Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 2: What's up everybody?
Speaker 3: Welcome to move the sticks?
Speaker 2: DJ?
Speaker 3: Buck with you?
Speaker 2: Buck?
Speaker 3: What is going on?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Nothing? DJ is here?
Speaker 4: I mean the week the weekend is here is We're ready.
Speaker 4: We're ready to watch all these games to get excited
Speaker 4: about who is going to jump out the gate. We've
Speaker 4: talked about it throughout the summer. How the Kansas City
Speaker 4: Chiefs have really been a team that has jumped out
Speaker 4: and has really positioned them well to make runs at
Speaker 4: Super Bowls over the last five years. Which teams are
Speaker 4: going to start out fast because you know, if you
Speaker 4: get to the quarter pole three and one, four and oho,
Speaker 4: it really sets you up not only to make the playoffs,
Speaker 4: but to get one of the top seasons.
Speaker 2: Conference.
Speaker 1: Now, this is episode today, this is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: We are looking at week one, so we're going to
Speaker 1: go through every game in Week one. I am so
Speaker 1: fired up. You are where you at Miami?
Speaker 3: Is that where the Jags are this week? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Jags down in Miami to be a hot one.
Speaker 4: You're dealing with a fast team, a team that operates
Speaker 4: like a track team. So very very quickly did Jaguars
Speaker 4: get the true assessment of who they are and what
Speaker 4: they are in the AFC.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be home for the Chargers taking on the
Speaker 1: Raiders Division rivals. Think about that was really the end
Speaker 1: of the previous regime, you know, was that Thursday night
Speaker 1: game in Vegas where the Chargers got the doors blown
Speaker 1: off by the Raiders. The Raiders finished up strong last
Speaker 1: year in Antonio Pierce, he gets hired on full time.
Speaker 1: The Jim Harbaugh Ras kicked off. So we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into tho two games in a little bit. But this is
Speaker 1: what we're doing. We're gonna find one storyline. Our favorite
Speaker 1: storyline is Scouts that we're looking forward to seeing in
Speaker 1: every single game. And we're going to start off first
Speaker 1: of all, we've got a Thursday and a Friday this week,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. Again, doesn't get any better. Ravens Chiefs
Speaker 1: right out to shoot. What are you looking forward to
Speaker 1: in that game?
Speaker 4: Looked at the Battle of the MVPs and I'm looking
Speaker 4: to see how Lamar Jackson handles the challenge of dealing
Speaker 4: with the kan City Chiefs.
Speaker 2: One if win in his career against the Kancity Chiefs.
Speaker 4: Pat Mahomes and company have really owned the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 4: and the Baltimore Ravens have the challenge of breaking a
Speaker 4: new defensive coordinator while dealing with the guy who knows
Speaker 4: how they can get it done at the highest level
Speaker 4: in Pat Mahomes.
Speaker 2: That puts a.
Speaker 4: Lot of pressure on Lamar Jackson to not only match
Speaker 4: with Pat Mahomes does, but I think he has to
Speaker 4: outplay Pat Mahomes. And when I look at this Ravens
Speaker 4: offense and I look at how they're constructed, I don't
Speaker 4: know if they're constructed for Lamar Jackson to get into
Speaker 4: a shootout with Pat Mahomes. So a lot of pressure
Speaker 4: on number eight, but even more pressure on maybe defensive
Speaker 4: coordinator Zach war to keep the score down so Lamar
Speaker 4: Jackson can do his thing on offense.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to two things in this game.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cheat, I'm gona give you two I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say air yards for the Chiefs. And this was an
Speaker 1: offense that didn't look familiar last year. I mean, Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes was thrown underneath more than any other quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFL.
Speaker 3: I mean it was just get the ball to your hands.
Speaker 1: They're gonna play with two high looks and try and
Speaker 1: take away explosives, and we don't really have the explosive
Speaker 1: weapons that we're customed to, so they played small ball.
Speaker 1: And I think they've done some things in the offseason
Speaker 1: to add some explosive, dynamic players. Can they push the
Speaker 1: ball down the field a little bit more Thany did
Speaker 1: last year? So that's one thing on the chief side
Speaker 1: of things. I'm not worried about their defense, and the
Speaker 1: defense is going to be outstanding for the Ravens. Buck
Speaker 1: We said this early on in when we were doing
Speaker 1: these roster previews over the summer, and I believe that
Speaker 1: the cost I think Eric the Costa mentioned this the
Speaker 1: other day. Someone with the Ravens I think was Eric
Speaker 1: said he thought they could be the best twelve personnel
Speaker 1: team in the league. And that's something that we advocated for, said, Look,
Speaker 1: you get your best guys out there, and that includes
Speaker 1: Isaiah likely to go along with Mark Andrews. How do
Speaker 1: they creatively use those guys? Think about what that offense
Speaker 1: looked like early for Lamar Jackson when he came into
Speaker 1: the league. They had tight ends and they could go
Speaker 1: with a lot of different packages because of that room.
Speaker 1: I think their tight end room is going to be
Speaker 1: what kind of drives this offense. So I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see what that looks like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a tough group to match up with. Isaiah
Speaker 4: likely has star potential. You put him and Mark Andrews
Speaker 4: on the field, you are a bit of bound up.
Speaker 4: You're able to kind of I would say, tilt the
Speaker 4: coverage a few different ways in terms of being able
Speaker 4: to go that tied end wing formation or some of
Speaker 4: the other things that you can do. But it should
Speaker 4: be a set that the Baltimore Ravens live out of.
Speaker 4: And so when you think about that combination and adding
Speaker 4: Derrick Henry behind them, it's a unique offense that you
Speaker 4: have to defend.
Speaker 2: But a lot of be predicated on how number eight plays.
Speaker 1: No question, Friday Packers Eagles, what's your favorite thing for
Speaker 1: that game?
Speaker 4: Which version of the Eagles will show up? And the
Speaker 4: reason why I say which version is because this team
Speaker 4: is loaded. This team is super talented. We've seen this
Speaker 4: team play at a high level. In fact, last year
Speaker 4: they jumped out to a ten and one start before
Speaker 4: falling apart. I feel like they upgraded both areas at
Speaker 4: offensive coordinated Kellen Moore coming over to I would say,
Speaker 4: completely overhaul the way that they were doing things offensively,
Speaker 4: then defensively Vic Fangio adding some sage wisdom to that
Speaker 4: side of the ball to see how it all messes.
Speaker 4: And Mary's with Nick Sirianni's approach, because if they kind
Speaker 4: of play to their talent, man, this team should be
Speaker 4: one of the heavyweights in the league.
Speaker 1: It's weird to say you need buy in from the fans,
Speaker 1: but that's one of those kind of different fan bases,
Speaker 1: different cities, different temperature there. So in other words, you say,
Speaker 1: you got to have some success early, get buy in
Speaker 1: from the players. And like I think the players have,
Speaker 1: They've been in that division, They've seen what Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: run offenses have done to them, so they know how
Speaker 1: good he is. I think everybody in the building knows
Speaker 1: how good Kellen is. But I think it'll be good
Speaker 1: for the fan base to just go out there have
Speaker 1: a good showing like, Okay, this is this fits, this works,
Speaker 1: this is going to cure some of our eol's here.
Speaker 1: I would say, the thing I'm looking forward to on
Speaker 1: the other side is the Packers does a pecking order
Speaker 1: emerge from the white Outs. They've got all these young
Speaker 1: white outs and they're very talented, and they've spread the
Speaker 1: ball around. But does a eventually buck. I'm a believer
Speaker 1: that eventually there's an alpha that emerges, you know. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's nice to say, oh, we've got four or
Speaker 1: five number ones, We've got all these different guys.
Speaker 3: We can spread the ball round too.
Speaker 1: And it's a communist passing game, right, there's no everybody's
Speaker 1: treated equally here. But I just I believe that eventually somebody,
Speaker 1: somebody emerges out of that pack.
Speaker 3: Who's that going to be. I'm curious to see who
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's funny, and it's not only who emerges
Speaker 4: as the number one receiver. I'm curious to see if
Speaker 4: Jordan Love can pick up where he left off. A
Speaker 4: lot of the enthusiasm and optimism around Jordan Love is
Speaker 4: due to I would say, you stretch from Week eleven
Speaker 4: through the wild card round, where he was sensational eighteen
Speaker 4: touchdowns only one interception, really put the team on his back.
Speaker 4: But you know how it is dj to go from
Speaker 4: good to great in this league is about consistent high
Speaker 4: level of performance can he deliver those things, because if
Speaker 4: he can, then Green Bay Packers kind of creep into
Speaker 4: that conversation as a Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're right there. They're right on the
Speaker 1: doorstep of being in that conversation. How about the symmetry here?
Speaker 1: Even think about this, but Steelers Falcons. Look at Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and Kirk Cousins. They're both They're in the same draft,
Speaker 1: drafted in a similar location in the draft. You had
Speaker 1: both coming out of the Big Ten. They're both on
Speaker 1: their third team. They're both trying to win over new
Speaker 1: teammates while there's another quarterback in the building that at
Speaker 1: least some in the fan base are excited to see.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of symmetry there between the Steelers and
Speaker 1: the Falcons.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: One, there are a lot of people that are excited
Speaker 4: to see QB two's as opposed to QB one. But
Speaker 4: for both teams, it made me in the best interest
Speaker 4: to hope that QB one gets off to a fast
Speaker 4: start because a lot of their Super Bowl hopes hand
Speaker 4: on their performances. I wanna take the Steeler side when
Speaker 4: I look at it and Russell Wilson. What's interesting is
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson being named captain despite the quarterback battle, despite
Speaker 4: the competition that they were supposedly having. The Stell has
Speaker 4: thought enough of Russell Wilson to name him the captain,
Speaker 4: and so having the Sea on his chest being able
Speaker 4: to lead this team. I'm still a believer that this
Speaker 4: is really important for Russell not only to continue his career,
Speaker 4: but to maybe cubmit his legacy as one of the
Speaker 4: best players to play the game at that position, because
Speaker 4: if he wins in Pittsburgh and has enough success, he
Speaker 4: then opens the door for him to maybe get back
Speaker 4: to that gold jacket status that he appeared to be
Speaker 4: trending towards when he's with the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: In this front Yeah, that's Sea on his uniform. Buck
Speaker 1: stands for cushion. Because if you thought there was good,
Speaker 1: if you thought there was gonna be a quick hook,
Speaker 1: when you throw the Sea on your chest, that means
Speaker 1: we're going to give him a little time to get
Speaker 1: adjusted and figure this thing out.
Speaker 3: That's what that tells me.
Speaker 1: If it was really neck and neck and it was
Speaker 1: a last second, you know, Russ won that job by
Speaker 1: a nose. I don't think you name him the captain
Speaker 1: thinking that there could be a hook coming soon.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think there's any way, because you really
Speaker 4: kind of compro his leadership potential if you have a
Speaker 4: quick hook with him. For Russell, I think this is
Speaker 4: a situation where you want to give him every opportunity
Speaker 4: to kind of play his way into being the franchise
Speaker 4: quarterback that you thought you were getting when you brought
Speaker 4: him over from the Denver Broncos. I still believe he's
Speaker 4: a good player. I think the offense is not going
Speaker 4: to be what many expected. Want to see a flower
Speaker 4: over the yard. I think Russell being inserted at quarterback
Speaker 4: is about helping this team play winning football from a
Speaker 4: managerial standpoint, not from a playmaking perspective. Hopefully he still
Speaker 4: can give you that in the fourth quarter, but it
Speaker 4: still should be defense, running game, timely playmaking.
Speaker 2: If all those things line up, it should be w's
Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Studers.
Speaker 3: Man, let's free Bjon.
Speaker 1: Let's get Bijeon going here for you're the Atlanta and
Speaker 1: that means all your is the field, that means the
Speaker 1: passing game, everything. Utilize him. Cardinals, Bills. I'll run first
Speaker 1: here and look, I'll be honest with you, I'm going
Speaker 1: to keep this at the quarterbacks. I'm looking really looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing both these guys. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing Josh Allen Stefan Diggslet's offense. What does that look like?
Speaker 1: I think you'll see Josh Allen. He'll elevate. I think
Speaker 1: he will. I think he'll elevate and he'll elevate those
Speaker 1: around him.
Speaker 3: Excited to see what he looks like.
Speaker 1: And then I'm fired up to see Kyler Murray now
Speaker 1: back out there on the field, healthy like, back to
Speaker 1: the explosive, dynamic Kyler Murray to go along with Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison Junior. I think this Cardinals teams a fun team man.
Speaker 1: I think I might even have pick the Cardinals in
Speaker 1: the upset in this game. I just I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see this team. I think they're gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: They have a lot of potential and there should be
Speaker 4: a lot of excitement about this team.
Speaker 2: Remember Kylin Murray.
Speaker 4: Most of the time when people have a cl injuries,
Speaker 4: it takes the second year before they return back to normal.
Speaker 4: We should see the version of caller Murray that we
Speaker 4: saw early in his career. If he is that player
Speaker 4: and you think about Barvion Harrison, junior Mike Wilson, what
Speaker 4: they have on the perimeter. This offense is good, surprise
Speaker 4: and defensively, Johnathan Genna has just done a really good
Speaker 4: job of getting this team to play hard.
Speaker 2: You expect them to take more steps with more pieces
Speaker 2: on their front line.
Speaker 3: Titans Bears.
Speaker 4: I mean it's all about the Kayn Williams show, right, Like,
Speaker 4: how do you get the young quarterback up and going?
Speaker 4: How are you able to balance wanting to kind of
Speaker 4: show off your talented you want while also playing game
Speaker 4: the right way to put yourself in a position to
Speaker 4: win behind the defense. That should be good. Just see
Speaker 4: if Caleb Willis can kind of settle in as a
Speaker 4: managerial type. We know the playmaking ability is there, but
Speaker 4: the guys that win games in this league are the
Speaker 4: ones that really excel at the boring stuff. He and
Speaker 4: Kayleb Williams become boring and managerial in his approach as
Speaker 4: opposed to being the gunsling er slash playmaker that he's
Speaker 4: always been.
Speaker 1: And I'll just say, look, Jeffrey Simmons, a dynamic player
Speaker 1: that is a weak spot of the Bears interior offensive line.
Speaker 1: He's capable of wrecking shop. He's a one man band
Speaker 1: over there, and he can disrupt things a little bit,
Speaker 1: so that would be the key I think to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that one. Patriots Bengals man, Let's see
Speaker 1: what happens as we're recording this. We don't have the
Speaker 1: final answer on Jamar Chase. Maybe that's changed by the
Speaker 1: time you're listening to this, but that's a very big storyline.
Speaker 1: And then the Patriots, I mean, how long how long
Speaker 1: are you going to be able to keep Dreak May
Speaker 1: on the sideline? Jacobra Brissett, here's your opening, here's your
Speaker 1: opening act.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean so many storylines in this one. Does
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase one is interesting? I've never seen a hold
Speaker 4: in or whatever this is. With two years remaining on
Speaker 4: the deal. This is one where he doesn't have any leverage.
Speaker 4: The fact that the Bengals are even entertaining contract extensions
Speaker 4: with him not participating in practice, to me is baffling.
Speaker 4: If they have to play without him, it puts a
Speaker 4: lot of pressure on Jamain Burton to be ready to
Speaker 4: go as a day one playmaker, not a day one starter,
Speaker 4: but a day one playmaker that you count on.
Speaker 2: T Higgins is really good. I don't know if he
Speaker 2: can hold down the fort by himself. He's going to
Speaker 2: need a compliment.
Speaker 4: So that to me puts Jermaine Burton in a situation
Speaker 4: where he could wear the big sombrero going into the
Speaker 4: game Texans colts Buck, I mean, look, we've heard so
Speaker 4: much about it. To me, it's the battle of the
Speaker 4: young quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: C J.
Speaker 4: Stroud versus Anthony Richardson, all the things that we talked about.
Speaker 4: Stroud is a next level stuff. Can he be a
Speaker 4: top five player? Can he be one the next guy
Speaker 4: to challenge Pat Mahomes to be the face of the
Speaker 4: league as QB one On the other side, though, Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 4: I mean the hype bunny.
Speaker 2: Four games he played.
Speaker 4: But yet the expectation is that he could be someone
Speaker 4: that emerges as a dark horse MVP candidate. That is
Speaker 4: a lot on a second year player. It's a lot
Speaker 4: on a second year coach and Shane Stikeen to make
Speaker 4: all of this happen with a limited amount of experience
Speaker 4: that you have before building this offense around two guys.
Speaker 1: Tink Dell, I think it's got superstar potential. What does
Speaker 1: he look like here? Back healthy. He was awesome last
Speaker 1: year when he was out there with Stroud and then Latu.
Speaker 1: Latu your favorite player in the draft last year. So
Speaker 1: I stole some of your thunder there from the Colts
Speaker 1: edge rusher from UCLA. Not not an easy tackle to
Speaker 1: go up against in that one. So we'll see how
Speaker 1: he looks in his NFL debut. Your game Jags Dolphins, Buck, How.
Speaker 2: Did the Jaguars deal with the speed Miami.
Speaker 4: We can talk about the creativity and all those things,
Speaker 4: but ultimately it comes down to matchups.
Speaker 2: In dudes versus dudes. When I look at the Dolphins offense, man, they.
Speaker 4: Have some dudes, some Do'sas the Jaguars get a break
Speaker 4: because OBJ.
Speaker 2: Won't be cleared and available to play, He's out those
Speaker 2: first four games.
Speaker 4: But Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Heel, Rahiem Moster, Jalen Bright,
Speaker 4: Devin and a chain. You talk about a track meet
Speaker 4: that is going to test your explosiveness from top to
Speaker 4: bottom in the roster construction.
Speaker 2: Tough matchup for the Jags right out to gate.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your Jags edge rushers to see what
Speaker 1: that looks like to me. Walker, Can he take the
Speaker 1: next step all the ability in the world. I thought
Speaker 1: you saw him got better last year. Uh to see
Speaker 1: continue to move forward there? Look, Josh is it Josh
Speaker 1: Heinz Allen, Josh Allen Hines. I got to get that
Speaker 1: straight now, joshines An Allen, Josh Heines Allen Again, those
Speaker 1: two pairing up, What does that look like? That has
Speaker 1: the potential to be a really really good pairing as
Speaker 1: those guys continue to learn and grow as young, very
Speaker 1: very talented players. But you know when you're if you're
Speaker 1: young and you wore something, you know, you wore something new,
Speaker 1: and you went to a party to get together and
Speaker 1: you got a lot of compliments. Maybe it's a new jacket,
Speaker 1: a new shirt, new hat, got a lot of compliments.
Speaker 1: You know what you like to do? Is you like
Speaker 1: see you know the next one I go to, I
Speaker 1: got to have something else new because I like those compliments.
Speaker 1: Remember last year the first four games, all we talked
Speaker 1: about was the new motion that they were using with
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. Yeah, I think I'm thinking Mike McDaniel's got
Speaker 1: a new motion. I don't I don't have any intel
Speaker 1: on that. I just feel like you got so much
Speaker 1: love and praise for the creativity and bringing something real
Speaker 1: to come with something new, like what do we got here?
Speaker 1: And you might be the guinea pick here with the
Speaker 1: Jags to see what he's going to dust off that
Speaker 1: he hasn't shown at all in the preseason. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing what kind of creative wizardry he
Speaker 1: throws our way here in that ball game. Panthers Saints
Speaker 1: who this.
Speaker 4: Has been DJ This is one where you want to
Speaker 4: see if Bryce Young can bounce back. I want to
Speaker 4: see what Drew Canalis can do to get Bryce Young
Speaker 4: to play and play really well. Drew Canal has got
Speaker 4: a lot of credit for the work that he did
Speaker 4: with Baker Mayfield his first season as offense coordinator. People
Speaker 4: give him credit for helping clear the clutter in Geno
Speaker 4: Smith's brain when he had that breakout season up in
Speaker 4: Seattle and Canalis was a quarterback coach. How does he
Speaker 4: unlock the talents of Bryce Young? Bryce Young number one
Speaker 4: overall pick, there's expectations that come along with that. How
Speaker 4: quickly can Dave Canalis get Bryce Young to play at
Speaker 4: the level that many expect when you're.
Speaker 2: Number one overall?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I just would say ditto. I think that
Speaker 1: is the number one storyline in that game. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to put too much on week one, but man,
Speaker 1: it's just got to be better. It's got to look
Speaker 1: better than it did last year. Provide a little bit
Speaker 1: of hope for that organization. And you know, if not,
Speaker 1: that would be really, really demoralizing. So whatever you've got,
Speaker 1: you know, won't save anything. Unload the bucket here in
Speaker 1: the first game. Whatever you got to do, the pump
Speaker 1: some confidence into not only Bryce, but into this team
Speaker 1: and into this city that desperately needs it. All right,
Speaker 1: let's say quick break, we come back. We'll run through
Speaker 1: the rest of these games right after this. Vikings Giants
Speaker 1: kind of a sneaky interesting game.
Speaker 4: Buck Yeah, sneaky interesting because to me, this is Sam
Speaker 4: Donald three point zero. This is the chance that everyone
Speaker 4: has been If you're a Sam Donald fan, you've been
Speaker 4: waiting for him to link up with an offensive mind,
Speaker 4: as creative and is as aggressive as Kevin O'Connell. Now
Speaker 4: that we are here, how does Kevin O'Connell get Sam
Speaker 4: Donald going? The weapons on the perimeter are outstanding, probably
Speaker 4: the best set of playmakers dead he has on the perimeter.
Speaker 4: You think about that, you think about what they can
Speaker 4: do with Aaron Jones the office line of solid. To me,
Speaker 4: this should be a chance for us to finally see
Speaker 4: Sam Donald for who he is and who he can
Speaker 4: be at this level.
Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see his debut.
Speaker 1: Now, a lot of unproven pass rush for the Viking,
Speaker 1: especially Neil Hunters gone right, Let's see what the pass
Speaker 1: rush looks like. It would seem to be a favorable
Speaker 1: at least if you're working off the right side of
Speaker 1: the Giants line, a favorable matchup that way to kind
Speaker 1: of get loose. So I think the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: will be fascinating to watch there. And then I'm curious
Speaker 1: see how much they use Daniel Jones as a runner.
Speaker 1: How much is that going to be a part for
Speaker 1: a team that lost Saquon? How much is his legs
Speaker 1: going to help make up for some of that Raiders Chargers.
Speaker 1: I'll be on the call for that one on the
Speaker 1: Chargers radio with bar Buddy Matt Muney Smith from the
Speaker 1: Chargers perspective. I was telling Money this the other day.
Speaker 1: You know, this is my seventh year doing their games.
Speaker 1: This will be the lead I feel like I know
Speaker 1: about the team coming into the game, which makes for
Speaker 1: a fun a fun setup. I want to see, Look,
Speaker 1: what does the running back share look like? JK Dobbins,
Speaker 1: big Gus Edwards. Who's going to get the line's share
Speaker 1: of the carries? How much are they truly going to
Speaker 1: run the ball? I mean, everybody's talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: hardball line of scrimm. He hasn't had Justin Herbert before,
Speaker 1: So what does that look like? And then defensively, very
Speaker 1: creative there with Jesse Minner. I like everything that I've
Speaker 1: seen from him and his reputation the Raiders. I think
Speaker 1: this defense is a top five defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And now you put Christian Wilkins next to Max Crosby
Speaker 1: watch out. So that's going to be a great, great
Speaker 1: challenge up front for the Chargers. And then on the
Speaker 1: other side, Minshew, is it going to be helter skelter, wild, crazy, fun,
Speaker 1: you know, business and front party in the back haircut Gardner, Minshew?
Speaker 1: Or are we going to say we got a really
Speaker 1: good defense, let's not turn the ball over, let's not
Speaker 1: be stupid. If we got to keep the score down,
Speaker 1: we got to keep the score down. Ancient see if
Speaker 1: they tame that Tiger with Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So for me when it comes to the Raiders is
Speaker 4: let's not talk about it, let's be about it. There's
Speaker 4: been a lot of conversation that has come out from
Speaker 4: the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Side about want to do it.
Speaker 4: While they went with Ap, how they were going to
Speaker 4: get this team together, the things that he was doing,
Speaker 4: he had Senator to influenced that. You can't even question.
Speaker 4: You can't question what Tom Coffin's done the league. You
Speaker 4: can't question really what Marvin Lewis has done. So those
Speaker 4: guys have influenced him in terms of as a leader.
Speaker 4: But now full season on the job, what does this
Speaker 4: team look like and how do they perform and how
Speaker 4: do they perform in a game where the other team
Speaker 4: wants to measure revenge and redemption for how they play.
Speaker 4: Because basically Ap got the staff fired, Brandon's State company
Speaker 4: ushered out after that disappointing performance on Thursday night. I
Speaker 4: don't care what happens. The players that will holdovers they
Speaker 4: remember that. So it's gonna be a lot of emotion
Speaker 4: coming from the Charges sideline. How did the Raiders handle
Speaker 4: that and how does Ap get his team ready to play?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be interesting to see too.
Speaker 2: Bosa.
Speaker 3: You know, is he wearing a club? Is he not
Speaker 3: wearing a club?
Speaker 1: There was talk to he would have a club on
Speaker 1: the video of him the other day at practice with
Speaker 1: no club, So that'll be something definitely to pay attention to. Broncos,
Speaker 1: Seahawks Buck.
Speaker 2: Oh, the bow Knicks experience.
Speaker 4: Sean Payton handpicked bow Knicks to be the quarterback of
Speaker 4: the future. And when you're Sean Payton and you're the
Speaker 4: quarterback whisper slash guru and people are maybe questioning why
Speaker 4: you went with him, man, it's time to show improved.
Speaker 4: Bow Knicks was spectacularly during the preseason, complete almost eighty
Speaker 4: percent of his passes. You want to see a continuation
Speaker 4: of that while knowing that they're going to do some
Speaker 4: different things in their.
Speaker 2: Base and nickel.
Speaker 4: Offensive packages to allow the young quarterback to settle in.
Speaker 4: But now, this to me is about bow Knicks and
Speaker 4: Sean Payton being able to show off how good his
Speaker 4: young quarterback is.
Speaker 1: I'll go to the Seahawks side of things. Ryan Grubb
Speaker 1: comes in as the new offensive coordinator. Kenneth Walker is
Speaker 1: ready for lift off.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to have a month, monster year,
Speaker 1: and someone who can not only to me, it's hard
Speaker 1: to find the guys that can bang and then hit
Speaker 1: home runs like he is. Someone who can. He can
Speaker 1: grind out tough yards, he can land those body blows
Speaker 1: finish runs, but then also has the breakaway speed to
Speaker 1: hit some home runs. So I think he's he's he's
Speaker 1: due to bust out have a monster year for the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Bonis obviously the headliner there in that one though. Cowboys
Speaker 1: at Browns the Tom Brady Game. What are you looking
Speaker 1: for here?
Speaker 2: Oh man? Cowboys at Brown's, the Shawn who the Sean? What?
Speaker 2: I want to know?
Speaker 4: Which version of Deshaun Watson is going to show up?
Speaker 4: It's been three years since we've seen the Deshaun Watson
Speaker 4: that played at a Pro Bowl level. With that player
Speaker 4: ever returned to the Dog Pound, we can talk about
Speaker 4: the money, and the money has always been paid. He
Speaker 4: got his contract kind of ripped up in a justice,
Speaker 4: so we got a bunch of cash to hit the
Speaker 4: account a few weeks ago. Now, if you're in Cleveland,
Speaker 4: you want to see is the Pro Bowl player, the
Speaker 4: one that we thought was going to save to France?
Speaker 4: Is he ever going to show up this week against
Speaker 4: the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: We get a chance to see if he ever can
Speaker 2: get back to the level that he wants to play.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, and I'll go to the Cowboys side of things.
Speaker 1: How much has rhythm disrupted just with the ceedee lamb
Speaker 1: miss and as much time as he has, I think
Speaker 1: you see a motivated Dak. I'm anxious to see some
Speaker 1: of these young offensive linemen get their opportunities. What does
Speaker 1: that look like? Lots to keep an eye on there
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys side of things. I think defensively they'll
Speaker 1: be just fine, but that'll be a heavyweight matchup. There
Speaker 1: two really talented rosters there with the Cowboys and the Browns,
Speaker 1: Commanders and Bucks.
Speaker 2: You know, like we talked about all the young quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: We can talk about Jayden and Daniels and those things,
Speaker 4: but to me, DJ is dan Quinn. And the reason
Speaker 4: why is because a lot of coaches never get an
Speaker 4: opportunity to do the second time around. And so for
Speaker 4: dan Quinn, what did he learn from his experience in Atlanta?
Speaker 4: What did he learn during his time as the defensive
Speaker 4: coordinated with the Cowboys Before he jumps back in for
Speaker 4: a second head coaching job. How do you earn those
Speaker 4: losses into lessons. I want to see how he applies
Speaker 4: them and see if you can make the Washington franchise
Speaker 4: a really strong franchise because of all that experience that
Speaker 4: he's going through.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, if you're a Commander's fan, I
Speaker 1: guarantee you this is your thought coming into this game.
Speaker 1: You're just Jayden Daniels. I don't even think you're really
Speaker 1: nervous about how he's going to handle the moment. He's
Speaker 1: got it. He's got a lot of football in his background,
Speaker 1: even though he's a rookie. But Buck, I just man,
Speaker 1: you look it on paper, and especially the Bucks have
Speaker 1: some some d line when they can throw at you.
Speaker 3: I look at that offensive line.
Speaker 1: I mean I might I might just cross all the fingers, Buck,
Speaker 1: I might cross them all right here, they please please
Speaker 1: keep this franchise quarterbacks. Let him survive out here, and
Speaker 1: let's let's put a game plan together that protects him
Speaker 1: with the play call as much as the players in
Speaker 1: front of him, because I have some serious doubts about
Speaker 1: the guys in front of him whether they can keep
Speaker 1: him safe. So we're gonna move the launch point a
Speaker 1: little bit. Don't let the Tampa bay Bucks get a
Speaker 1: beat on where he's gonna set up, because this is
Speaker 1: against Adam Peters fault. At this point time, they're very
Speaker 1: early in roster construction. They've got uh, They've solved some problems,
Speaker 1: they brought in a lot of vets, a lot of leaders,
Speaker 1: got the culture where.
Speaker 3: They want to get it.
Speaker 1: But offensive line wise, there are ways away. So to me,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be something I'm keeping eye on. Can they
Speaker 1: can they just keep them out there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I can they keep them out there? Can
Speaker 2: they do it? What is Todd Bowles do?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: As a young player? All of those things really really matter.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of people I feel like are
Speaker 4: sleeping on this Tampa team.
Speaker 3: Nobody talks about them.
Speaker 2: Nobody talks about Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: I've got friends in that organization to the point where
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm waiting to get some text messages of
Speaker 1: Like I know they'll probably come if they blow the
Speaker 1: doors off the Commanders, I'll be getting text messages from
Speaker 1: those buddies. You guys have talked about us the whole
Speaker 1: off season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's gonna be some of that, and we
Speaker 2: know it.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be Uh, There're gonna be a lot of
Speaker 4: conversation that comes out of there. No one believed in this,
Speaker 4: no one picked this.
Speaker 2: Be careful, DJ, when you're picking those picks, make be
Speaker 2: careful to graphic.
Speaker 1: Dude, I get I get hit a lot. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of screen grabs that go along there with that.
Speaker 1: Rams and Lions. What a great rematch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a rematch that I think everyone has been
Speaker 4: talking about. For me, it's about the Rams continue to
Speaker 4: go with this young player premise where they are developing
Speaker 4: young players, they're putting them on the field, and they.
Speaker 2: Have a few holdovers, a few veterans.
Speaker 4: But this is a young team that Sean Payton, I
Speaker 4: mean that Sean McVay handpicked to develop and put out there.
Speaker 4: So what do these guys look like against a team
Speaker 4: that I would say that some people are predicting the
Speaker 4: Lions are going to the Super Bowl. How do you
Speaker 4: handle yourself in I would say a measuring stick game?
Speaker 4: How do the Rams measure up to the Lions? As
Speaker 4: we're looking at their talent compared to a team that
Speaker 4: should be a heavyweight in the NFC.
Speaker 1: Got a Lions team that needed to fix the secondary.
Speaker 1: They were aggressive and addressing it free agency and the draft. Well,
Speaker 1: here's your first test at Matthew Stafford coming back into
Speaker 1: the building with a healthy Cooper Cup, with Puka Nakua,
Speaker 1: with a talented group of skill guys around him, and
Speaker 1: the arguably the best play caller in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: let's see. Let's see what that secondary looks like. Excited
Speaker 1: to see that matchup. I think it's an awesome, awesome game.
Speaker 1: Last one here, Let's get to the Monday nighter. Just
Speaker 1: give us Aaron Rodgers for a full game. That's the
Speaker 1: first thing I'm looking at here. Jets at forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: That is my wish as he goes back to the
Speaker 1: Bay Area, you know that's going to be a special
Speaker 1: one for him.
Speaker 3: But man, I just hope let's just keep him out there.
Speaker 3: I want to see. I'm curious.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that's going to look like, but
Speaker 1: I just we need to be stay out there because
Speaker 1: I want to It's gonna be mussy TV.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be mussy TV.
Speaker 4: There's been a lot of drama that has really taking
Speaker 4: place on that side of the ball. On that side,
Speaker 4: you know, we're seeing so many conversations about who's in,
Speaker 4: who's out, how's he doing it?
Speaker 2: Will he be ready? We'll be ready for the whole thing.
Speaker 4: I want to go on the other side because I
Speaker 4: feel like it's been a bit of a three ring
Speaker 4: circus for the San Francisco forty nine Ers players won
Speaker 4: in contracts. Every marquee player that they had basically had
Speaker 4: their hand out after they went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Hey my money, So Sam, Steve Brandon and of your
Speaker 4: Trent Williams, all those guys. Now that you get them
Speaker 4: done within the week of the first game, how do
Speaker 4: you fold him into it?
Speaker 2: How do you keep the culture right? How do you
Speaker 2: get the team right?
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's just as easy as like, hey, everybody,
Speaker 4: go back to your normal spots. They haven't been around,
Speaker 4: so repairing those relationships and make sure the chemistry right.
Speaker 2: Tough job for Kyle Shyyp.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a fascinating game though, Man, Jets,
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. What an awesome weekend of football, plus
Speaker 1: a bunch of college football sprinkled in there. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a great, great weekend starting Thursday night. We
Speaker 1: get the Chiefs, we get the Ravens, I am so pumped, man,
Speaker 1: cannot wait for this awesome weekend of football ahead. Anything
Speaker 1: else you want to add before we duck out of here?
Speaker 2: Buck?
Speaker 4: No man, first week, I would say this, everyone pumped
Speaker 4: the brakes. Don't overreact one way or the other. That's
Speaker 4: gonna happens the first week, does lost cause, just slow down,
Speaker 4: be patient, don't get too high too low. Hey, for
Speaker 4: you to run out of gas before we get the
Speaker 4: week eight team. It's a PSA that's not going to
Speaker 4: be heard. I can tell you that much.
Speaker 1: All right, hope you guys have enjoyed this one again.
Speaker 1: We've got one more episode coming your way this week.
Speaker 1: We will also have five five episodes starting next week.
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Speaker 1: Phil so appreciate you guys hanging. We'll see you next
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