Saturday Special w/ Stix and the Bois

Getting ready for week 2 of the NFL, the bois have all your sports fix!

Episode Transcript

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Ladies and gentlemen, let's get started. I have thought a lot in the
last twenty four hours. Tend toget your weekly sports fixed by the skin
of their teeth. They walk ordid you just ride in the whole thing
with sticks bark part dog dog parkdot dog dog Dog? What's going on,

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big homie? You're chilling in thekey today? Yeah? Man,
I was feeling a little nostalgic.And you know, the seventies seemed like
they were so far away, rightand on everything. Does anybody remember that
this group of wild, funny lookingjokers in nineteen seventy nine, a team

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from Seattle named the SuperSonics won thetitle. You believe that's that's impossible.
It's a it was impossible, donit? And now there's just not a
team. It doesn't make it.It's the storm, true. But no
NBA team, not til they startwhat Las Vegas in next year? Las
Vegas in Seattle? Bring them back, baby, they better do something,

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man. But hey, I wasjust feeling a little nostalgic, man,
because it was a little family conversation. And uh, it's strangely enough,
surprisingly Okay, there's so many differentconnections to my hometown, right, and
there's so many famous people that arefrom there. And yeah, I'm just
a regular joker, right, butbelieve it or not, down the street

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from where my mom grew up usedto hang out with my uncle, come
over and annoy. My grandmother wasthe MVP of the finals graduate of Domingus
High School, Knton, California.Dennis Johnson. How about it? For
real? How about that for acold hard fact right there? How above
that? Okay, that's let's lookit up, verified and goals down.

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You can. You can verify everythingexcept for my grandmother to address and all
of that. Trust me to takemore work for it. That's pretty dope,
Homy, Nice dropping down memory lane. What's going on with you,
man? Heez? Just chilling manyThey got you out there working hard or
hard work pretty much hardly working.It's been pretty dang slow lately, man,

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A lot of downtime, a lotof chilling learning and all that.
So the only good thing about itbeing slow is I get to learn and
see what's going on in the financialworld, man, get environment, yeah
right now, yeah, for sure, as it's time, you know,
first of the month and people getpaid and end of the month and people

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need to pay their mortgage or theircar payment and all that stuff. So
you know, it's kind of playback there the rest of the time.
So yeah, we'll see. Hey, you hear the roar of the don't
you hear the under the crowd inthe background. It's going down. I

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think that there we go, allright, without hearing further, or do
without any further. I was tryingto get my air pods hooked up,
but my computer does not hook upto my new air pod yet, just
like the last podcast, and thenlike that sounds good right now. Then
I dropped the walk because I've gotmy old wire ones on. But then

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I dropped the case. Now I'vegot a Once we're done, I got
to find one of my missing airpods. Nice Rogers was on the sub.
So you stick with the wires.I'm telling you, there's too many
wireless shit going on in the worldtoday, anyway. I hear you.
I hear you. Now. I'mtrying to get us to lose all of
it and by it all over again. Anyway. I'm telling you, right
right, I turn that TV downa little bit more. Caller turned down

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the radio. I'll turn it down. Hold on call radio every time he's
called. I'm telling you the callers, every time they call in all the
background, we tell them to turndown the radio. Call screeners, can
you tell them to turn down theradio first? Go ahead? Colorado currently

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has negative thirty three yards rushing andit is thirty four nothing now hey,
yeah, get the world coming right? Speaking of bad bad remember ever,
all all the Dion fans, andI am a Deon fan, I'm not
trying to knock him at all,but all those people on sports talk were
like, oh, this is twentyone points. Is disrespectful they did?

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Did they watch tape or are theyjust I just well, you know,
and I agree with you because evenRichard Sherman was talking about the Turner kid
being an sec kind of kid.My point being, I think they're completely
disrespected what the PAC twelve is rightnow, completely disrespected what the PAC twelve
is, Yeah, because they areputting on a clinic. Yeah. I

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don't know that Oregan. I don'tknow the outside of that interception, which,
by the way, he underthrew thatthe wide receivers wide open on that
pick, the bow mix through theeverybody is this live and this is live
commentary on Oregon coloradoad coach Prime andthen boys bow Knicks is putting on a

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tutorial right now on how to runan offense right now, he really is.
I mean, and those guys areI mean, they're just quicker and
you know, making defense is nottackling well at all, and oh my
god, bigger. They're bigger andfaster. The push up counter is moving
Colorado right around. Colorado is rightaround maybe fifty yards of offense. I

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mean, George Sanders has been underpressure every time he drops back. Okay,
so let's get to the guts ofthis. Sticks, get to the
guts of it. Is it thefact that they were completely overhyped and they
do not have the talent or isthis one of those situations where the hype
is gone and now they have metand achieved their maximum level and now they're

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going to plateau and this is whatyou're going to see them versus real programs.
Were they playing on their ass?You know what I mean? Or
what I mean? This is prettyThis is pretty bad right now. I
mean, I'm as we're watching thegame and you just see, like like
Barcott just said to, you know, Shador's under pressure every single play they're
Colorado's defense is not tackling worth ofDaing and those little five foot nothing,

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one hundred and nothing running backs fororgan or just blowing by the line of
scrimmage. Before you know anybody eventouches them, they get five six seven
yards and then tackling they get anothertragic Right now, I'll tell me the
old line look like the rams aline. But I will say I will,
I will, I will give youa pup. I will give you

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props on I'm dying on that one. I'll give you props. The Rams
have looked a hell of a lotbetter than everybody thought. I will say
this, I don't think Colorados overthe hype. And here's why. I
think everybody knew coming in that theyhad problems up front on both sides.
They're line on both sides and thetrenches was bad. I remember hearing that

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one in the TCU, and that'swhy the TCU was twenty one point favorites.
The problem TCU had was they're comingoff the biggest embarrassment in college championship
history, and you graduated everybody,and now you've got this program coming in
that everybody's talking about. They're hypedup there. They're out there to try
to show something. And we allknow this. When a team everybody talks

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about coming into the season, itis supposed so to piggyback on the Seahawks.
I just watched the not all ofit, but some of that season
of boom, and it started offwith losing in the playoffs. So the
Falcons and they talked about all thework they did in the offseason because they
knew they were good. Here wego kind of like Colorado. Not that
they did all the options of workbecause they were all being recruited at the

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time of the transfer portal, butall the hype, which is not it's
not bad. They earned it.They had a good coach, they had
a good program. And then theycan come in and you're facing a team
that everybody's got ranked at seventeen,but I think was grossly over ranked because
they no quarterback, the number onereceive what was gone, They'd lost some

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linemen, the defense had been guttedby graduation. And so you've got to
TCU team that's on the teals anda Colorado team that's coming in just fired
up. Yeah, and then andthen after that they play a bad Nebraska
team. I mean the quarterback letthe table was kind of set up for
him first two games, kind ofto build the story. Yes, yeah,
and then now that we get intothe Pac twelve, we've been talking

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about now they're playing real teams.And now to piggyback what Jason had said,
Uh, now they're facing the firstteam because we've seen the opposing We've
seen Shor get sacked the last twoweeks. We've seen him under pressure from
Nebraska and Colorado State. Now he'sfacing a legit front seven. He's facing

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a team that's got speed that equalshis speed, his wife. They're just
as elite defensively outside as as receiversare, and now we're seeing the holes.
Now. That does not mean I'mknocking Colorado. I think Colorado's gonna
go four and two. I thinkthey're gonna obviously get thumped today. They'll
beat they'll beat what everybody's projection was, because they already have. I think
I think they are because look atthey weren't they the last placed team in

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the Pac twelve last year? Yeah, they were one and eleven. Now
here's where I'll pushed back on Homie, and it's you're not wrong people that
have their minds grounded knew that theywere this was gonna happen. But if
you watch speak on FS one,if you watch you got those dudes out

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there talking about after they beat ColoradoState, Oh, ten on one,
they get ten on one, theythey're gonna and I'm like ten and one.
That means you're gonna split with youwas seeing Oregon? Yeah, and
my thing is and and Jason's gonnahit me over the head like he does
with the Yankee thing. If Oregonis doing this to you, and granted
you're on the road and that Oregans, that's a tough stadium to win,

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that's a tough stateum win. AndI know you're at home next week,
but you're gonna come licking your woundsafter an asshoopon you still don't want to
have Travis Hunter? And what areyou gonna do? I bow Knix is
not Kayleb Williams. I don't carewhat people want to say about Kayleb Williams.
What do you think he was?He's gonna do to you? You
know what I'm saying. And youwere seen by the way, just like
Oregon they played defense this year.You listen, you USC's playing defense this

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year. It's dudes, Hey,well you know who it's starting up.
You think my man from Colorado Statesparked a match up and has some stuff
going. Lincoln Riley don't even haveto his name rings off. He just
walks into sc with his REP andhis QB and said, let's go to
work, and everybody is should sohe don't even have to do nothing.

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You won't hear of this kind oftalk from them. They just go go
in there and run it up.And if they've seen Oregon guarantee he's telling
Caleb, Look, that's the scoreyou need to beat right there. You
want to double up with this Heismanthing Archie style, that's the number you
need to be right right? AndI agree, and and and I'll say,

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I don't know that USC ghosts ofthe final four because they've got to
play Oregon and you dub. Coloradodoes not have to play you dub this
year. Dude. This division inthe last year is crazy. It's some
killing. Back to the PAC twelve? Is this good? And the President
screwed this league so bad that it'sgot to dissolve this year? But yeah,

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I mean it's it's I don't knowthat you sonic picture is kind of
appropriate now, he telling me.With the conference and all of that,
Yeah, I just don't know.The PAC twelve is so good, and
you know what they don't get.They don't get the SEC love. So
USC could lose the game and notmake the final four, while Georgia Canbama

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can lose the game and still getin. But they forget USC has got
to go through you dub Oregon.Two teams in the top ten, they're
gonna have to go through Utah.That's only this year though. Think about
that. Think about is with allthe money who didn't want to spend might
be right because wants Caleb Leaven wantsPennis leave, and bow Nix is up

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out of here. They're like,oh, we don't see stars in the
future. So hand hands up.Yeah, this conference. Do you see
what I'm saying? Yeah, itcould be. But at the same time,
it's Lincoln Riley. He's already signedthe best go back at high school,
and so you already know the bestquarterback out of high school last year's
already sitting the bench behind Caleb Williams. He's already getting rid. He's already
getting coached up. So I wouldagree with you, except for Lincoln has

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shown Baker to Kyler, to JalenHurts to Caleb Williams. He's gonna have
another dude ready to go, andhe's got that. That's the kaya branch,
Peter Wide. You see, itwas a true freshman. Is nuts
the kid they got out of whatis that is it? Is it Bishop
Borman in Vegas? Yeah, thatkid is He's already got like three punt

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slash kick returns for touchdowns and he'sgot a couple of wide receivers. I
mean he's got five touchdowns and threegames as a freshman. So I mean
us, I think got me watchingcollege. They got me watching college this
last season of Pac Pac twelve twoPac Pac twelve, you know, I
mean got me. It got melooking. They got me looking. And

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because they've got some good stories uphere on the West coast. When I
think that, I don't remember theWest in the Pac twelve really making a
lot of noise, and some ofthem us you see La teams I'm talking
about when we know what sc was, don't even need to mention them.
But when you double was really afactor with the old school days when they
was getting a piece of the championshipand things like this. We didn't kick

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up a lot of noise like thatsince the sc situation died down. So
now this division is popping up teams, but on the way out the door
sadness but even, but even,and it wasn't that deep. Now it's
deep. That's true. That's true. That's what I'm saying. I think
you would see could go out andbeat anybody right now. But when you've
got a schedule, let's got youdub and Oregon and Utah. Yeah you're

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already well. But at the sametime, your schedule speaks for you too,
so you're now your resume if yougo in there with this. So
you know how they used to dowith this one lost situation. I don't
know if this stuff still applies interms of getting into the new playoff situation
because it has me confused. Butyou know, back in the day,
you get one long glass, it'sdone done, you know. So now

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in the situation, these guys cansay, wait, wait minute, one
loss to who check my track record? You go beat them? Then you
go beat them? Then? Interestinghow that gets going? And I was
just going to close out our collegefootball talk with and then I want to
jump on a couple other sad thingsreal quick before we get into some NFL
because we want to talk a littleNFL. But Barcott, but we were

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x and offline there und percent agreewith you that my knowles ain't ready for
for that playoff birth yet, especiallyafter you know last week's demeanor in the
second in the second half, andthen today you know they played with an
unranked Clemson team, right and uhand and I and Jordan Travis just dropped

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a couple of spots on my Heismanlist. You know, we'll see how
Caleb Williams shows out the next coupleof weeks too. But yeah, Jordan
Travis. Now they're saying he's hurtor whatever. Come on, dude,
if you're hurt, then rub somedirt on it and play a little better.
But you know they weren't. Theywere didn't play very well today and
they squeaked it out. And youknow, kickers are gonna be kickers,

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as we always said, Uh,college kickers, you cannot count on them.
I don't know where you find there. Sebastian Janikowski ain't walking through that
door anymore. He might be.I've seen him. I've seen the reincarnation.
I can't remember what school he is, but he got people wore T
shirts and everything at this universe.He's a big boy. He's a big

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He could be playing tight end.Word to everything. He could be playing
tight end. He could probably getoff playing center if he wanted to.
But he's a big boy. Hegot T shirts and everything. I think
it's Iowa, but I'm thinking thecolors of black and yellow. Quote me
on it. But I'll come backat y'all with that. But yeah,
there's a big boy out there.Uh, he ain't gonna get drafted them.

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Yeah, And Mike Barcott said,Knowles are gonna drop. I agree
with you. I mean, ifthey only drop one spot, I'd be
surprised. I mean they'll probably dropthem too. I don't know how the
rest of the top twenty five playsout this weekend, but we'll see.
But yeah, so the Knowles,they need to figure it out. They
need to Their defense isn't very theiryou know, their offense wasn't on point

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today and they're playing a better team, so they got lucky and squeezed it
out. But anyways, on two, I don't want to talk to very
much about this because this is alreadydisappointing. Uh, and the Mariners are
not going to make the playoffs ifthey don't go nothing. They know they
have to go to now no waythey go nine. You know. Oh,

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so you're trying to say that youdon't believe that they can go nine?
What happened to all this? Webelieve business. I would say this.
I will say they went out thedoor where they didn't win last night.
I will say this too. Forall the love the Marrors have gotten,
if you look at their record,even even if they go seven to
two, they're gonna finish less.They're gonna finish with a fewer wins and

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last year but they're all yeah,they're already showing signs of dropping off as
their pitching staff has gotten better.But Jason and I've talked about this offline
and at Homer. You've I thinka lot of them been in the group
text that lineup swings and missus waytoo way like two of the top three
guys in strikeouts what Uhenio and Taoand and I and I will not And

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I know Jason, we talked aboutthis over your brother's house the other night,
and I know you like to throwJulio stuff out there to instigate Julio's
No one's going to talk about Wholiobeing a bad play. He's a frigging
stud. But you can't be hittingtwo thirty into July. Like, remember,
Julio was not voted into the AllStar Game in Seattle. Yeah,

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down, No, it was inSeattle. And you're coming off that rookie
year you just had and you didn'tget voted in by your own fans in
your own park. That's how badyour first half was. You can't mess
around like that. Now. Grantedhe's gonna end up hitting like two way
eighty with the thirty thirty thing goingon, and he's a stud, but
you can't. He's got to learnthose games April to July. They may

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not mean anything to you at thatpoint, but now in September, damn,
But then when you would But ifi'd just hitten May, we might
have, you know, won acouple of those games in May, and
we're not here in September, youknow what I'm saying. Yeah, And
then the problem with that is toois if Julio does get on base the
next two guys strike out. Soyou know, if you're already, if

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you already have one out and Juliogets on, and then the next two
guys go up there swinging a missand slinging a miss and slinging a miss.
You know that don't do you anygood either. So you know,
everybody has to start getting on bassand getting some freaking bass hits and putting
the ball in play. But you'reagain, I agree with I mean,
I got the solution for you.I got the solution for you. I

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have the solution for you. ButI just know that it's not gonna happen.
And here's the problem. Something likethis has to happen, and it's
never happened as long as I've livedhere and paid attention to the Mariners.
You guys probably may be able torecall this name, but I don't think
I can recall a single one.Can you guys name a Mariners general manager
that's got some moves under his beltthat we can speak of. Y'all need

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to go get theo. Y'all needto go get young the y'all give the
man some bread and let him buildyou the squad. You have a damn
marlin squad that has a dude LouiseRise hidden of okay, and they can
still they don't get no people towatch their games, but they can put

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up wins. Y'all don't even getcontact. This little dude ain't seen a
home run since a home run seeinghim, but he made contact contact.
Can you stay on base for them? Dude? So if something happened that
swinging, that hit happened, that'sa two run home run and not that
lucky Eugenie l solo shot. Okay, y'all need from guys know how to
get some of this, get someplay going. So basically, you need

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a money ball or you need astrategy. I don't know if anybody's ever
had a strategy up here when buildingtheir state was get the swing and miss
guys? Evidently, well I thinkit was Nintendo run the show and let's
just make money, you know whatI mean, Let's just print money because
this is just an asset that wehave and let's just make money. We

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don't need to, you know,let's you know, that's what I'm saying.
I can't think of a GM's namethat says, oh, this guy
brought in somebody to do competing Wedon't even know how the can no deal
happen? Why? And what broughtNelson Cruz here and some of these other
deals that bought some names here before. Did they just happen or was this
a part of a plan. Itlooked like the farm team is not messing

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up with the pro squad. There'sno like game plan like the Dodgers don't
have nobody you ever heard of,stay on top of the division because that
farm club is popping and the strategyis there. And we'll add a guy,
and we'll add a strategic guy too, and it'll be a guy like
Mookie and give them a that's somecrazy money. We'll add another strategic guy
like Freddie, give them stupid crazymoney, and then still have dudes like

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Justin Tucker. Uh you know,I mean, and have just guys that
fit in the bill, you knowwhat I'm saying, Fresh Prince Will Smith
and have a bunch of guys thatjust fit Gavin Lux and just dudes like
that. And they don't even needto be famous. They could still be
tight friends. But you just needsomebody in between the type friends. Yeah,
I mean, where's the Mayo?Where was the must Well? Lack

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of a better word, the swingingmiss guy. They Jerry to Putos swung
and missed on Tayosca as you remember, at the altar at the trade deadline,
they were trying to get rid ofhim, you know, and then
he comes back after the trade deadline. He does hit a little bit better,
but he's still striking out. Butthese guys can't strike out these next
nine days. They need to figureit out. I would say this,

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and I agree with Homie on this. Remember when Jerry Poto and was the
twenty eighteen nineteen was like, youknow, the trade guy. He was
the guy who was trading everybody,and he had the plan. He told
Seattle fans will be a playoff contender, and he was not far off.
He said, will be a playofftwenty one. The probably he has is

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I don't know that any of thedudes he got back and Jason w know
this better. Not because I don'tfollow the manners. I know the pitching
staff is legit, but outside ofLuis Castiel, who obviously was a major
league traded for, he was tradingmaking pieces for minor league futures. I
don't know how many of those minorleague futures turned in. Yeah, yeah,
I mean, I don't think anybody'sbeen up since those were laving the

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Scouts, now do it always wouldgo all the way back down to the
scouts. Well, I mean,I've seen that a couple of the players
that they have got in return seemedto be doing well in the minor leagues.
I haven't been able to follow toomuch, but I have noticed a
couple of them. But that's howsocial media is. You know, every
once in a while you'll see,oh, this guy, you know who

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the Poto traded for, and partof that, you know, went three
for four with a home runs ona random day. So who knows what
the thing? But good questions.Yeah, he traded all those cats for
minor leaguers. In eighteen nineteen,he signed Julio Rodriguez, I know,
the one he got away with thyFrance. But thy France was already in

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the major leagues of San Diego,so I don't know how many of those
guys when he was now, Iwas still getting props because he was getting
read of dead weight, so hegot people to buy dead weight. I
don't know how much of the stuffhe got in return for dead weight.
Is paying offs. And so nowthat's where Homie is right. The Dodgers
always drafted. Well, they mayspend a lot of money, but they

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spend it smart. But the lasttime the guy for a lot of money,
that was stupid, you know whatI'm saying. And guys spend thirty
home runs, you know what I'msaying. So so they when they do,
when they do open up the checkbook, it's not stupid. And
and you know Jered who he washuge, but Ty Frances regressed by fifty

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points of that average. You knowwhere where was seeing some of these other
guys, j Man, And it'sthere's a there's just I mean, I
don't know consistency. How come youcan't have five or six dudes all hidden?
Two seventy five or two seventy fiveis possible? Now? Is that
impossible? Is that what this is? And were we in a world?
Will we have to accept two tothirty? Yeah, well we have to

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fifty is amazing production from a everydayplan, I think so. And you
know he's gonna who's gonna have theweirdest career. And I would have loved
to have had him, but theywanted so much and Seattle was aggressive and
when I got him, But Wei'sCastillo. For all that talent, Bro,
when are you gonna win fifteen games? I'm not asking for twenty Bro,

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your seven years in the league.When are you gonna win fifteen games?
I think his career highs twelve andhe's and he's a great picture is
he? Alright? What's low?Is that? Bar? Cop? What
are we gonna be able to justguys? All right? Yeah, well

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that's a I don't like. Isaid nine and one, nine and one
they or nine and oh they needto go nine and oh and get get
get to it. So let's talka little in a let's talk a little
NFL. Let's go into the NFLsince we didn't get to do too much,
but I want to start off withthe homie hometown plays of the week
from last uh your uh, Well, we'll just go over mine real quick.

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I had a Walker to let's see, yeah, Walker to have one
hundred and fifteen yards rushing, twotouchdowns, defense to have two sacks and
under four hundred total yards given up, and then a pick six by Quandre
Uh Walker had a day. Hehad two two touchdowns. So here we

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go. Where's where's that parlay thatwe could uh play in a casino somewhere.
Oh wait, don't have one.Can't do it, can't do it.
Shout out Draft Kings, thanks forletting us in Washington State here get
on it already quick screwing around,But he had a whop in forty three
yards for Walker. The defense onlygave up four hundred eighteen yards, a

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little better than the week before whenthey gave up four and twenty six,
but Trey Brown had the pick sixinstead of Quandre So I was kind of
close. What's that? Are thetackles back? Like nine? Like nine
guys on the IR or whatever?This week? I don't even know that.
I'm decision all I have to talkabout, y'all. That's literally all

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I have to talk about. Justpick a tea. I mean, if
you wanted to pick a team,Luke could just go down this because I
had told you, remember I hadshot it up. I was like,
yea, this week is already gonnalook nasty, right, and then so
I'm looking for some little edges tomaterialize in some places. We couldn't even
get last week completed with Monday anddo Chubb real quick before it's already week

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three, he's already affected. Goahead, you're right, homie, let's
talk. Let's talk about this,get into that. But I do want
to go over your your two homiehometown plays of the week, real quick
rams plus seven, never a doubt, and then uh, those guys like
that, and then your boy Puca, you know, setting records over there,
over one hundred. The next CooperCupper Cup yep, with the quad

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injury going to tomorrow yep. Yeah. So yeah, but why is everybody
out here talking about Cooper Cup?Is not that good? I ain't.
I ain't never seen Sean mc theyrun a route before or or throw one
of these passes. So I getit, But Yo, the Cooper Cups,
the Mayo, it's not it's notjust so it's Puka Nuka. It's
not just Puca. They got thatout well, kids, who's got like

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fourteen fists. He's just waiting.Yeah, he's waiting, breaking up.
And and what's scary, especially forteams like Seattle. You got Puca,
you got at well, and theCup by week five will be back.
And now they've got three dudes thatcan throw too. And I know Jason
wants to call him a little runningback one's ever heard of, but that
at running back has been playing.He's got four touchdowns and he doesn't I

(29:04):
mean, he's not a great graintof game breaking and running back, but
he'll get you fifty yards on theground and they'll catch you six passes and
then just from win Poka and thatone and then you got coming back.
They got rid of your your seminalbrethren to make room for the man.
So was that that was a directshot at you because you didn't you didn't
respect him properly because you didn't knowwho he was. So the Rams just

(29:27):
said, you know what, let'sjust trade sticks boy who went to FSU
up out of years so he couldreally understand who this young kid is.
Hey, well, and lean goback into your your conspiracy theories there,
homie about Mondays and Thursdays. Letthe people know what happened started off with

(29:49):
Rogers. He said, Uh,Chubb, it just it becomes a never
ending story of of story creation basically, And I don't it's all happens.
Then it's because it's NFL and itjust happens all the time. It's just
the highest level and you have somuch you know, you know, straight

(30:12):
up gambling money moving back and forth. So it means more too if you
don't play a single game in theworld. But it means more to people,
whether you know it or not.Okay, so it's a lot on
me. So these names mean alot, and these injuries is just crazy
piling up and it's amazing. NowI'm starting to think about training staffs.

(30:32):
I start to think about teams likeBaltimore Ravens training staff you know, because
people always said that the Cardinals werehorrible. You don't want to play for
that franchise. But why does theRavens always have a stack up of running
back room that's just dead. Thewide receiver room is always dead. Somebody
on the line is always you knowwho always shows up, Ray Lewis,

(30:53):
And they show up. But that'sand they only score nine points and they
win nine to six. This iswhat happens because everybody's always half dead.
But this year it just seems tome that I don't know if it's the
schedule. We talked about this lastyear when they messed around with the schedule
and trying to figure out how it'sgonna go. Is should they have a

(31:15):
rotation should you have team A guyshouldn't be expected to play seventeen games,
like we're talking about with Odell orJoe Burrow in this situation, If you
know Joe Burrow needs to be thereto get you eleven wins, wouldn't you
strategically not play him? In thebeginning Bill Belichick style, which Jamar Chase
is now throwing out there and said, I tried to tell him, piece,

(31:38):
what are you doing these situations now? Because now Cleveland has to dump
a whole season now basically because nowthey dump two seasons massage table man and
now my boy Chubby Ankles is outhere doing squads and clearly ain't doing him
no good when he gets rolled upon right. I think it goes both

(32:01):
ways. I think some of theinjuries we've had not the big ones,
but not the big ones like aNick Chubb. But I think some of
the injuries you've had also come fromthe lack of players play in preseason and
so they're not getting hit there,so their bodies aren't getting through the stuff
and the rest of them whatnot.And so I agree with you, I
don't know what to do with it, Like you said, Jamar Chase.

(32:22):
When the guy gets hurting the preseason, send him for the first week or
two. Because we've seen a lotof teams get out the slow starts and
then win like eight games in themiddle of the year. It gets but
there's also a lot of cats gettinghurt minor stuff, not the Nick Chubb
stuff. But now we have practiced. Now we have practice injuries though with
Trayvon Diggs right well, it's rightright, and he's not the only one.

(32:45):
We got others so that I thinksome of that is from not getting
out on the field of the preseasonwhere they just refuse and put starters out
there. So it's a mix,it's a it's a good mite. You're
right, there's some of that.I need to limit who gets out there.
But the Sean McVay thing where somany teams are doing where no starters
playing anymore, we're starting to seethe downside of that after a year or

(33:06):
two. So I agree with you. It's a tough don't work. You
gotta play. I think you gotyou know what. I think we got
to expand rosters, right, wegotta go ters for a quarterback or whatever
they need. So then we startdoing like a rotation like pitching. We
don't roll Nolan Ryan out there fivedays a week. We picked the dated
Nolan Ryan's gonna go, and he'sgonna go on this fifth day. Bet

(33:27):
on that. So maybe I pickand choose which days I want. I
gotta. I got a backup quarterbackthat I picked that he's a twin of
my guy that I got him designedto go against week six, Week nine,
and week thirteen to give my mana break. Yeah, on top
of body ter expansion for sure,I mean, especially if you got I

(33:49):
mean, what was it, theyalready expanded the emergency quarterback, Like this
is hockey. You know, youhat emergency goalie that can be in uniform
if needed. Uh, so theyexpand them quarterback or whatever. But I
mean, if it's a new dayand age of all this, then uh,
if you're if they're changing all theserules to make it safer and all

(34:09):
that, they might as well expandthe rosters like you said, homie,
And yeah, I don't know howmany, seven, seven to ten or
whatever, six, five, six, whatever, but I mean you have
defenses that lose one cornerback or twocornerback, two defensive backs, and then
the game is just one clutch theirinjury leading before a game, and that

(34:31):
could be the beginning, that couldbe the beginning of the tail endial season
right there, just like that,and the Ravens be in on this with
their backs against the wall. Seeminglyevery year, I keep seeing this with
these dudes and they come up withsomebody. But are we gonna We're gonna
never see who Lamar Jackson is.It's like Michael Vick all over again,

(34:52):
because I'm never gonna see who MichaelVick really is. If all you got
is Algie Crumper, you see whatI'm saying. Yeah, I agree,
because now down to night, you'redown to Zay Flowers and Gus Edwards.
Gus Edwards are running back. Isthe only guy. Gus Edwards is the
only running back on their team tomorrowwith more than three carries, the only
other team, the only other dudeswith more than three carries in Baltimore through

(35:15):
weeks one or two. Lamar Jacksonand JK Dobbins or JK Dobbins and Gus
Edwards. Well, the hill Kidis now ineligible tomorrow and now O b
J's out, So like we said, like you said last night, they
got pumped into getting that money toO b J. And that was he's
got four catches through three weeks.I mean he's so now there, You're

(35:37):
right, Lamar Jackson's down to hiswhat was coming out of pre season,
his third string running back and arookie wide Steve who's electric. But he's
a rookie, right, And that'swhat we have to depend on. You
know what they need to do,what's got You know what they need to
do. They need to go findthat Los Angeles Chargers training staff guy Needle

(36:00):
who tried to poke Tyrod Taylor's heartout of his chest or whatever. But
yeah, or you just find aclone of the dude the coaching in the
Vikings who clearly doesn't care about nothing, right, So he said, Now
this is a dude that I get. I don't know if y'all picked this
up. I think he picked upthe league real quick, and he's on

(36:22):
it before everybody else. You knowhow they're like f the running back,
right, they don't give the ballto the running back. They got Dalvin
Cook up out of there, andwhoever the quarterback, Kirk's gonna be gone,
he's gonna get traded. But whoeveris there, they aren't better be
iced up because that offense is justgonna throw the ball around everywhere in the

(36:42):
future. Follow this coach, he'sgonna be like McDaniels. I'm telling you,
they just gonna be throwing the ballaround and they're not going to hand
it off. But every now andagain, don't don't tell Jay yeah because
he drafted Kirk Cousins in our leaguer. No one heard a damn word you

(37:06):
just said. But yes, Ido have pre justin Jefferson both. Hey,
well, we're gonna go to We'regonna go to a commercial break here
real quick and jump back on sincewe just want to talk about a couple
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(37:30):
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(41:42):
So yeah, let's jump let's jumpinto it. Who's driving in a
car right now? Uh? Butlet's jump right into the NFL. Uh.
You know, we just saw theGiants get smacked around by San Francisco
on Thursday night start Week three.You know, I don't know. I
don't really see much of a ofa of a late here. I know

(42:07):
Homie and I were going back andforth on Dallas plus what do we get
plus thirteen? Early early in thegame, I didn't care if it was
under two touchdowns. I thought theywere just gonna get smoked. But you
know, I'm there. You know, Arizona is gonna get ran over based
on what I've been seeing from them, and maybe they might put up a
little fight, but they'd have toshut it down because Dallas were just quiet.

(42:29):
But I got to back up offof that with these with injury and
all of this, and so Iwas just even looking for where's the stories
in this week? Even this weekjust looks mad blow to me. So
basically it seems like a sit andwatch and just wait for a story to
materialize. The only real thing thatI saw is, I mean, what

(42:50):
do you got Miami going? In? Miami and Denver? Now, maybe
that's interesting you well, Minnesota andChargers are definitely interesting. Denver Denver,
Miami? Could this speak for usthis final start? As a is a
Denver quarterback right now? I mean, because wattles out battles, wattles and
concussion protocols, and so now it'stwo. If Tua goes out there and

(43:12):
it doesn't matter and keep living hisbest life he was in the forest throwing
it to everybody backwards, then they'regonna make them look real bad there because
they've been given up points out there. So it's just gonna be a show
with Tyreek running around. Maybe Idon't know, but it's gonna look bad
for them. I think there's astory they're building, But the rest of

(43:34):
the wed it's just like we gota super Bowl matchup on, you know,
revenge on on Monday. But yeah, I don't know. I don't
see anything out there in the way. I do like I do like your
rams on Monday. I like that. I like that. But uh,
what about Aaron's favorite team, Barkott'sfavorite team, the Tennessee Titans about ready

(43:55):
to what? Okay? All right? As Barcott you know, has mentioned
before, they are terrible? Isthis the Is this the battle of the
two worst quarterbacks in the league,Tennessee and Cleveland? This might be them
though. Now the good spot forthem, this is a good spot for
them. Go ahead, you gotthe Jets out there, you got the

(44:15):
Jets out that Zach Wilson wouldn't beteither one of those teams. Yeah,
but I mean the two worst quarterbacksto play this week against each other,
you know, two bad quarterbacks,is what I'm trying to say. I
think one that's intriguing on the vegatbetting line, which I think is a
little bit off, is it's nota story, but it's it's it's I

(44:39):
don't know that Buffalo on the roadwas six points six points of Washington.
I don't know. Now I'm notsaying Buffalo win, that loses that game,
but that's six points on the road, because you know, the betting
line always gives the home team plusthree. So now you're saying, really,
Buffalo by nine, you know whatI'm saying, that's I don't know

(45:02):
that Buffalo does that that I thinkI think Washington cover. I think Buffalo
wins the game. I think Washingtoncover that minus six. That I had
an asterisk on that because I stillthink that Washington has enough fight still because
they're they're building. Yeah, youknow, I mean they haven't. They
haven't been anywhere enough to slow downyet. Like Buffalo, you're seeing cracks
in the damn kind of thing.When have they even utilized that? Is

(45:25):
it? Brian Robinson there and AntonioGibbon. They still a little upset that
he ain't getting this Carrious because ye, Robinson is getting him. But yeah's
basically out of the rotation. ButBrian Robinson has been, he's been the
show running game. Yeah, butyeah, I don't think I think Buffalo
wins the game. But to coverby six on the road with a two

(45:49):
and oh team, I don't knowthat one's intriguing to me. I don't
know Buffalo covers that. I thinkWashington covers that minus six. M Well
yeah, I mean, oh yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I was
just gonna say forty two nothing andnow oh yeah, surprise, surprise.
Uh well, and I was talkingand then even you were talking about Washington

(46:12):
getting a plus six and a halfBarcott, Oh, it was a six
and a half. Now it wassix this morning. Well it's it probably
I think I got this way early, so it's probably been down to six
now plus six. But uh,I'm sorry to say this. And and
for all you Seattle fans out there, I ain't uh wait, when Homie
gets back, I'm sure he'll chimein I'm feeling the minus six for Seattle

(46:37):
either now, especially without Bryce Youngas Carolina's quarterback. I could see I
could see minus six. But AndyDalton's like four and one against the Seahawks,
and you know he's he's gonna pickthose guys apart if everybody's injured.
I do think I do think Andy'sa better quarterback for Carolina right now,

(46:59):
just because Bryce, outside of itsrunning back, doesn't have a lot of
weapons. I mean, even inthe game they competed in against what was
it was it Atlanta Week one,it was Hayden Hursts tied in they got
two touchdowns, and so I don'tI don't know that Bryce is uh in
the NFL, is seeing down thefield yet. I don't know if he's

(47:21):
hitting those wide receivers on you know, fifteen yard outs or posts yet.
So I think Andy Dalton actually rightnow. Obviously going forward, Bryce is
way better for them, But rightnow today, I think Dalton makes them
a better offense. So I agreewith you on that one, yeah,
man, especially because Carolina's defense isso good. Those tackles. See,

(47:45):
that's the one thing that Seattle lookedout in last year. They absolutely hit
a grand slam on the draft andthen nobody got hurt. You know what
I'm saying. Yeah, no majorinjuries, No major injuries last year,
plus you hit a grand slam onthe draft from like four starters who all
gave you legit play And now thisyear. The NFL always does that to

(48:08):
you. If you're a team likeMinnesota. Last year they won eight games
by one score. That ain't happenin the next year. So like Seattle,
you hit a grand slam on thedraft and no one gets hurt.
That ain't happen in the next yearbefore somebody's getting So now we've seen their
tackles are out. It doesn't haveto be the guys that draft could be
anybody. But when you have nomajor injuries, that didn't happen in two

(48:30):
years in a row. And soI think that's a second. But did
y'all say and that he has theyhave a better chance with rifle on the
other side, or yeah, wedid. We did. That's why we
said we weren't sure about the Nativesix because because I think obviously going down
the road, Brushton's better. Butright now today, yeah, the Red

(48:52):
rifles better. Yeah, you're definitely, definitely had a better chance to cover
to the number with the kid.Yeah, that's actly what I said.
Yeah, agree, Uh. Iguess it's time to figure out who Tampa
Bay is without, without Tom Bradyand Baker, and see how good Baker

(49:15):
is when they got Philly, butthey got they got Philly at home.
Tampa Bay's got Philly at home.That's gonna be That would be a good
game because that Philly defensive backfield.I don't agree with Nick Wright on a
lot, but that defensive backfield forPhilly they can get got They're not very
good. They've given up a lotof pass yards. They're not getting to

(49:36):
the quarterback up front like they didlast year. I do believe the running
game, but Tampa doesn't run theball anyway. So I don't care.
That's what I'm saying. But theone thing that people don't messed up,
you don't live bigger, good confident. Yea. Yeah, Look, he
came over the Rams with no playbook. It came in so fine deal,
did what he's supposed to do,and now he got a squad and they
want okay, now how he's feelingitself. Now, what's gonna be interesting

(50:00):
is two weeks from now, whenTampa Bay trades Mike Evans because they're not
keeping Mike Evans. They've already saidthey're not signing the contracts. Yeah,
so right now he and Mike Evansare clicking because Mike Evans already got two
thirty seven of receiving. Now,in two to three weeks, when Baker's
just throwing to Godwin and whoever's thetied end, that's gonna change Tampa Bay.

(50:24):
I think right now Tampa is abad matchup for Philly. Philly is
probably wish you could we get thisin November when we don't see you know,
Mike Evans is somewhere else playing football, so we'll see. I think
Tampa Bay is gonna be a toughmatchup for Philly. I like that game.
Yea Sunday Night should be fun towatch for sure, and then close
it out with Monday Night, whichwill be scary to watch with everything that

(50:47):
goes on on Monday nights because wedon't need your boy and playing at Cynthy
go to the jungle every now andagain, and they welcome us guns and
Roses did it too. They welcomeyou to the jungle and you walk right

(51:10):
in wearing the crown, King Mack, whether it's very band of soldiers not
she not sheep rams yo, andwe got a house too, and we're
gonna bring me and this is agood spot for us. And we love

(51:30):
things like that. This is aspot where Aaron Donald loves to go off
right. He loved to get everybodycharged up. These are the spots because
he's looking at dinner. So ifyou got Joe Burrow on a skewer,
or you're gonna feed me somebody else, which one you want to do so
you can pick or choose. Sothen we could see if this young secondary

(51:52):
can get opportunistic and do a coupleof things right. This is Aaron Donald
in the defensive line saying, let'sgo play a game, and we're gonna
have to play a slow game.And this guy's gonna gonna play a major
factor, I think in this situation. Because you're on the road, what
you're gonna do you in the jungle, So that's what you have to do.

(52:12):
So but at the same time,King Matt, don't stop throwing.
That's a part of the game plan. You see what Minnesota is doing,
the little mini version of how weget down except for we know how to
mix it up better to run thepast, and the thing just blend so
much better like a swirl when youput when you pull the lever on the
thing and the soft ser come outwith the half and half and it's perfect.
That's what it is. So thisis the combo Pouka Homie Hometown Play

(52:37):
of the week said by the homie. Okay, rams when out right easy,
I can see that Burros starting.If Burrows not starting, I can
see that. I hope he dostart. Actually, you know what,

(52:58):
because I don't want a way toget hurt like that. I don't.
I think he should sit. Heshould sit and just let Jake Browning or
Pistol Grip Pumper, whoever wants togo out there and play quarterback, let
somebody else go out there and doit. Four weeks so he could try
to get right. Because Aaron Donaldis coming, Puka is going to continue
the streak as would Cooper Cup inhis absence. A hundred yards will be

(53:20):
achieved by him once again on anotherdouble digit set of receptions too. Because
Aaron Donald is coming and we're gonnahave to shovel this ball around to touchdown.
Kai will appear again. There willbe zero, zero passing touchdowns by

(53:44):
King Matt. This will be anexpert kind of McVeigh game plan on the
road. Watch it. It's gonnabe a lot. I can agree that
play it hooka hundred yards two andoh so far on the year? What
did it? What it cup enedup last year before he got hurt,

(54:06):
It was like twelve and one orsomething like that, or I know it.
I think it was twelve in arow. Twelve in a row at
least, So yeah, I likeit. Uh, I'm gonna stay pretty
simple on my homie hometown plays ofthe week this week for Seattle. I'm
still counting on Walker to get hisfirst hundred yards of the season, So

(54:29):
we're gonna go Walker on a hundredyards, Jacks, Jackson, Smith and
Jigba will get his first TD ofthe year, and then the good old
faithful rolling back into it. Eventhough kicker suck and I don't trust him
any even in the NFL. Idon't trust him in college. Definitely don't

(54:50):
trust him in college, but I'mgonna give him a shot in the NFL.
Over three and a half field goalsin this game. VP Myers MVP
he'd missed two last week, didn'the Jesus? Otherwise you know, the
over three and a half would havebeen easy money. The people are saying

(55:12):
that the crowd ain't what the crowdused to be. Do you guys notice
a difference and what comes out ofthe TV or people and the you know
in the Seahawk faithful not being asbought in as they used to be because
they're saying that the the the prosare saying that Seattle's home field is not
the same as not a home field. I'll tune into that tomorrow and see,

(55:36):
ye see if I notice anything.But you know what, it was
the first game, yeah, Imean early. Let's see what happens.
Ye see who's out there playing forthe Seahawks. Check the IR report in
the morning. CBD might have afull practice squad on your hands. They

(55:57):
got uniforms, they farms is outthere, that's for sure. What week
are they busting out the Kingdom special? I want to say, isn't it
not the Thanksgiving game? Okay,it might be, or at least that's
what they were petitioning for. Idon't know if they're actually gonna do that,

(56:19):
but yeah, the throwbacks are goingto be sick when we do see
them. So, yeah, theygotta put that back on prime time.
Yeah, that would be cool.But or I know, maybe they'll do
it on a month the Monday nightgame in a couple of weeks, or
next week when they play or twoweeks when they play the Giants or whatever.
But that'd beat that'd beat now,that'd be on the road, So
they guess they wouldn't do that.It's probably out there somewhere. They probably

(56:43):
have it all planned in advance.I'm sure for a home a home game.
I'm sure number one guarantee you it'sa home game. Yeah, it
has to be a home game.Yeah, that would make sense. Uh,
anything else you guys want to hiton before we jump off and get
rolling on it a little Saturday nightand all those Saints or two and oh

(57:04):
man and uh and their underdog they'reunderdog this week and Green one point.
I'm telling you they ain't gonna bea field goal either way to anybody.
All right, but now you gotyour all down, So if you're on
the lookout, you got another kidthat's gonna come out of somewhere. Do
they need him in New Orleans gonnasqueak out another on what let's go less.

(57:25):
I'm all in one point one pointone, fourteen thirteen, Derek Carr
and Jordan Love. Jordan Love,I don't know about that kid man.
He's performing at a pretty decent levelright now though, looks good with even
without even all of the weapons.Watson hasn't played yet, and so they
don't know if he's ready for thisweek yet. And now this is Green

(57:49):
Bay at home, so that's whereDerek Carr has to go to make this
happen. In Green Bay. Nobodyknows. Oh word on the street is
it's a gang of weather. It'slike a typhoon. We're all off in
there in the Northeast like it alwayshappens through New York, New Jersey,
Philly, A, Boston, thiswhole little area down to DC, all
of it. And so apparently we'regonna see a whole lot of under games

(58:13):
predicted because of weather purposes. Soslow running back action if y'all fantasy enthusiasts,
is what I hear. Don't takeno advice from me. I like
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