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Speaker 1: and preview all the weeks six games in just a minute.
Speaker 1: But the Eagles came out on top thirty four to
Speaker 1: thirteen on Thursday night in a game that was basically
Speaker 1: in garbage time when the second half started. Are you feeling,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, that the Eagles have righted the ship after
Speaker 1: this game? That is a good question. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they've righted the ship like that was an encouraging performance.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz pretty much carried the offense. They did get
Speaker 1: some good work out of Windale Smallwood and Corey Clement,
Speaker 1: but uh, Wentz got hit a little bit too much early.
Speaker 1: They lose Jason Peters to an injury. We don't know
Speaker 1: how serious that one is um and then they cruised
Speaker 1: because the other team's offense was simply an apt I
Speaker 1: look at it like you have to manage a season,
Speaker 1: especially if you're a team that's a Super Bowl UH
Speaker 1: contender or have aspirations to be like the Eagles. And
Speaker 1: I look at this game and it's a division game
Speaker 1: against a lousy team, but a division game on a
Speaker 1: short week, where your left tackle is hurt coming into
Speaker 1: the game and get certain leaves, your right tackles hurt.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things going on. You're short at
Speaker 1: defensive tackle because of injuries, and you know what, you
Speaker 1: manage the game. Your quarterback plays like the star he is.
Speaker 1: You end up not even having to sweat it. A
Speaker 1: couple of things go your way, and you get out
Speaker 1: of town and you just start trying to improve the
Speaker 1: rest of your team as you go, and you're at
Speaker 1: three and three and you're in good shape. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: It was an impressive performance. I just don't know if
Speaker 1: that's the same as wrighting the ship. Have they do?
Speaker 1: You think they have? No? Not yet. But I'm I'm
Speaker 1: feeling good about the Eagles in general, just because I
Speaker 1: like the base of their team and I think they
Speaker 1: can take this win and and build from here. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's been two minutes and I know you're
Speaker 1: already itching to uh to bury the Giants offense and
Speaker 1: Eli Manning. Let's let's face it's been buried for three years.
Speaker 1: Let's face it. If you have, if you're someone that
Speaker 1: has that believed the Giants made a mistake and not
Speaker 1: moving on from Eli Manning one way or another, or
Speaker 1: for the last few years, this was another night where
Speaker 1: you can kind of crow and say, look at look
Speaker 1: at what I told you. It's not even about crowing,
Speaker 1: it's just you can't watch this guy. How can you
Speaker 1: watch this guy? Every week? It's been like this for
Speaker 1: two and a half years, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: you go through an offseason and say, yeah, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna surround him with different people and get a different result.
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happen downstairs. When we watch games,
Speaker 1: our measurement for a washed up player is Dallas Clark
Speaker 1: in that one game about what five years ago, the
Speaker 1: kickoff game where he tried to make it. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: took him five minutes to like try to get around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that was Eli trying to move in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He just can't move anymore. And there's this mutually malignant
Speaker 1: relationship with his offensive line where they just magnify each
Speaker 1: other's weaknesses. And then that stands in contrast to say
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley and Odell Beckham. I believe they converted two
Speaker 1: third downs and they were both short passes to Odell
Speaker 1: where he made defenders missed to get past the sticks,
Speaker 1: and say, Kwon Barkley was just on fire. He he's
Speaker 1: probably what the most elusive running back in the league
Speaker 1: right now in terms of breaking tackles. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say so. He all he makes, he makes the first
Speaker 1: guy missing, and tonight I love there's all these you know,
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders comparisons, and that's the guy that he reminds
Speaker 1: most people of it. And Okay, maybe I'm not and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, it's Barry Sanders, but he's two d
Speaker 1: and thirty three pounds. So to call someone Barry Sanders
Speaker 1: and and to be two hundred thirty three pounds is amazing.
Speaker 1: And it is a shame he's in this offense, but man,
Speaker 1: he makes he makes them fun to watch. With Eli though,
Speaker 1: it's like if he's so limited that everything needs to
Speaker 1: be perfect around him, absolutely everything, and right now the
Speaker 1: protection he's actually getting significantly more time in the pocket,
Speaker 1: he's had less pressure percentage when he's coming back when
Speaker 1: he's dropping back to past this season than before. And
Speaker 1: things aren't gonna be perfect in the NFL. You kind
Speaker 1: of see what with Carson Wentz. He had to make
Speaker 1: up a couple of places today where he threw across
Speaker 1: his body. It's like, things aren't gonna be perfect, and
Speaker 1: they've put as many good players around Eli Manning as
Speaker 1: they can and it's just stuff to watch. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what what is there left to say
Speaker 1: about this offense? After seeing the same Pat Shermer at
Speaker 1: one point said throw you know, they panted him on
Speaker 1: the sideline and amateur lip readers thought he was going
Speaker 1: to throw the ball, and that was when he was
Speaker 1: Eli was checking the ball down quite a bit early
Speaker 1: in the game. Part of that also some credit goes
Speaker 1: to the Eagles. Good night for Michael Bennett, good night
Speaker 1: for Fletcher Cox, not a good night for Nate Solder, No,
Speaker 1: and good night for Barnett. I think has been playing
Speaker 1: better for the Eagles, so that they have some good
Speaker 1: things to feel better about. And the Giants are one
Speaker 1: in five, and if it's already been ugly, like what's
Speaker 1: where is this going from here? Well, it's gonna give
Speaker 1: Dave Gettiman another chance to draft a quarterback at the
Speaker 1: top of the draft, and maybe he'll take one this time. Alright,
Speaker 1: So the Giants can no longer delude themselves into thinking
Speaker 1: they're in the middle of a bad division race. I
Speaker 1: don't care that there are only two games back. You're
Speaker 1: one in five. They're not gonna win enough games and
Speaker 1: this is gonna be their fifth losing season out of six.
Speaker 1: So this is not a new trend. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: some games that will hopefully be a little better this weekend.
Speaker 1: For that, let's send it over to Denny Hansas playing
Speaker 1: through pain be Around the NFL Podcast. Wait, I thought
Speaker 1: this was the broadcast. Wolcome back to another edition of
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansas.
Speaker 1: I'm joined the room build with some heroes. Chris Westling
Speaker 1: to my left, Greg Rostalt to my right. What is up? Boys? Dah?
Speaker 1: We lost Greg? What's up? Everybody as a balloon? How
Speaker 1: are you feeling? I don't feel good? Got the pig aids?
Speaker 1: You enter the doctor and they're like, sorry, Dan, you've
Speaker 1: got a case of the pig aides. That is my
Speaker 1: independent theory. But it's a an aggressive virus that I
Speaker 1: am battling through and it's actually ransacked my entire family now, um,
Speaker 1: and that's why I was not on yesterday's show. Wasn't
Speaker 1: it lovely? You know Emily's birthday this week because she
Speaker 1: shares a birthday with marker Am. I like mixing things
Speaker 1: and you're mixing things up, sir, um smone and I
Speaker 1: have the same birthday, but currently look like remember the
Speaker 1: old cartoons when bugs Bunny would get sick and his
Speaker 1: eyes would be all blood shot, and it looked like
Speaker 1: there's blood draining from him. And your face is green,
Speaker 1: that's what you look like. No, it's good. It's a
Speaker 1: good situation. That it's a good thing. Where pre taping
Speaker 1: something for sky Sports right afterwards? Yeah, and well, the
Speaker 1: and the truth is I picked up my phone and
Speaker 1: I was debating whether to to sit out this pot
Speaker 1: as well. And then as I picked my phone up,
Speaker 1: the first message I saw was Mark Sessler saying he
Speaker 1: had some appointments I connected to his past health maladies
Speaker 1: and he was not going to be on the show.
Speaker 1: So I said, well, I can't leave the science as
Speaker 1: high and dry. Yeah, that really put you in a
Speaker 1: tight spot. So here I am playing her. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Posy would have been happy to how the show. She's
Speaker 1: just trying to take over, take it over. She could
Speaker 1: have been she could have done it. She keeps on
Speaker 1: giving me soup every day and I've been eating it,
Speaker 1: but now I'm wondering what she's putting in its. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sweet. I just want you to feel better. Thank you, Erica. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I forget about that. That's the NFL season. The
Speaker 1: only time you're ever Week one and from that point on,
Speaker 1: it's just about battle. Yeah, you're always got something nagging,
Speaker 1: and uh if you don't, well you're not giving it.
Speaker 1: You're all Well, the most important ability, glory boy, is availability.
Speaker 1: Yes you could play for Belichick, yes, but I never would.
Speaker 1: I'm like on the Reggie Wayne All Stars, It's like, no,
Speaker 1: football is supposed to be fun. Man, me and Reggie
Speaker 1: and Eric Decker and all those other guys. Lane, It's like,
Speaker 1: what's going on over here? Get me out of here?
Speaker 1: All right. We're gonna go through each of the week
Speaker 1: six games on Sunday and Monday, including the first London game.
Speaker 1: I know people are very excited over on the other
Speaker 1: side of the pond for that. And uh, you heard
Speaker 1: at the top of the show our recap of Eagles
Speaker 1: and Jim. So we're going to now spin forward. You
Speaker 1: guys want to get into it the rest of Week
Speaker 1: six and we will start, oh with the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers coming off there bye week. And yes, it is
Speaker 1: a different Bucks team now because Jamis Winston is the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback once more. Ryan Fitzpatrick heads to the bench
Speaker 1: um officially after three and a half games of mostly
Speaker 1: excellent work, and Winston takes over it and goes up
Speaker 1: against the Falcons team that entered the season with high hopes.
Speaker 1: But here they are west at one and four, and
Speaker 1: if they have any chance to stay in the NFC
Speaker 1: playoff picture, they're gonna have to find a way to
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks. Yeah, this is one of those nacy
Speaker 1: football start everyone matchups everyone in the pool. The Falcons
Speaker 1: play shootouts in the Dome, and both of these teams
Speaker 1: have bad defenses. So you're starting Matt Ryan, Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: and now Ridley Tevin Coleman. It looks like Freeman is
Speaker 1: not practicing this week, is injured again. And then start
Speaker 1: all your Bucks too, because this is gonna be like
Speaker 1: lights out. And and you mentioned that the Falcons kind
Speaker 1: of needing this one. They've had a home heavy schedule
Speaker 1: early their home again next week. They've already lost two
Speaker 1: at home, including one in the division to the Saints.
Speaker 1: I do think you you would ultimately stick a fork
Speaker 1: in them at one in five if they lose at
Speaker 1: home to a Bucks team who's one of the only
Speaker 1: defenses in the league that's worse than they are. That
Speaker 1: that even though if you look at the Bucks talent,
Speaker 1: especially in the front seven, they got a lot of players,
Speaker 1: so at some point you gotta think it's the coaching
Speaker 1: they have. They have some decent players in the front seven.
Speaker 1: They should not be this bad. You've been too nice
Speaker 1: to the Falcons. I've forked them two weeks ago. It's
Speaker 1: fair they got I mean they they lost two basically
Speaker 1: buzzer beater games to the Bengal S. Anyone that's not
Speaker 1: a playoff team. Do you think it's just a matter
Speaker 1: of they lost too many key guys and they don't
Speaker 1: have the depth to to fill in the spots. But
Speaker 1: how about the idea of when you lose key players
Speaker 1: the way they did, it's gonna take a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks that you figure out how your game plan is
Speaker 1: going to be redirected. Uh, A little bit benef for
Speaker 1: the doubt, I guess, okay, that's fair, But also you
Speaker 1: could have done better if you signed maybe the best
Speaker 1: players available like Eric Reid, instead you let your division
Speaker 1: rival take him. I Uh, I think they could have
Speaker 1: time to figure it out because I think they're coaching
Speaker 1: staff is good on defensive, but you have to speed
Speaker 1: with which Dion Jones and Keyan O'Neil played, And this
Speaker 1: is a very tough matchup for them. Jamis Winston is
Speaker 1: getting the start, and I think he's gonna be an
Speaker 1: upgrade from Fitzpatrick. But ultimately they're very similar players. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this. I was writing QB Index and
Speaker 1: I'm writing how I think Winston is set up for
Speaker 1: success for many basically the same reasons that Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: was set up for six US. He's the rich Man's
Speaker 1: fits magic. They both have a generous to Winston well,
Speaker 1: I mean, just look at what he's done compared to
Speaker 1: what Fitzpatrick has done over the seasons. I don't want
Speaker 1: to do this. My point is, though they both see
Speaker 1: the field, they anticipate. I think they both have a
Speaker 1: lot of football intelligence, but then they both they trust
Speaker 1: their arms a little too much. They get too aggressive,
Speaker 1: their extremely streaky, and they kind of are their yellow quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I mean, they play every game as if it's their last,
Speaker 1: and that leads to kind of magical great streaks and moments,
Speaker 1: and it leads to them, you know, spectacularly crashing every
Speaker 1: once in a while. To me, he's like a mo
Speaker 1: instance of more talented Fitzpatrick, and he needs to be
Speaker 1: better mentally than than he was last year. I like
Speaker 1: the Falcons in this game because they just don't they
Speaker 1: don't feel like to me, they're the team that starts
Speaker 1: one in five, one and six, two and eight. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna figure this thing out and stay in
Speaker 1: the mix. And I don't like the Bucks at all.
Speaker 1: And Jamis Winston is a hard guy to root for
Speaker 1: right now. Um uh so this is gonna inform my
Speaker 1: pick as well. But because I like the Falcons, because
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan has been on my fantasy team for eight
Speaker 1: years now, um and because the Falcons are gonna stay
Speaker 1: in the NFC playoff picture. They're just not gonna lose
Speaker 1: at home to the Bucks. And that's why I'm locking
Speaker 1: them up. Give me that w like Jamis Winston is
Speaker 1: gonna eat, I'm gonna eat the lock. It's the troublesome
Speaker 1: pick for you. Why you were just saying how bad
Speaker 1: the Bucks are and the Bucks are the better team
Speaker 1: right now, Lisha'll see if the game was in Tampa,
Speaker 1: s I would not be locking that up. But I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be okay. This is the Bucks defense
Speaker 1: is the cure to anyone else's offense. You play the
Speaker 1: Bucks defense, and everyone after they play the Bucks. You're like, wow,
Speaker 1: this maybe the Bears are getting their season together. They're
Speaker 1: They're terrible. I'm not trying to go down to the lab,
Speaker 1: but Dan, answer this question. Brian Fitzpatrick was quarterback in
Speaker 1: the Bucks right now, would you lock up the Falcons? Yes? Really, yes?
Speaker 1: I think this has got like forty two to thirty
Speaker 1: four written all over it. Oh, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: So I think I think the Falcons are gonna because
Speaker 1: they needed so had the desperate. Desperate teams sometimes can
Speaker 1: step up in a moment, and so I think what
Speaker 1: happens here. You don't trust Dick Cotters, you know, excellent
Speaker 1: bye week adjustments. Come on, Mike Smith gonna get fired
Speaker 1: after this game. That's so that's another lock it up.
Speaker 1: Moving on Pittsburgh Steelers speaking by Falcons, I just locked
Speaker 1: up a team that got four forty one seventeen last
Speaker 1: week by the Steelers. But that's in the past now.
Speaker 1: The Steelers had to Cincinnati to face the four and
Speaker 1: one Bengals, who, of course wiped out a seventeen zip
Speaker 1: deficit to the Dolphins uh and reeled off twenty seven
Speaker 1: point straight points. Uh. Here's the question, right, are the
Speaker 1: Steelers back on track after that very dominant win over
Speaker 1: the Falcons. They're headed in the right direction and they
Speaker 1: certainly should feel good that, especially the Roethlisberger an Tony
Speaker 1: Brown connection was working. I don't think it was despite
Speaker 1: the score that it was similar to a lot of
Speaker 1: big Bend games this year, where I think he sprinkled
Speaker 1: in some some surprisingly bad decisions and throws UH in
Speaker 1: with his excellent ones. I do feel better about them defensively,
Speaker 1: and it's because of Mike Hilton. Mike Kelton. They get
Speaker 1: him back last week and it really improved a cornerback
Speaker 1: group and a secondary that's been their biggest weakness. And
Speaker 1: he's a good player. He's in his second year. He
Speaker 1: can cover the slot uh. That should be a big
Speaker 1: matchup in this game, where Tyler Boyd's been awesome. So
Speaker 1: I think defensively they should feel better. This is a
Speaker 1: huge game. I mean, if they lose this game, they
Speaker 1: are in deep trouble in the a f C North. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Two things make me feel better about the Steelers. The
Speaker 1: pass rush was swarming last week against the Falcons. That
Speaker 1: was an impressive front seven uh and and Big Ben
Speaker 1: came out and made an adjustment. He's been playing through
Speaker 1: an elbow injury, which probably explained why he missing more
Speaker 1: throws than just about any quarterback in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: halfway through last week's game, he decided to throw from
Speaker 1: a different angle and damn the pain and started he
Speaker 1: was on fire. So I think that's a that's an
Speaker 1: encouraging sign that he he has said he's making that justment.
Speaker 1: He's going to play through the pain and not alter
Speaker 1: his arm angle anymore. No one's healthy, you know, at
Speaker 1: this point in the season, it's like it's like Dan,
Speaker 1: he's adjusting his voice. You know. The the way you
Speaker 1: did that lock was kind of like he had to
Speaker 1: do it at a different angle on side arm, just
Speaker 1: take him down an octave, losing the falsetto. So you're
Speaker 1: doing what big Ben was doing two weeks. Essentially, we're
Speaker 1: both Warriors. But that's where that's where the comparisons end. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fair. I'll leave it at that. This game, I mean,
Speaker 1: it feels like every time these two teams play, you
Speaker 1: never know, like how is Vante is perfect gonna screw up?
Speaker 1: How who's gonna get knocked out of the game? Is
Speaker 1: big Ben gonna be out in? Are you saying, when
Speaker 1: these two teams get together, throw out the record you
Speaker 1: can throw out the record books, but the Steelers are
Speaker 1: still gonna win. I I know, I I for no
Speaker 1: logical reason, just assume that the Steelers are gonna show
Speaker 1: up for this game. Because it's strange to imagine a
Speaker 1: world where the Bengals are five and one and really
Speaker 1: in control over Pittsburgh in this division. But I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that that's the world we're living in. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be flipping that the Steelers are definitely win
Speaker 1: this game, but I mean historically throughout the records, and
Speaker 1: then it'll be a tight game and the Steelers will
Speaker 1: go home the winning team. This is a big game.
Speaker 1: This is a warm up for West of US. He
Speaker 1: loves watching the Steelers beat the Bengals. Think about it.
Speaker 1: Though very little makes me happier, it puts a pep
Speaker 1: in my step. I go around Corners. We got to
Speaker 1: cover this on Sunday. I'm covering it. Think about it
Speaker 1: was Sunday morning, eight am ET, Cincinnati. People waking up,
Speaker 1: they're pulling up, pulling there. Carson Palmer, Jerseys over their bods,
Speaker 1: Chad Johnson, Jerseys, Chris Henry siasens to Chris Henry's if
Speaker 1: they have those and they're getting their tailgate together, and
Speaker 1: this is a beautiful day in the throwing corn hole
Speaker 1: in Ohio and they and they're throwing corn and they
Speaker 1: got the coolers and they got drinking, and everybody's in
Speaker 1: great spirits. Little skyline. Yeah, there's so those are good people,
Speaker 1: Skyline dip for for Yeah, appetite, those are good people.
Speaker 1: Those are your people, right, yes? Absolutely? Don't you want
Speaker 1: to see those people happy at the end of Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they have more meaning in their lives than
Speaker 1: just their favorite football team. I think they are anchored
Speaker 1: by something. Family. My family is smart enough for not
Speaker 1: to root for the Bengals. The Cincinnati Bengals are an
Speaker 1: escape for your people. Yes, let them escape to happiness,
Speaker 1: all right. I'll tell you what stopped throwing beer cans
Speaker 1: on the other team's quarterback when he's being carted off
Speaker 1: the field, and then you can be you can be happy,
Speaker 1: all right. I thought I had him there. I know
Speaker 1: I that you touched me. This fan base has behaved
Speaker 1: abhorrently in Steve Steel matched up bases had their Jack
Speaker 1: the River moments. Moving on the Los Angeles Chargers. Oh, whoop,
Speaker 1: you do three and two back to back wins over
Speaker 1: oh the forty Niners, Oh the Raiders, who also they beat,
Speaker 1: oh the Bills? Kidding me? Uh? Ten point losses of
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and Rams, and now they go to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Now this is a good matchup, Greg, because I learned
Speaker 1: nothing about the Chargers in the first five weeks. They
Speaker 1: could beat bad teams, and they get beat by good teams.
Speaker 1: Here's a team that's kind of right in the middle.
Speaker 1: They're a team that's maybe on the verge of being
Speaker 1: a good team. But I'm not well, I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to kind of push him there for good. Uh, go
Speaker 1: beat the Browns on the road? It go do it.
Speaker 1: If you're a good team, Chargers. It's a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: West was talking about on Wednesday's podcast that Cleveland is
Speaker 1: now a tough place to go and score points against
Speaker 1: this Greg Williams defense, which is very multiply, which is
Speaker 1: tough to prepare for. They confused Drew Brees, so you
Speaker 1: can't say that, you know Philip Rivers, He'll figure it
Speaker 1: all out. They ran some things against Drew Brees in
Speaker 1: New Orleans that Greg Williams tucked him up. Greg Williams
Speaker 1: did triple j uh. We should start giving Greg Williams
Speaker 1: a little bit of love because we've been killing that
Speaker 1: guy in the show for a couple of years. I
Speaker 1: don't give awful human beings love. But you said you
Speaker 1: haven't learned anything. I've learned some things about the Chargers.
Speaker 1: What every one. Mike Williams is a baller, and he
Speaker 1: adds something into that offense that the offense still revolves
Speaker 1: around the running backs. But Anthony Lynn has seen the light.
Speaker 1: And we talked about this a little bit late last season,
Speaker 1: but I saw it in the Raiders game twenty six
Speaker 1: to ten, five minutes left, first down, the Raiders have
Speaker 1: just scored a touchdown and Philip Rivers throws on first
Speaker 1: down to the outside. It's not it's not that big
Speaker 1: of a deal in theory, but you can even hear
Speaker 1: it in Greg Gumbel's voice. He was like in Philip Rivers,
Speaker 1: who he's dropping back to pass on first down? And
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, it's a good gubble. What can
Speaker 1: I say? It's a good It's like, all right, Anthony
Speaker 1: Lynn knows that you gotta be aggressive, and it's it's
Speaker 1: safer to be aggressive in today's NFL when you have
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and they're an aggressive offensive team. I love
Speaker 1: coaching epiphany. That's awesome. But this the Brown The Chargers
Speaker 1: are coming in feeling all high and mighty. They beat
Speaker 1: the Raiders just like the Ravens, just like the Ravens
Speaker 1: were feeling all high and mighty beating the Steelers. And
Speaker 1: then you go into Cleveland and Dan, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: the chances of them, there is a chance above zero
Speaker 1: point five percent that they go defeated at home. This year,
Speaker 1: they have not lost at home. They are extremely tough
Speaker 1: to beat in that building area. I think you're saying
Speaker 1: the odds are above zero point five percent that they
Speaker 1: go undefeated at home. Well, I'm gonna look at their schedule.
Speaker 1: They got the Chiefs in Week nine. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough one, the Falcons, the Panthers, then the Bengals. I
Speaker 1: didn't say it was gonna be easy. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: the odds are great. When when you're undefeated, there are
Speaker 1: odds that say you can stay undefeated. So you're obviously
Speaker 1: you're gonna you know, I thought you were. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: octive how much I got another one cued up. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, you you just said they're gonna run the table.
Speaker 1: Come on, you're gonna take care of the Chargers in
Speaker 1: their own building. I'm not gonna lock against the Chargers.
Speaker 1: They're too good. I respect their offense too much. What
Speaker 1: do you think of Baker Mayfield? By the way, I
Speaker 1: love him, love him. Those those scene throws in a
Speaker 1: two minute drink, Yeah, going into halftime last week, and
Speaker 1: then the ability to make plays, the confidence that he
Speaker 1: instills in his teammates, keep the play alive like he
Speaker 1: did in overtime on that drive. I just love I
Speaker 1: don't think it's I don't think it's too early to say.
Speaker 1: I'll be surprised if he's anything less than an above
Speaker 1: average quarterback, and I'd be surprised if he's not a star.
Speaker 1: He he just his decisiveness mentally, that he's going through
Speaker 1: the reads and he's quick with his decisions. He's getting people.
Speaker 1: But he just looks like an NFL quarterback and he's
Speaker 1: so accurate. If you were a Browns fan and I
Speaker 1: said you could sign off on Baker Mayfield being Jeff Garcia,
Speaker 1: would you take it? No? No, okay, because I think
Speaker 1: I think I'd be at the Arcia not good enough.
Speaker 1: I know if i'm if I'm a Browns fan, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this is gonna be a top five, top
Speaker 1: seven jea. I mean, this guy, there's nothing I don't
Speaker 1: like about it. I want more. Moving on the Buffalo Bills. Um,
Speaker 1: everyone wants, uh expects the Bills to lose every week.
Speaker 1: But here we are that during weeks six or two
Speaker 1: and three. After knocking off the Titans by a point,
Speaker 1: they now travel to Houston to face the Texans, who
Speaker 1: just got by the Cowboys at home on Sunday Night football.
Speaker 1: Who that game? That was a rough one? Um and
Speaker 1: uh And now we have a Texans team with a
Speaker 1: chance to get back to five hundred. Chris Wesling, They're
Speaker 1: gonna do it, all right? Yes, yes, I feel very
Speaker 1: good about this one. I could not look at myself
Speaker 1: in the mirror and take the Texans. Um. I rewatched
Speaker 1: that game against the Cowboys, and I agree with Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones that the better team won. The Texans were the
Speaker 1: better team. They botched some opportunities in the red zone,
Speaker 1: they missed a field goal. Um, I feel like the
Speaker 1: Texans were clearly the better team in that game. Their
Speaker 1: defensive front seven is coming together. Clown, he's coming off
Speaker 1: his best game. J J. Watt is playing like old
Speaker 1: j J. Watt and their offenses moving the ball through
Speaker 1: the air. Maybe if Lamar Miller is healthy that that
Speaker 1: would help them move it on the ground as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you lose to the Bills and right now,
Speaker 1: that's on you. They ran the ball forty three times
Speaker 1: last week and passed it twenty Lashawn McCoy did look great,
Speaker 1: so that's a positive. I think he really ran well
Speaker 1: and so they have something on offense. But Josh Allen
Speaker 1: is lost. I think anyone that was rooting against Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and was just saying there's no chance he'll be ready,
Speaker 1: that he needs time, like they've They're they're being proven
Speaker 1: right right now. They could not be a worse passing attack.
Speaker 1: They could not be more basic, and he just goes
Speaker 1: to his first read and a lot of times when
Speaker 1: he throws the ball, there are multiple receivers on the
Speaker 1: play who look back at him and are like raising
Speaker 1: their hands. That's a bad sign. They were like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's what's that? What's going on? Since this is the case,
Speaker 1: and you know you don't have the second guess this one,
Speaker 1: because a lot of people thought it that when the
Speaker 1: Bills took him, was like, hey, this guy has all
Speaker 1: the tools, the size, the arm and all that. He
Speaker 1: just needs some time. And they're pretty terrible. And what
Speaker 1: they did they set themselves up to make him play
Speaker 1: and he's lasting completion percentage yards for attempt, touchdown, interstiation
Speaker 1: and upstion ratio passer rating. He's completely a train wreck. Well,
Speaker 1: and they signed Derek Anderson this week, and it sounded
Speaker 1: like they were billing it as a mentor situation, somebody
Speaker 1: to bounce ideas off of. But it also seems to
Speaker 1: me like, hey, if this guy doesn't pull out of
Speaker 1: a tailspin, throw somebody with experience to to, you know,
Speaker 1: absorb a few games of losses while we figure things out.
Speaker 1: Give me a break. Good management that all the criticism
Speaker 1: they took over how they handled this is warranted because
Speaker 1: they're just the whole thing has just been mismanaged. J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt and T. J. Watt, along with Geno Atkins lead
Speaker 1: the league with six sacks. That's fun. They're having a
Speaker 1: sack off. That's a fun thing for their family. Oh
Speaker 1: of course, Hey boys, how do you think the quality
Speaker 1: of life is a family? I think it's a lot
Speaker 1: better for j J than it was the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. I mean, he I'm happy to as a
Speaker 1: fan and just to watch him every week at this
Speaker 1: level is great because he had to be miserable the
Speaker 1: last time. I mean that in a very positive way though, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy raised forty million dollars for the city of
Speaker 1: Houston too. He's got to be feeling great about himself.
Speaker 1: He's good. He's good and uh, if you remember on
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks, he has a log cabin that like is
Speaker 1: kind of like a bro paradise and I think he's
Speaker 1: like one of the ultimate bros. So he's brown out.
Speaker 1: But but back then though, he was sort of lost
Speaker 1: and really looking for female companionship. And now he's got
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if he's engaged, but you know,
Speaker 1: he's been dating that pro soccer balls for a long time.
Speaker 1: He found love. I mean, I'm just saying it's all
Speaker 1: coming together for Justin James. Good for him. Alright, what
Speaker 1: about that clothing one, Let's not you know, let's not
Speaker 1: talk about the clothing one. Let's move on. The Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears first place in the NFC North, and why not
Speaker 1: because they are the team of around the NFL three
Speaker 1: game winning streak. They embarrassed the Tampa Bay Bucks, uh
Speaker 1: going into thereby with a thirty eight point when now
Speaker 1: they travel to Miami to face the Dolphins and uh,
Speaker 1: greg the Dolphins. Let's be honest, anybody that down of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, they're feeling pretty good about themselves right now
Speaker 1: because the last two weeks have not been pretty Are
Speaker 1: you talking about yourself? And I'm not alone, but as Yeah,
Speaker 1: you totally discounted their first three weeks and you were right,
Speaker 1: uh to this point. And this is the wrong matchup
Speaker 1: for Ryan Tannehill to end a skid. I mean they are.
Speaker 1: Here's a great I like when stats match up with
Speaker 1: what you see. They've had thirty one chances at third
Speaker 1: and seven or long this season. They've converted four of those.
Speaker 1: They are the worst team to watch on third and
Speaker 1: long because Ryandannehill throws a two yards every single time
Speaker 1: and you just can't. You can't play like that, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have situations like that against the Bears, who
Speaker 1: are just as complete a defense. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're the best defense or not, but I think they're
Speaker 1: the most complete that you're gonna have to really earn
Speaker 1: every yard every drive. They're not gonna make mental mistakes.
Speaker 1: Last week's loss was on the offensive line depth for
Speaker 1: the for the Dolphins, and this has been an issue
Speaker 1: since we've started this podcast. The Dolphins cannot ever find
Speaker 1: good guard play. They it's hard to find any kind
Speaker 1: of consistency. A tackle Laramie Tounsil goes out with a
Speaker 1: concussion and it's a jailbreak situation. The Bengals defensive line
Speaker 1: takes over for twenty minutes, game over after Dolphins had
Speaker 1: controlled that game. And if they can't figure out their
Speaker 1: offensive line against the Bears, come on. Two things. Two
Speaker 1: things I'm excited about for this game, both on the
Speaker 1: bearside because there's nothing I could possibly get excited about
Speaker 1: it about the Miami Uh sure, um lam Number one
Speaker 1: U Mitch Robisky. I'm really interested to see how he
Speaker 1: follows up the six touchdown game. Of course he's not
Speaker 1: gonna throw six more touchdowns, but can he strings together
Speaker 1: um multiple games where he looks like what he was,
Speaker 1: which is what a number two overall pick two years
Speaker 1: ago I'm very interested see how he how he looks
Speaker 1: against a good Miami defensive number two, tere Cohen, who
Speaker 1: was um a total badass when finally given the opportunity
Speaker 1: to have a real role in the game plan. I
Speaker 1: think he had a seventy five plus total yards a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Where does uh? Where does the offense? Where does Matteggie
Speaker 1: and that offense uh settle in with Cohen and Jordan Howard?
Speaker 1: Is he now is coing a a permanent fixture in
Speaker 1: this offense? Or was that more a blip. I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see, and I'm sure how many fantasy owners are
Speaker 1: as well. I think he spoke on that. Negi spoke
Speaker 1: on that and said, Jordan Howard, um still has a role.
Speaker 1: He's not frustrated. Um, he's still gonna be. That was
Speaker 1: just basically a one game thing for treat Con is
Speaker 1: how he needs to be a big part of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I keep Howard involved, but but Neggie's feeling
Speaker 1: him feeling himself as it should be. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you're running multiple plays where you put Chase, Daniel and
Speaker 1: Trabinsky on the field together, just to be kind of
Speaker 1: like a big uh. I mean, if I'm the opposed.
Speaker 1: If I'm Mike Smith in that last game and I'm
Speaker 1: seeing there trotting out Chase Daniel for trick plays, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta feel, you gotta feel a little low.
Speaker 1: Why what's tough? Why would Cohen be a one game thing?
Speaker 1: If he blows up and it's the one game where
Speaker 1: Robinsky looks like a guy that you can really build
Speaker 1: the offense around, Why don't you want to build off that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I said before that game they need to get Treko
Speaker 1: and more involved, But I don't He's not like a
Speaker 1: twenty touch guy every week. Okay, moving on the Oh,
Speaker 1: did you have something America? Um? Yeah, I mean just
Speaker 1: talking with Mark Um. He said, like that the dollar
Speaker 1: you were talking about Mark? Yeah, you gotta play his
Speaker 1: music when you talk about right. So I was just,
Speaker 1: you know, chatting with Mark earlier, and he said, there's
Speaker 1: a good chance that Dolphins are going to beat the
Speaker 1: three and one Bears, not to prove that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: aren't the real deal, but to prove that the Trubisky
Speaker 1: six touchdown was a fluke. They're at home, and if
Speaker 1: we're looking at quarterback hotness, Tannehill is greater than true
Speaker 1: Whisky so Mark per shot at me is gonna lock
Speaker 1: up the Dolphins at home? Interesting? Now, was this coming
Speaker 1: from Markers? This coming from you? Uh? Text from Mark? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I disagree, maybe, but I don't know. I believe that's
Speaker 1: the first time anyone on the show has ever locked
Speaker 1: up the Dolphins. They were the last remaining team to
Speaker 1: be locked up. Really someone someone said that on a
Speaker 1: previous podcast, not too well no longer? Is that the case?
Speaker 1: I mean shots fired against Robinsky looks West has some
Speaker 1: similarities facially to Trabinsky, So between I don't think my
Speaker 1: age like seventeen eighteen pictures look almost dead on Mitch Robinsky,
Speaker 1: but what's his age seventeen season? But Tannehill is like,
Speaker 1: you know, a piece of Wonder brand and it's not
Speaker 1: look yeah, it's like a cardboard cutout. When did the
Speaker 1: hair go? Was? I told you I could still grow it,
Speaker 1: but I got too lazy to leave Tybee Island aged
Speaker 1: to go to a barbershop. It was like a season
Speaker 1: that no, I would say. I was starting to go
Speaker 1: about four twenty in the Power Alleys when I was
Speaker 1: in my mid thirties, so you mean by the Temples
Speaker 1: and started going Yeah, like the power. I was just
Speaker 1: started getting deeper and deeper. Yeah, you say you can
Speaker 1: grow it, but you can kind of can has goaded
Speaker 1: me on a few times, just as for experiment's sake,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't pretty. For all you guys that are
Speaker 1: follically challenges. This is you know, I feel for you guys,
Speaker 1: and I will say that if you want to if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go bald, if you're if you're gonna go bald,
Speaker 1: mean a lot to them. You probably want to go
Speaker 1: in the power alleys more than the crop circle in
Speaker 1: the back either way. There it's not a death sentence
Speaker 1: as West. You know, we see with West who who
Speaker 1: found a beautiful princess in Lakisha. Yes, thank you, you can.
Speaker 1: You could be you can find love as a bald man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you wear it well. I wouldn't want to see you
Speaker 1: with hair your you look natural, natural like no hairpieces. Well.
Speaker 1: I made a deal with myself when I was young,
Speaker 1: because my my dad's bald, that I was never going
Speaker 1: with the like as soon as it started, the worst
Speaker 1: themeovers out. You can't do that. Yeah, the worst is
Speaker 1: fighting it too long. Lebron's done it and he's probably
Speaker 1: got some fake stuff in there now. But he's been fighting,
Speaker 1: you know. He's also don't go to un locker route.
Speaker 1: You don't want to do that. Well, you can't go
Speaker 1: bald then all of a sudden have hair again, Like
Speaker 1: what if you do, it's got to come back glory
Speaker 1: or or or it wasn't worth it. You can do
Speaker 1: it as if you're paid like an insane amount of
Speaker 1: money like Dion Sanders and r Laker are I assume
Speaker 1: for whatever they're doing. Uh, okay, the Cardinals are one
Speaker 1: and four. They finally got a win last week against C. J.
Speaker 1: Beathard and uh, it's funny Mark locked up against the
Speaker 1: team of a t L with like with the bad team.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Mark had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it. He just let Erica pick a team. No,
Speaker 1: that sounded the reasonings sounded very Mark is not a
Speaker 1: Trabinsky fan, He's not, huh and you know it irritated him.
Speaker 1: It got on his radar when people were celebrating Trobinsky
Speaker 1: for beating the Buccaneers. So that's not your pick, um,
Speaker 1: He said, you can pick anyone you want. Great. I
Speaker 1: am fine if we lose, but pick someone sexy. Well,
Speaker 1: but he took it literally and took a mandola. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. Oh so that wasn't from him. Well
Speaker 1: we talked about it. Okay. The Cardinals one and four.
Speaker 1: They now traveled to Minnesota to face uh the Vikings,
Speaker 1: who got a much needed victory in Philadelphia, a really
Speaker 1: important win for that team. Uh West Uh so Ken
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and those star wide receivers keep on keeping
Speaker 1: on against the Cards. I think this is a This
Speaker 1: is a tough matchup. Um the Cardinals even playing pretty well,
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones playing like an animal again, Patrick Peterson playing
Speaker 1: as well as he ever has at cornerback. I just
Speaker 1: think this is a tougher matchup that the Vikings offensive
Speaker 1: line has allowed by far the most pressures in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings are gonna win because Cousins, uh
Speaker 1: Stefan Digs and Adam Thieland are too good to stop.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a tough man. It's a tougher
Speaker 1: matchup than people realize. When the Vikings have the ball,
Speaker 1: but the problem, the problem is the Cardinals get to
Speaker 1: have the ball too. And Josh Rosen's actually impressed me
Speaker 1: of his willingness to make tough throws and his ability
Speaker 1: to be accurate. But they are fighting uphill. They're not
Speaker 1: a good offense, and they're on the road. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I just meant on that one side of the ball
Speaker 1: at a tougher matchup than people think. But I think
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense against the Cardinal's offense, that's clearly a mismatch.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because you mentioned Peter Patrick Peterson. He the
Speaker 1: Cardinals staff took a lot of credit. I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of criticism I saw on the Twitter verse of like,
Speaker 1: oh there, you know, what is this Cardinal staff? They
Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing. You know that Patrick Peterson
Speaker 1: is no longer trailing number one receiver, is not doing
Speaker 1: as much man as as before, and like these guys
Speaker 1: don't know what they're talking about. And he's playing better
Speaker 1: than he's ever played. He's playing awesome. I'm not PFF.
Speaker 1: I'm not like grading every cornerback on every play. But
Speaker 1: he's number one on my list this year. That's that's
Speaker 1: the only list that matters. Who needs PFF? Did you
Speaker 1: say Twitter verse? That's the thing they know. I just
Speaker 1: didn't think you used it. I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I have before. Uh, the Indianapolis culture one and four,
Speaker 1: and uh they're on a three game losing streak, and
Speaker 1: uh they could not keep pace with the Patriots on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. And now they travel to the Metal Ends
Speaker 1: to face my beloved New York Jets, who finally got
Speaker 1: their season going back in the right direction against the
Speaker 1: Broncos with a a total effort on offense getting three
Speaker 1: rushing yards as a team, Sam Donald threw three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So now, Greg, the question is, can the Jets build
Speaker 1: off that win or are the Colts in Uh, what
Speaker 1: do we call it when when the team is really
Speaker 1: desperate we hire straight No, we had a term where
Speaker 1: you're using last year. Remember a wounded animal Game one
Speaker 1: and four? Wounded animal? I mean they're a little too
Speaker 1: wounded though, you know they dead animal game right, the
Speaker 1: steel trap closed down on them and like someone let
Speaker 1: them out. But they're just kind of like dragging, you know,
Speaker 1: broken legs on the side of the highway. They I
Speaker 1: don't think they're that bad, but they're hurt. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a raccoon, you know, the back of the head.
Speaker 1: I think I wanted to get the exact number, but
Speaker 1: I think they were still down nine starter on Wednesday's practice,
Speaker 1: So they're just they're just hurt. I think that they'll
Speaker 1: play tough, and I don't know what the Colts the
Speaker 1: Jets are as a team in general. They're a very
Speaker 1: tough team to figure out week to week. But one
Speaker 1: thing they do well, and especially last week with Todd
Speaker 1: Bowles calling the plays, they do a good job generating
Speaker 1: pressure of confusing the opposition with different blitzes and ways
Speaker 1: to get at the quarterback without necessarily being one on one.
Speaker 1: And that that sounds like a good recipe against the Colts,
Speaker 1: who are struggling up front. Their roster is like a
Speaker 1: tag team battle Royale right now. It's like the September
Speaker 1: guys go out of the training room and and tag
Speaker 1: in the October guys. Costanzo and Marlon Mack expect to
Speaker 1: be back this week. That's a positive. Those those guys matter.
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron is not practicing with four different injuries listed
Speaker 1: with four different that that's why I rotor world listed
Speaker 1: is as parentheses entire body. I was like, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? But I guess that's why. That's awesome. And
Speaker 1: Ebron has been their zone guy, Like that's Andrew lux
Speaker 1: go to guy whenever they need a touchdown shin, quad, ankle, knee,
Speaker 1: maybe entire leg. He's got like one of those bodycasts.
Speaker 1: I I do think if you're a Jets fan, though,
Speaker 1: you have to be worried. Andrew Luck looks better every week.
Speaker 1: Uh can the like the Colts actually sustained offense? Can
Speaker 1: can either of these teams? The Jets are kind of
Speaker 1: a feast or famine offense. Can Can they Keeprol not
Speaker 1: practicing this week the best game of his career? Right?
Speaker 1: And there's more issues for the Jets because two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: remember all those shallow crosses that Blake Borrows is completing
Speaker 1: with ease against the Jets. So it's not I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to say that we have a new uh no
Speaker 1: fly zone at the Meadow Ends. Plus Tremaine Johnson is
Speaker 1: gonna miss another game and so far that's been a
Speaker 1: bust signing. By the way, he wasn't playing before he
Speaker 1: got hurt. And Buster Screen has another concussion. Uh So
Speaker 1: it's a good chance they'll be down two of their
Speaker 1: top three corners. Uh. I think this is setting up
Speaker 1: uh to be a situation where the Colts are gonna
Speaker 1: score points and then I have to wonder if the
Speaker 1: Jets can keep pace if Andrew Luck is having a
Speaker 1: good game, and I'm not feeling great about it. So
Speaker 1: I think this is a tough game for the Jets
Speaker 1: because they're simply not good enough, uh to really be
Speaker 1: a heavy favorite against anyone. So I thought about it
Speaker 1: be fun to lock up the Jets, but anytime I
Speaker 1: do that, it blows up, so I stayed away from it.
Speaker 1: And then the more I look at the game, the
Speaker 1: more I think the Jets could be in trouble. And yeah,
Speaker 1: the Colts did get too defensive starters back on Thursday,
Speaker 1: Clayton gathers their safety who's he's very good and Darius Leonard.
Speaker 1: So those are two good players and the calls. We
Speaker 1: need to figure out a way to not have Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck throw the ball sixty times. He is on pace.
Speaker 1: It's funny coming off that shoulder injury to set the
Speaker 1: all time record in attempts in the NFL, and he's
Speaker 1: he's leading the league right now. We are onto London?
Speaker 1: Is it already almost a month and ahead? So see
Speaker 1: around the NFL podcast Touchdown British Soil it is And
Speaker 1: what a time we had West was at the top
Speaker 1: of our lives. Absolutely, it sure was. Greg love it.
Speaker 1: I had. I think it was the best week for
Speaker 1: work I ever had. I went a second. There's no question.
Speaker 1: What was that great chicken joint Mando's, Nando's, nando Nando's,
Speaker 1: Nando's Chicken. That's I mean, that wasn't at the top
Speaker 1: of my memory, but I loved it. It was good
Speaker 1: Nando's chicken. That rap not all with the crisps anyway,
Speaker 1: Um love London. I wish everyone could have seen Dan
Speaker 1: space right now. Suddenly he like came to and he
Speaker 1: just says like, wait, I'm not in right now. I
Speaker 1: went to Nando's like four times, and I would just
Speaker 1: sit by myself and be like, Yep, this is culture.
Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks travel. This is the game we're supposed
Speaker 1: to go to by the way it was, Yes, it was.
Speaker 1: These games are all gonna be played. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: three games over three weeks played at Wembley Stadium. Um.
Speaker 1: First game Seattle Seahawks at two and three, coming off
Speaker 1: that narrow loss of the Ramps. That would have been
Speaker 1: such a big win for the Seahawks. They couldn't close
Speaker 1: it out though. Now they travel to London to face
Speaker 1: the Raiders, who stink. Let's face it there one and four.
Speaker 1: They just got outclassed by the Chargers. Uh West Uh.
Speaker 1: Is this a game that you think the Seahawks are
Speaker 1: gonna cruise through? Probably not right. They can't do that
Speaker 1: against anybody. I don't think the Seahawks cruise and the
Speaker 1: Raiders usually lose after hanging tough, so I would not
Speaker 1: say that. I do like what Seattle is doing. It's weird.
Speaker 1: I believe they've They've only passed on about forty three
Speaker 1: percent of their downs the past few weeks. They are
Speaker 1: the run heaviest team in the league right now with
Speaker 1: Chris Carson and Mike Davis um, so it'll be interested
Speaker 1: to see that against the Raiders defense that I think
Speaker 1: it's weaker against the past in the run, and it
Speaker 1: is strange in two thousand and eighteen, where like third
Speaker 1: and two is a running down for the Seahawks or
Speaker 1: third and three, there's just not many teams doing that.
Speaker 1: And Chris Carson he runs as hard as anyone in
Speaker 1: the league. I mean that he's a worthy if he
Speaker 1: could ever stick around. UH. Successor to the lineage of
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch and this is the first time we're getting
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch against the Seahawks. And Thomas Rolls what what
Speaker 1: about to? Nobody ran harder than Thomas Roles first six months.
Speaker 1: Thomas Rowles was one of the great fantasy pickups for
Speaker 1: about three weeks until he broke his lege. The Seahawks,
Speaker 1: I like, I kind of am smelling the Seahawks being
Speaker 1: a potential playoff team. I think they have some things
Speaker 1: coming together. Their offensive line. Offensive line is not bad.
Speaker 1: They're running the ball, they're blowing up holes, They're protecting
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson a little better than before. And I like
Speaker 1: when fans really complain about one thing as if they
Speaker 1: know better than the coaching staff, and then they and
Speaker 1: then they proved to be right. That's like the entire
Speaker 1: Packers fan, right, but they proved to be right all
Speaker 1: the everyone was complaining, all the Seahawks fans, twelves, how
Speaker 1: come we don't do any play action passing? How come
Speaker 1: we don't? You know that? It's insane? How a little
Speaker 1: play action? So they roll out last week they do
Speaker 1: a bunch of play action passing, and you know what
Speaker 1: to worked like Gangbusters, wasn't there wasn't there a football
Speaker 1: league that was gonna have the fans called the plays
Speaker 1: XFL believe there was one. I think bringing that back,
Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, that's my bestwick. Man, that's good.
Speaker 1: That's up there with Greg's gumble. Nobody touches Greg's gumble.
Speaker 1: Any other thoughts about this game, gentleman. The Raiders tackles
Speaker 1: are bad, and maybe that's one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: Derek Carr is playing supportly. It's a tough matching two
Speaker 1: rookie tackles. Who gets these coaches get left and I
Speaker 1: love the Seahawks. If I had really thought about I
Speaker 1: would have locked this game up. Well, you know, coach
Speaker 1: sometimes gets left in London. No, I mean it's a
Speaker 1: little early. Imagine the Raiders fired John Gruden in London.
Speaker 1: I think it's well, they were one of the teams
Speaker 1: that left a coach in London. It was Dennis Allen. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins did it as well. It's like the bizarre move.
Speaker 1: Gruden just leaves his whole team in London, right. I
Speaker 1: think he calls up Monday Night Football, he said, he
Speaker 1: says like this wintens a joke that's I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was like, think piticorous over here,
Speaker 1: heat check this? Did you just turn Griden New York
Speaker 1: cos like, what what does don Grid? It's up like
Speaker 1: you gotta It's kind of just intell you man, it's intensity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love this game. I'm glad I brought you into
Speaker 1: the mayb He looked better. Ah, the Carolina Panthers at
Speaker 1: three and one and uh and they look good, they
Speaker 1: feel good. Everyone's excited about the Panthers most of all.
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. This Cam Newton, he will take you down.
Speaker 1: It sounds like John Gruden's accountant travels to Washington Land
Speaker 1: over to the exact face the Redskins, who are coming off.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you wanted to pick a most pitiful
Speaker 1: team of Week five, might be the Redskins didn't even
Speaker 1: look competitive against the Saints. So Greg, this all sets
Speaker 1: up for another Pathers victory. But maybe the Redskins just
Speaker 1: had a bad week last week. We shouldn't get two
Speaker 1: worked up. I think the Redskins are going to be
Speaker 1: in the mix all year. And these are two teams
Speaker 1: that tend to play that almost try to play close
Speaker 1: games because they want to run the ball, and I
Speaker 1: think that the Panthers fans have to be excited because
Speaker 1: the team should get better. The fact that Curtis Samuel
Speaker 1: and d J. Moore were working more into the mix
Speaker 1: last week makes me excited to watch this Panther's offense
Speaker 1: moving forward. This is a fun team to watch right now,
Speaker 1: and I love how the rosters set up. They have
Speaker 1: more than any team in the league. I believe they
Speaker 1: have six starters aged thirty three year older now that
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen is practicing fully again, and they have five
Speaker 1: regulars age twenty two or younger. But the bulk of
Speaker 1: the team is like Luke Kickley Cam Newton right in
Speaker 1: the prime. They are like a really well balanced team
Speaker 1: and they're fun to watch. I loved watching that Giants game.
Speaker 1: North Turner has been pretty creative. I I do like
Speaker 1: watching them and Cam. I like that they haven't gone
Speaker 1: away from his running value at all. It's it's kind
Speaker 1: of an obvious point to make, but in games like
Speaker 1: last week, when he's running over guys on third and
Speaker 1: three and had a couple other runs yet he had
Speaker 1: he had so much value as a runner. It just
Speaker 1: I don't think it can be overstated what a difference
Speaker 1: that he makes doing that? Alright, Cam Newton completion percentage
Speaker 1: check West. They had to go down. He didn't play
Speaker 1: well last week. We are now through four games, so
Speaker 1: quarter of the season for him sixty excuse me six.
Speaker 1: I mean that's by far his career high. So that's
Speaker 1: a that's a moral entered. Yeah, he's below for his
Speaker 1: career entering this year. This is the Josh Norman revenge game.
Speaker 1: Oh good point, don't wanna they want to expose that?
Speaker 1: He Jay Gruden, I think trying to help out his
Speaker 1: guy was saying Norman has been fighting through a heel injury,
Speaker 1: which makes it difficult for even for him to even
Speaker 1: put a shoe on this year. It seems like a
Speaker 1: problem if you're trying to play high level sitting in
Speaker 1: this chair and doing a podcast today, sweating like a
Speaker 1: I mean he sweat a lot, even when you're healthy.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but this is like it's like I'm
Speaker 1: running like a mile or something on the track and
Speaker 1: then sitting down in the studio. I might just but
Speaker 1: this might be the day I die, and this is
Speaker 1: how I'm gonna go. I thought you were gonna say,
Speaker 1: like your you might leave right now. I'm not gonna do,
Speaker 1: but you think alright? Moving on, the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: are five and oh, the only undefeated team in the NFC.
Speaker 1: They look to keep that streak going against the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 1: who are a long way off from two and oh.
Speaker 1: Now they've lost three straight games, uh, including an ugly
Speaker 1: effort in Jersey last week. West, we know the Rams
Speaker 1: are one of the best, if not the best team
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Where are the Broncos right now? They
Speaker 1: are tailspin central, spinning out of control? And I know
Speaker 1: they do play much better at home on the road
Speaker 1: under advanced Joseph they have some of the biggest apocalypse
Speaker 1: is like one game like they did last week, but
Speaker 1: but at home. So if it was embarrassing on defense,
Speaker 1: he saw what they did against the Chiefs at home.
Speaker 1: That was a game the Chiefs had had to come
Speaker 1: back to win. And yet I still can't pick against
Speaker 1: the Rams because I respect their coaching staff so much.
Speaker 1: I just don't see like Sean McVeigh having a letdown,
Speaker 1: and he he's optimistic about Cooper Cup and Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: playing this week. So we'll see on that one. But
Speaker 1: so far, it looks like it's it's got a good
Speaker 1: chance to happen. Mcphigh is amazing just how he can
Speaker 1: adjustin game that you lose Cooper Cup and Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: in the game. You've run pretty much the same personnel
Speaker 1: package all year, but then you adjust on the fly,
Speaker 1: start putting two tight ends in transferred to the running game.
Speaker 1: Let Todd Gurley finish it out for you. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, Josh Reynolds, who comes in at wide receiver.
Speaker 1: You just have a Josh Reynolds drive, like this guy's
Speaker 1: barely played all season, and then you have a drive
Speaker 1: where it's three straight plays all the Josh Reynolds, one
Speaker 1: of them being a running play for fifty yards, and
Speaker 1: it's like he steps in and it it almost didn't
Speaker 1: It felt for a second like it didn't matter they
Speaker 1: lost this two wide receiver. It's crazy. I know it's early,
Speaker 1: but I'd be so surprised if the Rams aren't the
Speaker 1: NFC representative. I think they're that good. I think they're
Speaker 1: one of the most balanced teams we've seen in a
Speaker 1: long time. And not just balance, like a steady balance
Speaker 1: of a team. No that great defense, great offense, special
Speaker 1: teams everything. Uh, this team looks great to me. I
Speaker 1: think this this team's gonna cruise. I'll be surprised if
Speaker 1: they don't have home field advantage then, but then you
Speaker 1: gotta get back to me in January and see. It's
Speaker 1: it's a different thing trying to win a two game
Speaker 1: tournament at home. It's not easy. They do have some weaknesses.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're giving up points. Marcus Peters is a
Speaker 1: problem right now. I don't know if he's healthy or not,
Speaker 1: but he's giving up His eyes are in the backfield
Speaker 1: to a ton of big plays. The last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: Mark Barron just came off the you know, injured list
Speaker 1: for the first time about a year and a half.
Speaker 1: Did not had a terrible game a week ago. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just he's getting back up to speed.
Speaker 1: So they they've had some issues defensively. The biggest weakness
Speaker 1: on that team is a potential injury to Jared Goff
Speaker 1: because they don't have a backup quarterback. Mhm. Moving on,
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars travel to Big d to face the Cowboys. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys now two and three, they need a w
Speaker 1: in the worst way. Uh, and now we have the
Speaker 1: Jaguars coming to town and Greg, the Jags could not
Speaker 1: keep up with the Chiefs last week thirty four teen
Speaker 1: loss um. But Dallas feels like a good team for
Speaker 1: them to get right against they do because you know, defensively,
Speaker 1: it's just hard for you know, when the Jaguars are
Speaker 1: on defense, they're not forcing enough turnovers until last week
Speaker 1: they did pick off Mahomes, but they're playing good team defense.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of hard to imagine the Cowboys they're
Speaker 1: gonna putting together good drives against Jacksonville because the Jaguars
Speaker 1: make you earn it. They make you work down the
Speaker 1: field slowly. They do not really give up big plays.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have no ability to make big plays. It's
Speaker 1: just like, make a decision Scott Linnahan on who your
Speaker 1: wide receivers are. You have five receivers last week who
Speaker 1: played between twenty three and thirty seven snaps, So you
Speaker 1: basically have five like number three or four receivers. And
Speaker 1: I know that's what they are, quality wise, but it's like,
Speaker 1: make a decision, who are your guys? What? He doesn't
Speaker 1: have any guys. Pick some though pick some easily should
Speaker 1: be one of your guys, let him. Let everybody a
Speaker 1: chance to show something, and nobody's flashing. He's in a
Speaker 1: tough spot talking about an offense take a decision in
Speaker 1: which the best big play threat is a tight end
Speaker 1: screen to Jeff Swain, I mean, come on, this is
Speaker 1: a field goal offense in a touchdown league. And Tyrone
Speaker 1: Smith got worked over pretty good last week. Grant. Granted,
Speaker 1: he was going up against j J. Watt for the
Speaker 1: most part in Jadevin Clowney, but you don't You're not
Speaker 1: used to seeing that, and he has another tough matchup
Speaker 1: this week. I do, uh, I want to see how
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles does against a pretty good I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta talk to you about your QB index. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: knew you were gonna say that. You want to die
Speaker 1: on that hill. It's not a hill. He said. He
Speaker 1: wants to fight anyone who disagrees with these opinions, and
Speaker 1: one of them was Blake portals to play him better.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Okay, here's the opinion. He's better. He's
Speaker 1: not good. I said, he's not even average. He's settled
Speaker 1: in though, at a point where he's probably better than
Speaker 1: about ten starters. Out there. He's definitely better on short passes.
Speaker 1: He has better touch than he did a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. He pushes the ball, he pushes the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. He has the right receivers for that.
Speaker 1: He's just not the albatross cipher that he used to be.
Speaker 1: He's just kind of like a not very helpful quarter.
Speaker 1: Well more accurately, he's the albatross cipher some weeks, and
Speaker 1: you've got to guess which weeks or its are going
Speaker 1: to be because you never know when they're gonna happen, right,
Speaker 1: And you have to win three or four games in
Speaker 1: January and February to win a Super Bowl. I think
Speaker 1: it ever puts together that many games in a row,
Speaker 1: and I and I think it's a wrong model that
Speaker 1: you're counting on a defense to win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You need you're gonna need him to carry you at points.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he's gonna do that. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying if you look at every analytics, every metric, even
Speaker 1: the way I do QB index, he kind of settles
Speaker 1: in over the last year and now five games somewhere between,
Speaker 1: depending on which ones you look at, roughly around twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty two or three. I'm just saying he's kind
Speaker 1: of you know what, though, he's a poor man's Cam
Speaker 1: Newton to destitute. He's kind of an index breaker. He's
Speaker 1: in AdEx spot because you don't know which one's gonna
Speaker 1: show up, the one version of him. It's just Jacqueline
Speaker 1: Hyde situation. Yeah, you think you're grading portals, but you're
Speaker 1: really grading four different quarterbacks who show up at different
Speaker 1: times in different You should put in both both of
Speaker 1: them on the list and just put one at last.
Speaker 1: It's not a bad, bad idea. Um. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the bad games are less frequent. I feel
Speaker 1: like they're about one every four or five now. But
Speaker 1: he's got three bad games out of five this year.
Speaker 1: I don't count that. To West's point that this is
Speaker 1: a field goal team in a touchdown league. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: are averaging sixteen and a half points a game in
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen NFL. They totally totally abotched this whole
Speaker 1: under this week twelve. I mean, at best, they are
Speaker 1: not going to score more than fourteen points. I would think,
Speaker 1: jeez uh, it's a lot of Brett Merrathon. Another team
Speaker 1: I wish advice but you know, bag the alright that
Speaker 1: kind of one. Yeah, I like that seemed like advice
Speaker 1: if you say, if you preface the sentence with this
Speaker 1: isn't something you can say whatever you want. Moving on,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens are three and two. Uh, got beat
Speaker 1: by the Browns. Get used to it. This game has
Speaker 1: me excited. New world, new world order. Uh for the
Speaker 1: a f C North and now the Ravens traveled to
Speaker 1: Tennessee the face the Titoons, who are licking their wounds
Speaker 1: after that grizzly thirteen twelve setback against the Buffalo Bill's West. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's the battle to two of the top five defenses
Speaker 1: in the league. Uh. Speaking of banging the under yeah
Speaker 1: to to West teams here, these are two teams I've
Speaker 1: liked off and on for a while. Um, poor poor
Speaker 1: Nick Williams ostracized what what how do you say? Whisked
Speaker 1: away to the to the cold dropped the touchdown last
Speaker 1: week and dropped another past two or FuMB boordered whatever
Speaker 1: anyway cut this week? Just go on they go. They
Speaker 1: really need a reliable guy off opposite Corey Davis, and
Speaker 1: I thought for a minute maybe they could sign Dez
Speaker 1: Bryant and then I saw a video of Dez Bryant
Speaker 1: running what you were not convinced that what was wrong
Speaker 1: with the video? It was like the animal Greg was
Speaker 1: referring too on the side of the road. He looked
Speaker 1: like a thirty seven year old tight end. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: probably not gonna get it done. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody's signing. Does I mean de should be in this
Speaker 1: game as a member of the Ravens. It's insane to
Speaker 1: think back that he turned down three years for four
Speaker 1: million dollars all time, all time bad decision, and it
Speaker 1: worked out for the rate. Although Michael Krabter he's not
Speaker 1: really even helping the Ravens that much, but ultimately he's
Speaker 1: going to be a better player. Yeah. I'm surprised you're
Speaker 1: so excited for this game, but I guess they are
Speaker 1: your two teams I like to watch every week. Can
Speaker 1: Mario Mariot has gotta win some games from the pocket?
Speaker 1: I think the Bills had a really good game plan
Speaker 1: against him. They took over, Yeah, they took away the
Speaker 1: running game, Mariota's running game last week. They did a
Speaker 1: good job kind of containing him, and well, mind have enough.
Speaker 1: My question when I want watched the Titans. Is why
Speaker 1: even bother acting like Marcus Mariotte is a pocket quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's another way I think you have to coach around.
Speaker 1: He's always better on the run, and I think he's
Speaker 1: better when plays breakdown. He last week. They he has
Speaker 1: the potential to be the most effective running quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league outside of Cam Newton. When he's running, they
Speaker 1: are dangerous. The Ravens are a lot less fun to
Speaker 1: watch when bad Joe Flacco is back, by the way,
Speaker 1: and I know you give the Browns a lot of
Speaker 1: credit for um his struggles last week, but I didn't
Speaker 1: that bad. Really, this throws I I didn't like the
Speaker 1: way he played at all. Some drops. He's been okay
Speaker 1: this year. This is a tough match. Down right good
Speaker 1: this year. He's been a good quarterback. I agree, But
Speaker 1: I mean on Bolt, I think he said a really
Speaker 1: good season. But um, yeah, this is who you got
Speaker 1: in this game? Was where is it Tennessee? Since Tennessee,
Speaker 1: I'm going Tennessee. I love the way they play at home.
Speaker 1: They have a different energy at home than they do
Speaker 1: on the road. Jayon Brown has been playing really well
Speaker 1: for them. Yes he uh let's move on to Sunday
Speaker 1: night football. Almost impossibly, the NFL scheduling. Uh, people decided
Speaker 1: that Pats get too home games in a row in
Speaker 1: prime time, So the Chiefs get on a plane. Totally
Speaker 1: happened many times at five and oh, and what did
Speaker 1: this game be better? And and uh, Kansas City come up.
Speaker 1: So you're saying that the NFL should change the home
Speaker 1: away formula for the entire league. I think for the
Speaker 1: Patriots in primetime. I'm being totally honest here. Most Patriots
Speaker 1: primetime games stink because the Patriots is walties. Teams put
Speaker 1: them on the road, you're gonna get a better game. Well,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna wall up the five and oh Chiefs,
Speaker 1: don't you think. I don't think they will. But that's
Speaker 1: beside the point. I just don't like them having back
Speaker 1: to back home games. I don't like Patriots. Sorry, Eric,
Speaker 1: it's not personal anyway. We just woke Erica. Yeah a Gregg.
Speaker 1: A great Sunday night matchup here, Greg. Uh. Some people
Speaker 1: call it the QB of Tomorrow against the QB of today,
Speaker 1: My home's break not according to our search notes, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Um it kind of it kind of works, though.
Speaker 1: I like it if you if you extend the analogy
Speaker 1: a little further. I'm gonna go a big picture here.
Speaker 1: The Patriots were always that team that everyone kind of
Speaker 1: copied that. You've that there was a oh, what are
Speaker 1: they doing? They're ahead of the league? Uh, whatever trend
Speaker 1: they kind of start the year doing. Then a lot
Speaker 1: of teams follow the Chiefs are that team now? I mean,
Speaker 1: Tony Romo talked, this isn't an original idea. Tony Rono
Speaker 1: Moo talked about it a lot during the Chiefs Jaguars telecast.
Speaker 1: Everyone's copying the Chiefs. Everyone looks at what the Chiefs
Speaker 1: did in the first couple of weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: and they're just running the Chiefs place. And Chiefs are
Speaker 1: still rolling out some new ones. But that, to me,
Speaker 1: that's a testament to Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: everything cool. That's what I mean. It's amazing that you
Speaker 1: know everyone's copying the Chiefs. You know they're not copying
Speaker 1: their defense though, because they're dead Lands football now, and
Speaker 1: that's problematic. There were one side on the road against
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, an offense that got healthy last week and
Speaker 1: finally looked like Okay, we've got outside receiver and Josh Gordon.
Speaker 1: We've got a chain mover and Julian Edelman, We've got Bronk,
Speaker 1: We've got Sony Michelle running between through big holes. This
Speaker 1: is an offense. It's feeling itself right now. Are we
Speaker 1: feeling better about Sony Michelle at the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: I'll say this, he runs hard. He runs hard, but
Speaker 1: I'm not picking on him. He doesn't beat people to
Speaker 1: the edge. Watch Joe Mixon play, watch Sae Kwon Barkley play,
Speaker 1: and they're dead to rights in the backfield. Instead they
Speaker 1: bounce that. I'll beat the guy to the edge. Sony
Speaker 1: Michelle is not doing that. It doesn't mean he won't
Speaker 1: do that in the future. Maybe it's not his game.
Speaker 1: To use the Barkley comparison, though, I think one thing
Speaker 1: Michelle does that Barkley doesn't is he takes five and
Speaker 1: six yard games. He he hits the hole right away,
Speaker 1: and that's and that's maybe what the Patriots as a
Speaker 1: patriot with he he sometimes is looking for the big play,
Speaker 1: and I think he's talked about it too. It I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to compare it to I'm just saying Michelle's
Speaker 1: taking what's there and he doesn't waste any time time
Speaker 1: and they could they that's kind of what they need.
Speaker 1: They have James White game. Whatever they're doing is working,
Speaker 1: and to me this is I love this Patriots matchup
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs defense. Alright to too, but you know
Speaker 1: you gotta play defense against Kansas City. And if the
Speaker 1: Patriots can't get much pass rush on Andrew Luck, which
Speaker 1: they couldn't, it's like, what are they gonna do with
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. They've been protecting Mahomes really well and you're
Speaker 1: just worried that they're just got they lost car of
Speaker 1: them up. They lost their best guard for the season,
Speaker 1: all right, Duverney tordif Dr Tardy from mcgil my brother's
Speaker 1: album Mater. That's a that's a big loss for them.
Speaker 1: They've been playing really well and he had got a
Speaker 1: big long term extension justin Houston this week. It looks
Speaker 1: like some breaks and you know who's been playing we
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned on the show at all. Jason mccordy and
Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore are a really good cornerback tandem. And it
Speaker 1: does get me thinking that the Patriots try a lot
Speaker 1: of these low cost trades and right now the sixth
Speaker 1: round pick for mccordy and whatever they gave up for
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon are paying some serious dividends and then get
Speaker 1: excited Danny and they're looking. It was dark for a
Speaker 1: few weeks, but they're looking. I was actually just thinking,
Speaker 1: if Mahomes goes there on Sunday, football lights him up,
Speaker 1: he's going to it's got to be in the thirties.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that I'm hoping to match him. Think about this,
Speaker 1: Let's look at the worst case scenario, right, if the
Speaker 1: Chiefs go in there and win, they're they're they're gonna
Speaker 1: get a box six they get bats would be three
Speaker 1: and three, so they would have a three game lead,
Speaker 1: and the tiebreaker uh and Jacksonville, as you know, also
Speaker 1: as a tiebreaker on the Pats. That streak of buys
Speaker 1: which is it what eight years though, will be in
Speaker 1: serious jeopardy if that. No doubt this game. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of a sneaky huge game, especially for the Chiefs
Speaker 1: weirdly because I think they'll have such a big edge
Speaker 1: for home field advantage and buy over everyone in the
Speaker 1: a f C, not just the Patriots. If they win
Speaker 1: this game, it's such a huge game, but it's time
Speaker 1: to put it online. But the perfect record on the line.
Speaker 1: Do you do that every Yeah, I'm locking up the Patriots.
Speaker 1: That wasn't were were lock right? I didn't know which
Speaker 1: team he was gonna lock up. Listen, you could look
Speaker 1: in the mirror on that, but I thought you're gonna
Speaker 1: go that was gonna be a lot of fun. Every
Speaker 1: time I locked up the Patriots against undefeated team, people
Speaker 1: ask how I could look in the mirror. Oh, please,
Speaker 1: don't go back to that. Well, I have no problem
Speaker 1: going back to that. Well, don't you go back to
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Dolphins are too Where were you
Speaker 1: at last week when Mark took the Panthers against the
Speaker 1: Giants at home, and nobody says a word. But if
Speaker 1: I take against an undefeated team, Oh, Marc blood clocks,
Speaker 1: I had cancer? What did Mark do? Les He locked
Speaker 1: up the Panthers at home against the one in three? John,
Speaker 1: that was a bad lock, but speak on it. But
Speaker 1: nobody's no. I'm not gonna go there. I know if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go with that in the desert. The Patriots
Speaker 1: at home against Dolphins were even bigger favorites than Carolina.
Speaker 1: Screw that death and quickly I. I don't want to
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in this game because it's
Speaker 1: a bummer Monday night football. The one in four San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners. Uh, this was supposed to be Jimmy
Speaker 1: g versus Aaron Rodgers, but instead of c J. Bethard
Speaker 1: against Aaron Rodgers. So uh, Packer's office, still trying to
Speaker 1: find its way, gets a layup. The Niners coming to
Speaker 1: Lambeau in prime time, right west. Yeah. I could not
Speaker 1: look in the mirror on this one. This was the
Speaker 1: first game I wanted to take and then I said no,
Speaker 1: I just can't do it. The forty Niners did not
Speaker 1: look good last week. I didn't think c J. Bethard
Speaker 1: looked good. They're banged up. Uh. The downgrade from Matt
Speaker 1: Breda to Raheem most might be is now we're just
Speaker 1: making up names. Matt Breda was downright explosive. He looks
Speaker 1: out this week. Breda is not coming back this week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the Packers, I just think everybody needs to relax
Speaker 1: on them. Their fan base is rabid. Like they have
Speaker 1: a bad game where they out they outyarded the other
Speaker 1: team by over two hundred and fifty yards and lose,
Speaker 1: and the Packers fan base is like, everything's broken, everything's broken,
Speaker 1: we gotta fix There's a bit of a I wouldn't
Speaker 1: call it a national narrative, but the ringer Robert Mays
Speaker 1: wrote a piece about the Packers. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you boys read that, uh similar sentiments that the Packers
Speaker 1: are essentially wasting another year. Yeah, welcome. I've been trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of McCarthy now for two years. I
Speaker 1: think he is a big part of the problem we
Speaker 1: need to see. It's it's not an upset that your
Speaker 1: influence hasn't extended to Green Bay, but that he still
Speaker 1: kept saying that let's let's build up the ground. Swell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've done with it. Here here, I have one hot
Speaker 1: take for you from this game. Is George Kittle forget
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. Dan was trying to fan himself and slapped
Speaker 1: himself in the face with the research notes that was
Speaker 1: that was a moment. Okay, we'll get out of here after,
Speaker 1: I say, after I asked the question, George kidd all
Speaker 1: the best run after catch tight end and no even
Speaker 1: bigger is George Kettle the best tight ended in the NFL. Oh.
Speaker 1: I love George Kittle. I've been I've been talking about
Speaker 1: him for a couple of years. But he's at least
Speaker 1: not better than Gronk Brandon Thorne, who you recommended to
Speaker 1: me as a great follow on Twitter. He's kind of
Speaker 1: an offensive line blocking guru. He went through about ten
Speaker 1: plays and he does it every week with Kittle blocking.
Speaker 1: He thinks George Kittle might be the best blocking tight
Speaker 1: ends he's ever seen. So if you combine that with
Speaker 1: the tight end who's leading the position in yardage and
Speaker 1: making a ton of big plays, I don't know, he's
Speaker 1: got to be in the mix. Well, there's his sacrilege
Speaker 1: for Patriots fans act like George Kittles better than I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's better, but I think he might be
Speaker 1: in the top couple. He's gone from being a nice
Speaker 1: little story. So he's one of the tight in the
Speaker 1: league right now between injuries and lack of a uh,
Speaker 1: big time players. So maybe Georgie sneaks in the back
Speaker 1: door here. Maybe he's in the top three or four.
Speaker 1: Let's you can move if he can move that well
Speaker 1: and he's that good of a blocker at to stay
Speaker 1: healthy thorn. That's a nice pick day by John Lynch.
Speaker 1: He's got tweaks and twinches. He's gotta stay healthy. Uh.
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Speaker 1: you still get three podcasts, but now there's a video show.
Speaker 1: You get next only four shows. Ultimately, what do you
Speaker 1: do you like our show? What do you like better? Three?
Speaker 1: Or four? Four? Obviously? Okay, sans signing off, we get
Speaker 1: back in bed for the mail Man, the Old Boss,
Speaker 1: and the loose Cannon behind the glass. Oh yeah till Sunday. Off,
Speaker 1: I'm there