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Speaker 1: lot of fun. Um Boys, it's heating up. The whole
Speaker 1: season's heating up as long as as long as we can,
Speaker 1: you know, dodge the rain drops on this COVID stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm really starting to enjoy the soap opera that is
Speaker 1: every NFL season because we've got some real narratives that
Speaker 1: are are heating up as as we head to the
Speaker 1: sect toward the second half of the season, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into a bunch of happenings in the league
Speaker 1: as we edge closer to Week seven. I know you're excited, Mark,
Speaker 1: I honestly enjoyed this football season more than in the
Speaker 1: past because we've to the razor's edge a few times
Speaker 1: where it felt like with one more game shifting or
Speaker 1: postponement that the NFL gets into a huge tangled web.
Speaker 1: I I don't enjoy that tension, but that tension alone
Speaker 1: makes the games happening, and I you know, we can
Speaker 1: talk about obviously the games that happened last night. I
Speaker 1: don't remember my lifetime watching like a Monday afternoon game
Speaker 1: um in Los Angeles in this time zone, taking place
Speaker 1: like in a drizzly western New York Berg. I thought
Speaker 1: that was sort of a beautiful thing to be able
Speaker 1: to do at a really weird time in the day,
Speaker 1: So thumbs up for me. It's also you know, you know,
Speaker 1: to go into the office, you know, to get all
Speaker 1: dressed up, the exhaustion factors a little bit lower, the
Speaker 1: appreciate ation factors is hiked up a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: it's good to be distracted to this, you know. It's
Speaker 1: like there was that concern I remember from the NBA
Speaker 1: players when they were going to go into their bubble,
Speaker 1: are we gonna distract from all the important things going on?
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, yea, this NFL season is totally
Speaker 1: distracting me. I am very distracted. I can confirm that.
Speaker 1: And you're right. Mark, back when we used to go
Speaker 1: to the office, when we put on our penguin suits,
Speaker 1: you know, get the taxes on, and to sit at
Speaker 1: our cubicles way dressed down. Now compared to them, let's
Speaker 1: be honest, it wasn't much different in terms of what
Speaker 1: we're wearing, maybe shorts versus pants, I mean, just the
Speaker 1: whole process of having to go into the office, and
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, it's a head hauntcho in the break room.
Speaker 1: You better get in and get your cool comment in.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, a lot of that's just been
Speaker 1: removed from the process. Oh, I hated those days, all right.
Speaker 1: A lot to talk about a quarterback change, internal drama
Speaker 1: around America's team. Thursday night football game too preview. But first, yes,
Speaker 1: two football games played on Monday, only one of them
Speaker 1: actual the broadcast rights of the Monday Night Football brand,
Speaker 1: So let's start with the other one. I've never seen
Speaker 1: Andy that math. He definitely was not happy about what
Speaker 1: we done down Gerald Williams and Andy Reid is mad
Speaker 1: no more. That was Joe Buck of course, and Troy
Speaker 1: Aikman starting out with some comments about Andy. Andy was
Speaker 1: hot there, but I'm sure he had smiles on his
Speaker 1: face after the game. Seen a win for the Chiefs
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park against the Bills a rainy uh day
Speaker 1: in western New York that did not play into a
Speaker 1: positive situation for any either quarterback in this game. But
Speaker 1: only one team handled it best, and that is the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: The defending Champs. Clyde Edwards Hilaire goes for one six
Speaker 1: one uh in leading the way, and the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: five and one, and all of a sudden, greg the
Speaker 1: Bills are in a two game losing streak and Josh
Speaker 1: Allen not looking like the Josh Allen of the first
Speaker 1: four weeks of this season. He hasn't and that you know,
Speaker 1: he missed some throws early because of the rain, and
Speaker 1: he made some good decisions, and there was a couple
Speaker 1: of plays that receivers have made in the past. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of a third down throw bounces off of receiver's
Speaker 1: helmet on the first drive. Uh, Stefan Diggs isn't able
Speaker 1: to take in maybe Alan's best throw of the day
Speaker 1: in the end zone later in the first up, and
Speaker 1: they only got seven drives. So there's this whole strategy. Well,
Speaker 1: let's make Mahomes earn it, let's keep let's um try
Speaker 1: to uh make them earn it with all these rushing yards,
Speaker 1: and that only works if you can get the Chiefs
Speaker 1: off the field on third down and Mahomes hit a
Speaker 1: third third end goal I think from the third teen
Speaker 1: to Kelsey, he hit a third and fifteen, and he
Speaker 1: hit a third and twelve later in the game. So
Speaker 1: suddenly you shortened the game, and you just shorten the
Speaker 1: time you're about to lose. And so I thought the
Speaker 1: two um strategies that the Bills had in terms of
Speaker 1: offense and defense didn't really match up because they weren't
Speaker 1: sharpen up offensively to go along with that strategy that
Speaker 1: they had defensively. Yeah, and I think that we're watching
Speaker 1: in real time a Bill's defense that for years has
Speaker 1: sort of been the lynch pin of who they are,
Speaker 1: and uh, could could get them wins when the offense couldn't,
Speaker 1: you know, do their part um fall apart. I mean
Speaker 1: they gave up four d and sixty six yards. And
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes these games have strange little moments and
Speaker 1: and my favorite drive of the entire season materialized in
Speaker 1: the third quarter of this one, a third quarter that
Speaker 1: you know sometimes we do like these sky Sports hits
Speaker 1: on Sunday, which would come at the end of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, and you'd think to yourself, because you might
Speaker 1: not be watching the game that sky Sports is watching,
Speaker 1: I could go make a cup of cocoa right now,
Speaker 1: I could go take a walk around the block. I've
Speaker 1: got a solid twenty minutes until you know, you jump
Speaker 1: on with them. But in this case, the way this quarter,
Speaker 1: third quarter win it tripped away in like two seconds.
Speaker 1: Because this drive that Kansas City run, this seven minute
Speaker 1: forty seven March thirteen, plays eighties seven yards. And I
Speaker 1: understand that everyone loves the Chiefs because of what Holmes
Speaker 1: does acrobatically, artistically, athletically week after week. I love them
Speaker 1: switching it up in ugly weather in western New York
Speaker 1: and running the ball right down Buffalo's throat. That game
Speaker 1: or that tribe ended with that Darryl Williams touchdown that
Speaker 1: we talked about that you know, was a bomb to
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, who was ready to flip out on the sideline.
Speaker 1: It was twenty three. There was plenty of time left.
Speaker 1: The contest to me, felt entirely over at that point.
Speaker 1: I just loved Andy Reid on the eve of the
Speaker 1: World Series thrown a change up to the Bills thet
Speaker 1: rushing attempts, which is tied for the most that he's
Speaker 1: ever called in twenty one years as a head coach,
Speaker 1: accounting for the two five yards. And sometimes you don't
Speaker 1: overthink it. I mean Edwards Hilaire, who obviously is going
Speaker 1: to have company now with Levy on Bell. But you
Speaker 1: look at what they were able to do um and
Speaker 1: you wonder whether Bell should be jumping into the mix.
Speaker 1: He will be obviously involved in some capacity, but you
Speaker 1: would think this is a game you want to build
Speaker 1: off with Edwards Hilaire. And the other thought that I
Speaker 1: had was, yes, the downside of not turning Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: loose and maybe you couldn't because of the conditions and
Speaker 1: not letting him be the mad bomber that just destroys
Speaker 1: teams with deep strikes. The one thing that the negative
Speaker 1: that is that the game's gonna probably stay closer and
Speaker 1: it's gonna stay tight. So when the Bills got that
Speaker 1: score to get it to six points, Uh, under most circumstances,
Speaker 1: you might start to get a little bit nervous. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get this game taken out from under you. But
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes as your quarterback, everything's fine as long
Speaker 1: as nobody else messes up. And Edwards Laire nearly did
Speaker 1: with a fumble that was rightly called back because his
Speaker 1: knee was down, but Mahomes made the plays. And the
Speaker 1: Bills defense is a capital a capital P problem right now. Uh.
Speaker 1: They can't get a big stop right Their defensive line
Speaker 1: has been battle year. Really, they have problems everywhere. They
Speaker 1: miss Matt Milano certainly, but one guy you know at
Speaker 1: linebacker is not going to change the sole defense. There's
Speaker 1: no juice in terms of their pass rush pressure, and
Speaker 1: they're a team that doesn't love to send extra guys.
Speaker 1: So Jerry Hughes, he's sort of defied um time for years.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's getting a little older. You give Trent Murphy.
Speaker 1: Murphy a healthy scratch last night. He's one of the
Speaker 1: highest cap numbers on your team at Oliver hasn't totally popped.
Speaker 1: Their kind of an easy team to run against. And
Speaker 1: then they're a little thinner in the back end to
Speaker 1: where I think Norman can be picked on to Ron Johnson,
Speaker 1: their slot corner can be picked up. That all said,
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was varsity j V like
Speaker 1: Steelers Browns to me, even though it didn't show up
Speaker 1: that way. It was four dred and sixty six yards
Speaker 1: and two or six. With that said, I I still
Speaker 1: think Mahomes gets most of the credit because he's the
Speaker 1: one and a lot of times calling these play, you know,
Speaker 1: deciding to run because he looks and he's staying patient.
Speaker 1: And again like on that game winning field goal drive,
Speaker 1: it takes him extending the play on third in thirteen
Speaker 1: and hitting that throw to make that sort of strategy work,
Speaker 1: because the Bills did stop um. The Chiefs running the
Speaker 1: ball on their last two drives and it takes Mahomes
Speaker 1: kind of bailing them out after two early down runs
Speaker 1: in the red zone with that beautiful throw to Kelsey.
Speaker 1: So that's like the start of it all. And then
Speaker 1: you just play smart and you have a good running game,
Speaker 1: and you you lose Mitchell Schwartz and you're all uh disco,
Speaker 1: you know, having new guys in the interior offensive line too,
Speaker 1: So it's like running the ball is smart, but it
Speaker 1: all starts with Mahomes. I think. I think next week, though,
Speaker 1: it's like the Broncos, they're gonna keep ring. I think
Speaker 1: teams are gonna keep running the strategy where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: run for two hundred yards and we'll take our chances.
Speaker 1: But it did remind me I like the varsity g
Speaker 1: v UM comparison there, because like Pittsburgh and Cleveland, I
Speaker 1: thought that the Chiefs forget the score, as you mentioned
Speaker 1: in they broke them. I think they tamed them, they
Speaker 1: silenced them. You're watching Daniel Kilgore at center just mall
Speaker 1: whatever Buffalo put up against him. They were running for
Speaker 1: eight yards per carries. So sometimes it's the matchup two
Speaker 1: and you trust read too. If there's a soft belly
Speaker 1: in Buffalo's defense, he just went after it over and over.
Speaker 1: And the one thing about the Chiefs the Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: had a pretty killer fumble at the end of the half.
Speaker 1: That kind of thing gets in the heads of some teams.
Speaker 1: Kelsey was furious about that they mentioned it. That he
Speaker 1: came out that he was joined on everyone in the
Speaker 1: in the locker room because he's had some up and
Speaker 1: down moments in this early season. But by the end
Speaker 1: of halftime, he's hugging Eric b enemy. They're composed, their
Speaker 1: back in action and they and totally exert their will.
Speaker 1: This is a different team. You play the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: they put you in your tier, and I think they
Speaker 1: put Buffalo in their tier. In the a f C.
Speaker 1: You're not at Kansas City's level on any at any
Speaker 1: point right now. Offensively, they their team and he needs
Speaker 1: to score thirty points a week. In the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: their offense hasn't done it. And yet the Raiders put
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in their place. In Kansas City's previous game,
Speaker 1: which just speaks to, you know, the week to week
Speaker 1: nature of our league. But yeah, the Chiefs are fun
Speaker 1: to watch their offense, especially just so layered. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: get to the late game. Here's first and ten Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray diep shot cut a man at Christian Kark. How
Speaker 1: about eighty yards to the house, just like that. ESPN
Speaker 1: Steve Levy with the call. Are the Cardinals girre the Cowboys?
Speaker 1: Derrel baby both alright? The Cardinals thirty eight Cowboys Tan
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and his homecoming he grew up in North Texas.
Speaker 1: Three touchdowns including yes that rainball, beautiful deep strike to
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk eight yards that effectively settled matters in the
Speaker 1: second quarter, and Mark the defense took it home from there,
Speaker 1: befuddling Andy Dalton and Buddha Baker out front with the
Speaker 1: tremendous game sack, pick, force, bumble two QB. It's total
Speaker 1: effort by the Cardinals in the Cowboys that fell a mess. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is another game where I think the
Speaker 1: matchup just was a disaster for Dallas where they I
Speaker 1: believe Erica Tamposey had a couple of snaps at right guard.
Speaker 1: At one point, um Zack Martin went down. There's nothing
Speaker 1: along the Dallas line. And but yet this is not
Speaker 1: an Andy. This is not a pick on Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: game for me, because week after week, why do you
Speaker 1: assume I'm like an offensive lineman, like I'm that big? Well,
Speaker 1: I think they were. They were like a tiny like cornerback.
Speaker 1: That's well, I think you weren't big enough because super yeah,
Speaker 1: or like the hot quarterback. I'll rethink. I'll rethink my
Speaker 1: position um area for you to play when you get
Speaker 1: into the game, remarks final show. Yes, I'll be seeing
Speaker 1: you later. I mean, I watching this Cowboys defense week
Speaker 1: after week and it's there's a third and tent play
Speaker 1: and it's like kind of a child knows that at
Speaker 1: this point, with the Cardinals trying to work them their
Speaker 1: way out of a little bit of a funk, that
Speaker 1: you're gonna lean on your on your biggest strength, and
Speaker 1: its third in tenant, Kyler Murray scrambles for a first down.
Speaker 1: There's a later play where it's fourth and one and
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray rushes for eleven yards with literally nobody around
Speaker 1: him at all. And to me, that's the Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: I and we'll get into some of the stuff going
Speaker 1: on there, but it is adds if they had never
Speaker 1: perceived of Kyler Murray or never that maybe someone like
Speaker 1: little Debbie is watching more Kyler Murray tape and more
Speaker 1: Cardinals tape than Dallas does. They look completely disorganized and
Speaker 1: it was only a matter of time where once their
Speaker 1: offense starts creating their own mistakes. And Zeke Elliott and
Speaker 1: that's a different type of fumble hit. The look on
Speaker 1: his face when he had his first fumble was one
Speaker 1: of dejection and one of this team is lost already.
Speaker 1: Completely different to what I just mentioned about Kelsey. I
Speaker 1: think this team was broken early in this game too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. And you know from the from the
Speaker 1: Cardinals side, and like we'll we'll pick on Dalton like
Speaker 1: you said, this is not a pick on Daltony? Well
Speaker 1: why not? I mean he awful? I think I mean
Speaker 1: he have you have you ever have you seen a
Speaker 1: guy stare down more open receivers and not let go
Speaker 1: of the ball. I know that, not alone, I get it.
Speaker 1: But to me, the the Cowboys defense is only gonna
Speaker 1: make a handful of stops every game, maybe in a row,
Speaker 1: and they did that like four drives in a row
Speaker 1: to start the game. And Zeke has given the ball away,
Speaker 1: so you're you're totally done. Then if Zeke is giving
Speaker 1: the ball away and Dalton was trying to give the
Speaker 1: ball away and the Cardinals wouldn't take it early, like
Speaker 1: that's it. You're only gonna get so many stops. Then
Speaker 1: the defense collapse and it's a total mess. I do
Speaker 1: think though, with Murray, I give that. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: pick on them too much because to me, he's he's
Speaker 1: like the fastest, that's like quarterback. And I know Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson was just a year ago um and Kyler is
Speaker 1: similar but just as fast and is better at avoiding hits.
Speaker 1: Like some of those players are almost unstoppable. And Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and their passing game is still a problem, Like
Speaker 1: he completed less than half his passes and they need
Speaker 1: to be more consistent. Uh in general, but some of
Speaker 1: those play calls where like he tosses it to himself
Speaker 1: on a fake toss, I don't know what. No one's
Speaker 1: gonna stop that. Uh, it makes them so dangerous. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure about their defense and I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: their their passing offense. Um. But man, they're running games
Speaker 1: should be good like each week. It didn't show on
Speaker 1: Monday Night because Dallas has so many issues right now.
Speaker 1: But Chandler Jones uh not being there is is gonna
Speaker 1: hurt them. Um. And they have a huge measuring stick
Speaker 1: game against the Seahawks coming up. So uh, they're gonna
Speaker 1: enter that game with a lot of confidence because of
Speaker 1: how well they played in this game. Uh. And they
Speaker 1: deserve it on the on the Cowboys side of things.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I think Kyler's murder. Kyler's helmet
Speaker 1: is about ten percent smaller this year. It's still there's
Speaker 1: the proportion is still off where it does still feel
Speaker 1: like it's like when he's like scattering scampering down the sideline.
Speaker 1: But I think he has a little list win resistance
Speaker 1: on that helmet and that's leading to better production with
Speaker 1: his legs. That's just the theory. You know, less of
Speaker 1: a spaceman's helmet than been in previous right, not not
Speaker 1: not to be a child of the eighties, but you
Speaker 1: remember in what was it Spaceballs and Rick Moranis had
Speaker 1: the giant Darth Vader helmet. Still kind of has that
Speaker 1: that vibe a little bit. But that's what do I
Speaker 1: need to know more about you? That you saw Spaceballs
Speaker 1: but have never seen Star Wars. That is like the
Speaker 1: most clear cut Dan Hans, this like differentiator out there.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a lot of the jokes, but it
Speaker 1: was a great sight gag. The helmet was so big,
Speaker 1: all right, cowboys, whoa what a mess? And um as
Speaker 1: bad as they looked and Dalton did look lost and
Speaker 1: maybe you know, we talked about it. It was the
Speaker 1: the reckoning for the Dalton scale. But the one thing
Speaker 1: in West pointed out on Twitter that game was in
Speaker 1: prime time. Two was his first start in prime time.
Speaker 1: He always stinks like that. We gotta get him into
Speaker 1: some early Sunday games and he'll start lightening it up
Speaker 1: with c D and Gallop and Cooper. I still think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have good numbers there. But he was real bad,
Speaker 1: real bad on Monday. Now to Film Networks, Jane Slater
Speaker 1: reported on Tuesday, the players are starting to uh speak
Speaker 1: out about their unhappiness behind the scenes. One player one
Speaker 1: player told Slater that Mike McCarthy's staff is quote totally unprepared.
Speaker 1: They don't teach, they don't have any sense of adjusting
Speaker 1: on the fly. Another Plater player told Slater they just
Speaker 1: aren't good at their jobs, and Greg, this does summon memories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's summons memories of that hit piece on McCarthy near
Speaker 1: the end of his Packers reign, where that thing was
Speaker 1: winding down and there was some some issues behind the
Speaker 1: scenes there and there was their port I think was
Speaker 1: it that Mike McCarthy was getting a full body massage
Speaker 1: while team meeting was supposed to happen or something like
Speaker 1: stuff like that, And the players are unhappy the fact
Speaker 1: that it's happening this early in the Dallas tenure when
Speaker 1: they're playing so poorly. Uh, this is not a good sign. Now.
Speaker 1: My favorite part of that report is, you know the
Speaker 1: Cowboys players, they had been, you know, all in lockstep
Speaker 1: at keeping this in house for a while, but you
Speaker 1: know they couldn't wait anymore. Here we are. We let's
Speaker 1: absolutely bury our coaches. Um. It's delightful. I like the
Speaker 1: theory um proposed by the athletics Bob Sturm, who I
Speaker 1: like a lot that this is still Jason Garrett's fault,
Speaker 1: that the country club culture where the players are like
Speaker 1: the Kings and are always right is still permeating in
Speaker 1: this franchise, and I would still I would agree on
Speaker 1: just a little bit with that and give it a
Speaker 1: little more, uh, you know higher up at Jerry Jones,
Speaker 1: where I do think, um, the I but that's a
Speaker 1: serious theory. Now that was a serious theory. I do
Speaker 1: think there is something to this team where they are superstars.
Speaker 1: They believe their own hype, that the players are always
Speaker 1: prioritize over the coaches. That that's not a that's not
Speaker 1: a secret since Jimmy Johnson has been there. Um, because
Speaker 1: the ownership they always have. The ownership's here, and I
Speaker 1: think they're because of that, they feel emboldened somewhat uh
Speaker 1: to talk like this about the guys who can bench you.
Speaker 1: And so I do think there there's something too. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the players aren't right, uh, and that
Speaker 1: the coaches are doing a poor job. I think the
Speaker 1: worst thing you can do as a coach is try
Speaker 1: to have your scheme and fit the players that are
Speaker 1: there into your scheme no matter what, despite what they're
Speaker 1: good at. And I think that's what we're seeing here.
Speaker 1: Like in Nolan scheme, it's like you need these big
Speaker 1: guys up front to occupy blockers, and it's like they
Speaker 1: don't have those guys and that's why people are just
Speaker 1: cutting through them. And you you see the communication breakdowns
Speaker 1: in the secondary. They've allowed the most points um through
Speaker 1: six weeks since integration. That that's the way I thought
Speaker 1: on Twitter last night, that was the way they put it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the fourties. I mean, I think that just
Speaker 1: puts you in a mental space of it was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a different NFL the last time this
Speaker 1: many points were given up, and I were just point
Speaker 1: to like, so Mike McCarthy, it's about a year ago
Speaker 1: that our reporter NFL Network uh you know star at
Speaker 1: this point, Tom Pallisero wrote that think piece I guess
Speaker 1: you would call it on Mike McCarthy about the epiphanies
Speaker 1: he was havinging that he maybe read a book on
Speaker 1: analytics and had a whole new, uh window into what
Speaker 1: that could offer. And then he goes down and you know,
Speaker 1: the cowboys don't go and look at out of the
Speaker 1: box people. Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy fall in love
Speaker 1: with each other over the course of a day and
Speaker 1: drinks at Jerry Jones's house and they hire Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: And then you look at how Jerry Jones started in
Speaker 1: the NFL by firing Tom Landry Um, which was sacrilegious
Speaker 1: in Dallas obviously, but to get a totally raw, fresh
Speaker 1: um NFL face and Jimmy Johnson who comes from Miami,
Speaker 1: and it is a culture hammer. He changes things and
Speaker 1: it isn't players talking over coaches and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But ever since then, kind of like you know, when
Speaker 1: you move away from like we've talked about this before,
Speaker 1: he went completely other end of the spectrum after the
Speaker 1: breakup with Jimmy Johnson, and he proceeds to hire Barry Switzer,
Speaker 1: who just inherits like George seafor did in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: a good roster, and after being caught eating a hot
Speaker 1: dog on the sideline during the Pro Bowl, goes and
Speaker 1: wins a Super Bowl with Jimmy Johnson's players the next year. Okay,
Speaker 1: then they hire Chan Gailey, Dave Campo, Bill Parcels, Nice
Speaker 1: Hire Wade Phillips, Jason Garrett, and now Mike McCarthy. These
Speaker 1: are all essentially old school veteran coaches that aren't going
Speaker 1: to bring something new. And Mike McCarty, after selling I
Speaker 1: think Jimmy Johnson a bill of goods about being this
Speaker 1: new coach, and you know time will tell goes and
Speaker 1: hires Nolan, who couldn't be more of an old school
Speaker 1: old boys friend of friends pick for your defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think some of this, some of these
Speaker 1: seeds were sown when Jerry Johnson, Jerry Jones refused to
Speaker 1: broad in a net and look for someone that could
Speaker 1: change Cowboy's culture. Jerry Jones turned seventy eight last week,
Speaker 1: and um, he is not blameless in this, and it's
Speaker 1: beyond just who he's choosing as the coach, because Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and Mike Nolan will will end up being fall guys.
Speaker 1: If this thing really goes off the rails, and it
Speaker 1: might even be a one and done situation, who knows,
Speaker 1: because like I said, Jarald just turned seventy eight, uh,
Speaker 1: and the clock's ticking and the heat he wants results.
Speaker 1: And if this thing continues to spiral and players are
Speaker 1: you know, abandoning the ship, it might force the hand
Speaker 1: of ownership. And I just I think one thing, it's
Speaker 1: While I don't think McCarthy was a necessarily an exhilarating
Speaker 1: higher I feel like he is a bit of a
Speaker 1: scapegoat here because he didn't inherit um a good defense,
Speaker 1: and he, Mike Nolan, is being asked to make do
Speaker 1: with a defense that doesn't have a lot of parts.
Speaker 1: And then you factor in a ton of injuries that
Speaker 1: have compounded the situation and put the Cowboys know behind
Speaker 1: the eight ball. They had a roster that had holes
Speaker 1: and now would viciously depleted roster because of injuries. So
Speaker 1: it to me, it's kind of you can't put it
Speaker 1: on one thing. It's everything that's kind of come together
Speaker 1: as a poop sandwich in Dallas. And maybe McCarthy and
Speaker 1: Nolan are the fall guys here, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that have come into play here. But they
Speaker 1: spending a lot of money on defense. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin signing hasn't worked, but de Marcus Lawrence is
Speaker 1: one of the highest paid defensive lineman in the league
Speaker 1: and is is really struggling. Alden Smith has been an
Speaker 1: amazing signing. Jalen Smith has really struggled as making a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Vander Rash is a key piece. He's there.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not without talent. They have some high
Speaker 1: draft picks in the secondary. So I think a lot
Speaker 1: of his coaching, A ton of it is injuries. Of course,
Speaker 1: I mean the offensive line is is decimated. Um, but
Speaker 1: I really was annoyed how often we heard last night
Speaker 1: how the Cowboys weren't expecting that much of a drop
Speaker 1: off after going to Dalton. It's like, BS, they pay
Speaker 1: one guy thirty one million and the other guy three million,
Speaker 1: and you're not expecting much of a drop off. You
Speaker 1: should expect a lot of a drop off. You should
Speaker 1: know what you have with Dak Prescott. And it was
Speaker 1: a reminder to all the clowns who are always like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, well with a lot of this, you know,
Speaker 1: production is like when they're coming back in games or
Speaker 1: it's down thirty, it's like playing quarterback and putting up
Speaker 1: a lot of points. It is hard, no matter what
Speaker 1: the score is. And I think we were reminded, you know,
Speaker 1: you see that watching terrible offenses every week that can't
Speaker 1: do it, and when whether it's garbage time or not.
Speaker 1: We saw last date it's like Andy Dalton was bad
Speaker 1: at every point of the game, Like they didn't start
Speaker 1: scoring points once they were they were way down, and
Speaker 1: they shouldn't need a reminder how good Doc is. I
Speaker 1: I'd actually don't think they really did. I think he'll
Speaker 1: always be there, but man, this there's no way they'll
Speaker 1: ever let Doc go. If this season goes how I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna go, I'd be shocked. Yeah, the like
Speaker 1: I don't think it creates more indecision about Dak the
Speaker 1: s injury. I think it just hammers home the certainty
Speaker 1: that they're going to give him the world and be like,
Speaker 1: all right, save us, which maybe isn't the best way
Speaker 1: to look at it either, because they were having issues
Speaker 1: when Dak was lighting up the world. They just have
Speaker 1: so much work to do and probably the biggest like
Speaker 1: career jolt and we and you know, I know, I
Speaker 1: think we're all kind of we get where we are
Speaker 1: with Andy Dalton. But there's a lot of flowery talk
Speaker 1: about this is the you know, opportunity for Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: to show that he should be a starter next season
Speaker 1: for another team. I mean, that's fine, and he couldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, outside of the offensive line, he's never been
Speaker 1: surrounded with this type of starry weaponry. But it's still
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton and the team that goes and signs Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton as their starter next year, is going to get
Speaker 1: this player, and so I don't that that narrator never
Speaker 1: signed it. Last night. Now we have that information, but
Speaker 1: a week ago it was like, hey, you know, and
Speaker 1: I was you know, he threw the ball aggressively to
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup at the end of last game. Maybe this
Speaker 1: is a new Dalton and he's gonna get you know,
Speaker 1: great audition. And the whole thing is exactly exactly the
Speaker 1: story lines become become absurd within he's not going anywhere
Speaker 1: either he and he's going to continue to be there.
Speaker 1: I I still think he's gonna put up numbers. But
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton primetime order to playoff game has never just annoyed.
Speaker 1: All their games are gonna matter so much because the
Speaker 1: NFC East. It's funny because they keep showing the standings
Speaker 1: and how embarrassing it is. But I don't think people
Speaker 1: even understand how embarrassing because most of those wins they
Speaker 1: have are against each other that the division is to
Speaker 1: fifteen and one right now outside the division in both
Speaker 1: those wins, but we're just by the skin of their teeth,
Speaker 1: including that on site kick recovery two fifteen and one.
Speaker 1: They're basically the worst team in the NFL as a division.
Speaker 1: All Right, stick a pin in that, because we have
Speaker 1: a great Thursday night football game coming up, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna preview that at the end of the show. But
Speaker 1: first there's a little bit more news to get to.
Speaker 1: It revolves around the Miami Dolphins, who despite coming off
Speaker 1: two resounding victories that have moved them into the playoff race,
Speaker 1: into the a FC East Race. How about that? Uh?
Speaker 1: They make the move to uh is the new quarterback? UH?
Speaker 1: Starting quarterback of the team, Ryan Fitzpatrick heads to the bench,
Speaker 1: and man, it makes too much sense to get the
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Dolphins straight from the most famous Dolphins
Speaker 1: fan in Westchester, UH area of Los Angeles. That is
Speaker 1: the great Henry Hodgson, the vice president of International here
Speaker 1: in NFL Media and late of the Dave Damashek football program.
Speaker 1: He's got a mike and he's got a platform, and
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna deliver. Did you love it, Hank?
Speaker 1: Would you think of the decision by the Dolphins? I
Speaker 1: am super excited. Hello friends, It's nice to see you all.
Speaker 1: I thought I would hate to talk about Mark Spurring,
Speaker 1: so I'm not prepared to this, but a mobile ambush
Speaker 1: interview with We'll try, We'll try and speak about to
Speaker 1: her instead. No, I look, I'm I'm I'm super excited.
Speaker 1: From the moment that he threw that two yard dump
Speaker 1: off to Patrick Laird, it was clear that this was
Speaker 1: a man who who is who's destined for greatness UM,
Speaker 1: and so I'm extremely exciting. But the rollout throw to
Speaker 1: was left actually was was pretty good. I mean I
Speaker 1: I immediately thought like, he is quick. And you know what,
Speaker 1: there's not a there's not a single um. There's not
Speaker 1: a single NFL player who can make that throw that
Speaker 1: is starting on Sundays because none of them are left
Speaker 1: handed like that is there is something too that I
Speaker 1: feel like that's literally it's impossible for the others. I
Speaker 1: do think that, you know that the NFL is a
Speaker 1: better place when there are left handed quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: Having a left handed quarterback around is fun. It looks
Speaker 1: strange people get freaked out by the whole thing, but
Speaker 1: that's exciting in itself. But I mean, other than that,
Speaker 1: this is something that Dolphins fans, you know, they started
Speaker 1: talking about to being a Dolphins player in like eighteen
Speaker 1: and it's taken all this time. You took the time,
Speaker 1: and then they tanked for two or last year apparently,
Speaker 1: although you didn't really work out the way it did.
Speaker 1: But then he got injured. Then they managed to be
Speaker 1: in position to draft him without having to trade up
Speaker 1: or doing doing anything else. And then there's this feeling
Speaker 1: of Okay, he's here, now when do we actually get
Speaker 1: to see him? And the pressure has been building and
Speaker 1: building and building over the last few weeks. People were
Speaker 1: obviously you know, wanted to see him in the in
Speaker 1: the back half of that UM defeat at the forty
Speaker 1: nine is a couple of weeks ago, and that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So I was kind of I'd counted it out as
Speaker 1: I was, I think one of the only people in
Speaker 1: the world watching the Jets Dolphins game rightly, by the way,
Speaker 1: anyone who decided to choose backpack his Buccaneers instead. Um
Speaker 1: and uh. And then it happened and it was super exciting.
Speaker 1: And now we've got to wait another twelve days to
Speaker 1: to to see it again. But I think it will
Speaker 1: be what it's like the twelve Days of Christmas. And
Speaker 1: you think, do you think that, because there's you know,
Speaker 1: people out there, like, I get the it's an abrupt
Speaker 1: switch because Fitzpatrick is Fitzpatrick there, He's got good energy,
Speaker 1: he's been playing lights out, they've been winning, and so
Speaker 1: some thinking, why are you making this switch? I get
Speaker 1: why a Dolphins fan, Dolphins sneaky gone without a quarterback
Speaker 1: that really generated like um metropolitan energy in Miami since
Speaker 1: Dan Marino. I don't. I'm not putting Ryan Tannehill in
Speaker 1: that class it all or anyone else on the m
Speaker 1: v P Ryan tan Well, right, and not in Miami though, please,
Speaker 1: But do you think that this was the plan in
Speaker 1: terms of the timing from the very beginning saying no
Speaker 1: matter what Fitzpatrick's doing, um barring if t of progresses,
Speaker 1: as we think from the summer on, we're making the
Speaker 1: switch before the bye week to fully integrate him and
Speaker 1: give him the best chance to start versus on the fly,
Speaker 1: which is you know, this happened at a weird time,
Speaker 1: but maybe this was the plan all along. Jump in
Speaker 1: real quick because it turns out that three there's three
Speaker 1: people in this podcast that watched the Jets Dolphins in
Speaker 1: real time on Sunday, which you can't find a grouping
Speaker 1: of three people anywhere else in the world that could
Speaker 1: say that before you take it, Henry ran this. Patrick
Speaker 1: didn't play very well on Sunday. I thought that maybe
Speaker 1: could have been a factor twenty four nothing. He got
Speaker 1: papered over and the Jets are miserable. But with the
Speaker 1: bye week combined with them back that uh, they struggled
Speaker 1: on third down. He threw some bad as, he had
Speaker 1: some interceptions. I wonder if that played in it all
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, I mean, the Dolphins have had three wins,
Speaker 1: but in those three wins, fitz has had three good
Speaker 1: halves and then the second half in each of them
Speaker 1: has been a little bit disappointing. Some of that is
Speaker 1: because they were so far in front against all three clubs,
Speaker 1: against the Jags and the Jets this week that they
Speaker 1: you know, they maybe they took their foot off the
Speaker 1: gas of it. But Fits, I think you're right down
Speaker 1: to especially did not look good against the Jets. I
Speaker 1: think in terms of timing, they moved the bye week,
Speaker 1: so originally I think the Dolphins had like a week
Speaker 1: eleven by and then as part of all the reshuffle
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago thereby got moved to week six,
Speaker 1: so that that may have made them think that this
Speaker 1: is the right time to do it. I think overall, though,
Speaker 1: and this is a point I was making this morning
Speaker 1: to Dan Chagrin on Twitter, that that is the point
Speaker 1: that I think when the Dolphins hired Brown Florist, they
Speaker 1: gave him a five year guaranteed contract, which doesn't typically
Speaker 1: happen for head coaches. You know, it's guaranteed that you
Speaker 1: get all five years. It's often like a three or
Speaker 1: four year contract with with options, um I think, and
Speaker 1: then they given permission to make a bunch of trades,
Speaker 1: or him and Chris Career, the general manager, to make
Speaker 1: a bunch of trades. Last year. I think the first
Speaker 1: two years were essentially like write offs. Let's go go
Speaker 1: build this team and mold. It's the youngest team in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now, so fits getting to like nine
Speaker 1: and seven year. If you leave them in there, you
Speaker 1: wind up being in the same spot as you were
Speaker 1: in before, as one of those teams that floats between
Speaker 1: seven and nine and nine and seven, and you're in
Speaker 1: that miserable midpack of the NFL. So let's let's let
Speaker 1: two a go and make the mistakes if if there
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It was actually what happened in the first
Speaker 1: year with Adam Gaze where they accidentally went to the
Speaker 1: playoffs and then as a result of that, expectations get
Speaker 1: reset the whole way through. You might as well, let's
Speaker 1: let someone learn on the job, let someone potentially fail,
Speaker 1: find out what you've got in your piece, and then
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully you know, fingers crossed going to one
Speaker 1: with a quarterback who can who can you know take
Speaker 1: you further than nine and seve. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: they can win with division with Yeah, I think they gotta.
Speaker 1: I gotta. I think they got a shot. I think
Speaker 1: the Bills are the favorites. But seeing that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are tenth in d v O A right now, it
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me. They've won three games by blowout. They're
Speaker 1: doing some uh really well coached, exciting things. I think
Speaker 1: you gotta make the move because the only thing that matters,
Speaker 1: the thing that matters most this year is developing to
Speaker 1: a and so they're watching him every day. If they
Speaker 1: think he's ready to play now and they didn't obviously
Speaker 1: in Week one, then you play him like, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna trust Brian Flores. He's been a good coach and
Speaker 1: that's the number one thing. Initially, it reminded me of
Speaker 1: the Giants. I remember being in New York when they
Speaker 1: benched Kurt Warner at five and four, I think was
Speaker 1: the record for Eli. And Eli came in and they
Speaker 1: were suddenly the worst offense in the league and he
Speaker 1: was the worst quarterback in the league. But you know
Speaker 1: what Eli said all throughout his career that that experience
Speaker 1: made him so much better, and he came into his
Speaker 1: year two way better. He took a massive leap, and
Speaker 1: he said that experience was part of it. So if
Speaker 1: they think too us ready, you don't want to put
Speaker 1: him in a bad situation. But I kind of think
Speaker 1: the fact that they're a decent team around him makes
Speaker 1: me want to play him even more well. And and
Speaker 1: the other bit, Greg, Greg and I have a long
Speaker 1: text chain which focuses solely on the Miami Dolphins offensive line.
Speaker 1: He has done over the last few weeks is pretty
Speaker 1: exciting two teams people. He just loves it so much.
Speaker 1: But I think that's played into it as well. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins have three rookies starting on the offensive line, but
Speaker 1: they have been surprisingly better than than expected, and so
Speaker 1: I think again with the bye week being moved up,
Speaker 1: with the offensive line looking certainly a lot better than
Speaker 1: a day a year ago. They feel confident that Tour
Speaker 1: who's now a year removed from that injury, who's obviously
Speaker 1: had time to pick up the playbook even without training
Speaker 1: camp and everything that happened, like now is the time
Speaker 1: and and and Greg's right, you know fits his the
Speaker 1: twentie best quarterback. I don't I don't know who where
Speaker 1: the QB index where West has in this week, but
Speaker 1: he's been floating at you know, somewhere between thirty two
Speaker 1: and twenty. Let's say, UM two has the upside. So
Speaker 1: why not why not put the guy in who could
Speaker 1: potentially take me further this year but definitely can't do
Speaker 1: in future years. Here's another theory, Hank, before we say goodbye,
Speaker 1: because I know you have important vice president of international
Speaker 1: stuff to tend to. Uh does this announcement go down
Speaker 1: or does this report come out today? If the Bills
Speaker 1: don't lose yesterday, and all of a sudden, they're thinking
Speaker 1: in Miami, okay, we're three and three, our defense is
Speaker 1: getting better, we're certified frisky. Over in l A, they
Speaker 1: get the Herbert lift. What if to Ah is ready.
Speaker 1: We get the to a lift and we can steal
Speaker 1: this damn division. I initially didn't like it, and maybe
Speaker 1: because I like Ryan Fitzpatrick. Uh, but it might as
Speaker 1: well start the future while also potentially bettering the present
Speaker 1: because it it maybe puts the ceiling a little bit higher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean maybe that plays into it. I definitely think
Speaker 1: that the division more open than we thought it was
Speaker 1: two weeks ago before the Bills lost two on the trunk.
Speaker 1: So listen to this conversation we're having in weeks. But damn,
Speaker 1: you know, for you this is you know two years ago,
Speaker 1: three years ago, you were able to be excited because
Speaker 1: you had a new young quartaback who'd done nothing, and
Speaker 1: and you know, three years from now, the chances are
Speaker 1: as as a broken Dolphins fan, I will I'll probably
Speaker 1: be sitting feeling the same way about my team as you.
Speaker 1: But I'm enjoying today because if you can't enjoy today,
Speaker 1: then you can't enjoy it Before you go, Henry, I
Speaker 1: want you to enjoy something else because you know, you're
Speaker 1: very humble, but you're a key member of this international
Speaker 1: Pathway program. I feel like it's been a big year
Speaker 1: for the international players. My lot is in there for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, never played before. He's playing left tackle. You
Speaker 1: got Yakob Johnson, Yeah, you got a Patriots starting offensive
Speaker 1: linemen with Greg's arm behind his back, and that the
Speaker 1: Pathway program is taken over him. But Henry, why not
Speaker 1: why not bring Greg onto your you know, high falutin
Speaker 1: meeting to pitch what you've What he's just said here,
Speaker 1: it sounds like he might be promoted. You might be
Speaker 1: promoted for the eighth time since I've known you, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone wins. Um, Well, yes, thank you much.
Speaker 1: And then might look, I'm super excited about the player
Speaker 1: Popey program and that Gregg is exactly right there, you know,
Speaker 1: jurding my life. I was had never played down of
Speaker 1: football before he came into the NFL. The first time
Speaker 1: he went to a football game, he was playing in it.
Speaker 1: That in itself is is a pretty remarkable thing. Um.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, super excited for him, for Yakob Johnson.
Speaker 1: Lots of lots of new things coming from from international players.
Speaker 1: And what happens to the international players who don't work out?
Speaker 1: Do they just are they silently removed from the equation
Speaker 1: and then never seen from again. Maybe put deep below
Speaker 1: the earth. No no, no, they go back to their
Speaker 1: home countries and hone their craft, um to to get
Speaker 1: better and and if if nothing else, to take the
Speaker 1: coaching on that they of um that they in the
Speaker 1: NFL to to bring some new people. Yet. So that's
Speaker 1: what I'm telling you. One more thing done, because I
Speaker 1: know you're a Fits fan. Can I just say this
Speaker 1: has this for a little a little theory that's coming
Speaker 1: um Fits the who who you know tour was his apprentice,
Speaker 1: becomes the apprentice to Chan Gailey, who's I think in
Speaker 1: his late seventies, to take over as the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator year from now Kellen Moore style um and goes
Speaker 1: on to a NFL coaching career. By the time he
Speaker 1: retires as a as an NFL head coach in thirty years,
Speaker 1: he hasn't shaved his beard once during that whole time,
Speaker 1: and it's down below his knees. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: see as Fitzpatrick is maybe as a renaissance man that
Speaker 1: wants to do other things outside the football world. I'm
Speaker 1: also not convinced he's not going to be still playing
Speaker 1: when he's fifty. Hey. One more thing, Henry uh since
Speaker 1: you're the pathway guy. Uh, Ricky hit it and now
Speaker 1: keeping up? So what do you got I don't have
Speaker 1: anything on Marrit's right now. I'm afraid, guys. I mean
Speaker 1: he he has gone back. You know, the the Schwabish
Speaker 1: Hall Unicorns will be welcoming back with open arms um
Speaker 1: to go play wide receiver, tight end and pass on
Speaker 1: a lot of his experience from the NFL so that
Speaker 1: young unicorns can can join the player pathway program in
Speaker 1: the future. Is it, Ricky? And that's keeping up all right? Henry?
Speaker 1: We love you buddy. It's lovely to see you, guys.
Speaker 1: Take care, love for you all to west if he's
Speaker 1: listening as well, and we'll catch up soon. Have fun
Speaker 1: at your corporate meeting. Thank you. Mark. If you want
Speaker 1: to join, you know, feel free to jump in. No,
Speaker 1: I'm satisfied on that front. There he goes, the King
Speaker 1: of Britain, the King of the international program, Henry Hodgson,
Speaker 1: always good to see and here from Hank. All right,
Speaker 1: before we sign off. As we mentioned earlier, NFC East
Speaker 1: is a dump. It's like a floating dump. Um off
Speaker 1: Staten Island right now and everybody is puzzled how it
Speaker 1: could have gotten this bad. Uh, this is how bad
Speaker 1: it's gotten. We'll start it out this way. Mark. The
Speaker 1: Giants play the Eagles on Thursday night on Fox and
Speaker 1: NFL Network Pacific A twenty eastern. Both teams are still
Speaker 1: in good shape and alive. If they lose, even though
Speaker 1: they only have one win in week seven, it's it's
Speaker 1: incredibly messy. And I think you know, Greg, you put
Speaker 1: it well, it's a messy too unprecedented um levels That said,
Speaker 1: the Eagles, after this Giants game, go play the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: then have their I then come back from thereby rested
Speaker 1: to play the Giants again, potentially healthier. That could get
Speaker 1: them to four four and one if they took care
Speaker 1: of business against three bad teams. Suddenly, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not buying into any of these teams. I would like
Speaker 1: an angry um like alien mothership to come take all
Speaker 1: four of these college level operations and remove them until
Speaker 1: But the one element I still want to believe in
Speaker 1: is Carson Wentz, who has been You know, we we
Speaker 1: there are a lot of young quarterbacks in bad situations,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't call Carson Wentz a young quarterback right now.
Speaker 1: The same way, but the unprecedented words should be attached
Speaker 1: to the injuries that around him the line. It's it's
Speaker 1: the second year in a row and suddenly, like will
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders be around? I mean, the team is so
Speaker 1: banged up that the only thing I can hope for
Speaker 1: is some sort of Carson Wentz Thursday Night playmaking magic
Speaker 1: with their fleet of interesting third stringers against the Giants
Speaker 1: defense that's looked pretty good. Frankly, like I think the Giants,
Speaker 1: if I'm not seeing that it's a great defense. It's
Speaker 1: just improved from their completely identity identity black hole that
Speaker 1: they operated in for the last seven years. It's it's
Speaker 1: a recipe for a very unwatchable game. Because I I
Speaker 1: agree with you, I think the Giants defense should be
Speaker 1: able to slow down Philadelphia, who's down so many offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: Since we've last recorded, we learned Zach Ertz is out
Speaker 1: three to four weeks. I don't even know if that
Speaker 1: hurts them so much as as ineffective as he was,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's not a good thing. Right, Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders is out this week, um, so they're down to
Speaker 1: two of their original starters just although actually they might
Speaker 1: get DeShawn Jackson and alshon Jeffrey back for this game,
Speaker 1: which is interesting. It'll be a different look. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: see how much that matters. I mean, DeShawn Jackson is
Speaker 1: like Amelia Earhart at this point, she might return to society.
Speaker 1: I don't you know. I don't think he's played in
Speaker 1: four years. So when this when this NMC east, um?
Speaker 1: When the When I was watching the Cowboys last night
Speaker 1: and they were talking about the NFCS, I suddenly had
Speaker 1: this weird vision of like Joe Judge celebrating because the
Speaker 1: six and ten Giants just won the NFC. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I felt like a Mark Sessler vision because it just
Speaker 1: like felt like, well, which team is like healthy enough
Speaker 1: and has like a couple of things I like, like
Speaker 1: James Bradberry's playing like an All Pro. Darius Slayton is
Speaker 1: a legit starting wide receiver. Um, I mean if shepherds
Speaker 1: probably not good that they had forty six snaps last
Speaker 1: week and Devonte Freeman was featured on twenty of them.
Speaker 1: That feels like a ratio you don't want. Although he's
Speaker 1: looked a little better, but they don't look terribly coached
Speaker 1: there like mostly in these games and they're just healthier.
Speaker 1: So maybe I was like, well, maybe the Giants win
Speaker 1: five or six games and they win this division. Could happen.
Speaker 1: I think there's Giants fans are already annoyed and and
Speaker 1: they want to be in the tank for Trevor conversation.
Speaker 1: But you know, Jones is just mad. I think he's
Speaker 1: made eighteen starts and he's got a new coach and
Speaker 1: the new scheme. You gotta see this whole season through
Speaker 1: before even beginning to think about rebooting again. So this
Speaker 1: is a good for the Giants. They're not going to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. They're most likely not gonna pull the
Speaker 1: Joe Judge Gatoradebeth at six and ten. Uh, but it's
Speaker 1: still gonna be an important season for them in terms
Speaker 1: of trying to figure out what what they have on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball that I don't this Yeah,
Speaker 1: this game though is the Eagles front looks good. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're their defense is mostly healthy, and they're pretty good,
Speaker 1: which is why I think it will be so ugly
Speaker 1: that you figure they would be able to slow down
Speaker 1: the Giants who are mostly now like they wish Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones was Lamar Jackson and like his Miles per hour.
Speaker 1: I saw some next gen thing was like the fastest
Speaker 1: any quarterbacks run all year, and he is fastest, hell,
Speaker 1: but he does not have the running instincts as Lamar.
Speaker 1: And it's like when Daniel Jones running is the primary
Speaker 1: thing in your offense, you're probably in trouble. How about
Speaker 1: this Carson Wentz Thursday night against the putrid Giants team?
Speaker 1: Is this game's in Philly too, right? I know things
Speaker 1: are weird this year, but go light up the Giants.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have the two veterans back. Hopefully Falgam has
Speaker 1: turned into a guy you could trust. No Earth's um
Speaker 1: down to their top two tight ends actually right now.
Speaker 1: But it's the Giants. Deliver a game where you have
Speaker 1: four scores, you throw for three yards, you run for thirty,
Speaker 1: you don't have a turnover, and just like put together
Speaker 1: that game against this opponent and kind of get people
Speaker 1: feeling better inside that building about you and the chances
Speaker 1: in what's been a pretty hellish season so far. I mean,
Speaker 1: they almost beat Baltimore. I would say one thing from
Speaker 1: an NFL fan perspective, you know, thirty plus years of
Speaker 1: watching this game, if a team ever won the Division
Speaker 1: A Division at five and eleven. It would be one
Speaker 1: of the greatest things I've ever witnessed, and I would
Speaker 1: be all in on that playoff game. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: time after time, but in one season if that happened. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks in two thousand eleven or ten went seven
Speaker 1: and nine and won a playoff game on the beast quake, right,
Speaker 1: Remember the Carolina team went what's seven? Eight and one?
Speaker 1: So just what you know, football is weird. Men, don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if something crazy happens. But there you go.
Speaker 1: Thursday night football. Check out Connie Fox, of course on
Speaker 1: NFL Network. She hosts, she anchors, in fact coverage, pregame, halftime,
Speaker 1: post game. About a little Connie Fox. Who do we
Speaker 1: want Connie Fox sitting down with. I'd like to get
Speaker 1: to know Daniel Jones to see if he has a
Speaker 1: little more personality. How about Daniel Jones after a win
Speaker 1: with Connie Fox and they're just chopping it up and
Speaker 1: having fun. Connie Fox, the Eagles fan, I would preferably
Speaker 1: give her an Eagles player, Carson Wentz. That's a little
Speaker 1: more entertaining, though, isn't it just to have Connie having
Speaker 1: a I mean, I see where you're going render teeth.
Speaker 1: Went's not too entertaining, Daniel Jones, not too entertaining, trying
Speaker 1: to think of a wacky Don Jackson has a big game.
Speaker 1: I can see Jackson hamstring. She interviews the hamstrang. How
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Man? She's like, oh, it's been
Speaker 1: a tough thirty one years. But Alison Jeffrey is like,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that de Sean Jackson's taking all the
Speaker 1: heat in this injured Eagles. I haven't done anything since
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. It was a great super Bowl though.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, good football combo. Yes, we'll be
Speaker 1: back on Thursday with two shows, the Week seven Preview.
Speaker 1: That's the big one where we go through every game
Speaker 1: ahead on the slate in on Sunday and Monday. Hopefully
Speaker 1: no Tuesday or Wednesday at football right now that is
Speaker 1: not the case. And then also we will have a
Speaker 1: mini pod that goes up late Thursday recapping the Eagles
Speaker 1: Giants affair. So there you go. All right, how's everybody
Speaker 1: feeling in general? I feel great, up, doing good. I
Speaker 1: got this new fan, a water bottle that tells me
Speaker 1: to drink. It'll be like get started. Remember your goal
Speaker 1: that tonk a lot of water. The season is a
Speaker 1: good not distraction, but just like gets us in this
Speaker 1: mode too much idle time right now, it gets us like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the election will just be here before we know. We're
Speaker 1: cranking through this, uh remote school year. I mean, we
Speaker 1: just need to get through this as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: And exactly, Ricky and you and you're drinking water and
Speaker 1: you're making the right decisions. You'll never be an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman like that. So that's good, thank you. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: drinking a gallon of water a day. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do it for like a month. Uh, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get through this whole show without running to the bathroom
Speaker 1: thirty times. All right, let's go. This is then the
Speaker 1: signing off for Ricky Hollywood, Quiet Storm, the Old Bat
Speaker 1: Boss Handsome Hang. What an appearance by the Handsome until
Speaker 1: third day