Speaker 1: Here's McCaffrey full head of stain, McCaffrey being able to
Speaker 1: get it in Rocklisberger pulls it back, Rolls has to too.
Speaker 1: Smith Shoes Star brought a start to tonight one playing
Speaker 1: pack touchdown Steelers. Newton keeps season trouble and thrawls up
Speaker 1: for grabs and packs intercepted by Williams. Touchdown. Then it's
Speaker 1: a seven point Steeler lead as they put up two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in thirteen seconds. This one down the sideline for Brown.
Speaker 1: He's got it. He's got another touchdown Steelers. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers going nuts. Dan hands his hair along
Speaker 1: with Mark Sessler. The rest of the boys are gonna
Speaker 1: join us in just a few minutes to break down
Speaker 1: the rest of Week ten the previews. But now we
Speaker 1: have to recap a fifty two to twenty one win
Speaker 1: for the Steelers over a completely overmatched and seemingly unprepared
Speaker 1: Panthers team that didn't know what hit him, couldn't get
Speaker 1: a stop. Ben Roethlisberger simply put one of the greatest
Speaker 1: games of his career twenty two yards, five touchdowns, no interceptions,
Speaker 1: a perfect pass rating rating of one point three before
Speaker 1: he gave way to Joshua dobbs Uh to finish things out. Mark,
Speaker 1: what did you learn in this game? I think what
Speaker 1: I learned was that Pittsburgh has been hearing everyone talk
Speaker 1: about the Chiefs and the Patriots and the Chargers. At
Speaker 1: this point in Pittsburgh is the team people want to
Speaker 1: push out of the picture because maybe there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of Steelers exhaustion after so many years of getting
Speaker 1: far into the playoffs situation and then getting bumped by
Speaker 1: New England. A very predictable narrative they say tonight. They
Speaker 1: basically said, look, you want to come in on Thursday
Speaker 1: night into Pittsburgh with we hear all about your Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers situation, We're gonna take you out. I mean this
Speaker 1: the Panthers defense is not what it was of years past.
Speaker 1: But this was an utter domination and the way Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: took control of the game so quickly, so early out
Speaker 1: of the gate, and a pristine performance by Big Bend.
Speaker 1: There was no point when they got down seven Carolina
Speaker 1: that I thought there's they're going to climb back into this.
Speaker 1: It just you could tell the protection Cam Newton got
Speaker 1: crushed tonight. There was no moment where you thought they're
Speaker 1: going to climb back into this game. Yeah. The the
Speaker 1: crazy thing about it was that Carolina took the opening
Speaker 1: kickoff and went right down the field and went up
Speaker 1: seven nothing. Uh And by midway through the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: it was fifty two to fourteen, and there was a
Speaker 1: late touchdown just to uh put the final touches on
Speaker 1: the score. But you know, the last week I I
Speaker 1: I said that I thought the Panthers were right there
Speaker 1: in the same class of the top NFC heavyweights. And
Speaker 1: I do still believe that, but only in their building
Speaker 1: because this was a reminder. We actually talked about it
Speaker 1: on Wednesday's podcast. Uh. Gregg dismissed it, and I'll have
Speaker 1: to have words with him when I see him. He must. Yes,
Speaker 1: of the Panthers in prime time, Cam Newton in prime time,
Speaker 1: especially on the road, have never fared well. And this
Speaker 1: was an epic stink bomb. And it makes you wonder
Speaker 1: the true great teams travel well, and the Panthers this
Speaker 1: is a game that's like, oh, these guys better have
Speaker 1: home games in the playoffs if you want them to
Speaker 1: go deep and losing badly like this, to fall to
Speaker 1: six and three, this is not going to help their cause.
Speaker 1: Masked in this game and lost in it is an
Speaker 1: excellent performance by Christian McCaffrey, although I think he has
Speaker 1: some past protection issues. Some of the saxon Kim Newton
Speaker 1: are on him. I thought the killer turning point in
Speaker 1: this was coming right out of halftime, up fourteen, the
Speaker 1: Steelers take the ball and drive nearly seven plus minutes.
Speaker 1: Absolutely used the clock up. I mean, that was one
Speaker 1: of the quickest half of a half of a quarters
Speaker 1: that we've seen. And they go up thirty eight to fourteen,
Speaker 1: and they close it with a touchdown advance McDonald. They
Speaker 1: pulled Big Ben in the fourth quarters. They should have.
Speaker 1: We have no idea why Cam Newton was still in
Speaker 1: this game as late as he was. What is the
Speaker 1: pre everybody, I mean, they did take Big Ben out.
Speaker 1: He was he was still in the game when they
Speaker 1: were up by thirty points. Uh, and can play the
Speaker 1: entire well he came out for the last drive. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you just you just wonder what what anybody thinks
Speaker 1: with those type of things. I mean, the stats are
Speaker 1: staggering a big Big Ben Uh this I mean he
Speaker 1: averaged thirteen yards pert tempt That's that's otherworldly, and and
Speaker 1: and you look at their stats as a team, it's
Speaker 1: just a reminder. And this is all without Levy on Bell.
Speaker 1: They had fifty eight total plays, and they had over
Speaker 1: four d and fifty yards. They had ten drives. They
Speaker 1: scored fifty two points, one out a pick six, as
Speaker 1: you heard. But this was not even a special James
Speaker 1: Conner game. This was just a total, complete dominant effort. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if anything, Connor left and the CONCU protocol late in
Speaker 1: the game. But it was Juju Smith Schuster, it was
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, it was Vance McDonald. It's They've got a
Speaker 1: host of weapons, just like these other a f C
Speaker 1: teams we talked about. And I'd be concerned if I'm
Speaker 1: the Panthers, just by the fact that you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go on the road, if you're Carolina in this
Speaker 1: in this playoff journey, there's no way we can talk
Speaker 1: about them as a buy team. I simply don't buy it.
Speaker 1: So do we trust the road? Uh? Fair enough? But listen,
Speaker 1: Thursday night also, is there, Well, there's a weird soup
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night where things like this happened. I wonder
Speaker 1: if these two teams played a hundred times in a
Speaker 1: row on Sunday afternoon. We would not see this result.
Speaker 1: That's why you said you don't buy the Panthers after this,
Speaker 1: I I'm shure, I'm I'm shook a little bit about
Speaker 1: how they can perform on the road in a big spot.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, these Thursday night games, you
Speaker 1: don't know what to take out of them because and
Speaker 1: we've seen the last four weeks when you look at
Speaker 1: these outcomes which are just total bombs. Uh, some of
Speaker 1: these teams are just simply not ready, uh to go
Speaker 1: on the road and handle the crowd and the injuries
Speaker 1: and the lack of practice and and what you're seeing
Speaker 1: in some of these uh, these games. Just like look
Speaker 1: at IF your Fox and if your NFL network. You
Speaker 1: know the way the business works that you need to
Speaker 1: get all these different teams some primetime love. So you
Speaker 1: use Thursday night on some on some level as that
Speaker 1: place to tuck in teams. But then you say to yourself,
Speaker 1: all right, good, we got the Steelers and Panthers locked
Speaker 1: in for week ten so people won't get too crazy. Well,
Speaker 1: look what happens. Some teams aren't ready for these games,
Speaker 1: and you have a thirty one point loss. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: just it's rough. These Thurs Night games are tough to
Speaker 1: watch sometimes. I I am not ready for the the
Speaker 1: Tied ad campaign on Fox either, which features a lot
Speaker 1: of piteous acting. I was not ready for Mark Wahlberg,
Speaker 1: a Patriots fan, to be featured at halftime in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: That felt like a little bit of a I'm still
Speaker 1: waiting what's going on with that? Still trying to process
Speaker 1: Jonah Hill plugging a skateboard movie a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Jonah Hill, who has never watched a football game in
Speaker 1: his life, wait to nail your demo, but suspicious at
Speaker 1: the point. All right, there you go. Pittsburgh Steelers drop
Speaker 1: a fifty burger on the Panthers. Not the last you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from either of these teams, but this is
Speaker 1: a dark, dark night for the Panthers, who will quickly
Speaker 1: look to turn the page. Anyway, we got a lot
Speaker 1: more to get to and WEEKEDND, so let's get to
Speaker 1: the rest of the schedule. Be Around the NFL Podcast
Speaker 1: needs more at temposy NFL. Welcome to another condition of
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hanss
Speaker 1: and I'm joined in a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Greg rosen Thal. What is up Boise? Hey, dude,
Speaker 1: strong hint on who's producing the show today? Given to
Speaker 1: you a few seconds ago with the drop typically typical behavior.
Speaker 1: You can go to my Twitter and I tweeted out
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Speaker 1: and so comments, I threw them all into a hat.
Speaker 1: And that's just the one that happened to to to go.
Speaker 1: But it's it's written out. Take a bit, take a week.
Speaker 1: It's a big hat. Um. Well that's okay, Erica. We're fine.
Speaker 1: We're fine with you promoting your brand. I didn't do it.
Speaker 1: You have a brand, the Ricky Hollywood brand. That thing
Speaker 1: is going off. Welcome to the Thursday edition of the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast. You just heard at the top
Speaker 1: of the show, Me and the one in true quiet
Speaker 1: storm UM recap the Panthers at Steelers. But there are
Speaker 1: many more games to get to. We have four teams
Speaker 1: on by this week, the Ravens, Broncos, Texans and Vikings. Um.
Speaker 1: But we have so many games to get to. Big week.
Speaker 1: This is a big week on the NFL schedule, isn't it? Greg,
Speaker 1: because the teams that are kind of keeping their head
Speaker 1: above water, maybe they're a game under. You lose another
Speaker 1: game and you really start to run out of time,
Speaker 1: the clock starts working against you. I I do like
Speaker 1: the NFL Season four that that every week has a
Speaker 1: of your weight to it. So I think that would
Speaker 1: be that's gonna be even more true next week in
Speaker 1: the week after that. And like when some of those
Speaker 1: losses start coming, like let's say the Packers lost for
Speaker 1: some reason this week, it's like that then that that
Speaker 1: loss just feels heavy. It's on your back with all
Speaker 1: the rest of the Green Bay losses they shouldn't have
Speaker 1: had up till now. And it's also another like case
Speaker 1: to extend the trade deadline out and maybe we'll do
Speaker 1: this in a week or two. Uh re examine that
Speaker 1: and what kind of trades you would have made if
Speaker 1: the if you pushed back the trade deadline, because right
Speaker 1: now there's a lot of teams that are right in
Speaker 1: the thick of things or think they are, but they're not.
Speaker 1: It's always fun when there's some sellers involved. It just
Speaker 1: juices up. But Goose is everything. November is attrition. Season
Speaker 1: two injuries take away a contender or two or three
Speaker 1: every November, because if you go on I R now
Speaker 1: you're just about done for the year. No matter what,
Speaker 1: You're not boomeranging back into as you brought up yesterday
Speaker 1: with the Redskins West, one team that's been banged hard.
Speaker 1: So let's get to the games, and let us start
Speaker 1: with a big, big NFC North affair. In fact, we
Speaker 1: were just talking about teams that need a wind to
Speaker 1: kind of stay above water and not not put so
Speaker 1: much pressure on them. Well, look at the lines, because
Speaker 1: this is this is the down and dirty. They are
Speaker 1: three and five, they've lost two straight, and it happens
Speaker 1: real quick. You're three and three and you're feeling okay,
Speaker 1: you drop two games, and all of a sudden, whoa,
Speaker 1: we cannot go three and six. And what do you
Speaker 1: gotta do? You gotta go on the road here, uh,
Speaker 1: and you gotta go to play the Chicago Bears. So
Speaker 1: Martin's thank you for the reminder. A big, a big
Speaker 1: game for the Bears, because the Bears have a chance
Speaker 1: to stack some wins here. They got a big game
Speaker 1: coming up next week mark against the Vikings. But if
Speaker 1: you are worthy of the team of a t l
Speaker 1: if you're worthy of being taken seriously beat the Lions
Speaker 1: team that clearly is mediocre. Yeah, I mean the Lions
Speaker 1: team I just don't trust of late. I thought that
Speaker 1: they were handled by Seattle two weeks ago, and last
Speaker 1: week against the Vikings, there were opportunities given to them
Speaker 1: to stick around in that game, which they did nothing with.
Speaker 1: They had two turnovers, one generated a field goal after
Speaker 1: a bus to drive. The second was done on that
Speaker 1: possession for Detroit when Matthew Stafford attempted to roll out,
Speaker 1: run and pitch the ball to carry On Johnson. It
Speaker 1: flees right by him and Daniel Hunter takes it in
Speaker 1: for a Viking's touchdown, essentially game over. I mean, they
Speaker 1: just are also a team that cannot protect their quarterback
Speaker 1: right now. Thirteen sacks on Stafford over the past two weeks,
Speaker 1: ten of those last week obviously a total killer. And
Speaker 1: the one thing about the Bears, they haven't gone out
Speaker 1: and unfurled big wins over giant opponents that would thrill us.
Speaker 1: But they have stamped teams that are lesser than them,
Speaker 1: and I don't feel I feel like the one thing
Speaker 1: with their coaching staff, which is you never even know
Speaker 1: with a new coaching staff, we're gonna get They're not
Speaker 1: a letdown team. They didn't go into Buffalo and play
Speaker 1: a bad game. They hammered Buffalo, and they've beaten up
Speaker 1: on some of these teams that are lesser. So I
Speaker 1: trust the Bears to take care of business at home
Speaker 1: against Detroit. I've been calling the Bears a playoff team.
Speaker 1: There were one of the few teams to be leading
Speaker 1: in the second half of everything ingle game this year.
Speaker 1: Their three losses have come with a grand total of
Speaker 1: eleven points against good teams. And I want to get
Speaker 1: the lock out of the way this week because there
Speaker 1: are no good locks. So I'm locking the Bears. That's
Speaker 1: a great lock. I think I can barely look at
Speaker 1: myself in the mirror for this one, just because the
Speaker 1: way the lines are looking. They they aren't barely right.
Speaker 1: The Lions aren't. They're not good. They're passing games, not
Speaker 1: good enough to carry an entire team like they're They're
Speaker 1: a team that's been overrated maybe by us, by by everyone.
Speaker 1: If you look at their efficiency, they're down at d
Speaker 1: v o A because they have basically an average offense.
Speaker 1: You think of it as good, but it's basically average
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. They they've been pretty poor after
Speaker 1: Stafford had played great. And it's a bad defense, and
Speaker 1: in the special teams is bad enough that they got
Speaker 1: their coordinator fired. So it's a bad defense, bad special
Speaker 1: teams in a very mediocre offense. Where we on Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: What is his status? He's miss the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: practicing fully, as is Alan Robinson. They might have played
Speaker 1: this right the game that time. They got two wins
Speaker 1: while he was on the mat and if he could
Speaker 1: come back and be himself. They kind of nailed the
Speaker 1: timeline on that. And you've got the Lions, then the Vikings,
Speaker 1: then the Lions again. This is a chance for Chicago
Speaker 1: and we can see what Green Bay does still very
Speaker 1: much alive in that division. This is a chance for
Speaker 1: Chicago to put some of these teams away. They have
Speaker 1: been really consistent. You mentioned that that they've had a
Speaker 1: lead in the second half. Do you pretty much have
Speaker 1: known what you're getting from the Bears every week? And
Speaker 1: I think they want to build the offense a little
Speaker 1: more Alan Robinson, get him back into the mix. Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: I have a question like how big of a role
Speaker 1: is he going to have in the offense because he
Speaker 1: seems to be a very valuable the place he makes
Speaker 1: are very valuable, and I think he might have a
Speaker 1: bigger roll down the stretch. Feels like every broadcasting crew
Speaker 1: that does a Bears game comes away with the nugget
Speaker 1: that the Bears coaching staff really loves Anthony Miller. M
Speaker 1: uh and since west Locke did up. We are about
Speaker 1: halfway through the season, so a reminder of where we're
Speaker 1: at in the lock standings because there's a trophy and
Speaker 1: a pretty trophy on the line. Do we get a
Speaker 1: new trophy or what do we Yeah? Definitely, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I know where that's coming from. Is it gonna be
Speaker 1: like a belt or what? Are you working on this
Speaker 1: with behind the scenes and have a huge graphic team
Speaker 1: and uh, you know three D printers and printers. Are
Speaker 1: you kind of saying that you are annoyed that this
Speaker 1: is a task that's been given to you? Is that
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? I think just I think you guys
Speaker 1: deserve the best read between the lines. She wants a
Speaker 1: new trophy check in with stews would I'm struggling to
Speaker 1: read it. I don't understand anyway. Here we are West
Speaker 1: first place seven and two, but on a two game skid.
Speaker 1: Here the old Zeuser is on a five game winning
Speaker 1: streaks six and three, Mark five and four. Greg, you
Speaker 1: got the w last week to stay alive. You're kind
Speaker 1: of like the lines right now to win, I'm done.
Speaker 1: You need to win. You haven't killed this segment yet.
Speaker 1: I did that. I did that with I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to win it. Yeah, I won the picks a couple
Speaker 1: of times in a row, and then I killed those
Speaker 1: and that's my goal here. Did you kill the Fork
Speaker 1: committee too? That just died naturally? Again? Definitely asking me
Speaker 1: about the fork we forgot. I had a conversation about
Speaker 1: that for I love the Fork. I think there's a
Speaker 1: couple of segments include went, including one involving this year's Bears,
Speaker 1: that we need to look strongly at before we just
Speaker 1: automatically re engage. All right, let's move on. The Saints
Speaker 1: are seven and one and they've won seventh straight and
Speaker 1: they just beat the Rams. So what can you say
Speaker 1: about the Saints other than they are a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: favorite right now? Nice matchup here? They travel to face
Speaker 1: the Bengals, who get um, they had a bye week
Speaker 1: but that wasn't enough to get A J. Green healthy West,
Speaker 1: So that's a major problem because when the Cincinnati offense
Speaker 1: hasn't had a J. Green, uh they have struggled historically,
Speaker 1: and he's on the shelf with a foot injury. They
Speaker 1: have a chance to get Gio Bernard and John Rossbeck.
Speaker 1: They're both practicing this week, so that would alleviate some
Speaker 1: of A. J. Green's absence, But they don't have any
Speaker 1: other future Hall of famers on this on this offense,
Speaker 1: so that's a huge it's huge problem against an offense
Speaker 1: like the Saints that has an advantage over every other
Speaker 1: team in the league because they're playing with one more
Speaker 1: down than everyone else. Sean Payton has just decided to
Speaker 1: go for four downs, and why can you blame him?
Speaker 1: When your quarterback completes his passes, you have a mismatched
Speaker 1: nightmare at running back and your wide receiver is the
Speaker 1: most reliable positive outcome in football, and you got Ben
Speaker 1: Watson making plays for you. I mean, people are coming
Speaker 1: out of the woodworks. That's why I think the Des
Speaker 1: move makes sense because I can totally see Des just
Speaker 1: making some places. He only needs to be the fifth
Speaker 1: or six options. I think That is a huge advantage
Speaker 1: to know that you're as soon as you get to
Speaker 1: like your own forty yard line, you're going for it. Yep,
Speaker 1: yep it you and they are so loaded right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you throw in Dez and maybe he's got something to tech,
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't, but it's not a huge gamble either way.
Speaker 1: Mark Gegram a guy that went over total yards last year.
Speaker 1: He doesn't really have a defined role in this offense
Speaker 1: because Kamara is that good and he's kind of their
Speaker 1: goal line guy too. He's just like a total player,
Speaker 1: so they have depth in the backfield. It's the best
Speaker 1: offensive line in football. Scary, I mean, of course you're
Speaker 1: going for fourth thounds with that. This is the only
Speaker 1: matchup of the week with two winning teams, and I
Speaker 1: think a month ago we would have thought what a
Speaker 1: great matchup. The Bengals just feel a little off the radar,
Speaker 1: even though they're five and three coming off of by
Speaker 1: because the two weeks that we last saw them they
Speaker 1: were really handled by Pittsburgh. They were a little lucky
Speaker 1: to get out of Tampa Bay. But I haven't given
Speaker 1: up on the Well there, you've been killing them. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying there there They're deed to come out of
Speaker 1: the by looking different, and that's going to be hard
Speaker 1: to do. They're not a like like you can say
Speaker 1: so and so's a jag throw jack jack just a team.
Speaker 1: They're just they're they're they're you're in obsolating this nice
Speaker 1: little five and three record. I know, yardage allowed doesn't
Speaker 1: mean anything. They are, by that definition, the worst defense
Speaker 1: in NFL. What they give up big explosive plays and
Speaker 1: they're playing about the worst matchup in terms of an
Speaker 1: offensive with Job getting after Drew Brees, getting pressure on
Speaker 1: him with blitz. Is you you wonder, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a similar ish type of defense and in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: whether they come after him. This is another underrated attrition team.
Speaker 1: They lost Carl Lawson for the season with a torn a,
Speaker 1: c l Vonte's, Berfect, darks Denard Nick Vigil have all
Speaker 1: been out. That's three starters out of their lineup. And
Speaker 1: we don't talk about the Bengals that way, but they're playing.
Speaker 1: You know, they're playing at less than full strength for
Speaker 1: a while now. By the way, everyone talking up Drew
Speaker 1: Brees as they should possible m V peek in it.
Speaker 1: There's like a thing moving now. Uh popular consensus that
Speaker 1: have we been underrating Drew Brees this whole time? Is
Speaker 1: he better than Peyton Manning? Seen this popping up where
Speaker 1: Breeze comes in historic and I think that's such recency bias,
Speaker 1: Like they were in the same league at the time
Speaker 1: for most of Breeze's career and at no point was
Speaker 1: Drew Brees consistently better than pay Man. Stop him. He
Speaker 1: is at nice age, nice like Manning. Manning faded out
Speaker 1: at an earlier age. But it's just the matter of
Speaker 1: that Manning is not in the league. Sure, and Drew
Speaker 1: Brees great, it's just not that great. Can we block
Speaker 1: people for these things? Isn't that what you've been doing
Speaker 1: the entire Okay, don't bring that trash onto my timeline.
Speaker 1: Let's move on. The Atlanta Falcons are four and four
Speaker 1: back from the dead. It wasn't long ago, four weeks
Speaker 1: in fact, that they were one and four three ws
Speaker 1: their bye week in the mix there, and now they're
Speaker 1: heading to Cleveland to face the Browns. The Browns haven't
Speaker 1: won a game and over a month, uh so they
Speaker 1: are obviously looking to get a w there. It would
Speaker 1: be their first under Greg Williams, the interim coach. Greg
Speaker 1: Here's Matt Ryan and Julio Jones. Julio got off the
Speaker 1: snide and otherwise has been as productive as ever versus
Speaker 1: a Brown's defense that's been up and down, mostly down lately.
Speaker 1: I mean the the prairie lands of space that the
Speaker 1: Chiefs had to run through after the catch. It's Greg Williams.
Speaker 1: You get aggressive and then you get too aggressive, and
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan is so sharp right now, and all of
Speaker 1: those guys are so good after the catch. They've built
Speaker 1: a team where a lot of those yards that Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan getting are just Tevin Coleman running after the catch
Speaker 1: or Taylor Gabriel. I mean not Taylor Gabriel, Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: running after the catch. Certainly SNeW Julio. It's just a
Speaker 1: team full of guys who can always make a play
Speaker 1: on a third and eight where you throw at five
Speaker 1: yards short of the sticks and they just make a
Speaker 1: play for you. Watching them absolutely destroy Washington secondary an
Speaker 1: entire defense last week, I I looked at this matchup
Speaker 1: and thought Cleveland has done just for the reason you mentioned,
Speaker 1: because what Kareem hunted last week is exactly what Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman can do to them again. They don't have Christian Kirksey.
Speaker 1: They lost their down in the secondary. They've got injuries.
Speaker 1: Jake Gaines is on ir They're starting to lose people.
Speaker 1: I just and and they're going to I know that
Speaker 1: Bruce Irvin did not play well down the stretch in
Speaker 1: Oakland and had issues there. But they actually have a
Speaker 1: line of the pass rushers that they plan to put
Speaker 1: them all out to the time about using this like
Speaker 1: New York Giants esque NASCAR package where the blow everyone
Speaker 1: up and the Browns have one of the worst left
Speaker 1: tackles right now in football. It's not a good formula.
Speaker 1: So people love the NASCAR package. It's just like that's
Speaker 1: a good brand for some reason. Like I don't get
Speaker 1: the ref because I'm so out of the loop on Nascar,
Speaker 1: But just what a bunch of guys racing towards the
Speaker 1: racing towards the quarterback. And this team plays in the South. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean it works down there, it works down It's fine.
Speaker 1: That's Los Angeles they call the Giants. I love seeing
Speaker 1: all these offenses running. Greg Williams Peters, you wanna blitz,
Speaker 1: you wanna bring pressure screen passes, end a rounds, reverses,
Speaker 1: jet sweeps, keep bringing your pressure. Greg Williams well in
Speaker 1: the in the Browns left tackle situation is so bad
Speaker 1: that it's it's hamstringing Baker Mayfield's ability to operate, and
Speaker 1: it's I don't know if it's ironic, but it's almost
Speaker 1: like it's almost became too predictable. That was the that
Speaker 1: was the storyline all offseason, Who's gonna replace Joe Thomas
Speaker 1: And it's totally sinking their offense. One thing I want
Speaker 1: to watch from Baker Mayfield. You don't have to throw
Speaker 1: every pass as hard as you can. I'd like to
Speaker 1: see a little more like sometimes he can. There was
Speaker 1: a touch pass the Duke Johnson he threw that was
Speaker 1: nice um, But a lot of times he just winding
Speaker 1: up and throwing it through his receivers, And sure, sometimes
Speaker 1: you need to do that, but not all the time.
Speaker 1: I don't think his group of receivers are helping him
Speaker 1: a lot. In general. Totally agree, but I thought the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks he's played some of his better football,
Speaker 1: but it gets lost in all the disaster that's happening
Speaker 1: on the defense. I think Baker may feel because I
Speaker 1: like him a lot. Is because they have not been winning. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they've lost five of six. I think he's due to
Speaker 1: have like a big Baker Mayfield game where it's like,
Speaker 1: reminds everybody again, this guy is the guy, and I
Speaker 1: could see it happening at home against the Falcons. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm just too in on the
Speaker 1: Falcons right now and they're playing well, and Mark, this
Speaker 1: isn't personal, but I'm gonna lock up the Falcons the
Speaker 1: dirty Birds. I did not take a person. The dirty
Speaker 1: Birds are gonna dance. Let's see a shoot out here.
Speaker 1: I almost went down the for the fourth time locking
Speaker 1: up the Browns, but I entired of doing things that
Speaker 1: are just basically stupid. Right they playing and they're playing
Speaker 1: a team that's just better than that people for four
Speaker 1: and four last year. And I give the Browns fans
Speaker 1: that really stuck out to me last week so much credit. Like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe how loud the Browns crowd was for
Speaker 1: that Chiefs game, even when they're down in the first
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, I'm just I was just like imagining,
Speaker 1: imagine if the Patriots were as bad as the Browns
Speaker 1: were for half as long as the Browns were and
Speaker 1: it's a week nine game and your two and six,
Speaker 1: even with Baker in number one overall graft picks like
Speaker 1: that place would be silent. People would be miserable and depressed.
Speaker 1: And the Browns fans like it seems like they're in
Speaker 1: the playoff race. Though it's what's wrong with these people? Delusion?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give them credit, but it's also almost
Speaker 1: like crazy. I think it's it's Baker Mayfield because in
Speaker 1: past years it would have been like Brandon Weeden or
Speaker 1: some other total jabroni out there, and you do not
Speaker 1: go that game. The Jacksonville Jaguars coming off there by. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: if you're a Jacks Van or Tom Coughlin or Doug Moron,
Speaker 1: you think, oh, this gave us a chance to clear
Speaker 1: our heads, because they are in a free fall at
Speaker 1: four straight losses, five out of six. They're three and five,
Speaker 1: just like the lines. Three and five is a very
Speaker 1: dangerous place to be because you almost need that w
Speaker 1: or you are effectively buried. And now they got to
Speaker 1: go to India to face the Colts team also coming
Speaker 1: off thereby, but playing very well right now, Mark, especially
Speaker 1: on offense, so you got a resurge and Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: against the Jags defense that has not been answering the
Speaker 1: call this year. Yeah, it's usually I feel like it's
Speaker 1: the Bengals that usually um win this award with me
Speaker 1: early in the season, like right around now, But it
Speaker 1: is the Jaguars who I need out of my life.
Speaker 1: And I find myself openly rooting for the Cults, not
Speaker 1: just this week, but in general. They're fun to watch
Speaker 1: after all the shenanigans of having to write about Andrew
Speaker 1: lux shoulder and injuries and what will happen in the
Speaker 1: way they had to deal with that from a pr
Speaker 1: angle last you're it's just a better league. One of
Speaker 1: the big reasons this season is better is because we
Speaker 1: have Andrew Luck back in our life doing Andrew Luck things.
Speaker 1: And I really love the way that they've been able
Speaker 1: to run the ball the last couple of weeks after
Speaker 1: being so imbalanced for so long. And I finally think
Speaker 1: with the Cults that they backed into and it's funny
Speaker 1: how these things work out. In Frank Reich, the best
Speaker 1: coach in this division and someone that will absolutely maximize
Speaker 1: look at like what they're doing with guys. We've never
Speaker 1: heard of before. And I would like to see them
Speaker 1: drop a hammer on the Jaguars at home, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna and I'm gonna lock it up. I like it
Speaker 1: it is. That's funny. You bring that up too hard
Speaker 1: because Reich, everyone right now is on the Reich train
Speaker 1: and and thinks he's a great pick. I know you
Speaker 1: said uh, and you kind of came around on it
Speaker 1: a little bit, but you had said that you were
Speaker 1: okay with Hugh staying in the roles head coach because
Speaker 1: nobody would have coached the Browns. But like, you never
Speaker 1: know if there's a Frank right guy that's ready to
Speaker 1: step into the job, and it has just been waiting
Speaker 1: for the opportunity. And that's how the lucked out more
Speaker 1: the cults get lucky. Let's be honest with you. You You
Speaker 1: look into Peyton Manning, you look into Andrew luck and
Speaker 1: now you might have to a franchise and they had
Speaker 1: to leave in the middle of the night to a
Speaker 1: franchise at eight four. And now you might have a
Speaker 1: head coach that you compare with your second franchise quarterback
Speaker 1: in in twenty years. In Frank Reich, you mentioned shoulder
Speaker 1: shenaniganst the Shananigans are coming from the other team this year.
Speaker 1: I mean that things are going on in this locker room.
Speaker 1: And then this week reporters asked A. J. Boullier some
Speaker 1: questions and he says, I don't have to answer them
Speaker 1: because I'm not playing this week. He's he missed the
Speaker 1: last game with an injury, and Doug Maron said, that's
Speaker 1: news to me. You guys are breaking news to me.
Speaker 1: That's not what the trainers are telling me. This was
Speaker 1: a team that was talking a lot, feeling themselves, and
Speaker 1: when that starts going poorly, it's interesting to see how
Speaker 1: how they were spinning. I'm surprised, Dan, because this is
Speaker 1: usually on your radar that you didn't recognize what kind
Speaker 1: of game this is. Oh, this is a wounded Doug
Speaker 1: him too, maybe, but I games bye bye. You're out
Speaker 1: of the ANC South Sorry, yeah, out of the wild
Speaker 1: card too. I got a feeling though, even if the
Speaker 1: Cults lose, West is gonna be pound on the table,
Speaker 1: but they could still make a run. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to see. When you were talking, I doe you
Speaker 1: think I've won seven or they're the team of West
Speaker 1: well Mark When Mark was saying how he enjoys watching
Speaker 1: that if we had done like the first year we
Speaker 1: did the team around the NFL, we just kind of
Speaker 1: happened during the season. I think if we had naturally
Speaker 1: just waited, the Cults seem like the closest thing we
Speaker 1: have to an agreement. I think, at least I don't
Speaker 1: know if Dan cares about the culture now. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: in my top like the Jets. Yeah, so you're never
Speaker 1: gonna get right. I'm saying we were kind of on
Speaker 1: the same right because I think for the two of us, well,
Speaker 1: Greg also has a favorite team I forget about sometimes,
Speaker 1: but three of us favorites. Three of us like like
Speaker 1: one team like the Cults. I still enjoy watching on
Speaker 1: game pass that just don't and Bes Bears are fine too.
Speaker 1: Two quick things we haven't mentioned. Leonard for Nett is
Speaker 1: expected to be back in this game, and it's funny.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a big well Carlos I did
Speaker 1: last when we last saw the Jaguars. They could be
Speaker 1: both a big deal and who cares? Because what has
Speaker 1: he done really right? The Cults. It's amazing that with
Speaker 1: Nahim Heinz and uh and Mac that the Colts have
Speaker 1: the tougher, you know, better running game, and then on
Speaker 1: there's five yards defensive Rookie of the month and Quentin Nelson.
Speaker 1: You never see that happen for a guard and I
Speaker 1: know was the Raiders and they the Raiders are absolute junk,
Speaker 1: just coming out of a hundred miles an hour. But
Speaker 1: the Cults in that game when they hammered Oakland put
Speaker 1: together these eleven and thirteen played drives. They're just able
Speaker 1: to do so much. Right now, I know it's this
Speaker 1: isn't fantasy football, but what at the Jaguars pick up
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford. Why not? This is Blake got a bone
Speaker 1: on bone condition and apparently had not been even practicing.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was not healthy. We've been going
Speaker 1: through a lot of Blake Bordles and Jackson like this
Speaker 1: has been a five year topic on this, but this
Speaker 1: really is coming off the by like his stretch run.
Speaker 1: He needs to go on a run or not. This
Speaker 1: feels like the end. And you know, you never know
Speaker 1: that if they could get to ten wins, I bet
Speaker 1: they'd bring him back again. No, nor his contract is
Speaker 1: hard to cut. I mean you have to bring someone
Speaker 1: else in that you'd be very comfortable starting over him.
Speaker 1: That's always be a major shift in philosophy for them. Right.
Speaker 1: The best running gag, at least for a sports fan
Speaker 1: on the good Place the NBC comedy is Blake Bortles.
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles references if he ever loses his job or
Speaker 1: gets shipped out of Jacksonville, that would make that show
Speaker 1: much less. So I'm a little bit conflicted. It would
Speaker 1: take away from the show. I think it's if you're
Speaker 1: going to if you're gonna attach your comedy vehicle to
Speaker 1: a player on a team, a struggling player on a team,
Speaker 1: that might move him at some point. A bit risky, Yes,
Speaker 1: his his crappiness is basically the joke. But well that
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Speaker 1: let's move on the Arizona Cardinals. Uh, they're coming off
Speaker 1: a bye, they got that comeback win, they're coming off
Speaker 1: a nine week by Well see you say that, but
Speaker 1: then you forget what happened in the fourth quarter against
Speaker 1: the Niners when when Josh Rosen under Byron Leftwich, the
Speaker 1: genius offensive coordinator of the team. Uh, they put up
Speaker 1: two touchdowns a two point conversion, They win eighteen fifty
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, there's a sliver of optimism
Speaker 1: in the desert this year. Well, here's the reward. They
Speaker 1: go to Kansas City barrow ahead to face the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: who are rolling. Uh, here is a rundown of their
Speaker 1: points scored so far the season. Thirty thirty, thirty and
Speaker 1: thirty seven. My goodness, West, this could get ugly. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: They They also stumbled on a new weapon last week.
Speaker 1: They just decided, out of nowhere, we're gonna start to
Speaker 1: showcase Spencer wear again. And they had plays designed specifically
Speaker 1: to get the ball in Spencer wears hands in space,
Speaker 1: five or six plays like that, and I think he
Speaker 1: had about ninety yards in the game. So just when
Speaker 1: you thought they only have like five pick your poisons
Speaker 1: on this team, now it's another one. It's like an
Speaker 1: all star team. And they haven't slowed down. You know.
Speaker 1: That's the most impressive thing about them is they've stayed
Speaker 1: at this exact high level the whole time. And so
Speaker 1: now that we're halfway through the season, now you have
Speaker 1: to start thinking, well, they have a chance to go
Speaker 1: down as one of the defining offenses ever to be
Speaker 1: with the Rams. Oh seven Patriots, I put eighteen Saints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I even put some of those like Broncos teams with Manning,
Speaker 1: but certainly I would put the Chiefs even at another
Speaker 1: level than the two thousand. I just had a vision
Speaker 1: like it. Clearly. It just came into my mind of
Speaker 1: us being a media night, which you know, I hate
Speaker 1: to tell you guys that's coming. But Andy Reid is
Speaker 1: at the podium and he's the story of Super Bowl Week.
Speaker 1: Andy Reid finally getting over the hump. He should be
Speaker 1: the story. It would be a great and it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I want the Patriots to be there. But to your point,
Speaker 1: Football Outsiders right now has them as a third and
Speaker 1: I know it's just the number thirty chance to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, which is really high. The Rams are
Speaker 1: at twenty. No one else is even above ten. So
Speaker 1: they have the Chiefs as the prohibitive best team in
Speaker 1: the league and the prohibitive best chances because the a
Speaker 1: f C is a little weaker. The only thing that
Speaker 1: would be a down to that Super Bowl scenario, Dan,
Speaker 1: is that we would not have the chance of seeing
Speaker 1: essentially like a Pro Bowl team with nine to ten
Speaker 1: Chiefs on it beating up an NFC team of all stars,
Speaker 1: which I guess you could live without. I just would
Speaker 1: like to see that, Like if you you do a
Speaker 1: pro you can get a Pro Bowl team. There's me
Speaker 1: so many Kansas City Chiefs in the Pro Bowl if
Speaker 1: they didn't make the Super Bowl, that you could essentially
Speaker 1: have like the Chief's offense verse a bunch of NFC stars.
Speaker 1: But the Super Bowl probably is what the Chiefs fans
Speaker 1: would still a little more. I'm just gonna Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: The way the Pro Bowl works is made up of
Speaker 1: star players. And so if you had the entire Chiefs
Speaker 1: roster on on the a f C side on offense
Speaker 1: playing in NFC defense, did that click? That's why that
Speaker 1: you could put. I know what you're saying at the beginning,
Speaker 1: and you're saying what I'm essentially you're saying, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: will be in the super Bowl, so all those players
Speaker 1: are ineligible for the Pro Bowl. And then the end
Speaker 1: though there's something about that they would be that they
Speaker 1: would be playing, there would be so many cheas the
Speaker 1: a f C Pro Bowl team would have, Like they
Speaker 1: don't go to the Super Bowl, right, would have like
Speaker 1: ten or eleven Chiefs on the field at once, destroying
Speaker 1: an NFC team of all I want to see that.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite part of the show. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: It's the worst game of the week. It's the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills two and seven, uh, losers of four straight. Since
Speaker 1: I just said that the score totals of the best
Speaker 1: offense in football? How about the worst three twenty? How
Speaker 1: that happened? Zero five, six nine. And now they travel
Speaker 1: to the Meadowlands to face the Jets, a team that
Speaker 1: hasn't been too hot itself on offense, not quite at
Speaker 1: Bills levels of an aptitude, but not good at all.
Speaker 1: And it's a Jets team that will turn to Josh
Speaker 1: McCown there, thirty nine year old backup because Sam Donald's
Speaker 1: gonna miss time with a sprained foot. So here we go, Greg,
Speaker 1: sell it, Sell it, baby, now you work. Not even
Speaker 1: the worst game of the week because no one has
Speaker 1: to watch this one except for you and Bills fans.
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football has Giants, not even Jets fans watch.
Speaker 1: It will just be a million Bills fans you. I
Speaker 1: found it interesting that there's a chance Sam Donald might
Speaker 1: be the backup to this game, which definitely lends some
Speaker 1: credence to the thought that maybe they're just giving them
Speaker 1: a little with that on Twitter right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's I don't think I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: huge story to me either way. If he's a little
Speaker 1: banged up and they want to give him a break mentally,
Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense to me, and that's fine.
Speaker 1: But then you're saying that they they they got him
Speaker 1: and everyone else to play along with putting a walking
Speaker 1: boot on his foot like that. He's obviously injured. He's
Speaker 1: obviously injured, and why pushed through it? But if if
Speaker 1: you're active, if you're good enough to be active for
Speaker 1: the game, most starting quarterback backs, you know, if it's
Speaker 1: three not three and they're in the heat of the races,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald playing, we have no idea. They really missed
Speaker 1: Billy Powell, which is sort of a sad statement on
Speaker 1: their offensive general, but they really missed. But I think
Speaker 1: there is one fascinating subplot to this game, and is
Speaker 1: is the Jets center going to for the second game
Speaker 1: a row beyond psilocybin when kickoff hits? What was going
Speaker 1: on with that guy last week? The Jets center? I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many tabs of LSD went into his
Speaker 1: body before I feel bad because I've she heard him
Speaker 1: in interviews and he seems like a super nice say
Speaker 1: and was like really, like, I know my responsibility for
Speaker 1: this team, and I no one wants to do this
Speaker 1: more than me. But he has this finger issue and
Speaker 1: it's also a mental issue, and Todd Bowls or whatever
Speaker 1: is in the backup must be so bad Jonathan Harrison
Speaker 1: that he doesn't he doesn't want to turn it over.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just it tells you a lot about
Speaker 1: the depth of the Jets and how bad the roster is.
Speaker 1: Uh that they have these type of problems because if
Speaker 1: you watched that game last week, Donald, some of those mistakes.
Speaker 1: Not to take heat off Donald, he got thrown out
Speaker 1: of whack immediately because he's jumping to catch a snap
Speaker 1: and reaching down at his shins to catch a snap
Speaker 1: and until it messed up his flow. But anyway, I've
Speaker 1: embraced the challenge of coming up with a few positive
Speaker 1: takeaways for the Jets every week because they have about
Speaker 1: the bills they have reclaimed they're rightful place as my
Speaker 1: least favorite team to watch, which has been going on
Speaker 1: for like six years now. Um imagine how I feel.
Speaker 1: Buddy Quincy and Noona and Mal adams effort level was
Speaker 1: astonishing last week and Noon while out there plane injured,
Speaker 1: diving for balls, laying out carrying tackle. Jamal Adams is
Speaker 1: like twenty three years old, and you can already tell
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the leader on that defense for the
Speaker 1: next decade because he cares so damn much and he
Speaker 1: lays it all on the line. I love watching those
Speaker 1: two guys play. I mean, noon one would be a
Speaker 1: guy that would if he was surrounded by like a
Speaker 1: championship team, you know, he would like go down in
Speaker 1: a ring of honor as like the glue guy who
Speaker 1: made the difference, but instead they rounded And maybe he
Speaker 1: will anyway, four years, five years about get the credit? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he'll get the credit. He Let's move on the Redskins.
Speaker 1: They are in first place in the NFC East, but
Speaker 1: as West has pointed out, injuries they've been devastated, especially
Speaker 1: along their offensive line, which is a major leage problematic
Speaker 1: because Adrian Peterson has been the lifeblood of their offense
Speaker 1: and now they have a bunch of you know, Hammon
Speaker 1: aggers in the place of the starters in the interior
Speaker 1: your line. Uh, and now they travel to Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Uh to face a Bucks team that is three and five,
Speaker 1: but they do have that fits magic cooking Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Yeah, I want to see how
Speaker 1: the Redskins will respond to I mean last week's sort
Speaker 1: of ultra apocalypse in terms of injuries, but also just
Speaker 1: the way that that defense totally was man handled by
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Because yes, you just said it. With the Bucks,
Speaker 1: they're messy, but they've scored twenty six or more points
Speaker 1: in all but one game this year. They are powerful
Speaker 1: on offense, and they're facing and I don't know how
Speaker 1: the Redskins can keep up basically, and the Redskins, to me,
Speaker 1: with the one thing that's tough is hard their passing game.
Speaker 1: And the one thing from our research notes that I
Speaker 1: thought it put this out there in a good example
Speaker 1: was that Ryan Fitzpatrick leads the NFL with nine points
Speaker 1: seven yards pert tempt and you see that the way
Speaker 1: that they play, how daring he is. He'll take shots
Speaker 1: down field. That doesn't always work out, but it often does.
Speaker 1: Alex Smith at six point seven yards pretend the fifth
Speaker 1: lowest league wide, and when you watch the Redskins offense,
Speaker 1: you can see that too, and I just wonder if
Speaker 1: the Bucks at home, this is gonna be a hideous
Speaker 1: uniform matchup. Let's not get that it is going to
Speaker 1: be hard on the eyes. But if they get out
Speaker 1: and they get kind of on fire, because the Bucks
Speaker 1: at this point of just go for it, why not
Speaker 1: this could be a rough one for the Redskins. I
Speaker 1: had a listener, a reader suggest that if you're in
Speaker 1: field goal position in this game and you're the Bux,
Speaker 1: just like kick a field goal on first or second
Speaker 1: down and take the lead. Because there's been no lead
Speaker 1: changes in any Redskins game all season. To me, is
Speaker 1: the craziest stat in the NFL. And you know what,
Speaker 1: our research team looked it up. This is a tough
Speaker 1: one to do. They are the fourth team since nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy not to have zero lead changes through eight games.
Speaker 1: No one's ever made it through ten weeks. So now
Speaker 1: I've got, if nothing else, I'm rooting for that for
Speaker 1: the next two weeks. It's insane that that they haven't
Speaker 1: come from behind or given up anything. Does it have
Speaker 1: the teams and their records, I would I would think
Speaker 1: what makes us even crazier is that maybe if you're
Speaker 1: a really really bad team. You got beat and he
Speaker 1: fell behind every single game, and maybe you want a
Speaker 1: game or two where you jumped out ahead. But the
Speaker 1: Redskins are five and three game team that's kind of
Speaker 1: hangs every week. They're close to their competition where they
Speaker 1: bad teams. Well, they've they have one games very easily
Speaker 1: and they've like they in lost games in a blood.
Speaker 1: That's the thing, is like they're a five and three
Speaker 1: team who has three really bad losses where they were
Speaker 1: more or less. Man the other teams, though, were they bad.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure that. I thought they had it well.
Speaker 1: The Redskins did pick the right opponent. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be an injured, decimated mess, at least go
Speaker 1: up against an attrocian defense that can't tackle. And the
Speaker 1: Bucks tackling performance last week was just, I mean a bomb.
Speaker 1: It's why I think they're GM is all. Jason light
Speaker 1: is probably gonna get swept out if they don't rally too,
Speaker 1: because man, they spent a lot of money the last
Speaker 1: two offseasons. Vinny Curry has kind of been a bus
Speaker 1: for them. They took Vita Vea over Derwin James when
Speaker 1: they had a crying need at safety and like just
Speaker 1: the money they've spent on defense and turned them into
Speaker 1: one of the worst defensive If you sleep at cutter Light,
Speaker 1: you almost got to sleep at Winston too, right, and
Speaker 1: just do a fresh well, don't. I mean in theory,
Speaker 1: the next coach maybe might want him, but you never
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to lose Todd Monkin. I mean that
Speaker 1: happens though, when you sweep everyone out, he might go.
Speaker 1: He might want to get out of there. But I mean, GMS,
Speaker 1: how many times to GM's have a chance to hire
Speaker 1: second and third coaches and maybe pick a second quarterback
Speaker 1: special unusual? Yeah, especially when they're not They're not winning,
Speaker 1: by the way, right, I'm worried about Ryan Fitzpatrick. He
Speaker 1: takes more like vicious hits than any quarterback in the league,
Speaker 1: and it just seems like it's a matter of time.
Speaker 1: He always gets used to be a really good scrambler,
Speaker 1: and he has lost about four steps. He can't scramble anymore. Uh,
Speaker 1: you can still sling it though. Let's move on. Oh,
Speaker 1: on the throne of ease. Everything is feeling good. Six
Speaker 1: straight wins, just be the Packers and another primetime home
Speaker 1: game without Gronk. That was a nice win, nice dub
Speaker 1: and I just want to before we get into this
Speaker 1: game against New England South the Tytoons, I just want
Speaker 1: to congratulate everyone and thank everyone for realizing this year.
Speaker 1: It felt the first time when New England had their
Speaker 1: slow September. For once, it didn't feel like everybody was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is it, but the Patriots aren't that good this year.
Speaker 1: I think everybody was just like Aaron Rodgers style, like
Speaker 1: we're not buying in. We've seen the monthly splits of
Speaker 1: this team for twenty years now, and I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody is surprised at all by these wins. And uh,
Speaker 1: I I fully fully expect them to continue winning and
Speaker 1: end up at twelve or thirteen again. Uh They're going
Speaker 1: to Tennessee in this game west to face Titans, who
Speaker 1: just they're coming off their biggest win of the year
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football, or at least they're most impressive
Speaker 1: on some level. Your thoughts, I'm still triggering. I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out Marcus Mariota, and that puts me
Speaker 1: probably in the same bucket as all the coaches who
Speaker 1: have had Marcus Mariota because here's the pickle buckets pickles,
Speaker 1: when give me that pickle. In order to be devil
Speaker 1: opposing defenses, he has to run. He has to use
Speaker 1: his legs. But he's not Cam Newton and he gets
Speaker 1: injured all the time when he runs. So how do
Speaker 1: you use him at his best and keep him healthy?
Speaker 1: Look at the Chiefs playoff win last year, the game
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. This year, the game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: He's using his legs and that's when the Titans offense
Speaker 1: is at its best. When on third downs, Marcus Mariota
Speaker 1: is a threat to run because their passing game on
Speaker 1: third downs has been one of the worst. I don't
Speaker 1: think he has the same feel of throwing when he's
Speaker 1: running like so that's part. That's part of it is
Speaker 1: that when he starts to run, it's like he's running.
Speaker 1: He has not shown himself to be great throwing necessarily improvised,
Speaker 1: like outside the pocket, like a Russell Wilson guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: by the way Eric will be at the scheme, maybe
Speaker 1: we can get her thoughts during the Sunday night show.
Speaker 1: I'm sure she'll be sober, ready to share her thoughts
Speaker 1: in a clear manner. Should be interesting. We're doing in
Speaker 1: Nashville in the middle of the season. I'm going to
Speaker 1: a bachelorette party too, and we're going to go to
Speaker 1: the Pats game versus the Titans, and that the party
Speaker 1: is well, We're going to Nashville for the weekend and
Speaker 1: then news one Belichick's favorite cities. Yeah, I'd love to
Speaker 1: go to Nashville in the middle of the season and party. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got a recommendation for you. Yeah, yeah, go to
Speaker 1: I believe it's called East Nasty. East. She already was
Speaker 1: going there. Biscuit Love is the name of the restaurant.
Speaker 1: Get Get This Nasty anywhere tam Posey goes as East Nasty.
Speaker 1: Oh dam tweels anyway, that sounds fun. Hey, One on
Speaker 1: one takeaway I had from the Titans performance against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: which again was a very good win, nice win, but
Speaker 1: I don't know how to stay in bullet is to
Speaker 1: convert like fifteen third and six is in a game,
Speaker 1: and it was impressive. But rich to Meni of ESPN
Speaker 1: had had a good line about the Jets, and I'll
Speaker 1: kind of use here. Sometimes it feels like the Titans
Speaker 1: are on a one twenty yard field on a ten
Speaker 1: degree incline. Yes, And it's just like so hard for
Speaker 1: them to matriculated. I mean, a scoring drive has to
Speaker 1: be fifteen plays and nine minutes because there's just no
Speaker 1: explosive element to the offense. That's absolutely true. And that
Speaker 1: and they're playing a defense which is great at preventing
Speaker 1: big plays. Like the Patriots defense is significantly better this
Speaker 1: year than it was a year ago. It's taken a
Speaker 1: little while for it to get going, but Stefan Gilmour
Speaker 1: is playing as well as any cornerback in the league
Speaker 1: right now. There's definitely I mean, it's it's been the
Speaker 1: story this week, but because they're going up against Malcolm Butler,
Speaker 1: and I kind of want to like, I'm recognizing the
Speaker 1: Patriots fans enjoying Malcolm Butler struggling a little too much.
Speaker 1: And I saw that in myself too about a month ago,
Speaker 1: and when I looked in the mirror, I didn't like
Speaker 1: what I saw. So I'm trying to put that past.
Speaker 1: Gave you a I get it, I was a hero.
Speaker 1: Let's not let's not enjoy. Let's not just like enjoy that.
Speaker 1: I'm warning people now if you tweet me that Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick was right to bench Malcolm Butler because of how
Speaker 1: he's playing with the Tennessee Titans. You will be blocked.
Speaker 1: It has nothing you let me. I'll block them too
Speaker 1: of knowledge and understanding of the sport. I know, thank you.
Speaker 1: I've already gotten about six of those tweets about you
Speaker 1: gonna block up tight, don't I know? I allow West
Speaker 1: to block for both of us. I almost just don't
Speaker 1: really even look at any of the stuff coming in anymore.
Speaker 1: I need to adopt it. And Brady was okay on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. You guys have been kind of it's he's
Speaker 1: been on your radar a little bit. I will say
Speaker 1: they're averaging thirty points a game for the past six
Speaker 1: speeds the NFL, by the way, since exactly Dan's point
Speaker 1: the first month, since the first month, and have had
Speaker 1: no continuity in terms of who's out there in any
Speaker 1: of the positions. Really, it's a totally different group now
Speaker 1: than it was earlier. You might get Grunk back this week.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you will get Sony Michelle back. Rex
Speaker 1: Burkehead is practicing again and it can come off in
Speaker 1: a few weeks. So I think that's that's trending up.
Speaker 1: If they're healthy I may have been playing that up
Speaker 1: a little bit for the lock last week. It's not
Speaker 1: like Brady's been terrible, He's just missed a lot of
Speaker 1: throws this year. But scientists locks that was like, I'm
Speaker 1: surprised that it hasn't been on your radar because he's
Speaker 1: been missing so many times, Like he has missed a
Speaker 1: lot of throwing. He had set such a ridiculous level
Speaker 1: the last two years that instead of being the best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league, like maybe he's you know, the
Speaker 1: tenth so far and they'll probably get better. And um
Speaker 1: I talked. I had this as one of the a
Speaker 1: t and Debate club questions And if you're not watching
Speaker 1: the Tuesday Show, what's taking you so long? Go check
Speaker 1: it out because we did a nice debate segment where
Speaker 1: the Western Sets Moving Company and the Hot Boys, which
Speaker 1: is Reggie Bush and Greg Rosenthal, squared off in a
Speaker 1: debate I moderated and judged. And one of the questions
Speaker 1: I had I posed, or one of the debate topics
Speaker 1: was should Rob Gronkowski come back as soon as he's
Speaker 1: able or should they take it easy? And I did
Speaker 1: kind of an extreme by saying wait until the playoffs,
Speaker 1: But I honestly think the Patriots are gonna win twelve games,
Speaker 1: regardless of weather, grons on the field. I would not
Speaker 1: rush this man back. I would wait until that back
Speaker 1: is feeling good, not just okay. But we'll see what
Speaker 1: they do or how he looks when he does return.
Speaker 1: Becau said, they're not going to arrest him. Let's move
Speaker 1: on Los Angeles Chargers. Here we go six and two.
Speaker 1: They have not lost Gentleman's in September. Uh, so they
Speaker 1: are in a five game winning streak and they have
Speaker 1: a cookie coming up uh in the Oakland Raiders, So
Speaker 1: they go to the black hole. So, Greg, if you
Speaker 1: want to make a case, maybe being on the road
Speaker 1: could spook the Charges. That has historically given them trouble
Speaker 1: this time of year. Uh, some road matchups, but not
Speaker 1: The Raiders are just trash. How about you know, you
Speaker 1: throw the records away when you're in the division. Yeah
Speaker 1: about that? You throw the records away when you're in
Speaker 1: the division. Are you just throwing this entire Raiders season
Speaker 1: a way? The record book? That do you throw the
Speaker 1: record books out? Sometimes? Let's start the rest of the Raiders.
Speaker 1: You know, Well, the Raiders are trying to throw their
Speaker 1: season away. This is as close to tanking as as
Speaker 1: we've seen. It wasn't I don't think it was the intent.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was the plan coming in. But
Speaker 1: at this stage they're essentially tanking. They've tanked. I saw
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers tank to get Jamis Winston, so don't tell
Speaker 1: me this is clo. But that was a one week
Speaker 1: They got the number one pick, which is it comes
Speaker 1: us this man. The Eagles offered after roster for that
Speaker 1: pick and Buccaneers turned it down. It's it's because the
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins storyline was so unexpected and really such a
Speaker 1: nice surprise in a game that no one cared about.
Speaker 1: It's you. What you lose is what a trash bag
Speaker 1: effort that was by the Raiders. That is as embarrassing
Speaker 1: a loss as you could cook up, even in your imagination.
Speaker 1: A player that had essentially never taken a snap comes
Speaker 1: in and scorched scorches you from wire to wire the
Speaker 1: first play the game. I mean, nobody cares about fantasy teams,
Speaker 1: but I started the Raiders defense last week. A lot
Speaker 1: of people did that because they I even consulted with Gregg,
Speaker 1: the former Road a World guy, and you were like,
Speaker 1: it makes some sense. Uh, and you know what, as
Speaker 1: soon as the first quarter started, he completed like a
Speaker 1: nine yard pass and he looked comfortable. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this was a horrible decision and it sucked because everything
Speaker 1: Nick Moulins was a feel good story. And I spent
Speaker 1: the whole game just hating the guy because how is
Speaker 1: this guy looking like Montana? And then I realized the
Speaker 1: Raiders aren't trying. Don't go near the Raiders. It was
Speaker 1: more embarrassing, I think, to see the Raiders score three
Speaker 1: points on one of the worst defenses in the league, though.
Speaker 1: I mean, you had Derek Carr out there, who is
Speaker 1: running into hits. I mean he certainly has not had
Speaker 1: great protection, but in that in that in that game especially,
Speaker 1: and they did point out on the telecast like he's
Speaker 1: had protection and then he kind of runs to where
Speaker 1: where there's pressure and he goes down. Well, it's probably
Speaker 1: in his head. After that Seattle game in London when
Speaker 1: neither neither tackle could protect him. They look so good
Speaker 1: against the Cults to the week before, and I was thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: car might survive this, or he's the one to keep
Speaker 1: his dignity intact. And then that happens. It's like, oh, hope,
Speaker 1: hopefully the Chargers keep it going. They've passed every check mark.
Speaker 1: You do you do you know, get worried that they're
Speaker 1: just gonna I don't know not what's the next test
Speaker 1: for the Raiders, Broncos, Cardinals, then Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Keenan Allen's
Speaker 1: almost an afterthought, and he seems as explosive as ever.
Speaker 1: They're using him for like reverses and end a rounds
Speaker 1: every week. They're they're gonna be worst case scenario eight
Speaker 1: and three going to that Pittsburgh game. I think they'll
Speaker 1: be nine and two, and then you'll get the Chiefs
Speaker 1: soon after that. There's a test. Let's see what you
Speaker 1: do in Pittsburgh. I'm not gonna get too excited until
Speaker 1: that game. I mean, watch Melvin Gordon. You get excited. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, believe in the team, spicy nail. Don't you
Speaker 1: know why? I just figured out why Greg loves Greg
Speaker 1: loves the Chargers much. Gino Smith, their backup quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've loved them before, but that the organizational wisdom that
Speaker 1: they have. Oh yeah, he's got I have. I've said
Speaker 1: this all right, He's gonna have a Drew Bledsoe in
Speaker 1: the a f C Championship like moment. To shut up
Speaker 1: all the haters, Greg, you can't have a Drew bled
Speaker 1: so Like moment if you weren't true bled so to
Speaker 1: begin with, Well, no, I'm just saying, like one of
Speaker 1: the great quarterbacks of his era. But now the backup
Speaker 1: comes in, has like a moment, but then hands it
Speaker 1: back to Philip Rivers in some eight different iterations, and
Speaker 1: every time he comes in and blows it the thing
Speaker 1: there though, also that I think we're like Drew Bledsoe
Speaker 1: was a local hero who was it was awkward because
Speaker 1: he was upstaged by Tom Brady. Gino Smith is widely
Speaker 1: considered to be an unlikable character. Justify the comment, right, Like,
Speaker 1: outside of l A, that's true, but among Chargers fans
Speaker 1: there are no I just I just realized that's true too.
Speaker 1: I just realized I had rude against the charges. I
Speaker 1: don't want I don't want Geno getting a Super Bowl ring,
Speaker 1: even in a backup capacity. The hatred strong. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you don't think I'm doing a feature on Gina
Speaker 1: Smith that the Super Bowl, you're dead wrong. Alright, we'll
Speaker 1: get read by four people. I told you already had
Speaker 1: the vision. It's Andy, It's Andy weak. Get ahead of
Speaker 1: it right now, have your feature in the can. Do
Speaker 1: you think he remembers doing the owner's meeting interview with
Speaker 1: us if we were to see him at during Super Bowl? Yes,
Speaker 1: I think he's a brilliant man. Yid that is a
Speaker 1: knack for faces and content. He recognized his fellow brilliant.
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins five and four, did not look good
Speaker 1: at all on offense against the Jets, but the Jets
Speaker 1: were so bad offensively themselves that a pick six ended
Speaker 1: up being the difference in the game. So but they
Speaker 1: got to win, and they're five and four and they're
Speaker 1: in the wild card race on some level. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: here's a challenge, go to Lambeau win a football game
Speaker 1: and uh and we know Mark, Well, I'll just say
Speaker 1: this Mark, like we were just saying we took a
Speaker 1: part the Cowboys on the Twitter show, Uh, saying, you
Speaker 1: know why is everyone surprised why would end? But would
Speaker 1: be surprised that the Cowboys will lose that game when
Speaker 1: they're not that good? Well, how much more evidence do
Speaker 1: we need to see that the Packers can get beat
Speaker 1: by anybody, because here they are midway through the season
Speaker 1: with three wins. I totally agree. And the question that
Speaker 1: I would have for you guys is, if you had
Speaker 1: to bet your entire bank account on neither of these
Speaker 1: teams making the playoffs or one of them, which would
Speaker 1: you pick? Because I know I know it's not both.
Speaker 1: To me, it would just be about the Packers. But
Speaker 1: if you had to honestly put all your possessions up,
Speaker 1: do we really believe the Packers are getting there? Or
Speaker 1: is it just that we psychically are attached to what
Speaker 1: the Packers have been for so long with Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: that despite their record, we still see them as the
Speaker 1: team to beat in that division, done it before, because
Speaker 1: he's done it before. That tie could really help them,
Speaker 1: Uh potentially if they can go, could bang them too,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're putting those kind of stakes on it.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, I would choose none. Neither of
Speaker 1: these teams make the playoffs, right. I know you You
Speaker 1: caught me in uh a truth like logic problem here
Speaker 1: because I was just talking to you about this the
Speaker 1: other day that that they would still be the team
Speaker 1: I would take to win that division. But when you
Speaker 1: put it like that. I'm just going with the odds,
Speaker 1: and the odds are there there behind two other teams
Speaker 1: that are solid right now, and they are the long shot.
Speaker 1: I think they can do it, but they are a
Speaker 1: long as West put uh and informed his lock and
Speaker 1: locked with your heart a little bit west as it
Speaker 1: turned out. But Packers needed that win in New England,
Speaker 1: American America needed it, Football society needed, and especially in
Speaker 1: New England was not starting their their running back or
Speaker 1: the titan. You have to go get that win and
Speaker 1: get yourself in a four or three in one spot.
Speaker 1: Now you're really behind the aprill. I think they've shown
Speaker 1: some things defensively that they can build off. I don't
Speaker 1: know what is the status of Blake Martinez for this week.
Speaker 1: That would be a big loss. I just can't believe
Speaker 1: that a team with Aaron Rodgers and the best left
Speaker 1: tackle in football and plenty of other alight, here's the
Speaker 1: way to look at it. When's the last time a
Speaker 1: Packers team that had Aaron Rodgers healthy did not make
Speaker 1: a charge in a similar situation and end up in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Have they always pulled it off? It's never happened.
Speaker 1: So maybe that first year they've also never had since
Speaker 1: he's been established as a good quarterback, it hasn't so
Speaker 1: maybe we should before we bet against him, he should
Speaker 1: show us that he isn't able to don relax, he's
Speaker 1: done run the table. Bet on him and your boy,
Speaker 1: vowdes Scantlin is there. Oh yeah, my boy. They've never
Speaker 1: gotten as far in the season with three wins and
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. They have an uphill They do not
Speaker 1: have any have had four losses. They have an uphill battle.
Speaker 1: They do one thing on this Dolphins offense. You know,
Speaker 1: whenever you have a young quarterback and he comes out
Speaker 1: like right away and he does well on the first
Speaker 1: driver too, and they're like, well, well, let's wait until
Speaker 1: see after he gets through the scripted las and see
Speaker 1: how he does. The Dolphins are the opposite. They've had
Speaker 1: nine opening drives this year. They're supposed to have one
Speaker 1: of the best offensive minds in the game as their coach,
Speaker 1: and they've punted all nine times on the opening drives
Speaker 1: this year. Then, Brockos Swailer has gotten worse week after
Speaker 1: week after week after week, a little bit worse each
Speaker 1: time until last week, where he was barely on the
Speaker 1: field well and if someone told you you're gonna go
Speaker 1: play this Jets team that has all sorts of issues
Speaker 1: on offense, you're going to get four interceptions, would you
Speaker 1: say you're gonna put up more than thirteen points? That's
Speaker 1: that's not a good showing. This is the most disrespected
Speaker 1: five and four team I can remember, Like, no one,
Speaker 1: no one. They don't even respect themselves as teams. And
Speaker 1: yet like when you look at when you look at
Speaker 1: the like you're not passing, No they're not. They're getting
Speaker 1: fights after it, Like there's all the sorts of things.
Speaker 1: They just seem unhappy for such a five and four team.
Speaker 1: But when you look at like d V O A
Speaker 1: for whatever, these are the thirteenth and fourteenth best teams
Speaker 1: in the league. These two they see him. It's about
Speaker 1: the same because they've they've found a way to cook
Speaker 1: up some plays and one side of their ball usually
Speaker 1: plays fairly well to the point where they've been averaged.
Speaker 1: They've had great special team. So I don't know. Here's
Speaker 1: an NFC West matchup the Seahawks four and four. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're charging looking good and then they ran into the
Speaker 1: Chargers in their building. Uh, tough loss. That kind of
Speaker 1: brought him down to earth. Uh and now bad loss,
Speaker 1: because now you've got to go play the Rams at home.
Speaker 1: A Rams team West that's coming off their first loss
Speaker 1: of the season. You can imagine that this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a difficult team to beat twice in a row.
Speaker 1: The Rams have a beautiful, beautiful offense, and I don't
Speaker 1: feel any different about them after that loss to the Saints,
Speaker 1: a game I believe could have gone either way. Did
Speaker 1: the defense bother you at all? That they bothers me? Um?
Speaker 1: And I maybe he's overcompensating for that injury. I know
Speaker 1: he's got caught peeking a few times in the backfield
Speaker 1: moving well though. I mean he he wasn't moving well
Speaker 1: with Mike Thomas beat him. I mean he wasn't moving
Speaker 1: that well last week. And this Seattle team played them
Speaker 1: tough last week. They came out a ran the ball
Speaker 1: down the Charger's throats on the opening drive last week. Um,
Speaker 1: it looked like a long afternoon for the Chargers. D
Speaker 1: Than Carson got injured, and Mike Davis runs just as
Speaker 1: physically as Chris Carson. He's one of the few backs
Speaker 1: in the NFL that does. He's just not nearly as
Speaker 1: good as Chris Carson. They miss him. They they will
Speaker 1: miss him. This was I think my favorite game of
Speaker 1: the season the first time they played. That game had everything.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. It was surprising. And I
Speaker 1: don't And this is a case where I think the
Speaker 1: division teams know each other well and I don't see
Speaker 1: the Rams as some crazy, prohibitive, prohibitive favorite. I think
Speaker 1: the Seahawks will show up the Rams after a loss.
Speaker 1: By the way, we're excellent last year four and oh
Speaker 1: they average thirty four points a game. They the games
Speaker 1: were not close. So Peyton McVeigh, in addition to uh
Speaker 1: being this hot shot UH offensive mind, obviously has able
Speaker 1: to coach these teams up well coming off losses with
Speaker 1: that great coaching staff. You know, Bones has got something
Speaker 1: up a sleeve. West. It's crazy, no matter who's returning
Speaker 1: for them, he gets these nameless, faceless returners who all
Speaker 1: average thirty something yards. Although hecker not getting to the sticks,
Speaker 1: and maybe he did, but he didn't get the call
Speaker 1: he had heard Bones, I mean I would I would
Speaker 1: submit that he got to the sticks. I think he
Speaker 1: did too. I thought he got banged a little bit. There.
Speaker 1: There was like not one that they needed one more
Speaker 1: replay angle to make that very clear to everyone. It's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an interesting week for the Rams who
Speaker 1: have been in Los Angeles now for the third this
Speaker 1: is their third year there. Their their home is Thousand Oaks,
Speaker 1: which you know, we taped this Thursday. Then the night before,
Speaker 1: you know, was was a shooting which I'm sure our
Speaker 1: listeners have heard about where twelve people died. A lot
Speaker 1: of the Rams live there. That's that's where they practice,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's their home. They they live in the
Speaker 1: Thousand Oaks area. You could definitely tell h today in
Speaker 1: Sean mcveig's speech and then just some of the things
Speaker 1: that the players have tweeted out it that that has
Speaker 1: gonna hit home. Obviously, you have no idea what if
Speaker 1: that means anything for a football game, but I did.
Speaker 1: I did just think I think it's interesting that the Rams,
Speaker 1: the Rams have become i think, more of a part
Speaker 1: of the fabric of Los Angeles over the last few years.
Speaker 1: And this is definitely in a you know, just a
Speaker 1: time that it's only gonna do that more and that
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be really impacted by that. That is
Speaker 1: a small town where cal Lutheran. Is that you guys
Speaker 1: have been up there. I mean that's that college is
Speaker 1: closed today. It's a it's a small that's not l A.
Speaker 1: That's like small little suburban that's where most of the
Speaker 1: players live. People who who get on l as a
Speaker 1: football city or take the Chargers and then luck the
Speaker 1: Rams in with the charge It's it's frankly lazy and
Speaker 1: just your misinformed. Because the Rams there is a real
Speaker 1: fan culture out here and they are connected to the city.
Speaker 1: They were before they left, and that's why when they
Speaker 1: came back, it made so much more sense, uh than
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Chargers. But yeah, that that
Speaker 1: is gotta be casting a paul over that entire facility,
Speaker 1: because they're right in to think of it, they said,
Speaker 1: are gonna have a moment of silence, Maybe do something now.
Speaker 1: Sandrew Whitworth is kind of getting something together between the
Speaker 1: players in the community and and we'll we'll see if
Speaker 1: I don't know if that has any impact. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to Sunday Night football NFC East affair. The Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys come on. They gotta flex them out after what
Speaker 1: they did on Monday. I mean, we are I know
Speaker 1: you need more time to do that. But that's another
Speaker 1: rule change. They would never at not at three and five,
Speaker 1: so they're three and five, they are This is a
Speaker 1: loser goes home for them. So it's not a loser
Speaker 1: goes home match because the Eagles could survive, although they'd
Speaker 1: be in a lot of trouble if they lost at
Speaker 1: four and four. But you gotta you gotta like the
Speaker 1: chances here for the Eagles, um greg who do very
Speaker 1: well stopping the run, especially at home. And if you
Speaker 1: take Ezekiel out, Elliott out of the Cowboys offense, even
Speaker 1: with the Mary Cooper there, you just don't imagine they're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to put up a lot of points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you saw some of the limitations of building the offense
Speaker 1: around Zeke last week where he started out great kind
Speaker 1: of faded throughout the game. And you need more than that.
Speaker 1: You need a a receiver group. Where it's been on
Speaker 1: the receiver. Everyone's been blaming the receivers and maybe they
Speaker 1: can't just get open, but it seems like it's a
Speaker 1: combination between the play caller and the receivers and Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott can all take some blame, but I really don't
Speaker 1: think he's had open receivers to throw to. I think
Speaker 1: they're just kind of a stale offense where guys aren't open,
Speaker 1: hard to watch. I took away that the receivers weren't
Speaker 1: that bad last week. I thought Gallup showed something. I
Speaker 1: thought Amark Cooper showed something. Cooper Cooper looked good by
Speaker 1: the way he had been doing well until he disappeared.
Speaker 1: Those guys were okay the past couple of weeks. Actually,
Speaker 1: the wide receivers, I don't think it's you want to
Speaker 1: talk about disappearing when the team needs you. There was
Speaker 1: he was. You could have sent the search party after
Speaker 1: the guy on Monday night. The expensive the Eagles were
Speaker 1: really hoping for Darren Sprawls. I guess. I guess it's
Speaker 1: often volunteer. It's often volunteer work. Search parties, isn't it
Speaker 1: like neighbors and friends helicopters though they're expensive, that they were.
Speaker 1: The Eagles were really hoping for Darren Sprowls to come
Speaker 1: back and make an impact. They they didn't trade for
Speaker 1: running back, They held his roster spot open um and
Speaker 1: cut a player that they didn't necessarily want to because
Speaker 1: of that, and then he came back. To practice this week,
Speaker 1: immediately hurt his hamstring, not expected to play in the game,
Speaker 1: and you have to wonder, like is he going to
Speaker 1: play for them at all? And that not only heard
Speaker 1: his hamstring, but heard it in a different spot. It's
Speaker 1: like a new injury. The Cowboys also are not gonna
Speaker 1: have Sean Lee for a while, and it crossed with
Speaker 1: him leaving last week. Was that the last time we
Speaker 1: see Sean Lee in a Cowboys uniform. Maybe he's back
Speaker 1: this season, but at some point I think they can't
Speaker 1: keep paying him this much. I mean, he needs hamstring
Speaker 1: replacement surgery. Well they gotta They gotta figure out how
Speaker 1: to do that. And for the first time ever, their
Speaker 1: defense didn't collapse when he was out because late and
Speaker 1: Vander esh has played really well and so is Jalen Smith.
Speaker 1: But about the hamstring replacement surgery, well, I mean we
Speaker 1: gotta figure that. You know, you know who did that,
Speaker 1: Ken Griffy Jr. With the ritz he did I remember
Speaker 1: that the Reds got a broken King Griffy Junior. That
Speaker 1: was like the most excited I've been as a Reds fan,
Speaker 1: and like it all went ruther too. The wall the
Speaker 1: first game with the Reds and break his wrist. He
Speaker 1: ran into the wall every game with When you say
Speaker 1: we will figure it out, we've gotta figured out to you.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you have a large part in
Speaker 1: the medical research community. I strayed to my hamstring twice
Speaker 1: in the first Shield Championship season, so it's it's personal
Speaker 1: cause for me as well. You know how, like West,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, are you the brain power behind that procedure?
Speaker 1: Being No, I'm just an the porter. I'm like on
Speaker 1: the board West, when you contracted cancer and it was very,
Speaker 1: very sad, and and and you overcame it. You do
Speaker 1: feel closer to it. It's not like he used a
Speaker 1: dirty needle or something. I mean with yeah, basically mirrors
Speaker 1: yours with the hamstring. Anyway, the Eagles got a win
Speaker 1: in the community. Now the hamstring the Eagles gotta win.
Speaker 1: They're gonna win this game. I should't lock this one
Speaker 1: up because I feel superum confident that they're gonna win
Speaker 1: this because they know they got the Superdome next week.
Speaker 1: I I am gonna lock it up. I've locked them
Speaker 1: up for much of the season. Good luck. I stupidly
Speaker 1: jumped off of them. When you guys didn't against the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: But but but play better than they did in that game.
Speaker 1: That game is one of the reasons why I didn't
Speaker 1: mind not locking them there. They don't beat anyone by
Speaker 1: more than two scores. They haven't been impressive, like it
Speaker 1: all makes sense that they should be better. They're coming
Speaker 1: out of thereby let's see it. Yeah, they haven't. They
Speaker 1: They've really been a very mediocre team. If anything, they're
Speaker 1: lucky to be for and for And finally, Monday Night Football,
Speaker 1: the other really bad game on this week and also
Speaker 1: a New York team, the Giants one in seven, last
Speaker 1: place in the NFC East against the forty Niners two
Speaker 1: and seven, last place in the NFC West. Eli Manning,
Speaker 1: who knows every start now could be the last one
Speaker 1: for Eli if he continues to play this way. And
Speaker 1: if you want to get excited about the game, mark
Speaker 1: if you like a little Nick Mullins, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: fairy Tale, you like a little breath Farve on the
Speaker 1: phone like a little schoolboy. They're gonna go back to Farve.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but then you might like this game.
Speaker 1: Four things that I will consider doing instead of watching
Speaker 1: this game. Number one print out one thousand images of
Speaker 1: paul A pound Stone and over the next three years
Speaker 1: send one daily via snail mail to Dan's house, each
Speaker 1: with this message you like what you see? Number two
Speaker 1: the liminal history. I think possibly number two be one
Speaker 1: of those guys who camps out on a billboard and
Speaker 1: refuses to come down until every human being who owns
Speaker 1: a cat or multiple cats allows them to roam free
Speaker 1: in the streets for all of us to appreciate. Did
Speaker 1: that end in or something? Nobody does that anymore? Early
Speaker 1: two thousand's it was. It was a like legit stunt
Speaker 1: in every city, the radio morning show type thing people
Speaker 1: would do. People realize, there's the stupidest thing of human
Speaker 1: Number three take a shared uber to the Mexican border,
Speaker 1: cross said border, continue south to Nicaragua, and become a
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday landscaper for a local warlord. The war lord.
Speaker 1: But there's something I've always thought, if you were like
Speaker 1: a landscape er, if you were like tending to lawns
Speaker 1: and properties to be an honest living and something that
Speaker 1: I would like to do, but not for a warlord.
Speaker 1: M I I largely agree, But are you gonna tell
Speaker 1: the uber share rider that you're doing on the way there.
Speaker 1: I don't have to talk to that person. It's a
Speaker 1: long ride to share. No, you gotta do the shared
Speaker 1: it's too expensive. Number four, prank call the twenty two
Speaker 1: people in l A County who still have landlines. I
Speaker 1: genuinely miss prank calling people and think it would be
Speaker 1: way more fun than watching Giants first Niners. I like
Speaker 1: the idea of like a forty five year old man
Speaker 1: prank calling people on a Monday night. I have a
Speaker 1: rooting n Yeah, I'm rooting for Eli Manning to lose
Speaker 1: two more games and then get pulled. So it's career
Speaker 1: record is the very artistic and very fitting one twelve
Speaker 1: and one twelve, the most average quarterback of his generation,
Speaker 1: will finish with a do you factor in the playoff record?
Speaker 1: Because that's not bad. It's actually under five hundred. That's
Speaker 1: not bad, but includes two titles. This playoff record is
Speaker 1: under five hundred people because they lost so many times,
Speaker 1: because he took the team to the playoffs a ton
Speaker 1: of years early on. Actually, no, I'm wrong. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: eight and four in the playoffs, so maybe he should
Speaker 1: conclude the most important games in his career. He has
Speaker 1: gone one and done four different times, and gone four
Speaker 1: and twice, well four twice. Remember that the Giants, and
Speaker 1: the Giants went one and done, not Eli Manning. Eli
Speaker 1: Manning led them to two Super Bowls. Hey kitting four twice?
Speaker 1: It is. It is an amazing thing to look at
Speaker 1: that they've they've won. They've only won a game in
Speaker 1: the playoffs once in the last death Gaid, but they
Speaker 1: made account. It's with a Hall of Fame quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: special and who did he beat in those two Super Bowls?
Speaker 1: The New England paid greatest coach and the greatest quarterback
Speaker 1: of all time two times twice? What a game this
Speaker 1: is gonna be? Erica, have fun and Nashville what sack
Speaker 1: shirt joke? Enjoy yourself and while you're partying in Nashville,
Speaker 1: a reminder and Mark offered to remind you of all
Speaker 1: of us at the two thousand nineteen Pro Bowl is
Speaker 1: coming up. Hey, it's coming and the vote is here.
Speaker 1: Which NFL players do you want to see at the
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen Pro Bowl in Orlando? Vote today at
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Speaker 1: is Dan hands is signing off. That's it That's how
Speaker 1: the show ends. Little answer to the company Dan Hands
Speaker 1: signed up for The Quiet Star, The mail Man, the Yirths,
Speaker 1: the Wild Boss and its kind of behind the Glass
Speaker 1: tell Sunday Night. Oh well, he writes Slank Chandler and Hammingday.
Speaker 1: He's God's best friend doing a photography. He's called Breton's
Speaker 1: fans heart. That he's keeping alive dresses in the dark
Speaker 1: out of corn to find did you know? And that
Speaker 1: it doesn't need me. He's a fight career. Wondness for
Speaker 1: your name. Oh he's gotten fine you in his eyes
Speaker 1: start to sta