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Speaker 1: from the Chris Wesing podcast studio. It's Around the NFL.
Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hansis I have some heroes with me, Greg Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: Colleen wolf Mark Sessler has come down with the case
Speaker 1: of geno itis, so he won't be making it in
Speaker 1: this afternoon. But Greg, I want to tell you something
Speaker 1: class act right here. I am, I'm magnanimous. I'm the Zeuser.
Speaker 1: You know that's a tugboat. Does um you're into your
Speaker 1: fourth person? I am, I can't. I have another name
Speaker 1: on the Power Rankings podcast. Colleen Knows taking it from
Speaker 1: The York Post what they used to call ALC. Baldwin
Speaker 1: the Bloviator. The Bloviator is going to say, good job, Greggy.
Speaker 1: You deserve the moment that you got on Monday with
Speaker 1: Geno Smith. And I know you talked about it at
Speaker 1: length on the Monday night recap. I was told by
Speaker 1: a Sparrow it is thirty seven minutes long. But you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Just be like, look at your phone. Yea,
Speaker 1: the sparrow has genoitis. And in football, we're not just
Speaker 1: gonna do recaps. We're gonna add a little extra. I
Speaker 1: love it mostly, Gina, I love it. You deserve that.
Speaker 1: You should have went six hours, because God knows, that's
Speaker 1: probably the last time you're gonna have a moment like that,
Speaker 1: so enjoy it. That doesn't feel magnanimous, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just also being real um that that was a
Speaker 1: nice time for Gino. Maybe when he went four eight
Speaker 1: for forty seven yards with no points in the second half,
Speaker 1: maybe that wasn't worth the celebration, but obviously played very
Speaker 1: well overall, and and that was a big payoff for
Speaker 1: you on the Geno coaster. Look at what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do here. They only had seven drives. They had
Speaker 1: multiple first downs on literally all of them until that
Speaker 1: last three and out where they got a case of
Speaker 1: Pete carrolitis. Got a little too conservative at the end.
Speaker 1: The quote that also again the Bloviators being magnantimums here.
Speaker 1: Great quote quote by Gino at the end of the
Speaker 1: game when he was speaking to ESPN. They wrote me off,
Speaker 1: right back, though, that's the problem, alright, right back, let's go.
Speaker 1: It's good line. It's a good line, And he said
Speaker 1: after in the press conference they asked about it, and
Speaker 1: he said that's that's off the dome right there, that's
Speaker 1: straight bars right there. And did you see the NFL
Speaker 1: he was feeling. Usually you don't you know that when
Speaker 1: you throw for forty seven yards and produce zero points
Speaker 1: in the second half of a game that you won
Speaker 1: by a miracle because of the meltdown by the coaching
Speaker 1: staff and red zone offensive the opposing team usually don't
Speaker 1: speak like Buster Douglas after knocking out Mike Tyson in Tokyo.
Speaker 1: But I also to say that's part of the Geno experience.
Speaker 1: And again, this is not about me. It's about you,
Speaker 1: and it's not about me. It's nice to see him
Speaker 1: finally get an opportunity after eight years in the wilderness
Speaker 1: where no one gave him a shot. It's about me. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was That quote was peaque, Gino, though when you
Speaker 1: look at the whole of the game, you have to
Speaker 1: admit you could not get a point talking about like
Speaker 1: you should somehow be somehow less excited. He's he's the
Speaker 1: banner on NFL's Twitter handle. Yes, and and it says
Speaker 1: left on red by Gino Smith. I mean, because it
Speaker 1: wasn't just him them winning the game. He played fantastic
Speaker 1: well he so it wrote me off, say us he played, Uh, fantastic.
Speaker 1: He was dealing, he was dealing, he was making good.
Speaker 1: But the fact that the crowd is chanting his name,
Speaker 1: I mean that was some rudy. There are a couple
Speaker 1: of things going on. Oh yeah, multiple times. What time
Speaker 1: they were chanted at m v P. Yeah, there's there's
Speaker 1: something cooking here. Okay, there's multiple things. And again this
Speaker 1: is again not to denigratee um one. The Seahawks fans
Speaker 1: obviously in their feelings about Russell leaving and playing in
Speaker 1: that game, So you're actually gonna gravitate towards the quarterback.
Speaker 1: The other part is what Gregg he's been doing this summer,
Speaker 1: and I respect it. It's been fun. You've been kind
Speaker 1: of in a winking way getting all behind Gino that's
Speaker 1: actually caught fire a little bit, and people are kind
Speaker 1: of into the let's enjoy the Geno Smith experience as
Speaker 1: unexpected as it was. So you put it together and
Speaker 1: you're getting a Geno Smith m v P chan and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. It's fine, it's cool. Did you
Speaker 1: get chills at any point watching and hearing the Geno chance?
Speaker 1: I was doing the Channel five in the UK coverage
Speaker 1: for the first time. Was the first game I got
Speaker 1: to do a sitting next to Marias Jones Joe, and
Speaker 1: he could not have been more less and more annoyed
Speaker 1: with me throughout the process, like he thought it was
Speaker 1: like some sort of bit early Yes, just who you guys?
Speaker 1: Who I grew up for? Now I'm not a professional?
Speaker 1: Actually stop it? I root for All thirty one teams
Speaker 1: are equal, and then there's Geno Smith that's like my one.
Speaker 1: I almost got up and walked off this set. I
Speaker 1: don't wait a second. Way. Yeah, the second part of
Speaker 1: it is great, but can I hear the first part
Speaker 1: of that again? Wait? What was it? Who you guys?
Speaker 1: Who I grew up? Now I'm not a professional? Actually
Speaker 1: stop it? I root for? Did you? Did he call
Speaker 1: you out for being a Pats fan? And you said
Speaker 1: that's who I used to root for growing up, But
Speaker 1: now I'm professional? Us on a throne of lies? What
Speaker 1: is that about? Don't be that guy that sousa in
Speaker 1: the morning right there figuring that out. Understand that this
Speaker 1: entire thing is a joke. When I said I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of one, I think listen, I've been on this
Speaker 1: speech you've been trying to recraft your narrative a little
Speaker 1: bit now we were we I I admitted it's because
Speaker 1: I'm sitting next to at that time another Pats fan
Speaker 1: in Caleb Burton. But you got to enjoy these moments,
Speaker 1: and that's why I think, like it was nice to
Speaker 1: see Gino enjoying the moment with the fist pumps and
Speaker 1: and going crazy. It was nice to see Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: enjoying the moment. After the game, Pete Carroll said something
Speaker 1: that I thought was so telling. He said, tonight you
Speaker 1: saw our system, our system succeeding it and like that.
Speaker 1: That's like a little bit of a dig on Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: Certainly it's a little bit of the reason why he
Speaker 1: likes but it's also the reason why I think Gino
Speaker 1: has done really well in PF grading over the last
Speaker 1: three years. And this is getting a little wonky, but
Speaker 1: I think Gino Smith right now is like a very
Speaker 1: much a do what the coaches asked him to do quarterback,
Speaker 1: make the right reads, play very conservative for the most part,
Speaker 1: do what he's told, hold the ball and take a
Speaker 1: sack if you're going to. And that's it. Like one
Speaker 1: to three, play smart, like don't make mistakes. That's sort
Speaker 1: of who he is at this moment. In Pete Carolos,
Speaker 1: this is your moment. I'm not taking it away. But
Speaker 1: I could also say I've watched a lot of Gino
Speaker 1: Smith football. Enjoy he was twenty three years old and
Speaker 1: twenty two years old. Just enjoy this week because that
Speaker 1: version that you saw in the second half and his
Speaker 1: limited snaps admittedly where he doesn't feel pressure, where he
Speaker 1: can't move the ball, can't move an offense. This is
Speaker 1: this is not seven drives in the entire game, and
Speaker 1: they moved it more than fifty yards and more than half.
Speaker 1: Last week, when I said, uh, my sandwich prop was
Speaker 1: that the Seahawks will have a top five pick, I
Speaker 1: was told by you, Greg that it wasn't hanging onions
Speaker 1: at all. So now you're going the other way and
Speaker 1: saying that you're in. I am in. I picked I
Speaker 1: picked them to go about nine and eight. He said
Speaker 1: that was a bad sandwich prop because it wasn't gutsy
Speaker 1: enough because in Vegas I disagree with it, but in
Speaker 1: Vegas they have the second or third lowest number, So
Speaker 1: you're you're with the commoners. Greg, you should have your moment.
Speaker 1: I think you should bask in it. Let him be careful,
Speaker 1: I mean Mark. We might not see Mark on Tuesdays because, yeah,
Speaker 1: this could be a weekly thing. If they go eight,
Speaker 1: when do they play? When do they play? What day?
Speaker 1: Next week? Sunday game? It's a Sunday game. That's Can
Speaker 1: you fill in on the flagship shows in case the
Speaker 1: Seahawks win again? Potentially? I must check my schedule. It
Speaker 1: is very busy. Actually, think this might be the last
Speaker 1: primetime game they gave the sex because the Seaks are
Speaker 1: supposed to be so terrible. That was That was it
Speaker 1: for Geno Smith in prime time, I believe. Um. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: they play the Niners a lot of Sundays. Next week,
Speaker 1: when do they play the Niners? One o'clock Sunday? And
Speaker 1: they got the Niners again in prime time for four
Speaker 1: o'clock in week fifteen, So we gotta pick uh well
Speaker 1: to pick up that day potentially as well. Anyway, here
Speaker 1: we go, good show today. You had your moment and
Speaker 1: you deserved it, and you got it, and I just
Speaker 1: moved out of the way and gave it to you.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about four of a forty seven yards in
Speaker 1: the first half second. It has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: that that because that's not what it's about. It's all
Speaker 1: those checkdowns on the you and Mark were doing at home.
Speaker 1: You can see you just tweeted out like I'm so
Speaker 1: out on the Broncos because they I am out on
Speaker 1: the Broncos, and it it well, It's sure, I don't
Speaker 1: need Gino to have a moment like that, but again,
Speaker 1: I gave it to you. Um you didn't give it more.
Speaker 1: The crowd in Seattle gave it to me. Gino gave
Speaker 1: it to me. I wish I could have stepped up
Speaker 1: in such a big career moment like Gino did last night.
Speaker 1: I was a mess on that podcast afterwards. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what I was talking about. You think you were
Speaker 1: a mess. The Broncos were a mess in Week one,
Speaker 1: and I was mad more than Gino. I projected them
Speaker 1: as a big time team. I had him at number
Speaker 1: eight in the power ranks entering the season, and all
Speaker 1: that stuff feels naive after watching how their game operation
Speaker 1: and red zone and forget about the midfield stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: very I would be very nervous right now. I from
Speaker 1: a Denver fan, because that looks like a coach who
Speaker 1: was shook up and in the weeds in a big spot.
Speaker 1: Not a good way to start your career. Just a
Speaker 1: disaster at the end. At least they didn't use as
Speaker 1: time outs. You know, it's the one time and we
Speaker 1: gotta move on. Because again, check out the Monday night
Speaker 1: recap with Greg and Stephen ruiz Um. But everyone there
Speaker 1: was a hot take like, oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: believe Nathaniel hag It shows a sixty four yard field
Speaker 1: goal over his new quarterback that just signed a huge deal. No, bro,
Speaker 1: that's not what happened. The guy was shook, he was
Speaker 1: got caught up in the moment and kind of blew
Speaker 1: the time and he didn't and Wilson didn't help him either.
Speaker 1: So I don't think he chose the sixty four yard
Speaker 1: field goal. I think he got caught up in the
Speaker 1: moment and got a little lost with the clock and
Speaker 1: then that's the only thing that was left to present itself.
Speaker 1: And he was also saying that he didn't really like
Speaker 1: trust his offense, essentially because of all of the issues
Speaker 1: that they had in the red zone. US saying after
Speaker 1: the game, I believe in everything too, was just funny.
Speaker 1: I believe in everything. At the end, believe the decision.
Speaker 1: I believe in everything, and I actually kind of believe
Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson literally believes. Also, he was like in
Speaker 1: a tuxedo almost and I felt really, really terrible for
Speaker 1: him in that moment. Coming up on today's show, Yes,
Speaker 1: that was the final game of week one. We will
Speaker 1: kind of put a bow on week one while looking
Speaker 1: forward to what's to come with a new segment we
Speaker 1: call and and for love of our UK and surrounding
Speaker 1: territory listeners, color me intrigued, color with an ou are
Speaker 1: there we go? That's a little shout out. You know,
Speaker 1: we took down some of the prices of the tickets
Speaker 1: for the London show. It's because we are. We love
Speaker 1: our friends in London will be there and what we
Speaker 1: and half Greggy, that's crazy? Is that true? Yeah? Two
Speaker 1: and a half to really Yeah, I'm like also so
Speaker 1: excited to go. I can't wait to go to London.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you that maybe maybe next year you
Speaker 1: don't make a you know, really high all right before
Speaker 1: before we get to color me weld and a Thursday
Speaker 1: night football preview, maybe the best Thursday night of the
Speaker 1: Game of the Year. Although I haven't looked at the
Speaker 1: next schedule, but so far I think it's really good.
Speaker 1: Chargers at Chiefs and Arrowhead. Let's get caught up on
Speaker 1: some news. We've got three time out see I might
Speaker 1: use one, right, Harry, let's use well, let's talk about
Speaker 1: this one. Let's talk about this one. I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to draw try to draw them off sides, might try
Speaker 1: to draw him off size set. Well, you don't want
Speaker 1: to waste that much time, I don't think. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I wish you could see Peyton Manning just calling
Speaker 1: time out. Yes, that's from the Manning cast at the
Speaker 1: moment where the Broncos let it all fall apart at midfield.
Speaker 1: Yeah they that was great theater there. I only saw
Speaker 1: it this morning. Um, but yeah, Manning almost reaching through
Speaker 1: the camera trying to implore and help Nathaniel Hackett and
Speaker 1: let's face it, Russell Wilson to somebody's got a sense
Speaker 1: of the moment. I will. I gotta say this, Connie
Speaker 1: and Greggy I have as a fan. I love the
Speaker 1: Manning cast, but I feel like ESPN kind of galaxy
Speaker 1: brain this one. And now you have Aikman and Buck
Speaker 1: and I know we've talked about this, but now it
Speaker 1: actually happened. Aikman and Buck are tremendous, uh arguably the best,
Speaker 1: and it's not so easy to switch away from them
Speaker 1: because they are the definition to me of a big
Speaker 1: game crew that I want to be calling a big game.
Speaker 1: Kind of put you in a tough situation there as
Speaker 1: a fan. I didn't like to be in that situation,
Speaker 1: which it was much easier last year to pick the
Speaker 1: man in cast and enjoy it. But then that you
Speaker 1: could piece that together what I was doing, I felt
Speaker 1: like I was missing out on something. So I had
Speaker 1: fomo if I was on the manning cast, I had
Speaker 1: fomo if I was listening to Troy and Joe, like
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do. And then I ended
Speaker 1: up like just missing parts of the game because I
Speaker 1: kept switching back and forth, like it's not a great
Speaker 1: on the quality of the game. That was a that
Speaker 1: was a great game. You have to admit the energy
Speaker 1: it felt like almost like as great as big as
Speaker 1: energy as a Week one game could be. That's a
Speaker 1: Troy in a Joe game. If we get like a
Speaker 1: Week nine kind of stinker, then you maybe switch over
Speaker 1: to the Manning cast that. Did Pete really say that
Speaker 1: was a victory for our system? He said, he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: he got two. They recovered two fumbles at the one
Speaker 1: yard line. That's that's how the system works. He might
Speaker 1: even I would guess he was talking about the offense.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they very much are a bend
Speaker 1: but don't break defense that that tries to force field goals,
Speaker 1: not touchdowns, and make big plays and win the turnout.
Speaker 1: I don't like to play this game, but it is
Speaker 1: what they're about. I don't like to play this game.
Speaker 1: I don't, God, Greg, this is this day. I don't
Speaker 1: like to play this game. But if they these two
Speaker 1: teams played ten times, Broncos won at eight times, right,
Speaker 1: they have to. You're doing the the least amount of
Speaker 1: allowing this to be the day. You're just making excuses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but listen, you got thirty eight minutes on Monday night.
Speaker 1: Somebody's got to come and push back. I said, Mark couldn't.
Speaker 1: Mark couldn't get out of bad. I have to do it, said,
Speaker 1: like twenty minutes into that, as I'm just like searching
Speaker 1: somewhere for a coherent point and my brain is completely mush.
Speaker 1: I did say to Stephen, I am laughing sometimes when
Speaker 1: you're talking, Stephen, because this will this is absolutely the
Speaker 1: most indulgent thing I've ever done as a member of
Speaker 1: the NFL. Like I know it. This is like where
Speaker 1: it all starts going downhill. I'm like, I'm jumping the show.
Speaker 1: An excellent point by you and a great article on
Speaker 1: the site. This is a good up for the boy. Um.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it. Let's get you caught
Speaker 1: up with some injury stuff going on. We'll start in
Speaker 1: Dallas where Dak Prescott. All right, we know what happened
Speaker 1: late in that disaster opener um against the Bucks. Prescott
Speaker 1: hit his hand, collided with Jack Barrett sustained a fractured thumb.
Speaker 1: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Tuesday that they will
Speaker 1: not place Dak on injured reserve and he has the
Speaker 1: possibility to return from this broken thumb within four weeks.
Speaker 1: And that's a different timeline, Condie than the six to
Speaker 1: eight week window we had heard from people that cover
Speaker 1: the team. Um, but he underwent surgery on the thumb
Speaker 1: and they think he'll be back in a month. Let's see,
Speaker 1: they're gonna need him because I think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: lost without him, right, So if he is back in
Speaker 1: a month, which I think I heard someone say. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was on our network or what,
Speaker 1: but someone said that Dock is known as a great healer,
Speaker 1: which I didn't realize that that was something that you
Speaker 1: could be really good at, like you could be better
Speaker 1: at healing people. And exactly I remember great healing and
Speaker 1: so now that was for mallet finger. That's what Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson had. That's a little bit different. I also have
Speaker 1: experience with mallet finger. After Kurt Warner broke my finger. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's all about the tendency, you know, want to
Speaker 1: clarify how he broke your finger because that could be
Speaker 1: taking different ways that people don't know the background. Right,
Speaker 1: So at training camp, Kurt Warner threw me a pass
Speaker 1: on a yeah, on a post route and you know
Speaker 1: I caught it. Um, broke my finger, kept my nails broke.
Speaker 1: He didn't like he did a transition. I think it
Speaker 1: was a beautiful. Yeah, I pointed the ball. It was
Speaker 1: great anyway, Um, doc is obviously that's a little different
Speaker 1: with the thumb and the ligament there. But if he
Speaker 1: only does miss four games. This is important because when
Speaker 1: you look at the schedule, they have the Bengals this week,
Speaker 1: then the Giants, then the Commanders, and then the Rams.
Speaker 1: But if he only missed those four he would be
Speaker 1: back in time for the Eagles on October six. But still,
Speaker 1: this is like three games, three division games that are
Speaker 1: right there, and obviously all every other team in the
Speaker 1: division aside from the Cowboys one week one. So things
Speaker 1: are already a little dicey for the Cowboys. So they
Speaker 1: definitely written all over it to me. And then you
Speaker 1: bring back a quarterback who's likely will be far less
Speaker 1: than without a lot of practice reps. And then you
Speaker 1: get the Eagles UM, who, by the way, or in
Speaker 1: the driver's seat, Connie. We talked about it on the
Speaker 1: Power Rank Show today when you check out UM even
Speaker 1: more so, they are on the driver's seat now in
Speaker 1: the NFC East. Greg, Let's hope that comes back and
Speaker 1: balls out, because I've always said that I like when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are interesting. It makes the league more fun.
Speaker 1: But this starts to get the whiff of one of
Speaker 1: those Cowboys seasons, and you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: Like the season last time Doc was hurt. The initial
Speaker 1: prognosis from our guy Ian Rappaport was week eight and
Speaker 1: week week ten, and that was after the surgery. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to source guest here. All
Speaker 1: I'm just saying is I think that information comes from
Speaker 1: good places. Um kind of like a reasonable medical outline,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then it's like Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: who knows if he goes to Jerry and be like,
Speaker 1: I can get back, you know. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: Jerry has been a very unreliable narrator when it comes
Speaker 1: to his own players and basically every way, but especially
Speaker 1: with injury timelines. And I think it should be pointed
Speaker 1: out it got a little lost in that game that
Speaker 1: that was the worst game I've ever seen Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: He was so bad before he got hurt. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's gotta return. I'm not expecting that Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: would struggle that much all year, but some of the
Speaker 1: factors that contributed to him struggling, and the fact that
Speaker 1: in the second half of last season I would say
Speaker 1: was the worst I've ever seen Dak Prescott playing is
Speaker 1: his entire career. Reminds me a little bit of how
Speaker 1: I was talked about Russell Wilson coming into last year
Speaker 1: because he struggled down the stretch of the year before.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see like, Okay, it's gonna he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be back to normal this year because he really
Speaker 1: wasn't dak And then you start out that way, you
Speaker 1: have the injury. I mean, all these games are gonna
Speaker 1: be tough to win. Sure it could be one four,
Speaker 1: but it could easily be O and six, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and the season could just end. Our
Speaker 1: left guard is gonna miss some time to two to
Speaker 1: four weeks. So that offensive line was already shaky and
Speaker 1: now maybe more so. And defense looks the last time
Speaker 1: Ducks Ducks sustained a serious injury, at least had Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton there, who was a very good backup quarterback. Cooper Rush. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tough situation for the Cowboys. Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: has so little respect league wide and somewhat from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys that he was literally cut a week ago so
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys could carry only one quarterback on their roster,
Speaker 1: put him on the practice squad. They knew no one
Speaker 1: was going to sign him. They were just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: can you do this for us? Can you hook us up? Cooper?
Speaker 1: It's just hard to believe one last thing real quick
Speaker 1: that this was the number one scoring offense last year
Speaker 1: in the B fall space. Go Get, Go, Get Jimmy,
Speaker 1: just do it and other rosye injury return projection News
Speaker 1: NFL Networks Tom Pelo Serra reports that t J. Watt,
Speaker 1: the reigning Defensive Player of the Year, is believed to
Speaker 1: not require surgery on that torn peck and could return
Speaker 1: before the end of October. Um Gregg and for the
Speaker 1: Power rankings this week, the Steelers are very difficult for
Speaker 1: me to figure out where to slat them because that
Speaker 1: was a big division win, but the offense was underwhelming,
Speaker 1: and then if you take out Wat for any amount
Speaker 1: of times, you kind of see the Steelers as the
Speaker 1: middle of the pack team. This at least gives you
Speaker 1: hope that he could come back and anchor that defense
Speaker 1: because he's kind of the straw that stirs the drink.
Speaker 1: That was spoon that stirs the drink. So that was
Speaker 1: the hesitation, But it is indeed straw, unlike the straw
Speaker 1: that broke the camel's back. Different straw, different type, different
Speaker 1: thing altogether. It's sad because he's in the middle of
Speaker 1: a run like his brother used to have. The three
Speaker 1: different put that on him. I'm just saying that the
Speaker 1: three defensive players the year in a row. I would
Speaker 1: say this. He could t J. Watt could have been
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year in any of the last
Speaker 1: three years he did win at one time. And Uh,
Speaker 1: it's sad to see they're not totally done. But I
Speaker 1: thought they were a little thin in terms of their
Speaker 1: pass rush, uh, their edge pass rush, even with him there.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got maybe the best pass rusher in
Speaker 1: the league. But after the Alex Highsmith, Okay, they didn't
Speaker 1: feel that good about their edge rush. So they actually
Speaker 1: sent some draft picks uh to Denver uh and picked
Speaker 1: up someone there like that They're gonna Jamir Jones is
Speaker 1: not who I'm thinking of. I don't know why I'm blaming.
Speaker 1: I always liked in Denver and now they're happy they
Speaker 1: made that trade. But the reason they made that trade
Speaker 1: because they didn't feel good about the position. Uh. And
Speaker 1: so that's definitely something you think of when you think
Speaker 1: of the Steelers, and they're not going to have in
Speaker 1: the next few weeks let's go through the remaining kind
Speaker 1: of big injuries hanging out there before we get to
Speaker 1: our final thoughts. On Week one. Elijah Mitchell, the running
Speaker 1: back for the Niners. A lot of people thought a
Speaker 1: big year could be coming from him, but now a
Speaker 1: big roadblock. He'll miss up to eight weeks. According UH
Speaker 1: two sources. UH he has a sprained mcl mac jones.
Speaker 1: Better news, he had the X rays on the back
Speaker 1: after the loss of the Dolphins. It's believed to be
Speaker 1: back spasms, and there's a thought that he could play
Speaker 1: against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week two without t J. Watt,
Speaker 1: so that at least gives him a chance, he would think.
Speaker 1: And finally, not so good news on Jamal Adams, who's
Speaker 1: dealt with injuries the last couple of years, really since
Speaker 1: coming over from the Jets to Seattle in that blockbuster trade.
Speaker 1: Early in Monday Night's game, he suffered a tendon injury
Speaker 1: connected to his knee. It's believed, according to Mike garifolo
Speaker 1: U of NFL Network, to be a serious issue that
Speaker 1: will require surgery and likely end his year. It's a bummer.
Speaker 1: I know Jets fans have star cross or have feelings
Speaker 1: and mixed feelings about Jamal Adams, but nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: see his career gets sidetracked by injuries, so this sucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a one. He was out with the shoulder surgery,
Speaker 1: uh Latin. He missed time with the groin injury. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just like finger issue, and he's so good when
Speaker 1: he's healthy, but now it's been kind of an issue
Speaker 1: just keeping them on the field. He was active in
Speaker 1: that game too. It's kind of a classic Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: game where a ball went off his helmet, which I
Speaker 1: feel like has happened to many times a decent amount.
Speaker 1: And Russell wasn't good at a couple of picks in
Speaker 1: that game. That was one of them. And their defense,
Speaker 1: to me, was totally built around him and quandary Digs
Speaker 1: because you have all these second your cornerbacks and rookie
Speaker 1: cornerbacks around them that look a little shaky, but you're
Speaker 1: using your two safeties in such a mature, sort of
Speaker 1: versatile way, and now you don't have it. That's a problem,
Speaker 1: and I think Elijah Mitchell is a pretty big problem too.
Speaker 1: They're gonna ask Debo. Debo was their leading rusher, get
Speaker 1: like debo and trailing is gonna get all that contract.
Speaker 1: Say they have these different stipulations, these clauses. Also, Trey
Speaker 1: Lance is going to do a lot of running grab
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson and your fantasy leagues. But I'm sorry, what
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Speaker 1: did you say something? Oh? I was just saying you
Speaker 1: might want to grab Jeff Wilson in fantasy leagues. Yes,
Speaker 1: go ahead and do that. Uh, let's take a break
Speaker 1: and then we will talk about what has us color? Oh,
Speaker 1: you are intrigued. We're colored? Were colored? You're all right,
Speaker 1: We're back. Let's get into it. By the way, I
Speaker 1: mentioned it off the top of the show Around the
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Speaker 1: but this year you're gonna have me and Greg and
Speaker 1: probably Mark and it's going to be a great show.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot. Greg's already coming up with ideas.
Speaker 1: I'm sending it cut out of myself. You guys can
Speaker 1: just put it in a chair. Maybe people could sign it,
Speaker 1: leave me some notes so I can feel like I'm
Speaker 1: part of it. I want not the five ft one
Speaker 1: Connie cut out that. I want a seven foot three
Speaker 1: colleagues on the stage, and I want it placed directly
Speaker 1: behind you, so it's just looking over your Sean Payton
Speaker 1: got suspended and he had the giant do your Job
Speaker 1: sign at Saints Headquarters. How about a Connie do your
Speaker 1: job sign on the stage. I love that. Actually, let's
Speaker 1: make that happen. Justin Graver, let's talk about that. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: that will get me through this. Color me in little
Speaker 1: thing that's great. Yeah, here we are, color me intrigued.
Speaker 1: Week one is in the books. Who are the player?
Speaker 1: I mean it could be anything. I went with three players.
Speaker 1: You take it wherever you want. What has you intrigued?
Speaker 1: Greggy get his going? I mean, I'm I'm coloring outside
Speaker 1: the lines here. Then bad boy media, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm Bob rossing it up here. I'm pretty pictures. Bob
Speaker 1: ross was not a bad boy? Was he? He was not? He?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm coloring in a little Chargers defense that I
Speaker 1: witnessed on really Monday when when I rewatched this, and
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers defense has been something that's been
Speaker 1: more in my mind than in reality since Brandon Staley
Speaker 1: got there. But when you think about the plays that
Speaker 1: some of the linebackers were making, Drew Tranquila, who are
Speaker 1: a good friend, Matt money Smith really pushed hard for
Speaker 1: me to go as the making the leap guy getting
Speaker 1: deep in his coverage and making that interception Assante Samuel Jr.
Speaker 1: With one of the best interceptions that will be made
Speaker 1: in the NFL all year on a guy he wasn't
Speaker 1: even covered, like he saw his buddy was, you know,
Speaker 1: in trouble covering Davante Adams down the seasons. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go help my buddy. That's a play that his
Speaker 1: father would have made. And then the way that they
Speaker 1: were using Derwin without J. C. Jackson in the lineup,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, they felt comfortable using Derwin James in
Speaker 1: such a creative way all over the field. I know
Speaker 1: they've done that before, but man, he was really great
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher in that game. And then finally
Speaker 1: Kleo Mac like that was the best Cleo Mac game.
Speaker 1: He seems to have it whenever he plays Derek car
Speaker 1: his old friend for whatever. So true, I hope it lasts,
Speaker 1: you know, going into this week, but I really was
Speaker 1: amazed by, like all the defensive pieces. If they're that good,
Speaker 1: they are right there with the Super Bowl contending great performance,
Speaker 1: really clamped down in the big spots in in the
Speaker 1: second half. I do want to see it against the
Speaker 1: non Derek car team. And that's not dumping on Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: but Joey Bosa has been on the record in the past,
Speaker 1: uh saying that we know how to get to the
Speaker 1: Raiders offense, and that's by shaking up the quarterback in
Speaker 1: the six sacks. Absolutely did that. How does it happen
Speaker 1: when not not Derek Carr, but Patrick Mahomes or another
Speaker 1: great quarterback or better quarterbacks in the mix. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm the Chargers and I like the Charges a lot too,
Speaker 1: but it's I need to see him put it together
Speaker 1: some real players though. And you know what where they
Speaker 1: strung so much throughout last year was their run defense,
Speaker 1: and know was the Raiders but they yeah, that's another thing,
Speaker 1: but but how many games last season was there a
Speaker 1: first half where teams ran like seven times for fourteen yards?
Speaker 1: And it was around that in this first half of
Speaker 1: this game. And it was the players that they signed,
Speaker 1: Austin Johnson and Sebastian Joseph Day, who were doing the playmaking,
Speaker 1: especially Johnson had a nice game. I want to believe
Speaker 1: that the Raiders are good, though. I want to believe
Speaker 1: the whole narrative, that that entire division is just as
Speaker 1: good as maybe we thought. We've only seen one game
Speaker 1: from it. But I would love to to think that
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack and Joey Bosa are going to combine for
Speaker 1: a massive season together. It's healthy they will, and it's
Speaker 1: like the rest of everything. I think they have a
Speaker 1: little more elsewhere than people realize. You know, I agree
Speaker 1: with Tranquil and nacre at Early and all these other
Speaker 1: secondary players. Color me intrigued? Did you mention J. C.
Speaker 1: Jackson hasn't played yet? That's that's a big thief without him. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: and if he returns, maybe as soon as Thursday, that
Speaker 1: would be incredible to see him. I'm with you. Color
Speaker 1: me intrigued, not color me convinced, But I like it intrigue.
Speaker 1: This is about yeah, like about you. Okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: give me the crayons, markers. What are we working with here?
Speaker 1: What do it sounds like a colored pencil? Yeah? You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wassed. I was supposed to be an art teacher
Speaker 1: and then this happened very like total left turn. Um
Speaker 1: I am, that's exactly right. I would have been. I
Speaker 1: don't I'm terrible with children. This would have been an
Speaker 1: awful car. I feel like you would have been really
Speaker 1: one of those art teachers that gets increasingly weird as
Speaker 1: their teaching career goes on, Like I'm doing that without
Speaker 1: the art teacher. But when they're like a twenty four
Speaker 1: year old new teacher, they're very quiet and sweet, and
Speaker 1: then by the time there seven and tenure there crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have like a zillion cardigans with like all sorts
Speaker 1: of like stickers and like pins all over them, and
Speaker 1: wild glasses, vacant smile at all times. It's just like
Speaker 1: what is going on behind wild eyes? Anyway, I'm coloring
Speaker 1: some sunshine, some smiling faces. This is great. There's some rainbows.
Speaker 1: I love a good first impression, and that is exactly
Speaker 1: what A. J. Brown gave Eagles fans in his first game,
Speaker 1: already setting franchise records, had the most receiving yards in
Speaker 1: a player's first game with Philadelphia ten for one. He
Speaker 1: even said it's kind of overwhelming at this point to
Speaker 1: already said a club record. It's pretty crazy. They haven't
Speaker 1: had a dominant number one wide receiver like this of
Speaker 1: that output in so long. The Eagles offense put up
Speaker 1: thirty plus points, one of four teams to do it
Speaker 1: week one. Now, I'm also intrigued with this offense in
Speaker 1: general because Davante Smith was so quiet. He was only
Speaker 1: targeted four times. He was held without a catch for
Speaker 1: the first time in his career, So you got to
Speaker 1: get him the ball. Even Nick Sirianni talked about that
Speaker 1: after the fact, because otherwise they're too one dimensional. But
Speaker 1: A J. Brown, is it too soon to retire his number? Well, yes,
Speaker 1: but also you're right there has not been I was
Speaker 1: just thinking about, Oh yeah, it's too soon. It's too
Speaker 1: soon for Justin Um. You have to go back to
Speaker 1: Terrell Owens. That's the last time they had, like I know,
Speaker 1: just Pique to Sean Jackson was special, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: the same guy. I thought when I was watching the game, Yestertray,
Speaker 1: it was incredible watching him dig out a ball a
Speaker 1: low throw from Jalen Hurts, and you know his ability
Speaker 1: to gain separation and make contested catches. He's gonna make
Speaker 1: Jalen hurts so much better. Right, It's the same thing
Speaker 1: he did with Ryan Tannehill. Ryan Tannehill is great, but
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannell without a J. Brown is not as great,
Speaker 1: just because a lot of those catches that he makes,
Speaker 1: like Westbrook A Kina is not going to make the
Speaker 1: way that the light is shining down on Graver's face
Speaker 1: right now in the control room of just So such well,
Speaker 1: the good news for Justin is that new number one
Speaker 1: Rode receiver in Tennessee's Robert Woods and that you know
Speaker 1: that one catchy didn't make in week one was pretty encouraging.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Davante Smith at all, by the
Speaker 1: way either he had He actually had a kind of
Speaker 1: a bad game. Couple of those target you know, he
Speaker 1: did have a drop in the other one was a
Speaker 1: little sloppy. But like he's such a good player. It's
Speaker 1: like this happens in a seventeen never been that before, Right,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I think it happens, and they'll
Speaker 1: make sure and I think they'll be very conscious of
Speaker 1: it to let it happen again. Let me throw out
Speaker 1: another veteran receiver that has a track record of excellence.
Speaker 1: Julio Jones. Yes, I will take No, I will take
Speaker 1: the there's a really messy Ones. You would get an
Speaker 1: art class. It was like almost like acrylic. No, it
Speaker 1: was m M. I'll get back to you, okay. Um.
Speaker 1: But I heard and read and we talked about it
Speaker 1: occasionally on the show. I think Greg you were talking
Speaker 1: about it as well. Julio Jones looks good, he looks fast.
Speaker 1: He's running a you know, three seven forty. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be the Julio Jones that you remember in two thousand,
Speaker 1: like all that stuff. And I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: that's all cool, um, but I don't care about any
Speaker 1: of that. I want to see what it looks like
Speaker 1: in live game action with first team defenses against him
Speaker 1: and the lights on, and he looked like Julio Jones
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. Now Here is the disclaimer that the
Speaker 1: problem with Julio Jones. I don't think even in his
Speaker 1: doomed one year, where was he last year? This week?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, just it's not like they updrafts like he
Speaker 1: was never right physically, And that is a will continue
Speaker 1: to be a concern because there's going to be a
Speaker 1: idea now that you saw him great on Sunday Night
Speaker 1: Football in week when he be like, that's who he is.
Speaker 1: Now he's back, and that's what he's gonna You're gonna
Speaker 1: get for four months and he's gonna have fourteen hundred
Speaker 1: yards receiving. I'm not going that far, but I'm intrigued
Speaker 1: that he really did look like Julio Jones that deep
Speaker 1: ball where he gained separation, that he has incredible hands,
Speaker 1: always has, and in general, you look at whose quarterback is,
Speaker 1: you look at um, Chris Godwin's injury, um, and how
Speaker 1: that's going to clear up more targets for him to
Speaker 1: find a role in this offense. Immediately he only had
Speaker 1: three catches for six in yards in the game, but
Speaker 1: he really did flash to me in Week one as
Speaker 1: a guy that will be an impact player if his
Speaker 1: lower body holds up. He looked like his younger self,
Speaker 1: Like I I caught myself wondering how old he was,
Speaker 1: and I do this every single year. I'm like, but
Speaker 1: he's only thirty three, and I know that that's old
Speaker 1: in football years, but it seems like it seems like
Speaker 1: he has been in the league for the injury report
Speaker 1: for four years. But he looked in that moment on
Speaker 1: this team with Tom Brady, he looked different. And I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering how long that will last, how long we'll
Speaker 1: see that. Sometimes, I think usage tells you a lot.
Speaker 1: The fact that they ran him twice tells me a lot. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that they gave him two carries. I mean, how many
Speaker 1: times in the last few years has the coach thought
Speaker 1: he's explosive enough to run him? And he got seventeen
Speaker 1: yards on those two carries, Like, I think you can
Speaker 1: just tell I test And I was talking about that
Speaker 1: from the practice footage they were showing just he is
Speaker 1: moving with a little more explosion than he has in
Speaker 1: the past. And I think he's someone that reputation wise,
Speaker 1: has gotten by UM without a lot of practice time
Speaker 1: that he didn't necessarily need it, without necessarily being the
Speaker 1: guy that put He's talked about it, that put in
Speaker 1: a ton of work in the off season and everything
Speaker 1: to like keep his body right, all that stuff. Maybe
Speaker 1: he came into the season with like a little bit
Speaker 1: different attitude. And I think one of the reasons he's
Speaker 1: been so good is that he understands the game better
Speaker 1: UM than of the receivers out there and to play
Speaker 1: with a guy like Tom Brady, like when he was
Speaker 1: playing with Matt Ryan, who's also on like another level.
Speaker 1: I think that's just going to help him a lot,
Speaker 1: and you know kind of the bid that angers some
Speaker 1: people in the analytics community that listen, Oh he's really fast.
Speaker 1: How fast he moved? What did it say? What we
Speaker 1: what did it say? The next gen steps one hour?
Speaker 1: That's that's what all fast guys run. Guess what on
Speaker 1: that forty eight yard brought in twenty point six? Two? Up?
Speaker 1: He really is. We won't round this one up. We'll
Speaker 1: keep that one there because that shows, Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: just talk. It's not just beat reporters that are seeing
Speaker 1: this elite athlete and wanting it to be something else.
Speaker 1: He really does have the legs right now of twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old Julio Jones. Well, it's stay that way.
Speaker 1: Next gen stats Julio Jones records two of his top
Speaker 1: three speeds since ago, so he's obviously feeling good. Let's
Speaker 1: hope it stays that way. Okay, one more round and
Speaker 1: then we'll do like a quickie. Okay, uh, let's go
Speaker 1: to uh Atlanta where um you know I gave Mark
Speaker 1: too much grief about being so high on the Falcons
Speaker 1: when they lost that game. Anyways, there was a lot
Speaker 1: to be excited about, I think primarily their rookie receiver
Speaker 1: Drake London, who is out of action for most of
Speaker 1: the preseason and training camp, and I just thought you
Speaker 1: can kind of tell right away that him on those
Speaker 1: in breaking routes was great. Um for such a big
Speaker 1: guy to move like he does, I think there was
Speaker 1: concerned that he wouldn't be able to get open at
Speaker 1: the NFL level, and he just looks really smooth, and
Speaker 1: I think when when you combine that sort of suddenness
Speaker 1: that that he has more than I really expected in
Speaker 1: terms of getting open. You see him doing it against
Speaker 1: good cornerbacks in Atlanta and really making himself available for
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariotta. You suddenly combine that with Mariota and Cordurel Patterson,
Speaker 1: who to me are even though Mariota is not a
Speaker 1: perfect quarterback, can do a lot of different things, and
Speaker 1: they were leaning into him as an option quarterback and
Speaker 1: a running quarterback, which they didn't do enough of in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: And then Kyle Pitts. It's a lot for Arthur Smith
Speaker 1: to play with I think, uh, the Falcon's offense, Um,
Speaker 1: where did uh Arthur Smith? Where did he come? You
Speaker 1: know what, though, I think the NFL is caught up
Speaker 1: to Marcus Mariota's skill set that I don't think the
Speaker 1: NFL was really running offenses in a way that could
Speaker 1: take advantage enough of what he could do well. Also
Speaker 1: think he looks bigger and strong. It does look a
Speaker 1: little bigger or the Titans, because when Mike Malarkey was
Speaker 1: a head coach in Tennessee, Marcus ran a lot and
Speaker 1: then he got hurt a lot, and then Mike Rabel
Speaker 1: took over and said, we need a starting quarterback to
Speaker 1: stay healthy. I am really worried. Mariota is not even
Speaker 1: like sliding or getting out of bounce. He's like no
Speaker 1: running into contact. He seemed to be running better than
Speaker 1: than he's ever run. I think he just looks really
Speaker 1: strong and athletic. But either way, it's a lot to
Speaker 1: play with. And I think London is weirdly the key
Speaker 1: piece I think here because I think if you have
Speaker 1: a real one to build everything else off of, that
Speaker 1: really makes the rest of it more easy. Every time
Speaker 1: you say London, I am triggered. There Uh yeah, Mark
Speaker 1: Mariota does look like a beef you thick boy right now.
Speaker 1: I think he hope he could absorb the punishment. Um
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people he does. But he
Speaker 1: looks fast. It looks faster takeaways, and I thought this
Speaker 1: could be possible. And we talked about like what why
Speaker 1: should told us entering the season that maybe he was
Speaker 1: in position to do surprise some people because he was
Speaker 1: just kind of in the shadows here, um Corduil Patterson.
Speaker 1: The fact that he looks exactly like the guy that
Speaker 1: you know really did things that offense last year. What
Speaker 1: you said with London Kyle Pitts was quiet weak one,
Speaker 1: But there are things here now. Just I'm intrigued as well,
Speaker 1: Greg a little cold water. Mariot also blew that game
Speaker 1: and with the fumble inside the ten when they were
Speaker 1: about to go up thirty to ten, I believe in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and then on third and short at
Speaker 1: midfield do you just need a first down? And he
Speaker 1: fumbles the snap again and blows up that play. This
Speaker 1: is about London, It's about Drake London, and it's about
Speaker 1: my enjoyment. And this was something I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: lower third bar and it's just the Falcon's offense might
Speaker 1: be watchable. I am just saying they're gonna be watching.
Speaker 1: This was something we went back and forth. Actually last
Speaker 1: year I kept saying, you know what, and the right
Speaker 1: week the Falcon's offense is And but here's why though,
Speaker 1: because Arthur Smith, I think, was in his bag and
Speaker 1: kind of making it happen. And now he's in it
Speaker 1: and he's got a few more pieces. That makes you
Speaker 1: you can't retroactively get that take and say that was
Speaker 1: right last year too. That was where I was coming
Speaker 1: from though, that it was the beginning of something. It
Speaker 1: was Patterson, it was Pitts, and it was Arthur Smith.
Speaker 1: And now you had a coin we can write. There
Speaker 1: are obituary at this point, we can write them off again.
Speaker 1: We'll get back to work. He is fired up, and
Speaker 1: I love it all I can. If they could go
Speaker 1: three and fourteen, if they're fun to watch, that's all
Speaker 1: I care about. For me. This is way better than
Speaker 1: the Geno quote to me, you buried us in may
Speaker 1: Bury us again. We don't care. We'll get back to work.
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, you don't. Artie Smith is not a guy
Speaker 1: that strikes you as a guy that's gonna drop a
Speaker 1: hammer quote like that, don't give him a little pop
Speaker 1: for that. Yeah, that's why it was impressive. Loved it alright,
Speaker 1: another one, come all right, here we go, Um, give
Speaker 1: me my crayons and give me the purple one specifically
Speaker 1: old Sharp this for a second. Okay, we Dan. We
Speaker 1: talked about this a little bit on the Power Rankings podcast,
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Speaker 1: watch it as well. Absolutely all sorts of things you
Speaker 1: can interact with you've got We're there like so much. So.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about this earlier on the
Speaker 1: Power Ranking spot. But color be intrigued the Vikings. I
Speaker 1: am oh intrigued by the Vikings now. I talked, I
Speaker 1: think on this pod last week about my love for
Speaker 1: the Colts, and this is sort of my NFC version
Speaker 1: of that that I have such hard eyes for the
Speaker 1: Vikings and all of hard eyes, like the hard eye emoji. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said hardy part heart heart eyes. Um, alright, so
Speaker 1: my heart eyes saw Kevin O'Connell, who in his head
Speaker 1: coaching debut called a great game. It was so balanced
Speaker 1: and that was one of the knocks on this team
Speaker 1: runs thirty two passes UM plus that sack. But still
Speaker 1: it was a clean game, no turnovers for the offense.
Speaker 1: Even when you look at Kirk Cousins eight point two
Speaker 1: yards per attempt next to Aaron Rodgers is five point three.
Speaker 1: I just think that this team, the fact that they
Speaker 1: have just Jefferson and the way that he is playing
Speaker 1: right now, they can I'm I'm buying all of it.
Speaker 1: I'm buying everything that they're selling. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: I love Zadarius Smith with Daniel Hunter on this team.
Speaker 1: I think that za Darius had that he could not
Speaker 1: wait for this week one to play the Packers and
Speaker 1: the two of them together, that nobody make an eye
Speaker 1: contact with him because he had a back injury in
Speaker 1: the hallway. Take this, look at me in the eyes, Rogers,
Speaker 1: look at look at my marble countertop eyes. He had
Speaker 1: hard eyes hard anyway. That defense was absolutely invisible last
Speaker 1: year and it looks good now. This is the craziest
Speaker 1: stat of week. One I stumbled into on Twitter this
Speaker 1: morning was Mac Jones, who just finished his rookie year
Speaker 1: one game into his second season, has had four games
Speaker 1: in his career where his defense gave up seven or
Speaker 1: less points. Kirk Cousins has been in the league since
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, and Sunday was the second game that
Speaker 1: ever happened to him. Crazy, So you don't really realize
Speaker 1: it because there's so much criticism. He's such a lightning
Speaker 1: rod that whenever things go wrong for Kirk cousins team,
Speaker 1: it's like, Oh, it's Kirk Cousins the offense, or it's
Speaker 1: the coach, or it's their relationship. But maybe he's never
Speaker 1: really been with a good defense. Now, is it too
Speaker 1: soon to say that I can have a good defense? Yes,
Speaker 1: it is. But at the same time, that was a
Speaker 1: great way uh to start their season. They are definitely
Speaker 1: frisky at the very least. O'Connell I think used Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson in a way that reminded me of how Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur used Davante Adams last year. And you can still
Speaker 1: have the same player. And even though Jefferson was active
Speaker 1: last year, he wasn't maximized as much Lafleur's genius, if
Speaker 1: you want to call it that, Like more than anything was.
Speaker 1: He spent like all weeks just trying to scheme up
Speaker 1: new ways to get the right matchups for Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: Like that was his focus every week because he knew
Speaker 1: that's his best player, that's where the defense is gonna focus.
Speaker 1: And it seems to me that that's what O'Connell is doing,
Speaker 1: put in him in ways that they couldn't match up
Speaker 1: Gyra Alexander, Putt even in ways that you're gonna get
Speaker 1: him open, and that the whole offense is about O'Connell
Speaker 1: thinking like how can I just get Jefferson off because
Speaker 1: there's kind of no answer for him when he's in
Speaker 1: the right matchup. Yeah, Jefferson, after one of his many
Speaker 1: big plays in that game, told the media afterwards like
Speaker 1: once he was running and caught the ball, he looked
Speaker 1: on there was nobody around me, and so there was
Speaker 1: a masterful scheme of brilliant player. And by the way,
Speaker 1: game that's fun. That's a fun game. An Eagles team
Speaker 1: that gave up thirty five against the Detroit Lions and
Speaker 1: didn't draft Justin Jefferson, So well, you gotta now you've
Speaker 1: got a j Brown right right, returns to Philadelphia as
Speaker 1: a Viking. Right Listen. I could have had Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: but I got Christian Hackenburg. Like we could all go
Speaker 1: back and talk about what we have and don't have.
Speaker 1: All right, one more for Zeuser. Color me intrigued, old
Speaker 1: wacky miss Wolf down in classroom six, I was terrible
Speaker 1: at art. This is for me. I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: the worst kid in the class and just wanted to
Speaker 1: like move on when it was required. Cut papers another
Speaker 1: good medium. Um, come with me. I want to take
Speaker 1: you behind the velvet ropes. Come here. Look at that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little baby seven ounces. I thought this was the
Speaker 1: Kicker Club eight pounds, seven ounces, and it sent filled
Speaker 1: with life and joy. Just a little baby, a tiny
Speaker 1: little baby, a rookie in life. Look how sweetie is well?
Speaker 1: Look hmm it looks like a strong leg. He's got
Speaker 1: I wonder if he couldn't. I wonder if he could
Speaker 1: do something? What are cade York? The little baby boy
Speaker 1: at l S U can do something in our league? Welcome,
Speaker 1: come on down, kid, I don't know if you're old
Speaker 1: enough to drink. But you're coming to the Kickers Club.
Speaker 1: Out of the nursery, to the back, behind the velvet ropes,
Speaker 1: into that special room. Bottle service, bottle service for the baby,
Speaker 1: love it nail, Thank you, Miss wolf six b how
Speaker 1: and I know whatever? The Browns YouTube are fast listeners
Speaker 1: that you gotta check us out on video blowing up
Speaker 1: in the club, the lights flash is going off. The
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns identified they needed to find a kicker they
Speaker 1: could trust, so there is the fourth round pick on
Speaker 1: Cade York. And again I don't know why more teams
Speaker 1: don't do this. Evan McPherson was drafted by the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals and they don't get to the Super Bowl without him.
Speaker 1: The Browns now used a premium draft pick, a mid
Speaker 1: round draft pick on a kicker who all he did
Speaker 1: in his first game ever was go four for four
Speaker 1: two two of two on extra points and a fifty
Speaker 1: eight yard or at the gun to beat Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Color me intrigued on not just kde York
Speaker 1: having a cannon for a right leg, but also on
Speaker 1: the league finally catching on that don't be just because
Speaker 1: Roberto Aguayo ten years ago or whatever, like this is
Speaker 1: a major aspect of a team. And if you love
Speaker 1: a guy in the pre draft process, don't wait for
Speaker 1: him to fall through the cracks, Go get him because
Speaker 1: he might just turn an average team into a playoff team,
Speaker 1: which I think if the Browns up going down that road,
Speaker 1: this kid could play a huge role in It's his
Speaker 1: first NFL game, and that kick from fifty eight yards
Speaker 1: would have been good from seventy yards. I honestly think that.
Speaker 1: I think that was a kick the way at the
Speaker 1: I wish it had the NBC. It hit more than
Speaker 1: halfway up the net. It was smoked, and every one
Speaker 1: of his kicks was just nails, so hard eyes marble
Speaker 1: eyes for Kade York with you like the whole, the
Speaker 1: whole rookie cooker thing. Like one of the best draft
Speaker 1: picks Bill Belichick's ever made was Stephen Gaskowski as a
Speaker 1: fourth round picked or a place fair, It's worth it's
Speaker 1: worth the gamble because people are especially people are so
Speaker 1: precious in our league with mid round picks, like fourth
Speaker 1: round picks, fifth round picks. They're afraid to give one up.
Speaker 1: It's like I need the I'll trade this guy if
Speaker 1: I can get one more fourth rounder, and then half
Speaker 1: of these guys are cut by their second training camp.
Speaker 1: When you have a k I don't know anything about
Speaker 1: Cade York in his college careers. You star, he was
Speaker 1: gonna be a baller in the imagine if the Titans
Speaker 1: had kide are consider Randy Bullock if you want to
Speaker 1: know that. There you go again in the mustache that
Speaker 1: Kadi ark is sporting shows a lot of confidence. Yes,
Speaker 1: just because he's a kick. If he's a star, he's
Speaker 1: a star, and he's a star, and the Browns might
Speaker 1: have a star at place kicker after years in the
Speaker 1: wilderness in that department. All right, let's do a real
Speaker 1: quick one and then we'll all right, quick quick, color
Speaker 1: me intrigued. The Bears holder was called for unsportsmanlike for
Speaker 1: blotting the field with a towel. Intrigued. Don't understand it,
Speaker 1: and I think it's dumb. The penalty took the Bears
Speaker 1: out of field goal range instead of potentially putting three
Speaker 1: points in to cut the lead there. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You just can't listen if you couldn't guess done something
Speaker 1: with his hand. I mean, think about it. When there's
Speaker 1: snow on the ground. You're brushing the snow out of
Speaker 1: the way, but you can't block the field with a towel.
Speaker 1: The Patriots famous they brought out that snow. I think
Speaker 1: unfair advantage, I guess um. And by the way, Bears
Speaker 1: fans don't get too upset about that because the rain
Speaker 1: is the same reason you won in week one. How
Speaker 1: about you, Gregor, that's got to be sensitive. Where did
Speaker 1: you put them up to the power rank and moving
Speaker 1: him up from thirty because then you cave to the
Speaker 1: to the sheeple. You know, that's a nice that's a
Speaker 1: nice win. I'm just saying, if ever there was a
Speaker 1: win that was you can just throw that entire game out.
Speaker 1: That was it. Well, that was just like a weather
Speaker 1: I threw him a little bit of a bone, okay,
Speaker 1: but that's I thought you might bury. I'm keeping shout out.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Paul rud He understands he had to leave
Speaker 1: some room for like the Jets and stuff on the
Speaker 1: back end. Color me Intreague just quickly by by juice
Speaker 1: by Jarvis Landry as one of the best free agent
Speaker 1: signings in another veteran. That to me is just moving
Speaker 1: in a different way than he has in a few
Speaker 1: years where he's always been on the injury report with
Speaker 1: back injuries or knee injuries and all my god, um
Speaker 1: the sidelines throw that Jamis Winston made to him was
Speaker 1: one of the best throws of the week. Jamis had
Speaker 1: some absolute gems in that game. But the way Landry
Speaker 1: is getting in out of his breaks and you know
Speaker 1: exactly where he's gonna be and even making plays after
Speaker 1: the catch like he used to, that receiver group is
Speaker 1: so much better, so fast, and he, to me, could
Speaker 1: be such a huge part of it. Yeah, same thing
Speaker 1: with Julio Jones. As long as they could keep him healthy,
Speaker 1: he's going to be a difference maker. They signed him
Speaker 1: for three million dollars that that's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: the best free agent moves moved by the Saints. And
Speaker 1: I will throw out over in the NFC West safety
Speaker 1: talaoah who fanga? Who did you guys happen to see?
Speaker 1: Who fanga action? I want to give the forty Niners
Speaker 1: credit because I don't think they get enough. They are
Speaker 1: kind of a factory and pumping out defensive playmakers and
Speaker 1: guys that are ballers and they I know it's a
Speaker 1: little early to say it was with Hufana, but he's
Speaker 1: a safety. Against the Bears, he was everywhere. And I'm
Speaker 1: not usually the type of football fan that clocks like
Speaker 1: a safe you doing things, but he was everywhere. He
Speaker 1: was all around the ball. He had eleven tackles, nine
Speaker 1: were solo, two tackles for a loss, an interception, he
Speaker 1: had the highest He was the highest graded defender against
Speaker 1: the Bears. And that forty Niners team has some really
Speaker 1: good defenders that we're making plays in that game as well.
Speaker 1: So you know, he's a second year player, I believe,
Speaker 1: and if you add their ability to continue to create talent,
Speaker 1: that defense, which is an underrated defense. Also, by the way,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine. They That was a stupid game
Speaker 1: from the perspective of forty Niners fan because the way
Speaker 1: the weather worked out, But that defense at the very
Speaker 1: least will be fine. Maybe the offense will be a
Speaker 1: work in progress. But who funga tal Noah, who funga
Speaker 1: scouting NYE second year player? That's what I'm saying for him,
Speaker 1: for the old zooster to be like, whoa the safety
Speaker 1: is making plays? That safety was making pay You're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: Damiko Ryan's is one of the best coordinators. But Shanahan
Speaker 1: should get some credit to like he's like Sean McVeigh.
Speaker 1: And then I think he's good at irene coaches like
Speaker 1: the entire defensive group there. Since he's been there, has
Speaker 1: been amazing at coaching up those players. Right, Um, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break and when we come back, we
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Speaker 1: night for the eight eastern five pm Pacific kickoff between
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Chargers. Money, of course, the official
Speaker 1: voice of the Charger. He's got some breaking news related
Speaker 1: to this game ten seconds ago on Twitter. Here is it?
Speaker 1: J C. Jackson really is a breaking news or developing?
Speaker 1: I guess it's more developing news either way. Brandon Staley
Speaker 1: says that Keenan Allen's hamstring is going to take some
Speaker 1: time to heal. Be smart about it. I like it.
Speaker 1: Obviously you weren't playing on a short week after he
Speaker 1: strained it on Sunday. But the Chargers. Chargers want bigger
Speaker 1: things than eight nine this year. Get that guy right,
Speaker 1: he's so important. But I I thought by J. C.
Speaker 1: Jackson threw a jog through by the way, let's see
Speaker 1: from there, but that one's up more up in the air,
Speaker 1: I thought. The big takeaway as we get into this game,
Speaker 1: which is a big test for the Chargers, I already
Speaker 1: feel like I know what the Chiefs are now. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs are still badass. Mahomes is in line for a
Speaker 1: big year. That offense, as long as they stay healthy,
Speaker 1: you're gonna put up points, and they are the favorite
Speaker 1: in this division. The Chargers, to me, have a chance
Speaker 1: to make a huge statement. And I liked how a
Speaker 1: lot of the additions that we saw last week over
Speaker 1: the offseason paid out big dividends, like DeAndre Carter, who's
Speaker 1: like a who what what? He was making plays for them.
Speaker 1: When Keenan Allen went out of the game, Gerald Everett,
Speaker 1: that dude can play if you put him with a
Speaker 1: big time quarterback. What happened? So I think their offense
Speaker 1: is going to still move the ball. Greg Mike Williams
Speaker 1: didn't even do much last week and they still were
Speaker 1: able to get that win against the Raiders. What do
Speaker 1: you think big. It does feel like a big game
Speaker 1: very early on for the Chargers. I I feel like
Speaker 1: it's too early for this game. Uh. It worries me.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be need to be a little
Speaker 1: more aggressive offensively. You know, their their offense kind of
Speaker 1: went into a shell in the second half against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Raiders did a pretty good job defensively ultimately in that game. Uh,
Speaker 1: you need to have Herbert attacked these young cornerbacks. I
Speaker 1: know that the Chiefs secret sauce defensively is Steve Spagnolo.
Speaker 1: Just like find any old late round pick. He's like,
Speaker 1: if you're a first round pick, Trent McDuffie, I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure I like you enough. Give me my seventh
Speaker 1: round pick. In my fifth round pick, I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: them thirty snaps each at cornerback. In Week one, they
Speaker 1: played three different rookie cornerbacks over fifteen snaps, two of
Speaker 1: them over thirty. News Greg more developing news This out
Speaker 1: of Kansas City rap sheet reports the Chiefs place first
Speaker 1: round pick cornerback Trent McDuffie on injured reserve of the
Speaker 1: hamstring injury knocking him out this Thursday and three more
Speaker 1: games to that also informs why mcduffee was not playing.
Speaker 1: He came out early and they ended up using um
Speaker 1: Jalen Watson I believe is his name, and then Joshua Williams,
Speaker 1: who was in the mid preseason. Josh Jalen Watson was
Speaker 1: the seventh round pick and the other one at mid
Speaker 1: round pick. So you gotta be able to take advantage
Speaker 1: of those matchups, especially with Mike Williams. I know they're
Speaker 1: not as deep at the Chargers as they would like
Speaker 1: at receiver without Keenan Allen, but let's see some Josh
Speaker 1: Palmer here. This game last year Chiefs Chargers the I
Speaker 1: think it was the final. It was the last TNF
Speaker 1: game that I did, and it was at SOFI Stadium,
Speaker 1: went into overtime, and it was one of the best
Speaker 1: games of the entire season. At that point, I was like,
Speaker 1: how's anything going to top this game? And then obviously
Speaker 1: the playoffs happened and then got even crazy. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was here, so that's different than being an arrowhead, but
Speaker 1: the Chargers should have won that game. The Chargers got
Speaker 1: turned away, went for multiple times on fourth down deep
Speaker 1: in their deep in Chief's territory, and came up empty
Speaker 1: and you came out of the game after the overtime.
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, like that that was their chances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and now you know they don't have Honey Badger
Speaker 1: there with Kansas City. Now I feel confident that the
Speaker 1: Charger is going to move the ball and score points.
Speaker 1: It's just can they get enough stops here, especially with
Speaker 1: what we saw Connie out of Patrick Mahomes and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs who were completely unconscious and doing whatever they wanted
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals. Well, Mahomes five touchdowns and the fact
Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert both spread the ball
Speaker 1: around with their offenses. They both targeted nine different players.
Speaker 1: They're not just keying in on one guy. Both of
Speaker 1: these offenses can move. Both of these quarterbacks are locked
Speaker 1: in already at the start of the season like this
Speaker 1: game is going to be insane. I'm so excited for it.
Speaker 1: I am too, And you just know it's not going
Speaker 1: to be as easy for Patrick Mahomes. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking back to that Thursday night game where at the
Speaker 1: end he caught on fire. But for a while, what
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley was trying to do was working, and you know,
Speaker 1: he he's the you know, progenitor. I would even say
Speaker 1: of like the type of defenses. The type of defense
Speaker 1: is that you know, everyone is running against Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals did the exact opposite, decided to go like
Speaker 1: single high safety blitz in a ton. It obviously didn't work.
Speaker 1: They'll have to work the ball down the field a
Speaker 1: lot more slowly against this Chargers defense, which which as
Speaker 1: I said before, I'm I'm excited about, but I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be harder because I really think this Chief's
Speaker 1: offense is going to be able to run the ball efficiently.
Speaker 1: That's what really caught my eye in that first game
Speaker 1: was they're using their tight ends so well to block.
Speaker 1: They're playing in a lot of really heavy formations throwing
Speaker 1: out of that, but also running really effectively out of that.
Speaker 1: So I talked about the Chargers run defense. Let's see
Speaker 1: if that holds up for another week, because I think
Speaker 1: the Chiefs run in attack is going to be legit.
Speaker 1: We've got the over under here and the deserts that
Speaker 1: at fifty four and a half. That's a high number, correct, right,
Speaker 1: it's pretty high? Uh, And you have the Chiefs lay
Speaker 1: in the wood four points here four. Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: is uh, you know. I I even think with you know,
Speaker 1: our lack competition, like I usually don't mess with Thursday
Speaker 1: night football is weird. But I really like them. And
Speaker 1: then and Justin and Herbert's playing for one of these
Speaker 1: two teams that actually up again. Come on, tell the
Speaker 1: Chiefs got six and oh written all over them to
Speaker 1: start the season right now. I know you don't want
Speaker 1: to put too much into Week one. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do it, but that's where I'm leaning. I think the
Speaker 1: Chiefs keep rolling on offense, and there the talk of
Speaker 1: the league after now. I think this one's gonna get crazy.
Speaker 1: I think that the Chargers could surprise us. I will
Speaker 1: be picking the Chiefs in this game on NFL dot
Speaker 1: Com Game Picks for sure, So I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: pushing back too hard, but man, Justin Herbert has five
Speaker 1: throws every game that are just like, what the heck?
Speaker 1: Can you make it a little easier for him? I
Speaker 1: just I do think sometimes it's like, why does it
Speaker 1: take so many insanely good throws to put up twenty
Speaker 1: four points? I think that's the difference. Is I kind
Speaker 1: of trust the offensive coaching to me, matches. Mahomes is
Speaker 1: brilliance where I don't know if we're there with the
Speaker 1: charges quite yet. Chris Jones, by the way, was just
Speaker 1: playing out of his mind in week one and and
Speaker 1: so that's something to watch two for the Chiefs. That is,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. I never thought of it, but
Speaker 1: that's true. Like you don't see Justin Herbert like slinging
Speaker 1: it to wide open guys over the middle too often.
Speaker 1: It's usually turkey hole shots or you know, from the
Speaker 1: opposite side of the field, ninety yard yard bombs. It's
Speaker 1: just like he had five throws. They were crazy, and
Speaker 1: then it's like, oh, you had twenty four points, and
Speaker 1: it's like looking like the Monday Night game yesterday, and
Speaker 1: that was a game that the Broncos scored sixteen points.
Speaker 1: But so many times Courtland Sutton or Jerry Judy, they
Speaker 1: were finding pockets in the zone of Gino. With one
Speaker 1: of his touchdowns, the guy was all by himself. Really
Speaker 1: both um that second throws, beautiful read over the right,
Speaker 1: just a little credit. I'm talking about the first half,
Speaker 1: not the second half. Word. He had four completions night
Speaker 1: seven yards and they didn't score a point. And basically
Speaker 1: lets oposing team win the game. But deposing team literally
Speaker 1: like dropped a dump in its pants and blew it.
Speaker 1: Let him have his moment. I tried. I couldn't know.
Speaker 1: I could. You came in here with like a debate
Speaker 1: stump speech, this little forty four yards think. He's like,
Speaker 1: I don't care, Like, no matter what they talk about,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pivot to this topic and no matter what.
Speaker 1: In fairness, it was not forty four yards. It was
Speaker 1: forty seven yards three four in the second half. But
Speaker 1: you know what, they wrote him off? Wow, and he
Speaker 1: didn't right back the same distance Randy Bullocks missfield goal?
Speaker 1: Uh you know who? Um justin? You know we created
Speaker 1: higher than Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert by PF and
Speaker 1: week one. By the way, who's that Gino smith h
Speaker 1: in the league except for Josh Allen number two. I
Speaker 1: had a you know, speaking of stupid stats twist for
Speaker 1: your own liking. I had a it's not twisted, that's
Speaker 1: just a Washington commander's fan tweet me getting mad at
Speaker 1: me and saying, oh, you're you're a total piece of garbage.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz he was the number five quarterback in football.
Speaker 1: How are they not a top ten team after they
Speaker 1: beat the Jaguars in Week one? Like, what bro what
Speaker 1: maybe it was by yardage or something? My favorite? Um,
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Speaker 1: and I was going to sell the bar is raised
Speaker 1: here that I am not concerned that this is going
Speaker 1: to be a season long problem. But until the next
Speaker 1: game happens, we have no choice but to believe it
Speaker 1: as a possibility. As your moment and I would I
Speaker 1: just I'm asking you please, Greg, Um, it's ends at
Speaker 1: a prayer. If when Mark returns to our show, Um,
Speaker 1: let's just make sure we get some of this conversation
Speaker 1: into our next show two, because I want him to
Speaker 1: have some of it. I know he missed a lot
Speaker 1: of it today. Okay, you want him to share this,
Speaker 1: write it down in your little black book. Here. I
Speaker 1: don't think that I the old Zooster, should be the
Speaker 1: only one that had to deal with the Geno episode today.
Speaker 1: Well it's over now, so the Geno season, I mean
Speaker 1: it could go incredibly south and you guys will enjoy that.
Speaker 1: But that will that will not take away the joy
Speaker 1: of all that happening. That this will go making the
Speaker 1: leap back in. It was just it was just on
Speaker 1: paused for the next d you it will go south.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, there's nothing that I or
Speaker 1: anyone else that's not rooting for Geno Smith can do
Speaker 1: about what happened. Yeah, well that happened, and the rest
Speaker 1: of us just have to wear it and move on.
Speaker 1: I mean, because look, he played two seasons in the
Speaker 1: first two seasons of his career for the freaking just
Speaker 1: a look, if you struggle with the Jets for two years,
Speaker 1: there's no way you could ever get better after that.
Speaker 1: Just like the Seahawks had to move on drive after
Speaker 1: driving the second half on Monday Night succession of inaccuracy,
Speaker 1: we must out, we must move on all right again.
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