September 12, 2017 • 46 mins
Doug explains why the Chargers losing another close game is the perfect example for why having a winning culture matters in sports. He also tells you why Cam Newton is overrated and why Sam Bradford is underrated. Plus, he talks to Kyle Rudolph from the Minnesota Vikings about their win over the Saints and seeing his former teammate, Adrian Peterson, in a Saints uniform for the first time.
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This is the best of the dun got Lee Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Oh what up, America, Doug Gottlieb Show,
Fox Sports Radio, Live and direct from the City of Angels.
We're uh. I guess the charch just called home. H Yeah.
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Week one of the NFL is in the books and
uh last night I was one oh and one on
picks one oh and one. Both home teams were three
point favorites. A a great come from behind push by
the l A Chargers which probably should have been a win.
Let's start there and then we'll work our way, uh
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to the Vikings Saints game. Now, let's start with the
Viking Saints is first. Mark Slayer is gonna join us
in fifteen minutes. He's a former Bronco. I want to
get his take on the Bronchos offensive line and how
much of that was just a a product of being
at home, a product of some terrible play calling from
Ken wizzen Hunt his offensive coordinator the Chargers, or product
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of maybe the Maybe the Broncos are really good, because
there were times in which their offense looked solid. Solid,
But in this era of you need a quarterback in
order to succeed. The Broncos won a Super Bowl essentially
without a quarterback. And I know they had Peyton Manning.
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But that Peyton Manning through nine touchdowns seventeen interceptions in
the season and was terrible, terrible in the Super Bowl.
They want when they went in spite of not because
of the play of Tom Brady. Oh he got us
into the right place. He couldn't throw a football anymore.
That's part of playing quarterback, A big portion playing quarterback
in um So, Look, I don't know how good Trevor
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Simeon is. I know he'll never be Peyton Manning in
his prime, But could he be Peyton Manning of two
years ago? Maybe? Maybe? I don't know. Let's let's start
with Minnesota versus the Saints. Of course, it makes sense
for the Saints to draft a running back in the
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second round and then signed Adrian Peterson in addition to
already having a good running back, Right, I get that.
I mean, look that the two people most responsible for
their rise are most responsible for their fall. Drew Brees
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and Sean Payton took the Saints, who had won I believe,
one playoff game as a franchise. Ever, when they got
together in Nola, one playoff game ever, took them to
a Super Bowl, made them uh an offense were showing
up to watch, and Drew Brees has been on this
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amazing run of five thousand yard pass seasons. But the
truth is that why would you even have running backs
by committee, especially when Adrian Peterson has never been a
running back by committee? When what you need is defense
by committee. Every resource they should have had has should
have been gone to go and get that to get
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the defense. But what a bunch of miss mismatched parts.
The defense is still isn't good. The offense is good
at running back with a quarterback who likes to throw
to wide receivers. Outside of that, Mrs Lincoln, how is
the show? And then there's Sam Bradford, And this is
really important. I don't believe Greg Oden is a bust.
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That's because Greg Oden was never healthy enough to be
called a bust. Right when your body lets you down
and it forever takes away your your ability to live
up to that potential, I have a hard time call
on you a bust. Sam Bradford, by many people, was
deemed a bust, which you have to remember with Bradford
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was he'd had a different offensive coordinator every year every
year of his career up until UM up until this year. Uh.
Last year, of course, Pat Shermer took over at mid season.
Pat Shermer had been his offensive coordinator his rookie year
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when he was with the St. Louis Rams. Shermer, of course,
then left to become the head coach of the Browns,
and then last year when Teddy Bridgewater got hurt, it
was Shermer who was the rabbi in the room to
bring in Sam Bradford. Now, look, I wasn't at this network.
I was in another network. But you guys can feel
free to reach out to the guys the other network.
Or Kyle Rudolph, his tight end is gonna join us.
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We had a great Kyle was like, dude, this guy
is awesome from day one. But what do you think
about Sam Bradford. Oh, he always gets hurt, always gets hurt,
and he doesn't throw the ball deep downfield. Sam Bradford's
pretty good last night, right, This coming off a year
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in which he led the league in completion percentage, actually
highest completion percentage for a season in the history of
the league. Some of that is because their offensive line
was in tatters. They had to just get rid of
the football. But now you give him Dalvin Cook, a
burgeoning star at running back who can run it and
can catch it. You give him Stefon Diggs, who's a
burgeoning superstar at wide receiver, and you give him an
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offensive line which has been put back together. And Bradford
living up to the potential he had that was derailed
by different voices in his ear, with offensive coordinators and
two consecutive A C L injuries. Here's Sam Bradford. You know,
I think a lot of it honestly started up front.
You know, our guys up front played great. You know,
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they gave me time. You know, when I've got time
to sit back there and kind of evaluate things, you know,
I've got all the confidence in the world that our
guys outside are gonna win. M hm. So Bradford was magnificent, magnificent.
And for people who thought that the Vikings gave up
too much when they gave up a first round draft
pick and I think a third, right, it was a
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first round draft pick and a third for a fourth
and Sam Bradford, you couldn't give enough because in the
context of last context of last year, there was no
other quarterback available, and they thought they had a playoff team.
They probably did before injury. And in reality, Sam Bradford's
only making like fourteen million bucks thirteen last year, fourteen
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this year. That's a reasonable contract for a quarterback in
the league. And if you think he's a middling quarterback,
that's fine. That's actually low to middle middle to low
end of the starting quarterback tree in terms of what
you make per year. The Vikes are really good. I
thought they were good last year before they sustained injuries,
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and I think now adding Dalvin Cook makes them better
in the backfield. I do think the Adrian Peterson thing dope.
Everyone told me he looked great, and he did look
great running the ball. That's just a bat. That's just
a bad fit. You go to a team that's not
used to having a number one running back, the expectations
are at your age, you can't be a number one
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running back. They have two other quality running backs and
they don't even want to play your style. It's not
like they want to hand you. Who was the last
time was the last New Orleans Saint to get the
ball thirty times in a game? Twenty five times in
the game. Even when Reggie Bush was there and they
won a super Bowl. Reggie Bush was a versatile weapon
who wasn't always lined up as running back. They've never
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had a guy that one just seems like a bad fit.
So I don't know if the Vikings are great. I
do know that that's the perfect home opener for them.
You get Adrian Peterson, which fires everybody up. You get
a team that's not great defensively, especially a linebacker, a
team that can score, but you have a really good
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defense that kind of plays to your strength, especially at home.
All right, let's go to the nightcap. What's the hardest
thing to teach little kids? Uh ramos? In soccer? I
mean maybe for you guys who would just be score
a goal, that's what these are your older girls, I
would say with my U A team, it's just how
to stop the ball and dribbling, just the basics of it.
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What do you think the hardest thing to teaching coaching
is for for me or just in general general? Oh jeez,
just the basics. I guess to listen and then the
focus and you know, yeah, I don't know if that's
is that the hardest thing? Well, there's a lot of
hard things to teach kids in sport. The hardest thing
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in coaching adults and coaching men. In coaching a team,
in my opinion, is how to win. Maybe not how
to win, how to expect to win. So ramost this
team that you have now they got smoked seven nothing
in your opening? Yes, same team you coach last year? No? No,
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they redo the teams every year for each division. It's
a balance. They call it a balance. For soccer, they
rebalanced the team's due to Wait, so last year you
were the worst team. No, we were the We came
in fourth out of six and they balanced you by
making you worse. Well, we moved up in division right
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where you fourteen? Now last year was you twelve? So
some girls move up, some girls stay, and that goes
I'm not just girls, anybody anybody? I got it? Yeah,
I got My son plays U ten baseball. He's eight,
which means is eight nine correct? Right? Yes, I got it,
I got it. I'm with it. Um. I bring it
up because I think one of the things that the
Chargers are suffering through and frankly it's hard. You have
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two new coaches and that was and look as as
tough a listen as that was last night with Beth
Mullens and Rex Ryan and um, what's the guy's name, Uh,
Sergio Dipp. Did you feel bad for Sergio Dipp? I
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think you do. I think we're in the profession that
he's in, and so you want people to succeed. I
do want people to succeed. I, well, it's a it's
a loaded one. Um. I understand that he does Spanish
language television, right, and having lived in Russia as a
player and as a player and learned to speak Russian,
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I try to conduct an interview after we won the
championship in Russian and I don't think I did particularly well.
I think I was really good when I stayed on message.
The difference is I don't think it was the language
barrier as much as he completely lost his mind on
TV right, Like it was the magnitude of the moment
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rattled that guy. And it's not And yes, Monday night
football is a huge stage, but it wasn't his first
time on TV. Um, look what happened last night. There's
a bunch of things we can get into, and we will.
In terms of the X and os with Mark Layreth
three times Super Bowl champion, former Denver Bronco and a
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Denver radio host. But the biggest takeaway is that even
though the Denver Broncos tried to do their best San
Diego Charger two thousand sixteen impression and give away the
game in the fourth quarter, give it away, um, if
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you're a Charger fan like I am, because of the
ways in which they they found ways to lose games,
they should rightfully win. The problem lat the biggest problem
last night was the Chargers, or at least but assumed
they were gonna lose. Everybody assumed they were gonna lose,
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and everybody assumed Denver was gonna win, even when ever
was trying to give it away. That's the hardest thing
to coaching. Teaching coaching is how to win or how
to change kind of that mindset of everybody believing we're
ultimately going to win this game. Be sure to catch
live editions of the Doug gott Leaps Show weekdays at
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three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the I Heart Radio app. The Broncos last night and
their success, They're ability to drive the football was based
upon You've talked a lot about that reworked offensive line
and how much of it was there at home. The
defense is great and consistently put the offense in good
position to succeed. I think a lot of it had
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to do with now they made some mistakes, don't don't
question that mentally, Guatson struggled on the right side. They
flip flopped left guards throughout the entirety of the game,
which I personally hate because it's really difficult to get
into a rhythm. And I played that swamp the guard
game and and it's just a really tough thing to do.
But I think there's a couple of things that that
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really transpired. They gave you hope that that offensive line
is gonna be better. They've been doing this with the
left guard position throughout the preseason, trying to figure out
that battle. That's a tough thing to get done. Then
number two, you missed ron Larry left with a concussion,
and that's I think in the third quarter. And Ronald
Leary was a big free agent acquisition from the Dallas Cowboys.
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You came in there with a kid in the second
year player that really hasn't gotten much run, and Connor
Government he actually acquitted himself pretty well. Had one pressure
that led to a sack um late there in the
fourth quarter. But for the most part, you didn't miss
a beat. Most people didn't notice that happened. The kid
you drafted and Garrett Bowls actually played really well. Now
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here's the test. I know, I said mental league Watson
didn't play well and he didn't man at three thirty.
He gets ragged alled a little bit, and that's because
of footwork. He's not really fluid footwork wise. But you're
playing against one of the most formidable defensive lines. When
you talk about boas that, you talk about Ingram, you
talk about Legion, they can play me being they've got
a front four, they can flag get it done, and
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so that's got to be encouraging. And on third downs
they were eight of fifteen. You you do go eight
to fifteen on third down in this league and you're
gonna win a lot of football games. So those things
are all I think all those things. This has been
completely on balanced football team has been completely predicated by
defense the last couple of years. So you put those
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things together with the offensive side of the ball, and
you gotta feel pretty good about coming away with a
victory on the uh. You know, on your first game
of the season, endeavor, what about the Chargers? What I
said was, look, I didn't love a lot of the
play calling. Uh as Ken wizzon hunting there, They're they're
they're trying to rework their own offensive line, trying to
keep pressure off of Philip Rivers had a ton of
turnovers last year, but it was it was a lot
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of conservative stuff on first and second down and when
they went no huddle, uh, you know, after getting some
turnovers late, they kind of opened it up. And obviously
that that happens with anybody when you're down that big
number late in a game. But I feel like the
biggest thing missing between mean the two teams is everyone
assumed the Chargers we're gonna lose no matter what happened,
and everyone assumed that the Broncos. There's just like the
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culture of winning in Denver, even though they're coming off
a disappointing season, is much stronger than the culture of
winning in in San San in l A. Is that
is that fair to say? No? I think it's I
think it's fair to say in Philip Rivers. You know,
as great as Philip Rivers is, um, you have to
look at the personnel you put around him. You mentioned
the offensive line, um, a receiving corps that, let's face
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it is less than you know, less than daunting, especially
for a Denver Broncos squad who will lock you up
in man free and just say, Bryant, this is what
we do. You've got three starting corners that can all
flat out play. Um. You know they're not afraid, they're
not afraid to play you man and say we're gonna
unleash the pass rush and just see what comes comes
what may. And I'll tell you the other thing that
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was interesting in Denver's loss in San Diego last year.
Look at the numbers Hunter Henry and of Antonio Gates.
They crushed the middle of the field. They destroyed the
Broncos in the underneath coverage, both linebackers and the safety position.
There's a lot of noise made about t J. Ward
being let go. It's the last cut. A lot of
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people very upset about it. They did that because they
felt like they had better coverage situations with Justin Simmons.
Long lean athletes, unbelievable, um, just physical talent. And I
think Antonio Gates, if I'm not mistaken, had two catches
and Hunter Henry had none, So yeah, I thought. I
actually texted my friend who works for the UH for
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the Chargers and asked if Hunter Henry was playing. Yeah,
I mean it's crazy how good they were against those guys,
right exactly. So you know, I think you have to
tip your cap to John Elway. Um, you know, and
I've had a discussion with him about the whole T J.
Ward thing, But you know, they saw from a personnel standpoint,
they saw the next kid that was gonna play all
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so keep by the name of Will Parks, who got
a lot of run as well. So you know the
I mean, you think about this, Doug going into the
end of the third quarter. Um, I believe Philip Rivers
was eight of fourteen for fifty nine yards. Fifty nine
yards going into the fourth quarter and it was like
a hundred ninety two because you know, they had the
busting coverage and they hit Benjamin for a forty plus
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yard touchdown and all those things. But I mean, that
is that's incredible, and you don't even have your best
pass rushers, and you know you have Van Miller, but
Shane Ray was out. Um, Shaq Barrits just coming back
you've missed two other starting defensive lineman rotational defensive lineman
do injury for the opening weekend. So pretty amazing what
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they were able to do to that that Chargers offense,
considering they had the injuries and the different players they
had to play. All right, let's go to the previous
game where you had the Saints and the Vikings. Obviously
the Vikings are gonna be better at home, better get off.
But boy, I just it feels like some misman speeches
their pieces there in New Orleans, right, Like they're a
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team that likes to throw it and not a ton
of investment the wide receivers. They got three running backs,
but Adan Peterson is not a running back by committee guy.
And then you have a team that's desperately need a
defense and their defense is is very, very average, and
they got exposed against the Vikings. What are your thoughts
on that that first Monday in that football game. Yeah, well,
I think you nailed it. I mean, I think you
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look at the personnel moves they've made. Here is an offense,
they've always spread it, they've always thrown it down the
football field. You've got one of the elite quarterbacks in football.
The one difference maker you had the wide receiver position
in Brandon Cooks now plays for the New Patriots, UM,
and not a hundred percent sure from a personnel standpoint,
what you're doing. I saw Adrian Peterson on the sideline
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given um Sean Payton the stink eye, and you just
look at it like, well, what did you expect? Did
you think you're gonna get it twenty eight times a game?
That's not what they do. Now. I understand being upset
because you only got it six times or eighteen yards,
But I guess note to Adrian Peterson, you better make
those six carriages account because you got to have more
production than that. I certainly would expect twelve to fifteen carries,
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not six carries. But sometimes the game dictates that. You know,
sometimes you get you get beat, um, you get beat early,
you get behind in the on the scoreboard, Um, before
you look up, it's already you know, nineteen to three
or something some crazy score like that, and you're like, oh,
here we go. So that's kind of what dictates. But
you're right, you know, defensively, they've been over trying to
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overcome that bad defense for years and years and years,
and uh, and it looks as though that they haven't
figured that one out either. Are you buying the Vikings? Um?
I would like to see No. I think the Vikings
are outstanding defensive personnel. I think they're a really good group. Um.
I love Dalvin Cook. I think he's great. Yeah. I
think offensively they've got some weapons. I still don't. I
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have to see this offensive line perform against a really
good football team, and and that's gonna be my biggest
question mark because they had wholesale changes over there. I
have to see them perform against an elite level defense.
If they can do that, then I think they've got
a chance. Because Sam Bradford. Sam Bradford is an incredibly
accurate quarterback. Um, he's great now. A lot of underneath
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stuff to be sure, but he's incredible. He has just
been beat down to a c L injuries. You know,
he got beat up in his in his days in St.
Louis UM and last year he was kind of coming
out of that. I think that he could be really
good if they can protect him. If they can protect him,
then yeah, I would buy them. But I still think
the Packers are the class of that division. Um. How
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fixable are the issues with Houston's offensive line. I mean,
Dwayne Brown sitting there holding out, He's got to be
just I mean, but but the offense line was so
bad it is simply Dwayne Brown's back and they'll be fine.
Or is there more to it than that. No, there's
more to it than that. But that's certainly what help.
And it just goes to show you. You You know, every year, Doug,
it's so funny because every year, you know, like here
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in Never they get Ready t J. Ward, a guy
that's under contract, and they get you know, they get
guys that they think are underperforming, are about their way out.
They dumped those guys and nobody seems to have a
problem with it. You know. Then Dwayne Brown says, hey, listen,
I'm an elite level tackle. You need to pay me.
I'm out performed my contract. And they're like pound saying, dude,
we don't do that. Well, guess what happens. You give
up ten sacks you try to single handily send everybody
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on Jacksonville's defense to the Pro Bowl. I mean, it
was it was ugly. You know, I was reminiscing and
you know, I hate to go. You know, back in
the day, But in my time with the Hogs in
winning the Super Bowl, we gave up nine sacks in
nineteen games nine and nineteen. They gave up ten sacks
in one game. I mean, it is that is as
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ugly as it gets. And I was like, there's two
people that are just grinned from ear to ear. Dwayne
Brown going I told you so. And how about brockos
father going, Thank the Lord, I don't play there anymore. Gosh,
how how miserable was that? It was incredibly miserable. The
good offensive lines have been the good team so far
in the NFL. Right, that's look at the look at
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the Giants and Cowboys. Remember how everybody said, like I'm
not I'm not a fan of anybody kind of throwing
gasoline on the fire. But you know, I look at
Ben Macado basically saying last week, I know a little
bolton board material and whatever, but he's like, I can't
even name any of their defensive backs in Dallas, And
I'm like, oh, there you go. That's wise, Like, that's
that's one you probably don't want to throw out there. Um,
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and so anyhow, you know, they come out there, they
can't block the way to a wet paper sack. And
I hear a bunch of people saying, well, the oh
b J, it would be different wise you're gonna play
left guard, so you gonna play right guard. I mean,
they can't block anybody, and you can't win one thing
about this. And this just goes to show you, like
the skill involved in playing that position. The teams that
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performed well one week one, you see teams that struggled
up front. And I'll show you teams they got their
butts handed to them on a consistent basis. The Giants,
the Houston Texans, Um, you know there's a bust of
different guys. Yeah, the cl Seahawks, the Cincinnati Bengals, on
and on it goes. And that is an incredible skill.
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Like there's no more skill involved in football than moving
a man from point A to point B against his will,
and and it it requires, it requires incredible technique and
everything else. And Um, the way the league is constructed
without really practicing and without really playing games anymore in
the preseason, very very difficult to do. Dallas controlled a
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line of scrimmage, They controlled the temple with a game
that controlled the time of possession, and they absolutely funder
punch the Giants in the face. Um. What about the
New England Patriots. Uh, their defensive line offered very little
resistance or push pass rush against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Are are should we freak out at all about the Patriots?
They're probably one team that I won't freak out about, um,
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simply because I know they've done it before. I know
they'll be adjustments, the one thing I worry about more
than anything. And the defense did get shoved around, and
they'll get that, you know, they'll they'll look at that,
they'll correct what they need to correct. Um. But they
did get physically worn out. I think the biggest thing
for me, it's not very often that I look at
a wide receiver and think that's the heart and soul
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of football team. That's kind of the the actuator of
the offense, where that's the heartbeat or the soundtrack of
that particular offense. I thought about that way, you know,
with Hines Ward back in the day of the Steelers,
or um, you know, or Steve Smith Mighty Mouse with
Carolina or with the Baltimore Ravens. Those are the guys
that I think about. Julian Ailman is that guy. He
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is that dude that you can throw a you know,
a shallow cross at third down and seven, you can
throw it to him at four yards, He'll break two tackles,
lean over the sticks, bam. First down. They they'll get
up talking smack to the defensive backs and we're trying
to tackle him. You know that that kind of energy.
Brady come came out of that game and said we
lack competitiveness and intensity or something of that chure. I'm paraphrasing,
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but those were kind of the qualities you talked about
their football team missing, and that to me was we
missed Julian Edelman and they've got to rectify that. Either
that also, they've got to find somebody who can be
that kind of actuator, that heartbeat of their organization on
the offensive side of the ball. Stay great stuff. Can't
wait to see in the TV side in the meantime,
appreciate you join us here on the radio side. That's
Mark Schlaire, three time Super Bowl champion and proud member
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What have I told you that Cam Newton's the most
overrated quarterback in the NFL and Sam Bradford is the
most underrated quarterback in the NFL. That's hot tag talk.
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Get me Kyle back, Uh Kyle. By the way, w
SGS is one of our affiliates, um in uh the
tryat in North Carolina, tryaut obviously right down there round
where Wake Forest is, round where North Carolina State is,
Carolina Duke all that stuff. It's in Winston Salem, high
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Point Burlington. I know, high Point Burlington and Winston Salem
is not Raleig Durham, I understand, but close enough the
rest of us close enough, right, same state, good enough.
But but here's the reality to it. I keep hearing
mixed messages from UM, from NFL analysts, right, they all say,
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you gotta let Cam be Cam, you gotta call design
run plays for Cam. But then they also say, he's
got to get rid of the ball quicker, and he's
got he's gotta get a get rid of the quicker
so it gets hit less. Wait, so you want to
put him in a harm's way more and make him
more of a runner and yet have him get rid
of the ball quicker. Here's the real problem. Cam Newton's
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strength is going to get him hurt. It allows defenses
to hit him more. And it's not his strength that
the best quarterbacks who have lasted long longest, lasted the longest,
and been the most successful have used to be successful
in the NFL. Sam Bradford while more athletic than you
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think and less fragile than you think. Right, Like, you
think of Sam Bradford and you think he's going to
break an half. Look, he's not built. Cam Newton's built
like a superhero, right I Like, I don't know what
a real life superhero would look like, but I would
guess it would look like Cam Newton. He's six ft
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six and a half. He's like two d and fifty
sixty pounds. He's he's a complete freak of nature physically.
And it's not like Sam Bradford's a little dude. Uh
Sam Bradford, Like that's not that's not a little dude.
That's that's not a little dude at all. Six But
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he looks But Sam Bradford is deadly accurate, like crazy
deadly accurate, not just last night completing of his passes
for thirty two last year, of course, because he had
to get rid of it quickly. He said the single
season mark for completion percentage. The longer you go in
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the NFL, and longer you go in the NFL, the
more you have to be accurate, precise, get rid of
the ball quickly. Now Bradford has at times taking the
underneath stuff not challenge himself deep kind of like he
got a little Alex Smith to him, but not as
bad as Alex Smith. And some of it is more
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personnel based. But if you're gonna error on one side,
you error on the side of accuracy as opposed to
home run hitter. And basically the difference between the two
is one guy is a punch and Judy get on
base all the time. Guy the other time swings for
the fences. And while in baseball we have started to
get to the hey, we'd prefer a guy who hits
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home runs or strikes out to a guy that tries
to punch in Judy it in football it's the opposite.
Football it's about getting the ball to players who have
athleticism in space, right and what what do they get
in a running back? What do they have in Stefon
Diggs as well. You got Dalvin Cook and Stefon Diggs too,
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freak athletes. Get it to him in space, get it
to him quickly, and then get the hell out of
the way. That's a Bradford does. I'm not saying Bradford
is Peyton Manning, or Bradford is Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers.
I'm not. But your perception of Sam Bradford is he's
a bottom five starting quarterback in the league. And the
reality is he's never played an offense where they've thrown
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it a ton. He hasn't been healthy enough. He only
played sixteen games two seasons in the NFL. Both of
those two seasons, uh one was his rookie year, the
other was his third year. My guests would be this
year he'll throw for five touchdown passes, maybe thirty, just
over four thousand yards, as long as everybody stays healthy.
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My guess is that Cam Newton would wildly disappointed. So
some of this is based upon um their own previous successes.
Cam Newton was the m v P of the league
two years ago. He was never the best quarterback in
the league. What he was was the quarterback for the
best team and they had created a system where Cam
could be the best version of himself. But in order
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to do that, you gotta have a good running game,
you gotta have a good defense, and you gotta be
willing to play uh, you know, possession football, kind of
like what the Cowboys are doing, where you don't put
him into harm's way, And you got to live with
the fact that he's not a he's not a high
completion percentage guy. So to go from he was the
m v P the league too, I don't know. I
think Cam Newton somewhere between the tenth and fifteenth best
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quarterback in the league to Sam Bradford, Like, I don't
think he's the best quarterback in the league, but coming
into the year, people would say bottom five, bottom ten,
and I think he's right there in the range of
a Cam Newton twelve to eighteen. Didn't say he's better
than Cam. But the truth is, if healthy, what he
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does last longer is more successful more often than what
Cam does. And Cam is viewed as a superstar, and
I think he's superstar in persona a superstar in reputation
more than how he actually plays. Be sure to catch
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the I Heart Radio app. Ask me a question, and
ask me any question? Um, any question. Who's the best
quarterback in the NFL? No comment? Oh, okay, who's the
best running back in the NFL? Comment? No comment? See
no comments? Somehow now no comment? They said, no comment
has taken on like a whole new meaning of its own, right,
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So I think no comment was what Tom Brady said
because he was asked a question about Colin Kaepernick. Hey,
are you glad or are you? Have you paid much
attention to the Kaepernick stuff? Right? No? Not much? Not much?
I mean not this time yet. I feel like I've
got a lot of my attention goes in a lot
of places, so um, not much. Hm. That was on
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Kirk and Calahan. He does a he does a weekly
hit on w e I, which is a big radio
station ian Boston and first in fairness to um, in
fairness to Tom Brady. He wasn't asked, do you think
Kaepernick should be in the league? Do you think Kaepernick
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should be a starter? He just they it was like
they felt compelled to ask him a coolin Kaepernick question,
and then the question changed within the question take a
listen one more time to the question itself. Have you
paid much attention to the Kaepernick stuff? Right? No, not much?
Not much? I mean at this time, there was there
was something a little bit before that Ramos where he
started to ask in a different way, go ahead, Hey,
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are you glad or are you proud that? No? None
of your guys, none of your teammates sits down for
the anthem. I don't really pay attention, you know, to
to that. You know, you know, there's probably a lot
of things for me to think about at that time. Um,
but I haven't. I haven't thought about that much. So
so look, this is tom I haven't thought about that.
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I want zero part of this discussion. Nothing, No, I
want nothing to do with it. This is a no
end for me, No thanks. This is Michael Jordan's saying, Hey, man,
Republicans buy sneakers too, right, That's what he told his mom,
And his mom said, why don't you stand up and
say you vote democratic Republicans? Book, That's why. But what
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happens is I was actually watching was that an undisputed
earlier today on disputed earlier day, they're acting like he
took a side in this. None all he said was no,
all he's all he said was I don't really want
to talk about that. But instead of being defensive and
saying I don't really want to talk about that, he's like,
I don't really pay attention much to that. I really Again,
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that doesn't mean that you're focused and doesn't mean you're
totally lying, Like you can tell a lie without being
without lying, right, because it's it's it's true. Technically, I'm
sure he doesn't pay a ton of attention to it.
Like I don't think Tom Berty cares of Colin Kaepernicks
in the league. I don't think he cares if his
guy has taken knee. On the other hand, like I
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don't even I I don't even pay much atention though
I I don't this time of year, This time of year,
what time fall to worried about apple picking leaves turning?
I mean, and credit those guys because they kind of
offered him a soft landing with Kaepernick, right, do you
pay much attention to it instead of asking a more
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pointed question. But that's one of those somebody told them
they had somebody, you know, what ask him, see what
he's gonna say, and then he wanted nothing of it,
and then you move on. But at least they can
say that, look, we asked mccaferney question. He just didn't
want to play ball. But my point to Dan was,
somehow now no comment has become a comment when no
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comment is just like I don't really want to answer it.
And this this does go to show that Tom Brady
is smart enough, of depth enough that many of these
guys are as well to which they can they can
get out of answering questions. It could have been really
good follow up there, though, right like if one of
your teammates came to you and was like, hey man,
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you had that Trump hat. It means a lot to
me if you don't have to take a knee, but
you put your arm next to me. Or did Belichick
tell you guys specifically nobody needs nobody kneels because their
guys didn't kneel. But I don't pay attention to that
much means I want no part of this discussion. Find
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another topic as quickly as possible. But but saying it
in a very delightful, easy way. Fox Sports Radio has
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within the I Heart Radio app. One of the guys
who has been a beneficiary of Sam Bradford being his
quarterback joins us now. Kyle Rudolph tight End of the
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Minnesota Vikings joins us on the Doug Gottlip Show. Kyle,
how are you good? Man? Um? Okay? So, like, look,
you've been through this before, but to have Sam the
second year, second time around, what's what's the comfort level?
You and I talked about this last year about how
you were blown away by him when he first got there,
how much better he was than anybody told you. But
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having the same guy as your quarterback for two consecutive
years now through an entire training camp, what was that
experience like as opposed to last year? Well, it was
big for us, and obviously we got countless reps throughout
o t a S minicamp, training camp, preseason that we've
been about on last year. Last year, as well as
Sam played, we were still kind of playing catch up
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with everybody else in the league. So you know, it it
was just as I mentioned last off season on your show,
a true credit to Sam with how well he played,
coming in on fifteen days and notice and going out
there and starting the season as our starting quarterback. So, uh,
you know, this year, going into year two with all
of us together, we had Pat Charmer around all off
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season as well, so being in kind of the same
system for tears in a row, I think there's definitely
a higher comfort level with among everyone on offense. Eight
completions of twenty yards of more, and like, look, dude,
you know, the the knock on Sam has always been
that he'll check it down, that he's really accurate, but
he likes to dump it off to keep those accuracy
numbers up. Last night, you guys were throwing it big
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chunk plays. Deal in some chunk plays. Uh, stefanss chunk plays.
You got some chunk plays as well. Was that the
game plan because of the Saints defense? Is that more
of the style to which you guys want to play
heading forward? Well, I definitely think it's the style we
want to play heading forward. Um. And you know the
thing that goes unnoticed in that, and you know, all
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offseason it was brought to our attention how we need
to improve our downfield passing game. And part of the
reason that we were able to throw the ball downfield.
Is we're able to establish a run game, which we
did not do a whole lot last season. And uh
Dalvin Cook obviously comes in and his rookie debut and
runs forever a hundred yards. And I think you've got
to give a ton of credit, not only Dalvin, but
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to our offensive line and all those guys up front.
You know, they obviously kept Sam clean all night long,
but they kind of wore that Saints defense down in
the run game, and uh Dalvin was able to rattle
off a couple of big ones there at the end
of the game. Was there ever a discussion I talked
with the Chargers about this. Was there ever a discussion
about wrapping them in bubble wrapped the entire preseason sore?
That is that a possibility to keep them? Because that
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was the deal last year. It wasn't that they were bad.
It was like nobody survives when everybody gets hurt, right,
you know, especially with that unit. You know, it's so
much goes into the continuity of those five guys. And
you know that no coincidence that the Atlanta Falcons are
playing in the Super Bowl last year and they had
one offensive line that they started the entire year and uh,
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you know, we didn't even make it through one game
last year with the same offensive line, so uh, you know,
having those guys together, they obviously we had a couple
of position battles throughout preseason, but you know they were
kind of able to settle in towards the end of
preseason and they went out and played unbelievable last night.
Most important question, how are the babies. They're awesome. We
actually just left swim lessons, so we had a big
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day off. Uh got him out in the pool. They
loved the water, so it was a bunch of fun,
all right. Yeah, because and now do you sing the
songs when you're in doing Swiss uh swim lessons with
the twins, like you're you're you actually participate in the
song singing. I participate. I wouldn't say I'm you know,
full bore on the singing side of things. Uh more.
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You know, it's like when you have the ball in
your hands, you just trying not to drop it, and
you know, I'm in the pool with the girls, I'm
just trying to make sure I don't drop him and
get him, you know, scared of the water. Uh, so
you know, I'm I'm just locked in the hold time
to them. So it's awesome. Once they get to when
they're like actually like three or four, they're like swimming
on their own, then it's uh, then it's fantastic. I
will point out that it really doesn't do. It's it's
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more of a bonding thing than actually teaching them how
to swim, right, Like, oh no, I had swim lessons
for two years and I was a kid. Yeah, they
don't actually learn anything anything at Kyle Rudolph, our guest
on the Doug Outland Show, vikings off to a one
and I start, um, what was the experience like of
Adrian Peterson being in a different uniform. It was definitely
weird seeing him out there and seeing him on the
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opposing sideline. Um, I'm just glad that we didn't see him,
you know, running down the sidelines loose like like we're
accustomed to, and you know what I saw for the
last six years here in Minnesota, So I was glad
that we were able to kind of contain him a
little bit. And uh, you know, I saw him after
the game and told him best to lock for the
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rest of the year, and now I hope he goes
out and kills it. You mentioned Dalvin, Uh, what about him?
I mean, like, look, we saw him in college. We
know how special it can be. What about him though
for a guy seven year pro for you really impresses
you about the young kid? Well, I mean as young
as he is. The way that he comes to work
every day. Um, you know, he wants to learn, he
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wants to find out how to become a true pro
and a professional. And then you know his god given
skill set, the patients and vision that he has to
go along with, you know, his unbelievable speed. I think
part of the reason why he made a lot of
those runs last night, we're because of that, you know,
not necessarily wide open holes right away, but he seems
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to find him. And you know, you don't have many
negative runs with Dalvin Kyle Rudolph joining us on the
Douglas Show. You know, you guys have this weird schedule
right where you have so many home games. What is it? Yeah,
it's like five of the first seven are at home,
and then you have a stretch where five of seven
after the break, after your bye week or on the road. Uh,
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that's kind of be that's I mean, like and especially
considering how well used. I guess here's what I want
to get to. Last year, you guys start out so hot,
you had all those injuries and the thing fell apart.
Does that help you this year? Do you call upon it?
Or are the years different individually? No, I definitely think
it's something that we are able to learn from. And uh,
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you know a lot of times this offseason I was
asked if you know we're the team that started five
and oh or are we the team that finished three
and eight? And um, you know, I think we're able
to learn from that three and eight finish, and you know,
I think we're an improved version of the team that
started five and oh. So I definitely think that will
be something that we'll be able to call upon this year.
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And uh, you know, we really trying to take it
week by week. You know, you hear that so often
in the NFL. Um you know, So we're enjoyed that
Monday night win last night, but now we've got to
get ready to go play the Pittsburgh Steelers and we
have to take that approach throughout all six games this year.
How different is it when you have a short week
you know it is. It's it's incredibly different, you know,
not only from a mental standpoint, going from one game playing.
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You know, we're preparing so long for the New Orleans Saints,
and you know, really you think back to when the
schedule came out in May, You're thinking about the New
Orleans Saints, and then now all of a sudden that
game is over and now we have h five days
or whatever it is before we're gonna go play the
Pittsburgh Steelers. So you know, you have to move on quickly,
and in this league, whether it's a big win or
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a tough loss, after about twenty four hours, you've got
to be onto the next week. Europe only a bright guy.
But as as we mentioned your parent, uh, there's a
growing discussion, maybe discussions always been there inside the league.
If a guy is gonna hit you high or hit
you low, wish you prefer. I am of the side
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of get hit high. You know, I'm a bigger guy,
so most of the time guys are going low. Um.
But you know, I feel like I can protect myself
and you know, kind of get a shoulder in there
if a guy's gonnahit me high. When when you get
hit low. There's not much to protect yourself, especially when
you're not looking, you know, when it's a ball down
the field and you know, I'm looking at the ball
and someone comes in and hits low. Uh. And I
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think that's where you see a lot of the injuries,
kind of like the O'Dell one that we saw in
the preseason. You're going into Pittsburgh this weekend, and for
people don't know, you grew up in Cincinnati, like growing
up in the Midwest. Is there still and maybe it's
different now because you've been in the league so long.
Is there something too going and playing the Pittsburgh Steelers
on the road. Yeah, I mean it's gonna be my
first time. You know, we've played Pittsburgh the last time
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in London, and this will be my first time going
to Pittsburgh since I went to that stadium when I
was in college and we played the pitt Panthers. But
growing up in Cincinnati, Uh, you know, the Steelers came
to Cincinnati every year and you know, the Bengals will
go and that was such a heated rivalry, uh, you know,
and I grew up kind of around that, so I
know what it's gonna be like going into Pittsburgh this week.
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It's gonna be a tough task, but I'm looking forward
to it. I can't believe the Dogs came in and
beat Notre Dame. I just I thought freshman starting quarterback
at Notre Dame. I mean, I look, I didn't think
that Notre Dame was great this year, but I definitely
didn't think that was a game that they were gonna lose.
I know you watched it, what were your thoughts. I
thought it was, you know, obviously a tough loss. Like
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you said, I think that was a game that they
had to win, especially when Georgia's quarterback went down and
they bring in a true freshman quarterback starting for the
first time. You know, you think that alone would kind
of give them the win playing at home. Um, but
you gotta give credit to Georgia's defense. I think, uh
that front, they got a couple of rushers that are
really talented, linebacker that's extremely talented. So you know, watching
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those guys play, uh, you know they'll be able to
kind of carry that team while their quarterbacks out. Yeah,
that that Godwin catch was pretty special to It reminds
me of Stefan. Yes, Stefan's catch was nice. That Godwin
catch with one hand in the end zone was was
freaky good as well. There was and it was one
of those things. As soon as they went to the
first replay, you know it's gonna be reviewed and probably overturned.
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It was an incredible catch, all right. Listen man, congrats
on the touchdown, reception, on the win, on your health,
the health of those babies, safe travels to Pittsburgh, and
we appreciate you join us on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks
for having me, Doug, I appreciate it all. It's got
Kyle Rudolph, good dude, good tight end, very good player
for a very good team. The Minnesota Vikings healthy and
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loaded for bear. We'll see how they play against the
Pittsburgh Steelers this Sunday. That's the game that's on Fox
This is the best of the dun got Lee Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Oh what up, America, Doug Gottlieb Show,
Fox Sports Radio, Live and direct from the City of Angels.
We're uh. I guess the charch just called home. H Yeah.
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Week one of the NFL is in the books and
uh last night I was one oh and one on
picks one oh and one. Both home teams were three
point favorites. A a great come from behind push by
the l A Chargers which probably should have been a win.
Let's start there and then we'll work our way, uh
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to the Vikings Saints game. Now, let's start with the
Viking Saints is first. Mark Slayer is gonna join us
in fifteen minutes. He's a former Bronco. I want to
get his take on the Bronchos offensive line and how
much of that was just a a product of being
at home, a product of some terrible play calling from
Ken wizzen Hunt his offensive coordinator the Chargers, or product
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of maybe the Maybe the Broncos are really good, because
there were times in which their offense looked solid. Solid,
But in this era of you need a quarterback in
order to succeed. The Broncos won a Super Bowl essentially
without a quarterback. And I know they had Peyton Manning.
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But that Peyton Manning through nine touchdowns seventeen interceptions in
the season and was terrible, terrible in the Super Bowl.
They want when they went in spite of not because
of the play of Tom Brady. Oh he got us
into the right place. He couldn't throw a football anymore.
That's part of playing quarterback, A big portion playing quarterback
in um So, Look, I don't know how good Trevor
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Simeon is. I know he'll never be Peyton Manning in
his prime, But could he be Peyton Manning of two
years ago? Maybe? Maybe? I don't know. Let's let's start
with Minnesota versus the Saints. Of course, it makes sense
for the Saints to draft a running back in the
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second round and then signed Adrian Peterson in addition to
already having a good running back, Right, I get that.
I mean, look that the two people most responsible for
their rise are most responsible for their fall. Drew Brees
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and Sean Payton took the Saints, who had won I believe,
one playoff game as a franchise. Ever, when they got
together in Nola, one playoff game ever, took them to
a Super Bowl, made them uh an offense were showing
up to watch, and Drew Brees has been on this
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amazing run of five thousand yard pass seasons. But the
truth is that why would you even have running backs
by committee, especially when Adrian Peterson has never been a
running back by committee? When what you need is defense
by committee. Every resource they should have had has should
have been gone to go and get that to get
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the defense. But what a bunch of miss mismatched parts.
The defense is still isn't good. The offense is good
at running back with a quarterback who likes to throw
to wide receivers. Outside of that, Mrs Lincoln, how is
the show? And then there's Sam Bradford, And this is
really important. I don't believe Greg Oden is a bust.
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That's because Greg Oden was never healthy enough to be
called a bust. Right when your body lets you down
and it forever takes away your your ability to live
up to that potential, I have a hard time call
on you a bust. Sam Bradford, by many people, was
deemed a bust, which you have to remember with Bradford
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was he'd had a different offensive coordinator every year every
year of his career up until UM up until this year. Uh.
Last year, of course, Pat Shermer took over at mid season.
Pat Shermer had been his offensive coordinator his rookie year
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when he was with the St. Louis Rams. Shermer, of course,
then left to become the head coach of the Browns,
and then last year when Teddy Bridgewater got hurt, it
was Shermer who was the rabbi in the room to
bring in Sam Bradford. Now, look, I wasn't at this network.
I was in another network. But you guys can feel
free to reach out to the guys the other network.
Or Kyle Rudolph, his tight end is gonna join us.
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We had a great Kyle was like, dude, this guy
is awesome from day one. But what do you think
about Sam Bradford. Oh, he always gets hurt, always gets hurt,
and he doesn't throw the ball deep downfield. Sam Bradford's
pretty good last night, right, This coming off a year
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in which he led the league in completion percentage, actually
highest completion percentage for a season in the history of
the league. Some of that is because their offensive line
was in tatters. They had to just get rid of
the football. But now you give him Dalvin Cook, a
burgeoning star at running back who can run it and
can catch it. You give him Stefon Diggs, who's a
burgeoning superstar at wide receiver, and you give him an
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offensive line which has been put back together. And Bradford
living up to the potential he had that was derailed
by different voices in his ear, with offensive coordinators and
two consecutive A C L injuries. Here's Sam Bradford. You know,
I think a lot of it honestly started up front.
You know, our guys up front played great. You know,
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they gave me time. You know, when I've got time
to sit back there and kind of evaluate things, you know,
I've got all the confidence in the world that our
guys outside are gonna win. M hm. So Bradford was magnificent, magnificent.
And for people who thought that the Vikings gave up
too much when they gave up a first round draft
pick and I think a third, right, it was a
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first round draft pick and a third for a fourth
and Sam Bradford, you couldn't give enough because in the
context of last context of last year, there was no
other quarterback available, and they thought they had a playoff team.
They probably did before injury. And in reality, Sam Bradford's
only making like fourteen million bucks thirteen last year, fourteen
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this year. That's a reasonable contract for a quarterback in
the league. And if you think he's a middling quarterback,
that's fine. That's actually low to middle middle to low
end of the starting quarterback tree in terms of what
you make per year. The Vikes are really good. I
thought they were good last year before they sustained injuries,
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and I think now adding Dalvin Cook makes them better
in the backfield. I do think the Adrian Peterson thing dope.
Everyone told me he looked great, and he did look
great running the ball. That's just a bat. That's just
a bad fit. You go to a team that's not
used to having a number one running back, the expectations
are at your age, you can't be a number one
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running back. They have two other quality running backs and
they don't even want to play your style. It's not
like they want to hand you. Who was the last
time was the last New Orleans Saint to get the
ball thirty times in a game? Twenty five times in
the game. Even when Reggie Bush was there and they
won a super Bowl. Reggie Bush was a versatile weapon
who wasn't always lined up as running back. They've never
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had a guy that one just seems like a bad fit.
So I don't know if the Vikings are great. I
do know that that's the perfect home opener for them.
You get Adrian Peterson, which fires everybody up. You get
a team that's not great defensively, especially a linebacker, a
team that can score, but you have a really good
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defense that kind of plays to your strength, especially at home.
All right, let's go to the nightcap. What's the hardest
thing to teach little kids? Uh ramos? In soccer? I
mean maybe for you guys who would just be score
a goal, that's what these are your older girls, I
would say with my U A team, it's just how
to stop the ball and dribbling, just the basics of it.
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What do you think the hardest thing to teaching coaching
is for for me or just in general general? Oh jeez,
just the basics. I guess to listen and then the
focus and you know, yeah, I don't know if that's
is that the hardest thing? Well, there's a lot of
hard things to teach kids in sport. The hardest thing
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in coaching adults and coaching men. In coaching a team,
in my opinion, is how to win. Maybe not how
to win, how to expect to win. So ramost this
team that you have now they got smoked seven nothing
in your opening? Yes, same team you coach last year? No? No,
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they redo the teams every year for each division. It's
a balance. They call it a balance. For soccer, they
rebalanced the team's due to Wait, so last year you
were the worst team. No, we were the We came
in fourth out of six and they balanced you by
making you worse. Well, we moved up in division right
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where you fourteen? Now last year was you twelve? So
some girls move up, some girls stay, and that goes
I'm not just girls, anybody anybody? I got it? Yeah,
I got My son plays U ten baseball. He's eight,
which means is eight nine correct? Right? Yes, I got it,
I got it. I'm with it. Um. I bring it
up because I think one of the things that the
Chargers are suffering through and frankly it's hard. You have
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two new coaches and that was and look as as
tough a listen as that was last night with Beth
Mullens and Rex Ryan and um, what's the guy's name, Uh,
Sergio Dipp. Did you feel bad for Sergio Dipp? I
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think you do. I think we're in the profession that
he's in, and so you want people to succeed. I
do want people to succeed. I, well, it's a it's
a loaded one. Um. I understand that he does Spanish
language television, right, and having lived in Russia as a
player and as a player and learned to speak Russian,
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I try to conduct an interview after we won the
championship in Russian and I don't think I did particularly well.
I think I was really good when I stayed on message.
The difference is I don't think it was the language
barrier as much as he completely lost his mind on
TV right, Like it was the magnitude of the moment
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rattled that guy. And it's not And yes, Monday night
football is a huge stage, but it wasn't his first
time on TV. Um, look what happened last night. There's
a bunch of things we can get into, and we will.
In terms of the X and os with Mark Layreth
three times Super Bowl champion, former Denver Bronco and a
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Denver radio host. But the biggest takeaway is that even
though the Denver Broncos tried to do their best San
Diego Charger two thousand sixteen impression and give away the
game in the fourth quarter, give it away, um, if
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you're a Charger fan like I am, because of the
ways in which they they found ways to lose games,
they should rightfully win. The problem lat the biggest problem
last night was the Chargers, or at least but assumed
they were gonna lose. Everybody assumed they were gonna lose,
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and everybody assumed Denver was gonna win, even when ever
was trying to give it away. That's the hardest thing
to coaching. Teaching coaching is how to win or how
to change kind of that mindset of everybody believing we're
ultimately going to win this game. Be sure to catch
live editions of the Doug gott Leaps Show weekdays at
(12:17):
three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the I Heart Radio app. The Broncos last night and
their success, They're ability to drive the football was based
upon You've talked a lot about that reworked offensive line
and how much of it was there at home. The
defense is great and consistently put the offense in good
position to succeed. I think a lot of it had
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to do with now they made some mistakes, don't don't
question that mentally, Guatson struggled on the right side. They
flip flopped left guards throughout the entirety of the game,
which I personally hate because it's really difficult to get
into a rhythm. And I played that swamp the guard
game and and it's just a really tough thing to do.
But I think there's a couple of things that that
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really transpired. They gave you hope that that offensive line
is gonna be better. They've been doing this with the
left guard position throughout the preseason, trying to figure out
that battle. That's a tough thing to get done. Then
number two, you missed ron Larry left with a concussion,
and that's I think in the third quarter. And Ronald
Leary was a big free agent acquisition from the Dallas Cowboys.
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You came in there with a kid in the second
year player that really hasn't gotten much run, and Connor
Government he actually acquitted himself pretty well. Had one pressure
that led to a sack um late there in the
fourth quarter. But for the most part, you didn't miss
a beat. Most people didn't notice that happened. The kid
you drafted and Garrett Bowls actually played really well. Now
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here's the test. I know, I said mental league Watson
didn't play well and he didn't man at three thirty.
He gets ragged alled a little bit, and that's because
of footwork. He's not really fluid footwork wise. But you're
playing against one of the most formidable defensive lines. When
you talk about boas that, you talk about Ingram, you
talk about Legion, they can play me being they've got
a front four, they can flag get it done, and
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so that's got to be encouraging. And on third downs
they were eight of fifteen. You you do go eight
to fifteen on third down in this league and you're
gonna win a lot of football games. So those things
are all I think all those things. This has been
completely on balanced football team has been completely predicated by
defense the last couple of years. So you put those
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things together with the offensive side of the ball, and
you gotta feel pretty good about coming away with a
victory on the uh. You know, on your first game
of the season, endeavor, what about the Chargers? What I
said was, look, I didn't love a lot of the
play calling. Uh as Ken wizzon hunting there, They're they're
they're trying to rework their own offensive line, trying to
keep pressure off of Philip Rivers had a ton of
turnovers last year, but it was it was a lot
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of conservative stuff on first and second down and when
they went no huddle, uh, you know, after getting some
turnovers late, they kind of opened it up. And obviously
that that happens with anybody when you're down that big
number late in a game. But I feel like the
biggest thing missing between mean the two teams is everyone
assumed the Chargers we're gonna lose no matter what happened,
and everyone assumed that the Broncos. There's just like the
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culture of winning in Denver, even though they're coming off
a disappointing season, is much stronger than the culture of
winning in in San San in l A. Is that
is that fair to say? No? I think it's I
think it's fair to say in Philip Rivers. You know,
as great as Philip Rivers is, um, you have to
look at the personnel you put around him. You mentioned
the offensive line, um, a receiving corps that, let's face
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it is less than you know, less than daunting, especially
for a Denver Broncos squad who will lock you up
in man free and just say, Bryant, this is what
we do. You've got three starting corners that can all
flat out play. Um. You know they're not afraid, they're
not afraid to play you man and say we're gonna
unleash the pass rush and just see what comes comes
what may. And I'll tell you the other thing that
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was interesting in Denver's loss in San Diego last year.
Look at the numbers Hunter Henry and of Antonio Gates.
They crushed the middle of the field. They destroyed the
Broncos in the underneath coverage, both linebackers and the safety position.
There's a lot of noise made about t J. Ward
being let go. It's the last cut. A lot of
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people very upset about it. They did that because they
felt like they had better coverage situations with Justin Simmons.
Long lean athletes, unbelievable, um, just physical talent. And I
think Antonio Gates, if I'm not mistaken, had two catches
and Hunter Henry had none, So yeah, I thought. I
actually texted my friend who works for the UH for
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the Chargers and asked if Hunter Henry was playing. Yeah,
I mean it's crazy how good they were against those guys,
right exactly. So you know, I think you have to
tip your cap to John Elway. Um, you know, and
I've had a discussion with him about the whole T J.
Ward thing, But you know, they saw from a personnel standpoint,
they saw the next kid that was gonna play all
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so keep by the name of Will Parks, who got
a lot of run as well. So you know the
I mean, you think about this, Doug going into the
end of the third quarter. Um, I believe Philip Rivers
was eight of fourteen for fifty nine yards. Fifty nine
yards going into the fourth quarter and it was like
a hundred ninety two because you know, they had the
busting coverage and they hit Benjamin for a forty plus
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yard touchdown and all those things. But I mean, that
is that's incredible, and you don't even have your best
pass rushers, and you know you have Van Miller, but
Shane Ray was out. Um, Shaq Barrits just coming back
you've missed two other starting defensive lineman rotational defensive lineman
do injury for the opening weekend. So pretty amazing what
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they were able to do to that that Chargers offense,
considering they had the injuries and the different players they
had to play. All right, let's go to the previous
game where you had the Saints and the Vikings. Obviously
the Vikings are gonna be better at home, better get off.
But boy, I just it feels like some misman speeches
their pieces there in New Orleans, right, Like they're a
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team that likes to throw it and not a ton
of investment the wide receivers. They got three running backs,
but Adan Peterson is not a running back by committee guy.
And then you have a team that's desperately need a
defense and their defense is is very, very average, and
they got exposed against the Vikings. What are your thoughts
on that that first Monday in that football game. Yeah, well,
I think you nailed it. I mean, I think you
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look at the personnel moves they've made. Here is an offense,
they've always spread it, they've always thrown it down the
football field. You've got one of the elite quarterbacks in football.
The one difference maker you had the wide receiver position
in Brandon Cooks now plays for the New Patriots, UM,
and not a hundred percent sure from a personnel standpoint,
what you're doing. I saw Adrian Peterson on the sideline
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given um Sean Payton the stink eye, and you just
look at it like, well, what did you expect? Did
you think you're gonna get it twenty eight times a game?
That's not what they do. Now. I understand being upset
because you only got it six times or eighteen yards,
But I guess note to Adrian Peterson, you better make
those six carriages account because you got to have more
production than that. I certainly would expect twelve to fifteen carries,
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not six carries. But sometimes the game dictates that. You know,
sometimes you get you get beat, um, you get beat early,
you get behind in the on the scoreboard, Um, before
you look up, it's already you know, nineteen to three
or something some crazy score like that, and you're like, oh,
here we go. So that's kind of what dictates. But
you're right, you know, defensively, they've been over trying to
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overcome that bad defense for years and years and years,
and uh, and it looks as though that they haven't
figured that one out either. Are you buying the Vikings? Um?
I would like to see No. I think the Vikings
are outstanding defensive personnel. I think they're a really good group. Um.
I love Dalvin Cook. I think he's great. Yeah. I
think offensively they've got some weapons. I still don't. I
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have to see this offensive line perform against a really
good football team, and and that's gonna be my biggest
question mark because they had wholesale changes over there. I
have to see them perform against an elite level defense.
If they can do that, then I think they've got
a chance. Because Sam Bradford. Sam Bradford is an incredibly
accurate quarterback. Um, he's great now. A lot of underneath
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stuff to be sure, but he's incredible. He has just
been beat down to a c L injuries. You know,
he got beat up in his in his days in St.
Louis UM and last year he was kind of coming
out of that. I think that he could be really
good if they can protect him. If they can protect him,
then yeah, I would buy them. But I still think
the Packers are the class of that division. Um. How
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fixable are the issues with Houston's offensive line. I mean,
Dwayne Brown sitting there holding out, He's got to be
just I mean, but but the offense line was so
bad it is simply Dwayne Brown's back and they'll be fine.
Or is there more to it than that. No, there's
more to it than that. But that's certainly what help.
And it just goes to show you. You You know, every year, Doug,
it's so funny because every year, you know, like here
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in Never they get Ready t J. Ward, a guy
that's under contract, and they get you know, they get
guys that they think are underperforming, are about their way out.
They dumped those guys and nobody seems to have a
problem with it. You know. Then Dwayne Brown says, hey, listen,
I'm an elite level tackle. You need to pay me.
I'm out performed my contract. And they're like pound saying, dude,
we don't do that. Well, guess what happens. You give
up ten sacks you try to single handily send everybody
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on Jacksonville's defense to the Pro Bowl. I mean, it
was it was ugly. You know, I was reminiscing and
you know, I hate to go. You know, back in
the day, But in my time with the Hogs in
winning the Super Bowl, we gave up nine sacks in
nineteen games nine and nineteen. They gave up ten sacks
in one game. I mean, it is that is as
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ugly as it gets. And I was like, there's two
people that are just grinned from ear to ear. Dwayne
Brown going I told you so. And how about brockos
father going, Thank the Lord, I don't play there anymore. Gosh,
how how miserable was that? It was incredibly miserable. The
good offensive lines have been the good team so far
in the NFL. Right, that's look at the look at
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the Giants and Cowboys. Remember how everybody said, like I'm
not I'm not a fan of anybody kind of throwing
gasoline on the fire. But you know, I look at
Ben Macado basically saying last week, I know a little
bolton board material and whatever, but he's like, I can't
even name any of their defensive backs in Dallas, And
I'm like, oh, there you go. That's wise, Like, that's
that's one you probably don't want to throw out there. Um,
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and so anyhow, you know, they come out there, they
can't block the way to a wet paper sack. And
I hear a bunch of people saying, well, the oh
b J, it would be different wise you're gonna play
left guard, so you gonna play right guard. I mean,
they can't block anybody, and you can't win one thing
about this. And this just goes to show you, like
the skill involved in playing that position. The teams that
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performed well one week one, you see teams that struggled
up front. And I'll show you teams they got their
butts handed to them on a consistent basis. The Giants,
the Houston Texans, Um, you know there's a bust of
different guys. Yeah, the cl Seahawks, the Cincinnati Bengals, on
and on it goes. And that is an incredible skill.
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Like there's no more skill involved in football than moving
a man from point A to point B against his will,
and and it it requires, it requires incredible technique and
everything else. And Um, the way the league is constructed
without really practicing and without really playing games anymore in
the preseason, very very difficult to do. Dallas controlled a
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line of scrimmage, They controlled the temple with a game
that controlled the time of possession, and they absolutely funder
punch the Giants in the face. Um. What about the
New England Patriots. Uh, their defensive line offered very little
resistance or push pass rush against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Are are should we freak out at all about the Patriots?
They're probably one team that I won't freak out about, um,
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simply because I know they've done it before. I know
they'll be adjustments, the one thing I worry about more
than anything. And the defense did get shoved around, and
they'll get that, you know, they'll they'll look at that,
they'll correct what they need to correct. Um. But they
did get physically worn out. I think the biggest thing
for me, it's not very often that I look at
a wide receiver and think that's the heart and soul
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of football team. That's kind of the the actuator of
the offense, where that's the heartbeat or the soundtrack of
that particular offense. I thought about that way, you know,
with Hines Ward back in the day of the Steelers,
or um, you know, or Steve Smith Mighty Mouse with
Carolina or with the Baltimore Ravens. Those are the guys
that I think about. Julian Ailman is that guy. He
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is that dude that you can throw a you know,
a shallow cross at third down and seven, you can
throw it to him at four yards, He'll break two tackles,
lean over the sticks, bam. First down. They they'll get
up talking smack to the defensive backs and we're trying
to tackle him. You know that that kind of energy.
Brady come came out of that game and said we
lack competitiveness and intensity or something of that chure. I'm paraphrasing,
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but those were kind of the qualities you talked about
their football team missing, and that to me was we
missed Julian Edelman and they've got to rectify that. Either
that also, they've got to find somebody who can be
that kind of actuator, that heartbeat of their organization on
the offensive side of the ball. Stay great stuff. Can't
wait to see in the TV side in the meantime,
appreciate you join us here on the radio side. That's
Mark Schlaire, three time Super Bowl champion and proud member
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of our Fox Sports family. Stink. Thanks for joining us.
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What have I told you that Cam Newton's the most
overrated quarterback in the NFL and Sam Bradford is the
most underrated quarterback in the NFL. That's hot tag talk.
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Get me Kyle back, Uh Kyle. By the way, w
SGS is one of our affiliates, um in uh the
tryat in North Carolina, tryaut obviously right down there round
where Wake Forest is, round where North Carolina State is,
Carolina Duke all that stuff. It's in Winston Salem, high
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Point Burlington. I know, high Point Burlington and Winston Salem
is not Raleig Durham, I understand, but close enough the
rest of us close enough, right, same state, good enough.
But but here's the reality to it. I keep hearing
mixed messages from UM, from NFL analysts, right, they all say,
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you gotta let Cam be Cam, you gotta call design
run plays for Cam. But then they also say, he's
got to get rid of the ball quicker, and he's
got he's gotta get a get rid of the quicker
so it gets hit less. Wait, so you want to
put him in a harm's way more and make him
more of a runner and yet have him get rid
of the ball quicker. Here's the real problem. Cam Newton's
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strength is going to get him hurt. It allows defenses
to hit him more. And it's not his strength that
the best quarterbacks who have lasted long longest, lasted the longest,
and been the most successful have used to be successful
in the NFL. Sam Bradford while more athletic than you
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think and less fragile than you think. Right, Like, you
think of Sam Bradford and you think he's going to
break an half. Look, he's not built. Cam Newton's built
like a superhero, right I Like, I don't know what
a real life superhero would look like, but I would
guess it would look like Cam Newton. He's six ft
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six and a half. He's like two d and fifty
sixty pounds. He's he's a complete freak of nature physically.
And it's not like Sam Bradford's a little dude. Uh
Sam Bradford, Like that's not that's not a little dude.
That's that's not a little dude at all. Six But
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he looks But Sam Bradford is deadly accurate, like crazy
deadly accurate, not just last night completing of his passes
for thirty two last year, of course, because he had
to get rid of it quickly. He said the single
season mark for completion percentage. The longer you go in
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the NFL, and longer you go in the NFL, the
more you have to be accurate, precise, get rid of
the ball quickly. Now Bradford has at times taking the
underneath stuff not challenge himself deep kind of like he
got a little Alex Smith to him, but not as
bad as Alex Smith. And some of it is more
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personnel based. But if you're gonna error on one side,
you error on the side of accuracy as opposed to
home run hitter. And basically the difference between the two
is one guy is a punch and Judy get on
base all the time. Guy the other time swings for
the fences. And while in baseball we have started to
get to the hey, we'd prefer a guy who hits
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home runs or strikes out to a guy that tries
to punch in Judy it in football it's the opposite.
Football it's about getting the ball to players who have
athleticism in space, right and what what do they get
in a running back? What do they have in Stefon
Diggs as well. You got Dalvin Cook and Stefon Diggs too,
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freak athletes. Get it to him in space, get it
to him quickly, and then get the hell out of
the way. That's a Bradford does. I'm not saying Bradford
is Peyton Manning, or Bradford is Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers.
I'm not. But your perception of Sam Bradford is he's
a bottom five starting quarterback in the league. And the
reality is he's never played an offense where they've thrown
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it a ton. He hasn't been healthy enough. He only
played sixteen games two seasons in the NFL. Both of
those two seasons, uh one was his rookie year, the
other was his third year. My guests would be this
year he'll throw for five touchdown passes, maybe thirty, just
over four thousand yards, as long as everybody stays healthy.
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My guess is that Cam Newton would wildly disappointed. So
some of this is based upon um their own previous successes.
Cam Newton was the m v P of the league
two years ago. He was never the best quarterback in
the league. What he was was the quarterback for the
best team and they had created a system where Cam
could be the best version of himself. But in order
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to do that, you gotta have a good running game,
you gotta have a good defense, and you gotta be
willing to play uh, you know, possession football, kind of
like what the Cowboys are doing, where you don't put
him into harm's way, And you got to live with
the fact that he's not a he's not a high
completion percentage guy. So to go from he was the
m v P the league too, I don't know. I
think Cam Newton somewhere between the tenth and fifteenth best
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quarterback in the league to Sam Bradford, Like, I don't
think he's the best quarterback in the league, but coming
into the year, people would say bottom five, bottom ten,
and I think he's right there in the range of
a Cam Newton twelve to eighteen. Didn't say he's better
than Cam. But the truth is, if healthy, what he
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does last longer is more successful more often than what
Cam does. And Cam is viewed as a superstar, and
I think he's superstar in persona a superstar in reputation
more than how he actually plays. Be sure to catch
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(31:40):
the I Heart Radio app. Ask me a question, and
ask me any question? Um, any question. Who's the best
quarterback in the NFL? No comment? Oh, okay, who's the
best running back in the NFL? Comment? No comment? See
no comments? Somehow now no comment? They said, no comment
has taken on like a whole new meaning of its own, right,
(32:00):
So I think no comment was what Tom Brady said
because he was asked a question about Colin Kaepernick. Hey,
are you glad or are you? Have you paid much
attention to the Kaepernick stuff? Right? No? Not much? Not much?
I mean not this time yet. I feel like I've
got a lot of my attention goes in a lot
of places, so um, not much. Hm. That was on
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Kirk and Calahan. He does a he does a weekly
hit on w e I, which is a big radio
station ian Boston and first in fairness to um, in
fairness to Tom Brady. He wasn't asked, do you think
Kaepernick should be in the league? Do you think Kaepernick
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should be a starter? He just they it was like
they felt compelled to ask him a coolin Kaepernick question,
and then the question changed within the question take a
listen one more time to the question itself. Have you
paid much attention to the Kaepernick stuff? Right? No, not much?
Not much? I mean at this time, there was there
was something a little bit before that Ramos where he
started to ask in a different way, go ahead, Hey,
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are you glad or are you proud that? No? None
of your guys, none of your teammates sits down for
the anthem. I don't really pay attention, you know, to
to that. You know, you know, there's probably a lot
of things for me to think about at that time. Um,
but I haven't. I haven't thought about that much. So
so look, this is tom I haven't thought about that.
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I want zero part of this discussion. Nothing, No, I
want nothing to do with it. This is a no
end for me, No thanks. This is Michael Jordan's saying, Hey, man,
Republicans buy sneakers too, right, That's what he told his mom,
And his mom said, why don't you stand up and
say you vote democratic Republicans? Book, That's why. But what
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happens is I was actually watching was that an undisputed
earlier today on disputed earlier day, they're acting like he
took a side in this. None all he said was no,
all he's all he said was I don't really want
to talk about that. But instead of being defensive and
saying I don't really want to talk about that, he's like,
I don't really pay attention much to that. I really Again,
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that doesn't mean that you're focused and doesn't mean you're
totally lying, Like you can tell a lie without being
without lying, right, because it's it's it's true. Technically, I'm
sure he doesn't pay a ton of attention to it.
Like I don't think Tom Berty cares of Colin Kaepernicks
in the league. I don't think he cares if his
guy has taken knee. On the other hand, like I
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don't even I I don't even pay much atention though
I I don't this time of year, This time of year,
what time fall to worried about apple picking leaves turning?
I mean, and credit those guys because they kind of
offered him a soft landing with Kaepernick, right, do you
pay much attention to it instead of asking a more
(34:55):
pointed question. But that's one of those somebody told them
they had somebody, you know, what ask him, see what
he's gonna say, and then he wanted nothing of it,
and then you move on. But at least they can
say that, look, we asked mccaferney question. He just didn't
want to play ball. But my point to Dan was,
somehow now no comment has become a comment when no
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comment is just like I don't really want to answer it.
And this this does go to show that Tom Brady
is smart enough, of depth enough that many of these
guys are as well to which they can they can
get out of answering questions. It could have been really
good follow up there, though, right like if one of
your teammates came to you and was like, hey man,
(35:40):
you had that Trump hat. It means a lot to
me if you don't have to take a knee, but
you put your arm next to me. Or did Belichick
tell you guys specifically nobody needs nobody kneels because their
guys didn't kneel. But I don't pay attention to that
much means I want no part of this discussion. Find
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another topic as quickly as possible. But but saying it
in a very delightful, easy way. Fox Sports Radio has
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within the I Heart Radio app. One of the guys
who has been a beneficiary of Sam Bradford being his
quarterback joins us now. Kyle Rudolph tight End of the
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Minnesota Vikings joins us on the Doug Gottlip Show. Kyle,
how are you good? Man? Um? Okay? So, like, look,
you've been through this before, but to have Sam the
second year, second time around, what's what's the comfort level?
You and I talked about this last year about how
you were blown away by him when he first got there,
how much better he was than anybody told you. But
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having the same guy as your quarterback for two consecutive
years now through an entire training camp, what was that
experience like as opposed to last year? Well, it was
big for us, and obviously we got countless reps throughout
o t a S minicamp, training camp, preseason that we've
been about on last year. Last year, as well as
Sam played, we were still kind of playing catch up
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with everybody else in the league. So you know, it it
was just as I mentioned last off season on your show,
a true credit to Sam with how well he played,
coming in on fifteen days and notice and going out
there and starting the season as our starting quarterback. So, uh,
you know, this year, going into year two with all
of us together, we had Pat Charmer around all off
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season as well, so being in kind of the same
system for tears in a row, I think there's definitely
a higher comfort level with among everyone on offense. Eight
completions of twenty yards of more, and like, look, dude,
you know, the the knock on Sam has always been
that he'll check it down, that he's really accurate, but
he likes to dump it off to keep those accuracy
numbers up. Last night, you guys were throwing it big
(37:49):
chunk plays. Deal in some chunk plays. Uh, stefanss chunk plays.
You got some chunk plays as well. Was that the
game plan because of the Saints defense? Is that more
of the style to which you guys want to play
heading forward? Well, I definitely think it's the style we
want to play heading forward. Um. And you know the
thing that goes unnoticed in that, and you know, all
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offseason it was brought to our attention how we need
to improve our downfield passing game. And part of the
reason that we were able to throw the ball downfield.
Is we're able to establish a run game, which we
did not do a whole lot last season. And uh
Dalvin Cook obviously comes in and his rookie debut and
runs forever a hundred yards. And I think you've got
to give a ton of credit, not only Dalvin, but
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to our offensive line and all those guys up front.
You know, they obviously kept Sam clean all night long,
but they kind of wore that Saints defense down in
the run game, and uh Dalvin was able to rattle
off a couple of big ones there at the end
of the game. Was there ever a discussion I talked
with the Chargers about this. Was there ever a discussion
about wrapping them in bubble wrapped the entire preseason sore?
That is that a possibility to keep them? Because that
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was the deal last year. It wasn't that they were bad.
It was like nobody survives when everybody gets hurt, right,
you know, especially with that unit. You know, it's so
much goes into the continuity of those five guys. And
you know that no coincidence that the Atlanta Falcons are
playing in the Super Bowl last year and they had
one offensive line that they started the entire year and uh,
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you know, we didn't even make it through one game
last year with the same offensive line, so uh, you know,
having those guys together, they obviously we had a couple
of position battles throughout preseason, but you know they were
kind of able to settle in towards the end of
preseason and they went out and played unbelievable last night.
Most important question, how are the babies. They're awesome. We
actually just left swim lessons, so we had a big
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day off. Uh got him out in the pool. They
loved the water, so it was a bunch of fun,
all right. Yeah, because and now do you sing the
songs when you're in doing Swiss uh swim lessons with
the twins, like you're you're you actually participate in the
song singing. I participate. I wouldn't say I'm you know,
full bore on the singing side of things. Uh more.
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You know, it's like when you have the ball in
your hands, you just trying not to drop it, and
you know, I'm in the pool with the girls, I'm
just trying to make sure I don't drop him and
get him, you know, scared of the water. Uh, so
you know, I'm I'm just locked in the hold time
to them. So it's awesome. Once they get to when
they're like actually like three or four, they're like swimming
on their own, then it's uh, then it's fantastic. I
will point out that it really doesn't do. It's it's
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more of a bonding thing than actually teaching them how
to swim, right, Like, oh no, I had swim lessons
for two years and I was a kid. Yeah, they
don't actually learn anything anything at Kyle Rudolph, our guest
on the Doug Outland Show, vikings off to a one
and I start, um, what was the experience like of
Adrian Peterson being in a different uniform. It was definitely
weird seeing him out there and seeing him on the
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opposing sideline. Um, I'm just glad that we didn't see him,
you know, running down the sidelines loose like like we're
accustomed to, and you know what I saw for the
last six years here in Minnesota, So I was glad
that we were able to kind of contain him a
little bit. And uh, you know, I saw him after
the game and told him best to lock for the
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rest of the year, and now I hope he goes
out and kills it. You mentioned Dalvin, Uh, what about him?
I mean, like, look, we saw him in college. We
know how special it can be. What about him though
for a guy seven year pro for you really impresses
you about the young kid? Well, I mean as young
as he is. The way that he comes to work
every day. Um, you know, he wants to learn, he
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wants to find out how to become a true pro
and a professional. And then you know his god given
skill set, the patients and vision that he has to
go along with, you know, his unbelievable speed. I think
part of the reason why he made a lot of
those runs last night, we're because of that, you know,
not necessarily wide open holes right away, but he seems
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to find him. And you know, you don't have many
negative runs with Dalvin Kyle Rudolph joining us on the
Douglas Show. You know, you guys have this weird schedule
right where you have so many home games. What is it? Yeah,
it's like five of the first seven are at home,
and then you have a stretch where five of seven
after the break, after your bye week or on the road. Uh,
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that's kind of be that's I mean, like and especially
considering how well used. I guess here's what I want
to get to. Last year, you guys start out so hot,
you had all those injuries and the thing fell apart.
Does that help you this year? Do you call upon it?
Or are the years different individually? No, I definitely think
it's something that we are able to learn from. And uh,
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you know a lot of times this offseason I was
asked if you know we're the team that started five
and oh or are we the team that finished three
and eight? And um, you know, I think we're able
to learn from that three and eight finish, and you know,
I think we're an improved version of the team that
started five and oh. So I definitely think that will
be something that we'll be able to call upon this year.
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And uh, you know, we really trying to take it
week by week. You know, you hear that so often
in the NFL. Um you know, So we're enjoyed that
Monday night win last night, but now we've got to
get ready to go play the Pittsburgh Steelers and we
have to take that approach throughout all six games this year.
How different is it when you have a short week
you know it is. It's it's incredibly different, you know,
not only from a mental standpoint, going from one game playing.
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You know, we're preparing so long for the New Orleans Saints,
and you know, really you think back to when the
schedule came out in May, You're thinking about the New
Orleans Saints, and then now all of a sudden that
game is over and now we have h five days
or whatever it is before we're gonna go play the
Pittsburgh Steelers. So you know, you have to move on quickly,
and in this league, whether it's a big win or
(43:32):
a tough loss, after about twenty four hours, you've got
to be onto the next week. Europe only a bright guy.
But as as we mentioned your parent, uh, there's a
growing discussion, maybe discussions always been there inside the league.
If a guy is gonna hit you high or hit
you low, wish you prefer. I am of the side
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of get hit high. You know, I'm a bigger guy,
so most of the time guys are going low. Um.
But you know, I feel like I can protect myself
and you know, kind of get a shoulder in there
if a guy's gonnahit me high. When when you get
hit low. There's not much to protect yourself, especially when
you're not looking, you know, when it's a ball down
the field and you know, I'm looking at the ball
and someone comes in and hits low. Uh. And I
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think that's where you see a lot of the injuries,
kind of like the O'Dell one that we saw in
the preseason. You're going into Pittsburgh this weekend, and for
people don't know, you grew up in Cincinnati, like growing
up in the Midwest. Is there still and maybe it's
different now because you've been in the league so long.
Is there something too going and playing the Pittsburgh Steelers
on the road. Yeah, I mean it's gonna be my
first time. You know, we've played Pittsburgh the last time
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in London, and this will be my first time going
to Pittsburgh since I went to that stadium when I
was in college and we played the pitt Panthers. But
growing up in Cincinnati, Uh, you know, the Steelers came
to Cincinnati every year and you know, the Bengals will
go and that was such a heated rivalry, uh, you know,
and I grew up kind of around that, so I
know what it's gonna be like going into Pittsburgh this week.
(45:00):
It's gonna be a tough task, but I'm looking forward
to it. I can't believe the Dogs came in and
beat Notre Dame. I just I thought freshman starting quarterback
at Notre Dame. I mean, I look, I didn't think
that Notre Dame was great this year, but I definitely
didn't think that was a game that they were gonna lose.
I know you watched it, what were your thoughts. I
thought it was, you know, obviously a tough loss. Like
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you said, I think that was a game that they
had to win, especially when Georgia's quarterback went down and
they bring in a true freshman quarterback starting for the
first time. You know, you think that alone would kind
of give them the win playing at home. Um, but
you gotta give credit to Georgia's defense. I think, uh
that front, they got a couple of rushers that are
really talented, linebacker that's extremely talented. So you know, watching
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those guys play, uh, you know they'll be able to
kind of carry that team while their quarterbacks out. Yeah,
that that Godwin catch was pretty special to It reminds
me of Stefan. Yes, Stefan's catch was nice. That Godwin
catch with one hand in the end zone was was
freaky good as well. There was and it was one
of those things. As soon as they went to the
first replay, you know it's gonna be reviewed and probably overturned.
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It was an incredible catch, all right. Listen man, congrats
on the touchdown, reception, on the win, on your health,
the health of those babies, safe travels to Pittsburgh, and
we appreciate you join us on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks
for having me, Doug, I appreciate it all. It's got
Kyle Rudolph, good dude, good tight end, very good player
for a very good team. The Minnesota Vikings healthy and
(46:25):
loaded for bear. We'll see how they play against the
Pittsburgh Steelers this Sunday. That's the game that's on Fox
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