WEBVTT 1 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:29.199 Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another episode of five Up. 2 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.039 I hope we're all fired up tonight. 3 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:38.439 I am, I am, I am all right, and I'll 4 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:44.119 say this, bang bang, Southern Fried gang, let's do this thing. 5 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:53.759 Alright, alright, Well, we titled tonight's episode the NFL Schedule Special. 6 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:58.520 We all know it came out yesterday. So comments thoughts 7 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.719 about your team, how the schedule is, how it looks 8 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:03.200 for your team. Do you think it's fair. Do you 9 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.120 think it's not fair? Do you have too many prime 10 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:09.519 time not enough prime time? Let's go around the horn 11 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:12.959 and tell me your thoughts. What stands out about your 12 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:17.480 team's schedule. Let's start Pensman, let's start with you. 13 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:21.640 Well, I just as Southern Fried knows down there, I 14 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:25.239 just did a short video of this and I just 15 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.439 fried dan Orsky and he said that the Steelers are 16 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.480 oh and six going oh and six at the start 17 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:36.239 of the season. But I say, no, he is completely wrong, 18 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.480 because I think our schedule's fair with who we're facing. 19 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:42.719 We have the Jets week one, Week two, we have 20 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.560 the Seahawks. Week three, we got the Patriots. Week four, 21 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.239 we got the Minnesota Vikings Week five. Is is a 22 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.079 bye in week six and seven is against the Browns 23 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.599 and the Bengals. So we are not, dan Orsky, if 24 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:01.719 you're still listening, we are not going to oh and six. 25 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.239 So I think our schedule's fair. It's gonna be another 26 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:07.799 ten and seven record in the first round, the first 27 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.280 round exit. That's why I think the Steelers is gonna. 28 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:25.479 Do Kah, Ralph can I. 29 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:23.080 I'm sorry, go ahead, I hear you. 30 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:26.680 Now, No, no, no, Ralph, go ahead. 31 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:30.599 Bud oh go ahead, Jadure. 32 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:34.800 Okay, Well, yeah, I was just going to respond to 33 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.919 what Pensman said there and something I actually asked him earlier. 34 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:44.719 My friend Pensman, how many games can that team actually 35 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:49.360 win without a quarterback? Dan Orlowsky might have been onto 36 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.159 something here, bro Me. 37 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:56.719 I mean I said it last week. I mean we 38 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:59.039 have a quarterback right here on the bench if you 39 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.319 need one through for five hundred yards in the game. 40 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:07.639 Some mirror work in the trades. Now he's become pretty. 41 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:09.439 Good swack surf. I mean, we have one. 42 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:14.280 What would you unload him for, Samir? 43 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:18.439 Anything? Like? 44 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:19.199 Even if it's like. 45 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:28.080 A cool could I interest you in some Southern fried 46 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:31.840 chicken tenders and French fries in a trade for Kirk Cousins. 47 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:34.120 Oh my. 48 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.280 Anything I wish Atlanta. 49 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:45.199 Would you know, I would make up his mind. 50 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:50.479 Bro, you're going. 51 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:52.919 Fourteen to four because you have the easiest schedule. Bro, 52 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.199 That's why you're fourteen and four, because you have you're 53 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:59.879 not playing anybody, you know, it's. 54 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:05.240 Get listen, no chance, forty no forty nine ers, all right, 55 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:07.360 and so hold on, let me tie this together and 56 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:15.719 we have rout and well I was I'm going to 57 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:17.360 tie this up in a knot and a k not 58 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:21.040 real quick for us between Pensman and his Pittsburgh Steelers, 59 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:22.759 and then we'll go to what you want to say. 60 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:27.439 So I asked him how many games he might could 61 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.480 win without a quarterback. I'll say the Steelers end up 62 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:35.480 at like seven and ten, eight and nine. I think 63 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.160 this will be the year that Mike Tomlin streak is 64 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:43.279 possibly broken. Justin Field's going to them week one. He's 65 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:45.839 mad that they benched him after going four and two. 66 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.319 So these teams will be very interesting. But then, of course, 67 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:54.720 I mean, they still they still got to figure out 68 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.240 the quarterback situation. At the end of the day. They 69 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:02.360 they don't have I mean, Ma Rudolph Pensman. You can't 70 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:06.279 honestly tell me, Ralph, you can't honestly tell me you 71 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:10.360 think you're gonna win ten games with Mason Rudolph as 72 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:12.959 your starting quarterback in Pittsburgh. 73 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.879 Well, I will say this though, Mason Rudolph and you're 74 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.920 right about that. In twenty nineteen lost out his job 75 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.399 to a guy named Duck Hodges Devlin Duck Hodges, Okay, 76 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:28.519 who came on as an undrafted free agent. Okay, So 77 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:31.680 just to let everyone know about Mason Rudolph. And he 78 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:35.199 failed in Tennessee last year a couple different times, maybe 79 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:38.639 more than once. All Right, if you talk to Robert Butler, 80 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:40.279 all right, he'll tell you that. 81 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:41.480 Okay. 82 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.439 But what I'm saying is is I believe that they 83 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.480 could win. They could go nine and eight or eight 84 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.759 to nine or whatever, like you said with Mason Rudolph. 85 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:50.319 All Right. 86 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.920 Mike Tomlin, unlike Mike Sullivan, of course, will not get fired. 87 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:58.360 Mike Tomlin's gonna ride out his contract. He has two 88 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.680 more years left, he'll have his years in and I 89 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.199 think he's gonna walk away. I think it's his time, 90 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:06.680 it's time for him to go. I think the Steelers 91 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.360 are gonna say, you know what, it's time for you 92 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:08.720 to go. 93 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.439 Your spoo is too much. 94 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.639 And you know, maybe he might go to another team 95 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:18.839 and do better, you know, like myself, Mike Tomlin might 96 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:22.199 need a change of pace. You see what I'm getting at? 97 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:23.879 And uh, I believe that. 98 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.680 You know this, This could be a bad year for 99 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.519 Mike Tomlin if he doesn't get a quarterback. They got 100 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.399 to get somebody in here. Ice and Rudolph's a good backup, 101 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.360 quality backup, don't get me wrong, but he can't win 102 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:36.079 ten games. 103 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.480 I don't see him doing it. So you know, but 104 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:40.800 he won. 105 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:43.120 He was three and one last year or two years ago. 106 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:45.240 I'm sorry, two years ago. It was three and one, 107 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.199 So I'll give him that. 108 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:49.879 That's it for me. 109 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:53.600 Gee, do you want to talk to me or do 110 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:57.839 you really think that Mason Rudolph? Yeah, I'll I'll dive 111 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:59.519 into it. I want to hear Samir real quick, let 112 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:04.920 me ask him question. Yeah, no, nobody, honestly, nobody wants 113 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:08.439 to talk about the Panthers, not assault. 114 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:15.160 In a bad place. I think, Dave. 115 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:20.439 Think what. 116 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:25.439 I'll address that? So, yeah, Samir, do you think that 117 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.040 Mason Rudolph could win ten games? In Pittsburgh. I mean, 118 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.079 do you see them you think the trade will happened 119 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:31.959 between and. 120 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:37.279 Then well, I think it makes sense for both sides 121 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:41.560 if they don't sign Rogers, because if in the case 122 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.360 of Pittsburgh, you won't have a quarterback like your quarterback 123 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:48.600 room right now is Mason Rudolph Will Howard and. 124 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:52.720 Scull Thompson and Scott thoms Thompson. 125 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.519 So how are you going to compete, especially in the 126 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:01.600 AFC North with that QB room? I mean, like realistically, 127 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:03.959 And if you're Atlanta. 128 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:05.639 We're gonna split the series. That's how we wanna do. 129 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:11.000 Yeah. And if you're Atlanta, you don't need your young 130 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.160 quarterback looking over his shoulder every time he makes a 131 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.480 mistake when you have a forty million dollar backup on 132 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:21.560 the bench. And and I and secondly, I just don't 133 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:23.800 want him. After the way last season ended, the way 134 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:30.279 he wasn't really all that transparent about his health, I 135 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:32.159 don't want him. I just don't want him back. In 136 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:36.159 an overwhelming majority of the media here in the Falcons 137 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:41.039 fan base feels the same way, Like you cannot go 138 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:47.799 into let's say, training camp with fans there and all 139 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:53.440 this excitement about Michael Pennix, and you have that distraction there, 140 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.320 you know what I mean, You can't have that, especially 141 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:00.960 in the locker room. I just feel like you'd be 142 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.440 a distraction, right. 143 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:04.919 I can understand that. 144 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.600 Brian Pettitt, I'm not ignoring you, but hello, thank you 145 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:10.399 for the helloes and thank you for the concern. 146 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.440 My back is fine now, don't think god JD. 147 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:16.639 Oh yeah, no, that's fine. I was going to see 148 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.759 if anybody wonder to react to what Samir said before 149 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:23.000 I tie what he was saying into my Carolina Panthers 150 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:25.000 to segue in this. 151 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:26.759 Well, as I said, JD. 152 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:30.559 The Carolina Panthers, h Dave Knelis is a good coach 153 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:31.360 in a bad place. 154 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.000 He's got a bad owner. Who is who? 155 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.120 And what I can't still can't figure out is here's 156 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:41.919 a guy that graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, 157 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.360 one of the most expensive universities in the entire world. 158 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.759 Here's a guy that's got all kinds of degrees and 159 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:51.240 you don't know how to run a football team, okay, 160 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.279 or he doesn't care to run a football team the 161 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.960 way he should, all right, And that puzzles me. 162 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:58.360 That's what puzzles me. Right there. 163 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:00.519 If you come to Pittsburgh, you go out to the 164 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:06.039 Carnegie Mellon University campus, everything is Tepper Hall, Tepper lunch room, temper, 165 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:10.000 this Tepper that. That's Dave Tepper, that's his family. I 166 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.399 worked with one of his cousins. Okay, So what I'm 167 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.960 saying is is, here's a guy that's bright, but he 168 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:17.799 don't know how to run his football team, right or 169 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.039 you don't know. You know, he's not a good owner, 170 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.919 you know. So you know, Dave Canellis is a good, 171 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.519 bright young coach. It's just sad that he's there. 172 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:33.120 That's all right, Smile well, and I will speak right 173 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.159 to that and we'll tie it right into their schedule 174 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.279 and everything this year. So, yes, David Tepper might have 175 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.480 one of the most expensive college degrees in the world, 176 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:45.519 but you want you want me to tell you which 177 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:50.960 one he's missing? Common calls No, it's called the football degree. 178 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:55.720 And yeah, common sense, absolutely common sense. Common sense would 179 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:59.039 tell you to hire the best possible people, put him 180 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.840 in the position to succeed, and get out of the way. 181 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:06.440 Get out of the way. And that is one thing 182 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.679 I can say. Tying this all back in together, is that. 183 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:13.679 Guess what. I have not heard a thing about David Tepper, 184 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.879 not not since they said he was gonna go radio silent. 185 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.399 Haven't heard a word from him. It's been a beautiful thing. However, 186 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.759 I'd completely disagreed with them taking a wide receiver at 187 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.960 number eight. They should have did what the Falcons did, 188 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:32.960 and so their schedule we went through it today. I 189 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.440 went winnable versus not winnable, and they had about seven 190 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.200 games on their schedule that I would consider not winnable. 191 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:45.039 So automatically, you're looking at ten and seven if you 192 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:48.320 can win all of your fifty to fifty games as 193 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.000 what I would call them, and I don't see the 194 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:54.519 Panthers doing that. However, I do think that Dave Canalis 195 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.759 and Bryce Shong and Dan Morgan, they've been giving the 196 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:04.759 leeway that they need in order to make this work potentially, 197 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:11.240 Tedoro McMillan, Xavier Legette, Hunter, renfro Adam Dielin. I mean 198 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.279 they have surrounded Bryce with offensive weapons and they are 199 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.200 going to find out if he and Dave Canalis are 200 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.799 the future going forward. 201 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:27.480 So can I put one little bow on it? Interesting 202 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:32.919 quirk about your schedule. The Panthers to the super Bowl 203 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:39.120 the Carolina Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Carolina opens 204 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:45.039 against Jacksonville. It's the third time ever that your team 205 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:48.399 has played jackson the Jags in Week one, and the 206 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:51.240 other two times are when you reach the super Bowl 207 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:56.200 in two thousand and three and twenty fifteen. How interesting 208 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:59.039 is that? Just a kind of a quirk, you know, 209 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:00.080 putting that bowl. 210 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:07.679 On that that is very that is that is so interesting, Candy. 211 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:13.519 I mean, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. 212 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:16.360 Go. 213 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:20.159 Samir as a as a Falcons fan, though, I think 214 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.480 he can attest that the NFC South is a toss up. 215 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.480 I mean, yeah, Tampa Bay has ruled it the last 216 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:33.799 couple of years, but they've alternated winners literally like every 217 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.440 year since the division has been in place. There have 218 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:40.919 been very few back to back winners of the NFC South. 219 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.639 It's been a steady who knows. I mean, I don't 220 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.600 think the Panthers have the defense. I think the Falcons 221 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:49.919 might be the ones this year. 222 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:52.960 Yeah, I mean, I mean, it depends on a variety 223 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:54.399 of things. And that's what I was going to get 224 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:58.519 to regarding the Falcons. I think when you look at 225 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.639 the Falcons schedule. I think it's proof that you know, 226 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.759 when people talk about a team's strength of schedule, or 227 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:11.639 this team has the third easiest or the third hardest schedule. 228 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:14.960 I just think that that needs to be taken with 229 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:19.679 the grain of salt, because obviously teams changed throughout the season, 230 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.799 throughout the offseason. Some teams get better, some teams get worse. 231 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:27.399 You could and the thing is, it's solely based off 232 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:29.840 of last year's record, and you could have had a 233 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.679 team that ended up missing the playoffs because of injury, 234 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:34.759 or you could have had a team that may be 235 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.519 overachieved and made the playoffs, or a playoff team that 236 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.200 lost pieces. So all of that needs to be taken 237 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.559 with the grain of salt. But with that being said, 238 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.080 once again, just like last season, that early stretch of 239 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:50.919 games for the Falcons is a brutal It's a pretty 240 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.480 tough one last year. I don't think it's as brutal 241 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:57.519 as last year, but it's pretty tough. I remember last 242 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:05.360 year first three games Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Kansas City, our first 243 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:11.159 six games Tampa at home, which is usually a toss up. 244 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.159 I think it's gonna be a good game again. You 245 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:20.799 have Minnesota on the road, Carolina on the road, Washington 246 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:25.440 and Buffalo both at home, then you're at San Francisco. 247 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:32.200 So that is not an easy stretch of games by 248 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:38.000 any means, even if we did sweep the Bucks last year, 249 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:43.919 and even if you know, like again, the forty nine 250 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.600 Ers are an example when we talk about strength of schedule. 251 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:48.879 They went six and eleven, but they had a bunch 252 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.600 of injuries. I don't it's fair to assume they're not 253 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:55.919 gonna have that many injuries this season, and they're gonna 254 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.399 they still have Kyle Shanahan as their head coach, so 255 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.399 I think they're definitely gonna be in the mix, even 256 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:05.960 if they have lost a lot. Again, Washington, Buffalo, those 257 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:10.360 are gonna be tough games at home, and of course 258 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:15.840 Minnesota on the road. I know a lot of people 259 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.720 have questions about Minnesota, especially with JJ McCarthy now as 260 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:23.559 their quarterback, but Kevin O'Connell's had his way with quarterbacks 261 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:26.039 and I think in that system, I think JJ McCarthy 262 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:31.240 will be successful. Now. With that being said, I don't 263 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:35.360 like the early Week five by usually like the buye 264 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.279 around week ten, eleven or twelve, but this one is 265 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:44.240 pretty early. That means you've got thirteen straight weeks of games, 266 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:49.440 and that includes a stretch of six road games in 267 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:54.759 eight weeks from weeks nine to sixteen, including a game 268 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.519 against the Colts in Berlin, and that is a game 269 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.679 I think the Falcons should win, but who knows, you know, 270 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.359 those international games are always interesting, to say the least. 271 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:10.359 Now hindsight twenty twenty, where I think the Falcons will 272 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:15.640 be record wise, I could see a range from seven 273 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.200 to ten, which I know a lot of people aren't 274 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.240 gonna like, to ten to eleven wins, So ten and seven, 275 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.759 eleven and six. And the thing is they're a young team, 276 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:31.359 a lot of exciting pieces, especially with the draft we 277 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:35.240 just had. But whether or not the Falcons are successful 278 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:39.400 as season is going to depend not just on the 279 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.839 development of Michael Panics and whether he continues to take 280 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:47.119 strides and build off of, you know, his fourth quarter 281 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.279 against the Commanders in the last game of the season 282 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.279 against Carolina, but it's also going to depend a lot 283 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:55.519 on the group of defensive players we've drafted over the 284 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:57.599 last couple of years and whether or not those guys 285 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:03.880 take that next step. Defensive tackle from Clemson drafted him 286 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.119 in the second round. Not only that, we traded up 287 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:09.960 to get him, So he's gonna start and I think 288 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:14.000 he's and he's gonna have to contribute early. Zach Harrison. 289 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.880 He was drafted as a defensive end out of Ohio 290 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.440 State a couple of years ago, but Raheem Morris and 291 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.559 Jimmy Lake moved him inside. He was still productive and 292 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.200 quite frankly, didn't get enough snaps. I think he Snappedcout's 293 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:35.599 definitely gonna go up this year. Brandon Dorless, another defensive 294 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:39.480 lineman we drafted out of Oregon. Again, like the rest 295 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:41.440 of the rookie class last year, didn't get a lot 296 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.119 of playing time. It's gonna get a lot more snaps 297 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:50.240 this year. And Brayln Trice third round pick. Washington was 298 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:53.039 a captain on that team that went to the National Championship. 299 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:58.559 Along with Michael Pennix, led the NCAA in pressures in 300 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:03.680 twenty twenty three. He unfortunately towards ACL against the Dolphins 301 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:06.519 in the preseason, so he wasn't able to play at 302 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:09.519 all last year. Question about him is where is he 303 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:13.839 gonna end up in the rotation, especially you know, coming 304 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:17.759 off that injury and with the additions of Jalen Walker, 305 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:25.559 James Pearce, and Leonard Floyd. Also Grady Jared's not here anymore, 306 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:30.079 so somebody needs to step up as basically that guy 307 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.680 for the defense and the vocal leader in the locker room. 308 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:38.039 It looks like from what I've heard that Aj Terrell 309 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:40.960 has kind of embraced that role. He appeared on the 310 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:44.400 water Boys podcast not too long ago and he talked 311 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:48.680 about since Grady was not here anymore, he's going in 312 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:50.720 the year six now and he has to kind of 313 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:55.400 take that veteran leader role. So it seems like it's him. 314 00:19:55.720 --> 00:20:01.279 So again, not an easy schedule, but a lot to 315 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:04.039 be intrigued by in regards to the Falcons, a lot 316 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:08.599 of pieces to be excited about. So but again just 317 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.319 a lot of question marks. So it really depends. 318 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:16.519 Can I just applaud you for saying a row row row. 319 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:20.599 Yeah, it took me a lot of learning. 320 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:23.960 Tenor row was hard for me. 321 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:33.440 Can I say one more thing, Sir Rudolph knows the system. 322 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:40.759 Mason Rudolf can win ten and because of the defense alone, 323 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:47.960 that's how we're gonna win ten. JD. That defense is stacked, 324 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:50.680 So I think the defense is going to carry us 325 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:54.680 through that. That's just my that's that's my spoiler alert. 326 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:58.319 It's not a prediction. It's a spoiler alert. Okay, it 327 00:20:58.319 --> 00:20:59.920 depends how our defense holds. 328 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:08.160 All right. So okay, so that's all well and good. 329 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:11.480 So I'm the Southern Fried gentleman. So let's make a 330 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:18.680 gentleman's bet, shall we? The Pittsburgh Sailors if they win ten? 331 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:27.960 If they win ten, the Panthers win twelve. All right, 332 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:32.160 that's what it is. So the gentleman's bet will be 333 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:36.279 I've seen it. Have you seen yours? Have you seen? 334 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:37.759 Yeah? 335 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.079 I have you seen your quarterback? 336 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:40.359 Yeah? 337 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:43.680 I know you got a backup quarterback as a starting quarterback. 338 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:49.880 All right, you listen, Sean McVay coach, that those the system. 339 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:53.200 It's a crappy system. 340 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:55.519 But what's what's the what's the bet? 341 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:01.039 I mean, first of all, it's a happy system. Arthur 342 00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:03.799 Smith is your offensive coordinator who got fired from the 343 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.240 Falcons for running a crappy offense, Samir, I'm sure you 344 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:10.920 have a comment about that. Yeah, but yes, so it's 345 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:16.079 the crappy system. So yeah, mate, listen, I know math, 346 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:19.319 I know that two plus two equals four. But guess 347 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:24.640 what that is it's easy. There's some offensive systems that 348 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:28.759 are just easy. And so I'll let me get this 349 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:32.400 one out, yep, cause listen. The gentleman's bet, though, the 350 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:38.960 gentleman's bet will be if your Pittsburgh Steelers win ten games, 351 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:43.519 I will. I don't know what the BET's gonna be yet, 352 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:46.279 but listen, we'll make a bet Steelers will not win 353 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:50.240 ten games, and if they do, that means the Panthers 354 00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:54.039 win twelve. And we'll figure out the stipulations of this 355 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:57.359 bet because I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be like 356 00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:59.079 the Florida State guy and say I'm gonna eat a 357 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:02.519 cup of poop and not do it. So I don't know. 358 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:07.279 Maybe I'll get my first tattoo or something. But gentlemen's bet, 359 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.000 Steelers no chance winning twelve games or ten games, that's 360 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:15.640 bottom line. So do you agree, you say they'll win 361 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:17.440 ten games, pensmanth. 362 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:20.359 Depends what the bet is. Then well we'll talk. We 363 00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:23.000 both we both can. We can both have each other's 364 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:24.680 phone numbers, so we could talk about it. 365 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:28.880 Yeah, it won't. It won't be nothing crazy. Somebody will 366 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:31.799 have to go like put a squirrel in the fryer. 367 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:33.720 Or something. Maybe I don't know, we'll figure it out. 368 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:34.799 Yeah, we'll full. 369 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:37.599 Fire or maybe we can just got something open and 370 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:44.599 open fire for fire up. Okay, Candy wrangled us in. 371 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:47.960 I'm going to because I want I want to talk 372 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:55.279 about the Chargers toying with jet lag. Jim Harbough and 373 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:59.160 company are scheduled to travel thirty seven thousand and eighty 374 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:03.519 six miles season, the most in the NFL. In addition 375 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:06.759 to the game in Brazil, the Los Angeles Chargers have 376 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:13.519 six Eastern time zone contests. They travel for forty two 377 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:18.119 time zones, the second most behind the Los Angeles Rams 378 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:27.079 forty four. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Bengals will travel only eight thousand, 379 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:32.759 seven and fifty three miles. Thoughts is at a big 380 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:38.880 disadvantage to the Chargers. And we'll start with Ralph. 381 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:45.640 Well, Candy, that's something called uh, you know, plan ahead, 382 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:48.440 or something called We're gonna find out what this Chargers 383 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:51.759 team is made of. Can the players survive the jet lag? 384 00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:54.599 Can they survive? They should? They get paid a lot 385 00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:58.279 of money. And I believe that, you know, if the 386 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:01.200 NFL sticks it to the them like they stuck it 387 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:05.119 to the Steelers over the years, Okay, I think that 388 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:08.039 the Chargers could survive Jim Harpole. As a strong coach, 389 00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:11.079 you can get as players motivated for these games, despite 390 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:14.480 the fact that I will we have to travel what 391 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:16.880 eighty million miles or whatever to get where we need 392 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:19.839 to go, and if we have the highest travel miles 393 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:23.000 in the in all the NFL, let's see what they're 394 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:26.640 made of. Are they a strong team to survive? Is 395 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:30.039 its survival of the fittest you know out there? And 396 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.640 real quick JD. Carolina. It's better to be lucky than good, 397 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:35.480 because they're not good. They're gonna be lucky this year 398 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:36.160 if they do win. 399 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:39.759 So there you go. That's it. 400 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:46.480 Samir, You want to talk at all about the traveling 401 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:49.839