Speaker 1: for two hundred plus yards after lashing the opponent with
Speaker 1: the run last week. This was the imbalance has been
Speaker 1: replaced by absolute balance and offense that is hard not
Speaker 1: to take your eyes off of Frank Reich. Look, he's
Speaker 1: put a stamp on this team back to back games
Speaker 1: with a yard rusher three straight games. Andrew Luck hasn't
Speaker 1: been sacked. The offensive line is now one of the
Speaker 1: best in the entire league. They are averaging thirty five
Speaker 1: points per game over last five weeks, and that is
Speaker 1: with their number one receiver, running back, tight end, and
Speaker 1: offensive tackle being out of the lineup for for most
Speaker 1: of those games. I mean, that's that's why guys like
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson and and Todd Bowls have a hard case
Speaker 1: to make to their owners, because you look at Matt Naggy,
Speaker 1: you look at Frank Reich, we're halfway through their first season.
Speaker 1: You can see the stamp up. They're absolutely just different
Speaker 1: operations eight games in and sometimes you gotta get lucky.
Speaker 1: It's better to be lucky than good. Because the Colts
Speaker 1: hired Reich on like two days notice after they got
Speaker 1: him at the Altar, and it might be one of
Speaker 1: the great moves that's happened to them in years. After
Speaker 1: seeing what the culture doing with Frank Reich, how can
Speaker 1: you go into next year and say, I want to
Speaker 1: hire a defensive specialist to be my head coach. He
Speaker 1: got Dontrell Inman involved six for fifty two in this game.
Speaker 1: But I do have to plan. This is one of
Speaker 1: the low moments in a proud franchise history for the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders, one one of the national teams. That we
Speaker 1: were just handing out about fifty lollipops to start off
Speaker 1: this game. That you stayed within fourteen points against the
Speaker 1: two and five Cults lay a second, Well, you gotta
Speaker 1: watch the game. This was the Tiger, you know, Derek Cart,
Speaker 1: Derek Card did it nice to turnover? I'm just saying
Speaker 1: there allows mething to culture the record right now though
Speaker 1: that no, they have a plus eight team point differential,
Speaker 1: and that is with a team dectimated by injuries. I
Speaker 1: told you it was a bad line though by by
Speaker 1: your desert people. The idea, Yeah, that's true. The idea.
Speaker 1: The idea is just to get the wagering close to
Speaker 1: you know, even and hope that the public is up.
Speaker 1: But I bet you're right. I bet everyone thought the
Speaker 1: same thing and they ended up they ended up taking
Speaker 1: a bath on this one. Take a bad desert take
Speaker 1: got bath. Oh and West Uh Andrew Luck probably know
Speaker 1: everyone took the Raiders and they made lots of money.
Speaker 1: We have no idea. Three touchdowns and I got Greg
Speaker 1: off the topic, one to each of his tight ends. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know the last time a quarterback had touchdowns to
Speaker 1: three tight ends in one game? According to the game
Speaker 1: story I read on NFL dot com. Never, you're right, Okay,
Speaker 1: who's writing those? That was Burgo? Right? Burg Bomb? Great
Speaker 1: story about Burgo the Halloween parties trying to trick me
Speaker 1: on that though I did. I did, Uh Burgo? Who's
Speaker 1: you know friend of the show. He's been on a
Speaker 1: several times. Jeremy Bergman does great work. Um at a party, uh,
Speaker 1: carrying around a walking stick or a cane of some kind.
Speaker 1: A beautiful woman at the Halloween party and costume comes
Speaker 1: up to him. I heard this from someone else who
Speaker 1: was in the circle, makes a bee line for Burgo,
Speaker 1: looks him right in the eyes, and everybody's saying, Oh Halloween,
Speaker 1: Happy Halloween. Burgo coming up. She says, you took my cane.
Speaker 1: Took it. He had found it at the party and
Speaker 1: was walking around with it. And this woman said, you
Speaker 1: took my cane, recovered the cane, and then left with
Speaker 1: her boyfriend. So we might have to get Burgo in here.
Speaker 1: Just I gotta check in on Burgo a little bit.
Speaker 1: I want to know Davi Eally. I always want to
Speaker 1: know what's going on with Elie and the ladies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see what's going on with Burgo. Burgo.
Speaker 1: Burgo has an interesting resume. He's got a couple of
Speaker 1: Hollywood films under the belt as a child actor. He
Speaker 1: could throw that around at a party, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: There's some he's got an arsenal. He's a bright guy,
Speaker 1: he's got a he's got a great future ahead of him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he should be doing well, but the Halloween
Speaker 1: party struck out well. I mean, you can't swipe. You know,
Speaker 1: some girls cane. But yeah, let's stop like stealing items
Speaker 1: from people at the party. I mean, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: being the little kid and kicking and screaming is open
Speaker 1: up any pants. But by the way, not the better
Speaker 1: kicking and screaming either, the one with Mike Ditko. So
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on. Should camped off to Arian
Speaker 1: Peterson through a hall fort up the sideline to the
Speaker 1: thirty twenty fifty pet Five's that add Peterson all the way. Finally, finally,
Speaker 1: Andrean Peterson best one he was in chall day and
Speaker 1: he takes it to the house. Whoa Larry Michael and
Speaker 1: the Redskins Radio network with a call. Adrian Peterson score twice,
Speaker 1: including that game clinching sixty four yards sprint in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, leading the NFC East Redskins to a win
Speaker 1: over the wofle Simon at the meadow Lands. Washington is
Speaker 1: now five and three, has won three straight. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: box score is a little misleading, but that's also it
Speaker 1: feels like it's great. It's kind of cool for a
Speaker 1: running back. So they gave them rock to Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: a lot in this game. Uh. Late in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: he's he's averaging about three yards to carry um and
Speaker 1: a lot of work for not a lot of glory.
Speaker 1: Bang you break off a sixty four yard or all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're average in six yards to carry
Speaker 1: for the game and you're off for a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards or whatever it is. So they bottled up
Speaker 1: here some most of the game, but they couldn't when
Speaker 1: they needed to stop the Giants. And Peterson is is
Speaker 1: fun to watch thirty three years old and uh, he's
Speaker 1: gonna run. He's probably on pace for about yards and
Speaker 1: get injured. And he has he always, even when he
Speaker 1: was young, he had that little hitch to his getty
Speaker 1: up when he gets to his top speed. It seems
Speaker 1: more pronounced now. I don't know if that's true now
Speaker 1: that he's older, but it's just fun to see him
Speaker 1: in the open field going down the sideline, beating everyone
Speaker 1: and to the pylon. So uh, he bounds up and down.
Speaker 1: He's like he's like a like a dog when an
Speaker 1: owner comes home just bounding at you. He is you
Speaker 1: can he is he is kind of like that. But like,
Speaker 1: there was not much else for me to take away
Speaker 1: from this game. This is a bad game. Um when
Speaker 1: according to script, right, h I went according to script,
Speaker 1: the Giants can't score. They they made it look like
Speaker 1: they at least put an offensive showing by getting a
Speaker 1: touchdown late, but that was what I believe, seventeen seconds left.
Speaker 1: So like last week, it was just window dressing. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: there no one scores points in the final minutes when
Speaker 1: they're down three scores exactly. Um, and uh, Eli Manning
Speaker 1: is Eli Manning? You just wonder they obviously kind of
Speaker 1: botched last season how they were going to handle uh
Speaker 1: moving him out of the starting lineup, and that led
Speaker 1: to a domino effect that rocked the whole organization. You
Speaker 1: just wonder how much longer they're gonna go with him.
Speaker 1: They have two quarterbacks on the roster, including I believe
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick Kyle la Letta. Yeah, uh um
Speaker 1: uh So you just you just wonder because Eli has
Speaker 1: not been competitive and because because of the offensive line
Speaker 1: let West we talked about it last week. Is a
Speaker 1: chicken and the egg scenario because the line camp Lockerman.
Speaker 1: Because Eli can't move, it's just a mess. He got
Speaker 1: sacked seven more times. Oh my gosh, I mean this
Speaker 1: this looks like if you put in this year's Redskins
Speaker 1: into a computer and say give me the most Red
Speaker 1: skinny type game, you've got two picks by d J.
Speaker 1: Swerringer has been awesome. A lot of Adrian Peterson, not
Speaker 1: a lot of wide receiver action happening. The offense is
Speaker 1: who they are. They want to win these games. Twenty
Speaker 1: to thirteen. They're gonna go about ten and their schedule,
Speaker 1: along with the Colts, is one of the easiest down
Speaker 1: the stretch. You go about ten and six and losing
Speaker 1: the playoffs, which is not a totally disaster scenario for
Speaker 1: a team that everyone counted out in this division. Let's
Speaker 1: hear for the front seven. The last three weeks they've
Speaker 1: held see Kwon Barkley, Ezekiel Elliott, and Christian McCaffrey under
Speaker 1: a hundred year rushing yards combined. That's pretty damn good.
Speaker 1: They have an identity and they've sort of had it
Speaker 1: back even in the preseason. They know who they are.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's kind of J Gruden dream team,
Speaker 1: like this is how he wants to play football. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're gonna win a title that way,
Speaker 1: but you're probably gonna save J Gruden's job at the
Speaker 1: very least. The only thing is that we talked about
Speaker 1: over and over the defensive defensive oriented teams are are
Speaker 1: going nowhere. Essentially, we're seeing this J. Gruden act and
Speaker 1: means next week they don't show up. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: what happens when they play like a team with a
Speaker 1: high powered offense versus Eli Manning who is in sharp
Speaker 1: decline right off a cliff. I think they're a coin
Speaker 1: flip team almost every week. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, they're five and three, got a game and
Speaker 1: a half lead in the East. Uh, and the Giants
Speaker 1: are counted down the weeks until I mean they can start.
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't play anyone for the entire rest
Speaker 1: of the season that you would put as one of them.
Speaker 1: The Eagle. They have to play the Eagle flights and
Speaker 1: that's that's tough. And they they have the easiest remaining
Speaker 1: schedule by winning percentage in the NFL. Hubba hubba. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move up bunch that the right two receivers left
Speaker 1: shop got ahead of bet third. He's chasing a town.
Speaker 1: He picks it up with two seconds left. He hoistsed
Speaker 1: far side, didn't complain of the game is over. The
Speaker 1: game is over and the Cardinals win at eighteen to fifteen.
Speaker 1: Trick fo t we gotta we gotta clip off that
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley lines That was great. Dave Pash the wolf Man,
Speaker 1: Cardinals Radio Network, Yes. With the game on the line.
Speaker 1: C J. Blard watched helplessly as the snap sailed over
Speaker 1: has had That gap cost San Francisco the final seconds
Speaker 1: of the game and allowed the Cardinals to escape within
Speaker 1: at the farm, Greg, you look for progress when you're
Speaker 1: playing a rookie quarterback. Josh Rosen's go ahead touchdown drive
Speaker 1: that preceded that final possession that qualifies absolutely. I spent
Speaker 1: three quarters watching this game thinking I don't know if
Speaker 1: benching Josh Rosen for a week or two would help him,
Speaker 1: but that he seems so lost that they need to
Speaker 1: do something. But this is why you play the kids,
Speaker 1: because sometimes they play themselves out of it. And the
Speaker 1: experience that he had with Christian Kirk for the go
Speaker 1: ahead touchdown, the throws that he had to Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: who had a hundred yard game and a vintage performance
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter after doing absolutely nothing all day,
Speaker 1: to really strong touchdown drives. The only other drive they
Speaker 1: had was stopped because one of his receivers fumbled the ball.
Speaker 1: That Rosen pulled himself together after what was really a
Speaker 1: rough performance to go get a victory and you put
Speaker 1: that in the bank and like that's the experience you
Speaker 1: want your young franchise quarterback to half. How about Byron Leftwich,
Speaker 1: We see any any noticeable difference at all? They got
Speaker 1: the ball. I thought they used David Johnson a little
Speaker 1: bit better. He had he had more than I think
Speaker 1: he had about at the very end. Yeah, he left
Speaker 1: UH with he came back they were testing his concussion,
Speaker 1: but he came back in. He got about a hundred
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage. They got to bother him in space
Speaker 1: a few more times, I thought, especially in the passing game.
Speaker 1: So that helped. That was his his promise to not
Speaker 1: just UH Cardinals fans but also fantasy owners, that I
Speaker 1: am going to use them the way Bruce Arians used
Speaker 1: David Johnson, And it did seem like they made that
Speaker 1: concerted effort to get the ball to him in space.
Speaker 1: Cardinals have swept this series this year. You know how
Speaker 1: in college they have like the iron bull and like
Speaker 1: the bucket of Nails Bull or whatever this should be
Speaker 1: like the recycled Bathwater Bull or in New York Snoop Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's tough when your season, or at least I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it's sadly it existed at something like the game
Speaker 1: came down to the center, had two bad snaps in
Speaker 1: a row to end the game, or else Phil Dawson
Speaker 1: at least would have given it a shot to try
Speaker 1: to tie it up. But it's not like the forty
Speaker 1: Niners deserved that. They had the ball a few times
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and Kyle Shanahan, who's known for
Speaker 1: being aggressive, was just hoping the game would end just
Speaker 1: running the ball. I mean he tried. He tried to
Speaker 1: throw it a few times on third down, and then
Speaker 1: the blitz would just batter C. J. Beth. He's saying
Speaker 1: he wants the number one pick. No, not at all.
Speaker 1: He was just hoping that his defense, you know, would
Speaker 1: finish the game off for him because he had no
Speaker 1: faith in his offense. And I don't blame him no faith.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no faith. This is one. This is one
Speaker 1: of my four locks of the week. I clearly shouldn't
Speaker 1: have jumped off is off the first one. We probably
Speaker 1: got the other three. Rund Now I deserve to get
Speaker 1: to get the loss because I jumped off and I
Speaker 1: went two and two, So that's a big loss in anyway.
Speaker 1: So I went two and two in my locks, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, next time C J. Bethort will carry me through.
Speaker 1: It was a good experience. Were you intimidated by Dan
Speaker 1: and I jumping on the eagles thing a little bit?
Speaker 1: It wasn't so much intimidation, but it just didn't seem
Speaker 1: fun or sporting to all have the same. It just
Speaker 1: seemed boring. Not not that I thought my pick had
Speaker 1: a lesson. We got in your head a little like
Speaker 1: you did. It was sporting like conduct. What just does
Speaker 1: doesn't that feel like, I know there's no rules to
Speaker 1: this game, but doesn't it feel kind of like what's
Speaker 1: the point of three? It was a little bit of
Speaker 1: fun if we were all in it together. But if
Speaker 1: I had all the time, you would have a point.
Speaker 1: But I think time. It's like I had about four
Speaker 1: or five games that I thought I probably would feel
Speaker 1: equally about as good as this segment. Well that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that feels like a part of it. Well that wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it, But that does add a new element. If
Speaker 1: I start locking up four to five games a week, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tracking you, obviously to make sure that you're
Speaker 1: you're respecting well, there are no rules though, you can
Speaker 1: do whatever you want. You could just lock up. I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I'll you need to You need to get
Speaker 1: some ws though, because you behave your way under what
Speaker 1: doesn't matter at this point West West would have to
Speaker 1: totally collapse. This is actually possible. I could hear in
Speaker 1: your voice that you're a little bit upset with yourself
Speaker 1: that the locks of God. I get upset when I lose.
Speaker 1: I am. It's I like, I have had terrible sports
Speaker 1: luck as a fan lately, and this is like the
Speaker 1: latest thing in the world series. That's that was the joke.
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Speaker 1: by p J Williams. I'm contested to the engine, and
Speaker 1: it's not often your own receiver get you. Digs is
Speaker 1: gonna come over and stop and try and come back.
Speaker 1: The defensive fat keeps going and Cousins thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna keep going, ends up going a right to p
Speaker 1: J Year p J. Williams pick six of Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: It was basically over at that point. The Saints took
Speaker 1: control of this game uh late in the first half
Speaker 1: and proves to a thirty twenty win over the Vikings
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. Um somewhat surprising effort here from the Vikings,
Speaker 1: who seemed to be hitting their stride Mark Sessler, and
Speaker 1: yet the Saints come to town. The Saints up to
Speaker 1: six and one now and they smack the Vikings around
Speaker 1: a little revenge after the NFC Divisional playoffs a year ago.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of game if I'm a Vikings fan,
Speaker 1: has me concerned about where your season ends at some
Speaker 1: point in early January, because you are looking at an
Speaker 1: offensive line that could not protect the cornerback. And there
Speaker 1: were a couple of killer turnovers in this one. The
Speaker 1: Adam Theland fumble that resulted in a major turning point
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half for the Saints
Speaker 1: that I don't think the Vikings ever got back into
Speaker 1: this game untally after that took the window of their sales.
Speaker 1: I know how much Dan loves win probability. According to
Speaker 1: ESPNS win probability chart, the Vikings had a seventy seven
Speaker 1: percent chance to win before that fumble. So in which
Speaker 1: the shows how stupid to win. Probably, I love win probability.
Speaker 1: I put a lot of stocking so they they forced
Speaker 1: the funnel. Adam fieland of all present, of all people,
Speaker 1: who by the way, had another one hundred yard game, uh,
Speaker 1: building his NFL record, UH, and scored a late touchdown
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. But when he turns the ball over,
Speaker 1: the Saints uh are able to quickly turn that into seven.
Speaker 1: So that's like fourteen points swing. And then, like you said, Mark,
Speaker 1: when they got when they got into the second half, Uh,
Speaker 1: it just seemed like the game had changed that point, Greg,
Speaker 1: Why why did it work out that way? Because the
Speaker 1: Saints can be in different ways. This was on some
Speaker 1: level a flukey game with those that turnover and then
Speaker 1: the pick six being so important. Drew Brees only throws
Speaker 1: for a hundred and twenty yards and you put up
Speaker 1: thirty points and win comfortably comfortably. But the Saints have
Speaker 1: shown they can win different types of ways, and one
Speaker 1: of those ways is having a ball possession attack where
Speaker 1: mark Ingram is running out the clock at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, you're having short passes for long drives,
Speaker 1: which they did. There's it was only an eight possession game,
Speaker 1: I believe for New Orleans and the Vikings, who are
Speaker 1: a team built on defense, they got the interception of Breeze,
Speaker 1: but other than that, they basically didn't get any stops.
Speaker 1: They could not stop the Saints from scoring. And now
Speaker 1: that division is wide open, the NFC North. There's no
Speaker 1: cupcake in that division. And the Vikings are four three
Speaker 1: and one, right ahead of the four and three Bears
Speaker 1: and the three three and one Packers. Can't make sense
Speaker 1: of this Vikings team. They started off slow, got hot,
Speaker 1: and this is this is a distressing loss. I did
Speaker 1: you say you thought it was kind of a flukey loss.
Speaker 1: I don't. I just mean there was a couple of
Speaker 1: plays that made it a strange kind of game. I
Speaker 1: think the Saints are a more complete team in terms
Speaker 1: of running, passing, and even the defense, you kind of
Speaker 1: know what you're getting. Marcus Davenport right now is making
Speaker 1: a player to every game, and they're getting better in
Speaker 1: terms of their past. Saints have won six in a
Speaker 1: row and we have a game next week where they
Speaker 1: now face the Rams. That's a beautiful I mean, the
Speaker 1: Saints have the top two tackles in the league according
Speaker 1: to Pro Football Focus, whereas the Vikings are putting you know,
Speaker 1: a rookie in his third start trying to stop Cameron Jordan.
Speaker 1: Good luck. Don't you feel like the NFC North will
Speaker 1: not have a wild card team this year? You better
Speaker 1: win that division if you want to go to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Right now that the Saints and Panthers both look like
Speaker 1: playoff teams for sure, so that there's I do. But
Speaker 1: they have a pretty tough schedule. It that that last
Speaker 1: spot in the NFC, I mean, the entire NFC North,
Speaker 1: it seems totally up for grabs, and Taysom Hill continues
Speaker 1: to stake his claim as the under the radar greatest
Speaker 1: NFL player. And this is the Kitchen Sinc game. You
Speaker 1: got Taysom Hill on that throat to Camara's a ridiculous catch,
Speaker 1: and then you have a play with Teddy Bridgewater and
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill on the field at the same time. It's
Speaker 1: like Sean Payton went here for a little revenge. Well,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler has closed his laptops, so that means we
Speaker 1: must close this podcast. Yeah, it's like I feel like
Speaker 1: we've said enough. It is time to move on new
Speaker 1: phases of our lives. Um, we will be back next
Speaker 1: time you see Slash hear us it will be our
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Speaker 1: nine thirty overseas in the U k UH And then
Speaker 1: we'll be back audio show next Wednesday where we'll be
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Speaker 1: This is Dan Hansis signing off for the Quiet Storm,
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