Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the Friday fun show, working title. Mother.
Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hansas, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler from their homes. Week,
Speaker 1: threes upon us and this is your your dive into
Speaker 1: that I called a wobbly spiral. Greg thinks it's tight
Speaker 1: as hell. I mean this song is tight as hell
Speaker 1: and uh, I think you called it weak mill last week. Well,
Speaker 1: that's just like giving meek mills some credit. That a
Speaker 1: man in the sound library of the NFL is not
Speaker 1: going to match him. But it very much sounds like
Speaker 1: what is that song with drake? Anyways, the Friday fun show,
Speaker 1: I think the name is stuck. I think this is
Speaker 1: it God's plan. Is that what you're saying? Whatever, what's up, mark?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't appreciate Greg Um slamming like our
Speaker 1: generic music library, that we're doing the best we can
Speaker 1: with what's offered to us Um in an outside trademark world.
Speaker 1: That's fine. The Friday fun show, presented by no one,
Speaker 1: is about to get rolling here. We have a live,
Speaker 1: live audience coming to you. Ten Am here in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: one pm New York, six PM London, and it is very, very,
Speaker 1: very exciting to have you guys with us and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have that as part of the show, as you know,
Speaker 1: the Friday fun show, working title, uh, live listener feedback
Speaker 1: throughout the proceedings. That's where grave digger comes in, Eric Roberts,
Speaker 1: all the team behind the scenes, um connecting us with
Speaker 1: the listeners. We're gonna have our week three M v
Speaker 1: P predictions. And, by the way, it's time to get
Speaker 1: one of these right. Guys. Hero of the week here.
Speaker 1: It's not MVP, I mean I don't think of it
Speaker 1: as M v P. But Dan, to your point, the
Speaker 1: Latin the two that I picked in week one and
Speaker 1: week two have not just only been off the mark,
Speaker 1: they have been like nuclear fallout disasters. So I I
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying, but that's like that's like Greg
Speaker 1: going on one of his twitter rnts about like, Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, now that we see how bad all the
Speaker 1: panthers quarterbacks have been, isn't Teddy Bridgewater Great? When the
Speaker 1: bar is that low, anything looks good. So you can
Speaker 1: only go up from here, I hope so. It literally
Speaker 1: could not get worse. What a terrible personnel decisions they've made.
Speaker 1: If they had teddy bridgewater the last two years with
Speaker 1: that defense they would have won seven or eight games.
Speaker 1: They were an average offense. They were an average second
Speaker 1: into the before Greg dropped either a Geno Smith or
Speaker 1: teddy bridgewater reference. Eighties. Six seconds is what I had it.
Speaker 1: And then he's got some st stuff. Now it's it's cute.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know what it is. There's something
Speaker 1: about these underdog middling quarterbacks that you connect with Greg
Speaker 1: on a almost personal level. It's fine, to be clear.
Speaker 1: I didn't bring it up, but it's like darn gonzas
Speaker 1: with the chains. If I if you bring it up,
Speaker 1: you gotta give the man a chance to respond. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's fair all right. So before we get to the
Speaker 1: week three hero predictions, before we get to any listener feedback,
Speaker 1: before we open up the floor to a certain hero,
Speaker 1: a snarky, handsome Brunette and a black shirt. See, if
Speaker 1: you watch it, listen, if you're listening to the PODCAST,
Speaker 1: you don't see greg looking very zaddy like this morning.
Speaker 1: So that's another reason why to to watch live. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the first game of week three, Thursday night football.
Speaker 1: Chubb will be the tail back pro hope for fullback.
Speaker 1: They turn, they give it the chubby vault. He spills.
Speaker 1: He loves to look at this stadium and listen to
Speaker 1: this stadium. Has the proms go tell him a little
Speaker 1: bit open up. But there it is the call from
Speaker 1: Jim Donovan of W K R K. The Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: on Sunday. They let victories slip away. This time they
Speaker 1: get it done. They recover the on side kick at
Speaker 1: the end kind of they get a I think it
Speaker 1: was a backdoor cover score. Any whatever, it was a
Speaker 1: score as a time expired to make it look different
Speaker 1: than it was. But the final score is seventeen browns
Speaker 1: over steelers, and that was Nick Chubb, of course, going
Speaker 1: in for the score. I think. Did Donovan Call Him Chubby?
Speaker 1: I like that. Hundred and thirteen yards on twenty three carries,
Speaker 1: nearly five yards of tote and that touchdown. So the
Speaker 1: browns are two and one on the season. There are
Speaker 1: one minute and fifty five seconds away against the jets.
Speaker 1: Are Being Three and oh. But whatever it is, and
Speaker 1: whatever you think about the browns and you're rooting interest
Speaker 1: in the Browns, this season has started off very well
Speaker 1: for this team. Mark sssler, yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't
Speaker 1: disagree at all. I mean there were concerns going in,
Speaker 1: I mean at wide receiver, along the defensive line and
Speaker 1: certainly at quarterback, and I think that the version that
Speaker 1: we've gotten from Jacoby Brissette the past two weeks um used.
Speaker 1: Take away that interception against the jets. He's really played
Speaker 1: for Jacoby Brissette the best version of his football ever.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I thought last night his connection with
Speaker 1: David Njoku, with a Marii Cooper. I mean, they don't
Speaker 1: really have much else through the air behind those guys,
Speaker 1: but they delivered. And you know I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: steelers defense. I checked this out on on PFF. That,
Speaker 1: I think, one UH offshoot from the way that their
Speaker 1: offense played in the second half, where they had four
Speaker 1: straight punts and three straight three and ounce. They came
Speaker 1: into the game with guys like Alex Highsmith, Miles Jack
Speaker 1: Cam Sutton killo witherspoon leading the league and snaps at
Speaker 1: their position. They've been on the field a lot. It
Speaker 1: was that bengals game, it was the Patriots game and
Speaker 1: last night they were on the field for thirty six minutes,
Speaker 1: and so I think you know, Mike Tomlin said it
Speaker 1: when you're if you cannot stop Nick Chubb and they
Speaker 1: cannot and you cannot stop cream hunt, it's a tough out.
Speaker 1: And then so if you get the throws that you
Speaker 1: get from Jacoby Brissette, the offense functions. I mean it's like,
Speaker 1: I think with Jacoby Brissette, the journey was always you're
Speaker 1: gonna get to Shaun Watson coming back. You wanted to
Speaker 1: go maybe seven and win seven games. Just give yourself
Speaker 1: a chance. And they're very close to being three and oh.
Speaker 1: They have a manageable two and one. They've got a
Speaker 1: tough schedule coming up down the stretch, but this is
Speaker 1: not this is a manageable situation for the browns and
Speaker 1: probably as good of a thing as they could have
Speaker 1: imagined back in August. No, I mean you you mentioned
Speaker 1: Zaddy's Dan. I mean what what a three weeks this
Speaker 1: has been for mark's Guy, Kevin Stefanski, you know, the
Speaker 1: ultimate Daddy. I assume he has children. Maybe he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He has multiple children. Okay, he just feels like he's
Speaker 1: a dad and uh, and a handsome one at that.
Speaker 1: I mean I know that everything weird about back and
Speaker 1: forth between you guys. Right now, I think it's a
Speaker 1: reminder of what Stefanski did when he first arrived in
Speaker 1: Cleveland and what you see right now to me, is coaching.
Speaker 1: Their offense has carried them, even including last night. I
Speaker 1: would say their defense, on balance, has been disappointing and
Speaker 1: a little below average. Their offense is extremely efficient, despite
Speaker 1: questions that I had going into the season at offensive line.
Speaker 1: But you know what has solved? It coaching, like they
Speaker 1: coach up that offensive line so well and they still
Speaker 1: have talent there. It's not like they don't have talent,
Speaker 1: and that's helping them run the ball. Nick Chubb is
Speaker 1: running the ball better than ever, but more than anything,
Speaker 1: it's shake brisket. Sliced me off a little piece of
Speaker 1: this version, as you said, mark like Kevin. Kevin Stefanski
Speaker 1: would absolutely take this version of Jake Briskett over maker
Speaker 1: may bringing that because he's predictable. You know what he's
Speaker 1: gonna do and we've seen it before. We saw him
Speaker 1: throw eighteen touchdowns in six interceptions under Frank Reich, another
Speaker 1: guy who helped Jacoby brissette speed up his clock a
Speaker 1: little bit, get the ball out of his hands, help
Speaker 1: him take advantage of a nice big arm every now
Speaker 1: and then with some play action and have a really
Speaker 1: effective season for that coult team about five years ago,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing that now. He's better than Baker and
Speaker 1: you can see the difference between how he was this
Speaker 1: year and how he was a year ago in Miami.
Speaker 1: I mean the only difference is coaching. It's not and
Speaker 1: the players around him. It's not like Jake brisket is
Speaker 1: a different human being. Yeah, we didn't listen. By we
Speaker 1: I mean the football Cogniz Anti. We didn't give Jacoby
Speaker 1: brist a chance entering the season. Everyone just wrote him
Speaker 1: off as the worst starting quarterback in the league, amongst them,
Speaker 1: and it simply has not been the case. In fact
Speaker 1: he's been you know, week one was maybe a little mad,
Speaker 1: but week two and three he played really well both weeks.
Speaker 1: So you know, and Mark Cooper, they have over two
Speaker 1: yards receiving in the last five days together. So that
Speaker 1: is there's a connection there. Nick Chubb is I think
Speaker 1: I saw you on twitter, Greg and tweet about and
Speaker 1: I agree. This is the best I feel like he's
Speaker 1: ever looked. He's just an absolute monster and he should
Speaker 1: continue to get the ball at least twenty three times
Speaker 1: a game. Until Deshaun Watson gets back in even after
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson gets back, because he's that much of a
Speaker 1: difference maker. I don't want to hear anything I saw.
Speaker 1: I also saw people talking about Mr r Biski. Well,
Speaker 1: Mitch was actually pretty good in this game. Get Out
Speaker 1: of here, get out of here with that. What do
Speaker 1: we do? Like the steelers? Let's Move Oz, let's move forward.
Speaker 1: We know what this is kind of the best case
Speaker 1: scenario from Mitch, and you're just you're right now. You're
Speaker 1: you're an organization sitting in a cul de sac and
Speaker 1: it's time to get back on the road. And if
Speaker 1: you think you drafted a quarterback in the first round,
Speaker 1: unless there's something else going on that we don't know about,
Speaker 1: which happens all the time in our league, give a shot,
Speaker 1: put him in there and let him start his development
Speaker 1: process sooner rather than later at this point, because they're
Speaker 1: very hard watch offensively. I know they have pieces, as
Speaker 1: we know. That was an unbelievable catch, um one of
Speaker 1: the best catches that you'll see the season by George Pickens,
Speaker 1: and that's just the reminder that there is talent on
Speaker 1: this roster. Uh. You know, you saw Nazi Harris running
Speaker 1: the ball well in this game. So let's see what
Speaker 1: we can do in that realm mark, tell me about
Speaker 1: your Thursday night. By the way, had an Lef me
Speaker 1: ask you about this, but it will remain a curiosity
Speaker 1: for me when you're at a local watering hole and
Speaker 1: you're having a couple of drinks and the browns are
Speaker 1: going up and down the field and winning football games
Speaker 1: and what's going on? Be Honest, please be honest. You know,
Speaker 1: I went to watch the game. I mean, I think.
Speaker 1: First of all, I mean it's it's just kind of
Speaker 1: honest to say that we don't really have too many
Speaker 1: chances where we get to go watch the game and
Speaker 1: just have no kind of responsibility or report to file
Speaker 1: after or have to talk about it for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: It's like I just went and enjoyed it. I don't think,
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time that I watched the
Speaker 1: browns game. Um, out of play out on the town
Speaker 1: and that's where I went and that's what I did
Speaker 1: and Um, I would give the night a out of
Speaker 1: one score of Ninety O. that's I you know what
Speaker 1: element mark, can I can I say something? Yes, because
Speaker 1: it's not it's never been me doubting your integrity or
Speaker 1: anything else, but I find that now, with the passage
Speaker 1: of time, time, and I'm not saying the Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: situation is any better a look for the browns and
Speaker 1: that he's going to enter the picture in a couple
Speaker 1: of months. Al Michaels was the last guy I wanted
Speaker 1: talking about that last night and any fumble day. I
Speaker 1: trust him to do just about anything except talk about
Speaker 1: hey man, I trust al Michael's for three cocktails in Malibu.
Speaker 1: I do not trust him to get the Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: story right. My point is is that, as as someone
Speaker 1: that loved the Browns your whole life, I can imagine
Speaker 1: how conflicting it would be for you to actually not
Speaker 1: be rooting for the browns and enjoying the browns fan experience. Um,
Speaker 1: last night, when you're at a bar having a couple
Speaker 1: of drinks and they're winning and beating the steelers. I
Speaker 1: was rooting for them because I think I think the
Speaker 1: way that the team is structured right now, like Um,
Speaker 1: Jacoby Prists, very enjoyable and I kind of like the
Speaker 1: journey for Jacoby Brissette and I am like the Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb thing, like he's just the kind of football that
Speaker 1: I loved watching, and so I kind of just went
Speaker 1: and said, I don't I'm gonna go just watch the
Speaker 1: game and I wasn't sitting there rooting against the browns
Speaker 1: on any level. I'm not leave it here. I'll leave
Speaker 1: the conversation here and then we'll move on. Okay, whenever
Speaker 1: if you get the feeling like you're you want to
Speaker 1: just I feel like it's you're rooting for them and
Speaker 1: it was not. This is just the way it played out.
Speaker 1: Your heart, the heart wants what the heart wants. You
Speaker 1: just come back to the show and you're honest with it.
Speaker 1: We will not hold it against you. We'll totally understand
Speaker 1: it and I'll leave it there. Well, let's see what
Speaker 1: the future holds. I mean, I I've never like not
Speaker 1: stuck in cement on anything in life. I think that's
Speaker 1: become clear. Total support from us. And Yeah, when they
Speaker 1: had that drive where they ran at every single play
Speaker 1: to win the game except for that beautiful play action
Speaker 1: shot Tomor, I just thought, like this is a mark
Speaker 1: sessler drive and this is Cleveland Brown's fan drive and
Speaker 1: and Chubb's just his feet and his vision. It's another level. Man.
Speaker 1: If I had to pick one running back to get
Speaker 1: me five yards that's alive on on this earth right now,
Speaker 1: it's it's Nick Chubb. How about that onside kick, though? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the last, like the last couple of minutes
Speaker 1: of that game so bizarre and it was so stupid.
Speaker 1: You know, they stopped the game and then they don't
Speaker 1: convert the first down and then they go to the
Speaker 1: line and run out the play clock and then kick
Speaker 1: up punt it away, and I'm just thinking to myself
Speaker 1: if he's if they snapped his singing ball over the
Speaker 1: browns punchers head. My sons were watching. He's like I
Speaker 1: was trying to explain to my son's football and the
Speaker 1: mechanics of it. I once the onside kick play happened
Speaker 1: and went out of bound and said, guys, because they
Speaker 1: don't get it, they're little kids. The game's over right now.
Speaker 1: All the browns have to do is do basic things
Speaker 1: and run out the clock. And then I said, but kids,
Speaker 1: there is a chance here that the snap goes awry
Speaker 1: or the punts blocked, and if that happens, all these
Speaker 1: fans that you're they're gonna walk into the lake nearby,
Speaker 1: because that's what would have happened if the browns somehow
Speaker 1: blew up, but they didn't. Browns are two and one
Speaker 1: people that don't like the browns anymore. You could say
Speaker 1: thank you to my jets for keeping them from being
Speaker 1: three and, Oh, throw US flowers if you'd like. That's
Speaker 1: that's up to you. Send me to NFL network headquarters.
Speaker 1: Angle with California. I don't think the steelers what I
Speaker 1: scored on that touched then. But, by the way, Anthony Walker,
Speaker 1: they're they're great linebacker WHO's one of their leaders, of
Speaker 1: their team. It's been announced as we're taping that he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss five to seven months with the quad injury.
Speaker 1: So that that's unfortunate, the loss for them. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Hey, grave digger, how are you doing, buddy? Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm great. How are you, Dan? I mean the way
Speaker 1: you came in there, it was almost like Jessica walked
Speaker 1: out on you. Left you a dear John Letter, Dear
Speaker 1: Justin letter. How long was the best man's speech that
Speaker 1: we talked about last week? It came in just over
Speaker 1: seven minutes, including hugs at the end, which okay, so
Speaker 1: just under seven minutes, which was longer than I thought
Speaker 1: because I reared it and it was four and a half.
Speaker 1: That's what happened. I don't know how to go there.
Speaker 1: It went really well. I feel proud of myself and
Speaker 1: happy that I had a lot of people come up
Speaker 1: and say hey, great speech, which would have happened probably
Speaker 1: no matter what the speech was, but if that great,
Speaker 1: it would but that's nice to hear. We both said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said three to five. He said you said five
Speaker 1: to seven. I mean under seven's fine. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that the reason why he wrote four minutes worth of
Speaker 1: speech and it turned into seven was for applause and laughter,
Speaker 1: breaks and General Joy and revelry and what's the most
Speaker 1: special occasion in a lot of people's lives. And Justin
Speaker 1: he brought the rain, but the rain in this case
Speaker 1: was pure joy. You're working the room that you're you're
Speaker 1: you were. You shifted into showman mode and I think
Speaker 1: that it's fine if it adds seconds to the operation
Speaker 1: work in the room. I Want I want some questions here.
Speaker 1: We saw some five up. One asked Um, one guy
Speaker 1: asked where does pickens is catch rank all time, and
Speaker 1: this reminds me, like enough, of emotional love connections with
Speaker 1: the people that matter to you most. Let's move to
Speaker 1: the football. The pickens catch was another, another feather in
Speaker 1: my cap of like there's one play made every week
Speaker 1: that it's better than any play made in the entire deck.
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventies or nineteen eighties. The pickings play would fit
Speaker 1: into that. That's it. I don't know where it ranks
Speaker 1: all time, but it would beat it would beat a
Speaker 1: couple of solid decades of play. But to Dan's point
Speaker 1: about Trabiski, and like I thought he was good for Trabisky. Like,
Speaker 1: I want to see the coaches film go. Look how
Speaker 1: wide open Um Chase claypools on that play. Uh, this
Speaker 1: from Sammy shamrock. Is Mike Tomlins stubborn approach with Mitch
Speaker 1: gonna Cost Him his first losing season? No, Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: will never have a losing season. But after the game
Speaker 1: he was not even considering it. And he will. He
Speaker 1: starts ten games, they will have a losing record this season.
Speaker 1: Do you point about the coaches film? I tried out that,
Speaker 1: that other channel. What's it called? The next Gen channel
Speaker 1: on the Amazon Amazon. Yeah, I really I enjoyed it
Speaker 1: last night. I think I'm going that with every week.
Speaker 1: It was I think they show how open Claypool is
Speaker 1: if you watch that. H what else? What else? We
Speaker 1: Got Darren from Dublin question for Dan and his monologue
Speaker 1: about KDE York. That's the rookie kicker of the browns.
Speaker 1: He's been atrocious ever since. That's a little strong. What's
Speaker 1: his status in the Kicker Club at the moment? Surely
Speaker 1: the bouncer realized he was using a fake ID ouch. Listen,
Speaker 1: he pushed the extra point wide right against the jets,
Speaker 1: but he's not the reason they lost. They had way
Speaker 1: more crucial errors that went on in the last two
Speaker 1: minutes of that game. So whatever. He missed again off
Speaker 1: the upright yesterday and it's like, okay, be carefully her kid,
Speaker 1: because kickers can get the yips. And you missed two
Speaker 1: extra points and you're twenty two years old. I'm a
Speaker 1: little nervous about the second miss in five days, put
Speaker 1: it that way. But he's still obviously hugely talented. Stays
Speaker 1: in the club for now. Stayed a little too late
Speaker 1: in the club. Maybe maybe we'll put him in a crib.
Speaker 1: We'll put him in the corner, get him right, boot Chaboo. Question.
Speaker 1: Who is your anti cornered animal team? As the two
Speaker 1: and O team that you trust the least? That's a
Speaker 1: good one. For me, it's the giants. That kind of
Speaker 1: covered that on the show this week. What do you
Speaker 1: guys think? Well, when I think anti cornered animal, I
Speaker 1: almost think like a team that's a little too pleased
Speaker 1: with themselves. Uh. No team springs to mind, I guess.
Speaker 1: If I had to go with one, it's partly because
Speaker 1: they're playing the bills this week. It's the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I still want to see what happens when they play
Speaker 1: a better pass rush and, more importantly, I'm a little
Speaker 1: worried about their defense. I don't I don't think they've
Speaker 1: covered themselves in glory yet. Well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I would use the bills as a measuring stick for anyone,
Speaker 1: but I have to go giants because of all the
Speaker 1: two and Oh teams, Um maybe Miami is the one exception.
Speaker 1: They're like bona fide playoff heavies, and the giants are
Speaker 1: that team you get every year. So there's more that
Speaker 1: it's nicer to and Oh. I have enjoyed the story,
Speaker 1: but they're not going to be four. No, right. I
Speaker 1: had the dolphins in the playoffs, by the way, I think,
Speaker 1: the only one out of us, and I think they'll
Speaker 1: win ten or eleven games. But in terms of like
Speaker 1: this is just gonna be a top three offense, I
Speaker 1: guess I'm I'm with Dan. I do want to watch
Speaker 1: and see that. All right, we'll get back to the
Speaker 1: listeners in a bit it, but now the floor is yours,
Speaker 1: Greg Zy Rosenthal. Well, this this Friday fun show, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about Chris, Chris Westley, and if you're if you're
Speaker 1: new to our show, uh, and I know you hear
Speaker 1: US talk about him a lot. But I do hear
Speaker 1: from a lot of people that think it's cool how
Speaker 1: we talk about Chris, but they they're new to the
Speaker 1: show and they didn't have that history with them and
Speaker 1: we miss him every show. And one thing I've learned
Speaker 1: like the more when I talk about him and when
Speaker 1: we talk about on the show, it keeps it keeps
Speaker 1: them here with us and it makes me happy and
Speaker 1: to me that that's fun. And I thought about making
Speaker 1: like an all star team, the West all stars, because
Speaker 1: when I'm watching games on Sundays I often think of
Speaker 1: like what would west think about these teams and these
Speaker 1: players right now? And I think of some of his favorites.
Speaker 1: That he was so right, and so stop me at
Speaker 1: any point. I'll go through the offense first, but some,
Speaker 1: some Chris Westley now, but it's just like no one
Speaker 1: wants to here, uh, a five minute monologue. So I'll
Speaker 1: think about it as like a best man speech, like
Speaker 1: Chris as your best man. Chime in after. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: was the one guy he pushed back on me so much,
Speaker 1: and mark, you did too. I think you were kind
Speaker 1: of a Josh Allen Guy from the beginning. But Man,
Speaker 1: he would love to see this version of Josh Allen
Speaker 1: who's just like the best player in the League. Marks after.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to have that log of
Speaker 1: a monologue. But man, like everything, it's true, sometimes you
Speaker 1: can see it right away, and he saw the athletic
Speaker 1: gifts Alan had from the beginning and always figured he
Speaker 1: could figure it out. He could figure it out, and
Speaker 1: you know what, he was damn right and he's a
Speaker 1: supernova and like almost anyone we've ever seen. Roster. I
Speaker 1: know I said I wouldn't, I wouldn't enter it's like
Speaker 1: five or six guys. Uh, I'm putting two running backs
Speaker 1: in here. I always thought he had a great eye
Speaker 1: for running back. Aaron Jones and Jonathan Taylor were two
Speaker 1: guys who, very early in their careers, he could just
Speaker 1: see how that pure burst and could move move away
Speaker 1: by seeing the the rush in front of Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: is good at this too, but they've got even more
Speaker 1: like explosion and he knew that initially. So we're going
Speaker 1: with two running backs in the backfield. At wide receiver
Speaker 1: we got Terry mclaurin, who I remember we watched early
Speaker 1: and again. This is Chris westling's ability to see guys
Speaker 1: early in one of those Monday night games in his
Speaker 1: rookie year, he just thought mclaurin was gonna be the
Speaker 1: next level guy. Marcus Mariota's just kind of cheering everyone
Speaker 1: on from the sideline. I think Chris would would really
Speaker 1: be enjoying this Marcus Mariota season. He was always fascinated
Speaker 1: by his his footwork. We we could throw Rogers and
Speaker 1: Herbert in there, but that that's the offense at least.
Speaker 1: Those are those are the westling allstars. I like him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you think he'd still be mclaurin would still be
Speaker 1: the number. Theer's so much to pick from at that position.
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying, but like, I don't know, Pizza,
Speaker 1: I'm just going off the dome. I mean I thought
Speaker 1: about it yesterday, of course, and thought like what, what
Speaker 1: came to mind? And those were the ones, and I
Speaker 1: was hoping you guys would have other ones that to mind.
Speaker 1: Two the ones that receiver that came to mind where
Speaker 1: guys who are retired, like Steve Smith Larry Fitzgerald, were
Speaker 1: two of his all time, all time favorite. I don't
Speaker 1: know for I guess because I respected his football documents
Speaker 1: so much west that the ones that he didn't have
Speaker 1: right stuck with me like he was way in on
Speaker 1: uh was he was in on Mariotta or Winston? I
Speaker 1: can't remember. Yeah, he remember, but that's why I think
Speaker 1: he would. He would enjoy and have some hope here,
Speaker 1: and I do too actually, that this version of Mariota
Speaker 1: might give us some some entertables. So, Greg, Greg, you
Speaker 1: should have put on Kristen Michael in the Backfield, just
Speaker 1: as in honor areas he did love up Mer Abdullah
Speaker 1: as well. On defense, I will throw he also called
Speaker 1: Leonard Four Nette Battleship Lenny, which I was enjoyed he
Speaker 1: struggled to change direction a couple of his favorite defenders
Speaker 1: of all time. It struck me watching J J watt
Speaker 1: last week. Man J J Watt, when he plays, still
Speaker 1: makes a big freaking difference. Um, no one enjoyed the
Speaker 1: early J J watty's more than West. Honey Badger is
Speaker 1: one of his all time favorites who's quietly, I think,
Speaker 1: settled into that Saint's role and has played pretty well
Speaker 1: through two weeks and he has given them what they
Speaker 1: want in his hometown in New Orleans. And then I
Speaker 1: was noticing a little juice out of late in vander
Speaker 1: ash the last couple of weeks after a couple really
Speaker 1: down years. I'm not saying he's gonna turn into the
Speaker 1: guy I think west and I hoped when him and
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith looked like the best linebacker duo in the league,
Speaker 1: but he looks a little more over those injuries and
Speaker 1: he's played good football the last couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: he loved himself some Vanderas. So I think he'd like
Speaker 1: the Vanderash to admit when I think I saw him
Speaker 1: in week one or whatever. I was like for a second.
Speaker 1: I was like, wasn't he had a league two years ago?
Speaker 1: But then I got him confused with Shawan Lee, and
Speaker 1: that's just being racist show. Yeah, we're here in the listeners.
Speaker 1: Bridget says she she loves here in the West Easter
Speaker 1: eggs at the end of the shows and another listening. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's for the first time ever, that is this is
Speaker 1: the first you are visibly uncomfortable and I'm enjoying that, Greig. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is like when we did a zoom for Dan
Speaker 1: on his birthday during corona with like eighteen different threads
Speaker 1: of friend groups and he could not handle for more
Speaker 1: than about six minutes. Oh my God, that was one
Speaker 1: of the nicest thoughts, Um expressions of love that my
Speaker 1: wife shared and Um, but she just miscalibrated what the
Speaker 1: old Zeuser likes and what the old Zeuser doesn't like.
Speaker 1: I like to keep my silos separated. Well, we were
Speaker 1: all wondering because, you know, the call ended, but I
Speaker 1: was like, I would give a thousand dollars just to
Speaker 1: see what the conversation is in the hands of household
Speaker 1: because of the balance of it was a wonderful idea.
Speaker 1: That totally sunk like a rock and water. She she
Speaker 1: she felt bad because she could tell I was like dying.
Speaker 1: That was that was that was like almost that was
Speaker 1: the ultimate pandemic moment. Now, taking back, that was kind
Speaker 1: of it. All Right, does that? Do you have anything else, Greggy?
Speaker 1: That's it. No. Thanks. Thanks to you guys. Thanks to
Speaker 1: the listeners too, for always enjoying when we talk about West.
Speaker 1: He is he's with us. We think about him as
Speaker 1: we're heading to London next week, these sorts sorts of weeks.
Speaker 1: He's always a part of us. Absolutely well said, Mr Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: Do we have anything else who want to throw to
Speaker 1: the from the listeners here? Justin before we move on
Speaker 1: to our week three? Not M v P, but hero picks.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jaffa Canada would like to know which NFL coach
Speaker 1: will be fired first. We'll get to that in a
Speaker 1: few minutes. Anything else you're putting that? I had matt
Speaker 1: rule as my guy last week and hero of the week,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I hope that. I mean it's
Speaker 1: not a spoiler alert. I was not wrong. What's the
Speaker 1: first thing you'll do when you come to London? A
Speaker 1: good question. I got an update. Um, we have tickets
Speaker 1: if we want them, and I do want them. I'M
Speaker 1: gonna go to the UK Germany game fresh off the plane,
Speaker 1: Um and Um. I was gonna mention that to you
Speaker 1: guys after the show. Nick Pike slacked us that the
Speaker 1: NFL UK office is hooking us up now. It's a
Speaker 1: little tricky right off the plane, but that's a pretty
Speaker 1: bad thing to see. Ambitious but also, like you know,
Speaker 1: the tickets are the fire. That's unique. The tickets are there, though,
Speaker 1: like we have the opportunity to go when we're there.
Speaker 1: We don't have to confirm or or decline. Right now.
Speaker 1: I think there's so you know, that's such a nice thing.
Speaker 1: I would like, Um, to find someone for for all
Speaker 1: of them, and we have some people that could certainly
Speaker 1: take them if you don't want them. But yes, we
Speaker 1: got the tickets there there in the John Gonzalez, who
Speaker 1: you may be aware of, is traveling to London on
Speaker 1: a separate assignment working for sports illustrated, and he is
Speaker 1: securing tickets for Um mark and and myself with you
Speaker 1: on to see Crystal Palace versus Chelsea. Um and Gonzo
Speaker 1: thinks that Crystal Palace is right up my alley, Um,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna see what that I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that I think I'm going to join you guys.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna try to do a doubleheader, because
Speaker 1: then think any extra tickets. I'm I'm a I'm a
Speaker 1: Hammer Fan West Ham, but they're playing later that day.
Speaker 1: That reminds me of the one time we went to
Speaker 1: London and and we were doing some live event and
Speaker 1: Greg's like, Oh, I'm gonna Wear my West Ham Jersey
Speaker 1: and my kit and then everyone's gonna Cheer me and
Speaker 1: then he didn't realize it was it was like wearing
Speaker 1: like a Boston red sox shirt in a Times Square
Speaker 1: for a promotional event and you just got hissed the
Speaker 1: London teams. It's just it's not you know that all
Speaker 1: the other London teams don't like it. I'm being told
Speaker 1: that the crystal pals are very jets, so that that
Speaker 1: checks out. Greg's getting destroyed for calling the soccer team
Speaker 1: UK instead of England in the college. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to point that out. That's a good point. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: an angler and someone who was asking about the product. Um.
Speaker 1: I talked about all the time. It's Redkin Brus work
Speaker 1: hard molding paste. All right, let's move on now to
Speaker 1: that's a new listener, because you mentioned that roughly once
Speaker 1: a week. Your hair product. Absolutely week three hero predictions
Speaker 1: mark start us off. Alright. So I just want to
Speaker 1: let um newer listeners to the Friday fun show on
Speaker 1: know that in week one I picked Danny Gray, the
Speaker 1: niners speedster, who wasn't active. Titans by picking Ryan Tannehill, who, right, right,
Speaker 1: the titans were treated like Um, you know, lost infants
Speaker 1: by the bills. So that didn't go well this time around.
Speaker 1: Who I hope that finally the curses over, because I
Speaker 1: am going to pick a player that I've really enjoyed watching.
Speaker 1: He's only played two games in his career. It is
Speaker 1: drake London of the Falcons. Um they to me. I
Speaker 1: think their offense has just been spicy. It's been interesting,
Speaker 1: and this is someone now everyone wants to know. Why
Speaker 1: is Kyle Pitts not getting forty two targets a game?
Speaker 1: They'll figure that out in time, but they have what
Speaker 1: that's six targets game. That's fine, but I I for
Speaker 1: me it's like they're playing the seahawks who quietly have
Speaker 1: really stunk up the joint on defense, like I mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 1: they're the only team in the league without a three
Speaker 1: and out and I think they have the thirtieth passing
Speaker 1: defense dv o A. Right now. It's a good spot
Speaker 1: for the Falcon who scored points, to get right and
Speaker 1: I see a breakout game for drake London, which means
Speaker 1: he will catch one pass three yards. Um. All right,
Speaker 1: I will. I think I had Russell Wilson last and
Speaker 1: that didn't quite work out either. So we're all kind
Speaker 1: of struggling. I mean, I think you had the best
Speaker 1: one of the three of us, but this is already
Speaker 1: in week three of this program. We have a two
Speaker 1: time M v P prediction and, Um, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw, but Dan Orlovsky and ESPN took out
Speaker 1: his laser pointer and showed his audience that the panthers
Speaker 1: offensive attack had to tell when Christian McCaffrey was in
Speaker 1: the backfield. According to Orlovsky, the defense, if they're paying attention,
Speaker 1: knew when the Carolina offense would pass a run based
Speaker 1: on where Christian McCaffrey lined up in the backfield in
Speaker 1: relation to Baker Mayfield. Orlovsky, sensing a viral moment, called
Speaker 1: this coaching malp practice, and Matt rule was asked about
Speaker 1: it on Friday. Yeah, I saw, I saw, I saw
Speaker 1: the instinct. Um, you know, I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's I've been wrong, you know, the wrong long enough.
Speaker 1: I've seen enough coaches, you know, I've seen enough coaches gets.
Speaker 1: Every time they do this, it's gonna be this and
Speaker 1: then it's wrong. You know I mean, Um, I disagree
Speaker 1: with it. If you're saying that they knew whether we
Speaker 1: were running or passing, I would say, well, how come
Speaker 1: we're for six yards and the six point three yards
Speaker 1: from carry? You know so, and of course everyone's having
Speaker 1: fun with that because those numbers are spiked by a
Speaker 1: couple of chunk gains by McCaffrey. and Um, it's Matt
Speaker 1: rules turn this year. Last year was Matt Naggie who
Speaker 1: drew the short stick. The year before it was gates.
Speaker 1: Next year it will be somebody else. Every NFL SEASON
Speaker 1: There's one head coach who appears doomed before things even start.
Speaker 1: And then things start and it's obvious and it just
Speaker 1: becomes a question whether that individual makes it to January.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean that Matt rule is a bad
Speaker 1: man or even a bad coach. It's just his turn.
Speaker 1: And this did not work out and made me think
Speaker 1: of Chuck Pagano who, after his fight with cancer and
Speaker 1: some real success with the cults a few years back,
Speaker 1: refused to let the fact that it was his turn
Speaker 1: uh define who he was. And, speaking of Chris Westling
Speaker 1: West and I always vibe done that. We just loved
Speaker 1: how UH Pagano handled that situation. UH, they can't eat you.
Speaker 1: They can fire you, but they can't eat you, Pagano said,
Speaker 1: after a fifty one sixteen pasting by the Jaguars dropped
Speaker 1: the colts below five lat in two thousand and fifteen.
Speaker 1: So if the worst thing a year from now, let's
Speaker 1: say I'm in Boise this time next year playing with
Speaker 1: my granddaughters, I'm going to be fine. This ain't going
Speaker 1: to happen, but I'm going to be fine if I
Speaker 1: have to go down that road. I think Matt Rule
Speaker 1: has some Chuck Pogano in him. People are going to
Speaker 1: continue to have their fun with rule until he's gone,
Speaker 1: but I do not think the monster will consume him
Speaker 1: and I like that. I could tell in these press conferences.
Speaker 1: He's not going to be a punching bag. He's gonna
Speaker 1: go down swing, have your have your jokes and fun
Speaker 1: with Matt Rule, but he's my M v P because
Speaker 1: I could tell he's gonna have some New York Grit
Speaker 1: how he handles in situation. Also, the one thing about
Speaker 1: NFL coaches. If it does go down this season, he's
Speaker 1: still under contract for like another four plus years because
Speaker 1: he got that super long contract from the panthers. You
Speaker 1: get paid that money, you can go play with he
Speaker 1: could go play with Chuck Bogano's grandchildren if he wants.
Speaker 1: I mean you would suddenly had I do think that
Speaker 1: if you were in that situation, and this is me personally,
Speaker 1: everything starts to boil, it starts to go south and
Speaker 1: they're like, you know what, Mark, we've had enough of you,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna pay you for the next five years.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I'd be dancing down the down the
Speaker 1: way to exit the workplace. So we would be like mark, actually,
Speaker 1: we're not firing yet. We just wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: some concerns and and in Mark's just like packing his bag. Mark,
Speaker 1: your turn, your or is it? No, it's great. To
Speaker 1: one of the listeners, Angel asked, is spicy better than Frisky,
Speaker 1: and other listener, Mike Mika, said, uh, you know, frisky
Speaker 1: is one step ahead of spicy. I think they're different.
Speaker 1: They refer to different things. Yeah, I don't think they're connected.
Speaker 1: Like that's a great question. Angel does believe Frisky is
Speaker 1: better than me. Spicy is different. And how does Matt
Speaker 1: Rule even win this, by the way, like so you're
Speaker 1: predicting they're gonna win a game. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about Matt rule and we could try to distill
Speaker 1: that into whatever silo that belongs in, because to me
Speaker 1: he wasn't that spicy there. He was taking a little
Speaker 1: two line down from because I like taking him apart
Speaker 1: for the howie butter knife, the stats for the previous week,
Speaker 1: and they're just gonna keep coming for him. I just
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him that he doesn't become miserable over it.
Speaker 1: I think spicy is better than Frisky, by the way.
Speaker 1: I think spicy is like look out for this team.
Speaker 1: Frisky is more like like the Falcons, like, okay, they
Speaker 1: could give you a hard time, but you should take
Speaker 1: care of business. Maybe from a football acher I'm seeing
Speaker 1: the two words in different contexts. Greg close it out. Alright,
Speaker 1: my hero of the week as a man by the
Speaker 1: name of Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. That's right, it's
Speaker 1: the Pharaoh's so okay, where he's? Here's the thing. People
Speaker 1: like are so ready to kind of like bury, or
Speaker 1: at least like say he's in this gradual decline. You
Speaker 1: know what he is. He's returning to his roots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit of a transition. He
Speaker 1: knows what it's like to play with a great defense,
Speaker 1: and this is a great bucks defense that can control
Speaker 1: a game and he knows how to problem solved during games.
Speaker 1: And the fantasy numbers might not be that great and
Speaker 1: he might be missing too offensive lineman. There's no Donovan
Speaker 1: Smith here. Cole Beasley might be active because Julio Jones
Speaker 1: is a game time decision. Mike Evans is suspended. No
Speaker 1: one's healthy, but you know who I trust in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter against a good defense? I Trust Tom Edward
Speaker 1: Patrick Brady, and he's gonna be he's turning the clock
Speaker 1: back Dan. He is maybe declining, but declining to like
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, when they won a super bowl
Speaker 1: and they found a way to win a lot of close,
Speaker 1: slow scoring games, and that's what he's gonna do this week.
Speaker 1: New Bark wasn't listening to anything because he saw someone
Speaker 1: say that he looked handsome. Right now. I saw his eyes.
Speaker 1: I did not. I did not see that. You did
Speaker 1: look cancer. You Look Great, Mark Uh you know I'm
Speaker 1: not in the business. Greg of Tom Brady declined talk
Speaker 1: anymore with you. This is it is a transition. It's
Speaker 1: clearly a transitional time for him as a human and,
Speaker 1: I believe, as a player. But now he's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna turn it back to that that game manager that
Speaker 1: just people can't understand why they lost in the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's also a reason why I declined to use my
Speaker 1: first pick in the draft on Thursday's podcast on Um
Speaker 1: the UH bucks, because I don't think they're very fun
Speaker 1: to watch right now, especially in the state of the
Speaker 1: offense with all the injuries. But fair point. I'm not
Speaker 1: doubting Tom Brady. All right, before we say goodbye, let
Speaker 1: us check in Rogers, and you know, Tom Brady's fun
Speaker 1: enough for me. Oh here, Greg, Greg Rosenthal. Injury minute
Speaker 1: presented by acres sure, which is maybe a weight lost
Speaker 1: drink for old people. That's a guess. Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 1: The bills are in trouble here. They're not only missing
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson, which we expected, but Micah hide, their safety,
Speaker 1: is out for this game. So is Jordan Phillips. Jordan
Speaker 1: poyer might be out too. That's good news for Julie,
Speaker 1: I mean for Tua and friends, Julio, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: game time decision. Lyle Collins does look like he will
Speaker 1: play for the Bengals, which I think is good, but
Speaker 1: maybe not the way he's been playing. David Bactieri's practiced
Speaker 1: the contimes. Jerry Jones, yeah, Toron Armstead, watch out for
Speaker 1: Miss Practice all week for the dolphins, they're great left
Speaker 1: tackle who's really changed uh their team and might Miss
Speaker 1: Uh this game. And, as I mentioned, Cole Beasley, I
Speaker 1: think we'll play. You got anything mark you want to
Speaker 1: jump in the injury minute? I think that's about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that was about a minute. So
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I think we're good. Alright. I
Speaker 1: don't have any major things that great. I'm just reading
Speaker 1: the comments at this point. We are going to be
Speaker 1: any last comments before we go? Someone wants me to
Speaker 1: send feet picks. I don't think that. Someone saying don't
Speaker 1: cover the hair. Dan Put on his Yankees Hat. I
Speaker 1: think he was transitioning into Uh. I am alright. Judge
Speaker 1: goes for sixty one tonight. Let's go all rise. Thank
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