Speaker 1: You around the NFL podcast. It's really digging the Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy glow up from the Chris Westlake podcast studio. It's
Speaker 1: around the NFL podcast. Hands is here Greg Rosen and
Speaker 1: in the new studio for the first time, and what arextrees?
Speaker 1: It is? What a place this. It's like it's still
Speaker 1: got that new car smell. Everything is like bright and shiny.
Speaker 1: People are smiling, I think because they're wearing masks, but
Speaker 1: their eyes are smiling. You're just giving me a major
Speaker 1: like Kristen Wig vibes of that characters the first time
Speaker 1: I've been called that, christ Wick. But now now back
Speaker 1: into the Wolf times. The main reason we're you here
Speaker 1: with you because you could blur that out right, blurt
Speaker 1: out from my memory. But it's great to have me
Speaker 1: Connie sitting in for Mark Sessler, who is on the
Speaker 1: mend and uh, you know, we told Mark take your time,
Speaker 1: get right come back, and he is very antsy but
Speaker 1: also knows um he needs to give this little time.
Speaker 1: So Mark is on the right path. Everybody should know
Speaker 1: that he's not in hospital. He's recuperating at home, but
Speaker 1: he's taking it easy. And Connie nice enough to be
Speaker 1: in the Sessler chair. And when you're in the Sessler chair,
Speaker 1: Connie Fox, that tiny box, you got to bring that
Speaker 1: Sessler energy. Well, I definitely had to come in this
Speaker 1: week after you called me big box last week, like
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. So that's that's a great way
Speaker 1: to get floaded huge box. I'm so sorry. I stand corrected, um,
Speaker 1: but now I don't think that one's gonna take um.
Speaker 1: All right, I hope not. Please, and we will. You're
Speaker 1: always on on the Tuesday Show to talk Thursday night football,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get to that in a little bit
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville's Jaguars at Cincinnati Bengals. We'll get caught up debate,
Speaker 1: caught up to date on if Colleen used any of
Speaker 1: m A t N slang and any other h A
Speaker 1: T N Easter eggs on last Thursday's telecasts on NFL Network.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to hear about that. Uh. Coming up
Speaker 1: later in this episode as well, we will. We're gonna
Speaker 1: break down any we called this buy or sell on
Speaker 1: extreme starts. So teams that are three and oh, teams
Speaker 1: that are own three, maybe teams that aren't winless or
Speaker 1: undefeated but have had kind of extreme starts if we
Speaker 1: want to touch on some teams there. So let's check
Speaker 1: in on where teams are as we head toward week four.
Speaker 1: But before any of that, we got to close the
Speaker 1: door on week three, and yes we gotta do it
Speaker 1: in big d and talk about the Eagles. Let's do it,
Speaker 1: hurts and the gun got or sets right back to
Speaker 1: throw checked out. Don't even intercepted by games quit sound
Speaker 1: funny ny teks us Vane Smith's Phil down and tree
Speaker 1: v teaches the second tablet everyone to intersect passes in
Speaker 1: the first three games of the season. Connie is looking
Speaker 1: skyword for answers on this Eagle season. There are none coming.
Speaker 1: Brad Sham, the sham guy, per Kane r l D.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what that n digs. The playoff. He's
Speaker 1: a nice little playoff. Talk about it. Glow up, yeah,
Speaker 1: glow up. His pick six really sealed the deal early
Speaker 1: in the third quarter for the Cowboys, who got ahead
Speaker 1: early on the Eagles and coasted from their final at
Speaker 1: Jarro World. And Connie, you got a nice, a really
Speaker 1: nice win in week one on the road in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Then the Eagles in week two, Uh, fight hard against
Speaker 1: the very good forty nine team come up short. Could
Speaker 1: have went the other way if they execute better, but
Speaker 1: they didn't. And now how do you make sense of
Speaker 1: a total blowout at the hands of a division rival
Speaker 1: like this. The worst part was the fact that it
Speaker 1: was in primetime against the Cowboys, so it was just
Speaker 1: insult insult insult, And like I asked my mom yesterday
Speaker 1: before the game, what are you gonna do tonight? What
Speaker 1: do you what are you and dad up to? And
Speaker 1: She's like, We're gonna watch the Eagles lose, So she
Speaker 1: she already knew what was coming. That's the true Philadelphia exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing my bad Things Happen in Philadelphia shirt today
Speaker 1: because I can feel the anger all the way here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Um, I I this This team looked
Speaker 1: a mess last night, and it started off right away
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys just coming out to such a hot
Speaker 1: start and they were feeling themselves and you could see it.
Speaker 1: At the half. The Cowboys had more first downs, I believe,
Speaker 1: than the Eagles had run total plays. So it was
Speaker 1: just all so well the end of the first half, Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this that, but this
Speaker 1: was wild at the end of the first half, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had a nineteen to one first down advantage. I
Speaker 1: mean it's outrageous, and even our response to it as
Speaker 1: a little outrageous because like Knyie, you're a Phillip Philly fan.
Speaker 1: Gonzo is he's still a Philly fan. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: he you know, he was born there, so I guess
Speaker 1: it comes from the territory, but he was so actually
Speaker 1: he was born in Vegas. I stand corrected now. I
Speaker 1: think we have that in his bio. Maybe, but John
Speaker 1: has been in too many press boxes, so sometimes he
Speaker 1: has a detached viewpoint on sports. But you're saying that
Speaker 1: secretly he's a little upset about the Eagles, letting you down.
Speaker 1: He when he doesn't really get upset about the Eagles
Speaker 1: or Philadelphia teams, he's either he's happy about it or
Speaker 1: then he kind of just laughs at them. So it's
Speaker 1: not really I think it's a mechanism more than anything else.
Speaker 1: And like what I was getting to is like I'm
Speaker 1: sneaky and Eagles fan. I don't know if you know
Speaker 1: that I really am. I think I always I always
Speaker 1: root for them. I've loved them since Andy Reid was there.
Speaker 1: How can you not love Andy Reid was always one
Speaker 1: of my favorite, but Reid's now with the Chief seems
Speaker 1: to watch I know, but it's like, I know, I
Speaker 1: know people who like the Eagles, who maybe work for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. My daughter likes the Eagles for some reason,
Speaker 1: just like birds. Anyways, I've overrated them going into this,
Speaker 1: but they were like, they're not the main characters here.
Speaker 1: They're just kind of there, like this was a story
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys, that Cowboys are one of these stories
Speaker 1: of the season. The Eagles maybe they'll have a chance
Speaker 1: to be friskier in the mix or not. Like everyone
Speaker 1: looked at this division is like, well, maybe it only
Speaker 1: takes seven eight nine wins. No, I mean the ceiling
Speaker 1: has been raised significantly. Number One, the offense, which you thought, okay,
Speaker 1: on paper, maybe this is one of the best offenses
Speaker 1: in the league, but for some reason I was doubting it. Um.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see Dak back from his injury. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see the offensive line all back from their things.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see it all work again. And then
Speaker 1: you're watching for these three games and you're like, oh, wait,
Speaker 1: these are all veterans who have been with Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: forever who are awesome continuity, and a quarterback who's in
Speaker 1: total control. And then the bigger surprises that dan Quinn
Speaker 1: has their defense playing frisky, And suddenly I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this Cowboys team, I'm thinking this is not a division
Speaker 1: that should be close. They are gonna be the heavy
Speaker 1: favorites in all their division games. They are the best offense,
Speaker 1: not just in division, but maybe in the entire NFL,
Speaker 1: and the this is gonna be a story I'm falling for.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not following for these Cowboys, but I'm believing.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you can put, like how
Speaker 1: much stock can you put into the fact that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys with the Eagles looking so the Eagles hadn't given
Speaker 1: up a play over twenty yards like all season going
Speaker 1: into this game. And I know they were playing the
Speaker 1: Falcons in the forty nine, but they were extremely competitive
Speaker 1: and looked pretty well coached on defense. And I know
Speaker 1: they've lost some players and that that's gonna hurt them,
Speaker 1: but to me, it's more just about great offense versus
Speaker 1: a good defense. In great offense is gonna walk walk
Speaker 1: them all over the field, kind of like they did
Speaker 1: to the Chargers. Even though that it didn't show on
Speaker 1: the scoreboard. They they have moved the ball really well
Speaker 1: three straight weeks. I wrote in the new Power Rankings
Speaker 1: the first line, I wrote, the Cowboys look like the
Speaker 1: best team in the NFC East, and it's not particularly close.
Speaker 1: So this idea that a lot of us had come
Speaker 1: in into the season that this division could play out
Speaker 1: like it did last year, where it's a bunch of
Speaker 1: fumbling teams around five hundred. Maybe a ten and seven
Speaker 1: team comes out of the mix, but it's probably like
Speaker 1: nine and eight beats out eight and nine to go
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I don't know, man, this looks like
Speaker 1: a ten or eleven win Cowboy team. And if we're
Speaker 1: given Kellen Moore credit, we're giving dan Quinn credit. I
Speaker 1: know he's not a popular character here, but Mike and
Speaker 1: I know they made some time management. You know what
Speaker 1: he's gonna do is watch Kellen Moore become the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Dallas Cowboys like after this season, even
Speaker 1: if they go to It's it's one of my least
Speaker 1: favorite tropes of this podcast where we become enemies. We
Speaker 1: we see veteran coaches as enemies and don't give them
Speaker 1: any credit without realizing that they're running the operations. So
Speaker 1: if the coaching staff is thriving, you have to give
Speaker 1: the boss some credit. He's not a boss getting a
Speaker 1: massage up there by himself during team meetings. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: he was at some point, but that was a long
Speaker 1: time ago. The point being that Monday was filled with
Speaker 1: Mojoe moments, uh for Mike McCarthy's team. And it's not
Speaker 1: just it's not just Ceedee Lamb and a Marii Cooper
Speaker 1: that are making big plays. It is Ezekiel Elliott. After
Speaker 1: all that Hanry Zeke looks fine, he had a big
Speaker 1: game here. It is Tony Pollard. It's it's a great
Speaker 1: one to punch there. Dalton's Dalton Schultz is making plays.
Speaker 1: I don't know where they get these guys, these Nova
Speaker 1: check Witten Schultz types, but the Cowboys always seemed to
Speaker 1: do it. And Trayvon Diggs um they needed stars and
Speaker 1: talked about this before the season to emerge on defense.
Speaker 1: Michael Parson seems like he's gonna be that guy. Trayvon
Speaker 1: Diggs could be a star in the back end. I
Speaker 1: do want to just point out to with all the
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard buzz that was going on, like he wasn't
Speaker 1: face saying nearly the amount of stack boxes that Zeke
Speaker 1: was so a lot of that had to do with
Speaker 1: his success early on in the season. But this game,
Speaker 1: I know that we don't want to talk so much
Speaker 1: about the Eagles because they were such a mess, but
Speaker 1: I do want to just say I thought that it
Speaker 1: was really weird the entire game plan, the fact that
Speaker 1: they didn't run the ball, especially in the first half, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, you fall behind, you don't run the ball,
Speaker 1: but they did not come out and run at all.
Speaker 1: I mean to surprise him. And they're the Cowboys. Third
Speaker 1: string back Corey Clement, who used to actually play for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, had more carries than the Eagles number one
Speaker 1: guy Like this that should not be Where does this
Speaker 1: coaching staff fall on Miles Sanders. It doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: they are interested in making him a focal point of
Speaker 1: the offense, and he's shown in the past that he
Speaker 1: could be that. Yeah, and the first two games of
Speaker 1: the season the Eagles ran the ball. Well, it's like
Speaker 1: you know what, Nick Sirianni and your highlighter and your visor,
Speaker 1: why don't you like focus on how about the way
Speaker 1: he puts his pen in the side of the visor,
Speaker 1: like me, the wrong way. Listen, tough game script there
Speaker 1: for their running game, so you got to say that.
Speaker 1: But also it's a team that got penalized thirteen times
Speaker 1: for eight six yards and um, it was just we'll
Speaker 1: bury the ball game. They don't make sense unless there
Speaker 1: were a really great running team. And you know, I've
Speaker 1: been wrong about a lot of things this season, getting
Speaker 1: too excited about the Eagles, thinking that they could be
Speaker 1: kind of Baltimore North? Are they north of Baltimore? Nailed
Speaker 1: it that their offense only makes sense if Jalen hurts
Speaker 1: and their running game is the basis of it, And
Speaker 1: it wasn't that way in Week two against San Francisco.
Speaker 1: They really didn't run it that effectively, or he scrambled
Speaker 1: a lot, but it was just out of structure scrambles
Speaker 1: and they didn't even try in this game. And to me,
Speaker 1: that's like the only way that they're gonna make sense
Speaker 1: and be frisky. But like, you gotta give Quinn, who
Speaker 1: hasn't been um a coordinator for a while, some credit
Speaker 1: that we've all we wanted out of this Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: is just like, hey, can you be average, because if
Speaker 1: you're average, then this team is a championship type content
Speaker 1: under And they've been frisky. They've been missing players up front,
Speaker 1: including DeMarcus Lawrence, and yet they're still getting a lot
Speaker 1: of production. It's not it's not just Parsons, it's the
Speaker 1: rookie a Diggy Zooa is playing pretty well for them. Um,
Speaker 1: we know Parsons is gonna be like a defensive rookie
Speaker 1: of the year. Digs is a player. J Ron Curses
Speaker 1: played great at like safety. They don't need to be amazing.
Speaker 1: Suddenly I think, like, I don't know, this could an
Speaker 1: offense they have and they have great potential. It's like
Speaker 1: they're throwing a right They're throwing a right tackle for
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins and he stuffs the Eagles all night. He
Speaker 1: was that. You didn't hear a word out of Terrence Steele.
Speaker 1: I am gonna appeal to your desert, desert loving life, Greg.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set the over under now after three weeks
Speaker 1: for the two one Cowboys at ten and a half,
Speaker 1: I'll go over back. I want to look at the schedule,
Speaker 1: but I would go over. I did pick them to
Speaker 1: win the division. Oh look, there's something I had picked Washington,
Speaker 1: I believe, but that doesn't feel like it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: happen right now. But it's still very early. Let's see
Speaker 1: what happens. But for now, the Cowboys ruled the East
Speaker 1: and it seems definitive. All right, that's Monday night football.
Speaker 1: Oh and they might have the best quarterback in the
Speaker 1: league too. I mean that we didn't bring up that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying like, that's like, That's the thing that
Speaker 1: gets me going more than anything is that he is
Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback who has been surrounded by these players
Speaker 1: in the same system. It's pretty rare in the NFL
Speaker 1: to have a group together like this, and maybe this
Speaker 1: is the group it all comes together because he seems
Speaker 1: like to me, he is like the Peyton and Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: I was watching the Manning cast for the first time
Speaker 1: last Eli threw up the double bird. That was That's
Speaker 1: why I said, blur it out, blur out the loss
Speaker 1: because Walker Walker hates the Manning cast. So while he's
Speaker 1: a way, we watched the first half together. My son
Speaker 1: he's like, what are these guys talking this this tract
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want it. But once he went to
Speaker 1: bed the second half, watched the Manning cast. It's amazing
Speaker 1: by the way, Mark was totally right. I don't need
Speaker 1: the guests just I just want to hear the mannings.
Speaker 1: The analysis is better than any guests. But yeah, but
Speaker 1: any analysts, like they have way better analysis. But what
Speaker 1: I heard from both of them was like their appreciation
Speaker 1: for a kindred spirit and Dak Prescott that I know
Speaker 1: they love all quarterbacks, but like I said it a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago to when he played Brady, like
Speaker 1: who is the successor to the Brady Manning type of quarterback?
Speaker 1: To me, that's Dak Prescott like more than any quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league. Like he is in control of everything,
Speaker 1: he understands everything, and that's him and Kellen Moore. But
Speaker 1: I just think he's he has more like more next
Speaker 1: level mental things to go and you are going to
Speaker 1: have to really throw some things at him, a different
Speaker 1: call every other play, Like Nick Saban was one of
Speaker 1: the guests, not that keep Bramley and I'm sorry, just
Speaker 1: like making a joke he learned when he was the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: because it was like if I showed you the same
Speaker 1: coverage two plays in a row, we learned that we
Speaker 1: were dead, like that was something you just can't do
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And that's what Doc is to me.
Speaker 1: It's like Tom Brady, Dac those guys, like if you
Speaker 1: don't keep mixing it up every other play, he's gonna
Speaker 1: freaking kill you. I saw everybody ripping Saban because he
Speaker 1: had terrible lighting. Was he like he had he didn't
Speaker 1: really understand there's like a game going on, and he
Speaker 1: sort of treated it like an interview. He had some
Speaker 1: pretty interesting answers actually, of like why doesn't everyone play
Speaker 1: hurry up all the time, like like they do in college?
Speaker 1: And I was just he's just because, like it really
Speaker 1: hurts the defense and that's how every college team plays.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's that's a good note. But
Speaker 1: that was Nick Saban. But he was an NFL head coach,
Speaker 1: right he was. He was, Yeah, those Dolphins teams were underrated.
Speaker 1: Um they He took a terrible roster and went in
Speaker 1: and six, which is a little okay. Nick Saban was
Speaker 1: a great NFL. Now do we have to litigate everything?
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, do you remember that first Saban season?
Speaker 1: They were they were a winning team with the terrible
Speaker 1: it was you know, a fairly unmemorable run. He's like
Speaker 1: a college guy. But maybe you're right, what was that
Speaker 1: two thousand four or something later than that six, because
Speaker 1: it was Drew Brees is his first year in New
Speaker 1: Orleans six and seven. The dack thing, I think is
Speaker 1: snuck up on a lot of a lot of us
Speaker 1: because before going into I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: the year before or last season, you weren't quite sure
Speaker 1: where he fit in in terms of his he and
Speaker 1: elite guys. He's stepped below and now there's just no
Speaker 1: question because a lot of it was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: he's got Ezekiel Elliott, and it felt like that he
Speaker 1: was almost Zeke was like the face of the offense
Speaker 1: at that point. Um, all right, now let's get into it.
Speaker 1: I uh, I did some research. It's very busy. Tuesdays
Speaker 1: are very busy for talk about talk about Tuesday. Golden
Speaker 1: Tate didn't know about talk about I was disappointed. He
Speaker 1: just called you Dan, the man, right, the man. Then
Speaker 1: he's like hey Dan, and then I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Called He's like, You're not so this is
Speaker 1: a good morning football? You're not so excited to talk
Speaker 1: to me? I guess. I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I said, hello, what am I supposed to do? It
Speaker 1: was a weird moment, made me laugh. Gold take oh
Speaker 1: my good man. On a UM's doing a nice job
Speaker 1: in the uh, the Nate chair. You're in the Mark chair.
Speaker 1: Golden's in the Nate chair. Um by cell on extreme starts,
Speaker 1: you're in the Connie chair. I mean, she's done enough
Speaker 1: full shows at this point there. I mean, we can
Speaker 1: put press on you. What do you You don't need
Speaker 1: to be on the White Night a horse right now? Greg.
Speaker 1: I'm of course Connie's a part of the show. She's
Speaker 1: the fabric of the show. But I was just mentioning
Speaker 1: that that's Mark's chair. Dan, how is Gregg making you
Speaker 1: feel today on the show? He's hurting me. But I
Speaker 1: was kind of pivoting this to like, we can have
Speaker 1: a weekly chair here for you on Tuesdays. That doesn't
Speaker 1: it's so nice she would take us up on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be like one time thing where
Speaker 1: you'ren has another podcast now on Tuesday's Well wait were
Speaker 1: we record on Tuesday's? Uh? And it drops on Wednesday's
Speaker 1: next week coming up split ends, It's basically odds and
Speaker 1: ends just a whole podcast of it. That's so you
Speaker 1: jack the I P of this program for your own.
Speaker 1: That's fine. That happens a lot. I think it's smart
Speaker 1: on NFL media. But hey, Erica, what is this show about?
Speaker 1: Like where do you come in? And are you gonna
Speaker 1: be given us spitt in some takes to or you
Speaker 1: just make fun of Colleen during the episode, Like how
Speaker 1: how do you see it playing out? No, it's both
Speaker 1: of us. We're talking about fun um stories around the league,
Speaker 1: like Matt Naggie was in a McDonald's hiring commercial. I
Speaker 1: mean you can't. I mean, yeah, see this, this is
Speaker 1: the stuff that you will learn. Damn all right, talking
Speaker 1: about the fun stuff around the league and split ends
Speaker 1: have some scoop there. It is ice cream that we're
Speaker 1: going to taste us next week. Yeah, that's fun. Do
Speaker 1: you think photo shoot yesterday that was fun? Do you
Speaker 1: think Colleen is in it for the long hole? You
Speaker 1: think she's going to be on the show every week?
Speaker 1: Or it's gonna be one of those things where she's
Speaker 1: on the first episode and then the second episode ends
Speaker 1: up getting delayed two days, but it goes up and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden weeks, you know, six and seven,
Speaker 1: she's out of town on or something like. Definitely, where's
Speaker 1: your concern level that this is not gonna be a
Speaker 1: regular level? Isn't isn't good? We had a good business
Speaker 1: meeting over coffee yesterday. I think we kind of set
Speaker 1: our expectations. I think dam Posey is looking at this
Speaker 1: as a real opportunity to have her own show coming
Speaker 1: up in the future. Yeah. Yeah, the show must go on,
Speaker 1: whether Connie's there or not. All right, check out split ends.
Speaker 1: When's the first episode? The trailer dropped today, So The
Speaker 1: Feet is live on Spotify. I heart Stitcher. Good, I'll
Speaker 1: check that out. Subscribe, subscribe, everybody. Let's take a break.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it. I did my research, is what
Speaker 1: I was trying to say. Even though it's talk about
Speaker 1: Tuesday and I'm very busy. I love that. Um I
Speaker 1: checked in. There are five three and no teams. This
Speaker 1: is research. There are five oh and three teams? Okay,
Speaker 1: and uh but it's still wait three, Greg, and and
Speaker 1: a lot can change. So maybe we could cherry pick
Speaker 1: from those teams. And uh, let's start there, Greg, Let's
Speaker 1: start with the Windless and Undefeated teams, and then we
Speaker 1: can get to the teams that are have a winner
Speaker 1: or two wins also, But um, why don't you get
Speaker 1: a scone? Mr Rose? You I mean I would see
Speaker 1: I was going to pick a non a non winless team,
Speaker 1: But let's let's start with the Broncos then, because that's
Speaker 1: kind of what I was kind of leading toward. I
Speaker 1: knew you. I wanna well, I just want to hear
Speaker 1: where you guys are at with them, because look, they
Speaker 1: they've won three games by the score of seventy six.
Speaker 1: That's you know, if you just heard those status would
Speaker 1: think that's awesome. This is the best team in the
Speaker 1: league point differential. I don't think anyone sees them that way.
Speaker 1: But now that they're gonna face kind of the the
Speaker 1: meat of their schedule to get Baltimore this week, I'm
Speaker 1: curious how you guys kind of I think they can
Speaker 1: move through this season because the injuries really concerned me
Speaker 1: so far. If you name the players that are out
Speaker 1: for them, it's a lot of their best players. kJ
Speaker 1: Hamler blew out his knee this weekend and that that
Speaker 1: was a bummer because we know we already lost Jerry
Speaker 1: Judy and Courtland Sutton, even though he popped in week two,
Speaker 1: it's still a guy that's coming back from a serious
Speaker 1: knee injury himself. So you're you're wondering there, But I
Speaker 1: will tell you this, Greg, So I have I have
Speaker 1: the Broncos at twelve in the Power ranks, which is
Speaker 1: kind of like waiting, not really buying, but also I'm
Speaker 1: in wait and see mode, but also given them respect
Speaker 1: for winning three in a row. It is just and
Speaker 1: this wasn't something I did for effect. It's literally the
Speaker 1: situation that they their season, their wins are against the
Speaker 1: teams that are thirty, thirty one and thirty two in
Speaker 1: the Power rankings. Like, you can't make this stuff up. Historically,
Speaker 1: this is one of the softest starts to schedule you've
Speaker 1: ever seen. So my my issue is not that I
Speaker 1: don't think they're good, because I think they are. Even
Speaker 1: though they're beating bad teams. They seem sound on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball and well coached. I just don't
Speaker 1: know how you can't be in a little bit of
Speaker 1: a hold mode until you see what they do against
Speaker 1: the real competitor. And I think the Ravens certainly fit
Speaker 1: the bill. I this is a great game to look
Speaker 1: forward to. And Week four this was going to be
Speaker 1: my first team that I was going to sell on
Speaker 1: the show because you look at the quarterbacks that the
Speaker 1: teams that they be. Yeah, I am, I am because
Speaker 1: I love you know what I do. I love Teddy Bridgewater,
Speaker 1: Greg Um. I want you to know that. I want
Speaker 1: you to just like the defense is very talented as well. Um,
Speaker 1: But beating the Giants, Jags and Jets who are now
Speaker 1: combined oh and nine, Um, that doesn't really uh inspire
Speaker 1: a whole lot of confidence and doesn't light up your
Speaker 1: Christmas tree cuming. It does not, That's not what it does.
Speaker 1: I just want to see them beat teams that aren't left.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Zack Wilson like the Ravens absolutely
Speaker 1: will be a better test for them this week. I
Speaker 1: like that they have the plus three turnover margin. Um,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you get when you have steady
Speaker 1: Teddy in there. But decision making in the past, he's
Speaker 1: almost been overrated for it, like he made a lot
Speaker 1: of mistakes considering he's not like a big playmaker and
Speaker 1: he has been on the money. I do worry the
Speaker 1: handler and Judy. I mean, those are your two kind
Speaker 1: of quickness guys that get open in space. Patrick and
Speaker 1: Sutton are similar players. They're not gonna get that open.
Speaker 1: They're the guys on the outside, but they have a
Speaker 1: running game. If Glasgow and m and Riisner, who are
Speaker 1: there two guards who got hurt in that game, are
Speaker 1: coming back, Judy gets back eventually, maybe Chubb gives you
Speaker 1: something like their Their offense has been really good. I know,
Speaker 1: I know the matchups have been solid, but like they
Speaker 1: looked like the best offense so far against the Jets,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like they looked like they've
Speaker 1: been very under control, well coached, and they have a
Speaker 1: really good one to punch in Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon.
Speaker 1: I think that Teddy is undeniably an upgrade over what
Speaker 1: they had last year, and and I am leaving the
Speaker 1: door open to see that he's gonna actually be closer
Speaker 1: where you saw him and be a legitimate good quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever gonna win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a super Bowl team, but
Speaker 1: I am buying in the sense that I do think
Speaker 1: inc with this hot start with the fact that there.
Speaker 1: They look so good. I think they can win ten games.
Speaker 1: That's where I kind of pegged them right now. Not
Speaker 1: a dominant team, but a solid team that might end
Speaker 1: up eating up one of those wild card spots. I'm
Speaker 1: just worried about the health of the team, like that's
Speaker 1: an issue. I mean, Chubb being on I R with
Speaker 1: the ankle injury, and obviously, um, you just have you
Speaker 1: have a lot of you as another guy didn't mention
Speaker 1: one of their highest paid players. Yeah, so I'm buying
Speaker 1: it like a discount is that? I mean, ten wins
Speaker 1: is going seven and seven the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: And I know it's a tough division and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to play the Browns for instance, out of Division two.
Speaker 1: But I'm more optimists. So you're buying, but you don't
Speaker 1: feel great about the purchase. Yeah, I feel like buyer's
Speaker 1: remorse could happen. But I also I'm not buying it
Speaker 1: and thinking, oh, I'm gonna put this right in the
Speaker 1: middle of my living room. Now I'm thinking of them
Speaker 1: as like some type of piece of art or something
Speaker 1: like like a boss like this one. I'm gonna actually
Speaker 1: put this maybe in the guest bedroom on the dress
Speaker 1: you know, the dresser that used to be in my bedroom.
Speaker 1: And then I got a better addresser, so I'm moving
Speaker 1: gets all of the recycled stuff that you kind of
Speaker 1: just want to push out of where it is in
Speaker 1: your house. So I bought like a you know, moderate vase.
Speaker 1: The brown goes to me, all right, what about you? Okay,
Speaker 1: So I am selling the team the last team that
Speaker 1: I saw on Thursday Night football. I'm going to sell
Speaker 1: the Panthers, who are so right up the bat, the
Speaker 1: two three and oh teams that everyone's freaking out about
Speaker 1: Connie selling on them both. And and it's like, um,
Speaker 1: it's a light cell on the Panthers. Um, but I
Speaker 1: just think that Sam Donald, Yes, he played he played well. Um,
Speaker 1: he's played well this season. I liked last week he
Speaker 1: had the two rushing touchdowns. Um. I'm just really worried
Speaker 1: about Christian McCaffrey and this offense if he loses significant
Speaker 1: time because when he went down in that game with
Speaker 1: the hamstring injury in the second quarter, Uh, you could
Speaker 1: see that Donald was a little rattled and then he
Speaker 1: shook it off and was okay, And everyone's thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just a Hamshire and they didn't put him on
Speaker 1: I R. But honestly, based on what I saw after
Speaker 1: the game, when I was leaving the stadium and I
Speaker 1: saw Christian McCaffrey and he was he was on the car.
Speaker 1: It was sitting in the front seat with the driver.
Speaker 1: He had crutches, he had his hood over his head,
Speaker 1: and he the look on his face it looked like
Speaker 1: he was sick, and that made me feel sick for him.
Speaker 1: So it's just to me in that moment looking at him,
Speaker 1: and that's that's not any inside information or anything else.
Speaker 1: It's just a gut feeling. By looking at his facial expression,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem like it's something he's going to
Speaker 1: be bouncing right back from. And I think that that
Speaker 1: will really hurt the offense. I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: I think this Sam Donald's experiment in Carolina really hinged
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways on having cmc B be
Speaker 1: the lynchpin, and and the fact that he's not on
Speaker 1: I R. Tells you they think they could get him
Speaker 1: back within three weeks. However, you actually saw Christian on
Speaker 1: the cart. I I wasn't even part of the conversation,
Speaker 1: but I overheard a conversation with a prominent retired NFL
Speaker 1: player UM at some point in the last twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to right now, he was saying, like,
Speaker 1: that's that's major. That's a problem. That's a problem because
Speaker 1: even if even if uh McCaffrey comes back, that's something
Speaker 1: that sticks with an athlete. If you really pop a
Speaker 1: hamstring badly and to expect him not only to come back,
Speaker 1: but to come back and be the workhorse again, his
Speaker 1: body is probably not going to allow that. And I
Speaker 1: would imagine a lot of McCaffrey's UM. What made him
Speaker 1: so upset that night is he missed all of last
Speaker 1: year and now he has another injuries just making a
Speaker 1: stutter step. So I'm selling with you. And I'm curious
Speaker 1: where you stand Gregg on Donald because we haven't had
Speaker 1: a really a chance to talk about him yet, and
Speaker 1: I know you've been famously kind of out on him,
Speaker 1: UM the last couple of years. I sometimes I feel
Speaker 1: like I can't even provide any real analysis with Donald
Speaker 1: because it's just it's a little too hot for a
Speaker 1: Jets spend to try to figure out where things are
Speaker 1: at right now. I see him and I'm watching him.
Speaker 1: Was like he's definitely better than he was in his
Speaker 1: last year or two in New York. But I also
Speaker 1: see a guy that maybe five weeks from now, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a different view of what his season is
Speaker 1: with the With the Panthers, Yeah, he hasn't had to
Speaker 1: do much beyond hit his first read, and he's done
Speaker 1: that well. Like he puts it in there, he's been
Speaker 1: pretty accurate. There was a couple of second reaction plays
Speaker 1: where he had to do something on his own. Generally,
Speaker 1: if you pressure Donald at all, he struggles. And their
Speaker 1: whole offense so far has been McCaffrey or DJ Moore
Speaker 1: on these option routes, and they're gonna have to expand that.
Speaker 1: That said, I think that's great coaching. Like they they've
Speaker 1: almost put a clinic on like week one, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do this, then we're gonna build it up a little
Speaker 1: more than we're gonna build it up a little more.
Speaker 1: And you look at their schedule. You got the Cowboys
Speaker 1: this week. That's a tough game and a better defense,
Speaker 1: but not a defense that scares you. And you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of winnable games until a totally brutal stretch run.
Speaker 1: Their last four games is at Bills, the Bucks, twice
Speaker 1: at the Saints, which is just crazy. But I see
Speaker 1: a lot of doable games. To me, I think the
Speaker 1: offense is gonna be good enough. It's whether the defense
Speaker 1: can be this like otherworldly and whether that's just about
Speaker 1: the fact that they've played Zack Wilson, Jamis Winston and
Speaker 1: Davis Mills. Yes, that's probably a big factor. Like if
Speaker 1: their defense can stay in the top seven defenses, let's say,
Speaker 1: all year, then they are for real. I'm just holding
Speaker 1: because I think I think they're gonna be a story
Speaker 1: all season. I think they're gonna be in the playoff
Speaker 1: mix and they might. They might get to the playoffs
Speaker 1: and playing the Cowboys though, with that defense, and that's
Speaker 1: your biggest question to see whether or not they're sustainable.
Speaker 1: Losing J. C. Horne is a huge huge blow for
Speaker 1: that defense, and we hope possibly return later this year,
Speaker 1: but he's going to have to have surgery. They just
Speaker 1: traded for C. J. Henderson to try and help, but
Speaker 1: that's that's stuff in the middle of a season. A C.
Speaker 1: Henderson has already struggled to adapt to the pro game
Speaker 1: after being the ninth overall pick. Also kind of interesting
Speaker 1: that and it's one of those things where summer football
Speaker 1: tap talk, you know, the football got just laugh at
Speaker 1: you all that Sam Donald Dan Arnold talk. And now
Speaker 1: that's not even the thing anymore because it's not even
Speaker 1: on a team. But obviously, um that was, Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: see something there. I mean, that's that's a not a
Speaker 1: top ten pick four years ago. That was last spring,
Speaker 1: the ninth pick and the entire draft with C. J.
Speaker 1: Henderson a cornerback that has elite skills, so maybe a
Speaker 1: change of environment that could be a steal. And then
Speaker 1: if J. C. Horne gets back, whether it's this year
Speaker 1: or next year, you might have a serious nucleus in
Speaker 1: that back end. Now I am going to buy on
Speaker 1: a team because we can't just sell on everything. I
Speaker 1: kinda show is this. We were doing our around the
Speaker 1: NFL TV show the broadcast with ysh and Claybone on Friday,
Speaker 1: and they'll be joining us again this weekend. About I
Speaker 1: don't know, Greg, it was about an hour and forty
Speaker 1: minutes to the show, and You're like, have we just
Speaker 1: been relentlessly negative in so I'm gonna do something positive
Speaker 1: and and maybe we'll be more positive on the television
Speaker 1: program Friday as well. I'm buying on these Raiders. I'm
Speaker 1: in um, I'm buying on the start. It seems sustainable
Speaker 1: to me. Um. It's been dramatic, of course, dramatic wins
Speaker 1: over the Ravens, a dramatic win over the Dolphins. That
Speaker 1: was a fun, weird game, by the way. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: score fourteen, the Raiders score the next, then the Dolphins
Speaker 1: score the final eleven, then they trade field goals, and
Speaker 1: then the Raiders win on that amazing one of the
Speaker 1: best games of the season. Great game, and UM happy
Speaker 1: that Handsome Hank was there with his son, and his
Speaker 1: son got to slap Dan Reino's hand coming out of
Speaker 1: the tunnel. Just a great, great thing. But anyway, the
Speaker 1: Raiders are a vibe in that in that stadium. And
Speaker 1: now we look at their schedule. So the three and
Speaker 1: all they got across the sidewalk here on Sunday, they
Speaker 1: got the Chargers. That's a tough Monday night. That's on
Speaker 1: Monday night. That that that is a great game. And
Speaker 1: imagine they win that game. If they ever got past
Speaker 1: the Chargers this weekend. It's not crazy that they could
Speaker 1: beat the Chargers. They then get the Bears at home
Speaker 1: at Denver, another toughie home Eagles at aance. So I
Speaker 1: think there's a very real chance at the midpoint, well
Speaker 1: what was the traditional midpoint, but now just about the
Speaker 1: midpoint of the season, they're gonna be six and two
Speaker 1: or seven and one even uh, and that is gonna
Speaker 1: that's gonna play. That's gonna play to the point where
Speaker 1: in a loaded AVC West you might actually have a
Speaker 1: chance to win that division. I'm not getting ahead of
Speaker 1: myself there because I know what the ratives have done
Speaker 1: in past years under John Gruden, but this year feels different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or n Greg, I'm buying. Yeah, I'm buying because I
Speaker 1: think the defense, similar to Dallas, is gonna be okay enough.
Speaker 1: It's been better than that so far. They've won, you know,
Speaker 1: two kind of crazy close games, so there's some variants there.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr can't play any better, but I don't think
Speaker 1: that that should be used as a negative. He's just
Speaker 1: playing the best that he's ever played like. He is
Speaker 1: one of the five best quarterbacks in the league. That
Speaker 1: no question about it. He's someone who's been the system
Speaker 1: a long time. He's got enough weapons. Yeah, yeah, that yeah,
Speaker 1: this whole division. I'm buying the whole division. I said
Speaker 1: that last week. I was kind of trying to say,
Speaker 1: I think all these teams are good. That's possible, you're
Speaker 1: buying the whole division. I just I just bought it
Speaker 1: up the Raiders. Oh yeah, that's true. We are we
Speaker 1: are the best that we try to avoid those things
Speaker 1: that we are the best time zone. I mean, our
Speaker 1: sports schedules way better, pretty good. The weather is better, Yes,
Speaker 1: West Coast biased in your time back East. I love
Speaker 1: the NFL schedule, It's great. The Raiders were the team
Speaker 1: that I had the most questions about for this exercise.
Speaker 1: I wanted I couldn't tell if I was buying or
Speaker 1: selling or or what I should do here. And I
Speaker 1: just have so many questions about them because I wonder
Speaker 1: if they can consistently outscore better offenses in the league.
Speaker 1: Their defense, I think has a couple of questions with
Speaker 1: the linebackers and in the secondary. Lamar definitely helped them
Speaker 1: out Week one with the fumbles and Jacobi Porsette and
Speaker 1: the Dolphins just took them to overtime. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what you guys are thinking about the Dolphins, But
Speaker 1: does that maybe give you a little bit of pause,
Speaker 1: maybe temper any of your expectations after seeing that game.
Speaker 1: It Actually what it did was remind me how smart
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are for having capable backup quarterbacks, because I
Speaker 1: thought Jake Brisket played really well there in that game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Raiders are obviously dominant by any
Speaker 1: stretch on defense, but they have an identity with that
Speaker 1: pass rush now, uh, and if they could just you know,
Speaker 1: make enough plays car with this offense, they have a
Speaker 1: chance to do that thing that we talked about so
Speaker 1: many teams now in the modern NFL just play okay
Speaker 1: defense and then score like hell when you have the ball.
Speaker 1: And that's what they've been able to do so far,
Speaker 1: thirty three and thirty one points in the first three
Speaker 1: weeks there. Yeah, their offensive line like has been a
Speaker 1: little up and down. There, a totally different team than
Speaker 1: they were the last few years. They're not a great
Speaker 1: running team. The offensive line is up and down. But
Speaker 1: I do think they're getting enough contributors in the defense
Speaker 1: where I'm like, Okay, I see you, guess, Bradley, it's
Speaker 1: like the race to the middle, like every I almost
Speaker 1: feel like not that defense doesn't matter. And this is
Speaker 1: this was like a hot take on PFF at one
Speaker 1: point where you know they were they were saying in
Speaker 1: an outlandish way, defense doesn't matter. But there is something
Speaker 1: to the fact that defense doesn't matter as much as offense.
Speaker 1: And defense is like number eight through four in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's that big of a difference.
Speaker 1: It's just sort of like, can you get make a
Speaker 1: couple of plays in a given week? All right, before
Speaker 1: we go around one more time, let's take a break.
Speaker 1: Oh professional, Alright, we're back. Before we get to any
Speaker 1: other ones who want to throw out there, I just
Speaker 1: want to hit these oh and three teams real quick, Jags, Jets, Giants, Colts, Lions.
Speaker 1: On Good Morning Football. They put up a graphic which
Speaker 1: is just and tells you the state of Big Apple
Speaker 1: is Western New York has nothing to do with this, uh,
Speaker 1: Northern New Jersey football. The Jets and Giants are tied
Speaker 1: for the worst record in football since I believe the
Speaker 1: number was seventeen and forty nine. It's it's something like
Speaker 1: that because I saw Garafolo tweet that out and think
Speaker 1: about that. But of these teams, Jack's Jets, Giants, Colts, Lions.
Speaker 1: Obviously we're selling I would think on all these teams, Connie,
Speaker 1: but can you make a case for one of them
Speaker 1: digging themselves out of the grave clawn out dirt under
Speaker 1: the fingernails? I thought, I honestly thought that before Sunday
Speaker 1: the Giants would be able to win because such a
Speaker 1: bad loss of the problems killed them bad. And that
Speaker 1: came after the Thursday night game against Washington, that they
Speaker 1: should have one and they basically had won that game
Speaker 1: seventeen different ways until they just crushed themselves with penalties,
Speaker 1: eleven penalties and obviously that one at the end that
Speaker 1: was the killer. Well what about the Falcons and Dori Jackson?
Speaker 1: I think we brought it up but on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: But that again, you gotta close out games. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you can make a case maybe the Giants should be
Speaker 1: actually two and one. But the problem, Connie, is then
Speaker 1: you look at their schedule coming up. They're not two
Speaker 1: on one, they are oh and three. They have no
Speaker 1: wiggle room, and they're now they got to go to
Speaker 1: the Superdome, which is gonna be on fire. It was
Speaker 1: literally on fire a couple of ago. Now it's gonna
Speaker 1: be on fire emotionally with the Saints team that's gonna
Speaker 1: want to put on a show back and uh, Nola
Speaker 1: do is gonna be called Nola down there? Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: people say no, Nolan's um. That's gonna be a great
Speaker 1: vibe for the Saints and their fans. The Giants are
Speaker 1: in a lot of trouble. Yeah, the the schedule after
Speaker 1: that game, and they're not They're not cooked and they
Speaker 1: were they I think they've been the best of all
Speaker 1: these teams, like their eighteenth and d V o A
Speaker 1: the Giants are. That doesn't surprise me because to me
Speaker 1: they've kind of looked mediocre. But the Colts would be
Speaker 1: the one. Can you buy in on the Colts getting
Speaker 1: back to and making this a season again? I can yes,
Speaker 1: because of the organization, because they have moved the ball
Speaker 1: pretty well this year and more than anything, just like
Speaker 1: hoping that the Titans don't run away and hide there.
Speaker 1: There are some soft spots in this schedule. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got the Texans, when you got the Jets, the Jags,
Speaker 1: you got you know, Texans twice, Jacks twice, Like you
Speaker 1: could stack up some wins, but you have to start
Speaker 1: doing it. Soon. They've they've moved the ball fairly well,
Speaker 1: but like Carson Wentz on injured ankles is just not
Speaker 1: like an exciting It's so bad and I can't even
Speaker 1: imagine what his mental state is after last season with
Speaker 1: the Eagles getting crushed out and playing like Wow. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize Philip rivers shoes were so big to fill,
Speaker 1: but I guess they were. I tried to tell you, yes,
Speaker 1: we all is Phil coming back? Is that still going
Speaker 1: to happen? There was that report at the end of August.
Speaker 1: They need to be competitive because they also give up
Speaker 1: a bet. You got a root for Carson Wentz to
Speaker 1: stay healthy as an Eagles, you get a better draft.
Speaker 1: They really think there will be a controversy at some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah that if they're like two and seven, they're like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we gotta sit went down and get him
Speaker 1: a hundred percent healthy for that getting absolutely, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a first round pick on the line and that's
Speaker 1: a good call. Greg. They will absolutely that's like a
Speaker 1: karma thing for Philly pulling its starters against the Giants
Speaker 1: against Washington, for the Giants to lose the division especially,
Speaker 1: and it's it's so tellent because you just saw a CJ.
Speaker 1: Henderson get traded as a number nine overall pick. I
Speaker 1: know urban Meyer. Before urban Meyer was hired, there was
Speaker 1: no such thing as the Jaguars to urban Meyer, so
Speaker 1: there's no sense to try to work with a guy
Speaker 1: that talented. But in general, once you start to get
Speaker 1: the calendar turns over to December, and then of course
Speaker 1: through the early stage of the offseason, it's crazy how
Speaker 1: draft obsessed these organizations are and how draft pick obsessed
Speaker 1: they are. And when the Colts, if they internally turned
Speaker 1: the page too, they're gonna freak out about that pick,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna say, there's no way we're giving that
Speaker 1: thing up. To ride out the string with Carson five games,
Speaker 1: which might happen naturally, they might not have to do
Speaker 1: anything messy divorce because he's gonna want to play. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: my comeback player of the Year prediction not looking alright. Greg,
Speaker 1: Do you want to throw out either two and one
Speaker 1: team or one and two team that has been extreme
Speaker 1: to you? Us extreme team in the league to me
Speaker 1: is the Saints in terms of just being up and down.
Speaker 1: I'm buying them at two and one. Marshawn Lattimore I
Speaker 1: think could have an all Pro cornerback season. Him missing
Speaker 1: Week two was a big part of them, uh struggling
Speaker 1: so much in Carolina. Cartney Chauncey Gardner Johnson too missed
Speaker 1: that game. When they were back on the field, and
Speaker 1: Dennis Allen has that front kind of cooking. They still
Speaker 1: have the bones of a really well coached I think
Speaker 1: difference making defense. There's only some defenses that matter around
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think they're one of them, and I
Speaker 1: think as the season goes along, they will figure out
Speaker 1: something with this offense, assuming Torn Armstead comes back at
Speaker 1: left tackle, which they should get them back at some point. Uh.
Speaker 1: The offensive line is really good, and I just think
Speaker 1: if you look at the Saints history, they often closed
Speaker 1: much stronger that by the time we get to mid November,
Speaker 1: that they can figure some things out offensively, they can
Speaker 1: stay alive in the meantime, and they have been through
Speaker 1: a lot this year, and I think that should come
Speaker 1: out of that stronger than ever. And they're gonna be
Speaker 1: in New Orleans this week. I know the team, they're
Speaker 1: just so excited to get back home. I know Mulligan's
Speaker 1: don't count in our league, but if you want to
Speaker 1: give them the mulligan for week two and they had
Speaker 1: COVID issues and injury issues, and they're like five weeks
Speaker 1: into their road, like they've got like the cafeteria worker
Speaker 1: coaching up the defensive Exactly. If there was any time
Speaker 1: to give a mulligan, even if you can't do it
Speaker 1: in the standings, it's that. So if you take out
Speaker 1: week two, awesome, Week one against the Pack, really strong
Speaker 1: Week three against the Pats in New England, and I
Speaker 1: know that Pats aren't the same anymore, but still that
Speaker 1: was a really good effort. Uh yeah, I'm buying too.
Speaker 1: I think that I think and they might not be
Speaker 1: that watch or fun. I mean, they're they're deef, They're
Speaker 1: passing game Is is a tough well. I'm buying Sean Payton.
Speaker 1: I'm buying defense defense tomorrow, but I'm not. I'm still
Speaker 1: not buying Jamis now. Unless you like a rock in
Speaker 1: the QB index. I was gonna say, unless you can
Speaker 1: in two thousand one build a quarterback proof team that's
Speaker 1: probably going to bang him in the end, Which is
Speaker 1: why I have the vikings is that wanted to extreme
Speaker 1: team that I'm into because I just think again. No,
Speaker 1: you don't get anything for coming close. But they could
Speaker 1: easily be three and oh right now with a little
Speaker 1: bit luck in execution, and they were Connie. They were
Speaker 1: brilliant on offense against the Seahawks, shredding him in every
Speaker 1: direction without Dalvin Cook and Mike Zimmer sat after the
Speaker 1: game it was the best offensive game he's ever been
Speaker 1: a part of as a Vikings coach. I like the
Speaker 1: Vikings going into the season. I picked him to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs over the Saints, and I think they are
Speaker 1: a better team. And I just want to give a
Speaker 1: shout out to the Vikings fans. I think we kind
Speaker 1: of sleep on the U. S. Bank Stadium as in
Speaker 1: the conversation of best home field advantage. I love. I
Speaker 1: love that stadium and I'm sure you've been in there
Speaker 1: on Thursday nights when the places on fire. And I'm
Speaker 1: not just talking about the horn, although the horn was
Speaker 1: just going on constantly throughout that games down rolling up,
Speaker 1: it was it was a horn fest. Um, I always
Speaker 1: said something else, but like, it is a team that
Speaker 1: I think is going to build off that Week three
Speaker 1: performance and they will be in position like eight and
Speaker 1: five as they entered December. I feel that about the
Speaker 1: Vikings and buying. I was really impressed with Alexander Madison too,
Speaker 1: coming in six uh for one twelve. I mean, he
Speaker 1: just it felt like he kept ripping off these runs
Speaker 1: that were pretty pretty long, just breaking off there. I
Speaker 1: just think that that that team is a little spicy
Speaker 1: and especially right I know, and that's the thing because
Speaker 1: I don't I keep being like, well, I don't buy
Speaker 1: into Kirk Cousins, but then I watched and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Kark Cousins is like not that bad
Speaker 1: right now. And I loved the quote that he had
Speaker 1: this week. I think it was this week when he
Speaker 1: was saying that Kyle Shanahan told him that his swag
Speaker 1: is having no swag, and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's the most accurate thing I've ever seen. That's his
Speaker 1: cousins in that cube that he talked about in the summer,
Speaker 1: the plexiglass. I won't get the shot, I won't get
Speaker 1: the jab cube staying healthy because he obviously is vulnerable
Speaker 1: because he's not vaccinated. But so far, so good. This
Speaker 1: is what Adam Phelan said. It's been a different Kirk.
Speaker 1: He's just locked in and on time. He's trusting it
Speaker 1: so that I mean that's a sometimes a narrative. You know,
Speaker 1: he's different now. It was just playing really well, but
Speaker 1: he has He's throwing up some He's got some passes
Speaker 1: that I don't think he would in the past, like
Speaker 1: that completion to kJ Osborne last week on the late
Speaker 1: third down. That's a ball that I feel like Cousins
Speaker 1: eats to be safer, you know, but instead he did
Speaker 1: a little Kyler Murray imitation, backpedaling and throwing it. And
Speaker 1: he's made some plays on the run. You do have
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game? Are you going all season to
Speaker 1: every stadium for the London game? They're gonna be hosting
Speaker 1: Steelers week fourteen? Is Kirk Cousins? Um like, would he
Speaker 1: be a good guy on the podium? Well, you gotta
Speaker 1: be on the podium before and it was awkward, I remember,
Speaker 1: because it was not your right. Yeah. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: having issues, but that's against the Steeler. Is like, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't. You know, you want to be careful with Kirk.
Speaker 1: But maybe he'll bring me make it go in the
Speaker 1: cube and lower him from the seat. Jokes about that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll go great. I think. I think for
Speaker 1: some of the weeks, every team is different. So sometimes
Speaker 1: we'll have a player up with us on like the dais.
Speaker 1: Other times we'll have a player just like throwing headphones
Speaker 1: on from across the field. So maybe sometimes you Sam
Speaker 1: Darnald and he'll just be like, this crowd is great.
Speaker 1: It was. It was even worse. It was like that
Speaker 1: was my favorite. We're gonna get to there's a public
Speaker 1: since you brought it up, Darnald, you guys, you have
Speaker 1: him on the day is it's it's an exciting time
Speaker 1: the Panthers at three and oh it's a home game.
Speaker 1: You got you know what. Two wasn't a home game.
Speaker 1: It was just two hundred fans like right by the
Speaker 1: set and you guys t M I say, you said, Sam,
Speaker 1: look at this. They're all here for you and celebrating
Speaker 1: with you. And then the cameras on Sam Andy goes
Speaker 1: it's awesome. And then but then and then there's say
Speaker 1: like a three second pause from you, Steve and the gang,
Speaker 1: and you guys are waiting for Sam to give you
Speaker 1: something else, and it just never came. And then I
Speaker 1: don't know who it was, but there was like a chuckle,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, Okay, well, I wasn't going
Speaker 1: to get it. I didn't even to ask him about that,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't ignore it because as soon as we stopped,
Speaker 1: the Panthers fans were just going wild for Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is a weird kind of
Speaker 1: thing to get used to, and there were so many
Speaker 1: of them in Houston, so I had to ask him.
Speaker 1: And I thought for sure that like, this is his
Speaker 1: opportunity to be like, it's here, let's talks, let's say
Speaker 1: they are that they came out to night blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think no one had a worst
Speaker 1: start to their career in terms of just getting beat
Speaker 1: up physically, mentally, emotionally, being taken advantage of by a
Speaker 1: bad coaching. Sam Donald, that was a nightmare. This was
Speaker 1: his moment to shine on prime time and when he
Speaker 1: finally threw it to him and he had his chance
Speaker 1: to get it all out there, awesome. He just seems
Speaker 1: like he's a guy that's really tightly wound, and I
Speaker 1: think that he went through a lot of trauma and
Speaker 1: it's like, um, the America, what was the South Park
Speaker 1: Guys movie? America? Number one fours or whatever it was,
Speaker 1: and they have the Matt Damon Guide. It's just like,
Speaker 1: I'm Matt Dame that maybe by the end of the year,
Speaker 1: if they keep winning'll loosen up as it. It's really awesome.
Speaker 1: I think he's just afraid to say the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: He's coached up well. He's a good guy. I said
Speaker 1: that after he got traded, like he deserves this because
Speaker 1: he went through. Hell um, we're off track. Do you
Speaker 1: have one before we move on? Do you have another one?
Speaker 1: We already we already covered all of the ones that
Speaker 1: I had like prepared good talk. I I don't if
Speaker 1: that comes off raiders, if that comes off being mean
Speaker 1: to Sam Doarnold. First of all, calm down, relax, we're
Speaker 1: just having fun here or me being bitter about it,
Speaker 1: I'm not. There's mark uh. It's it's just kind of
Speaker 1: funny to me because New York tried to get stuff
Speaker 1: out of Sam for years to Colleen now has tried
Speaker 1: one day get something that it's gonna happen. And the
Speaker 1: reason Pathers fans are so excited because they don't have
Speaker 1: to watch Teddy Bridgewater anymore. I mean, they're both undefeated's
Speaker 1: see we'll see who finished. Also both former Jets. I
Speaker 1: mean as if it's just like a stew of pain
Speaker 1: and agony for the Jets, everybody that's ever been a quarterback,
Speaker 1: Bryce Petty somewhere three and oh right now, I'm sure
Speaker 1: all right before we go Thursday night football, I keep
Speaker 1: on forgetting. I want to get the Prehnka song to
Speaker 1: get us ready. I know you love it in my city.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. I'm married a Jonas guy. That's exactly
Speaker 1: how it goes. It's baking on my data day. It's
Speaker 1: this it, you have it. I'm married a Jonah. My
Speaker 1: name is Jonah. Best Weezer song, greg Um, I don't
Speaker 1: know the first song on the first album. My name
Speaker 1: is Jonas. Yeah, no, that's not at the that is yeah,
Speaker 1: this is oh yeah, it's fantastic. And this is where
Speaker 1: like they would like show her superimposed in front of
Speaker 1: like in front of Skyline Chili. You know, it would
Speaker 1: be like suddenly Prianka is wearing a Bengals jersey in
Speaker 1: front of Skyline ship. It was great. It was, I mean,
Speaker 1: the top of the line special effects graphics package in
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, the best like digital city you could
Speaker 1: have behind Um an Indian pop star. It was. It
Speaker 1: was wonderful um, but it didn't it didn't take off
Speaker 1: the way we wanted to. We like that song. I
Speaker 1: liked it. Yeah, it was a whole thing on our
Speaker 1: podcast back in two thousand and we had a podcast
Speaker 1: and there before we had a producer then who at
Speaker 1: one later stole our Stitcher award. But at this point
Speaker 1: it was like, Hey, I think we got Pank on
Speaker 1: the books, just gonna come in and do the show.
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, she's like one of the biggest
Speaker 1: stars in the world. That sounds pretty good. It didn't materialize.
Speaker 1: We had we had Prok on the hook. We were
Speaker 1: told you don't still think about it though, right, never,
Speaker 1: let me think about it all right, let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Thursday night football And on the surface, listen, Connie, you
Speaker 1: can't say it. I can feels like another dud for
Speaker 1: the fans. Oh, who wants to watch the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: in the Jacksonville Jaguars in prime time? But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: I'll sell it this way, and I don't have to
Speaker 1: sell it too hard. Yeah, the Jaguars are a mess
Speaker 1: and they're winless, but you got a chance to see
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in his first primetime game. And Trevor has
Speaker 1: been obviously up and down, but come on, he's Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Is gonna be fun to watch him developed. And the
Speaker 1: other side, it's in Cincinnati, there two in one, and
Speaker 1: there's some genuine good vibes around this team when you
Speaker 1: look at their schedule. They have a chance here to
Speaker 1: get on a little bit of a run. Uh and
Speaker 1: it starts with whipping up on a winless Jags team.
Speaker 1: It could be a celebration Cincinnati, and I love the idea.
Speaker 1: Connie of Burrow obviously slam don't get him up on
Speaker 1: the day as if they win. And maybe Jamaar Chase
Speaker 1: is buddy at L s U and you could tell
Speaker 1: that you get more than it's awesome if you get
Speaker 1: those two guys together. There's no question you might get
Speaker 1: a cigar up there. Connie beaming right now thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I know, well now that now that you have say
Speaker 1: it that way, I'm very excited. First I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a jungle cat game. Okay, cool, we got the Jags, um,
Speaker 1: But I'm excited to see Joe Burrow. I think that
Speaker 1: he's played really well. Also, last week he didn't he
Speaker 1: had the luxury of not having to face t J.
Speaker 1: Watt and Alex Highsmith, so he was able to connect
Speaker 1: with Jamar Chase a bunch, and those two have looked
Speaker 1: really good. Their connection, it's really carried over from college.
Speaker 1: Demarches four touchdowns, two and twenty yards on just eleven
Speaker 1: catches so far this season. So I saw from NFL
Speaker 1: research that Chase has become the youngest player in NFL
Speaker 1: history with four plus receiving touchdowns in his team's first
Speaker 1: three games, passing Randy Moss. So he's been outstanding. And
Speaker 1: I really love the trio of wide receivers that they
Speaker 1: have there. I know Tee Higgins didn't play on Sunday
Speaker 1: because of the shoulder injury, and I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: the short week means for him. Could be a little
Speaker 1: dicey if he goes or not. But Tyler Boyd, he's
Speaker 1: sassy and I like it. He's talking some trash. I
Speaker 1: like what he has to say about the Steelers just
Speaker 1: giving up at the end of the game. So that's
Speaker 1: I think I know what he was talking, or at
Speaker 1: least I thought was he talking about Tomlin kicking a
Speaker 1: field goal with eight minutes left, because that felt like
Speaker 1: given up to me after the I think it was
Speaker 1: because it was a fifteen play like nine minute drive
Speaker 1: and they're like, we can't not score here. This is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: We have to just kick the field goal to save
Speaker 1: our face, save my face. And going up against this
Speaker 1: Jaguars defense, I think that all the opposing quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: diced them up so far, so Joe Burrow I don't
Speaker 1: think will be any different. I am also really excited
Speaker 1: about the Bengals defense too, who look really improved from
Speaker 1: last year. Right that that's been their story. Looking at
Speaker 1: d v O, I'm guessing they've got to be in
Speaker 1: the top five defensively. They are fourth on defense right now.
Speaker 1: On offense, so the first couple of games, the offense
Speaker 1: was starting to come together. But this is why I
Speaker 1: just remind me last next preseason again, and it's just
Speaker 1: like none of this stuff matters. It's like even early
Speaker 1: in the season, I was overreacting a little bit to Burrow,
Speaker 1: but the first player last week's game against Pittsburgh, he
Speaker 1: escaped from the pocket um in a in a really
Speaker 1: great way, like legitimately upset about this thing, talking about
Speaker 1: the preseason letting you down well, and just that we
Speaker 1: talk about these topics of Jamar Chase can't catch it,
Speaker 1: and Burrows not confident. And I didn't think Burrow look
Speaker 1: confident in his knee the first couple of weeks, but okay,
Speaker 1: that's that makes sense. And then last week you could
Speaker 1: see it. On the very first play he escapes multiple
Speaker 1: pass rushers, he starts doing kind of the running around
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow thing, and you could see after that play
Speaker 1: he was so confident. He cut on that knee multiple
Speaker 1: times and he looked like Joe Burrow and he started
Speaker 1: hitting players outside the numbers. And on that touchdown to Chase. Look,
Speaker 1: he hasn't completed many deep throws this year, even with
Speaker 1: that one, but you saw that last like five yards
Speaker 1: of the route where Chase just goes man. It was
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, that doesn't show up on the forty
Speaker 1: time with with Jamar Chase, but you could see it
Speaker 1: right there. And those two guys had incredible games. That
Speaker 1: was one of the best games of Joe Burrow's career
Speaker 1: still including last stood in the Rocks, and he still
Speaker 1: probably should have taken the tackle but if this is
Speaker 1: gonna be, if this is gonna be what it is
Speaker 1: and they really have something here, Uh, they didn't blow
Speaker 1: it and that's something to celebrate, and just don't don't
Speaker 1: mess this up. Angles. You're gonna have seventy five thousand
Speaker 1: West Cincinnatians and Midwesterners there do not do not below us.
Speaker 1: And you know who else is going to be the
Speaker 1: courtesy of definitely not huge, the tiny box she hooks up.
Speaker 1: Westling Brothers place is gonna be filthy, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: louding with Westling Brothers on Thursday night the Cincinnati We
Speaker 1: got three officially coming in. Wow, and one of them
Speaker 1: is Tim Westling and it's his turn to share the
Speaker 1: Westling Brothers lock of the week. And I think you
Speaker 1: know where this is going. Hey around the NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: This is Tim Westling. Uh, this is Chris Westling's brother.
Speaker 1: You know invest as west got it. Uh, it's my
Speaker 1: turn to pick this week. So I'm going to the
Speaker 1: Thursday night game in Cincinnati. It's gonna be Jacksonville versus Cincinnati. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'm a little biased, and I'm very much looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing Trevor Lawrence play, but much more I'm interested
Speaker 1: in seeing show burrow into mar Chase Domini, which they
Speaker 1: will do again this boom. In that case, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the Cincinnati Bengals, and I'm locking it up.
Speaker 1: I mean, was that the greatest thing ever? Tim West
Speaker 1: They all have their own Nick sounds a lot like Chris,
Speaker 1: which will freak you out if it catches you the
Speaker 1: wrong day. But Tim doesn't sound like anybody else in
Speaker 1: the world. And Phil as well so has like a
Speaker 1: little bit of West I can I can hear when
Speaker 1: he's I feel like we're on a westling World tour
Speaker 1: this season, and I'm loving it. I am loving it.
Speaker 1: I'm loving it so much. I won't point out this
Speaker 1: is actually, uh, you know, seven and a half points
Speaker 1: in the desert. It is over are let's look in
Speaker 1: the mirror thing. But it's a Cincinnati home game on
Speaker 1: He's very weird this game in general. But you have to,
Speaker 1: let's give him a little accident forgiveness because they did
Speaker 1: lock up against the defending champion. Bucks wouldn't lost absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know, not giving me when you can lock up
Speaker 1: the worst team in football by far on the road
Speaker 1: on a three day week, you try to do it.
Speaker 1: They're all listening right now, so just know in the future,
Speaker 1: check out what the desert saying and try to keep
Speaker 1: it underneath seven points. Guess who else is going to
Speaker 1: be at the game with the Wes Lukisha. So we're
Speaker 1: the party in Cincinnati. You get well after after work,
Speaker 1: how loose we get. We're getting wild. When do you
Speaker 1: get on a plane to come back. Well, I have
Speaker 1: to fly to Philly first, and I'm doing the Saturday
Speaker 1: show from NFL Films. But you have a chance to
Speaker 1: go out after the game and have a little fun
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, it's usually a late like wet't
Speaker 1: get done until midnight or so, but yeah, it'll be fun. Right.
Speaker 1: I want to see Trevor Lawrence like play better. I'm
Speaker 1: a little worried because this Bengals defense, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: is playing really well. I don't know if a Woozier
Speaker 1: who's played really good at cornerback is going to be
Speaker 1: in for them. Suddenly they're on their like third and
Speaker 1: fourth corners. Eli Apple played like eighties snaps, so in theory,
Speaker 1: maybe you could attack them. Trey Hendrickson has been great
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati upfront, but Trevor Lawrence it looked and everyone
Speaker 1: understandably saying, you know, it's gonna be fine. And he
Speaker 1: had like the touchdown throw at a chart last week
Speaker 1: that was an amazing throw. He has one or two
Speaker 1: of those every week. Um. But DJ Reader also has
Speaker 1: been really good. I don't think he gets enough love either,
Speaker 1: But like Laurence yet, but Lawrence, it is worth pointing
Speaker 1: out I wouldn't expect this to suddenly get great this season.
Speaker 1: You know, this three game stretches worse than any three
Speaker 1: game stretch of some pretty good rookie quarterbacks seas, and
Speaker 1: so I think you'll get there eventually. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like the scheme is helping him out much, and
Speaker 1: he's just really late. Back on that a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think the fact that you're pointing out, um correctly,
Speaker 1: that he's had a few while throws every week means
Speaker 1: that it's better than a different situation where he's not
Speaker 1: giving you anything, like I've seen from the number two pick,
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson the last couple of weeks. I think Wilson's
Speaker 1: played better than Trevor Lawrence over all. Right, Well, I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying. I had to pick. I think
Speaker 1: also Trevor. He might be dealing his expect Patians are
Speaker 1: a little inflated, but that's part of the deal when
Speaker 1: you're the number one pick and people say you're the
Speaker 1: best prospects since Andrew Luck. So I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: almost like I'm in a wait and see mode by
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, and I would would I would love to
Speaker 1: see him play well in this game, because that would
Speaker 1: that's some juice. You could have Trevor Lawrence on the
Speaker 1: days two That's true, that would be interesting as well.
Speaker 1: I think this is a good step. Did you get
Speaker 1: and we check in every week on this any a
Speaker 1: t N easter eggs into the telecast, of course I did.
Speaker 1: If you guys are going to give me a challenge
Speaker 1: like that, I'm going to deliver. I got snow patrol in,
Speaker 1: I got let it snow untright. That was that was
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know if it's taking off, but oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I asked. I totally forgot to tell you.
Speaker 1: So after the interview ended and we went to break,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald was getting off the stage and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh hey, wait, wait, wait real quick, just a quick question, Uh,
Speaker 1: is anyone in the locker room calling, referring to the
Speaker 1: defense at all as like either snow patrol or you know,
Speaker 1: like saying let it snow. And he's looking at me
Speaker 1: like I am insane, which I am at this point,
Speaker 1: and he was like Nu Ran like Irish rock band
Speaker 1: from the mid aut was like no um that started
Speaker 1: two days ago on that podcast you were on with
Speaker 1: no other context hasn't reached the Lacker yet, but we're
Speaker 1: trying to make it. Everyone is trying to make it
Speaker 1: a thing. Wherever Phil Snow has been so I didn't
Speaker 1: realize this Temple they were doing it at Baylor, they
Speaker 1: were doing it like the local radio station there in
Speaker 1: town has been trying to do it so for some reason.
Speaker 1: And and Donald's only four and snowshow hasn't had a
Speaker 1: hit for a while. But I guess I'm really curious
Speaker 1: this this Has Sam Donald ever heard chasing cars? Has
Speaker 1: you ever heard of them? By the way, can we
Speaker 1: do this week? Though? Here a challenge for this week? Okay,
Speaker 1: what do we got so Jags and Bengals or if
Speaker 1: you want to, if you want to tweet it later,
Speaker 1: we can get it on the right and round. What
Speaker 1: about you? Greg? Got anything We're going to give you
Speaker 1: something to try to and also listeners will make this
Speaker 1: a challenge. Why don't we call it the uh t
Speaker 1: n the a t N t NF challenge. That's a
Speaker 1: little bulky for a hashtag nothing, because then it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, it's gonna be tough to get it. I
Speaker 1: got Flying Camel spin in last week for Steve White
Speaker 1: and Stacy Dale's and that might have been So you're
Speaker 1: just doing this for everybody now, we don't feel suspecial. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that was just a one week thing with them. You.
Speaker 1: I will always be true to This is my chance.
Speaker 1: Let me think on it and we'll see what we
Speaker 1: can do. And Ricky, if we can get things into
Speaker 1: the show, please pull it for Connie's next appearance on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: And Connie, thank you for you know step of course,
Speaker 1: your queen. Greg the Top five. I was a little
Speaker 1: distracted at one point at the end of our last
Speaker 1: segment because I was coming up with the top five
Speaker 1: Weezer songs number one The Good Life of pink In,
Speaker 1: number two, Island in the Sun off the Green album,
Speaker 1: number three, l Scorcho also off Pinkerton, number two, My
Speaker 1: Name Is Jonas. That is track one on the Blue album,
Speaker 1: and the greatest Weezer song is say it Ain't So
Speaker 1: don't overthink it. Don't overthink it. It's a functionally perfect,
Speaker 1: perfect song. I'm I'm sort of part of partial to
Speaker 1: undone the Sweater song, just because I remember, like when
Speaker 1: the video came out, it was like the album still
Speaker 1: hadn't come out and I and it just blew my mind.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this thing? What is this?
Speaker 1: And me and my friend Phil went and bought the
Speaker 1: album like three weeks later. Then that wasn't That was
Speaker 1: like before, Yeah, that was before before you know, videos
Speaker 1: were coming out, singles were coming out before albums. That
Speaker 1: was an incredible song that I completely just erased from
Speaker 1: my memory. Scene was deleted there. But I'm with you
Speaker 1: how that happening. It's just I have no control over it.
Speaker 1: They just they're just gone. So here one day, gone
Speaker 1: the next. All right, good stuff too. Should we give
Speaker 1: any update on our London journey that we have a
Speaker 1: sold out show as people know, and everybody's upset because
Speaker 1: we keep on putting these shows on sale in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night in England and then they're sold
Speaker 1: out in minutes, which is awesome, but you know, we
Speaker 1: get it. We're efforting for a second show. We're not
Speaker 1: sure if we're gonna have it, but we're working on it,
Speaker 1: and if we do, we will promise you again another
Speaker 1: Team America callback. I promise I will never die. We
Speaker 1: promise you that we will give your heads up when
Speaker 1: the tickets go on sale. If we haven't put it
Speaker 1: at a specific time, it won't be in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, and that then it will be fair
Speaker 1: for all, but even that will be fair for all,
Speaker 1: and then a free for all. I'm so bummed. I
Speaker 1: can't come with you. Guys. We're gonna have so many
Speaker 1: mojo moments. I know. Let me know about them. Just
Speaker 1: text me every five seconds. Great, all right, good, and
Speaker 1: the Split Ends podcast is coming. Another plug for you
Speaker 1: because you are you appreciate it. Just a wonderful woman.
Speaker 1: Thank you. What do you want? I just want you
Speaker 1: to be my producer until I die. I want I
Speaker 1: want to be ninety years old and be really bad
Speaker 1: at talking in football. And and you're stuck to a
Speaker 1: promise that you gave me in two thousand twenty one
Speaker 1: that you would never leave me. That's dark. I'm not
Speaker 1: the better my podcast. Does you know it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: I'm leaving. Oh no, it does mean that looks you're
Speaker 1: already trying to get out. I split ends as any success,
Speaker 1: there will be a Greg, there's gonna be a conversation
Speaker 1: with a shadowy league figure. It's like, I just don't
Speaker 1: have a time to be doing the producing thing anymore
Speaker 1: because I'm such a hit. Uh. And I mean this
Speaker 1: is like a three year old story that Harry wanting
Speaker 1: to get out. So yeah, that's not true. You're you're
Speaker 1: spending false alright, and and Ricky's going to be with
Speaker 1: us in London too. I love it all right, let's go.
Speaker 1: Next time you hear from us Thursday the preview show
Speaker 1: Thursday night the tn F recap with me and someone
Speaker 1: to be determined later. Until then, he the call M