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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,
Speaker 1: presented by New Era. My name is Dan Hansas. Joined
Speaker 1: in room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. What is up, boys? We have some football
Speaker 1: to talk about this morning. And isn't that exciting? Mr? Sessler?
Speaker 1: It is west and I were here last night covering
Speaker 1: these games, and I kind of feel like I missed
Speaker 1: the vibe of covering six or seven games all at once.
Speaker 1: It was quite fun. I think um d J. Moore's
Speaker 1: catch and run where he looked like parts Percy Harvin
Speaker 1: really put me in the Football movie a year. That's
Speaker 1: like the flow of the preseason. Like two tweets stand
Speaker 1: out to me. With the preseason. There's there's like seventeen
Speaker 1: different days where people are like football is back, like
Speaker 1: it's there's all these difference like now they're tackling, now
Speaker 1: they're at O T A. The other last night was
Speaker 1: one of the nights, and then another one was just
Speaker 1: kind of like the flow of the preseason. You're always
Speaker 1: excited for the first week and then by the time
Speaker 1: you get to the third week, which is actually the
Speaker 1: one that matters. Then people really aren't paying that close
Speaker 1: at the very quickly. But it was August was how
Speaker 1: is how did Mark West? Had Mark handled the newsroom ester?
Speaker 1: I thought he handled it really well, That's what really was.
Speaker 1: It was not annoyed, was not on edge. I saw
Speaker 1: people even come to him and you know how he
Speaker 1: doesn't like people like wanting to do water cool to
Speaker 1: talk about the Browns. He handled it well. People stopped
Speaker 1: by and he wasn't like you didn't see him noticeably
Speaker 1: on edge or anything. He didn't. He wasn't tense in
Speaker 1: the shoulders. No. I thought Mark handled it very well.
Speaker 1: The newsroom in general was well behaved for the most
Speaker 1: part last night. There were some disruptions this morning that
Speaker 1: felt like on your radar. There is I will say
Speaker 1: there are um one or two new found presences in
Speaker 1: our newsroom that I that are on that are on
Speaker 1: my radar, just to monitor radar in a big way.
Speaker 1: And in fact though these these new people and I think, listen,
Speaker 1: let's keep it real, it's really one person. And I think,
Speaker 1: without saying who it is, that person better hope this
Speaker 1: Brown season does not go sideways. There's a lot riding
Speaker 1: on a lot of things. Uh, to your point, grag
Speaker 1: and and and to just speaking about the excitement of
Speaker 1: actual football, even if it doesn't count. This from Lindsay Rhodes,
Speaker 1: we gotta get back in the studio um of NFL Network.
Speaker 1: The top seventeen US trends right now are NFL related
Speaker 1: for preseason games in which almost no starters are still playing.
Speaker 1: So people like football. Despite some people like to lead
Speaker 1: you in in a different direction. People don't like football
Speaker 1: as much anymore. People no longer are into football. They
Speaker 1: they have changed your viewpoint on football is okay. I
Speaker 1: did see four or five trends centered around regular season
Speaker 1: Major league baseball in there too, though, was what after
Speaker 1: the seventeen No, I'm kidding. I didn't not see anything
Speaker 1: about baseball. You know it was because it's at the
Speaker 1: top seventeen. No, I'm saying that I was suggesting that
Speaker 1: actually five of those you know, some baseball snuck in. No,
Speaker 1: Baseball stuck in. No, it was noticeable by its absence
Speaker 1: through four or five hours in the newsroom last night
Speaker 1: covering all these games. I didn't hear the helmet role once.
Speaker 1: It was a Hall of Fame thing, and then there
Speaker 1: wasn't injection, which I think that had happened in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game, it would have stood out. But
Speaker 1: you're right, there wasn't for for using Marco Thomas. Marco
Speaker 1: Thomas and Frank Reich of the quotes said after the game,
Speaker 1: that was absolutely the right call. We shouldn't have hit
Speaker 1: like that. We'll have to teach him up because it
Speaker 1: seemed like a pretty clear call. But it's just something
Speaker 1: new that someone will get kicked out of the game
Speaker 1: for a hit. Okay, So we're gonna keep it simplier.
Speaker 1: There were twelve games played on Thursday night. I ever
Speaker 1: heard of such a preseason night. My beloved Jets played tonight,
Speaker 1: and I guess a small and full of other teams
Speaker 1: well as well, but most teams played on Thursday. So
Speaker 1: we're just gonna go through each of the games and share, uh,
Speaker 1: first and foremost, the final score, and just kind of
Speaker 1: take a look at where the standings are in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Who's out to a hot start, who maybe is all
Speaker 1: of a sudden in a sneaky must win place entering
Speaker 1: week two. So let's just get into it. Let's go
Speaker 1: through each game and uh, we'll start. Why don't we
Speaker 1: hit up one of the big rookie hot shots. So
Speaker 1: let's go to Buffalo, where the Carolina Panthers and Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills began their preseasons. And you know what, even before
Speaker 1: the game, some fireworks. You know, you've got hard knocks
Speaker 1: and and all that excitement. But how about a little
Speaker 1: buzz between Cam Newton and Kelvin Benjamin, a reporter happened
Speaker 1: to be was lucky enough to be on the field
Speaker 1: right when Cam approached Kelvin Benjamin. Cam had a look
Speaker 1: of you know, a bit of a look of confrontation
Speaker 1: and stuck his hand out and Benjamin kind of blew
Speaker 1: off the handshake. Uh So this of course comes after
Speaker 1: uh Benjamin had bad mouth Cam and and said he
Speaker 1: essentially was holding his career back. So fun, little saucy
Speaker 1: soap opera there to get into this game. I thought
Speaker 1: Cam handled it well. I liked seeing that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I noticed that he Bejaman did not handle it. No,
Speaker 1: he didn't. I noticed Cam and just casually dismissed the
Speaker 1: third player hanging under periphery. It was Thomas Davis. The
Speaker 1: here he was like, get out of here. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: get out of here. You know what, you know, this
Speaker 1: confrontation is coming, and I thought Cam handled it well.
Speaker 1: He handled it strongly, and Colvin Benjamin sort of danced
Speaker 1: around and tried to get away. Well, and it's if
Speaker 1: you're Benjamin, you started this publicly, speak to the man,
Speaker 1: and you well, right, and you're the one now holding
Speaker 1: on to the grudge or whatever's going on here, and
Speaker 1: so it's a much heavier weight on Calvin Benjamin. I
Speaker 1: thought Cam Newton did what he could do in that situa.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot of courage and just to be
Speaker 1: a man to walk up to someone you've said this
Speaker 1: about me, Let's sort it out face to face, and
Speaker 1: Benjamin shrugs him off. Please all right, So let's we'll
Speaker 1: get to the Panthers side of it, but let's start
Speaker 1: with the Bills and Josh Allen, because Alan uh is
Speaker 1: a guy that we were told West has all the
Speaker 1: tools in the world, including an arm that is pretty
Speaker 1: much unmatched, and we saw that in this game. He
Speaker 1: wasn't perfect. His stats were very close to being outrageous
Speaker 1: because he just missed on a couple of deep bombs.
Speaker 1: But this guy, you can understand why Bills fans have
Speaker 1: a lot of excitement after one preseason game. I thought
Speaker 1: he came as advertised. He electrified the crowd. He is
Speaker 1: an eye catching, arresting talent to watch. And um, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever seen a player come into
Speaker 1: the league as a top ten draft pick and already
Speaker 1: been written off by such a large segment of the
Speaker 1: football watching public as a bust before he even ever
Speaker 1: plays a game. I thought he looked very promising. His
Speaker 1: arm strength is undeniable, he's raw, There's certain things he
Speaker 1: has to work on, and maybe he won't start in
Speaker 1: Week one. But if I'm a Bills fan watching this game,
Speaker 1: I am. I am in trance, bordering on hopeful. Well
Speaker 1: and it and it translates because the television share in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: this Buffalo Bills preseason game and its spiked when Josh
Speaker 1: Allen took the field is the highest rated television show
Speaker 1: in Western New York all summer. And it speaks to
Speaker 1: the drought their quarterback wise, the fascination around a guy
Speaker 1: whose armed talent. You can talk about Jay Cutler, Matthew Stafford. Well, no,
Speaker 1: but the ball coming out of Josh Allen's hands just
Speaker 1: looks completely almost like science fiction to me. And by
Speaker 1: the way, we were this this quarterback room getting ripped
Speaker 1: on all summer and it's one preseason performance. All three
Speaker 1: of them performed pretty well. Nathan Peterman nine for nine
Speaker 1: nineteen yards on a touchdown, A J. Mccaren seven ten
Speaker 1: for one sixteen So yes, everyone looked pretty good. Calvin
Speaker 1: Benjamin with a pretty great touchdown celebration jumping into the
Speaker 1: crowd backwards. I mean, I appreciated that the Josh Allen
Speaker 1: showed a little bit of everything. Each owed not being
Speaker 1: totally composed, but he also made great throws. They didn't
Speaker 1: score their first four or five possessions with him, but
Speaker 1: it's with third teamers. That's all you're looking for, is
Speaker 1: what Chris said. I think in a preseason game, because
Speaker 1: you're not gonna draw these huge conclusions. The fact that
Speaker 1: he had two or three passes that were beautes and
Speaker 1: for the most part just handled himself, well, it's like,
Speaker 1: great that let's move on to the next one. I mean, effortlely,
Speaker 1: effortlessly throws the ball seventy yards. Well, you have to
Speaker 1: go go back about fifty years for this comparison. But stylistically,
Speaker 1: I told you this last night. Mark. He throws the
Speaker 1: ball and moves like Greg Cook, the Bengals legend who
Speaker 1: was injured his rookie year after one of the greatest
Speaker 1: rookie years of all time, and Bill Walsh has said
Speaker 1: this guy is the greatest talent ever to play the position.
Speaker 1: He throws the ball and moves like Greg Cook. Um.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because he hasn't gotten first team reps over
Speaker 1: the last week, week and a half, so I will
Speaker 1: be curious to see if that changes, if they give
Speaker 1: him any better of a chance to actually win this
Speaker 1: starting job, because right now he's not. He hasn't been
Speaker 1: playing with the starters. West Cam Newton got a little
Speaker 1: bit of playing time, finished with a completion percentage right
Speaker 1: around sixty seven percent. Back in May, you laughed at
Speaker 1: NORV saying he can get Newton in the high sixties.
Speaker 1: So perhaps it's time for you to eat a little
Speaker 1: crow yesterday. Yeah, if we're judging after one preseason game,
Speaker 1: NORV comes out on the winning end there, Like you're right,
Speaker 1: Just seeing that one or a couple of those plays
Speaker 1: from DJ Moore just makes you excited to watch d
Speaker 1: J Moore. That was like, that was my number one
Speaker 1: takeaway of the night. As much as Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and Antonio Callaway looked good, d J. Moore
Speaker 1: with that move that you just don't see from many
Speaker 1: NFL players. Let's move on and uh take a look
Speaker 1: at Andrew Luck. He played. He played a football game,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, West. Luck played in his first game
Speaker 1: since the finale of the twenty sixteen season, and uh
Speaker 1: didn't do much six of nine sixty four yards, but
Speaker 1: also did did something which I think is more important
Speaker 1: even than throwing the ball. He took a couple of
Speaker 1: hits and showed no signs of issues with the injured
Speaker 1: shoulder or the repaired shoulder. Yeah. Quite the contrast with
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, who really let it rip on several different
Speaker 1: throws and was unafraid to go attack down the field.
Speaker 1: Luck either didn't have the opportunity or just didn't pull
Speaker 1: the trigger on on those letter rip throws that would
Speaker 1: have shown you, like a huge confidence in his shoulder.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, there were no plays where you
Speaker 1: didn't feel confident in his shoulder. And he said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel good about more of the short
Speaker 1: in the medium game than I do about trying to
Speaker 1: throw deep balls. It's not a physical limitation. It sounds
Speaker 1: like that still might be knocking the rust off mentally
Speaker 1: on that he he said after the game, I tried
Speaker 1: to control my emotions. Then I said, screw it. I
Speaker 1: really had fun. I enjoyed it, just like his joy
Speaker 1: of playing and having it being taken away from him.
Speaker 1: That we're getting into intangibles here, But you do wonder
Speaker 1: he's a he's a more mature guy since this injury,
Speaker 1: he's been in the league a while. You do wonder
Speaker 1: just how that all comes together and whether that's gonna
Speaker 1: maybe help him have like a better year than ever.
Speaker 1: Just had like enjoying the process of it and knowing
Speaker 1: how lucky is to be back. Anything From the Seattle side,
Speaker 1: Chris Carson looked good. He he looks good always in
Speaker 1: the preseason, and we haven't talked about on this podcast,
Speaker 1: but he has been the starting running back throughout training
Speaker 1: camp over Rashad Penny, their first round pick. They're also
Speaker 1: playing Trey Flowers, who's a rookie cornerback as a starter
Speaker 1: right now. He played there's another Tray Flowers. There's another
Speaker 1: Tree Flowers, except no, why on the end of Trey uh.
Speaker 1: So they have They have more starting jobs open, I
Speaker 1: think than any other team in the league right now,
Speaker 1: running back, wide receiver, a lot of their offensive lines,
Speaker 1: some of the defensive line. That's how Carol likes it,
Speaker 1: like cornerback, he does. And then the Colts. The Colts
Speaker 1: one quick thing is just that keeping it like they've
Speaker 1: lost their left tackle, Anthony Costanzo. They're playing Matt Haigue
Speaker 1: u Joe Haigue rather at left tackle. Who who's their
Speaker 1: backup center? Who is playing center most of the game
Speaker 1: left tackle for part of it. They picked up JaMarcus
Speaker 1: Webb luck got sacked when he blew a block, and
Speaker 1: so that you do get a little worried that it's well.
Speaker 1: They also lost Marlon Mack went down and Dion Kane
Speaker 1: left with the knee injury. Just an injuries to monitor.
Speaker 1: When you say they lost costan it's at hamstring injuries.
Speaker 1: Not like they lost him for the season, no, but
Speaker 1: he missed almost the entire offseason with that hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: got activated and then got hurt two days later. So
Speaker 1: he has been coming back from that for about six months.
Speaker 1: And that's if I'm a Colts fan, that freaks me
Speaker 1: out because they don't really have a backup. And then
Speaker 1: Philip Walker added a ten yard touchdown past the Darryl
Speaker 1: Daniels early in the fourth quarter they needed it. Indianapolis
Speaker 1: held on for a nineteen seventeen win Philip Walkers And
Speaker 1: that's a big win. If you can go to if
Speaker 1: you can go on the road to the clink and
Speaker 1: come out with a victory, that's how you get your
Speaker 1: preseason started off correctly in the momentum to carry you
Speaker 1: through the next three weeks. I finished, and this is
Speaker 1: not the same defense, I understand it. But when you
Speaker 1: can go into Seattle, you make a state. Well the
Speaker 1: think about the previ it's kind of like college football
Speaker 1: almost boiled down. Even further, it's like every game matters
Speaker 1: because when you're oh and one, your season's almost over.
Speaker 1: For the Seahawks, their backs are right now against the wall.
Speaker 1: They four, They're a quarter of the way to infamy.
Speaker 1: Um Alright, moving on, the Chicago Bears and Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: played football, and West I'm gonna tee up again here
Speaker 1: because I know you are a lapsed uh Catholic. You're
Speaker 1: also a lapsed Bengals fan, so I wanted to see.
Speaker 1: You often laugh at the Bengals and and their putriot
Speaker 1: offense last season, but this team, forging about the pick six,
Speaker 1: this team looks like they're going to be able to
Speaker 1: move the ball. Yes or no, I would use recovered
Speaker 1: rather than lapsed in both of those instances. But yes,
Speaker 1: the Bengals offense looked good. The pick six came on
Speaker 1: a plane which John Ross slipped and fell and would
Speaker 1: not have been an interception otherwise. Is that's not even
Speaker 1: that's just bad luck. That's not even Andy Dalton doing
Speaker 1: anything wrong. So to me, they moved the ball well.
Speaker 1: John Ross looked good. Joe Mixing had a play a
Speaker 1: touchdown where he slipped the tackle, did a spin move,
Speaker 1: slipped another tackle, uh and got in for the score.
Speaker 1: This this looks like a much better offense than last year.
Speaker 1: It's almost like you look around the entire a f
Speaker 1: C North and Pittsburgh is gonna stay obviously what they are.
Speaker 1: But I thought the Bengals and Ravens last year had
Speaker 1: obvious issues on offense, and we're tough to watch at times.
Speaker 1: Cleveland was a raging disaster. All three teams of the
Speaker 1: all of those three teams in the FC North have
Speaker 1: a lot more going on in offense. It feels like
Speaker 1: a division that's going to produce another three playoff teams again,
Speaker 1: and I based that entirely on preseason games from last night.
Speaker 1: Mixon and the offensive Lion. The combination of those two improving,
Speaker 1: which I think they both will, changes everything for Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton and the rest of the team. My one Bears takeaway,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly what this means, but Kevin White
Speaker 1: was targeted twice on the opening drive, so maybe they're
Speaker 1: seeing him as a guy who has a chance to start.
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinsky didn't play in the first week. They had
Speaker 1: one negative one yard in eight plays with him on
Speaker 1: the field. He was not happy with that offense and
Speaker 1: he's had some struggles and training. I don't think we
Speaker 1: nervous now. I don't think they bayed him. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he only played eight play up for four or
Speaker 1: four yards, sacked once into missing a couple of the starters.
Speaker 1: Adam Sheehan, who is just a big dude, uh, and
Speaker 1: they seem to be talking him up as a guy
Speaker 1: that could have a big part of their offense. Look
Speaker 1: pretty good at the big assumption in this offseason. As
Speaker 1: we know the Bears have been hype bunnies, is that
Speaker 1: they're going to kind of follow on some level the
Speaker 1: Rams path. But that a lot of that hinges on
Speaker 1: Mitch Drobinsky being able to do with Jared Goff did
Speaker 1: last year, which is to take all the rookie bumps
Speaker 1: and then just become a much more complete quarterback. We
Speaker 1: have to see if he can pull that, and he's
Speaker 1: a year ago this time. He was kind of like
Speaker 1: the Josh Allen that the foball cogniscenti wrote off before
Speaker 1: his career even started. It's just the pause cognisance. One
Speaker 1: note here. The Bengals off to a one of note
Speaker 1: start here in the preseason. If you remember, I believe
Speaker 1: it was some sort of Sandwich wager where I believe
Speaker 1: that I said five teams would finish undefeated in the preseason,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals are one of those teams that I'm
Speaker 1: tracking to A commis half. You're gonna have half the
Speaker 1: league after the first week, so that's pretty that. I'm
Speaker 1: off to a fine Roquan Smith has been holding out ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's really ridiculous. It's the Bears. I'm laing the man
Speaker 1: making millions to play a boy's game. Now I'm blaming
Speaker 1: the Bears. I think we need like a low level
Speaker 1: mafia figure to get in here, the agent to do something.
Speaker 1: You making billions of football team, go back, mafia man,
Speaker 1: we did. We need a functioning. We need a licensed
Speaker 1: agent to step in and handle this. Thank you, Cincinnati
Speaker 1: thirty Bears seven. Moving on, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and
Speaker 1: Miami Dobbins showed up show showdown with the state of
Speaker 1: Florida on the line. It was speaking of return to
Speaker 1: action Ryan Tannehill, who we have not seen about the eggs.
Speaker 1: They're you know, they're just chilling. Yes, bye, Jack's gotta
Speaker 1: buy anyway, Ryan townehill first game actions is December eleven.
Speaker 1: Where were you? Mark? Probably unhappy about the brown It's
Speaker 1: like feels like three weeks ago. Well here, slightly annoyed
Speaker 1: with a lot of things. Anyway. Uh. He in limited
Speaker 1: work of course, four of six thirty two yards only
Speaker 1: one series. But Greg, that's that's all you're looking for.
Speaker 1: A guy coming back from a major knee injury. He
Speaker 1: got down the field, check off some rust and is healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that everything so far, He's checked all the boxes. The problem.
Speaker 1: I'm more worried about everything around him. I mean, because
Speaker 1: he's not a guy that's gonna lift up the players
Speaker 1: around him. DeVante Parker's reportedly had a really bad training
Speaker 1: camp and dominated by Xavier Howard. He was absent, like David,
Speaker 1: David fails and is beating brock Oswiler for the backup
Speaker 1: job right now. So there's I think there's concerns, and
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins fans share it because if you
Speaker 1: looked in the crowd last night they announced thirty thousand,
Speaker 1: that place looked empty. And the scrimmage that they had
Speaker 1: last weekend, which definitely raised some eyebrows for locals, had
Speaker 1: about like four or five thousand people show up for
Speaker 1: like a free scrimmage, and that's the type of thing
Speaker 1: in a big in a big NFL town, You're getting
Speaker 1: thirty you know, of course, like Lambo's literally packed out
Speaker 1: months in advance with that sort of thing, and they
Speaker 1: got five thousand, and last night was I'm just there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of buzz right So when we were
Speaker 1: growing up, I mean, Miami has been played. They're sort
Speaker 1: of like Los Angeles, but they're in It's August and
Speaker 1: South beach. There's are you gonna go to a two
Speaker 1: d degree hot Dolphins scrimmage? You're gonna go to the
Speaker 1: beach and have that kind of a time. I'd go,
Speaker 1: I'd make go do that, go to all the hot nightclub.
Speaker 1: Well that too, make a whole day of it. It's
Speaker 1: a weird sports down and they the Marlins draw like
Speaker 1: people game the Dolphins seems the Dolphins fourth quarter, but
Speaker 1: I think right now they're not an inspiring I think
Speaker 1: the Heat do pretty well there, but obviously with Lebron
Speaker 1: it was different. But uh yeah, anyway, something the track
Speaker 1: on the Bucks side, I just will throw it out
Speaker 1: there that uh, because you know I'm plugged in on
Speaker 1: the kicker situation for all thirty two. Uh. They had
Speaker 1: three kickers last year the Bucks, including our boy Robbie
Speaker 1: uh and Folk. Both of those guys are Histy Chandler Canazaro,
Speaker 1: who did a nice job for the Jets last year,
Speaker 1: but let's not go crazy, got a lot of money
Speaker 1: from the Bucks to solidify the position. He immediately misses
Speaker 1: an extra point and a fifty yard field goal, so
Speaker 1: you know, let's hope that maybe he won the gate.
Speaker 1: He won the preseason game in Did I miss? Did
Speaker 1: I miss that? He won the I think he hit
Speaker 1: the game winner. By the way, Ronald Jones, I don't
Speaker 1: feel bad. I mean, he still missed a couple of kicks,
Speaker 1: but yeah, how long is the kick? Come on, that's
Speaker 1: an extra point. That's less than an extra point. Did
Speaker 1: we want to see a little more from Ronald Jones?
Speaker 1: Eight rushes for nine yards? No, that's exactly what they
Speaker 1: were hoping for. Okay, well, good job Ronald Jones. Starting
Speaker 1: three rookies in the secondary right now. That secondary has
Speaker 1: been one of the worst in the league, and they
Speaker 1: are counting on a pair of rookies at cornerback and
Speaker 1: maybe one it's safety to play some significant snaps. To
Speaker 1: your point, to a couple, it is weird to roll
Speaker 1: out Jamis Winston second in these games. It's just strange.
Speaker 1: It's just an awkward You don't see this in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Um all right now, this is why Mark is here today.
Speaker 1: Third and four, Mayfield for the bullet away and the
Speaker 1: touchdown Baker Mayfield to Antonio Callaway seventy yards? Was it
Speaker 1: believe it was? What a big time fifty six yards? Uh?
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns got two touchdown passes from the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick Baker Mayfield in a win over the Giants,
Speaker 1: and Mark I would imagine, Uh, that combined with Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor looking really good, is a perfect way to start
Speaker 1: your preseason. Well, I mean, you know, the staff that
Speaker 1: they've thrown around endlessly is the Cleveland has what eleven
Speaker 1: first round picks that they've that are no longer on
Speaker 1: the team, so that the customary experience is around game one,
Speaker 1: two or three of the preseason, if not deep in September,
Speaker 1: you realize this guy is not who we thought he was,
Speaker 1: or the team thought he was, or the fleet of
Speaker 1: scouts thought he was when picked. And so the Mayfield
Speaker 1: comes out and produces a quick three and out right away,
Speaker 1: and I thought, all right, you know, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: you know this. It's a little early to to judge.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't inspiring. The second drive, though, he started
Speaker 1: to show what I thought was drive extending abilities, which
Speaker 1: was seeing the field. Uh, not just looking off your
Speaker 1: first guy, which a rookie might do in his first game,
Speaker 1: but maybe he's throwing to the second or third option
Speaker 1: to Uh. I thought, brainy kind of choices to run
Speaker 1: the ball out of the pocket and extend and and
Speaker 1: get and move the chains on a third down in
Speaker 1: a critical fourth down and really making it a touchdown.
Speaker 1: A couple throws on that try, but the touchdown throw
Speaker 1: to David Njoku was put into place where no one
Speaker 1: but David and Joku could catch it. It was a
Speaker 1: perfectly placed ball, and you know, we're covering the game
Speaker 1: and it's happening so fast we're writing it up. I
Speaker 1: thought that Brian Balding or bald he put together a
Speaker 1: reel this morning of what he saw and he called
Speaker 1: it one of the better preseason performances he's ever seen
Speaker 1: by rookie quarterback. So I clicked in obviously to see
Speaker 1: what was going on there. But he really I thought
Speaker 1: elucidated with each of these throws that Baker Millfield is
Speaker 1: in a different place than any previous Browns rookie that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen since maybe Bernie Kozar. I love it.
Speaker 1: Just his ability to see the field and what he's
Speaker 1: doing feels like I think he's been taught very well
Speaker 1: from the college game on up versus previous quarterbacks they've
Speaker 1: had like a Johnny Man's Like the last thing you
Speaker 1: think watching him is he's coming from sort of some
Speaker 1: offense that doesn't translate to the NFL. It's the total opposite.
Speaker 1: He looks so comfortable his footwork, like his feet are
Speaker 1: just awesome to watch. I mean, I'm kind of with Baldy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just a preseason game. But
Speaker 1: that's what you want to see is some things that
Speaker 1: just make you excited. And I can't imagine like getting
Speaker 1: more excited off than off of that performance. And Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor five or five for ninety nine yards and that
Speaker 1: we know what we're getting in Tyrod Taylor, like he's
Speaker 1: he is a steady guy. And I tweeted this last night.
Speaker 1: God has a sense of humor. The I believe in
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. I know who Tyrod Taylor's. They have two
Speaker 1: competent quarterbacks, this coming off twenty years where they had zero.
Speaker 1: So now the decision is for Hugh. And by the way,
Speaker 1: let me just make a quick aside. I don't think
Speaker 1: in the court of public opinion that the Hard Knocks
Speaker 1: premiere was on balance good for the Browns. I thought,
Speaker 1: especially Hugh Jackson took a lot of fire. It was
Speaker 1: nice for them now to have this preseason game where
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks look great, all of a sudden, you know
Speaker 1: it's not open season on your Brownies mark because they
Speaker 1: again you look at them agin like, oh wow, this
Speaker 1: might be a team with a future. The decision now
Speaker 1: for Hugh Jackson is how long do you wait before
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is a starter, because if he continues to
Speaker 1: look good, just like with the Jets and Donald, if
Speaker 1: the young kid looks good, what what what are you
Speaker 1: waiting for? Yeah? I mean, I think it's the kind
Speaker 1: of decision if you're an NFL coach you'd much rather
Speaker 1: have than what they've been faced with in that city
Speaker 1: for years and years. And they'll figure that out. But
Speaker 1: I mean, when you have a good quarterback. One thing
Speaker 1: that I noticed, because watching a lot of these skill
Speaker 1: position players in Cleveland that have just been there and
Speaker 1: they're floating through the year, that a guy like David
Speaker 1: the Joke who suddenly has two touchdowns and looks athletic
Speaker 1: and is in the right place, and Antonio Callaway looked fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's like a quarterback that knows where to put the ball,
Speaker 1: everyone around him starts to look better. That simply hasn't
Speaker 1: happen happened in Cleveland for a long time. Their running
Speaker 1: game was an absolute disaster. So they're gonna need to
Speaker 1: throw the ball if it stays looking like that. I
Speaker 1: can't remember the last Browns player I was excited for
Speaker 1: as much as Baker Mayfield. It might not be in
Speaker 1: since Tim cal maybe Tim Couch. I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: Red Weed is still still in the league, by the way,
Speaker 1: and he's uh in Houston last night. Um and yes
Speaker 1: a qualifier, Yes, yes, yes, don't tweet at me or
Speaker 1: any of us. Oh yeah, way to overreact game one,
Speaker 1: if you let's just have some fun. These guys look
Speaker 1: like in time you're looking for trade. We're not saying
Speaker 1: it's kind of translate, but you still it's still hard
Speaker 1: to make those throws that he's made. You don't see that.
Speaker 1: You also, I thought that then a joke could touchdown
Speaker 1: the easier one. You were. You were reminded why the
Speaker 1: Rams treated Algol Tree, which is kind of like an
Speaker 1: under the radar move that happened this offseason, and he
Speaker 1: struggles in coverage, and that's something I think for the
Speaker 1: Giants to walk. Speaking of the Giants, this was the
Speaker 1: first carry of se Kwon Barkley's NFL career. Barkley gets
Speaker 1: the first touch. Barkley makes a fear miss. That's why
Speaker 1: he was second overall out across the fee, chased out
Speaker 1: at the ground forty eight yard line, a thirty nine
Speaker 1: yard run and the first talk. Well, all right, so
Speaker 1: that's that's the radio call that um, you know, the
Speaker 1: nice job there, but they that does not at all
Speaker 1: describe what you witnessed, which was him taking the handoff,
Speaker 1: patiently watching the line, shifting to his right, burning passed
Speaker 1: him on Emmanuel Ogba, right through the heart of the
Speaker 1: Browns defense and up the right sideline. It was a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful run. Now he didn't Nothing came close to it
Speaker 1: after he really was. He was shut down on his
Speaker 1: next three carries, but who cares. It was a It
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a flash forward to what
Speaker 1: it Also, it's a thing like, oh the Giants, how
Speaker 1: long have they've been without a ground game? How many
Speaker 1: eons will pass before it's zero? Help? You're getting thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards a game from that backfield. It's a completely
Speaker 1: different element and it makes them more interesting to watch,
Speaker 1: That's all you want. Beckham not even on the field yet,
Speaker 1: does they ease him back into action after the broken
Speaker 1: ankle last year. You can understand why people get excited
Speaker 1: about the Giants if these two guys are on the
Speaker 1: field at the same time. I feel like all of
Speaker 1: these teams that have been dormats have given us reasons
Speaker 1: to be excited, and that's unusual this early, and that
Speaker 1: that's why I think we focused the show on this
Speaker 1: one preseason week because a lot it is just one game,
Speaker 1: Like these players are dotted on teams that have been
Speaker 1: in desperate situations for a long time. Be next week
Speaker 1: they all fall on their faces and am likely uh
Speaker 1: two more quick Brown's nuts for you, move on. Dez
Speaker 1: Bryant was tweeting again yesterday. Uh after John Dorsey Brown's
Speaker 1: GM said that des wasn't returning phone calls, he said,
Speaker 1: I'm getting there. He'll be there, I guess next week
Speaker 1: for a meeting. According to rap Sheet and more importantly, UM,
Speaker 1: the number one source for all things QB judgment related,
Speaker 1: the top scout, I feel like in this country, Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 1: He had something to say on his Instagram the first
Speaker 1: season game touchdowns getting the number six, come on, goose
Speaker 1: bump smart. I enjoyed watching that this morning, no Mark
Speaker 1: Wallberg's comments. Watched that because you put that into our
Speaker 1: direct messaging client this morning, and I looked at I thought,
Speaker 1: initially I thought he was making a joke that there
Speaker 1: were other stars on the Browns that he was been tracking,
Speaker 1: But he meant Lebron. It was early, so moving on
Speaker 1: a tough way to begin the defense of their Super
Speaker 1: Bowl title. The Philadelphia Eagles get waxed. WHOA Peterson got
Speaker 1: a figure? Whoa thirty one fourteen win for the Steelers
Speaker 1: um a game that no Carson Wentz obviously did Nick
Speaker 1: Voles play? Does anybody know anything about this game? I
Speaker 1: have one or two minor notes, but Nugs, Well, it's
Speaker 1: more on the Steelers side. I I think that Mason
Speaker 1: Rudolph has a nice arm. I think he's he could
Speaker 1: be their quarterback. Um, he'll slip right in when with
Speaker 1: Big Ben goes. You heard those you know, draft knicks.
Speaker 1: There were a handful of them that liked Mathan Rudolph
Speaker 1: more than some of those top four quarterbacks that got
Speaker 1: taken at the top of the draft. Not many of them,
Speaker 1: and certainly NFL teams didn't agree because he fell so far.
Speaker 1: Not many other notes if I'm getting the Eagles. By
Speaker 1: the way, as we know, Trey Burton left in free agency,
Speaker 1: they brought in Dallas Goddard UH four for sixty six
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Uh. You imagine that he might be
Speaker 1: a guy who can make an instant impact for that offense.
Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna be fine. They're gonna get over this loss,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna take some time. Sidney Jones is just
Speaker 1: someone I've been tracking during training camp. Was a second
Speaker 1: round pick that people thought could have been a top
Speaker 1: fifteen pick at cornerback a year ago, missed his entire
Speaker 1: rookie season because of that injury, and everyone's liked how
Speaker 1: he's looked at camp. He was there starting slot guy
Speaker 1: last night. And so that's a team I think actually
Speaker 1: can be better in the secondary than they were a
Speaker 1: year ago. Moving on the New Orleans Saints and Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 1: so that Jacks had to buy in the who is
Speaker 1: the King of Florida? So that just to pass the
Speaker 1: time they went up against the Saints on on Thursday. UH.
Speaker 1: And Cody Kessler, Uh, this is a guy to watch
Speaker 1: here because we all know Blake Bortless struggles. UH And
Speaker 1: then everybody's like Cody Kessler, everybody myself included. Uh, is
Speaker 1: that a real guy to be a backup in case
Speaker 1: things go sideways for Blake Bortles and Casey gets hurt. Remember,
Speaker 1: this is a team that is very close to being
Speaker 1: a super Bowl team in Jacksonville. Well, he looked apart
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler fourteen of seventeen, one thirty nine and a
Speaker 1: touch against the Saints on Thursday night. He reeled off
Speaker 1: a couple of practices lately to where he had these
Speaker 1: sort of nine for nine with a two touchdown type thing.
Speaker 1: The bigger story for me because I think again it's
Speaker 1: Blake Portals is gonna live with this until he doesn't.
Speaker 1: Is constantly doubted, uh for appropriate reasons and others. And
Speaker 1: he came out, I thought in the first drive and
Speaker 1: looked good, converted a nice third down past d d Westbrook,
Speaker 1: ran in for a touchdown six for ninete. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: the offense look competent. They rolled right through the Saints
Speaker 1: defense on that first drive. Then they all fled the field.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to make of the game.
Speaker 1: The Saints to me, no, Drew Brees, uh, not overly impressive.
Speaker 1: On defense. Let's start there. They and the word from
Speaker 1: Saints camp is like they've had the best camp for
Speaker 1: a defense that they've had in a long long time.
Speaker 1: And on paper, it is a better defense. They're deeper
Speaker 1: at linebacker, it's a it's the youngest secondary in NFL history.
Speaker 1: I believe we're in the last seven or eight years
Speaker 1: a year ago and they're all growing up and should
Speaker 1: be better. I didn't. I don't know what to take
Speaker 1: from this one. But now, but Greg, you're coming off
Speaker 1: a big twenty preseason loss. You have to circle the
Speaker 1: wagons if you're the Saints now looking Saints yourselves. The
Speaker 1: Saints pulled it off, but still there's a lot. There's
Speaker 1: a lot to take away from them. You know, I
Speaker 1: think the early part of the game. You know, what
Speaker 1: do you do if you're the Saints. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking to game Tom Savage a newcomer in
Speaker 1: hold on to that roster spot, Tommy, stay in the league,
Speaker 1: get paid ominous to open your season with Tom savast
Speaker 1: Tom Savage storm in the first past for you, I
Speaker 1: think I mean someone someone named Davarro Lawrence. I believes
Speaker 1: a second year undrafted guy had three sacks playing with
Speaker 1: you know in the I think in the first almost
Speaker 1: all in the first half. So that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: for him, Like that's what the preseason is about. Like
Speaker 1: you might end up seeing him playing a lot for
Speaker 1: the Saints and we don't know who he is. Moving on,
Speaker 1: We're just moving right along, guys. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: mark one more Brown's note. That's five straight preseason wins
Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns dating back to last They were
Speaker 1: undefeated last year in the preseason. I know, and everyone
Speaker 1: talks about, oh, you went oh in sixteen, and I
Speaker 1: what I point to is what happened in August, And
Speaker 1: I said, there's a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 1: pride and accomplishment right there. Moving on, the New England Patriots. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's definitely the highlight of the Shawn Kaiser's Brown's career
Speaker 1: was last August. I would say the New England Patriots. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're down seventeen nothing to the Redskins that Thursday night.
Speaker 1: But you know they never say die, Hey, go watch
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty one? Am I right west? Anyway? Uh,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady didn't play, Rob Gronkowski did not play. Uh,
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer played, but didn't play very well. In fact,
Speaker 1: things got off to a really source start for New England.
Speaker 1: And then some poor poor man working for the local
Speaker 1: uh uh affiliate in Boston. I think, w ez, he's
Speaker 1: a lifer. Yeah, he's a life for Steve Burton. They
Speaker 1: dispatched that poor man. I don't know what he did
Speaker 1: to piss somebody off. They dispatch him down to the
Speaker 1: Patriots sideline to ask what Bill Belichick thought about the
Speaker 1: first quarter performance of the New England Patriots. Here is
Speaker 1: how that went, coach, preseason football is not about winning
Speaker 1: and losing. Not to hope to get out of the
Speaker 1: first half. We need to do pretty much everything better,
Speaker 1: just not good nothing in any area. It's good to
Speaker 1: see good situational football scoring at the end of the half. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: about thirty eight seconds of good football. That's the toughest
Speaker 1: job in sports media. He did come around and laugh
Speaker 1: at the end. The funny thing is, I think, like
Speaker 1: that's like a guy he gets along with because he's
Speaker 1: been there forever, and it's just like it seems he
Speaker 1: seemed pretty uncomfortable, Like it was even like an awkward
Speaker 1: handshake at the end, because the guy didn't know what
Speaker 1: else to do. He's like, I don't have any other questions.
Speaker 1: Uh shake my hand though, this Greg, this is how
Speaker 1: you do the breaking news drop. Oh hit it. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the Patriots Redskins game, an injury to Darius Guys
Speaker 1: that was thought to be a torn mcl ian Rappaport
Speaker 1: is now reporting is a torn brutal. It's a killer
Speaker 1: for them. He that whole offense was gonna be based
Speaker 1: around him, completely changing that ground game. That, by the way, Greg,
Speaker 1: that is how you do it. This is this is
Speaker 1: getting hard hitting Dan reaction in real time. That's crushing
Speaker 1: because he was this guy who was a bit of
Speaker 1: a controversial figure on draft day. They bring him in
Speaker 1: and he's lurking as a sleeper in that offense, a
Speaker 1: guy that could really Redskins have announced it, confronts officials,
Speaker 1: so he's out for the year. I assume for the
Speaker 1: one other note, we have one other bit of breaking news.
Speaker 1: Redskins tight end Manassa Garner also to miss the season
Speaker 1: with a torn a c O. That's not I thought
Speaker 1: it made a lot of sense. Mark, you got news.
Speaker 1: I just like the sound of the breaking news drop, Like,
Speaker 1: so what what Dan is saying is that he cares
Speaker 1: about some human health and happiness and their well being.
Speaker 1: Any completely disregard. That's right, Greg. I I think that
Speaker 1: Greg is summed this up appropriately an unlikely tea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. Um So guys out for the year,
Speaker 1: and that is Gregg. That is crushing for a team
Speaker 1: that was really counting on an instant impact. Yeah, sadly,
Speaker 1: that's you know, the biggest news from preseason week one,
Speaker 1: or at least Thursday Night's action by far. I mean there,
Speaker 1: it just changes what they want to do. Chris Thompson's
Speaker 1: coming back from a serious injury. He's a third down back.
Speaker 1: They're now not calling Rob Kelly fat Rob Kelly. He's
Speaker 1: now fit Rob Kelly. And and it looks like, you know,
Speaker 1: fit Rob is going to have to be back in
Speaker 1: the mix. Uh. I would think as almost a starter
Speaker 1: for that team. This might save samaj Perens roster spot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a shame because on the play he got hurt.
Speaker 1: Oh he looked great too, Like that was the reason
Speaker 1: why why you know, watching the little that I did,
Speaker 1: he he was the guy I was most excited about watching,
Speaker 1: other than Juan Barkley just had such a fun style
Speaker 1: of of running. It wasn't like he had injury issues
Speaker 1: either in college. The Redskins can't catch a break with injuries.
Speaker 1: That's awful. Last year almost their whole offense went down.
Speaker 1: And now here you go the guy that maybe you're
Speaker 1: most excited to watch. They There was an article in
Speaker 1: the Washington Post today. I believe that since two thousand
Speaker 1: and ten, they are consistently among, if not the most
Speaker 1: injured teams in the NFL. I think what the Redskins
Speaker 1: should do. You get the Grooden brothers together and combine
Speaker 1: the Raiders and Redskins into one team. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: an opportunity to just move away from the well. I
Speaker 1: think that's that's a roster you put those Dude's a
Speaker 1: shame one quick pats takeaway Derek Rivers, who missed all
Speaker 1: of his rookie here is a big man and they
Speaker 1: need a pass roshur. He looks a little like Willie
Speaker 1: mcguinnis out there. He's coming off. He's coming off in
Speaker 1: a c L. But he's looked pretty good. And Jason mccordy,
Speaker 1: who's a guy people just kind of slotted in, is
Speaker 1: going to be their starting cornerback. Has been running with
Speaker 1: the third team in in practices pretty often. Didn't even
Speaker 1: play last night. You might not get the mccordy brothers.
Speaker 1: How about this, You think Jeremy Hill I used to
Speaker 1: spot on the roster last night. It's if everyone's healthy,
Speaker 1: it's probably him or Mike GILLISLEI. And he looked pretty good,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Hill. And one more note on Tom Brady probably
Speaker 1: would not have played in this game, but Boston Globe
Speaker 1: reporting he does have a sore back. Just keep an
Speaker 1: eye on these things. He's an old man. That's what
Speaker 1: happens in old age. And get old, you start feeling pain,
Speaker 1: starts get taked. It's stiff sciatic. Remember Larry Bird laying
Speaker 1: on the laid out and in the Dream Team he
Speaker 1: was on the floor for most of that. Even as
Speaker 1: a child, you knew that. You can tell this man's
Speaker 1: career is ebbing slowly towards its conclusion. There are in
Speaker 1: the same geographical reason the mate that maybe happens. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say that Tom Brady is not moving the way
Speaker 1: Larry Bird was moving at He's moving a lot better
Speaker 1: than Larry Bird had retired like six years younger than
Speaker 1: than It's Brady is now seven or eight. He wasn't
Speaker 1: winning m vps undefeated. It's all I'm saying. We got Hoyer,
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Speaker 1: maybe one lineman I believe offensive alignment. So Sean mc
Speaker 1: suspended to start the years. Even that right, So the
Speaker 1: Rams obviously have a certain strategy. Now, the fans that
Speaker 1: are at the game are paying full price to see this,
Speaker 1: but that's a other that's a whole other converence there
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. So I think they enjoyed it, did they?
Speaker 1: Don't you want to see stars if you're paying like
Speaker 1: if you if you I think we talked about the Slasher.
Speaker 1: But if you are a season ticket holder and they
Speaker 1: make you pay full price for the preseason games, the
Speaker 1: two preseason games, don't you deserve Ann Cooper Cup? Because
Speaker 1: those are things like we're growing up in Jets Giants territory.
Speaker 1: The only games you could go to because they were
Speaker 1: so expensive and you couldn't even get into Giants games
Speaker 1: were preseason games. And you go, I go watch Browns
Speaker 1: Jets in the preseason and the players that you adore
Speaker 1: that are all over your childhood bedroom walls, are in
Speaker 1: the game for seven minutes, right, what what are you doing?
Speaker 1: There may be a solution, Oh Dan, stop being a jerk.
Speaker 1: What's your solution? It's like of a real football game,
Speaker 1: so charge like of what a regular season ticket is
Speaker 1: for those two games. You're not being a jerk. You're
Speaker 1: a man from a cool town working out for the
Speaker 1: working class customer us. Where I grew up, it was
Speaker 1: hard to get any football takes, and we with my dad,
Speaker 1: we would go to a lot of the preseason games
Speaker 1: because those are the tickets that'd be floating around the
Speaker 1: guys that got stuck where my dad worked the mine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'd like, hey, do you want to take these two tickets?
Speaker 1: And I they'd come up. They put the two tickets
Speaker 1: in the bucket at the bottom of the coal mine,
Speaker 1: and then they shimmy it up well. And then I
Speaker 1: was a little little boy in the big blue eyes.
Speaker 1: I'd be looking down that well and like dad, dad,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't see my dad, but then i'd see
Speaker 1: the two like the Jets versus the Dolphins preseason action
Speaker 1: or Jets Eagles, and then we'd be off to the
Speaker 1: medal ends. Two notes odd to play a division foe
Speaker 1: in the preseason. Secondly, why why bring the tickets down
Speaker 1: into the coal mine. It feels like you'd keep those
Speaker 1: in an envelope at home. My I was as a boy,
Speaker 1: I was kept shielded from what happened down in the
Speaker 1: coal mine. Well, um, so was your whole family, and
Speaker 1: that's your dad. Honestly, I don't love talking about happen
Speaker 1: this is there is a code to pr Pearl River
Speaker 1: that we don't talk about what happens down in the
Speaker 1: coal mine. So I would appreciate if you stop asking
Speaker 1: what's happening down the shad. That is my job to
Speaker 1: ask those questions. Anyway. Point you know these preseason they
Speaker 1: were fun as a boy to go do. But with
Speaker 1: a free ticket. I'm sure it didn't hurt Dad as much. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a playful song for the coal mines.
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Speaker 1: by the way. Shout out to Keith Hanss who had
Speaker 1: knee surgery, knee replacement surgery, Get well soon. He's moving.
Speaker 1: He's like Nameth now he has a a fake knee
Speaker 1: that is going to ramp up his uh uh, his
Speaker 1: quality of life significantly. So we're excited. Good opportunities to
Speaker 1: to to sit down and listen to this show a
Speaker 1: little bit. I'd imagine it puts it puts uh. It
Speaker 1: puts a lot of stress on your knee in the
Speaker 1: coal line, you know, you can only imagine. I'm just
Speaker 1: glad he doesn't have black lung The lungs are intact.
Speaker 1: Thank god. All right, Joe flacc will look good by
Speaker 1: the way, I mean, he is moving better. He made
Speaker 1: a throw moving to his left thirty yards down the field,
Speaker 1: and I know people are like, well, he's playing the backups. No,
Speaker 1: you just have to watch the game. He's moving better.
Speaker 1: He looked really like, he looked like he was moving
Speaker 1: better than he had in a couple How do you
Speaker 1: keep but that were beautiful. Here's the thing though, watching
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson run, it's kind of like Josh Allen throwing
Speaker 1: the way that Lamar Jackson just sort of winds his
Speaker 1: way through defenders for suddenly twelve yards, fourteen yards, and
Speaker 1: no one knows what to do with him. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you keep him off the field. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's starting quarterback. Teams don't want you to. I
Speaker 1: think he's doing I think he could be Michael. I
Speaker 1: think he could be Michael Vick like where, yes, you
Speaker 1: can do it. He has not been lights out in
Speaker 1: these first two preseason games throwing the ball by any measure.
Speaker 1: But yes, but the Rams are saying that those reports,
Speaker 1: not the Rams, are saying that Sean Manyon, who we
Speaker 1: were crowing about a couple of years ago here, well
Speaker 1: just as this sort of sneaky guy did remember, No, remember,
Speaker 1: we Rams really like Sean Manyon. You're really excited about
Speaker 1: three for thirteen with an interception, and they said that
Speaker 1: he's really been struggling in camps. So we'll see alright,
Speaker 1: moving on. Uh did I say final scoring that game,
Speaker 1: by the way, because it was what a crash down
Speaker 1: back to earth for the Rams after they're well, you know,
Speaker 1: we were told that, um, whenever we appear at a
Speaker 1: RAMS event like we did for the playoff game, that
Speaker 1: we are bad luck. We were told that by the team,
Speaker 1: a high up executive on the team, and within days
Speaker 1: of our arrival at RAMS camp, they get stone by
Speaker 1: the Ravens and were at this game well. Moving on
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs. Uh. Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: made his return to the field after missing the end
Speaker 1: of last year with an a c l uh tear.
Speaker 1: He did not do much. I think he played one series. Uh.
Speaker 1: What did you see maybe from any of the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: including Patrick Mahomes? Absolutely nothing. This is a zero takeaways game.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson threw one pass for four yards. Um, he
Speaker 1: only played one series. They got him out healthy. He
Speaker 1: looked fine. Patrick Mahomes played two series, both ended in punts,
Speaker 1: took a sacking, over threw Travis Kelsey on the second series. Um.
Speaker 1: That's all really you can take from this game. I
Speaker 1: think I didn't keep a close eye on the second
Speaker 1: half because I was writing Josh Allen another thing. No
Speaker 1: need to explain yourself, But the starting quarterbacks, like the coaches,
Speaker 1: just didn't give us much to go on here. How
Speaker 1: is us? Step Durham's one snap at left cornerback number.
Speaker 1: His name is step He has a zero point zero
Speaker 1: on PFF, so they didn't think much positive word. I
Speaker 1: didn't scout him. Brandon Weeden, who came up let a
Speaker 1: twelve yard sixty twelve place sixty eight yard scoring drive
Speaker 1: cap by six yard touchdown pass to rookie tight end,
Speaker 1: Jordan's Atkins quarterback controversy interesting. And Eric Barry, by the way,
Speaker 1: in case you're wondering coming back from achilles surgery, did
Speaker 1: not play in the game. Something weird's going on with
Speaker 1: Jadevean Clowney. They're saying it's not in football shape. There's
Speaker 1: a contract situation looming that's been on my radar, Like,
Speaker 1: what's something going right about that? Um, The difference between
Speaker 1: the way your radar works in the way marks up. Next,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Green bit Packers and Tennessee Tytoons.
Speaker 1: Matt LeFleur so I pronounced if you want to correct
Speaker 1: French based pronunciation, matt Leflaire. His first game is offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and a lot of people think this could unlock
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariotta and Mariotta only had one drive, but the
Speaker 1: Titans marched down the field eight play seventy one yards
Speaker 1: or a touchdown. Three passes, one run by Mariotta. So
Speaker 1: so far, so good. Greg Rosenthal. Yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: from you know, the Packers winning seventeen, it's like Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: let you read them the riot Act and they responded,
Speaker 1: that's so true. You're so right. That's just it's up
Speaker 1: there with relax. That's leadership. Who's a Martellis Bennett said
Speaker 1: this week in some interview that Aaron Rodgers the best
Speaker 1: pure thrower of any quarterback he's played with, but Tom
Speaker 1: Brady the better quarterback just because of the intangibles as
Speaker 1: well and being a teammate. Well, maybe Marty Bennett should
Speaker 1: take a look at what happened today with on Thursday
Speaker 1: night with Green Bay, how they reacted. Well, maybe you
Speaker 1: changed his opinion. Now maybe this could feels likely the
Speaker 1: preseason opener would have that kind of gravitas. Honley h
Speaker 1: looks like he's ahead of your boy, Deshaun Kaiser right
Speaker 1: now for the backup job? Whose boys at Mark Mark? No,
Speaker 1: it's not my boy. Not good news for Deshauan Kaiser
Speaker 1: or Mike McCarthy. Packers do have some interesting young receivers, though,
Speaker 1: This guy Marquez Valdez Scantling. I like the name to
Speaker 1: begin with doesn't sound real, but hundred and one yards
Speaker 1: last night and Jake Kumero he had at two yard
Speaker 1: fifty two yard bomb TD and Rogers was going nuts
Speaker 1: on the sideline. I don't know what's going on with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Jake Kumer. I think Rogers adopted in
Speaker 1: something else. I don't know. Something interesting about that situation.
Speaker 1: Uh Adams at a forty eight yard catch, by the way,
Speaker 1: top five Fantasy wide receiver, Davante Adams, and that, by
Speaker 1: the way, coming up next week next Wednesday, our Fantasy
Speaker 1: Extravaganza two thousand eighteen. So it has a little tease
Speaker 1: for what the people can expect. Davante Adams a guy
Speaker 1: to really target, maybe round two and a PPR league.
Speaker 1: You know, my first instinct was that sounds strong, just
Speaker 1: because Davante Adams isn't thought of as a Julio Jones
Speaker 1: or an Antonio Brown, but he has more tds receiving
Speaker 1: tds than anyone else over the last two years, and
Speaker 1: with Jordy Nelson out of the picture, you have to
Speaker 1: figure he's gonna be He's gonna be a target monster
Speaker 1: this year. You know, he's the first look in the
Speaker 1: red zone mid second round pick though you're kind of
Speaker 1: paying for it. I'm not into that. I'm not into
Speaker 1: that because I'm looking at Keena. Here are guys taken
Speaker 1: after him, Keenan Allen, A. J. Green, Mike Evans, t
Speaker 1: Y Helton. It's like I'd rather have That's that's fair.
Speaker 1: It's fair, dog, that's fair dogs. All right? Moving on? Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: did you get your pass? No? Not, since you better
Speaker 1: get on that. I am you can't travel. You can't
Speaker 1: travel to London without a pass. Hey what London? Are
Speaker 1: you dumb? Okay? Where are that wasn't really passive at
Speaker 1: the end. No, that was pretty aggressive. Uh, just straight
Speaker 1: funny thing about that. There's literally nothing you can do
Speaker 1: at this point. No, you're simply waiting on government agencies
Speaker 1: to get your pass. You could have maybe had a
Speaker 1: working passport before that. That might have that would have
Speaker 1: been a functional answer. Some people get to Galivan to
Speaker 1: Japan and back every year. Not all of us have
Speaker 1: that in the cards. We can't even afford to fly
Speaker 1: some of us. Some of us have a sort of
Speaker 1: an odd fear of leaving the country. What about Canada,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just good to have I do have
Speaker 1: to go to Canada for Mexico. It's very close. You
Speaker 1: just never know. If I didn't have my passport yet,
Speaker 1: I would be riddled with anxiety. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Today is August ten, and we're leaving in exactly three weeks.
Speaker 1: Did you get the expedited version and whatnot? It was
Speaker 1: in the window where I didn't need to do that. No, No,
Speaker 1: I got this. You don't do you don't just you
Speaker 1: know I would have gotten that at expedit And this
Speaker 1: is on you. I recently had to do the same
Speaker 1: thing before I went to Mexico, and I was under
Speaker 1: the same situation. You actually cannot try to get the
Speaker 1: expedited one unless you're within the window. I got the
Speaker 1: expedited one a few weeks ago, and it arrived. You.
Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about, Lindsay. That's a different
Speaker 1: scenario where if you were inside a certain window you
Speaker 1: can get it almost day of. I wasn't. That wasn't
Speaker 1: an option. There is for a higher pay, you can
Speaker 1: get the expedited I said, Hey, I'm in the window.
Speaker 1: Daddy's in the window. Well, guess what, Daddy's in hot
Speaker 1: water right now. Daddy's in the anxiety window. I mean, ultimately,
Speaker 1: Wes Wes, you handled this correctly. By doing you paid
Speaker 1: a little bit of extra money to get this thing done.
Speaker 1: Dan is sitting in limbo and we've have chorus singers counseling.
Speaker 1: You're a professional. I really, I absolutely love professional passport paperwork.
Speaker 1: So to me, it was like, I'm willing to pay
Speaker 1: this extortion right to get rid of the anxiety that
Speaker 1: I know Dan is current. This is an upset because
Speaker 1: we kind of talked about before all this happened, that
Speaker 1: West versus paperwork is one of the biggest position battles,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest matches of the last ten years.
Speaker 1: At least in my life. I've done nothing wrong. I
Speaker 1: did the paperwork within the window. It just you know, listen,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be all right. Well, the government failed me
Speaker 1: is the question. How could how could the American government
Speaker 1: possibly let you downst scenario? Neil hosts like three shows
Speaker 1: that week for US where this case scenario you get arrested.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is happening again. By the way,
Speaker 1: this guy Mark this comes up almost every week now
Speaker 1: Greg starts the daydream about a different host. It's not
Speaker 1: only on the show it's down in the news from
Speaker 1: off these like everyone's joking around like, oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: next thing is so and so is the host. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't be like you just wouldn't be on the show
Speaker 1: for like maybe three weeks, but maybe it would extend
Speaker 1: to maybe a couple of months. You wouldn't be on
Speaker 1: the show, and we'd have to find a work around.
Speaker 1: It was Eric Scarelli was floated. I believe at one
Speaker 1: point earlier, we have to be prepared if there's like
Speaker 1: a car accident. I know there's a there's a replacement
Speaker 1: me down there in the newsroom. There's a replacement for us.
Speaker 1: Dan and Coscarelli aren't allowed to travel on the same airplane.
Speaker 1: All right. Finally, one last game to talk about. Uh,
Speaker 1: the renewal of an old rivalry, one of the greats
Speaker 1: forty Niners and Cowboys, and uh, here we go. It
Speaker 1: starts win for the Niners. Um, listen, this is a
Speaker 1: game I don't have any awareness of. So somebody else
Speaker 1: jump in. I think the bigger takeaway here than the
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolos side, which was, you know, he really didn't
Speaker 1: play that much and we need to see more of him,
Speaker 1: was that we had Cold Beasley come out and say
Speaker 1: that the Dallas wide receiving corps was gonna shock people.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they shocked people, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1: But Michael Gallup, using his speed, made an incredible touchdown
Speaker 1: cast catch off a beautiful pass from Dak Prescott to
Speaker 1: open the game. Then the Dallas offense essentially went off
Speaker 1: the field. There was no Ezekial Elliott, but a nice
Speaker 1: start for him and they need him to step up
Speaker 1: and be a starter right away, and he looked a
Speaker 1: part yesterday. I'm not saying these are the two best
Speaker 1: uniforms in the NFL, but I've noticed the last couple
Speaker 1: of times this matchup has has occurred, this is the
Speaker 1: best uniform matchup because they each other. So it's a clean,
Speaker 1: crisp look when these two teams, and as we talked about,
Speaker 1: let's say it's the other thing about it. They haven't
Speaker 1: gone and changed the uniform times, so it reminds you
Speaker 1: of when they played back when it was Akman Verse,
Speaker 1: Steve Young and back in those days and previous rivalries too.
Speaker 1: I'm glad Dak went out there and did something positive,
Speaker 1: not just because people have been freaking out that their
Speaker 1: offense is struggled in camp, but that that graffiti mural
Speaker 1: of him, um that puts him in the in the
Speaker 1: sunken place, that looks like they get out thing like that.
Speaker 1: It's that haunts me, like I I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can look at Dak Prescott the same way. I
Speaker 1: guess it's an effective pieces. Maybe it is unfair where
Speaker 1: is this, but it is? It is just I don't
Speaker 1: know there's something about that I have I have not
Speaker 1: stopped thinking about that since I saw its effective effective.
Speaker 1: The context of course being that Dak Prescott has said
Speaker 1: openly and publicly that he believes everyone should stand for
Speaker 1: the anthem and that he's you know, supporting everything Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones said and the ownership, you know, and Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: said like, just I believe Yester Thursday, you know, like
Speaker 1: I I love everything that that said. And I don't
Speaker 1: know there's something to it. So I'm I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about Dak Prescott that that he's had a tough training camp.
Speaker 1: Be there one little Niners note that this game they
Speaker 1: started Yankee starters immediately by the end of the first
Speaker 1: quarter because they lost George Kittle they're tight end to
Speaker 1: a shoulder energy, Matt Rita to a shoulder injury. They
Speaker 1: had I think with Solomon Thomas left with a head injury, concussion,
Speaker 1: they had a guy with a hamstring to I mean
Speaker 1: they had five five guys leave the game in the
Speaker 1: first ten minutes. It's like evacuate ship. It feels like
Speaker 1: Kittle's injury. I believe this morning they said it was
Speaker 1: not serious. Um. Two more notes. Uh in the DC area,
Speaker 1: the Ravens to know, well, they're the only team that
Speaker 1: can go five and oh that's the advantage of playing
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame game. They control their own destiny.
Speaker 1: Their magic number right now is three. That's you just
Speaker 1: get goose bumps thinking what could happen is the last
Speaker 1: week of the preseason if they have that opportunity. So
Speaker 1: we'll track that breathlessly. Also speaking of that area, so guys, again,
Speaker 1: that's a bombshell. The rookie second round pick for the
Speaker 1: Redskins out for the year with the torn a c
Speaker 1: L doesn't open the door West, but youah, boy Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson to get a job, that's a good question. My
Speaker 1: assumption is that they'll try. They'll turn to Rob Kelly
Speaker 1: and Somaj peering first with Chris Thompson playing on passing downs.
Speaker 1: I know, I just feel like they would look in
Speaker 1: the house on that if ever there was a team
Speaker 1: now I could kind of it just somehow makes a
Speaker 1: little sense that they'd give give Peterson a shot. You know,
Speaker 1: not every team I think would, and kind of makes
Speaker 1: sense because you have your passing down back. You really
Speaker 1: don't have options that you like at all for the
Speaker 1: power downs. You're under the impression they don't like Rob
Speaker 1: Kelly and yeah I am. Maybe they didn't like fat Rob,
Speaker 1: but they like fit Robe. All right, we will be
Speaker 1: back on Monday and we'll recap the rest of the preseason.
Speaker 1: Action has got a special guest on Monday, too, very
Speaker 1: special guest. I don't want to even say yet, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: but hold on a pretty big fish in a in
Speaker 1: the entertainment, genuine superstar, if it happens, a legend of
Speaker 1: his field. I'm not talking about Evan Silva. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about and it's a he. So let's not no, it's
Speaker 1: not little Debbie. We're holding her for another time. Of course.
Speaker 1: Now he said to be the most famous person ever
Speaker 1: on this podcast. Yes, little maybe little Debbie adjacent adjacent too,
Speaker 1: little Daddy. We'll get to it, you'll find out, hopefully,
Speaker 1: unless this person does not actually come on the show,
Speaker 1: and then everyone will just be annoyed about us. All right,
Speaker 1: that's it. This is Dan Hansons signing off for a
Speaker 1: quiet storm, the Mailman, the old Boss, and let's see
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