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Speaker 4: Time now to go to our guy.
Speaker 3: Nick Underhill, New Orleans Dot Football to talk a little
New Orleans Saints. Nicholas, how's it going. How you doing
this week?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 5: Doing good?
Speaker 2: How you guys doing?
Speaker 5: Yeah? You know what going on?
Speaker 3: Live going on here in old South Louisiana. When it
comes to sports, LSU's got you know, an opening at
President a d and head coach. The Saints have won
a single game and the Pelicans have yet to win
a game, Nick, So all things are great.
Speaker 6: The hardest one is the first.
Speaker 5: One that's fair.
Speaker 3: That is fair, and at least the Saints do have one.
Speaker 5: PCU.
Speaker 3: That's true, Master, no question about that, all right, Nick.
This was always going to be an uphill battle for
the Saints on the road against a really good Rams
football team. Your main takeaways from last Sunday, Oh man,
I mean.
Speaker 6: Like they need they need a lot.
Speaker 2: Like it's just kind of kind of a barometer of
how how far away that they are from, you know,
being that that that top tier team. And you know,
I think it's also like a little bit of a
of a juxtaposition between two organizations that you know, seven
years ago were at the same spot, the same pinnacle
until Bill Vinovich like changed trajectories.
Speaker 6: But like those are the two teams that are there.
Speaker 2: The last time the Saints were were truly great and
uh here's rams are back at it in the Saints
right at the other end of it, and you know
it it's just kind of was reflective of just kind
of how how sideways things have gone the last you know,
six seven years for the Saints. But you know it's tough,
Like you know, you watch these games and that one
is just like really really disheartening from the you know,
competitive standpoint of it. It is a rebuild, like the
Saints are supposed to be bad. I think, you know,
on Saturday morning, if you know, we had talked about it, hey, look,
how's it going to turn out?
Speaker 5: Like it?
Speaker 2: We probably would have all predicted a score differential somewhere
in that range, and that's how it plays out. But
then you know, kind of actually watching it and seeing
how helpless it feels, it's, you know, it just kind
of hits a little bit different, you know. I think
Shuck played okay. Yeah, I think I think that game
was also kind of a good barometer.
Speaker 6: It just kind of how you know, you know, if
you if.
Speaker 2: You're optimistic or pessimistic. I think there's probably three plays
that made you feel really good, in three plays that
that probably made you feel really bad, and the rest
was kind of in between. But I mean, sixteen minutes
of offense, no run game, consistent pass rush, you know,
it's just kind of felt felt tough to get a
real evaluation of him. And you know, by the end
of that game, I kind of almost felt like I
didn't even like watch the Saints offense play, Like it
just felt like I watched like rams running backs drag
three four guys for sixty minutes and then the game
was over.
Speaker 6: It was just it was a tough watch, man.
Speaker 7: I think the I think what you said about it's
tough to get a real evaluation of him, it's tough
to really get a I mean I felt the same
way of Rattler all year. It's tough to get a
real evaluation of him. I mean the offense is you
know it is it looked the exact same. I mean,
less plays certainly, but they stall out. They can't run
the ball, they can't they can't get open, they you know,
can't catch it. They you know, Chuck made some good
plays here and there, what you should. He's in the NFL,
right every you know, you gotta make some good plays.
But they just stalled out. They just don't have They
don't have the dudes at any point of the field
to consistently go against and you know, an NFL defense
that is, you know, pretty good.
Speaker 5: So it's tough to get an evaluation.
Speaker 7: So let me let me ask you this just from
like a Saints fan standpoint.
Speaker 5: I know the expectations were low.
Speaker 7: We knew what it was, first year head coach, don't
know what you got at quarterback, Like, the expectations were
really low going into the season, and they have blown
those expectations out of the water. I think, I know
Saints fans love love their team, but like do they
e think like is there a lack of caring right now,
like even after that game, because I kind of feel it.
Speaker 5: I kind of feel it in your voice.
Speaker 7: I feel it to a lot of people we've talked to,
like they're just like, I don't even care right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think for me, like I care
and I'm interested in the process and everything. It's just
kind of like it's resigned to the fate. I think
of what it is, and honestly like it's reached the
point where where I think losses are more valuable than
them wins, and I think that's just kind of the
way that the rest of the season should go.
Speaker 5: Like the thing I.
Speaker 2: Hated most about this game, I mean, and I'm sure
a ton of people disagree with me, but I hated
it too when they when they did it to Rattler,
like I hate seeing Tatsom Hill come in there and
do too much. Like I'm okay with a little bit
of them. It looked like a plan at one point
was to go in there and give him like a
whole series of plays and then you march down to
third and nine and it's back to Shuck Like figure
it out with Shuck Man, Like, figure out what you're
doing with him, figure out how to get first downs,
figure out how to develop him.
Speaker 6: And I can't remember what game it was.
Speaker 2: But there was a game with Rattler where you know,
the whole time we're like, hey, look, the red zone
is like tough, that's where he.
Speaker 6: Needs to get better.
Speaker 2: He can get better there. Maybe there's actually something here.
And they get to the red zone and then they
roll taste him out down in the red zone and
they get to touch on and they aren't figuring things out.
And I think that's where my disappointment with the season
comes from, is that I don't necessarily see like problem
solving taking place in all the places where I'd like
to see problem solving taking place. And obviously that is
very easy to sit back here and say and it's
very easy for me to sit here and not be
a coach or a player in the locker room and say, hey, like,
I don't want to see too much of Taysum when
like Taysum's quality of play earn some snaps the end opportunities.
Speaker 6: But like, you know, I just think there has to be.
Speaker 2: Like some type of balance to some of this stuff.
And it just feels like is we're watching more and
more of this season. I don't know, like it looks
this is probably being a prisoner of the moment, but
it just feels like things are kind of getting further away.
Speaker 6: But I guess like.
Speaker 2: When you get your teeth kicked in by a Super
Bowl contender and that you know, the Saints are probably
the worst team in the league, there's probably thoughts throughout
that week that probably, you know, once you see him
up against the Panthers and the Jets and the Titans,
like maybe some of these things like even out a
little bit, you see some progress. Maybe progress just is
impossible against you know, the Bucks and the Rams, but
it just kind of, I don't know, it just kind
of feels like, you know, stalled out. And the watchability
of the product, you know, I feel like it was
there like the first five six weeks, and I feel
like it isn't there right now, and you know, it's
just kind of it's kind of tough to sit through,
to be honest, like that was a that was a
very very difficult watch, and you know, knowing the Chiefs
and the Bills or a click away and you're locked
on the same kind of sucks a little bit too,
because it's just it's not a good product right now.
Speaker 5: No, it's not.
Speaker 3: And you know you're already trying to look forward to
next year what the draft looks like and we can
get there. But what about today, Nick, does anything happened today?
Did the Saints move any players? Is there any players
that are worth other teams trying to move forward right now?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: What do you expect from the Saints today? If anything?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, shoot, that that trade that the Bengals
and the Cowboys made this morning, I feel like tanks
the Pete Werner trade market. You know, decent linebackers are
going for seventh round picks like that. That's not that's
not great for their efforts to move him. I still
think that the guy most likely to get traded is
probably Rashidi heat It's just kind of all the access
points just kind of a line like last year of
the contract, not going to resign here, you know, young
player with talent and you know, trade value and desirability
around the league, like everybody needs receivers right now. And
you know, I know they've gotten some calls for him,
like my, my, you know, I'm keeping an eye on
the Seahawks and the Steelers on that one, probably somewhere
around like maybe a four round pick, Like I think
that's probably the most likely guy to get moved today.
I'm not expecting a ton though, Like just kind of
their DNA is is you know that there's just never
been a full admission of of like, hey, look this
thing is panked out in this full on rebuild, Like
there's just you know, I think they know, but like
there's never there's never going to be the full on
like this thing so far away and it's got to
start all the way over type mentality. Like they just
they just aren't going to do that. You know. I
feel like they got to do something. I don't think
you just make trades to make trades, and you don't
take bad value if if if there's not a good
offer there. But like they need to aggressively figure something
out here because you can't. You can't go into the
draft with five picks, get and have all the holes
they have and just have people leave it and then
you know, yeah, if she he leaves in in there's
the possibility of getting the comp pick back. But then
that means you can't really be active in free agency
and get that pick. Like if you sign somebody valuable
off sets that you don't get the cop pick back.
So you know, I think they have to they have
to figure out something to recoup some of this draft capital.
You know, they they put the fourth in Baley, who
has thirty nine yards? Like that looks like a completely
awful decision, I believe. So, yeah, it's thirty nine yards
right now. I mean, he played twelve snaps in this
in this game, a top one hundred pick, and like
you aren't even getting them on the field.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe he can't play and they.
Speaker 2: Just aren't using them and they got him buried behind
Brandon Cooks. So I mean, like that would be my
My other thing is like maybe move out, you know,
a couple of these older players, just to open up
a spot to where to where the young guys can play.
But I I mean, you could just make that decision
and lean into it without even doing that.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's it's tough. The future looks a little
bit tough.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: Have five picks, isn't isn't nearly enough. I think they
got to do something to recoup a couple of them ticks.
Speaker 4: Hm hmm.
Speaker 7: I saw a tweet you posted yesterday. Am I correct
in reading this? The Saints are currently a five picks?
Speaker 6: Yeah, five pics?
Speaker 5: Yes, five?
Speaker 7: So you made have you made a statement yesterday on Twitter?
And I thought it was pretty profound. It's like, if
you're not they cannot be sitting here after today with
only five picks. And if you said something that was
like if it doesn't hurt, then you're probably not doing
it right. Yeah a paraphrase. What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: Just that you know, I I think fans have have
their their their favorites and everything, and like, if you're
not willing to to let some sacrificial pals go, like
I think you are being aggressive enough in your rebuild.
You can't let you can't let sense sentiment in you know,
this just loyalty dictate the future. Like yeah, I mean,
sure everybody loves some of these pillers of the team
and everything, but like you got to be willing to
move them out and be ruthlessly aggressive to stay ahead
of the curve and kind of keep your team ahead
of it. And you know, I think that was probably
the you know, besides allowing you know, having Tom Brady.
I mean that makes everything look good and it covers
up everything. But I think the thing Belichick used to
do the best is that he would be he would
be a year early on like all these moves, and
he'd send the guy somewhere and they'd be great somewhere
else for a year, and then all of a sudden,
like reality hits and and you know, they're trading guys
right before that that dip, And I think that's just
kind of how you gotta you gotta try to do it.
And I think one of the things that that's kind
of hurt.
Speaker 6: This team over the years is just.
Speaker 2: The loyalty and the sentimentality of of everything. And I
think that that permeates from you know, to the top
all the way down, is that there's just everybody's kind
of you know, in their spot and they're good, and
there's loyalty to one another.
Speaker 6: But like that isn't gonna that isn't gonna get you
out of this.
Speaker 2: So like it isn't just like, hey, trade the player
that everybody hates and and get a pickback, trade trade
Caesar Ruiz, Like no, like you got to trade some
guys that like if.
Speaker 6: They trade him, you're gonna be like damn, Like, look.
Speaker 2: Sean in after the twenty fourteen season, trading Jimmy Graham
and Kenny Stills, like he saw the writing on the wall,
got ahead of it, and he made some extremely unpopular moves.
And look, I don't think that Jimmy Graham trade really
worked out. You end up drafting to find antony with
the pig. But like that that mindset at least is
being aggressive in the pursuit of like getting real results
back and doing what you need to do to try
to find your way out of a bad situation or
to avoid going into a bad situation. And you know,
I just I just think it's a little bit lacks
the daisical if if you aren't doing some things where
people are like, ah, man, I hate seeing that guy go,
Like whether it's Shaheed or you know, you know whoever,
Cam Cam Jordan to Mario Davis, like whoever. I'm not
advocating for getting them out of here, but like, if
you had the right offer, I think you have to
consider everything, regardless.
Speaker 8: Of it is Nick.
Speaker 7: The fact that the Saints are such a bad team
right now, the fact that they have so many gaps
to fill, so many positions.
Speaker 5: In need, so many old.
Speaker 7: Players on their team, that are that with nobody behind him.
The fact that all that plus you only have five
picks in the upcoming draft is the most egregious fireable
offense of how to run an organization that I've ever
even heard of or seeing, like when you tweeted that
yesterday they have five picks in the upcoming draft, all
the gaps that they need to feel like I understand
Saints fans like not caring like right now, like that
is there's there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
It's a long road to get out of this, and
I don't see where you even begin to start on
rebuilding this thing.
Speaker 6: It's bleak. It's it's it's tremendously bleak right now, you know.
I guess like.
Speaker 2: You know that there's always the top process that if
you got like you don't want the top two picks,
you can trade back and get more picks.
Speaker 6: But like, guess what, you could have.
Speaker 2: A cachet picks and still do that, and then you
have a larger cachet of picks and you know, granted, yeah,
they don't all turn out like just just mentioned the
fine anthony, but like you got to be swinging the
bat to find.
Speaker 6: Your way out of it.
Speaker 2: And it's a little bit disjointed too, because there wasn't
the vision for starting to rebuild this.
Speaker 6: Year like it was.
Speaker 2: It was, You're going into it with Derek Carr and
you're gonna try to keep being competitive. So you signed
Brandon Cooks and you signed Justin Reid and like it
was just kind of hanging on to that even longer
and then and then low and behold, like Derek Carr's
retiring and now now you just sign Brandon Cooks and
you didn't get your six foot three receiver that you
needed in free agency that we talked about every Tuesday
at nine am for.
Speaker 6: For four months. They gotta have this guy. They got
to have this guy.
Speaker 2: And then all of a.
Speaker 6: Sudden they decide they do.
Speaker 2: They put a top hundred pick in somebody, and then
that guy isn't playing. It's just tough man like just
a lot of the stuff and hasn't hasn't, you know know,
come together.
Speaker 6: And I think right now, as.
Speaker 2: They say, you see the effects of like the two
different viewpoints. And look, if you had the plan in
February to rebuild, like I think, I think some of
it looks a little bit different. But it's just, you know,
it's tough to have a lot of faiths when the
first major move in the rebuilding of the rosters this
trade for Bile and you just haven't seen the return.
And again it's half a season left, Like maybe they
figure it out with him, maybe maybe he turns into
a player, but like it since now it's hard to see,
like like you said, the light at the end of
the tunnel, like with with a lot of it, you know,
the quarterback needs to hit. If that hits that, that
probably changes the view and jump starts a little bit.
You know, I have doubts on that from second round picks,
Like there's been three of the last ten that became
son so one of them's Derek Carr. We can you know,
I don't know if that's actually becoming something or just
getting stuck in purgatory. So like the odds of that
hit and are pretty pretty slim too. So it's a
lot man, Like they need a quarterback, they need a
trussure or two, they need a cornerback. You know, your
three highest value positions and a wide receiver. The four
the four highest value positions in the league.
Speaker 6: You need all of them. And you have five picks, Like,
how do those get a dressed?
Speaker 2: It's it's just it's just tough to see this being fast.
Speaker 7: Do you think Rattler's got any trade value right now
to like a team like Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Like I mean you drafted them for a fifth,
Like I think you could definitely improve upon that at
least and and like that would that would be a win.
Like if you're done with them and you put a
fifth in, someone in that fifth turns into you know,
a fourth.
Speaker 6: I feel like that's a.
Speaker 2: Victory for the Saints, you know. And if they've made
that decision to move on, Yeah, I'd be shopping them.
Speaker 6: And if I'm Rattler, I'd probably want out of here.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 5: Both parties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's done here for him, I think,
because even if he gets his job back, they're gonna
draft someone that they you know, they basically let him
know what they think. So yeah, i'd want out of
here if I were in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be something I like you said, besides
Chase Youngke, you might heat.
Speaker 7: I watched clips of sheet from the last game he's
given up on go routes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I'm not trading a fourth for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was tough.
Speaker 3: That was a tough That was a tough look dude
for ye all right, Uh well, better times ahead in
the future. Nick Underhill, New Orleans Dot Football, Nick, we
appreciated every single week, sir.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks having guys.
Speaker 5: Great, No good more for me and you.
Speaker 7: Right. Someone in the chat said, can Governor Landry set
his sights on Mickey so good?
Speaker 8: He used to set his sights on Gail. Just he's
worried about the wrong thing.
Speaker 4: I think everything right now, man, The Saints and Pelicans
right now?
Speaker 3: Just I mean one win between them?
Speaker 9: Oh that's sad. I didn't realize that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the Pelicans are Saints are what one and eight?
Speaker 5: Hoof? All right? All right?
Speaker 7: Five five picks in the draft is shocking to me
because their roster is so bad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, I quit.
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so what did you call Hugh Freeze?
Speaker 9: Oh? I did?
Speaker 8: I said Hugh Freeze was gonna get fired this season?
Speaker 5: Was we forgot that? Yeah, this is this is the
first one of the year.
Speaker 9: Well, we all got it. We're never our one parlay hit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're the only one that hit this week. I
didn't even they're crazy.
Speaker 8: He didn't wait Tennessee score tenness.
Speaker 4: He lost by but I didn't and a half.
Speaker 3: I had Wazoo minus three and a half and they
were winning all game long, ten to three, all game
seven to three, so they were covering.
Speaker 4: They lost ten to.
Speaker 11: Seven, Cincinnati plus ten and a half. They almost covered that.
They lost by thirty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so d with an incredible backdoor cover twenty one
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 9: It didn't happen, but it did, But I was I
said it.
Speaker 8: Whenever we were giving the picks, I like had a
few rough weeks or maybe I don't know what it was.
Speaker 9: There was like two or three weeks, but I didn't
get a good pick. And then I was like I
just need a little base hit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Vanderbilt.
Speaker 9: Vanderbilt never lets me down. They almost did.
Speaker 4: It was a single though, you got it.
Speaker 7: So congrats on the turnover chain, the OTB turnover chain.
Thank you, Hugh Free, the first one to hit a
hot take of the year. I didn't accept it the
other day when it was the basketball gambling. The spirit
of my comment a bull take was football? Something in football?
Speaker 5: I know it was. There was a gambling investigation for basketball.
But so we have it.
Speaker 11: You haven't written down what are we waiting for? What
are other ones that we're.
Speaker 5: We probably need to do. Maybe we need to find
them and maybe we'll have.
Speaker 9: Them pulled up.
Speaker 5: You got them pulled up?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Can we we got time right now?
Speaker 9: Yeah? We got some time? What to talk about some
of the ones.
Speaker 7: That we Why don't we go through the hot takes?
You are wait now and now they're kind of mid season.
Speaker 8: So the first thing that I have is that we
each picked a team in the top nine in the
preseason top nine that was most likely to end the season.
Out of the top twenty five, right, you had Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: Which they lost their first two games, have glazing.
Speaker 5: Notre Dame.
Speaker 9: Had Alabama.
Speaker 5: That ain't happen.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I had organ which also probably is not gonna happen,
and then you had Georgia.
Speaker 9: So we did not. We did not.
Speaker 7: There were so many options that I have to There
were so many options.
Speaker 5: Look, if Notre Dame loses one more game, get out
of here.
Speaker 7: It was it was because of the gunner stock, this hairline.
That's why I picked Georgia.
Speaker 4: I actually think that means he's grittier, the hairlines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like he's not a pretty boy quarterback, you know,
he's just like god.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: Then shout out twelve. We need we need bankers, but
like not a lot of gritty bankers out there. All right,
all right, so we didn't have that one.
Speaker 9: This one's not looking too good. In Love will win
m v P this year.
Speaker 5: It's not looking great.
Speaker 9: Is going to injure himself running down the hill.
Speaker 5: That might happen. Sad boy.
Speaker 9: Arkansas will finish last in the SEC.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 9: These are all matts. Chiefs won't make the playoffs.
Speaker 5: That was looking looking good.
Speaker 8: Mint starts for the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: Matthew be traded today.
Speaker 8: Golden uh Off, the beginning coach will be investigator for
gambling grooding Grooden will coach an SEC football team during
the second round of the very before the second round
of the college football playoffs. It's very specific.
Speaker 9: Yea, Xavier Legette will end the season with.
Speaker 7: Over Let's get an update on the.
Speaker 8: Road to one thousand uh and then your Super Bowl
was the Bills and Packers.
Speaker 5: Still that could happen.
Speaker 4: If the Packers get it together, it still could happen. Okay,
all right, so you know, not the best, not the best.
I don't think any of us.
Speaker 5: Are going to be great.
Speaker 11: I mean these are bold, they are bowl got some
work to do.
Speaker 5: All he needs is eight hundred and nineteen yards.
Speaker 9: Easy, easy?
Speaker 5: How many games are left? A lot?
Speaker 9: So many games?
Speaker 11: It's one hundred yards again.
Speaker 8: Right, Tata has the Chiefs will and will not win
the AFC West.
Speaker 5: Which is gonna likely not like okay, you can.
Speaker 8: You get the turnover chain for half of this. I
don't know what their record is right now, Skaters finished
five and seven and Napier gets fired.
Speaker 11: We can we can wait on that. They're going to
finish five and seven and only have.
Speaker 8: Three wins now, thanks, Kentucky will finish last in the
SEC can happen. This one's looking good. Commanders don't make
the playoffs. Super Bowl Bills Packers. Okay, Jake says. Alvin
Kamara will rush for one thousand yards for the first
time this.
Speaker 4: Year, six and twenty three more yards.
Speaker 5: He's there.
Speaker 9: Kentucky will finish last in the SEC.
Speaker 4: Still an opportunity.
Speaker 8: Some Belt team makes the playoffs and James mas Madison
wins the Conference.
Speaker 9: Pats will make the playoffs. That hey, hey, that's kind
of grooting coach of Kentucky. And then your Super Bowl
was Chargers. Commanders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my first Chargers.
Speaker 5: How could you said they weren't going to make the playoffs?
That was why he said that.
Speaker 11: I said, Commanders, we're going to make the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gosh, I thought the Command's gonna be so much better.
Speaker 8: My first one is uh man, I had high hopes
for Harold Perkins.
Speaker 9: He's gonna be in New York.
Speaker 5: He might go Christmas Tree.
Speaker 8: Bears will win the NFC. North Auburn will finish last
in the SEC. Quinn Ewers will start for the Miami Dolphins.
He will I think you Freeze will get fired. That's
the one that hit Kendre Miller leads Saints and rushing.
I understand that ACL bested all of us up Tech
will win the Big twelve. And then my stupid Super
Bowl prediction was Commanders versus Bills. Yeah, Commanders fooled me, man,
they got me.
Speaker 9: We thought that Jaden wasn't going to go through that
sophomore slump.
Speaker 12: It looks like I think he was gonna get injured, right, Yeah,
I mean three injuries this year.
Speaker 5: Played a couple of games, he was healthy.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I just looked at it last year. Look, I
like the Commanders. They played some bad quarterbacks a year ago.
Bad bad quarterbacks a year ago. I mean they got.
Speaker 4: They've had some injuries too, and they traded away they're
running back.
Speaker 3: And then as soon as they do, Eckler Tears's achilles
like terrible.
Speaker 11: Wouldn't know why that trade was made because Robinson hadn't
played it all for the forty nine.
Speaker 4: He finally did this week. Yeah for a little.
Speaker 12: Bit, but yeah, and then they didn't get anything in return.
Speaker 5: Really. Yeah, Daniel and the chat, I said, man, y'all
sucked at the picks their bold.
Speaker 11: About two or three that like, we have to wait
till the end of the season.
Speaker 7: These were These were like way out there, not just
normal sports talk takes.
Speaker 5: Patriots take, Okay, the.
Speaker 11: Florida one will hit, and I mean two of us
pick Kentucky, A Laundra picked Oliver and like only half
one conference win, so like this could happen.
Speaker 8: The Lions and the Bears are tied for second in
the NFC North and there are only one game behind
the Packers.
Speaker 5: Like that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: A lot will have to wait. That'll come down to
the wire.
Speaker 5: So all right, I.
Speaker 7: Still got to a lot of investigations. Dabas still going
to rip that knee up.
Speaker 8: I didn't write this one down, but I did say
Jerry Jones will pass away to.
Speaker 5: You did before Super Bowl.
Speaker 9: I just said this season. I felt weird writing that one.
Speaker 5: Down, though, Yeah, I mean it's morbid.
Speaker 9: I don't know. He's looking pretty spry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Steve wonderful being land Man. Season two.
Speaker 11: Episode first season.
Speaker 3: All right, still got some bold takes out there. Congrats
to a Landra certified ball nor forgetting the turnover chain.
You freeze, gotta hold it up one last time. Change
it at change it.
Speaker 5: Hey, there we go, turn over chain. Oh t b
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Speaker 3: You should have been chanting my name lone dru uln dru.
Speaker 4: There you go only once.
Speaker 5: Wow. All right, we'll take a break.
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Speaker 5: Heard this song in.
Speaker 4: What maybe maybe so might actually be truthful.
Speaker 3: Some of my favorite times my brother used to be
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Speaker 5: I want to act like.
Speaker 3: I am in the montage when I'm listening to it,
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little bit like this montage.
Speaker 7: Is for me who rank montage actors slies one slies.
Speaker 3: The standard of montages has to be has to be.
Now Josh is up there, no question about it. But
it's got to be sly. I mean, his entire career
in the eighties was montages, be it Rocky, Rambo being
over the top.
Speaker 7: Did Rambo have them on I'm trying to think of
a ring Rabo. I mean they had some usually just
a montage of killing people. I didn't say it was
going to be a sweet one. Yeah, it wasn't like
a look inside look, no, what sense, because Rambo you
knew what was inside hate. Like sometimes as an athlete
you have to look inside of you what got you there? Yeah,
there's nothing like that. Then being in some sort of
motor vehicle to where you can look out a window
and listen to Maaties music usually after a death. Yeah,
like a trial, a tribulation for John Claude and blood Sport,
his buddy died. I'm sure they had just met at
the Kumte the best you know. But I never understood
about the the Kumite and blood Sport was they fought
on a square mat the entire time, right square mat
with sand around it, so when people got uppercuted off
of it, they fell into the sand.
Speaker 5: But in the championship bout it was like a ramp.
It was almost like a halfpipe. Yeah remember that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, why did they change the footing just for the
champions Why would you change what got you there? I
never understood that part. Who's are we not checking waistbands
for blinding powder?
Speaker 4: Probably thought it was just some baby powder because he
was chafed.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I just never understood the ramped for the final battle.
Oh it's just me. Maybe I'm old school.
Speaker 3: Yeah maybe if you know, if you're fighting like that,
maybe some good descertine comes in handy. They just thought
maybe chaffing was an issue. Sure, so they think. Guess
but it was in a pill form. They crumbled it up.
That's true, that's true. Maybe just some the that was
some advil, some sore.
Speaker 5: No clue.
Speaker 7: John Claude used to grab goldfish out of a pond
with a blindfold on what an idiot? No clue, you're
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real quick.
Speaker 3: Do you have any idea what we're talking about back there?
John Claude van Damn, I.
Speaker 9: Know, I know who Jean Claude Van dam is.
Speaker 8: Obviously no Sylvester Stallone and the Rocky shit Rambo.
Speaker 9: I've seen the Rambos.
Speaker 4: I've seen blood Sport.
Speaker 8: No, I haven't really seen any Gen Jean films. I
know him because of that episode of Friends when Monica
and Rachel were fighting over Yeah, naturally.
Speaker 11: Underrated Jean Claude Van Damn movie Sudden Death.
Speaker 5: Great one, it's a great one. Yeah, good one.
Speaker 3: I know we can't get this done now because we're
all you know, it's football season. It's incredibly busy, a
lot going on, but all season viewing. I say that
we each sign a movie to everyone to watch.
Speaker 11: Okay, you know I'll do it.
Speaker 5: Watch.
Speaker 7: I know I've already signed me one. I hadn't done
it yet. I hadn't got it done. Which one is
for you?
Speaker 5: Eight mile hot Wave Jakes has already signed to, which
I'm so fired up to do. I know.
Speaker 4: It's the craziest thing.
Speaker 5: Maybe in my life.
Speaker 3: Sporting Yeah, yeah, yeah, what about he's seen everything.
Speaker 5: I've seen a little movies.
Speaker 4: You've seen everything. Have you seen Saints? You were talking
about young freaking Have you seen Boon Do Saints?
Speaker 11: I have not seen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go, there's your Saints.
Speaker 8: This feels a little out of left field, but it's
like an underrated movie that I love. If any of
you have seen Mystic.
Speaker 3: River good movies, yeah, it makes me.
Speaker 5: Is that the one with Ben nefflex brother Champains?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, mister uh Casey Flack which learned the
guy's name.
Speaker 9: My God, which I know which way you're talking about?
Speaker 3: You're talking about It's kind of been a similar fashion
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Speaker 11: When the kid goes missing anyway.
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Speaker 7: Man, I'll tell you what three ever three hours never
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Speaker 5: Yesterday went so quick time.
Speaker 4: When you're spinning facts and hiring coaches.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, and President telling nothing but truth bombs around here.
Speaker 9: I thought it would have dragged because I wasn't here.
I mean, y'all were miserable without you.
Speaker 5: Just couldn't wait to get your back.
Speaker 4: Hey Moose, thanks for waking up, But why are you here, Moose?
Speaker 9: Someone has to push the button.
Speaker 5: Hey, Nick Gunnerhill is a real downer today. Yeah, he
did have one for a same segment. It's tough. He's
got a tough job right now and he's still doing
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