Speaker 1: Do you Around the NFL Podcast? Eaglewood's Hottest Act from
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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast, Dan Kansas, Gregg Rose Atal Park feel
Speaker 1: a little under the weather to day. So it's up
Speaker 1: to you Greg to carry that entire side of the table. Ka,
Speaker 1: can I ask? Can I put the show on your
Speaker 1: back in the biggest of all spin. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of honking. I'm just gonna eat up
Speaker 1: that airtime. You're not getting any extra. Do you know what?
Speaker 1: There was a wrestler in the eighties. I know you
Speaker 1: weren't that plugged into WWF and the ol days. Honky
Speaker 1: tonk man, I had a year or two. You're you're
Speaker 1: you're wrong. Actually there there was a year or two
Speaker 1: where I like rented all the old Summer Slam and
Speaker 1: uh Royal Rumble like videos and bang through them. So
Speaker 1: I know my stuff. So remember renting videos? Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: of course, um colic and videos. I think it was
Speaker 1: the hockey talk man. That's I'm gonna start building out
Speaker 1: your nickname repertoire, and that is that's you. When you
Speaker 1: start talking too much, start hawkey time. It's like anybuddykay
Speaker 1: talk Man's in the building. I thought I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I'm not really giving off like a Southern musician, probably
Speaker 1: a racist considering like the time and place of honkeydyk Man.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm giving off that vibe. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is Week three in the NFL. A little later tonight,
Speaker 1: Greg and Danny Kelly of The Ringer will recap the
Speaker 1: beginning of Week three, which is Texans Cults and now
Speaker 1: we're going to dig into the rest of the games. Now,
Speaker 1: the Colts, as we tape this, are one of seven
Speaker 1: teams that enter Week three windless, and we call this
Speaker 1: on the show. It's like the caged animal, the cornered animal,
Speaker 1: the wounded animal. This is the week and I don't
Speaker 1: think it changes, Greg, even though we have seventeen games.
Speaker 1: I guess it does change in a little bit because
Speaker 1: it's just math. There's more more, there's more opportunities now
Speaker 1: to get back into a race. But I would think
Speaker 1: that statistically, if we're still doing a season this long
Speaker 1: in twenty years, the data is going to be similar.
Speaker 1: You start knowing three you're banged in a big spot. No,
Speaker 1: you're done. So Jets, this is one of your best, um,
Speaker 1: you know routines every year, or at least theories is
Speaker 1: the corner animal routine. You're done at oh and three,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. And it's some teams
Speaker 1: and now getting our mentions and say no, this team
Speaker 1: and that team that that is the exception that proves
Speaker 1: the rule. Jets, Jaguars, Giants, Detroit, Minnesota, Atlanta all need
Speaker 1: to win this weekend to really keep their season on
Speaker 1: track if you want to make the playoffs. And Greg,
Speaker 1: not for nothing, we do a little game here ourselves
Speaker 1: called the lock game. You've started owing two. Well, that's
Speaker 1: that's not the same as the cornered Animal because we're
Speaker 1: like the a f C South. I mean, I'm only
Speaker 1: one game behind. I'm not expecting any of these teams
Speaker 1: to go undefeated or anything. Um So that list you
Speaker 1: just made though, if like you had made a list
Speaker 1: of who's gonna be o in two before the season,
Speaker 1: almost none of those are a surprise except Minnesota, who
Speaker 1: you know, not for nothing, lost in overtime and on
Speaker 1: a missed kicks right, they could easily be to and
Speaker 1: know the rest of those teams, especially when you think
Speaker 1: about the coult schedule. The Cults, of course playing Sunday.
Speaker 1: We got the uh the Panthers Texans on Thursday night
Speaker 1: the Colts. If you looked at that schedule going into
Speaker 1: the season, it is not a shock that they couldn't
Speaker 1: beat the Seahawks in the Rams. All right, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna go through all the games. And because now just
Speaker 1: two of us, Greg, I don't know, man, now it's
Speaker 1: two of us. Ricky's here too, Ricky, you're not You're
Speaker 1: still here, right, I'm still here, still here? Are you?
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm doing well, are you guys? I
Speaker 1: don't like these huge monitors. Um. Yeah, it's blocking my eyesight. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm also like, I'm too dressed up. I want to
Speaker 1: wear a T shirt. Just the weirdest noise like it
Speaker 1: was like a like an armpit fart out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play it an now I can just look
Speaker 1: at Maybe I gotta move my seat up. But Dan
Speaker 1: just looks like he's like towering over me in this
Speaker 1: in this situation, I know, but I'm not usually like
Speaker 1: looking at it. I feel small, huge on the inside.
Speaker 1: That's good, that's the most important thing. Um. Alright, So
Speaker 1: Ricky we're gonna do instead of going around a draft
Speaker 1: one to three with Mark will work things out for Sunday. Um,
Speaker 1: Greg and I are just gonna go back and forth.
Speaker 1: But let's start. Let's mix things up and start this
Speaker 1: preview show with the primetime games. Uh, and we will
Speaker 1: start with both are great, well, one's amazing. One's real good,
Speaker 1: especially if you're a guy likes the NFC East, and
Speaker 1: I do, because you know who else I liked. I
Speaker 1: liked Poppy my grandfather sitting on the chair, the big
Speaker 1: brown chair and the den we called it the den
Speaker 1: in my grandmother's house, Grampy's place, with his root beer,
Speaker 1: watching the g men, not talking to anybody. It's like
Speaker 1: not one of those things where it's like I learned
Speaker 1: so much about football from my grandfather. I would sit
Speaker 1: at his knee and he would he would show me
Speaker 1: Phil Sims and Lawrence Taylor and tell me that's the
Speaker 1: way football should be played. No, Poppy didn't that much
Speaker 1: to say, but we did watch the games in silence together.
Speaker 1: When I got home from St. Margaret's when we had
Speaker 1: church on Sunday, Keith would be playing softball, usually me,
Speaker 1: my mom my, sister Shay and Kevin. We would then
Speaker 1: go to Granby's and there's Poppy on the couch. Were
Speaker 1: you in silence? Yeah? I mean it was like eleven
Speaker 1: ten nine. If Poppa doesn't really want to talk, what
Speaker 1: am I gonna say? I mean that it was a
Speaker 1: different experience than me. If you think I'm a honking
Speaker 1: try to get a word in edge drives at the Rosenthah,
Speaker 1: especially watching sports. But I like, your your comfortable in
Speaker 1: the silence. That's one thing I've noticed now we're here
Speaker 1: in the Chris Wesleyan podcast studio, and I have wondered,
Speaker 1: like what would Chris think about all this because it
Speaker 1: all is very fancy. Um, but you know back in
Speaker 1: the day, like you wouldn't have just been comfortable kind
Speaker 1: of like luxuriating in these poses. That's like a power
Speaker 1: broadcasting move. And you are there a lot of positives.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just maybe just two of us. So I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to kill seconds at this point. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: NFC is football always fun. Let's start there. Monday Night Football,
Speaker 1: Eagles at Cowboys UM and man the Eagles. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the Eagles here. It feels like the Cowboys UM
Speaker 1: got away with one on Sunday on some level. But
Speaker 1: that's a big one on the road, and we'll get
Speaker 1: to the um where we stand on Dallas. But the Eagles,
Speaker 1: you know, Jalen Reagor stepping out of bounds on that
Speaker 1: touchdown catch, you have, UM, the Quaes Watkins ninety one
Speaker 1: yard reception setting up first and goal, and then you
Speaker 1: go four, you know, four and out with the not
Speaker 1: so Philly special in a game that ended nineteen four.
Speaker 1: That's a bad beat. That's a tough beat against the Niners. UM,
Speaker 1: But how do you feel about the Eagles going into
Speaker 1: this game? Did you take positives out of that performance?
Speaker 1: I did. I just look at the two weeks as
Speaker 1: a whole that if you told me before the season
Speaker 1: they'd be one and one with a blood against the
Speaker 1: Falcons and a close loss to the Niners. Be like, okay,
Speaker 1: I feel a little bit after seeing them play for
Speaker 1: the most part there who I thought they were, which
Speaker 1: is really strong up front on both sides. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to figure out how to actually use
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts his legs because even though he ran a
Speaker 1: lot last week, it wasn't really schemed up. And when
Speaker 1: they needed to come up with a play to get
Speaker 1: a first down in short yardage. They couldn't really do it. Um,
Speaker 1: But I love this matchup if I'm the Eagles when
Speaker 1: I have the ball against this Philly, this Dallasty line.
Speaker 1: I know they played hard last week. Michael Parsons is
Speaker 1: is a star and can play defensive end and rush
Speaker 1: the passer. But they might be without Dorn's Armstrong, who
Speaker 1: has been, you know, their best defensive end. I guess
Speaker 1: I don't even know because they don't have Lawrence Gregory
Speaker 1: comes back and I don't know. That seems like a
Speaker 1: little bit of a mismatch, and I think like that
Speaker 1: the Eagles could grind them up a little bit. It
Speaker 1: was also a game of attrition for the Eagles. Uh,
Speaker 1: they suffer a huge setback. It's a team that really
Speaker 1: their strength is in the trenches. You lose Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: now for the season with an achilles injury, so that
Speaker 1: that's gonna hurt. And then on the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball, Brandon Brooks, their right guard. He goes down
Speaker 1: with a peck strain that moves. He's going to the
Speaker 1: i R. They don't think it's season ending, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna be gone at least three weeks. So that concerns
Speaker 1: me as well, because if if, if their strength is
Speaker 1: in the trenches and you're you're weakening on both sides.
Speaker 1: You start to balance out a team that isn't hyper
Speaker 1: talented to start with, you take away from their strength
Speaker 1: and what's left. Of course, Landon Dickerson, my boy, the
Speaker 1: second round rookie pit uh second round rookie is now
Speaker 1: getting more playing time. He didn't play very well his
Speaker 1: first go around here in week two, but now he
Speaker 1: has a week to prepare. I I think at least
Speaker 1: their positions there deep at I mean they drafted a
Speaker 1: guy high in the second round. Hopefully you can fill
Speaker 1: in and Graham at defensive and that's a huge loss.
Speaker 1: He's kind of their locker room leader going back ten
Speaker 1: years now. I mean he's played next to Fletcher Cops
Speaker 1: Cox ten years. Cox is getting emotional after that game,
Speaker 1: so you do worry about that. But they are deep there.
Speaker 1: They just signed Josh Sweat to a big contract they
Speaker 1: um of course, like Derek Barnett, who's in the final
Speaker 1: year of his deal. Like I'm not worried. Javon Hargrave
Speaker 1: is playing like one of the best defensive lineman in
Speaker 1: the league. I'm more worried about, you know, can they
Speaker 1: stop Cooper who's a little banged up, and Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: and this Dallas offense who seems like they can kind
Speaker 1: of do whatever they want and they look good on
Speaker 1: the offensive line so far. That's been a big takeaway
Speaker 1: from me, as Tyrann Smith looks like the old Tyrant Smith. Uh.
Speaker 1: The right tackle Steel who filled in last week for
Speaker 1: Colins played pretty well. And that's a concern because the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense, which we don't know much about, they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be built on like preventing big plays and and
Speaker 1: they've done it so far through two weeks. They've given
Speaker 1: up one play over twenty yards, which is crazy, um
Speaker 1: and now doing it against Dallas that's another. That's another
Speaker 1: What is it can of fish? That's another type of fish.
Speaker 1: I don't know. No candle worms, can of worms. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a cattle of fish. I picked them to win, though.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are going to be the team that kill
Speaker 1: me in my you know, when you're keeping track of
Speaker 1: the picks on NFL dot com, because I keep picking
Speaker 1: them to win upsets. You got them winning out right,
Speaker 1: I got the I got the Cowboys in this game.
Speaker 1: And one thing to watch here Tony Pollard coming off
Speaker 1: a one yard game, what is the workload? How do
Speaker 1: they share that with Zeke? Is it's is going to
Speaker 1: turn into uh something where they're there's a committee involved here.
Speaker 1: It is it was last week, and people need to
Speaker 1: calm down on killing Zeke, like they gotta make smaller
Speaker 1: the number one game like playing five. Splitting up is
Speaker 1: a good thing to do. But if you're splitting it up,
Speaker 1: it's not a good thing for the Cowboys because that
Speaker 1: means Zeke isn't special anymore. That's it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: an admission that he's not. They were. They had a
Speaker 1: special running game last week, and okay, Zeke was like
Speaker 1: less spectacular. But that's what you want is two really
Speaker 1: good running backs and they just keep coming at you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I felt like they could have run all
Speaker 1: day last week. I do not think they'll be able
Speaker 1: to do this week. We'll see what the Cowboys do.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, Look what the Browns do they have? They
Speaker 1: have Nick Chubb, a guy that they could give the
Speaker 1: ball times too, and he's probably gonna have a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty yards every game, but they choose not to
Speaker 1: because they want to. They want a closer at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, and then they want a battering
Speaker 1: ram that's healthy in January, and Kareem Hunt allows them
Speaker 1: to do that. All right, Sunday Night football, Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers at San Francisco Fort. Now we're talking. I love
Speaker 1: the poppy games, but this is next level. What do
Speaker 1: you think about this game? I mean, I like to
Speaker 1: start with the whole La Fleur Shanahan thing. Doesn't this
Speaker 1: feel like a big moment for the boy in the Beard,
Speaker 1: because like Kyle Shanahan is just like Mike Shanahan is
Speaker 1: turning into one of the most influential coaches of his
Speaker 1: era because every one worked for him at some point.
Speaker 1: They were all just trailing around wanting to be like Kyle.
Speaker 1: And then Old Kyle, as Mike Silver reminded us today
Speaker 1: on Twitter, you should check out this you know thread
Speaker 1: he had. Old Kyle called up the Packers and tried
Speaker 1: to get Aaron Rodgers out from under him. They're supposed
Speaker 1: to be friends. This creates some problems. At some point
Speaker 1: the news comes out and I wonder if that's a
Speaker 1: little where the tension lies is like who's leaking this,
Speaker 1: who's putting this out there? This undrafting and Silver has
Speaker 1: all this stuff between them, And then you think back
Speaker 1: to the La Fleur's first year NFC championship. Here I
Speaker 1: go against my mentor and I got blown out. I
Speaker 1: got the doors blown off because off if the Packers
Speaker 1: can't beat the forty Niners now with a lot of
Speaker 1: injuries and this and that, like that says a little
Speaker 1: something about where they're at. Yep, And we talked about
Speaker 1: it on Tuesday's show. The Packers obviously turned it on
Speaker 1: against the Lions, but I can't say that I feel
Speaker 1: completely at ease if I'm a Green Bay fan that
Speaker 1: things are under control now. But now you have a
Speaker 1: big test and with with the San Francisco forty Niners,
Speaker 1: I have to ask you this, do you think when
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan and I'm watching that game, I'm watching the
Speaker 1: Eagles game and I know he led a couple long
Speaker 1: touchdown drives and you know they won the game. So
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a panic situation, but do you
Speaker 1: think there's a similar vibe with Kyle Shanahan now when
Speaker 1: he's on the sideline and they cut to him when
Speaker 1: the offense is on the field, the same type of
Speaker 1: vibe that Sean McVeigh had last year when he's watching
Speaker 1: Jared Goff and you know, and it's it's born out
Speaker 1: because of what happened in the offseason that followed when
Speaker 1: he kicked Golf out the door as quickly as he could.
Speaker 1: He's watching it like he's like, this offense could be
Speaker 1: so much more special if I could just have someone,
Speaker 1: if only there was someone. But there is someone. But
Speaker 1: he didn't even play Trey Lance last Sunday. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go deep conspiracy theory here and think like, if there
Speaker 1: ever was a game to save Trey Lance for really
Speaker 1: break them out, this is it. Because you think about
Speaker 1: this Packers defense and they've got a little bit of
Speaker 1: new scheme disease, which is like when you get the
Speaker 1: new coach and you got the new scheme, and it's
Speaker 1: they're trying to be a little too complicated and then
Speaker 1: they immediately say, well, we're going to simplify, Like that's
Speaker 1: always a bad sign. They're trying to communicate. Who's going
Speaker 1: to test your communication more than Trey Lance. This is
Speaker 1: the week to play him. So yes, I think he
Speaker 1: is thinking all of those things. I think that's why
Speaker 1: he drafted Trey Lance. Lance maybe isn't quite as ready
Speaker 1: to be the starter as he would have loved coming
Speaker 1: into this season, but I think matchup wise, this is
Speaker 1: a much easier one than Philly, who I think could
Speaker 1: be one of the better defenses in the league. And yeah,
Speaker 1: play me some Trey Lance this week. We want to
Speaker 1: see it on Sunday night. We want to hear like
Speaker 1: Chris Chris get breaking up down all the stuff and
Speaker 1: now going crazy like this is it. That is the
Speaker 1: analysis people come to see. That is why they tune
Speaker 1: into a t N every week. I mean it though, like,
Speaker 1: does this feels like the big moment where it's like
Speaker 1: we're unveiling Tree Lance to it make the offense more Blosi.
Speaker 1: I mean that that if this guy is ready to go,
Speaker 1: then we'll see it. And we're getting gonna get to
Speaker 1: the sho Chicago Bears on a little bit because their
Speaker 1: first round quarterback is about to get in action, whether
Speaker 1: he's ready or not. Um, all right, there's the primetime
Speaker 1: games and I, by the way, no Elton Jenkins potentially
Speaker 1: in this game, their left tackle who would be trying
Speaker 1: to go against no Nick Bosa. We don't know Jenkins
Speaker 1: status and but it doesn't sound great and that that's
Speaker 1: a big loss because then you're down to your third
Speaker 1: string left tackle by the week three. The forty Niners
Speaker 1: aren't quite as scary as they were when a yuk
Speaker 1: is in detention and they've got like four different running
Speaker 1: backs injured. But it does sound like Mitchell will probably
Speaker 1: play this week. Maybe Tray sermon too. So I like
Speaker 1: the forty Niners here. Yeah, that's a tough one. I'll
Speaker 1: go Packers, but I do not feel strongly. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get now to the draft element of things here, Greg,
Speaker 1: I will see to you the first overall pick. I
Speaker 1: think it was my turn, alright, because I've been I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this on my run this morning. Really
Speaker 1: be the pop culture trivia back in Week one, you
Speaker 1: came in third place, so you guess it's your turn.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of strategy because it's tough. There's one game,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you just gotta take the best game on
Speaker 1: the board. You gotta take bucks rams. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the NFL is doing. They always front load these
Speaker 1: best matchups possible early in the season, we got Chiefs
Speaker 1: Rams Week two, Bucks Rams Week three, we got Troy,
Speaker 1: Troy and Joe. I think I know why, by the way,
Speaker 1: I have a theory because it doesn't make any sense too.
Speaker 1: You would think to put these games all front loaded,
Speaker 1: when they'd be better and the team's even better and
Speaker 1: the stakes would be potentially higher late in the season.
Speaker 1: But I think it's just like like the power rankings,
Speaker 1: I write QB index is probably the same way um
Speaker 1: fantasy leagues. Everyone is so much more involved because everyone
Speaker 1: still believes in their team, so you have to get
Speaker 1: the biggest number you're gonna get. Everyone's still in on
Speaker 1: football and big there's less chance of something in bad happening,
Speaker 1: like the Rams being poor or Tom Brady getting hurt,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't happen because Tom Brady is a cyborg.
Speaker 1: I just don't have a feel for like either of
Speaker 1: these teams yet, but especially the Rams. Stafford's dropped back
Speaker 1: to past fifty nine times. That's less than I think
Speaker 1: every single starting quarterback in the league. The defense, like
Speaker 1: think we think that the Rams defense is great, probably
Speaker 1: will be. I mean it has great players. They've played
Speaker 1: the Colts, they've played the Bears. They've only forced three punts. There's,
Speaker 1: like my little stat there's been like a lot of
Speaker 1: long drives against them. I just want to see these
Speaker 1: two teams like their Their past protection has been really
Speaker 1: good and if you protect Stafford, he's probably gonna be great.
Speaker 1: But there's been some surprises. I think out of both teams.
Speaker 1: Tristan Worse is struggling for the Bucks. There's no Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown for this game. The Bucks defense hasn't looked as good.
Speaker 1: It's so early. I just I feel like I need
Speaker 1: to learn more about these teams. In what better way
Speaker 1: than to have the Rams, especially tested like this at home.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying about the Bucks that the
Speaker 1: defense hasn't put it together yet. Uh and yet, And
Speaker 1: this isn't breaking any new ground because everyone is amazed
Speaker 1: by it every week. I just Tom Brady is playing
Speaker 1: at such a level right now. Is Tom Brady in
Speaker 1: the best quarter? Where is he in your QB? And
Speaker 1: I put him one this week? I think he's number one.
Speaker 1: I think he's the best quarter. It's either him or
Speaker 1: Homes And for these two weeks it's been Brady. And
Speaker 1: then I thought, well, for the last seven weeks, last
Speaker 1: year was Brady too, So you go to who do
Speaker 1: you take for the next five years? I take my
Speaker 1: homes but that's not even a slam dunk at this point.
Speaker 1: But who do I take right now? Brady is just
Speaker 1: playing so out of his mind, So I just it's
Speaker 1: hard to pick against the guy that's the best quarterback
Speaker 1: right now. Um, and he covers up a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And I think even if Antonio Brown is not playing,
Speaker 1: you have so many players there to make to to
Speaker 1: pick up the slack. Yeah, but let's just call up
Speaker 1: Scotty Miller, who has been awesome. They're they're fine. Scotty
Speaker 1: Miller was kind of a guy in the rise until
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown took his role last year. But I think
Speaker 1: they'll be find the rams. Yeah, I I kind of
Speaker 1: struggle with them trying to. I have him in the
Speaker 1: top five in the power rankings because you see it
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. But establishing a running
Speaker 1: game is important, and you know, I think I think
Speaker 1: they'll be okay. Though. You know who I really like
Speaker 1: is um Cooper Cup. I think Cooper Cup, I mean
Speaker 1: you might have a chance. I think I think the
Speaker 1: number Stafford is gonna put up. If he plays seventeen games,
Speaker 1: he could be an All Pro this year. I think
Speaker 1: Cup could be an All Pro. I think those two guys,
Speaker 1: you could tell they're locked in and just putting together
Speaker 1: those one yard weeks and just stacking them up. I
Speaker 1: think that's uh, that can absolutely happen. And they could
Speaker 1: do it against the Bucks too. He could he could
Speaker 1: lead the league in receiving. You're right, Cups seems like
Speaker 1: he's at another level. I don't know who I would
Speaker 1: compare him to. Don't do it. Don't say Jordy Nelson. No,
Speaker 1: but he's so good after the catch right now. He's
Speaker 1: always been good after the catch, but I feel like
Speaker 1: he's like getting even better. Uh. And you're right, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball switch. Like I said, they've only
Speaker 1: thrown they've only dropped back the past fifty nine times
Speaker 1: in two weeks. They're like one of the lowest teams
Speaker 1: in the league because they haven't had too They've been
Speaker 1: so efficient. And in the Bucks secondary is a little
Speaker 1: banged up, Murphy Button has been out, Davis isn't healthy. Like,
Speaker 1: I think, there's just gonna be a lot of points.
Speaker 1: I want to see Stafford though, in a position where
Speaker 1: he has to keep up with Brady in a shootout.
Speaker 1: To me, that will be sort of the first real
Speaker 1: Stafford in l A like moment. I think we've had
Speaker 1: it yet, first in l A moment. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: This is Tom Brady's first ever game in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I mean it makes sense, but also WHOA, his career
Speaker 1: started when you were and I were in college, and
Speaker 1: people need to calm down about like, oh is Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey gonna travel with Mike Evans like he's only been
Speaker 1: in the slot. They are using Ramsey a lot differently
Speaker 1: this year, but they'll do whatever they feel like he
Speaker 1: can do anything. They did that in the first two
Speaker 1: weeks because that's what made sense for them in those weeks.
Speaker 1: If if locking down Evans makes sense this week, that's
Speaker 1: what they'll do. And with the Bucks and as I
Speaker 1: was saying, with Brady leading the charge, uh, so far
Speaker 1: the season, they're averaging thirty and thirty nine and a
Speaker 1: half points per game. He's throwing for almost three thirty
Speaker 1: yards a game. He's got nine touchdowns in two weeks
Speaker 1: in a pass rating of book not decide who to
Speaker 1: pick for this game. The Rams started as a slight favorite,
Speaker 1: and then you know that it moved to the Bucks
Speaker 1: being a slight favorite because because more people are on
Speaker 1: the Bucks. I took the Bucks for the most insanely small,
Speaker 1: um pathetic reason possible, because I don't want the Bucks
Speaker 1: to lose before playing the Patriots. So I just want
Speaker 1: that's what I want to root for. Okay, I see that, Well,
Speaker 1: we want to build. I mean, Tom Brady's dad's already
Speaker 1: honking about how he feels syndicated, and uh, Alex Guerrero's
Speaker 1: out there honking about how tellcheck can't keep up with
Speaker 1: the time. It's already starting and we're like a week
Speaker 1: and a half away. Yeah, Alex Grrero said that Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: and you know what, there might be something to this, Greggy,
Speaker 1: and I know you like to bury this deep down
Speaker 1: inside you, but the fact that he's still arguably the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the league, it's you could still be
Speaker 1: on the Patriots. He never adjusted. Gero said, that means
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's telling you, Alice, he never treated me like
Speaker 1: a man. He always treated me like a twenty year
Speaker 1: old kid, even when I was thirty eight with six
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, And because Belichick wanted to have some type
Speaker 1: of code in that locker room. It led to an estrangement.
Speaker 1: That's all. That's all there, it's all leave it for
Speaker 1: next Yeah. We had Tom Seniors on the Tom Current
Speaker 1: podcast and he was like, you know, do you feel vindicating?
Speaker 1: He was like, damn right, like they are loving this.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be They're gonna be spiking the football. I
Speaker 1: see you, Tom Senior. I love time Senior. But when
Speaker 1: I see those sources that are guess I know where
Speaker 1: those sources close to Brady are. We just want That's
Speaker 1: what I want. I want the Bucks to go into
Speaker 1: if Foxborough undefeated and flying high and just to set
Speaker 1: the best possible Patriots. But more importantly, we want Tom
Speaker 1: Brady to get out of this game healthy. Well that
Speaker 1: of course, which is usually he's only been really years. Okay,
Speaker 1: before we move on, you're not gonna believe this. The
Speaker 1: Westling Brothers also wounded animal game. They need to win.
Speaker 1: They're owing two and there's a lock on the line
Speaker 1: with Rams and Bucks. Let's hear from Nick Westling. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: after knowing two starts, some of the Westling Brothers wanted
Speaker 1: to take an easy game this week just to get
Speaker 1: a win under our belt. That's not exactly the way
Speaker 1: we operate, is it. So we decided to go after
Speaker 1: the biggest game of the week. We're talking about the
Speaker 1: Bucks and the Rams. Mattie Stafford finally looking like the
Speaker 1: quarterback we always knew he was. It's Tom Brady with
Speaker 1: an offense loaded with talent and a defense that can
Speaker 1: be stifling. But we're going up against the greatest defensive
Speaker 1: tackle we've ever seen two Aaron Donald in that defense
Speaker 1: have been mothering so far this year. And Chris always
Speaker 1: told me never bet against Tom Brady, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to go against him on this one. And we're
Speaker 1: locking up the Rams. Wow, I have you here. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to thank you guys all for helping Chris
Speaker 1: so much during his two fights with cancer and what
Speaker 1: you're still doing for Kesha and Link. I love you
Speaker 1: and hope you guys are well. And how about that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, he sounds just like Chris. Ah
Speaker 1: he is Chris. I mean, anyone that knows Nick when
Speaker 1: the two of them were next to each other, I
Speaker 1: mean they looked the same, they talked the same, They
Speaker 1: talk about honking Nick Nickel. They going nuts at night
Speaker 1: I love I love that man, the best thing I
Speaker 1: think if you can give me like I don't care
Speaker 1: what it would be like if Tyson holy Field or
Speaker 1: um Ali Frasier or whole Cogen versus The Ultimate Warrior. No,
Speaker 1: don't give me ticket, front row tickets, any of that.
Speaker 1: Give it to When Nick and Chris were playing cornhole
Speaker 1: together and the talk was through the roof, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll draft next right after this. All right, here we go. Uh, Okay,
Speaker 1: you took the late game, which it's the best game
Speaker 1: of the week non prime time, but also a mistake,
Speaker 1: tactical mistake by you. I'm gonna let you know why.
Speaker 1: Of course you're watching that game either way. I'm not
Speaker 1: like that though. I just focus on you're not watching
Speaker 1: bucks Rams. That's why I wanted to take That's what
Speaker 1: I mean. I only focus on my games because I
Speaker 1: have a hard time even doing that, all right, surrounded
Speaker 1: by too much. I guess I'm just more advanced on
Speaker 1: So I want to be able to like check that
Speaker 1: box and not go back to have to watch it still.
Speaker 1: And so I want I want all eyes on that
Speaker 1: bucks Rams. I want the full experience. Well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to the early slate and go Chargers at Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Oh and and it's the nance and Romo game. That's
Speaker 1: a good job by me. And it's also a nice
Speaker 1: little measuring stick game for the charge years and a
Speaker 1: nice little how are we doing game for the Chiefs
Speaker 1: who outlasted the Browns obviously in Week one and then
Speaker 1: get picked off um by the Ravens in week two
Speaker 1: on Sunday night football in an instant class classic. And
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna look at that game and be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are actually in trouble now. Actually drove people
Speaker 1: crazy the power rankings this week. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is. I don't know if it's just life is
Speaker 1: hard right now. People are just so much anger that
Speaker 1: I feel like they've ever been with power rankings in
Speaker 1: my third year doing it now and you've only been
Speaker 1: doing it for three years. We'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a little bit, um, but like, uh, they're so mad
Speaker 1: that I kept the Chiefs at two. Just a level
Speaker 1: of anger because I still think the Chiefs are fine.
Speaker 1: I think to the best team in the a f
Speaker 1: C there behind the Bucks. And the bottom line is
Speaker 1: if Clyde Edwards Lara doesn't put that ball on the ground.
Speaker 1: It's that's a whole different conversation. It only comes down
Speaker 1: to his butt kerk kick the field goal or his
Speaker 1: Mahome's going to the end zone at the end of
Speaker 1: that game. Uh So, since the running back blew the game,
Speaker 1: that stinks, But it doesn't change how I feel about
Speaker 1: the Chiefs that they're gonna be able to score on
Speaker 1: anyone that when the game's on the line nine times
Speaker 1: that attended less something weird happened see Sunday night. They're
Speaker 1: going to always prevail and in their building. I'm picking
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to win this game. But it is gonna
Speaker 1: be fun, Greg, because you got Justin Herbert in this game.
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, who his head coach, as I said Tuesday
Speaker 1: after a game and less in which Herbert through the
Speaker 1: two interceptions, as if to say, hey, dummies, it's not
Speaker 1: just about the STA statue. Brendan Saley said, Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: was the best player on the field. Uh in that
Speaker 1: game against the Cowboys, all pros all over the place
Speaker 1: in that matchup. So you have Justin Herbert against Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes in Arrowheads. Seventy people put it in my vight.
Speaker 1: I love. We get this matchup twice a year now.
Speaker 1: Maybe my two favorite to watch. I don't know, Lamar,
Speaker 1: I gotta throw Lamar in there. Uh, the two quarterbacks
Speaker 1: I would trust most on third and very long. I
Speaker 1: felt like Herbert was escaping third and eleven, third and thirteen,
Speaker 1: third and fifteen all last week. Mahomes is the greatest
Speaker 1: I've ever seen at that. Also, the two quarterbacks even
Speaker 1: now that I would trust the most with a big
Speaker 1: deficit to make a comeback. So if the Chargers are
Speaker 1: down in this game, I just don't feel like they'll
Speaker 1: be out of it, and we know the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: never out of it. The Chief's defense, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: you could like getting near the panic button with it.
Speaker 1: I know they've played the pretty good offenses here the
Speaker 1: first two weeks, great offenses, but that was kind of
Speaker 1: a wounded Ravens team. I mean, you are giving up
Speaker 1: at some point. These are NFL teams you're playing. You're
Speaker 1: giving up six yards per carry this season, You're giving
Speaker 1: it more than ten yards per passing the tent. You
Speaker 1: you are statistically the worst defense in the league. That
Speaker 1: that is partly about the opponent, but it doesn't get
Speaker 1: that much easier this week. I am a little concerned
Speaker 1: about what's going on on on that side of the ball,
Speaker 1: because it's not just the contracts where Kelsey and Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Hill are taking a lot of spots like the
Speaker 1: Rams do that. But I don't feel like the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have a lot of hits otherwise right now, and in
Speaker 1: some of their linebacker group and some of their secondary
Speaker 1: and some of their defensive line. I think it's a
Speaker 1: pretty bad looking defense and that they've gotten into the
Speaker 1: habit of winning these close games. They were not a
Speaker 1: dominant team last year. They kept winning shootouts all last year.
Speaker 1: They were like eight and nine and one in in
Speaker 1: one score games last year, And like, that's what I
Speaker 1: expect here. That this line started at eight, it creeped
Speaker 1: to six and a half, and I like the Chargers
Speaker 1: to at least keep it close. I would never pick
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs in Kansas City, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like it's gonna have a crazy ending, just like the
Speaker 1: last two Chargers games to your point, uh, And it's
Speaker 1: just through two weeks, and this is gonna happen when
Speaker 1: your first two games or thirty three and thirty six,
Speaker 1: thirty five. But the Chiefs defenses last in yards per play,
Speaker 1: last in big plays, which I believe the NFL or
Speaker 1: next Gen dictates his plus twenties, uh tied for twenty
Speaker 1: and red zone defense, Uh, they can't get off the
Speaker 1: field and third down they don't have a real uh
Speaker 1: twenty one and sacks last and rushing so they're getting
Speaker 1: run on. Lamar Jackson doing his thing obviously shades that
Speaker 1: as well, but so they need to get better in
Speaker 1: that realm uh. And I think how about a little
Speaker 1: Derwin James covering Travis Kelsey about that as a sun,
Speaker 1: I said, I was on the James for Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year bandwagon. He looks open awesome. I love
Speaker 1: the Mike Williams bandwagon. Right now, they are treating him
Speaker 1: as a true X receiver, the true like Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: in the Saints offense or Marcus Colston in the Saints
Speaker 1: offense type of receiver. He has more targets in these
Speaker 1: last two weeks, like in a two game stretched than
Speaker 1: any point in his career, and he's handling it. That's
Speaker 1: that's why I think the Chargers have answers and they'll
Speaker 1: just go back and forth. It was a good choice
Speaker 1: you got Romo, you know I'm gonna get fireworks. These
Speaker 1: are the two times I want to save a game
Speaker 1: for game pass if I feel like I'll be distracted.
Speaker 1: But that's not really what I did here. There These
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks are the best at attacking downfield in the league.
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be a lot of points. Uh. And
Speaker 1: you know the Chargers obviously coming off a very disappointing
Speaker 1: home loss to the Cowboys game, they don't want to
Speaker 1: get in ahold and if the Chiefs are trailing late
Speaker 1: in this game, it's gonna feel like a big game,
Speaker 1: them not wanting to go to one and two in
Speaker 1: a pretty good division. All right, there we go, So
Speaker 1: I got that. Oh speaking of which, uh, speaking of
Speaker 1: the power rankings Pat McAfee show, Uh, it came up.
Speaker 1: They do a thing where they kind of go through
Speaker 1: the ESPN Power rankings, and they were kind of trying
Speaker 1: to figure out it was. It was McAfee and he
Speaker 1: has his two buddies that do the show to do
Speaker 1: the show with him. I guess they're like producer type guys.
Speaker 1: One of them is a J Hawk at something, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if this wasn't Hawk, and they were
Speaker 1: kind of picking apart the ESPN power rankings, and then
Speaker 1: they kind of moved over to what's going on over
Speaker 1: at the NFL. Let's hear let's hear that also. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, you get me take this for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do a power ranking unless
Speaker 1: you don't even ask Dan Handzus or Matt money Smith,
Speaker 1: and these two different networks, obviously, I don't think they can.
Speaker 1: They should. I don't think they can put their power
Speaker 1: rankings together. But you're right, hand Zeus, hand Juice and
Speaker 1: Matt money Smith are the power ranchers. Yeah, like the god.
Speaker 1: By the way, this has been an issue for me
Speaker 1: since I started here because Schack called me hand Zus,
Speaker 1: and now half the building and half the world thinks
Speaker 1: it's hands Zeus. Um. That's why they went back and
Speaker 1: forth trying to figure out what's hear the rest of this. Well,
Speaker 1: I like hands Us because he's been doing this for years. Well,
Speaker 1: these eighty one people that are honously voting on this thing,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of them are on the same page.
Speaker 1: I don't think we know any of them, but maybe
Speaker 1: one of them has been doing as long as hand
Speaker 1: us a chance handsers is the authority when to come
Speaker 1: in the rankings? Who was? This is nothing to say
Speaker 1: correct Stone, Thank you McFee and his buddies. And if
Speaker 1: you guys need a fourth if you're going to Vegas,
Speaker 1: like if you're going to top Golf, maybe you could
Speaker 1: do some gambling at the casino, just give me a
Speaker 1: call because it sounds like you guys are fun. Twenty
Speaker 1: five years, been three and then I think about that
Speaker 1: is like, it's my third year doing the Power And
Speaker 1: then he's like, oh, they watched the TV show because
Speaker 1: he's talking about money. Um, It's like, do I look
Speaker 1: like a guy that's been doing Power rankings for twenty
Speaker 1: five years on television? That's a problem. Anyway, Thanks for
Speaker 1: the shout out, boys, you're up. That was great. Well,
Speaker 1: now you've you've left it open. I've strategized. I wrestled
Speaker 1: with it. But not choosing Saints Patriots feels like too
Speaker 1: much of a I'm trying to be too cool for
Speaker 1: school move because I don't. I sort of don't watching
Speaker 1: the Patriots live anymore. But these are my team. I mean, Jamie,
Speaker 1: if you had told me five years ago, Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: will be on the Saints, and he will be going
Speaker 1: to New England for a game like That's the game
Speaker 1: I want to see as much as any game all year.
Speaker 1: It's like the most fascinating thing possible. I've been shaken though,
Speaker 1: right You've you were shaken by that game. I was shaken.
Speaker 1: I'm shaken on on both friends. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on with either of these teams, and that makes
Speaker 1: sense if you look at the history of the Patriots,
Speaker 1: they don't really turn into who they're gonna turn into
Speaker 1: until October and November. But the Saints are very similar.
Speaker 1: They they often finished very strong, they start slow. They're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out their roster, and I haven't figured
Speaker 1: out anything through these two weeks because both of these
Speaker 1: teams have struggled in areas you thought they would be good.
Speaker 1: Number One, the Saints offensive line was a mess last week.
Speaker 1: A lot of it was communication. Seems like the type
Speaker 1: of things he could fix. Their tackles are awesome on paper,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be this bad. But Jamis is gonna be tested.
Speaker 1: They're gonna send a lot of crazy stuff at him
Speaker 1: to see if they could handle it. He had no
Speaker 1: chance last week as as bad as he was, and
Speaker 1: he was bad, he had no chance. The Patriots offensive
Speaker 1: line has been pretty bad. The right tackle has been
Speaker 1: a disaster. They're starting this guy, Sear Durant who they
Speaker 1: picked up a couple of weeks ago. Trent Brown might
Speaker 1: be back for this game. That helps, But Isaiah Win
Speaker 1: hasn't played well. They've getten up, given up pressure in
Speaker 1: the middle. It hasn't been good. Mac Jones didn't play
Speaker 1: well last week. I think because he was trying to
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball too quick. His version of
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson having a rookie freak out moment is just
Speaker 1: dumping off four yard passes like after one and a
Speaker 1: half seconds and not looking for open receivers like I'd
Speaker 1: rather that type of freak out. But that was his
Speaker 1: type of freak out, and that could absolutely happen again
Speaker 1: against a very creative Saints defense who's getting healthier. They're
Speaker 1: gonna get Latimore back, their best player on defense, ceed
Speaker 1: douce Back, who's extraordinarily underrated. That that changes their secondary
Speaker 1: and there'll be a better defense this week. Uh. The
Speaker 1: Mac Jones thing, okay, I could see your perspective on that.
Speaker 1: I you know, I thought watching it live last Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I gotta be that's a game I don't go
Speaker 1: back to. If you're Jets fans, the entire future is
Speaker 1: tied into this kid, and he throws four picks and
Speaker 1: three and a half quarters, you're not going back to
Speaker 1: the game. But I thought it was a conservative game
Speaker 1: plan by the Pats, or maybe it wasn't. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was conservative play by the quarterback, that's what he said.
Speaker 1: He said he missed a lot and it wasn't shows that.
Speaker 1: But honestly, unless you're like the goal here is to
Speaker 1: absolutely blow the doors off the opponent, which I guess
Speaker 1: it always is, that was fine because if the other
Speaker 1: quarterback is imploding and giving you the game, you don't
Speaker 1: need to get too cute. Just take the to six
Speaker 1: win and get to the next week. I guess the
Speaker 1: thing to keep your eye out on with the Pats
Speaker 1: is if is if this becomes with their offenses where
Speaker 1: they're just super conservative and it's in part because of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks decision making, or maybe McDaniels isn't ready to
Speaker 1: really turn the reins over to the kid yet. We're
Speaker 1: going to see that in the coming weeks, And I
Speaker 1: guess this will be a good game and a good test.
Speaker 1: But also at the same time, if the Saints put
Speaker 1: some points on the board, what is going on? We
Speaker 1: know the jamis Winston issue, but Alvin Kamara now through
Speaker 1: two games and I know lest we got away from them,
Speaker 1: but I don't care if if if the game's getting
Speaker 1: away from you or you fall behind, find a way
Speaker 1: to get the ball in Alvin Kamara's hands. And he
Speaker 1: has add one scrimmage yards through two games. That's a
Speaker 1: few greatly since it's gonna rookie. Here's the thing that
Speaker 1: when you play a team like the Patriots, Belichick trying
Speaker 1: to shut down your number one weapon, it's gonna be Kimara.
Speaker 1: The limitations of what Sean Payton did this offseason in
Speaker 1: terms of not adding receivers allows defensive coordinators to get
Speaker 1: really creative. You can blitz like crazy because you can
Speaker 1: kind of trust the Patriots to guard Markey's callaway and
Speaker 1: a little Jordan Humphrey and Deante Harris one on one,
Speaker 1: so you can get creative upfront, or you can you
Speaker 1: can do anything you can to stop Kimara and say, okay,
Speaker 1: go beat us, because you're kind of afraid, like as
Speaker 1: conservative as the Patriots have been, the Saints have been
Speaker 1: more so. Jameis Winston's throwing like passes each week. That's
Speaker 1: a bad it's a bad situation. Um. Alright, James White
Speaker 1: is back though, that is one thing I want to say,
Speaker 1: The old vintage James White is back. Uh. He had
Speaker 1: some juice last week and that will really they have
Speaker 1: an Their best players are at n He's gonna have
Speaker 1: a monster Harris and White? Are there two best players offensive?
Speaker 1: Where Harris health was? He's he's fine, he's playing through it.
Speaker 1: He looked good last week. The line's got to be better.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why their line is struggling so much,
Speaker 1: but it is. Ricky I figured out. But I actually
Speaker 1: thought about this um with your locks because you took
Speaker 1: a l last week with the Eagles. Um, and because
Speaker 1: Greg was so hot the pants about it. Let's not
Speaker 1: give you the week one victory um either, because you know,
Speaker 1: let's not do that. Let's double weight this game one.
Speaker 1: I think she just has one less game. That's that
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. You can't just make up different rules.
Speaker 1: She was all right, all right, well listen, I'm still
Speaker 1: the pants and now you're not just making up rules
Speaker 1: where you give just I would do that any week possible.
Speaker 1: And you can't just do that. You can't just do
Speaker 1: you missed. You missed the first week that was yoursensese
Speaker 1: make it, make it countable. And since you just brought
Speaker 1: up you just brought up the you know, my l
Speaker 1: with the Eagles again. Nick Sirianni at a press conference
Speaker 1: just now showed up in t shirt that said beat
Speaker 1: Dallas for his presser. Okay, so they're mad. They're coming
Speaker 1: off a close loss to the forty nine ers. That
Speaker 1: was a tough game to get through. And you know what,
Speaker 1: me and my new my podcast partner calling Wolf Split ends.
Speaker 1: The trailer drops tuesday. Check that out. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go with the Eagles again. And if you're gonna put
Speaker 1: double on it, no, I'm not allowing that. You can't
Speaker 1: just this a significant advantage. You wouldn't much rather that.
Speaker 1: What do you mean if she loses, because that would
Speaker 1: mean she's made two picks and she's two and one
Speaker 1: instead of one and one. How do I lose? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, we don't need to punish you where
Speaker 1: whatever anybody says, he's going to say, no, no, I
Speaker 1: think anyone that scored over a thirty nine on the
Speaker 1: math test would understand how it's unfair. Now you're hitting
Speaker 1: out at me. Yeah, well I'm locking up the Eagles again?
Speaker 1: Well that was Is that okay? Greg? That's okay? I
Speaker 1: picked the because well yeahs ready? You know what do
Speaker 1: we talk about the games other rules? Can you like?
Speaker 1: You should have him? You should have him? Ready? Well?
Speaker 1: The press conference really just that didn't for you? The Eagles.
Speaker 1: I I like the Until Erica finishes ahead of Greg
Speaker 1: in the standings, she very well might, because she's gonna
Speaker 1: dance on your grave, my friend. It's uh. I'm I don't.
Speaker 1: I have no confidence whatsoever, but I never did uh
Speaker 1: in this game? Um? Where were we? By the way,
Speaker 1: the one last quick note on the Patriots, talk about
Speaker 1: how far you've fallen as a Patriots organization, like how
Speaker 1: far we are from Drew Brees and Tom Brady playing
Speaker 1: in this game? Mark Slayrat is the analyst for this game.
Speaker 1: We've had Trent Green back to back weeks. That is
Speaker 1: a sign of where the Patriots have fallen in the
Speaker 1: power in the whole situation. That's a tough stitch. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm up, alright, let's see hawmana hamana hammanah ah.
Speaker 1: You can edit, edit this out and post definitely not.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go, let's do it. Let's see what's
Speaker 1: going on over here. Let's see what's going on the
Speaker 1: a f C. South. My goodness. So we don't have
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz in this game. Double sprains, we don't think, so.
Speaker 1: I don't know for sure they got old double sprains wins.
Speaker 1: I was told it certainly looked to me that Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald sprained both his ankles with that takedown, but then
Speaker 1: it was clarified that it was only one ankle that's
Speaker 1: got sprained on the take that I don't buy it.
Speaker 1: I don't think they wanted out there that their quarterback
Speaker 1: could sprain both his ankles on one play, on a
Speaker 1: play that he he kind of you hate to blame
Speaker 1: a guy for an injury, but that was sort of
Speaker 1: a I'm gonna fight through the play even though Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald is eating me alive, and how to protect hurt
Speaker 1: a little more like if it was a different quarterback there,
Speaker 1: they just falled out. They just got to protect yourself,
Speaker 1: and you know, you said it. He plays with his
Speaker 1: frantic energy now out and it's unnerving as a fan.
Speaker 1: You're watching it, and I can't imagine it as a
Speaker 1: Colts fan, how you feel it really is unnerving. And
Speaker 1: he's out of the picture now, so it's going to
Speaker 1: be Jacob Easton at quarterback. They they're trying to play.
Speaker 1: They're trying to put out through the media that it
Speaker 1: could possibly be Brett Hunley and Jacob Eason. But I
Speaker 1: feel like they're Doc Carson Wentz if if wins doesn't play.
Speaker 1: They're trying to have their cake. They're trying to eat it,
Speaker 1: they're trying to bake it, they're trying to throw it
Speaker 1: in your eye. I don't buy that they're gonna use
Speaker 1: Hunley and east and that seems it's not a good situation.
Speaker 1: And now I'm already like doubting that I took this
Speaker 1: game because who wants to watch bad backup quarterbacks? But
Speaker 1: I am interested in the Titans as a team. I
Speaker 1: want to see where they are. The Colts, obviously they
Speaker 1: need to win. They win, they lose back to back
Speaker 1: home games to start their season. The schedule makers hooked
Speaker 1: them up with back to back home games. If you
Speaker 1: can't win back to back home games, you're in deep
Speaker 1: trouble because you're gonna get sent on the road, probably
Speaker 1: against a tough opponent. That's exactly what happens here with
Speaker 1: a division rival in the Titans. Now, the question is
Speaker 1: how good are the Titans because that obviously was a
Speaker 1: unbelievable comeback UM in that game against the Seahawks in
Speaker 1: Seattle to be down thirty to sixteen early in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and then just rip off the rest of
Speaker 1: the points and win thirty three and Derrick Henry anybody
Speaker 1: that was worried about the Big Dog, and there is
Speaker 1: the Big Dog still. The big Dog is gonna the
Speaker 1: carry's gonna wear him down. And after the last two years,
Speaker 1: well maybe I guess we'll see at the end of
Speaker 1: the year how it stacks up. But that looked like
Speaker 1: vintage Big Dog in that game, especially that's sixty yard
Speaker 1: touchdown UM where he just outran everybody. So you got
Speaker 1: the big Dog. I do want to see Greg this
Speaker 1: passing game. I want to see more play action. I
Speaker 1: want to see kind of the old Arthur Smith offense
Speaker 1: more uh in in effect with the passing game, but
Speaker 1: in in general. The arrows up after that comeback now
Speaker 1: can they start stacking some wins. I mean, you better
Speaker 1: against Hanley and Easton. It's gonna be really bad if
Speaker 1: you lose a home game. You got it. This game
Speaker 1: is lockable, by the way. Okay, I will, I will
Speaker 1: lock it up? You will? Yeah, I got it right here.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I was not even on the borderline.
Speaker 1: People are not The people in the Desert are not
Speaker 1: thrilled with this Colts team. I think I'll go with
Speaker 1: you because when you got the opportunity to go, he
Speaker 1: and you take it. Although this is a bad sign,
Speaker 1: I've switched by lock mid show, two straight shows away
Speaker 1: from wins the losses. So I the Desert has this
Speaker 1: at five, which surprises me. I thought would be higher.
Speaker 1: Part of that is that the you know, the Colts
Speaker 1: were competitive last week in the history, but that's surprising.
Speaker 1: That seems to be holding out some hope for Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's coming out forty one touches most of his career.
Speaker 1: Will he be a little tired after that? That could
Speaker 1: be a problem. But the play action was was back.
Speaker 1: I mean Tannehill, the play action god was back. I
Speaker 1: did the numbers. He was nine of twelve on play
Speaker 1: action last week for one sixty, I didn't do him
Speaker 1: pff doesn't. But then I take them and then I
Speaker 1: take the credit. Uh in the three and complacence were
Speaker 1: drops and he's got still got that deep all. I
Speaker 1: feel like this Titan season is just kind of be
Speaker 1: a test of like how far can four guys carry
Speaker 1: the rest of the roster, because I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: how good the rest of the roster is. But my parents,
Speaker 1: my worry about Julio was overblown. Um my worry about
Speaker 1: this Titans defense is not that's a problem. I don't
Speaker 1: think they played that well, but they did put up
Speaker 1: five thirty one yards ultimately against the against the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: I am more concerned though the Colts can't run them
Speaker 1: the goal line. They've had struggles running and their defense,
Speaker 1: who is known to like not give up big places,
Speaker 1: is giving up a ton of big plays. Not not
Speaker 1: not a fan, early early pick. What's up? Um Titans fan?
Speaker 1: You got your own Titans podcast titled titled The Music
Speaker 1: City Audible, Greg, we took your advice, moved to Wednesdays. Nice. See,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's like you're being too like you have too
Speaker 1: many Boston it's just the way. Sometimes it's like good
Speaker 1: to get advice. It's good advice on the surface for sure,
Speaker 1: and good good. What do you think about the Titans?
Speaker 1: Are you feeling right now compared to last week? Obviously
Speaker 1: a lot better? Uh? This is this a slaughter situation
Speaker 1: or do you think this is going to be closer?
Speaker 1: Because I think the reason the desert is not the
Speaker 1: way you might expect is because people put a lot
Speaker 1: into the wounded animal game and thinking the cults with
Speaker 1: a good thing the Titans, well, yeah, yeah, that the
Speaker 1: Colts always play the Titans. Well. I feel like division
Speaker 1: games are always kind of weird, and the Titans traveled
Speaker 1: pretty far last week. That big comeback wins sometimes you
Speaker 1: have a little letdown type of game after that. So
Speaker 1: I feel like the Titans should win, but I don't
Speaker 1: expect them to dominate. Actually, I feel like Frank Greig
Speaker 1: is a good coach. He's going to have that team
Speaker 1: ready with a full week to prepare for whoever his
Speaker 1: quarterback is. That's fine if Jacobson can play and they
Speaker 1: scheme up open throws Whence is. Actually, I think played
Speaker 1: fairly well the last couple of weeks, despite you know,
Speaker 1: kind of the tone we've had around him. So the
Speaker 1: you know, receivers will be open. But I don't know. Alright, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's move on, Greggy, thank you, great bigger m hmm.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Cincinnati Pittsburgh. There is this was the game. Um,
Speaker 1: I was gonna lock up for the Steelers. There's so
Speaker 1: many injuries situations hanging out there right now that I'd
Speaker 1: love to know if t J. Watts playing. M I'd
Speaker 1: love to know if Ben Roethlisberger is playing, but I'm
Speaker 1: pretty much assuming that that he is. Uh. Deonte Johnson
Speaker 1: sounds like he is probably out for this game. Devin
Speaker 1: Bush is probably back in for this game. Joe Hayden,
Speaker 1: I don't know about Alex Highsmith. I don't know about
Speaker 1: When we look at the Steelers struggling last week, I
Speaker 1: think it got a little lost in the t J.
Speaker 1: Watt injury that. Oh, by the way, they're missing like
Speaker 1: five of their best defensive players Stefan two. It's on
Speaker 1: I R. Hayden's easily the best cornerback in a rough secondary.
Speaker 1: High Smith is you know, basically a starter in terms
Speaker 1: of their pass rush and pushes their best you know,
Speaker 1: inside middle linebacker type, off ball linebacker type. That's a lot.
Speaker 1: I think it needs to be put into context. It
Speaker 1: sounds like most of those guys will be back this week,
Speaker 1: including what I think this defense, if they have their guys,
Speaker 1: is gonna be enough because I have a lot of
Speaker 1: concerns about Joe Burrow. Burrow right now, I am curious, like,
Speaker 1: what are your Joe Burrow feelings after a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm worried. I'm worried that they have not fixed the
Speaker 1: pass of the past protection and it's gonna get him killed.
Speaker 1: And it's it's something we all talked about entering the season,
Speaker 1: and you saw it again. Uh in Week two he
Speaker 1: took a lot of hits, was sacked a bunch, was
Speaker 1: hit a bunch more, and um, I think the problem
Speaker 1: with Burrow, I think is if you can tinue to
Speaker 1: have issues protecting him, he's going to it's going to
Speaker 1: affect his maturation as a quarterback and he's gonna develop
Speaker 1: bad habits and the turnovers are gonna stack. Now, he
Speaker 1: did throw the three turnovers um or the three interceptions
Speaker 1: on three consecutive passes, but that's not who he's been
Speaker 1: in his career. Not in college, not to this point
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So I'm not like, I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about all of a sudden avalanche of game changing negative
Speaker 1: players with him, But at the same time, it is
Speaker 1: it is on my radar that they are not protecting him,
Speaker 1: and that led to um a functional breakdown in their
Speaker 1: offense in the second half. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: it's on Burrow, though, I mean, yes, the offensive line
Speaker 1: hasn't been great, but it was one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why I was worried about him going into this year
Speaker 1: is so much of his game is escaping the pocket
Speaker 1: and creativity and kind of making plays up as he
Speaker 1: goes along, and I think he's a little gunshy right
Speaker 1: now to do that. That's sometimes he's sort of the
Speaker 1: opposite of Carson Wentz. He's taken those sacks, He's going
Speaker 1: down any should to protect himself, but he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to come up with some sort of balance where he
Speaker 1: tries to make some more plays. He took a couple
Speaker 1: of sacks where I felt like last year there's no
Speaker 1: question he would have tried to escape and make a play.
Speaker 1: And they're actually the number two team in running the
Speaker 1: ball in game neutral situations, which is kind of a
Speaker 1: weird staff. But basically, if if the game is not
Speaker 1: a blot in one way or another, how much are
Speaker 1: you running it? And their number two behind the Ravens.
Speaker 1: So I feel like they're trying to protect Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: as much as they can and that it's a hard
Speaker 1: way to win that way, like these low scoring type
Speaker 1: of games. And there were some you know, rumbles or
Speaker 1: murmurs out of Cincinnati, Jamaar Chase lamenting, uh, not enough
Speaker 1: deep shots against the Bears. Um Callahan, Brian Callahan. Does
Speaker 1: anybody know that offensive coordinator of the Bengals is Brian Callahan.
Speaker 1: I think Zach Taylor's calling the plays though, But he said,
Speaker 1: I understand the frustration. Yeah, the structure of that defense generally,
Speaker 1: that's Vic Fongio's system, is to limit big place. So
Speaker 1: they were saying, listen, the reason why we didn't push
Speaker 1: the ball downfield in that game was because that's what
Speaker 1: Fogio does. He wants to keep everything in front of you.
Speaker 1: We'll see, this will be a good tests. I think
Speaker 1: this could be a low scoring game here, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the Steelers, I'm a little worried about the Steelers.
Speaker 1: I think if the defense can stay together physically, they're
Speaker 1: gonna stay in a lot of games and be a
Speaker 1: team that's on the making a playoff push. But this
Speaker 1: big Ben offense, I don't know. Man. They tried throwing
Speaker 1: it deep last week a ton eight times. Did not
Speaker 1: did not work. I think they'll bounce back. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break and then we'll be back with
Speaker 1: the next pick. All right, I am up. I will
Speaker 1: do do do do do do do do do. I
Speaker 1: will take Jets and Broncos. Two things here. Watch. What
Speaker 1: do you think about Zach Wilson. What did you take
Speaker 1: out of that game? That the Patriots made a couple
Speaker 1: amazing interception Two of those first three were incredible defensive
Speaker 1: plays that I think, you know a little to blame
Speaker 1: don Zack Wilson, just because like those are incredible play
Speaker 1: place by like a veteran secondary. But after that that
Speaker 1: he kind of fritz out that he just started throwing
Speaker 1: some things up. He had a couple of really nice
Speaker 1: throws in the fourth quarter. Um, but that they they're
Speaker 1: setting coverages at him that are slowing his mental process
Speaker 1: down and he just started throwing it up. My concern
Speaker 1: is if the schedule gods have any gods of any
Speaker 1: kind were cool to the Jets, Uh, they would get
Speaker 1: a nice little and get the Jags this week, or
Speaker 1: maybe they would get the Falcons, who they get in London.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be there to see that game. Said, you
Speaker 1: get the Broncos in Denver who just chopped up and
Speaker 1: spit out Trevor Lawrence, the number one overall pick. So
Speaker 1: my my concern here is that this is going to
Speaker 1: snowball a little bit. Um, And I just hope if
Speaker 1: he does end up taking another um, you know, he
Speaker 1: gets humbled once again here, and hopefully it's not in
Speaker 1: the meltdown that we saw the Patriots where he ended
Speaker 1: up with four turnovers by midway through the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not that type of situation. But even if
Speaker 1: this ends up being another game where they don't score
Speaker 1: more than you know, ten twenty points, um, I just
Speaker 1: hope it's not something that sets him back for a
Speaker 1: whole season. So they need to they need to do
Speaker 1: the things that they can do to help them the Jets,
Speaker 1: which they did against the Patriots. They protected they protected
Speaker 1: him better, They gave him a running game. Uh, they
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. They got the
Speaker 1: ball back to him repeatedly and gave him a chance,
Speaker 1: uh to fix his day. It just wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So the Jets, I thought it got lost in in
Speaker 1: the shuffle a little bit. And all the other power
Speaker 1: ranks out there, it's like, oh, Bury, the Jets last
Speaker 1: in the league and all this stuff. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: if you watch the game, it was Zack Wilson who
Speaker 1: wasn't competitive in Week two and they didn't look like
Speaker 1: two teams that were like one team was better than
Speaker 1: the other. Right, So the Jets need to take that
Speaker 1: effort as a team to Denver, and then Zack Wilson
Speaker 1: needs to be better. And then the Broncos side of things, Um,
Speaker 1: I think this is just gonna be fun to watch
Speaker 1: if they're going to really set themselves up well here,
Speaker 1: if they can start their season get off to a
Speaker 1: three and oh start you know who knows we just
Speaker 1: talked about the charges. Greg, you love you love the
Speaker 1: Broncos so much that you think they could be a
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen win team. Well, if that's who they
Speaker 1: are and and they're gonna get they're gonna get to
Speaker 1: three and oh here most likely, uh, maybe the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are gonna slip up enough like they did in a
Speaker 1: week two, or this turns into a division race. I
Speaker 1: like the problem is like every time I say a
Speaker 1: number like that, it goes up one every time. Like
Speaker 1: I think it started at a level ten to eleven.
Speaker 1: Then it was like eleven and twelve. Nownts to off
Speaker 1: the thirteen. It's like, I appreciated you calling me out
Speaker 1: when I said the Texans were like the best team
Speaker 1: in the league through six. I just get it. It's
Speaker 1: because of because what are you talking about? It's because
Speaker 1: I'm excited about them. Twelve wins, I think is a
Speaker 1: realistic goal. With this defense, Vic Fongio forces quarterbacks into
Speaker 1: holding the ball the extra half second and and forcing
Speaker 1: them to overthink. You saw it with Lawrence, He saw
Speaker 1: it against Daniel Jones. You'll probably see it. I am
Speaker 1: disappointed in the lack of advantages. It seems like the
Speaker 1: offense is giving. Zack Wilson there was a lot of
Speaker 1: excitement about this offense and the coaching staff on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. I think if you look at
Speaker 1: the defense right now, they're coaching up that defense. They're frisky.
Speaker 1: The Broncos are ten n half point favorites in this game.
Speaker 1: To me, that's too much, because I think the Jets
Speaker 1: defense is too frisky, uh to just give away that
Speaker 1: many points against it. I mean, they're playing guys that
Speaker 1: were cut from other rosters as starters and they're playing
Speaker 1: pretty well. Like Colbert from the Patriots, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh wait, he's a starter for the Jets. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that, like he was on the Patriots two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Quincy Wilson's a bust in Jacksonville just got cut a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. He's starting for the Jets, and yet
Speaker 1: they look pretty good. They're good up front. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Broncos are gonna score a ton of points
Speaker 1: even in these great matchups. The last two weeks, they've
Speaker 1: still been kept in like the upper mid twenties. So
Speaker 1: I could see this being a little nerve racking for
Speaker 1: Broncos fans, but you just have to trust the Fongio
Speaker 1: defense to shut them down. The Jets have twenty points
Speaker 1: through two weeks. I like the Broncos here obviously, but
Speaker 1: I think this is of your Jets fan again and
Speaker 1: it's all incremental progress. You don't need to have a
Speaker 1: winning season, but you want to make sure there's development happening.
Speaker 1: Sala seems to be developing the defense through two weeks.
Speaker 1: Let's see if Wilson can bounce back. And Jamison Crowder
Speaker 1: by the way did not practice again today and they
Speaker 1: took the Pats the whole thing. It's like when you're
Speaker 1: the playing the Jets, You're like, Okay, let's take away
Speaker 1: their biggest weapon. You're like, what is it? It was
Speaker 1: Corey Davis. And without Corey Davis, they don't have enough
Speaker 1: um that's helping Zack Wilson. So if the Broncos, who
Speaker 1: have great cornerbacks, Sir Tan had a great first start
Speaker 1: as a rookie, uh, if they can take away Corey Davis,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot there. Listen, we all like Braxton Burrios,
Speaker 1: but he is not Jamison crowd Why you see their
Speaker 1: leading it's a that's one of those things where it's
Speaker 1: a bad sign for your team. When Braxton Barrios is
Speaker 1: your leading receiver. You need crowder in there. He's a
Speaker 1: great security blanket for young quarterback. And where's Elijah More
Speaker 1: start making some plays? I know he got on the
Speaker 1: stat sheet. And Denzel Mims, I guess he's just not
Speaker 1: on the team really anymore. He was deactivated a week two.
Speaker 1: That's a bad look for the entire organization. And Joe Douglas,
Speaker 1: let's go Jets. Clean it up. Greg, You're up, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go. The next best game on the
Speaker 1: board I think is Minnesota Seattle. We mentioned at the
Speaker 1: top how the Vikings are like most oh and two teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get drowned out by the Rams Bucks also
Speaker 1: at but this Vikings team, they could be two and out.
Speaker 1: They probably should be one in one in some way,
Speaker 1: but instead they're owing two. It makes it a classic
Speaker 1: cornered animal game. And I like what I saw to
Speaker 1: their offense last week. How could you not not just
Speaker 1: the Kubayak running game, which is now entering year two,
Speaker 1: you expected to really like ramp Up Man. It was cohesive.
Speaker 1: They freaking destroyed Chandler Jones and j. J. Watt and
Speaker 1: and Davin Collins and sim I mean they destroyed them
Speaker 1: on the ground last week. It wasn't all just Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook making plays that intrigues me. Against Seattle, kJ Osborne
Speaker 1: you were wondering, where's the third receiver to step up?
Speaker 1: K J. Osborne is your number one receiver in Minnesota
Speaker 1: in terms of yard he looked pretty good for two weeks.
Speaker 1: So it's a good offensive team. And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what the Seahawks are, but I don't think they're a
Speaker 1: good defense. I think they're mediocre. So to me, it's
Speaker 1: a coin flip game. But I think give the Vikings
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance at home. It's so and football
Speaker 1: is crazy with this because the line between O and
Speaker 1: two and two and oh is so thin, and the
Speaker 1: Vikings just if they just execute a little bit better
Speaker 1: at the end of those first two games, they're in
Speaker 1: a great position. And that you know, everyone's thinking, Oh,
Speaker 1: the Vikings are back. They're ready to make a playoff run.
Speaker 1: Instead they're seasons online, uh in in week three. Um,
Speaker 1: so you gotta bounce back. You gotta find a way.
Speaker 1: This is you gotta you gotta figure it out and
Speaker 1: find a way. I think Russell Wilson's owned them for
Speaker 1: what it's worth. I never put much stock into this,
Speaker 1: but he is seven and oh against the way, and
Speaker 1: you don't like if you're a Viking study, you don't
Speaker 1: like that the Seahawks blew that game in Week two,
Speaker 1: because now the Seahawks also are extra motivated to bury
Speaker 1: demons from week two. You you want them to to
Speaker 1: find a way to beat the Titans and then go
Speaker 1: they're fat on the hog and get Minnesota's home opener.
Speaker 1: I mean they were on the road twice. I give
Speaker 1: a little bit of a little bit of leader right.
Speaker 1: And the Seahawks defense, they're best players, Adams Wagner. They
Speaker 1: played eighty eight snaps last week. That's that's a lot
Speaker 1: of football. You've got to travel on the road. And
Speaker 1: the Seahawks offensive line is a little on my raider,
Speaker 1: haven't haven't been able to get a running game going.
Speaker 1: And Wilson again has one of the highest sack rates
Speaker 1: in the league. So it's kind of like a little
Speaker 1: bit of feeling of the same old Seahawks here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the you're gonna see some big plays. And
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett is you know, he's another guy that looks
Speaker 1: like an All Pro. They're gonna just games in the thirties.
Speaker 1: The cornerbacks are so attackable on on both sides. Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins has been real good through two weeks um, and
Speaker 1: which isn't always a popular thing to say, because nobody
Speaker 1: likes Kirk. Now he's been great personally professionally otherwise, I'm
Speaker 1: sure his family loves him, and that's the most important thing. Um.
Speaker 1: That's a good game, and I think it's a total
Speaker 1: coin flip game. And I think the Vikings find way
Speaker 1: that's what I took to. Let's uh, let's go through
Speaker 1: the rest of these games now that we have our
Speaker 1: drafts set up here Falcons at Giants, all right, so
Speaker 1: Jike's all right, Kenny, Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma. By
Speaker 1: the way, Mark Sanchez Vilma, I love that crew. Give
Speaker 1: me that crew instead of Schlais. I'm sorry Coogler and
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez on the Seahawks Vikings Ho Sanche has been
Speaker 1: so far to you. You know, we're all in the
Speaker 1: same business here. They're learning. You see. You were talking
Speaker 1: about me with like pregnant pauses, showing like a level
Speaker 1: of advancement you being in a place, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, Mark Stune is best. We're all out enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I haven't enjoyed those broadcasts yet. Like the old Greg's
Speaker 1: just like slinging. I just hammered sla He's got the crossbow,
Speaker 1: just taking out everybody in the industry. Where's that guy?
Speaker 1: Bring him back? I mean, the best analysis Sanchez had
Speaker 1: was about how awkward it would be for Jimmy g
Speaker 1: to be hugging that would maybe that wasn't his game,
Speaker 1: but just he was talking about that, It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's been there, He's been there in those situations. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, Falcons, Giants, this is who who? When he
Speaker 1: got two wounded animals, it's gonna be bloody, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be gross, and somebody's gonna end up dead. Uh. So
Speaker 1: that's that's the Kenny Albert john development game. It's at
Speaker 1: the Metal Lands. I really liked. We haven't talked about
Speaker 1: this game because the Giants because it was the Thursday
Speaker 1: night game last week. I mean, listen, they found a
Speaker 1: way to lose that game against Washington. I love the
Speaker 1: way Daniel Jones played in that game, and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna put too much into it because that's the whole
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones experience. But it wouldn't surprise me if he
Speaker 1: stacks up two really impressive games back to back here
Speaker 1: and people start buzzing a little bit as we enter
Speaker 1: week four, Hey, is this the Daniel Jones season finally
Speaker 1: where he fulfills the promise? That's what I think is
Speaker 1: gonna be a conversation on Monday after the Falcons get
Speaker 1: their ass beat. Lock that up, then uh the uh?
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I do like the Giants in
Speaker 1: this game. They've lost too offensive linemen for the season
Speaker 1: already that I mean, it can't be good. Lemieux was
Speaker 1: one of them. Was Shane Lemieux, and Nick Gates was another.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're starting guys who just joined the
Speaker 1: team a couple of weeks ago. That's not great. But
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I loved what I saw out of
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, and I loved what I saw at Jason Garrett.
Speaker 1: For fifty eight minutes. It was a creative, aggressive game
Speaker 1: plan that took advantage of Daniel Jones's leg game. No,
Speaker 1: I get it. It was great, but I think everyone
Speaker 1: did until they got the ball with three minutes left,
Speaker 1: and then he talked into Jason. Well, that was the
Speaker 1: moment where I lost him, where he just he turned
Speaker 1: back into Jason Garrett and got very conservative with the
Speaker 1: game on the line, when all it really took was
Speaker 1: one throw to win the game. And then you go
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett run run pass and it fell apart. But
Speaker 1: you gotta win this game. It's Eli Manning retirement Jersey game.
Speaker 1: You can this giant. You can't lose this game. You
Speaker 1: you did the ping pong and the you know, the
Speaker 1: the beer pong and Hackensack with Eli. He's your mentor
Speaker 1: do it? Who remember rookie year? They would show those,
Speaker 1: They would show those like clips pictures of Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: and Eli Manning like in in Hackensack drinking beer and
Speaker 1: they're like, say they are bros. Matt Ryan his his
Speaker 1: last in the league in average depth of targets. I
Speaker 1: know you love a dot he has thrown in in
Speaker 1: two weeks, He's thrown three passes over twenty yards and
Speaker 1: hasn't completed any of them. He threw one pass um
Speaker 1: early in the game in week two that just hung
Speaker 1: up and he had his receiver had a step. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was Ridley um and it just
Speaker 1: made you think, oh, okay, so we got something going
Speaker 1: on here. I think my prediction Leonard Williams has a
Speaker 1: big game and you're gonna see a lot of Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan the the above, the shot on the wire of
Speaker 1: him flat on his stomach from week one. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see that again at MetLife Stadium. Up next Bears at Brown's. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Justin Fields is the starting quarterback. Andy Dalton's knee
Speaker 1: injury is not an a c L tear, but it's
Speaker 1: jacked up enough where Justin Fields is starting. But not,
Speaker 1: but the belief in Andy Dalton hasn't changed to the
Speaker 1: point where they're saying this is now Justin Fields's team.
Speaker 1: They're still letting it out there. It's Andy Dalton's job
Speaker 1: until we decide it's Justin fields job. But that also
Speaker 1: ultimately doesn't matter Greg because if Justin Fields place well
Speaker 1: in Cleveland this week gets done, it's done. They're just
Speaker 1: saying this. I mean, I guess he's leaving out some room.
Speaker 1: If Justin Fields was so bad and Andy Dalton gets
Speaker 1: quickly healthy, then you could change it. But that's what
Speaker 1: they said about Tony Romo and Dak Prescott back in
Speaker 1: the day. That was Tony Romo who was like a
Speaker 1: great quarterback who was their starter for eight or nine years. Well,
Speaker 1: what's his job when healthy? Well, then he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be healthy or they're just gonna have to admit it
Speaker 1: was a lie. I want to see Justin Fields move
Speaker 1: the ball a little better. I know Allen Robinson dropped
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass, but it's got to be said they
Speaker 1: won that game because Andy Dalton had the best two
Speaker 1: drives of the game. He was the best quarterback on
Speaker 1: the Bears in that game. They both played, so like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that matters, matters a little. Well, it matters in the
Speaker 1: sense of like people just blindly saying screw Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: put in Justin Fields while they both played in a
Speaker 1: game that mattered and one look better than the other.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't matter anymore in the sense that there's
Speaker 1: only one quarterback left to play. So I think they're
Speaker 1: so freaked out about their offensive line that everything is short, short, short,
Speaker 1: and Dalton can do that. There's only one. The Bears
Speaker 1: have one play over seventeen yards this season, and this
Speaker 1: is a test for the Browns, who their defense rebuilt
Speaker 1: just hasn't looked any better this year. The secondary, the
Speaker 1: imported rams Troy Hill and John Johnson are off to
Speaker 1: slow starts. Clowney and Garrett I think are off too
Speaker 1: slow starts. So it hasn't come together. This is a game,
Speaker 1: and I know you don't know what's gonna happen with Fields.
Speaker 1: It's like put a bang thing on them, cover that
Speaker 1: cover those seven or ten points. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what it is, right, but I'm saying I'm liking the Browns.
Speaker 1: I think they will. I think they will. You think
Speaker 1: is we're going to bank Town on this game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's only seven. So that's weird to me that it's
Speaker 1: a smaller number by far than Houston. To to me,
Speaker 1: Houston has looked like a better team than Chicago. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I I know Chicago won that game last week
Speaker 1: and they look good on defense. I'm not It's not
Speaker 1: like they're gonna slow down the Browns. They're just not.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be thirty Ken Justin Fields keep up
Speaker 1: with a team that scores thirty, I just don't think. So. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous a little bit of him the Browns because
Speaker 1: you probably have a good chance of getting beat last
Speaker 1: week if you're the other quarterback Tyrod Taylors and blows hamstring. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll see how Justin Fields looks. If Justin Fields looks
Speaker 1: good in the first quarter and they start to get
Speaker 1: a little juice and excitement. That could be a really
Speaker 1: tough game for the Browns. It helps at their home,
Speaker 1: all right. Ravens at Lions, Uh, this is a nice
Speaker 1: spot for the Ravens here. You have that emotional win
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, and now you get the Lions who
Speaker 1: are showing greg through two weeks. They're gonna play hard,
Speaker 1: but they're just gonna get overwhelmed as long as you,
Speaker 1: you know, put your will upon right. I was kind
Speaker 1: of thinking, like, what would the reaction be if Matt
Speaker 1: Patricia had these exact two straight games. No one would
Speaker 1: be saying, well, they're playing hard. They would just be like,
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia blows, defense blows, and this Lions defense is
Speaker 1: a problem. They it didn't look very good on paper
Speaker 1: and they look like they're going to be one of
Speaker 1: the worst defense in the league. That's asking golf to
Speaker 1: keep up with that. It's it's gonna be tough. But
Speaker 1: as we tape this. Lamar Jackson missed practice Thursday for
Speaker 1: mysterious reasons. He did he did. He was there for
Speaker 1: a walk three. Now he was there for a walk
Speaker 1: through on Wednesday and said his hip was kind of
Speaker 1: sore and wasn't there Thursday and there didn't. As we're
Speaker 1: taping this, they haven't said why if I can jump?
Speaker 1: If I can jump off? Yes, if I may so.
Speaker 1: A couple like two hours ago, Shufter said that he
Speaker 1: wasn't at this because yesterday his hip was sore from
Speaker 1: his t d Umi flip. Yes, but but Dan, but Dan.
Speaker 1: So then now it's coming out that it's a non
Speaker 1: COVID illness and he has a bit of a stomach bug.
Speaker 1: So you remember that game where he ran into the
Speaker 1: locker room. So yeah, Twitter is a is a wasteland
Speaker 1: rumper against the Browns. Yeah, so that they're thinking that
Speaker 1: basically he should be fine for for Sunday depending on this.
Speaker 1: That's good to know. If ever, there was like a
Speaker 1: hangover type of game, and I'm sure that's not why
Speaker 1: he's out hangover. Uh, wouldn't this be it? They kind
Speaker 1: of slay the dragon. You're going to Detroit, not saying
Speaker 1: they would lose, but that it might be uncomfortable cause
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced this Ravens team is gonna be great.
Speaker 1: I know they put together a great performance. The running
Speaker 1: game was Wow. People get on Greg Roman. But oh
Speaker 1: my god, I I rewatched. I watched this thing in
Speaker 1: like they were doing things I've never seen before. It
Speaker 1: was infusing. It was blowing my brain, the type of
Speaker 1: motions and the way they're using their tight ends and
Speaker 1: full back. It was a lot that they threw out.
Speaker 1: He changes so much. Of course, he changes, not just
Speaker 1: him I'm saying, but just what he does with an offense,
Speaker 1: and how defenses have to account for where he is.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden he's sticking in somebody else's
Speaker 1: gut and they're all looking at Lamar like he that's why,
Speaker 1: and like motion guys going one way and like man,
Speaker 1: they were like a two seconds late on so many
Speaker 1: of those runs. And Tyson Williams is a player. I
Speaker 1: love that way that he runs. He's I would take
Speaker 1: him over Gus Edwards just as a pure runner. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're missing that much not No,
Speaker 1: he oh I don't need with running backs. You know
Speaker 1: he can run maybe just like Barry Gus. I didn't
Speaker 1: bury J. K. Dobbins by the way, the Lions are
Speaker 1: burying Jamie Collins. They said they're trading him. He's no
Speaker 1: longer showing up to practice. I'm only mentioning this because,
Speaker 1: like when Jamie Collins quits on you, I mean, he
Speaker 1: really this is three teams. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: personally attack the guy, but it is three teams where
Speaker 1: the team has kind of been like, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: rid of this guy like now because something right and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there were some questionable efforts when he was
Speaker 1: on the field in Week one. I wanna, hey, breakout player,
Speaker 1: it's happening, Hollywood. Brown he is, and he's building off
Speaker 1: to the end of the last season. He really has
Speaker 1: looked very good and that's what they need desperately. They
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, I think he's given them what they've wanted
Speaker 1: so far. And Rashad Bateman when he gets back from
Speaker 1: the core muscle surgery, that's you know, you hope he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to have an impact this season. He's
Speaker 1: really behind now. But I really think Brown this could
Speaker 1: be the season he is a first round pick back
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. I think this could be like yard
Speaker 1: eight touchdown season the Ravens thought they were getting because
Speaker 1: they seem to have some real chemistry. Um, let's pause
Speaker 1: quickly for a break up. Next Cardinals at Jags. First,
Speaker 1: let's start with urban Meyer. Greg, you've been down in
Speaker 1: urban Meyer since he took the job. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it's about, but you're hardly alone. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people thought, oh, would he be able to be
Speaker 1: dominant in the college game or in the pro gaming
Speaker 1: like he was in college as he prepared to understand
Speaker 1: it's such a different landscape. Well, here's a little snippet
Speaker 1: from inside the NFL. Remember inside the NFL is still
Speaker 1: here of urban Meyer speaking with Vic Foggio ahead of
Speaker 1: a Week two matchup. A lot of players in this
Speaker 1: way round it's Alabama every week, and Vix like, yeah, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: it is different. Yeah, I mean people are killing Erban
Speaker 1: Meyer for this, Like, but he's just saying every team
Speaker 1: is great. I don't think he's saying like every team
Speaker 1: is so good because Vick Vick mentioned this in his
Speaker 1: presser too. And they don't know each other, so like
Speaker 1: you don't think because they're pro you know, coaches and everything,
Speaker 1: and it's a different world. It's the same as like
Speaker 1: if you were at the Are Cooler with Joe Blow
Speaker 1: after the show and you didn't know what to say
Speaker 1: and you just said, hey Man, this new office is
Speaker 1: real nice. Huh, Like that's what that's Urban Myers version
Speaker 1: of small talk. Hey Man, college was easy. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing. Uh. And he was on my radar from
Speaker 1: the beginning because it just feels like there's a level
Speaker 1: of confidence, I guess would be the nice way to
Speaker 1: put it in these college coaches who are like imperial
Speaker 1: war lords over you know, their entire It's the media,
Speaker 1: it's the players, it's being the highest paid like public
Speaker 1: employee in the state. And and the fact that Urban
Speaker 1: Meyer also had all these Fox guys and some NFL
Speaker 1: network guys to have worked with them, who are like
Speaker 1: in the stalladium, and it's like, all right, let's see
Speaker 1: how it goes. Like it's you know, you had these
Speaker 1: great players, we know you can recruit. You know, we
Speaker 1: did some creative things offensively at at in College, at
Speaker 1: Utah and in certainly Florida and beyond. But it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: see how it goes and it's not going on. It's
Speaker 1: not The offense has been it's been rough. And uh,
Speaker 1: they had a hundred eighty nine yards total against Denver
Speaker 1: and again that's a very good Broncos defense. But even
Speaker 1: last year, seen the one one in fifteen, cleared that
Speaker 1: bar every week and uh Lawrence, Trevor Lawrence has seventy
Speaker 1: three of his A hundred and eighteen passing yards on
Speaker 1: the first drive. They don't want to ruin him. They're
Speaker 1: so past happy. They're kind of the opposite of the Bengals.
Speaker 1: I know they have been behind in these games, but
Speaker 1: even early the first drives, like they are just letting
Speaker 1: him throw the ball. He he looks like he's like
Speaker 1: really inaccurate. But I think it's just he's late. I hope, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what they've been saying, that he's just that
Speaker 1: he's just like kind of slow to see things, and
Speaker 1: so the ball gets there and the receiver is no
Speaker 1: longer in the place that he was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be fine, but their defense is a mess.
Speaker 1: And I look at the things you worry about is
Speaker 1: when players that were good before aren't really that good now.
Speaker 1: And Miles Jack has been a little bit lost in
Speaker 1: this defense, getting picked on uh C J Henderson, and
Speaker 1: I guess hasn't done much in the past, but he's
Speaker 1: been lost to the defense. Being this bad is a
Speaker 1: is a bigger surprise and oh, by the way, you
Speaker 1: got you know, comfortable Kyler Murray coming in there and
Speaker 1: comfortable comfy Kyle. He just looks so at home in
Speaker 1: this system. That's the benefit of keeping the same coordinator.
Speaker 1: You know, we get on franchises for changing out coordinators,
Speaker 1: whether you like Cliff or not. Like Kyler knows this offense.
Speaker 1: He knows where everyone's supposed to be. Um new Copkins.
Speaker 1: Did not practice Thursday, didn't practice Wednesday. Uh, keep an
Speaker 1: eye on Friday. We're recording this on Thursday. But you
Speaker 1: do take some solace if your card spend knowing that
Speaker 1: Ron del Moore is developing at a high rate. Uh,
Speaker 1: seven of eight targets for one fourteen and a touch
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. If he's still on your waiver wire
Speaker 1: and fantasy go get him. That's my little tip for
Speaker 1: you fantasy heads out there. Let's move on the Washington
Speaker 1: football team at Buffalo Bills. Uh, what do you think here?
Speaker 1: I think that the Bills def ends is a problem.
Speaker 1: That if the Bill's defense in a good way for
Speaker 1: the rest of the league, if the Bills wait for
Speaker 1: the Bills, it's a problem. The defense is playing well,
Speaker 1: it's a problem for the a f C East. It's
Speaker 1: a problem for the a f C. If they're this
Speaker 1: good man, it just gives them such a markin margin
Speaker 1: for error. And we're seeing that so far with Josh
Speaker 1: Allen in the offense, not quite quite being there, but
Speaker 1: people are kinda forget how good this Bill's offense has
Speaker 1: been at various points, and and Matt Milano is leading
Speaker 1: the way. I don't know if you have this experience,
Speaker 1: dan Um, when players that West really loved are like
Speaker 1: popping on game pass. I had that with Kareem Jackson
Speaker 1: last week. I just you just think about him, you think,
Speaker 1: and because he was so early on Milano and he
Speaker 1: was so right, he kind of makes their defense and
Speaker 1: maybe West could see it all back then it wouldn't
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me. But I feel like he's playing
Speaker 1: at a level now that is just mind blowing. That
Speaker 1: is like Navarro Bowman in his prime, like changing the game,
Speaker 1: like all pro. Whatever you want to say. It's it's
Speaker 1: two games, but he has really stood out to me,
Speaker 1: and their defense to me, is just gonna be too
Speaker 1: good for Tyler Heiniki. I mean what they did to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins was that was was borderline cruel. And the
Speaker 1: Dolphins building their home open or first time in front
Speaker 1: of fans in two years. Uh too. Absolutely just steal,
Speaker 1: just steal their will with by the second series and
Speaker 1: and by the way, and we're gonna get to the
Speaker 1: Dolphins next. Um, that's a broken rib for to a
Speaker 1: Now who's out of the picture. That's that's what the Bills.
Speaker 1: They can bully you, uh with that front seven. And
Speaker 1: now if you get the offense figured out, if they
Speaker 1: get airborne on offense and get to the level they
Speaker 1: were last year, that this is the team we've all
Speaker 1: talked on in the offseason. This is a super Bowl
Speaker 1: level team. How can the offense get there? We'll see
Speaker 1: and this might be a good matchup to do it.
Speaker 1: The Washington defense has been so disappointing through two weeks.
Speaker 1: Young and sweaty. I can't get a nickname off the
Speaker 1: damn ground if you're not gonna take the next step, professionals,
Speaker 1: you know what, Sweat was pretty good in that game,
Speaker 1: actually pretty good. They haven't dominated, but it feels like
Speaker 1: the rest of the defense is an even bigger problem,
Speaker 1: like the secondary, the linebacker group. This on paper, I
Speaker 1: think is a pretty good spot for Josh Allen to
Speaker 1: get right. Josh Allen is absolutely not shooting straight through
Speaker 1: two weeks. I don't you said should be panic after
Speaker 1: one week, I was like, Man, now that it's been
Speaker 1: two weeks, I'm like, okay, let's keep an eye on
Speaker 1: the third week. I don't think he He played about
Speaker 1: as bad as you can to win thirty five nothing.
Speaker 1: He had some great plays in that game, but he
Speaker 1: missed a lot of They disappeared. They kind won that
Speaker 1: game fifty six to nothing for for throughout after they
Speaker 1: had an early touchdown, the offense just disappeared for a
Speaker 1: long stretch there in. The defense just carried the day
Speaker 1: by the way last thing because we've got to get
Speaker 1: out here in a few minutes. But the Washington football team, Uh,
Speaker 1: if there isn't a questionable hold that wipes out of
Speaker 1: Daniel jones fifty eight yard touchdown run, If Darius Slayton
Speaker 1: can make a football play in a big spot on
Speaker 1: an end zone drop when there was no Washington defender
Speaker 1: within twenty yards, you're looking at a monster Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: game on your team. Washington defense, it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league, so they got
Speaker 1: lucky and so many levels to win thirty twenty nine.
Speaker 1: In that game, it could have been a totally different
Speaker 1: game if the Giants just executed and got some um
Speaker 1: if a flag gets picked up finally, Dolphins at Raiders,
Speaker 1: Yes to a and you kind of felt this happening.
Speaker 1: You felt a trending this direction all week that Okay,
Speaker 1: they said he just got banged up and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay, but no, Uh, he's got fractured drips. So
Speaker 1: he got hit three times hard and I think seven
Speaker 1: plays against the Bills. And now he's on the shelf
Speaker 1: and you have you're asking questions about his future, not
Speaker 1: just because he didn't look so hot in week one. Uh,
Speaker 1: and as a rookie. Now he's heard again, and that
Speaker 1: put you in a situation. There's no Ryan Fitzpatrick. It's
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette going to Vegas. And this sets up really well,
Speaker 1: Greg for the Raiders to get off to a three
Speaker 1: and oh start. You know, I love me some Jake Brisket. Um,
Speaker 1: we don't have the Jake Brisket, but we do in
Speaker 1: our hearts. I'm I'm hearing it in my head. I
Speaker 1: hear it as well. He's back in the mix, but
Speaker 1: him in this offensive line and slice me off a
Speaker 1: piece of that, Jake blisk, but we do have it.
Speaker 1: Don't shake your head. Well, no, I mean it's on.
Speaker 1: It's totally second. I knew that, but I just meant,
Speaker 1: like coming, I just went at some point while we're
Speaker 1: having to discuss she could have hypothetically in post just
Speaker 1: dropped it right when you said it. But then since
Speaker 1: you kind of called the producer out, so just now
Speaker 1: I have to address it. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, slice me off a piece of that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all right, him behind this offensive line. It seems
Speaker 1: like a bad combination, don't you think. I mean, Jacobe
Speaker 1: Procide is sort of famous for holding the ball more
Speaker 1: than any quarter act almost in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 1: How about a Max Max Crosby hat trick three sacks
Speaker 1: this league? Right, So that's probably gonna happen. And yet
Speaker 1: I still think they'll be able to move the ball
Speaker 1: on the downs that you can't get some protection. Fuller
Speaker 1: might be back for this game, Waddle is still a player.
Speaker 1: I think it's the biggest test yet for the Raiders receivers.
Speaker 1: I'm impressed by Byron Jones this year. Impressed by this
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense. Don't think they played that bad last week
Speaker 1: despite the score. I think it's gonna be tough to
Speaker 1: find open receivers. You're gonna you can send a lot
Speaker 1: at Derek Carr. I don't think this is necessarily like
Speaker 1: a cake walk game here for the Desert and then
Speaker 1: the games of the Desert, the Desert sees. This is
Speaker 1: four points I took. I took the Dolphins to cover.
Speaker 1: I took the Raiders to win by a field goal.
Speaker 1: So you're not in because I have the Raiders at
Speaker 1: eleven and the power rankings and Raiders Nation. They are
Speaker 1: coming for me. I mean, they are so upset, but
Speaker 1: I guess me putting them outside the top ten, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not totally sold that this is a juggernaut by
Speaker 1: any stretch yet. So but if you get beat by
Speaker 1: the Dolphins or the backup quarterback, if you need a
Speaker 1: late field goal to get to three, and though you're
Speaker 1: probably not a top ten teams, Dolphins are. Okay, I
Speaker 1: give the Dolphins. I'm not giving up on the Dolphins
Speaker 1: for one week though, And to me to it to
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette isn't necessarily a downgrade, and that's a problem.
Speaker 1: That's a problem. I mean it maybe it is, but
Speaker 1: not from what we've seen, because it's wounded here. The
Speaker 1: pride is wounded after last week. They're probably gonna come
Speaker 1: out and they have a really good head coach. Uh
Speaker 1: now I'm starting to come around a little bit, and
Speaker 1: they It is actually a great test, though, I think
Speaker 1: for where the Raiders are at, because this was the
Speaker 1: moment last year where you realized it was all falling apart,
Speaker 1: or that it did officially fall apart. It was the
Speaker 1: day after Christmas you gave up that crazy drive to Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: Was a lot of bad luck in that game, but
Speaker 1: they shouldn't have let them back in. And the Dolphins
Speaker 1: were just felt like like a better coach team. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, show me I'm wrong. But Raiders fans, you know,
Speaker 1: they get worked up. But this these are just the facts.
Speaker 1: They got some good breaks when they played the Ravens
Speaker 1: week one, with the injury situations happening so late in
Speaker 1: the week, with Villanueva playing the right side, which you
Speaker 1: can't play in Stanley a shell of Stanley on the
Speaker 1: left side, and everything that happened, and they won that
Speaker 1: game in overtime. Good job, you played the Steelers last
Speaker 1: week and they were missing five of their best players. Again,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr's bawling out through two games has been top
Speaker 1: five quarterback. But this is another good situation. Backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: Go take advantage, go get the three, and now let's
Speaker 1: see what happens. Let me see before we signed off here,
Speaker 1: I'm just curious what the Raiders have, because because the
Speaker 1: top of the schedule is pretty tough, you would think
Speaker 1: it might even soften here in October. Let's see they
Speaker 1: have at Chargers home, Bears at Broncos home, Eagles at Giants. Okay,
Speaker 1: so not really, it softens up. It's not, it's it
Speaker 1: softens up a lot of gimme's there. All right, good stuff.
Speaker 1: That's the Week three preview. We'll be back on Sunday
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