November 22, 2022 • 36 mins
Mike Harmon and Chris Plank, in for Jason, react to a disappointing day for the US Men's National Team at the World Cup after opening the tournament with a 1-1 draw with Wales. The guys dive into Nathaniel Hackett attempting to put the Broncos late loss to the Raiders onto the shoulders of Russell Wilson. Plus, things go from bad to worse for the Chicago Bears!
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But jin would probably not go well with me. I
don't know, um, because I haven't been a gin drinker.
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I don't know. We can find out. You want to
do it holiday season? Maybe let's get it on. What
do you got planned for the final hour? Let's see
how it goes. We got two more hours, buddy, there's
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taking folks behind the scene, Alex tie shirt for all
the attempts to say this guy doesn't like sports, Uh,
well that's just bad, bad business and bad information for folks.
Man is well versed in many things, but he's a
huge soccer fan. And we were just going through some
of the earlier moments that decided the US men's national
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teams one one draw earlier today against Wales and debating
a little bit the fall that created the penalty cake,
and we both came to the same conclusion. You gotta
fall into the ground whenever you have an opportunity. Yeah,
you might expose your fellow defenders for a second, or
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might stall a drive, or maybe you don't get a
call and then you have to pop back up like
nothing happened. But uh, that that's really where it comes
down to. It a lot in a lot of these plays,
especially as they were cramping up or maybe not cramping
up and slowing things down because of the altitude and everything.
So some some curious moments along the way, and we've
seen that happen in the football world as well, Chris
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over the last week. Can they do anything about that?
And again, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to
be soccer expert or anything, but um, all I saw
in the final fifth minutes of that game, once it
got even up, was just a bunch of the opponent's
team laying on the ground with what looked to be
career ending injuries, only to see them pop up and
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get off the field under their own power. I mean,
is that just something you have to accept. Yeah, it's
a bit of game span ship, right, and you decide
whether you're going to whistle the foul if you if
the guys trying to sell a foul or stop play
or whatever the case was. We saw a few moments
where you had play stopped and then on a similar play,
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blistic the star with the assist on the US goal,
just a glorious assist, a great pass. Uh. He took
a bit he'd gotten beaten up, like they beat on
him all day long. Uh. And he rolled on the
ground and he didn't get a call. And then he
jumped up and down like say our daughters would have
when they were really young, like, really, I don't get
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that call? How do I not get that call? Uh?
So we we saw a bit of that. A disappointing
end after what was a dominant first half for the
men's national team. This is one where it felt like
it was gonna get get into that ugly phase to
a degree of all right, there aggressive, they're getting at
the at the net. You had a near own goal
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that I think came in off the defender about as
hard as I've seen a shot. I thought it was
gonna do one of those Marvel movie things where suddenly
there was a giant hole there and then we're looking
through him. Instead, it's a nice save and you move on.
But one one that tie, we'll see uh Friday, the
next next up against England. So a lot of soccer
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in between on Fox. Should we be mad as fans
of Team Americans or Team America osccer experts? Should we
be angry here on this Monday night into a Tuesday morning?
I think? So you got one that got away. Look,
we had Jason lock and for the very first our
very very animated, very agitated, and there have been some
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questions about lineups and substitution and things of that nature
that certainly flowed through. Raina didn't get used. Uh in
this one. Giovanni Raina was expecting to see him in
the final minutes, didn't get into the match. So a
little bit of questioning, hey are you feeling okay? Were you?
Were you ill? Where you hurt? Like? No, just just
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didn't get the call. Acosta, who did find his way
in he uh. He made the perhaps games saving play
by taking down Gareth Bale when goalie had come out
and it was out of positions. So a little bit
of a saver there again. Strategy strategicy, uh, you know,
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intentional falls and maybe you get free throws in the NBA.
Here it's just a spot fall and away we go.
So one one your final the draw. But yeah, I
think you're a little salty, especially with how well they played.
Now expectations. I think overall, Chris, it's been blown up,
perhaps out of out of proportion. And and I'll defer
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to tice and on this one if he wants to
crack his microphone, right, young team a lot of first times.
Obviously we talked about where they haven't been in terms
of international play. Some already saying well, there's a look
ahead of what this team will be. It's like, no, no,
you still gotta play this tournament, firs when we talk
about look aheads. But all in all, you had to
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feel pretty encouraged in the first half only to watch
it flop on you coming out of the break. I mean,
it's true. I'm not a fan of what everybody uses.
Hope has like the definitive definition word for this whole
that can win you a lot of things, to also
bring it down really far too because to me, like
the team looks great, they're young, they look ambitious, the
play styles great. You can see how viggored they look.
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The thing that pisces me off so much. And it
is what you said too, is the fact this flopping
just oh, it's just disgusting to me. The REVS need
to actually start handing out yellow cards to floppers. It'll
stop it instantly. Well, and that's the thing. We saw
yellow cards fast and furiously against the US and where
it got it got to the point of dirty play.
Like we had one of these situations in a game
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my daughter was in a couple of weeks ago, Chris,
where the slide tackle after the balls out of bounds,
everybody's kind of given up on the play, the balls
rolled out, and all of a sudden, you have this giant,
flying slide tackle that goes through the player and takes
them out. We saw that on Bolistic multiple times, and
we we saw a couple of plays where the US
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players got carded, but it didn't go the other way.
So within twenty minutes there is a lot of eyebrow
raising allah the rock going what the hell are we
watching here? Yeah, and every time when there's like three
extra minutes of play, all of a sudden, like where's
the spray guy? My knee is killing me. I need
the spray every freaking time now, I'm glad you brought
that up to once we get to extra time, and
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I saw our buddy Andrews Siciliano NFL network in right
red zone radio, red zone, uh, television, right, he brought
it up, and it's something I've been barking on forever
and like, and they said it in the Fox broadcast.
Why in extra time is the official? Then a guy
who has any damn clue as to how much time
is left? Can anybody tell me why that other than
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that's the way it's always been. They put that little
number on the scoreboard and then when it goes to zero,
I think the game's over, but I but he says nine,
nine minutes. But then if someone gets fouled and starts
rolling around there, it's supposed to add more time. So
like you're playing blind. Like my daughter, like that's one
of her responsibilities as they get close to a game
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and the game is just kind of go to the Reugh, Hey,
what do we got left? Sometimes they don't want to
tell him. It's like, no, no, you have to tell
them whether there's three minutes, eight minutes, or twelve. Because
we actually had this when I was a kid. This
is the best, Uh, and my brothers and I were
talking about this the other day because we were watching
some soccer and uh, my brother had come out from
Chicago and he happened to see my daughter's game, and
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he was wondering about that based on when kickoff was
and what should be the end, right, adjusting for halftime
or whatever, and he brought up an old scenario. We're
playing in a basketball um playoffs. He was he was playing,
my dad was coaching, and they were finishing off a
game and the guy, the head referee, yelled two minutes
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and the game starts to tighten, but taking twenty thirty
seconds off of possession whatever should be done right, and
finally it gets back to being like a four or
six point game. It's like, hey, how much time he
goes two minutes? Like, but what the hell are you
doing over there? Right? So, same kind of sequential thing.
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I'm like, all right, now, we're just guessing. And that's when,
especially when you've got billions and billions of dollars up
for grabs here in terms of the betting markets of
these things, and there's already a bunch of investigations of players, teams, officials.
We already know how the damn thing ended up and
cutter Qatar or whatever we're calling it this week. Anyway,
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what you're gonna add levels of potential impropriety on that
level too? Absolutely, what are we doing? I think he
looks down and see how long is uber will take
to get there? So he just adds time on that
for real. It goes like four minutes left. But see,
like Chris, you asked the perfect question though, is this
a bad loss? Absolutely? They could not advance because of
this loss today, as I was told from the researcher
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that fed it through the earpiece of Alexei Lolly. If
you yeah, if you draw in the current format, if
you draw in your first match, then it's fifty percent
of the time if you'd win that first match. And
this is where it's all important, Mike, if you asked me,
they're grow by right, so they have England Wales any
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it on? If you asked me, Wales should have been
the easy win. So this is not looking good? Yes right,
I mean Bale is the first time scoring in sixty
four years for Wales. That's insane to me. Yeah, it
Ran has the backing of the iron cheeks. You can
never discount their number one camel clutch baby, greatest move
in the history of wrestling. To get out of it?
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What do you do? You fall asleep? Uh, we're trying
to get him on on board and they won't let
me have him because we'd have to dump him every
eight seconds. Why do we tape it? There you go? Um,
we're a young team though only one player prior to
this match today had actually even participated in a World Cup.
So maybe they learn Tyler Adams is a stud. Pull
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up six of stud So the future seems to be bright.
But I'm with you, Mike, And again, like I said,
I'm so football now. I can't even think about basketball
to be honest with you, but I want to see
the US do well in the World Cup after not
being able to celebrate this what were not five years
we move six years moved for the last World Cup
after the life for COVID. So I'm happy that we're
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in it. I know that we're young. I'm with you.
I don't want to think about the next World Cup.
I want to see him be better here. Uh it's
unfortunate with the way they played in the first half
that that's what we came away with a draw. And
now you hope that you can get things right against England.
Are rand coming up and try to move on to
the the knockout round because we like our history legacy
and eventually we are going to talk about the Broncos
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here in a couple of minutes, and Nathaniel Hackett and
his job. I'd be remiss Tim Weia who was on
the receiving end of that ballistic pass and buried it
in the net. His dad, George Weia, Liberian striker who
won the Malone Deor back in between Paris Saint German
and A C. Milan. There you go, the only African
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player to ever receive the honor. And that's what you
literally just spoke a foreign language to me. I have
no idea what you were talking about. It it's the
m v P conversations that everybody's gonna have. You go,
Malone the Golden boot, Baby, let's go all right? Uh,
Chris Blake And for Jason Smith of Mike Armen, there's
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my soccer nerd ing out. Thank you to Mr Ti Shirt.
I wanted to just prove once and for all for
those that are convinced based on other talking points that
he has no idea what's going on in the sport
warning world or what we talked about here. He knows
what he's talking about, and he's playing a bit, and
he's played it. Well, you're giving me away, Mike, quit
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giving away his bit. People are gonna forget no, no, no,
they're gonna flashy thinging him, uh like out of men
in black here momentarily. Anyway, we'll do that to the
rest of the audience in a moment because maybe when
the soccer talk started, maybe they weren't so excited about it.
But we we learned that he's educated. That's all the matter.
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on a holiday Monday night ten the Monday Night football game. Notice,
we haven't spent a lot of time going back to
that one. It was interesting until it wasn't And now
it's just what does Arizona want to do? GM coach
and a quarterback who may not be back until after
the bye in Kyler Murray, so chaos potentially ensuing there. Meanwhile,
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everything surrounding the Denver Broncos is up in the air.
Melvin Gordon got himself waived after his fifth fumble of
the year, a position that many would argue Chris was
mishandled from the start. Javante Williams seemingly a budding star,
and then once they brought Melvin Gordon back, it played
out as I expected. Yeah, Gordon will be there and
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mess things up just enough well to take away again.
We talked about it both from a football and from
a fantasy perspective when it comes to Javante Williams, that
it would become a mess. Could I have anticipated that
he was suddenly Ronnie Garvin the hands of Stone with
the football. No, I could not. I'm getting every eighties
and nineties raddit. I literally was staying up and watching
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a closed circuit shot of him winning the title over
Rick Flair one night. True story. But you know, and
Melvin Gordon, by the way, his fumbles not just not
just fumbles, they were costly, that's almost literally. They lost
the game twice against the Raiders potentially to his fumble.
So yeah, and and weird to see his regression these
battle injuries. Um, I'm sure he'll get picked up. We're
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running back hungry league right now with a lot of injuries.
But it just it was I think it was mental
in Denver Man. He couldn't hold onto the football. But
Chris go back to how it all came to pass
of him showing up in Denver. He rejected the contract,
offered that the Chargers gave him bloody of guaranteed money,
said nope, I want out, and he went out. And
now Austin Ekelers everybody's hero, real fantasy and undrafted free
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agent does good. Uh. Kind of data point along the
way again, reinforcing the don't have to draft a running
back in the first or second round. I mean, you
saw in Kansas City playing against the Chargers last night,
Isaiah Pacheco. Not a first round pick, not a second
day guy. He needs to do some dancing in front
of a mirror. That was always my favorite question at
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the rookie premiere that we'd have out of here in
l A. Back when they let us go. As soon
as I didn't have a video camera with me, I
kind of got shunned. But back in the day, I'd
always asked the running backs how they were doing with
their mirror dancing, and about half of them would really
get it, and they'd start talking about past protection of
what they didn't do at the collegiate level whatever. The
others would keep eyes wide open. I probably should have
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kept data on those six seven years of which of
those guys really didn't play a whole lot of snaps
in the NFL when they didn't understand what I was
getting at with my line of questioning. But the Raiders
beat the Broncos in overtime. Davante Adams watched this broken
down in a number of spaces of the play they
ran to get Adams open and Patrick Curtan what was
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the separation, like twelve thirteen yards something like that. Uh,
They'd run a play where he'd done a deep in
dig off the same formation and here he well, he
left certain in the dust by digging in and then
cutting back out where he was just a field of green,
and he danced through like a kid in a flower bed. Uh.
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In a way ago, Derek Carr three oh seven and two,
Davante Adams with the Monster game, a lot of stuff
to talk about after the game from him seven to
because look, they backed up their coach. Earlier in the week,
I joked that Derek Carr sounded a lot like Austin
Butler in the New Elvis movie. In his press conference
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really leaned into it. I think he really enjoyed the
Baz Luhrman depiction of Elvis's life, but for the Denver
Broncos another disaster. Gordon's released eight carries thirty one yards,
the critical fumble Russell Wilson to forty seven and the
play that we've seen a million times now coming out
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of the two minute warning and he throws an incomplete
pass instead of sliding down, running around and then falling
down into a fetal position doing that old thing like
either you had the toy or maybe you think about
Peyton Manning of Hey, the pressure is coming, I should
just crumble underneath. Didn't do it. Instead stops the clock.
Nathaniel Hackett didn't have his quarterback back on that one.
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We called a pass and you gotta keep the clock
running one way or the other. But if something happened
in the pocket or anything like that, Um, that's one
of those situations. You can take a sack or you
could just run the ball, but we we didn't want,
obviously want the clock running in that situation. My quarterback
is a dope and I'm piling on two. This one
was not my fault, right reading between the lines. We
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did it last week with Micah Parsons when they lost
a green band got run over. He said, everything he
needed to do without actually saying it. My guys, I've
been carrying your asses and cover it up for your mistakes.
We can't have this happen again. They go out and
bludgeon the Vikings. Nathaniel Hackett here joins the voices to say, look,
my guy didn't get it done. And it's not just
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he didn't get it done with completions, because he'd been effective,
finished thirty one, moved the ball fairly, efficiently, nothing out
of the ordinary until that play the end of the
game where you're just shrugging your shoulders. Obviously, if a
Raider fan, you're thrilled. The rest of the football love
and world that's really committed to the down distance and
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the excellence of execution. Bret Hart reference um failed miserably here,
and this is something that I would expect the high
school freshmen to understand, let alone the guy who everybody
kept kissing his ass for ten years. So last week,
I remember I didn't I don't know who it was.
It was a former Bronco that was on with Colin
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and talked about Russell Wilson using audibles from when he
was with the Seahawks. Right, Yeah, they tried to debunk
that fast or say it didn't matter or whatever else.
Weird story were weird flex but got debunked fairly quickly. Um.
I didn't think much of it, but it also got
me wondering, what is going on? Why hasn't this work?
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If Nick writes not not our old Nick right at
getting Nick right on Twitter? Nick just got married? I
think congratulation. Yeah, I thought I saw a photo pop
up in in one of my social media things. But
our guy are our Fox Sports one, Nick right, whom
you see? I don't know. Mornings Now on Fox Sports
One said if the Broncos had just scored eight teams
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points in regulation, they'd be nine in one right, Yeah
you know who said that a week and a half ago.
Let me guess you guys, Yeah, look at you. You
hear it first here, you've come to know that over
nine years. But but yeah, I mean that is the
that is the note. Yeah, it's eighteen points a game.
That's all they need. So who do you blame that on? Right? Well,
when I heard that from that that former player that
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was on with Colin, I literally started wondering, I don't
know if this is a coaching thing. They went and
they had Kubiak's kid called the plays on Saturday. That
didn't make it well, hold on, I'm sorry Sunday and
it didn't make a difference to me, but to Mark
Schlaire it was apparently the greatest thing ever because Russell
Wilson was under center. Oh, I've never seen a quarterback
take a snap from utter center apparently as well as
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Russell Wilson did on Sunday. But it's it's little decisions
like that. And is it unfair maybe Mike, because what
did he do? He ran in the offense efficiently, right,
you look at his numbers. They're not bad, they're not terrible,
but they're not great. But he was efficient. But in
that big, that moment where you need to be understanding
of the game, understanding of what needs to be that
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the layoff for your team, you chose to throw it away.
And Russell Wilson saying, I wasn't trying to throw it away.
I thought he had him open. In what universe did
that ball slip out of your hands? Raiders had two
dbs there, and I was as shocked as anyone. There
were two dbs there, So they're gonna fire Nathaniel Hackett
because they've invested too much money in Russell Wilson and
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he's but in the end, man, that contract is gonna
be an absolute anchor unless they figure something out with
with Russell Wilson quick well. But that's the thing, though,
is you go back to the last couple of years
in Seattle, and I tried to argue it that you know,
as much as everybody loved Russell Wilson, and and I
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don't care, you know, the guy is the guy, maybe
a little bit odd, seems nice enough, seems like he
does enough of his charitable things, goes to the hospital.
I got nothing against the man on the field. I
thought he was slipping the last couple of years. And
so when you have those final seasons and you're trying
to piece things together, and you watched how Schneider and
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and Carol began drafting, and they're reaching for guys to
try to fit to what Russell needs around him. And
what happened that with a lot of those picks they failed,
right they got out of what built that squad. And
you look at where they turned around right back here
in two those guys that came in in the secondary,
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on the defensive side of the ball. I've been fantastic, right,
So they're not bowing to the quarterback and what he
needs or what they think they need, and maybe reaching ahead,
they went back to the draft formulas that built the
legion to boom. They went out and got Marshawn Lynch
back then. Obviously we don't, you know, discount that at all,
and he came in was a monster. But all of
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those guys were mid round, late round, undrafted free agents
and its coalesced because they were growing together. Same thing here,
Gino feels disrespected. But coming into the season, would you
have been surprised if Drew Lock was the quarterback? No,
it's this one. I think spoke very much like what
Pete Carroll and the Seahawks did when they signed Matt
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Flynn and then said to hell with it. Russell won
the job. Same thing here, all right, Gino, you'll be
a backup. You're going into your second decade in the league.
We gotta give Drew Lock an opportunity. And I said, no, Gino,
I'll play them. Do you know what's your role? And
then you go out and play a fish and football.
You've got a couple of good wide receivers, good running game.
Unfortunately Rashot Penny gets hurt again, but Kenneth Walker is
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the real deal. Good defense, and here a top draft.
Three sources to your offensive line. Your first and third
round pick starting at right and left tackle. You mentioned
youth in the second area, your fifth and fourth round
pick starting at corner and nickel. They're really good. I
mean they've they've invested easily. They have. Now I'm not
ready to anoint them as having things figure now there,
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they're still seven and four and gotta wait, hold on,
let me double check there. Yeah, uh, six and six,
long way to go. I'm already giving that one over
the Raiders this weekend. But yeah, it's it's it's impressive
to see the way they bounced back when we all
were riding their obituary during the during the off season
and the trade of Wilson. Yeah, I think it just
goes back to, you know, the point, I guess, backing
out of where Seattle is this this year, to say that,
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look what the changes they made, going back to the
old philosophy that the quarterback isn't the center of the universe. Yeah,
obviously it's got to be efficient, but you change and
go back to where you're not dancing around retirement talk,
trade demands, all that other stuff that was hanging over
the team for a couple of years. You can do
this with Green Bay if you want to do that too.
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You know, you got these parallels going on. But with
Russell Levin, now he goes to Denver and it's not
an automatic win with all this talent. I still argue
that Tim Patrick getting hurt was actually a pretty big
deal for them off the jump in terms of a
possession receiver and the other guys are all two's. There's
not a one among them. Judy's flashes as a one
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now and again he's hurt and now he's hurt. Sutton
was good, got hurt and now is more a too
to a and just go. Alberto didn't appear right. That
was a guy they thought could be a nice little,
uh sleeper breakout kind of guy at the tight end position.
That's not there running back position. Javante gets hurt. Melvin
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Gordon can't hang onto the ball and the defense. Much
like we're watching with the Jets, which we really haven't
delved into too much, you've got guys throwing up their
hands going what are we doing here? Right? You had
that happen on the offense with the Jets, Dwayne Brown
looking around going hi, hell, you're not hit the wide
open receiver down the field. Sent there in Denver. You've
got a defense that's playing lights out every night and
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you have one stake here, there's another loss. Play a
good game all the way through, your offense can't get
it done and in a critical time, your guy that
everybody is bowed to for all these years doesn't know
on a third down that you can't stop the clock. Silly. Now,
the defense there failed because they gotta go out and
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make a play, right. We always we always get back
into that and they've done their job well, you needed
them to do it one more time. Instead, they allowed
a seventy one yard drive in a field goal to
time three plays, three plays after, they had a negative
play on the very first snap of overtime, and then boom,
they forget to cover Davanta Adams. I think they need
change there. I know it's a it's a longlining road
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to get there, but I don't and I don't think
it's just with the coach. I think I'm told every
offseason how great this roster is for Denver and every
year they underachieved. Maybe they need to look at a
new general manager again, because it's not working. Time to
look at it. kJ Hamdler got hurt right, Remember he
was in the back of the end zone stomping his
feet against Russ weeks ago because as he didn't see
(28:00):
the ball wide open. Uh, you said to sign Latavius Murray.
You bring in Chase Edmonds. He gets hurt. So it's
the return of the mac maybe again later this week.
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in this one month right now is gonna fall. Well,
I'm still gonna watch. I'm still I mean, I understand
what was the percentage you brought up you still possible
getting through after a tie in that first match, give
me to the knockout still there and make it entertaining.
All right? So team that's not going to make it
to the knockout round i e. The playoffs in the
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National Football League, my beloved Chicago Bears. Why not? And
what are the great debates? Now? Their defense stinks. You
traded away a couple of performer performers in Quinn and
Roquan Smith and I and it all makes sense and
there's a lot of positivity. And this is the question
I asked, are you okay with seeing progress but still
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seeing the losses pile up? And for the Bears the
last few weeks now three and eight on the season,
but you had point totals of twenty four, thirty, thirty
two and twenty nine and the win going back against
New England thirty three fourteen. So the offense changed them
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things up. Design runs for Justin Fields. Run game had
always been solid there. Anybody that didn't see that from
week one was a dope. But you know Khalil Herbert.
But now you got Justin Fields who gets thrown around
like a rag doll a few times and it's called
the injured shoulder then confirmed dislocation uh and has an
(30:30):
earlier report out of Chicago. So now he comes the
question of is it operation shutdown? And do I see
a bunch of Trevor Simeon go cats down the stretch
here the pends? Okay, what do you want right now?
They're the number three pick in the draft? Well, so
are you? Are you fine with Justin Fields and you
wouldn't mind going to get a Will Anderson or the
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best offensive lineman in the draft or are you a
dreaming of maybe a C. J. Stroud. Well, I think
part of it becomes the question is Luke Getzi staying
around for another season? Because between Darnell Mooney uh and
eber Flus saying that in the Pearl jam Vain, all
you want do it? Do it? Just like even flow,
(31:12):
good luck flues. Uh, we saw some good thing. I
mean the team is all all rallied around. You got
Mooney Commet had started to break out right five touchdowns
over three weeks coming in to this weekend's game against
Atlanta and go on down the line and once again
justin fields with a backbreaking interception, just like he did
(31:33):
against the Lions when Jeff Acuda found his way into
the end zone to make you a loser. Oh yeah,
there was a missed p a t run laps run
laps fired. But you know it keeps going. But you've
lost four in a row. You're at three and eight.
Your quarterback, as you would expect, is banged up, but
you've seen progress in him. Right, And I was not
(31:58):
a Matte Naggy fan. You can go back and find
many many monologues, diet tribes and me just screaming down
the throat of anybody who would listen, uh, screaming Smith's
face off on a regular basis, because there were still
people on our network and others telling me how much
of a genius Matt Naggy was. Yeah, he's great as
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guy number six in Kansas City can't lead anything. Uh,
at at the Jets, Packers, Eagles, Bills, Lions, and Vikings
to end the season. I'm at the point where I
like to see the progress, but legitimately he's banged up
to a point where we're talking about big time shoulder injuries.
What's the point of getting him back out there at
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three and eight? I think I've seen right. I mean,
and you've got an offensive line that's bad that you
need to retool. You have over a hundred million dollars
of cap space, something that's been lost in the process
of this. You got rid of a couple of year
higher paid players decided not to re up with Roe,
Kwant Smith. Never never know what happens in the strange
world of free agency, but you do have a hundred
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million dollars to spend. And what's to say that the
lottery pick, be its Stroud or whoever else behind door
number two is gonna pan out? Right? You know, we
were talking about it before with draft picks instead of
going and getting Christian McCaffrey and decided, well again, look
even just take it from the Ohio State standpoint. Any
time Ohio State guy gets drafted, because that guy's not
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gonna be any good and then Justin Fields there so
you can replace with another guy from the same school. So, um,
I don't know. I look at him now and I've
seen enough that if you run the offense, you go
get another offensive lineman or two because alignment had been atrocious.
That was That's been the one constant and all of
this Chris earlier this season, they had the bench the
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starting center because he couldn't snap the ball and then
block a guy right. So Justin Fields was always rolling
out even if he wasn't intending to roll out, because
the pressure straight up the gut was there on every snap.
You know that means there could be a Northwestern grad
coming to Chicago. Oh, now you're getting me excited. Peter
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Scornisky or Scronsky Scronsky, Yeah, you got. He's probably the
top rated offensive lineman, Paris Johnson, junior out of Ohio State.
I like. I like my guy at at Oklahoma. I
think he's a really good offensive tackle too. So if
you're going online, we've seen that rush over the last
and don't get listen. I'm I don't mean to get
(34:28):
started on draft talk. No, I know you're very excited
about draft talk. Come, I love it's it's especially your
squads had with the season my squads. It has nothing
to do with the Raiders. I love the draft. It's
just a little add Oh you met the what I
met the the these sooners? Oh I was going to
the other team, buddy. Oh oh yeah, listen there. He's
(34:49):
not even worth a conversation right now. But it was
a point of why you might have tuned tuned in
and turned onto the draft picks. Oh, I see what
you're saying. No, I've just been you know, whenever was
like eight year old. I tried to call into a
radio show to talk draft. It's just my infatuation. But
I'm telling you right now, you're gonna see a round
offensive lineman. Maybe that's where the Bears go. Sit at
three or four. Why risk winning more games? I'm with you, Mike,
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Let him rest, get them healthy for next year. It's
the hard thing. People are trying to reconcile back home
in Chicago. It's like, yeah, but we're still losing. I'm like, yeah,
but now you have the third pick. If they'd won
the game against Atlanta, you're talking getting back towards the teams.
Just how bunched up everything is in the National Football League.
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I mean, it doesn't sit well when you lose, and
certainly that loss to Detroit. I'm still tasting that one.
That was terrible so many levels, but the end game
is there. Likewise, the like Arnie was taunting me after
the Dolphins loss, like you needed all of that to
beat the Bears? What does that say about your squad?
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Have larger questions about your Dolphins than than my Bears.
Come on, man, you heard that. But hey, since no, no,
he's not. We know that at stinking Genius one. You
can torment Ernie at playing show for Chris find me
over at Swell and All. We're gonna stick with the
collegiate side of things. But because we're talking about coaching openings,
rumor from a blue check mark that got debunked, but
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another coaching potential, two different spots named as likely places
and destinations for one Hall of Famer that likes to
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taking folks behind the scene, Alex tie shirt for all
the attempts to say this guy doesn't like sports, Uh,
well that's just bad, bad business and bad information for folks.
Man is well versed in many things, but he's a
huge soccer fan. And we were just going through some
of the earlier moments that decided the US men's national
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teams one one draw earlier today against Wales and debating
a little bit the fall that created the penalty cake,
and we both came to the same conclusion. You gotta
fall into the ground whenever you have an opportunity. Yeah,
you might expose your fellow defenders for a second, or
(02:28):
might stall a drive, or maybe you don't get a
call and then you have to pop back up like
nothing happened. But uh, that that's really where it comes
down to. It a lot in a lot of these plays,
especially as they were cramping up or maybe not cramping
up and slowing things down because of the altitude and everything.
So some some curious moments along the way, and we've
seen that happen in the football world as well, Chris
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over the last week. Can they do anything about that?
And again, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to
be soccer expert or anything, but um, all I saw
in the final fifth minutes of that game, once it
got even up, was just a bunch of the opponent's
team laying on the ground with what looked to be
career ending injuries, only to see them pop up and
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get off the field under their own power. I mean,
is that just something you have to accept. Yeah, it's
a bit of game span ship, right, and you decide
whether you're going to whistle the foul if you if
the guys trying to sell a foul or stop play
or whatever the case was. We saw a few moments
where you had play stopped and then on a similar play,
(03:32):
blistic the star with the assist on the US goal,
just a glorious assist, a great pass. Uh. He took
a bit he'd gotten beaten up, like they beat on
him all day long. Uh. And he rolled on the
ground and he didn't get a call. And then he
jumped up and down like say our daughters would have
when they were really young, like, really, I don't get
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that call? How do I not get that call? Uh?
So we we saw a bit of that. A disappointing
end after what was a dominant first half for the
men's national team. This is one where it felt like
it was gonna get get into that ugly phase to
a degree of all right, there aggressive, they're getting at
the at the net. You had a near own goal
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that I think came in off the defender about as
hard as I've seen a shot. I thought it was
gonna do one of those Marvel movie things where suddenly
there was a giant hole there and then we're looking
through him. Instead, it's a nice save and you move on.
But one one that tie, we'll see uh Friday, the
next next up against England. So a lot of soccer
(04:37):
in between on Fox. Should we be mad as fans
of Team Americans or Team America osccer experts? Should we
be angry here on this Monday night into a Tuesday morning?
I think? So you got one that got away. Look,
we had Jason lock and for the very first our
very very animated, very agitated, and there have been some
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questions about lineups and substitution and things of that nature
that certainly flowed through. Raina didn't get used. Uh in
this one. Giovanni Raina was expecting to see him in
the final minutes, didn't get into the match. So a
little bit of questioning, hey are you feeling okay? Were you?
Were you ill? Where you hurt? Like? No, just just
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didn't get the call. Acosta, who did find his way
in he uh. He made the perhaps games saving play
by taking down Gareth Bale when goalie had come out
and it was out of positions. So a little bit
of a saver there again. Strategy strategicy, uh, you know,
(05:39):
intentional falls and maybe you get free throws in the NBA.
Here it's just a spot fall and away we go.
So one one your final the draw. But yeah, I
think you're a little salty, especially with how well they played.
Now expectations. I think overall, Chris, it's been blown up,
perhaps out of out of proportion. And and I'll defer
(05:59):
to tice and on this one if he wants to
crack his microphone, right, young team a lot of first times.
Obviously we talked about where they haven't been in terms
of international play. Some already saying well, there's a look
ahead of what this team will be. It's like, no, no,
you still gotta play this tournament, firs when we talk
about look aheads. But all in all, you had to
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feel pretty encouraged in the first half only to watch
it flop on you coming out of the break. I mean,
it's true. I'm not a fan of what everybody uses.
Hope has like the definitive definition word for this whole
that can win you a lot of things, to also
bring it down really far too because to me, like
the team looks great, they're young, they look ambitious, the
play styles great. You can see how viggored they look.
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The thing that pisces me off so much. And it
is what you said too, is the fact this flopping
just oh, it's just disgusting to me. The REVS need
to actually start handing out yellow cards to floppers. It'll
stop it instantly. Well, and that's the thing. We saw
yellow cards fast and furiously against the US and where
it got it got to the point of dirty play.
Like we had one of these situations in a game
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my daughter was in a couple of weeks ago, Chris,
where the slide tackle after the balls out of bounds,
everybody's kind of given up on the play, the balls
rolled out, and all of a sudden, you have this giant,
flying slide tackle that goes through the player and takes
them out. We saw that on Bolistic multiple times, and
we we saw a couple of plays where the US
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players got carded, but it didn't go the other way.
So within twenty minutes there is a lot of eyebrow
raising allah the rock going what the hell are we
watching here? Yeah, and every time when there's like three
extra minutes of play, all of a sudden, like where's
the spray guy? My knee is killing me. I need
the spray every freaking time now, I'm glad you brought
that up to once we get to extra time, and
(07:44):
I saw our buddy Andrews Siciliano NFL network in right
red zone radio, red zone, uh, television, right, he brought
it up, and it's something I've been barking on forever
and like, and they said it in the Fox broadcast.
Why in extra time is the official? Then a guy
who has any damn clue as to how much time
is left? Can anybody tell me why that other than
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that's the way it's always been. They put that little
number on the scoreboard and then when it goes to zero,
I think the game's over, but I but he says nine,
nine minutes. But then if someone gets fouled and starts
rolling around there, it's supposed to add more time. So
like you're playing blind. Like my daughter, like that's one
of her responsibilities as they get close to a game
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and the game is just kind of go to the Reugh, Hey,
what do we got left? Sometimes they don't want to
tell him. It's like, no, no, you have to tell
them whether there's three minutes, eight minutes, or twelve. Because
we actually had this when I was a kid. This
is the best, Uh, and my brothers and I were
talking about this the other day because we were watching
some soccer and uh, my brother had come out from
Chicago and he happened to see my daughter's game, and
(08:51):
he was wondering about that based on when kickoff was
and what should be the end, right, adjusting for halftime
or whatever, and he brought up an old scenario. We're
playing in a basketball um playoffs. He was he was playing,
my dad was coaching, and they were finishing off a
game and the guy, the head referee, yelled two minutes
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and the game starts to tighten, but taking twenty thirty
seconds off of possession whatever should be done right, and
finally it gets back to being like a four or
six point game. It's like, hey, how much time he
goes two minutes? Like, but what the hell are you
doing over there? Right? So, same kind of sequential thing.
(09:34):
I'm like, all right, now, we're just guessing. And that's when,
especially when you've got billions and billions of dollars up
for grabs here in terms of the betting markets of
these things, and there's already a bunch of investigations of players, teams, officials.
We already know how the damn thing ended up and
cutter Qatar or whatever we're calling it this week. Anyway,
(09:56):
what you're gonna add levels of potential impropriety on that
level too? Absolutely, what are we doing? I think he
looks down and see how long is uber will take
to get there? So he just adds time on that
for real. It goes like four minutes left. But see,
like Chris, you asked the perfect question though, is this
a bad loss? Absolutely? They could not advance because of
this loss today, as I was told from the researcher
(10:20):
that fed it through the earpiece of Alexei Lolly. If
you yeah, if you draw in the current format, if
you draw in your first match, then it's fifty percent
of the time if you'd win that first match. And
this is where it's all important, Mike, if you asked me,
they're grow by right, so they have England Wales any
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it on? If you asked me, Wales should have been
the easy win. So this is not looking good? Yes right,
I mean Bale is the first time scoring in sixty
four years for Wales. That's insane to me. Yeah, it
Ran has the backing of the iron cheeks. You can
never discount their number one camel clutch baby, greatest move
in the history of wrestling. To get out of it?
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What do you do? You fall asleep? Uh, we're trying
to get him on on board and they won't let
me have him because we'd have to dump him every
eight seconds. Why do we tape it? There you go? Um,
we're a young team though only one player prior to
this match today had actually even participated in a World Cup.
So maybe they learn Tyler Adams is a stud. Pull
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up six of stud So the future seems to be bright.
But I'm with you, Mike, And again, like I said,
I'm so football now. I can't even think about basketball
to be honest with you, but I want to see
the US do well in the World Cup after not
being able to celebrate this what were not five years
we move six years moved for the last World Cup
after the life for COVID. So I'm happy that we're
(11:44):
in it. I know that we're young. I'm with you.
I don't want to think about the next World Cup.
I want to see him be better here. Uh it's
unfortunate with the way they played in the first half
that that's what we came away with a draw. And
now you hope that you can get things right against England.
Are rand coming up and try to move on to
the the knockout round because we like our history legacy
and eventually we are going to talk about the Broncos
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here in a couple of minutes, and Nathaniel Hackett and
his job. I'd be remiss Tim Weia who was on
the receiving end of that ballistic pass and buried it
in the net. His dad, George Weia, Liberian striker who
won the Malone Deor back in between Paris Saint German
and A C. Milan. There you go, the only African
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player to ever receive the honor. And that's what you
literally just spoke a foreign language to me. I have
no idea what you were talking about. It it's the
m v P conversations that everybody's gonna have. You go,
Malone the Golden boot, Baby, let's go all right? Uh,
Chris Blake And for Jason Smith of Mike Armen, there's
(12:48):
my soccer nerd ing out. Thank you to Mr Ti Shirt.
I wanted to just prove once and for all for
those that are convinced based on other talking points that
he has no idea what's going on in the sport
warning world or what we talked about here. He knows
what he's talking about, and he's playing a bit, and
he's played it. Well, you're giving me away, Mike, quit
(13:10):
giving away his bit. People are gonna forget no, no, no,
they're gonna flashy thinging him, uh like out of men
in black here momentarily. Anyway, we'll do that to the
rest of the audience in a moment because maybe when
the soccer talk started, maybe they weren't so excited about it.
But we we learned that he's educated. That's all the matter.
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on a holiday Monday night ten the Monday Night football game. Notice,
we haven't spent a lot of time going back to
that one. It was interesting until it wasn't And now
it's just what does Arizona want to do? GM coach
and a quarterback who may not be back until after
the bye in Kyler Murray, so chaos potentially ensuing there. Meanwhile,
(14:57):
everything surrounding the Denver Broncos is up in the air.
Melvin Gordon got himself waived after his fifth fumble of
the year, a position that many would argue Chris was
mishandled from the start. Javante Williams seemingly a budding star,
and then once they brought Melvin Gordon back, it played
out as I expected. Yeah, Gordon will be there and
(15:19):
mess things up just enough well to take away again.
We talked about it both from a football and from
a fantasy perspective when it comes to Javante Williams, that
it would become a mess. Could I have anticipated that
he was suddenly Ronnie Garvin the hands of Stone with
the football. No, I could not. I'm getting every eighties
and nineties raddit. I literally was staying up and watching
(15:44):
a closed circuit shot of him winning the title over
Rick Flair one night. True story. But you know, and
Melvin Gordon, by the way, his fumbles not just not
just fumbles, they were costly, that's almost literally. They lost
the game twice against the Raiders potentially to his fumble.
So yeah, and and weird to see his regression these
battle injuries. Um, I'm sure he'll get picked up. We're
(16:06):
running back hungry league right now with a lot of injuries.
But it just it was I think it was mental
in Denver Man. He couldn't hold onto the football. But
Chris go back to how it all came to pass
of him showing up in Denver. He rejected the contract,
offered that the Chargers gave him bloody of guaranteed money,
said nope, I want out, and he went out. And
now Austin Ekelers everybody's hero, real fantasy and undrafted free
(16:31):
agent does good. Uh. Kind of data point along the
way again, reinforcing the don't have to draft a running
back in the first or second round. I mean, you
saw in Kansas City playing against the Chargers last night,
Isaiah Pacheco. Not a first round pick, not a second
day guy. He needs to do some dancing in front
of a mirror. That was always my favorite question at
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the rookie premiere that we'd have out of here in
l A. Back when they let us go. As soon
as I didn't have a video camera with me, I
kind of got shunned. But back in the day, I'd
always asked the running backs how they were doing with
their mirror dancing, and about half of them would really
get it, and they'd start talking about past protection of
what they didn't do at the collegiate level whatever. The
others would keep eyes wide open. I probably should have
(17:15):
kept data on those six seven years of which of
those guys really didn't play a whole lot of snaps
in the NFL when they didn't understand what I was
getting at with my line of questioning. But the Raiders
beat the Broncos in overtime. Davante Adams watched this broken
down in a number of spaces of the play they
ran to get Adams open and Patrick Curtan what was
(17:36):
the separation, like twelve thirteen yards something like that. Uh,
They'd run a play where he'd done a deep in
dig off the same formation and here he well, he
left certain in the dust by digging in and then
cutting back out where he was just a field of green,
and he danced through like a kid in a flower bed. Uh.
(17:57):
In a way ago, Derek Carr three oh seven and two,
Davante Adams with the Monster game, a lot of stuff
to talk about after the game from him seven to
because look, they backed up their coach. Earlier in the week,
I joked that Derek Carr sounded a lot like Austin
Butler in the New Elvis movie. In his press conference
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really leaned into it. I think he really enjoyed the
Baz Luhrman depiction of Elvis's life, but for the Denver
Broncos another disaster. Gordon's released eight carries thirty one yards,
the critical fumble Russell Wilson to forty seven and the
play that we've seen a million times now coming out
(18:38):
of the two minute warning and he throws an incomplete
pass instead of sliding down, running around and then falling
down into a fetal position doing that old thing like
either you had the toy or maybe you think about
Peyton Manning of Hey, the pressure is coming, I should
just crumble underneath. Didn't do it. Instead stops the clock.
Nathaniel Hackett didn't have his quarterback back on that one.
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We called a pass and you gotta keep the clock
running one way or the other. But if something happened
in the pocket or anything like that, Um, that's one
of those situations. You can take a sack or you
could just run the ball, but we we didn't want,
obviously want the clock running in that situation. My quarterback
is a dope and I'm piling on two. This one
was not my fault, right reading between the lines. We
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did it last week with Micah Parsons when they lost
a green band got run over. He said, everything he
needed to do without actually saying it. My guys, I've
been carrying your asses and cover it up for your mistakes.
We can't have this happen again. They go out and
bludgeon the Vikings. Nathaniel Hackett here joins the voices to say, look,
my guy didn't get it done. And it's not just
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he didn't get it done with completions, because he'd been effective,
finished thirty one, moved the ball fairly, efficiently, nothing out
of the ordinary until that play the end of the
game where you're just shrugging your shoulders. Obviously, if a
Raider fan, you're thrilled. The rest of the football love
and world that's really committed to the down distance and
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the excellence of execution. Bret Hart reference um failed miserably here,
and this is something that I would expect the high
school freshmen to understand, let alone the guy who everybody
kept kissing his ass for ten years. So last week,
I remember I didn't I don't know who it was.
It was a former Bronco that was on with Colin
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and talked about Russell Wilson using audibles from when he
was with the Seahawks. Right, Yeah, they tried to debunk
that fast or say it didn't matter or whatever else.
Weird story were weird flex but got debunked fairly quickly. Um.
I didn't think much of it, but it also got
me wondering, what is going on? Why hasn't this work?
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If Nick writes not not our old Nick right at
getting Nick right on Twitter? Nick just got married? I
think congratulation. Yeah, I thought I saw a photo pop
up in in one of my social media things. But
our guy are our Fox Sports one, Nick right, whom
you see? I don't know. Mornings Now on Fox Sports
One said if the Broncos had just scored eight teams
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points in regulation, they'd be nine in one right, Yeah
you know who said that a week and a half ago.
Let me guess you guys, Yeah, look at you. You
hear it first here, you've come to know that over
nine years. But but yeah, I mean that is the
that is the note. Yeah, it's eighteen points a game.
That's all they need. So who do you blame that on? Right? Well,
when I heard that from that that former player that
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was on with Colin, I literally started wondering, I don't
know if this is a coaching thing. They went and
they had Kubiak's kid called the plays on Saturday. That
didn't make it well, hold on, I'm sorry Sunday and
it didn't make a difference to me, but to Mark
Schlaire it was apparently the greatest thing ever because Russell
Wilson was under center. Oh, I've never seen a quarterback
take a snap from utter center apparently as well as
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Russell Wilson did on Sunday. But it's it's little decisions
like that. And is it unfair maybe Mike, because what
did he do? He ran in the offense efficiently, right,
you look at his numbers. They're not bad, they're not terrible,
but they're not great. But he was efficient. But in
that big, that moment where you need to be understanding
of the game, understanding of what needs to be that
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the layoff for your team, you chose to throw it away.
And Russell Wilson saying, I wasn't trying to throw it away.
I thought he had him open. In what universe did
that ball slip out of your hands? Raiders had two
dbs there, and I was as shocked as anyone. There
were two dbs there, So they're gonna fire Nathaniel Hackett
because they've invested too much money in Russell Wilson and
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he's but in the end, man, that contract is gonna
be an absolute anchor unless they figure something out with
with Russell Wilson quick well. But that's the thing, though,
is you go back to the last couple of years
in Seattle, and I tried to argue it that you know,
as much as everybody loved Russell Wilson, and and I
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don't care, you know, the guy is the guy, maybe
a little bit odd, seems nice enough, seems like he
does enough of his charitable things, goes to the hospital.
I got nothing against the man on the field. I
thought he was slipping the last couple of years. And
so when you have those final seasons and you're trying
to piece things together, and you watched how Schneider and
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and Carol began drafting, and they're reaching for guys to
try to fit to what Russell needs around him. And
what happened that with a lot of those picks they failed,
right they got out of what built that squad. And
you look at where they turned around right back here
in two those guys that came in in the secondary,
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on the defensive side of the ball. I've been fantastic, right,
So they're not bowing to the quarterback and what he
needs or what they think they need, and maybe reaching ahead,
they went back to the draft formulas that built the
legion to boom. They went out and got Marshawn Lynch
back then. Obviously we don't, you know, discount that at all,
and he came in was a monster. But all of
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those guys were mid round, late round, undrafted free agents
and its coalesced because they were growing together. Same thing here,
Gino feels disrespected. But coming into the season, would you
have been surprised if Drew Lock was the quarterback? No,
it's this one. I think spoke very much like what
Pete Carroll and the Seahawks did when they signed Matt
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Flynn and then said to hell with it. Russell won
the job. Same thing here, all right, Gino, you'll be
a backup. You're going into your second decade in the league.
We gotta give Drew Lock an opportunity. And I said, no, Gino,
I'll play them. Do you know what's your role? And
then you go out and play a fish and football.
You've got a couple of good wide receivers, good running game.
Unfortunately Rashot Penny gets hurt again, but Kenneth Walker is
(24:44):
the real deal. Good defense, and here a top draft.
Three sources to your offensive line. Your first and third
round pick starting at right and left tackle. You mentioned
youth in the second area, your fifth and fourth round
pick starting at corner and nickel. They're really good. I
mean they've they've invested easily. They have. Now I'm not
ready to anoint them as having things figure now there,
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they're still seven and four and gotta wait, hold on,
let me double check there. Yeah, uh, six and six,
long way to go. I'm already giving that one over
the Raiders this weekend. But yeah, it's it's it's impressive
to see the way they bounced back when we all
were riding their obituary during the during the off season
and the trade of Wilson. Yeah, I think it just
goes back to, you know, the point, I guess, backing
out of where Seattle is this this year, to say that,
(25:29):
look what the changes they made, going back to the
old philosophy that the quarterback isn't the center of the universe. Yeah,
obviously it's got to be efficient, but you change and
go back to where you're not dancing around retirement talk,
trade demands, all that other stuff that was hanging over
the team for a couple of years. You can do
this with Green Bay if you want to do that too.
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You know, you got these parallels going on. But with
Russell Levin, now he goes to Denver and it's not
an automatic win with all this talent. I still argue
that Tim Patrick getting hurt was actually a pretty big
deal for them off the jump in terms of a
possession receiver and the other guys are all two's. There's
not a one among them. Judy's flashes as a one
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now and again he's hurt and now he's hurt. Sutton
was good, got hurt and now is more a too
to a and just go. Alberto didn't appear right. That
was a guy they thought could be a nice little,
uh sleeper breakout kind of guy at the tight end position.
That's not there running back position. Javante gets hurt. Melvin
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Gordon can't hang onto the ball and the defense. Much
like we're watching with the Jets, which we really haven't
delved into too much, you've got guys throwing up their
hands going what are we doing here? Right? You had
that happen on the offense with the Jets, Dwayne Brown
looking around going hi, hell, you're not hit the wide
open receiver down the field. Sent there in Denver. You've
got a defense that's playing lights out every night and
(26:59):
you have one stake here, there's another loss. Play a
good game all the way through, your offense can't get
it done and in a critical time, your guy that
everybody is bowed to for all these years doesn't know
on a third down that you can't stop the clock. Silly. Now,
the defense there failed because they gotta go out and
(27:19):
make a play, right. We always we always get back
into that and they've done their job well, you needed
them to do it one more time. Instead, they allowed
a seventy one yard drive in a field goal to
time three plays, three plays after, they had a negative
play on the very first snap of overtime, and then boom,
they forget to cover Davanta Adams. I think they need
change there. I know it's a it's a longlining road
(27:40):
to get there, but I don't and I don't think
it's just with the coach. I think I'm told every
offseason how great this roster is for Denver and every
year they underachieved. Maybe they need to look at a
new general manager again, because it's not working. Time to
look at it. kJ Hamdler got hurt right, Remember he
was in the back of the end zone stomping his
feet against Russ weeks ago because as he didn't see
(28:00):
the ball wide open. Uh, you said to sign Latavius Murray.
You bring in Chase Edmonds. He gets hurt. So it's
the return of the mac maybe again later this week.
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the FIFA World Cup Group b match one between the
US and Wales. Still want nothing, so feeling really prideful
and swelling here Chris Blank, I'm afraid I've got some
bad news. Mike. Don't allow yourself to get caught up
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in this one month right now is gonna fall. Well,
I'm still gonna watch. I'm still I mean, I understand
what was the percentage you brought up you still possible
getting through after a tie in that first match, give
me to the knockout still there and make it entertaining.
All right? So team that's not going to make it
to the knockout round i e. The playoffs in the
(29:26):
National Football League, my beloved Chicago Bears. Why not? And
what are the great debates? Now? Their defense stinks. You
traded away a couple of performer performers in Quinn and
Roquan Smith and I and it all makes sense and
there's a lot of positivity. And this is the question
I asked, are you okay with seeing progress but still
(29:47):
seeing the losses pile up? And for the Bears the
last few weeks now three and eight on the season,
but you had point totals of twenty four, thirty, thirty
two and twenty nine and the win going back against
New England thirty three fourteen. So the offense changed them
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things up. Design runs for Justin Fields. Run game had
always been solid there. Anybody that didn't see that from
week one was a dope. But you know Khalil Herbert.
But now you got Justin Fields who gets thrown around
like a rag doll a few times and it's called
the injured shoulder then confirmed dislocation uh and has an
(30:30):
earlier report out of Chicago. So now he comes the
question of is it operation shutdown? And do I see
a bunch of Trevor Simeon go cats down the stretch
here the pends? Okay, what do you want right now?
They're the number three pick in the draft? Well, so
are you? Are you fine with Justin Fields and you
wouldn't mind going to get a Will Anderson or the
(30:50):
best offensive lineman in the draft or are you a
dreaming of maybe a C. J. Stroud. Well, I think
part of it becomes the question is Luke Getzi staying
around for another season? Because between Darnell Mooney uh and
eber Flus saying that in the Pearl jam Vain, all
you want do it? Do it? Just like even flow,
(31:12):
good luck flues. Uh, we saw some good thing. I
mean the team is all all rallied around. You got
Mooney Commet had started to break out right five touchdowns
over three weeks coming in to this weekend's game against
Atlanta and go on down the line and once again
justin fields with a backbreaking interception, just like he did
(31:33):
against the Lions when Jeff Acuda found his way into
the end zone to make you a loser. Oh yeah,
there was a missed p a t run laps run
laps fired. But you know it keeps going. But you've
lost four in a row. You're at three and eight.
Your quarterback, as you would expect, is banged up, but
you've seen progress in him. Right, And I was not
(31:58):
a Matte Naggy fan. You can go back and find
many many monologues, diet tribes and me just screaming down
the throat of anybody who would listen, uh, screaming Smith's
face off on a regular basis, because there were still
people on our network and others telling me how much
of a genius Matt Naggy was. Yeah, he's great as
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guy number six in Kansas City can't lead anything. Uh,
at at the Jets, Packers, Eagles, Bills, Lions, and Vikings
to end the season. I'm at the point where I
like to see the progress, but legitimately he's banged up
to a point where we're talking about big time shoulder injuries.
What's the point of getting him back out there at
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three and eight? I think I've seen right. I mean,
and you've got an offensive line that's bad that you
need to retool. You have over a hundred million dollars
of cap space, something that's been lost in the process
of this. You got rid of a couple of year
higher paid players decided not to re up with Roe,
Kwant Smith. Never never know what happens in the strange
world of free agency, but you do have a hundred
(33:01):
million dollars to spend. And what's to say that the
lottery pick, be its Stroud or whoever else behind door
number two is gonna pan out? Right? You know, we
were talking about it before with draft picks instead of
going and getting Christian McCaffrey and decided, well again, look
even just take it from the Ohio State standpoint. Any
time Ohio State guy gets drafted, because that guy's not
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gonna be any good and then Justin Fields there so
you can replace with another guy from the same school. So, um,
I don't know. I look at him now and I've
seen enough that if you run the offense, you go
get another offensive lineman or two because alignment had been atrocious.
That was That's been the one constant and all of
this Chris earlier this season, they had the bench the
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starting center because he couldn't snap the ball and then
block a guy right. So Justin Fields was always rolling
out even if he wasn't intending to roll out, because
the pressure straight up the gut was there on every snap.
You know that means there could be a Northwestern grad
coming to Chicago. Oh, now you're getting me excited. Peter
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Scornisky or Scronsky Scronsky, Yeah, you got. He's probably the
top rated offensive lineman, Paris Johnson, junior out of Ohio State.
I like. I like my guy at at Oklahoma. I
think he's a really good offensive tackle too. So if
you're going online, we've seen that rush over the last
and don't get listen. I'm I don't mean to get
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started on draft talk. No, I know you're very excited
about draft talk. Come, I love it's it's especially your
squads had with the season my squads. It has nothing
to do with the Raiders. I love the draft. It's
just a little add Oh you met the what I
met the the these sooners? Oh I was going to
the other team, buddy. Oh oh yeah, listen there. He's
(34:49):
not even worth a conversation right now. But it was
a point of why you might have tuned tuned in
and turned onto the draft picks. Oh, I see what
you're saying. No, I've just been you know, whenever was
like eight year old. I tried to call into a
radio show to talk draft. It's just my infatuation. But
I'm telling you right now, you're gonna see a round
offensive lineman. Maybe that's where the Bears go. Sit at
three or four. Why risk winning more games? I'm with you, Mike,
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Let him rest, get them healthy for next year. It's
the hard thing. People are trying to reconcile back home
in Chicago. It's like, yeah, but we're still losing. I'm like, yeah,
but now you have the third pick. If they'd won
the game against Atlanta, you're talking getting back towards the teams.
Just how bunched up everything is in the National Football League.
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I mean, it doesn't sit well when you lose, and
certainly that loss to Detroit. I'm still tasting that one.
That was terrible so many levels, but the end game
is there. Likewise, the like Arnie was taunting me after
the Dolphins loss, like you needed all of that to
beat the Bears? What does that say about your squad?
(35:55):
Have larger questions about your Dolphins than than my Bears.
Come on, man, you heard that. But hey, since no, no,
he's not. We know that at stinking Genius one. You
can torment Ernie at playing show for Chris find me
over at Swell and All. We're gonna stick with the
collegiate side of things. But because we're talking about coaching openings,
rumor from a blue check mark that got debunked, but
(36:18):
another coaching potential, two different spots named as likely places
and destinations for one Hall of Famer that likes to
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