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Speaker 1: and uh listen fresh as a daisy. And that's because
Speaker 1: we have been pounding Red Bull West and I for
Speaker 1: the last seven hours DrAk before until tonight. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: had never This is a week in London that's been amazing,
Speaker 1: filled with so many uh new experiences, and and the
Speaker 1: week is coming to a close or on it. We're
Speaker 1: on an airplane, uh in like twelve hours and uh
Speaker 1: doing we went on a saight carry three. We didn't
Speaker 1: I believe seven hours of live television. Uh and it
Speaker 1: was really great, basically the entire Dolphins game. Neil Reynolds
Speaker 1: and Solomon Wilcox and our boy Rob Ryan, who We're
Speaker 1: gonna get Rob on the show, our show sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later because he is so funny. Uh So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was our Sunday and it right now it is
Speaker 1: one am local time. This is Super Bowl late. Uh,
Speaker 1: not quite that late. But here we are wrapping things
Speaker 1: up the loose cannon. She's just waiting for the show
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Speaker 1: we need to get to the games. But literally as
Speaker 1: a shadowy League figure and Erica both right down, Dan
Speaker 1: said at two minutes. But yeah, Erica is here. And
Speaker 1: Todd Metcalf on the cameras and Mark Brady's here, and
Speaker 1: we are digging into week one of the NFL season.
Speaker 1: For the sixth year, we begin our flagship program, the
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Show. So exciting and yes, could we have
Speaker 1: Greg said, oh listen, it's you know, doing that all
Speaker 1: the sky Sports Live stuff and we got the flight.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is the year we don't do a week
Speaker 1: one show. No, Greg, never an option. You know, they
Speaker 1: don't call us heroes for nothing. We're true legends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't operate that way. It's more like super Bowl week.
Speaker 1: Hold my beer, I'm it right exactly. Nice. Wait, that
Speaker 1: feels like a phrase that you would maybe bann a
Speaker 1: week from now. Yeah, I don't know. I've been listening
Speaker 1: and there's two in the morning. I have no idea
Speaker 1: what anything will come out of my mouth between open
Speaker 1: and the next SESP. Not two in the morning. It's
Speaker 1: grind to thirty. Every phrase that Mark bands becomes a
Speaker 1: way bigger part of our lives, So please don't do so. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into all the games. Uh from Sunday. Uh,
Speaker 1: there was okay, and there was one game Thursday. That
Speaker 1: means they're twelve games to talk about. Oh I'm sharp, baby.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of red bull too. Johnny made
Speaker 1: it all right. We go this newsroom. By the way,
Speaker 1: the four or five editors here are literally horrified by
Speaker 1: the last five minutes of audio from the show. Don't care.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it. We got so much to dig into,
Speaker 1: so we will start with the rc Scessler's favorite football team,
Speaker 1: the Klablin Bruns. We're gonna try and win it. With
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds left to go. Here comes the field goal
Speaker 1: team and listen to this stadium plus go Nuts Bockers.
Speaker 1: Sane Gonzalez is ready to go. He's out on the
Speaker 1: field where Mark Pete a little Gonzalez will have cold food.
Speaker 1: Put it down. It looks like it's gonna be in
Speaker 1: between thirty three at the between forty three and forty
Speaker 1: four yards. Gonna be a forty three yard field goal
Speaker 1: to beat the Steelers in overtime. And Gonzalez is ready
Speaker 1: held will snap snap us back Paul down kick on
Speaker 1: the way it got blocked. Steelers blocked the kick UFA
Speaker 1: and it never had a prayer. Boy, it looked like
Speaker 1: they were off side a little bit seconds. Everybody has
Speaker 1: missed to field goal in overtime. Jim Donovan and Doug
Speaker 1: Deacon with the call for w K are are Zane
Speaker 1: Gonzalez is forty three yard field goal tap with nine
Speaker 1: seconds to play in overtime, blocked by t J. Watt,
Speaker 1: who was all over the place. A crushing ending for
Speaker 1: a Cleveland Browns team that seemed primed had a seventeen
Speaker 1: game losing streak. Have you heard about that they had
Speaker 1: to settle for one tied against the Pittsburgh Steelers, who
Speaker 1: probably aren't feeling too good about themselves. Tonight, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: we rode the roller coaster with you from Scott this
Speaker 1: guy Sports set today. Where are you at, buddy? You know,
Speaker 1: I really wanted to see this win because obviously the
Speaker 1: you come in after an owen sixteen season, But the
Speaker 1: Browns are, at their core a very strange team, and
Speaker 1: this was one of the strangest games I've witnessed from
Speaker 1: the Browns in a long time. I think a tie
Speaker 1: against the Steelers, it's not it's an odd result, it's
Speaker 1: not preferable, but this game looks so lost, even fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes earlier, that the way that they climbed back in
Speaker 1: and I think their defense, if you go back and
Speaker 1: watches their defense was a turnover operation. Just made life
Speaker 1: tough on Big Ben from start to finish and to
Speaker 1: climb back in the way they did. This is at
Speaker 1: a lot of new parts on this team and a
Speaker 1: lot of young players, and it might take a little
Speaker 1: bit for them to gel. This could have been a
Speaker 1: lot worse. You felt good enough about your team to
Speaker 1: start trash talking Dan and say, why don't the Jets
Speaker 1: go out and try to tie the Steelers? That was sad. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm in a psychologically damaged place. That's I'm pulling from
Speaker 1: it what I can. It was you were surprisingly happy
Speaker 1: with the tie, although it took a lot of luck
Speaker 1: in terms of an overtime just a few minutes before
Speaker 1: the field goal attempt that we just listened to the
Speaker 1: Steelers at a forty two yard or and and that's
Speaker 1: the moment where usually the Browns losing. You got a
Speaker 1: little bit of luck there. I mean. The one thing
Speaker 1: is you look at this game and it just did
Speaker 1: not play to what the Browns said they wanted to
Speaker 1: be coming into the season. Because you have Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: completing fifteen of forty passes. Josh Gordon barely got involved
Speaker 1: until the second half. I mean, they're the run game
Speaker 1: never really got on track and they just could not
Speaker 1: get other way. Now, the weather, it was a major
Speaker 1: element for both teams, but Big Ben with three picks,
Speaker 1: two of those were weather related. In my book, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just a lot of weird stuff happening for
Speaker 1: both teams. Yeah, at the end there we were watching
Speaker 1: it as the Browns go down for the field goal.
Speaker 1: They're in great field position and they decided to sit
Speaker 1: on the ball. As Dan said, they looked tentative, like
Speaker 1: it was a page out of HERM. Edwards book. And
Speaker 1: Greg was saying, I don't like this. I don't like this,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking it reminds me of like when rookies
Speaker 1: say the game's too fast for me. I'm out there
Speaker 1: thinking too much. The game didn't slow down for Hugh
Speaker 1: Jackson because the Browns are kind of rookies at winning,
Speaker 1: so they have to learn how it's it's a new
Speaker 1: experience for them. And you compare that to something like
Speaker 1: the game seemed to slow down for Bill Belichick and
Speaker 1: that Malcolm Butler playing the Super Bowl where it seemed
Speaker 1: like he was able to see things coming and react
Speaker 1: to him in real time, and hughes head seemed like
Speaker 1: a spin And maybe that's just me. Look at look
Speaker 1: at where the Browns are. I mean, they've lost so
Speaker 1: many games in a row that the idea that the
Speaker 1: winds right in front of them. Cameron Sutton picks off
Speaker 1: that pass the past rush gets the big ben and
Speaker 1: they get hit with the block in the back which
Speaker 1: takes him out. A chip shot territory. They run the
Speaker 1: ball and then and then clock it and then you
Speaker 1: do not set up for a forty three yard field goal.
Speaker 1: Uh in that spot. They're a little scared of their shadow.
Speaker 1: Was such a big stage and we should talk about
Speaker 1: the Steelers as well, because James Conner definitely filled in.
Speaker 1: He got he got let Bell tight touches, over thirty
Speaker 1: touches in this game. He went over a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: He was a difference maker. But this is a bitter
Speaker 1: This is a bitter result for the Steelers. One of
Speaker 1: the best performances though you'll find all day long, came
Speaker 1: from t J. Watt and it revealed a massive achilles
Speaker 1: heel for Cleveland. I don't think they have a single
Speaker 1: offensive tackle who can play right now, and that's that's
Speaker 1: gonna make you think hard about putting Baker Mayfield in
Speaker 1: there sooner than later. I mean, these were bad conditions,
Speaker 1: but what absolutely dominated Cleveland's front famous Steelers were the
Speaker 1: better team. They outgained him by a hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 1: James Conner had a hundred and ninety two yards from
Speaker 1: scrimmage in that game. So that's an outrageous performance by him.
Speaker 1: And should you know that's the least of their problems.
Speaker 1: The reality is if if you're the Browns and you
Speaker 1: get six turnovers, like that's great, but you better win
Speaker 1: a game. You get six turnovers and you win the
Speaker 1: turnover battle by five. The fact that you didn't win
Speaker 1: a game where your defense made that many plays, it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty hard to do. Here's what you had to
Speaker 1: say after the game. The guy's fault. Disappointed for our fans.
Speaker 1: Didn't want them to go home without a victory. I
Speaker 1: didn't want our players go home without of victory. So
Speaker 1: we wasn't able to get it done. Didn't finish it.
Speaker 1: But obviously a tie. You know, a tie, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on. All on one second and ten passes
Speaker 1: over the middle by Garrison Smith Jo Dagger the Niners.
Speaker 1: Harrison Smith for the Carson the Meal down at the
Speaker 1: fifteen and the Minnesota Vikings Big Kings of the North
Speaker 1: have not only put Jimmy Garoppolo on the first loss
Speaker 1: of his career, they start twenty eight keeen one and
Speaker 1: all Kark Cousins passed for two touchdowns and the Vikings
Speaker 1: forced four turnovers win over the Niners on Sunday. That's
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo has first loss in eight games as a starter.
Speaker 1: And yes, Harrison Smith sealed that game with one thirty
Speaker 1: five to play, recovered a fumble by Alfred Morris at
Speaker 1: the two yard line. Uh Garoppolo finished fifteen forty sixty
Speaker 1: one yards and a touchdown, but he was not able
Speaker 1: to get it done. Um So the Minnesota Vikings moved
Speaker 1: to one and one and oh and look every bit
Speaker 1: like a team that is gonna give a lot of
Speaker 1: team struggle. And Jimmy g greg is just the first
Speaker 1: quarterback and I think will struggle against this defense this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sheldon Richardson really stuck out, I thought in this game,
Speaker 1: partly because he's the new guy on that front for
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin. And Daniel Hunter had awesome games too, but
Speaker 1: just seeing another true pass rusher in the middle. They
Speaker 1: have Lindval Joseph who is a great run stopper. To
Speaker 1: see Richardson who's probably having you know, one on one
Speaker 1: matchups the whole day, which maybe he doesn't normally see,
Speaker 1: really dominate. If you're a Vikings fan, has to get
Speaker 1: you excited because this team just kind of went out
Speaker 1: and did exactly what you expected. They looked like last
Speaker 1: season never ended, except now they have a quarterback who
Speaker 1: can make a few more plays. One of the most
Speaker 1: fun parts of our day was hearing Rob Bryan and
Speaker 1: Solomon Wilcot's sort of unplugged in real time the reaction
Speaker 1: to what was going on, and Rob chose the Vikings
Speaker 1: as his big winner for the day, that they had
Speaker 1: a great all around game against a tough opponent. Guys
Speaker 1: like Brentson Buckner and this this rookie the forty Niners
Speaker 1: have Fred Warner, both had big games. This is a
Speaker 1: better defense maybe than we thought it was. Little Brenton Buckner.
Speaker 1: Shout out the old Carolina Panthers, Mark, what do we
Speaker 1: think about Jimmy Garoppolo, Jimmy g I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you said that this is not the last quarterback top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback that's going to get beaten around a little
Speaker 1: bit by this defense. Such a consistent carryover from last year.
Speaker 1: I thought Harrison Smith gave Jimmy g a lot of
Speaker 1: problems today, but I'm not concerned about Jimmy Garoppolo at all.
Speaker 1: He dialed. He still made a couple incredible throws in
Speaker 1: this game. And I think the thing is that the
Speaker 1: talent base for the Niners offense is not is we
Speaker 1: can't just call them a great team. They're not going
Speaker 1: to be what they did over the last five weeks
Speaker 1: of last season. It's gonna take This is a team
Speaker 1: that Stiles from growing to do. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: as tough an assignment as any team had offensively. But
Speaker 1: you're asking Kyle Shanahan to cook up wins every week
Speaker 1: with Dante Pettis and Kylie used check Marky's good when
Speaker 1: when out in this game. Hopefully that injury is not
Speaker 1: that serious. But that's their number one receiver, you know,
Speaker 1: try and Taylor. It's just you're hoping Matt Breed as
Speaker 1: you're running back to me. It's just your county and
Speaker 1: coaching to create open plays, and that happened in this
Speaker 1: game a decent amount. But it's asking a lot of sand.
Speaker 1: A lot of narratives get blown up immediately in week one. Uh.
Speaker 1: There are a couple of cases I could think of
Speaker 1: today where that was not the case in the forty
Speaker 1: Niners are one of them. A lot of people in
Speaker 1: the football Gagna sent the we're ready to say that
Speaker 1: the forty Niners were going to contend in the NFC West,
Speaker 1: that they could be the next big superpower, but maybe
Speaker 1: they're not all the way there yet, and this was
Speaker 1: that maybe a wake up call against the true superpower
Speaker 1: that this team needs to grow both internally and get
Speaker 1: help as the years go along. I will say, if
Speaker 1: you offer another pregnant pause like that, a couple of us,
Speaker 1: we might just drop off into deep sleep pregnant. I
Speaker 1: really think the forty Niners have nothing to hang their
Speaker 1: heads about in this game. I thought they played tough
Speaker 1: against a Super Bowl contender. And if that George Kittle drop,
Speaker 1: if that had been a catch, this might we might
Speaker 1: be talking about a team that upset Minnesota. They might
Speaker 1: change things in this game. They might have found something
Speaker 1: in Fred Warner there when they get when they get
Speaker 1: Reuben Foster back from suspension, that that could be like
Speaker 1: you're a little running low on Fred's so to get
Speaker 1: another Fred in the mix, and you brought up the
Speaker 1: Kiddle play. I also add that they left four points
Speaker 1: on the field when Garoppolo missed an open Kiddle on
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone. So I don't think
Speaker 1: Garpolo should be let totally off the hook. It was
Speaker 1: a very tough assignment to be on the road, but
Speaker 1: I think maybe a little bit humbling. And we talked
Speaker 1: about it Greg in August, like this was the perfect
Speaker 1: time for any quarterback really Ever, he was so sparkling
Speaker 1: his resume, his paycheck, his dating habits. Well maybe not sparkle,
Speaker 1: sparkling interesting And now there's a little blemish. And what
Speaker 1: I my thought is lookout Detroit Lions, because I think
Speaker 1: Shanahan and Jimmy g are gonna do some damage in
Speaker 1: week two. And by the way, that was Paul Allen
Speaker 1: k f a n with the call let's move on.
Speaker 1: It was first round one running back Creton Barber at
Speaker 1: a forty two yard line, moving right, trailing showw nothing
Speaker 1: play action fake dropping is switz Patrick cozojee ball downfield,
Speaker 1: got a wide up o receiver and daylight the twenty
Speaker 1: yardlight Jackson Chad five three to one touchdown. Champa Bay
Speaker 1: Bucketeers Pocketeers were the long ball of the Beard Beach
Speaker 1: the secretary nice call. Yeah you know why because it's
Speaker 1: from Jean Decker. Hop He's act of wut a e
Speaker 1: with the call Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yes that Ryan Fitzpatrick through
Speaker 1: for four seventeen yards, four touchdowns. He added a rushing
Speaker 1: the touchdown for good measure, and a game teammate Mike
Speaker 1: Evans would call one of the most complete efforts we
Speaker 1: have seen at the position what The Saints were transfixed
Speaker 1: by fitz magic and the Bucks rumbled to win at
Speaker 1: the Superdome. Mark This was the biggest surprise of week
Speaker 1: I think the story of the day because it's also
Speaker 1: I love Week one when it goes in and a
Speaker 1: lot of times Week two operates as an equalizer that
Speaker 1: adjust some of the big storylines from Week one. But
Speaker 1: everything we talked about it all off season, Saints is
Speaker 1: one of the most complete teams in the NFC with
Speaker 1: this defense that can finally operate with a strong offense,
Speaker 1: and the Bucks potentially this two and fourteen goes ship
Speaker 1: that's gonna get the coach fired by by Halloween. Instead,
Speaker 1: they go out and score forty eight points and one
Speaker 1: of the more pristine offensive performances we've seen in years.
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick left for dead. Uh that great season with the
Speaker 1: Jets and bad and forgettable didn't play much in and
Speaker 1: now has a game that if you're a fantasy head,
Speaker 1: he probably wasn't in your starting lineup unless you were
Speaker 1: a clairvoyant. But it will be tough for any quarterback
Speaker 1: to have a game like it was stunning. Here's the
Speaker 1: Dirk Cutter have had to say after the game. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to announce the fitz magic is alive and will
Speaker 1: quite a start. Huh, West Listen, listen a Dirk Cutter
Speaker 1: who had to be extremely maybe one of the happiest
Speaker 1: days of his coaching career, that effort and getting a
Speaker 1: stick at the Shawan Payton even with a handshake in
Speaker 1: a good game after Peyton tried a tough guy him
Speaker 1: last year. I think dark Cutters walking on air right now,
Speaker 1: and you know, one of one of the guys downstairs,
Speaker 1: I think Rob Ryan pointed out, this is a different
Speaker 1: offense with Todd Monkin calling the plays instead of Dirk Cutter.
Speaker 1: Get a little monk in love in here for for
Speaker 1: that performance. Give me some of that monk and maybe
Speaker 1: the Bucks have the best wide receiver quartet in the
Speaker 1: entire NFL with Evans, Deshan Jackson who went wild in
Speaker 1: this game, Chris Godwin, and uh, don't forget Humphrey. I
Speaker 1: mean this is this is a good quartet. And now
Speaker 1: you have O. J. Howard who is a factor like
Speaker 1: today was to be a perfect example of what he
Speaker 1: can be. Like two catches fifty four yards, a guy
Speaker 1: who can make big plays. He's not gonna get that
Speaker 1: many targets, but you can go up the seam. And
Speaker 1: it's a wake up call for this young Saints secondary,
Speaker 1: who they thought was one of the best ones in
Speaker 1: the league. And I'm worried about this front seven. Can
Speaker 1: they get enough pressure? They certainly didn't today. And it's
Speaker 1: a season changer for the Bucks because we talked about
Speaker 1: how tough their schedule was to start the season. They
Speaker 1: now stole one with Fitzpatrick. They have to feel like
Speaker 1: they got a chance to beat the Eagles coming up
Speaker 1: this week. But even if for some reason they go
Speaker 1: one and two with Fitzpatrick. I think it just shows
Speaker 1: the talent that's around him. You do not want sixteen
Speaker 1: games at Fitzpatrick. I don't want to hear that you
Speaker 1: You don't go back to Jamis Winston unless he's doing
Speaker 1: this right now, I know, but I'm just saying, you
Speaker 1: don't want that for the whole season. To me, it
Speaker 1: shows that there's a team around the quarterback that's going
Speaker 1: to give them a chance to win. I would be concerned, though.
Speaker 1: You're You're the You're the Bucks. You were the worst
Speaker 1: passing defense in the league last year. You gave up
Speaker 1: four nearly four d and fifty yards and three touchdowns
Speaker 1: to Drew Brees, which happens to teams against Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: But you gave up forty points. I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: you can't be asked Fitzpatrick to go do this week
Speaker 1: after week for all of his for every good games
Speaker 1: he gives you, he's gonna give you one where some
Speaker 1: wild stuff happens that kind of blows the whole game
Speaker 1: script up. You hit out it a little bit, Greg
Speaker 1: But and perhaps it's my brain from lack of sleep
Speaker 1: and the fact that it's like encased by a thin
Speaker 1: film with Tito's vodka and like service luge, but like
Speaker 1: some of that room service mac and cheese. And what
Speaker 1: what happened with the Saints defense? How could it be
Speaker 1: this bad after being so dominant for large stretches of
Speaker 1: last year. It's a good question. It's to me, it's
Speaker 1: what changed. I have no idea what changed. It's so
Speaker 1: disconcerting because this is a Super Bowl or bus team
Speaker 1: that basically pushed all their money to the middle of
Speaker 1: the table and said, we're all in this year. And
Speaker 1: what do they have hiding in their hands? Like a
Speaker 1: susceptible defense. They have not been an organization that has
Speaker 1: handled success that well. Like they have not been a
Speaker 1: team that stacks great season after great seven. They almost
Speaker 1: get a little full of themselves. And they were not
Speaker 1: that dominant a defense. I think they've got a little
Speaker 1: more credit for how important they were. They were much
Speaker 1: better defense. They were like a good defense. But they
Speaker 1: can't They don't have enough talent really in the secondary
Speaker 1: to have no pass. I maybe do chalk some of
Speaker 1: this up to Week one feeling more than ever like
Speaker 1: a fifth preseason game for these teams. I mean, just
Speaker 1: that are we going to see this from the Saints
Speaker 1: week to week. I think there's gonna be some correction.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that opener with with Drew Bledsoe traded
Speaker 1: to the Bills. They bombed the Patriots and we que
Speaker 1: and you thought, oh, look at this dude. Change. Such
Speaker 1: a cop out though, like some teams get to say,
Speaker 1: oh is a preseason game. Ryan Fitzpatrick, He's like that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just saying I trust the Saints took
Speaker 1: course correct something. I mean, Sants just have to look
Speaker 1: back to last year. They got blasted by the Vikings
Speaker 1: in Week one and blasted by the Patriots in Week two,
Speaker 1: which were two good teams, but the defense got much
Speaker 1: better after that. Ryan Fitzpatrick, man, that is one of
Speaker 1: the more stunning Week one moments in my time in
Speaker 1: NFL media. No doubt for him to deliver that performance
Speaker 1: on the road against a very good team. Wow. I'm
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Speaker 1: It's from w c k Y, Dan Horde and Dan
Speaker 1: lap Him on the call, Dave lab Him, Dave lap
Speaker 1: Him bangles backup safety Clayton Edgulum jarred the ball loose
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle couldn't hold on thirty five seconds to go,
Speaker 1: Pendulum scooped it up and as you heard, took it
Speaker 1: all the way to the house. And there when Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck thoughts that he could have a heroic comeback uh
Speaker 1: in his first game back and eighty three yard touchdown
Speaker 1: uh and the Bengals per severe and win thirty four
Speaker 1: to twenty three. A fun game, a wild ending, and
Speaker 1: almost a perfect start for Andrew Luck. What did you
Speaker 1: see from number twelve in this game? Was? I think
Speaker 1: realistic Colts fans have to be okay with how today's
Speaker 1: game went, and maybe even a little buoyant after this
Speaker 1: game because I saw Andrew Luck who looked exactly like
Speaker 1: the Andrew Luck we've always seen. He did not look
Speaker 1: like a guy who's saying any kind of arm injury
Speaker 1: in the past. He played like the sort of two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen version of Andrew Luck, who was a little
Speaker 1: bit underrated and I think led the NFL and touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But he moved the ball. They had a chance to win,
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, Jack Doyle couldn't hold onto the
Speaker 1: ball inside the red zone with the game on the line.
Speaker 1: It's a big win for the Bengals because we're watching
Speaker 1: this game and I think it was twenty to ten
Speaker 1: at halftime. The Colts are in control, and Colts looked
Speaker 1: like the better team in the first hif and and
Speaker 1: this is a team in the Bengals that a few
Speaker 1: of us picked to the playoffs. And these are kind
Speaker 1: of the types of wins you need to get to
Speaker 1: go in the playoffs. You need to find a way
Speaker 1: to try to get to five hundred on the road,
Speaker 1: and you do that by beating the Colts the Fedulum
Speaker 1: play and then Carlos Dunlop the Bengals d really stiffened
Speaker 1: into second half. They deserve credit for that. Is this
Speaker 1: how we wanted Andrew luck performance to go every week
Speaker 1: fifty three pass attempts. No, I don't think so, but
Speaker 1: I think it's what you're gonna get because of that defense.
Speaker 1: I i've he should be up there in the league
Speaker 1: leaders in past attempts and unless they fix that offensive
Speaker 1: line that could be an issue. That's great to hear
Speaker 1: though West I didn't get a good look at this game.
Speaker 1: But if luck is luck, the Colts are gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Maybe not victorious on a weekly basis,
Speaker 1: or maybe a lot of games will kind of come
Speaker 1: down to the wire and go against them, but that
Speaker 1: is that's great news for them. Uh what did you
Speaker 1: see on the Bengal side of the ball? Like I said,
Speaker 1: their defense, especially Carlo's dunlap, came up big with the
Speaker 1: game on the line. Joe Mixing ran better than last year.
Speaker 1: Their offensive line looked a little better, and um, they
Speaker 1: got John Ross involved too. He got a touchdown. So
Speaker 1: those second year guys Mixing and Ross are a big
Speaker 1: part of their offense. I will say Ross the one
Speaker 1: the three catches, sorry one cash for three yards, that
Speaker 1: it was the touchdown catch alone. Are we we need
Speaker 1: to see a little more of him mixed in a
Speaker 1: little bit more than this. He was only targeted two times,
Speaker 1: but he's not the number two receiver, he's the three
Speaker 1: Tyler board starts opposite Green. I I think the most
Speaker 1: of pressing Week one results are the ones that look
Speaker 1: exactly like the team was in the past, like the
Speaker 1: same rightnesses and the fact that the two tackles were
Speaker 1: struggling in her I know Anthony Costanzo is out the
Speaker 1: fact that the Colts don't really have a running game.
Speaker 1: It just it just looks like the Colt So hopefully
Speaker 1: they can get out of that. That is a fair criticism.
Speaker 1: Let us move up, backs up in trouble and sacked
Speaker 1: and fubble, big scramble for it. If the Parathers fall
Speaker 1: on it, it's your football game. Mcmixon, Eugene Robinson and
Speaker 1: Jim Zoki with the call for w BT and the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers smother the Dallas Cowboys UH in a win
Speaker 1: in the season opener for both teams on Sunday, uh
Speaker 1: Newton ran for cam Newton ran for fifty eight yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. A dominating performance by Carolina's defense, led
Speaker 1: by Luke Keikley, who had thirteen sacks. He went down
Speaker 1: with a scary knee injury. UH. That looked pretty bad
Speaker 1: at first, but then I believe he returned to the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: So Keith Lee leads the way as always. UH six
Speaker 1: sacks in the game, Cowboys just two d and thirty
Speaker 1: two yards. Uh. Dallas was able to turn it on
Speaker 1: a little bit in the second half. In the first
Speaker 1: half it was borderline pathetic. Cowboys had sixty yards total
Speaker 1: and uh four first downs as Carolina went into the
Speaker 1: tunnel with it tend nothing lead and I and one
Speaker 1: thing that happened near the end of the half that
Speaker 1: really got on my radar, and I was annoyed. The
Speaker 1: man formerly known as riverboat Ron. Uh. Yeah, I played
Speaker 1: for three points when they were inside the ten yard
Speaker 1: line with I believe about thirty seconds to go. Uh.
Speaker 1: He ran it once and then clocked the ball and
Speaker 1: took three. But that to me, as I hated the
Speaker 1: way he played that, I thought it was too conservative.
Speaker 1: But also it showed Mark how at that point there
Speaker 1: was no fear of the Cowboys offense and the and
Speaker 1: the mindset was get ahead two scores and let our
Speaker 1: defense taken home. And that's what they did. I mean,
Speaker 1: you come out of this game if you're a Cowboys
Speaker 1: fan looking at this as a worst case scenario for
Speaker 1: Week one, because all the pronouncements from Dallas that we're
Speaker 1: going to find a receiver with this young group, We've
Speaker 1: got rid of Dez Bryant. We we've lost you know,
Speaker 1: we've lost players. We're gonna find a way to pass
Speaker 1: the ball. There was zero explosive plays down field for
Speaker 1: the most part. Their offensive line absolutely, Mrs Travis Frederick,
Speaker 1: this is not the line that we've been talking about
Speaker 1: for the past couple of years. Ezekiel Elliott held to
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards. This is a bad look for Dallas
Speaker 1: because you wonder how they're going to climb out of
Speaker 1: this in the next couple of months. Yeah, if your
Speaker 1: concern was about Travis Frederick and the offensive line, this
Speaker 1: game did not help matters. They have a formula that
Speaker 1: is similar to the Jaguars that built to play with
Speaker 1: a lead. You have to pass the ball to come
Speaker 1: from behind in the NFL, and you have to wonder
Speaker 1: if this team can do it. At one point, Solomon
Speaker 1: Wilcot's used the word ept, which I didn't even know
Speaker 1: was a word. Don't think it is, But because we
Speaker 1: knew what he meant, he said, the Cowboys don't appear
Speaker 1: to be apt at anything, and that's what it looked
Speaker 1: like on offense. Correct statement. Yeah, the A said of
Speaker 1: inept or the synonym, I don't even know. I know
Speaker 1: that Connor Williams is their second round guard that they took.
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna take a guard that high and
Speaker 1: put him in your starting lineup right away, it's got it.
Speaker 1: It kind of has to work, and it clearly didn't
Speaker 1: in training camp. He didn't look great in the preseason
Speaker 1: and he was dominated by k one short today. And
Speaker 1: on the other side, if you're Ron Rivera, this is
Speaker 1: your like, this is the ultimate perfect game for the Panthers.
Speaker 1: This is how he wants to play. You're dominating front,
Speaker 1: you're running the ball, you're controlling the pace. But they
Speaker 1: keep losing key players every time they step on the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, they lose Darrel Williams today, their right tackle,
Speaker 1: who probably returned from an injury too early. You lose
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen to another foot injury. Those are two key
Speaker 1: starters almost of any team. They've lost key guys. Whether
Speaker 1: it's that injury, we were watching it looked serious at first.
Speaker 1: You can never really tell, but he was back in
Speaker 1: there like the next next series, Alison, you have to
Speaker 1: look at considering his foot issues, and you have to
Speaker 1: a thing I don't know, is that his last game.
Speaker 1: It's the guy that was pondering her time up going
Speaker 1: to this year. If he bangs up that same foot,
Speaker 1: I mean, at what point is it over? That's a
Speaker 1: big loss. But it's not like if they would have
Speaker 1: lost Keikley. Is a season ending loss. I think for
Speaker 1: the team, you're not gonna win the playoffs without Keikly,
Speaker 1: but you can survive without Olson. I think I think
Speaker 1: one of the Damashecks Staples is the janga piece. I
Speaker 1: mean Cam Newton is probably the janga piece, but Keikley
Speaker 1: is right there one A and one bat cam Cam
Speaker 1: is leading them and rushing though with thirteen rushing attempts.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to do this week
Speaker 1: after week. I know that's always the thing with camp Net.
Speaker 1: Forget this, like what what's developed Kim as a pocket passer.
Speaker 1: He has to be this because this is the most
Speaker 1: effective Cam Newton. And they look dangerous. Yeah, they Their
Speaker 1: defense looks absolutely legit and the new owner, Tepper was
Speaker 1: up in the box and he seemed to be like
Speaker 1: flying at the end of the game, as you imagine,
Speaker 1: he might a little interesting little nug about the their
Speaker 1: stadium with the old owner, Jerry Richardson now gone. They
Speaker 1: take out the NFL shield logo at the fifty and
Speaker 1: put in the Panthers logo has always been the NFL shield.
Speaker 1: Interesting those like old school owner things. That's about. How
Speaker 1: did that nugget get on your because I track everything
Speaker 1: because I've been drinking a lot of red bull. Panthers
Speaker 1: fans have been annoyed about that for years, so they're
Speaker 1: very excited. I am super super If I'm a Cowboys
Speaker 1: fan worried right now, I'm I'm so worried I might be. Oh,
Speaker 1: is des Brian still of the same cell phone number,
Speaker 1: which they should not call des Brian? But like Greg said,
Speaker 1: when the game's on the line and he's going on
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is targeting Deante Thompson with the game on
Speaker 1: the line, Hell no, that's not gonna work, and it's
Speaker 1: not good enough. Let's move up. Flacco takes the nap.
Speaker 1: He wants to throw looking left lops into the end zone,
Speaker 1: looking for crab Stree. Crab Street makes the catch, don't
Speaker 1: you get his freet inbound? The officials confer touch God,
Speaker 1: Mike crap Tree on an amazing girl from Joe Flaco
Speaker 1: w B L B A L S Jerry Sandusky with
Speaker 1: the call oh Jaunty Joe Flacco not dead Wacco. Flacco
Speaker 1: went six yards. Uh was eventually replaced by Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: but not for any of the reasons Steve Smith or
Speaker 1: anybody else predicted back in May. It's because the Ravens
Speaker 1: were up forty to nil. They dominated the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: and Nathan Peterman, who looked utterly overwhelmed. Uh. They had
Speaker 1: thirty three yards and no first downs at halftime. Final
Speaker 1: score three. Western New York will remember this is the
Speaker 1: bloodbath in Buffalo West. Are the Bills as bad as
Speaker 1: the final story here indicated, No, they will. I know
Speaker 1: it because I've been drinking red bill here. There was
Speaker 1: a reason why this game was banned from the lock
Speaker 1: Up series this week because it was like, say, right, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I'm so perfectly contact that I took the
Speaker 1: Browns instead. Yeah, so, I mean it's it's a tie.
Speaker 1: I think that's half a luck, I get half a luck.
Speaker 1: That's not how it works up. For contention. Still, I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't agree with that ruling. Well, there is
Speaker 1: a precedent West once upon a time locked up a
Speaker 1: tie game, and because a lock is predicting a win.
Speaker 1: But you'll fight this. I don't care at all about
Speaker 1: the precedent. That Philly special Malarkey precedent has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with this. It never seem to remember that complete
Speaker 1: undressing that the Rams gave the Seahawks last December, where
Speaker 1: the game was like forty something to nothing at halftime.
Speaker 1: This was. This was the same d n A as
Speaker 1: that game. The Ravens absolutely controlled every part of this game.
Speaker 1: Both quarterbacks are out, Both starting quarterbacks are removed from
Speaker 1: the game with like five minutes to go, five minutes
Speaker 1: gone in the third quarter. This was I mean, in
Speaker 1: every way possible. The Ravens just took it to to
Speaker 1: the Bills. Yes, the Bills have a big quarterback issue.
Speaker 1: What a come down for Bills fans. It's funny to
Speaker 1: think of the celebrations with the playoffs. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: they essentially made like Andy Dalton the mayor, just because
Speaker 1: it helped them push them into as one of the
Speaker 1: worst playoff teams of the last started to get a
Speaker 1: little weird. After a while, it stayed weird. It's like,
Speaker 1: that was a nice moment, but what does it really matter?
Speaker 1: Because here we are Week one the next season, you
Speaker 1: have Nathan Peterman starting another game and you're on the
Speaker 1: other side of a forty seven to three score, and
Speaker 1: you look at the roster and it looks like they're
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in the league. Moment is
Speaker 1: the perfect word, because what does that mean. Ultimately, they
Speaker 1: went out quietly in the wild card round the next week,
Speaker 1: and now they are at their lowest point again and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen playing in this game. He really probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: be playing in this game. But that's when you have
Speaker 1: to wonder the decision making of this front office. I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: you give up a draft pick for Corey Coleman and
Speaker 1: you end up burning burning a lot of money by
Speaker 1: cutting him. You trade eight D mccaren and I know
Speaker 1: a J. Mccaren is not a good quarterback, but when
Speaker 1: you leave Nathan Peterman, a guy who's only other notable
Speaker 1: uh playing experiences throwing five interceptions and one half as
Speaker 1: the only other guy protecting you from forcing you to
Speaker 1: play the very raw rookie that tells me it's a
Speaker 1: lack of foresight. So I'd be very nervous about the
Speaker 1: people pulling the levers. And you shipped away Tyrod Taylor,
Speaker 1: and you didn't do enough to fix an offensive line
Speaker 1: that is and this is another one of these front
Speaker 1: fives that gave up six plus sacks today. And now
Speaker 1: you're trying to tell me that you're gonna put Josh
Speaker 1: Allen in there starting next week with an inept offense.
Speaker 1: We'll see if they do well. If they don't. You
Speaker 1: also have to ask what on earth they're doing with
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman, right, I mean you, he has played himself
Speaker 1: out of a job. They're damned if they do, and
Speaker 1: damn that they don't. Nathan Peterman have fewer yards than
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco had completions today, and it wasn't all Peterman's fault.
Speaker 1: They have built an offense that is gonna expose Peterman
Speaker 1: as not good enough and probably get Josh Josh Allen
Speaker 1: hurt or sacked quite a bit if he played. In fairness,
Speaker 1: they're they're playing a really good defense in Baltimore, and
Speaker 1: I don't think you can just chalk this up to
Speaker 1: that the Bills are bad. The two thousand and seventeen
Speaker 1: Ravens weren't winning any games to three. So this is
Speaker 1: a different Ravens team. And I think it's a significant
Speaker 1: Week one result because we've said it on this podcast
Speaker 1: a lot. But you know what good teams are by
Speaker 1: the teams that get blowout. The Ravens are off to
Speaker 1: a great stuff. They are different because each one of
Speaker 1: the wide receivers that they acquired, Willie Sneed, Michael Crabtree,
Speaker 1: and John Brown, each of them found the end zone
Speaker 1: in this game. That's a This is his promising to
Speaker 1: start for any for any team in the league. Well,
Speaker 1: since I count the preseason, they are now six in
Speaker 1: the first week of September or second week in September,
Speaker 1: so that's pretty good. We're in the Ravens desk right now. Baby.
Speaker 1: Let's move up third down and twelve. Now for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: After the fumble by Houston, here are the early minutes
Speaker 1: of the first He takes the up, he throws it
Speaker 1: look for Gunk. He makes the catch over two defenders
Speaker 1: and steps across the pylon for a touchdown. Patriots Bob
Speaker 1: Socy w b Z with the calls Zolak in Week one.
Speaker 1: I think Zola got place by the booth. He just
Speaker 1: wasn't just we didn't hear him there. He wasn't. The
Speaker 1: guy in Indianapolis going absolutely nuts for the Colts, Well,
Speaker 1: that guy's not around no ball. Well I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the homer that was shouting as the guy was going
Speaker 1: down the field. That guy, so he took out the
Speaker 1: other guy. I don't know. I have no idea who
Speaker 1: I am right now. Tom Brady here on the throne
Speaker 1: of sleeves through for two hundred and seventy seven yards
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns, hitting Gronk for a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: three yards and a touchdown the defending a f C
Speaker 1: champions win over the Houston Texans. Uh, Gronk was a beast.
Speaker 1: Brady looked like Brady and the Texans and they are
Speaker 1: young hotshot quarterback to Shaun Watson looked very rusty. Greg,
Speaker 1: you've been saying we should expect the different Pats team
Speaker 1: this year. Is that what you saw on Sunday? Other
Speaker 1: than Brady and Gronkowski, which you know we're the two
Speaker 1: best players on the Patriots. Yes, it was different. You
Speaker 1: have Philip Dorset as the leading wide receiver catching seven targets.
Speaker 1: You had Trent Brown, a six eight left tackle doing
Speaker 1: a solid job against jadev and Clowney. Uh In J J. Watt,
Speaker 1: you have Lawrence Guy and Jawan Bentley and Malcolm Brown
Speaker 1: and a group upfront including Trey Flowers who's been there
Speaker 1: a while that really dominated this game. And if I'm
Speaker 1: a Texans fan, I'd be worried about how much pass
Speaker 1: rush heat you gave up to the Patriots, because this
Speaker 1: is not going to be the best pass rush team
Speaker 1: you play all year. In Deshaun Watson, I thought really
Speaker 1: showed something in the second half by getting them back
Speaker 1: into this game. Is not going to be able to
Speaker 1: survive week after week with that much press here from
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, who was very critical of his performance. For
Speaker 1: me personally, I think it was terrible on my part.
Speaker 1: So you can just I just feel like you can
Speaker 1: put the all on me, uh, because I'd be way
Speaker 1: much better than than what I showed up today. Uh.
Speaker 1: My energy was low and just overthinking a little things. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's just me. I'm the I'm
Speaker 1: the leader of the team leaders offense. So as I go,
Speaker 1: the offense go, and it was just you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of not enough energy, not enough pace on our
Speaker 1: on our part. And uh, you know, I just hate
Speaker 1: to blame. I take all the all the heat for
Speaker 1: that and and just kind of continue to move forward
Speaker 1: and you know, just give it from that sweep, but
Speaker 1: just behind as it learned from. You know, Watson last
Speaker 1: season had more time than any other quarterback on deep
Speaker 1: passes and he created that with his feet. But you
Speaker 1: can't ask him to just do that and make magic
Speaker 1: when you have this line playing the way it is.
Speaker 1: And this did not look anything like last year's Texans
Speaker 1: number one passing offense. That was literally like shredding teams,
Speaker 1: taking teams apart, and looking like the one team that
Speaker 1: could potentially challenge the Patriots in the a f C.
Speaker 1: It's I would be concerned because this is another incomplete
Speaker 1: line for team in two. Patriots, Come on, what's what's
Speaker 1: the other? They still roll this division and they will.
Speaker 1: One thing that's on my radar for the Patriots, Chris
Speaker 1: Hogan is some fantasy stud Come on, one catch for
Speaker 1: eleven yards. You've been mad about this, You're loving this
Speaker 1: din't spike in the football right now. Could come back
Speaker 1: to haunt me. Maybe he'll go for a hundred seventy
Speaker 1: five and two touchdowns like he did against the Steelers
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But the idea that Chris Hogan is
Speaker 1: a fantasy a monster that game too, he'll write him off.
Speaker 1: He'll have three or four monster games throughout the year,
Speaker 1: that's what he does. But he's not like some fantasies.
Speaker 1: It's a deeper Patriots team defensively, and I think that
Speaker 1: means they're not gonna have to score as many points
Speaker 1: and they're just not capable of it. This also just
Speaker 1: looked like a week one game. If you remember, Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson last year took a few games to get going.
Speaker 1: The Patriots for much of the game offensively, couldn't really
Speaker 1: find open receivers. It's just a lot of these games
Speaker 1: you're watching today and you're thinking both of these teams
Speaker 1: are going to be better two or three weeks from now.
Speaker 1: Is there any other Patriots team, Gregg, in your long
Speaker 1: history of watching this new England franchise succeed week after
Speaker 1: weeks that it reminds you of more of the early
Speaker 1: two thousands where it's gonna be balanced where you're gonna
Speaker 1: not necessarily rely on the wide receivers. And I think
Speaker 1: where the front seven makes a difference. It's so crazy
Speaker 1: that maybe the difference is that Tom Brady's better now
Speaker 1: than he was early in his career, like at age uh.
Speaker 1: And I did miss. I have to say I didn't
Speaker 1: miss what I sometimes I forget. And then a new
Speaker 1: season comes, Greg's Friday or Thursday handwringing about how tough
Speaker 1: his matchup will be against the Ham and Egger team
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and then of course a victory the vanquished
Speaker 1: foe and Bill O'Brien falls to oh and five against
Speaker 1: his old boss. This is pretty routine. I have to
Speaker 1: admit it was not as close as the score. I'm
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Speaker 1: move up, dropping a throws, many balls tipped up into
Speaker 1: the air. Hit it, pick off, hit it, pick off
Speaker 1: on Miles Jack to the ten, to the five in
Speaker 1: the ends o touchdown, Miles Jack gotta pick six and
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is extended the lead here at Medlife Stadium. Frank
Speaker 1: Frangie and Jeff Langman w O k V with the
Speaker 1: call yes. Linebacker Miles Jack scored on a thirty two
Speaker 1: yard pick six off a deflection earlier in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and that was pretty much pretty much Yet Jaguars beat
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. Room Pat Schirmer's debut UH in
Speaker 1: the meadow Lands a win for Jacksonville. And this is
Speaker 1: a game that saw the debut of s Kuon Barkley,
Speaker 1: who did not disappoint actually bottled up for most of
Speaker 1: the game but did break a sixty eight yard touchdown
Speaker 1: run that got the Giants back of the game, and
Speaker 1: that might be a lot of what the season is about.
Speaker 1: Eli Manning was not able to make plays against a
Speaker 1: stellar Jaguars defense and the offense in Jacksonville did just enough.
Speaker 1: This is the recipe Chris Wesley the Jags, similar to
Speaker 1: those last year. Let the defense carry the day and
Speaker 1: hope the offense does just enough. Yeah, I really liked
Speaker 1: Miles Jack and I picked him at one point one
Speaker 1: of our segments to be a star this year. With
Speaker 1: that pick six, I think he's well, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big, like maybe a Pro Bowl type
Speaker 1: of player, just another one to defense is chalked full
Speaker 1: of them, and that was a risky draft pick at
Speaker 1: the time with Jack's injury history. One thing with Barkley,
Speaker 1: so he has this marvelous sixty eight yard touchdown run
Speaker 1: and we saw him do that against Cleveland in the
Speaker 1: preseason two. We know he can break them and we
Speaker 1: can know can get that done. But the rest of
Speaker 1: his day was forty yards off seventeen attempts. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: this is just I look at it the same way
Speaker 1: as what Jimmy g and the forty niners. Jacksonville is
Speaker 1: just a badass defense, and yeah, I I'm I'm pounding
Speaker 1: the table that Eli is going to be okay too
Speaker 1: good this year and this was not a promising start.
Speaker 1: But again, I mean if we're gonna not kill Jimmy
Speaker 1: g we shouldn't kill Eli. Because the Jaguars are loaded
Speaker 1: on making plays and they're gonna do it all year.
Speaker 1: That's all fair. I totally agree. But one concern I
Speaker 1: think that Giants fans should have with Eli is that
Speaker 1: he's developed this habit in the last couple of years
Speaker 1: of he's a little scared and he let's let's go
Speaker 1: to the ball a little quickly because he doesn't trust
Speaker 1: his offensive line. And I think we saw that today,
Speaker 1: so that a few times the pressure got to him
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like a fling and the helmet
Speaker 1: kind of goes to the left and hopefully it's an
Speaker 1: incomplete pass. That's almost the best case scenario. That's almost
Speaker 1: like a rookie habit at a fourteenth year quarterback or
Speaker 1: whatever he is at this point, should have. But that's
Speaker 1: life with Eli. It's also the Jaguars defense. Yeah, Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham also came back, went over a hundred yards, was
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. But they just couldn't get anything going. It
Speaker 1: was a very quiet day if you're a Giant fan.
Speaker 1: Not a lot to get excited about in this game.
Speaker 1: The Jacks just looked like the better team. I will
Speaker 1: say this reminds me a lot of of many Pat
Speaker 1: Shermer games when he was the Brown's head coach. But
Speaker 1: we'll we'll see what happened. The only the only downside
Speaker 1: here for the Jags is Leonard Fournette went out with
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury early and it's early in his career,
Speaker 1: but these hamstring injuries keep happening to him, and the
Speaker 1: more that they keep happening to him, the Jaguars just
Speaker 1: aren't going to be able to run the type of
Speaker 1: start to worry that for that is just one of
Speaker 1: those guys. One of my favorite elements of doing the
Speaker 1: live hits downstairs with the large production team that we
Speaker 1: had really never worked with before was then probably listening
Speaker 1: to Dan on the mic do his jeam throughout the
Speaker 1: day and then anointing other teams like the Redskins doing well,
Speaker 1: the r men and all this. I mean, they probably
Speaker 1: just thought we were psychotics. Yeah, And keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the Jags defense was key. Absolutely keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that offense. They got to do more. Though they
Speaker 1: gained three hundred ten yards in total offense, they didn't
Speaker 1: even score uh until the second half. And they also
Speaker 1: committed eleven penalties for a hundred and nineteen yards. So
Speaker 1: not a perfect effort by the Jaguars, but one side
Speaker 1: of the team is so damn good that it can
Speaker 1: carry the day. How about Tom Coughlin's r evenge stick
Speaker 1: it revenge for what you're firing for firing him? Right,
Speaker 1: you're the one that wants for Tom coflin. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's move on. Backt deep is Tyreek Hill for Kansas
Speaker 1: City back pedals, takes it at his own ten and
Speaker 1: wants a left return, gets two blocks, gets up to
Speaker 1: the fifteen A tax it left twenty, he said the thirty.
Speaker 1: The Cheetahs loves forty at midfielder goes to cheataty fifteen
Speaker 1: ten four touchdown Kansas City Lark didn't take long for
Speaker 1: the Cheatah to unleash love. Mitch Holtis of k c
Speaker 1: f X with the call Tyreek Hill, my goodness. The
Speaker 1: Human Joysticks scored three touchdowns and Patrick Mahomes was a
Speaker 1: monster in his debut, was the chief starter four scores
Speaker 1: of his own. The Chiefs a win over Greg Rosenthal's
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers Hill ninety one yard punt return for
Speaker 1: a TV a fifty yard touchdown catch, added a little
Speaker 1: one year a one yard score just for a cherry
Speaker 1: on top, and uh mr Rosenthal. The Chiefs were impressive
Speaker 1: in a season opening win over the Pats last September.
Speaker 1: This was everybody as impressive, but with a new man
Speaker 1: at QB one, it just goes to show you don't
Speaker 1: want to face Andy Reid coming off a bye or
Speaker 1: in week one. Doesn't matter who his offensive coordinator is now,
Speaker 1: it's Eric b Enemy will probably be a head coach
Speaker 1: in a year two. He's just gonna cook up plays
Speaker 1: that make your head explode. And that's what happened. There
Speaker 1: were so many open receivers in this game, but there
Speaker 1: were also so many box office plays by Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill. I don't know if there's been a
Speaker 1: player ever like Tyree Hill. He's a really just unique talent.
Speaker 1: And if I was running Sky Sports, I'd be putting
Speaker 1: the Chiefs on week after week because I just think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fun to watch. When you ask why
Speaker 1: would the Redskins trade an m v P or why
Speaker 1: would the why would the Chiefs trade an m VP
Speaker 1: candidate like Alex Smith, the answer isn't just because of
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. It's because the real m VP candidate is
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. This guy, I think is one of the
Speaker 1: top ten or twelve players in the entire NFL, and
Speaker 1: he'll be in the m v P discussion all year long.
Speaker 1: When Sammy Watkins and Travis Kelsey combined for twenty seven
Speaker 1: yards and you score thirty eight points, it's like, what
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? You know? I mean, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs need the Super Bowl to be held in Week
Speaker 1: one because their their issue was January, and they'd be fine,
Speaker 1: they would just roll with multiple titles. But this offense
Speaker 1: runs through Hill, and I think we'll see much more
Speaker 1: of Kelsey and other games. But after an offseason of
Speaker 1: kind of wondering what you're gonna get from Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: because is along with the big plays, the explosive passing plays,
Speaker 1: you also thought, because it's been his sort of nature,
Speaker 1: that you've got mistakes as well. Not today, he was perfect.
Speaker 1: Come on with the Chargers in this game, the special
Speaker 1: teams again and just not getting the job done on defense.
Speaker 1: I'll handle this, thank you, West. I'm going into the
Speaker 1: corner and just God, yeah, I'm gonna leave Mark and
Speaker 1: Dan out of this, Greg and I owe the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs and apology. We really do, and this podcast
Speaker 1: has been down on them for a few years, but
Speaker 1: they own the Chargers. This is nine straight wins and
Speaker 1: I will never pick the Chargers over the Chiefs again
Speaker 1: until they win a game, and that's fair. It made
Speaker 1: no sense that the Chargers were somewhat heavy favorites in
Speaker 1: this game. It was such a Charger game though. I mean,
Speaker 1: they had a punt returner that fumbled two punts, they
Speaker 1: gave up a punt return touchdown, they managed to have
Speaker 1: five hundred and forty one yard to mean, they outgained
Speaker 1: the Chargers by outgained the Chiefs by hundred and eighty yards,
Speaker 1: and they still lost. They had Philip Rivers, who for
Speaker 1: the most part played great four yards three touchdowns. It
Speaker 1: could have been about five hundred yards if a couple
Speaker 1: of his receivers didn't drop long passes that were beautiful.
Speaker 1: But the key moment in this game in the second
Speaker 1: half to me, was a third and four where Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers needed to eat the ball and they could kick
Speaker 1: a field goal and they were still in the game.
Speaker 1: But he did the thing where he forced it into
Speaker 1: double coverage, it gets picked off and that was basically
Speaker 1: the moment, and they had a killer miss field goal
Speaker 1: when they had a chance to climb back into this,
Speaker 1: making it essentially every Chargers game ever. Bolts gonna bolt
Speaker 1: and uh, just a little bit of housekeeping before we
Speaker 1: moved to our next game. I did get behind the
Speaker 1: chiemn with disastrous results. So that's for the heroes thus
Speaker 1: far Sunday. Let's move up id formation. You're on the
Speaker 1: way hand off Peterson. It's a Redskins touchdown Peterson's wald
Speaker 1: had with career touchdown and the Redskins score. Larry Michael Cooley,
Speaker 1: is that a Is that a guy? Or is it?
Speaker 1: I think that was like the Son and Home Improvement. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it sounds like a human name. Not
Speaker 1: sure who the human is. Sunny Jorgenson also w TM
Speaker 1: with the call. Alex Smith carved up the Cardinals uh
Speaker 1: two fifty five and two touchdowns. Adrian Peterson looked like
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson ninety six yards and a touchdown. Redskins beat
Speaker 1: up on the Cardinals six win on Sunday in a
Speaker 1: game that really wasn't even that close. Mark Washington utterly
Speaker 1: dominant on the road in Week one, pretty damn the press.
Speaker 1: This is the Redskins team that we fell in love
Speaker 1: with for various weeks in the past, where you saw
Speaker 1: them get in and dominate, and we can put to bed. Finally,
Speaker 1: last year's Sam Bradford Week one performance that everyone crowe
Speaker 1: about for four thousand months. He had eleven yards passing
Speaker 1: in a negative one yard rushing at halftime. Today they
Speaker 1: couldn't get on track at all. But I am West.
Speaker 1: You've been talking about Adrian Peterson all off season. You're
Speaker 1: you're essentially his agent at this point. Please talk. Thank you, Dan,
Speaker 1: because I was going to introduce this by saying permission
Speaker 1: to take a victory hundred sixties six yards in a touchdown.
Speaker 1: And I think this was our big takeaway on the
Speaker 1: Sky Sports show, or my big takeaway that if you're
Speaker 1: a general manager, you have to ask yourself if you
Speaker 1: succumbed to the quicksand of NFL group think. And it
Speaker 1: happens every offseason. This guy's on the open market for
Speaker 1: six months, can't even get a whisper of interest. And
Speaker 1: his game film last year showed an overwhelmed offensive line,
Speaker 1: no respect for the passing game and Adrian Peterson running
Speaker 1: with the same fury, similar explosion, similar speed to previous years.
Speaker 1: The guy can still play, and when you see him
Speaker 1: in a Redskins jersey, it conjures up visions of John Riggins,
Speaker 1: a guy who made the Hall of Fame because he
Speaker 1: was the best old running back in NFL history. And
Speaker 1: he's perfectly paired with Chris Thompson. Yes, absolutely, and I
Speaker 1: never thought that Peterson would be bad. My thing is
Speaker 1: really stay healthy, and if he stays healthy, what West
Speaker 1: is right about is he still has the goods. And
Speaker 1: the Cardinals that did that was not inspiring. That effort
Speaker 1: at home. It makes you very nervous that this team.
Speaker 1: First of all, we're gonna see Josh Rosen sooner than
Speaker 1: we expected, and this team is not going to hang
Speaker 1: around in the playoff picture if they keep playing like
Speaker 1: the Peterson already earned the salary. He could get hurt
Speaker 1: next week, and he was worth it. The fact that
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson and him combined for almost three hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson's coming back from a serious injury. We didn't
Speaker 1: see him at all in preseason, so we didn't know
Speaker 1: what we were going to get out of him. Jay
Speaker 1: Gruden has to be love in life. Chris Thompson had
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty three total yards in addition to Peterson,
Speaker 1: so they have three hundred between almost almost three hundred.
Speaker 1: I think a little shy, but one. My brain has
Speaker 1: gon explode right now. Jay Gruden, at one point in
Speaker 1: his Redskins offense, had twenty six first downs and the
Speaker 1: Cardinals had three. I mean that is they smacked down.
Speaker 1: And he didn't even really need to use Jordan Reader,
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder and Paul Richardson because you just had Alex
Speaker 1: Smith just dropping off these little five yard passes. And
Speaker 1: I think this Redskins team is dangerous and I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in the mix in the end. And
Speaker 1: as much as Kirk Cousins is a fit for the Vikings,
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is It's okay, you can go somewhere else,
Speaker 1: and he's in Washington. He's perfect for the Redskins. Resurprise
Speaker 1: me at all. He's just a guy you can count on.
Speaker 1: And Larry Michael Cooley wasn't he one of the kids
Speaker 1: and family matters? Well, I think he was a jobber
Speaker 1: in eighties wrestling. Let's move up. Keenam design role looks right,
Speaker 1: run on the run, throws the ball. It's the interceptive,
Speaker 1: but is he out of bounds? He's out of did
Speaker 1: he catch the ball? Got that ct with the catch,
Speaker 1: so that Marius Thomas has the football, But is he
Speaker 1: gonna get the touchdown? I think it's gonna stay at
Speaker 1: Dave and I certainly I'm not gonna be in our
Speaker 1: top ten calls. Okay, and Rick Lewis with the call
Speaker 1: there for k O A. Wolf. Von Miller was the star.
Speaker 1: Damary Thomas had to go ahead touchdown there, but Von
Speaker 1: Miller was the star for the Broncos. He's sacked Russell
Speaker 1: William Wilson three times, force two fumbles, recovered another and
Speaker 1: uh case Keenum wins his Broncos debut Sunday win over
Speaker 1: the Seahawks West. You were confident the Broncos would get
Speaker 1: off on the right foot against the Seattle team in transition. Wait,
Speaker 1: how confident were you, Wes, confident enough that I locked
Speaker 1: it up? Bang, That's exactly what happened, your thoughts. Von
Speaker 1: Miller was the best player on the field. He tipped
Speaker 1: the field. Vans Joseph handled the end of the game
Speaker 1: as if he trusted the Broncos defense just because he
Speaker 1: knew von Miller was wrecking shop all day long. I
Speaker 1: have been so excited by this rookie class that you've
Speaker 1: jokingly referred to them as the team of West hel
Speaker 1: and no way, shape or forman my bailing on the Bears,
Speaker 1: But this Broncos team gets me excited as much as anyone.
Speaker 1: And for all the hype that goes to Court and
Speaker 1: Sutton and Royce Freeman and Bradley Chub, undrafted Philip Lindsay,
Speaker 1: a rookie who really jumped off the screen in preseason action,
Speaker 1: is a big factor for this team. About a hundred
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown on over fifteen touches. This guy's
Speaker 1: gonna be involved all year. I think I like the
Speaker 1: formula here. That Broncos last year were not fun to watch,
Speaker 1: they were depressing. I felt completely different about this game,
Speaker 1: and they're They're not perfect, but you got what you
Speaker 1: got from Emmanuel Sanders. We talked all off season about
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with the backfield. Philip Lindsay Royce Freeman
Speaker 1: both had fifteen rushes for seventy one yards four point
Speaker 1: seven per carry. That works, and this defense is doing
Speaker 1: exactly what they thought. I just think that this is
Speaker 1: a team in this division where you in a weird
Speaker 1: a f C, who knows what can happen. You said
Speaker 1: West that Vance Joseph was confident in the defense because
Speaker 1: Von Miller was there. Maybe it was because pac Man
Speaker 1: Jones was there. I mean pac Man Jones. How about
Speaker 1: closing out a game in his fourteen season. He just
Speaker 1: got called off the waiver wire and he's still closing
Speaker 1: out games. Pacman Jones. If this was if, I love it.
Speaker 1: If you're Hugh Jackson and you had to do something
Speaker 1: other than lose today, don't we feel the same way
Speaker 1: about Vance Joseph. He had a he had a rough
Speaker 1: rough season last year. He had a terrible first year
Speaker 1: as a head coach, and John big Win John Elway
Speaker 1: did not want to pull the trigger too soon, but
Speaker 1: you could easily cut ties with Vance Joseph. That's how
Speaker 1: bad last year was. So sticking with him and getting
Speaker 1: the win and case Keenum like, listen, if this is
Speaker 1: how much Case Keenum is gonna be in terms of
Speaker 1: volume usage, I don't think the Broncos are gonna have
Speaker 1: a very good season. I think the way he was
Speaker 1: used in Minnesota was the perfect way to use him,
Speaker 1: which is playing two strengths. Don't don't let him get
Speaker 1: to cowboyish. And I think they're gonna lose more games
Speaker 1: than they win if he throws this many passes. But
Speaker 1: today worked against the Seattle defense. Said Frankly, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's very good right now, Earl Thomas to know, West,
Speaker 1: what did you think about kind of this totally reformed
Speaker 1: Seahawks defense. Did it look like the Seahawks. No, it
Speaker 1: didn't look like the Seahawks. You got you had the interceptions,
Speaker 1: which you know, as Dan said case Keenum, he sort
Speaker 1: of plays like a younger Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's a gun slinger.
Speaker 1: You're going you're going to have those balls. He's gonna
Speaker 1: throw up, so that will happen. But this team was
Speaker 1: I mean, the Broncos must have five d yards of offense.
Speaker 1: This was not a Seahawks Legion of Boom type of team.
Speaker 1: Doug Baldwin went out with an injury in this game
Speaker 1: after battling an MCL spraining throughout the preseason. He had
Speaker 1: one target. This team is just short on possibility, is
Speaker 1: on offense. I mean there's just when you who is
Speaker 1: dis Lee there the tight end was their leading receiver
Speaker 1: and they're just counting on Brandon Marshall to make a
Speaker 1: play down the field, which he did, but they're just
Speaker 1: a little short on strange looked a lot like last
Speaker 1: year's Seattle offense with Russell Wilson. Do most they need,
Speaker 1: they need Baldwin, and Baldwin is such a Jenga piece
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Speaker 1: have a chance to return from two yards beat breaks right,
Speaker 1: got a crease touts back after thirty, the thirty five,
Speaker 1: the forty, forty five to fifty. Hey's at the forty
Speaker 1: He's at learning just like openly celebrating nobody's even like
Speaker 1: somebody's living room. W q AM TV Cefalo, I still
Speaker 1: haven't gotten Cephalo, Bob Greasy and Joe Rose with a
Speaker 1: call uh Ja. Keith Grant answered the Titan's touchdown with
Speaker 1: a one two yard kickoff return. Bryan Tannehill connected on
Speaker 1: two TV passes. Kenny Stills and the quarterbacks returned to action,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins knocked off the Tytoons seven to twenty
Speaker 1: and a game delayed twice by lightning storms took over
Speaker 1: seven hours to complete, which is the longest NFL game
Speaker 1: ever in terms of just start to finish. So really league,
Speaker 1: You know, at least the Dolphins fans that were there
Speaker 1: that stuck around got a w out of it. Greg
Speaker 1: a nice start for Miami and a brutal night for Tennessee.
Speaker 1: And it goes beyond the final score. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the Titans had the worst Sunday of any team. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Bills fans clearly don't feel too good about themselves,
Speaker 1: but the Titans had more hope going into it and
Speaker 1: more devastation. Today. Marcus Mariota had an elbow injury where
Speaker 1: he lost feeling in his hand. He came back from
Speaker 1: the injury and threw an interception, which came after that
Speaker 1: second really long lightning delay. Then you lose Delaney Walker
Speaker 1: late in the game to what appeared to be a
Speaker 1: really serious injury. That's seven hours after the game has
Speaker 1: started and you just doesn't seem right. And early in
Speaker 1: the game you also lost left tackle Taylor Luan. So
Speaker 1: that's you think of the Titans. Those are three of
Speaker 1: the players, maybe the first three players that you think of,
Speaker 1: and they all went out. We don't know how serious
Speaker 1: Mariota's injury is, but he didn't look great before or
Speaker 1: after the injury, So just probably a real lost week
Speaker 1: for the Titans, especially with the Jaguars looking so good.
Speaker 1: This feels like one of those games that m NFL
Speaker 1: films will profile because it was so wacky and so unusual,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna it seems like it's also gonna double
Speaker 1: as like the video that is uh like a backbreaking
Speaker 1: season stabbing, worst case scenario kind of game for the
Speaker 1: type I just think for for anyone in a football team, players, coaches,
Speaker 1: front office, when you get stuck with this kind of
Speaker 1: situation where we saw what happened to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: between the Ravens and Niners when that when the lights
Speaker 1: went out, how it changed that that tenor of that
Speaker 1: game for both teams. Look what happened today. I just
Speaker 1: think you have to ask, if you're the NFL or whatever,
Speaker 1: how do you handle this kind of thing. I do
Speaker 1: think the football gods might be smiling because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of KOs already with Mother Nature, with my sandwich
Speaker 1: property one of these games at some point being moved.
Speaker 1: They should have just taken this thing and moved into
Speaker 1: a High School Stadium tomorrow night. If you ever were
Speaker 1: curious what happens after, you know, six and a half
Speaker 1: hours in a huge delay, Here's what happened. Tons of
Speaker 1: scoring and tons of points. It was ten to three
Speaker 1: entering the fourth quarter, and then then the game ended
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty. Here's what happened. A hundred and
Speaker 1: two yard kickoffer turn followed by a seventy five yard
Speaker 1: touchdown paths followed by a ninety four yard kickoffer turn.
Speaker 1: That's just a bunch of tired players. And the Dolphins
Speaker 1: were the better team today and they deserve to win,
Speaker 1: partly because the running game looks good. Kenyan Drake and
Speaker 1: Frank Gore were a really good one to punch, and
Speaker 1: that was kind of the difference in a block game.
Speaker 1: It's great to come out with a win. The only
Speaker 1: fans that stuck around to the end were people that
Speaker 1: lost their car car keys in the storm. I and
Speaker 1: I don't know how you speaking of tired players were tired.
Speaker 1: So we will throw it the Sunday night game between
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. Back to the
Speaker 1: Culver studio. Where are good buddies and satellite heroes? Uh?
Speaker 1: Nick Shook and Jeremy Bergman will handle the call to
Speaker 1: you boys, go Roger shotgun pre receivers, why you want
Speaker 1: to the last snapped a Rod Rushes on half time
Speaker 1: looking he made all the way to the twenty right
Speaker 1: till the Tuns down by my goodness, Randolph cop to
Speaker 1: the lead score. What an amazing finish to the first
Speaker 1: Sunday of the football season. This is Jeremy Bergen with
Speaker 1: Nick Shook back in l A. The Packers down and out,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers down and out, down twenty to nothing at
Speaker 1: at halftime, come back and wine at Lambeau against the Bears.
Speaker 1: There's no higher drama in the league than this type
Speaker 1: of comeback. This music fits perfectly because what a stunning finish,
Speaker 1: and it's one that we shouldn't really be that surprised
Speaker 1: by seeing that it was Aaron Rodgers. But it was
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers on one leg. That's right. The first touchdown
Speaker 1: that he threw when he came back from the injury,
Speaker 1: which we'll get to, he threw on one leg thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards on a dime to the back corner of
Speaker 1: the end zone. We've seen Rodgers throw hell Mary's. We've
Speaker 1: seen him, you know, will then back from the depths
Speaker 1: of defeat, and he did it today, coming back from
Speaker 1: a collarbone injury that ended his season last year. And
Speaker 1: I mean it was really a tale of two halfs too,
Speaker 1: because if you think about it, the first half we
Speaker 1: had the Khalil mac Show, and he was dominating an
Speaker 1: offense that had been just dumb struck by the loss
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers. You know, Chris Collins worst set it
Speaker 1: on the broadcast night. We were giving a eulogy as
Speaker 1: he was carried off to the locker room. This is
Speaker 1: it what Greek one green bass season is over? What's
Speaker 1: gonna happen? The Lambeau crowd was dead silent. You could
Speaker 1: hear a pin drop. And then they bring in It's
Speaker 1: not bred Hollan anymore. Remember it's DeShawn Kaiser who they
Speaker 1: traded for. Deshaun Kaiser comes in and promptly gets strip
Speaker 1: sacked by Khalil Mack in the red zone and then
Speaker 1: on the neck drive throws a pick six and you're like,
Speaker 1: this game is over. If you went to bed, I
Speaker 1: don't blame you. Everybody thought Aaron Rodgers was either done
Speaker 1: for the season or at least done for the game
Speaker 1: and then the second half are Steave bettor David Eally
Speaker 1: made the I think the appropriate connection to Willis Reid
Speaker 1: Willis Rodgers coming out of the locker room in the
Speaker 1: second half and turning things around, coming back from that
Speaker 1: twenty to nothing deficit and doing it in thrilling fashion
Speaker 1: on a play that you know, when he threw it
Speaker 1: over the middle of the randall Cobby, you thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a first down. Oh wait, there's there's
Speaker 1: nobody there where it was. Everybody might go, he is
Speaker 1: gonna go all the way. I mean, you heard the
Speaker 1: the shock in the voice of of those on the call,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean it kept what you know, like
Speaker 1: we said before, it shouldn't have been that much of
Speaker 1: a surprise, but I mean you sat back, you're you're
Speaker 1: all you know behind the Bears here, they're gonna hold
Speaker 1: onto it and they're gonna finish this. They were playing
Speaker 1: so well. And the confidence that I had in the
Speaker 1: Bears during the whole game wasn't just because of the
Speaker 1: way Khalil Mack was playing, the way ro Kuan Smith
Speaker 1: was playing a cheam Hicks. The defense was playing great
Speaker 1: shutting down Rodgers even before he got hurt. The confidence
Speaker 1: came the fact that Matt Naggi's offense with Mitchell Drobisky
Speaker 1: under center, with all the new pieces around him, they
Speaker 1: were moving the ball. Jordan Howard, treat Cohen, Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: was a great connection with Trabisky. They were moving the ball.
Speaker 1: Trey Burton, you know, it looked like they were going
Speaker 1: to run away with it. Even if Rogers and the
Speaker 1: offense got back on track something happened in the second half.
Speaker 1: But this offense looked a lot like the Chiefs offense
Speaker 1: from years past. But there was a problem because it
Speaker 1: also looked like the Chiefs offense in that playoff game
Speaker 1: last year that they lost the Titans. And and you know,
Speaker 1: uh what Matt Naggi failed to do or Niggy we
Speaker 1: we went over there. We haven't figured out what is
Speaker 1: but what he did failed to do last year was
Speaker 1: ice the game. And again tonight for a good portion
Speaker 1: of the second half. That creativity the Bears offense show
Speaker 1: that was so exciting in the first half. You know,
Speaker 1: multiple formations, they're doing all kinds of crazy different things,
Speaker 1: a lot of what the Chiefs the earlier today. By
Speaker 1: the way, and and then it just it went vanilla.
Speaker 1: In the second half, they couldn't move the ball, and
Speaker 1: every stop the Packers got the momentum built, and before
Speaker 1: you knew it, they're right back in the game. And
Speaker 1: then you've got the ball in Roger's hand and he's down,
Speaker 1: you know, a score, and the magic happens. The Bears
Speaker 1: were up seventeen to nothing at halftime. Rogers was down
Speaker 1: for the count after taking a hit from it looked
Speaker 1: like Khalil mac but somebody else on the Bears d line.
Speaker 1: Back in the wild card game, the Chiefs were down
Speaker 1: twenty were up twenty one two three at halftime over
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota and the Titans. Similar type of situation here,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I don't you don't want to
Speaker 1: blow this thing on the proportion. But this is two
Speaker 1: straight games that Matt Naggi has coached as an offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator or a head coach, and these are two blown leads.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of promise in Chicago, but you start
Speaker 1: to think maybe when you know his teams can't hold
Speaker 1: a lead, it's a teaching moment for him in his
Speaker 1: first game as a head coach, and I think he'll
Speaker 1: learn just from the many phases of a game in
Speaker 1: the NFL season. I mean, every game, there's four quarters
Speaker 1: the long time to play football, and I think he'll
Speaker 1: learn from this. But the big question now, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: kind of answered this question on the broadcast, but really,
Speaker 1: is he going to play in Week two? Because that's
Speaker 1: gonna dominate the headlines this week. He said he's gonna play,
Speaker 1: He told much Altafoya, He's gonna play. We'll see. I'm
Speaker 1: sure this is gonna, you know, draw out over the week.
Speaker 1: There's definitely a lot to be excited about in Chicago, though,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, I have a hot take, shook, this
Speaker 1: was the game of the year, this whole first time
Speaker 1: in a football game over the year, and it was
Speaker 1: already the game of the year. You will not see
Speaker 1: a game with higher drama. You're chasing this high all
Speaker 1: all all all off season and you get it right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope not because it's Week one, but
Speaker 1: there were a lot of layers to this, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: and uh, you could be right. I hope we get
Speaker 1: a lot more of this though in the primetime slate especially,
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to it. It's gonna be a long,
Speaker 1: great season. Now back to the guys across the pond,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, uh guys, and we can't wait
Speaker 1: to get back and see all our friends in Culver
Speaker 1: City as we get on the airplane tomorrow. Uh this
Speaker 1: uh brings our amazing London trip to a close. Before
Speaker 1: we go. We have so many people to thank because
Speaker 1: this was really the trip of a lifetime and it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen without a lot of people kind of coming,
Speaker 1: uh coming and stepping up to the plate for us.
Speaker 1: So thank you to thok Sky Sports Today, Alex Mason,
Speaker 1: Patrick Crowley, Mason still here waiting for us because he
Speaker 1: has to take us out of them than just it's
Speaker 1: three in the market. Shut up, but we don't need
Speaker 1: your thanks. Just stop talk. Patrick Crawley, Neil Reynolds, who
Speaker 1: he's he's he's a mention, uh, the NFL UK office,
Speaker 1: Jamie King, Al Star, Kirkwood, Nick Pike, Henry Hodson back
Speaker 1: Home UK. Hank a major supporter of our show and
Speaker 1: you know, good friend personally, but he has been a
Speaker 1: great ambassador for this podcast. We love you, handsome Hank.
Speaker 1: Mark Brady here has been a major supporter of the show.
Speaker 1: Eric Tampost and Todd Metcalf. You guys busted ass this
Speaker 1: week with us, uh and and you were really fun.
Speaker 1: We all need, we all need. We're never going to
Speaker 1: London without you. It's part of our new country. We
Speaker 1: also need jet Leg Jackson to come back. She was awesome. Also,
Speaker 1: Sarah Parsons, John Marvel, Thank you back in Culver and
Speaker 1: especially thank you to the UK fans. Uh. This was
Speaker 1: could not have been any better for us. You guys,
Speaker 1: we expected this to be a fun trip and it
Speaker 1: was even better than we could have been. I'll be
Speaker 1: ninety five years old if I live that long, and
Speaker 1: I'll remember this week for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: And I'm legitimately moving here very soon if I can
Speaker 1: have anything to do with it. And I will say
Speaker 1: the seven of us on this journey from our little
Speaker 1: NFL group. We've had an incredible time and we promised
Speaker 1: with Lakisha with eight to have a reunion. I've said
Speaker 1: three times a week all season long, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: We're gonna meet. You had sort of a Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: at Barcelona week where you know he's famous for playing
Speaker 1: eighteen holes of golf every day, going out and beating
Speaker 1: a bunch of chumps on the basketball court, staying up
Speaker 1: till five in the morning playing cards and join it
Speaker 1: every day over again. That was sort of what you
Speaker 1: did in London. I felt we grew for a little
Speaker 1: bit while at the end of the week, I thought
Speaker 1: we're gonna lose. Yeah, you have lost me. I am
Speaker 1: moving here. Dark Sessler came out a couple of nights,
Speaker 1: but he came all the way back around and he's
Speaker 1: with us. Also, Ryan Bartlon and cam Malina ack in
Speaker 1: Culver's have given us a lot of support. I just
Speaker 1: mind one takeaway like from this whole week is I
Speaker 1: wasn't part of last year's season opening podcast. It was
Speaker 1: a long year for me and this this trip sort
Speaker 1: of feels like validation for what we started five or
Speaker 1: six years ago, and that we trusted our instincts that
Speaker 1: in that building people want your show to be interviewing players,
Speaker 1: interviewing coaches, talking to beat writers, and instead our vision
Speaker 1: was for idiots taking the piss out of each other,
Speaker 1: as they say here, and it's just a really good
Speaker 1: sensibility match for the British listeners. And I think that's
Speaker 1: why why we're here. I mean we were literally sneaking
Speaker 1: around our bosses to try to to tape this podcast.
Speaker 1: And this was a week where we love our jobs,
Speaker 1: we love football, and we love all the listeners, not
Speaker 1: just the UK listeners, but all the listeners are the
Speaker 1: ones that helped get us here. And Mark Mark Brady,
Speaker 1: the shadowy league figure who was along with us, said
Speaker 1: he was getting chills when they put our warm up
Speaker 1: songs on on Tuesday night, our introductory songs, and it
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, five years kind of coming to
Speaker 1: that moment and just I have chills just just thinking
Speaker 1: about it. And we we appreciate everyone that help us
Speaker 1: get us here. It was fine, all right, let's go.
Speaker 1: Dad has us signing up for the Quiet Storm, the Mailman,
Speaker 1: the old boss of the Loose catin on the ones twos,
Speaker 1: Oh Love and you treated as well to go home
Speaker 1: till what Sex