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Speaker 1: all right before we get into the first game. Uh
Speaker 1: and the draft um. Two bits of housekeeping. First of all,
Speaker 1: total disgrace. Last week we went oh and four locking
Speaker 1: our games. We're supposed to be professionals and this isn't
Speaker 1: good enough. And I speak for myself as much as
Speaker 1: I speak for the whole team. We will be better
Speaker 1: and week three guaranteed at least one in three. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with how I how I fared. I don't
Speaker 1: you picked the Giants. You need to be better to Mark,
Speaker 1: we all need to. I think it would be just
Speaker 1: as special and just as much of an accomplishment after
Speaker 1: winning two times in a row to go oh in
Speaker 1: sixteen or in seventeen. That would be why you picked
Speaker 1: the Giants last week all right, now we're starting to
Speaker 1: figure it out here we go. All right, now that's
Speaker 1: the first bit of housekeeping. Second bit, West, you and
Speaker 1: me first pick. As a gentleman, I'll defer to my elder.
Speaker 1: Do you want to have the first overall pick? No,
Speaker 1: you can take it, all right? So the old juice
Speaker 1: will pick first, then West, then Mark, then Greg. Right,
Speaker 1: makes sense? All right, So let's get into it, and
Speaker 1: I will make the first selection. It is an easy
Speaker 1: one for me. Okay, yeah, this is live, very pregnant.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not so easy. Um, I will with the
Speaker 1: first pick. Oh yeah. Ravens at chiefs Lamar against Mahomes. WHOA,
Speaker 1: that's a layup, and it's an exciting matchup for the
Speaker 1: obvious reason that Lamar Jackson Well, maybe nobody's gonna break
Speaker 1: through the way Patrick Mahomes last year did and winning
Speaker 1: the MVP in his first season as starter, Lamar is
Speaker 1: off to like the type of start that, besides carrying
Speaker 1: fantasy teams to championships, um really makes the Ravens a
Speaker 1: totally different team and reframes the way we looked at them.
Speaker 1: We look at them now compared to even three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So after a couple of layups and we'll say it's
Speaker 1: laps at Miami. Uh. In week one, Week two they
Speaker 1: had the home game. Who they have in week two
Speaker 1: is Cardinals took care of business there. He flashed again,
Speaker 1: especially with his legs. Now he goes on the road
Speaker 1: to Arrowhead and I cannot wait to see how Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson looks in this setting. This is a beautiful game,
Speaker 1: and I'm pumped with the number one overall pick. I mean,
Speaker 1: this game is so good I'm just gonna watch it anyways.
Speaker 1: I don't care that I'm not assigned to it. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: there's some you know, Bills Bengals, you're getting short shrift.
Speaker 1: I mean, this game should be put on that it's
Speaker 1: it's a crime. This game's at ten am out here
Speaker 1: in one pm across the country. It should be on
Speaker 1: national TV everywhere because we haven't seen there literally has
Speaker 1: never been a matchup like this in Week three in
Speaker 1: NFL history. Just there passing stats, for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: are the greatest ever in terms of you know, seven touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no interceptions, and the completion percentage, the amount of yards
Speaker 1: that they have. But it's just the entertainment value that
Speaker 1: I watched this sport to be dazzled and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: right now. We knew the eight yard out where he
Speaker 1: you know, fakes the handoff is the easiest play in
Speaker 1: football in terms of him running to the sideline, But
Speaker 1: we did not expect him to be dropping dimes into
Speaker 1: tight coverage on some sideline routes. That is surprising. We
Speaker 1: didn't expect them to be dropping you know, beautiful touch
Speaker 1: passes over the top of zone defenses where it gets
Speaker 1: it over the linebacker in front of the defensive act
Speaker 1: I don't know if he can do it every week,
Speaker 1: but it shouldn't be that shocking that a guy who
Speaker 1: was twenty one years old as a starter is improving
Speaker 1: dramatically in his second season. And it's a joy to watch.
Speaker 1: I get a kick out of John Harbaugh after a
Speaker 1: few years of not having a dominant team, really feeling
Speaker 1: himself this year. Yeah. Shregs at halftime asked him, you know,
Speaker 1: are you concerned about the Cardinals They came back, you know,
Speaker 1: they had that big comeback last week, and he said,
Speaker 1: that is not on anybody's mind over here. We're only
Speaker 1: concerned about our own domination. And they didn't really dominate
Speaker 1: in the second half. But the in the fans are
Speaker 1: kind of like John Harward. They seem so crazy excited
Speaker 1: and so like overwhelmed it because they've never seen an
Speaker 1: exciting offense in Baltimore. It's a totally new phenomenon. I
Speaker 1: think that's it. The competent shift is from late period
Speaker 1: health adult Joe Flacco to Lamar Jackson. And it's to me,
Speaker 1: this is the what If Bowl for a huge chunk
Speaker 1: of teams around the league, because last year was here's
Speaker 1: all the teams that are struggling on offense that could
Speaker 1: have drafted Patrick Mahomes seasons ago, instead of the Chiefs
Speaker 1: trading up with John Dorsey to get him and making
Speaker 1: the move and trusting him and everyone that questioned Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes heading into year two when a few people thought
Speaker 1: this guy is gonna blow up and most didn't. And
Speaker 1: the what if both for everyone that waited on Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson thinking he wasn't worth the first round pick. What
Speaker 1: if I mean, what if the Jets or Brown's had
Speaker 1: even taken Lamar Jackson. He has transformed Baltimore's offense to
Speaker 1: such a degree and they have the perfect parts around
Speaker 1: him right now. And I love that the anyone that
Speaker 1: thought he's going to break down if he's not using
Speaker 1: his legs, if he's forced to throw. They last week's
Speaker 1: showed they can use his legs when they need to,
Speaker 1: but they didn't in Week one, and I know it
Speaker 1: was the Dolphins, but in general, he's grown as a
Speaker 1: passer in ways that I think was unpredictable to most.
Speaker 1: And the team is as dangerous as any team in
Speaker 1: the a f C. Well, we want to see him
Speaker 1: against better competition in terms of the defense, and I
Speaker 1: think that the Chiefs will be better competition. They're not
Speaker 1: a great defense, but I think Spagnolo will throw a
Speaker 1: little more at there, and I don't think they're at
Speaker 1: the low level right now. As Dan fixes my collar
Speaker 1: digital you don't see that on most shows, where someone
Speaker 1: will reach over and just another man. There's no commercial
Speaker 1: breaks here. We need to on the fly. I like it.
Speaker 1: It's it's ad lib at its finest um. The throw
Speaker 1: that really got me was that third and long, and
Speaker 1: we did touch on it on the Sunday Show, I believe,
Speaker 1: but it's worth bringing up again. Lamar Jackson the guy again.
Speaker 1: The storyline, Greg you were You did a good job
Speaker 1: with this over the summer. You were pounding the table
Speaker 1: that Jackson was a guy that could be a pastor,
Speaker 1: that could thrive, uh and in fact go supernova in
Speaker 1: year two if things went the right way. The throw
Speaker 1: he makes to Hollywood Brown on third down to ice
Speaker 1: that game against the Cardinals is the type of throw
Speaker 1: I just did not think would be in his arsenal
Speaker 1: this soon or ever. Uh, And it just takes the
Speaker 1: there's no there's what what Mike old Michael Jordan's line
Speaker 1: that the roof has no ceiling? That's where I am
Speaker 1: right something like that. This is an exciting game because
Speaker 1: if the Ravens go to Arrowhead and beat the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: a f C is just like, Wow, we have another
Speaker 1: powerhouse on our hands. And as good as the Patriots look,
Speaker 1: it would feel very wide open to me who could
Speaker 1: come out of this conference. I don't think the Ravens
Speaker 1: defense is as good this year. We'll see Matthew Judean
Speaker 1: kind of looks like that guy that dude that steps
Speaker 1: up every year for the Baltimore Ravens and then gets
Speaker 1: paid elsewhere. But overall they're a little thinner in the
Speaker 1: secondary than we expect. I don't think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: as I mean, Mahomes is the ceiling though. He's the
Speaker 1: greatest quarterback I've seen since we've been covering the league
Speaker 1: to come into it and he's playing as well or
Speaker 1: better than he did a year ago. That's the ceiling.
Speaker 1: And this was the game of the year to me.
Speaker 1: In the regular season maybe except for Chiefs Rams last year,
Speaker 1: it was empty. It was the m v P moment
Speaker 1: for Mahomes where he hit the fourth and nine across
Speaker 1: his body was two great styles. They went to overtime.
Speaker 1: It was a great first Lamar Jackson showing. So I
Speaker 1: think it could be a rivalry we see throughout the
Speaker 1: next day. But my last point, and about the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: because the Chiefs deserved talk as well, is that Derek
Speaker 1: Carr after last week's game where they essentially got shut
Speaker 1: out the last three quarters, he made a point to say,
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs, this is a really good defense and
Speaker 1: and we'll see And maybe you don't trust what Derek
Speaker 1: Carr has to say, but Derek Carr had no problems
Speaker 1: carving up Vick Fongio's team the week before and then
Speaker 1: ran into a wall against the Chiefs. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this before. All they need to be is okay on
Speaker 1: defense and Mahomes will handle the rest. Chris Jones also
Speaker 1: had one of the best games you'll see by any
Speaker 1: defensive lineman not named Aaron Donald or J. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: It was incredible, all right, way, Lamar Jackson runs, I
Speaker 1: don't care what defense you are man. The defenders look
Speaker 1: completely confused when he takes off. Anyone think the Ravens
Speaker 1: go there? And when I know we don't pick each
Speaker 1: game but games, I'm picking the Chiefs, but I think
Speaker 1: it'll be a fun game. I'll take the Ravens by
Speaker 1: one point. I just have too much faith in Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes right now. I'm taking the Chiefs, all right, West.
Speaker 1: The number two overall pick is Denver Broncos at Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. All right, tell us? Why, well, it's in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. For me what I watch on Sundays, I
Speaker 1: just don't want to be offended by your field or
Speaker 1: your team, and I love watching games in Lambeau. I
Speaker 1: feel like, uh, Aaron Rodgers just misconnecting on a few
Speaker 1: throws last week that would have been fantastic. I think
Speaker 1: that offense is close to a breakthrough right now, and
Speaker 1: this might be the game, especially against the Broncos pass rush,
Speaker 1: which we expected to be the best in the league
Speaker 1: in right now is dead lasting combined sacks and quarterback hits.
Speaker 1: While the Packers have za Darius Smith who is number one,
Speaker 1: tied for number one and quarterback pressures this year, and
Speaker 1: they have Darnell Savage, who to me is one of
Speaker 1: the most exciting rookies in the business. He's got I'm
Speaker 1: not saying here's Earl Thomas, but his closing speed and
Speaker 1: range is fantastic. Was it the Packers offense? West though,
Speaker 1: super annoying to after those three possessions, that they could
Speaker 1: look that good, get the twenty one points and then
Speaker 1: just not be able to do anything. And essentially, if
Speaker 1: you take up step back over the two games about
Speaker 1: the possessions that have been garbage. Was not annoying to me.
Speaker 1: I love the way Aaron Jones ran over a hundred yards,
Speaker 1: got more than twenty carries, and like I said, Rodgers
Speaker 1: just missed on a couple of throws. I think there
Speaker 1: were a couple of penalties in there. There's a brought
Speaker 1: some big plays back, moved the ball a little better
Speaker 1: than I would have expected considering it was eleven possessions
Speaker 1: without a point. I also thought, like I was impressed
Speaker 1: by the way Rogers played, but then looking at my
Speaker 1: homes and just the distance between them. Now, I would
Speaker 1: not expect that that my homes is so much better
Speaker 1: than Rogers right now. I I watched the Packers from
Speaker 1: end end. In the note I took was I have
Speaker 1: hope in the offense because of what happened early. I'm
Speaker 1: not so worried about it breaking down later in the
Speaker 1: game because it is a totally new world for Rogers.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, You're right, I thought he ran. He should
Speaker 1: be their lead back in Matt Lafloors talking about splitting
Speaker 1: carries with him and Williamson. For me, I just think
Speaker 1: they need to They've missed two things. In my book
Speaker 1: for a long time, it was a featured running back
Speaker 1: that could bolster Rogers and you could count on from
Speaker 1: wire to wire. I think you have that in Jones
Speaker 1: if he stays healthy and unsuspended. And their defense. I
Speaker 1: love teams that completely changed the way you feel about
Speaker 1: them early on in the year. And Mike Petton's defense.
Speaker 1: They've given up about the second fewest amount of points
Speaker 1: in the league right and it is not a fluke.
Speaker 1: It is real. And I realized you play the Bears
Speaker 1: a rather broken down offense in Week one. But this
Speaker 1: to me, the way that Mike Patton his defense requires
Speaker 1: certain play at the cornerback position. They're getting that from
Speaker 1: their defense and pass rush they are. They have the
Speaker 1: right parts in place right now. They have elite players
Speaker 1: at every level, so they have a great coach. But
Speaker 1: the more important thing is the talents that Arius Smith
Speaker 1: and Kenny Clark are both ranked in the top five
Speaker 1: in PFF at their positions. Uh you go, you know
Speaker 1: to the back end, Adrian Amos is ranked that high.
Speaker 1: At safety, you have Blake Martinez. We've talked about on
Speaker 1: this show for a long time. You have playmakers at
Speaker 1: every level. I mean making the leaps, making a comeback
Speaker 1: because we had Lamar Jackson and the Packers defense. We mean,
Speaker 1: that's right, We're going royal. We The only problem with
Speaker 1: West's pick here is he's he talked about how excited
Speaker 1: he is to watch the Packers. Another team is playing
Speaker 1: this game, and it's a team that has his heart
Speaker 1: that he's going to be rooting for. And this is
Speaker 1: he's locked into the tough spot for the Broncos, well
Speaker 1: this is this is our first cornered animal game of
Speaker 1: the week and two teams. You know your season's over
Speaker 1: at own three, and do not discount that when you're
Speaker 1: looking to pick teams that, oh they're owing two, they stink.
Speaker 1: If they're not really a bad team. I feel like
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a really good effort for a lot
Speaker 1: of these own two teams. The Broncos, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna put up a fight here, But like you said, West,
Speaker 1: I don't know how well this team is gonna travel
Speaker 1: all season. I'm much closer to shutting the Broncos down
Speaker 1: mentally in my mind before I am thinking they're gonna
Speaker 1: dance with with Mars. You know what. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm typically right on those like It's it's not great
Speaker 1: for business to talk about a team being done in
Speaker 1: week three or week four, but you get a feeling,
Speaker 1: and if you're right, eight percent of the time, I
Speaker 1: ride with it. A Denver is not a playoff team
Speaker 1: to make Steve and Billy Mackison crossing and then putting
Speaker 1: on the lips. They still gonna have intriguing, uh you know,
Speaker 1: parts of their team even if they don't go to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But I'm not I'm not that excited about
Speaker 1: the style of this game. These two teams have both
Speaker 1: played at a very slow pace. Two of the teams
Speaker 1: that are gonna wait till the end of the play
Speaker 1: clock and then they're gonna call a second and ten run.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur likes to play that way. Obviously they're entertaining,
Speaker 1: but it's I could imagine it being very close down
Speaker 1: to the wire. Uh like the last Broncos game, closer
Speaker 1: than the people in the desert think. This took me
Speaker 1: about one second to pick my game, and I am
Speaker 1: to me from August would have been stunned that this
Speaker 1: would be my pick because one of the two teams
Speaker 1: I sort of virtually reject from around age ten on.
Speaker 1: But the other one has won me over. And you
Speaker 1: want to talk about the Royal We we wrote an
Speaker 1: article about the Bills this week because we are fired
Speaker 1: up about Buffalo's chances in the a f C. I
Speaker 1: love the way this team is made. They are hosting
Speaker 1: in their home opener after going on the road and
Speaker 1: knocking out to pretenders from New York. They are hosting
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and the Bengals got absolutely worked over as bad
Speaker 1: as any team I saw in the league last week
Speaker 1: against the Niners. Just watch that game this morning, around
Speaker 1: to it and I cannot believe how hard the Niners
Speaker 1: thumped them in Cincinnati. The Bengals went from being a one,
Speaker 1: A O and one team that was very intriguing, I thought,
Speaker 1: for what they did against Seattle in Week one to
Speaker 1: losing all appeal. And I'm not just piling on them.
Speaker 1: There's just not a lot to cling onto the way
Speaker 1: that they were run on last week. And my word,
Speaker 1: it's one game and it's a small sample size. So
Speaker 1: I would say this the Bengals ever pulled this out,
Speaker 1: they're back on board for me as a team that
Speaker 1: can be frisky. I'm not putting them in no man's land,
Speaker 1: but the Bills have everything in place, and I think
Speaker 1: you have Josh Allen playing in a way you talk
Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson. We thought that Lamar Jackson was a
Speaker 1: run not throw a quarterback at the very worst, and
Speaker 1: there was much more hope with him than there was
Speaker 1: I thought with Josh Allen in terms of being a
Speaker 1: complete player. And Josh Allen has answered a lot of
Speaker 1: questions early He's had a great running game around him
Speaker 1: with Frank Gore and Devin Singletary. Is my one concern.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he may not play this week and
Speaker 1: he has only had ten carries, but Lee is the
Speaker 1: league and rushes over ten yards and it's not a
Speaker 1: to me. That's he made their offense go when they
Speaker 1: finally put him in the game. This defense should have
Speaker 1: no problem against Andy Dalt and the Bengals, who to me,
Speaker 1: are one of these teams that can put two drives
Speaker 1: a week against you with big plays that make you think,
Speaker 1: but then they they killed themselves, but with penalties and turnovers.
Speaker 1: Their offensive line. The Bengals offensive line is a major
Speaker 1: issue right Andre Smith at left tackle. John Jerry comes
Speaker 1: into replace him when he has to sit out. This
Speaker 1: offensive line is as bad as we thought, and they
Speaker 1: lost They've lost i think starters at almost every position now,
Speaker 1: So it's to be fair to Zach Taylor and what's
Speaker 1: going on there. If they had a bad offensive line
Speaker 1: to begin with and they're down four starters right now,
Speaker 1: they might be down four or five. Like they even
Speaker 1: their backups with like Andre Smith and and one of
Speaker 1: the guards who's now out for the season that Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not Zach Taylor's fault. I mean, they had guys
Speaker 1: retiring in what's making you chuckle over there? I well,
Speaker 1: I enjoy your passion for the Bills. Um. I want
Speaker 1: to say that another cornered animal game. And the one
Speaker 1: thing you have to keep in mind here, I think
Speaker 1: is that this the Bills as an organization are dealing
Speaker 1: with something. It's a good thing to deal with, but
Speaker 1: they haven't had in a long time, which is some
Speaker 1: expectation and some people assuming they're gonna win and everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna go in there and everybody's gonna pile into that
Speaker 1: stadium and assume and it's gonna be loud, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun. The pregame is gonna
Speaker 1: be out of control, uh in the parking lot. Uh.
Speaker 1: But I would say there's a chance they could get
Speaker 1: surprised by not walking over a team. Because if we
Speaker 1: want to take certain teams in the league and say,
Speaker 1: oh they're too and oh but they beat teams that sink, well,
Speaker 1: look at the Jets, uh, and the and the Giants.
Speaker 1: So I think what we saw from Week one, UM
Speaker 1: from Cincinnati was really good. What we saw in Week
Speaker 1: two was absolutely wretched. My feeling is they're probably somewhere
Speaker 1: in between there, and I just don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: ready to say Buffalo is good enough where they're just
Speaker 1: gonna destroy um Well, I think I think the Bills
Speaker 1: are built to win games like five to fourteen. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're built necessarily to beat teams forty seven.
Speaker 1: That's that's not I don't think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: blowout necessarily. But I can't point to anything that the
Speaker 1: Bengals are doing right now that should particularly scare the Bills,
Speaker 1: and so the Bill. But the Bills have done a
Speaker 1: better job of playing up to expectations than the Browns,
Speaker 1: for instance, who came in with and some others like
Speaker 1: they're beating him. They look like one of the best
Speaker 1: defensive league. They have guys like Harrison Phillips who are
Speaker 1: suddenly stepping up and making big plays. And then Josh Allen. Look,
Speaker 1: a lot of people have already started walking away from
Speaker 1: their Daniel Jones. Uh, you know, hatred and laughter. No
Speaker 1: two players in the last two drafts have unified Draft
Speaker 1: Twitter anymore than mocking h Josh Allen and Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: We'll see about Jones, and we'll see about Alan. To me,
Speaker 1: he's like a relief pitcher that he's gonna be wild
Speaker 1: some weeks, but it's hard to ignore the types of
Speaker 1: plays he's making on the run now and if he
Speaker 1: can you know, if you can just do that, if
Speaker 1: they could do what they did the first two weeks offensively,
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, they're about eleventh and points,
Speaker 1: you know, thirte yards per play. Their their middle of
Speaker 1: the packer a little better. I forget it. They're team ye,
Speaker 1: They're well coached, they're great at fundamentals, they have good leadership,
Speaker 1: they play well as a team. This is a good
Speaker 1: all around team and they're fun to watch and they
Speaker 1: have Frank are they got? This is the first incarnation
Speaker 1: Bills in a long long time. And we've seen so
Speaker 1: many with all these teams that are struggling to break
Speaker 1: through where the coach the front office are all married
Speaker 1: in unison. That has been they have been especially volatile
Speaker 1: in that situation previous to this. All right, now, Greg,
Speaker 1: so you pick the next two. You're up. Well, the
Speaker 1: only snake in this room is you for taking the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and you're gonna watch it anyway, You're not You're
Speaker 1: not even the number one overall. Of course, that was
Speaker 1: the obvious pick. I'm taking Romo again. It wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: have been my strategy, but Tony Rolmos covering the Saints
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks, and I'm gonna after First of all,
Speaker 1: it's four. You like those games where you can finish
Speaker 1: with the early smart bro you know, keep that in mind, everybody,
Speaker 1: and then you can sit back and you can let
Speaker 1: a master do his best work in an interesting game.
Speaker 1: Two NFC teams which they don't normally have some interested
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little different, and it's Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 1: We've come a long way um with the whole Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater story. We've tracked his entire career on this show.
Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed watching him. I thought he was better
Speaker 1: than people thought in Minnesota, that he had a pretty
Speaker 1: nice upside as, like a better version of Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: He hasn't looked like that in the brief chances he's
Speaker 1: gotten over the last few years, and who knows how
Speaker 1: many chances he's gonna get with Taysom Hill behind him.
Speaker 1: This is it. This is a big moment in his career.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a big moment for Sean Payton too,
Speaker 1: because I think he wants to go put out that
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year reel. He wants to be have
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill and Teddy Bridgewater go to Seattle, pull off
Speaker 1: that road upset, have some crazy plays and everyone just
Speaker 1: be honking about how Sean Payton's the man, that's what
Speaker 1: he's looking for Sunday. But he's one of the guys
Speaker 1: I could trust to the I don't doubt it. NFL
Speaker 1: Research put out a study that showed the splatterings during
Speaker 1: the season or various games where coaches maybe trying to
Speaker 1: outsmart everyone else used two or three quarterbacks in one
Speaker 1: game in specific situations, and the results are pretty awful.
Speaker 1: They don't It just doesn't really work. And it's and
Speaker 1: that goes back twenty thirty years where it just doesn't
Speaker 1: sustain itself. I just think we're gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: more Tastom Hill, and if we don't, I'd be stunned.
Speaker 1: I think that Saints d also hasn't been impressive. I
Speaker 1: think that's under the radar. The defensive line is playing
Speaker 1: great in terms of getting pressure, but as a team defense,
Speaker 1: the linebackers and the secondary and the run defense. It's
Speaker 1: pretty bad. I mean they they did not play well
Speaker 1: against Los Angeles. I am switching up my lock here.
Speaker 1: I was gonna take another team, but I can't listen
Speaker 1: to Greg talk up Teddy Bridgewater that much like he's
Speaker 1: any threat to I mean, I'm not, come on, I'm
Speaker 1: locking up the Seahawks in this game. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to lock up against Teddy Bridgewater and Sean Payton in
Speaker 1: this game. Graphic ready of that? But and that are you?
Speaker 1: Are you viewing this anti breeze or non breeze territory
Speaker 1: as a sinkhole for the Saints then I think since
Speaker 1: about Thanksgiving, the Saints offense has been subpar, and that
Speaker 1: includes this year. I just I don't like anything I've
Speaker 1: seen unless Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas catch fire. This
Speaker 1: team doesn't move the ball well in the running game
Speaker 1: fell apart the minute Bridgewater hit the scene last week,
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson played one of the best games of
Speaker 1: his career list week that that's the I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a team to the Seattle that looked very different from
Speaker 1: Week one to two. Russell Wilson getting the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hands quicker than he ever has in his
Speaker 1: entire career. You have a great backfield, you're you're at home,
Speaker 1: but their offensive line hasn't protected him at all. I
Speaker 1: think that's that's the chance. Is Cameron Jordan's playing great,
Speaker 1: Marcus Davenport and Trey Hendrickson are coming off big games,
Speaker 1: and you're just hoping that they can wreak havoc and
Speaker 1: cause some turnovers against Russell Wilson in that offensive line.
Speaker 1: Can Jordan's stole Han's done? Soul list? I love the
Speaker 1: one thing about DK metcalf and I think he I
Speaker 1: was I thought he might not work out. It just
Speaker 1: something about him did. I wasn't sure He's made some
Speaker 1: good place. What I love watching him do is when
Speaker 1: they show on the coaches film of him going down
Speaker 1: field and blocking like a little tiny cornerback. He just
Speaker 1: takes these guys and throws him like eight yards in
Speaker 1: the wrong direction. Not sure that's why you draft wide
Speaker 1: receiver primarily, but he makes And what they're doing with
Speaker 1: him is is just having him run the same route
Speaker 1: over and over. They're not trying to confuse him. He's
Speaker 1: just on one side of the ball. Going down the field.
Speaker 1: He's got two routes, so much of t o even
Speaker 1: his posture, the way he stands, the way he runs. Alright, Greg,
Speaker 1: you're picking again, baby. Look at this. Greg's building his team.
Speaker 1: I'm going Colts Falcons early. That's the game. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: focus on. Interesting pick. Maybe a bit of a reach
Speaker 1: this earlier. I mean, look where I'm sitting in the
Speaker 1: same room as a guy who took that Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: snooze and Broncos second overall, So I haven't that's that's
Speaker 1: Greg had that prepared the minute the minute West went
Speaker 1: after Dome game with the sun blinding, ultra vindictiveness. I'm representing,
Speaker 1: and I'm representing what I believe to be the majority
Speaker 1: of football fans who just like watching it and they
Speaker 1: don't mind it. It's if it's in a dome, it's fine.
Speaker 1: Cares about the majority of football fans. I get out
Speaker 1: of here. Greg, you are the last person, not only
Speaker 1: on this show, but on any show ever that I
Speaker 1: would link to the majority of football fans on any level.
Speaker 1: You have never been for their cause, and you are
Speaker 1: not for it. Now. Well you know what, you know
Speaker 1: what they like that they like the running game, and
Speaker 1: that the Indianapolists are a team with the starting running
Speaker 1: back who has a calf injury and isn't practicing. That's
Speaker 1: a problem, ladies. But Jordan's get into the game. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we're talking the game. It's in there. He just had
Speaker 1: a nice little injury. Yeah what are you talking about? Uh,
Speaker 1: nice little injury update. It doesn't matter who's back there
Speaker 1: because it's all about Quentin Nelson. It's all about that
Speaker 1: offensive line their second in the league and rushing yards
Speaker 1: right now forth in efficiency. They are the team that
Speaker 1: Dirk Cotter says the Falcons want to be, which is
Speaker 1: which is a run first team that's gonna make a
Speaker 1: drive when you need to. And when Jacoby Prisette needed
Speaker 1: to make two touchdown drives in a row in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter against the Chargers, that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 1: When the Colts needed to make a touchdown drive against
Speaker 1: the Titans in the fourth quarter, that's exactly what they did.
Speaker 1: Usually that's the type of kind of late excitement that
Speaker 1: we can get rallied behind. And I'm in on Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette and this team just being a little funky, and
Speaker 1: I think it would be a fun game. It's a
Speaker 1: sneaky good game of the week. That's what I say.
Speaker 1: They're gonna fight every week. I think. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna end up with him playing football in January
Speaker 1: the Colts. But just like you know, we know that
Speaker 1: Frank Reich is a great coach. Brissette is not a
Speaker 1: dynamic player, but he's fine. He's like Ken Stabler back
Speaker 1: there getting you know, making making herkey jerky weird moves
Speaker 1: in the pocket and throwing it deep there like a
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. It's just a it's a shame because this
Speaker 1: really was a team that had a chance, um with
Speaker 1: with Andrew Luck and without him, I think they're eight
Speaker 1: to ten win team. UM, so maybe not a super
Speaker 1: Bowl team, but a team that will play a lot
Speaker 1: of close games, fund games. So from that standpoint, with
Speaker 1: the fifth overall pick, you're probably gonna get an entertaining game.
Speaker 1: And the Falcons Falcons always play. You know, I'm down.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to think of the Falcons right now.
Speaker 1: The Falcons feel a tad faceless to me, although they
Speaker 1: certainly took advantage of a banged up Eagles defense last week,
Speaker 1: and the Colts are down Pierre to Sira appears that
Speaker 1: he's got a knee injury. J Ball Sheared could be
Speaker 1: out Darius Leonard as a concussion. So you're losing at
Speaker 1: every level a key contributor there that that's It's not
Speaker 1: the Colts defense at their most powerful. To me, though,
Speaker 1: I feel like you're getting the Falcons at the right
Speaker 1: time because I just I am not sure who this
Speaker 1: team is. That's my issue them. They may feel differently
Speaker 1: about themselves. Well, we asked them to show some backbone
Speaker 1: on defense and they did. Their Their defensive line is
Speaker 1: much improved, and they worked over and Eagles offensive line
Speaker 1: that everybody assumes is one of the best in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't just assume that the Cults are gonna
Speaker 1: run down their throats in this game, all right? Moving on,
Speaker 1: I wanted to pick one of these cornered animal games,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pick the one that I'm most fascinated
Speaker 1: by because it's against an undefeated team that's coming off
Speaker 1: a great effort on offense. We we touched on it
Speaker 1: earlier the Pittsburgh Steelers with Mason Rudoff. It's took your pick. Took.
Speaker 1: It wasn't getting to you, Mark, Yeah, does it make it?
Speaker 1: It's always better when the other guys only says he
Speaker 1: would have been gone. Not only is it the game
Speaker 1: I wanted, it is in that precious yeah, Greg strategy,
Speaker 1: which is a wise one. So I'm taking the Steelers
Speaker 1: at Niners. Uh cornered animal. Oh and two Steelers no
Speaker 1: Big Ben out for the season with that elbow injury.
Speaker 1: In steps Mason Rudolph. Mark, You and I saw the
Speaker 1: same thing when we watched that game that we thought, um,
Speaker 1: Rudolf had a chance here and could be a guy
Speaker 1: could step in and keep the Steelers interesting and relevant.
Speaker 1: They of course make that trade to get make Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: which the more I thought about it, the more I
Speaker 1: love that trade. I know that they they gave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an onion hanging, sure if I love it, but
Speaker 1: it's onions and he Because it's so unheard of that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins whatever happened to Gary Cooper, that Micke Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: at twenty two or twenty three years old, whatever he is,
Speaker 1: would say, get me out of here immediately after he's drafted. Essentially, well,
Speaker 1: we gotta look at him over a year. As what
Speaker 1: I'm being told on that an expert in the ways
Speaker 1: of mackef Fitzpatrick, but that he is a highly versatile guy,
Speaker 1: a real chess piece in your defensive backfield. And basically,
Speaker 1: the Steelers drafted a twenty three year old cornerback slash
Speaker 1: safety who they really believe in and have tape in
Speaker 1: the NFL that says this guy can play at this level.
Speaker 1: It makes sense to me from that stand does he's
Speaker 1: already announced that he wants to be cemented into one position? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: and they need him at free safety because they put
Speaker 1: shann Um Sean Davis on I R I. I have
Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory on this, and I haven't heard out there.
Speaker 1: Kevin Colvert refused to sign a contract extension this year.
Speaker 1: He's been on one year deals. Some rumors that either
Speaker 1: he's gonna move on to another team or just move
Speaker 1: on period. I think Mike Comlin if things went super south,
Speaker 1: who knows if the Rooneys would blow it up. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's Kevin Colbert and Tomlin thinking a little bit like
Speaker 1: we gotta make this year work. Not think I try
Speaker 1: to save your collar once, because there's like a Saturday
Speaker 1: night Fever Travolta thing going on out it's good to
Speaker 1: know that it's a multimillion dollar corporation. I should work well.
Speaker 1: UM anyway, So I really think the Steelers have a
Speaker 1: good chance in this game. And Niners, uh fans that
Speaker 1: feel really good after back to back road wins by
Speaker 1: their team. I get that. And they almost put up
Speaker 1: six hundred total yards on the Cincinnati team. That seemed
Speaker 1: like you know what that game was like? That was
Speaker 1: that was like, um, every year Labor Day weekend, I'm
Speaker 1: in Texas and it's the only time I ever see
Speaker 1: college football, and uh in this at this family reunion. UM,
Speaker 1: my wife's family all Baylor fans. UM. Some other in
Speaker 1: laws are ut Texas people. There's some Oklahoma fans. So
Speaker 1: there's just football playing all the time. And typically not always,
Speaker 1: but usually they basically have a slaughter game week one
Speaker 1: to get to get these big time programs, Uh, they
Speaker 1: essentially schedule against some team that can't even be on
Speaker 1: the team. That's what this game looks like. State is
Speaker 1: coming into Austin exactly. That's what Cincinnati looked like. They
Speaker 1: looked like housing State UM against the Niners. So it
Speaker 1: got to the point that it was farce and it
Speaker 1: was like what can I take out of this Niners performance.
Speaker 1: It did open my eyes. Curtis Samuel Uh, their backfield
Speaker 1: has even even with the injuries they had, there are
Speaker 1: guys that can make things happen. Matt Brita, who I
Speaker 1: know West, We've talked about him being a big guy.
Speaker 1: And Jimmy Garoppolo. It seems so far away those concerns
Speaker 1: now back during the preseason about whether he would be
Speaker 1: able to be a It was like a week ago.
Speaker 1: This show a week ago was how far away? He
Speaker 1: didn't play grade a week one, but he definitely was.
Speaker 1: He looked like the guy that they need him to
Speaker 1: be in this game. Um So, as much as I
Speaker 1: like the offense, I'd like to see it at against
Speaker 1: the tougher matchup, and this is a tough matchup against
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Think it is this. I thought Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1: This put a real stamp on this pass game with
Speaker 1: number one. It's the Shanahan thing where multiple running backs
Speaker 1: are going to kill you. So if you play fantasy uh,
Speaker 1: and most of us don't, but if you do, like
Speaker 1: you don't know who to pick each week because they've
Speaker 1: got multiple guys that can hurt you even without Tevin Coleman.
Speaker 1: You made the point. I don't think they really need
Speaker 1: ted and Tevin looked fantastic. Jef is now their goal lineback.
Speaker 1: Like they're like, would Jerick McKinnon and and Tevin Coleman
Speaker 1: be better? How can to be better than? And they
Speaker 1: had multi they had touchdowns called back by penalty. Uh.
Speaker 1: Shanahan got Marky's goodwin free on a leak route where
Speaker 1: he crossed the line and broke up field. It was
Speaker 1: totally open, like that was something that you don't see
Speaker 1: very often and that he's just wide open. There are
Speaker 1: and this is a compliment I I was looking at
Speaker 1: Jimmy G and I was like, who is he reminding
Speaker 1: me of? When he's not throwing the ball perfectly, but
Speaker 1: he's just operating well in the offense. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like what Shanahan did with Brian Hoyer during that one
Speaker 1: part of the season in Cleveland. The kind of like
Speaker 1: looked like each other a little bit, and then Jimmy
Speaker 1: G can do so much more than that player who
Speaker 1: broke down. Ultimately, I am not worried about Jimmy G
Speaker 1: right now. I think that when you they finally have
Speaker 1: a defense too, if they played the way they have
Speaker 1: been Steelers, Well, I think I don't think we're going
Speaker 1: to take your lockquest. No, it wasn't. You're picking this reason.
Speaker 1: This can be a great game. They really need to
Speaker 1: handle George Kittle and so far this year, Devin Bush
Speaker 1: has gotten lost in coverage too many times. He's experiencing
Speaker 1: growing pains and he's been bad and downright bad in
Speaker 1: the red zone. But they're slow at linebacker. They drafted
Speaker 1: Bush to be faster, but because he's reacting slow, he's slow.
Speaker 1: And Mark Baron there's a reason why the Rams want
Speaker 1: to know more part of him. He's he cannot cover
Speaker 1: and that's part of the reason why Russell Wilson had
Speaker 1: such a great Daylight. Well, I would say you've lost
Speaker 1: Joe Staley and the way the Niners are, the way
Speaker 1: the Steelers passed us played early against the Seahawks. I
Speaker 1: mean they dismantled Seattle early, then they came back into
Speaker 1: the game. That's your chance if you can get to
Speaker 1: San Francisco in hassle Jimmy g from the start. Forty
Speaker 1: Niners fans are getting after me because I picked. I
Speaker 1: picked the Steelers to win this. It is partly because
Speaker 1: of what Dan said, I kind of can't imagine the
Speaker 1: Steelers at oh and three, and part of me has
Speaker 1: a has a hard time imagining the forty nine at
Speaker 1: three and oh. These feel like two teams. I'm not
Speaker 1: putting that much stock into what's happened so far. The
Speaker 1: story is, you know, yet to be written. But man
Speaker 1: if Mason Rudolph could go in there and like this
Speaker 1: is where Mike Tomlin's done some of his best work,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm basing on totally intangible nonsense. Whenever you're cornered,
Speaker 1: whenever you count them out there in I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'm confident, and now I'm blocking it up and it's
Speaker 1: very strange to lock up. But guess who else on
Speaker 1: the road. This is also a corner sounds like a
Speaker 1: machine gun. Um. It also is a cornered animal game
Speaker 1: from the old Zeuser at oh and two. I need
Speaker 1: this game and I'm gonna bring that energy to the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh locker room. We win in we flying back home
Speaker 1: on a dub animal employees wounded animal to get out
Speaker 1: of a cage. It's an onions It's an Onions lock
Speaker 1: and I think it's a good all right, Who is up.
Speaker 1: It is now Chris Westling's second pick. This is the
Speaker 1: road team. I was going to take the New York
Speaker 1: Giants at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I want to see
Speaker 1: how transformed the offense is with Danny Dimes. It sounds
Speaker 1: like Sterling Shepherd is going to play. He was coming
Speaker 1: off the concussion. And if you have Evan Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd, Sae Kwon Barkley, and an offensive line that
Speaker 1: has been frankly one of the top ten lines in
Speaker 1: the league so far this year, I think that gives
Speaker 1: Danny Dimes a good chance to succeed against a Buccaneers
Speaker 1: defense that has caught Greg's eye. I love me some
Speaker 1: todd Balls. I mean, we were watching the game. Who
Speaker 1: gets Mark? Who's more exciting than Todd Bowls? Seeing a
Speaker 1: happy todd Balls on the sideline, everyone start, literally, everyone
Speaker 1: is more exciting. But that's let's make him a head coach.
Speaker 1: That's part of the reason. You know, it's just fun
Speaker 1: to lean into this stupid bit. But uh, they really
Speaker 1: have been better. They are, let's seeing more than fifty
Speaker 1: of the time, like no other team in the league
Speaker 1: is remotely close. They don't even really have a pass rush.
Speaker 1: They they're trusting that Vida Vella and gold William Golston
Speaker 1: and and Dominicance Wu and Lavante David can just stop
Speaker 1: the run while they're almost selling out to just blitz
Speaker 1: and and they can. It's kind of a way to
Speaker 1: work around the one strength they have, which is they
Speaker 1: have a good run defense, and they're blitzing like crazy,
Speaker 1: and at least in September and maybe against a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback that can stick you out some good performances, I mean,
Speaker 1: to your point, Jack Barrett basically said that he had
Speaker 1: played in a three or four defense his whole life,
Speaker 1: but that the Todd Bowls three four was something completely different.
Speaker 1: We saw him blow up the Panthers last week, and
Speaker 1: so something's working. I flipped to the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball, though, and I look at Bruce Arians, who
Speaker 1: I love Bruce Arians. But I can't quite figure out
Speaker 1: if he knew this was where he'd be coming into
Speaker 1: week three, that this is why he pulled out of
Speaker 1: retirement to take over this office. Was convinced that Jamis
Speaker 1: Went is a legitimate franchise quarterback, Well, then I would
Speaker 1: I would that he should have at least gone in
Speaker 1: suspicious of that, hoping that would be the case. Not
Speaker 1: convinced because when there one and one campus is so
Speaker 1: out of their minds right now. I saw an article
Speaker 1: this week and the Tampa Bay Times that said, are
Speaker 1: the with Drew Brees is injury, are the Bucks the
Speaker 1: new favorites in the NFL? I was like, Yeah, if
Speaker 1: the offense does not totally maximize against a Giant's defense
Speaker 1: that could not have been more lost at Sea last
Speaker 1: week at home, then I don't know when it happens.
Speaker 1: You're playing a rookie quarterback I like, I like him
Speaker 1: better than Eli Manning, but it's still his first start
Speaker 1: in the NFL against a good defense. We've just talked
Speaker 1: about them. If you cannot make this the game where
Speaker 1: we figure out, oh this is what arians and this
Speaker 1: Bucks offense are going to be against one of the
Speaker 1: lamest defenses in the league, that I'm not holding my
Speaker 1: breath for it to happen. There there by that they
Speaker 1: have to do something this week. They are not doing
Speaker 1: what last year's Bucks offense did. O. J. Howard is
Speaker 1: v niched, not even close. Just throw it DeAndre Baker
Speaker 1: every time. Yeah, that's that's part of the Gettleman story
Speaker 1: that's not being told right now. He took a few
Speaker 1: people in the first round. Daniel Jones wasn't the only one.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Baker, his first round cornerback, is right now the
Speaker 1: worst cornerback in the entire NFL and would be benched
Speaker 1: if he was on it. You have every right to
Speaker 1: bail and the Bruce Arians experience with Jamis Winston if
Speaker 1: they cannot move the ball up and down the field
Speaker 1: against the Giants, Yes, Giants stink their defense, Genar Jenkins.
Speaker 1: You know their secondary stinks and the secondary is complaining
Speaker 1: about the defensive line. It's good in mid September. The
Speaker 1: whole roster stinks on defense, so especially at home, and
Speaker 1: maybe Danny does bring some juice to the offensive side
Speaker 1: of they might get fairly shepherd back, you know, Golden
Speaker 1: Tate returns in a few weeks. Then they were smart
Speaker 1: how they did this, because I think Danny Diame is
Speaker 1: gonna look like a hero all right now. Picking Mark Cecil, well,
Speaker 1: you know in a draft there's always the fly by night,
Speaker 1: less prepared team that watches the picks they were going
Speaker 1: to pick picked over and over just before their their times.
Speaker 1: The last game the last two games picked where my
Speaker 1: next two picks lined up. Now I'm scrambling and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wind up the guy. Yeah, We're gonna listen. We
Speaker 1: we This is someone we believed in for a long time.
Speaker 1: I believe in this game from the start, even though
Speaker 1: on my actual list number one, it's lodged number thirteen
Speaker 1: or fourteen out of fourteen UH Carolina at Arizona. It
Speaker 1: is one of the last remaining UH late games. And
Speaker 1: I am a little I'm a little chargered out, so
Speaker 1: I'm bypassing Chargers. And here's my one thing. Watching Arizona
Speaker 1: play the Ravens and losing and driving deep and moving
Speaker 1: the ball well for big chunks of the field but
Speaker 1: falling apart into field goals in the red zone. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what to make it, make of this offense entirely.
Speaker 1: I like, I really like Kyler Murray's for a guy
Speaker 1: who's played in two NFL games, his restive mindset. He
Speaker 1: is whipping the ball downfield. He is reviving Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: They've got some weapons in the passing game. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure this is gonna work or not, but I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a couple of games where they simply explode.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna happen, and I like this game.
Speaker 1: I'm picking this for that reason that I want to
Speaker 1: be there when they suddenly dropped forty something points on
Speaker 1: a team that has issues all over the place. And
Speaker 1: the team with issues all over the place right now
Speaker 1: is the Carolina Panthers. A. You've got Kyle at quarterback.
Speaker 1: I understand he played we well in weeks seventeen. I
Speaker 1: don't really care about weeks seventeen. At this point, Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera is clearly agitated. He walked away from his press
Speaker 1: conference two minutes in today because he was getting too
Speaker 1: many Cam Newton questions, Well, that's not stopping, and what
Speaker 1: is happening to this team in general? They feel like
Speaker 1: melt territory to me and nothing. It is a huge week,
Speaker 1: talk about a wounded animal for Riverboats, job security, it's
Speaker 1: a huge for everything. I think the future of where
Speaker 1: the team is going. You have an owner that has
Speaker 1: been patient, because owners like to come in and do
Speaker 1: their things and put their stamp, and he's putting no
Speaker 1: real stamp on the team. And I think this could
Speaker 1: be the offseason where a lot of changes happen if
Speaker 1: this team continues to trajectory into deep Earth, you got
Speaker 1: a big week coming up in Arizona. I love Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray's intermediate deep ball accuracy and touch, and his willingness,
Speaker 1: like you said, to be aggressive if his wide receivers,
Speaker 1: even even he's leaving, every time he sees his receiver
Speaker 1: get a step, he's throwing deep to that guy. I
Speaker 1: love it. I thought it's interesting that Chris Carter said,
Speaker 1: after talking to people in Arizona, defenses are going to
Speaker 1: find out quickly that Kyler Murray does not want to run.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to get hit. He feels the same
Speaker 1: way about getting hit as Tom Brady and Drew Brees do,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to run. Imagine if you're him
Speaker 1: and you just stepped into the NFL these first couple
Speaker 1: of games. Like he's he's the smallest guy on the
Speaker 1: field by far. He he's the one quarterback that looks small,
Speaker 1: like he looks noticeably different than definite helmet. It's it's tricky.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to figure out a balance because when
Speaker 1: I think it was Pronell McPhee guy in free on
Speaker 1: a busted play, it's just you know, a two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five pound great athlete coming at you with
Speaker 1: no past protection. Kyler Murray put a spin move that
Speaker 1: dropped him on the ground. It broke his ankles. It
Speaker 1: made Pernell McPhee look like an old man. And that's
Speaker 1: the type of runner Kyler for three years, right, But
Speaker 1: that's the type of player he can be if he
Speaker 1: wants to escape. And then he took an easy seven
Speaker 1: yards to the sideline. That's one of only four runs
Speaker 1: he's at all year one. Quick correction, Um, we referenced
Speaker 1: thousands State. It's actually tousand University. They changed it because
Speaker 1: they changed it. So there's even a reason I Buzzom
Speaker 1: Buddy Bob cas Stron throwback pod partner attended that school
Speaker 1: and I've been there. It was not state at some point,
Speaker 1: though I believe it was at one point and then
Speaker 1: no longer the case. We're talking over twenty years of
Speaker 1: what state are they in? Maryland? So Maryland was like,
Speaker 1: stop referencing us. It's a state university, so they are
Speaker 1: connected directly the state. Okay, but Maryland said, we're done
Speaker 1: with you. Stop you're not connecting. I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: need I'm not familiar with the politics of that area.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like whenever a school needs
Speaker 1: to change their name from the ground up, there's something
Speaker 1: that we're going on that we should floor. So they
Speaker 1: just dropped the state. They didn't. It wasn't a ground
Speaker 1: up change. Okay, Bob was gonna come at me if
Speaker 1: I did not bring this up, So go ahead. I
Speaker 1: was just asking, does Mark get another? Is it snaking again? Doesn't? Well,
Speaker 1: but I guess really I thought it was again snakes
Speaker 1: every time? To you? Whoever picks doesn't make sense, does it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It does. It should snake back to me though. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's what happened is we did snake and then we
Speaker 1: went around this way again. It's meant to snake back
Speaker 1: my I was actually heavily robbed. This has been an
Speaker 1: absolute disaster because I should have gotten after Greg picked
Speaker 1: fourth and fifth is I should have had the six pick.
Speaker 1: You've buried me down at nine or ten. That explains
Speaker 1: the horrific drafts. Let's just kill the snake for right now.
Speaker 1: You'll know it should to lead of the listeners who
Speaker 1: have allowed how did the last minute and a half
Speaker 1: on thousands State and imaginary snake time out? Time out? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely right you had. It was one to Dan West. Yes,
Speaker 1: I had again, Greg again, and then Dan again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it goes this way. It's a snake, Dan, because the
Speaker 1: snake is curling back and forth, not getting cut off
Speaker 1: at mid section after Greg takes two picks and starting
Speaker 1: again with I just look back to our control room.
Speaker 1: They've all left playing them just swiveling. But at least
Speaker 1: this time it should snake back. This way we possibly pig.
Speaker 1: Let's make a choice. I'm gonna take another for another
Speaker 1: four o'clock game because this all plays into my I'm
Speaker 1: gonna watch Lamar anyways early, so I'll take the second
Speaker 1: game that's Texans Chargers, and I am interested in this
Speaker 1: game because this early in the season, I have no
Speaker 1: idea what these teams are. I have no idea what
Speaker 1: they're gonna be. I mean, when you think about last September,
Speaker 1: can you really remember what teams were like? Can you
Speaker 1: remember Blake Bordles dropping four touchdowns on the Patriots? Uh
Speaker 1: for that Jaguars team that was clearly headed to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl while the Patriots were doing nothing like? Can
Speaker 1: you remember the Bengals looking awesome and being super clutch?
Speaker 1: I I don't know. You don't know what they're gonna
Speaker 1: be in September. And these two teams especially, I don't
Speaker 1: have any feel about. They've got great quarterbacks, they've got
Speaker 1: terrible offensive lines, their defenses have been up and down.
Speaker 1: I want to see a little more out of Joey
Speaker 1: Bosa and Melvin Ingram and them making an impact every week.
Speaker 1: And this is a great week to do it, and
Speaker 1: if it feels like a big game, because I think
Speaker 1: these two teams are very much in the a f
Speaker 1: C playoff picture and so it could wind up mattering
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Who's got the better
Speaker 1: backfield in this game. I've been really impressed with what
Speaker 1: the Texans have done in their backfield. I know they
Speaker 1: paid a premium to do it, but Carlos Hide is
Speaker 1: running as well as he ever has and Duke Johnson
Speaker 1: playing pretty well. Austin Ekeler, what's he got four touchdowns
Speaker 1: an averaging a hundred yards of game. Wherever you took
Speaker 1: him in fantasy it wasn't high enough. I mean that
Speaker 1: that was your pick right there. Chargers have the better backfield,
Speaker 1: I think because you've also got Jackson. I think they
Speaker 1: they also were the team that proactively built a super
Speaker 1: deep stable to the point where you even forget that
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon is a human being who exists. At this point,
Speaker 1: his leverage is so far in the distance that whatever
Speaker 1: he whatever his argument was, he's become he's become completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Came out this week and he said something about, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be playing somewhere, and at this point him
Speaker 1: talking isn't even making a ripple, not Los Angeles. And also,
Speaker 1: they took away they took away his blue checkmark on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He's ret he's he's doing the Benjamin button in all
Speaker 1: the wrong ways. If you if you took away a
Speaker 1: few flags last week's buttons, yes, he's like setting backsward
Speaker 1: blue checkmark on You're not even in college anymore, You're
Speaker 1: a hopeful high school sophomore. I they if you took
Speaker 1: a few flags away from the Chargers game against Detroit,
Speaker 1: their backfield has another couple touchdowns in like sixty or
Speaker 1: seventy yards. I mean that that game was closer than
Speaker 1: it should have been because of Chargers flags, right, and
Speaker 1: they lost. I think the Texans have more to feel
Speaker 1: good about actually, so far. Marcella Whitney Merciless is reborn
Speaker 1: the defensive player of the week DJ Reader on their
Speaker 1: front line looks good. Their front seven is really good.
Speaker 1: They have some major weaknesses, which we've talked about offense
Speaker 1: flying a second, but I think their strengths are coming
Speaker 1: forward in the in the running game has Merciless is
Speaker 1: such a huge for him to step up with Clowney gone,
Speaker 1: That's exactly what they needed. Now, now, what was a
Speaker 1: little a little better? By the way, it's some maybe
Speaker 1: unfair digs on what a week Earl. You do a
Speaker 1: gholst in in week one, you're gonna catch some heat
Speaker 1: when you're a player at that level. But he went
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Maybe we're due for one of
Speaker 1: those Monster Watch games this week. All right, Mark, you
Speaker 1: are up and my apologies. Well, no, I don't blame you,
Speaker 1: because it's like a hundred and six degrees in here,
Speaker 1: and I think it starts starts to affect the mind
Speaker 1: before anything else. I think Mark, uh did this on
Speaker 1: purpose as some type of psychological test. Well it's not working.
Speaker 1: We're still on the air as far as we know.
Speaker 1: And Uh, I'm going to pick I like this game.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it interests me, but there's not
Speaker 1: a lot left to pick from. I'm going Dolphins at
Speaker 1: Dallas Day. Sorry, Wes, how do I pick second? But
Speaker 1: then everybody picks three teams before me. I don't understand this. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe I should be apologizing to us, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I wonder the Dolphins have faced the Ravens, the Ravens
Speaker 1: and the Patriots. I'm not sure that they aren't playing
Speaker 1: the very best team they played yet right now. The
Speaker 1: way that the Cowboys are operating, this is another terrible
Speaker 1: situation for the Dolphins, and we've spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time on them this week. I just want to see
Speaker 1: how Dallas handles this because I wonder if the Dolphins
Speaker 1: become a team that if you get up twenty four nothing,
Speaker 1: thirty nothing, that you find a way to use it
Speaker 1: as a bye week or do you keep attacking all
Speaker 1: week long? Do you give Ezekiel Elliott a full quarter off?
Speaker 1: Do you play Dak Prescott? You know it's a good
Speaker 1: week for them not to have Michael Gallup, he's out
Speaker 1: for a while. But you don't need all your guns
Speaker 1: necessarily if you hold turnovers down and find a way
Speaker 1: to take care of the Dolphins, which shouldn't be hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, I also think we're watching history. This Dolphins
Speaker 1: team could be How many teams do the league have
Speaker 1: gone undefeated in their history and winless? This is a
Speaker 1: little bit of history and I'm hanging on for a
Speaker 1: little Week three slice of piet underrated though, how they
Speaker 1: have opened against the three best offenses in the league
Speaker 1: or three of the top four or five offense because
Speaker 1: playing against the Dolphins. But no, the Patriots are gonna
Speaker 1: be good. The Ravens are dynamic. The Cowboys are good,
Speaker 1: you know the Cowboys. Dak Prescott, if if his agent
Speaker 1: could have scheduled September himself, he couldn't have picked three
Speaker 1: better Tomato can than knocked down than than these three teams.
Speaker 1: And with that, I also think that it's not it's
Speaker 1: it's the fact that, like, what can the Dolphins do?
Speaker 1: Who can they impose the will on right now? The
Speaker 1: answers house. That's how some Tigers coming from Towson their
Speaker 1: college university at this point. I the one reason I
Speaker 1: will also keep an eye on Miami is someone's gonna
Speaker 1: lose to this team. And that's the team that's gonna
Speaker 1: get ugly. They're doing, You're the team that loses to Miami.
Speaker 1: Let's say it's in week eight that coaches on the
Speaker 1: hot seat. I don't care if you're even Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: I mean I believe if they were like playing Gardner Minshew,
Speaker 1: it would be a close game, or if they were
Speaker 1: playing other team. I really do think they're not gonna
Speaker 1: get blown up their doors off every single week, but
Speaker 1: this week probably West since you don't get to well,
Speaker 1: you'll watch this game at some point. But do you
Speaker 1: have any thoughts in your Cowboys AF they're watching them
Speaker 1: during the week, Well, a lot of thoughts, but they
Speaker 1: don't really matter against the Dolphins, right? Do they matter?
Speaker 1: Long term? Dophins resistant to analysis. It doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: you who you're playing on your facing the Dolphins. They're
Speaker 1: an embarrassment, their disgrace, and that's you know, what can
Speaker 1: you do? All Right, you're up. I will take Raiders
Speaker 1: at Vikings. That's a nice pick, though, BRO think at
Speaker 1: this stage in the draft it's kind of a stinky,
Speaker 1: big game. Yes, I think the Raiders, like Greg has
Speaker 1: been saying, are way more talented than they were last years.
Speaker 1: Good pick, Thank you everyone. I just want to tell
Speaker 1: you the nice job there keeping on with Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: who has looked really good at the first two games.
Speaker 1: Lost ten pounds this week. He's been sick, but yes,
Speaker 1: he's lost ten pounds, ten pounds in a week. It's
Speaker 1: a how's a hip injury? They were just reported to
Speaker 1: he's got like multiple physical injuries and he's sick and
Speaker 1: lost ten pounds and the other team motto going on there.
Speaker 1: The other team, the Vikings, might have the running back
Speaker 1: who's played better than any running back in the first
Speaker 1: two weeks in Dalvin Cook, despite playing against behind an
Speaker 1: offensive line that has not played well, especially rookie center
Speaker 1: Garrett Bradberry. That that's an interesting part of Cook's emergence
Speaker 1: is He's made most of these yards on his own.
Speaker 1: He leads the league in yards after contact. But you
Speaker 1: know who's I think even better than him per carry
Speaker 1: is Josh Jacobs. These are two of the three backs
Speaker 1: who have aided the most yards, and I love the
Speaker 1: way both of them finished their runs, especially Jacob. He
Speaker 1: refuses to go out of bounds. He's kind of it's
Speaker 1: kind of an old school style, but with a little
Speaker 1: more wiggle uh than you'd expect. Like he's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to watch the Raiders. I think losing Jonathan Abram,
Speaker 1: he slightly annoyed me during hard knocks, you know, early on.
Speaker 1: Then I think they kind of pulled him out of
Speaker 1: the narrative a bit to prevent that from continuing to happen.
Speaker 1: He though, has a little bit of Eric Turner in
Speaker 1: him in terms of his physical presence, and he just
Speaker 1: didn't care if he was in the league for a
Speaker 1: game or two. He gave them an identity, and I
Speaker 1: think he strips a lot away with him not being
Speaker 1: in the lineup. And they have been absolutely torched by
Speaker 1: a wide receiver in two games straight. It was Courtland
Speaker 1: Sutton did it to him. It was DeMarcus Robinson, and
Speaker 1: it's like, who's it going to be this week? Because
Speaker 1: the Vikings have the weapons, it might be a get
Speaker 1: well week from Minnesota through the air if they were
Speaker 1: to get clipped by Oakland here. They quickly become a
Speaker 1: team that I don't have a lot of faith in
Speaker 1: because the Vikings to me, I too, I I don't
Speaker 1: know who this was. Who they were at the end
Speaker 1: of last season. You could not handle yourself in primetime
Speaker 1: against big opponents, and they just don't feel all there
Speaker 1: to me, while they're passing games were they're running games better,
Speaker 1: but the passing games worse. And and Cousins is pick
Speaker 1: in the end zone last week, to me wasn't the
Speaker 1: most concerning part. It was that he came out the
Speaker 1: next drive still had five minutes left, almost through another
Speaker 1: pick and then air mails Adam Fieland on third down
Speaker 1: by ten yards. And you don't like seeing your veteran
Speaker 1: quarterback on tilt, and he was. He was just on tilt,
Speaker 1: like where he was his mind was somewhere else he
Speaker 1: was supposed to. Yeah, that's and he can regroup. But
Speaker 1: that was a bad moment to not for that not
Speaker 1: to happen. He's supposed to be that studying presence. That
Speaker 1: was such a disappointed Cousins performance. And I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's pressure on him now. That's that's building
Speaker 1: and we'll see how he reacts to that. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you look at his career, he has not farewell
Speaker 1: under pressure. I think these are the types of games
Speaker 1: that he does farewell though. A quiet afternoon game against
Speaker 1: the Raiders that not much of America will see. And
Speaker 1: and I'm still with you, Dan that they're a good
Speaker 1: team against lesser teams. He does. I mean I will
Speaker 1: say they were one team along with the Saints that
Speaker 1: if you go watch what the Zebras did to Minnesota
Speaker 1: in the last game, they they were zebra reth you
Speaker 1: gotta go. I mean, they just they were absolutely victimized.
Speaker 1: It's happening to two or three teams a week now,
Speaker 1: and they were I locked this game up if if
Speaker 1: I could look in the mirror. But I just think
Speaker 1: Oakland on the road, no one's gonna feel good about me.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little the little nu miracle zone
Speaker 1: that we had talked about last year. And the Vikings
Speaker 1: defense got off to a slow start last week but
Speaker 1: played well in the second half. And I think they're safety.
Speaker 1: Combo of Harrison Smith and Curse has been lights out
Speaker 1: this year. Um, okay, I'll take it. I mean I'll
Speaker 1: fall on the sword. I'll take the Jets at the
Speaker 1: at the New England Patriots. You know what, Let's go,
Speaker 1: Let's go to something else, something a little more appropriate.
Speaker 1: Okay City, New York City, that's more like it. That's
Speaker 1: where we are with the Jets, who are O and
Speaker 1: two and facing the desert and last it everybody Erica Sydney.
Speaker 1: She really killed it there. Yeah, she has a beautiful voice.
Speaker 1: Our former producer, it was a very antagonistic Dan. But
Speaker 1: what it's part of the show in terms of building
Speaker 1: Erica up as the show is actually unfurling on live air.
Speaker 1: Um okay, but the Jets, according to the Desert people,
Speaker 1: building Erica up as the show is unfurling on live
Speaker 1: air versus having a previous producer coming and take a
Speaker 1: star turn with some sort of Broadway hit. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all love Laid, but that was like, that was beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was like the zombies had invaded New York and
Speaker 1: only Sydney was left. By the way, if you're a
Speaker 1: jet span, there's a lot of other things to do
Speaker 1: in New York City. You don't live in Central Iowa.
Speaker 1: There are other things to occupy your time, and I
Speaker 1: would start doing that right about now. Makes sense? What
Speaker 1: was that, Ricky? Forget it? Happy birthday to Sitty by
Speaker 1: the way, you just oh, happy birthday, Candles. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: the Jets are the Desert people have the Jets installed
Speaker 1: as a heavy, heavy, heavy, almost unprecedented level underdog, and
Speaker 1: I imagine New England will be just fine. Um taking
Speaker 1: care of business there as well, and for all the
Speaker 1: reasons everyone knows. We don't have to dwell on the
Speaker 1: Jets because we talked about them a lot on Monday.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday, but um, is there anything, Greg? This is
Speaker 1: the only thing I really need to touch on this
Speaker 1: game before we move on, because this game is this
Speaker 1: is as bad as Dolphins Cowboys in the sense that
Speaker 1: what do you even take out of this game? On
Speaker 1: either side? The Jets, there's nothing to learn because you
Speaker 1: have your third string quarterback in and is actually the
Speaker 1: third starting Jet quarterback in three weeks. It's only happened
Speaker 1: six other times in the Super Bowl era. And the Patriots,
Speaker 1: of course, they're gonna take care of business here. What
Speaker 1: have you seen from the Patriots that's been interesting to
Speaker 1: you that maybe people aren't talking about, if there's anything, well,
Speaker 1: just how incredible their secondary is. I think people are
Speaker 1: talking about it. But the numbers that they're giving up
Speaker 1: in terms of their starters under completion, I mean, they
Speaker 1: have almost as many passes defense as as passes that
Speaker 1: they've given up right now, and they're they have six
Speaker 1: seven guys Jonathan Jones, you know, j C. Jackson, Guys
Speaker 1: who aren't big names are playing really well. The competition
Speaker 1: hasn't been great, but I think there is something for
Speaker 1: The Patriots want to get their offense in sync. And
Speaker 1: I know it sounds crazy, but they really haven't been
Speaker 1: uh this year. They they're missing both of their starting tackles,
Speaker 1: They're missing their starting center for the season, so that's
Speaker 1: three of your starting offensive lineman. I think there is
Speaker 1: a way for a better defense to get after them.
Speaker 1: And the running game hasn't been very good, so they
Speaker 1: want to kind of like the Browns, and I know
Speaker 1: it hasn't been as dramatic, but I think they want
Speaker 1: their offense to look a little more in sync, and
Speaker 1: like the Patriots offense, it certainly expect it's certainly easier
Speaker 1: because I mean, we all we sort of always talk
Speaker 1: about New England figuring themselves out in September, which, unlike
Speaker 1: other teams, means you either go four o or three
Speaker 1: and one or two and two once in a while.
Speaker 1: But I mean they were one and two last year,
Speaker 1: they were one and two a few years ago. It
Speaker 1: gets lost in the mix because like, that's not really
Speaker 1: that tragic of a story when we look at where
Speaker 1: the team winds up. And secondly, the difference this time
Speaker 1: around is their defense is historically awesome over two games
Speaker 1: and I get back to the Super Bowl. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of touchdown since the AFC Championship Game. They're remarkable,
Speaker 1: and I think that maybe it's the kind of team
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick quietly loves coaching more than a lot of
Speaker 1: these other ones. The one thing I'd say for the Jets,
Speaker 1: because yes, if they didn't cover the spread here or
Speaker 1: whatever we're supposed to be calling it on the show,
Speaker 1: like Adam Gaze clearly was a fetish of ownership when
Speaker 1: he was hired because he went he left pretty disastrously
Speaker 1: in Miami. But they went after him hard. And yeah,
Speaker 1: no one's expecting them to win, But how they lose
Speaker 1: this game and how they lose some of these games
Speaker 1: coming up matters a lot. I think one thing that
Speaker 1: concerned me at the end of that Brown's game was
Speaker 1: the look on Levy on Bell's face after he had
Speaker 1: been thrown into the fire like thirty one times, and
Speaker 1: it's like, is that he That's not what anyone's looking
Speaker 1: to do for the next two months of an NFL season.
Speaker 1: It's just get beaten up. Is the team's only option.
Speaker 1: The good news is that sant Donald's back with a
Speaker 1: team and they are he's confident that he'll be playing
Speaker 1: in Week five, and they have the bye. It was perfect.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get Chris Herndon back from suspension. Whatever they
Speaker 1: had at C. J. Mosley back probably after the bye.
Speaker 1: They had set up on offense. They can still accomplish
Speaker 1: those goals on offense. They just they're not They're not
Speaker 1: gonna be in the playoff race, and that it's just
Speaker 1: an expectations change. I think as far as this game goes,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything that Adam Gates will get
Speaker 1: judged on in Week three with Luke Fox at at quarterback,
Speaker 1: it's just a throw. I'm with you what it's worth.
Speaker 1: He did two pretty good stuff as the coach of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offensively pretty consistently against these I'm with you, Dan,
Speaker 1: I just I would say perception Adam Gaze is already
Speaker 1: being judged as sort of the chef of a disaster,
Speaker 1: even though it's not entirely his fault or mostly his fault.
Speaker 1: It's got to keep control of the locker room. This
Speaker 1: this season could go sideways for the Jets. To keep
Speaker 1: all these emotions. You can just see it where and
Speaker 1: especially when you have an emotional head coach, an emotional
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, and an emotional team leader like Jamal Adams.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move up. Who is up? Well, I've
Speaker 1: lost you know right, it's all very confusing. Now am
Speaker 1: I stuck? Now with the fourth game? You could throw
Speaker 1: one my way if you wanted to. I don't know
Speaker 1: where we want to go with it. I believe it
Speaker 1: is Greg's pick. Well, there's only one left here, so
Speaker 1: go ahead. So I get stuck. So I had the
Speaker 1: last Again, I get stuck. We all have three, so
Speaker 1: everybody gets stuck with us. You're watching one of Dan's
Speaker 1: so that's your all right, you're watching This game is
Speaker 1: clearly not going to be watched. It's it's Eagles Lions.
Speaker 1: This uh lying, this Eagles team. We almost overlooked how
Speaker 1: ridiculously terrible it was on Sunday night, how quickly their
Speaker 1: entire team change, potentially their season. Hopefully you know, they
Speaker 1: keep things afloat. To lose Dallas Godder, Alston, Jeffrey Sean Jackson,
Speaker 1: Tim Joern again in the matter of minutes is pretty wild.
Speaker 1: And they've already lost Malik Jackson up front, they're already down,
Speaker 1: you know, a line back. It's just a lot and
Speaker 1: it's really gonna test you know, Doug Peterson this week.
Speaker 1: We were thinking in the offseason, Oh, who's Carson Wins.
Speaker 1: How's he gonna keep all these guys happy? Now he's
Speaker 1: throw into mac Hollands and ar Sega Whiteside, who played
Speaker 1: almost every snap of that game and had one catch
Speaker 1: and did nothing, And so their running game looks terrible.
Speaker 1: Everyone loved Miles Sanders coming into the year. He was
Speaker 1: he's been very hesitant. They didn't have a run over
Speaker 1: hive yards last year. I don't think Miles Sanders is
Speaker 1: the problem. I think it's the offensive line that's the problem.
Speaker 1: And Isaac Siamalo, especially at guard, he struggled that there.
Speaker 1: I think there was a couple there were probably two
Speaker 1: runs where I think Sanders even talked about it last
Speaker 1: week where he was way too hesitant in trying to
Speaker 1: break into the outside and that was on him. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're not in sync. They struggled for a little while,
Speaker 1: you know, for half the game against the Resikins too,
Speaker 1: they did. I mean, that's that feels like a long
Speaker 1: time ago. At this point, I watched in Detroit Carrie
Speaker 1: on Johnson. I just love watching and run man that guy,
Speaker 1: and it's like they cut C. J. Anderson and I
Speaker 1: I'm not sure those are directly related, but they should
Speaker 1: be because you just don't need extra running backs. And
Speaker 1: the Lions spent all off seasons saying we want to
Speaker 1: be a running back by committee. We refused to anoint
Speaker 1: carry On Johnson as our workhorse, but they just preferred
Speaker 1: Paul Perkins, the guy they claimed off waivers waivers from
Speaker 1: the Giants. They just chose him over C. J. Anderson.
Speaker 1: But I think I really choosing Ty Johnson, their rookie
Speaker 1: running back, who I think is going to be a
Speaker 1: factor for this team, a clear backup and change of pace,
Speaker 1: but kind of an interesting guy that they can use
Speaker 1: as a receiver. The Lions were not boring against the Chargers,
Speaker 1: and to me, that's, you know, personally, that's a big step.
Speaker 1: I kind of find them to kind of like that, uh,
Speaker 1: like that nerdy, like a nerdy girl in a science class,
Speaker 1: like sits in the back, like the goth girl that
Speaker 1: doesn't talk, or you know, there's something going on with
Speaker 1: that person. You can't quite figure out what's what it is?
Speaker 1: Straight like rom Com, is that what this is? They
Speaker 1: don't feel like a leading character, but they're just sort
Speaker 1: of in the midst her hair, her hair is up,
Speaker 1: she's wearing overalls, she's wearing glasses. Stafford is not not
Speaker 1: aging the way that some are either. He can throw
Speaker 1: the ball as hard as anyone in the league. Still so,
Speaker 1: by the way, the number one pick also snakes. So
Speaker 1: this is my game. So I'll take it off your heads. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll let you thank you. Dan's gonna be toiling Sunday
Speaker 1: over there. That was impressive. It's tricky because we're not
Speaker 1: sitting in the order of the snake. So this is something. Well,
Speaker 1: it's continue to make the tweaks as necessary as the
Speaker 1: weeks go along. Old Zoser will have it under control.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. Don't worry, guys, what did to spend every
Speaker 1: show talking about this? Um? All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: Sunday night football and it's a big one. Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams too, and oh travel to the
Speaker 1: Dog Pound to face the one and one Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: and um, you know, Rich Eyes and came into the
Speaker 1: show on Tuesday and he said it, and we all agree,
Speaker 1: well that the Browns are out of that purgatory. But
Speaker 1: now comes the business of actually being a real team
Speaker 1: and being a competitive team. You're no longer in sad hell.
Speaker 1: Now you need to be a team that wins games.
Speaker 1: And they have some type of stretch. I believe the
Speaker 1: next four or five teams are all two and o
Speaker 1: right now, and um, there will be no violins being
Speaker 1: played because the Browns are supposed to hang in these
Speaker 1: games and win some of these games, including a home
Speaker 1: game in your building, right Mark, Come on, let's go
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, get going now. One. What's that's just? That's
Speaker 1: just people talking. I mean, I think if you watch
Speaker 1: what Cleveland's put on tape over eight quarters, you have
Speaker 1: to love the pass rush, especially when you played a
Speaker 1: broken down UH Jets offensive line. Uh they didn't do
Speaker 1: a whole lot of that in the first game. I
Speaker 1: see an offense completely out of sync. And if you
Speaker 1: take away a wide open Odell Beckham on the clip
Speaker 1: people are watching going for eighty nine yards in that game,
Speaker 1: you'd come out of that saying the Brown's offense has
Speaker 1: as much as many issues as any high expectation team.
Speaker 1: In the league, and they've got offensive line issues. David
Speaker 1: the Joku is out. Richard Higgins being out last week
Speaker 1: hurt them a lot. They have their right tackle in
Speaker 1: a walking boot, and the guy who's gonna come in
Speaker 1: absolutely caused may Ham in the reverse way for Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield in the first week. They are a banged up
Speaker 1: team on both sides of the ball. I don't like
Speaker 1: the way that they're pulling Nick Chubb off the field
Speaker 1: on third downs telecasting Adrian Peter and Peterson like that
Speaker 1: they're going to be throwing every single time. To me,
Speaker 1: they've got a lot to figure out. This is not
Speaker 1: the right time to deal with Aaron Donald in the Rams,
Speaker 1: and I hate to do this. I have to do
Speaker 1: it out of cold logic. I am locking up the Rams.
Speaker 1: This is Cleveland, Cleveland is you look at their schedule,
Speaker 1: Cleveland up. What they're gonna have to do in this
Speaker 1: season is open about two and four. They have the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: They have a forty niners team. That's where I pegged
Speaker 1: their second win, not today, I don't And they have
Speaker 1: the MS line has been as bad as the Brown
Speaker 1: Zo line. I would say, word, oh, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be I think it's gonna be a close game.
Speaker 1: I just think the Rams are gonna take care of business.
Speaker 1: Here is some psychological thing that concerns me a lot.
Speaker 1: I grew up loving Clay Matthews, the father of the
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews. Anyone today would know historic Browns linebacker who
Speaker 1: should be in the Hall of Fame. They are inducting
Speaker 1: him into the Ring of Honor. That is a beautiful
Speaker 1: thing to do. What concerns me is that it is
Speaker 1: total Monday Night type scenario where Clay Matthews, the son
Speaker 1: with the father watching, takes down Baker Mayfield as a
Speaker 1: Rams pass rusher in a key scenario right off right
Speaker 1: tackle where Chris Hubbard from a walking boot is reading
Speaker 1: a poetry book on the sideline while the Brown's offense
Speaker 1: is going down like a boat in the seats into poetry.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I got this right, Mark Well,
Speaker 1: I knew this. I knew you would have a response
Speaker 1: to this. I don't You can say whatever you want
Speaker 1: to say. I'm just asking you've waited twenty years, first
Speaker 1: of all, to watch during the show with you guys.
Speaker 1: That's as you've waited twenty years since this Brown's reboot
Speaker 1: to have a team that's worth a damn a team
Speaker 1: to get excited about, and you're locking up against them
Speaker 1: in week three in their first Sunday Night game, and like,
Speaker 1: just don't have to pick it against first of all,
Speaker 1: if the Browns lose, which is going to be a
Speaker 1: mess because I have to watch it in here, it's
Speaker 1: can be those comes like oh, I wonder what's going
Speaker 1: on with Baker Mayfield? Hey Mark, what do you think
Speaker 1: is going on with Baker Mayfield? As we're all sitting
Speaker 1: here in like stale Chinese food before we do our
Speaker 1: Sunday Night recap total disaster. Would rather be literally anywhere
Speaker 1: than here during there are more up and miserable now
Speaker 1: then when they suck it, because because I'm hearing things
Speaker 1: like you're out of purgatory. Everything's perfect now, Why won't
Speaker 1: they just go six and o or five and one?
Speaker 1: They have major issues. They have a quarterback. I wish
Speaker 1: your issues you have a quarterback to your quarterback is
Speaker 1: out for three weeks. I feel bad. I feel bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, alight, let me have nothing. You think
Speaker 1: the Browns are this five and one team that's just
Speaker 1: gonna roll to this record. No, I don't think I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: but I think they could easily beat the Rams. I
Speaker 1: picked the Rams at home. I picked the Rams in
Speaker 1: what I think is close to a coin flip game.
Speaker 1: Uh the Browns are slight underdogs. That feels about right.
Speaker 1: The Rams have major issues. As West mentioned on the offensive,
Speaker 1: Brazilian is any team in the second half, so they've
Speaker 1: they've found a way to win when they're not playing
Speaker 1: their best offense will be. The defense definitely looks good.
Speaker 1: But if there's a defensive line out there ready to
Speaker 1: victimize what's been a struggling Rams o line, including Andrew
Speaker 1: Witworth who's coming off one of his worst getting of
Speaker 1: his career, I mean, it's Miles Garrett, and it's it's
Speaker 1: Olivier Vernon and and it's Sheldon Richardson getting after it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about Baker Mayfield being out of sinc.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Jared goffin sync yet. I haven't seen.
Speaker 1: Just because Cooper Cup ran over half of the uh
Speaker 1: ST secondary doesn't mean that Jared Goffton sinc. I don't
Speaker 1: think that Baker Mayfield the player is like a lesser
Speaker 1: player than last year. I think the offense in general
Speaker 1: has lost some of its sort of daring do and
Speaker 1: they justin swaggering completely control down the stretch last year
Speaker 1: and they they look completely different. And I would like
Speaker 1: to see Nick Chubb be like thirty more the engine
Speaker 1: to this offense anyway over the first two weeks. And
Speaker 1: if Mayfield is getting a little scrambled against Greg Williams,
Speaker 1: I think Wade Phillips is gonna cook up a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've seen you've seen some good Wade Phillips
Speaker 1: sacks where guys are just getting in free. That's mostly
Speaker 1: what Clay Matthews and Fowler have gotten this year is
Speaker 1: just kind of free looks at a quarter. If I'm
Speaker 1: a you have a safety trio which might be the
Speaker 1: best in the entire NFL in terms of their smarts
Speaker 1: and playmaking, and John Johnson, h Eric Weddle and their
Speaker 1: rookie Taylor Rap who's basically playing as a starter, and
Speaker 1: those guys have been hovering back there and it's been
Speaker 1: tough to make big place find out Sunday night. If
Speaker 1: I'm a such a fool about this, I said that
Speaker 1: about the Jets game too. Though it's like a team,
Speaker 1: a team that's rising the way that we want to
Speaker 1: put I think part of it is like, let's put
Speaker 1: them there so that when they don't get there, we
Speaker 1: have someone to like shoot arrows at. They're not there yet.
Speaker 1: They should have been a team that's there would have
Speaker 1: beaten the Jets. It's more of that they would not
Speaker 1: have done what they did. They could not finish drives
Speaker 1: that you tell me they were not extremely frustrating from
Speaker 1: an offensive standpoint, it's more than if they do. When
Speaker 1: you know, it's just sort of annoying you locked against them,
Speaker 1: like I remember once picked against you know, the Patriots Jets.
Speaker 1: They won. It's just like, why pick against your favorite team?
Speaker 1: Breg You know what's annoying locking the Browns up and
Speaker 1: having them give up forty three points at home after
Speaker 1: an offseason and everyone putting bells and whistles on them
Speaker 1: before they pick out the annoying games because I did
Speaker 1: pick I did that last tell what's gonna be? Okay?
Speaker 1: I think it is going to be. I just I
Speaker 1: find to annoying that it's like you're a Browns fan,
Speaker 1: everything is perfect for you now, only in this nonsense.
Speaker 1: Literally we're saying that on the last show, and in
Speaker 1: the show why I feel like this is a creation
Speaker 1: of false dichotomy that they either have to be world
Speaker 1: beaters who live up to the hype, or they have
Speaker 1: there have to be doormats who don't. They're just a
Speaker 1: team right now about They're just Let's move on. That's
Speaker 1: that was interesting. That was wild. That was Monday Night football.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears travel to It's great, uh, to Washington
Speaker 1: to face the Redskins. Uh. Your final wounded animal game,
Speaker 1: your cornered Animal game, uh West. This is a big
Speaker 1: game in a primetime spot for Mitch Robinski. I think
Speaker 1: this that's what I'll be watching the most here because
Speaker 1: for number one, you have a Redskins defense that going
Speaker 1: into the season people said, oh, this is the unit
Speaker 1: everyone's sleeping on the Redskins day that can carry this
Speaker 1: team and make them frisky and they could hang around
Speaker 1: in the NFC East and in the playoff picture. Well
Speaker 1: that has been You cannot get further from the case
Speaker 1: from the case. So far, they've given up plus thirty
Speaker 1: in both games. They're getting beat up. People are talking
Speaker 1: about Greg Manuski, maybe his jobs in trouble. Well, if
Speaker 1: Mr Robinsky goes in there after that miracle win to
Speaker 1: get to one and one and lays another egg, or
Speaker 1: looks stiff or lacks confidence and they somehow lose this game.
Speaker 1: It's the pressure is gonna be outrageous Entrabisky, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if he'll be able to handle a big game. Well.
Speaker 1: The Redskins defense, it's sort of hit or miss. They've
Speaker 1: been stingy at times this year, the first half of
Speaker 1: the opener against the Eagles, the first half against the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Last year. They are extremely banged up in their secondary,
Speaker 1: to the point where they were playing safeties at cornerback
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. So I think that's part of the
Speaker 1: disappointment with their defense. But you're right that with Trabinsky,
Speaker 1: you would have reason to believe that he'd improve in
Speaker 1: his second year. With Matt Naggy, that they get David Montgomery,
Speaker 1: they get cor Darrel Patterson, the offensive line returns intact,
Speaker 1: they still have trek Co and there's no reason to
Speaker 1: believe he shouldn't be better. And he has been a
Speaker 1: sort of Jacklin high quarterback. He has had some of
Speaker 1: the worst games imaginable, and then he's had games where
Speaker 1: the Bears offense looks dynamic that was last year. This
Speaker 1: year we've yet to see that. So I think the
Speaker 1: onus is on him now to kind of prove all
Speaker 1: the doubters wrong. If he's going to be the answer
Speaker 1: for the Bears, it should be a nice spot for him, though,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it is, And yet I don't feel
Speaker 1: that comfortable that the Bears are gonna win this game.
Speaker 1: This could have been a double wounded animal game if
Speaker 1: not for a shaky call and a great kid. We
Speaker 1: have any of those, I don't think. And the Bears,
Speaker 1: especially even at one and one, don't feel like they're
Speaker 1: out of that you know, wounding stage. I don't think
Speaker 1: they feel very comfortable right now with where they're at
Speaker 1: in general. Uh this, I mean, this is it is
Speaker 1: a great matchup, and yet, you know, I always kind
Speaker 1: of feel like Colt McCoy j like they they're a
Speaker 1: little better than you think, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: They're gonna case Keenum, They're gonna fine, sorry not Cole
Speaker 1: mcquite that They're they're gonna find a way to just
Speaker 1: win five games this year. That's like, oh how did
Speaker 1: the Redskins? And I feel like this could very easily
Speaker 1: be one and let's give case Keendom some love. It's
Speaker 1: been swallowed up by the fact that they've gotten beaten twice.
Speaker 1: He's been fine, but he's been fine. You could say
Speaker 1: he's been better than fine. He's been a lot more
Speaker 1: of when we expect because he did not look good
Speaker 1: at all, uh leading up to Week one, and he
Speaker 1: has been far from the problem. Yeah, I think he's
Speaker 1: sort of what you expect with Case Keenom, that he's
Speaker 1: gonna do a few things well and he's gonna, like
Speaker 1: you said, win a couple of games for a team
Speaker 1: that largely doesn't matter this season. They might get Jonathan
Speaker 1: Allen and Jordan read Back, but the secondary, as West mentioned,
Speaker 1: seems like it's gonna stay banged that. I'd say, if
Speaker 1: you're the if you are the if you're tied into
Speaker 1: the Bears experience, they remind me of another team that
Speaker 1: they have after the last year, a lot of expectations.
Speaker 1: If you dropped this game against a very mediocre Redskins
Speaker 1: team in a in a lackluster stadium on Monday night,
Speaker 1: you have you are in a world of hurt and
Speaker 1: you are out. You're not coming back from one and two.
Speaker 1: I know that's sounds crazy, but this team tell you're
Speaker 1: broadcasting that you cannot handle joy, you cannot handle this journey.
Speaker 1: If you go one and two, they need to come
Speaker 1: in and drop a bomb on the Redskins. You come out,
Speaker 1: you come home and play the Vikings at home, and
Speaker 1: then you go to Oakland and into your by. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it would end their season,
Speaker 1: but it would really ramp up the pressure. And again,
Speaker 1: this is a team that it You know, when you
Speaker 1: look back at the summer, the writing was right there
Speaker 1: on the wall is like all they the only narrative
Speaker 1: coming out of that camp was the Kicker thing. And
Speaker 1: it's almost too obvious now that they're going to have
Speaker 1: struggles from all other directions and make it rendering all
Speaker 1: that summer talk silly. It seems to happen sometimes with teams,
Speaker 1: and this feels like one of those circumstances. Couldn't It
Speaker 1: could also render a week three talk silly if they
Speaker 1: take off. We're talking about a team I think in
Speaker 1: the Maggie era they've never lost by more than one score. Wow,
Speaker 1: they have a recipe to be to be a lot better.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win. I could see Khalil mac
Speaker 1: you know, with a pick six and someone else with
Speaker 1: a they're gonna score like twelve points. On defense, Trabisky
Speaker 1: is gonna put up three field goals and make one
Speaker 1: throw that everyone's freaking out about, despite fifteen in completions
Speaker 1: where the balls sailing yards after someone's head. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get it's the full experience. They're gonna they
Speaker 1: should win this game, though. You cannot lose this and
Speaker 1: come up with excuses. So that he's you know, under fire.
Speaker 1: Dolphins quarterback also under five. We've got some breaking news.
Speaker 1: They still count enough that Josh Rosen experiences on in Miami.
Speaker 1: He's gonna start this week against the Cowboys. They count
Speaker 1: enough to announce who they're starting quarterbacks. Makes well, my
Speaker 1: pick is starting to look very frisky. He's getting a
Speaker 1: lot that my pick is getting a lot of sort
Speaker 1: of rookie minicamp. This guy is impressing coaches. You know,
Speaker 1: he he has been under pressed. I mean they're offensive line,
Speaker 1: as Daniel Jeremia said, it might be the worst in
Speaker 1: NFL history. I don't know about the team that the
Speaker 1: old line is there. So he went from one of
Speaker 1: the worst offenses of the decade, last year in Arizona,
Speaker 1: which he contributed to to be fair rookie, and now
Speaker 1: he goes to maybe the new worst offense of the decade,
Speaker 1: where he could his health is in peril playing behind
Speaker 1: that OH line. I just don't know. I don't expect
Speaker 1: any advancements in his career this year, and I just
Speaker 1: worry about whether he'll ever recover from these first two
Speaker 1: years or this is the narrative and his career is
Speaker 1: ruined by just fate. This is when I go on
Speaker 1: Craigslist and find I hire people to kidnap me and
Speaker 1: build a story of huge sympathy. Josh Rosen has been
Speaker 1: kidnapped by someone. We don't know who it is, but
Speaker 1: we you know, behind the scenes exactly, and he's with
Speaker 1: Tom House and pick your guy. So the entire time
Speaker 1: during the abduction, he's working on his game. When he
Speaker 1: re emerges from the bunker, oh I survived this. They
Speaker 1: never showed their faces. I'll never be able to say
Speaker 1: who it is, and I'll always live with that fear.
Speaker 1: But I have to be brave and move on. And
Speaker 1: I still want to play football because people doubted me
Speaker 1: my love of the game. But I've come out of
Speaker 1: this realizing the football is more important than almost anything
Speaker 1: besides God and family, and I'll going anywhere. Meanwhile, he's
Speaker 1: built up his entire body, his arms. Great Tom House
Speaker 1: will keep that secret. Taken to the great, and away
Speaker 1: we go. Like he spent three months on the Commissioner's
Speaker 1: non injury has he already has like a behind the
Speaker 1: scenes reality show produced by t D Uninterrupted. It's all
Speaker 1: it's all happening. Wait, we got to breaking news though.
Speaker 1: The more I forgot to make by a lock. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make an unprecedented lock. It's on Thursday night football.
Speaker 1: It's a Tennessee Titans. Now we're separating out. That's the
Speaker 1: team I do believe in the most. So even though
Speaker 1: we can do that now, even though you know this
Speaker 1: might already be wrong to some of the listeners, tune
Speaker 1: in on Friday or Saturday. I like the Titans. D
Speaker 1: like that move to swarm Gardner minshew good, they're more athletic.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it. Yes, as Greg just alluded to,
Speaker 1: for the first time, we'll have a mini pod that
Speaker 1: will drop Thursday night. I believe Mark, you and I
Speaker 1: will be handling coverage of UH the a f C
Speaker 1: South Stress so today and uh so check that out.
Speaker 1: Uh it we'll be like, you know, seven to ten
Speaker 1: minutes or something like that, and uh it will supplement
Speaker 1: this show. And then the next time you get a
Speaker 1: full episode, of course, is Sunday Night. And just like
Speaker 1: this show, the Sunday Night Show, uh is live and
Speaker 1: in your ears and in your eyes, in your eyes
Speaker 1: that sounds almost painful. Sunday Night Flagship show. Right after um,
Speaker 1: this Sunday night football game wraps up, it goes up,
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Speaker 1: you know stuff. We just had to uh meanwhile, but
Speaker 1: in the control room, everybody doing an amazing job, but
Speaker 1: it's like sixty eight degrees in there. Look I put
Speaker 1: on jackets. But thank you to everyone behind the glass
Speaker 1: because this is uh it's been a very smooth ship
Speaker 1: early on, which isn't always the case with these type
Speaker 1: of programs, but you guys are nailing it, So thank
Speaker 1: you and that act there blowing it and you Ricky, Ricky,
Speaker 1: you know faces you did a great job telling us
Speaker 1: about the breaking news and a great a producer. You're
Speaker 1: a great producer and we love you. Thanks, love you
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go HR since Dan handsOn signing off
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