Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast Time to shine. Indeed, welcome
Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. Week
Speaker 1: one edition that is Flagship Show. My name is Dan
Speaker 1: hansis joined by Virtual room for at least one more
Speaker 1: week built with some heroes, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal. And yes,
Speaker 1: we have seen the first Sunday of the regular season.
Speaker 1: And what does it do? And this is I probably
Speaker 1: said the same thing last year, And if I didn't
Speaker 1: say it last year, I said it the year before.
Speaker 1: That first Sunday is a glorious thing because what it
Speaker 1: does is it up ends all of the various offseason narratives,
Speaker 1: all the things that we all and not just the
Speaker 1: three of us, everyone is so sure of. So many
Speaker 1: things get up ended totally based on one game of football.
Speaker 1: All and as we go through the games today, Mark,
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna see a lot of stories or
Speaker 1: a lot of ideas about teams that we thought we
Speaker 1: kind of had a beat on. We do not have
Speaker 1: a beat. And that's one of the beauties of the
Speaker 1: actual playing of the games. You quietly want to get
Speaker 1: to Week two because it is sort of an unmasking
Speaker 1: of the entire um public that covers football. It's like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you've been talking for seven months about, um,
Speaker 1: these rock solid takes in life scenarios that you're shore
Speaker 1: going to unfold on a football field, and you've been
Speaker 1: proven wrong most most all of you. Um and if
Speaker 1: not this week, next week. But I think also it's
Speaker 1: like week one. And I'll say this real quick, but
Speaker 1: like you come out of it, maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: teams today thought, you know, we're not a very good team.
Speaker 1: You have a win today, you're feelings kind of you're
Speaker 1: playing with house money. If you come out with a loss,
Speaker 1: you're like, wait a minute, this is back in my life.
Speaker 1: This little amount of sports heartbreak that has been gone
Speaker 1: not you know, it hasn't been trenchant and it is
Speaker 1: stabbing you. I mean it's not. It's like those feelings
Speaker 1: come back your teams. So I'm talking about a lot
Speaker 1: of things today because as a group, we took a huge,
Speaker 1: massive l various territories. Oh what a tough what a
Speaker 1: tough star for the pod. We got swept on our
Speaker 1: lock predictions. This really again builds back back into the
Speaker 1: La rabio magnifico of the entire experience. All of our
Speaker 1: favorite teams lost, the Patriots, the Jets, the Broncos one,
Speaker 1: so one of our that's shoe. Congratulations on that, Greg.
Speaker 1: Even the Titans went down. The grave Digger takes an
Speaker 1: l The grave Digger was on a massive winning streak
Speaker 1: in life until now. Now it's all downhill. The Bengals
Speaker 1: one and maybe West in our first season without the
Speaker 1: man watched it somewhere. I like it. He has like
Speaker 1: a drink in his hand. He watched it, and maybe
Speaker 1: he's building a new dossier. Why I'm falling back in
Speaker 1: love with the Bengals. Who knows, But good day for
Speaker 1: Cincinnati uh football fans. Greg. We're gonna dig into the games.
Speaker 1: Do you have anything you want to share before we
Speaker 1: get role now? I just want to clarify when you
Speaker 1: say you know for one more week, you said you
Speaker 1: know some hear us for one more week. We're all
Speaker 1: gonna be here for one more week. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: virtual for one more week. We'll be back in person.
Speaker 1: I'm just don't want anyone to be worried that one
Speaker 1: of us. Do I have to with the dead hands
Speaker 1: is don't spit in the sky. I hope we're all
Speaker 1: back together next week. All right, let's get into it,
Speaker 1: and Mark, we gotta start where we gotta start, and
Speaker 1: that is Arrowhead in the game pup faking is Mayfield.
Speaker 1: Now we'll throw it to the left flat. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be an accepted in accepted on the far side, I
Speaker 1: might choose. In its first National Football League game with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the former Viking first round pick pitched it
Speaker 1: off and the Chiefs are gonna pull this game out
Speaker 1: after trailing for fifty three game minutes. Mitch Holt is
Speaker 1: with the call w D A F and welcome back
Speaker 1: Sam Spence in the NFL most beautiful music in the
Speaker 1: twentieth century. Patrick Homes through for three seven yards of
Speaker 1: three scores, and yes, Mike Hughes ice the game with
Speaker 1: an i nt of Baker Mayfield in the final minute
Speaker 1: to lift the defending a f C champions to eight
Speaker 1: thirty three win over the visiting grounds market. It was
Speaker 1: It's just so damn hard to beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: The margin of error is so small, especially in that building. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we were texting throughout and I tried to
Speaker 1: not bug you guys too much about it, um, but
Speaker 1: you could. I you know, I thought the Cleveland answered
Speaker 1: out of the gate. Um many questions about who they
Speaker 1: could be this season. I mean, their first half they
Speaker 1: were perfect. If they played every half of football three straight,
Speaker 1: three straight touchdown drives that I thought marked them as
Speaker 1: their characteristics are aggressive. Um, they're gonna go edgy, They're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna dump the whole playbook to beat who
Speaker 1: they need to beat. And the strategy clearly was, we
Speaker 1: know Kansas City, even though they were held to ten
Speaker 1: points in the first half, they will score and so
Speaker 1: we can never take or foot off the pedal. But
Speaker 1: if you're the Browns, you're not the Chiefs, and you
Speaker 1: just cannot let the mistakes start to creep in. And
Speaker 1: I could feel the game getting away from them bit
Speaker 1: by bit. It was the uncharacteristic Chubb fumble. Um with
Speaker 1: about two minutes into the third quarter. Okay, you have
Speaker 1: the Tyreek Hill mystifying John Johnson on that seventy five
Speaker 1: yard touchdown that made Jamie Gillen, the Browns very reliable
Speaker 1: punter a year ago, botching the long snap as as
Speaker 1: Arrowhead was going absolutely nuts. I mean, the crowd was
Speaker 1: a huge factor. And then you know, I thought there
Speaker 1: were little tiny moments like the shot to Anthony Schwartz,
Speaker 1: the rookie who played really well for the Browns, broken
Speaker 1: up by wan thorn Hill. It's just Cleveland started to
Speaker 1: not close drives. When Myles Garrett sacked Patrick Mahomes though
Speaker 1: they had a chance. There was a moment that just
Speaker 1: reminded you of last year. And I know this game
Speaker 1: is not I don't care about the Baker Mayfiel interception,
Speaker 1: but it happened, and the drive ended that way, the
Speaker 1: game ended that way. I thought that Baker Mayfield, there
Speaker 1: might have been a little part of him that was
Speaker 1: trying to throw that ball out of bounds, but he
Speaker 1: got caught up. Um Dan Sorenson grabbed his foot a
Speaker 1: little bit. You know, he can answer that question. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't some sort of dunderheaded um ill equipped quarterback mistake.
Speaker 1: But it was his one poor throw of the entire day.
Speaker 1: I mean, he really was almost perfect um outside of
Speaker 1: a couple of little misques. And I thought that overall,
Speaker 1: you could look at the Browns and say, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: this team, actually, for the first time in about twenty years,
Speaker 1: is picking up and building off where they were a
Speaker 1: year ago. But so were the Chiefs and Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill were completely unstoppable, especially Travis Kelsey. It's
Speaker 1: it reminded me very much of January's game in that sense,
Speaker 1: no matter who Cleveland added on defense, I think, if
Speaker 1: you go best, who are the best combos of quarterback
Speaker 1: and receiver? And I know he's a tight end, but
Speaker 1: you know as a pass catcher, ever, at least in
Speaker 1: my lifetime, I think about Montana and Rice and then
Speaker 1: you think about maybe a d In Moss in that
Speaker 1: magical year of two thousand seven. I gotta put my
Speaker 1: Homes and Kelsey right there. And I'm I'm watching the game,
Speaker 1: and I have a soft spot for the Browns because
Speaker 1: of Mark. So you're rooting for the Browns, but I'm
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, God, geez, I mean, imagine being a
Speaker 1: Browns fan of being this close to getting over the
Speaker 1: hump against a team like this, and every time you
Speaker 1: try to get a big spot, these guys are doing
Speaker 1: these outrageous plays. And I know Kelsey wasn't a flashy,
Speaker 1: but he got his big go ahead touchdown. But the Mahomes,
Speaker 1: These plays that Mahomes makes when he rolled to his right,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the touchdown when Johnson got caught I
Speaker 1: guess snapping, but he gets flushed all the way to
Speaker 1: the right, falling out of bounds, seventy five yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's just we've never seen that from a quarterback. And
Speaker 1: that's the type of play that no team could stop,
Speaker 1: not not the Browns, not anybody, but I guess Greg
Speaker 1: for me. The thing with the Browns in terms of
Speaker 1: they did get the ball back, they got the big
Speaker 1: play from Miles Garrett, but just like last year, they've
Speaker 1: see title game when they couldn't put together that last drive.
Speaker 1: They couldn't put together the final drive. So it's like finishing.
Speaker 1: That's maybe the last part of this for the Browns
Speaker 1: in terms of being a true Super Bowl contender. Right,
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over twice and I don't even
Speaker 1: know if that includes them not being able to get
Speaker 1: the pun off. I think it does. That is a turnover.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're not gonna win this game. They
Speaker 1: they had the recipe to do it. They did the
Speaker 1: whole short in the game thing. The the Chief's got
Speaker 1: eight drives in this game. The Brown's got nine. And
Speaker 1: I always say, well, that sounds good, but you have
Speaker 1: to you know, don't shorten the time you're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: The Browns are so efficient on offense, it makes more
Speaker 1: sense for them, like when you can go touchdown, touchdown, touchdown.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately they can't finish off that long drive in the
Speaker 1: end of the second quarter. Then that shortening the game
Speaker 1: thing works. You Like, you look at the score thirty
Speaker 1: three to twenty nine, like you would never think that
Speaker 1: each team only had eight or nine possessions. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: And so then it comes down to one play. Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield's not gonna make the crazy play like Mahomes did.
Speaker 1: And defensively, I know that Chiefs weren't great, but ultimately
Speaker 1: you call a safety blitz, you get Daniel Soremston to
Speaker 1: hit Baker Mayfield on that play. He was trying to
Speaker 1: throw it out of bounds. I mean, there was no
Speaker 1: question about that. Romo said that, Mayfield confirmed it after
Speaker 1: the game. You know, looked pretty clear. So I have
Speaker 1: no reason to doubt, you know, Baker saying that, and
Speaker 1: then and that's your ball game. Like it just you're
Speaker 1: right about the margin for air because they essentially played
Speaker 1: their game, by the way without Oldo Beckham, they kind
Speaker 1: of they had faked everyone pretty well there. I was wondering,
Speaker 1: and then people sounded so calm. I was like, this
Speaker 1: guy isn't taking a hit or played full contact once
Speaker 1: in practice, and everyone seems so confident he's playing, and
Speaker 1: they had faked him. He wasn't out playing because he's
Speaker 1: not ready to play, which is which is a concern.
Speaker 1: I mean he hasn't fully practiced, like really practiced one time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and they're being careful, and clearly week two is
Speaker 1: the big It's going to be the big thing to
Speaker 1: watch with Odell because if he's not playing week two,
Speaker 1: then you start to be like, oh, is there a
Speaker 1: little hitch in this that we didn't know about and
Speaker 1: they've been keeping under under wraps. I loved Baker in
Speaker 1: this game, Mark, I thought, yes, the last turnover aside,
Speaker 1: he made so many big money throws. I thought Tony
Speaker 1: Romo And by the way, I kind of I see
Speaker 1: what you're talking about with Oh my god, he's so
Speaker 1: and I get it. Part of what makes Tony Romo
Speaker 1: experience so great is his infections. He's so infectious. His
Speaker 1: joy for the sport comes through. And who brings more
Speaker 1: joy to a football fan than Patrick Mahomes, So that
Speaker 1: makes sense. It checks out. It's not like anti Browns.
Speaker 1: But when Patrick Mahomes is on the other side and
Speaker 1: he's Michael Jordan's like, we're in the we're just starting
Speaker 1: out Michael Jordan's career. Play this. But but you can
Speaker 1: sense though it's not it's really not a Romo thing,
Speaker 1: because I thought Romo actually did a ton of homework
Speaker 1: on Cleveland and couldn't have been more complimentary about aspects
Speaker 1: of the Browns too. So I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: some homer, but it's the two straight Browns games in
Speaker 1: a row, and these games turn out to be like
Speaker 1: three and a half hours now we're so we're talking
Speaker 1: seven hours of Romo gushing over Mahomes. I just need
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different scenario next week. That's
Speaker 1: all Patrick Mahomes in September and his career. And sometimes
Speaker 1: you can chop these stats up and it's like, alright, September, well,
Speaker 1: that's the least important month of the year, if you
Speaker 1: want to look at it that way. Whatever, this is
Speaker 1: the craziest stat I've ever heard in football history. Nine
Speaker 1: and oh okay whatever, thirty five touchdowns. WHOA, that's a
Speaker 1: lot for a month that only has four months typically
Speaker 1: zero zero interceptions. This guy, we might be watching the
Speaker 1: best quarterback ever. Ye it's in the county. I told
Speaker 1: I told you that after what season? Now you do
Speaker 1: that and when you come out of this game, though, Mark,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you feel a lot of things, but you
Speaker 1: in Joco backed up what you heard in camp. Schwartz
Speaker 1: makes some plays that's big. You didn't even have O
Speaker 1: B J out there. I think the probably the number
Speaker 1: one thing, you know, just not having watched it as
Speaker 1: close as you is. Ultimately, the offense did get three
Speaker 1: cracks in the fourth quarter, so it's not just that
Speaker 1: he couldn't get the ball out of You are an
Speaker 1: offensive team in the offense, but great overall today. But
Speaker 1: you've got three cracks in a row that didn't go
Speaker 1: anywhere and when it matters. So that's right, it is,
Speaker 1: and I you know it's we see this in sports
Speaker 1: all the time where team A is trying to get
Speaker 1: over team B. And you know, the Browns and Chiefs
Speaker 1: are not died in the world rivals, but of recent
Speaker 1: times they are in Cleveland's not quite there yet. It
Speaker 1: was the one game I watched today. You know that
Speaker 1: I watched closely where the crowd made a huge impact
Speaker 1: and we kind of forgot about that obviously last year,
Speaker 1: but Baker Mayfield couldn't hear at times there were penalties
Speaker 1: driven drummed up by that, so it was a huge
Speaker 1: factor as well. The hope here is that you are
Speaker 1: the late eighties Bulls and the chiefs of the Pistons
Speaker 1: and you will get over that hump. But every every
Speaker 1: champion has to do it. And that's what the Browns
Speaker 1: are trying to do. That's what the Pittsburgh Steelers and
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills are trying to do. Get past the cheese.
Speaker 1: But first they had to deal with each other. Formation
Speaker 1: maybe touched up the Bill Hill grow w d V
Speaker 1: with the call the Steelers is still the mother Flippings Steelers,
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins, the smothered Josh Allen and Company, and Ulysses
Speaker 1: Gilbert gotta we need more Ulysses in the world. Gilbert
Speaker 1: returned a blockbunt nine yards for the score. Pittsburgh rally
Speaker 1: for over the Bills in Orchard Park, and they got
Speaker 1: to do that thing. It's the best thing, It's the
Speaker 1: most rewarding thing as a fan when you your team
Speaker 1: goes on the road, enemy territory in a very hostile environment,
Speaker 1: and you deliver a kick ass performance and the game's
Speaker 1: over with like three or four minutes left in the game,
Speaker 1: and you see the comeback from commercial they're doing there
Speaker 1: like the subway add graphic on top, and then you
Speaker 1: just see all the people leaving the stadium because you've
Speaker 1: ended this. Not only did you defeat the home team,
Speaker 1: you you way the will and the spirit of the
Speaker 1: fans and you sent them back to the parking lots.
Speaker 1: But it didn't seem like it was headed that way
Speaker 1: because the Steelers were down ten zip in this game, um,
Speaker 1: and it was a very slow start. The Pittsburgh offense
Speaker 1: had three first downs and fifty four net yards on
Speaker 1: its first six possessions. It basically looked like, oh, here
Speaker 1: we go again. That collapse of the offense in the
Speaker 1: last season didn't matter that Matt Canada is now in
Speaker 1: the building. Uh, and you're ready to blame Canada nailed it, um,
Speaker 1: But guess what they get hot? They scoring each of
Speaker 1: their first four possessions In the second half, Ben Roethlisberg
Speaker 1: makes a bunch of big time throws, big bend type
Speaker 1: throws and your defense does the rest. And Greg, this
Speaker 1: is a Bill's offense. We talked about this on the
Speaker 1: Thursday Preview podcast. A Bill's offense that shredded top ten
Speaker 1: units all last year. Uh, and they could not get
Speaker 1: anything going, especially like big strike plays. They couldn't get
Speaker 1: anything going against the Pittsburgh d And that bodes very
Speaker 1: well for the Steelers going forward. I mean, not nine
Speaker 1: targets for Stefan Diggs sixty nine yards, twelve targets for
Speaker 1: Beasley catches eight of them for sixty but you know,
Speaker 1: so that's seventeen throws to their best two players. None
Speaker 1: of those plays went over thirteen yards. There, You know,
Speaker 1: no one, no one can like, look at the Steelers
Speaker 1: game plan of the last two times we played the
Speaker 1: Bills and exactly copy it because they don't have the
Speaker 1: bones and they don't have the players and everything that
Speaker 1: the Steelers have. But the Steelers defense did a fantastic
Speaker 1: job against Buffalo in Week fifteen for about three quarters
Speaker 1: last year, and the offense so bad that they just
Speaker 1: eventually buckled. And then they do it again here Josh
Speaker 1: Allen averaging five point three yards per tempt. T J.
Speaker 1: Watt comes comes off, you know, this contract that he
Speaker 1: signed since we last spoke, massive deal and immediately shows
Speaker 1: up with five QB hits. I mean that is that
Speaker 1: is next level. That is, hey, I'm the best defensive
Speaker 1: player in the league type of stuff, and getting a
Speaker 1: road win. I mean that it makes does make you
Speaker 1: think a little differently about the Steelers right off the
Speaker 1: bat well, and especially their defense, which I think we
Speaker 1: were noting that their defense was going to be a
Speaker 1: positive factor, but like Kim Hayward looked fantastic from some
Speaker 1: stuff I saw, you know, last last year when they
Speaker 1: played each other, the Steelers were starting to become mired
Speaker 1: in their in their woes. I mean, they still ran
Speaker 1: the ball today for what like under three yards per
Speaker 1: carry or something. If there was the usually the game
Speaker 1: would have been over at halftime because the Steelers offense
Speaker 1: was so bad. But they they almost worked out of
Speaker 1: all the issues and problems that we had hampered them
Speaker 1: with and mentioned, um almost in like in a micro
Speaker 1: causing way, inside this one game. I mean, I look
Speaker 1: around the league, I'm not sure there's a more If
Speaker 1: you're a Steelers fan, you could be as happy as
Speaker 1: any fan base in the entire league with what happened
Speaker 1: to because we were talking about the Bills as a
Speaker 1: lock and load a f C title team. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: did not play well today and the defense sort of
Speaker 1: the Steelers defense controlled the game. To me, it leaves
Speaker 1: me with a little bit of concern about the Bills
Speaker 1: in general, just that you mentioned this, and it's then
Speaker 1: it's not like we want to, you know, grip onto
Speaker 1: this yet, but can you really expect it to be
Speaker 1: quite as perfect and flawless as they were a year ago,
Speaker 1: because that just doesn't happen to offenses typically, and the
Speaker 1: Bills had only done that for one season, and that
Speaker 1: is and yeah, we're not going down that road and
Speaker 1: saying that teams have figured out the Bills, but teams
Speaker 1: did have an entire offseason to study what works so
Speaker 1: well for Brian Dable and now they have more tape
Speaker 1: based on what happened in this game. Now that said,
Speaker 1: I will say this, and the Steelers deserve all the
Speaker 1: credit in the world that defense is what they did today.
Speaker 1: But the Bills had opportunities to I mean, there were
Speaker 1: there were plays left on the field in this game
Speaker 1: early on, especially where this could be that if they
Speaker 1: execute they the way they did when they were in
Speaker 1: top gear for most of last season. Like they did
Speaker 1: last year, It's probably a different outcome, but that just
Speaker 1: is not the way it worked out. And I guess
Speaker 1: Mark you already answered the question, but Greg I was,
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this game does it does it strike
Speaker 1: you as something I could changes the way you feel
Speaker 1: about the Steelers more um or on the other side
Speaker 1: of his the Bills that do you now have more doubt?
Speaker 1: Or is this just one week and we'll leave it here?
Speaker 1: Doesn't change how I feel about the Bills at all.
Speaker 1: You outgained the Steelers by twenty yards. Your defense held
Speaker 1: the Steelers to two hundred and fifty yards, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, next level. Ben Roethlisberger is getting a lot
Speaker 1: of slings and arrows from most people watching this game.
Speaker 1: It's a great defense. It's it's one home l I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about Buffalo at all, but it does give
Speaker 1: you a frisky feeling if you're a Pittsburgh team, that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to maybe win some games in
Speaker 1: different types of ways, and that people are digging their grave.
Speaker 1: I mean, Damna check is tweeting up a storm. I've
Speaker 1: seen I've I've been I monitored Damna check tweets because
Speaker 1: he targets certain things that I care about, um, and
Speaker 1: he seems to go off on those things in a
Speaker 1: very unmerciful fashion. But um, he was a happy boy today.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy for Scheck. You know, I can. You
Speaker 1: know you're not. You know, I'm fine. And first of all,
Speaker 1: you knocked off a Bill's team. That's gonna be right
Speaker 1: there too. This is one of those games where whoever loses,
Speaker 1: Like if you think of your own team as a contender,
Speaker 1: it's not a total loss, right, But like you could say,
Speaker 1: just like certain when you have your favorite team, there's
Speaker 1: always one other team that if you lost and then
Speaker 1: may one, it makes the day that much worse than
Speaker 1: they're extremely annoying. They're extremely annoying. Still a lot of
Speaker 1: football left, and in a lot of ways, Mark, you
Speaker 1: could look at this way, with the added game to
Speaker 1: the season, the season hasn't even started yet. That's that's
Speaker 1: how long the season is now. That does not help
Speaker 1: me at all emotionally. Eighteen weeks. All right, let us
Speaker 1: move by the way, shout out Kicker club popping bottles,
Speaker 1: Chris Bobswell was excellent in this game. Hit all three
Speaker 1: field goal attempts, including the game ceiling forty yard or
Speaker 1: with two forty two to play. Just a really solid
Speaker 1: strong clothes to that game. It was Pittsburgh Steelers football.
Speaker 1: Let's head to Indie second down and twenty rush steps
Speaker 1: off of the pocket and he's gonna let fly Fields
Speaker 1: got him out overlock it ten fun stuckles, he's touched down,
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel with the call. Russell Wilson through four touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: including that sixty nine yard hook up with Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: as the Seahawks coasted went over the Colts at Lucas
Speaker 1: Oil Stadium. Greg, the new partnership between dangerous an offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Shane Waldron is off to a tremendous start. You
Speaker 1: almost are, you know, as a football fan, a little
Speaker 1: worried that this went too well for Seattle. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was Pete Carroll's like dream game. Russell Wilson barely
Speaker 1: throwing the ball at all while they win comfortably. He
Speaker 1: threw twenty three passes for two and fifty four yards.
Speaker 1: And that wasn't like, hey, we got a big lead
Speaker 1: and sat on it. He that was where he was
Speaker 1: like halfway through the game. He was like nine for
Speaker 1: eleven at half time, And yeah, that that works out,
Speaker 1: okay when like you can hit bombs. One team's explosive.
Speaker 1: One teams not Tyler Lockett. You know, four for a hundred,
Speaker 1: but almost all of those are in two catches, you know,
Speaker 1: too long touchdown catch. Just you know, one of the
Speaker 1: most underrated receivers in the league. He's been called that
Speaker 1: for so long. I'd like to think he's not still underrated.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know that. I think he's a top
Speaker 1: ten type of receiver. And he wasn't. He wasn't in that,
Speaker 1: he wasn't in the top one. Um. And it was
Speaker 1: pretty cake city, Like they they had the explosive players,
Speaker 1: and I just don't see the explosive players on Indianapolis's
Speaker 1: offense right now. Yet they had to work really hard
Speaker 1: to move the ball up and down the field. It
Speaker 1: didn't help that the Colts to ne Xavier Rhods out
Speaker 1: there played well last year. Um, they just weren't last
Speaker 1: year's defense, which was so reliably, you know, for stretches,
Speaker 1: totally dominant. I think it's a huge development for Seattle
Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson's, you know, happily employed in an offense
Speaker 1: where he can throw four touchdowns. They didn't need him
Speaker 1: to do everything. They looked dominant. I mean, and there
Speaker 1: it sounded like from some of the stuff that like
Speaker 1: Seattle's own defensive front really handled the cults. It's just uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, whence though, did you did look to you Spry?
Speaker 1: Did he look healthy? He had a couple of a
Speaker 1: couple of throws, he was on the running. Looked good
Speaker 1: to me, it was. That's a surprisingly good performance from
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I actually thought Wentz was the least of
Speaker 1: their problems. So if if you're looking for a bright
Speaker 1: side as a Colts fan, you just were reminded, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Frank Greik's awesome, Like he put went in
Speaker 1: positions to succeed with open receivers. The problem is it
Speaker 1: when it's third and long and you're always running screens
Speaker 1: or you're always throwing short of the sticks and you're
Speaker 1: kind of counting on the play call to get it
Speaker 1: done for you, Like, that's a hard way to beat
Speaker 1: good teams. But you're right. The Seattle defensive line I
Speaker 1: think is sneaky good. They're very deep, They won their
Speaker 1: matchups against the Colts offensive line. For the most part,
Speaker 1: I thought Wentz handled about as well as he could,
Speaker 1: but ultimately, like they did not score for most of
Speaker 1: this game. They had a big drive early and a
Speaker 1: drive late when it didn't matter, and ultimately couldn't score.
Speaker 1: India doesn't have big time splash players. I like Taylor
Speaker 1: needs to be Taylor. Yeah. I like Michael Pittman as
Speaker 1: a pros fact. I know t Y Hilton. He'll come
Speaker 1: back eventually, but he's also you know, up there now.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is their big playmaker and held down obviously here.
Speaker 1: He had seventeen carries, never a bigger play than twelve
Speaker 1: yards average three and a half yards carried to hem Himes.
Speaker 1: He didn't do much either. So if they can't get
Speaker 1: the running game going, you're in that situation and where
Speaker 1: you're putting a lot on a passing attack that you
Speaker 1: know is obviously a work in progress right now. Um,
Speaker 1: but that would be I guess the positive to take
Speaker 1: out of the game. Greg. If you're saying that Wentz
Speaker 1: did not look lost, I kind of thought they were
Speaker 1: gonna come out of this game and he would have
Speaker 1: been limping around and playing poorly because he doesn't know
Speaker 1: the the offense well enough because of a lack of reps.
Speaker 1: So it looks like he wasn't the problem. And you
Speaker 1: got to give credit to Seattle's defense, which they took
Speaker 1: care of business, especially in the trenches. Ten ten QB
Speaker 1: hits and when said three sacks, you know, if you
Speaker 1: look at the stats and went ends up with like
Speaker 1: a twenty six QVR, that looks like more of the same.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the low expectations, but it just didn't feel
Speaker 1: like he was their problem. Their offensive line, though, could
Speaker 1: be a long term problem. You know, Eric Fisher didn't
Speaker 1: play in this game, but you know, asking that guy
Speaker 1: to come off the achilles, you know, an achilles injury
Speaker 1: and save your season at left tackle um might not
Speaker 1: do it. So they gotta play a lot better. But
Speaker 1: I'd feel very good if I'm Seattle that the NFC
Speaker 1: West looks preposterously good right now. Quentin Nelson make it
Speaker 1: through that game, by the way, he had the bad back.
Speaker 1: Yeah he played all right, let us now move to
Speaker 1: the NFC and uh yeah, this one was a stunner
Speaker 1: to me. Straight back in the pocket, he's looking deep.
Speaker 1: His name for Deontay Harris, He's open and Deonte makes
Speaker 1: the Cats see you later, bar touchdown. Saints, my coss,
Speaker 1: your hoss with the call w w L. Jameis Winston
Speaker 1: was lazik focused in his debut as the Saints QB one,
Speaker 1: throwing five touchdown passes and a glorious I mean I
Speaker 1: turned this game off at three? Is that where it finished? Three?
Speaker 1: Romp over Aaron Rodgers and the packers at the Saints
Speaker 1: temporary home in Jacksonville. Um, whoa, Mark and I locked
Speaker 1: up the pack and guess what we're eating the poop
Speaker 1: on this one, buddy boy. And and uh and good
Speaker 1: good for the people of New Orleans dealing with the
Speaker 1: destruction of Hurricane Ida. They get to sit down if
Speaker 1: they were able to watch the watch this game and
Speaker 1: they're treated to it. Just a brilliant performance all around.
Speaker 1: And and Winston, he was tremendous. But he was not alone.
Speaker 1: I thought their front seven, the secondary, the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: um even uh. Sean Payton called out the operations department
Speaker 1: for the Saints after the game for everything they had
Speaker 1: done behind the scenes to make this process moving from
Speaker 1: New Orleans to Duval to get set up here they
Speaker 1: obviously did brilliant work because the team looked comfortable and
Speaker 1: ready to play, and the Packers, quite frankly, Mark, they
Speaker 1: look stunned. Uh. It was a buzz all game, straight up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like I I was tracking this and I looked
Speaker 1: at you know, minutes into the third quarter, they put
Speaker 1: a graphic up noting that New Orleans had had twenty
Speaker 1: six plays in Green Bay territory where the Packers in
Speaker 1: reverse it had to uh, you know, and they were
Speaker 1: back to back horrid picks by Aaron Rodgers, who you know.
Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers obviously has had a rough offseason, a
Speaker 1: weird offseason. He looked a little just despondent to me
Speaker 1: when I when I noted him during the Bruce Arians disease.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't seem like I'm one that
Speaker 1: should be calling these things out because I probably was
Speaker 1: totally wrong about Bruce Arians, but he just, you know,
Speaker 1: it seemed obviously given it the probably after the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl championship, some hope that you were right, and that
Speaker 1: well I pack into I always still pack into that
Speaker 1: Arians is broadcasting stint where he seemed very bored to me,
Speaker 1: so that I I didn't think I got parts of
Speaker 1: it to your point, like the fact that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is now looking like a more fit version of the
Speaker 1: big Lebowski, Like he just he just looks like the
Speaker 1: dude with the long hair and the beard. Well tell
Speaker 1: me about his I did not watch this one yards
Speaker 1: at half. But by the way, Winston had sixty five
Speaker 1: and became the first quarterback like in the modern era
Speaker 1: to throw five touchdowns but less than a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards. So this was a weird one field position baby,
Speaker 1: because it's not like Alvin Kamara had a massive game either, right,
Speaker 1: is is did he like does play bad? Was the
Speaker 1: offensive line? But I am stunned when when Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: averages under five yards per attempt. You know, hey, they
Speaker 1: could not get anything. They could not get anything going
Speaker 1: in this game. And you you know, you're used to
Speaker 1: like what we saw, for instance, with Baker and the
Speaker 1: Browns for most of that game, the mistakes notwithstanding where
Speaker 1: they're just getting whenever they need a conversion of just
Speaker 1: going up and down the field. That's all we saw
Speaker 1: from Aaron Rodgers and the Packers for the majority of
Speaker 1: last season too, So to see them in third and
Speaker 1: longs and to see him, uh, you know, have a
Speaker 1: miscommunication downfield leading to an interception, to see Adams not
Speaker 1: be able to get the big third down conversion. I mean,
Speaker 1: where's Randall Cobb the security blanket that Rogers wind about
Speaker 1: to get him back? For much of that game that
Speaker 1: I noted, he was not on the field. So it
Speaker 1: was just everything came very difficult for and I think,
Speaker 1: and again you don't want to make too much about
Speaker 1: week one, but I think things snowballed. I think it
Speaker 1: was one of those things where you got off to
Speaker 1: slow start and you're like, all right, we're down three. Huh,
Speaker 1: we're down ten. Whoa, We're down seventeen. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we get this score, will be back in the game.
Speaker 1: Oh I just threw an interception. Oh and then they
Speaker 1: went down to score again. Now it's over. It was
Speaker 1: like one of those type of games. So, yes, bad
Speaker 1: start for the Packers. And all though, thinking about all
Speaker 1: those fans Green Bay fans, like we you know, I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to go with my boy to Lambo and
Speaker 1: we never can get the tickets. But we found a way.
Speaker 1: We're going to Jacksonville. There's no Christmas this year. But
Speaker 1: we're going to Jacksonville, you're going home early to the
Speaker 1: parking lot, to the old parking lot walk. But what
Speaker 1: was the what was the crowd breakdown there? Because we
Speaker 1: asked that on last week if we thought it would be,
Speaker 1: would they get you know, eighty they said the Saints
Speaker 1: that Sean Payton actually went on to like um expedia
Speaker 1: to look for the most impossible, most expensive locale for
Speaker 1: Packers fans to actually have to go see a game.
Speaker 1: So did that work? Was it? No Saints fans? I
Speaker 1: wish I could tell you. I wasn't plugged in too
Speaker 1: much on that. And again it's harder to hear. You
Speaker 1: could hear their cheers, but there was a lot of
Speaker 1: Green Bay fans, but since they had nothing to cheer about,
Speaker 1: very quickly that became not even issue or anything anything
Speaker 1: anybody we're talking about. But didn't hear a peep from
Speaker 1: Packers fans after about four minutes in. But that last
Speaker 1: the highlight you heard of the bomb touchdown. That was
Speaker 1: just the exclamation point um for what was just just
Speaker 1: couldn't get better. You can't get any better for the
Speaker 1: Saints after what's been a really tough month for the team. Uh,
Speaker 1: I think that's a factor. I think it's a factor.
Speaker 1: I mean you can never you can never break this
Speaker 1: down analytically. But in a game like football, like where
Speaker 1: it helps if you have something more to play for
Speaker 1: and you have a coach like Sean Payton, who if
Speaker 1: you listen to these players, especially all weeks ever since
Speaker 1: the stormy, they seem like a team. They seem like
Speaker 1: they have a purpose. I think that helps you. And
Speaker 1: they got a quarterback who's got Lasik surgery. That helps
Speaker 1: you too. The old Jamis Winston you can make fun of, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the best shape of his life. Thing. All
Speaker 1: you want wasn't running six for six times for thirty
Speaker 1: seven yards. So that has nothing to do with the lace.
Speaker 1: That has to do with the body. And this team
Speaker 1: has a little bit of a higher purpose and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe that along with like an amazing, amazing offensive line,
Speaker 1: can can carry you pretty far. The Saints did not
Speaker 1: punt in the first half. Chris Hogan had a touchdown.
Speaker 1: He's a lacrosse player, right, I just want to read you, like,
Speaker 1: after all the callaway excitement, he went one for four seed.
Speaker 1: I mean they're leading receivers where Deonte Harris Juwan Johnson converted,
Speaker 1: you know, tight end, Deonte Harris, Adam Troutman, Callaway and Hogan.
Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't need to throw the ball much.
Speaker 1: The way they played it was such a weird game
Speaker 1: boys that I don't really know what to make sense
Speaker 1: of it for anyone involved. But all I can know
Speaker 1: is that it was a really nice day for the
Speaker 1: Saints and their fans, and a really crappy one back there.
Speaker 1: The only downside is it was such a blowout. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you can kind of skip the fourth quarter of a
Speaker 1: game pass, even when that happened. But I want to
Speaker 1: see Jordan's love Jordan. I want to see Jordan's love
Speaker 1: and see how he looked down and all those, although
Speaker 1: I know in the condensed version you won't get to
Speaker 1: see it as much, but a lot of salty shots
Speaker 1: of the of the Big Love Bowski Part two on
Speaker 1: the sideline too. Well, you know some of the way
Speaker 1: they edit some of those game pass you know, in
Speaker 1: forty minutes in quotes um games, you might see a
Speaker 1: ton of it. Oh man, Like I'm just I'm here
Speaker 1: for the Aaron Rodgers, like press conferences and whatnot, Like
Speaker 1: if this, if this is a rocky up and down season,
Speaker 1: but it's a little early. They also didn't there are
Speaker 1: another one of those teams that didn't play any steps.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be selective because teams that played well when
Speaker 1: they didn't do that in preseason. It's like there were
Speaker 1: plenty of the Chargers played fine, but they did not
Speaker 1: play a snap in the preseason. They did not look
Speaker 1: ready here. There were also reports one little thing that
Speaker 1: the Broncos are interested in trading for Aaron Rodgers after
Speaker 1: this season and have talked to Green Bay about it.
Speaker 1: So maybe not after today, but I don't I would
Speaker 1: assume they don't such a knee jerk reaction scenario inside
Speaker 1: the idea. I saw it on Twitter somewhere that what
Speaker 1: if this is the ultimate endgame for Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: going to just totally destroy the Packers with a terrible season. Checkmate,
Speaker 1: let's move on back golf time. Golf throws off what
Speaker 1: laughed into the ground and can play no flags down
Speaker 1: good forty dinerss. We'll get out of this with a victory.
Speaker 1: Greg Papa with the call and Tim Ryan with oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. K n b R defense stepped up when
Speaker 1: it mattered most forcing an incompletion by Jared Gotham fourth
Speaker 1: Dace secure thirty three win over the Lions at board Field.
Speaker 1: San Francisco led thirty eight ten early in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but allowed Detroit to score twenty three on answered in
Speaker 1: three plus minutes. What Mark has a die hard Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan as a man who believes the Niners are gonna
Speaker 1: win all this year. How nervous were you at the
Speaker 1: end of this one? A weird game, just a very
Speaker 1: strange game in the in the second half. Answer the questions.
Speaker 1: I was not nervous on any level like that. That's
Speaker 1: not something that's going to really. It was more just like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm watching two games at once. I'm taking
Speaker 1: endless notes. But suddenly, you know, like you're you're with
Speaker 1: the Packers Saints game. I kind of checked out of
Speaker 1: the Niners game a little bit, right, but then suddenly
Speaker 1: like they have a two point they get a touchdown
Speaker 1: in Jamal Williams touchdown, get the two point conversion unfurling
Speaker 1: on side's kick that the flex off of George Kittle,
Speaker 1: It's still out of reach that point. You think, well,
Speaker 1: as a little bit of a mistake, Uh, this is
Speaker 1: not an issue to deal with. But then suddenly Quentin
Speaker 1: Sefas has a touchdown, he has a two point conversion.
Speaker 1: They go for the on sides again and they don't
Speaker 1: get it. It's forty one thirty three with a minute
Speaker 1: six left. Then Deebo Samuel loses the ball and Jared
Speaker 1: Goff start making it, starts making a couple of incredible throws,
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, this can happen. And you know, one
Speaker 1: of the questions I had about the Lions was with
Speaker 1: how short staff they look as an offensive team in general,
Speaker 1: they can look like they can run the ball and
Speaker 1: if their line holds up. You know, Penei sewell, Pride
Speaker 1: played pretty well today. That would be a note, But
Speaker 1: they seem like a team that was sort of built
Speaker 1: to be, you know, within a score or leading the
Speaker 1: way that they are in their wide receiver group. But
Speaker 1: they kind of came up big today down the stretch.
Speaker 1: And I still chalk it up as a strange game
Speaker 1: because you know, outside of the Niners, you know, allowing
Speaker 1: that then back in they dominated early on and we
Speaker 1: saw a little bit of Jalen Hurts. He came in
Speaker 1: and threw a five yard touchdown pass um They didn't
Speaker 1: use him a ton. He had made a run as well,
Speaker 1: But Jimmy G. This is the formula. It's sort of
Speaker 1: like when Jimmy G is playing as well as he
Speaker 1: did today, he didn't make any killer mistakes. He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna see more of the playtime until they get a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks into this season. It sounds like what
Speaker 1: they did in that one preseason game against the Raiders,
Speaker 1: were they both kind of plaid equal time may not
Speaker 1: be on the shelf yet, but you know what, who knows.
Speaker 1: I believe that Trey Lance got in the game, not
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, right, Yes, that would be more of a
Speaker 1: story if it suddenly Jalen Hurts were in dressed in
Speaker 1: red and gold. It was how did it all like?
Speaker 1: Unfur light? The box score tells me that Trey Lance
Speaker 1: through one pass and it was a touchdown. But this
Speaker 1: is Jimmy G's offense for most of the way. It
Speaker 1: looks like, yeah, they used them really early, um and
Speaker 1: he and that they didn't really use them much ever. Again,
Speaker 1: so he came in. They pulled Jimmy G from you know,
Speaker 1: five yards out and then there were a lot of
Speaker 1: comments about what a gentleman Jimmy g Is and how
Speaker 1: such a good sports You're going to hear that a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: he's hugging each other. One killer thing for the Niners.
Speaker 1: Like late in this game when some people were maybe
Speaker 1: tuning out, Jason Varette got hurt and it sounds serious,
Speaker 1: and that's a killer loss for them in the secondary right,
Speaker 1: they just um you know, had given him, you know,
Speaker 1: a contract to come back. He was a great story
Speaker 1: for them. I think that's their thinnest position to begin with,
Speaker 1: and so that that's a big downer. They lose wheheaem Moster.
Speaker 1: In this game, they surprised a lot of fantasy football
Speaker 1: owners by uh scratching tray sermon their third round pick
Speaker 1: that a lot of people drafted pretty high. I thought
Speaker 1: was gonna uh step up, and incomes Elijah Mitchell and
Speaker 1: he runs for a hundred and four yards. This is
Speaker 1: just like the forty Diners. You can put in anyone
Speaker 1: at running back and he's gonna run for a hundred
Speaker 1: and four yards. So he will undoubtedly be everyone's first
Speaker 1: like fantasy waiver wire, unless there's another obvious one that
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about. Deebo Samuel had a huge game.
Speaker 1: We we've always liked Deebo around these parts, and he
Speaker 1: went off twelve target targeted twelve times, more than double
Speaker 1: anybody else, including George Kittle. Um, I don't even see
Speaker 1: Brandon Aiyuk in the in the box score mark. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it really went. It was all Samuel and Kiddle. Samuel
Speaker 1: at a d eighty nine yards and a like a
Speaker 1: seventy something yard touchdown looks great outside that fumble that
Speaker 1: you know, had he not fumbled there, that game would
Speaker 1: have been over. Created a little bit more drama, but
Speaker 1: Samuel is a real deal. Kittle. Kittle looked looked really
Speaker 1: good too, as he normally does, but there wasn't really
Speaker 1: much else out there sherefield. I thought, how did He's
Speaker 1: the one that had the traide Lands touchdown and looked
Speaker 1: pretty good in a smaller role. They barely used a Yuk.
Speaker 1: They kind of decided to ease him back in from
Speaker 1: like a hamstring injury. I really think they managed this
Speaker 1: gap and who knows about most there, like how serious
Speaker 1: it was because they were playing the Lions, you know
Speaker 1: that was part of it. I think they decided not
Speaker 1: to risk Ayuke and figure you can win without him.
Speaker 1: This week and welcome back Nick Bosa coming back from
Speaker 1: the a c L last year early last year, he
Speaker 1: came back four tackles, a sack, three tackles for lost,
Speaker 1: two QB hits, keep keeps left tackle by all accounts,
Speaker 1: played very well against Bosa for the most part. He
Speaker 1: looked like they maybe they just got injured into making
Speaker 1: the right decision, like don't don't put Er comes back
Speaker 1: and you you just kick him to the right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's plus. Wouldn't wouldn't like a veteran like
Speaker 1: him be more well suited to be able to change business,
Speaker 1: which which player is is more tied to your future.
Speaker 1: Let's put sewell where he feels at home. And he
Speaker 1: looked much better than he did in the preseason. I
Speaker 1: do like the idea of every once in a while
Speaker 1: this happens where there's a quarterback and a crappy team
Speaker 1: and he just has a marvelous fantasy season. Jared Goff
Speaker 1: off to a great start, three touchdowns, eight yards. I
Speaker 1: can't you see him wining some fantasy leagues as his
Speaker 1: own team goes four and twelve four. I could, but
Speaker 1: I would say this that like if the game had
Speaker 1: changed and been a little bit different. You'd also look
Speaker 1: at the killer interception that he made. He's gonna give
Speaker 1: one of He's gonna give one of those two every week.
Speaker 1: But that's what I mean. It's not really about like
Speaker 1: Jared fantasy wise. Sure he's putting up some numbers, especially
Speaker 1: as they try to kind of throw themselves back into
Speaker 1: games in the second half. Let us move on, snap
Speaker 1: to Murray, quick throw over the middle. Hopkins has a
Speaker 1: catch of the tent, turns to his lap at the
Speaker 1: five and hits Pater touched down DeAndre Hopkins, m Dave
Speaker 1: Bassard goll k d A R. Guyler Murray five touchdowns total.
Speaker 1: I forgot. I'm so mad at myself because I had
Speaker 1: written about it on the thumb website that he was
Speaker 1: my m v P sleeper. Why didn't I just write
Speaker 1: that in the predictions. I don't know. I'm upset. Linebacker
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones had a career high five sacks. What as
Speaker 1: the Cardinals chose the Titans as their subject for a
Speaker 1: nuclear bomb test in the Desert final score thirteen greg.
Speaker 1: This was played in Arizona. Correct, No, it was in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: It was a bomb test in they dropped the nucle
Speaker 1: or bomb on enemy territory, not their own city. That
Speaker 1: makes even more al Right, well, you can't scrub it
Speaker 1: out of the show, Ricky, because it would have been
Speaker 1: so perfect if it was in Arizona. But anyway, Greg
Speaker 1: Jones also forced two fumbles that turned into fourteen Arizona points.
Speaker 1: It sounds like one of the most impactful defensive performances
Speaker 1: you'll ever see. Did it feel like you watch? It
Speaker 1: was insane? I mean, I've never seen a guy like
Speaker 1: Taylor Luan, who's you know, made some Pro Bowls and
Speaker 1: whatnot tweet after the game, thanking Chandler Jones for humbling
Speaker 1: him and and helping him to improve, while also apologizing
Speaker 1: because you got Ryan tanneheld destroyed. Chandler Jones also had
Speaker 1: a sack you know, on the other tackle, at least
Speaker 1: one of them. But it was insane. In the first
Speaker 1: five plays, he had a tackle for lost. J J.
Speaker 1: Watt had a tackle for lost, and then Chandler Jones
Speaker 1: got the first of his two forced fumbles. It was
Speaker 1: a bum rush and I'm glad it didn't turn into
Speaker 1: one of those games where Tennessee made it look more
Speaker 1: into thing because it wasn't just about um. The the offense,
Speaker 1: it was. The defense was just flying around and hitting
Speaker 1: people like football comes down to matchup sometimes, and new
Speaker 1: Hopkins was destroying Jack Rabbit Jenkins, Chandler Jones, we already
Speaker 1: mentioned how he was destroying t J. Watt was fine too.
Speaker 1: He made a couple of plays. And then Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: My god, the two touchdowns he had um one to
Speaker 1: Nuke where he runs all around, another third and long
Speaker 1: where he runs where you'll see on every highlight package,
Speaker 1: where that's just all Kyler Murray. And then a beautiful
Speaker 1: touchdown to Christian Kirk where they call the right defense.
Speaker 1: They get free rushers in on him, but he sees
Speaker 1: it all before the snap and puts it beautiful touch
Speaker 1: opposite shoulder to Kirk who makes a long touchdown. It
Speaker 1: was just like it was amazing. It was just amazing
Speaker 1: individual performances by their superstars. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: you could get out of this Arizona Cardinals team. I
Speaker 1: think if you're a Cardinals fan, you are right up
Speaker 1: there in the top two or three. That what we're
Speaker 1: talking about coming out of Week one. UM with your
Speaker 1: spirits lifted, because they have been taking verbal jab after
Speaker 1: verbal jab all off season. I think people have been
Speaker 1: down on the Cardinals. I've been down on them. I
Speaker 1: saw them as like an eight eight and one type
Speaker 1: of team, and a lot of it maybe had to
Speaker 1: do with the with their finished last year and Murray
Speaker 1: wasn't healthy. But you know, there were questions about how
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury ran the offense, and a lot of their
Speaker 1: offseason signings to me felt like too little, too late,
Speaker 1: Like you're signing guys who would have been a hot,
Speaker 1: actual prospect to have on your team three years ago.
Speaker 1: But look at it's working, at least at work today.
Speaker 1: I mean to the point where Mike vrabel is coming
Speaker 1: out of this game saying, we'll find out now what
Speaker 1: our culture actually is. I mean, he's been there years
Speaker 1: that they did this. Rock the foundation of Tennessee that much. Greg.
Speaker 1: You know, mere days ago you were saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: the football world is too down on Tennessee. They looked
Speaker 1: like a dog locked them up. I locked them up
Speaker 1: one of the you know, the two of the three
Speaker 1: of us made some of the worst locks in the
Speaker 1: history of this program to club. I was all into
Speaker 1: a terrible switch to go away from my beloved Broncos
Speaker 1: and I deserve it. Uh. It was just it was
Speaker 1: crazy and I and I would feel good if you're
Speaker 1: Arizona because of the players who did show up, Davin Collins,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, ron Dale Moore has got some juice, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you he he went four for sixty. Some of
Speaker 1: that was on this phony play at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half, but there was one other screen pass
Speaker 1: where they threw it short on third and ten and
Speaker 1: more had after burners. And you're kind of looking for
Speaker 1: some other playmakers that we didn't know about in Arizona,
Speaker 1: and they've got one, I think in ron Dale Moore.
Speaker 1: And by the way, on the subject of Titanically Lost
Speaker 1: lock Weeks, the Westling Brothers are in the mix this year,
Speaker 1: and they locked up the Steelers. That was they locked
Speaker 1: up the bill. We might as well have the floor
Speaker 1: fall entitle. That would have been. Yeah, that was like
Speaker 1: the most logical one. Also, Julio Jones had kind of
Speaker 1: a nightmare game here, So I'm not gonna push the
Speaker 1: panic button. What does that mean? Nightmare? What do you
Speaker 1: mean by that drop? That led to an interception? Not
Speaker 1: a lot of separation. Not on the same page with
Speaker 1: Tannehill in the end zone where Tannehill through a nice
Speaker 1: pass that probably should have been a touchdown. You know,
Speaker 1: six targets for twenty nine yards. Basically as bad a game,
Speaker 1: you know, as as you would want, like a superstar
Speaker 1: receiver to have as one game. One game, just one game.
Speaker 1: And Mike Brabel said after the game, it's unfortunate. It
Speaker 1: is disappointing. There's no other way to put it. It
Speaker 1: sucks when you lose, especially like that, when they're doing
Speaker 1: a nuclear bomb test, uh in your own area of Nashville, Like,
Speaker 1: not even in the desert where it's safe and you
Speaker 1: don't have any homes or apartment buildings or parks or schools.
Speaker 1: You're doing it straight up in the Nashville area. The
Speaker 1: crowds were going. The crowd was like stunned. They were booing,
Speaker 1: they were so ready to enjoy this game, and they
Speaker 1: were just like, what is happening to us? Our faces
Speaker 1: are melting off. I mean to your point. And if
Speaker 1: you dropped a nuclear bomb on Nashville, it would resemble
Speaker 1: a desert in many ways. So we have two deserts
Speaker 1: who had a worse who had a worse week. One
Speaker 1: of the Packers or the Tytoons. All the Packers come
Speaker 1: on because it's so on Aaron Rodgers, it's a Rodgers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Titans feel like they mix in these games every
Speaker 1: now and then, like where you're just like what the
Speaker 1: heck just happened? And a lot of these plays like
Speaker 1: no one could have stopped these Kyler Murray plays, like
Speaker 1: they were just too good. Just one quick note. One
Speaker 1: last one was that he's the second quarterback ever to
Speaker 1: like throw for fifty and rush for sixteen and like
Speaker 1: x amount of games. Uh, Dante Culpeppers the next one,
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know, he does remind me of
Speaker 1: Dante Culpepper in some weird way, even though he's like
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty pounds less. As just like a
Speaker 1: joy to watch that there's sometimes there's nothing you can
Speaker 1: do to stop Kyler Murray. And that was the case today. Um.
Speaker 1: By the way, money bad money Badger Michael Badge Lee
Speaker 1: Um got on the team when Sam Faking was moved
Speaker 1: to injured reserve and he missed more kicks. I mean
Speaker 1: that the Titans, this is a game from hell. Missed
Speaker 1: an extra point in the field, missed an extra point,
Speaker 1: and I'll just say that. Um. Chandler Jones. We cannot
Speaker 1: give him enough love for this performance. His five sacks
Speaker 1: are the third most by a player in a season opener.
Speaker 1: Derrek Thomas had six to open the ninety s, and
Speaker 1: Derrek Thomas was unbelievable. Watch out, Michael Strahan, watch out here.
Speaker 1: You know, Chandler Jones got pretty close. Chandler Jones got
Speaker 1: pretty close. Chandler Jones should be going into Steve Kime's
Speaker 1: office tonight and saying, give me my money. Give it
Speaker 1: to me now. You wanted to wait and uh, you
Speaker 1: wanted to wait and see I did show up. I'm
Speaker 1: playing on time. How about you go make like Mickey
Speaker 1: Loomis over in New Orleans and give me the contract
Speaker 1: right now. They gave Marshawn Lattimore a contract after the game.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works out. Marshall and Lattimore
Speaker 1: got more guaranteed money than any defensive back in history.
Speaker 1: According to Ian Rappart, after one, you know, solid week one,
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones as well, And they showed Chandler owns, you know,
Speaker 1: on the sideline after he had had five sacks and
Speaker 1: he was just confidently strutting up and down with a
Speaker 1: smile on his face. He knows good things are about
Speaker 1: to happen. And I don't want to leave up Billy Gay,
Speaker 1: who had five and a half sacks for the Detroit
Speaker 1: lines to open the ninety three season. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: Donald fakes to McCaffrey, moves up with the pocket, throws
Speaker 1: long and middle An says they're cought ted toutsdown Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 1: Now Nick mix and w BT with called Robbie. You
Speaker 1: know after he catches that, he puts up the Jets side.
Speaker 1: He's like going through the end zone, which was his
Speaker 1: celebration when he was with the Jets. And Keith hands
Speaker 1: as text me and he's all fire up. He's like, God,
Speaker 1: that think doing that celebration. I said, Dad, I wrote back, Dad.
Speaker 1: Jet's quit on Robbie Anderson. They did not want to
Speaker 1: bring him back. He's sticking it to a team that
Speaker 1: didn't want him. Fair play, I like to think coming
Speaker 1: back into the operation. Sam Donald through for seventy on
Speaker 1: in a touchdown and ran ran for another score against
Speaker 1: his former team as the Panthers beat the Jets nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1: And um, yeah, this started very badly for the Jets,
Speaker 1: and some really bad stuff come out came out of it.
Speaker 1: But it was a nice, nice day for Sam Donald. UM.
Speaker 1: Even though they got shut down in the second half,
Speaker 1: they were held to three points, but Sam Donald played
Speaker 1: a big role in the win. He looked much more comfortable. UM.
Speaker 1: It turns out having Christian McCaffrey on your team makes
Speaker 1: you a lot better as both an offense and as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. And he avoided the type of mistakes. He
Speaker 1: did have a fumble lost fumble in the red zone.
Speaker 1: But I when I think about the Sam Donald mistakes
Speaker 1: that haunted his time in New York, and they mounted
Speaker 1: as his confidence wayne as the as the roster got
Speaker 1: worse and the coaching bottomed out late in his third
Speaker 1: season with the Jets, I think about all those interceptions
Speaker 1: and as a Jets fan now and it was even
Speaker 1: weirder than I anticipated when the game started, because in
Speaker 1: a lot of way, it feels like and this also
Speaker 1: goes back to just how fast time goes now is
Speaker 1: you start to get older and you have kids and
Speaker 1: things like that, Like Sam Donald was I blink and
Speaker 1: he was the Jets future, and now he's on the
Speaker 1: other sideline and we have Zack Wilson here how many
Speaker 1: times he would kill the Jets with interceptions and I'm
Speaker 1: rooting for that to happen now and he just didn't
Speaker 1: do it. So good for Sam Donald. I truly am
Speaker 1: happy for him that he had this moment and on
Speaker 1: the Jet side of the ball, total wipe out performance
Speaker 1: in the first half. There was some good to take
Speaker 1: out of the second half of how the defense fought hard.
Speaker 1: Robert Sala obviously has these guys passionate and caring about
Speaker 1: their job, which was not happening in New York under
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze last year. And then um, Zack Wilson, after
Speaker 1: a very quiet first half where he's running for his
Speaker 1: life and looking like he was a little scatter brained,
Speaker 1: really turned it on and did some nice things in
Speaker 1: the second half. So there were some positives there, but
Speaker 1: the Panthers get the win, and UM, a nice way
Speaker 1: to start the season for for Sam Donald. I mean
Speaker 1: McKay beck in the injury there as a killer. Uh
Speaker 1: that there's so many of these around the league today
Speaker 1: that suddenly you look at certain position groups and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: but I love Zach Wilson's comments after the game. Um,
Speaker 1: what Robert Sala had to say about Zack Wilson, He's
Speaker 1: in a tough spot and not every one of these
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks. Today was a huge example of that are
Speaker 1: gonna be shining stars from the beginning. There's a lot
Speaker 1: to learn. And I love his mental makeup. Though I
Speaker 1: know that's sort of a cliche thing to say about
Speaker 1: some of these quarterbacks, but everything I hear from Zack
Speaker 1: Wilson UM seems like a total team guy, who is,
Speaker 1: you know, not going to shy away from some tough sundays.
Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty beaten up today. Was it
Speaker 1: like ten quarterback hits? I don't know if that's a
Speaker 1: Carolina defense thing or if that's a Jets problem on
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's both, Um, but you know that's part
Speaker 1: of the job, is not turning into what happened to
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz last year from the neck up when you're
Speaker 1: getting beaten up on these Sundays. Eight to what you're
Speaker 1: saying nineteen eight. Midway through the fourth quarter, the Jets
Speaker 1: are scrambling to try to get it back within a score,
Speaker 1: and they're they're knocking on the red zone of Carolina
Speaker 1: and and Wilson gets absolutely creamed. And it looks like
Speaker 1: in the moment it looks like a concussion. On the telecast,
Speaker 1: they thought it might have been because he got slammed
Speaker 1: so hard. Uh, this is just with two minutes to
Speaker 1: play and he pops up, shakes it off, completes a
Speaker 1: past two minute or and completes a touchdown past and
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, okay, that's that's something that that really
Speaker 1: showed me something. Um and Christian McCaffrey, I just want
Speaker 1: to say this like he is. It's almost like Matt
Speaker 1: Rule has to Um. Really, it's it's a test for
Speaker 1: Brady and Rule the O C two not use him
Speaker 1: too much because he's just so good that I feel
Speaker 1: like they could have put the Jets away in the
Speaker 1: second half if they just just started feeding McCaffrey every
Speaker 1: time nine cast. That's what I mean. It's like. But
Speaker 1: it's like if they would have given Hi an extra five,
Speaker 1: I think he would have broken one of those. And God,
Speaker 1: because he's that good, he looks, he looks like a guy.
Speaker 1: It's poised to challenge all those records when it comes
Speaker 1: to multipurpose in terms of total yards. Well, our Guy
Speaker 1: rap Sheet reported Beckton has a sprained MCL, so it
Speaker 1: could be worse, but could be better. You know. With
Speaker 1: with the Patriot, that's actually great news over I mean,
Speaker 1: you were thinking the knee was completely gone, but during
Speaker 1: the game, had he blows out or it looked like
Speaker 1: he blew it out on that first touchdown pass by
Speaker 1: Wilson And when he's leaving in the cart, when you
Speaker 1: whenever the player has had the look of anguish with
Speaker 1: the towel over the face, I usually take that to
Speaker 1: me in an addition to him being pained and upset
Speaker 1: that he's been told they did a test and he
Speaker 1: has a tour and that's what everyone kind of assumed.
Speaker 1: So if you're telling me he's gonna be back at
Speaker 1: some point this season and he doesn't have a year
Speaker 1: rehab ahead of him, that's a huge win. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the early evaluation. Sometimes they do change a day later,
Speaker 1: but you're right, that's that's good news. But the kind
Speaker 1: of buzz that maybe the line that they're really putting there,
Speaker 1: that Joe Douglas putting his kind of name behind, is
Speaker 1: this line that they had a rough first month. Just
Speaker 1: looking you know, at the box score. That's the crooked
Speaker 1: I like looking at the ESPN box score, I have
Speaker 1: to admit, just for like the crooked numbers, the ten
Speaker 1: QB hicks hits, six sacks and six tackles for loss,
Speaker 1: Like I just like that's just a quick snapshot. Are
Speaker 1: you making splash plays behind the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: those are big numbers? Ten? Good job. And it's not
Speaker 1: just on the Jets offensive line. It's Brian Burns, um
Speaker 1: uh Shaq Thompson everywhere. They really, Um, Caroline is interesting.
Speaker 1: Your team, buddy, your team. That's my wild card pick,
Speaker 1: and I I don't think it would be that surprising
Speaker 1: if it happens, because I just think they're well coached.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see them against the team other than
Speaker 1: the Jets. But um, they have some they have speed,
Speaker 1: they have some guys that can get after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: They have some playmakers in the secondary. Of course with
Speaker 1: Chin in the second year, and this offense will score points,
Speaker 1: especially if Donald plays like this. All right, let's move forward,
Speaker 1: pressure Taylor throws are hits, takes it across rocking roll,
Speaker 1: touchdown Houston. I guess it's got him a dad move
Speaker 1: rock and roll. I love rock and roll. That's the touchdown. Call.
Speaker 1: It's not like term is a reference to something more
Speaker 1: that where you don't know, I don't know? Or is
Speaker 1: that always the TOUCHDOWNE call Ricky dig In on this
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermere find out if he has any connection? Does
Speaker 1: he does he have a I don't know. That's some
Speaker 1: type of name play there. K l I t Tai
Speaker 1: God Taylor through for two to ninety one and two
Speaker 1: touchdowns filling in for Deshaun Watson, leads the Texans to
Speaker 1: a thirty one win over Trevor Lawrence sloppy Jaguars team
Speaker 1: in urban Meyer's NFL debut. This is a fever dury
Speaker 1: and for Rosenthal. Now, Greg, I have to I have
Speaker 1: to dip my cap because you thought A the Texans
Speaker 1: had a legit chance to win this game, which I
Speaker 1: pushed back on, and B that the Jaguars might be
Speaker 1: a bloody mess under urban Meyer and so far at
Speaker 1: one game, Yeah nailed it. Yeah, I mean I didn't
Speaker 1: nail it. If I what a glorious moment, it would
Speaker 1: have been a lock up the Texans. Uh. And you know,
Speaker 1: instead you go for the lousy tightens tie God and
Speaker 1: the coaching staff showed out though Tyler Tyrod Taylor once
Speaker 1: it was like the second best running quarterback in the league,
Speaker 1: like just in terms of pure running ability. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit of that. Today there's only one like twenty
Speaker 1: nine yard run. But you saw a little juice and
Speaker 1: you saw a running game that you know, just kept
Speaker 1: the ball the whole time. But the key moment was
Speaker 1: that Amndola touchdown. I was watching this game late in
Speaker 1: the second half. They score a touchdown with under a minute,
Speaker 1: or score get a field goal with under a minute
Speaker 1: to go, and urban Meyer does the thing where they
Speaker 1: throw three passes. They're trying to be aggressive, don't take
Speaker 1: any time off the clock punted away and I was like,
Speaker 1: David Kelly's gonna tell me something here, is he gonna
Speaker 1: try to be aggressive with like thirty seven seconds in
Speaker 1: seventy yards to go with Tyrod Taylor because like the
Speaker 1: move that you expect the Texans do is now there's
Speaker 1: not you know what he does. They go balls to
Speaker 1: the wall to get like another touchdown, and Tyrod and
Speaker 1: the rest of those boys delivered. Like Pharrell Brown's making plays,
Speaker 1: a Mendola is making plays. Nico Collins's okay, he made
Speaker 1: like one place he didn't make any place. But I
Speaker 1: was just like, wow, that was that was an impressive moment.
Speaker 1: That drive, to me was impressive because it was Collis saying, like,
Speaker 1: we need to put up a lot of points. I
Speaker 1: know Tyrod Taylor's our quarterback, but like, let's be ultra
Speaker 1: aggressive with thirty eight seconds to go, and then they
Speaker 1: rewarded him with the touchdown. Dra It's the old Lester
Speaker 1: Burnham quote. I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.
Speaker 1: That's David Culley. Why not, why not just go for it?
Speaker 1: Everything's set up against you. Nobody really expects you or
Speaker 1: maybe even wants you to succeed. So do the old
Speaker 1: major league thing with you beat go full Behringer, Always
Speaker 1: go full Berenger. I mean they've they've you know, he
Speaker 1: talked about after the game that one of their biggest
Speaker 1: chores in two Dudes was shutting out the intense negativity.
Speaker 1: There aren't that many teams that have been dumped on
Speaker 1: and for a lot of their own reasons. I mean,
Speaker 1: they created they've created a lot of their own mess, obviously.
Speaker 1: But you know, you're you're deactivating to Shaun Watson, you're
Speaker 1: starting Tyrod Taylor. Most of the nation things, you're gonna
Speaker 1: go one in sixteen, you drop a hammer on a
Speaker 1: Jaguars team that there were whispers today, even little stories already,
Speaker 1: that there are players in Jacksonville not adoring the urban
Speaker 1: Meyer experience already were one game into the season. So
Speaker 1: I know that delights Greg as well. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it is I think for the Jags. My
Speaker 1: question on our TV show, well the honeymoon and at
Speaker 1: four PM, I feel like I didn't think there was
Speaker 1: a honeymoon to begin with, but I see. But but
Speaker 1: to your point, like something ended today. Those whoever, those
Speaker 1: guys that are given these quotes of the press, you better,
Speaker 1: you better trust your journal because if it gets back
Speaker 1: to urban Meyer, he ain't one and done, you will
Speaker 1: be one and done. Especially uh, you know that's a
Speaker 1: young team. Everyone's replaceable except for the big guy. Uh.
Speaker 1: Number one. Overall, what did you see uh in that
Speaker 1: game from Trevor Lawrence Greig? His you know, his interceptions
Speaker 1: were bad, Like it was him on the run plays
Speaker 1: you would think he could make, just didn't make it.
Speaker 1: I think he made a lot of positive There's two
Speaker 1: kind of like the kind of like the preseason. So
Speaker 1: I don't think it was on him. They were. They
Speaker 1: were bum rushed for the most part, but there was
Speaker 1: a couple of surprising decisions. The Texans three interceptions tied
Speaker 1: their total from all of last year. Love Smith, how
Speaker 1: about Lovey Smith. We haven't given Lovey Smith any I
Speaker 1: gotta say Lovey Smith was a was not just a
Speaker 1: good defensive coach in the NFL. People think like his
Speaker 1: the way he coached passed them by in terms of
Speaker 1: the scheme. It's a very safe, boring scheme. He was
Speaker 1: a great defensive coach. I'm just I'm just saying. And
Speaker 1: and in this game, they didn't blitz as far as
Speaker 1: I know because I heard this that midway through the
Speaker 1: third they didn't blitz one time. They dropped seven or eight.
Speaker 1: Every single play made Lawrence have to like make decisions
Speaker 1: and play played very good team sort of defense and
Speaker 1: it worked. Um. Somebody tweeted at me, because you know
Speaker 1: the power rankings, a lot of eyeballs get on them,
Speaker 1: and then people take it personally and they save it
Speaker 1: and they get ready to attack me on Sunday as
Speaker 1: soon as something happens that I didn't predict in terms
Speaker 1: of with my rankings and someone wrote tweeted me, you're
Speaker 1: sticking by your ranking the Texans last than the power rankings.
Speaker 1: That is probably gonna burn you owned. And then another guy,
Speaker 1: another guy, got pre emptively mad at me, a Titans
Speaker 1: fan who's obviously very upset and probably about six or
Speaker 1: seven beers in at least. He said, if you put
Speaker 1: the Titans anywhere inside the top twenty, you should be
Speaker 1: ashamed of yourself, like preemptively shaming me for something I
Speaker 1: didn't do. In Wait, they want them inside or outside.
Speaker 1: So if I if I don't drop them, I think
Speaker 1: I haven't. Oh, he wants you to punish his own team.
Speaker 1: And if I don't, think the Jaguars might be thirty two.
Speaker 1: I haven't really thought about it. But if you lose
Speaker 1: to the Texans by this much, maybe you replay them.
Speaker 1: But like, I just thought it was funny, like you
Speaker 1: should be ashamed of yourself for something that I hadn't
Speaker 1: even done. I mean, that's how this works. Though, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get tweets like that. You said six or seven
Speaker 1: beers in was what you assumed based on how you know?
Speaker 1: That was? K I l t by the way, kind
Speaker 1: of transposed a letter to there I was, but I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't asked actually gonna ask on this show, but
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask after. But you've solved the mystery
Speaker 1: and solved Let's keep moving. I mean that would be
Speaker 1: an interesting radio station. The other one, Yes, it would
Speaker 1: and he who's got it? Yeah, but don't write wow.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Seo and Jason Taylor. The sack MASTA w q
Speaker 1: A M with the call to a tungle by Lowa
Speaker 1: through a go ahead touchdown past the Jalen Waddle rookie
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, and Davian Howard recovered to Damian
Speaker 1: Harris bumble with newing and driving to help the Dolphins
Speaker 1: hold on for a seventeen sixty and win over the
Speaker 1: Patriots in Foxborough. Greg, we entered the season viewing these teams,
Speaker 1: or at least I did. I think you did too,
Speaker 1: as very close in their division, and it didnty closer
Speaker 1: than seventeen six week one. No, it was um an
Speaker 1: example of how the Dolphins have kind of become the
Speaker 1: new old Patriots where you're like, how did they win
Speaker 1: that game? Where you where you leave the game being like,
Speaker 1: what what just happened? Um? Like, because I think they
Speaker 1: do a lot of smart things schematically, but the Patriots ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, outgained them by hundred forty yards something like that.
Speaker 1: Mac Jones looks like the better quarterback. And at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they forced two really key fumbles
Speaker 1: by the Patriots running backs, including one you know that
Speaker 1: you heard inside the ten late in the game where
Speaker 1: you really felt like the Patriots were gonna go in
Speaker 1: for a touchdown of nothing else, they were gonna take
Speaker 1: the lead there. But the Dolphins, like Xavian Howard, like
Speaker 1: they find a way to make play is and I
Speaker 1: just think they are a smart, like well coached team
Speaker 1: that again is like greater than the some of their parts.
Speaker 1: The out patriot of the Patriot your your boy, Flora's
Speaker 1: I don't know whose boy it is is three and
Speaker 1: two over. He is shown over the past few years
Speaker 1: that he knows what he's doing and that that had
Speaker 1: to feel really good to be a Belichick disciple going
Speaker 1: up in that building and started season and out Patriots
Speaker 1: eying the Patriots. I mean that is that was their
Speaker 1: earmark last year. I thought they found ways to win
Speaker 1: games by dismantling quarterbacks and getting you know, fringe no
Speaker 1: namers to do special things down the stretch. I mean,
Speaker 1: this game, you're right, was so bizarre to watch. But
Speaker 1: I did think that mac Jones got more comfortable and
Speaker 1: made great throws as it went along. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're just wanting to say, look at where are we
Speaker 1: as the Patriots offense with this new quarterback. I saw
Speaker 1: Erica tweeting about him. She seems um enamored to some degree.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, because part of it was
Speaker 1: this was the two of verse, two of verse mac
Speaker 1: Jones and I don't know mac Jones supprested. Is do
Speaker 1: it to me? It looks better? No, you flipped the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the and give mac Jones to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins win by twenty. I was I was kind
Speaker 1: of flying after this game. I was surprised to hear
Speaker 1: how sad. I mean, I wasn't surprised, but a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, my dad and a couple of Patriots
Speaker 1: friends in my life, you know, really down that they
Speaker 1: can pull this out. Yeah, Ricky jump into and I'm like, Yetta,
Speaker 1: look at the big picture. Mac Jones looked awesome in
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, I think beyond the stat lines, the
Speaker 1: next level things that he's already doing as a rookie,
Speaker 1: the touch on his throws, the way they're going like
Speaker 1: five wide and empty and crucial moments. The offensive line
Speaker 1: for the Patriot, which is supposed to be great, played terrible.
Speaker 1: He was under more pressure than than to a he
Speaker 1: handled it much better for the most part, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I feel like the Patriots have a quarterback and that's
Speaker 1: that's the bigger story. I totally agree, Greg, Like I
Speaker 1: think at the beginning, you know, in the top of
Speaker 1: the show, you guys were talking about that feeling of
Speaker 1: like getting excited and when they were marching down the
Speaker 1: field too, before that fumble happened, like my heart's right
Speaker 1: saying and I'm like, oh my god, like we're gonna
Speaker 1: do this, Like I can't believe this is happening, and
Speaker 1: that feeling when it when you know it didn't go
Speaker 1: that way, But yeah, of course it was like wow.
Speaker 1: This Actually there's so many times where I was like,
Speaker 1: if Cam Newton was the quarterback right now, I don't
Speaker 1: think we would have been even close in this conversation.
Speaker 1: I hope because I really like Damian Harris as a player,
Speaker 1: and I hope this doesn't lead to him having to
Speaker 1: sleep outside for three months or now, and he looked incredible.
Speaker 1: He also got banged pretty hard by a helmet um
Speaker 1: and his helmet came off during one play. Greg, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember that, and not saying that
Speaker 1: I had anything to do with it, but like he
Speaker 1: carried so many times, and like just like the brute
Speaker 1: force of what he did for this team, like helmets
Speaker 1: coming on. I just he's awesome. How annoyed was Belichick
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. I thought I saw
Speaker 1: a few looks from him where he seemed a little peaked.
Speaker 1: But or does he share your optimism to Greg? No,
Speaker 1: he looked pretty flung that, like what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: We just fumbled the ball inside the ten? You know
Speaker 1: they lost, they lost the turnover battle, like they couldn't
Speaker 1: get They had a chance to get a stop in
Speaker 1: the end and you know that they couldn't. Um. But
Speaker 1: I just think as a Patriots ban, you just look
Speaker 1: at the players that are on this team and they
Speaker 1: just look they look a lot better, Like Damion Harris
Speaker 1: looked great today. There's a couple you know, the passing
Speaker 1: game was the passing game wasn't perfect, but it's like
Speaker 1: when you're throwing the ball to Johnny Smith and Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry and agil Are at the end, it's like a
Speaker 1: couple of them made plays on their own, and it's
Speaker 1: like they just didn't have guys like that last year.
Speaker 1: So I think even though they lost, I felt a
Speaker 1: lot of productivity. That's what's kind of tricky here with
Speaker 1: the pats um that you spend a hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: million and guaranteed money in free agency, which tells you
Speaker 1: we're looking to win now. But then you cut Cam
Speaker 1: and you say the rookies starting, and then that puts
Speaker 1: you into different places a team, which is well, it's
Speaker 1: not really always about wins. It's about progress for the
Speaker 1: kid as well. It's almost like they're trying to live
Speaker 1: in two worlds. And I'm not saying that can't work
Speaker 1: at least from a fan standpoint. Maybe there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some Uh, it's gonna be tough to focus for some people.
Speaker 1: I know if Cam would be well, they told you
Speaker 1: everything that they that you need to know about what
Speaker 1: they think about Cam Newton. And there's another world where
Speaker 1: Mac Jones by week eight is playing in the universe
Speaker 1: that we didn't expect in all these pieces. Physically today
Speaker 1: he did today. I know that numbers weren't crazy, but
Speaker 1: I think, like what he's doing as a rookie, I'm
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying not to get too carried away
Speaker 1: because I know I am a Patriots fan, but I
Speaker 1: swear I would be saying this if he was on
Speaker 1: another team. That the things he's doing now maybe like
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the room to improve as much as
Speaker 1: some of these other quarterbacks, but the level he's at
Speaker 1: now is rare for a rookie. How did he look?
Speaker 1: Look looks better than last year. I know that there
Speaker 1: was a lot of and I'll shut up because that
Speaker 1: no one wants to hear me talk about the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: But I think there was a lot of stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: going in this offseason. It's like, is to a really
Speaker 1: the guy that you know the Dolphins? You know Tank
Speaker 1: for two? I do inc that you know there were
Speaker 1: some you know, he had a rushing t d and
Speaker 1: and he I think he played better, and Greg correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. I think that there was an
Speaker 1: improvement from last season better, but a couple of groaners
Speaker 1: you don't need to take, you know, you you asked
Speaker 1: the question and then left Eric like you were like,
Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen. Uh, a couple of growners.
Speaker 1: I mean a killer interception at the end where he's
Speaker 1: trying to throw the ball. He said, he's trying to
Speaker 1: throw the ball at a bounds but he didn't reach it,
Speaker 1: which is kind of the thing with Tow Like we
Speaker 1: heard mac Jones's arm wasn't great, Like mac Jones's arm
Speaker 1: looks fine to to his arm, I think it's a
Speaker 1: question of some of those deep balls. Hanging up. Um
Speaker 1: had another groaner where he was lucky to get away
Speaker 1: with another interception but had positive place. Miles Gaskon looked
Speaker 1: awesome and they looked pretty tough to defend with some
Speaker 1: of the read option and everything they got. Will Fuller
Speaker 1: coming off suspension next week. He is an underrated guy
Speaker 1: and a great deep threat to we can get it
Speaker 1: to him. Let's move on. That goes hurts, he is
Speaker 1: lucky he is firing for a touch Um the first
Speaker 1: touched off the l career Merrill Reese, the legend w
Speaker 1: I P with the called Jalen hurts through three touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: the first of them too. Yes, the heisman Trophy winner
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith and the Eagles made a winner of Nick
Speaker 1: Sirianni his head coach debut rout of the folly filled
Speaker 1: with the bang thing on him at Mercedes Benz Stadium.
Speaker 1: But me arc Nick Sirianni sounded kind of nervous and
Speaker 1: his introductory press conference, how can this happen? Exactly? I
Speaker 1: don't appreciate the way you just addressed my name either,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna I'm gonnafod John uh I would point
Speaker 1: to this one little chunk of the game where it
Speaker 1: turned from a positive Eagles experience to an incredibly hopeful one,
Speaker 1: and it was the end of the first half. Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts and the two minute offense totally comfortable Number one,
Speaker 1: the heat basically just went out there and said, I'm
Speaker 1: going to run against the Falcons one I need to.
Speaker 1: They had nobody that could stop him. He moved to
Speaker 1: feet the team so confidently down the field, and Sirianni
Speaker 1: is an aggressive coach to who I'll get into that
Speaker 1: in a second. But Hurts on this drive to help
Speaker 1: them go up fifteen to six, because what happened was
Speaker 1: they were up seven to six. They he threw a
Speaker 1: great pass to Dale at Dallas Goddard, who really battled
Speaker 1: Dion Jones to make a great catch in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Then there was a penalty on the Falcons. So it's
Speaker 1: at that point thirteen to six, and Sirianni dials up
Speaker 1: a two point conversion that Miles Sanders got and suddenly
Speaker 1: it's fifteen to six at halftime and the Falcons, who
Speaker 1: came out of the gate explosive on offense, I mean,
Speaker 1: moving the ball really well, to the point where I
Speaker 1: thought the first quarter of this game was one of
Speaker 1: the better first quarters I'd seen in Week one in
Speaker 1: a long time. They could not get out of their
Speaker 1: problems in the red zone. They had drives that finished
Speaker 1: at the three and the nine I believe of Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and they never got back there again. Arthur Smith was
Speaker 1: visibly annoyed on the sideline. I think that everything that
Speaker 1: they planned to do, he the announcers made comments that
Speaker 1: he wanted to say, look at we don't want to
Speaker 1: be predictable, and they got stuck into a predictable place
Speaker 1: because they got down. I think this jail and hurts
Speaker 1: offense works very well under Sirianni. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: encouragement here if you're an Eagles fan, and after another
Speaker 1: after a bad offseason, he looked great. Let's hear from
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, who was very unhappy with his team's performance
Speaker 1: in his first game as head coach. I did a
Speaker 1: really poor job getting us ready to go. I feel
Speaker 1: uh awful for our fans. Everybody showed up today. We'll
Speaker 1: do a better job at games on going to define us.
Speaker 1: It's a long season to go, but I certainly didn't
Speaker 1: a good job getting us ready to go today. Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts not much there and his debut after an off
Speaker 1: season of breathless hype from the tight end, but that
Speaker 1: it's early. Um, and in general, Greg, this is not
Speaker 1: the offense I think you saw either, because I know
Speaker 1: you were pretty high and Matt Ryan entering the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never liked to hear when the coach says we've
Speaker 1: got a long season to go after week one, like
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a cell phone. It's like,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna define It's like, bro, no one said
Speaker 1: it was gonna define you. It's like week one. Um,
Speaker 1: he's feeling it, and you know the caveat Yeah, the
Speaker 1: caveats apply. That it's going against the Falcons defense, which
Speaker 1: probably the most talent poor defensive league. But I do
Speaker 1: think there's a Lamar Jackson element to Jalen Hurts where
Speaker 1: he raises the rest of the running game to an
Speaker 1: incredibly efficient degree. You know, you think of the Eagles
Speaker 1: is all about analytics, like so are the Ravens like team.
Speaker 1: You know, teams are into running when it's incredibly efficient.
Speaker 1: So if if you if you run at thirty one
Speaker 1: times for a hundred and seventy three yards, that's great,
Speaker 1: you know, Like, and I think Jalen Hurts is running
Speaker 1: ability with this offensive line at least has a chance
Speaker 1: to like raise the running floor really high for this
Speaker 1: Eagles team where that can be something that's repeatable even
Speaker 1: if you're not, you know, dropping thirty every week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we just have to look back
Speaker 1: at some of these teams to turn into total disasters.
Speaker 1: Like last year's Eagles that the line went through multiple
Speaker 1: combinations was never healthy today healthy line? And how about
Speaker 1: the defensive line that down the stretch when the Falcons
Speaker 1: were becoming predictable and Matt Ryan was stuck in passing
Speaker 1: only situations, was completely and totally harassed um Javon Hargrave
Speaker 1: played great. The Falcons left guard Jeralen Mayfield had his
Speaker 1: name mentioned for the wrong time, way too often today
Speaker 1: because he got smoked a number of times. And so
Speaker 1: it's a bad matchup for Atlanta. But that's it's because
Speaker 1: the Falcons are completely legitimate up front or the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I should say, let's move on St. Juice in coverage.
Speaker 1: That's where he's looking, That's where he's throwing. Mike Williams
Speaker 1: talk touch style. Mike Williams and the big body at St.
Speaker 1: Juice never had a chance. That's my power rankings Buddy
Speaker 1: and the voice of God for the Around the NFL podcast,
Speaker 1: Matt Money Smith of k Y s R. With the
Speaker 1: call justin Herbert wasn't perfect, but he lets scoring drives
Speaker 1: of seventy, seventy six and sixty eight yards lost that
Speaker 1: go ahead pet ten to Mike Williams secures the bag
Speaker 1: and win over the Washington football team. Now let's welcome
Speaker 1: in the pipe for another season. On The Flagship Show,
Speaker 1: Nick Shook, Herbert didn't look special in Washington because it's
Speaker 1: I would be concerned if we don't Clip secures the
Speaker 1: bag as a drop in there because it really wasn't
Speaker 1: like a correct usage of it, right, I mean right
Speaker 1: exactly getting that money. It's all about money. I mean
Speaker 1: he's not getting the money. When is he gonna get
Speaker 1: the money? Like three years? I guess we'll just say
Speaker 1: that it still works. Um, I can't stay with you
Speaker 1: hip kids, Go ahead, show Yeah. I mean you try that.
Speaker 1: That's that's showing that you're trying so far. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: justin Herbert, I'm telling you what you know. We we
Speaker 1: saw what he did last year and the Rookie of
Speaker 1: the year offensively, and everything's great, but you always have
Speaker 1: that question going into year two, is there going to
Speaker 1: be a sophomore slump? Is he gonna take? You know?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna continue moving forward? And and all I
Speaker 1: saw out of him today was a calm and cool
Speaker 1: and collected quarterback who looked wise beyond his years and
Speaker 1: basically served as the difference in a game that Chargers
Speaker 1: teams of years past would have lost. They would have
Speaker 1: found ways to lose it. There were moments where they
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there watching and going, oh, that's the crushing
Speaker 1: penalty that gives Washington another chance. They go down and score.
Speaker 1: They end up winning this game by three points or whatever.
Speaker 1: There was late in the game where they forced a
Speaker 1: fumble and the Chargers get the ball on their own territory.
Speaker 1: It's third and long, and what does Justin Herbert do.
Speaker 1: He steps up in the pocket and rips one down
Speaker 1: the middle of the field for our first down. He
Speaker 1: did it on multiple occasions on that possession alone, and honestly,
Speaker 1: they probably would have won by more if his receivers
Speaker 1: would have figured out how to catch the ball in
Speaker 1: the first half. So um, you know, Chargers fans who
Speaker 1: have dealt with so much crushing heartbreak, especially in recent years,
Speaker 1: they gotta be really excited after watching this knowing that
Speaker 1: they have a quarterback who, more often than not, if
Speaker 1: their defense plays adequately, is going to be able to
Speaker 1: throw them too close victories. Well I know. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: Washington lost Ryan Fitzpatrick in this game, and we can
Speaker 1: get into it, but you know, first takeaway small sample size,
Speaker 1: but of the Joe Lombardi offense which we talks about
Speaker 1: on Thursday, does it look like a Saint Fitch offense
Speaker 1: or is there Shanahan elements like you mentioned. Did it
Speaker 1: stand out to you to have a certain vibe. I
Speaker 1: would say, yeah, there are definitely some Saints ish to it,
Speaker 1: but they throw the ball further downfield than they did
Speaker 1: uh in the final years of of Drew Brees with
Speaker 1: the Saints. So I think that there's kind of an
Speaker 1: adjustment because you have a quarterback who's more capable at
Speaker 1: this stage in his career when he's younger, he's got
Speaker 1: a live arm than the Saints did down the stretch
Speaker 1: with Drew Brees. But I mean, you've got to be
Speaker 1: encouraged about what you saw. I know they only put
Speaker 1: up twenty points, but they had a lot of opportunities
Speaker 1: where they probably could have scored more. Like I said,
Speaker 1: if these guys had just executed. There was even a
Speaker 1: moment I think in the second half or Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: had to catch and run and he just dropped the
Speaker 1: ball during the run. He was able to recover it,
Speaker 1: you know, averting a disaster. But um, it took them
Speaker 1: a solid two and a half quarters to kind of
Speaker 1: rediscover that they had hands and then put them to work.
Speaker 1: So I think if you kind of clean that stuff up,
Speaker 1: you get that in week one, you know, from time
Speaker 1: to time and continue to move forward, you're going to
Speaker 1: be in a situation where this offense is gonna look
Speaker 1: a lot better than I think, um it has in
Speaker 1: pasted years, because you know, you have the weapons. It's
Speaker 1: just really been down to execution and uh and being healthy.
Speaker 1: And they got for the most part, they got all
Speaker 1: that to come together. So what happened with Fitzpatrick He
Speaker 1: was tackled by Yucheno osu um and and suffered a
Speaker 1: hip injury. And it was really strange when it actually
Speaker 1: happened because you couldn't quite tell. It looked like a
Speaker 1: pretty normal sack, but he couldn't really get up and
Speaker 1: he needed help walking off and everything else. And um,
Speaker 1: he was done after six attempts, so it was really early.
Speaker 1: But oddly enough, you know, you think, we think about
Speaker 1: all the excitement that Ryan Fitzpatrick has created over the
Speaker 1: years with his many stops with different teams, and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: that's got to take a lot of juice out of him.
Speaker 1: But Taylor Heineke actually did the opposite. He injected some
Speaker 1: life into them. Their problem was that they couldn't close
Speaker 1: the deal, They couldn't finish drives, and we do see
Speaker 1: that a lot again in Week one as well, teams
Speaker 1: that show potential, but they haven't quite figured out how
Speaker 1: to finish off drives by getting points, and that's ultimately
Speaker 1: what kind of did them in, especially fumbling down the
Speaker 1: stretch late right. The Chargers, you know, sneakily had almost
Speaker 1: a dominant offensive performance here. They only had eight drives,
Speaker 1: they reached the red zone and six of them, so
Speaker 1: you're right, like there were those charged moments. There was
Speaker 1: the it was kind of a flukey fumble from Herbert
Speaker 1: where he was trying to throw the ball and they
Speaker 1: slapped it out as he's throwing it, and you know,
Speaker 1: it ends up being Washington ball and then there's an interception.
Speaker 1: But to end the game on on a fifteen play
Speaker 1: eighty two yard drive, to me, that's like the best
Speaker 1: way to end any games. And then you're just kneeling
Speaker 1: on it. They should give style points, like because I
Speaker 1: guess they covered anyway, so it doesn't matter, but they
Speaker 1: should after the game a judge should award them five
Speaker 1: at least five extra style points for that drive. There
Speaker 1: there were a few throwers in that drive were actually
Speaker 1: like audibly yelped, like where he just could connect you
Speaker 1: with Mike leans down the side and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: oh wow, you know I fired me up. At one
Speaker 1: point I think I had tweeted I know I wrote
Speaker 1: about in the recap. I would trust Justin Herbert. If
Speaker 1: I had to diffuse a bomb, I would call in
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert to cut the proper chords and avoid blowing
Speaker 1: us all. I mean, Dan, the Titans, could you could
Speaker 1: use that? Well, that's a nuclear bone. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: you can different properties, different mechanics to it. But when
Speaker 1: I didn't see a stitch, I didn't see a second
Speaker 1: of this game. So but based on what people are
Speaker 1: saying about her its performance, which doesn't sync up with
Speaker 1: the box score, I'm really looking forward to it. The
Speaker 1: Chargers have a good one and we'll see this Ran
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick injury. I believe I'm seeing some reports out there.
Speaker 1: It's a multi week situation to Taylor, Heineke is gonna
Speaker 1: get his chance Thursday night, Thursday night, four days against
Speaker 1: the Giants. Let's head speaking of the Giants to the
Speaker 1: swamps of Jersey. Lord on the right side of the
Speaker 1: big hole. Here we go. Midfield sixteen ten five touchdown
Speaker 1: dead four seventy yards for Melvin Gordon. Oh you gotta
Speaker 1: get in the groove of the bottles. I mean if
Speaker 1: when she sends us on so so, no one's looking
Speaker 1: at me there, like because you don't really have the flows.
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one they've got the shirt forard
Speaker 1: at least when you say ko a with it called,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon says, don't fade me yet, fantasy heads, Yeah,
Speaker 1: give me the bag. It was one run. It was
Speaker 1: for seven yard touchdown run. It was the clincher for
Speaker 1: the Broncos cruise to over the Giants at MetLife Stadium.
Speaker 1: Uh shook. Uh. Teddy Bridgewater two touchdowns and his broadcast debut,
Speaker 1: and the Denver defense had all the answers against New York.
Speaker 1: You know, watching Teddy Bridgewater play quarterback can be an
Speaker 1: adventure sometimes because every time that he does something that
Speaker 1: makes you think, like we did early in his career,
Speaker 1: that oh, this guy can be a franchise quarterback. There
Speaker 1: are a few plays where he's slowed to decide to
Speaker 1: deliver the football, or he makes a mistake or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. We were like, oh, that's what's always held
Speaker 1: him back. And I think it was perfectly captured. Surprising
Speaker 1: on a touchdown pass that was completely chaotic in the
Speaker 1: second half. He rolled out to the right and it
Speaker 1: looked like it is just gonna end in complete disaster.
Speaker 1: And then he finds a tight end Albert albert O
Speaker 1: We're gonna call him because I don't want to try
Speaker 1: to pronounce his last name, and he sneaks into the
Speaker 1: end zone on the front right pylon and it was
Speaker 1: and it was another one of those things where you're
Speaker 1: sitting there going, oh, no, no, alright, alright. They scored um.
Speaker 1: But I do see why Vic Fangio picked him because
Speaker 1: for like the stat line says, for the majority of
Speaker 1: the game, he was a very serviceable, if not better quarterback,
Speaker 1: and he kept their offense moving. I mean that some
Speaker 1: of the points they scored late were kind of just
Speaker 1: tacked on. It was a close game until about late
Speaker 1: in the fourth midway or late in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: But you gotta be, you know, pretty excited because serviceable
Speaker 1: or better, if you can get what you expect out
Speaker 1: of the Broncos defense, should make them somewhat of a contender.
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be, you know, tough to battle with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but it should make them at least a
Speaker 1: competitive team instead of the team that they've been in
Speaker 1: recent seasons. I mean they put up a four and
Speaker 1: twenty yards offensively twenty my right endver Hey, that's the
Speaker 1: right city for it. Um, It's like, and what more
Speaker 1: do you want? If they put up four hundred yards
Speaker 1: a week, They're they're gonna go to the playoffs and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win my sandwiches right now. Winning on the
Speaker 1: road is is you know, I'm impressive when you do
Speaker 1: it comfortably. But this Stian's team seems like it it
Speaker 1: has some problems. Chookie that that this week didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: make you feel any better about them? I'm sure. And
Speaker 1: that's the perfect lead into because while I said Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater is an adventure, Daniel Jones is a damn roller coaster.
Speaker 1: And he's a roller coaster with an eighty eight degree
Speaker 1: drop on the first, second, and third hill. Because as
Speaker 1: soon as you get down, you go, all right, well
Speaker 1: we survived. Here we go here's the big hill. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, we're dropping again. Daniel Jones with a textbook
Speaker 1: fumble at a bad time that kills a drive, making
Speaker 1: mistake a play and then making another mistake and then
Speaker 1: ultimately digging themselves too much of a hole to get
Speaker 1: out of, you know, not being able to convert on
Speaker 1: fourth down on the edge of the red zone late
Speaker 1: in the game when you absolutely have to have it.
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but as I watched him,
Speaker 1: like man, Giants fans just have to be absolutely exasperated
Speaker 1: with Daniel Jones because again, it's just like it was
Speaker 1: last year and somewhat in the year before too. He
Speaker 1: shows flashes where you're like, man, this guy can make
Speaker 1: a play. Wow, he's talented, he's athletic, he's got a
Speaker 1: good arm, but he can never really quite get out
Speaker 1: of his own way there. It was really what did
Speaker 1: Then I saw a good tweet and twitter from when
Speaker 1: I wish I didn't remember who it was. It was
Speaker 1: one of the guys who covers the Giants um who wrote,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is good until he's not. And that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Like just when you feel like, okay, he's in a groove,
Speaker 1: we're in the right direction. Maybe this is something to
Speaker 1: build off that fumble. That fumble killed him. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they're gonna win that game, because the Bronchos
Speaker 1: were just the better team, but it's just it's all
Speaker 1: the air goes out of the balloon in that building
Speaker 1: after that bumble. And I'd say, like ten years ago
Speaker 1: when we started doing all this, like there were a
Speaker 1: dozen teams that had somewhat flaky quarterbacks, and there were
Speaker 1: five or six that had terrible quarterbacks, and there was
Speaker 1: a dearth of quarterbacks. That's obviously changed in the last
Speaker 1: three or four and you can't have a quarterback that's
Speaker 1: being described and is living up to the description as
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. He also like need more from the
Speaker 1: running game. And in Sa Kwan Barkley, it's like I
Speaker 1: read so many articles how how much of a difference
Speaker 1: it will be with Sa Kwan Barkley and he goes,
Speaker 1: you know ten for twenty six their first round pick,
Speaker 1: cold areas Tony has two catches for negative two yards,
Speaker 1: Like Denver is gonna present a lot of problems to
Speaker 1: a lot of offenses. I think even even without you know,
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, I don't think played today right, but it's
Speaker 1: still I don't know. I just you don't see a
Speaker 1: lot of answers. And they suddenly that that Thursday night game,
Speaker 1: it's like one of those teams is gonna feel very
Speaker 1: dark at and two Yeah, there seems to be a
Speaker 1: lack of balance with this offense, and and almost like
Speaker 1: they need Daniel Jones to prove it. But there it's
Speaker 1: not quite that they're putting too much on his plate,
Speaker 1: but that in these in these scenarios, you know, thirty
Speaker 1: seven passes, it's not a ton of passes, but they
Speaker 1: were never down by a margin that would necessarily say
Speaker 1: that you have to air it out until we got
Speaker 1: pretty late in that game. It's just they don't you
Speaker 1: know they you have the glimpses, you have the touchdown
Speaker 1: pass to Sterling Shepherd, but there's too much in between
Speaker 1: the just it just leaves a lot to be designed.
Speaker 1: They also had I think maybe the worst summer of
Speaker 1: anyone on offense. I mean outside of maybe one or
Speaker 1: two teams, and half of those guys that you mentioned.
Speaker 1: Greg barely played all August, so it's gonna take some time.
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy looked for all the world like he had
Speaker 1: a season ending injury. They announced after the game that
Speaker 1: it was a high ankle sprain. Tom Passaro reported that too.
Speaker 1: That's even more stunning. And Mackay Beckton because you know,
Speaker 1: we don't you know, you don't want to be graphic
Speaker 1: about it, but that looked like one of those, you know,
Speaker 1: leg injuries where the leg is not attached the way
Speaker 1: it should be anymore. Good. That's great news to but
Speaker 1: maybe in general we shouldn't be eyeballing injuries from like
Speaker 1: our living rooms that you don't you know, we didn't
Speaker 1: do anything. I'm not pointing that you specifically, just the
Speaker 1: general public. When a player who's clothed goes on the ground,
Speaker 1: we may not know everything that's happening with the person's body.
Speaker 1: That's all, just do I don't follow your take total. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one was gruesome. His his it looked like the
Speaker 1: saying the fact suggests that it's not. It looked like
Speaker 1: that to you, But the facts suggests that it's not
Speaker 1: quite as severe as you think. So my point is,
Speaker 1: you wait a little bit, just let it. You know,
Speaker 1: settle can move the show, please do. We're onto Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Borrow back to pass, has time throws it down field
Speaker 1: for you. He has it at thirty twenty yardline. What
Speaker 1: a gutsy call and what a throw by show the chicken.
Speaker 1: Oh what a day with the Bengals. Dan Bard w
Speaker 1: c k Y with the call Dave Lapham there too.
Speaker 1: Evan McPherson kicked the thirty three yard field goals time expired,
Speaker 1: an ot to push the Bengals to win over the
Speaker 1: Vikings and shook. You know, we've talked about Zach Taylor
Speaker 1: on this show is a faceless entity entering this season
Speaker 1: an important season for his career, and I thought he
Speaker 1: gained one when then guts he asked play call in
Speaker 1: that spot to set up the game winning kick. Good
Speaker 1: job by Zach Taylor, good job and Joe Burrow, good
Speaker 1: job of the bank. Yeah, it wasn't the only time
Speaker 1: in that game where you saw a play call where
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, that was perfectly time. That was genius
Speaker 1: that it felt like he was getting into a rhythm.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to talk about a lack of
Speaker 1: balance with other teams. The one thing I thought the
Speaker 1: Bengals were really hurting with last year was dropping back
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow to pass fifty times a game behind the
Speaker 1: offensive line, which is better now than it was then.
Speaker 1: It's still not great. The only seven past attempts today
Speaker 1: Joe Maxon ran the ball twenty nine times for seven yards.
Speaker 1: That's the balance that you need to be effective and
Speaker 1: end up winning these close games. The only thing that
Speaker 1: really mattered to me that kind of um I didn't
Speaker 1: enjoy was the fact that there was this push and
Speaker 1: like tug of war of sorts as some ambulances and
Speaker 1: cop cars drop bam. Sure you guys can hear that
Speaker 1: the downtown city life. Yeah, well that's every night there
Speaker 1: was this. There was this tug of war sorts where
Speaker 1: they were just it's kind of like when you see
Speaker 1: a team spent a lot of time between the twenties
Speaker 1: and and that's where they were for a lot of
Speaker 1: the final quarter and then going into overtime and it
Speaker 1: was like, all right, you guys need to break one.
Speaker 1: He had a great play play call where they got
Speaker 1: to c j Usama off a tight end leak that
Speaker 1: got him down into you know, scoring territory. That I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, it's a great play call. But really,
Speaker 1: if they have this type of balance, they can be
Speaker 1: competitive and they can win these close games. It's just
Speaker 1: that they have to commit to it. It helps, of
Speaker 1: course when you can get a good day out of
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. You know. I I saw that throw to
Speaker 1: Zama and I like the borough's response to it too.
Speaker 1: He was so fired up, and you can tell his
Speaker 1: teammates love him and like talk about another guy that
Speaker 1: had a rough summer and they've showed so much faith
Speaker 1: in him. And I love what he did today. Why
Speaker 1: I don't like a game where Kirk Cousins is throwing
Speaker 1: the ball? What was it forty nine times? Yeah? Did
Speaker 1: they just shut down that? I mean, if you're the Vikings,
Speaker 1: you wanted to run the ball all day long and
Speaker 1: have Cousins throw the ball about twenty a few more
Speaker 1: times in that. Yeah, that's usually your formula victory in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But they were down by two touchdowns in the second half,
Speaker 1: so they kind of had to get things going. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what if we give Zach Taylor credit,
Speaker 1: he also had a moment of faceless entity where he
Speaker 1: opened the door for them to come back. You know,
Speaker 1: he went for it in his own territory, didn't get it,
Speaker 1: sets the Vikings up for a quick score, they get
Speaker 1: the ball, they go down in the game. At least
Speaker 1: it's being aggressive. But you're right, um, the the whole
Speaker 1: ending sequence was weird. Like Cousins was totally bailed out,
Speaker 1: um by by his kicker after really like managing the
Speaker 1: two minutes situation in a way that you're just like
Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback shouldn't be. I guess I'm just you
Speaker 1: just used to like the bradies of the world, like
Speaker 1: knowing kind of what to do. But he got it
Speaker 1: close enough, and Joseph then hits it, and then that
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook fumbles it in overtime. Both offensive lines, just
Speaker 1: looking at the stats in terms of QB hits, tackles
Speaker 1: for loss, could be really bad all season, or at
Speaker 1: least at the beginning of the season. Both defenses kind
Speaker 1: of I have a Vikings fan buddy from back home
Speaker 1: who is very salty and unhinged on text a lot
Speaker 1: about his team, and he thought that they got totally
Speaker 1: jobbed on the fumble of Dalvin Cook. Was that was
Speaker 1: that something that could have went either way? Because it
Speaker 1: swung the game? If so? I mean it was close.
Speaker 1: But if you're talking to somebody who's a Vikings fan,
Speaker 1: I haven't imagined that, you know, a little bit of
Speaker 1: the bias comes in right, it kind of gone. It
Speaker 1: didn't surprise me at all that they didn't overturn it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looked bang bang, and whatever what happened on the
Speaker 1: field was gonna happen. How about five for one oh one,
Speaker 1: talk about bad summers and it just goes again. We
Speaker 1: the first Sunday wipes it all away because everyone is saying,
Speaker 1: this guy is not ready. We were mocking him about
Speaker 1: the comedy made about how the college football is different
Speaker 1: with the white mark around the edge on the ends
Speaker 1: of the ball. All that mark, All that's gone now
Speaker 1: because he steps in and delivers the five for one
Speaker 1: oh one in a touch in his first game. Shookie, Yeah,
Speaker 1: three targets his first three targets for receptions, he gets
Speaker 1: the long one for the touchdown. Looked a lot like
Speaker 1: Burrow to chase him or l s u days. And
Speaker 1: we also might have learned that Jamar Chase is never
Speaker 1: gonna be brutally honest with us in press sessions ever. Again, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you get, and it's just a bad loss
Speaker 1: for the Vikings. That's a that's a bad way to
Speaker 1: open your season. I know, maybe Cincinnati is gonna be
Speaker 1: a frisky team this year. Maybe this isn't the first
Speaker 1: time they're going to surprise the team who thinks they
Speaker 1: have a w on their schedule. But you you know,
Speaker 1: you open up that way and I know how these
Speaker 1: scheduled makers work. By the way, I'm not I'm looking
Speaker 1: at it in real time. They'll they'll give you a
Speaker 1: quote unquote cookie in week one, but then they give
Speaker 1: put you in a tough spot right after that, and yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it could be worse, but they have at Arizona.
Speaker 1: They might have to go to the desert and get
Speaker 1: the bomb dropped on him, you know, next week, and
Speaker 1: then home against Seattle, then home against the Browns, So
Speaker 1: you don't get that win against Cincinnati, and now you're
Speaker 1: in You're in a tough situation here and you're you're
Speaker 1: clawing for your life in September. Yeah, and and I
Speaker 1: don't know if how much of the preseason that you
Speaker 1: managed to really like really tune into with them, But
Speaker 1: like Mike Zimmer had this halftime press conference and they
Speaker 1: get in week one. It was, you know, just a
Speaker 1: little like sideline thing, not a press conference, but the
Speaker 1: sideline thing where he just like unloaded on his team.
Speaker 1: It was when they played Denver, because they're always one
Speaker 1: of the most annoyed coaches around. I mean, he's generally
Speaker 1: a little salty, but um, it seemed to be peaking.
Speaker 1: I witnessed some of that. Yeah, so he that has
Speaker 1: essentially kind of carried into the regular season because they
Speaker 1: looked a lot like that team in the first half
Speaker 1: before they ended up making up the deficit. That does
Speaker 1: worry me about them going forward, all right, Chuck, going forward,
Speaker 1: I hope you will continue to be with us because
Speaker 1: you are a weapon and a pipe a pipe is
Speaker 1: a weapon. So again the nickname is perfect and round
Speaker 1: on and I could tell look at that, He's like,
Speaker 1: I get it. It makes sense now, the pipe a weapon.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd like to be a weapon instead of
Speaker 1: the opposite. Darry Smith was six Men of the Year.
Speaker 1: He was all these connections, important city for a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the Midwest. Anyway, Chuck, thank you, buddy,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Now on to Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Enough of that, Oh highlight running left after the faith,
Speaker 1: He's gonna air it out deep downfield has a man
Speaker 1: often he's called at the fifteen yard line by Van
Speaker 1: Jefferson and he gets up and run those to the
Speaker 1: end zone. Matthew Stafford with a bomb. It's got the
Speaker 1: great arm. We know that. And then Jefferson makes the
Speaker 1: cash rolls over it doesn't get touched and takes it in. Yes,
Speaker 1: Al Michael's the legend with the call friend d C.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford connected on three touchdown passes, including that wild
Speaker 1: catch it run by Ban Jefferson, and the game that
Speaker 1: was a little closer than perhaps the final score indicated.
Speaker 1: But also that's about right to board team over the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. The Rams triumph in their first game in
Speaker 1: front of bands at so BI Stadium, Mark, I feel
Speaker 1: like this is exactly what the Rams had in mind.
Speaker 1: If they could have drawn up their first game with
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford in front of the home fans and the
Speaker 1: shiny new stadium on in prime time. This was it
Speaker 1: a clean, tidy fourteen victory in every possible way. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: he's back. It's an old trope. I mean it would be.
Speaker 1: It would be. You know, if that were Erica's original gag,
Speaker 1: that would be even more effective. But if you want
Speaker 1: to pull gags from days ago, that's fine, years ago.
Speaker 1: Um I can take it. Would you say that as
Speaker 1: a manufactured joke? Okay? Hi, the original gag was that
Speaker 1: that was that's that was from the Sydney realms. I
Speaker 1: mean Erica has many effective gags of her own Trump.
Speaker 1: It's also a bit of a low blow because that's
Speaker 1: that's part of the show's history. It's not Erica's fault
Speaker 1: that that's one of the that's the greatest hit and
Speaker 1: it still works, right. But if I'm gonna be attacked,
Speaker 1: I can attack back. That's how this works, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. It doesn't please me to attack
Speaker 1: Erica on that front. But you just had she she
Speaker 1: pressed the button, So that's how it works. Do you
Speaker 1: want me to say anything or have I Is that
Speaker 1: enough for me? Another nuclear bomb goes off in the desert? No?
Speaker 1: I mean I just would say that. First of all,
Speaker 1: I think outside of the four of us, everyone else
Speaker 1: from our office went to this game apparently in suits
Speaker 1: and ties, and they're sitting up in the seats. So
Speaker 1: I'm very happy for them. Like everyone on Instagram that
Speaker 1: I know from our work is like taking shots from
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium. I mean, so incredible, every single one of them. Um,
Speaker 1: you could not design a more perfect opener on offense
Speaker 1: for the Rams, because with the first shock wave of
Speaker 1: the offseason was the we're upgrading at quarterback. We're moving
Speaker 1: on from Jared goff, we're getting matt Stafford. No, but
Speaker 1: she's going to be annoyed because he's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of Greg and her where if you take a
Speaker 1: shot at Greg, Greg's gonna his The wheels are gonna
Speaker 1: spin inside the mind for the next minute or two.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this comment out very quickly because I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna have this happen again. Last year, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Rams had two touchdown passes of over forty yards.
Speaker 1: Stafford tonight did all of it in one evening. He
Speaker 1: was sensational, and I might have been one of the
Speaker 1: people that thought, like, what are we sure we're getting
Speaker 1: in Matthew Stafford after all those lines years great quarterback,
Speaker 1: good arm maybe great quarterback, I don't know. But tonight
Speaker 1: he just looked like he completely mind melds and fits
Speaker 1: with Sean McVeigh. And you know, all that I needed
Speaker 1: to see was the smile on Stafford's face at the
Speaker 1: end of the game walking up and down the sideline.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have not seen Matthew Stafford smile like
Speaker 1: that ever, So I think you brought that up because
Speaker 1: it was he was glowing as he was going up
Speaker 1: and down that sideline. No I just think it was,
Speaker 1: you know what, it was closer than than perceived. But
Speaker 1: that doesn't really bug me at all because I think
Speaker 1: the Rams took their completely, took their foot off the
Speaker 1: gas at the end. They are a deep strike, um
Speaker 1: intriguing passing offense, and after or what they watched the
Speaker 1: rest of the NFC West do today, there was pressure
Speaker 1: on them to deliver and they did just that. That's
Speaker 1: a good point. NFC West undefeated, NFC North windless. There's
Speaker 1: two different divisions. You know. I wasn't on the Graham,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm more of I'm like a football guy
Speaker 1: on Sunday, So I didn't see that. But I do know,
Speaker 1: I do know I care about people and friends. Our friend, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, our great friend Nakisha Westling. She's not in
Speaker 1: a suit and time, but she was in in the
Speaker 1: crowd watching this game and enjoying this game and um,
Speaker 1: you know, yelling for Cooper cups. So I think that's
Speaker 1: awesome that they got got her the victory. And you
Speaker 1: do almost get the feeling like that the Bears were
Speaker 1: like served up. I mean, you don't want to be
Speaker 1: too conspiratorial that, you know, they get good ratings the Bears.
Speaker 1: But it was almost like it felt like they were
Speaker 1: served up on this night. And it's almost like everything
Speaker 1: we've been saying for the last four months about like
Speaker 1: don't put Andy Dalton on Sunday night football and the
Speaker 1: no one wants to see that in London, it's like
Speaker 1: here it comes and you kind of like see Matt
Speaker 1: Naggie's galaxy brain thinking of like why he would start Matt,
Speaker 1: you know, Dalton because they're they're already short at tackle.
Speaker 1: They lose Jason Peters, then they lose their backup tackle.
Speaker 1: The Bears actually had six more first downs in this game,
Speaker 1: like nineteen more plays. You know, they moved the ball
Speaker 1: up and down. I think they went into Ram's territory
Speaker 1: six straight times the first six times they had the ball,
Speaker 1: but they kept coming up short on fourth downs. You know,
Speaker 1: there was that tip play by the Rams early and
Speaker 1: so if you're Matt, you're like convincing yourself somehow that
Speaker 1: this is like a better thing to do to put
Speaker 1: the veteran in. But in the end it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: you just throw the ball thirty eight times. Only one
Speaker 1: play went for more than eleven yards. You got Jared
Speaker 1: Goff and the Rams now got this whole new offense
Speaker 1: is like, hey, maybe we don't need to work so
Speaker 1: hard and go fourteen plays every drive. We can just
Speaker 1: go fifty bombers here and there and uh be on
Speaker 1: our way go in Now Rams had like thirty three plays,
Speaker 1: you know into the fourth quarter. It's it's when you
Speaker 1: can cover fifty eight yards on one throw, it's less place.
Speaker 1: And that was a missing aspect of their offense last year. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and the idea was, now we have de Sean Jackson
Speaker 1: and that's gonna take care of business there. Well, no,
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson said, I can do that stuff and give
Speaker 1: it to me Cooper Cup the yak MC monster. I
Speaker 1: can get a chunk place if you give the ball
Speaker 1: to me in space. And you know, color me a
Speaker 1: little bit suspicious when, um, you know, late in the
Speaker 1: telecast you hear Collins World start to say, well, this
Speaker 1: is a problem with Justin Fields. Andy Dalton gets the
Speaker 1: ball to his receiver when he pops open, and Justin
Speaker 1: Fields is slow to go through his progressions or holds
Speaker 1: onto the ball for too long. I mean that felt
Speaker 1: like I could have been fed to him straight from
Speaker 1: Naggy and the brain trust in Chicago, UM, who are
Speaker 1: out thinking themselves here? Um and again, Andy Dalton, this
Speaker 1: is what you know. Five and a half yards an attempt,
Speaker 1: um thirty eight attempts and now they go back to
Speaker 1: Chicago to play the Bengals. The Bengals team that might
Speaker 1: be better, who knows, but they look very good today anyway,
Speaker 1: and it's a tough spot. So whether Justin Fields is
Speaker 1: ready or not, he's coming soon. That's That's one thing
Speaker 1: I took out of this game. And the other thing
Speaker 1: the other thing I took out of it is and
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna put them in the top five,
Speaker 1: maybe even the top three the power rankings and make
Speaker 1: a frisky here. I just love this Rams team. I'd
Speaker 1: like the mix on both sides of the ball, and
Speaker 1: this this McVeigh Stafford thing, assuming if Stafford can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a special season for
Speaker 1: the Rams. Twelve or thirteen wins. I mean. Mcveigh's need
Speaker 1: to stop talking about Jared Goff though, like every quote
Speaker 1: is like he's trying to make it sound good, but
Speaker 1: it makes it sound worse when he's like, well, we
Speaker 1: really want to thank Jared Goff for making us the
Speaker 1: type of team that Matthew Stafford wants to go for it.
Speaker 1: That's not a compliment. Put like slugs in his back
Speaker 1: and dumped them in the Pacific. Let's said he wanted
Speaker 1: he wanted a partner, not a student. Well that we
Speaker 1: know that's not a compliment, but that is that is
Speaker 1: a tough one. Um one. My other, my other big
Speaker 1: takeaway was though this Bears defense has lost some players
Speaker 1: over the years, and you know when they're going through
Speaker 1: all the starting lineups and they do like the PF
Speaker 1: ranks at the bottom, It's like half the Bears starting
Speaker 1: lineup doesn't have PF ranks because they didn't play last year.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't play enough, or their rookies or
Speaker 1: their randoms. Like it's you've got a couple of you've
Speaker 1: got a couple of really good players, but it's not
Speaker 1: a difference making defense anymore. And if you don't have that,
Speaker 1: I think you do have double digit losses. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like our producer and friend Matthew Tanton
Speaker 1: was up in the stands something like section to twenty
Speaker 1: eight or whatever, and he tweeted that he was closer
Speaker 1: to Cooper Cup than any Bears defender. So you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean that you could trust the Bears in Mattnegie's
Speaker 1: first year to score the defense alone to generate you know,
Speaker 1: a touchdown turnovers in great field position. It's not happening,
Speaker 1: is easily right. Now, think about think about how fun
Speaker 1: it must have been. Like all our colleagues, they probably rad.
Speaker 1: They probably all got together at the commissary and like
Speaker 1: they were wearing their little like outfits or their jerseys,
Speaker 1: and maybe they had a couple of pops or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe that who knows. Maybe the because we're so close
Speaker 1: to the stadium, maybe there's a little place you could
Speaker 1: pop in and get a little loose before the game.
Speaker 1: Then they all went into there and they were enjoying
Speaker 1: the popping circumstance. But then here we are grinding, sitting
Speaker 1: in our little holes or caves. Yeah, I just ordered
Speaker 1: I ordered take out food that is um an hour late,
Speaker 1: and all I can see on the app is that
Speaker 1: the car that was bringing it just stop somewhere in
Speaker 1: like South Englewood. Yeah, it's at the bar with everybody
Speaker 1: from the Rams games. Well, that's probably exactly where. If
Speaker 1: nothing else, they gave you a short game, Mark, I
Speaker 1: mean this was this had to be the shortest game
Speaker 1: of the of the week less than three like well
Speaker 1: less than three hours. So you know, maybe he's warming
Speaker 1: up to these rams if if they give them a
Speaker 1: lot of credit that to the recap of this game.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff. We're on two week two. We're
Speaker 1: on two week two good uh Week one in the books. UM,
Speaker 1: coming up, We'll have a podcast on Tuesday from the
Speaker 1: are be back together on Tuesday. Now, Thursday is are
Speaker 1: Hopeful day one in the studio, So Tuesday is the
Speaker 1: next time you'll hear from us. So enjoy this extra
Speaker 1: long edition the week one uh super Flagship Show, UM,
Speaker 1: the two hour around the NFL broadcast on Friday, I
Speaker 1: implore you guys to check that out on NFL Network.
Speaker 1: That will also be we'll be back in the studio.
Speaker 1: So this is now happening. We are moving out of
Speaker 1: this remote world, hopefully for good. And UM, we thank
Speaker 1: you for sticking with us during this time. And I
Speaker 1: thank a special thank you, UM as we get to
Speaker 1: the end of this yellow brick road, hopefully to Erica
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood herself for doing such an awesome job this
Speaker 1: whole time, UM, getting us through this technological maze. But
Speaker 1: all right, any any other thoughts on week one before
Speaker 1: we I also would thank Erica. That's my final thought,
Speaker 1: and there's a you know a lot of appreciation. Mark.
Speaker 1: I also want to thank Erica, and I just want
Speaker 1: to thank the listeners, um, because this is the last
Speaker 1: time I'm gonna be able to say this all year.
Speaker 1: Football is back. I mean, oh my god, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's over. I can't with you guys. You're just so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it. Then Hadn't signing off for it,
Speaker 1: Quiet Star, then the old Bows and Ricky Hollywood He'll Tuesday,
Speaker 1: whoa we did? It might eight