where your team is until you
get to about mid season that alt / play five, six, seven
games match up against some different teams,
see for real, what your strengths and weaknesses are
and your opponents as well.
What it looks like on paper and what it is and preseason. And
what is in the regular season.
I don't think they're all the same.
People really start attacking, you start attacking other
people. You get a much better. Feel for what?
What your problems are, they were shrinks are how good they
actually are.
So,
so,
they always chatty Bill Belichick with some real truths
and it is a long season and teams get better and get worse
from the moment. We want arrives until
the moment, the confetti Falls at the Super Bowl. So as we enter
the 2022, regular season, it
It's just eight days from now. The team is giving off bad
vibes. We did good vibes yesterday. This is
the counterbalance. You're not being - we were positive
yesterday today.
Bad vibes. Chris you're up first. All right,
I'm gonna go right there.
I'm going to stay and I'm going to stay in New England.
It I mean
it's just the Vibes aren't great and again you know
I like the way Mac Jones look, I'm going to say that again.
Matt. Jones look really getting mad at bonehead play in the
the game against the Raiders. There's no doubt. But many look
quicker is. I'm looks good. All that the offense is not look
the
same. It does not. And now
we have a guy that's an offensive line coach has been
on the defensive side of the ball all the time and they're
trying to go into a Zone blocking steam, instead of
the man blocking scheme that you know, brought them to seventy
four Super Bowls in 20 years. I mean, I don't that. So, there's
that.
It's not easy replaced. I don't care if Bill Belichick's your
head coach or not. He's the greatest head coach in
the history of sports, but Josh McDaniels
knows more about offense and quarterback play.
Then bill. I'll check right now. I mean as far as being
able to coach it, the day-to-day detailed creativity
all that that's not easily lost and then you throw in some
oh tae kwon Thornton they got some speed finally. Oh, he's
hurt. Oh, wait, the Wilkerson kid, oh damn, he's hurt to, you
know, well, we're looking forward to their and their
weapons. So
I'm gonna go with them.
It's the first time and
at Forever that I can remember. Having this feeling about
the Patriots,
I agree with you and they were on my list. Another one of
the top of my list, the Dallas Cowboys, mmm,
that
look. And we've already established there on that.
Seesaw, Viking style roller coaster of playoffs, no
playoffs playoffs, no playoffs. Last year. They were 12 and 5
and they won the division unexpectedly. Better than we
thought they'd be
and then bye-bye Amari Cooper.
The
Cedric Wilson gone. Who's going to step up and play receiver?
The still waiting for Michael Gallup. They had the injury to
James Washington. The guy they signed from the Steeler, right?
They have the
Tyron Smith now, the offensive line who knows? Well,
this myth is going to do
at left tackle. They seem to be stubbornly committed to Ezekiel
Elliott in the running game. Tony Pollard's going to get
some work at slot receiver. I don't know. And like you said
yesterday,
last year, the defense was artificially,
perceived, as being great because it didn't take much to
be better than the Mike Nolan debacle of 2020.
Will it still be as good this year, especially with Randy
Gregory gone. So I just think that
we get a lot of hype. We get a lot of Bluster from
the ultimate showman and Carnival Barker and Jerry Jones.
When you start playing the games, you see what the reality
is. And I have a feeling it's not going to be as good for
the Cowboys as they want us to think. Yeah, I mean, I feel you
there to, they were definitely on my
list. I don't know what to think of them.
I don't, you know, and you laid it out perfectly, and then
I think you couple on, like, oh, that mean the first preseason
game against the Broncos? There's holding everywhere.
Like there was last year. Pass interference, has and all that.
I mean, so there
Only one of those teams that
I questioned and I'm just not sure exactly where they're
gonna be when it's all said and done at the end of this year.
Seattle Seahawks. The next one, I'm going to go in a minute.
Yes. Sorry. Isn't a row. You've taken my second pick. Yes.
Yeah, I gotta go there.
We've just discussed the too many times here
in the quarterback battle. That seems weird. I mean, the guy
throws like three interceptions in a game. Two of the worst
ones you'd ever going to see a guy who's been around the NFL
throw and they're going head. Still a competition.
It just seems weird,
you know, the plays been sloppy and every game,
you know, we watch the the Monday night game against
the Bears. Right? I mean, there's penalties fall starts Holdings.
I mean, it was just, it was everything
just to where you go. Okay. I mean so what is there to jump
on there? And then of course, yeah, I think just the overall
roster
to go with it. Yeah. I just I don't get a lot of good vibes
there in Seattle at all
and you throw on top of it. That there is a very real
perception that Jody Allen who inherited the reins after her
brother. Paul died. It's just a matter of time before. That
team gets sold. So they're in
Kind of a weird rudderless.
. Now, and Pete Carroll is he on the hot seat? As John
Schneider on the hot seat, do they keep him around. Let
the next owner, make a decision. I think by
two years from now, when the 2024 regular season begins,
they'll be for sale or maybe sold will see. But that's
another reason to just have a weird vibe right now about
the Seahawks.
I'll go with
The Browns, how can you not go with the Browns, with DeShaun
Watson? Everything about that. And I'll question you to this
team. It did, they can change it, it's up to them. They're go
out there with your Cobra set, maybe get hot and win some
games. We got a tough start to the season
and, and they're clearly bad vibrations, because it's been
bad news around Watson that has dominated the offseason. Yes.
And then you're starting quarterback Jacoby per set,
right? Doesn't play the first two preseason games and then
plays in preseason game. Number three,
and it doesn't look all that sharp.
And like Pine against the number two defense that takes
like to drive in. Oh, I'm a
guest of guesstimating here because I did watch the film.
I just can't five drives before they really do anything.
So I just it's weird. Yeah, they've gone this in
themselves. They literally were like hey we want to get off bad
vibes here in the preseason. So
we probably should have picked them first but it was so
obvious. We just let it sit there.
One more round of our draft of the teams giving off, bad vibes
to counterbalance yesterday's graft of the team, giving off
good Bots. Chris who do you have? Well, there's not like
a ton of other ones I think I think we hit the obvious for
at least in my opinion
and you got to work hard to get bad vibes and training camp.
Really? Here's one. I'm going to give you a little bit
though. The Denver Broncos.
It's not that they're bad vibes but they're not good vibes.
I don't know. We're all just going. What have they got?
Russell Wilson, they're going Good and I just going to go
okay.
I maybe I'm not sold on that,
you know. Yeah it's good. Secondary Vic fangio is not
easy. Replaced on the defensive side of the ball who's special
in the front? Seven. I know Courtland Sutton
has shown. He can be awesome. But man, it, you know, it's we
got to see it again here. KJ Hammer, I don't know Jerry.
Judy is shown a little bit, but we don't know. Oh, lines middle
of the road.
So I just feel like we're all, but just giving them it and if
they haven't looked all that impressive in pre-season,
Season. So that's where I just I'm not sure about them.
All right. You said it not me. All I said, was, let's ride.
I got to go with the Jets. Yeah, the Jets. Yeah, Sports Jets.
I know. Thetic hapless Jets.
I fits like bad luck Vibes
and it's just look, they got the bills, they got
the Patriots. They got the Dolphins.
It's the Jets. The Jaguars in the Texans are the three teams
in the toughest spot. In the AFC maybe the Jaguars. You had
them on the Good Vibes draft yesterday but the poor the poor
Jets. I know I feel like that
Who's your quarterback? Super Bowl trophy from 50 years ago?
Yeah, right lose your quarterback. Yeah, I mean, your
your hapless Viking stone hahaha.
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