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[Assistant] And do three or four different things and really confuse opposing quarterbacks. So if they're able to do that and be effective, because last year they were number two against the pass in DVOA. If you're telling me that they can kind of keep that level of playoff but also provide a little bit of mystery, I think that that's going to help them in the division against these quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Going into the playoffs and wanting to rest Aaron Rodgers and there's your win right there. If they're able to split with Buffalo in Miami, that could be something to kind of keep an eye out there for that one. So if you feel like they can split.


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[Assistant] with either or you know, can split with Buffalo Mi be, you might be gifted 18 against New York Jets. season, I think that this better, they're gonna be a team than they were a year fear that the record is go


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[Assistant] Of the division getting better because of the road. It's one of the toughest schedules in the NFL.


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[Assistant] That it's going to almost look the exact same, maybe not from a week to week standpoint from a viewing perspective, but when we kind of sit back here a year from now, or we're kind of coming up after week 18, we'll say, all right, the Patriots went,


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[Assistant] Seven in what? In eight in what? They're still under 500, but I thought that we...


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[Assistant] Got Deandre Hopkins maybe, or I thought we got Juju Smishu, so I thought we fixed the offense with Bill O'Brien. You did. It was a better football team overall. You were more competitive, but ultimately,


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[Assistant] You're still playing Philadelphia. You're still playing a Miami team who just has your number under two Atanga Barloa. The Jets who are set and forget couple wins a year.


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[Assistant] That's not the case anymore. You're still playing, you know, you're going, I think you're going to, you're not going to Kansas City, but you're facing the Kansas City Chiefs. Denver could be better who you have on your schedule. Dallas you're going to. I mean, there are a lot of teams coming up here that are going to be difficult.


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[Assistant] Washington and the Colts, those should be easy wins. But outside of that, it's tough to kind of go down the schedule and tick off. That's a clear win. That's a clear win. There's only maybe


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[Assistant] Two or three and outside of that, you're like, okay, you really got to hope that Bill Belichick is able to scheme things up or this defense is able to shut teams down or Mac Jones is able to elevate and get back to the quarterback we saw during his rookie year. There's a lot of ifs there. And so that to me is what's giving me pause to say, okay, they fixed everything. They're going to be a playoff team.


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[Assistant] Right? Uh, forgot I, this bad job by me.


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[Assistant] It's been a while since we did a mail back. A whole off season. A whole off season. So when you say it, uhm, you know, you know, PTI, right? The show where they used to be in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sorry. Uhm, but, uh, Tony and Mike do the thing where they have, they do the mailbox and they have a little mailbox and he says mailbox. Well, for whatever reason, one of the


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[Assistant] Four or five very bizarre, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, skill sets that John Breach possesses is imitating that mailbox and the way that he says the word mailbag. So, uh, allow me to, to, to, so what you would, I'll show you what you do and then for future mailbags, you'll know. Like, I guess it's time, Breach, to open up the mailbag. I told you, right?


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[Assistant] It's, it's very invigorating to like leave it hanging and just let Breach, Breach knows he'll feel it. And so like once you get used to it, you can just be like, all right, let's get another question from the.


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[Assistant] Um, yeah, I saw this one I meant to ask before we started. So we're saying in the end, uh, IG, you can see, so, you know, you can submit questions from the mail. By the way, Instagram, um, Twitter.


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[Assistant] At Pixix pod for both of those. And then on the YouTube chat, if you're watching in the chat, just make sure you tag Billy on a day that he's working.


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[Assistant] I mean, just like don't like, yeaah, don't be like, expect any like comment on YouTube to magically work. Like if you comment on like an Aaron Rodgers emergency podcast, like, hey, what's the deal with the Saints? Probably not gonna answer that one. Uhm, so this is saying like,


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[Assistant] If like I'm just supposed to pick NFL players and coaches and GMs and compare them like, like when I think of Katie mocks, I think of


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[Assistant] Or beloved. I don't know. I'll take, I'll take any and all compliments. Um, also it is, it does fitting that Katie is a, uh, disciple of the, like, you know, it's like, not, not, not, but like the fourth, like nobody's like, it's the coaching tree disciples of bad words, right? Coaching tree plus the 49ers, you know, like it all, it all, it all makes sense. I mean, I'm not sure that we could do better than that.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think, like, uhm, I guess we have to go.


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[Assistant] I did not have one for you, Billy. That's very selfish of you to suggest that you would have one.


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[Assistant] Maybe you're, maybe you're, maybe you're Zach, uh, Zach Taylor?


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[Assistant] Zach Taylor. Like, you got a lot of regular season titles. You're piling them up. I'll be Zach Taylor. Yeah, uhm, we don't, we're not sure if like,


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[Assistant] Like, so like in the Google, your friends at Google or like, or whatever, you know, whoever you've got hostage at your house that like knows the algorithms of the internet. Like that person's probably Joe Burrow.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we're not sure if you're really good at your job or if you're like, you're great at your job or if you're just a man of the people in Cincinnati, but you keep winning on a regular basis. Actually, I think it's a better. I'm trying to think of the best example for breach of these exactly. There's probably a bad one.


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[Assistant] I'm thinking of like all these traffic titles you had for like, like, like just piling them up.


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[Assistant] Oh, thank you for fixing that for me. Yeah. And.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, it's too busy thinking about like, ooh, I'm Kyle Shanahan, how nice.


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[Assistant] That's hard to beat. Might be Daniel. I was going to say like, you mean Robert Sala too, for like geographical locations and coming from the 49ers tree.


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[Assistant] Wilson is either Mike Tomlin or Sean McDermott. I'll say Sean McDermott. Uhm, he doesn't like.


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[Assistant] Wilson's got that like, he's like a scary nerd. Like a very stern nerd.


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[Assistant] Very, uh, rigorous, seems academic, almost like to a fault in terms of his anal retentiveness. Mike Tom a little looser, little cooler, Wilson, not loose and cool. You know, sometimes he'll try to wear a hoodie and a blazer and make people think that he's loose and cool, but inside he's really like his body. His brain is screaming.


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[Assistant] If you told me I was Cliff Kingsbury, I'd be like, fire me away. Like, if I look like that.


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[Assistant] I like, I respect the, I respect the, the, the, the swimming against conventional wisdom is that Cliff Kingsbury is not good looking. I do find his general attitude a little bit off putting from a hotness perspective. For instance, I think that, and this is maybe me being older, uhm, I find Pete, I think Pete Carroll is better looking than, than Cliff Kingsbury.


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[Assistant] The girl is a silver fox. I mean that dude is 70 years old.


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[Assistant] So Dalvin cook, it feels like is just going to be traded, but I'm not sure where, where or how the issue for the Vikings is that.


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[Assistant] You know, he's a $14 million cap hit in 2023. They do save almost $6 million in cap space by cutting him. Now we are, of course, uhm, this May 25th.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, one, it may be a bad idea to ask this question now when this mailbag is not going to air for five or six days if Dava Cooke is traded over the weekend.


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[Assistant] Yes. Hello everybody in the chat from the past.


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[Assistant] Um, you know, cause it's June 1st, if you're designated by post-June 1 release, can you, can you cut somebody after June 1st and designate them not a pre-June 1st release?


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[Assistant] Probably not. No, then you would cut them before June 1st, Princeton. Right. Exactly. Um, point being is that if they cut him before Tuesday,


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[Assistant] Uh, they would say five point eight nine eight million dollars, five point eight nine nine million dollars in salary cap space. If they cut it afterwards, it would be nine million dollars in cap space. So I think at this point, if he's not traded over the weekend or he's not traded by today, if he hasn't been traded as of now,


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[Assistant] They're probably just going to cut him after June 1st and save that $9 million and let somebody else pick him up because it tells me that no one is really interested in taking on his $14 million salary cap hit. And I don't think the Vikings will want to hold on to it either.


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[Assistant] Yes, if you're, if you're dating somebody and they show up on Tinder, you, you, you're not dating them.


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[Assistant] They forgot to delete the app when they came back in town.


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[Assistant] And it was like, all of a sudden it was like matching with like, and they were like, what the, he was like, Oh, I was just trying to find some friends from my high school. And I'm, yeah, it's like, mm.


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[Assistant] Wait, did they give him, did they give him more money? Did I miss? Did I? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. If you look at the, so you look at Daniel Hunter.


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[Assistant] So he's in the final year of his deal because the, I believe the last two years are automatically voided with, um, the final two years of 2024, 2025 are void years. So he's in the final year of his deal. Um, if they cut him,


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[Assistant] Even as a post-June release. So right now they would actually lose six, six million dollars in salary cash space if they cut it before June 1st. Um, if they cut them after June 1st, they would say, yeah, he's not getting cut.


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[Assistant] And then free up $6 million in salary cap space. I'm not saying they're going to do that. I'm just saying that that's like where they're at. Like his.


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[Assistant] This is a really well structured contract because the two void years and then like this year, if you're like last year, if they cut him, they would have lost 17, 17 million dollars in cyber cap space. This year would be like five and a half and 29 year old pass rusher. Certainly he wants a new contract. I would suggest that.


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[Assistant] Go ball out this year and then go hit the free agent market this all season.


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[Assistant] When he signed this, when he signed this deal, it was like, it was below market.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. He sent that deal. It was like five years, $72 million for a guy who was like 25 at the time. Yeah, that's your problem, pal.


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[Assistant] I should take it back. Poorly structured contract. You can't cut them, but like you, you're just not going to get more money.


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[Assistant] I don't think Aaron Rogers or Matthew Stafford were top 10 quarterbacks last year and they had been the year before.


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[Assistant] Tom Brady probably was, I'm just trying to, I'm trying to do the, just thinking about the top 10, like they could Stafford and Rogers bounce back, you know, their top 10 guys.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think like the way to do this is to classify what do we consider to be a good season? What is a great season? Um, do we, do we, and it's pretty short to point out like 10 wins, like that's if the Seahawks win 10 games, it means, you know, probably in a really good season, similar to this year, to last


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[Assistant] I think he will be a little bit worse than last season. I would be surprised if he is as good as this past season when he led the league in completion percentage, top 10 and passing yours, top 10 and pat top five and passing touchdowns and fifth overall in passer rating. So.


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[Assistant] A crippling and debilitating heartbreak, I believe, is the answer we're looking for.


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[Assistant] Uh, Joey Bosa missed, he missed, you know, he, I mean, he's, I was just saying this about Joey Bosa. I love Joey Bosa.


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[Assistant] Willing to, I think, and I think this is smart, to be patient with injuries and to make sure that his long-term health is a priority. He was that way when he was coming into the season, like he, you know, he was a little banged up or coming into his rookie year, but he was a little banged up and was, you know, contractual stuff and


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[Assistant] You know, still one rookie of the year. So defensive rookie of the year. So not a, not a huge deal. Um, Derwin James, Derwin, the chargers are just, the chargers don't stay healthy. Okay. They just don't. And if the chargers are going to be really good, they need Kenan Williams and Mike Williams, Kenan Allen, excuse me, Kenan Williams, Kenan Allen and Mike Williams to stay healthy and to play.


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[Assistant] 14 games a piece minimum. They need Joey Bosa and Darwin James to stay healthy and play 14 games a piece minimum. Like that's what has to happen for the Chargers to make a playoff run is those four. Cause I mean, and we're, and we're assuming Justin Herbert plays 17 games, right? Like or 16 games. How many ever needs to get a full season. If Justin Herbert doesn't, if he misses time, it's over. But those four guys to me are the key. If you wanted to, you could absolutely throw in Rashawn Slater. Um, you saw last year they were able to manage without him.


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[Assistant] In the starting lineup, but like he makes a world of difference. And then Austin Eckler too, like they have so many pieces. It is so easy to talk about the Chargers and talk about this roster and to think about what they, the upside of what the Chargers could be. If Kellan Moore comes in and Justin Herbert clicks and how good they can be. And then it's just so easy to be like,


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[Assistant] There's also this little lingering thing that didn't really being talked about, but that to me could end up mattering somewhat is if the Broncos are really good and Sean Payton is the reason.


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[Assistant] And the Chargers, and everybody knows that Sean Payton wanted that job. But because Tom Tolesco knew that he might be, his job might be in Jeopardy, if he brought Sean Payton in, didn't want to move on from his guy, Brandon Staley. That's just how this works in the NFL, right? There's always a little bit of power shifting, Game of Thrones style stuff. Tom Tolesco, I mean, look, let's be real here.


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[Assistant] Sean Payton is a better bet as a head coach than Brandon Salie at this point of their careers. I feel safe saying that. Tom Tolesco was more likely to.


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[Assistant] Put the Chargers in a position to win a championship if he convinced.


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[Assistant] The Spanish family to go out and pay Sean Payton, whatever it is he wanted to be the head coach of the Chargers. However, Tom Seleska was also more likely to lose his job in the short and long term.


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[Assistant] Because of Sean Payton, because Sean Payton will want his own GM with Sean Payton's success. I could also lose to the Brandon Staley Stink. So it's a, it's a weird sort of dynamic there. But if the Broncos are really good and the Chargers miss and then maybe knock the Chargers out of the playoffs and or the Chargers missed the playoffs entirely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Princeton model has the chargers going eight and nine. I don't feel great about it. Like I think that, you know, they're.


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[Assistant] They opened up against Miami, um, at Tennessee, at Minnesota, and then Vegas at home, but they could be forward to start the season very easily. Uh, I had them even going three and one there. I had them losing their last four games at Vegas, Buffalo at home.


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[Assistant] Which is going to be a Bill's Bonanza in Los Angeles. Bill's fans will pack that place at Denver and then Kansas City at home. Like, I mean, dude, their schedule. Here's their post. Here's the post by schedule.


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[Assistant] And it's a lot of games because there's either buys in week five, which is very early for the Chargers and problematic Dallas at home. That place will be a Cowboys game. That is a Cowboys game. It's a Cowboys home game. 100% Kansas City, right at Kansas.


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[Assistant] The Bears at home, I had them penciling for a win there, at the Jets following a Bears game, the Lions at home,


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[Assistant] So tough matchups here at Green Bay, which is just a difficult place to play. A total wild card. We don't know whether the Packers are being any good or not. Baltimore at home will be a Ravens friendly crowd. Then at New England, I mean, they are bouncing back and forth like left and right from West coast to East coast.


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[Assistant] Uh, Denver at home at Las Vegas, Buffalo at Denver, Kansas city at home. It's a really, really tough run for the chargers that I think they absolutely have to start.


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[Assistant] 3-1 or 4-0 if they want a reasonable chance of making the playoffs in a very difficult AFC.


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[Assistant] No, no, I think you could bet the, you either want to bet if you're, if you're, if you're bullish on the chargers, you don't want to bet the obviously the over or yes to make the playoffs. I think you bet the over knowing that there's a chance they could miss the playoffs at 10 and seven.


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[Assistant] Cause you would, it would be tough if you bet yes playoffs and they went 10 and 7 and didn't make the playoffs. Right, Breach?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and worth noting, Jimmy Garoppolo did have foot surgery. Um, probably not be ready for training camp. Like that just, you know, that's just one of those where, well, you see, this is another interesting court too, for the, um, for the chargers is that I was like the wrong team. I was trying to figure out what the hell is going on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's it. I'm a big Quinton Johnson fan. I was actually just looking at, um, I was looking at Georgia's receiving stats and obviously not that he played for Georgia, but he did play against Georgia's defense. Uh, the reason I was looking at Georgia's cause I love Zay flowers for the Baltimore Ravens. Um, you know, you look at the, the Todd Monkin


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[Assistant] Uh, style offense and you know, they threw to Brock Bowers and Kenny McIntosh a lot. You know, this is not an offense that was like heavily featuring, um, you know, like.


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[Assistant] A ton of riders here, but Lad McConkey, six feet tall, 185 pounds.


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[Assistant] It's a reasonable comp to Zay Flowers, I think. Let me double check and see what, uh.


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[Assistant] Let's see, as far as 5, 10, 177. So I mean like, you know, we're close enough. Like I think this is the situation where with Odell Beckham and with Rashad Bateman with Mark Andrews there. So like Mark, like just sort of trying to.


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[Assistant] Fashion this and honestly, the offense is going to be the same, right? Georgia, totally different ballgame. You have the ability to recruit players. You have all five stars. Kirby sports, probably the best recruiter on the planet Earth right now. You are loaded at depth and skill guys. But like if Mark Andrews is your Brock Bowers here.


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[Assistant] And maybe you have some like JK Dobbins as your, your Kenny McIntosh, I guess. I mean, I think it's reasonable to say that Zafirs could be like your lad McConkey or maybe Rashad Bateman is, um, you know, these guys are,


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[Assistant] You know, you, you use the tight end to stretch the field. You use the run game to really get downhill on defenses and force them to load up the box. And then you have a guy like zay flowers. I think that is going to be vertical and horizontal using all kinds of different screen games, et cetera, et cetera.


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[Assistant] And I think man's a flowers can just be absolutely explosive for the Raven. So big's a flowers guy.


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[Assistant] I will say that like, um, and I mean, like it is, you're right.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Right. So, and then like, you can look at the last few years and say, Jamar chase with a huge game against Kansas city and like week 15 or whatever it was stole it from Mac Jones. I'm not saying that Jamar chase didn't earn it, just that Mac Jones was minus 1000 at that point in time.


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[Assistant] And then last year, Garrett Wilson had a great season, but it was a really, it just wasn't a lot, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Bijan's a huge favorite and the running back is going to get it or, or unless there's a quarterback who just, you know, like there's just, there's a quarterback. So the running backs are going to get it unless a wide receiver goes nuts, unless it's just a bad seasons from the quarterback and running back.


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[Assistant] You gotta, you gotta do, you gotta do, uh, micro micro dosing filibustering.


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[Assistant] Where you like draw it out, you're like, ah, and we're back, and now we've answered some questions already. Will we answer some more? Possibly we could because it's the big six. No bug. Even that was too late too. Breaches might be office game.


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[Assistant] You think, most people think that my filibustering and loquaciousness is just like, there's a tiny, tiny sliver of that's actually planned. Most of it is just all natural, spew guts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, I think that when you look at the various landing spots for Kareem hunt, who, um, is obviously not employed at the current moment, um, Denver could work. I actually don't know why he, he's a free agent. I'm kind of surprised by that.


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[Assistant] I know, but he's only 27. This guy led the league in rushing. He may, you know, it may be a case of he wants, you know, only at 3.8 yards per carry last year, 123 carries for the Browns, um, didn't start, has only started


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[Assistant] Nine games since 2018 when he had the, of course, the all field stuff and was released by the Chiefs. It's entirely possible that that


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[Assistant] You know that, I mean, like remember he was signed by the Browns and John Dorsey who had drafted him in Kansas City. So you do have a little bit of that.


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[Assistant] Stigma still attached, justifiably so. Uhm, you have a running back who, given the deals that he signed in Cleveland, may want more money than what people want to give to running backs and breach. We just talked about with Dalvin Cook, like.


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[Assistant] You know, if you're, if you're, if you're interested in designing a older,


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[Assistant] 2017 guy who was drafted in 2017 running back who has led the league in rushing.


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[Assistant] Has not really had a full time role most of his career because of injuries or because of splitting time with Nick Chubb.


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[Assistant] Why not just wait and see if Davin Cook gets released and sign him and said, cause you'll probably get it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And you remember too last year, even though he was, so he signed a two year, $12 million deal. He had that one year deal in 2020.


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[Assistant] And I can't remember, I guess he would have signed that, um, during the pandemic. You know, people just weren't weird contracts. Signs a two year, $12 million deal with the Browns plays that out. He's now past that he's.


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[Assistant] These guys who were drafted in 2017 have enough wear and tear on them and are veterans enough where they command a certain amount of money or want a certain amount of money, have certain expectations about what their role is going to be with the team and teams don't want to meet either of those things. So it just becomes tough. And then you add in the Dalvin cook factor, maybe the Joe mixing factor, um,


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[Assistant] It's now is not the time to overpay a veteran running back.


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[Assistant] Right? Like late May is not when you overpay a veteran running back, particularly one who's had sort of been a little public about his contract demands and has had an off-field issue that caused the team that drafted him to cut him the year after he led the league in rushing. So like if you're signing Kareem Hunt.


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[Assistant] And especially if he's lost a step, it's just not, now is, I don't think now is when you signed him. I think, you know, like when you signed into a deal and he tears, you know, something happens in OTAs, like maybe after OTAs is when he signs.


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[Assistant] Six dudes are inside 15 to 1. And one of them is not Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and one of them, who am I, there's another one that's obvious, I think, and I'm forgetting who it is, but nevertheless, uhm, like all those guys can't


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[Assistant] Yeah, Lamar, all those guys can't be Aaron Rodgers 18 to one. Look at this. These six guys are 15 to one. The true odds of.


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[Assistant] This, this being the case, these odds are not reflective of reality.


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[Assistant] Right, well I'm just saying like, when you, like for instance, think of it as like a golf turn. Which doesn't mean it's right.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, look, there's so much random crap that can happen in the NFL season that will happen in the NFL season to cause somebody to shoot up basically in 2017, excuse me, 2018.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mulholland was like 75 to 1 at one point. In 2019 Lamar Jackson was like 50 to 1, 60 to 1, 70 to 1. Uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] They, Rogers, his back to back MVPs, he was north of 20 to one Vegas has gotten burnt by these MVP odds and has shrunk them down to a place where I don't think there's any real value in betting somebody under 20, 25 to one or less. Now look, if you bet.


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[Assistant] Tua at 22 to 1 and he wins, you hit the bet. Great job. Congratulations. Is that a good number? Hell no. Like there's really unlikely that Tua, Tua is not returning value to you at 22 to 1.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure Lamar Jackson's returning value at 18 to 1 when he was 35 to 1 a month ago.


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence at 15 to 1 is a horrendous bet. Like,


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[Assistant] If you're going to bet Trevor Lawrence at 15 to one, just bet Mahomes at seven and a half to one.


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[Assistant] It's more likely to happen. I think Trevor Lawrence is absolutely an MVP candidate. I think he can win the MVP. Would I bet him at 15 to one? No chance in hell.


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[Assistant] He's more like, uh, Kevin O'Connell, I think. I'm not sure if he's any good. Might be good. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.


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[Assistant] You just want this to be brought up to Brady tomorrow.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome to the Pick 6 podcast. Katie Mox and John Breach here filling in for Will Brinson. And as you already know, this is our All 32 series where we catch you up with insiders from every team and give you the need to know information heading into the season. Today we are talking the Atlanta Falcons. It's actually a bummer that Will Brinson isn't here because he's very high.


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[Assistant] On the Falcons this year, but we are going to welcome in a writer for the Falcaholic and also the host of Believe in Falcons, Will McFadden. How's it going, Will?


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[Assistant] That is actually a very good point. Uh, alright, well, so let's just get right into it. Uh, for the first time in what feels like years, a very long time, there is actually some buzz heading into the Falcons, excuse me, training camp.


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[Assistant] Uh, it feels like maybe we're out of the rebuilding woods that you guys have been in for the last couple years and into competitive territory, especially in a pretty favorable division like the NFC South. What is the general feeling in the building right now?


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[Assistant] You know, you talk about, uh, pulling the plug. I, I don't know if you watch, I'm assuming that you have the, uh, quarterback documentary on Netflix and obviously Marcus Moriarty in there and he abruptly leaves, you know, in the middle of the season. I'm just curious to know your thoughts about that and in watching it, if you got, it seemed to me like it was just,


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[Assistant] Even more abrupt in watching it on quarterback than when it was coming out in the news, but what did you think?


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[Assistant] I know, didn't mean to do that. Okay, we are going to take a quick break here, uh, when we come back. Bijan Robinson, let's discuss that. You're watching Pick 6. We will be right back.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, uh, Atlanta really didn't need to draft a running back this season. You know, you got Cordell Patterson, you got Al Jair, uhm, I always mess up his name, both with a thousand yard, uhm,


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[Assistant] How hyped are we for B. John Robinson? What can we expect?


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[Assistant] You seem to think that he's gonna be more of the, the, the Debo Samuel kind of wide back and looking at his season rushing yards prop 1075 and a half.


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[Assistant] Would you lean under on that because you think he's going to be utilized more as a receiver?


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[Assistant] Alright, well the vibes are high for the Falcons. Will Brinson would be very proud of us because we're throwing a thousand dollars on the Falcons plus 240 to take


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[Assistant] The Division. Thank you so much to Will McFadden. Stay tuned for more. All 32 with daily drops in your podcast feed and on YouTube. Remember to hit like, comment, and subscribe on this. And if you're listening to audio only, download, follow, leave a 5-star review, and tell your friends to listen and watch the pod. Will McFadden. Great name, by the way. Love the last name. Thanks for coming on Talkin' Falcons and good luck.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, Odell might have just been the thing that pushed this deal over the edge, and Lamar said, alright, these guys are serious, they're gonna give you my money, they're getting after the guys I wanted them to add, so I'm gonna get this contract negotiation done.


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[Assistant] And I will say the one odd thing, I'm a big believer in contract negotiations of no news is good news. And that's really what we had for about three weeks. Remember we went from Lamar trade request to just all this drama in the whole entire month of March and then things just pipe down except for the occasional cryptic text.


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[Assistant] In the back of your mind be thinking, do we need to take a quarterback, a fire or quarterback maybe in the third round or somewhere because we don't have a partner contract. This solves that problem. Now you can go and try to do something crazy. You know, we've thrown out.


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[Assistant] Maybe you try and trade for DeAndre Hopkins tonight, uh, but if you're the Ravens, this opens the door for you to do something fun and something good with your picks.


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[Assistant] Right, so it does seem, and I see one of our commenters mention that, that, you know, obviously the Jalen Hurts contract helped put, push this over the edge, and it does seem like Lamar saw that, and he's like, alright, you know what, I gotta give up on this full guarantee thing, cause it's not gonna happen, so.


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[Assistant] They are not taking a $32.4 million cap hit in 2023. So you free up cap space, which opens up even more room. So this leaves the Ravens with a lot of cushion, uh, to kind of maybe do something a little crazy tonight as Brynson was just talking about.


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[Assistant] Well, I was going to say real quick, it's not that crazy to consider them winning the division. I mean, we're talking, Lamar Jackson missed five games last season. They still went 10 and seven. They still made the playoffs. So you're talking about Lamar being healthy for a full season, which by the way, uh, is something the Ravens are hoping he can do because he's had some injury issues the past two years.


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[Assistant] But if he's healthy, all 17 games, there's no reason they can't win the division and plus 250 is a pretty friendly number. That's a pretty good value, uh, for a team that won 10 games last year.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, when we look at this total though, I feel like Lamar being on the Ravens was kind of baked in, kind of like Rodgers was with the Jets and those numbers because, you know, we've talked a lot about Lamar Jackson over the past month and at no point did it feel like he was leaving Baltimore. He just wasn't drawing any interest unless he...


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[Assistant] They went 10-7 and they would have probably beaten the Bengals in the wild card round if Lamar's backup quarterback Tyler Huntley doesn't fumble at the one yard line in the fourth quarter. So you're talking about a team that was competitive with their backup quarterback playing in multiple key games.


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[Assistant] Are you guys concerned at all if you're the Ravens and you are giving $260 million to a player who has missed 10 games over the past two seasons with most of those coming


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[Assistant] On the back end of the schedule where, you know, you really need him on the field, getting banged up early in the season, missing the second half of the season, uh, any worries at all there?


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[Assistant] Well, no, because he's made the two straight AFC title games and hasn't dealt with any injuries in two years and took a random injury.


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[Assistant] Not even necessarily style play, just his body frame. He's, he's, he's taking a beating.


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[Assistant] Before I go, I will say real quick that the loser here is the Bengals, because now they're gonna have to top this number with Joe Burrow.


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[Assistant] Chargers are going to have to top the summer with Justin Herbert. Uh, so if I'm the Bengals, I am racing to get a deal done before the Herbert deal gets done. And so the Ravens by giving Lamar this deal, he's not going to be the highest paid quarterback much longer. Uh, but yeah, get the checkbook out.


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[Assistant] Uh, so this definitely, the Ravens did not do any favors to, uh, the Bengals, which makes sense. That's true.


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[Assistant] 175, something, something shorter, uh, bigger just, but what, yeah, I think we'll say five years, 265. Princeton.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I was just gonna say real quick that every day is a gel day for Brenton and I. Somehow it always happens. And then also, you know, like there's Taco Tuesday, today is Thursday, so like you wear gray on Thursday.


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[Assistant] Katie's using the smallest amount of product of anyone in this podcast. Is that embarrassing for me and Brenton or is that just a lot about Katie?


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[Assistant] Uh, for instance, uh, you went through all three of those teams. I'm still slightly confused. So which two are you picking out of those three?


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[Assistant] Absolutely. Uhm, and to Brinson's point a little bit here, the exact stat is that, uh, the NFL has had four new, at least four new playoff teams every year since 1990. So we're talking, we're up to 33 straight seasons. So it's pretty much a lock. And as Brinson brought up, uh,


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[Assistant] It's been a little crazier since we expanded to, uh.


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[Assistant] 14 playoff first, because now you've had 7 new teams in each of the past...


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[Assistant] Two seasons, although one of those is kind of shouldn't count because when you expanded it, you were automatically going to get at least two new playoff teams because you went from 12 to 14. So that year kind of skews the statistics.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but either way, it does feel like that number will shoot up to five or six as Brinson was saying.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it really does, look, I'm all in, I love the Panthers. I, I think we talked about who we thought was gonna win each division on Monday. I was really high in the Panthers then. I think they're at worst the second best team in that division. I have them behind the Saints right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, and if Bryce Young just plays slightly above average football, I think they can be really good. And look, a team got into the playoffs out of the NFC South at eight and nine last season. So you might be able to win nine games, 10 games probably wins this division. So.


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[Assistant] Uh, you don't have to be great. I think the Panthers can pull it off. So for me, the tough one here is do I take the Colts or the Texans? And as Brinton said here, anyone can win this and I feel like those two teams are


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[Assistant] The rosters are closer than I think most people think, and so if I'm 50-50 or 52-48 or 51-49, I'm probably slightly leading Colts.


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[Assistant] What the value is so much more with Houston that that's where I would sprinkle my money. So I would take the Texans and Panthers out of this group.


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[Assistant] Panthers, Bengals, all cats, Superbowl, Brinton, it's a dream come true for me.


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[Assistant] I think we have, we have quashed all future tattoo vets. Wilson gets to forever be remembered as the guy, uh, who made a bet against himself and then had to get a tattoo for it and now has Snoopy to prove that for the rest of his life. Katie knows that's why.


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[Assistant] Uh, obviously the Jets are an obvious answer I think for both of us here with Aaron Rodgers of these three teams. You're gonna pick them.


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[Assistant] To make the playoffs, whether it's wild card or people are crazy enough to think they're going to win the division, uh, it does feel like they definitely have a good enough roster to get to the play. I mean, they went seven and 10 last season with Zach Wilson as their quarterback. I think Aaron Rodgers can get them to at least 10 wins.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I love the jets here. So really it's, who do you like better, out of the falcons and the bears?


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[Assistant] Uh, I know you went with the Falcons, Princeton. I'm going with the Bears. I think my problem is Atlanta is stacked. Look, their roster, their skill players are good.


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[Assistant] They made a lot of good moves on defense. You mentioned a lot of them there.


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[Assistant] But I don't know how I feel about Desmond Ritter. I just don't trust him. And if I have to trust a young quarterback,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with Justin Fields over Desmond Ritter. I feel like the Bears beefed up their roster. You talked about how the, uh, NFC South is pretty wide open. I feel the same way about the NFC North. It's a division.


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[Assistant] That anyone can win. There's no reason to count the Bears out. Uh, and we look at how much Justin Fields improved last year. And then now you have a Bears team that put a lot of talent around him. He's got actual people to throw the ball to. You know, they got DJ Moore in that trade with the Panthers.


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[Assistant] Uh, the offensive line is much better. They drafted Darnell right. The defense is pretty good. I just think that this team could surprise some people. I don't think they're going to win the division, but I totally could see them getting a wild card. So I'm going to go Chicago and New York.


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[Assistant] Which is- I do not know the answer to that one. I'll say four. Six.


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[Assistant] He's a quarterback! What's that? He's a quarterback!


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[Assistant] Don't buy it, Katie. That's bitter Brinson trying to compliment people because his team got eliminated. That is what that was.


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[Assistant] Well, let me just say in your defense that like usually


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[Assistant] When you're being stubborn, it's because you don't make any sense and people are like, you have nothing to back this up.


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[Assistant] But in this case, Brinton is the one making the very reasonable argument and explaining why the Browns probably won't be good. And Brown's fans are like, no, no Brinton, we don't care about the past 30 years or the fact that


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[Assistant] We've had more losing seasons over the past decade than the Steelers, Ravens and Bengals combined. We're winning it all this year, uh, and yeaah. So, for instance, just trying to put them, give them a realistic point of view of their season, they're not buying it.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. Well first, I love that Katie mentioned if Jimmy Garoppolo can stay healthy, mentioning it literally two hours after we find out that Jimmy Garoppolo had foot surgery, uh, and will not be taking part in OTAs and probably won't be on the field till training camp. So not only, it's not can he stay healthy, it's can he even get healthy? He has to get healthy before he can stay healthy.


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[Assistant] Uh, and you know, this is just for me a process of elimination, and the Raiders are just the one team I'm throwing off this list. I don't think there's any way the Broncos and Raiders could both make the playoffs out of the AFC West. Maybe one of them, and obviously I have to pick one of them here.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I just feel like they made a lateral move at quarterback. They went 6-11 with Derek Carr. Garoppolo, yes, maybe you step up because you have Josh McDaniels, but...


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[Assistant] You're not healthy and even if you are slight step up, maybe that gets you one or two more wins and you end up seven and 10 or eight and I just don't think they can get to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm gonna stick my own face in, uh, the puddle and probably pick them to go far again because, like you, I do like them. I think Sean Payton's a great addition. If anyone can fix Russell Wilson, it's him. We've talked about that a lot. So yeah, I'm gonna take the Broncos here.


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[Assistant] Uh, but the Browns, look, I understand why Browns fans are upset with you because the team has a stacked roster, but you have an unknown quantity in Deshaun Watson. Like you literally, look, Browns fans can sit here and say, oh, he's going to be awesome. He's going to return to the form he was.


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[Assistant] And so, you know, if he plays like he did in those final six games last season, the Browns aren't going to the playoffs. They're not winning that division. They're not going to be good. And so that's the thing you have to worry about. If you're a fan in Cleveland, I think the Browns are one of those teams, one of the very few teams, the NFL that I could see winning the division or finishing in last place by four games.


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[Assistant] Six and eleven. I mean, that is just the giant window, uh, that the Browns have. But yeaah, I'll take them for the playoffs here.


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[Assistant] Cause even if Sean Payton's a great coach, if he can't fix Russell Wilson, or if Russell Wilson's just broken, it doesn't help your season. The season's done anyway.


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[Assistant] 87, Washington played Denver in the Super Bowl, and that's where...


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[Assistant] I think that's true. True. But I'm only like 95%, 90, 85% sure. Majority. Okay.


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[Assistant] I have to go off my bangle suitables. 24 was Broncos 49ers, 25 was Bills Giants, 26 was Bills Washington.


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[Assistant] Hey, look, we need to get someone in here so that people don't turn away. I was like, no, we're watching the color Superbowl. Michael Jackson was the Superbowl halftime show. Great. Fun fact. I see bonus trivia from the


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome to the Pick 6 podcast, CBS Sports NFL podcast. I'm Katie Mox here with Will Brinson and John Breach both having very good hair days today. If you guys are listening to audio only you are missing out. Brinson's got a very full


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[Assistant] Thank you, it's, you know, I appreciate that. I'm just gonna take the compliment and not give you the whole girl. No, it's not, thanks, so thank you, I appreciate that.


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[Assistant] Today we will cover early division winner picks. Uh, we're going to tell you when to go chalk and when to take value down the board coming up tomorrow. We've got the Brady Quinn football show and then on Thursday it is our mail back show. So send us your questions at pick six pod on Twitter or any of our individual accounts for any upcoming


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[Assistant] Mailbag questions you may have. And if you are liking the pod, go ahead and show us some love. Remember to like, comment, and subscribe on the YouTube page. If you're an audio listener only, download, follow, leave a five star review, and don't gatekeep the podcast. Tell your friends to listen and watch.


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[Assistant] Fellas, speaking of listening and watching, we promote last week the PGA Championship, which was on CBS. Did y'all watch the PGA Championship? I know you did, Brinson. Yeah, of course. Fantastic. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, Brooks, Brooks Kupka won, right? It's his fifth major that he won. Kind of interesting because he's a live player, right? Did y'all see the awkward exchange between the PGA CEO and Kupka after he won? It was a little bit icy. And so it had me thinking, was that the most awkward


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[Assistant] League principle, uh, player championship exchange or possibly Brady and Goodell after def- Yeah, Brady and Goodell deflating.


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[Assistant] Speaking of good hair, I'd like to see a picture of that. So if you find it, go ahead and throw it up on the YouTube channel. All right. Well, okay. So it seems like Brady and Goodell, Deflategate, whichever Super Bowl, you know, pick your poison is the most awkward exchange ever.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so let's dig into the show here, fellas, and talk early division winner odds. First up, we're looking at the AFC East. And Brinson, you have ranked all of these.


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[Assistant] On who you feel the most comfortable with go in shock and where you feel the most value is down the board. So when we look at the AFC East, you got the bills at the top plus 135 and you got the jet pretty close thereafter plus 200 the Patriots all the way down the board plus 10,000. Is this a place where you take value?


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[Assistant] It also led to Eagles last year. Wow, Brinson.


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[Assistant] Alright, Sims in the chat said Katie's not going to bet on the bills, uh, based on the fact that I've bet on them for several years in a row now and it's blown up in my face.


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[Assistant] I actually think that there's some good value on Miami at plus 320. Obviously we don't know what the Jets are really gonna look like. I'm pretty high on them. I like them over their win total. I like the Bills, but they find a way to disappoint me every single year. And Miami has a lot of question marks. Obviously we don't know if Tua is going to be playing or not, but they have all the pieces in place and at plus 320 I could see them squeaking in there and having


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[Assistant] So the Bengals are number five, uh, for the AFC North. Did you give what your number was for the AFC East and the bills?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I agree with both of you. I'll go chalk on this one with the Bengals as well. I do think that the Ravens, to your point, Breach, are interesting value-wise with a plus 275, but


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[Assistant] When's the last time that Lamar Jackson has been healthy for an entire season? I know they're changing the offense and it's going to be a lot more pass heavy.


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[Assistant] Outrageous. Alright, on that note, we are going to take a quick break here. You're watching Pick Six. We'll be right back.


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[Assistant] Brinson and Bre cheered today, three good hair days, if you are paying attention. All right. Moving on down the line, AFC South. This is the first time we're seeing a major favorite with the Jags, minus one 70. And then, uh, second, the Tennessee Titans plus three 80 huge.


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[Assistant] Huge discrepancy there, Brinson. Obviously, Jags, is this a place where you go chalk, or do you think there's some value?


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[Assistant] That's true. I mean, I agree with both of you. It's hard to say that the, uh, the jag, the jag wires, as I like to say, the jags, uhm,


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[Assistant] Aren't going to win this division, but laying a buck 70 feels like a lot. I do, I do like the Texans and maybe it's just because I'm a 49ers fan. All right. We got our defensive coordinator over there now, but a plus nine 50, there seems to be a lot.


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[Assistant] Um, a value there and yeah, the Colts will have to see how that shakes out. I'm not too high on the Titans though.


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[Assistant] Uh, Dom in the chat already trolling with the 40 whiners. I see you, I see you. Where are you gonna say, Brinson?


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[Assistant] Alright, Brinson, this is number four on your list. Yes.


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[Assistant] Okay, and OTA start today, so it'll be interesting to see how those new quarterbacks are slinging the ball out there. Okay, moving on to the AFC West.


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[Assistant] I'm assuming this is going to be your number one Brinson as to how confident you are in the chalk. Kansas City Chiefs. Interesting. Kansas City Chiefs are minus 150. Their odds aren't as steep as the Jags are.


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[Assistant] At minus 170. Then you got the chargers plus 325. Always the fun, sexy pig. Always disappoint you. Then you got the new look, Broncos plus 475.


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[Assistant] And then my Jimmy Garoppolo at plus 1200 there on the bottom, for instance.


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[Assistant] Why are the Jags a bigger favorite than the Chiefs are?


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[Assistant] No, yes, no, but I'm saying they are the new chargers in the sense where everybody thinks they're the fun, sexy pick, but they actually will continually disappoint you.


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[Assistant] Couldn't agree more. You know, it's so interesting too. When you look at last year, the odds were a little bit tighter. Kansas City was plus 160 to win the AFC West. Charters and Broncos closing at plus 250. Raiders at plus 675. So big shift here after


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[Assistant] The Chiefs unsurprisingly surprised everyone and won the division yet again and a Super Bowl yet again. Uhm, alright, so we are going to take another quick break here. You're watching Pick Six. If you're not following us on social, go ahead and do that at Pick Six Pod across all social platforms. We'll be right back.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the Pick 6 Podcast. If you're not following us on social, go ahead and do that. If you haven't downloaded the podcast audio only, go ahead and do that. If you're not following us on YouTube, go ahead and do that.


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[Assistant] as well. Moving on to the NFC feast, formerly the NFC East, probably the best division, if not one of the best divisions in football. Eagles are the favorite minus 105, then you got the Cowboys plus 165, Giants plus 700, and then the Commandos at the bottom plus 1300. Brinson, are we going chalk here? You were high on the Eagles last year.


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[Assistant] I agree as well, although I kinda like the Giants. I'm agreeing with Brinton there at that 7 to 1. The Eagles, you look at their strength of schedule last year a little bit easier. This year it's gonna be a lot tougher. They won a lot of games. Yes.


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[Assistant] They won a lot of games last year. It's going to be hard to repeat. And you talk about how hard it is coming off of a Super Bowl. How about the 2020 49ers on their revenge tour? Now of course we were decimated with injuries and I hope.


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[Assistant] That does not happen to Philadelphia, but a lot of things can go wrong or go sideways in that season following a Super Bowl loss as much as you're hungry for the revenge. So definitely see some regression for the Philadelphia Eagles.


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[Assistant] The Giants are just the fun frisky team at 7 to 1. You just gotta sprinkle a little bit on there. And, you know, seeing Dallas Cowboy fans cry at the end of every season is a pastime that is very near and dear to my heart.


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[Assistant] Alright, moving on to the NFC North. A lot has changed here. The King of the North, no longer there. And Detroit Lions are sitting atop the odds boards, plus 120. Then you got the Vikings, then the Bears, and all the way at the bottom.


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[Assistant] The former reigning Kings of the North for many years, the Packers, preach you first.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think a lot of people have recency bias. They look at the record, uh, for Minnesota last year, and to your point, all of those, or most of them, single possession games. Hard to trust them, hard to trust Kirk Cousins, especially in primetime or under really any bright light. The Detroit Lions are, uh,


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[Assistant] Just the history of the Detroit Lions, it's hard for me to say it's them.


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[Assistant] The Bears here, a little friskey plus, uh, 350 made some good moves in the off season. I feel like Justin Fields is coming into his own. They've now changed the off. Now he can't, they can't run him into the ground. They got to figure out how to open it up for him a little bit, but at plus 350, I will go Chicago Bears here.


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[Assistant] Moving on to the NFC South, the Saints favorite, plus 115, and you got the Falcons, the Panthers, Tampa Bay, all the way at the bottom, no Tom Brady, Baker Mayfield, no you're a big Baker fan over there Brinson, at plus 800. How do we feel about the NFC South?


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[Assistant] Yeah, this one's tough for me. I am going to do what neither of you can do and just lay off this one completely, um, and wait and see. And now we will talk about my favorite division.


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[Assistant] That's exactly it, Rinson. That is exactly it. 49ers sitting at the top, minus 165. Then you've got the Seahawks, plus 230, the Rams, and then the Cardinals who have absolutely no shot in doing anything this year, plus 25.


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[Assistant] Miles traveled of any team, which of course is going to be working, uhm, against them this year. But yes, I do think the 49ers are the best in the division and should win it. But if we're going value, I would actually take Seahawks at plus 230.


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[Assistant] Back to back NFC West champions, baby. Let's go. Alright Brynston, to recap.


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[Assistant] Let's do your number one through number five most confident.


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[Assistant] Alright, one quick thing before we get out of here. Dom said, Kelly, are the Nuggets going to sweep the Lakers tonight? You bet your bottom dollar they are. They're plus 130 right now on the money line. The Lakers do not stand a chance. They have


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[Assistant] Not shown any signs of life that they could get this done tonight. So if you're going to give me the team with the joker and with Jamal Murray, who went into LA and gave them their first loss in the playoffs at plus one 30, I'm taking that all day long. Plus that the three y'all betting NBA tonight.


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[Assistant] It has paid off nice. Also, Jimmy Butler steals over one and a half is free money. It's much like a Matt Stafford interception props.


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[Assistant] Couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. It's been a really fun playoff season so far and so hopefully we'll get the sweeps on both of the Eastern and the Western Conference Finals and then we will get our nuggets and heat.


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[Assistant] All right, everyone, that is going to wrap the show today. Thank you so much for rocking with us tomorrow. We got the Brady Quinn football show. And then on Thursday it is our mailbag show. So send us questions to at pic six pod on Twitter.


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[Assistant] Mailbag! Or any of our individual accounts, uh, for our upcoming mailbag episode. We'll see you next time.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome to the Pick 6 podcast. Katie Mox and Will Brinson here and welcome back to our All 32 series. The series where we catch up with insiders and give you all the information that you need to know for every single NFL team.


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[Assistant] Today we are diving into the Dallas Cowboys Dem Boys with NFL staff writer for CBS Sports and Cowboys insider Garrett Padel. Garrett, uh, thank you for joining us today. How you doing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's, that's what I was gonna say. Dak Prescott, league leading, what, 15 interceptions last year, and to Brinson's point, McCarthy has really scapegoated Kellen Moore here, blaming him for everything. What do you think that this offense is going to look like without Moore?


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[Assistant] Well, let's say that Zeke, you know, is done and then there's a lot on Tony Pollard, then can he carry the full workload in the backfield? I'm looking right now at some fantasy projections saying he's the second best running back to take in your drafts. His over under, I believe, is at 1200 rushing yards.


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[Assistant] How, how productive do you think that Tony Pollard could be? Is this someone we should look at for fantasy to take pretty high in our drafts and certainly his over-under at $1,200?


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[Assistant] Alright, looking at the, uh, defense, Garrett, particularly the, the secondary, you have Diggs already, right? Now you got Gilmore. They're the only team that have, uh, two top 10, according to PFF, uh, cornerbacks on the same team. How explosive and how many picks do you think we're going to see, uhm, in the secondary?


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[Assistant] All right, Garrett, we're gonna ask you some gambling questions, some futures on the Cowboys. But before we do, we would be remiss not to ask you about this Jerry Jones documentary that it was going to be on Netflix. There was a bidding war, $50 million. Fans will get to relive the glory days of Jerry Jones. Uh, what should we expect?


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[Assistant] Well, if you think Dallas is a special team, they are 15 to 1 to win the Super Bowl. If they win the NFC East, it's kind of hard to argue that they aren't going to be at least a contender for the Super Bowl. Is that, is that how special this team is or are we not going that far?


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[Assistant] All right, well you gave us a lot to think on or chew on with these appetizers. Thank you so much to Garrett Padel for joining us. The vibes are high in Dallas, but I will say they're high pretty much every single year and then something happens in the playoffs. We hope that doesn't happen to you this year unless of course it does.


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[Assistant] Garrett, again, thank you so much for joining us. Stay tuned for more from our All 32 series with Daily Drops in your podcast feed and on YouTube. And make sure you like, comment, subscribe on this video and we'll see you for the next one. Garrett, thank you.


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[Assistant] I was like, Oh, I have three minutes until the podcast starts. I can get rebooted. And then a flurry of, um, inane technical mishaps occurred, causing me to provide excuses upon my eventual return five minutes into whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I went, uh, up to, uh, the greater Washington DC area, really more like Potomac, um, with my dad and, uh, his good friend Tom and we played congressional.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Tom, Tom's a great guy. Tom, uh, Tom got some congressional and Bernie tree.


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[Assistant] Walked, walked all, all three days. Um, not a lot of birdies out there.


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[Assistant] Very tough courses, uh, but really exceptional golf courses, just to.


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[Assistant] Uh, fantastic place to play golf and, um, feel like, you know, hadn't really played a lot of golf this spring, but I think, um, you know, I may be able to start getting my, my gamut. I've hit my irons a little bit longer than I was last year. That's exciting. I don't know what it is. I don't know if I've been, you know, just all the, all the reps I've been doing in the gym, Brady.


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[Assistant] But, uh, yeah, uh, we had a great time. Didn't play very well. We went to a Nats game one night, uh, had some incredible meals, just a really, really good time. Real father, son bonding. Shout out to Tom for the, for hosting us. So guys, the guys family, great people.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was, go ahead Breach cause I don't want to steal your bingles.


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[Assistant] You get Aaron Rodgers, Mike McCarthy, double revenge game in their new spot. You know, a little big Mike so sad, big Mike's gone. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. This is like Aaron Rodgers started throwing everybody's face and Rodgers had a field day with the Cowboys in the past. Of course, everybody remembers that playoff game, that laser.


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[Assistant] It was a tight end, I swear it was Finley, but it could have been, it wasn't Tanyaan.


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[Assistant] Wasn't, uh, I think it was Finley. Uh, in a who, you know, this is a huge matchup, like,


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[Assistant] Both teams have very high expectations and it's an away game. It's at Dallas, which means it's possibly possibly.


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[Assistant] On Thanksgiving, which would be exciting. Uhm, and then I think you really throughout any of the other.


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[Assistant] So when they do the initial schedule, it's usually five max and then they might add something else on there.


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[Assistant] The Jaguars? All three of you call them the Jaguars.


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[Assistant] I've seen a lot, some people collect butter bells. What would be your ideal butter bell to keep? It'd be a Jacksonville Jaguar.


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[Assistant] We were doing seven, seven miles per hour. Um, but gold was like, who's, who do you think could be the first coach fired? And I think if you actually expanded it to not just fired, but like retired.


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[Assistant] I think that's fair. Uh, Brandon Staley, you could throw out to, um.


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[Assistant] You never know what can happen. Jim mercy could fire Shane Steichen and hire Jeff Saturday. Anything's on the table with the, uh, the Colts at this point. Todd balls and the Buccaneers have to be considered a candidate. I think, um,


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[Assistant] You know, whenever, whenever you're worried, you just fake a back injury. That's what you do. Fake a back surgery. That's what you do.


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[Assistant] I can see you being like a big bastion guy with your Irish shit.


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[Assistant] Just give me like Brinton's got vacation brain going, but I think there's a decent chance that like by midway through the season, I'm no longer intrigued by the New York Jets.


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[Assistant] Oh, good or bad. Like I'm very intrigued to see them to begin with because it's Aaron Rodgers in a new spot. But you know what? Brett farm was intriguing for the first half of season two. And then it was like the Jets was absolutely cratered. Now he got hurt. Oh, old quarterback can't get hurt.


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[Assistant] Oh my God, I've got to watch Zach Wilson and it hurt Aaron Rodgers wing it all around the field for four more prime time games. It's only week four. Like crazy.


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[Assistant] And again, I'm not saying that I'm, that this is going to happen. I'm just saying that, look, I'm feeling, feel frisky today. Little, like little, going outside the box a little bit, you know, fresh back for vacation. Uh, by the way, another team that I'm like kind of sneaky and drinks by. Wait, wait, wait before you get to your second thing. It's not your team, I promise.


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[Assistant] No, I just think the Falcons, like they had to be John Robinson. They've got, as we all know, I have a massive crush on, uh, they've got, they've just got like, uh, like kind of a little bit of something where they could steal that division to be a, a, a team that gets blown out in the locker hosting a lot.


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[Assistant] So, by the way, does this mean that you and Breacher, if you're both back in the Broncos, does that mean you guys are in the Mile High club together? You're like, you're back in the Broncos? That's just creepy, Brenton. But also none of your business. Guys, you're back in a team that plays at Mile High! What's, what's wrong?


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[Assistant] Should we, should we give Musso's Bears a shout out here for intriguing to watch? Cause they did, they do a lot of, a lot of stuff. Uh, I mean, I, I, I think, uh, I would also throw the Jaguars.


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[Assistant] It's crazy that the, it's understandable that the Vikings are not the favorite because they got really lucky last year, but I think you'd look at totality of the roster. The Vikings are still the better team. Everybody's gonna be picking the Lions.


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[Assistant] The Packers are kind of, like, Jordan Love is fascinating to see how that plays out. And then of course, like,


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[Assistant] I mean, the Bears had a good off season. I don't know that they fixed everything and got themselves into contender shape, but I mean, they could win that division. It wouldn't be that crazy.


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[Assistant] Um, I actually was going to echo what Joe Musso put in the, uh, put in the chat, which is like.


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[Assistant] I don't think you spelled hubris correctly, but I'll, we'll go with it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can't remember where you got his education from. I'm sure it was, you know, somewhere.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, let's just, let's, let's ease into this season without having massive expectations because


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[Assistant] Buddy, let me tell you what, when you're, uh, when you're a meddling team that thinks it's going to be good, but whatever, whatever side of the,


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[Assistant] He fell so flat. He fell flat with my dad too. He fell flat with my dad too. He doesn't think it's right for me either.


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[Assistant] Shouldn't you be spending your time not mangling the band, the band's classic songs like the weight or, uh, don't do it or up on cripple Creek or any of the other songs that you thought the diversity band should be playing when they certainly should not be playing to, um,


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[Assistant] Just move on Jimbo and go do something more productive like not mangle the band.


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[Assistant] Isn't it kind of silly that the, um, I mean, I understand why this is the case because you don't want somebody to retire. And then there's like, ah, I got homes and like, you know, Tom Brady leaves and goes to a different team.


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[Assistant] But like at this point, shouldn't Andrew Luck just be kind of free to play wherever he wants if he wanted to come back? Hasn't it been long enough?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that checks out. And then Saturday night, I know, because we had to do an emergency podcast.


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[Assistant] I would say a more substantial percentage of the people listening to this podcast.


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[Assistant] Yeah, remember that emergency podcast. Lock now 33 will turn 34 in September.


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[Assistant] He's, you know, he, he comes from, I mean, look, he, you know, he comes from a, a family. Like he, he didn't have to worry about money when he came into the NFL more than like, you know, his, his family's well off. Um,


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[Assistant] He has a great education, smart guy. Um, and I think he just wanted to make sure that he had a quality of life after.


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[Assistant] He finished playing football that was, you know, there was, there was, there was quality. He wanted a quality type of life after football, and he didn't feel he was heading that way with the way these injuries were piling up. And, you know, I think, too, that, like, luck always put on this very tough face and very stoic face. And, you know, you kind of hear about


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[Assistant] Some of the stuff and like, you know, the injuries and the, you know, just how it was going down. Just, I mean, wait on him. Like it's easy. Oh, big, tough quarterback guys out there putting on this face soon. And I'm not, I'm, I'm a big brave man. No one can scare me, but you know what? Deep down we all have to battle.


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[Assistant] With our inner demons, Brady Quinn, and sometimes, oh my, I ain't playing professional football anymore. That guy is.


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[Assistant] I got a couple thoughts here on this. Uh, one, I understand if it's a Monday, if Christmas is a Monday.


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[Assistant] You know, you have all the Sunday games. Okay. It annoys me too. Well, I mean, I say this like I'm not, you know, it annoys me that now they've just been like, nah, f it. We're going to have a Sunday night game on Christmas Eve. Anyway, when in years past, they would just do the afternoon games. And then, you know, I guess I'm like, oh, because I got to get to church, um, to, you know,


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[Assistant] I don't mind watching the Sunday night game. I'm just saying that, like, from that perspective, it's a little, it kind of flies in the face of, you know, why we have one o'clock NFL games on Sundays, because, you know, it's a southern things that people get back from church. I think I just think the NFL is basically blurring that line completely at this point. If it's on a Monday, I understand it. Maybe load up the schedule a little bit more.


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[Assistant] I don't like the idea of, okay, Sunday games on the 28 or so excuse me, Sunday games on the 21st and then like three NFL games on Friday or Christmasy Christmas day or whatever it is. Having said that,


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[Assistant] Most of my angst about this isn't really about Roger Goodell slapping baby Jesus in the face repeatedly, scheduling three games over and over again. Most of my angst is about, Oh my God, do I have to do? No offense. This stupid podcast on Christmas night after watching three games and staying instead of enjoying some hashtag.


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[Assistant] What I want to do is casually watch your muted breach, but good try.


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[Assistant] What I want to do is casually watch these games with my family and enjoy them because I love football without having the specter of work looming over top of it. And I find it very, look, my mom retired minister really, really bothered by the NFL's football is family slogan, which I mean, come on, it's total BS.


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[Assistant] Football is my family. That's correct. The only family I have is football. My point just being is that like, it just feels a little, they're like trying to be like, you know, snuggle up at Christmas. The final thing I'll say is this.


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[Assistant] What they need to do for these Christmas games, if they're gonna do it. And I realize they won't do this because they want to spread the, spread the love, spread the Christmas cheer. All three, they should do just like they do Thanksgiving.


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[Assistant] Lock in two or three home teams.


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[Assistant] Where we're going to get snow. Like 70% of the time. You hope you're going to get snow. But then cause like you give me snow Christmas games and I'm not going to say a word. I won't say boo about these games. Put the snow on my TV and I'm in.


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[Assistant] I will say really quickly too, there's one like fun little twist to having those Christmas day games. Remember in 2020 when Alva Kamara and the Saints played the Vikings and Kamara ran for six rushing touchdowns? That was the fantasy football finals week.


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[Assistant] And like you're probably in close proximity to someone. Like I think I'm going to be playing my dad and he's just like, go back to your room.


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[Assistant] And sort of these island spots where you get a big fantasy moments in this fantasy football finals. Uh, I, I certainly enjoy.


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[Assistant] We've, it's been a hundred years, give or take. And frankly, we're sick and tired of competing with the NFL. So we're giving up. We're quitting. We're just going to punt our season to whatever they're done playing football. Good. I want to spread it out to March. Fine. We'll start in April. We lose. You happy Roger?


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[Assistant] Well, and you know, like the other thing too, like Roger Goodell rolls out as Roger's Christmas spectacular. And now, you know, the NBA can't even like think about playing on Christmas anymore and getting any ratings. I also think it's, it's hard kind of to dive into the NBA and college basketball to an extent too, when it's like,


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[Assistant] It's been going on and you just haven't really been paying that much attention. Like I'm not paying attention. And I understand there are lots of people who are huge NBA fans who pay attention throughout the full season, but it's like, I'm really checking in as soon as you know, the season, the season ends and


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, clearly Brady got dove climbing, which, you know, many people have. We've seen it happen, uh, where you pull out.


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[Assistant] People on Twitter love sound bites. They see a 15 second sound bite that doesn't tell the whole story. I mean clearly, Brady said he's the most accurate passer in the draft. He's the second best quarterback in the draft. He should be the second quarterback taken. Those are all compliments and you guys were talking about, uh,


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[Assistant] What's the reason for that? You're throwing out theories. That was the theory Brady had because of something he heard. Uh, yeah, but otherwise he was completely complimentary of CJ Strout. So it's, it's, it's a weird situation. I, I think that, you know, a lot of the heat he's taken on.


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[Assistant] And let me just chime on to Brenton's point because we have on one side Ryan Clark saying that CJ Shroud never committed to attending the camp. Brady obviously saying that there was some sort of commitment there and that he goes to them and didn't show up. And the black and white facts, the two parts that can't be disputed on this are that


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[Assistant] Uh, we know that as Princeton just mentioned, CJ Shroud was on the initial list of counselors for the camp that was released three days before the camp.


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[Assistant] A miscommunication. If there was a miscommunication or it was because he had made a commitment and ended up on the list. And then we also know that he wasn't at the camp. So somehow he went from being on this list three days before the camp to not being at the camp. What happened those three days in between and why he didn't show up? That is the gray area here. Uh, and,


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[Assistant] I think you would have to talk to CJ Stroud or the Mannings to get that full story.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's the thing here, is that what does slipping even mean? That he's not the number one overall pick anymore?


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[Assistant] And he might be the number three overall pick now. I mean, that is just not slipping. That's just, that's what happens with quarterbacks. We're having the same conversation last year when the 49ers traded up the number three and there were conversations that they might take Mac Jones and they ended up with Trey Lance. It's just that, or two years ago, it's just that you see this all the time.


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[Assistant] With the draft. It is smokescreen season. Guys are just throwing things at the wall. Some things sick, some things don't. They're trying to confuse things. They want to throw teams off their set. They want to make sure the other teams have no idea what they're going to do. And the one team that benefits from all this drama is the Houston Texans because


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[Assistant] Maybe the Houston Texans have a little bit of interest in CJ Stroud, even though it seems that all reports are saying that they love Bryce Young and that they're


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[Assistant] I mean, you look at the odds right now, and CJ Stroud is right there, uh, almost at the top of the board as far as being the number two overall pick. He's got tied for the best odds to be the third overall pick. As Ryan said, it would be an absolute shock if he falls out of the top five. I'll be shocked if he falls out of the top three.


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[Assistant] That you will not drop out of the top 10. Drop out of the top 10. I will Venmo you $40 as soon as the 10th pick is made if he is not in the top 10.


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[Assistant] No, no, I'm saying that the, at best Justin Fields was going to be the third quarterback because when the 49ers trade up, we knew Trevor Lawrence was going number one overall and the 49ers were going to take either Mack Jones or Trey Lance. The Zach Wilson thing threw everyone off, but Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes


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[Assistant] Real quick, when you look at the Seahawks, the Lions, and even you get back to the Raiders,


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[Assistant] If their draft board changes, if you have CJ Stroud as number one quarterback on your draft board and now he falls into your lap and maybe you weren't planning on taking a quarter up because you didn't expect him to be available, but he's there now, that could change everything you do. And you say, yeah, we love Jared Goff, but he's not going to be here much longer. Let's take CJ Stroud or same thing with Gino Smith. He didn't sign a seven year contract. He's the


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[Assistant] Middle term answer. They probably can get out of that contract after one year. So you could conceivably sign or draft CJ Stroud if you're the Seahawk. So.


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[Assistant] Even though you made a solid case for why they wouldn't trap.


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[Assistant] That's the laughing stock here. That's where Brinson's gonna beat me. I don't think...


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[Assistant] That they'd say, you know what? Let's just make sure we get him. Let's trade up. Let's not risk this.


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[Assistant] It was definitely fascinating to hear him say that because you would think, look, I understand that, and I will say that as the son of an NFL player and being old enough to remember him playing,


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[Assistant] Uh, that is absolutely memories that you carry with you your entire life. So.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, good for Tua that he wants his son to be a part of that and, and play as long as possible so that his son does remember that. But Britain does make a good point that, you know, Tua is in a dicey spot in his career that you just can't keep taking these concussions.


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[Assistant] And so, you know, if he was mauling retirement this off season, what's going to happen if he just has one concussion?


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[Assistant] During this upcoming season. As Brenton mentioned, they picked up the fifth year option, and that's now fully guaranteed no matter what. So, you know, that's $23 million the Dolphins are now going to pay to, uh, uh, I think unless he retires, uh, but it just, it just makes it dicey because look, this is


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[Assistant] You're enrolling in retirement one offseason. What's to keep that happening from next offseason if you're dealing with more injury issues?


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and you know, you throw, even more interesting because on Thursday or Wednesday night or whatever, Tom Brady does this interview and gets asked if he would consider coming out of retirement playing for the Dolphins and he didn't say no. He just kind of said, well I have some friends on the Dolphins and uh, you know, we'll, uh, you know.


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[Assistant] I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm, I'm retired right now. So it just, it's, it's definitely a situation worth watching.


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[Assistant] Well, and they traded for Mike White, so don't forget that. I think their plan was to not draft a quarterback because we know that Mike White is good. I mean, he started a couple games for the Jets last year.


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[Assistant] And I just took Rinzen's profile picture in Slack because I knew it would upset him the most. You bastard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if it's going to be Athene Richardson, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Seahawks took a quarterback.


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[Assistant] And you know, we talked about the possibility of CJ Stroud falling down to number five. I don't know who the Seahawks have as the top quarterback on their draft board, but if that guy, whether it's Anthony Richardson, CJ Stroud, you know, there's no way Bryce Young's flying that far, but if that guy falls into the lap at five, I at least consider taking them. Cause as we mentioned, Gino Smith's contract is set up


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[Assistant] So that he sticks around, mentors a rookie for one year, you know, you have Gino in 2023, uh, and then you unleash the rookie in 2024. So I, I agree with kind of what Brenton muttered right there. The Seahawks aren't going to take, if I had to bet on it, I would say Seahawks are not going to take a quarterback, but it wouldn't totally shock me if they did.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, the top 5 are about all I can handle here, because I am not Ryan Wilson. I don't know, uh, 7 rounds of draft picks. You know what, I was...


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[Assistant] That is true, and I gave you some kicking and punting prospects to throw in your seven round draft, so I do help out with draft stuff. Uh, but first round stuff, you know, obviously everyone loves Will Anderson, he has to be in your top five, so he's there. Tyree Wilson is someone who I am really high on, and I, I, I


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[Assistant] I want to say he could get drafted before Will Anderson, but man, that would be, uh, if I'm here making bold predictions, that would be a bold prediction is that Wilson goes before Anderson. I think I like him more as a pass rusher. Um, so those are probably my top two. And then, you know, you have a couple of cornerbacks in there. Christian Gonzalez, uh, Jalen Carter.


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[Assistant] Who, despite everything that's going on, still a top 5 guy, and then I think you round that out with another quarterback, and that's just kind of who you like the best, whether that's a guy like, uh, Von Witherspoon or, uh,


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[Assistant] Deontay Banks, so it's just those top four and then throw another corner in there.


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[Assistant] Well, and when we talked about this pre-show, that is what the 49ers would have to do because they have less than $3 million in cap space. You're going to have to pay Lamar a ton of money, more than $50 million a year now that we've seen this J-1 Hertz contract, more than $51 million a year. And so that is a problem.


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[Assistant] Uh, but as far as that goes, Wilson, so let's say, as you said, the 49ers don't have a first round pick.


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[Assistant] And give away their next two first round picks, 2024 and 2025. In that case, I don't think it's crazy because it feels like the 49ers, as you said, are not just a playoff contender, but a Super Bowl contender. And if they get to the conference title game or the Super Bowl, that means you're giving away the 29th overall pick, and if you win it all, the 32nd overall pick.


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[Assistant] Those two picks, I would give up for Lamar Jackson. So in the 49ers case, if I'm a bad team, like the Colts, it's a little dicier because you might be giving up high picks. You don't know that Lamar is going to fix things right away. But from the 49ers, I feel a little more comfortable doing that because I think it's going to be two very low picks in the first round.


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[Assistant] I mean, you can literally work out a trade with the rate. So if they want to work out a trade.


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[Assistant] No, Lamar not having an agent before the draft wouldn't matter because if the 49ers want to do a deal before the draft, they have to call the Ravens and work out a trade because they cannot sign Lamar to an offer sheet because they don't have a first round pick this year. So like they can't do that. So that takes that.


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[Assistant] Huge European football fan. Big Champions League fan. In fact, uhm, I was thrilled when we acquired the Champions League. I had gotten into it. My brother is a big time soccer fan.


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[Assistant] Um, so, you know, some, um, some, some legal one, but, uh, the champions league is just truly elite level soccer. And the fact that we have this constantly running network going to focus on what is really the global sport.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's very exciting. And of course I will be tuning into it constantly, but also by the way, like if you're a degenerate, there's nothing better than soccer because it's all during the day.


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[Assistant] Like you're like, oh, it's boring. It's like, what up? No. Soccer. Gambling is like intense when you've got like a draw for a match and it's zero zero and then it goes to stoppage time and all of a sudden some like they're like a Ford just squeaks through the defense and he's spreading toward there and like all of a sudden they raise the flag and the bar it's all sides. It's just intense. I love soccer.


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[Assistant] Do you, do you struggle, do you struggle with like being a celebrity on the field when you're like, cause you're tall.


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[Assistant] That no matter the score, I wore a visor every week, obviously different.


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[Assistant] If when we broke along, when we jail broke along touchdown, no matter the score, I'm Peacock it with my play sheet advisor, like winding it down, following the kids into the end zone, like the true sportsman.


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[Assistant] So, I've got, uh, two mutually exclusive, or two takes I think that are mutually exclusive on the Odo Beckham thing.


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[Assistant] Oh my God. Can, can this please be the end of the Odell Beckham watch?


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[Assistant] I mean last year was the most ridiculous thing in the history of professional football in terms of over coverage of a guy who ended up playing a snap for a single team and wasn't ever going to be healthy enough because he tours ACL in the friggin Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] So like that whole thing last year, especially with the Cowboys, I know Jerry Jones loves attention and all of that. Just, just, just too much, just too much. And then this whole thing leading up to it, just too much. Like if he goes out and has a good, if he has a thousand yards,


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[Assistant] Then great job. That's a big season for him. I think given the health and like the way and how much he's played in the past few years now, having gotten that annoyance off my chest, I'm going to point out that again, usually exclusive takes.


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[Assistant] I think the Odell Beckham stuff is annoying as hell. And yet if Odell Beckham is able to get Lamar Jackson back and playing on the franchise tag.


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[Assistant] Then this is a great signing. And here's a hot take.


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[Assistant] You have the $5 million for the difference in those two tags and you're still saving money on the Odell Beckham Lamar Jackson combo by virtue of using the non-exclusive tag. So if you're able to overpay Odell.


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[Assistant] Make him happy, get him to hype up Lamar and bring Lamar in and get Lamar to play this year. You have, it's a massive win for the Ravens and it's a fantastic signing. And look, should Lamar be that excited about Odell Beckham coming in?


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[Assistant] Probably not. Is it going to drastically change his wide receiver court? Maybe because they're that bad before, but not because like Odell Beckham is the best receiver in football. But if he likes Odell enough where he's FaceTiming immediately after this signing and the Ravens are tweeting it out, then this is a big, big win for Baltimore to pay Odell back to overpay Odell Beckham and get Lamar Jackson back if that's what we think is going to happen.


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[Assistant] Right. I think it's from rap sheet, uh, on, just, let me just, not that, not that breach. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh, somebody reported it. Somebody aggregated it. And I love John Breach like a brother. Well, I mean like a stepbrother. Well, you know, like a, like a, well.


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[Assistant] I thought, I thought that when Brady...


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[Assistant] It's like suggested this is a topic and it's definitely worth the topic. I thought that when I clicked on the link that the


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[Assistant] Picture of Russell O'Koon from the sideways shot was like an ad for, but you know, like you get those terrible ads. It's like.