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Bag alert bag alert bag alert bag alert folks. That's right. I was gonna put out an episode yesterday

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But I decided to redo it because there's a lot of things we have to over as well as I was finally able to watch the Eagles

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And Patriots game so you might as well want to just you know, tweak, you know, just just tweak a few things, you know

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So Jok, you know gets paid Matthew Jude on gets trade to the Falcons

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Justin Simmons signs with the Falcons, right? Okay, Jordan Phillips gets trade to the Cowboys Carl Lawson signs with the Cowboys

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Matt Milano tore his bicep and we have to talk about the Eagles and Patriots game last night all of this and more

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Okay on the 24th episode of the greatest football podcast you could possibly listen to on a day-to-day basis

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I am your host your bag world domus your chief bag meteorologist

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Okay, your GM who still is not on the team right now, but has assisted GM interviews lined up going into the weekend

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And yes, we are still in New York. I'm still eating a chopped cheese the Occhi way

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You already know what I'm getting ready say. It's K. Let's lock in

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All right folks, so let's just get into the news. Okay, so Jok Jeremiah

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I don't even know how to pronounce his his last name, but everybody just called I well

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I called him Jock some people call him Jok

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Limebacker for the Browns inked a three-year thirty nine million dollar extension with him. He gets 25 million in guarantees

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And he's making 13 million a year now when you look at his stats

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Last season was his best season so far two picks six past deflections

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One force fumble three three and a half sacks and five quarter back kids now when you're looking at those stats

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You're probably thinking those are you know, those are okay. Those are good

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Those aren't you know, the best stats for those are really good stats. They are

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Because Jock is basically a Swiss army knife for the linebacker positions

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Especially for that Browns defense the way that they use him in various situations

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sort of enhances

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his skill set because

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And and I only remember this because I was a big Jock fan when he was when he was coming out of Notre Dame

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The way that Notre Dame use them is sort of like the same way that the Browns use them, right?

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so there'll be times where where you know, they'll they'll use him as you know, they'll use him on the edge

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There's times where they'll use him, you know in coverage against a tight end. They just they just move him everywhere, right?

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He's always on the field. He's always doing something, right?

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And you know, there are times where he'll make a big play or he'll you know, force an

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Incompletion or force fumble or whatever the case may be so jok

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Definitely is has become a problem, right?

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a good problem when you really look at it because you're talking about somebody who has the

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Athleticism has the speed has the height and you know everything else to be able to match up against a tight end if he needs to

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To you know rush the passion, you know if he needs to and do whatever else if he needs to right and

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Oftentimes, you know, it's rare to have

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Someone like him like his skill set to be able, you know to have that flexibility to be able to

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Play, you know both outside and inside linebacker and do it at a pretty good, you know at a pretty good level

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That's rare. That's very rare. So for him to be able to do it, you know, that's really good

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You know, the the Browns lately have been prioritizing, you know keeping their own players and resigning them to you know, pretty decent contracts

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You know, it nothing really crazy

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To really talk about with this deal. Honestly, I think it's a great deal for both parties

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It's not necessarily something that's you know earth shattering or anything that's gonna cause any problems in the future

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I think this is a really good deal

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You know not necessarily a long drawn-out deal, but it's good and you know by the time this contract ends

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He'll be able to re-up and get another contract. So, you know

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Congratulations to jock now. Let's get into

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Matthew Jude on getting traded right because that also tags along with somebody else

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I'm joining the Falcons as well. So Jude on former former New England Patriots

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Got traded to the Falcons, right?

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So the Falcons of course received Jude on and the Patriots receive a 2025 third round pick now when you look at this

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This is a really good situation, right?

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Because Jude on goes into a better situation than what he was in, right?

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While at the same time the Patriots

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Begin that process of stacking up a lot of picks because that's what they need at this point because

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They're going through a rebuild. They're going through a complete rebuild a complete change, right?

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The old you know that old era and whatnot is gone. Bill is gone Brady Julia Edelman

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Now Matthew Slater the McCordy brothers

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Um, Gronk all those guys they're gone, right? And so, you know, you're now in that phase where you need to you need as many

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draft picks as you possibly can get right and so, you know

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You just make this type of move especially with you know, Jude on being disgruntled with you know

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With the contract offers that the Patriots have basically given him. So he's just like bumping

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I just want to be putting the better situation now. I will say this according to Jeremy Fowler and other sources

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a lot of people were reporting that

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The Bears were also in the mix to get Jude on as well

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So it definitely shows you that there was a market for Matthew Jude on

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Regardless of what anyone may say

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Wouldn't say that this is what I'll say the Falcons now have a have a premier patch rusher

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You know that that's been needed for a pretty long time

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You're talking about somebody who has been consistent who's gotten double digit sacks

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Who's you know made big plays when we need to that's that that's who Jude on it, right?

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And they haven't had someone like that in a long time, but now that you have that right now

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That you're able to like really put that defense together because I truly believe that Raheem Morris is definitely

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They may be coming next that is definitely going to like really do something when it comes to you know defense and

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Who is it they got AJ Turrell, I still I think they still have Jesse Bates as well

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They have pieces not to mention with them

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Also adding Justin Simmons. Yeah, we have to talk about it now. We definitely have to talk about okay

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Grady Jared on top of all the other free agent acquisitions that they made so far in this one offseason alone

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They are going to make some noise. They are going to be a problem. Okay

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That right there is the best team in their division. Okay, when anyone says that is the best team in their division

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You have a quarterback who he's not going to wow you with stats and numbers

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But he is going to do the best he's going to make the best play possible in order to win the game

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That's what that's what her cousins is. All right, and you know, you're there

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People like Kyle Drake London and B. John Robinson. They are now going to have a stable quarterback

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For the first time in their career in their professional career. They're gonna have a stable quarterback

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They're gonna have a quarterback who is going to be as consistent as he possibly can and is going to directly

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Feed them the ball right at a very high clip. Okay, so

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You know my expectations for that offense is they're gonna put up some numbers

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This is probably gonna be the best season for Drake London and Kyle Pitts and probably for B. John Robinson as well

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Because they're really good offensive lines as well

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So, you know, they have a lot of pieces in the place now what I say that they are

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You know a Super Bowl team or a playoff caliber team, you know

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But I could I could probably see them sneaking into the wild card. I could

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Because because when you look at it for one the division is weak

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The only team that you probably would have to worry about in that division. It's probably the Buccaneers

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About the Saints because the Saints are in some ways

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Trying to go through a rebuild as well. They're they're not saying it but that's probably their best course of

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of action at this point

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and then the Panthers the Panthers are are too young

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They just don't have it now now. That's now. That's not saying that you know that they won't you know in the future

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But you have a you still have a quarterback that's still trying to you know get his feet wet with you know within

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You know within his career the defense isn't intact and I and I'm gonna put this out there

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You know as as back road diamonds

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I have to put on my my predictions when you know when they come to mind. I do believe

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You know teams like the Panthers will become

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Sellers I do believe that I truly do because when you have pieces like JC whore

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Who they're probably not gonna pay and you know other players on that team that they're probably not going to pay?

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trade them trade them get some picks for it and then try to flip those picks so you could try to do something with it because again

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There there's been a lot of turnover with the Panthers

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Lately you got Bryce young. Okay, cool. You get um

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Deontay Johnson. Okay, cool

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You know, they they they tried to prioritize a little bit more with the offense. Okay, cool

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But there's still a lot of holes on that team that need to be filled

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It is there's still there's still a lot of problems on that team

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that really needs to be addressed that not a lot of people are talking about and

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You know, this isn't over. This isn't an overnight thing. This isn't a you know

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It's it's gonna take two two seasons and we'll be back on our feet. This is going to be a long and drawn out process

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Things could be shortened just a little bit if they hit on their picks if they hit on free agency if

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They you know actually start to develop a level of chemistry and consistency

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Not only on the field but also in the front office as well because whether we want to a minute or not

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The play on the field is just as important as what the front office moves are making if the front office moves are

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Not necessarily the best moves, but they're very

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Weird and unexpected and whatnot that can that can mess up whatever chemistry that that is on the field and

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The Panthers since that, you know that crazy year when they went to the Super Bowl

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It's just been like a nose dive, right? You had Christian McCaffrey, you know

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Christian McCaffrey was doing his thing then he went through a period where he couldn't stay healthy. Okay, cool

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You you move off of Christian McCaffrey and then you're still trying to find yourself still trying to find yourself

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You get Matt rule you make him the head coach that ends horribly then you get Baker Mayfield that ends horribly

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Then you trade all the way up to get the first, you know

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The first pick in the draft to get Bryce young but that was only because the owner wanted Bryce young and Frank right

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You know wanted somebody different and whatnot. So it's just a it's just been a never-ending

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World-wind of just mess. So maybe this is probably the the point where they're probably gonna be like, okay

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We're gonna do things different. We're gonna do things the right way. So, you know, we'll just you know

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Wait and see but you know back back to the Falcons the Falcons have a very potent defense

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They do they have a very potent defense. They have a defense that's gonna make plays that's gonna create pressure

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That's gonna be able to make

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You know big time big time plays while at the same time impose their will on the offense

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They can do that with that defense and especially you have someone like a Raheem Morris

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Oh, it's gonna be problems gonna be big big big problems now moving on to the Cowboys because yes

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We do have to talk about the Cowboys. So

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Jordan Phillips, I think he was what was he the Giants? Yep former Giants defensive tackle was traded

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Okay to the Cowboys and so the Cowboys get a seventh round

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Seventh round pick for 2026 and the Giants receive a sixth round pick for 2026 now when you look at this

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This is more of a deaf

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Peace more than anything. It's not necessarily something that's going to be earth-shattering or anything of that nature

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This is more to fill in the void

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That is on that defensive line because that defensive line has been banged up lately in training camp and

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And so, you know, they need to they they need more bodies at this point not only for training camp for but but possibly for

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You know the the regular season, right?

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And so you have that mixed with you know a lot of uncertainty on on the team on both sides of the ball like

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There's a lot going on with with this with this Cowboys team. It really is not to mention

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They also got Carl Lawson as well now. I have been trying to do a little bit of digging on what exactly the structure of his deal

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Is haven't been able to find it but once I do find it, of course, I will let you guys know

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You know, these are two these are two moves to to try to beef up that defensive line is as best as possible because

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Let's be real here folks. This is a make-it-or-break it a year for the Cowboys

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It is it's a make-it-or-break a year for, you know, Mike McCarthy and you know, a lot of a

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lot of people a lot of personnel because

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Jerry has a choice Jerry has to make a choice. Okay, and that matter of fact, that's gonna be the time for this podcast make a choice

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Best podcast in the world just did that

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Jerry has a decision that he has to make right

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Either he does something different and he lets go of his ego a little bit or

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He continues to go down the same path that he goes and he you know does not get anywhere far

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That's the decision that he has to make at this point because look the Eagles are still gonna be competitive

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regardless of what we say or do okay, they're still gonna be competitive and

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You have to figure out what you're going to do you do the the

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Commanders are somewhat going through a little bit of a turnover

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You know old and young players, but there's more young players than old players, right?

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The Giants are super dysfunctional so you really don't have to worry about the Giants

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The only team you have to worry about is the commanders and the Eagles

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That's it and we cannot say that you know the Cowboys have been devoided of

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You know talent and whatnot. That's not a lie because why every you know five five to six years

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Jerry Jones builds what a top five or top three offensive line. He always does that always

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There's always talent on a Cowboys roster, but what we cannot do is

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Is sit here and continue to try to go through the same thing year after year

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Which is you know Jerry basically has his hand in the decision-making for the head coach

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You just can't at this point. You need to make the best decision possible for the team

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Not for your ego, but for the team and who could that be the best option?

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Maybe my my variable, you know next next year or someone like a Bill Belichick

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You need somebody that can rule that team with an iron fist that has

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the the attitude and the mindset to be able to to deal with the antics that comes with

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The Cowboys, that's what you really need. You need someone like a Bill Belichick

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Regardless of all the things that happen in New England and trust me there is a bunch of stuff that happened in New England

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The X's and O's Bill still has the bill still has that down intact

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Okay, where anyone says the bill is still a dangerous head coach when you give him

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Adequate weapons when you give him some pieces if you had if the Patriots had a Michael Parsons on that defense

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Mixed with a Trevon digs and a Duran blend. I guarantee you that defense would be top 10

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Guarantee it because bill has shown that he can take players

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Players that nobody knows about players that are you know, fifth six seven four or undrafted, right?

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And will turn them into premier all-pro players. He has done it

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He has done it. And so if you get someone like a Bill Belichick, but you tell him, hey Bill

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You handle the coaching will handle the front office stuff. Okay, cool

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Compared to you know running with Mike McCarthy and thinking that you know things are going to change things are not going to change

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They're not they haven't changed if they weren't going to change last year or the year before that

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What do you think they're going to do this year and

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And this year there's more on the line than what it was the last two years because why?

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That could potentially be a free agent after this after this season

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CD Lam is looking for a deal, but you also have to worry about Michael Parsons as well

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If you let Michael Parsons walk that is a problem

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That is a big problem because there will be at least 50

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With their checkbooks in their hand waiting to give him a deal waiting to reset the market for a Michael Parsons

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That's what it boils down to folks

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I really want you guys to think about this Michael Parsons has a lot of upside to his game

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And I'm telling you if he gets into the hands of someone like a Bill Belichick. Oh

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My god, you have a problem on your hands now

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I wouldn't be surprised if Michael Parsons was to stay in the division and maybe go to Washington in order to follow

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Dan Quinn I wouldn't be surprised if he did that. I wouldn't so you there's there's a lot of moving pieces

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You know with this Cowboys team that they have to figure out and this isn't going to be just an overnight thing

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No, that's why you really didn't see them be as active in free agency

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Because why they were trying to figure out how they're going to you know

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Turn you know turn mud into into gold basically

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Because you got to pay DAX 60 million

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You got to pay CD lamb 30 plus million and you're gonna have to probably reset the market for Michael Parsons

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So that's three players that you're gonna have to reset the market for and you know Jerry Jones does not like to do it

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But he will pay his own players. He may not like it, but he knows he has to do it

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But at the same time the Cowboys put themselves in this situation because why?

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You knew that once Justin Jefferson

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I came to speak once Justin Jefferson was going to play

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You know that last year and basically take a bet on himself

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You knew you should have you should have started contract negotiations then because you knew that

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That is that if it was to go the way that it did guess what Justin Jefferson was going to reset the market no questions asked

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No questions asked. He was going to reset the market

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So you should have had those talks prior to that because why you would be in a situation where you're comfortable

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We don't have to put out as much money as you do now now. You have to put out almost

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See lame has already said he wants to reset the market. He's already said that same thing with Michael Parsons

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And I think that gets it as well. You have a lot of tough decisions that you have to make Jerry

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it sucks, but

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This is what happens when you get superstars. You got to pay them superstar money

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You may not like it, but that's what you have to do Jerry

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Lano linebacker for the Buffalo Bills has a fun has unfortunately tore his bicep

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There is no timetable of when exactly he will return

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But there is a possibility that he can return

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Later into the season that when we look at this, you know

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This definitely puts a lot of pressure on the bills to figure out exactly what do they want to do now?

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Because the bills have lost a lot of their key players

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In this offseason, right?

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They had to let go of Trey white because Andrew started a pile up and you know his before his

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Just everything about to you know decline as well as you know, he was carrying a large cap hit

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They they had to let go of both of their safeties Trey Edmonds, you know, he he hit free agency

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I think a year before and whatnot. They overpaid for Von Miller. Yes, I'm saying it

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They overpaid for Von Miller. They never should have paid Von Miller

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Um that much money and so now you're trying to figure out exactly how you're going to pings together, right?

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Now you have to rely on your rookies to step up more to fill in the void that was that's now left

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With this Matt Milano situation and granny

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I understand that the bills are still a very, you know competitive team and they're still a dangerous team

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I get all of that

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But now this puts more pressure on Josh Allen and that offense to do more and now I

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Would not be surprised if the bills rely more on their run game to sort of not only chew on the clock

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But to wear down on defenses and to give their defense a little bit more breathing room instead of trying to you know

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Throw the ball 30 40 50 60 times if I can make a prediction

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I would not be surprised if the bill starts start snooping around and trying to see if they can maybe

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Snatch up one of these middle linebackers that make it cut

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Or maybe try to see if they can facilitate a trade for a middle linebacker because at this point

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You know, they have a lot of glaring holes on that team

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both, you know in the secondary on the line and in the middle and

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You know, this isn't something that you know is gonna

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You know that that can be patched up with just one person and whatnot like no they they're gonna have to be buyers

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They're gonna have to be buyers as well that and you know what I might have to do an episode for that for you know

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Probably during the season buyers and sellers

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You know during the trade deadline, which actually, you know, that's a great idea. See see see this is exactly why this is the best

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Football podcast because why we come up with ideas while we're recording the episode man. Come on

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Um, but let's be real here folks, you know, the the bills definitely

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They've they've they're starting to decline a little bit. They are their window to me is is closing rapidly

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Right that one year where they went up against the Chiefs and the AFC championship and they lost over time, you know

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Due to Tyree kills punt return

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That was the year that they should have went to the Super Bowl

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Because that was when

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Josh Allen was playing at his best, but offense was dangerous as well as the defense, right now

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It's it's just somewhat gone down in a nose dive in granted. I understand, you know, they drafted Keon Coleman

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They got Curtis Samuel and they got Mack Hollins and you know all those different type of people get all of that and more

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But the fact of the matter is, you know

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You they they are, you know, they're

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They're not there. They're just not they're not there. They are not there. They are be a little bit more aggressive

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And trying to you know, fill in those voids

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They're gonna have to if they really want to be able to make a deep playoff run

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They're gonna have to not only they're gonna have to win their division

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But they're gonna have to come out gun swinging during the season

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They have to they have to a streak because if they don't if they start out slow, it's gonna mess

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It's gonna put more pressure on them to show up during the later part of the season, which you don't want

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You want to come out guns blazing and and sort of you know, not necessarily just chill

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But somewhat, you know, like ease up just a little bit just so everybody can you know remain help? That's my question

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Be he he has a lot of figuring out to do. Okay. You okay, granny. You you got let go of I'm not I can't speak

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They let go of Stefan Diggs. Okay, cool. Now you got this problem

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So what exactly are you going to do to address this problem? Now? Let's talk about this Eagles and in

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Patriots game. I did like some of the quarterback play it. It was actually pretty good

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You know Drake may definitely show showed a little bit, but you know, I

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I just I

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Know I don't know if I want to see more of him, but I think

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Well, yeah, I do I do want to see more of him. I want to see more reps

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I want to see him play at least I want to be able to see okay

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Can he do this? Can he do that? Can he roll out of the pocket? Can he make the the necessary throw?

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Can he execute the play? Can he read the defenses and whatnot? That's what I want to see because as of right now

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You know, it is Jacobi Brasette's job to lose right and you know, I understand that they definitely

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Invested a lot of resources into getting Drake may I get all of that and respect that however

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Just I'm I'm I'm just not comfortable with with this pick. I'm not I feel like the Patriots

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Probably could have well should have went after Jaden Daniels honestly speaking

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I think if they would have went after a Jaden Daniels

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I think it definitely would have taken that offense to the next level compared to a Drake may who I just I

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Just I don't know maybe maybe I got a look at more Tade which I probably will but I just don't see it with Drake may

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I don't know what it is. I just don't see it

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And as far as you know

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With with their receiver or them. I want to see, you know, they're they're out running expand more

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I just want to see more

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And you know, there's a lot of upside with this as long as they continue to maintain this course

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You know, they'll be in the right situation. However, if they stray away from it

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You are going to see the worst of it and it's not gonna be good honestly speaking

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Now when we look at the the Eagles the Eagles, you know

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I'm gonna have to say it

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Eagles fans you're gonna agree with me you cannot agree with me

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But I feel like Tana McKee is a little bit better than Kenny Pickett. I'm just saying just saying folks

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Just saying just just looking at it because Tana McKee

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Looks like he is, you know, he can be a number two quarterback. That's what he looks like

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Kenny Pickett look like he still has regressed. I'm sorry call it what it is, but it's not looking good

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It's not looking good at all for Kenny Pickett. I don't know if it's his mechanics

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I don't know what it is, but it's just not good. Okay, you're talking about someone that was

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11 for 13

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67 yards he averaged 5.2 yards a play his longest play was 19 yards and he had no touchdowns

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And he was sacked four times

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that that's what that that's what Kenny Pickett did right and

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You know to me that's just not good enough

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It's not you were a former first-round pick and you know, you are being basically beaten out by

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Tana McKee right Tana McKee on the other hand was 15 for 19

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He had a 79 point. He had a 79 percent

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completion percentage right a

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hundred and forty yards, right

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Now granny he didn't he didn't have a touchdown as well, but he averaged

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7.4 yards a play

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like I'm sorry like I

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I just

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You know what?

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This is the perfect time for me to say it. I told you so I

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Told you so every single person that said, you know, Kenny Pickett is this can you pick is that I told you so

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I told you that Kenny Pickett was not worth a first-round pick. I told you that he had a lot of mechanics a lot of

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Mechanical things that he had to work on that he does not see the field well that he does not execute well

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And that he does not read defense as well

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I told people that leading up to that draft and everyone's like, oh, you don't know what you're talking about. Oh

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Well, what do you know? I'm telling you from what I've seen

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Kenny picket is not all that he's just not I'm sorry Kenny

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Kenny at best probably should have been the second or third round pick and I feel sad if you would have sat that year

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behind Mitchell Trubisky

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Maybe, you know, maybe you would have had a better

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You know a better version of him and then not to mention he also had a crappy offensive coordinator who really wasn't a real offensive coordinator

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I just I feel like I'm supposed to do that. I feel like Kenny Pickett's career so far has definitely been rocky

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And I feel like a lot of does he walked into a situation where you know, you had this veteran quarterback

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but he even the veteran quarterback hasn't had a whole lot of success, right and

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so he busts himself so

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You know, there's not there's not a whole lot of you know

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Learning that that he can that he can learn from from a bust compared to if Ben was still there and he sat under Ben

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I feel like it probably could have been a better situation

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honestly, but you know, you were you were trying to you were trying to compete with Mitchell Trubisky

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Okay, cool. You get put into you get put into

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You know, you get put into the game after the the Jets lost. Okay, cool

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and

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you know from there from there on you're just going on this roller coaster ride of

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You know, people love you. They hate you people. Love you. They hate you. They love you. They hate you. They love you

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They hate you. You're doing good. You're doing bad. You're doing good. You're doing bad. You're doing okay

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You could do more. It's just it was just a never-ending

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roller coaster ride for Kenny Pickett and you know a lot of that definitely has to fall on the Steelers shoulders

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Just because of the situation that they put him in, you know, when you give him a crappy offensive coordinator and

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You know, you just don't try to you know to work with him

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this is what happens and you know, I

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can I can feel bad for Kenny Pickett, but at the same time I can't and

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I've been pretty reserved on this simply because you know, I can't really I can't really respect somebody

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Who's straight away from competition, right? Let's just call it for what it is

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I understand this is somewhat of a tension. I've been going on tangents, you know long enough now, but at that

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This is what it is

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Kenny Pickett straight away from competition, right?

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The team didn't do this

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You know out of spite they gave you a heads up. They said hey

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We're going to bring somebody in who is going to push you and we're gonna have a real quarterback competition

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They brought in an old Russell Wilson who?

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had probably one of his one of his worst seasons so far in his entire right and

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You're thinking that you know, oh, this is gonna he's gonna take my job this than the other

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No, they gave you a heads up. You knew what was getting ready to happen well before everybody else did

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so you should have came in with the mindset that you were going to

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Actually, you know really competing one night and even if you lost it, guess what?

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You're learning from Lerly one of the best quarterbacks that you can learn from a

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Person who was going to show you show you. Hey, this is what you do in this situation

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Hey, this is what you do when you see this coverage. Hey, this is how you make this play

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This is how you make this throw. This is how you can you know better prepare yourself for these types of games and this different types of

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Environment all those different types of things

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But you took that as an offense and you wanted out and now you're in a situation where you're competing to either be the backup

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Or the third best option

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That's what it that that's what it boils down to I think in a day folks. So

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I'm gonna get off my little soapbox about getting pick it because nobody cares and everybody has their own opinion

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That's perfectly fine. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. So

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Let's just see what happens. I could be wrong, right?

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So I'll just end it here. I know there's more games on Saturday and all the Steelers play the bills on Saturday

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so I'll probably be watching that I probably honestly I'll probably watch all the games if I can and

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Probably talk about you know each and every one of them probably take some notes down and whatnot and just go from there

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But I'm gonna end it right here for you guys like what you are listening. Please. Please. Please. Please like share subscribe

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What a great way to end the week with a bag alert and some breaking news

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Unfortunately news for Matt Milano, but you know speedy recovery for him

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You can follow us on tiktok as well football underscore junkies pod

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Trying to see we can add the link for the tiktok as well

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Just so people can you know, just just keep keep the cycle going, you know

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That's there anything else

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Yeah, I think I did all right as always I love you guys hope you guys have a great weekend

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Um, yeah, that's it. I'm done. Peace

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