Speaker 1: Good even me, everybody, and welcome to another episode of
Speaker 1: Fire Up. Look at the big crew I've got tonight.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh my wow, I'm excited. How about you guys.
Speaker 2: Nope, nobody else is fired up. I doubt it, like.
Speaker 3: Anybody hyper risky is happy.
Speaker 2: Yes, hey, I'll tell you what I owe.
Speaker 4: Everybody a bang, bang Southern fried gang in South Florida
Speaker 4: Tribune with Fire Up and Candy Man. We got Taylor,
Speaker 4: we got Jeremy, we got some mer I can't wait.
Speaker 4: Y'all even got me over here in a nice polo,
Speaker 4: which all are lucky because I almost showed up shirtless.
Speaker 2: So y'all, don't let's go, baby, were ready, stay reay.
Speaker 2: You gotta get ready.
Speaker 3: If my buddy gun Guy comes on, he's gonna say something,
Speaker 3: say take your pants off. Yeah, the gun show, let's go.
Speaker 2: Stun's out, guns out, baby, Jeremy, they.
Speaker 5: Want you to do a dollar there, you got it. Uh,
Speaker 5: everybody's fired up.
Speaker 2: If I was in there, if I was in if
Speaker 2: I was in the garage, I'd be fired up. No,
Speaker 2: I would I'd be even more.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I would be like slowly rotestelly chickening myself
Speaker 4: if I were in the garage.
Speaker 1: Well, Jeremy is back on the same night the NFL
Speaker 1: football is back. How coincidental is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing. You know, you have a conversation two
Speaker 3: days ago and the next thing, you know, oh you're back.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well some things happen and life happens, and amen. Anyways,
Speaker 1: we're glad to have you back.
Speaker 3: I am glad to be back.
Speaker 1: Good, good, good, So JD, I don't know, let you know, yeah, good,
Speaker 1: all of you guys smoking, Jeremy, b and I did
Speaker 1: this show for a while, oh way back, but then
Speaker 1: Jeremy wasn't on our network for a while and he's back,
Speaker 1: and JD and Taylor and Samera. I'm just happy I
Speaker 1: got a you know, a good crew here that I'm
Speaker 1: excited to keep going on the show with.
Speaker 3: It's funny because it was just before it was Monday
Speaker 3: when I talked to Scott actually not Tuesday, and we
Speaker 3: were talking about the Tigers in general, and I said,
Speaker 3: if we're going to do anything, it's going to be
Speaker 3: a bunch of mid level the new moves to revamp
Speaker 3: the bullpen and the starting rotation, because that's where we
Speaker 3: were failing. The bats all went cold, at the same time.
Speaker 3: But we've seen with every team that had a month
Speaker 3: long slump so far this season. The Mets, the Phillies,
Speaker 3: and the Guardians had month long slump. Some of them
Speaker 3: had eight, nine and ten win lost streaks. I said,
Speaker 3: I'm not worried about that getting fixed. The Bats will
Speaker 3: come back. It's the bullpen falling apart.
Speaker 1: So well with that. Since he's kind of taken this
Speaker 1: down that MLB road, let's hit it because today was
Speaker 1: the end of the deadline for the trades. Anybody got
Speaker 1: any trades that you want to talk about that you
Speaker 1: call them look interesting, you think will really help propel
Speaker 1: a team, or you felt they should have done more.
Speaker 3: RK.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that once we get to uh football,
Speaker 1: But let's start. We're gonna start with MLB. And yes,
Speaker 1: I am a Packers fan.
Speaker 3: I have a very distinct opinion about that about a
Speaker 3: certain RDE receiver that should be should have been in
Speaker 3: before Sterling Sharp, who's been who's into the veterans have
Speaker 3: to put him in because he can't be voted in anymore.
Speaker 3: Tory Holt should have got in before Sterling Sterling Sharp, Okay, okay.
Speaker 4: All right, and so hey, so Candy, like you said,
Speaker 4: we're gonna start with the MLB draft, and so I think, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: excuse me, yeah yeah yeah draft. But hey, that did
Speaker 4: happen a few weeks ago. In my defense, that's the
Speaker 4: MLB trade. So Candy, if I could, I wanted to
Speaker 4: play a little game. I saved all of the sports
Speaker 4: updates from my phone about the trade, and I wanted
Speaker 4: to just name a few, and I wanted someone to say, Hey,
Speaker 4: that one really grabs my attention, because for the most part,
Speaker 4: from what I saw, there were really like two interesting
Speaker 4: stories in the trade, and they really didn't have anything
Speaker 4: to do with the trade more than what they had
Speaker 4: to do with the team.
Speaker 1: Have you let half their team go?
Speaker 4: Well that and not only that, the double header thing
Speaker 4: with Sir Anthony Domingo's, by the way, great names, Sir
Speaker 4: Anthony s E R A N T h O N Y.
Speaker 4: Sir Anthony. Is that not like a fantastic name? Nobody
Speaker 4: Nobody thinks that's a great name, Sir Anthony. I know
Speaker 4: there's a lot of made up Nate like a lot
Speaker 4: of made up names, but that one hit.
Speaker 2: Sir Anthony.
Speaker 3: There's a guy getting an anil deal in South Florida
Speaker 3: for one of the smaller colleges, and he's actually getting
Speaker 3: nil money from a heating and cooling company. And he
Speaker 3: has the perfect name for it. It's the Coldest Crawford.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that one, and then and then you
Speaker 4: had the whole kool Aid change his name to kool
Speaker 4: Aid thing. But yeah, So anyway, the two most intriguing
Speaker 4: things I've seen about the trades were him being traded
Speaker 4: in the middle of that double header, and then there
Speaker 4: was another player today who also was traded in the
Speaker 4: middle of the game and had to like walk around.
Speaker 4: So let's go to the trades. Though, let me go
Speaker 4: back to the very first one I got. Let's see, okay.
Speaker 2: San Diego trades for Miller and Sears.
Speaker 4: Not the shopping store, not Sears, it closed down a
Speaker 4: long time ago. But this Sears and this Miller are
Speaker 4: a closer and a starter, and they sent him to
Speaker 4: the Padres for number three overall prospect. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: try to pronounce that name.
Speaker 2: Leo.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well Leo Dallas Day of Rees. Yeah, debris,
Speaker 4: there you go, Yeah, thank you, Taylor j Okay, So
Speaker 4: what do you think about that trade? Is that one
Speaker 4: since you knew that name, Taylor, how do you feel
Speaker 4: about the the Athletics sending the closer and the starter
Speaker 4: to the Padres.
Speaker 7: Well, the A's are selling, the Padres are contending, that's
Speaker 7: all I know.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, what about those players in particular? Do you
Speaker 4: any feelings about the players at all?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: No, you just knew his name.
Speaker 4: You just knew how to pronounce it, debris. Okay, well, hey,
Speaker 4: thank you appreciate that for sure.
Speaker 2: Let's see are the.
Speaker 1: So let me let me add to you, Jad, since
Speaker 1: you're asking Mason Miller a starter in JP series for
Speaker 1: a massive product prospect. Hall Miller, who is arbitration eligible
Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty ninth season, gives San Diego an
Speaker 1: elite closer at a low salary, which is huge for
Speaker 1: a franchise under payroll constraints. Sears is also pre arb
Speaker 1: and slides into the rotation, giving Proler the option to
Speaker 1: deal Robert Suarez and Dylan Cees in exchange for offensive help.
Speaker 1: You know, Padres are making moves. You gotta give him credit, you.
Speaker 4: Know, right, And there is an underlying thing here that
Speaker 4: we'll get to in a moment. Can do you know
Speaker 4: the tweet I sent you earlier. So guess what the Padres.
Speaker 4: They're in contention. As Taylor said, they are looking to
Speaker 4: make the playoffs. And that is my interesting question coming
Speaker 4: up for this evening regarding these MLB trades, because it's
Speaker 4: not like that in the NFL. In the NBA, like
Speaker 4: you know which teams are contending because you see all
Speaker 4: these traits.
Speaker 2: All right, so we've cleared a few.
Speaker 4: Let's see here, how about the Philadelphia Phillies, Samir, you
Speaker 4: might have a thought on this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely the Paladelic series.
Speaker 6: But I really like what both the Phillies and the
Speaker 6: Mets did this deadline. The Phillies really needed some bullpen help,
Speaker 6: especially with Jose Alvarado getting popped for PDS. He's not
Speaker 6: going to be eligible to pitch in the postseason, and
Speaker 6: the Phillies bullpen the past couple of postseasons against Arizona
Speaker 6: and then last year Jeff Hoffman against the Mets has
Speaker 6: kind of been their downfall. So I did I did
Speaker 6: like that trade for Duran, and I did like the
Speaker 6: move for Harrison Bader. He's a I guess, for the
Speaker 6: most part, reliable outfield, right handed bat, and that was
Speaker 6: one of the things the Phillies did. Need this pays
Speaker 6: me even more. But I really do like, for the
Speaker 6: most part what the Mets did with their bullpen. It's
Speaker 6: pretty clear that Steve Cohen, David Stearns, they're in the
Speaker 6: thick of it and they want to go all in,
Speaker 6: like they already had Garrett Standing, Rayley and Diaz in
Speaker 6: that bullpen. And then you add two guys in Hellsley
Speaker 6: and Soda who are flame throwers. Yeah, that's gonna be
Speaker 6: a dangerous bullpen come October. And I'm gonna get into
Speaker 6: what didn't happen and what seems did during.
Speaker 1: My Sorry sorry, I had to squash that. There's no
Speaker 1: way that's happening.
Speaker 3: So I like the one two comments before that. I
Speaker 3: think that's pretty clever that Josh Door did breaking new
Speaker 3: South Florida Trading Tribute traded Bensman to r W Media
Speaker 3: in exchange for Smoking Jay. That's funny.
Speaker 6: But yeah, as I was saying to say it, but
Speaker 6: I did like what Philadelphia and New York did this deadline.
Speaker 6: And I'll get into a little more what a certain
Speaker 6: other team in the N East didn't do during my sound.
Speaker 6: So yeah, those are my thoughts.
Speaker 4: And I appreciate your thoughts a mere Apparently people don't
Speaker 4: appreciate mine.
Speaker 2: But you know what you're gonna get him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you who's a seller right now. And
Speaker 3: you look at what they gave away today in the
Speaker 3: last couple of days. It was the Minnesota Twins. They
Speaker 3: got her of Castro, Duran Paddock, Korea, Columbia, uh Vader Stewart, Jackson, Barline.
Speaker 2: What was that there?
Speaker 3: Local? They're local beat writers, says there's no house left.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just a buston And I think that's about it.
Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, though, Hey, can I ask, because honestly,
Speaker 4: I haven't been tuned into the MLB since the Braves
Speaker 4: the while back, Like, I know a couple of things
Speaker 4: about baseball at the moment, but not a lot. What
Speaker 4: was the Twins record? I mean, they're not the rockiest
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 3: They were while they were sitting. They started out hot
Speaker 3: the first few weeks. They came out like gangbusters. The
Speaker 3: whole Division was kind of being mid at the time.
Speaker 3: Like the Tigers came out and went oh and two
Speaker 3: or oh and three versus the Angels and then lost
Speaker 3: the first game of the next series and then slowly
Speaker 3: started to win series. Then you had the Guardians go
Speaker 3: into their slump because they all of a sudden jumped up.
Speaker 3: Then you had the Royals that were floundering between third
Speaker 3: and fourth the whole time. Now they're in third, the
Speaker 3: Twins are in fourth, and of course the White Sox
Speaker 3: they never started.
Speaker 1: But the Twins are. Let's be honest, the Twins are
Speaker 1: twelve games behind the Tigers. That's a huge lead. And
Speaker 1: that's what the Tigers having their slump that they just
Speaker 1: got over where they were. I don't remember exactly the record,
Speaker 1: but they went through a swum.
Speaker 6: Sixty the way right right.
Speaker 3: But we were during that slump that you were talking about.
Speaker 3: We were three games under five hundred during that month
Speaker 3: long slump, right and we hadn't been that all season.
Speaker 3: And somebody says, is this the Tigers we were gonna
Speaker 3: have the rest of the season. I was like, no,
Speaker 3: it's a slump people. Look the bats went. We didn't
Speaker 3: have a single player batting less than two forty at
Speaker 3: the start of the slump. Now we don't have a
Speaker 3: batter over two fifty. That's how bad it was. It
Speaker 3: wasn't just one player, it was the whole team, it
Speaker 3: was like, uh, they also were leading the league in
Speaker 3: the least amount of errors, and now we're down to
Speaker 3: where we're like twelve through thirteenth. During that month long slump,
Speaker 3: schoobl was the only guy that was pitching anything, and
Speaker 3: he just couldn't get any run support, which is why
Speaker 3: we still lost games with him. It was crazy.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 4: And can I say this too, y'all are just talking
Speaker 4: about the Twins and they're twelve games back. The Braves
Speaker 4: they're fourteen, fifteen games back. Whatever it is now, I
Speaker 4: can scroll down here and find out. Let's see Braves
Speaker 4: sixteen games back and they have tons of talent. But
Speaker 4: the Twins, you're only six games under five hundred. What
Speaker 4: in the world makes you want to wholesale this way?
Speaker 3: Because they they got by Chicago White Sox, that's what happened.
Speaker 4: Is it a new hat? No, But this is something
Speaker 4: way more long term than that. If you're only six
Speaker 4: games under five hundred, there is something that is way
Speaker 4: more below the surface here than we don't know, because
Speaker 4: that is not a record to get fired for in
Speaker 4: my opinion, right.
Speaker 3: No, And I think what happened is when they lost
Speaker 3: a certain key game key teams like the Royals and
Speaker 3: the White Sox here over the past month and a half,
Speaker 3: and then they couldn't win a series when they won
Speaker 3: the first game versus US no less, then they lost
Speaker 3: the series to the Guardians when they won the first
Speaker 3: two in a four game series, but they ended up
Speaker 3: actually being a five because of a makeup game and
Speaker 3: a doubleheader, so they lost that series. They lost three
Speaker 3: straight series in the division during their slump, and I
Speaker 3: think the owner is like saying, fine, get rid of everybody.
Speaker 3: We're starting over and we're going to have an all
Speaker 3: new front office next year.
Speaker 4: I know that there's somebody for Atlanta that's saying that
Speaker 4: same thing, sair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's weird because the Braves have been so
Speaker 3: good for so long.
Speaker 2: But yeah, overall all but not championships.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean division titles, a bunch of first round exits.
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 4: That's the way we see it. We see it like
Speaker 4: the Baltimore Ravens are the Dallas Cowboys, which NFL talk's
Speaker 4: coming up shortly on fire Up. Don't forget that, So
Speaker 4: Candy out, you get back in here. What was your
Speaker 4: trade stuff? You give us a couple of your trade
Speaker 4: things to react to.
Speaker 1: The Brewers got another catcher.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: One of the big surprises I think was that the
Speaker 1: Marlins did not get rid of Sandy Alcinterra. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of talk about that the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks that they thought he would go.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was maybe the slow start
Speaker 1: that he had come back from his surgery and he
Speaker 1: wasn't performing as well. But his last last outing he
Speaker 1: was had five no hit innings and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think that was one of the biggest surprises. Miami's
Speaker 1: not doing as bad as everybody thought they would, like
Speaker 1: they've been rebuilding, but they're doing They're doing a lot better.
Speaker 1: I mean I watched them. They took two from two
Speaker 1: out of three games, but in Milwaukee. They went up
Speaker 1: to Milwaukee and took two out of three. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: they're playing, they're gelling together, and they're playing as a team,
Speaker 1: and they're they're scrappy. You know, these are young, young,
Speaker 1: young guys. Now. The only trade that they did that
Speaker 1: I remember that they made is that they traded their catcher,
Speaker 1: Nick forties. And because they have prospects there and they
Speaker 1: have some young guys that they're bringing up. But as
Speaker 1: far as other trades, you know, I was surprised. I
Speaker 1: didn't feel like there was a lot of the big
Speaker 1: name movement. There wasn't much of that. A little bit
Speaker 1: here and there, but not as much as I would
Speaker 1: have thought a lot of a lot of not as
Speaker 1: well known. But I think you go ahead.
Speaker 4: Can I follow you with that? You're I mean, you
Speaker 4: were leading me right to one of the points. And
Speaker 4: that's how we'll we'll transition to NFL here in just
Speaker 4: a minute, based off of this question. But that's exactly
Speaker 4: why I wanted to go through some of these trades,
Speaker 4: because it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't about the players, it was about the team.
Speaker 4: You saw which teams are contending, which teams are saying, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what, we're out of it. And then of
Speaker 4: course you see teams like the Braves who do almost
Speaker 4: nothing basically. So that's here and there.
Speaker 3: But thank you, thank you for Rafael Montero Wednesday night.
Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, y'all can have them. Hey, it
Speaker 3: can't be any worse than what we had in the
Speaker 3: bullpen already, That's all I got to say. Oh we must.
Speaker 3: We had we had seven run leads that disappeared in
Speaker 3: the eighth inning, three times in a row versus Seattle.
Speaker 6: Oh oh, well, check this out. The Braves were just
Speaker 6: up on the Reds eleven to three. Cincinnati just tied
Speaker 6: the game. It is now eleven to eleven.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was four run lead when I logged
Speaker 2: on here a minute ago.
Speaker 6: But yeah, these guys are apparently too good to get
Speaker 6: rid of, apparently a double a. So there's that.
Speaker 4: Well, and then they looked at all these and they
Speaker 4: there was Ozouna, and he said, we're not just going
Speaker 4: to give him up for nothing.
Speaker 2: And as you.
Speaker 6: Pointed, to lose him for nothing in the offseason.
Speaker 2: That's exactly your point.
Speaker 4: But again, it's been more about the teams and things
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 2: And so here's my question to everybody.
Speaker 4: We'll start with some here, Taylor, and then Candy and
Speaker 4: then Jeremy.
Speaker 2: We'll go that way around.
Speaker 4: So can you imagine the day that the NFL trade
Speaker 4: deadline ever becomes half of what the MLB trade deadline
Speaker 4: is Because we're sitting around there on our seat all day.
Speaker 4: We can't wait to see the big name that gets traded.
Speaker 4: And then the MLB there's trades, but it might not
Speaker 4: be the big name always. But it's entertaining. I want
Speaker 4: to see it happen in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Do you am I wrong, Samir?
Speaker 6: You tell me, yeah, I mean for me, I don't
Speaker 6: ever see the NFL trade deadline becoming what the MLB
Speaker 6: trade deadline is for mainly two reasons. Number One, teams
Speaker 6: in the NFL really just don't tink. You may have
Speaker 6: some teams that are just flat out bad, but you
Speaker 6: don't see NFL teams tanking. Like, yeah, you may have
Speaker 6: fans that want to tank for a higher draft pick,
Speaker 6: which I guess is normal across sports. But you know,
Speaker 6: your time as a you usually like the average NFL
Speaker 6: career is like what two or three years? So I
Speaker 6: mean NFL players, I feel like, are not going to tank. Organizations, coaches,
Speaker 6: front offices, they're not going to tank well. And also
Speaker 6: another reason is it is harder, in my opinion, to
Speaker 6: find and develop, you know, homegrown talent in the NFL
Speaker 6: than it is for saying major League Baseball, because you know,
Speaker 6: NFL you've got fifty three roster spots. Major League Baseball, yeah,
Speaker 6: you've got your twenty six man roster, but you've also
Speaker 6: got you know, the different pharma systems in the minor leagues, and.
Speaker 3: From that standpoint.
Speaker 6: That's why you won't see the NFL trade deadline ever
Speaker 6: become what the MLB is, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I just hate it for the NFL, like
Speaker 4: I want it so bad, Like I don't know, like
Speaker 4: I'm literally that's one thing as a sports fan, Like
Speaker 4: I'm literally itching for the NFL trade deadline to be
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: So so you're one of those ones that see all
Speaker 3: the clickbait articles from all the teams for the big
Speaker 3: trades that can happen. You're like, please just one.
Speaker 2: Oh god, there's so many, But no, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't normally like oh, I mean I remember when
Speaker 4: they said show hey, O Tawny might sign with the
Speaker 4: Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2: And I was like, bro, I was like, there ain't
Speaker 2: no way.
Speaker 4: They don't even pay their own players that much, much
Speaker 4: less a free agent, like don't let Freddy Freeman Walt Mark.
Speaker 2: To Shiah Brian McCann.
Speaker 4: The moment that it gets too expensive for the Braves,
Speaker 4: they're like, nah, I'm taking my American Express card back.
Speaker 3: The last one that they actually paid was what Larry Jones.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Chipper Jones, Well, well we did make Austin Riley,
Speaker 6: the highest paid player in Braves history. He's twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Well that was a mistake, but I'm talking about good players,
Speaker 3: not just kidding.
Speaker 4: Hey, so speaking, you say that about Austin Riley. So
Speaker 4: before the season started, I made a post on Facebook
Speaker 4: and I said, well it was somebody.
Speaker 2: It was Barrett Sally's.
Speaker 4: Post, Yes, and he had said something about the starting pitching,
Speaker 4: and I was like, if I'm a Braves player, just
Speaker 4: starting pitching scares the daylight out of me. And Austin
Speaker 4: Riley his official Facebook Paige like that post out of
Speaker 4: the dream of.
Speaker 2: It on my phone.
Speaker 4: I swear if I'm lying, But Alston Riley even knew
Speaker 4: that the pitching was going to be terrible for the
Speaker 4: Braves this year.
Speaker 1: Taylor, what's your take on do you think the NFL
Speaker 1: should have trades like that like MLB?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: I that's a tough one, it really is, if I
Speaker 8: guess not.
Speaker 3: Here's the biggest thing. If there was a farm system
Speaker 3: that worked in the NFL like you have in the MLB,
Speaker 3: then those type of trades would happen easier. The fact
Speaker 3: that you got to give up draft capital half the
Speaker 3: time to run a player to get through the end
Speaker 3: of the season to possibly make a playoff push. There's
Speaker 3: not a lot of teams that say, f those picks
Speaker 3: other than the La Rams back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your point.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then that I think that's kind of what
Speaker 6: I was trying to refer to early, because yeah, you've
Speaker 6: got twenty six players on an MLB roster, but you've got,
Speaker 6: you know, some really good young prospects that you can
Speaker 6: trade away, and instead of the draft being seven rounds
Speaker 6: like the NFL, there's like, what nineteen twenty rounds?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the funny thing is, usually unless there's like a
Speaker 6: generational prospect, like for say a Paul Schemes or a
Speaker 6: Bryce Harper, draft for the most part is a crap shoot.
Speaker 6: Like twenty or so players went ahead of Mike Trout.
Speaker 6: Like that's how much of a crap shoot it is.
Speaker 1: You could say the same thing. Tom Brady was was
Speaker 1: drafted in the sixth round. Five rounds of players went
Speaker 1: before him, and yet we're gonna say he's the goat
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 6: Like I guess I feel like I feel like Tom Brady,
Speaker 6: Like you like, chances are you will never see that
Speaker 6: happen again in the NFL. You will never see that
Speaker 6: happen again.
Speaker 3: Like a guy like after the first round, after the
Speaker 3: first round, the last great quarterback that was taken after
Speaker 3: the first round, if you look at it was Drew Brees.
Speaker 6: Well, well, Russell Wilson too, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't. Well, he's been too up and down to
Speaker 3: be considered consistently great. That's that's my thing with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have the same consistency of a Drew Brees
Speaker 3: of a time.
Speaker 6: But but yeah, but I would say, I would say
Speaker 6: Russell Wilson's had a pretty good career.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 3: You're also very rarely ever gonna see another Kurt Warner story. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna see a guy that played an arena
Speaker 3: football starts bagging groceries, gets picked up by the coach
Speaker 3: because he sees him toss a loaf of bread across
Speaker 3: three three aisles and say you ever play football?
Speaker 4: MM I don't know, Because at what point, though, do
Speaker 4: they up ruining perfectly good college quarterbacks. I mean, the
Speaker 4: way the NFL draft is set up, I mean just
Speaker 4: take cam Ward for example, this year, going into the
Speaker 4: season going into a terrible situation, Trevor Lawrence, terrible situation,
Speaker 4: Michael Pennix locked up going to the Falcons. He might
Speaker 4: be heading up Jayden Daniels right spot, right time.
Speaker 3: Because their stats are so close for how long they played.
Speaker 3: I call them Sunshine Jones and Danny Lawrence.
Speaker 4: Right, but these guys, yeah, I mean, when are we
Speaker 4: gonna stop ruining college quarterbacks?
Speaker 2: So by sending them to terrible NFL teams?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's what do you expect to catch
Speaker 3: at a catch twenty two? You know, the reason why
Speaker 3: you're able to take that generational talent at the top
Speaker 3: of the draft is because you were that bad the
Speaker 3: year before. You know, we can we can knock the
Speaker 3: players that get there. But sometimes players get stuck with
Speaker 3: bad coaches, bad bad teams, and bad management.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Like for example, Bryce Youngest rookie year, he was
Speaker 6: sacked like sixty three times. But now it seems like
Speaker 6: they finally hired the right coach and Dave Canalis, they're
Speaker 6: building this solid team around him. Like look at Caleb Williams.
Speaker 6: Caleb Williams was sacked sixty eight times last year.
Speaker 3: There's only one more quarter that's been sacked more than
Speaker 3: both of them their rookie year, and that was David
Speaker 3: David g right.
Speaker 2: Yep, oh yeah, I remember when he set that record.
Speaker 4: And so hey, Candy, sorry to hijack the show, but
Speaker 4: I feel like his co host, I can do that sometimes.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna fully switch on the NFL gear right now.
Speaker 4: The Chargers lead the Detroit Lions twenty four to seven,
Speaker 4: three minutes to go in the third quarter. I honestly,
Speaker 4: I know we're gonna talk AFC North and NFC North,
Speaker 4: but I have to say this about the AFC West
Speaker 4: really quickly. There ain't no way you can't tell me
Speaker 4: that is the best dag football conference in the NFL
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 3: There's three of them, three of them, and I don't
Speaker 3: say it's the AFC West, the AFC North in the
Speaker 3: NFC North. Those are the three toughest divisions, period And
Speaker 3: anybody that doesn't think so didn't pay attention to last season.
Speaker 4: Right and then yeah, man, I'm thinking I'm gonna pass
Speaker 4: it right off to you guys. This is all I'm
Speaker 4: gonna say about it. You've got in the AFC West,
Speaker 4: the Kansas City Chiefs. I don't even need to say anything.
Speaker 4: The Denver Broncos, though with Sean Payton bow Knicks made
Speaker 4: the playoffs last year.
Speaker 2: The Chargers with Harball.
Speaker 4: Has the best winning percentage of all active NFL coaches
Speaker 4: the moment he stepped back into the league.
Speaker 2: I believe in the Chargers. Who's got it better than us? Nobody?
Speaker 2: I trust in Harball. I trust in him for.
Speaker 4: The Chargers, and then think about the Raiders being taken
Speaker 4: over by Pete Carroll. The AFC West, hands down, great conference,
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna let y'all transition. So whoever wants to
Speaker 4: start raise your hand, I don't care. But let's go
Speaker 4: from the AFC West to the AFC North and talk
Speaker 4: about the other Harball and we'll segue it all in
Speaker 4: together really nicely here on Fire Up.
Speaker 3: So my breakdown to the AFC North, Baltimore Ravens are
Speaker 3: more than likely winning the division. The second place is
Speaker 3: up for grabs. It's whether Cincinnati or Pittsburgh can finally
Speaker 3: pull their heads out of their button start winning playoff
Speaker 3: games again. And then the Cleveland Browns mm better luck
Speaker 3: next year.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: For the Browns, I agree, they've got to figure out.
Speaker 4: And I'll never say this really honestly, ever, that one
Speaker 4: player's fate is determined by another. But I feel like
Speaker 4: Shador Sanders his fate is going to be determined by
Speaker 4: what the Browns think about Dylan Gabriel. They drafted him higher.
Speaker 4: I feel like he's.
Speaker 2: Going to be more of the priority.
Speaker 4: And it depends on if Dylan Gabriel plays well or
Speaker 4: not as to if shadur ever even sees the field
Speaker 4: for the Browns.
Speaker 3: I'll expound expand upon that. They just did a report
Speaker 3: about who's playing at quarterback in the first preseason game
Speaker 3: and they said that Shador Sanders will be lucky to
Speaker 3: take snaps in the two minute drill to end the game.
Speaker 2: That's wild, that's crazy, you would have to take. Okay,
Speaker 2: So Kenny pick like the Browns.
Speaker 4: Quarterback room, Oh my goodness, man, you got Joe yeah
Speaker 4: talking Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know who they are.
Speaker 4: I mean, my goodness, Joe flaccoh Kenny Pickett, Dillian Gabriel,
Speaker 4: are Dylan Dylan words are hard, Dylan Gabriel, and Shaudor Sanders.
Speaker 3: And on their depth chart right now, he's fifth behind
Speaker 3: and injured Deshaun Watson. That's how their depth chart start
Speaker 3: came out.
Speaker 2: I forgot about that guy. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I saw a report the other day on Twitter that
Speaker 6: Shoudor has like taken zero snaps with the first team
Speaker 6: in training camp.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did in rookie camp, and he did in
Speaker 3: OTA's but at training camp he has He's only been
Speaker 3: playing with the thirds and the people that are projected
Speaker 3: to be practice squad play people. Yeah.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's like Cleveland. Yeah, They've got some solid
Speaker 6: pieces obviously, but overall, just a bad roster all around.
Speaker 6: And it starts with the recurring game, which is the
Speaker 6: lack of direction under center. And while I do like
Speaker 6: Mason Graham as a prospect, I just still don't like
Speaker 6: the concept of basically passing on a generational talent in
Speaker 6: Travis Hunter. Kind of like again, what you did with
Speaker 6: Julio Jones in twenty eleven and the guys that you
Speaker 6: picked after him, none of them really panned out. But
Speaker 6: overall Pittsburgh, I feel like they got better, but they
Speaker 6: also got older. Like Aaron Rodgers at forty one is
Speaker 6: still better probably than any quarterback they've had basically since
Speaker 6: Big Ben. Dk Metcalf is better probably right now as
Speaker 6: a wide receiver one than George Pickens, but again, he's older.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 6: I I kind of feel a little iffy about the
Speaker 6: Jalen Ramsey trade. You know, you give up Minka Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 6: a younger safety for a thirty year old corner and
Speaker 6: you get John new Smith. So he reunites with Arthur Smith.
Speaker 6: Apparently they're already using him in the backfield. Got PTSD
Speaker 6: from that, but yeah, they.
Speaker 3: Did. I read they're using them more of a full
Speaker 3: back back there for John Smith.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I read. Like they're putting him in
Speaker 6: the backfield, giving him some jet sweeps. He did that
Speaker 6: once here. But yeah, Cincinnati, we know their offense is elite,
Speaker 6: no question. Their question is whether or not they can
Speaker 6: play some defense. Sam Hubbert retired. They did release Jermaine Pratt,
Speaker 6: who did in him signing with the Raiders. They fired
Speaker 6: Luna Umo, they hire Al Golden, they draft Shamar Store.
Speaker 6: His holdout just ended. They seem to have finally agree
Speaker 6: on a contract, still having Patree Hen, So the question
Speaker 6: is can really out Golden get the most of what's there.
Speaker 6: But yeah, my pick to win the division, along with
Speaker 6: my Super Bowl pick, is Baltimore. In my opinion, they
Speaker 6: have the best roster on paper up and down, they
Speaker 6: have Zay Flowers. Of course, they got Derek Hemry, even
Speaker 6: at thirty one, is still one of the best two
Speaker 6: running backs in the NFL, older but still reliable. But
Speaker 6: I want to talk about their secondary. So going in,
Speaker 6: they had Marlon Humphrey, they had Kyle Hamilton, they have
Speaker 6: Nate Wiggins, they draft Malachi Starks out of Georgia, and
Speaker 6: they signed Jaii Alexander. Now, I don't think it's too
Speaker 6: far fetched to say that this secondary, especially if JayR
Speaker 6: Alexander can stay healthy, it's probably gonna be the best
Speaker 6: secondary we've seen in the NFL since the legion. I
Speaker 6: don't think that's Nick.
Speaker 3: Hey, you're right, on paper, it looks like that, but
Speaker 3: you had the biggest if in there you got because
Speaker 3: all it takes is for another eight game season for
Speaker 3: Jayeira Alexander and that that nickel spot becomes a liability.
Speaker 3: The other thing you're forgetting about is that they just
Speaker 3: lost Isaiah likely more than likely for the season. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's a big blow considering he was that big
Speaker 3: red zone target and stretched the field guy for a
Speaker 3: tight end move to the slot, split end for wide
Speaker 3: receiver routes. Rather than up close to the line, because
Speaker 3: let's face it, he couldn't block a wet paper bag.
Speaker 4: Right, So, Taylor, where do you land on the Ravens
Speaker 4: in their secondary?
Speaker 2: What do you I mean you had? Do you trust
Speaker 2: the other hardball?
Speaker 7: I still do. I I still think the Ravens will
Speaker 7: win the AFC North. It would still be tough to
Speaker 7: tell if they win the Super Bowl or not, but
Speaker 7: or the AFC Championship. Well, we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 7: right now I'm just focused on on them winning the division.
Speaker 4: Right Hey, well, can I can? I?
Speaker 6: I think this is the year Lamar gets over the hump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got to get over is Josh Allen post
Speaker 3: traumatic stress disorder? And Josh Allen has to get past
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes traumatic stress disorder.
Speaker 4: And that's exactly what I was about to ask you guys?
Speaker 4: Can I ask this? And then I'm gonna use it
Speaker 4: to move over to the Bengals. What do y'all think
Speaker 4: about Lamar Jackson not winning the m v P last
Speaker 4: year and Josh Allen winning it?
Speaker 2: What what do y'all think about that?
Speaker 6: I mean, everyone's got their own opinion. I think Lamar
Speaker 6: should have won it.
Speaker 4: But but I think it is. I think what they
Speaker 4: do is they say that the same player can't in
Speaker 4: it too much. The NBA is guilty of it because
Speaker 4: Lebron would have way more MVPs if that were the case.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, well, I mean Peyton Manning won it like
Speaker 6: what five times? Six times?
Speaker 4: And that was before they started to get to the
Speaker 4: point where it's like, oh no, we we got to
Speaker 4: start highlighting other players, right, I mean, hey, chat you guys,
Speaker 4: chime into.
Speaker 2: We've got plenty of you over there.
Speaker 4: Madcraft he did just mark all of you guys, thank
Speaker 4: you for being here.
Speaker 3: I know, I I swear I heard the exact same
Speaker 3: thing from Rapings fans last year. This is the year
Speaker 3: Lamar would win it all. I heard it the year
Speaker 3: but that he got hurt and missed three quarters of
Speaker 3: the season. Lamar is going to be the MVP this year.
Speaker 3: Until I see him do it, I can't say he'll
Speaker 3: do it. I'm I'm like Missouri, I'm the show me state.
Speaker 2: Any well, And he had Derek Henry last year.
Speaker 4: I mean, talk about the two most fears running threats.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but the reason why I'm so bullish on them
Speaker 6: is that we have to remember if Mark Andrews catches
Speaker 6: that pass against the Bills and then doesn't have that
Speaker 6: turnover the week before, they beat Buffalo, and in my opinion,
Speaker 6: I think they beat Kansas City. I don't know if
Speaker 6: they beat Philadelphia, but I do think I definitely think
Speaker 6: they would have put up a much better fight than
Speaker 6: Kansas City did against Philadelphia. The issue with them is
Speaker 6: that they are just not a clutch team. In January,
Speaker 6: like the past couple of years, Zay Flowers fumbles against
Speaker 6: the Chiefs. Then last year, as I mentioned the turnovers,
Speaker 6: Mark Andrews drops that pass. Like the plays that seems
Speaker 6: like the Chiefs have made over the years, the Ravens, haven't.
Speaker 3: I love that take by p did It's there, I
Speaker 3: believe Lamar cann but the record is skipping. Anyone have
Speaker 3: a penny? That's funny.
Speaker 4: P Didgess is one of my resident comedians, him and Maccraft,
Speaker 4: Him and Macraft. Hey, so Maccraft has a good question,
Speaker 4: and you know what, Candy if I'm aye, when when
Speaker 4: he has a good question, we'll address it.
Speaker 2: Are we good with that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How do y'all? So Taylor, let's start with Taylor.
Speaker 4: This is the question from a listener that he asked
Speaker 4: me he wants us to address, how do you feel
Speaker 4: about cam Ord being the most ignored number one overall
Speaker 4: pick ever? He was asked about the reports that he
Speaker 4: was at the building at five thirty am every day
Speaker 4: and the last to leave. When asked why, he said,
Speaker 4: I watched my dad get up at four am every
Speaker 4: day to go to a job he didn't like. The
Speaker 4: least I can do is wake up and go to
Speaker 4: a job that I love, and I expect that from
Speaker 4: my teammates too.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you want to be here?
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on cam Ward being ignored but
Speaker 4: maybe a sneaky hard worker.
Speaker 7: I'm really confused. I don't, I don't, I don't even know,
Speaker 7: to be honest, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, samere how about you, buddy.
Speaker 6: Oh about him being the most ignored?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the question?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, well okay, well time out, all right?
Speaker 2: So, I mean, did I really set that up? That
Speaker 2: poor leo.
Speaker 4: I'm an idiot. I'll take blame for that. So a
Speaker 4: question from a listener, cam word, how do we feel
Speaker 4: about him being the most ignored number one overall pick ever?
Speaker 4: And at that point, okay, we will go ahead and
Speaker 4: we'll move on to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2: Can they avoid going oh and two to start the year?
Speaker 2: Can they avoid going oh and three to start the year.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Jeremy Candy, does anybody else? Just boy have anything to say?
Speaker 2: Yeah, AFC North Preview, anybody.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing with the Bengals. All you got to
Speaker 3: do is stop them from scoring thirty points because their
Speaker 3: defense will give up thirty points. You stop them, You
Speaker 3: stop them from scoring thirty points, you beat the Bengals.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying it's easy to do. What did
Speaker 3: they average that weren't They were like the third highest
Speaker 3: scoring team last year with like a twenty seven point
Speaker 3: eight points per game. So thirty points is the point
Speaker 3: break because every time he scored, they scored thirty plus points,
Speaker 3: they won, and the rest of the games where they
Speaker 3: didn't they lost.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, they played Cleveland week one, so they should
Speaker 6: have no problem holding Cleveland.
Speaker 3: They might score fifty four because Dallas even put up
Speaker 3: forty four on them last year season.
Speaker 6: So they're not going to start on two, all right,
Speaker 6: So Cleveland that's a win. Want to know Jacksonville, I
Speaker 6: don't know. I think a lot of people are sleeping
Speaker 6: on Jacksonville. It's not only the draft, but Liam Cohen,
Speaker 6: of course, is a huge coaching upgrade from what they've
Speaker 6: had before. Trevor Lawrence has weapons on the outside, He's
Speaker 6: got Etn and Biggs be In the backfield, he's got Hunter,
Speaker 6: not only Hunter, but Brian Thomas Junior as well. So
Speaker 6: they've got weapons. Now can they score thirty points? I
Speaker 6: don't know. I know Liam Cohen is a play caller,
Speaker 6: he was a really good play caller. How is he
Speaker 6: as a head coach? So that is to be determined.
Speaker 6: Minnesota loss, Denver loss, Detroit loss, green Bay loss, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 6: I don't know. Jets, I've got that as a win.
Speaker 6: So yeah, they're not gonna start on two, but it's
Speaker 6: definitely gonna be a slow start because Browns are a win,
Speaker 6: Jacksonville's a toss up. Minnesota, Denver, Detroit and green Bay
Speaker 6: are all losses, so there is a pretty good chance
Speaker 6: they do start two and four. Then you've got Pittsburgh,
Speaker 6: which is always gonna be a tough game. The Jets
Speaker 6: they should win. Bears, who I'm gonna get to it
Speaker 6: a little bit, Pittsburgh, New England Baltimore button, then that bought,
Speaker 6: and then you've got late November to mid December, you've
Speaker 6: got Baltimore, Buffalo, and then Baltimore again and then provided
Speaker 6: to us healthy, they've got their issues in the secondary.
Speaker 6: You're at Miami. So I don't know about Cincinnati. Again,
Speaker 6: as I mentioned earlier, if they can play a look
Speaker 6: at defense, they can be a playoff caliber team because
Speaker 6: that offense is going to score.
Speaker 4: Points right well, And can I ask this to you
Speaker 4: about Cincinnati's defense?
Speaker 2: Why you mentioned it? How in the world do you.
Speaker 4: Have a dude who has what sixteen sacks every year
Speaker 4: the last two years?
Speaker 2: How do you have somebody like that and suck on defense?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, the biggest thing on defense is a pass rush.
Speaker 2: Make it make sense either one?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well, one good player doesn't make a good defense. I mean,
Speaker 6: I mean it would help if I mean, it would
Speaker 6: help if you didn't let the best safety in the
Speaker 6: in the NFL walk out the door right May previous year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, a guy.
Speaker 6: Like Jesse Dates, the homegrown talent like that walk out
Speaker 6: the door.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I agree, But yeah, I mean to the
Speaker 4: one player doesn't make a defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand that part.
Speaker 4: But if you have him getting fourteen sacks a year,
Speaker 4: that shouldn't mean the other offenses have to pay attention
Speaker 4: to him, and they don't, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's just like, yeah, let him eat, will beat you
Speaker 4: other ways. So yeah, to your point, that just means
Speaker 4: they have holes everywhere else, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think like twenty of their cap
Speaker 6: is allocated toward Jamar Chase since Higgins, is that correct?
Speaker 6: I saw this somewhere.
Speaker 2: They just paid them boat load boatload They paid those guys. So, Taylor,
Speaker 2: what you got any more thoughts about the Browns?
Speaker 7: The fact sadness and they'll never make the playoffs period?
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm?
Speaker 4: Anything else about the a f C North Jeremy, y'all,
Speaker 4: I'll let y'all anybody, Candy, somebody take over a F North.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are gonna take it. Let's face it. I mean, there,
Speaker 1: there's the there, the overall complete in that, you know,
Speaker 1: division Steelers they're getting an Aaron Rodgers that, let's we
Speaker 1: all face it. He was in a He went from
Speaker 1: an okay situation in the Packers to the Jets, where
Speaker 1: we thought they would he'd be in a good situation,
Speaker 1: but quarterbacks go to kind of die over there, you know.
Speaker 1: But is he going to have a resurgence now going
Speaker 1: to the Steelers and the team that they have assembled
Speaker 1: remains to be seen. You know, he's a changed guy
Speaker 1: now he's married, he's in love, but he wouldn't wait,
Speaker 1: none of us know who he's married to. Bengals. That'll
Speaker 1: be an interesting it'll be interesting to see because they
Speaker 1: have they have kind of a tough schedule, like uh
Speaker 1: and the Browns. Yeah, well they can't decide they want
Speaker 1: to have five quarterbacks on their roster.
Speaker 6: Come on, really, they've got like four running backs as well,
Speaker 6: and one of them got arrested.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's crazy. But yeah, I think it's really
Speaker 1: the Ravens. It's the Ravens to lose, let's put it
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could agree. Gangbody out's got anything AFC North.
Speaker 3: I kind of just broke it down to basics to start.
Speaker 3: I think the Bengals and the Steelers are fighting for
Speaker 3: second place. I don't think the Browns can climb out
Speaker 3: of the basement, and the Ravens have it unlocked and
Speaker 3: less barring injury.
Speaker 4: The only one I could see coming for the Ravens
Speaker 4: would be the Bengals. I don't trust Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 4: the Steelers. I mean TJ.
Speaker 2: Watt, a guy that they just paid.
Speaker 4: I mean, he went sackless like the last seven weeks
Speaker 4: of the season last year. Didn't he can't He might
Speaker 4: confirm that like he he was a non factor, non
Speaker 4: factor for the Steelers. Yeah, he was hurt or something.
Speaker 4: He I mean, he wasn't very good. And then the
Speaker 4: Browns yep, yeah, no go.
Speaker 2: The Factory of misery?
Speaker 6: Is that factory?
Speaker 2: Said, the factory of sadness?
Speaker 4: Sorry my baddy, but yeah, the AFC North And the
Speaker 4: last thing about the AFC North Shador Sanders, Dion Sanders.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 4: How about the great news that Deon Sanders got the other.
Speaker 6: Day y'all, Yeah, it's great to hear.
Speaker 2: That was fantastic.
Speaker 6: I know he's had some health issues for a while now.
Speaker 6: I know even when he was coaching Jackson State he
Speaker 6: had to have a couple of his toes amputated. So, yep,
Speaker 6: I think anytime you hear that hear that he is
Speaker 6: cancer free, that is of course always good news.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And that again that's why I wanted to mention it.
Speaker 4: It's a dirty sea word of mine. I've got plenty
Speaker 4: of them, you know them all. I've set him a
Speaker 4: million times, but cancer absolutely a dirty one. And I
Speaker 4: thought he was retiring. I thought, and somebody even reported
Speaker 4: that from Colorado like a media guy was like, Deon
Speaker 4: sa Anders is retiring.
Speaker 2: That was not the case. He got the great news.
Speaker 4: Jeremy, Taylor, Candy, were you guys all excited to hear
Speaker 4: about that good news as well?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean I'm happy with him, just glad it's
Speaker 7: over with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, nobody wishes cancer on anybody, and
Speaker 1: it's always good to hear when someone beats it. Once
Speaker 1: we're done with this topic, keep going. I want to
Speaker 1: address the chat room, but I want you guys to
Speaker 1: make sure that we're done with this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, well we're good.
Speaker 4: So from here, Jeremy, did you have anything to say
Speaker 4: about Prime.
Speaker 2: And beaten the cancer?
Speaker 3: Congratulations. I'm not gonna knock anybody. I personally don't like
Speaker 3: the man, but nobody deserves cancer, let's put it that way, right.
Speaker 4: I have a yeah, Hey, I understand people's frustration with
Speaker 4: him about being you know, too cocky or extravagant or whatever.
Speaker 2: And I like the guy.
Speaker 4: I don't like that he thinks he's like gonna win
Speaker 4: a national championship at Colorado, but hey, that's his competitive spirit.
Speaker 4: But fantastic for him to beat that. So we're gonna
Speaker 4: swap to NFC North in just a minute. Candy, you
Speaker 4: want to do a station break and then address or
Speaker 4: just address.
Speaker 1: I gotta address all of us because all these people
Speaker 1: are talking about cam Ward, and honestly, I don't you
Speaker 1: got you guys are saying he quit. He did not
Speaker 1: quit in the in the ball game. He had scouts there.
Speaker 1: Most guys don't even play in the ball game. He
Speaker 1: came out at half and I think part of that, honestly,
Speaker 1: was so that the Canes could see Emery Williams and
Speaker 1: how he was going to play, because they knew how
Speaker 1: Cam could do. Cam also knew that he didn't want
Speaker 1: to get injured. He knew he was going to be
Speaker 1: up there in the draft. They so he did not quit.
Speaker 1: Cam is a good quarterback. Ca Cam works with his legs.
Speaker 1: Cam's got a pretty good arm. He did not quit
Speaker 1: like some of you are talking about that he quit.
Speaker 1: That he showed you. No, he did not. That was
Speaker 1: they knew that going in, but so I just kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to get that out there because I covered
Speaker 1: the Canes all of last year. I was down at
Speaker 1: media day yesterday for the Hurricanes for this year. So
Speaker 1: what did he do in the second half? He did
Speaker 1: not play, but he also did not want to get
Speaker 1: injured so he would not hurt his draft status. He
Speaker 1: was a fifth year as I remember, so he had
Speaker 1: he was gonna come out. So yes, he did not
Speaker 1: play in the second half of that bowl game. And
Speaker 1: I know everyone's like, oh, he should have played, because
Speaker 1: then the Knes would have won. The Kanes would have
Speaker 1: done this, he would have had all kinds of stats, this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing. But you also have to
Speaker 1: remember it you were he is playing, he did not.
Speaker 1: How do you know he quit or the maybe the
Speaker 1: maybe Mario Christopher pulled him. You do not know if
Speaker 1: he quit or if Mario pulled him because Mario wanted
Speaker 1: to see how Emory was gonna do, because Emory is
Speaker 1: the second was the second string. We talked to Emory yesterday.
Speaker 1: He is a great kid. He might not be a
Speaker 1: really good quarterback, he's a good backup, but he's a
Speaker 1: really good kid. So yes, we do not know the
Speaker 1: whole situation, and it could have already been predetermined exactly good.
Speaker 7: Some things are just lazy, disrespectful and stupid.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I like it, But uh, I was going
Speaker 3: to say about cam Ward. Do you know why you're
Speaker 3: not hearing a lot about cam Ward? What team does
Speaker 3: he play for? The Titans? Titans that that defense gave
Speaker 3: up more points than everybody else and they scored less
Speaker 3: points than everywhere everybody else. So until that team does something,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna hear a lot about cam Ward. That's
Speaker 3: just how it is. National media wants to hear about
Speaker 3: the teams at the top. They don't want to hear
Speaker 3: about the bottom, theters that add the Berke first pick and.
Speaker 1: You got and you got drafted to the Tennessee Titans. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're not a big media you know. It's not like
Speaker 1: a New York team or an LA team that you
Speaker 1: where the media is all in there and everything like that.
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Speaker 4: Nords, I'll tell you what. Let's get Taylor. Let's let
Speaker 4: him starty off. Taylor, give us everything that we need
Speaker 4: to know to spurn these comments for the NFC North,
Speaker 4: the Bears, the Packers, the Lions, and the Vikings.
Speaker 7: And go the Lions. They addressed uh Tate Ratledge's replacement
Speaker 7: for for Frank ragnow Tate Radlich has been doing spectacularly
Speaker 7: at training camp. Jared Goff of course, and his offense
Speaker 7: love the way that new offensive coordinator John Morton is
Speaker 7: scheming things, uh with the ball security and playmaking. Their defense.
Speaker 7: Of course they've suffered a few uh. Yeah, the North
Speaker 7: Division is hockey p just just stip just step back
Speaker 7: a bit.
Speaker 4: Pleaselling, Yeah, which I don't have time for.
Speaker 2: Ye know you're anyway, let's continue, Let's.
Speaker 7: Just continue on.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 7: The Packers they still have Jordan Love. Of course, they
Speaker 7: got rid of a few players. The division is going
Speaker 7: to be really tight. The Minnesota Vikings, man, I haven't
Speaker 7: done many in the research front from them. But the
Speaker 7: Bears they got new head coach Ben Johnson now the
Speaker 7: former offensive Lion offensive coordinator for the Lions, but of
Speaker 7: course Williams the quarterback. But anyway, I still think the
Speaker 7: Lions will take the division by a close margin. But
Speaker 7: you still got to play in the playoffs. The Lions
Speaker 7: learned it the hard way last last playoffs against the
Speaker 7: Commanders at home. It doesn't matter what what seed you're in,
Speaker 7: play the damn game, period.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, hm, Play the game.
Speaker 6: That.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that later on.
Speaker 4: What else though, You got anything else about the Vikings,
Speaker 4: the Bears, the Packers, or the Lions.
Speaker 7: That's it. That's all I have. I'll pass it on
Speaker 7: to whoever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, with so Detroit. Yeah, they lose Zeitler, they
Speaker 6: lose rag Now, but I did like the Tate Ratlers
Speaker 6: pick for them. I liked him when he was at
Speaker 6: the University of Georgia and I think he in due time,
Speaker 6: he will fill in nicely for rag Now. I don't
Speaker 6: know if he'll be as productive of a player rag
Speaker 6: Now was, but I think he will be a good
Speaker 6: fit for them. They did draft Tylee Williams defensive tackle
Speaker 6: in the first round as well, so those two kind
Speaker 6: of headline their draft. As you mentioned. They lost Ben
Speaker 6: Johnson to Chicago. They lose Aaron Glenn to the Jets.
Speaker 6: Now they have John Morton and Killed Sheppard, respectively. They
Speaker 6: are turning nearly all of their offensive weapons. You've got
Speaker 6: golf Montgomery Gibbs reporta Aman rah Jmo had his first
Speaker 6: career one thousand yard season. He was finally able to
Speaker 6: get on the field consistently. They add dj Reed to
Speaker 6: their secondary, which did need some help, which needs some
Speaker 6: help outside of branch In Joseph. They resigned Derek Barnes,
Speaker 6: and it looked like they were in position to make
Speaker 6: another deep run, make a run at the Super Bowl,
Speaker 6: but unfortunately they had some injuries, especially on the defensive
Speaker 6: side of the ball. You have Hutch as the headliner,
Speaker 6: but you had Angelone, Alee McNeil, Carlson Davis, and I
Speaker 6: do believe I'm not saying they would have beat Washington,
Speaker 6: but I do believe that if they were healthy, and
Speaker 6: if they had those guys for that game, then maybe
Speaker 6: there is a possibility that that game against Washington doesn't
Speaker 6: happen the way it does because people talk about the turnovers.
Speaker 6: They scored thirty one points that game, so offense did
Speaker 6: their part to win that game. Defense couldn't stop Jayden
Speaker 6: Daniels at all. No answers whatsoever. Minnesota, they are returning
Speaker 6: basically nearly the entire the entirety of their starting lineup
Speaker 6: from last year. The big question is JJ McCarthy. But
Speaker 6: Kevin O'Connell just seems to have away with quarterbacks. You
Speaker 6: saw what he did with Sam Darnold. I think Kirk
Speaker 6: Cousins had the best year of his career in Kevin
Speaker 6: O'Connell's offense and tacking. Twenty twenty three, he was winning
Speaker 6: games with Josh Dobbs, pulled Josh Dobbs off the street,
Speaker 6: came here to Atlanta and won a game. So and
Speaker 6: then you've got Green Bay. They're talented as usual on
Speaker 6: both sides of the ball, as they have been for
Speaker 6: a long time. Jordan Love I think will be the
Speaker 6: X factor for them. He had a great second half
Speaker 6: of twenty twenty three, took a step back last season.
Speaker 6: Can he get back to that level he did in
Speaker 6: the second half of twenty three and why they gave
Speaker 6: him that big contract. They did draft a wide receiver
Speaker 6: in the first round for the first time since two
Speaker 6: thousand and two, Matthew.
Speaker 2: Golden, and they didn't even do it for a a
Speaker 2: Ron Right.
Speaker 6: And the part that is so intriguing about that is
Speaker 6: that they have a wide receiver room filled with guys
Speaker 6: that are high ceiling guys but are not consistent, like
Speaker 6: not number ones that you have Watson Dobbs read so,
Speaker 6: but they need a difference maker on the outside. Can
Speaker 6: he be that difference maker? Defensively? They did lose Jai
Speaker 6: Year the issue is why they or not. He could
Speaker 6: still play, obviously, but he just couldn't stay on the field.
Speaker 6: But I still think their secondary is in good shape.
Speaker 6: They have McKinny, they have Javon bowlerd. They have Nate Hobbs.
Speaker 6: Notably linebacker kway Walker. He's another product of the University Georgia,
Speaker 6: first round pick for them a couple of years ago,
Speaker 6: had his fifty year option then declined, so this is
Speaker 6: a big year for him. It's a proven deal for him.
Speaker 6: They do, ever, Sean Gary, who just made it to
Speaker 6: his first Pro Bowl, surprisingly enough, given no consistent he's been.
Speaker 6: So I do expect them to be in the fold
Speaker 6: in the NFC like they have been the last thirty
Speaker 6: thirty five years. The Bears. Here's my hot take. I
Speaker 6: was referring to.
Speaker 2: Oh, here's my hot take.
Speaker 6: This is my hot take.
Speaker 4: Everybody, everybody tune in, every list, Let's go.
Speaker 7: Not only we'll just let him speak, please, thank you.
Speaker 6: So the Bears have never had a this is not it,
Speaker 6: but the Bears have never had a quarterback pass for
Speaker 6: over four thousand yards in their history. Only will Caleb
Speaker 6: Williams be the first Bears quarterback to pass for over
Speaker 6: four thousand yards. Ben Johnson will win Coach of the
Speaker 6: Year and the Bears will win the NFC North. Why
Speaker 6: they addressed their two biggest issues, which was coaching in
Speaker 6: the offensive line. Like there was talent on that roster
Speaker 6: last year, it was the coaching in the offensive line
Speaker 6: that held them back. We saw in the game Thanksgiving,
Speaker 6: more specifically against Detroit where Matt Eberfuss doesn't call that
Speaker 6: time out, Caleb gets sacked, they end up losing. But
Speaker 6: most notably, Caleb Williams was sacked sixty eight times. That
Speaker 6: is the third most in NFL history. No quarterback is
Speaker 6: going to succeed with that, regardless of the weapons they
Speaker 6: have on the outside, like aromadons a d. J. Moore.
Speaker 6: You got DeAndre Swift. Swift in the backfield. So they
Speaker 6: make the trades for Joe Tuney with the Chiefs, they
Speaker 6: get Jonah Jackson from the Rams, and of course they
Speaker 6: sign Drew Dahmen away from Atlanta in free agency, and
Speaker 6: they add two more weapons for Caleb in the draft,
Speaker 6: Coleston Lovelin in the first round, and then they go
Speaker 6: and draft Luther Burden in the second. So their offense
Speaker 6: is consist of guys like Darnel Wright, Drew Dahmen, Joe Tuning,
Speaker 6: and Jonah Jackson up front. You've got Deandres DeAndre Swift
Speaker 6: in the backfield. Then you've got Lovelin, Cole kamet, Roma
Speaker 6: Doonz and Dj Moore all for Caleb to play with. Now,
Speaker 6: the defense, they already had Javon Dexter, they already had
Speaker 6: Montes Sweat. You go out and get Grady Jarrett. Now, Grady,
Speaker 6: take it from me. He's not one one of the
Speaker 6: league's top defensive tackles anymore, especially at thirty two, and
Speaker 6: you're removed from that ACL tear in twenty three, but
Speaker 6: he still provides a lot of what you want in
Speaker 6: a locker room and a lot of what you want
Speaker 6: on the field. He's a veteran leader, team captain and
Speaker 6: still reliable, one of the better dts against the run.
Speaker 6: So you have a guy that can still that is
Speaker 6: still effective against the run in a veteran presence and
Speaker 6: leader in the locker room. You have Jalen Johnson. You
Speaker 6: have Kevin Byrd career high hundred and thirty tackles at
Speaker 6: age thirty. Now I know Ryan Poles has come under
Speaker 6: a lot of heat the last couple of years. A
Speaker 6: lot of people thought that he should have been out
Speaker 6: of there with Matt Eberflus. Oh, not to mention, you
Speaker 6: have Dennis Sallin as your defensive coordinator. Now, say what
Speaker 6: you want about it. As a head coach, he couldn't
Speaker 6: get it done at two separate stops. But he is
Speaker 6: a really good defensive coordinator. We saw in Denver, we
Speaker 6: saw in New Orleans. He can coach a defense and
Speaker 6: this Bears defense has talent on it on the front end,
Speaker 6: in the back end. But he has done a really
Speaker 6: good job putting this roster together. And people talk about
Speaker 6: the Lions, I feel like that is the fact that
Speaker 6: they lost both of their coordinators is not talked about enough.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not saying it's going to happen, but
Speaker 6: we've seen what happens in the past when you lose
Speaker 6: a really good coordinator. We saw in Atlanta after Kyle
Speaker 6: Shanahan left, that office was quite the same. Carolina Panthers
Speaker 6: when that defense lost Sean McDermott, they weren't the same.
Speaker 6: Seattle the Legion of Boom when they lost Dan Quinn,
Speaker 6: that defense wasn't the same. And when Dallas. They lost
Speaker 6: Dan Quinn. Last year, they became the worst run defense
Speaker 6: in the league. They couldn't stop anyone. And then Green Bay.
Speaker 6: Is Jordan Love going to get back to his twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three self? Vikings the question mark with JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 6: I just think the fact that they upgraded tremendously their
Speaker 6: two biggest needs, which are coaching in the offensive line.
Speaker 6: And I'm really high on Ben Johnson. I'm really high.
Speaker 6: That's why I'm high on the Bears. I think they
Speaker 6: are going to win the NFC North.
Speaker 1: Interesting, listen the Bears.
Speaker 2: Jeremy Hey, jump in. What's you got?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna start and say, I think the loser
Speaker 3: of this division has eight or nine wins. I think
Speaker 3: the winner of this division has twelve. We're gonna beat
Speaker 3: up on each other hard. I think everybody wins their
Speaker 3: home games. I don't think any team wins on the road.
Speaker 3: That's how close the top to the bottom. Here's the
Speaker 3: bad part about it. You said a couple of questions
Speaker 3: about key teams. The Packers' biggest question is they didn't
Speaker 3: address the pass rush, which was the worst in the
Speaker 3: NFL last year. It was even worse than the Lions,
Speaker 3: and people made fun of it. Number two, they also
Speaker 3: lost JayR Alexander. That makes their secondary worse, not better.
Speaker 3: It isn't as good as it was. They needed more.
Speaker 3: If you knew you weren't going to resign JayR Alexander,
Speaker 3: their first pick shouldn't have been wide receiver again this year.
Speaker 3: It should have been a cornerback. That's just my opinion
Speaker 3: on it, because losing Jayra Alexander. When he's on the field,
Speaker 3: he's a top ten corner period. When he's playing, he's
Speaker 3: that good. But the problem is he doesn't play enough.
Speaker 3: That's why they didn't want to extend him and they
Speaker 3: made the move they did, so be it. He didn't
Speaker 3: want to play for what they offered. Let's put it
Speaker 3: that way. They offered him a fair amount for the
Speaker 3: amount of time that he stayed on the field. It
Speaker 3: wasn't top ten money, but it wasn't bottom money either.
Speaker 3: They offered a middle of the field, veteran access veteran
Speaker 3: star money like in the upper fifteen. So if you'd
Speaker 3: took that money and stayed there, they would be better off.
Speaker 3: The worst secondary in the division by far is the
Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, and they did not address their cornerback room.
Speaker 3: It's the exact same two starters on the outside they
Speaker 3: had last year. So I don't, you know, while they're
Speaker 3: good at it, and while they're great at stuff in
Speaker 3: the run and they can get to the passer, they
Speaker 3: can't stop anybody downfield. So this is why I don't
Speaker 3: know who's gonna be on bottom and I don't know
Speaker 3: who's going to be on top. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I understand the coordinator thing. But Johnny Martin was actually
Speaker 3: a part of the Lions back in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: and it was rumored that he was in the room
Speaker 3: with Ben Jonson and Jared Goff helping to develop that
Speaker 3: playbook that they did that when Jared Goff took off.
Speaker 3: Because he's had three consecutive years over four thousand yards
Speaker 3: and almost two to one touchdown interception ratio. Ever since
Speaker 3: he is a pass happy offensive coordinator. He does use
Speaker 3: the run to set up the pass and the play action,
Speaker 3: but he doesn't Instead of it being fifty five percent run,
Speaker 3: it's probably gonna be more like a forty eight to
Speaker 3: fifty two split now with the run just being just
Speaker 3: under the fifty percent and passing more, which tells me
Speaker 3: Jared Goff might be lighting it up. And by the way,
Speaker 3: the whole defense is talking about Jamison Williams. If it
Speaker 3: wasn't for Jarrion Arnold hitting him so hard that he
Speaker 3: knocked his helmet off with a chest hit the other day,
Speaker 3: that guy might have ran for four touchdowns in that game,
Speaker 3: that that practice game. So I think the Lions offense,
Speaker 3: I think it's still a great team. And our defensive
Speaker 3: coordinator that we have now was actually a part of
Speaker 3: that Aaron Glenn group. It's Calvin Shepard. So it's not
Speaker 3: like we're gonna The only thing we did was he
Speaker 3: added a linebacker to the scheme instead of the four
Speaker 3: two five, where we running the traditional four to three again.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6: And well yeah, and I know, Jeremy you mentioned the
Speaker 6: in house promotion party work. And because the continuity and
Speaker 6: the familiarity with what they had on the flip side,
Speaker 6: let's flash back a couple of years Shane Stike and
Speaker 6: leaves Philadelphia takes a head coaching job in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they put their second.
Speaker 6: Johnson within offense didn't look didn't look the same at all,
Speaker 6: and Jalen Hurts had a down year, but so I
Speaker 6: do think there is a flip side to that. But
Speaker 6: again it's interesting. I do think, well, the Lions will
Speaker 6: take a step back, they'll be a playoff team. But
Speaker 6: I just really like what the Bears have going on.
Speaker 3: So my window of wins for each team, and I
Speaker 3: yell because where the Bears are coming from, they have
Speaker 3: to learn how to be a winner. They're not a
Speaker 3: winner yet as an organization. They they found ran new
Speaker 3: and interesting ways to lose all last season. And it
Speaker 3: started with that Commander's game.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's where because they were they were four
Speaker 6: and two going into that.
Speaker 3: Game, right, and then when when what's his name wasn't
Speaker 3: paying attention, had to run across the field, jumps in
Speaker 3: front of a guy that had positioned for the interception
Speaker 3: and tips it and it went to Noah Brown for
Speaker 3: the touchdown. That's what cost him the game. It's almost
Speaker 3: as bad as that game that we had when we
Speaker 3: could have beat the Green Bay Packers. Packers on the
Speaker 3: hail Mary, and who's sitting in the flat as a
Speaker 3: rookie corner who's one of the best in the league
Speaker 3: right now. It was Darius Slay. How do you have
Speaker 3: Darius Lay in the flat when they're running hail Mary.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely. And that's why I really like their offseason acquisitions,
Speaker 6: particularly at the line of scrimmage, because not only did
Speaker 6: you get improving veterans, good players, but you got guys
Speaker 6: that know what it's like to be in big moments. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Grady Jarrett hasn't played in the playoff game since twenty seventeen,
Speaker 6: but he did play in the Super Bowl and he
Speaker 6: sacked Tom Brady three times in it. You have Tremaine
Speaker 6: Edmonds who had multiple playoff runs with the Bills. You
Speaker 6: hat Kevin Byrd played in the NFC Championship in Tennessee.
Speaker 6: You've got Joe Tooney who's won Super Bowls in Kansas City,
Speaker 6: Jonah Jackson who's been on several playoff runs with the Rams. So,
Speaker 6: and then you've got Yeah, he's a rookie at coach,
Speaker 6: but Ben Johnson knows what it is like to coach
Speaker 6: in big games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to Candy. Hey, can we remove?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can we remove? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't I don't know what that's about. Yeah, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 9: I mean the comments in the private chat though remain chat.
Speaker 2: They will remain private. But what we're trying to do
Speaker 2: a lot of show we ain't got time. We ain't
Speaker 2: got time for that.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, I think the window of
Speaker 3: wins for the Chicago Bears is they're not going to
Speaker 3: go below what they had last year. But I think
Speaker 3: it's more in the seven to ten range because they
Speaker 3: got to prove to me they can get past eleven
Speaker 3: and twelve runs. The Minnesota Vikings is the one I
Speaker 3: give the widest margin because they don't have a secondary
Speaker 3: and you don't know what you got in JJ McCartney.
Speaker 3: I trust Kevin O'Connell to get the most out of
Speaker 3: them a ken, but is that good enough to keep
Speaker 3: Sam Howell on the bench, who actually for the first
Speaker 3: eight games of the season last season he was with
Speaker 3: the Commanders, he was one of the best quarterbacks in
Speaker 3: the league till the offensive line got hurt. Once that
Speaker 3: offensive line got hurt, that's when he looked back. Dave Canalis,
Speaker 3: you talked about Kevin O'Connell and what he does for cornerbacks.
Speaker 3: Look at the resurrection of Gino Smith and Baker Mayfield
Speaker 3: due to Dave Canalis and then the last five games
Speaker 3: of the year when Bryce Young took back over for
Speaker 3: Carroll line on how he looked like a totally different
Speaker 3: quarterback than he did the entire first half of the season.
Speaker 3: So there's all of that there. You know, there's all
Speaker 3: sorts of things that we just don't know. Ben Johnson
Speaker 3: is a great offensive coordinator, but we don't know what
Speaker 3: he'll be as a coach.
Speaker 6: I mean, I do like the staff he's put together,
Speaker 6: especially with the Dennis Saalin high defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: Right, I do like that too. I like then that
Speaker 3: you know who who's out of those two coordinators that
Speaker 3: left the biggest head scratcher to me. Aaron Glenn's a
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator and a new head coach, yet he goes
Speaker 3: with her first year offensive coordinator in Tanner Engstrom, who
Speaker 3: was our passing game coordinator in Detroit. But he did
Speaker 3: do something smart. What's the one thing Aaron glenn defense
Speaker 3: couldn't do? Stop justin fields? We got just that man.
Speaker 3: That man ran all over Aaron Glenn's defense because he
Speaker 3: doesn't use the blitz. And that's the biggest thing I
Speaker 3: heard about Calvin Shepard is he likes to blitz.
Speaker 4: And and here let me, can I chi him in
Speaker 4: here real quick if I could. So, there's one thing
Speaker 4: I've heard about Justin Fields. I've heard it on National
Speaker 4: Sports Talk radio. A caller called in and apparently had
Speaker 4: a tidbit of information. I think I've even told Samir
Speaker 4: this before, where Justin Fields apparently is on some kind
Speaker 4: of seizure medication.
Speaker 6: Yeah for years actually yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, I'm not even sharing new news. But I
Speaker 4: feel like that's been a lot of his hesitation. So
Speaker 4: if you don't put him in an offense though, where
Speaker 4: he feels like he's having to think a lot versus
Speaker 4: react and just do what I need to do, I
Speaker 4: feel like that could be his big issue for Justin Fields.
Speaker 4: So I think Aaron Glenn knowing him is going to
Speaker 4: put him in a great spot for the Jets. But
Speaker 4: can Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson do that for the
Speaker 4: NFC North? That's what we're talking. Can Ben Johnson put
Speaker 4: him in that position? Can Detroit? Can they just recycle
Speaker 4: next man up? You lost two coordinators, see it happen
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 1: But JD. The one thing I will say about the Lions,
Speaker 1: look at how many players they had injured last year
Speaker 1: and now they didn't fall up. Like I get. Part
Speaker 1: of that is the coordinators, you know, coaching him up
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But Dan Campbell's not gonna let
Speaker 1: his coordinators not coach up his team or let them
Speaker 1: drop off either. I don't. I mean, I will say
Speaker 1: one thing yesterday one of the questions I asked one
Speaker 1: of the coaches down at Miami, who's the running backs
Speaker 1: co Out of all the coaches in the NFL, who
Speaker 1: do you emulate most? And who do you would you
Speaker 1: you know, like to be more or you're more like?
Speaker 1: And he said, Dan Campbell.
Speaker 3: Now here's one more thing about that NFC NFC divisional
Speaker 3: game that we lost versus Washington. Everybody forgets their first
Speaker 3: two drives, they didn't score any points. Why Meek Robertson
Speaker 3: was on the field once he broke his arm. We
Speaker 3: had no secondary left because we had to put Khalil
Speaker 3: Dorsey and Kendall Vildor out there.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: And then so just to wrap up my NFC North thoughts,
Speaker 4: and then Candy can get hers in.
Speaker 2: And then we can move on to something else.
Speaker 4: But the rest of my NFC North thoughts was can
Speaker 4: Kevin O'Connell, do it again, Kirk Cousins, Sam Darnold, JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2: I don't know that he can.
Speaker 4: I've got I've got Packers winning the conference, and so
Speaker 4: I've got Detroit literally maybe even with the same record,
Speaker 4: but because of head to head Green Baby and in
Speaker 4: over then as winning the division.
Speaker 2: So I've got Green Bay, Detroit and a tie.
Speaker 4: I got the Vikings in third and the Bears in fourth,
Speaker 4: and the same as Jeremy, you mentioned it three games apart,
Speaker 4: I say the same thing for the NFC South.
Speaker 3: You have the NFC South. I think the winner will
Speaker 3: have ten and the loser of it all will have
Speaker 3: seven wins.
Speaker 2: Six or seven. Yeah, yeah, same way. Yeah, they'll win
Speaker 2: more that way for sure.
Speaker 3: I think the Bucks are still going to win that division,
Speaker 3: but they're outside the division. Schedule is so brutal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if you look at who they got to play on
Speaker 3: the road and everything else.
Speaker 2: Don't tell Samir, but I'm kind of leaning Atlanta, right,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, yeah, Jeremy, it's understandable. Yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 6: the Falcons have looked good on paper. We have look
Speaker 6: good on paper. Twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four,
Speaker 6: but you could argue that we should have won the
Speaker 6: division or could have won the division both those years.
Speaker 6: But whether it be bad coaching gaffs, or bad quarterback
Speaker 6: play or whatever it is, we just can't seem to
Speaker 6: get out of our own way and just finding new
Speaker 6: ways to lose week in and week out. We can't
Speaker 6: seem to get out of our own way. So it's understandable,
Speaker 6: and I like our chances of winning the division. We
Speaker 6: went out and addressed our biggest need, which is the
Speaker 6: pass routch which has been our biggest need for the
Speaker 6: last decade. But understandable. We've got to prove it. We've
Speaker 6: got a quarterback. While I'm all in on him, he's
Speaker 6: only played in three games, but we've got offensive weapons.
Speaker 6: We've got a mix of veterans and some young guys
Speaker 6: with high upside defensively, but we've got to go out
Speaker 6: improve it. You know, I've seen some Falcons fans be
Speaker 6: up in arms about us being ranked twenty fifth in
Speaker 6: Fox's Power rankings. I wrote an article about it. You've
Speaker 6: seen people up in arms about the Falcons only over
Speaker 6: under having being or being only at seven and a
Speaker 6: half wins. But why should we get the benefit of
Speaker 6: the doubt. What have the Falcons done to earn that
Speaker 6: outside respect? Like, if we want that respect, if we
Speaker 6: want the benefit of the doubt, we've got to go
Speaker 6: out and earn it by winning football games and playing
Speaker 6: meaningful football in January. So yeah, that's understandable.
Speaker 4: I'm listen, I'm on Atlanta. I don't necessarily I'm so torn.
Speaker 2: I literally I think.
Speaker 6: I just don't trust Raheem Morris.
Speaker 3: I really, man, I was praying to God you'd say that,
Speaker 3: because that's I think. I think that's your biggest downfall
Speaker 3: right now is Rahee Morris. Yo, you're your previous coach
Speaker 3: wasn't that bad, but he had no talent there and
Speaker 3: they got.
Speaker 2: Arthur Smith was terrible.
Speaker 3: But that's all I got to say. Desmond rheterer Kyle
Speaker 3: Pitts being like Julio Jones gets a ton of ton
Speaker 3: of yards between the twenties and develops an allergy to
Speaker 3: the end zone. I mean, the guy more touchdown passes
Speaker 3: in his careers.
Speaker 6: Now he's got his issue is that, Like he's got
Speaker 6: the physical tools, the athleticism, the speed. When he's got
Speaker 6: the ball, he just it's in there. Number one, Like
Speaker 6: there's footage of him clearly checked out during plays. But
Speaker 6: number two, he's just never been a good route runner.
Speaker 6: Like when he was in college at Florida, he would
Speaker 6: just run right by guys. But you're not going to
Speaker 6: do that in the NFL. Players are a lot better,
Speaker 6: a lot faster. You can't do that in the NFL.
Speaker 6: He's got to be a better route runner. And this
Speaker 6: is a proven year for him, the last year of
Speaker 6: his rookie deal, whether it be from the Falcons or's
Speaker 6: another NFL team. If he wants a new contract, he's
Speaker 6: got to prove it this year. So that's all I
Speaker 6: gotta say about Kyle Pitts. But yeah, I like what
Speaker 6: we have on paper. But it's just hard when the
Speaker 6: guy that you don't trust is the guy leading the operation,
Speaker 6: whether it be from mishandling Kirk's injury last year to
Speaker 6: the team, especially defensively, like failing to get off the
Speaker 6: bus Week eighteen against Carolina, a must win game. Bryce
Speaker 6: Young comes into our building and puts forty four on
Speaker 6: our head and he must win game. And we lose
Speaker 6: that game because our head coaches supposed specialty or strong
Speaker 6: point didn't even show up. And then of course you
Speaker 6: have the way the game was coached against Washington the
Speaker 6: end of that game. So it's just things and like we're.
Speaker 3: You guys were leading that game right in Washington.
Speaker 4: It was tied and I'm sorry, hold up, time up.
Speaker 4: Candy is the host of the show. I'm the co host,
Speaker 4: and y'all two have hijacked the show so far as
Speaker 4: that we're talking about Atlanta and we're supposed to be
Speaker 4: talking about the NFC North.
Speaker 2: So did ye ya?
Speaker 1: But that wait a minute, we all did that.
Speaker 2: We all, we all we go down rabbit holes, we
Speaker 2: all do. That's all well and good. It was good conversation.
Speaker 3: That's what was here exactly.
Speaker 2: And I shoot, I forgot what I was about to say.
Speaker 2: It's about Atlanta.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, it's Candy, but I did have something about Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Y'all just said. But Candy, my dirty s word. Candy,
Speaker 2: take it away.
Speaker 1: Oh back to the NFC North, come on, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be. What I'm gonna say, is this
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting division this year? I really do, I
Speaker 1: really do feel that way. I do see I do
Speaker 1: see the Bears improved. I I'm really questioning where I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna see the Packers. I would love to
Speaker 1: say they're gonna be really good. I want to see
Speaker 1: how well Jordan Love meshes with his wide receivers. And yes,
Speaker 1: our defenses hasn't been there, and now we moved one
Speaker 1: of our wide receivers to cornerback Milton. Let's see how
Speaker 1: well he does there, whether he adjusts to it or not.
Speaker 3: He did pretty good beat down as a wide receiver
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 4: Exactly so you know, Swater swabing to dB D.
Speaker 1: But I do think. I do think it'll be between
Speaker 1: either the Lions or the Packers on top. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to say what JJ McCarthy's gonna do
Speaker 1: because we haven't seen it. You know, he hasn't had
Speaker 1: a chance, so it's hard to say. And now that
Speaker 1: he's got a new coach, like, it's hard to say
Speaker 1: what he's gonna do. But I do think the Bears
Speaker 1: will be improved. I do not think they will overtake
Speaker 1: either the Packers or the Lions. Sameir. That's my opinion.
Speaker 1: I respect yours. I just don't see it yet.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it won't happen in the future,
Speaker 1: but I think one of the reasons why I think
Speaker 1: the Packers will be up there yet is the Packers
Speaker 1: returned a lot of the same players from last year,
Speaker 1: and last year they were a young team, very young.
Speaker 1: They were one of the youngest teams. And so I
Speaker 1: think when you return that and you have the cohesiveness
Speaker 1: and you have the speed because normally the younger you
Speaker 1: are this you know, the more speed you have, I
Speaker 1: think they'll still be very good up there.
Speaker 5: So I think this.
Speaker 1: Will be a tough division, and not that it hasn't
Speaker 1: been because they've always played each other tough, because, let's
Speaker 1: face it, the oldest rivalry in the NFL lands in
Speaker 1: that division with the Packers versus the Bears.
Speaker 5: That is the oldest.
Speaker 1: Rivalry in the NFL. So, Samir, it might be. It
Speaker 1: might be the are two. You know, my pick in
Speaker 1: your pick, But last year, I mean it was Lions
Speaker 1: that took it. So it'll be good. It'll be good football.
Speaker 1: I'm just excited for it this time.
Speaker 4: We're all we're all just excited for football at this point. Apparently,
Speaker 4: let's see where did the comment just go? Somebody said, hey,
Speaker 4: what is up with this live? It's like everyone somehow
Speaker 4: has a contact tie or they're infected with the sillies.
Speaker 3: Hey, I like to have fun when I talked football.
Speaker 2: I mean I like that fun period. I mean, if
Speaker 2: I'm not here to have fun, what the hell are
Speaker 2: we doing? Exactly?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then oh yeah, somebody mentioned DJ DJ DJ you
Speaker 4: dj oohi ungulay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he completely missed on his last name.
Speaker 2: It should have been pronounced you could lately dingling ding
Speaker 2: ding ding ding. That's all I got, Folks, come out.
Speaker 1: Did we complete our NSC preview?
Speaker 4: I think so, Candy at this point, I think so.
Speaker 4: But if anybody else has something to say, please say.
Speaker 1: It, because otherwise I would say, let's let's switched over
Speaker 1: to my town. We might as well do that because
Speaker 1: we all know that that's a segment that and since
Speaker 1: I think I have talked the least.
Speaker 3: When they go for go ahead exactly. So.
Speaker 1: One of the things that really disappointed me last year
Speaker 1: was the Wisconsin Badgers football team. Now, for those of
Speaker 1: you that might know or don't know, the Badgers ended
Speaker 1: their twenty two year bowl streak last season that that
Speaker 1: was the longest streak in all of college football, and
Speaker 1: they did not go to a bowl last year, and
Speaker 1: you wonder why. So I thought it was really interesting
Speaker 1: because what they decided this year during the offseason is
Speaker 1: that they thought the culture wasn't there with Luke Fickle
Speaker 1: and the Badgers, that they weren't gelling together playing as
Speaker 1: a team. So Wisconsin players only needed to go through
Speaker 1: their phones to provide evidence that they're fixing the culture
Speaker 1: issues that led to the end of the Badger's twenty
Speaker 1: two year bowl streak. Last season, Strength coach Brady Collins
Speaker 1: organized an off season contest in which he asked players
Speaker 1: to send him a photo whenever they went out with
Speaker 1: the teammate. Players were awarded or I can't talk, awarded
Speaker 1: points for each photo they sent, with a prize going
Speaker 1: to the position group with the highest score. The Badger
Speaker 1: said those types of activities helped them make them much
Speaker 1: closer than they were a year ago. At the start,
Speaker 1: that sounds like kind of silly, but when you get
Speaker 1: into it and it's kind of like a game. Outside
Speaker 1: linebacker Aaron Witt said, then it became natural. It went
Speaker 1: from forcing yourself to hang to hang out with your
Speaker 1: teammates to actually wanting to be around them. Wisconsin knew
Speaker 1: it had to improve its culture after going five and
Speaker 1: seven last year for its first losing season since two
Speaker 1: thousand and one, snapping what had been the longest active
Speaker 1: streak of BOLL appearances by any power for team. This
Speaker 1: isn't quite what Wisconsin expected when it hired Luke Fickle
Speaker 1: last year. A lot of guys just kind of gave
Speaker 1: up near the end. Linebacker Christian Allegro said, guys weren't
Speaker 1: really close together and picking each other up. I think
Speaker 1: the big thing this offseason was getting the guys out
Speaker 1: and hanging together. I think we've all said that the
Speaker 1: guys really have to have each other's backs, they have
Speaker 1: to like each other, they have to, you know, gel together.
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes we forget now with Nil how
Speaker 1: quickly college teams turn over and how it's a new
Speaker 1: team every year.
Speaker 2: But crulose to.
Speaker 1: Wisconsin because I think that just a cool It's a
Speaker 1: quirky thing to do, but I think that was a
Speaker 1: cool thing to get them to gel together and to
Speaker 1: learn to be together. And one of the things that
Speaker 1: you hear previous quarterbacks in the league say how he'd
Speaker 1: during the offseason, he'd go out with his guys, his
Speaker 1: offensive line line, his wide receivers, get to know them
Speaker 1: and get to feel, you know, get to just personal
Speaker 1: level because you work so much with these and you're
Speaker 1: with these guys so much that if you don't like
Speaker 1: them and you can't gel, how are you gonna how's
Speaker 1: that gonna show on the field? You know, we talked
Speaker 1: about some of these guys that I mean, let's face it,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, how well does he you know, how many
Speaker 1: rings does he have? Yes, he has been successful, but
Speaker 1: does he have the same buy in? I would argue
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell's team has buy in. All of them want
Speaker 1: to play for him, and you hear about his culture.
Speaker 2: It's important I them. Dang can't people man? They bite
Speaker 2: your knees off?
Speaker 3: What is the name of my channel? Knee cap biting
Speaker 3: with the MotorCity Lions?
Speaker 4: You nee cap biting? Mother lover family show people eyes
Speaker 4: up here. Y'all thought I was going to say it,
Speaker 4: didn't you?
Speaker 1: So one of the quotes, the best teams in football
Speaker 1: are the closest teams. Offensive lineman Joe Runners said they
Speaker 1: might not be the most talented, but the closest teams
Speaker 1: are what creates success on the football field because you
Speaker 1: trust one another. I don't think I've ever been this
Speaker 1: close to defensive guys on the team, and that's pretty special.
Speaker 1: So I look forward to seeing what that how that
Speaker 1: translate to on the field.
Speaker 4: You mentioned a dirty sea word, chemistry, culture, culture.
Speaker 3: Pretty colorful sea word. I like chemistry, complacency. I didn't
Speaker 3: say that. That's a bad word.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that, Jeremy, I've got a whole list of them.
Speaker 2: We talk about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Samir over there typing furiously fast and furious, Samir, Samir,
Speaker 4: you got anything for your town or your parting take?
Speaker 7: Yep, So.
Speaker 6: Very quiet on the Hawks ended things. Since the summer
Speaker 6: league ended, Falcons training camp started, and uh. While the
Speaker 6: top pick of the draft, Jalen Walker, is currently nursing
Speaker 6: a hamstring injury, James Pierce Junior, the guy we traded
Speaker 6: a future first for to move up and get him,
Speaker 6: the controversial pick, the guy with the supposed character concerns,
Speaker 6: has been the star of the show at training camp.
Speaker 6: He's getting after the quarterback both Panics and cousins. He's
Speaker 6: getting the best of one of the better off offensive
Speaker 6: lines in the NFL. He even started a fight during
Speaker 6: training camp with one of our guards, Matthew bergeron and
Speaker 6: which is notable because I don't I can't recall the
Speaker 6: last time the Falcons had a fight at training camp
Speaker 6: since probably year one of Arthur Smith maybe. And the
Speaker 6: reason why it's so different is because for years, yeah,
Speaker 6: we've had good players like, you know, a Grady we had,
Speaker 6: we had a j Serell, we had Babino, We've had
Speaker 6: you know, a Brent Grimes, and we've got Jesse Bates now.
Speaker 6: But this is so different because for years we have
Speaker 6: needed a guy with edge on the with like with
Speaker 6: a little bit of edge on this team figuratively, figuratively,
Speaker 6: We've needed an a hole on this defense for years
Speaker 6: and it feels like we finally have one. Hopefully it
Speaker 6: translates over to the field. Michael Pennix has looked better
Speaker 6: as training camp has progressed. There were issues with mister Reads.
Speaker 6: He had a couple of drop passes on Day two,
Speaker 6: but he has looked better progressively as training camp has
Speaker 6: gone on. Even though he took a small step back
Speaker 6: today went over three in the red zone, including an interception,
Speaker 6: but overall he has gotten progressively better. Xavier Watts third
Speaker 6: round pickout in Order Dame. He's getting some runs with
Speaker 6: the Ones. Ruke ro Roe, the Clemson product. We drafted
Speaker 6: him in the second round last year, traded up to
Speaker 6: get him. He's gonna be killing in for a Grady.
Speaker 6: We're gonna need him this year, and seems like he is,
Speaker 6: from what I've heard, getting pressures, getting sacks regularly constantly.
Speaker 6: Arnold Abackhetti, Zach Harrison apparently stopped a couple of runs,
Speaker 6: so yeah, they're there. Billy Bowman has gotten some runs
Speaker 6: with the Ones.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 6: There's a lot to look forward to on that end.
Speaker 6: With Falcons training camp, there is excitement again in the
Speaker 6: Falcons fan base, as there is with any other NFL
Speaker 6: fan base with the start of the season. Now, let's
Speaker 6: get to the elephant in the room, the flaccid clown
Speaker 6: show of an organization, the Atlanta Braves. The Atlanta Braves
Speaker 6: organization is a joke. I never thought i'd be saying
Speaker 6: this about them. You know, during my lifetime, they've usually
Speaker 6: been a consistent playoff contender. Now what they do with
Speaker 6: it is a different story. But you never got the
Speaker 6: vibes of dysfunction or a lack of direction, even during
Speaker 6: the rebuild years. In twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, seventeen. You
Speaker 6: never got a vibe of dysfunction. You never got a
Speaker 6: vibe that this thing's got no direction and the people
Speaker 6: in charge are asleep at the will. Well, we've got
Speaker 6: it now. People have different opinions on what needs to happen,
Speaker 6: what players need to go. When Snit retires, who's going
Speaker 6: to be the next manager. But I think it's evidently
Speaker 6: clear and we are at this point. Alexanthopolis has to go.
Speaker 6: We've got to get them out of here. At some point,
Speaker 6: people have to be held accountable, and accountability, seemingly for
Speaker 6: years has been an issue in this organization, whether it's
Speaker 6: continuing to put the same players who don't deserve it
Speaker 6: in high leverage positions, Snit barely changing the lineup, the
Speaker 6: general manager, seemingly dodging the hard questions from the media.
Speaker 6: All they throw at them is softball questions, not the
Speaker 6: hard questions. With the job he has done the last
Speaker 6: four years. Twenty twenty two, first round exit twenty twenty three,
Speaker 6: you had a bad deadline first round exit again, mind
Speaker 6: you again to the same team, the division rival Phillies.
Speaker 6: After one hundred wins season twenty twenty four. Okay, he
Speaker 6: made the Chris Sale trade all right, Son Renaldo Lopez Okay,
Speaker 6: another bad deadline, nothing besides trade for Jorges Solaer and
Speaker 6: Luke Jackson, whose arm has been cooked the last couple
Speaker 6: of years. First round exit.
Speaker 2: Yep, Hey, samar I I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to cut you off.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 4: Hey, we're getting closed on time. We've got Jeremy. He's
Speaker 4: got a little something he's got to deal with. We're
Speaker 4: gonna have to get him out of here, and we've
Speaker 4: got to be out of here in like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4: That's fine, So sorry to cut you off, Miami.
Speaker 6: It's time to move on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hear you on, Alex. Yeah, Jeremy, what you
Speaker 4: got brother?
Speaker 3: Well, even though the Lions got their butts up with
Speaker 3: their backups tonight, because that's what this was, as a display
Speaker 3: of backups, we did have a couple people shine a
Speaker 3: mad hasanin a seventh round pick, managed to put together
Speaker 3: three tackles, one solo. Isaac Taslah, the third round pick
Speaker 3: we traded up for that was rumored that the Bills,
Speaker 3: the Saints, and even the Rams tried to move up
Speaker 3: to that seventieth pick to get had two targets for
Speaker 3: two catches and forty three yards, so that's a big
Speaker 3: plus that that third rounder isn't wasted. Other than that,
Speaker 3: there isn't much to talk about. Grant Stewart did a
Speaker 3: great job and got a stripsack fumble, but he had
Speaker 3: trouble when he tried to return. He averaged thirty one yards,
Speaker 3: but he fumbled the ball to give the ball back
Speaker 3: to give up a quick seven to the Chargers early
Speaker 3: in the game, so that went down to thirty four
Speaker 3: to seven. The Tigers, on the other hand, are tied
Speaker 3: for the best record in baseball, still leading the division
Speaker 3: by nine games. They picked up Chris Paddock on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: who pitched on Wednesday, went five innings, gave up one
Speaker 3: under run, and had seven strikeouts and zero walks, which
Speaker 3: that's what they said he needed to work on. And
Speaker 3: if you actually look at the team he came off of,
Speaker 3: the Twins, that team's leading in airs in the entire league.
Speaker 3: Is another reason why they're selling. So your if your
Speaker 3: defense isn't helping you protect, guess what you can't win
Speaker 3: and you will give up runs because once they get
Speaker 3: on base, eventually once they get past the next base,
Speaker 3: they end up becoming your earned run. So we picked
Speaker 3: him up. We picked up closer Kyle Finnegan from Washington
Speaker 3: because our closer hasn't been doing his job. We've lost
Speaker 3: games in the ninth inning that were close. We also
Speaker 3: picked up Paul Hoard. We picked up Paul Sewell Raphael
Speaker 3: Montero as I mentioned earlier in the show. So we
Speaker 3: were effective getting mid rich doing exactly what I said,
Speaker 3: getting mid level guys that weren't doing great on bad teams,
Speaker 3: but they were playing on bad teams. Now, I'll leave
Speaker 3: it at.
Speaker 1: That, how they can get a hold of you and
Speaker 1: support you, and then we'll let you sign off and
Speaker 1: we'll finish wrapping up so you can take care of what.
Speaker 3: You need to take care of well by the end
Speaker 3: of the weekend. You will see my first off season
Speaker 3: review of the Lions on the MotorCity Tribune right here
Speaker 3: on the South Florida Tribune website. You can also see
Speaker 3: me here every Thursday talking on Fire Up with JD. Candy.
Speaker 3: I hope some hers back next week again because I
Speaker 3: enjoyed it, and whoever else you guys decide to bring
Speaker 3: in because it's a blast just talking sports in general.
Speaker 3: Then you can find me on my channel which is
Speaker 3: kneecat Biting with the MotorCity Lions, where I go live
Speaker 3: anywhere from seven to nine times a week Monday through
Speaker 3: Friday at noon. Wednesdays and Thursdays are my other two
Speaker 3: shows that I host myself. Wednesday is the NFL Roundtable
Speaker 3: Talks and Friday is the lie Fan Cave Chat where
Speaker 3: I invite podcasters and other fans of the Lions into play.
Speaker 3: I'm also a part of the Huddle Sports Network and
Speaker 3: I am on the Huddle Sports app on Roku and Firestick.
Speaker 1: Sounds good. Thanks, Jeremy, it was good to have you back.
Speaker 3: It was great to be back. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 1: Sounds good.
Speaker 2: Thanks and yep, Jeremy, it was a pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 2: Good sir.
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Speaker 4: wanted to apologize. I'm sorry I had to cut you
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Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: I love your passion. You literally meant you can talk
Speaker 4: for days about it. I love it, man, you never
Speaker 4: are just like man, I don't know and nothing to
Speaker 4: say about it. You you nail the passion part of
Speaker 4: being a fan, and that is what we're gonna do
Speaker 4: on fire up in Southern Pride, sports and everything in between.
Speaker 4: I'll share this big news. I told Candy the other day,
Speaker 4: I'm actually I'm gonna be the host of a college
Speaker 4: football kickoff show this year, Thank God for football. For
Speaker 4: whatever reason, they think that I can host a college
Speaker 4: football kickoff show. So, by golly, that's what I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go do, and I am excited about it. Amped up.
Speaker 4: I'm always amped up, man. It's just fans. We just talking.
Speaker 4: We having a good time. Ain't no reason get mad,
Speaker 4: Ain't no reason get upset. Be kind, be blessed, not stressed,
Speaker 4: and just be kind to one another. It is about
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Speaker 1: I I know you wrote an article I have yet
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Speaker 2: Just as you said, Just as you said, reach out
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Speaker 1: We appreciate everybody in the comment section commenting and supporting
Speaker 1: the shows. Loved the interaction. And one last thing. We
Speaker 1: have two division. We have two divisions lust next week
Speaker 1: that we have not covered the South AFS. No, it's
Speaker 1: the West. The West.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I was gonna say we got four,
Speaker 4: don't know I missed one, so yeah, well yeah West exactly.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, everybody have a great weekend
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