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Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan
Speaker 1: Hansens and I'm joined by Room Feldood Heroes, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Greg Rosa Doll. What's Up Boys? Sunday
Speaker 1: Night recap show, the flagship show of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. Another big week in the NFL, How the Boss?
Speaker 1: It was the best set of early games all season,
Speaker 1: not even close. Really, Yeah, I just called it. What
Speaker 1: jumped out to you is you know what made it
Speaker 1: so special? Good games? Packers, Panthers, Raiders, Steelers, meaningful games,
Speaker 1: Vikings Rams was a close one, Bills off. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of games that had meaning. Perhaps you're forgetting
Speaker 1: Week three a great early got a side of a
Speaker 1: Dan there, very strong week. I'll never forget the Week
Speaker 1: three slate, West, how you doing good? Good for the
Speaker 1: first time in history? Three eight no teams? That is
Speaker 1: that's historic? Also historic. There's another downstairs in the newsroom.
Speaker 1: There's another bald white that was wearing the same pullover
Speaker 1: sweatshirt as West Beefy Baldy, and they looked like brothers,
Speaker 1: and you have seven brothers, so six Jason Hartilius could
Speaker 1: be a Westling. It was impressive. I was like ten
Speaker 1: ft away and I don't have good eyesight. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: west is coming over to get some Italian dinner or no,
Speaker 1: it was Jason. Yes. So coming up on today's show,
Speaker 1: we have, of course, the Panthers remain undefeated, and they
Speaker 1: did it in very impressive fashion by taking down the Packers.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to unpack their unpacked Packers. I'm
Speaker 1: the host nailed it. Big Ben injured again, the Steelers
Speaker 1: dealing with more injury woes, so we will get into
Speaker 1: that unpacked that situation in Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: one of the teams that we forked, and you know this,
Speaker 1: this whole thing with the fork. They they're back at
Speaker 1: five hundred after wasting the Dolphins this day with the fork.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we should do it anymore because
Speaker 1: we were not of us feel confident, like, for instance,
Speaker 1: we would all take back forking the Bills and the
Speaker 1: and the Raiders, and I'm sure there's another team out
Speaker 1: there that could make us look silly. That's something we
Speaker 1: need to get together maybe over Danish and bagels and
Speaker 1: coffee there for Tuesday's show. This is but it's just
Speaker 1: it's backing up Greg's point that we were being too
Speaker 1: you know, audacious with some of our forkings, and you're
Speaker 1: simply just proving the boss right. So you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not like trying to stick it to Greg. If
Speaker 1: Greg was making a good point. I know with you
Speaker 1: you don't want to give Greg any credit, but I'm
Speaker 1: just giving Greg credit. May actually, well, are we gonna
Speaker 1: do this again? Credit? Last the last podcast was the
Speaker 1: credit podcast. That was one before that, in the previous one.
Speaker 1: So anyway, yes, the fork we'll talk about that on
Speaker 1: Tuesday's show, our final four conversation at least in terms
Speaker 1: of forking teams. So that's all coming up in a
Speaker 1: big show. I feel good. It was excited. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's do Let's talk some football, and let's
Speaker 1: start with Carolina and Green Bay and Cam Newton throws
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes runs for another score and the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers can you believe it? Can you believe it? Eight no?
Speaker 1: With a thirty nine win over the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: who have now lost two straight Mark Sessler, nobody should
Speaker 1: be doubting the Panthers as a Super Bowl contender at
Speaker 1: the taking down the Packers and the Seahawks right couldn't
Speaker 1: agree more. I mean, I think that they keep proving
Speaker 1: week after week that whatever comes out than whatever type
Speaker 1: of team it is, they'll surprise you over and over.
Speaker 1: I mean their offense that we I kind of ruled
Speaker 1: this Panthers offense out when Kelvin Benjamin was gone, and
Speaker 1: what they're doing not just running the ball but through
Speaker 1: the air today was incredibly impressive. Cam Newton through a
Speaker 1: late pick that nearly would have turned the narrative of
Speaker 1: this game completely on its ass, But honestly, what he
Speaker 1: did previous to that was some of the most aggressive
Speaker 1: passing we've seen from the Panthers this year. Two passes
Speaker 1: of fifty plus yards, another one thirty nine yard for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. He he made this Green Bay defense, which
Speaker 1: has given up five hundred yards two games in a row,
Speaker 1: look desperate. The Packers getting boat raced by the Broncos
Speaker 1: and then for the first half of this game for
Speaker 1: sixth straight quarters is one of the most surprising things
Speaker 1: I think to happen this year. Not just that they're
Speaker 1: getting beat they're playing good teams, good defenses, but that
Speaker 1: it wasn't remotely competitive. Of course, they did, you know,
Speaker 1: make a good comeback in this at one point, they
Speaker 1: did come back. You know in NFL medium Sary and
Speaker 1: Rappaport noted before the game that there was issues in
Speaker 1: Green Bay with their passing game and they wanted to
Speaker 1: go less aggressive and start throwing more methodical short routes.
Speaker 1: And we saw that early and it didn't work at all.
Speaker 1: It didn't. It was almost like Rogers just didn't trust
Speaker 1: the receivers that he has out there. Second half, they
Speaker 1: got going and they just went back to what they
Speaker 1: do with him at quarterback and they made a game
Speaker 1: of this. It was very concerning for Carolina Lake. We
Speaker 1: have some video on the sideline the Packers. This kind
Speaker 1: of tells you a little bit about the frustration. Do
Speaker 1: we have that tat um the frustration. You can watch us,
Speaker 1: of course on YouTube. Every Sunday show is on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Check that out. But b J Rajie haha, Clinton Dix
Speaker 1: get get into it on the sidelines um at one
Speaker 1: point and it just shows the frustration bubbling over. I
Speaker 1: think there was a feeling especially in the early part
Speaker 1: of the season that this was gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those Packers seasons where they roll into fourteen and two
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, they
Speaker 1: hit this choppy water. The offensive line was just as
Speaker 1: much of a problem as the receivers have been made
Speaker 1: out to be. Rogers got hit what fourteen times today? Yep,
Speaker 1: sacks five times, and I mean if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: his completely stellar footwork in the way he is able
Speaker 1: to escape the rush, he would have been sacked nine times. Well,
Speaker 1: you talked about Cam Newton going down the field. If
Speaker 1: he's sitting vertical print plays the funches and Jericho Cottrie,
Speaker 1: which I wouldn't necessarily expect each week. I mean, then
Speaker 1: this team can win a Super Bowl. I mean that
Speaker 1: is that is the thing that would hold this team back. Theoretically,
Speaker 1: I think they're good enough to get the number one
Speaker 1: seed in the NFC, certainly contend for a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: They're now two games up on the field. But if
Speaker 1: they start getting that passing game going consistently, I mean,
Speaker 1: they have everything and they only needed Jonathan Steward hit
Speaker 1: about sixty yards and it wasn't we just have a
Speaker 1: one dimensional run based attack. Newton killed him with his feet.
Speaker 1: Stewart did just enough. They trust Steward on long third
Speaker 1: downs to give him the ball and he converted. But
Speaker 1: you're right, it was the passing game and Newton's trust
Speaker 1: of his receivers. I mean he throwing ball forty yards
Speaker 1: through the air and trusting his receivers to make the catch.
Speaker 1: The point of attack, I mean Devin Funchis, who had
Speaker 1: given them nothing really this season to this point. If
Speaker 1: he becomes a player on this offense, and then you
Speaker 1: have Greg Olsen and Jonathan Stewart, Jonathan Stewart's running, well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna score enough points. And I mean there for real,
Speaker 1: ain't no how can you doubt them to this point? Well,
Speaker 1: I almost want to see was this Green Bay's defense
Speaker 1: because they looked that bad and look against against offenses
Speaker 1: that aren't known to light people up. What happened the
Speaker 1: game before that? That was Philip Rivers. Game Mark made
Speaker 1: a good point in the news room about the Panthers
Speaker 1: stability as an organization. They could have easily fired Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera after a year or two. Instead, they gave him
Speaker 1: an extension. And if you look at the three undefeated teams.
Speaker 1: Belichick and Marvin Lewis are the two longest tenured coaches
Speaker 1: in the league. They've got to combine twenty nine years.
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera has been in Carolina for five years. They
Speaker 1: gave him an extension. I think there's a lot to
Speaker 1: be said for that stability. Is it crazy to start
Speaker 1: thinking about sixteen and oh for the Panthers, because if
Speaker 1: you look at their schedule, I think the odds are
Speaker 1: of course they're gonna get picked off one of these weeks.
Speaker 1: But if you look at their schedule, there isn't a
Speaker 1: single particularly hard game left on it. There's not a
Speaker 1: game where they're not going to be favored significantly added.
Speaker 1: You know, the Falcons no longer looks like that tough
Speaker 1: of a game. They gotta sweep and that stuff. You
Speaker 1: gotta go to New Orleans. That's not necessarily easy, but
Speaker 1: there are there are no great teams left on this
Speaker 1: Carolina schedule. So even if they don't go to sixty, no,
Speaker 1: maybe they could threaten it. And if they don't go
Speaker 1: fourteen and two, I'd be stunned. They're gonna get that.
Speaker 1: I think if and this is a credit to the Panthers,
Speaker 1: not taking it away like they could easily be five
Speaker 1: and three right now. They've been games where they they
Speaker 1: they've been outplayed or things broke the right way at
Speaker 1: the end of the game where they made the play
Speaker 1: to win the game. So this has been very different.
Speaker 1: Like when they talk about the Patriots at eight now,
Speaker 1: I feel differently like I have to think they have
Speaker 1: a real shot at it, but I think the Panthers
Speaker 1: will have some weeks where they because they can get
Speaker 1: picked up by most teams that are averaging better. Right
Speaker 1: I don't think they're a dominant team. I think it
Speaker 1: came into the year they're having to figure out who
Speaker 1: they were on offense, especially, and I don't for me,
Speaker 1: I don't care if they go sixteen and know they're
Speaker 1: in pole position just to have home field throughout the playoffs,
Speaker 1: which would be completely unexpected for this team. As great
Speaker 1: as Cam Newton has been this year, we all know
Speaker 1: he's one of the most things consistent passers in the league.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me at all if he just has
Speaker 1: a bad game and they lose. Did you guys hear
Speaker 1: about Bannergate? Yes, yes, we did, not to use the
Speaker 1: word game to listen any longer when it comes to controversial,
Speaker 1: Mark and Greg and I exchange the heated debate about
Speaker 1: this subject before you entered the Well, let me just
Speaker 1: fill in the listeners first. That banner gate occurred when
Speaker 1: Cam Newton was stretching before this game on Sunday and
Speaker 1: saw a Packers fan hanging up a banner at Bank
Speaker 1: of America Stadium that said, you know, it was like
Speaker 1: Packard Country in North Carolina. Ripped a banner down, and
Speaker 1: the fan who had paid five hundred dollars to make
Speaker 1: that banner and was planning to hang it in his
Speaker 1: man room quote unquote reported it to the local authorities
Speaker 1: and Panthers officials. Now, what were you saying? That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I think things Cam Newton should be allowed to go
Speaker 1: out and break whatever you want. Ever care care about
Speaker 1: the smallest things. If you spend five dollars on a sign,
Speaker 1: you deserve to lose that money. That's ridiculous. What Greg
Speaker 1: said to west Night before you appeared in the room
Speaker 1: was said, I don't care about the working person. Well,
Speaker 1: Greg's not a regular, That's the thing. Hey, here's what
Speaker 1: regular Joe's do they spend five hundred dollars on a
Speaker 1: silly sign. That's the regular that the psychopath it was
Speaker 1: the tailgate with it and then put in kind of
Speaker 1: scratch line and then that you strug to put yourself
Speaker 1: in the mind of the average man. No, I am
Speaker 1: the average man, but I don't think it's some huge
Speaker 1: deal in cam Newton should be castigated for it, but
Speaker 1: he should have to. The Panthers should reimburse this guy's
Speaker 1: Apparently the Panthers did intimate that to the man that
Speaker 1: they'll take care of him. But you know, ken a
Speaker 1: multimillion dollar corporation, the Carolina Panthers can can they float
Speaker 1: five dollars for a sign? And you know this isn't
Speaker 1: Camp's first time stealing things. I'm just gonna say there's
Speaker 1: a history, alright, Sticky fingers Newton they call him. So
Speaker 1: Carolina remains unbeaten. How about the Denver Broncos. Uh Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck picked a great time to return to form on Sunday,
Speaker 1: throwing for two fifty two yards and a touchdown and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and win, knocking the Broncos from the ranks
Speaker 1: of the unbeaten Chris Westling. This game was supposed to
Speaker 1: be all about Peyton Manning setting records. Instead, the real
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck returned. Yeah, the Broncos are actually kind of
Speaker 1: lucky they were in this game. They got a long
Speaker 1: punt return as time expired going into halftime to get
Speaker 1: on the board, and then Peyton Manning hit Emmanuel Sanders
Speaker 1: with a sixty four yard touched down a third quarter.
Speaker 1: Outside of those two plays, the Colts just absolutely dominated
Speaker 1: the first three the first three quarters. Andrew Luck looked
Speaker 1: this was easily his best game of the year. Well,
Speaker 1: Denver came out a halftime, put together a big drive,
Speaker 1: tied the game in the middle of the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and at that point they had all the momentum in
Speaker 1: the world. If that's a thing that exists, and you
Speaker 1: just got the better team is gonna, you know, stand
Speaker 1: up here, and that was the team. That was a
Speaker 1: spot where I thought the Colts were gonna absolutely roll over,
Speaker 1: and instead they respond with a great drive against the
Speaker 1: defense we've been calling the best in the league. And
Speaker 1: then they do it again at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: a six minute drive to end the game. You know,
Speaker 1: you hear about a four minute offense often in the
Speaker 1: NFL try to kill the clock, and in the game
Speaker 1: they killed six minutes and three of the Broncos time outs.
Speaker 1: That's one of the best drives I once had all year.
Speaker 1: Two words Rob Chatzynski. Yeah, and I was wondering downstairs,
Speaker 1: how long do it take from Mark to spin it
Speaker 1: back to an o C. So you're saying all of
Speaker 1: this is because Rob chat Zynski got promoted Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: now great again all for chud Well. In Mark's defense,
Speaker 1: the wide receivers were more open. If you've been watching
Speaker 1: the Cools this year, you know that one of the
Speaker 1: reasons Luck's been holding the balls because the wide receivers
Speaker 1: aren't separating. They got open against a very the best
Speaker 1: secondary in the league, or one of the best secondaries
Speaker 1: in the league. Well, keep to lead, very good cornerback,
Speaker 1: not so good with his actions at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. They would have had a chance to get
Speaker 1: the ball back and he sticks his fingers. That was
Speaker 1: pretty good though, And old school I gouge. You don't
Speaker 1: see much of those anymore, like mo from the Three Stooges. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: nice Three Stooges reference. I like it right. You don't
Speaker 1: see it a lot though, And and and to top
Speaker 1: it off, it was like reminded me of like an
Speaker 1: old eighties wrestling thing when someone would rake Hulk Hogan's
Speaker 1: eyes and then Hogan to be like feeling around idea
Speaker 1: now and sold it pretty well as well. Well, that's
Speaker 1: what it came to. Leap said after the game, you
Speaker 1: would have thought that he was in a sixteen car
Speaker 1: accident the way he reacted. Dwayne Allen that was after them,
Speaker 1: that that did cost him a chance. It did prevent
Speaker 1: what would have been the most like anti climactic moment
Speaker 1: of the day was Peyton Manning was about to get
Speaker 1: back out on the field throw a pass completed and
Speaker 1: he would have broken the passing yards record. Then he
Speaker 1: was only three yards short in a meaningless moment where
Speaker 1: they had really no right another week of this breaking
Speaker 1: records for Peyton Manning chatter do we have to write
Speaker 1: more material on this now because it's going Yeah. I
Speaker 1: had already written the one for breaking it this week,
Speaker 1: so now we're gonna have to pre write one for
Speaker 1: next week. At least we know what will happen at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game. That doesn't really matter. I'm
Speaker 1: more I'm more concerned about the long term stuff here
Speaker 1: for the Colts. I mean, does this mean we think
Speaker 1: we feel pretty safe having forked the rest of the well,
Speaker 1: we haven't forked the Titans. Yet. By the way, I
Speaker 1: called them a bad, bad football team because they played
Speaker 1: like a bad, bad football team. But they were a
Speaker 1: pretty good team today. They looked pretty well rounded. They
Speaker 1: lost Mike Adams to an ankle injury and Henry Anderson,
Speaker 1: the really good rookie pensive end, to a knee injury.
Speaker 1: What to see how serious those are, But those two
Speaker 1: guys have been probably two of the three or four
Speaker 1: best defensive players. If you even get Luck at you know,
Speaker 1: mid tier between this game and some of the others,
Speaker 1: are gonna win this division easy. Yeah. It is crazy though,
Speaker 1: because Monday night Andrew Luck was really appalling at times.
Speaker 1: And this Andrew Luck was the guy that we remembered
Speaker 1: from last year and the year before that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was the first time, the first time all year,
Speaker 1: even going back to Week one, it's the first time
Speaker 1: all year that I've thought Andrew Luck looked like the
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck were used to see. You know, It's a
Speaker 1: big difference is he's made so many bad decisions of
Speaker 1: of when to run or or won't even run throughout
Speaker 1: the season and he was great today on the last
Speaker 1: two quarters against the Panthers, he was Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: phenomenal with his legs to the how about Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1: The response last week after he had that big game
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, maybe Peyton Manning's coming back all the
Speaker 1: way this year. His arm looked fine, looked better than
Speaker 1: it did in the first seven weeks. But the first
Speaker 1: half looked a lot like the playoff loss, where he's
Speaker 1: just throwing over and over again downfield and not connecting
Speaker 1: on anything. He came came alive a little bit in
Speaker 1: the second half, but still through like the game ceiling
Speaker 1: interception to Darius Butler. All right, let's get into talk
Speaker 1: of two more a f C playoff contenders. Uh Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: Brown went off on Sunday seventeen catches two and eighty
Speaker 1: four yards. Again, Mark, this is you and your brother
Speaker 1: dueling and super techmo Bowl back in one. That's the
Speaker 1: type of production we're talking abouts. She destroyed your brother. Now. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna hear from at some point because
Speaker 1: he listens to the show Bowl player against me. Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown goes seventeen two eight four excuse me, no touchdowns?
Speaker 1: You stink, but it didn't matter. He led the Steelers
Speaker 1: to a thirty thirty five win over the Oakland Raiders
Speaker 1: game that came down to a field goal of the gun,
Speaker 1: So a big rin for the Steelers, but Greg Nice win.
Speaker 1: Steelers get it done, tempered though by another huge injury
Speaker 1: to one of their key players, their most important player,
Speaker 1: and Roethlisberger is out with a mid foot spring. Is
Speaker 1: what Albert Brier is reporting for us. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: came out a couple of weeks. They have the Browns
Speaker 1: this week in Pittsburgh and then they have a by
Speaker 1: So if you were creating a scenario of when to
Speaker 1: have a multiple week injury, this is it because they
Speaker 1: can possibly win that game against the Browns. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a possible run. Well, you know, Landry Jones
Speaker 1: will be starting, and then you get a week off.
Speaker 1: Maybe you get Roethlisberger back after that and if they
Speaker 1: make the playoffs there five and four. Now, these two
Speaker 1: games where they had their backup quarterback come in and
Speaker 1: win at the end, it was Michael Vick against the
Speaker 1: Rams and now Landry Jones against the Raiders could be
Speaker 1: the difference of them making the playoffs. The Raiders came
Speaker 1: back and they tied this game, but it was Landry
Speaker 1: Jones who basically just did what Ben Roethlisberger did all day.
Speaker 1: Got the ball to Antonio Brown and let Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: do the best they can direct snap the ball to
Speaker 1: Heath Miller next week and beat the Browns. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was one of the most amazing two person performances,
Speaker 1: maybe the most in NFL history. Antonio Brown had four
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Williams uh was in well over a hundred. They
Speaker 1: combined for five hundred and thirty one totally yards from scrimmains.
Speaker 1: That's the most in NFL history from two people. Are
Speaker 1: you just saying that Levy on Bella is is basically
Speaker 1: a system back? No? I mean you saying that the
Speaker 1: Raiders secondary is trash. The Raiders secondary is gonna prevent
Speaker 1: them from making the playoffs. I think in the end,
Speaker 1: I think that's what's gonna keep them. They have a chance.
Speaker 1: Their offenses did they have guarding Antonio Brown DJ Hayden
Speaker 1: Early and then Emerson Lamerson D J Hayden. Hayden got
Speaker 1: hurt in the game, so that didn't help. I guess
Speaker 1: that doesn't help. But because he's not very good either.
Speaker 1: Charles Woodson gave up a lot of big plays. You
Speaker 1: can shut up about your Charles Woodson for Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year, a lot of throws going over his head.
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown would have had another sixty yards if Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger had hit him on a wide open deep players.
Speaker 1: People only watching the highlights have Charles Woodson and the keep.
Speaker 1: There's Charles Woodson you're watching on YouTube getting out running well.
Speaker 1: The hero worship of Charles Woodson and a great career,
Speaker 1: and he's going into the camp. He's going into the hall.
Speaker 1: But like people talking him up as a Defense Player
Speaker 1: of the Year, it's got so out of control. On
Speaker 1: that last Antonio Brown reception that basically put the game away,
Speaker 1: Dan Foults on the CBS broadcast is like bellowings like,
Speaker 1: oh and look who comes and gets them Charles Woodson
Speaker 1: Like that, then you're giving him, You're trying to give
Speaker 1: him more credit for getting beat on the sixty yard reception.
Speaker 1: I feel bad now that we're piloting on Charles with it.
Speaker 1: He's legitimately having a Pro Bowl season at the one
Speaker 1: started it, but he he should not be in that
Speaker 1: Greg if you're gonna start to finishing. We called their
Speaker 1: secondary trash, but let's credit their offense. Two they didn't
Speaker 1: have a single thirty yard game. They have four of
Speaker 1: them this year. They were limited in a lot of
Speaker 1: the game, especially the first half, by the Steelers defense,
Speaker 1: which has been better. But what they do is when
Speaker 1: they explode, it is fast. It's a forty yard run
Speaker 1: by Latavius Murray, who also left this game with an
Speaker 1: injury and did not return any concussion second in the
Speaker 1: last ten or eleven months, and that was a big
Speaker 1: loss late because he was He has looked great the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. He's a true power back. But
Speaker 1: when they suddenly score, it's in bunches. Michael Crabtree and
Speaker 1: another Hunter, Derek Carr, some beautiful touch passes over the middle.
Speaker 1: Very clutchy. Had his one bad throw the whole day
Speaker 1: was an interception late in the game, but they got
Speaker 1: the ball back and then tied it up. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get paid. They lost this game, and it's it was
Speaker 1: a kind of a heartbreaking loss. But we've got will
Speaker 1: behind the glass. Season Raiders fan. Shouldn't he feel hopeful
Speaker 1: about what's happened? Yeah, I would be excited because you've
Speaker 1: got a quarterback and everything starts to change. At this point.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr is far ahead this season then the other
Speaker 1: guys that have been drafted over the last three years.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's far ahead of where Teddy Bridgewater or
Speaker 1: Boardles or certainly anyone from the class before them, is
Speaker 1: moving on. The Buffalo Bills are back at five hundred
Speaker 1: after Sammy Watkins enjoyed a career day a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty eight yards receiving and a touchdown in a thirty
Speaker 1: three seventeen win over the Miami Dolphins in Orchard Park. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is the end of the Dan Campbell honeymoon period.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins now three and five, another team that we forked,
Speaker 1: and this one feels good because I think the Dolphins
Speaker 1: you could not you don't have to worry about a
Speaker 1: resurgence from them. They look like an obviously inferior team
Speaker 1: all game. They are now oh and four of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are in the A f C East, and they've
Speaker 1: been outscored one thirty seven to fifty two. When those loss, oh,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't even be allowed to play the next two.
Speaker 1: Kick him right out of the division. Relegation, and Dan
Speaker 1: Campbell made one of those decisions that sometimes having the
Speaker 1: interim coach can backfire on you because their whole thing,
Speaker 1: it's always like we're changing the culture around here. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half they have it,
Speaker 1: you know, they're down nineteen to ten, nineteen seven, I believe, actually,
Speaker 1: and they have it at the one yard line with
Speaker 1: two seconds to go, and Dan campbells like, oh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna make a statement, and they go for it twice
Speaker 1: past incomplete. They leave points on the field just kind
Speaker 1: of it just it just shows that the Dolphins, the
Speaker 1: one period of those two weeks against those bad teams
Speaker 1: is over. And then on the Bills side of the ball,
Speaker 1: this team is scary and I got the Jets, got
Speaker 1: the Bills coming to the metal ends in four days.
Speaker 1: This team, when it's healthy and Tyrod Taylor back in
Speaker 1: the lineup, uh and Sammy Watkins looking like a guy
Speaker 1: that was worthy of the first round pick. Carlos Williams
Speaker 1: and Lashawn McCoy both went over a hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 1: McCoy especially. He kind of reminded me of two thousand
Speaker 1: thirteen McCoy on his touchdown run and Tyrod Taylor did
Speaker 1: not look affected by that mcl sprain. He moved well.
Speaker 1: Put it all together. This team is an offensive team,
Speaker 1: which is so crazy with Rex Ryan as the head coach.
Speaker 1: I guess why they were so frustrated up to the
Speaker 1: Jaguars loss, a game that had you had all these
Speaker 1: players on the field, they would have won hands down,
Speaker 1: and that changed the complexion of their season. But that
Speaker 1: to come back and take this thing today with Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor as quarterback, we are stupid to have forked the
Speaker 1: Bills because I think this is a very interesting I
Speaker 1: think when destin it was just last week. It wasn't
Speaker 1: long long ago. I mean last after the last game.
Speaker 1: I was in London, so I don't take I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna you know. I actually put it on your three
Speaker 1: soil in Culver City at the time we were taping it,
Speaker 1: Tech Well, well you were. You were eating Danish in
Speaker 1: the corner, but not taking part in the discussion. Now
Speaker 1: you know, I found out that it happened after and
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's shame on the three of you.
Speaker 1: Will get through it. It was my fault. I should
Speaker 1: not have allowed it to happen. I still think they
Speaker 1: have an uphill battle to make the playoffs. But at
Speaker 1: this point, as we're sitting here today, okay, it was
Speaker 1: a tough loss for the Raiders, and you know the
Speaker 1: Bills that lost to Jacksonville. They're tied for the last
Speaker 1: playoff spot at four and four. Four losses is the
Speaker 1: last playoff spot in the a f C. So this
Speaker 1: race is just starting. Even a team like the Dolphins
Speaker 1: can convince themselves they're in it because they're only one
Speaker 1: lost behind. This podcast is mirrored the Bill season two
Speaker 1: and the fact that we will be sky high on
Speaker 1: the Bills saying how how stupid we were to count
Speaker 1: them out and how loaded this team is, and then
Speaker 1: they lay an egg and then we're down and Mark,
Speaker 1: you're talking about maybe assassinating Rex Ryan, and we're talking
Speaker 1: about how they can't put it together. They don't have
Speaker 1: the right scheme, and the defense thinks maybe we should
Speaker 1: again take a deep breath before putting them in the playoffs. Agree,
Speaker 1: because they have been inconsistent all year. I worked the
Speaker 1: Bills for one reason, how to spite because you'reightful man,
Speaker 1: Someone with a lot of influence on their coaching staff
Speaker 1: thinks that DJ Manual might be better than Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: And if you think that, I'm sorry. I have over
Speaker 1: at this point that Hubbub is just utter nonsense. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is over. He was eleven for twelve. Tyrod Teller
Speaker 1: changed everything with this team. They went from in August
Speaker 1: being a team that seemed like they would be an
Speaker 1: also round team as they still we're gonna have the
Speaker 1: quarterback problem to Taylor been looking like a guy. He
Speaker 1: looks like the type of guy and he didn't throw
Speaker 1: a lot of passes in this game. But the team
Speaker 1: they just go with him. They they're an erratic team,
Speaker 1: but they have shown greatness in their good games. They
Speaker 1: have dominated the games that they won, the two against
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, the one against the Colts uh in Week one, certainly.
Speaker 1: I mean when they're at their very best, you can
Speaker 1: see there's a lot to be excited about. A lot
Speaker 1: of talent. Sammy Watkins, by the way, looked really good
Speaker 1: in this kime He ate Brent Grimes is lunch. He
Speaker 1: had basically every yard that tailored through. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it was everything but thirteen or fourteen yards. It's
Speaker 1: pretty rare to see a guy with more receiving yards
Speaker 1: than the team has net passing yards. That's almost impossible.
Speaker 1: Darn near. The stats are cool. Moving forward, the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings have moved into a first place tie in the
Speaker 1: NFC North following win over the St. Louis Rams Chris
Speaker 1: Wesley and this was supposed to be the big battle
Speaker 1: between ap and tied Gurley, but neither player delivered the
Speaker 1: signature game that we perhaps expected. What was this game
Speaker 1: really about? This was a Jeff Fisher fever dream, hide
Speaker 1: the quarterback to bell cow running backs in good defense,
Speaker 1: dirty hits, dirty hits, and ultimately a loss. It's Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer was livid. You could tell. During the game. Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater got hit late on the knee on one play
Speaker 1: that wasn't called, and then a few plays later, LaMarcus
Speaker 1: Joyner leveled him right in the head when he was
Speaker 1: sliding and Zimmer lost it. He knocked him unconscious in
Speaker 1: the field. Bridgewater out with the concussion, and after the game,
Speaker 1: this is what Mike Zimmer had to say, a very
Speaker 1: angry Mike Zimmer. I would say, if we were on
Speaker 1: the street, we probably would have a fright. I do
Speaker 1: know that there's a history there. If they're defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that, and the name of that
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, Chris Wesley, the only one in the league
Speaker 1: with a die goatee and a frosted tip in his hair.
Speaker 1: Greg Williams giving Gregg's with a double g at the
Speaker 1: end of back the defensive coordinator of the bounty Gate
Speaker 1: Saints team, and it led to a banishment from the
Speaker 1: man on record is saying, if you get the head,
Speaker 1: the body will die. Well literally, in fairness, this is
Speaker 1: a sliding play that if you watch it in full speed,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look that crazy a little bit. You listen
Speaker 1: to LaMarcus Joiner after the game, he said, my friend
Speaker 1: my parents are friends with his parents. I grew up
Speaker 1: my aisles away from him. The last thing in the
Speaker 1: world I would ever want to do is to put
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater out of the game. Like I I wish
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, hit him in the head. It
Speaker 1: was just I was coming after him right when he flied.
Speaker 1: And that's what it's a scary. Football is a scary game,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't see it as a vicious hit. I
Speaker 1: think Zimmer's emotional in the moment right after the game
Speaker 1: because his quarterback literally is laid out in the field
Speaker 1: unconscious for a moment and it hurts their team. But
Speaker 1: to me, I I thought the reaction was a little
Speaker 1: strong for what the play was. Well, it might have been.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's the second week in a
Speaker 1: row that we've seen someone knocked out cold on the
Speaker 1: field and watching Bridgewater going on the way that as
Speaker 1: a fan just watching it, that was weird. You're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna get mad because a couple of plays before
Speaker 1: they hit him low, he was outside the pockets of it.
Speaker 1: Actually wasn't a penalty. But so there's that and then
Speaker 1: the Fisher reputation, and it's a quarterback. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can understand why they get fired up. Greg Williams history,
Speaker 1: that's what's got Zimmer fired up. Rodney Harrison on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football's pregame show had a pretty nasty thing to
Speaker 1: say about Jeff Fisher. He he referenced a game during
Speaker 1: his career in which one of his Harrison's teammates got
Speaker 1: laid out and seriously in Journey looked up and said
Speaker 1: he saw Jeff Fisher laughing on the opposing sideline. Jeff
Speaker 1: Fisher has a reputation, among other coaches and people that
Speaker 1: these teams, you know, played to the edge or their
Speaker 1: dirty teams, and they were dirty with O'Dell Beckham at
Speaker 1: the end of last year the Rams, they'll lose this
Speaker 1: game and the Vikings continue to win these ugly games
Speaker 1: by three points. I swear they're the least impressive six
Speaker 1: and two teams possible, But now they're tied for the
Speaker 1: NFC North lead with their schedule is outrageous coming up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they are both the Packers and Vikings both six
Speaker 1: and two, But does anyone sitting here to think that
Speaker 1: the Packers have any chance of not winning this division? Stuff?
Speaker 1: They got to get their stuff together there. They haven't
Speaker 1: played well, but it's it's yeah, it's the way I
Speaker 1: feel about the Carolina Panthers too, with the consistency when
Speaker 1: you start having the same staff, same quarterback, same offensive
Speaker 1: players around year after year. Don't we trust Green Bay
Speaker 1: to get back on track the Vikings? There's no track
Speaker 1: for heard this? So what did you see from Peterson
Speaker 1: and Gurley today? The longest run was sixteen yards between
Speaker 1: the two of them. Defenses were stacking the boxes, of course,
Speaker 1: because it's Teddy Bridgewater and Nick fools and Linball. Joseph
Speaker 1: for the Vikings needs to be in the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: this year, having a great year. Last week or the
Speaker 1: week before that, Zimmer said that he is the best
Speaker 1: nose tackle he's ever coached, and he was a big
Speaker 1: reason why Gurley was basically bottled up. He's been huge
Speaker 1: really all year for them. I mean, they have a
Speaker 1: they have a defense that you don't get excited about
Speaker 1: individual players. I wouldn't even see Everson Griffin's having one
Speaker 1: of his best season. Xavier Rhodes is certainly not having
Speaker 1: been great. Harrison Anthony Barr is very good. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then they get it done week after week. And then
Speaker 1: then the Rams offense this they're the worst third third
Speaker 1: down offense in football. They have four conversions in our
Speaker 1: last three games combined. Four There whole offenses runs to Gurley, Gadget,
Speaker 1: plays to Austin and then fakes to Girley in Austin
Speaker 1: to set and then occasional body they'll hit. They'll hit
Speaker 1: one to Britt or Brian Quick once a game or so,
Speaker 1: and I think they did. But everything's based off of
Speaker 1: Girly in Austin and their misdirection and play fakes there
Speaker 1: moving forward Blaine Gabbett made the most of his starting
Speaker 1: opportunity for the forty Niners, throwing for a hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty five yards and two touchdowns to lead San Francisco
Speaker 1: to a seventeen sixteen win over the Yeah, I said it,
Speaker 1: fading Atlanta Falcons. Greg, The Falcons have lost three or
Speaker 1: four now after old statement there well, I also speaking
Speaker 1: of bold statement in our story last week on the
Speaker 1: old NFL dot Com predict that they're gonna miss the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And I did not think they were gonna blow this game,
Speaker 1: but they did. Is a panic time in a town. Greg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've been We've said they've been a mediocre team all along.
Speaker 1: So now they're losing these close games instead of the
Speaker 1: team winning them. It's a bad It's a seven and nine,
Speaker 1: eight and eight type of team to me that that
Speaker 1: started out on fire and now they're losing these close games.
Speaker 1: I think they'll end up winning some of these close
Speaker 1: games too. But to lose, to blame Gabbert, who was
Speaker 1: much more decisive than Colin Kaepernick and ultimately played a
Speaker 1: lot better. It's easy to play better when you're facing
Speaker 1: the Falcons pass rush, which is actually worse this year
Speaker 1: under dan Quinn than it was a year ago. Gabbert
Speaker 1: threw a bad interception midway through the fourth quarters, so
Speaker 1: people should hold off on saying he you know, it
Speaker 1: should have really set up a game winning drive for
Speaker 1: the Falcons. But instead dan Quinn makes the worst coaching
Speaker 1: decision of the entire season. I can't believe I didn't
Speaker 1: just start with this fourth down at the two yard
Speaker 1: line two minutes in fifty six seconds to go down four.
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn decides to kick a field goal to cut
Speaker 1: the lead to one and then kick off. He had
Speaker 1: only had two time outs because he just blew one
Speaker 1: on a stupid challenge about five minutes before. So what
Speaker 1: do the forty niners do? They get the ball, they
Speaker 1: run a bootleg with Gabbert. They he picks up the
Speaker 1: first down. Game over. It gave him an envelope when
Speaker 1: he took over and said, if you get into a fix,
Speaker 1: do what I'm gonna tell you to do. Inside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like Jim Calbell took over his body for a moment.
Speaker 1: You got you have Matt Ryan and Julio Jones and
Speaker 1: DeVonta Freeman. You're at the two yard line, and if
Speaker 1: if you don't get it. It's not like you have
Speaker 1: to lose the game. You can still get that three
Speaker 1: and out you think your defense can get. He said
Speaker 1: he was having faith in the defense didn't work. He
Speaker 1: played to win the game. The dan Remember dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: We were giving him a lot of credit early in
Speaker 1: the season for being the difference maker. I guess these
Speaker 1: things kind of average out. Maybe dan Quinn isn't the
Speaker 1: godsend that he initially in defense. I still think he's
Speaker 1: like a very good coach. He just said that, you know,
Speaker 1: the Falcons are what their talent level is as well,
Speaker 1: well they should be doing It was the first game
Speaker 1: where an opposing defense just decided to stop Devonte Freeman
Speaker 1: and they did it. Forty Niners gave up seventeen yards
Speaker 1: rushing in the entire game. Navarro Bowman had a big game.
Speaker 1: Navarro Bowman is starting to look like Navarro Bowman again.
Speaker 1: I Freeman might have ended up with twelve yards. I
Speaker 1: believe in they got absolutely nothing going on the ground.
Speaker 1: Julio Jones had a good Dame, but that wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: I gotta give credit to Jim tom Sila too, because
Speaker 1: this this season really had a chance and maybe it's
Speaker 1: still will to a complete spiral show where they lose
Speaker 1: twelve on a row or something in the ship season.
Speaker 1: So this is this was putting up some some respectful
Speaker 1: game And one of the theory that I want to
Speaker 1: throw out there is the inherent risks, whether you're a
Speaker 1: regular person or a quarterback, of growing your hair out,
Speaker 1: because it could either be a situation where you look
Speaker 1: cool greg your yearbook photo it's been floating around social media,
Speaker 1: or it can make you look goofy and it ends
Speaker 1: up being something you regret. Andy Dalton grows his hair out,
Speaker 1: looks badass, becomes one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Colm Kaepernick grows his hair out, look goofy. Now he's
Speaker 1: on the bench and blame Gabbert. Blame gabrit used to
Speaker 1: hair couldn't have stunk any worse. He's cut it clean
Speaker 1: and starting play well. One of the I think that's
Speaker 1: going to change in about a week today, the lowest
Speaker 1: moment of Colin Kaepernick's career came because he had to
Speaker 1: come into this game for a couple of plays. Blamee
Speaker 1: Gabbert went through the concussion protocol after taking a couple
Speaker 1: of hits gap, Kaepernick comes out there. The minute that
Speaker 1: Gabbert comes back on the field, the crowd, which was
Speaker 1: half filled by the way, but the half that was there,
Speaker 1: when absolutely crazy that they got Blaine Gabbert back on
Speaker 1: the field. Very weird. I mean, there there's always surprises
Speaker 1: every week in the NFL, but the fact that Blaine
Speaker 1: Gabbert led a forty and Honors team up for a
Speaker 1: five and two or six and two Falcon's team stunning
Speaker 1: to me. I should have gone with my Blaine's World
Speaker 1: headline from the future. What I missed opportunity? That was Okay,
Speaker 1: it is that time of the show where we welcome
Speaker 1: in a friend of the show and really the unofficial
Speaker 1: fifth member of the Around the NFL podcast. You know
Speaker 1: who I'm talking about. She is the Wolf woman Connie Fox.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, Holleen Wolf is back. But now that's so
Speaker 1: much worse it. I mean, it's somehow the awkward ISO
Speaker 1: cam gets more awkward each week. Yeah, that's my goal,
Speaker 1: so I'll do. I've done this before, a little shooter
Speaker 1: mcgavit that I don't know. Connie Fox, welcome back to
Speaker 1: the show. How are things going? Things are great? Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me back the NFL Now Game Day Blitz program.
Speaker 1: You did about seven hours on that. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: like seven hours ago. Yeah, you know it's good whenever
Speaker 1: you can get on the couch and you got on
Speaker 1: the couch, and you get on the couch and you
Speaker 1: know Greg was on the couch. Yeah, former players can
Speaker 1: kind of ignore what you say and then you banter
Speaker 1: with Shack a little bit and everybody has a fun
Speaker 1: time on the couch. A great system. There was some
Speaker 1: Cam Newton heat right when you were on. Is that
Speaker 1: with that? Oh? Yeah, I was just trying to say, like,
Speaker 1: what's the point of arguing like that. He's the second
Speaker 1: place of m v P race. It's not an NBA
Speaker 1: ballot where you can put in five different places. He's
Speaker 1: not even close to the number one. So just quit it.
Speaker 1: So heated debates today on the couch. Everybody check it
Speaker 1: out at NFL Now. It's better than the games. You
Speaker 1: were much rather hear Greg debate you know the number
Speaker 1: two places in the m v P voting than actually
Speaker 1: watched every Sunday right ten am on the every Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. So we want to talk some football college,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Yeah, alright, let's do it. The New
Speaker 1: York Giants will remain atop the division for another week
Speaker 1: after taking care of the Buccaneers win in Jason Pierre
Speaker 1: Paul's debut with the team. Uh, Colleen, were you impressed
Speaker 1: with what you saw from the NFC East leaders? The
Speaker 1: NFC East? It's fine? I mean, hey, the Giants defense actually,
Speaker 1: after looking really awful the week before, they held the
Speaker 1: box to basically field goals and Jamis Winston somehow rushed
Speaker 1: for a touchdown that was weird, so that they had
Speaker 1: three takeaways. And as you said, JPP, he was in
Speaker 1: on the mix again on the field. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Odell Beckham Jr. Any time he's in the game,
Speaker 1: you can't really count them out. Mark, you watch this game.
Speaker 1: Od B got the ball a lot or throwing his
Speaker 1: way a lot tonight, seventeen targets, season high. I mean,
Speaker 1: they basically said this is our weapon. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to him over and over and over and over. And
Speaker 1: Eli Manning threw two terrible picks that kind of kept
Speaker 1: Tampa in this game. And you know, honestly, Doug Martin
Speaker 1: has been so good this season, but the Giants and
Speaker 1: I don't know, if it had to do with JPP.
Speaker 1: It did a little bit. He played like seventy other snaps.
Speaker 1: They shut this Bucks run game down until Charles Sims
Speaker 1: blew it open with a late long run. They kept
Speaker 1: you know that again, kept tamping the game. Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: It was another good step for him, Gregg. You've been
Speaker 1: talking about him for a couple of weeks, and it
Speaker 1: was he hasn't thrown a pick since Week four and
Speaker 1: another day of mistake free football. They's got They've got
Speaker 1: to turn these field gold drives into touchdown drives. That
Speaker 1: was the difference here. But the Giants, it was very
Speaker 1: Giants game, not very impressive. You know, they're hanging onto
Speaker 1: this game. League NFC. I picked against the Giants because
Speaker 1: this felt like the kind of spot where the Giants
Speaker 1: that either lay an egg on the road or they
Speaker 1: let a game get away. And for a while it
Speaker 1: looked like the Bucks could steal it, but ultimately the
Speaker 1: Giants found a way to hold on and they got
Speaker 1: a garbage six points at the end on a lateral
Speaker 1: play that turned into a touchdown. So it makes it
Speaker 1: look like it wasn't a close game, but this was
Speaker 1: a close game. How much of that from the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: was Mike Evans dropping passes. Well, Mike Evans dropped passes.
Speaker 1: You know, the running backs drop passes. They were not
Speaker 1: doing Winston any favors Evans. You know, he's sneaky. He
Speaker 1: looks like from the box score that he blew up
Speaker 1: and had a big day. But he makes the catches
Speaker 1: you don't think he'll make, and then he drops his
Speaker 1: easy ones and leaves Tampa's offense and a fixed him.
Speaker 1: There's a little like a Marii Cooper today, I would say,
Speaker 1: at his worst day as a pro, and he still
Speaker 1: went over a hundred yards despite that. The Eli Manning
Speaker 1: box scores is typical for me. For Eli Manning this year,
Speaker 1: he throws for five yards per attempt on forty throws,
Speaker 1: which is in the Gabbard zone. He has a couple
Speaker 1: of picks to go with this, two touchdowns, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. There's somehow five and four. They're overachieving at
Speaker 1: this point and they can't run the ball either. They
Speaker 1: have five running backs that each have like four You
Speaker 1: say they're overachieving, but if you ask a Giants fan,
Speaker 1: they'll say the Giants should be seven and two, right
Speaker 1: now because they've given away games time and time again
Speaker 1: this season. They've they're having a strange little season right now.
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean they there's nothing about them that
Speaker 1: screams were good at this, Like what are they good at?
Speaker 1: They don't have anything they're particularly good at other than
Speaker 1: they have Odell Beckham, which is who is breaking every
Speaker 1: record Now now you're starting to get with Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: like the fastest to do this, the fastest to do that.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much happening every gaming play. And imagine how
Speaker 1: good he would be if Ruben Randall could actually start
Speaker 1: doing things as well, then you would have all sorts
Speaker 1: of guys catch up. Nice. If Victor Cruz, who by
Speaker 1: the way, didn't ball off half his hand and fourth
Speaker 1: of July on fourth of July couldn't make it back
Speaker 1: before JPP, who knows if we're were going to see
Speaker 1: Victor Cruz again. He's still missing and that's hurt this
Speaker 1: team as well, both right, because you know Beckham, who
Speaker 1: took a lot of heat for not wanting to deal
Speaker 1: with contact. I mean he's getting double teamed left and right,
Speaker 1: and they're not scared of anyone else in that offense.
Speaker 1: What was this. I kept reading on Twitter that Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham wasn't playing with gloves on at one point, Well
Speaker 1: it was. It was a pouring. He typically always wears
Speaker 1: gloves and he had no gloves. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what the strip your thoughts on glovegate. I'm not in favor, Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on at his time, TD. You know where we
Speaker 1: gotta go, now to the throne of these the cherbs
Speaker 1: floating dropping grapes into Greg's mouth and not really flexible,
Speaker 1: small little children's little diapers, blowing trumpets, which is little
Speaker 1: boys all around Greg giving any need he could ever have.
Speaker 1: Why do I have little boys around? That's like a
Speaker 1: rich like royal person has little boy servants and man
Speaker 1: servants and served me up. Kirk Cousins matchups every week,
Speaker 1: the New England Patriot out halfway to perfection. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: threw two touchdown passes on la Garrett Blunt ran for
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty nine yards then to score in
Speaker 1: a seven to ten win over the Redskins. Colleen, what's
Speaker 1: the point of these bum teams even showing up in Foxboro? Well,
Speaker 1: we gotta deal with these one sided games that only
Speaker 1: give Greg more joy that he doesn't need at this point.
Speaker 1: It's overkill. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Greg, Wow, don't listen.
Speaker 1: I mean honestly, though, who is going to stop the
Speaker 1: Patriots right now? Can anything or anyone? They keep dealing
Speaker 1: with these injuries and they still look just as good.
Speaker 1: That offensive line they're playing a tight end in there
Speaker 1: at one point does not matter at all. Yeah, Dion Lewis,
Speaker 1: he goes down, not a problem. Let's get somebody else
Speaker 1: in there. Let's get Brandon Bolden in there. He can
Speaker 1: catch passes too, he can run the ball. It's crazy
Speaker 1: how good they are. They're not stopping anytime soon. The
Speaker 1: Damie Collins also banged up a little bit. But you
Speaker 1: mentioned thrown a vase. This was maybe the worst regular
Speaker 1: season game about they've had. Because if Dan lewis out
Speaker 1: for a long time, or if if it's really serious
Speaker 1: he's out for seeing something like that, which it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like initially, that is a massive, massive loss for them. Well,
Speaker 1: you're right, Craig, but every time in New England won
Speaker 1: the game by seventeen points, and they wanted easily, by
Speaker 1: the way, that was a late score just to get
Speaker 1: it even to halfway. Respectable looking. But the point is
Speaker 1: what Colin just made. I mean, Brandon Bolden has been
Speaker 1: in bubble wrap for a year and a half, comes
Speaker 1: out of nowhere and he completely flames the Redskins defense
Speaker 1: that we were talking highly of a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So it is like, yeah, Dean Lewis is a huge loss,
Speaker 1: but no team in the league does a better job
Speaker 1: of taking other people's trash in just two weeks later,
Speaker 1: they're shining in New England. They've had more line changes
Speaker 1: than any team in the NFL, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Will be back in bubble route next next week. James
Speaker 1: White was inactive today. I think he was a healthy scratch.
Speaker 1: If they if Dean Lewis doesn't play, they'll bring James
Speaker 1: White back. They need offensive lineman. Sebastan Volmer went out obviously,
Speaker 1: soldiers out for the year. If if for some reason
Speaker 1: Volmer was out for a while. Eventually, these problems will
Speaker 1: matter when you play teams like the Broncos or the Bengals.
Speaker 1: They're they're in a race right now for that by
Speaker 1: which is vitally important because whoever gets the three seeds
Speaker 1: gonna have to play two road games and you're not
Speaker 1: really going to have a chance to lose many games.
Speaker 1: You might have to go fifteen and one to get
Speaker 1: that by this year. It doesn't be nice to be
Speaker 1: in New England. Your attempt at drumming up, you know,
Speaker 1: sympathy for the China's scrabbled, you know, white knuckled Patriots.
Speaker 1: It's just not really it's a bonus. It's a happy bonus.
Speaker 1: Sympathy scored in what one straight quarters? That's right, every
Speaker 1: quarter since the first one? Why does it all have
Speaker 1: to be about maybe just making about the excellence of
Speaker 1: potentially the greatest quarterback of all time and the greatest
Speaker 1: coach of all time. You're getting to witnesses. Can we
Speaker 1: stop with the potentially stuff? Please? He's the greatest? Come
Speaker 1: on which one Tom Brady, both Belichick would probably to
Speaker 1: Paul Brown, just just to bring Greg down a little bit,
Speaker 1: Greg Mark, can we just You've got some mail over
Speaker 1: the past week, right you want to share that with
Speaker 1: the group right now? Yeah? Actually from someone that we
Speaker 1: met in London, very upset about one aspect of our show,
Speaker 1: which was a very popular segment in the past, which
Speaker 1: was Greg would be part of the pick crew and
Speaker 1: make picks and He was a big part of Hero
Speaker 1: Picks as well, a segment that's been deep six because
Speaker 1: the boss is not so Yeah he did. Uh, he's
Speaker 1: got props. He sent something over. You want to open
Speaker 1: this up? Well? Who was a guy named Christian who
Speaker 1: we met in London. Wonderful guy. I'm gonna kept the
Speaker 1: hair of the show and he is so he wants
Speaker 1: justice for this show. All right, let's see what Christian
Speaker 1: from London. Oh, I think I know what this is. Wow,
Speaker 1: it looks like we got in our hands right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold it up. If you're watching on YouTube,
Speaker 1: thank you. You're gonna hold it up here. This is
Speaker 1: what would you call this a bur lap sack? We've
Speaker 1: talked about during the Picks segments on on Thursdays when
Speaker 1: we go around making the picks picks, that perhaps Greg,
Speaker 1: since he's he's chosen not to make picks and he's
Speaker 1: compromised a segment, could maybe wear a sack on his
Speaker 1: head when it comes like his time to pick. We
Speaker 1: just like keep moving. Um so now we now we
Speaker 1: have the sack. Greg, your thoughts interest My thoughts are
Speaker 1: that I haven't heard anyone mentioned missing picks in a
Speaker 1: long time because no one really notices. Look at the
Speaker 1: message right here, bring back Hero Picks on the bag
Speaker 1: itself to London with the logo of the around the NFL.
Speaker 1: This is very classy, and then hashtag onto London, Greg.
Speaker 1: Would you like to put this on? Maybe just to
Speaker 1: give us I'm not putting that on, so you're not
Speaker 1: gonna play ball for the listening. Maybe maybe it was
Speaker 1: another show you know that we're not even making picks.
Speaker 1: What if this had like what it was, like a
Speaker 1: gentle Knicks show thing? Would you put it on? Then
Speaker 1: you can put it on the redskins. I think not
Speaker 1: only should you have to wear it, we should be
Speaker 1: chanting shame in the background while you wear absolutely so
Speaker 1: thank you? Who was it? Christian? Christian? Excellent work, Christians
Speaker 1: all the way from another country. I understand. I probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to put a burlap sack in my head,
Speaker 1: like I don't know. It's not like we're gonna get
Speaker 1: on you about that. But it's sweaty and it's it's good.
Speaker 1: But it's good that we don't have that. I can
Speaker 1: only imagine we should know now that we have it,
Speaker 1: we should figure out some way to like to penalize us, like,
Speaker 1: if something bad happens, you have to wear the burlap sack.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's something to think. It's very Greg centric. It's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be Greg wearing the sack before, you know,
Speaker 1: anyone else in the show West has been in a
Speaker 1: burlap sack before. Well, you go, you know, when you're
Speaker 1: a little kid, you go to like family picnics and
Speaker 1: you have all these little picnic games. Sometimes they're like
Speaker 1: burl up stack. Yeah, oh yeah, the old put the
Speaker 1: kid in that sack and hit him with a baseball.
Speaker 1: This is what happens in New grow up with seven brothers.
Speaker 1: In Cincinnati, there's not a lot of money. So the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots remained in first place in the a
Speaker 1: f C East. The second place team in the anf
Speaker 1: C East is the working class. The real team of
Speaker 1: the a f C East the New York Jets. That's
Speaker 1: the way I look at it. Anyway. They have hit
Speaker 1: the midpoint point of the season at five and three,
Speaker 1: after you know, a hard fought alcohol three win over
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars at the Meadow Lions, a game that
Speaker 1: the Jets are very fortunate that they paid that played
Speaker 1: the Jaguars today because they jagged it up and found
Speaker 1: figured out a way to lose the game. I would
Speaker 1: say that twenty eight other teams in the NFL would
Speaker 1: have beaten the Jets. The mistakes the Jets made their inability.
Speaker 1: Here's a crazy, crazy stat. And you know, when I
Speaker 1: proclaimed a few weeks back that the Jets are good
Speaker 1: and I was really excited about that, that was built
Speaker 1: upon the fact that I thought they had one of
Speaker 1: the best defenses in the league and uh maybe a
Speaker 1: top five or top three running back in the league. Really,
Speaker 1: since that happened, the defense has been middle of the
Speaker 1: pack at best, with secondary issues which I didn't see coming.
Speaker 1: Let's not go that far, and Chris Ivory has over
Speaker 1: the last three games now is rush for eighty four
Speaker 1: yards on fifty five carries, one and a half yards
Speaker 1: per carry. This week, this game on Sunday against the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: They have a pretty good run defense, but twenty three
Speaker 1: carries for twenty six yards, which pound for pound is
Speaker 1: one of the worst performances ever for that many carries.
Speaker 1: According to the Ely Sports Theory. Did have two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: To say, fantasy owners, but they're not running the ball anymore,
Speaker 1: and they're not getting big stops on defense. So the Jets,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, despite the win here, are in danger
Speaker 1: if they don't get back to their real formula that
Speaker 1: made them dangerous in the beginning of the season. There's
Speaker 1: a crazy stat twenty nine rushing yards. That's the fewest
Speaker 1: in a Jets game in a decade two thousand five,
Speaker 1: and yet they won. And what's their identity? I thought
Speaker 1: last week Jets defensive performance was one of them list
Speaker 1: list of any team all year. They went through the
Speaker 1: motions when they tried to tackle, and it sounds like
Speaker 1: they gave up foreigner in thirty yards again this week.
Speaker 1: They I mean, the numbers make it look like they
Speaker 1: had a bad game. I wouldn't say they had a
Speaker 1: bad game. They had some bad breakdowns, including a three
Speaker 1: place seventy six yard touchdown drive in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and then they have a quick score at the end
Speaker 1: of the second quarter as well. But they did do
Speaker 1: a better job getting pressure on on the quarterback. They
Speaker 1: did have three turnovers, which they've struggled to turn the
Speaker 1: ball over recently, so there were some bright spots on defense.
Speaker 1: But Antonio Crimarti a guy we talked about last week,
Speaker 1: who's maybe on the other side of the hill Now, Um,
Speaker 1: he got beat again on a long touchdown. Well, he's
Speaker 1: got into funcs in his career and then come back
Speaker 1: from That's how he signed a cheap deal with Arizona.
Speaker 1: But this time it looks different. He got beat again
Speaker 1: and then exited this game with uh, some type of
Speaker 1: quad injury. Uh. If you want to assume that it's
Speaker 1: an injury and not just a guy that is having
Speaker 1: a bad way right now and came out of the game, well,
Speaker 1: I don't think we can. We can't say right now
Speaker 1: that they have a good secondary anymore that that that's
Speaker 1: a strength of their team. They have Darrell Rivas, who's
Speaker 1: still a great player. But outside of that, if Screen
Speaker 1: and Krimarti aren't playing really well, they're not. They're not
Speaker 1: what you thought they were at least through this stretch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to say that I'm not I'm not hopeless
Speaker 1: about their secondary. But there are now concerns about the secondary,
Speaker 1: which I did not anticipate. Um, but yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: and and the thing is, if you're not going to
Speaker 1: run the ball. Ryan Fitzpatrick, who has the stumb injury.
Speaker 1: It's gonna catch up to him because Fitzpatrick again played steady.
Speaker 1: But you play a better team, you're gonna get beaten.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm worried about the Bills on on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. This new edge rusher you found, Oh Malden
Speaker 1: he uh, what's Carl Malden? His name is? Is that
Speaker 1: his name? Lots of Malden. He is a third or
Speaker 1: third round draft pick that had two sacks and this,
Speaker 1: you know, it gives them an edge rusher which they
Speaker 1: don't they don't have. They have a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: like an push the pocket in the middle. But if
Speaker 1: he could be somebody that gets gets to the quarterback
Speaker 1: there in a good spot. So that's promising. But I'm
Speaker 1: a little nervous. They're all by their lonesome right now. Though.
Speaker 1: As the wild card race goes at five and three,
Speaker 1: I think ten wins and you are definitely going to
Speaker 1: be making the a f C playoffs this year, and
Speaker 1: nine wins, it's probably gonna work out that there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of teams tied or something like that where the
Speaker 1: nine win team gets into the playoffs. And what's up
Speaker 1: with Julius Thomas right now too. If Alan ORNs Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson both over a hundred yards and Julius Thomas has
Speaker 1: like what fifteen yards receiving today and he didn't look good.
Speaker 1: He didn't get separation, had a bad drop and maybe
Speaker 1: he's still not right. But it was a finger injury.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like it was something where it affected his
Speaker 1: speed or he just doesn't look so far. He looks
Speaker 1: like a bus to me. Um. But those receivers are
Speaker 1: the real deal. And I think Bordles they'll be kicking themselves.
Speaker 1: And when you guys watch this game, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: stunned that they blew this game because they were down
Speaker 1: five points with six minutes to go, first and ten
Speaker 1: from the Jets ten and Bordles loses a fumble. Uh
Speaker 1: they go, Jets go three and out, they punt it back,
Speaker 1: they muffed. Then they muffed the punt and the Jets
Speaker 1: recover that and then Brandon Marshall scores they go ahead,
Speaker 1: are the touchdown to put it away. So the Jags
Speaker 1: Gus Bradley can't lose too anymore game. I mean, you
Speaker 1: mentioned that twenty eight other teams would have won this thing,
Speaker 1: and that's what the Jaguars need to stop being is
Speaker 1: one of the three teams that can't do it, because
Speaker 1: that's I thought. If I thought they turned the corner
Speaker 1: a little bit against Buffalo, polling out the win the
Speaker 1: way they did, and they were so excited. Conroar actually
Speaker 1: spent a little time with Gus Bradley after and they
Speaker 1: were so fired up they didn't care how they won
Speaker 1: the game. They viewed it as a turning point with
Speaker 1: young pieces starting to show up. But then you turn
Speaker 1: around do this. It was that same DNA and the
Speaker 1: collapse in London before they pulled it out at the end,
Speaker 1: and they just this time it was it was happening
Speaker 1: where they don't pull it out. So there's still that
Speaker 1: team has a way to go. And and for all
Speaker 1: the a f C South is lousy. There two games
Speaker 1: back in the a f C South and they have
Speaker 1: a loss to the first place leader. So when you
Speaker 1: have a week like this, you're suddenly buried right. Moving
Speaker 1: on Mike Mularkey for president, how about it? No? No, okay, Well,
Speaker 1: the Titans interm coach is the new Dan Campbell. How
Speaker 1: about that? After Tennessee scored an upset over the Saints
Speaker 1: and overtime at the Superdome. Colleen Wolf, Connie Fox, the
Speaker 1: Wolf Woman, Marcus Mariotta returned to the lineup and he
Speaker 1: was the man. Yeah, after missing two games, he is back. Um.
Speaker 1: He started off a little shaky. How in the world
Speaker 1: that one past I don't know if you guys saw
Speaker 1: it to Delaney Walker, it should have been in her.
Speaker 1: That was lucky. I mean, it was so so lucky.
Speaker 1: But these are the things that are happening with him.
Speaker 1: He throws that pass, it somehow turns into a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I mean after that point, he really picked apart the
Speaker 1: Saints and he made good decisions. And you look at
Speaker 1: that offensive line the past walking they were allowing sacks
Speaker 1: in every single game and Mario didn't get sacked once today.
Speaker 1: It's funny one ken in this game at one point,
Speaker 1: and that and seven of those ten was on the
Speaker 1: Fluke play that should have been picked off. For the
Speaker 1: Saints to blow this game after the couple of wins
Speaker 1: that they had to get back in the mixes. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a killer loss to lose the Titans at home.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of we just talked about the Bills
Speaker 1: and how different they are with Tyron Taylor in there,
Speaker 1: and you look at the you look what happened with Tennessee.
Speaker 1: With Mariota back in the lineup. Suddenly the receivers are productive,
Speaker 1: the numbers across the board completely changed. The running game
Speaker 1: opens up because their quarterback can do so many different things,
Speaker 1: or because they played the Saints play all that's fair
Speaker 1: because NFL medias Albert Brier, he writes a column or
Speaker 1: a notebook compt on each Friday. He wrote that one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why the Titans decided to make the
Speaker 1: change is that Ken Wizzen Hunt staff could not protect
Speaker 1: a quarterback. And so it is it is telling that
Speaker 1: Marcus Mario to the first game with wizzon Hunt out
Speaker 1: the door, doesn't take a sack, and that's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: They got to protect this guy. And if you're Ken Wizn' Hunt,
Speaker 1: by the way, you gotta be dying because he looks
Speaker 1: like the real deal Mariota, and all wisdom on how
Speaker 1: to do is get through this season and get a
Speaker 1: few wins, and he would have been hooked up with
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback which could have bought him years. Even
Speaker 1: do just get to this week and have this happened.
Speaker 1: I don't think they would have fed Mariota's injury essentially
Speaker 1: cost him his job, which but it goes back to
Speaker 1: Tennessee what they may be thinking. That's partly the coach's
Speaker 1: fault that it happened. Brandon Browner continued to be the
Speaker 1: worst free agent signing of the off season, having two
Speaker 1: penalties in the fourth quarter. He now is seventeen for
Speaker 1: the season, which I believe is like twice as many.
Speaker 1: Just about his hat for thirty four penalties, that's got
Speaker 1: to be a record. Did he go after a reporter
Speaker 1: in the locker room and then he goes after a
Speaker 1: reporter at profanity laced a tirade against the reporter who
Speaker 1: wasn't even interviewing Brandon Browner. They were interviewing Jared's bird,
Speaker 1: our our old buddy. It's been hard times for for Jared.
Speaker 1: Jared's bird, our old friend, one of our great friends.
Speaker 1: Jared's bird. Bird was one of the two. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was one of the two players. Him and Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean Keenan Lewis collided. The ball pops
Speaker 1: up in the air, Delaney Walker takes it for a
Speaker 1: long touchdown and they're asking Jared's bird about these questions,
Speaker 1: and then Browner just goes off. It's not about one play.
Speaker 1: We went to overtime and just went crazy pipe down.
Speaker 1: You know, lucky you gotta ring last year. But someone
Speaker 1: else in that Titans deserves some credit here. We don't
Speaker 1: talk him about him anymore because he plays he plays
Speaker 1: in Nashville. But Brian Araco, every time I watched the Titans,
Speaker 1: I write down gets consistent heat on the quarterback and
Speaker 1: the Saints were flying high. Breeze had joined Roethlisberger, is
Speaker 1: the only two quarterbacks in history to get eight hundred
Speaker 1: fifty yards and ten ts over two game span, and
Speaker 1: Araco helped shut him on in the second half of
Speaker 1: the game as signing that a lot of people said ridiculous,
Speaker 1: why are you going after this guy? And worked out, well,
Speaker 1: his chest is going to explode. That's what a lot
Speaker 1: of people were saying. That pack in my blow. You
Speaker 1: know what I like to do in this game? How
Speaker 1: about the overtime first possession touchdown. You know we don't
Speaker 1: see enough of that for the six point results to go.
Speaker 1: None of this field goal, second possession. It's like we're
Speaker 1: just gonna drop it on. You spakes a stand in
Speaker 1: favor of touchdowns. Bad job by us. There's an NFL
Speaker 1: coach that took the win today at all that time,
Speaker 1: like Zimmer correct and it worked out taking the win, Marty,
Speaker 1: Marty Morton Wig. Wherever you are, buddy, you get a
Speaker 1: job Marty. A little different with the current Wait he's
Speaker 1: the Ravens offensive coordinator. Marty's yeah, wait what? Oh no,
Speaker 1: you're right. I think I think he's probably still being
Speaker 1: listeners will never hear this interplay. By the way, the
Speaker 1: Saints got roll the ball at all. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys saw it, but at the right
Speaker 1: after halftime they came out and read three straight run plays,
Speaker 1: went three and out like they just kept going back
Speaker 1: to and got nothing. Well, Colleen, you've said it all,
Speaker 1: and what do we learn. We learned that Colleen is
Speaker 1: a regular contributor on NFL now is Game Day Blitz program.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're doing the math when you do.
Speaker 1: And but you know, we enjoy having you, and we
Speaker 1: enjoy having you so much that once again you will
Speaker 1: be invited to the fort Committee meeting, where there will
Speaker 1: be Danish and bagels and coffee and locks last week, right,
Speaker 1: last week of the Forks. This is it last one,
Speaker 1: so we'll see you Brighten. How I made it this far,
Speaker 1: but so great that we meet at four am, four
Speaker 1: am on Monday, alright, so in a few hours from now, Colleen,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 1: It's been real, which takes us to Monday night football
Speaker 1: at jeral World, a game that ended in sudden fashion
Speaker 1: at Jordan matthews forty one yard touchdown reception on the
Speaker 1: first possession of overtime, the decisive play and a thirty
Speaker 1: three ton win for the Eagles over the Cowboys. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have now lost six straight games without Tony
Speaker 1: Romo behind center. But don't hang this one on matt Castle.
Speaker 1: He played a very solid game, moving the team when
Speaker 1: they needed to move. But Sam Bradford, Greg Rosenthal, he
Speaker 1: was the man that you take out of this game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: De Marco Murray did things, Ryan Matthews did things, but
Speaker 1: Bradford delivered when accounted and the Eagles are four and
Speaker 1: four and the Cowboys are getting close to the junk
Speaker 1: scrap heat. Yeah, put him there, get rid of him.
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford. We said, if you squinted hard. You can
Speaker 1: see him getting a little bit better in that game
Speaker 1: against Carolina before the bye, and I think you saw
Speaker 1: more of the same tonight. More that just it looked
Speaker 1: like the Eagles offense and that they were snapping the
Speaker 1: ball with five seconds left on the play cock. They
Speaker 1: were finally playing some tumbo ball. They get the ball
Speaker 1: in ot and they made the Cowboys Dallas looking gassed
Speaker 1: on defense at multiple points of this game, poor beleaguered
Speaker 1: Matt Castle gets all the Greek. The defense gives up
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty yards due to Marco Murray, a hundred
Speaker 1: thirty yards to Jordan Matthews. This is supposed to be
Speaker 1: the strength of this team, totally banged up Dallas squad
Speaker 1: and Tony Romo is my m v P pick because
Speaker 1: this team would be running away with the NFC ust
Speaker 1: if he was played one and a half games. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a terrible m v P pick, But
Speaker 1: at the same time, we see your point. Well, my
Speaker 1: point is you take him off the team, and this
Speaker 1: is the guy that was most beleaguered quarterback around before
Speaker 1: last season, and now you find out there's just another
Speaker 1: nothing without him. I'm a little bit nervous as someone
Speaker 1: that really enjoys um Chip Kelly. Struggling this game makes
Speaker 1: me nervous. And I know the Cowboys aren't a great
Speaker 1: team at this at this juncture with how beat up
Speaker 1: they are. But if Sam Bradford's gonna play like this
Speaker 1: and he's gonna spread the ball around and they're gonna
Speaker 1: get action out of their backfield from both their key guys,
Speaker 1: they're gonna pile up yards and they're gonna win some games.
Speaker 1: I think they're in the conversation for sure when you're
Speaker 1: talking about who's gonna win this division. Well, I thought
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win it, and I think their
Speaker 1: defense was what we could rely on. But they really
Speaker 1: haven't played well the last two weeks. The Eagles defense,
Speaker 1: I mean, they gave up a lot more yards, and
Speaker 1: they had many chances to close this thing out and
Speaker 1: you know, before the fourth quarter, and they couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: The crazy thing with the Cowboys in this whole sixth
Speaker 1: game losing tack is they have been either ahead or
Speaker 1: tied in the fourth quarter in five of the games.
Speaker 1: The Patriots was the only game that they didn't have
Speaker 1: a chance to win in the last three minutes and
Speaker 1: they just find a new way to lose, almost like
Speaker 1: they lacked the character to come through. Haven't won a game,
Speaker 1: haven't won a game since they brought Greg Hardy on board.
Speaker 1: It's a shame that he was the one who almost
Speaker 1: hit Sam Bradford on the last play of the game,
Speaker 1: but just didn't quite get there in time that take.
Speaker 1: Do we not believe that Dallas in the final week
Speaker 1: of the season will be obviously on prime time somewhere,
Speaker 1: you know what, No, I don't. I don't think they're six.
Speaker 1: They're in deep trouble now. I mean, there's no denying
Speaker 1: that because I think, like we're just saying, I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles, they're probably gonna be a team that's gonna
Speaker 1: have around nine wins. I think the Giants or team
Speaker 1: you could you could book, probably gonna be around nine wins.
Speaker 1: When you're two and six, you're almost eliminated your margin
Speaker 1: for error, and Romo's not coming back anytime soon. Well,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna miss one more game, and that
Speaker 1: would be against the Buccaneers. Then they're at two and seven.
Speaker 1: If they lose that game, it would be amazing Tony
Speaker 1: Romo for everything that he's gone through. If he comes
Speaker 1: back at two and seven, leads him to seventh state
Speaker 1: wind and then leads him to the super Bowl title.
Speaker 1: That's how Tony Romo gets up, get out. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's not gonna happen anything else in this game, guys,
Speaker 1: not a word. Bryant looked a lot better, looked like days.
Speaker 1: That's a big So that's a big piece of it though.
Speaker 1: But you got I tweeted that Cowboys are a glorious
Speaker 1: disaster right after this game, and Elliot Harrison, who's uh
Speaker 1: you know he works for NFL Media. Of course he
Speaker 1: does our power rankings. Uh, he's also a Cowboys fan,
Speaker 1: went back at me a little anger, like, how can
Speaker 1: you say they're they're beat up? But what you were saying, Greg,
Speaker 1: they are fine ways to lose, and they're they're losing
Speaker 1: and heartbreaking ways. That's gotta be taking a toll in
Speaker 1: that locker room. The defense, I think, to West's point,
Speaker 1: has really had a chance to win a couple of
Speaker 1: these games. For I mean, it hasn't done it. So
Speaker 1: that is yeah, it is terrible bad luck has fallen
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys To think that Greg hard he's getting
Speaker 1: in his ninety thou dollar Cadillac at the end of
Speaker 1: these Sundays and it's disappointed. It does break my heart.
Speaker 1: The earth is not fair and that is a prime example. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that is the Sunday recap show. Great work, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: uh you know, as always, stellar job by everyone. In
Speaker 1: congratulation Greg. Another week on the throne of these eight
Speaker 1: No halfway to sixteen to know, is there any doubt
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are gonna go eight now in the
Speaker 1: second half? The Patriots the Patriots. Excuse me, why does
Speaker 1: it have to be about the Patriots? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Everything is about the Patriots when you're on the throne
Speaker 1: of these exactly. This is uh. We'll be back on
Speaker 1: Tuesday where yes, we're gonna do get the four committy together.
Speaker 1: We're gonna our power poll sponsored by uh, you know nobody,
Speaker 1: but our power poll will be back at the midpoint
Speaker 1: talk about that. We might even break out one of
Speaker 1: our favorite games. But I'll leave it at that for now.
Speaker 1: So until then, this is Dan Hansens signing off for
Speaker 1: the Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the Boss and TV behind
Speaker 1: the Glass until Tuesday.