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Speaker 2: Welcome man, We'll drive in the great episode two sixty one.
Speaker 2: I am so pumped. Week one is in the books
Speaker 2: and there are a couple takeaways, but my initial immediate
Speaker 2: takeaway is kind of the best two teams from last year,
Speaker 2: they still kind of look like the best two teams,
Speaker 2: and if you're will Get, if you're a Ravens fan,
Speaker 2: I think watching Sunday you had to feel a little
Speaker 2: better about Thursday, because if you watch Sunday, you might
Speaker 2: have felt like all of these teams would just get
Speaker 2: rolled by the Chiefs and we were right there. It
Speaker 2: really now again it's overreaction Monday Tuesday in this league.
Speaker 2: But and there's always some bad Week one offensive football.
Speaker 2: This year it seemed to be somewhat extreme. But here's
Speaker 2: what I want to do today. So you guys heard
Speaker 2: me mention the first in pod podcast a ton with
Speaker 2: Danny Parkins and Andrew Philipponi. They actually both were in
Speaker 2: here once as got joint guests with me when they
Speaker 2: were in New York. Danny has left the pod because
Speaker 2: now he hosts breakfast Ball Mornings from eight to ten
Speaker 2: Ey Stern on FS one. But so that pod, by
Speaker 2: the way, is continuing with taking Danny Parkins place. Is
Speaker 2: this public or not? Oh boy, well, let me check
Speaker 2: real quick. It doesn't matter if it's not public. You
Speaker 2: guys will find out in short order. I'm gonna look
Speaker 2: real quick because there's an amazing new co host for
Speaker 2: that podcast. Okay, yeah, it is public, replacing Danny Parkins
Speaker 2: on First and Pot with Andrew Philipponi, future NFL Hall
Speaker 2: of Famer Patrick Peterson, star corner for a decade plus
Speaker 2: in the league, taking Danny's job. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: The thing I loved about that podcast was they did
Speaker 2: every game every week, their Sunday Night or you know,
Speaker 2: basically week Recap pod would touch on every single game.
Speaker 2: So I am going to steal that conceit from them
Speaker 2: and we are going to go through all sixteen Week
Speaker 2: one games. Obviously all sixteen games will not get the
Speaker 2: same amount of time, but I want to touch on
Speaker 2: everything from week one in the NFL, and if you
Speaker 2: guys like it, that's kind of the concept that we'll
Speaker 2: do every single week. But first, here's what missed the cut.
Speaker 2: Many Mahomes beat Shador Sanders as I told you what happened,
Speaker 2: and it was less about him beating Shitdor than it
Speaker 2: was Nebraska bullying Colorado Center and Sablenka win the US
Speaker 2: Open that would have been zero for two on my
Speaker 2: Bengo card. And Aaron Rodgers Enigma, the Netflix series announced
Speaker 2: we now see demand demonse. How are you? You? Texted
Speaker 2: me last night? Aaron Rodgers plays football today? I text
Speaker 2: you midway through the game kind of uh so, how
Speaker 2: are you doing this morning? How did Week one treat you?
Speaker 2: Aside from the fact that you know, the teaser wasn't great,
Speaker 2: but we'll get to that on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Amazingly, it was a good Week one of football Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: I was moving around a lot, so I caught what
Speaker 3: I could, but but no I saw I saw some
Speaker 3: great stuff. I went out to Kansas City, unfortunately the
Speaker 3: day after the game.
Speaker 2: But oh, that's right, I forgot you. My mom, who
Speaker 2: lives in New York, and Demonzeg who lives in La
Speaker 2: met in Kansas City. And Demonse saw friends and family.
Speaker 2: Did you see both my parents? See my mom and
Speaker 2: my dad?
Speaker 3: No, we had dinner at Propos and with Melinda. So
Speaker 3: with all the whole games, that's really cool.
Speaker 2: So you were traveling a bit, so you saw some
Speaker 2: of the standalone games and what you could on Sunday.
Speaker 2: But that's fine because I wanted to do the Lion's share.
Speaker 2: They're talking today anyway. You did see last night last
Speaker 2: night Niners thirty two Jets nineteen. Uh, what do you
Speaker 2: think the story of that game last night was? Because
Speaker 2: to me, it's very clear what it was.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers, he was looking old out there. I got
Speaker 3: order from the producers that there were some similarities to
Speaker 3: Tamm and Kirk Cousins. I didn't get to see much
Speaker 3: of that game, but I could tell when he flipped
Speaker 3: it off to Breeze Hall like the first three plays
Speaker 3: of the game, how it was going to kind of
Speaker 3: go and when he needed an evade in the pocket,
Speaker 3: he couldn't like really make sharp turns. It seemed like
Speaker 3: he had to like make more of these like curved routes. Well,
Speaker 3: he's getting frustrated very easily, very early as well.
Speaker 2: So those were my two biggest takeaways. Was first of all,
Speaker 2: if you just look at the next gen stats as
Speaker 2: far as time to throw, Aaron Rodgers' third fastest of
Speaker 2: anybody in the league this weekend. Jaden Daniels, number one
Speaker 2: rookie making his first start, he was one read, get
Speaker 2: it out and if he wasn't, he was running. And
Speaker 2: then Baker Mayfield, who that when that Bucks offense is cooking,
Speaker 2: boom boom throw and they really did cook. Aaron Rodgers'
Speaker 2: third fastest, fourth fastest to a tongue of Ailoa. Fifth
Speaker 2: fastest Joe Burrow, another guy who people have a little,
Speaker 2: you know, concerns about his health. Also Aaron only through
Speaker 2: to the left and only through to Garrett Wilson or
Speaker 2: Breese Hall with a couple targets. Alan Lazard and I
Speaker 2: agree with you entirely about the body language piece.
Speaker 3: Of it.
Speaker 2: The Alan Lazard drop on the first drive, you saw it,
Speaker 2: and then the Breezehall fumble on the second drive. You
Speaker 2: saw it. And that, honestly, Aaron Rodgers performance despite that criticism,
Speaker 2: probably the highlight of the night for Jets fans. What
Speaker 2: happened to this great defense that I've been told about? Oh,
Speaker 2: I just wait, just wait until the Jets get a quarterback.
Speaker 2: They might have the best defense in the NFL. You
Speaker 2: allowed the Niners, without their best skill position player, to
Speaker 2: score on eight consecutive possessions, eight possessions in a row.
Speaker 2: The Niners put points on the board, two touchdowns and
Speaker 2: six field goals, and you weren't able to generate any
Speaker 2: type of pass rush. One of the biggest winners from
Speaker 2: last night, other than Jordan Mason, probably a son Reddick
Speaker 2: who had to come away from last night saying you
Speaker 2: probably should pay me. Uh that you you probably should
Speaker 2: go ahead and pay me. There was a weird Sauce
Speaker 2: Gardener moment in the first Sauce was.
Speaker 3: Playing injury and then he's kind of injury.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man. They they said he didn't have
Speaker 2: an injury. He said he got the win knocked out
Speaker 2: of him. He missed I think eight plays and the
Speaker 2: Niners moved down the field. I don't know what that was.
Speaker 3: It was joint benching Disney guy. The guy hit him
Speaker 3: really fast and hit him right in the shoulder, and
Speaker 3: he seemed to be kind of like grabbing at it
Speaker 3: when he was coming off. I thought he just got one.
Speaker 2: But he you know, like a labrum thing or the
Speaker 2: thing that happened to you. But he but that wasn't it.
Speaker 2: He had no shoulder injury at all. Yeah, he came
Speaker 2: back in and when he was asked about it after
Speaker 2: the game, he said, got the wind knocked out of him.
Speaker 2: But you're usually not out for that long. The Jets
Speaker 2: are just the Jets are still the Jets. Guys, they
Speaker 2: had one awesome drive early.
Speaker 3: It seems like you're reading that as something like the
Speaker 3: sauce Gardener thing. You think that there's something eerie.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't I don't know. It seemed
Speaker 2: like he was benched for a series. But that makes
Speaker 2: no sense. But it also makes no sense for Lisa
Speaker 2: Saulters to be told that sauce Gardener during the game.
Speaker 2: She reported it's not injury related. Well, so what are
Speaker 2: we doing. I don't understand, like, did he I again,
Speaker 2: maybe someone will report what it was. But that Jets
Speaker 2: defense got bullied for three hours last night, and that
Speaker 2: Jets offense looked like it was being designed a guy
Speaker 2: who they didn't want as their offensive coordinator, and quarterbacks
Speaker 2: by a guy who's the oldest quarterback in the league
Speaker 2: who's coming off of torn achilles. The last time Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers threw for three hundred yards, Dan Campbell had zero
Speaker 2: career head coaching wins as the Lions head coach. Dan
Speaker 2: Campbell's entire tenure of success with the Lions has happened
Speaker 2: since Aaron Rodgers last threw for three hundred yards. So
Speaker 2: I I'm not overreacting to week one. What I am
Speaker 2: doing is reacting to week one and the Jets confirming
Speaker 2: a lot of my concerns and oh my god, these
Speaker 2: amazing weapons we have. Well, Mike Williams was on that list.
Speaker 2: He started the game and then didn't come, you know,
Speaker 2: barely played. Uh so the Dusty just text me this
Speaker 2: Sauce Gardner after the game says it was a tackle
Speaker 2: that I made. I just had to get my wind back.
Speaker 2: I just had to shake back when I felt like
Speaker 2: I was good. I went back on the field. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I that I appreciate you sending me the quote, Dusty,
Speaker 2: and I had seen that. It was just weird. That
Speaker 2: was a long absence for getting the winning out of you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean getting the wind knocked out of you is.
Speaker 2: And again I'm not doubting Sauce. It was just it
Speaker 2: was just weird. The Jets are just weird. And I'm
Speaker 2: going to show it on First Things First later today.
Speaker 2: But the the Aaron Rodgers passing chart, it's just the
Speaker 2: left side of the field, so there's that side of it.
Speaker 2: I just think the Jets are once again gonna be
Speaker 2: a seven to eight win team. I don't think they're
Speaker 2: well coached. I think people have way overrated how good
Speaker 2: Aaron is going to be. Now people are gonna say, oh,
Speaker 2: some of those throws, guys. I remember being a kid
Speaker 2: watching Dan Marino on the set of the CBS pregame show,
Speaker 2: and sometimes it's Dan Marino is, you know in his
Speaker 2: late forties maybe yeah, late forties at the time, well
Speaker 2: removed from football, but he also tours Achilles oddly, and
Speaker 2: sometimes they would go to a fake football field or
Speaker 2: outside or whatever. And they'd throw the football around and
Speaker 2: holy shit, man, Dan Marino, even at fifty years old,
Speaker 2: could sling it tight, spiral, hurt the guy's hands, perfect accuracy.
Speaker 2: Aaron is going to be able to throw the ball forever.
Speaker 2: That's not even the majority of quarterbacking. Sobey were like, oh,
Speaker 2: but look at this throw to Garrett Wilson on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: He'll be able to do that forever. Aaron Rodgers will
Speaker 2: be able to win the old school quarterback competition where
Speaker 2: you dip the football and paint. There's targets with bullseyes
Speaker 2: moving around on the field and you try to You
Speaker 2: try to hit him forever. But if he can't move,
Speaker 2: and if you don't trust yourself to be able to escape,
Speaker 2: it's not going. And your offensive coordinator can't scheme stuff
Speaker 2: up for you could be tough. Now on the other
Speaker 2: side of it, all right, the Niners looked awesome. Jordan Mason,
Speaker 2: the young running back, was great, great, and I know
Speaker 2: people want to hear it. I thought brock Bern he
Speaker 2: played pretty damn well. I know the numbers were pedestrian,
Speaker 2: but this is where I don't really care about the numbers.
Speaker 2: I thought that this was more impressive of a quarterbacking
Speaker 2: performance from Brock than some of his three touchdown, zero interception,
Speaker 2: one thirty quarterback rating games. I thought there was one
Speaker 2: drive he was shaky, well, the very beginning of the
Speaker 2: game was a little shaky, and one drive I think
Speaker 2: third quarter he was shaky. Other than that, he didn't
Speaker 2: miss a whole hell of a lot of passes. He
Speaker 2: had some really good, play good passes. Ayuk didn't do
Speaker 2: him a favor on that end zone drop, and I
Speaker 2: thought he was really good. Now, I tweeted this and
Speaker 2: this is the question I want to ask demon day
Speaker 2: before we move on to the next game. When Jordan
Speaker 2: Mason was out there crushing, I said, by the Brock
Speaker 2: already corollary, everyone must now believe Jordan Mason is a
Speaker 2: top five back in football. So if I were to
Speaker 2: go on TV and say, holy Molly, Jordan Mason, guy's
Speaker 2: a superstar. Look at what he did, I think people
Speaker 2: would push back and say, well, it's the Shanahan system.
Speaker 2: It's it's you know what I mean. There's We've seen
Speaker 2: a lot of guys in that system, his dad's system,
Speaker 2: in his at that position have success. And I would say, yeah,
Speaker 2: that is exactly correct. Now, whether or not those same
Speaker 2: people want to allow me to do similar math like
Speaker 2: that on party is, I guess their call. But I
Speaker 2: thought he was excellent. I thought the Niners defense was excellent,
Speaker 2: and I think this was a great wee in for
Speaker 2: San Francisco because sadly the Rams will deal with them later.
Speaker 2: Had a lot of injuries and lost a game. The
Speaker 2: Niners got through this game mostly unscathed and looked awesome.
Speaker 2: So that was my take.
Speaker 3: He said that he he said that he knew that
Speaker 3: he was going to be the starter on Friday. So
Speaker 3: do you think that they the forty nine ers are
Speaker 3: obligated to come out and say something. Is that kind
Speaker 3: of weird?
Speaker 2: Well, so if listen that is, that would be a
Speaker 2: rules violation, I'd be lying about the injury report. Oddly,
Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan was asked about it after the game, and
Speaker 2: he said, I definitively did not tell Jordan that I
Speaker 2: told him to be ready for a lot of action.
Speaker 2: He said, maybe one of his position coaches told him
Speaker 2: that to gass him up, but we didn't know until
Speaker 2: earlier today that Christian was definitively out. I actually believe
Speaker 2: Kyle Shannon hand here. You can say that's naive. But
Speaker 2: the reason I believe Kyle Shanahan is because if this news,
Speaker 2: if Jordan knew it on Friday, Vegas would have found
Speaker 2: out before the team released it, and you could get
Speaker 2: Jordan Mason over thirteen rushing yards Monday at four pm.
Speaker 2: So I don't I don't think that the Niners knew
Speaker 2: McCaffrey was I know, I don't think that the Niners
Speaker 2: knew McCaffrey was out Friday night. I don't I think
Speaker 2: that that level that news would have trickled out into
Speaker 2: the betting markets. And so I actually, yes, it would
Speaker 2: be a huge violation. Lying on the injury report it's
Speaker 2: a big deal. Uh. But and lying that you call
Speaker 2: a guy questionable when he's really doubtful. Those types of
Speaker 2: things not much you can.
Speaker 3: Do it a whole player.
Speaker 2: You know three before the game that this player is out,
Speaker 2: and you don't have even having listed as doubtful. That
Speaker 2: would be a big deal. But I actually believe them.
Speaker 2: All right, now, let's get to come on. I mean this,
Speaker 2: you know, the game of the week. Yeah, let's get
Speaker 2: to it. Kant City twenty seven, Demand's beloved Ravens twenty.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go first and then you and then
Speaker 2: you go to Monsey.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I obviously talked about this a lot on TV
Speaker 2: and now it's like five days old, so I'll actually
Speaker 2: be oddly quick here. Thursday night games are not perfect
Speaker 2: for our podcast to discuss because we're not on, you know,
Speaker 2: till Tuesday morning. But the Chiefs looked far and away
Speaker 2: like the best team in the league. And the Niners
Speaker 2: may be listen, the Niners played so well yesterday, they
Speaker 2: maybe have a similar claim. But the Chiefs did whatever
Speaker 2: they wanted and didn't even play close to a perfect game,
Speaker 2: didn't have Hollywood and Kelsey didn't do much, and it
Speaker 2: was against a Baltimore team that was peak motivation, and
Speaker 2: you could tell because of how Lamar played in that game,
Speaker 2: and Kansas City controlled every second of that game. And
Speaker 2: if people want to say, oh yeah, but listen, Baltimore
Speaker 2: did almost have a chance to steal the game. That
Speaker 2: did happen. But for the Chiefs to play that efficiently
Speaker 2: and well, despite Mahomes having like a B minus level
Speaker 2: Mahomes game and a truly awful turnover that you never
Speaker 2: see out of him, I think Bode's really well for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs moving forward this season. Demond's a your thoughts
Speaker 2: on that game, most notably from the Ravens perspective.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think the Chiefs were able to do
Speaker 3: whatever they wanted. I think the Baltimore defense did a
Speaker 3: very good job at giving Lamar Jackson the offense chances
Speaker 3: to go and take the lead and get back in
Speaker 3: the game. Just didn't do it. And you would think
Speaker 3: with penalties being such a big part negatively in the
Speaker 3: in the AFC Championship Game last year, that they wouldn't
Speaker 3: have came out and gotten twenty penalties in the first game.
Speaker 3: I think that they did do whatever it took, you know,
Speaker 3: to get in the game, which meant Lamar's gonna freaking
Speaker 3: take it up the field every single time. I don't
Speaker 3: love that, but I mean, if that's what we gotta do,
Speaker 3: we gotta do. I wouldn't say that he was scared
Speaker 3: of throwing the ball. I don't think his old line
Speaker 3: was really giving him a chance in the beginning of
Speaker 3: the game. I think when there were guys open, he
Speaker 3: found him. Obviously. You hate the Za Flowers mistouchdown pass.
Speaker 3: That was that. That was kind of bad. That was
Speaker 3: a tough one.
Speaker 2: Well, so a couple of things. I so, first of all,
Speaker 2: on the penalty side of it, at some point, you
Speaker 2: are who you are. And the Ravens are somewhat immature team.
Speaker 2: And Isaiah likely after the game with his nonsense of
Speaker 2: you know, that'll be the worst we play all year.
Speaker 2: We'll see how they look in the playoffs. You'll see
Speaker 2: all the two time defending champs look in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They're probably gonna look pretty good, Buddy, and Roquan Smith
Speaker 2: with his Patrick flopped and I've got something for eighty eight.
Speaker 2: I think the Ravens are a somewhat emotionally immature team.
Speaker 2: So I thought Lamar played. I thought Lamar played this
Speaker 2: game demande like a psychopath. I thought he was trying
Speaker 2: to initiate contact. It's one thing to have Lamar be like,
Speaker 2: you know what we've got, this is such a huge game,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna run the ball. But there were plenty of
Speaker 2: times he could have gone out of bounds, and he
Speaker 2: lowered his shoulder to not even get extra yards he
Speaker 2: had already he picked up the first down and could
Speaker 2: have slid and took the punishment. And now and I
Speaker 2: don't know if you saw it. He missed practiced yesterday.
Speaker 2: Quote A little sore is what the reporting is. Now.
Speaker 2: When I heard he missed practice, I assumed, you know,
Speaker 2: you know what. I assumed Lamar had the flu for
Speaker 2: the thirty eighth time as a professional athlete. But they're
Speaker 2: saying he's a little sore. I just thought that game,
Speaker 2: for good or for bad demons was the full Lamar
Speaker 2: Jackson viewing experience. The like some runs that are just
Speaker 2: so frustrating if you're the defense. Some miss layups and
Speaker 2: miss deep throws, a couple holy crap, How did he
Speaker 2: get out of it? And then great passes, and then
Speaker 2: you know that Baltimore's in the game late with a
Speaker 2: chance to steal it. Like I I thought, I don't
Speaker 2: think Lamar. I didn't think Lamar played well. I thought
Speaker 2: Lamar played exciting. But I thought that and he had
Speaker 2: some great plays. But he's gotta be better if they're
Speaker 2: gonna beat Kansas City in a big spot. All his
Speaker 2: completions can't be He had sixteen passes demons at or
Speaker 2: behind the line of scrimmage, and the Chiefs clearly were
Speaker 2: not scared of getting beat over the top now likely's
Speaker 2: really good and credit to him. I thought he had
Speaker 2: an awesome game and it's a shame for him that,
Speaker 2: you know, he missed the potential touchdown. But as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: the likely piece doesn't happen if Lamar makes a better
Speaker 2: play to say, it just doesn't. And then after the
Speaker 2: game he said, I wasn't even going for Zay, all right,
Speaker 2: but that's that. You know, that game's five days ago
Speaker 2: at this point, so we can move on the other
Speaker 2: So we'll do all the standalone games in the A
Speaker 2: blocked them, will rapid fire through the others, Philly, Green Bay.
Speaker 2: So Jordan. Some good news on Jordan Love. They're not
Speaker 2: putting him on the r which means they think there's
Speaker 2: a chance he misses less than four games. So that's
Speaker 2: kind of best case scenario for them that he could
Speaker 2: potentially only miss three games. I still would anticipate that
Speaker 2: he misses four. Bad news to Monse is this part
Speaker 2: of it. I didn't think he looked sharp seventeen of
Speaker 2: thirty four. I thought that they left some meat on
Speaker 2: the bone and kind of let Philly get away with one.
Speaker 2: Because and this is where Eagles fans are gonna be
Speaker 2: furious with me, but I don't really care. Saquan was awesome,
Speaker 2: and you know right now my Saquon take is trending
Speaker 2: to wrong. We'll see how how it goes at the
Speaker 2: end of the year. He was great. Jalen Hurts was
Speaker 2: bad in this game. He had three turnovers, could have
Speaker 2: had five. The defense looks like the defense from last year,
Speaker 2: and they immediately missed Jason Kelcey, the tush push failed.
Speaker 2: They they had bad snaps. Like if I'm an Eagles fan,
Speaker 2: I am not. My concerns about this team heading into
Speaker 2: the year, about the how Kelsey's gonna they're gonna deal
Speaker 2: with the departure of Kelsey, about how the defense is
Speaker 2: gonna look, and is Jalen Hurts going to get over
Speaker 2: his turnover problem from last year? None of those are
Speaker 2: answered now. Aj Brown's awesome and Kellen Moore seemed to
Speaker 2: be able to use Devantae Smith more creatively than they
Speaker 2: were last year. And Saquon. I can't say enough about
Speaker 2: how good Saquon was. But I tweeted during the game,
Speaker 2: and I will reiterate it that I picked both of
Speaker 2: these teams, the Packers and the Eagles, to finish third
Speaker 2: in their divisions and miss the playoffs, and I feel
Speaker 2: fine about both of those predictions. Right now. I don't
Speaker 2: think Philly's very good despite the win, and I think
Speaker 2: that there is going to be way too much smoke
Speaker 2: on the Eagles against the Falcons at home Kirk Cousins
Speaker 2: after that awful performance on Monday Night Football, and we
Speaker 2: can talk about that on the gambling show for the Packers.
Speaker 2: I said this on TV when it happened, and I'll
Speaker 2: say it again here. I think going into the season
Speaker 2: with the only other quarterback on your roster being Malik
Speaker 2: Willis was negligent. And you obviously don't want Jordan Love
Speaker 2: to get hurt. But Malik Willis, God Love him, is
Speaker 2: not an NFL quarterback. In his career, he has zero touchdowns,
Speaker 2: three picks, a rating of forty eight. He's never been
Speaker 2: able to click in now again, he's only thrown sixty
Speaker 2: seven passes. And if people want to say he's going
Speaker 2: to be better with Mike, with Matt Lafleur, I could
Speaker 2: buy that long term. Get him in the building for
Speaker 2: a year, get him in the meetings, get him on
Speaker 2: the practice field. For him to have to play right
Speaker 2: now is disastrous and if I'm Green Bay, I am
Speaker 2: seriously considering calling Ryan Tannehill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm like, hey for somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would. I would consider calling Ryan
Speaker 2: Tannehill and being like, hey, can you play a couple
Speaker 2: games for us? Week three at your old team, the Titans.
Speaker 2: You want to play that game Week four at home
Speaker 2: against Minnesota? And then if Jordan's not back Week five
Speaker 2: against the Rams, like, because I think the Packers. Listen.
Speaker 2: I wasn't as high on the Packers as correct. I
Speaker 2: wasn't as high on the Packers as others going into
Speaker 2: the year. Uh, but let's say I was wrong. Let's
Speaker 2: say all the people that really believed in them were right.
Speaker 2: You can survive a month without your quarterback. If you
Speaker 2: go one in three, you can. You can survive one
Speaker 2: and three, you certainly can. You're fine at two and two.
Speaker 2: You can't survive zero and four. And I just don't
Speaker 2: know who you're beating now again, if you don't sign
Speaker 2: another guy, and it's Malik Willis versus Will Levis, you know,
Speaker 2: in week three, I mean that's an all time bad
Speaker 2: quarterback matchup. Milik Willis used to play, you know, backup
Speaker 2: Will Levis so maybe you can win that game either way.
Speaker 2: But the tough part of your schedule if you're the Packers,
Speaker 2: starts in mid October. Start mid October. Here's what it
Speaker 2: is at oor. Sorry, Texans, Jags, Lions, Bears, Niners, Dolphins, Lions, Seahawks, Saints, Vikings, Bears.
Speaker 2: So that that middle kind of two fifths of your
Speaker 2: schedule you need to have. You can't be three and
Speaker 2: six going into that. You just can't. So that's that's
Speaker 2: my takeaway there. And then we will go to Sunday
Speaker 2: Night Football Lions Rams. This was a weird one because
Speaker 2: the Lions had full control, then the Rams took back control,
Speaker 2: then the Lions had a chance to win it in regulation.
Speaker 2: This was a gambling death. Now I have the Rams
Speaker 2: plus four and a half. On this show, it was
Speaker 2: three and a half, but on TV and in the
Speaker 2: actual bet I made was plus four and a half.
Speaker 2: The Lions are down three with the ball inside the
Speaker 2: twenty with a minute left, and I'm like, okay. When
Speaker 2: they get the ball, I'm like, okay, just either zero
Speaker 2: points or a touchdown, zero points or a touchdown. Just
Speaker 2: not overtime, Just not overtime. It of course goes to overtime.
Speaker 2: When it goes overtime, I'm like, all right, just let
Speaker 2: the Rams get the ball first. If the Rams get
Speaker 2: the ball first, they score a touchdown, the game's over.
Speaker 2: They kick a field goal. I'm not gonna lose by five.
Speaker 2: They turn the ball over or punt, Detroit will just
Speaker 2: kick a field goal to win it. Detroit gets the
Speaker 2: ball first, okay, anything but a touchdown, and then Detroit
Speaker 2: just down the Rams throat runs the ball basically every play.
Speaker 2: I thought this. I thought the Rams played valiantly given
Speaker 2: all their injuries, but those injuries are gonna really hurt them.
Speaker 2: Steve Avela, their great young guard, is out a month,
Speaker 2: Pukaakua out a month. They their their backup left tackle
Speaker 2: got injured, and their third string left tackle was in
Speaker 2: rough shape during this game. So that was a damaging
Speaker 2: game for the Rams. For the Lions, there were a
Speaker 2: few yikes from Jared Goff, a few uh oh moments
Speaker 2: from Golf, But aside from that, you have to love
Speaker 2: how they played. They were tough, they knew what they
Speaker 2: want to do, they ran the ball when they wanted
Speaker 2: to uh And that's a great win for them. It's
Speaker 2: a great win for them in a game they easily
Speaker 2: could have lost. And if you asked me, the biggest
Speaker 2: winners as far as Super Bowl chances from Week one
Speaker 2: have to be the Lions in the Niners, because the
Speaker 2: Niners saw their biggest division competition lose a game they
Speaker 2: could have won in Week one in the Rams and
Speaker 2: have a bunch of injuries. And the Lions saw their
Speaker 2: biggest division competition in according to Vegas in the Packers
Speaker 2: lose a game they could have won and have their
Speaker 2: quarterback go down. And so you know, so those two
Speaker 2: teams had really really good weekends as far as their
Speaker 2: ability to win their games their biggest competition, you know,
Speaker 2: not being able to win theirs. All right, those are
Speaker 2: the four standalone games. We have twelve other games to
Speaker 2: get to. I'm going to try to do two minutes
Speaker 2: a game, get through them in twenty four minutes. We'll
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Speaker 2: You t up which game we're going to be talking about,
Speaker 2: and I'll take it from there, and you know, you
Speaker 2: chime in accordingly. But I think I know which game
Speaker 2: they're gonna make me start with. But go ahead, what's
Speaker 2: the first one.
Speaker 3: It's time for Trash Hour Miami twenty to Jacksonville seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so listen, obviously the big news out of
Speaker 2: this game was not actually out of this game. And
Speaker 2: you know what, real quick producers, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: something on the fly. I apologize. Can you guys put
Speaker 2: a two minute clock on that resets for each game
Speaker 2: and I'll see if I can actually do this to
Speaker 2: these dozen games two minutes each. The real story out
Speaker 2: of this game was what happened with Tyreek Hill before
Speaker 2: the game. I think I'm going to do a lot
Speaker 2: on that on Thursday. I think on Thursday, i'mnna do
Speaker 2: the gambling show, and then that I don't want to
Speaker 2: do that. In there's that is such a multi layered thing,
Speaker 2: and so I don't even want to do it right now.
Speaker 2: What I do want to do is talk about the
Speaker 2: Jacksonville Jaguars inventing ways to lose once again, so people
Speaker 2: can blame Trevor if they want. Trevor played fine. He
Speaker 2: had one of the prettiest passes anyone had all Sunday.
Speaker 2: That touchdown, you know, kind of layered in the back
Speaker 2: of the end zone. He also had another one that
Speaker 2: would have been a touchdown. There was past interference in
Speaker 2: the end zone. Still hit the guy in the stomach
Speaker 2: and they ended up getting a touchdown out of it.
Speaker 2: But there's up seventeen to seven late third, Miami's done nothing.
Speaker 2: Travis atn pardon me is walking into the end zone
Speaker 2: and a perfect peanut punch by Javon Holland. And this
Speaker 2: is the sequence of events. It's about to be Jaggs
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. And these are the next place
Speaker 2: it is at tean fumble Tyreek kill eighty yard touchdown
Speaker 2: fumble on the kickoff by Jacksonville that they recover, and
Speaker 2: then three plays later, Doug Peterson goes for a fourth
Speaker 2: and one running back sweep on his own thirty and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's a tie game. Or it's
Speaker 2: basically the Dolphins ended up missing that field gladly, but
Speaker 2: they ended up coming back to win. The Jags have
Speaker 2: to learn how to win football games. The Dolphins were
Speaker 2: dead in the water, and you fumble going into the
Speaker 2: end zone. All of a sudden, the Dolphins have this
Speaker 2: rallying moment given what happened Tyreek and his teammates before
Speaker 2: the game. The Jags have a devastating loss, and once
Speaker 2: again the Jags start the season behind the eight ball.
Speaker 2: Now luckily they have the Browns next week. More on
Speaker 2: them in a moment. Demon's next game.
Speaker 3: We got Chicago twenty four to Tennessee's seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yees. So listen, Caleb Williams had ninety three yards. That's
Speaker 2: what everyone wants me to talk about here. He looked
Speaker 2: out of sorts. He couldn't rush the exactly. It is
Speaker 2: a different league. This is also the perfect start for
Speaker 2: my Super Bowl pick won, the perfect start for Caleb,
Speaker 2: but for the Bears, and if there was a little
Speaker 2: bit of Caleb, this is gonna be easy. This is
Speaker 2: gonna be like college. This is a good reminder. Playing
Speaker 2: the damn Titans and you got cooked. But despite that,
Speaker 2: because the Bears defense and special teams was so great,
Speaker 2: and because Will Levis is just awful, and Titans fans
Speaker 2: got mad at me all summer for telling them that
Speaker 2: their quarterback. I was like, why don't you believe in
Speaker 2: the Titans? I don't know you guys fired Mike Rabel
Speaker 2: and you're rolling with Will Levis. You don't seem to
Speaker 2: know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The Titans invented a way to lose that game, block punt, touchdown,
Speaker 2: terrible pick six, another stripsack, just a disaster. And now
Speaker 2: the Bears won what will end up being the worst game,
Speaker 2: maybe of Caleb's career, And so do I think he'll
Speaker 2: be a little more locked in. Do I think he
Speaker 2: had a few butterflies? Now I am worried. They all
Speaker 2: three of their receivers got dinged. Were awaiting the results
Speaker 2: of a Doonsday's MRI. That's you know, that's obviously concerning.
Speaker 2: But I cannot wait for Caleb against CJ Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 2: National TV, and I think Caleb will be exponentially better
Speaker 2: than he was. And this Bear's defense was spectacular, So
Speaker 2: bad game Caleb. Great win by the Bears. And the
Speaker 2: three quarterbacks in recent history who have won a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl in year two, No one's been there in year one,
Speaker 2: Big Ben Russ, Tom Brady. What do they all have
Speaker 2: in common? All had great defenses. So for the Bears,
Speaker 2: I thought this was fine for Caleb. I mean, nothing
Speaker 2: but painful film to watch, which could be good for him.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Next you got Houston, Houston twenty nine to Indianapolis twenty seven.
Speaker 2: All right, this was one of the most exciting games
Speaker 2: of the day. Did you see demons that throw from
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson?
Speaker 3: Yeah, seven yards in the air.
Speaker 2: But yet he had won with a guy at his feet,
Speaker 2: a guy in his face, couldn't step into it seventy
Speaker 2: yards in the air. Anthony Richardson completed nine passes. He
Speaker 2: had two hundred and twelve yards, nine completions for two
Speaker 2: hundred and twelve yards and one in. I mean, the
Speaker 2: guy's electric. Now he's not that accurate and he's gonna
Speaker 2: have some issues, but holy smokes, this electric and then
Speaker 2: Ciej surgical your guy, bro. Uh, I mean, obviously you
Speaker 2: gotta give credit where it's due. I can't just make
Speaker 2: everything just about the quarterbacks. Joe Mixon was unreal thirty carries,
Speaker 2: buck fifty nine, but Ciej deep passes to Nico and
Speaker 2: then short passes to Diggs for touchdowns. I thought that
Speaker 2: was a very interesting thing. Nico's gonna go deep, Digs
Speaker 2: is gonna be our red zone or first down guy,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna add to it. One of the
Speaker 2: best plays of the day in the NFL. So here's
Speaker 2: the situation. The the Cults have gone on three straight
Speaker 2: possessions touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. Now the Texans have gone touchdown, touchdown,
Speaker 2: So it's a back and forth. At the end of
Speaker 2: the game, the Texans have the ball trying to grind clock.
Speaker 2: It is, uh, where is this play here. It is
Speaker 2: it's third and eleven. Okay, if you punt that. If
Speaker 2: you don't pick this up, it is going to be
Speaker 2: colts ball. Two minutes left down, two third and eleven,
Speaker 2: two minute warning, up by two against a team you
Speaker 2: haven't stopped all half. CJ perfect twelve yard pass to
Speaker 2: Nicocollins to essentially ice the game. That's big time, man,
Speaker 2: that is big time. And so if you're a Texans fan,
Speaker 2: got to tighten up the defense a bit. But that
Speaker 2: is a great win. And I thought one of the
Speaker 2: plays of the day was CJ to Nico for those
Speaker 2: twelve those eleven yards. You got anything you want to
Speaker 2: add before we go to the next game.
Speaker 3: Uh No, I mean, I think coming into this season,
Speaker 3: people were skeptical about Diggs going to Houston, I mean,
Speaker 3: including myself, with his personality and everything. But I do
Speaker 3: think he's gonna end up being exactly what it looks
Speaker 3: like on paper with him being the receiver he was.
Speaker 3: I get I guess not at the tail end of
Speaker 3: his bill season, but you put a great wide receiver
Speaker 3: in there with a young, talented quarterback and it's showing
Speaker 3: and I think they're gonna well listen. I eight, uh.
Speaker 2: I mean, as long as Diggs is happy, he'll be helpful,
Speaker 2: and he's gonna be happy. A couple of touchdowns he'll
Speaker 2: be happy with. It is still to me something to monitor,
Speaker 2: all right, next game.
Speaker 3: Next, you got New England sixteen Cincinnati's ten.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, no, I'm.
Speaker 3: Sorry, buff you got Buffalo's thirty four at Arizona's twenty eight.
Speaker 3: My apologies.
Speaker 2: All right, So, first of all, let me be fair
Speaker 2: to the Cardinals. It sure seemed like pass interference on
Speaker 2: that fourth down play. It wasn't a hail Mary. They
Speaker 2: were deep in Buffalo territory down. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: a brutal if you're a Cardinals fan, this is painful.
Speaker 2: It's fourth and seven, there's thirty seconds left, you're at
Speaker 2: the Bills thirty two, you're down six, and Kyler threw
Speaker 2: it to Dorsch inside the ten and it was one
Speaker 2: of those Bills defender back to the play hits him
Speaker 2: and the ref kept his flag in his pocket. If
Speaker 2: he throws it, you're gonna have four shots into the
Speaker 2: end zone. So that's painful if you're Arizona. With that said,
Speaker 2: Arizona did not deserve to win this game, Arizona jumped
Speaker 2: out to an early lead. Then they simply could not
Speaker 2: stop the Bills on the ground and couldn't stop Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: And while I get frustrated because it took literally one
Speaker 2: day and you had Rex Ryan on ESPN yesterday say
Speaker 2: Josh Allen's the best player in the league. Like it
Speaker 2: took one day for people to be like, you know what,
Speaker 2: he is better than Patrick Mahomes. When Josh is playing
Speaker 2: this way, Yeah, he had the one fumble, but where
Speaker 2: he's running at will and the whole offense is on him.
Speaker 2: If you're not an excellent defense, you're just not gonna
Speaker 2: be able to sustain it for sixty minutes. Like players
Speaker 2: like Josh or Lamar against average or bad defenses can
Speaker 2: just break the team and they're gonna score thirty plus points.
Speaker 2: And I thought Josh was exceptional in this game. Now
Speaker 2: he started the game without a rap on his left hand.
Speaker 2: He left the game with a rap on his left hand.
Speaker 2: And we'll know, we'll see if taking this level of
Speaker 2: punishment is sustainable over the course of the year. But
Speaker 2: that's what their offense is gonna have to be a
Speaker 2: whole hell of a lot of Josh Allen, and that
Speaker 2: was an excellent win to I mean, it's a weird
Speaker 2: to say an excellent win, but to come from behind
Speaker 2: like that at what were they down seventeen to three?
Speaker 2: They were down seventeen to three. To come from behind
Speaker 2: seventeen to three and get your season off on a
Speaker 2: good note after another devastating playoff loss. A lot of
Speaker 2: credit to the Bills there. I think people are surprised
Speaker 2: when I give the Bills credit, but I'm just fair.
Speaker 2: All right. Now, we'll get to the game you mentioned before.
Speaker 3: It was excited to I guess I was just too
Speaker 3: excited to get to this one. We got New England
Speaker 3: sixteen Cincinnati's ten. No, you felt very well, so excited
Speaker 3: to get to it. Well, because we had the gambling
Speaker 3: show and this bet was on the sheet, and I said,
Speaker 3: I don't like this one. It's a lot of points.
Speaker 3: Cincinnati doesn't start off the season's hot. I don't know
Speaker 3: how bad New England's going to be, but I mean,
Speaker 3: clearly they were able to hang with Joe Burrow on
Speaker 3: the Bengals.
Speaker 2: So okay, so you were one hundred correct. I mean
Speaker 2: I had the Bengals laying eight and a half and
Speaker 2: they lost out with credit to New England because they,
Speaker 2: you know, they just said we're just gonna run the
Speaker 2: ball and play great defense and that was enough. I mean,
Speaker 2: Jacoby was not good in this game. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: act like Jacoby was terrible, but Jacoby's he didn't win
Speaker 2: because Jacoby threw the ball twenty four times for one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty yards. But he had no touchdowns, he
Speaker 2: had no picks, he had no fumbles. He didn't kill him.
Speaker 2: And the Patriots, who I thought, you know, might struggle
Speaker 2: to win four games, stole one. The story, though, is Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and Cincinnati finishes almost every year hot, but they don't
Speaker 2: have home field. They're playing road games in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: after the division, after the wildcard round because they are
Speaker 2: now one in eight in weeks one and two with
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow can't happen and Cincinnati is a team to watch. Higgins,
Speaker 2: they didn't pay him all of a sudden late in
Speaker 2: the week hamstring out Jamar Chase. They didn't pay him
Speaker 2: all of a sudden late in the week. Questionable with
Speaker 2: food poisoning, one of my hottest takes is adults don't
Speaker 2: actually get food poisoning. I don't ever. I don't ever
Speaker 2: buy food poisoning is like in a pro athlete is
Speaker 2: out because of this, they're either hungover or lying. That's
Speaker 2: one of my general hot takes is I don't think
Speaker 2: the adults food poisoning.
Speaker 3: As an adult, when was the last time you got
Speaker 3: food poisoning.
Speaker 2: The I've as an adult, I have never had food
Speaker 2: poisoning where it's like, man, I don't think I'm going
Speaker 2: to be able to work tomorrow. It's never happened to me. Never.
Speaker 2: It's not like like the There's never been a moment
Speaker 2: where it's like, oh, man I ate something bad Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: I'm questionable for work Wednesday. It's never happened. And so
Speaker 2: whenever it was like, oh, Jamar Chase added to the
Speaker 2: injury report on Friday, and they said it was food poisoning,
Speaker 2: Like I just don't Again I said it's a hot take,
Speaker 2: and doctors might disagree with me, I just don't believe it,
Speaker 2: and so correct. The whole thing is just and and
Speaker 2: Burt Listen, is Burrow still hurt as wild suggested, or
Speaker 2: is he just terrible early in years? I don't know,
Speaker 2: Or is the combination of the two. But that that's
Speaker 2: bad news man, and I'm gonna again go to the
Speaker 2: final play of the game. It's second and seven. Okay.
Speaker 2: The situation is, there's a minute fifty left. Cincinnati's down six.
Speaker 2: If they can stop New England twice, they're gonna get
Speaker 2: the ball with a minute forty because they have two
Speaker 2: timeouts to go. Drive the field and runs Ramandre Stevenson.
Speaker 2: He gets hit two yards pass line scrimmage and the
Speaker 2: Bengals just can't get him on the ground. He gets
Speaker 2: nine yards of the game's over. What you know, they're running,
Speaker 2: you call the right defense, you hit Remandre and he's
Speaker 2: just tougher than you. And the drive before man, cincinn
Speaker 2: nowt he gets the ball three minutes left, down six,
Speaker 2: supposed to be Joe Burrow time incomplete to Yoshavas incomplete,
Speaker 2: to Moss, incomplete to Moss or no, I'm sorry, short
Speaker 2: of the sticks to Moss. And now you're punting bad
Speaker 2: news man. And who do the Bengals have next week? Oh, no,
Speaker 2: big deal. They're just at Kansas City. That's that. That's
Speaker 2: a problem. All right. Uh, let's go to the next game.
Speaker 3: It's Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh eighteen to Atlanta's ten nasty game over there.
Speaker 2: Well, yes and no. If you're Mike Tomlin, you loved
Speaker 2: every minute of it. Yeah, this is what the Steelers.
Speaker 2: This is the Steelers once beat the Chiefs in a
Speaker 2: playoff game where the Chiefs scored two touchdowns and the
Speaker 2: Steelers scored zero touchdowns. They just beat the Falcons in
Speaker 2: a regular season game where that they scored zero touchdowns
Speaker 2: the Falcons scored one. Justin fields. Was fine, not electric,
Speaker 2: but fine. And you do wonder what this does for
Speaker 2: that quarterback competition. But the story of the game, of
Speaker 2: course is Kirk Cousins looked awful. Awful. Now was that
Speaker 2: first game back post achilles? He'll be way better or
Speaker 2: was that? No? Man, the guy's in his late thirties.
Speaker 2: He tore his achilles. He's not gonna be the same
Speaker 2: player that will determine the success of the Falcon season. Now,
Speaker 2: glass half full. This is why we drafted Michael Pennocks.
Speaker 2: Glass half empty. Because you drafted Michael Pinnicks, you now
Speaker 2: already have a quarterback controversy one game into the contract
Speaker 2: of your one hundred and eighty million dollar quarterback. Depends
Speaker 2: on how you want to look at it. I actually
Speaker 2: think the real story of this game was TJ. Watt
Speaker 2: was sensational. TJ. Watt finished the game with one sack,
Speaker 2: two TFLs, three quarterback hits, and a fumble recovery. Twice.
Speaker 2: TJ Watt had strip sacks called back due to questionable penalties.
Speaker 2: He could have legitimately had three sacks, two forced fumbles,
Speaker 2: two fumble recoveries in this game. He won them the
Speaker 2: game along with Boswell, who not only kicks the six
Speaker 2: field goals, but their punter gets hurt. Boswell has the
Speaker 2: punt and hits one awesome punt. So shout out to
Speaker 2: the Steelers for the most Steelers Z win you can imagine. Next.
Speaker 3: Yep, so you got New Orleans forty seven to Carolina's ten.
Speaker 2: Okay, Saints fans, I suppose you deserve some credit for
Speaker 2: scoring forty seven points. I I'm gonna be totally honest
Speaker 2: with the audience on this one. There were two games
Speaker 2: this weekend that I was like, well, I won't watch
Speaker 2: a second of that. Unfortunately, one of them was the
Speaker 2: local New York game, so even with my TV setup,
Speaker 2: I couldn't get away from it. The other one was
Speaker 2: this so I don't. I've got no analysis other than
Speaker 2: this is the sign that your team is cooked. If
Speaker 2: I'm not watching the game and they cut to red
Speaker 2: zone on your game, okay, and your team has the
Speaker 2: ball and I'm like, oh, huge play. The Panthers have
Speaker 2: the ball. This must be a turnover, Like if it
Speaker 2: comes to red zone and I'm like and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: big play just happened in Carolina and they show it
Speaker 2: to me and Carolina has the ball and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: So this is either a huge, you know, a forty
Speaker 2: plus yard offensive play because they're not in the red
Speaker 2: zone yet, or a disaster. No, my money's on disaster.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what happened repeatedly. And I know people
Speaker 2: think this is fascile analysis, but I just continue to
Speaker 2: be correct. Bryce Young cannot see over his offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: He is too short, and I am sorry, but he
Speaker 2: is not going to be good.
Speaker 3: Is he smaller than Kyler Murray? So he's.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think they're the same height. But Kyler is
Speaker 2: such a dynamic athlete. He does so much of his
Speaker 2: stuff where there's no offensive linement. He's running out to
Speaker 2: the sign. Bryce can't do that. Bryce needs to be
Speaker 2: in the pocket, and.
Speaker 3: I mean time there's some uncomfortable conversations for Carolina.
Speaker 2: We're close to it. It were very close to it.
Speaker 2: All right, this is the next game. Demon's that every
Speaker 2: time they cut to it on red zone and the
Speaker 2: Giants will go ahead and say the score.
Speaker 3: Sorry, it's Minnesota twenty eight to the Giant six.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Every time they cut to it on red zone,
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, what did Daniel Jones do?
Speaker 2: I mean? And it wasn't like, oh, what did Daniel
Speaker 2: Jones do? Was uh, oh, what did Daniel Jones do?
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of people are going to lose
Speaker 2: their jobs there, unfortunately. I just He's had sixty career starts,
Speaker 2: twenty of them they have not had a passing touchdown.
Speaker 2: He was brutal in this game. Malik Neighbors seems already frustrated.
Speaker 2: Flip side, flip side, Man, it won't last. But Sam
Speaker 2: Darnald out there vindicating the last six years of Colin
Speaker 2: Coward's takes. Coward has loved Donald for almost a decade
Speaker 2: and won't give up on him, and Donald was cooking
Speaker 2: early in this game. And listen, I think one of
Speaker 2: the better offensive coaches in football is Kevin O'Connell with
Speaker 2: the Vikings now, and this was a game they had
Speaker 2: to win because if you're a Vikings fan, the schedule
Speaker 2: softens up majorly later in the year. But can I
Speaker 2: just tell you the Viking next, I don't know, half
Speaker 2: dozen games, Niners, Texans, Packers, Jets, Lions, Rams, Holy you
Speaker 2: don't have a moment to breathe, so you had to
Speaker 2: win that game free And yeah, your easiest game is
Speaker 2: the Jets, for real, and it's Darnold against the Jets,
Speaker 2: Like that's gotta I mean, maybe that goes well or
Speaker 2: maybe that's a disaster. On the Giant side of things,
Speaker 2: I just I eat. The Giant schedule is the following
Speaker 2: demonse at the Commanders. This week we'll see at the
Speaker 2: Browns and then home for the Cowboys on a short
Speaker 2: week on Thursday night football. I think that Cowboys game
Speaker 2: on Thursday night will be Daniel Jones's last start as
Speaker 2: a Giant. I do because some of it he has
Speaker 2: like twenty some million that gets guaranteed if he gets
Speaker 2: hurt during the year, but it's not guaranteed now, so
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to pull the plug early and I.
Speaker 3: Think giving them Bennybuye is.
Speaker 2: What they're gonna want to do. No, I think it'll
Speaker 2: be Drew Lock. You can't put Timmy DeVito out there either.
Speaker 2: I think it'll be Drew Lock.
Speaker 3: All right, next, but next we got Dallas is thirty
Speaker 3: three to Cleveland seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, this obviously could have been higher in the show,
Speaker 2: but we spent so much time talking about it on TV,
Speaker 2: and it's so two things Dallas related, then one thing
Speaker 2: Cleveland related. First thing Dallas related. I spent a lot
Speaker 2: of time being loud and wrong about the Cowboys not
Speaker 2: signing Dak Prescott. I was wrong. I just thought that
Speaker 2: he was gonna want to test free agency, and I
Speaker 2: thought they would be squeamish about paying him sixty million
Speaker 2: a year and giving him more than two hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty million guaranteed. Both happened. So that's done. That's first point.
Speaker 2: So I was just flat wrong on it. Second Cowboys point,
Speaker 2: they looked awesome and defensively that's more about Deshaun more
Speaker 2: on him in a moment, but offensively, that Cleveland team
Speaker 2: was dominant in that building all last year, and the
Speaker 2: Cowboys did what they wanted to do so props to
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, a ton of offseason noise and a plus
Speaker 2: week one game. On the Cleveland side of things, I mean,
Speaker 2: they're just ruined at quarterback. And once again we find
Speaker 2: ourselves in a position where it's weird to talk about
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson because just yesterday another horrifying allegation came out
Speaker 2: again from the same from four years ago, but a
Speaker 2: lawsuit was filed where I mean, you can fill in
Speaker 2: the blanks on what you think he's alleged to have done,
Speaker 2: except this was with a woman he's you know, allegedly
Speaker 2: supposedly was on a date with. So you have that,
Speaker 2: you have the fact that he might be the worst
Speaker 2: quarterback in the NFL. Then you also have this fact
Speaker 2: he's uncuttable. One hundred and seventy two million of cap
Speaker 2: hits still owed to this guy. And so I saw
Speaker 2: the Browns.
Speaker 3: I saw a take that said, Deshaun Watson doesn't want
Speaker 3: to play football anymore. He doesn't even really enjoy being
Speaker 3: out there. It doesn't look like he does, to be honest.
Speaker 2: I so I think that's correct, and I think the
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson on my shoulder is sore is a very
Speaker 2: attle bit of that last year, with that weird time
Speaker 2: where he wasn't playing, it seemed like he could have
Speaker 2: been Yeah, and so I mean, but he's not going
Speaker 2: to retire because they got to pay him this money.
Speaker 2: And I know that some of those aggregator accounts have speculated, oh,
Speaker 2: with this new allegation, well, the Browns be able to
Speaker 2: get out of his contract. When we talk about how
Speaker 2: terrible the Deshaun Watson trade and contract was, I want
Speaker 2: to remind people his agent got in there language that
Speaker 2: says he will not forfeit his signing bonus or any
Speaker 2: future guaranteed salary with a suspension. So maybe they could
Speaker 2: try to claw some of it back, but I don't
Speaker 2: think so. And so listen you it's not as if
Speaker 2: the Browns traded for Deshaun Watson not knowing uh, he
Speaker 2: hasn't played in a year and he has twenty credible accusers.
Speaker 2: They did it eyes wide open, and this is kind
Speaker 2: of what you get. So is listen, it is what
Speaker 2: it is. But that team's offense is broken and they
Speaker 2: should play Jamis. But when you owe a guy one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy two million of cap over the next
Speaker 2: two years, that's a hard thing to do, all right.
Speaker 3: Last three quickly, Tampa baysed thirty seven to Washington's twenty.
Speaker 3: Baker show Dagger Dagger. I don't know if it was
Speaker 3: obviously on my teaser, but oh I think maybe I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know if I wasn't watching too
Speaker 3: much Commanders football last year. But maybe that's a secondary problem.
Speaker 3: Maybe their secondary is just bad this.
Speaker 2: Well, they couldn't get a pass rush. Baker was getting
Speaker 2: the ball out immediately. Listen, man, Mike Evan's really good.
Speaker 2: The kid they drafted. It made a big play. Godwins
Speaker 2: good and Baker was absolutely dealing. These Baker numbers over
Speaker 2: his last seven games are in sane Baker's averaging including
Speaker 2: the playoffs, like three hundred yards a game, a one
Speaker 2: to eleven rating, a bunch of touchdowns only like two.
Speaker 2: He's been awesome for now like half a season. The
Speaker 2: sad thing for Tampa is this, in this game, they
Speaker 2: lost Antoine Winfield and three corners, so they had three
Speaker 2: or four pardon me, injuries to their secondary in one game.
Speaker 2: And that's what can really kill you is those cluster injuries.
Speaker 2: Those can be very hard to deal with and having
Speaker 2: the Lions next week, that could be a really rough
Speaker 2: spot to be dealing with those injuries. For the story
Speaker 2: on the Washington side of things is Jaden didn't get
Speaker 2: the crap kicked out of him and played pretty well.
Speaker 2: I think sixteen carries is too much, but in fact,
Speaker 2: I know it's too much. But if you're but Washington,
Speaker 2: it's really how does Jaden look on that piece of it?
Speaker 2: Demon's a this is a weird one. Your teasers A
Speaker 2: good bet if you're told Washington's gonna score twenty and
Speaker 2: they do, Yeah, you know what I mean. But it
Speaker 2: was just Tampa's offense and Baker was unstoppable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I didn't respect Baker enough. It's how
Speaker 3: I saw it, was how I see it now.
Speaker 2: But well, listen, I think it was hard to just
Speaker 2: maybe they score thirty seven points. All right, let's do
Speaker 2: the last two quickly.
Speaker 3: So you got Seattle's twenty six to Denvers twenty.
Speaker 2: All right. Bonnicks threw the ball forty two times for
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty eight yards, and Broncos fans got
Speaker 2: mad at me when I said I was not impressed
Speaker 2: by him in the preseason, And then I thought Sean
Speaker 2: Payton was trying to, you know, trick people and prove
Speaker 2: some things. I do not think Bonnicks is an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 2: I think he will have better moments obviously than this one.
Speaker 2: But if the Seahawks clearly said, you're not gonna throw
Speaker 2: the ball down the field, We're gonna play man to
Speaker 2: man and dare you to do something, and he couldn't
Speaker 2: man to man single high heat up the you know,
Speaker 2: get after the quarterback. Hell of a debut for Mike
Speaker 2: McDonald with Seattle and uh Gino made one terrible mistake,
Speaker 2: but aside from that was good Seattle. A lot of
Speaker 2: the smart folks like Seattle. They get the Patriots next week.
Speaker 2: They so they can start two and oh they should
Speaker 2: start two and oh, and then they have Dolphins Lions
Speaker 2: before they get the Giants. You gotta think if they
Speaker 2: can just split with Dolphins Lions, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the Seahawks are starting four and one. The Broncos, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, man that it really is a beautiful
Speaker 2: gift that the AFC West has bo Nicks as a
Speaker 2: quarterback in it and then Antonio Pierce as a head coach. Sorry,
Speaker 2: but let's get to the last game because it had,
Speaker 2: honest to god, one of the single worst coaching decisions
Speaker 2: in the history of the NFL was in this game.
Speaker 2: That's not an exaggeration. Give me the last time.
Speaker 3: Yes, So we've got a Chargers twenty two to the
Speaker 3: Raiders ten.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the situation, guys. Uh it is. I
Speaker 2: want to get it exactly right. Yeah, it's fourth and
Speaker 2: one on the Chargers' forty three yard line, you're down
Speaker 2: six in the fourth quarter with seven minutes left, and
Speaker 2: Antonio Pierce punted the ball. Bill Barnwell tweeted, the last
Speaker 2: sixty six times a team has been in that situation,
Speaker 2: they have gone for it. Uh, that's like a a
Speaker 2: just simplely can't do it. I will never trust you again. Thing.
Speaker 2: It's your first game as a full time head coach.
Speaker 2: You have fourth and one, you're on your opponent's side
Speaker 2: of the field, it's the fourth quarter, you're down six,
Speaker 2: and you call a punt and then you defend it
Speaker 2: after the game. That can't happen. Just can't happen. Now,
Speaker 2: the flip side Chargers, what a vintage hardball game. We're
Speaker 2: just gonna run, run, run, play great defense. We're eventually
Speaker 2: gonna pop a big one and they end up running
Speaker 2: the ball twenty seven times for one seventy six Herbert
Speaker 2: only throws for one hundred and forty four yards, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. They control the game the whole basically
Speaker 2: from the second half on, and the Chargers are going
Speaker 2: to be a pain in the ass this year. I
Speaker 2: think they're gonna be three to oher headed into Kansas
Speaker 2: City or hosting kansaity, pardon me in a month. And absolutely,
Speaker 2: this Chargers team, they have to start the year, Demanse.
Speaker 2: Remember that last place schedule. Look at this for the Chargers, Raiders,
Speaker 2: then Panthers, Steelers, Chiefs, Broncos, Cardinals, Saints Brown's Titans. That's
Speaker 2: the Chargers opening schedule.
Speaker 3: That's fun.
Speaker 2: Raiders, Panthers, Steelers, Chiefs, which is brutal, Broncos, Cardinals, Saints
Speaker 2: Brown's Titans. I mean they can get off to an
Speaker 2: amazing start, and then they end the year Demonse with
Speaker 2: these three games Bronco's Patriots, Raiders. Pretty good. All right,
Speaker 2: we did it. It's a long show, but it was
Speaker 2: worth it. Answer a couple very quick questions. Next, then
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