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Speaker 1: stands for Extreme Football League. Welcome to another edition of
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast, presented by the United States
Speaker 1: Marine Corps GO USA. My name is Dan Hansis. I'm
Speaker 1: joined in a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling,
Speaker 1: and Greg Rosenthal. What is up? Boys? Hey? Dan, nice
Speaker 1: to have a sponsor as rugged and masculine as the
Speaker 1: foreman on this show. Finally, once again Greg projecting things
Speaker 1: within him that he feels on the couple of uncomfortable with.
Speaker 1: We're all in good shape right now. I find myself
Speaker 1: to be a standard like masculine male, So I don't
Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable with being connected to I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: those type of things in the world. But you tend
Speaker 1: to do that a lot. As I pointed out in
Speaker 1: the past, you'll you know, group us in in a
Speaker 1: somewhat effeminate way. I find it's not somewhat a feminine way.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm making a joke that you know, we're
Speaker 1: not the four like biggest bros in the world. But
Speaker 1: I also I also do think it's it's finally a
Speaker 1: sponsor worthy. I say this and I'm not even saying
Speaker 1: it like that. I'm proud of it. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a bro. So that's why when
Speaker 1: you make those kind of comments sometimes I feel I
Speaker 1: feel I feel different. I feel like maybe I don't
Speaker 1: belong in that conversation, not like me pounding my chest
Speaker 1: over it or anything. I don't I don't sense you
Speaker 1: pounding your chest. Um. It's an interesting place to break
Speaker 1: this down and dig into it, but that's what the
Speaker 1: show is for. We don't really speak to each other
Speaker 1: outside of this this format. You mean at the top
Speaker 1: of the week set. I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that have never watched the show at all, and
Speaker 1: at this point they're probably wondering, what on earth is
Speaker 1: this about? What they're about to find out? I hope,
Speaker 1: well at some point, how exciting, uh, that we're here
Speaker 1: back in the States West with football to talk about.
Speaker 1: How's your jet leg? By the way, how are you
Speaker 1: sleeping these days? I'm sleeping okay, catching up. My game
Speaker 1: passes way behind, and I'm I had to resort to
Speaker 1: Mark show me a little shortcut. You can watch some
Speaker 1: like ten minute highlights on on YouTube. So I've had
Speaker 1: to resort to that feels like a ridiculous shot. That's
Speaker 1: a Sunday thing that you do when you've not watched
Speaker 1: the games. Well, see, if they're gonna squabble, we can
Speaker 1: squabble too. I don't like the way that went down
Speaker 1: at all. Greg nice Tie were on the video show.
Speaker 1: Now they're going to try to become friends to make
Speaker 1: us look going on, Nice Tie, I like it. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of going on. There's a lot to unpack
Speaker 1: so far in today's episode. Theyll haven't really overcome the
Speaker 1: fact that Dan sees himself as a bro kind of
Speaker 1: a bro. But I mean, I feel like there's a
Speaker 1: positive to negatives to being a bro if you if
Speaker 1: you take bro too far. Yeah, And when I'm saying that,
Speaker 1: I really it wasn't even trying to be derogatory about
Speaker 1: our group. But even if you're like average broness, still
Speaker 1: the overall average bronness of the foursome lower than I
Speaker 1: got it. I didn't take offense to I just wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, share my feelings. You're not
Speaker 1: comfortable with the trust trade. It does seem fair to
Speaker 1: suggest that the Marines are tad more manly than three
Speaker 1: of the four of us. If not all idea was
Speaker 1: kind of they're the most masculine hard possible. Maybe we
Speaker 1: didn't quite stack up to their level. I feel comfortable
Speaker 1: in that conversation. You know that's I guess that's there's
Speaker 1: the disconnect as it turned out, UM football blogger that
Speaker 1: I am. Okay, guys, so much to get West. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get into it. We've got to get going on
Speaker 1: the show. But you've got some histories. It's staring right
Speaker 1: at you right now with the lock situation. I got
Speaker 1: off the SNIDA Monday night. We need you week seven
Speaker 1: before this becomes a national story. I'd like to say
Speaker 1: this has been keeping me up at night, but I
Speaker 1: haven't thought about it until like thirty seconds before the show. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's time to start thinking about it because
Speaker 1: history is knocking on the door. Now. We need you
Speaker 1: to lock one up this week. Okay, will keep trying
Speaker 1: to get my game pick right because think about it. West.
Speaker 1: Thank you are the scientist along with Greg. What we need.
Speaker 1: What I need is the host. I need my scientists
Speaker 1: to start nailing some locks. I think UM listeners in general,
Speaker 1: and maybe you're a part of this put way more
Speaker 1: stock into game picks than I ever have, or it's
Speaker 1: I mean from another angle, set history by going oh
Speaker 1: and seven and maybe go even further like thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: en sixteen uh locks scenario would turn you into a legend.
Speaker 1: And was that your original plan? That was my plan
Speaker 1: when I got off to an O and to start,
Speaker 1: but then I got too hot. It hard to do.
Speaker 1: I got too hot. All right, So let's get into
Speaker 1: it as we always do. Um. We will do it
Speaker 1: snake style draft and the Thursday, the first game of
Speaker 1: week seven, Chiefs at broncos Um. The Scientists will be
Speaker 1: hitting that game later tonight in a mini pod, so
Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. But we're gonna go through the
Speaker 1: rest of the games we have. We have four teams
Speaker 1: again for the second straight week. On I who we
Speaker 1: without this week? We are without got the Panthers, the Browns,
Speaker 1: the Steelers, and the Bucks the to London teams. Brownie
Speaker 1: is a nice little way to exhale. I would imagine
Speaker 1: Mark right now after a rough start for the season.
Speaker 1: Don't care, all right, let's get into it. Marks. You
Speaker 1: are holding the first overall pick UH in today's draft,
Speaker 1: so get us going, all right? So number one because
Speaker 1: there's only three late games, and I want to be
Speaker 1: actually involved in the late slate this time where I've
Speaker 1: made a habit of getting out of that late slate scenario.
Speaker 1: I'm going Saints at Bears, and because number one, I
Speaker 1: want to watch Ray. It's solid because there's only three
Speaker 1: options there. And this to me is one of these
Speaker 1: games where I'm hoping it's like seven to six because
Speaker 1: the way that both defenses are playing right now. We
Speaker 1: know about the Bears now they fell off the edge
Speaker 1: of the bed a little bit against the Raiders. That
Speaker 1: didn't go so well in London, but a lot of
Speaker 1: things can happen in London. We know that ourselves. Weird
Speaker 1: stuff happened across the across the sea right. The Saints
Speaker 1: to me are the team that, no matter what happened
Speaker 1: to the team they played the week before, how inflow
Speaker 1: they were, uh in offense like that you look at
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars with Gardner Min show what happened last week,
Speaker 1: It's like this was the team coming in the big
Speaker 1: story hot Gardner Min Sho's the guy on fire. The
Speaker 1: Saints just come in and just squeeze the life out
Speaker 1: of you and end everything right away. And their defense
Speaker 1: to me is as compelling as the Bears at this point.
Speaker 1: They're not the same type of defense entirely, but they're
Speaker 1: doing Teddy Bridgewaters run with the team. He's done everything
Speaker 1: you could ask a backup quarterback to do, but it's
Speaker 1: not it's because it's not just him alone. They're a
Speaker 1: very balanced team in their defense to me is fascinating.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get Mr Robiski back in this one. I
Speaker 1: want to see this be one of these games that
Speaker 1: comes down to like the final seconds because no one's
Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns. It's like seven to six, eight third we
Speaker 1: have to that would have to be nine to six
Speaker 1: or something. Just one of these little old school matchups
Speaker 1: from nineteen twelve. Let's go on with Alvin Kamara here,
Speaker 1: because that's gonna be a big part of this game.
Speaker 1: You didn't look the same to me in the last
Speaker 1: few games. High ankle type of issue of what they're saying,
Speaker 1: and they signed Mark's boy double z Zack center was.
Speaker 1: I thought you put it well on Twitter yesterday. The
Speaker 1: disparity between the two skill sets is mind boggling. I
Speaker 1: don't see any difference between those time. I think with
Speaker 1: this team, they will be tempted to sit Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: this early in the season, in a season they're expecting
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, and he's as important to them
Speaker 1: as anyone, but Drew Brees, why would you be pushing it.
Speaker 1: You also have a bye week, I believe, coming up,
Speaker 1: and you have Arizona at home, which you should be
Speaker 1: able to take care of, and then the bye. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that would make sense to give him a you know,
Speaker 1: one plus day blow. LaTavia s Murray looked pretty good
Speaker 1: last week. I thought too. He sooked good in smaller doses.
Speaker 1: Now how he looks carrying the load will be something center.
Speaker 1: The Bears put a Keem Hicks and Kyle Long on
Speaker 1: injured reserve this week. Kyle Long, you know, not the
Speaker 1: player he was earlier in his career, but still a
Speaker 1: big disappointment for him. I hope he keeps playing football.
Speaker 1: At this point, that's four straight years uninjured reserve. UM
Speaker 1: No had not but had a really great career beginning
Speaker 1: and start. Um that's really been racked by injuries, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's really tough times for him. Kiem Hicks
Speaker 1: is the bigger loss though, you know, maybe they're key,
Speaker 1: you know, interior player for sure, one of the best
Speaker 1: in the entire league. And I think you look at
Speaker 1: this matchup and it's like, which you know, you think
Speaker 1: of the Bears for defense, which defensive line would you
Speaker 1: take right now? I would think about it. I would
Speaker 1: take the Saints, and I'd certainly take the Saints offensive
Speaker 1: line over the Bears offensive line not playing well. And
Speaker 1: if there's a tackle tandem that can maybe handle Leonard
Speaker 1: Floyd and Clio Mack, it's Toronto Armstead and Ryan Ramchick's
Speaker 1: not a premier return spot for Mitch Robinsky, who is
Speaker 1: not going to be rather have Teddy bridgewriter than Mitch
Speaker 1: Robinsky too, because I know what I'm getting with Teddy.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm getting with Mitchell. True, I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm getting with Teddy. But I mean, really,
Speaker 1: I think you're getting what is it twelve point? Is
Speaker 1: that what I'm You're getting kind of a Dalton line.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're getting Alex Smith before Andy Reid got there.
Speaker 1: You're getting competent quarterback play and you're playing around it.
Speaker 1: I barely competent. Though I would not equate Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: with Alex Smith or Andy Dalton. But it's been good
Speaker 1: enough chucked in within this team, so I guess it's
Speaker 1: a good thing. They don't need for him to give
Speaker 1: you more. And I'm amazed the Saints are underdogs in
Speaker 1: this game, are they? No? Alvin Kamara defense into um.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the quarterback, Drew brees Um is continuing to
Speaker 1: work his way back. He's now quote graduated to the
Speaker 1: NFL ball, so he's he's getting closer and closer. But
Speaker 1: you know what, they they're kind of in a perfect
Speaker 1: situation that rarely happens. When the backup comes in and
Speaker 1: they win every game. Usually that leads to some type
Speaker 1: of controversy. The Saints are the exception in this case.
Speaker 1: No one's considering anything like that. It's just when he
Speaker 1: comes back, they get that much more dangerous. You're a
Speaker 1: manly fellow. When you go out of the park and
Speaker 1: throw the ball around, do you use an NFL sized
Speaker 1: ball or do you use perhaps something a little daintier.
Speaker 1: I use a dainty ball that just makes my hands
Speaker 1: feel like they're uh No, Marians would use an oversized ball,
Speaker 1: rugby ball even all right, let's move on to the
Speaker 1: second pick. It will be Greg Rosenthal all right, let
Speaker 1: me guess. Am I picking last again? No? I mean
Speaker 1: you listen. I think you gotta plug in on this
Speaker 1: Thursday show a little bit more West. I need you
Speaker 1: to know who you're gonna lock up and understand that
Speaker 1: the draft the way it works. Two weeks ago you
Speaker 1: drafted first. Alright, that means last week you draft last,
Speaker 1: and then this week you draft third. Next week you'll
Speaker 1: draft second, and then the week after that you're back
Speaker 1: to first. I think it's the way our seating is arranged.
Speaker 1: It has me confused. I am I'm excited to end
Speaker 1: this conversation move on to Oakland Green Bay. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm back to the Tony Romo experience. And I also
Speaker 1: am thinking about writing about the old Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: on my Monday column. So you gotta like combine at
Speaker 1: all because I'm whether no matter what happens in this game,
Speaker 1: if the Raiders pull off an upset, there suddenly very
Speaker 1: frisky and one of the stories in the league. But
Speaker 1: I'm more interested in what I've been watching the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks out of Aaron Rodgers and thinking this
Speaker 1: is the best three games stretch I've seen out of
Speaker 1: him in a while. I thought Monday night was the
Speaker 1: best game period I've seen out of him for a while. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was making some unbelievable throws against the Lions, many
Speaker 1: of which were dropped, a few of which were caught
Speaker 1: in tough spots too. He's making plays in rhythm, He's
Speaker 1: getting rid of the ball. It's all making a little
Speaker 1: more sense. I gotta say, Matt Lafleur, I'm warming up
Speaker 1: to the flower. The running game is working a little better.
Speaker 1: Everything is just kind of exactly if you're a Packers
Speaker 1: fans on schedule in terms of it makes a little
Speaker 1: more sense and it looks a little better every week
Speaker 1: despite all the injuries that they've had on offense. Yeah
Speaker 1: this may not you know, and get me on Mark's
Speaker 1: good graces, but they've Packers are back to being the
Speaker 1: only team I watched regularly on coaches film, just because
Speaker 1: I love watching Aaron Rodgers so much. In their defense,
Speaker 1: um Mark finds the Packers to be a little TV
Speaker 1: not this year's not this year's because they have it.
Speaker 1: They've got a defense. The I like teams that can
Speaker 1: you know, isn't this It's a different They've changed up
Speaker 1: the narrative little bit so we're in good place, West
Speaker 1: go back in a good place. On the show, Simpatico,
Speaker 1: I liked that the Packers not practicing on Thursday. Their
Speaker 1: top three wide receivers, their top two pass catching tight hands,
Speaker 1: their top safety there stud defensive tackle Kenny Clark, and
Speaker 1: UH slot corner Tremont Williams. I think they're super vulnerable here,
Speaker 1: right if those guys don't play. They Yes, they are
Speaker 1: super vulnerable because I don't think Derek Carr in the
Speaker 1: Raiders offense is gonna light up the Packers um at
Speaker 1: Green Bay. But I do think this is a theme.
Speaker 1: And yes that while Rodgers is Rogers and he's still
Speaker 1: at his apex, they needed some things to go their way,
Speaker 1: uh to to steal that game last week, and to
Speaker 1: score twenty three points. I think scoring points is going
Speaker 1: to be an issue for them until some of these
Speaker 1: guys get healthy. Davante Adams at the front of the
Speaker 1: line with that. If you're the Raiders, I mean, so
Speaker 1: you you got the Bears in London and I and
Speaker 1: I just think that that's if you if you handle
Speaker 1: that week, well, you've got a different Bears team potentially,
Speaker 1: then you're getting the most banged up version of the
Speaker 1: Packers you could possibly imagine right now, coming off a
Speaker 1: short week, it's a good setup for the Raiders. I
Speaker 1: also think there's a bit of a revenge element. Dan.
Speaker 1: You remember these two teams they battled in Canada and
Speaker 1: Ruden was very offended at the Flower wanted to cancel
Speaker 1: a very important preseason about just because the field was
Speaker 1: stripped of an end zone. If I recall, and I
Speaker 1: think Ruden has never really exactly right, I'll fill in
Speaker 1: the detail. Did not get that where the goal post
Speaker 1: they had to move back, So there was a patch
Speaker 1: of turf that the Flower believed wasn't firm enough and
Speaker 1: put his players in danger. So he didn't say to
Speaker 1: cancel the game. He pulled all the starters out of
Speaker 1: the game, and then they shortened the field. It was
Speaker 1: a fiasco, I cares. I think Ruden felt like the
Speaker 1: intet was yeah, you know, and on a hard knocks
Speaker 1: that he made some comments that you know on Mike
Speaker 1: that he was a little incredulous about the whole Well,
Speaker 1: I know, we'll get into some what people are fired
Speaker 1: about us a real revenge game this week. This to
Speaker 1: me is because of that scenario alone, the real revenge
Speaker 1: game in this week's slate. I mean, let's calm down
Speaker 1: about the Raiders shutting down Aaron Rodgers. They don't have
Speaker 1: a pass rush, and I think you can get away
Speaker 1: with that. You know, maybe against the Colts and they're
Speaker 1: certainly competitive, they're playing hard. You can get away with
Speaker 1: that against the Bears. I don't. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's Alan Lazard and who's out there. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm loving Aaron Rodgers in this spot. Is he gonna
Speaker 1: His tackles are playing well, his centers playing well, and
Speaker 1: his defense is playing well. And that's why I'm gonna
Speaker 1: walk much, all right. I like it. It's good luck
Speaker 1: because you're lack. You're locking Aaron Rodgers at home against
Speaker 1: an okay team. It's a good luck. But I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody said that there are Rodgers gonna get shut
Speaker 1: down by the Raiders. But I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna be approaching a thirty burger. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not buying into this Raiders story because
Speaker 1: the wait, you're the one selling the story. How up?
Speaker 1: They're fun, they're fun to watch, but I'm not buying
Speaker 1: them as a team that's gonna win a lot of
Speaker 1: tough games on the road. Uh, I get Bears and
Speaker 1: Cults are different. I guess they've done it. I mean
Speaker 1: they've proved me wrong in that sense. And the offense
Speaker 1: is efficient. They're running the ball well there Cars getting
Speaker 1: rid of the ball. I think they'll be able to
Speaker 1: move the ball somewhat. But I still see them as
Speaker 1: like a seven win type of team. And and good
Speaker 1: for Darren Waller, by the way, the tight end for
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Speaking of hard Knocks, he flashed on that
Speaker 1: show and you got to learn about his battles against
Speaker 1: substance abuse and even the you know one trip to
Speaker 1: a twelve step program. Uh. He has come out bawling
Speaker 1: all through the beginning of the season and now just
Speaker 1: got a three year contract extension. So that that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: To playing with nobody at wide receiver happened? I mean's
Speaker 1: been the past quarterback? Would you rather have with no receivers?
Speaker 1: I mean Derek Cars throwing to Trevor Davis, Keelan Doss, Hunter,
Speaker 1: renfro and z Jones have fun with that. Dan. Darren
Speaker 1: Waller dropped an album too, didn't he? Did he I
Speaker 1: was not aware of that. A year. I'm less excited
Speaker 1: about that. Um, you you have it out for Hunter Renfro.
Speaker 1: I've decided you're coming for your coming for the run
Speaker 1: from He's like the most you know, he's the guy
Speaker 1: who looks most like me at that plays wide receiver
Speaker 1: in the league. And in terms of well, no, that
Speaker 1: would make sense, there can only be one, so you're that,
Speaker 1: I think, well, it's just one of those things that
Speaker 1: you get annoyed when everyone says the same thing. And
Speaker 1: back in August, like Hunter Renfro, he's gonna catch seventy
Speaker 1: balls in that ovine. Know that he was a fifth
Speaker 1: round pick. They've thrown it to him twenty five times.
Speaker 1: He has like six catches. Love when Gregg gets whipping boys,
Speaker 1: I was essentially teeing up because I knew wanted to
Speaker 1: take some swings at the kid. It's like Specknola all
Speaker 1: over again. All right, West, you are now up with
Speaker 1: a third overall pick. I will go back to the
Speaker 1: four o'clock slate and do Ravens at Seahawks game. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: oh Wes, you're really unlocked an eastg is. It's time
Speaker 1: now for a road to Victory presented by the United
Speaker 1: States Marine Corps. Dig into this game, West, why did
Speaker 1: you select it? Well, it's two of the most dominant
Speaker 1: rushing attacks that we've seen since the start of the
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen season. Um and it's two of the
Speaker 1: most exciting quarterbacks to watch, and in this season, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson I think is becoming the favorite for m v
Speaker 1: P and Lamar Jackson, as Greg will tell you, is
Speaker 1: just good old plane fund to watch every week. This
Speaker 1: is this is a matchup of two teams that are
Speaker 1: fairly similar, great offenses and not so good defenses, which
Speaker 1: is opposite of what you're used to from these teams.
Speaker 1: Totally opposite. I mean, it's a total turning the fell
Speaker 1: on its ear that you would be expecting, uh, these
Speaker 1: teams to be, you know, pounding it out in a
Speaker 1: ten seven game and instead people wondered why Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: had so many attempts on the ground last week, And
Speaker 1: one of the reasons watching that game was that the
Speaker 1: Bengals looked like a defense that had never seen a
Speaker 1: read option play before that it worked out of the
Speaker 1: gate and they just kept going at it and they're
Speaker 1: starting to use all their backs now, not just mark
Speaker 1: ingram and they are so punishing that while it up.
Speaker 1: They they to me, they they they're a target to
Speaker 1: trade for potentially a second wide receiver. I think if
Speaker 1: they wanted to add to that attack and make it
Speaker 1: a little bit. I don't know how long you can
Speaker 1: assume this will go without a hiccup at some point,
Speaker 1: and at some point maybe in January. But they're tight ends.
Speaker 1: I mean Mark Andrews, outside of his leap and fumble
Speaker 1: routine that happened last week, I'm not sure we're gonna
Speaker 1: see that leap over the defender thing again. I mean,
Speaker 1: he he is. He has become a one of the
Speaker 1: bigger weapons in the a of see North in a
Speaker 1: total factor and on the flip side will display out
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. That's a big loss that tight end
Speaker 1: for them. He will have a surgery on an achilles
Speaker 1: tendon injury, so that's unfortunate. He's done for the year.
Speaker 1: Marcus Brown is sidelines in terms of practices. That's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons I think they had to run the
Speaker 1: ball so much against Cincinnati. They just do not have
Speaker 1: much of a passing game at receiver right now. Other
Speaker 1: than Marquis Brown. That's reliable, and if you don't have
Speaker 1: him going to Seattle, that's troubling because you're playing against
Speaker 1: the team who's got a nice making the leap candidate.
Speaker 1: Warner Back Shaquille Griffin the other Shack Griffin, the one
Speaker 1: who's I think right now, having a Pro Bowl type
Speaker 1: of season. Not a lot that you love about the
Speaker 1: Seahawks defense right now in terms of their overall play.
Speaker 1: The pass rush is not great, but Shaq Griffin has
Speaker 1: really been playing well, locking down one side of the
Speaker 1: ball to the point where the opponents are just kind
Speaker 1: of peppering the other side NonStop. Earl Thomas Revenge Game,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, you've seen any improvements from Earl since a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago when you found him to be
Speaker 1: potentially an irreversible decline, Well, he hasn't had any angles
Speaker 1: that would um take advantage of his lack of foot speed,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to tell. I think he's still the
Speaker 1: same guy instincts wise, He's always in the right place
Speaker 1: until somebody blows past him. But he's like he's he's
Speaker 1: playing a position where intelligence and instincts matter, so I
Speaker 1: think he can cover up for the lack of foot speed.
Speaker 1: They've only the Seahawks defense ninety yards rushing or less
Speaker 1: than four of six games. And it's not because they
Speaker 1: have a great run defense necessarily, but it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: And I think I I'm tempted to lock the Seahawks
Speaker 1: up in this, but if the Ravens get hot early,
Speaker 1: they're just too much to deal with. And I'm not
Speaker 1: losing a lock to the Ravens. I would my head
Speaker 1: would fall off. Seahawks have been so clutch, you could say,
Speaker 1: or lucky could be the other way. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: lucky when Greg's airline misses a kick. They've had four
Speaker 1: games that came down to the final minute, you know,
Speaker 1: really the final seconds. They've won all four of those,
Speaker 1: so that usually doesn't keep up. But the Sea how
Speaker 1: I feel like that's been half of the Russell Wilson era.
Speaker 1: So maybe it isn't there d NA to come back
Speaker 1: from anything. I mean, they did that. Dan and I
Speaker 1: were sitting there when they were down twenty eight to Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and if you asked my p level, it would have
Speaker 1: been twenty six because there's no way they're winning that game.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks do this week after week the max is ten,
Speaker 1: Well it would have been ten point two. A little bit,
Speaker 1: just a little bit more, just a little bit more soaked.
Speaker 1: All right, my turn like this? Happy how this worked out?
Speaker 1: Because let's talk about the lions. Oh, by the way,
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Speaker 1: States Corps. And you got what they were asking for.
Speaker 1: What a product will deliver and they deliver to our country.
Speaker 1: All right, let's now move on. That is the oddest
Speaker 1: and most much for the Marine Corps I've ever had,
Speaker 1: what a product they deliver. It's not it's just a
Speaker 1: weird it's a weird way to get there. It's it's
Speaker 1: a bravery and heroism and an ability to conquer evil.
Speaker 1: That's a commodity. Now you're getting there. But I mean
Speaker 1: the way it was initially pitched Semper five baby, All right,
Speaker 1: now the Detroit Lines and some bozo on Twitter yesterday. Listen. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we went to London and did four shows in six
Speaker 1: days and wanted to take one extra day so we
Speaker 1: could get our mental health day knocked out. Uh he
Speaker 1: said he unsubscribed from the show because we didn't talk
Speaker 1: about the lines on Wednesday show. Well, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: get get a few of your bodies together, get in
Speaker 1: your garage, and start your online podcast. You won't even
Speaker 1: need to listen to us. Very well, very well put west.
Speaker 1: Now I will talk about the lines now spinning forward,
Speaker 1: because yes, a crushing loss to the Packers, a game
Speaker 1: in which we know everyone knows it follows the NFL
Speaker 1: uh two penalties on Trey Flowers that were not just
Speaker 1: suspect that the league came out and said we got
Speaker 1: it wrong. The second one which essentially allowed the Packers
Speaker 1: to run out the clock and kick the game winning
Speaker 1: field goal. It was a killer because I believe if
Speaker 1: that play just goes off and it's fourth down, you
Speaker 1: have Crosby attempting what early forties range field goal, and
Speaker 1: even if he makes it, he misses it. Lines when
Speaker 1: if he makes it, there's a minute and change I
Speaker 1: believe left with Matthew Stafford's playing really well with a
Speaker 1: chance to drive down the field didn't work out. So
Speaker 1: now we see what the Lions got in terms of
Speaker 1: intestinal fortitude. Remember what a grill mount soon used to
Speaker 1: call it testicular fortitude. Because now you go and you
Speaker 1: have a big division game again, this time it is
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Uh. And it is in Detroit, so
Speaker 1: you get to come home, uh to play the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Who you know? You really it would have been better
Speaker 1: to catch him a couple of weeks ago when they
Speaker 1: were in crisis mode. Uh, and Kirk Cousin was Becausin
Speaker 1: was absorbing a ton of heat. Well, two wins later
Speaker 1: for the Vikings, it seems like that ship has been righted. Now.
Speaker 1: We'll see if it stays that way. Because the Lions,
Speaker 1: as we saw once again Chris westling um, we're able
Speaker 1: to hang against a good opponent, and the Packers were
Speaker 1: so luckily to get out of that game. Do you
Speaker 1: expect the Lions to once again put up a big,
Speaker 1: good fight against the high quality team and maybe even
Speaker 1: get over the Hub for once? Absolutely? I do. I.
Speaker 1: Anytime you get a chance to take on the Vikings
Speaker 1: outside of their dome, it's a good it's a good
Speaker 1: matchup for you. I don't trust this Vikings team on
Speaker 1: the road. I tous trust him totally at home. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Lions have outplayed a lot of good teams. I
Speaker 1: did not think they outplayed the Packers. I thought every
Speaker 1: break went their way for fifty minutes until about ten
Speaker 1: minutes to go in the fourth quarter when the breaks
Speaker 1: started going the Packers way. Um, I understand why Lions
Speaker 1: fans are upset, but I did not think in any
Speaker 1: way that that was their game. No, I agree. I
Speaker 1: think the Packers outplayed him in the interception return, especially
Speaker 1: by Justin Coleman, was just kind of a bit of
Speaker 1: good fortune where that game could have ended differently. And
Speaker 1: ultimately they gave up leads of what they're sixteen and
Speaker 1: nothing or thirteen and nothing and twenty three to twelve
Speaker 1: in the start of the fourth quarter, so that when
Speaker 1: Kield goals, stop stop giving up, stop giving up drives.
Speaker 1: The Matt Patricia defense reminds me so much of the
Speaker 1: Patriots defense under Matt Patricia, which is smart. You can
Speaker 1: change up what you do each week. You're you're good situationally,
Speaker 1: you're good in the red zone, but you're not that good.
Speaker 1: You you're not. You don't have a pass rush. I mean,
Speaker 1: they really they missed the Shawan hand. They haven't had
Speaker 1: him all year. Mike Daniels has given them nothing, and
Speaker 1: he's been hurt too, so that those are injuries. You
Speaker 1: don't have a one on one pass rusher and you're
Speaker 1: kind of coaching around it, and ultimately you're kind of
Speaker 1: middle of the pack and solid, maybe a little better
Speaker 1: than the middle of the pack on defense. Those Patriots
Speaker 1: teams had a top five offense to carry them through.
Speaker 1: This Lion's offense has been resourceful and fun to watch,
Speaker 1: but they're not at that last Well. I think it's
Speaker 1: a start, and the Vikings a lot of credit. Um,
Speaker 1: I've flamed them multiple times for being unwatchable on offense
Speaker 1: outside of Dalvin Cook for the earlier part of the
Speaker 1: season that big bounce back game, But I almost feel
Speaker 1: like you've got to be a little cautious with what
Speaker 1: they accomplished because they were playing an eagle secondary that
Speaker 1: gave up one big play after the next. So just
Speaker 1: dial it down a little bit, and that maybe what
Speaker 1: Minnesota's capable of. But to go through what they went through,
Speaker 1: the two weeks of total chaos in fighting and have
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins respond the way he did, I thought he
Speaker 1: played the best game he's played. Not just I get
Speaker 1: it all of this year, but in a while. I
Speaker 1: mean he he just seemed in sync. They had been
Speaker 1: out of sync through the air all year, and they
Speaker 1: put it together and that's that's super encouraging. I still
Speaker 1: think the Lions though, could knock out any team in
Speaker 1: this division if they kind of just needed one of
Speaker 1: these teams that's been beaten down. So I gotta learn
Speaker 1: how to win in the In the end of the
Speaker 1: they've sandwiched a buy with a extremely painful thirty or
Speaker 1: thirty loss to Kansas City. When it was it seemed
Speaker 1: like it was a done deal, that they were going
Speaker 1: to get it done, and then of course what happened
Speaker 1: on Monday night. So yeah, it will take it will
Speaker 1: take a team that has some mental toughness to shake
Speaker 1: those losses off and not let this slip away from them.
Speaker 1: But this I think is a really good game, and
Speaker 1: and West you you have a limited amount of patients
Speaker 1: for it. But I find kirk Cousins to be compelling
Speaker 1: theater about how his career continues to progress. Let's see
Speaker 1: if he continues to pour it on. This wouldn't fall
Speaker 1: under the uh Kirk Cousins umbrella totally because it is
Speaker 1: on the road uh. And it's also not a not
Speaker 1: a huge spotlight game. Um, So I that I think
Speaker 1: keeps it open for him to keep it rolling. Most likely,
Speaker 1: right my My lack of patience is with the people
Speaker 1: who decide, and this is a very vocal group. Just
Speaker 1: think that Cousins is a laughable clown who can't play
Speaker 1: quarterback at all, and I think he has five years
Speaker 1: in the NFL. They say the opposite of that, that
Speaker 1: he he's one of the sixteen or eighteen best quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Lion gotta win this game. They've been
Speaker 1: a nice story. Quarterback is playing well. It's just tricky
Speaker 1: how the schedule falls. Ultimately, you lose this game. You've
Speaker 1: just lost three in a row, and the Packers and
Speaker 1: Vikings are rolling and you're just hoping for some wild
Speaker 1: cards scraps after that. Are you're a real contender or
Speaker 1: you just to feel good story a team that can compete?
Speaker 1: We'll see all right now, snake time. This is a
Speaker 1: home run. This is a great This is what's the
Speaker 1: best second round pick in recent seasons? Darius Leonard in
Speaker 1: that zone there, all right, Darius Leonard pick. Oh look,
Speaker 1: it's the Cults. That wasn't on purpose, but I'll pretend
Speaker 1: it was. They are back off thereby and now they
Speaker 1: welcome the first place Houston Texans to Lucas Oil Stadium
Speaker 1: with the first place on the line in the A
Speaker 1: it out already? Did it? Are you locked up tonight's game?
Speaker 1: In fact? Um? And I love it. I'm excited because
Speaker 1: Deshaun Buston is probably my favorite player in the NFL
Speaker 1: uh not named Sam Donald, so I UM love to
Speaker 1: watch him. So whenever I could draft him in a
Speaker 1: big division game, I'm gonna do it. And it will
Speaker 1: be so interesting to see the Colts such a you know,
Speaker 1: a well coached team, Um, a team that's has a
Speaker 1: good defensive pieces. But Deshaun Watson when he when he
Speaker 1: gets rolling, it is scary. And um, we'll see which
Speaker 1: version of the Houston Texans offense shows up. That would
Speaker 1: be my only concern, Uh if I'm a Texans fan
Speaker 1: is that when they are rolling, they are awesome to watch,
Speaker 1: but every every once in a while and maybe it
Speaker 1: was just maybe it ends up just being a situation
Speaker 1: where they're working out the kinks early on. They have
Speaker 1: had some games where they haven't been able to get
Speaker 1: it going. Um, but I expect Houston to to to
Speaker 1: do business here in Indy. Well, it's a rematch right
Speaker 1: of the playoff game a year ago. Am I crazy. No,
Speaker 1: you're absolutely You're absolutely right. I hallucinate how poorly they were.
Speaker 1: The Texans were stumped that Tuxans were shut down in Houston.
Speaker 1: And I think the Colts kind of are a nice
Speaker 1: litmus test right now for this Texans team because I
Speaker 1: think the Cults are really well coached. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna give you a great effort. Of course, at home,
Speaker 1: they're pretty good Situationally, they're smart, they they run the ball.
Speaker 1: They'll probably figure out a way to keep this game close.
Speaker 1: But the Texans best game should be better than the
Speaker 1: Colts is best game. I mean, their ceiling is higher.
Speaker 1: In the past, this might have been a game that
Speaker 1: the Texans kind of stubbed their toe and it ends
Speaker 1: up being a whole race throughout the year in the
Speaker 1: NFC South. If if this Texans team can be at
Speaker 1: the type of team that gets to buy, which I
Speaker 1: think they are, they can be that type of team,
Speaker 1: you go win this game, I think. And if the
Speaker 1: last time these teams played in India in the regular season,
Speaker 1: it was a thirty seven thirty four Texans winning overtime. Um,
Speaker 1: I think these are just two well matched teams. I believe.
Speaker 1: I think the Cults are team that can make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think I think you can see two playoff teams
Speaker 1: out of the ANFC South and these would be my picks.
Speaker 1: Where are we at on Jacoby percent I haven't seen
Speaker 1: enough to where I think, like automatically he should be
Speaker 1: their guy going forward, and like two thousand and twenty
Speaker 1: and beyond, I think they should try to aim higher.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. He's averaging what under seven yards
Speaker 1: per attempt. He shows become a run first offense, he
Speaker 1: shows off his arm. You know, they've kind of coached
Speaker 1: very conservatively in terms of focusing on the running game.
Speaker 1: They'll take shots. Uh, they have some good schemed up
Speaker 1: but I think it's been a great job of coaching.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's shown enough where you're thinking
Speaker 1: he's the guy moving forward. He's kind of been a
Speaker 1: perfect middle of the road type of starter to keep
Speaker 1: the ship afloat. But maybe not that you're gonna be
Speaker 1: buying into long term. Yeah. I mean, they seem content
Speaker 1: to run through Marlon Mack right now, and he's so
Speaker 1: pivotal to him with the Texans. The one thing that
Speaker 1: and maybe someone else predicted this happening. I know I
Speaker 1: didn't after watching Carlos Hide the past couple of seasons
Speaker 1: to have him the amount of usage he's getting in
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's offense and to be as productive as he had.
Speaker 1: Him and Duke Johnson together have have worked out for
Speaker 1: a team that when they lost Lamar Miller and I
Speaker 1: get the week, Lamar Miller is Lamar Miller, and we
Speaker 1: can try to make him something he's not. But he's not,
Speaker 1: but it's that he's been. They've been. They have been
Speaker 1: able to really kill people on the ground in the
Speaker 1: ground for a while, and they have a diverse running
Speaker 1: attack right now. And I thought Bill O'Brien did a
Speaker 1: nice job last week using Hide, And you've got to
Speaker 1: keep wondering as a defense if you're facing them, when
Speaker 1: is this run out? Because this is a player that
Speaker 1: I essentially thought his career was on the on the edge.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Duke Johnson adds a lot too.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised how it's shaken out that Hides clear the
Speaker 1: lead guy. But ultimately Duke Duke Johnson has three five
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage through six games. Hides got about four
Speaker 1: fifty together. That's a really strong combo. Hides not as
Speaker 1: good in the passing game. The cults are healthier, though,
Speaker 1: and I think that's important. They're coming off there by week.
Speaker 1: They still have a lot of injuries in the secondary
Speaker 1: even then after the bye, but you have t Y
Speaker 1: Hilton back, you have Darius Leonard back. Uh, your defensive
Speaker 1: line is healthier than it was. It's pretty significant. You're
Speaker 1: raising your eyebrows. Well. Your secondary injuries don't matter when
Speaker 1: you can just plug in a guy like Cary Willis,
Speaker 1: who has been phenomenal, their fourth round pick, who's a
Speaker 1: safety in plays like Honey Badger all over that defense.
Speaker 1: And the Texans are as short at cornerback right now
Speaker 1: as pretty much any team in the league. They lost
Speaker 1: Bradley Roby for a month, Jonathan Joseph has been banged up,
Speaker 1: and they weren't exactly deep at that position to begin with.
Speaker 1: But they just beat the Chiefs and uh, two more
Speaker 1: thoughts after you know, last week Cayami Fairbaron killed him
Speaker 1: to the point where you wondered if they were gonna
Speaker 1: have to do the dreaded. We know we need to
Speaker 1: feel kick a field goal, but we can't because we
Speaker 1: can't trust the kicker from anywhere outside thirty yards. I
Speaker 1: thought that would lead to, you know, maybe a change
Speaker 1: or a workout. But I guess he was so good
Speaker 1: last year. Bill O'Brien is keeping the faith, and maybe
Speaker 1: O'Brien is. You know, he's hot right now. He's got
Speaker 1: the uh what do they call it in basketball? Heat
Speaker 1: check came on the same same week that Brian Baldinger,
Speaker 1: a guy that we all respect mightily for his football knowledge,
Speaker 1: especially in the trenches, called Laramie Tunsel the best left
Speaker 1: tackle in the NFL. That seems to be a pretty
Speaker 1: good trade. Now, uh, excuse me, great trade, all right? Now?
Speaker 1: Moving on? Picking next will be out of the Snake
Speaker 1: and back to Chris Wessell. Well, since there are no
Speaker 1: good games left, there are some. This is this is
Speaker 1: the first week. Are you look at the schedule top
Speaker 1: to bottom, there are a full slate of um stinkfest operations.
Speaker 1: I'm going to choose a grass field with a new
Speaker 1: quarterback starter Chargers at Titans. Thank you, going back to
Speaker 1: the Titans. Yes, you are a good man. Thank you
Speaker 1: for taking that off. No problem. I will leave such
Speaker 1: gems as Jaguars, Bengals, Dolphins, Bills and forty Niners redskins
Speaker 1: for you, Dan, all right, thank you, go ahead. Oh
Speaker 1: you want analysis of this game? Well you you, I
Speaker 1: mean you're the one. You're the completest who watched the
Speaker 1: entire sixteen to nothing tennis. You're a Titans fan. You
Speaker 1: know you're you're you're taking over my previous mantel back
Speaker 1: in the two thousand and thirteen season as the Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill believer in the podcast. I am not a believer.
Speaker 1: Remember this moment, you know, for posterity, maybe clip it
Speaker 1: off West speechless about to get into a game. He
Speaker 1: didn't know what to say. Well, there was nothing to say.
Speaker 1: I have an inkling that Ryan Tannehill is going to
Speaker 1: have the same problems as Marcus Mariotta behind this offensive
Speaker 1: line with a play calling that has left a lot
Speaker 1: to be desired. I just don't see much of a
Speaker 1: difference there. That's why I want to watch this game
Speaker 1: to find out if there will be a difference. Does
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill jump start this offense? I don't know. When
Speaker 1: you see guys like a J. Brown and you know
Speaker 1: Corey Davis is a top five picked Laney Walker's out there,
Speaker 1: what if they start using these weapons or you know
Speaker 1: d quote weapons that they have. Well, Greg Cosl, who
Speaker 1: we also respect, it said mightily. I like that we
Speaker 1: have to point out our respect for these various basically individuals.
Speaker 1: If we don't say that we respect them, assume we don't.
Speaker 1: It's a short list of of these analysts that truly,
Speaker 1: you know, across all boards, whether it's in this room
Speaker 1: or the Twitter, you know, atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it, that everyone knows is the real deal.
Speaker 1: Baldy and Coseell are to those guys, I mean, you've
Speaker 1: created a bit of a problem for us. We now
Speaker 1: need to go out and announce our respect for anyone
Speaker 1: who comes up at all. It's a short list. Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like Cosell respects Mariota that much because
Speaker 1: he said receivers have been opened and he thinks that's
Speaker 1: for on tape that he thinks receivers have been open
Speaker 1: and they haven't been pulling the trigger, and there should
Speaker 1: be some receivers open when you play the Chargers. This
Speaker 1: secondary has been injured and disappointing. The defense in general
Speaker 1: has taking a big step back. I am interested in
Speaker 1: this game because there are two, two and four teams
Speaker 1: that made the playoffs a year ago. And whoever lose
Speaker 1: this game is in deep trouble. And the Chargers fall
Speaker 1: has kind of been under the radar here. Um, but
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want them to be totally out
Speaker 1: of our lives here. I want Philip Rivers to go
Speaker 1: to Nashville. And uh, there's a lot of rumors he
Speaker 1: would replace Marcus Mariota or he was gonna get traded
Speaker 1: for Marcus Mariota back in the day, and he wants
Speaker 1: to go back go to Nashville. And then he'll talk
Speaker 1: about a player who deserves to have a little player
Speaker 1: empowerment and get himself out of a bad situation. Be free,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. This organization has let you down. Go to Nasha.
Speaker 1: I mean they paid him like hundreds of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars or whatever. But I will say they've been Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers to the Titans feels like like a total purgatory move.
Speaker 1: He wants to get back to where you know he's from. Also,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen because a free agent at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, because they're the Titan closer to
Speaker 1: the Midwest. Because yeah, because because they're the Titans. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not going to bomb out and go three and
Speaker 1: thirteen here, They're gonna shrink together. Some wins. Nine at
Speaker 1: seven might actually be tough of them now, but who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe like West as Tannehill lights a spark. So they
Speaker 1: won't be at the top of the draft unless they
Speaker 1: pull off some type of audacious trade. So go get
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers as your bridge guy, and go find a
Speaker 1: developmental prospect that can sit behind one of the greatest
Speaker 1: ever slan it well, the Charges would have something to
Speaker 1: say about that, unless Rivers truly wanted out. He has
Speaker 1: a free agent. There's some good news though. They got
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry back last week. He looked awesome. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a terrible performance by them on Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 1: but he looked great. And it sounds like Russell Okung,
Speaker 1: their left tackle, is returning from his pulmonary embol is
Speaker 1: m shortly, maybe as early as this week, and that's
Speaker 1: a pretty big addition. Chargers are the most disappointing team
Speaker 1: in the a f C right now. They have lost
Speaker 1: four or five, their one win coming against the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Where do they rank on your dirt Knap rankings? They're
Speaker 1: getting close because if they ever lost this game, whoever
Speaker 1: loses this be in hot water they too and five
Speaker 1: with the Bears and the Packers coming up next. Charges
Speaker 1: are already on my dirt map watch. I am enjoying it.
Speaker 1: I think they might be the more boring team in
Speaker 1: this matchup. I like, I think we're going we have
Speaker 1: something here with the dirt knap, because maybe we can
Speaker 1: put together a graphic where it shows how far under
Speaker 1: these people are beneath the dirt and dirt, and then
Speaker 1: maybe if they start to dig themselves out, the hand
Speaker 1: sticks out something like that. Yeah, I like that. I
Speaker 1: mean they would be it's in sort of a zombie
Speaker 1: but if you're buried under the dirt, you're dead to
Speaker 1: begin with. But you're saying some would come, no, because
Speaker 1: remember like Uma Thurman and kill Bill. Oh yeah, there
Speaker 1: are scenarios where people could come, put him in the
Speaker 1: put them in the wood coffin, and then maybe they
Speaker 1: fight their way out. So it's just like the old
Speaker 1: Forks segment, except there's a possibility of zombie ism it
Speaker 1: the forks segment. Yes, and you what did you call it?
Speaker 1: Stick a fork in him? Yeah? No, oh, but you
Speaker 1: said dirt nap too, But then there's also Bill Simmons
Speaker 1: calls it the loser goes home, loser leaves town match.
Speaker 1: So these are all I mean saying the same thing,
Speaker 1: the losers in deep deep trouble. But I like dirt nap,
Speaker 1: and I think there's certain nap is powerful. It doesn't
Speaker 1: get there's not a lot of wiggles. Was a listener
Speaker 1: at our meet up after our show on Friday like
Speaker 1: using the word dirt nap, But I was like, there's
Speaker 1: no way you actually use that word before Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: came into your lives right, came from my dad, just
Speaker 1: the same way that you have terminologies that came from
Speaker 1: your lineage, your ancestry. Let's move on. Picking next will
Speaker 1: be Greg Greg Rosenthal. Yes, well, I'm boxed out of
Speaker 1: the four PM games, which is you did me a favor.
Speaker 1: There was watch Lamar as I wanted to, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a game that maybe doesn't have much
Speaker 1: playoff implications, but I think is a perfect backup morning
Speaker 1: game Cardinals Giants. This game could be in the thirties.
Speaker 1: It's a matchup of two rookie quarterbacks drafted in the
Speaker 1: top ten who I think are going to go up
Speaker 1: and down the field because they have terrific matchups, and
Speaker 1: I think it should be fun to watch Kyler Murray's
Speaker 1: playing her each week. I really liked what they did
Speaker 1: a week ago. And the Giants and Danny Dimes are
Speaker 1: getting back Evan Ingram, Quon Barkley, maybe Sterling Shepherd, well
Speaker 1: them has been back. Uh Darius Slayton as a player. Uh.
Speaker 1: Dimes has got plenty of weapons, and neither of these
Speaker 1: defenses are good. I think they could go up and
Speaker 1: down the field and it could be a fun Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon at the Old Meadowlands. Perfect opponent I like to
Speaker 1: pick right, perfect opponent for Danny Dimes, who could use
Speaker 1: another look at me. I have a bright young future
Speaker 1: ahead of me, and you get to play at home
Speaker 1: against Arizona. Who's gonna give you opportunities to do so.
Speaker 1: I like the Giants a lot here. Okay, I just
Speaker 1: I think Kyler Murray's playing a lot better than Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones right now. Yeah, I agree, he's had you know.
Speaker 1: Part You're wondering whether it's just the opponents that you
Speaker 1: know Jones has had, you know, including the Patriots a
Speaker 1: week ago when they're so shorthanded. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: I agree Murray's played his best against pretty black luster opponents.
Speaker 1: But you're right, he's been playing better. Are you gonna,
Speaker 1: Are you gonna? You know you gonna, you know, black
Speaker 1: it on? Are you No? I haven't decided who I'm
Speaker 1: locking it. I thought about the Giants. That's the way
Speaker 1: to handle this. Yeah, the Giants are my kind of
Speaker 1: my backup thing because I do think their defense, their
Speaker 1: defense is really bad, but I think it's gotten like
Speaker 1: slightly better. Dexter Lawrence is playing great. Yeah, as this,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're quite as embarrassing. And I think
Speaker 1: the Cardinals coming off those two games, you know, they
Speaker 1: were great matchups for them at home. They were kind
Speaker 1: of coin flips against you know, against bad, really bad teams. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I really trust them on the road.
Speaker 1: They're getting healthier to Barkley's back, Evan Ingram's practicing. I
Speaker 1: this one is tough. I wouldn't touch this lockwise at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kyler Murray looked too good last week, and
Speaker 1: guys like David Johnson Chase Edmonds getting a lot of
Speaker 1: touches totally wide open in space, and I think that
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with the Cardinals offense. They're
Speaker 1: finding ways to get like four or five or six
Speaker 1: people out there, and the defense defenders defenders to do
Speaker 1: with it, and I don't really trust the Giants defense.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Eddie Spaghetti behind the glasses. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna go to Eddie is producing the show
Speaker 1: for US today. Erica still on vacation um. But actually
Speaker 1: Eddie's reached his capacity for Giants analysis on this podcast
Speaker 1: after doing seventy four minutes on Giants Patriots last week,
Speaker 1: so that we just can't go to him. We can't.
Speaker 1: It was great, you did a great job. I actually
Speaker 1: brought out the clock to time and I'm like, they
Speaker 1: usually like it like the ten to fifteen minutes, and
Speaker 1: I had that thing. I looked back and I saw
Speaker 1: like it's like twenty seven or something like that. It
Speaker 1: gets away from me quickly. It's happened a minute before
Speaker 1: to Yeah, we didn't get any complaints. No, you did
Speaker 1: a great job. I'm just joking. Eddie a Staten Island
Speaker 1: resident the borough of New York City, and he looks
Speaker 1: Staten Island ready for the Yanks tonight I'm so I'm
Speaker 1: so nervous right now. My stomach is up my throat. Wow,
Speaker 1: five hours before the game. I can't focus anything else.
Speaker 1: Yeah with you, let's talk after the show. Let's take
Speaker 1: that offline. Um, alright, let's move on. Next up, Mark Sessler.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Mark, I'm in the same position
Speaker 1: as you last week. West. You were calling shenanigans on
Speaker 1: the draft. In these weeks when we have eleven games
Speaker 1: to break down in the draft, if you are picking fourth,
Speaker 1: you just get two games and out. So I'm out
Speaker 1: of the dam. I'm done, and now you're up. Mark.
Speaker 1: Or if you're picking fourth, you get three games and
Speaker 1: the guy picking third gets too. That happens sometimes as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's where I think what West was by last week.
Speaker 1: But I hear you, Um, I don't know if two
Speaker 1: or three is better in this situations. Picked fourth last week?
Speaker 1: I mean, I what am I missing here? You pick fourth?
Speaker 1: There was one week where I got covered more games
Speaker 1: than Mark, even though I drafted last. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a big deal. I'm just pointing out.
Speaker 1: All right, we get confused sometimes. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. Let's see. The battles are just changing,
Speaker 1: you know, the matchups are changing as the show goes on.
Speaker 1: I'm looking through the options here and it's got me
Speaker 1: on that one. The options are not good. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go Jacksonville at Cincinnati, and I'll tell you why, because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock up the Jaguars right now on the road.
Speaker 1: Go into an angry Bengals team. If they're capable of
Speaker 1: being angry, you're annoyed. And I looked at the desert
Speaker 1: are surrounding you a real person right now? What do
Speaker 1: you mean they're never facing angry Bengals. Yeah, in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: they're like, like, the Bengals are never angrier than when
Speaker 1: they lose their entire secondary to injury the week before.
Speaker 1: We're furious, Mark, the Bengals are six and you're locking
Speaker 1: up against them. Oh, I don't. I don't care about that.
Speaker 1: I went to I went to anything. What does the
Speaker 1: desert say? It's well within It's I just I just
Speaker 1: vieuted it. It's completely within within the boundaries. I'm cool
Speaker 1: with that. I was just more kind. I saw a
Speaker 1: look on your face. That was a man that looked
Speaker 1: in the mirror and saw nothing. I mean, Dan, the
Speaker 1: problem is that if any of us do anything that
Speaker 1: you don't approve of or that concerns you, it all
Speaker 1: then like you because you put it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a great question. You ask yourself that you are
Speaker 1: at the centerating this has nothing to do with you
Speaker 1: at all. I'm perfectly fine with this and rolling with it.
Speaker 1: I'm rolling with it because the Jaguars got stung last
Speaker 1: week hard by the Saints. They've got to look themselves
Speaker 1: in the mirror after what happened. They could not get
Speaker 1: their offense going on any level. And this is a
Speaker 1: good bounce back game. The Bengals cannot stop the run.
Speaker 1: They can't stop much of anything. It's Gardner, Minshew and
Speaker 1: DJ Shark and you never look back. Leonard Fournette has
Speaker 1: been good to this season. I thought that after a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks that he was going to be off
Speaker 1: this roster at some point, maybe even trade bait. But
Speaker 1: he has helped them. When they can run, that offense
Speaker 1: is completely different. That's what happened against the Bengals. When
Speaker 1: they've been good, He's been a big part of it.
Speaker 1: And you've got to set up Minshew to make the
Speaker 1: big drive at the end. He's up Jordan Howard, which
Speaker 1: is nine that much out of him. In the passing game,
Speaker 1: he's not. He doesn't great lateral agility. He's just running
Speaker 1: hard and running straight and doing it pretty well. I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with that in this offense at
Speaker 1: this point. They they are they are missing elements, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. I mean, there's no tight end on
Speaker 1: this team. They've got one right receiver you can count on.
Speaker 1: Their third round pick, Josh Oliver, is finally practicing again.
Speaker 1: He's missed the whole season with a hamstring injury, so
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if he plays. Dak Taylor
Speaker 1: of the Bengals coach, has been, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: find positives, saying how hard they played last week? Okay,
Speaker 1: did they That's great? You're playing hard. GI mean the defense, well,
Speaker 1: that's an improvement from last year. Competed in hell the
Speaker 1: points down to Baltimore, but they were dominated. I mean
Speaker 1: that you're playing hard, but you're not playing well. What
Speaker 1: are they doing? I mean they're so short there. They
Speaker 1: have the lowest yardage rushing per game since they're on
Speaker 1: pace four. That's where the Bengals are at and they
Speaker 1: have two really good running backs. That's how bad they are.
Speaker 1: They've trailed the entire seat like there's nothing about this
Speaker 1: team that's remotely competitive. It's it's crazy. Other than the
Speaker 1: first week, I gotta remember that next year. What not
Speaker 1: to get too excited about week ones? Well, I do
Speaker 1: feel like you were you verbaliz that, yeah, but I
Speaker 1: lead the I led the way I was the first
Speaker 1: three weeks. They were, you know, a competitive team. But
Speaker 1: right if they're going to be competitive, it would have
Speaker 1: to be against a defense. It's not I mean an offense.
Speaker 1: It's not too explosive, which maybe the Jaguars are are that.
Speaker 1: You know, they've even in their good games, they've started slowly.
Speaker 1: Well that's a bad Hals. You can give them an
Speaker 1: excuse for the injuries. But what worries me about this
Speaker 1: team going forward is that the best players are over thirty. Yep,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned you know, losing their secondary. Will William
Speaker 1: Jackson's out I think for a month. Drake Kirkpatrick is out,
Speaker 1: and Carl Dunlap was hurt before last week's game. I
Speaker 1: think he's still kind of up in the air. Dark
Speaker 1: has Dinard is practicing again, eligible to come off the
Speaker 1: publist soon. So that is yeah, that's rough, all right,
Speaker 1: game number two because I enjoy maybe more than anyone
Speaker 1: in the room. I've mentioned it a lot, just the
Speaker 1: ultra beat down. And that's why I'm taking the Niners
Speaker 1: traveling into the Nation's capital, because what are you gonna do? Redskins?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna try to throw us Adrian Peterson forty
Speaker 1: five times? Again? That worked last week? Not against this sense,
Speaker 1: did you see the I saw a gift of it,
Speaker 1: but um case Keenum tried to check out of a
Speaker 1: play or he did check out of a play, and
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson took his mouthpiece out and he was in
Speaker 1: like the I formation and started screaming no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, because all the Adrian Peters, the only reason
Speaker 1: he's in the league is for no other reason than
Speaker 1: to take the balls many times as possible, continue to
Speaker 1: compile yardage, maybe pass Walter Payton. Do not check out
Speaker 1: of a play on Adrian Peterson in twenty nineteen. I'm
Speaker 1: with you with that, and it's to me, I think
Speaker 1: this is and we talked about the Kyle Shanahan revenge
Speaker 1: factor here and we have a sound bite. I believe
Speaker 1: we'll get to in a second on that, But what
Speaker 1: a perfect way to have a revenge game against Bill
Speaker 1: old Callahan shot out of a cannon from two thousand
Speaker 1: two coaching again as a head coach in this league,
Speaker 1: and the way that they runned offenses. How differently their
Speaker 1: approaches are. Kyle Shanahan one of the best in game
Speaker 1: play callers. Their ground game right now, I believe it's
Speaker 1: the Ravens that currently lead on pace of yards per game,
Speaker 1: which is well over two hundred and the Niners last
Speaker 1: week were one of those teams too where you find
Speaker 1: these regurgitated stats, but this one does intrigue me because
Speaker 1: they were on pace to outpace the nineteen seventies seven
Speaker 1: Bears on the ground. And to me, the Niners, the
Speaker 1: way they're doing it is even more impressive than the
Speaker 1: Ravens because it's they get up early, their defense destroys people,
Speaker 1: and they use the latter part of the second half
Speaker 1: to just destroy you on the ground against tired out defenses.
Speaker 1: And their record five and oh is not a fluke
Speaker 1: on any level. I think it's fair a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago just to wonder what that meant and what
Speaker 1: it would translate to against some of these better teams.
Speaker 1: They physically thumped the Rams last week and Garoppolo didn't
Speaker 1: play well. They are one of these old fast teams
Speaker 1: that likes to compliment play field position ball and make
Speaker 1: their offense look better by how good their defense is. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, I love I love the way George
Speaker 1: kittles playing and he reminds me sort of the way
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley was playing before the knee injury. And if
Speaker 1: you we take this comparison a little bit further, if
Speaker 1: George Kittle suddenly became Kyle Rudolph, That's what happened with
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley between two thousand eighteen and two Kittle is
Speaker 1: so explosive right now, and he's just running people over
Speaker 1: like a runaway train in the open field. Gink fantasy fan.
Speaker 1: You know, fantasy owners panicked a little bit because he
Speaker 1: wasn't producing quite as much in the almost at all
Speaker 1: in the first few weeks of the season as a receiver,
Speaker 1: But he thinks the best tight ending right Even though
Speaker 1: Darren Waller has had the season he's had, Austin Hooper
Speaker 1: is having a monster season, and I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gotten any love on this podcast. There's been some great
Speaker 1: tight end season. I to take Kittle over all of them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought the the the app comparison for Kittle based
Speaker 1: on one play last week where he's just rumbling through
Speaker 1: defenders was marked of or Ow and that Eddie. I
Speaker 1: don't believe you were probably watching that as essential being
Speaker 1: at that point. But Mark Bavarro had that one season
Speaker 1: where he had his jaw wired shut for like two
Speaker 1: months and he never spoke to anyone in real time,
Speaker 1: so no one knew that about him. But he would
Speaker 1: just take it out on people every Sunday, and he
Speaker 1: was one of the more one of the There weren't
Speaker 1: a lot of tight ends back then doing that, and
Speaker 1: Kittle looks just like him on the field. Were real
Speaker 1: Gary Cooper stuff for Bavaro back then. I thought you
Speaker 1: were gonna say my referencing Mark Bavar, are we gonna
Speaker 1: hear that sound drop? You tease all I like and
Speaker 1: not deliver all right. Kyle Shanahan talking about his time
Speaker 1: with the Redskins um being able to work with my
Speaker 1: dad and benches, Well, that's what he liked about it.
Speaker 1: What didn't he like everything else? That's how you set
Speaker 1: up a clip. Good Mark, I had no idea what
Speaker 1: he also was coming there at the timing stuff. Also,
Speaker 1: my favorite made was about he found out that this
Speaker 1: is like a homecoming game for the Redskins. You know,
Speaker 1: they're having a lot of old stars and whatnot come
Speaker 1: back for that, and they must be really old if
Speaker 1: Kyle Kyle Shane, I was just like, I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't know professional teams did that. I just thought that
Speaker 1: was a high school thing. That's a little petty, but okay,
Speaker 1: I mean every team, Like imagine if you worked for
Speaker 1: an organization fired you and your dad, you just be like,
Speaker 1: forget forget that. I get it. But okay, if you
Speaker 1: want to, if you want to get on the the
Speaker 1: labeling of it. Uh, okay, homecoming is a high school thing.
Speaker 1: But wait, bring back, bring back all the old hogs.
Speaker 1: As they said, I'm with damn be be up to
Speaker 1: be up to speed on how the league is operating
Speaker 1: this ship. Every team has one of these games, and
Speaker 1: it's got a lot of grief. When they did that
Speaker 1: a few years ago with the Patriots, well they wore
Speaker 1: those they were that was Tiffany Jackets. That was entirely
Speaker 1: different they're just now digging out of the rubble of that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. All right, up next is Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: Oh ahead, buddy. That means they have three ten am games.
Speaker 1: We gotta make a trade West. I'm sorry, all right,
Speaker 1: open for business. You'll know you love Philip Rivers in
Speaker 1: the charge. Thanks, But I will watch Jalen ram I
Speaker 1: at least select Jalen Ramsey's first game as a member
Speaker 1: of the Los Angeles Rams. The indication is that they
Speaker 1: planned for him to play, and uh, it's early Thursday
Speaker 1: afternoon here in Los Angeles. The sign is that it's
Speaker 1: going to happen. And if that happens, we'll have the
Speaker 1: first ever matchup of Julio Jones, who's having a great
Speaker 1: season every once in a while, I just gotta hey, remember,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, you still might be the very best wide
Speaker 1: receiver in league. And going up against Jalen Ramsey and uh,
Speaker 1: a secondary that's gonna have to figure out kind of
Speaker 1: who they are now after losing to keep to Leave
Speaker 1: and John Johnson for the year and trading Marcus Peters.
Speaker 1: We didn't even mention that during the Ravens thing. I
Speaker 1: hope this Julio Jones doesn't turn into a Larry Fitzgerald's
Speaker 1: situation where the back end of his prime gets gobbled
Speaker 1: up by a bunch of irrelevant teams. Well, that makes
Speaker 1: he's got a great quarter, right, Matt Ryan sixth straight
Speaker 1: three yard games has been probably the least talked about.
Speaker 1: I mean from a team wide standpoint, right, the Falcons
Speaker 1: are not a relevant NFL team right now, not right now.
Speaker 1: But this is a this is a new thing, and
Speaker 1: this is also a game everyone assumes the Rams we'll
Speaker 1: go in there and right the shift. I don't just
Speaker 1: because any team like the Falcons that's putting up thirty
Speaker 1: points a week, they're dangerous, and they've lost a lot
Speaker 1: of close games. They're not quite as bad as they're
Speaker 1: one in five records. Their defense is is that bad
Speaker 1: and it's solved basically every offensive problem they've gone again.
Speaker 1: So if the Rams can't get right offensively in this game,
Speaker 1: then it's panic time unlocking this one Upcon. You're going
Speaker 1: with the home underdog. I just don't think the Rams
Speaker 1: are that good. Wow, you know what, you gotta go big,
Speaker 1: and he just went big in a big spot. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show my solid I'm gonna lock it up with you.
Speaker 1: I'm switching my lock to show my solid narity to West.
Speaker 1: He's gonna ride to Vic. It doesn't work well, West
Speaker 1: and I did. A's gonna work this time because it
Speaker 1: is called true solidarity. Well, it's guilty, because I just
Speaker 1: made up this lock on the right. It's uh, well,
Speaker 1: it's okay. It's Thursday. It's not even one pm. Dan
Speaker 1: already has the first lock victory of the week by
Speaker 1: guilty market to jumping off the old Bengal fand wagon. Well,
Speaker 1: it's you know what, because it's a marriage. Ultimately, Ultimately,
Speaker 1: it is simply not worth dealing with Dan over the
Speaker 1: next hundred and twenty hours on this situation. Here's what
Speaker 1: I see when I look. Don't put it on me.
Speaker 1: It's not worth it. There is no reflection. It's entirely
Speaker 1: on you. So I'm holding up something. I'm looking in
Speaker 1: the mirror. It's our record. It's seven and eighteen. Comebine,
Speaker 1: that's what I see in the mirror. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a disgrace. You got Dan's point though, that you tug
Speaker 1: us all down the drain. Okay, I'm dugging myself that
Speaker 1: I'm three and three. That's nothing to be proud of either.
Speaker 1: That's terrible too. You can only see a mirror when
Speaker 1: the other three of us are involved with you. Okay,
Speaker 1: you look in the mirror, you see O in six
Speaker 1: if you want me to sing, I don't really look
Speaker 1: at my record. I'm just looking at these games, and
Speaker 1: I feel good about this. This is a nice lock,
Speaker 1: healthy lock. I mean it's you know, what does this
Speaker 1: work for you? Team? Okay, it's a lock I can respect.
Speaker 1: Is it a last dand game? If we're talking about um,
Speaker 1: I think last week and I think they already lost
Speaker 1: the last The Falcons have a week nine by Arthur
Speaker 1: Blank is not expected to make a decision on dan
Speaker 1: Quinn's future until that By per rap Sheet, they had
Speaker 1: not considered a change before the Cardinals game. But this
Speaker 1: defense is really the point of firing dan Quinn, though,
Speaker 1: what do you well, who's going to replace him? He
Speaker 1: doesn't even have a defense. But they have a lot
Speaker 1: of They have a lot of former head coaches on
Speaker 1: this roster. I get it, But what is that really
Speaker 1: going to make you better? I don't think so. Just
Speaker 1: wait till the end of the This is some real
Speaker 1: cahones Wes, I like it. This is how you get
Speaker 1: off a schnide. Yeah, it does take a lot of
Speaker 1: guts to pick against your wife's favorite team. Again, feel
Speaker 1: like this happening repeatedly now and they haven't given There's
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of logic that goes into these
Speaker 1: locks defense. It's just like there's not much to him.
Speaker 1: It's mostly they're all coin flip games. That's what that's
Speaker 1: what a lock pick is. West let me um going
Speaker 1: off your point, which was a good one, about if
Speaker 1: George Kittle became Mason not not Mason, Kyle Rudolph, what
Speaker 1: would that do to the Niners offense? Well, everyone, that's
Speaker 1: absolutely you know, killing Jared Goff, who I know is
Speaker 1: not played very well this season. And who's wondering throwing
Speaker 1: out comments about Sean McVeigh whether you know he used
Speaker 1: up all his magic pixie dust. Well, how about just
Speaker 1: the idea that the Rams, in addition to their offensive
Speaker 1: line struggles, they just lost their George Kittle. You know,
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley became who who would be the He became
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller, not not the same type of player, but
Speaker 1: became just a guy. And maybe it's gonna take time
Speaker 1: of the Rams to make a transition that and the
Speaker 1: time that goes beyond two thousand nineteen, because he was
Speaker 1: the identity of this team, well, not just as a runner,
Speaker 1: but he was one of the most devastating pass catching
Speaker 1: backs in the league. And now he's a total non
Speaker 1: factor in the passing game. That is a huge loss
Speaker 1: to me. Goff's the bigger problem, though, as much as
Speaker 1: you could replace Girly if the line's good. Golf's last
Speaker 1: fourteen games six point seven three yards per tempt, fourteen touchdowns,
Speaker 1: fifteen interceptions, fourteen fumbles. That's a that's a pretty large
Speaker 1: sample size, and I think Golf will be fine in
Speaker 1: the long run. I'm actually not as worried, but they're
Speaker 1: passing game has been pretty mediocre now for almost a year.
Speaker 1: I think stress We spend the offseason looking at the
Speaker 1: free agent pickups, and it's wide receivers and running backs
Speaker 1: and all these fantasy guys, but the Rams are studied.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of these teams out there that went
Speaker 1: into the season with a totally inadequate line, and everyone suffers,
Speaker 1: everyone's reputation suffers. Sean McVeigh. I mean, it's like the
Speaker 1: offense looks plain and ordinary to me right now, and
Speaker 1: they don't have a first round pick over the course
Speaker 1: of five years. That's absolutely true. There's a belief out
Speaker 1: there among some people who evaluate quarterbacks that you throw
Speaker 1: out everything that's not a drop back, that you take
Speaker 1: the training wheels off with all the boot action, role
Speaker 1: action r p o s and you go by drop backs.
Speaker 1: And that's where Jared Goff struggles, when you take away
Speaker 1: the training wheels of the boot action and the play action.
Speaker 1: Did they have the whole season in front of them, though,
Speaker 1: And I could see why they could be optimistic. If
Speaker 1: you beat the Falcons and the Bengals the next two weeks,
Speaker 1: you get to your by you of the Steelers. After that,
Speaker 1: the schedule opens up pretty nicely. I think they're smart
Speaker 1: enough to fix some things on the fly and be
Speaker 1: a better team in December. We'll see if they lost
Speaker 1: one of those games in the next two weeks, especially Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: if there was a fan base here, they'd go absolutely
Speaker 1: nuts over it. By the way, Dan Jalen Ramsey wanted
Speaker 1: you to know and a quote, just wait to see
Speaker 1: the type of swag I bring by ram They do
Speaker 1: a pretty good job filling up that building. Now the
Speaker 1: Chargers there, I mean, that's gonna be our We're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to work at the same building as Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey in a couple of years. He's gonna be there.
Speaker 1: Can't wait the Chargers. And we didn't hit this story,
Speaker 1: but God, the Dignity Healthcare Sports Park. I mean, guys,
Speaker 1: I know you were trying to do the rick roll
Speaker 1: thing that's very popular where you try to lower in
Speaker 1: the opposing fans in the building. Is it? It was
Speaker 1: that was popular like a decade ago. It's still popular.
Speaker 1: When we went to Petco down in San Diego for
Speaker 1: West's bachelor party, they did the same thing with the
Speaker 1: Reds or something I believe, I can't remember. It's pretty
Speaker 1: bad when you're trying to get the Reds fans and yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, you can't play the Steelers party
Speaker 1: song or whatever when the place is Steelers fans because
Speaker 1: when you go to the rick roll, they're just gonna
Speaker 1: keep going nuts and waving the yellow flags. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it looked terrible on Twitter, and you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: such a tough last station need right now because it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna get more magnified when the opposing fan base
Speaker 1: surrounded by a flood of empty seats. It's you they
Speaker 1: cannot move into a stadium five times the side. And
Speaker 1: you would think that that that type of thing, something
Speaker 1: as silly as that this would be something that would
Speaker 1: be talked about on Twitter and that would be it.
Speaker 1: But no, the Chargers players, they're on the sideline. They
Speaker 1: feel it that they are the enemy in their own building,
Speaker 1: and they go to the media and and express how
Speaker 1: unhappy they wear with it. I mean, I feel it
Speaker 1: for those guys. It's a tough situation. UM. The teams
Speaker 1: West close it out an a f C East showdown.
Speaker 1: I refused to call this the Ryan Fitzpatrick revenge game,
Speaker 1: going back to Buffalo where they once overpaid him to
Speaker 1: the tune of like six years and sixty six million dollars.
Speaker 1: Are people floating it as a thinking now, well, if
Speaker 1: in defense of this whole thing, like Ryan Fitzpatrick, almost
Speaker 1: every game he plays as a revenge game. He's played
Speaker 1: for fourteen different teams at this point. This is the
Speaker 1: the Um paid him the most handsomely while he was there,
Speaker 1: and then he proceeded to reward them by playing down
Speaker 1: below his countryt anyway this Greg, I'll be happy to
Speaker 1: trade this to you since it's your beloved Dolphins. But um,
Speaker 1: this is now. This is a one PM game. I
Speaker 1: can't accept another. How is Greig able to force a
Speaker 1: trade into something that he wants and West does not
Speaker 1: want to give away? Well, we'll talk after he's done
Speaker 1: me favors over the years. What's we'll talk that was
Speaker 1: coming off of by could get to five and one
Speaker 1: get ready, And what's exciting to me is Devil's Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary looks like he's back, He's practicing fully and what
Speaker 1: we've seen from him looks like he could be in
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler type of talent on that team, especially in
Speaker 1: the passing game, which they need. Um, I don't think
Speaker 1: t j Yelden is really moving the needle as your
Speaker 1: past passing down back. So get Singletary in there. No
Speaker 1: more is a Jones. They like Duke Williams and we'll
Speaker 1: see if Duke Williams starts playing more as a number
Speaker 1: two there. Josh Allen I don't think has gotten better
Speaker 1: this year, but he is mean off maybe his best
Speaker 1: game of the year against the Titans. I know they
Speaker 1: only one fourteen to seven. But I thought Josh Allen
Speaker 1: played a very clean, good game, Whereas if he played
Speaker 1: that each week, they'd be in business. The Dolphins have
Speaker 1: zero pastor. Of all the things that the Dolphins do, poorly,
Speaker 1: rushing the pastor, you know, might be number one. Maybe
Speaker 1: protect protecting the pastor might be number one, and rushing
Speaker 1: the pastor is number two. So this we can give you,
Speaker 1: then this is the day they should get up. You know,
Speaker 1: I know we're not into the whole desert thing and whatnot.
Speaker 1: If there is, you are, if there was a thing
Speaker 1: out there, you know, just making a hot take, like
Speaker 1: what are the odds that the Buffalo Bills get a
Speaker 1: playoff by in the year two thousand nineteen where they're
Speaker 1: a top two, a f C seed, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I would take that. I feel like they got a chance.
Speaker 1: They got a chance to win division and get a
Speaker 1: top two is definitely a chance. But they you look
Speaker 1: at their weekly results, I mean they're putting up about
Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen points and holding teams to ten. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why Leslie for Asia has I'm remissed to not
Speaker 1: have mentioned him in the running for assistant coach of
Speaker 1: the year. I know that he you know, the shine
Speaker 1: is off after the Minnesota experience and all that business.
Speaker 1: But sometimes that's what happens is they go back to
Speaker 1: the comfort. If that's the word of being a coordinator.
Speaker 1: You hone, you've you've already been out there in the
Speaker 1: bigger world. You go back to the smaller town of
Speaker 1: the coordinator, and you just start dropping bombs. I mean,
Speaker 1: what more can you ask him to do with this defense?
Speaker 1: To your point, Greg four and one and by the way,
Speaker 1: the last two times the bill started four and one,
Speaker 1: uh in the century, they missed the playoffs. But this
Speaker 1: is different because look at the schedule ahead they have
Speaker 1: as as we're talking about Miami at home, you get
Speaker 1: the Eagles at home, which six weeks ago seemed like
Speaker 1: a Titanic challenge. Potentially, now you feel like they can
Speaker 1: handle the Eagles, you know, outside of their building. Then
Speaker 1: you get the Redskins at home, so you've got three
Speaker 1: straight home games. You really you you don't have to
Speaker 1: squint to see three wins there that would put him
Speaker 1: at seven and one. Then you go to Cleveland. Who
Speaker 1: knows with Cleveland anymore what you're gonna get with that team?
Speaker 1: Then you go to my ammy and that takes you
Speaker 1: all the way through week eleven, and then things tighten
Speaker 1: up a little bit in the back end, but you
Speaker 1: still got Denver down the stretch, the Jets, who knows who?
Speaker 1: The Steelers, if you take care of a duck, who
Speaker 1: knows what's going on? They they could be you know,
Speaker 1: eight and two. And then if you can get to
Speaker 1: that spot. And we look at the a f C
Speaker 1: because we don't want to get to ahead of ourselves here,
Speaker 1: but you know the Pats are going to be in
Speaker 1: that twelve to sixteen win range. Uh you you assume
Speaker 1: the Chiefs will get into that tend to twelve range,
Speaker 1: and then the Texans are another team you see tend
Speaker 1: to twelve range potentially, and then who else it would be.
Speaker 1: They'll need the Pats to stub their toe and you'll
Speaker 1: probably need to go to New England and win in
Speaker 1: week sixteen. And don't don't chuckle that I said twelve
Speaker 1: to sixteen. It's all in play for your boys again.
Speaker 1: Or or they could wind up with a better record
Speaker 1: than the second by team because they're in New England's division.
Speaker 1: And then still get right, they don't give three buys
Speaker 1: out could change that for the Bills, that would be
Speaker 1: a little bit I feel like they they deserve that
Speaker 1: three buys, So what would happen? Who would the third bus?
Speaker 1: I mean, I like the idea of it, but I
Speaker 1: think I mean that would be kind of almost insulting.
Speaker 1: I mean almost maybe not as insulting as like when
Speaker 1: the Bills through a parade for Andy Dalton because they,
Speaker 1: you know, were the twelve team in the playoffs and
Speaker 1: you know, got steamrolled by Blake Bortles thirteen to six
Speaker 1: or whatever. I mean, it's like that was that was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a loss of dignity. I wish
Speaker 1: this was the team that broke that streak. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's more worthy because what do you think the
Speaker 1: ceiling is for the Bills? Like best case scenario game,
Speaker 1: but twelve twelve wins and win a playoff game. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Pats to somehow with the way that the defense is.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, the twelve wins feels very possible
Speaker 1: in this a f C like getting a Meati chat here.
Speaker 1: Didn't see that coming, didn't see it? Come, Let's move
Speaker 1: to Sunday night football. Oh yeah, now you want to
Speaker 1: talk about two teams that need a w It is
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles traveling to Big Day, Big d Jerro
Speaker 1: World to face the Cowboys, and um West, I'll tee
Speaker 1: you up on this one because I know we heard,
Speaker 1: you know, to three and three teams, But it's the
Speaker 1: Cowboys West who who captured your heart in your imagination
Speaker 1: entering the season and at three and oh and they
Speaker 1: were just rolling over teams. Well, now you look back
Speaker 1: on it, they beat the Giants with Eli Manning. They
Speaker 1: went to FedEx Field and beat the Redskins and then
Speaker 1: beat the Dolphins. As soon as the schedules tightened up,
Speaker 1: and of course there's been injuries, but as soon as
Speaker 1: the schedules tightened up, they have went in the tank.
Speaker 1: Where you at after watching some film was I'm still
Speaker 1: not seeing eye to eye with the rest of the
Speaker 1: football world on this team. I don't know why people
Speaker 1: are picking on this offense and especially the quarterback who
Speaker 1: has been let down by drops, injuries, um, some flukiness
Speaker 1: in the red zone. They need to play better and
Speaker 1: the Jets game was a huge loss considering their schedule,
Speaker 1: but people are misread this team. The offense is playing
Speaker 1: pretty well. They need to do better in the red zone. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they need to get healthy. But it's the defense
Speaker 1: that's failing this team. Um, the star studded defense that
Speaker 1: played so well down the stretch. I think they're twenty
Speaker 1: five and defensive d v A in second in offensive
Speaker 1: d v A. I just don't see this as like
Speaker 1: a bad team or a bad offense. Now. I don't
Speaker 1: know why people are acting like suddenly they're playing terribly.
Speaker 1: They have not been blown out there in all these
Speaker 1: games that they lose. If you had gone into the
Speaker 1: year or even into the week and said, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to play the Jets with Sam Donald without their
Speaker 1: top two tackles a Maori Cooper and Randall Cobb, Like
Speaker 1: if you went into the season and you said, okay,
Speaker 1: they're starting receivers are Cedric Wilson and Tavon Austin, and
Speaker 1: they're starting tackles are the two tackles. The last year,
Speaker 1: no one would have thought they were like a Gangbusters team,
Speaker 1: and they performed and went up and down the field
Speaker 1: pretty well overall against the Jets, You're right, Layton vanderash
Speaker 1: and Jalen Smith make a play. I mean they're I'm
Speaker 1: not like killing I don't think they're problems. Of course
Speaker 1: they're not problems. But they haven't been making big time
Speaker 1: game changing plays like they did a year ago. They've
Speaker 1: just kind of been fine. I think that takes a
Speaker 1: little bit away, not that you're trying to do this
Speaker 1: Greg from the Jets, though, who this is the Cowboys? Sorry,
Speaker 1: but this is what they tout themselves to be and
Speaker 1: they were banged up. But if anyone had said a
Speaker 1: week ago, like the Cowboys are going to march into
Speaker 1: New into New Jersey and lose to the Jets, that
Speaker 1: would have not been an acceptable proposition for the Cows
Speaker 1: are good offensively, I think now, or they have a
Speaker 1: chance to be pretty good offensively. I guess it was
Speaker 1: more of the Cowboys offense that I think. If you
Speaker 1: can put up almost four hundred yards and twenty three
Speaker 1: points as they did, like what more do you expect
Speaker 1: of a team with that crew out there? I mean,
Speaker 1: I just don't understand the criticism. But they're losing every
Speaker 1: week right now, so that's why they're getting killed in
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett especially. It's been another week where people are
Speaker 1: wondering if Jason Garrett is somebody that deserves to be
Speaker 1: the head coach of the team. Farek question, that's a
Speaker 1: different conversation. But this is I wouldn't call this a game.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a dirt knap game for
Speaker 1: these teams. But I do think, um, it's an incredibly
Speaker 1: important game for both teams and for the Cowboys they
Speaker 1: go into a buy after this UH and come back
Speaker 1: and get the Giants UH in New York, which won't
Speaker 1: won't be an easy game, it never really is. But
Speaker 1: I will say that they can get their season back
Speaker 1: on track pretty quickly if they could deliver a good
Speaker 1: performance at home. I kind of expected to play out
Speaker 1: that way, and I think, why don't we pick this game?
Speaker 1: We haven't picked the game yet, Mark, what do you
Speaker 1: think Eagles at Jeral World. Eagles to me on offense
Speaker 1: just lack identity at the moment. And their defense is
Speaker 1: I think that they have they get right defense for
Speaker 1: whoever they played right now, and I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna win this game. Typical Sunday Night NFC East,
Speaker 1: tight matchup, last second field or a touchdown by the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: This is how far in my own head I am
Speaker 1: on the locks. I was gonna lock up the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But then I realized I'd actually be really invested in
Speaker 1: this game while it was going on, Whereas with the
Speaker 1: Falcons and Rams. If I lose that one, who cares,
Speaker 1: You're not even gonna watch it. Plus if you if
Speaker 1: you bailed and went into this game, Mark has already
Speaker 1: used his bail out, so he would be stuck with
Speaker 1: the one in five teams. This was actually my lock, Dallas,
Speaker 1: but it's shaky. Well, this it's a tricky one. I
Speaker 1: took the Cowboys In my game picks column, my picks
Speaker 1: have been poor NFL dot Com slash game picks. You
Speaker 1: know you really go for the you know the joke. Overall,
Speaker 1: what's the overall picks have been poor slash games. I
Speaker 1: mean they're not as bad as our locks, but they're bad.
Speaker 1: But I do really think the injuries as bad as
Speaker 1: Dr Rainmaker. No, not that bad. Tell the stories. De
Speaker 1: Sean Jackson, we don't know if he's gonna play. It
Speaker 1: sounds like he's probably out. Randall Cobb and Marie Cooper
Speaker 1: are both missing practice again. They expect Mariy Cooper to
Speaker 1: practice in some fashion on Fridays and then and then
Speaker 1: it does look like they're going to get their tackles
Speaker 1: back though, so Tyrant Smith and Yole Collins should be back,
Speaker 1: so that's that's a boost for them. I like I
Speaker 1: took the Cowboys by a point. I mean it was
Speaker 1: I don't feel good about it's I think it was
Speaker 1: six a little higher scoring. May whoever loses that the
Speaker 1: losing team's fan base and you know, media corps is
Speaker 1: gonna be on fire. Yeah, but it's the right division
Speaker 1: to fall to three or three to four, and because
Speaker 1: it's like there's no six and two, the loser goes
Speaker 1: two ft under. I don't bury like that. When you
Speaker 1: were buried under found you die if you don't breathe
Speaker 1: for twelve. Because if I'm not going either of these
Speaker 1: teams there yet. Even if the Eagles lose this game,
Speaker 1: there one game back and they just lost the road
Speaker 1: game to Dallas and they get them back later, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not a devastating until there's a month long streak
Speaker 1: in one direction or another. These teams aren't going to
Speaker 1: separate from each other. Trying to get you a show, Mark,
Speaker 1: trying to get your own network show. You just gonna
Speaker 1: work with me here? What is it? The show? It
Speaker 1: sounds like, that's not gonna get a cat in this building. West,
Speaker 1: what was your pick? Six and a half? Cowboys? Cowboys? Easy? Hard? Well?
Speaker 1: I was going to lock it, as I said, it
Speaker 1: was easy until I realized I was going to be
Speaker 1: invested in it throughout the game. West, we would twin
Speaker 1: jump over to this game and twin lock up the boys.
Speaker 1: Why not makes that night fun? All right, let's do it?
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. We're locking about the cowca No,
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, right, Yeah, but it's more fun. Falcons
Speaker 1: are gonna win. Well, I don't want to hear about that.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars will win, the Falcons will win, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will lead it. Yes, that's exactly. But we're we are Dan,
Speaker 1: we are also we do have shards of manliness in
Speaker 1: us too. It's not just you and there has to
Speaker 1: be some accountability or a loser here. I like it.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be fun. Just went from like a
Speaker 1: three three and a half point underdog to a three
Speaker 1: point favorite. So you're you're we're you're living large. I
Speaker 1: don't look at that stuff very good. West. That was smart.
Speaker 1: This makes a lot more sense. I like you like Falcons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that him that that was highly masculine to go one
Speaker 1: in five. This one is why do you only give
Speaker 1: West credit for these locks over? What you don't want
Speaker 1: is affirmation from us about what's a good luck? I
Speaker 1: like that Mark, he needed a terrible call to get
Speaker 1: hairs all. It's all the nonsense. If Mark, who has
Speaker 1: really been so generous with his social media love and
Speaker 1: boosting all of our boosting all of our tweets in Instagram, Yeah,
Speaker 1: really retweeting us, He's now doing that with me on
Speaker 1: locks and I appreciate whatever takes us. Finally, Monday night football,
Speaker 1: let's go Eagles the other a f C East game.
Speaker 1: Now I got something to root for. It to be
Speaker 1: fun crash into the ocean. It's not going to go
Speaker 1: that way. The New England Patriots are undefeated, first place
Speaker 1: in a f C East. They traveled to the Meadow
Speaker 1: Ends to face those New York Jets who finally got
Speaker 1: their first win of the season. Um in a game
Speaker 1: that Greg is spooked by it. And I know it
Speaker 1: because I couldn't feel it. I could feel it. He
Speaker 1: Greg usually gets a little bit jumpy about Pat's games
Speaker 1: that most people expect dominance, But I think this one
Speaker 1: especially is on his radar a little bit. Yes or no,
Speaker 1: I think they could lose the game. Yes, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say I'm spooked by it because it doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: like a big game or a meaningful game. If he
Speaker 1: didn't introduce it in that way, Greg's nest next sentence
Speaker 1: was going to be I'm a little spooked by this.
Speaker 1: He just doesn't want to admit. I'm also annoyed. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be able to watch this game because
Speaker 1: of life things getting in the way, which is very annoying. Curious.
Speaker 1: I had to switch around the the other podcast justin
Speaker 1: Nick and Rosenthal Vanity Project tape that night because my
Speaker 1: daughter has this huge uh Fall Festival thing that she
Speaker 1: was really looking forward to and we couldn't make it
Speaker 1: last you know, year the following night. So now I'm out,
Speaker 1: good dad, work, annoying, good words, annoying. Then what you
Speaker 1: had to do, well, it's gonna be a good game
Speaker 1: for you to miss, because the Jets are coming to
Speaker 1: play and get back on their feet. And guess what
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this, I'm looking ahead. I am I'm
Speaker 1: one of the I'm one of the only optimistic Jets
Speaker 1: fans in the world. I believe them uh to be
Speaker 1: a team that their Patriots run. A dynasty run is
Speaker 1: always just around the corner if they ever ever took
Speaker 1: care of the Patriots. On Monday night, I'm looking ahead
Speaker 1: and I see at Jacksonville, at Miami home to Giants,
Speaker 1: at Washington home to Oakland, at Cincinnati home to Miami
Speaker 1: through Week fourteen, Boulevard of green lights. Basically the Patriots
Speaker 1: what they've had so far that the cake Patriots Now.
Speaker 1: When I when I looked at the schedule at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, before everything went to hell, I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, if they can get to through weeks six,
Speaker 1: at three and three or even two and four, they
Speaker 1: had a shot. When they started owing four, it just
Speaker 1: seemed like it's more likely they'd be oh and seven
Speaker 1: by the time they got to the Dolphins. But now
Speaker 1: you can at least talk yourself into some thing crazy
Speaker 1: happening and then winning back to back games to get
Speaker 1: to that too and four and put themselves in some
Speaker 1: type of position to be relevant in December, which is
Speaker 1: all any Jet fan could ask for, considering how poorly
Speaker 1: the season, I couldn't agree more. And if you look
Speaker 1: at the zero or one win teams around the league.
Speaker 1: They all are wildly gigantic, messy operations with zero hope
Speaker 1: except for the Jets. And it has everything to do
Speaker 1: with what happened last week. And you know, you can
Speaker 1: over praise Donald for some of the stuff that happened
Speaker 1: down the stretch last year, but a lot of it's
Speaker 1: confirmed by the play I saw against the Cowboys. It
Speaker 1: is we will just not know how hard it is
Speaker 1: to come off the kind of illness he had. We
Speaker 1: don't know what he was dealing with you here, you know, yes,
Speaker 1: that's great. When you were eighteen, you had Mono. Good
Speaker 1: for you. You You have no idea what it means to
Speaker 1: go back and then deal with on field practice all week,
Speaker 1: short week and then roll in and deal with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I thought the way through the ball, the ways saw
Speaker 1: the field, everything changed in that offense. All you really
Speaker 1: can ask for from a quarterback is that the same
Speaker 1: parts that were unable to do anything for a week
Speaker 1: on n e weeks on end come in and play
Speaker 1: in Unison the way they did with Donald. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see a little more from Levy on Bell. I
Speaker 1: think that will come in time, But they still have
Speaker 1: a bad offensive line. But and I'm not just saying this, Dan,
Speaker 1: because I know you're a Jets fan. I truly think
Speaker 1: they have a chance to be one of these second
Speaker 1: half teams that because of the schedule, one because of
Speaker 1: who they are, will be interesting. And that's not the
Speaker 1: worst thing to ask for as a fan. There is
Speaker 1: a revenge game here, oh, I mean a thousand times
Speaker 1: over if not. But I mean, of course you've got
Speaker 1: you know, the Bill Belichick, but you also have Damarus Thomas,
Speaker 1: who was not happy about the way he was out
Speaker 1: this week. Yes, he feels that he was jerked around
Speaker 1: by the Patriots who weren't honest with him. In Belichick
Speaker 1: he actually answered to it. He usually doesn't, and he
Speaker 1: said how much he respected Damarus as a player and
Speaker 1: all that, and he feels, you know, he said it's
Speaker 1: too bad or whatever that you know, they didn't see
Speaker 1: eye to eyes. Basically, Yeah, they Thomas was gonna leave
Speaker 1: for the Jets when they cut him, and they said
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring you back in a week and so,
Speaker 1: and they did. He trusted them, he'd rather be on
Speaker 1: the Patriots. And then they signed Antonio Brown and they
Speaker 1: traded him away it's a bad spot for him. And
Speaker 1: that that said, you know, they're not missing to Marius
Speaker 1: Thomas even though they could use you know, they need
Speaker 1: wide receivers in general. I'm just more interested to see
Speaker 1: what Donald does against this defense. It sounds crazy, but
Speaker 1: the Jets offense with Sam Donald might be the best
Speaker 1: offense that the Patriots have played this year. That says,
Speaker 1: that says easy, and often they did, but they were
Speaker 1: they weren't operating well, and they continued to not operate
Speaker 1: well within without Ben Roethlisberger last week. I think when
Speaker 1: you saw Donald, he moved the ball, he moved his
Speaker 1: feet in the pocket so well he moves away from
Speaker 1: pressure and still is able to grow is incredible. It's
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's like Tom Brady, but you know,
Speaker 1: a much more athletic, you know, but but moving and
Speaker 1: staying in the pocket is really impressive. And then he
Speaker 1: changes speeds like no one else. I mean, he can
Speaker 1: throw the touch pass, he can throw the heater. He
Speaker 1: he mixes and knows what speed to go with better
Speaker 1: than anyone. I think it's gonna be a wake up
Speaker 1: call for the Jets offense just because this offensive line,
Speaker 1: this offensive line is not good, and I really don't
Speaker 1: trust the Cowboys to put pressure on quarterbacks outside of
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn right now, but I do I do think
Speaker 1: the Patriots are getting a lot of heat on quarterbacks yea,
Speaker 1: and from their linebackers and one of its highest sac
Speaker 1: rate in the NFL. Wow. And it's it's not a
Speaker 1: coincidence that all of a sudden, Uh, you guys can
Speaker 1: tell me about the metrics if you looked at it,
Speaker 1: but all of a sudden, the Jets offensive line was
Speaker 1: able to protect the quarterback. It just shows that it's
Speaker 1: it's a two part deal. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to block, but the quarterback has to have that awareness,
Speaker 1: the spatial awareness, and that's why they actually were able
Speaker 1: to extend plays and take shots down field because he
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing back there. So it's very exciting
Speaker 1: to have Donald back. West could be absolutely right. The
Speaker 1: Jets have had more than a few of these games
Speaker 1: where they thought they were gonna, you know, put New
Speaker 1: England on the ropes or or hanging a game. And
Speaker 1: it's twenty eight to three late in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: so it could go either way. But I think will
Speaker 1: be potentially a fun Monday Night game, and maybe, just
Speaker 1: maybe booger McFarland will put some respect on Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: name this. We'll see though, what happened. Oh yeah, he
Speaker 1: didn't like well no, just the he called. He said
Speaker 1: it was a selfish play on the hit on Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: and then the league actually rescinded the fine. Um so
Speaker 1: selfish was a weird word to use in that situation. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, good preview, guys, saucy preview. So just the
Speaker 1: and the the locks. You guys both have the Cowboys correct?
Speaker 1: That will be fun Sunday Night football. So yes, coming
Speaker 1: up later tonight. Yes, uh, the scientists recapt theirs the
Speaker 1: Night Football, and then we'll be back Sunday night to
Speaker 1: recap all the games we just previewed. The wheel keeps turning,
Speaker 1: Stand Hanson signing off, four Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the
Speaker 1: Old Boss, Eddie Spaghetti, Ryan Bartlett, everybody else behind the
Speaker 1: glass till Sunday,