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Hey, guess what? You just landed on the sports

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bastards. Sorry about your luck. Well, since

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the sports show can't be called two douchebags

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with a microphone, maybe we could just call them

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the sports bastards. Yes, it's true. Mark is

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an old bastard. It's also true that Mark uses

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a lot of ibuprofen. But Mark would like to tell

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you, if you see any pictures of improved ibuprofen,

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it's obviously fake, and you're to take the pictures

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and tear them up immediately. Two douchebags

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and a microphone. The only podcast with gusto.

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That's right. Just like Schlitz beer. Google

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it. Sir, I see your qualifications here. I have

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some further questions that could help me determine

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your employment eligibility. Yes, sir. I'm ready.

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Well, as you can see here, we have a large population

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of different ethnic backgrounds, sexuality, and

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ages. Are you by chance bilingual? Well, sir,

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I'm not sure why you need that kind of information,

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but, well, it was only one time in summer camp.

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I considered it experimental. We are now. The

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Sports Bastards. We're back. That's right. Even

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though you guys set up all those protests. Roadblocks.

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Yeah. Boycotts. The vomitorium ones, too. Yeah,

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yeah. That was good. That was actually pretty

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good. Yeah, that was. I mean, they got pretty

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inventive on spewing the vomit. Yes, they did.

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They reached us pretty well. I mean, we did have

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to change three times. We were in the splash

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zone for sure. We were. I got a chunk of ham

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in my eye. It was horrible. Let's hope it was

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ham. I think it was. I don't know. It might have

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been the end of somebody's finger. Who knows?

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Could have been. That would have made it more

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interesting. So, anyhow, here we are. Kickoff

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to the NFL is one day away. It's just about to

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start. Yeah. It's amazing. Yes. Yeah, once again,

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here it is upon us. Yep. So before we go on to

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anything else, do you have any surprises in the

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NFL? Yeah. One of my surprises is that the Cowboys

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traded Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers

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of all teams. That was pretty surprising. Brian

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Schottenheimer is probably like, yeah, finally

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got that big man's gig. Oh, hell yeah. And then

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he's walking out to his car and someone goes,

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what do you think about the Parsons train? Yeah,

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no. What do you mean? Yeah, Jerry Jones is trading

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for a set of luggage and some tickets to Florida.

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And a case of beer. And a case of beer. Bo's

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had Hulk Hogan beer. He's had All -American beer.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, somebody in the new Madden

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football game tried to recreate that trade between

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Green Bay and Cowboys, and the Cowboys rejected

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it as not being enough value. But in real life,

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it was apparently enough value. In real life,

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that's fine. Jerry Jones is like, get off my

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lawn. Okay, I'll do it. Damn. Brian John Imer's

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like, okay, thanks for sabotaging my career.

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And, you know, it's not only trading the player,

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and it's not only trading it to Green Bay, but

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it's also the timing of you wait until the last

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second. The timing, because like you said, and

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I didn't read this, I didn't know this before,

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so now I see a little insight to it, but the

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timing is still so odd. But you said, like, the

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people said they didn't really, you know, the

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players said they didn't really miss him. He

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wasn't that nice a guy. Yeah, now that he's gone

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out of the Cowboys locker room, a lot of the

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players are... complimenting his abilities on

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the field but saying as a human being they aren't

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going to miss him the least little bit. That

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could probably have a part of it, yeah. If I

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was Brian Schoenheimer, I would go get a plaster

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caster of my balls. I would put them in a jar

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and I would leave them on Jerry Jones' desk and

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I'd say, don't fucking touch them. Don't ever

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touch them. That would be really good. Otherwise,

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I'll be back for you, bitch. Oh, gosh. Yeah,

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yeah. He neutered him before he even had a chance

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to fucking breed. Yeah. Cut his nuts off. Just

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like, no, no more. I don't know if Brian Schottenhofer

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has kids or not. This is a metaphor. I guess

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there's always sperm banks. Yeah, this is true.

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Now that he doesn't have nuts, he might have

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to do the rent -a -swimmer. Yeah, rent -a -swimmer.

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Hey, we got some pretty violent little fuckers

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here. You want them? They're fist -fighting each

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other. They're trying to climb out of the vial.

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One of them slapped me. All right, put him in.

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So, you got something you want to go into? Or

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we got bullet points? We got anything. Let's

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see. I was also interested to see the Tyree kill

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for the first time as a dolphin is not selected

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as captain. You know what? I think he kind of

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earned that not being a captain right, didn't

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he? I think he did, yeah. A captain is supposed

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to be helping the team, not detrimental. Definitely

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a leader. You know, someone with ideas, plans,

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goals, motivation, and he's more like, what can

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everyone do for me? His immaturity would indicate

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like he would not be someone you want orchestrating

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a ditch digging, let alone being the captain

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of a football team. And also, it's going to be

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interesting to see because it's been my experiences

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from what I've seen, and probably you too, you

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let me know, but whenever they start having more

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to say with their mouth and less with their body,

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that's what you're going to get in play. I think

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they sense that they're slipping, and the only

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thing they've got left is their mouth. And I

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don't think it's even a conscious decision. No,

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it isn't. They just start compensating by talking

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themselves up real big, but they're just digging

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a bigger hole every time they have to go out

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and show what they can do. It's like when the

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bully gets his ass whipped. Oh, I slipped. It

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was wet out there. Remember when Mike Tyson got

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his ass whipped for the first time? Buster Douglas

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smacked him around. Yeah, I remember that. That

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was shocking. He was saying all different kinds

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of stuff, too, like that, too. The sun was in

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my eyes. And I thought it was next week. Yeah.

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I have this hangnail. It's horrible. My fucking

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gingivitis gets me every time I'm trying to fight.

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And I got pink eye. And an ear infection. Oh,

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gosh. Okay. Anyhow. All right. Former Chiefs

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D -tackle Mike Pinnell has been signed by the

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Bengals. Not only signed, but they plan to start

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him. Signing him this late, and he's already

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number one on the depth chart. that would indicate

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to me they have some issues there. Yeah, that's

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exactly the first thing I thought of. It's like,

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wow, you picked somebody off the curb. I mean,

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the guy's good. No, he is good, but he's not.

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You pick him up, he doesn't know the system,

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doesn't know the playbook. It's like, yeah, he

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already announced he's starting week one. You

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see, that's the part that gets me. I could see

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him picking him up, information. Oh, yeah, these

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guys are thorn in our side, has been for a long

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time. What can you tell us, you know? but making

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him a starter would indicate to me desperation,

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not trying to get information. Yeah, yeah. And

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I think they released that for the hometown fans

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as a way of saying, look, we're trying. We're

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still trying. We're getting better. Spin control.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just kind of an awkward

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thing for the Bengals altogether. Yeah, and they

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re -signed Hendrickson for an enormous amount,

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which is going to hurt them even more, which

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I'm all about. I don't have a problem with that.

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It's not like I care about Cincinnati at least.

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Let me hit the pause button for a second. All

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right, now that that truck's gone and we got

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our coffees, here we go. The wonders of editing.

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Yes. We will intentionally blow yours out at

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some point, but we spared you just then. Yes.

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We prefer to blow your ears out with pure dribble

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and nonsense. Yeah. We feel we do that very well.

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Or when we say playoffs, really loud. Come on,

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everyone take a shot. We just said playoffs.

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Playoffs. There's another one. All right, so

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far we're up to three shots. There you go. Your

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money's working with this game. That's true.

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That's true. You got something? Yeah, let's see.

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Bills de -tackled Dwayne Carter out for the season

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with Achilles. Another Achilles injury. Oh, I

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didn't see that. Yeah. Oh, boy. Yeah. That's

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a defensive tackle. D -tackle, yep. They were

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definitely going to lean on him a bit this year.

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But, man, what is it with Achilles and all these

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players? We need to look into the turf. There's

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something, yes. It would have to be because Achilles

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is at tendon. It tends to snap. It's when the

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leg moves but the foot doesn't. But the foot

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doesn't. So I would say something about that

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or maybe even the cleats. Yeah, true, true. I

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understand they want these ones that dig in.

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They don't want to slip. But maybe they have

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two. Yeah, maybe like restrictor plates in auto

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racing. It's like you can have cleats, but quarter

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inch, that's it. Yeah. And if you start slipping,

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oh well, so is the other team. Yeah. Protect

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their bodies, protect their legs, make sure they

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can keep playing the game because look at the

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enormous amount of money and effort spent to

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get those players to that point. And then you're

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going to cheap out on the turf and the rules.

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Let some future superstar blow out a leg and

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then the other leg and then the first leg again.

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It's like the waste, the waste of it all. Oh,

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it is. And injuries are a part of it. Yeah. I

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mean, Kansas City, I mean, right off the bat,

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we're losing Rashi Rice for six games. Yeah.

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You know? You have to compensate for these. We

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lost Deion Bush for the season. Oh, yeah, yeah.

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That's a better example. I forgot about that.

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We lost Deion Bush. Yeah. And believe me, we

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could have used him. Yep. So, yeah, it's a part

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of the game. They have to compensate and they

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have to figure this out. You know, I also like

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what Spagnuolo said, I think, yesterday. He said,

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you don't really know what you have until you're

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actually playing the game. Yeah, especially when

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you're in adverse conditions. That's when you

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kind of see the true character of your team as

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a whole and the players as individuals. It's

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a good thing. Yeah, so it's going to be interesting.

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I'm sure by now they've compensated for Bush,

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but it's something that we would have more depth

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at if nothing else. I also read that the Pats

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have released safety Jabril Peppers after they

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signed him into big contract. Oh, that was him?

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He turned 30. That's apparently a big sin in

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New England. The last couple years, they've been

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on the youth movement. As you hit 30 or pass

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30, they've been dealing players just like Belichick

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used to. I don't know why someone wouldn't pick

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him up for nothing. Oh, yeah. And, you know,

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he's a safety. And who did we lose for the season?

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A safety. If nothing else, you've got a body

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there if you move one. Yeah. I mean, it's not

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someone you can stick on the practice squad,

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but you can move somebody there and stick them

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on the roster. Yeah. We'll see what they do because

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I do have a lot of faith in Brett Veach and company,

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of course. I don't understand the system completely,

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but there's waivers that he has to pass through,

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so teams in order will get a chance to claim

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him, and he might be gone by the time the Chiefs

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get a chance at him. Probably will. We shall

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see. Probably. Anyhow. And Mel Kiper Jr. has

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already released his 2026 draft predictions.

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Can you believe that? I can believe it, but it's

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ridiculous. Well, the fortunate thing is no one

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is paying attention to him because he's a useless

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has -been. and never knew what he was talking

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about anyway, and his hair style is really stupid.

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Yes. I don't know how he ever got popular. It's

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beyond me. I started glancing through his predictions,

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and he's predicting things like how many quarterbacks

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will be taken in the first round. How about who

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gives a fuck? It looks to me like a betting guide

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for next year's draft. That's pretty much it.

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That's basically what it is, because he's not

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saying specific people. Who pays him? ESPN, I

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think. ESPN pays him. He was their main guy for

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a while. I'm not sure. Maybe he's solo. Maybe

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he's got some other affiliations. So they let

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all this real talent go and kept him. He's probably

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cheap. He's probably paying them. He sits at

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home with his magic eight ball, shakes it, and

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looks on the back. Okay. It says definitely.

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Okay. Oh, this one says ask later. God, that

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popped up and I thought, useless has -been. Has

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-been, but I mean, can they be a has -been if

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they never were? Technically not. He's not a,

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so he'd be a never was. He's a never was, yeah.

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Yeah, he's a never was, but like three people

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thought he was, something like that. Yeah, insane.

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And didn't he like rise to prominence right after

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that racist Jimmy the Greek was fired? I think

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so. I think he was like the answer. They wanted

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anybody but the racist. Mel Kuyper was bland.

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He was boring. He was non -confrontational. He

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wasn't going to rile anybody. Yeah, he was kind

00:14:10.980 --> 00:14:14.120
of the safe, easy choice after Jimmy the Greek.

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Yeah, and was Jimmy Greek even? I was wondering

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about that. Was he actually Greek or was he lying

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about that too? I think he was lying about that.

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I thought I read something that said he's not

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actually even Greek. And it's like, what the

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fuck? Remember those old litter commercials that

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showed the Native American with a single tear

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going down his face? Yeah, that guy was not Native

00:14:35.700 --> 00:14:38.159
American. No, that guy was Latino. I know. He

00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.740
was a Latino. But he played the part rather well.

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Well, okay, hey, he's half. Well, yeah, that's

00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:50.399
true. Like in Aliens 2, the short Hispanic girl

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with the gigantic machine gun, Vasquez. Vasquez,

00:14:55.259 --> 00:14:57.919
yeah. Yeah, she was a nice, pale -skinned, blonde

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Jewish girl. And they browned her right up for

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that role. Now, she does have some Hispanic ancestry.

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Oh, okay. But she's a blonde -haired Jewish girl.

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I'm just baffled why they would go through all

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that when they could just go find someone. Well,

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maybe she did sexual favors for somebody. That

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was it. Yep, that was it. The Hispanic chick

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wouldn't. They're like, okay, get her. Craziness.

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So after that, I've just got some stories. So

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do you want to go into bullet points or go into

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my stories or whatever you want? Let's go ahead

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and go into some bullet points. Yes. And then

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we'll go into some stories. Take my glasses off

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and drink some coffee while you bullet me. Okay,

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that sounds good. And then at some point, let's

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pick out the key games for this week and give

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a prediction. Good idea. Okay. How far will the

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NFL go to move games overseas? Wow, I really

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don't know that they're going to stop it much.

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I think they're going full force on this. I think

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you're going to see at least 10, if not more,

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games per year overseas. I just thought of something.

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I doubt they're going to put any international

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games in countries where local people won't really

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have a shot at playing. Like you go to a country

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where people are generally fairly small, like

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Japan possibly, or Vietnam, I don't think you're

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going to get a lot of local talent. who's got

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a shot at the NFL. Yeah, I agree. I agree. So

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they might stay out of countries like that or

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like... Unless they can figure out they can kick

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or something. Yeah. I know Australia supplies

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a lot of place kickers for the NFL, but imagine

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the logistics of putting a team there and having

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like... They're not going to, yeah. Over 12 hours

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of air travel just to freaking get there. Yeah,

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I think they're going to take that into account.

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But the U .S. is developing a supersonic airplane

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to replace the Concorde. Yeah, that's true. It's

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going to get you there in like an hour and a

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half. And realistically, a lot of the technology

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that we enjoy was invented so people could make

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money more. We enjoy using super fast air travel,

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but realistically speaking, it's there to make

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other people money. Yes, and then the more flights,

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like I've always said, the more flights, the

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better off you are. Now, wasn't there some controversy

00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:35.980
back then that the supersonic flight that high

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in the atmosphere was damaging the ozone layer?

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That was one of them, and the safety was the

00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.559
other one. They were really talking about, like,

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if one little thing goes wrong, you've got an

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airplane full of people that just fucking disintegrates.

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Pretty much, yeah. I think the ozone thing was

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fixed during Men in Black 2, where they imprisoned

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that guy who was siphoning off the air zone.

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I think so, yeah. Yeah, so they don't have to

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worry about that. Actually, I only heard about

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the ozone thing at the very first of it. I never

00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:09.619
heard it again, so whether it was true or hyped

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up or what, I don't know. Yeah, it really starts

00:18:13.019 --> 00:18:15.599
to seem like just a way to get us to abandon

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all these long -standing... cheap chemicals that

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we had, and now we have to all switch to the

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expensive stuff. It was a way to get a huge influx

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of cash out of our pockets and into somebody

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else's. Well, it's just like that carbon credits

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and all that bullshit. Yeah, yeah. No, no. I

00:18:32.670 --> 00:18:34.769
want to see them do it first. Imagine having

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murder credits. It's like, well, I haven't murdered

00:18:38.930 --> 00:18:41.250
anybody this year, so I'm going to sell my murder

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credits to somebody else so they can murder.

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You definitely watch who you're fucking with.

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cutting someone off in traffic and flipping them

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off will become a gamble. Yeah, it would be.

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Does that guy look like he has any murder credits?

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I better leave him alone. All right. Does Skippy

00:19:00.779 --> 00:19:04.819
Ballas believe anything he spews from his enormous

00:19:04.819 --> 00:19:09.740
eye hole? I can't see any possible way where

00:19:09.740 --> 00:19:12.240
he believes anything he's saying. It's just...

00:19:12.980 --> 00:19:15.299
whatever he needs to do to keep his career going,

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and he doesn't believe a word of it, he'll say

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and do anything to get attention. That's pretty

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much who he is, and I don't understand how people

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can be attracted to that and want to watch it

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and want to see it, but, yeah. I guess there's

00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:32.460
enough people who like it, but to me, he's just,

00:19:32.539 --> 00:19:37.079
it's like the worst overacting job ever. Yes.

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And the play is a piece of shit, too. You know?

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It's a play you don't want to see in the first

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place. Yes. And second, it's overacting and just

00:19:46.859 --> 00:19:50.759
stupidity at its finest. Yeah, yeah. That's really

00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:54.279
how I look at a lot of these, you know, big loud

00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:58.099
mouths on TV or social media. It's like, I know

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what you're there for, and I just really don't

00:20:00.019 --> 00:20:02.640
want to participate. The first one I ever noticed,

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I mean, besides the obvious, yeah, Howard Cosell,

00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:09.099
he could be a blabbermouth. Oh, yeah. All of

00:20:09.099 --> 00:20:13.809
them could. I mean... Who was Dan Deardorff.

00:20:13.809 --> 00:20:16.289
All of them could be Loudmouths. Even Joe Madden.

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All of them could be Loudmouths. Joe Namath was

00:20:18.289 --> 00:20:20.849
a Loudmouth. Oh, shuck. A drunken Loudmouth.

00:20:20.869 --> 00:20:23.569
Yeah, he was. That really wants to kiss someone

00:20:23.569 --> 00:20:26.650
on the sideline. Who was that? Was that Aaron

00:20:26.650 --> 00:20:29.710
Andrews? No, no, it was not Aaron Andrews. Was

00:20:29.710 --> 00:20:32.710
that Susie Colbert? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I

00:20:32.710 --> 00:20:35.990
remember she was tiny. Yes, and she was very,

00:20:36.029 --> 00:20:40.619
very... What would you say? Disgusted? Yeah.

00:20:40.859 --> 00:20:43.319
She's diplomatic. She's like, oh, okay, thanks,

00:20:43.380 --> 00:20:46.099
Joel. I'll take that as a compliment. Yeah, as

00:20:46.099 --> 00:20:49.359
she stood further back. Yeah. It's like, you

00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:51.799
can't see, but, you know, behind my back, he's

00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:54.440
got his thumb up my butthole already, so we need

00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:56.980
to get this drunk guy away from here. It's like

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a creepy old man alert. Yes, yes. It's the same

00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.680
alert that goes off every time David Lee Roth

00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.299
walks in the room. With his little thimble dick.

00:21:08.460 --> 00:21:12.079
Have you seen the comments? Oh, my gosh. Hung

00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.059
like P. Diddy. Oh, my God, yeah. A little fucking

00:21:15.059 --> 00:21:19.700
tan, little beige tootsie roll. No, they show

00:21:19.700 --> 00:21:22.180
those tight pants that he's in, the spandex.

00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.599
And there's, like, circles showing his little

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thimble. Oh, my God. There was a time, I think...

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I have a question about DLR on the music one.

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Anyhow, go ahead. I remember my wife went to

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see Aerosmith, and she was looking at this pale

00:21:45.450 --> 00:21:49.910
patch that was on Steven Tyler's pants. She gets

00:21:49.910 --> 00:21:52.210
like, that's a weird irregular patch and it's

00:21:52.210 --> 00:21:54.910
kind of wrinkly and weird looking. She realizes

00:21:54.910 --> 00:21:56.710
there's a hole in his pants and she was seeing

00:21:56.710 --> 00:22:00.569
his skin. It's this nasty, pale, wrinkled up

00:22:00.569 --> 00:22:03.970
old man skin. She's like, I don't want to see

00:22:03.970 --> 00:22:08.450
that. She lost any attraction to Steven Tyler

00:22:08.450 --> 00:22:12.609
at that moment. I still find it amazing that

00:22:12.609 --> 00:22:15.670
women found him attractive. Yeah, that's a little

00:22:15.670 --> 00:22:18.490
odd. Three quarters of his face is mouth. Yeah.

00:22:18.859 --> 00:22:21.039
Yeah, and it's because the other quarters shrink

00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:26.519
up. Yeah. But anyhow, he has charisma, so I guess,

00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.440
yeah, whatever. But if he was broke and panhandling

00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:32.839
on the street, 90 % of those women wouldn't give

00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:35.980
him a second look. No, no. The money and the

00:22:35.980 --> 00:22:39.460
fame is a big attractant. Yeah, yep. But he's

00:22:39.460 --> 00:22:45.140
got the, hey, yeah, whoo! And when he loses that,

00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:47.420
he'll be nothing. He's got nothing. Yeah, so

00:22:47.420 --> 00:22:49.920
save your money, Steven. Yeah, yes. He blew it

00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.720
all on drugs last time. Oh, yeah, yeah, so did

00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:55.279
Joe Perry, too, evidently. Everybody in the band

00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:57.960
just pretty much lost every penny they ever made

00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:00.039
in the 80s and the 70s. And if it wasn't for

00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:01.819
Run DMC, I don't know if they would have ever

00:23:01.819 --> 00:23:04.529
made it back. I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah. Run

00:23:04.529 --> 00:23:08.269
DMC brought back Walk This Way, and Steven Tyler's

00:23:08.269 --> 00:23:10.130
screaming at the end of it, got everybody's attention,

00:23:10.289 --> 00:23:13.690
like, oh, my God, who is that screaming? Yes.

00:23:13.990 --> 00:23:15.630
And they're like, well, that's that guy from

00:23:15.630 --> 00:23:17.369
Aerosmith. Oh, you mean like the Toys in the

00:23:17.369 --> 00:23:19.430
Attic Aerosmith? Yeah, yeah, those guys. They're

00:23:19.430 --> 00:23:23.670
not dead? That was a big shot. Yeah, then they

00:23:23.670 --> 00:23:25.829
reformed, and they came out with Permanent Vacation,

00:23:25.829 --> 00:23:29.269
which was a great album. Desmond Child had a

00:23:29.269 --> 00:23:31.230
lot to do with that album. He was writing a lot

00:23:31.230 --> 00:23:34.299
of hits for it, and they did very well. So a

00:23:34.299 --> 00:23:35.920
little preview of the music creeps. Oh, yeah.

00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:39.339
Hang on. What are we doing here? There's a lot

00:23:39.339 --> 00:23:40.880
of bleed through on this show. Yeah, there is.

00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:44.140
We can't help it. We're music creeps even though

00:23:44.140 --> 00:23:46.319
we're bastards. And we're undisciplined. Yes,

00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:49.380
we are. That's the big part. Yeah. And this is

00:23:49.380 --> 00:23:53.019
why people won't get near us. They're like, we

00:23:53.019 --> 00:23:54.660
like the idea of the show, but it's you two.

00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:56.859
Yeah. What do you mean us two? We keep inviting

00:23:56.859 --> 00:23:59.519
people down here to join in or stand around and

00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.019
watch. It's like nobody ever comes. We think

00:24:03.019 --> 00:24:05.279
the douchebag idea is great, but it's just you

00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:07.819
two. Yeah. What do you mean? You two are on it.

00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.000
What do you mean by that? Yeah, if you guys would

00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:15.660
shut up and put someone else there. All right,

00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:19.900
on to the next. Will Shador Sanders be successful

00:24:19.900 --> 00:24:23.819
in the NFL? I think he will. I'm hoping he's

00:24:23.819 --> 00:24:27.059
going to get in this season. I would really like

00:24:27.059 --> 00:24:31.660
to see him. Let's see. He has Joe Flacco. Joe

00:24:31.660 --> 00:24:33.779
Flacco and Dylan Gabriel ahead of him. Yeah.

00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:36.200
And then what's his nuts? Is he still out there

00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:38.160
getting massages or something? Oh, yeah. He's

00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.519
on the pup list, I think. Yeah, yep. But, you

00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:43.980
know, I'd hate to say I want Shadur Sanders to

00:24:43.980 --> 00:24:45.940
start because that means somebody else gets injured.

00:24:46.059 --> 00:24:49.210
But I want to see him brought into a game. at

00:24:49.210 --> 00:24:52.529
some point during some game and really see what

00:24:52.529 --> 00:24:54.470
he can do against another team's number ones.

00:24:54.609 --> 00:24:57.309
Yeah, I would like to see that too. And there

00:24:57.309 --> 00:24:59.809
is going to be your answer right there. You're

00:24:59.809 --> 00:25:01.430
going to know in a quarter if he's got it or

00:25:01.430 --> 00:25:03.569
not because that's just the way the NFL is geared.

00:25:03.809 --> 00:25:06.269
Pretty much, yeah. You put Mahomes in there and

00:25:06.269 --> 00:25:08.329
in one quarter everyone knew that was the heir

00:25:08.329 --> 00:25:11.549
apparent, that was the guy. Josh Allen, you put

00:25:11.549 --> 00:25:13.130
him in there, one quarter you knew it was the

00:25:13.130 --> 00:25:15.490
guy. I'm old enough to remember when you would

00:25:15.490 --> 00:25:18.309
groom a quarterback for sometimes up to three

00:25:18.309 --> 00:25:20.990
years before you started. Oh, that was the Schottenheimer

00:25:20.990 --> 00:25:24.390
way. That was Marty's way. Put Matt Blunden behind

00:25:24.390 --> 00:25:29.809
all these guys. Never did work. Nope. Matt Blunden

00:25:29.809 --> 00:25:33.329
was gone in a year and a half. He was a high

00:25:33.329 --> 00:25:35.509
draft choice. Not like first round or nothing.

00:25:35.569 --> 00:25:38.710
I think he's like third round. Big guy. Could

00:25:38.710 --> 00:25:42.329
throw a really tight spiral. Even if he ever

00:25:42.329 --> 00:25:44.329
could have done it, by that third year with the

00:25:44.329 --> 00:25:46.450
different coaches and the different quarterbacks,

00:25:46.569 --> 00:25:51.670
no, that was it. Pretty much. All righty. Will

00:25:51.670 --> 00:25:55.369
we see the Chiefs back in the Super Bowl? This

00:25:55.369 --> 00:25:58.049
year? Yeah. Yeah. I think so, too. I really do.

00:25:59.490 --> 00:26:02.690
It's hard to vote against them when they've been

00:26:02.690 --> 00:26:05.990
doing it so consistently and they're not significantly

00:26:05.990 --> 00:26:08.470
worse than last year. They're better in a number

00:26:08.470 --> 00:26:11.740
of areas. They really are. Josh Simmons, if he

00:26:11.740 --> 00:26:15.220
keeps up like he is. Yeah. Really nice to have

00:26:15.220 --> 00:26:17.839
him on that line. Yeah. Definitely nice. If you

00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:21.440
allow Mahomes' legs, which Josh Simmons would,

00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:23.980
and you have the running game on the left side

00:26:23.980 --> 00:26:26.140
and you have Mahomes on the right or anywhere

00:26:26.140 --> 00:26:30.359
else, that's what is the key. People don't look

00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:32.599
at it like that, but it really is. Once Mahomes

00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:34.660
gets in the flats and he starts getting eight

00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:36.859
yards at a time, then you have to guard against

00:26:36.859 --> 00:26:39.720
that too. Yeah. So then when you do that, you're

00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:41.799
taking another person out of the backfield and

00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:45.440
putting them as a spy. So Josh Simmons, if he

00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:47.880
can shore up that line like it looks like he

00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:50.000
is, then you're going to have a Mahomes that

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:52.839
can either flip the ball off to a Pacheco or

00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.980
a Hunt. Did Mitchell make the team? Yes. Or Mitchell,

00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:00.920
one of those three fine backs. Or he has the

00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:04.420
option of taking it himself. or he has the option

00:27:04.420 --> 00:27:07.579
of splitting down the middle with a Travis Kelsey,

00:27:07.660 --> 00:27:09.460
who's supposed to be in the best shape he's been

00:27:09.460 --> 00:27:11.920
in years. I can believe that. Yeah. You have

00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.200
a Noah Gray, who we'll go into more later, who

00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:17.960
is an upcoming and really, really good himself.

00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:20.480
Yeah, yeah. I've been watching him for a few

00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:22.220
years. Yeah, and then you have the Hollywood

00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:29.460
Browns and the Worthies and the Jujus, the Thorntons.

00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:34.160
I guess Royals is hurt. Yeah, not too much. Yeah,

00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:38.660
I hope he comes back soon. While Rice is going,

00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:41.140
I want to see what Royals can do. Because he's

00:27:41.140 --> 00:27:42.980
one of those guys I have my eye on all year going,

00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:47.619
you know, not there, not there. But that guy

00:27:47.619 --> 00:27:52.240
shows that little fire, that little flame that

00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:54.140
you're looking at going, like Thornton does too.

00:27:54.299 --> 00:27:56.740
It's like, wait a minute, that guy right there

00:27:56.740 --> 00:27:59.099
seems like he's very capable and he's catching

00:27:59.099 --> 00:28:02.009
on a little bit more every game. You give someone

00:28:02.009 --> 00:28:06.190
like that six games. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

00:28:06.230 --> 00:28:07.829
it would have been really nice if he could have

00:28:07.829 --> 00:28:10.450
seen a lot of action while Rice was out. So let's

00:28:10.450 --> 00:28:12.329
hope this injury gets resolved quickly. Yeah,

00:28:12.349 --> 00:28:14.529
I would love to see Royals in there. But I think

00:28:14.529 --> 00:28:16.210
Thornton is going to need a lot of work. I think

00:28:16.210 --> 00:28:17.730
so, too. And I think you're going to see him

00:28:17.730 --> 00:28:22.049
make some key catches, too. All right. After

00:28:22.049 --> 00:28:24.650
Kelsey retires, will Mahomes help develop another

00:28:24.650 --> 00:28:30.160
superstar tight end? I don't know. I think so.

00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:32.579
He's a receiver guy, but I think there's always

00:28:32.579 --> 00:28:34.220
going to be that guy in the middle going, I'm

00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:37.140
right here. Everybody's over there. Yeah, I mean,

00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:39.579
I personally like to see the tight end used in

00:28:39.579 --> 00:28:42.779
the passing game a lot. I think it opens up the

00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:44.579
field so much. I think that's one of the things

00:28:44.579 --> 00:28:46.980
that we're missing in the Super Bowl so desperately.

00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:49.900
But, you know, Travis Kelsey did admit that he

00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:52.400
was distracted, which still fucking bothers me.

00:28:52.460 --> 00:28:55.359
I don't like that at all. He lied to everybody

00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:58.339
last year. Oh, no, no, no. I'm into it. And then

00:28:58.339 --> 00:29:00.720
he goes, I was distracted last year. Well, thanks

00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.380
for fucking up the Super Bowl. I know. Why don't

00:29:03.380 --> 00:29:05.019
you go out then? If you're not doing it, then

00:29:05.019 --> 00:29:07.099
let Gray do it. Let someone else do it, but don't

00:29:07.099 --> 00:29:09.420
take up that fucking space. Peyton Manning did

00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:12.279
the same thing when he was playing in Denver.

00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:16.339
I think it was a playoff game. Playoffs. He knew

00:29:16.339 --> 00:29:21.819
he wasn't able to go. And he knew he wasn't going

00:29:21.819 --> 00:29:25.579
to be able to play well. He didn't want the backup

00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:29.740
quarterback to come in. Osweiler. Osweiler, yeah.

00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:32.779
And he thought, well, I don't want to sit out

00:29:32.779 --> 00:29:35.099
this game. I want to play in this game. This

00:29:35.099 --> 00:29:38.299
game is important to me. I, me, what I want.

00:29:38.299 --> 00:29:40.660
Nobody else, I know. This is good for me. So

00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:43.119
he lied to the coaches and the training staff

00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:45.740
about his condition, played in the game, stunk

00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:47.920
it up, and they lost. And then admitted later,

00:29:48.099 --> 00:29:50.079
yeah, I really shouldn't have been playing. Well,

00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:52.180
thanks for being a selfish prick. Yeah, you're

00:29:52.180 --> 00:29:54.220
not a team player. I'm sorry. And this goes to

00:29:54.220 --> 00:29:56.779
Travis Kelsey. But everyone in Denver still loved

00:29:56.779 --> 00:29:59.539
him. And everybody here seems to be like, oh,

00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:01.440
yeah, yeah, he couldn't help but be distracted.

00:30:01.859 --> 00:30:03.960
And he couldn't help but lie to everybody. He

00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:05.900
couldn't help but help fuck up the Super Bowl.

00:30:05.940 --> 00:30:07.940
That guy was nonexistent. Well, you know what

00:30:07.940 --> 00:30:12.259
I've noticed in a lot of people is they are okay

00:30:12.259 --> 00:30:16.029
with the lie. because that's what they would

00:30:16.029 --> 00:30:17.849
do, too, if they were trying to hide something.

00:30:19.029 --> 00:30:22.529
It's like, you know, your kid steals a car and

00:30:22.529 --> 00:30:24.910
brings it home and says, Dad, I stole this car,

00:30:25.049 --> 00:30:27.750
and you help him go dump it, and the police come

00:30:27.750 --> 00:30:30.049
by and say, Did your son steal a car and bring

00:30:30.049 --> 00:30:32.230
it here? And you say, No, he didn't do nothing.

00:30:32.529 --> 00:30:34.490
And people go, Well, yeah, of course they would

00:30:34.490 --> 00:30:36.130
lie. Of course you lie to protect your kids.

00:30:36.430 --> 00:30:38.509
No, you have the option of saying, Yeah, he did.

00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:40.980
He needs to pay for what he did. Actually, the

00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:42.920
smart ones do. They go, you know what, do what

00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.700
you got to do with them, man. He's going to be

00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:47.720
mowing a lot of lawns paying for legal. It's

00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:49.940
kind of that attitude of, well, yeah, if I were

00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:52.319
in that situation, I'd lie too, so I'm okay with

00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:55.640
them lying. Ew. You know what, I suppose you're

00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:58.000
right on that, and that sucks. That's why people

00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:01.400
get such enormous payouts in lawsuits. It's because

00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:03.539
people think, hey, if I'm ever here, I'd like

00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:06.779
an enormous payout. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

00:31:07.019 --> 00:31:10.380
Oh, well. Yep, all right. Will Noah Gray be that

00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:13.099
superstar or close to it? I think he'll be close

00:31:13.099 --> 00:31:15.859
to it. I think so, too. Referentially, for me,

00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.759
I'd like to see them, instead of having one standout

00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.180
tight end, have two that are really good. And

00:31:22.180 --> 00:31:24.059
when they're both on the field, you have no clue

00:31:24.059 --> 00:31:25.779
who they're going to throw to. When Kelsey's

00:31:25.779 --> 00:31:28.500
on the field, the other team knows, okay, 75

00:31:28.500 --> 00:31:30.579
% of the time, if he's open over the middle,

00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:32.519
he's getting the ball. But you've got two tight

00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.940
ends in there that could be either one of them,

00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.900
could be the guy streaking downfield. Could be

00:31:37.900 --> 00:31:41.680
the guy who's the dump off. It just, if you've

00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.819
got the team focusing on a certain player, I

00:31:45.819 --> 00:31:49.019
would throw elsewhere. I would too. But it's

00:31:49.019 --> 00:31:52.019
so much better to have them not focusing on any

00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:54.519
player and then every receiver is open or viable

00:31:54.519 --> 00:31:57.680
or a possibility. I wonder how hard it would

00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:00.400
be to switch a receiver to a tight end position.

00:32:01.019 --> 00:32:04.150
It's happened. I mean, it's happened before.

00:32:04.349 --> 00:32:07.390
It makes me wonder if Kelsey is really on the

00:32:07.390 --> 00:32:09.430
decline that much, if they're not going to think

00:32:09.430 --> 00:32:13.250
about making adjustments in the season. Take

00:32:13.250 --> 00:32:15.250
him out of the blocking game and put him in on

00:32:15.250 --> 00:32:17.109
passing downs? Yes, that's what I'm thinking.

00:32:17.329 --> 00:32:20.549
Why not? Yeah, it'll do him good too. It'll be

00:32:20.549 --> 00:32:22.950
a tip -off that it's a passing down, but hell,

00:32:23.029 --> 00:32:26.069
last season you could tell by the left tackle's

00:32:26.069 --> 00:32:28.339
foot. Whether it was going to be a pass or not.

00:32:28.579 --> 00:32:30.799
The foot was back. It was a passing play. If

00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:33.779
the feet were up, it was a run. Yeah, he's still

00:32:33.779 --> 00:32:37.279
on the team, isn't he? I think he is. Yeah. I

00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:38.839
don't know how much playing time he's going to

00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:41.519
get. Kingsley Suamataia. He's coming along. The

00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:44.299
one that they wouldn't put in under any circumstances

00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:47.019
last season. Yeah. He's getting some playing

00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:51.339
time now. He is. So he's definitely fitting the

00:32:51.339 --> 00:32:52.440
mold better. And I don't know whether they're

00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:58.230
trying to get 76. What the hell was his name?

00:32:58.430 --> 00:33:02.970
I don't know. Tackle? Yeah, they're trying to

00:33:02.970 --> 00:33:05.589
see if he was going to get better, I think. Anyhow,

00:33:05.589 --> 00:33:06.750
it doesn't matter. Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah, there

00:33:06.750 --> 00:33:08.970
was Jawan Taylor was 74. Jawan Taylor is who

00:33:08.970 --> 00:33:11.410
I'm thinking of. Yeah, he was 74. And then 76

00:33:11.410 --> 00:33:13.750
was, I can't remember him, but the other tackle

00:33:13.750 --> 00:33:16.200
was. Having troubles last season, too. Yeah,

00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:19.420
both of them were, 74 and 76, yeah. And I kind

00:33:19.420 --> 00:33:21.220
of felt like they kept some people out because

00:33:21.220 --> 00:33:23.460
they wanted them to learn the system better.

00:33:23.579 --> 00:33:26.000
Yeah. And then if it just didn't work, then,

00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:29.619
you know. Move along. And that's where we are

00:33:29.619 --> 00:33:34.799
today. Yeah. So, all right. Will the Bengals

00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.119
bounce back and make it to the championship game

00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:41.400
this season? You know, I'm starting to doubt

00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.089
that. Me too. I thought I was on the Bengals

00:33:44.089 --> 00:33:45.849
tip for a while going, well, we're going to be

00:33:45.849 --> 00:33:50.210
seeing them. I'm starting to get some bad feelings

00:33:50.210 --> 00:33:53.609
about the Bengals. I mean, the fact that they

00:33:53.609 --> 00:33:57.509
had to sign Mike Pinnell last minute and push

00:33:57.509 --> 00:33:59.490
him right into the starting lineup means you

00:33:59.490 --> 00:34:02.210
got holes still. Well, that Hendrickson thing

00:34:02.210 --> 00:34:04.730
too. Spent way too much money on him. And it

00:34:04.730 --> 00:34:09.030
was so ugly and so drawn out. It seems to be

00:34:09.030 --> 00:34:12.530
like people will resign with Natty. But it's

00:34:12.530 --> 00:34:15.730
begrudgingly. Yes. It's not like, hey, I'm on

00:34:15.730 --> 00:34:18.670
board like the Chiefs. Everyone's jumping over

00:34:18.670 --> 00:34:20.929
each other going, I'm on board. I'm on board.

00:34:20.949 --> 00:34:22.829
I'm on board. That's not happening in Cincinnati.

00:34:22.969 --> 00:34:25.050
So obviously there's a disconnect somewhere.

00:34:25.349 --> 00:34:28.170
Yeah. And look, I would love to see Cincinnati

00:34:28.170 --> 00:34:30.769
come in here so we can beat your ass again. Yes.

00:34:31.409 --> 00:34:34.710
But so anybody, I seem to get a lot of shit from

00:34:34.710 --> 00:34:38.889
Ohio. Okay. I'm telling you the truth. And if

00:34:38.889 --> 00:34:40.309
you don't fucking believe it, just look at it

00:34:40.309 --> 00:34:43.280
realistically. Nobody jumps over themselves to

00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:46.820
play there. They do seem to have a little trouble

00:34:46.820 --> 00:34:49.099
there. They've got a long -standing reputation

00:34:49.099 --> 00:34:51.780
that the organization is cheap, tight with a

00:34:51.780 --> 00:34:55.519
buck. They skimp on a lot of areas. They want

00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:58.639
to be in Chicago. Kind of, yeah, yeah. Well,

00:34:58.659 --> 00:35:00.880
I kind of got that feeling just by their actions.

00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.380
They're just kind of like, yeah, we could. Yeah,

00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:07.380
I think the— Instead of denying completely, you

00:35:07.380 --> 00:35:09.960
know, if you went to Arrowhead and said, We heard

00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:13.820
you guys want to move to, shit, let's think of

00:35:13.820 --> 00:35:18.420
it, a big town, Columbus, Ohio. Yeah. No, we're

00:35:18.420 --> 00:35:21.420
not. It's never going to happen. There is kind

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:25.360
of like a, well, we'll see what happens. Yeah.

00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:29.019
I'm sorry. You're going to say something. I got

00:35:29.019 --> 00:35:32.920
a feeling that this Bengals ownership. wants

00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:35.739
to make more money off the team and they realize

00:35:35.739 --> 00:35:38.460
that Cincinnati just isn't big enough or isn't

00:35:38.460 --> 00:35:42.199
spending enough or something. That's mostly the

00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:44.679
reason the teams move is they talk about, well,

00:35:44.699 --> 00:35:46.500
it's the stadium, we need a better stadium. Well,

00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:50.039
the stadium is so they can make money. And if

00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:53.420
they're not making money in other areas on the

00:35:53.420 --> 00:35:55.320
same par as other teams, then they're going to

00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:59.380
look at a different city. Chicago is a great

00:35:59.380 --> 00:36:03.820
example because it's not that far. and you'll

00:36:03.820 --> 00:36:06.119
be the competing team against the Bears, who

00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.000
definitely have down seasons here and there.

00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:12.699
The other choice would be to find a city that

00:36:12.699 --> 00:36:15.559
is starved for football, but there's not too

00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:18.079
many of those that would be a good football town.

00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:20.920
The NFL's pretty good at filling those vacancies.

00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:23.380
Yeah, that's how come they're not going crazy

00:36:23.380 --> 00:36:26.079
in the U .S. right now, is because I think they

00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:27.900
saturated all the markets they think they're

00:36:27.900 --> 00:36:31.500
going to be selling out in, and above all. they're

00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:34.139
looking at TV revenue more than anything. True,

00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:36.980
true. Yeah, they're like, look, well, the Chiefs

00:36:36.980 --> 00:36:39.940
have it from mid -Kansas or actually almost to

00:36:39.940 --> 00:36:43.179
the border probably, all the way past St. Louis

00:36:43.179 --> 00:36:47.840
now, probably, I don't know, maybe mid -Illinois,

00:36:48.099 --> 00:36:53.340
up through Iowa, Minnesota, northern Iowa, down

00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:56.940
to maybe mid -Oklahoma and Arkansas. Yeah. Okay,

00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:59.199
who's going to infringe on that? Unless the team

00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:01.980
comes into St. Louis, it's really good. Yeah,

00:37:01.980 --> 00:37:04.679
there's really not much of a football town in

00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:09.420
that area, to put a team. It's interesting how

00:37:09.420 --> 00:37:11.619
the revenue is shifting in the NFL. I think we

00:37:11.619 --> 00:37:16.039
talked about it last season on the podcast. At

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:20.780
first it was physical attendance was the big

00:37:20.780 --> 00:37:23.480
thing. You want to sell out, sell food, sell

00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:26.559
merchandise. Signed them up for season tickets

00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:29.559
so you got them locked in as a customer. Then

00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:32.159
TV revenue came and blew that out of the water.

00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:34.920
And they're like, oh. Yeah, they're like, we

00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:36.940
don't care about anything else. This right here.

00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:39.480
And I think ever since that happened, I think

00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:42.079
that was in the 60s when Phil Rozelle first got,

00:37:42.219 --> 00:37:44.380
Pete Rozelle. Phil Rozelle is somebody else,

00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:48.059
sorry. Yeah, yeah. Pete Rozelle was the, wasn't

00:37:48.059 --> 00:37:51.579
he the one that was behind moving the Rams from,

00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:54.739
no, no, the Cardinals. From St. Louis. Yeah.

00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:59.480
Yeah. To Arizona. Yeah. But Pete Rozelle got

00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:03.000
that first big, giant TV contract. And I think

00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.380
from that point on, attendance at the games only

00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:09.159
was important because it looks good on TV. Exactly.

00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:11.460
And then they found a way around that, too. Yes.

00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:15.079
They can dub in sound. They can prerecord video.

00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:18.420
And they do. And now they're using AI. I mean,

00:38:18.420 --> 00:38:21.699
heck, Will Smith is using AI to manufacture crowds

00:38:21.699 --> 00:38:24.909
in his music videos. He's denying it, but you

00:38:24.909 --> 00:38:27.710
zoom in and it's AI faces all through that crowd.

00:38:27.809 --> 00:38:29.550
There's not a single person in attendance. It's

00:38:29.550 --> 00:38:32.710
all fantasy. I believe it. So the NFL can do

00:38:32.710 --> 00:38:34.969
the exact same thing. They want to sell out.

00:38:35.050 --> 00:38:38.230
They want to have you there, have the atmosphere,

00:38:38.530 --> 00:38:40.789
sell you food and stuff. But it's really not

00:38:40.789 --> 00:38:43.050
that important anymore. I think the big revenue

00:38:43.050 --> 00:38:46.909
streams are still any kind of broadcast. It's

00:38:46.909 --> 00:38:49.449
not all TV anymore. And then the gambling revenue.

00:38:50.619 --> 00:38:52.960
The thing is, is I'm sticking to this. I made

00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.800
this prediction a couple of years ago. They're

00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:59.599
segmenting all of this NFL off on purpose. They're

00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:02.300
going to come back and go, you can get it all

00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:07.940
on this one platform. It's the NFL app. It's

00:39:07.940 --> 00:39:11.239
going to be, I don't know, $40 a month. Other

00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:12.659
than that, you're going to have to get Netflix.

00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:14.519
You're going to have to get Amazon. You're going

00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:17.420
to have to get whatever else they decide to go

00:39:17.420 --> 00:39:19.099
to. You're going to have to get all these different.

00:39:21.500 --> 00:39:24.019
services. All these entities. All these entities

00:39:24.019 --> 00:39:26.139
to catch this game. Or you can go to the NFL

00:39:26.139 --> 00:39:28.519
app. And everyone's going to go, I guess I'll

00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:30.500
just get the app and I'll just pick the games

00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:32.860
I want. Either that or it's going to be pay -per

00:39:32.860 --> 00:39:36.059
-play. Oh, you want this game? $4 .99. It's yours.

00:39:36.380 --> 00:39:41.900
Yep. And that's the way the video game market

00:39:41.900 --> 00:39:47.000
is going. You won't buy games anymore. You'll

00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.730
just pay monthly to play them oh no i got these

00:39:49.730 --> 00:39:52.369
uh i piss people off at work when i say the cd

00:39:52.369 --> 00:39:57.710
roms yeah yeah i got these cd roms that uh of

00:39:57.710 --> 00:40:01.449
games that don't even work anymore you have to

00:40:01.449 --> 00:40:03.809
go to a site to get them you you don't put them

00:40:03.809 --> 00:40:06.590
in in your computer your computer is like hey

00:40:06.590 --> 00:40:10.050
wait a minute wait a second what are you doing

00:40:10.050 --> 00:40:12.429
bringing this model t in here yeah it's like

00:40:12.429 --> 00:40:15.920
asking me to read you know hieroglyphics off

00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:19.159
of a cave wall or something. Yeah, yeah, or someone

00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:24.480
brings me a dead Latin. Yeah. There you go. Well,

00:40:24.539 --> 00:40:25.980
you know, another reason why the NFL is... Actually,

00:40:25.980 --> 00:40:27.579
I would understand a little bit of that because

00:40:27.579 --> 00:40:29.719
a lot of our language is from that. That's true,

00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:32.719
that's true. Anyhow, go ahead. Another possible

00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:36.579
reason the NFL is spreading themselves out to

00:40:36.579 --> 00:40:41.300
all these other different entities is that the

00:40:41.300 --> 00:40:46.679
NFL has long been battling anti -trust law. Over

00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:50.000
and over it's brought up that the NFL is a monopoly

00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.940
and needs to be busted up just like the phone

00:40:52.940 --> 00:40:56.719
company was busted up and various other companies

00:40:56.719 --> 00:41:00.139
who are monopolizing the market. And so far up

00:41:00.139 --> 00:41:02.139
till now the NFL has been able to pay off the

00:41:02.139 --> 00:41:05.019
right people to get favorable judgments and decisions

00:41:05.019 --> 00:41:09.000
or at least delays. But Trump's the kind of guy

00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:11.489
who's going to come in and just be the bull in

00:41:11.489 --> 00:41:14.809
the china shop yeah and if he feels like it he

00:41:14.809 --> 00:41:17.269
could declare the nfl monopoly and say they have

00:41:17.269 --> 00:41:20.969
to bust themselves up into parts so the nfl is

00:41:20.969 --> 00:41:24.469
is like establishing a foothold on hulu and youtube

00:41:24.469 --> 00:41:28.349
and amazon prime and whatever here and there

00:41:28.349 --> 00:41:30.789
and if they do have to bust up then they're like

00:41:30.789 --> 00:41:34.150
okay our affiliation with amazon prime now becomes

00:41:34.150 --> 00:41:37.050
its separate company So we're not a monopoly

00:41:37.050 --> 00:41:39.389
anymore because that's a separate company. So

00:41:39.389 --> 00:41:41.349
there's a little bit more to it. I can see that

00:41:41.349 --> 00:41:43.789
now. I see what you're saying. That's like somebody

00:41:43.789 --> 00:41:46.389
saying, you've got too big of a monopoly, so

00:41:46.389 --> 00:41:49.070
you send all your kids out to run the different

00:41:49.070 --> 00:41:51.409
parts of your company. And when the ax comes

00:41:51.409 --> 00:41:53.150
down, they all say, oh, we're an independent

00:41:53.150 --> 00:41:55.610
company now, but they're still your kids. Yes.

00:41:56.050 --> 00:41:58.809
That's what the NFL is doing, I think, is they're

00:41:58.809 --> 00:42:01.250
setting up to where they have somewhere to go

00:42:01.250 --> 00:42:03.809
if the government says, you're a monopoly, you

00:42:03.809 --> 00:42:07.070
need to go away. So they can just scatter into

00:42:07.070 --> 00:42:09.769
pieces but still be the whole and carry on just

00:42:09.769 --> 00:42:12.469
like before, but appearance -wise, they won't

00:42:12.469 --> 00:42:15.369
look like a Monopoly anymore. True. Okay. That's

00:42:15.369 --> 00:42:20.230
what I'd do anyway. You're right. Let's see.

00:42:20.889 --> 00:42:23.170
When the Chiefs get the new stadium, will the

00:42:23.170 --> 00:42:25.690
tailgate experience be ruined? And I know this

00:42:25.690 --> 00:42:29.309
is kind of a... Everybody is used to Arrowhead.

00:42:30.110 --> 00:42:34.269
Huge, flat, almost as far as you can see. Yeah.

00:42:35.279 --> 00:42:37.780
You've got a couple of interstates in the long

00:42:37.780 --> 00:42:41.260
distance, way away. That's part of the appeal.

00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:44.920
You go through there and there's hours and hours

00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:47.699
of smokers and barbecue smells. People throwing

00:42:47.699 --> 00:42:51.639
footballs and frisbees. I think they definitely

00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:53.780
want to control all that. Right now it's kind

00:42:53.780 --> 00:42:56.820
of grandfathered in, so liability issues aren't

00:42:56.820 --> 00:42:59.519
that big a deal. But at a new stadium... Lawsuits

00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:01.880
are going to happen. If somebody throws a football

00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:03.840
and it bangs into your grill and knocks it over

00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:07.280
and burns your little kid's leg, lawsuit. So

00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.659
they're going to tramp down on all that. And

00:43:09.659 --> 00:43:11.519
one of the ways they're going to do that, a lot

00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:14.139
of teams are starting to do now, is have designated

00:43:14.139 --> 00:43:17.019
tailgate areas. With their own vendors, right?

00:43:17.059 --> 00:43:19.099
With their own vendors, and they have stuff set

00:43:19.099 --> 00:43:24.780
up, and you have to pay a season charge in order

00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:26.940
to use it. Like Cleveland's what? Yeah, $20 ,000.

00:43:27.550 --> 00:43:30.070
They want $20 ,000 for one season's worth of

00:43:30.070 --> 00:43:32.010
access to the tailgating area. I'm glad you're

00:43:32.010 --> 00:43:34.050
answering this like this because this is what

00:43:34.050 --> 00:43:36.769
I'm getting at. This is the future of tailgating.

00:43:36.849 --> 00:43:39.369
They're monetizing everything. Anything they're

00:43:39.369 --> 00:43:41.349
not making money on now, they're going to find

00:43:41.349 --> 00:43:44.469
a way to charge you for and restrict it and control

00:43:44.469 --> 00:43:46.590
it. You know, before, I would have said that

00:43:46.590 --> 00:43:49.869
Kansas City would never do that. No, you give

00:43:49.869 --> 00:43:53.510
them a couple of hickory and oak logs and a brisket.

00:43:54.500 --> 00:43:57.599
and the flat feet, and that's what happens. If

00:43:57.599 --> 00:44:00.519
you do anything else, they probably just say,

00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:02.519
no, you know what, we're going to go watch a

00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:06.159
game at my home. I've got a huge TV in the backyard,

00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:11.679
and I'm grilling right now. Anymore, I think

00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:13.500
they've gotten us used to this kind of thing.

00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:15.139
Yeah, I think if people are just being like,

00:44:15.179 --> 00:44:17.599
you know what, I really want to tailgate anyhow.

00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:19.889
I think there's enough people. that aren't the

00:44:19.889 --> 00:44:22.550
original fans that didn't grow up doing this

00:44:22.550 --> 00:44:24.250
to where they'll jump on that and go, you mean

00:44:24.250 --> 00:44:26.210
just $20 ,000 and I can be there every week?

00:44:26.369 --> 00:44:28.829
It's like the wannabes buying Harleys. Yes, yeah,

00:44:28.909 --> 00:44:31.190
yeah, yeah. They don't know anything about the

00:44:31.190 --> 00:44:33.769
history or the culture or the whole identity

00:44:33.769 --> 00:44:35.730
of Harley -Davidson. They just know it looks

00:44:35.730 --> 00:44:37.829
cool if they buy one and ride it around. Yeah,

00:44:37.829 --> 00:44:41.119
yeah. I was talking about that, about... You

00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:43.460
know how everything's Aussie right now because

00:44:43.460 --> 00:44:46.440
the algorithms, because he passed away and people

00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:48.659
never listened to him. I was joking around about

00:44:48.659 --> 00:44:51.440
all the vets and all the Harleys in Johnson County

00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:55.000
are going to be cranking Aussie. Yes. And then

00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:57.219
you go up there and you ask them what album that's

00:44:57.219 --> 00:44:59.159
off of and they don't know. You hit them in the

00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:03.239
balls. Yeah. It's a new version of virtue signaling.

00:45:03.420 --> 00:45:07.000
It is. To buy a Harley or a vet and then blast.

00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:09.559
You know, the late great Aussie from it, so people

00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:13.119
will look at you and admire you. Yes. Okay. If

00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:14.639
that's the way you want to spend your time and

00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:17.699
money, go for it. I got a great example, and

00:45:17.699 --> 00:45:20.579
I believe it happened in most every market. Okay.

00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:25.800
When Arbitron sold out or whatever they did to

00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:29.280
Nelson. Yeah. Okay, Nelson came out with a personal

00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:32.539
people meter, which guaranteed what they were

00:45:32.539 --> 00:45:34.940
listening to instead of what people said they

00:45:34.940 --> 00:45:37.659
were listening to. Yeah. There were huge shakeups

00:45:37.659 --> 00:45:40.019
in the market. Yep. Especially like Morning Drive.

00:45:40.099 --> 00:45:41.739
Everyone's going, yeah, I listened to that bad

00:45:41.739 --> 00:45:49.539
boy on 103 .7. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. X25. You

00:45:49.539 --> 00:45:52.059
know. And they didn't. Yep. They're listening

00:45:52.059 --> 00:45:54.179
to the Easy Listening Station, but they say that

00:45:54.179 --> 00:45:55.619
to the person they're answering. Because they

00:45:55.619 --> 00:45:58.510
want to sound cool. Yes. Yeah. So in other words,

00:45:58.510 --> 00:46:00.409
and I'm not saying this would happen, Johnny

00:46:00.409 --> 00:46:02.269
did very well in this market, and he'll probably

00:46:02.269 --> 00:46:04.690
be back in this market, but you get somebody

00:46:04.690 --> 00:46:06.070
from Johnson County going, oh, I listened to

00:46:06.070 --> 00:46:08.550
Johnny Darryl all the way. And then they have

00:46:08.550 --> 00:46:10.090
the personal people meter, he's listening to

00:46:10.090 --> 00:46:16.690
Mix 93. Yes. So instead of hearing about Tart

00:46:16.690 --> 00:46:18.989
or T -Bone getting his fucking penis tattooed.

00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.760
He was hearing something about a free wedding

00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:27.739
dress. Yes, the safe for work radio. Yeah, yes.

00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:31.780
Yeah, the stuff you hear in the auto body shop.

00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:33.780
Yeah. When you're in there trying to get your

00:46:33.780 --> 00:46:36.480
car back. In the dentist office. Yeah, yeah.

00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:38.019
And then they're like laughing all over themselves.

00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:42.340
Oh, it's 42 degrees. Oh, God. Oh, you're such

00:46:42.340 --> 00:46:47.219
a card. So anyhow, all right. Will the new stadium

00:46:47.219 --> 00:46:49.719
care one ounce of shit, I just added this, about

00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:54.039
the tradition and figure out an exceptional tailgating

00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:55.860
experience, or do you think that they're just

00:46:55.860 --> 00:46:58.159
going to go, this is what it is, take it or leave

00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:00.260
it? Yeah, they're going to do the this is what

00:47:00.260 --> 00:47:02.659
it is because enough people will go along with

00:47:02.659 --> 00:47:05.119
it, and the ones that don't want to will be quickly

00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:07.599
replaced by the ones who just don't care. I'll

00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:11.280
put it like this. I did a little segment about

00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:15.000
how people will pay money. to get into the airport

00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.059
to pay five times as much for food, drinks, and

00:47:19.059 --> 00:47:21.420
souvenirs. You can buy that day pass so you can

00:47:21.420 --> 00:47:24.159
go overspend to the airport shops. Yeah, go to

00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:26.019
Meet Mitch Barbecue in there. Instead of going

00:47:26.019 --> 00:47:28.199
to One in Olathe or Overland Park, whatever it

00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:30.179
is, Leawood, wherever the fuck it is, somewhere

00:47:30.179 --> 00:47:32.079
in there in Johnson County, instead of going

00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:33.579
there, you can go to the airport and spend three

00:47:33.579 --> 00:47:38.909
times as much. You know, 20, 30 years ago. People

00:47:38.909 --> 00:47:41.269
in the marketing would have never believed that

00:47:41.269 --> 00:47:43.670
people would pay extra so they could get into

00:47:43.670 --> 00:47:47.510
a place to pay extra. But here they are. Well,

00:47:47.650 --> 00:47:51.449
this is generations of dumbing down. Yeah, yeah.

00:47:51.610 --> 00:47:53.789
They'd rather have the status and the appearance

00:47:53.789 --> 00:47:55.510
and they don't care what it costs. We're past

00:47:55.510 --> 00:48:00.710
idiocracy now. We're somewhere else. Yeah, I

00:48:00.710 --> 00:48:04.440
think people would be like... They said that

00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:06.440
this is really cool, and I should just go ahead

00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:09.539
and buy it at $20 ,000. Yeah, there's a whole

00:48:09.539 --> 00:48:12.739
enormous segment of people who think saving for

00:48:12.739 --> 00:48:15.579
the future is stupid, and they're just not going

00:48:15.579 --> 00:48:17.219
to. And then when you get to the point where

00:48:17.219 --> 00:48:19.400
they're too weak or sick or old to work anymore,

00:48:19.659 --> 00:48:22.539
we're going to have a massive influx of homeless

00:48:22.539 --> 00:48:25.179
people. And they're all going to be like 65,

00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:27.460
70 years old with medical problems, and they're

00:48:27.460 --> 00:48:28.980
just going to be choking the street, and they're

00:48:28.980 --> 00:48:32.420
like, where's my on -demand? How come I don't

00:48:32.420 --> 00:48:38.039
get my own demand? Yeah. Well, that was the drug

00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:40.599
they used on you to get you stupid. Yep. And

00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:42.559
it worked. To get you to spend every bit of your

00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:44.559
paycheck before you get your next one. And you

00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:47.360
know why they're not worried about you now? You

00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:49.639
don't have any capital. You're not buying shit.

00:48:49.699 --> 00:48:52.099
So you can go. Just get out of their face. They

00:48:52.099 --> 00:48:54.699
don't need you. The old expression is like, everybody

00:48:54.699 --> 00:48:58.179
loves you when you're holding. It's the same

00:48:58.179 --> 00:49:00.840
thing as when you got cash to spend. They all

00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:02.920
love you when you've got cash to spend, but if

00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:07.619
you don't, fuck you. Yes. Yep. Yep. It's just

00:49:07.619 --> 00:49:12.739
like Vegas when they quit. They're like 70 %

00:49:12.739 --> 00:49:16.139
entertainment and attractions now and not gamblers.

00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:18.500
Yep. Those old gamblers used to come in and be

00:49:18.500 --> 00:49:21.559
treated like royalty because they were spending

00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:24.440
all this money. Now they don't care. They're

00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:26.460
just like, no, we don't care how much you spend.

00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:27.860
You're not getting a free room. You're not getting

00:49:27.860 --> 00:49:29.820
food. Get out of here. Because they know somebody

00:49:29.820 --> 00:49:33.300
else will accept those terms. Exactly. Yep. All

00:49:33.300 --> 00:49:35.599
right, and then finally, will the Chiefs be a

00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:38.400
contender even when Andy Reid retires if Mahomes

00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:43.039
is still playing? Ooh, that's kind of a tough

00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:45.559
one. I'm tempted to say yeah for at least a year

00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:47.920
or so, a year or two. I think Mahomes is good

00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:51.519
enough in his role of coaching to coach a team

00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:54.440
up to about any level that he wanted it to. Now,

00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:56.219
a lot of this is going to depend if we still

00:49:56.219 --> 00:49:59.300
have Brett Veach. Yeah. We still have Mark Donovan.

00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:01.960
We still have people in the key areas. True,

00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:06.300
true. We still have the key people there. To

00:50:06.300 --> 00:50:08.559
keep building and keep this going. Yes, and I

00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:11.400
think we're going to be close. I think that Reed

00:50:11.400 --> 00:50:14.820
adds that certain little savoir -faire. I mean,

00:50:14.860 --> 00:50:18.440
what would you call it? Je ne sais quoi. Yes,

00:50:18.460 --> 00:50:20.679
yeah. Which is French for I don't know what.

00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:24.679
Yeah, I don't know what. They have that certain...

00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:29.159
I don't know what. Jenna Sequa. Yeah. So, he

00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:33.599
adds that. Yeah. So, whether you have a team

00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:36.119
that makes it well into the playoffs or Super

00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:39.000
Bowl, I think is contingent. Another drink? Yeah.

00:50:40.340 --> 00:50:44.059
Is contingent on who is doing it. Yeah. Who is

00:50:44.059 --> 00:50:46.880
at the helm. But I think that you'll always see

00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:50.039
somewhat of a contender with Mahomes and Veach

00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:54.199
and Donovan maybe, you know. I'm flashing back

00:50:54.199 --> 00:50:59.239
to about. 50, 55 years ago when the Chiefs were

00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.559
coming off their first Super Bowl victory in

00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:05.659
Super Bowl IV against the Vikings. And our coach

00:51:05.659 --> 00:51:09.840
was Hank Stram. And Lenny the Cool was already

00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:12.139
a fairly old quarterback at that point. Because

00:51:12.139 --> 00:51:14.500
that was 71. He came into the league in like

00:51:14.500 --> 00:51:18.449
56, 57. Something like that, yeah. So he wasn't

00:51:18.449 --> 00:51:20.409
a young man when he was here on the Chiefs. No,

00:51:20.409 --> 00:51:22.730
we got him from Texas. He came with the team.

00:51:22.789 --> 00:51:25.489
Yeah, before that, I think he was either a Steeler

00:51:25.489 --> 00:51:28.949
and or a Brown. A Brown, I'm pretty... Yeah,

00:51:28.949 --> 00:51:30.909
because they were both still in the old NFL.

00:51:31.170 --> 00:51:35.050
Yeah. But when Hank Stram won the Super Bowl

00:51:35.050 --> 00:51:37.590
with that team, he just fell in love with all

00:51:37.590 --> 00:51:39.869
those guys and never wanted to change. Yeah.

00:51:39.909 --> 00:51:42.630
And he kept everybody on that team, even though

00:51:42.630 --> 00:51:44.829
they couldn't do it anymore. And they were getting

00:51:44.829 --> 00:51:47.989
old, and they were getting slower. Lenny was

00:51:47.989 --> 00:51:50.469
getting killed behind the line all the time,

00:51:50.489 --> 00:51:53.030
but he just couldn't emotionally handle firing

00:51:53.030 --> 00:51:56.530
these guys that he loved so dearly. This team

00:51:56.530 --> 00:51:58.690
is not like that. They're going to keep moving.

00:51:58.710 --> 00:52:00.610
He's like, we love you, Patrick. We love you,

00:52:00.650 --> 00:52:04.309
Travis. We love you, all these guys, but we're

00:52:04.309 --> 00:52:06.309
going to move on when we need to move on. They

00:52:06.309 --> 00:52:08.889
loved Justin Reed for three years, and then they

00:52:08.889 --> 00:52:12.750
said goodbye. They loved Neil Smith back in the

00:52:12.750 --> 00:52:15.619
90s, and then they said goodbye. Yeah. That's

00:52:15.619 --> 00:52:18.920
the way you do it now. Who's the all -pro we

00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:22.179
traded to Tennessee quarterback? Sneed. Yes.

00:52:22.500 --> 00:52:26.599
Yeah, LeJarrius Sneed. They traded him, and it's

00:52:26.599 --> 00:52:28.099
because we couldn't afford him, but they have

00:52:28.099 --> 00:52:29.840
people behind them they drafted that they have

00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:35.519
full confidence in. Yeah. So, yeah. I think that's

00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:39.099
the sustainable way to run an NFL franchise right

00:52:39.099 --> 00:52:41.500
now. Yeah. 30 years from now, it'll be different.

00:52:41.900 --> 00:52:44.619
Because things will change. Right now, if you

00:52:44.619 --> 00:52:47.219
keep the old guys, you're going to have four

00:52:47.219 --> 00:52:49.900
people. That's it, because they've got the huge

00:52:49.900 --> 00:52:52.579
contracts. And you've got the disadvantage of

00:52:52.579 --> 00:52:55.019
every year they're in the league, they automatically

00:52:55.019 --> 00:52:58.380
get more salary. Their minimum salary goes up

00:52:58.380 --> 00:53:02.059
every single year. So you can't sign a guy for

00:53:02.059 --> 00:53:04.889
a dollar. and play him all year just because

00:53:04.889 --> 00:53:07.269
he wants the ring. You can do that when he retires.

00:53:07.269 --> 00:53:09.309
It's like, let me sign for a buck so I can retire

00:53:09.309 --> 00:53:11.530
here. The union's okay with that. Yeah. But if

00:53:11.530 --> 00:53:13.550
you're signing him as a player, there's a minimum

00:53:13.550 --> 00:53:15.809
amount you've got to pay him. Yeah, and that's

00:53:15.809 --> 00:53:17.989
where the salary cap works so well in the NFL

00:53:17.989 --> 00:53:20.190
is there's no getting around it. Nope. You're

00:53:20.190 --> 00:53:21.889
at least going to have to pay this much. Now,

00:53:21.929 --> 00:53:24.179
you get sweetheart deals. And the reason you

00:53:24.179 --> 00:53:25.820
get sweetheart deals is because people want to

00:53:25.820 --> 00:53:29.619
win rings. And so they come to places like Kansas

00:53:29.619 --> 00:53:31.880
City where we're a perennial winner and they're

00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:35.840
taking less to do it. But then you have the part

00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:37.699
where you're going to have to spend a certain

00:53:37.699 --> 00:53:42.159
amount anyhow. A great example of that was back

00:53:42.159 --> 00:53:45.659
in, was it the 90s? When Reggie White left the

00:53:45.659 --> 00:53:48.570
Eagles and went to Green Bay. He said, God led

00:53:48.570 --> 00:53:50.389
me to Green Bay. He said, this is where I need

00:53:50.389 --> 00:53:52.329
to be. And at that point, Green Bay had been

00:53:52.329 --> 00:53:56.369
a nobody for decades. And Reggie White deciding

00:53:56.369 --> 00:53:59.329
to play there turned that entire franchise around.

00:53:59.710 --> 00:54:02.750
They should put a giant statue of Reggie White

00:54:02.750 --> 00:54:05.030
in Green Bay, Wisconsin because he brought them

00:54:05.030 --> 00:54:08.429
back from the dead. He started talking to all

00:54:08.429 --> 00:54:10.190
of his friends in the league. He says, man, you've

00:54:10.190 --> 00:54:11.670
got to come play here. It's a great place to

00:54:11.670 --> 00:54:15.409
live, a great place to work. That was under Brett

00:54:15.409 --> 00:54:17.980
Favre, wasn't it? Eventually, yeah. Eventually,

00:54:18.059 --> 00:54:19.840
yeah. Not at first, but eventually, yeah. Yeah,

00:54:19.860 --> 00:54:21.679
I think it was Don Makowski at first. Don Makowski.

00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:24.539
Or whoever was in front of him. And he was. He

00:54:24.539 --> 00:54:26.460
was a pro bowler. He was a good quarterback.

00:54:26.699 --> 00:54:27.440
He was a good quarterback. Because the Magic

00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:30.139
Man was his nickname. Yeah, Magic Man. But then

00:54:30.139 --> 00:54:32.579
when he got injured and Favre came in, they saw

00:54:32.579 --> 00:54:35.920
that pass. It was like Drew Bledsoe and Tom Brady.

00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:37.780
Yeah, Drew Bledsoe and Tom Brady. Well, actually,

00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:41.000
they almost put Drew Bledsoe back in. Yeah, that's

00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:43.480
true. They almost did. Because Tom Brady, he

00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:46.239
was a serviceable, smart quarterback. But he

00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:48.719
wasn't what he was the last five years he was

00:54:48.719 --> 00:54:52.820
in the NFL. Yeah, he hadn't learned how to condition

00:54:52.820 --> 00:54:56.780
his body yet. He hadn't developed all the knowledge

00:54:56.780 --> 00:54:58.980
and instincts yet. But, you know, you could see

00:54:58.980 --> 00:55:02.099
it was there. It was coming. Yeah, so it could

00:55:02.099 --> 00:55:03.659
have been argued early in the career they could

00:55:03.659 --> 00:55:05.739
have brought Bledsoe back, but they rode Tom

00:55:05.739 --> 00:55:13.000
Brady to many, many great heights. Okay, you

00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:14.679
have some more stuff you want to get to? Yeah,

00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:18.639
I've got offensive and defensive rookie of the

00:55:18.639 --> 00:55:21.199
year predictions. Oh, cool. Yeah, I was pretty

00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:23.300
pleased with these. For offensive rookie of the

00:55:23.300 --> 00:55:27.800
year, number five, Titairoa McMillan, wide receiver

00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:30.719
for the Panthers. I could see him having a big

00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:33.239
year with the quarterback they got there. Yeah,

00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:37.400
Bryce is actually looking much better. He is,

00:55:37.579 --> 00:55:41.630
yeah. Number four, Omarion Hampton, running back

00:55:41.630 --> 00:55:45.670
for the Chargers. Oh, really? They say he's got

00:55:45.670 --> 00:55:48.449
a chance to be rookie of the year. Oh, wow. He

00:55:48.449 --> 00:55:50.489
must be something. Well, we're going to see him

00:55:50.489 --> 00:55:55.510
first game. Yeah, yeah. Let's see. Yeah, he's

00:55:55.510 --> 00:55:58.630
on the list for potential rushing yards. Number

00:55:58.630 --> 00:56:01.730
three, Travis Hunter, as wide receiver. As wide

00:56:01.730 --> 00:56:05.289
receiver. Not as defensive back. Number two,

00:56:05.469 --> 00:56:09.559
Cam Ward, quarterback of the Titans. And the

00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:11.599
number one prediction for offensive rookie of

00:56:11.599 --> 00:56:14.420
the year, Ashton Jante running back for the Raiders.

00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:17.079
I don't know how to pronounce his last name.

00:56:17.139 --> 00:56:22.900
J -E -A -N. Babelsnatch. T -Y. So Jean T. Jante.

00:56:23.539 --> 00:56:25.599
Jente. I'm not sure. I'm just going to call him

00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:27.420
Babelsnatch. Babelsnatch. There we go. Babelsnatch.

00:56:27.420 --> 00:56:29.239
However you pronounce your name, I'm sorry if

00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:31.599
I'm butchering it. It's Babelsnatch. Okay, there

00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:33.449
we go. That's all that counts in our land. Ashton

00:56:33.449 --> 00:56:35.829
Babelsnatch of the Red. I'd love to see that

00:56:35.829 --> 00:56:39.610
on the back of a jersey. I would, too. People

00:56:39.610 --> 00:56:42.570
would go, oh, I had that gum a long time ago.

00:56:43.730 --> 00:56:47.110
I still want to know how it was ordered. Their

00:56:47.110 --> 00:56:50.309
regional manager ordered it. Wouldn't that be

00:56:50.309 --> 00:56:52.889
weird if somebody actually was making something

00:56:52.889 --> 00:56:55.150
called Babelsnatch gum? Yeah, it's like, I was

00:56:55.150 --> 00:56:59.579
just joking. Where'd this stuff come from? It's

00:56:59.579 --> 00:57:02.139
like when I came up with a name for my studio,

00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:04.860
the No Filter Studio. Uh -huh. Oops, somebody's

00:57:04.860 --> 00:57:07.420
already using that. Oh, yeah, that's right. I

00:57:07.420 --> 00:57:09.880
forgot. I'm no longer the No Filter Studio. Oh,

00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:11.699
I forgot. You came up with another name. Awkward

00:57:11.699 --> 00:57:14.179
Possum. Yep, I like that a lot. Awkward Possum.

00:57:14.219 --> 00:57:16.019
Nobody's going to have that. Mine is Talk is

00:57:16.019 --> 00:57:17.760
Cheap. That's a pretty good one. I like that

00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:19.780
one. All right, defensive rookie of the year

00:57:19.780 --> 00:57:22.400
predictions. Number five, Andrew Makuba, safety

00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:25.809
for the Eagles. Didn't want to hear that one.

00:57:25.889 --> 00:57:27.869
That would be odd, though, to have a safety make

00:57:27.869 --> 00:57:30.469
defensive rookie of the year. He's going to have

00:57:30.469 --> 00:57:32.670
to hit a lot of big hits and a lot of interceptions.

00:57:33.730 --> 00:57:36.889
That's the only way. Yeah. Number four, Will.

00:57:37.429 --> 00:57:40.210
Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. Okay, sorry. Number

00:57:40.210 --> 00:57:42.869
four, Will Johnson, cornerback for the Cardinals.

00:57:43.969 --> 00:57:46.429
Okay. The Cardinals aren't all that great a team,

00:57:46.489 --> 00:57:48.190
so he's going to have to stand out in a couple

00:57:48.190 --> 00:57:50.909
of ways. Yeah. This one, I didn't really take

00:57:50.909 --> 00:57:52.510
that one seriously. That's why I was like, just

00:57:52.510 --> 00:57:56.090
okay. I just, yeah. Number three, Malachi Starks

00:57:56.090 --> 00:57:59.949
for the Ravens, safety. Okay. Number two, Jade

00:57:59.949 --> 00:58:04.750
Barron, cornerback for the Broncos. That is so

00:58:04.750 --> 00:58:07.469
surprising that we have quarterbacks and safeties.

00:58:07.570 --> 00:58:10.590
Yeah, five through two are all defensive backs.

00:58:11.150 --> 00:58:14.050
They must be planted on, like you said, stripping,

00:58:14.230 --> 00:58:19.530
interceptions, disruption. Not a single linebacker.

00:58:19.880 --> 00:58:22.300
Not a linebacker, but instead cornerback. Wow.

00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:25.699
But number one on the list, Abdul Carter, edge

00:58:25.699 --> 00:58:29.639
rusher for the Giants. Okay, yeah, and I read

00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:31.579
a little bit about him. Yeah, I think that could

00:58:31.579 --> 00:58:33.880
happen. I think an edge rusher has a good shot

00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:35.599
at being rookie of the year. Oh, yeah, you get

00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:40.300
15 or more sacks with pressures, and you're automatically

00:58:40.300 --> 00:58:43.340
on that list. Yeah, yeah, I think so too. Yeah.

00:58:44.139 --> 00:58:46.739
And then the list of ones to watch, Trey Harris,

00:58:46.900 --> 00:58:49.599
wide receiver, the Chargers. He's a good route

00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:51.460
runner. Sounds like the Chargers had one hell

00:58:51.460 --> 00:58:54.679
of a draft. Yeah. He's a big play guy. He's good

00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:57.420
at those deep balls down the field. Okay. So

00:58:57.420 --> 00:59:00.440
Trey Harris is going to be the vertical passing

00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:04.659
game, it looks like. Torrey Horton, wide receiver

00:59:04.659 --> 00:59:06.920
of the Seahawks. He slid down the draft because

00:59:06.920 --> 00:59:10.159
of a knee injury that ended his college season

00:59:10.159 --> 00:59:13.500
last year, but he's a good player. Well, he's

00:59:13.500 --> 00:59:15.480
kind of like Josh Simmons. Josh Simmons slid

00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:19.690
because of his knee also. Yeah. Okay. Upton Stout,

00:59:19.769 --> 00:59:23.110
cornerback for the Niners. He has quickness and

00:59:23.110 --> 00:59:26.010
speed. So he's fast and he can get up to full

00:59:26.010 --> 00:59:29.550
speed in a hurry. Perfect slot corner guy, and

00:59:29.550 --> 00:59:32.269
they need one. Yeah. So I think Upton Stout,

00:59:32.289 --> 00:59:36.530
you're going to see him at slot for the Niners.

00:59:37.789 --> 00:59:41.130
Well, they've got it. Well, you know what, we

00:59:41.130 --> 00:59:42.429
can go into that later. I'm talking about how

00:59:42.429 --> 00:59:44.949
they need to change their offense now considerably,

00:59:45.090 --> 00:59:48.440
and this would be a good. Good bridge. Yeah.

00:59:48.480 --> 00:59:51.619
Go ahead. Caleb Johnson, running back for the

00:59:51.619 --> 00:59:56.199
Steelers. 224 pounds, power, downhill runner,

00:59:56.460 --> 01:00:01.340
and he's fast. For the Steelers? Yeah. Yeah,

01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:04.000
I'm thinking Steelers have a history of good

01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:09.840
running backs. And two and a quarter bills and

01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:13.400
downhill power, and he's fast. That's going to

01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:16.000
be something to see. Yeah, I think the rest of

01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:19.599
the AFC North is starting to go, we better shore

01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:23.659
up our running defense, I should say. Do you

01:00:23.659 --> 01:00:24.940
think it's the year they're going to take over

01:00:24.940 --> 01:00:27.480
Baltimore? You know, it's starting to look that

01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:30.980
way. Aaron Rodgers is settling in really nicely

01:00:30.980 --> 01:00:36.619
there. And each year, it's probably just my perception,

01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:38.940
but each year Lamar Jackson looks more and more

01:00:38.940 --> 01:00:41.969
frustrated. Yes. Especially late in the season,

01:00:42.030 --> 01:00:44.030
he's getting anxious and frustrated. He's like,

01:00:44.110 --> 01:00:47.130
I've been here before. I can't fall short again.

01:00:47.510 --> 01:00:49.969
I think that's kind of working against him mentally.

01:00:50.289 --> 01:00:53.070
I agree. So Steelers, I think, can swoop in and

01:00:53.070 --> 01:00:55.969
just pass him up. I think this is a year, too.

01:00:56.130 --> 01:00:58.010
I've wondered that, too, and I've got to think

01:00:58.010 --> 01:01:00.849
if Aaron Rodgers could just settle down and be

01:01:00.849 --> 01:01:03.909
good enough. Yeah. Like Peyton Manning even in

01:01:03.909 --> 01:01:06.289
his last couple of years. Yeah. Just good enough.

01:01:06.630 --> 01:01:08.710
Don't make a lot of mistakes. Make a big play

01:01:08.710 --> 01:01:11.150
here and there. The rest of the team could probably

01:01:11.150 --> 01:01:15.789
do the rest. Yeah, yeah. Okay, anyhow. Gunnar

01:01:15.789 --> 01:01:18.989
Helm, tight end for the Titans. He's a seam buster,

01:01:19.030 --> 01:01:23.010
which is awesome for a tight end. Oh, real quick,

01:01:23.190 --> 01:01:27.030
back to Baltimore. I agree 100%. I'm sorry, I

01:01:27.030 --> 01:01:29.650
didn't get to say this. But Lamar Jackson. The

01:01:29.650 --> 01:01:31.690
more we go on, instead of him taking leaps and

01:01:31.690 --> 01:01:34.230
bounds and becoming that guy that takes the team

01:01:34.230 --> 01:01:36.530
on his shoulders, he's continually fumbled the

01:01:36.530 --> 01:01:39.449
ball. I mean, not literally, but, you know, figuratively.

01:01:39.449 --> 01:01:42.050
Yeah, it's a little bit of choking. Yeah. It's

01:01:42.050 --> 01:01:44.309
because he's way too deep in his own head. And

01:01:44.309 --> 01:01:46.289
that's something I wanted to go into last podcast,

01:01:46.329 --> 01:01:48.809
I forgot about it, is, yeah, I don't think that

01:01:48.809 --> 01:01:51.690
he's, I think that now it's become apparent that

01:01:51.690 --> 01:01:53.150
they're going to have to start looking for somebody

01:01:53.150 --> 01:01:55.090
else, and maybe they don't want to sign him that

01:01:55.090 --> 01:01:58.960
big contract again. Yeah, it sounds unthinkable,

01:01:59.019 --> 01:02:02.420
but now it's starting to look definitely possible

01:02:02.420 --> 01:02:04.940
that Lamar Jackson moves on to another team,

01:02:05.099 --> 01:02:08.760
partly for the Ravens so they can change and

01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:11.199
partly for Lamar Jackson so he can have a chance

01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:13.800
at the ring. And a fresh start in a new team,

01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:16.860
he can get back out of his head and say, okay,

01:02:16.980 --> 01:02:19.920
let's start over. I think that would be beneficial

01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:23.019
for Lamar Jackson's career is to find a decent

01:02:23.019 --> 01:02:26.949
team to go to. Yeah, and also for the Ravens

01:02:26.949 --> 01:02:29.349
also, so it started over. So anyhow, I'm sorry

01:02:29.349 --> 01:02:32.389
to go ahead. Interesting stuff. Anyway, this

01:02:32.389 --> 01:02:36.309
Gunnar Helm for the Titans, real good scene buster.

01:02:36.630 --> 01:02:39.309
He makes the tough catches. I mean, in all of

01:02:39.309 --> 01:02:41.650
preseason, he's getting clobbered, and he's still

01:02:41.650 --> 01:02:44.650
holding on to the ball. Really good possession

01:02:44.650 --> 01:02:47.409
guy, and the Titans have needed a tight end for

01:02:47.409 --> 01:02:50.269
years. The tight end position has been a problem

01:02:50.269 --> 01:02:52.510
for Tennessee, and now it looks like they got

01:02:52.510 --> 01:02:55.230
their guy. Yeah, I agree. I would not be surprised

01:02:55.230 --> 01:02:58.130
to see him just rocket up the receiving charts

01:02:58.130 --> 01:03:04.210
this season. All right. We have also projected

01:03:04.210 --> 01:03:08.449
stats for the rookie class. Okay. Passing yards,

01:03:08.769 --> 01:03:14.030
they're projecting Cam Ward with 3 ,821. I think

01:03:14.030 --> 01:03:16.369
that's a little low if things turn out like they're

01:03:16.369 --> 01:03:19.989
saying. Yeah. I think he's fully capable of getting

01:03:19.989 --> 01:03:23.570
4 ,000, but everything's got to go. You know

01:03:23.570 --> 01:03:27.289
what? No, they're probably about right. Jackson

01:03:27.289 --> 01:03:32.329
Dart, 1 ,990 yards. So not even 2 ,000 yards

01:03:32.329 --> 01:03:38.429
in New York. They've got that running back. They've

01:03:38.429 --> 01:03:40.909
got a defense, a decent defense. Maybe they don't

01:03:40.909 --> 01:03:43.110
think he's going to start all the games. That's

01:03:43.110 --> 01:03:45.489
the only thing I can think of, is 2 ,000 is not

01:03:45.489 --> 01:03:48.719
a good amount. Yeah. Okay. And then here's another

01:03:48.719 --> 01:03:50.480
guy. I don't know how to pronounce his last name.

01:03:50.539 --> 01:03:55.280
S -H -O -U -G -H. Shou, Shuff, Shou. Babelstach?

01:03:55.599 --> 01:03:57.639
Shou, yeah. Tyler Shuff. I'll put it as Shou.

01:03:57.659 --> 01:04:01.219
Shou Shuff. They're predicting 1 ,647 yards for

01:04:01.219 --> 01:04:03.960
him. So it doesn't sound like he's starting every

01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:07.820
single game either. No, no. Passing touchdowns.

01:04:07.820 --> 01:04:11.260
Cam Ward is projected to have 23. Sounds about

01:04:11.260 --> 01:04:13.679
right. Yeah, I think that sounds about perfect.

01:04:14.059 --> 01:04:19.099
Jackson Dart, 10. They don't expect him to do

01:04:19.099 --> 01:04:21.760
that. He's not in there the whole time. No, and

01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:25.780
Tyler Shue, eight. So that doesn't sound like

01:04:25.780 --> 01:04:28.099
an every game starter, but it sounds like they're

01:04:28.099 --> 01:04:31.579
going to be a contributor. Okay. Interceptions,

01:04:31.659 --> 01:04:35.559
they're predicting 14 for Cam Ward versus 23

01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:39.139
touchdowns. 23 and 14. I think they're pretty

01:04:39.139 --> 01:04:40.800
good. It's probably about right for a rookie.

01:04:40.980 --> 01:04:43.320
It's more than you want, but it's okay. It's

01:04:43.320 --> 01:04:45.260
not expected for a rookie. We're not talking

01:04:45.260 --> 01:04:48.119
about an Allen or a Mahomes here. We're talking

01:04:48.119 --> 01:04:51.440
about a very good quarterback that has the ability

01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:54.420
to become even better. So I'm thinking they're

01:04:54.420 --> 01:04:56.340
probably about right. These are not pedestrian

01:04:56.340 --> 01:04:59.340
numbers. They're above pedestrian numbers, but

01:04:59.340 --> 01:05:03.260
they're not crazy. Yeah, yeah. It does seem like

01:05:03.260 --> 01:05:05.219
they're trying to make a reasonable, realistic

01:05:05.219 --> 01:05:07.579
prediction. Yeah, so far I like this. Even though

01:05:07.579 --> 01:05:09.260
I thought it was going to be 4 ,000 yards at

01:05:09.260 --> 01:05:11.340
first, I got thinking about it, and that is extremely

01:05:11.340 --> 01:05:16.119
hard to get, even with 17 games. Jackson Dart,

01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:18.400
they're predicting eight interceptions to ten

01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:21.400
touchdowns. That's not very good. No, and his

01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:23.239
name's Jackson Dart, so I'm going to say yeah.

01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:26.119
Yeah, and then Tyler Shue, six interceptions

01:05:26.119 --> 01:05:30.170
versus eight touchdowns. Still not very good,

01:05:30.309 --> 01:05:33.449
but rookies. Yeah, they're rookies. And it coincides

01:05:33.449 --> 01:05:35.869
with the rest of the stats. Yeah. So I know how

01:05:35.869 --> 01:05:39.690
they got it. Yeah. Quarterback rushing yards.

01:05:39.789 --> 01:05:46.340
Okay. Cam Ward, 298. Yeah. Jackson Dart, 183.

01:05:46.900 --> 01:05:49.000
A little high for him, but okay. Well, I guess

01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:50.320
he's going to be running for his life. He might

01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:52.179
be, yeah, scrambling out of the pocket. But,

01:05:52.239 --> 01:05:54.199
you know, he's got to make these yards going

01:05:54.199 --> 01:05:56.300
upfield. He can't just run around back in the

01:05:56.300 --> 01:05:59.780
backfield. Yeah, okay, all right, whatever. Then

01:05:59.780 --> 01:06:02.900
Tyler Shue, 114. I think that's high for Tyler

01:06:02.900 --> 01:06:06.059
Shue, but okay. All of this makes it sound like

01:06:06.059 --> 01:06:07.719
Tyler's not going to be in the game all that

01:06:07.719 --> 01:06:10.119
much. I don't think he is. Yeah, because he looks

01:06:10.119 --> 01:06:11.900
like he's hitting about half the stats everybody

01:06:11.900 --> 01:06:16.559
else. Yeah. Okay. Rushing yards, Ashton Janty,

01:06:16.699 --> 01:06:21.679
1 ,248. That's pretty good for a rookie. That's

01:06:21.679 --> 01:06:23.880
really good. Yeah. I mean, that's about what

01:06:23.880 --> 01:06:26.599
Kareem Hunt did his rookie season, isn't it?

01:06:26.739 --> 01:06:31.280
I think so. Yeah. Okay, yeah. Omari and Hampton,

01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:38.059
1 ,144 yards. And Travion Henderson, 992 yards.

01:06:38.139 --> 01:06:39.739
So all three of these sound like they're going

01:06:39.739 --> 01:06:42.940
to be the featured back. Yeah, I'm going to say

01:06:42.940 --> 01:06:47.079
that as far from what I know of him, which isn't

01:06:47.079 --> 01:06:51.440
a lot, okay, I'm on board with that. For rushing

01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:55.460
touchdowns, Omarion Hampton takes the lead over

01:06:55.460 --> 01:06:58.400
Ashton Janty. He's predicted to have 11. Okay,

01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:01.000
because is he a bigger guy? I think he is a bigger

01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:03.860
guy. Okay. Ashton Janty is predicted to have

01:07:03.860 --> 01:07:08.400
8, and Trayvon Henderson 6, which ain't bad.

01:07:08.659 --> 01:07:11.389
No, that's not bad. Okay, all right. Running

01:07:11.389 --> 01:07:15.789
back receiving yards, Ashton Janty, 484. I can

01:07:15.789 --> 01:07:17.869
see the Raiders throwing to him that much. Yeah,

01:07:17.929 --> 01:07:23.010
I could. R .J. Harvey, 351. I'm not sure who

01:07:23.010 --> 01:07:26.929
he plays for. Yeah, R .J. Harvey. Yeah, but he

01:07:26.929 --> 01:07:28.769
wasn't on any of the other lists, so he must

01:07:28.769 --> 01:07:31.269
be a receiving running back. He's got to be.

01:07:31.750 --> 01:07:34.469
They're predicting him with 351 receiving yards.

01:07:34.829 --> 01:07:38.170
Let's see, who could it be on? I'm going to say

01:07:38.170 --> 01:07:41.360
Jacksonville. That sounds about right. R .J.

01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:45.260
Harvey? Uh -huh. And then Travion Henderson with

01:07:45.260 --> 01:07:53.980
329 receiving yards. Okay. R .J. Harvey. Not

01:07:53.980 --> 01:08:01.920
Steve Harvey. That's his cousin. Yes. Okay. Who

01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:04.579
the hell does he play for? Oh, he's for the Broncos.

01:08:04.579 --> 01:08:06.400
He's a Bronco. All right, we're going to get

01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:10.130
to see him twice. Yep. All right. It looks to

01:08:10.130 --> 01:08:14.210
me like a dunk -off guy. Yeah. Yeah, probably

01:08:14.210 --> 01:08:17.470
third down. Safety valve. Yes, safety valve.

01:08:17.550 --> 01:08:20.510
All right. Okay. Receiving yards for rookie is

01:08:20.510 --> 01:08:24.890
Tetairoa McMillan, 1 ,027. That's good for a

01:08:24.890 --> 01:08:27.970
rookie. I'm going to go, yeah. Who does he play

01:08:27.970 --> 01:08:33.449
for? Oh, gosh, I don't remember. Tyrone McMillan?

01:08:34.090 --> 01:08:39.010
Tetairoa. Tetairoa McMillan. Tatairoa McMillan.

01:08:39.930 --> 01:08:43.149
While that's looking up, Travis Hunter. It took

01:08:43.149 --> 01:08:46.010
me to wholesale tires. Yeah. Okay, all right.

01:08:46.090 --> 01:08:48.170
You know what? I don't care. Go ahead. Travis

01:08:48.170 --> 01:08:52.350
Hunter with 967. Okay. That's Jaguars. And then

01:08:52.350 --> 01:08:57.069
Matthew Golden with 957. Okay. So each one of

01:08:57.069 --> 01:09:00.630
them were right at 1 ,000 yards. They're expecting

01:09:00.630 --> 01:09:04.390
Golden to get seven touchdowns and Tatairoa McMillan

01:09:04.390 --> 01:09:06.909
and Travis Hunter to tie with six touchdowns.

01:09:08.390 --> 01:09:10.569
That would be proportionate to the amount of

01:09:10.569 --> 01:09:12.770
yards they get. I want to know what Worthy is

01:09:12.770 --> 01:09:16.130
projected to get this year. Oh, yeah. Xavier,

01:09:16.270 --> 01:09:18.750
I bet, is over a grand. I'll bet you he's a...

01:09:18.750 --> 01:09:23.470
I would think so. Yeah. Tackles. Number one,

01:09:23.529 --> 01:09:27.289
Malachi Starks, 85. Number two, Will Johnson

01:09:27.289 --> 01:09:32.130
was 65. Number three, Jade Barron with 58. Okay.

01:09:33.050 --> 01:09:35.449
I mean, all these are really decent numbers for

01:09:35.449 --> 01:09:41.529
rookies. There really is. Sacks. Two people are

01:09:41.529 --> 01:09:44.130
tied for first place. Abdul Carter and Jalen

01:09:44.130 --> 01:09:47.590
Walker with six each. Abdul Carter is the guy

01:09:47.590 --> 01:09:51.229
who plays for Giants. And then three people tied

01:09:51.229 --> 01:09:53.949
for second. James Pierce Jr., Michael Williams,

01:09:54.189 --> 01:09:58.130
and Shamar Stewart with five each. Okay. So low

01:09:58.130 --> 01:09:59.970
sack totals for the rookies, but that's all right.

01:10:00.050 --> 01:10:03.970
Okay. And then interceptions. Malachi Starks

01:10:03.970 --> 01:10:06.989
and Judd A. Barron are tied with two. And there's

01:10:06.989 --> 01:10:10.909
nobody else on the list. So looking back on it,

01:10:11.029 --> 01:10:13.170
they're not really expecting, for rookie of the

01:10:13.170 --> 01:10:15.210
year, they're not really expecting these defensive

01:10:15.210 --> 01:10:17.329
backs to make a lot of interceptions. No, I know.

01:10:17.369 --> 01:10:19.109
Because they're only predicting two of them to

01:10:19.109 --> 01:10:23.710
get two. It seems low to me. Yeah. I mean, even

01:10:23.710 --> 01:10:25.829
there may not be any superstars in there, it

01:10:25.829 --> 01:10:28.210
still seems low because someone is going to catch

01:10:28.210 --> 01:10:30.600
fire in there somewhere. So what we're going

01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:33.100
to have to see is like one of these rookie defensive

01:10:33.100 --> 01:10:36.060
backs shutting down a good receiver for a good

01:10:36.060 --> 01:10:40.039
chunk of the game, game after game. I guess that's

01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:41.560
the kind of effort. It doesn't really produce

01:10:41.560 --> 01:10:44.479
stats. Yeah. But what you look at is the lack

01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:46.760
of stats of the person you're guarding. That's

01:10:46.760 --> 01:10:50.140
right. So that might be how they do it. Okay.

01:10:50.199 --> 01:10:52.300
I mean, but I still don't see them looking at

01:10:52.300 --> 01:10:55.439
that and handing out any type of trophy. I mean,

01:10:55.460 --> 01:10:57.180
you know what I mean? Unless you have the sacks.

01:10:58.159 --> 01:11:00.939
Even pressures don't get what they... I mean,

01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:04.159
look at... If Chris Jones got pressure credit,

01:11:04.380 --> 01:11:09.180
jeez. Yeah, I mean, they mention it, but... It's

01:11:09.180 --> 01:11:11.260
not really anything that they put their foot

01:11:11.260 --> 01:11:14.260
on at all. Well, sacks themselves weren't officially

01:11:14.260 --> 01:11:17.279
counted by the league until 1982. That's true.

01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:23.680
That's kind of weird. I also have a readout of

01:11:23.680 --> 01:11:26.180
the key players for each team for this season,

01:11:26.279 --> 01:11:29.569
but they... No quarterbacks, no rookies, and

01:11:29.569 --> 01:11:32.130
no coaches. So you've got to pick somebody else

01:11:32.130 --> 01:11:35.430
from each team. It's too easy to pick a rookie

01:11:35.430 --> 01:11:38.229
or a quarterback. See, I love this because this

01:11:38.229 --> 01:11:40.850
accentuates a lot of the core play and it doesn't

01:11:40.850 --> 01:11:43.729
get that sexy groove. Yeah, and it's somebody

01:11:43.729 --> 01:11:46.989
who was there last year. Okay. All right, so

01:11:46.989 --> 01:11:49.729
I started with the AFC West because I'm biased

01:11:49.729 --> 01:11:52.029
that way. Yeah, me too. Fuck all of the rest

01:11:52.029 --> 01:11:56.130
of them. Excuse me. So for the Denver Broncos.

01:11:57.339 --> 01:12:01.100
cornerback Riley Moss, who they think they're

01:12:01.100 --> 01:12:03.359
going to be the key player. Only three outside

01:12:03.359 --> 01:12:06.039
corners with at least 200 coverage snaps were

01:12:06.039 --> 01:12:09.020
targeted more than Moss last season. Not because

01:12:09.020 --> 01:12:11.800
he's a bad player. He allowed 7 .6 yards per

01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:14.359
target, just above the average of 7 .4 for outside

01:12:14.359 --> 01:12:17.680
corners. But because that's what happens when

01:12:17.680 --> 01:12:21.119
you play opposite Patrick Sertan II. Teams throw

01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:24.170
it at you. Yeah, yeah. Consider the late -season

01:12:24.170 --> 01:12:26.510
game he played against the Bengals in which Cincinnati

01:12:26.510 --> 01:12:31.810
didn't worry about the Jamar Chase -Patrick Sertan

01:12:31.810 --> 01:12:35.170
matchup to target T. Higgins against Moss. Eight

01:12:35.170 --> 01:12:38.229
targets, seven catches, 101 yards, and two scores.

01:12:38.550 --> 01:12:41.130
I kind of call that successful because everyone's

01:12:41.130 --> 01:12:44.270
throwing at you anyhow. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't

01:12:44.270 --> 01:12:46.689
look that good on paper, but if you look at the

01:12:46.689 --> 01:12:49.489
opposite side with Sertan there, and they're

01:12:49.489 --> 01:12:53.109
really... But at that point, Chase is really

01:12:53.109 --> 01:12:56.930
becoming a decoy more than anything. Now, it

01:12:56.930 --> 01:13:00.050
goes on to say that Higgins is possibly the best

01:13:00.050 --> 01:13:02.850
number two wideout in football, and Moss was

01:13:02.850 --> 01:13:07.670
just coming off an MCL sprain. Yeah, okay. So

01:13:07.670 --> 01:13:10.069
they say he's lost a lot of contested catches

01:13:10.069 --> 01:13:12.449
and should expect some positive regression there,

01:13:12.609 --> 01:13:14.869
but the target density isn't going away. They're

01:13:14.869 --> 01:13:16.989
going to keep throwing at him, especially now

01:13:16.989 --> 01:13:19.210
that the Broncos have improved its slot corner.

01:13:19.869 --> 01:13:23.770
with Jade Barron. Defense coordinator Vance Joseph

01:13:23.770 --> 01:13:27.010
wants to play man coverage and blitz. So opposing

01:13:27.010 --> 01:13:29.289
quarterbacks will default to challenging Moss

01:13:29.289 --> 01:13:31.409
with back shoulder fades and dare him to make

01:13:31.409 --> 01:13:34.909
them pay at the catch point. His first season

01:13:34.909 --> 01:13:36.890
as starter was encouraging, but he'll need to

01:13:36.890 --> 01:13:38.710
take another step forward for the Broncos to

01:13:38.710 --> 01:13:41.350
remain atop the defensive charts. So he's got

01:13:41.350 --> 01:13:43.289
room for improvement, but they're thinking he

01:13:43.289 --> 01:13:45.229
probably will improve and become the key player.

01:13:46.109 --> 01:13:47.829
I'm going to put the condom back on the microphone

01:13:47.829 --> 01:13:50.050
because it's starting to get wind noise. A little

01:13:50.050 --> 01:13:52.569
bit, yep. All right, so we are now practicing

01:13:52.569 --> 01:13:56.449
safe podcasting. All right, good, good. We don't

01:13:56.449 --> 01:13:58.689
want any little unwanted podcasts popping up

01:13:58.689 --> 01:14:03.029
anywhere. Yes. For the Kansas City Chiefs, safety

01:14:03.029 --> 01:14:07.189
Jaden Hicks. That's who they predict. You know

01:14:07.189 --> 01:14:10.550
what? Jaden Hicks has really progressed a long

01:14:10.550 --> 01:14:14.380
ways. I really enjoyed watching him last season.

01:14:14.460 --> 01:14:16.539
I can't wait to see him this season. Yeah, yeah.

01:14:17.159 --> 01:14:20.500
He's on his, what, third year? I think so, yeah.

01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:23.039
Yeah. I mean, he's progressing the first two

01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:25.159
so much, I have nothing to believe that he could

01:14:25.159 --> 01:14:27.319
become that shutdown guy that they're expecting.

01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:31.840
Yeah. There are only a few key names for the

01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:33.979
three -time AFC champs as the roster consistently

01:14:33.979 --> 01:14:37.340
churns over. Yeah, that's why they're AFC champs.

01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:40.260
But it included left guard Kingsley Suamata 'ia.

01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:43.199
and corner Christian Fulton. Those both could

01:14:43.199 --> 01:14:47.119
have been the standout guy. But we're focusing

01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:50.659
here on Hicks. Oh, he's a 2024 fourth rounder,

01:14:50.680 --> 01:14:53.020
so this is the second season. Oh, it's the second,

01:14:53.180 --> 01:14:55.859
geez. And he's stepping into Justin Reed's vacated

01:14:55.859 --> 01:14:58.600
shoes. Yes. Now, Devin Bush, who we lost for

01:14:58.600 --> 01:15:01.220
the season, he was not necessarily the starter,

01:15:01.340 --> 01:15:04.420
but he was a sub on safety and special teams

01:15:04.420 --> 01:15:06.680
guy. Yeah, he was a really multi -purpose guy

01:15:06.680 --> 01:15:09.170
that we really needed. So they were expecting

01:15:09.170 --> 01:15:11.829
Jaden Hicks to be the guy anyway this year. Yeah,

01:15:11.850 --> 01:15:15.449
and I did too. I don't know who they're going

01:15:15.449 --> 01:15:17.149
to shuffle around. They're going to shuffle around

01:15:17.149 --> 01:15:23.130
somebody to try to replace Bush somewhat. Reed

01:15:23.130 --> 01:15:25.210
was considered kind of the quarterback of the

01:15:25.210 --> 01:15:27.930
defense. He could play anywhere on the field.

01:15:29.770 --> 01:15:33.609
He could play tight man coverage. He could go

01:15:33.609 --> 01:15:37.510
up against tight ends. Really good on tackling.

01:15:38.189 --> 01:15:40.810
They consider him a consistent mistake eraser.

01:15:41.810 --> 01:15:44.529
He will help you erase a mistake you made last

01:15:44.529 --> 01:15:50.850
play. Okay. Okay. That's cool. He'll probably

01:15:50.850 --> 01:15:55.090
be tested a lot early, but he's probably going

01:15:55.090 --> 01:15:59.659
to step up and shine. I hope so. He's definitely

01:15:59.659 --> 01:16:02.539
the one to watch. Yes, okay. And who is this

01:16:02.539 --> 01:16:05.439
again? Jaden Hicks. Okay, you're on Hicks still.

01:16:05.479 --> 01:16:07.880
Okay, that's what I thought. So for the Raiders,

01:16:07.960 --> 01:16:11.880
it's their center, Jordan Meredith. The Raiders

01:16:11.880 --> 01:16:14.159
plan to start Meredith at center. He's never

01:16:14.159 --> 01:16:17.180
made a regular season snap at center in college

01:16:17.180 --> 01:16:21.300
or in the pros. They have 2024 second rounder

01:16:21.300 --> 01:16:24.539
Jackson Powers Johnson. a college center at Oregon

01:16:24.539 --> 01:16:27.140
on the roster, but Paris Johnson has been moved

01:16:27.140 --> 01:16:31.659
to right guard. Okay. Not sure exactly what they're

01:16:31.659 --> 01:16:33.859
cooking there. Stylistically, Paris Johnson is

01:16:33.859 --> 01:16:36.680
a bulky and boxy lineman, whereas Meredith moves

01:16:36.680 --> 01:16:39.800
a little easier. So you'd think put the guy at

01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:43.180
center and the other guy at guard. Chip Kelly

01:16:43.180 --> 01:16:45.359
apparently has a vision for which body types

01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:47.939
work in which position in his running game. Chip

01:16:47.939 --> 01:16:51.100
Kelly? Chip Kelly. Chip Kelly. Yeah. I didn't

01:16:51.100 --> 01:16:54.520
know he was on this team. Who was his college

01:16:54.520 --> 01:16:58.960
team? Somebody's yelling at their radio right

01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:02.319
now. Radio, listen to me. Go ahead and say it.

01:17:02.380 --> 01:17:05.100
Because what I'm finding out is it pisses people

01:17:05.100 --> 01:17:08.500
off when you act like this is a regular radio

01:17:08.500 --> 01:17:12.279
show. Yeah. We're just having fun. Anyhow, go

01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:15.279
ahead. Believe me, we're not making it done.

01:17:16.779 --> 01:17:18.979
But the interesting thing is here you've got

01:17:18.979 --> 01:17:21.859
a guy. who's snapping the ball at center, who's

01:17:21.859 --> 01:17:23.720
never snapped the ball to a quarterback before.

01:17:23.979 --> 01:17:27.420
Yeah. And he's going into the regular season

01:17:27.420 --> 01:17:29.720
as the starter, doing something he's never done

01:17:29.720 --> 01:17:32.479
before. I don't. I definitely see how this is

01:17:32.479 --> 01:17:36.479
the guy to watch. Yeah. Yes. Now the problem

01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:38.840
is, if it works out, great. If it doesn't work

01:17:38.840 --> 01:17:41.060
out, then you're making changes to your interior

01:17:41.060 --> 01:17:44.420
line. Exactly. In the middle, right in the middle.

01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:47.460
Yeah, it could be bad. This could be a disaster

01:17:47.460 --> 01:17:50.239
in the waiting. Yeah, but he's taking a gamble.

01:17:50.460 --> 01:17:53.000
I guess that's what you got to do. And also,

01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:54.880
I don't know if they have really anything back

01:17:54.880 --> 01:17:57.479
up anyhow. I think it's really kind of, it is

01:17:57.479 --> 01:18:02.840
what it is. For the Chargers, edge rusher Tui

01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:06.960
Pulotu. He had eight and a half sacks last year,

01:18:07.020 --> 01:18:09.180
but hardly anyone knows who he is or heard of

01:18:09.180 --> 01:18:11.210
his name before. And he had eight and a half

01:18:11.210 --> 01:18:13.630
sacks. The most quiet sacks everyone's ever gotten.

01:18:14.689 --> 01:18:17.329
They describe him as a low -pressure, high -sack

01:18:17.329 --> 01:18:21.189
player. So he doesn't necessarily bring a lot

01:18:21.189 --> 01:18:23.630
of pressure. Someone else flushes him out of

01:18:23.630 --> 01:18:25.369
the pocket, and he's kind of like right there.

01:18:25.770 --> 01:18:28.390
Yeah, so it's like he's number two in the one

01:18:28.390 --> 01:18:32.609
-two punch. Okay. He's kind of like Carl Loftus

01:18:32.609 --> 01:18:36.119
does a lot, where... Whenever Jones flushes him

01:18:36.119 --> 01:18:37.960
out, he's there to fucking grab him and throw

01:18:37.960 --> 01:18:39.640
him to the ground. That type of thing. Just like

01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:42.899
Neil Smith and Derek Thomas were. Yeah, and I

01:18:42.899 --> 01:18:45.260
always love that combination. Defensive back,

01:18:45.340 --> 01:18:47.859
linebacker usually, and one goes to the one and

01:18:47.859 --> 01:18:50.500
one goes to the other. And whoever gets there

01:18:50.500 --> 01:18:52.420
first flushes him out for the other guy. Yep,

01:18:52.420 --> 01:18:56.300
yep. They say he's really got a knack for making

01:18:56.300 --> 01:18:58.859
splashy tackles behind the line of scrimmage.

01:18:59.060 --> 01:19:01.319
So that's going to work out really well for him.

01:19:01.739 --> 01:19:04.170
He's also really... He's pretty good at doing

01:19:04.170 --> 01:19:06.949
that in the running game, too. He can stuff the

01:19:06.949 --> 01:19:09.050
running back behind the line. Well, I mean, not

01:19:09.050 --> 01:19:12.189
good for us, but, you know. Now, he's been splitting

01:19:12.189 --> 01:19:15.390
snaps with Bud Dupree and Joey Bosa when Joey

01:19:15.390 --> 01:19:18.569
Bosa was healthy. Bosa is now off the roster.

01:19:18.569 --> 01:19:20.449
He's out again, isn't he? He's off the roster.

01:19:20.529 --> 01:19:23.270
Yeah, he's playing for somebody else now. Oh,

01:19:23.270 --> 01:19:26.569
that's right. Yeah. Did he go to Pittsburgh?

01:19:28.869 --> 01:19:31.270
Pittsburgh or Chicago? I can't remember which

01:19:31.270 --> 01:19:37.069
one. Oh, well, it doesn't matter. So he's going

01:19:37.069 --> 01:19:39.430
to be a full game starter. Should get about 70

01:19:39.430 --> 01:19:43.689
% of the snaps opposite Khalil Mack. And people

01:19:43.689 --> 01:19:45.130
are probably going to be sending most of their

01:19:45.130 --> 01:19:47.369
pass rush protection against Khalil Mack, so

01:19:47.369 --> 01:19:49.229
he's going to get a chance to slip in there.

01:19:49.409 --> 01:19:51.489
I can see that. He can get some pretty good numbers

01:19:51.489 --> 01:19:55.289
just because of that. Yeah. Okay. So, moving

01:19:55.289 --> 01:19:59.470
on to the AFC East. Buffalo Bills, wide receiver

01:19:59.470 --> 01:20:05.939
Keon Coleman. For the 958th consecutive offseason,

01:20:06.239 --> 01:20:08.340
the Bills are looking for a way to break through

01:20:08.340 --> 01:20:11.840
the AFC playoffs. Playoffs? Playoffs. Their offense

01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:15.819
is plenty capable. Joe Brady, offensive coordinator,

01:20:16.140 --> 01:20:18.420
has got a precise passing game and a brawling

01:20:18.420 --> 01:20:21.760
rushing attack with the ever -looming threat

01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:26.659
of Josh the Alien's wizardry. But there's still

01:20:26.659 --> 01:20:28.760
the lurking question. Does this team have a wide

01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:32.970
receiver number one? They haven't since Diggs

01:20:32.970 --> 01:20:36.250
left, but they're like the Chiefs. They still

01:20:36.250 --> 01:20:39.050
win. Yeah, yeah. Well, unless it's, you know,

01:20:39.069 --> 01:20:42.609
playoffs. Playoffs. They've got an excellent

01:20:42.609 --> 01:20:45.850
slot receiver in Khalil Shakir. Shaker Shakir.

01:20:46.069 --> 01:20:48.489
I think it's Shakir. It doesn't matter. Yeah,

01:20:48.529 --> 01:20:51.609
he's the brother of Shakira. Yeah, yes. But Coleman.

01:20:52.310 --> 01:20:54.350
He had to cut his hair, though. He had hair just

01:20:54.350 --> 01:20:56.069
like his sister, and they made him cut it. And

01:20:56.069 --> 01:20:58.869
apparently his hips do lie. Yes, they do. But

01:20:58.869 --> 01:21:00.729
Coleman is the player they really need to emerge

01:21:00.729 --> 01:21:04.489
at the outside. Yes. He's not really good at

01:21:04.489 --> 01:21:07.609
getting separation yet, but once the ball's there,

01:21:07.729 --> 01:21:10.470
he's really good at fighting for the ball and

01:21:10.470 --> 01:21:13.649
getting it. Yeah. He's got to develop the chemistry

01:21:13.649 --> 01:21:16.670
with the quarterback, and Josh Allen has to be

01:21:16.670 --> 01:21:18.750
willing to throw to him even when he's covered.

01:21:19.949 --> 01:21:22.210
Last year, the relationship really wasn't there.

01:21:25.710 --> 01:21:29.609
He could be a good physical number one wide receiver

01:21:29.609 --> 01:21:32.029
that the Bills have needed for a while. Yeah.

01:21:32.670 --> 01:21:35.869
Hopefully not against the Chiefs. Yeah. Well,

01:21:36.029 --> 01:21:41.350
Josh Allen, I mean, if he has that guy, he's

01:21:41.350 --> 01:21:43.569
capable. But the thing that concerns me about

01:21:43.569 --> 01:21:46.510
him, and look, I mean, I'm not an advocate for

01:21:46.510 --> 01:21:48.670
him or nothing, but if this guy doesn't turn

01:21:48.670 --> 01:21:51.449
out to be a wide receiver one, then they're going

01:21:51.449 --> 01:21:55.020
to have issues again. Yeah. So I don't know,

01:21:55.140 --> 01:21:58.020
is it a salary cap issue or is it a drafting

01:21:58.020 --> 01:22:02.100
issue? And it also may be who fits what we've

01:22:02.100 --> 01:22:03.640
already got going here because they don't want

01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:06.359
to change anything in their scheme to fit a new

01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:09.380
play. It's like, here's what we've got going

01:22:09.380 --> 01:22:11.680
on, now we've got to find somebody who fits that

01:22:11.680 --> 01:22:14.640
and who wants to come here and who we think is

01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:16.920
going to do a good job. It can get tough. I'm

01:22:16.920 --> 01:22:18.979
relatively sure there's still our main competition

01:22:18.979 --> 01:22:23.250
in the AFC. Pittsburgh took a nod up, but other

01:22:23.250 --> 01:22:24.989
than that, I think you're going to have to look

01:22:24.989 --> 01:22:27.869
at the usual suspects. Yeah. And I'm not convinced

01:22:27.869 --> 01:22:30.510
on Cincinnati anymore like you. Yeah. They're

01:22:30.510 --> 01:22:31.750
going to have to prove it. They're going to have

01:22:31.750 --> 01:22:34.590
to. One month into the season, we'll get a better

01:22:34.590 --> 01:22:37.449
idea of Cincinnati. Yeah, we will. Yeah. And

01:22:37.449 --> 01:22:42.590
a lot of other teams, too. Yeah. All right. We

01:22:42.590 --> 01:22:45.949
can move on to the AFC. Oh, wait. I am doing

01:22:45.949 --> 01:22:49.649
AFC North. Next is Miami Dolphins. They have

01:22:49.649 --> 01:22:56.260
a cornerback. Awesome name. Storm Duck. How awesome

01:22:56.260 --> 01:22:58.500
is that? Especially to play in Miami. You've

01:22:58.500 --> 01:23:01.300
got a Tango Viola and a Storm Duck. Storm Duck.

01:23:01.539 --> 01:23:09.380
He was a high caliber recruit. His college career

01:23:09.380 --> 01:23:11.699
was marred by injury, but he made the Dolphins

01:23:11.699 --> 01:23:14.680
roster last year as an undrafted free agent and

01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:17.779
played over 300 snaps because of injuries to

01:23:17.779 --> 01:23:20.819
other players. Dolphins did get beat up last

01:23:20.819 --> 01:23:24.680
year. Oh, shit. Yeah. It started with their quarterback

01:23:24.680 --> 01:23:27.880
running straight into the defensive lineman with

01:23:27.880 --> 01:23:31.039
his helmet first. That was just painful to watch.

01:23:31.060 --> 01:23:33.319
I know, and that was like the dumbest thing I've

01:23:33.319 --> 01:23:35.859
seen in football in a long time, too. Here you

01:23:35.859 --> 01:23:40.579
are, you already have problems with having concussions,

01:23:40.579 --> 01:23:42.439
and the first thing your quarterback does is

01:23:42.439 --> 01:23:45.420
run straight into a defensive back and get a

01:23:45.420 --> 01:23:49.189
concussion. Anyhow, go ahead. I'm still reliving

01:23:49.189 --> 01:23:51.149
that. Even though I don't give a shit about him,

01:23:51.229 --> 01:23:57.149
it's like, what the fuck, dude? Anyhow. But Duck

01:23:57.149 --> 01:23:59.970
is now going to be in the starting role. They've

01:23:59.970 --> 01:24:02.090
retooled the secondary. He might even be quarterback

01:24:02.090 --> 01:24:09.729
one. Seriously? Might be. The front seven should

01:24:09.729 --> 01:24:13.350
actually be pretty solid. Any ounce of quality

01:24:13.350 --> 01:24:15.470
play from the defensive backfield would go a

01:24:15.470 --> 01:24:17.829
long way into maximizing the effect of that pass.

01:24:17.890 --> 01:24:19.390
Well, you know what? I don't think they really

01:24:19.390 --> 01:24:23.170
– yeah, okay. The QB1 – or not QB1, but the quarterback

01:24:23.170 --> 01:24:28.789
CB1. Yeah, you know what? He could be. Yeah,

01:24:28.789 --> 01:24:30.689
could be. We'll see. I mean, he's got a year's

01:24:30.689 --> 01:24:35.189
experience. Yeah. Wide receiver – oh, New England

01:24:35.189 --> 01:24:39.270
Patriots wide receiver Stephon Diggs. Now – The

01:24:39.270 --> 01:24:41.890
entire thing of him being caught on camera distributing

01:24:41.890 --> 01:24:44.529
pink cocaine to a bunch of ladies on that boat

01:24:44.529 --> 01:24:48.409
has completely disappeared. They reported on

01:24:48.409 --> 01:24:50.970
it like once or twice, and now it's completely

01:24:50.970 --> 01:24:53.029
disappeared. No one's talking about it and was

01:24:53.029 --> 01:24:55.029
bringing it up. So apparently the right people

01:24:55.029 --> 01:24:58.789
were paid off. He loggered up something. And

01:24:58.789 --> 01:25:01.609
that whole drug thing is going away for Stephon

01:25:01.609 --> 01:25:03.130
Diggs, even to the point where we're not even

01:25:03.130 --> 01:25:05.210
supposed to talk about it or admit it actually

01:25:05.210 --> 01:25:08.239
even happened. Isn't that weird? That's fucked

01:25:08.239 --> 01:25:12.739
up. There's your NFL cover -up. Yeah. Yeah. All

01:25:12.739 --> 01:25:14.800
right, they're saying Patriots were very encouraged

01:25:14.800 --> 01:25:17.399
by a rookie season out of quarterback Drake May.

01:25:18.439 --> 01:25:21.619
He looked better than the other ones. He endured

01:25:21.619 --> 01:25:24.159
a terrible offensive line, terrible receiver

01:25:24.159 --> 01:25:28.399
play, not much offensive coordination, but he

01:25:28.399 --> 01:25:30.779
still looked the part of a playmaker and a processor.

01:25:33.319 --> 01:25:35.859
The Patriots got heavily involved in the wide

01:25:35.859 --> 01:25:37.699
receiver market this year, veteran receiver,

01:25:37.939 --> 01:25:41.079
and they landed Stephon Diggs, 31 -year -old

01:25:41.079 --> 01:25:43.260
Stephon Diggs, to be the number one wide out.

01:25:44.079 --> 01:25:46.859
He's recovering from a torn ACL that happened

01:25:46.859 --> 01:25:50.619
in week eight last year. He was averaging two

01:25:50.619 --> 01:25:55.500
yards per route run last season and targeted

01:25:55.500 --> 01:26:00.350
only 25 % of the time. Okay. But... Both were

01:26:00.350 --> 01:26:02.770
above the league average for an NFL wide receiver.

01:26:03.930 --> 01:26:07.630
Two yards per play. Per play? That includes,

01:26:08.229 --> 01:26:10.750
I mean, that's every time you run a pass round,

01:26:10.869 --> 01:26:13.189
whether they throw the ball at you or not. I

01:26:13.189 --> 01:26:16.210
guess that's not bad. I guess so. You'd want

01:26:16.210 --> 01:26:18.489
it to be three. If that was a running back, you'd

01:26:18.489 --> 01:26:20.909
be like, fuck that. Yeah, you need three, three

01:26:20.909 --> 01:26:23.210
and a half. Yeah. So three times and you've got

01:26:23.210 --> 01:26:24.869
a first down. The theory behind running backs

01:26:24.869 --> 01:26:27.510
is you can run them three times and get a first

01:26:27.510 --> 01:26:32.680
down. That's what they want. Wow. Okay. They

01:26:32.680 --> 01:26:35.380
say last year he wasn't really used as much downfield.

01:26:35.720 --> 01:26:39.420
They say each time he was thrown the ball, the

01:26:39.420 --> 01:26:41.600
ball traveled an average of less than nine yards

01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:44.199
in the air. So he really wasn't all that far

01:26:44.199 --> 01:26:45.880
from the line of scrimmage when he was catching

01:26:45.880 --> 01:26:51.600
the ball. Okay. But they also had his teammates,

01:26:51.699 --> 01:26:54.939
Nico Collins and Tank Dell. They were catching

01:26:54.939 --> 01:27:00.449
a lot of the deep stuff. Okay. They're saying

01:27:00.449 --> 01:27:02.390
they pretty much, I mean, as a wide receiver

01:27:02.390 --> 01:27:04.949
one, you want them to run a lot of deep and vertical

01:27:04.949 --> 01:27:07.670
routes, but they're probably not with Stephon

01:27:07.670 --> 01:27:11.369
Diggs. They want to hide him from the pressure

01:27:11.369 --> 01:27:15.869
and protect him from those long vertical routes.

01:27:17.050 --> 01:27:19.590
They want to use formation and motion to hide

01:27:19.590 --> 01:27:21.949
him from the corners of the line so he's back

01:27:21.949 --> 01:27:26.369
to see movement around a bunch. It's the old

01:27:26.369 --> 01:27:29.460
moving target philosophy. Yeah. If you've got

01:27:29.460 --> 01:27:31.500
him lined up as number one and you know he's

01:27:31.500 --> 01:27:33.779
running down the field most of the time, then

01:27:33.779 --> 01:27:36.979
it's too obvious. So they're going to do some

01:27:36.979 --> 01:27:42.020
razzle -dazzle on him, I guess. Okay. Last team

01:27:42.020 --> 01:27:44.140
of the AFC North, the New York Jets, running

01:27:44.140 --> 01:27:46.939
back Brees Hall, who had a really good year last

01:27:46.939 --> 01:27:50.720
year. Okay. Jets have made no secret of their

01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:52.539
intention to run the football as much as they

01:27:52.539 --> 01:27:54.760
can this season. They have a strong interior

01:27:54.760 --> 01:27:58.180
line. a great rushing quarterback in Justin Fields,

01:27:58.359 --> 01:28:01.800
and a scary two -headed backfield. Is Fields

01:28:01.800 --> 01:28:06.500
a starter? Yeah. Okay. They've got Reese Hall

01:28:06.500 --> 01:28:11.159
and second -year pro Braylon Allen. Hall averaged

01:28:11.159 --> 01:28:15.560
5 .8 yards per carry through Week 7 in 2022,

01:28:16.020 --> 01:28:18.840
his rookie season, and then ACL and meniscus

01:28:18.840 --> 01:28:23.399
tear ended that. Since the injury, he's been

01:28:23.399 --> 01:28:26.239
kind of struggling to find an explosiveness at

01:28:26.239 --> 01:28:29.840
near the same rate. But when you've got a rushing

01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:32.340
quarterback and another good running back, they

01:28:32.340 --> 01:28:35.260
can't afford to send everybody at you. So he's

01:28:35.260 --> 01:28:36.960
going to have a little more time to get up to

01:28:36.960 --> 01:28:46.479
speed and get out of the spot. Last year when

01:28:46.479 --> 01:28:51.220
he had Aaron Rodgers there, they knew Aaron wasn't

01:28:51.220 --> 01:28:55.390
going to run. Yeah. So nobody ever tried to contain

01:28:55.390 --> 01:28:57.850
his scrambling. This year that's going to be

01:28:57.850 --> 01:29:00.210
a thing, so give him one more chance. Well, Justin

01:29:00.210 --> 01:29:05.390
Fields is a pretty athletic quarterback. So it

01:29:05.390 --> 01:29:07.550
would be interesting to see what he can do if

01:29:07.550 --> 01:29:10.449
they let him run more in the system like it looks

01:29:10.449 --> 01:29:13.050
like they're planning on doing. Yeah. So, all

01:29:13.050 --> 01:29:15.750
right. And they also think that he can be one

01:29:15.750 --> 01:29:17.810
of the league's best pass catchers at running

01:29:17.810 --> 01:29:24.100
back. Okay. With all that, he looks to have a

01:29:24.100 --> 01:29:27.279
good breakout here. Okay. Oh, that was the AFC

01:29:27.279 --> 01:29:30.800
East. I called it the North. Oh. I didn't notice.

01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:35.579
So we can keep going with these key player predictions,

01:29:35.640 --> 01:29:37.100
or if you want to move on to something else,

01:29:37.119 --> 01:29:39.739
we can save these for next week. Let's save them

01:29:39.739 --> 01:29:41.819
for next week, and do you want to go to the music

01:29:41.819 --> 01:29:44.859
creeps maybe? Sure. All right. Oh, wait a minute,

01:29:44.939 --> 01:29:46.340
wait a minute. Let's do a couple of predictions

01:29:46.340 --> 01:29:49.100
on the key games first. Oh, yeah. And then we'll

01:29:49.100 --> 01:29:55.739
go to... Music creeps. All right. First off,

01:29:55.840 --> 01:29:59.720
we have Thursday, September 4, 2025. Amazon.

01:30:00.319 --> 01:30:04.300
No, actually, not Amazon. NBC and Peacock. So

01:30:04.300 --> 01:30:10.399
it's Dallas and Philadelphia. You know, I think

01:30:10.399 --> 01:30:12.539
Dallas is going to give them one fuck of a fight.

01:30:13.220 --> 01:30:15.579
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised with that. I really

01:30:15.579 --> 01:30:17.439
think the Eagles are going to win. I do, too.

01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:19.939
But I think it's going to come down to last minute,

01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:21.420
and people are going to be scratching their head

01:30:21.420 --> 01:30:23.640
going, what happened? I think it's going to be

01:30:23.640 --> 01:30:25.500
a really good game to be the first one of the

01:30:25.500 --> 01:30:26.979
season. It's probably going to wind up being

01:30:26.979 --> 01:30:28.359
a really good choice. It's going to be a fist

01:30:28.359 --> 01:30:32.199
fight, yeah. Yeah, division rivals, a lot of

01:30:32.199 --> 01:30:35.760
bad blood, and Eagles are used to beating up

01:30:35.760 --> 01:30:39.479
on the Cowboys lately. I think the Cowboys are

01:30:39.479 --> 01:30:41.640
actually going to answer back a little bit, but

01:30:41.640 --> 01:30:43.939
the Eagles are going to end up winning this.

01:30:44.159 --> 01:30:46.020
But it's going to be closer than people think.

01:30:46.180 --> 01:30:50.350
Yeah, I'm going to say. Less than six. Five or

01:30:50.350 --> 01:30:52.569
fewer points between them. I'm going to say four

01:30:52.569 --> 01:30:56.909
-point difference at the end. Dallas is going

01:30:56.909 --> 01:30:58.869
to need a quarter, but, you know, a touchdown.

01:30:59.850 --> 01:31:02.590
And they're at, like, the 30 -yard line, and

01:31:02.590 --> 01:31:04.609
Dak is going to throw an interception with two

01:31:04.609 --> 01:31:09.310
seconds left. All right. The $240 million man.

01:31:09.630 --> 01:31:12.750
Yes. I wish him all the best, but I just don't

01:31:12.750 --> 01:31:15.390
think that that was. He's the reason we got Mahomes.

01:31:15.529 --> 01:31:18.880
One of the reasons. That's true. All right. Friday,

01:31:19.100 --> 01:31:24.819
September 5th. And this will be on Fox. So we

01:31:24.819 --> 01:31:28.680
get to listen to the amazing. Who is it? Is it

01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:31.199
still Buckingham? No, no, no. It's not Buckingham.

01:31:31.340 --> 01:31:34.180
That's ABC. I can't even remember who the hell

01:31:34.180 --> 01:31:37.800
is on Fox now. As long as it's not Tony Romo.

01:31:37.819 --> 01:31:40.560
No, it isn't. That's CBS. Well, anyhow, who are

01:31:40.560 --> 01:31:44.149
the fucks on it? All right, maybe. Who? What

01:31:44.149 --> 01:31:47.069
network is Brady on? I think it is Brady. Oh,

01:31:47.069 --> 01:31:50.310
that'd be awesome. Okay. All right, well, this

01:31:50.310 --> 01:31:52.989
could be in Brazil. So you can go by and say

01:31:52.989 --> 01:31:56.789
hi to Gazelle, Giselle, whatever. Yeah, Gazelle

01:31:56.789 --> 01:31:59.029
Munchkin. Yeah, Munchkin, yeah. You can go say

01:31:59.029 --> 01:32:01.329
hi to Munchkin when he's in that area. Yeah.

01:32:01.449 --> 01:32:04.550
So this Kansas City at Los Angeles, they call

01:32:04.550 --> 01:32:07.569
it an away game for Kansas City in Brazil. Well,

01:32:07.649 --> 01:32:09.670
it would have been an away game in Los Angeles

01:32:09.670 --> 01:32:11.920
at the Chargers Stadium. But they're getting

01:32:11.920 --> 01:32:15.000
sued. Yes, they are. Because they sold all their

01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:17.619
season ticket holders a ticket to that game and

01:32:17.619 --> 01:32:21.859
then moved it to Brazil. Yeah. Oops. Oops. And

01:32:21.859 --> 01:32:26.220
no refunds. No refunds. No refunds. I'm going

01:32:26.220 --> 01:32:28.479
with Kansas City, but again, a fist fight. Oh,

01:32:28.479 --> 01:32:30.140
yeah. That's going to be a tough game. It's going

01:32:30.140 --> 01:32:32.460
to be an ugly game. Yeah, yeah. You're going

01:32:32.460 --> 01:32:35.159
to see some long passes from both of them. You're

01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:37.140
going to see some pretty passes from both of

01:32:37.140 --> 01:32:38.739
them. but you're going to see a lot of blood

01:32:38.739 --> 01:32:40.399
and guts on this, and it's going to be left on

01:32:40.399 --> 01:32:42.000
the field, and it's going to be a trench fight.

01:32:42.119 --> 01:32:45.539
It's not going to be an elite throw -a -thon.

01:32:45.640 --> 01:32:48.140
It's not going to be a pass -a -thon. Very physical.

01:32:48.300 --> 01:32:51.560
The Chargers always hit the Chiefs hard. Yeah,

01:32:51.600 --> 01:32:53.880
they're going to do nothing different. It's going

01:32:53.880 --> 01:32:56.260
to be the same, fist fight. Two weaknesses in

01:32:56.260 --> 01:32:58.460
the defense I noticed during the preseason, which

01:32:58.460 --> 01:33:00.479
doesn't necessarily mean everything for the regular

01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:03.479
season, but the Chiefs' running defense looked

01:33:03.479 --> 01:33:08.819
a little suspect. And they got suckered by bootleg

01:33:08.819 --> 01:33:12.539
plays over and over and over. And that was something

01:33:12.539 --> 01:33:14.859
Elway used to do to us back in the 70s. He used

01:33:14.859 --> 01:33:17.800
to kill us with that. No, not 70s, 80s. And,

01:33:17.800 --> 01:33:20.920
yeah, I remember yelling at the TVs, like, he's

01:33:20.920 --> 01:33:23.319
running bootlegs about every third play, and

01:33:23.319 --> 01:33:26.239
you still can't stop him. You just have no idea

01:33:26.239 --> 01:33:29.100
how to stop a bootleg. I think that'd be great

01:33:29.100 --> 01:33:30.819
for Mahomes, but they don't want to do that.

01:33:30.899 --> 01:33:32.939
No, no, they've made the decision. They're not.

01:33:33.990 --> 01:33:35.890
intentionally calling him a Holmes running play.

01:33:35.949 --> 01:33:38.050
Well, ever since he hurt his knee in Denver.

01:33:38.569 --> 01:33:41.710
Like, no more of that. So the quarterback sneak

01:33:41.710 --> 01:33:44.470
is off the table. I would expect the Chargers

01:33:44.470 --> 01:33:49.329
to try to explore the running game against the

01:33:49.329 --> 01:33:51.869
Chiefs. And I think in the first quarter we're

01:33:51.869 --> 01:33:53.569
going to see a lot of bootlegs. And if they work,

01:33:53.710 --> 01:33:56.329
they're going to keep doing them. And that's

01:33:56.329 --> 01:34:00.130
going to be tough. Unless Justin Herbert ends

01:34:00.130 --> 01:34:03.640
up bloody on the field with a leg missing. I

01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:07.060
can see that happening, too. All right, and another

01:34:07.060 --> 01:34:09.819
game that I find interesting. It may not be a

01:34:09.819 --> 01:34:12.220
premier game, but how about the Bengals at Cleveland?

01:34:13.239 --> 01:34:20.300
That will be a nice test. Yeah. Not in any way

01:34:20.300 --> 01:34:22.159
a trap game because they're division rivals.

01:34:22.260 --> 01:34:25.920
They know each other. I think for both games,

01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:29.579
it's going to be an opportunity to show who they

01:34:29.579 --> 01:34:32.500
are and prove a point. And I think that's going

01:34:32.500 --> 01:34:35.520
to be a slugfest. That's going to be almost as

01:34:35.520 --> 01:34:37.920
much a slugfest as Cleveland -Pittsburgh is.

01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:40.000
I think so too, yeah. Cleveland -Pittsburgh is

01:34:40.000 --> 01:34:43.699
always a very physical, tough game. I'm going

01:34:43.699 --> 01:34:46.300
to give it to Natty just by a little bit. I would

01:34:46.300 --> 01:34:49.180
think so because Cleveland's starting all over

01:34:49.180 --> 01:34:51.760
quarterback again. Yeah, unless you see some

01:34:51.760 --> 01:34:54.550
really determined people. They're like, this

01:34:54.550 --> 01:34:56.970
is not the year, and we're tired of being the

01:34:56.970 --> 01:34:59.210
butt of the joke. Yeah. I think that it's going

01:34:59.210 --> 01:35:01.109
to be Natty, but it's not going to be easy, of

01:35:01.109 --> 01:35:03.369
course. Yeah. I mean, the big advantage there

01:35:03.369 --> 01:35:06.350
right off the bat is Cleveland is unsettled at

01:35:06.350 --> 01:35:09.369
quarterback, and Cincinnati has the guy, and

01:35:09.369 --> 01:35:12.770
he's been the guy, and only injury has kept him

01:35:12.770 --> 01:35:16.250
from having a great season in his career. I mean,

01:35:16.270 --> 01:35:18.949
he's been playing really well. He's playing smart

01:35:18.949 --> 01:35:22.479
football no matter what the team's doing. He

01:35:22.479 --> 01:35:24.420
occasionally opens his mouth when he shouldn't.

01:35:24.460 --> 01:35:29.579
But a lot of players do that. But Joe Burrow

01:35:29.579 --> 01:35:31.960
has never been the issue in Cleveland. I mean,

01:35:31.979 --> 01:35:34.800
in Cincinnati. He's an issue for Cleveland, I'd

01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:39.300
put it that way. Burrow's got it all, and he

01:35:39.300 --> 01:35:41.840
just needs the supporting cast to get it done.

01:35:46.319 --> 01:35:48.979
It's going to be interesting to see how Cincinnati

01:35:48.979 --> 01:35:51.539
handles everything that's been happening and

01:35:51.539 --> 01:35:54.479
whether they're going to rise to the top or settle

01:35:54.479 --> 01:35:56.979
for mediocrity. Yeah. I mean, realistically,

01:35:57.239 --> 01:36:00.680
in the AFC, the only two quarterbacks I see that

01:36:00.680 --> 01:36:03.520
can outplay and outmaneuver and outthink Mahomes

01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:07.439
at this point are Josh Allen and Joe Burrow.

01:36:07.520 --> 01:36:10.699
Yeah, yeah. All these J names are confusing me.

01:36:10.779 --> 01:36:15.920
Josh, Joe, Justin, Jalen. Yeah. It's a lot of

01:36:15.920 --> 01:36:18.100
J -name quarterbacks. It is, isn't it? Anyway,

01:36:18.220 --> 01:36:23.979
but, yeah, I mean, Lamar Jackson is looking too

01:36:23.979 --> 01:36:27.800
distracted. Justin Herbert looks like he doesn't

01:36:27.800 --> 01:36:31.060
quite have the confidence. I haven't seen enough

01:36:31.060 --> 01:36:34.020
out of Bo Nix yet. No. But, yeah, those two,

01:36:34.140 --> 01:36:39.079
Allen and Burrow, are still the perennial roadblocks

01:36:39.079 --> 01:36:41.180
in the Chiefs' way. And, of course, we're the

01:36:41.180 --> 01:36:45.479
roadblock in their way. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with

01:36:45.479 --> 01:36:47.399
everything you said. Pretty much continue on

01:36:47.399 --> 01:36:52.060
as a lather, rinse, repeat. You know, why not

01:36:52.060 --> 01:36:54.939
try it? It worked last year. Keep trying it until

01:36:54.939 --> 01:36:58.220
it blows up. Until it blows up. How about Detroit

01:36:58.220 --> 01:37:02.260
at Green Bay? Right off the bat. I'd have to

01:37:02.260 --> 01:37:05.899
say Green Bay is going to handle them. As high

01:37:05.899 --> 01:37:08.600
as I was on Detroit last season, I just don't

01:37:08.600 --> 01:37:11.079
see it anymore. Oh, no, I don't either. I see

01:37:11.079 --> 01:37:13.989
the team crumbling. Yeah, it's like a one -hit

01:37:13.989 --> 01:37:16.890
wonder in music. They had their hit. They had

01:37:16.890 --> 01:37:19.250
their season. They had their great time being

01:37:19.250 --> 01:37:21.350
talked about and having the enormously successful

01:37:21.350 --> 01:37:26.729
record. But they just fell apart so badly in

01:37:26.729 --> 01:37:32.850
the postseason. Yep. Playoffs. Playoffs. So,

01:37:32.930 --> 01:37:35.090
yeah, I see green. And it's going to be a good

01:37:35.090 --> 01:37:39.289
game for probably about three quarters. And then

01:37:39.289 --> 01:37:41.949
the fourth quarter, it's going to get... I think

01:37:41.949 --> 01:37:44.350
just kind of foregone conclusion at that point.

01:37:44.550 --> 01:37:48.210
I could see Green Bay just putting their foot

01:37:48.210 --> 01:37:50.949
down, not necessarily to score points, but keeping

01:37:50.949 --> 01:37:52.949
Detroit from scoring points. I think it's going

01:37:52.949 --> 01:37:55.170
to be about an eight -point difference when it's

01:37:55.170 --> 01:37:57.689
all said and done. That sounds about right. More

01:37:57.689 --> 01:37:59.550
than a touchdown. Yeah, more than a touchdown.

01:38:00.550 --> 01:38:03.609
Houston at Los Angeles. That is an interesting

01:38:03.609 --> 01:38:07.529
match. Wow. You know, I really kind of lost my

01:38:07.529 --> 01:38:11.140
sense for Houston. I'm going to presume that

01:38:11.140 --> 01:38:13.380
they're as tough as they were last year and that

01:38:13.380 --> 01:38:16.279
C .J. Stroud is going to be better than he was

01:38:16.279 --> 01:38:20.779
last year. The Rams are, I don't know, I think

01:38:20.779 --> 01:38:22.859
the Rams have shaken up their organization a

01:38:22.859 --> 01:38:26.300
little more than the Houston Texans have. And

01:38:26.300 --> 01:38:29.899
home field advantage, I've never really bought

01:38:29.899 --> 01:38:32.300
that in Los Angeles because there's just too

01:38:32.300 --> 01:38:34.239
much else to do in L .A. than watch a football

01:38:34.239 --> 01:38:36.579
game. Nobody cares. When they keep showing the

01:38:36.579 --> 01:38:40.090
same person, over and over in the stands, then

01:38:40.090 --> 01:38:42.409
they're trying to get something across to people.

01:38:42.649 --> 01:38:44.470
You know what I mean? They keep showing that

01:38:44.470 --> 01:38:46.909
woman that's, like, such a fan. Yeah, they're

01:38:46.909 --> 01:38:48.729
trying to divert from, like, there's not really

01:38:48.729 --> 01:38:51.510
that much fandom in that. It's like when you

01:38:51.510 --> 01:38:55.550
go to Green Bay to play, about 20 % of the whole

01:38:55.550 --> 01:38:58.510
town is in that stadium. Yes. When you go to

01:38:58.510 --> 01:39:01.069
Los Angeles to play a football game, about one

01:39:01.069 --> 01:39:04.029
-third of 1 % of the people of the city are in

01:39:04.029 --> 01:39:06.359
that stadium. And less are watching the game.

01:39:06.399 --> 01:39:08.579
Yeah, and it's because you get a town that big,

01:39:08.659 --> 01:39:10.739
you're going to find at least some people who

01:39:10.739 --> 01:39:12.739
are like, yeah, whatever, let's watch a football

01:39:12.739 --> 01:39:15.560
game. But they're not really into it. Season

01:39:15.560 --> 01:39:19.800
ticket holders are, I'm sure. But just the home

01:39:19.800 --> 01:39:22.579
field advantage just, to me, has never been there

01:39:22.579 --> 01:39:24.880
for Los Angeles. I'm going to go with the Houston

01:39:24.880 --> 01:39:27.800
because I just think that they – Houston Strouds.

01:39:27.859 --> 01:39:30.699
The Houston Strouds. I think if this is that

01:39:30.699 --> 01:39:34.670
year that they try to become elite. Yeah. I don't

01:39:34.670 --> 01:39:35.550
know if it's going to work. I've always liked

01:39:35.550 --> 01:39:37.949
the Houston Texans. I do too. I like it that

01:39:37.949 --> 01:39:40.529
they use the Chiefs' old name. I do too. And

01:39:40.529 --> 01:39:43.729
they ask the Chiefs very politely and with dignity.

01:39:44.010 --> 01:39:48.010
I think their uniforms are nice colors and good

01:39:48.010 --> 01:39:50.810
looking. I like their logo. I do too. I've liked

01:39:50.810 --> 01:39:53.109
everything about the Houston Texans except when

01:39:53.109 --> 01:39:54.069
they beat the Chiefs. Except for Sean Watson.

01:39:54.510 --> 01:39:57.399
Well, yeah, yeah. They got rid of him, so that's

01:39:57.399 --> 01:40:00.779
credit for them. But we did go up 28 -24, being

01:40:00.779 --> 01:40:05.659
down 24 -0 in the divisional round. Yeah. No,

01:40:05.739 --> 01:40:07.800
that wasn't even divisional. No, I think that

01:40:07.800 --> 01:40:09.279
was the first round we were in. The first round,

01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:12.979
yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but they'll never be able to

01:40:12.979 --> 01:40:16.140
outlive that, you know. So, all right. And then,

01:40:16.199 --> 01:40:19.560
so do you agree, Texans? Yeah, I'll say the Texans

01:40:19.560 --> 01:40:25.779
by four. More than a field goal. Less than a

01:40:25.779 --> 01:40:28.619
touchdown. Four or five points. I agree. How

01:40:28.619 --> 01:40:32.260
about Baltimore at Buffalo? Buffalo. Buffalo.

01:40:32.500 --> 01:40:38.140
Yeah. And then Minnesota at Chicago. I'm going

01:40:38.140 --> 01:40:40.819
to go Minnesota. That's it? Yeah, I would be

01:40:40.819 --> 01:40:46.539
tempted to jump on Minnesota too, but I've got

01:40:46.539 --> 01:40:51.659
to think about Chicago. Well, Chicago looked

01:40:51.659 --> 01:40:55.100
great. and preseason, but they also played the

01:40:55.100 --> 01:40:59.300
Bills and the Chiefs. Yeah, and then Chicago's

01:40:59.300 --> 01:41:02.060
head coach made that comment about his number

01:41:02.060 --> 01:41:04.479
ones versus somebody else's number twos or vice

01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:07.920
versa, and that made Minnesota feel like they

01:41:07.920 --> 01:41:10.479
were being disrespected. Yes. So, yeah, there's

01:41:10.479 --> 01:41:12.640
that bulletin board material for the first game

01:41:12.640 --> 01:41:14.119
of the season. Yeah, I'll go with Minnesota.

01:41:14.500 --> 01:41:18.140
Just because their defense, really. And also

01:41:18.140 --> 01:41:22.720
Caleb Williams hasn't shown it to me. Man, I

01:41:22.720 --> 01:41:24.420
hope that guy catches on fire. I would love to.

01:41:24.479 --> 01:41:26.560
He's got all the talent in the whole world. He's

01:41:26.560 --> 01:41:29.300
a guy you would love to see just fucking start

01:41:29.300 --> 01:41:32.520
making it. I would love to see a future NFL where

01:41:32.520 --> 01:41:38.800
Caleb Williams and Jalen Hurts and the guy at

01:41:38.800 --> 01:41:41.319
the Panthers, Bryce Hall. Bryce Young. Bryce

01:41:41.319 --> 01:41:44.840
Young. And the Commander's quarterback. Jaden

01:41:44.840 --> 01:41:48.489
Daniels. And Shadur Sanders. are like the hot

01:41:48.489 --> 01:41:50.869
guys in the NFL that everyone's talking about.

01:41:50.970 --> 01:41:53.550
That would be so fun. And the gameplay would

01:41:53.550 --> 01:41:56.810
be so amazingly fun if those five quarterbacks

01:41:56.810 --> 01:41:59.409
just like caught on fire and changed the game

01:41:59.409 --> 01:42:02.170
again. Man, yeah. I really would like all these

01:42:02.170 --> 01:42:03.569
guys to succeed. And then you're looking at the

01:42:03.569 --> 01:42:07.390
Mahomes and the Allens and the Burroughs as the

01:42:07.390 --> 01:42:10.210
wise elders. They'd be like Eddie Van Halen.

01:42:10.489 --> 01:42:12.369
You know, he invented the tapping, and then we

01:42:12.369 --> 01:42:14.829
all learned it and changed music forever. That's

01:42:14.829 --> 01:42:16.609
going to be in my homes is going to be the Eddie

01:42:16.609 --> 01:42:19.029
Van Halen of football. Yeah, yeah. Everyone's

01:42:19.029 --> 01:42:21.010
trying to figure out how he's doing it. I'm trying

01:42:21.010 --> 01:42:23.210
so hard to get the music creeps in here, I guess.

01:42:23.329 --> 01:42:26.130
I know. All right, well, I think we're pretty

01:42:26.130 --> 01:42:28.470
much done with the sports bastards. And I've

01:42:28.470 --> 01:42:30.890
got to go take a leak anyway. Okay. Everybody,

01:42:31.010 --> 01:42:32.970
thank you very much for listening. We really

01:42:32.970 --> 01:42:35.250
appreciate it, and, you know, we put a labor

01:42:35.250 --> 01:42:38.979
of love into this, and go fuck yourself. Oh,

01:42:38.979 --> 01:42:42.220
no. Looks like the show's over, kids. Mark has

01:42:42.220 --> 01:42:45.039
explosive diarrhea and can't afford a wireless

01:42:45.039 --> 01:42:48.680
mic. Fear not, assholes. They'll be back invading

01:42:48.680 --> 01:42:49.600
your ear holes soon.