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So here we are game week. We're a day and
a half, two days removed really from our kickoff of
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the NFL season. And yeah, I mean I'm excited. Who's
not excited? Yeah, get after it. But before we get
to that, we got to clean up everything that happen
in college football, and things will make you look like
a more average or below average coach than poor quarterback play.
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Don't get me wrong. The Florida State seminoles inability to
stop the run is probably what's derailed them the most,
right because when you can't stop the run, you're giving
up long sustained drives. It beats you up, it slows
the pace, you don't get enough possessions, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. That's why I lost to Georgia Tech. Probably
why I lost to Boston College some as well. But
the bigger issue is they have no offense, and they
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have a quarterback who was one of the top three
in his class going back several years ago when CJ.
Strad was coming out. Of course, we remember him as
a freshman when he replaced Trevor Lawrence when Trevor Lawrence
was hurt, and he looked like the air apparent. And
then when he was the air apparent, he was okay.
And then when Cole Kubella came in, he was just okay.
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And then he went to Oregon State last year and
he was outstanding and the PAC twelve was a great,
great quarterback class and unbelievable league. Last year. It's last
year of existence. Now he goes the SEC and you're like, oh,
this guy's been doing it in a while. Look at
all the you know, the all the quarterbacks last year,
How many of them were in their fifth year and
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we're able to have far and away the best year
as a college athlete. Why well, kind of simple. They've
just done it forever everything slowed down. It got super
simple to them. It hasn't gotten there for dj On Deallele.
Just as not doesn't make up a bad person. What
it does do is it it reinforces some of the
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things that I thought as a basketball coach, and it's
also gave me a different perspective as a basketball coach.
What you're about to hear is the absolute reality of
all athletics, especially college athletics. What we have to try
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and figure out is, is dj just not any good?
And Jonathan Smith, who's a former quarterback quarterback guru now
the Michigan State head coach, he's that good that he
could make him look better than he was. Is Mike
Norvelle's system not fit for how he wants to play?
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Does he lack confidence? And why does he lack confidence?
He was good last year in the in the Pac twelve.
Why would he be good this year in two ACC
games when he's played in the ACC before? And then
as a commentator, Slash college basketball coach, like if I
kill him, like Dganngallele's dad is by all accounts a
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really good dude. He's a big presence on social media.
But he's also a guy who has taken lots of
kids under his wing, Polynesian kids, and cheered for them
as they played collegiately and professionally. He's not necessarily a
player in the basketball world. But if I clown a
college kid because he was massively overrated, am I not
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putting myself in the cross of Hey? At some point,
those are the kind of kids you're gonna want to
get at Green Bay, and maybe I have at Green Bay.
We're trying to fix them, right. Is it too high
a level? Does he have the yips? Is it something
in the system? Is he just not that good? And
it doesn't matter of level. And the only reason you
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wonder if it's confidence or something else is he was
good last year with Lorgan, Say wasn't he. Now here's
the part where it reinvigorates my belief because that goes
counter to the in the past I always thought and
I still think, and I think it's gonna get worse.
These are essentially professional athletes. They'll be treated as such.
When they stink, they'll be told they stink. They won't
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be told, Hey, their kids still do better, they get
better next week. Maybe the backup's the guy. When they stink,
it becomes a huge problem for the whole program because
you've likely had your biggest donors donate your biggest sum
of money to nil to help you get that quarterback.
And you spend a couple a million to a couple
million on a quarterback. You don't have any money for
a backup quarterback, so you have to play him in
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exhaust all possibilities of them actually being good. You're like, what, Yeah, yeah,
that's how it actually works, dude, that's how it actually works.
So I think it's super interesting that here we have
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a here we have a quarter a coach who was
thirteen oh last season. Hold, you know, quarterback gets hurt.
Whole team, you know that matters doesn't play in the
ball game. They get blown out. Then they they go
get the next best quarterback in the portal, got him
super early, got him ready. He's been there, he's been
through the tough stuff. He came out the other side,
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and now they can't win a game. But my perspective
has changed because I think you do have to worry
about all the other connectors and how you treat a kid.
You understand that sometimes and this is from being a player,
you actually are good, you just don't have the confidence
and believe yourself as being good. And then, oh yeah,
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by the way, maybe most importantly, here's the parts that
it does. It does go along with what I've always
been thinking. It would have always thought, and what I've
always thought was that if you're a basketball coach and
you don't have a point guard or two, you're a
football coach, you don't have a quarterback or two, you're
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gonna look like a far worst coach than you actually are,
far worst coach. If you can't get the ball from
A to B. In basketball, it doesn't matter what C,
B two C and C TOD looks like. And in football,
it doesn't matter how pretty the plays are, how good
the wide receivers are, how great it all seems to
come together. If you don't have a guy then get
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it to A to B, you can probably see your
way out of a winning season solely blame the quarterback.
I don't think the kids stinks because he didn't stink
last year, and enough people recruited him, wanted him where
Florid State would have been the only one making such
a colossal mistake in terms of the decision making. But
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something isn't working, Something isn't right. So something isn't working,
Something isn't right. Here's Mike Norvell after the loss.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You got a football team that's that's hurting, and you've
got a football team that nobody envisions being, you know,
ever being where we are, you know, and having you know,
having disappointment, having failure. You know, I do believe in
what this team can do. I believe in what this
team can accomplish. I know there's gonna be plenty of
negativity around this program. I understand that when you perform
the way we you know, way we just did. You know,
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that's all, that's all part of it. But for a
football team, you know, you've got to stay together and
you got to make sure that you're there for each other.
You know, we've been knocked down. We know how to
get up, but we've got to go do that. You know.
It's one thing to talk about it, it's another thing
to put into action and then to be able to
perform in the moment.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
What's interesting about Florida State is they're gonna have opportunities here.
They got SMU on the road, Clemson Home, Miami on
the road, and Notre Dame on the road. You got
plenty of opportunities to go and get quality wins. So
in this world of hey, you know, you could still
lose two games, but losing to within your league makes
it hard to get your league championship game. With that
kid in you league championship game, It's really hard to
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get to the playoff without winning your league through winning
you league championship game. But we have seen them as
a snapshot of what they look like in August and September.
I guess we'll find out what it looks like from
this point forward. But maybe in the New World Order.
I just if you can't beat Georgia Tech and you
can't beat Boston College, what makes you think you're going
to beat Notre Dame, Miami and Clemson, especially a couple
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of those on the road.
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don't know if you guys saw this, but Darius Slay
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made it very clear that he prefer not to go
to salth Polo for the game. Quote, I don't want
to go to Brazil. You want to know why. I'm
going to tell you why. They already told us not
to leave the hotel. They told us we can't do much,
can't do much going on because the crime rate is crazy.
I'm like, NFL, why would you want to send us
somewhere where crime rate is this high? Well, I mean,
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we did have the Olympics there, We've had the World
Cup there, like, there's been lots of other events there.
And because these games, it's not like they just came
up with it last week when they've had all sorts
of social unripe, social unrest in the country. Right, probably
planned out three four years ago and it's come to be.
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I'd also point out that like, look, your game is Sunday,
for your game is Friday. It's not like you're out
on the town every night, you'll go to a dinner
and then you're getting ready for a football game.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yes, Dan Byer, why don't you just like invest, like
in a field in Alaska, you know, like have have
the Seahawks play a game in Alaska in like week
one or two, like that would be why not just
do that? I know, like we're going international in Spain
and Australia and China have been talked about, but you know,
that'd be that'd be pretty cool. You know, have a
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twenty five thousand seat stadium, have it all taken care of,
play it in early September, so it's you know, not wintery.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Just do that? Are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Well? I well, you know the answer right, Oh yeah, money.
Oh I didn't think that was the answer. I thought
it was Brazilian but left Oh oh.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Hey, it was because of their loose meat sandwiches. They're
so good at Brazil.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You say loose meat sandwich, it very translates very very
very awkwardly into Portuguese.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
But you know, it took them so long. We were
in London for so long and then they're like, okay,
let's try Germany.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Germany. But that Germany was a success.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Correct, But then that was like two years ago. They
get started. Now they're like, well, let's just go to Brazil,
let's go to Spain.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
They've been in Mexico now, they had the one Mexico.
Like the best regular season game we've seen in years
was Rams Chiefs in LA. But that was supposed to
be in Mexico with the field wasn't up to snuff.
Let's welcome in Sean Merriman. Of course, Sean was a
Rookie of the Year with the LA Chargers, just an
absolute stud when he was an All Pro linebacker for
the Bolts. He joined us on the Doug gallib Show
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every game. Sean, what do you think of the expansion
now to Brazil with NFL games?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
You know, you know it's funny, but when people talk
like that, it sounded like that people nobally don't travel
and go out the country. I mean, who comes to
the US and goes to content right, and like, hey,
like you know what I'm saying, Like who goes to
the bad parts of the US and say, hey, don't
go there. Well, we all know not to go there.
We all know that go to certain parts of Chicago,
we all know to go to certain parts. So every
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place has that. So when I see that, it's like, man,
there's a lot of great places in for the place
place you don't have to worry about that, And it
sounds like somebody that really don't travel them.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, it does. You know what else is really kind
of fascinating me, Darius, is something you brought up. I've
been to just about every city. I've been to all
but one state of the United States, and everywhere, every
place has a place you don't want to go. Hey,
this is not a footballs like you said. It's like
there's a part of Chicago, there's a part of La Heck,
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there's parts of the south side of Oklahoma City or
del City I don't want to go to. I love Oklahoma,
doesn't mean Del City is a place I want to
hang out at a night, right. It is really interesting
on how every place has a place like that.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Yeah, I think I think the I think the biggest
problem when when that happens is you know what they
said that the same thing about Mexico City a couple
of years ago in the game is there don't go
certain Okay, yeah, don't go to certain park in Mexico City.
You don't go there. And so if you go to
the place, especially as a player, right you go out,
you got practice, you got your film, you got your meetings,
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and you may have some time to go out to dinner.
If you if you're going out after that and got
to be back in practice and you're playing that week,
you're crazy. It's just you shouldn't do it in the
first place.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
How much different will the Rams be without Aaron Aaron Donald.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I think they're gonna be a lot different. In fact,
I don't think he's even replaceable. So what you got
to do is you got to start, uh coming up
with different schemes and different things like that. Like he's
a quarter he has he has the dominant of a quarterback,
a star quarterback, because he can change the game at
the blink of a nine. And so I don't I
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think they're gonna have a problem with I don't think
we're going to see another Aaron Donald in anfl for
for decades to be quite as.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
On the other hand, their offense looks like it should
be outstanding and the defense was surprising. But man, it
just it just changes, all right? How much better than
Niners getting Trent Williams back in the fold.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
You know, it's funny because a lot of these people
are here that when they hold out, you're trying to say,
what is guy holding out for? Or should he have
a contract already with Trent Williams. I just feel like
it never should get to that level. When you talk
about one guy that's still playing at lead level or
high level of this at this point of his career.
These are the guys you don't kind of get it.
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You don't want to just hand him a paycheck. But
if you never get to a point where a guy
like that, you know what he's going to bring to
the table year and the year out, how it can
affect that Now it's going to be different with him.
He's going to be in a jump right back in
the mix, not going to miss a beat. He'll be fine.
I think Brandon Ayuk and any of these other guys
are skilled position that held out. It's gonna take a
little bit to get that going again.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You know, the big push in the NFL is to
start rookie quarterbacks as soon as possible. Obviously rookie year
you're dynamic, but at a different position. How much do
you try and screw at the rookie, you know, because like, look,
you can shatter at him, you can show him different looks,
but if that's not who you are as a team
or who you are as a player, doesn't fit. So
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for you, Sean, how much can you screw the rookie
when they're rookie quarterback and you're trying to confuse him
a little bit?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I think that the game of football I's gotten sort
of fans. Like back when I was playing, You get
a rookie in there, you can confuse on whats called
shol Hollywood defense. Stand in the AFB gap, drop and
bring a safety buil uh, bring a safety on the
line of scrims and drop him into the flat. You
can really mess with him. But nowadays, these guys are
so advanced because they're reading the NFL playbooks NFL calls
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in college that they're they're ready to step in the
play Now what you can do and with a lot
of these guys who takes a guy like c J. Stroud.
No one knew that c J. Stroud was going to
perform like that before he came in. We knew he
was good, but we didn't know he was that good.
Now he's coming into a sophomore years everybody, he's on
everybody's radar. No one is looking at c J. Stroud
and saying, oh, yeah, let's see with this guy. But
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know we know what he's gonna do. So that is
gonna be the difference in the preparation and defenses now
that you're not under your radar anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sean Merriman joining us here, Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio.
Aaron Rodgers, he's coming up an Achilles ten and tear,
and if we're honest, he wasn't great the year before
with UH with Green Bay, but super motivated and you
know that armstrength never leaves you, but the athleticism can change.
What are your expectations for Aaron Rodgers with the jetsus year?
Speaker 6 (16:37):
All Aaron Rodgers has to do is be better than
they ever had there in the Jets uniform in the
last several years. That's all he needs to do. And
we all know that he's bet he's better just walking
in the locker room and the Achilles and Achilles forty
years old and not. He's the best they've had there
in a long time. And I think that that team
is built at the wide receiver position, the cornerback position,
that got pass rushers, they beached up the offensive line.
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I think they're they're prone to call some problems with
what teams this year, but Aaron Rodgers don't have to
be the Anne Rogers to five plus years ago. He
just have to be better than they've ever had there
with the Jets, and I think he is.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Sean Merriman joined us from a Rookie of the Year
from her All Pro with the Chargers. He joints in
the Doug Gottlieb Show on behalf of bet Online. Okay,
so I was asked for the today give me your
three most likely Super Bowl State Super Bowl favorites, And
I was like, all right, everybody knows the two right
Chiefs and Niners. Who would your third team be most
likely team to be in and to win the Super Bowl?
If I took those two teams off the.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Board, it's you know, this is there's a first shout.
I'll say that there's no there's no player cut because
you would say Philly, Well when they when Silly gets
into a slump, they're really in the slump.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Man.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
That is the biggest problem with them. We all know
talent wise and say Kwan Barkley and what they're doing.
But if Dalen hurts, Nick Arian is down on the
same page, they are not a good team. You can't
say Dallas because they got so much turnal turmoil going
on down there. I think it's going to be a
team like the Falcons or Tampa or somebody that we're
not talking about. Who who's gonna run deep in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh, I don't think there's any question. I do that
all summer Sean on this show is I have people
I'm like, hey, tell me somebody we're not talking about
that's gonna be good, and we still usually miss it.
Like no one said that the Texans last year. No one.
I'm gonna tell you right now. I don't think Anthony
Richardson's any good. I think the Colts have a really
good roster. I think the Raiders have a really good defense,
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and I think they have a quarterback who, like you know,
spots starter. I think he's actually pretty good. I just
I don't know about the Chargers because there's so much
in transition in terms of what they who they are
and what they eventually want to do. But I think
there's a possibility that one of those teams come from
the AFC West to be a rising team and the
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other ones the NFC South. You mentioned Atlanta, like no
one talks about that division at all because we all
think Carolina stinks, Atlanta has had a quarterback, New Orleans
has been mad for a while, and Tampa. You know,
you feel like you're gonna get a lot out of
a out of a Baker Mayfield team, but you're not
gonna get a championship. But I'm with you. I'm always
trying to find who is that team we're not talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
I'll say this, and maybe I might be a little biased,
but the Chargest I got one of eleven games eleven
plus games this year. I say that, and I think
they actually got a chance of splitting games this year.
With KC, I think they stop everybody else in that division.
And I do think very highly about Nicks. I think
they got a winner in that I don't know how
to Rangers compete without a stand up quarterback in that
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in that division. I love ap that's my boy. I
think they got a great defense and Max Crosby problems.
Gonna tell us someone the top two or three the
defensive player, but you cannot win with how they stand
a quarterback that they don't have.
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You know it's it's weird. I think I think we're
honest with ourselves. We all have fears, right right, we
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all have fears. Yes, I can be scared of silence.
I think we all can fear change on some level,
you know. I mean, like, look the fear thing will
it does creep in on you really really quickly. I
have two kids in college, you know, just the will
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they pick up the phone when I call them? That's
a legit fear, you know, or would they talk to
me for anything other than money? Like I had one
of my daughters called me the other night and she
was there's something she wanted, which I was like, yeah,
I don't know forgetting that, And she got upset and
it said YadA, YadA, YadA, and I was like, I
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don't know what she get mad about. Like this is
kind of the way it is. I wasn't a jerk,
I didn't lose my mind, but I did at some
point have to kind of let her know where her
place was. And then on the other hand, you know,
she called me back probably an hour later after she
had cooled off, and she she didn't really apologize, but
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she moved on. But it did feel like, all right,
she called me back because she feels bad, or she
calling back because she's you know, she's gotta hit me
up for some money. Regardless of which. You do have
that moment. You know who doesn't have that moment when
you're like, yeah, they gonna call me back, Are they
gonna do anything to ask me for money? What's our relationship?
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Like?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I find it interesting that in the NFL, or maybe
it's just in sports, we have these fears of the unknown,
and yet we push through them. Life the unknown really
sets us back, and like, there's a ton of unknown
here with this kickoff role. I have no idea how
it's gonna affect different teams. I do think at some point,
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if a team feels like they can't feel it, they
just kick it off and let's just play defense or whatever.
But I'm interested in you know, Dan Byer, are you
a fear of the unknown guy? Do you like to
know everything, like when you're going to a meeting, you
like to know everything about everybody? Or do you like
to learn things as you go, ah.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
No, I'd rather know things. I'd rather be prepared than
be surprised.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah right. Whereas and you also, I think you like
to know things about the teams you're watching in the
games and the storylines whatever. But there is something I
don't know, And maybe I'm wrong. You tell me if
you feel a differiny. There is something invigorating about the
same NFL we've always watched, and yet for for example,
the kickoff rule, it's new. I'm like, ooh kind of
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in that it makes me more interested, whereas the unknown
in life makes me shy away a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Well, this maybe goes back to the predictions talk that
we were having. And I think someone like me, who
likes to know everything, it is even difficult for me
to maybe go out on a limb on something. Now
I would say, well, it is sports, so it's not
it's not anything that's going to affect my daily life.
I mean, it's just picking, you know, champions of a
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football division.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
That doesn't affect you daily.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I've been wrong before. But
I do take stock into not just throwing something out
there and throwing it into the you know, and just
being like.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
God, it'll go away. Who cares?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
So, like I do. We have a pick sheet that
we do here at work that we've had in the
studio for more than a decade, and we pick a
super Bowl winner, We picked the you know what we
think the Super Bowl is going to be, We pick
the MVP the worst team, and then we have a
category that I call out on a limb, and it's
what are you going to predict that maybe people aren't
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going to think is going to happen? And Doug, it's
honestly the hardest part of what I'm trying to think
of because I'm like, well, is that really out on
a limb? If I were to say the Chargers make
the playoffs? Is that really that crazy of a prediction?
You know, not so much. But I'm not willing to
say Panthers NFC Championship game. You know, it's just not
it's you know, I'm not willing to do something like that,
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although that would be a very very good fit for
my out on the limb category.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Okay, if you were to go out on a limb,
what would it be?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
That's what I'm trying to figure out. That's part of
the you know, part of the thing.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
So when you're you know, if you're talking about like
what's the new you know, the new kickoff rule, at
how it's going to play out, I don't necessarily care
about that sort of stuff. If I were to pick
a team that I think is going to do well,
like I think the Commanders have a shot to win
the NFC East. So if I put my neck out
and say Washington wins the division, I'm probably gonna have more,
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you know, interest in watching that sort of game. I
think the Seahawks, you know, can can get a playoff
spot in the NFC. They're obviously my favorite team. I
have a vested interest in them, but you know, that
could be something like that. So that's how I kind
of look at this unknown thing. So if you were
to say, you know, maybe I'd look at Washington and
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Jayden Daniels and his Rookie of the Year candidacy a
little bit closer.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
If I was to go out on a limb, I think, again,
I think this rule change is going to be there'll
be some dramatic kick returns early in the season. That's
an absolute thing, I think because when I've watched a
bunch of free season games. As you guys know, I've
been to a couple of different training camps and it
feels like even the special team coaches are trying to
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figure out And one thing that they're doing is they're
starting to kick around the idea of, hey, if we
don't have guys that have that same running start, let's
put one of our best players back there. You know, like, hey,
what if we put Tyreek Peel back there? What if
we put you know, pick star running back.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Kyron Williams is going to be returning some punts I
think for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, get your best players the ball more often.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
It's funny as you say this, because they're replaying Super
Bowl fifty eight on the NFL Network as we speak,
and so it's right in front of me and Harrison.
Butker just kicked one that on a kickoff that hit
the upright, and so you have the eleven guys, you
have the normal lineup. Nobody needed to do anything because
Butcker just booted it so far out of the end
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zone that it would have been good as a field goal,
and that goes away, and the benefit of kicking it
out of the end zone is completely gone. Now you
have to land in that landing zone. You know all
of that. The newness of the kickoff is more. I
think if people getting adjusted of where the ball is
actually going to be spotted and how it's going to
play out, that's tricky enough to move from the twenty
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to the twenty five yard line on some of this.
This is going to take This is gonna take months
to get used to.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It'll take a long time to get used to, Jay Stu,
I have you had a what do you call it? Out
in the limb? Out in limb, what would it be?
As far as the NFL's concerned.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
A year ago, it was a big out on the
whim thing to say that the Rams would make the playoffs.
Nobody expected anything from the Rams. I'm going to go
out in the limb and say the Rams do not
make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Because I think Matthew Stafford suffers at least two injuries.
They're gonna have to rely on a backup quarterback. Sean
McVay has done a lot of things very well since
he began as a head coach in the league, but
winning with his backup quarterback is not one of them.
The Baker may Be Old game is the one exception,
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but typically speaking, once you get past that first quarterback,
he struggles.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, once anybody gets past their first quarterback, generally the struggle. Right.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Yes, and that's why the Rams will not make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Okay, but also for that point, you know, the Rams
actually got consistency in their offensive line last year and
this offseason they've been moving pieces around and are still
moving pieces around. And they have the Lions on Sunday night.
So that's a that's a question and the biggest question
of all for them. What's life like without Aaron Donald?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, that's the biggest question. Do you know who the
rams backup quarterback is?
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Just too I want to say it's that guy from
from Georgia.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
What was his name?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
No, sets In Bennett. No, he's not the backup. I
don't believe.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Other than that, I got nothing for you. Stetson Bennett's
me G, I'm looking Sam. He had his mic on
and adjusted the mic. He was ready for that one.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I didn't know that one, like again, and I was
one of those I was not today years old, but
it wasn't that long ago. I learned that. I was like,
who is there? Because you know, didn't sent the minute
throw four or five picks in a preseason game. I
think it was four, it might have been five. And
I was like, there's no way because he took the
year off, he had some personal thing. He took the
year off. I was like, there's no way that he's
their backup. And then I looked when I was watching
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that Preston, I was like, they got Jimmy g I
had no idea, no idea at all. So they have
an injury prone starter and then the ultimate injury prone
backup would be their quarterback. To help you, I was, Sam,
do you have something out on the limb that you'd
like to throw in there?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
You know, I don't really have one yet. I haven't
done my predictions here on the page, within this, in
the here in the studio yet. Man. Yeah, I think
the NFL is just every year, you know, you got
those half dozen teams that don't make it, and then
new teams that do. It's almost you know, almost impossible
to to see or see you know what those teams
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will be. I'm really going to have to do.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That was an amazing fillbuster.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
What you just did.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Did we get forty five seconds for nothing?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
That it's like six teams put that on the best
of previously.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Listen, you're good. Listen, you could just said I got
I got nothing. There's just you know, here's one. I
think Kayleb Williams is just gonna be really good this year.
Rookie of the year. I think the guy to shout
the playoffs. I don't know if you saw this. This
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is George McCaskey. Okay, it's the chairman of the Bears.
Typically the number one pick in the draft comes into
a situation where there's going to take a while for
things to come together. Caleb has got a lot of support,
solid defense, good receivers, good offensive line, good running game,
tight ends. I hope people will get patient. There's gonna
be some growing pains. He's gonna make mistakes. That the
part of the louring process of any quarterback. I think
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what George McCaskey is saying is like, hey, we're pretty
good and and he's gonna make some mistakes, but he's
pretty good. Like we think this is going to work
sooner rather than later. That's what I read into it.
Here's Titan's head coach Brian Callahan talking about facing Caleb
Williams in Week one.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
He's everything at a number one pick you would expect
to be, and so you have to treat him as
such and treat him with that kind of respect. Obviously
you have to earn that in this league. He's got
to do it in regular season games. I just hope
it isn't in the first week.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
By the way, you had to throwing that cliche in
there for you, Ja Su, you heard that one, Jase.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
I can't believe our editors left out all the beat
writers laughing at that one. That's usually one of those.
It's one of those jokes that gets a huge laugh
that shouldn't. Like when you walk into a party and
you don't know anybody and the host says, hey, this
is and then he lists like eight names, and then
afterwards somebody says there's going to be a test afterwards,
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and then everyone goes like it's the funniest thing they've
ever heard. So the NFL coaches saying, I just hope
it's not against us.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah. The Bingo card one is the one that that
I've heard the most since you pointed out, like, didn't
have that one on my bingo card. Every time I
hear it now, I'm like, oh boy, boy, Oh nothing,
I think he's gonna be great. Go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
There's nothing better than winning an actual game of bingo.
Oh it's been at least probably two decades. But when
your number, when you're sitting there and you're like, I
just need you know, which would be seventy yeah, seventy
one or whatever, and then they're.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Like, oh, one seventy one.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
You cannot like it is bigo, Like there is an
absolute rush. That's why you yell it, because you are
anticipating your number being called.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Oh that's a good call. Here's the other thing people
do though, and again maybe this is just me. So
you call bingo and then you immediately double check because
you have like your own imposter syndrome. You're like, oh wait,
maybe I didn't get maybe hold on, yeah, I'm good,
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Well then then then they then one of the people
walk over and then they call their card out back
to the to the caller.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
They'll say, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Like B four I twenty one free space, you know,
like they go through the whole deal, and then the
last one O seventy one. That's a Bingo. All right,
clear your cards. We're gonna play four Corners. It's great.
I'd love to go to any Mooseladge or Eagles Club
or anybody that has bingo out here in southern California.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Let me know, I am ready to go.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Okay, where calls you guys?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Ever done a bingo night any.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I've never done a bing on it, but I found tim.
There's a place when you guys come to Green Bay.
I got my buddy Chris owns a it's a restaurant
that he's much more of a chef for professionals whatever.
But there's restaurants open once a week. But he has
a club and in the club, it's like a private
club that you can go anytime you want billiards. They
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got a poker room, like we should you guys come
out for a game and we should do a poker night.
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Well? Bingo where? Yeah? Where do you get law?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You know, we can do bingo, but then we have
to get the balls. Then we have to do the
whole turning the chips.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
You have the wand that picks them up when you lose.
Because somebody has twenty five find a venue of bingo
venue and then they have all that stuff there.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Definitely there's definitely a Kowana's Club or.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
A Lions Club.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Lions Club, American Legion, American Legion Clubtimates Club. Absolutely, those
ones all set up for you, no problem.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Maybe you get like a like a loose meat sandwich
and maybe some chili, you know, some baked beans. Smells
like the Midwest? Does that sounds so inappropriate?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's not a common phrase. Okay, so in
the Midwest there sloppy Joe's, but loose meat sandwiches, A
loose meat sandwich, it's out there, man, I swear, let
me look it up. All I know is I don't
use the term.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
If I'm going I'm going to Bingo Knight three times yes,
and I'm talking to the Bengal host.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
What do you even wear to Bingo Knight.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
I want to run my joke by him, like, hey,
I don't have Brittany Holmes is voting for Donald Trump.
I'm a Bingo card. And he'd be like, of course
you don't, because there's only five letters on your Bengo cards,
so there's no way you would have. I don't have
Brittney Mahomes voting for Trump. I'm a Bingo card.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
By the way, the ad Jason at poker, he was
you know he'll be there, Yes, you know he's gonna play. Yes,
I like the idea of twice during super Bowl week
to go and play at uh in tournaments.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Oh yeah, well I will tell you that. I think
you guys know this. So my daughter Harper won like
the national championship at her level a year and a
half ago in Vegas. But her first ride, like I
was like three four hours early. I was like, ah,
I'm gonna go down play some blackjack, and I was
on an absolute and I told her, like, hey, when
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you're going down to warm up, like text me. She
texted me, but I'm playing, so I can't be looking
at my phone. And I looked at my phone. I
almost missed her ride her first ride because I was
I was at a table like daytime was like two
in the afternoon. I was that guy. I was officially
that guy. What were you? I was on a heater.
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Come on, man, you can't leave that behind. So okay,
on the trip, By the way, big Mike comes in,
can who does who wants to do the big mic imitation?
Big Mike just texted me a loose sweet sandwich is
a sloppy Joe with no sauce.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
A loose meat sandwich is a slobbery drill with nout sauce.
I mean also just a loose meat sandwich is generic
term for like a made right copycat. Have you had
maid Right yet now, Doug living in the Midwest. No,
what's made right is basically the brand term or like
a brand company for sloppy Joe's. That's what they do exclusively,
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goose meat sandwiches and sloppy Joe's.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Wait, so sloppy Joe's so like loose meat would be
loose meat is to sloppy Joe as uh as a
tissue is too clean.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Well, the loose meat sandwich, I guess doesn't have the
sauce on it. A sloppy Joe has, like the barbecues
whatever it is, the barbecue sauce ketchup mixed in with it,
writes ketchup. I guess, ketchup mixed in with the ground
beef and you put it on a bun little cheese.
Just I'll just have a Coca cola. That'll be good.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
You know, Dan, you don't like a sloppy Joe, No,
not really, even after this conversation.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
It's it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
We got it, did you?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yes, it's Adam Sandler with.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Chris Farley dancing.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
What's what's interesting, though, is that Dan has always said
he has a like an elementary school type of of.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
A diet, which is sloppy.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Joe is like, right up there, right your arm.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Oh absolutely, but it's it's cheap to make. But it's
also a mix of things. Right, it's ground meat.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Do you like hot dogs? That's a mix of I.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Did have a hot dog yesterday. We grilled some hot
dogs on labor.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
When you grill your hot dogs, does anybody else not?
I like it slightly burned.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Right, yes, got a little crunch to this, Yeah, what
is that?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
It's also like marsh marshmallows is the same way, need
them a little bit burned. Char don't know who it is.
I think it's the sugar actually is what cooks the most.