Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast, poddwn please rise.
Speaker 2: This initial meeting of the Around the NFL Fork Committee
Speaker 2: will now come to order. Please reply present for role
Speaker 2: call Dan Hans's President, Pauline Wolf, Greg Rosenthal. I guess, sir,
Speaker 2: please be seated as we turn the floor over to
Speaker 2: the honorable chairperson All Susser.
Speaker 1: Thank god you can die.
Speaker 3: By the way, Uh, we have a quorum here.
Speaker 1: Are there any corrections to the roll call? Sir? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's I am also hero or I
Speaker 4: can leave happy to do so.
Speaker 1: But I thought I came here with a purpose to
Speaker 1: sess do dog sesstag sess dog.
Speaker 4: That's fine, but that's just you know, the the level
Speaker 4: of disrespect is outrageous.
Speaker 1: Present there we go. All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 3: I call this meeting to order as a chairperson of
Speaker 3: Around the NFL Fork Committee.
Speaker 1: Uh, the old zuzzar.
Speaker 3: This is the initial Around the NFL Fork Committee voting.
Speaker 3: We will, as we do every year, open up the
Speaker 3: floor to all present, including you, Mark to nominate someone
Speaker 3: to nominate various teams that and this is very important.
Speaker 1: I want to make this very clear to the floor.
Speaker 3: Teams that aren't mathematically eliminated from the postseason. However, we
Speaker 3: have deemed as a group to have no opportunity, no
Speaker 3: chance to make the postseason. Are there any questions before
Speaker 3: we get into the proceedings?
Speaker 1: No questions here?
Speaker 5: Fourth, your honor, is that what we're doing?
Speaker 1: Is it? I don't think so. Chairperson, Okay, caair person
Speaker 1: works the lay person. You're a civilian. All right.
Speaker 3: First, we'll now move on to unfinished business at the
Speaker 3: last meeting. As we check the minutes, Miss Wolf, I
Speaker 3: believe you had sought of reverse the findings and the
Speaker 3: results of the Week six matchup between the New York
Speaker 3: Jets and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Do you wish to carry on that submission? I table it.
Speaker 6: Well, I guess we could table it for now, but
Speaker 6: I still have a lot of problems. I got a
Speaker 6: lot of problems with that game.
Speaker 3: All right, we will table that. How about one more
Speaker 3: from Miss Wolf to change the term home runs to
Speaker 3: schwar bombs.
Speaker 6: Yes, please, I love that.
Speaker 3: Would like to carry that motion. Say yay yay, yay yea.
Speaker 3: Why go fills.
Speaker 7: Gotta chick thumbs down, Gotta get chick that sweatshirt on
Speaker 7: the YouTube.
Speaker 3: The meeting is now open for new business has been
Speaker 3: moved and second into that. Is there any further discussion
Speaker 3: before we get into today's business?
Speaker 1: One question?
Speaker 4: If we Forkeuld to success, we still report on them?
Speaker 4: Do we have to pay any attention to them or
Speaker 4: watch any of their contents?
Speaker 7: I defer to mister Rosenthal. We're all professionals here. We've
Speaker 7: got thirty two teams to cover lately a little also,
Speaker 7: we're almost always wrong about one of the teams, and
Speaker 7: there's no way to know which one.
Speaker 1: That is ahead of time.
Speaker 5: How do you pay for that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? By paying a charity. Jacksonville got hooked up last year.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, a big funk behind the glass?
Speaker 3: Is there something I could use as some type of gabble,
Speaker 3: even if we don't have one physically in hand? Is
Speaker 3: there something back there that would be helpful for today's proceedings?
Speaker 1: All right, well we do that.
Speaker 3: I now open the floor to miss Wolf with the
Speaker 3: first fork recommendation.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, great, mister chair person, mister chair person, okay.
Speaker 1: Is yours?
Speaker 7: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 6: Well, gentlemen, ladies, everyone here, I propose to fork not
Speaker 6: just one team, but an entire division.
Speaker 7: Well that's okay, man. We will have de quorum here
Speaker 7: on the floor.
Speaker 6: The NFC South must go.
Speaker 1: Okay, order order.
Speaker 3: This is a big swing by Miss Wolf open today's proceeding.
Speaker 7: Definitely, someone who's never been involved with the Fork Committee,
Speaker 7: I just want to bring up, thank you very much, Am,
Speaker 7: how would you answer to the charge the fact that
Speaker 7: one of these teams will make the playoffs by NFL rule.
Speaker 6: I don't think that that rule should exist any longer,
Speaker 6: and I would like that to be changed as well.
Speaker 3: All in favor storny of Miss wolves recommendation. So yay,
Speaker 3: all opposed?
Speaker 1: Nay nay, nay, nay.
Speaker 7: Nic I mean, I mean we've got three teams that
Speaker 7: are three and three. We've got two teams, the Saints
Speaker 7: and the Bucks, that are better than average and not
Speaker 7: saying they're.
Speaker 6: Great, better one and three and they one against a
Speaker 6: winless Panthers team and a tragic Titans team by one point.
Speaker 7: Well you let it finish by state order.
Speaker 3: Ah ow the stapler could injure.
Speaker 7: Me potentially just all I was gonna say, better than
Speaker 7: average by DVOA. This is a way to take the
Speaker 7: emotions out of it. They're ranked thirteenth and fifteen. Nothing
Speaker 7: too exciting, but teams to eliminate after six weeks.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in that. I don't believe in that
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 4: There is FOURK content in this division, there's no question
Speaker 4: about that. But all you're really doing is setting up
Speaker 4: that you personally would need to provide a charity to
Speaker 4: one of these other cities that wins the division. Greg
Speaker 4: gave twenty thousand dollars to the city of Jacksonville, so
Speaker 4: I hope you'd be willing to match that or do
Speaker 4: more generous.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I'm ready. I'm ready for that.
Speaker 4: All the children that Greg helped in Jacksonville or in
Speaker 4: the realm around Jacksonville, they will never forget Greg.
Speaker 3: I believe, miss Wolfe, what you might be hitting on
Speaker 3: here is something that I know, Mark, you've talked about
Speaker 3: on the show before, growing tiresome at mister Ceciler, excuse me,
Speaker 3: growing tiresome tired with teams that have no real chance
Speaker 3: to be actual Super Bowl contender. So what's the point. However,
Speaker 3: that is not what today's proceedings is about. These proceedings
Speaker 3: are about who are teams that this as we enter
Speaker 3: week seven, already in our minds have no chance of
Speaker 3: making the postseason so I'll not turn over the floor
Speaker 3: to mister Rosenthal to.
Speaker 7: The Panthers here because I am a little worried. We've
Speaker 7: got a handful of teams that are that are just obvious.
Speaker 7: I don't know about that the other teams, because there's
Speaker 7: a lot of these three and three teams like the Falcons,
Speaker 7: who to me are very disappointing. Uh, the Saints, who
Speaker 7: I don't believe will go anywhere ultimately, but because it's
Speaker 7: the NFL, they'll find their way to get to eight
Speaker 7: and nine wins. And then we have some obvious teams
Speaker 7: that are done. And one of those teams is the
Speaker 7: only winless team in the NFL. It's the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3: All in favor of forking the Carolina Panthers at oh
Speaker 3: and six, say ya yay, all opposed?
Speaker 1: All right, we carry that motion. The Panthers have been ford.
Speaker 7: Let's let's take at four. Can thank you Dave? Damage
Speaker 7: that was perfect? You know, this is an exciting time
Speaker 7: as someone who drafted the Panthers under seven and a
Speaker 7: half wins as his first round draft pickers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all the.
Speaker 7: WHOLESO is branding, Uh, Frank Raich, this and the show
Speaker 7: frank Reich gave up offensive play calling this week, so
Speaker 7: maybe Thomas Brown, who came from the Rams, can help
Speaker 7: turn things around, because it was a sad way to
Speaker 7: go out for Frank Reik last week, as as I like.
Speaker 4: I have been hard on Frank Reich, and I at
Speaker 4: this point, like I have no problem with the fact
Speaker 4: that that's occurred, because like, why did you hire Frank Reig?
Speaker 4: I mean for multiple reasons, Like I organizationally, I get it,
Speaker 4: he's like the offensive version of Ron Rivera.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but like, uh, you're not calling plays? What
Speaker 1: what are you? What are you doing? What's going on here?
Speaker 4: You're you seated that gift of yours that's why you
Speaker 4: were hired. And it's not even Halloween.
Speaker 6: Do we really believe in any of the skill position
Speaker 6: players though that they have?
Speaker 1: No, they're in a hardcore rebuild And.
Speaker 5: No, this is it's not all on Frank REI No,
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 7: And this was a big story relatively for you know,
Speaker 7: for any panther story that he gave up his play calling,
Speaker 7: but he actually had telegraphed this audibly throughout the season
Speaker 7: to his players and even before the season that at
Speaker 7: some point he's probably gonna hand it over to Thomas Brown,
Speaker 7: who's kind of a young, up and coming coach. So
Speaker 7: they got to mix up something. And and by the way,
Speaker 7: Bryce Young coming off his best game.
Speaker 3: And you're owing sex. You're the head coach, and he
Speaker 3: probably wants to have him. This is very this is
Speaker 3: coach speak, but a more global presence. So he's trying
Speaker 3: to mix things up. I wouldn't read into it too
Speaker 3: much other than he's a coach that knows the ship
Speaker 3: is sinking.
Speaker 7: And made him do it just like her Young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about that. I don't know if
Speaker 3: the owner told him he how to give up play calling,
Speaker 3: but who knows. You're actually we talked about what he
Speaker 3: said in those meetings.
Speaker 1: During our live show.
Speaker 4: We hoisted up Frank Reich in this whole situation as
Speaker 4: a bit of a flash that's potential flash point. There
Speaker 4: you go, and days later he's not going by we
Speaker 4: you mean you me? But I don't need to brand
Speaker 4: myself the whole show.
Speaker 1: I get that's what it's all about.
Speaker 7: According it's just what are we even talking about here?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: Chairman?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: I just can I just fork one team? Then since
Speaker 6: my my opportunity was taken away.
Speaker 3: Next ye wait, excuse me, sir Wos, Sir, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to wait, miss Wold, after your outburst to start
Speaker 3: the proceedings.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go over to mister cecil.
Speaker 5: You have no patience.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, mister Seler.
Speaker 3: The floor's rs and again, apologies for the attendance role
Speaker 3: call earlier.
Speaker 1: That was an unfortunate oversight. I totally believe you. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Out on the horizon. Cut cut that as the drop
Speaker 4: out on the horizon, I see a jumbled apocalypse unfolding.
Speaker 4: It's delicious. I'm enjoying it more and more with every day.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: Not only would you put one fork into this mess,
Speaker 4: you could put every fork found in New England. Because
Speaker 4: they don't need to eat anymore. They've been eating for
Speaker 4: twenty plus years. No more dinner, org lunches, no more snacks,
Speaker 4: no more midnight snacks, no alcohol, no tobacco. Put them
Speaker 4: in a coffin. The Patriots under Bill Belichick are a
Speaker 4: total disaster. It is unbelievable to watch that this is
Speaker 4: the team that Bill Belichick built and is now currently
Speaker 4: losing complete gripover Keep hiring your friends keep bringing the
Speaker 4: old players back onto the roster.
Speaker 1: This is not a rebuild. This is a This is
Speaker 1: a checulator in about four or five years.
Speaker 3: All right, all in favor of forking the new England Patriots,
Speaker 3: say yay, yay, favor say nay.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: That carries it the Patriots for the first time, I
Speaker 3: would imagine ever in this section, you guys have been forked.
Speaker 3: And a reminder stick out for a reminder that this
Speaker 3: must be unanimous to fork a team.
Speaker 7: All right, this is an early meeting of the case.
Speaker 7: By the way, yes it is this will the floor
Speaker 7: is yours.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: If I can't fork an entire division, then let me
Speaker 6: fork the Falcons.
Speaker 5: The Falcons right now?
Speaker 9: What's going on, ma'am? Have you been taking some type
Speaker 9: of mind explained away speak?
Speaker 7: Let the moment speak?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 7: Why wait, let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Let's hear it.
Speaker 6: Work the Panthers, right, yeah, yes, okay, So why can't
Speaker 6: we fork the.
Speaker 1: You couldn't in theory, you could pick you're I could
Speaker 1: pick any team I.
Speaker 6: Don't believe in their quarterback. He refuses to throw downfield.
Speaker 6: Their head coach refuses to get the ball to their
Speaker 6: basketball players that they spent top eight picks on top
Speaker 6: ten picks on they have a thirtieth scoring offense right
Speaker 6: now with players like Bijon Robinson, Drake London, Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 6: It's inexcusable. They're not going anywhere.
Speaker 5: I don't believe in them.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, thank you, miss Wolf.
Speaker 3: My issue is there a half game at a first place,
Speaker 3: they played a bad division, and there are, like you said,
Speaker 3: places pieces in place there. I believe, whether I want
Speaker 3: to see him or not hanging around because they frustrate
Speaker 3: me in the same way you're frustrated. They will be
Speaker 3: playing relevant December football. And if a team in my
Speaker 3: mind is playing relevant December football, I am not forking
Speaker 3: them on October eighteenth.
Speaker 4: So your pecking order, we at least know that the
Speaker 4: Panthers you agreed to fork them, and the next would
Speaker 4: be that you dislike are obviously the Falcons.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: My problem is if you're going to fork an entire
Speaker 4: division in your in your theory like, it sort of
Speaker 4: suggests that any one of them could bubble up and
Speaker 4: win the division. And I actually trust the I don't
Speaker 4: trust the Falcons globally at all, but I trust them
Speaker 4: more than the than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I'd probably
Speaker 4: put the Saints is the number one team in that division,
Speaker 4: but I don't trust their offense at any level. It's
Speaker 4: like the Falcons win weird games.
Speaker 1: They're just weird. They could win eight games and win
Speaker 1: this division.
Speaker 4: So it feels perilous to like assume that any one
Speaker 4: of these four tis well, any one of these three
Speaker 4: teams outside of the Panthers are all automatically gone.
Speaker 1: In favor of forking the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 6: Say yay, yay, come on over, join me. Hey, it's
Speaker 6: a party over.
Speaker 1: They have been the worst of those three.
Speaker 6: Taylor he is replaces Desmond my health, That's what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like maybe maybe then I changed you will.
Speaker 7: For what it's worth, Like Drake London and Kyle Pitts
Speaker 7: have had the best two game stretch they've ever had
Speaker 7: together the last two weeks. It's not leading to wins.
Speaker 7: This is a bad team. They're twenty six in DVA.
Speaker 7: They're well, they look like a bad team, but this
Speaker 7: is a bad division. It's a long season.
Speaker 1: We're not giving up on them. That game on Sunday
Speaker 1: was a tough watch.
Speaker 3: Rut or down the stretch there all right, let me
Speaker 3: nominate one as chairperson, the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: They are one in five.
Speaker 3: They have one of the worst historical defeats in the
Speaker 3: history of the sport. They have coming up Packers, Chiefs, Bills, Vikings, Browns.
Speaker 3: I see no path back to playoff relevance for the
Speaker 3: Denver Broncos, and for that reason, I nominate the Denver
Speaker 3: Broncos for.
Speaker 1: The fork all in favor, say yay, yay, that carries it.
Speaker 1: Broncos out. Let's take out four. All right, that's three.
Speaker 7: I mean, the AFC is so deep that I feel
Speaker 7: more comfortable than ever forking teams this early. Although we've
Speaker 7: gotten rid of the two, the two obvious ones, there's
Speaker 7: a lot of teams to try to.
Speaker 1: Pass in the AFC. All right, mister Rosenthal, Let's go
Speaker 1: to East.
Speaker 7: Rutherford, where I'm gonna bring up another team that I
Speaker 7: drafted the under in in the over under draft, the
Speaker 7: New York Football. Such a crippy enough Giants one in five.
Speaker 7: The rain's coming down on over under. You know, No,
Speaker 7: they're not getting to seven and a half. I don't
Speaker 7: think they're getting to six. They could improve at at
Speaker 7: points in the season, but there is no route through
Speaker 7: to these NFC players. But I think the seventh seed
Speaker 7: the bar is a little lower than the AFC, so
Speaker 7: it's I think a little trickier to fork teams in
Speaker 7: the NFC. But the Giants are too lackluster on both
Speaker 7: of their lines.
Speaker 3: They're gonna all all in favor of forking the New
Speaker 3: York Giants say yay, yay ya ya.
Speaker 4: All yay, nay nay, you're not doing it. No, see
Speaker 4: a pathway back in a bad NFC.
Speaker 1: I think I saw a lot in Buffalo.
Speaker 3: I saw a team that bottomed out with some tough
Speaker 3: opponents on their schedule. I saw a team that had
Speaker 3: a really good twenty twenty two season, and that's of
Speaker 3: course ancient history. But I don't think it's impossible that
Speaker 3: this team could crawl out of this hole and be
Speaker 3: maybe in the mix and near five hundred in December.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's definitely gonna happen, but we got Commanders,
Speaker 3: Jets at Raiders at Cowboys at Commanders versus Patriots the
Speaker 3: next five weeks. I understand they need to win at
Speaker 3: least three of those games, and while it's unlikely, I just.
Speaker 7: I don't three they gotta win five.
Speaker 3: They're one and five, right they listen, I'm saying they
Speaker 3: have to they have to at least win three of
Speaker 3: those games to even be in the realm of possibility.
Speaker 1: Is it likely? No, But I'm just not ready to
Speaker 1: go there yet.
Speaker 4: And there are multiple occasions when we do this exercise,
Speaker 4: at least the first time through every year, where someone
Speaker 4: like you saves us from all being wrong about someone
Speaker 4: feels like a long shot, But I'm with you, like
Speaker 4: we were all a little bit mentally shot on Sunday
Speaker 4: night or Monday, Yes, Sunday night when we watched that
Speaker 4: Giants Bills game at like three in the morning in London.
Speaker 1: But they looked like it there.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter. There's been outscored by ninety six points.
Speaker 7: Every every game has a good week, and if you're
Speaker 7: gonna have a good week, you better win that week.
Speaker 3: Their next three, their next three quarterbacks are Sam Howel,
Speaker 3: Zach Wilson, and Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 1: Better be a Donnell.
Speaker 7: You know it probably would be Jimmy g based on
Speaker 7: the injury against the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Yes, I understand that it was pretty brutal early schedule.
Speaker 3: Cowboys at the height of their Week one Powers at
Speaker 3: San Francisco Seahawks Dolphins.
Speaker 1: They weren't competitive. I know it's for one.
Speaker 3: That's a bad schedule, though, I'm just saying that they
Speaker 3: were exposed by the best teams in the league, and
Speaker 3: now they're gonna start playing some of the teams that
Speaker 3: are in the tier below.
Speaker 7: And I'm just saying, if they got to seven and ten,
Speaker 7: you know, they'd have to go six and five the
Speaker 7: rest of the way. I mean, I would love to
Speaker 7: put a sandwich on them not going six and five
Speaker 7: of the rest of the way, I don't. And that
Speaker 7: only gets up seven and well, that only gets up
Speaker 7: to seven and ten, which is not you know, which
Speaker 7: is forkable? Seven and ten?
Speaker 1: You forked, all right? Uh, mister Sessler, forked, is what
Speaker 1: I said.
Speaker 4: All Right, Well, I want to I'm gonna go somewhere
Speaker 4: a little spicier.
Speaker 1: I think. Okay, we saw this team in person.
Speaker 4: You know, when you're up close, you see things you
Speaker 4: don't see if you're watching on television. Pounded with a
Speaker 4: bunch of Burger king ads are totally tedious. Uh, the
Speaker 4: Titans check you later. I mean, I don't care if
Speaker 4: Ryan Tannehill is in there or not. I think the
Speaker 4: Titans do a number of things well. They're not consistently
Speaker 4: doing them well, though, and they disappear for games at
Speaker 4: a time.
Speaker 1: Derreck Henry still has these moments.
Speaker 4: I like Mike Rabel a lot and feel like they're
Speaker 4: not gonna not like they're not gonna miss the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's the point here. They're not making the playoffs. Do
Speaker 1: I think they can go be a little bit of
Speaker 1: a berserker.
Speaker 4: Maybe so, but especially if Ryan Tannhel's out for a
Speaker 4: significant amount of time. Malik Willis looks completely lost to me.
Speaker 4: I think will Lews will be in there soon enough.
Speaker 4: I think the coaching staff did not buy in on
Speaker 4: Malik Willis a year ago when they went and got
Speaker 4: Josh Dobbs, you know, a Fortnite before they were in
Speaker 4: playoff action. It's like Malik Willis to me, and we
Speaker 4: saw this in person, just like he looks like. And
Speaker 4: I think Zach Wilson has played much better in the
Speaker 4: last couple of weeks. But when you got the bad
Speaker 4: version of Zach Wilson and he's scrambling around, he's not
Speaker 4: seeing the field, he's getting kills. Just the young quarterback
Speaker 4: that's not ready to be in there, and Milik Willis
Speaker 4: I think he's mobile, he's athletic, but that's that's only
Speaker 4: half the battle.
Speaker 1: And I think they're a sitting duck. Upcoming schedule. They
Speaker 1: are two and four.
Speaker 3: That puts them, I believe, two games out in their
Speaker 3: division home against Falcons. They have a bye week, by
Speaker 3: the way, with Ryan Tannell injured with the ankle, it
Speaker 3: could be an injury that lingers beyond the bye, but
Speaker 3: they are on their by home Falcons at Pittsburgh, at
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay at Jacksonville home Panthers next five weeks. All
Speaker 3: in favor of forking the Tennessee Titans say, yay, yay,
Speaker 3: all opposed nay nay, Hey you didn't vote your own
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean I know, Greg. I think we're
Speaker 3: on the same page. Most likely that the division is
Speaker 3: still a little bit wonky, that there's a pedigree here,
Speaker 3: that the schedule's not overwhelming, and the idea is not
Speaker 3: that the Titans are some hot shot team, but more
Speaker 3: that are they a team that will find a way
Speaker 3: to maybe survive these next few weeks and still be
Speaker 3: hanging around by the time we get to.
Speaker 7: Decemb Yeah, it's too bold. I believe in the organization,
Speaker 7: just finding a way when you least expect it. I
Speaker 7: hear you on Malik Willis. Most of those sacks, the pressure,
Speaker 7: someone did a stat on it came in less than
Speaker 7: two and a half seconds. He was you know, the
Speaker 7: only quarterback that struggled more on Sunday was Ryan Tannehill.
Speaker 7: So that was a disaster for the Titans. But I
Speaker 7: could just see them like Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Carolina, you
Speaker 7: got the Colts, you got the division. Just I don't know,
Speaker 7: I can just see them being annoyingly in the mix
Speaker 7: in like week sixty.
Speaker 1: All right, Ms wolf I Flora's your.
Speaker 6: I'm really really really sorry about this, Chicago, but I
Speaker 6: know what's coming. Yeah, it's it was great when they
Speaker 6: beat the Commanders. Everything seemed like was positive looking up
Speaker 6: for at least like a moment in time. But you know,
Speaker 6: now Justin Fields, his thumb is a disaster. He's doubtful
Speaker 6: for Sunday. It's just you know, Tyler Tyler Bajin came
Speaker 6: in and actually kind of looked pretty decent in that
Speaker 6: game that they lost. But it's just you gotta you
Speaker 6: gotta go. They lost to the Packers, the Bucks, the Broncos.
Speaker 6: That's really bad.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: All in favor of forking the Chicago Bears at one
Speaker 3: in five. I don't even know if I need to
Speaker 3: tell you the next five weeks, but.
Speaker 1: I will anyway.
Speaker 3: Home Raiders at Chargers at Saints home, Panthers at Detroit.
Speaker 1: All in favor, say I I I a.
Speaker 7: Yay. Point of order? Point of order?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir?
Speaker 7: Why did you? Why did you change from me? I
Speaker 7: forgot you have immense power and you used Yes, my
Speaker 7: apologies to the court.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I never seek to disrespect the court, and
Speaker 3: I did there and I apologize all post.
Speaker 1: All right, Chicago Bears. That's four. All right, this one.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling there's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be some pushback on this one from one member
Speaker 3: of the committee. But this team is one in five.
Speaker 3: This team may be outperforming preseason expectations, but they are
Speaker 3: still not a overly competitive bunch in the second half
Speaker 3: of games. The last three weeks, they have lost five
Speaker 3: of six games. They are in a division with really
Speaker 3: three potential playoff teams. They are the Arizona Cardinals. Their
Speaker 3: next five opponents at Seattle home, Ravens at Cleveland Home,
Speaker 3: Falcons at Texans home Rams.
Speaker 1: That's the next five opponents.
Speaker 3: I believe this team there's no chance of making the playoffs,
Speaker 3: so I nominate the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: All in favor of forking the Cards, y yay, yay.
Speaker 4: Can offer one counterpoint, Well, they've opened the practice window
Speaker 4: for Kyler Murray and he should be back.
Speaker 1: All in favor, all opposed. I have one, like one request,
Speaker 1: all right, the Florida thank you.
Speaker 3: I will you like to suspend the vote temporarily, That's
Speaker 3: what I would like to do.
Speaker 4: But I'm willing to go along with you because I think,
Speaker 4: like the fact that the Rams are way better than
Speaker 4: people thought Seattle Seattle, and the Niner, like, you're not
Speaker 4: getting out of your own division without being essentially fourth place.
Speaker 1: So I'd logically agree with you.
Speaker 4: But I want to pick the organization that if they make,
Speaker 4: if they don't, if they make the playoffs, in a
Speaker 4: weird world, I would pick the organization that you must
Speaker 4: give twenty thousand dollars to sure.
Speaker 1: I feel fine with that.
Speaker 3: All in favor of forking the Arizona Cardinals, say, I
Speaker 3: yay whatever, y hey iya, all right, the Cardinal.
Speaker 7: Right, let's stick out four.
Speaker 3: All right, mister Rosenthal, as we wind down proceedings, is
Speaker 3: there any other teams that you seek to nominate?
Speaker 1: No, mister Sessler, I really want to.
Speaker 4: I really want to say to the Minnesota Vikings, I
Speaker 4: don't believe you're going to the playoffs on any level
Speaker 4: of my human body.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't. I know it's it's not going through.
Speaker 4: I'd understand how this exercise works, but I want to
Speaker 4: say right now that I nominate them. The Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 4: don't believe it, don't buy into it, don't want.
Speaker 1: To see it.
Speaker 3: All right, all in favor of forking the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 3: say yay, All opposed nay, Try.
Speaker 1: To push that legislation through.
Speaker 7: I mean, they are about to lose to the forty
Speaker 7: nine ers and they do not. The forty nine ers
Speaker 7: are going to stop out and they don't have It
Speaker 7: is concerning, But to me, they're slightly better than they
Speaker 7: were a year ago. You know, on balance, if Justin
Speaker 7: Jefferson is on the field and so can the luck
Speaker 7: that they're not getting this year completely flip and they
Speaker 7: go on a run to get to nine wins, which
Speaker 7: has them playing meaningful games.
Speaker 6: We get Team I think well, they have the Broncos
Speaker 6: still on the schedule. They have the Bears, they have
Speaker 6: the Falcons, they have the whole South.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, the next five opponents for the Vikings
Speaker 3: home Niners at Green Bay, at Atlanta Home New Orleans
Speaker 3: at Denver Home Bears.
Speaker 1: That's the pretty it'll win two of us.
Speaker 7: That's a good that's an easy schedule other than the
Speaker 7: forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: All right? Is a wolf any teams to nominate on
Speaker 1: your behalf?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: I think that's it.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, then, if there.
Speaker 3: Is no other business, we can adjourn this meeting of
Speaker 3: the four Committee, and may I have the eulogy theme please,
Speaker 3: as is our custom once we reach so much more
Speaker 3: organized than a years past.
Speaker 1: Now you're welcome.
Speaker 10: Come on the Carolina Punters, the New England Patrols, Dianver, Broncos,
Speaker 10: Gackle Bears, Arizona mccordy. You have no chance of making
Speaker 10: them twenty twenty three, twenty four NFL posts.
Speaker 6: But keep listening to the show, please, batchees of an
Speaker 6: Asheran very much.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be right back with some news and
Speaker 3: Week seven previews. All right, welcome back. Business is taken
Speaker 3: care of, and now we'll hit the rest of the show,
Speaker 3: starting with some news.
Speaker 8: French champagne as celebrated for a fresh, fresh champagne.
Speaker 4: Can I tell you something. I talked to someone who
Speaker 4: has been convinced for half a decade that that is
Speaker 4: Wes or was Wes, and I was like, No, that's
Speaker 4: actually Orson Wells from a drunken champagne commercial that took
Speaker 4: about twenty five tikes.
Speaker 3: Right, please seek it out and shout out to Place
Speaker 3: Bowing on YouTube for that fantastic remix.
Speaker 1: It was really good.
Speaker 3: By the way, that song that's just getting warmed up.
Speaker 3: There's some wild stuff going on in that remix.
Speaker 4: Well, having seen a clip, I'm not surprised there's a
Speaker 4: He's with a couple who look like by.
Speaker 1: The end of it, they look, oh you got it.
Speaker 3: They're in a shell, a shell them for themselves. All right,
Speaker 3: let's get to it, starting with Hamana Hamona, Anthony Richardson, Ah,
Speaker 3: what a bumbertimes. I feel like I cursed them, man.
Speaker 3: I was so excited about this young first round pick
Speaker 3: his ability to change. Once upon a time, as Wes
Speaker 3: himself often said, Peyton Manning was credited with changing the
Speaker 3: skyline of Indianapolis. I thought Anthony Richardson could change his
Speaker 3: Cults franchise as soon as this year, but it looks
Speaker 3: like we're gonna have to wait because that shoulder injury
Speaker 3: he suffered in week five is serious enough that it
Speaker 3: appears now or it's official that he is going to
Speaker 3: undergo a procedure most likely and his season is over.
Speaker 3: Here is Jane steichen Coults, head coach on his rookie Pheno'll.
Speaker 11: Start off just confirming that Anthony will have season any
Speaker 11: shoulder surgery tough.
Speaker 1: Shoulder surgery is tough process and.
Speaker 11: Talking all the doctors, getting as much information as we could.
Speaker 11: This is the best thing for him in this franchise
Speaker 11: moving forward, so we can get them healthy for next season.
Speaker 11: You take a guy fourth overall, tremendous competitor, great player,
Speaker 11: The longevity of him needs to be at a premium.
Speaker 11: So this is the best thing for him moving forward.
Speaker 3: It stinks, it sucks, and I think, you know, hopefully
Speaker 3: he gets right and more hope on the idea mark
Speaker 3: that this was just a starcross rookie campaign and not
Speaker 3: the start or a harbinger of things to come for Richardson,
Speaker 3: who yes, he suffered that injury in his last appearance
Speaker 3: of the season, but he was hurt routinely in the
Speaker 3: other weeks as well, So it was just a really
Speaker 3: frustrating campaign over four weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was sort of dotted all over the body.
Speaker 4: They lost him at the end of the opener with
Speaker 4: a left knee injury, got a concussion. I don't think
Speaker 4: that's you know, that's sort of separate from other type
Speaker 4: injuries in my book, but that side lent him for
Speaker 4: a week plus.
Speaker 1: Well, he took a lick on a scramble for well,
Speaker 1: So that's the thing. It's the nature of his game.
Speaker 4: That's like, these things are happening because of what he's
Speaker 4: able to do and why he's special.
Speaker 1: And then the shoulder injury.
Speaker 4: It's it's the thing I still like, if you're a
Speaker 4: Colts fan, like it sucks this year because I think
Speaker 4: there was another parallel universe where like they became like
Speaker 4: the team of atl because of Richardson and because they're they're.
Speaker 1: Spicy, and because of Shane Steichen.
Speaker 4: And like, yeah, I know, and you picked him as
Speaker 4: you're like you you sort of were lobbying for him
Speaker 4: as a maybe a better or better chance to win
Speaker 4: Offensive Rookie of the Year than.
Speaker 1: C. J. Stroud.
Speaker 4: In the end, I thought, if I'm a Colts fan, though,
Speaker 4: it's like the special things that you saw, Yes, it's
Speaker 4: deferred until next season. You still have him, and like
Speaker 4: it's like I think he was already showing that he
Speaker 4: could pass the ball, Like, yes, he's his completion percentage
Speaker 4: was a little wonky, but it's like that's the one
Speaker 4: thing you can improve as a pro quarterback going from
Speaker 4: year one to two to three. And I think there's
Speaker 4: just so much hope with what he can do and
Speaker 4: what he showed that ride out this.
Speaker 1: Year with Gardner Minshew. I don't like him throwing fifty
Speaker 1: five passes last week. I know as part of the game.
Speaker 4: I don't like Jonathan Taylor running for nineteen yards off
Speaker 4: eight carries.
Speaker 1: That's not delightful. But there is real hope because you
Speaker 1: have this quarterback for the next three plus years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, his skill set throwing the ball, I think was
Speaker 7: further ahead than anyone expected. Maybe maybe we shouldn't have
Speaker 7: been because he was surrounded by such slop at Florida.
Speaker 7: He's only a twenty one year old kid, and he's
Speaker 7: got such great pocket movement, movement in the pocket, buying
Speaker 7: time to throw the ball, keeping his eyes down field,
Speaker 7: like moving between progressions. Like he's a real deal quarterback
Speaker 7: with extraordinary rushing ability.
Speaker 1: You just have to worry about his.
Speaker 7: Durability because each one, like the concussion seems was kind
Speaker 7: of a strange one, Like he got hit late in
Speaker 7: that play where he let up.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like a hard hit. The shoulder.
Speaker 7: Injuries obviously concerning, but he's only going to be twenty
Speaker 7: two years old next year, and I think if you're
Speaker 7: a Colts fan, you feel better about their long you know,
Speaker 7: long term future than you have since Andrew Luck retired.
Speaker 7: And yet you have to waste you know, the next
Speaker 7: twelve weeks or convinced yourself that this could be fun.
Speaker 7: And maybe it'll be fun if they win eight games
Speaker 7: with Gardner Minsch, but it's kind of a they're kind.
Speaker 6: Of wasted, and maybe they learned something from Andrew Luck
Speaker 6: and that's why they're just going ahead and shutting him down.
Speaker 1: That's a good point, preserving him for like the oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know we look alike, though I don't think so.
Speaker 6: But those like six quarters that he played in, like
Speaker 6: he definitely showed some promise, especially in that overtime loss
Speaker 6: to the Rams, like that was a really good game.
Speaker 6: He did not look like a player who only started
Speaker 6: a handful of games.
Speaker 1: That was the only game he finished.
Speaker 7: Isn't that crazy? He played four games and.
Speaker 3: And I'm glad he brought it up because that was
Speaker 3: the point I was going to button up with Connie
Speaker 3: that they're down twenty three to nothing at the in
Speaker 3: that game at Lucas Soil Stadium, the place is a mausoleum,
Speaker 3: it's dead, and what happens he puts that team on
Speaker 3: his back and then puts up two touchdowns late with
Speaker 3: two point conversions to tie it. They've fallen overtime, but
Speaker 3: at that point it felt like anything was possible with
Speaker 3: that team playing in that division.
Speaker 1: So it's such a bummer, very impressive.
Speaker 7: I know he missed like the last two snaps of
Speaker 7: that game, but he looked right off the off the bat.
Speaker 4: I think one other thing, you have real quicks, like
Speaker 4: I think Shane Steichen is, Like I just had this
Speaker 4: feeling he's gonna be the real deal, and so like
Speaker 4: you can navigate through this season.
Speaker 1: But it's like the two of them together. I just
Speaker 1: I like it better than Richardson.
Speaker 6: With someone else because like what he did to with
Speaker 6: Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 7: It was unnecessary, but we could have forked them today
Speaker 7: in my mind that I didn't.
Speaker 1: Wow, it was unnecessary, but okay in that division with
Speaker 1: the we're not doing it to the other team in
Speaker 1: the division. I would not. If it makes feel better,
Speaker 1: Marks seem upset, I would not have carried that's spicy. Spicy, Well,
Speaker 1: that's what I mean.
Speaker 7: I didn't want to bother to waste everyone's time, But
Speaker 7: I I feel very confident they're not making Was that a.
Speaker 1: Shot of Colleen for nominating in the entire division?
Speaker 6: I stand by it. I'm still sticking with the.
Speaker 7: I mean, they're getting lots of bad news in other
Speaker 7: Colts news.
Speaker 3: Defensive tackle Grover Stewart, who started every game for them,
Speaker 3: he'll be out the next six weeks. He violated the
Speaker 3: league's p E D policy And this is crazy. Now,
Speaker 3: if you're out six games, that takes you all the way.
Speaker 1: To Week fourteen.
Speaker 7: In the case of the Cult, So I mean he's
Speaker 7: one of that's the top blow six or seven best
Speaker 7: players on that team.
Speaker 1: I would say the only thing to me.
Speaker 7: That makes them special, certainly defensively is their defensive tackle
Speaker 7: Combo him and Buckner and now you're without him.
Speaker 3: In other news, Commissioner Roger Goodell has agreed to a
Speaker 3: new contract with the league that takes it through March
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty seven. The NFL announced this on Wednesday. Goodell,
Speaker 3: he's sixty four years old.
Speaker 1: Now, wow, looks good for sixty four. Let's be real,
Speaker 1: hereat for sixty four. He's yoked.
Speaker 3: Has served as commissioner since two thousand and six, when
Speaker 3: he was elected to replace the retiring Paul tagliabus So
Speaker 3: let's do some Yeah, he'll be entering his seventh decade
Speaker 3: by the time this contract tolls. Wow, and that is
Speaker 3: a pretty wild run for anyone in the major sports
Speaker 3: if he indeed ends it after this upcoming contract.
Speaker 1: But you never know. He seems to enjoy the job.
Speaker 7: Well, we've heard with his last three contracts now that
Speaker 7: it was his last contract. So but it's hard to
Speaker 7: step down.
Speaker 1: And good money.
Speaker 7: I do hope he appreciates the letter of recommendation that
Speaker 7: I sent unbidden to the NFL League Office into the
Speaker 7: Ownership Committee, and I just hope he remembers that when
Speaker 7: our contracts are.
Speaker 1: Up, you're the ultimate company man.
Speaker 7: Then you sport me Wes and Roger Goodell, and I
Speaker 7: think that's that's really bonded us over the years.
Speaker 5: That's beautiful.
Speaker 1: And here's a little tidbit.
Speaker 3: He began his NFL ten in nineteen eighty two as
Speaker 3: a intern in the league office under Pete Rosell.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's wild, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Wow, that predates the tiny box entirely.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: That's your prom day, right, Mark, who's my pump day
Speaker 1: now that you took to the prom I twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty early elementary school.
Speaker 4: But that's kind of like that picture where like a
Speaker 4: young Bill Clinton is shaking hands with JFK. You were
Speaker 4: you were interning for Roger Goodell and then become the commissioner. Yeah, okay, wow,
Speaker 4: interesting life journey.
Speaker 3: Finally in the news, this is really interesting flag football. Well, Greg,
Speaker 3: you we got an issue here because I had to
Speaker 3: do a double take. I'm reading this off the Athletic,
Speaker 3: which does great coverage of the National Football League. This
Speaker 3: article is written co byline one Tory Hart, great job,
Speaker 3: Tory solid name, and Greg rosen Stein.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 5: Two g's or one one G.
Speaker 1: Well two g's total. He is fifty G. That Greg
Speaker 1: was created by AI. It's what is this? Is this?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 1: Are you working a hustle here? I might a slight
Speaker 1: tweak to.
Speaker 7: Your Surnameump pump up that thirty nine on the state
Speaker 7: mandated math test with that quick fiting your sent where
Speaker 7: I support all the Greg Rosenstein's and Rosenthals out there.
Speaker 7: Let's go Juice Greggs.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Flag football will be part of the twenty twenty eight
Speaker 3: Olympic Games in Los Angeles after there was approved Monday
Speaker 3: in a vote by the International Olympic Committee. It joins
Speaker 3: other new sports including oh Mark, there's some Connecticut level
Speaker 3: sports here, squash.
Speaker 1: Does that mean? You know? Is that connecting lacrosse?
Speaker 3: Or officially added baseball and softball and cricket where greenlit
Speaker 3: to return cricket.
Speaker 1: Handsome Henk will be happy about that. I have a thee.
Speaker 3: I want to share one thing about this. First of all, interesting,
Speaker 3: flag football is an Olympic sport, and you know what
Speaker 3: the Olympics guys, it's good. We got to mix things
Speaker 3: up a little bit. I don't know about society.
Speaker 4: Lost a little juice now that there's like four thousand
Speaker 4: online channels to watch five billion.
Speaker 1: Do we need another Nancy Carrigan Tanya Harding? That would
Speaker 1: be spicy?
Speaker 6: Why I love the olympicsimy, I'm so excited about Well,
Speaker 6: you are a retired but also you've come out of retirement.
Speaker 3: I believe a figure skater that's correct, repetitively in your youth.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 6: Thinking about doing some like type of like old woman
Speaker 6: competitions for skating.
Speaker 1: Yeah you should. Can you get up at like three
Speaker 1: in the morning to practice all those.
Speaker 5: Before and after school?
Speaker 6: I turned the lights on at the rink because like,
Speaker 6: if you get there first, then you could put you
Speaker 6: could be the person that turned on the music.
Speaker 5: So that was always my motivating.
Speaker 1: So if it was like the fresh ice sounds.
Speaker 9: If it was like an Aunt Doreen return to the place,
Speaker 9: is it I picture like Flappers era music that's part
Speaker 9: of your routine.
Speaker 5: Or we could do like a Billy Joel situation.
Speaker 3: I was coming back a little further than Joel, but
Speaker 3: you were saying like a little uptown girl something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uptown woman, excuse me, I.
Speaker 6: Do like Flaffer though, maybe you know what, maybe.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll have a vote this is experience. Are we
Speaker 1: calling to honor aunt Doreen's returned to the to the ice.
Speaker 7: It's a big choice for who's gonna coach this team
Speaker 7: because I don't know. I don't think they can make
Speaker 7: this sort of sandwich prop or whatever. But I'm gonna
Speaker 7: I'm just gonna say it, like, if the United States
Speaker 7: does not win the first ever gold medal and flag football,
Speaker 7: I feel like the entire rest of the United States
Speaker 7: delegations shouldn't be allowed to play in the following.
Speaker 3: No, this is this is the point that I wanted
Speaker 3: to make Greg what you're saying, Let's not mess around.
Speaker 3: Remember when we you know, we were doing that thing
Speaker 3: where we were sending our college kids to play sports
Speaker 3: like basketball, and then we were losing, like we were losing.
Speaker 3: It was like, well no, no, no, and then the
Speaker 3: dream team came. Yeah, I want Justin Jefferson on this team. Okay,
Speaker 3: I want Patrick Mahomes on this team. I want Sauce
Speaker 3: Gardner on this team. I want Aiden Hutchinson on this team.
Speaker 3: I want to send a message to the world.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to be disappointed in that flag
Speaker 1: football is our domain.
Speaker 3: I'm not sending some you know, high school tournament champion
Speaker 3: to represent US, and then we lose, and the old US.
Speaker 1: He give me some.
Speaker 9: America music here, give me some of the patriotic and
Speaker 9: then old America heads back.
Speaker 1: Where are the Olympics? Where is this one in our
Speaker 1: own homeland?
Speaker 7: Across the street.
Speaker 1: This is amazing patriot there, it is a quick searcher, patriotic,
Speaker 1: pulls up some stuff.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what, Oh America, I ain't walking back
Speaker 9: out of LA with our tail between our legs. We
Speaker 9: will be triumphant with some of the most gnarly blowouts
Speaker 9: competitive sports have ever seen. We will not we will
Speaker 9: not be denied in the flag football category of the Olympics.
Speaker 1: We're taking the goal.
Speaker 4: When do they take place, It's usually like in like
Speaker 4: mid to late August. That's the list you these players
Speaker 4: would be dissolved from the preseason.
Speaker 1: Well, we don't need the preseason anyway. I listen, I'm
Speaker 1: on board. I think adventing.
Speaker 4: It's gotten your I haven't heard you this zealous about
Speaker 4: the Olympics in my.
Speaker 5: Entire twenty twenty eight, like, who knows what's going to
Speaker 5: be happening.
Speaker 7: I think, yeah, let's see if we can get the
Speaker 7: flag is, you know, a completely different sport than football.
Speaker 1: You know, it is quite different.
Speaker 7: They definitely were not getting any NFL players in there,
Speaker 7: but UK's coming for us, and so we got to
Speaker 7: be careful.
Speaker 1: They do a lot of flag.
Speaker 7: Their lead high school we had mentioned last year, or
Speaker 7: like their NFL academy just took out pretty much one
Speaker 7: of the top NFL high schools in the.
Speaker 1: Point.
Speaker 7: We got to step up. We gotta stops giving me
Speaker 7: my music back.
Speaker 9: We are not sending some high school team to damn
Speaker 9: Sofi Stadium for the flag football Olympics. We're sending Cooper Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 9: who we are sending who we want to send Jalen.
Speaker 1: Hurts detonate the competition and then you could bring.
Speaker 9: You know, Slovenia could send over their combatants and we
Speaker 9: will disgrace them.
Speaker 1: Couple wait for you to be the coach, Well, that
Speaker 1: will be the coach.
Speaker 9: Kyle Shanahan will be the offensive coordinator. Belichick will be
Speaker 9: Special teams coach honorary honorary title assistant to the Special
Speaker 9: teams coach.
Speaker 1: Get his Don shul record during that event? Do you
Speaker 1: see it all? Greg? What I what I'm what I'm
Speaker 1: just saying like that, Come on now, Oh.
Speaker 7: They need to take it seriously and there's a chance
Speaker 7: because uh, these sports sometimes they almost give a little
Speaker 7: present for when you're the home. It might be a
Speaker 7: one time deal. I would I want flag football to
Speaker 7: be an Olympic sport forever, but it would be truly
Speaker 7: sad to lose the only flag football gold medal like
Speaker 7: they got like, we're.
Speaker 1: Not gonna that's not gonna happen France, really, America and
Speaker 1: we have met to this sport.
Speaker 9: Ye, rugby was the DNA and you can go where
Speaker 9: you gotta go for that?
Speaker 1: What the games?
Speaker 9: A grid ion with Vince Lombardy and all that that
Speaker 9: was here in America.
Speaker 6: Back to the middle of the Connor.
Speaker 7: Some bad news though, Breakdance, which is making its Olympic
Speaker 7: debut in Paris next year, not coming back.
Speaker 1: Breakdance.
Speaker 6: We haven't even seen it yet and it's already done.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing. Why why does that being
Speaker 1: launched forty years too late? There's no guest exactly.
Speaker 3: Maybe that takes that long for to jestate the Olympic committee,
Speaker 3: but we can't we can't take the risk greg of
Speaker 3: it being a one and done situation for I.
Speaker 7: Think you know, Cup's gonna be thirty five by then,
Speaker 7: we're gonna have a whole We're gonna do some scouting.
Speaker 7: I want a lot of jitterbug types, like a Tank Dell.
Speaker 7: I feel like in flat flag football.
Speaker 5: Do we want back an Eggman on the call?
Speaker 4: Well, we're not going to let someone from another country
Speaker 4: call it it send to anyone.
Speaker 1: It is an NBC event, so it very well might
Speaker 1: be Tarrico and call it there. Did you see that
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football? Joe? Excuse me? Troy Egman?
Speaker 3: He met the online discourse head on and acknowledged that
Speaker 3: there's a meme going around that people think that he
Speaker 3: looks like jay.
Speaker 7: Z and jay Z looks like Troy Aikman. Well, that
Speaker 7: was Pablo Tory on his podcast. He asked him about it,
Speaker 7: and that became a big thing last week. It was
Speaker 7: a nice breaking night. I think he's following that up.
Speaker 7: Good job by Pablo. He asked a tough question.
Speaker 3: You know, well, jay Z was at the game on
Speaker 3: money Oh, and they cut to jay Z in the
Speaker 3: booth and was funny.
Speaker 1: Buck was I like Buck?
Speaker 3: Jay Z happened to be making himself like pouring himself
Speaker 3: a kognak or something, and and Buck was like, well,
Speaker 3: it looks like jay Z is pouring himself a refreshment.
Speaker 1: And then Aikman's like, I guess I'll just address this
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 9: You know, I see some people online saying there's a
Speaker 9: resemblance between.
Speaker 1: Me and jay Z. And then I was like, what
Speaker 1: is that? Because I miss that that tory and the
Speaker 1: meme thing. What do you got eric for a couple
Speaker 1: of years, Ah is.
Speaker 7: In the house tonight.
Speaker 1: Reaching for a refreshment. Yeah, there's a meme that's going around.
Speaker 7: People think that's my doppel ganger, you know, me and
Speaker 7: jay C How.
Speaker 1: About how about that? And you would think Aikman's a
Speaker 1: good old boy from Texas or Oklahoma or whatever, and
Speaker 1: jay Z is this iconic black rapper from Brooklyn. But
Speaker 1: they do I really do I look alike? All Right,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the news. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to before we sign off the uh the primetime games.
Speaker 1: This is how we do it. Do it.
Speaker 5: We're going to Jags and Saints.
Speaker 3: You're gonna give the Montel Jordan pick up for me there.
Speaker 3: Oh that's okay though, Yep, we don't need to do it.
Speaker 3: I just thought you were about to, so I laid
Speaker 3: out for either.
Speaker 5: I didn't know what I was supposed to pick up.
Speaker 1: I was all right.
Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars at New Orleans Saints Prime video is where
Speaker 3: you see this.
Speaker 1: Al Michael's Kirk Herb Street.
Speaker 3: Connie, you, of course are the anchor of all coverage
Speaker 3: on NFL Network for Thursday Night football. You are meticulous
Speaker 3: in your preparation and as you've been digging through the
Speaker 3: crates on these two teams.
Speaker 1: What what do he keep coming back to is what
Speaker 1: makes this game interesting?
Speaker 6: Well, obviously Trevor Lawrence, Like we don't know whether or
Speaker 6: not he's going to start.
Speaker 5: He's day to day at this point, and he.
Speaker 1: Although they're trending upward, they're saying it's looking good.
Speaker 6: Positive, surprising if he didn't exactly, But how healthy will
Speaker 6: he be is the question? So for me, I'm looking
Speaker 6: at Travis etn and thinking they will obviously try and
Speaker 6: hopefully use him and lean on him for whoever the
Speaker 6: quarterback is, hopefully it's Trevor Lawrence. But the problem is
Speaker 6: the Saints are really good against the run. They've limited
Speaker 6: opposing offenses to sixty nine rushing yards per game this year.
Speaker 6: They haven't allowed a rushing or a passing touchdown to
Speaker 6: a running back yet. To Mario Davis is so so good.
Speaker 6: And that's someone else to watch on the injury report.
Speaker 6: I don't know today Wednesday if he practiced, but he
Speaker 6: was listed as a non participant Monday and Tuesday. So
Speaker 6: just like a couple of things to watch there. But
Speaker 6: you know what's like funny here is that Doug Peterson
Speaker 6: has never lost a game on a Thursday.
Speaker 7: And I just kind of.
Speaker 4: Seven and oh, and there's no other coach that comes
Speaker 4: even close to that. He's the only coach in the
Speaker 4: NFL with five plus games on Thurston Football that is
Speaker 4: undefeated in the history of the league.
Speaker 7: Right, and this this is potentially a revenge game for
Speaker 7: him for the path not taken, as Saints fans will
Speaker 7: remember the Saints when they went through kind of a
Speaker 7: chamockery of a coaching search before settling on Dennis Allen.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I'm just making up words in interviewed
Speaker 7: Doug Peterson on a zoom. They didn't they didn't want
Speaker 7: him to, they didn't fly him out. They didn't feel
Speaker 7: like medium in person. This is not peak COVID or anything.
Speaker 7: There are plenty of coaching interviews in person going on there.
Speaker 7: They're like, we'll talk to the Super Bowl champion on
Speaker 7: a zoom and then we're gonna hire the coach who
Speaker 7: has a career record right now I believe of eighteen
Speaker 7: and forty six. And I was saying, can I.
Speaker 1: Say that's this actual little revenge?
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that too, and I don't think it's
Speaker 3: it's not excusable. I will say there was this era
Speaker 3: society wise, right after COVID where a lot of different
Speaker 3: sectors were.
Speaker 1: Like, can we get away with stuff now and save
Speaker 1: some money?
Speaker 7: Like, remember, right, can we get away with not bringing
Speaker 7: the guy in? We're not going to hire anyway, so
Speaker 7: let's do it on zoom.
Speaker 3: But it's almost like my point, my sense decisions, And
Speaker 3: there was talk of and Connie like and you were
Speaker 3: a Capital B broadcaster was talking about let's stop sending
Speaker 3: announcing cruise two games on road trips so as put
Speaker 3: them in studios. It worked during COVID, and thankfully there
Speaker 3: was a lot of pushback in some of that stuff
Speaker 3: and all of it went away. Greg, you're raising.
Speaker 1: Your hand point of order, I always I strive to
Speaker 1: be accurate.
Speaker 7: Yes, Dennis Allen is eighteen and forty one as an
Speaker 7: NFL head coach, not forty six.
Speaker 1: So remarkable.
Speaker 5: Okay, just good correction.
Speaker 3: I will also note that the New Orleans Saints are
Speaker 3: just a half game out of first in the NFC
Speaker 3: South as we as we approach Thursday Night football, so it's.
Speaker 7: A good game.
Speaker 3: They are not a flashy team. They haven't been an
Speaker 3: exciting team, but they have been competitive. Their defense has
Speaker 3: been good and sometimes great this season, and the offense
Speaker 3: needs to pick it up, I think. But I don't
Speaker 3: like you mentioned Mark that you see the Saints is
Speaker 3: maybe the best team in the division.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily disagree. Yeah, I think that it's wow.
Speaker 9: It doesn't mean I think I'm high on the Saints,
Speaker 9: but they kind of smell like a team that's either
Speaker 9: gonna win eight or nine games, and nine might do it.
Speaker 4: I guess, like all those teams are so incomplete to
Speaker 4: your wanting to fork the whole division and send them
Speaker 4: into hyper space. But I think when you think about
Speaker 4: Thursday Night Football, thee this things even to happen every
Speaker 4: week where it's like there's this sort of cell. If
Speaker 4: the home team is like vibing in like they they
Speaker 4: had led to victory, it's like there's this sort of
Speaker 4: coronation of like everything's great all over again, like we're
Speaker 4: celebrating them. It's this Island game before the real Sunday
Speaker 4: thing game. Since like I just was like thinking driving
Speaker 4: down here, like I have a feeling like the Saints
Speaker 4: defense is gonna have this night where they might make
Speaker 4: life really difficult if it is Trevor Lawrence. And if
Speaker 4: it's not, like just really difficult for the whole offense.
Speaker 1: CJ.
Speaker 4: Bethort is like he's not incompetent, but it's just like
Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence is what makes them special in so many ways.
Speaker 1: I think Travis etn two. But this is a team
Speaker 1: really good against run.
Speaker 4: Like you said, the Saints have not they Like even
Speaker 4: in that game against Tampa Bay where Baker Mayfield made
Speaker 4: a bunch of plays, I still felt like the Saints
Speaker 4: secondary was pretty nasty, like just like that's sort of
Speaker 4: been their DNA for years. They haven't allowed a passer
Speaker 4: to cross two hundred and seventy five yards in thirty
Speaker 4: two straight games, and so I think, you know, if
Speaker 4: you look at like that Chiefs game, for instance, that
Speaker 4: the Jaguars are a lot of drop passes in the
Speaker 4: end zone. It's like they've had a couple of games
Speaker 4: where they've been imperfect and they've made mistakes, and it's
Speaker 4: like you either get Calvin Ridley or you don't. He's
Speaker 4: been lesser against like man coverage, and the Saints want
Speaker 4: to do that. I think like this is just gonna
Speaker 4: be a Saints defensive night, tight game where Jacksonville they're
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Offter is it gonn off the ball? Well? I almost did,
Speaker 1: but it's here's the thing.
Speaker 4: The other I cannot trust Derek Carr, so I feel
Speaker 4: like they're gonna score it.
Speaker 1: Simla, Can I see this being like twenty one to
Speaker 1: eighteen or something.
Speaker 7: I am thinking or have thought about locking up the Jacks,
Speaker 7: But as we're taping, we do to know Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 7: I hear everything you're saying. But they're one of the
Speaker 7: worst pass rushes in the league. There, their pass rush
Speaker 7: win rate, their pressure is all that. And Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 7: with time, to me, that's dangerous assuming he plays. And
Speaker 7: the key for the Jacks this year is you're right,
Speaker 7: their offense They're passing attack specifically is less than we
Speaker 7: expect it. It's a little less than last year. Actually,
Speaker 7: you know, they're not a top ten by any advanced
Speaker 7: metric passing attack.
Speaker 1: They've been pretty uneven.
Speaker 7: But their defense is been better than their offense, leading
Speaker 7: the league in forced turnovers and maybe that doesn't keep up.
Speaker 7: But I thought this was going to be one of
Speaker 7: the worst defense in the league, and I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 7: how is I so wrong about this Jaguars defense. Number one,
Speaker 7: Josh Allen's having a career year. This is the best
Speaker 7: year Josh Allen's ever played.
Speaker 1: Number two.
Speaker 7: They are a great run defense week after week, and
Speaker 7: Trayvon Walker is a disappointing player overall, but he's a
Speaker 7: great run defender. And they have all these big guys
Speaker 7: up front, and then they're getting some big production out
Speaker 7: of guys they gave a lot of money to last
Speaker 7: year and they were a little lesser last year. Foyer
Speaker 7: of Lucon was good last year. Now he's been fantastic.
Speaker 7: Linebacker Darius Williams was a big problem last year. He's
Speaker 7: played well at cornerback. They're probably without their best cornerback
Speaker 7: Campbell this week. Unfortunately, he got injured, but they're getting
Speaker 7: a lot of good play and so a good defense
Speaker 7: against this Saints offense. I like the Jags.
Speaker 6: I'll have Buster Brown in there for Tyson Campbell this week,
Speaker 6: so that's going.
Speaker 5: To be interesting.
Speaker 1: I always want to say to Von Campbell, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, and so that's why.
Speaker 6: Just but also just real quick with the Jags, their
Speaker 6: schedule has been wild because they did the back to
Speaker 6: back games in London, then they didn't have a buye
Speaker 6: so they played the Colts and now they're on a
Speaker 6: short week for Thursday night football.
Speaker 5: So I feel like they're also just like dying to
Speaker 5: get to.
Speaker 7: Thet They chose that they've gotten there more than any
Speaker 7: other franchise and they didn't want.
Speaker 1: To do it and it worked.
Speaker 4: They I think you can you can hassle the Saints
Speaker 4: offensive line, which has been bad and they've got a
Speaker 4: lot of injuries, and you have another person in there
Speaker 4: this week. It's like that's one place where the defense
Speaker 4: you just talked about.
Speaker 7: There's something about the Saints that doesn't show up in
Speaker 7: the numbers, and that's I think at their core. There's
Speaker 7: something's not right about this team. You see the way
Speaker 7: that last game ended with car throwing to nowhere from
Speaker 7: four straight plays, and the coaching and the players and
Speaker 7: it's like they benched Trevor Penning their first round pick
Speaker 7: and then and he found out through an article like
Speaker 7: on a pay website with sources.
Speaker 1: Like mc Orleans Football.
Speaker 7: It's like it's all a little behind a pay like
Speaker 7: well it is like one of those Yeah, I don't
Speaker 7: know that's how he found it.
Speaker 3: Even worse, come on, come on Sunday Night football. One
Speaker 3: of the best games of the year. Potentially, it has
Speaker 3: that potential. I don't want to put the jinks on it.
Speaker 3: You never know what these primetime matchups. But the Miami
Speaker 3: Dolphins are five and one, and Miami are looking to
Speaker 3: rewrite the record books in terms of their offensive output.
Speaker 3: And now they get the Philadelphia Eagles, and they get
Speaker 3: the Eagles in Philly in prime time. And Connie, it's
Speaker 3: not just the Eagles, you know, five and ones, defending
Speaker 3: conference champions. They're an angry Eagles team.
Speaker 1: Aren't they. They are furious about.
Speaker 3: What happened at the Meadowlands on Sunday afternoon. And that's
Speaker 3: almost if you want to take any positive out of that.
Speaker 3: This is the kind of mode. You want the Eagles
Speaker 3: in for this Titanic matchup.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because the rest of their schedule too, like they're
Speaker 6: about to go into a gauntlet.
Speaker 1: It's brutal. It's the hardest schedule in the NFL.
Speaker 6: I think the rest they have the Dolphins this week
Speaker 6: and then games coming up against the Cowboys, the Bills,
Speaker 6: the Chiefs, the Niners.
Speaker 5: I mean, if they're going to sit.
Speaker 7: Away and there the Cowboys, listen, the.
Speaker 6: Eagles cannot lose this week wearing Kelly Green. That is
Speaker 6: just like not gonna happen on Sunday Night football against
Speaker 6: the Dolphins. I don't like the vibes right now. But
Speaker 6: also last week they had so many guys that were injured,
Speaker 6: and yeah, when they lost Lane Johnson, like they weren't
Speaker 6: able to run the ball.
Speaker 5: They never really got into a rhythm at all.
Speaker 6: And that's the key here and it always is for Philadelphia,
Speaker 6: like run the ball more, but to keep to a
Speaker 6: and this offense off the field, you just have to
Speaker 6: play some type of ball control.
Speaker 1: I'm I here's the concert.
Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like Number one Baldy comes out of
Speaker 4: nowhere to say that he's been hanging out with Lane
Speaker 4: Johnson at his house or something he always does, and
Speaker 4: so he's gonna so Lane Johnson said, sounds like he's
Speaker 4: gonna play course to Baldy. But I like, so you're
Speaker 4: the Dolphins, Like, if you're a competent secondary, there's a
Speaker 4: high percentage chance you get frazzled against this this passing attack.
Speaker 1: And they've got Bradley Roby dealing with a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: Could they just sign and like had to play starter snap.
Speaker 4: Right, Monte Maddox, Justin Evans on ir Reid Blankenship, Eli
Speaker 4: Rix banged up. So it's like like they literally, like
Speaker 4: Howie Roseman's like scouring the waiver wire just trying to
Speaker 4: find anyone to fill the scheme. And it's like that
Speaker 4: to me, is uh, I think I feel like Mike
Speaker 4: McDaniel could probably.
Speaker 5: Slay should Darius slag should be back.
Speaker 1: We had very promising words that he would come back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and hopefully Jalen Carter.
Speaker 7: But when you looked at the Eagles coming into the season,
Speaker 7: you thought, where is the weakness on this entire roster.
Speaker 1: It's in the middle of the field.
Speaker 7: On defense, it's the linebackers in the safeties and then
Speaker 7: Blakenship has actually been kind of great. Uh So that's
Speaker 7: a big loss, and that's where the Dolphins win. So
Speaker 7: that is very concerning to me that on all those
Speaker 7: crossing routes and everything over the middle of the field
Speaker 7: and picking on linebackers, that that's where they win. And yet,
Speaker 7: you know, I still want to see what Miami looks
Speaker 7: like against Philadelphia because both these teams have had quite
Speaker 7: easy schedules overall, and the Dolphins, especially other than that
Speaker 7: Bills game, has had a pretty soft schedule overall. So
Speaker 7: here here's a tougher matchup. You know, when they played
Speaker 7: the Patriots, they were slowed down a little bit. Here's
Speaker 7: a tougher matchup, especially on the defensive line for this
Speaker 7: offensive line to try to pass protect that I know two,
Speaker 7: it gets rid of the ball quickly. But they've been
Speaker 7: great run blocking too. Like I'm so impressed by just
Speaker 7: the way they've coached up this group up front for Miami.
Speaker 7: This is another level though, because this Eagles defense has
Speaker 7: played pretty well against the run all year.
Speaker 1: Here's some news around the Eagles. A couple of items actually.
Speaker 3: First, Julio Jones, of the seven time Pro Bowler, he
Speaker 3: signed with the team on Tuesday. They're dealing with issues
Speaker 3: Quez Watkins on injured reserve Marcus Holloway, and Desmond Patman.
Speaker 3: Patton also worked out on Monday, and so he joins
Speaker 3: the Fray behind a Brown and Devanta Smith.
Speaker 7: That's fun.
Speaker 1: Who by the way, Devanta's yes, it is fun.
Speaker 3: Although you know, I hate I hate kind of Julio
Speaker 3: hanging on like this, but I also understand it's his
Speaker 3: right to Devanta Smith has been a little underwhelming this year, Hanni.
Speaker 3: He had a terrible job. Potentially they had a couple
Speaker 3: of spots where they could have really won that game.
Speaker 3: Smith might have a touchdown if he doesn't drop that
Speaker 3: ball all by himself over the middle in the second half.
Speaker 1: Against the Jets. He needs up his game and maybe
Speaker 1: they get something out of Julio.
Speaker 6: We'll see, yeah, I mean maybe in the red zone,
Speaker 6: because that's where they've really struggled. They have only scored
Speaker 6: touchdowns on forty five and a half percent of their
Speaker 6: trips to the red zone. So maybe, uh, Julio Jones
Speaker 6: has some type of like career renaissance. We didn't really
Speaker 6: see it with the Titans, we didn't really see it
Speaker 6: with the Bucks, but maybe this.
Speaker 4: Time around, do you think they missed like, because I
Speaker 4: mean Shane Stike and obviously now we're finding out like
Speaker 4: he's great, and you don't ever know what's happening with
Speaker 4: like when your offensive your head coach is off an
Speaker 4: offensive mind of guy, and you got the coordinator like
Speaker 4: Brian Johnson, he's known her forever, we've talked, was like, Oh,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be so smooth.
Speaker 1: But it's like, I feel like the play calling in
Speaker 1: certain situations.
Speaker 4: I kind of liked how they got out of a
Speaker 4: gym with the run game early in the year, but
Speaker 4: it was because the past game was a little hinky,
Speaker 4: and it's like I feel like they're missing a little
Speaker 4: sauce from a year ago, a little juice.
Speaker 1: It was, They're not as explosive. It just frustrated them
Speaker 1: at that game.
Speaker 3: Is I kind of stand by what I said that
Speaker 3: I didn't think the Hurts was terrible for most of
Speaker 3: that game, but obviously the third down throw was miserable,
Speaker 3: and then on fourth then I got to put a
Speaker 3: little bit on the play calling the final possession. I mean,
Speaker 3: you have Jalen Hurts, who's like this incredible athletic talent
Speaker 3: and they're just you know, they could have gashed the
Speaker 3: Jets potentially on a scramble at some point, and then
Speaker 3: they throw a basically up for grabs ball on fourth down.
Speaker 3: It was just a very weird, and I guess it
Speaker 3: was a bit emblematic of any frustrations around Philly in
Speaker 3: general how they handled the end of that game well.
Speaker 4: On fun note from our NFL research package, yes, which
Speaker 4: no longer is produced on paper, but sent as a PDF.
Speaker 1: So that's how I find it. Yeah, you used to,
Speaker 1: I miss I missed it on page I would.
Speaker 6: Like a Google doc, a living one. I've talked to
Speaker 6: the research department about because when.
Speaker 7: You tried to copy and paste, take it off. But
Speaker 7: anyway anyway you could print it, you could print it.
Speaker 1: It could not matter less. I don't everything this was.
Speaker 4: I'm we all saw the movie, but this was the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl matchup in a spinter a pet detective.
Speaker 1: That's as pretty good that is, that is good, kidnapped
Speaker 1: ahead of the game, lone starring role.
Speaker 7: I do wonder that film weird did not age well,
Speaker 7: I'll just say that I don't even remember the con Yes,
Speaker 7: it did not. I have not really bought into this
Speaker 7: Vic fangioe uh Miami defense. It's been quite disappointing on balance,
Speaker 7: but their schedule hasn't really shown many chances for us
Speaker 7: to see what they can be. But I do think
Speaker 7: you can run on them. I mean, you watched that
Speaker 7: Panthers game early last season and Chewba Harbard, I mean
Speaker 7: last week, rather Chuba Harbor is kind of gashing them
Speaker 7: on the ground, and that's the recipe against Fangio defense is.
Speaker 7: And it's interesting to think that Fangio was in the
Speaker 7: building there prepping for the Super Bowl working for the
Speaker 7: Eagles last year, and now here he is in Miami.
Speaker 7: He could have potentially been the defensive coordinator for this
Speaker 7: Eagles team. It didn't end up working that way, and
Speaker 7: their pass rush hasn't been great, so I do wonder
Speaker 7: if they cut the Eagles kind of return to that
Speaker 7: early season pounding that they've been doing, and they've had
Speaker 7: more of these condensed formations and they haven't been as explosive.
Speaker 7: They're like leading the league I think in plays per drive,
Speaker 7: but it's not as many yards and certainly not as
Speaker 7: many points, So they're like kind of a plotting team.
Speaker 7: But I think going heavy is what you want to
Speaker 7: do against this Dolphins, and I do believe in this
Speaker 7: Eagles team coming off at a loss, even going against
Speaker 7: the best offense we've seen it in a long time.
Speaker 1: I'm the Eagle h that's for you, Greg.
Speaker 4: You know what I think, Greg, I think you have
Speaker 4: an interesting pointer because, like the first of all, I
Speaker 4: looked up like the Dolphins their fourth per PFF against
Speaker 4: the run, which threw me because of a Chewba Hubard
Speaker 4: and what happened early in that game. But here's the
Speaker 4: if you look at their schedule, they have five wins.
Speaker 4: They're awesome on offense, There's no question about it. It's
Speaker 4: not a fraud on any level. But they wiped out
Speaker 4: the Patriots, the Broncos, the Giants, and the Panthers. We
Speaker 4: just forked three of those teams and talked about a
Speaker 4: fourth there, I mean, or all of them.
Speaker 1: We just forked all of those teams. They're four worst
Speaker 1: teams in the league.
Speaker 7: Well, it's a it's a show me something for both teams,
Speaker 7: I think, because the Eagle schedule has also been soft,
Speaker 7: and I don't feel great about this. Just one of
Speaker 7: those weeks where to me, there's not an obvious one,
Speaker 7: so just going with a guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I like it. I still want to know
Speaker 1: about Trevor Lawrence. It was going to be one of
Speaker 1: these two games. I kind of want to go into
Speaker 1: a lockoff on this.
Speaker 6: But the stakes are the stakes, oh oh high.
Speaker 1: And you know it's tough.
Speaker 3: Sunday Night football is a tough watch for us the
Speaker 3: way the setup is before we.
Speaker 1: Move on, Colleen, Yeah, that had no impact on the
Speaker 1: result for me. It does? You know you want to
Speaker 1: be plugged in.
Speaker 3: I get that Michael Parsons has a podcast. Okay, it
Speaker 3: is called The Edge with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: What's he saying? I want you to answer to Parsons
Speaker 1: on behalf of your favorite team. Go ahead.
Speaker 12: I just don't condone the bashing of Dak Prescott and
Speaker 12: the Dash Cowboys and have the same.
Speaker 1: Energy for the Eagles.
Speaker 12: So we want the same energy for everybody because there's
Speaker 12: a whole bunch of bashing when it's Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: We're not the same when it's the Eagles.
Speaker 5: Well that's what happens when you're America's team.
Speaker 6: So you have to deal with all of the heat
Speaker 6: that you get in the spotlight, and that is the
Speaker 6: contract that you signed with Dallas and Jerry Jones, Micah right,
Speaker 6: and yeah, like one.
Speaker 4: Team reaches the Super Bowl, well, hello Dallas times in
Speaker 4: a decade, and one doesn't night Nancy.
Speaker 3: I just I just got like a snapshot into a
Speaker 3: John Gonzalez and Colleen fight and it's it does not
Speaker 3: seem like a fun time for Johnny.
Speaker 1: Everyone's got everyone's got a podcast.
Speaker 6: I just flashed to my mom the.
Speaker 9: Edge of Micah Parsons on Bleacher Report. There's the credit there.
Speaker 3: All right, let's move to my You just put that
Speaker 3: guy underground. When that gets back, Look, you're like hyperventilating,
Speaker 3: so mad.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't he didn't come too hot even
Speaker 1: I was expecting.
Speaker 3: Actually, I know what he's saying. It's like, you know,
Speaker 3: that was a I guess a bad loss. And and
Speaker 3: the Cowboys spanked that same jet. Seem that just beat
Speaker 3: the Eagles. Why aren't people saying the Skies falling the
Speaker 3: same way they do with the Cowboy?
Speaker 1: Why do you keep raising your answer? Today?
Speaker 7: Uncomfortable when I answer your question, but you could just
Speaker 7: answer you like, okay ahead, I like u. Because Jalen
Speaker 7: Hurts had one of the greatest performances in Super Bowl history.
Speaker 7: That's why. Because the Eagles have shown that they can
Speaker 7: deliver in big spots. That's why. I mean, it's a
Speaker 7: it's such an obvious answer.
Speaker 6: Well, now Greg's getting all fired up.
Speaker 1: You know what, Like Michael Carsons know the history of
Speaker 1: their own team. Why are you?
Speaker 4: Why are you of all people asking this question? We
Speaker 4: all know the answer, we don't. It's not even an
Speaker 4: interesting conversation.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mark, I'm pro Zak.
Speaker 7: I always kind of have Dak Prescott's back. I'm with
Speaker 7: him on that front. But like that's the answer.
Speaker 1: Why Mike, I'm with you. I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1: How about that? How about we even that out a little?
Speaker 7: Fine?
Speaker 6: Fine, Fine, you're America's team.
Speaker 7: Yeah, fine, Dan Anglin for a home and home with
Speaker 7: getting after it the Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: All right, finally, let's try to be a little quicker here.
Speaker 3: Monday night football, the San Francisco forty nine ers traveling
Speaker 3: to Minneapolis to face the Vikings.
Speaker 1: The Vikings.
Speaker 3: Of course, we'll be without Justin Jefferson, who's continuing to
Speaker 3: covalesce after suffering that hamstring injury. Yeah, that's not what
Speaker 3: people are going to be talking about, because we knew that.
Speaker 3: The question is who will be playing for the San
Speaker 3: Francisco forty nine?
Speaker 5: Breaking news?
Speaker 1: Okay, I hit it? Perhaps breaking or development? We try
Speaker 1: to trade, all right, hit it and wait wait for
Speaker 1: the We.
Speaker 7: Gotta wait supps because you're breaking into you just blewe
Speaker 7: Robert's mind. Yeah, you try to let Eric know ahead
Speaker 7: of time. But it's okay, it's okay, we can't.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening. No, we're waiting for that. He's going
Speaker 1: to get there. I think he is. He seems to
Speaker 1: be really frazzled by this one.
Speaker 5: Can I get a Tom Brokaw there?
Speaker 1: Will it is different? What do we want here? Developing
Speaker 1: or breaking?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's from you, get Brokaw? Okay on ham
Speaker 1: bro Ha. There's a report from.
Speaker 5: Adam Schefter a trade is going down.
Speaker 6: The Jets informed former Chiefs wide receiver Nicole Hartman that
Speaker 6: he's being sent back to Kansas City and another late
Speaker 6: round draft pick swap.
Speaker 1: Wait a second. I threw that out as a joke
Speaker 1: last week, that he'd be going back to Kansas City.
Speaker 7: It's happening. Wow, he was a healthy scratch one week right, Hey,
Speaker 7: there we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was breaking news. But the fortunes of nastically
Speaker 1: altered by this.
Speaker 3: I think the chiefs it's a it is a bit
Speaker 3: of a obviously an admission that things aren't going so
Speaker 3: well with their wide receiver core. They want to get
Speaker 3: some something else in there to mix up. It wasn't
Speaker 3: working out with the Jets. You never know with Hartman
Speaker 3: how his relationship and that that would have worked out
Speaker 3: if Rogers was involved. But once he was out and
Speaker 3: they just had to redo the offense, Hackat has lost
Speaker 3: any spot for Hardman.
Speaker 7: So if anything, I'm I'm a and I was a
Speaker 7: Chief fan, I'd be a little disappointed because I was
Speaker 7: thinking they were a prime candidate to add a little
Speaker 7: higher octane wide receiver. Maybe will you just Cherry Judy,
Speaker 7: You just would think this might box him out, But
Speaker 7: you're right, maybe they're not. They know who McCall.
Speaker 1: Harry Judy stuff anymore. Well just he's.
Speaker 4: It's not an exhaustion with you, Margaret, No, the whole
Speaker 4: thing is exhausting. But like you need his fourteen yards
Speaker 4: off three catches.
Speaker 5: It was so perfect.
Speaker 6: Mccol harbon going to the Jets because his nickname is Jet.
Speaker 6: He has a big chain that says jet on it.
Speaker 6: You know what, it's all blown up.
Speaker 1: We did that Hard Knocks podcast. I never liked his vibe.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a great the rag and the aviators in
Speaker 3: the very stern face and Gibson.
Speaker 6: Maybe a little mean to Zach Wilson at times.
Speaker 1: That's what. Don't be mean to Zach.
Speaker 7: All right, So that fifty nine passes for six hundred
Speaker 7: ninety three yards in twenty twenty one, as he will
Speaker 7: probably win the.
Speaker 1: AFC Championship games, well because he's on that team. Yeah
Speaker 1: he will. Yeah, there's a chance that he will.
Speaker 3: All right, Niners at Vikings anyway, getting back to thank
Speaker 3: you for that Collein, yep, getting back to the point.
Speaker 3: Who will be playing for the Niners. So Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 3: reports out there that he dodged a serious injury. He
Speaker 3: had the oblique and rib issue in the loss to
Speaker 3: the Browns. So there's a chance that he will play.
Speaker 3: Same thing as being said about Deebo Samuel who suffered
Speaker 3: a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: They believe he.
Speaker 3: May be in the mix. And also it was Williams,
Speaker 3: Brent Williams. Also the injury he sustained not believed to
Speaker 3: be serious, and he could be in the mix for
Speaker 3: Mondays A lot up in the air there, and quite frankly,
Speaker 3: I think that matters a lot because they're not the
Speaker 3: same team. You take those three key pieces out of it,
Speaker 3: and Pardy coming off a humbling loss to the Browns.
Speaker 4: And not the same team as Minnesota that without Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 4: I don't know that they beat the Bears, but concerning
Speaker 4: probably like the worst win they've had or one of
Speaker 4: the worst showings frankly with this coaching staff, and like
Speaker 4: they just look to me like a team that's like,
Speaker 4: we don't have our best player and we have done
Speaker 4: nothing to prepare for that in a way that would
Speaker 4: surprise who were playing.
Speaker 1: They won. Yeah, I like that they did win, and
Speaker 1: I'm not taking that portion of it away.
Speaker 4: There's no argument for that. But like you played a
Speaker 4: defense that talk about lost at seed. The Bears have
Speaker 4: been inviting everyone to get well against them, and like
Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins wasn't terrible and anything didn't they do seem
Speaker 4: the one thing they do consistently every week is either
Speaker 4: turn the ball over or come very close to turning
Speaker 4: the ball over and get lucky if they don't. And
Speaker 4: I think you almost need to score on say like
Speaker 4: eighty percent of your drives for a chance to beat
Speaker 4: the Niners.
Speaker 7: Right, it's hard to imatin them protecting well. I'll be
Speaker 7: interested when the forty nine ers have the ball. It
Speaker 7: just sounds like Deebo's probably playing in this game. McCaffrey
Speaker 7: is the one that's in Trent. Williams is probably playing
Speaker 7: in this game in Trent, and McCaffrey's won. We might
Speaker 7: not know until Monday night. For all you fantasy owners,
Speaker 7: he probably like got Jordan Mason on your bench or
Speaker 7: something like that in.
Speaker 1: Case something happens.
Speaker 7: I want to see though, you know, coming off Purdy's
Speaker 7: worst game as a pro, you could throw the playoff
Speaker 7: win over the Cowboys in there was similar. I didn't
Speaker 7: think he was as disastrous, you know, watching the game
Speaker 7: as I expected a tough weather situation. Really played a
Speaker 7: fine first half of totally normal rock purty half and
Speaker 7: then a couple poor plays in the second half. But
Speaker 7: they're a team Minnesota let likes to play a lot
Speaker 7: of man coverage. I know they don't have the cornerbacks
Speaker 7: that the Browns have, but they loved to blitz about
Speaker 7: fifty to seventy percent of the time, so be prepared
Speaker 7: for that and if you can heat up purty. They
Speaker 7: showed last week the Browns that quick pressure got him
Speaker 7: to be a little scrambled. But when I went back
Speaker 7: to watch that, I was like, that wasn't even that
Speaker 7: bad of a bad game as bad games go. And
Speaker 7: I don't think they'll have those sort of problems because
Speaker 7: the Vikings don't have the cornerbacks that the Browns have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 6: I mean for me, I'm looking at the fact that
Speaker 6: the Vikings struggled against one of the worst defenses in
Speaker 6: the entire league and they almost lost that game. They
Speaker 6: were gifted those turnovers from Tyson Bagen and like they
Speaker 6: just without Justin Jefferson and no run game, like they
Speaker 6: missed Dalvin Cook, they missed any semblance of a running
Speaker 6: back there because Alexander Madison's just like not it No
Speaker 6: Adam Thielen of course this year too. It just seems
Speaker 6: like when you take Jefferson out of it, then then
Speaker 6: what's the identity?
Speaker 1: What do they have?
Speaker 6: And if you almost lose to a bad Bears team
Speaker 6: like you're gonna I don't like it for them against
Speaker 6: the Niners.
Speaker 7: Yeah, forty nine Ers are favored by seven in this game.
Speaker 7: I think the rain Maker needs to take a week off,
Speaker 7: just enjoy the victory last year. But man seven take
Speaker 7: I know it's in Minnesota, but I like that for
Speaker 7: the forty nine ers coming off a loss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of like the the.
Speaker 3: Vik is hanging around in primetime at home here right.
Speaker 3: I don't think they I don't pick them to win
Speaker 3: the game, but with the Niners not one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: And even if McCaffrey does play, you would imagine maybe
Speaker 3: they would have him.
Speaker 7: Featured a little less, which takes away from them. I yeah,
Speaker 7: we'll see. Also, like he has so many touches this year.
Speaker 7: I know Travis CTN of all people, is leading the
Speaker 7: NFL in touches. Got of shocking, But McCaffrey is in
Speaker 7: those games like late in the fourth quarter when they
Speaker 7: have a three score. Let's think about January a little
Speaker 7: bit and think about this Vikings EMN. Think about our
Speaker 7: great running attack which can do fine with Jordan Mason
Speaker 7: and Elijah Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Maybe give give your boy CMC a week off. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 3: We will have the rest of the Week seven preview
Speaker 3: on our Thursday podcast with our draft.
Speaker 1: Colleen, how are you by what a time you're asking? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We got red October with the Phills. Yeah. You just
Speaker 1: did a week a Good Morning Football New York.
Speaker 5: Yeah that was fun.
Speaker 3: You were in England immediately prior to us. Anything any
Speaker 3: takeaways from that.
Speaker 5: I would like to move there. And I had the
Speaker 5: best weather ever heard. The game was so nice.
Speaker 6: I was getting sunburned at one point, like it was beautiful.
Speaker 6: But I'm really nervous about this week because during pregame
Speaker 6: for Thursday Night Football, the Phillies.
Speaker 5: Will be playing Game three.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one.
Speaker 5: So I don't know how I'm going to handle it.
Speaker 1: You do, do you do the iPad under the glass?
Speaker 4: I think I have to, Yeah, because I can't be
Speaker 4: darkers will come becoming left.
Speaker 7: You could just game cast it, you know, you could
Speaker 7: just sort of track it play by that if you
Speaker 7: wanted to be more, I've done it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Plus, you know you're throwing in Steve Smith his first
Speaker 7: appearance since Judy Gay. No he's not.
Speaker 1: That's a powder cag It's.
Speaker 5: Just Cam Wolfe.
Speaker 1: Good program this week, Steve.
Speaker 5: I don't know they have a bye week of.
Speaker 1: They're watching the Phillies. Game, probably together at a tavern.
Speaker 5: Well I cam Wolf is also a fan.
Speaker 1: Two people on the show.
Speaker 7: We get the we have a meeting internally here. We
Speaker 7: should probably get Steve on the show this week after
Speaker 7: he made news last week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. All right, let's call that to order. Well,
Speaker 1: he is in London, so that might be a fact.
Speaker 1: Bill maybe bring him back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a great time. We saw Steve on
Speaker 3: the field. He was obviously very friendly, very nice guy
Speaker 3: to us.
Speaker 5: So yeah, he's a very nice guy.
Speaker 1: We're not on the Judy hit list and that's good.
Speaker 1: You don't want to.
Speaker 5: You never want to be on the wrong side.
Speaker 3: No, all right, good stuff, connye great to have us
Speaker 3: all back together and we have a special one.
Speaker 1: I'll just leave it right there. Next week with Colleen
Speaker 1: a fan favorite episode coming up. So thank you to
Speaker 1: everybody and Eric. Great to see you again too, Bud.
Speaker 1: Mister guys, yeah we missed you. It is a little
Speaker 1: easier doing this face to face. What this is beautiful?
Speaker 1: All right, till next time. The call
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