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Speaker 1: odd episode today in that this is the rare Thursday
Speaker 1: episode that is not live and not happening on Thursday.
Speaker 1: It is still going to be released on Thursday. However,
Speaker 1: we are doing this episode right now. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: which means we are firing into Sunday lines during the
Speaker 1: gambling portion of our show, all the way on Wednesday. Now,
Speaker 1: there's only one game that is a total stay away
Speaker 1: because of that, and that's the Niner game, because we
Speaker 1: don't know who's playing quarterback, but you know, he could
Speaker 1: up the degree of difficulty. We are doing that because Thursday,
Speaker 1: when you guys are hearing this, we will be I
Speaker 1: will be probably taping first things first. That is also
Speaker 1: always live, except it won't be Thursday because Thursday we
Speaker 1: are flying to Kansas City. So I tell you guys
Speaker 1: that on the front end in case there's any late
Speaker 1: breaking news, in case the NFL decides there's another player
Speaker 1: they want to suspend for a game, but not suspend
Speaker 1: him for a game. We're not gonna have that information
Speaker 1: you get listen. In fact, I'm just starting there before
Speaker 1: we even get to anything. Here's here is did you
Speaker 1: read the NFL statement? Did you read those Did they
Speaker 1: say two games?
Speaker 2: Do they say it was a one game suspension?
Speaker 1: No? What they said is he is suspended and he's playing.
Speaker 1: That's what the NFL said. The NFL said that Jalen
Speaker 1: Carter is suspended, but he's playing. And so listen, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read you the NFL's self basically ludicrous statement, and
Speaker 1: then we will discuss it briefly before we get to
Speaker 1: the actual game. And by the way, I wasn't calling
Speaker 1: for Jalen Carter to be suspended, but this is an
Speaker 1: absolute farce. What they wrote. The NFL wrote. Here is
Speaker 1: the first line of the NFL statement, and I quote
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's Jalen Carter has been suspended by the commissioner for
Speaker 1: one game. However, his suspension will be considered served and
Speaker 1: he will be eligible to play in week two. I
Speaker 1: am simply asking America if this can finally break the
Speaker 1: Chiefs get all the breaks fever that has gripped the country.
Speaker 1: We saw as my long standing belief that the refs
Speaker 1: don't favor the Chiefs. The refs just aren't that good,
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs playing a lot of standalone games right now,
Speaker 1: you guys watch Vikings Bears Monday night, a standalone game.
Speaker 1: Sure felt like a couple truly awful calls really hurt
Speaker 1: the Bears in that spot, all right, where the refs
Speaker 1: all the ref's in the bag for JJ McCarthy. No,
Speaker 1: they're just not that good. Friday night, we saw ty
Speaker 1: your Tart punch Travis Kelce in the face not be
Speaker 1: thrown out of the game and then go ahead.
Speaker 2: I think they take it was a technicality because he
Speaker 2: didn't close his fist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not. But here's the thing about technicalities. Technicalities
Speaker 1: technically need to be in the rule book, and there
Speaker 1: is nothing about open hand versus closed fist in the
Speaker 1: rule book. Also, it is that would be a ludicrous
Speaker 1: technicality because if people are wearing helmets, you you're better
Speaker 1: off going open hand at that velocity than closed fist.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm not complaining about that because I'm not
Speaker 1: a whiny loser that whinds about refs but I am
Speaker 1: saying if the tire Tart or Jalen Carter thing, it
Speaker 1: was Chris Jones, If Chris Jones in week one spit
Speaker 1: on Justin Herbert and then the NFL announces Chris Jones
Speaker 1: has been suspended and he'll miss zero games. Don't tell
Speaker 1: me if it was the don't And again these aren't
Speaker 1: apples to apples, But imagine if the NFL had said, hey,
Speaker 1: Rashid Rice is suspended six games for the car wreck.
Speaker 1: As it turns out, he's served him last year when
Speaker 1: he missed the fourteen, like, give me a break, get
Speaker 1: and it is the NFL is really trying to have
Speaker 1: its cake and eat it too with the since he
Speaker 1: never played a down, I maybe maybe Demanse can accept
Speaker 1: that if if in fact not, maybe I would accept it.
Speaker 1: If you got to ejected from a game for something
Speaker 1: that happened pregame, if the game has not started and
Speaker 1: you get in a fight and they say, okay, you're
Speaker 1: rejected in the NFL, well then you were suspended. Something
Speaker 1: happened you didn't. You weren't a part of the game.
Speaker 1: That game had started, and the NFL is trying to
Speaker 1: act as if because he that no, he didn't, but
Speaker 1: the game had started. He was not suspended the end,
Speaker 1: So again, I don't care. I said on the TV
Speaker 1: show that I thought the NFL would look at the
Speaker 1: first game as kind of a de facto suspension and
Speaker 1: just find him. That's fine, It's fine with me. I
Speaker 1: don't think spitting on a guy gets you two games,
Speaker 1: and they're saying it got you one. That is, honest
Speaker 1: to God, fine with me. What I am saying is,
Speaker 1: if there is any honor or honesty left in the media,
Speaker 1: including my dear friend Mike Flourio and a lot of others,
Speaker 1: they have to acknowledge that if Chris Jones had spit
Speaker 1: on Justin Herbert gotten thrown out. And then the NFL
Speaker 1: said Chris Jones is suspended and it is the first
Speaker 1: suspension ever where he'll play the week he's suspended. The
Speaker 1: articles and tweets and commentary about all once again, the
Speaker 1: league that is given it to the Chiefs would be
Speaker 1: through the roof and everyone knows it. I will add
Speaker 1: to it. The weird pretty dumb if you ask me.
Speaker 1: Conspiracy from over the summer that the NFL was not
Speaker 1: suspending Rashi Rice for the early part of the season,
Speaker 1: which they ended up doing because of the ratings for
Speaker 1: the early part of the season. Chief Slate that same
Speaker 1: exact logic would apply to this jail and Carter non
Speaker 1: suspension suspension, So just don't give me that nonsense. The
Speaker 1: league office at times is not all that consistent. The
Speaker 1: referees are consistently inconsistent. It is not for one team
Speaker 1: versus another. Now we can get to the actual show.
Speaker 1: How are you, Demanse doing great?
Speaker 2: Puffs?
Speaker 1: We have another thing actually, before we get to the
Speaker 1: actual show that you and I have to address. We're
Speaker 1: going to address it in the straight voicemail segment not
Speaker 1: making the show. Mike McDaniel, listen, he knows dead man walking,
Speaker 1: he says. The good news and positive is I don't
Speaker 1: see how could get worse? Oh, he can get worse.
Speaker 1: Luca Skinny, Luca nominated for Best Defensive Player at euro Basket.
Speaker 1: And now there's this is Demanse trying to turn himself
Speaker 1: into a tout And this is of course straight to voicemail,
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Speaker 1: not really on Instagram that much. Yeah, the producers alerted me.
Speaker 1: So you hit your that Caleb, you hit your bet
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks to win four hundred. You posted a screenshot
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Speaker 1: want betting advice. Venmo made twenty dollars to initiate the conversation.
Speaker 1: I'm told you then raised the price. Yeah, two one
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Speaker 2: Up to two hundred.
Speaker 1: Did you get any takers?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I had actually had takers, but all the guys
Speaker 2: that were takers they had my Venmo and they were
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, give me the picks. And like, I'm like, dude,
Speaker 2: you have my Venmo. Where's the what's going on?
Speaker 1: Okay? So you had no one paid you?
Speaker 2: No, nobody paid me.
Speaker 1: I was I was just that was just kidding. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't post on.
Speaker 2: My story often enough for people to kind of understand
Speaker 2: my humor.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people took that seriously
Speaker 1: and like like, well, yeah, because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: scammy touts out there. Yeah, and I know you're I
Speaker 1: know you're not. And this is this is a learning
Speaker 1: moment for the for you and the show. You're now
Speaker 1: a legitimate public person, and our reputations are too closely
Speaker 1: tied together for you to make that type of joke
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Speaker 2: I guess it wasn't really a cameo. I just took
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Speaker 1: It to somebody because they asked you to. You know what,
Speaker 1: Given everything I said, I still though you're in a
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, we remember how the super Bowl went, so
Speaker 2: we've got that rematch coming up this weekend, and they
Speaker 2: are both coming off of underwhelming divisional performances. The Eagles
Speaker 2: obviously won, but they probably did win in the fashion
Speaker 2: they would have liked, and the Chiefs lost. How close
Speaker 2: to the super Bowl? How close to the super Bowl
Speaker 2: game do you think this will be?
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't listen. I do not think Kansas City
Speaker 1: is going to get blown out. I will if Kansas
Speaker 1: City gets blown out, I will be concerned. Okay, I
Speaker 1: also spoiler alert don't think Kansas City is going to lose.
Speaker 1: And I think that the Chiefs being home dogs with
Speaker 1: Patrick being healthy is a slap in the face, especially
Speaker 1: because I do think it's fair to say Philly did
Speaker 1: not look overwhelming in Week one, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Philly looked fine, but they looked kind of lucky, not lucky,
Speaker 1: but fortunate to get out that game with a win
Speaker 1: against a Dallas team that there were no expectations for. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I I also think that those of us that
Speaker 1: have been hoping for or planning on, you know, the
Speaker 1: Mahomes light show as Brew calls it, to come back,
Speaker 1: going to have to wait some more time because obviously
Speaker 1: they knew they weren't gonna have Hershie Rice in this game,
Speaker 1: but now they also won't have Xavier Worthy in this game.
Speaker 1: And so I think it's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: ball control, a lot of short intermediate stuff, and a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, Mahomes makes some magic. But I
Speaker 1: think you have a pissed off urgent Patrick Mahomes, and
Speaker 1: I think he will deliver. I'm going to add to
Speaker 1: it that where my where my concern comes in this
Speaker 1: game is is Jalen Hurts going to have four seconds
Speaker 1: to throw and that chief secondary not be able to
Speaker 1: hang in there. Now, I know Jalen threw nothing but
Speaker 1: short except for the one bomb and had nothing but
Speaker 1: time against Dallas, But I also know that Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: had nothing but time and carved up the chief secondary.
Speaker 1: The part of the Week one game that was most
Speaker 1: dispiriting and most concerning to me Demanse was how the
Speaker 1: overall pass defense for Kansas City looks Now? Will Philadelphia
Speaker 1: take advantage of it? Okay, like, will Philadelphia lean into
Speaker 1: that part of their offense? I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: aj Brown went fifty eight minutes in Week one without
Speaker 1: a target and they they still moved the ball and
Speaker 1: Jalen was brilliant scrambling. But that's another piece of this
Speaker 1: game that does con me designed pass plays. Jail and
Speaker 1: drops back, they wait, they wait, no one the times
Speaker 1: the coverage holds up, no one's open. Jalen's able to run.
Speaker 1: So I think Philly will be able to move the
Speaker 1: ball if they lean into the passing game. I think
Speaker 1: the Chiefs run defense has been one of their underrated
Speaker 1: factors the last couple of years, and even in that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl when the Chiefs got annihilated. The run defense
Speaker 1: was obviously really impactful, or I did a good job.
Speaker 1: I should impact those the wrong word did a good
Speaker 1: job against Saquon. The story of the Super Bowl was
Speaker 1: the disastrous offensive line play from Kansas City. And now
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see it because the Chiefs upgraded a
Speaker 1: left tackle obviously, and the Eagles don't have the edges
Speaker 1: they had last year. Now they still do have Jalen
Speaker 1: Carter in this game. As we talked about, he is
Speaker 1: suspended for this game, but he's playing in this game.
Speaker 1: And how will those matchups look. If Patrick has even
Speaker 1: a modicum of time, I believe he will be able
Speaker 1: to make Hay against this Eagle secondary that I believe
Speaker 1: is going to be a work in progress throughout the year. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Degene is very good and Quinyan Mitchell is excellent, And
Speaker 1: maybe I should call Degene excellent and Quenya Mitchell very good.
Speaker 1: But they're both at the very least very good players.
Speaker 1: But there isn't a single other person in that secondary
Speaker 1: that you trust I as far as demands, you know,
Speaker 1: will you panic? Should I panic? If the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: zero to two? I The answer to that is unequivocally known.
Speaker 1: And here is the thing that it is frustrating is
Speaker 1: the wrong word, but annoying that folks don't see folks
Speaker 1: speak with authority and don't have the memories. I guess
Speaker 1: that I do on what the Chiefs have actually been in,
Speaker 1: you know, the Mahomes era. In twenty twenty one, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs started three and four, three and four, coming off
Speaker 1: getting blown out in the Super Bowl by Tampa. They
Speaker 1: started the next year three and four and then found themselves,
Speaker 1: as they always do, at the absolute worst in overtime
Speaker 1: of the AFC Championship Game in twenty twenty three. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs in November to December lost. They had stretch where
Speaker 1: they lost one, two, yeah, five out of eight, including
Speaker 1: within that stretch where they lost four out of six,
Speaker 1: and in that where they lost three out of four
Speaker 1: and the only win came against the woeful Patriots, where
Speaker 1: they didn't even look that good. And they responded to
Speaker 1: that by winning the Super Bowl, the idea that they've
Speaker 1: never had that had just been seen and even last year,
Speaker 1: even though they never lost games, people hated how they
Speaker 1: looked at various points in the regular season and they
Speaker 1: found themselves in the Super Bowl again, So it is
Speaker 1: just flatly inaccurate to say they haven't faced any regular
Speaker 1: season adversity or downswings during this time. It's just that
Speaker 1: the baseline is so high that they have been able
Speaker 1: to obviously more than overcome it. But I so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't panic. I will come on here, you know, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: if not before, if they get manhandled by an Eagles
Speaker 1: team that I don't think as good as last year
Speaker 1: as Eagles team, it is time for real concern, not panic,
Speaker 1: but concern. If it's a really good game and they
Speaker 1: end up coming up on the short end of it,
Speaker 1: I won't panic at all. But I think Kansas City
Speaker 1: is better than Philadelphia. And I also think this, and
Speaker 1: this is the.
Speaker 2: With like without the.
Speaker 1: Without without Rice and Worthy. Well, so here's the thing
Speaker 1: on that I think that when Rice and Worthy are back,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia will be better than they are right now because
Speaker 1: I think Philadelphia's defense so many new pieces, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a you know, a work in progress, so
Speaker 1: to speak. I also like here is and again, people
Speaker 1: can disagree with me. People can say that I'm you know,
Speaker 1: uh waving pom poms as Bruce says sometimes and the
Speaker 1: you know with the pomp poms when I wave them,
Speaker 1: all I see is you've been right every year. But
Speaker 1: I firmly believe that given how Philadelphia played in Week one,
Speaker 1: that had they been playing the Chargers, they lose similar
Speaker 1: fashion the Chiefs do. And given how the Chiefs played
Speaker 1: in Week one, had they been playing the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: that defense, there's no concerns about the Chiefs offense right now.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think Philly or Kansas City should be
Speaker 1: happy at all about how Week one went. Now, I
Speaker 1: know Philadelphia is one to zero and Kansas City's oho
Speaker 1: and one, but it feels to me like both the
Speaker 1: those teams had to be pretty uneasy about their performances.
Speaker 1: The only thing Philadelphia I thought did really well in
Speaker 1: Week one was Jailen. I thought Jail and Scrambles were
Speaker 1: just elite, you know what I mean. Jalen's ability to
Speaker 1: make something out of nothing was phenomenal. And the only
Speaker 1: thing the Chiefs did really well in Week one was
Speaker 1: the Mahomes kind of magic, broken play craziness. Like nobody
Speaker 1: on the Chiefs or the Eagles outside of their quarterback
Speaker 1: should feel great about Week one and so we'll see
Speaker 1: how they both respond. But to your point, demon's about
Speaker 1: without Rice and Worthy for Kansas City. If if Kansas
Speaker 1: City wins the game without Rice and Worthy, that is
Speaker 1: a shot in the arm. Well, I listen, I think
Speaker 1: Philadelphie's got the infrastructure in the too much time. I
Speaker 1: don't think, like there's not a lot of panic that
Speaker 1: should happen in week you know, in week two if like, if.
Speaker 2: Your top competition and they don't have like two of
Speaker 2: their best offensive guys.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing, though, I don't this is for
Speaker 1: Philadelphia or Kansas City. I simply don't believe in cross
Speaker 1: conference rivalries in the NFL, And I don't believe in
Speaker 1: your top competition ever being someone in the other conference,
Speaker 1: like because it has to be such a perfect storm
Speaker 1: for you guys to play in a game that matters.
Speaker 1: Like let's just say for the record, or for example,
Speaker 1: I should say that Philly does blow out Kansas City,
Speaker 1: just annihilates them. It looks just like the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: While that would reasonably shake anyone's faith that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: can beat the Eagles, it to me should barely shake
Speaker 1: your faith that can the Chiefs win the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: because like the Eagles would have to get there as
Speaker 1: the Chiefs would have to get there obviously with the
Speaker 1: Eagles would have to get there, you know. So the
Speaker 1: in a weird way like that Charger game and how
Speaker 1: the Chargers exploited what were Chiefs weaknesses was a bigger
Speaker 1: concern than anything that could happen Sunday, because the Chargers
Speaker 1: are direct competition. You play them again, you could play
Speaker 1: them in you know, in the first round of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: like Philadelphia maybe you know has Kansas City's number, but
Speaker 1: the Packers clip. I mean, it doesn't even matter. And
Speaker 1: so that the it is very rare that a cross
Speaker 1: conference rivalry be the rivalry. It has to be almost
Speaker 1: NBA Lebron Cavs STEPH Warriors style, where it's like these
Speaker 1: two teams are just dominating. It's inevitable, right that where
Speaker 1: we're gonna end up. And that's just not to me
Speaker 1: realistic here. I know you wanted to ask me about
Speaker 1: how I'm watching the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is what's going to be your plan for
Speaker 2: the game? The setup are kicking people out of that.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to be back home. I might
Speaker 1: stay in Kansas City for the game, but I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to be back home. There there is a
Speaker 1: chance I stick around and watch the game in person,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's what I'm gonna do. So
Speaker 1: I don't have a I guess a good answer there
Speaker 1: for you, Well, it'd be a home game, like I
Speaker 1: certainly would never watch this a game like this on
Speaker 1: the road. And again, if people don't know the reason
Speaker 1: we're recording this Wednesday, the reason all being Kansas City
Speaker 1: is we are doing the show live, the TV show
Speaker 1: live from Power and Light two o'clock Central time on Friday,
Speaker 1: and I would love any and everyone in Kansas City
Speaker 1: to stop by. And again, anyone that shows up with
Speaker 1: a first Thing's first related sign, all bay you a beer.
Speaker 1: And so the logistics or legality of that, I don't
Speaker 1: really know. But I'm just gonna come there with a
Speaker 1: pocket full of twenties and hand them out to people
Speaker 1: who have first Things first signs. So that's the plan.
Speaker 1: It'll be great. There is a level, it would seem like,
Speaker 1: of trepidation from some other folks of how big the
Speaker 1: crowd's gonna be. I think the crowd's gonna be pretty big.
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Speaker 1: night with a game tonight for the people listening to this.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So Thursday Night kicks off with Green Bay
Speaker 2: and Washington. So both these teams have very high expectations.
Speaker 2: Which of the teams do you think is more bound
Speaker 2: to live up to the hype.
Speaker 1: I I gotta tell you, I was really impressed by
Speaker 1: Green Bay in Week one, really impressed. And what was
Speaker 1: your super Bowl pick? Oh?
Speaker 2: I gotta say that this My super Bowl pick on
Speaker 2: the the AFC is the Ravens.
Speaker 1: But this game isid wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, it's the winner of this game. I'm going
Speaker 2: with for the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's I couldn't remember. You didn't actually make
Speaker 1: exactly Yeah, yeah, you the you you picked the Ravens
Speaker 1: to win the super Bowl and to win the AFC obviously,
Speaker 1: but you didn't. That's what I couldn't remember. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had one. I The Packers
Speaker 1: are now in a spot where they don't need Jordan
Speaker 1: Love to be magical or you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They don't need Jordan Love to look like a top
Speaker 1: five quarterback for them to beat really good teams. They
Speaker 1: just need him to avoid the what do you do
Speaker 1: in Jordan Love moments would still pop up, you know,
Speaker 1: from time to time, sometimes in a opportune times. But
Speaker 1: a lot of really smart people were really in on
Speaker 1: the Packers before the year. I wasn't. Before the Mica trade,
Speaker 1: I wasn't one of them. If you remember, I had
Speaker 1: a missing the playoffs, not having a bad year, but
Speaker 1: just being odd man out. And then they got Mike
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, I'll put him in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: The people who were dead in on them were saying,
Speaker 1: the only thing that is preventing me from saying they're
Speaker 1: going to go to the Super Bowl. Is it feels
Speaker 1: like they're just they need one star, like a A
Speaker 1: plus player that they have a bunch of BB plus
Speaker 1: players need an eight, and then they get Micah Parsons,
Speaker 1: and I think that team is incredibly dangerous. Now, I
Speaker 1: have a confession about Washington. Of all the games this
Speaker 1: past weekend, bottom two attention to a game was Washington
Speaker 1: against the Giants because it was just so like it
Speaker 1: was to me, it was so obvious they were in
Speaker 1: total control and that the Giants just had no ability
Speaker 1: to really move the ball that I didn't ever really
Speaker 1: lock in on it, and I haven't rewatched, so that's
Speaker 1: just you know, I watch everything, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie to you guys and tell you I've rewatched a
Speaker 1: game that I haven't rewatched, or that I was totally
Speaker 1: dialed into every second of that game. Because of the
Speaker 1: two New York teams, the game that ended up having
Speaker 1: my attention was the Steelers Jets Classic that I did
Speaker 1: not expect that we were going to get. What I
Speaker 1: do know is this though, from just casually watching that
Speaker 1: game and then you know, looking at the numbers. If
Speaker 1: Washington has a legitimate non Jayden Daniels run game with
Speaker 1: Jacrossky Merritt, whose name is JA Cory. But do you
Speaker 1: know what? He goes by Demansey. This is so good.
Speaker 1: His name is his first name is Jacory, his last
Speaker 1: name is uh Crosskey Merrit. But he is instead of
Speaker 1: so first name Jackry, call me Bill. That's true. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like everyone to call me Bill. His name, his
Speaker 1: name is Jackry and he goes by Bill. So you
Speaker 1: know what more power to you? Kid? Isn't Yeah?
Speaker 2: Isn't Bill like a short?
Speaker 1: What is? What's the big name that Bill short for
Speaker 1: William William? No, you would think maybe Jack. His name
Speaker 1: is j A c o r Y. You'd call me Jack. No,
Speaker 1: he goes by Bill. That I'm sure there's a reason
Speaker 1: for it, but whatever, it's what he wants to be called.
Speaker 1: He he's the reason they felt comfortable trading away Brian Robinson.
Speaker 1: He was I think a seventh round pick that they liked.
Speaker 1: And he goes ten for eighty two, including broke off
Speaker 1: a forty yarder. So if they have a run game
Speaker 1: not Jaden Reliant, that raises their ceiling. My concern with Washington,
Speaker 1: and again I had them winning their division, so I
Speaker 1: didn't have a huge concern. But my concern with Washington
Speaker 1: going into the year was how good is that defense
Speaker 1: going to be? The defense was phenomenal against the Giants,
Speaker 1: But this is one of those eye test games. Eye
Speaker 1: test is the wrong way to put it, but ror
Speaker 1: shark test games. Pardon me, what are we saying? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Was that about oh Man, Washington's
Speaker 1: defense is better than we expected? Or was that about
Speaker 1: the Giants offense is doa and so we won't really
Speaker 1: know until we see more, you know, more stuff later
Speaker 1: this year. So similarly, like I am really like legit
Speaker 1: worried about the Chief's ability to create a pass rush
Speaker 1: and you know then guard on the back end. If
Speaker 1: in a month Herbert has done that to everyone and
Speaker 1: Danny Parkins is peacocking around everywhere, and you know, then
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, moving Joe Alt to the left tackle,
Speaker 1: even though you lost for Sean Slater, it was fine.
Speaker 1: Like that offensive line is just nails. Maybe y'all feel
Speaker 1: better about it. If this weekend, what are the Chargers?
Speaker 1: Chargers play the Raiders this weekend. I think if the
Speaker 1: Raiders who we don't trust their pass rush if the
Speaker 1: Raiders are, you know, getting home on Herbert on Monday
Speaker 1: Night football and I'm be like, oh boy, maybe the
Speaker 1: Chiefs pass rush even worse than I thought. So that's
Speaker 1: the problem. That's the tough part about week one is
Speaker 1: why are we seeing what I'm seeing? With all that said,
Speaker 1: I think green Bay's got the higher of ceiling of
Speaker 1: those two teams, and I think right now green Bay
Speaker 1: is a real threat to come out of the conference.
Speaker 1: Not my pick, but a real threat to come out
Speaker 1: of the conference. As far as when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Eagles, the Eagles, the Eagles need to be focused
Speaker 1: on obviously themselves, but Washington in that they need. If
Speaker 1: you're an Eagles fan, you are hoping Washington loses this
Speaker 1: game because home field advantage is not the dire priority
Speaker 1: making sure you win the NFC East. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. You want to start with a bit of
Speaker 1: a cushion on Washington. All right, let's go to Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Houston.
Speaker 2: Pell Baker and the Bucks are headed to Houston to
Speaker 2: take on the Texans on Sunday. Stroud called out his
Speaker 2: team in Week one and said that they didn't even
Speaker 2: deserve to win because they came out lolligag, lolligag. Is
Speaker 2: there a problem in Houston?
Speaker 1: I'd be worried. I listen the Texans now, they got
Speaker 1: rid of their offensive coordinator, and you know, the hope
Speaker 1: was that that would solve things for them. But dating
Speaker 1: back to last season, this offense has just been a
Speaker 1: slog And you it got papered over a bit because
Speaker 1: they had that great playoff win against the Chargers, but
Speaker 1: that was about Herbert melting down in the Texans defense.
Speaker 1: The Texans defense is excellent. There is no denying how
Speaker 1: excellent the Texans defense is. There's also no denying that.
Speaker 1: And I, you know, I somewhat tongue in cheek point
Speaker 1: the make the line of demarcation when CJ lecturing Caleb.
Speaker 1: But here is the truth of the matter. CJ threw
Speaker 1: in the regular season the first his first year into
Speaker 1: the first two games of year two was I think
Speaker 1: twenty one touchdowns, five picks, and three of those picks
Speaker 1: actually came in one game. Had a gaudy record. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to pull it up right now. Since Week two
Speaker 1: of last year, he is I think seventeen touchdowns to
Speaker 1: thirteen picks and the team as a losing records. That's
Speaker 1: a large sample of that Texans offense not really cooking,
Speaker 1: and so that part is legitimately concerning. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you something else about this game, though, Demi Zay.
Speaker 1: If if Baker cooks this Texans defense, then it is
Speaker 1: time to really start the Baker Mayfield can win league
Speaker 1: MVP pipe train. Like, Baker didn't have an unbelievable game
Speaker 1: against the Falcons, but he had clutch throws and threw
Speaker 1: for three touchdowns. Just not Yeah, poise and a book
Speaker 1: obviously was awesome. I thought Stafford played really well against
Speaker 1: the Texans defense. They scored fourteen points. Like, this Texans
Speaker 1: defense is legit fantastic. If Baker goes into Houston and
Speaker 1: puts up a big number, then like I will keep
Speaker 1: the hype train going on Tampa potentially having the league's
Speaker 1: best offense and that being enough to get Baker in
Speaker 1: the MVP conversation and Tampa potentially to a super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: All right, demons, let's get to the next games.
Speaker 2: All right. So these two teams didn't start the season
Speaker 2: how they'd like, with Cincinnati coming off that one point
Speaker 2: win against the Browns and the Ravens coming off of
Speaker 2: just throwing the game. So in week two they've got
Speaker 2: an easy one, but just like last year, they lost
Speaker 2: to Vegas and one that you wouldn't have expected them to.
Speaker 2: But which one of these fan bases do you think
Speaker 2: should be more going.
Speaker 1: In the Bengals. Listen, the Ravens looked. The Ravens looked
Speaker 1: for fifty five minutes like the best team of the
Speaker 1: weekend by a mile. And we are now saying the
Speaker 1: Ravens defense, you know, we have a lot of concerns
Speaker 1: about when it looked like they were gonna allow twenty
Speaker 1: five points to Josh Allen and the Bills, like that's fine,
Speaker 1: Like there's no shame in allowing twenty five points to
Speaker 1: the Bills with Josh Allen firing on all cylinders, and
Speaker 1: the offense looked absolutely unstoppable. So yes, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: in the back of your head all year long, like
Speaker 1: are they gonna blow it? How are they gonna blow
Speaker 1: at all that? But the Ravens, in large part for
Speaker 1: the vast majority of that game, didn't just look good.
Speaker 1: They looked like the best team in the NFL. Cincinnati
Speaker 1: looked awful at everything, at everything that Joe Flackle's moving
Speaker 1: the ball up and down the field. They needed the
Speaker 1: Browns rookie kicker to miss an extra point and a
Speaker 1: chip shot and to have not one but two interceptions
Speaker 1: go off of Browns players' hands. It basically handing them
Speaker 1: to the Bengals. They couldn't protect Burrow, they couldn't move
Speaker 1: the ball like that was as far as bad wins.
Speaker 1: That was as bad of a win as a team
Speaker 1: will ever have. And so, I am, I think it
Speaker 1: is totally I know the Bengals historically get better as
Speaker 1: the year goes on. I am it is totally legitimate
Speaker 1: to be highly concerned about Cincinnati, especially Demanse when you
Speaker 1: look at it from this perspective, if we think Baltimore
Speaker 1: is gonna win that division, which I think is a
Speaker 1: fair assumption, and you look at the other teams who
Speaker 1: could be fighting for wildcard spots and how they looked. Right,
Speaker 1: So AFC East, nobody looked well, I guess the Jets
Speaker 1: looked okay, but not then. But in their own division,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh looked much friskier than I think expected. In the South,
Speaker 1: I listen, the Colts and Jags looked I think better
Speaker 1: than a lot of people expected. In the West, the Jag,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Chargers looked awesome, and the Raiders looked
Speaker 1: better than expected. The Obviously, now you might be like, well,
Speaker 1: one of those team's gonna win the divisions. The Chiefs aren't.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but go ahead and pencil the Chiefs in
Speaker 1: for one of the playoff spots. So like the teams
Speaker 1: that in the AFC that there were real expectations for
Speaker 1: that looked worse than you would have hoped. Kansas City obviously,
Speaker 1: Denver I think did, and the Patriots nobody else. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, I'd be worried if I were Cincinnati, legitimately
Speaker 1: worried if I were Cincinnati. All right, what are the
Speaker 1: follow ups here?
Speaker 2: On Tuesday you brought you uh, you wrote off Bryce
Speaker 2: Young and were starting a waiver on Caleb. Why is
Speaker 2: your faith still on Trevor?
Speaker 1: Okay, to be clear, I did not write off Bryce
Speaker 1: Young on Tuesday. I wrote off Bryce Young. Years ago.
Speaker 1: I wrote off Bryce Young probably when he showed up
Speaker 1: to the combine five to nine bucks seventy. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that guy's not that's not gonna work and so uh
Speaker 1: and the I now, I did say I thought he
Speaker 1: played impossibly bad this past weekend and he's a nice kid.
Speaker 1: You feel bad, but it just is what it is.
Speaker 1: Trevor showed you who he could be in year two
Speaker 1: with a mediocre roster, when again I'm the only person
Speaker 1: that cares about this was seventh in the MVP voting,
Speaker 1: had a crazy playoff comeback and then lost to the
Speaker 1: Chiefs in Arrowhead, Like there's no shame in any of that.
Speaker 1: And then the next year, that same mediocre JAG's roster
Speaker 1: was eight and three to start the year and then
Speaker 1: he got hurt and the season went to hell, and
Speaker 1: last year was an awful year, Like there is proof
Speaker 1: of concept with Trevor, there was obviously never with Bryce
Speaker 1: and with Caleb, we just haven't seen enough yet. And
Speaker 1: so that's why. And I'm gonna listen, it's gonna be vindicated,
Speaker 1: Like it's just the myke Trevor faith is going to
Speaker 1: be vindicated. All right, Let's get to the Niners real quick.
Speaker 2: So the Niners have some injuries in some key spots
Speaker 2: with Brock party, we don't know what's going on with him,
Speaker 2: Juan and Jennings a little banged up, Kittles out for
Speaker 2: at least four weeks. But they have the Saints this week.
Speaker 2: So do you think what they're easy schedule, that they'll
Speaker 2: be able to withstand their early injuries.
Speaker 1: No, Because here's the thing. At some point, your easy
Speaker 1: schedule flips to you play a bunch of bad teams
Speaker 1: that look at you and they're like we can beat them,
Speaker 1: like you're the team, Like you become the easy part
Speaker 1: of someone else's schedule. And while I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the case for the Saints, that their next handful of
Speaker 1: games given their injuries, particularly Listen, I'm no Brock purty guy,
Speaker 1: but he's better than Mac Jones, particularly if Brock misses
Speaker 1: time the Cardinals are right there with them. Then they
Speaker 1: play the Jags, who are better than them. Then they
Speaker 1: play the Rams, who are better than them. Then they
Speaker 1: play the Bucks, who are much better than them. Then
Speaker 1: they play the Falcons, who might be better than them,
Speaker 1: and then they play the Texans, who should be better
Speaker 1: than them. So like I understand, everyone's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: the Niners, and it will all now after that Giants,
Speaker 1: Rams again, Cardinals again, Panthers, Browns, Titans there you go
Speaker 1: like so that and then Colts, who we all thought
Speaker 1: was gonna be terrible but or at least I did,
Speaker 1: and then Bear Seahawks. But I just the you, the
Speaker 1: entire plane can't be built out of we play a
Speaker 1: soft schedule, especially because we don't know. We think we
Speaker 1: know which teams are gonna be good or bad, but
Speaker 1: teams will surprise you and I I don't know how
Speaker 1: the Niners, like at some point we've got to have
Speaker 1: a long talk about their strength and conditioning team, Like,
Speaker 1: you can't just always have this many soft tissue injuries,
Speaker 1: like the party thing's different, but that that doesn't playing
Speaker 1: hard is not hamstring, growing calf and But one of
Speaker 1: the things is we were worried is Christian McCaffrey gonna play,
Speaker 1: Like how concerned are we? And then Kyle Shanahan's like
Speaker 1: thirty one touches, like do every Christian do everything we can?
Speaker 1: And it's just unbelievable and so uh and you know
Speaker 1: he was one of the only really effective Niners in
Speaker 1: that game.
Speaker 2: They go ahead, Okay, they put in the question who
Speaker 2: has the worst injury luck? You think over the over
Speaker 2: the league.
Speaker 1: The Chargers historically have dealt with some really bad ones.
Speaker 1: But the Niners, as a team that's a real Super
Speaker 1: Bowl contender, has just year after year after year, had
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries. Some of it's their style of play,
Speaker 1: but it can't all be just that. The Niners also
Speaker 1: had one of their most important players during a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl top its achilles, just coming onto the field Like
Speaker 1: that's sickening and so like you know that, I mean,
Speaker 1: that is so crazy that that happened, like not even
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