Speaker 1: The pockets, feels deep throw caught Bryant dust. Briant gets up.
Speaker 1: It takes the balls of the one yard line and
Speaker 1: now the passion the outside is juggled by Bryant, but
Speaker 1: he holds it in and gets to the ends off
Speaker 1: where Darner sucks out three man rush caught and soon
Speaker 1: does mckennan. With twent five seconds, Bradford looks over the
Speaker 1: middle and where was that ten ft high? The kick
Speaker 1: will determine whether this game will go on or not?
Speaker 1: And when whitenessn't got a ball to night, but he
Speaker 1: makes the Cats there. Oh, Minnesota Vikings, the team of
Speaker 1: around the league, around the NFL. You're breaking my heart.
Speaker 1: I know what it feels like for a night to
Speaker 1: be a Vikings fan. Seventeen fifteen, they fought valiantly but
Speaker 1: lose by two to the Dallas Cowboys. I'm Greg go
Speaker 1: it is tough watching this team. I'm Greg Rosenthal with
Speaker 1: Chris Wesseling. We'll get to Dan Hansas, Mark Sesler and
Speaker 1: the Week thirteen preview and just a minute, but Chris,
Speaker 1: you thought this game was over, and Sam Bradford didn't
Speaker 1: let it be over. He had a clutch drive at
Speaker 1: the end, but it wasn't enough. Sam Bradford is the
Speaker 1: most unfairly maligned quarterback in the NFL. This year, He's
Speaker 1: been in a catch twenty two. Entering this game, he
Speaker 1: had the highest passer reading in the NFL on passes
Speaker 1: over fifteen yards. Most of that is a vestige from
Speaker 1: the North Turner days when he was getting killed behind
Speaker 1: the offensive line, So they bring in Pat Sherman asked
Speaker 1: him to do a quick strike offense, which leaves people
Speaker 1: scratching their heads when he throws short of the sticks,
Speaker 1: and he still gets hit too much behind guys like
Speaker 1: t J. Clemings who just can't block because he's a turnstile.
Speaker 1: He leaves with a rib injury. Comes back in the
Speaker 1: second half. That's the effort. Kyle Rudolph drops a touchdown yeah,
Speaker 1: costing them for points. Charles Johnson drops a beautiful sideline
Speaker 1: pass forty one possession, and then uh La Kwan Treadwell
Speaker 1: runs the wrong route in the red zone, costing them
Speaker 1: more point. Can't get open on a deep rout either,
Speaker 1: they get. Bradford leads the game tying touchdown almost they
Speaker 1: needed two point conversion, and his right tackle Jeremiah surlis
Speaker 1: false starts, a fall starts because the Cowboys fans are
Speaker 1: so loud in Minnesota Stadium. Good job by the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: A fifty fifty attempt at a two yard play becomes
Speaker 1: a seven yard play and they never tie the game.
Speaker 1: I just think Bradford deserves better than to be picked
Speaker 1: on for the way he's played this season. He has
Speaker 1: not been the Vikings problem. Now he's not, and Vikings
Speaker 1: fans deserve better and NFL fans deserve better. Because it
Speaker 1: was a bad call, a bad note call. On the
Speaker 1: final play of the game. They raked Cedric Thornton raked
Speaker 1: Bradford's helmet. It was as clear as can be. I
Speaker 1: think his other arm, his left arm, also hit the
Speaker 1: side of brad It's helmet. That that's debatable. Tony Creanti,
Speaker 1: the official told Bradford, the arm did not touch your helmet.
Speaker 1: They got they missed the call. They missed the call,
Speaker 1: And not to say that they would have scored the
Speaker 1: two point conversion or to say they would have won
Speaker 1: in overtime. But it's just this team. If they didn't
Speaker 1: have bad luck, you know, they'd have no luck at all.
Speaker 1: And some of it self inflicted its offensive lines. It's
Speaker 1: not making the plays in the key spots, but some
Speaker 1: of it's just bad luck, you know. Um, they forced
Speaker 1: a couple of turnovers. The defense plays great, but then
Speaker 1: they lose the game. Really on special teams. Jeff Locke
Speaker 1: was terrible punting all night and it's set up d
Speaker 1: Alice for three points. And then Adam Feeland had the
Speaker 1: fumble on the punt return at the very point of
Speaker 1: the game. I was excited the Vikings getting the ball
Speaker 1: back with the lead ten minutes to go, and it
Speaker 1: looked like maybe they're actually gonna do this, and they
Speaker 1: basically hand Dallas seven points. That was the game changing play.
Speaker 1: That was the play of the game. The Cowboy is
Speaker 1: We're losing. It looked like they couldn't do anything on offense.
Speaker 1: Guys like the Neil Hunter and Brian Robinson. Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: hit a great game, Anthony Barrier, Kendrick controlling. You're talking
Speaker 1: about a Cowboys team where all of their m VP
Speaker 1: candidates the offensive line lost the battle to the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Star stud in front seven Zeke Hanna's worst game of
Speaker 1: the year. I thought the fumble, the holding penalty which
Speaker 1: ruined to Jason Witten first down. He wasn't making people
Speaker 1: miss and then he had a thirty yard run in
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter that kind of saved his game.
Speaker 1: Dak lost a fumble that the Vikings turned into the
Speaker 1: go ahead score, right. They couldn't They couldn't put the
Speaker 1: ball of the game away late when you just assumed
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna pick up a first down to
Speaker 1: win the game like they've done all year, and they
Speaker 1: didn't do it. And you gotta give a ton of credit.
Speaker 1: And I know we're we're kind of being homers here
Speaker 1: for the team of a t L, but you gotta
Speaker 1: give credit to the Vikings defense for one of the
Speaker 1: best performances by any defense in any game all year.
Speaker 1: You give the Cowboys thirteen drives and they only get
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty four cards. This has been the
Speaker 1: best offense in the league. They really only scored ten
Speaker 1: points on their own, you know, seven they got handed
Speaker 1: to him by the special teams. Three really were set up,
Speaker 1: uh by the by the bad punt and and Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott credit to him, makes a great scramble, makes a
Speaker 1: great downfield throw to Dez Bryant, has shown a great
Speaker 1: knack of making the key plays when he needs to.
Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator George Edwards was making his play calling debut
Speaker 1: for the Vikings with Mike Zimmer out with with eye surgery,
Speaker 1: and that was an unqualified success for Edwards. He was
Speaker 1: dialing up all the right numbers. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean bad luck. I mean you got no, you
Speaker 1: got no Zimmer forget Teddy Bridgewater, you got no, you
Speaker 1: got no Adrian Peterson. You don't have your starting and
Speaker 1: backup either tackles and and it's tough because they showed
Speaker 1: the Vikings showed us, uh tonight Thursday night. I think
Speaker 1: why we we fell for them? A little bit, a
Speaker 1: lot of heart, a lot of defensive players, uh, but
Speaker 1: just not enough. They just i'd a way to blow it.
Speaker 1: And Dak Prescott, I'm starting to it's almost cliche, but
Speaker 1: you know, he does impress me each week. You know,
Speaker 1: he has a hundred and thirty nine yards in this
Speaker 1: game in eighteen attempts, and yet he's just he's so heavy.
Speaker 1: He really reminds me of of Brady's first year as
Speaker 1: a starter, which wasn't pretty all the time, and Roethlisberger's
Speaker 1: first year as a starter with a little more support
Speaker 1: behind him where he's just got such a great feel
Speaker 1: for the game and knows to make the right place.
Speaker 1: And what do those two guys have in common future
Speaker 1: Hall of famers. They replaced injured veterans and that's how
Speaker 1: they got their job. Yeah, so that the Cowboys get
Speaker 1: to win eleven and one, they're headed to the one seed.
Speaker 1: Vikings not totally out of it yet at six and six,
Speaker 1: just because that the vision is lousy, Vikings could join
Speaker 1: the ninety three Saints in ignominy as the only teams
Speaker 1: to start out as the last undefeated team of the
Speaker 1: season and still miss the playoffs. Well, this this team,
Speaker 1: this is why I have I did not That's why
Speaker 1: I picked him in this game and why I haven't
Speaker 1: given up on them. They're fighting and there's some talent
Speaker 1: there and in a lousy division. I don't rule them
Speaker 1: out yet, but I also just give the Cowboys a
Speaker 1: lot of credit. And I love what Dez said after
Speaker 1: the game, and after this will send it over to Dan.
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant said after the game about deck Zeke rather
Speaker 1: than Dak. There are leader, there are young leaders. We
Speaker 1: follow them. They bring us the juice. We're just following
Speaker 1: that's an amazing statement to say about two rookies from
Speaker 1: one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. Hopefully
Speaker 1: the rest of the Week thirteen slate is as entertaining.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Dan Hansas to preview it all The
Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast takes shots from the water Boy.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas, and I am joined by
Speaker 1: a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and
Speaker 1: Greg Rose with all the top eyes. Hey Dan, all right,
Speaker 1: we're in the teens guys. Week thirteen preview today. How
Speaker 1: about that? It feels good the after Thanksgiving weeks. It
Speaker 1: just feels like you're close. The games are more meaningful too,
Speaker 1: that they're inherently better when they matter more getting close
Speaker 1: to the season's midpoint for us for those who covered
Speaker 1: this morning. Of course, the the flip side there, Greg
Speaker 1: is some of the games mean more, but we don't
Speaker 1: have to talk about those quite as long or watch
Speaker 1: them quite as hard. Mark. I agree with both of you. Mark,
Speaker 1: you know, as someone who grew up and inside the NFL,
Speaker 1: we give all teams a little bit of pop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay attention to every game. There's going to
Speaker 1: be some stinkers like the forty Niners Bears, but actually
Speaker 1: quite a bit attached to that that we can get
Speaker 1: into it. But there's every game has some meaning. Um
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Speaker 1: teams on buy Good News Mark. The Browns are one
Speaker 1: of them. No Sunday sadness for you. It's just good
Speaker 1: to have them. It's good for them to get a break.
Speaker 1: They need a break. No one believes you when you
Speaker 1: say you'd be okay with own sixteen. I wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: and I spent I've spent since like seventh grade til
Speaker 1: now trying to like mentally control what the Browns do
Speaker 1: over that concept. That's fair. Um, we have a lot
Speaker 1: of games to get to, and I think, uh, the
Speaker 1: one we should get to first, gentleman, Uh involves a
Speaker 1: trip to the Throne of sleeves. Oh, somebody's got a problem.
Speaker 1: Duengland Patriots are going to be without Rob Gronkowski for
Speaker 1: possibly the remainder of the year. That's how serious this is.
Speaker 1: He will undergo back start on Friday. This was reported
Speaker 1: by rap Sheet earlier Thursday. The injury UM and subsequent
Speaker 1: surgery UH could sideline Gronk deep into the playoffs. We
Speaker 1: could be looking at a situation here, although it's still
Speaker 1: hard to tell it's a herniated disc situation, which is
Speaker 1: obviously no bueno, but there could be. There's a very
Speaker 1: real possibility. The only way we see Gronk again is
Speaker 1: if the Patriots make the Super Bowl, which will be
Speaker 1: very hard for the Patriots to do if they don't
Speaker 1: have Gronks. So you see how that's a tough situation
Speaker 1: for the throne of sleeves. Um. So we'll start there
Speaker 1: before we even get into their game on Sunday, uh
Speaker 1: Rams at Patriots, which is a favorable matchup. Greg. Your
Speaker 1: thoughts when you heard the Gronk news, Well, try not
Speaker 1: to be so elated. You know, I'm just imagining I
Speaker 1: am in prime Darrell Reevas, you know, getting injured and
Speaker 1: me dancing around. Oh, you mean the guy that won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl of the Patriots and signed with the
Speaker 1: Jets and basically gave up from That's the guy. That's
Speaker 1: the example you used. Okay, Uh, The Patriots offense is
Speaker 1: not nearly the same without Rob Gronkowski. That's obvious. The
Speaker 1: numbers say it, and they're in big trouble with that said,
Speaker 1: you know, no team has done a better job adapting
Speaker 1: and evolving and overcoming injuries and overcoming obstacles than the Patriots.
Speaker 1: So while I think this lowers the ceiling of their
Speaker 1: offense considerably, they still have Martellis Bennett, they still have
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman, they still have the quarterback who I think
Speaker 1: is playing as well as anyone in the league. They
Speaker 1: still have a diverse backfield with James White, Dion Lewis,
Speaker 1: and Legarrett. But they have had far less talented offenses
Speaker 1: even in the Gronk era. Then this year, the question
Speaker 1: is is the defense but that that's not really having
Speaker 1: to do with Gronkowski. It kills them, But I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't think they're done. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think this takes them out of being a Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 1: I mean any means their defense, You're right, has some
Speaker 1: historical issues this year, and I mean there's numbers wise,
Speaker 1: they've got issues, But in terms of giving up points
Speaker 1: and what third in the league, I mean, it's that's
Speaker 1: the definition of a bend don't break operation. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think Greg makes the point that the Patriots adapt
Speaker 1: and evolved but you're a little too optimistic on guys
Speaker 1: like Julian Edelman and Martellez Bennett who are currently injured
Speaker 1: and battling. They're not the players and Tom Brady that's
Speaker 1: the bigger one, right, They're not the players they were
Speaker 1: earlier in the season or Edelman last year. And I
Speaker 1: think that's a problem when you see Gronk the numbers.
Speaker 1: With Gronk, Brady has a one oh five pacer passer
Speaker 1: rating and without Gronk it's eighty two point five. That's
Speaker 1: a chasm of difference. And I will throw out here
Speaker 1: because we you know, you have to talk about it now.
Speaker 1: Gronk is a guy that came into the league with
Speaker 1: injury concerns, and if you look at what's going on here,
Speaker 1: it's really starting to pile up. Two thousand twelve, a
Speaker 1: hip and forearm issues cost them five games two thousand thirteen,
Speaker 1: back forearm a c L M c L, concussion nine
Speaker 1: games two thousand fifteen, and knee injury custom one game
Speaker 1: this year. The hams ring and the lung and now
Speaker 1: the back um there's a very real possibility. And what
Speaker 1: I you said that, I hope you were joking, Greg,
Speaker 1: because I love. Gronk is a player and a guy's
Speaker 1: fun to watch, but you really start to wonder how
Speaker 1: much more abuse his body can take because he's, you know,
Speaker 1: still a young guy, but he's edging towards thirty. Every
Speaker 1: time he comes back he comes back stronger though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but until he does, it's a back, it's a back injury,
Speaker 1: a third back surgery, and all of those miss games.
Speaker 1: Don't even mention the offseason surgeries that that he's had.
Speaker 1: I think this has been a concern and almost an
Speaker 1: expectation when you think about Gronkowski's career, that he's not
Speaker 1: going to be out there when he's thirty three, thirty four.
Speaker 1: I think you said this. I think he's the most
Speaker 1: valuable non quarterback offensive player in the league. So it
Speaker 1: really hurts them. Doesn't mean that they have no chance
Speaker 1: to beat you know, a Raiders team or a Steelers
Speaker 1: team in the playoff now, I mean I think they
Speaker 1: still have a change. What's what? What is in their
Speaker 1: favors that the a f C. The Raiders are an
Speaker 1: exciting team, they are not a completely dominant team on
Speaker 1: both sides the ball by any stretch. So it's if
Speaker 1: it seems like the Steelers, for instance, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're thinking yourself, Wow, if we can just get straightened out,
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, anything probably right. And the Steelers
Speaker 1: have been, if nothing else, a week to week proposition.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's the Patriots. You get the
Speaker 1: Rams this week, the lowest scoring offense in the league.
Speaker 1: You're probably not going to run into too many problems
Speaker 1: outside of Aaron Donald smushing Tom Brady and the dirt
Speaker 1: bring it back. I like that. Well, it's a lot
Speaker 1: like last year where they kind of coasted into the
Speaker 1: playoffs even though they weren't playing well. You have a
Speaker 1: bye week, you have a you don't have a heart
Speaker 1: of opponent in the divisional round as you do in
Speaker 1: the championship round. And the Patriots were fine until that
Speaker 1: championship round. Well this a f C. I already thought
Speaker 1: it was wide open, and this just accentuates that to me.
Speaker 1: The Patriots, no matter what shape there and they're not
Speaker 1: going to be that much better or or better really
Speaker 1: than let's say four, four or five teams are gonna
Speaker 1: have a chance to win. But I do think the
Speaker 1: Patriots have a eight chance to win the one seed
Speaker 1: they're playing the Rams, this week. The Patriots have beat
Speaker 1: the last two Jeff Fisher teams that they've faced a
Speaker 1: hundred and four to seven. Well one of them, one
Speaker 1: of them was years ago, but it's kind of an
Speaker 1: amazing stat the last two Jeff Fisher teams one o
Speaker 1: four to seven. This is a big test for their
Speaker 1: offensive line, which is not played well the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: And you gotta go up against Aaron Donald put a
Speaker 1: hurt on Drew Brees. I mean, it's just you're one
Speaker 1: injury away if you're in New England. But Jeff Fisher,
Speaker 1: by the way, one more loss guarantees a non winning
Speaker 1: season for the seventh straight year. It's been a tough week.
Speaker 1: Well that it has a lot. This has been a
Speaker 1: tough week for Jeff Fisher, who was getting it from
Speaker 1: all sides. And then there was the uh what came
Speaker 1: out yesterday with Fisher where he was giving a essentially
Speaker 1: a public scouting report of the Patriots and reference Brandon
Speaker 1: and Danny as the Patriots running backs. Brandon Bolden, who
Speaker 1: has almost no role in this New England snaps and
Speaker 1: Danny Amdola excuse me, Danny Woodhead, who hasn't been on
Speaker 1: the team since tooth thusand twelve. I mean, it almost
Speaker 1: feels like a troll job. But if it's not, the
Speaker 1: guy's not doing his homework. That's the way it seems
Speaker 1: to everybody. I mean, he's gonna have his team prepared
Speaker 1: for Aeron her Nandez this week though anything else about
Speaker 1: this game. Belichick showered Johnny Hecker with praise this week. Also,
Speaker 1: Jared bared Hecker is an incredible anything um. He said
Speaker 1: that he was a absolute weapon in the game. So
Speaker 1: maybe the special teams is where the Rams can think
Speaker 1: upset here, but the Patriots are very good position to
Speaker 1: move the tenant to even with his terrible fantasy hipsters
Speaker 1: this week. Uh, who's that our friends on the fantasy
Speaker 1: and friends who are the Matt Franciskovitch for the franchise
Speaker 1: and Matt Harmon. Uh. They talked to Malcolm Mitchell, who
Speaker 1: I really think is coming on, is going to be
Speaker 1: a good player for the Patriots and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big factor down this and they him to be.
Speaker 1: He was twice for touchdowns last week. Who didn't uh
Speaker 1: well last week? Many people over the course of the season,
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks in New England. During the Tom Brady Bill
Speaker 1: Bell check Era R O and seven with a fifty
Speaker 1: one point seven passer rating and a four to fourteen
Speaker 1: TD interception ratio at This is almost a good, a
Speaker 1: weirdly good test to see if the Patriots defense have
Speaker 1: any juice, because if if they do, you would think
Speaker 1: they just they finally have a dominant performance this week.
Speaker 1: Rams are more interesting with with GoF whether you like
Speaker 1: them or not, there is there's no question that they're
Speaker 1: more interesting to watch. Uh. One last note over on
Speaker 1: the end around. I thought after the Gronk news to
Speaker 1: check in on the Patriots subreddit just to see how
Speaker 1: fans reacting a sample a few of these. What what Greig? Well,
Speaker 1: this makes my point about you enjoying uh the injury
Speaker 1: check out big news in the NFL. I want to
Speaker 1: see how one of the most biggest, most passionate fan
Speaker 1: bases something you would do with no other team. I
Speaker 1: want to die. One reply, get ready for the bleeping
Speaker 1: here Sydney Matt and curse Aden, curse, wait go go
Speaker 1: back up to this one really cracks up. Oh. Every
Speaker 1: time I hear A. J. Derby's name called in a
Speaker 1: Denver game, I shake my head. He was doing pretty
Speaker 1: damn well for us in the preseason. Could have used him. Now,
Speaker 1: I like that guy. The funny thing is, that's the
Speaker 1: regret I've I've been feeling that too. I was thinking, Man,
Speaker 1: I wish they had a j Derby. Um, somebody, everybody's
Speaker 1: in on the air Hernande's train. At least Jeff Fisher
Speaker 1: can start planning for Aaron Hernandez to play this weekend
Speaker 1: with wood End. Now I hate that joke. And then finally,
Speaker 1: what the I'm panicking? Well, had no idea that Boston
Speaker 1: fans were toxic slash reactionary. Somebody replied, yeah, Someone replied
Speaker 1: to that one, and I thought it was Sessler. Person replied,
Speaker 1: I'm not nothing really matters. We're all going to die.
Speaker 1: We watched the sport of football to distract ourselves from
Speaker 1: our inevitable death. This means nothing to me. Well, wait,
Speaker 1: maybe West posted his joke, and I posted that, maybe
Speaker 1: we've just been you know, dug in basquerading his southeast.
Speaker 1: That's like Patriots fan I've heard from in a while.
Speaker 1: Like that guy, Let's move on and talk about the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs and the Atlanta Falcons. This is a
Speaker 1: good matchup gentlemen. Uh between two teams that seem to
Speaker 1: be heading towards the playoffs, and the Chiefs are really
Speaker 1: interesting to me, Mark Sessler, because I thought they were
Speaker 1: ready to go into a tailspin and then they steal
Speaker 1: that game in Denver, and you never know how a
Speaker 1: game like that can catapult a team and from confidence
Speaker 1: and you know from all starts of way, it really
Speaker 1: is a lift. How do you see the Chiefs coming
Speaker 1: into this game after that dramatic victory. You're right, I
Speaker 1: think that there's a lot to that. I mean, to
Speaker 1: have lost, that would have been absolutely draining. To come
Speaker 1: out of that and say, look at us in the
Speaker 1: regular season, we really know how to string wins together.
Speaker 1: The team that is more interesting to me though consistently
Speaker 1: is the Falcons, and this seems to be this is
Speaker 1: another case where the Falcons number one scoring offense in
Speaker 1: the NFL and the chief since week six, weeks six,
Speaker 1: the number one scoring difense. We run into this week
Speaker 1: to week and I cannot think of a toime time
Speaker 1: when the high powered offense doesn't seem to win out
Speaker 1: in these matchups in today's NFL, and I think that
Speaker 1: will hold true again. I mean For me, it's the Falcons,
Speaker 1: and we've in West. You caught onto this early in
Speaker 1: week one, two and three that they have so many
Speaker 1: different options and weapons when it's not Julio Jones, that
Speaker 1: it's someone else, And I think that's pertinent this week
Speaker 1: because you've got Marcus Peters, who has held DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall, an Tonio Brown, and Mary Cooper, t Y Hilton,
Speaker 1: Calvin Benjamin to one total touchdown all year. It's one
Speaker 1: of the best cornerbacks in the league. But if you
Speaker 1: find a way, if he's even on Julio Jones the
Speaker 1: whole time, if you find a way to remove him
Speaker 1: to some degree. I think Julio had what thirty nine
Speaker 1: yards last week or something usually comes back big from
Speaker 1: those matchups. There are too many other people on this
Speaker 1: offense to attack you with Taylor Gabriel, Mohammed Sanu he
Speaker 1: had eight catches last week, the best complimentary backfield in
Speaker 1: the league. And then you look across at the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and without Jeremy Macklin and Jamal Charles, they have a
Speaker 1: horizontal offense, but they go a lost the field, not
Speaker 1: down the field right, which accentuates Alex Smith's problems it.
Speaker 1: Jerry macklan did return to practice this week, so did
Speaker 1: d Ford. I would say those are two of the
Speaker 1: five most valuable players on the Chiefs, so they deserve
Speaker 1: some credit for getting getting wins without those two. If
Speaker 1: they're both back this week, that gives them, you know,
Speaker 1: a much better chance. But I don't see them as
Speaker 1: some shutdown defense. I mean, they had some great players
Speaker 1: Justin Houston, Marcus Peters, d Ford, but I don't see
Speaker 1: them as a shutdown defense. Simeon just threw Justin Houston
Speaker 1: was a shutdown player. They have got some shutdown players.
Speaker 1: They're a good defense. But to Mark's point, the better
Speaker 1: offense wins here. I don't think this is a great defense.
Speaker 1: Is a good defense. We don't get to pay close
Speaker 1: attention during the Sunday night games a lot because we're
Speaker 1: doing the podcast. I went back and watched Justin Houston's
Speaker 1: first half was crazy. I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: seen a one player impact a quarter like Justin Houston
Speaker 1: did in the second quarter, play after play after play,
Speaker 1: just blowing for a guy that's been out for so long.
Speaker 1: I think they they are the best pass rushing duo
Speaker 1: now along with Miller and whoever you want to put
Speaker 1: him with in Denver. I to me, Ford was a
Speaker 1: top six or seven pass rusher this year and now
Speaker 1: with him in Houston, that's crazy. I still think they're
Speaker 1: gonna get blasted by the Falcon. There's a crazy stat
Speaker 1: from our NFL research packet that Matt Ryan has one
Speaker 1: more career game than Alex Smith and yet he has
Speaker 1: ten thousand more passing yards just just a smitch under
Speaker 1: ten thousand more pass and I mean it's not shocking
Speaker 1: when you career, but still it's it's it's an alarming figure.
Speaker 1: Well because because the games like last week where it's
Speaker 1: not Matt Ryan's fault, he played well, It's amazing how
Speaker 1: little he did relatively to put up thirty eight points
Speaker 1: on the number one in quotes yardage defensive link. You
Speaker 1: didn't have to do that much. The thing I love
Speaker 1: of those they don't blink when it's fourth down. They
Speaker 1: just they just go for it. I mean they're always
Speaker 1: like ultra aggressive. Does anybody think the Chiefs could pull
Speaker 1: off the wind on the road here, I mean it's possible,
Speaker 1: but the quality team, no, I think the Falcons will
Speaker 1: they have they have been a turnover machine too. I
Speaker 1: mean they've they've been taking the ball away from other teams.
Speaker 1: If they can somehow get into a situation where they
Speaker 1: get turnovers and key spots deep in into in the
Speaker 1: opposite opponent's territory, they got a chance. Let's move on, gentlemen. Uh,
Speaker 1: here is a good game. I'm excited about this one.
Speaker 1: The Detroit lines are seven and four. Uh. They've played
Speaker 1: eleven games this year. They've been trailing in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of every single one of those games. And and
Speaker 1: yet as we head into December, or we're now in December,
Speaker 1: there in first place in the NFC and North one
Speaker 1: of the surprises of the season. Now they travel to
Speaker 1: the UH to New Orleans, Greg's former stomping grounds. As
Speaker 1: he's want to tell us over and over and over again. Uh,
Speaker 1: a five and six Saints seemed that just obliterated the
Speaker 1: soul of Jeff Fisher. Uh, putting up forty nine points. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a game, Chris Westling where we
Speaker 1: see a lot of points, right, I think it will.
Speaker 1: And you have two teams that are kind of mirror
Speaker 1: images of each other, a lot of the same strengths
Speaker 1: and weaknesses. But when you break it down, Saints have
Speaker 1: a better quarterback, a better wide receiver, corps, a better
Speaker 1: running game, and I think even a better defense. I
Speaker 1: think the Saints do everything better than the line. Saints
Speaker 1: are up to twenty second in the Football Outsiders metrics
Speaker 1: on defense, which is a huge improvement, especially considering they
Speaker 1: were close to last about six or seven weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But you know, for the last five or six weeks,
Speaker 1: this has been an above average defense. And it coincided
Speaker 1: with the return of Connor Or's boy Sheldon Rankins. Their
Speaker 1: first round picks played. That's how's that he wrote a
Speaker 1: nice feature. I didn't know you were the only person
Speaker 1: in America that didn't know that everyone knows about the
Speaker 1: Connor or Sheldon Rankin's connection. You just the whole podcast
Speaker 1: is shut down. I think this is this to me
Speaker 1: is two teams that six or seven weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: completely dismissed these two teams, uh because they both play
Speaker 1: in the Dome. But beyond that, I just I didn't
Speaker 1: like the way the Saints were put together for the
Speaker 1: eighteenth year in a row. But their offense is absolutely
Speaker 1: fascinating and I don't understand, you know, they put up
Speaker 1: forty two points in thirty nine minutes against the Rams
Speaker 1: last week. And it's not the only that's not that's
Speaker 1: not an aberration. That's happened week after week. I don't
Speaker 1: know how Detroit who likes to get in these last
Speaker 1: second We know all about the last second scenarios, the
Speaker 1: one minute drill with Matthew Stafford, and credit to them
Speaker 1: for that, But how do you hang with the Saints
Speaker 1: offense if unless you can keep true breeze off the field.
Speaker 1: They don't have a ground game. They're a fast moving offense.
Speaker 1: Last week, when the Saints were preparing for the Rams,
Speaker 1: I remember saying on this show, well, say it's gonna
Speaker 1: score at least twenty eight points here, and the Rams
Speaker 1: just don't have the firepower to get there, and that's
Speaker 1: how it played out. I still feel the same way
Speaker 1: here because, uh Greg, the Lions have not been as
Speaker 1: good on offense in recent weeks here, and I still
Speaker 1: I think the say it's gonna drop another thirty plus points,
Speaker 1: and I just don't think the de Troit lines can
Speaker 1: keep up in this building. They scored one touchdown on
Speaker 1: offense against the Jaguars two weeks ago. That's at home.
Speaker 1: They scored one touchdown on offense at home against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: They have not been as good, whereas and their defense,
Speaker 1: which has looked better on paper, has played the Texans,
Speaker 1: the Vikings, the jack a couple of times with the
Speaker 1: Viking the Jaguars lately. So they haven't played a good
Speaker 1: offense lately. And that's why I'm feeling so good about
Speaker 1: the Wait a second, so I got a little feeling
Speaker 1: I gotta lock it up. Who was that was on video?
Speaker 1: Locked it up? Locked it up in a big special moment.
Speaker 1: One thing about that, one thing about that offense is
Speaker 1: not on Matthew Stafford, not at all. Oh No, He's
Speaker 1: played great. His pocket movement is sublime when you look
Speaker 1: at him versus somebody like Carson Palmer who moved so
Speaker 1: well last year but isn't this year. He's purposeful in
Speaker 1: his movement. Carson Palmer's tentative and Matthew Stamford. You can
Speaker 1: tell how confident he is in Cooter's offense, and he
Speaker 1: knows where he wants to go with the ball on
Speaker 1: on every play. I like that was purposeful and by
Speaker 1: the way, purposeful the lock of the week. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on everyone in this room, obviously, because
Speaker 1: we went a perfect four for four. Uh and you
Speaker 1: know what do we get for that? That's the question. Well,
Speaker 1: I gotta make an announcement because we did get a
Speaker 1: There was some chatter about getting something tangible, and we
Speaker 1: talked about lollipops and a wonderful guy, Benjamin David Dawes
Speaker 1: that's his real name. Yes, that's like a professional wrestler
Speaker 1: Greg like this at Patriots Fan one oh five seven
Speaker 1: on Twitter if you guys all want to reach out
Speaker 1: to him. But sent a box of lollipops and a
Speaker 1: lot of them, so they got spread around the newsroom.
Speaker 1: We got a lollipop. You guys each had one lollipops.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's that's what it comes down to, do
Speaker 1: it for free. I just feel good locking things up,
Speaker 1: leaving the vault. Here comes Sunday night, Open up that vault.
Speaker 1: There you go. There's my reward. I like a tangible gift.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Everybody's different. Thank you, Ben, Thanks Benny. I
Speaker 1: hope you weren't on the Patriots subreddit. Got pretty dark
Speaker 1: in there. Yay, let's move on the Denver Broncos or
Speaker 1: seven and four, coming off that very very tough home
Speaker 1: loss on Sunday night to the Chiefs. Now they travel.
Speaker 1: Here's a gift from the football God to get to
Speaker 1: play the Jacksonville Jaguars. However, a couple of things here,
Speaker 1: and I want to hear your guys thoughts on this
Speaker 1: um the down in the Scientists lab. I know Blake
Speaker 1: wordls through for a d twenty six yards last week,
Speaker 1: but I thought that he looked more like a real quarterback.
Speaker 1: They played the Bills pretty tough on the road. Trevor simmeon,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna play in this game
Speaker 1: with a bad foot. So you got Paxton Lynch probably
Speaker 1: involved here, or there's a chance of it. Anybody small
Speaker 1: and upset here. I'm not smelling an upset, but I
Speaker 1: get why you would say that. I thought the Jaguars
Speaker 1: game last week was their most impressive game in the season,
Speaker 1: especially their front seven, which swarmed to the ball shut
Speaker 1: down the Bills for the entire first half, and the
Speaker 1: Bills got pretty lucky. They had a long punt return
Speaker 1: before halftime and then Lashawn McCoy's eight yard run right
Speaker 1: after halftime. Other than that, the Jaguars controlled the game
Speaker 1: throw out the Titans game, which which you can't you
Speaker 1: know it is on national television records. When these two
Speaker 1: teams get uh and the Jaguars defense I think has
Speaker 1: played better. I think they've played pretty well over the
Speaker 1: last five or six weeks. You can kind of see
Speaker 1: what Gus Bradley wants to do coming together. Bucky Brooks
Speaker 1: Uh from the Move the Sticks podcast. He had Yannick
Speaker 1: in Goquay as one of his top ten rookies in
Speaker 1: the entire league. He's made a big impact playing Dante Fowler,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Right, he's playing really well. So you
Speaker 1: can see that they could give Paxson Lynch problems. Well, alright,
Speaker 1: number one anyone could give. I think Trevor Simeon's gonna play.
Speaker 1: That's just my guests here on a Thursday. They talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that they have so much confidence in
Speaker 1: him that even if he doesn't practice, they'll throw him
Speaker 1: right in the game. They think he's been that smart.
Speaker 1: So let's just let's say that even if that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: This is a Broncos defense that leads the league in
Speaker 1: points a turnovers. They have battered quarterbacks and QB hits
Speaker 1: more than any other team in the league. And and
Speaker 1: you cannot beat Denver if you don't get turnovers the
Speaker 1: other way, and the Jaguars have only one game in
Speaker 1: their last seven where they've even generated a turnover. I
Speaker 1: think it's a disastrous matchup for Blake Bortles, to be honest,
Speaker 1: it's a very tough match up for him. One thing
Speaker 1: about Trevis Simeon though, and I understand the optimism about
Speaker 1: him playing potential, but on Thursday, he's still in a
Speaker 1: walking boot, hasn't practiced, so there there are And he
Speaker 1: sprayed the foot in overtime, like a lot of people
Speaker 1: aren't didn't know when that happened overtime, so you and
Speaker 1: we didn't see him much in overtime, so we don't
Speaker 1: really know how bad this is. I think the Packers
Speaker 1: had kind of the their last stand type of they
Speaker 1: had to have a great performance. Let's see that out
Speaker 1: of this Broncos defense, especially if Paxton Lynch starts this game,
Speaker 1: which you know he's gonna hurt them. Let's see the
Speaker 1: Broncos defense be that incredible defense that won them a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Because think about the last three weeks, their
Speaker 1: pride should be a little wounded. They got run over
Speaker 1: by the Raiders. They gave up a eighties second ninety
Speaker 1: yard drive to Drew Brees that should have lost the
Speaker 1: game in New Orleans when the Chips were down, and
Speaker 1: they gave up three straight drives where they could have
Speaker 1: won the game against Alex Smith. I know they're playing
Speaker 1: well overall, but that's not a dominant, you know, greatest
Speaker 1: defense ever type of performance. I'm just looking up and
Speaker 1: down their schedule and outside of when they faced the Texans,
Speaker 1: I wonder if this is the easiest dual against the
Speaker 1: quarterback they'll have all year. I mean, hot mess. You
Speaker 1: know you may recall when I went down to my
Speaker 1: lab and did my studies. I came up saying it's
Speaker 1: very difficult for all time great defense to to run
Speaker 1: the table second time and play that. Well, maybe they're
Speaker 1: just not as good as last year, and we gotta
Speaker 1: look at him from a different prison. Some interesting findings
Speaker 1: from you when you're go down there, put on my
Speaker 1: goggles figure things out. Regarding Blake Bortles, I think if
Speaker 1: you watch him play his most effective play as a scramble,
Speaker 1: it's him running the ball, not him passing the ball,
Speaker 1: and I can see why if you tuned in for
Speaker 1: a few plays here and there, the touchdown to Marquis Lee,
Speaker 1: the touch passed down the sideline that Alan Hearns dropped,
Speaker 1: you can say Plake Bortles and making progress, and then
Speaker 1: the next throw his mechanics are a mess. He's so
Speaker 1: back and forth over the course of one game that
Speaker 1: there's no progress. I guess he was. I mean, the
Speaker 1: reason I thought he was better was that he wasn't destructive,
Speaker 1: he wasn't turning the ball over. He ran for eighty yards.
Speaker 1: He showed that ability to move which we heard a
Speaker 1: lot about, and he did make some big throws. But obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're expecting a lot more from the guy.
Speaker 1: All Right, here's one stat which illustrates how bad Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles has been, despite Gus Bradley Snake oil salesman attempt
Speaker 1: telling us that he's improved this year. That's just Gus
Speaker 1: Bradley is. Gus Bradley could lose fifty nine to nothing
Speaker 1: and be like it's great out there, a sunny day,
Speaker 1: We're playing football. Were had defend Gus Bradley. But it's
Speaker 1: almost exactly how Dennis Allen used to act when he
Speaker 1: was the Raiders coach and tell people that Matt shob
Speaker 1: was up there with Philip Rivers and Peyton Manning. It's
Speaker 1: the same crap flake. Bortles has been the most regressed
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL this year, and Gus Bradley shouldn't
Speaker 1: be up there saying that Allen Robinson is the first
Speaker 1: catch of the season over twenty yards last week. Last
Speaker 1: year he led the NFL and that's crazy. The regression
Speaker 1: for the entire big play aspect of that offense. Passer
Speaker 1: rating on downfield attempts now is twenty one. It's got
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be the year twenty fifty three. Dennis
Speaker 1: Allen will have just passed passed away. Sadly. West is
Speaker 1: gonna like show up to the funeral right at the
Speaker 1: end and raise raise his hand and be like, you
Speaker 1: guys remember when he when he compared match the rest
Speaker 1: of the West quarterbacks, like I'll never forget that. I'll
Speaker 1: be like Hunter S. Thompson with Richard Nixon and point
Speaker 1: out I kicked that guy before he was down. Alright,
Speaker 1: we've got our blake Boardles out of our system for
Speaker 1: the day. Can we move forward? Well, it doesn't get
Speaker 1: much better from here. All right, let's move on the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. That's what I meant. They travel to Green
Speaker 1: Bay to face the Packers. Uh interesting matchup. He got
Speaker 1: the Texans now six and five, not playing well. Their
Speaker 1: quarterback admitted as much again that he's not making the
Speaker 1: throws he needs to make. And they now travel to
Speaker 1: Green Bay and face the Packers, who Mark Sessler played
Speaker 1: really really well on Monday night and Aaron Rodgers looks
Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers. That seems like a bad combination for
Speaker 1: Houston right now. I think this is just like the
Speaker 1: last matchup we talked about, a good scenario for the
Speaker 1: for the Packers, and I I don't want to put
Speaker 1: too much into a prime time win that we saw
Speaker 1: against the Eagles if you're Green Bay. But it's also
Speaker 1: it completely in my mind, blows up this semi fantasy
Speaker 1: that I had that Green Bay was gonna fizzle and
Speaker 1: just die because I'm a little sick of the Packers,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, But you know what, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what I think about them. They're gonna win
Speaker 1: this game. And that is why it's my I'm gonna
Speaker 1: it's in a big spot. Look at you coming all
Speaker 1: the way around in the pack Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: because you have to admit sometimes when you're little personal
Speaker 1: campaigns are absolutely adding up to nothing. That's the case here. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope that wasn't a reference towards my Tom Brady prediction.
Speaker 1: But no, it is a reference towards one of twelve
Speaker 1: or thirteen agendas I have that are failing this season.
Speaker 1: Hey listen, we all have multiple failed agendas every year.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that's pretty that's pretty safe locked.
Speaker 1: I think that thing is gonna stay in that and
Speaker 1: in that safe and ain't coming out to Sunday night.
Speaker 1: You know what, if you're the Texans and you want
Speaker 1: to ride this thing, you're leading the division, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go into the playoffs, then you've got to have one
Speaker 1: victory this season that impresses someone. This would be it
Speaker 1: if you go on the road. I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: saying the Packers are playoff material, but to go into
Speaker 1: beating them the Titans beat him to get it done
Speaker 1: if you're worthy. My biggest concern watching the Packers, and
Speaker 1: they did have a really nice night in Philadelphia, but
Speaker 1: at one point their first thing goal and they're in
Speaker 1: shotgun and they're throwing the ball and then they actually
Speaker 1: get a touchdown on a rushing play on a trick
Speaker 1: run by their fullback. But they don't have any running
Speaker 1: game at all. And they got a wide receiver that
Speaker 1: they might be using as a running back. And you
Speaker 1: got Eddie Lacey on I R and James Starks, Kristin
Speaker 1: Michael's in the mix, and we haven't seen much of
Speaker 1: him yet. Is he gonna be able to absorb the playbook?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Mike McCarthy said that he has picked
Speaker 1: up the offense and quotes really fast, which is total
Speaker 1: coach speak. We don't know what that means. Why didn't Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's my that's my point. We don't know what's
Speaker 1: happening with James Starks. Is everything two point four seven
Speaker 1: yards per carry? But he came to get rid of
Speaker 1: him But he can block and it sounds crazy, But
Speaker 1: as bad as their backfield is, that's more valuable to
Speaker 1: them than these other guys on rossing. Well, the run
Speaker 1: game seems to be Aaron Rodgers skirting towards the sideline.
Speaker 1: For Aaron Rodgers hasn't been the problem for a month,
Speaker 1: which we've talked about the defense has and now you
Speaker 1: can maybe they can start to build up some confidence,
Speaker 1: kind of start over from scratch because they get another
Speaker 1: lackluster UH opponent here in Brock Oswayler, who you know,
Speaker 1: statistically is the worst deep passing camp. Is this the week,
Speaker 1: by the way, that we might finally get a chance
Speaker 1: to see top again? One more damn time? Listen, listen, Houston,
Speaker 1: do not sit on this mistake week after week. You
Speaker 1: still got a chance to go to the playoffs in
Speaker 1: a wide open a FC. You gotta make a move.
Speaker 1: At what point do you sit down and have an
Speaker 1: I'm honest conversation with yourself and say, look, this investment,
Speaker 1: we made a mistake, and we just watched Matt Barkley
Speaker 1: without the Bears two top receivers, without two of their
Speaker 1: top offensive linemen, without the top tight end. You think
Speaker 1: they were firing up game paths, moving offense down the
Speaker 1: field consistently in a game better than Brock Hossweller has
Speaker 1: all year. When do you have that conversation that guys
Speaker 1: who are journeyman, third stringers, borderline out of the league
Speaker 1: are better quarterbacks. Thank your starter. Well, the problem is
Speaker 1: we don't know anything about Savage other than he looked
Speaker 1: promising in the preseason, so who knows. I mean, we
Speaker 1: believe he's a corp. Meanwhile, you're turning DeAndre Hopkins into
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders very and Randy Moss right, I think
Speaker 1: Oswiler is people are losing faith in nos Weilder, whether
Speaker 1: it's his coaches or his teammates or whatever it is fans,
Speaker 1: I mean, how could you not at this point. I
Speaker 1: I just think that the other side of it is
Speaker 1: your six and five. If they if things start to
Speaker 1: slip away and you lose the division, it starts to
Speaker 1: go away. That's they're still there. Though it's backwards way
Speaker 1: to look at it. Well, Savage probably helps your team
Speaker 1: be more competitive. But if you're Bill O'Brien, and if
Speaker 1: you're if you're the general manager, you have a lot
Speaker 1: of explaining to do. If you bench this quarterback that
Speaker 1: you put this much money, what you're hoping for is
Speaker 1: that he strings together a couple of wins that has
Speaker 1: us talking about him differently. Two weeks from now, It's
Speaker 1: just not that time yet. One last note in Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: If you remember a few weeks back, the football Cogniscenty
Speaker 1: was getting really excited pulling out split stats. Oh, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers has put up the same numbers as Brian Hoyer
Speaker 1: in his last eighteen games. Well, since Week seven, Rodgers
Speaker 1: has the most completions, passing yards, and passing touchdowns sevent
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So I don't take that, Cogniscenti, And
Speaker 1: you know what, West you, I will say this, and
Speaker 1: this isn't even this isn't a shot at you or anything.
Speaker 1: But you said last week that you think there's a
Speaker 1: chance that maybe we've seen the best of Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: I still believe it. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers team was the best quarterback I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: even that version of two thousand fourteen. Aaron Rodgers would
Speaker 1: be impressed by the second touchdown passing through. He could
Speaker 1: play like he played last week every week. Then you know,
Speaker 1: then you're cooking. I'm concerned they're going to be in
Speaker 1: the NFC title game. Hey, that was a fun team
Speaker 1: to watch Monday night. I think they're fun. I just
Speaker 1: think Aaron Rodgers involved with the tent and everything or
Speaker 1: tent stuff. Mark. Let's move on the Philadelphia Eagles. The
Speaker 1: team that got defeated by um Or was defeated by
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the Packers on Monday Night. Now, five
Speaker 1: and six, so long ago. You want to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, bright spots for Mark Sessler. Uh? Not so
Speaker 1: long ago? The Eagles are three and oh, and Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz was the hot new kid on the block. Now
Speaker 1: the Eagles are five and six. Carson Wentz is quietly
Speaker 1: playing terrible for about a month straight, and now they
Speaker 1: go to I disagree with that. I don't see a
Speaker 1: bright spot on if you're rooting against Carson Wentz. But continue,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, deep in your heart, I
Speaker 1: know what's going on in your head. Mark, I know
Speaker 1: what's going on. I think he's I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great quarterback. That's what I think. Oh, what's
Speaker 1: going on in your mind? He just looks. He looks
Speaker 1: to me like I. I think Carson Wentz is gonna
Speaker 1: be a great career. Anyways, Okay, alright, five and six,
Speaker 1: Eagles at three, seven and one, Ben Gals, I don't know,
Speaker 1: somebody make this game exciting. Chris Westling, all right, let's
Speaker 1: let's flip forward. Let's fast forward a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 1: this game is not gonna really have any impact on
Speaker 1: the playoff picture, but chances are seeing the talent on
Speaker 1: both of these sides of the ball, maybe not so
Speaker 1: much on offensive. Philadelphia, one of these two teams is
Speaker 1: gonna be back in the playoffs next year. Which team
Speaker 1: has the easier fix for two thousand seventeen? Do you think?
Speaker 1: I think, since, well, that's a good one. It's a
Speaker 1: great question. Which has the easier fix? Which which one
Speaker 1: you get a better chance to, like reload the roster
Speaker 1: and come back. Really, I'd say Philadelphia because I like
Speaker 1: their defensive cores. I think they have the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: there's less uncertainty, I believe than with the Bengals. I
Speaker 1: still wonder what's going to happen with with this Bengals
Speaker 1: front office and coach and everything. I don't know that
Speaker 1: it's all going to be the same next year. You
Speaker 1: almost equally outside of a j Green, have to rebuild
Speaker 1: their passing game. They're there, they got the number one
Speaker 1: guy in place. It's a lot of the do they do.
Speaker 1: I think the Bengals have been so consistent that you
Speaker 1: have to trust their ability to draft and also continue
Speaker 1: to work with some of their young players. Trust Wentz
Speaker 1: his upside a little better than than any dog. I do,
Speaker 1: certainly the long term, but even maybe next year. You
Speaker 1: guys laughed at me last week. They said it is
Speaker 1: gonna be the toughest six weeks of his career. He's
Speaker 1: melting a little bit. I mean, you guys, I mean
Speaker 1: you just start of saying saying that, like, I don't
Speaker 1: think none of it's on him, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't think, but I think it's a little bit now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I never really made his teammates better. They
Speaker 1: make him better, right, and so I think if he
Speaker 1: hadn't built up all that good will, like, this is
Speaker 1: a tough situation for him, and I think it shows
Speaker 1: his limitation just a little bit. He's not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to improve his teammates. Something about Winston Dalton is underrated,
Speaker 1: im pre snap. He's a very smart quarterback. That is
Speaker 1: one of the things that he made a lot of
Speaker 1: mistakes early in his career and now he's a very
Speaker 1: smart quarterback. But physically he's not without a j green.
Speaker 1: He's not one of the top ten quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He's not I shouldn't He's not one of the reasons
Speaker 1: they're they're struggling. But I don't know. I still think
Speaker 1: there's got to be a part of you if you're
Speaker 1: a Bengals fan that wants a little bit more. They've
Speaker 1: got a lot to work on. I don't think the
Speaker 1: quarterback situation is something you you've changed in Cincinnati at all.
Speaker 1: Tell me what the numbers are not telling us about
Speaker 1: Carson went since Week six twenty nine in yards bird tenth,
Speaker 1: passing yardsburg game tied for last, and touchdowns thirty one
Speaker 1: and passer reading. I think what it's not telling you
Speaker 1: he has a worst wide receiver corps in the league,
Speaker 1: not just from a talent perspective, but from a make
Speaker 1: mistakes perspective, and an offensive line that lost its right
Speaker 1: tackle one of the guards and has been mixing. I
Speaker 1: think when you watch it, you can really put so
Speaker 1: much on his teammates and and the conservative way they coach,
Speaker 1: and then he still shows you things that are impressive.
Speaker 1: They've had banged up backfield as well, and you know,
Speaker 1: outside of what Treggs, they haven't had a downfield element
Speaker 1: at all. You know what, I'm just saying that that
Speaker 1: was the only thing they even tried that. They had
Speaker 1: they it's part of the scheme. It's not that he
Speaker 1: can't throw the ball deep. We know he can. Let's
Speaker 1: move on the Miami Dolphins. Oh, the surging Dolphins, who
Speaker 1: have won six games in a row. They have not
Speaker 1: won seven or row since ve they have been to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's too eight and it's all there for
Speaker 1: him now as we enter December, they now travel to
Speaker 1: Baltimore to face the Ravens. The Ravens have won four
Speaker 1: or five after a four game losing streak. They're coming
Speaker 1: off that win against Cincinnati where Justin Tucker just went
Speaker 1: off and basically won the game by himself with his
Speaker 1: right leg. The Dolphins UH hung on to beat the
Speaker 1: forty Niners UH in a game that Ryan Tannehill looked
Speaker 1: very good again. Greg Rose withhal your thoughts on this game.
Speaker 1: I want to see the Dolphins keep it up against
Speaker 1: a good defense on the road. Looks like the Ravens
Speaker 1: are gonna get Jimmy Smith back. One of the things
Speaker 1: I really liked from the Dolphins last week is that
Speaker 1: with a banged up offensive line where they couldn't get
Speaker 1: anything going in the running game, they really let Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill try to win the game. That they were aggressive,
Speaker 1: and I thought Adam Gates has been coaching around Tannehill
Speaker 1: earlier in the season, maybe not being as aggressive. It
Speaker 1: actually didn't work totally. That was part of the reason
Speaker 1: why San Francisco came back. But I like that he
Speaker 1: showed the confidence and Tannehill's plane to that level to
Speaker 1: earn that confidence. I really fell for the Dolphins last week.
Speaker 1: I know it was only the forty niners. I think
Speaker 1: differently about this team now, and it has to do
Speaker 1: with their last to draft classes. On offense, Devonte Parker
Speaker 1: looks like an absolute stud. The two catches that he
Speaker 1: he had one to nail out of bounds on a
Speaker 1: touchdown catch and another deep sideline catch. The leaping ability
Speaker 1: and he's dexterity he showed was phenomenal. He's been great
Speaker 1: for a month. He's been making the leap you know, late,
Speaker 1: later than we expected. But that his thing is injury
Speaker 1: and he he hurts his back in that game, he
Speaker 1: might not play this week, and that that's kind of
Speaker 1: been the problem with DeVante park I don't hate this
Speaker 1: matchup for Miami at all because I know you're on
Speaker 1: the road. But I look at Baltimore and if you
Speaker 1: can score three touchdowns, you probably take out the Ravens
Speaker 1: almost any week. I mean, they're just not a They
Speaker 1: don't have the ability to produce points and bunches. We
Speaker 1: saw last week that game last week was a great
Speaker 1: example that their most valuable player is Tucker. I get
Speaker 1: so frustrated watching the Ravens because I'm waiting for them
Speaker 1: to unlock the potential they have on offense. They need
Speaker 1: they can run the ball. They just won't do it.
Speaker 1: You look up in almost every week Terence West and
Speaker 1: Kenneth Dixon and averaging four or four and a half
Speaker 1: yards per carry. Bashop Harriman came within similar to Davante
Speaker 1: Parker came within an inch or two of making two space.
Speaker 1: You gotta unlock him. He looks like a player, and
Speaker 1: he does seems underused. But Mike Wallace and Steve Smith
Speaker 1: are playing well too. They're not the problem. It's just
Speaker 1: that if you don't have a running game, you're not
Speaker 1: opening up your path. It's weird. They ran a jet sweep,
Speaker 1: I believe on the goal line on on like the
Speaker 1: one or two yard line. It's just that's something that
Speaker 1: shows no confidence in your ability to just run. You
Speaker 1: fired your offensive coordinator specifically to fix these issues. And
Speaker 1: there's no apparent visible difference between the Mark Trustman offense
Speaker 1: and the Marty morning Wig offense. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1: The bar is really low for Joe Flacco right now
Speaker 1: because he has been better the last three weeks. It's
Speaker 1: kind of sad that the bar is this low, to
Speaker 1: the to almost to the borders point where it's like
Speaker 1: he hasn't hurt them the last weeks. He played pretty
Speaker 1: well against House, he played pretty well last week. But
Speaker 1: it's like you would like a little more out of
Speaker 1: your million dollar guns. Would you be scared? This Ravens
Speaker 1: run defense is right now on pace to be better
Speaker 1: at stopping the run than the two thousand Ravens defense. Wow. Really,
Speaker 1: it's it's very close. I gotta look at the exact numbers,
Speaker 1: but it's very close. I mean, if you take that
Speaker 1: away from the Dolphins, that's how the Ravens have been
Speaker 1: in some of these games. I would say that's a
Speaker 1: misleading step from this point of view, that two thousand
Speaker 1: Ravens defense kept getting better and better and better and
Speaker 1: more shut down throughout the course of the season and
Speaker 1: was playing better in January. They were outscoring their offense
Speaker 1: in the playoffs in two thousand Ravens. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm all in on J J. I. I think handsas
Speaker 1: is too. I mean J J Ji every time I
Speaker 1: watched him, even when he's got bad numbers, I think
Speaker 1: he's leading the league. Is that sooner? But what about
Speaker 1: your boy Henry Hodgson, Dan we We had a chat
Speaker 1: with him down Where's he with the Dolphins? Uh? He's
Speaker 1: taken some of my comments personally on the podcast recently,
Speaker 1: but you know I told him that it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's all in fun, but I do. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what the same thing I said, Uh last show. Uh
Speaker 1: the Dolphins in December. Uh they're bumps historically. No, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's a different year than these two different
Speaker 1: Curry over. There's a culture in place in Miami, and
Speaker 1: now comes the time from Miami to show the world
Speaker 1: that they can win big games in December, which they
Speaker 1: haven't done in decades. And guess what, it's not starting
Speaker 1: on Sunday. And I am so commin that this cute
Speaker 1: little streak I didn't take. I said, you guys take
Speaker 1: that fork away from the Dolphins. They are going to
Speaker 1: they are going to give go on a little run.
Speaker 1: Get everybody excited. They are going to crumble. And the
Speaker 1: crumble starts on Sunday. Cause in Baltimore, I'm a logging
Speaker 1: it up. They're going down. That wasn't just yelling. You
Speaker 1: had the hands gestures, your face was contorted. That was
Speaker 1: the most fired. Excuse me, I was setting you up
Speaker 1: to hand in olive branch to your British friend and
Speaker 1: you taking him down. Imagine onions. Imagine him taking that
Speaker 1: personally onions. I don't know. You go get your gig Onions. Stop.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins team is different. They've outscored points by forty points.
Speaker 1: They closed that. If the Dolphins win and moved eight
Speaker 1: and four, I will the charade will end and I
Speaker 1: will say I was wrong and this is a real team.
Speaker 1: But let's see them do it. Let me ask you,
Speaker 1: you don't like the culture in Miami, would you flip
Speaker 1: everything about the Dolphins head to toe ownership right down
Speaker 1: to the last guy in the roster with New York's
Speaker 1: operation is the second do I one Colias Stefan in
Speaker 1: my meeting room deciding on who goes and the sound Machine. Hey,
Speaker 1: should we take a guarden round three? Saxophonists of the
Speaker 1: Sound Machine of Miami. No hard pass. I don't know that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't just the roster, it's the whole circus. Maybe
Speaker 1: the Jets. You could get Mikey t back in your
Speaker 1: life all right here. I do like podcasts. He's a
Speaker 1: fan of the show. Uh, let's move on the worst
Speaker 1: game of the year, the one intend San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Niners at the two and nine Chicago Bears. Uh. Colin
Speaker 1: Kaepernick playing well lately, um and the forty Niners have
Speaker 1: been hanging around against some good competition. Those unbeatable Dolphins
Speaker 1: came within about a yard and a half of overtime
Speaker 1: with a one and nine team last week. So San
Speaker 1: Francisco showing signs of progress mark and Chicago still has
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley J. Cutler officially moved to ire. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, you could look at this
Speaker 1: game and say, don't even turn on your television, Go
Speaker 1: get in your car, drive around, whether it's San Francisco
Speaker 1: or Chicago, just avoid watching another game. That's that technology
Speaker 1: allows for that note. You're fair, Yeah, just maybe avoid
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But you know, think about this, if
Speaker 1: you watch football, and if you care about football in
Speaker 1: the offseason, if you cover football, and if you're into
Speaker 1: the draft, one of these two teams has a very
Speaker 1: good chance to be written about seventy five thousand times
Speaker 1: if one of them grabs the number one pick. And
Speaker 1: the winner of this is screwing themselves out of the
Speaker 1: number one pick. So I hope that whichever franchise it is,
Speaker 1: you know, assuming if the Browns gotta win and one
Speaker 1: of these two teams can claw back into that number
Speaker 1: one position, you are taking a little cheap December victory
Speaker 1: over the number one player in the draft. Good luck
Speaker 1: to you. You want to talk about culture, that's culture, right.
Speaker 1: The Bears are getting one because the Browns need to
Speaker 1: win two games. That's the and the second point. And
Speaker 1: I will not to don't count out of Cleveland surge
Speaker 1: down the stretch to get off base. But you're very
Speaker 1: excited about about getting the number one pick, like this
Speaker 1: is Andrew lux season. I'm not the number one. I'm
Speaker 1: not for a quarterback. I'm not for a quarterback. That
Speaker 1: that reminds you, though you know you no one knows anything.
Speaker 1: Peter Schroeger um A Fox made a great point down
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl and NFL media Good Morning Football,
Speaker 1: of course, also has his own podcast. You have now
Speaker 1: promoted three podcasts, um great job. He made the point
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl last year. The whole thing was
Speaker 1: there's no quarterbacks this year. You know who was there,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, Carson Wentz, Cody Kessler. If you want to
Speaker 1: throw that, I'm just saying they were there, the carrot
Speaker 1: and the stick from Rosenthal. They're plugging Schreeger constantly and
Speaker 1: then banging with oh, but you didn't know anything about
Speaker 1: the quarter but I know he was saying that. He
Speaker 1: was saying that was that was the talk in this
Speaker 1: when he was there, Like think, how wrongly We're right
Speaker 1: in front of her eyes. Is Dak Prescott his cards?
Speaker 1: You know? You never know. I talked to Daniel Jeremiah
Speaker 1: this morning and he talked about that. There's certain he
Speaker 1: you know, it takes forever to go th He just
Speaker 1: in our office. He you know, please, but they go
Speaker 1: study every one of these players and depths in depth. Right,
Speaker 1: So he hasn't even gotten to some of the quarterbacks yet.
Speaker 1: When you ask him. What do you think he's like,
Speaker 1: that's still on my list. He's gonna get to it soon.
Speaker 1: That's so true of so many scouts as well and
Speaker 1: head coaches and GM's Well, that's one way to think
Speaker 1: about it as only quarterbacks. But think about it like this.
Speaker 1: What if there's a Joey Bosa who is absolutely worthy
Speaker 1: of a number one overall? What about JJ the next
Speaker 1: j J Watt, the next, you know, absolute shutdown quarterback,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, someone like this forty nine offense, four dred
Speaker 1: and seventy five yards and two of the last four weeks,
Speaker 1: they're getting better. I think they're gonna get this win
Speaker 1: for you, Mark, and that's almost gonna guarantee the Browns.
Speaker 1: The one Kaepernick from a fantasy an. You like Kaepernick,
Speaker 1: but he has more rushing yardage since Week six. And
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy he's an incredible he's in he's an incredible runner.
Speaker 1: I know that you can't build an offense totally around that,
Speaker 1: but he's one of the best running quarterbacks of all time.
Speaker 1: Last week was the best ball placement he's had in
Speaker 1: two years. I thought he looked really good and he's
Speaker 1: running Chip Kelly's offense pretty well. I'm not saying they
Speaker 1: should count on him being the quarterback next year, but
Speaker 1: this is a much more scary team than the Matt
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears right now. I agree, and think of how
Speaker 1: much you were we were burying him last year. But
Speaker 1: this the guy has showing some pocket movement and he's
Speaker 1: working with child Chipper. Okay, you're like, you're like, way
Speaker 1: too much buying none of this. Just when about thirty seconds, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're the Buffalo Bills. They are traveling to Oakland to
Speaker 1: face the Raiders. The Bills at six and five, right
Speaker 1: in the in the mix of things in the a
Speaker 1: C playoff picture, the Raiders, you know, talking about teams
Speaker 1: that really stand to benefit from Gronk being out of
Speaker 1: the picture. All of a sudden, their chances of getting
Speaker 1: that number one seed certainly went up. Now that the
Speaker 1: patre It's lost their greatest weapon on offense for Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: But here we are now for the Bills, who you know,
Speaker 1: probably can't afford to lose this game. This is a
Speaker 1: big game, Chris Westling for the Buffalo team, it is,
Speaker 1: and they better play better than he did last week
Speaker 1: when they barely beat the Jaguars, because the Raiders are
Speaker 1: for real and I know they've had a lot of close,
Speaker 1: close game luck, but a lot of that they're making
Speaker 1: on their own. And Derek Carr, I'm watching this game,
Speaker 1: and I think for the first time in his career,
Speaker 1: it's fair to wonder whether you want to build a
Speaker 1: team around Derek Carr, Cam Newton. Derek Carr's quite those
Speaker 1: two just because they were because they were playing against
Speaker 1: each other. Derek Carr's lightning quick release, which is Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers like, his ability to put the ball in his
Speaker 1: receiver's hands anywhere on the field, changing speeds, fastball touch.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton doesn't do any of these things. Really, I
Speaker 1: think it's fair to say I'd rather build around Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: He's to me emerged as easily a top seven or
Speaker 1: eight quarterback. Their offense is producing in similar ways as
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Atlanta and Dallas. Right now. Their defense has
Speaker 1: and the which started out well is not been a
Speaker 1: great defense. I think it could it can step up
Speaker 1: in a given week, but this is a huge test.
Speaker 1: When you have to play uh, when you have to
Speaker 1: play the Raiders, you just have you know, playmakers coming
Speaker 1: out of out of anywhere. Raiders defense is improving. Last
Speaker 1: week they allowed thirty two points. That's what the box
Speaker 1: score will show. They held Carolina to their fewest first
Speaker 1: half yards in two years. You know, Raiders, you know,
Speaker 1: let's win a Let's win a game by two scores.
Speaker 1: This is a game I think you could Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: played played well last last week, but he holds nine
Speaker 1: and two. You must obliterate your opposition. Well, you know
Speaker 1: they had to come back against the Texans team. They
Speaker 1: have to come back against the Panthers team. That's all great.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's fun, but their tenth in scoring
Speaker 1: the differential, they don't really have a profile of of
Speaker 1: a great team. So I think you got a guy
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor just holds the ball forever. You got Khalil
Speaker 1: Mackie Gat Bruce Servant like swipe the ball out scores.
Speaker 1: I would say that the Raiders, though, this is a
Speaker 1: season of transition where hey, you're learning to win. That's
Speaker 1: it's not as easy to get. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: the same players from last season and learning to blow
Speaker 1: people out the same way that some of you' saying
Speaker 1: blow people out. How about not have to come back
Speaker 1: versus every sub five team that's for. The Raiders, by
Speaker 1: the way, have not been in the playoffs since the
Speaker 1: two thousand two season. Checking back in on the end
Speaker 1: around here, here's some of the artists that were in
Speaker 1: the top fifteen of Billboard the last time the Raiders
Speaker 1: were in the playoffs. West let me know which one
Speaker 1: are these bands you've heard of or acts? Nickelback, Ashanti,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Nelly yes, Kelly Rowland Yes, she used to
Speaker 1: be in Destiny's Child. You're flying Wow, bonus points band
Speaker 1: called Calling Vanessa Carlton, Yes, Lincoln Park unfortunately, Yes, Fat Joe,
Speaker 1: I'd vaguely recall Fat Jo. Wasn't he like friends with
Speaker 1: Big Pun? Yeah? He was buddies with Black Rob Big Pun,
Speaker 1: Big Punisher, Yeah, I know, Big Pun Yeah, Usher, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's seven o'clock on the Dot, My drop Top, cruising
Speaker 1: the Street, Puddle of Songs, id Avril Levine, Yeah, Rule yep,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Eat World, Yes, look at you. I knew everyone is. Culturally,
Speaker 1: it's not that long ago, though, It's not like, let's
Speaker 1: what's what was hot when the Jets won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Let's go that I would have a better I would
Speaker 1: have a much better chance buff Springfield, Come on, let's
Speaker 1: get it. But those artists are mostly done and gone,
Speaker 1: almost all of them. It's been a long time. Well
Speaker 1: that's about the last. When was the last time the
Speaker 1: Bills won a playoff game or made the playoffs? Two
Speaker 1: thousand seasons? Who was the last time? Even even longer.
Speaker 1: If they can win, it's with their running game, best
Speaker 1: running game in the league. There's a chance they could
Speaker 1: control the game with their running game, Dan, can I
Speaker 1: borrow one of your catch for come back to us?
Speaker 1: NFL coaches, come back to us with these challenges. Rex
Speaker 1: Ryan's done with his challenges before the end of the
Speaker 1: second quarter, Jim calledwell and Doug Peterson ought to be
Speaker 1: fired on the spot for challenging a two yard completion
Speaker 1: and leaving himself with nothing for the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: These guys are so obsessed with controlling every play in
Speaker 1: a game. You gotta let go, let go, allow the
Speaker 1: game to happen. Save your challenges for when they might
Speaker 1: help you. Thank you, that was good us. I totally
Speaker 1: agree with you on that. Khalil macnine sacks the season,
Speaker 1: tied for six in the NFL, earning that spot football.
Speaker 1: He's earned it. He's earned quiet month or two, but
Speaker 1: that that play last week is one that people remember.
Speaker 1: If he can have a strong finish, he's going to
Speaker 1: be in the mix for defensive player of the Year.
Speaker 1: I don't know that on this defense if I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he deserves it right now, but if he can
Speaker 1: have a strong finish and makes that I love Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: Look at his career and how often he picks on
Speaker 1: terrible offensive I'm to get his sacks. Speaking of offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: Raiders offensive line we talked about it on this podcast
Speaker 1: a few times, but one of the most underrated units
Speaker 1: in the league. Maybe, yeah, maybe the best. They're right
Speaker 1: there in past protection. They haven't really run the ball
Speaker 1: in a comp anybody, I mean at all? Anybody want
Speaker 1: to hang some money and pick the bills? No? No, nope? Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on. The New York Giants are eight and three.
Speaker 1: Uh they are on a streak themselves, having uh one.
Speaker 1: I believe six in a row. It's either five or
Speaker 1: six in a row for the Giants. Anybody want to
Speaker 1: jump in. I think it's about the old host. Pretty
Speaker 1: sure it's five, but I'm not sure. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: I will get on that. They travel to how many
Speaker 1: of what the giants in a row? Let's go right here,
Speaker 1: this is how many six in a row? Six wins.
Speaker 1: That was a little test of a little support system.
Speaker 1: No supports was good. I get you an answer, You
Speaker 1: got it all right? That was more Greg, he's being
Speaker 1: a little salty about it. I was trying. That's why.
Speaker 1: I just you're throwing shots and you're saying that will
Speaker 1: this be in the show, and all that six and
Speaker 1: a row? And there we're talking about wasting thirty seconds
Speaker 1: a little while ago. Waste this. Dan raises his fist
Speaker 1: to Greg's face. The eight and three Giants, the winners
Speaker 1: of six in a row, travel to Hines Field to
Speaker 1: face the six and five Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, it's a
Speaker 1: tough game for Kate Mara, Mark sessler Um. Her daddy's
Speaker 1: family owns the Giants, mommy's family world. Well, I think
Speaker 1: it's or it's an embarrassment of riches um. But this game,
Speaker 1: this is an interesting game, Greg Rosenthal, between a Giant
Speaker 1: team that we still don't know if they're for real
Speaker 1: at eight and three and the Steelers team that has
Speaker 1: to be looking at themselves in the mirror and saying
Speaker 1: we need to make a run because we got a
Speaker 1: chance and we can get into the playoffs. And they've
Speaker 1: started their run by really changing their profile on offense.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because they played the Browns and they
Speaker 1: played Scott Tolzen, but they went ball control the last
Speaker 1: Sydney earning that new money. They they really have centered
Speaker 1: their offense more than ever around Levian Bell, and that
Speaker 1: is a smart move because Levian Bell might be better
Speaker 1: than ever. Levian Bell might be my favorite player in
Speaker 1: the NFL at this point. Who look at you? Fun
Speaker 1: to watch that hesitation hop. He's crazy because you know,
Speaker 1: you see all these guys who have you know, running
Speaker 1: with the ball or do it, and they're all on
Speaker 1: some level similar to each other. There's no one like
Speaker 1: Levian Bell like he he almost he dances out there.
Speaker 1: It's almost like he's taunting people, like he crosses them over.
Speaker 1: I mean, he makes people look bad and he's he's
Speaker 1: so good at as a receiver. And it's just been
Speaker 1: all Bell lately, and I don't know, I love I
Speaker 1: love this guy. He makes me want to use a
Speaker 1: word I've never used before, sinewy. I like that how
Speaker 1: do you say that he's like the matrix. He looks
Speaker 1: like he's going through the matrix with people going by him.
Speaker 1: There are so many running backs that have to learn
Speaker 1: to show patients, and he's got incredible patients. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen a running back with his level
Speaker 1: of patients. About that Brown's game and it was like
Speaker 1: it was just he they also, do you remember when
Speaker 1: I said they ran basically a preseason like offense. It
Speaker 1: was like they had an eight play playbooks, six of
Speaker 1: them involved. He puts on a show. I mean, who knows.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's in his head, but he looks
Speaker 1: like a guy who kind of likes putting on a show.
Speaker 1: Like he he's just got he's inside his body. To
Speaker 1: quote NFL Networks Greg Rosen, though he's wildly patient, is uh, West,
Speaker 1: this is your chance now to bury the Jets With that,
Speaker 1: pable found another reason, Okay, go ahead. First of all,
Speaker 1: winter is coming and Sunday is the first snow of
Speaker 1: the year. Sunday is the first snow of the year.
Speaker 1: To the extent that but in a big spot and
Speaker 1: they had three team on a six game, wouldn't shake Okay,
Speaker 1: it's like cars on the highway, you know, going right
Speaker 1: off the road into nothing. This is what I need
Speaker 1: you to do, City, I know what we're not taking
Speaker 1: this segment. You need to clip off the video of
Speaker 1: West's face as he was doing that. Make sure we
Speaker 1: get our hands on it all right. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: needs to be But it's like it's like we've been
Speaker 1: cranking this slow motion reactions. We've been cranking that segment
Speaker 1: up week after week after week, and then finally we
Speaker 1: found out what's too much? That was too much and I,
Speaker 1: ironically was the West that took it to the max,
Speaker 1: took it past eleven. I loved it, well, you know
Speaker 1: my feverish uh attitude towards this this segment. I just
Speaker 1: love it. Well, it's the segment and then involved it's like, whoa,
Speaker 1: What's what's wrong with Eli Manning's arm? M it's weak? Interesting?
Speaker 1: Remember when he had tired arm? Why is he missing
Speaker 1: so many throws and under throwing receivers? Could it be
Speaker 1: the same thing creeping up again? Looks pretty weak to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's not having a good year. Has
Speaker 1: that popped up anywhere? I haven't heard anything. I just
Speaker 1: noticed that he's under throwing the ball dies in mid air.
Speaker 1: He's thirty five years old, he plays in in some
Speaker 1: bad weather situations. Maybe he just doesn't have the same juice.
Speaker 1: If you read a lot of history books detailing a
Speaker 1: certain season in the life of an NFL team, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: deal with in season arm injuries or tiredness or fatigue
Speaker 1: way more often than we think. Yeah, not advertised. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a guy if you watch every snap all year,
Speaker 1: that's so much worse to me than his numbers. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you guys think I bury Eli, but I
Speaker 1: just think that's I don't think he's playing that well.
Speaker 1: He played better last year. Oh yeah, by far right,
Speaker 1: Well this is the problem, but he's actually not playing well.
Speaker 1: It's okay to talk like this, but you say that
Speaker 1: when he's playing well as well, Well, you know Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham is going to carry him for a while. Well,
Speaker 1: well we'll use that same argument when Brady goes in
Speaker 1: the tank without Gronk and concerned Greg that your boy
Speaker 1: JPP might cause some problems for the Steelers. He's had
Speaker 1: what how many sacks over the last two weeks five
Speaker 1: and a half. Oh yeah, I'm conceding that that when
Speaker 1: when I saw him pick up that boat and race
Speaker 1: towards the ends, and I was like, that guy's running
Speaker 1: away with my sandwiches. Does anything that happened against the
Speaker 1: Browns count in this contest? He's been pretty dominant the
Speaker 1: last month. Yeah, he will be the highest paid seven
Speaker 1: figured man. What seven figures for a seven fingered man.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, actual synchronicity. You just fell right into that.
Speaker 1: That was beautiful times times it just happens. Anything else
Speaker 1: about this game, Yeah, it's locked up. You know what,
Speaker 1: West I'm I think the Steelers will win too. I
Speaker 1: think it's a good lock. Well, I don't want to
Speaker 1: ruin your positive feeling towards our winning streak unlock, So
Speaker 1: I'm trying to play halfway. Seriously. Yeah, thank you. Weus
Speaker 1: appreciate that. You want to get the spirit of it.
Speaker 1: I like it. It's like the holiday season was Christmas miracle.
Speaker 1: Let's move on the Washington Redskins with Kirk Cousin. You know,
Speaker 1: JPP is gonna get aid, but I ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: nothing compared to the money Kirk Cousins is gonna get
Speaker 1: if he keeps on playing like this. The Redskins six
Speaker 1: four and one and all of a sudden have one
Speaker 1: of the best offenses in the entire NFL. Travel UH
Speaker 1: to Arizona face the Cardinals, who, once upon a time,
Speaker 1: you know, not so long ago, this time last year,
Speaker 1: were the team that everyone envied when talking about offense,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Uh, do we have any reason to expect
Speaker 1: that the Redskins won't keep rolling and that the UH
Speaker 1: won't keep rolling? They lost their last game, but they
Speaker 1: will take care of business against they flow at Arizona team. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Redskins have their flaws too, and this
Speaker 1: is you know, the Cardinals defense as much as their
Speaker 1: offense last year was just taking teams apart. It's their
Speaker 1: defense that's carried then, if you want to call them.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure they've been carried anywhere, but they have
Speaker 1: you know, what would be the number one defense in
Speaker 1: the league in some categories. So yeah, this game concerns me.
Speaker 1: It's on the road, and I wonder if that Cowboys
Speaker 1: game took a lot out of this Redskins team. I
Speaker 1: I really find myself fascinated by the Redskins. I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for them unapologetically to make the playoffs. And face Dallas again.
Speaker 1: But this game, to me is a scary proposition. I'm
Speaker 1: not scared. I wouldn't be scared of the Cardinals anymore
Speaker 1: by the pot scored. They have the number, They have
Speaker 1: the number one defense statistically in the league, and they
Speaker 1: have David Johnson who's played every bit as well as
Speaker 1: you would have expected entering the season. So they have
Speaker 1: essentially the best all around running back and the number
Speaker 1: one defense. And yet there are nowheres Bill at four
Speaker 1: six and one. How how much does that say about
Speaker 1: the rest of them? That's it's a fraudulent number one defense.
Speaker 1: In no way are they the best defense in the league.
Speaker 1: That That's why they went to at Lant and gave
Speaker 1: up thirty eight points last week. You know their eleventh
Speaker 1: in giving up points allowed. Yards is a it's a
Speaker 1: weird measure because ultimately yards are They're kind of important,
Speaker 1: but they're not that important. It's a good defense, but
Speaker 1: I trust great offenses. This year, we keep saying it
Speaker 1: over over good defenses, and the Redskins have a great offer.
Speaker 1: When you you asked about their offense, I don't I
Speaker 1: think we've talked about this. The way their offense is
Speaker 1: put together right now. David Johnson is doing so much
Speaker 1: and we talked he's got the highest, you know, floor
Speaker 1: of any running back in the league, right up there
Speaker 1: with Levy on Bell. But it's almost like, come on,
Speaker 1: find some help for him outside of this. They built
Speaker 1: this team for their passing game to be the strength.
Speaker 1: And Michael Floyd and John Brown are the two of
Speaker 1: the most disappointed players in the NFL. They both have
Speaker 1: hamstring injuries again this week. Patrick Peterson is a knee injury,
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced yet. This isn't a very good team. Who's
Speaker 1: the best team the Cardinals have beat this year? Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers in Week two, by far the other three
Speaker 1: way to beat the Patriots. The other three wins are
Speaker 1: the forty Niners twice in the Jets right last week.
Speaker 1: I think they got a pretty good game out of
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer, and yet it didn't matter because of what
Speaker 1: you said. They're they're a sloppy team. You know, if
Speaker 1: it wasn't Bruce Arians, you know, people would be saying,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a sloppy kind of not poorly coach team.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of unpoor coach. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: unforced there's Well, I don't want to say that because
Speaker 1: I think it doesn't mean that they're the coaching staff
Speaker 1: is overseen a team making killer mistakes. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of penalty coaching staff having a bad year. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of drops, It's a lot of penalties, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of lining up wrong. It's a lot of now
Speaker 1: is now Bruce Arians calling out players? There's all kinds
Speaker 1: of finger pointing going on now and maybe and this
Speaker 1: is something Mark you touched on. And now there's been
Speaker 1: two health situations. How much has that played into what's
Speaker 1: going on with Bruce Arians? You know in the coaching
Speaker 1: staff that the coach is not physically well, we'll see well.
Speaker 1: And the elephant in the in the room in terms
Speaker 1: of like the NFL rumor mill and all this, Why
Speaker 1: is no one report you know, talking about this yet?
Speaker 1: Is Carson Palmer going to retire? That's that's a big question,
Speaker 1: guaranteed a lot of money. Anybody say that. I think
Speaker 1: are a lot of people talking about that, and there's
Speaker 1: no reason to believe much. A big question that we
Speaker 1: don't even have the time to answer it. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to the Rosie Bowl that Tampa Bay Buccaneers six
Speaker 1: and five at the five and six San Diego super Chargers.
Speaker 1: The Charges need the win greg to keep their season alive.
Speaker 1: You've predicted they finished ten and six and go all
Speaker 1: the way to the playoffs. Well, they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: doing at the expensive boy, Jami Winston, and I think
Speaker 1: they will. I think their defense is rounding into form. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're healthier at linebacker with with Paraman back and Joey
Speaker 1: Bose has been incredible in Melvin Ingram and I don't
Speaker 1: count the Bucks out of any game at this point,
Speaker 1: after the performances they had the last two weeks. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to watching this one. You guys canna have
Speaker 1: your fancy four? Is this a game too? You know
Speaker 1: you can have your Giants and Steelers with the whole
Speaker 1: country is gonna be watching. I'm gonna be locked in
Speaker 1: to two quarterbacks who aren't afraid to throw the ball
Speaker 1: into tight windows, who aren't afraid to be fired up
Speaker 1: on the field and fired up, fire up their teammates.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. I'm with you. This game is
Speaker 1: is interesting. I watched the Chargers Texans game and thought
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward for San Diego he's been playing great. I
Speaker 1: mean this defense, the defense of sending has been an
Speaker 1: issue for so long and now it's it's the opposite.
Speaker 1: They have got a lot of young players that uh
Speaker 1: make them quite interesting. Joey Bosa is the best player
Speaker 1: on the field day by a little bit. He's already
Speaker 1: a guy that you watch him on every snap like
Speaker 1: he's j J. Watt and he he is that like
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack type of player where if you hit on
Speaker 1: him in the draft changes the outlook of your whole franchise.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, but Rivers, I think next year we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. The rest of this year, this is a
Speaker 1: good roster. That's why it's interesting. He's gonna retired to
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, to Hunter Henry and Tyrelle Williams and and
Speaker 1: Jason Varette their best cornerback and they're gonna they should
Speaker 1: be a powerhouse next year. I think they have a
Speaker 1: really interesting rotcher. So that's why it's risky for them
Speaker 1: to change coaches if that's something they want to do.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's getting way ahead of things. But
Speaker 1: I think he can kind of have the storyline in
Speaker 1: the season. I was hoping Tony Romo would have this
Speaker 1: year kind of the old underrated quarterback, the old gun
Speaker 1: like going for that title for the first By the way,
Speaker 1: if we think that this Chargers team and we are
Speaker 1: getting ahead of ourselves, but they are a team that
Speaker 1: could be a powerhouse next year, They're probably gonna be
Speaker 1: right in our backyard, probably end up in l a
Speaker 1: from everything we're starting to hear, which will be interesting
Speaker 1: and what a perfect San Diego away if that were
Speaker 1: to happen, they become a great team. Well, this loser
Speaker 1: in that arrangement, besides the city of San Diego is
Speaker 1: the Rams, because the Rams are right now a very
Speaker 1: hard watch, and the Chargers are absolutely fun to watch.
Speaker 1: One note on the Bucks. Doug Martin was much more
Speaker 1: elusive last week. Didn't have the best game statistically, but
Speaker 1: looked like Doug Martin. Yeah, he's he's breaking tackle. I
Speaker 1: think you know, you come back from a long term injury.
Speaker 1: I think he's been better each and every week. And
Speaker 1: Winston has been steadier each and every week. And Noah Spence,
Speaker 1: if you if you had to do, if you have
Speaker 1: to do rankings for defensive Rookie of the Year, he
Speaker 1: would have a chance to be number two right now.
Speaker 1: He's coming on the last few weeks. He's a good
Speaker 1: pass rest browing Mike Evans and it looks like they
Speaker 1: might get Charles Sims back next week. To whoever wins
Speaker 1: this game is gonna be feeling very good about themselves
Speaker 1: to the last Risky Bowl. Risky Bowl, uh, last weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. Moving on the Carolina UH Panthers UM
Speaker 1: at four and seven. UH. You know when back in August,
Speaker 1: we would have thought this was gonna be one of
Speaker 1: the games of the year UH Sunday night football, but
Speaker 1: instead it's just the game because the Panthers are at
Speaker 1: a contention and they're traveling to UH to Seattle to
Speaker 1: face a seven, three and one Seahawks. Timing west doesn't
Speaker 1: look good here, UM for the Panthers at all because
Speaker 1: UH Seattle is coming off are really ugly lost the
Speaker 1: Tampa and you think they're gonna bounce back here, right,
Speaker 1: I do think so. And the Seahawks they got worked
Speaker 1: over on the offensive line. Gerald McCoy eight a fettie,
Speaker 1: the rookie eight his lunch clown suit clown suit type
Speaker 1: of performance. And yet if not for three turnovers in
Speaker 1: the red zone. The Seahawks could have tied this game
Speaker 1: late in the game. I guess it's something to look
Speaker 1: forward to. But the Panthers, on the other hand, we're
Speaker 1: out of that game last week until a few play
Speaker 1: sequences where the Raiders offense basically killed them. Killed the
Speaker 1: Raiders and let the Panthers back into it. I'm not
Speaker 1: convinced that hit. He hit some throws. He hit some plays,
Speaker 1: hit some throws. I'm not sure they're repeatable. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You think Cam Newton is playing a lot better this
Speaker 1: season than I do. I think he's been a pretty
Speaker 1: subpar passer. I think I think he makes a lot
Speaker 1: of throws that and they asked him to make a
Speaker 1: lot of throws that other quarterbacks don't even try to attempt,
Speaker 1: and he hits on a lot of them. I think
Speaker 1: his mechanics have been screwing, but he's not consistent. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have him twelve or thirteenth, which is a you know,
Speaker 1: at the position, which is pretty deep fall from you know,
Speaker 1: being the m V easily behind Marcus Mariotta, not even close.
Speaker 1: In my mind, Marcus Mariota is making plays every week,
Speaker 1: not close to Derek Carr either based on earlier comments
Speaker 1: today's show, I think it's a conversation worth having whether
Speaker 1: you'd rather have Derek Carr Cam Newton to build around.
Speaker 1: This is an impossible matchup. Cam Chancellors having a great year.
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett's gonna be battle. Thomas is back like this
Speaker 1: Seahawks defense coming off a loss at home, forget it.
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett is although a piece on that no one
Speaker 1: can run on the Panthers. They're a tough team to
Speaker 1: run on. Raiders couldn't run on them. They're tough team
Speaker 1: to run on even without Luke Kickley. And you know
Speaker 1: in the Seahawks running game, I don't know what we
Speaker 1: have yet with Thomas Rowles. Well I think okay, But
Speaker 1: Thomas Rowles found out last week with Kristin. Michael already
Speaker 1: found out that you're running into three guys every time
Speaker 1: you take a handoff. I'm not complaining, by the way,
Speaker 1: and the Jets got flexed out of their first Sunday
Speaker 1: night game and what would have been four years last week, Well,
Speaker 1: why are we not flexing out? The Panthers were irrelevant?
Speaker 1: There are there are a bunch of other matchups you
Speaker 1: could have put here Cam. They probably thought they were
Speaker 1: probably four and five at the time Pound and that's
Speaker 1: why they're on. If you're Seattle and you take this thing,
Speaker 1: you you've got after this, The Packers on the road,
Speaker 1: the Rams, the Cardinals in those last three games give
Speaker 1: you a row map to get the number two seeds.
Speaker 1: But to me, Russell Wilson's like Tom Brady or Breeze
Speaker 1: at this point. If if he ever throws a stink
Speaker 1: bomb up like like they had last week, I just
Speaker 1: expect him to play great the next week. Finally, the
Speaker 1: Monday night game, Uh, the Indianapolis called five and six,
Speaker 1: fighting for their lives in the a f C South
Speaker 1: um facing a New York Jets team that is three
Speaker 1: and eight at home with major issues in their secondary mark.
Speaker 1: This would seem to be a game where Andrew luck
Speaker 1: is set up to do some things well on our
Speaker 1: Pick Him show on NFL Network, Good Job Times? Does
Speaker 1: NFL pick him Eastern? Uh? What is twelve thirty that's am?
Speaker 1: And then PM and then if you're staying up late
Speaker 1: one thirty am. I don't know why someone wouldn't watch
Speaker 1: all three and watch everything in between it um sit on?
Speaker 1: Is that Greg? What is that military time, Well that's
Speaker 1: thirteen thirty and you go from uh, A great soldier.
Speaker 1: I haven't really picked up the military type on that
Speaker 1: particular programming. I picked the Cults or the Jets to
Speaker 1: win this, and I have been regretting that decision ever since.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I did that, other than to
Speaker 1: be edgy a Saturday. By the way, we didn't even
Speaker 1: mention that it's what DVR it Saturday the day the
Speaker 1: day would help. Good job, Greg, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: by the but so I picked the Jets, and I
Speaker 1: I you know, they're at home, and maybe there's something
Speaker 1: about the Jets that get this thing done. But I
Speaker 1: I think that the Cults. Here's the thing. The Cults
Speaker 1: have something to play for. The Jets to me do
Speaker 1: not look like they have had anything to play for.
Speaker 1: In in seven or eight, they have the Patriots on
Speaker 1: the ropes fourth and four. Late in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: they're playing hard. I don't know, almost beat the patch.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't see it happening. Yeah, that the Cults.
Speaker 1: The Jets have no chance to beat the Cults. It's
Speaker 1: not that they have not they have no chance. You're
Speaker 1: getting Andrew luck back. I think Andrew lux can come
Speaker 1: back to a society. I I get get the society
Speaker 1: gu because you know what, you know what you guys
Speaker 1: are failing to see here. That cult stink. So they
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a heavy favorite over any They're not. They're
Speaker 1: not stink on offense. I mean, all that's going on
Speaker 1: in New York these days. You know reports from Darryll
Speaker 1: Darrell Rivas's friend that you don't even want to play football.
Speaker 1: Great friend. By the way, that was I heard that
Speaker 1: was a Boomers Sisson's reports. That was a plant from
Speaker 1: the agents that Rivas is in litigation. Wine. Now what
Speaker 1: a beautiful season has been in New York. Well, Darrell
Speaker 1: Rivas might retire at halftime after t Y Hilton runs
Speaker 1: him up and down the field if he assume he's playing.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be playing. Yes, Lucky, can
Speaker 1: you make up your mind? Dan? I mean, one week
Speaker 1: you want to see Bryce Petty, the next week you
Speaker 1: want us to respect your three and eight Jets. They're
Speaker 1: looking forward to next I mean those at they're a
Speaker 1: Tomato can the Jets. The Jets are a three and
Speaker 1: eight Tomato Canada. Colts will summarily summarily dispense with them.
Speaker 1: You want to put a sandwich on that, I absolutely do.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Sandwich up. There's finally something to do
Speaker 1: to look forward with this. You've got to do this
Speaker 1: the way I have. I picked the Cults. I picked
Speaker 1: the Jets on NFL Network. I picked the Cults on
Speaker 1: this podcast. Last time we saw Andrew Luck. You know
Speaker 1: they didn't punt in the entire first half against the Titans.
Speaker 1: I think this Colts team was coming together before that
Speaker 1: Luck injury. I think not a great team, but a
Speaker 1: dangerous teams, big play machine on offense, unstoppable knocked out
Speaker 1: the Titans. Um Mon Cree Doyle. Sorry, this is not
Speaker 1: the way that should have ended. Screen screen, Please another
Speaker 1: holding penalty downfield. They're gonna do like a halftime seramony.
Speaker 1: They're gonna retire at vass number at halftime. Do the
Speaker 1: whole speech and everything. Your team's not going anywhere anymore.
Speaker 1: You're just as done. You just don't know it yet. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's even more painful. Well, I'm not even get together.
Speaker 1: This ended in a dark place. A right. We will
Speaker 1: be back on Sunday recapping all these games except for
Speaker 1: that Monday night game, which will recap on Tuesday. Don't
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Speaker 1: unless it How you doing with that financial windfall? Great? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's like a money coma well never hear of coming. Mark.
Speaker 1: Is there still a little bit of a different air
Speaker 1: around uh new money now that she is uhh yeah,
Speaker 1: Well what I've noticed is little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: distant coldness, some iciness, a little bit aloof over you know,
Speaker 1: the regular people that are just sort of nine to
Speaker 1: five rs punching a you know, just punching the car,
Speaker 1: trying to make make do pay their bills. She said,
Speaker 1: I don't need to do that. People will pay my
Speaker 1: bills for me. This morning I saw I saw her
Speaker 1: outside the on the campus and said, hey, where's that
Speaker 1: great Dane you've been parading around and she went it
Speaker 1: bowed me. Just let it go. Yeah, it's it's it's concerning,
Speaker 1: sorry said, it is really sliding down the common man ranking.
Speaker 1: It's it's a little it's a bit of a weird movie.
Speaker 1: You now have you know, people in the in your room,
Speaker 1: the editor go get you your lunch, like that's your thing.
Speaker 1: Thet got that out of the Henry Hodgson playbook. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. This is Dan Hansons signing
Speaker 1: off for The Quiet Storm, Mark Sesler and the Mailman
Speaker 1: Chris Wesley, and the Boss Emeritus, Greg Rosenthal, and of
Speaker 1: course new Money Sydney Carlson behind the glass until Sunday.
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