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Week one is in the books 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:58.400 and there are a couple takeaways, but my initial immediate 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.680 takeaway is kind of the best two teams from last year, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.319 they still kind of look like the best two teams, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.160 and if you're will Get, if you're a Ravens fan, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.319 I think watching Sunday you had to feel a little 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.480 better about Thursday, because if you watch Sunday, you might 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.639 have felt like all of these teams would just get 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.520 rolled by the Chiefs and we were right there. It 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:31.119 really now again it's overreaction Monday Tuesday in this league. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:36.080 But and there's always some bad Week one offensive football. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.360 This year it seemed to be somewhat extreme. But here's 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.280 what I want to do today. So you guys heard 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:48.480 me mention the first in pod podcast a ton with 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.840 Danny Parkins and Andrew Philipponi. They actually both were in 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.560 here once as got joint guests with me when they 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.720 were in New York. Danny has left the pod because 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.320 now he hosts breakfast Ball Mornings from eight to ten 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.320 Ey Stern on FS one. But so that pod, by 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.959 the way, is continuing with taking Danny Parkins place. Is 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.440 this public or not? Oh boy, well, let me check 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.720 real quick. It doesn't matter if it's not public. You 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.919 guys will find out in short order. I'm gonna look 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.760 real quick because there's an amazing new co host for 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:29.359 that podcast. Okay, yeah, it is public, replacing Danny Parkins 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.160 on First and Pot with Andrew Philipponi, future NFL Hall 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:38.160 of Famer Patrick Peterson, star corner for a decade plus 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.080 in the league, taking Danny's job. But here's the thing. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.440 The thing I loved about that podcast was they did 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:50.120 every game every week, their Sunday Night or you know, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:54.840 basically week Recap pod would touch on every single game. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.240 So I am going to steal that conceit from them 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.800 and we are going to go through all sixteen Week 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.800 one games. Obviously all sixteen games will not get the 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.520 same amount of time, but I want to touch on 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.000 everything from week one in the NFL, and if you 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.080 guys like it, that's kind of the concept that we'll 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.480 do every single week. But first, here's what missed the cut. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.920 Many Mahomes beat Shador Sanders as I told you what happened, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.480 and it was less about him beating Shitdor than it 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:32.120 was Nebraska bullying Colorado Center and Sablenka win the US 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.400 Open that would have been zero for two on my 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:39.280 Bengo card. And Aaron Rodgers Enigma, the Netflix series announced 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.520 we now see demand demonse. How are you? You? Texted 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.560 me last night? Aaron Rodgers plays football today? I text 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.800 you midway through the game kind of uh so, how 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.240 are you doing this morning? How did Week one treat you? 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.280 Aside from the fact that you know, the teaser wasn't great, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:58.640 but we'll get to that on Thursday. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.840 Amazingly, it was a good Week one of football Unfortunately, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.400 I was moving around a lot, so I caught what 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.960 I could, but but no I saw I saw some 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.720 great stuff. I went out to Kansas City, unfortunately the 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:11.840 day after the game. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:18.840 But oh, that's right, I forgot you. My mom, who 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.040 lives in New York, and Demonzeg who lives in La 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.080 met in Kansas City. And Demonse saw friends and family. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.800 Did you see both my parents? See my mom and 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:28.279 my dad? 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.919 No, we had dinner at Propos and with Melinda. So 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.679 with all the whole games, that's really cool. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.200 So you were traveling a bit, so you saw some 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.000 of the standalone games and what you could on Sunday. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.880 But that's fine because I wanted to do the Lion's share. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.400 They're talking today anyway. You did see last night last 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:56.440 night Niners thirty two Jets nineteen. Uh, what do you 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.239 think the story of that game last night was? Because 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.720 to me, it's very clear what it was. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:08.000 Aaron Rodgers, he was looking old out there. I got 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.160 order from the producers that there were some similarities to 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.000 Tamm and Kirk Cousins. I didn't get to see much 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.719 of that game, but I could tell when he flipped 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.960 it off to Breeze Hall like the first three plays 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.760 of the game, how it was going to kind of 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.440 go and when he needed an evade in the pocket, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.400 he couldn't like really make sharp turns. It seemed like 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.080 he had to like make more of these like curved routes. Well, 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.679 he's getting frustrated very easily, very early as well. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:37.680 So those were my two biggest takeaways. Was first of all, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.960 if you just look at the next gen stats as 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.240 far as time to throw, Aaron Rodgers' third fastest of 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.039 anybody in the league this weekend. Jaden Daniels, number one 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.039 rookie making his first start, he was one read, get 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.080 it out and if he wasn't, he was running. And 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.440 then Baker Mayfield, who that when that Bucks offense is cooking, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.040 boom boom throw and they really did cook. Aaron Rodgers' 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.240 third fastest, fourth fastest to a tongue of Ailoa. Fifth 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.200 fastest Joe Burrow, another guy who people have a little, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:13.760 you know, concerns about his health. Also Aaron only through 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.240 to the left and only through to Garrett Wilson or 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.040 Breese Hall with a couple targets. Alan Lazard and I 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.240 agree with you entirely about the body language piece. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:25.480 Of it. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.480 The Alan Lazard drop on the first drive, you saw it, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.880 and then the Breezehall fumble on the second drive. You 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:40.719 saw it. And that, honestly, Aaron Rodgers performance despite that criticism, 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.919 probably the highlight of the night for Jets fans. What 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.680 happened to this great defense that I've been told about? Oh, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:51.400 I just wait, just wait until the Jets get a quarterback. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.960 They might have the best defense in the NFL. You 0:06:55.160 --> 0:07:00.120 allowed the Niners, without their best skill position player, to 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:08.360 score on eight consecutive possessions, eight possessions in a row. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.080 The Niners put points on the board, two touchdowns and 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:17.280 six field goals, and you weren't able to generate any 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.400 type of pass rush. One of the biggest winners from 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.040 last night, other than Jordan Mason, probably a son Reddick 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.880 who had to come away from last night saying you 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.400 probably should pay me. Uh that you you probably should 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.640 go ahead and pay me. There was a weird Sauce 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.120 Gardener moment in the first Sauce was. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.840 Playing injury and then he's kind of injury. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.480 I don't know, man. They they said he didn't have 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.320 an injury. He said he got the win knocked out 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.600 of him. He missed I think eight plays and the 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.560 Niners moved down the field. I don't know what that was. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.480 It was joint benching Disney guy. The guy hit him 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.600 really fast and hit him right in the shoulder, and 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.520 he seemed to be kind of like grabbing at it 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.080 when he was coming off. I thought he just got one. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.000 But he you know, like a labrum thing or the 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.360 thing that happened to you. But he but that wasn't it. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.000 He had no shoulder injury at all. Yeah, he came 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.160 back in and when he was asked about it after 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.040 the game, he said, got the wind knocked out of him. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.119 But you're usually not out for that long. The Jets 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.840 are just the Jets are still the Jets. Guys, they 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:36.040 had one awesome drive early. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.960 It seems like you're reading that as something like the 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.280 sauce Gardener thing. You think that there's something eerie. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.800 I don't know. I don't I don't know. It seemed 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.400 like he was benched for a series. But that makes 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.000 no sense. But it also makes no sense for Lisa 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:55.440 Saulters to be told that sauce Gardener during the game. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.679 She reported it's not injury related. Well, so what are 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.800 we doing. I don't understand, like, did he I again, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.640 maybe someone will report what it was. But that Jets 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.880 defense got bullied for three hours last night, and that 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.400 Jets offense looked like it was being designed a guy 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.840 who they didn't want as their offensive coordinator, and quarterbacks 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.520 by a guy who's the oldest quarterback in the league 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.120 who's coming off of torn achilles. The last time Aaron 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:30.280 Rodgers threw for three hundred yards, Dan Campbell had zero 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.480 career head coaching wins as the Lions head coach. Dan 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.840 Campbell's entire tenure of success with the Lions has happened 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.720 since Aaron Rodgers last threw for three hundred yards. So 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:50.439 I I'm not overreacting to week one. What I am 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:56.079 doing is reacting to week one and the Jets confirming 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.600 a lot of my concerns and oh my god, these 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.520 amazing weapons we have. Well, Mike Williams was on that list. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:09.800 He started the game and then didn't come, you know, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:18.200 barely played. Uh so the Dusty just text me this 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.400 Sauce Gardner after the game says it was a tackle 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.960 that I made. I just had to get my wind back. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.280 I just had to shake back when I felt like 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.880 I was good. I went back on the field. Yeah, no, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.560 I that I appreciate you sending me the quote, Dusty, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.120 and I had seen that. It was just weird. That 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:40.000 was a long absence for getting the winning out of you. Yeah, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.040 I mean getting the wind knocked out of you is. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.040 And again I'm not doubting Sauce. It was just it 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.160 was just weird. The Jets are just weird. And I'm 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.560 going to show it on First Things First later today. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.120 But the the Aaron Rodgers passing chart, it's just the 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.000 left side of the field, so there's that side of it. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.080 I just think the Jets are once again gonna be 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.920 a seven to eight win team. I don't think they're 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:10.679 well coached. I think people have way overrated how good 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.640 Aaron is going to be. Now people are gonna say, oh, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:19.199 some of those throws, guys. I remember being a kid 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:27.400 watching Dan Marino on the set of the CBS pregame show, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.800 and sometimes it's Dan Marino is, you know in his 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.000 late forties maybe yeah, late forties at the time, well 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.319 removed from football, but he also tours Achilles oddly, and 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.840 sometimes they would go to a fake football field or 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.760 outside or whatever. And they'd throw the football around and 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.480 holy shit, man, Dan Marino, even at fifty years old, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:56.960 could sling it tight, spiral, hurt the guy's hands, perfect accuracy. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.880 Aaron is going to be able to throw the ball forever. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:08.120 That's not even the majority of quarterbacking. Sobey were like, oh, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.040 but look at this throw to Garrett Wilson on the sidelines. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.040 He'll be able to do that forever. Aaron Rodgers will 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.560 be able to win the old school quarterback competition where 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.319 you dip the football and paint. There's targets with bullseyes 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.800 moving around on the field and you try to You 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.439 try to hit him forever. But if he can't move, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.560 and if you don't trust yourself to be able to escape, 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.720 it's not going. And your offensive coordinator can't scheme stuff 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.400 up for you could be tough. Now on the other 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:49.480 side of it, all right, the Niners looked awesome. Jordan Mason, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:56.760 the young running back, was great, great, and I know 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.200 people want to hear it. I thought brock Bern he 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:05.160 played pretty damn well. I know the numbers were pedestrian, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.760 but this is where I don't really care about the numbers. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:16.000 I thought that this was more impressive of a quarterbacking 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:21.760 performance from Brock than some of his three touchdown, zero interception, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.600 one thirty quarterback rating games. I thought there was one 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.160 drive he was shaky, well, the very beginning of the 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.040 game was a little shaky, and one drive I think 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.040 third quarter he was shaky. Other than that, he didn't 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.320 miss a whole hell of a lot of passes. He 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:41.560 had some really good, play good passes. Ayuk didn't do 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.760 him a favor on that end zone drop, and I 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:50.520 thought he was really good. Now, I tweeted this and 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.719 this is the question I want to ask demon day 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.680 before we move on to the next game. When Jordan 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.760 Mason was out there crushing, I said, by the Brock 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:05.640 already corollary, everyone must now believe Jordan Mason is a 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:11.560 top five back in football. So if I were to 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:19.040 go on TV and say, holy Molly, Jordan Mason, guy's 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:26.200 a superstar. Look at what he did, I think people 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:31.000 would push back and say, well, it's the Shanahan system. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.520 It's it's you know what I mean. There's We've seen 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.160 a lot of guys in that system, his dad's system, 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:43.120 in his at that position have success. And I would say, yeah, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.600 that is exactly correct. Now, whether or not those same 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.920 people want to allow me to do similar math like 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.120 that on party is, I guess their call. But I 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.600 thought he was excellent. I thought the Niners defense was excellent, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.480 and I think this was a great wee in for 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:05.160 San Francisco because sadly the Rams will deal with them later. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.240 Had a lot of injuries and lost a game. The 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:14.440 Niners got through this game mostly unscathed and looked awesome. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.240 So that was my take. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.640 He said that he he said that he knew that 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.920 he was going to be the starter on Friday. So 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.520 do you think that they the forty nine ers are 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.360 obligated to come out and say something. Is that kind 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:27.720 of weird? 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.440 Well, so if listen that is, that would be a 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:36.600 rules violation, I'd be lying about the injury report. Oddly, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.720 Kyle Shanahan was asked about it after the game, and 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.920 he said, I definitively did not tell Jordan that I 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.240 told him to be ready for a lot of action. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.200 He said, maybe one of his position coaches told him 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.320 that to gass him up, but we didn't know until 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:59.200 earlier today that Christian was definitively out. I actually believe 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.600 Kyle Shannon hand here. You can say that's naive. But 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:08.440 the reason I believe Kyle Shanahan is because if this news, 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.000 if Jordan knew it on Friday, Vegas would have found 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.480 out before the team released it, and you could get 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:23.080 Jordan Mason over thirteen rushing yards Monday at four pm. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.920 So I don't I don't think that the Niners knew 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:32.920 McCaffrey was I know, I don't think that the Niners 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:38.440 knew McCaffrey was out Friday night. I don't I think 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.040 that that level that news would have trickled out into 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.480 the betting markets. And so I actually, yes, it would 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.480 be a huge violation. Lying on the injury report it's 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:53.440 a big deal. Uh. But and lying that you call 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.240 a guy questionable when he's really doubtful. Those types of 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:57.600 things not much you can. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:58.440 Do it a whole player. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.240 You know three before the game that this player is out, 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.159 and you don't have even having listed as doubtful. That 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.000 would be a big deal. But I actually believe them. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:15.720 All right, now, let's get to come on. I mean this, 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.840 you know, the game of the week. Yeah, let's get 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:23.639 to it. Kant City twenty seven, Demand's beloved Ravens twenty. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.800 So I'm gonna go first and then you and then 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:29.720 you go to Monsey. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:30.680 Uh. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.760 And I obviously talked about this a lot on TV 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.320 and now it's like five days old, so I'll actually 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.800 be oddly quick here. Thursday night games are not perfect 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.719 for our podcast to discuss because we're not on, you know, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.240 till Tuesday morning. But the Chiefs looked far and away 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.040 like the best team in the league. And the Niners 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.960 may be listen, the Niners played so well yesterday, they 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:57.919 maybe have a similar claim. But the Chiefs did whatever 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:02.600 they wanted and didn't even play close to a perfect game, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.679 didn't have Hollywood and Kelsey didn't do much, and it 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:14.040 was against a Baltimore team that was peak motivation, and 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.040 you could tell because of how Lamar played in that game, 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.160 and Kansas City controlled every second of that game. And 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.280 if people want to say, oh yeah, but listen, Baltimore 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:31.440 did almost have a chance to steal the game. That 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:36.080 did happen. But for the Chiefs to play that efficiently 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.400 and well, despite Mahomes having like a B minus level 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.240 Mahomes game and a truly awful turnover that you never 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.840 see out of him, I think Bode's really well for 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:52.320 the Chiefs moving forward this season. Demond's a your thoughts 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.439 on that game, most notably from the Ravens perspective. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.080 Well, I don't think the Chiefs were able to do 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:02.800 whatever they wanted. I think the Baltimore defense did a 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.840 very good job at giving Lamar Jackson the offense chances 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.520 to go and take the lead and get back in 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.440 the game. Just didn't do it. And you would think 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.879 with penalties being such a big part negatively in the 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.119 in the AFC Championship Game last year, that they wouldn't 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.840 have came out and gotten twenty penalties in the first game. 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.919 I think that they did do whatever it took, you know, 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.160 to get in the game, which meant Lamar's gonna freaking 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.000 take it up the field every single time. I don't 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.480 love that, but I mean, if that's what we gotta do, 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.359 we gotta do. I wouldn't say that he was scared 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.080 of throwing the ball. I don't think his old line 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:39.879 was really giving him a chance in the beginning of 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.520 the game. I think when there were guys open, he 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:48.560 found him. Obviously. You hate the Za Flowers mistouchdown pass. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.879 That was that. That was kind of bad. That was 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:52.639 a tough one. 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.800 Well, so a couple of things. I so, first of all, 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.800 on the penalty side of it, at some point, you 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.359 are who you are. And the Ravens are somewhat immature team. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.720 And Isaiah likely after the game with his nonsense of 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.120 you know, that'll be the worst we play all year. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.000 We'll see how they look in the playoffs. You'll see 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.000 all the two time defending champs look in the playoffs. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.760 They're probably gonna look pretty good, Buddy, and Roquan Smith 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.359 with his Patrick flopped and I've got something for eighty eight. 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:26.119 I think the Ravens are a somewhat emotionally immature team. 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:31.159 So I thought Lamar played. I thought Lamar played this 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:35.640 game demande like a psychopath. I thought he was trying 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.560 to initiate contact. It's one thing to have Lamar be like, 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:44.879 you know what we've got, this is such a huge game, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.239 I'm gonna run the ball. But there were plenty of 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.160 times he could have gone out of bounds, and he 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:58.840 lowered his shoulder to not even get extra yards he 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.040 had already he picked up the first down and could 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.600 have slid and took the punishment. And now and I 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.600 don't know if you saw it. He missed practiced yesterday. 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:12.320 Quote A little sore is what the reporting is. Now. 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.879 When I heard he missed practice, I assumed, you know, 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:20.199 you know what. I assumed Lamar had the flu for 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.360 the thirty eighth time as a professional athlete. But they're 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:27.359 saying he's a little sore. I just thought that game, 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:30.919 for good or for bad demons was the full Lamar 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.520 Jackson viewing experience. The like some runs that are just 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:42.760 so frustrating if you're the defense. Some miss layups and 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:47.879 miss deep throws, a couple holy crap, How did he 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:51.960 get out of it? And then great passes, and then 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.119 you know that Baltimore's in the game late with a 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:59.240 chance to steal it. Like I I thought, I don't 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.760 think Lamar. I didn't think Lamar played well. I thought 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.920 Lamar played exciting. But I thought that and he had 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:11.440 some great plays. But he's gotta be better if they're 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:15.280 gonna beat Kansas City in a big spot. All his 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:21.480 completions can't be He had sixteen passes demons at or 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:25.760 behind the line of scrimmage, and the Chiefs clearly were 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.960 not scared of getting beat over the top now likely's 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:32.159 really good and credit to him. I thought he had 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:34.760 an awesome game and it's a shame for him that, 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:40.280 you know, he missed the potential touchdown. But as you mentioned, 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:45.720 the likely piece doesn't happen if Lamar makes a better 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.439 play to say, it just doesn't. And then after the 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:51.080 game he said, I wasn't even going for Zay, all right, 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.080 but that's that. You know, that game's five days ago 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.720 at this point, so we can move on the other 0:22:57.280 --> 0:22:59.879 So we'll do all the standalone games in the A 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.880 blocked them, will rapid fire through the others, Philly, Green Bay. 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:09.600 So Jordan. Some good news on Jordan Love. They're not 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.600 putting him on the r which means they think there's 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:18.040 a chance he misses less than four games. So that's 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.320 kind of best case scenario for them that he could 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:26.240 potentially only miss three games. I still would anticipate that 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:30.720 he misses four. Bad news to Monse is this part 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:35.440 of it. I didn't think he looked sharp seventeen of 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.080 thirty four. I thought that they left some meat on 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:43.560 the bone and kind of let Philly get away with one. 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:48.520 Because and this is where Eagles fans are gonna be 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:52.960 furious with me, but I don't really care. Saquan was awesome, 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:58.080 and you know right now my Saquon take is trending 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:00.760 to wrong. We'll see how how it goes at the 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:04.040 end of the year. He was great. Jalen Hurts was 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:08.080 bad in this game. He had three turnovers, could have 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:12.800 had five. The defense looks like the defense from last year, 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:18.440 and they immediately missed Jason Kelcey, the tush push failed. 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:24.080 They they had bad snaps. Like if I'm an Eagles fan, 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:29.560 I am not. My concerns about this team heading into 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:34.320 the year, about the how Kelsey's gonna they're gonna deal 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:38.280 with the departure of Kelsey, about how the defense is 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:42.880 gonna look, and is Jalen Hurts going to get over 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:46.600 his turnover problem from last year? None of those are 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:51.280 answered now. Aj Brown's awesome and Kellen Moore seemed to 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:54.920 be able to use Devantae Smith more creatively than they 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:58.600 were last year. And Saquon. I can't say enough about 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:03.280 how good Saquon was. But I tweeted during the game, 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:07.080 and I will reiterate it that I picked both of 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:09.840 these teams, the Packers and the Eagles, to finish third 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:12.840 in their divisions and miss the playoffs, and I feel 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:16.080 fine about both of those predictions. Right now. I don't 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:20.080 think Philly's very good despite the win, and I think 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:25.600 that there is going to be way too much smoke 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:31.640 on the Eagles against the Falcons at home Kirk Cousins 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:36.280 after that awful performance on Monday Night Football, and we 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:39.359 can talk about that on the gambling show for the Packers. 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:45.920 I said this on TV when it happened, and I'll 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:49.200 say it again here. I think going into the season 0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:53.320 with the only other quarterback on your roster being Malik 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:59.679 Willis was negligent. And you obviously don't want Jordan Love 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:04.040 to get hurt. But Malik Willis, God Love him, is 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:09.440 not an NFL quarterback. In his career, he has zero touchdowns, 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:14.200