September 9, 2021 • 38 mins
Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn and LaVar Arrington celebrate the NFL's return today! They talk Cowboys at Bucs, there's nothing like football season in America, we get some great coming-out-the-tunnel stories from LaVar and Brady. The fellas give you their AFC and NFC division winners!
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Hey, it's how Kick the Coverage here Fox Sports Radio,
Jonas Knox, LaVar Arrington and Brady Quinn and can you
believe that the NFL is here? It is Game Day
in the NFL, and coming up, we have got our
full NFL season preview. We're gonna pick every division winner,
We're gonna pick wild cards from the a f C
and NFC, and our Super Bowl picks, plus a look
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ahead to Game one between the Cowboys and the Bucks.
And we've also got the debut of the Prop Bet Monster.
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has been months? But it is finally here and we
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are jacked to the gills about it. We will get
into all of that coming up here. Just a couple
of moments from now it is. I'll kick the coverage
here Fox Sports Radio, Jonas Knox, LaVar Arrington, and Brady Quinn.
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way up until nine am Eastern times, six o'clock Pacific,
and we appreciate you doing so, because guys, it's back.
The NFL is back. It is back, damn straight, it is,
and we have got Cowboys Bucks kicking off the season
later tonight. Just think about all those dreadful sporting events
we had to sit through for the past few months,
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but we are finally here. While everybody fake talks how
excited they are about US men's soccer, we move all
that garbage to the side and we focus on the
NFL is damn right. Yeah, I mean we're always faking
and let's football that it's a football country's country. Yeah,
I mean, it's only excitement when it's football season. Now,
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I'm tired of hearing about these other sports. You don't matter,
other sports you don't it's football culture. We cancel everything.
You're not allowed behind the velvet ropes stand in line
with the rest of the common folk. You're not allowed
in this. Yeah, how's that for dismissing a bunch of
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other people to make a ton of money. Now here's
the here's what I would point. I don't I don't
know what it's like. And you guys are going to
tell game day stories. As a player, I will I'll
just say this as somebody who never played in the
league has loved football's entire life. The first game of
the season, do you know how unproductive tomorrow morning is
going to be for so many people that are watching
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that game tonight. I mean they will either call out
sick or get nothing done. This is Christmas, man, and
and this really is the first gift you get to open.
And then Sunday, when all the other gifts are under
the tree, you just get to open all those theory
on this Jonas. You guys have traveled, right, I mean
before you traveled, you've been to Europe. You know how
like they have a completely different lifestyle over there where,
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Like they'll just take like a couple of months off,
Like they will take their holiday as they call it
or vacation, and they will go somewhere for like a
month at a time, sometimes two months at a time.
I mean, I'll put it this way. But in some
places they're living like they are enjoying life. Meanwhile over
here we are grinding. We grind, baby, It's America. That's
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what we do here. We grind. But to Jonas's point,
if you add up all those days following the first
game of the NFL season, Mondays, after long Sundays in
the NFL, or after a long weekend of football, if
you like college and NFL, if you started adding up
some of those quote unquote sick days, off days, that's
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gonna add up to about a month or so. We
we do it the same thing. We just happen to
take them spread out, and it happens they fall around
American football. Do you okay, do you guys find yourself
now now that you you're out of the league and
you can look at it from a different vantage point,
do you guys find yourself appreciating more of the fan
aspect of things, or or when you think when you
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get to today, you immediately go back in a game
day mode and you just start thinking like a player,
like first game day experience, getting ready for the season
first ever debut, like how do you how do you
handle that psychologically? You know? For me, I'm a fan first,
so so I've always approached everything from a fan first perspective.
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So the fans have always mattered to me. Um, how
I approached the game has always mattered to me because
I know the players who came before me. I knew
the players that were playing at the same time as me.
So it was always like a badge of honor, like
like which I never played in in in the pros before.
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It's like I made it to the pro but I
always approached things like the guy that didn't make it
to the pros. You know. It's always like always like
when I walked around, you see a kid, you know,
a quick story. When I was when I was younger,
my heroes were high school players, high school football, high
school basketball. They were the most like they stood out
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to me. They were the most intriguing to me and
my favorite player. I remember one time my dad took
me to a playoff game to see them in a
basketball playoff game. We get to to the uh we
get to the arena and I see him standing because
they you know, you have tournament style playoff games, you know,
once you get to the playoffs, and they're sitting in
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the bleachers waiting for the game before them to get
to the third quarter so they could go change for
their game. I run off on my dad because I
see my guy's like, he doesn't know me, and he
doesn't know that he's my guy, but that's my guy.
So I go running up to him and he blows
me off. Dude, blew me off. I won't say his name,
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but because we're actually friends, were actually friends now twitter hand.
So he blows me off and and and my dad's
like you know whoa you know. He finally catches up
and he sees the exchange taking place and do with
like basically like can you just leave me alone and
let me, you know, watch the game and like get
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my mind right for the game type stuff. And my
dad was like, man, you couldn't you know, take a
moment or sign an autograph for him? And I stopped
my dad. I was like, you know, don't worry about that.
I was like, one thing I'll never do, Dad is
be like him if I ever make it. And I
pointed at him and when I said it, and go
figure like all those years later, I think I was
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in like heck, I don't know. I had to be
in either at the end of grade school, probably at
like my fifth grade year. It's either my fifth grade
year or my sixth grade year of school. But I
remember tell of my dad, look my dad in my eyes.
I was like that, I'll never be like that. So
for me when I when I watched football and I
approached football, it's like, I can't do it as a
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civilian because my mind is always breaking down the XS
and ose of it. So it's it's very difficult to
watch as a normal civilian. But I never have stopped
watching it as a fan either, So it's like I
enjoy watching guys. I enjoy knowing who they are. I
enjoy you know, the stories behind them, the side stories
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and all that stuff. So it's always been exciting for
me in the same way, even if I was in
a state of competing versus just just trying to watch
it as a civilian that's retired. Now, listen, you know
not everybody's a pride to double Ohio. Right. Well, I
was gonna say, let let me give you the the
alternative point of view. So I are we going into
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like our first game now is like I can relate
in some fashion to kind of lav Ore in two senses,
like as a player and then as just kind of
like a fan and kind of a young kid who's
like dream came true. Like I remember before a week one,
two thousand and seven, We're playing the Pittsburgh Steelers, and
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I remember being in the locker room before the game
and like this, like overwhelming emotions came over me, like
I don't I can't describe it. I don't know why.
It was just that moment when I kind of realized, like,
holy crap, man, you played in the NFL, like you
did it. And I started thinking about my parents. I
started thinking about all the people my uncle Dave, my
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high school coach Greg Fry, who worked with me when
I was young. I started thinking about all the people
in my life that helped me get to that point,
and I just I became I was so overwhelmed with
like thankfulness. And I think I told you guys, like
from the youngest time, I grew up a Browns fan. Man,
Like some of the memories, the only memories I have
of going to games with my grandpa was going to
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see the Browns and so it like all hit me
in that moment when I put the helmet on we
started to walk out the tunnel, I'm like, dude, I'm
trying to fight back tears because it's just it was
so It's so seldom in my life that I took
a moment to realize like what was happening around me.
I was always the type of person that was more
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focused in on like what was going on, the situation
in the game, um my teammates, the scheme, whatever the
case was. I mean from the youngest stage, my my
dad used to always ask me, are you having fun?
And I used to be always so into it and
want to win so bad and so competitive that like
I never stopped to think about how cool it was.
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And I remember for the Pittsburgh Steelers game, like going
out of the tunnel and in the locker room beforehand,
like just those emotions and how it felt because there
was so much hard work and sacrificed by everyone evolved,
including myself, to get to that point. But uh, then
the game started in that story and then I was like, oh, snap,
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we're not very good, like like the Steelers are legit man,
Like we've been watching film I've been hearing stories, I've
watched him for years, and I'm like, man, we got
some work to do with a bench. Charlie Fry at half,
Derrick Anderson goes in the second half, I think he
threw a pick or two. And then now the reality
hit me as I'm I'm walking out of the stadium
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after the game, like, man, we're not very good. We
gotta turn this thing around. And then they traded Charlie
Fry that next week. Now and now people are like, hey,
you might be starting. I was like, hell, yeah, give
me the raid, let's do this thing. Um. But which
at that point they gave it to Derrick Anderson. And
since Day's defense was one of which, then at least
that year you could throw on them a little bit.
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So that was the funny thing was we always kind
of felt like whoever got the start Week two was
gonna be the start of the rest of the way.
I almost kind of apply it to like Florida State
after the Mackenzie Milton Jordan Travis situation this past Sunday. Um,
because whoever gets to start this week versus was Jacksonville State,
I think they play They're gonna be the starter for
a while because they should be able to show out
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a little bit. But it was kind of like that.
You see, you were more emotional about walking out to
the field four game one than you were when you
got drafted. Yeah, and and and then part of that
might have to do with like how my draft they went,
not even like sliding to what I thought two. It
was more of like literally, dude, like we were sitting
in Roger Goodell's green room with my family having just
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crushed a bunch of Chipotle burritos, trying to clean up
after ourselves, and they're like jerking me onto the stage
after I had spent some time talking to the Ravens,
and then it was the Browns that traded up with
like two minutes left, So it was like kind of chaotic,
to be honest. We're like people were trying to get
me up out of there and our Chipotle probably get
your family out of here. And that's why you were
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chewing gum on star on the stage, right. Yeah, I
was like, I can't be walking on stage with stak
breath but hot side. I remember you got heat for that, dude,
so I forget. Yeah, he was upset. He didn't think
it looked professional. When Brady was chewing gum, he just said,
potle man, it's like eating a sewer rat wrapped in
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a blanket. What do you want from him? I'm just saying,
like he's got all those prostate commercials he does, he's
he's good. Who cares? But but you know I did
because for whatever reason, I think how that experience went
and at that point, like you're you're getting drafted, like
it's I don't know, you go through it the first time.
I don't know how harp about when he got you drafted,
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but I was like it wasn't It didn't hit me then,
like that's not football. Football is when you like strap
on the pag, you strapped everything all you get ready
to go. And it was at that moment, for whatever reason,
and and maybe because you know, I prayed before games
and all that, where it was like kind of just
you know, one of those conversations where you're like this
this actually happened, man, Like you dreampt about this all
your life, this is actually happening. That's awesome that I
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had one of those more I did. I cried before
every game. I put a toe over my head like
like it was kind of the coolest part at a
point in time in my career would it wouldn't be
my first time um going out, but just at one
point in time in my career where I was the leader,
the captain of the team, had had, you know, a
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resume to to with with the respect the defensive front
and the linebackers. We had a routine. Everybody had the routine.
And as a as the routine wound wind wound up
and we got ready to go out, I would put
a towel over my head, like and they knew when
I put my toel over my head, I knew that
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it was five minutes before it was time for us
to go out. For for a small amount of time,
I think about Peewee League football and and in the
uniform that I wore, and how how I used to
freak out because I couldn't find my socks that where
team issued socks um that had the name of our
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team on it. And I thought about like like my runs,
like different highlights from when I played Peewee League with
flashed through my head. My my my loved ones, like
people that I went to school with that somewhere in
jail some had passed away you know, my family, Like
I ran, I ran everything through my head and that
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in that moment, for about a minute or so, it
seemed like an eternity and I just cry. I just cry,
like the emotions, the raw emotions of like this this
all happened because of all of this. I think about
my PEEEE League coaches, my high school coaches, like my
teammates from from every like I would think about my
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uncle's I would hear random moments where I'd have an
uncle out of game and he'd be standing on the
fence and he'd be like, go Shorty and not. That
was my nickname growing up with Shot. My middle names
were Shot and my my my family called me shoddy.
So I just have random moments where the goat Shorty
and I hear stuff that would take me back to
a place in a time, and I would just cry.
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Then once I wiped my face off, I come up
out of that tow and I grab my helmet and
everybody's standing right there ready like ready for me to
get them the words before we walk out and go
onto the field for warm ups. And now that's one
of my most vivid memories, is how cool that was
that they would be waiting like that was like our routine,
like I get my I get my moment in Once
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I grabbed ex Caliber, which was my helmet. You know,
every I was, I was dropping that handle. It's like
when you go into the mind of them of a maniac,
like you know, we talked about how you can't watch
the game as a as a real civilian. I grabbed
ex Caliber, bro and who was and it was the
only only one dude could grab ex Caliber from the
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lady of the lake, you know what I mean. So
so in the end, I put ex Caliber on and
it was time to go. Man, they knew it was
time to go. We knew it was time to go.
We go, you know. But that's that's football. Though. You
want to talk about the energy and the excitement when
you're really in it, like when you're in it like
as a as a civilian. It's funny because I get
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those moments and I get those feelings when I'm watching
my kids or kids play. But that feeling that you
get where your body knows that it's about to do
some crazy ish and and the way you start feeling
because it's funny. People used to always say you look
normal during the week. They're like, you look way different
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on game day, and it's honest to God's true. I
would look like a normal dude during the week, But
when we were about to walk out and go onto
the field, warm up and do what we were doing,
I had veins popping out, like my my my muscles
look bigger, you know what I mean, like your body,
like my body knew like this dude is about to
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send us through hell, like let's go. That's right, that's
what they said. My racehorses said, those those the best ones. No,
the lights come on, they feel the crowd and those
things just one it's time and just make shorts out
of racehorses. Santa Anita won't make it home. I'm just saying,
I'm just like, you know, I'm just let you know,
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you know, that's a dicey proposition there, why they're bringing
a tent out onto the tracks. Alright, it is it is.
I'll kicked the coverage here on Fox Sports Radio. This
this is outkicked the coverage, LaVar Arrington, Brady Quinn Jonas
knocks with the Here it is our NFL season preview show.
That's right. The NFL is back later on tonight. Cowboys
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get to our division picks here coming up moment Hey,
by the way, I'm excited about this. Yeah, I'm ready
to go. Okay, I tried to send you guys a
link of that playoff predictor. I think it's a really
cool site. I'm shocked. I'm just gonna tell you this much.
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I'm shocked with how my divisions turned out because I thought,
you know how you picture, like, oh that came. There's
no way. I feel like they're gonna be that bad
or that good. But then when you go through each
week their schedule to buys all that stuff, like, it's
kind of surprising. It's it's gonna be interesting to hear
you guys. I I didn't. I didn't want to talk
myself out of some of my picks. I just I went,
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I just said, all right, where was my gut? Tell me?
Because what I'll make the mistake of I'll go start
going through schedules and things like that, and every time
I changed my pick last minute, I end up getting screwge.
I'm not getting you know what I did. And I
don't know if you felt this way too, just from
watching the games, but I forgot what home field advantage
really provided until I went out in person to get
I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot what this is like,
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like like it's a little harder to communicate the offensive line,
especially if you're in like the students section, or in
this case, if you're on the road, that crowd noise man.
And so when I was doing my picks, I really
did set a little more of a weighted preference to like,
all right, who's playing at home? If they're equal teams,
I'm giving that team the home field advantage more often
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than not, unless I thought they were. Even then it
was like, okay, are they coming off of by no? Okay,
is a Thursday night, you know, a short week later
in the season. That always plays a big factor too,
I think in in helping the home team not have
to travel. So, like all those things starting to factor
in from me. All right, so we are going to
get into our division picks here. It is outkicked the
coverage here Fox Sports Radio, Le Barrington, Brady Quinn Jonas
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knocks you the here on FS. Alright, so let's get
this started. Let's get into it here. It is our
NFL season preview. We're gonna pick division winners this hour.
Next hour, we're gonna make our wild card picks an
our three super Bowl picks. Alright, so division winners here
as we go through, who wants to take the lead
on this all right, who wants to us? Step right
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up and I can lead off Rick Henderson of this show.
Let's go. I'm gonna start off in the a f C. Okay,
I'm gonna story with the a f C North, which
really came down to be the most competitive division in
the a f C. And the division winner is the
Baltimore Ravens. Like I'm out of eleven and six. The
Baltimore Ravens win a close, tough, tightly contested race with
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the Steelers the Browns who both went ten and seven.
Going to a a f C South, I've got the
Titans running away with this one eleven and six. Really
no one else was in striking distance. The a f
C East, i got the Bills probably no surprise, surprise,
twelve and five. But then I've got the Patriots, and
I feel I don't feel good about this one. I
don't uh. There are eleven and six. They're nipping on
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their heels. I'll get into that when we talk about
the wild card spots. And then I've got the a
f C West, which I've got is the best division
in the a f C. It was, you know, you
can make the case it was the most competitive but
not really because of the Raiders. But I've got the
Chiefs winning that one. At thirteen and four, the Chiefs
win the a f C West. You want to go
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to NFC now, No, I mean, uh, let's see, you
want to do just a f C and then we'll
get into NFC later on, so that we well kind
of all right. So so LaVar, you want to go,
You want me to take this one? You go, all right?
So here we go. I will start in the a
f C North as well too. I too like the
Baltimore Ravens. A little bit concerned about the cluster injuries
running back over the past week or so. That has
me a little bit concerned about Baltimore or but I
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do like the Ravens to win that division. I think, uh,
Pittsburgh and Cleveland is the interesting battle to me because
I have no idea how that's gonna turn out. I
don't know if Roethlisberger can lead a team anymore that
maybe doesn't have the talent that Cleveland does. But you know,
clearly I think Cincinnati is dead last in that division.
So I got the Ravens winning the a f C
North as we go to the a f C South,
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I want to take the Colts. I love the Colts
a year ago, but I got doubts about Carson Wentz
and I got doubts about some of the injuries. And
we've talked about how snake bit that team is. I'm
gonna go with the Tennessee Titans. I think Mike Rabel's
gonna figure out that defense. They were awful a diaper
fire from a year ago, but I like the offense.
Julio Jones is there. That's the least of my concerns.
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Interested to see what they do without their offensive coordinator.
Arthur Smith, who's in Atlanta now is the head coach.
But I do like the Tennessee Titans to win the
a f C South as we go to the a
f C East, I like the New England Patriots to
win the a f C East. It seems is Buffalo
is way too obvious for me, and it feels like
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the way that they've handled this mac Jones stuff. And
according to a scout who was there, from Brady Quinn's
lips to my ears, Matt Jones was dealing and that
joint practice against the Giants. I'm in on Mac Jones.
I love what they did in the offseason. I also
don't think they were that bad a year ago. I
think that narrative was sort of a thrown out there
because all the success. Tom Brady ad I like the
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New England Patriots to win the a f C East.
I think Buffalo finished his second, and I think the Dolphins,
who I'm not as high on as everybody else, is third,
and the Jets are battling it out with them for
thur but ultimately finished fourth. And then if we go
to the a f C West White complicate things, it's
going to be the Chiefs. The real question is gonna
be who finishes second, the Chargers or the Broncos, because
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we all know what the answer is to who's finishing fourth,
and that's the Las Vegas Raiders. Fun team, great team
to watch. I'm not I'm not trying to piss off
Danny and Roberto. I just there's problems. There a lot
of noise coming out of that about that division. But
that is my a f C division winners there all right.
I'm gonna start in the West because that's the easiest one.
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So we'll go with the Kansas City Chiefs and there
you go. The rest of them can fight it out
for a second, Who cares it's the Chiefs f C West? No,
no analysis needed, analysis about paralysis. But if we had
a website and the analysis from LaVar was who cares
Chiefs are winner? Now, then FC North is is one
of the most peculiar because again it did have three
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teams over ten wins, which means that in all intensive purposes,
you could say this is the most competitive division in
all of the NFL, even though I believe that the
NFC West would contend for that. But I digress a
f C North. You look at this Pittsburgh Steelers team.
There are a lot of question marks that are surrounding
this group, but they always seem to figure it out.
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I don't know why it is, but they're the big
brother of the division. Um. Then you look at the Ravens.
There there are question marks. Now, especially with J. K.
Dobbins going down, you have two backs down in that backfield.
Will they be able to overcome that? Will Lamar Jackson's
workload be a little bit heavier than what it generally
would be, and can he take maybe a step forward
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in terms of passing, because to me, I don't think
he's far off from from being a next level guy
passing the ball as as much as the critics may say. So,
I do think that it is going to be a
three team race obviously, and the Browns. I'm making a
Bowl one here. I think that the Browns will dominate
the NFC North this year. I don't think that they
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would just win the division. I think they're going to
have a dominant season. I think that I think that
the elements are there for them to have, uh take
a step forward, and if they take a step forward,
that's really you know, you think about it, that's twelve
to third team wins. So I'm I'm looking at the
Browns that is, but you know, it's if they take
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a step forward, that's that's only two wins, two or
three wins more than what they ended up with last year.
So I think there will be a better team this
year because I think that's a much more confident and
and comfortable in his own skin, Baker Mayfield. And I
think that's gonna make the difference here. And I think, oh,
b J has a lot to prove, Like, let's be
honest here, this is probably his last opportunity to hold
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onto the light of of what his popularity was when
he made that catch in New York. He still hasn't
established himself in Cleveland. That could be a great motivator
for him. So I'm looking for the Browns to be
able to come out of that that part of the
a f C. You're going to the East. I know
you got the Patriots. I know you've picked the Bills. Uh,
it is gonna be between those two teams. But I
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just don't see and in cold weather conditions and the
a f C East a team rolling through which will
I believe will be a competitive Dolphins team and and
a dominant Bills team. I just don't see the Patriots
having it in a in a rookie corps, they're back
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to be able to navigate and an entire season and
win the division. So by default process of elimination, do
I think that they can schematically be good enough, um
coachedwise good enough to be able to win the division?
I do, But I do think that the Bills are
are too good for a rookie quarterback to come in
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and be the catalyst of of the New England Patriots
climbing back above the Dolphins and above the Bills to
get the division. So I'm gonna go with the Bills
in the a f C East and the a f
C South. I feel like defenses travel. I feel like
that offensive lines travel, and when you look at those boxes,
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who checks that off definitively it's the Colts. Now, they're
dealing with injuries and and whatever that may be with
Carson Wentz at the quarterback's position, but I think this
is a much more improved, much more sophisticated, UM, A
sophisticated team in terms of how they will approach what
they're doing this year. They do have a couple of
question marks. I mean, there are some question marks at
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the receiver's position. UM, But I just think that the
Colts are going to to be able to run the ball,
and they're gonna be able to play defense, and they're
gonna be able to protect the quarterback that's back there.
I think that that's a great I think that's a
great uh recipe for them to be able to win
the a f C SUD. I do think the Titans.
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I think they take a step back from an eleven
win team. I honestly do. I don't think that they're
an eleven win team this year. UM. For the simple
fact that if they can slow down Derrick Henry, I'm
just not convinced yet that the Tennessee Titans are anything
else outside of their running attack. If you saw Derrick
Henry get get stopped, you saw the Tennessee Titans offense
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and their team get stopped. I just don't know that
he can continue on the trajectory that he's been on,
even though he's had such a brilliant start so far.
I don't expect them to win eleven games, and I
don't expect them to win uh the division that in
the a f C South. So I'm going with the Colts.
So now I feel worse about my FC South pick.
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That's a problem, Damnage, all Right, why do you just
because like this because I always yeah, okay, I know,
but I always end up I just I don't want to.
I picked the Colts to go to a super Bowl
last year. If I'm a year off from them making
a Super Bowl, I'm gonna I'm gonna kick myself in
the ball. Do you really feel like you are the
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like I think there's a lot of questions about this time.
I don't think they're a super Bowl team, but I
don't have a playoff team. I'll just tell you right now.
The defense is too good, let me say that. But
it's tough when they're on the field all the time.
But you gotta tackle. You got a new left tackle,
Quinn Nelson. We expect and play week one, But if
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he doesn't, that's a tough spot. Went in a new
offense at least with the different playmakers around him, But
who have they really been able to rely on the
passing game like that? It looked a lot different last year.
I'm just saying I think this team did it with
an old man though. Yeah, but that old man could
still sling it a little bit. I don't know if
it was all him. Yeah, I think if you can
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run the ball and and Taylor is a guy that
can run the ball and he runs it well, and
and they can protect well enough, which even with a
new tackle, I still think that this this this offensive
line ranks in like the top five of the league
by PFF. But again, I think if you can play
defense and you can protect and run the ball, you
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got a chance to win most games. And and the
Colts check those boxes off you like PF. I know
some of those guys, I'm not you know, I'm not.
I'm not putting my hat on it. I'm not putting
my hat on it. Brady. If I introduce you to
some of those guys, you might say, Okay, never mind,
I'm not. Hey, listen, I'm all about branding. And you
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know what it is like like my my boy Mike
Rentor does a great job. Mike. I know, I'll to
he We've we've talked about some different players, film and whatnot,
and everyone you're in drafted analysis, you're always gonna have missus.
You're always gonna you know, guys get drafted the spots
that doesn't really work for them. So there's there's definitely
some good guys, but there's also some guys. You go, okay, Okay,
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It is our NFL season preview show. Last segment we
made our a f C division picks, and now we
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move into the NFC our division winners, and we start
again with the man who's our leadoff hitter here in
our season preview show. It is Brady Quinn and I'm
gonna start off once again in the NFC North and
to me it's the Green Bay Packers. You know Rogers
is back. This roster has improved somewhat, but the way
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he played last year's the defending m v P. That's
enough for me to look at their schedule, I've got
them going twelve and five, five and one in the division. Um,
I don't want to see running away with it. It
was one thing that competed in it. But I've got
the Packers in the NFC South, the defending Super Bowl champs,
the tam Bay Bucks, now record I don't feel good about.
But I've got them sweeping the division, which is a
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pretty dramatic turnaround. If you think about last year the
Saints swept them. That's not the case this year. Six
and oh in the division. And how about this fifteen
and two. I I mean, I look, they signed everyone back.
First time we've seen a team do that really in
this this millennium. And we'll see if they're gonna be
able to have any success with it. But the reality
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is they're one of the best teams, about the best
team in the NFC. NFC East, I've got the Dallas
Cowboys at ten and seven winning the division. Dax stays healthy,
this team has improved defensively and it will be enough
for them to be able to win. And what I've
got is still a pretty pretty bad division. And then
the NFC West, a tough, tight contested race between the
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forty Niners, the Rams and Seahawks and Cardinals. I've got
the forty Niners at thirteen and four, four and two
in the division. They are the ones that ultimately end
up winning the NFC West, however, again a hot, tough,
contested division. Probably the best is Lavarre noted in the
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last segment in all of football. But I've got the
forty Niners winning that one. Yeah, I I've got the
same exact division winners as you. I've got the green
Bay Packers. If you thought Rogers was motivated a year
ago after they took Jordan's love, what do you think
he wants to do thinking this could possibly be his
last year in Green Bay? I got green Bay winning
that division. I actually don't even think it's close. Tampa
Bay winning the NFC South. They make that division takes
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a step back as a whole. With Drew Brees being gone.
I think Sam Donald's a big question mark with Carolina.
I've also got the Dallas Cowboys winning the East. I
was gonna go Washington. I don't trust their quarterback situation.
I think Dallas has loaded offensively. I think it's a
bounce back here for them. Dak may not be one
the entire season, but I think he's the best quarterback
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in that division by far. And then I've got the
forty Niners winning the West. I'm higher on Jimmy Garoppolo
than a lot of people. I think he's gonna have
a good year. I think they're gonna be healthy this year.
It's gonna be competitive. But I got the Niners one
in the NFC West. I'll start in the West. The
Rams are going to win the West. I think Stafford.
Stafford is probably the missing link to them having more
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success than what they did last year and not having
to depend so much on their defense now. While there
are question marks on what they're running, attack will look
like if if, if Michelle pans out, if somebody pans out,
somebody seems to surface on teams that like a Shanahan
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lad team. We've seen it historically in the past with
the older Shanahan and we've actually seen it at times
with with cow Shanahan as well. I think the Rams defensively,
only the Niners maybe match up with them in terms
of talent and and being good, but I think the
Rams stand alone in terms I mean, obviously ranked number
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one and multiple uh categories. I'm going with the Rams
in the West, you move into the South. I'm gonna
make a bold prediction here. I don't think that there's
gonna be a sweep. I think that the Saints will
actually sneak up on people. I don't know. I'm not
basing that off of any type of real you know evidence. Obviously,
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Michael Thomas is going to be out for for an
extended amount of time, or at least a time in
the beginning of the year. But I'm just looking at
the way Jamie's played in in the preseason and if
there's any indication from his confidence level and and how
he handled things in the preseason, and Sean Payton and
the rest of his coaching staff what they're able to do.
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I just think sometimes when when you're the icorus of
of of a division, you could get too close to
the sun and burn your wings, and your wings melt,
you fly, you fall back to the earth. There's a
possibility that Tampa could be that team. I don't know that.
It does look like everything checks out, but I'm not
convinced that they're going to be as dominant as as
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everyone believes they're going to be so I think in
a surprise, look at the Saints to be the team
and a two team the two team race, I think
the Saints will take it again. Uh. In the East, yeah,
I think the Washington Ridskins excuse me, the Washington football team,
excuse me, the Washington the Washington football team. Well, I
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was one, so I could use it. I don't don't
come for me. I don't come for me. Uh A
cancel culture. Thank you, I'm sorry. And I got Indian
in me to go figure. Uh okay, So here we go.
I'm going with the Washington Washington football team to win
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that that division. I think with Ron Rivera and Eric
Wright and those guys have done in that organization in
terms of a cultural shift, has really really paid dividends.
I do believe that the Cowboys will be competitive. They
obviously have the the undisputed best order back in the division.
But I'm just not sold on them. It's it's one
of those things. They have proven that you can't trust them,
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so they're going to have to be a show me
team in this division. I think that the Washington football
team found themselves and was able to pull it out.
Um this past year. I think they'll be even better
this year, so I'm going with Washington and then in
the North. Obviously, you don't need much time to say
green Bay is hit and shoulders, maybe a body better
than every other team in that division. So they'll win
it pretty easily, pretty pretty. They'll be the one that
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cruises to a divisional title. Nice and there it is.
That is. Those are division picks for the upcoming NFL season.
Next hour, we are going to have our wild card
picks and then our super Bowl picks. In our three
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but we are finally here. While everybody fake talks how
excited they are about US men's soccer, we move all
that garbage to the side and we focus on the
NFL is damn right. Yeah, I mean we're always faking
and let's football that it's a football country's country. Yeah,
I mean, it's only excitement when it's football season. Now,
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I'm tired of hearing about these other sports. You don't matter,
other sports you don't it's football culture. We cancel everything.
You're not allowed behind the velvet ropes stand in line
with the rest of the common folk. You're not allowed
in this. Yeah, how's that for dismissing a bunch of
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other people to make a ton of money. Now here's
the here's what I would point. I don't I don't
know what it's like. And you guys are going to
tell game day stories. As a player, I will I'll
just say this as somebody who never played in the
league has loved football's entire life. The first game of
the season, do you know how unproductive tomorrow morning is
going to be for so many people that are watching
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that game tonight. I mean they will either call out
sick or get nothing done. This is Christmas, man, and
and this really is the first gift you get to open.
And then Sunday, when all the other gifts are under
the tree, you just get to open all those theory
on this Jonas. You guys have traveled, right, I mean
before you traveled, you've been to Europe. You know how
like they have a completely different lifestyle over there where,
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Like they'll just take like a couple of months off,
Like they will take their holiday as they call it
or vacation, and they will go somewhere for like a
month at a time, sometimes two months at a time.
I mean, I'll put it this way. But in some
places they're living like they are enjoying life. Meanwhile over
here we are grinding. We grind, baby, It's America. That's
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what we do here. We grind. But to Jonas's point,
if you add up all those days following the first
game of the NFL season, Mondays, after long Sundays in
the NFL, or after a long weekend of football, if
you like college and NFL, if you started adding up
some of those quote unquote sick days, off days, that's
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gonna add up to about a month or so. We
we do it the same thing. We just happen to
take them spread out, and it happens they fall around
American football. Do you okay, do you guys find yourself
now now that you you're out of the league and
you can look at it from a different vantage point,
do you guys find yourself appreciating more of the fan
aspect of things, or or when you think when you
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get to today, you immediately go back in a game
day mode and you just start thinking like a player,
like first game day experience, getting ready for the season
first ever debut, like how do you how do you
handle that psychologically? You know? For me, I'm a fan first,
so so I've always approached everything from a fan first perspective.
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So the fans have always mattered to me. Um, how
I approached the game has always mattered to me because
I know the players who came before me. I knew
the players that were playing at the same time as me.
So it was always like a badge of honor, like
like which I never played in in in the pros before.
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It's like I made it to the pro but I
always approached things like the guy that didn't make it
to the pros. You know. It's always like always like
when I walked around, you see a kid, you know,
a quick story. When I was when I was younger,
my heroes were high school players, high school football, high
school basketball. They were the most like they stood out
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to me. They were the most intriguing to me and
my favorite player. I remember one time my dad took
me to a playoff game to see them in a
basketball playoff game. We get to to the uh we
get to the arena and I see him standing because
they you know, you have tournament style playoff games, you know,
once you get to the playoffs, and they're sitting in
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the bleachers waiting for the game before them to get
to the third quarter so they could go change for
their game. I run off on my dad because I
see my guy's like, he doesn't know me, and he
doesn't know that he's my guy, but that's my guy.
So I go running up to him and he blows
me off. Dude, blew me off. I won't say his name,
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but because we're actually friends, were actually friends now twitter hand.
So he blows me off and and and my dad's
like you know whoa you know. He finally catches up
and he sees the exchange taking place and do with
like basically like can you just leave me alone and
let me, you know, watch the game and like get
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my mind right for the game type stuff. And my
dad was like, man, you couldn't you know, take a
moment or sign an autograph for him? And I stopped
my dad. I was like, you know, don't worry about that.
I was like, one thing I'll never do, Dad is
be like him if I ever make it. And I
pointed at him and when I said it, and go
figure like all those years later, I think I was
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in like heck, I don't know. I had to be
in either at the end of grade school, probably at
like my fifth grade year. It's either my fifth grade
year or my sixth grade year of school. But I
remember tell of my dad, look my dad in my eyes.
I was like that, I'll never be like that. So
for me when I when I watched football and I
approached football, it's like, I can't do it as a
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civilian because my mind is always breaking down the XS
and ose of it. So it's it's very difficult to
watch as a normal civilian. But I never have stopped
watching it as a fan either, So it's like I
enjoy watching guys. I enjoy knowing who they are. I
enjoy you know, the stories behind them, the side stories
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and all that stuff. So it's always been exciting for
me in the same way, even if I was in
a state of competing versus just just trying to watch
it as a civilian that's retired. Now, listen, you know
not everybody's a pride to double Ohio. Right. Well, I
was gonna say, let let me give you the the
alternative point of view. So I are we going into
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like our first game now is like I can relate
in some fashion to kind of lav Ore in two senses,
like as a player and then as just kind of
like a fan and kind of a young kid who's
like dream came true. Like I remember before a week one,
two thousand and seven, We're playing the Pittsburgh Steelers, and
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I remember being in the locker room before the game
and like this, like overwhelming emotions came over me, like
I don't I can't describe it. I don't know why.
It was just that moment when I kind of realized, like,
holy crap, man, you played in the NFL, like you
did it. And I started thinking about my parents. I
started thinking about all the people my uncle Dave, my
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high school coach Greg Fry, who worked with me when
I was young. I started thinking about all the people
in my life that helped me get to that point,
and I just I became I was so overwhelmed with
like thankfulness. And I think I told you guys, like
from the youngest time, I grew up a Browns fan. Man,
Like some of the memories, the only memories I have
of going to games with my grandpa was going to
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see the Browns and so it like all hit me
in that moment when I put the helmet on we
started to walk out the tunnel, I'm like, dude, I'm
trying to fight back tears because it's just it was
so It's so seldom in my life that I took
a moment to realize like what was happening around me.
I was always the type of person that was more
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focused in on like what was going on, the situation
in the game, um my teammates, the scheme, whatever the
case was. I mean from the youngest stage, my my
dad used to always ask me, are you having fun?
And I used to be always so into it and
want to win so bad and so competitive that like
I never stopped to think about how cool it was.
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And I remember for the Pittsburgh Steelers game, like going
out of the tunnel and in the locker room beforehand,
like just those emotions and how it felt because there
was so much hard work and sacrificed by everyone evolved,
including myself, to get to that point. But uh, then
the game started in that story and then I was like, oh, snap,
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we're not very good, like like the Steelers are legit man,
Like we've been watching film I've been hearing stories, I've
watched him for years, and I'm like, man, we got
some work to do with a bench. Charlie Fry at half,
Derrick Anderson goes in the second half, I think he
threw a pick or two. And then now the reality
hit me as I'm I'm walking out of the stadium
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after the game, like, man, we're not very good. We
gotta turn this thing around. And then they traded Charlie
Fry that next week. Now and now people are like, hey,
you might be starting. I was like, hell, yeah, give
me the raid, let's do this thing. Um. But which
at that point they gave it to Derrick Anderson. And
since Day's defense was one of which, then at least
that year you could throw on them a little bit.
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So that was the funny thing was we always kind
of felt like whoever got the start Week two was
gonna be the start of the rest of the way.
I almost kind of apply it to like Florida State
after the Mackenzie Milton Jordan Travis situation this past Sunday. Um,
because whoever gets to start this week versus was Jacksonville State,
I think they play They're gonna be the starter for
a while because they should be able to show out
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a little bit. But it was kind of like that.
You see, you were more emotional about walking out to
the field four game one than you were when you
got drafted. Yeah, and and and then part of that
might have to do with like how my draft they went,
not even like sliding to what I thought two. It
was more of like literally, dude, like we were sitting
in Roger Goodell's green room with my family having just
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crushed a bunch of Chipotle burritos, trying to clean up
after ourselves, and they're like jerking me onto the stage
after I had spent some time talking to the Ravens,
and then it was the Browns that traded up with
like two minutes left, So it was like kind of chaotic,
to be honest. We're like people were trying to get
me up out of there and our Chipotle probably get
your family out of here. And that's why you were
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chewing gum on star on the stage, right. Yeah, I
was like, I can't be walking on stage with stak
breath but hot side. I remember you got heat for that, dude,
so I forget. Yeah, he was upset. He didn't think
it looked professional. When Brady was chewing gum, he just said,
potle man, it's like eating a sewer rat wrapped in
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a blanket. What do you want from him? I'm just saying,
like he's got all those prostate commercials he does, he's
he's good. Who cares? But but you know I did
because for whatever reason, I think how that experience went
and at that point, like you're you're getting drafted, like
it's I don't know, you go through it the first time.
I don't know how harp about when he got you drafted,
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but I was like it wasn't It didn't hit me then,
like that's not football. Football is when you like strap
on the pag, you strapped everything all you get ready
to go. And it was at that moment, for whatever reason,
and and maybe because you know, I prayed before games
and all that, where it was like kind of just
you know, one of those conversations where you're like this
this actually happened, man, Like you dreampt about this all
your life, this is actually happening. That's awesome that I
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had one of those more I did. I cried before
every game. I put a toe over my head like
like it was kind of the coolest part at a
point in time in my career would it wouldn't be
my first time um going out, but just at one
point in time in my career where I was the leader,
the captain of the team, had had, you know, a
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resume to to with with the respect the defensive front
and the linebackers. We had a routine. Everybody had the routine.
And as a as the routine wound wind wound up
and we got ready to go out, I would put
a towel over my head, like and they knew when
I put my toel over my head, I knew that
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it was five minutes before it was time for us
to go out. For for a small amount of time,
I think about Peewee League football and and in the
uniform that I wore, and how how I used to
freak out because I couldn't find my socks that where
team issued socks um that had the name of our
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team on it. And I thought about like like my runs,
like different highlights from when I played Peewee League with
flashed through my head. My my my loved ones, like
people that I went to school with that somewhere in
jail some had passed away you know, my family, Like
I ran, I ran everything through my head and that
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in that moment, for about a minute or so, it
seemed like an eternity and I just cry. I just cry,
like the emotions, the raw emotions of like this this
all happened because of all of this. I think about
my PEEEE League coaches, my high school coaches, like my
teammates from from every like I would think about my
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uncle's I would hear random moments where I'd have an
uncle out of game and he'd be standing on the
fence and he'd be like, go Shorty and not. That
was my nickname growing up with Shot. My middle names
were Shot and my my my family called me shoddy.
So I just have random moments where the goat Shorty
and I hear stuff that would take me back to
a place in a time, and I would just cry.
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Then once I wiped my face off, I come up
out of that tow and I grab my helmet and
everybody's standing right there ready like ready for me to
get them the words before we walk out and go
onto the field for warm ups. And now that's one
of my most vivid memories, is how cool that was
that they would be waiting like that was like our routine,
like I get my I get my moment in Once
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I grabbed ex Caliber, which was my helmet. You know,
every I was, I was dropping that handle. It's like
when you go into the mind of them of a maniac,
like you know, we talked about how you can't watch
the game as a as a real civilian. I grabbed
ex Caliber, bro and who was and it was the
only only one dude could grab ex Caliber from the
(15:51):
lady of the lake, you know what I mean. So
so in the end, I put ex Caliber on and
it was time to go. Man, they knew it was
time to go. We knew it was time to go.
We go, you know. But that's that's football. Though. You
want to talk about the energy and the excitement when
you're really in it, like when you're in it like
as a as a civilian. It's funny because I get
(16:13):
those moments and I get those feelings when I'm watching
my kids or kids play. But that feeling that you
get where your body knows that it's about to do
some crazy ish and and the way you start feeling
because it's funny. People used to always say you look
normal during the week. They're like, you look way different
(16:33):
on game day, and it's honest to God's true. I
would look like a normal dude during the week, But
when we were about to walk out and go onto
the field, warm up and do what we were doing,
I had veins popping out, like my my my muscles
look bigger, you know what I mean, like your body,
like my body knew like this dude is about to
(16:53):
send us through hell, like let's go. That's right, that's
what they said. My racehorses said, those those the best ones. No,
the lights come on, they feel the crowd and those
things just one it's time and just make shorts out
of racehorses. Santa Anita won't make it home. I'm just saying,
I'm just like, you know, I'm just let you know,
(17:16):
you know, that's a dicey proposition there, why they're bringing
a tent out onto the tracks. Alright, it is it is.
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get to our division picks here coming up moment Hey,
by the way, I'm excited about this. Yeah, I'm ready
to go. Okay, I tried to send you guys a
link of that playoff predictor. I think it's a really
cool site. I'm shocked. I'm just gonna tell you this much.
(18:43):
I'm shocked with how my divisions turned out because I thought,
you know how you picture, like, oh that came. There's
no way. I feel like they're gonna be that bad
or that good. But then when you go through each
week their schedule to buys all that stuff, like, it's
kind of surprising. It's it's gonna be interesting to hear
you guys. I I didn't. I didn't want to talk
myself out of some of my picks. I just I went,
(19:03):
I just said, all right, where was my gut? Tell me?
Because what I'll make the mistake of I'll go start
going through schedules and things like that, and every time
I changed my pick last minute, I end up getting screwge.
I'm not getting you know what I did. And I
don't know if you felt this way too, just from
watching the games, but I forgot what home field advantage
really provided until I went out in person to get
I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot what this is like,
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like like it's a little harder to communicate the offensive line,
especially if you're in like the students section, or in
this case, if you're on the road, that crowd noise man.
And so when I was doing my picks, I really
did set a little more of a weighted preference to like,
all right, who's playing at home? If they're equal teams,
I'm giving that team the home field advantage more often
(19:48):
than not, unless I thought they were. Even then it
was like, okay, are they coming off of by no? Okay,
is a Thursday night, you know, a short week later
in the season. That always plays a big factor too,
I think in in helping the home team not have
to travel. So, like all those things starting to factor
in from me. All right, so we are going to
get into our division picks here. It is outkicked the
coverage here Fox Sports Radio, Le Barrington, Brady Quinn Jonas
(20:11):
knocks you the here on FS. Alright, so let's get
this started. Let's get into it here. It is our
NFL season preview. We're gonna pick division winners this hour.
Next hour, we're gonna make our wild card picks an
our three super Bowl picks. Alright, so division winners here
as we go through, who wants to take the lead
on this all right, who wants to us? Step right
(20:31):
up and I can lead off Rick Henderson of this show.
Let's go. I'm gonna start off in the a f C. Okay,
I'm gonna story with the a f C North, which
really came down to be the most competitive division in
the a f C. And the division winner is the
Baltimore Ravens. Like I'm out of eleven and six. The
Baltimore Ravens win a close, tough, tightly contested race with
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the Steelers the Browns who both went ten and seven.
Going to a a f C South, I've got the
Titans running away with this one eleven and six. Really
no one else was in striking distance. The a f
C East, i got the Bills probably no surprise, surprise,
twelve and five. But then I've got the Patriots, and
I feel I don't feel good about this one. I
don't uh. There are eleven and six. They're nipping on
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their heels. I'll get into that when we talk about
the wild card spots. And then I've got the a
f C West, which I've got is the best division
in the a f C. It was, you know, you
can make the case it was the most competitive but
not really because of the Raiders. But I've got the
Chiefs winning that one. At thirteen and four, the Chiefs
win the a f C West. You want to go
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to NFC now, No, I mean, uh, let's see, you
want to do just a f C and then we'll
get into NFC later on, so that we well kind
of all right. So so LaVar, you want to go,
You want me to take this one? You go, all right?
So here we go. I will start in the a
f C North as well too. I too like the
Baltimore Ravens. A little bit concerned about the cluster injuries
running back over the past week or so. That has
me a little bit concerned about Baltimore or but I
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do like the Ravens to win that division. I think, uh,
Pittsburgh and Cleveland is the interesting battle to me because
I have no idea how that's gonna turn out. I
don't know if Roethlisberger can lead a team anymore that
maybe doesn't have the talent that Cleveland does. But you know,
clearly I think Cincinnati is dead last in that division.
So I got the Ravens winning the a f C
North as we go to the a f C South,
(22:22):
I want to take the Colts. I love the Colts
a year ago, but I got doubts about Carson Wentz
and I got doubts about some of the injuries. And
we've talked about how snake bit that team is. I'm
gonna go with the Tennessee Titans. I think Mike Rabel's
gonna figure out that defense. They were awful a diaper
fire from a year ago, but I like the offense.
Julio Jones is there. That's the least of my concerns.
(22:43):
Interested to see what they do without their offensive coordinator.
Arthur Smith, who's in Atlanta now is the head coach.
But I do like the Tennessee Titans to win the
a f C South as we go to the a
f C East, I like the New England Patriots to
win the a f C East. It seems is Buffalo
is way too obvious for me, and it feels like
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the way that they've handled this mac Jones stuff. And
according to a scout who was there, from Brady Quinn's
lips to my ears, Matt Jones was dealing and that
joint practice against the Giants. I'm in on Mac Jones.
I love what they did in the offseason. I also
don't think they were that bad a year ago. I
think that narrative was sort of a thrown out there
because all the success. Tom Brady ad I like the
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New England Patriots to win the a f C East.
I think Buffalo finished his second, and I think the Dolphins,
who I'm not as high on as everybody else, is third,
and the Jets are battling it out with them for
thur but ultimately finished fourth. And then if we go
to the a f C West White complicate things, it's
going to be the Chiefs. The real question is gonna
be who finishes second, the Chargers or the Broncos, because
(23:45):
we all know what the answer is to who's finishing fourth,
and that's the Las Vegas Raiders. Fun team, great team
to watch. I'm not I'm not trying to piss off
Danny and Roberto. I just there's problems. There a lot
of noise coming out of that about that division. But
that is my a f C division winners there all right.
I'm gonna start in the West because that's the easiest one.
(24:07):
So we'll go with the Kansas City Chiefs and there
you go. The rest of them can fight it out
for a second, Who cares it's the Chiefs f C West? No,
no analysis needed, analysis about paralysis. But if we had
a website and the analysis from LaVar was who cares
Chiefs are winner? Now, then FC North is is one
of the most peculiar because again it did have three
(24:29):
teams over ten wins, which means that in all intensive purposes,
you could say this is the most competitive division in
all of the NFL, even though I believe that the
NFC West would contend for that. But I digress a
f C North. You look at this Pittsburgh Steelers team.
There are a lot of question marks that are surrounding
this group, but they always seem to figure it out.
(24:52):
I don't know why it is, but they're the big
brother of the division. Um. Then you look at the Ravens.
There there are question marks. Now, especially with J. K.
Dobbins going down, you have two backs down in that backfield.
Will they be able to overcome that? Will Lamar Jackson's
workload be a little bit heavier than what it generally
would be, and can he take maybe a step forward
(25:15):
in terms of passing, because to me, I don't think
he's far off from from being a next level guy
passing the ball as as much as the critics may say. So,
I do think that it is going to be a
three team race obviously, and the Browns. I'm making a
Bowl one here. I think that the Browns will dominate
the NFC North this year. I don't think that they
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would just win the division. I think they're going to
have a dominant season. I think that I think that
the elements are there for them to have, uh take
a step forward, and if they take a step forward,
that's really you know, you think about it, that's twelve
to third team wins. So I'm I'm looking at the
Browns that is, but you know, it's if they take
(25:56):
a step forward, that's that's only two wins, two or
three wins more than what they ended up with last year.
So I think there will be a better team this
year because I think that's a much more confident and
and comfortable in his own skin, Baker Mayfield. And I
think that's gonna make the difference here. And I think, oh,
b J has a lot to prove, Like, let's be
honest here, this is probably his last opportunity to hold
(26:18):
onto the light of of what his popularity was when
he made that catch in New York. He still hasn't
established himself in Cleveland. That could be a great motivator
for him. So I'm looking for the Browns to be
able to come out of that that part of the
a f C. You're going to the East. I know
you got the Patriots. I know you've picked the Bills. Uh,
it is gonna be between those two teams. But I
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just don't see and in cold weather conditions and the
a f C East a team rolling through which will
I believe will be a competitive Dolphins team and and
a dominant Bills team. I just don't see the Patriots
having it in a in a rookie corps, they're back
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to be able to navigate and an entire season and
win the division. So by default process of elimination, do
I think that they can schematically be good enough, um
coachedwise good enough to be able to win the division?
I do, But I do think that the Bills are
are too good for a rookie quarterback to come in
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and be the catalyst of of the New England Patriots
climbing back above the Dolphins and above the Bills to
get the division. So I'm gonna go with the Bills
in the a f C East and the a f
C South. I feel like defenses travel. I feel like
that offensive lines travel, and when you look at those boxes,
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who checks that off definitively it's the Colts. Now, they're
dealing with injuries and and whatever that may be with
Carson Wentz at the quarterback's position, but I think this
is a much more improved, much more sophisticated, UM, A
sophisticated team in terms of how they will approach what
they're doing this year. They do have a couple of
question marks. I mean, there are some question marks at
(28:03):
the receiver's position. UM, But I just think that the
Colts are going to to be able to run the ball,
and they're gonna be able to play defense, and they're
gonna be able to protect the quarterback that's back there.
I think that that's a great I think that's a
great uh recipe for them to be able to win
the a f C SUD. I do think the Titans.
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I think they take a step back from an eleven
win team. I honestly do. I don't think that they're
an eleven win team this year. UM. For the simple
fact that if they can slow down Derrick Henry, I'm
just not convinced yet that the Tennessee Titans are anything
else outside of their running attack. If you saw Derrick
Henry get get stopped, you saw the Tennessee Titans offense
(28:46):
and their team get stopped. I just don't know that
he can continue on the trajectory that he's been on,
even though he's had such a brilliant start so far.
I don't expect them to win eleven games, and I
don't expect them to win uh the division that in
the a f C South. So I'm going with the Colts.
So now I feel worse about my FC South pick.
(29:07):
That's a problem, Damnage, all Right, why do you just
because like this because I always yeah, okay, I know,
but I always end up I just I don't want to.
I picked the Colts to go to a super Bowl
last year. If I'm a year off from them making
a Super Bowl, I'm gonna I'm gonna kick myself in
the ball. Do you really feel like you are the
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like I think there's a lot of questions about this time.
I don't think they're a super Bowl team, but I
don't have a playoff team. I'll just tell you right now.
The defense is too good, let me say that. But
it's tough when they're on the field all the time.
But you gotta tackle. You got a new left tackle,
Quinn Nelson. We expect and play week one, But if
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he doesn't, that's a tough spot. Went in a new
offense at least with the different playmakers around him, But
who have they really been able to rely on the
passing game like that? It looked a lot different last year.
I'm just saying I think this team did it with
an old man though. Yeah, but that old man could
still sling it a little bit. I don't know if
it was all him. Yeah, I think if you can
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run the ball and and Taylor is a guy that
can run the ball and he runs it well, and
and they can protect well enough, which even with a
new tackle, I still think that this this this offensive
line ranks in like the top five of the league
by PFF. But again, I think if you can play
defense and you can protect and run the ball, you
(30:31):
got a chance to win most games. And and the
Colts check those boxes off you like PF. I know
some of those guys, I'm not you know, I'm not.
I'm not putting my hat on it. I'm not putting
my hat on it. Brady. If I introduce you to
some of those guys, you might say, Okay, never mind,
I'm not. Hey, listen, I'm all about branding. And you
(30:53):
know what it is like like my my boy Mike
Rentor does a great job. Mike. I know, I'll to
he We've we've talked about some different players, film and whatnot,
and everyone you're in drafted analysis, you're always gonna have missus.
You're always gonna you know, guys get drafted the spots
that doesn't really work for them. So there's there's definitely
some good guys, but there's also some guys. You go, okay, Okay,
(31:16):
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It is our NFL season preview show. Last segment we
made our a f C division picks, and now we
(32:21):
move into the NFC our division winners, and we start
again with the man who's our leadoff hitter here in
our season preview show. It is Brady Quinn and I'm
gonna start off once again in the NFC North and
to me it's the Green Bay Packers. You know Rogers
is back. This roster has improved somewhat, but the way
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he played last year's the defending m v P. That's
enough for me to look at their schedule, I've got
them going twelve and five, five and one in the division. Um,
I don't want to see running away with it. It
was one thing that competed in it. But I've got
the Packers in the NFC South, the defending Super Bowl champs,
the tam Bay Bucks, now record I don't feel good about.
But I've got them sweeping the division, which is a
(33:04):
pretty dramatic turnaround. If you think about last year the
Saints swept them. That's not the case this year. Six
and oh in the division. And how about this fifteen
and two. I I mean, I look, they signed everyone back.
First time we've seen a team do that really in
this this millennium. And we'll see if they're gonna be
able to have any success with it. But the reality
(33:25):
is they're one of the best teams, about the best
team in the NFC. NFC East, I've got the Dallas
Cowboys at ten and seven winning the division. Dax stays healthy,
this team has improved defensively and it will be enough
for them to be able to win. And what I've
got is still a pretty pretty bad division. And then
the NFC West, a tough, tight contested race between the
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forty Niners, the Rams and Seahawks and Cardinals. I've got
the forty Niners at thirteen and four, four and two
in the division. They are the ones that ultimately end
up winning the NFC West, however, again a hot, tough,
contested division. Probably the best is Lavarre noted in the
(34:08):
last segment in all of football. But I've got the
forty Niners winning that one. Yeah, I I've got the
same exact division winners as you. I've got the green
Bay Packers. If you thought Rogers was motivated a year
ago after they took Jordan's love, what do you think
he wants to do thinking this could possibly be his
last year in Green Bay? I got green Bay winning
that division. I actually don't even think it's close. Tampa
Bay winning the NFC South. They make that division takes
(34:30):
a step back as a whole. With Drew Brees being gone.
I think Sam Donald's a big question mark with Carolina.
I've also got the Dallas Cowboys winning the East. I
was gonna go Washington. I don't trust their quarterback situation.
I think Dallas has loaded offensively. I think it's a
bounce back here for them. Dak may not be one
the entire season, but I think he's the best quarterback
(34:53):
in that division by far. And then I've got the
forty Niners winning the West. I'm higher on Jimmy Garoppolo
than a lot of people. I think he's gonna have
a good year. I think they're gonna be healthy this year.
It's gonna be competitive. But I got the Niners one
in the NFC West. I'll start in the West. The
Rams are going to win the West. I think Stafford.
Stafford is probably the missing link to them having more
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success than what they did last year and not having
to depend so much on their defense now. While there
are question marks on what they're running, attack will look
like if if, if Michelle pans out, if somebody pans out,
somebody seems to surface on teams that like a Shanahan
(35:38):
lad team. We've seen it historically in the past with
the older Shanahan and we've actually seen it at times
with with cow Shanahan as well. I think the Rams defensively,
only the Niners maybe match up with them in terms
of talent and and being good, but I think the
Rams stand alone in terms I mean, obviously ranked number
(35:58):
one and multiple uh categories. I'm going with the Rams
in the West, you move into the South. I'm gonna
make a bold prediction here. I don't think that there's
gonna be a sweep. I think that the Saints will
actually sneak up on people. I don't know. I'm not
basing that off of any type of real you know evidence. Obviously,
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Michael Thomas is going to be out for for an
extended amount of time, or at least a time in
the beginning of the year. But I'm just looking at
the way Jamie's played in in the preseason and if
there's any indication from his confidence level and and how
he handled things in the preseason, and Sean Payton and
the rest of his coaching staff what they're able to do.
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I just think sometimes when when you're the icorus of
of of a division, you could get too close to
the sun and burn your wings, and your wings melt,
you fly, you fall back to the earth. There's a
possibility that Tampa could be that team. I don't know that.
It does look like everything checks out, but I'm not
convinced that they're going to be as dominant as as
(37:03):
everyone believes they're going to be so I think in
a surprise, look at the Saints to be the team
and a two team the two team race, I think
the Saints will take it again. Uh. In the East, yeah,
I think the Washington Ridskins excuse me, the Washington football team,
excuse me, the Washington the Washington football team. Well, I
(37:24):
was one, so I could use it. I don't don't
come for me. I don't come for me. Uh A
cancel culture. Thank you, I'm sorry. And I got Indian
in me to go figure. Uh okay, So here we go.
I'm going with the Washington Washington football team to win
(37:44):
that that division. I think with Ron Rivera and Eric
Wright and those guys have done in that organization in
terms of a cultural shift, has really really paid dividends.
I do believe that the Cowboys will be competitive. They
obviously have the the undisputed best order back in the division.
But I'm just not sold on them. It's it's one
of those things. They have proven that you can't trust them,
(38:07):
so they're going to have to be a show me
team in this division. I think that the Washington football
team found themselves and was able to pull it out.
Um this past year. I think they'll be even better
this year, so I'm going with Washington and then in
the North. Obviously, you don't need much time to say
green Bay is hit and shoulders, maybe a body better
than every other team in that division. So they'll win
it pretty easily, pretty pretty. They'll be the one that
(38:29):
cruises to a divisional title. Nice and there it is.
That is. Those are division picks for the upcoming NFL season.
Next hour, we are going to have our wild card
picks and then our super Bowl picks. In our three
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