Happy 23rd, Picks, and QB Rankings!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome in.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is the sideline shuffle. Oh, it's good to be back.
It's been saying that a lot this year. Good to
be back.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's been a rough twenty twenty five, but here we are.
We're in November twenty twenty five is about to wrap
itself up. So out last week migraine situation, couldn't record back.
This week got the quarterback rankings. Should have put them

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out last week, We got them. This week got picks.
We'll talk a little bit about the trades, what we've
seen so far this week, little reaction to last week,
and then a special message to exit the show today.
So QB rankings, let's jump into those first. Should have

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done these last week, didn't get a chance, so we'll
start with them this week. Should I start at one,
work my way down, start at thirty two, work my
way up. Here we'll start with this. Here's the players
not currently on this week's list that were on the

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last list I did after week four. Arizona Cardinals Kyler Murray,
Cincinnati Bengals Jake Brown, Minnesota Vikings Carson Wentz, Nororlands Saints
Spencer Rattler, and the Washington Commanders Jade and Daniels. Those
five quarterbacks were on my previous list, no longer on

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this list. That means we have possibly more unranked quarterbacks
entering the top thirty two. And we'll just start at
thirty two with the New Orleans Saints and Tyler Soft
Is that how you say it? Shoff so getting the

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start this week the rookie, gotta put him at thirty
two zero experience thirty one. We're going with Justin Fields,
down seven spots from his previous ranking. Then we're going
to UH at thirty Tennessee Titans cam Ward down one spot.

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We're gonna go at twenty nine. We're gonna give you
the Cleveland Browns, Dylan Gabriel up three spots, making some moves.
Then we'll jump to number twenty eight, where we have
Las Vegas Raiders Geno Smith down twelve spots. Gino previously

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ranked at number eighteen for me. At number twenty seven,
we have Minnesota Vikings JJ McCarthy previously not ranked twenty six,
the Washington Commanders, Marcus Mariota. I feel that's fair, right.

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He's played a little bit more than some of these guys.
He hasn't made some of the mistakes hasn't had the
opportunity maybe, but previously not ranked. I'll take them over
JJ right now. That probably will change come the next
set of rankings. Mind you. I made these prior to
JJ and Minnesota playing Detroit. Then I've got Tua with

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the Miami Dolphins at twenty five, Mac Jones and the
San Francisco for nine ers at twenty four, up one spot.
Jackson Dart up seven spots for the New York Giants
coming in at number twenty three. CJ. Stroud again made

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this before the announcement that he was going to be out,
but I had him. Houston Texans quarterback down eight spots, however,
at number twenty two. At number twenty one, up one spot,
Trevor Lawrence Jacksonville Jaguars. All right, we're to the top twenty.
Not quite halfway through the league yet, let's get through half.

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Let's do bottom half. Chicago Bears Caleb Williams down two spots.
Atlanta Falcons Michael Pennix up nine spots to nineteen. Again
made this prior to last week's outcomes at eighteen. Bryce

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Young of the Carolina Panthers up nine spots at seventeen.
This one hurts Lamar Jackson from the Baltimore Ravens, down
twelve spots. Hasn't done anything, didn't come back and blow
the wheels off anything. Had to drop him because he
hasn't been playing. Other guys have. So we're in the
top half now, top sixteen quarterbacks in the league of

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my rank. So let's go sixteen through eleven so we
can get to the top ten. At sixteen, I have
the Arizona Cardinals Jacoby Brissett previously not ranked at fifteen,
Dallas Cowboys Dak Prescott down six spots from my previously rankings.
At fourteen, we've got the Cincinnati Bengals Joe Flacco previously

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not ranked because he had fallen out of my last
ranking for the Cleveland Browns, who basically said, we don't
care about you. You're not a threat. We're gonna send
you to Cincinnati in the vision. Joe Flacco fourteen, previously
not ranked ranked, not ranked ranked in this experiment so far.

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At thirteen, I've got the Denver Bronco's bow Nicks up
four spots. I can already tell you I do not
expect him to stay that high, staying put at twelve
Pittsburgh Steelers Aaron Rodgers down one spot. We have the
Los Angeles Chargers Justin Herbert, and now that gives us

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the top ten on my rankings. Again, this is prior
to the games last week, so there's already things I
can see as I'm now getting a chance to go
through this list that I would change. Let me know
what you would change, all right? Top ten Philadelphia Eagles.
Jalen Hurts drops two spots. I've got Jordan Love moving

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up four spots to number nine. Baker Mayfield dropping two
spots to eight for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We've got
Daniel Jones holding steady at the seventh spot. Biggest move
on the board, Drake may up thirteen spots for the
New England Patriots to six on my list, Patrick Mahomes

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dropping one spot to fifth. I got Jared Goff dropping
two spots to the fourth spot, and my top three
quarterbacks as of week eight would have been the Los
Angeles Rams, Matthew Stafford staying put at three, Josh Allen
of the Buffalo Bills down one spot to two and

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moving up ten spots because nobody currently is playing better
at the position, maybe as well but not better Sam
Donald of the Seattle Seahawks. Now, I remember we talked
about Baker Mayfield being an MVP candidate. How outlandish that

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kind of sound after being written off? Look at Sam Donald.
He's been written off at every stop. So as people
want to say, ooh, Jonathan Taylor MVP candidate, Sam Donald's like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
not so fast. I'm doing my damn thing with Seattle

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and quietly lurking, mind you, is thirty seven year old
Matthew Stafford just lurking waiting for a bad game to
happen for Donald. Don't let an injury happen. Stafford's gonna
go get the MVP. But Sam Donald's playing very well.
Seattle is playing very well. Right. The Packers looks strong.

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Everybody will agree about that. Seattle's looking stronger. Their offense
is clicking a little better, that defense is playing really good.
They just made a trade that we'll talk about here
in a minute. That's just a luxury for that team.

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For a quarterback who's already averaging the most yards per attempt,
like just in sync knows where guys are gonna be
barely missing fingertips on throw. Sam Donald has he come
into his own? Did Gino leave all his mojo in

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Seattle and Sam Darnold found it. Jonathan Taylor's having a
great season for the Colts. The quarterback's gonna take some
of the votes. Stafford, however, is lurking. Don't get it twisted.
And again let's go say the Packers look strong. We

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all agree right. Defense is flying around, Michael Parsons is
playing good, Jordan Love's playing good. Offense is starting to
figure things out. Jacobs is starting to score touchdowns. But
they're not doing what Seattle's doing right. Baltimore is the
favorite to win the AFC North. Again, that's as crazy

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right now of a thought as anybody thinking Sam Darnold
was going to be an MVP candidate halfway through the season.
But Baltimore not a hard schedule the rest of the way.
Like they've got some teams, it's NFL games you're gonna
have to get through. But Baltimore the rest of the way.
And I talked about this after I thought they'd get

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Chicago if they beat Miami. They've got Minnesota this week,
that's doable. Then they go to Cleveland doable, Jets, doable,
Cincinnati doable, Pittsburgh doable, Cincinnati again doable, New England big test,
Green Bay big test, Pittsburgh doable. Like this is a

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team that could quickly go from being two and five
to winning the division legitimately. Now they're gonna have to
go out and earn it. It's gonna be hard. These
are NFL teams they will have to be. But damn,
the Baltimore Ravens just might be the favorite to win

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that division. And mind you, this is a division that
currently where Pittsburgh sits it five and three, Cincinnati three
and six, Cleveland two and six, so they have to
play catchup and they still might be the favorites to
win that division. Minnesota this week or last week, they

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go out and beat up the Detroit Lions in Detroit
and walk away with a three point win. Like if
you didn't see the score the way that game looked,
you would think Minnesota just got all up in Detroit
like Green Bay did in Week one. But it was

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a three point game. Detroit didn't play well at all,
could not handle the pressure, especially from guard to guard.
Both tackles get hurt, starting guard could gets hurt. They
give up three touchdowns and somehow only lose by three points.

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Not that that's a positive you want to take out
of an ass whipping, but you know, silver lining is
a silver lining does Jacksonville? My man Little comes up large,
shows how long he truly is. With a sixty eight

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yard field goal, the irony of the name and the
puns you can do here, sixty eight yardfield goal, We're
gonna see a seventy yard attempt, I have no doubt
about it. With Little hitting sixty eight and having room
to go with Audrey or Aubrey down there in Dallas,

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We're going to see a seventy yard field goal, when
sixties used to be like, oh my goodness, I can't
believe they're attempting it. Seventy is right there. Minnesota face it.
Surprise win last week, Carolina surprise win. Pittsburgh surprise win. Right.
Carolina goes in last week and beats green Bay in

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green Bay last second field goal. Pittsburgh goes into Indianapolis,
a team that just kind of was rolling, beats them,
and Minnesota got all up on Detroit in a game
that unless you were in Minnesota, you were not picking

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Minnesota to win that game. So kudos to those teams.
They went out and did the damn thing. They were like,
I don't care who you are, you have to beat us.
They didn't walk in going, oh man, we have to
beat them. They didn't walk in worried about who the
opponent was or what the records were. They said, no,

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you have to beat us. And they took it to
those teams and they ultimately all three walked away with victories.
Great game plans, great coaching, great execution. Hats off to
the Steelers, Vikings, and Panthers for week nine. Those are
my top performers. Now here's the big story that came

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out a week nine. Not the picks, not who won,
not what the rankings are, not Baltimore potentially being the
favorite to win the AFC North. It's the conversation we're
having this week about Jadeen Daniels being in at the
end of a game when the team had no chance
to win. We forre Jordan comment on it recently on

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NBC about load management shouldn't be a thing. In questioning
it and telling the stories about those people came to
see me play. I get the conversation. We're paying these
guys so much, there's no chance to win. Why have
him out there and risk it? It's real simple, And

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I know coaches come back and apologized already said he
shouldn't have had him out there. They're football players. That
same risk is there on snap one when everybody thinks
it matters the most, as it is at the end,
when you're now saying it doesn't matter. You know what.
It also shows leadership, It shows toughness, It shows we're

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not gonna quit. It's not just about the money and tomorrow.
It's about this game. It's about keeping my guys focused.
It's about letting them see me as the leader. It's
like he's out there still working. The clock's not at zero.
We play sixty minutes. This is a team that's still

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looking to find the momentum that they had last season
that got them to an NFC championship, battling through injuries,
trying to keep morale up. Now, I get it, this
doesn't hap that help that in hindsight, But you can't
coach and you can't play for what hindsight might be. Now,

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do I think there are times go ahead and take
the starters out? Yeah, other teams got no timeouts left,
games wrapped up, Go ahead, put your subs in. They
didn't have the game wrapped up. They're still trying to battle.
They're still trying to get back into that form. Jayde

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Daniels has been out a couple times. He needs the reps.
You can't predict that the quarterback's off arm is going
to be dislocated at the elbow. That's random. It doesn't
happen very often, if at all, freak accident. You can't

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coach for the what ifs. You have to coach for
the now. I had no problem with jayde Daniels being
in there. Again, I get the argument that's being laid
out there. Multiple things can be true at the same time.
That's all I gotta say. Trade deadline. Look, some teams

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clearly going into a rebuild. Some teams players clearly aren't
with the coaches right. Philadelphia made moves, bringing in Jalen Phillips,
JayR Alexander, Michael Carter, the second brought in Tank Bigsby, retooling,
making sure they got depth for that second half push.

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The Jets sold sending Michael Carter out, sending Sauce Gardner out,
sending Quinn Williams to Dallas. I don't know that either
one of those are a needle pusher. But the Jets,
in my opinion, got great value. Two first rounders for Sauce, Sorry,
Sauce is overrated. Soft is very handsy and it doesn't

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get called. But you get two first rounders, you get
a receiver. Then for Quentin Williams you get a first
rounder and a second rounder. You're loaded to start rebuilding
that team with Aaron Glenn quickly. These are guys that
clearly were not fitting into what Aaron Glenn wanted to do,
probably were not acting the way Aaron Glenn wanted them

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in the locker room. And it gets money also off
your books with the draft picks, so additional value to
go target free agents that you do want and bring
in young guys to start building the culture the way
Dan Campbell did in Detroit. That's what Aaron Glenn, I think,
is looking to do with the Jets. The Patriots make

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him moves, getting rid of Kyle Duggar and Keon White,
Titans get rid of Jarvis Brownlee and Roger McCreary. Seattle,
like I said, they bring in the luxury pick of
Rashid Shahid, just another receiver, give up a fourth round

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in a fifth rounder for him. Jakobe Myers gets the
trade he wants. Dallas brings in another defender with Logan
Wilson from Cincinnati. Right, we didn't see a lot of
the rumored guys. Right, Trey Hendrickson didn't go anywhere. We

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didn't see any big splash offensive linemen go anywhere. Detroit
did not make any moves. And you know, I get it.
You've got guys coming back. The fans always want to
see that thing. It's exciting. It gives some kind of
different level of hope. You can't make the trade now,

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that's going to impact you for multiple seasons in a
potentially bad way. Right, if the trade would have hit,
some of these other teams that didn't make trades would
have gone and make trades. And I think the Jets
at the point they're at in this season, look, they're
not going to the playoffs to get the value back

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they got. I'm with it, Right, You bring in a
John Machette, you bring in a don A Mitchell, you
get the sixth rounder, you get the two firsts, you
get a second and another first, Like you're loading up
on top of the draft talent over the next two years.

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I say go for it, and you need weapons in
New York anyway, right, Cleveland trading Flacco in division, Greg
Newsom over to Jacksonville, Joe Tryon Shoyanka over to Chicago.

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There are some guys that move, but nothing that was like,
oh my goodness, other than the Jets going, Look, we're
rebuilding and these guys are not part of the culture.
We want them out. I don't care what the talent is.
I don't care if we just signed him to one
hundred and forty million dollar contracts. These guys are gone.
So we'll see what these teams do during these teams

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do moving forward. Starting off week ten, you had the
Broncos and the Raiders the other night. Got to go
to that game with my brother in law and my
daughter's boyfriend. The light show was good. It's always nice
to be at a live game. But man, did that
game suck right. The kicking and punting situation was bad.

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The wind was messing with stuff. Neither offense got going.
It felt like it was gonna accidentally end it overtime,
and then it accidentally didn't as the Raiders miss a
field goal. Again. Always like being at a game in person,
but that just was not a well played game. First

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game for my daughter's boyfriend also who's a Raiders fan,
and first game he's ever been to and he walks
away with and now, so that kind of sucked. Happy
for my brother in law though, he's a Broncos fan,
so it worked out for him pretty well. That brings
us the Picts this week. For Week ten, I did
take the Broncos to win this week. Tennessee's on a bye.

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Kansas City, Cincinnati, and Dallas also on buys this week,
so we'll start with the AFC South. I will take
Jacksonville to beat Houston with Stroud out with the concussion.
I think Indianapolis rebounds this week with a win over Atlanta.

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The Chargers I think will beat Pittsburgh this week. I'll
take Buffalo over Miami in Miami in the battle of
Cleveland and the Jets, somebody's got to win it. So
Dylan Gabriel, congratulations, you get the W I think Philadelphia

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game of the week with Green Bay probably probably, I'll
take Philly to win that one. I think Detroit beats
a beats a beat up Washington. I think Chicago gets
the Giants. I think Tampa Bay in a fun game. Actually,
this might also be in competition for Game of the
week Tampa Bay in New England. I'll take Tampa to

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win that one. I'll take Carolina back to back weeks.
Beat Green Bay. Last week you're at home, go beat
the Saints. Beat the rookie quarterback. I'll take Seattle over Arizona,
and just as an upset pick for the week, I'll

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take San Francisco to beat the Rams. So those are
my picks. Again, if you gamble, stay within your means.
Don't come at me about my picks. It's just how
I see it going. I don't recommend, I don't profess
to be an expert or anything like that. So do

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what you want. But my pick's not you know what
I'm saying, Go put money on all right. With that
being said, that's the shuffle for today. I do have
a message I want to go out with. Today is
my daughter's twenty third birthday. Happy twenty third birthday to
my amazing daughter. I'm so incredibly proud of the person

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you've become. Watching you navigate the world with such grace, intelligence,
strength is one of the greatest joys of my life.
Know that I love you. More than words can say.
You deserve every wonderful thing life has to offer. I'm
wishing you the absolute best today and in the year ahead.

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It may be filled with exciting new adventures, success in
everything you pursue, and so much happiness. Have the most
fantastic day, and with that we'll catch you on the
next one.