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Speaker 1: I take number one. The best win of the weekend
Speaker 1: was the San Francisco forty nine ers, who completely shalack
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was a huge loss for me too,
Speaker 1: because on Friday I sat there looking on like San
Speaker 1: Francisco's minus three and a half at Jacksonville. Why are
Speaker 1: the Niners favored on the road. The Niners have not
Speaker 1: won a game in a month. Jacksonville hasn't lost the
Speaker 1: game in six weeks. That's crazy. They shouldn't be favored.
Speaker 1: What's crazy is they were only favored by three and
Speaker 1: a half. It was a huge miss. By Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: but only because they didn't give the Niners enough credit.
Speaker 1: I spent my entire Sunday afternoon after the Niners and
Speaker 1: Jags that unfolded, looking at constant, constant needling from people
Speaker 1: on social media, everything from you got to explain this fam?
Speaker 1: Where you at fam? The very original and always really clever,
Speaker 1: this aged well to find out what he's smoking. I
Speaker 1: got hammered for doubting the Niners. I probably should have
Speaker 1: realized that Debo was back, Trent Williams is back, and
Speaker 1: also I don't think it was much negative of the Niners.
Speaker 1: I was trying to be a little more pro Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville was not ready for that game. They were not
Speaker 1: ready for primetime, whatever you want to call it. That
Speaker 1: was a back to the shallow one game for Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna give Miami crap for not playing well
Speaker 1: against the good teams, and I have, I got to
Speaker 1: give it to Jacksonville. The defense is not very good.
Speaker 1: At some point we have to have an evaluation of
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in big games. That was the biggest one
Speaker 1: of the weekend and the worst take of Friday from me.
Speaker 1: Take number two when Watson is good. The Browns are terrifying,
Speaker 1: terrifying Deshaun and Watson played his best as a Brown.
Speaker 1: He had his biggest plays, biggest moments, biggest games as
Speaker 1: a Brown. And when the quarterback works and when Watson
Speaker 1: realizes his ability and when he gets out there and
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm gonna do my cosplay of Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: from the Texans, like early Texans years, and he does
Speaker 1: that on the Browns with that defense, it's like, oh, all,
Speaker 1: a sudden shot can make free throws. Now, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? I don't care how many times you
Speaker 1: follow him Ooster tag, He's go knock down the shots.
Speaker 1: I don't care how many times you think you can
Speaker 1: get around the Browns defense. Watson is gonna make you pay.
Speaker 1: Because Watson's good. Now, it's like Happy Gilmore learning how
Speaker 1: to putt. It's dangerous. If Watson gets to that level
Speaker 1: that he was at with Houston, Cleveland can be the
Speaker 1: best team in all the NFL. That was an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing win in Baltimore by Watson by the Browns. If
Speaker 1: he's good, the Browns are terrifying. Take number three, biggest
Speaker 1: loser of the weekend. It was not Jacksonville, it was
Speaker 1: not the Jets, it wasn't even the Giants. It was
Speaker 1: the S two Cognition test and the mensas that put
Speaker 1: that thing together, because if you remember CJ. Stroud coming
Speaker 1: out of Ohio State, apparently didn't do well on that
Speaker 1: test and it was held against him and he was
Speaker 1: called everything from not ready for prime time, not ready
Speaker 1: for the league, to straight up probably dumb and can't process.
Speaker 1: How terrible is that thing? Look, I love those ladies
Speaker 1: and gentle whoever made that up. I'm sure they are
Speaker 1: very intelligent people. This was not a good weekend for
Speaker 1: their test. You know, the S two Cognition test is
Speaker 1: we it's a cutting edge examination to evaluate an athlete's
Speaker 1: ability to process on the field. And Stroud's like, well,
Speaker 1: why don't you process this? Why don't you process that?
Speaker 1: I have just beat Joe Burrow, who's on a win
Speaker 1: streak in his house in the last minute. That thing
Speaker 1: looks terrible this weekend and next draft season when the
Speaker 1: S two Cognition test comes up, everyone's going to point
Speaker 1: to Stroud and be like, who cares? He failed? And
Speaker 1: he looks amazing S two tough beat this weekend, maybe
Speaker 1: you start working on the S three or maybe even
Speaker 1: the S four, or just go back to the S one.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the S one, but it might be
Speaker 1: better than the S two because that thing had a
Speaker 1: huge hel this week. And compliments of CJ. Stroud, what
Speaker 1: a really fun Texas team. Take number four. The Raiders
Speaker 1: are the best interim coach team of this era. They're
Speaker 1: really bad when they have their regular coach, but when
Speaker 1: they have an interim coach, they're great. Antonio Pierce, rich Pasaca.
Speaker 1: I think he walked so Pierce could run. It's an
Speaker 1: amazing thing that they're doing because often, and like most
Speaker 1: of the time, teams win with the interim head coach
Speaker 1: because finally Wicked Witch is dead. They get out of
Speaker 1: that horrible divorce whoever the first coach was that they
Speaker 1: fired or excommunicated, and now the players are so happy.
Speaker 1: It's fun. We got our favorite position coach and he
Speaker 1: lets us put her feet on the table and he
Speaker 1: gives us time off and he's cool and lose and fun.
Speaker 1: So the team wins that second week after that interim
Speaker 1: coach week, they almost always lose, not the Raiders. They
Speaker 1: beat the Jets. They're in the rebound relationship after the
Speaker 1: marriage with like the young girlfriend they picked up or
Speaker 1: boyfriend or whatever it is, and they went off to
Speaker 1: Cabo for just a romp. But normal. When you come
Speaker 1: back from the Cabo after the it's like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is real life. I don't like this person anymore. No,
Speaker 1: they're staying in Cabo for another week. They're getting the
Speaker 1: time share in Cabo. The Raiders are great with interim coaches.
Speaker 1: They somehow beat the Jets. They got this rookie Eid
Speaker 1: and o'conn. Who cares they won? Raiders. If only you
Speaker 1: could have your permanent head coaches be as good as
Speaker 1: your interim we might have something there. Until then, best
Speaker 1: Interim Team number five. It mentioned the Jets enough, no
Speaker 1: Moss tap out stop. I don't want to see Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson anymore. I don't want to see it. I'm done,
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch it. The Jets as an
Speaker 1: organization are so supportive and fiercely protective of Zach Wilson.
Speaker 1: I think the Jets rally around Zach Wilson more than
Speaker 1: the Patriots rallied around Brady during the Super Bowl years.
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are more likely to bench Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes than the Jets are finally to say, all right,
Speaker 1: you win, no more Zach Wilson, And you say, well,
Speaker 1: who are they supposed to go to? I don't care,
Speaker 1: Tim Boyle, Fine, I just want to see somebody else.
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon, Fine, want to see somebody else. There was
Speaker 1: this rumor that before the Rams signed Carson Wentz. Not
Speaker 1: a rumor, a report the Jets We're gonna sign Carson Wentz. Fine,
Speaker 1: I just want to see anybody else. You're like, you're
Speaker 1: gonna put Carson? Yes? No more? Is Zach Wilson? No more?
Speaker 1: You know who's worse than the Jets? Take number six?
Speaker 1: The Patriots. They're broken, irreparably. You can't watch them. They
Speaker 1: just scored six points in Germany against the Gardner Minshew Colts.
Speaker 1: They bowled Mac. They could have pulled Zappi if he
Speaker 1: gave him more chance. They are so bad. And I
Speaker 1: don't understand, Belichick. What is this team? Your contemporaries, The
Speaker 1: people you're compared against are the likes of Don Shula,
Speaker 1: John Wooden. Don Shula finished his last two years coaching
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. John Wooden finished his last year coaching
Speaker 1: winning the whole damn thing for UCLA. You are circling
Speaker 1: the drain at two and six it feels like two
Speaker 1: and sixteen. And it's not just that they don't play well.
Speaker 1: The players are so bad. The roster is obviously terrible,
Speaker 1: especially on offense. And you're in charge of the roster,
Speaker 1: Bill when is RKK his gonna say enough or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hire a GM And then Bill be like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not playing for a GM. Well, then go it's
Speaker 1: so bad and you say, well, they're gonna tank. They're
Speaker 1: gonna tank, and they're gonna draft k Lob but they're
Speaker 1: gonna draft Drake May. Do you really trust Belichick to
Speaker 1: coach that guy to being good? He already had a
Speaker 1: first round quarterback he just drafted Mac Joe's will take
Speaker 1: the worst quarterback in the league right now, it's so bad,
Speaker 1: take number seven. It's just something positive. For God's sake.
Speaker 1: That was just a couple of negative ones in a row.
Speaker 1: Is Jared Goff the coolest guy in the NFL? Right now? Now?
Speaker 1: Don't laugh. You probably think Jared Goff is a little boring,
Speaker 1: and I myself used to compare him to hummus. I
Speaker 1: really like Jared Goff because he was a punchline. He
Speaker 1: was a punchline when Sean McVay dumped him, basically fired
Speaker 1: him on the tarmac after the Super Bowl loss, I
Speaker 1: can't play with this guy anymore. And then not only
Speaker 1: did Jared Goff have to be shift off to what
Speaker 1: was perceived a Siberia at the time in Detroit, where
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're just gonna lose like Lions normally lose,
Speaker 1: then you gotta watch Matthew Stafford not only prosper with
Speaker 1: your old coach and your old team and your old
Speaker 1: uniform in your old stadium, you gotta see him win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. And everyone just laughs at how great
Speaker 1: the Rams did in that trade, and Jared Goff will
Speaker 1: never be heard fromim again. Jared Goff is the leader
Speaker 1: of one of the best teams in the NFL, the
Speaker 1: leader in one of the coolest stories in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He is great, His body language is cool. He's confident,
Speaker 1: he's daring. He's bold on fourth down at a huge
Speaker 1: fourth and two conversion to a rookie tight end. I
Speaker 1: like Jared Goff. He's cool as hell. He's great in
Speaker 1: the community. He's Walter Payton Manner your finalist, and I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be an NFC finalist too when we're
Speaker 1: done with it. Take number eight. There is no one
Speaker 1: in the league week in week out who runs harder
Speaker 1: than Steelers running back Jalen Warren. I love this guy,
Speaker 1: that little ball of hate. He's all muscle and sin
Speaker 1: you and Butcher knives number thirty. I love him. I
Speaker 1: tweetd that yesterday and everyone's like, hold on, what about
Speaker 1: but Checko? But Checko runs like a maniac. I love
Speaker 1: but Checko. But Checko does run like a maniac. He
Speaker 1: runs just as hard as as as Jalen Warren. But
Speaker 1: nobody runs harder than Jalen Warren. Naji's that big fresh
Speaker 1: round pick and Naj's great. I love Jalen Warren. And
Speaker 1: you know what, Jalen Warren's had a very expensive year.
Speaker 1: He keeps getting fine. He has to pay this fine
Speaker 1: and this fine, so much so that after he had
Speaker 1: this huge game against the Packers, he's like keeping the
Speaker 1: Jersey's my first hundred yard game in the NFL. But
Speaker 1: it's a lot of money, a lot of business decision,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel you, Jalen, I feel you. I
Speaker 1: feel you. I watch you. I love you. Nobody runs
Speaker 1: harder than Jalen Warren. He's a classic Steeler. Watch him
Speaker 1: every single week and I love it. Take number nine.
Speaker 1: We got two left, they only have a minute. I
Speaker 1: love Gin. I'm talking about the intoxicants, the alcohol. I
Speaker 1: love Gin, and I love it because you probably hate it.
Speaker 1: I was drinking a Gin martini on Friday and being like, God,
Speaker 1: this hits different VAKA Martinis, boring as hell, and you're saying, oh,
Speaker 1: it tastes like pine noodles. Right. A terrible experience in college,
Speaker 1: and I threw up for twelve hours and I can't
Speaker 1: drink Gin anymore. Good. I don't want you in the club.
Speaker 1: I was trained classically on how to drink Gin by
Speaker 1: my former employer, Jim Rome, who might as well have
Speaker 1: been Gin Rome at the time. He was awesome. He
Speaker 1: showed me it. I love it. It gives me a
Speaker 1: different type of lift, and I liked it. It's not
Speaker 1: for everybody, makes it special. Take number ten. I'm going
Speaker 1: on the Manning cast tonight Monday Night Football, Me, Peyton
Speaker 1: and Eli just chopping it up talking Bill's broncos I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about it. It's a tough assignment because you're on zoom.
Speaker 1: Elis somewhere else the country on zoom, Peyton somewhere else
Speaker 1: in the country, and zoom, and then the game is
Speaker 1: effectively on zoom in Western New York. And you gotta
Speaker 1: have fun and chop it up. You can't stomp on
Speaker 1: everybody else's words. And meanwhile, the game's going on. And
Speaker 1: if you're in the middle of an anecdote, Josh Allen
Speaker 1: hits digs for sixty yards and you have to stop
Speaker 1: and then defer to Peyton and Eli. I'm really really excited, guys.
Speaker 1: I won't promise it'll be good. I promise it won't
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