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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansus, and I'm joined by Room
Speaker 1: Building some heroes, Mark Sessler and Gregg Roseatales. Hey, Now,
Speaker 1: this is of course the Sunday flagship program, often imitated,
Speaker 1: increasingly imitated to a disturbing degree, I would say, but
Speaker 1: never duplicated. Uh, presented of course by Head and Shoulders
Speaker 1: Week seven Sunday Uh in the books. Um, you know
Speaker 1: what are we gonna say? Was it the best week
Speaker 1: of football? No? Not the best week of football? But
Speaker 1: what were you doing on your Sunday? Well? What was
Speaker 1: what did you miss while you were sitting on the
Speaker 1: couch for nine hours? I mean, what would it even
Speaker 1: mean to have a great Sunday of football if you
Speaker 1: didn't have some lesser sundays to compare them to. That's
Speaker 1: about that. It's one way to put that beautiful way
Speaker 1: to look at it. Greg. You know, sometimes I accuse
Speaker 1: you of carrying the water front, But in this case,
Speaker 1: I think you've really distilled it in a wonderful way.
Speaker 1: He nailed us with a deep logic argument that we
Speaker 1: cannot really he's correct, and perhaps the little Pep and
Speaker 1: Greg step is because the old new wing of Patriots
Speaker 1: defensive crisis. Oh how are they going to figure it out?
Speaker 1: They're the worst defense ever. That feels like it's a
Speaker 1: disappearing narrative. And if once that narrative disappears, so too
Speaker 1: does the season. And don't take out your Jets and Yankees.
Speaker 1: Actually that was another very strong of another very strong
Speaker 1: logical argument, this time by then. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: tough It was a tough tough sports weekend for the
Speaker 1: old juser. But I'm a professional. I will keep plowing
Speaker 1: through semi professional. Uh, we have a lot of games
Speaker 1: to get to because it's a different type of week
Speaker 1: and it's a rematch of Super Bowl for doing. We're
Speaker 1: actually gonna start with Sunday Night Football. Sunday Night Brandy
Speaker 1: with short motion BYAMANDL takes the staff back, he looks
Speaker 1: back for we're a touchdown Patriots. That's a Bob Soci
Speaker 1: of w b Z with the call a ho hum
Speaker 1: call for a ho hum game on Sunday Night. The
Speaker 1: New England Patriots from start to finish, where the better team.
Speaker 1: There were no dramatics needed in the fourth quarter. This
Speaker 1: time around, it was a seventeen point second quarter that
Speaker 1: ended twenty three to seven. The Patriots defense is getting
Speaker 1: healthy and the Atlanta Falcons Mark Sessler offense is a mess.
Speaker 1: In fact, they didn't score until late in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: It was their first points in ninety one minutes and
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of game time, and that has to be
Speaker 1: a big concern. You have to worry, worry, wonder about
Speaker 1: hot butts with their offensive coordinator to the sark Well
Speaker 1: and you know, Dan, you've been on this train that alright,
Speaker 1: I'll play along with you. Atlanta's offense has not been,
Speaker 1: you know, not been what people expected. And it's not
Speaker 1: just an aberration two weeks ago when they scored three
Speaker 1: weeks agohen they scored seventeen points, or last week when
Speaker 1: they scored seventeen points to night totally flat against New
Speaker 1: England tonight. And it was such a joy to watch
Speaker 1: this game with Greg as he was watching New England's
Speaker 1: troubles evaporate to them. By the end of the contest,
Speaker 1: he was raising his fists pumping over James Devlin, the
Speaker 1: Patriots full back, having the game of his life. It
Speaker 1: was a Sunday It didn't replay Greg light on his toes.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, look at the holes that James Devlin, He's
Speaker 1: on the field a lot. Well, what a great night
Speaker 1: this has been. Again, you're taking out your sports bitterness
Speaker 1: on me. Don't be angry that the Patriots running game,
Speaker 1: which is something I've been wanting to see this season.
Speaker 1: It's nice to that they're closing out the game. They
Speaker 1: ran for a hundred and sixty two yards. I come
Speaker 1: to a chair and flying over, dropping a grape into
Speaker 1: Greg's mouth, combing Greg's hair, a tiny angel baby, plucking
Speaker 1: the harp, whether putting lotion over Greg's naked back, and
Speaker 1: make it sound like a football. Here's the news flash.
Speaker 1: If if your football teams ever have great success for
Speaker 1: an extended period of time, it's not going to solve
Speaker 1: everything in the rest of your life. There won't be angels,
Speaker 1: you know, drop. I don't buy it. I'd be willing
Speaker 1: to test that theory, but you know, I totally yes,
Speaker 1: James Devlon had a great game. What a flat performance
Speaker 1: by the Falcons. How disappointing this was, honestly, I mean
Speaker 1: they were in the mix there in the red zone
Speaker 1: and they you know, they go for a fourth and seven.
Speaker 1: They go for a fourth and seven early, showing some
Speaker 1: onions and they get it. And then they you get
Speaker 1: a field goal blocked early, you miss a chip shot,
Speaker 1: you're at the one yard line at one point, and
Speaker 1: you call to you know, kind of crazy plays, a
Speaker 1: pass play and then a play on a you know,
Speaker 1: a swing where there's no one even in the backfield,
Speaker 1: like run the ball straight ahead. Let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: because then mother nature stepped in and by the time
Speaker 1: we got to the second half, dense fog had covered
Speaker 1: the field. Only interesting in the game, it was because
Speaker 1: because the the NBC broadcast crew couldn't even see it.
Speaker 1: They had to use a bizarre overhead camera, which I
Speaker 1: thought was quite great. But didn't that affect what Atlanta
Speaker 1: could even think about doing in the second half? Where
Speaker 1: could they they could see the field better from the falcons?
Speaker 1: I mean at that point in excuse, I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot that could changed the game a little bit. It
Speaker 1: was seventeen nothing at halftime, though, and you know they
Speaker 1: missed a short field goal. They jinked it. After halftime,
Speaker 1: that's on Atlanta and Tom Brady hit a couple of
Speaker 1: nice throws even late to help cement it in the fog,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know if it matters.
Speaker 1: It's really crazy that I think if your Falcons team
Speaker 1: mentally they say, okay, last season's overall that, yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 1: You just blew a seventeen point lead at home, and
Speaker 1: then you you gave up essentially fifty four straight points
Speaker 1: of the Patriots thirty one in the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: then twenty three here to show up in this big
Speaker 1: spot in a in a game you know both teams,
Speaker 1: it meant a lot. I think it meant a lot
Speaker 1: to these teams that had Greg Juice UF for once
Speaker 1: as a fan and you don't feel much anymore, so
Speaker 1: I could tell that means a lot, you say yourself.
Speaker 1: But again, the Falcons started out three and oh, it
Speaker 1: was a paper three and oh, and now they've lost
Speaker 1: three in a row. And I think this is closer
Speaker 1: to the Falcons team than the team in the first
Speaker 1: three weeks. I don't think this is a very good team.
Speaker 1: I think the offense is a mess. I think that
Speaker 1: offense coordinator could be in serious trouble. By the way,
Speaker 1: to go that long without scoring when you have the
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan Julio Jones, all those pieces, Taylor Gabriel that
Speaker 1: you're that No, no, that's Steve Sarkisi. And sometimes I thought,
Speaker 1: we killed this thing. And I'll tell you what, Well,
Speaker 1: his butts gonna be killed. It's gonna be roasted by this.
Speaker 1: You know what happens sometimes and we saw it with
Speaker 1: Bill Laser. When they get rid of the coordinator, the
Speaker 1: offense gets a spark. And I'm wondering if behind the
Speaker 1: scenes that's what Atlanta is thinking right now as they
Speaker 1: look at a season that could be slipping away right now. Well,
Speaker 1: I look at New England that who do they go to?
Speaker 1: By the way, Well, that's the thing that you have
Speaker 1: to have someone in play Bill Laser. Then in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Patriots meanwhile allowing ten points per game basically over the
Speaker 1: last three games. So you can keep saying there's issues there,
Speaker 1: but I think that they talked all along about, especially
Speaker 1: in the secondary communication being a big part, that there
Speaker 1: was a shift and they played very well. For one
Speaker 1: theme I've said is that mid October, your team doesn't
Speaker 1: matter that much. You just need to stack some wins
Speaker 1: as you're figuring things out. The Patriots are a great
Speaker 1: example of that. And now they're doing that their defense,
Speaker 1: while I think it's short on talent and that's gonna
Speaker 1: come to haunt them. They're doing Patriots things which the
Speaker 1: last three weeks they're giving up tons of yards. I
Speaker 1: mean even this game three yards, but they're not giving
Speaker 1: up points. They're playing really good in the red zone.
Speaker 1: They're making situational plays, they're playing smart. Danny boy Well
Speaker 1: and anybody that talked themselves into the Patriots being in
Speaker 1: a major crisis, all it took them was about three
Speaker 1: weeks to figure this defense out. And now you have
Speaker 1: another Patriots team that looks loaded and they're playing in
Speaker 1: a water down NFL. And look out, because here comes
Speaker 1: thirteen and three. Once more. Stop, let's move on backers.
Speaker 1: Friend with twenty of time. Now they closed on him
Speaker 1: and miss Prass carrut Stop for ju Jue Smith Schuster.
Speaker 1: Here's third of his rookie season, kind of cover thirty
Speaker 1: one yards. Bill hill Grove of w d V with
Speaker 1: the call Ben Roethlisberger. He has connected with his friend Juju.
Speaker 1: Two touchdowns total four yards. Leavy on Bell again a monster,
Speaker 1: a touch monster. Oh that's uncomfortable, say hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: two total yards and Pittsburgh's defense dominated the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 1: especially in the last two quarters, a twenty to fourteen
Speaker 1: win on Sunday, um as I said at Hinesfield, Greg
Speaker 1: this was a good, great opportunity for Cincinnati to continue
Speaker 1: to dig themselves out of that hole, that oh and
Speaker 1: three hole. But Pittsburgh's defense once again answered the bell.
Speaker 1: And and you have to be excited if your Steelers
Speaker 1: fan you see Big Ben getting it together and you
Speaker 1: see the defense really playing well, you gotta be exit excited.
Speaker 1: And you gotta watch out for those touch Monster Halloween
Speaker 1: outfits that are gonna be pop popping up in Halloween.
Speaker 1: That's got to be He's the touch Monster, the running
Speaker 1: off the les. Don't allow your children to wear those costumes. Play.
Speaker 1: Bengals offense comes out of the break and off of
Speaker 1: their by and it's you know, fourteen fourteen. Early in
Speaker 1: this game, it looks like it's gonna be an offensive battle,
Speaker 1: which really surprised everyone. And then after halftime, the Steelers
Speaker 1: defense held the Bengals to nineteen yards. That's for the
Speaker 1: whole team for the whole half, just as dominant a
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of effort from a defense against what had
Speaker 1: been a good looking offense in the first half of
Speaker 1: this game, as we've seen all year. I think at
Speaker 1: one point, you know, Dalton had more interceptions and more
Speaker 1: sacks taken in the second half than he had completions.
Speaker 1: So it was just another sign that they can win
Speaker 1: games in different sorts of ways. When the game was
Speaker 1: twenties fourteen, I believe that, and the Bengals still had
Speaker 1: a pulse. Cincinnati got the ball around midfield incomplete pass, sack, sack,
Speaker 1: and that is fourth and thirty four, and uh that
Speaker 1: just that kind of that series summed up what Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: was able to do. Mark. It has been the a
Speaker 1: f C North for years and years, one of the
Speaker 1: divisions you could count on to produce two, if not three,
Speaker 1: playoff teams. This division no longer can offer that because
Speaker 1: the most consistent thing we're seeing now is week to
Speaker 1: week is Pittsburgh's defense, and it's been going on for
Speaker 1: a month plus and every other team in this division
Speaker 1: has major issues and the Bengals were not. They I'm
Speaker 1: not totally surprised by what happened because the Bengals are
Speaker 1: a week to week proposition that don't have it and
Speaker 1: big Ben really, I think he's getting there now. His
Speaker 1: stat line won't jump out at you. He actually threw
Speaker 1: two touchdowns early in the game. Uh, should have had
Speaker 1: a third advance McDonald's had a pretty bad drop in
Speaker 1: the end zone. But if you look at it, Greg,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to figure out and what's really unsettled
Speaker 1: NFL right now? Who are the teams that we think
Speaker 1: are gonna be up there at the end of the
Speaker 1: season fighting for that number one seed. The Patriots who
Speaker 1: have gotten a number one seed for what six years
Speaker 1: in a row? However, however many years at least good bye,
Speaker 1: at least um the Steelers. If Big Ben gets it together,
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell, it looks just as good as ever.
Speaker 1: The defense looks great right now. You have to be
Speaker 1: feeling great about the Steelers. Yeah, they you know, people
Speaker 1: were getting on them for starting the season slow, and
Speaker 1: they're five and two. They're in great spot and they
Speaker 1: know who they are. They're giving the ball to the
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell, I would say too much, thirty five
Speaker 1: carries a week, too much, can't hold. But now when
Speaker 1: you have a defense that's missing Steffon too it and
Speaker 1: doesn't get a huge game out of Hayward, and you
Speaker 1: other guys step up like t J. Watt or Bud
Speaker 1: Duprie has a big game, or Sean Davis who made
Speaker 1: some fantastic plays of young safety. It's like just different
Speaker 1: guys stepping up each week. That's a team that you
Speaker 1: can expect to be there well. And when you look
Speaker 1: at the schedule before the season, parts look real tough.
Speaker 1: But in this game, now you have the Lions next week,
Speaker 1: then to buy the Cults who sting, the Titans who
Speaker 1: are are a mess, and the Packers with no Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: It's lining up to potentially start like a nine and
Speaker 1: two ten and two type run. And I am not
Speaker 1: gonna given at two and four. I'm not counting Cincinnati
Speaker 1: app yet. I think this is a bit of a
Speaker 1: buzz saw because Pittsburgh is really finding themselves right now.
Speaker 1: We'll see how they bounce back from this. There two
Speaker 1: and four they can't keep They gotta string some wins together.
Speaker 1: But anyway, let's move on to a game over in
Speaker 1: the NFC. Now would be a good time for the
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak. And remember Breeze used to take the snap
Speaker 1: and do that quick jump over the top where he
Speaker 1: puts the ball up third and goal from inside the
Speaker 1: one for the Saints. Breeze will keep it himself, does extend,
Speaker 1: the ball, does break the plane, does score the touchdown. You,
Speaker 1: my friend, are red hot today. Weird? Jim Henderson induced McAllister,
Speaker 1: who yeah, very weird. W w L the Saints radio
Speaker 1: network guess Drew Brees ran for a touchdown through for
Speaker 1: one more and the Saints continued their surge with a
Speaker 1: teen win over the Green Bay Packers minus Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: of course at lambeau Field. Uh. We now welcome Chris
Speaker 1: Westling on the phone. West, Are you there, baby, I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'm ready there. He is Chris Westling at Paramore Manor. Uh.
Speaker 1: He uh covered this game for NFL media. West. Uh,
Speaker 1: here's my question. How are you for NFL media? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's all we are. I'll feel a little bit like
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton on four and three after a long afternoon. Alright,
Speaker 1: I's gonna throw the throw this away into the stands.
Speaker 1: I got you. That says a lot, all right, West,
Speaker 1: There was a lot of hope that the Packers could
Speaker 1: survive with Brett Huntley byn center. What did you take
Speaker 1: away from his first start Um, I think my main
Speaker 1: takeaway was as optimistic as the Packers seemed to be,
Speaker 1: and as Mike McCarthy seemed to be after a few
Speaker 1: years in that offense. Um, then it had to be
Speaker 1: a major disappointment with the way he played today. He
Speaker 1: was set up with a really good running game, their
Speaker 1: strongest ground attack of the year, and he held the
Speaker 1: ball too long and miss throws and I thought it
Speaker 1: was a really poor performance. Yeah, when's the last time
Speaker 1: that you came out of a Packers game with no
Speaker 1: receiver logging more than seventeen yards. That has to be
Speaker 1: a bizarre aberration for the Packers. It was an all
Speaker 1: day long affair. You wondered at a half time, Uh,
Speaker 1: can he get the ball to Jordy Nelson, Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: Martella's Bennett. Uh there was like a swing pass on
Speaker 1: a jet suite to Randall Cob but nothing down field.
Speaker 1: It was something that you thought might get fixed in
Speaker 1: the second half. Mike McCarthy, we're selling payam Oliver at
Speaker 1: half time. Hey, we're gonna run the ball and do
Speaker 1: play action. And that seemed like here's some you know,
Speaker 1: a simple way to get Bred Hunley going. And he
Speaker 1: just couldn't get Hunley going. And if you look at
Speaker 1: I mean they have playmaker playmakers. We know that. I
Speaker 1: know Martella's Bennett has not had a good season, but
Speaker 1: he finished two for seventeen, Randall cop two for fifteen,
Speaker 1: George Nelson one for thirteen, Davante Adams two for twelve,
Speaker 1: and like you said, West in a day when Aaron
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones went seventeen for one one in a touch.
Speaker 1: How much credit should we give the Saints who have
Speaker 1: obviously looked so much better on defense in the last
Speaker 1: four weeks. Yeah, that's hard for me to say, because
Speaker 1: I thought Hunley looked at that um and a lot
Speaker 1: of it is just holding the ball. He would wait
Speaker 1: for receivers to actually get covered and then throw the ball.
Speaker 1: So it was to me, it's hard to tell. I
Speaker 1: know the Saints have made a lot of defensive improvement.
Speaker 1: I was more impressed with their offense today than their
Speaker 1: than their defense. Yea four hundred and eighty five yards
Speaker 1: of offense. Obviously the defense has improved. You know, Lattimore
Speaker 1: is making plays, Cam Jordan's obviously making plays. But you
Speaker 1: put up they put up four. I know it wasn't
Speaker 1: a huge point total, but ultimately you're down a touchdown
Speaker 1: at halftime on the road and you end up putting
Speaker 1: up almost five hundred yards on the Packers. West. I
Speaker 1: know you're a tough guy to get, you know, push
Speaker 1: you off your spot. Are you starting to believe in
Speaker 1: this Saints team? Yeah? I really like what their offense
Speaker 1: has doing right now. They are exceptionally well balanced, and
Speaker 1: those poor and eighty five yards came on a day
Speaker 1: when Drew Brees through interceptions twice in the first quarter
Speaker 1: in scoring territory. The Packers just had no answer for
Speaker 1: that balanced attack. In the second half. They didn't know
Speaker 1: whether Sean Payton was calling run play or pass plays.
Speaker 1: And they've got a really good tandem now with with
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara and Marking Room at running back, and Ted
Speaker 1: Ginn is playing really well a wide receiver. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: feels like week after week Ted Ginn is making plays
Speaker 1: in this offense. I think he had the credit Sean
Speaker 1: Payton for getting the ball in his hands and letting
Speaker 1: him use those punt returner skills in the open field.
Speaker 1: He is making guys miss. It's a little Sean Payton revenge,
Speaker 1: you know, him and Mike McCarthy up for the job
Speaker 1: in Green Bay. The Packers chose to go with McCarthy,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it took about a decade, but finally he
Speaker 1: got It's worked out for both teams. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's a revenge angle and teflon Tom Kapers. You know,
Speaker 1: if they're gonna have any chance their their defense is
Speaker 1: gonna have to play better than this at home. This
Speaker 1: is a foreboding afternoon for the Packers in their first
Speaker 1: full week forest full Sunday without Aaron Rodgers. Uh wes uh.
Speaker 1: You come in, you hit a home run, you walk off,
Speaker 1: you do a bad flip, and then you go back
Speaker 1: to do whatever you're doing, which I assume is sexy
Speaker 1: every Sunday. It's not very sexy just watching the game
Speaker 1: trying to fall asleep. Okay, well it's sometimes it's better
Speaker 1: to leave some mystery. I find that's somewhat sexy. And
Speaker 1: that was That was hardly a Andy Dalton performance. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling more like Juju Smith Schuster type of day from
Speaker 1: us hide seek. All right, Chris Westling, we love you, buddy,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, my pleasure. All right, let's
Speaker 1: move on. Stephen House got the man of the hour,
Speaker 1: House Money, it's a thirty ardor the game on the
Speaker 1: line with eighteen seconds, snap is good, the ball was
Speaker 1: down House, catch this up and it's it is good.
Speaker 1: Second slept on the clock three times. Wait wait when
Speaker 1: you hit on something good, I mean it, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. I'll give you a credit for at
Speaker 1: Johnny Murphy of w j R. Stephen Houska, Yeah, House
Speaker 1: Money his thirty yarder with fourteen seconds to play, which
Speaker 1: was set up by rookie cornerback Tradevious White forcing a
Speaker 1: fumble and recovering it. Uh. That led to the Bills
Speaker 1: outlasting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers thirty ton uh in Orchard Park. Greg.
Speaker 1: If the Bills are gonna finally end their infernal playoff droute,
Speaker 1: they have to win these types of games, and it
Speaker 1: was another positive step forward on that front. They have
Speaker 1: stolen games, and I think someone needs to go check
Speaker 1: on Buck's defensive coordinator Mike Smith's blood pressure. Mikey. Okay, Mikey,
Speaker 1: because I'm worried. I'm worried about him. He he is
Speaker 1: gonna go. He must have lost his mind after this
Speaker 1: game because the Bucks offense, which played well overall, gives
Speaker 1: his defense a touchdown lead with just over three minutes
Speaker 1: left in the game, and the Bills go seventy five
Speaker 1: yards in three plays to rip them apart. And this
Speaker 1: is on a day where they kept picking up big
Speaker 1: plays on third and longs from Tyrod Taylor. Then Adam
Speaker 1: Humphreys fumbles the ball right back and you know what
Speaker 1: the Bucks defenses they allow a first down to Taiwan
Speaker 1: Jones running the ball so that they can run out
Speaker 1: the clock and take that field goal. I mean, the
Speaker 1: defense absolutely caved in there when they were given a
Speaker 1: chance to win a game on the road. It's the
Speaker 1: second week in a row a hundred and seventy three
Speaker 1: yards rushing for Buffalo after they made the Cardinals look
Speaker 1: like the two hundred and fifteen Cardinals last year with
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson two weeks ago. I had I just talked
Speaker 1: about the two hundred and fifteen Cardinals sighting the game
Speaker 1: is happening multiple weeks ago when it was last week,
Speaker 1: and couldn't have gotten more dates in correct? There no
Speaker 1: just stand by the story and help people don't notice
Speaker 1: and then make people think you have thousands of years
Speaker 1: of NFL institutional knowledge. Well, I'm sure they can, hell,
Speaker 1: that's not the case. On one hand, this was a
Speaker 1: bad game for Sean McDermott and Tyrod Taylor, who were
Speaker 1: they boot off at halftime, made an incredibly bone headed
Speaker 1: mess of the end of the first half where they
Speaker 1: just left points on the field, and there were some
Speaker 1: mistakes in in the fourth quarter two that I think
Speaker 1: you can point you. But on the other hand, their
Speaker 1: top two receivers today are Deonte Thompson, who was cut
Speaker 1: by the Chicago Bears ten days ago and he ripped
Speaker 1: the Bucks secondary for two huge plays in this game.
Speaker 1: And Nico Leary. They're tight end, so it's kind of
Speaker 1: amazing that they're putting up over four yards of offense
Speaker 1: and thirty points with these guys as their top receivers.
Speaker 1: You just gotta kind of give it up for him.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's amazing how quickly the shine is off
Speaker 1: this Tampa team. I mean, they were the summertime Darlen's
Speaker 1: based on hard knocks, and you look at their roster
Speaker 1: moves and thought, this will be an unstoppable type team
Speaker 1: with just enough on defense. And you're two and four,
Speaker 1: you're playing the Panthers and said, I understand everything changes
Speaker 1: every two weeks, but this yere centel, this is they
Speaker 1: played pretty well it seems for most of this game.
Speaker 1: But beyond that, this is not an easy game. This
Speaker 1: is not a game that you go in there. So
Speaker 1: the temp they should win this game. Well, I appreciate
Speaker 1: took calling Buffalo a tough place to play because they
Speaker 1: house the Broncos and they took care of business today,
Speaker 1: and you know they have they could play defense, they
Speaker 1: could score points when they get hot. This is you know,
Speaker 1: losing seven and Buffalo. To me, I agree with your overall. Well,
Speaker 1: coming off last last week was an embarrassment, right and
Speaker 1: I don't see a lot to like about this team
Speaker 1: right now. So they have a lot to go back
Speaker 1: and we offense gave you something to like in this game. Now.
Speaker 1: They turned it over three times. They could have had
Speaker 1: a forty burger and that's kind of been the problem
Speaker 1: of this team. They're not maximizing their opportunities. This was
Speaker 1: the day where the Bill's defense didn't really look very good.
Speaker 1: But give the credit in the bye week to the
Speaker 1: Bills coaching staff who brought back a lot of their
Speaker 1: old running scheme from a year ago and a totally
Speaker 1: different scheme. Richie Incognito told local reporters about this after
Speaker 1: the game, and it relies a little more on Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor having some ops in the running game. They brought
Speaker 1: that back and they were running the ball well. Again,
Speaker 1: let's keep moving. Another win for the Bills. Maybe it ends,
Speaker 1: maybe this is the year. Let's keep going. Second out
Speaker 1: and eight now from the forty two, they give it
Speaker 1: to Yeldon. TD has got some room into the open field.
Speaker 1: T J to the forty thirty five, but thirty inside
Speaker 1: the tent, but ten but five dies for the pylon touchdown.
Speaker 1: D J. Yeldon has gone the distance here at Lucas
Speaker 1: Oil Stadium. Frank Frangie w j N. T J yelled
Speaker 1: and does he have any idea that this has occurred?
Speaker 1: And well, that is this is an audio event and
Speaker 1: you'll find out. T J. Yeldon ripped off a fifty
Speaker 1: eight yard touchdown run. Blake Bortles through for thirty yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars piled up ten sacks of Jake Briskett
Speaker 1: in a twenty seven to nothing win in Indianapolis. Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: We've seen it several times now when Jacksonville nay Saxonville
Speaker 1: can follow their preferred game script. They are very difficult
Speaker 1: to be name. It's a it's a name that they've
Speaker 1: adopted as their Twitter handle and well it's in it
Speaker 1: in it annoyed me to no end when they came
Speaker 1: up with it because it just seemed to be filled
Speaker 1: with hubrisk before you had achieved anything. But this is
Speaker 1: a playoff level defense. And if it's if it's last week,
Speaker 1: if it's this week, every other week they hammer a team,
Speaker 1: then they lose next week. The the what happened in
Speaker 1: this game was you didn't have Leonard four Nette and
Speaker 1: you'd think, oh, well, this is the game where Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles he has to put it on his back and
Speaker 1: he's gonna crumble because that's the DNA for Blake Bortles
Speaker 1: essentially every week. And he played a very clean game
Speaker 1: and he's done that twice now this season, and this
Speaker 1: was one where he had to make big throws. He
Speaker 1: had three three completions of forty seven plus yards. They
Speaker 1: still ran the ball well, and Jacoby Brissette and the
Speaker 1: Cults were utterly stymied on offense. And that's saying something
Speaker 1: because I do think the Prissette and the Colts, especially
Speaker 1: in his connection with t Y Hilton. They've shown us stuff.
Speaker 1: It's not been every quarter, but they've done enough. For
Speaker 1: Brissette had a lot of buzz around them, and they
Speaker 1: shut that thing down to bring up t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: and I watch you guys to hear this is when
Speaker 1: frustration starts to creep into a room. And it can
Speaker 1: happen when you get shut out at home t Y
Speaker 1: Hilton after the game, we were winning our matchups. The
Speaker 1: old line just has to play better. Uh, we've got
Speaker 1: to take some pride up front and block for him.
Speaker 1: Referring to Jake Briskett. What if we put them back
Speaker 1: there and take those hits. We've got to start up front. Well,
Speaker 1: you already have a team with Andrew luck that the
Speaker 1: abuse he took year after year has led to some
Speaker 1: of these long term injuries. That's completely derailed this franchise's arc.
Speaker 1: And you've got a young player and Jacoby preside. It
Speaker 1: took ten sacks today and multiple other hits. How long
Speaker 1: does that last? Here? Here's the thing. Though the offensive
Speaker 1: line in the past, protection has been wildly low on
Speaker 1: their list of problems. This here, I would say they've
Speaker 1: been an above average past protect group. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to Obviously they didn't have a great game.
Speaker 1: They obviously didn't have a great game. Today I'm saying
Speaker 1: the receiver group and t Y Hilton has had a
Speaker 1: lot of drops, has had a lot of mistakes. That
Speaker 1: the defense has obviously been a problem throughout the year.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have pointed to the past protection overall this
Speaker 1: year as a huge issue. And Hilton is now taken
Speaker 1: some heat, which isn't a surprise. My favorite thing about
Speaker 1: these Cults losses are these Greg Doyle columns that he's
Speaker 1: writing in the Indianapolis Stars where he just flames this
Speaker 1: team and he's been banging on Hilton for a few
Speaker 1: weeks now as a me first guy and and comes
Speaker 1: out here. Uh. They had allowed eighteen sacks in the
Speaker 1: first six games of the season, so um, I don't
Speaker 1: know how it breaks down, but that's not great and
Speaker 1: above average in terms of pro football focus. And I
Speaker 1: think if you watch it, Brissette has taken a lot
Speaker 1: of those sacks, but you gotta give his credit to
Speaker 1: the Jacks, and last week they gave they made Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles throw the ball in some obvious running situations for
Speaker 1: the first time because teams are us loading the box,
Speaker 1: daring them. And after this game, Bordles said, I hope
Speaker 1: they keep daring us. That's basically what defenses they're doing.
Speaker 1: They're saying beat us. Blake Bortles and the Jaguars tried
Speaker 1: it last week. They gave him a chance to throw
Speaker 1: the ball. He didn't work this this week. Work in
Speaker 1: these flip flopped win loss scenarios, which have done all
Speaker 1: year and in the wind column the every other week
Speaker 1: win they have outscored teams that they've destroyed a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty to twenty three. So take the next week
Speaker 1: off and come back to that. Now we're gonna get
Speaker 1: We'll get into it in future shows. But now the
Speaker 1: Colts season, they're behind three teams that are at button.
Speaker 1: It just feels like, I agree with you, this is
Speaker 1: the lost season and they'll have to wonder if they'll
Speaker 1: bring back in your luck or not. And here's my
Speaker 1: last take, lator FNG. By the way, what you want
Speaker 1: a last take? That was my lock? There we go.
Speaker 1: They locked it up. Mark, you're moving up in the
Speaker 1: standing we I am. I'm only one game behind Greg
Speaker 1: and the lifetime standings, which would absolutely if I were
Speaker 1: to tie Greg and then overtake Greg. Greg's living nightmare
Speaker 1: starts to come into full bloom. Greg continues to try
Speaker 1: to wish away this entire competition that's bloomed between the
Speaker 1: three of us this season. It's not going anywhere, Greg,
Speaker 1: so you just gotta start getting them right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I was on the record when Lock it
Speaker 1: Up first started way back in the day. How worthless?
Speaker 1: I thought, right, Yeah, you think about it all night
Speaker 1: long tonight, Greg, Does this means the most? The reason
Speaker 1: why Greg gets angry, Yeah, because of his history and
Speaker 1: his you know issues that he's overcoming mostly which with that,
Speaker 1: you know that's valiant, that you over for the most
Speaker 1: would be great because there's nothing at stake whatsoever. But
Speaker 1: is that true though, No, I think there's an immense
Speaker 1: amount at steak. Any Well, we'll dig into the standings
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Speaker 1: L A oh yeah, Todd Gurley went over a hundred
Speaker 1: yards with that touchdown. Jared Jared Goff ran for a
Speaker 1: touchdown and threw for another, and Gregg the legs airline
Speaker 1: four field goals. It all added up to a RAMS
Speaker 1: thirty three to nothing. Another shutout, this time the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals the victim. This at the Twick in England, and
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna say the dunk Twick. A lot of people
Speaker 1: coming at you with tooking him chop. It's not what's
Speaker 1: it called twick? I don't know. Twicker sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: It's a great place to see a game last year.
Speaker 1: Not this time. It wasn't anyway. Thirty three zip greg.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals seemed to have legit momentum after last week's
Speaker 1: big performance against Tampa Bay, but that's all gone. Also
Speaker 1: gone Carson Palmer, who broke his arm is not throwing
Speaker 1: arm could be done for the season model. Yeah, and well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the team of Around the NFL podcast
Speaker 1: in a minute. Let's give him their props, because this
Speaker 1: was a different Rams team than showed up to Twickenham
Speaker 1: last year. But ultimately, the takeaway for me that I'll
Speaker 1: remember from this game is it's kind of the end
Speaker 1: of the Carson Palmer run in in Arizona. I don't
Speaker 1: think this team is going to be in contention at
Speaker 1: all when he comes back. If he comes back, Bruce
Speaker 1: arians is future is up in the air. A lot
Speaker 1: of old guys, Larry Fitzgerald's and it's the problem. It
Speaker 1: looked like it was gonna be fun to have Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson them to get there, and I just kind of
Speaker 1: look at it as a team that's like, okay, let's
Speaker 1: cross out that team and it's been a really fun run.
Speaker 1: It got me thinking this is kind of a team
Speaker 1: of Around the NFL's past versus the team of Around
Speaker 1: the NFL present, and one's kind of going into that
Speaker 1: sweet night Cars going into that sweet night. The Rams
Speaker 1: on the other hand, another, uh, you know, we set
Speaker 1: of bums having another nice little season. I know, they're
Speaker 1: a couple of stinkers mixed in, but the rarely the
Speaker 1: end of the day are five and two and I
Speaker 1: count at least three dominant performances. And now the first
Speaker 1: seven games of the season, Week one, the book ended
Speaker 1: Week one, and now Week seven, and I last week
Speaker 1: they did a nice job as well. Uh so the
Speaker 1: Rams are getting it done a D. They weren't even
Speaker 1: particularly that sharp greg right, uh, offensively, but when the
Speaker 1: D was carrying the day, they didn't have to be
Speaker 1: did not have a really sharp day, but the offensive
Speaker 1: line was awesome. I mean, he had all day to
Speaker 1: throw to pick his poison on the third and four
Speaker 1: it almost seemed too easy. Girly ran so hard they
Speaker 1: opened up holes for him. So overall they were great.
Speaker 1: And then on defense, Ogiltree has made a huge impact.
Speaker 1: They decided to give him a huge contract extension. What
Speaker 1: I thought was telling in Wade Phillips's new system. And
Speaker 1: there's no better D tackle combo right now than Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald than Brocker. So they've got a lot of things
Speaker 1: working for this team, and they're sticking it in your eye,
Speaker 1: Dan for daring to bring out the team of a
Speaker 1: t hell. A few weeks ago, sticking to my eye. Hey, Lenz,
Speaker 1: let it rip. I locked it up. There you go
Speaker 1: for the second time. And our great friend at a
Speaker 1: t N lock up on Twitter notes, I am now
Speaker 1: two and oh when locking up games at the Twickers
Speaker 1: and that you and I combined are two locks. The
Speaker 1: teams that won beat the opponents sixty to nothing combined
Speaker 1: a double shutout. Baby, they're making money. You're under the collar.
Speaker 1: Uh so, Yeah, the the Rams are a fun team
Speaker 1: to watch so far. Feeling good about the team of
Speaker 1: a t and they're going into a bye and then
Speaker 1: they have the Giants after the bye. So if I'm
Speaker 1: a Rams fan who haven't had many fun weeks, it's
Speaker 1: like I'm liking the bye coming up right now. Let's
Speaker 1: just enjoy that five and two records where we're the
Speaker 1: toast of the NFL and then face face kind of
Speaker 1: a bum Giants team. Maybe get to six and two
Speaker 1: or in the middle of November. This team is gonna
Speaker 1: be relevant one quick. Cardinals note, I don't understand why
Speaker 1: Drew Stanton is the guy to come in after after
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer blame. Gabert looked better than him in the preseason.
Speaker 1: I understand that Arians is so loyal to the quarterback
Speaker 1: City picks, but Gabert needs to be the guy they
Speaker 1: put in here. And he said after the game, though,
Speaker 1: that stands our quarterback the rest of the year. You
Speaker 1: don't go two to three in terms of their quarterback.
Speaker 1: And Stanton and Adrian Peterson, by the way, had no
Speaker 1: room to run eleve and carries twenty one yards. That
Speaker 1: so last week was a game that just eclipsed like
Speaker 1: tiny bubble that there will never it just it simply
Speaker 1: was mythology. But that shouldn't be so shocking either that
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't his fault. They had been bad
Speaker 1: all season, had one good week. We shouldn't get too excited.
Speaker 1: They kind of came back down to earth. Let us
Speaker 1: now move on. Greg just called them the bum giants.
Speaker 1: Let's check in on him. And here's mckissic throws it
Speaker 1: back to Wilson trying to set up deep for Richardson.
Speaker 1: College is back, Richardson, who's got it. I'll fight forward
Speaker 1: in the end zode and there's no signal and now
Speaker 1: it's a touchdown. Richardson, come it's away with it. Amazing
Speaker 1: nice call there by Andrew Catalan of CBS Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: through three second half touchdown passes, including that heavily contested
Speaker 1: strike to Paul Richardson, and the Seattle Seahawks pulled away
Speaker 1: from the injury injury ravage New York Giants to seven
Speaker 1: win at the Meadow Ends. Um, this is a ten
Speaker 1: seven game in the fourth quarter. Uh, and now we
Speaker 1: welcome in Nick Shook as yoked as ever. Do you
Speaker 1: know how many Instagram requests I've gotten in the last
Speaker 1: week Because you're you're still in a relationship, correct, So
Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't help you so much. But and your
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Speaker 1: so I don't wish anything bad with your relationship, but
Speaker 1: it's good to have still nice to be admired and
Speaker 1: liked for your physical body, not something that the other
Speaker 1: three people in the room would know about. Two in depth,
Speaker 1: I speak for yourself outside of Greg anyway. Um, maybe
Speaker 1: Greg is a type for some people. I don't know,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure there is. There must be a type
Speaker 1: of there's a type for every type of bod. And
Speaker 1: I mean he's married, so for that person, it was
Speaker 1: a particular type. Yeah, your wife's type. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: check that box. I'm sure you had a conversation with
Speaker 1: your wife at some point. It's like, oh, I like,
Speaker 1: little guys, did your wife I ever say anything like that? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: do you know what I will get it? I mean
Speaker 1: I was gonna have probably gone already a minute this topic.
Speaker 1: I haven't follow up question, but I'll say it for
Speaker 1: after the show anyway. All right, anyways, shook Seattle started
Speaker 1: this game in a stupor, but they eventually snapped out
Speaker 1: of it. It's not that hard to do against the Giants.
Speaker 1: Stupor is a good word to describe this. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: dominated time possession in the first half, and they shot
Speaker 1: themselves in the foot over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: There were multiple drop passes by Jimmy Graham, one in
Speaker 1: the end zon on fourth and one. You throw to
Speaker 1: your tower of a pass catcher in the end zone.
Speaker 1: He drops the ball, and he dropped another one with
Speaker 1: room to work later in the half. And uh, it
Speaker 1: was it just wasn't a good half for him. It
Speaker 1: wasn't good half for them. Penalties killed them. Thomas Rawls
Speaker 1: dropped a screen pass on third down. Uh. They couldn't
Speaker 1: get anything going, and yet they were only down four
Speaker 1: points because the Giants offense is worse and uh, and
Speaker 1: then they figured things out in the second half and
Speaker 1: kind of romped from there, especially in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I mean, the total yards at one point was to
Speaker 1: forty two and the Giants were winning the game at
Speaker 1: that point and they had forty two yards. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you look at the stats of this game, four
Speaker 1: five yards of offense for the Seahawks to one. That
Speaker 1: looks like a massive blowout. And the second half played
Speaker 1: like that. It was a matter of how long until
Speaker 1: the Seahawks wake up and figure this thing out because
Speaker 1: their first half was awful, but the second half was
Speaker 1: so much better. Russell Wilson was good again. Um. You
Speaker 1: know that that Giants pass rush has been getting to
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks, but thankfully Russell Wilson has the
Speaker 1: mobility to get away from it, and it showed a
Speaker 1: lot in the second half, um as he led them
Speaker 1: back and Man, the Giants when it comes to their
Speaker 1: offense and their offensive line, they can't protect eli. They
Speaker 1: can't find any you know, create any lanes for the
Speaker 1: running backs to run in. They don't really have great
Speaker 1: running backs to begin with, I'm not a guy Paul Perkins,
Speaker 1: or Orleans Dark One guy so Orleans Dark One didn't
Speaker 1: he was unable to follow up last week's surprise showing
Speaker 1: in Denver. Yeah, they you feel a little better about
Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense, Like I've been waiting for their defense
Speaker 1: more than anything to kind of look like a shutdown.
Speaker 1: Even Yes, they're playing the Giants, but giants seeing that
Speaker 1: won a game last week, you know, and he's give me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you a lukewarm answer.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not gonna, you know, sit up here
Speaker 1: and be like, Yeah, Seahawks defense is back the front
Speaker 1: seven and the legion of boom. Abby Wagner is having
Speaker 1: a year. And he had a good game, but overall
Speaker 1: it wasn't something where it did didn't jump off the
Speaker 1: screen as much as the Giants are just like, man,
Speaker 1: come on, all right, let's move on forty seven yards
Speaker 1: right half. Ryan Sucker set kick on the way? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that tone in his voice that was That was our
Speaker 1: call of the year last year. The same guy, thank god,
Speaker 1: that is Mike Keith of w g f X Titans
Speaker 1: Radio Network let's clip that one off, Lindsay, because that
Speaker 1: is going into the top ten. Imagine Keith goes back
Speaker 1: to back. That would be more impressive than the Shields
Speaker 1: offball team. I mean when you have the pipes to
Speaker 1: do what he just did. I mean, I drew up
Speaker 1: back to back type guy. I think he was call
Speaker 1: of the Year with that exact same call. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's going back to the well. Too many things. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Then it makes you feel something. I was
Speaker 1: so hoping this would be a clipped separately. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: that's Lindsay fault on behind the glass. Ryan suck Ups
Speaker 1: fourth field goal of the game. This one is a
Speaker 1: forty seven yard or with less than two minutes ago
Speaker 1: in overtime, averted disaster for the Titoons, who escaped Cleveland
Speaker 1: with an ugly twelve nine win over the Browns, who
Speaker 1: also lost Joe Thomas to a potentially serious triceps injury
Speaker 1: that ended his amazing consecutive snap streak. Also, Deshaun Kaiser
Speaker 1: got benched again. Um reportedly partied super hard on Friday night.
Speaker 1: Oh when the Browns are and seven? Good time shark
Speaker 1: another year in Cleveland, right, I mean, oh, Wow, is
Speaker 1: this the music that's clipped for me in this segment?
Speaker 1: Now talk about the Brown. This is another bad day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: terrible day, another sad day for Deshaun Kaiser in the pocket. Uh.
Speaker 1: Statistically he matched up well with code Cody Kestler, who
Speaker 1: replaced him, but they were two very different games. I
Speaker 1: like that you're doing your like Jack Handy voice. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean despondent. Now let's start with Joe Thomas actually,
Speaker 1: because mark you, he has been the one shining beacon
Speaker 1: for this franchise for what eleven years, and this looks
Speaker 1: like we're hearing reports that he might have a torn TRIESEPS.
Speaker 1: Ian rapport says, I fear at torn TRIESEPS, which would
Speaker 1: almost certainly end a season. Uh, it's just another crushing
Speaker 1: setback for this franchise. I at this point, it just
Speaker 1: feels so surreal and beyond imagination because it was probably
Speaker 1: I thought Peek Brown's uh Nightmare World about two or three,
Speaker 1: four years ago, even maybe five, and it's just climbed
Speaker 1: into darker and darker territories. And I look at a
Speaker 1: team right now and I listen, if you want to
Speaker 1: take one positive, The defense played very well today but
Speaker 1: I look at what's happening off the field with some
Speaker 1: of the players and what's happening on and I want,
Speaker 1: I want, how long do the players continue to play
Speaker 1: hard for Hugh Jackson and how long did they continue
Speaker 1: to believe in this coach? Because I feel for any
Speaker 1: coach that's had these results, you have to go back
Speaker 1: to like the seventies six seventy seven expansion Bucks to
Speaker 1: get a team that performed this poorly over two seasons.
Speaker 1: Well they they to that point. They are two and
Speaker 1: thirty two over there. That's too straight. One in fifteen
Speaker 1: seasons and a couple more losses and people like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's the Browns will know they are now in the
Speaker 1: worst stretch any team has ever been in with the
Speaker 1: same coaching staff since World War Two, since a World
Speaker 1: War two Cardinals team. The only team that's close is
Speaker 1: the Lions, you know, after they went out in sixteen.
Speaker 1: But that's with different coaching staffs. They have never been
Speaker 1: this slow as bad as they are right now. And
Speaker 1: why are we focusing on the Browns? Uh? Number one?
Speaker 1: We have to said Browns fans, here's but number two
Speaker 1: because the Titans frankly don't deserve to get a wild
Speaker 1: amount of credit for once again stinking out the joint,
Speaker 1: needing to use five periods to beat the Browns, and
Speaker 1: and shook. You could you could tell everybody like this
Speaker 1: offense isn't working. It doesn't work. No, it definitely doesn't work.
Speaker 1: I mean I had to give a little bit of
Speaker 1: credit to the Brown's defense because they did a really
Speaker 1: good job against the run. They played a good game.
Speaker 1: But the Titans also it doesn't really fit with the
Speaker 1: sad No, it doesn't. I'm sorry, let me take it
Speaker 1: back down. The Browns defense, they played well, they did
Speaker 1: play Williams. The has that overall been the biggest problem.
Speaker 1: It's the only shining light in that organization right now?
Speaker 1: And you know you you just took us back to
Speaker 1: an arrow when teams were combining for lack of players.
Speaker 1: The Steelers and the Eagles became the Stiegels at one
Speaker 1: back then. That's how bad they are, and it's really
Speaker 1: all centered on the offense. And now they're losing Joe Thomas,
Speaker 1: who gave up one had given up one QB and
Speaker 1: his loss immediately immediately. I mean the play Spencer Drango
Speaker 1: just wasn't good. Last thing Titans are going to there By.
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariotta was clearly not right moving they You called
Speaker 1: them a mess earlier. I get that there four and
Speaker 1: three there going into Thereby. It sort of doesn't matter
Speaker 1: that they've been a mess because I think they have
Speaker 1: the pieces to play better. They're they're winning ugly and
Speaker 1: they're finding the way. So I don't think at the
Speaker 1: mobile Mariota, the offense is completely different. I'm it's not
Speaker 1: the same one. He can't when he can't move. It
Speaker 1: matters that they haven't looked good for the season. They
Speaker 1: are very They're very fortunate that they're for right, But
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think any of the results
Speaker 1: matter that much before Thanksgiving. If you can just be
Speaker 1: in position, it's what your team is playing like at
Speaker 1: the end, and it wouldn't shock me if they do
Speaker 1: play better, and right now they're not at up with
Speaker 1: the Jaguars at the top of the division. That's all
Speaker 1: the matters, all right, Let's move up. The Cowboys takeover
Speaker 1: and uh a fake to sweit sort on the screen
Speaker 1: right to Elliott first down across the already sideline to
Speaker 1: the forty to the thirty foot race twenty fifty makes
Speaker 1: a cut tongue touchdown screen pass of seventy to the arms.
Speaker 1: That was Brad Sham of k r l D the
Speaker 1: Cowboys radio network. Zekiel Elliott went off on Sunday, finishing
Speaker 1: with two nineteen yards with scrimmage, including that seventy two
Speaker 1: yard catch and run, as the Cardinals cruised to a
Speaker 1: forty to ten win over the over match San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Forty honors who thought life was hard when they were
Speaker 1: losing by two points every week, how about you get
Speaker 1: banged by thirty points feel any better. I'm not even
Speaker 1: personal against them, but it's like everything that sounds like,
Speaker 1: why would that feel better? Yeah? The universe? Well, because like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're fighting and you know we're hanging, we're so close
Speaker 1: to win. Well, now you're not close to win. Does
Speaker 1: it feel better? I don't know, Probably not. Mark. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys did exactly what they were supposed to do here.
Speaker 1: This was the Ezekiel Elliott game that basically just brought
Speaker 1: up and conjured images of what he did from wire
Speaker 1: to wire last season. And that's seventy two yard catch
Speaker 1: and run touchdown. I think it's maybe the most beautiful
Speaker 1: touchdown of the entire season. It shows his incredibly rare
Speaker 1: and unique athleticism and how much they will miss him
Speaker 1: no matter what. They haven't running back behind him. They
Speaker 1: controlled this. If he gets this, baby, they win this out.
Speaker 1: Who knows, We'll see, but it's it's it's this is
Speaker 1: what you're exactly right down the sense. This is the
Speaker 1: game where the floor utterly fell out for San Francisco.
Speaker 1: You cannot continue to go into these games with the talent,
Speaker 1: poor roster they have on offense, and and and Hoyer
Speaker 1: is well, it's not there's no there's no illusions about
Speaker 1: what Brian Hoyer is. But suddenly you have c J
Speaker 1: Batard in there, who c J beat hard, who was
Speaker 1: absolutely taken a town by by the Dallas defense today
Speaker 1: to strip sacks that were lost and the game was
Speaker 1: just simply over within the first ten minutes to play.
Speaker 1: This is the last thing I expected from this matchup,
Speaker 1: which might sound crazy considering where they stand record wise,
Speaker 1: but the Niners had shown so much fight in their
Speaker 1: last five games and their defense was trending upward, and
Speaker 1: then a complete disaster today. I don't know about this defense,
Speaker 1: Like we expected them to be better than they really are.
Speaker 1: They have a couple of players that you like, but
Speaker 1: when you watch them week, think there's a lot of busts.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of I don't know if it's coaching
Speaker 1: or what it is, a lot of mistakes in it
Speaker 1: in a really bad secondary And at Cowboys offense that
Speaker 1: right now you have to put as among the best
Speaker 1: in the league. You know they had a slow start,
Speaker 1: but they have drilled three straight teams on offense. They're
Speaker 1: about as consistent in offense as there is in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And you've been saying if that Prescott has been playing
Speaker 1: great and people have wanted to look for a fault
Speaker 1: on that offense, Prescott at another very clean game, I
Speaker 1: think with your with San Francisco, you cannot ask them
Speaker 1: that defense to be out on the field drive after
Speaker 1: drive when the offense is doing nothing but turning the
Speaker 1: ball over. And despite all that, Dallas looking as good
Speaker 1: as they did. We talked about it on Thursday, go
Speaker 1: kick some mess up in San Francis, listen to you,
Speaker 1: and they did. And that's and you expected that and
Speaker 1: they delivered that. But this Elliott thing is going to
Speaker 1: continue to just hang over this team because now he
Speaker 1: looks as good as he did at the height of
Speaker 1: his rookie year, and it's and it was after a
Speaker 1: bit of a slow start and maybe he wasn't in
Speaker 1: the best shape coming into camp. Now he looks like
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott. And yet you're still wondering what happens. And
Speaker 1: like we talked about on Thursday, if there is no deal,
Speaker 1: they get words at worked out and they lose, it
Speaker 1: could have cost you your season. So we'll see how
Speaker 1: that plays out. One very one quick injury update in
Speaker 1: that game, Dan Bailey the kick are an incredibly consistent
Speaker 1: kicker for the Cowboys who's a big part of what
Speaker 1: they do. Uh injured. I think it's a growing injury
Speaker 1: out and we don't know if he's come back. They
Speaker 1: had safety Jeff Heath kicking off and kicking p A
Speaker 1: t s. He went two for three kicking p A
Speaker 1: t s. But that can't last. You gotta find a
Speaker 1: cow about at safety that can kick the ball into
Speaker 1: the ends of I mean, these guys are like the
Speaker 1: star athletes of there. That's a sixty five yards I
Speaker 1: know it's not a T, but that's pretty impressive. Is
Speaker 1: that shook? Could you do that? Chick? Before? We actually
Speaker 1: I can hit at thirty five yards or barefoot. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, like, choke when you see something like
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath did today, when you go to get your
Speaker 1: pumpin tonight, do you go in there and you say, okay,
Speaker 1: let me go out of my comfort zone and thrive.
Speaker 1: What area you're gonna work on your body? I've torn
Speaker 1: both my labor ms and they're both torn right now,
Speaker 1: so i'd be doing shoulders what It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: it's I got one fixed night toward again? Could you
Speaker 1: could we send you into like the hidden fortress of
Speaker 1: North Korea and have you basically take that country down
Speaker 1: and neutralize it just on your own. Absolutely not. We
Speaker 1: are gonna be on Fox News to night Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: mug shot coming up? All right, Shook, Well with someone
Speaker 1: on our podcast just throw out a hypothetical that we're
Speaker 1: gonna send someone in to take out the North Korean government.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's potentially newsworthy coming from the NFL media. Well,
Speaker 1: it's we're able to blend multiple news. I don't know,
Speaker 1: do we know if it's fake news figured out? I
Speaker 1: don't know. All right, Chook, thank you get that pump in? Bro?
Speaker 1: Who needs? Who needs? Labor rooms that are intact. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we need a we need a nickname for Shock. How
Speaker 1: about how about Tim Riggins. That's your nickname. His name
Speaker 1: is Nick Shook. Well it's like an amazing name. Just
Speaker 1: sometimes it's a good point. Nick Shook. I've never called
Speaker 1: Shook Nick. It's always been Nick Shook. Now he's got
Speaker 1: Nicholas Nicholas Shook at the Twickers. Let's move on, all right,
Speaker 1: give me a turn over here, guys out of the shotgun.
Speaker 1: Back to throw, looking downfield throws and look off centers up.
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain, still on your Lonny slips down, Flash is down.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you, Bob Greasy, you got your wish,
Speaker 1: a big turnover. Jimmy Cephalo also their w q A M.
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain's fourth quarter interception of Josh McCown paved the
Speaker 1: way for the go ahead field goal for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: who wiped away another big deficit in a thirty one
Speaker 1: to twenty eight win over the Jets at hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: Uh McCain made the big play, but the hero for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins was Matt Moore, who were replaced an injured
Speaker 1: j Cutler and threw two touchdown passes in the final
Speaker 1: twelve minutes of the fourth quarter. And this Dolphins win,
Speaker 1: of course, comes seven days after they overcame a seventeen
Speaker 1: nothing halftime deficit to knock off the Falcons hard for days.
Speaker 1: Also keep Matt More on the field, my goodness should
Speaker 1: have brought him in a couple of weeks. A yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Jay Cutler suffered what's believed to be a
Speaker 1: rib injury. We don't know how serious it is, but
Speaker 1: I really think personally, regardless of that, Moore gave him
Speaker 1: a spark. He just seems like a better player at
Speaker 1: this stage, respective stage of their careers, and more showed
Speaker 1: what he can do, especially against the Jets. He kills
Speaker 1: the Jets well, they play Thursday night, so it's very
Speaker 1: unlikely Jay Cutler will be back for that game, so
Speaker 1: Matt Moore could start against the Ravens. Rap Sheet reported
Speaker 1: Cutler could potentially be back a week after that he
Speaker 1: has a rib injury. But you're right, if Matt Moore
Speaker 1: gets a win, you would think you just keep riding. Well,
Speaker 1: it's crazy though, real quickly, if they win on that,
Speaker 1: you could beat the Ravens potentially, that's not a huge ask.
Speaker 1: You're five and two after a season that fourteen days
Speaker 1: ago we were talking about as if it was a
Speaker 1: trash heap on fire. They should have lost this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, the sometimes teams get personalities, and the Jets
Speaker 1: right now are a team that can't hold a big lead,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are a team that gotta just be
Speaker 1: feeling themselves in these close games. This is now twelve
Speaker 1: straight one score victories by the Dolphins. So whether you
Speaker 1: think that's flukey or not, like their clutched, they have
Speaker 1: something where they know they know how to win these
Speaker 1: close games. And this game was a perfect encapsulation of
Speaker 1: both why Josh McCown has been in this league for
Speaker 1: fifteen years and counting and why he's also on his
Speaker 1: eighth team because again he finished with four touchdowns in
Speaker 1: this game. He threw three touchdowns ran for another over
Speaker 1: on balance, has given the Jets more than they could
Speaker 1: have ever asked for, and yet it's still in his
Speaker 1: d n a to do the things that bad quarterbacks do.
Speaker 1: And I know Jet fans are fired up. Basically, the
Speaker 1: turnover came. The Jets took over at their own fifteen
Speaker 1: uh with less than a minute to play and um
Speaker 1: first and ten from the fifteen, he throws a bad
Speaker 1: pass into his own coverage across his body that gets
Speaker 1: picked off and that ended the game. And it was just,
Speaker 1: you know, if this, if this was a bigger or
Speaker 1: a Jet season where you felt like they were real contenders,
Speaker 1: that would become like an all time bonner of this
Speaker 1: decade for the Jets. At throw it was that bad
Speaker 1: a throw in that spot. But mccount showed you the
Speaker 1: good and bad, and I just wondered three and four
Speaker 1: for the Jets if another couple of games getaway, and
Speaker 1: as we talked about, they got the Falcons next week.
Speaker 1: This is not an easy schedule for them. I wonder
Speaker 1: when they start thinking of going to check out the
Speaker 1: younger guys despite McCown having a nice season. We'll have
Speaker 1: to see how that plays out. But very frustrating game
Speaker 1: again for the Jets, who blew a fourteen point lead
Speaker 1: last week and now they blew another one this week
Speaker 1: and uh at three and four. Now it's one of
Speaker 1: those what might have been type situations. I think you
Speaker 1: stick with McCown. You already. If they're going to get
Speaker 1: a quarterback, it's in next year's draft. There's nothing more
Speaker 1: to see from Hackenburgh or Petty at this point. And
Speaker 1: this is a well coached team that is a long
Speaker 1: a lot of seasons ago. They can still wind up
Speaker 1: a seven or eight wins. You stay well coach, and
Speaker 1: I think Bowls has had a really nice year. But
Speaker 1: I do put it on the coaching when for the
Speaker 1: second straight week they came out of the locker room,
Speaker 1: and I'll give credit to Adam Gays and his staff
Speaker 1: for regrouping for a second straight week and figure out
Speaker 1: how to get this game back on track. That's composure,
Speaker 1: and that's being able to regroup in a hurry. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if Bowls has had the answers on
Speaker 1: defense or on offense. Well, here's the counterpoint, this same
Speaker 1: cast of characters are there a bunch of other NFL
Speaker 1: staffs would would be winless or have one or two wins.
Speaker 1: Tops the Dolphins. They are ugly and and I know
Speaker 1: Wes if he was here, would tell me stop honking
Speaker 1: about how this team is not out of it, which
Speaker 1: I have been saying since they're one and two, two
Speaker 1: and two. It's not that I think they're good, it's
Speaker 1: just that they can't like they have some pieces where
Speaker 1: they can play better, and now they have a four
Speaker 1: and two record along with that. And so you get
Speaker 1: Cameron Wake at two and a half sacks. You get
Speaker 1: in Dominans too, who had to hit on McCown on
Speaker 1: that fateful interception. Cameron Wake is playing outrageous. PFF put
Speaker 1: a stat up that basically, since they've started keeping track
Speaker 1: of their own stats, Cameron Wake gets the most pressures
Speaker 1: per snap of any player in the NFL. That's over
Speaker 1: the last ten years and he's still doing it at
Speaker 1: thirty five. And I don't know, maybe they can get
Speaker 1: a giant egoing. Maybe they can figure out how to
Speaker 1: play a little better on offen. It's not a great team,
Speaker 1: but maybe enough to win ten games and being a
Speaker 1: mix and they can sniff nine or ten wins. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're a very good team, but in a
Speaker 1: in a strange season is just shaping up. Can they
Speaker 1: get back to the playoffs? I think it's certainly possible.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to punt it away is Riley Dixon
Speaker 1: and the way it's low and it's WOBBLI takes a
Speaker 1: big bounce into the hands of Benjamin at the forty
Speaker 1: five Now at the forty still on his feet, nobody
Speaker 1: in front of him. Travis Benjamin on the numbers left
Speaker 1: sideline touchdown Chargers. Oh yeah, Matt money Smith with the
Speaker 1: call uh k l a C the Charges radio network.
Speaker 1: Travis Benjamin returned to first first quarter punt sixty five
Speaker 1: yards for a score. He later caught a forty two
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass uh in the fourth quarter, and the
Speaker 1: Chargers became the latest team to say sit down, be humble.
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos a twenty one to nothing, shut in at
Speaker 1: the step toe, the third shutout of this Sunday. How
Speaker 1: about that Chargers win, Greig, The Broncos were shut out
Speaker 1: for the first time since November. That little nugget from
Speaker 1: a disheartened John Marvel downstairs, big time Broncos fan. The charts, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: have won three straight and that defense is a big
Speaker 1: reason why the matchup that we talked about, you didn't
Speaker 1: need to be a genius going into it. Was Bosa
Speaker 1: and Ingram going up against these Broncos tackles and Botha
Speaker 1: especially just didn't allow the Broncos offense to operate like
Speaker 1: they were holding him every play. Sometimes it got called
Speaker 1: sometimes it didn't other times he's strip sacking Trevor Simeon.
Speaker 1: It was just like they couldn't operate. And then on
Speaker 1: the times that they could, Simeon was not making good throws,
Speaker 1: are good decisions, and the running game was absolutely bankrupt.
Speaker 1: It looks like C. J. Anderson was okay because he
Speaker 1: went ten for forty four in the end that that
Speaker 1: was in garbage time. They basically had no running game
Speaker 1: and no pass protection, and that's a that's a limited
Speaker 1: team you got right now. I feel like the offensive line,
Speaker 1: which after two weeks when they came out of that
Speaker 1: big win over the Cowboys, it looked like the line
Speaker 1: had taken a turn and was going to protect Simeon.
Speaker 1: They have sixteen sixteen, ten and zero points over the
Speaker 1: last four weeks, and you gotta are playing right tackle
Speaker 1: and so that's tough luck you're up against Joey Bosa,
Speaker 1: but that's just how it goes. And then for the Chargers,
Speaker 1: like I don't feel like they've played their best on offense,
Speaker 1: and yet they've won three games in a row. They're
Speaker 1: kind of the anti two thousand sixteen Chargers right now.
Speaker 1: Whereas I think their their record in their three game
Speaker 1: winning streak is misleading because they haven't really played that well,
Speaker 1: but they're finding they're finding ways to win. And a
Speaker 1: little love out to Hunter Henry, who only makes he
Speaker 1: is so good. I mean he is maybe the best
Speaker 1: pass catching tight end around in the league right now.
Speaker 1: Just like the tough grabs he makes third and eleven.
Speaker 1: Late in this game, Rivers throws it into tight coverage,
Speaker 1: he makes a catch that just about no other tight
Speaker 1: end makes, and they end up going for a game
Speaker 1: ceiling touchdown. I am concerned about their running game. They
Speaker 1: don't seem to have any sort of ability to keep
Speaker 1: it going from from week to week. I mean they
Speaker 1: had they had like five first downs in the first half.
Speaker 1: The total in this game was ridiculous. In terms of
Speaker 1: the offensive production. In general, the Chargers offense hasn't had
Speaker 1: anything consistent. Let's check in, by the way, with the
Speaker 1: team trev Express. Oh No, it sounds like a lot
Speaker 1: of fatalities and lives were lost in that accident. Hard
Speaker 1: to say there's gonna be any survivors. Greig, Greig, were
Speaker 1: you on that. I'm still on that. I'm not getting
Speaker 1: up When A j Derby, Benny Fowler and DeVante Booker
Speaker 1: your top three receivers. I'm not getting off, all right.
Speaker 1: I like that. See, even though West isn't here, I'd
Speaker 1: like to have somebody that stands by their conviction no
Speaker 1: matter what, even when mounting evidence says otherwise. I think
Speaker 1: he's a solid player who obviously is not a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback and is gonna be a function of the
Speaker 1: guys around him. And I think the entire offense is
Speaker 1: a mess, not a defense that hasn't been The defense
Speaker 1: has fault at all. I mean, you're talking about like
Speaker 1: Joe Montana four weeks ago, that's all. He's fine. Well,
Speaker 1: he looked like in four weeks and doing great. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm just being I'm sorry, Let's move on. Mccaffreda was right.
Speaker 1: Crowd making noise back to throw. The went busted up
Speaker 1: in the air by am tomorrow and intercepted by the
Speaker 1: Bears running down the sideline to the right side. Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson's got the forty of the Panthers and he's gonna
Speaker 1: go again. And as they touchdown touchdowns, had a second
Speaker 1: pick six in just about eighteen minutes of action here
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field. Oh, Eddie Jackson, have a day. The
Speaker 1: rookie safety became the first NFL player to score multiple
Speaker 1: defensive touchdowns of seventy five yards or more in a
Speaker 1: game that from the Associated Press, leading the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: to a seventeen three win over the Panthers. Whoa Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson have a day? This game was a John Fox
Speaker 1: fever dream for the Ages. His quarterback through just seven
Speaker 1: passes and the defense did all the dirty work. It
Speaker 1: ain't the greatest show on turf boys, but it did
Speaker 1: the trick and the Bears are frisky. I feel like
Speaker 1: John Fox should retire after this game. Like he's never
Speaker 1: gonna top it. He's like that, that's it, guys, Like
Speaker 1: that's the football. We had six in canon, we had
Speaker 1: six three in our so we went three and out
Speaker 1: five straight times. We only scored three points on offense
Speaker 1: and we won easy. Like that's my game. Mitchell Tropisky
Speaker 1: throwing the ball seven times all game and you only
Speaker 1: ran for sixty eight yards and you came out with
Speaker 1: a victory. That's putrid. You said it on Thursday Show
Speaker 1: that they need to let Mitchell Tropisky do more. They
Speaker 1: did not take your advice, but they didn't need to
Speaker 1: that they were putting nine in the box in the
Speaker 1: second half nine you know something to he was put
Speaker 1: eight in the box. They had nine in the box
Speaker 1: and they're just running three and outs on the Bears
Speaker 1: offense because the Bears were saying, we don't care, You're
Speaker 1: not gonna score on us. I mean, is that is
Speaker 1: their defense? Was their defense that good? If they were
Speaker 1: tremendous in this game? And you know, I think kim
Speaker 1: Neat Newton needs like another needless scandal to to do
Speaker 1: them because the last two weeks, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we're back to square one with this guy. And back
Speaker 1: in the early part of the season was like, oh,
Speaker 1: is he not healthy? But no, I just think he's
Speaker 1: been flummixed. Uh in back to back weeks by defenses
Speaker 1: that have had his number. He could not get anything going.
Speaker 1: Every time you looked up, the Panthers are punching the ball.
Speaker 1: It was over and where are we without moving? Where
Speaker 1: are we with Christian McCaffrey At this point, he seems
Speaker 1: like it is what it is. The numbers beared out
Speaker 1: when you look at the statute. He's not a guy
Speaker 1: that's been able to run between the tackles, and it's
Speaker 1: gotten to the point where they're not giving a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities to do that. And but he's a nice
Speaker 1: receiver and a great safety valve for them, and maybe
Speaker 1: they could even do more with him as a receiver.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure they have to be a little bit disappointed.
Speaker 1: Targeted nine times, he ends up with seven catches for
Speaker 1: thirty six yards, which is nice and fantasy, but it's
Speaker 1: not too efficient. But I really put this all, almost
Speaker 1: all of it on the scheme and the coaches and
Speaker 1: the offensive line because Jonathan Stewart, I don't think is
Speaker 1: totally washed up and he's not running for any parts.
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's not washed or washed up. You used
Speaker 1: was washed up, very versatile. I could you could use both,
Speaker 1: you can, but maybe he should have some, you know,
Speaker 1: stick with one. Why is that because then you give
Speaker 1: the listener a little confusion, I think Greg to surprise
Speaker 1: the listener. They can't they can't run the ball. I
Speaker 1: mean they're not They can't run the ball week after
Speaker 1: week after week, and this Panthers often. They also lost
Speaker 1: Trade Turner in this game to injury. They lost one
Speaker 1: of the Khalil's, if not both, I believe to injury.
Speaker 1: And so this offensive line, it's it's killing them. I
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's all on new and it's
Speaker 1: it's on everyone. They doubled up the Bears and yards.
Speaker 1: It's not like they were a total mess. It is
Speaker 1: very hard to figure out this Panthers team. Uh, They're
Speaker 1: kind of a microcosm for the NFL season because now
Speaker 1: I'm back to thinking that they they'll struggle to beat anybody.
Speaker 1: But then I wouldn't be surprised in the next three
Speaker 1: weeks they rip off a three game winning streak and
Speaker 1: score thirty points every week. It feels like seventeen weeks
Speaker 1: single seasons because so few of these teams do what
Speaker 1: you'd expect from week to week. The Bears, if nothing else,
Speaker 1: are kind of they are who they are every week
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's gonna put them in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But they their their defense is getting tougher. I mean,
Speaker 1: they had five first downs and they if you don't
Speaker 1: that often. I believe five could go down as the
Speaker 1: lowest first down total for any team all season. And
Speaker 1: they won the game comfortably. It was that's weird. This
Speaker 1: is this is one game I'm I'm not looking forward
Speaker 1: to watching On game pass. It was not a joy.
Speaker 1: I'll put it do. Mark. Sometimes, like the picks thinkers
Speaker 1: on Sunday, we know your your strategy so that it's
Speaker 1: not a game that you're gonna go back on game
Speaker 1: pass to watch, which makes sense because this would have
Speaker 1: been a good one for you to take. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: stuck having to deal with this probably forty to fifty
Speaker 1: minutes on a lost Monday. So there you go. Let's
Speaker 1: move on, jail backs. Murray gets the call. It's put
Speaker 1: supplemental well Tavius Murray rest for a hundred and thirteen
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown. Oh and Kai for Beth Kai's
Speaker 1: kaiky is gonna be Kai. He kicks six field goals
Speaker 1: to lift the Vikings over the Ravens. H Mark Sessler.
Speaker 1: The Ravens can't move the ball on offense. It's justin
Speaker 1: Tucker or bust and the always looked like a terrible
Speaker 1: matchup for them, And you know what, Yeah, it's one
Speaker 1: of those games where it played out sort of the
Speaker 1: way we probably would have seen it last week. And
Speaker 1: the you know, to say that every team is a
Speaker 1: week tweek proposition. Baltimore's issues on offense have been consistently
Speaker 1: actually Yeah, these two teams you kind of know what
Speaker 1: you're getting. They really are. And I think that the
Speaker 1: Vikings defense, you put what Joe Flacco had around him,
Speaker 1: and it's Joe Flacco's fault too. But when they lost
Speaker 1: Mike Wallace to a concussion early in the game, he's
Speaker 1: throwing the ball to Michael Campanero and got Griff Whale
Speaker 1: and back from the dead. Connor Or's old Madden guy.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's it's an offense that for everything
Speaker 1: that Ozzy knews some over the years has done perfectly,
Speaker 1: it feels like they cannot get out of their way
Speaker 1: in terms of developing a roster that can compete right
Speaker 1: now because Flacco can is not a guy that can
Speaker 1: do it on his own. He's not well protected. I mean,
Speaker 1: they went Adam and it's like Minnesota's pass rutch, which
Speaker 1: will would play Cleveland in London next week and should
Speaker 1: roll in that game. They are built to go deep
Speaker 1: into the NFC playoffs if the offense can hang around,
Speaker 1: and they did just enough on offense today. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a game for me and the rest of the
Speaker 1: Kai for Bath fan club here six vehicles call him
Speaker 1: Kai six Bath. You know, what I'm saying, take up
Speaker 1: the T shirts. I was not aware that you were
Speaker 1: also while you were driving this Trevor Simeon bus leading
Speaker 1: the Kai Bath fan base. But that's that's good for
Speaker 1: you up without downstairs in the newsroom, and he got
Speaker 1: to use it at some point. The whole reason I
Speaker 1: was just sitting and listening during the segment was how
Speaker 1: is Greg gonna work his old Kai six bath into
Speaker 1: the convo? Yeah? I did it. You told me to
Speaker 1: tweet it out and said no, let's save that jem
Speaker 1: for the podcast listener's Kai six bath. Kai Kai is
Speaker 1: gonna be Kai. The Vikings have managed this schedule. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's kind of amazing without Stefon Diggs in this game,
Speaker 1: and of course without Dalvin Cook and you've got you
Speaker 1: were just used to case Keenum right now that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be favored to go six and two next week
Speaker 1: against the Brown. It's nice to a lot of teams
Speaker 1: have injuries. They don't handle it, they're handlet. Did I
Speaker 1: ever tell my Kai's Kai story? I'll tell it real quick, please.
Speaker 1: I won't say what where this happened because I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to tattle on anyone. But
Speaker 1: I just want to say that I was talking to
Speaker 1: someone that I had never met before. This is in
Speaker 1: the last eighteen months or so, and somehow my job
Speaker 1: came up that I worked at the NFL, and then
Speaker 1: this individual said, oh, do you know Kai for Bath?
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, he's a kicker. He was out
Speaker 1: of work at the time. And I was like, what
Speaker 1: team is he on now? And all right, now he's
Speaker 1: a free agent. I was like, oh, cool, cool, How
Speaker 1: do you know he's blank? Blank blank? That's how I
Speaker 1: know him? Can't I don't want to give any details.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, what's and I was just killing times,
Speaker 1: like what's he like? He is a good guys? Like
Speaker 1: or he or she was like, kis Kai? It's never
Speaker 1: a good sign. By the way, if never a good
Speaker 1: sign when when you get Mike's Mike that is yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it might be a damna check observation,
Speaker 1: but almost always when someone think it's all Corolla reference,
Speaker 1: it usually means that person is a but it's not
Speaker 1: a positive no phrase. But by the way, if Kai,
Speaker 1: if he has any sort of detective spirit in him,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to figure out who this was.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I feel like I covered up
Speaker 1: the tracks pretty well, but maybe maybe I don't want to.
Speaker 1: You know, just think that he can't figure it out
Speaker 1: because you know, Kai's guy might hear about it three
Speaker 1: or four weeks from now this. Uh are we still talking?
Speaker 1: I don't even know how are we talking about? Just
Speaker 1: this Ravens offense. Forget it. It's crazy, it's a bad
Speaker 1: division and they're not going to get out of it.
Speaker 1: It's like a It's It's one thing to have young
Speaker 1: players and have it in an offense like this, it's
Speaker 1: another to have this veteran bunch of castops from other
Speaker 1: teams doing it. UM, all right, and that's it for
Speaker 1: the Sunday Flagship Show. A couple of things I want
Speaker 1: to The official announcement came down today that UM, justin
Speaker 1: Timberlake will he headline the Pepsi Super Bowl fifty two
Speaker 1: halftime show and Mini Minneapolis. Uh. Timber Lake, of course,
Speaker 1: UH previously headlined two other Super Bowls and uh the
Speaker 1: UM did you press release announcing uh? This announcement. UM
Speaker 1: adds that timber Lake has also appeared in Alpha Dog,
Speaker 1: Black Snake Bone, and Shrek the Third So a big
Speaker 1: career for Justin timber Lake and a big announcement he's
Speaker 1: doing the super Bowl. This is not a Justin timber
Speaker 1: Lake song, but it kind of sounds like a Justin
Speaker 1: timber Yeah. I mean it's it's as far as we
Speaker 1: can go, right, swize, We've gotten pretty close. Yeah, anybody
Speaker 1: excited about this? My wife, you know, she she was
Speaker 1: definitely out on possibly going to a Minnesota super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but when she heard j TS involved, she's bring her
Speaker 1: back in. She might, she might come, which seems strange
Speaker 1: for a fifteen minute halftime shows a lot of work. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's a real chore to go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So that's that's admirable in her part to be to
Speaker 1: be willing to do so. I've always wanted to see
Speaker 1: the star of Alpha Dog in person, so you can excited.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite timber Lake song? Um? I like the
Speaker 1: one the summertime song that we talked about a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago because my son Colton absolutely loves it.
Speaker 1: I can't stop the feeling he loves that song, So
Speaker 1: I I'm fine with that. That was a song of
Speaker 1: the summer. We had that conversation. I remember West got
Speaker 1: fired up about that because he hated that song. Yeah
Speaker 1: it's not a good song. But and whether it's good
Speaker 1: or not, at least that's a somewhat recent Fulton's musical taste.
Speaker 1: Now my kids love today. I'm not a I'm not
Speaker 1: a child six year old, I'm not a child. Um anyway,
Speaker 1: So timber Lakes doing the halftime show, one last note
Speaker 1: before we go behind the glass, just checking in. Uh
Speaker 1: is the great uh Lacid H of course was a
Speaker 1: mount Rushmore producer for us has now moved on UH
Speaker 1: to b y U. She returned to the homeland in Utah.
Speaker 1: Uh and of course UH, as sids want to do,
Speaker 1: in a charming way, delivered a beautiful sign that we
Speaker 1: are now hanging here in the studio around the NFL,
Speaker 1: A room filled with heroes will tweet out a picture.
Speaker 1: But Sydney, good to see you again. We're so happy
Speaker 1: to see you. Hey, guys, I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Stopped by. Really, I heard the news about the newsdrop
Speaker 1: and I got on the first plane though. Wow, we
Speaker 1: threw up the sid signal and she talked to some
Speaker 1: shadowy league figures about this, and she just waltzed into
Speaker 1: the news room as we were, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: stepping and and just surprised us. And it was like stunning.
Speaker 1: It was a stunning surprise and a great and she
Speaker 1: tried to sell it as like you know, back in
Speaker 1: southern California, couldn't wait to see you guys. But we
Speaker 1: know the real story, which is that she was starting
Speaker 1: to have the shakes because she hadn't been seeing her
Speaker 1: her friend Mickey Mouse and down in Disney for too long.
Speaker 1: I've been looking for You'll be sorry if you don't
Speaker 1: come at least once every six weeks. I'm really glad
Speaker 1: I came back to that. Just took an uber from
Speaker 1: disney Land up here today. So great to see and
Speaker 1: hear from the great law, said one woman mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1: And now the ceremonial transfer of the headset to Lindsay Fulton,
Speaker 1: who is of course doing amazing work as well, uh
Speaker 1: as our new producer. Why don't we get out of here?
Speaker 1: Uh for the day Hi showed us. HI show is
Speaker 1: Dan Hans signing off for Quiet Storm? Uh, Nick Shook,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, the old boss, Lindsay Faulton and last hid
Speaker 1: behind the glass until Tuesday