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Speaker 4: You know him, you love him covering the Saints out there.
Speaker 3: Ross.
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 4: How we doing?
Speaker 5: Hey man, I'm doing great, Glad to be here. Thanks,
having just wanted all right.
Speaker 2: So, what's maybe been your biggest takeaway? Obviously, the Saints
they leave Metory, they go out west, they have a
preseason game against the Chargers, going to practice against the Rams.
What's kind of been the biggest takeaway maybe in the
road trip?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the biggest thing that I would highlight,
sticking with the biggest story, which is that quarterback battle,
is that the quarterback battle got a lot more tight
out here and a lot more competitive out here. That
felt very much that quarterback battle like that was you know,
kind of spincer rattlers from the very beginning out in
uh Metai out in New Orleans, kind of getting you know,
accustomed to or being the guy that's already kind of
accustomed to the NFL game and the NFL speed and
all those other things. They kind of worked to his
advantage early on during training camp. But then the scenes
got out here in California and they did a lot
more of these kind of call it practice periods, so
they went away from kind of the scripted for working
this situation and this down and distance with this play
with this goal in mind, and it just got into
some live play calling almost like simulations scrimmages in some
cases as well. And that really kind of elevated Tyler
Shuck's game a bit, I think, and we've seen him
really build momentum here over the course of these West
Coast training camps. So now the things will go back
to do this preseason game on Sunday against the Jacksonville
Jaguars and still have a very very tight quarterback battle.
And so I think that would be my biggest takeaway
is just went from Spencer Ratler kind of leading the
way to at least it's still being now tight enough
for this battle to continue going into that second preseason game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rawson, I agree that it almost felt like they
were going to make a call, you know, the last
couple of days, maybe even after the first preseason game,
and then Shuck comes in, has some nice moments, certainly
nice two minute drive, and now it seems like they're,
you know, still in full on position battle mode. So like,
when do you think because I mean, like you said,
second preseason game, we know there's only three games now, Like,
when do you think a call is actually going to
be made?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think the biggest thing that you're going to see
with this is that you might see two different calls, right,
you might see one that happens privately, and then you
have the announce that happens after the case. And so
a public announcement will probably be different than the actual
decision itself. But I think the Saints are in a
position now to where they could be just one really
strong performance away from either announcing or making up their
mind or kind of having that decision made for them.
I think that if you look at where the Saints
can be following that Jacksonville Jaguars game on Sunday. That
could be the big, you know, kind of situation there
that effectively tells them, hey, this is going to be
the guy that we're going to go with. I mean,
the Saints have seen this before. They had a preseason
game against the Jacksonville Jaguars years ago when they were
trying to make their decision between Jameis Winston and Taysom Hill.
If you remember that a couple of years ago, and
it was a big performance by Jameis Winston that ended
up stealing that conversation. And so if either one of
these guys comes in and has a considerably more impressive
performance or a considerably more consistent and impactful performance up
against Jacksonville, that could be the proverbial nail in the coffin,
as it were. But I think you would have to
do something that's going to convince this team to hand
it over at that point. Otherwise I could see this
going into game week. I could see this going into
you know, at least this week. The tricky part is,
and you guys know this well, that after the second
preseason game, with the preseason now being condensed, this is
kind of after this game you start to really start
to move into some Week one preparation to kind of
know what your roster is going to be after this game.
With some exceptions, those guys to you know that are
still battling for spots and buying for opportunities they're going
to play in that third preseason game, which you're probably
not going to play a ton of guys that you're
sure about in that third preseason game, and so you
can start to transition your you know, first team focus
and your early team focus over to game planning and
having a quarterback ready for that could be really valuable.
So if I would say that if one of those guys
comes out and has some kind of emphatic enough performance
and there's a separation in the game against Jacksonville, at
the Saints could feel pretty comfortable at least starting to
change their focus before making the announcement about who that
starting quarterback might be.
Speaker 6: Do y'all have any indication or heard from any of
the coaches on what the how they're going to do
the rotation for the Jacksonville game, Because like, there's a
big difference between playing in the first half of a
preseason game versus the second half. It's you can't judge
those apples the apples. So y'all have any indication how
that's going to be. I mean, it would be better
to have like a true like series by series if
you're trying to really compare apples apples as closely as possible.
But like you know, like you've seen it, deep balls
present themselves in practice, a guy makes a good move,
it might not present himself for the other guy. And
so that day, like that guy that hit the deep
ball because a guy got open looks better than the
other guy because the guy didn't have a guy like
streak out. Like so like things are scut That's why
it's so hard to like make a final call with
two unknowns and to make such a big decision on
the more, it's important because you have to figure out
the best way to compare apples to apples as close
as possible. And every day in practice or every every
game situation is not created equals. So what's the indication
right now and how they're going to do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they haven't made any kind of indication to a
strict yet. I think that the typical rhythm would be
to let Tyler shuck get sort of that first crack
at the first team. You had Spencer Ratley do that
in the first game.
Speaker 4: You could give.
Speaker 5: Tyler Shuck that opportunity here in the second game. But
as in terms of how that rotation actually looks, right,
is that one quarter? Is that you know, like you
said drive by drive, which I think would be wise,
is that you know, five drives here, five drives there,
like we kind of saw durating that preseason game. They're
in the first preseason game. We haven't really got an
indication of that just yet. But and to your point,
I completely agree with sort of the preseason evaluation, if
you will, because the other thing is you're going out
there and yeah, you're taken, you're a starter in the preseason,
and you're taking quote unquote first team reps. So you're
taking quote unquote first team reps with maybe your first
team offensive line, but not with your first team skilled
players for instance, And so do you really have your
starting lineup right? And so I think that's one of
the reasons why yesterday's joint practice was so important for
the Saints and in evaluating that quarterback competition, because that
was really the only time that we've seen over and
over and over again Tyler Shuck and Spencer out there
both kind of go drive for drive with the actual
first team players that they, you know, are going to
line up next to in Week one in twenty twenty five, right,
and so so, yeah, I think that's that's one of
the reasons why David New Orleans really wanted that kind
of late scheduled joint practice and tried to pull that
off and bid pulled that off as they did, because
it kind of gives them that additional evaluation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ross.
Speaker 2: One of the things that was surprising in the opening
preseason game was the struggles of the interior offensive line,
certainly Caeson one. He's a player that is going to
you know, obviously be counted.
Speaker 7: All.
Speaker 2: How have the practices gone against the Rams, because the
Rams have one of the better young defensive front and
all of that, you know the National Football League.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not great, not great. The Rams defensive line kind
of took them the task. I'm not gonna lie to Yeah,
it was. And look, there's a couple of things, a
couple of pieces of kind of context around that. You
don't you know, you don't game plan for joint practices, right,
you don't watch tape for joint practices. You don't do
those kinds of things, especially in a situation like this
where they were kind of thrown together in a rush,
and they were kind of, you know, impressively thrown together
in a rush. By the way, Like there's the logistics
of getting that together in less than a week is
pretty astronomical. And so but you know, as a team,
you're not watching game tape to get ready for, you know,
and you're not planning game planning for uh, these joint practices.
You're running scripted players, you're doing all these things. And
so I give a little bit of that context just
to say that, like a lot of the stuff that
the scene struggled with were stunts, twist things like that
that you would identify on tape and learn how to
counter and have a plan for. You just kind of
walk into a joint practice with no plan for. So
you just kind of have to respond to what it
is that you see, Like you have a general idea
of what these guys like to do, Like you know,
Kris shul is evolving that defense going into another year
as a defensive coordinator there after Raheem Morris left and everything,
and so there are things that they're going to be
doing differently. And so you know what, I say that
there was something you should look at from an optimistic
standpoint when it comes to that offensive line going up
against the Rams really talented defensive line. No, not necessarily,
but if there's a silver line coming out of it.
It was like, hey, that's what it looks like without
game planning week nine when they go up against the Rams.
So I have a chance to game plan a little bit,
go over some game film, and then see how they
can improve there. And so I would look for the
offensive line to perform better week one than we saw
them perform in the joint practices. But yeah, no, they
got taken a task quite a bit during.
Speaker 6: Those joint practice and tell us like the one position
group or unit that during this joint practice where you
sat there and watched and consistently you could say, all right,
not bad, Alex's pretty good, like pretty excited about that
was what was that moment?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's the edge rushers for me. The
Saints edge rushers. Chase Young had a phenomenal day. The
dude had like multiple pressures, two sacks that I would
have felt pretty comfortable calling sacks. I mean, you know,
it's Jimmy Garoppolo. You're not really escaping much right in
those situations, and so you know you're getting back there.
He's getting into the well, you know, I mean that
just mean he's not he's not the most mobile guy,
you know what I mean, And so you know you're
getting back there. He's getting these pressures and everything like that.
He's getting a couple of sacks I would say during
the day too. But then he also had like three
pass breakups because two of them he just got into
the backfielder was able to knock down the sort of
swing your outlet passes out to the flat to the
running backs. And he was actually in coverage against the
believe it was uh might have been Tyler Higbee was
one of the tight ends where he literally broke up
a pass in coverage and everything. Because these edge rushers
like this three four scheme, it's you're going to have
to drop every now and then. And so you know,
he did that and ended up getting a play. So
I thought he had just a fantastic day, one of
the better days that I've seen from Chase Young. And look,
you're hoping that this team, if you're this team, you're
hoping that you're they're going to be able to unlock
this guy's potential in a way that other teams haven't
been able to before. And Brandon Staley just seems like
maybe the right guy to get that done. So we'll
see what that looks like in the regular season. I
thought that Chase Carl Granderson had a strong day from
that position group for Dil Diggs had a pressure, a
potential sack.
Speaker 6: We saw.
Speaker 5: Chris Rump for the potential sack as well, and so
it just feels like that edge rusher position has gone
from you know, three marquee name guys in Chase Young,
Carl Grander, standing Cam Jordan maybe having up to six,
you know, five or six players that can be contributors,
you know, And I think that's a good place.
Speaker 4: To be at that position group.
Speaker 2: Ross One of the things we talked about last week,
it was so difficult to evaluate the running backs because
of how poor I thought the offensive line played, and
like even like a play, you know, that was a
two yard run. It's like, man, I could see some
bursts from the running backs and Kendre Miller's like, I
get it. I get why he's getting third and fourth
chances because you see that burst that he has. But
it's so tough to evaluate them because it's like where
do you tell them to go? Like I was watching
the end zone copy of the game and and me
and Matt kind of had the same thought process. It's like,
I don't know where to tell him to go on
this run. That's why it's a two yard run because
they just never were able to really get going. Like
that was a surprise to me, just because this offensive
line that you've had, you know, so many big investments
in like if it's past protection, Okay, maybe not ash shocking,
but in the run game, Like, it was very tough
to evaluate these running backs. And I think that's one
of the most you know, more intriguing position battles I
think in camp.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can really agree, and I think I think
you're right. Like so to match an analytic with your tape,
the things offensive line allowed just zero point five to five,
so half a yard before contact on each of those
rushing attempts in yesterday's game or yesterday's game, listen to
me Sunday's game and so. And the reason why that
metric is important is because that's effectively for those that
aren't familiar with it, an offensive line metric that shows
you know, how much room are you giving your running
back before he's touched by a defender, and so you
typically want to be around one and a half to
two and a half yards Somewhere in that range is
a range from successful to very successful and you kind
of want to be in that range when it comes
to that. And the Stints were about a third to
a fifth of that in terms of their per carry
production during this game. Now, I think that that is
a big piece of context that matches what you guys
are talking about in terms of, like, I don't know
where to tell Kendre Miller to go with this football.
And he had twenty yards after contact. However he only
had fourteen rushing yards, which shows you how often he
was being contacted behind a lot of spillage, right, And
so I think that like, those are the little things
that you really need to see and want to see
accelerate in terms of the conversation. And to be clear too,
you know we're talking about the Kindre Miller rushes which
happened a lot behind starting offensive line. Guys, These aren't
you know, runs behind the third team offensive line. Or
anything like that, like this was this was behind the
starting offensive line or you know sins Eric McCoy of course,
who didn't play in the game, but you know, starting
offensive line, and then you know minus two or three
guys you know at certain times, and so you know,
you want to see when you get that full compliment
of starting offensive lineman on the fields. Even though Trevor
Penning is probably not going to be one of those
guys early on, it might be Dylan Raident's that left guard.
We'll see where things got with his injury. But that's
a place where you need to see this team improved
and where they struggled in each of the last few years.
And look, Kellen Moore's got a great run scheme, but
part of having a great run scheme is being able to,
you know, execute on the offensive line to create what
you need to create for those running backs, not force
the running backs to create on their own. And so
that's going to be a really really important sort of
piece of progress to track over the course of the preseason.
And I would say early on, like the first month
as offensive line play around the NFL settles in with
the regular season.
Speaker 6: Ross before they headed out to California. We had kind
of heard the rumblings and people saying that Rashid Shaheed
might have been the MVP of camp up to that point.
Did that carry over to California and through the joint practice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially the joint practice. I mean, there weren't a
lot of big plays he had for those young quarterbacks
who are under a lot of pressure with those first
team reps against the Rams. But one of those big
plays was this deep bomb down the left sideline from
Spencer Rattler to Rashid Jaheed. And you know, look, Rashid
Shaheed is one of the perennial outstanding deep threats in
the NFL, but he has shown so much in terms
of what he can do in the short intermediate areas
of the game so far here throughout camp that Kellen
Moore has kind of opened up that route tree a
little bit for him. Let him be a catch and
run threat, let him be you know, kind of that short,
you know, three level threat, which is only going to
make him better deep because he be more efficient with
their usage of that. I think that that is a
I think we've seen a lot of growth from Rashi Shaheed,
much like most of the team. The biggest question around
Shaheed is he going to be able to stay healthy
throughout the twenty twenty five season. And you're asking that
question for most teams, most players, right, especially the valuable ones,
and so no big surprise there, but his ability now
to kind of be this three level threat and be
utilized all over the field has really helped him kind
of step into that next level. Put on some weight
this offseason as well. He's trying to play around one
hundred and ninety pounds this year, so he's trying to
play up about you know, three four or five pounds
from last season to kind of help keep himself on
the field, help keep himself healthy, help you know, keep
him able to take hits, things like that. And he's
been awesome here throughout training. Game that definitely contigued.
Speaker 7: Here in California.
Speaker 2: Are there, He's I got Ross Jackson louisianasports dot Net,
always putting out incredible articles. Check him out on the
website of course, host of Lockdown Saints podcast as well.
Speaker 4: Ross.
Speaker 2: Enjoy that weather, sir, for a couple more days, and
we'll see you back here in the heat and humidity
very soon.
Speaker 5: I can't wait. Man, I can't wait to step into
that humidity hug as I like to call it walking
out of the airport.
Speaker 6: Can't wait.
Speaker 5: I'll see you guys, can appreciate you have me on
all right again.
Speaker 2: Ross Jackson does a great job for us over in
louisianasports dot Net.
Speaker 4: We we got to talk about the offensively we have to.
Speaker 6: I think he said everything we needn't know.
Speaker 2: And that look, the Rams have a fantastic defensive line.
I mean it could be up as maybe the best
in its totality in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Surely it could be. I got a lot of Jimmy's
and Joe's. But I was hoping. I was hoping that
Ross had been like you know it was gonna be.
Speaker 6: Usually it's like iron sharping's iron. But this might have
been like iron sharpens butter, aluminum plastic.
Speaker 4: I don't know, just iron through butter.
Speaker 2: I iron, I don't even have to be hot old
any iron through the Saints butter.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're in a group chat. He just texted the
group chat yesterday and was like, offense was awful. I said, wait, really, I'm.
Speaker 6: Beginning to think. I'm beginning to think as all the
things that Tyler Shuck did in the off season, eating
the oysters, like really doing all the things to get
into our our hearts here in Louisiana. I'm kind of
thinking he's not a hot weather guy.
Speaker 3: You think that.
Speaker 6: Practice practice is hard in the heat, or quarterback because
the balls. It's just it's just a different situation, especially
never been in it. Go out there to that good weather,
all of a sudden, you're spending it. I don't know, guys,
is he one of us? Can he handle the heat? Well?
Speaker 8: So the good news is he didn't have to, Like,
he didn't have to a ton like he'll go to Tampa.
Speaker 9: That's a division game, I know, Carolina. Atlanta's a dome.
You're a dome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you play nine or ten, depending on the schedule
games inside of a dome.
Speaker 6: Did you need all the oysters you want? If you
can't handle the.
Speaker 3: Heat, get out the kitchen.
Speaker 4: That's what they say.
Speaker 6: They're getting the dome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, h you heard of your first.
Speaker 6: Tyler Shuck not a hot weather guy. All right, it's
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You're like, hey, I'm I'm I'm working on it, but
I've got a research I gotta wait till this almost
kind of falls my laugh a little.
Speaker 4: Bits.
Speaker 10: He's ordered several from Okay, all right, so he's like, okay,
no problem.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So what is it kind of your spouse? Is
it all professional collegiate athletes that kind of have current
cards or could someone reach out to you, like they
have a senior in high school or something like that
that's like, I want to make a card for my
my son. It's his last year played football, blah blah blah,
and they can have you ever done that?
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I've done. There's a there's a kid that
goes to Brayville High. Yeah, diet his first two years
at Dutchtown and his dad is.
Speaker 4: It's gotten me to make each year.
Speaker 10: Yeah, just so I just got the stuff the other
day to do his senior Yeah, that's very cool, and
I've done. I've done a couple of other people.
Speaker 6: That's really cool.
Speaker 10: That's played for l s U. But never you know,
Jake the Viking. Oh yeah, yeah, I did some for
him and his family. Right, But yeah, I've done. I
just did the Queen of Pink. She was some beauty queen,
all right, one for her. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So we can make we can make cards for anybody.
That's what we're saying.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just when it comes to some people, you know,
like when Harbaugh first one, you know, the Michigan's national champion,
a lot of people reached out and wanted one of him,
but he didn't have any cards of him in the
Michigan uniform as a coach on the side of right,
and they just said, oh, you just go online and
print it. Now, I don't want to do that because
that's like copyright. Yeah, so I said, no, it has
once he comes out with a card that I can do.
Speaker 4: Right, got it, Chris.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it, man, I'm fired up for that again
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Speaker 4: Version of it. You're the man. We appreciate it, man,
We're gonna have that on the desk every single day.
Speaker 10: Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll step.
Speaker 2: Away more ot B when we come back here on
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Speaker 1: H two thousand and seven, Shams Purple and Gold to
the core. This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn,
Baton Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 10: Owls.
Speaker 3: She's just written it.
Speaker 2: All hour bread.
Speaker 10: Owls.
Speaker 6: I'm mess back, I.
Speaker 2: Ain't going nothing back, all right, Welcome back too, TV
one four five ESPN. Bat t Hen wants us to
talk about Keel and Williams calves. They were giant, nice calves,
great calves, great caps, all calf team Williams, Sean Jordan
mm hmm, chylis great Cats, All Armed Team sets, Richard Murphy,
Brandon Taylor.
Speaker 7: Can you make an old calf team if your cats
connect to your ankles?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Non's is qualified? All CT Team Flynn and Hester.
Speaker 6: Mmmm, well.
Speaker 4: You do you guys some candles.
Speaker 6: I don't have cankles. I did when I was a
high school diad and my body was in flux. What's grown?
M I'm ready to make a bold prediction.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Lron Landry's on the All Bicep team, but
his biceps got bigger in the NFL.
Speaker 6: I think it's All Trapped team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's Traps. Yeah, he's on the All Trapped team,
Traps and Delts. Yeah. I mean, I'm telling you right.
Richard Murphy BT big guns.
Speaker 7: What's your bold prediction?
Speaker 6: All right? So I wanted to do something before the
season starts where we all make extremely hot takes, like
bold predictions, and we can rake. I'm like, this is
like very unlikely to happen, but I'm gonna say it's
gonna happen. And what's gonna be a little competition. So
we got to make predictions throughout the season for the
end of the season, whatever it is.
Speaker 7: I've got a doc that I'm starting to accumulate them.
Speaker 6: Our first take, I'm gonna make it very bold. I
was gonna kind of like try to buffer it a
little bit by saying he'd be top two or three
in the voting, but that went against the spirit of
what we're trying to do. Yeah, I think Jordan Love
is gonna win the NFL MVP this year.
Speaker 4: Ah, we're going, like I thought you was just going
to sugulate LSU.
Speaker 6: Any any NFL or college football take.
Speaker 4: Okay, so this is just for us enough for the
station survey.
Speaker 6: This is not for the station survey. Oh no, no,
this is just just because I tease Jordan Love earlier.
I saw something come across Twitter yesterday that kind of
like got me thinking about his time as a starter
for the Packers and kind of what he's done up
to date. I know he hadn't gotten it done all
the time. He's had this like stretch his first year
starting towards the end where he was like there was
no quarterback playing better football than him. But I saw
this stat come across that he has the most completions
on twenty plus yard throws over the past two years.
He's got fifty nine of the past two years. So
a guy that's playing his first two years as a
starter in a wide receiver room with no like true
number one, he has been the most productive explosive passer
in the league, despite the fact that he's missed two
games starting and he missed like a couple of halves
here and there for injury as well. And with a
wide receiver corps that's really like the youngest wide receiver
corps in the NFL. Very talented albeit, but they also
were third in the league last year and dropped pastes.
They had thirty three drop passes. I believe the only
people that had more was the Browns and the Jets.
So now they add Matthew Golden, who all, like all
reports coming out of camp is he has been an
absolute stud. So you add this guy to that mix.
Jordan Love in the NC He's going to have all
these big, highlighted games, that's going to be primetime. He's
going to have two matchups versus the Vikings, two matchups
verst the Lions, and of course two matches versus former
number one pick with the Bears. Like all of those
games are going to be not maybe not games of
the week, but they're going to be highly watched because
all the implications that's going to have for one of
the best conferences or divisions excuse me, the divisions in
the NFL with that NFC North. So he's going to
have the opportunities, and you know, I think this is
the year where the Packers take the NFC North. I
think they are going to be I think they're going
to win those close, tight games. And I'm just looking
at his wide receiver corps. He's got Jayden Reed hundred
and fifty seven yards receiving last year's six touchdowns, Christian
Watson towards ACL but he had six hundred and twenty
yards before that, Romeo Dobbs six hundred and one yards,
Dontavian Wicks, who was their fourth guy, a four hundred
and fifteen yards, and they're tight end. Last year, Tucker
Craft was their second leading so they got a real
pass catching dude at tight end seven hundred and seven yards.
So with that being said, you throw Matthew Golden into
this mix, they are going to be a force. And
I've seen stretches where Jordan Love has played as good
as any quarterback had played in the entire NFL. So
there is my prediction. That is the first I'm kicking off.
Our bold predictions are bold hot takes. Jordan Love twenty
twenty five NFL MVP.
Speaker 2: All right, I know, God, I know Taylor's got one
ready to go in the chamber.
Speaker 6: We don't have to like go round the room. Y'all
can think about that. But I've been thinking about lady,
I've been thinking about all this.
Speaker 4: I have one, but I know, I mean, it's Taylor,
He's got straight.
Speaker 6: How bold do you want to go? I want to
go as bold as you want to go. Like my
ideal situation is we'd each come up with like five
or six and like extremely bold, pretty bold, and just
like kind of like on the edge, like I want
to see. I think we should have tiers of boldness here.
All right, I got a really bold one for you.
The Kansas City Chiefs will not win the.
Speaker 9: AFC West.
Speaker 4: Broncos, Chargers or Raiders.
Speaker 9: Bold of the bold.
Speaker 6: M thinking about this, okay, I don't hate it, don't
hate it. Who do you think is going to win?
Speaker 8: I'm high on the Broncos and the Chargers. I just
think the division kind of beats each other up a
little bit, and the Chiefs play a lot of really
tough games on the road too. Like out of division,
I'll go to the Denver Broncos. I think the Denver
Broncos win that division. I think they're going to have
the best defense in the NFL.
Speaker 6: Play well.
Speaker 8: I think three teams in that division make the playoffs.
I think I think I think the Chiefs, the Chargers,
and the Broncos all make it. But I think the
Broncos win that division.
Speaker 6: It's not like it's not terrible because the Chiefs aren't always,
like especially last year, not very sexy during the regular
season or the playoffs. I mean they Patrick Mahomes did
not lead any category in passing statistics sometimes wasn't even
that darn't good. But they won the game because all
they do, all Andy Reid cares about is winning a
football game, doesn't matter how it looks. And they've all
bought into that, and they win these close games and
they do it, do it, do it. So in order
for your prediction to come right, they have to be
a lot like they were last year, but just come
fall a little bit short in those games, which they
have never proven to do that.
Speaker 9: You just you look at again. I think the division
beats each other up.
Speaker 8: You look at the games the Chiefs play out of
the division, the Ravens, the Eagles, the Lions, the Commanders,
the Bills. I mean they have a tough out of
division schedule. I mean there's a chance that happens.
Speaker 4: And you heard it. He said the Chargers are going
to win the division.
Speaker 6: I mean the Chargers very well could Alva said, imagine
thinking the NFL will let Taylor Swift not win the Visions.
Speaker 9: This guy is going to be in the playoffs, right, Okay,
all right.
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Speaker 4: My Bowl prediction.
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara for the first time in his career rushes
for a thousand yards.
Speaker 4: Oh, I look it for the first time. I like it.
Speaker 2: He's had seven eight, eight eighty three, seven ninety seven,
nine two, eight ninety eight, eight ninety seven, six ninety
four and nine to fifty a year ago. I think
he's going to get an opportunity young quarterback. He's going
to have a lot of carries. If he stays healthy,
he is going to be the driving force behind whatever
the offense ends up being. We saw what Saquon did
last year obviously with the Eagles.
Speaker 6: Eight, and he's got a room full of first and
second rounders blocking for that.
Speaker 2: He does that, he does, Derek that he does so.
Alvin Kamara, first time in his career thousand yard rusher.
Speaker 4: That's bold. Has never happened, and he's played a long time.
Speaker 6: That is bold because never done it. Two segments ago
we talked about it. I know where like we were
trying to coach the running back on where to run
the ball.
Speaker 8: Yep, they did not specify how many carries it would
to get to it.
Speaker 4: I can take all of the.
Speaker 6: Three carries.
Speaker 7: Had nine hundred and fifty yards last season.
Speaker 3: Close.
Speaker 4: He's close, close, Alandra, you want to do your I.
Speaker 7: Didn't have an NFL one ready. I didn't know which
direction anywhere in football, So my bold prediction might be.
I don't know how bold this is, but it's I
think that Harold Perkins will finish top three in Heisman voting.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, if you didn't know how bold that
WASLD So if.
Speaker 7: I'm doing my research correctly, the last linebacker to finish
anywhere in the top three or even many TEO back
in twenty twelve. In twenty twelve, when he was in
he finished second in Heisman voting. He had forty nine
tackles solo tackles, sixty two assisted, and one and a
half sacks. I'm looking at Harold Perkins last like full
season back in twenty twenty three. Would he play the
full season in twenty twenty three?
Speaker 3: Anyways?
Speaker 7: He had forty three solo tackles, thirty one assisted, and
five and a half sacks. In twenty twenty two he
had thirty nine solo, thirty three assisted, and in twenty
three at seventy four total tackles. So if he's gonna
have the breakout season that people say he is, he
has an opportunity to have the same amount, if not
better stats than Manny Tail last time at a linebacker.
Speaker 4: Oh was in high set.
Speaker 2: Look if that, if that happens, LSU is in a
great spot as a team. We talked about it might
be the most important non quarterback across the country.
Speaker 6: Oh, if that happens, come on, you'd have like him
and that's top three two. If that happens, we are.
Speaker 9: You have a first round buy in the playoffs.
Speaker 6: We have a first round buy in the playoffs, for sure.
I love it all right, Oh what the boulder the
bad as well?
Speaker 4: Let's take our last break of the week. Wrap it up.
Speaker 2: Answering your question, we'll ask the bench here on OTVP
the bench, Yeah, you got perking the Heisman ceremony there
winning us.
Speaker 4: You know what you're enjoying?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, a bunch of dose seconds.
Speaker 2: You are feeder kicked up, going to dose more than
do having a great time that means LSU's having a
great season. Nothing pairs better than a good old dose
secids a little tailgate action there.
Speaker 4: So look, it is apalling us.
Speaker 2: We are less than ten days away from the first
game of the college football season, so tailgating season is year.
There's nothing better than having the tin up, having the
TV on, opening the ice chest and seeing some ice
cold dose sections.
Speaker 6: Yeah, opening your fridge looking in there, and just seeing
that beautiful green bottle staring at you like he just
said it. We're getting ready for farm again. We got
no dog in that fight. But it's football. It's college football.
So having dokis ready to go that delicious ice cold
Mexican lager. Getting ready for football season. Drink those skis,
drink responsibly.
Speaker 4: Bat boys, what about to rock you your mom?
Speaker 3: So you gotta get into five?
Speaker 4: What's waiting for?
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Speaker 11: Hey, hey, al right, welcome back in o TV.
Speaker 4: You can go and keep this in the background. This
might be the new Friday song.
Speaker 2: Ask the bench, we'll their duley supporters vote for him
if they find out he mocked a high school kid
for having fat anchors.
Speaker 6: That's true body shaming.
Speaker 9: He is running in Is he running in Georgia, Georgia, Georgia?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's gonna get bonus points.
Speaker 6: For what a question? What a question?
Speaker 7: You really got to dig deep into these people's past.
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hop artist or rapper. If you go outside of like
the New Orleans guys, Buster Rhymes, Vanilla Ice, all right,
Rob van Winkle shout out, I don't know, you gotta
give one. Come on Usher, Heyday, you gotta give one.
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