00:00Well, let's face it. This off season, 10 teams hired new head coaches. So that's 10 new, you
00:07know, uh, you got a lot of new blood going on. And some of these, it's not the same old,
00:12same
00:12old. You got what Mike LaFleur with the Cardinals. We were just talking about Stefanski's now with
00:18Atlanta, Jesse Mintner now with Baltimore, Joe Brady with Buffalo, Todd Munkin would click.
00:24Good luck, Todd. Uh, Clint Kubiak with the Raiders, Jeff Halfley with Miami Harbaugh with
00:30the giants, Mike McCarthy, who I think people forget is in Pittsburgh now and good old Robert
00:37Sala there with the Tennessee Titans. So I like some of these situations for some of these guys
00:43more than I like it for others. Uh, but when you go over this group of 10, I mean, who
00:49do you think
00:50is going to have maybe some of the most success, maybe win the most games really be the difference
00:56that this organization and really take a team from like Tennessee last year who couldn't, you know,
01:03they were terrible. Robert Sala, are they a six win football team this year compared to what they
01:09were last year? Uh, I think that's a realistic outcome for the Titans. Frankly, there's, there's
01:14parts that I like for some of the landing spots. There's parts that I don't like, you know, for,
01:18for example, with Stefanski with the Falcons, they have a great defense. I like the pieces that they
01:23have on offense with Bijan Robinson. Uh, and you have Kyle Pitts and you have Drake London. I don't
01:28like the quarterback situation, right? We know what Stefanski can do with a good offensive line and a
01:31good running game to go defense, but the quarterback situation, I don't love Michael Penix coming off
01:36the injury. I think no one sold on Tua. What do we get from there? Not sure about that. The
01:41Giants with
01:42Harborough, I, okay. You got some pieces. Can Malik Nabors stay healthy? Cam Scadabo, Jackson Dart,
01:46can they all stay healthy? The edge rushers that the Giants have pretty darn good. You think you
01:51can work with that? Can they push for a wild card this year? I think that is certainly in the
01:54mix.
01:55The, you know, we were talking during the break about the bills and the Ravens. I think those
01:58two rosters just have so much talent overall that I think some of the games, the coaches may not need
02:04to quote unquote coach lunches because, Oh, you're up by 10, 14 points, whatever it's going to be
02:08kind of just go through the motions. But once they get into those close games late in the season,
02:12if they don't have, if they don't go through the process early in the season of struggling,
02:17that's when it's come back to bite them. So I almost want to see some of these teams just
02:20kind of ease into things because if they don't have that experience, they're going to make mistakes
02:24at the worst possible times. It's kind of crazy when you look at that AFC North, right? That Jesse
02:31Mintner with the Ravens now, but a lot of the same pieces there for the Ravens, just new head coach,
02:36new voice. And then you look at Mike McCarthy with Pittsburgh. Okay. They, well, at least they know
02:45Aaron Rodgers is coming back outside of that. I, and we got a Cincinnati head coach who we all thought
02:53should have been fired years ago is what the most tenured guys to Vansky is not there. So now you
02:58got
02:59Munkin who's the new way. So you're talking about the Cincinnati Bengals having the, you know,
03:04the veteran leadership of all the coaching staffs in the AFC North is wild to me. And I can make
03:12the
03:13argument best quarterback as well. Still in Cincinnati. Yeah. I, you know, I'm always
03:18hopeful for the Bengals and for their fans just because Burrow is so good. Jamar Chase is so good
03:24and T Higgins and, you know, adding Chase Brown. It's going to come down to the same thing. Can they
03:29protect Joe Burrow? Can the offensive line just be competent enough to not have him hit 10
03:34times a game? Can we decrease that number to six? And then can the defense not give up 30 points
03:40a game? Because realistically this offense can go out and score you 24 or 28 points a game.
03:45Just don't give up 30, give up 21 and you still score 28. Now, again, a middle of the road
03:51defense
03:51and a middle of the road offensive line and the Bengals are a playoff team, especially in that
03:56division. I think it can get past the Ravens or be just as good as them, but really the dynamic
04:01of
04:01the AFC puts the Bengals in a playoff spot. Just be competent. Don't be amazing. You just got to be
04:06competent.
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