Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast. I don't know what time means.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition Idea Around the NFL Podcast from London.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hands. I am joined in a
Speaker 1: arena filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: What is up boy? Hey Dan? Oh? Here we are
Speaker 1: spread the big Oh do they call it that? Now?
Speaker 1: We're at a big cricket match between England and India.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's actually big because it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean anything, or the series was clinched, but they play anyway.
Speaker 1: The stadium is packed out, it's it's it's rich with chef,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. So so the minor breakdown that we
Speaker 1: got on the way to the stadium was that essentially
Speaker 1: the stakes do not exist because the series ended previously.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of if the Calves and Warriors after
Speaker 1: the Warriors swept the Cats, hey, let's get together for
Speaker 1: game five and people just don't want to go to work,
Speaker 1: so let's pack up the stadium and enjoy the And
Speaker 1: yet the crowd, we asked, and then the crowd reaction
Speaker 1: is apparently no different. It's it's one of many things
Speaker 1: about the sport that we don't understand that. Fascinating I
Speaker 1: get it, and the explanation. Nick Pike from the NFL
Speaker 1: UK office, he's been very nice. Everyone's been very nice,
Speaker 1: especially with cricket trying to explain the sport to us
Speaker 1: and it's kind of an impossible task and we're still
Speaker 1: trying to wrap our head around it. We're stupid people.
Speaker 1: It just yeah, it just seems fun. It just seems
Speaker 1: fun to get here and sit in the sun. It's
Speaker 1: about I would say, right around seventy degrees and sunny, uh,
Speaker 1: and there's a bunch of dudes and white and we're
Speaker 1: in this kind of like a an office um box
Speaker 1: right above the field watching the game right now or
Speaker 1: the match. So it's a pretty surreal thing and it's
Speaker 1: just another another great experience for us here in London. Mark,
Speaker 1: you are wearing sun glasses. You you are maybe not
Speaker 1: living your best life right now. After we had a
Speaker 1: long night last night we did, I mean all four
Speaker 1: of us we are in sunglasses. So that was one
Speaker 1: that's one way to describe it. But this, this scene
Speaker 1: is fantastic. I actually would would double back and say
Speaker 1: the options are to one sit in your office at
Speaker 1: your keyboard and type away or be here doing this.
Speaker 1: I don't care. If the stakes are low, I would
Speaker 1: be here. They serve beer, they serve food, you're with friends.
Speaker 1: There are incredibly attractive people all over the place. Why
Speaker 1: would you not be in the stadium? There was an
Speaker 1: extra large gin and tonic stand like with serious business
Speaker 1: before eleven am, which you just don't see on a
Speaker 1: typical Friday in most places. So what has been We've
Speaker 1: been in London now for five days west What is
Speaker 1: this like? Near the top for you being at this
Speaker 1: cricket match in terms of experiences? But there I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say it's just quite as um. It's not making quite
Speaker 1: as big of an impact on me as the trip
Speaker 1: down the Thames. But it's still a beautiful setting. You
Speaker 1: know what I've noticed about London? How's that? How's it?
Speaker 1: You go out to eight o'clock in the evening and
Speaker 1: every single person in the city is out drinking, Like
Speaker 1: the whole town just gets drunk every night. They seem
Speaker 1: to enjoy their spirits. You can't find a table lot,
Speaker 1: It's standing room only at every pub in town. What's
Speaker 1: going on here? I mean we seem to fit in
Speaker 1: quite well. Last night with that plan. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what the distinction is. Big show today, uh from England.
Speaker 1: We we have a few days left here, but also
Speaker 1: business to tend to on the podcast side of things,
Speaker 1: and that includes, yes, talking about last night's season opener,
Speaker 1: a sloppy affair between the Atlanta Falcons and the defending
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. Uh. So we're gonna talk about that game,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go through each of the Week one
Speaker 1: games as we always do, uh, including our oh yeah
Speaker 1: lock to the week. So it's the Week one preview show.
Speaker 1: But let us start with what happened last night in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia second and one A gie? It was right holes
Speaker 1: puts Josh Perkins Emotions gives it to a Gi Puts
Speaker 1: down when their first touchdown of the two thousand eighteen season. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles got off to a very slow start
Speaker 1: in their title defense, but they turned it on and
Speaker 1: in the end enough for an eighteen to twelve victory
Speaker 1: over the Atlanta Falcons. You heard there, Jedgi the London
Speaker 1: born j G I scoring both Eagles touchdowns uh in
Speaker 1: this game, as well as a two point conversion and
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, the Atlanta Falcons not their best day by
Speaker 1: any stretch. It was a sloppy game on both side,
Speaker 1: tons of penalty flags, but Matt Ryan was not his
Speaker 1: sharp self. And once again, uh, if you're a Falcons fan,
Speaker 1: you're freaking out because the struggles inside the ten yardline
Speaker 1: cost them another game. Yeah, I think they got nine
Speaker 1: points and five trips to the red zone. After talking
Speaker 1: about the red zone problems all off season. It plays
Speaker 1: out almost identically to the way that last year's divisional
Speaker 1: round Wildcard round playoff ended. And yet those two games
Speaker 1: we're so similar in terms of the score and exactly
Speaker 1: how it ended with four players on the tent, and
Speaker 1: yet there were such a dramatic difference in quality. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you there's a difference of like watching a great
Speaker 1: two good defense is really playing their best as it
Speaker 1: was I think late last season in the offense is
Speaker 1: kind of fighting against them, but they're sharp to this
Speaker 1: look like, you know, kind of an extended preseason game.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: people's takeaway. I don't know if it's the fact that
Speaker 1: they're not playing in the preseason, but it is what
Speaker 1: it is. These teams look nothing like they're gonna look
Speaker 1: in December for good or bad with It was an
Speaker 1: inauspicious start, a bit of an odd game, a duplicate
Speaker 1: to some degree of last year's showdown. There was that
Speaker 1: punt return that was miffed when it touched essentially an
Speaker 1: Eagle's foot, and it was a turnover that led to
Speaker 1: a touchdown. I mean, there was Nick Foles. I mean,
Speaker 1: you want to come out of this saying, oh, let's
Speaker 1: let's either ignore everything that happened in the preseason with
Speaker 1: Nick Foles. I think Nick Foles is just simply Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: And you start to catalog that playoff run as a
Speaker 1: two or three game magical journey that is the outlier
Speaker 1: of the Nick Foles career at this point. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was trying to watch. I was watching the game and
Speaker 1: wondering when the big passing plays were gonna come from,
Speaker 1: and the biggest players in the game where the Philly
Speaker 1: Philly the trick play that they borrowed from the Patriots
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, and then Nelson aghil Are on
Speaker 1: a reverse third down to convert. So I think, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles give them credit though, for for
Speaker 1: the defense and the running game. Were there, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: borrowed from the Patriots. They didn't just draw it up
Speaker 1: in the dirt five minutes later. And what I what
Speaker 1: annoys me to some degree, is that evidence continues to
Speaker 1: mount that the Philly Special is one of the biggest
Speaker 1: plays in NFL history, and the other three gentlemen on
Speaker 1: this podcast will continue to turn a blind eye to
Speaker 1: the fact that it is so much bigger than the
Speaker 1: catch from that distance. I will not calm down the
Speaker 1: Philly Philly was when I will not calm down along
Speaker 1: the sideline. Second of all, and if we do, if
Speaker 1: you want to bring it up, we have to touch
Speaker 1: on it again. If you read the wording of your
Speaker 1: sandwich prop where you said that there would be the greatest,
Speaker 1: like famous play of all time, you you didn't say
Speaker 1: one of them, I will not calm down. That is it.
Speaker 1: So you lost it, And by those sandwiches, I lost
Speaker 1: it only because of the viewpoints of the other three
Speaker 1: people who are shutting me out on this podcast. That's
Speaker 1: how the game works. Well, now you're calling every trick
Speaker 1: play the Philly Special. They all are very special, and
Speaker 1: they are operated by Philly. The Philly Philly play did
Speaker 1: it was kind of a turning point for the Eagles
Speaker 1: because they were not doing anything in this game for
Speaker 1: for most especially in the first half where Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: who is the only guy that really did anything. And
Speaker 1: I know fantasy owners out there um are probably pretty
Speaker 1: annoyed about the production on both sides in this game.
Speaker 1: But Julio Jones outgame the entire Eagles offense in the
Speaker 1: first half, so they were doing nothing, and that play
Speaker 1: kind of jumped started, uh the Eagles attack. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm kind of with you guys. It's it's
Speaker 1: it was a weird game. I don't put a lot
Speaker 1: into it. Strangely, like, I don't think this means that
Speaker 1: Nick Foles is now going to go back to being
Speaker 1: bad Nick Foles. I'd like to see both these teams
Speaker 1: in Week two because it was strange. Well, they're yeah,
Speaker 1: they're the Eagles offense in general has no explosive element.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what Chris was referring to. Everything was
Speaker 1: a dncin dun I don't think that's just Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: But in the end, their offensive line when them get
Speaker 1: the game, their defensive line played pretty well. And if
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, like if Andy Dalton had the game that
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan had, everyone would be just savaging Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: I mean, Matt Ryan was very inaccurate. He made far
Speaker 1: more plays than Nick Foles, who did nothing. He made
Speaker 1: some really positive plays, but he also had, you know,
Speaker 1: five or six throws that were just pretty terrible, pretty
Speaker 1: terrible throws that you're not used to seeing out of
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. He threw three passes out of the end
Speaker 1: zone when you have four plays to win the game
Speaker 1: near the goal line, Like, that's pretty inexcusable. And it's
Speaker 1: like a Falcons team that you don't want to get
Speaker 1: too caught up, but at the end of the season
Speaker 1: the game might mean something even though they weren't playing
Speaker 1: that well. And then more importantly, like they're just a
Speaker 1: team that loses games that they should have won. They
Speaker 1: should have won this game. They looked like the better
Speaker 1: team from from most of the games. If you're a
Speaker 1: Patriots fan, or if you are the Patriots, do you
Speaker 1: watch this version of Nick Foles and just wonder what
Speaker 1: on earth happened last February, because it really was. It
Speaker 1: really was one or two games where he suddenly jumped
Speaker 1: into hero mode. But you see this and you're like,
Speaker 1: how on earth did we lose to this guy? But
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a different Eagles off. It's
Speaker 1: a different team, it's a different coordinator, it's different receivers.
Speaker 1: They are not sync up, and I don't think the
Speaker 1: Falcons were really too sync up either, maybe just from
Speaker 1: not playing in the preseason. I don't know, Like Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox was the best player on the field for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: Eagles defensive player of the year, think defensive player of
Speaker 1: the year. So you're gonna be I am that that
Speaker 1: he's a different player this year, which isn't would be
Speaker 1: amazing considering how good he already was. And for those
Speaker 1: scoring at home. There were no helmet penalties uh in
Speaker 1: the first game of the season. But there was a
Speaker 1: catch roll fiasco, a big, big play that looked like
Speaker 1: a catch Julio Jones a fifty five yard or it
Speaker 1: would have been. He juggled it as he went to
Speaker 1: the sideline, looked like he gained control. That was a
Speaker 1: big play in the game as well. So the Falcons
Speaker 1: are shooting themselves in the foot in these big games
Speaker 1: and they have to get out of it. I do that.
Speaker 1: I did enjoy that the crowd bowed the Eagles off
Speaker 1: at halftime and at parts of the third quarter. It
Speaker 1: was a three It was a three point game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was not a fun game to watch, but I
Speaker 1: it did not take long for the worm to take
Speaker 1: lace curtain Eagles fans who have already forgotten what it
Speaker 1: is to be a downtrodden fan. So the Eagles are
Speaker 1: one to oh Falcons, oh and one. Let us now
Speaker 1: move into the previews of Week one, but before we do,
Speaker 1: let's check in on our cricket matches. Anything happened, Mark, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm the wrong person to go to. What I see
Speaker 1: is roughly fifty adult men dressed in white. Um, some
Speaker 1: of them with wooden sticks. Maybe there's also there's also
Speaker 1: thirty thousand people in the stadium, some of them also
Speaker 1: in white. But there's about people here. Uh, it's a beautiful,
Speaker 1: uh facility. It's it's there's not a bad seat in
Speaker 1: the house. Hundred and seventy three years old. You see
Speaker 1: the skyline, it's it's in a beautiful little name. Imagine,
Speaker 1: I imagine this is I haven't been to Mark. I
Speaker 1: know you've been to a Chargers game. I imagine this
Speaker 1: is what Chargers games look like in Carson, California. It
Speaker 1: has a similar vibe, except those games would have some
Speaker 1: sort of steak attached to them if there was a
Speaker 1: regular season fair That's that's definitely on your radar. Well, listen.
Speaker 1: I enjoy the leisure. I just view it as a
Speaker 1: lead as you're at activity. I think that's let's start
Speaker 1: starting to stop there. And I like that part of
Speaker 1: I think you have to take this up with a
Speaker 1: Minister of of sport, the Prime Minister, and we can discuss.
Speaker 1: I think I'll lose the argument um all right. And
Speaker 1: a little later on we're gonna talk about our experience
Speaker 1: at Sky Sports UH on Wednesday, and if you are
Speaker 1: listening to the show ahead of the Sunday games and
Speaker 1: you're in the UK, will be on Live with Neil
Speaker 1: Reynolds and company all throughout Sunday, so we're really excited
Speaker 1: about that. Also, be at Piccadilly Square on Saturday if
Speaker 1: you want to come out and this square Circus where
Speaker 1: anybody Circus Circus. Bigger presents will be TBD and a
Speaker 1: big event we're gonna be doing stuff on the stage
Speaker 1: will be UH. We'll be at a theater UH doing
Speaker 1: a show and taking questions. It's gonna be a big weekend.
Speaker 1: Further around the NFL podcast, let's get into week one. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's start in Baltom are one time team around the
Speaker 1: NFL nominee like Chris Wessling, so we're gonna start with him.
Speaker 1: The Ravens after what I UM viewed as a very
Speaker 1: optimistic offseason where people like their draft class. Everybody liked
Speaker 1: what you heard about Joe Flacco. Um. Uh, they're they're
Speaker 1: a buzzy team a little bit in the a f C.
Speaker 1: They opened up at home against the Bills, who will
Speaker 1: be starting Nathan Peterman. Doesn't feel like a bad way
Speaker 1: to start your season if you're Baltimore. It feels like
Speaker 1: a great way to start your season if you own
Speaker 1: the Ravens fantasy defense. I love this matchup for them. Uh.
Speaker 1: Their defense and special teams were excellent last year. The
Speaker 1: same personnel is really back this year. Um, and I
Speaker 1: look for I couldn't even lock this game up. I
Speaker 1: thought the matchup was too lopsided. Unlike you, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: two ft away from an Erica tamposey sized bottle of
Speaker 1: I guess it would be Cabernet. Um. I do like
Speaker 1: this matchup to such degree that I'm gonna come in
Speaker 1: quietly here and I'm locking this up. I don't need
Speaker 1: to be loud and shout. I'm just gonna roll to
Speaker 1: a nice sixteen and no lock up title. As I
Speaker 1: promised I would locking up the Ravens down team that
Speaker 1: plays the Bills. I am going to pick every opponent
Speaker 1: that plays the Bills all season and just ruled. No
Speaker 1: one cares how it happened. I will simply win. So
Speaker 1: we're we're okay with taking tomato cans and cupcakes this year. Okay, okay, Um,
Speaker 1: the rest of us will take the segment seriously. Lashawn
Speaker 1: McCoy versus the stout Ravens defense. Um, he is playing
Speaker 1: in this game, by the way, I think that, Uh,
Speaker 1: that is a little bit of a surprise, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Because h with his offseason um situation going on, there
Speaker 1: was there was the thought that maybe he could end
Speaker 1: up missing games, and perhaps he still might, but he's
Speaker 1: here for the beginning of the year. He he gives
Speaker 1: him a chance that like, but you you don't know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get out of their offensive line, which
Speaker 1: has three new starters which look terrible in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman did move the ball in the preseason that
Speaker 1: the Ravens are one of the only teams that like
Speaker 1: got a significant amount of snaps for their starters in
Speaker 1: the preseason. I don't know if that's going to make
Speaker 1: a difference in this game, because this game has played
Speaker 1: last year, even with some of the new additions, the
Speaker 1: Ravens offense has played like. You would not expect the
Speaker 1: Ravens out to score many points in this game. Regardless.
Speaker 1: As as bad as we don't like the Bills and
Speaker 1: I think they are the biggest underdogs of the week
Speaker 1: by far, they're like, you know, to score underdogs, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be that surprising if this is just an ugly
Speaker 1: game that Nathan Peterman has a chance to win at
Speaker 1: the end and then just doesn't. Doesn't people people sleep
Speaker 1: on the Ravens offensive improvement down the stretch last year.
Speaker 1: I think they average about twenty five points a game
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Steelers are opening their season on the road
Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Browns. Mark Sessler. This is the Browns
Speaker 1: who are looking now for their first win uh in
Speaker 1: a long time of course, oh sixteen last year, a
Speaker 1: lot of positive vibes around the team, and this feels
Speaker 1: like the right time to get the Steelers, who up
Speaker 1: here that they won't have Levan Bell, who's in a
Speaker 1: bitter contract dispute. Yeah. I mean we've been asked, you know,
Speaker 1: as we go around the media rounds all week about
Speaker 1: this matchup. Has come up a lot because of the
Speaker 1: Browns fanship by me, and I will say that I
Speaker 1: think if you're Hugh Jackson, you simply cannot get off
Speaker 1: on this season to an ugly, ugly start. You have
Speaker 1: a really rugged schedule out of the gate. And the
Speaker 1: big issue with most every Browns coach outside of Mike
Speaker 1: Petton is that since two thou no other Browns coach
Speaker 1: has beaten the Steelers. Big Ben is twenty and two
Speaker 1: against the Browns. That is, that is in the NFL
Speaker 1: downright embarrassing. That is utterly embarrassing, and the record against
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh since they've come back is absurd. That said, no
Speaker 1: other Browns team on paper has had this kind of
Speaker 1: talent with Leve Bell out of the mix, and you know,
Speaker 1: legitimate discord inside the locker room towards him this is
Speaker 1: your one opportunity to take out Pittsburgh. If you do
Speaker 1: not do it here at home, I don't know what
Speaker 1: sort of start you can spect. Cleeve want to get
Speaker 1: off too, and there could be problems down the stretch.
Speaker 1: People like the Browns. People are picking the Browns. What
Speaker 1: do you make of that though, because you're big on
Speaker 1: the desert scenario. I mean, it does seem a little
Speaker 1: crazy to me. There's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: people are taking the Browns this week. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they've just turned into a public team for for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. Right now, people are riding it and this matchup,
Speaker 1: like this is a game. They should be able to
Speaker 1: score point. How about this? You didn't like my lock,
Speaker 1: I'll switch it up. I'll lock this team up. The
Speaker 1: Brown's gonna win this game. I think, whoa at the
Speaker 1: Oval a shocking move locking up the Browns the end
Speaker 1: the six losing street. Well, I'm basically trolling the Ravens.
Speaker 1: I had that planned all along, just as a terrific
Speaker 1: play was made by the man manning cal Corner out
Speaker 1: there on the field. He's doing a day. Mark just
Speaker 1: goes wild England nothing, which I feel like in any
Speaker 1: sport is an ass whooping, Yeah it is? Is it
Speaker 1: in this? It's gotta be India's like, well, this doesn't
Speaker 1: matter at Falcons, you know what? All right, let's move on.
Speaker 1: I do the rest of us? Have the Steelers in
Speaker 1: that game? By the way, Yeah yeah, I'm taking the Steelers,
Speaker 1: even though they had a history of laying and egg
Speaker 1: on the road in one o'clock games against mediocre competition.
Speaker 1: Good we crack on N's accent, you know, the accents
Speaker 1: around the table. I've really been improving throughout croc Own
Speaker 1: and we head to listen as a plot, it's very polite,
Speaker 1: extremely polite applause after what I imagined was a smashing play.
Speaker 1: Um Luck is back, my goodness in a game that counts,
Speaker 1: and that's exciting. First game since two thousand sixteen, he
Speaker 1: opens up at home against the Cincinnati Bengals. Greg Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: a team that could give Andrew Luck under Andrew Luck trouble,
Speaker 1: a good defense and Luck maybe a little rusty. You
Speaker 1: can imagine he will be. We've seen so little. I
Speaker 1: just in the crowd was like, what's going on? I
Speaker 1: think that was great analysis on Andrew Luck season. I
Speaker 1: don't really have actually don't even know what I said.
Speaker 1: I'm excited like he is. Like the games I'm most
Speaker 1: looking forward to this weekend are the ones with the
Speaker 1: biggest mystery in terms of just like what you're gonna see.
Speaker 1: And watching Andrew Luck play sixty five plays that actually count,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna tell us so much. And I've
Speaker 1: been waiting to watch him play and to me, the
Speaker 1: preseason struggles you have, I don't take too much away.
Speaker 1: This is a defense that is fine, but I don't
Speaker 1: think is a shutdown defense by any means. If anything,
Speaker 1: I just don't really expect like the Colts defense to
Speaker 1: be able to get many I'd like to see carry
Speaker 1: over because for all this, like Sean McVeigh is so smart,
Speaker 1: didn't play anyone in August. Look at this new innovation.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bengals did play their starters quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck did play. I thought for the middle game
Speaker 1: that he played in August that was not so great.
Speaker 1: A County sandwiched that with two stellar performances where we
Speaker 1: saw versions of Andrew Luck that makes you think of
Speaker 1: where he was before. The Bengals offense looked new, they
Speaker 1: looked fast, and I want to see that continue for
Speaker 1: both teams. This is sneaky, one of the better games
Speaker 1: in the a f C. Although normally you look at
Speaker 1: this and say snooze fest. It is not well. Like
Speaker 1: the majority of Andrew Luck's career, the deck is stacked
Speaker 1: against him in this game. I think his left tackle
Speaker 1: Anthony Costanzo is not practicing this week. The Bengals defensive
Speaker 1: line is the best position group on that team, and
Speaker 1: they could be dominant in this game. I want to see,
Speaker 1: like Tyler Eifer is playing football now, John Ross is
Speaker 1: playing football now for the Bengals, Like it's a different
Speaker 1: Bengals offense than we saw for a year. The first
Speaker 1: game in six d and sixteen days for Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1: Let's move on the Tennessee's items and Miami Dolphins open
Speaker 1: their season. Uh, and this is the first game for
Speaker 1: head coach Mike Rabel and Marcus Mariotta. It is Chris Westling.
Speaker 1: Perhaps a maker break season, isn't it. Yeah? I think
Speaker 1: that's fair. And Greg says he likes games with mystery.
Speaker 1: We don't know what the Titans offense is going to
Speaker 1: be with Matt Lafleur. Uh. We've seen a really we've
Speaker 1: seen a pretty boring Dolphins offense for the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. But now Albert Wilson is telling us that
Speaker 1: this is this team is gonna shock some people on offense.
Speaker 1: Albert's never said a lie. I need that against about
Speaker 1: you need it again? I need it again? Left. Wait,
Speaker 1: so something's going on in the field. There's a bunch
Speaker 1: of men, raucus uprising, there's a groundskeeper, there's some stretching.
Speaker 1: Everyone's wearing the same uniform. This is the the loudest
Speaker 1: reaction we've gotten from the crowd. Three groundsmen coming out,
Speaker 1: apparently a divot being fixed in the dirt. This is
Speaker 1: the real game. Wait, can you do start chance? Let's
Speaker 1: do it Phil? That David Phil, That Davi Phil. That's
Speaker 1: catching on. But wouldn't you say it's also make or
Speaker 1: break year for Ryan Tannehill. Yeah, considering both these quarterbacks
Speaker 1: on some level, considering all the talk leading up to
Speaker 1: the draft that the Dolphins were thinking about going for
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the first round, I think that's that's legitimate.
Speaker 1: This is the most under the radar game of the week.
Speaker 1: They're throwing like the CBS seven set number seven team
Speaker 1: on this like the crew that gets like three assignments
Speaker 1: all year and get one and back to Mariotta just
Speaker 1: to contextualize how disappointing his year was last year. And
Speaker 1: this is a team that actually want a playoff game
Speaker 1: and he and he did play well, made some plays
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, but last year he finished last and
Speaker 1: yards per tempt, passing, yards for game, passing, touchdowns, interceptions,
Speaker 1: passer rating. Um. He needs to be a better player
Speaker 1: for Tennessee to be convinced that he's the guy they
Speaker 1: thought he was when drafted him early in the first round.
Speaker 1: Dolphins are a team should struggle on defense, that should
Speaker 1: struggle to stop the run. And I think the Titans
Speaker 1: running game. They don't have Jack Conklin back for a
Speaker 1: little while, so their offensive line is not totally set.
Speaker 1: But they're a team that should be a great running team,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the way Mike Rabel wants to
Speaker 1: do it. Let's move on and talk a little. Jimmy G.
Speaker 1: It is time, Jimmy Garoppolo, who won five. She's just
Speaker 1: feeling it back there. Paramour is in the house. She's
Speaker 1: doing a little dance, a little Antoine walker shimmy. When
Speaker 1: she heard Jimmy G's name. She just gets excited. Jimmy
Speaker 1: G who won five straight games with the Nights to
Speaker 1: close out last season, but they still want six and
Speaker 1: ten here they have a chance to make Oh you know,
Speaker 1: I love him Greg a huge statement in Week one
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, Mark Sessler, the Vikings are the favorites in
Speaker 1: this game, but do you give San Francisco shot? I do.
Speaker 1: I love this matchup for a lot For basically the offseason,
Speaker 1: the narrative of Jimmy G and the Niners are just
Speaker 1: going to play the role of, you know, upsetting the
Speaker 1: Apple cart in the NFC rolled and potentially roll into
Speaker 1: the wild card round. But now Jimmy G have to
Speaker 1: win five straight last season. You put him up against
Speaker 1: the defense that on paper looks like a super Bowl
Speaker 1: level defense. You got the Kirk Cousins things going on.
Speaker 1: It's the perfect test for Jimmy G in Week one
Speaker 1: versus putting him up against some sort of tin Candidy
Speaker 1: can kick with his foot forty ft across the field.
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings defense is a lot better at
Speaker 1: home too. This is one of the better home field
Speaker 1: advantages in the league. To me, this is as much
Speaker 1: as I like Jimmy G. This would be a major
Speaker 1: upset if the forty win in there and won this game.
Speaker 1: This is, by the way, the forty Niners Vikings game
Speaker 1: is the early game on sky Sports today. Um, who
Speaker 1: is who is the kind of player you're most excited
Speaker 1: to see in this game? I want to see Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook on the field in games that count. Again, he
Speaker 1: was a favorite or looking like a potential favorite for
Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Year before he tours a c L.
Speaker 1: You got Kirk Cousins in his first game. Unfortunately, we
Speaker 1: won't get Jerick McKinnon in his first game after he
Speaker 1: tore his a c L. But it's gonna be. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun subplots in this game. This would
Speaker 1: be one of the games the most excited to watch.
Speaker 1: George I loca, that's who we're looking forward to watch now.
Speaker 1: Just getting Kirk Cousins, of course, I think everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: be paying attention to how he does after getting paid
Speaker 1: like a little George Kittle. He also seemed Cousins seemed
Speaker 1: like so over the top after like his one bad
Speaker 1: preseason game, and that's kind of how Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: all the time. So I don't put too much into it.
Speaker 1: But it has to be on his mind taking over
Speaker 1: a new team and everything that's going on with him
Speaker 1: like it's he does not feel comfortable yet. Here's the
Speaker 1: this is the recipe that the Vikings thought they were
Speaker 1: going for in terms of taking this thing and finally
Speaker 1: winning a super Bowl. You have now would you believe
Speaker 1: to be an upgrade at quarterback? And Kirk Cousins, he's
Speaker 1: the first guy to ever change teams after a four
Speaker 1: thousand yards season. He's in his prime. He's supposed to
Speaker 1: make the offense better. The Vikings held twelve of their
Speaker 1: sixteen opponents last year under twenty points. This is team
Speaker 1: is as built if things go right to blow teams out.
Speaker 1: So will they take care of business against San Francisco.
Speaker 1: It's almost pointing if they don't go to the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and it's someone puts Kirk Cousins in a bit of
Speaker 1: an odd position on some level. The Cowboys Panthers, by
Speaker 1: the way, is the late afternoon game on Sky Sports.
Speaker 1: Uh this weekend. We are speaking of Sky Sports. We
Speaker 1: were there on um Wednesday, Wednesday, UH, and it was
Speaker 1: we did a ton of media related things on I
Speaker 1: guess uh. We started at the NFL UK office where
Speaker 1: we did a round of interviews, press interviews. Um, I
Speaker 1: did a fourteen second spot on Good Morning Football. Uh
Speaker 1: what one of the press interviews? Uh? You know these
Speaker 1: are journalists journals coming in and sitting in a conference
Speaker 1: room and asking us, like, over and over and over again, Dan,
Speaker 1: what do you think of Sam Donald? Strangely, guys, is
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers overpaid? Popped up a lot? And now some
Speaker 1: of these interviews are showing up in the local dailies.
Speaker 1: What was the greg What was there? They used a
Speaker 1: choice line, Uh, something that I don't even remember saying
Speaker 1: about Tom Brady that now I'm quoted in an English
Speaker 1: paper of record that Brady asked like what superstar is
Speaker 1: gonna fall off a clip? And you said, well, you
Speaker 1: gotta mention to Tom Brady, Right, I guess so that
Speaker 1: is now on record. So I guess I'm now back
Speaker 1: in on the hashtag gradual decline. Uh, just because of
Speaker 1: the British newspapers. And there's also a pull quote that
Speaker 1: they enlarged where it says London NFL team is in
Speaker 1: the pipeline, it's no pipe dream. Did we said that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess it's a lesson for us.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why we're learning this now that when
Speaker 1: journals have microphones burning and we're on the record and
Speaker 1: we say something that it is recorded. Well, I probably
Speaker 1: said that because earlier that you definitely said Mark and
Speaker 1: I went and saw, you know, the Minister of sport,
Speaker 1: uh and she that's a humble brad. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: when we took a little tour, we you were really
Speaker 1: impressed by the the toiletry well, not that it was
Speaker 1: so essentially I feel like we've you know, got discussed this.
Speaker 1: There was a very ornate room, incredible wallpaper, looked like
Speaker 1: something out of a Stanley Kubrick film to some degree,
Speaker 1: but a panel of walling that they opened up and
Speaker 1: inside of it just a toilet. And who is allowed
Speaker 1: to use that toilet? Only one person on the entire planet.
Speaker 1: Who is that person? It is the Queen. No one
Speaker 1: else goes to the baths on the toilet but the Queen,
Speaker 1: and we saw it. That's amazing, she has her own.
Speaker 1: No one else in the world can use it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm in a hotel room right now where I'm only
Speaker 1: only person using But it's a little bit different but
Speaker 1: when we when we were there, the minister Tracy Tracy right,
Speaker 1: I should be getting this crowd. She she was rather
Speaker 1: confident about getting a team in a super Bowl here
Speaker 1: and annoyed that I didn't standpoint there. That's her job
Speaker 1: to beat. Now I set you up. I want the
Speaker 1: crowd has in full murmur. Something's going on. I wanted
Speaker 1: to hear about that dirty throne that that the queen
Speaker 1: left behind. It was Christine. I don't think she's been
Speaker 1: there in a while. This has gone off the rails
Speaker 1: sky Sports and they and we hung out with Neil Reynold.
Speaker 1: You're never being allowed back, like just just Henry hearing
Speaker 1: us talk about cricket is going to cancel any possibility
Speaker 1: of making this trip again. And Mace and the whole
Speaker 1: crew over there. We had a lot of fun. They
Speaker 1: split us up for some of these media engagements and
Speaker 1: it was just done at random, I think, But for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, Mark and I were sent to their part
Speaker 1: of the Sky Sports Giant complex. I've never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it. That was We thought we were going to
Speaker 1: do some regular, you know, sit down in their sports department.
Speaker 1: Turns out we're getting Mike definitely look around it's a
Speaker 1: very like heavy serious rule. Yes, somber and somber is
Speaker 1: a good word to describe it. And there's this big
Speaker 1: set in the middle of the news room, uh that
Speaker 1: me and Margot. All of a sudden go on, we
Speaker 1: sit down and two very highly polished looking UH anchors
Speaker 1: saddle up next to us. And it's at that point
Speaker 1: mark that we realize that this is not some like
Speaker 1: fun sit down to to shoot shoot shoot the ass
Speaker 1: about American football, but yet an indictment or a massive
Speaker 1: questioning of the entire sport. Yes, and uh, I mean
Speaker 1: the way it played out. You know, normally you want
Speaker 1: to get into the headspace if I'm ready for this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna handle this all at things like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: in sixth grade. I have no idea what I'm doing
Speaker 1: sitting in this chair, I have no idea what to say.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly we get through this thing and Dan's
Speaker 1: final comment at one point that both anchors are like
Speaker 1: swirling their hands just saying, please get done, please get done,
Speaker 1: please finish your finish a comment bas we're just about
Speaker 1: to go off, so like they rushed this off stage
Speaker 1: and we go up stairs and west and West and
Speaker 1: Gregor like floated out on a couch with like legs
Speaker 1: over the cushions, like having this like breezy conversation about
Speaker 1: fantasy football, just having a great time. Everyone's sitting around
Speaker 1: drinking coffee and champagne. Oh look at these two. They're
Speaker 1: just so great on air. Their careers are on fire.
Speaker 1: And it's like when we were sitting at our like
Speaker 1: hardcore news interview for the CNN equivalent in the UK,
Speaker 1: they're like, but just Colin Kaepernick deserved to play football.
Speaker 1: And then we walked back and we're like, hammona hammamma.
Speaker 1: And then when we walked downstairs and like, there's this
Speaker 1: woman lounging on like a Chase couch with the boys,
Speaker 1: And isn't fantasy football just the best? Like I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I really played myself and I have so much
Speaker 1: to say. I'm in such a relaxed movie like market
Speaker 1: Ire sweating like those This is exactly how it was.
Speaker 1: You can you can find Western Eyes leisurely appearance on
Speaker 1: Facebook Live and you can never see what Dan and
Speaker 1: market import that and embargo it and send it to
Speaker 1: NFL dot com. Do not because what we said at
Speaker 1: the end, probably they would not like at all. You
Speaker 1: can watch our experience from sky Sports on NFL dot
Speaker 1: Com and Twitter, but I would say, uh, just to
Speaker 1: focus on the Greg and West adventure. Please our please
Speaker 1: horrific ordeal. You also, to your credit, you both rebounded separately.
Speaker 1: Later we taped a previous show for sky Sports, Inside
Speaker 1: the Huddle with Neil Reynolds, which I believe is also
Speaker 1: a podcast, And like you, you wiped off the flop
Speaker 1: sweat and you and you did a great job that show.
Speaker 1: That was enjoyable. We were with our friend and that
Speaker 1: felt like we're back in our zone. The first thing
Speaker 1: was a bit traumatically. Colin Kaeperneck electric um. The Houston Texans, Oh,
Speaker 1: one of the big um you know, still thinking about that,
Speaker 1: it must have been harrowing. It was harrowing was the
Speaker 1: Texans that they have a high ceiling, they have a
Speaker 1: low floor, and they have what I imagined to be
Speaker 1: or I feel is a almost impossible matchup to go
Speaker 1: into Gillette against the Patriots. The Patriots, still stinging Greg
Speaker 1: from that embarrassing Super Bowl loss, just couldn't get off
Speaker 1: the field. On defense, Bill Belichick tarnished his legacy with
Speaker 1: the Malcolm Butler Benching, which is a lot of great stuff.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady couldn't catch a ball, a lot of good
Speaker 1: stuff at that game. But now it's a new start
Speaker 1: and they're gonna take it out on the Texans. So
Speaker 1: they always seem uh to handle in their building, well
Speaker 1: except last year when you know, Texans kind of went
Speaker 1: up and down the field on them and Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: gave them all sorts of problems and they it seems
Speaker 1: like a team you do not want to play in
Speaker 1: Week one because you have no idea what the Texans
Speaker 1: are gonna throw on you, and I would expect them
Speaker 1: to score a lot of points on the Patriots. I
Speaker 1: don't see this as some game that if unwinnable for Houston.
Speaker 1: That was the game against the Patriots last year that
Speaker 1: had me I feel like I uttered it once or
Speaker 1: twice incorrectly on the podcast lash or that the Texans
Speaker 1: were the team that would scare me if I was
Speaker 1: New England the an f C playoffs because they were
Speaker 1: so bizarre and you have no offensive line and yet
Speaker 1: it did not matter at all. And this is the
Speaker 1: team that we talked about a bit of a boom
Speaker 1: or bus based on the health, and what version we
Speaker 1: get to J. J. Watt, what version we get of
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson? If the line can do anything to stop
Speaker 1: a defense. It's amazing how seasons turn like that, because
Speaker 1: it was not unreasonable after that game to say that
Speaker 1: the Texans will give the Patriots problems. It was the
Speaker 1: game where you said Deshaun Watson's for real. It was
Speaker 1: the game where you knew that the Patriots had serious
Speaker 1: issues on defense. And I'm not sure if those issues
Speaker 1: are really fixed. We saw a slightly better pass rush
Speaker 1: in the preseason, but I don't know if that's gonna
Speaker 1: hold better looking roster. I think the Patriots is going
Speaker 1: to be so different that I don't think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Bill Belichick smarting from losing that Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: But to me, this team, what about having his legacy
Speaker 1: tarn It is so totally different. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's five and three in the Super Bowl. He'll survive. Uh.
Speaker 1: And although because I forgot, I like that we're in
Speaker 1: preview season again because football is back. That's fun. I
Speaker 1: did forget. When I set Greg up on a Patriots game,
Speaker 1: he immediately explains why the Patriots are really up against
Speaker 1: it this point. It was thirty three last year and
Speaker 1: there's no J. J. Watt there against the Patriots taking over.
Speaker 1: That's all my point. You're right, though, I didn't remember
Speaker 1: that how well they played in the year before in
Speaker 1: the in the playoffs. But you don't know what the
Speaker 1: Texans defense is going to be. You don't know how
Speaker 1: ready Clowney is for the season. I mean that's something.
Speaker 1: Watching Thursday Night football, I it was bad because everyone
Speaker 1: was dog tired after thirty plays, and it was just like,
Speaker 1: which which team can make plays while they're insanely tired.
Speaker 1: It's a different week than than any other week. But
Speaker 1: if Watt and Clowney actually can play the whole game
Speaker 1: and they're doing their thing, it could be a problem.
Speaker 1: When note looking at the ACU weather update, it is
Speaker 1: meant to be sixty seven degrees with partly sunny skies
Speaker 1: stadium on Sunday. Now there's just a bunch of dudes
Speaker 1: wearing white standing on the field and there are twenty
Speaker 1: people in active conversation. Will these guys are just chilling out.
Speaker 1: People are getting I think it's sort of everyone's sort
Speaker 1: of fooling employers and fooling everything. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the what the overall game plan, just
Speaker 1: like in any change in baseball, right, it's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: two hours of play though, and then after those two
Speaker 1: hours the two teams do have a forty five minute
Speaker 1: lunch which they together eat together, which is not a joke.
Speaker 1: Is kind of the moment where as Americans, we just
Speaker 1: don't really understand what's happening. There's a tea break later
Speaker 1: to Henry's like, tisk tisk, please enjoy my sport. I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying it, Henry, I just don't get it. Moving on,
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are heading to the super Dome
Speaker 1: to play the Saints. The Bucks will be without Jamis Winston,
Speaker 1: who gets his suspension for off the field mouthfeasance smashing. Uh.
Speaker 1: And now the Saints get a chance to take the
Speaker 1: next step after their heartbreaking lost in the divisional playoffs.
Speaker 1: On the Miracle on the media Um Minneapolis, Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: starts the season without mark ingram there Um as their
Speaker 1: top running back. Mark Seessler, your thoughts on this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're the Saints, you have to believe
Speaker 1: internally that you have one of the most complete teams
Speaker 1: in the NFC, the entire NFL, and this is the team,
Speaker 1: the Bucks that I think the Bucks probably will be
Speaker 1: better than some believe. When I don't know, you're right,
Speaker 1: there is an uproar suddenly, Dan putting the mic through
Speaker 1: the window to get a little bit of ambient crowd
Speaker 1: noise happening. Is the chef no longer cooking? Is he
Speaker 1: not up anymore? Alistair cook? I mean you honestly be
Speaker 1: asking us for tangible up final friendly? Not friendly? His final?
Speaker 1: What is the called test test? Is? What is a
Speaker 1: illustrious career of the chef retiring at age thirty two? Interesting? Sorry? Mark,
Speaker 1: go on, no no problem. I think actually what you
Speaker 1: did was probably more critical than what I was about
Speaker 1: to say about this game. But the Saints very complete
Speaker 1: and if you don't handle your business here, How's that?
Speaker 1: How's that? How's that? How's that? How's that? Every year?
Speaker 1: There's every year there's a shocking upset in Week one
Speaker 1: where it makes you think differently about a team. And
Speaker 1: I wonder Tampa Bay's defensive line front seven will have
Speaker 1: a chance to push around the Saints because the Saints
Speaker 1: offensive line was one of the best in the league.
Speaker 1: Last year. But this is a revamp front seven for
Speaker 1: the Bucks with Jason Pierre Paul Vida Vellay. They look
Speaker 1: pretty stacked on that line. Now, this is one offense
Speaker 1: that looks great in the preseason. If anyone cares, I
Speaker 1: know nobody does. We've been through this before. The Bucks
Speaker 1: had the worst past defense. Yeah really um last year.
Speaker 1: But if they're front seven is much improved, everything flows
Speaker 1: in a better direction. If they play the Saints, well,
Speaker 1: they beat the Saints in a game that Saints desperately
Speaker 1: wanted to win, and Week seventeen, I've never heard about
Speaker 1: that game before. This also would be like the worst.
Speaker 1: We've also talked about this season too much. This always
Speaker 1: happens every week. One preview is that we've were kind
Speaker 1: of run out of things to say about these teams.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of steroids because how many times have
Speaker 1: you guys heard someone asked me to explain my thoughts
Speaker 1: and Sam Donald and the optimism roughly fifty times in
Speaker 1: the past four days. Let's move on to Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 1: London's uh preferred franchise, kind of maybe open their season
Speaker 1: at the Metal Lands against the New York Giants. The
Speaker 1: Giants coming off that disastrous three and thirteen, but they
Speaker 1: have a new head coach and a new running back
Speaker 1: and sat Kwan Barkley who missed a lot of the
Speaker 1: preseason with a hamstring in hamstring issue west but now
Speaker 1: he gets to face off against one of the league's
Speaker 1: top defenses. That's a fun mat to watch, it is.
Speaker 1: And you joked about this being London's team, the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: but that's been one of the things I've noticed this week.
Speaker 1: Even though so many people here have disparate rooting interests,
Speaker 1: the coverage of the Jaguars is certainly headlining the NFL
Speaker 1: here that they do feel like the home team for London.
Speaker 1: And and there's gonna be a lot of people interested
Speaker 1: in this game here. I think, to borrow Greg's phrase
Speaker 1: on on the mystery the Giants to me may be
Speaker 1: the biggest mystery in the league. How much Sae Kwon
Speaker 1: Barkley in that offensive line improvement will breathe new life
Speaker 1: into Eli's career, can't you know? Dell Beckham back? And
Speaker 1: then the defense an entirely new scheme, a new coordinator,
Speaker 1: Guys like Jason Pierre Paul are gone. What's this defense
Speaker 1: gonna be like people are into the Jaguars. I think
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people's second favorite team, and
Speaker 1: you know, an American view is like, oh, how can
Speaker 1: you have a second favorite team. It's like, well, to
Speaker 1: be a fan here, you came upon your team in
Speaker 1: a strange way. We have we've we probably said it
Speaker 1: the other night, but like there's no casual fans here.
Speaker 1: You know, I had the experience last night of kind
Speaker 1: of having that UK fan experience, which the game was
Speaker 1: delayed forty minutes, which didn't help. But the game started
Speaker 1: at two uh, it ended at five. I you know,
Speaker 1: I tweet was tweeting about it, and there's sixties seventy
Speaker 1: British people staying up to watch a game of two
Speaker 1: teams that they don't even follow. So they'll like one
Speaker 1: team that that's their team, but they'll also kind of
Speaker 1: route on other teams and they just like the sport
Speaker 1: I think as a whole. And I think that kind
Speaker 1: of allows them to just root on the Jaguars because
Speaker 1: what's good for the Jaguars in theories kind of good
Speaker 1: for London football and they play this defensive style and
Speaker 1: I think they're a terrible matchup for the Giants in
Speaker 1: Week one, even though I think it'll be a much
Speaker 1: better Giants defense offense this year, Like this is a
Speaker 1: rough way to start. Uh. Greg was really solid analysis.
Speaker 1: But I have to say, I, you know, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of I like that the Giants on some level. They're
Speaker 1: not my team, but they're New York teams, so I
Speaker 1: don't mind when they succeed. And uh. Also I like
Speaker 1: Eli Manning uh starting over with a new coaching staff
Speaker 1: and with Odell Beckham and say Kwon Barkley and snarling
Speaker 1: Shepherd is improved defense and rocking meadow Lands and a
Speaker 1: Jaguars team that still thinks Blake Bortles is the answer
Speaker 1: and reasons and so many more. Hey, luncheon, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look it up, lock it up. One that's going
Speaker 1: out on a limb just blew out Erica's years and
Speaker 1: all twenty five thousand people just looked over at us.
Speaker 1: Stop interrupted, All right, let's keep no. I believe, and
Speaker 1: I think the Giant Giants are gonna win, and I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win ten games, so I gotta back
Speaker 1: it up. I'm sorry, Eric, Are you okay? I'm good.
Speaker 1: Erica was boozing a little bit last night, Stunner, that's
Speaker 1: not what happened her or canal has just been destroyed
Speaker 1: by your chance. Yeah you like you didn't have a
Speaker 1: headache before that. Moving on to Kansas City Chiefs tenant
Speaker 1: six last season, Uh, really bitterly disappointing playoff loss to
Speaker 1: the Titoons of all teams. Uh, so what do they do?
Speaker 1: They begin the future with Patrick Mahomes, They trade Alex
Speaker 1: Smith away, so it's mahomess um debut as the starter
Speaker 1: against the Chargers, Greg who I know you love to death. Well,
Speaker 1: how about this at home against a rookie quarter but
Speaker 1: not a rookie quarterback, but a guy starting as uh
Speaker 1: his first season as the starter. Why not get behind
Speaker 1: your team right now and say they're gonna take care
Speaker 1: of business, not blow it and do it some stupid
Speaker 1: Chargers thing where they kicked the game away or blow
Speaker 1: it at the end. Go win a football game here,
Speaker 1: I think they will. I think Week one is the
Speaker 1: time wuld be afraid of playing Andy Reid. I think
Speaker 1: there's a reason why he always wins games. Coming off
Speaker 1: of bye week is a reason why the Patriots had
Speaker 1: no clue what was about to hit them in Week
Speaker 1: one a year ago. Not that they've started every season
Speaker 1: like that, but just with that Arsenal, I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna end up cooking up a few plays that just
Speaker 1: catch the Chargers off balance, and overall the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: just a better coach team, certainly offensively, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if yeah, when we worried a little bit
Speaker 1: about the defense, there are I think I think this
Speaker 1: is a mismatch when the Chargers have the ball, like
Speaker 1: this is the I think is my favorite game, and
Speaker 1: watch the week. If this is gonna be a game
Speaker 1: in the thirties, I don't care it's a Week one.
Speaker 1: This has to be a start all your players fantasy
Speaker 1: matchup that the Chargers to me are the better team.
Speaker 1: And even if they take an early lead and you
Speaker 1: worry about Boston Ingram, then the Chiefs will just have
Speaker 1: to keep passing because we don't trust their defense. We
Speaker 1: don't trust that secondary certainly, so that if they have
Speaker 1: to play catch up, this could be a fantasy boon.
Speaker 1: Andy Reid against Anthony Lynn. I just got spooked a
Speaker 1: little bit. I am right now in sort of a
Speaker 1: late Diane Keaton period where I'm wearing sunglasses, and I'm
Speaker 1: soon to have a large top hat on me and
Speaker 1: just room everywhere with that. And I'll put a pant
Speaker 1: suit on soon, big baggy, like a pat suit. I
Speaker 1: could see that you're not You're not getting that Chiefs
Speaker 1: Chargers analysis anywhere else. You know. Well, it's like sometimes
Speaker 1: you just run out of things to say, so you
Speaker 1: must come up with something else. Moving. The Washington Redskins
Speaker 1: open their season against the Arizona Cardinals. This game will
Speaker 1: be played in Arizona. Mark Alex Smith making his Redskins debut.
Speaker 1: Cardinals have Sam Bradford at quarterback at least from now,
Speaker 1: and David Johnson welcome back to the uh NFL after
Speaker 1: missing almost all of last year with that wrist injury.
Speaker 1: It's funny because we haven't asked, also multiple times, like
Speaker 1: about all these players coming back, right, And it's obviously
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks get the attention, the Andrew lux the and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, the Teddy Bridgewaters. But David Johnson seems to
Speaker 1: get lost in that conversation sometime. And it's easy because
Speaker 1: one year removed to forget how dominant he was, how
Speaker 1: much of a central figure he was in that offense.
Speaker 1: This to me. You've got Adrian Peterson going against David
Speaker 1: Johnson and what is what The Cardinal were another team
Speaker 1: that just simply has been a bit forgotten, I think,
Speaker 1: without a little bit lack of an identity after post
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians, and they might be a team that I
Speaker 1: could wouldn't be surprised to see he goes seven and nine,
Speaker 1: eight and Nate and surprise. Some teams play a little
Speaker 1: bit of a spoiler. How about Adrian Peterson officially announced
Speaker 1: as the starter, already already taken Rob Kelly's job, your
Speaker 1: loving life like, it's feels good too that you've been
Speaker 1: on Adrian Peterson corner at least for a few more.
Speaker 1: But now the game start, we gotta see if it
Speaker 1: is he gonna stay healthy and is he gonna actually perform?
Speaker 1: But things, I mean, you work, say you were calling
Speaker 1: this west when he was without a job, so you're
Speaker 1: definitely he is now set up to prove people wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of days before they signed him,
Speaker 1: Jake Gruden said Rob Kelly's our starter, and then Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson got in there and basically blew the doors off
Speaker 1: that he impressed him so much. Uh, in a short
Speaker 1: time there that they knew obviously he was the better
Speaker 1: runner UM before we move on to the next game
Speaker 1: UH and he take ways Greg from our live show
Speaker 1: on Tuesday from the Curtain Club. It was a great experience.
Speaker 1: If you haven't checked it out, please check it out
Speaker 1: on UH podcast. Also we post We've posted some clips
Speaker 1: on our social media after after the show, we had
Speaker 1: a meet up at another establishment that went past midnight.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun. To your thoughts, just
Speaker 1: how much fun it was, I mean, and that I
Speaker 1: can't wait to do it again. And I'm glad that
Speaker 1: our first live show was in London, like that felt
Speaker 1: like the right audience for us. They were so they
Speaker 1: were excited. I think we all had a blast, and
Speaker 1: I think it's something we're gonna keep doing. Like and
Speaker 1: now now we showed the NFL that we can we
Speaker 1: can do this, and I think it's something that they
Speaker 1: don't know. I think we're gonna be doing this during
Speaker 1: the season. We have some hopes that could be happening
Speaker 1: UM in the States during the season, and like Let's fly,
Speaker 1: I think we were like thinking going in like we
Speaker 1: were sitting up at a table upstairs on the sort
Speaker 1: of rooftop bar slash diner area of this hotel, thinking,
Speaker 1: you know what, we should have done some sort of
Speaker 1: dry run of a live show somewhere else, because now
Speaker 1: we're about to do it, it's ten minutes away, a
Speaker 1: little a little bit nervous, but then we rolled in
Speaker 1: and the energy of the crowd was fantastic. I felt
Speaker 1: it was one of the most i want to say,
Speaker 1: easy shows to do, but enjoyable shows to do that
Speaker 1: we've ever done. And the minute we sat down in
Speaker 1: those chairs with that crowd, it just came naturally. The
Speaker 1: energy was there. I love sort of the interaction afterwards too.
Speaker 1: The two things that almost every single person came up
Speaker 1: and said to me were, we all feel like your
Speaker 1: friends that were like the fifth member of the show
Speaker 1: that we were sitting down with you guys when we
Speaker 1: listened to the podcast, which is great, great to hear. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Erica's friend too. Of course, Erica was a sort of
Speaker 1: a secret star of the night place you knocked out
Speaker 1: of the park. Also, how how many people have a
Speaker 1: grandpa or a sister, or a brother or a son
Speaker 1: or something in their lives who went through cancer. And
Speaker 1: I heard that from a lot of people that they
Speaker 1: really got a lot out of us talking about it
Speaker 1: on the show. That was a career highlight for me,
Speaker 1: a career highlight for all the guys. So to be
Speaker 1: able to experience that here with you guys in the UK,
Speaker 1: that we're able to come out, uh, that was awesome.
Speaker 1: And if you did miss out on that, UM this
Speaker 1: week on Saturday twelve pm, will be on stage at
Speaker 1: Piccadilly Circus the Big NFL kickoff event. Also, if you
Speaker 1: have tickets, we have two shows at the BAFTA Theater Um.
Speaker 1: We have to check believe that's sold out, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure the scalper market is intense, so spare no expense
Speaker 1: because it will be an unforgettable show. We have to
Speaker 1: see if we can get our walk up song because
Speaker 1: that's one part of the show that was not on
Speaker 1: the recorded podcast that I think was my personal favorite.
Speaker 1: Like ever since I was a little boy, it's basically
Speaker 1: been my dream to come out to a live show
Speaker 1: of some sort. I didn't have a sport to play,
Speaker 1: so it really took a while for this to come together.
Speaker 1: And here the sound ounds of Pharaoh manch get the
Speaker 1: up and then jump onto the stage and just feel
Speaker 1: the energy from the crowd. And the song is actually
Speaker 1: Simon says. Simon says, is the official name, but everyone
Speaker 1: knows the important part is in the parentheses. Ironically, and
Speaker 1: that was an episode of Greg Likes Rap. Ironically. The
Speaker 1: song that I came out to was called in the Bushes,
Speaker 1: Sorry Erica, a little post work by Oasis, which was
Speaker 1: a little nod uh to the English people here. Mark,
Speaker 1: of course, sorry Erica for the general language that you're
Speaker 1: unfurling in general to a room. I mean, the sailor's
Speaker 1: language is out of control. The two of you go ahead,
Speaker 1: how please shadow figure angry behind me. I just heard
Speaker 1: a deep exhale. Mark came out. He's like, let's not
Speaker 1: give Erica too much credit here, please. Mark came out
Speaker 1: to the world by and you know off her second No,
Speaker 1: I did not, and uh has a touching a song
Speaker 1: that you want to tell the audience. Well, well, what
Speaker 1: did we talk about this on the show already? I
Speaker 1: can't remember. I believe that part was cut out. It's
Speaker 1: called empty Me Out by Liz Vice, and it's I'm
Speaker 1: not a religious man. It's it's a little bit about religion,
Speaker 1: a lot about religion. But when I was getting out
Speaker 1: of surgery last summer and completely dependent upon other people.
Speaker 1: Keisha's mom came and stayed with us. Rhoda and I
Speaker 1: sort of taught her that song. She learned all the
Speaker 1: lyrics and she would sing it, you know, sort of
Speaker 1: at my bedside while she prayed for me. So is
Speaker 1: it big call back from It was a little tough
Speaker 1: to follow that up with like dune dune dunt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it worked, Dune dun dun um. Watched the best of
Speaker 1: the live show on Twitter. On our various handles, you
Speaker 1: could you could get that. Let's move on back to
Speaker 1: the games. The Dallas Cowboys UH nine at seven tough
Speaker 1: season last year, dealing with the Zeke Elliot drama. UH.
Speaker 1: They now travel to Charlotte to face the Panthers West. UH.
Speaker 1: Two young quarterbacks UH that are sometimes inconsistent, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and Cam Newton square off here. Does Dak have the
Speaker 1: weapons to hang in a game like this? That's a
Speaker 1: good question. I don't think anybody knows the answer, because
Speaker 1: this is a game where the two biggest question marks
Speaker 1: are the offensive line without starting center Travis Frederick for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys UH, and then the Panthers are just beat
Speaker 1: up all over on the offensive line. So is is
Speaker 1: zee Oli gonna be able to establish the run um?
Speaker 1: Are those wide receivers and tight ends good enough to
Speaker 1: keep Dak Prescott in a game with Cam Newton? I
Speaker 1: think those are legitimate questions after an offseason of the
Speaker 1: Panthers defensive line repeatedly getting upset that they weren't ranked
Speaker 1: among the top ten defensive lines by NFL dot Com
Speaker 1: and bringing this up repeatedly that no one respects them.
Speaker 1: This is a nice spot to get something over on what,
Speaker 1: in theory is one of the best offensive lines in
Speaker 1: the league, but probably isn't anymore because if the rookie
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is playing the preseason, is any indication they
Speaker 1: might have a couple of weeks spots right now? And
Speaker 1: we haven't seen that for a few years. And if
Speaker 1: you take away if suddenly the Cowboys offensive line is
Speaker 1: not what it was and that was their entire identity.
Speaker 1: We brought that up on the show roughly seventy five
Speaker 1: thou times. What is this offense? And what are the
Speaker 1: Cowboys Zeke Elliott under a hundred yards? And this is reductive,
Speaker 1: but like if you do that, do you feel like
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose to the Cowboys if you can control
Speaker 1: Elliott and he is against a run defense that could
Speaker 1: stuff him this game. I don't know if Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: has been set up properly by his team to carry
Speaker 1: the day if he has to, So that's a big subplot.
Speaker 1: I think he can have a great season. It's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons Week one is my favorite week because
Speaker 1: it's been the longest since you've seen football and because
Speaker 1: all of these conceptions that we have about the team
Speaker 1: are probably going to be blown up over the next month.
Speaker 1: You you really don't know. It's it's one of the
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick cliches that I actually do believe that it's
Speaker 1: every year is like a totally different year, and you
Speaker 1: might as well just throw away the one before it. Alright,
Speaker 1: moving on the soil, the Seattle Seahawks. Everything must die
Speaker 1: in the end, Mitill High to face the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 1: and uh, the Broncos have case Keenum the quarterback. They're
Speaker 1: trying to turn things around after a rough two thousand seventeen.
Speaker 1: But the question mark a lot of people are gonna
Speaker 1: have here is how old the Seahawks defense look no
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, no Camp Chancellor, Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril, Sheldon
Speaker 1: Richardson all history. It's a new beginning for the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and an uncertain one. Yeah, I mean you can you
Speaker 1: can say that these two teams are both mystery teams.
Speaker 1: I feel every one of these teams that we're discussing
Speaker 1: your mystery teams. But Seattle is fascinating to me simply
Speaker 1: because they've had such an entrenched identity for so long,
Speaker 1: entirely maybe through the entire run of this podcast, and
Speaker 1: now we're looking at the Seahawks team that we are
Speaker 1: waiting to find out who they are. And the Broncos
Speaker 1: all fence with case Keenum. Where keenom to me? I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: Suddenly you're in an offense that I think is completely
Speaker 1: different in terms of talent level than the Vikings. But
Speaker 1: there are some young pieces here. I think Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year candidates if Case Keenum can get it done. From
Speaker 1: a quarterback perspective, I am so high on this Broncos
Speaker 1: rookie class. I love watching games at Investco Field. There's
Speaker 1: a little revenge factor here for super something. Now this
Speaker 1: there's a lock up one of our that's a call
Speaker 1: back to one of our favorite running through lines of
Speaker 1: this week. Now this is London. So last night we
Speaker 1: were out with a bunch of friends, ourselves and other friends,
Speaker 1: and we probably did roughly four to five video skits
Speaker 1: of I mean, I wish we could put tempose on
Speaker 1: the mic. This is described Come on tampose, guys. Now
Speaker 1: this is London. Uh So we're gonna put together a
Speaker 1: sizzle reel of all of our various videos right now.
Speaker 1: This is London. That's the only thing Eric said she
Speaker 1: has she has eight words in her so you can
Speaker 1: say something else right now. This is London. So she's
Speaker 1: mentally sick. So we gotta get her held right after
Speaker 1: today's cricket match, which is over and approximately six hours.
Speaker 1: Just another grand mystery to unpack. Boys, please identifying with
Speaker 1: my sport cookie cookie with thirty one runs or whatever?
Speaker 1: What are they called thirty one? It's sixty to nothing India.
Speaker 1: Wake up, bros. They're playing India right. I don't know
Speaker 1: if India is batted yet. That's it's just like a
Speaker 1: slow pace, so you take turn. I don't It is
Speaker 1: the Dictionary definition of a slow burned sport. This is
Speaker 1: after two point five overs. Yeah, the chef is cooking. Chef, chef,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna like what you see. How about you
Speaker 1: locked up the Broncos. I'm taking the Broncos with the loco.
Speaker 1: I like that. How About Kim Griffin starting the first
Speaker 1: game of his NFL career. I mean, I know it's
Speaker 1: because there's an injury to kJ right is a primary reason,
Speaker 1: but he also looked like a player that absolutely belonged
Speaker 1: and could make an impact pretty early in his career.
Speaker 1: I agree with that, But also West, you point out
Speaker 1: the rookie class Bradley Chubb in the in the in
Speaker 1: the preseason looked fantastic and what this defense can do
Speaker 1: from a past rushing perspective, that would concern me if
Speaker 1: I'm Russell Wilson. I also think because of what Chakeem
Speaker 1: Griffin's overcome, it's almost overlooked, Uh that the that the
Speaker 1: these two brothers are on the same team, not not
Speaker 1: that that's not talked about, just like insane, Like it's
Speaker 1: insane that, Okay, this is a new Seahawks defense and
Speaker 1: we've got the two Griffin you know, brothers in the
Speaker 1: back doing it. I mean, it's great. It makes me
Speaker 1: want to root for them. I'm rooting again to you
Speaker 1: this week, Chris Wilt, I can handle it to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: A little annoyed that Chubb is not Cleveland Brown. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm annoyed about roughly things. It's one of the things
Speaker 1: I'm annoyed about moving on Sunday Night Football. Uh. Rivalry.
Speaker 1: It's a very honest take their right. That's unbarnessed truth
Speaker 1: from Mark Settler. Uh. Something happened with the chef. H No,
Speaker 1: I think they're all gonna go have to now. Um.
Speaker 1: The Bears and the Packers at Lambeau Lambeau, nice job,
Speaker 1: schedule makers. Fun uh fun robbery, great setting. But what
Speaker 1: they could not have planned at the time was that
Speaker 1: one of the best defensive players of the past decade
Speaker 1: would be traded to the road team. So Khalil Mack
Speaker 1: will make his debut on Sunday Night Football in front
Speaker 1: of al Chris Michelle and the world. Greg Rosatal, It's
Speaker 1: amazing that in a game where Aaron Rodgers is returning
Speaker 1: that like, I'm as almost as excited when the Bears
Speaker 1: have the ball, like the Bears. The Bears are the
Speaker 1: team of around the NFL. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: any of the people honk and that we curse them
Speaker 1: if they go five and eleven. They could go five
Speaker 1: and eleven, but they'll be a more interesting five and
Speaker 1: eleven than John Fox. They probably they should be better
Speaker 1: with that defense, but if anything, they'll be watchable. Well,
Speaker 1: this is my favorite team of a t L because
Speaker 1: it's a team that could potentially deep six and I
Speaker 1: would enjoy the disaster aspect of it. What I love,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about Mike Petton being the new d
Speaker 1: C for the Packers, is that you look at the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that Mike Petton had when he was with the Jets,
Speaker 1: having to win those games all based on defense, and
Speaker 1: then when he's with the Browns, you're getting Johnny Manziel.
Speaker 1: You're getting Josh McCown, who is a nice player, but please,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's never really had anyone. Now you have
Speaker 1: a Petton defense paired with Aaron Rodgers. This is one
Speaker 1: of the bigger factors in the NFC for all these
Speaker 1: teams that we call Super Bowl teams. By the way,
Speaker 1: India is no longer shut out. They have scored. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a run or a point something.
Speaker 1: I know I'll get tweets about it. That feels lopsided
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think that's why the crowd got
Speaker 1: into it. We are, you know. Uh. One of the
Speaker 1: biggest reminders that the preseason is meaningless is r G
Speaker 1: three's rookie year the first game against the Saints, when
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan slow played the entire league throughout the preseason.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if there's gonna be sort of shades
Speaker 1: of that with Naggie and Trabisky here in that offense.
Speaker 1: They didn't they didn't tip their hand on anything in
Speaker 1: the preseason. Do we trust Trabisky to be an RG
Speaker 1: three Rookie of the Year type player? Sure? I have
Speaker 1: no idea what he's gonna be. And you know what,
Speaker 1: let's let's find out. Moving on to Monday Night Football,
Speaker 1: and as it is the case, as is the case
Speaker 1: every year, there are two uh Monday Night games in
Speaker 1: Week one will start with the New York Football Jets
Speaker 1: with Sam Donald making his NFL NFL debut, the youngest
Speaker 1: Week one starting quarterback since the league merger. Modron uh
Speaker 1: So it is a new era of Jet football, and
Speaker 1: they are going into to Detroit to face Alliance team
Speaker 1: that I imagine, with the Jets having no pass rush,
Speaker 1: a really promising secondary. But I worry about that pass
Speaker 1: rush and how uh that will fare against Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: and a really great trio of receivers in Goladay, Marvin Jones,
Speaker 1: Uh and Golden Tape. I don't know if it played
Speaker 1: into the thinking of starting Donald week one. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it didn't, but this is a perfect start for him.
Speaker 1: I think this is one of the teams that you
Speaker 1: can pass protect against. I think it's one of the
Speaker 1: teams that came out of the preseason with more questions
Speaker 1: than just about any defense of just they don't know
Speaker 1: who's gonna play in Matt Patricia, Like Bill Belichick, I
Speaker 1: think it's just gonna try to figure it out over
Speaker 1: the first month, and I think you might be happy
Speaker 1: to play the Lions, especially their defense in September, compared
Speaker 1: to where they are later in the year. I think
Speaker 1: it's a game that Donald can can play well. Dan,
Speaker 1: we went to the Lego story yesterday, Legs for our children,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be It's not a humble Bragg. It's
Speaker 1: simply a purchase. So we are going to be landing
Speaker 1: on Monday, a couple hours before Monday Night football. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna roll into your house? Your kids are gonna
Speaker 1: want to sit down and build like with you and
Speaker 1: hug you and climb on you. Are you gonna lock
Speaker 1: onto this game? What does Dan the dad do in
Speaker 1: this situation? We're laying in a half time and then
Speaker 1: we have to go through customs, so that's in trouble.
Speaker 1: That is gonna have the game DVRD like no spoilers, please, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it's gonna play out with balancing that.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming I'm not gonna be alive by the time
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon rolls around, so there's no sense planning that
Speaker 1: far ahead, like someone will take you out or Dan
Speaker 1: parishes just before a franchise quarterback Lands and Floria Park.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so I could see it would be incredible
Speaker 1: if Donald got off to a fast start here, and
Speaker 1: it is. It is not the worst matchup um at all. Uh,
Speaker 1: but the Lines should win this game, though, I mean
Speaker 1: the Lions should take care of business against uh middling
Speaker 1: or worst Jets team with a rookie quarterback twenty one
Speaker 1: years old. If the Lions do not take care of business,
Speaker 1: I'd be very worried. In Detroit, the people in the
Speaker 1: Desert think the Jets are the worst team in the league.
Speaker 1: Way in terms of over under wins, you're saying. Matt
Speaker 1: Patricia also making his debut, of course, so we'll see
Speaker 1: how that goes. Finally, UH, the Los Angeles Rams, last
Speaker 1: year's team of around the NFL, traveled to the black
Speaker 1: Hole UH to face the Raiders. A traumatic week for
Speaker 1: Raiders fans after Clel Mack was traded. But now there's
Speaker 1: a season that begins, and and we'll see, um West
Speaker 1: how things go for the Raiders and Derek Carr and
Speaker 1: the beginning of the John Gruden era. A really stiff
Speaker 1: test in Week one. Yeah, you know, we just talked
Speaker 1: about the Jets saying the people in Vegas think they
Speaker 1: could be the worst team in the league. I think
Speaker 1: maybe the only thing keeping the Raiders from that category
Speaker 1: is they have a veteran quarterback. And it's much easier
Speaker 1: to see a season going sideways for a team with
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback. UH and not much surrounding talent. But
Speaker 1: the Raiders. To me, that defense was already terrible. Now
Speaker 1: you lose Khalil Mack, you do have some interesting rookies,
Speaker 1: and then the offense, all these plans you made for
Speaker 1: wide receivers are walking out the door, and what do
Speaker 1: you have left. I think the Raiders are a team
Speaker 1: that are easy to dismiss because of Gruden. But one
Speaker 1: thing Gruden, actually, you can't look at that statement. Imagine
Speaker 1: saying that back January. The Raiders are easy to dismiss
Speaker 1: because of Gruden, right, because it's some of the moves
Speaker 1: that were made in just the way that he talks.
Speaker 1: But one thing Gruden was good at was like winning
Speaker 1: seven games, like he was a Let's put that on
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. Let's play a lot of veterans,
Speaker 1: Let's play things very safe. Let's get rid of right
Speaker 1: like he played it so safe that he was always
Speaker 1: a seven to nine win type of team. And I
Speaker 1: think there's not many huge reasons why the Raiders can't
Speaker 1: be that with a good offensive line, with those rookie
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, I mean, they might have the best like
Speaker 1: a group of rookie defensive lineman. You know that we've
Speaker 1: seen in a little bit if they can all come
Speaker 1: through good defenses, don't play a bunch of rookie offense.
Speaker 1: And that said, I mean this is a Rams team.
Speaker 1: I found this fascinating that we learned got in heavy
Speaker 1: to try to trade for Khalil Mack. They do need
Speaker 1: pass rush help. But can you imagine had they pulled
Speaker 1: that off and they were not in the deep distance.
Speaker 1: It just that they were they were outbid to some
Speaker 1: more proof by the way that I'm completely convinced that
Speaker 1: the Rams, somehow, through a loophole that the league or
Speaker 1: the media is not aware of, do not operate under
Speaker 1: the salary Well, they actually have a better salary cap
Speaker 1: situation than many other teams going in the next season.
Speaker 1: You can push money into next year. You know, you
Speaker 1: have a rookie quarterback on his running contract, so you
Speaker 1: have a lot of minimum players that Wade Phillips coaches
Speaker 1: up to help, like a guy like Troy Hill or whatever.
Speaker 1: That they're one of the youngest rosters in the leg.
Speaker 1: They're a young team, and uh, despite the not playing
Speaker 1: in the preseason, I think they're going to be so
Speaker 1: well coached and so prepared that they take this one easily.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna lock that well, and it is. It's
Speaker 1: a student first mentor. You're locking it up, locking up
Speaker 1: a road team. I like that, Greg, I mean it's
Speaker 1: the Raiders may be the worst team in photag also
Speaker 1: out of games. I'll say this, that's factor. This is
Speaker 1: a student mentor type thing. Grewden and McVeigh. I mean
Speaker 1: they essentially harping copies of each other. Shout out to
Speaker 1: the London fans. This game begins at three fift am
Speaker 1: and there will be people that we've met that are
Speaker 1: going to sit up and watch this thing. That's the
Speaker 1: difference between London and anywhere else. If you're overseas, you
Speaker 1: are pulling late night shifts, then you're rolling up into
Speaker 1: your data entry job at five am two hours later
Speaker 1: with nothing, no sleep under your belt. Well, sit down.
Speaker 1: I've talked to some of these was so confused. Who
Speaker 1: is sitting down in this scenario? The data the company,
Speaker 1: the data entry company has got all these employees that
Speaker 1: have gotten no sleep, and you're trying to get the
Speaker 1: entry the data. You're not getting any data. There was
Speaker 1: an NFL game last night, were dominanting wire profits dying
Speaker 1: on Mondays and Tuesday mornings and this is why Friday
Speaker 1: mornings to It's part of the appeal here sort of
Speaker 1: like how assess sort of how Americans celebrate like St.
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day and Sinco de Mayo. When when there's an
Speaker 1: NFL game at three fifteen in the morning here, it's
Speaker 1: a bit of an event and they're sort of a um.
Speaker 1: There's sort of a perverse you're getting away with something
Speaker 1: feeling when you're up at three fifteen watching football and
Speaker 1: drinking beer and everyone else has to go to work
Speaker 1: the next day, cheat and life. Okay, there is our
Speaker 1: week one preview reminder twelve pm will be on stage
Speaker 1: a Piccadilly Circus at the NFL Kickoff event and then
Speaker 1: two shows at the bath to UH check out that
Speaker 1: secondary market and don't be afraid to spend, spend spend.
Speaker 1: Watch our experience from sky Sports on NFL dot Com
Speaker 1: and Twitter and hit quick rundown of our Sunday at
Speaker 1: sky Sports. UH for you Locals five pm British and
Speaker 1: UH pregame show six pm. Niners. Vikings will be involved
Speaker 1: with studio segments with Neil Reynolds, Rob Ryman, Rob Bryan
Speaker 1: Salomon who we had some beers with Rob Ryan the
Speaker 1: other day, he was fun to talk to UH Solomon
Speaker 1: Wilco and then UH after the Cowboys Panthers game during
Speaker 1: that game which is local, will be part of those
Speaker 1: studio segments during that game as well. And then, of course,
Speaker 1: because that is not something we we take it very seriously,
Speaker 1: the Definitive the Flagship Recap show every Sunday night will
Speaker 1: be up late grinding. Grind thirty is when we record
Speaker 1: the week one recap, which you'll go up live on Monday,
Speaker 1: so make sure you check that out. Thank you UH
Speaker 1: to everyone for listening, and we will now get back
Speaker 1: to our cricket match which has hours and hours to go.
Speaker 1: It is six to one at eight local time. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. UH. Until then, this is Dan Hansas signing
Speaker 1: off for the Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the Old Boss,
Speaker 1: and I'll loose Cannon with ere Buds on on Still
Speaker 1: Sunday