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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Fox Sports Radio, LaVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with
you here. Coming up on this Tuesday edition, we're gonna
look back on Monday Night Football, a big debut for
Kevin O'Connell and JJ McCarthy and not so much on
the other side of things for Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams.
We will discuss. Plus, we're going to talk about the
quarterback situation with the New York Giants. We'll get into

(00:23):
the very latest on Mike Vrabel, Bill Belichick, who's allowed?
Where did North Carolina win? Et cetera, et cetera. We've
got Steve Sarkesian talking about your bathroom habits. Yes, that
really happened. Plus we're going to debut a couple of things. First,
our fantasy f ups. Stick around and listen to that,
you can relate to it. And the Great Dean Blandino's

(00:45):
gonna stop by. It's all yours. Coming up next here,
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
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Speaker 1 (01:10):
And a good morning, Two Pros and a Cup of Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
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and rolling here on this Tuesday morning, hell's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
How are we feeling?

Speaker 4 (01:34):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (01:36):
How are you feeling? That's the real question.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
This is the norm.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
This is the norm. Why did you choose it?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
This is the norm? I didn't you know what, that's
a great question. You chose this la, that's a great question.
And there's nothing better than leading your son down the
same path going. I had to do it and now
you will too.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Welcome to Welcome to light if as a Bears fan,
that's what it looked like last night, and that's.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
No problem with Bandwagon fans anymore, because you know what,
what you just said, that's painful for a child to
have to deal with watching their daddy's team lose.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
And now you got to fill the allegiance bag.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
It's your daddy that's messed up, so messed up.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Someone said the Vikings are your daddy.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes, yes they are, but they split. They split custody
with the Packers and the Lions as well.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
So you said they wouldn't get a daddy on Maury Povich.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Just wow, they'd be like your mom sleeping around and the.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
Father is wait, wait a second, the first time in history, like.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Your mom was a whore even sleeping around. You got
three dads in that division. One of them was asking
for last night.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
It makes you a Lion, Viking and Packer.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
But you know what, though, that opening drive was sweet man,
and after that nothing up and vanished like a fart
in the wind. I mean, give Kevin, give Kevin O'Connell credit.
Like that just looked like one team was totally calm,

(03:27):
realizing the situation they were in and just worked through
it slowly and ultimately just proved they're the better team
and the better organization by the time the game was over.
That's what it seemed like to me.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
Go you sorry, Yeah, I guess that's what you call it.
And I'm not really sure what to make of that game,
to be honest with you, Like I I thought, I
thought the Bears were gonna be a different spot, but
it's week one. You know, there's just they're not gonna
be conon offensively. And I think I think McCarthy, we

(04:03):
were look at this as his rookie year, but as
he goes, he's only going to get better. And I
think that's what you saw in that game. It was
a rough first half, second half, he got better.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
I look at it and I say it's weak one.
And what you saw was a team get out to
a very very quick start, a fast start. Caleb Williams
looked good. He was he was delivering targets, He was

(04:36):
mobile and was slippery and was making good decisions. The
defense of the Bears was was playing faster and quicker
than I guess JJ McCarthy's, you know, his decision making.
But the defense for the Vikings held held them in

(04:59):
even it got to a double digit lead. I think
that their defense did a pretty pretty good job considering
the circumstances of how well Caleb was playing, how Ben
was calling, you know, how Chicago was calling the game,
and they caught up to them in the second half.

(05:21):
You know, they caught up to them more specifically in
the fourth quarter, and in Chicago didn't seem to have
an answer for losing the momentum that they had in
the game, and they weren't able to hold on to
the lead and continue on for the win.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
I feel like that's what happened.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
I'm not going to be all doom and gloom, even
though I do have the Chicago Bears finishing least in
their division. I'm not going to say it's all doom
and gloom for Chicago because again it's the first game.
So there's what I can take away from it is
at least, yes, the play call calling looked better. But

(06:05):
at some point maybe Caleb has to stop making those
like weird ass decisions that lead to him making weird,
weird deals like doing weird things and weird moments.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Like it's figure someone someone said that. They said, Hey,
this is the battle of a guy who doesn't paint
his fingernails the one that does.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
You go they what would say that was the battle?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Levard don't be doom and gloom please, Like I got
the Bears finishing fifth in that division, right behind the
White Sox.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's where I got the Bears. That was awful last night.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
And Kevin O'Connell, the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings,
spoke afterwards about the pick six and how JJ McCarthy responded.

Speaker 7 (06:51):
JJ McCarthy for him to make some of the plays
he did. I told him at halftime, you are going
to bring us back to win this game, and the look.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
In his eye was fantastic.

Speaker 7 (07:00):
And the best thing is just a belief I felt
from the team, the unit, and ultimately that doesn't get
done without him in the second half, two passing touchdowns
and then the critical rushing touchdown. It's not always going
to be pretty when you're trying to bring along a
young quarterback. You just got to keep playing and you
got to allow him to grow. There was a lot

(07:20):
of just things we can improve on, and we will.
It'd be great to be home for a couple of weeks.
All in all, I'm very proud of our team, very
proud of our staff, and just that figured out in
this and find a way is something that will be
a redeeming quality as we continue to press on.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Where I know it's just one game, but that's got
to be massive for him, and they were making the
point Troy Aikman was last night where he said, I
get news for you. They're gonna look at him differently
based on how who responded after that pick six, like
those guys are going to look at him, and that
just felt like a real big moment for him, for

(07:55):
Kevin O'Connell and for the rest of those guys, because
he was really that was a big question mark. Was
they felt like you heard the stories about they're gonna
go with JJ McCarthy because they didn't have a three
year window to win a Super Bowl or three year
window to be contenders. And it's not to jump up
and say now they're going to be Super Bowl contenders,
but after last night, seeing how he overcame that, you
got to feel way better about the situation than you

(08:17):
were going into it.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
Well, JJ is one thing, but what about Kevin O'Connell. Yeah, well,
why aren't we talking about how good of a head
coach he is? I mean, is he EASi or is
he not the quarterback whisperer. He's had so many guys
now to play like so well, And I think you
chalk it up to maybe his experience as a quarterback.

(08:39):
Maybe you chalk it up to the roster around him.
I'm not sure how you look at it, but like
this dude can coach ball man, Like he just he's
a leader like that. And I'm not saying Ben Johnson's not,
but this is his first shot of being a head coach.
And Kevin O'Connell's very comfortable with how everything played out

(09:00):
last night. It's he almost he almost feels it sounds
like a dad, you know, like like everything out there,
he's like preaching wisdom, like like he knows he's coaching
the NFL long enough to know when he's one, enough
to know there's gonna be so many times. You just

(09:20):
you got to fix some things and you gotta make
enough plays in the end and just kind of believe
you're gonna pull it out, like it's all gonna work
out in the end. That's exactly what happened last night.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
Sam Donald definitely left his game in Minnesota in game
what fifteen?

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Damn.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
I mean, I'm just saying that you make a good point.
I mean it didn't look like Sam Donald took that
Minnesota magic that he had last year early on uh
into Seattle.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
I mean you basically just dropped the ball on the
game when.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Yeah, because because I do think that the way that
O'Connell has handled.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Butter finger ass, your non your small finger ass.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Sam Donald's mind in its own business.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
You know, he get hit. I mean he didn't got
shut up.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
He felt that all the way in Seattle, man, all
the way on Seattle. He felt that.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
I bet you they was playing that balloon game to
day and Sam Donald came walking out.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
All them coaches is popping their balloon.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Hey, but seriously, this Vikings team is a good it's
a good team. I mean you didn't even get a
lot of great production from from Justin Jefferson, and he
still had good production. Now that might sound like, how
how do you say that? Well, his yardage his yardage
output wasn't very good. He didn't have too many like

(10:57):
really really explosed too many explosive play. But he was
effective in getting into the end zone obviously and when
they need it. So so, I you know, when I
look at this Vikings team in the way it's configured,
I mean, right now they don't have Jordan Addison. When
you get him back, if he can stay you know,

(11:18):
if he can stay awake and do what he needs
to do, I would assume that this team is going
to improve dramatically, you know, with what they have going on,
and they're balanced, it's a very very balanced team, and
I'm I think they have the potential. If JJ McCarthy

(11:40):
can continue to learn how quickly these defenses move and
get comfortable with it in game situations, that's going to
be the key, because I believe what he was dealing
with was adjusting and adapting to the speed of the
game in real time, not in practice, is not in
precs games. And once once he gets his head wrapped around, okay,

(12:05):
I can do this, just relax, And that's what I
felt like I saw take place later in the game.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
I think he has the moxie.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
I think he has the built in you know, on
the insides, he seems like he's the type of guy
that he's going to be just fine. I don't I
don't know that he's a franchise quarterback. I don't know
if he's a game managing quarterback just yet. Like, is
he a superstar quarterback? I don't think that showed in

(12:37):
last night's game. Whether he's you know, he's destined, his
trajectory is destined to be on that level. But it didn't.
It didn't show that he didn't have that, you know,
that potential. So if I'm the vikings, I come away
from the game, saying that this was a learning experience
for a new quarterback and they were able to get

(12:58):
a win in a hostile within the division. You gotta
feel really good about leaving the game. Would have won last.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Night, they were I saw the stat last night that
JJ McCarthy since high school has lost three games as
a starting quarterback.

Speaker 6 (13:13):
Well, he went to IMG in Michigan, Like I amg
is a college playing high school teams?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
I mean, come on, whoa, whoa, jeez, what's what Sam Donald?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I am telling me? Man, did you say Sam Donald?
Or did you say J J. McCarty You shot it
McCarthy go to IMG.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
Yeah he did. You're right right, that's a that's.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
A college football team in high school. I mean, you
got to try to lose. It's harder to lose than
it is to win.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
At IM saying what you're gonna say? Say what you
were gonna say? What You're going to try there? No
you're not.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
You're not going to try to lose there, You're going
to try to win.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
I love this version of LeVar to day. Whatever it is, man, everybody,
don't you.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
He's the can man anybody.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Because when you come out hot like this, I know
it's gonna be a great show.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Oh god, it's the best, It's the best.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
I'm not hot at all.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
You got a cigar in your mouth, you got that oozy,
you're like anyone.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
We're not on we're not on line yet, so I
couldn't have anything going on right now.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
You ain't lying, Q, You ain't lying.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
My god.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Did you guys have a problem with the decision to
kick the ball? When the Bear scored there was one
time out left. There was a two minute warning that
they had, and the thought was kick it out of bounds,
kick it out of the back of the end zone.
Don't give him a chance to return it, because when
you do, then you know they're.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Just gonna under two minutes.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Ben Johnson was talking afterwards about the decision to kick
the ball. There was some back and forth. They were
trying to figure out how they wanted to handle the
kickoff late, so Ben Johnson talked about what his direction
was to Cairo Santos in that moment.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
The intent was for the ball to go out of
the end zone, was there?

Speaker 5 (15:17):
Do you guys consider kick How did that? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (15:19):
It did.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
We felt like if we'd have kicked it out of
the end zone and gotten the three and out that
we got.

Speaker 8 (15:24):
We'd get the ball back with around fifty six seconds, So.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
People were upset that there was not the thought to, well,
you know, kick it out here. You know, he should
have just taken the penalty. They would have gotten the
ball at the forty.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Like.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's not to make excuses for Ben Johnson, but I
do think that sometimes game one as a head coach,
and I think he even admitted to this afterwards, like
we've made too many mistakes myself included.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
There's a lot going on.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
In that spot that didn't cost them the game, but
it did eat up enough time to where afterwards the
conversation is going to be about his decison as you're
making in that in that situation. And we've seen this
so many times with the Bears, Matt ebers Fleus last year,
so many different decisions that just kind of a kind
of a bad look. That will be a talking point
all week for Ben Johnson unfortunately.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
So if the ball goes out of bounds, though, is
his you know, decision making fine?

Speaker 1 (16:22):
I mean I guess, like I just.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
Why do you say? I guess? Like, here's the promise
you can you can have a good plan as a coach.
If it's not properly executed, that's not on you. Truth
but truth if that was your intent. And it sounds
like he knew exactly what they wanted to do, exactly
how much time they had left. How do you put
that on him?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, and it's and it's also this Kyro Santos doesn't
have a strong leg, and that's that's always been the
knock on him. He's accurate, he missed one last night,
but he doesn't have a strong leg. And so there
the thought is well in knowing that not just kick
it out of bounds, take the penalty and give the
Vikings the ball the forty if time is paramount in

(17:05):
that spot and not so much that the you know
where you're at on the field.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well, the difference in that thought process is if they
kick it for a touchback, the ball goes to the
thirty five. That's that's one of the new rules. Yeah,
it's one of the reasons why I feel like an
ask dean. But I don't know why they just didn't
move back where they kicked from, Like why are you
incentivizing it to the point now where I guess if

(17:33):
that's how you look at it. There's only a five
yard difference, so you could have kicked it out of bounds.
But again, like I would love to know how many
touchbacks or how many times Santos has kicked it out
of the end zone, because even though he doesn't have
a strong leg, I bet he's done it more than
people think.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, it's a yeah, it was a fun little conclusion
to a beau that took place last night.

Speaker 6 (17:59):
And she would be considered a comedy show. I thought
it was a really good football game. It was two
teams that foughted out. One team got out and and
and beat up on the other one first, the other
one rope a doped them and they came to life
and they ended up winning the game.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
And you know it's what happened. Jonas.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
What what do you think if you were to say
more or less than fifty percent, does Kyra Santas kicking
in as a touchback?

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Hmm?

Speaker 4 (18:29):
I'm going to say more.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Well, are we talking touchback or back of the out
of the end zone?

Speaker 5 (18:34):
Touchback to touch back? We'll keep well because because because
either way, either way, there's not gonna be a return.
If it's a touchback doesn't take any time off.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, but he kicked the ball into the end zone
and they could have taken any and they ran it
out as a round to run it out.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Yeah, but there's no kicked out of the end zone
stat So.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
As a touchback, I would say probably, I mean, I
would say over fifty yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yeah, he actually in the last three years has kicked
it all over fifty percent, and two years ago it
was almost eighty percent, which.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
You would assume that that would be the reasoning that
he was using and telling him to kick the ball
out of the end zone.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Or if you know he doesn't have a strong enough leg,
just kick it out of bounds, take the penalty, and
don't you keep saying.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
This, So like he's more often than not being able
to kick it to that point where it's either a
touchback or out of the end zone.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
But he kicked it to the same point last night
and they still they returned it.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
You say, I understand what you're saying, but I'm saying
more often than not, he's actually done a better job
of kicking it out of the end zone or kicking it.
So that's the touch back.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Well, that's the reason why he's he's making.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
That point out of it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
I mean, look, you sound like a Bears fan that
wants to cry about something.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
Problem. Yeah, that's the problem. I wanted fifty six seconds,
wanted fifty six second.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, I wanted that six seconds.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
That's all you got to say that, That's really all
you had to say. Yes, of course I wanted the
fifty six seconds. We didn't get the fifty six seconds,
and some way, somehow, I just want to have some
revisionist history on this and say that something could have
happened where we got the fifty seconds.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Look, I'm pointing out storylines following that game, and I'm
pointing out the fact that if you had the Bears, I'm.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
There's nothing but heard about. I told you.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
This is par for the course when it comes to
the Bears. This is what they do. But if you
had the Bears plus a point and a half, that
extra fifty six seconds might have come in handy. I
don't know, just thinking, just thinking for the common folkus.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
They won back three, yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
They could have gone down, could have gone down, maybe
kicked a field goal that would have probably come up
short too. But the point is, at least give yourself
a chance, and they didn't because they've gotten.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
What you said doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
It didn't STOs. Since he's become a Chicago Bear, he
has kicked the ball sixty percent of the time to
be a touch background at the end zone.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, and he kicked the ball into the end zone
last night and they returned it. Listen. Point is, let's
not get caught up in the weeds here, all right.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
It's your point that you want to down that hill.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
I'm not dying.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
I'm not dying on the hill.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
It just seeowed Chicago, that's the hill you stood on.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, first, I didn't choose Chicago. That was handed down
to me.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Chicago chose you. Yeah, it was handed landed on you. Okay,
but you're from mammoth.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's like it's like genetics. You know, there's nothing you
can do about genetics. They just get handed down to you.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
You know.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
So if you're if you're dealt a bad card, you
just got to play it for the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
And now my son.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
Helping the Steelers, you know, dang, you know we won
our week, won our first game, and we have Aaron
Rodgers as a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Here.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
We go boom on now your back. Boom boom, You're back.
Bro never stopped. I'm never stopped being a Steelers fan
bro ever ever. I just but I have a job
to do. Unlike yourself, I will be critical of my
own team.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
That's all.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Who hasn't been.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
No, you will be critical, but your you know what,
Let me let me let me rephrase that I will
be I will be straight up with how I'm looking
at it. I won't be delusional and how I'm looking
at it, That's that's what I'll say. You are delusional
about the Chicago Is.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
This because I had them as a wildcard team in
our season picks?

Speaker 6 (22:30):
Yes, I think you had them finishing what second in
the division?

Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:34):
First? First? Right? Bang? You suck?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Could he use one of those last night?

Speaker 4 (22:42):
And so does your team?

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Damn damn from all that corn.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
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Speaker 1 (23:04):
Big win for the Minnesota Vikings last night.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now they're off and running Sunday Night football, I believe
against Steve Falcons next week, so we get to see
a little rematch of the National Championship game. JJ McCarthy
and Michael pas Junior.

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You're gonna love what I say at the beginning. It's
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Speaker 1 (23:26):
I can't wait.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
All right.

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Speaker 6 (25:16):
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Speaker 1 (25:18):
That's so messed up?

Speaker 7 (25:19):
Man?

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yay yay?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Is this another one? Is this another Jordan Addison joke?

Speaker 4 (25:30):
You guys?

Speaker 7 (25:31):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (25:31):
No, bang bang?

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Why people catch it straight so early?

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Today?

Speaker 1 (25:39):
You guys got to knock it off back there as
a class.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
We chose balance.

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We did get an answer from Brian Daball, the head
coach of the New York Giants, yesterday, when asked about
the status of Russell Wilson as a starting quarterback, and
it sounded like this.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Do you intend to start Russell Wilson this week?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yes, it's a tough game. Again, like I said yesterday
that that game wasn't it just doesn't.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Fall on Russell Wilson.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
You got to do a better job collectively coaching, playing,
But but Russe will be the starter, all right, So
everybody just relax, all right. Trying to trying to yank
Russ out of the starting lineup, you know that quickly
feels it feels a bit premature if you were to
go ahead and uh and and bench your quarterback after
one week.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
Why have we gotten away from complimenting defenses? I don't
understand that. Like I went back and watched every attempt
and it looked like velcrow coverage where every DB's stuck
on the guy he's trying to throw to. It wasn't
much there. I don't know if you put that on
Brian Dable, And maybe Brian Dable needs to do a
better job of helping to scheme some things up if

(27:52):
guys can't separate, But credit dan Quinn, credit that defense.
It's divisional opponents, so they know each other. Well, well,
I just I go back to you know, we talked
about this like Ohio State and Texas like, oh arch
Manning stinks. It's like, well, go back and watch, Like
where do you want them to throw the football? He
missed some throws. But you know, it's kind of similar

(28:14):
in this sense. It's it's we're one week in and
purely because of how Jackson Dart played the preseason, everyone's
clamoring for him when it's like, could just let this
thing play out for a few weeks. Could we let
Jackson Dart see what that's speed it looks like, and
we let him see had a game plan? How different
games are in actual regular season games before you thrust
them in there. I mean, they've got other issues than

(28:36):
just you know, their quarterback play. I thought like, like
the goal line. You know, I put this up my notes.
Do you guys know when the Giants have been on
the goal line under Brian Dable, they convert less than
forty percent into touchdowns. It's it's one of the lowest
in the league. It's absurd, No, it's terrible, and like

(28:56):
they if they don't score twenty points or more, his
records three in seventeen, Like, this is a team that,
like they have to be able to score points, and
at times there's lacking creativity, there's lacking execution. You know,
not all that falls on Brian Dable, that all that
falls on Russell Wilson just got there, Like I feel
like Russell Wilson is unfortunately paying for the lack of

(29:19):
quarterback play before he got there.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
It sounds about right again, here we go. I will
continue to maintain this theme because I think that it's
a sensible thing to maintain.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
It's week one.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
You can't panic and start saying, oh my gosh, we're
taking on too much water, like everybody get.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
To the rescue Why to get to the rescue crafts?

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Like now it's week one, Like you don't let me
tell you something if it was that simple to ripcord
on something that you're doing, Like tell me as a
head coach, I made the wrong decision in week one,
and I need to make a decision for week two
after an entire offseason of preparation, planning.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Like it doesn't make sense. Make it make sense? People.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
I've seen people on ESPN and on these other shows
something about it's time for Jackson Dark. Like shut up, Like,
what do you mean it's time for Jackson Dark? If
it was time for Jackson Dark, would we would have
known it was time for Jackson Dark?

Speaker 4 (30:33):
We would add, because there would.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
Have been something that was saying that it was so
close that we had to go with Russ, but it
could be Jackson Dark. There were no indications of there
being a real quarterback competition. I think Russell Wilson I
think it played out. Russ was brought in to be
the starter, and that's what he is. Once he shows

(30:58):
and proves that this team cannot win with him at quarterback,
then maybe that change takes place. But again, like like
Brady said, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're losing because
of Russell Wilson.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
If you were gonna bench Russell Wilson for Jackson Dart
after the first game, why didn't you just do it
before the first game?

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Like what do we like one game?

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Man?

Speaker 2 (31:23):
And it's like then the conversation I can understand week
five or six or you know, to wait all the
way to the byeway, they have a later bye week.
I get all that, but after one game, it just
feels a bit you know.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
The plan wasn't The plan wasn't for that, Therefore it
doesn't need to be that, and that's the that's the
bottom line of it. I think Dave All was making
the right decision. I mean, I'm not going to show
that I'm that wishy washy where I would actually make
that change, other than if ownership came down and said, look,

(31:54):
this is what you're going to do. And if it
becomes ownership's decision, maybe that's a little bit different. If
you're getting that over overhead pressure to put in your
your draft pick.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
People are calling for him.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
Maybe that's why I'm in elite neighbors was pouting on
the sideline.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (32:14):
But otherwise, you gotta stay You gotta stay true to
what it is that you're doing.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
You gotta stay true to what it is that you're
doing and know that you know.

Speaker 6 (32:26):
It could it could take a It doesn't have to
take a turn, in fact, it just you gotta give
it some time. He's a new quarterback for this team.
He is a first year guy. Even though he's a veteran.
He is a first year guy with this team in particular.
So if you think that you're just gonna especially the

(32:47):
way these guys practice now, I don't see why they
even practice at all, to be honest, like your your
practice is taking place now. They don't hit, they don't
do two a day's, they don't bleed, they don't sweat,
they don't they don't do the things that you used
to do to really really get prepared in a preseason.
They don't do it anymore. So you gotta change the

(33:10):
landing strip, you gotta change the length of the runway,
because these guys aren't. They're not doing more before, they're
doing way less before. So they're getting in game condition,
they're they're getting game reps now, and so give it time.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
You got to give it a little bit of time.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
Brady, Brady, you were right.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Today.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
What do you mean, I.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Don't know what you are talking.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
I know everybody's getting it.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Well, who got it?

Speaker 1 (33:45):
They they don't even practice anymore.

Speaker 8 (33:48):
They don't believe, they don't.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Believe, they don't they don't sweat.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
No past pass a conditioning test. That's that's really all
that matters. Right past this. Let's run our place. I
don't know. They might they that might be too dangerous,
It might be too trying for their bodies, like it
might be in the CBA that they you know, you can't.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Run them like that. I don't know what it is,
but I do know this. They do not prepare like
they used to. So therefore you have to.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Give them a little bit more time to get into
the type of condition that that you're looking to see
from guys that are playing at top level, you know,
with their performance.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
I mean, I didn't feel like I was throwing shade.
I was just keeping it real.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's all good, all right.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Well, look, I mean, at some point Jackson are to
get an opportunity. At some point it'll be wearing his
necklace while he does it and uh in that way,
and then we're gonna we're gonna, you know, Russell Wilson's
gonna move on to another team possibly.

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Speaker 3 (35:26):
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Speaker 1 (36:20):
You missed it, and for that we turn it over
to our exactly Wow Lee the lap.

Speaker 8 (36:33):
Everybody, Jonas and Brady, Good morning, LeVar.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
Four hours.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Beyond. Did you drink No?

Speaker 1 (36:47):
No, I did not right now?

Speaker 6 (36:52):
Okay the quick as Lie I ever told.

Speaker 8 (37:01):
Well, guys, in case you missed this.

Speaker 10 (37:04):
An update from yesterday's news, The Bills fan who slapped
DeAndre Hopkins and Lamar Jackson on the helmet during Sunday
Night football has been banned by the NFL from all
stadiums indefinitely. In a statement, the NFL says, any fan
that engages an unruly, disruptive behavior will lose the privilege of.

Speaker 8 (37:19):
Attending NFL games.

Speaker 10 (37:20):
Penalties can include ejection, banishment from NFL games events, and
legal action as well.

Speaker 8 (37:27):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
I have to come down harsh on this kid, because
if they don't someone else will follow suit.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Start doing it. Yeah, people, so they have to.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
They have to do this, even if you think it's
too much. They have to do this, so it stops
people from doing this in the future. I was stupid
by the way. I was so dumb.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
I think it's I think they went too light.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
To be honest with you, what would you rather than
do bulling the ring?

Speaker 6 (37:51):
About to say, you know what, Jonas, I don't agree
with you often, but give them the opportunity to take
the lifetime ban or do bulling the ring?

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yeah right, I love that.

Speaker 6 (38:02):
Put the pads on him, do bull in the ring
so you can understand what it is to deal with
a pro pro football player on the field.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (38:12):
And then if he makes it like it, I mean
it's not even if he makes it like once he
makes it through, then you can come back in.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
But just know, if you were to.

Speaker 6 (38:19):
Touch somebody like that on the football field, you either
get a lifetime ban or you get bull in the ring. Yeah,
that would be amazing. And I mean I'm saying, do
it with all linemen. Don't even use the linebackers. That
that would be too fun, too simple, too easy. Do
it with all Linemen steamrolling, picking back up sixty seven

(38:42):
boom steamrolling, picking back up fifty five boom steamrolling.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
And then he could come back and watch.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, whatever left of him?

Speaker 6 (38:53):
Yeah, whatever's left of him?

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (39:00):
What else you got?

Speaker 8 (39:02):
Guys? In another updates from yesterday?

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Did you drink leg?

Speaker 1 (39:05):
That's all I want to know.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
How close did you come to drinking?

Speaker 10 (39:11):
Fairly close, fairly close, fairly close three times? Like almost
made my life three times?

Speaker 4 (39:18):
What does that mean?

Speaker 8 (39:19):
Like I almost made myself a drink?

Speaker 5 (39:21):
He was, He just almost made himself a drink.

Speaker 8 (39:24):
Almost made myself a drink, a bond drink decided.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
You know how they got the movies where the guys
thought that he killed somebody and then he wakes up
and and then the movie starts, and then you realize
that the movie he really did kill somebody.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
That's what Lee just did to us right now.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
He really took a drink, but he thinks he subconsciously
thought that he.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Was making himself.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's like the movie and you do know you drink?

Speaker 4 (39:53):
You didn't know you drink?

Speaker 7 (39:54):
Lee?

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Like that was not a dream like I should you
did make the drink.

Speaker 8 (39:58):
It was a glorious dre It's glorious.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Hey lebar, it's a movie inception, Lee spinning a top.
Mementoly is in the liquor store. It's Christopher Nolan film
for sure.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Drake bro Yeah, I wish.

Speaker 10 (40:19):
In another update from yesterday in the in the Phillies,
Karen Saga, Camping World CEO Marcus Leo Lamonis has gifted
the Lincoln family in r V and offered to buy
them tickets to the World series, calling the dad Dad
of the Year pathetic.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
His dad's a door Matt.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
His dad should get jail time, to be honest with you,
letting let he should.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
Get some shots of testosterone, should get letting that letting
that cast that guy up, letting that hag man, letting
that hag take.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
The ball from him wire gotta be ashamed of himself.

Speaker 6 (40:53):
Hold your balls in your hand, man, your daddy, Your daddy,
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