WEBVTT - NFL Week 8 Recap and Early Week 9 Bets - Cowboys-Broncos, Jets-Bengals, Giants-Eagles, Niners-Texans and more 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:05.000 Come to Sharper Square, presented by Hard rap Bat. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.280 We are part of the Volume podcast network. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.520 This is the show that makes the squares sharper and 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.040 makes the wise guys pay attention. I am Chad Millman. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.800 I am joined as always by my bff, my companion, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:24.599 my compadre, professional vetter, Simon Hunter Ella Simon. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:25.560 What's our brother? 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.360 Well, look, we're. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:33.320 Feeling good because it was kind of a drama free day. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:39.239 One one score game today. Going back to Thursday night, 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:45.800 so far one one score game the New York j 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:51.199 e Ts Jets, Jets, Jets. They got in the win column, 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:57.040 the Dolphins were redeemed, the Bills avoid to trap. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.720 None of those games were in our Simon. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.480 However, our record on the day is three and one. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.280 We had the Texans at plus one. We liked them 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.080 up to two and a half. That's where it landed. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.440 We had the Patriots minus six and a half. We 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.360 liked them at seven, that's where it landed. We had 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.319 the Giants plus seven and a half, that is a bummer. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.440 And we had the Broncos minus three and a half, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.360 no sweat. We have the Steelers at plus three and 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:30.640 a half. Tonight against the Packers, last On's in last 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.840 games in today. I think we're kind of the Pats 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.399 and the Giants and the last ones out. I think 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.440 we're the Saints, the Jets, and I guess the Ravens. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.000 We'll talk about all of these games. We're going to 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:53.520 get to our early leans for Week nine, and we'll 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:58.120 get to some viewer questions and comments as well as 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.600 we dig in. But let's let's kick it off with 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.680 that New England game. Like I said, we had the 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:07.160 Patriots minus six and a half. Here's how it came 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.840 down to New England. For me, I was stretching this morning. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.640 This one was my arm rotation from my frozen shoulder, 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.560 and it just occurred to me. We've been talking about 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.280 the Patriots all week, and we had been bouncing around 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.320 between a bunch of seven point games, and I just 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.520 thought to myself, Dylan Gabriel cannot score touchdowns in this game. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.839 He absolutely will not be able to score. I don't 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.240 care about anything else. We ended up putting them in. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.760 It was against the wise guys because this line had 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.480 moved to six and a half in a lot of places. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.079 The last thing I said this morning. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.240 Before we made the pick, I believe the Browns are 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:03.320 susceptible to big plays. I feel like our overall analysis 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.920 on this nailed it. I can't believe it took us 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:08.079 so long to commit to it. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.320 Yeah, I would say your confidence probably wasn't this level. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:18.679 At half. It was looking like frustrating the game of 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.040 the professionals do bet where it's like the Browns basically 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.240 pulled the Patriots into the mud, got a really flukey 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.080 opening drive touchdown, and we were sweating because it's like 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.640 May was just making bad plays, bad decisions, and they 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.400 kept giving them opportunities. Like you said, the way to 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.320 attack that Browns team is definitely through the air in 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.200 the secondary right, they're tough to run against, but they 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.640 had a bunch of opportunities passing and second half May 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.240 got comfortable totally different, Like you saw him do what 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.280 he should do is move the ball down the field. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.680 And what we talked about all week, Gabriel is just 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.160 not a starting quarterback, let alone on the road in 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.120 a hostile environment like that. So he looked good on 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.560 that opening drive. But other than that, Yeah, that was 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.040 a really good button. Yeah, glad that we stuck with 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.000 it because it was a type of game that if 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.880 it was minus seven and a half, probably wouldn't have 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.280 missed it. Honestly, I really loved it was because it 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.000 was minus six and a half of minus seven, It's like, well, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.240 those are good numbers. Could be laying on a push. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.640 We could, of course, but no, we leaned into it, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.279 and yeah, no doubt or that were clearly better team today. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:22.880 The Patriots. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.320 Well, Dylan Gabriel, by the way, the first drive looked 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.720 like he had been playing for ten years. Three for three, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.279 one hundred yards. Yeah, touchdown. And it's funny you mentioned halftime. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.599 So in the first half, Miles Garrett had three sacks 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.520 and a forced fumble, and he had five sacks on 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.400 the day. And I kept looking at this game, and 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.160 the Patriots went in at halftime up nine to seven, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:53.400 and actually, wasn't that anxious. I said to myself, They're 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.360 one touchdown away from covering this, and I don't think 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.360 the Browns can score again the rest of the day. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.200 And we have Mike Vrabel who was so freaking good, 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.000 and that first drive coming out of halftime, very first 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.760 drive they started the second half, Miles Garrett could not 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.280 be stopped right, So what did they do? They had 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.560 a trip play that ran counter to the rush. They 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.640 were rolling away from Miles Garrett. They were pitching the 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:27.200 ball on runs that cut inside the lanes where the 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:32.560 rushers were coming upfield. It was the perfect drive, no penalties, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.839 seven plays, seventy seven yards, five runs, two passes. Can't 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.400 sack if you don't drop back, and that's exactly what 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.920 they did. And then all of a sudden they get 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.839 aired out like they had multiple plays. The next drive, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.320 I think they had another touchdown. It was two plays 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.880 of twenty plus yards, including foty yard touchdown backs to 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.320 Keishan Boudi, Drake May's favorite player. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:02.080 So just awesome. They were awesome. I love them. I 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:03.479 loved Drake Mae. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:04.920 No. It was great, but great win. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.120 Good for us, very good for us. By the way. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.320 The one thing I want to say, because we talked 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:15.480 about Dylan Gabriel after that, after that three for three start, 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.039 I think he had like nineteen total yards or something 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.400 like that. It was really it was insane after the 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.039 first drive he was he was after the first drive, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.400 nineteen plays, forty three yards after starting six for seventy 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.440 in the first half. So good for us, good for 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:40.160 the Patriots, New York Football Giants crushing. I mean, this 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.200 is our last one in We were sort of we 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.360 didn't know what to do. We took out the Ravens 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.320 obviously because of all the Lamar stuff, and we're gonna 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.520 we're gonna get to that. We didn't buy out of it, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.800 and we actually said on the show we're sticking with it, 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.920 but we did. We decided not to put into the contest, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.919 like we decided to go with this one because of 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.480 injuries to the eat goals across the you know, Aj Brown, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.840 plus in the secondary, plus on the defensive line and 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.760 the offensive line for the Eagles, and then Camp Scataboo, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.360 Like it kind of took the air out for me. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.640 It felt like after that it was a little bit 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:16.280 of a dead bet. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.160 Yeah, honestly, I watched every second of that game. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.880 The refs were just terrible, like terrible. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.680 The game flipped in my opinion, on that touch push, 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.320 which yes, the announcer said, this isn't the end zone. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.480 There should not be. If you reach forward with the 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.240 ball and you are still that's momentum. You're moving forward, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.720 your hands are moving forward with the ball, it can 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.800 get punched out like you're not down and your momentums 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.400 not stop. So that was that game of the Saints game. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.960 The Saints had a really lucky like the Bucks had 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.360 a touchdown on a rain on whistle blue, so they 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:52.360 brought the Bucks back. 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.720 Ran into the end zone three different times today on 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.040 three different plays, all. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.720 Of which the whistle blew before the play. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.280 Was just ridiculous though, like it's same as you again, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.440 like these refs need to swallow these whistles, Like we 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.640 can plain all the time, but it is ridiculous. So 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.120 that was absurd, Like just every little thing fell get 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:12.679 wet again. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.840 Just to such a scene that was in the first half. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:19.960 The game was still very cool. Seven the Sakoon Barclay 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.960 had that sixty five yard run and the Giants went 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.280 right back down and scored. They looked fantastic, like Jackson 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.880 Dart was slinging the ball and like looked really comfortable 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.760 and their defense was playing well, and they get that 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.720 fumble cave on Thibodeau on Jalen Hurts and the rest 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.120 blue the whistle and the Eagles score touched on after that. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.599 Yeah, and then like there's still a much opportunities to 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.400 where the Giants were in the game, like they had 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.080 a long touchdown got called back, so the guy guy 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.280 pushed off when they're clearly hand fighting. It just you're 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:52.960 gonna have games that just go against you like that 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.880 with the reps, like we just couldn't get any calls 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.400 our way. All the key moments went the other way. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:01.960 And once again Jalen her it's playing really well, like 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:03.920 he just killed us in this game, like a couple 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.840 of big throws where it's like he's just when he's 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.800 on there, it doesn't matter. There's no Aj Brown in 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.360 that type of game. Like when he was on he 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.120 was sitting guys deep all over the field. Like we 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.560 talked about the run game, you know, Saquon gets hurt, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.560 the backup comes in, tanks Bigsby, and I think he 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.200 rushes for one hundred yards. So yeah, the Giants just 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.959 got rolled, bad bet and just brutal on a day 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.640 where like we've talked about, we got pretty much every 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.200 game right, one of the games we put in. Like 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.360 I think we both agree looking back, why do we 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.040 not just put the Colts and over the Giants or 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.080 whatever it may be? Those always those always hurt you. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.800 Where you know, kind of hated the Giants and we 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:44.800 ended up on it anyway and we got burned. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:50.120 Yeah, that one was really disappointing. There was a play 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.280 the Giants were keeping it close. They were down early 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.320 in the fourth. They're down twenty four to thirteen. Eagles 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.640 have a second and third, Brian Burns had just gotten 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.760 a second sack in the game. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:10.360 They give up a thirty one yard run to Tank Bixby. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.760 Yeah, for the fact, not even Saquon like that was 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.840 a backbreaker. And then even right after that they scored 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.240 a touchdown. It then even down thirty one thirteen because 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.200 it's a seven and a half point spread, the back 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:28.000 door sort of always open, right, and the Giants nearly 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.440 made it close. You're talking about that long touchdown pass 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:33.320 from Jackson Dart. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.040 I can't remember who the receiver was. It was a 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:36.560 great play. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.480 It was total hand fighting all the way down the field, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.320 and the refs called the pass interference OPI called it back. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.559 That's sort of the ballgame. Brian day Ball at that point. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.920 Was so apoplectic, like and like it was so funny 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.960 because he didn't know what to do, and he just 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.560 took his headphones and just shoved him on top of 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.240 his head as hard as he couldn't look like they 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.520 were like squeezing his face, Like his face was so 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.400 puffy and red and angry and he's just squeezing the headphones. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.559 He was so mad. I do wonder are the rest 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:13.160 going to have to do? 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.280 So, like, is there going to be a call from 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.520 the league about these whistles because it happened in a 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:19.360 few different games. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:19.960 It happened. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.440 It happened in the Cowboys game, in the Cowboys Broncos 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.559 game as well, So that was and it's weird that 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.960 it happened multiple times today and everybody was noticing it. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.439 So that's going to have to be I think that's 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.240 going to be a conversation from the league this week. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.280 I still like the idea that now that New York 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.079 is involved and we're so openly about New York making 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:46.160 calls for the refs, Yeah, give them one universal challenge 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.280 every coach gets to make that they challenge a call 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.439 on the field no matter what the rule is, whatever 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.600 it is, that it can be a return, which I'm 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.079 talking like fast interference, those type of plays where the 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:03.760 westle blew a play dead like it's the momentum all 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.440 of it. It just changes so much dramatically. I remember 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.800 they tried having that challenge with the pis a couple 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.079 of years ago after that Ram Saints game, and it 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.400 didn't work because it was the refs working in collusion 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.080 to get rid of the rule because they were just 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.319 so mad. I think it was like a overturn rate. 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.000 It was like dead on arrivals. So they got to 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.680 figure out something. It just if New York is going 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.480 to be involved, let's just get it right, like we 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.760 always say, no one would complain if we just got 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.520 it right, And that's that's all. At the end of 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.319 that we want, like it's it cleans up a lot 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.080 of the game. When the refs are changing the game 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.439 so much, it should just one challenge a game, that's 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.640 all we ask. Where it can challenge one call on 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:45.079 the field. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.160 I don't know why you limited to a challenge. I 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.040 think they should expand the rule of what can be 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.800 overturned by the officials. And they've already. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.240 We're not killing the play, like I think that's you're 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.080 about to say, a whistle killing the play is just brew. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:01.240 That's what I mean. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.480 So the whistle shouldn't be if well. There were also 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:10.600 a couple times where there was no whistle blown that 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.439 anyone could hear like they were running. They were running 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.760 the plays back in real speed without any other audio, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.920 and there were no whistles, and they're calling the play 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.440 was dead off of a whistle. So why do they 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.480 have to have a universal one time challenge on plays 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.079 where the whistle shouldn't be blown, wherefore progress isn't stopped, 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.520 where the officials can then overturn it in the same 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.040 way they can do with a turnover. So that's what 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.320 I'm saying, is like, if there's a question, let that 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.360 be a challengeable play, or let that be something that 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.720 is reviewed an instant review from New York. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:49.960 That's what I think they should do. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:56.960 San Francisco at Houston, Simon says, Look, we loved it 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.520 all week and we were not sort of dissuay by 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.079 Houston flipping and flopping a little bit from one point 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.120 dog to one point favorite, then getting up to two 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.160 and a half. We sat on the show this morning, 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.679 we liked it up to two and a half or 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:18.720 really up to three. But boy man, for a game 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:24.560 they completely and totally dominated from the get go. They 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.040 made every effort to let the Niners sneak in the 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:28.880 back door on this one. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:35.800 Yeah, and we joke it's it's always scary when a team, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.680 you know, in the first half has three hundred yards, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.440 has the ball for what was they say, thirty minutes 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.520 or something insane and they give up that late touchdown. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:51.200 Insane throw by Mac Jones, insane little window to kill again. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.000 I know you're not the biggest Mac Jones fans. I 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.320 can't get over some of the flaer as a kid 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.080 makes where it's like he is getting pumbled in that game. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.480 He's getting hit every play, and like you said, we 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.960 were never out of it, like he kept us. He 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.760 made that we had to watch that game unto the 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.320 fourth quarter, which is just ridiculous. Mean, you should have 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.400 been able to turn that game off at half because 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.520 Houston dominated that much. But yeah, they're just there's something 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.960 up with Houston them just not finishing in the red zone. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.720 And you know, it's it's hard to get mad at 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.920 a quarterback that's number one, number two receiver or out 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.040 of the game like he's thrown to ye kid Higgins 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:32.160 who's a rookie, and you know it's just not ideal. Yes, yeah, 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.680 so it's like and it worked, like we said, though 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.440 if if he doesn't have pressure in his face, all 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.160 the injuries to foynineers have had, they're just their defense 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.200 as a shell. It's like they don't give you so much. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:48.200 So amazing spot, unique spot for Houston. And yeah, like 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.640 you know, Tuesday when we talked about it, I gave 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.520 it on the basis of this is gonna be a 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.800 pro team appro spot. The public will build over the 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.960 forty nine ers, And as the week went along, you 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.880 saw the number kept moving, like you said, opened as 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.360 a dog, closed minus two, minus two and a half. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.840 So those are those are the nice, nice times to 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:09.480 be a pro because it's like it feels like you're 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.680 the smart guy in the room because like again, everyone 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.600 I knew was like trying to tell me how good 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.600 this matchup is for their forty nine ers, and it's 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.200 just like this Texas team, they're not with their record 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.440 shows and we saw that in the game. So the 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.479 Colts have pretty much ended their Texas season, I guess divisionally, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.040 but Texas all have a chance, got that wild card. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.120 It's not they're not going to give up. They're a 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.800 good defensive team, they got weapons, so big, big win 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.160 for them. Twenty six fifteen. They needed that type of win. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.200 The Bears and the Texans. And we're going to get 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.960 to the Bears and the Ravens in a minute. But 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.120 had similar first quarters. As I was making my notes, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:50.480 the Texans dominated, completely dominated. They had just in the 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.200 first quarter they had one hundred and thirty eight yards 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:59.720 to the Niners nineteen twenty three plays to the Niners, four, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.320 six first downs to the Niners zero, and they had 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.960 the ball for thirteen minutes and nineteen seconds of the 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.040 fifteen minutes in the first quarter, and they were only 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.080 up six to nothing. Yeah, and at least like they 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:20.520 did continue to dominate. They got up thirteen nothing, they 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.159 got up sixteen nothing, and then they had sort of 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:29.320 a catastrophic final fifty one seconds. They let Brian Robinson 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.639 run the ball back a kick off after they won 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.280 up sixteen nothing. They let him run it back to 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.760 about the fifty and they had a face mask and 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.040 then Mac Jones got the first first down of the 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.080 first half for the Niners. And then all of a sudden, 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.320 they're in the end zone at sixteen to seven. They 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.439 were getting the ball back to start the second half. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.600 Because the Texans defense is so good. This year they 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.840 were to stop them and then they were able to 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.240 actually score to go up twenty three to seven. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.359 But man like it. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.679 Was, it was the lack of pressure that allowed the 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:07.159 Texans to continue to drive the ball down the field. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.600 We talked about it. You just mentioned it to put 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.480 a stat against it. They only pressured the quarterback on 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.600 nineteen percent of his forty plus dropbacks today. That was 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.119 to us the key to the game and why we 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.639 were betting it. We just didn't think the Niners, as 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.640 much as we love Sala, they didn't have the horses 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.200 to really get to the quarterback and make a difference 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:28.879 for them. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:34.280 But wow, like the thing that I want to know, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.359 I want your take on this. CJ. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:43.720 Stroud had three hundred yards passing his issue and as 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.360 the game went on, he started to throw the ball 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.600 downfield more and more. You know, the first few drives 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:53.400 classic CJ. Five yard dump, five yard dump inaccurate, bad screen. 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:54.159 It was. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.160 It looked like it was going to be a frustrating day. 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.480 They started to get better. They started to convert on 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:03.920 third downs schematically, Did we see anything in this game 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.399 that we can take forward as we think about the 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.879 Texans because they have such a good defense. Did we 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.960 see anything that could help complement this defense? 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.600 Yeah, I guess I think they're gonna be a borderline 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.760 playoff team, which you're the Texans. That's the most you 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.439 can ask for. You don't. Coming in the year you 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:22.680 I greted them as one of the worst offensive lines 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:27.360 in all football. So I remember we joked people were 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.320 just taking them down the division because it's like everyone 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.280 else in the division is a joke, and that's the 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:33.680 view of it. It's like no one thought this was 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:35.439 gonna be a good team, a contender. They're just not 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:40.560 built right. So for me, it's just keep approving through 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.560 the draft of the years. But like, no, watching them today, 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:48.080 there's just I just can't see them challenging the Colts 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.159 for this division. They just you watch the Colts and 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.439 you watch Houston. It's two totally different worlds. One just 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:57.520 looks like I'm machine offensively, totally in rhythm. Like you said, 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.680 everything's hard for CJ in this offense. Even on days 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.560 like today where the run game felt like it was 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.520 getting seven yards per carry for Houston, still felt like 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.720 CJM miss throws and it was tough at points for him. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.320 So yeah, I just I'm confident in them to be 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.959 a playoff team potentially, but not confident in them to 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:14.480 be one of the better teams in all football. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.679 Houston had four hundred and seventy five yards. That was 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.560 more than twice as many as the forty nine Ers, 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:26.880 who had two hundred and twenty three. They had seventy 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:31.040 five total plays. The Niners only had forty four. So 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:31.760 what does that tell you. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:32.920 About your boy Mac Jones? 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:34.399 That he was able to make this as close as 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.240 it was, and like he basically did it in three drives. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.639 He had like three good drives then enabled us to 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:44.040 have to sweat in like the only game we really had. 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:44.600 To sweat today. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.359 So good on Mac. He's not going to be the starter, 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.959 but good on Mac. Dallas at Denver Denver minus three 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.520 and a half. This was Chad's choice. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:57.480 Our biggest fear. 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:02.080 Of betting this game was bo Nix. And you asked 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.639 me before we came on the air, what did I 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.040 think when I saw that play. I'm going to tell 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:09.680 you that true. The first pick, the first pick, that's right, 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.520 the first pick from Bonnicks on the first drop. I 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.959 think it was the third play of the game. I 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.359 was so hungry at that point, Simon, after the early games, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.679 and that Broncos game started so much later that I 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.520 hadn't turned over to multiview yet. 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:25.960 I got up and I went. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.719 I got myself some carrot sticks, and so I missed 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:31.880