Week 6 Recap, Week 7 Picks

Cecil and Joe Recap week 6 and preview week 7 of the NFL season!

Episode Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to the thirdand the Don Football Show. I'm Joe
with me a cecil as always,here to recap last week's action and to
preview this week's action. That wouldbe recapping Week six previewing Week seven of
the NFL season. First of all, Cecil, how you do it?
I'm great. You know, myBengals got another win, so that's always

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great. It was a weird weekof football, I'll say that. A
lot of upsets, a lot ofsome really dull games, especially in some
of the bigger slots. So itwas an interesting week of football. And
we're gonna say it was a badweek of football because there's no such thing.
But ultimately there's definitely some interesting thingswe're going to talk about here,

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interesting points seaues. I just sawa stat today that this is the lowest
number of touchdowns scored in a seasonthrough this many weeks since twenty ten.
It is the biggest scoring margin inlike the last five years between teams,
So it really it has been aboring season, but hell, it's football,
so we're still gonna love it.Let's get started with our recap of

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Week six before we get to ourpicks and other stuff. So see,
so let's start it off the Chiefson Thursday night when nineteen to eight.
Now, remember we talked about thisone as the spread being what ten and
a half, and the Broncos almostback door covered it. They got a
fourth quarter touchdown after they had nothinggoing in this one. You know,
Russ is still Russ, the Broncosstill stink, and the Chiefs, you

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know, we've kind of warned thatthey're not playing up to their best level.
Thankfully, the Chiefs get a latelate fourth quarterfield goal to cover that
spread. If you did bet onthe Chiefs, I believe we both picked
the Chiefs. But it was anugly Thursday night game. We're used to
see ugly Thursday night games. Butin the end, Chiefs are good and
the Broncos are bad. That's all. We already knew that going in,

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right, we knew the Chiefs weregonna win this game. That wasn't really
ever the concern. And if itwas somebody's concern, I guess they haven't
watched man Broncos games. But there'sstill things, you know, to take
away from this game and kind ofbe worried about with the Chiefs. Sure,
it's a divisional game, but it'sat Arrowhead as well, so it's
not the Broncos had any of theadvantage here. The Broncos are one of

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the worst teams in the NFL.It's very clear. It is very clear
in this game. They could notget an offensive drive together until the fourth
quarter, really, and that's reallythe only reason they had a shot a
covering in this game. The Chiefsoffensive did not look good like it was
slow. I mean, Pachecko honestlylooks like the best part of that offense.

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But Checko and you know, Kelseydoes this thing. He had a
good game. But these receivers arenot coming together. For Patrick Mahomes.
That's a big thing I'm starting tonotice. And honestly, if you're a
Chiefs fan, it's something I woulddefinitely start getting concerned with. You know,
early on you goo, yeah,it's early. You know. Patrick
Mahomes makes it happen. But theseguys, you know, this is week

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seven or week six, I believe, and these guys aren't getting any better.
Harris Tony finally did something, scoreda touchdown. I mean, after
being completely just kind of out,you know, competent so far. Unfortunately,
and you know, Patrick Mahomes,I don't think got two hundred and

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fifty pass seats in this game,and you know we only have one passing
touchdown. You know, they hadtwo touchdowns in this game, and you
know, it was just it wasa poor performance for a team that's supposed
to be known for its offense.Uh. The good news of the Chiefs
and honestly, the only thing thatmakes you not lose complete confidence in them
this year, especially when comes playofftime, is their defense is a good
It's great. I mean, it'sone of the better defense in the NFL

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right now. You look at itthere. Aggressive, they can rush the
passer. All their draft picks inrecent years, Carl Offtis, you know,
Trent McDuffie, Bolton in the linebackerposition. They've all hit. They've
all done really well so far.You know, obviously, you know there's
still a way they're not all elitetalents, but you know, you're drafting
at the end of the first round, you know, you're drafting late in

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every round, and they pulled outsome guys that are very solid, you
know, contributors on this team,starters, and you know they've really made
the draft work. So you know, hats off to their GM, you
know, hats off of the organizationfor really filling holes. And it'll be
interesting to see a Pat Mahomes team. You know that's not necessarily gonna be
known for his offensive firepower. PatMahomes can get a score when he needs

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to, but this is gonna bethe like feared cheers cheers Chiefs offense that
we have over the last couple ofyears. I mean, you can get
Kelsey. Kelsey will have this moment, but ultimately these guys that are on
the outside for them are just notanything happen to this point this season.
There's still time to change it.But if I'm Chief, spent time to

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start being a little concerned. Yeah, they just traded for today Mkole Hardman,
the guy who's been on their rosterforever. The Jets signed him and
didn't use them for all the AaronRodgers guy, Randall Cobb and Allen Zarda
taking all the snaps from the guythat they signed without Aaron Rodgers in mind.
Really, so he's back. Idon't know how much that helps because
he was a solid receiver for them, but he never it still was Travis

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Kelcey and then everyone else. So, I mean, it's good that he
has familiarity, but Rashie Rice hasbeen the best receiver. I don't think
he was. I don't think hehas ever been as good as Rashie Rice
has been given the snaps you knowthat they've played so far. So we'll
see if he can give a littlebit more juice to the Chiefs this the
rest of the season. We'll moveon to the London game cease. The

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Ravens beat the Titans twenty four tosixteen. The Baltimore receivers didn't drop as
many passes. That was a hugefactor in this game. Tennessee did.
Had Ryan Tanneill get hurt. Theyput him the Lake Willis and he was
bad. Brian Tannehill has not beenthat good this season. We talked about
that as well. They also havekind of like not really used Derek Henry

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as much. TYJ. Spears hasbeen getting a lot more snaps than Derrick
Henry. And you can say,well, they were losing in this game,
but twelve carries for ninety seven yardsin a touchdown still very effective for
Derrick Henry. For you know,going up against a team that only had
twenty four points. You think youcould get him more involved. And I'm
sure the English fans love this.Sea's Justin Tucker had six field goals,

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so that's that's the best part oftheir day. It is. They love
kicking, you know, kicking theballs is a tradition in England unlike any
other. But you know, itwas kind of a it shook out kind
of the way we're expecting, right, Maybe took a little bigger leave.
That's probably due to the injury RyanTannehill. But I mean, I think

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losing Ryan Tannel to the Titans isn'treally that much of a you know,
a loss. Ultimately, if anything, it helps their season because they might
get an extra loss or two toget a better draft pick. The Titans
aren't good. I mean, theiroffensive play calling is is just awful.
They don't know how to use DerekHenry. I'm starting to not understand why

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he's even on this team anymore becausethey just aren't utilizing him. You know,
they want to be a power rungame. That's what he was there
for. That's when the Titans weregood. It's what Derrick Henry was getting
fed the ball twenty five times game. Now you know he's getting fed the
ball in this one, he almostgot twenty carries. You know, he
ripped off like you said, overninety yards. You know, I do

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my math right here, I thinkwe're at eight yards of carry. You
know you're Derrick Henry's getting mutched yardage. Keep beeting him the ball like I
mean, let him run it downthe Ravens throat because ultimately, the Ravens
defense had a lot of injuries againthis year, and they really aren't,
you know, elite by any means. The Ravens have kind of done the
opposite of the Chiefs. Out ofthe Chiefs got better on defense, I

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think the Ravens offense has finally gottenbetter and has opened up a little bit
for the receivers. Obviously, needto catch the passes. That's been an
issue, but this is what theycan be and how they can do when
they're actually executing, you know,the plays that they've been working on all
off season. The play style isexciting. I think Lamar Jackson can continue

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to take steps forward in this scheme. I would love to see him kind
of be let loose a little more. I know they're worried about injuries.
You know again, I'd never likewhen you kind of put a leash on
these rushing quarterbacks. I'd love tosee them, you know, just go
out there and just they got totake the game over the legs. That
that's what's gonna happen. It didn'thave to necessarily happen in this one,

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but yeah, the Ravens win prettyeasily in London. A lot of field
goals. You know, there's stillsome red zone offense. The Ravens need
to clean up, obviously. Butif you're the Tennessee Titans, I mean,
you've got that big emotional win overthe Bengals and since that point you've
kind of squandered it and any momentumyou had or any real chance in the
Acy South. You know, thelast has shown that you really it was

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an aberration. It was just oneof those games and you know, you're
back to the cellar and it wouldtry Tannehill hurt. Maybe it's time to
start selling some people off. Yeah, we thought that the Titans and Colts
would be more of a factor inthis division. But now Anthony Richardson's hurt
ran Tannehill's hert the Titans don't looklike a completely different team, and so

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it might be the Jags and theTexans battling it out. We're gonna get
to the Texans later, but man, are they playing well too, So
just a little bit different vibe there. And man, this AFC North Seas,
I mean, it's gonna be abattle down the stretch. I mean,
Bengals have one of the toughest schedules, only like a twenty three percent
chance to make the playoffs. Andit's funny we're gonna talk about them right
now because their game's up next.But just a good thing they got this
win against the Seahawks seventeen to thirteen. Started off, they scored, you

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know, fourteen points. First half, You're thinking, hey, this is
pretty good. Offense is kind ofgetting a little bit better maybe than at
least in the last several weeks.And then the offense just hits the fritz
in the second half. The playcalling was bad. Joe Burrow looked like
he was more inaccurate than he hadbeen after it looked like he was kind
of healthy after last week's game againstthe Cardinals, and then the first half
looked like he was at least okay. It just all went awry, but

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thankfully that defense stepped up lou Anrimohad the defense ready to play. Trey
Hendrickson had a big game, CamTaylor Britt had a big game at corner
and had a pick. It's it'sfortunate that they got back to five hundred
when they did, because now you'vegot to schedule coming up. I mean,
the next two games are the fortynine Ers and Bills. You still
have so many division games left withthis very tough division that I mean,

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they're so lucky that defense stepped upin this one. They you know,
that's one of the thing among theobviously the most positive thing to take away
from this game is the defense hasnot been there for the first couple of
weeks Arizona. We kind of startedto see it, and then this week,
you know, we we've got DJTurner stepping up as a rookie corner.
We got can Taylor Brett as asecond year player, Trey Hendrickson came

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alive. You know, things ondefense i'd love to see more. Is
one Nick Scott just off. Youknow, he's really doing a If he
can lock on a one target,he's good. But if he needs to
play his zone or do something wherehe needs to look and focus on multiple
things. It seems like he really, you know, loses his speed and
that's kind of the thing he needsto have and that's his biggest strength,

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and the rest of the d linerotation needs to do some bj Hill had
a great you know play in thisgame as well as a defensive tackle as
a three technique, but you know, outside Trey Hendrickson, no one's getting
consistent pressure. And you know,we start again a lot of big problems
last year to the defensive line starters. We're getting a ton of snaps and

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that seems to be the issue againthis year because they didn't invest in a
three technique back up behind BJ Hill. They're hoping Zach Carter really develops,
which has not really been fruition.But other than that, you know,
we have some you know, cornerplay. If yours playing well, they
can fix Nick Scott's issues or justget Jordan Battle in there more often.

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I think the secondary is going tobe great, and the idea that they
could have three corners Auzia is kindof taking a step back. I think,
you know, obviously it's part ofthe you know, knee injury with
the a c L. But youknow, if you have Cam Taylor,
Britt and DJ Turner playing well.One o Ousia is a free agent,
so they probably weren't going to resignhim anyway. That's a great corner tantem.

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But they keep playing like this downthe stretch to have going in the
future and know you kind of havecorner address for a while, because I
mean that that's the biggest thing inthe NFL. It's a passing league.
If you can get those kind oflockdown guys in the secondary, you know,
you can free up a lot ofstuff for the defense. You know,
apply more pressure, which is somethingthey kind of need with simulation press.

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They need to simulate some pressure outthere. Offense. Orlando Brown has
played really well. He played reallywell in this game before he got hurt.
I mean, there's just some CordellWilson is kind of the black eye
of the offensive line. He's justgetting absolutely shredded and grading by you know,
every major offensive line grading site.He's pretty much ranked dead last and

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a lot of categories for starting linemen. He's just I don't I'm not sure
where the regression is coming from,but he is just doing anything out there
is He's been a complete liability anda lot of the issues are are coming
from right there. Ultimately, that'swhere the pressure's coming from. Right there,
court El Volson. He's getting tossedaround by bigger linemen and it's something

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that I don't know if you canallow this to keep happening the entire year,
because we've seen where the Bengals offensiveline, there's a guy that's very
weak compared to everybody else. That'swhere they're going to focus. And every
thing that's gone horrible the offensive linein the last couple of years is because
the team is focused on that oneguy and then just blew him up.
So, you know, I thinkthere's somebody, you know, we can

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find, either maybe on the teamor you know, if we got to
go outside the team, somebody thatcan play at above replacement level because court
Elvolson is not playing at that pointright now. I know quality lined hard
to find the NFL, but wegot to be able to find someone that
can at least play close to theleague average, because we can't have a
guy who's ranking dead last categories.I'm checking Joe Burrow, especially with the

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injury he has. You know theamount of money that is now associated to
him, Maybe spend a little moremoney on a left guard, or maybe
you trade for somebody on an unhappyteam. You plug him in. Well
the Bengals trade, probably not,but I think the offense will ultimately get
in rhythm. I think the biggesttakeaways is ill address that left guard position
if they can. If they needto make a change with the chemistry,

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put someone else there. I don'tknow how it can honestly get too much
worse from what I've seen five weeksin and from there. I think a
lot of this stuff is just rhythmissues. It's Joe Burrow's accuracy because he's
not one hundred percent has been theproblems. I think sometimes the routes just
off, and I think that's abig thing. They go away from the
run way too quickly. I thinkthey should just use you know, keep

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them fresh, keep them hungry.You know they hit the hard then and
running fast. Of course, youknow Joe Mixon, just stay in there.
If they're running the ball twenty times. I don't want Joe Mixon to
get all twenty carries. I thinkmaybe he gets the majority. I think
he should get over half. Butother than that, you should mix in
those other guys not that I thinkany of them are leap, but ultimately

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I think they can have some elusivenessthat Joe makes in his lacked at times.
And you know, I think there'sjust some things we need to be
more accepting to try on offense insteadof just hoping that things work the magic
that they have with you righter,because that's that's not how we get better.
That's just how we're gonna you know, stay of this kind of we'll
do well one game and then we'llteeter back. You know, they need

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to find that rhythm most importantly.And I think there's just you know,
make it open season. No one'sjob safe necessarily if somebody's not playing well.
You know, it's not a somecost you know, we're following the
some cost fallacy where we think wegot to keep going back to because we
already invest in them. That's howgood footballs do it. If somebody's not
working, they bench them. That'show it works. They put somebody else

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in. And you know, that'show the NFL works. It's whoever is
performing the job the best. Idon't care if you're what you're getting paid,
you're not performing, you're not gettingon the field. Pressure to protect
someone is important to show. Brorowabsolutely see you hit some nice points there,
because I agree. I think youknow, the past several years,
the Bengals have gone like pretty farin, but all the way in,

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and a lot of it is justsome of these like they know they have
these weaknesses, but they don't fixthem. So before it still was the
offensive line, and then they puta lot of money in the offensive line,
and then it was let's throw JacksonCarmen in there, let's move positions,
let's throw Cordell Volson in there.Last year and it's like still moving
positions and still weak point in theline. You knew that you could have
upgraded it this offseason if you wantedto. There's plenty of guards, especially

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interior alignment. Do'al cost as muchyou could have gotten someone else, You
could have drafted someone else. Theyjust never go that extra mile to go
like, hey, let's make surewe go all in. Let's at least
get this guy some competition in camp. You know, hey, last year
we had three receivers all year.Let's go sign t Y Hilton as a
fourth receiver just in case one ofthem gets hurts. Because the offense just
totally changed when one of the receiversgot hurt last year and this year we

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still got like, hey, IrvSmith has been hurt at tight end,
he has certainly produced as much asyou would want. Let's go make a
trade. Let's go get Dare allare from the Giants. Giants aren't going
anywhere this year. Let's go let'sgo train the Broncos for some IJP Ryan
back because they're not going anywhere.You know, Let's get a second running
back that can do something. SoI liked all your points. This is
the biggest frustration with as the Bengalsfan. You see some of these teams.

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You know, the Chiefs noticed aweakness at wide receiver this year.
They won't at least try to gogive the cold Hartman. Is it gonna
work? I don't know, Idon't probably not, but like at least
they're trying to go that extra mile. Like the Ravens last year signed Justin
Houston to a one year deal.Olda's dirt still very good player and can
give them something off the bench,you know, like a rotational pass rusher.
Like that's what you want to see. They go They went and signed

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to JV and Clowney this offseason whenno one else wanted them, like,
go go, try to be moreaggressive. That's a big long grant for
me. But basically it's just let'sgo use the rest of the cast space
this year. Let's try to maximizethe super Bowl window because next year it
might be different. We might belosing someone, we might be losing to
Higgins, we might be, youknow, losing some other guys. So
let's let's try to go that extramile while we can what we can afford

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it to with the salary cap.And maybe if you have to trade a
six or seventh round pick right nowthat if you can get a player who
can contribute, that's way more worthit than it's keeping that six or seventh
round pick. So that's my soapbox. I'm gonna stand on with them and
just I wish they would go allthe way in one time. We'll keep
it moving to the Washington commanders atthe Atlanta Falcons c so we mentioned the

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Desmond Ritter unbelievable streak had not losta home game since his junior year of
high school. It is now comingto an end. Washington beat them twenty
four to sixteen. You know,desmont Ritter did not have his best game.
He was playing better at home thanhe was on the road. But
that's all over now now Drake Londonhad a good game. It seems like

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one of their skill possess some players, whether it's Bjeon, Drake London or
Kyle Pitts, can have a goodgame and then the rest of them all
have to do nothing. That's theArthur Smith way apparently. So this was
Drake London's week to step up.Kyle Pitts was last week, be John
was earlier this season, and we'restill giving Tyler Alger like thirteen carries instead
of just giving Bijon like twenty.He's a rookie running back, he's one

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of the best in the league,and we're just not going to use them.
So if you're a Falcons fan orif you're a fantasy person, you're
probably frustrated with the Falcons, andI would say good riddance to them for
losing, for how they're using theirskill position players. Yeah, shame on
them. Kyle Pitts. They geta touchdown though, yea, that is
that's more than he's done in awhile. But you're right, they just

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I don't understand what's so hard toget all three of your star you know,
skilled players involved in this game.It shouldn't really be that hard to
get these guys going, especially whenteams have to come multiple people. I'd
be play where if you know itisn't open v Jon Robinson probably is,
or Kyle Pitts is, somebody's havea good you know, they're all physical

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freaks. They're all guys that caneasily create mismatches on a team. Like
how many linebackers are going to coverKyle Pitts? How many honestly cornerbacks are
good enough to cover somebody's big asKyle Pitts in as fast? I don't
know. But the reality is,if somebody's focusing on one, you know,
you take advantage until they change it. And when they change it,

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you need to go to those otherguys. You need to get them involved.
Gijon on the screen, do whateveryou gotta do and carries. You
know, getting Patterson in there doesn'tmake any sense to me. You know,
why why is him? Why areout year the snaps they do?
I don't know. I don't thinkit's a good idea. Bijon's your your

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road to win games. You wantme a run grading offense. Bijeon should
probably get the ball twenty twenty timesa game. You know, the Falcons
can't afford to lose games. Youknow, the NFC South is very winnable,
but they need to make that happen. And the way to do that
is to every step they get inexpected. You know, the secondary has

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you know, the front seven hadsome issues. You know in this game
they weren't you know, the deepwasn't as strong as samhow But there's still
a good team here. And thenon the Commander's side, I mean,
they are the street breakers. That'stheir new thing. And it's crazy how
many streaks they have actually broken atthis point. It's kind of funny,
whether it's by them beating a teamor you know, by them losing to

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them. Now with the Bears,they just if you got a street that
you don't want to end, youbetter hold the command or you know,
if you're on a huge losing streak, maybe you pray the commanders are on
your schedule soon. So they playedwell, Sam Sam Howe played well game.
You know, they got Curtis Samuel, Terry McLaurin was finally involved in
this week. That's great, especiallyfor the owners that love Scary Terry out

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there. Good to see him getthe ball. And then obviously Brian Robinson
has been a very underrated running backfor them so far. So Commanders are
still playing decently well. Do theyhave a shot at anything? Probably not.
You know, you never know theseventh wildcard, the you know,
third wildcard spot, the seventh seed. The NC seems to always be whoever
wants at the end of the season. We know, going eight to eight

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and just trying to get that nightthat ninth win, get it for you.
And you know, there's a chanceof the Commanders play games like this
they beat some of these key teamslike the Falcons be there and may you
know have a tiebreaker over some ofthese guys we'll see, not put them
in my playoff picture yet, butthere's always a chance. And this is
kind of one of those key gamesbecause the Falcons may be one of those

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guys that will get in over becauseit could be close. Yeah, So
as you mentioned with the streak breakers, let's hope that the Bengals play the
Commanders in the Super Bowl. Youknow, Bengals zero three, they're trying
to break the streak here, sowe're rooting for them. We'll root for
the Commanders that they can do thatfor us. But yeah, I agree
with you. I would not wantto play the Commanders if I am on
a streak. We talked about itlast year with the Eagles and everything too,

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so the seventy two Dolphins definitely thankthem for sure. This week they
also got to drink because all theundefeated teams were eliminated, so that's always
fanned to see the seventy two Dolphinscelebrate. Cease. Let's go to the
Vikings and Bears game. I won'ttake up too much time here. We
knew Justin Jefferson was hurt coming in. We knew these teams two teams kind
of sucked. Then Justin Field's gothurt, kind of limited any chance of

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a comeback. Although back up TysonBeagent from Shepherd University Division two, came
in and didn't look too bad,so we'll see if he's got any juice.
It looks like Justin Fields is doubtfulfor this week, probably gonna miss
the game and maybe a couple moreweeks with a thumb injury. So Baigent's
the guy. A rookie, undraftedrookie out of Shepherd University. His dad
was an arm wrestling champion. That'swhy you're come into this show. We

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have all the info on everything youmight need. So Cecil's gonna officially challenge
his dad to an arm wrestling championchampionship. If Cecil wins, he gets
a thousand dollars. If Beaijin's dadwins, then CeCILL has to be a
Bears fan. So that's what we'regonna do. Some high stakes for me.

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But yeah, I mean Shields getshurt in this one. I mean
that's really the only hope they haveas an offense. DJ Moore seems to
have gone back into hibernation in thisgame for you know again, I get,
you know, Badgin's quarterback right now, but I mean, can we
get the guy involved? Like it'sjust underame DJ Moore has And it seems

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to have been like this with thePanthers in the last couple of years too.
Dj Moore, like madd has thisgreat game where're like, wow,
that guy's great, you know,he's in the NFL, and then he
just disappears back into the woods,like no one knows where he goes like,
why can this guy who can helpteam suddenly get not used everything?
It's weird, but that's neither herenor there. Justin Fields does put a

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damn for on the Bears, notthat there were any expectations. So if
you're a Bears fand you know itsucks, as long as he comes back
healthy, it'll be okay. Andagain it's just maybe the other team,
you know, maybe the defense,the offense that can take a step forward
and you know, just play togetherand you know, get some kind of
rhythm because it's unloing what's been goingon so far. There's really no good

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news if you're other Bears. TheVikings, they kind of got a pass.
They got lucky here with Justin Field'sgetting hurt because there was a chance
and even in the end the Bearswould look like they could now come back
as the Vikings suck. It's justthat simple. They've gone from you pretenders,
from frauds to now just they areno longer say just straight up suck.

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So rip Kirk Cousins the Vikings.They should trade him right now.
Maximize that value. I mean,if you're the New York Jets, holy
crap, please trade for Kirk Cousinsif you're really serious about this season,
because please don't make us keep watchingthis. I know we'll get to them
and maybe some interesting things that havebeen said over the last day or two
with a certain Jets quarterback. Butlove of God, let's get Kirk Cousins

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out of there. Let's embrace thetank, but stop being in tank denial
because there's no place worse to bethan seven to ten in the NFL.
So they get a win, it'smeaningless. Vikings aren't going anywhere. The
worst thing that's gonna happen is theyhave a premier receiver. They have a
solid number two they just drafted inJordan Edison. They have the highest graded

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left tackle and all of the NFLas Christian Dearosol. They have the highest
graded right tackle in the NFL andBrian O'Neill. And they are going to
let Kirk Cousins walk and then havea mid first round pick and not be
able to get their guy. Tradehim now, and that way you can
draft Caleb Williams or Drake May whereveryou might get that top five pick,

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and you can have them as comeinto this system where you have those two
top tackles and you have those twowide receivers and then you can draft a
running back to go with them.It just makes too much sense. The
Vikings are being idiots right now,if I do say so myself, being
in this limbo state, if they'rea winning, if they're like five and
two or four and two right now. Instead, sure, maybe you go
for it one last year with KirkCousins, but you're not, and it's

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gonna be very hard to get tothat point. So definitely with you just
go with the tank, go withthe tag, and see how it goes.
Next one up. One of themore frustrating games of the week Cease.
The Browns beat the forty nine Ersnineteen to seventeen. Now, Deshaun
Watson didn't play. It was he'sbeen cleared to play, said he didn't
feel comfortable. So PJ. Walkergets to start for the Browns after Dorian

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Thompson Robinson had been starting in placewith Deshaun Watson. Didn't really play that
well. He had two interceptions.This game was kind of marred by some
bad weather, some bad win.The forty nine ers got injured, no
excuse though. The credit for thisgame has to go to the Browns defense
and Jim Schwartz. You've brought upsome stats about how he is successful against
Kyle Shanahan. The set I'll bringup is the Browns defense last year was

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very bad in EPA per play whenthey played zone coverage. EPA play is
expected points added for the defense.He just kind of reversed that basically,
and they were the second best inthe league in man coverage, but they
played a lot more zone coverage lastyear. This year, Jim Schwartz comes
in and he plays a lot moreman coverage where they were good at last

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year, and what do you know, they rank first in the league.
So maybe sometimes it's not rocket appliancehas ceased to make a team better.
It's just taking what works and continuingto do it right. You don't have
to reinvent everything. It's a goodstat I mean, it'd be great to
see the Browns do well in agame where it's not pouring down. I
just want to say that, youknow, it's great. You know their

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world beaters. Unfortunately, Super Bowlsare played in Dome, so you know,
watch out for that. If you'rea Cleveland Browns fan, crowned yourself,
you know, World champions, you'realready you know, super Bowl bound.
The reality is you might have aquarterback who is he quiet quitting?
Are we getting a quiet quit?Is Deshaun Watson take just taking the money?

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I show her kind of hurt,really feel like playing. There's some
weird reports going out there, andBrown's better off without Deshaun Watson. No,
especially considering what they have. IsShaun Watson the long term answer,
Well, the answer is it doesn'tmatter because they all have two hundred and

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thirty million dollars. But ultimately allthe problems he didn't want to go to
Cleveland, the first place that waswell documented. He then basically did it
because they threw an ungodly amount ofmoney on him. And now he's got
a lot, and he I wantto, you know, tell if they're
injured, you know, playing throughinjuries, you know it's important to be

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healthy. There's we're getting weird reports, like you know, he's he's hurt,
and you know he's kind of thesesecond I'm I can't play today,
where it wasn't expected at all.It's kind of coming out of left field,
and it's weird because also there isso much money tied up to him,
have no way of recouping. Theycan't cut him, and uh,

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I mean the Browns need him likethey're in a they're in the hunt.
The ac North is very winnable andhe's just not out there. He's he's
They had the sun fucker they Imean, they only had one rookie quarterback.
He kind of left them, youknow, out to dry last week
where they had to start a rookiewe're back second. That was not something

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they obviously wanted to do. ButI mean this all begs the question of,
you know, what are the Brownsgonna be able to do when they
are you know, their defense isgreat. You know, it's one of
the best in the league. Iam totally fine with admitting that Miles Garry
is playing crazy, you know,the defensive secondary, you know, Denzel
Ward knew some all those guys areplaying really well. But what's this Brown's

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offense gonna do? I mean,ultimately, they ast Nick Chubb always,
Kareem Hunt's been brought back in.He had some good plays. Tron Ford
hasn't looked great, but I meanDeShawn Watson are not. I mean,
this this offense just looks thrown together. At times, Stefanski looks like he
doesn't know what he's doing, andthat's kind of sad considering he's an offensive

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mind, a head coach, Ithink for him and what we knew with
the vikings of the time, justloves running the ball, and that's not
necessarily a great, you know,way to win NFL games anymore unless you
have or Derrick Henry. So,I mean, where you're at. If
you're a Cleveland Browns fan, that'sgreat. You're three to two kings of

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the AFC North right now, it'sa very winnable division. They've got defense
and as good a shot as everybodyelse because no one else is playing great.
But the reality is, and it'sa lot like the Pittsburgh Steelers are.
Your offense can't really do too much. You're doing so much on your
defense to score points basically for youget turnovers and so you can win field

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advantage. Now that simply isn't gonnawork come you know, late in the
season with playoffs things like that.Great offenses are gonna score some points and
you can't hope to God that you'regonna get rain. The Bengals offense has
been a wreck anyway on top ofit made it. Basically, there's a
great team that get some injuries.You know, the Browns is are of

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the win. I'm not gonna tellthem they don't. It's just I would
when the aren't completely to their favorin their football, they go to win
games against tough teams, you know, in less than ideal situations. When
I see that, start saying,all right, the Browns are going to

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make the playoffs. But what Isee right now is I see a team
taking advantage of, you know,other people just not playing well and not
being equipped for what Cleveland they playin. So we'll see what happens.
They got another matchup against the Steelerstwo. Will they blow Well, there's
still a lot of season for theCleveland Browns. JAC North is a wide
open race, and we will seewhat happens. But they got to win

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unbelievable. Good job for them forthe upset, but they got some weird
problems they need to address, especiallyfor a team that's three and two.
Absolutely they do. AFC North definitelyis a division We're gonna have a lot
a lot to say about the restof the way. Very very competitive.
Definitely with you, I would loveto see them win games in a more

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twenty first century fan. The defenseis good, definitely can help them along
the way. But if that offensecan't get going a little bit better,
I don't know what the ceiling ishere. Good for them to beat a
good team. I think he doesgive them some confidence moving forward. We'll
see where that takes them. Nextone up seas, the Dolphins beat the
Panthers forty two to twenty one.What we expected coming in was pretty much

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that. What we weren't expecting isPanthers went up by fourteen points. The
Dolphins quickly come back in that onewin forty two to twenty one. If
you were a smart person, youwould have put money down on the live
line right away. That won yousome money for the Dolphins. But more
or less, this is exactly whatwe expect. That the Dolphins are a
good team, the Panthers are abad team. Two and Tyreek are both

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MVP candidates. What do he expectsthese? That's just how it goes,
right And you know, if you'rea big man, the Dolphins have if
you've been betting Dolphins games, theyhave paid you out very well. You
know. Obviously the Bills game isprobably the only game where you know,
just went completely awry. Other thanthat, I mean, they've been an
absolutely dominant team. I mean again, Panthers went on fourteen oh, and

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I sat there and maybe I was, you know, worried about having a
fourteen and a half point spread ifyou know, you're a betting person with
spreads. But ultimately, you know, I'm sitting there and I'm like,
there's no doubt in my mind theDolphins and win this and honestly went it
by over you know, went itby ten points. Still they ended up,
you know, exceeding that completely andjust dominating the Panthers. Really,

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you know, the backup throw apick six to make it twenty one.
It was really basically the Panthers scoredthose two touchdowns in the first quarter and
from the offense got do a singlething, and the Dolphins woke up and
just destroyed them from then on.And we're talking absolute domination where he monstered
just continues to just eight yards scoretouchdowns. The man's thirty one years old.

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I mean he looks like, youknow, he just got in the
NFL fresh out of college. You'rescheming people. Ireek Hill had a little
bit of a handstring thing happened.So that's concerning something to watch out,
especially with a guy who was ableto have such great speed and that's such
a big part of his game.But you know, Jalen Wattles starts break
up as well. It just seemslike they just plug and play. These

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guys in you know, two us, making good decisions and just the scheme.
I've never been so like obsessed withan offense honestly in my life,
especially for a team I don't rootfor. I mean, I'm I'm becoming
a part of two and on now, as I've said, But ultimately I
can't help but root for the Dolphinsbecause I love the personalities on the team.

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I love what they're doing as anoffense. Their defense isn't something that
just sleep on either. They havegood guys, they're big, they're fast,
so maybe they're not necessarily, youknow, a top five defense,
but they're guys are gonna fly aroundand you know they're gonna be there in
some of the big moments. Soagain, I'm still on the Dolphins train.

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You know, if the my Bengalscan't get there to the Super I
want the Dolphins to be there,so I think they're playing extremely well.
If you're a Panther fan, itjust sucks because the reality is you don't
have a first round pick. You'reliving traded up for Bryce Young, and
I do want to call him abus saying that by any means, but
the return has not been great sofar. Again, he doesn't have the

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offensive line you'd hope, he doesn'thave the weapons that he needs. You
know, he really hasn't put putin a position to really succeed. It's
very frustrating too if you watch theHouston Texans, who have been an absolute
dumpster fire, barely have any weaponsor anything to protect CJ. Stroud and
he's doing well. So that canabsolutely be frustrating if you're a Panthers fan.

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You know, I think Bryce Youngwill get better. I think that
will turn that corner. But itjust this is the risk with mortgaging your
draft picks, especially when your teambut you know it's probably gonna pick high.
Like I hate when teams that area bottom ten team in the NFL
just go, yeah, I'll tradeyou my next year's for a friend pick
and I just sit there and I'mlike, well, there's ten pick and

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half the time ends up being atie. You know, if I'm a
team, a competing team, orjust a middle tier team, I'll go
absolutely. I'd love the top fiveNFL draft pick. Thank you so much
for my mid tier player that youjust want you're desperate for, and seeing
teams keep being bad over and over, do we make four decisions. I'm
hoping Bryce Young plays well, butif things don't pan out with Bryce Young

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and the draft capital they spent andthe players they traded, we could be
looking at a long term depression asa as a Panthers fan. Good thing
is, Caroline is a great placeto be. You know. Charlotte's a
nice town. It's a good placeto be. Weather's a little better.
You know, maybe you hang upthe cape and you go, I'll see

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any I'll see you next year.Oh no, I mean I feels like
that, right. I mean thedefense is good, but they just are
just you know, but gave upin this one. They had a lead
and they squandered it. And that'shonestly more frustrated than if we had just
gotten beaten for sixty minutes. Youknow, how many teams can go.
I went up two possessions and thengot crushed by twenty one points. Yeah,

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it's rough, rough days in Carolinaenough. I think my question to
you, sees I have an answerin mind. When was the last time
that you expected so many blowouts fromone team? So like, not the
Panthers, but the Dolphins to blowout so many teams, Like, when's
the last offense we saw like this? Like I don't even think Mahomes at
his peak was blowing teams out likethis and then not saying he's peaked or

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anything, but just you know,in the past couple of years over his
peak, because for me, Ithink this reminds me of like the Peyton
Man and Colts with how how manypoints they're scoring and how they're doing it.
It's just it, that's the lasttime I can remember something this unique
for an offense. Oh absolutely,I mean it was like mid two thousand's

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Coats. You know, we havethe eighteen and one New England treach year.
It felt like that a lot.I mean, they just outmatched everyone
so much. It just it justlooks like you're on a different level.
And for a minute there, theFininers looked like they were maybe a team
that can match them, and youknow, again, it's the NFL's parody.

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There's times where you know, someteam just shows play and is ready
to donate. You look at thatBills game against the Dolphins. I'm not
really sure what happened around interested tosee what the matchup rings here in a
couple of weeks. But ultimately,I mean, they're playing just at a
higher timpo than everyone else. Itseems like, is that they just go
in there and it's just, youknow, win the game. That's what

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Mike Daniels ultimately gives a shit about, is winning a game. Every coach
in the NFL will tell you thatI don't care how pretty it is.
But he's also in there and he'slike, I want to run the most
efficient system, and I'm not goingto let off the slept. My guys
just coast for half a game becausewe're up. It's like we're it's it's
like Belichick back in the day,right, three points on team two to

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three, and they, I mean, they'll still be trying to score in
the fourth quarter because he's like,why why would I stop? You know,
that's the reality. Why should Itake my team off the field.
Why should I let them stop executing? You know, you know, the
more practice you have, the betterit is. When it until it's you
know, very late, and youjust go time for the backups to go

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in. Why wouldn't you just keeptrying to score points? You know,
there's this weird thing in the NFLwhere people just go, that's good enough.
And if there's one thing we'd learnedthrough the years and the upsets,
you know, if your branded Staley, there's never enough points you can score.
There's no reason why he shouldn't bea goal to score touchdown or how

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explosive or how much time you use. I mean, if you're scoring ports,
you're scoring points. And just keepingthat tempo game has been amazing and
it's just it's the most honestly,it's the most fun team to just watch
weekend week as seeing a long time. It's just an NFL fan, Oh,
one hundred percent agree if there wasa more differentiated schedule where not every

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game was on Sunday, like thisis a team where you would tune in
on a Tuesday afternoon to watch.It's just you know, kind of like
talking about League Pass teams for theNBA, like teams you have to watch
League Pass to see and that wouldbe a team, so just you know,
piqued my interest a little bit.I think the most fun offense I've
seen since the Colts, at leaston consistent basis. And yes, the
Patriots that one year, but youknow, just a lot of fun to

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watch the Colts. Speaking of theColts, the Colts lose to the Jaguars
thirty seven to twenty Minshew Mania mightbe over. There was no Anthony Richardson.
He threw three picks, but TrevorLawrence played well and ETN had two
touchdowns as well too, So prettygood for them to keep on this good
track. They started off the yearkind of slow, but now they're up

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to four and two and it lookslike the AFC South is going to be
pretty winnable for him. Yes,they'll have the Texans to get through,
but the Jaguars are a couple ofsteps ahead in terms of the rebuild than
the Texans are. Oh absolutely,I mean the Jaguars, it's their division
to lose. Like you said,I mean, I did not expect.
I expected the Jaguars good, notgreat, and they haven't been great by

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any mean. Gosh, you wantto talk about the Colts, you know,
they've performed at times, you knowa lot of the key pieces from
the years before. You know,the defense hasn't really stepped up. The
run game has been very spotty,and again it just feels like Anthony Richardson
was really their whole offense just himmake trying to make things happen. And
you know, I'm sick of wasjust watching all these NFL teams. They're

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so just bereft of talent or justproper game planning. The whole like game
plan seems to be, let's justwing it until he fixes it it out.
You know, we're just gonna lethim just add live almost every play.
That just can't be how you runan NFL offense. There's got to
be thirty two mines out there inthe world that can run a competent NFL

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offense that has sound, you know, fundamentals. It just knows how to
you know, have a working offense. Because I'm starting to get sick as
somebody who watches the NF just withall the talent that's in the NFL just
barely be able to put something thatlooks functioning, looks like there's a legit,

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actual game plan execution or adjustments toit when it doesn't work. I'm
just sick of it looking like somebodyjust went, you know, we're overmatched
and we're just going to try tomake something. I'm sick of that just
being pretty much there for teams.You know, work, job and scheming
seem to have just gone by thewayside a lot of signs in the NFL,

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and it's something that is really unfortunatebecause, you know, and that's
one of the reasons I love theDolphins is because it seems like, yeah,
they have great talents. They greatreally you know, they're scheming,
they're planning, they're they're figuring itout, and they they take advantage of
teams enough teams don't do that.And I feel bad for the Colts because

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Anthony Richardson's now out for the season, But I mean, to be honest,
I mean, the culture just they'reat a crossroads where I hope Anthony
Richardson continues to play well. Helooked well, but I mean they got
to get the offensive line. Theygot to shore that up because it's not
looked great. And honest, like, can we get the man a true
number one receiver? I think thatshould be the number one thing of your
Colts fan is get Anthony Richardson areal I mean, obviously you saw something

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Taylor a long term extension. That'sgood that you gave him some money.
We'll see, you know how longit takes him to get kind of back
into playing mode. But ultimately theyneed some weapons for their young quarterback and
then the team can. Honestly,I'll be much more confident. But right
now they just do not look likethey can make something happen. I'm with

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you. I think they're gonna needto rethink what they're doing with the front
office. Obviously took Jonathan Taylor alittle bit time to get back on the
field, and that hurts when youhave a young quarterback trying to kind of
get better. So they're gonna haveto get a better wide receiver, like
you said, and get things alittle bit figured out. But they are
in play for next year for sure. But we mentioned the Texans. The

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Texans beat the Saints twenty to thirteen. CJ. Stroud still looks good through
his first pick ended up being anet positive for the Texans as they were
covered a fumble afterwards, and hejust seems to keep on playing well.
No matter what happens. The Saints, we talked about for me that I
thought like having all their players togetherwould be good and like they could start

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winning some games. But at theend of the day, Derek Carr didn't
have his best game. He threwfor a lot of yards, but not
the most efficient game, and afterwardshe said that like, this is no
excuse my shoulder injury is no excuseto not play well, and he is
right. This is a game thatthey probably should have won. The NFC
South still very much going to beprobably run through them, but one you
would have liked to have. Butfor the Texans, what an exciting,

(46:06):
I guess win for this team whenyou have CJ. Stroud up and coming.
Will Anderson played well in this gameand validates that trade they made where
they gave up their first round picknext year. They still the Browns one,
but for Will Anderson and Will Andersonplays well, c J. Stround's
playing well. Jaica Ryans is doinga fantastic job. No, absolutely,

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and again it made sense with Texansbecause you know, they got their quarterback.
They were smart there, and thenthey saw a plus value and they
traded back up to six. Overall, you know, they didn't trade away
talent on our team. It wasa very different situation it was with the
Panthers obviously, and because of thatDeshaun Watson trade, they still have that
Browns pick. So you know,it's it's different when you have a pluff

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throw of picks. You can takesome more risks and you know, it's
really worked out for them with WillAnderson. You know, Bryce, I'm
not Bryce Young, but CJ.Stroud has looked great. Honestly, he's
looked way better than young heads sofar. Again, if you're an Ohio
State fan, you sit there andjust go, why the hell wasn't c
J. Stroud this good in collegewith us? Like, you know the

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one game against Georgia. Is itjust they were just afraid of getting him
hurt? That is that the realreason? Like, because this guy is
is the straight has displayed traits andyou know, just the ability to be
a winner and the ability to reallyelevate a team that has so many problems
that it's amazing. It honestly isCJ. Stroud. And if you're in

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Houston, Texans, like, congratulations. I don't want to say you're you
know, out of the woods,but man, it's the first time you
can feel like you've had hope inprobably i'd say since Prime JJ watt Man.
It's really it. I mean thatdefense back then was absolutely great.
It was elite, and that washow they could win. And then Shall

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Wall and came in. You know, they had one or two good years,
but then after that they just BillRyan couldn't compete and they had and
then all the Deshaun Watson scandal oneyear after another where it's just been a
slog. So now I feel goodwhen NFL fan bases get out of the
gutter, honestly, because you know, as a Bengals fan, we've been

(48:22):
there. We've been there for along time. So it's good to watch
a franchise that's been beat up onto actually, you know, get something
right and the things to go betterthan you know, I never hope for
team, unless you're the Pittsburgh stora Cleveland Browns to really just go back.
You know, I don't hope yourteam, you know, completely sucks.

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The Texans did their time and entryand they've now come out on the
other side, and as long asthey make you know, the next couple
of drafts work and they do somesmart decisions. Is at front office again,
they're they're ahead of schedule and it'sa great place to be if you're
Houston Texans fan Saints. Ultimately,you know it's a winnable game you missed
out on. You're gonna want thisone back. You know, anna Cy

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South is winnable. But again,you're you're getting the other teams in your
division. But if you keep losinggames like this, you're gonna sit there
at the end of the season andbe like, man, I can't believe
the Falcons beat us with the divisiontitle. I can't believe Baker Mayfield and
Bay Buccaneers outperformed and were able tojust sneak in there and be the best
team, Like we had a goldenopportunity and they're gonna want this one back

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with you on that cease. AndI can tell you from experience watching Ohio
State the last several years, CeyStrong was very good, but it was
almost like having a Ferrari and keepingit in the garage all year, like
they have the wide receivers. We'vetalked about that over the last several years.
And obviously Chris all love playing onthe other side in this game,

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one of his best receivers. Theyhad the nice jersey swap after the game,
but they sometimes don't open up theoffense for CJ. Stroud and that's
what did them in when they're playingteams like Michigan even in the first,
first quarter, second quarter, lethim eve a Heisman Trophy worthy quarterback,
and you don't let him throw theball down field. That's just it's frustrating,

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very frustrating for fans. And thenthey opened up the playbook against Georgia
and look what happened. They wereright there in the thick of it,
and then Marvin Harrison Junior gets knockedout with a concussion and maybe changes the
game. So very frustrating from thatperspective. But CJ. Stroud is doing
what I think we thought he woulddo once he got into the NFL,
just maybe not with the Texans andtheir offensive line issue. So very happy
for him and the Texans moving forwardin that AFC South moving on to the

(50:37):
Jacobe Myers Bowl. The revenge game, the one that he messed up last
year as a member of the Patriots, now is on the Raiders. The
Raiders went twenty one to seventeen.Jimmy Garoppolo has a back injury. He
has to go to the hospital.Looks like it's not gonna be too serious,
but Brian Hoyer comes in. Sowe have a pair of former Patriots
going and winning this game twenty oneto seventeen. Mac Jones still looks pretty

(50:58):
bad. There's no solution on theroster. They're pretty much tanking at this
point. We'll see if they're justgonna take Heal Williams or what happens with
that. But also after the game, we had guys like I think Adam
Butler, the defensive lineman for theRaiders who formerly played for the Patriots,
saying he really didn't have much respectfor Bill Belichick because he didn't even say
hi to him after the game afterhe played there for four years. So

(51:19):
this is like a big Patriots versusformer Patriots game. Big mess. Overall,
one game, I think we cansay that it ended up being close,
But man, I just I don'tlike watching these teams seas like that.
I think the Raiders are three andthree and they still stink, and
the Patriots obviously stink. Oh absolutely, I mean the Raiders were coming like

(51:42):
the Patriots, the little Patriots teamthat could, I would have never sat
here and been like, yeah,I think Josh McDaniels is gonna lead the
Las Vegas Raiders and they're gonna dobetter than Bill Belichick and the Patriots.
We never thought that going into theseason. I mean, Bill Belichick's offense

(52:05):
is it's just it's it's it doesn'texist right now. Mac Jones makes it's
just horrible decisions just there and justyou know, he like he'll make one
good throw and then next thing youknow, he'll be back to just leading.
His receiver makes six. It's justso obvious. Sometimes it's just it's

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weird. It's kind of like someof the knocks people have had on Jared
Goff, but Jared Goff has actuallyperformed at a high level at points.
Is this you get every play itseems like you don't know what you're gonna
get out of the guys, andI mean that's huge. He has made
some great throws. You watch itsometimes you're like, all right, Mac
Jones can play, and then nextplay you're just like, this guy can't

(52:49):
take care of the football to savehis life. So Patriots turned disarray.
Raiders are still not a good teamin the NFL. They don't really I
don't think they have really any playoffbut they've beaten two other teams that are
just absolutely looking helpless right now,Green Bay last week and then the Patriots
this week. It's just it lookslike the Patriots are just giving up.

(53:13):
And you know, if that's partof the Bill Belichick get Cable Williams plan,
that's fine. But ultimately the questionthen becomes, will the Patriots actually
take Caleb Williams. Will Bill Belichickoutthink himself, find some stupid problem and
just decide, no, I don'tneed this quarterback to win, because ultimately,
I think Bill Belichick's tried to leanon a lot of older veteran players

(53:35):
for a long time now and justtrying to outthink everybody instead of just adapting
to what is and what is youknow, valuable and clear in the NFL.
You know, And it's weird becauseit seems through your regression because you
know, in the late two thousands, you know, just pretty much until
you know, it just became theJulian Edelman's show with Tom Brady. They

(53:59):
had good receivers and you know,they had Gronk and they had, you
know, an offense that was reallygood. And you know, Tom Brady
was there, obviously we all knowthat, but just the the leap off
of you know, obviously you don'thave a Hall of Fame quarters, but
you just don't have a strugglingly setoffense anymore. I can't think that that

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was just Josh McDaniels, because theydid just fine without him. I mean,
I don't know. Maybe Josh McDanielsis the only one that knew was
how to coach offense on that entireteam. Bill O'Brien has been workless as
their OC so far. Maybe it'ssigned for him to go back to Alabama
once again. But yeah, it'sit's an absolute mess right now. If

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you're the New England Patriots, ifyou're yeah, I'm glad that some of
those players kind of got one onNo Belichick. I feel like what I've
heard a lot of the relationships withBelichick has of those players is not good
and basically you're all replaceable and I'mthe one that's the genius here. So

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it is weird that Bill Belichick isa lot of this stuff slowly comes out
about Patriots players and you gotta startasking, I mean, how big is
should Bill Belichick. I mean,ultimately, I'm not talking this year,
you know, even if they havea bad year. But I mean,
how many more seasons of if youkeep getting our play and you keep getting

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Bill kind of refusing to adapt.How much long is Brobert Krab honestly gonna
give this, you know, becauseultimately he wants to win football games.
Bill Belichick obviously has bought a lotof credit, and you know, he's
been a great NFL coach for avery long time. But I mean,
when does the rumble have Hey man, maybe it's time to retire or you

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know, give some power to somebodyelse in the organization to do certain things,
because I don't know if it's necessarilyBill Belichick doesn't anymore. I just
think, you know, other peoplehave assistance from GM, a real offensive
staff. You know, Bill Belichickjust seems like he just concentrates power with
himself, just believing he can doit and no one else can and the

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team is just suffering. You can'tdelegate anything. I think this is the
case of Bill Belichick, the GMletting down Bill Belichick the head coach.
You can't go excuse me, youcan't go into the season with mac Jones
as your quarterback and feel like thisis like great, and you can't go

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draft them and feel like it's greatdrafting someone that kind of fell for a
reason. And the whole reports ofall the forty nine ers were gonna take,
No, they weren't all right.And if they were, Kyle Shanan
has the same problem we talked aboutbefore, where they think they can win
with any quarterback in the league andit's not true. So at the end
of the day, you have togo acquire good players. It can't just
be about a system. It can'tbe, Hey, we can find a

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guy in the sixth rounds who's gonnabe a Pro Bowl Hall of Fame quarterback.
That doesn't happen all the time.That is rare. It does not
happen. So it's a lot moreabout the Jimmy's and the Joe's and the
x's and the o's. It's oldsaying, but reports are they might be
firing him this year. Robert Craft'sgetting frustrated. And if you look at
Bill Belichick's career record as an NFLcould head coach before Tom Brady, after

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Tom Brady, just without Tom Bradytotal, it's not very good, and
I think there's still a lot ofcredit to be had for Bill Belichick for
those years what he did and sobeing the greatest head coach in NFL history.
But at a certain point you gotto make a change, and I
think Robert Kraft might be at thatpoint. That's crazy. This is the
most head scratching thing about this,right, And maybe it's an aberration,

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you know, you know, asan outlier compared to all the other traduless
seasons, but I mean the MattCastle New Englam Patriots year. We all
remember it and it just seems likethe absolute craziest thing. Ever. I
don't understand how suddenly, you know, you know, I think it is
drafting, like you said, isa big part of it, but just
the offense, just the general abilityto do things. I mean, Bill

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Belichi and that staff won what wasit ten games for Maccastle eleven games?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, becauseTom Brady went down the first game like
a quarter in so and they hada horror part with Matt Castle. You
know, they then just started winningthe hell out of games. Obviously that
was the roster that went a one. It's a little different, but still,

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you know, the offense goes throughthe quarterback and they made massle millions
of dollars that year. So theidea that they could have all that and
just have such a clear ability.But we all thought, you know,
Bill Belichick was the genius, notTom Brady is because the matc Castle year
just seems so unreal and just seemedlike it was such a great accomplishment for

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Bill Belichick and his staff. NowI don't know again, was it Bill
Belichick at all? Was it JoshMcDaniels, was it you know, Bill
O'Brien, you know who on thePatriots staff was the one doing this because
all these guys have gloved Bill Belichickand not being able to do any So
maybe it's just a flash of thepan. Maybe it was all luck.
But it is weird to see BillBelichick just not be able to coach an

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offense or really get the right coachingstaff together to work under him. Considering
that, you know, it wouldbe one thing if you know, every
Tom Tom Brady was out, theylost games, but they were winning games
without Tom Brady with backups consistently yearin and year out, and now magically
now with Mac Jones, they can'tdo shit. I mean, there was
a time where we thought, youknow, Tom Brady goes out, Garoppolo

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is their quarterback, they can makethe playoffs and be a superwol content with
Jimmy Garoppolo. We thought, Soit's weird. Hell, the times have
change, and it's it's weird whereBill Belichick's career is at. If he
gets fired at this year, thatis one of the you know, it
seems to be that way a lotof times, right with legends, you
know, it doesn't play you hopeit's not the retire you have this great

(59:53):
time on the sunset. A lotof these guys have kind of Montana I
had the same thing, you know, Brett Fahr. You know, these
guys kind of end up leaving orsomething happened, some kind of fallout Aaron
Rod where you know, things justdon't end in a happy ending for unfortunately.
So we'll see what happens with Belichickagain, it'll be with Bill Belichick's

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not coaching the Patriots next year,it will definitely feel weird. We'll see
what happens with that. We're gonnabe tracking that and the draft and everything
else going on and with this wholeorganization because you know, you're right.
If they do get the first pick, do they even take Kibb Williams Like
It's like I wouldn't say a nobrainer, but it's definitely the projected pick.
And then just the whole whole messto figure out up there. All

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Right, So the Los Angeles Ramsbeat the Arizona Cardinals twenty six to nine.
I won't spend too much time onthis one, seas we kind of
expected it. The only thing I'llsay is the Cardinals, I guess failed
to move the chains. They didn'thave James Connor on this one. That
really hurt them. And then forthe Rams, they have Karen Williams get
hurt, they have Rodney Rivers gethurt. So, now, if you're

(01:01:00):
a fantasy player' probably picking up ZachEvans. Darryl Henderson got re signed.
It's you know, the running backsituation could be a mess, but the
Rams will be fine overall. Yeah, I think the Rams will be fine
because I think they're just trying tofind a running back to back there,
because honestly, they have a greatset of receivers. It seems like now
with Cooper cup back in there,he played excellent this game. Pokinaku is

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still there. You know, there'stoo too at well involved as well.
So I mean, I think thisteam and you know Matt Stafford, he
stays healthy enough, they can dosome stuff. Ultimately, protection is a
little spotty at times, which issomething to worry about. You're a Rams
fan, if you're one of thefive of them. But you know,

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the Arizona Cardinals are not a goodteam. Their biggest cog has been James
Connor, who to this day,if you're a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, you
should just sit there and be Ican't believe we let James Connor walk away
for really not that much money inArizona, and you know we drafted another
running back who has yet to doanything, So yeah, it's kind of

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names. Connor makes that thing runand he's been the point of them for
multiple years because they haven't had anyother talent. And that guy has been
a greater for the NFL, youknow, a heck of a career so
far for him being someone who reallywasn't expected to do anything more than just
be a Le'Veon Bell replacement while thedispute happened and no one expected anything and

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just being like, oh, maybeyou know, it's all a system thing
to just really just being a guywho runs hard is all every single down.
And you know, I respect thehell out of James Connor for that,
and he he really is what theyhave on offense. Until you know,
Kyler Murray gets back. If theyeven decide they're they're gonna let him
take the field against there's really noway through it, especially without James Connor.

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Yeah, definitely on that point,I'm definitely respect James Connor, even
from his pit days University of pittwith the torn acls, the beating cancers.
He's just a terrific human being anda guy who's who's fought hard for
everything he's gotten. It does showthe value of maybe at the running back
position, maybe just certain players atthe running back position, however you want
to view it. Sometimes when youlose guys like that, it does affect

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the whole team, and that definitelydid for the Cardinals. For them,
they do have Kyler Murray coming backat least starting to practice window. Wouldn't
you know it was a day afterCall of Duty Modern Wearport Warfare three's open
Beta ended. He goes back topractice a lot of conspiracies there, but
he's he's going to be coming back, So we'll see what they do.
I would have there's no incentive toreally play them. You can kind of

(01:03:40):
just go into next season and maybedraft Cale Williams, so want to see
how they do that whole situation.The Jets beat the Eagles kind of surprisingly
cease. They win twenty to fourteen. Now, this is a lot of
credit to the Jets defense, butI will just say, Cees, this
was Jalen Hurts really bad game thatkind of did him in here. Three

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interceptions. He has seven interceptions onthe season. Now the Eagles are five
to one, but he's got seventouchdowns seven interceptions on the year. He's
got to start playing better. I'mnot saying he's a one year wonder.
I'm not saying that at all,but if they're going to go back to
the Super Bowl, possibly win theSuper Bowl, he has to start playing
better. He can't have games likethat where he's gonna turn the ball over

(01:04:24):
that many times, right, AndI mean, I think that's something with
Jalen Hurts that you know, thatwas kind of one of the big knocks
on his game going into though,Right, was ultimately his ability to not
turn the ball over and protect thefootball. I think that was a big
thing. You know, his accuracy, his decision making of it. He

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goes really last year played to allof his strengths very well. And you
know johncgannon was really able to ornot was it John McGannon was their defensive
corder, right, it's Shane Steichenwins are out? No, yeah,
Shane, I'm right, Okay,cool. I just want to make sure
staking was there. And you know, they really down on Hurts his turnovers,

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and I mean, I think itwas huge. I was a big
thing the year before as well.As you know Jalen Hurts has an arm.
We know that. You know hehas legs. He can make things
happen, but you can't keep throwinglike look, staring down guys and throwing
into double coverage. It's not gonnawork, you know. He just he
was able to use his legs more. The offense was able to just get
the ground game going with Jalen Hurtsmore last year. And then you know

(01:05:30):
that opened up so much stuff onthe big player on the back end,
and we still see those with AJBrown, We still see him with DeVante
Smith. But you know, JalenHurts has got to be you know,
maybe it's part of it is hejust he has to use his legs.
He has to keep beating teams foryards, ten yards, twenty yards here
to really make them truly focus onlyon him. And you know, again,

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the Jets are really good defense.They played really well, I mean,
and the idea that they stayed motivatedto play so well despite Aaron Rodgers'
injury in the first drive first gameis a hat. His hats off to
solid there as well. You know, they've played extremely well. Zach Wilson
is still he's played better than justthe worst thing we've ever seen. He's

(01:06:14):
gotten better, but he's still notgreat. Breist Halls looked well at times.
But yeah, Jalen Hurts lost thisgame for the Eagles. There's really
no way to sugar code that inany way. Eagles, you know,
they're play of opportunities. You knowthat he should have just not forced the
ball so much. I know,I think he just got frustrated with how
well the Jets had played and wantedto make them some things happen. In

(01:06:38):
stays just altamately protecting the football,which you know, if he had just
done that, honestly, it wouldhave been very hard for the Jets to
drive down the entire field to score. Absolutely, and I think the the
thing for the Jets they mentioned likethat they've played so many elite quarterbacks already,
and they've done well against all ofthem, I'm all, but Dak
Prescott. I think Dak Prescott hada pretty good game against them. But

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they and the defense has played wellset them up for a possible return to
maybe playoff talk. And now wehave Aaron Rodgers and as you know,
what is science, and I'm gonnabeat science. Science sucks whatever. I've
been there because science is a liarsometimes. But if you watch, it's
always sunny. But that's just youknow, we'll see what happens there with
Aaron Rodgers and his conspiracy theories.But let's let's move on seas to a

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battle of former number one overall picks. We have Jared Goff versus Baker Mayfield.
Jared Goff wins this one. Theythe Lions win twenty to six.
Just consistent play over the course ofthe game gets them that way. Three
to fifty three yards and two touchdownsfor Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield kind of
struggles in this one. At theend of the day, I don't have

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anything. I mean, yeah,Baker struggling, Buccaneers, they're still doing
better than I expected this year.And the Lions, let's just talk about
them. They're elite. They're anelite team in the NFL. Who would
have thought we're talking about the Lionsis one of the best teams in the
NFL. It's great. I mean, Dan Campbell not gonna say he's the
best guy at scheming or anything likethat, but he's a hell of a
motivator, and he's got great guys, you know, and he honestly one

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of the most underrated things in theNFL is building a great staff around you.
Bill Belichick clearly has not been ableto do that. And you know,
Kyle Shanahan for years has had assistantafter assistant come out there and just
be absolutely a great NFL head coach. So it looks like Cambell, you
know, he comes from the SeanPayton claw. You know, there have
been a lot of guys that haveworked under Sean Payton. You know,

(01:08:30):
obviously it's not a great time withthe Broncos right now for him, but
I mean he's able to put togethera great staff from the connections he has,
and I think that's truly shown.I think he's not a great offensive
coordinator. That's really taken the Lionsto the next level. You know,
teams should be interested in him inthe next head coaching cycle. You know,
defense is as key rope, keyplayers at the right positions. They're

(01:08:54):
not great by any means, butthey make key plays. They've got Adon
Hutchinson, They've got Bryan Branch justplayed really well. You know, They've
got Chauncey Gardner Johnson. They've justgot guys auditions they need in order to
win football games on that end.And the I mean the offense is great.
You have to think no Jamir giveshim this one. Dave Montgomery gets

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hurt, you know, at themidway point, it seems, and it
didn't phase them all. You know, they still you know, the heck
of a lot of yards, Ramand Ross, Saint Brown, James and
Williams gets his tough first touchdown ofthis year. He's back in, but
that's exciting to see him get involved. A San Laporte is there. You
know now that James and Williams isback. There's no reason to doubt this

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offense. They will be good.They have a strong offensive line. You
know, Jared Goff has cut downon the mistakes this year that we saw
the last couple of years, andwith the Rams later on, we got
everything for a good team, notjust gonna win the NNESC North. At

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this point, I think it's Ithink it's kind of a done deal if
you NC North team to just saythe Lions have it at this point.
I know, I just don't seeanybody else. The rest of them should
probably just be tanking for better draftpicks. We're talking about a team that
can beat some NFC. Now willthey I don't know, but it's gonna
be interesting. And you know,I'm honestly looking forward to the NFC playoffs

(01:10:18):
this year because there are some reallygood teams, some new teams that are
kind of up and coming, andI can't wait to see what happens.
I'm excited. Detroit Lions, baby, I am as well. I Mean,
we got the teams we thought thatwould be good, the Eagles,
forty nine Ers, the Cowboys.Then we have the Lions and we thought
would be good, but like betterthan expected. We have some other teams

(01:10:39):
in the NFC West, like theRams, who are stepping up and better
than we thought they would be thisyear, So it is going to be
more exciting than we thought Cease andI'm excited for the Lions too. I
think that's gonna be a lot offun. But that also includes maybe teams
last year that were kind of mediocrethat made the playoffs who are now not
going to make the playoffs. Sowe're just gonna go ahead and talk about
the and Bills on Sunday Night Footballbecause that's just the perfect segue right there.

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The Giants have Tyrod Taylor starting thisgame on Sunday Night Football in place
of Daniel Jones who's hurt, andthen we have them going up with the
lead six to nothing at the endof the first half. But the end
of the first half, they havea chance to extend the lead and Tyrod
Taylor decides to audible to a runplay and they get tackled short of the

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goal line the clock ticks out,they lose a chance to add on to
the lead, which obviously has abig effect at the end of the game.
Now, Brian Dable chewed his buttout when they were on the sideline.
That is going to be something thatlike a lot of players are not
going to like like, hey,you can do that private, you do
not do that the players in public. That's something they made a point on
the broadcast about. But Tyrod shouldhave known not to switch to a run

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play in that situation. The goyou know play the second half, still
have a lead, and then thesecond you know, the fourth quarter,
the Bills score fourteen point points.Stefan Diggs gets going and everything, and
they have a chance to go downand win the game. In the end,
they get one one pass interference calland then in the second second time

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they go for In this last playof the game, Darren waller is opening
the end zone. Looked like apretty bad PI with the guy pulling at
his at his collar and didn't getcalled. And there's a lot of complaints
on this one. End of theday though, with all the drama that
happened within the game, with BrianDabele facing his former team and everything else,
the Bills went fourteen to nine ina week of upsets. I think
you have to take that if you'reBuffalo. Yeah, I mean, honestly,

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people getting mad that Brian Dable lossis cool on Tyrod Taylor. I
mean, I have no problem withit when it's something that egregious, that
big. I mean, I mean, Tyrod Taylor's not a rookie quarterback,
right, Tyrod Taylor has been inthe league while he knows he's in no
situational football. I don't know Daball, maybe he got the brunt of it.
I think Dabell was also upset withthe offensive staff a lot. I

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think you know, he was kindof mad that that was even an option
for that check to be done atthat point. I think he was just
trying to figure out who who likeallowed this check basically, who was like
told Tyrod to be okay to checkinto this at this time. Just trying
to figure out who who is theone behind this that like installed this thought
that this would ever be something wewould do. So I think Brian Dable

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it was super frustrated. Tar Tara. I think it was just frustrated with
everything because, yeah, I thinkyou're you're up six to zero on the
bills. You're supposed to be destroyedby winning. They haven't, and you
know, every point is important inany NFL game, especially one like this.
You're Brian Gamble and honestly, you'reYou've done great with this team,

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but you know the limitations of it. You've got a backup quarterback in You've
got the same offensive challenges you've had. You have Kwan who's back, but
you know he's not solid right now, He's not one hundred percent. And
you know I am one hundred percentokay with Ryan Davill doing that. You
know, if anything, it feelsbetter than somebody just going in the back

(01:14:08):
and screaming at me. You know, there's something smaller, sure, but
I mean that's a huge emotional change. That's a huge swing of the momentum.
That's something that you know, ifI was the head coach too,
I would feel the exact same waythat being said, you know, the
Giants lose this game and they hadno business being in it, but sure
the Bills will take it. Theygot that win, But what the hell

(01:14:30):
ultimately Bills team? You know,I know they're heard a lot of those
injuries really were on the defensive sideof the ball, but that wasn't the
problem. Just again, like thereare some teams this year, honestly,
all the top AC teams, youknow, Bengals, the Bills, the
Chiefs. Their offenses have just beenthe slowest, most inconsistent things I think

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I've seen. It's weird, andit's weird for it to be old them
as well. You know, we'vegot these teams that are all everyone like
you could find you know, probablydozens of people in the media, you
know, pretty much almost then everyonein the media probably picked one of those
three teams to be AFC representative inthe Super Bowl, almost nine of them

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probably, and none of them havereally looked like they deserve that credit at
this point. The Bills have shownflashes, sure, but then they have
games like this where they just theoffensive rhythm wasn't there. Josh Allen looked
like he was just missing targets.The run game was not really you know

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that the run game was honestly thebest part of their team. The biggest
thing I've noticed the Bills is Ithink they've gotten better at running the ball
themselves, but I feel like thepassing game is taking a step back,
and the real reason is just JoshAllen not not making the plays he's used
to making. And then two,the Buffalo Bills do not seem to have

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address the problems. You can justrun on them, you can control the
clock, you can just bully themon the offensive line. So if the
Bengals did in that playoff game lastyear, and that seems to be what's
happening is you know von Miller's back, sure, and that's good, but
you can the front four. Youknow, if you're trying to run the
ball down the throat, you cando that with Buffalo and and that's not

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a formula for success. That's ahuge glaring weakness for a team that wants
to score a lot of points.Keeping you off the field, keeping you
out of rhythm. The Giants accomplishedthat, and that's a huge blueprint going
forward to beat the Buffalo Bills.Right, you don't need to be the
better team necessarily. All you gotto do is capitalize on Josh Allen's mistakes,
limit their opportunities to score. Andall she had to do is just

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get in the right situation and controlthe football. Yeah, it is nice
that there's some other teams why peopleto use that blueprint against the Bills,
including the Bengals later on, aswe talked about playing them in a couple
of weeks. Here, I thinkBrian Daviles is frustrated with every thing.
He's the head coach of the Giants. He somehow brought back Daniel Jones.
I don't know if he was involvedin that decision, how much he was

(01:17:05):
involved. But Daniel Jones is yourquarterback that's probably not very good and you're
one to five, you know,can you tank? Can you? I
don't know, Like Daniel Jones isgonna come back and then you're you gonna
play him? What's gonna happen here? So a lot to be frustrated by.
If you are Brian Dable, thisis maybe your one shot to be

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a head coach in the NFL.First year, great, second year not
going so hot, And at theend of the day, if he gets
fired after a year two because theyhad regressed, it may or may not
be his fault, and ultimately he'sresponsible for it, but it may not
be his fault. And that's whatkind of stinks, all right. Monday
Night Football sees the Cowboys beat theChargers twenty to seventeen. Dak Prescott plays

(01:17:48):
pretty well, Seedee Lamb plays aswell as well. Going into the fourth
quarter, the Cowboys take a twentyto seventeen lead, and then the Chargers
justin. We've seen this in thepast, the collapse kind of happens.
It's going to be start to bea narrative with them. He's still very
talented quarterback. He throws a pickto Stefan Gilmour, their first round pick.

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Quinton Johnston is getting more playing timenow that Mike Williams is out for
the season. He didn't really fightfor the ball, So it's a whole
thing. Cowboys needed to bounce backand get a win after their bad performance
last week against the forty nine ers. And on top of it all,
we might have an NFL plant becausethere was a lady who was just going
nuts with the reactions all over socialmedia on Monday Night football finding out that

(01:18:31):
hey, she's also a Vikings fan, and people are ripping her to shred.
Cecil, I don't care for you'rea fan of multiple teams. You
know, we both like cheer forthe Bengals, we also cheer for some
other teams. Just the weirdest behaviorever to be like obsessed about who if
this woman cheers for more than oneteam and all that stuff. Let people
live, Let people cheer for whothey want to cheer for. Why does
it bug people so much? It'snever understood this right and again, I

(01:18:55):
mean there are opposite conferences are acrossthe United States from each other. I
mean, it's it's very common ifyou're an NFL fan to have a team
you also kind of root for inthe other conference, a team that you're
like. They never play each other. You know, the only time it's
really ever gonna matter is a superBowl. That's a very normal thing to

(01:19:15):
have. I don't you know,let's stop gatekeeping who you can like and
who you can't. You know,I'm totally fine. You know, we
can gatekeep if you like at somebody'sarch rival. That doesn't make any sense.
Are you really a fan of either? But two teams that are completely
unrelated to each other, have nobeef, have no real rivalry of any
kind. There's really no connection betweenthe two of them that I can even

(01:19:38):
think of. So who cares?They're completely separate? I mean this,
I mean, she had some crazyreactions. Is she an NFL plant?
Who knows? Godell just makes moreand more money three more years, is
gonna make seven hundred dollars by thetime he's done. I don't know,
he's maybe he's just we blew him. He keeps making money. And if

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this point to the game again,Chargers is very unimpressive in every way.
They're very below expectation. I shouldsay, because I don't think they're a
bad team. I think they're ateam. They're a team that on paper,
it's like they seem sexy, rightif we're for lack of a better

(01:20:21):
work, it got kind of that, Oh, we've got this big armed
quarterback. He's young, he putsup all these stats. He's great.
We got Keenan Allen. You know, we got Austin Eckler. You know,
we've got a Bosa on our defensiveline. We've got Khalil Mack and
we got some you know, allthese people are like, oh wow,
look at these stars. That's awesome. Like I'm it's Chargers team is gonna

(01:20:42):
be so good. And then theyget on the field and you're just like,
all right, this is a veryboring, average game again, and
you're not really wowing me with anything. You're just kind of there and it
seems like, you know, it'sstarting to become justin Herbert's career, is
wow, this guy's really talented,but I don't actually see it when it's

(01:21:04):
time they ask, like he doesn'thave it. It seems like when they
need to have it, it's kindof deal. But you know it's great.
I mean, you know, helooks great in the first quarter.
He looks great. You know,when they're up on a big lead,
you know, he looks like agood guy. But when the chips are
down, like, I need tosee more than this guy to be like,
all right, this is the thisis the clutch time. This is

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where he puts together all those youknow, immense talents, physical traits and
is able to just do things andelse can and he does them throughout games.
But when we need it most,it suddenly just doesn't happen, don't.
I don't know what that is.You talk about this, you know,
we scout prospects, we talk abouthim, We watch tape, and
it's the clutch gene. Right,It's something that's not quantifiable, it's intangible.

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It's something to know. It isjustin Herbert that fighter. Does he
have that true fight? And Ithink that was a big thing with its
draft profile too, is you knowhe went to Oregon. Oregon really was
irrelevant. He was great, ButI mean, where's Oregon in all this?
Oregon's not a national champion. They'renot in that conversation. Really,

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he's just he's there. He's great. That that's the Justin Herbert brand is.
Wow, this guy's super talented,but they don't actually win championships.
And you know that's that's great andI like Justin Herbert. I hope he
has a great NFL career. Butthe narrative is just gonna start being the
It's like the John Elway narrative wasfor a long time before he won the

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Super Bowls, right, John alwaysis an immense talent, but who cares?
Like it's you don't win championships inthe NFL. Who cares how talented
you were? It's about who theguys that grinted out? Who are the
guys that made these amazing plays?You know, John Elway put that drive
up at the end of the careerthat everyone knows and the Cleveland Brown stands
unfortunately know much even more. Butthat's those kind of clutch moments that define

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an NFL career. Everyone expects youto be good your franchise NFL quarterback.
You should buy your expectation is tobe great on Sundays. But really what
separates you and makes you member whensomebody that has a Hall of Fame career
is when you can make those keyplays in those key moments and games.
And I just haven't seen it fromJustin Herbert in a while. I'm with

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you, Cees, it's all moreabout winning. The people want to say,
yes, wins are in a quarterbackstat but when you're the one making
the mistakes at the end of thegame, that kind of hinders your chance
to win. And you know,I hate the whole John Elway thing because
it makes people think that he's abetter quarterback than Dan Marino. And those
people can just go shove off becauseDan Marino would ice games as much as

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he could just you know, talentaround them type of things. So that's
all well and good for Week six. Let's move on to Week seven seas.
The Thursday night game is a littlebite of an interesting matchup. Here
we have the Jacksonville Jaguars at theNew Orleans Saints. This line has moved
a little bit. It is currentlythe Saints favored by one point. Is

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Trevor Lawrence going to play? Whatis the current update? I think so,
I think so, we think so. This is a weird one.
This is definitely this is avoid thegimbling tables type of pick because how healthy
are the if they both start?That being said, I'm gonna assume the

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more talented team wins here. I'mgonna pick the Jacksonville Jaguars to upset the
Saints at home in a close matchup. I could totally see it going the
other walls. I know is thismight be a This might be a decent
undergame, depending on what the pointsare. Because Thursday night quarterbacks have been
practicing as much as managing injuries.This might be one of those key times

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to just go. If I'm gonnaput money on this game, I'm gonna
put it on the under. Yeah, with you on that season. My
pick is gonna look a little bitweird because I did my picks earlier in
the week on the website and they're, you know, doing well this year
and everything. But I had theJaguars with the points back when the points

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were plus three. They're now Saintsfavored by three? Are Saints favorite by
one? That kind of you wouldn'tdo that, right, That just doesn't
make any sense if you were gonnapick him out right. So I'm gonna
say the Saints will win the gameJaguars with the points. If it's plus
three, if it's plus you knowone, just go with the Saints.
But I do think the Saints defenseis underrated still from all those years the
Drew Brees offense. It's just theSaints defense will just never get the love

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they deserve. And I do thinkDerek Carr getting back healthier will be good.
And it's a night game in NewOrleans. That's always fun, especially
in that tough place to play.So the Superdome, I'll go. I'll
go Saints with this one with myamended pick there. Next one up seas,
Let's go with the Cleveland Browns atthe Indianapolis Colts. The Browns are

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currently favored by two and a halfpoints. We don't know if Deshaun Watson's
playing, Whether that matters, Idon't know. I'm gonna go the Browns
to winning cover of the small spreadbecause I think the defense for the brown
is gonna come to play. Ithink Minshew's I love Gardner Minshew, but

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man, those turnovers were rough lastweek, and I have a feeling a
lot of the same stuff that's gonnapop up in this Cleveland game. I
think the Browns are gonna have alot of short fields, and I you
know, I don't know if it'snecessarily My pick isn't really based on if
Deshaun starts or not, ultimately,because I think so Fantasy likes focusing on
the run, and I think moreit's about the field position game and how

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the defense can dominate the Colts.Probably that is why I give the edge.
It really has very little bearing tome if Deshaun Watson's there or not,
which shows you how much I careabout Deshaun Watson. At times,
I'm taking Gardner Minshoot to bounce backin this one. I just can't quit
Minshew mania. I'm obsessed with JimOrse, whether he opens the roof or

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closes the roof. This team,I think paper is good enough to still
make the playoffs with Gardner Minshew asthe quarterback. Their defense has been good
for years, their offensive line hasbeen good for years. Jonathan Taylor still
easing his way back in here.I think it ultimately is a close one.
Get you know, if it's ifI can't make my decision up,
then give me the team that isat home and is getting points. I

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will take the Colts in this oneand we'll see what happens at the end
of the day. But I believeGardner Minshew played a bad game last week
in rebound this week, how doyou think the roof is decided? Is
it only ersay say, like ishe a complete authority? Is there a
button? Do you think it's abutton or maybe like it's a like nuclear
surreen, like two keys have tobe turned or why do you think I

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think it's just one big button andthen just cover it. They do like
one of the cover things like menin black, you know, don't press
the red button. I could seehim trying to press it during the game
though, like him getting obsessed withlike the weather or something. And you're
not supposed to do that anymore,you know, back in the old baseball
days, you could close the roofduring the game if it started rating.
You're not supposed to do that atall. So that's just how I see
it. I think it should Ithink it should be. I think it's

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two keys. I think Erse's gota key. But because he's a wild
guard, he knows what's going in. He knows himself a little bit,
you know the head, you know, head of facilities in the staying where
someone else has got the other keyand they got to turn him simultaneously open
the roof together. Okay, thatthat would be funny. It'd be funny
if they had to close the roofand they couldn't find you merced because he's

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off on his bender or whatever that'dbe. That'd be a fun story to
have. Fun movie. We shouldwe should make that, write that down
for a movie idea. They haveto have to have the super Bowl in
Indianapolis and they can't find the keyto close the roof, so they got
to play a cold weather super Bowl. That'd be fun. Let's move on
to the falcons at the Tampa BayBuccaneers sees. The line has stayed pretty

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much the same all week. Itis the Buccaneers River by two and a
half. I'm gonna go I'm gonnasay the winning cover. I think they
performed above expectations. I think thatroster is still very solid. I think
the defense has played well up tothis point, and I think they feel,
you know, it's gonna be ifhe some of those big shots he

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takes lands with those big time receivers. I know the Buccaneers have had a
you know, you know, backand forth relationship with the Falcons, you
know, winning games, playing closegames against them. I just I don't
I can't trust the Falcons on anything, Honestly, I just I can't trust
him. I don't trust ars withSmith. I gotta go with the Baker

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Mayfield. I think he gets acouple of shots in there and that's the
momentum change in the game. SoBucks winning cover. I have the same
thing, you know, kind oflike you said, don't trust the Falcons
offense and Desmond Ritter as much asI do Baker Mayfield in this Bucks offense.
Yes, they had a bad game, but it was against the Lions,
who were a very good team wejust mentioned. I think they get
back on track. I think MikeEvans Chris god would have a big game

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and they win and cover. Sowe're on the same page there ceas next
one up, we have the BuffaloBills at the New England Patriots. The
Bills are eight and a half onthe road. Man, they are really
afraid of some of those Patriots Billsgames of years past. And this is
a weird crossroads to be at.I guess the Bills will get back on

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track, honestly. I mean theGiants game plan perfectly and the Bill just
being open and letting that happen twoweeks in a row, and so I
feel like the Patriots offensive line andrunning game isn't as good as the Giants
in State Quanare and I think it'sjust they've gotten a weird spot, right.

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I think they didn't expect the Giantsto come out with the fight with
the backup quarterback. I think theymay have gotten to involve themselves. This
is the visional game. I thinkthis was the wake up call. I
think the film they've they've been watchingthe last couple of days has not been
pretty. I don't think it's beena very nice talk by any means by
the coach, at least, I'dhope Sean McDermott is that's how he's going

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about it, because if I'm SeanMcDermott, I'm almost treating this like a
loss, I'm going in there andgo, congrats, you got to win.
You know, that's what's most importantin the NFL. But my god,
like we probably should have lost thatgame. Honestly, and to lose
a game like that to a teamlike that is unacceptable to me. This
should not have been close. Andyou know, we got our asses kicked

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basically and dominated for most of thatgame. And I'm not gonna let that
happen against the Patriots because the Patriotswill attempt to do the same thing,
keep away ball. But I justagain, I don't trust Mac Jones.
I think that's that's the key differencein this is Tyra Taylor will take care
of the ball a little better thanMac Jones probably will. So give me
the Bills to win and cover.I'm going the Bills as well, to

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win and cover. I've mentioned howmany times I just really don't like Mac
Jones as a quarterback. He's gotthe happy feet going right now. It's
something that you really, I guessyou could work on fixing during the year,
but like if you have bad footwork, that's usually like an off season
thing you gotta fix. I wouldrecommend them change to Bailey Zappi or Maally
Cunningham, who they just activated,but they seem to be hesitant to do

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so, so we'll see if theymaybe make a change down the road.
Here next what up we have theWashington Washington Commanders at the New York Giants
Commander server by two and a halfon the road and there. I don't
think we have word whether Daniel Jonesis playing. I think he's on good
track, though, doesn't matter tome. I like the Commanders to win
and cover. I think their heartsout last week. That's kind of an

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emotional letdown for them. I think, you know, you play so hard
and you still you know, Ijust can't win it at the very end.
I don't know if it's gonna buildmomentum. I think it's going to
just make them be a little sadder, honestly. But I think they put
together are putting a decent team rightnow. I Sam Howe keeps taking steps

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forward. I think Brian Robinson's youknow, played very well for them so
far. I think, you know, Logan Thomas, Scary, Terry,
you know, Josh, I meanJosh Dockson. They got so many guys
that team that play receive the ball, he said, and you know,
the defense has a lot of goodplayers, and you know, the Commander's

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probably the biggest weakness is their secondaryand the Giants have no receivers. So
I'm gonna go. You know,the weakness they played weakness to weakness and
over all the rest of the talentthe roster commanders are just better right now.
So managed to win and cover.I thought you said Josh Dockson for
a second, and then you haverealized you said Johan Dotson, and I

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was like, WHOA, what achange man from going from that one bust
to John Dotson who's seemingly okay rightnow. So that was a blast for
the past real quick. But Ihave the same pick as you, commanders
to win and cover. I likewhat you said about their defense. You
know, they have some guys whoare making impacts that didn't make impacts in
the past. We have, yes, we have, like we talked about,
Emmanuel Forbes is struggling on the outsidetheir rookie from this year. But

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they have some guys who are draftedin the last several years who are playing
well. So Chase Young coming backfrom that injury, has been injured a
lot of his rookie contract, he'scoming back. We have Jamon Davis,
the linebacker out of Kentucky, whowe kind of knew would take some time
to kind of figure out the NFL. But he really is stepping into his
role as a linebacker this year andplaying very well. He made the biggest

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play on the pass breakup at theend of the game against the Falcons.
He's played really well too. Sobecause of their defense is playing well and
because they think their offense can doenough, I think they win and cover
on the road against the Giants.We have the Las Vegas Raiders favored by
three points at the Chicago Bears rightnow, justin Fields is just doubtful.
I expect Tyson Bagent to be thequarterback for the Bears this week. I

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do as well. Wat'sa spread CurlyRaiders Favery by three. Yeah, give
me the Raiders to win and cover. I think the Raiders are in that
unique position of not being a goodNFL team, but put together enough and
have key, you know, starpowered players that keeps really beat up on
the worst teams in the NFL.So they're in that probably right, you

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know, right, that average tier, right, you know, maybe even
honestly, you know, the worstaverage team in the NFL, where they
are not good enough to really competeat a high level. And maybe mac
Crosby causes some people some issues ona couple of drives every once in a
while, but they're not there tocompete honestly, and ultimately they they will
beat up on bad teams that justare just in disarray. Yeah, I'm

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with them. You whin Cover,I'm with you on that season. I
think that's what they are. They'rejust going to pick off these teams that
are just not very good or havebackup quarterbacks in and that's what they would
do. I probably if Justin Fieldswas healthy, I think they win last
week against the Vikings. I thinkthey make that comeback, even though he
had some struggles, and I thinkthe Bear's probably went this one. But
they have Tyson Bagent, who Ithink can play decently. But just with

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all the deficiencies this roster has,it's just a little bit too much.
So I'm gonna say that the Raiderswouldn't cover. The Raiders go to four
and three, and then at thatrate, you're thinking, like, man,
if this team gets like two orthree more of these games, they're
in the freaking playoffs. Like whatthe heck? Man, This is such
a weird NFL year that we justweren't kind of expecting that. I don't

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know what to say. Just crazy, all right. So the next one
up, we have the Detroit Lionsat the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens are
favored by three sees. I thinkit's a fair line for a good team
at home. The biggest thing I'mworried about in this game for the Detroit
Lions is weather. You know,you're a Dome team, You're going to

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Baltimore. You know it's that timeof year where the weather's really turned,
and you know what's the other goingto be like there? I don't know
for certain. I'm gonna go.It's a risky one up. I'm gonna
bet. I think the Lions takethat step forward and show you how good

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they really are in this game.They come out with a win and pull
off the upset of the Ravens athome. Oh I like it, all
right. So I'm gonna go withthe Lions with the points. Yes,
it's only three, but this iswhat I'm absolutely torn on. Kind of
like you said, It's like,the Lions are a good team, but
they're going to the Ravens. SoI'm gonna take lines with the points with

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the Ravens to win. I dolike what Lamar Jackson is doing. I
think his receivers have let him down. I do think some of the injuries
are affecting this team. I doultimately think they defend their home turf.
I think the Lions put up agood fight, still proving that they're one
of the best teams in the NFLthis year. But this is like,
if they lose this one, it'skind of like except it's like, oh,
okay, I mean they lost tothe rain. That makes perfect sense.

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It's not like it's like a bigshock or anything. So Lions with
the points, ravens to win outright. Next on up on Sunday evening games
cease, we have the Pittsburgh Steelersat the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams
are favored by three at home.I think that's a fair line. I'll
go the Rams to win and cover. The biggest thing I'm worried about is,

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you know, you just never knowwhen the Steelers defense is going to
have that game, right. That'sthe biggest thing to worry about with them
is just are they going to scorea touchdown? They're gonna score fourteen points
off defense, there's the possibility.Matt Stafford is a guy who like getting
pressured and can struggle with at atime. So I don't think it's going
to eliminate the Rams offense. Ithink they still have a lot of good

(01:38:32):
pieces and running back. I don'tthink is of all the positions for them
to lose a key player at runningback. I don't think it's the most
important to Sean McVay. So Ithink the Rams will win this game.
It'll be close, but you know, you give me three points. I
got to go with them. It'sjust the Steelers, obviously. It's all

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if the Steelers defense can score.We're talking about again. If the Steelers
really aren't able to make those turnoversand it's just punts, I don't canny.
You know, the Rams defense isn'tgreat that the Steelers offense cannot move
the ball. Yeah, I'm goingthe Rams to win and cover as well.
The difference for me here is withoutCamp Hayward, the Steelers can't stop

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the run. I think no matterwho the running back is, they'll be
able to run the football on theSteelers. You know, they could be
Daryl Henderson, it could be ZachEvans or whatever. They could throw in
any one and I think they'll beable to run. They have a lot
better wide receiver playing now that theyhave both Cooper Cup and Pookakua. I'm
gonna go with them. The Steelersoff of a buy scares me because Mike

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tom Win is a good coach,but I think the Rams can get the
job done. Arizona Cardinals at theSeattle Seahawks. The Seahawks are favored by
eight sees by eight points. I'mgonna go the Seahawks will win. That's
a that's a hard spread. Uh, you know this is ultimately this is

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a tease down if you're doing parlays, and you know, I wouldn't bet
this game straight up with that spread, but I'm gonna go Seahawks to win
and cover. I'd be more happyif it was just a touchdown because eight
points is always a little scary,you know. The point is it's a
divisional game, right. A lotof these divisional games, especially in the

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NFC West, are always pretty close, and to say that they're gonna win
by more than a possession is ahard task. But I think the Seahawks
have proven that they can be agood team. I think they're a team
that will make the playoffs this year. But again, they're not elite,
and I don't think they're above gettinginto a kind of a dogfight with the

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Cardinals, So I'd wo out withthat spreads. But I'm, you know,
in a vacuum. Got in myhead. Seahawks are the more talented
team and I think can cover it, but not super confident. Yeah,
that's sort of how I feel.I'm gonna go Seahawks to win and cover.
I think more so, I thinkthey're probably happy to come back home
after that tough game against the Bengalswhere that tough defense was there. I

(01:41:05):
think they're gonna win and cover becauseof that, Like this will be like
feel like a little bit of aneasier test and can get everyone going again,
Dk Metcalf, I think we'll havea pretty big game and I think
they win and cover at home LosAngeles Chargers at the Kansas City Chiefs.
Chiefs are favored by five and ahalf. I'm gonna take the Chiefs to

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win and cover here. I thinkit's gonna be right around that point.
Again. I think the Chiefs winthis by about a possession a touchdown like
that. Again, I just Ihaven't seen the clutch gene with the Justin
Herbert in a while. I thinkthe Chiefs defense is only getting better,
and I think that could lead tosome struggles with the Chargers offense, and

(01:41:50):
you know, it just takes whatI'm not expecting an offensive explosion from the
pat Homes and the Chiefs, butI think they'll be able to win this
game enough, and I just feellike Justin Herbert is just not going to
be able to make those key playerswhen he needs to to really get one
over on the Chiefs. So Chiefsto win and cover. Same thing for
me. That defense, as you'vementioned in the past, a very very

(01:42:12):
good one. I think that putssome pressure on the Chargers offense. And
you know, like we said,the Chargers, we just can't necessarily trust
them, especially late in games,in close games. So I'm going to
go Chiefs to win and cover.Green Bay Packers at the Denver Broncos two
teams that maybe we're not looking forwardto watching this game. The Packers are
favored by one on the road.Yeah, I'm going the Packers to win

(01:42:40):
and cover. I don't like it. Broncos are just one of the worst.
He's the NFL that the Packers aregood, but I just I feel
like they've gotten more out of JordanLove than the Broncos have gotten out of
Russell Wilson. So far, Ifeel like there's some key players on green
Bay. The altitude, the homefeadvantage of Denver has worries me, but

(01:43:03):
so far, I just really can'ttrust the Denver Broncos at all. And
it's gonna be close again, probablygreat undergame to bet here, depending on
what that under comes out to be. But I just I'm not confident in
either of these teams. But Ijust I think the Green Bay is being

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able to get more out of theiroffense than the Broncos have, and that's
why I'm picking them. I tookthe Broncos. I they're at home.
Russell Wilson some bad, but probablynot as bad as like Twitter's making him
out to be. Right, Idon't know. I like Sean Peyton,
maybe not this year, but Ilike Sean Payton overall better than the floor,

(01:43:44):
So I don't know. Screw it. I went with I went with
the home team, So give themthere's This is a lose lose no matter
what you do. I this isnot a game to really just throw a
lot of money on. It's again, it's It's one of those low confidence
games, you know, unless you'rea Green Bay or Denver Broncos fan.
I'm staying away from because most importantly, I don't want to watch it.

(01:44:08):
I don't want to see it.I watch, I'll see what the highlights
are. You know, check infor my fantasy team. That's all I
want. I don't care about thisgame. Luckily, for you see is
to check the TV schedule. Thenational TV game for us is the Chargers
Chiefs, which I prefer. That'sa very good, good one. Thank
thank you, thank the football godsfor that one. All right, let's
go to Sunday night football, Seace. We have the Miami Dolphins at the

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Philadelphia Eagles, one of the bestSunday night football matchups I think of the
year. Two teams we could beseeing play each other at a super Bowl.
At least that's what the odds willsay right now. The Eagles are
currently favored by two and a halfpoints. Yeah, you know what,
I'm worried. You know, Phillyis a hard place to play again,
great home field for the Eagles.You know, we got a team in

(01:44:51):
Miami that's playing and now is nice, sunny eighty ninety degrees and now you're
going to you know, Philly inOctober and you know, tough place to
play. But ultimately, I don'ttrust the Eagles and Jalen Hurts right now
to really play. They haven't playeda complete game yet. The Dolphins,
besides that Buffalo game, have playedvery well, and you know, this

(01:45:14):
is gonna be a great test forthe Dolphins. I don't think this is
gonna be an explosion. You shownto hang Dolphins games and the player drops
on these games because they've all hit. Because the Dolphins are just been on
a different level most weeks. Idon't expect that. But ultimately, I
just respect what Mike McDaniels has done. I love what the Dolphins have done

(01:45:38):
that you know, I'm gonna pickthem for the upset you though, I
don't an upset if you look forthese two teams. I think the o
reason you're doubting the Dolphins at thispoint is because people are still hyped about
the Eagles from the past, andyou know, honestly that Philly weather with
you know, nice Sonny Miami beingthat transition from one week to the next,

(01:45:59):
I think it can be a toughone. But I think it'll slow
the Dolphins down. But I justdon't think you conmpletely stop that trade.
I'm going Dolphins as well. Imean, you know, me, card
carrying member of two and nine basicallyhelped start the whole thing. I mean
at this rate. But I thinkthe loss of the Bills was needed.

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I think they needed to take aloss there and see how things were going.
But the Eagles have also had plentyof problems this year, and that's
just not like, doesn't even justinclude the loss of the Jets, like
we had Jason Kelce, like yellingon the sidelines earlier in one of the
wins. If you look at theirwins, they haven't really beat anyone too
great yet, like Patriots, Vikings, Buccaneers, you know, better than

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expected, but still not great commanders, and then Rams better than expected.
How good are they? We don'treally know. They did lose to the
Jets on the road. That kindof scares me because now they're gonna be
more focused. But I would takethe Dolphins to beat just about any team
right now. I mean, evenif they played the Bills again, I
would take them. It doesn't thinkthe weather's gonna be too bad in Philadelphia,

(01:47:03):
give me the Dolphins. Let's seetwo and not let's see this whole.
Let's see this matchup. I'm reallyexcited for this one season. This
is one of the ones where I'mwith you, do not bet, Like
I'm very happy to pick the Dolphins, very happy to talk them up and
sell the reasons why I'm picking them. If you are trying to bet this
weekend, don't bet on this game. Spread, anything, money line,
I would stay away from it.Like you said, player props as well.

(01:47:25):
It just doesn't make too much sense. It's just two evenly matched teams.
If the Eagles play their best,they're gonna win. If the Dolphins
play their best, they're gonna win. If they both play their best,
then that's where the spread comes in. And you're like, that seems like
a pretty close spread. That's whyit's there, So definitely agree. Could
you argue this is maybe one ofthe top five primetime games of the year.

(01:47:45):
Yes, I don't think you wouldnecessarily think that coming into the year,
But I don't see. I mean, we had the Cowboys and the
forty nine Ers, which a lotof hype and didn't end up being that
way. We still have the Cowboysand Eagles on Sunday Night Football. Coming
up, we have the Bengal andBrowns on Sunday Night Football. But I
think all those teams, like wesaid, kind of struggled. These two
teams, the Eagles have had theirstruggles, but they're still five and one,

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and the Dolphins blow out loss tothe Bills, but I would to
miss people think they're probably one ofthe better ones teams performing wise this whole
year. So yeah, would yousay that recency bias? If you were
going into Week one and there wasa certain article post on a certain side
that we are a proud you know, partner and part of, would you

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rank it over a certain Packers Chiefsgame? I personally would I. Yeah,
I think the consensus, we havea consensus, you know. I
I may have yelled at the writerof that article about it, and I

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may have voiced my displeasure and saidthat it was a very bad pick,
and that writer has since said,well, you said one of the games
that I should put on there wasthe forty nine Ers and Cowboys and that
turned out to be a blowout.So the logic isn't always there, And

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yeah, I would say that,Yeah, this is this should should have
been a condition to have been contention. The forty nine ers Cowboy should have
been a contention. H forty againthe old the ones I listened should be
in contention. And that's just youknow, the Packers better win that game.
Otherwise there's no reason for the article. Should we have a start a
counter for how many games that comeup season? The week is better than

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the probably the chief Packers game.Uh No, I think that you personally
should attack him verbally on Sunday whenwe see him to watch games. Absolutely,
thank you. Okay, good,that's your wedding present for me,
budd you get the verbally attacking No, I'll give you your wedding president as
well, but you can do thattoo. You love verbally beating people.

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Me and Brian Dable have that comeabsolutely all right. Monday Night football probably
not going to be a good one. It's the forty nine at the Vikings
again. If you don't want towatch this one, want to take the
week a game off the walk,you know, hang out with your spouse
or something. This might be oneto do for for Monday night football.
Forty nine ers or every by sevengive me forty nine ers to win and

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cover. I think the Vikings arejust done. I think they're just over
it. I think the forty nineers injury, even with the injuries,
are just pissed and I'm just gonnatake it out on the Vikings. I
think you know, they kind ofsat there after that game and just be
like, we just lost, youknow, a winnable game because some injuries
happened. Sure, you know,but we stupid decisions, we didn't adjust,

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and we you know, we canmake all the excuses in the world.
You know, it's time to moveon to next week and you know,
get back on track. And thisis a good, right game for
the forty nine ers. I seeit that way. Give me the forty
nine ers to win and cover allday. Yeah, forty I just want
to cover for me too. Bounceback, get it all figured out,
Kirk Cousins in primetime, whatever youwant to say about this one. It's
forty nine Ers all the way.So I would love if we could have

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better primetime games. But we dohave a great Sunday night football one,
So let's roll with that. Seeany final thoughts for the week now,
I mean, my Bengals are offthis week, so that'll probably help me
with some mental health ultimately, Sothat's something to look forward to, you
know, for all of you sinceBengals fans out there enjoy the sun of

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just watching NFL football and just realizingthat your teams can't do anything to you
this week. They can't do anything. They can't cost you any stress.
You know, obviously they can't bringyou much joy either, but ultimately you
know the stress and the anguish youfeel on a weekend on week out basis,
you can just take off, relaxand you know, get started off.

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All right, Well, I amgoing to give my final thoughts here.
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