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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two Pros and a cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
LaVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with you here. Coming up on
a football Friday. Of course, we're going to talk football.
We've got Dalvin Cook now on the Open Market, what
does it mean from Minnesota, and Mike McDaniel will explain
what it means to Miami. Plus the very latest on
the quarterback quote unquote competition in Carolina. Nick Sirianni talking
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What up sticks?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Good morning, sir? How are you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
All decked out? You are feeling yourself?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean I'm not stacked. I'm not shacked. Yeah, I am,
I am? I am. I was about to say I'm
really not feeling myself, which I'm really not technically in
theory literally feeling on myself. Now, you wouldn't be doing that.
I mean, jess, I would well, I mean plenty of times. Actually,
you're no pee wee herman. I'll tell you that. I
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don't know that I'm not you know, I don't call
me pee wee herman. You know, picking up shifts is
a charger security guard. I've just said. I'm just saying,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's about what anybody wants to say. But uh, LeVar Arrington,
we do have some good news here, phenomenal news. Let
me get it because I've heard that this may have
been a missing element from last week's show. That's what
I've heard. I do the shows that you did, or
the shows that you know that the show that I
wasn't here for. Okay, listen, you know went went yonder,
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Yeah to San Diego.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, well you were enjoying time off. I was just
here grinding. Yeah. Sometimes somebody's got to keep the show
on the tracks. And then I hear you did a
phenomenal job. Okay, but it was missing something. It was
missing something. You're going to let me know, and you
know what that was? What was it?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Football Friday? It's a football Friday.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, night is a football Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Football Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes, take them, get them down right of the NBA Finals.
It's still a football Friday. Here on Fox Sports Radio.
Here on two Pros and a cup of Joe, I
did down football Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
God Lee Blame Lee Lee. Well, I mean, I have
no understanding. How did we miss that? Unacceptable?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Jeff doesn't like football, so yeah, Jeff Schwartze's football.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Did we miss football Friday?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You know why? Because I was like, you know, like
in those those movies, like in cartoon movies where you're
like you're I told you I talked about the anxiety
I had running the show because I don't normally run
this show, so I was feeling a little bit of anxiety.
And you know, like how in the movie you're like
going into the train tunnel and then you just hear
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the train is coming, and you didn't think the train
was coming, and you start hearing it, and then you
see the lights and then the lights start getting brighter
and brighter and brighter, and then you're trying to figure out,
like what are you going to do? Like that's kind
of how I felt on Friday. Yeah, yeah, because I
don't think I think maybe Christmas I did the show.
I think I've only done the show where I've run
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the show, drove the show, or you weren't on the show,
like maybe once.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, it was a lot of moving parts, but well
in those moving parts were you know, you're not here,
qu'es not here, Berto's not here, Monday Lee wasn't here.
I mean it's just like, yeah, I mean my moving
parts were my moving parts.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Sometimes I did the best I could do. Yeah, well,
I hear he did a phenomenal job. Again, So there
was a lot of changes, a lot of things that
were changing, Okay, and apparently there's a lot of things
that are changing in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean, wow, and listen.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
We were on the YALLAHRN of the Twin Cities k
fan and they're probably looking around going listen, I just
got a Dalvin Cook jersey and now I got to
get rid of it because Dalvin Cook. According to Adam
Schefter of ESPN, the Vikings have been figured out that
he will be released. That is the plan in place,
that Dalvin Cook is going to be released. Not the
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biggest surprise in the world. There was a lot of
stuff out there about Dalvin Cook not being on the
Vikings any longer because of financial reasons. Set to make
eleven million dollars this year, it was fourteen million dollars
against the.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Cap he was.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Also, he's gonna be owed two million dollars when they
do finally cut him, and so they're gonna save about
nine million. So those are all the numbers to confuse
everybody here, because numbers are never good on radio. But
point being from a financial standpoint, this does make some
sense that Dalvin Cook is no longer a member of
the Minnesota Vikings. But I can't help but think if
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I'm a Vikings fan, somewhere.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
A major part of their offense. Yes, I mean it
was I missing something here when I was like, they're
letting go of Dalvin Cook, Like doesn't their offense go
through a healthy Dalvin Cook?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I did talk to our Lord and Savior, Scott Shapiro,
he is the voice of Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
How did he tell you?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And his reasoning was, you know, the physicality, the injuries,
all of that stuff sort of played into this has
been injured? Yeah, And and the finances it you know,
there was the hope was if you could keep Dalvin
Cook but at a lower number, that would make the
most sense. I heard Tom Pellisero call it, what did
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he say? A competitive rebuild?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
So restructure his contract basically, and he wasn't going to
do it, Wow would he?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And so now Dalvin Cook is going to be on
the open market. But when it gets his money, yeah,
And when it comes to the Minnesota Vikings, I can't
help but think this is a blown opportunity. And I'll
tell you why, tell me why. I think the NFC
is more up for grabs than people realize. Aaron Rodgers
is out of the division.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You just won that division, that's correct. You were a.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Thirteen win team last year. That's correct, given a flawed
thirteen win team that it is. So if the Boogeyman
finally leaves the closet, to me, it would feel like
that's the time that you everybody come out of Yeah,
like for everybody, I'm out of the closet.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The Boogeyman's out of the close. Everyone's out of the closet.
Coop is out of the cloa.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It just feels like it just it just it just
feels like like this this was an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Is out of the closet for a while.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It just feels like this was an opportunity for Minnesota
to run this thing back, albeit for another year. They're
still trying to figure out whether or not they want
to continue forward with Kirk cousins man outside of Philadelphia,
who's a sure thing in the NFC. San Franz got
got issues at quarterback. The Lions. Like everybody talks about
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the Lions.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They haven't even been good yet, right, they haven't even
they haven't been good yet.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
The Bears were a three win team last year. If
you just look at the division.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Cowboys are the one team that you say there's something
that would be there, Although there's something there. To me,
we've we've seen as far as Dallas can go with
this group. I mean I just think that that's what
we've seen as far as they can go. Yeah, I
just think I so who else? I get the financial
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reasons why? Because look, you're gonna save nine million dollars,
you only own two million dollars off the level. What's
yours for letting him go? And how much will k
kirk Cousins be without having Dalvin Cook in his backfield?
I mean that to me was a lot of what
alleviated the stress of what kirk Cousins needed to bring
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to the table as a quarterback. So you get rid
of that, that running attack, you get you get rid
of that dynamic type of player. I mean, Dalvin Cook
is a game changing player when and.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He's been ultra productive over the past several years. And look,
this is a guy who dealt with injuries early in
his career and then once he was able to stay
healthy and you could rely on him for you know,
forty grabs out of the backfield, eleven to twelve hundred
yards rushing, like he was going to be a focal
point on that offense, and when you had Adam Thielen,
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who's no longer there, he's in Carolina. But with Justin Jefferson,
I think the Vikings got worse moving on from Dalvin Cook.
And in a conference it's wide open with Rogers leaving
and look Philadelphia and we'll get into that later on.
They've done everything right this offseason to want to run
this thing back, but the Super Bowl hangover is a
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real thing. Like people can try and deny it all
they want, it's a real thing. I just I feel
like Minnesota had a chance here if not for if
it was only for one year to try and do something.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's gone with Dalvin.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Coke, I did they got worse?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Who's their remaining running back.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Alexander Madison, who's been productive? I mean he's He's no
Dalvin Cook, but he's a guy that they look at
and I think Kevini.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Is he a guy? Is this a depth chart that art?
Can they add another? Is there? Like you an Ezekiel Elliott?
Like what do you?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But if you were gonna add another running back who's
gonna cost you a little bit?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Why not you just what roll with? But is he
gonna cost you? Is he gonna cost you a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I don't think what's interesting is Ezekiel Elliott's a year
younger than Dalvin Cook. And I think there's a big
difference between how those two are viewed because there's gonna
be an.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Mark if Alexander Madison is your starting running back. I
mean there's not enough of a sample size. Seventy four
carries two hundred and eighty three yards, Like that's what
you're basing your future off of. I know Kirk Cousins
is good. I know guys think that Kirk Cousin is
good I personally and listen, I know if Q was here,
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he would argue me down and tell me all the
things that Kirk Cousins does, and then you would sit
there and you co sign it. But Kirk Cousins needs help.
To me, Kirk Cousins isn't that world beating. He is
a heartbeat away. He's a chromozoon away from not being
a franchise quarterback. If you ask me like he's almost
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you know, yeah, like I don't. I just for me,
you have to have a safety valve for a guy
like Kirk Cousins, meaning you have to be able to
get the ball and get downhill and get tough yards.
In the running game, you gotta have a guy that
can give you a an alleviating of passing the ball downfield.
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You gotta get it to him out out of the backfield.
That was Dalvin Cook. Dalvin Cook was the perfect compliment
to Justin Jefferson and what they have and theling. But
THELAN isn't even there anymore, right, so thelan is gone?
I believe then he leaving free agency. Yeah, I just
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you know, to me, we're gonna want to find out
if they are indeed going with this running back that
is unproven, and you're okay with letting Dalvin Cook go.
We're going to find out truly how good Kirk Cousins
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is this season. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I just if I'm a Vikings fan, I'm frustrated because
I feel like this.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I'm scared if I'm a Vikings fan and you have
cause for concern, because I don't know, I think you
disrupted the balance of what this offense was bringing to
the table. And it seemed as though with Justin Jefferson
transitioning into probably being the best receiver in the game
right now, it seems as though if you have that
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balance with Dalvin Cook in your backfield, that just maybe
they take a step forward this year. Again, like you said,
everybody's out of the closet because the Boogeyman came out,
said it was safe to come out, so everybody gets
to run and play. But if you can defense Kirk Cousins,
then what do you have out of the North?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, and the defense, I'll get it out of the North.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
The defense in Minnesota has been the problem in the
past couple of years, as we've talked about on the
show before. I mean, Kirk Cousins did his best. They
had what like something like seven comeback wins last year,
you know, just like they are just full blown meltdowns
on defense that Kirk Cousins and that offense got him
out of. And I just I look at it and
I think it's so much different than with Ezekiel Elliott.
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Like everybody knew. Listen, Tony Pollard's the guy now is
Ezekiel Elliott his body He just he can't go like
he used to. Everybody's aware of that. I still feel
like Dalvin Cook's got something left in the tank, and
I think the market is going to dictate that because
I can't imagine he's going to be out there floating
around for a long time looking for work. Miami and Denver.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Could be just because of maybe what his price tag
would be. Because if I'm Dalvin Cooks, he can still
he can still command a dollar. It's not like Ezekiel Elliott.
I mean, I think Dalvin Cook has shown that he's
still a feature back at a dying position. But still
he's still a guy that could be a feature back
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for your team. He'd be a perfect fit for Miami,
He'd be a great fit for several different teams. I mean,
make no mistake about that.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It's the verbiage that I mentioned from Tom Pellisero. He
was on with Rich Eyesend yesterday and he just said, well,
you know they're trying to competitively rebuild.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's like, what the hell's that? What do we do?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That means there one way, they're one year away from
getting rid of Kirk Cousins too.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's what it means.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So like, if you really wanted to competitively rebuild, man
swallow the eleven million that you're going to have to
pay Dalvin Cook and give this thing a shot one
more year. In a conference that a lot of people
look at and go it's up for grabs right now.
I mean, like you look at the NFC and you
just say, man, who the hell knows what's going to
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happen with Philadelphia. We all assume they're going to be
the team that's going to be the one to you know,
make another jump and maybe win a Super Bowl this
time around, and all of that stuff that comes along
with it. I just I think this is a frustrating
twenty four to forty eight hours for Vikings fans who
probably saw the riding on the wall and are now
looking around, going where the hell do we stack up
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in the NFC? Like if you just go by betting odds,
according to our friends at DraftKings, the Eagles, the Niners,
the Cowboys, the Lions, the Seahawks, and the Saints, all
with better odds projected to win the overseas.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Delvin went over one thousand, one, two three four. Yeah,
the last four years.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Clockwork eleven hundred yards out of the backfield.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Eleven hundred, he had fifteen hundred and twenty twenty. That
was his like his out outlier year but just consistent.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And then pass catching out of the backfield at safety
valve so I said, thirty forty catches out of the
backfield every year.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You can count on him thirty nine receptions.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And now that's gone.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Soa some real production out the door. I'll tell you that.
So thousand yard got the last four years, that's yeah.
I mean where you finding that? Where are you going
to find that? Yeah, Tennessee, we'll just have who else
is going over one thousand yards a yearly in the league?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Zeke?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
If you do it in three years, just saying we're
talking math here on the program, it is Two Pros
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Speaker 1 (17:56):
All right, we do have an update on the quarterback
battle in Carolina. A stunning development.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I thought for sure Andy Dalton was going to be
the guy this year for the Carolina Panthers Corrol As
it turns out.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
It's not him.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's not Matt Corral, it will in fact be Bryce
rush Young.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
He has been moved up to day one.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
He is now QB one in Carolina and his head coach,
Frank Reich, spoke about the decision. This was the head
coach of the Carolina Panthers yesterday of practice.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah, Bryce has Bryce has taken with the stamps with
the ones this week. That was something that at the beginning,
Scott and I kind of here marked the time and
when we thought would the pass and kind of mapping
out talked to through on the staff. You know, at
the beginning of the off season, this was kind of
the time to be marked. This week, it's just kind
of move him up. It's just the next step, right,
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I mean, you know, there's nothing I said. There's really
nothing to say other than hey, we just wanted to
move him up this week. Felt like it's been the
right time. He had a couple of weeks to watch Andy.
That was really that was really good stamies to perform
at a very high level.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Now, he did go on to say that you know,
they're going to see how he performs through padded practices
and all that before they make him the week one
starter at Atlanta. But if everything holds to form, he's
going to be the guy week one at.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That And why not you spent the number one draft
picked on him. Your team is not a bad team.
They can be a competitive team this season. We just
had a whole segment talking about the NFC being up
for grabs. There's no team outside of Philly that you
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would say is a definitive favorite to have a tremendous season.
Why not start the young guy? He shows a level
of maturity. If he can show a level of understanding
for the playbook that is up to speed to being
able to apply it in an NFL practices during training
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camp and OTAs, then you give it a go. Why not?
Why not give it a go? We what are what
are you posturing for? We're gonna work Bryce in like
you spent the number one draft pick on the guy.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I also think for Frank Reig, this has got to
be such a breath of fresh air. First of all,
chances are Bryce Young's probably not going to retire on
the sideline of a preseason game like Andrew Luck did.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All right, so chance, so there's that.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Also, he doesn't sound like Andre the Giant that's another
plus in the favor of Bryce.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Why are you attacking my classmates.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I'm looking on the bright side for Frank Reich here,
who got the shaft by Indianapolis last year. So so
those are two positives. Also, the fact that he's not
having Frank Reich this revolving door of veteran quarterbacks or
retreads at the position, and he knows that's the guy
of the future, that's who we're building this organization around.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Let's go to me.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
If you're Frank Reich, this this, this is the move.
This is the no brainer move. And they can talk about, well,
padded practice is all he wants. Let's say they get
him in practice and he struggles a little bit in
training camp, and they get him in the preseason and
he struggles a little bit in the preseason. You mean
to tell me they're just going to say, all right,
he's not ready. We're gonna go with Andy Dalton week one.
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My ass it's Bryce Young's gonna be the starter week one.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And I think if they put that belief in him
and they give him the not you just gotta go
ahead and the ride it out. If he does struggle,
you just got to ride it out. I mean some
of the greatest quarterbacks, Peyton Manning struggled early on in
his career. Yeah, guys struggle and early on in their career.
Some guys don't play at all early on in their career.
So I just think that they got to ride it out.
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I mean, this is not an elite football team. This
is not a team that was close to competing for
the Super Bowl. Isn't close to competing for the super
Bowl right now by all things given, informational least speaking.
So why not put the young fellaw in there and
see if he can make it, make it do what
it's going to do. I mean, just get get him
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the get him the reps, get him the experience. The
one other thing that I would say, outside of his
his maturity and his his football, like you would be
what is his you know, what is his impact on
the locker room? All the reports coming out or they
love him? I mean I would assume so. I mean
he's a solid dude. If you've ever met the guy,
I've met him briefly. He's a Pasadena kid. Met the family,
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very very down to earth people's family. Yeah, Yeah, they're
from Dina. You know Dina Yeah, the Rose, the Roses,
you know, City of the Roses. I've never heard anybody
say a bad thing about Bryce Young. He's a solid dude.
He's a solid dude that has constantly proven that he's
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worthy of the opportunities that that he's receiving. And so
for him to be you don't just walk into the
starting position position. There's a reason why they felt confident
and comfortable giving him QB one reps, like that's where
you first have to start. Like he's saying, is and
his press or that it's just like they chose to
put him out there at number one. He's doing something
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that's proving to them that they can trust him at
the number one position, and that's very key, and that's
very important, and in fact that he's doing it so
quickly and so early when you do have a veteran
on the team and you do have a former draft
pick that's on the team and they're all competing, I
think that that says a lot about where the coaches
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feel about in confidence wise, where they're at with Bryce
Young and his ability to actually be able to give
this team a fair opportunity to win games.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And also you mentioned why not like Why wouldn't you
put him out there? Why wouldn't you give Bryce Young
the opportunity just to take the range from the jump?
We sold on anybody in that division, Like I know
New Orleans outed Derek Carr, but listen, are you sold
on that? No? And Atlanta never really addressed the quarterback position.
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They're going to go with Desmond Ridder, but it wasn't
like you on fire. No, And then you've got Da
Prescott you Well, I'm talking just in the NFC South,
like Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask are the starters.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
In Tampa Bay like like that, I mean, you're you're
like almost at trash like and and what is the
level almost at trash? By the way, I mean, this
is the way you spell your name.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I didn't say that. I didn't write the rules on that.
I mean that's what's his name, Trask exactly. Yeah. I
mean if he gets to start and he don't play well,
I mean that k is probably gone dropping it there.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm just saying the stage is set for him.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I mean, somebody gave him the wrong last name unless
he was just going to be amazing all the time.
Because you're so close to trash, you do anything wrong,
like I'm slipping up now. The reports out of Tampa
Bay are that Baker Mayfield is the leader in the
clubhouse there, that they love what he's done so far. Now,
I mean, and how good do you think that this
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team can be?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I just don't think that they can be that good.
But Carolina at least feels like they have a direction.
They got a defense. You can play defense that can
buy Bryce Young time to develop and see what they
have in terms of how dangerous they are on the offense. Yeah,
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I mean, that's just I think that that's how you
gotta how you gotta look at it. I mean, but
would I expect too much out of Carolina this year?
I don't. They're one of those mystery teams. They could
be better than what maybe the prognosticators may give them. Like,
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what's there, what are their win total? Well, what's their
odds to make the playoffs? Next?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
To make the playoffs? Well, let me give you their
win totalk. Let me get their wins.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That'll tell us where you think they're going to be
at seven playoffs.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Seven and a half wins for the Carolina Panthers that's
what they're predicted to get.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
That's that's there. They're over under. That's the line that's
been said according to DraftKings.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Right, So they don't have very high hopes for this team, I.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Mean, and their schedule before the bye week at Atlanta
home against New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I bet at Seattle is always a pain in.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
The ass, but it's not bad. It's manageable.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And then you've got the Vikings and then two road
games at the Lions and at the Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I don't feel like those aren't manageable games. You could
you could get a couple of those games. Well, I mean,
I think they could get a lot of them if
they're playing good football. None of those teams are are
are great football teams that you just rattled off. In fact,
they're part of the question mark that that is looming
over the NFC. Yeah, So to me, that stretch of
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games that you just read off says that if your
team is prepared properly, there are pockets during the course
of this season where you said it's still a couple games,
maybe still a couple more you know, a few more
dollars as they would say for Clinton's And.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Also what you consider success for Carolina this year is
different than just about every team in the NFL out
except for say a team like Indianapolis or Houston. If
if Carolina goes out and wins six games this year,
you look at it and you go, man, that's a
bad season. They were six and eleven. But if you've
identified that Bryce Young is the guy, you'll roll with that.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I mean that's kind of how it went down for
Trevor Lawrence. Yeah. And Jacksonville, well, it went very good
his rookie year. Well, there's also some other stuff going
on there as well too, you know me. I mean
there's a little couple of distractions, you know. I mean
the guy on line line lap dance. I mean, listen,
he's trying to sit there, you know, and have a
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cocktail or. We can't blame that on him.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
An assaulted, Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Blame that on him. I agree. I mean he was
just chilling. He was clearly in the video or with
the visual he was chilling. Yeah, I just I mean,
he was, he he wasn't. I just think I think
something he was polite enough to not you know, be
forceful or or disrespectful and removing that fan from his
(28:35):
personal space. I thought it was commendable of sorts that
he would be such a gentleman, you know, and and
allow for her to have her moment of dancing and
enjoying it, which was I think was his bar right,
that was his I mean, think about the hospitality that
he was extending in that moment in time.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You don't want to go to some place where everything
feels artificial, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
You know, that's very interesting that you would say that,
because much like Bryce Young and well even coach in
those scenarios, you want to have your feet down on
silid ground, you know what I mean. You don't want
to have it on on the type of ground where
you're going to have injuries take place, like thirty two
percent non contact injuries, and that's the artificial turf Jonas,
(29:22):
That's what I'm talking about. That's a lot of that's
a lot of non contact injuries. So my people at
you know, American Grass Sea Company Pennington, they're on this
emission and that mission is to burn up well, I
guess they do want to burn turf fields. Now, they
don't want to burn them, but they do want to
ban them, and they want to ban those fields so
that they can hashtag flip the turf, you know, flip
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the turf movement. And if you're interested in learning about
changing artificial turf back into grass so that it's a
safer situation for our environment as well for our athletes,
you can go to Pennington dot com slash Flip the
Turf now to learn more and sign the petition for
teams to hashtag flip the turf to real grass.
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Speaker 7 (32:06):
Good morning, everybody. How you doing p Holriday? Having football Friday? Well,
different kind of football here you guys, in case you
missed this. Jose, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Jose.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Milton de Santos was sixty years old when he passed
away last Friday. He was considered a local hero in
his city in Brazil because he UH founded a local
youth soccer team forty years ago, set up youth fields
all over, maintained them well. Unfortunately, he UH lost his
life while maintaining those grounds as branch fell on a
ladder he was working to UH maintain the field. So
(32:43):
the community got together, they had awake, they had his funeral,
and at the last second they decided, hey, let's give
him a good send off, one last goal for the
old timer. They put his coffin in front of a
makeshift goal, they passed it to him. They assisted the
ball to his coffin so that he could one less
goal man. So goal for Jose Milton de Santasal goal
(33:09):
for him.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Here.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Here's here's a better idea. Get a couple of shovels
and say your piece and let the guy.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Let the guy move on, Okay, let on about everybody
who was a part of doing that.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I do it here.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hey, what what did you do earlier today? I couldn't
get a hold of you. I'm sorry, I'm busy. I
was holding a coffin and I was I won't make
I was making a corpse kick a goal on some
youth field somewhere in Brazil.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
What are we doing here? Going on?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Some people got way too much time.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I got a thing about dead bodies. I do, I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I just weird to be out man, I don't understand.
Let him just let him rest in peace. That's not
just a quote from the Undertaker, Okay at WrestleMania. It's
a quote of let him just rest forever did great things,
built youth fields and there you are like bringing out
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his rigamortis riddled body to kick a It.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Was it was soccer, not not ice hockey. Yeah, soccer, right,
I felt like like hockey in the knocked The pucking
in Brazil is huge Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
By the way, Johnny Ringo was reporting live from the
soccer fields. Yeah, let's say he got to be caught up.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
With them earlier. It smells like some thank you John
Oh wow, so uh oh wow. That was when they
killed Doc Holliday, or not Doc Holliday, but brother who
was who was the main guy Wider they killed Wider.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, yeah, they took they took his brother downing.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Smells like so much. Now that's Doc Holliday right there.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I'll be a huckleberry.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
By the way, I tell you white IRP is from
mom to filling on. Yeah, that's say you've told us
that a few times. You want to point that out there?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Oh what else we got lee In case you missed it,
The Big Ten dropped its twenty twenty four to twenty
twenty five football schedule yesterday. Fans took notice there is
in the release they have the future slates with the
Big Ten. They assigned three different opponents to each school
and what they call two way foes. Essentially, these are
our home and home series that will take place with
the rest of the conference matchups being on rotation. These
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are protected opponents, which are defined as that will be
meeting annually every year. These are rivalries that will career
year yep, Ohio State, Michigan obviously USC UCLA entering the
Big Ten, that'll be in.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
There, Michigan, Michigan State.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
But people notice that Penn State doesn't have a rival
that is a protective we are.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
We are arrival of none, our only rival that we've had.
I mean, you got to keep in mind we were
independent for a long time too. We were like Notre Dame.
So we joined the Big Ten what in like ninety
what to ninety one, ninety something, it was the early nineties,
I want to say. So we're relatively new on the
(36:08):
block and the Big Ten if you really think about it,
thirty years, well, I mean that's still I mean, if
you think about the history between Michigan and Ohio State
or Michigan State and Michigan, thirty years isn't.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Much at all. But pitt Pitt was our that was
our rival.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
But and that's because most of the kids that go
to Penn State are from generally historically we're from Pittsburgh
and some from Philly. But but the big rivalry was
Pitt and then we don't even really we don't play
them anymore so, By the way, no big ten rivals.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
By the way, what are what are Iowa's rivals? I
know Iowa staple.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
What other Naia schools are they going to actually feel
confident they could be or scoring against tango out there?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Thanks Sam.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
They do have three permanent rivals in the schedule that Minnesota, Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
And Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Cool. Those are can't miss Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa, Minnesota, sign
me up for that one.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
What they scored last year ONIOH Nebraska. How is Iowa
Nebraska considered a protected game Battle of the Corn Battle
of the cord.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
They are right next to each other. You know that
does help, right? I don't think that helps you. I've
never even heard of that. Make them plain a crop circle.
They played for the Hero's Trophy, which was introduced about
eleven years ago. Okay, long long standing rivalry trophy for everything.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Uh, eleven is a great number. But that's the only
thing great I pulled out of Sam entered jet, you know,
putting that into the conversation.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I love I love what Iowa says here because it's
always the go to just anything Iowa more covered.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
How guy's going to the coliseum twenty four. That'll be fun.
Will out of Williams. You get to get out of
that game?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
If I'm still alive, Yeah, okay, oh well if you are,
maybe we'll go. Look, that's exactly where I was going
with that.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
We're going to run a touchdown with how you was
saying one last time in the college.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
That'll be how we make the crop circles with his
dead body. That would be what we do. It's totally
normal to say that. What else we got leave guys?
Speaker 7 (38:17):
Forty six year old Floyd Mayweather's returning to the ring
this this Sunday, is facing off against John Gotty the Third,
the grandson of former mob boss John Gotti.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
And what's the purpose of this exhibition? Money?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
That's what Floyd does, man.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I mean people just want to see Pepper, John Gotti's son.
I don't know, man, I'm out on that one. Yeah,
I ain't even in or out, but I'm out on
that one.
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