WEBVTT - 2017 Week 4 Recap 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:06.840 The You Around the NFL Podcast isn't tanking this season? 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.440 Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.280 Or my name is Dan Hansens and I'm joined by 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.520 the Room Build the sub heroes, Mark Sessler and Greg Rosatal. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:24.800 What is up? Boys? Oh, we're not tanking. The Jets 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:30.680 aren't tanking. Bills aren't tanking. Bills aren't tanking. Sam Donald 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.280 might be tanking. But that's save it for the Shepherding 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:39.400 Logs podcast. I will I will send you over there. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:44.080 If you want to talk about USC quarterbacks and hosen 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.239 for Rosen and all that stuff, go over there. This 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:51.959 is the professional Football Sunday Flagship Show, presented by Head 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.920 and Shoulders. Often imitated, I'm telling the imitators are growing 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:01.760 for the Sunday night flagship show. Never dupla it, not 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.840 only in house, but all over the football world. If 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.760 you're jump in on this Sunday night operation, if you 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.560 are on a podcast that's all of a sudden doing 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.200 a Sunday night show, I want you to know I 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:19.240 know exactly who you are and what you're trying to do. Great, 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:24.280 how are you? I'm great? I'm great too. I'm happy 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.560 because for the second straight week, a lot of great games. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.000 The It's interesting now that I think about I haven't 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.080 even really thought about it. The NFL was at the 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.480 center of the universe, or at least our country last 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.120 week with all the anthem protests. It was not um 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.520 as big as storyline, at least on the surface. Maybe 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.400 we're into deep during Sunday's really know what's going on, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.000 But I didn't. It didn't sense to be near what 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.960 was going on last week. And it's not that does 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.640 mean the stories over, But this week I felt like 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.120 it was more a standard NFL week and a lot 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.920 of good games, fair, unfair, still, a lot statements still, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:05.640 every broadcast showing the national anthems, a lot of strong feelings, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.880 certainly turned down from a week ago. Yeah, I don't 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.560 want to make it seem like I'm saying like, oh, well, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.799 we're moving past that now. It's not that it was 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.480 just exactly what you're saying that last week all that 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:17.960 the NFL forget about the games, des abite, how good 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.360 to get that was the story of the week. This week, 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.600 that's still going on. But there's a lot of fool 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.840 anytime you get into the second, third, fourth iteration of 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.480 something that was very new and very unusual last week. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.959 It's going to take on a bit of it. And unfortunately, 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.680 and then there's been a lot more in one tweet. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.600 Unfortunately there was. There were great games today, but there 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.800 it was also tons of I felt like this was 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.200 the first injuries really started impacting things. Sunday of the year. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.120 Hate that. Hate injuries. And there are some big ones 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.120 to go over, including some of the new young stars. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.720 At least one new young star in this league impacted. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.560 We'll get to that. So much to get to and uh, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.160 why don't we do it? Why don't we dive in. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.720 Let's let's go, let's do Let's start, gentleman. Uh and 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:08.440 the loose cannon behind the glass, Let's start mile high. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.720 They're going empty from the war, all right, Tony, calm down. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.200 I love Tony Romo, by the way, and we all 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:20.160 love Tony Romo. But his enthusiasm it's getting he's it's 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.799 getting higher and bigger every week. By the end of 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.880 the season, he's just gonna blow a gasket. A little 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.480 worried about at one point, like his voice was completely 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.400 shot because he was just shouting to he has Greg 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.160 greg is absolutely because Greg, and Greg is the guy 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:34.960 I think I'm wondering about someone who loves football. No 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.720 matter what you could say, this game is trash, and 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.040 he'll give you eight reasons why it's a great game. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.160 Romo and Greg just e to get into a car 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.400 and drive around the country again. Sometimes I'm like, I'm 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.720 worried that Greg's gonna lose control of his bowels. Sometimes 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.040 he's so excited during games. But what let's hear Romo again, 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.440 first and ten from the one yard line. They're going 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.840 empty from the war and what happened in touchdown? I 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.560 think the raid drive, yeah, d it was incredible. Maybe 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.960 maybe they heard there was a little bit of incredulity. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.440 If I'm pronouncing that correctly, I know what you're trying 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.080 to say. I think it's close. He was, he was surprised. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:10.760 And I also think it's just the stadium is so 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.960 loud that he gets excited. He's almost trying to scream 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.120 over the stadium. Is it incredulous? Incredulous is the root? 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.120 But the t y ending? Do you know? Mark? They'll 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.240 be like, you guys are both wrong, but I won't 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.599 say what it is. You're both wrong, and I don't 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:25.919 need to get into it. Let's move on, all right, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.200 let's talk about the game. Manuel loads it up, home 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.479 run ball that should be picked it as at the 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:38.240 eight justin sevens with an interception at the Denver eight 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:43.240 yard line and Denver's football first and ten with one 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.279 forty six left. That was Dave Logan with the call. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.120 Broncos safety Justin Simmons sword in the air and high 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.479 pointed the game ceiling interception. Uh, ceiling a sixteen to 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.520 ten win for the Broncos over the Raiders and a 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.960 meeting of Forever rivals at Mile High. That costly pick 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.159 was thrown by E. J. Manuel, as you heard, who 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.960 replaced Derek Carr after Car exited the game in the 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.159 second half with a lower back injury. He got kneed 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.839 in the back. I believe Mark. There is some talk that, uh, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.080 that he has back spasms, but no, it's not some 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.159 type of hardcore Tony Romo injury. At least that's the 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.280 initial thought that he he dodged a bolt there. But Greg, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.320 this was kind of like a two thousand fifteen like 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.200 Broncos win, right, score enough points, let your defense close 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.200 it out. It was in that they dominated up front 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.600 on both sides of the ball, and that's what really 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.080 impressed me. They ran the ball very well, and I 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:36.800 think you gotta look at the game in two parts 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.159 when they when car went out for the Raiders, it 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.760 was almost as if the Broncos sat on that lead 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.520 a little too much. But they were running the ball 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:49.560 extremely well against Oakland. And more worrisome for the Raiders 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.479 is that Denver was dominating the game up front when 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.520 the Raiders had the ball. So now this is two 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.679 weeks in a row that the Raiders, who people thought, Okay, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.679 maybe this is the best offensive line in the league, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.120 aren't blowing open any holes in the running game. Marshawn 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.799 Lynch held to twelve yards. I believe they had twenty 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.360 four yards as a teacher, but that's that's outrageous. And 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.200 Derek Carr was taking some hits. I'm not saying it 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.760 was just a field day on them, but Von Miller, 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.640 Derek Wolf, Shelby, Harris Peco has been a big factor 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.520 in terms of the running games. Shack Barrett, suddenly you've 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.720 got one of the better fronts in the league. Along 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.960 with your friends in the old No Fly Zone. You're 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.560 trying to get the Rocky Mountain Avalanche, but it's not happening. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.200 And now you've had another star potentially in Justin Simmons. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.360 This is why they cut T. J. Ward because this 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.839 guy is so athletic and he made a game ceiling 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.080 so encouraging for Denver coming out of that loss in Buffalo, 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.040 where I I looked at and said, after they had 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.880 beaten the Cowboys so decisively the week before, is this 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:48.760 gonna be a week to week type of team where 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.839 you can't really predict what you're gonna get back to 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.520 their formula with C. J. Anderson And how good does 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.880 Jamal Charles look right now? He looks revived and young 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.760 and powerful and fast. I think they have the kind 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.480 of backfield where you can hit him in so many 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.120 different ways. They're doing a nice job with him too, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.240 They're not over using him. I I imagine if he 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.000 continues to look good week after week, he'll start to 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.600 get more and more work. But C. J. Anderson is 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.800 doing the job as the primary ball carrier, and then 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.840 Charles is kind of the breath of fresh air. I 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.840 would look out here on the on the Raiders side 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.000 of the ball, you know they're gonna be putting a 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.440 lot on Car if the running game can't get going. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.240 I'm I'm not making any statements about Marshall Lynch maybe 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.040 not being Marshall Lynch anymore. But since week two, this 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.160 is three games now, he's averaging less than three yards 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.840 to carry, so he has not been running people over 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.440 with regularity like the old beast mode. And Car is 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.080 gonna need help and you hope he's gonna be on 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.360 the field. But this is two straight weeks now, Greg 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.800 where the Raiders, who are supposed to be an a 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.000 f C superpower, look highly mortal, especially on offense, and 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.800 that's what they're supposed to be built around. Defense, played 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.160 well enough to win. They they got enough stops. The 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.080 Raiders actually moved the ball better when E. J. Manuel 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.600 came in. I don't think that would continue for very long. Uh. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.080 Jack do Yo did say we should mention that he 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:07.080 believes that cars back spasm should be cleaned up quickly. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.960 I'm not sure how you know that. Right off the bat. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.920 He said there'll be some precautionary tests they host the 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.840 Ravens next week, but that I just think it's gonna 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.680 be really hard for any of these teams to go 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.480 into Denver and get a win against this defense, because 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.400 I still feel like they have room to grow on 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.000 offense that they didn't even really show today. All right, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.240 let's move on. First down. Golf takes the hand off 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.360 on the fly suite and throws down the seam. It's 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:35.600 caught inside moves. Girl is gonna go turn five touchdown 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.160 l A. Todd gurl Is fifty three yard catch and 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.600 run put his team ahead in the third quarter. And 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.480 Greg the legs areline or Legatron, it's really your choice, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.400 dealer's choice. Hit all seven of his field goal attempts 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.520 Matron to lead the Los Angeles Rams to a thirty 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.880 five to thirty upset win over the Cowboys in Big 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.680 D Jared Goff didn't turn the ball over and Todd 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.600 Gurley again played like a star. Uh And now the 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.400 Rams are three and one, and let's face it, they're 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.320 one of the NFL surprises at the regular season quarter pole, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.640 no way around it. It's it's incredible to me that, yes, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.920 there are some new pieces here, but what an indictment 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.720 on the previous coaching staff to have so many similar 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.320 Well I'm sorry, but it's it's that's why the Rams. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.880 Sean McVeigh and the combination of Sean mcvah and Wade 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:28.480 Phillips have turned the Rams into the one of the 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:33.080 most watchable, enjoyable, and encouraging stories of the NFL season, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.320 with so many of the same tools that the last 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.680 coaching staff could not here. Here's one thing, and I'll 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.720 say Fisher didn't do a good job with the talent. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.360 And I don't know if at that stage of his 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.800 career if he was invested enough to really be a 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.959 successful coach. But I will say that it's not all 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:52.079 on Jeff Fisher. French instance, Andrew Wentwethers. He's become one 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.560 of the top players on this team. He's had one hurry, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.120 I believe, all seasons, so all of a sudden they 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.640 have a lockdown left tackle and that his wonders for 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.240 a young quarterback. So by getting the right coaches around 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.800 goth that's helped him a lot. But also there have 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.960 been some big additions to this team. Let's sneed their 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.960 general manager and Sean McVeigh, who's certainly part of the 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.840 you know, player personnel process, but it's sneed running the show. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.679 Had an incredible offseason. Think of who who's you know, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.920 the weapons for Jared Goff, Cooper Cup, Robert Woods, Sammy Watkins, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.440 and Whitworth. So those are all pickups and they're all 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.080 coming through. I do think it should be noted for 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.680 the Cowboys who started out this game, well, they were 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.800 missing Sean Lee. And when I saw that before the game, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.840 I thought this team is gonna have trouble getting stops 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.840 as it was because they're missing two young players in 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.680 the secondary. They're already not very good there and they're 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.520 missing two key contributors. And then you take away Shaun Lee. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.800 I think you know, Dave Damask has the Jenga piece theory, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.120 Shaun Lee is the Jenga piece for that defense. And 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.560 when he's not on the field, I expected the Rams 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.880 to to get some points. Which, yeah, Rams of offensive 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.880 line which has been so rough so many years. The 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.960 Windward thing absolutely what. He's a huge edition. One sack 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.280 for the Cowboys after after the Cowboys and Dallas looks 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.719 so ferocious last couple of weeks with DeMarcus Lawris and 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.160 Lawrence and company. And if you watch this game, um, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.960 you were taken by and hats off to Wade Phillips 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.120 who got a game ball afterwards beating his old team, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.560 a team that he that fired him once upon a time, 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.480 But the Cowboys were it was almost like they were 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.120 toying with the Rams. In the first half of this game. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.760 Does Bryant was involved, Dak Prescott was making plays like 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.640 an offensive rookie of the year. UH did last year's 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.120 zeke looked like the zeke of last year. And just 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.880 even when the Rams are doing a nice job usually 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.240 with a zerline field goal to to stay in the 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.560 game and within striking distance, you kind of had the 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.160 feeling it was just a matter of time before the 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.480 Cowboys put him away. So you really got to give 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.800 the Rams a ton of credit for being able to 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.080 stop that momentum on the road and then be able 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.480 to take the game and then hold onto the victory. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.200 This is a big boy win. Jerry Jones said after 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.800 the game he he's never seen an assistant coach do 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.800 a better job, giving his old UH friend Wade Phillips 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.640 some love. In terms of halftime adjustments, they came out 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.560 after halftime three punts, an interception, and that's what turned 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.360 the game around because the Rams never really stopped scoring. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.080 They only were punted twice the whole game, and they 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.960 didn't turn the ball over that that's ridiculous they had. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.800 This is an incredibly explosive offense. It's one of the 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.199 most fun teams in the the league. We know Chris Wessling's 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:34.240 back at his abode enjoying this Rams victory today. He is, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.800 he's enjoying the Rams. He he pegged the Rams back 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.360 in the summer as a team that can make up 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.120 a playoff run this year. We all like the Rams, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:13:21.360 and geez, let's talk about it. The team. This is 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:26.280 a very special honor. I think it's time to call 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.800 a vote. Guys. That's the director's cut right there. Yeah, 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.679 we've been dancing around the Rams for a couple of 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.680 weeks now, and we get we get a lot of 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.319 slack about you know, not the instant messenger client. We 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.000 of course, we get a lot of flak about you 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.280 guys take so long to pick a team at all. Right, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.080 we've been waiting to be whole. We're missing we're missing 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.480 one of the four horsemen. But here's the thing. West 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.360 is plugged in on the Rams. He's been on board. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.960 We reached out to West. He he signed off on 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.319 the idea of the Rams being of a team in 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.960 etil so Let's let's put a vote. Let's take it 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:02.320 to a vote. Let's send it to a vote. Listen, Mark, 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.960 let's start right here. A lot of times it's the 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.520 log jam between the four of us that cannot agree, 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.599 and it's leaves so one or two people interested in 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.120 the Team of at L two others typically faking it, 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.920 or like last year, it created total division when we 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.920 picked the vikings and then they crumbled. Near case paranoia, 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:23.200 but yeah, paranoia division, You choose whatever words you do. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.960 No one right now you can look at this team 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.120 and say they don't don't match the core elements of 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.080 Team of a t L. What are those core elements 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.000 for me? They have to be fun to watch. They're 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.880 not getting in my way of like my personal team, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.800 and no one is at this point, So that's fine. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.200 Brows are doing a good job. Yeah, I am enjoying 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.880 the coaching staff on down the coaching elements important to me. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.960 I easily happily sign off on the rams. Okay, I 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.680 will second that absolutely. What do you like in a 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.320 team of a tale. It's a fun team, it's a 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.320 young team. You like the coaching staff, Son of Bums 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.440 evolved involved, and it's a local team, and I know 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.240 they're probably NFL fans in St. Louis. Was like, how 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.000 dare you well? The Rams were in l A team 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.880 before they were St. Louis team. It's not the same 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.600 issue of betrayal that some people through out there with 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.560 the with the Chargers. Uh and perhaps rightly so. So 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.280 I don't that's not a hang up for me. So 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.040 I rubber stamp it. Yes, West earlier already has signed off. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.840 So Greg, come on, don't don't do the Greg thing. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.840 Don't do it. Don't do it. You gotta you gotta 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.840 go with us on this one. Body all I I 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.440 love it, And all I can think about right now 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.200 is somewhere in the Paramore mansion. The Paramore is listening 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.920 to this, and she is the biggest ms on the earth, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.760 and she is hoping and praying as this final vote 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.520 sitting out there, and I just gotta say, this one's 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:49.520 for the Paramore. Let's do it. So they are the 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.520 two thousand seventeen team of a t L slash a 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.520 t N is the Los Angeles Rams. Do not let 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.600 us down like the Vikings did last year. That's our 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.960 only warning. I'm also and if it, if if the 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.520 season takes on a weird thing. But is this the 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.680 earliest we picked a team? I feel like the Panthers 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.240 when we started this was around the same time. Other 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.360 seasons it took way tothers was early week four or five. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.680 All right, enough of the naval gazing. Let's move on 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:17.840 more football now, spot kick is on the way and 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:23.000 over in and it is good. There we go, come 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.360 to New England and beating the defending Super Bowl champion 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.040 New England Patriots in a wild one thirty three to third, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.760 and we said quickly, if you keep this game closed, 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.360 grab can no wind but a fil go to win 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.200 the game? When go Yeah, they're pumped up, and so 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.600 am I w B Team Mick mixing with the call, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.480 oh yeah, we're heading to the throne of Slee's. You 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.560 don't have a choice. She does not want to play this. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.400 Graham Gano hit a warty eight yard field goal as 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.880 time expired, and the Carolina Panthers stud the New England 0:16:55.920 --> 0:17:00.480 Patriots at Gillette. It was yet another law David that 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:06.440 Patricia's defense as New England surrendered four total yards uh 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.560 and made Cam Newton look like an m v P again, Greg, 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.880 this is becoming a theme. The Patriots have a big 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.480 problem to solve. Well, there's no more use of the 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:22.960 word stunned when the worst defense in the league loses 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.040 a game. For the Patriots, I don't know. I don't 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:27.840 think there'll be the worst defense in the league at 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.600 the end of the season, but right now they can't 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.320 get stops, they give up yards, they give up points, 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.680 they don't get turnovers. The Stephan Gilmour is gonna really 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.000 get picked on this week in the Boston media, so 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.600 we'll see how that goes, because he had two key 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.520 penalties in the game that kept drives alive, including the 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.720 game winning drive. Otherwise the Panthers would have been punting 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.119 right there, and everyone thought it was gonna be another 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:55.320 miracle comeback victory where Tom Brady seemed destined. Who has 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.560 too much on his soldiers right now again lead them back, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.399 But there are searching for answers on defense, and until 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.000 they start stacking a couple of solid games, I don't 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.600 think any result with this team is stunning. Speaking of 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.160 the Paramore and our other throne of sleeves hit where 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.840 the alien zap Foxboro and her words, how great for 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:21.600 our planet? I'm not saying that it's great for everyone. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.280 I understand that tam Posey behind the glass is like 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.639 very very horrified to witness this season thus far. But 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.680 how was it when Danny A. Mendola took that gigantic 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.080 hit by a great third down catch? But did that 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.080 you know kind of hurt you too, aren't you a 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.760 Patriots fan? I am? I. I have to get over 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:43.520 it by the time we're taping. At the moment, I 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.240 was certainly annoyed, but we gotta tape first and foremost. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:53.119 Greg is a master troll. Then, like, you're so excited, 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.719 you're excited right now? Hey, Hey, here's here's a message 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:01.399 to Patriots fans. It's Week four. You've won more games 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.760 and more super Bowls than you could ever hope for, 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.440 including two of the more fortunate ones. In the last 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.680 three years as a Patriots fan, all I ever hoped 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.480 to get to was that fourth super Bowl. They now 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.280 have five. And news flash, football doesn't really matter that 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.280 much for an organization like the Patriots until November December 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.560 and rounding into form. So wait and see how this goes. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.800 But I think they've earned some benefit of the doubt. 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.919 Your head on your pillow until the red Sox started 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.280 playoff run on Wednesday. Yeah, we had it. We had 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.120 an executive and this is an adult in our office 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:37.000 who you know, who's experienced a lot of success and 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.720 stormed out of his closed office, out of the out 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.320 of the building in the English, you know, an old 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.600 school Patriots fan. But the one caution I'd say is 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.919 that again we say this every week. It's usually on offense. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.359 With the Patriots are one of the best teams in 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.000 the NFL in the past, in this century of figuring 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.000 out the issues and moving on. But I really think 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.359 that something here feels a little bit different. They are 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.080 shorthanded on defense, and I am almost a concerned about 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.880 their offensive line. Brady again, that Brady is playing as 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.159 well or better than he did yet last year. And 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:10.840 there two and two, And I don't want to short 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.160 change the Panthers, which we're going to because we gotta 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.520 keep moving. We will, we will, and we're gonna get 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.119 into We're gonna get into him a little bit here 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.040 and then just know that we're gonna talk about him 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.520 during the week. But this was a huge, huge game 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.080 for Cam Newton, who has had a lot of people 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:31.120 across the football Cogniscenti asking whether he is healthy, whether 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.080 you can throw the ball, then this was the m 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:37.399 v P type game. Three touchdowns uh sixteen yards, he 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.320 ran the ball well eight forty four and and another 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.960 score uh. Kelvin Benjamin, who looked like he might have 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:44.959 blown out of his knee last week, had four catches 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.879 on four targets for a hundred and four yards, and 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.399 they were able to close out the game, which teams 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.360 struggled to do with Gilette. It was a big, big 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.200 win for Carolina. A lot of blown coverages, but also 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.399 accurate intermediate and down the field. I don't think Cam 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.840 Newton's looked that bad all year. I think he's looked 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.760 better than people think, and he's definitely a little more 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.080 explosive as a runner. Then they used it more today, 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.440 but when he's had to scramble this year, he's looked 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.399