Speaker 1: Hello and welcome. It's the Around the NFL Friday Fun
Speaker 1: Show working title. Consider this the football equivalent of a
Speaker 1: wobbly spiral that takes you to Sunday kick off. I'm
Speaker 1: Dan hansis here with the heroes Greg Rosenthal and Mark Sessler.
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Speaker 1: the defending I don't need new things. I just need
Speaker 1: more of Greg in my life. And so to add
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Speaker 1: ordered from it. And I do like Greg's you know,
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Speaker 1: Well you were like, hey, just like where where are
Speaker 1: you going to wear? I love that voice. We are
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Speaker 1: we'll share our final thoughts ahead of week one, done
Speaker 1: of course with the touch of mirth. Also check in
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Speaker 1: And uh, like I said, Grave Digger is gonna monitor
Speaker 1: that stream, be involved with this show. It's a different vibe.
Speaker 1: That's what we're going for. And before we get into
Speaker 1: any of the other shenanigans, let's talk about the Week
Speaker 1: one game that was already played Thursday night opener, defending
Speaker 1: champion Rams hosting the a f C Powerhouse Bills. It
Speaker 1: got weird. Bills get their room forty seven, he's in
Speaker 1: the gun, gets a snap, pocket collapsetion, time of pressure.
Speaker 1: Runster was right girls it down field looking for Diggs,
Speaker 1: gig Stocks and he makes the catch and he said
Speaker 1: the ends on touchdown. Buffalo step on Diggs, John Murphy
Speaker 1: and Eric Wood with the call w g R five
Speaker 1: fifty unbelievable. The Bills go to Sophie Stadium and behind
Speaker 1: three Josh Allen touchdowns, blow out the defending champions thirty
Speaker 1: one to ten. Greggy Mark, we were at this game,
Speaker 1: and uh, the Bills just dominated, and especially in the
Speaker 1: second half. And you tell me, Greg, is this the
Speaker 1: sign of how good the Bills are gonna be? Or
Speaker 1: an early sign that the Rams are in for some
Speaker 1: type of post Super Super Bowl letdown. I mean yes,
Speaker 1: but I definitely, you know, leaning towards the first part
Speaker 1: of that equation. You can't remember the Packers losing thirty
Speaker 1: one to three and week one last week. I think
Speaker 1: the Rams will figure things out. They're good at football,
Speaker 1: but the Ram the Bills don't need to figure anything out.
Speaker 1: They were like already where they were in a divisional
Speaker 1: out of last year against Kansas City. But the thing
Speaker 1: that struck me more than anything was Alan in this
Speaker 1: game that if he plays like this and you could
Speaker 1: really see it being there at the game, and if
Speaker 1: he makes decisions essentially before the snap is made, like
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Because I got the binoculars on.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to go real journal this whole time, and
Speaker 1: I'm watching the interior defensive line for both teams, and
Speaker 1: one of them, the Bills just romped through the Rams
Speaker 1: every single play, and the other one the Rams, including
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, were often getting through very quickly. But you
Speaker 1: know what, it didn't matter because Josh Allen could see
Speaker 1: what the Rams were trying to do. And on those
Speaker 1: third and seven, third and eights, there was an early
Speaker 1: third and ten plus two digs where he put it
Speaker 1: on the back hip. He made his decision beforehand based
Speaker 1: on everything he saw pre coverage. Those are not plays
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was making even at the beginning of last year.
Speaker 1: I think he is taking like another step just in
Speaker 1: terms of the mental side of things. And if he
Speaker 1: combines the mental side, you saw the physical sence, like,
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do. He's telling Sessy, if you want
Speaker 1: to be a top ten analysts, put me at number
Speaker 1: one in the qbn NEX pretty soon watch happen. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's an impossible ask on any level. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just uh, operating somewhere completely different than any type
Speaker 1: other quarterback we've really ever seen. I don't really have
Speaker 1: a comform you could mix and Matt match comps for him,
Speaker 1: but he's, um, it's completely unique individual to me. I
Speaker 1: do think that, um, if you're Sean McVeigh, and I
Speaker 1: mean that we got another one of those kind of
Speaker 1: like I'm humbled, I'm gonna go back to the drawing
Speaker 1: board and Sean McVeigh puts it all on Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: and I he this was another Sean Verse. Sean We've
Speaker 1: seen this before with Sean Payton, but Sean McDermott. If
Speaker 1: you go back and track the time that these two
Speaker 1: coaches have faced each other, it's been twice with the
Speaker 1: Rams and Bills, but before that three other times when
Speaker 1: McVeigh was with Washington as the o C and McDermott
Speaker 1: was with the Panthers. McDermott has sort of owned Sean McVeigh.
Speaker 1: He has coaxed in five of those meetings. Thirteen takeaway
Speaker 1: in those five contests. We saw it last night, and
Speaker 1: I just think that we came into this game thinking
Speaker 1: can the Bills young cornerbacks handle Matthew Stafford Cooper They
Speaker 1: were so well coached. This whole thing was just a
Speaker 1: sort of a deep shell mixing and cover two. You
Speaker 1: let Cooper cup have his catches, but in general, you
Speaker 1: took away the big play. And we said it on
Speaker 1: Tuesday's show, you don't blitz Matthew Stafford. I want to
Speaker 1: get I want to get a comment or involved here.
Speaker 1: Angriest writes, four out of the last six games, the
Speaker 1: Bills haven't punted. It's outrageous and you made history first,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, Greg like Mark myself. We went
Speaker 1: to the game, we started the press box, and because
Speaker 1: Mark and I are more like the working man, were
Speaker 1: like the common type people, we say we need to
Speaker 1: get where the people are. So all Greg's got his
Speaker 1: binoculars out and he's in his stuffy press box with
Speaker 1: all the other guys. We go down there. We feel
Speaker 1: the energy, We're in the heat, we're in the humidity,
Speaker 1: and it was very hot and very uncomfortable in that building.
Speaker 1: And it was interesting to me the energy and flow
Speaker 1: of that game. How the Rams came out flat, the
Speaker 1: Bills came out hot. With the first touchdown, they get
Speaker 1: ahead by double digit points, and then because the Bills
Speaker 1: shoot themselves in the foot with three first half turnovers,
Speaker 1: they let it get away and you go to you
Speaker 1: go to halftime tied to ten, and you think to yourself, wow,
Speaker 1: this could be a huge missed opportunity for Buffalo because
Speaker 1: they had a chance to potentially run the Rams out
Speaker 1: of the building and beat at the half something like that. Instead,
Speaker 1: they let the Rams reset things. And usually when that happens,
Speaker 1: the home team, a really great team and defending champion,
Speaker 1: then makes you eat it in the second half because
Speaker 1: they do get the game script backed and they get
Speaker 1: to do what they want to do. But not this time.
Speaker 1: The Bills instead regrouped and it was the Bills coming
Speaker 1: out of halftime whipping him one zip in the second half.
Speaker 1: So you never want to read too much into Week one,
Speaker 1: especially the way Mark and Greg the NFL's frame now
Speaker 1: where the preseason is a joke. None of these guys
Speaker 1: that are big time players really get to play real
Speaker 1: games until the games starts, so there's some kinks being
Speaker 1: worked out. But I thought it was crazy impressive how
Speaker 1: the Bills took control of the game, lost control, and
Speaker 1: then regained it. We'll think about this, I mean, and
Speaker 1: if I told you before last night the Bills are
Speaker 1: gonna have five turnovers and someone's gonna win the game
Speaker 1: thirty one to ten, it's like you would not think
Speaker 1: it was the Bills. I mean, I would say again, like,
Speaker 1: why are you telling me this before the game in
Speaker 1: such a strange, stilted way. You never do that. You
Speaker 1: never do that. I don't speak to you before games,
Speaker 1: typical with your middle canister binoculars as well, Dan and
Speaker 1: I are out roaming among the real human beings. So
Speaker 1: but honestly, like they overcame multiple turnovers and it didn't
Speaker 1: even matter. It's like, you know, if they had had
Speaker 1: a cleaner performance, they could have put fifty points up
Speaker 1: on the Rams. They dominated them. They made so many
Speaker 1: mistakes in the first half. Weird they like it was
Speaker 1: bad luck to one of their one of their turnovers,
Speaker 1: the first interception, they had a defensive holding, which hurt them.
Speaker 1: They put their kick off out of bounds, set set
Speaker 1: up the Rams. It was it was a whitewash. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, normally in these situations, defending champ, good
Speaker 1: team at home, you know are gonna step up like that.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't a home game, and I sort of
Speaker 1: overrated that, like, oh yeah, the the defending champs also
Speaker 1: do well in kickoff. But it was at least a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty Bills crowd. That's press box guy again, the
Speaker 1: real comns in the mix. They had a really it
Speaker 1: was a vocal RAMS crowd. I mean, I would say,
Speaker 1: I get it had to put a number on. If
Speaker 1: you looked up to the left, it was Bills. If
Speaker 1: you look to the right, it was a lot of records.
Speaker 1: And I'm just saying it was that came there at
Speaker 1: a party and celebrate, and you had Odell Beckham. You
Speaker 1: had Odell Beckham lifting the Lombardi Trophy. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's a sign of things to come. And I thought
Speaker 1: that that was a crowd, that was a good Rams crowd.
Speaker 1: Of course it's there's a Bill side of it. But
Speaker 1: I go on, finish your point, Craig, but I really did.
Speaker 1: It did take me back a little bit that that
Speaker 1: l A t and that l A crowds get a bad, bad,
Speaker 1: bad reputation. I think that building had a lot of excited,
Speaker 1: loud fans and they just had nothing to cheer for
Speaker 1: after halftime. I at it, but it's still unique. A
Speaker 1: defending champ has never had at least thirty thousand opposing
Speaker 1: fans that we are extremely loud. In terms of the
Speaker 1: Bills fans at their home game to start and that
Speaker 1: they're going on a silent count. It's a totally different vibe.
Speaker 1: And it wouldn't matter if the teams were even maybe
Speaker 1: the Rams crowd shows up, but they weren't even. I mean,
Speaker 1: it looked like a Week one game that you would
Speaker 1: expect between the Bills and the Texans. I mean, you
Speaker 1: mentioned that the turnovers mark at halftime when it was
Speaker 1: ten ten, and when it got to later in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, at one point it was three thirty yards
Speaker 1: to one thirty and that was going into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen at that point before that Dig's touchdown had
Speaker 1: not thrown a pass over twenty yards, So that speaks
Speaker 1: to my point that he was just doing it with
Speaker 1: dinks and dunks. He didn't he had one ball hit
Speaker 1: the ground, I believe, other than the interceptions, uh for
Speaker 1: the entire game, or at least until late in the game.
Speaker 1: And it was just like a mallelling. And that was
Speaker 1: the offensive line in the Bills. That's what those binoculars
Speaker 1: really showed me, because even when Ed Oliver went out,
Speaker 1: who was killing them early? Tim Settle, Boogie Basham, Greg Russo. Yes,
Speaker 1: Von Miller had a monster game and that was like
Speaker 1: a big deal. But Jordan Phillips killed them all of
Speaker 1: their defensive lineman. We're winning snap after snap. It was
Speaker 1: like the Eagles Super Bowl where they had eight or
Speaker 1: nine guys and every single one of them won every
Speaker 1: single snap in Stafford Fritz stout because of it. And
Speaker 1: you could have played that game. If they're winning like that,
Speaker 1: you could have played at ten times and the Bills
Speaker 1: win ten times. And let me give a little love
Speaker 1: to Bill's Mafia now, because I don't want to make
Speaker 1: it sound like I'm too much in the other direction.
Speaker 1: I my goal was maybe to try to sneak out
Speaker 1: of there, uh and not get killed by traffic at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. But then when the Rams
Speaker 1: laid such an epic egg and then gave up that
Speaker 1: last Digs touchdown, it was too late. So I'm I
Speaker 1: was just like, you know what, I'm gonna wait this
Speaker 1: thing out. And by the very end of the game,
Speaker 1: and a game that was over with twelve minutes to go,
Speaker 1: all the Rams fans were history, And I thought it
Speaker 1: was notable that there were thousand the Bills fans that
Speaker 1: stayed to the very end. Maybe that nowhere else to
Speaker 1: go honestly, either but remember how that season ended for Buffalo.
Speaker 1: That was one of the more bitter playoff losses UH
Speaker 1: in recent memory, against the Chiefs at Arrowhead. So this
Speaker 1: was such a great way to kick off the next season.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you go through a summer of hype, you
Speaker 1: come out and you feel the pressure. This felt like
Speaker 1: a team that had unfinished business. So I had I
Speaker 1: had the Bills number one of the power rankings to
Speaker 1: start the season. The arrow cannot be more up on them.
Speaker 1: They are a badass squad. Well that said, only all
Speaker 1: three of us picked the Ramps to win this game.
Speaker 1: Only the So well that was for our audio listeners. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, now we're at home on Fridays, We're getting
Speaker 1: the comments and everything. But I'm seeing how annoyed Mark
Speaker 1: is like as I speak, So that's more disarmy. Normally
Speaker 1: I'm kind of setting in. Sometimes it's in the corner
Speaker 1: of your eye. Now it's like facing I don't even
Speaker 1: let the corner because I want to, you know, be
Speaker 1: focused and everything. But now I just see those eyes.
Speaker 1: Just when will this guy shut the half? By the way,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup even in a disastrous night overall for the
Speaker 1: Rams goes thirteen and a touchdown of fifteen targets, and
Speaker 1: you know I'm watching. I'm keeping an eye on Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson even in garbage time. It has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the fact that he's on my fantasy team. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, this is not what we talked
Speaker 1: about all summer, and we'll see this is a bad
Speaker 1: night he had one catch on two targets, including the
Speaker 1: last throw of the game, so he was completely invisible
Speaker 1: in the mix. Get get Sean mcveigh's little pet project
Speaker 1: to to at well out of there. Get Brandon Powell.
Speaker 1: I saw cam akers lining up at wide receiver on
Speaker 1: a crucial drive. It's like they need some juice out there. Well,
Speaker 1: Matthew Staffords one is he's focused on one receiver. It's
Speaker 1: it's on Matthew Stafford to look around the field a
Speaker 1: little bit more. Boo boo is wondering how much, how
Speaker 1: many more minutes until Mark logs off. He does have
Speaker 1: the option and you could always just say bad connection.
Speaker 1: Sorry guys, I'll catch you next Friday. That's out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to blame I'll dis blame it on a
Speaker 1: technical glitch and there's no way to prove it. All Right,
Speaker 1: there you go, Thursday night football. Let's who do the
Speaker 1: rams up next week? By the way, Falcons, because we
Speaker 1: remember we were sitting right next to that Falcon scout
Speaker 1: in the press box. He was noticing that Matt Gay
Speaker 1: was good from room to spare in the in the prency.
Speaker 1: The sort of nuggets you can get in the press
Speaker 1: fact good. Now, I don't think you're supposed to share that, Greg.
Speaker 1: That's that's private, fellow. I mean in public. He's out
Speaker 1: there kicking the ball in the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: I was sitting next to a scout as well initially,
Speaker 1: and I will not reveal who the team is. Well,
Speaker 1: you're a professional. That's what's happening here. That's a journalism
Speaker 1: degree speaking. It was the tight ends. It's because the
Speaker 1: next opponent is always there in the press. Look at
Speaker 1: the schedule. Look that's Greg the bad boy of NFL media.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. That is Thursday Night football.
Speaker 1: And again the rest of the recaps will follow on
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Speaker 1: come back. Uh, and you know, check out all the content.
Speaker 1: And we really think everybody it's live. We've got a
Speaker 1: lot of people, Grave Digger. It seems like we've got
Speaker 1: a very active right bar here on the live stream. Uh.
Speaker 1: So that's a good start to things where his grave digger,
Speaker 1: let's take a question. Yeah, well excuse me, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have a ton of commenters in here. Um, I can't
Speaker 1: believe how many people are watching the first live stream.
Speaker 1: I guess I should believe it. But well, let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question, grave Digger, because you just became
Speaker 1: unable to speak for a moment. There are you a
Speaker 1: little dehydrated? Because I know Yessica is out of town
Speaker 1: and then she came back. Last one of the commenters
Speaker 1: is saying, we want to see Yessica and we've heard
Speaker 1: that she's watching the show in the room next door,
Speaker 1: so a different apartment unfortunately. But um, here's a here's
Speaker 1: a question for you guys to totally dodge with. Dan
Speaker 1: just asked me, great Digger. Oh, here's King's lord Bill's
Speaker 1: defense to break any sack records this season. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: should throw out that. Von Miller instantly made himself valuable
Speaker 1: a couple of sacks in this game. And they just
Speaker 1: destroyed the Rams at the line of scrimmage. So it
Speaker 1: was a perfect game for Buffalo really, I mean take
Speaker 1: out the three turnovers. They just absolutely kicked the defending
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions as seven seven sacks. Uh and they
Speaker 1: are playing the Jets, Dolphins, and Patriots who all have
Speaker 1: offensive line question six times. So sounds great. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break. We'll be right back all right now,
Speaker 1: with that business done, let's let's now as we again,
Speaker 1: we're here kind of Greg says, it's a tight spiral.
Speaker 1: I like that. Maybe it's like a Kurt Warner spiral
Speaker 1: to Sunday, where it doesn't necessarily look beautiful, but it
Speaker 1: gets right where it needs to go. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: you to Sunday now with some kind of final thoughts
Speaker 1: about where we're at and let me let me start here.
Speaker 1: And I want to say that I can't help but
Speaker 1: scratch my head sometimes because only my team, the Jets,
Speaker 1: can win the spring and forgot about the fall and winter,
Speaker 1: lose the summer, and it's been a really had summer
Speaker 1: now for the Jets and McKay beckton injury. You have,
Speaker 1: of course the Zack Wilson injury, and now you have
Speaker 1: Dwayne Brown signed to replace McKay Beckton. He has a
Speaker 1: shoulder issue. He's not going to play in Week one.
Speaker 1: He might be heading to injured reserve. And I just
Speaker 1: want to say, I wish I could get to a
Speaker 1: place m hm. I wish I could get to a
Speaker 1: place where things are more like innocent, get to that
Speaker 1: place where I've always wanted to be. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if it is a real place. Maybe it's more
Speaker 1: of an idea camp happiness. Take me to camp happiness.
Speaker 1: I thought, that's Mark's place. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: I know that's the place for Mark. It was the
Speaker 1: place where he could, you know, take a bunch of
Speaker 1: pictures and look like he was Brandon Walsh and Brenda
Speaker 1: Walsh from nine o two and oh that was It's
Speaker 1: his version of camp happiness. It's a flannel fest with
Speaker 1: poofy hair, a lot of whites by the water. For me,
Speaker 1: I think about when was I last happy as a
Speaker 1: Jet span in a situation like this? And you know
Speaker 1: what I think about, uh, Joe Flacco playing on Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Ravens, a thirty five, thirty seven year old
Speaker 1: former first round pick. And then I think, where does
Speaker 1: Dan's camp happiness is? A Jets fan? What do I
Speaker 1: long for? I was eighteen. I didn't have a girlfriend,
Speaker 1: but I did have any test of Verdi, a thirty
Speaker 1: five year old former first round pick who replaced Glenn
Speaker 1: Foley and became a star one of the best Jet
Speaker 1: seasons ever by a quarterback. And during this time where
Speaker 1: the president feels too hard and it's better to have
Speaker 1: a couple of glasses of veno. You know what I'm saying, Mark,
Speaker 1: and just remember a different time in life. I wonder,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be nice if I could return to camp
Speaker 1: happiness and Joe Flacco could be Vinny test of verity.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem that I see for you, Dan. This
Speaker 1: angst is generating incredible segments like this, in incredible monologues
Speaker 1: and soliloquies, which which we enjoy. So if suddenly they
Speaker 1: became if they were thriving and you're just sort of
Speaker 1: sitting back in your chair, you know, slapping yourself on
Speaker 1: the back, we lose all that. So we'll give me
Speaker 1: enough when they've been good show. Right now, I'm now
Speaker 1: a Jets fan. We we've done. Like we talked about
Speaker 1: new experiences on this show. I need a new experience
Speaker 1: of Dan, not meaning miserable. We haven't even gotten to
Speaker 1: week one. Things are so sideways. What is happening? This
Speaker 1: is usually beautiful Dan. Part of the season where I
Speaker 1: admire how just like fresh as a daisy he shows
Speaker 1: up to camp. He's just like the little camper and
Speaker 1: you know, even though all the kids were mean to
Speaker 1: him a year ago, he's just like, this will be
Speaker 1: the year I make a lot of fresh, but that's
Speaker 1: too much. I I don't know about Testa Verdie, but
Speaker 1: how about give us a little Ryan Fitzpatrick. We can
Speaker 1: take that, just be in the mix. And let's say
Speaker 1: this because we talked about it on Thursday. Um. And
Speaker 1: then I want to throw it to you, Greg for
Speaker 1: your big picture thought. But the fact that Robert Solomon
Speaker 1: Jets strangely gave a now four week timetable into the
Speaker 1: regular season. You don't think if Joe Flacco plays well
Speaker 1: in these first three weeks, he might not hold on
Speaker 1: to that job. That is just enough runway to establish
Speaker 1: success and keep Zack Wilson on the bench. So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. Now. The most important thing is
Speaker 1: Flack lush to play well, and now he doesn't. He
Speaker 1: has a rookie right tackle and poor George Fan has
Speaker 1: flopped back to left tackle. Uh, it's a mess. Good
Speaker 1: luck to you. Joe Flacco would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We're overdue for a return to camp happiness. Greg, you're up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're looking to return to a happy place.
Speaker 1: And and I really am too. And I look towards
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest and I think of the last few
Speaker 1: seasons of a once proud franchise, and I I see
Speaker 1: a lot of storm clouds. I see a lot of tension.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of angst between the most powerful
Speaker 1: men in the organization who can't figure things out money Ego.
Speaker 1: Dark clouds rolling in and then in the distance see
Speaker 1: clear skies. I see a horizon of beating expectations of
Speaker 1: a weight being lifted. And I see on Monday Night
Speaker 1: football a cleansing. A rain is gonna come down on Seattle,
Speaker 1: and it is gonna be brought down by a man
Speaker 1: named Geno Smith, who's gonna bring that six and a
Speaker 1: half point spread down like I don't even know, talk
Speaker 1: about at a disrespectful situation. Mark six and a half points.
Speaker 1: If you want to sprinkle a little rain on them
Speaker 1: to win the game. Look, I'm not gonna stop you
Speaker 1: to do that either, But six and a half in
Speaker 1: a game that Gino Smith and this defensive line is
Speaker 1: gonna eat. They know where the bodies are buried in
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's mind, Pete Carroll, and they're gonna fight it there. Gino,
Speaker 1: yesterday wasn't enough. I don't even need to talk about
Speaker 1: you know, you could talk about their defensive line, who
Speaker 1: to me is has a little Bills quality. They're not
Speaker 1: nearly as good, but they're about six or seven deep
Speaker 1: against a bad offensive line. I think they've got some
Speaker 1: playmakers in the secondary. I think they slow them down.
Speaker 1: I hate this line because to me, every Seahawks game
Speaker 1: is gonna be eighteen to seventeen. I'm not sure it
Speaker 1: was gonna win each week, but every single game this
Speaker 1: season eighteen to seventeen, six and a half points is
Speaker 1: a silva. Silva thinks that you have dipped into Mark's
Speaker 1: mushroom stash Greig months ago, of course. I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: we've got Chrispy fift am. I taking Gino Smith against
Speaker 1: the spread. I think he went three and o against
Speaker 1: the spread guys last year, including one of the best
Speaker 1: statistical games of the year, uh completion percentage over expected.
Speaker 1: And I'm loving the Seahawks. By the way, are gonna
Speaker 1: run like crazy. Pete Carroll is going to be really
Speaker 1: liberated to do whatever the hell he wants, and it's
Speaker 1: against a bad run defense in Denver. It's going to
Speaker 1: be glorious, that's all. Greg is like that friend who's
Speaker 1: just gone through a terrible breakup. And for the next
Speaker 1: like eighties, six times you talk about him, it's all
Speaker 1: he'll discuss with you, and then you start to find
Speaker 1: ways to evade, to disappear, to vanish, to not be available,
Speaker 1: to not be around in a swinger? Is it just like, dude,
Speaker 1: can we please mark? You're up? Baby? All right? I
Speaker 1: UM titled this comment this thought, uh stuck in Arizona
Speaker 1: without a personal vehicle. UM, I just want to let
Speaker 1: you know. It's a little by an alphable. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: I've talked to you before, and I just say, this
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite all time Sessler like life
Speaker 1: moments when you got parked in a cold de sac
Speaker 1: of life. Just go ahead. This is yeah. Well let's
Speaker 1: post camp happiness, which was not that's not the friends
Speaker 1: repeating stories. Okay, let's go alright, Greg, if you could
Speaker 1: be quiet for three minutes, I think it would be
Speaker 1: an incredible service to the show. I just want to
Speaker 1: let you know. This was around more In March two
Speaker 1: thousand three, I was living in Boulder, Colorado with UM,
Speaker 1: a very different girl than that Camp Happiness girl was
Speaker 1: UM a little bit more of an edgy or she
Speaker 1: was a woman. It was an edgy or individual. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we decided. I decided that I did not want
Speaker 1: to live in Colorado anymore. I wanted to move to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and be in the movie industry. Because that's
Speaker 1: it's that simple to get into the movie industry. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that UM from experience, nothing worse needed.
Speaker 1: So anyways, we sold UM in a totally foolhardy move,
Speaker 1: sold all of our possessions. UM. I turned my least
Speaker 1: car and she sold her car. We bought a v
Speaker 1: W camper van pop top, one of those like sixties
Speaker 1: deals were like you can sleep up top of it
Speaker 1: if you want to. UM. The vehicle was shaky, which
Speaker 1: we learned the minute we got on the road to
Speaker 1: drive from Colorado to Los Angeles. Uh. And it became
Speaker 1: shakier when it completely broke down in Tucson, Arizona in
Speaker 1: the early spring. UM and we needed to be parked
Speaker 1: out of US Sears garage waiting for parts for this.
Speaker 1: I'm not speaking negative of you and picturing you, you know,
Speaker 1: under the hood, just trying to crank out what's wrong
Speaker 1: with this carburetor? Let me let me all my skill set.
Speaker 1: You can imagine. And uh No, I was like in
Speaker 1: the top of the pop top, just reading novels. But anyways, Um,
Speaker 1: in the middle of this, we finally got the car
Speaker 1: fixed and we moved to Phoenix, where she had friends,
Speaker 1: some female friend who was like cohabitating with a guy,
Speaker 1: and Um, she basically came to the conclusion about a
Speaker 1: fortnight later. She told me one night, I'm a desert person.
Speaker 1: I just feel at home in the desert. I was like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Like the whole the whole plan.
Speaker 1: We sold all our possessions. The whole plan was to
Speaker 1: get to Los Angeles. So because also she was an
Speaker 1: expensive girlfriend and I was a dumb twenty something year old,
Speaker 1: I was about ten grand in debt, so I basically
Speaker 1: just moved to my own apartment along the highway in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: UM had no personal vehicle, no car, very little. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is about week one. I'm gonna get there real soon.
Speaker 1: But anyways, I got a job at a Wells Fargo
Speaker 1: call center up the street where I could walk to
Speaker 1: every day and ground my way out of debt for
Speaker 1: the next seven or eight months. Then got a rental
Speaker 1: car and just moved to l A because I wanted
Speaker 1: to change my life and get where I needed to go.
Speaker 1: And this makes me think in a weird way about
Speaker 1: what they have done to Kyler Murray this offseason. Now
Speaker 1: I get it, he got paid and so it's like
Speaker 1: everything's fine, But all they've done to Kyler Murray is say,
Speaker 1: you have a passion, but you must fulfill our jobs. Passion.
Speaker 1: You must do what we want, but you must shut
Speaker 1: down what it is you truly want to do. Justin,
Speaker 1: let's show what we'd like to show here if we can,
Speaker 1: grave Digger, this is justin. This is Kyler Murray and
Speaker 1: his actual true what's happening here. This is Phase Clan.
Speaker 1: This is an audio podcast to mark if you want
Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray with a bunch of his gaming bros.
Speaker 1: He joined up with this thing, Phase Clan and he's
Speaker 1: on Twitch. I now follow him on Twitch to see
Speaker 1: how often he logs onto game and it's never anymore.
Speaker 1: He never does anymore because he's his true passion has
Speaker 1: been taken away from So what I would like to
Speaker 1: see for a number of reasons Football reasons number one,
Speaker 1: after all this drama you're playing, the Chiefs get into
Speaker 1: a high off team shootout with Patrick Mahomes Unferral six touchdowns,
Speaker 1: take the Cardinals to one and oh and then at
Speaker 1: that point you're in a your good place. And then
Speaker 1: tell them I'm gonna take Monday to do what i
Speaker 1: want to do. I'm gonna game and I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: the stuff on the field because I'm allowed to be
Speaker 1: the dog. I'm allowed to follow my passion and not
Speaker 1: be ordered around by anyone and ever ever again, I
Speaker 1: get the sense Mark looks at at that these times
Speaker 1: where he was like floating very fondly. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, you almost miss um being lost in the world.
Speaker 1: It was quite a journey to the football point. So basically,
Speaker 1: don't be mean to Kyle. I mean, they have like
Speaker 1: a twollion dollar contract. I get that. And so that
Speaker 1: that that that essentially nullifies the argument, because now that
Speaker 1: you're under that's a good point you made, Mark. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Mark, that's a good point. Mark.
Speaker 1: I'll take him insider, all right, Well, yeah, Kyler ball out,
Speaker 1: criticism will mount, will mount, and we're gonna speaking of
Speaker 1: the news flash. Let's set a newsflash year, and might
Speaker 1: as well start right there with the Cardinals. I talked
Speaker 1: about it on the show that I'm a little worried
Speaker 1: that Kyler has not been set up for success, especially
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins out Rod dal Moore. The idea was that
Speaker 1: he was going to be a contributor in year two
Speaker 1: and a guy that could maybe light up the scoreboard
Speaker 1: for for Kyler, he has a hamstring injury, and Greg
Speaker 1: it might not be good. Now. When you leave a
Speaker 1: practice and they say you're immediately going for an m
Speaker 1: R I and then you meet and you miss the
Speaker 1: following practice, hamstrings are usually multiple weeks. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised to see him on I are and this is
Speaker 1: after they spent the off season. Alan Robinson like hyping
Speaker 1: up ron Dale Moore as kind of the answer to
Speaker 1: their missing receiver room. They they got issues. I'm feeling
Speaker 1: good about my chief's lock. Put it that way. What
Speaker 1: is the over under on wins for the Cardinals in
Speaker 1: it's high. I think it's like eight and a half
Speaker 1: or something like you. Ken Lamar Jackson turned down the
Speaker 1: Ravens offers for a contract extension, is now betting on
Speaker 1: himself this season. We'll see how it goes. Mark uh
Speaker 1: Eric the Costa released a statement. Despite best efforts on
Speaker 1: both sides, were unable to do it. We're looking ahead
Speaker 1: to the season. It's all in front of Lamar. If
Speaker 1: he has a huge season, he becomes the highest paid
Speaker 1: player in NFL history. Yep. Maybe they can also just
Speaker 1: franchise tag him. I mean, I feel like if they
Speaker 1: really really wanted him, uh, and I think they do
Speaker 1: to a certain extent, they would have gotten this stunt.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's you know, representing himself, which always
Speaker 1: find that to be a little bit weird. But I
Speaker 1: don't mind at this point, Um shooting this one into
Speaker 1: the sun until next off. We don't need to deal
Speaker 1: with it right. Another news, uh, simsy koif on the
Speaker 1: stream tells us that we started our live stream at
Speaker 1: the same time that King Charles has ascended to the
Speaker 1: throne in England. So I feel like that could hit
Speaker 1: and hurt our streaming numbers. Greg, it looks pretty good
Speaker 1: in terms of the numbers. In fairness, we had you know,
Speaker 1: carved out this time, I would think, right, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying they would be aware of that, but we had
Speaker 1: set the time first, that's all. And finally, George Kittle
Speaker 1: again banged up. Greg, what are you hearing on this one? Well,
Speaker 1: he's likely to miss this game. I think they can
Speaker 1: survive without him. This week. I got my guy. I
Speaker 1: I know you draft, didn't you draft him? In fantasy?
Speaker 1: I think he's crazy, but I already started a great job.
Speaker 1: George what Mark? More like George Brittle, Yeah, more like
Speaker 1: George little hope of playing seventeen games. Ever, it is
Speaker 1: sad that he never play the whole thing. All right,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the news flash. All before tells us
Speaker 1: that we're cutting into their audience, but I don't think that's.
Speaker 1: I know that they can do, is true. I do
Speaker 1: appreciate the Serbian listener from the banks of the Danube
Speaker 1: that said they're watching from there, so and anyone can
Speaker 1: check us out on YouTube after the fact too, or
Speaker 1: of course, uh in any audio podcast. Let's before we
Speaker 1: sign off and throw you into Sunday tight spiral, Piro
Speaker 1: of the Week picks Greg startus. Okay, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Jamaar Chase. I. I look at the Steelers secondary,
Speaker 1: I look at the cornerbacks that almost no one has
Speaker 1: talked about this offseason, and I see a major problem.
Speaker 1: And I see a rookie who did things we haven't
Speaker 1: seen any rookie do and I feel like maybe the
Speaker 1: Bengals losing will keep them hungry. Um, if you're watching
Speaker 1: on YouTube, you can see the uh the small state
Speaker 1: championship trophy Massachusetts state champion Minuteak Regional high school that
Speaker 1: you know, but before we were able to overcome the
Speaker 1: vaunted kids at Newton South. You know, we had to
Speaker 1: lose in a big spot the year before, but we
Speaker 1: came back and we were better than ever the year before.
Speaker 1: That's going to be Jamar Chase in the Bengals this year.
Speaker 1: That's a sad looking trophy for a champ. It is
Speaker 1: very small, Yeah, but we got some how about you
Speaker 1: mark your Hero of the week prediction. Uh So there
Speaker 1: is no George Kittle in San Francisco. I know they
Speaker 1: have tons of other weapons. Trade Lance is beginning his
Speaker 1: career as a starter, as a full fledged starter. How
Speaker 1: about the guy that he hooked up with over and
Speaker 1: over on the field in the preseason, Danny Gray, who
Speaker 1: is incredibly faster playing a Bears defense has been stripped
Speaker 1: aparts the rebuilding that team, the secondary is vulnerable. Maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of big plays to get trade Lance comfortable.
Speaker 1: I just liked the idea of picking someone that probably
Speaker 1: won't be the Hero of the week fantasy though, like
Speaker 1: Deep League, that's pretty good. And I will close it
Speaker 1: with my prediction. Greg, you said that you're like a
Speaker 1: Jets fan. Now earlier in the show, you're rooting for
Speaker 1: the Jets. How about this my hero of the week prediction,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Just watch, just watch that Patriots defense. I
Speaker 1: know they're missing parts now and they're vulnerable, but watch
Speaker 1: him shut down to ah Entyreek Hill disappears and the
Speaker 1: offense does enough. Mac Jones makes a late touchdown pass
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the Patriots win seventeen fourteen,
Speaker 1: and everyone's talking about how Bill really through Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: the young genius off his game, and everyone will again
Speaker 1: be throwing roses at the feet of Bill Belichick when
Speaker 1: he shuts down the explosive quote unquote Dolphins offense. One
Speaker 1: item amid reports from beat writers covering the Patriots that
Speaker 1: they are ready to scrap their entire offensive reinvention. And
Speaker 1: I just say, this isn't working. It's a great idea,
Speaker 1: and it's a great idea that there's our our suggesting
Speaker 1: this whole pro Patriots pro Belichick thing is just some
Speaker 1: BS jinks. From Dan iouln't say that you would never
Speaker 1: do something. Thank you for everybody for the live stream.
Speaker 1: Thank you to everybody that's listening and following all the
Speaker 1: things we do. We appreciate you. We'll be back next
Speaker 1: Friday with another stream and podcast. Until then, enjoy all
Speaker 1: the damn football it's happening. Enjoy the weekend. Go Falcons.