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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast see crest Outcome back to
Speaker 1: another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name
Speaker 1: is Dan Kansas, and I'm joined in a room filled
Speaker 1: with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rostal. What
Speaker 1: is up? Boys? You know? Twelve billion dollars? Fourteen billion dollars?
Speaker 1: What is that paid for the Twitter show? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: suckers um And right now we're doing a podcast with
Speaker 1: only one one ear of audio, Like we're a poor podcast,
Speaker 1: like poor people that got together and get to it's
Speaker 1: a classes in this situation all of a sudden, a
Speaker 1: shanty town. We're gonna have to press on through. We're professionals,
Speaker 1: like it's it's even as you're talking to me, half
Speaker 1: my brain is screaming in agony and the other ones
Speaker 1: like what's wrong? What's going I mean, if we were
Speaker 1: true broadcasting professionals, we would never allow the listener to
Speaker 1: know this is even happening. Well that's that's the lesson
Speaker 1: of where we stand as broadcasters who just bros. We
Speaker 1: just hang out and talk some skin. I don't think
Speaker 1: any of us has ever claimed to be pro broadcasters.
Speaker 1: Um for yourself, welcome to the Wednesday Show. Greg good
Speaker 1: mention good like subtle plug there the Twitter Show around
Speaker 1: the NFL. Twitter Show had our second live show on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I hope all you gentlemen have it pinned or have
Speaker 1: it easily accessible for the listeners people have. I still
Speaker 1: have the launch of the Jesse Nick and Rosenthal Vanity project.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of irons in the fire. Other
Speaker 1: things are being pinned. That is not surprising. Greg currently, okay,
Speaker 1: good I have it pinned. So if you want to
Speaker 1: check it out, even though it's no longer live, you
Speaker 1: could watch the full show. Um. We had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun doing it with Colleen via Skype and Reggie
Speaker 1: Bush and me do a little fun kind of open
Speaker 1: uh every week, and I think you really like it
Speaker 1: if you haven't checked it out yet, So check it out.
Speaker 1: Um Twitter Show every Tuesday, one thirty Pacific, four thirty Eastern,
Speaker 1: and it's interactive. You can get on the show. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's face it, we got some clever creative responses. But
Speaker 1: I think our listeners if they bring their a game,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be on the show. You'll be basically be famous.
Speaker 1: Get a lot, you got a shot someone clever ones too.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a mix. Yes, that's kind of part
Speaker 1: of the course. It is Twitter after all. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: a lot of show to get to today we have, Um,
Speaker 1: let's see what are we doing today? What is today's show?
Speaker 1: I'm all discombobulated after what happened with the technical difficulties.
Speaker 1: I can't take it. Areka, I'm really sorry to head
Speaker 1: of the audio engineering team is up here. This is
Speaker 1: not my fault. Bring him in here. I promise we
Speaker 1: don't play your fault. We don't blame you. Erica. Next
Speaker 1: week it's on you if if it's not figured out,
Speaker 1: that would be But how quickly did I get option
Speaker 1: be up here and set up on the floor for effort? Right?
Speaker 1: Erica brought a whole second auxiliary set of microphones to
Speaker 1: use if needed. Um, kudos to you, all right, So
Speaker 1: today we're gonna a new segment called show me Something,
Speaker 1: and that's a call to a player, a coach, a
Speaker 1: team that through three weeks straight from the tappan Zee
Speaker 1: Bridge for the rest in peace, the tapan Zee Bridge.
Speaker 1: But like guys stopped dropping his at the end of
Speaker 1: the thing. Um, it was a team, a player, a coach,
Speaker 1: a GM, an owner. You know, after three weeks, you
Speaker 1: know we're missing something here. All right, show us something, Listen.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna be talking about it owner personally,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to narrow it down too much.
Speaker 1: And then you guys just left the D marker. You're
Speaker 1: acting like you've never even heard of this segment. Now
Speaker 1: I've heard it. What happened to the tap and See bridge?
Speaker 1: They replaced it just crumbled into They built a new
Speaker 1: one next to it. No idea. What's stopping on these
Speaker 1: coast Tapac Bridge for those that are not in the know,
Speaker 1: connects Westchester County in Rockland County, U in New York.
Speaker 1: So you brought it up to explain where all those
Speaker 1: cold towns with you know, one point five million dollar houses.
Speaker 1: I mean if you add all the houses together, No,
Speaker 1: if you added maybe one and one eighth of the next.
Speaker 1: Like it's like Bill Clinton's pool House Cools making a
Speaker 1: big comeback right west Chester. Listen, Bill Clinton, Ian Rappaport,
Speaker 1: all the fancy boys are in Westchester and Gregg's family.
Speaker 1: If you lived in the New York area, that would
Speaker 1: be where they are over in Rockland. It's a little
Speaker 1: different where I grew up Rockland, hard Land, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: it all started where I'm My parents did live in
Speaker 1: so Merce, which is not in west Chester. He's like
Speaker 1: I said, out Putnam, that's a very nice area. I
Speaker 1: have nothing good Orbit. I think it'd be as smart
Speaker 1: if we don't dig in too deeply on your hometown.
Speaker 1: I would say, visit the town of friendly people, but
Speaker 1: just realize that it is. It is a place where
Speaker 1: people earn a living. There's no trust funds, pr true story,
Speaker 1: look it up. That's when it's not allowed to do
Speaker 1: some reason. That's all is there. I mean, there's no
Speaker 1: strawberry trucks, some peul river. Greg. I mean, I I
Speaker 1: welcome you to go to Springfield, Massachusetts and the towns
Speaker 1: around it and enjoy the lovely seat. I've been to Springfield.
Speaker 1: It is no picnic I will agree, But when have
Speaker 1: you been to Springfield? Two summers ago, when I had
Speaker 1: one of those East Coast trips in a rental car
Speaker 1: and I thought, I'll go to Springfield and just see
Speaker 1: what it's I was going from A to B. Well,
Speaker 1: it wasn't to see It's nice that I saw Gregor,
Speaker 1: but it was star I quickly exited. It's been. It's
Speaker 1: on a lot of lists. I know yours was on
Speaker 1: the list of one of the nicest place in Little
Speaker 1: Springfield always makes the list of the worst cities in America.
Speaker 1: But shout out to Springfield, Western mass doesn't get enough representation.
Speaker 1: We come out, come out on top, all right, So
Speaker 1: let's get back on track here today is um show
Speaker 1: me something. We're also going to preview the Thursday night
Speaker 1: football game between the Rams and the Vikings. Uh. That's exciting. Uh.
Speaker 1: And of course do the news. But I thought something
Speaker 1: I haven't done in a while, and I think the
Speaker 1: NFL might appreciate it. Maybe they won't, but I've been
Speaker 1: un employee at the company since two thousand ten, um,
Speaker 1: so I think there's a certain amount of gravitas that
Speaker 1: comes with that type of extended employment. So I feel
Speaker 1: like I can at least pitch some slogans and I
Speaker 1: use you as as always, using you, gentlemen, as the soundboard.
Speaker 1: Complete honesty, that's what I look for. Okay, fire away
Speaker 1: this responsibility to some of your old ones. Right here
Speaker 1: we go for first one the NFL? Are you kidding
Speaker 1: me with all this action? It's simply awesome. I like
Speaker 1: that about it's about a five point three. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: quite wordy, you know. I think editing is important when
Speaker 1: it comes to slogan. You gotta think of where it's got,
Speaker 1: Like it's gonna be on a poster or a commercial.
Speaker 1: It's just a lot of I think it says we
Speaker 1: don't care about slogan. We're gonna do slogan our way.
Speaker 1: It's little, a little too long, it's a little off
Speaker 1: off the nose, but um, I enjoyed it. Okay, how
Speaker 1: about this one the NFL. We don't have a problem.
Speaker 1: You're the ones with the problem. Look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: Is that solves all the living problems right now? I
Speaker 1: don't need to hear a third who's gonna mess with that?
Speaker 1: Because I think what we're trying to do here is
Speaker 1: um at a certain point, Yes, you always want to
Speaker 1: be on guard. You want to be there's a lot
Speaker 1: of uh, you know, a lot of battle fronts that
Speaker 1: we're dealing with as a company. But maybe just come
Speaker 1: out aggressive. That's yeah, you know what that slogan does.
Speaker 1: But walks in and owns the room like you're don Draper. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: but you mentioned that you that you in in some
Speaker 1: sense believe that you have a lot of graphics walking
Speaker 1: around the building. That that statement was imbued with. I
Speaker 1: think we've learned in this political climate, when someone comes
Speaker 1: after you, you just come back harder after them. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the truth is. All right now this one,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, we want to get the ratings. We
Speaker 1: wanna you know, we just we want the league to
Speaker 1: be completely locked in lockstep with our demographics and who
Speaker 1: brings in the money the advertises. How about this one? Football?
Speaker 1: It's a guy thing. I don't think it feels a
Speaker 1: little um nineteen h just a bit antiquated. I don't
Speaker 1: like that one. It's about as modern as that, uh
Speaker 1: and twins and that you've been playing so much you're
Speaker 1: shutting people out with that message. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: want to be any more, you know, including children by
Speaker 1: the way. Fair enough, fair enough, let me modify it. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're ready, Erica. The NFL a safe space for people
Speaker 1: of all colors, creeds, orientation, and tweels. I mean it's inclusive,
Speaker 1: it's welcoming. Uh, it's got a positive vibe to it. Yes, check,
Speaker 1: like it's not that inclusive for like the triplets out there.
Speaker 1: It just seems like you're singling out special all right,
Speaker 1: well I'll send I'll forward these al to Roger and
Speaker 1: see what I mean. The second Yeah, I don't like
Speaker 1: the last either. It feels a little like the pie
Speaker 1: piper just leading everyone out of town and into you know,
Speaker 1: major second one. The second one was the winner. I
Speaker 1: like them all because they're all better than what we
Speaker 1: currently have going with the whatever they're trying to sell
Speaker 1: the game with. Right now, I believe that you're getting
Speaker 1: closer what I mean. Football is not family when you're
Speaker 1: pulled away from your family forty to fifty hours a
Speaker 1: week to cover football. It's a fair point from you.
Speaker 1: Football is putting food on the table for your family. Well,
Speaker 1: that's fine, that's fine. Quickly rounds beat the Jets to
Speaker 1: your family on the road. I'm this thing into the lake.
Speaker 1: That's what you get if you watch the Twitter show,
Speaker 1: you get a strongly implied homicide and a little bit
Speaker 1: of fun. Everybody. Everybody wins. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people correctly pointed out that you've been in good sport
Speaker 1: about the Jets thing. I'm not going to mention it
Speaker 1: ever again. You can you enjoy, you enjoy the moment.
Speaker 1: Now it's over. If you want to move on to
Speaker 1: it's week four and now we move forward for the mirth,
Speaker 1: stay for the murder. Yeah, there's no way that, like,
Speaker 1: there's no way that the Jets struggles and the Browns
Speaker 1: ascending to the top of the mountain will come up
Speaker 1: again on this podcast. That's yeah, Like I've just lean
Speaker 1: them in for the Let's start with some serious news.
Speaker 1: Vikings defense eve vent Ever since Griffin he's battling a
Speaker 1: serious mental health issue for the past several weeks. It's
Speaker 1: come to light now he's currently undergoing evaluation at a
Speaker 1: local hospital that according to Tom Pella Sero, Griffin played
Speaker 1: in Minnesota's first and this is one of the top
Speaker 1: pass rushers um in the NFC. Certainly on the Vikings
Speaker 1: the A thirteen sacks lusher um. He was able to
Speaker 1: play in the Vikings first two games of the season,
Speaker 1: half a sack in each contest, but quote and this
Speaker 1: again from Pallisero, the situation became unmanageable this past week
Speaker 1: when they ruled him out against the Bills. Mike Zimmer
Speaker 1: told reporters following the loss to Buffalo that Griffin did
Speaker 1: not play due to a personal matter, and there have
Speaker 1: been a number of reports concerning Griffin's status following the game. Uh, Greg,
Speaker 1: this is a troubling matter around the Vikings and you
Speaker 1: just hope that whatever is going on with Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: this gets under control. Well, I'm just following Mike Zimmer's
Speaker 1: lead on this when he talked about Griffin, just saying
Speaker 1: that he's really worried about Griffin the person and less
Speaker 1: so you know, whether he can play football or not.
Speaker 1: They it was reported suggested that, you know, he undergo
Speaker 1: a mental health evaluation and last week that there's been
Speaker 1: issues going on for a few weeks and that he
Speaker 1: voluntarily checked himself into a hospital. The details, which some
Speaker 1: of which have been disputed about what incidents and everything
Speaker 1: that proceeded. That to me seems really secondary because this
Speaker 1: is a guy who is like a captain of the team,
Speaker 1: who Zimmer, who's kind of a hardass sometimes says, is
Speaker 1: one of his absolute favorite players, one of the most
Speaker 1: important players. I think when you think about the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings over the last seven eight years, certainly throughout the
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer era, and that this is a Syrian is
Speaker 1: enough problem to put his life just on stopped completely.
Speaker 1: They thought enough of him and have thought enough of
Speaker 1: him to give him a six year, seventy five million
Speaker 1: dollar contract last offseason with thirty four million guaranteed that
Speaker 1: someone shows his third contract with which that's someone that
Speaker 1: you're building the team around, and they thought the world
Speaker 1: of the person. And it's a reminder that we talk
Speaker 1: about these guys and we watched their tape and we
Speaker 1: judge them harshly or we or we credit them for
Speaker 1: how they performed each week, you know, on game pass.
Speaker 1: But there's this whole other, massive world going on with
Speaker 1: each of these players and what they're dealing with personally,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you just hope the Vikings can figure this out.
Speaker 1: Moving on, the New England Patriots are dealing with some
Speaker 1: issues injury issues. They placed running back Rex Burkhead and
Speaker 1: linebacker Juwan Bentley uninjured reserve Birkehead suffered a neck injury
Speaker 1: against the lines on Sunday Night. Bentley it's not clear
Speaker 1: um as of right now what the ailment was that
Speaker 1: he suffered, but he also UH sent to I r
Speaker 1: Um West. This is an issue for the Patriots who
Speaker 1: have been banged up this year and especially in their
Speaker 1: in their backfield. They just lose another guy that was
Speaker 1: supposed to be a key part of their team. It's
Speaker 1: amazing when you looked at this roster in April in
Speaker 1: May and you saw a really deep backfield, a really
Speaker 1: deep wide receiver corps, wondering how they're possibly going to
Speaker 1: squeeze all these names onto the roster. Then you lose
Speaker 1: Jeremy Hill to an a c L injury, you lose
Speaker 1: Rex burke Head to I R, you cut Mike gillis Lely,
Speaker 1: and you're left with James White, who's a receiver, not
Speaker 1: a runner. They don't like to use him as a
Speaker 1: as a runner at all because he's not that good
Speaker 1: at it except to win the Super Bowl. And Sony Michelle,
Speaker 1: who has shown nothing so far. And I was gonna
Speaker 1: use Sony Michelle for my show me something guy. But
Speaker 1: let's talk about him now. I mean, Greg has talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that this is a guy who came
Speaker 1: into the league when the issues and then spent the
Speaker 1: off season not in pressing anybody in New England, not
Speaker 1: picking up the offense either. During the o t a
Speaker 1: minicamp portion of the season, which was on a lot
Speaker 1: of reporters radars that he was coming along slowly, and
Speaker 1: then he's been hurt. And I think you just have
Speaker 1: to watch the games so far, and you know it's
Speaker 1: only been a couple of them to just see he's
Speaker 1: not reacting quickly. He's he has that quickness and he
Speaker 1: has that skill set. You saw it in college. But
Speaker 1: whatever is going on in his head trying to read
Speaker 1: the defenses or understand what the team is asking him
Speaker 1: to do play call wise, it's slowing him down. He's
Speaker 1: not playing fast. So it's a it's a big problem
Speaker 1: because they need a running game more than ever right now.
Speaker 1: He's now the flag bearer for this draft class, which
Speaker 1: has lost first rounder Isaiah Win, who was looking great too.
Speaker 1: It's too bad. Second rounder Duke Dawson is on i R.
Speaker 1: Fifth rounder Juwan Bentley, who had been starting at middle
Speaker 1: linebacker and looked really good. Is on I R now
Speaker 1: as of Wednesday, and your sixth rounder Christian Sam also
Speaker 1: on I. That's incredibly bad luck. You see this team
Speaker 1: trading for someone they love to They love to pull
Speaker 1: these trades. I mean there's a couple back fields with
Speaker 1: an extra running backs the position that you can get cheaply,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's a great uh point to
Speaker 1: make Mark and I could see them doing that. They have,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they'd like to evaluate Michelle probably
Speaker 1: even more for a few more weeks. We have a
Speaker 1: while to the trading deadline, but it also hurts their
Speaker 1: special teams. Burkhead and Joan Bentley helped there, and that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be an asset for their team. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of issues moving on the tip of Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: In an interesting situation, former number one overall picked Jamis Winston,
Speaker 1: who's been leading them a quarterback for the past three years,
Speaker 1: is off his suspension available to play in Week four.
Speaker 1: But Ryan Fitzpatrick has started the season with three straight
Speaker 1: four hundred yard games and two wins for the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Uh So it seems like this would be Fitzpatrick's job
Speaker 1: to keep. Uh, Dirk Cutter says he knows what the
Speaker 1: Bucks are gonna do against the Bears, he's just not
Speaker 1: saying it yet. Here's what Cutter had to say. So,
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of interest in the in
Speaker 1: the quarterback thing. And uh I did talk to both
Speaker 1: Jamis and Fits and it's great to see Jamis back
Speaker 1: in the back in the building with you know he
Speaker 1: was he was here early and working hard. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: welcome Jamis back. We're glad to have him and short
Speaker 1: short week and uh he assured me that he was
Speaker 1: ready to go, which I don't I don't doubt for
Speaker 1: a minute that he's been that he's been working hard.
Speaker 1: And uh, so you know, we know, we know what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. Both guys know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I hope everybody can appreciate that. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: do us any good to to tell our opponents what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. So you know that'll that'll work itself
Speaker 1: out here as the week goes on. But you know,
Speaker 1: we do have a plan and both guys are aware
Speaker 1: of it. Mark us, it's magic in week four, right, Well,
Speaker 1: I know that Greg has an accountable hot take out
Speaker 1: there that this is going to all um unfurl into
Speaker 1: total darkness. Yet another reason to watch the Twitter Show,
Speaker 1: please do. You can only see hot takes become accountable
Speaker 1: on the Tuesday, And in this case, you'd have to
Speaker 1: watch last week's Twitter Show and then watch this one
Speaker 1: to find out what we did to follow up on that.
Speaker 1: Lots of stuff, But um, I don't know how if
Speaker 1: you're Dirk Cutter and you're playing too an interesting fan base,
Speaker 1: it's it's just there very much to me feel like
Speaker 1: a regional team. If there is a regional NFL team
Speaker 1: that they are feeling themselves right now. You've finally given
Speaker 1: this Bucks fan base something fun to watch. But it
Speaker 1: extends to the entire league. And if you pull that
Speaker 1: away from the NFL right now and say we're gonna
Speaker 1: pull fitz Magic out of the hemisphere to put Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston chance that they are, That's the thing, Even even
Speaker 1: the way that he talked about it, Jamis is going
Speaker 1: to accept whatever role I give him and and do
Speaker 1: a great job in that role. You obviously wouldn't say
Speaker 1: that if you're starting him. Everyone knows Ryan Fitzpatrick is
Speaker 1: starting this week. The only question I have is you
Speaker 1: have a bye week next week, and if Fitzpatrick really struggles,
Speaker 1: Let's say he throws a couple of picks against the Bears,
Speaker 1: just easily the best defense that they've played. They've played
Speaker 1: some pretty bad defenses. Will Cutter consider it during this
Speaker 1: bye week. Some I think it might be early for
Speaker 1: him to do it, uh right away, but it wouldn't.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't shock me if Fitzpatrick struggled in this game
Speaker 1: that they did. I think if Fitzpatrick did not have
Speaker 1: the second half he had on Monday Night Football where
Speaker 1: in the end you did see that same offense pop
Speaker 1: through that, then you then you have questions. But how
Speaker 1: do you pull the plug on on Fitzpatrick? He's leading
Speaker 1: the league in yards per tempt at eleven and still
Speaker 1: completing his passes number one PFF springs, number two in
Speaker 1: passer rating, number one in big plays. You can't take
Speaker 1: out a guy like that. Let's do some injury talk.
Speaker 1: Start with the Buccaneers, since we're here ready. Chris Kanti,
Speaker 1: who was on the hammer end of one of the
Speaker 1: all time stiff arms on Monday Night Football from Vance McDonald. Well,
Speaker 1: it turns out that was h the last game of
Speaker 1: his season. It looks like because the Buccaneer safety has
Speaker 1: been placed an injured reserve with a knee injury. Uh.
Speaker 1: That hurts the Bucks secondary, which was already thin to
Speaker 1: start with. Another secondary news the Los Angeles Rams, who
Speaker 1: again we're gonna talk about later in today's show. But
Speaker 1: a keep to Leave is going to undergo surgery. Uh.
Speaker 1: He suffered a high ankle sprain. Surgery and a high
Speaker 1: ankle sprain is Yeah, that happens. It happens after the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Okay, keep to Leave suffered a high ankle
Speaker 1: spring and Sundays went over the Chargers. Uh. Marcus Peters
Speaker 1: also hurt in that game. He uh is believed to
Speaker 1: have suffered a calf strain during the same game. He
Speaker 1: could be out two to four weeks according to rap Sheet. Uh,
Speaker 1: that is great. That's gonna really test the Rams secondary
Speaker 1: and son a bum. It will, especially because they don't
Speaker 1: have great edge rushers. So now you have a couple
Speaker 1: of weaknesses and a defense let's look good overall. But
Speaker 1: they do. Also, the Rams are so loaded. They have
Speaker 1: better cornerback depth than just about any team in the league.
Speaker 1: I think they like what Sam Shields is Uh showed them.
Speaker 1: Uh who am I forgetting Nicol Robie Coleman, Well, he's
Speaker 1: at nickel back. I'm I'm forgetting Hills played very well
Speaker 1: for them in spots. In spots. In fact, he was
Speaker 1: playing better than Tremaine Johnson late last season. So they
Speaker 1: do have better depth at cornerback than most teams do.
Speaker 1: But this is a time for the Vikings to light
Speaker 1: them up. I mean, they have the best wide receiver
Speaker 1: group in the league and this that's a weakness for
Speaker 1: the Rams. This week's top ten position ranks. My article, Uh,
Speaker 1: Sam Shields is on it for afterthought acquisition. He had
Speaker 1: an interception in week two, broke up a touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: and now he's gonna be maybe their number one cornerback.
Speaker 1: He was an afterthought. You know, it was always to
Speaker 1: leave in Peters and oh yeah, Sam Shields is out
Speaker 1: of retirement and playing again, right, and he had a
Speaker 1: great offseason. He kind of he was forgot. He wasn't
Speaker 1: in the league for two years. It's pretty rare for
Speaker 1: that to happen. Finally, in the News five quarterbacks. As
Speaker 1: we all know, we're drafted in the first round of
Speaker 1: the two thousand eighteen NFL Draft in Week four, four
Speaker 1: of the five will be starting because Baker Mayfield will
Speaker 1: get the start um against the Browns playing this week
Speaker 1: Raiders and Josh Rosen What took so long? He gets
Speaker 1: to start for the Arizona Cardinals this week? So, uh
Speaker 1: who the Cardinals got somebody who's gonna play in the
Speaker 1: forty niners? Okay? Well, no has got the Chargers? Well
Speaker 1: they're the Chargers are playing playing the Chargers and of
Speaker 1: the Seahawks this week. Uh so the Cardinals Chargers together,
Speaker 1: Rosen playing, Mayfield playing, Darnell playing, Josh Allen playing, and
Speaker 1: over in Baltimore. It's waiting time for Lamar Jackson because
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco has gotten off to a pretty solid start
Speaker 1: this year. Um yeah, so the that's what's happening in
Speaker 1: the news. Okay, gentle, Okay, who's excited? Mark just flashed
Speaker 1: multiple text pages to me, which means it's time for
Speaker 1: Assessler segment. Mark, take it away, free time. I put
Speaker 1: these things on the rundown. I know they're going to
Speaker 1: be forgotten, so I have to flash the pages at
Speaker 1: Dan or it's gonna get completely lost it I listen.
Speaker 1: I I had nothing planned except in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, I got a text from someone who often
Speaker 1: does not reach out to me, Ian Rappaport. He does
Speaker 1: not reach out to me one on one very often, Like,
Speaker 1: how would you describe your relationship with Ian? I think
Speaker 1: it's professional. I enjoy it. I think that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of respect, at least from my angle going towards him.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if it extends the
Speaker 1: other way around, but so here's I'll read it to
Speaker 1: you and you can assess it as you will. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I know we don't text often, but just wanted to
Speaker 1: check in and see how your season is going so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I was. It's a text text, so long
Speaker 1: text London looked fun. You guys really took the NFL
Speaker 1: for a ride on that one, ha ha. Anyway, I've
Speaker 1: been real busy as you know. Well he did last night, Greg,
Speaker 1: are you gonna comment on every line of this production? Anyway.
Speaker 1: I've been real busy, as you know, always answering the
Speaker 1: phone and talking with agents and coaches and players. Mark
Speaker 1: one thing I can tell you, Colin, everyone has an
Speaker 1: angle in my business. Success boils down to keeping them
Speaker 1: all happy. I share a little information with personne person
Speaker 1: a shares a little information with me. Trust is important too,
Speaker 1: Like I was just talking to Pete Carroll, who told
Speaker 1: me he planned to retire at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: He feels comfortable telling me that and informing my reporting
Speaker 1: Mark because I know he knows I won't pass his
Speaker 1: important information along. Outside of work, I've been chipping away
Speaker 1: at that fantasy slash science fiction novel I was telling
Speaker 1: you about working title, Cities of dandra Were. It's set
Speaker 1: deep in the future in the seventh Star system beyond Andromeda.
Speaker 1: This band of castaways from our planet have been traveling
Speaker 1: for two hundred years. They keep having children to ensure
Speaker 1: that someone is alive when a suitable home is found.
Speaker 1: Problem is, the men and women lose their ability to
Speaker 1: reproduce so so far away from Earth, no more babies.
Speaker 1: They don't know why, so everyone dies away, leaving just
Speaker 1: one last little boy named Enderley Orally for short. As
Speaker 1: their ship fears towards this planet dandra Were. I can't
Speaker 1: figure out what happens next, though. One last thing. Let
Speaker 1: me know if you have any podcasting tips, and also,
Speaker 1: would it be cool if we further over extended Erica
Speaker 1: and use her to produce my podcast too, Just wondering
Speaker 1: as always look towards the skies with a smile. Rap
Speaker 1: sheet En is like, I'm not even joking, I say,
Speaker 1: is the last guy that would that I would think
Speaker 1: would ever write a science fiction book. Having got to
Speaker 1: know him a little bit over the years, this is
Speaker 1: a shocking revelation. Did t talk about it's Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: And he doesn't want to talk to a lot of
Speaker 1: people about them. The only person I know who composes
Speaker 1: texts of that length is Mark Ston. No, not anymore
Speaker 1: the least like it all. I know you're saying, you what,
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised that it was a science fiction right.
Speaker 1: The most surprising part of it to me was that
Speaker 1: he showed consideration for Erica's workload, like he cared about
Speaker 1: another human to that level, so that it shows growth
Speaker 1: from him. Well, that was nice, And it is cute
Speaker 1: that he has a podcast though, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's cute that he has a burgeoning midnight relationship with
Speaker 1: Mark sess Right, Well, one's real. Okay, uh got a
Speaker 1: side podcast here? We need uh West? When is West's
Speaker 1: Cincinnati reds Tybee Bar site? Podcast is yet to roll out.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting. I don't I don't know if that's ever
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Speaker 1: ball boy, landscaper, engineer, head engineer, the Bucks, the Bucks
Speaker 1: landscaping or just field management. I think could certainly show
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to him. One ear, one pod. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're an adult male sipping rose and I am not
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Speaker 1: At least you just have to let that hard to
Speaker 1: reach drop. Go show me something player, coach, g M owner,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Who needs to step up and
Speaker 1: show you something? Uh? Greg, you're going to get us
Speaker 1: going this time. I am, and it's gonna be with
Speaker 1: some people involved in the Thursday night game. But I
Speaker 1: just can't wait to talk about it to that segment
Speaker 1: because I need to see something. But I'm just saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's let's let's show me something. Kirk Cousins and John d.
Speaker 1: Filippo a little bit on my radar here. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: only one performance. And Kirk Cousins, who's looked looked really
Speaker 1: good in the first two weeks overall, in fact, made
Speaker 1: a number of like incredible passes in the first two weeks,
Speaker 1: was overwhelmed. And this seems to happen to Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: about two or three times a year, where he just
Speaker 1: I think he has when he has a stink bomb.
Speaker 1: It's a little more messy than other top quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's just what separate he's a top ten by
Speaker 1: the way, it's happening right now. They're out there. If
Speaker 1: you if you watch that Bills game, it did Uh
Speaker 1: he means the actual sort of prank device. Yes, it
Speaker 1: should be. He was he missing throws, and he was
Speaker 1: missing throws by quite a bit, like by ten fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: He definitely stay on football, do not talk about childhood.
Speaker 1: Tis his childhood think o Bomb's definitely still exists. If
Speaker 1: you've been to some fourth of July parades. You'll see. Wait,
Speaker 1: so you're saying that he showed you something in week one,
Speaker 1: in week two, but because he didn't show you anything
Speaker 1: in week three, now you need him to show you
Speaker 1: something again. Yes, because it's a big game for them,
Speaker 1: and he's he's a guy there obviously paying a lot
Speaker 1: of money too, and it was just such a bad
Speaker 1: performance and that he was so overwhelmed. He held the
Speaker 1: ball too long on certainly one of those fumbles. And
Speaker 1: the bigger point I'm trying to make here is something
Speaker 1: that Tony Romo pointed out. I'm not smart enough to know,
Speaker 1: but he kept pointing out in the second off of
Speaker 1: that game, He's like, they gotta stop calling the same place.
Speaker 1: D Philippo was just calling the same place they're they're
Speaker 1: running the same place out and starting out that they
Speaker 1: were doing in the first half. And he was also
Speaker 1: referring to a few of the times early on in
Speaker 1: the season. Uh, even though that there were some great
Speaker 1: plays made, he was a little worried just about how
Speaker 1: that offense was coming together. You're going to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: it's a big spot for your franchise. You're supposed to
Speaker 1: be a super Bowl type of team. You're going up
Speaker 1: against two corners that you're a secondary that's missing their
Speaker 1: best two cornerback. You have the best two wide receiver
Speaker 1: probably starting Tannemental League. I'm expecting him to do great,
Speaker 1: But show me something. Kirk Cousins and John D. Philipps
Speaker 1: first football problems. If they're one in three, which there's
Speaker 1: a good chance that they'll be. If you know they're
Speaker 1: gonna be underdogs in both these games, this is where
Speaker 1: I think Kirk Cousins kind of makes his money. You
Speaker 1: make your mark early on. You don't let your team
Speaker 1: go to one in three. Uh, this is why I
Speaker 1: wanted to show me something. Everybody on the Packers that's
Speaker 1: not Aaron Rodgers, show me something. This man is thirty
Speaker 1: five years old. This man is playing his heart out
Speaker 1: for you. Did you guys get a chance to watch
Speaker 1: the poor guy trying to move on the field. I
Speaker 1: loved in week three. He's a warrior. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: wearing this hat today. There you go. West is wearing
Speaker 1: a Packer's cap um and and what what he's not
Speaker 1: getting is representative performances, uh from the guys on the
Speaker 1: team that should be delivering more and and yes maybe
Speaker 1: Randall cobbs In declined, but that was a woeful game.
Speaker 1: Uh this past Sunday, Lance Kendricks with that terrible drop.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham is yet to really put his stamp on
Speaker 1: this team. But I also want to call out Mike
Speaker 1: Patton and this Packers defense, which thus far we have
Speaker 1: not seen. You know, everyone and moaned about Dom Capers
Speaker 1: for years, and right now this defense is ranked and
Speaker 1: scoring twenty three and rushing defense twenty one, and passing
Speaker 1: tied for sacks nineteenth and turnovers. I mean, they this
Speaker 1: remains an issue on this team. So I just think
Speaker 1: what the Packers need is for everybody to kind of
Speaker 1: raise their game a little bit and come up to
Speaker 1: where you don't have to get up to Aaron Rodgers territory.
Speaker 1: But you gotta understand that this guy is dragging his
Speaker 1: legs around the field and still playing like one of
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks in the league. Give that guy a
Speaker 1: little bit of help. You You called Aaron Rodgers a warrior,
Speaker 1: and when I watched that game, I thought of Hemingway
Speaker 1: and a Son absolute rises. He's like a He's like
Speaker 1: a bullfighter who's had you know, fifteen twenty years of
Speaker 1: experienced fighting bulls, and he's got this style and flare
Speaker 1: that he plays with. And he's still out there on
Speaker 1: one leg getting it done, throwing off throwing off no legs. Really,
Speaker 1: he's throwing from mid air, um inventing plays in the
Speaker 1: middle of it. And he's playing well enough. He's dragging
Speaker 1: a team along with him, and they're letting him down.
Speaker 1: And we are in this place with with I know.
Speaker 1: I think West and Greg, the scientists, you both had
Speaker 1: them as a Super Bowl pick, and I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to back out and say the Packers are our team
Speaker 1: in the decline and don't have a chance, but they
Speaker 1: need to play better. They're always They're always hoisted up
Speaker 1: as a super Bowl pick for obvious reasons, because when
Speaker 1: Rogers is playing at the top of his game, that
Speaker 1: can beat anyone any week. But the way that they
Speaker 1: tanked last year and totally went to sleep when Rogers
Speaker 1: got hurt, that got on my radar all season long,
Speaker 1: and I realized they're not that roster. They have different
Speaker 1: people in the building, But come on, I think they
Speaker 1: look better. I think there's a lot to like about
Speaker 1: the secondary. They should be two in one the Vikings
Speaker 1: game was a little bit flukey, and Geronimo Allison is
Speaker 1: really playing well. I think Randall Copp played well for
Speaker 1: two weeks. He had a terrible game like and Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones plays at a different speed than the other guys
Speaker 1: in that offense. He doesn't help losing. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: but they've got a good backup. Dean Lowry started all years.
Speaker 1: They get the Bills this week. I'm really curious to
Speaker 1: see how the Bills come out in that game, because
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying, who knows? This might be
Speaker 1: a different Bills team than we saw. Show me something.
Speaker 1: Steve Wilks and Mike McCoy. When I said the Vikings
Speaker 1: had first world problems, I mean, the Vikings played awesome
Speaker 1: in Week one, Week two and they just laid in egg.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this week, show me. The Cardinals spent all
Speaker 1: offseason talking about their offensive line and David Johnson, and
Speaker 1: everything starts up front with establishing the run. David Johnson's
Speaker 1: averaging three point four yards per carry, and they have
Speaker 1: managed to make him boring not fun to watch. Um
Speaker 1: take a look at what Steve Wilkes's philosophy is and
Speaker 1: what Mike McCoy is doing in Arizona, and compare it
Speaker 1: to the offensive gurus. Number one in the league, Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: number two, Sean McVeigh, number three, Ken wiz and Hunt
Speaker 1: number four, Sean Payton, number five, Todd Monkin. Those are
Speaker 1: the five best offenses in the league, according to Football
Speaker 1: Outsiders Metrics, and not one of those coaches has worked
Speaker 1: on establishing the run. In September, they don't worry about
Speaker 1: establishing the run. They just assault your defense with touchdowns
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. Well there's I was listening.
Speaker 1: Warren Sharp had a stat basically of teams that run
Speaker 1: the most on first down, and they're all the worst offense. Yes,
Speaker 1: teams are averaging seven yards per attempt on first down.
Speaker 1: Show me that you get two thousand and eight team Football.
Speaker 1: Somebody tell Brian Schottenheimer that while we're at it, higher
Speaker 1: guys that you know Mark, this team gets banged around
Speaker 1: on this podcast a lot, and I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1: They're three and oh through the Miami. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: I'm not I honestly, I kind of I kind of
Speaker 1: get a little bit coming from a battered fan base
Speaker 1: where you're always a little bit defensive and when you
Speaker 1: see something good and everyone else just keeps washing over
Speaker 1: it and just says, no, the team is junk, there's nothing,
Speaker 1: they're they're unchanged. But you have to show me something
Speaker 1: right here, because you you are nothing in the a
Speaker 1: f C. East until you go up against the Patriots
Speaker 1: and you make them pay in Miami. In past years,
Speaker 1: we've seen it is the one team in that division
Speaker 1: post Rex Ryan's glory period with the Jets that does
Speaker 1: occasionally stick it to the to the Patriots and confuses them.
Speaker 1: The game last year was totally out of aberration. It's
Speaker 1: happened plenty of times. This time around, you have a
Speaker 1: Patriots team that's on the ropes. They're banged up, they're injured,
Speaker 1: they're mortal. If you can't go in and make a
Speaker 1: game out of this and that means a win, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about it. Oh we only lost
Speaker 1: by ten points and Ryan Tannehill completed sixteen of twenty
Speaker 1: five passes. Look how great we are. This is your chance.
Speaker 1: You want to you want to talk, Dolphins fans, I
Speaker 1: want you to talk. You better do it, though, after
Speaker 1: beating this team. Not I don't want to hear about
Speaker 1: some fourteen points you lost by and the refs did
Speaker 1: this or that? Take care of business or go quiet.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a sophie's choice for a
Speaker 1: f C East fans. Do you root for the Patriots
Speaker 1: to get back on track or Dolphins? You root for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. That tells you change is happening in this
Speaker 1: division because you don't know, and it is right. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely the right time. You're pretty fired up over there,
Speaker 1: well because I I do. I do think that like
Speaker 1: the Dolphins fan base in general, I kind of get
Speaker 1: why they're annoyed with whoever they're annoyed. At the same time,
Speaker 1: you can't sit there and defend your team if you
Speaker 1: can't take care of business here, if you get a
Speaker 1: bomb dropped on you, go quiet. Schedule has been relatively easy,
Speaker 1: but it also hasn't been flukey necessarily the way that
Speaker 1: they've won. Their ranked second in Football Outsiders DV or
Speaker 1: d v o A right now because they've been efficient,
Speaker 1: they haven't made mistakes, have hit big plays, they have
Speaker 1: a really solid defense, and so far they've had good
Speaker 1: special very good special teams. So it's it hasn't been exciting,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's necessarily, but they've been the
Speaker 1: better team in each of their games, and they've won
Speaker 1: those three games. Uh. Greg, the Desert people, yeah, they've
Speaker 1: given the Dolphins respect. They're they're making the Patriots way
Speaker 1: too big of a favorite, and I'm yeah, this isn't
Speaker 1: gambling advice. But no, no, no no. If I was
Speaker 1: not that this is the right timing for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: to go in there, I think it's awful timing for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I'm sure the Bengals felt great in the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati we well, you don't want to. The Bucks felt
Speaker 1: great when the Patriots defense was laughing. My thought is, though,
Speaker 1: that just because that happened before, it's too easy to
Speaker 1: just say it'll happen again. I think there are as
Speaker 1: a Patriots for I've never I've never been worried, and
Speaker 1: I think there are differences. I think they're gonna get better,
Speaker 1: and I do think they're gonna win this game, the Patriots,
Speaker 1: But I also think there are differences this year that
Speaker 1: are real and are significance. I never thought that, No,
Speaker 1: it's not, I never. I never was worried. I wasn't though,
Speaker 1: because I thought I had a broad view of their
Speaker 1: team and defense. You thought that was just fine and
Speaker 1: this year is much worse. I thought that they were. Yes,
Speaker 1: I on this podcast, I said, that's a huge concern,
Speaker 1: but I was not worried that they were going to
Speaker 1: struggle to win games because I knew that the offense
Speaker 1: was going to be good and this year is different.
Speaker 1: Troub do we we were a little short on time?
Speaker 1: Do you want to do a speed a speedy one?
Speaker 1: Show me something. Philadelphia Eagles offense very lucky to be
Speaker 1: two in one nineteenth in the league, and football outsiders
Speaker 1: I expected when Carson Wentz gets back, you get a
Speaker 1: little more explosive. This is the least explosive offense in
Speaker 1: the league. No big plays, and people all put it
Speaker 1: on Nick Foles, and that's that's fair to some degree.
Speaker 1: But a lot of the things that helped make Nick
Speaker 1: Foles nick Foles in the playoffs are missing this year.
Speaker 1: And you saw that last week where the running games
Speaker 1: not quite as good. The playmakers, as West mentioned, are
Speaker 1: certainly not as good, and the Eagles often just boring
Speaker 1: hasn't been a good offer. I think they missed Frank
Speaker 1: little Bit, show me something, Dak Prescott, Uh, the Cowboys Listen,
Speaker 1: they did a bad job. We all know that in
Speaker 1: terms of the weapons around him. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, uh, if he is a guy that's
Speaker 1: actually someone you build around and you give a huge
Speaker 1: contract to when that when that rookie deal is up.
Speaker 1: You look at them right now, thirtieth in total offense
Speaker 1: thirty one and scoring thirty one and passing thirty first
Speaker 1: and third down, red zone tied for seventeenth, and big
Speaker 1: place twenty three yards per play. This offense has gone
Speaker 1: down in each of the three years since he's been
Speaker 1: the starter. I know the offensive lines banged up, but
Speaker 1: you also have a great, great running back in Ezekiel
Speaker 1: elliott Um. I think you just an actual quarterback, a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback can make more with less, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: done He has not done that yet. West Titans offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Matt la Flour has shown me something the past
Speaker 1: two weeks. He's coached his butt off. I was worried
Speaker 1: that he might not quite be the Sean McVeigh Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan guy. He's from those schools, but he's really being
Speaker 1: let down by the by the skill position talent on
Speaker 1: this team. Marcus Mariotta played in a game in which
Speaker 1: he couldn't make all the throws physically because of a
Speaker 1: nerd problem in his arm. And tash a Sharps dropping passes,
Speaker 1: John who smiths dropping passes. Corey Davis isn't making plays.
Speaker 1: These guys were drafted to be playmakers and it's not happening.
Speaker 1: They need to They need to really step up for
Speaker 1: their quarterback and play caller who are doing their jobs.
Speaker 1: Mark food service workers operating inside this building on Sunday,
Speaker 1: we have a nice meal for lunch. Appreciate that was.
Speaker 1: It was nutritious, uh, wide variety of items. Then as
Speaker 1: we're still there for eight or nine more hours, incomes dinner.
Speaker 1: And what do they do in our crowded, jam packed
Speaker 1: little break room the eight or nine tins of leftover
Speaker 1: food that starts to smell awful. They just take the
Speaker 1: dinner trays and the new fresh dinner trays and just
Speaker 1: pile them on top of the old lunch trays. So
Speaker 1: when people come in for dinner, you have this massive stack.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the dinner was a totally unidentifiable
Speaker 1: I believe potentially a Chinese feast of some sort. It
Speaker 1: was what weird pieces of meat mixed with something else.
Speaker 1: It looked like it was made in someone's kids. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna And the thing is, you came in,
Speaker 1: you piled these new trays on top of the Older're
Speaker 1: about to tip over people walking in who are hungry
Speaker 1: walking right out because it was completely off the reservation.
Speaker 1: In terms of a presentation for NFL workers, let's get
Speaker 1: it together, show me something this Sunday. Get get this
Speaker 1: thing fixed. Bad job at the free Food's not free.
Speaker 1: It's not free. You could bring in your what. It's
Speaker 1: not free because I could be I could be eating
Speaker 1: food anywhere at my house for free. I'm there working,
Speaker 1: so we are we are engaged in the task. But
Speaker 1: we are here working today. But we pay for air lunch.
Speaker 1: So the Sunday is different in that they do provide.
Speaker 1: I am not in the practice right now of letting
Speaker 1: anyone off the hook by calling it free food. We
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Speaker 1: a little talk about Thursday n football. You've actually hit
Speaker 1: on both teams a little bit here a the Vikings
Speaker 1: and rams um so Greg, I'll throw it to you.
Speaker 1: What is something you're looking for in this game? I
Speaker 1: wanna see Aaron Donald and Dominican Sue up close and personal.
Speaker 1: We're going there and just watching them go against this
Speaker 1: Vikings offensive line. What what do you make in faces? About?
Speaker 1: Erica had a fun bit plan that you just walked on.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell? You should probably tell the rest
Speaker 1: of the show about I was sitting right in front
Speaker 1: of you, and you looked at me and said, Okay,
Speaker 1: no way, But no, she was right there and she
Speaker 1: was talking to the whole group of me and the conversation.
Speaker 1: You were right here, you were. You haven't moved camp.
Speaker 1: I also have no idea what's happening, but I'm enjoying.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Greg, I honestly don't even you're talking anything
Speaker 1: else in the game on the game itself. Ready? What
Speaker 1: are you ready? Will anyone? Anyone? This is the defense
Speaker 1: we talked about without Everson Griffin, not the same one
Speaker 1: that we would have said before the season. This is
Speaker 1: the defense that can go slow down the Rams. And
Speaker 1: you just got body rocked by the Buffalo Bills, which
Speaker 1: is a game from outer space. So you are here
Speaker 1: trying to save your season to some degree. I know
Speaker 1: it's early for Minnesota, but if you lose this, then
Speaker 1: you go play the Eagles and you're suddenly one three
Speaker 1: and one. I don't know where you come back from
Speaker 1: on that that situation. So be the first team to
Speaker 1: show us how to slow slow down Sean mcbih's offense
Speaker 1: hasn't happened this year. And a good good point by
Speaker 1: Greg about um the quarterbacks for Los Angeles missing and
Speaker 1: how much pressure that puts on the pass rush because
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins has been pressured more than anyone in the
Speaker 1: league this year. So that's been an issue for the Vikings.
Speaker 1: We thought offensive line is gonna be an issue, and
Speaker 1: it has. We'll see if the cornerbacks kind of mess
Speaker 1: up that plan for the Rams. This system quarterback Jared Goff, nonsense,
Speaker 1: it's nothing new. It goes back to Paul Brown and
Speaker 1: Otto Graham and the fifties. It happened with Joe Montana
Speaker 1: and Steve Young and with Bill Walsh in the eighties
Speaker 1: and early nineties. But I'm watching Jared Goff last week,
Speaker 1: two minute drill, first half. He throws a sideline rope
Speaker 1: to Robert Woods. That is just outstanding. He has another
Speaker 1: play where he has textbook pocket movement hits Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: on the run down the sideline, and I'm thinking, there's
Speaker 1: no way in hell two thousand eighteen Andrew Luck is
Speaker 1: making these plays Jared Goff. Maybe that says something about
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck too, but it also says that Jared Goff
Speaker 1: isn't just a system quartermanw he even the week before
Speaker 1: he's making plays under pressure now, which I think was
Speaker 1: He's not a guy who's gonna make a ton of
Speaker 1: plays off script, but he's making plays with pressure around
Speaker 1: him in the pocket, and he moves very well in
Speaker 1: the pocket, and that su has one of the highest
Speaker 1: release points in the That's something you didn't see initially,
Speaker 1: and that what they're doing on offense is right now historic.
Speaker 1: I think we're lucky to be going to this game.
Speaker 1: They've had five punts three games. That hasn't happened over
Speaker 1: a three game period since nineteen fifty. That's insane. Johnny
Speaker 1: Hecker being wasted. Like the right Johnny Hecker can just
Speaker 1: take a nap team during the game they have I think,
Speaker 1: what do they have? One? How many three? Johnny? They've
Speaker 1: They've had a ridiculously low amount of three and outs
Speaker 1: and punts, which it all goes together. It's just like,
Speaker 1: I know that the opponents the first two weeks weren't
Speaker 1: weren't that tough, but it's it's ridiculous. They better get
Speaker 1: in the end zone because the kicker they signed to replace,
Speaker 1: Craigs Airline, is the same kicker they signed last year
Speaker 1: to replace. He's he's shakier than the guy the Vikings cut.
Speaker 1: There's some shaky kickers in the game right now. Chris Boswell,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you. The quarterback situation. It's crazy because
Speaker 1: Boswell was one of the best kickers in the league
Speaker 1: the last few years. That's how quick it can turn
Speaker 1: on you. Let's pick this game, Mark, I actually think
Speaker 1: Minnesota is gonna pull off a little bit of an
Speaker 1: upset here and win about twenty let's twenty six. Wait,
Speaker 1: where wasn't your accountable hot take on the Twitter show
Speaker 1: just yesterday that the Vikings are going to go on?
Speaker 1: I feel like it's there's there's some there's some different
Speaker 1: audiences there, and I can spread my predictions around. Where
Speaker 1: can not go wrong? Is that the very opposite of
Speaker 1: being accountable, That's the quickest turnaround on account. I will
Speaker 1: be accountable for that prediction, but I'll also be accountable
Speaker 1: for this prediction where I predicted West I can't lose.
Speaker 1: That's how you do the same feeling as marked that
Speaker 1: the Vikings are really going to show up. But I
Speaker 1: also have way too much confidence in Sean McVeigh. So
Speaker 1: I'm picking the Rams. Give us a score thirty two.
Speaker 1: I'm super high on the Rams. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: keep winning uh and I think they're gonna keep scoring
Speaker 1: regardless of their opponent. I think the Vikings will put
Speaker 1: up a fight. I think they'll score some points. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna see points in this game. But I
Speaker 1: think ultimately let's go thirty eight to the Rams beat
Speaker 1: the Bike. I see it, like SI learned of the
Speaker 1: two of you, that the Vikings keep it close. This
Speaker 1: is a great Week four game, especially for Thursday night,
Speaker 1: because I think Minnesota is absolutely gonna show up. I
Speaker 1: do think they'll slow down the Rams more than any
Speaker 1: other team has been able to. But I think the
Speaker 1: Rams are just the best team in football. So why
Speaker 1: pick against him? At home? And by the way, sneaky
Speaker 1: little home field advantage now lately the crowd has definitely
Speaker 1: been better this year. You can tell that they've been
Speaker 1: around in l A now and it's it's it's given
Speaker 1: them a little bit of bump I think in their
Speaker 1: home games. And I would take a bullet for the
Speaker 1: l A baby. I have an idea instead of just
Speaker 1: like talking about it tomorrow night, why don't we go,
Speaker 1: let's go. This was the bit we're gonna We're gonna
Speaker 1: go through it now. No, can't go. No, but I
Speaker 1: really want to. I think I don't think so, it's
Speaker 1: not it's just not gonna happen. It would be tough
Speaker 1: to pull that off with his show. And it's in
Speaker 1: l A. It's here, where can we go? It's not
Speaker 1: going to happen now, Okay, guys, sorry die Hard. I
Speaker 1: mean that was the level of acting that you were
Speaker 1: going to bring to it? Or this is different. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good. She's got like multiple podcasts to focus on.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna get a B minus version of Erica
Speaker 1: thanks to Greg Pointer aside to do his show less
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Speaker 1: we'll be back Thursday. Uh previewing every game and recapping
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Speaker 1: This is Dan Hanson signing off four Quiet Storm, the
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