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Speaker 1: Black Hand Feel thirty four to twenty three, the Bengals
Speaker 1: over the Ravens to kick off Week two. This is
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal alongside Chris Westlyne, Dan Hansis and Mark Sessler.
Speaker 1: Will be with us a little later to preview the
Speaker 1: Week two games. But Chris, we are here to talk
Speaker 1: a little T and F once again. I forgot how
Speaker 1: to do this, but I know this was a tough
Speaker 1: night for you, testing your professionalism to write nice things
Speaker 1: about the Cincinnati Bengals, the undefeated Cincinnati Bengals on NFL
Speaker 1: dot Com. That's one way to put it. I would say,
Speaker 1: in my defense, I've been pretty complimentary about the Bengals
Speaker 1: throughout the off season, and certainly about Joe Mixon the
Speaker 1: first two weeks. That's true, and Mixon made a difference
Speaker 1: in this game, even though the numbers didn't show it.
Speaker 1: Twenty one carries eighty four yards. When he came back
Speaker 1: into the game. He was on and off the field
Speaker 1: because of injuries. When he came back in in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter when they absolutely needed to drive, he was
Speaker 1: kind of the key guy to kill the clock, move
Speaker 1: the ball, and they got a field goal that that
Speaker 1: held off the Ravens. The Bengals were up to seven,
Speaker 1: they almost blew it. Did you think they were gonna
Speaker 1: blow it? And what were you? I absolutely thought they
Speaker 1: would blow up because I've seen the you know, for
Speaker 1: thirty five years, the Bengals always blow leads. This time
Speaker 1: they they did a good job of keeping the lead.
Speaker 1: And I think this this is one of the most
Speaker 1: improved offenses in the league. And and the defense is
Speaker 1: improved too. Even without Vontes Perfect out there, this defense
Speaker 1: is better than it's been. You think they're gonna go
Speaker 1: sixteen and now, no, I don't know. I don't think
Speaker 1: they have it in them. But it would be fun
Speaker 1: to see them go sixteen and oh and then losing
Speaker 1: the in the in the second round of them, that
Speaker 1: would be That would be Marvin Lewis really stepping up.
Speaker 1: There are a different team though, don't you think uh
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd is really becoming a solid number two to
Speaker 1: Ada Green? Green had three touchdowns in this game. He
Speaker 1: could have had three last weekends. And Balton will find
Speaker 1: open receivers if you give him time. And this offensive
Speaker 1: line kept him sack free against the defense that dominated
Speaker 1: the Bills last week. Yeah, that the coaching changes for
Speaker 1: this team have been a little under the radar. So
Speaker 1: Frank Pollock uh is their offensive former cowboy offensive line,
Speaker 1: and they look like a different offensive line. They look
Speaker 1: like a solid offensive line. Laser has had all off
Speaker 1: season to implemented playbook. He sort of got thrust into
Speaker 1: that in the middle of September last year. I was
Speaker 1: thinking back to I believe it was Week two a
Speaker 1: year ago. I was in this studio talking about Bengals
Speaker 1: Texans and that was a terrible game to watch the
Speaker 1: Bengals offense and comparing that Bengals offense to this one,
Speaker 1: I think they have some stain power. I know it
Speaker 1: was a Thursday night game on the road, but they
Speaker 1: pushed around the Ravens defensive line a little bit. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the Bengals are ready yet to challenge
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Patriots, but they look like a
Speaker 1: playoff team to me, and I hope we get West
Speaker 1: of Vis again this year. I think we are. I
Speaker 1: think the annual tradition Erica, you do you know what
Speaker 1: west of this is? Our producer, the loose cannon is
Speaker 1: behind the glass with us this Tuesday night. Do you
Speaker 1: know what west of This is? Uh, it's like the
Speaker 1: celebration of West No, well, sort of in an off
Speaker 1: hand kind of way. Yeah. I created this about what
Speaker 1: seven years ago. It was the annual Saturday afternoon in January,
Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs when the Bengals lose
Speaker 1: every year. So that's his favorite day of the year,
Speaker 1: the Bengals losing, and we haven't been able to do
Speaker 1: it the last couple of years. I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: think at least two teams are getting into the playoffs
Speaker 1: from the a f C North. I predicted the Ravens
Speaker 1: and Bengals before the years would be those two. We'll see.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a long way to go. I think
Speaker 1: if you're a Ravens fan, I wouldn't freak out of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think any differently about this team after this
Speaker 1: game that the defense wasn't great but actually as bad
Speaker 1: as Joe Flacco looked in the first quarter of this game.
Speaker 1: The difference between this year is Joe Flacco and last
Speaker 1: year's Joe Flacco is at least he can do enough
Speaker 1: to rebound after a terrible start and put up some
Speaker 1: garbage stats and make it interesting that last year's Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco wasn't doing this. Yeah, he almost went for four
Speaker 1: hundred yards, and a lot of that is because his
Speaker 1: receivers are better. John Brown dropped the touchdown, but made
Speaker 1: some big plays in this game. I think they really
Speaker 1: missed C. J. Moseley, who went out with a bone
Speaker 1: bruise early in the game, and middle of the field
Speaker 1: was wide open for the Bengals for most of the game.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that would worry me if I'm
Speaker 1: a Ravens fan. I'm probably making too much of this,
Speaker 1: but Eric Weddle is thirty three years old. He's played
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy games. That one of the hardest
Speaker 1: hitting positions on the field, and I hope he took
Speaker 1: a bad angle on the eight second A J. Green
Speaker 1: touchdown because he looked awfully slow on that play. He didn't.
Speaker 1: He did not look great tonight. Geno Atkins might have
Speaker 1: been the best player on the field. Two tackles for
Speaker 1: last four quarterback kids, two sacks, but the Ravens aren't
Speaker 1: gonna win any games where they have no sacks, no turnovers.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton in prime Time was basically mistake free throwing
Speaker 1: to A J. Green And I just want to read
Speaker 1: a tweet that the loose cannon said, and I want
Speaker 1: to see if she can explain it to me. She wrote,
Speaker 1: A J. Green is like the X that you ignored
Speaker 1: their calls a little too long in case someone else called,
Speaker 1: but then shows up to the dance with Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: catch my drift. Listen, listen, make it quick, Okay, make
Speaker 1: it quick. A J. Green people last season and started like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's okay, he's good, you know whatever bother they're kind
Speaker 1: of about him. And then tonight he like busted through
Speaker 1: the gate the first half and everyone was like A J. Green,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, heart eyes emoji like he's the popular
Speaker 1: kid now, but he was the one that we were
Speaker 1: all sort of like, I'm not going to pick up
Speaker 1: the phone for him calling because I'm gonna see what
Speaker 1: else is out there. But then he shows you up
Speaker 1: by you know, bringing Tom Brady to the dance. That
Speaker 1: was just me throwing in tom Brady, but otherwise like
Speaker 1: bringing the hottie to the dance when you didn't Anyone
Speaker 1: that was ever questioning a j Green too hard doesn't
Speaker 1: know what they were talking about. This This guy's a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. And then finally before we throw it
Speaker 1: to Dan, I want to I want to hear a
Speaker 1: voice of another Hall of Famer in my eyes. But
Speaker 1: Andy has been playing with your hair on fire. Basically,
Speaker 1: I see what you did there, Andy Dalton, two thousand eighteen.
Speaker 1: That was a great reaction to our friend Colleen Wolf.
Speaker 1: Congratulations for Colleen hanging out in my hometown first night
Speaker 1: hosting the pregame, the half time, the post game of
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. They grow up so fast, and she
Speaker 1: did an awesome job as predicted. She was incredible. Congratulations
Speaker 1: to Colleen, and let's throw it over to Dan and
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about the week to slate,
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast posts up jays in the backyard.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas and I am joined in
Speaker 1: a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. What is up, boys? Hey, d I like
Speaker 1: that idea. Actually, just have listeners start sending high quality
Speaker 1: clothing to my desk at work and I'll start wearing it.
Speaker 1: You heard it, people hit me up and I'll give
Speaker 1: you my sizes before you purchase. At the top of
Speaker 1: the show, you heard Wes and Greg the Scientists breakdown
Speaker 1: the Ravens and Ben Gals Tilt on Thursday night, and
Speaker 1: our job today on the late Thursday early Friday edition
Speaker 1: of our pod is to break down each of the
Speaker 1: week two games we we were you know, of course
Speaker 1: in London last week. We get back Monday highly jet lagged.
Speaker 1: Um actually slept to almost six am uh this morning,
Speaker 1: so I feel like I'm really heading in the right
Speaker 1: direction now, in full recovery. But no one said that
Speaker 1: was part of the deal of going to London. It
Speaker 1: was like, no one cares about you. You're going on
Speaker 1: your little fancy boy trip and when you come back,
Speaker 1: you're going to be dropped into you know, the Viet
Speaker 1: conge and that's where we are right now. But you
Speaker 1: can just like whine about it at the top of
Speaker 1: the podcast. At least that helps. Yeah, I'm not whining.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is my my I think our
Speaker 1: job is to try to recapture some of the energy
Speaker 1: that was going back and forth between West and the
Speaker 1: loose cannon behind the glass before the show started, because
Speaker 1: that was something special. I've never seen West scream at
Speaker 1: someone like that. Yeah, there was no screaming. Okay, your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Someone happened before the show. Greg's just jealous that since London,
Speaker 1: West and I have a much deeper bond, Greg, there's
Speaker 1: something to that. Okay. By the way, I wonder if
Speaker 1: Vietnam vets might disagree with your opening analysis there. That
Speaker 1: was a little a little bit more harrow than wandering
Speaker 1: around a carpeted corporate building talking about a sport. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I you know, I love this country, and
Speaker 1: of course all the veterans the true heroes of this country.
Speaker 1: But one thing they don't know is what it's like
Speaker 1: to go on a work trip to England, and then
Speaker 1: I'm back and have to record three podcasts and go
Speaker 1: to multiple meetings. I'm losing it. West is right on
Speaker 1: the edge. It's weak too. West had a borderline meltdown
Speaker 1: when his slack wasn't opening, and then he found out
Speaker 1: that we had to do a video hit. What was it?
Speaker 1: What did you say? There's not enough hours in the day.
Speaker 1: That's something. That's what a crazy person says when they
Speaker 1: lose it. There's not enough hours. I need more hours, day,
Speaker 1: need more class. Erica's upbringing for not knowing what apple
Speaker 1: juice looks like compared to drinking urine. Well yeah, but wait,
Speaker 1: have you ever met a human in their twenties that
Speaker 1: doesn't know what apple juice looks like? That did not
Speaker 1: look like normal apple juice. It's a fair critique. West.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Thank you look exactly like apple juice. Actually,
Speaker 1: there was a label on it that said apple drinking
Speaker 1: Lacroix with a straw, Erica. The context clues were everywhere,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna keep a cool right now, but don't
Speaker 1: ever come at me about Lacroix or straw. That he
Speaker 1: likes his straws. All right, here's what happened? I get
Speaker 1: through Chemo, I have a skate through the off season,
Speaker 1: the easiest off season I've ever had, and in the
Speaker 1: helicopter me into week two. And by the way, you
Speaker 1: have eight new jobs here, deal with them. And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: how when did all these jobs get on my plate?
Speaker 1: You know? If we're gonna get soon, I go ahead
Speaker 1: and Mark, that's playing that other little fiddle song it
Speaker 1: wants to play. It was it went quiet. We have
Speaker 1: a couple of years, but it got a little bit louder,
Speaker 1: and the back it's that little war cry for that
Speaker 1: little salary increase. Ittle song starts to just get a
Speaker 1: little bit loud. It's coming. I'm underpaid and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna take it. We're gonna start getting some raises around here.
Speaker 1: How many jobs do you want a man to do?
Speaker 1: We're all gonna get fired. Um, okay, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: go through each of the I agree, by the way, West,
Speaker 1: I would like more money too. But you know what,
Speaker 1: we're pretty damn lucky too, aren't we. Greg. It's football season.
Speaker 1: We're here to talk football, and we're gonna go through
Speaker 1: each of the games. Um, I was gonna say half
Speaker 1: the league is oh and one, but Marx Brown's Oh,
Speaker 1: we just can't pull this off. It's too hard to
Speaker 1: kick a field goal. Wait a minute, they ruined everything,
Speaker 1: So now there's a tie attached to pause two items
Speaker 1: number one. I like how you don't blame the Steelers
Speaker 1: for that. Secondly, in a preseason an episode, I predicted
Speaker 1: the Steelers would have nine and a half winds, So
Speaker 1: let's see how that turns out. Might do we call
Speaker 1: ties half winds? Now? Is that the would That's exactly
Speaker 1: what a tie would be in the standings point five? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would get that. Okay, we're gonna go through every
Speaker 1: scene around here. Thank yous. I don't know he's the
Speaker 1: guy to get all right, so let's get going. Let's start. Uh.
Speaker 1: In the NFC South, a great rivalry, um, the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers want to know. Uh, they kind of bullied the
Speaker 1: Cowboys a bit. Not a great showing offensively by the Panthers,
Speaker 1: but what they did do was beat up on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offensive line on Dak Prescott, didn't let Zeke Elli
Speaker 1: get loose. A really on balance. A nice start in
Speaker 1: the first game with David Tepper at ownership and with
Speaker 1: the big Panthers logo in the center of the field.
Speaker 1: Who cares? I keep talking about the logo on the
Speaker 1: center of the field. I don't know why that keeps
Speaker 1: on connecting in my brain. But now they go in Carolina.
Speaker 1: They were talking about it all off seasons. Okay, so
Speaker 1: maybe I was just I didn't even realize I was
Speaker 1: tapping into that entire right now they head now to
Speaker 1: Atlanta to face the Falcons and this you know, these
Speaker 1: are not must win games, Mark Sessler in Week two,
Speaker 1: But you know what, that was such a bad showing
Speaker 1: by the Falcons, especially on offense against the Eagles, that
Speaker 1: you really want to see them do something and really
Speaker 1: take care of business at home in their home open
Speaker 1: or big game for them. Yeah, man, because we you know,
Speaker 1: you and I picked the Falcons, say super Bowl. I did.
Speaker 1: I'm a little annoyed. I've never heard is this the
Speaker 1: new Mark? Yeah? Man? It was awesome. Bro. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: just playing off of the lexicon you were throwing at
Speaker 1: us before the show, where you're trying to be like
Speaker 1: a man from like Queens eight, like son of Summer,
Speaker 1: son of Sam Summer, like all right, okay, please let's here. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I one of the most tiring narratives all this offseason
Speaker 1: and last offseason because they got pound it lay into
Speaker 1: like forty two dead horses with Steve Scarce Sarkis and
Speaker 1: how will he adjust the offense? What will happen? It's like,
Speaker 1: here's the problem, though, nothing is more depressing than me
Speaker 1: when you watch a team come out the way they
Speaker 1: did the Falcons against the Eagles and have the same
Speaker 1: identical problems that they had on offense a year ago.
Speaker 1: And this is a team that since Steve Sarkising has
Speaker 1: showed up, has ranked twenty nine and red zone scoring percentage.
Speaker 1: So it's not just words, it's real. And you look
Speaker 1: at Falcons, the Falcons losing games, the playoff game last year,
Speaker 1: the game this year where you with the red zone
Speaker 1: offense were completely different. There are a different team. We're
Speaker 1: talking about them differently. They might have been the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl winner and slay those ghosts from two seasons ago.
Speaker 1: How the heck did they get out of this situation?
Speaker 1: This is like the Battle of Chancellorsville. Who's left on
Speaker 1: these rosters? It's Week two and the Panthers and Falcons
Speaker 1: are the two most injured teams in the Battle was
Speaker 1: that again the Civil War battle. Those veterans also have
Speaker 1: no idea what it's like to be on a podcast
Speaker 1: for the and Dan Patriots definitely didn't know what podcasts are,
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, Greg Olsen's gone. Tray Turner, who was
Speaker 1: one of their loan surviving offensive tackles, has a concussion,
Speaker 1: and then Devonte Freeman's not practicing this week for the Falcons,
Speaker 1: Jones and Neil are out. Who's left? God forbid Greg
Speaker 1: that the Yeah, the injuries is a big part of this.
Speaker 1: But to Mark's point, God forbid the Falcons start sputtering
Speaker 1: in the red zone again and they have another game
Speaker 1: like they had in Week one, tying back to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: because then that's all anybody's gonna talk about. They need
Speaker 1: to score points and a lot of them on Sunday.
Speaker 1: This is such a great opportunity for the Panthers. Ron Rivera,
Speaker 1: even though they lost all those players to injury, I
Speaker 1: think loved the way that his team came out and
Speaker 1: they could perhaps bully the Falcons up front with that
Speaker 1: defensive line, which did look incredible. And we we just
Speaker 1: came from a meeting for this Twitter show that we're
Speaker 1: going to be starting on Tuesday, and one of the
Speaker 1: segments that the Shadowy League figures aren't too sure about
Speaker 1: that was broached as an idea. It was this is
Speaker 1: not this is not gambling advice, but that that's basically
Speaker 1: the segment and for you know, maybe we could try
Speaker 1: it out here a little bit. It's like, this is
Speaker 1: not gambling advice. But I'm a little shocked that the
Speaker 1: Falcons are huge favorites in this game, because this is
Speaker 1: one of those games You're right, Dan, that they have
Speaker 1: to just find anyway that they can to escape with
Speaker 1: a victory, and I'm not so sure up front on
Speaker 1: either side of the ball that they have the advantage.
Speaker 1: I kind of see where the Desert people are coming
Speaker 1: from in the sense that Thursday night opener is weird
Speaker 1: to start with, and you're playing the Eagles and the
Speaker 1: crowd and the banners going up. I wouldn't put too
Speaker 1: much into one game a week, one game on a
Speaker 1: Thursday night, but they're not. They're not gonna be favorites
Speaker 1: much longer if we keep seeing the way they look, Well,
Speaker 1: did they not account for what the Panthers did last Sunday?
Speaker 1: When they make this Desert it's all accounted for, and
Speaker 1: the I think it's I think it's the injuries, especially
Speaker 1: on Carolina. But keep an eye on Ian Thomas, who
Speaker 1: really impressed the Panthers, had earned a role on that
Speaker 1: team as a rookie tight end, which you don't really see.
Speaker 1: He was already splitting snaps with Greg Olson and he
Speaker 1: just is a physical beast who I think, if you're
Speaker 1: in fantasy leagues, might be a guy that gets a
Speaker 1: lot of targets because they are just not healthy in
Speaker 1: Carolina at all. And I think Cam Newton loves throwing
Speaker 1: the tight ends. North Turner loves tight ends. I could
Speaker 1: see this rookie pretty big fact picked this game. I'm
Speaker 1: just out of Panthers Falcons. I'm taking the Falcons, okay,
Speaker 1: So let's see what happens. Uh. Moving on the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers. Uh laid a stinking egg in week one
Speaker 1: against the chiefs Now they travel to Western New York
Speaker 1: to face the Bills and no one laid a bigger
Speaker 1: egg in week one then the Buffalo Bills forty seven
Speaker 1: three loss, and Sean McDermott, although he says he he'll
Speaker 1: take it to the grave that it was the right
Speaker 1: decision to start Nade Peterman in week one. Well despite that,
Speaker 1: despite that, that's strong hope he's not thinking about that
Speaker 1: when he's you know what I mean, Like, I hope
Speaker 1: he's thinking about his family and he has made the
Speaker 1: move now to bench Peterman. Josh Allen, this is now
Speaker 1: your team. You get a Charger's team Chris Westling that
Speaker 1: will once again be without Joey Bosa, who is out
Speaker 1: and definitely and that does not sound good what's going
Speaker 1: on with his foot. So any chance that the Bills
Speaker 1: shake off what was just a horrendous showing in Week
Speaker 1: one against maybe a vulnerable Charges team. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've been saying for five years, never underestimate the Bills
Speaker 1: at home, but I think it's safe to underestimate the
Speaker 1: Bills at home. Speaking of strong convictions, when we did
Speaker 1: the hot seat, Brackett, my strong convictions was that we
Speaker 1: were giving Sean McDermott way too much credit because this
Speaker 1: could be a like one in fifteen type of season,
Speaker 1: and it certainly looks like that to me. That quote
Speaker 1: that you said was just plain weird about Peterman will
Speaker 1: take Let's actually let's hear the exact quote from coach McDermott.
Speaker 1: Do you feel you miss m No, No, certainly looks
Speaker 1: away from well listen. I felt like it was just
Speaker 1: like this, I feel like it's the right move. I
Speaker 1: felt like that was the right move. Um and and
Speaker 1: I and I'll take that to my grave, And that's
Speaker 1: how I felt about it. I'm always going to try
Speaker 1: and make the right move for our football team. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's gonna work out, sometimes it's not, And I stand
Speaker 1: by it as a leader. I stand by those, both
Speaker 1: the ones that work out and the ones that don't.
Speaker 1: And then the fact that Zay Jones mom is telling
Speaker 1: people that Zay had to tell Kelvin Benjamin where to
Speaker 1: line up. This is this happened in the preseason. Bill's
Speaker 1: receivers didn't know where to line up. What is going
Speaker 1: on with this coaching staff. And when you're well and
Speaker 1: when your mom is talking trash on the other receivers
Speaker 1: and you're answering questions about that, that feels like a team.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those Weeks sixteen seventeen stories of
Speaker 1: a team falling apart. But this is Week two. And
Speaker 1: as much as the Chargers charger last week, they did
Speaker 1: have five forty yards and they did give up a
Speaker 1: ton of points on special teams, which is kind of
Speaker 1: what they do. But if if they can just not
Speaker 1: make massive mistakes, not give a way points and special
Speaker 1: teams not drop all of Philip Rivers is beautiful deep balls.
Speaker 1: I mean they should they should make some Hey, part
Speaker 1: of Chargers charging beautiful. He's just beautiful deep balls, you know,
Speaker 1: nice and down the field. Look at the family tree.
Speaker 1: I buy into it. Yeah, I just think charges charging
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with the fact that Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers will throw for five yards, then throw the killer pick,
Speaker 1: then the missfield goal will come. Then everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: half the stadium is rooting for the other team and
Speaker 1: everything crumbles. But I mean, West, I think part of
Speaker 1: the reason that McDermott probably didn't rank as high as
Speaker 1: he should have on the hot seat is that they've
Speaker 1: had five head coaches under this ownership in five years
Speaker 1: if you want to and the GM. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: the GM and the coach are in their kind and
Speaker 1: it's literally the first full year with that the GM
Speaker 1: might be gone to this is this is shaping up
Speaker 1: to be an awful season. I think that I think
Speaker 1: ownership would live with that because they essentially telegraphed that
Speaker 1: they are taking a step back. And I do think
Speaker 1: we shoul and at least give McDermott some credit that
Speaker 1: they always stepped up. I mean we counted them out
Speaker 1: a million different times last year, and whenever they were
Speaker 1: kind of at their worst, they would play a good game.
Speaker 1: I I don't think this is some walk in the
Speaker 1: park for the Chargers. Would not surprise me because thinks
Speaker 1: every single NFL game is not a walk in the park.
Speaker 1: Well that's true, though it's by far the most. There's
Speaker 1: never a huge favorite, but that's that's how the NFL
Speaker 1: plays out. That's why there aren't huge favorites in the NFL,
Speaker 1: because there are favorites there statistically that anything could happen
Speaker 1: on any week, especially a right but no week, no
Speaker 1: no week in the season like flip blops. Everything we
Speaker 1: assumed for seven days, like week two because we haven't
Speaker 1: seen football all season. So oh, but now we have
Speaker 1: all this new information and then we have all counter information.
Speaker 1: Sunday night, and if you think the Chargers, and you
Speaker 1: know the Chargers number one Mark Sesler and the pain rankings,
Speaker 1: They're going to travel three thousand miles and you're gonna
Speaker 1: lock it, lock them in for a guaranteed victory. Showed
Speaker 1: me something l a Chargers, so I'm allowed to lock
Speaker 1: this game up. You know the rule, you guys. Just
Speaker 1: you guys just told me that this was like an
Speaker 1: even game. You tell me. Can you look in the mirror?
Speaker 1: I think anyone you lock up anything, you guys, you
Speaker 1: guys say this is I don't disappointed that. I don't care.
Speaker 1: You can lock up whatever you want. Whatever makes your
Speaker 1: heart content. That wouldn't make my heart content. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings got their season off to a nice
Speaker 1: start against the forty nine. Is a real nice start.
Speaker 1: In fact, I thought they were one of the more
Speaker 1: impressive teams in Week one. They now travel to Lambeau
Speaker 1: to face the Packers. That the question is Greg Rosenthal
Speaker 1: will be the Packers with the Shaan Kaiser quarterback or
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. It's very much up in the air.
Speaker 1: I was worried that the news that Ian rapp Report
Speaker 1: or NFL Network insider broke right as we were coming
Speaker 1: up here that the Packers might not know Roger's status
Speaker 1: till Saturday at the earliest, which makes it sound like
Speaker 1: either probably not playing, or at the very least they're
Speaker 1: just drawing this out as long as possible to keep
Speaker 1: the Vikings not knowing, because if they don't know until
Speaker 1: Saturday at the earliest, my guests would be he's not
Speaker 1: really going to be participating in practice much, if at all,
Speaker 1: on Friday, and he and he hasn't yet. And it's
Speaker 1: strange because he finished out that game last week, and
Speaker 1: generally with a great player like that, if you finished
Speaker 1: out the game before, you're probably gonna play the next week.
Speaker 1: But they also have to think of the long game here.
Speaker 1: It was great that he had that performance, but it
Speaker 1: is a long season and they're not gonna do anything
Speaker 1: to jeopardize Aaron Rodgers and that would basically end this
Speaker 1: game before it started. If he doesn't play. Most likely,
Speaker 1: I don't think Kaiser is ready to handle this Vikings
Speaker 1: pass rush. I did like to think about that that
Speaker 1: Kaiser gave a really good, supposedly uh inspirational speech in
Speaker 1: the halftime locker room last week, but then he came
Speaker 1: out and then he didn't play because they thought he
Speaker 1: was he was playing, and he got Aaron Rodgers right.
Speaker 1: Randall cob Like said, it fired everyone up and then
Speaker 1: they got out there and it was like, oh, actually
Speaker 1: Aaron's gonna come back. Why is it that we haven't
Speaker 1: heard any details on this knee? Well, essentially it's a sprain.
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's what Rogers said, right, So
Speaker 1: that's a detail, isn't it, And that if you want
Speaker 1: to have him play through a nice sprain, we'll see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was dragging that leg around. It would not surprise
Speaker 1: me if he doesn't play. That was my thought watching
Speaker 1: that game, obviously, the adrenaline and his pumping and they're
Speaker 1: on this comeback and Al Chris and Michelle are watching
Speaker 1: the game, or is Louis Cannon said before the show?
Speaker 1: It was al? What was it? Alan Jake? Jake, Alan
Speaker 1: Jake are the best on TV. Luis ad an ark
Speaker 1: at temp post. He is very upfront that she's not
Speaker 1: a huge NFL, that she's a huge Patriots fan, and uh,
Speaker 1: that's fine, there's no problem. I have no issue with
Speaker 1: similar to a lot of Patriots family. But it does,
Speaker 1: it does trickle out. Sometimes you get these little fun
Speaker 1: little a lot of deal. Mcnifico's like when she says, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was on Sunday, Alan Jake made the call J Jake,
Speaker 1: I love you, Louise Cannon. This is this should be
Speaker 1: like the best matchup, just about divisional matchup in the
Speaker 1: end fl right now, if Rogers play, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's annoying because because the Vikings defense looks potentially even better.
Speaker 1: That's how good Sheldon Richardson looked adding him to that mix. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where was that Sheldon richards And last year um Seattle's
Speaker 1: wonder well he didn't have everything. Griffin and Danielle I
Speaker 1: refused to speak during this game segment. What's up? I
Speaker 1: don't know, you just have an issue with it? I
Speaker 1: got no, I just got a few minutes in. I thought,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna now I'm speaking. So I totally were
Speaker 1: you like low key? Do not like the Packers? No? Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what, watching the watching what happened against the Bears,
Speaker 1: despite them being the team of at L that was
Speaker 1: pretty incredible. You'd have to be a walking corps, which
Speaker 1: we almost were at that point in the night in
Speaker 1: London to not enjoy that. Um, I I like Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Wait wait a second, they've got you through the whole preview.
Speaker 1: Just get I did not do it. I did not
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, we're gonna move on that. Please let
Speaker 1: you well. I was waiting, we're gonna move on, but
Speaker 1: then it just kept going. Pretty great analysis. That's something
Speaker 1: I'll save it for Week three. The Cleveland Browns mark.
Speaker 1: Now you're back in zero zero and one annoying head
Speaker 1: to the Superdome to face the New Orleans Saints. And
Speaker 1: this is a very interesting, uh set up for a
Speaker 1: game mark for your Brownies because as frustrating as it
Speaker 1: was not to close out that game, that was a
Speaker 1: really positive step for the franchise to hang with the Steelers,
Speaker 1: to nearly beat them, And now they go to face
Speaker 1: the Saints. Last year, the Saints, you would have hated
Speaker 1: to face them from October on, uh, and you could
Speaker 1: chalk it up as a loss. But after they get
Speaker 1: walloped and give forty eight points in Ryan Fitzpatrick, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, to quote your boy Kevin Garnett, greg
Speaker 1: that anything is possible. Yeah. I mean the Saints team
Speaker 1: also has started owing to four years in a row
Speaker 1: they gave up five hundred yards. Ridiculous that right, and
Speaker 1: last year in Week one and Week two they gave
Speaker 1: up five hundred yards before they tightened up into the
Speaker 1: defense that we came to love down the stretch. I
Speaker 1: guess it's a strange game. I just I would wonder
Speaker 1: what you'd have more faith than the Saints actually turning
Speaker 1: around this week on defense or Cleveland's offensive line. And
Speaker 1: I know you went back and watched this too, that
Speaker 1: it wasn't just the fact that t J. Watt turned
Speaker 1: into an absolute nightmare. Well after watching that game, bon
Speaker 1: Miller should have been defensive Player of the Week, not
Speaker 1: t J. Watt. Well, I'm fine with that, but t J.
Speaker 1: Watt did plenty to disrupt the bed. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: just the offensive line. The Browns running backs and tight
Speaker 1: ends got worked over. This was not just I mean
Speaker 1: Desmond Harrison, who it was so weird hearing their sideline
Speaker 1: reporter Mellie Melanie Collins, Hugh Jackson said that this guy
Speaker 1: is when one of the most talented players in the team.
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas said, this guy can have a better career
Speaker 1: than me if he gets his nose, and I it's
Speaker 1: like it wasn't the what maybe it was it's week one,
Speaker 1: it was insane weather, but he had he had too
Speaker 1: than any offensive lineman in the league. They're a penalty
Speaker 1: written unit that like. I think they set them back
Speaker 1: last week big time, and do you get off the
Speaker 1: can you fix that in a dome? I don't understand
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson skated by on this whole plan that he
Speaker 1: had Joel but Tonio at left tackle all of the preseason,
Speaker 1: which was working, and then he flipped it going into
Speaker 1: Week one. Seemed very strange. I would be worried if
Speaker 1: I was a Browns fan that they played eighty nine
Speaker 1: snaps last week on offense and that's a heavy workload
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and now you have to go on
Speaker 1: the road and play again the next week, right, I think.
Speaker 1: I think that's a tough matchup. That said, I think
Speaker 1: the Browns have enough defensive talent at least give the
Speaker 1: Saints problems. It's a way different defense than Cleveland's ever
Speaker 1: brought against the Saints before. The Breeze has lost to
Speaker 1: them twice, which means nothing. I get that's a long
Speaker 1: time ago, but he's never dealt with Myles Garrett on
Speaker 1: Cleveland's roster. Bill's Garrett like was a when a couple
Speaker 1: of times when he came back up against Big Ben,
Speaker 1: it was like the shadow of a front door swallowing
Speaker 1: up big Ben. I've never seen anyone on a Cleveland
Speaker 1: roster do that's a big bend before. And we talked
Speaker 1: on about revenge games like this is a real revenge game.
Speaker 1: I mean, Sean Payton and Greg Williams legitimately despise each
Speaker 1: other help for most people. And Sean Payton and Greg
Speaker 1: Williams seems like your mailman. I hate that man. Uh.
Speaker 1: So a big game for the Browns, and the Browns
Speaker 1: sat and they play well. Uh and they again proved
Speaker 1: themselves to be you know, a challenge for anybody. You're
Speaker 1: feeling good winner lost here. As long as they're competitive,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd agree, I would not feel comfortable locking
Speaker 1: up this game. M I get that one of the
Speaker 1: teams that would be to their best start in fourteen years. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're saying because the Saints are too heavy of a
Speaker 1: favorite or because you think the Browns are a much
Speaker 1: better team. Alright, let's move. We gotta find out for
Speaker 1: right now, they're in the mix of the one with
Speaker 1: the worst defense of the league, and they have to
Speaker 1: prove that this could be a bad Saints here. They
Speaker 1: happen a lot the data at our disposal is not
Speaker 1: limited to Week one. It also involves what they've done
Speaker 1: in their careers to date, right, and it's not it's
Speaker 1: a lot of players who have played on a lot
Speaker 1: of bad defenses. All right, let's move on. We head
Speaker 1: to the meadow Lands where the Miami Dolphins. They played
Speaker 1: a seven an hour game in an electrical storm and
Speaker 1: it was a whole mess, but they took care of
Speaker 1: business against the Tennessee Titoons. And now here come the Jets.
Speaker 1: And we talked about the Jets on Wednesday show, and
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, how there's hope has walked
Speaker 1: in the room and Sam Donald looked so great, uh
Speaker 1: against the Lions and that defense, and this is what
Speaker 1: we're starting. We'll start with the Jets, um West, the defense.
Speaker 1: To me, Todd Bowls has been there, this is his
Speaker 1: fourth year. But have we ever really seen the Jets
Speaker 1: have a identity on defense since he's been there? I
Speaker 1: would say no. But that defense against the Lions looked
Speaker 1: like a team with an identity, fast, aggressive, young, and
Speaker 1: that got you excited almost as much as Sam Donald playing. Well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams especially, UM love watching that guy play. I
Speaker 1: think the question is are they that damn good or
Speaker 1: was this a product of stealing signs? They knew what
Speaker 1: was coming from Matthew Stafford. They all talked about it
Speaker 1: after the game. That is a huge factor. So this
Speaker 1: is not part of the game. I was trying to
Speaker 1: kind of decipher what that actually meant if it's part
Speaker 1: of the game. When you hear that every day, you
Speaker 1: don't hear teams saying that. Was unusual to hear a
Speaker 1: teams say it right after them. And it's also something
Speaker 1: people have said about Jim Bob Cooter's offense before. UM
Speaker 1: My question to you, Dan, you obviously have a lot
Speaker 1: of feelings about the Jets, but people don't know you
Speaker 1: kind of have some feelings about the Dolphins too. You
Speaker 1: you'll usually have a good read on them, and you
Speaker 1: like to like foil. You'd like to be a foil
Speaker 1: for Henry a little bit. Well, I have a lot
Speaker 1: of animosity for the Dolphins. They're they're an old rival.
Speaker 1: They go back forever. I was at the Fake Spike
Speaker 1: game in ninety four. Uh, so that you know, and
Speaker 1: they've kind of been here. Uh, they've kind of been
Speaker 1: on the same wavelength for the Jet with the Jets forever. Now, um,
Speaker 1: do I have any I don't have anything. So my question, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is your question? The winner this team is going
Speaker 1: to be two and up? Yes. Would you think that
Speaker 1: the winner of this game is a legitimate wild card content?
Speaker 1: I absolutely think so. Before the season, I I was
Speaker 1: in a mail bag. I wrote a Dolphins fan said,
Speaker 1: give me anything to be excited about, and I said, listen,
Speaker 1: look at the a f C. Look at what's going
Speaker 1: to happen once you get past the division winners. There
Speaker 1: might be a wild card team that's also very good
Speaker 1: at ten or eleven. One team, but from the perspective
Speaker 1: of the summer, it felt like that sixth playoff spot's
Speaker 1: gonna be wide open. We're talking maybe not eight and
Speaker 1: eight wide open, but a team that can win nine
Speaker 1: games will get in the door. And I I think
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are a team that is in that mix.
Speaker 1: And after you see the Jets in Week one at least,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, the Jets can absolutely be in that mix.
Speaker 1: And yes, the team that starts to and know here,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to think that they won't be hanging
Speaker 1: around in December. It's very exciting. Jets are a different
Speaker 1: team with Quincy and na Like. I just I love
Speaker 1: that guy. He adds a level of toughness. He got
Speaker 1: a huge percentage of the targets, the energy just they need.
Speaker 1: They need guys like that and between him, Crowl had
Speaker 1: a good game. Powell like the field position. It was
Speaker 1: a pretty complete performance. Like they it was all three phases.
Speaker 1: They did more at least to impress in Week one
Speaker 1: than the Dolphins did. For it's worth that said, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are forever getting slashed on this podcast, and largely
Speaker 1: for for good reason. In years past, I did not
Speaker 1: think they looked that bad enough. They didn't. It was
Speaker 1: also I take the last third of that game and
Speaker 1: almost throw it out the window because it was after
Speaker 1: all these sillies and it it did truly turn silly.
Speaker 1: But the Dolphins when they can run the ball, and
Speaker 1: you saw I'd like that. I think that you were
Speaker 1: talking about Frank Gore all last Sunday on Sky Sports.
Speaker 1: He looked younger, he looked fresh. And when you can
Speaker 1: get like Kenny still is playing the way he did,
Speaker 1: Fit's Tannehill. To me, I get he's he is Ryan Tannehill.
Speaker 1: But he was not a disaster in that game outside
Speaker 1: of one terrible pick. Now, he didn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of attention coming back from his torn a c O.
Speaker 1: But he looked he looked like Ryan Tannell, and I
Speaker 1: am contractually obligated to mention Frank to the inconvenient truth.
Speaker 1: Gore is fifteen yards away from becoming the number four
Speaker 1: all time leading Russia in NFL history. Emmett Smith, Walter Payton,
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders and Coral Gables High School's own Frank Gore
Speaker 1: set in that mark just miles away from where he
Speaker 1: grew up. You gotta love that. I feel like Greg's
Speaker 1: played really to say some of these things. It's though,
Speaker 1: it's a great it's a great story. It's a great
Speaker 1: story if you look good, both of the running backs
Speaker 1: look good, and you know, kiddingly, of course, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lock it up here. Oh yeah, let's go the jay man.
Speaker 1: You can't take that. Lock it up two and oh
Speaker 1: and we fly to Cleveland for Thursday night football. That
Speaker 1: would be faced the one, one Brown, the O and
Speaker 1: two Browns. That's that's a good chancey After that Thursday
Speaker 1: night they can be number one in the entire NFL.
Speaker 1: Three and oh what if Cleveland didn't everyone Cleveland does
Speaker 1: not go. They did not go in sixteen. They do
Speaker 1: not go sixteen, and know they go, oh in sixteen,
Speaker 1: that would be that would be more amazing one in sixteen,
Speaker 1: I honestly think that would be the most way would
Speaker 1: be like season of all time? Would you be the
Speaker 1: number one seed in the a C. Well, according to you,
Speaker 1: it's not a win. Mark didn't lock it up, so
Speaker 1: obviously it wouldn't be anything would mean a thirty second
Speaker 1: and sixteen now they would have a change, they would
Speaker 1: you know, unless five you would win a tiebreaker against uh,
Speaker 1: well not at eight and eight team right, let's that's
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. Wait, we've got someone's got to find
Speaker 1: out the instant What do you mean it's it's it's
Speaker 1: five hundred. They they have a five hundred record, and
Speaker 1: then after that the tiebreakers just right now, so I
Speaker 1: don't get if they were oh in sixteen there five high,
Speaker 1: I should get half a lock. Then I think it's
Speaker 1: safe to say team in the place, how would they
Speaker 1: be five hundred if they have sixteen ties? That's just
Speaker 1: how it is, wins and lost, and I should get
Speaker 1: half half a lock for maybe of course, the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs head to Pittsburgh. Yes, the Steelers also zero
Speaker 1: hyphen zero hyphen one uh, and the Chiefs looked as
Speaker 1: dangerous as advertised against the Chargers, just lighting them up.
Speaker 1: Um at the We're the Chargers play what's the name
Speaker 1: of that place again, the Charger Stadium the stock Bill
Speaker 1: Bottom anyway, So here's a game, uh, Greg Rosenthal where
Speaker 1: the Steelers really want to just play better and play
Speaker 1: better at home. But Big Ben has an injury issue here,
Speaker 1: and when Big Ben's hurt, they're not the same team.
Speaker 1: He hasn't practiced Wednesday or Thursday. His status seems up
Speaker 1: in the air. But it seems like one of those
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger weeks where everyone fully expects him to play. Anyways,
Speaker 1: despite Josh Dobbs getting first team snaps. Uh, it does.
Speaker 1: I think we are you as a Steelers fan, because
Speaker 1: this is a sneaky good rivalry. I think the last
Speaker 1: few years played a couple of times, including in the
Speaker 1: playoffs two years ago. They've been back and forth, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a big game in the a f C.
Speaker 1: One of these one of these you know teams we
Speaker 1: already talked about two and oh in the a f
Speaker 1: C North, and it's a tough matchup for a Steelers defense.
Speaker 1: I think that has to be concerned in the secondary
Speaker 1: more than than any place on their team. And if
Speaker 1: you have problems in the secondary, this Chief's team is
Speaker 1: the type of team to expose it. I'm not flat
Speaker 1: out calling Big Ben a drama queen, but he does
Speaker 1: have a long storied history of playing up his injuries
Speaker 1: in his defense. Randy Fair, the offensive coordinator, said, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to answer that at this point whether
Speaker 1: he expects Big Ben to play, so Ben's not the
Speaker 1: only one playing up the injury this week. It is
Speaker 1: a good rivalry, I guess. But big Ben is six
Speaker 1: and ones and against the Chiefs, and they're the one
Speaker 1: team that it hasn't been a million matchups that have
Speaker 1: slowed down Tyreek Hill more than any other team the league.
Speaker 1: This feels like a different Tyreek Hill to me though,
Speaker 1: what he's being used to Patrick Mahomes, I mean, if
Speaker 1: I were the Chiefs, the one thing I want to
Speaker 1: see is a little bit more out of Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: this week, because if you can have him going alongside
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, I mean, I think Pittsburgh which down the
Speaker 1: stretch gave up some big passing plays against the Browns
Speaker 1: last week, hidden in a bunch of junk. Uh, they
Speaker 1: could be in trouble. West, Did you do any more
Speaker 1: journalistic deep diving on the background? How player of the
Speaker 1: week is chosen? Because I know if you so Wednesday's
Speaker 1: show or listen to Wednesday's show West on Fire, that
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and not Tyreek Hill awarded player of the week.
Speaker 1: I had no intention of ever doing any kind of
Speaker 1: journalistic Barry Kill was the best player on the field
Speaker 1: last week. I'm with you. I sent one tweet to
Speaker 1: NFL PR guy and I have not heard back. It
Speaker 1: was it wasn't a good performance by the Chiefs defense overall,
Speaker 1: but they did get a big game out of d Ford,
Speaker 1: which they could really use, and Chris Jones as well
Speaker 1: last week. So like that, there's some little in the second,
Speaker 1: you're basically waving a stake in front of the a
Speaker 1: t N media inside er saying, Dan, you go find that,
Speaker 1: go get the ends. Well, you are a journal in
Speaker 1: marks an in trepid journal and Greg you know he
Speaker 1: has done some journalism before. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: been a journalist Greg has done. He's hung out with journalists.
Speaker 1: I don't think that the QB index is journalism. Now,
Speaker 1: none of what are uncomfortable players? What are the rules
Speaker 1: with you know, journalism. What are the rules of lockups
Speaker 1: and like quarterback injuries and whatnot? Because if Ben's playing,
Speaker 1: and I'm fully expecting him to play, If Ben's playing,
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers rebound and I'm going to lock
Speaker 1: that up. But it's a fair You gotta hang with
Speaker 1: you gotta hang with whatever. If you if you lock
Speaker 1: up a team with a quarterback uncertainty, you gotta gotta
Speaker 1: ride the lightning. Yeah, I mean there there are people
Speaker 1: tracking this, Greg. There's a Twitter account devoted to this.
Speaker 1: Don't we know Big Ben's gonna play? I don't know
Speaker 1: he'll play. Whether he'll be effective will be another question.
Speaker 1: Let's move on the Philadelphia Eagles up. By the way,
Speaker 1: we heard it, we got it. We had the whole
Speaker 1: sound effect. The Eagles. Uh. They played last Thursday, eighteen
Speaker 1: twelve win over the Falcons. Their defense did a good
Speaker 1: job stuffing Atlanta repeatedly inside their own ted yard line,
Speaker 1: and the offense I guessed it just enough. Now they
Speaker 1: travel to Tampa to face the Bucks, who we know
Speaker 1: all about it. Uh. Speaking of players of the week
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, who went nuts uh win against the Saints,
Speaker 1: we get to see what he can do against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Mark your thought. So, there are a few things that
Speaker 1: I hate more in football West will agree than the
Speaker 1: horrid site of Tampa's overly lit sun bla lasted field
Speaker 1: of game pass him one of the worst things around.
Speaker 1: That said, there are a few things I adore more
Speaker 1: than what the Bucks did last Sunday, blowing up an
Speaker 1: off season of presumptions while Ginger bearded Ryan Fitzpatrick through
Speaker 1: more touchdowns of thirty plus eight yards against the Saints
Speaker 1: than jam Jamis Winston through all last season. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see what happens to the NFL community when
Speaker 1: they knock off the Eagles. To start to and oh
Speaker 1: he's locking it up. I thought, I really did. I
Speaker 1: really did think about it. Sorry, Eric, Erica's like, after
Speaker 1: fourteen days of listening to you all talk non stop,
Speaker 1: you do this, you know, but not that I give
Speaker 1: you guys a lot of credit that you guys that
Speaker 1: we thought about it, Like Dan has compared us to
Speaker 1: you know, incredible heroes that have fought for a country,
Speaker 1: and I think comparison different types of hero Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say they compare someon be way off, but
Speaker 1: I'm just saying even great more heroes just just like
Speaker 1: we cannot understand what it would be like to be
Speaker 1: in battle, they don't understand. It was like three podcasts
Speaker 1: in one week. It's a lot to deal with. I
Speaker 1: think you guys are smart not to lock it up
Speaker 1: because the best group in this game is still the
Speaker 1: Eagles defensive. I wrote a c poem this week to
Speaker 1: the Bucks Receiving Corps Top ten Receiving Corps NFL dot
Speaker 1: com slash west. Are they number one? They are number
Speaker 1: two behind the Chiefs. But they are like the old
Speaker 1: Bill Walsh idea that your wide receivers should be like
Speaker 1: a basketball team. You don't want like five big, tall
Speaker 1: X receivers. They should complement each other. And the Bucks
Speaker 1: receivers complement each other as well as anyone. Tight ends
Speaker 1: are counted in this tight ends and you're receiving backs,
Speaker 1: they're all Barkins as a as your number one or
Speaker 1: two receiver, he's not the number one. Tyreek Hill is
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers in the NFL. Don't give
Speaker 1: me that this Travis Kelsey is an all pro tight end.
Speaker 1: They use Kareem Hunt very well. The Chiefs are there,
Speaker 1: the Bucks. The big winner of week one Todd Monkin,
Speaker 1: who took over play and had a great game. You
Speaker 1: compared him to kind of like the Matteneggie boost that
Speaker 1: the Chiefs got last year. Greg, you compared him that
Speaker 1: in your debrief. Calm and this guy, like if this
Speaker 1: keeps up, and that's a big if, people are gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about him as a head coach. It's already Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: it's already not too soon to worry that Nick Foles
Speaker 1: is just back to being bad Nick Foles. But now
Speaker 1: we'll get a good idea because the Bucks, they can't
Speaker 1: defend anybody, right, is the bigger jackal and hide quarterback
Speaker 1: in this game? That's a good question. But we what
Speaker 1: we know is that Folls look very bad. It's very
Speaker 1: bad in week one, and if it looks really real
Speaker 1: bad and week two. I wonder how that meshes with
Speaker 1: the Eagles decision about how much they're going to wait
Speaker 1: on Carson Wentz. I don't know if that can have
Speaker 1: anything to do with wins. I mean, the one thing
Speaker 1: about you got a Super Bowl in your pocket and
Speaker 1: think term saying these guys very competitive, winning and losing
Speaker 1: stress pressure. Let's see what happens. He's got they need
Speaker 1: him to play better. Well, this isn't the Falcons defense,
Speaker 1: so I would I would assume we would get the
Speaker 1: better Nick Foles if we don't time to be concerned.
Speaker 1: Let's move on the Houston Texans. Uh, they couldnot hang
Speaker 1: with the Patriots in Week one. I guess they hung
Speaker 1: with him, but they just never really came close to
Speaker 1: getting over the hump. Now they travel uh to Tennessee
Speaker 1: to face the Tytoons, who uh fell in Miami and
Speaker 1: week one. Uh, here's the game, Chris Westling, where Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson is going to be uh looking to shake off
Speaker 1: the rust because there was a lot of it in
Speaker 1: Week one. Yeah, Tony Romo was killing him for his
Speaker 1: pre snap decisions in the second half of that game,
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch, which isn't surprising. He's what got
Speaker 1: like five starts under his belt in the NFL, So
Speaker 1: it's not going up against Bill Belchick, who had an
Speaker 1: offseason to prepare for it too. But from the Titans
Speaker 1: point of view, I try not to take any grand
Speaker 1: sweeping conclusions out of a game that was the longest
Speaker 1: in NFL history and the hottest game the Titans have
Speaker 1: played this century. Uh, there were some mitigating factors there,
Speaker 1: but Mariota was terrible before the injury. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I did not, and I think this is a one
Speaker 1: game sample when Blaine Gabbert came in and Blaine Gabbert's
Speaker 1: playing Gabert, I did not see a major drop off
Speaker 1: in that one game from Mariotta Mariotta to to to
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert. The one thing I really like about this
Speaker 1: year's Titans is versus the Derrick Henry DeMarco Murray pair.
Speaker 1: The Derrick Henry Dion Lewis pair works for me. I
Speaker 1: I think this is a good They had a good
Speaker 1: situation on the ground, and I the Titans offense part
Speaker 1: of Mariota's issues. He's had what five coaches and four
Speaker 1: years or something like four and five, and they've had
Speaker 1: such low wattage skill position players. You see little moments
Speaker 1: from Corey Davis. You see little moments here and there,
Speaker 1: and I think they could develop into something better down
Speaker 1: the stretch. I might be the only person in the
Speaker 1: country that also likes their new uniforms the horrible. I
Speaker 1: like the I like the whole ones. I don't We'll
Speaker 1: see the home Yeah, and all the Titans fans are
Speaker 1: gonna get mad because I say tytoons and stuff. Do
Speaker 1: you think I'm just piling on? I legitimately think they
Speaker 1: look like CFL uniforms, But that's just mys look like
Speaker 1: a a throwback to the like the ninth I think
Speaker 1: I like it. Greg. What did you see from J J.
Speaker 1: Watton Week one? Yeah? I think he played pretty well
Speaker 1: in the second well, yeah, second half. I looked up
Speaker 1: in the third quarter and I was like, oh, J J.
Speaker 1: Watson there, and then he was there for the rest
Speaker 1: of the game, right, And and he talked about that
Speaker 1: during the week too, that he felt like it almost
Speaker 1: took him a while to even get back to feeling
Speaker 1: but then feeling like who he was again as a player,
Speaker 1: and then then he was creating a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: I think if you're a Texans fan, you have to
Speaker 1: be excited they're at They're the healthier team here. Taylor
Speaker 1: Taylor Luan is hurt. Mariota is playing, but he's not
Speaker 1: looking right, and it's not just one game, because he
Speaker 1: did not look right in the preseason either of Shawn
Speaker 1: Evans like. They have a lot of injuries on that Titans.
Speaker 1: You know what else went well for the Texans. Kareem
Speaker 1: Jackson moving to safety, had a great game. Uh A
Speaker 1: fun little nug from our beautiful week two research and notes.
Speaker 1: Jeff Greenholtz and everybody does a great job downstairs. On
Speaker 1: game day, it will be seven and twenty eight days
Speaker 1: since J. J. Watts left Sack. I love j J.
Speaker 1: Walk Let's stack them quarterback takedowns. Let's take a brief
Speaker 1: pause here to throw it to the quiet storm. In
Speaker 1: ninety nine, the United States Army took on a covert
Speaker 1: project to construct Camp Century, a military scientific research base
Speaker 1: nestled below the icy depths of Greenland, then a county
Speaker 1: of Denmark, Falling under the top secret umbrella of Project
Speaker 1: Ice Warm. The complex was to serve as a launch
Speaker 1: site for nuclear missiles within an arm's reach of Soviet Russia.
Speaker 1: Eight meters below the ice. Camp Century came laced with
Speaker 1: a network of twenty one tunnels running more than three
Speaker 1: thousand meters in length. The secret base house laboratories, a shop,
Speaker 1: a hospital, a cinema, a chapel, and accommodation for as
Speaker 1: many as two hundred soldiers. The operation was so off
Speaker 1: the radar that Danish government officials were unaware of its existence.
Speaker 1: The whole thing went south, though, when military brass jump
Speaker 1: ship on Project ice Worm after realizing the constantly moving
Speaker 1: ice was too unstable and would have to do would
Speaker 1: potentially deform and perhaps even collapse the tunnels below. But sure,
Speaker 1: let's go back to discussing a sport where men run
Speaker 1: around in tights, white pants and grab grabbing at each
Speaker 1: other while doing hop scotch in the end zone. At
Speaker 1: the end of that read should I read that lass
Speaker 1: sentence again? What? What about? What about Mr Flames economics class?
Speaker 1: That's not a Mr Flame read? Let me read that
Speaker 1: less sentence? So we're leaving all of this in though,
Speaker 1: Go ahead, lessons, right, But sure, let's go back to
Speaker 1: discussing a sport where men run around in tights and
Speaker 1: gather at each other while doing hop scotch in the
Speaker 1: end zone. I don't know what that lessen means. My favorite,
Speaker 1: can we clip that's a real thing? By the way,
Speaker 1: can we clip tampos? Saying? What are you even talking?
Speaker 1: About I feel like that would be a good sound
Speaker 1: drop in general, that would be a great sound moving
Speaker 1: right along. The Indianapolis Cults are oh and one after
Speaker 1: loss to the Bengals in Week one, and now they
Speaker 1: travel to Washington to face the Redskins, who looked mighty nice.
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal against the Cards in Week one, the no
Speaker 1: road team, Uh really was more control outside maybe the
Speaker 1: Jets in Week one than the Cardinals than the Redskins.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. They looked awesome. And if we hadn't already
Speaker 1: chosen the Bears of the team of a t L,
Speaker 1: I think I would be I think I would be
Speaker 1: promoting the Redskins as a possibility long a team that
Speaker 1: I've basically rooted against year after we filed by you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: basically the one team I I pretty much admit I'm
Speaker 1: just biased. I'm rooting against you don't like the operation,
Speaker 1: But this this year, they just feel they feel different,
Speaker 1: and I throughout the offseason defensively but especially offensively, I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be really fun to watch. And I
Speaker 1: really do believe that it's going to be them in
Speaker 1: the Eagles for the NFC East, and I think the
Speaker 1: Redskins can be a playoff team. I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: I think everyone kind of slept on the Redskins in
Speaker 1: the off season just because the Cowboys and the Eagles
Speaker 1: and the Giants had maybe or sexy storylines around them.
Speaker 1: But they look so good and week wanted and that
Speaker 1: division if I figures to be I don't know. If
Speaker 1: there's a dominant team in that division, why can't it
Speaker 1: be the Red Skin. I was hard to sign up
Speaker 1: for them because for me, and I know a little
Speaker 1: bit of West as well, all of us have sort
Speaker 1: of fallen for them for periods and then they just
Speaker 1: disappoint you while other more established teams get the job done.
Speaker 1: But to me, it's about fit because we know about
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, West have been talking about him for weeks.
Speaker 1: But Chris Thompson and you get Alex Smith. The way
Speaker 1: these three pieces fit together, with Jordan Reid on the
Speaker 1: outside too. This offense, to me, is one They dominated Arizona.
Speaker 1: They just had their way and the way that they
Speaker 1: rent went down the field in the two minute warning
Speaker 1: before halftime to get it to twenty one points versus
Speaker 1: fourteen or nothing or seventeen, That to me was Alex
Speaker 1: Smith playing at the top of his game and directing
Speaker 1: that offense in a way where he's completely at home.
Speaker 1: And the Redskins would have been completely good team of
Speaker 1: a t L pick had not been the Bears. Chris
Speaker 1: Thompson said he's not gonna be healthy to till November
Speaker 1: after that devastating Legan. He looks so explosive. If he's
Speaker 1: not healthy, what are we? I mean like he looked
Speaker 1: faster than like eighteen other human beings I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life. They're linebackers in front. Seven look really good,
Speaker 1: their linebackers and it's so underrated. Yeah, and Jonathan Allen
Speaker 1: looks awesome. And you mentioned the fit for Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: It's like the fit of Jay Gruden and Alex Smith,
Speaker 1: to me is the most important fit. And for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden never seemed to really wrap his arms around
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Stop. It's his revisionist history. It's total. It's
Speaker 1: just true, and it's the type of three straight years.
Speaker 1: He said, Kirk Cousins is the kind of quarterback you
Speaker 1: build a franchise around. Consistently said that bob burying him,
Speaker 1: bob burying him off the record, that's not hard to read.
Speaker 1: Between the lines. Stop. Stop, this is totally wrong. It's
Speaker 1: it's false, it's not correct. He stood behind Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: until the day he found out Kirk Cousins wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: be there anymore, and then he turned on him. But
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden every time went to the met for Kirk
Speaker 1: while burying him behind the scenes, just not almost three
Speaker 1: times taking a karate chop to the head from West.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this is j Gruden's organization. I would put
Speaker 1: him in the top three or four in terms of
Speaker 1: head coaching power. Whatever happens in this organization is what
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden wants to happen. And he got this Alex
Speaker 1: Smith trade done. He said goodbye to Kirk Cousins. It
Speaker 1: is a financial thing, obviously to and all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is he's really excited to have Alex Smith and it
Speaker 1: might be a better fit. I'll tell you one good fit.
Speaker 1: Me and this team, the Redskins locking it up. I
Speaker 1: like it. I gotta win this one. Well, yes, Mark
Speaker 1: and I fell in week one in the Locks West
Speaker 1: and Greg uh one to oh uh so where one
Speaker 1: game back is a lot of ball game. I mean
Speaker 1: I can go pool like a dozen quotes Greg a
Speaker 1: dozen at least, and they are more glowing than any
Speaker 1: coach talking in any quarterback? What are these are well
Speaker 1: known for being totally trustworthy when I've never seen any
Speaker 1: reports that like the John Gruden or Jay Gruden doesn't
Speaker 1: trust Kirk did cut against the grain too? Put Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins in over r G three. Yeah, when that was
Speaker 1: not popular with a lot of fans and stuff, I
Speaker 1: thought that. I mean, that's some people say when two
Speaker 1: people that you know are kind of going at it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable. I'm like really comfortable when West and Greg
Speaker 1: start going at it. It's like I'm in like like
Speaker 1: a warm like wool sweater on a brisk New England
Speaker 1: like November morning. It's little chrispfire dust off a little
Speaker 1: do alright. Moving on the Cardinals. They were defeated by
Speaker 1: the Redskins in Week one, and uh their reward for
Speaker 1: a tepid showing at home to start the season is
Speaker 1: a trip to Los Angeles to face the Rams who
Speaker 1: whooped up on the Raiders. And we didn't really get
Speaker 1: a chance to talk about the late Monday night game
Speaker 1: on Wednesday's show. Uh So, before we get into this matchup,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, I was curious your thoughts about what the
Speaker 1: Rams did, specifically in the second half where they really
Speaker 1: just turned it on. Well, that to me was an
Speaker 1: example of because I the Raiders surprised me to hang
Speaker 1: around the way they did. As long as they did,
Speaker 1: they're winning a half, right, But the Rams, you have
Speaker 1: to go toe to toe the entire way because they
Speaker 1: have too many people that can wear you down. It's
Speaker 1: their defensive line, it's Todd Gurley, it's the way that
Speaker 1: they used Jared Goff and his wide receivers. You've gotta
Speaker 1: be on top of it, play after play, and as
Speaker 1: soon as the Raiders started to show any cracks the
Speaker 1: this is what the Rams did last year, and this
Speaker 1: is why I think they'll do against the Cardinals again.
Speaker 1: You might keep them quiet for a quarter or two,
Speaker 1: but then they'll have that quarter where they dropped seventeen
Speaker 1: twenty points on you and there's no way to cap
Speaker 1: catch up. And the Rams, to me, because I had
Speaker 1: I had questions about continuity. Are we gonna see what
Speaker 1: we saw last year in an improvement? I think Jared
Speaker 1: Goff is notable noticeably more comfortable and some of the
Speaker 1: stuff where they had to coach him before the snap.
Speaker 1: He's doing something, they said, He's doing some of that
Speaker 1: just simply on his own. Now he's an extension of
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. And this Ram Rams team does not
Speaker 1: look any less powerful on offense. And the Cardinals who
Speaker 1: laid a total egg last week, how do you climb
Speaker 1: out of that? With the offense they showed. The Cardinals
Speaker 1: aren't good and Bradford played bad, but their offensive line
Speaker 1: and their wide receivers were even worse. This is to me,
Speaker 1: this looks like a total rebuild year. And I had
Speaker 1: higher expectations than that for them. I mean, non Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald receivers whiteouts had a total of four yards in
Speaker 1: that game. I mean that that's a problem. And I
Speaker 1: also think that Aaron Donald and the Rams as a
Speaker 1: whole have showed the preseason and maybe even training camp
Speaker 1: a little bit to be a little bit of overrated.
Speaker 1: If you were doing a little winners and losers, it's
Speaker 1: like training camp in the preseason are wildly overrated. If
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald and Khalil Mack and all the guys that
Speaker 1: essentially overrated for the best players in the NFL. Sure,
Speaker 1: but they showed up five or six days ahead of
Speaker 1: time and they play sixty five snaps. And by the way,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald was awesome in that game. Don't you think
Speaker 1: they're the exception to the rule because they're just that good.
Speaker 1: If you have Sean McVeigh and Aaron Donald, you can
Speaker 1: get away with it. Okay. They also the Ram the
Speaker 1: Rams skipped it. I just think the fact that any
Speaker 1: of these players can show up after missing that much work.
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas was another one, and just we're outstanding right away.
Speaker 1: It's starving magnifico for the NFL. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it is for the whole leg. It's star players who
Speaker 1: know the playbook, because least used to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're a meat you're working a meat packing plant, and
Speaker 1: now you got to come to camp and get in shape.
Speaker 1: It's like these guys are in optimum shape, but of
Speaker 1: the players who don't are trying to get on the
Speaker 1: roster and trying to keep roster spots. I think it's
Speaker 1: more it's a separate issue. But the Rams offense sitting
Speaker 1: out the preseason didn't didn't hurt them either. Uh And
Speaker 1: I know I get it. By the way, you you
Speaker 1: paid Sam Bradford twenty million dollars. But let's get Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen on that field. You're a team for the future,
Speaker 1: your planet, you're building for the future. It's gonna happen soon,
Speaker 1: probably just because they're not very good. But that's not
Speaker 1: it's they're not setting up Rosen for success either. I
Speaker 1: know that. But at a certain point, Sam Bradford is
Speaker 1: one of the last guys in the whole league that
Speaker 1: I would pick to be shepherding a team that is
Speaker 1: so clearly not ready for the now Bradford, I don't
Speaker 1: know where Bradford fits in, maybe like the Vikings last
Speaker 1: year if you could have stayed healthy, But I don't
Speaker 1: see what they're gaining from how he's a progress stopper
Speaker 1: was that's what he is. I agree. When you look
Speaker 1: at this team, it's like, why even bother throwing, say
Speaker 1: a Braveford out with that offense. And we were told
Speaker 1: all through the pre drift process that Rosen was the
Speaker 1: most pro ready guy. I'm just saying, I'm sure it
Speaker 1: will work itself out in a couple of weeks. What
Speaker 1: do you think by October? I'm gonna say week four.
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if he's not starting by Week four,
Speaker 1: that wasn't surprised. Long could be their first Rams to
Speaker 1: no start, I think since the early nineties. If yeah,
Speaker 1: if they win, and you do you do kind of
Speaker 1: look at the NFC in general in this division. I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think it's a great NFC West,
Speaker 1: and I do think the Rams. The Rams are obviously
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl or bus type of team. I think
Speaker 1: they're a team that's in a good position to get
Speaker 1: a buy. Well, I thought you were gonna go all
Speaker 1: the way and say they were into position too. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's not a bad it's not a
Speaker 1: bad schedule that the Rams have. I have no worry
Speaker 1: about them whatsoever, just because Sean McVeigh is that good alright.
Speaker 1: Moving on the Detroit Lions. No one looked worse UH
Speaker 1: in their own building than the Lions in Week one.
Speaker 1: They were completely outclassed by the Jets UH in a
Speaker 1: seventeen loss, and now they travel to San Francisco UH
Speaker 1: to face the forty Niners UH West. Even before that
Speaker 1: Lions game on Monday night, UM, I thought that there
Speaker 1: was a potential situation of Detroit going into a buzz
Speaker 1: sow with Kyle Shanahan and Garoppolo getting out of Minnesota
Speaker 1: and getting healthy, I feel that, well, I'm more strongly.
Speaker 1: My feeling about that is more strong than ever after
Speaker 1: what I saw on Monday night? What do you think?
Speaker 1: I agree? And it's the other side of the ball
Speaker 1: that I was going to concentrate on that The forty
Speaker 1: Niners defense, even in a loss, looked really good. And
Speaker 1: where is this Lion's running game? We heard about all August,
Speaker 1: all offseason that they have fixed their running game. Finally
Speaker 1: they got the offensive line, They've got the running backs.
Speaker 1: This forty Niners team held Dalvin Cook under fifty yards rushing.
Speaker 1: And then you're come, You're coming into San Francisco with
Speaker 1: your veterans complaining about a coach. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if Matt Patricia will ever be a good coach. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's good coach now. But I do
Speaker 1: know these lines veterans have accomplished nothing. So why should
Speaker 1: I believe they know how to win? Who are who
Speaker 1: do you think? Who are these veterans we speak? I've
Speaker 1: thought about Glover. Glover, Quinn is not playing as much.
Speaker 1: He's been probably their best player on defense. He's about
Speaker 1: as respected as any I'm not going to guess who's
Speaker 1: talking about it, none of it. They might be. I
Speaker 1: was really interested to see that he wasn't playing as much,
Speaker 1: and there's some talk that he might even not even
Speaker 1: be starting. I was like, wow, Glover, Clint Quinn's kind
Speaker 1: of been amazing. So that's like a veteran leader. That's right,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't fit apparently. Any other thoughts about this game, gentleman,
Speaker 1: any concerns at all about Jimmy G after that game?
Speaker 1: A couple of bad decisions, a couple of great throws.
Speaker 1: I think this is one of the best matchups you
Speaker 1: can possibly have is the Detroit Lions defense right now.
Speaker 1: They've shown that in the preseason and then in Week one.
Speaker 1: I almost feel like getting to you too, the way
Speaker 1: you finished last year, and it was bound to there's
Speaker 1: going to be all these questions when he has what
Speaker 1: is expectedly down to earth performance here and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, are we jumping ship on Jimmy G. It's
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be fine. Every game he makes a
Speaker 1: thrower two, you're like, wow. My advice to Matt Patricia
Speaker 1: is after seeing him on the sideline like about four
Speaker 1: shots from ESPN. Breathe, big fella, Maybe talk to some
Speaker 1: of the other other your coaches on the sideline, try
Speaker 1: to enjoy yourself, because he did not look like a
Speaker 1: guy who was having any fun in week mart Sell
Speaker 1: used to get nailed for that. For just sort of
Speaker 1: thousand yards stare for like fifteen straight minutes, where it's
Speaker 1: excuse me, sir, um, can we just get you back? Registered?
Speaker 1: Mark's good when he's not certain to play in this game,
Speaker 1: probably sounds like he's not in. Dante Pettis might end
Speaker 1: up being like the number one receiver on this team
Speaker 1: for this week or while Goodwin is gone, which is
Speaker 1: why good Week one look all right. Moving on the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders, who were outclassed in the second half of
Speaker 1: Monday night football against the Rams in the black Hole.
Speaker 1: Now they travel to Denver to face the Broncos. Um, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set you up on this now, the Broncos, Uh,
Speaker 1: and West I on your advice because you're you're talking
Speaker 1: them up so much. Uh. I watched the Broncos this morning,
Speaker 1: and I totally agree. Actually I that I think that
Speaker 1: was the to me, the best game of Week one.
Speaker 1: It's just the fun back and fourth games in Philip
Speaker 1: Lindsay fun to watch. Philip Lindsay is very fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And Von Miller when he just stole that like a
Speaker 1: loaf of bread. He was awesome in the game. Emmanuel Sanders, Please,
Speaker 1: but that said what what I was saying on Wednesday Lacrosse.
Speaker 1: That guy was great. What I was saying before I
Speaker 1: watched the game. I feel the same. And even more so,
Speaker 1: my boy case Keenan could he could have thrown five
Speaker 1: or six interceptions in that game he got he got
Speaker 1: hit with three, but he could easily thrown at least five. Um, So, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'll start there. They looked they really looked much much
Speaker 1: better on offense. But did Keenan terrify you at all? Watching?
Speaker 1: And we gets the Seahawks because he was pretty loose?
Speaker 1: He was he was loose. He's gonna be a little scary.
Speaker 1: But I kind of think that's what they're gonna just
Speaker 1: have to be. And I because I don't think this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a great defense. They had some ager
Speaker 1: meltdowns in the secondary. Uh, and so I think if
Speaker 1: the Raiders are gonna throw vertical like this is a
Speaker 1: week to do it. There was a miscommunication that was
Speaker 1: a that was a pretty dominant performance. It should not
Speaker 1: have been four. They doubled them up in terms of
Speaker 1: first downs, and so Keenum kind of kept the Seahawks
Speaker 1: in the game. I I don't know it should Should
Speaker 1: the Broncos be heavy, heavy favorites in this game. Are
Speaker 1: we already at the point where just we're trusting them
Speaker 1: to win? I guess I'm not quite there yet. They
Speaker 1: should be favorites to the extent that what I'm blocking
Speaker 1: them up. Good for you, Good for you. Broncos are
Speaker 1: my team this year. The Bears are my team of course,
Speaker 1: you know, loyal to the team of a t L.
Speaker 1: But not surprising, we each already have like second team
Speaker 1: of a t L stacked behind the Bears. The Bears
Speaker 1: got a show with something weak too that goes without
Speaker 1: saying the Raiders. Meanwhile, it will give them a little
Speaker 1: love is a strong word. But how did you evaluate
Speaker 1: their performance west On on Monday Night? They stink? That's
Speaker 1: I mean. Derek Carr played really well in the first
Speaker 1: half when ja when John Gruden was scripting the plays,
Speaker 1: and then his second half the knock on him even
Speaker 1: before he entered the league as he doesn't handle pressure well.
Speaker 1: And he didn't handle pressure well. And you've got Grooden
Speaker 1: in the days following coming out and essentially sort of
Speaker 1: calling out Derek Carr for not seeing a Marii Cooper
Speaker 1: downfield to the press, Why why do that? Although we
Speaker 1: know that that's a tick of Gruden. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's just loose, you know what I mean. I just
Speaker 1: think he was saying what he thinks and then he
Speaker 1: sometimes he just gets loose and he ends up throwing
Speaker 1: players under the bus a little bit. In Car's defense,
Speaker 1: it was not a good performance by their offensive line.
Speaker 1: And that was the thing that stuck out stood out
Speaker 1: about the Raiders two years ago. Some of those throws
Speaker 1: he just threw up for Greg There's no defense for that, right,
Speaker 1: But Colton Miller at a bad game, assembly got worked.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone gets worked against Aaron Donald, but Donald
Speaker 1: pends on a different side and that was I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that was the strength of the team. He was
Speaker 1: protected better than any quarterback in league too years ago,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't seem to be the case, and that's
Speaker 1: going to be a problem. Shout out to Leon Hall
Speaker 1: written off by about eight different teams, thirty something years
Speaker 1: old and looked like their best defensive player in that game.
Speaker 1: Let's move on the New England Patriots. Life still good
Speaker 1: on the throne of ease. Uh. They took care of
Speaker 1: business at home against the Texans. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Erica plugs in. She's paying attention to Are we kind?
Speaker 1: Are the Is it the same watching the Pats now
Speaker 1: that you're beloved Danny Amendola is playing in South Beach. No.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, it's the same. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: who is your new Danny? There isn't. I mean Edelman suspended,
Speaker 1: so like this, I'm just sort of cruising until week
Speaker 1: four five essentially. Yeah, you like those bad boys? Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: it's anyway the Pats want to know. They now travel
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. This is a great, great game. It's the
Speaker 1: I would I hazard to guess, but it has to
Speaker 1: be the Phil Simms Jim Nance special Uh Pats Jags
Speaker 1: rematch of the a f C Championship game mark that
Speaker 1: the Jags let slip away. This is a good one,
Speaker 1: breaking news, Phil Sims back in the booth, I didn't
Speaker 1: even know Dan said that he Dan must have said
Speaker 1: Phil Sims. I said, Sims, Yeah, I believe. I believe
Speaker 1: we still have like Simson Romo at the same level
Speaker 1: of greatness. So sometimes I just yes, Tony Romo and
Speaker 1: Jim Nance. They're actually bringing Sims back for Bengals Browns. Well, good, good, well,
Speaker 1: good for Phil? Where is Phil these days? By the way,
Speaker 1: is he got inside the NFL and HBO? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's on their pregame. He's on CBS pregame show doubles. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't cry for Phil, Sims called. It's a reassignment. They
Speaker 1: move you to a different part of the media. Limb.
Speaker 1: Phil feels Okay, Phil's got a couple of rings coming
Speaker 1: for all of us, right, it's it's coming for us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing like the I don't know how
Speaker 1: could we get the moded I was trying to drive
Speaker 1: time's trying to think of, like what do they think
Speaker 1: less of than podcasts? But they don't. So in this company,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a demotion we can get in
Speaker 1: terms of speaking, I can think of a few maybe
Speaker 1: maybe like we're just like we're in that social blue room,
Speaker 1: you know, like all all the young all the young
Speaker 1: NFL workers are in one room where they're King Bryce
Speaker 1: gust Of since people in the middle of magical couch,
Speaker 1: I know what will be producing the broadcast. We'll be
Speaker 1: behind the glass with only one person allowed to speak
Speaker 1: and naked. All right, here we go, Mark, anyway, I'll
Speaker 1: set you up. Tom Brady and Robert Kowski versus Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey and the Jaguars defense. Yummy. I think we were
Speaker 1: talking downstairs the other day or some in some room
Speaker 1: that this feels a lot to me like harkening back
Speaker 1: to the two thousand and three, two thousand and four Patriots.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, next game, Why don't you explain?
Speaker 1: I just think it is. I think you get like
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers and Juan Bentley and Dietrich Wise Jr. And
Speaker 1: then you have an offense where you've got Cordarrel Patterson
Speaker 1: and Philip Dorset catching the ball from Tom Brady, who
Speaker 1: looks like he's in about two thousand four shape. Right now.
Speaker 1: You look completely young to me all over again. This
Speaker 1: is an interesting team. I think the Patriots again, anyone
Speaker 1: that wanted to predict their demise, which I think I believe,
Speaker 1: I had a sandwich that they would not make the playoffs. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose that, they're gonna make it, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be about thirteen and three one gradually greater that
Speaker 1: it's better. It's amazing he I think when when he
Speaker 1: goes into Canton, like his biggest attribute is going to
Speaker 1: be staying power. He's just always there. Every September, every January,
Speaker 1: every February. He's always there, and he's always better than
Speaker 1: he was the previous yew Well, yeah, I wasn't being
Speaker 1: flipped saying he's better than two thousand four. There's no
Speaker 1: question he's better than he was. He his best two
Speaker 1: year two year stretch in the NFL is the last
Speaker 1: two years. Like, I don't even think it's that debatable.
Speaker 1: And he had a great Week one that said, this
Speaker 1: is as tough of a matchup as possible. I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to just how will they summon the power they
Speaker 1: are playing the best defense in the league, and the
Speaker 1: best defense in the league showed up in Week one
Speaker 1: and looked exactly like you would expected. It confirmed that, hey,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be Miles Jack's kind of breakout year.
Speaker 1: And hey, they're about as deep on the defensive line
Speaker 1: as any team in the NFL. You have to admit
Speaker 1: so like a one in thirty chance they have to
Speaker 1: win on Sunday with the Pets. It's a coin flip game.
Speaker 1: According to the Desert I mean, I think it's a
Speaker 1: Jacksonville wants it. I mean, this is this is the
Speaker 1: a f C. You're gonna They're gonna come back. They
Speaker 1: want to. They were up ten in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: with the best defense in the league. One of these
Speaker 1: teams is much better than they were in January. That's
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Exactly look better, are you? Tony Romo said
Speaker 1: that Bill Belichick is super excited for this defense. They
Speaker 1: are much better pass rushing, like this is a this
Speaker 1: is a better Here's the thing, though, are they gonna
Speaker 1: be I don't think they're gonna be as good right
Speaker 1: now as they are at the end of the year. Offensively,
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to say, Okay, they have a great
Speaker 1: they have the best quarterback in the best tight end,
Speaker 1: but it might be a pretty uneven offense September and
Speaker 1: so if the Jaguars shut them down pretty pretty well
Speaker 1: and it's thirteen to ten in the fourth quarter, I
Speaker 1: don't think that should be a shock to anyone. Was
Speaker 1: Leonard for not playing this game game time decision. Enough
Speaker 1: with the game time decision, that guy and bull his
Speaker 1: hamstring hold up and is that you know? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: both backfields are in trouble. Frustrating that must Grex Burkett
Speaker 1: is coming off of a concussion. He was at practice Thursday.
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see some extremely limited Jeremy Hill
Speaker 1: the seas and in the Jaguars offense. Not that I
Speaker 1: expected them to look way different, you know, this season,
Speaker 1: but I think that was a pretty discouraging performance in
Speaker 1: New York. They didn't score a point in the second half,
Speaker 1: that the offense only scored thirteen points overall. I think
Speaker 1: t J. Elden looks pretty good, but it's not like
Speaker 1: you saw Blake Bortles come out in this game and
Speaker 1: you'll be like, Okay, this guy's maturing. It was a
Speaker 1: pretty poor Blake Bortles game against not a great deal.
Speaker 1: I got the Jags getting some revenge in this game.
Speaker 1: You guys got the Pats are Patriots pretty convincingly. I
Speaker 1: don't pick against the Patriots in big games. I famously
Speaker 1: picked them again, not famous big game in the Championship,
Speaker 1: the biggest game that's a big game, all right, Sunday
Speaker 1: night football. Oh yeahy you boys love this Sunday night. Man,
Speaker 1: they can have big games coming off that. Giants and
Speaker 1: Cowboys are on Sunday Night Football ratings, Baby, that's why
Speaker 1: it happens on one. They moved the needle at loss
Speaker 1: to the Jacks in Week one. Uh, did not look
Speaker 1: very good on offense, but it is the Jags great defense.
Speaker 1: They now um travel to Jaral World and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have a whole mess of problems Chris Westling. But and
Speaker 1: surprisingly the offensive line is now a liability. Or that's
Speaker 1: how it looked in Week one. I never thought I
Speaker 1: would have said this a month ago or two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But it's a big problem when the Cowboys offense is
Speaker 1: worse than their defense. Yes, and it could be a
Speaker 1: season long issue. What's the problem. What's wrong with its
Speaker 1: wide receiver? To start with? The offensive line got outplayed
Speaker 1: by the Panthers defensive line, and they're supposed to be
Speaker 1: the best offensive line around that that's a big they're
Speaker 1: not when they don't have Travis Fedwick. They didn't know
Speaker 1: what happens. They's time. Dak Prescott's played a good game
Speaker 1: about ten games ago. He hasn't been able to kind
Speaker 1: of rise above what's happening. And I think probably his
Speaker 1: best skill is those off scheduled plays down the field.
Speaker 1: He is one of the best deep ball throwers, kind
Speaker 1: of on the movies, like who's catching that pass? He's
Speaker 1: not even really trying those pass right now, But who
Speaker 1: would be catching that pass on this team, Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: if they don't have to, they don't have the person.
Speaker 1: Bill Barnwell at ESPN wrote a good piece, uh, kind
Speaker 1: of digging, digging into the Cowboys, who have the biggest
Speaker 1: competitive advantage in the sport right now because they have
Speaker 1: what they even even he hasn't played well maybe in
Speaker 1: recent times, but uh, Dak Prescott is the biggest bargain
Speaker 1: because he was a fourth round pick and he basically
Speaker 1: makes no money. It's I think he's old, maybe two
Speaker 1: point seven million over the balance of his contract. Uh.
Speaker 1: And during the last two off seasons, the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: not really went after any big free agents. So and
Speaker 1: part of the reason why they haven't it's because they've
Speaker 1: made so many bad deals and and have so much
Speaker 1: dead cap money and they and they have not handled
Speaker 1: their business affairs correctly. Ramo being the two biggest right that,
Speaker 1: But and there are a whole host of other guys
Speaker 1: that you completely forget that they've just been killing themselves
Speaker 1: with now for years, and that's kind of put them
Speaker 1: in this situation. You wonder, why didn't they go out
Speaker 1: and get some more free agents while they're a little
Speaker 1: bit hamstrung. Uh, And you're seeing it all the what
Speaker 1: do they call it the the chickens come home to roost?
Speaker 1: Is that a term? I think that's what's happening here.
Speaker 1: They yeah, there they going are there typically penned in
Speaker 1: on a farm to coming home and and this is
Speaker 1: might be a last season because of they're bad business
Speaker 1: practices and their inability to surround a young quarterback that's
Speaker 1: very cheap with real talent. Yikes, it's one it's one week.
Speaker 1: It's one week. You have a big part of the
Speaker 1: show that was that was actually a little throwback podcast act.
Speaker 1: That's what I have. I have a small stable of
Speaker 1: impressions and uh, the far Ladies guy saying one of them,
Speaker 1: it's it's come out more. Save it for the other show.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to you have to keep these alright.
Speaker 1: Check out the throwback podcast Randy Gregory suffered a concussion
Speaker 1: in Week one, and I thought he was going to
Speaker 1: make a big difference. There's a report that he's gonna
Speaker 1: have another suspension eventually anyways, but he's not. It sounds
Speaker 1: like he is not going to play this game to
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence is and his absence makes it even less
Speaker 1: likely that the defense ends up being a difference maker.
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith played the whole game last week. Wouldn't say
Speaker 1: he made it like a huge impact. They have some
Speaker 1: good pieces in the secondary. I don't know, like how
Speaker 1: how good is the Giant's offense going to be and
Speaker 1: how much of it was just the jack playing against
Speaker 1: Jacksonville idea, he didn't get bad. I didn't think. I
Speaker 1: think Eli's had worse games, but at that we didn't
Speaker 1: look bad. But there's still in an alternate it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I like looked at the box score and I was
Speaker 1: thinking it's gonna be a bad eye like game, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't their number one problem. An alternate universal, the
Speaker 1: Giants have Sam Donald and Adrian Peterson right now and
Speaker 1: they have a lot of hope. That would have been
Speaker 1: an interesting I mean, you can't really tag them with Peterson.
Speaker 1: Everybody passed on. I'm just say Peterson would they would
Speaker 1: have needed a running back, they would have been a
Speaker 1: candidate to get it would be Sam Donald and Jonathan Stewart. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they could have had the quarterback and
Speaker 1: they passed. It's that I love Siguon Barkley, I get it.
Speaker 1: But if they took Todd Gurley over Eric Flowers, isn't
Speaker 1: it a little bit early to say that Darnall was
Speaker 1: a better pick than things? QU think it's very early,
Speaker 1: but still there this week that was like, how much
Speaker 1: are the Browns and the Giants regretting passing on I've
Speaker 1: ever seen, But with the Giants, I think there's something
Speaker 1: to it that if Sam Donald, if we're halfway through
Speaker 1: the season and he just looks like it's just that
Speaker 1: the Giants passed on the quarterback. The Browns did not
Speaker 1: know the Cardinals of the Bills. Uh, last game of
Speaker 1: the week, Monday Night Football, the Seattle Seahawks, who like
Speaker 1: in that Cowboys game. I'm gonna throw that out to everyone, Alright,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I think the cow I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: find a way. They're not going to be as bad
Speaker 1: as I think the Giants are a considerably better team.
Speaker 1: I think the Gyman are gonna take care of his
Speaker 1: defense played pretty well the Giants. I think the Gyman
Speaker 1: will roll. I think the Cowboys are working through some
Speaker 1: stuff right now. If they get Travis Frederick Beckett sometime,
Speaker 1: and that's a huge if. I have no idea that
Speaker 1: could help. But I think the Cowboys are lost right now.
Speaker 1: At the Seahawks, UH played a very entertaining game, as
Speaker 1: you said, against the Broncos, fell short four. UH. They
Speaker 1: head to Chicago to face the Bears, and Greg, Uh,
Speaker 1: we should talk. We should touch on the Bears because
Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to talk about what happened
Speaker 1: to them on Sunday night. The highs were so high
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, and then the lows were absolutely crushing.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, a loss in Week one probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't dictate how the rest of your season unfolds. But
Speaker 1: I'm wondering what the confidence level of that team is
Speaker 1: after what Aaron Rodgers did to them. I've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of that. This loss was somehow a good sign
Speaker 1: for the Bears. You know, the way that they played,
Speaker 1: the way that Khalil Mack came out, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: more with you Dan that that was a massive missed
Speaker 1: opportunity and the number one question about this Bears team.
Speaker 1: UH created more questions after this game. Was not a
Speaker 1: good performance by Mitchell Trobiski, especially after you got through
Speaker 1: those scripted plays early. He struggled in the second half,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a I think that's a concern.
Speaker 1: That was a major missed opportunity by them, like it should.
Speaker 1: You're not getting any extra credit that you played this
Speaker 1: rival team tough. You gotta finish. I had. I had
Speaker 1: two takeaways from the end of that game. One, I
Speaker 1: can't there there was a reality where it should have
Speaker 1: played out this way for the Bears, that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: never gets back on the field. They have third and one,
Speaker 1: UH inside the twenty where they end up settling for
Speaker 1: a field goal. They throw the ball and they throw
Speaker 1: an in completely past you run the ball once and
Speaker 1: my Bears colleague downstairs Ali made a good point to you,
Speaker 1: maybe you get two cracks at it because kicked the
Speaker 1: field goal, you send Aaron Rodgers back on the field
Speaker 1: down six. It was set in stone. It felt like
Speaker 1: almost what was gonna happen next. So that was my
Speaker 1: one thought, and then my other thought was after Rogers
Speaker 1: does the Rodgers thing and thank you by the way,
Speaker 1: Packers fans are sending a gift baskets Kyle Fuller because
Speaker 1: he should have ended the game as well with in
Speaker 1: a reception. But after they take the lead, the Packers
Speaker 1: the Bears come out of the field, and I just
Speaker 1: got the feeling that Mitch Drobinski, the way he looked,
Speaker 1: he just wasn't ready for that moment, and I think
Speaker 1: he played that way. He looked a little tight, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I obviously there's questions to be asked about
Speaker 1: Rabisky at this stage. I think we're still waiting for
Speaker 1: that game, even that half where Robinsky does enough to
Speaker 1: convince us that yes, this is the guy in Chicago.
Speaker 1: The search for a quarterback is absolutely over. I mean
Speaker 1: it's over now for a while because they're gonna work
Speaker 1: with them as much as they can. But the light
Speaker 1: is not gone on the same way you've seen with
Speaker 1: some other quarterbacks in the seventeen games. In that's fair. Uh.
Speaker 1: Bill Simmons used to call it stomach punch level loss,
Speaker 1: one of the worst loss level when you factor in
Speaker 1: the third and one, the comeback, the third and one,
Speaker 1: the Kyle Fuller drop, the Randall Cobb interception, and then
Speaker 1: that having one more chance, the Clay Matthews roughing the
Speaker 1: pastor giving you a new life and still falling short.
Speaker 1: This is about as bad as a regular season lost
Speaker 1: could be in Week one, and factor in if you're
Speaker 1: a Bears fan that all you've done in the past
Speaker 1: decade is getting whipped by Aaron Rodgers and the Packers
Speaker 1: over and over. There was that it was the pmponent
Speaker 1: to this is a great matchup to bounce back from
Speaker 1: bounce back. You're back home. You're facing a Seattle team
Speaker 1: that to me has all sorts of problems. Russell Wilson ran.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had a poor game for him. Missed some throws,
Speaker 1: made a bad interception, ran into some sacks. He he
Speaker 1: admitted three of the sacks were on him. And you're
Speaker 1: counting on Brandon Marshall to win on the outside. You
Speaker 1: know you're throwing late passes to Jeron Brown down the field.
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny was basically dismissed almost by Pete Carroll during
Speaker 1: the press conference this week, essentially saying like this, kid
Speaker 1: wasn't ready. We need to rely on Chris Carson a
Speaker 1: little more. And Chris Carson looked good. It's just it's
Speaker 1: a lot going on and you're not exactly sure who
Speaker 1: on defense other than Earl Thomas and Frank Clark are
Speaker 1: really going to carry the dead. I feel like Seattle,
Speaker 1: like you, finally, after all these years done at Seattle,
Speaker 1: you've created an offense with no identity at all other
Speaker 1: than Russell Wilson having to run around do figure eights
Speaker 1: get sacked twenty yards. But even with him in there,
Speaker 1: what is this offense right now? It's just it would
Speaker 1: help a lot. This will help a lot. That identity
Speaker 1: goes to the defense too. What's the defense? They've you
Speaker 1: stripped away all these people and it's like it's a
Speaker 1: nice fresh start, but really, what you is you have
Speaker 1: nothing to really hang your hat on if you if
Speaker 1: you're the Bears, you are attacking Trey Flowers and Sham
Speaker 1: Griffin or Shakille Griffin rather, who had a solid rookie year.
Speaker 1: But they were overmatched last week against the Broncos. And
Speaker 1: I know that's a good pair of receivers, but they
Speaker 1: were just people were wide open against that cornerback group,
Speaker 1: and so you would think Matt Naggie can cook up
Speaker 1: some place here for his his wide receivers who other
Speaker 1: than Allen Robinson didn't really do a lot last week.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the team of a TL on this me
Speaker 1: toot ride with them here. Let's go boys, bounce back,
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