Speaker 1: Watson and checked in escaping, gonna run for it. You
Speaker 1: get a flock of me. I just gonna get there
Speaker 1: first down and Watson, it's the check for a touchdown
Speaker 1: yards Just the start of the Around the NFL Podcast
Speaker 1: present to my head and shoulders the Shawn Watson's forty
Speaker 1: nine yards scamper on third and long, the only touchdown
Speaker 1: of the game on Thursday Night Football, and that's all
Speaker 1: that the Houston Texans needed, a thirteen nine win over
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals, who lose for the second straight game
Speaker 1: in their building, a terrible loss for the Bengals. Dan
Speaker 1: Hans is here along with Greg Rosenthal, will get Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler into the mix just in a little bit to
Speaker 1: go through all the week two games. At first, we
Speaker 1: talked about the events of Thursday, and we'll start with
Speaker 1: the Texans. Greg Rosenthal, the Shaun Watson was not brilliant.
Speaker 1: In fact, he looked very shaky early on, and this
Speaker 1: his first start on his twenty second birthday. But one
Speaker 1: big play was enough on Thursday night. Hey, when it mattered,
Speaker 1: Watson was cooking. Like those drums in the background, you know,
Speaker 1: leading into cook Greg, I mean, that's getting be fired
Speaker 1: up like Watson, he had less than five yards per attempt.
Speaker 1: That's that's the Gabbard zone throwing the ball. But I
Speaker 1: was impressed that when they absolutely needed a drive, that's
Speaker 1: when they stopped, you know, running first and second down.
Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter, he has his best drive of
Speaker 1: the game, which was essentially summarized by let's throw it
Speaker 1: to DeAndre Hopkins every down, let him be more physical
Speaker 1: than the Bengals cornerbacks, and they ate up six minutes
Speaker 1: of clock. So it was an extremely conservative game plan
Speaker 1: by Bill O'Brien. But these are the kind of wins
Speaker 1: he's looking for, ugly wins as he builds this offense
Speaker 1: around Deshaun Watson and let's j. J. Watt and the
Speaker 1: defense when the game they are really the big stars. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The defense, uh played extremely well and once again made
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's offense and they have a lot of problems Cincinnati
Speaker 1: um on both sides of well, but especially on offense,
Speaker 1: just not often. Alright, wit wow, Okay, I think that's well,
Speaker 1: what are you really excited about? We'll get to that.
Speaker 1: What are you really excited about with the Bengals is
Speaker 1: they now try to dig out of an O two
Speaker 1: hole with only six home games left on the schedule.
Speaker 1: But I think the interesting thing with Watson THO Greg
Speaker 1: was how early in the game, how utterly I wouldn't
Speaker 1: I don't want to say he's scared, because this guy
Speaker 1: has been on the biggest stage in college and he's
Speaker 1: got he was born for this type of spotlight. But
Speaker 1: how clearly the NFL game he seemed a little spooked
Speaker 1: early on, certainly not comfortable early on. And what happened,
Speaker 1: And Chris Collins with did a nice job illuminating this
Speaker 1: on the telecast on NFL Network said, as the game
Speaker 1: wore on, you could tell him starting to get his
Speaker 1: footing a little bit and get comfortable. And I don't
Speaker 1: think he's able to have that drive at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. Uh if he's not able to calm
Speaker 1: himself down. And I think that's what he did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that it kind of explains in one game why
Speaker 1: de Sean John Watson should be playing over Tom Savage.
Speaker 1: This offense is going to struggle no matter what. They
Speaker 1: tried to have some extra offensive linemen to shore a
Speaker 1: pass protection that mostly helped, although it didn't help stop
Speaker 1: Geno Atkins. That's something to get excited about. I mean,
Speaker 1: Geno Atkins was the best player on the field, but
Speaker 1: you're only gonna get better with Watson with the experience.
Speaker 1: So it's something to build off. And if you can
Speaker 1: win some games along the way, then you're gonna hang
Speaker 1: around in the a f C. South and yes, on
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati side of the ball. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a dreadful performance again by Andy Dalton. He didn't It
Speaker 1: doesn't look as bad in the box scores last week
Speaker 1: when he had five turnovers now twenty four. If you
Speaker 1: didn't watch the game, they're like, Okay, you had a
Speaker 1: normal game, but you're just not moving the ball. And
Speaker 1: I tweeted it during the game because if you're a
Speaker 1: fan of a team like me I'm a Jet fan,
Speaker 1: you get frustrated because these losses happen when you don't
Speaker 1: have a quarterback that can really lead an offense well.
Speaker 1: And right now, Andy Dalton's lost, let's face it, because
Speaker 1: he looks like two thousand twelve Mark Sanchez uh not
Speaker 1: able to consistently move the offense, missing throws, making strange decisions.
Speaker 1: I didn't like that he was targeting Eric Ericson with
Speaker 1: a game on the line, forgetting what this guy's name,
Speaker 1: and they didn't even give him a chance to catch it,
Speaker 1: or reminded it reminded me of a play that didn't
Speaker 1: matter from last week's game by Dalton. The game was
Speaker 1: over at that point, but he threw it out of
Speaker 1: bounds on fourth down in that game, and it's like,
Speaker 1: what what are you thinking? He didn't give ericson a
Speaker 1: chance he had two or three, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what you're thinking about wide open receivers that could have
Speaker 1: been big place the monster play left on the field
Speaker 1: that that he missed. And Marvin Lewis said after the game,
Speaker 1: you know there that Dalton's job is secure and they
Speaker 1: gotta let Andy be Andy. But you know he looks
Speaker 1: more like two thousand twelve Andy Dalton, or what he
Speaker 1: looks like is you know, after midnight primetime Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: I'm not into QB win after midnight, after the game
Speaker 1: it gets late. You know, that's the press. It's just crazy.
Speaker 1: And I think this is why people have a lower
Speaker 1: opinion of Andy Dalton than he probably deserves overall that
Speaker 1: he has had so many poor prime time games his teams.
Speaker 1: I'm not into QB wins, but it's five his teams
Speaker 1: are five and twelve in prime time and they win
Speaker 1: two out of three games other than that, and it's
Speaker 1: just I don't think I think it's just random ultimately,
Speaker 1: but this is a limited passing attack and they can't
Speaker 1: kind of figure out what they want to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: he he needs to have a bounce back effort soon
Speaker 1: because a J. McCarron is a guy that's been kind
Speaker 1: of waiting in the wings, and they and Dalton, you know,
Speaker 1: got excuses last year and I thought on a lot
Speaker 1: of levels last year he deserved the past. But to
Speaker 1: ope up the season like this, playing as poorly as
Speaker 1: as he is, something might have to change. And here's
Speaker 1: something telling Greg before we get out of here. Um,
Speaker 1: this comes from a local guy uh w k r
Speaker 1: C TV and Cincinnati, a tweet from Richard Skinner. Several
Speaker 1: Bengals players in the locker room said out loud, we
Speaker 1: just lost to the worst team in the league. But
Speaker 1: I think the straation is on high and that seems
Speaker 1: like a shot at the Texans, but that probably is
Speaker 1: more a product of this team knows it's a lot
Speaker 1: better than this and they're playing way below their ability. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's a shot at the Texans offense because
Speaker 1: the Texans defense is good. But when you're a defensive player,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that's who's maybe saying these things.
Speaker 1: And you see Andy Dawton's going up against the Texans
Speaker 1: defense that's missing their two starting cornerbacks late in that game,
Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson Jonathan Joseph were both out, and yet Cincinnati
Speaker 1: was not able to attack it. That's extreme frustration. Only
Speaker 1: twelve first sounds to start owing to at home with
Speaker 1: the fewest amount of points in the first two weeks
Speaker 1: for any NFL team since the two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: Rams Draft. It's as rough as it gets. And they're
Speaker 1: going to Green Bay next week. So that is a
Speaker 1: recipe for In three the game on the liney target
Speaker 1: Alex Ricksson, I don't get it now. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: through the rest of the week. Two games. Take it
Speaker 1: away me be Around the NFL podcast kids seeing the
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Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hands
Speaker 1: and I'm joined by Route Build with some heroes. Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler to my left, Greg roseal my right. What's up? Boys?
Speaker 1: What was that? That was almost like a fever dream
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Speaker 1: I think the most popular song video and YouTube history
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Speaker 1: I saw Money here this morning very early. And I
Speaker 1: know he's a busy guy, he's the Chargers radio announcer,
Speaker 1: but I believe he came in solely at one point
Speaker 1: this week just to record that. Wow, so very committed
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Speaker 1: This is the Around the NFL Podcast, presented by Head
Speaker 1: and Shoulders and uh it is our Thursday preview show.
Speaker 1: You heard at the very top of the show the
Speaker 1: Texans Bengals recap Greg and I took you through that,
Speaker 1: but now we're gonna go through all the rest of
Speaker 1: the Week two games previewing them and mark what a
Speaker 1: Week two it's gonna be. I love Week two because
Speaker 1: I think Week one creates all these mans trying to
Speaker 1: sandbag you there, but then you actually turned into I
Speaker 1: had to take that cameout you whistling. But I really
Speaker 1: do like week to it equalized a lot of nonsense.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be our our new running segment. Week three.
Speaker 1: Mark what a week. I had to come up with
Speaker 1: seventeen individual perspectives on each week. I mean, it becomes
Speaker 1: a complete, you know, visual bizarness by the time I
Speaker 1: gets this eight or nine. So we're gonna go through
Speaker 1: all the games, and I'll tay you I'm in the
Speaker 1: games because it gains what ain't no Hurricane'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: the NFL this week, okay, because that means thirty two teams,
Speaker 1: two teams already played two equals thirty thirty divided by
Speaker 1: fifteen equals two two teams play in every game times
Speaker 1: fifteen fifteen games to talk about. I got there. I
Speaker 1: think the equation broke down. Yeah, I got a lot longer.
Speaker 1: I like wrote a couple of texts in that I got.
Speaker 1: It's like in The Beautiful Mind with with Russell Crowe.
Speaker 1: It just it was all kind of like I fell
Speaker 1: into the numbers themselves. But then I came out and
Speaker 1: knew that we're talking about different than that. Um, all right, guys,
Speaker 1: we have so muhould get to we should just get
Speaker 1: straight into it, And why don't we go, Mark, These
Speaker 1: are very heavy times for Mark Sessler, who's had an
Speaker 1: entire week of the football. Cognis sent the talking about
Speaker 1: what a nice effort it was from the Browns, and
Speaker 1: then Big Ben Rothelisberger saying, oh, keep an eye on
Speaker 1: the Browns. They're special. Uh So, now what do they do?
Speaker 1: They travel to Baltimore, the old nemesis, the team that
Speaker 1: stole their Lombardi. Some people would say, not me. I
Speaker 1: think those people are correct. But continue, What did Ben
Speaker 1: say again? Ben? Ben said? Essentially, he said, essentially, we're glad,
Speaker 1: We're glad that we met them in week one versus
Speaker 1: when they really, you know, get going. Well, we'll see
Speaker 1: if that's how it actually plays out. What you were saying,
Speaker 1: set up your bed. Those Browns are for real. Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger direct quote, all right, here we go there playing
Speaker 1: the Ravens in Baltimore. Ravens want to know the defense.
Speaker 1: We know all about how good they looked last week
Speaker 1: and shutting out Cincinnati. Mark, what do you think about
Speaker 1: this this matchup? First of all, how do you think
Speaker 1: that Sean Kaiser is gonna fair now that he's gonna
Speaker 1: have another tough game against another division opponent. Is this
Speaker 1: trouble for him this week to matchup? Well, I think
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna run into a tougher defense
Speaker 1: potentially all season. And it's hard as a rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: to deal with Pittsburgh in Week one, who took him
Speaker 1: down seven times seven sacks, to now have to go
Speaker 1: deal with a Terrell Suggs led defense that last week,
Speaker 1: Terrell Suggs absolutely owned Cincinnati's front five dominant, but so
Speaker 1: did so did a rash of other Ravens players. So
Speaker 1: it is a challenge right away for Cleveland's rebuilt offensive line.
Speaker 1: And there's no reason to think you can run on
Speaker 1: the Ravens because I believe only the very best running
Speaker 1: teams are going to have a chance against this Ravens team.
Speaker 1: They would be my pick to be the number one
Speaker 1: run defense at the end of the year because of
Speaker 1: Brandon Williams, because Pierce who's really stepping up as a
Speaker 1: as a big time player, and that means you're asking
Speaker 1: a lot of Deshaun Kaiser, which they did last week too.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing that's so striking watching him.
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of five seven step drops. It's asking
Speaker 1: him to read the whole field. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: deep throws like they are asking him to do some
Speaker 1: next level stuff. He's a lot of fun to watch,
Speaker 1: but I think he was protected pretty well. Those sacks
Speaker 1: were mostly on him. Yeah, I mean at least four
Speaker 1: of them. I thought we're in I Cleveland's wide receiver corps.
Speaker 1: It concerns me that they drafted four wide receivers last year.
Speaker 1: None of them have really stepped into a role that
Speaker 1: you could call a difference maker. Three of them are
Speaker 1: essentially ghosts at this point, and you don't really and
Speaker 1: Kenny Britt have someone you clean on. Corey Coleman is
Speaker 1: the one one guy I've seen growth through him. That
Speaker 1: touchdown catch where he got jarred at the line. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's a strong wide receiver. I want to ask
Speaker 1: you a question quickly, Mark, which is that you've you've
Speaker 1: talked like for so long that oh that you're having
Speaker 1: to face Ben Roethlisberger and Flacco. Now you have an
Speaker 1: a f C North quarterback that you can call to
Speaker 1: sneak it on third and one and pick up a
Speaker 1: fourth the first down like he did last week, or
Speaker 1: a fourth down on the goal and now you've got
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, I mean it's been literally since the
Speaker 1: question there, you know, nineteen four, you'd have to go
Speaker 1: back to when then he had a competent quarterback. I think,
Speaker 1: um question one more Browns question I have, what what
Speaker 1: is the deal? What's going on behind the scenes you
Speaker 1: guys think with Kenny Britt because it did strike me
Speaker 1: a bit odd that he dropped the pass. All right,
Speaker 1: it's a bad drop. Let's calm down. Like Hugh Jackson
Speaker 1: came after Britt in the media, and you just wonder, uh,
Speaker 1: if you know, maybe Britts can be a knucklehead behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, if if this is the starting of a
Speaker 1: souring relationship right off the bat, which wouldn't be good
Speaker 1: because they need Brittain they do because it was either
Speaker 1: Britt or Terrell prior essentially in that role. And Britt
Speaker 1: had a good season last year. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms, sometimes the Kenning britt experience has gone sour.
Speaker 1: We know that, and I think Hugh Jackson was really
Speaker 1: calling him out last I mean, it was a disappointing
Speaker 1: showing for Britt. You think that the Browns can win
Speaker 1: this game, though you're pretty confident that they Well, here's
Speaker 1: what I think. I I think the one way is
Speaker 1: that that Baltimore's offense, especially for me, when you take
Speaker 1: Danny wood Head out of that that mix. He had
Speaker 1: a big role last week. They ran the well the ball. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't think that Joe flaccoes all the way back.
Speaker 1: I do think that Cleveland is going to do something
Speaker 1: in this game and get to one and one. That
Speaker 1: is why they are they are. I'm locking it up
Speaker 1: every year. I must do this early and I've been
Speaker 1: humiliated did probably five times in a row with the
Speaker 1: early season Brown's lock But they are going one in one. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got the Ravens. Yeah, I'll think the Ravens. But
Speaker 1: I think it's a close defensive game. Kudos. Do you
Speaker 1: want to peek? But behind the eyes with Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: into his soul, he could try to downplay his excitement
Speaker 1: all he wants. He's picking the Browns on the road
Speaker 1: in week two, eighteen is sixteen. Let's move on and
Speaker 1: talk about a inter conference game in tro help me
Speaker 1: out of conference g out of conference game. The Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills took care of business against the Jets in Week one.
Speaker 1: They had to and and frankly, they probably should have
Speaker 1: took business a little more thoroughly. Now they go on
Speaker 1: the road. It was a little unnecessariated the bills they
Speaker 1: want in week one? What do what do you want
Speaker 1: from me? By the way, I'm dead wrong. It's not
Speaker 1: it's it's out of conference. It's not intro. I wasn't
Speaker 1: he don't even know what the matchup was. Okay, So
Speaker 1: the Bills now go on the road to face the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we did a network hit on
Speaker 1: here on this on this UM campus and if old
Speaker 1: network about who do you trust Cam Newton or Tyrod Taylor?
Speaker 1: Greg Why would people not be trusting Cam Newton right now?
Speaker 1: Because he had four or five throws last week that
Speaker 1: just were wildly off target, I mean ten fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: He had an out route that lost a little steam
Speaker 1: on the way there. Now, he also stepped out in
Speaker 1: the second half, was six for six. He had some fastballs,
Speaker 1: had some nice throws. But I want to see more
Speaker 1: out of him. And I also want to apologize to
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor and uh Lishawn McCoy and this Bill's offense
Speaker 1: that we expected to go out there and just not
Speaker 1: look very good. And they look like professional. They look
Speaker 1: very professional. Four hundred yards looked like the running game.
Speaker 1: And then you remember, oh yeah, Tyrod Taylor and Leshan
Speaker 1: McCoy are absolutely special runners at what they do, and
Speaker 1: they can they can take it to any team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I do think Newton seemed a little more
Speaker 1: comfortable in the second half, especially in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I think he went six for six down the stretch
Speaker 1: in that game, but he had some wild off target
Speaker 1: throws early. There was a pass to Ed Dixon in
Speaker 1: the end zone which was unforgivable, way over his head.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, like I've forgiven him. It's I'm not
Speaker 1: getting I will not get over it. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: fine with it at this point. Well, you guys are
Speaker 1: different people. I take this game very seriously. No, here's
Speaker 1: the thing that if the Bills did look good, they're
Speaker 1: also playing the Jets. But the Jets defense isn't bad.
Speaker 1: With Caroline is defense. I gotta say, I feel like
Speaker 1: you got to calm down about the Bills a little bit.
Speaker 1: You've been all pumped up since Sunday. Let's let's the
Speaker 1: Jets are barely point is Cam Newton used to be
Speaker 1: the best running quarterback. Now it's tyrde Lasan McCoy doesn't
Speaker 1: break tackles, he breaks ankles. He's putting people on the ground.
Speaker 1: I mean there was one run in that Jets game
Speaker 1: he literally put three Jets on the ground just because
Speaker 1: they're slipping and fallen trying to get this well, And
Speaker 1: do you think the Panthers have gone out of their
Speaker 1: way to an excessive amount to not have Kim Newton
Speaker 1: be a running quarterback the same way that they had
Speaker 1: to rely on them in the past. The Bills are
Speaker 1: still letting Tyrod do what he needs and the Panthers
Speaker 1: have to be excited. Their offensive line makeover is a
Speaker 1: great one for one after one week, and their defense,
Speaker 1: which I love this year, could not have looked better.
Speaker 1: So they they I think they like what they saw.
Speaker 1: Greg Rosatal December one and the Buffalo Bills in the
Speaker 1: a f C Wild Card picture. But your name on
Speaker 1: it December one. But your name on it, kid, Yes,
Speaker 1: because that's you could be five and six and you're
Speaker 1: in the picture for sure. So that yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a soft vacuum. So a bit kind of crappy, is
Speaker 1: what you're saying, Like that's not very strong like the
Speaker 1: rookie first round picture Davious White. Let's let's move on
Speaker 1: more out of conference football, thank you, But isn't it
Speaker 1: interconference intro? I believe would be you know, inside one conference.
Speaker 1: But you know, we we do have people behind the
Speaker 1: glass to potentially look that up like an interstate because
Speaker 1: I mean I at this point, this is becoming embarrassing.
Speaker 1: None of us know what the word means. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's keep working on this. Maybe something Eric could
Speaker 1: help us out with. Uh. The Arizona Cardinals crushing crushing
Speaker 1: news this week that the David Johnson wrist injury is
Speaker 1: serious enough where he's gonna go on I R and
Speaker 1: they hope to get him back in December. But even
Speaker 1: that is not a promise. So that's where the st
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are. And oh, by the way, they blew
Speaker 1: a fourth quarter lead last week and their own one.
Speaker 1: Here's the good news. There's plenty of football left and
Speaker 1: your Week two matchup is in Indianapolis against the team
Speaker 1: I think the Colts. If you have to make a
Speaker 1: pick who looked the worst of any of the teams
Speaker 1: in Week one, I think you have to say the
Speaker 1: Colts because the offense, didn't have a clue with Scott
Speaker 1: Tolzie in the quarterback uh and and I don't know
Speaker 1: that have they made the announcement yet who's starting in
Speaker 1: week two? They're they're splitting first team reps in the
Speaker 1: middle of September, which is a really I can't remember
Speaker 1: that ever happening where a team hasn't decided. They're acting
Speaker 1: like it's camping, splitting reps. If if you're Todd Bawls
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, If Jacoby st has a chance
Speaker 1: to start and he hasn't been on the team at
Speaker 1: all yet, doesn't he need all the snaps? Well, Rob
Speaker 1: Chazinski did emphasize that he thought this would be a
Speaker 1: mountain to climb for Prisette to to get in and
Speaker 1: learn this offense and slice of Jake. What I just realized,
Speaker 1: we have a Jake Brisket drop and we have a
Speaker 1: Scott Tolzine drop scout. Scout we've got we've got Tom
Speaker 1: Savage too. So the AFC South leads the league in
Speaker 1: cutterback drops. Um, yeah, so so we got everything covered
Speaker 1: in the FC South just about. But alright, so here's
Speaker 1: the question. They look so bad are the cults of
Speaker 1: that bad because if they're if they're merely had a
Speaker 1: bad week and they're trying to get something strained out,
Speaker 1: you expect a good effort at home here. But there's
Speaker 1: also a chance I think even without David and the
Speaker 1: Cardinals as bad as Carson Palmer looked, that they might
Speaker 1: go in there and take care of business. I don't
Speaker 1: like the way the team still is built for the
Speaker 1: most part, and you're missing a premier quarterback. They are
Speaker 1: that bad because they's one premier corner back to their
Speaker 1: their best only defensive player. You're missing your your center,
Speaker 1: You're right tackle just went on injured reserve. There's some
Speaker 1: good players on the Colts offense, but it's just a handful.
Speaker 1: That's not a team. Yeah, And I mean we're starting
Speaker 1: to look at the Cardinals and wonder the same thing,
Speaker 1: because it's it's just I think it's you say the
Speaker 1: good news, there's a lot of football left. That's true.
Speaker 1: I think I really am concerned about this season and
Speaker 1: where they're gonna be. This is a team that said
Speaker 1: they wanted to chase the Super Bowl. There there are
Speaker 1: some curious Carson Palmer throws uh similar to Cam Newton
Speaker 1: where the kind of the steam just went out of
Speaker 1: it at the end. That was that was worrisome, but
Speaker 1: even a bigger where he was they had the second
Speaker 1: worst ranked past protection of any team. Carson Palmer took
Speaker 1: a lot of grief as he should have been that game,
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of players on that often
Speaker 1: that struggled. I mean they David Johnson by the way struggled.
Speaker 1: The offensive line striped like they had more problems than
Speaker 1: just Carson Palms. I'll tell you what, I'm ready to
Speaker 1: stick a fawk in the loser of this game. Do
Speaker 1: we still do that seg well? I mean not typically
Speaker 1: in week two or week three, but it's possible to
Speaker 1: one of the few segments I've successfully killed. I just
Speaker 1: I do believe the loser of this game is going
Speaker 1: to be in a world of hurt. Not only are
Speaker 1: they gonna be banged up, but are gonna be an
Speaker 1: O and two hole that's gonna be hard to get out.
Speaker 1: I would I would lock this up for the Cardinals
Speaker 1: if I didn't feel like it's too much of it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a yeah, let's pass it. And now the Cults,
Speaker 1: I think you shouldn't be able to have a bad lock.
Speaker 1: You had a bad lock it up effort last week,
Speaker 1: didn't you. That's Jue. We forgot that I have blanked
Speaker 1: on the rams and then you took the Saints that fail.
Speaker 1: It's a bad job, sad horn you got. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: we didn't call you out on it on the Tuesday show,
Speaker 1: but on some of them it's a bit. It's kind
Speaker 1: of your responsibility to own it too. And well, I
Speaker 1: was calling I was called out for flobbing my lock,
Speaker 1: and so I would only point to the producer and say,
Speaker 1: why would you not also tag Gregg in that effort?
Speaker 1: Let's move at all late? But there we go. Speaking
Speaker 1: of flubs, Mark, you tried to cook dinner, and you
Speaker 1: try to cook a Tom Brady dinner. Connect the dots, everybody,
Speaker 1: and nearly cut off your index finger. How are we
Speaker 1: doing a little? People have been asking you on shore
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I appreciate it's weird because it's in a smaller, little,
Speaker 1: tiny bandage, so it looks like, oh, it's fine, right,
Speaker 1: But like I, whenever I take the bandage off, the
Speaker 1: skin is not healing. So I don't think we're out
Speaker 1: of the woods yet. And it's kind of gross to
Speaker 1: discuss apologies. Well, how's the nerve situation, how's your heart rate?
Speaker 1: Things are fine, and you know, globally things seem to
Speaker 1: be fine. Moving on, the Tennessee Titans, coming off loss
Speaker 1: to the Raiders in Week one, travel to Jacksonville to
Speaker 1: face the Jaguars. A lot of good feelings for Jacksonville
Speaker 1: after a very tough preseason. Let's face it, they beat
Speaker 1: a fun Houston and Houston and now they get their
Speaker 1: home open or a good spot, and they could, I'll say,
Speaker 1: take control of the AFC south of the victory. Do
Speaker 1: you believe it? It's a weird division, Greg, It wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shocking because look, they hand Doug Marone handed, uh,
Speaker 1: Tennessee their lunch. It basically got Doug Maron got this
Speaker 1: job because he destroyed Mike Malarkey's tightened. The Jaguars are
Speaker 1: kind of doing what the Titans did last year in
Speaker 1: terms of just like all running. We're gonna just like
Speaker 1: beat you up. And it worked for a week. Well,
Speaker 1: and I love the Marone. A month plus ago basically
Speaker 1: said here's what we're gonna do this season. We're gonna
Speaker 1: run the ball about forty times a game. You don't
Speaker 1: need to know any more than that we're coming right
Speaker 1: at you and you can try to stop us. Ran
Speaker 1: the ball thirty times thirty nine times last week, Leonard
Speaker 1: for Net basically faced more eight man boxes than any
Speaker 1: running back in the league still succeeded. So if you're
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, that alone is successful, and they the Titans
Speaker 1: running game, I'm not gonna get concerned after one week.
Speaker 1: But the offense of line really struggled in their third
Speaker 1: preseason game against Chicago and struggled last week opening up wholes.
Speaker 1: So now you're going against Jacksonville, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: an easy match. I everyone was excited about the way
Speaker 1: that game played out, but that was the perfect blueprint
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville to win a football game where they make
Speaker 1: get a defensive score and they're able to play from
Speaker 1: ahead and start burning the clock, they still need a
Speaker 1: quarterback to make plays. So before I get excited at
Speaker 1: all about jackson maybe being a surprise team this season,
Speaker 1: and I know their defense is very good, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to see something from Blake Bortles, uh, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to make some plays and I think a
Speaker 1: lot to make some plays in this game because I
Speaker 1: think we're all in agreement that the Titans have the
Speaker 1: potential to be a playoff team this year. They're coming
Speaker 1: off a tough loss. You think that this is a
Speaker 1: very important game for them, and they're gonna come out
Speaker 1: with a ton of focus. And I feel like there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people are gonna favor the Titans,
Speaker 1: So I expect them to score points and I expect
Speaker 1: them to put in a good effort. So you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get just give it to Leonard for Nett thirty
Speaker 1: times and and win. This Game's not gonna work as
Speaker 1: a long term sustained plan. It's got to be their defense.
Speaker 1: But I mean, we've been talking about Jacksonville's defense forever,
Speaker 1: and with ten sacks and a touchdown last week on defense,
Speaker 1: they joined the eighty five Raiders as the only two
Speaker 1: teams to ever accomplish that. They're so deep. I mean,
Speaker 1: like a j. Boullier on any other team would be
Speaker 1: such a huge story. I mean, he had a great game.
Speaker 1: They the Jaguars fans, I think had almost given up
Speaker 1: hope of Dante Fowler and and maybe even Miles Jack
Speaker 1: who had really had a slow start to his career.
Speaker 1: They wanted him to play middle linebacker. He couldn't cut
Speaker 1: it there. They had really good games last week. So
Speaker 1: if those two young guys step it up with the
Speaker 1: with the players that everyone was expecting to be good
Speaker 1: like this gets next level stuff and they got a chance. Daniel, Hey,
Speaker 1: you want to be called the Titoons anymore? Don't start
Speaker 1: out until here. Well, you've got it. They have got
Speaker 1: to take this game. I don't care where it's being played.
Speaker 1: All right, good moving on. The Philadelphia Eagles want to know,
Speaker 1: um and uh A thirty to seventeen a nice win.
Speaker 1: The Redskins were kind of a mess last week. Let's
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's face it, but the Eagles deserve credit
Speaker 1: for taking advantage of a team just looking like it
Speaker 1: wasn't ready to start the season. Now they have a
Speaker 1: real tough assignments. They're going to the Chiefs and uh
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs. If the if the Colts looked the worst,
Speaker 1: you could put the Chiefs in the conversation for the
Speaker 1: team that looked the best. And Week one you go
Speaker 1: into Foxborough and they raised banner number forty seven and
Speaker 1: you whip up on the Paths in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and in crunch time, Uh, people are feeling good. However, Mark,
Speaker 1: I feel bad about their situation in the sense that
Speaker 1: now Eric Berry has gone. How big a loss do
Speaker 1: you think that's gonna be for the Chiefs going forward?
Speaker 1: It's big. You go from Eric Berry to Daniel Sorensen,
Speaker 1: That's that's a massive drop off. Eric Berry also sort
Speaker 1: of a heartbeat leader on the team too. But this
Speaker 1: Chief's team is is not one of these teams where
Speaker 1: if you take two or three players away, the whole
Speaker 1: thing falls apart. I think they're a balanced club on
Speaker 1: both sides. They're very well coached, and when you have
Speaker 1: the bonus of getting like a Kareem Hunt come in
Speaker 1: in week one and star for you, you're just adding
Speaker 1: strength on rank there. They can run the ball and
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is more aggressive than he's ever been in
Speaker 1: his career right now. The matchup was huge, you know,
Speaker 1: against New England as a factor, but I think the
Speaker 1: offensive line should have gotten a lot of the credit
Speaker 1: for Kareem Hunt's day and for Alex smith day. I
Speaker 1: watched that gay I like Kareem Hunt. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Kareem Hunt showed that he's this special,
Speaker 1: transcendent back. I think he's going to be an NFL starter.
Speaker 1: That was given big time holes. And the most impressive
Speaker 1: thing I thought he did was him and Alex Smith
Speaker 1: were on the same page mentally on that long receiving touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's next level stuff for a rookie back Like that
Speaker 1: shows that he's thinking like a veteran already. And if
Speaker 1: they protect like that, then Alex Smith can throw. Do
Speaker 1: you want to hear a crazy stat came from our
Speaker 1: stat package? I don't want to hear one last week
Speaker 1: against NFL media research notes. That's where this came from.
Speaker 1: He had those two seventy five plus yard touchdowns last week,
Speaker 1: Alex Smith, he only had two of those in his
Speaker 1: career before the opener. Aready knew that? What else you got?
Speaker 1: What do you did? You author this packet? I thought
Speaker 1: that was well of this. He's never had back to
Speaker 1: back passing games that may happen this season, He's been
Speaker 1: around along with them. You know what my favorite um
Speaker 1: football thing, internet football thing I just discovered this week.
Speaker 1: I'm probably late to com. I would love NFL dot Com.
Speaker 1: I love the entire NFL media team and everything that
Speaker 1: happens within it. I have to tell you that Brian Baldinger,
Speaker 1: who works for NFL Network, if you follow on Twitter,
Speaker 1: he will post like little video clips of him watching
Speaker 1: tape and then narrate it, which it's all it's kind
Speaker 1: of fun, a little bit adorable to uh. He and he.
Speaker 1: One of the ones he did was about the Chiefs offense,
Speaker 1: and he would just showing how having two as he
Speaker 1: called him, chess pieces, and Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Kill
Speaker 1: having them and being able to work them off each
Speaker 1: other with like rub routes and different things. They're both
Speaker 1: such explosive talents. And then you put in Kareem Hunt
Speaker 1: and Greg, you're maybe kind of slowing down the hype
Speaker 1: train a little bit, which is fine, you could be
Speaker 1: right about that, but certainly the guy looks like he's very,
Speaker 1: very talented and maybe he could be a star. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of weapons on this team, Like the
Speaker 1: image of Greg's stopping a train, there's a lot. There's
Speaker 1: a lot else starting to get noticed as a big
Speaker 1: time blocking tight end, which he came into league not
Speaker 1: knowing that. And so if you're putting that together, then
Speaker 1: you really create matchup problems like a Rob Gronkowski and yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they won that game because of the defense. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: justin Houston in that game was the reason they was
Speaker 1: the main reason they won that game with a couple
Speaker 1: of fourth downd stops with the sacks late in the game.
Speaker 1: He's so strong, like he is a defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year type of guy. And Derrick Johnson, who is
Speaker 1: like an all time like gotta have his jersey retired
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs, came back from another devastating injury and
Speaker 1: had a great game at I don't know what he
Speaker 1: is now, thirty four, thirty five years old, Like he
Speaker 1: has a big addition to this team. We didn't talk
Speaker 1: about the Eagles at all. We should. Let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about the Eagles. Well, I loved what I
Speaker 1: saw from Carson Wentz last week and I YouTube didn't
Speaker 1: you said you trusted him more than Alex Smith on
Speaker 1: our NFL network? What that What I meant by that
Speaker 1: was not attached to their teams. But if I want
Speaker 1: to have either one of these guys for a twelve
Speaker 1: year career, I know what Alex Smith is and I
Speaker 1: do appreciate that these this season especially seems to be
Speaker 1: on onto a good thing, but career ceiling wise, I
Speaker 1: would gamble on Carson Wentz and has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with what I saw last week. There's growth, that's all.
Speaker 1: But trust were an immediate thing to trust to me
Speaker 1: was this week, this week's game. To me, that was
Speaker 1: a Wentz game that showed the ups and downs of him.
Speaker 1: But you know what, Mark's also Mark when you're on
Speaker 1: television when he got opinions are outside the box, thank you.
Speaker 1: That gets people talking, and that gets the upstairs suits
Speaker 1: talking and le figures doing cartwheels. I I don't expect
Speaker 1: any of that to happen based on the hit we
Speaker 1: just did on NFL Network, but it's a good theory.
Speaker 1: Moving on to let's head over to the throw of
Speaker 1: sleeves check in. It's been a while, I say, we
Speaker 1: trust them, the ungodly wind at the end, the unthinkaful
Speaker 1: has happened. Um oh and one as we know, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs just talked about them. And now this is a
Speaker 1: very interesting matchup, Greg for your your patriots and Erica,
Speaker 1: your beloved pats, because they go to New Orleans who
Speaker 1: had their own ugly loss in Week one, and it's
Speaker 1: a situation where you want to say, and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: the Patriots will be fine, don't worry about the Patriots
Speaker 1: lost to the Chiefs and never lost again. Sure, maybe,
Speaker 1: but this is a tough spot for them, Greg because
Speaker 1: they're going on the road against the offense that probably
Speaker 1: is ready to break out after a tough week one
Speaker 1: and then and the and they're a work in progress
Speaker 1: on defense to England right now. This isn't the team
Speaker 1: you wanna face when you have no coverage linebackers, which
Speaker 1: is what the Patriots have right now. Kyle van Noi
Speaker 1: is their middle linebacker. They essentially played one or two
Speaker 1: linebackers throughout that game. Six defensive back and you don't
Speaker 1: really see guys that can cover out of that group.
Speaker 1: And New Orleans is amazing at setting up matchup problems
Speaker 1: on those short passes. With that said, they've had four
Speaker 1: extra days. The Saints schedule maker did did not give
Speaker 1: him any favors this week that they had a Monday
Speaker 1: night game on the road. The Patriots have been sitting
Speaker 1: home in extra four days. The Patriots have been preparing
Speaker 1: for this. They're very good coming off a loss, and
Speaker 1: that the Patriots offense, even without Danni a Mendola, who
Speaker 1: hasn't been practicing has a concussion. Even without Malcolm Mitchell
Speaker 1: and Edelman, they still have a lot of players on
Speaker 1: that offense to give the scenes a lot of problems.
Speaker 1: I think it's two teams where you have to say,
Speaker 1: you know, there are a lot of new faces in
Speaker 1: in Patriots Land on offense number one, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, everyone's dumping on the mains defense acting like, oh,
Speaker 1: anything we saw in the preseason was a mirage that
Speaker 1: they're just the same defenses before. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: agree with that. I mean, they have a completely revamped,
Speaker 1: improved linebacking group, but it's all new faces. You had
Speaker 1: a lot of new faces in the secondary and it's
Speaker 1: gonna take a little bit of time for that to jail.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be the same defense as
Speaker 1: as as as we've seen in the past. And if
Speaker 1: you look at what happened with Tom Brady last week,
Speaker 1: the deep ball was a huge issue for him. I
Speaker 1: mean he was because they made him throw it. They
Speaker 1: they did the Falcons plan of getting up in the
Speaker 1: face of those receivers and make them win one on
Speaker 1: one and eventually in the Super Bowl it worked, but
Speaker 1: that's only because they got ninety plays. They didn't get
Speaker 1: ninety plays last week. And I think every team's gonna
Speaker 1: do that. They're gonna make Chris Hogan beat you one
Speaker 1: on one, Philip Dorset. I mean, you would expect to
Speaker 1: see a lot of gronk in this game. Gronk who
Speaker 1: got shut down by Eric Barry, and you you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to make him a part of the
Speaker 1: game plan early, I would think. And he noticed old
Speaker 1: Daddy no crowing about hashtag gradual decline with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: But he did have a very poor game at the
Speaker 1: worst completion percentage of any quarterback in the league in
Speaker 1: Week one, uh in actuality, So are we just the
Speaker 1: same thing? He played that poorly well that compared to
Speaker 1: last year, Yes, but it wasn't that bad when you
Speaker 1: went and rewatched that at But that completion percentage was
Speaker 1: just for you. So they were making him a throw deep.
Speaker 1: I think it was two for eleven on deep shots.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to work. The worry about because people
Speaker 1: use the word system quarterback like it's some pejorative but
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's the ultimate system quarterback. He's been in the
Speaker 1: same system for eighteen years. Brandon Cooks and him had
Speaker 1: bad timing on three different of the shorter routes. He
Speaker 1: caught the long one. He has to get timing. With
Speaker 1: Philip Dorsett the may the best things they do are
Speaker 1: changed tempo and go five wide and then slow down
Speaker 1: the tuple. You can't do that when you have new
Speaker 1: players who don't really know all of the play calls
Speaker 1: just out off the push of a button. Stuff. And
Speaker 1: one other note on the other side, with the quarterback,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees has had a lot of success in his
Speaker 1: career against the Patriots. Not a ton of game done
Speaker 1: in four games. The Saints are three and one and
Speaker 1: he's got ten touchdowns, one interception of passer rating of
Speaker 1: a twenty three. So Breeze uh. Certainly Belichick and the
Speaker 1: defense haven't had Breeze's number. If Breeze is lightening up,
Speaker 1: that's gonna put a lot of pressure. Good everybody in
Speaker 1: the pool. Fantasy well, and they had a lot of scoring.
Speaker 1: These two teams had one of the best games around
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Last time they played. It
Speaker 1: was a fantastic game. I want to see because here's
Speaker 1: the thing everyone talks about. The running back situation with
Speaker 1: Mark Ingram, Adrian Peterson, and Kamar. It's like none of
Speaker 1: them crossed twenty yards last week. And I wonder when
Speaker 1: it comes down to Ingram and and a guy like
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, do you have to get him into a flow?
Speaker 1: Are there is there one too many running back? Is
Speaker 1: there one too many? You know running backs on this team?
Speaker 1: At this point, I'm just saying, like how it's hard
Speaker 1: to sleep kind of got done this shuffle. That it's
Speaker 1: not like Kamara or ingraman any better in that game
Speaker 1: than Kamara by far was used more than the other two. Um,
Speaker 1: this game is going to be overwhelming. Let's we should
Speaker 1: just pick it since it's in. Yeah, let's pick. Patriots
Speaker 1: have won the Super Bowl every single time they've started
Speaker 1: owing one, and I don't see them going into here.
Speaker 1: I do think it's going to be a game that
Speaker 1: people come out and say some good things about the Saints.
Speaker 1: So afterwards, it's gone on guests, lazy owen to Patriots Center.
Speaker 1: In week three, let's fly moving on. That's how you
Speaker 1: get TV. Well, it's you want an edgy, an edgy
Speaker 1: pick that might have been it right there again, That's
Speaker 1: that's probably wish you wish casting, but there's some logic
Speaker 1: there too. Moving on, the Minnesota Vikings. Want to know,
Speaker 1: everyone excited because they played a really strong game on
Speaker 1: Monday night in taking care of business against those Saints.
Speaker 1: Now they travel to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers. You know,
Speaker 1: I know there's talk all the Browns are improving, and
Speaker 1: they certainly seem to be, but not an underwhelming performance
Speaker 1: on balance, I think by Pittsburgh, especially the offense, I
Speaker 1: should say, uh, will they have any better luck this
Speaker 1: time at home against the Vike He's another good defense. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, so when Big Ben says, you know, we
Speaker 1: were lucky to play the Browns in week one, which
Speaker 1: I still find slightly condescending, I will say this, I
Speaker 1: think the Browns got lucky to face Pittsburgh when they
Speaker 1: did too, because Levi on Bell, no matter what kind
Speaker 1: of shape you show up in, was not himself last week.
Speaker 1: Martavis Bryant, who we know is ultra explosive, was not
Speaker 1: really even part. I think that those two guys combined
Speaker 1: for about sixty something yards and at yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he just wasn't in the mix. I think all of
Speaker 1: that can improve with another full week of practice and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's at home. They are not the same team on
Speaker 1: the root. I'm a little worried about Martavis Bryant because
Speaker 1: of the preseason and into the regular seas I watched
Speaker 1: him pretty closely. He just has he usually has that
Speaker 1: special pop off the screen and maybe he'll get into it.
Speaker 1: But everyone just kind of and I and I am
Speaker 1: including myself in this just said, okay, we're plugging in
Speaker 1: old two thousand fifteen Martavis Bryant. But he hadn't he
Speaker 1: didn't play football for a year and he's not that
Speaker 1: guy yet. Levian Bell, I'm not worried about it all.
Speaker 1: Actually think he looked pretty good on a on a
Speaker 1: few runs last week. But if you don't have Martevis Bryant,
Speaker 1: you have Jujuice Schuster Smith who struggled last week. Like
Speaker 1: they're not that they need someone else other than Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown to step up as an option. I think, well,
Speaker 1: Jesse James made some plays in the red zone, and
Speaker 1: uh Brown is as good as ever. I let's give
Speaker 1: Martevios a couple of weeks before it's like a concern.
Speaker 1: It makes sense that he would be rusty right now. Well,
Speaker 1: I have a Sandwich prop that Martevis and Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: are going to be the one to best one to tandem.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get nervous about that because, well Brown
Speaker 1: is gonna have to do sevent of it. It sounds
Speaker 1: although you had he he had a d eighty four yards,
Speaker 1: so you're not. After that, I'll tell you about a tandem.
Speaker 1: Go on a tandem. Stefan Digs, Adam Feeling sixteen catches,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty yards and two touchdowns. Right now,
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna go set the valve and
Speaker 1: David and Joe. That goes without I'll take my chances
Speaker 1: with the Digs. Theel tandem. Well, you know, I think
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling is is someone that just started to blow
Speaker 1: up last year at two yard game down the stretch,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people didn't want to really believe
Speaker 1: in Adam Feeling. He the guy is legit. That threat
Speaker 1: is Cooper and Crabtreet And I realized that why I
Speaker 1: was watching that game was like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: forgot those guys that was the one to team last
Speaker 1: year and they could repeat that was that was the
Speaker 1: best game that we can remember Sam Bradford ever having
Speaker 1: and it was partly because their offensive line over how
Speaker 1: Like Carolina got off to a good start. Now they
Speaker 1: were playing New Orleans, this will be a much better
Speaker 1: test against a Steelers team that looks a lot different
Speaker 1: on defense. Kind of slipped under the radar. James Harrison
Speaker 1: didn't play in that game at all. I mean they
Speaker 1: basically benched them. It's Hikillo and t J. Watt and
Speaker 1: t J Watt just looks like there aren't many guys
Speaker 1: that could make an interception like he made last week
Speaker 1: and rushed the pastor like he rushes. T J. Watt
Speaker 1: had a one sack of Kaiser. I know he had too,
Speaker 1: but on one particular one where he was flushed all
Speaker 1: the way to the left, Kaiser's dancing around evading people near,
Speaker 1: you know, towards the edge and what comes back and
Speaker 1: you're going to see many players. That was one of
Speaker 1: the video clips that Baldul at the right tackle, he
Speaker 1: beats the running back, Kaiser flushes out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: He comes around from the backside and gets Kaiser. So
Speaker 1: we might be looking at another wat super This is
Speaker 1: one of those games. I feel like on a Sunday
Speaker 1: morning show you would say something like this is a
Speaker 1: good football game. I mean, I'm just saying, this is
Speaker 1: a good football game between two good football teams early
Speaker 1: in the National Football League SEA. Yeah, these guys, this
Speaker 1: is just gonna be two teams are gonna buckle up
Speaker 1: their chin straps and it's gonna be National Football League football.
Speaker 1: But it's fun. Zero media subtweeting going on there. But
Speaker 1: put put your hard hats on and go to work.
Speaker 1: Call your wife, tell her that you'll be home or
Speaker 1: maybe not because news game is gonna be physical, so
Speaker 1: that for the viewer, the viewer may not make it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't wait too long to fill out those life
Speaker 1: insurance papers. Let's go to the field. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears are traveling to Tampa to face the
Speaker 1: Pucking Years and the Buccaneers again, another team that we
Speaker 1: kind of forgot about because they didn't play. They had
Speaker 1: the rare week one by uh the last time we
Speaker 1: saw them. They were having a really nice season on
Speaker 1: hard knocks. But but at the all time best seasons,
Speaker 1: I would put it right there at near the top quickest.
Speaker 1: I will disagree with you, but that's fine. I believe
Speaker 1: that it is right behind the Jets, season at two
Speaker 1: thousand ten in the last seven or eight years, so
Speaker 1: I think it's in rarefied air. You sneak you don't
Speaker 1: like the show, No, no, no, I find it a
Speaker 1: tad formulaic, and I would say that latter seasons there's
Speaker 1: been too much uh where five minutes passes and it's
Speaker 1: just montages and I want to learn about coaches. I
Speaker 1: want to learn about how teams operate. And you go
Speaker 1: around a sixth minute show that day you're getting I
Speaker 1: hear one of the best ones I thought was Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals because you had you had three future head coaches
Speaker 1: on that team and learned a lot about the coaches.
Speaker 1: And that that's where I get interested in Hard Knocks rankings.
Speaker 1: I think you go Jets one. I still go Ravens too,
Speaker 1: maybe Ravens even because because it broke the mold and
Speaker 1: it was great. Yeah, and it really was maybe the
Speaker 1: best sea Ryan Billickett an outrageous, audacious performance and then
Speaker 1: Bucks number three. They get up to the number three.
Speaker 1: I love the early ones, So I'm not it's not
Speaker 1: it's not not anti Herd knocks the bad. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: actually talking about let's do it. The Chicago Bears. Give
Speaker 1: it a shot. Mark, it's a good show. I have
Speaker 1: given it a shot for over a decade. I you know,
Speaker 1: I have watched probably the Bears oh and one seventeen
Speaker 1: losers to the Falcons in Week one. Should have won
Speaker 1: the game, Jordan Howard, make you play, Hey, Jordan's make
Speaker 1: a play in a big spot. You didn't and your
Speaker 1: team lost. It's all your fault. And then you have
Speaker 1: the Bucks. So I feel like the Bucks are gonna
Speaker 1: be obviously well rested, maybe a little rusty. Even do
Speaker 1: you think, oh, it's that all is fault, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's tough of a Week one by that's
Speaker 1: a you feel like, you know, talk about fear of
Speaker 1: missing out. You're not really involved. We have no idea
Speaker 1: what it is because well, like never happened. No, it
Speaker 1: happened back in in back when the Browns came into
Speaker 1: the league and there were thirty one teams. There have
Speaker 1: been a couple. There's been five teams, five or six
Speaker 1: that have had and it's been on only one of
Speaker 1: those teams just made the playoffs. So I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think that route channels back too much. But if
Speaker 1: you're the Bucks, I think that you've been waiting for this,
Speaker 1: and they are going to be amped up there at home.
Speaker 1: This is going to be baby basically the launch of
Speaker 1: Jamis Wiston Winston, who was a complete star and hard knocks.
Speaker 1: I'll give them that. I think the Sean Jackson is
Speaker 1: a huge part of this offense. Didn't have a play
Speaker 1: above fifty yards all less season. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: mismatch in the secondary. That's where Chicago is weak, That's
Speaker 1: where Tampa is strong. I think Chicago is going to
Speaker 1: be a very difficult team to run against. They got
Speaker 1: some big bodies and they made the Falcons running game
Speaker 1: look in apt last week. And you got to Quiz
Speaker 1: Rodgers starting at running back for the Bucks. So you're
Speaker 1: not gonna have much of running games. I think you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot a four wide, five wide,
Speaker 1: chuck it down the field. That that's that's the recipe.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter at all that this team knows Mike Glennan
Speaker 1: very well. It could. I mean, I don't think it
Speaker 1: hurts you watch this guy in practice for years. Um,
Speaker 1: I want to see how the Bears. You just treat
Speaker 1: co and after a really great start in Week thirteen,
Speaker 1: thirt touches, a hundred and thirteen UH scrimmage yards the touchdown.
Speaker 1: This feels like it's going to head towards at least
Speaker 1: between Cohen and Jordan Howard. Uh, maybe a split already
Speaker 1: was Yeah. I had a friend text me and be like,
Speaker 1: I took Jordan Howard really high in this fantasy draft.
Speaker 1: Should I be concerned? Yes? Well, they they have a
Speaker 1: really strange offense because he's their most explosive player and
Speaker 1: he's like he's a backup running back. They have an
Speaker 1: okay tight end group. You basically have no wide receivers,
Speaker 1: especially now with Kevin White out for the season, and
Speaker 1: it's almost like John Fox's dream. It's like, I don't
Speaker 1: need to He almost won that game without needing the
Speaker 1: wide receivers at all. He's got his old double trouble
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart again with Terrico and Jordan Howard.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good problem to have, having two
Speaker 1: great backs like that. Let's move on the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's the other team that didn't play
Speaker 1: in Week one. Travel to Los Angeles and the stub
Speaker 1: Hub Center, and uh, you know the Dolphins are going
Speaker 1: to be the only team at the stub Hub Center
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Mark Sessler also there, Why are you going
Speaker 1: to be at the stub Center stub Hub Mark, Well,
Speaker 1: I think we're The point is to kind of experience
Speaker 1: the game, not just as someone sitting up in the
Speaker 1: press box. But this is a cool thing for the
Speaker 1: NFL to have a thirty thousand seat stadium, and they've
Speaker 1: done a lot of refurbishing of it to make it
Speaker 1: from a soccer venue to one that's ripe for the NFL. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean think about number of things, like you're gonna be,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be I'm gonna be there, walking around, walking around, observing,
Speaker 1: gonna go pregame, talk games. I'll watch as much as
Speaker 1: I can, but I'm gonna watch it from different areas.
Speaker 1: But in terms of the locker room, good question, because
Speaker 1: soccer locker room is so much smaller typically. I want
Speaker 1: to go in there and see what it looks like
Speaker 1: and how they did it. But I talked to some
Speaker 1: people inside the Chargers building and they did a lot
Speaker 1: of work to make this a great fan experience, So
Speaker 1: I think it will be that's exciting. So they opened
Speaker 1: up against it. You know what I forgot when I
Speaker 1: saw this right before the show is going through the
Speaker 1: different games. I kind of forgotten because of the bye
Speaker 1: and everything, because of the hurricane. Uh. J Cutler's back
Speaker 1: in the league. It wasn't just something like fun offseason
Speaker 1: storyline and then it floated away when real football started.
Speaker 1: He's now playing in a NFL game that counts on
Speaker 1: the road. J Cutler on the road in recent years
Speaker 1: has usually meant bad things, Greg, But do you think
Speaker 1: perhaps he can hang in this uh? In this game.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have a good season. I think
Speaker 1: this is a massive test for his offensive line with
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram, who gets better each and every year and
Speaker 1: was the best player on the field on Monday Night,
Speaker 1: and Joey Bosa who had a great game. And so
Speaker 1: you're asking Laramie Tunsel and his first start at left tackle,
Speaker 1: they're a little shaky maybe on the right side. That's
Speaker 1: that's not an easy ask right off the top on
Speaker 1: the road, and you would think they would try to
Speaker 1: establish J J. I e as much as possible. I
Speaker 1: want to see what the Chargers do on offense, how
Speaker 1: they approached this game. I I understand that the new
Speaker 1: coaching staff wants to run the ball a ton and
Speaker 1: be balanced. But honestly, I want to see the Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers from the fourth quarter against Denver and just unleash it.
Speaker 1: Used Travis Benjamin down the field. You have weapons at
Speaker 1: tight end, all sorts of wide receivers. Melvin Gordon made
Speaker 1: an incredible catch for a touchdown last week. They couldn't
Speaker 1: run and now you have to try to run against
Speaker 1: in Dominican sue and that Miami defensive line which had
Speaker 1: There's a lot of talent on this Miami defense, not
Speaker 1: at linebacker. There was, but there wasn't a lot. There
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of results. Yeah last year. Moving on
Speaker 1: to what looks like the biggest mismatch of Week two,
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. Uh head to the Black Hole
Speaker 1: to face the Raiders and their home opener. The Raiders
Speaker 1: had a really nice Week one performance in Nashville taking
Speaker 1: out the Titans. The Jets beat by the Bills, and now,
Speaker 1: uh this is let's let's go down the list. Derek
Speaker 1: Derek Carr at home after coming off performance when he
Speaker 1: looked very much like he will be an MVP candidate.
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch in his first game back in Oakland, coming
Speaker 1: off a week one performance where he showed that he
Speaker 1: was still Marshawn Lynch. And then the other team has
Speaker 1: has the Jets. It seems like all everything is there
Speaker 1: for a not just a win, but one of those
Speaker 1: games where at halftime you can kind of turn it
Speaker 1: off and know this game has taken care of. This
Speaker 1: feels unnecessary. Well, Erica Tampos, he enjoys. I believe this
Speaker 1: is the stadium that Mark Sanchez famously ate his hot
Speaker 1: dog on the side. So you know, it might be
Speaker 1: one of those kind of days. McCown, Alright, you're about
Speaker 1: to call a revenge game, like, wait, something that happened
Speaker 1: eight years might it might not be that close. Jets
Speaker 1: who are a little I was a little disappointed by
Speaker 1: their defense last week. I thought they would be uh
Speaker 1: respectable defense, and they really didn't put up a lot
Speaker 1: of resistance to Buffalo. I know the scoreboard didn't look
Speaker 1: too bad, but I I thought the Jets be their
Speaker 1: run defense, which has been There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: things wrong with the Jets on defense the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, but primarily it was the passing game. Uh,
Speaker 1: the defense has always been good, No, Sheldon Richardson obviously
Speaker 1: now and maybe the cracks are starting to show because
Speaker 1: you got rid of Snacks Harris in the year before
Speaker 1: or let him walk in free agency. A lot of mistackles.
Speaker 1: You need to see more from them. On the positive
Speaker 1: side with the Jets that I thought, I think we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about this on on Sunday. Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams was really all over the field in Week one
Speaker 1: and he looks like he's the real deal. People are
Speaker 1: talking about Marcus may Um. In fact, Todd Bowls, who
Speaker 1: doesn't really hand out praise, easily spotlighted both of the
Speaker 1: rookies and said that there they both had strong weak ones.
Speaker 1: So there are things on defense with that Jets to
Speaker 1: be excited about. But you still have a lot of holes.
Speaker 1: The linebacker position is unsettled, the cornerbacks or it's not
Speaker 1: a great secondary when he factor in the cornerbacks. And
Speaker 1: they still and this has been a year's long thing,
Speaker 1: decades long now since John Abraham left town. They can't
Speaker 1: get to the quarterback. So all this is playing right
Speaker 1: into the Raiders hands. Yeah, I mean, if you're the Jets,
Speaker 1: you have to probably go through a season like Cleveland
Speaker 1: did last year, where it's going to be very tough
Speaker 1: on the fan base, but it's promising that when you're
Speaker 1: rebuilding with young players that you've already seen them deliver
Speaker 1: and the safeties do. This is the team that doesn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of young players. They don't know a
Speaker 1: lot of trash starting. They're starting, but you're still starting
Speaker 1: Josh McCown in Matt fourty, which is awkward for a
Speaker 1: rebuilding team. And you said it on our NFL network,
Speaker 1: hit or pick him. I can't even keep I had
Speaker 1: written the same thing down that Amari Cooper, as great
Speaker 1: as he's been the last few years, looks like a
Speaker 1: different guy, Like he is ready to make a leap
Speaker 1: to another level where you're talking about him as one
Speaker 1: of the best, but he looks he I mean he
Speaker 1: added weight, but it was the right kind of weight.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all add weight, but he like had
Speaker 1: in muscle and he looks thick and crabtree to me,
Speaker 1: also looks like a revived player. Think about a guy
Speaker 1: that couldn't even run at full speed a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago after the surgeries he had the two of them.
Speaker 1: I don't know how new York keeps up with that
Speaker 1: because Oakland sometimes feels like they have four or five
Speaker 1: plays in their playbook. It's throw the ball to Cooper throw.
Speaker 1: It's a crab Tree run Marshall Lynch up the middle
Speaker 1: and it works. Um and his darkest things seemed for
Speaker 1: the Jets. I'll end it with one little positive note.
Speaker 1: The Raiders are one of the best teams in football
Speaker 1: now and not so long ago. Reggie mackenzie was in
Speaker 1: year three of a rebuild with a rookie Derek Carr quarterback,
Speaker 1: and they started oh and ten and they were stripping
Speaker 1: all these old guys off the roster and getting out
Speaker 1: of Cape Hell. A lot of people wanted Mackenzie to
Speaker 1: lose his job. You have to to see the plan through,
Speaker 1: and the Raiders dide a nice job with this. You
Speaker 1: have to if you believe in your guys, you have
Speaker 1: to let the structures stay in place to actually do
Speaker 1: a rebuild. We'll see if the Jets now and the
Speaker 1: year three of their GM regime will have the same testicular.
Speaker 1: Think of how many people passed on Derek Carr. How
Speaker 1: many of those teams to pass on Derek car would
Speaker 1: want Tom right now? Every one of them almost outside
Speaker 1: of New England, and you think the Jaguars would have
Speaker 1: would have liked maybe Blake moving on the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Kind of an easy ho home Week one win for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and let's face it, they caught some breaks. First,
Speaker 1: the Zeke Elliott suspension went into limbo, which allowed him
Speaker 1: to be on the field to start the season. Then
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham gets scratched from week one and the Giants
Speaker 1: clearly were not prepared uh to handle the loss of
Speaker 1: Beckham in that type of game. So the Cowboys want
Speaker 1: to know and now they go to Denver. This is
Speaker 1: one of the best games of the week, I think
Speaker 1: because despite the fourth quarter failures of Denver to put
Speaker 1: that game away and then they needed to get I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call it lucky, but they made a big play
Speaker 1: at the end to block the kick to to get
Speaker 1: the win against the Chargers. The Broncos look feisty to me,
Speaker 1: and Trevor Simeon looks feisty to me. So Dallas is
Speaker 1: not gonna go in there and handle business like they
Speaker 1: did with the Giants. Yeah, I don't know what to
Speaker 1: think about that. Cowboys defensive performance was really impressive. By.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Giants are just one of
Speaker 1: the worst offenses in the league. I mean still to
Speaker 1: hold any team to three points and get after it.
Speaker 1: Charles Tapper is a young pass rusher that they're hoping
Speaker 1: can step up along with the Marcus Lawrence. But to
Speaker 1: go to Denvers is a whole another ask because this
Speaker 1: looked a little bit more like the Broncos teams from
Speaker 1: a few years back, where you can get some push
Speaker 1: in the running game, and C. J. Anderson and Jamal
Speaker 1: Charles as a combination, I think is really gonna help
Speaker 1: take the pressure off my boy Trevor Simeon and make
Speaker 1: life a little easier for him. No, that's what they
Speaker 1: couldn't do last year when they lost c. J. Anderson
Speaker 1: was consistently run the ball behind the offensive line that
Speaker 1: was one of the worst in the league. I I
Speaker 1: really think that their first round pick is it Garrett Bowls,
Speaker 1: the left tackle, really good game last week, made an
Speaker 1: incredible block down field that sprung for a big play.
Speaker 1: I mean, he that's that's a guy. They needed that
Speaker 1: pick to hit big time, and it has. I think
Speaker 1: I want to see the Cowboys lost Orlando Scandrick and
Speaker 1: that already was a thin cornerback group. That's why I was.
Speaker 1: He had a plate put in his hand in and
Speaker 1: he still thinks he's gonna play. He has a chance.
Speaker 1: Okay I didn't, but but that's I mean, if someone
Speaker 1: put it, I don't know that I wouldn't show up
Speaker 1: to work for weeks. But well, you type a lot,
Speaker 1: so that would be that might even be tougher for you.
Speaker 1: We we gave the Broncos, by the way, a lot
Speaker 1: of grief for you know, they got rid of Wade Phillips,
Speaker 1: changed to Joe Wood. Their run defense was so much better.
Speaker 1: Really handled Los Angeles last week. So is that legit
Speaker 1: because they're about to face really the best offensive line
Speaker 1: and running game in the league. If their run defense
Speaker 1: is legit, you have Shack Barrett and Von Miller coming
Speaker 1: after you, then they're back to being a major factor.
Speaker 1: This was the game that gave us Tony Romo versus
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning and that incredible game from four seasons ago.
Speaker 1: I think that Dak Prescott versus Trevor Simeon, I think
Speaker 1: that's a great quarter. Trevor Simeon is going to be
Speaker 1: if you continue to this case, one of the stories
Speaker 1: of the season. It's not peak Romo Manning, but no,
Speaker 1: it's really good. It's I agree with one of the
Speaker 1: games of the week. Um. And one note about Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: I found it a little bit odd that he's not
Speaker 1: getting more love even entering this season, coming off the
Speaker 1: year he had. He's playing for America's team and all that.
Speaker 1: It's like it's always been overshadow by his Zaki Elliant
Speaker 1: and I think and maybe there's a bit of a
Speaker 1: narrative and play like, listen to you. This surprised when
Speaker 1: he won Rookie of the Year when he had literally
Speaker 1: had the greatest quarterback rookie. And I think it almost
Speaker 1: works against him. He's like, oh, with that offensive line
Speaker 1: and that running game, you know any guy I could
Speaker 1: do it. But no, I don't. I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1: And if he goes into Denver against you know what,
Speaker 1: they call it mark the new play zoone. You know
Speaker 1: you're not big on these uh position group nicknames. I
Speaker 1: just don't think no fly zone is that's good a
Speaker 1: name like couldn't we do? Although I will remember, I
Speaker 1: have a terrible memory, and I will remember this trio
Speaker 1: Chris Harris that keeps to leave in Bradley Roby as
Speaker 1: the no fly zone like in ten years and it
Speaker 1: asked me who the no fly zone is. I'll actually
Speaker 1: typically like like war torn nations not wanting like invading
Speaker 1: armies to fly over space. But you never throw when
Speaker 1: you're in a rocky mountain avalanche. That's better. Rocky Mountain
Speaker 1: avalanche is better. It doesn't really suggest defensive backs and
Speaker 1: secondaries and this mountain don't hit out at the Broncos
Speaker 1: just because the Jets tried to steal this oh hick
Speaker 1: name on that. That was a summer storyline. That was
Speaker 1: a big time summer storyline. All right, let's move. What
Speaker 1: do you got in that game? By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: just curious, h I haven't the pick m the score? Well,
Speaker 1: I haven't officially made my picks for our NFL Pick
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Speaker 1: can watch us on NFL Pick Them on Saturday. Now
Speaker 1: you're getting Greg Greg is strowed out there. It's coming
Speaker 1: up trying to morning in the morning to PM and
Speaker 1: eleven PM. And then there's a Sunday showing that leads
Speaker 1: into game day morning. Uh, Connie Foxes show that I
Speaker 1: would do it pick him is, I would DVR it
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Speaker 1: also through an through any of possible audio channel, play
Speaker 1: it on repeat for the next four weeks straight. Just
Speaker 1: this week's show, see what happens to your family. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take brings families together, Sure it does. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Broncos. Okay, I took Denver last week. The
Speaker 1: two of you chuckle to me. Denver is one of
Speaker 1: the toughest places to play in the NFL, and I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna pull off. Yes on our pick him.
Speaker 1: Still it's documented. It's documented. Uh, and they're going to
Speaker 1: win again at home in Denver. Two and Obroncos. I
Speaker 1: believe the Cowboys, um, even though I do predict them
Speaker 1: to go eight and eight. So I'm getting into dicey
Speaker 1: territ Gary here. I do think they're gonna win and
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's gonna play well and everybody's gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's awesome. Uh. So that's my pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: one Denver in our time, did you pick you picked
Speaker 1: the Broncos right close your score. What we need scores now,
Speaker 1: please provide one twenty one to eight. Moving on the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins. Yes, sloppy Week one loss at home, and
Speaker 1: that's tricky. You gotta win that home opener because the
Speaker 1: way the schedule usually breaks, then you go on the road,
Speaker 1: you never know what you're gonna get. And what you're
Speaker 1: getting here is the Rams, and you're getting a Rams
Speaker 1: team that just embarrassed their opponent to Colts nine. And
Speaker 1: the Colts are kind of a injury riddled mess right now,
Speaker 1: So maybe that is camouflaging really the difference between the
Speaker 1: teams and that matchup. But still you cannot say anything
Speaker 1: bad about the way the Rams played on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. So this seems like a really, really
Speaker 1: tough matchup for a Washington team greg that's trying to
Speaker 1: figure out it's stuff right now. They we talked in
Speaker 1: the off season that the key to this team could
Speaker 1: be Terrell Prior and Josh Dotson. Josh Dotson barely on
Speaker 1: the field last week, I think eighteen staffs. Terrell Prior
Speaker 1: clearly wasn't on the same page with Kirk Cousins, had
Speaker 1: a couple of drops. Uh did not have a strong game.
Speaker 1: That's not going well. Their offensive line was one of
Speaker 1: the better offensive lines in the league last year, and
Speaker 1: yet they couldn't protect Kirk Cutins at all. And now
Speaker 1: you gotta go up against my my uncle Wade and
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. That's what you said. You're not my real dad.
Speaker 1: He's gotta go up against Aaron Donald on his way back,
Speaker 1: and and Robert Quinn and Tremaine Johnson. And this is
Speaker 1: not a team you want to play when you're struggling
Speaker 1: on offense. Kirk Cousins told Sean McVeigh, I owe you
Speaker 1: my career when he left town. Well, Sean mcveigh's on
Speaker 1: the other side, and that's why he's gonna owe him
Speaker 1: a victory this week. I'm locking it up. So you
Speaker 1: got on my RAMS corner. You're on my RAMS corner.
Speaker 1: You came on my corner now because I have the Rams.
Speaker 1: I had the Rams last week. I was locking it up.
Speaker 1: Look at this, I don't even put it past through that.
Speaker 1: You saw that little icon. I'm also got up, and
Speaker 1: I don't care if you already locked it up. Why
Speaker 1: must you be opposed to each other. You've something and
Speaker 1: you've unified here no, because Greg and I should have
Speaker 1: been unified back to back weeks, but he blacked, this
Speaker 1: keeps happening. I don't think about the lock of the
Speaker 1: week until late in the show, and suddenly there's only
Speaker 1: Seahawks Forts and Packers Falcons left. So I don't Preparation
Speaker 1: is not our problem. You need to like really, Mark
Speaker 1: and I we went to the public library yesterday and
Speaker 1: we did twelve hours of research for start making our locks. Look,
Speaker 1: I got lots of notes and I came up with
Speaker 1: Cleveland over Baltimore. So right, So anyway, I I said
Speaker 1: this earlier in the week, I sincerely believe it. I
Speaker 1: feel like in the Cosmos the Rams are gonna be
Speaker 1: one of the September storylines in the league because I
Speaker 1: really love the way Jared Goff played, And I know
Speaker 1: there's no Vante Davis and all that, but he just
Speaker 1: looks so proficient and didn't look anything like the guy
Speaker 1: last year. And you know, confidence is such a big
Speaker 1: part of being successful um at that position, and he's
Speaker 1: got plenty of it now. And now you've got Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald Black. I think this is gonna be not nine,
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna be a decisive win. One
Speaker 1: little tick the the golf looked great last week, but
Speaker 1: he had the second worst QB rating against the Blitz
Speaker 1: and no team except the Panthers blitz more than the Redskins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta see more out of golf. He had a
Speaker 1: good week, certainly better than any game he's had in
Speaker 1: his career. He had unbelievable past protection that's just not
Speaker 1: going to happen where he's just sitting back there, there's
Speaker 1: no one near him for most of it. He's going
Speaker 1: through his like that's great, but most quarterbacks can do
Speaker 1: well when they have that sort of protection. That's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen every week. And I want to see a
Speaker 1: little more out of Todd Gurley. This has been an
Speaker 1: offseason narrative that I was thumping and I and I
Speaker 1: and I just want to see him break some tackles.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's holes there. I want to see him do
Speaker 1: something special. We know he's solid, but something he's running
Speaker 1: out of rope in the sense of Bennett for the
Speaker 1: doubt and Greg you kind of were, Yeah, you were
Speaker 1: hitting at it in the offseason, but there was another
Speaker 1: shaggy game. I'll again point to some baldy tape where
Speaker 1: he did a slow motion capture of a third and
Speaker 1: Forever where they just did a draw which should have
Speaker 1: gained h bald on the show. Well, you know, he's
Speaker 1: offered to come up with Yeah, they had three different
Speaker 1: gaps he could have shot through, and he just there
Speaker 1: was no explosion to girl and he got brought down
Speaker 1: for a two yard games. I think you were at
Speaker 1: the public library with Baldy. I don't remember sponsored segment.
Speaker 1: Dan reads all these world traveler too. I would go,
Speaker 1: I would just like follow Baldi around and I would
Speaker 1: like read his tweets as he was doing various adventures
Speaker 1: around the world, right next to him, watching him tweet. Quickly,
Speaker 1: he would quickly have you arrested? He I don't think
Speaker 1: that would be part of his travel plans. Why do
Speaker 1: you say that arrested? That hurts me that you'd say that. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think there'll just be there'd be a man
Speaker 1: following him everywhere he goes. It would seem slightly suspicious.
Speaker 1: It's not personal against you. Well, the arrest certainly seems
Speaker 1: like it's personal, But I'm gonna move legal. It's legal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what what is this? What is this all right? Let's
Speaker 1: go move on to the San Francisco forty niners at
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks UH two oh and one teams. But
Speaker 1: this this one looks like a mismatch to me personally,
Speaker 1: Mark that the Seahawks are gonna get healthy at home
Speaker 1: after a tough Week one loss and which they didn't
Speaker 1: even play poorly, just got outplayed by another um NFC giant.
Speaker 1: What do you think The only concern I'd have for
Speaker 1: Seattle is again, it's another one of these left tackles,
Speaker 1: Reese Audiambo. I believe that's how you say his name.
Speaker 1: Seattle's fill in left tackle who got jobbed last week.
Speaker 1: He's their left tack He's still left tackle and you
Speaker 1: are dealing with I really like San Francisco's front seven.
Speaker 1: That could be a problem for Russell Wilson, who has
Speaker 1: not been protected well for a while now. But I
Speaker 1: do think Seattle takes this thing without too much training.
Speaker 1: They did not let him operate. It was it was
Speaker 1: beyond just like, hey, they struggle. There was like no
Speaker 1: one could have succeeded with what happened with the Seattle line.
Speaker 1: And I liked the San Francisco to on paper, I
Speaker 1: did not like what I saw last week. Not from
Speaker 1: offense especially, but now but either side of the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, once Reuben Foster went down that that is
Speaker 1: a huge loss because he seemed like he was going
Speaker 1: a huge difference maker. They really got pushed around by
Speaker 1: Carolina up front. It was not not it was a
Speaker 1: very chip Chip Kelly like uh dunt on both sides
Speaker 1: of the balls this week one, but it was. It
Speaker 1: was a bit of a dune on both sides. I
Speaker 1: would be alarmed if Seattle has the score at least
Speaker 1: three touchdowns of this game. I think they will get
Speaker 1: And you're right, the offensive line has been a concern.
Speaker 1: It was again last week. Uh, but you know this
Speaker 1: is a game Seattle has been winning for five years now.
Speaker 1: These inferior NFC West teams, usually forty niners, come in,
Speaker 1: they take care of business and get healthy. I don't
Speaker 1: see that change. Well. I think one of their touchdowns
Speaker 1: is gonna come on defense because it should have. Last week.
Speaker 1: Hoyer was not protected well in that game against Carolina
Speaker 1: at all. There were sometimes four or five Panthers got
Speaker 1: defenders are breaking through at the same time. Now you
Speaker 1: gotta play Michael Bennett and Sheldon Richardson and Avrow on
Speaker 1: the road. Forget about it, Let's move on to this
Speaker 1: is the game of the week, Sunday Night football. The
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers coming off that went over, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: travel to Atlanta where they open up that new building.
Speaker 1: I think the roof is open market Mercedes. I've read
Speaker 1: that they are going to it. It's it's something like
Speaker 1: the fifteen eight or I don't know what the number is,
Speaker 1: but it's like fifteen acres is how big that roof is,
Speaker 1: which is a weird way to measure a root. Strange
Speaker 1: hubba hubba. Uh. So it's a rematch of the two
Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen NFC Championship game. Mark your thoughts on
Speaker 1: this battle, well, I mean this is a NFC title rematch,
Speaker 1: and I do feel like you know that. Well, I
Speaker 1: I agree with your point. Uh not really have points
Speaker 1: as a fact. Well, I would say it was strong
Speaker 1: analysis by day to point out that these two met
Speaker 1: last January. Wasn't analysis, just I was like laying the
Speaker 1: tracks as I hope everyone's panicking over Atlanta's offense, and
Speaker 1: I just don't quite feel that we're at that point
Speaker 1: at all yet. And I think they're gonna get right
Speaker 1: at home. Julio Jones talking about that game lit them
Speaker 1: up for a hundred and eighty yards. This is a
Speaker 1: different situation this time around. I think green Bay's improved
Speaker 1: their secondary son, But if you're green Bay, you have
Speaker 1: to open with Seattle and now you have to deal
Speaker 1: with the Falcons. It is this essentially another playoff September.
Speaker 1: Too early in the in the season for for these
Speaker 1: two teams to play, especially after green Bay Seattle. But
Speaker 1: you bringing up that game in their secondary points out
Speaker 1: who is covering him that game. Lad Darius Gunter, who
Speaker 1: released now was not even on the team. They cut him,
Speaker 1: So that shows stop that was That shows how much
Speaker 1: deeper they are now. They actually drafted Kevin King to
Speaker 1: to start. Everyone said, Okay, now we're better. Kevin King
Speaker 1: is not even playing for this team because they have
Speaker 1: their veterans out there. They looked like a tougher defense
Speaker 1: last week. And I'd be a little worried about the
Speaker 1: Falcons run game because they were really dominated by Chicago,
Speaker 1: and you know a lot of their offense does come
Speaker 1: off that run game. They're playing up against Mike Daniels,
Speaker 1: who had a great game last week and certainly can
Speaker 1: cause problems. So I'm watching that Davante Freeman in the
Speaker 1: run game. I time Montgomery. I I get it. I
Speaker 1: see what they're trying to do. But I wasn't blown
Speaker 1: away by him, And I feel like Green Bay simply
Speaker 1: refuses to get year to year a run game that
Speaker 1: you can truly rely. I love. I really liked what
Speaker 1: I saw out of him last week, especially to end
Speaker 1: that game, that he got tougher and tougher as he went.
Speaker 1: I thought he showed a little something that, Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: this is uh fifty carry a game type of guy.
Speaker 1: You gotta see, you know, more than just one week.
Speaker 1: But I like how to closed that game. I think
Speaker 1: someone to watch in terms of having a bounce back
Speaker 1: season as Randall Cobb, who got you know, has got
Speaker 1: cast into a number one receiver role a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago and it was clearly not a good fit.
Speaker 1: Last year. He disappeared for stretches of the season. I
Speaker 1: thought he was in a perfect situation last week and
Speaker 1: I could, yeah, I could totally see them getting back
Speaker 1: back on track. And if he stays healthy, having like
Speaker 1: a ninety catch season, then they're so deep. I mean,
Speaker 1: he could just have. He has so many options to
Speaker 1: throw to there are I mean, their offense is gonna
Speaker 1: be once they get warmed up. And that was well
Speaker 1: Martella spent it. He looks like he fits right and
Speaker 1: he's he's a perfect fit. That everything the running game
Speaker 1: you can ask questions about. But if they just can
Speaker 1: get in sync and their role, they they're gonna score
Speaker 1: a lot of points this year. Brian Bulaga, coming off
Speaker 1: that ankle injury, has misspracticed on this Thursday with they
Speaker 1: sent him home with the flu, and I typically the
Speaker 1: flu does not seem like somebody would stand in the
Speaker 1: way a plane. But combining it with the ankle that
Speaker 1: that right side of the line was not good less. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm expecting this Falcons defense to be better this season.
Speaker 1: They were okay as a group last week, but Devandre
Speaker 1: Campbell really stood out. This is why you gotta watch
Speaker 1: more than one week. You never know. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're giving out defensive player of the Year, I might
Speaker 1: to give it to Devandre Campbell right now as a
Speaker 1: second year linebacker and suddenly him and Dion Jones flying
Speaker 1: around together. If Campbell really improved that much, that is
Speaker 1: a difference making Doo uh, finally Monday Night football the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Yes, they beat the Cardinals last week at home.
Speaker 1: Now they traveled to the Metal Ends to face the Giants.
Speaker 1: Very dispiriting loss for the the Giants in Week one
Speaker 1: at Dallas. But now it looks like Odell Beckham as
Speaker 1: of now is heading towards the right direction and we'll
Speaker 1: be playing on Monday. We'll see. But he did practice
Speaker 1: in a limited capacity on Thursday, which is a very
Speaker 1: good sign. And you wonder if that's what it's gonna
Speaker 1: take to wake up the Giants offense. Of course, Beckham
Speaker 1: has been there. Uh they haven't scored over twenty points
Speaker 1: in seven straight games. He was there for all those
Speaker 1: games too. But maybe he gets it in the mix
Speaker 1: and they get a little flow going, because it can't
Speaker 1: get worse than what it was last Sunday night. He
Speaker 1: also a little while ago called the injury a six
Speaker 1: to eight week injury. We're raising suspicion that he would
Speaker 1: that whether or not he'll be available on this so
Speaker 1: I there's a lot. Yeah, there's more to the in
Speaker 1: the injury was went four three weeks ago. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well no, this is gonna be that's problematic. This Giant.
Speaker 1: He can't save this Giant's offense. Everyone's like, Okay, you
Speaker 1: know you saw the difference without other but yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: But they were a really poor offense last year with
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. They to have the lack of confidence to
Speaker 1: not test that Cowboys secondary really at all. Like Eli
Speaker 1: Manning just wasn't having a third and twelve. I'm throwing
Speaker 1: at two yards third, Nate, Let's throw at four yards,
Speaker 1: you know, third and third and one. Let's not even
Speaker 1: trust our running backs. Let's just go four wide and
Speaker 1: try to complete a pass like it was right there
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Even the Jets I think looked better
Speaker 1: passing in the ball early in that game with with
Speaker 1: any offense in the league at the bottom. That's why
Speaker 1: I made New York my Super Bowl pick, and uh, no,
Speaker 1: no choice but to stick with that. But it feels
Speaker 1: very endangered. What I don't like about everything along with
Speaker 1: everything you just said, you knew you had issues at
Speaker 1: running back, you didn't do anything to change that, and
Speaker 1: you know they seem like this it's just a continuation
Speaker 1: of last season on offense. And we'll see if this
Speaker 1: what kind of matchup this is in terms of going
Speaker 1: against Detroit. But when I when I saw what games
Speaker 1: were left in and I knew I still had to
Speaker 1: lock up, I thought pretty hard about locking up the Lions.
Speaker 1: If I could do a double lock it up? Am
Speaker 1: I even allowed to do that? I would double lock
Speaker 1: it up because I really do like the Lions to
Speaker 1: win this game. And Stafford showed me something last week.
Speaker 1: And more than that, he's got more help around him.
Speaker 1: Uh this year. I think Kenny Golladay could really change
Speaker 1: this entire offense because he is so He looks so
Speaker 1: good on the perimeter and his his feet for a
Speaker 1: big guy, able to beat some smaller cornerbacks at the line.
Speaker 1: And now that he's outside, Golden Tate's inside. I love
Speaker 1: me some Golden Tate in the slot. And he was
Speaker 1: playing out of position on the outside. So suddenly two
Speaker 1: spots are better, the lines a little better, and you're in.
Speaker 1: You're cooking with gas. I feel like there's a missed
Speaker 1: opportunity because Greg's so excited. I'm more excited about this
Speaker 1: and you know what, I'm locking it up. Wait, no,
Speaker 1: you're not. You want to pull out your lock for
Speaker 1: the Rams, You could do that. I don't know. Two
Speaker 1: weeks in a too confused Well, No, I'm sticking with
Speaker 1: the RAMS stick. I feel like the fans will know
Speaker 1: that I double locked it up. No, they will not.
Speaker 1: They will not respect that, they will not observe that. No,
Speaker 1: will not come into the lions. I was going to
Speaker 1: lock up the Giants, but because it was Monday, I
Speaker 1: didn't think it was it was gonna be a theatrical,
Speaker 1: so I went with the RAMS. We could have had
Speaker 1: a lot on a strange psychic wavelength. You could have
Speaker 1: had a lock off, is what we could have had.
Speaker 1: And well, why don't you both get out of the
Speaker 1: RAMS lock and do that. Let's make this exciting, all right,
Speaker 1: it's a lock off. Off off. Listeners that cut out
Speaker 1: of the show early will be very confused. History here. Um, okay,
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