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Speaker 1: to because let's go through it. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: the Monday night football recap. Nice game, Nice Monday night game.
Speaker 1: Things are Things are looking good in the NFL after
Speaker 1: a shaky first couple of weeks that made me worry
Speaker 1: able the future of the league. Another nice primetime effort
Speaker 1: by two football teams that played professionally. Uh feels like
Speaker 1: some ad copy you're reading right there. We will for
Speaker 1: the first time this season. We're gonna bring back the
Speaker 1: A T N Power Poll. We are. By the way,
Speaker 1: it's not the quarter pole, as somebody snootily commented on Twitter,
Speaker 1: not to me, but I just saw it in my
Speaker 1: tweet deck. In horse racing, the quarter pole is when
Speaker 1: there's quarter of the race left, which would be what
Speaker 1: we would then think was the third three quarter. Yes,
Speaker 1: so the one fourth of the regular regular season schedules. Uh,
Speaker 1: complete for a lot of teams, maybe it's there. Yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: everybody come down at everybody come down. And then finally,
Speaker 1: and Greg, I know you're excited. Oh it's coming back baby.
Speaker 1: The Subreddit Super Contest Week three. Yeah. Oh yeah, let's see. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what our listeners can blow this time. I mean,
Speaker 1: how much easier can the questions get? Massive disrespect? Yeah, listeners,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you, Greg, doesn't we do? Uh? And that's
Speaker 1: why I just want to give it. I just want
Speaker 1: to give them the prize and then they don't need
Speaker 1: to jump through all these hoops. Uh. So that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's what's going on today. So why don't we get
Speaker 1: right to work and start with a little Monday night football?
Speaker 1: High snap, pulled down, busters, kick us out and us
Speaker 1: right down the boulevard. It's good change take out twenty
Speaker 1: three d with four seconds left in regulation and Harrison
Speaker 1: Bucker kicks you know what? Oh put it on the list.
Speaker 1: Louis Cannon? Who is that? By the way, did anybody
Speaker 1: know is that Mitch Holtis whoever it is, he's great,
Speaker 1: does a great job. Who is that? Erica Mitch with
Speaker 1: the and uh yes, Harrison great first name by the way.
Speaker 1: But but Kerr had a forty three yard field goal
Speaker 1: eight seconds to play. It was his first game at
Speaker 1: three signed signed out the practice. God, what a what
Speaker 1: a way to debut on Monday night in Kansas City
Speaker 1: and the loudest, loudest building in the league building. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you guys figure it out anyway. Uh.
Speaker 1: It gave the Chiefs a twenty three to twenty lead. Uh.
Speaker 1: They then got a last play the game touchdown on
Speaker 1: some Shenanigan so to twenty final over the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs uh moved to four and oh the season,
Speaker 1: uh the only undefeated team in the NFL through the
Speaker 1: quarter pole. We called the quarter pole. Deal of it,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, The first quarter could work. Come back to
Speaker 1: the horse track with your cigar in your newspaper. You're
Speaker 1: racing form a very very slow start for the cheese
Speaker 1: or down ten nothing at the end of the first quarter,
Speaker 1: but they got their way back into it and then
Speaker 1: closed out in the fourth quarter. They dominated the final
Speaker 1: three quarters of this game. Yes, they were a Josh
Speaker 1: Docks and drop or or just couldn't come up with
Speaker 1: the catch in the end zone away from possibly losing
Speaker 1: this game, but they looked like the better team. They
Speaker 1: held the ball the whole time. And Kareem Hunt is
Speaker 1: kind of the closer like this team. Yes, they've been
Speaker 1: close every week, it's not like it's a dominant four
Speaker 1: and oh with ten minutes left. In all all four
Speaker 1: of their games, it's a one score game either up
Speaker 1: or down there close, but they find a way of
Speaker 1: kind of wearying on opponents. And Kareem Hunt in the
Speaker 1: offense and this time Alex Smith making a big play
Speaker 1: out of the pocket, seems to save their best for
Speaker 1: last and tire out the opposition. I really thought it
Speaker 1: was the next level. It had Aaron Rodgeri type feel.
Speaker 1: Pre snapped with Alex Smith. I would rarely say that
Speaker 1: he's a very smart quarterback, but drawing Preston Smith off
Speaker 1: sides over and over, constantly pulling penalties for free plays.
Speaker 1: It was the Chiefs don't have that overt weakness that
Speaker 1: you can point to and attack. They're just a very
Speaker 1: solid team. When it comes to Dotson though, that drop
Speaker 1: because we waited so long for him to have that game.
Speaker 1: It's like, had he caught that, the entire league would
Speaker 1: be talking about Josh Johnson and the uprise they'd have
Speaker 1: and and Terrell Prior had a good game finally instead Cousins,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was the quarterback that impressed me the
Speaker 1: most in this game. Um And I know he's again
Speaker 1: playing for a long term deal and he's gonna get
Speaker 1: that money because I know, um a lot of people
Speaker 1: maybe aren't aren't sold him on him still, but I
Speaker 1: think he made so many big throws and that is
Speaker 1: a tough environment. Um let the team in rush going
Speaker 1: to say after the Chiefs scored a touchdown I believe,
Speaker 1: to either go ahead or tie the game. In the
Speaker 1: second half, Cousins went right down the field and scored,
Speaker 1: had the big hiccup hook up with Vernon Davis, and
Speaker 1: then threw a nice touchdown pass. He put that pass
Speaker 1: to Dotson right on the money. I mean, you gotta
Speaker 1: make that catch. It wasn't like a blooper drop, but
Speaker 1: it's exactly a tot. In a game like that, where
Speaker 1: the stakes are high, you cannot ask for a better
Speaker 1: pass from your quarterback. So he made the past. His
Speaker 1: team just didn't cooperate with him. I was very impressed
Speaker 1: with Cousins in this game. Yeah, I thought that they
Speaker 1: needed to control the clock a little bit better. In
Speaker 1: this game. The Redskins, they their drives were so short,
Speaker 1: and they just I think put too much pressure on
Speaker 1: their defense. And the defense had way too many penalties too,
Speaker 1: so that really hurt them. But in terms of Kansas City,
Speaker 1: I thought Alex Smith was really locked in the way
Speaker 1: that he was grabbing yards and and running for it.
Speaker 1: And Travis Kelsey had such a great night. I can't
Speaker 1: really get past his dance and the end zone. The
Speaker 1: I just was surprised by it. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think I can move like that. I watched this game
Speaker 1: at Paramore Manner, and the paramore and Chris Westling and
Speaker 1: especially the paramore's mom were were very impressed with the
Speaker 1: dancing ability at Kelsey moved this woud women all over
Speaker 1: the country. Because I got a text from a friend
Speaker 1: of mine who I went to and it's also very
Speaker 1: impressieds getting text from female college d's chiefs fan. Yes,
Speaker 1: her husband's chiefs fan, and she she loved that movement
Speaker 1: on old Travis and Travis Kelsey dance. Yes, is he
Speaker 1: going trying too hard to let everyone know that the
Speaker 1: white boy can dance? Yes? Travis Kelsey beyond anything else. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I tweeted about this last night, all his shenanigans
Speaker 1: on the field. He is like the prototypical um popular
Speaker 1: jock from your high school that was to everybody, uh
Speaker 1: and was mean and was rule and picked on kids
Speaker 1: and didn't treat the women well in his grade, nobody projected,
Speaker 1: nobody really liked him. Nobody really liked him. But because
Speaker 1: he had great hair and he could dance at the
Speaker 1: Spring for now, you're really projected. And he Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: let me finish my point, and he could catch a
Speaker 1: football and make plays. He was just popular by default.
Speaker 1: No one actually likes Travis Kelsey, but he's very popular.
Speaker 1: I thought Gruden, I mean, went out of his way
Speaker 1: to put him in his place last night in a
Speaker 1: way that Gruden would, whether you agree with it or not.
Speaker 1: For all the penalties, yeah, he was a little bit
Speaker 1: we got your week and like taunting the opponents and
Speaker 1: running up and down the field. It's just like enough
Speaker 1: with this guy. I will say one thing, I just
Speaker 1: don't like him. I hear you. I stually won by
Speaker 1: this game because I like, the last time the team
Speaker 1: that I actually love was good was like the eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties. So I'm one of these people that like
Speaker 1: will nerd out on a couple of beers, like on
Speaker 1: a day off and watch like some game that's on
Speaker 1: YouTube because they have all these full games. It's not
Speaker 1: a humble, bragg waste of time. There's much better things
Speaker 1: I could be doing my time. This had an old
Speaker 1: school feel to it. It's one of the few games
Speaker 1: this season that didn't feel like modernized arcade football. Had
Speaker 1: an old school defensive field to it, and I enjoyed
Speaker 1: it as watches any game all year. One of the
Speaker 1: most fascinating dramas was what was left unsaid between John
Speaker 1: Gruden and the booth coaching his brother against the coach
Speaker 1: that really gave him a career in Andy Reid. And
Speaker 1: we should point it out because John Gruden didn't Jay
Speaker 1: Gruden cost them this game. This game goes to overtime.
Speaker 1: If Jay Gruden just listens to John Gruden, John Gruden says,
Speaker 1: very smart, you know by the Redskins not taking a
Speaker 1: time out here, you don't want to give Alex Smith
Speaker 1: any time to play. That was with about I think
Speaker 1: fifty six seconds left. There was a little before that.
Speaker 1: Seconds later, Jay Gruden takes the time out. That gives
Speaker 1: the Chiefs more time to run that offense. There was
Speaker 1: no reason for the Chiefs to have time there. Washington
Speaker 1: could have set it up in such a way because
Speaker 1: Kansas City wasn't taken that time out in a in
Speaker 1: a way that they would have not had time to
Speaker 1: go down the field. And right after John Gruden says, like,
Speaker 1: very good, not taking a time out, crickets, that's awkward.
Speaker 1: Didn't hear a word. Didn't hear a word about its broadcast.
Speaker 1: I understand that, but it was still bad clock management
Speaker 1: by Jay Gruden and and it cost him. We see
Speaker 1: this with coaches, like they're great at a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but clock management often not one of them. I'm shocked
Speaker 1: it wasn't Andy Reid in that position right there. A
Speaker 1: couple of straight weeks, it's actually been the opposition, whether
Speaker 1: it's Anthony Lynn or some other coaches, the Chiefs have
Speaker 1: Gonegan's making Doug Peterson uh not making the best choices.
Speaker 1: How worried should Washington be about Chris Thompson? What about him?
Speaker 1: I don't know with any word at all. I don't
Speaker 1: know that ball security just being not He's been like one.
Speaker 1: I would say he's been the most valuable player run
Speaker 1: offense up until last night. He's a role player. It's
Speaker 1: interesting that in a night like Monday night, when they
Speaker 1: lose Rob Kelly to an injury, they just refused to
Speaker 1: kind of turn it over to Thompson, like he is
Speaker 1: really there, James White, third down back guy at a
Speaker 1: point where some J P. Ryan, that's who they should be,
Speaker 1: where he's really struggled, but they just won't let Thompson
Speaker 1: kind of be the guy he's a good role. They've
Speaker 1: talked about Thompson because of his set. They don't want
Speaker 1: to overuse him and I but he is he is.
Speaker 1: They've done a lot on that team with the guys
Speaker 1: you think would have been massive producers up until Terrell
Speaker 1: Prior last night having a nice touchdown catch the Terrell
Speaker 1: Priors the Reds, these guys have not been the core
Speaker 1: of their offense. A little bit of a push off
Speaker 1: on that Terrell prior to down too, but a little bit.
Speaker 1: All right, that's the Monday night football recap. How about
Speaker 1: the Chiefs for it now? Yes they are. They'll come up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the little power poll later and I
Speaker 1: think I think they'll probably be in the top half
Speaker 1: of the Power Bowl. I'm not. I don't want to
Speaker 1: otherwise that city will re vault and bury us. And
Speaker 1: there's something wrong with our quarter pole power poll. Let's
Speaker 1: do some news. But Kicker dot com did a nice job,
Speaker 1: all right. The Bears have done it. They made the decision.
Speaker 1: Strabiskie is their new starting quarterback. The Bears handed the
Speaker 1: reins to their number two overall pick uh this week
Speaker 1: starting with Week five Monday Night game. Nice nice job.
Speaker 1: For a nice situation there for ESPN. John Fox made
Speaker 1: it official. Uh, he said it was a decision that
Speaker 1: quote needed to be made. Um, so it is. It
Speaker 1: is over very quickly from Mike Lennon went one in
Speaker 1: three and four starts to open the city, open the season,
Speaker 1: Colleen Glenn and just didn't show much. Do you think
Speaker 1: it was the right move to do it? Now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean I think that John Fox
Speaker 1: couldn't didn't really have a choice. He had to do it.
Speaker 1: Mike Lennon looks awful, especially in that Thursday night game.
Speaker 1: Look at the way he opened the game with the
Speaker 1: fumble right off the top of the game and then
Speaker 1: he had a snap that went right off his knee. There.
Speaker 1: There was just so many things that happened in the
Speaker 1: game against him, and he's not inspiring. When you watch it,
Speaker 1: you just don't think, oh, yeah, they can do something
Speaker 1: here on offense. This is a team that, yeah, when
Speaker 1: you look, they don't really have wide receivers, but they
Speaker 1: have a running game and they have a good offensive line.
Speaker 1: So why not put Mitch Drabinsky in there because he
Speaker 1: had a really good preseason. I'd say of any of
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterbacks. He's the one that you would have
Speaker 1: said if there weren't other you know, sort of contract
Speaker 1: issues and politics behind the scenes going on. Rabinsky is
Speaker 1: the one who would have earned the Week one start
Speaker 1: over someone over to Shaun Watson at that point. Things
Speaker 1: have changed with Deshaun Watson, but I mean Trabinsky, he's
Speaker 1: like he extends the play. I think he makes the
Speaker 1: Bears offense more palatable to watch, more more mobile. So
Speaker 1: it's I wanted this to happen much sooner. It's happening
Speaker 1: soon enough. Fox. Yeah, I would think regrets starting. Glennon
Speaker 1: maybe regrets the wrong word. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: thinks that way. But they're one in three. This is
Speaker 1: he's coached I think for sixteen straight years in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna get a seventeenth unless Robinsky saves him.
Speaker 1: And Glennon wasn't gonna be that guy. Now. Glennen played
Speaker 1: pretty well in Week one, even that like week last week,
Speaker 1: Like you had a time when Tony Roe was saying
Speaker 1: during that game, Mike Lennon's played as well as Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers in this game. You know that it's a blindside
Speaker 1: sack on the first play, It's like a ball bouncing
Speaker 1: office knee. He did not play well. The problem is
Speaker 1: he's a veteran quarterback that was turning the ball over.
Speaker 1: He had three I think he had three picks or
Speaker 1: five picks and three fumbles. And Trabinsky looks so good
Speaker 1: in the preseason. But I think one thing we've seen
Speaker 1: with Watson is that preseason football doesn't have much to
Speaker 1: do with regular season football. And that cuts both ways.
Speaker 1: So now you're getting you get the game plan on
Speaker 1: both sides. That's really helped the guy like Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: having O'Brien cook up a scheme just for him for
Speaker 1: a week. We'll see if the Bears can do that
Speaker 1: with Rabinsky. He doesn't. He doesn't have anyone to throw to. Really.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kendall writes his top wide receiver and yeah,
Speaker 1: a reminder is the way sports are like, just like
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and Josh Johnson would be heroes today if
Speaker 1: they could connect on that play. You know, Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: makes that catching Week one against the Falcons UH and
Speaker 1: the Bears upset Atlanta UH in their opener. Maybe he
Speaker 1: has a little bit more rope to play with but
Speaker 1: that's just not how it worked out. And but you
Speaker 1: can't really this was coming at some point and maybe
Speaker 1: they don't even bought him an extra week, and then
Speaker 1: maybe he does something. Now you give him, you have
Speaker 1: an if it matters or not. The fact that it
Speaker 1: was a Thursday night game up until what a Monday
Speaker 1: night game you get an extra It's it's a good
Speaker 1: the right transition. It's a good for America too. I mean,
Speaker 1: we gotta watch this Bears team, and Traviski is fun.
Speaker 1: America doesn't have to watch Bears Monday night football. He
Speaker 1: was fun to watch. So if nothing, even if he's
Speaker 1: not perfect, that's why it's good news for ESPN because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of America may have chosen not
Speaker 1: like Glennon and now that now there's a lot more
Speaker 1: to be compelled about about the game. Moving on, Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: He's gonna miss some time. Bad news, very bad news
Speaker 1: for the Oakland Raiders. Um Jack del Rio told reporters
Speaker 1: Monday that his star passer is dealing with a transverse
Speaker 1: process fracture in his back. Uh del Rio said there's
Speaker 1: a real good chance he'll miss this week and he
Speaker 1: could be Um uh. He said this single Colors time
Speaker 1: on the shelf could be as short as two weeks,
Speaker 1: so they they are optimistic that it won't be a
Speaker 1: long absence, which is good. But if that, if the
Speaker 1: injury is familiar at all, Mark uh two listeners out there,
Speaker 1: it is the same injury that shelve Tony Romo last
Speaker 1: preseason and then opened the door for Dak Prescott. And
Speaker 1: it was ironic or a coincidence that Tony Romo was
Speaker 1: calling that game on Sunday. There you go. I mean
Speaker 1: my my concern. I won't delve into that. I feel
Speaker 1: like anything, I feel like nothing is ironic anymore. Every
Speaker 1: time anyone points out anything, there's irony if it's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not, and here's the three reasons why it isn't.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going down that road, but I will
Speaker 1: say this that everyone, I think that's ironic that that
Speaker 1: Tony was in the booth for that. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's intriguing. Yeah, I guess it's an interesting wrinkle. But
Speaker 1: back injuries are so dicey. I just don't. I just
Speaker 1: it is an interesting for sure. Well great, I mean
Speaker 1: for the coach to say, oh, we think they don't
Speaker 1: know that. I don't. I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: be too weeks, that's for sure, your questioning, Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be back. This is a man
Speaker 1: that's strong of character. He's gonna be a fast tailor.
Speaker 1: He's a leader, and uh is a God fearing man
Speaker 1: and God will look out for him. But we have
Speaker 1: history of this though Tony Ruma only missed one game
Speaker 1: with this injury in two thousand fourteen. Cam Newton only
Speaker 1: missed one game with this injury. But everything everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying young, he's young, and he's it's not
Speaker 1: it's not Tony Roman who. I'll say this. My concern
Speaker 1: is that the you know here, we get an E. J.
Speaker 1: Manual who with Buffalo was a turnover machine. Looked okay
Speaker 1: on Sunday. And my concern is that this Bill, this
Speaker 1: this Raider's offense has not been productive, has not been
Speaker 1: very watchable with car in the lineup. Now, yeah, the
Speaker 1: last two weeks they got to play the Ravens defensively,
Speaker 1: who we talked up all off season. It's not looking
Speaker 1: as strong as I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1: And they can't run the ball either. So if you
Speaker 1: don't have Derek Carr out there, Michael Crabtree was banged up.
Speaker 1: This offense worries me. I would say if they if it.
Speaker 1: If he does not come back after the Ravens gave
Speaker 1: you have the Chargers and the Chiefs back to back
Speaker 1: divisional matchups, then the Bills and the Dolphins. So I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not sure we'll see him in two weeks.
Speaker 1: We'll see. In other quarterback injury news, Andrew Luck of
Speaker 1: the Colts will return to practice this week, according to
Speaker 1: CBS Indianapolis. Um have we gotten it from our own
Speaker 1: people as well? Alright, but CBS Indianapolis Indianapolis is reporting
Speaker 1: that Luck will be back on the practice field, which is,
Speaker 1: um obviously a big, big step for him. Um, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's a situation where he's already missed four weeks. You
Speaker 1: would think maybe in the best case scenario, maybe you
Speaker 1: get to see him in week six. We don't know,
Speaker 1: but this is a big step, it is, and and
Speaker 1: my fault our our place didn't need to confirm it
Speaker 1: because Chris Ballard did release a statement saying that's what
Speaker 1: he said. Uh, that Andrew Luck willed back at practice
Speaker 1: this week. So this is official. And after talking about
Speaker 1: this story and Lessie and let's say we called it
Speaker 1: out in April, like, hey, this is gonna be a story.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that. Maybe he's not gonna be back.
Speaker 1: Just don't assume with this type of injury that he's
Speaker 1: going to be ready for the start of training camp.
Speaker 1: Forget the start of training camp. We're hopeful maybe week
Speaker 1: six he's back on the field. Maybe week seven. You
Speaker 1: look at their schedule, it's like you gotta win one
Speaker 1: more maybe with Brissette to keep them in the midd
Speaker 1: wasn't there, Yeah, slice me off a piece of that,
Speaker 1: Jake Briste, after you're done slicing off a piece of that.
Speaker 1: Wasn't there a sandwich that involved with Andrew Luck and
Speaker 1: someone else that that connox? Oh, it was Mike Glennan
Speaker 1: and Andrew Luck. You said you propped out that Mike
Speaker 1: Lennard would have more starts the season than we have
Speaker 1: fewer starts, fewer starts Andrew Luck. And that's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. We don't know yet. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's there, I wouldn't celebrate yet, like you
Speaker 1: can't assume that Andrew luck is gonna I'm not that
Speaker 1: invested in and I got a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 1: I just I still don't really know if I would
Speaker 1: get a sandwich out of it or not. How do
Speaker 1: I how do I get a sandwich out of this?
Speaker 1: You get a sandwich of Glennon ends up starting more
Speaker 1: games than Andrew luck If you read the tea leaves,
Speaker 1: it is not looking good. But you never know what
Speaker 1: could happen in a football season. Mitch Drobiskie could bomb
Speaker 1: or get hurt, and then Glennon could still beat can
Speaker 1: still beat him out for either side. Luck whiskey who
Speaker 1: knows the rules, remain so hyper murky for you on
Speaker 1: that thing. That is my favorite part of it. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know why. We're just guiding her
Speaker 1: through it gently. Uh. We love our Countie Fox, and
Speaker 1: you deserve sandwiches that just for you know, joining us
Speaker 1: each week as a thanks we should get Are we
Speaker 1: going to ring the bell on that too? What is
Speaker 1: going up with Greg today? Um? And finally in the news,
Speaker 1: so Andrew luck On is on the mend and that's
Speaker 1: great news for the Colts and Jake Briscott, Yes, has
Speaker 1: done a great job keeping them in contention. Last bit
Speaker 1: of news people before we move on, our friend, our
Speaker 1: good friend, friend of the show. It's never been on
Speaker 1: the show. UM doesn't know who we are, but he's
Speaker 1: our friend. Jared's bird has a job ruse fired use
Speaker 1: bired Carolina Panthers have found a short term replacement for
Speaker 1: injured safety Kirk Coleman. It is Jirouse Bird, who was
Speaker 1: once a star for the Buffalo Bills, signed a big
Speaker 1: contract with the Saints and belly flopped out of the league.
Speaker 1: Uh and now is getting a chance to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: get his career back for now anyway you're happy? Are
Speaker 1: you happy for him? Just for the care and of
Speaker 1: the drop. I'm rooting for him. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: good place to for everybody recovery, but especially if there's
Speaker 1: a d you need to make a drop for Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1: I mean it was one of the more regrettable. UM,
Speaker 1: Greg's attempting to finish his point. Now you're more entertaining
Speaker 1: any more regrettable decisions Chris Wesley than I ever made.
Speaker 1: And I'll put the blame on myself that he was
Speaker 1: our number one free agent of the two thousand and
Speaker 1: fourteen class in the entire NFL. I mean, you're not
Speaker 1: You guys weren't alone. I don't think I think he
Speaker 1: was a hot commodity. Of the rest of the list
Speaker 1: doesn't look too great either, Eugene Monroe, Michael Johnson. I
Speaker 1: guess yeah. It's another reminder and let let the Jared's
Speaker 1: bird be the patron saint. Don't think that you're gonna
Speaker 1: build a champion in free agency, necessarily use the draft
Speaker 1: or just don't look at our list because Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: I keep to leave and Brent Grimes are down there, nine, ten,
Speaker 1: and twelve and those are some Benett's much higher on
Speaker 1: my list, which was unpublished. So welcome back, Ji Rouse. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Okay, it is time get excited. UH,
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Speaker 1: England Patriots, UM, the league's best offense are close to
Speaker 1: it and and the worst defense statistically UH and the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Bucks who just barely beat the
Speaker 1: Giants there two and one. Uh, there's been marked, there's
Speaker 1: been some leaks with the Bucks so far in the
Speaker 1: old Bucks ship. Uh. But here comes the Patriots in
Speaker 1: imagery and again the Patriots in a place that they've
Speaker 1: been in before early seasons in the last ten ten
Speaker 1: years or so, where a lot of people are doubting them.
Speaker 1: This feels like to me one of those games where
Speaker 1: the Patriots make one of their Patriots statements and destroy
Speaker 1: the opponent. But this is also a very strange start
Speaker 1: for New England on defense. You know, we're about to
Speaker 1: talk our power poll, and we typically you just rubber
Speaker 1: stamp New England number one and then you create the
Speaker 1: intrigue from there on out. And I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: find out that's not necessarily the case this year because
Speaker 1: the problems that we've had, and we've talked about it
Speaker 1: all season, it starts with the defense. It's not just
Speaker 1: that it's statistically the worst defense in the league. It
Speaker 1: just looks somewhat unfixable right now. And the thing that
Speaker 1: concerns me for New England is that if Doug Martin
Speaker 1: for Tampa Bay, he's back, he's eligible to play, and
Speaker 1: that's what's been missing for me with Tampa Bay was
Speaker 1: a ground game that can really create balance for that
Speaker 1: and make the passing game that much more unpredictable. If
Speaker 1: Doug Martin looks like the Doug Martin from the preseason
Speaker 1: New England, this will be an interesting game and it
Speaker 1: will go till the end. I could. I could totally
Speaker 1: see this happening. I think that if they do send
Speaker 1: Doug Martin out there and he does play a lot
Speaker 1: in this game, because they said that they don't really
Speaker 1: know what he looks great in the preseason, I think
Speaker 1: that that will be good for DeShawn Jackson, who we
Speaker 1: haven't seen a whole lot from. He's frustrated right now.
Speaker 1: He was targeted six times UH this week and he
Speaker 1: only caught two passes for twenty receiving yards. You know
Speaker 1: that that's not gonna sit well with him, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna start off He's just missed a few big plays
Speaker 1: that would make it look different. Has happened. This would
Speaker 1: make sense that he would break out against this defense.
Speaker 1: But it's funny. It makes me think of the hard
Speaker 1: Knock scene. It was one of my favorite scenes. Of
Speaker 1: the the last season where d Jacks approached Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: on the sideline during a preseason game. It was like
Speaker 1: something like, I want you to love me and want
Speaker 1: you to love me the way you love uh, your
Speaker 1: boy Mike and and and Winston had a comment along line, so, oh,
Speaker 1: I already do love you. But you know, Mike made
Speaker 1: gave me reasons to love him. And there was like
Speaker 1: a nice interesting dynamic between a veteran pass catcher and
Speaker 1: kind of a volatile personality at times earlier in his career,
Speaker 1: young guy. Uh. And you wonder what's going on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes as we're getting deeper into the season and
Speaker 1: d Jacks is not made. He looked a little frustrated
Speaker 1: during that James game, absolutely because they've they've thrown about
Speaker 1: twenty times. Then he has nine catches and Cameron breaits
Speaker 1: a little more consistent. Adam Humphreys has more catches right now.
Speaker 1: But I want to see if this secondary of the
Speaker 1: Patriots that I was all excited about. People who are
Speaker 1: all excited about this secondary. All right, let's upgrade with
Speaker 1: Logan Ryan. Let's put in Stefan Gilmore. We still got
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler. He's not really playing that well right now.
Speaker 1: We've still got Devin mccordy, who is the leader I
Speaker 1: would say of that defense, is back there. I think
Speaker 1: he's played just fine, but you have Patrick Chung. Like
Speaker 1: this team, it's communication. They put a lot on their
Speaker 1: players in terms of the way they change their scheme
Speaker 1: on a week to week basis. Let's game plan this way,
Speaker 1: you guys talk, We're gonna change up the schemes based
Speaker 1: on what the offense is doing. It's that way both sides.
Speaker 1: And when that's not working, then you see what happened
Speaker 1: last week against the Panthers where there's just guys opened
Speaker 1: by twenty five yards, and especially Eric Rowe, who might
Speaker 1: not be healthy to play in this game in Gilmore,
Speaker 1: really seemed to be struggling with that. And this is
Speaker 1: not the offense you want to you want to go against,
Speaker 1: because I know they haven't been perfect this year, but
Speaker 1: they looked better last week against the Giants overall, and
Speaker 1: it's a lot of way. In one specific way you
Speaker 1: mentioned Cameron Braid, they also got O. J. Howard totally open,
Speaker 1: and that Giants defense. The Alliants have issues, but their
Speaker 1: secondary and their ability to cover pass catchers has been
Speaker 1: solid this season, and Bred and Howard torched them utterly
Speaker 1: decimated New York early. This is gonna sound like a
Speaker 1: reverse Jinx, but it I'll reiterate. I think the Patriots
Speaker 1: are gonna blow up on the Bucks in this game,
Speaker 1: because I still think the Patriots are gonna be right
Speaker 1: there at the end of the season and they're gonna
Speaker 1: start figuring things out. A note a short week, which
Speaker 1: is not going to make it any the road, especially
Speaker 1: the road against Ma Patricia and company. I understand all that,
Speaker 1: but I know this team and this coaches quarterback too
Speaker 1: well to doubt them and think that they're gonna It's
Speaker 1: gonna be like the Chiefs game two years ago in
Speaker 1: prime time. I think they're gonna wax the Bucks, who
Speaker 1: I think have more problems with that sounds like it up?
Speaker 1: Lock up? Are you guys? Lock up the Patriots? I
Speaker 1: don't even know if their favorite. If you guys all
Speaker 1: signed off on it, I'll do it. I'd sign off
Speaker 1: if you all right, well, I'll lock up the greatest
Speaker 1: team of all time. Thanks all right, I'm up to
Speaker 1: three and two and right into our trap. No. Once again,
Speaker 1: a no lose situation here for the old user, Yeah
Speaker 1: you came into my spider web. Don't say yeah. That
Speaker 1: was a any bit of psychological warfare that started against
Speaker 1: New England and may have turned on us. With the
Speaker 1: Bucks get Con Alexander back, he announced it on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they get Lavante David back, but
Speaker 1: I am interested to see how the Patriots hold up
Speaker 1: up front. I've said it here, but Tom Brady I
Speaker 1: think is playing as well or better this year than
Speaker 1: he did a year ago. He he had to me
Speaker 1: the m v P or the best player in the
Speaker 1: league so far. But I don't think it can and
Speaker 1: it can hold up in Gerald McCoy is playing pretty well,
Speaker 1: like they need to do a better job around him.
Speaker 1: Detecting your friends. Susie Grimes is gonna be licking her
Speaker 1: wounds after Thursday. What's her name again, it's not us Grimes.
Speaker 1: Potentially a relative of of Miko Grimes, but not well,
Speaker 1: she's like a big Bucks. Then maybe she'll be upset
Speaker 1: to Grimes, Marge Grimes, Carlita Grymes, Grimes, there's so many
Speaker 1: Grimes sisters. Well, they wouldn't actually, they wouldn't necessarily have
Speaker 1: this last same last name as their sister Mary twig Grimes. Remember,
Speaker 1: but now you're making great points. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 1: That is shoulders of greatness um presented by head and shoulders.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. It is time to uh,
Speaker 1: let's take a step back, guys. Let's let's check out
Speaker 1: the north Star. Let's look above the tree tops. Let's
Speaker 1: drain the water from the ocean and open the kimona,
Speaker 1: open the kimono, show off our junk, and talk about
Speaker 1: the NFL through four weeks. It's time for the power poll.
Speaker 1: Screw you Twitter, the Quarner pole, power pole. You can't
Speaker 1: hold us down. Alright, So Greg, quarter mark power. I mean,
Speaker 1: just hearing the word poll twice so so quickly in succession.
Speaker 1: I don't really like too much for you. Two different
Speaker 1: spellings though, so it's kind of like cute too in
Speaker 1: a way. It's a little bit of a weird Simmas anyway, Greg,
Speaker 1: do you want to you not only handle the math
Speaker 1: on this, which I think was a smart swift um
Speaker 1: you also, Yeah, I felt like that was you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit of stereo types went into that, like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's have the Jewish guy do the numbers. But okay,
Speaker 1: let's that's in your own head. We look, you asked
Speaker 1: to do it. Actually, so that's the thing that's with
Speaker 1: the self clothing, bro, that's the Jewish thing too, all right.
Speaker 1: So you but you were carrying the let's use more
Speaker 1: d You carried this one over the goal line before
Speaker 1: the show, Greg tabulating and whatnot. So let's go through
Speaker 1: the league. Uh, we'll try not to make this too painful.
Speaker 1: It's good. Yeah, we we just came up with our
Speaker 1: poll and we averaged it out and and there we go.
Speaker 1: Was it the mean or the average? It's the average? Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the mean again? The mean would be what the
Speaker 1: high and the low? And then you you cut it
Speaker 1: right down the middle. I believe, Yeah, that's the meanings
Speaker 1: helped me on if I'm wrong there. The average, the
Speaker 1: median is the medians what I'm thinking, and I think
Speaker 1: I don't. By the way, the thing is Dan constantly
Speaker 1: How did is this terrible math person awful at math,
Speaker 1: constantly getting fifties and sixties on quizzes and then having
Speaker 1: to hide them for just signature? Are you trying to
Speaker 1: Are you trying to come from my math corner? I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't even it's it's it's it's ridiculous. I cast
Speaker 1: your corner with the browns and and you sent me away.
Speaker 1: Well you tried, I'm gonna send you away from this corner.
Speaker 1: And it's saying I kind of I if you like,
Speaker 1: you know, fifties and sixties like a thirty six, how
Speaker 1: to go home and get signed by a mom. I
Speaker 1: just you forged that signature. You bring that thing back forged?
Speaker 1: Did you guys get homework reports our school district if
Speaker 1: you missed an assignment, the teachers had the option of
Speaker 1: filling out a very brief xerox form with your name
Speaker 1: and the assignment you missed, and if if he or
Speaker 1: she um felt like it maybe a little bit more
Speaker 1: about you know what a bad student you are with
Speaker 1: these things that your behavior or whatnot. Um, I went
Speaker 1: through a phase. I wasn't a hideous student student, but
Speaker 1: I did go phase through phases in my life in
Speaker 1: junior high where I would just wouldn't do homework, and um,
Speaker 1: the homework reports start to pile up on you after
Speaker 1: a while. So me and my cousin Matt, who also
Speaker 1: didn't do his homework, got in the habit of like
Speaker 1: getting to the mailman before he reached them. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the trick back then, and it's like, oh, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna grab this for our parents, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: the homework reports never got there. But then what happens
Speaker 1: is this is how we got banged, how I got
Speaker 1: banged on this. You Uh, there was like a back
Speaker 1: to school thing or a teacher called. Sometimes the teacher
Speaker 1: will call to and it's like, well, as you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Danny has had thirty two homework reports. Your son has
Speaker 1: never accomplished a homework assignment. Every like reality, like maybe
Speaker 1: two or three got through the system if I was
Speaker 1: at soccer practice or something. Yeah, but yeah, so now
Speaker 1: you I would I will from the mail an issue
Speaker 1: you get like the report card becoming this yellow envelope
Speaker 1: with the schools like stamp on it. Take it home.
Speaker 1: Parents still out for about another hour and a half,
Speaker 1: dig a hole in the yard, bury the report card
Speaker 1: in the yard, and then put the dirt over and
Speaker 1: put the grass over it. Go inside like nothing happened.
Speaker 1: And one last note to you kids out your kids
Speaker 1: out there listening. I'm now thirty seven years old, and
Speaker 1: I'm doing exactly the job that I want to do.
Speaker 1: Bury those school report. Man, you don't just graduate, get
Speaker 1: the diploma, and don't get bogged down with these extracurriculars.
Speaker 1: Sign up for four hundred clubs. Go have fun. I
Speaker 1: was bad at math that for the S A T s.
Speaker 1: My parents uh set me to take a course and
Speaker 1: it was like guaranteed your score goes up or your
Speaker 1: money back, and we got our money back. Class alright anyway,
Speaker 1: So sorry for the digression there, folks. Um back to
Speaker 1: the powerful mean average median whatever. Um we've broken into?
Speaker 1: How many tiers? Greg? Five or six? There seems like
Speaker 1: you can look way to take it over the goal line, Greg, seven?
Speaker 1: Seven tiers? What is the WTF? Eight? Actually, let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go. You want to go top to bottom on this,
Speaker 1: I think we go. Let's go bottom. Let's go bottom
Speaker 1: top alright, alright, way to let's see the north star, Greg. Alright,
Speaker 1: what do you got are they? The number thirty two
Speaker 1: team is all by itself in a in a tier
Speaker 1: that you can guess who named it. It's called a
Speaker 1: distant dark nether world and it's the Cleveland Browns who
Speaker 1: mark you know everyone else you know. We ranked them
Speaker 1: one to thirty two, had the Browns in the league.
Speaker 1: How about this get to thirty two and we'll talk. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, no one's gonna argue it's it's just that
Speaker 1: we talked about this on our last show, so we
Speaker 1: don't need to dump into it. But here we are again,
Speaker 1: the Browns a quarter of the way through the season.
Speaker 1: Again the consensus worst team in football. They're getting worse.
Speaker 1: That was That was the worst game for Kaiser, the
Speaker 1: worst game for the Browns. They I think they can
Speaker 1: bounce back, but they have absolutely no pass rush, absolutely
Speaker 1: no wide receivers. It's just like chunks chunks of the team.
Speaker 1: But I think the run game could happen. Like the
Speaker 1: players are there. I don't see the next team that's
Speaker 1: as close and tough to watches them. They got a
Speaker 1: lot to work. Well what according to our did everyone?
Speaker 1: So everyone had the Browns last. Who is the closest
Speaker 1: to the Browns and the Colts are And I don't
Speaker 1: think there's some huge difference between the Browns the Colts
Speaker 1: forty niners. So in the in the group uh to
Speaker 1: thirty one, we called it it's getting late early and
Speaker 1: uh ultimately a not incredibly original It does the job
Speaker 1: like you know exactly what the tear means. Good job
Speaker 1: by Greg on that one. I thought, it's it's a
Speaker 1: moral victory for the Jets to be the best team
Speaker 1: in the league right there at twenty five. Uh, the
Speaker 1: New York Giants, who were I went back and looked
Speaker 1: at the NFL dot Com predictions for the year. Four
Speaker 1: out of fifteen NFL dot Com analysts had them in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, including the former NFL GM. So right,
Speaker 1: so a lot of people love the Giants. They're twenty six.
Speaker 1: Is the Chargers who I had going far in the
Speaker 1: playoffs alone? The Bears aty Dolphins at twenty nine, another
Speaker 1: one of the most disappointing teams in the league. Forts
Speaker 1: and colts about where we expected them to be ahead
Speaker 1: of the season. Third, Um, I was curious because I
Speaker 1: had on my rankings and if you scroll down, I
Speaker 1: have all your in you do, Okay, I had the
Speaker 1: Jets at twenty three. Um, so that would say that
Speaker 1: you guys are all kind of in that same realm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had Hi, there you go so far? I mean
Speaker 1: after these last two weeks. Yeah, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think they're good, but their defense is competitive in there.
Speaker 1: I think they're playing hard. All right, what's the next? Uh,
Speaker 1: you get an honest effort out of these Jets? You
Speaker 1: got credit for sure. He is and West had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun at at Todd Bowls's expense because they
Speaker 1: asked them directly if they're rebuilding and head coaches don't
Speaker 1: say that. He just he's doing the best that he
Speaker 1: can with that team, and so far the best is five.
Speaker 1: That's not bad. Well we'll move on. But I will
Speaker 1: say the Dolphins are in the best spot of all
Speaker 1: these teams because they've only played three games and they've
Speaker 1: been on the road for about a month. They have
Speaker 1: had a lot of things going on with them. You
Speaker 1: can envision a scenario. Maybe they can reset their season.
Speaker 1: It's only one and two. They've They've got agree with
Speaker 1: that there at only nine because they've been they deserve it,
Speaker 1: but they could move up all I don't think the
Speaker 1: forty nine is staying at thirty either, But okay, interest
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna get it? I see I see
Speaker 1: hope in every game for them, but it may take
Speaker 1: more than this season. But the next section is stand up,
Speaker 1: be brassy like that and uh that we're back in
Speaker 1: more original terrain. Yeah, twenty fo. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of comments you could. I asked you if you wanted
Speaker 1: to throw in some names, and I know, I just
Speaker 1: I said you should be the north Star, and I
Speaker 1: think you're doing a good job on balance. Mark and
Speaker 1: I both both came up with his name. I came
Speaker 1: up with distant Dark nither world sticking to it. Twenty
Speaker 1: four is the Ravens. Yikes. Not a good start to
Speaker 1: their and I could almost bury them a little. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I'm surprised that they're not in it's
Speaker 1: getting later early I had the Ravens. I guess you're right.
Speaker 1: It's been pretty grim. Maybe a recency biases is playing
Speaker 1: in because they were there. They were perfectly fine the
Speaker 1: first two weeks. They've been dread all the last They
Speaker 1: have their offense against Pittsburgh, their offenses held their defense hostage.
Speaker 1: Their defense is not as bad as it wasn't that
Speaker 1: Jaguars game right in the week before everything was broken.
Speaker 1: So they have something to them, a coaching staff in
Speaker 1: order that makes you believe they'll get better. They just
Speaker 1: haven't been able to pass the ball, though at all
Speaker 1: they did, They're hideous. Watch on all at all since
Speaker 1: the beginning of season. Yeah, it seems like a factor
Speaker 1: for them. The Bengals had twenty three. Dan and I
Speaker 1: both had them in the playoffs. Uh, not quite done yet,
Speaker 1: one in three, the Cardinals twenty two, Jaguars twenty one.
Speaker 1: So we're not quite buying all the way in on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars yet, Saints at twenty, Vikings at nineteen, Titans
Speaker 1: all the way down at eighteen after a bad performance,
Speaker 1: and the Bucks, who I guess we're not really buying
Speaker 1: into too much at seventeen. Right in the middle. By
Speaker 1: the way, I love this. I'm the one that all
Speaker 1: the Tennessee fans get upset with on this podcast. I
Speaker 1: had them sixteen, and if they're at eighteen, that means
Speaker 1: my friends here both had them lower and Mark had
Speaker 1: them at eighteen as well. Yeah. Um, And the one
Speaker 1: comment I'll make about that tire additional comment I should
Speaker 1: say is I believe Cincinnati will rise. I'm now feeling
Speaker 1: to what I think. I believe that by the time
Speaker 1: if we do this exercise at the halfway point, I
Speaker 1: do believe in Bill Laser. By the way, Um, he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of sweets. Yeah. People driving off right
Speaker 1: this part of it. Yeah, I believe the lasers. Maybe
Speaker 1: the volumes should be down a little bit. I'm saying
Speaker 1: should go up. It's a little dangerous. I believe by
Speaker 1: the midway point, when we do this exercise again, I
Speaker 1: think the Bengals will be a five hundred team and
Speaker 1: will be in the mix. And that's a kind of
Speaker 1: a weird division. So Colleen, if you are picking up
Speaker 1: done with them team in this group too, that would
Speaker 1: would stand up and be brassy and make let's say
Speaker 1: the divisional round of the playoffs, you know, really get
Speaker 1: out of this and be brassy. This t probably the Bucks. Uh,
Speaker 1: they've only played three games, so they've won two of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right there at the top of this tier. The Vikings too,
Speaker 1: and Sam Bradford gets back if he plays better or
Speaker 1: plays the way he did but before he got the
Speaker 1: kids have a lot to like. Salvin Cook's stinks, it
Speaker 1: really does. But they have a lot of playmakers on defense.
Speaker 1: Their offenses look good. I think they belong with Murray
Speaker 1: and his ankle isn't even yet, so what are you
Speaker 1: doing on the ground there? But did we all have
Speaker 1: them at nineteen? I had him at night, I had
Speaker 1: them at I'm a little I had him at six teams.
Speaker 1: I'm a little burnt from last season, but that's not fair.
Speaker 1: But I had them at I think they have real upside.
Speaker 1: They they've looked good for long streaks. Case Kino, that
Speaker 1: was one where I apologize for anything Derice and we
Speaker 1: said that they need Sam Bratt. Case played great in
Speaker 1: that game that they only scored seven points. They have
Speaker 1: a lot to like. It was a bit of a
Speaker 1: flukey game. They've generated offense, they've got I think there's
Speaker 1: still something there, all right, what's next? Greg? Surprisingly frisky?
Speaker 1: Just the three team uh tier here, Lions, Redskins and Bills,
Speaker 1: Lions and Lions fans feeling a little slighted on this podcast.
Speaker 1: And this isn't gonna help the three and one in
Speaker 1: that fourteenth in the league on our power pull. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had him an eight team. I guess you were
Speaker 1: the one that was in one. And they could be
Speaker 1: undefeated too if that got It'm at eleven in mark At,
Speaker 1: I'm at eleven. Yeah, I send your comments to Dan,
Speaker 1: you know, send your composed to me. I don't I
Speaker 1: apologize if if I'm not respecting your team yet, I
Speaker 1: will watch this game and and watch it and see
Speaker 1: what I said. The one thing I have Falcons game.
Speaker 1: They're closing games out like that's that's something the Lions,
Speaker 1: I know last year with their crazy last second business.
Speaker 1: But they're a different team than last year, right to Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks good. The defense is fourth in the league
Speaker 1: and points allowed. They're one of the only teams that
Speaker 1: are ranked in the top ten and points scored and
Speaker 1: points allowed. It's a little flukey sometimes this early in
Speaker 1: the year. I don't know if they're that like the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: for instance, are in the top six in both categories.
Speaker 1: Don't know what the Jaguars are, Well, they're ranked one.
Speaker 1: They need to stand up and be brassy the next
Speaker 1: tier playoffs or bust. I'm just saying. If I'm saying,
Speaker 1: if these teams don't make the playoffs, their fans should
Speaker 1: be disappointed at this point that they've shown enough and
Speaker 1: or they came into the season with enough that it's
Speaker 1: like it's a team that you've got to be disappointed.
Speaker 1: And were listing all the teams as we're going along. Okay,
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about that for a second there that
Speaker 1: we were just like cherry picking teams and no one
Speaker 1: listening to the shows now. Redskins, by the way, Redskins
Speaker 1: at fifteen, but the Bills at sixteen, they're not going
Speaker 1: to be happy with us. We just need to see
Speaker 1: a little bit, a couple more couple. You're a mid
Speaker 1: level team. That's that's overachieving right now. But these other teams,
Speaker 1: they got more players going on. It's not just going
Speaker 1: up the standards. Eagles at six, and we'll dive into
Speaker 1: that in a second, because that is high to me.
Speaker 1: Falcons at eight, Panthers at nine, a little I had
Speaker 1: the Falcons at thirteen. I'm a little bit. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like Matt Ryan's regressing a little bit at least in
Speaker 1: terms of his production. Not even a little bit. He's
Speaker 1: been down way off from last season, touchdown rate and
Speaker 1: things of that nature. Uh. And they could easily be
Speaker 1: one in three right now. I had them at four
Speaker 1: and Mark had them at three. So that was what
Speaker 1: where we really still believe in them quite a bit.
Speaker 1: To me, they've been exactly what I expected. They're one
Speaker 1: of the few teams that I can say that about. Vin.
Speaker 1: I think it's a top five or six offense, and
Speaker 1: I think the defense is better I kind of know
Speaker 1: what I'm getting with them. The defense is going to
Speaker 1: get better too, because they'll get Vic Beasley back and
Speaker 1: Pack McKinley. I mean, he's still a rookie. He's getting
Speaker 1: better and better every week. I know that their games
Speaker 1: have been close, but just looking at the balance of
Speaker 1: their team, I kind of like what I see still.
Speaker 1: I think they got the guts of what I think
Speaker 1: the Panthers are maybe a little too high. Panthers are
Speaker 1: at nine to finish, just going through a Texans at ten, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and these are three teams that could have had their
Speaker 1: own tier in terms of just being a little disappointing
Speaker 1: big name team so far. Cowboys at eleven, Raiders at twelve,
Speaker 1: and Seahawks at thirteen. So you don't like the Panthers
Speaker 1: that well. I just think this past week is the
Speaker 1: first time that I have sort of been buying into
Speaker 1: them like that. This was the only game so far
Speaker 1: this year that I was like, Okay, yeah, like they
Speaker 1: look good now. They they went into Foxboro. That was
Speaker 1: a big game for them, even though that defense stinks.
Speaker 1: But I thought that Cam Newton looked better. He was
Speaker 1: running around. He looks more confident. I think now I
Speaker 1: can buy into the defense where or that offense, whereas
Speaker 1: all the other games I couldn't. I'll talk about the Eagles.
Speaker 1: They're actually like we went six to eight because they're
Speaker 1: tied with the team above him, so it's six and seven.
Speaker 1: But the Eagles to Mark put them at two. I
Speaker 1: really I put them in. I really like the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and I think that in a team that's growing into
Speaker 1: who they are and they're going to be a factor
Speaker 1: deep into the season, that's big. That's well, that's good.
Speaker 1: I like that. We all disagreed quite a bit on
Speaker 1: a few of these teams. For instance, Dan had the
Speaker 1: Texans much higher than anyone else he had met. Five.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were at fifth team for me.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were in Mark's top top ten either.
Speaker 1: So you you're you think DeShawn watch, I'm you guys
Speaker 1: convinced me a little bit that the Falcons probably deserved
Speaker 1: to be a little bit higher than maybe the Texans.
Speaker 1: I could have put payoff teams. I'm really, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just maybe getting it trying to get it on
Speaker 1: the ground floor a little bit with the Texans and
Speaker 1: Watson and thinking that this season can go in a
Speaker 1: really big way for them. Uh effective now Panthers. I
Speaker 1: like as I put them the highest. I guess I
Speaker 1: was the one that jacked them up at six. I
Speaker 1: think they're they're gonna get better as the season goes
Speaker 1: along offensively, and I like the talent. I just look
Speaker 1: at their roster and I like it. They gotta feel
Speaker 1: good to get out of here. Three. In our work,
Speaker 1: in our work chat room, there is NonStop, endless bickering
Speaker 1: and discussion over the Panthers because David Eally, my supervisor,
Speaker 1: is a hyper Panthers fan, and other people in the
Speaker 1: room cannot stand the Panthers, and I am exhausted with
Speaker 1: the team because of this alone. You have we have
Speaker 1: the Patriots tied at six in the w TF category.
Speaker 1: We kind of hit them in the preview, but they
Speaker 1: have their own place. And I remember, I remember just
Speaker 1: three years ago we did this exact same exercise and
Speaker 1: after the first quarter of the season they were two
Speaker 1: and two, coming off a terrible game, and they weren't
Speaker 1: in the top seven or eight. So this has happened.
Speaker 1: Dan had the Patriots at wow, six six, Okay, I
Speaker 1: just didn't see that there, and I had them. I
Speaker 1: was like the taping down into the teams. I had
Speaker 1: them at nine. Show me something, stand up, brassy. I'm
Speaker 1: not putting them that low, but yeah, be brassy, Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: You prove yourself at the end of the world if
Speaker 1: they have a ten or eleven win season where they
Speaker 1: get better as they go, like for for most teams,
Speaker 1: that's a great season. Team of around the NFL is
Speaker 1: top five. The Los Angeles Ram they have to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, come out of the team of a t
Speaker 1: L I put him at nine. I guess I was
Speaker 1: the most not skeptical. But you know, they've won close games.
Speaker 1: They they've it's been coaching. I think as more tape
Speaker 1: gets onto, people will come up with some answers for them.
Speaker 1: I think they're a really fun, exciting team. I don't
Speaker 1: see them as a top five team yet. Dan is
Speaker 1: the Rams at eight. I have them at four. I
Speaker 1: love the Rams are ahead of the Patriots right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it takes us to greg the final tier, the top tier.
Speaker 1: What is it called? I don't even remember we called this.
Speaker 1: These are just the early favorites. These are the team.
Speaker 1: This is called headlines. Give me a break. You guys
Speaker 1: are off doing your own thing. I'm adding this up
Speaker 1: and trying to get to makeup on time. I just
Speaker 1: like I just early Favorites is innovative. It is a success, Greg,
Speaker 1: good job by you. It does it out well. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing, I don't buy education. I don't really buy
Speaker 1: into these tears. That's why because to me, now he's
Speaker 1: out here. No no, no, I'm not I'm the one
Speaker 1: that set him up. But I don't really believe that
Speaker 1: one through thirteen there's any difference. Number one is Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, Denver Broncos at two, Pittsburgh Steelers at three,
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers at four. I think you could throw
Speaker 1: in all these top thirteen teams or so. They're all
Speaker 1: about the same. It's it is us. If they're playing
Speaker 1: each other on the on a neutral field, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be stunned to see any result. Not the games aren't
Speaker 1: played on a neutral field, and they're not playing on
Speaker 1: television either. Well, they are in London in Mexico City,
Speaker 1: but someone's field got lost. The Green Bays managed the
Speaker 1: schedule very well despite injuries, so they used to get better.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh suddenly got a top you know ten defense, top two, right,
Speaker 1: now in terms of points allowed, and the Broncos at
Speaker 1: two are the team I kind of have my eyes
Speaker 1: on as a have a potential super Bowl winning team. Um,
Speaker 1: and that's why the games aren't played on paper. That's
Speaker 1: what I was looking for. You there not played in
Speaker 1: your television on a neutral field or on paper. They're
Speaker 1: played at someone's home field. That's accurate unless it's the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, or it's or an international game, which is
Speaker 1: absolutely neutral. But that's technically a home game for someone.
Speaker 1: I mean, so is stubb Hub mostly the Jags, the
Speaker 1: Stub Raiders. You know. I think the Raiders are hosting
Speaker 1: the Patriots in Mexico this year. The Chiefs, by the way,
Speaker 1: we're unanimously number one, which I think Chris Westley, if
Speaker 1: he's listening, might I don't know, Blanche at a little.
Speaker 1: He he was just hoping for the Redskins to win
Speaker 1: last night because he's not really buying that the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: There's some juggern you know, super Bowl favorite. He thinks
Speaker 1: they're a fine team. But but also all of us,
Speaker 1: all of us are saying that the number one does
Speaker 1: not equal out to be a dominant super Bowl favorite either.
Speaker 1: I thought they got They got the Brocos, the Steelers,
Speaker 1: the Patriots, all these teams in the a f C
Speaker 1: right behind him. This is something we weren't saying this
Speaker 1: time last year. The a f C is wide open. Good.
Speaker 1: I think the n is last time that happens. I'm
Speaker 1: just more on the Pats and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: All right. There you go the Power Powl, and we'll
Speaker 1: revisit this at the halfway point of the season. All right,
Speaker 1: for we wrap things up, it is time to bring
Speaker 1: up back week three. It's back the subreddit supper contests. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, quick refresher. We have two game tickets to
Speaker 1: any regular season game on the two thousand seventeen NFL schedule.
Speaker 1: All you have to do if you're if you were
Speaker 1: picked by the Loose Cannon on our subreddit, which you
Speaker 1: can get at um reddit uh, and then the around
Speaker 1: the NFL group sign up for that subreddit tem pose.
Speaker 1: She sent out a thread. People signed up for that thread.
Speaker 1: She picked three names at random from that thread, and
Speaker 1: now we have the first person up that gets a
Speaker 1: chance to win two game tickets. They just have to
Speaker 1: get four questions. Right. Greg has already tuned his fingernails
Speaker 1: he's saying, and this thing, we need our showback. But
Speaker 1: it's all dependent on the lists. I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna say, Greg is already tuning out. Well that's true.
Speaker 1: It's all right, tam posey. Who do we got first?
Speaker 1: All right? We have um Chris from Buffalo. Chris, he grabs, Great,
Speaker 1: Chris is gonna do it. He's gonna win. He's gonna
Speaker 1: al right, call their shot. She says, You're going to
Speaker 1: be the winner. So congratulations, Chris. I'm locking up, Chris. Uh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really work it up in this scenario. Chris,
Speaker 1: are you a Bills fan? Uh? No, Dan, I actually
Speaker 1: sit on the throne of these Okay, good good. So
Speaker 1: if anyone needs a good thing to happen, it's Chris
Speaker 1: from Buffalo. Um no, Chris, the best of luck? Do
Speaker 1: you you know the rules? Right? All right, Chris the
Speaker 1: Patriots fan from Buffalo. Here we go. This perennial league
Speaker 1: superpower is on pace to finish with the worst total
Speaker 1: defense since the nineteen seventy league merger. That would be
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. You did it worked out perfectly? Yes,
Speaker 1: you're correct, he's just trying to stick it to you.
Speaker 1: Don't don't let it bother you. I'm not It's not
Speaker 1: gonna affect alright. Question two. In week five, we are
Speaker 1: scheduled to see three rookies starting at quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I just need you to name two of them, DeShawn
Speaker 1: Keiser and Halfway. They're super challenging questions. So far, you've
Speaker 1: overcome a lot. Who's the third one? I can't remember,
Speaker 1: Mitchell Whisky see that I would have said go all three,
Speaker 1: but but I'm glad I didn't. Let's let's keep let's Erica.
Speaker 1: Let's keep that droning synthesizer playing, because I feel like
Speaker 1: it starts to affect the nerves of the contestant as
Speaker 1: we go deeper. Not that I'm rooting against. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're not rooting against at all. Day I like this
Speaker 1: Question three. Name the NFL star. By the way, this
Speaker 1: is the Around the NFL Podcast question, So for the
Speaker 1: listeners out there, name the NFL star who famously blocked
Speaker 1: DNA and Greg on Twitter, then reverse those blocks. After
Speaker 1: a heart to heart conversation on the Around the NFL Podcast,
Speaker 1: Raiders quarterback Derek carr I said, keep the synthesizer going Aerica,
Speaker 1: that that It's not necessarily an easy question. You gotta
Speaker 1: make you know, you gotta be with us in the
Speaker 1: off season and all that. Yeah, it's not easy. A
Speaker 1: year ago, see you guys went outside that round. Might
Speaker 1: be very lucky. He can taste those Patriots tickets. This
Speaker 1: is Chris? Is that the name? I'm sorry, Chris from
Speaker 1: Buffalo is three quarters of the way home. One more.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. One more, Chris, you can do it.
Speaker 1: Let me get let me get a celebration drop in
Speaker 1: case we were getting little tim posse we need. I
Speaker 1: already think myself. I was thinking to my wife about
Speaker 1: what game we're gonna go to? This This is welcome
Speaker 1: to the mindset of a Patriot fan, by the way,
Speaker 1: all right, not wrong? Alright? So one question away and
Speaker 1: this place for all of us. Really we all win.
Speaker 1: Here a few volines now joining in. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: I am two game tickets anywhere in the count but
Speaker 1: no no air parent accommodation. You might want to pick
Speaker 1: a Fox Sparer game. All right. The final question and
Speaker 1: the subreddit super contest, is an audio clue. Name this
Speaker 1: former rookie of the Year. Um, you feel great month,
Speaker 1: Thank coach, Coach Clark's done a great job with us
Speaker 1: in the weight room. And then, um, coach Jay has
Speaker 1: done a great job, you know, taking care of Saide
Speaker 1: on the practice field. Uh. Some people like to call
Speaker 1: us to grind um. You call it the fine because
Speaker 1: you figure out what you got and I think we've
Speaker 1: got some good stuff? Who is it? Can you play
Speaker 1: it one more time? Okay, one more time? Um, you
Speaker 1: feel great, man, Thank coach Coach Clark's done a great
Speaker 1: job with us in the weight room. And then, um,
Speaker 1: coach Jay is done a great job, you know, taking
Speaker 1: care of Saide on the practice field. Uh. Some people
Speaker 1: like to call us to grind um. You call it
Speaker 1: the fine because you figure out what you got, and
Speaker 1: I think we've got some good stuff. Oh man, I
Speaker 1: think you got me. But I'll go with Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1: That isn't correct. And you know what I want to hear?
Speaker 1: Can you know what I want to hear? I'm at
Speaker 1: the throne of alien invasion. That's the drop. Say goodbye
Speaker 1: to Chriss He's gone. You wanted to you'll get a drop, Patriots,
Speaker 1: Satan Nate, I see how this works. Then setting up
Speaker 1: setting up softballs on a on a t for the
Speaker 1: first three questions. Hey, spoiler alert, no one's getting that one.
Speaker 1: Grega Salt Bay over here. No, no, I'm making a prediction.
Speaker 1: I would struggled with that. I mean I think I
Speaker 1: would get it in the end. But yeah, we asked
Speaker 1: the multiple people in the studio or in this office,
Speaker 1: multiple people just played it back and asked them, and uh,
Speaker 1: three people knew. So these are NFL employees though you
Speaker 1: know this show the way it is and this is
Speaker 1: the subreddit super contest. One of them was me. Alright,
Speaker 1: Colleen was so excited that the Throne of Sleeves took
Speaker 1: another hit that she just took off. I mean, from
Speaker 1: the sound of it, she sounded so disgusted with this
Speaker 1: segment that she just had to not be part of
Speaker 1: it anymore. But that is absolutely interpretation, poor greg Um.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Next contestant, Louise cannon Is.
Speaker 1: We have Jimmy from Michigan. Jimmy from Michigan. What's up, buddy,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Around the NFL podcast. Thank you. This
Speaker 1: is this is crazy. This is so exciting. All right,
Speaker 1: Who's who's your team? Isn't it funny? We've taken what
Speaker 1: like seven or eight callers now, and a very few
Speaker 1: have been actually fans of the teams in the city
Speaker 1: of or state they're calling from. Interesting, I'm a transplants
Speaker 1: from Illinois. So alright, so you are the second caller today,
Speaker 1: just so you know. Uh, so you you've already got
Speaker 1: a little bit of luck on your side. Let's see
Speaker 1: if you can keep riding it. Let's go to Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Let this perennial league superpower is on pace to finish
Speaker 1: with the worst total defense since the nineteen seventy merger. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's got to be the Patriots, right one for one.
Speaker 1: In Week five, we are scheduled to see three rookies
Speaker 1: starting at quarterback in the NFL. Named two of them. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on and DeShawn. Watch there. Jimmy's got some swagger.
Speaker 1: You could have gone all three. You could have gone
Speaker 1: all three, right, jim from Michigan halfway Home on the
Speaker 1: sub credit super contest, Nate name the NFL star who
Speaker 1: famously blocked Dan and Greg on Twitter, then reverse those
Speaker 1: blocks after a heart to heart conversation on the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast. Oh that is um All quarterback Derek
Speaker 1: Carr for the rate. Yeah, this guy's flying Jimmy from
Speaker 1: Michigan is technically Pro Bowl, you know, all Stars Baseball.
Speaker 1: We'll give you that. Now. I was kidding, we're kidding.
Speaker 1: Way to go, Jimmy, contest. I was kidding, you're doing great. No.
Speaker 1: Greg's right though, that that is not the correct way
Speaker 1: to no. No, no, he nailed that. I met all Yeah, absolutely, Jimmy.
Speaker 1: All right, this is for all the bananas. Let's coach
Speaker 1: abre you ready, Jimmy, I am just hoping that I
Speaker 1: can end a segment for Greg. Thanks jim here we go,
Speaker 1: shut up, get it together, name this former Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year. Um, you feel great? I thank coach Coach
Speaker 1: Clark's done a great job with us in the weight room.
Speaker 1: And then um coach Jay has done a great job,
Speaker 1: you know, taking care of us on on the practice field. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some people like to call us the grind. Um you
Speaker 1: call it the fine because you figure out what you
Speaker 1: got and I think we've got some good stuff. Jimmy
Speaker 1: and I hear one more time, one more time. Um,
Speaker 1: you feel great? I mean thank coach coach Clark's done
Speaker 1: a great job us in the weight room. And then um,
Speaker 1: coach Ja has done a great job. You know, taking
Speaker 1: care of us on the practice field. Uh. Some people
Speaker 1: like to call us a grind. Um. You call it
Speaker 1: the fine because you figure out what you got, and
Speaker 1: I think we've got some good stuff. Uh. I heard
Speaker 1: coach g A which makes me think Washington. But I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you what Rookie of the Year they have.
Speaker 1: Am I allowed to ask you an offense or defense? No?
Speaker 1: Just give us an answer. Uh, Ryan Kerrigan, Uh, get
Speaker 1: rid of them. You were so close and you put
Speaker 1: it together very nicely too. But yet we can stop.
Speaker 1: The music is flustered. Well, I mean I think that
Speaker 1: I think there's one logic trap there is that someone
Speaker 1: is looking at that clip and saying, who has been
Speaker 1: a Rookie of the Year under Jake Ruden? And that
Speaker 1: did not happen when with with r G three And
Speaker 1: so you could get caught up in your mind, but
Speaker 1: you have to hear the voice and recognize that vie
Speaker 1: and the little catchphrasey business. I mean, if he took
Speaker 1: it far enough to say j J Ruden, he got
Speaker 1: close Redskins Rookie of the Year. Yeah, listen, you can't
Speaker 1: feel bad for him. I feel bad for him, but
Speaker 1: you can't say that trick is the coach Clark throws
Speaker 1: you off because that's the strength coach and no one. Well,
Speaker 1: you gotta back, you gotta erase that from the mind.
Speaker 1: All right, we are now down to the final opportunity
Speaker 1: for a listener. Oh my goodness, it has come down
Speaker 1: to this, Erica. Who do we have on the line
Speaker 1: the final contestant for Tuesday's show? We have Kumar from
Speaker 1: d C. Kumar from DC, Welcome to the Round the
Speaker 1: NFL podcast. Hey, how's it going? Hey? Kumar? What or
Speaker 1: who is your team? D St. Louis Rams. Uh? Not
Speaker 1: a good sign. They are the Los Angeles Rams. Now, Kumar,
Speaker 1: already in trouble. That's I don't know if we that
Speaker 1: felt like a protest of the move right. We can
Speaker 1: get you tickets to all right, there we go. We
Speaker 1: can get your tickets to any NFL regular season game.
Speaker 1: We cannot get you a St. Louis Rams game. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: said yeah, all right, so you know the rules, right, Kumar.
Speaker 1: You gotta get four in a row right to be
Speaker 1: a champion. Um, let's do it please. Greg is really
Speaker 1: counting on you now, the perennial league superpower. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: this perennial league superpower is on pace to finish with
Speaker 1: the worst total defense since the nineteen seventy merger. Who
Speaker 1: are the New England Patriots? Well, I like it Jeopardy. Yes,
Speaker 1: Kumar is kind of a wild card and I like it.
Speaker 1: Up next, in week five, we are scheduled to see
Speaker 1: three rookies starting at quarterback in the NFL. Named two
Speaker 1: of them DeShawn Watson and Mr Bisky. Yeah, there we
Speaker 1: go halfway home. Name the NFL star who famously blocked
Speaker 1: Dan and Greg on Twitter, then reverse those blocks after
Speaker 1: a heart to heart conversation on the Around the NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I know you guys got blocked. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he got reversed. But Carr's way to raise
Speaker 1: the tension there with the old man. I had Greg
Speaker 1: on his feet and I want Christian behind the glass.
Speaker 1: If Kumar does not get this question right, let's get
Speaker 1: really tight on Greg's face for his reaction. Well, now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just not get this our video show. Uh, Kumar,
Speaker 1: are you Washington State or Washington d C. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: are you ready? Kumar? Yeah, this is an audio clue.
Speaker 1: Name this former rookie of the year, Um, great him.
Speaker 1: I think coach coach Clark's done a great job with
Speaker 1: us in the weight room, and then um, coach Ja
Speaker 1: has done a great job, you know, taking care of
Speaker 1: us out on the practice field. Uh. Some people like
Speaker 1: to call us to grind. Um. You call it the
Speaker 1: fine because you figure out what you got, and I
Speaker 1: think we've got some good stuff Kumar, but he got
Speaker 1: Can you play that again? All right? One more time? Um,
Speaker 1: you feel great? I think coach coach Clark's done a
Speaker 1: great job with us in the weight room, and then um,
Speaker 1: coach Ja has done a great job, you know, taking
Speaker 1: care of us out on the practice field. Uh. Some
Speaker 1: people like to call us to grind. Um. You call
Speaker 1: it the fine because you figure out what you got,
Speaker 1: and I think we've got some good stuff. Goodbar Um,
Speaker 1: this one's hard. I would like to say, seem so
Speaker 1: sorry all from d C. The answer, guys, everybody, Robert
Speaker 1: Griffin the third, It wasn't easy. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was an easy one, but you're from d I know't
Speaker 1: how long he's been in DC, but he would have
Speaker 1: had a lot of RG three on his TV. The
Speaker 1: voice wasn't recognizable, and I feel like I know his voice,
Speaker 1: and just for whatever reason, that clip it just seemed
Speaker 1: I thought that sounded just like RG three, one of
Speaker 1: the most famous players in the NFL for about a
Speaker 1: three or four year period, known for saying cheesy things
Speaker 1: like the grind and the find and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He mentioned there's a coach J reference, which is Jay Gruden,
Speaker 1: his old coach and when he was Workie of the
Speaker 1: Year though, and I and I that's true. I think
Speaker 1: it's I would argue the first three questions if you're
Speaker 1: if you're bathed in football were kind of layups, and
Speaker 1: so I'm all right with the fourth one being a
Speaker 1: little tougher. Alright, Greg, it's coming back now. Well, all
Speaker 1: four people that have tweeted at me, uh in support
Speaker 1: of it will be excited. Well, actually, I was on
Speaker 1: a tweet thread were literally dozens upon dozens today. You're exaggerating.
Speaker 1: That's dozens and dozens. I want to check. I I
Speaker 1: I've only been one over by this and would like
Speaker 1: to see it go deep into June, July, potentially August next.
Speaker 1: It is up to the listeners to end the contest,
Speaker 1: but it is not over yet, and that is a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. All right. We will be back on Thursday
Speaker 1: with a recap of the UH Thursday night football matchup
Speaker 1: between those Patriots and Bucks, and then a recap and
Speaker 1: then a preview of all the week five games. UH.
Speaker 1: So make sure you you check that out, everybody, and
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. And just a reminder that the
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Speaker 1: that listens, and make sure you get into that subreddit
Speaker 1: if you think if you're sick of this contest, get
Speaker 1: in there and end it. And let's end this show.
Speaker 1: Stan Hansas signing off four Quiet Storm, Connie Fox, the Boss,
Speaker 1: the loose cannon behind the Glass, Christian Anderson and everybody else,
Speaker 1: and so long, Mr Tom Petty, I will miss you
Speaker 1: until Thursday eight