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Speaker 1: So in the offseason I picked Atlanta to win their division.
Speaker 1: I thought they could went eleven twelve games. I think
Speaker 1: they're a really good football team. I think in Week
Speaker 1: one Atlanta was at a coaching disadvantage because Arthur Smith,
Speaker 1: their former coach, was now a Steelers offensive coordinator. That's
Speaker 1: a huge advantage. I mean, that's a really weak one
Speaker 1: advantage that you're just not going to get some insight
Speaker 1: on personnel. And Pittsburgh's got a very very good defense,
Speaker 1: and they gave kirk Cousins a lot of trouble. I
Speaker 1: thought he had a little more spring in his step now.
Speaker 1: In Week one against Pittsburgh, he was static. He just
Speaker 1: stayed in the pocket. But I thought tonight he moved
Speaker 1: a little better. He told Troy Aikman, he's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent in the pocket. He's not one hundred percent yet.
Speaker 1: But I think two things are very clear about these
Speaker 1: two teams. Those were two good offensive lines and two
Speaker 1: good run games. And Jalen Hurts obviously part of Philadelphia's
Speaker 1: run game. But Kirk Cousins fifteen to twenty, three hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy yards, a touchdown, no picks, and a great
Speaker 1: final drive, just pick pick picked, nice passes. And by
Speaker 1: the way, when they paid for Kirk Cousins and they
Speaker 1: drafted Michael Pennix, I said, you're telling me that's a mistake.
Speaker 1: Look at all the rookie quarterbacks right now. They're brutal.
Speaker 1: You know who isn't Michael Pennix sitting behind like Mahomes
Speaker 1: who sat behind Alex Smith. Michael Pennix is sitting behind
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and learning the game of football, just like
Speaker 1: a Tom Brady did with the Drew Bledsoe. He's just
Speaker 1: sitting on the sidelines and watching. That's what Mahomes did,
Speaker 1: you know, It's what Carson Palmer, I believe, did this idea.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson sat for like ten games behind Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1: So this idea that bringing in Kirk Cousins to mentor
Speaker 1: and I said, I think they can win the division.
Speaker 1: I love their personnel at Their offensive line's great. They
Speaker 1: have multiple running backs. John Robinson was under used last year.
Speaker 1: He's fantastic, but you just and the Eagles have a
Speaker 1: good defensive front. They pushed him back. Both those offensive
Speaker 1: lions had their way tonight. So I think Atlanta's a
Speaker 1: real team. I Philadelphia, you know, I know they feel
Speaker 1: terrible about this loss, but Philadelphia lost. I mean, what
Speaker 1: are upsets? San Francisco just got housed by the Vikings.
Speaker 1: I mean Baltimore's oh and two. The Rams season looks
Speaker 1: like it's over. You know, New England beat Cincinnati. Cincinnati
Speaker 1: should have beaten Kansas City, So I think you looked
Speaker 1: at two teams that will probably or at least could.
Speaker 1: The Saints look pretty good, could win their division. So
Speaker 1: you know my take on Philadelphia, and sometimes you just
Speaker 1: lose games. And I mean, hell Atlanta with that Drake London,
Speaker 1: you know, taunting penalty late. Thank God they have one
Speaker 1: of the best kickers in the league, or they could
Speaker 1: have missed that extra point. So you know it's it's
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think Philadelphia is a bad football team.
Speaker 1: I think I think Atlanta and Philadelphia could win their divisions.
Speaker 1: And I think what this proves though, at least early
Speaker 1: as you're watching all these young quarterbacks, they're completely over
Speaker 1: their skis bailing water and Michael is just sitting back
Speaker 1: learning how to play football. You're not winning that game
Speaker 1: with Michael Pennox tonight. You're just not. And I thought Cousins,
Speaker 1: who by the way, is four and one in his
Speaker 1: last five Monday Night football games, Big stage, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: after he started terribly, you know, there used to be
Speaker 1: these discussions. He didn't like playing like off schedule games.
Speaker 1: He had a very rigid schedule. He preferred the one o'clocks,
Speaker 1: especially at home. I thought he looked really good tonight.
Speaker 1: And again he's not moving much. But Aaron Rodgers doesn't
Speaker 1: move anymore. Jared GoF doesn't move around much. You can
Speaker 1: win a lot of football games that way, especially with
Speaker 1: that old line and that run game. Falcons have three
Speaker 1: running backs. I like two, I really like. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought Jalen Hurts buy and large played pretty well.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had that last pick because he had
Speaker 1: pressure in his face. But you know, Philadelphia, you know
Speaker 1: these offenses. I got this text tonight. I want to
Speaker 1: read you this. So there's a lot of discussion about
Speaker 1: why are the offense is so bad? Okay, why are
Speaker 1: the offenses so bad? So Fewest points through two weeks
Speaker 1: since twenty seventeen, averaging forty two points a game combined,
Speaker 1: fewest touchdown passes through two weeks since two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: eighteen years. And I think a lot of this is
Speaker 1: the reluctance to play any starters. Now that you've watched
Speaker 1: Bonex and Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels, couldn't you argue
Speaker 1: they should have played virtually every snap of the preseason,
Speaker 1: every snap, you know, I mean, Atlanta played Michael Pennox
Speaker 1: I think one preseason game and said we're done now.
Speaker 1: He didn't have to start. But nobody's playing starters, and
Speaker 1: you've gone from four preseason to three preseason games. You're
Speaker 1: going to go down to two once they had an
Speaker 1: eighteenth game. And so I think you just have to
Speaker 1: look at weeks one and two is there's a lot
Speaker 1: of experimenting going on. There's some bad offensive play, and
Speaker 1: the hardest unit of any football team to build cohesion
Speaker 1: is arguably the most important unit of any ball team,
Speaker 1: the offensive line. So like, I think the Jets' offensive
Speaker 1: line's done fine so far, but if there's any growth
Speaker 1: for the Jets that their defense falls apart. Is you know,
Speaker 1: these older offensive linemen will play together and their online
Speaker 1: hasn't been atrocious, but it will certainly get better over time.
Speaker 1: So I think it's kind of explainable starters aren't playing
Speaker 1: snaps on linemen aren't playing snaps, especially if they're long
Speaker 1: in the tooth, and the quarterbacks are paying the price
Speaker 1: they're on their back. They're getting hammered. Also, I think
Speaker 1: because the owners are richer than ever, they're willing to
Speaker 1: fire coaches after one year. Coordinators move off quarterbacks early.
Speaker 1: I also think part of the offensive struggle is it's
Speaker 1: hard to keep cohesion in your coaching staff. Owners now
Speaker 1: will just it's a rounding air to write a fifty
Speaker 1: million dollar check and fire coordinators and coaches and staff.
Speaker 1: They don't care anymore. Used to be owners, mate, you
Speaker 1: know their net worth with six hundred million dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to write a sixty million
Speaker 1: dollar check. But when you're net worth is you know,
Speaker 1: nine billion dollars, you'll write that check. The win games
Speaker 1: because now teams, you know, they're all getting three and
Speaker 1: four one hundred and fifty million dollar checks annually from
Speaker 1: the TV deal from the NFL, especially since gambling was
Speaker 1: legalized in the gambling dollars, So these owners that were
Speaker 1: getting massive checks, they're less patient. It puts pressure top
Speaker 1: down in the organizations. You're moving through coordinators, quarterbacks and coaches.
Speaker 1: You're playing quarterbacks earlier. So I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that explain it. But another one is nobody's
Speaker 1: playing starters in the preseason in the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: You can tell good for at Lanta tonight, I took
Speaker 1: notes the entire game on this and then it came
Speaker 1: down to the final two drives. Pretty boring first quarter,
Speaker 1: but after that, I thought Jalen Hurts really got hot
Speaker 1: in the second half. I thought he looked good. And
Speaker 1: you know, it just goes to show sometimes that these
Speaker 1: moves there's repercussions. Obviously for some of these personnel moves.
Speaker 1: You know, the Giants move off Saquon Barkley, So Saquon's obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, is in not get for Philadelphia. Now, he
Speaker 1: dropped that ball at the end of the game that
Speaker 1: would have been a touchdown out in the flat. That
Speaker 1: was a pretty good pass and he dropped it. That
Speaker 1: wasn't one of his shining moments, but he's obviously been
Speaker 1: a huge addition for Philadelphia. He's gonna win them some
Speaker 1: football games. Simultaneously, the Giants are now zering too, and
Speaker 1: there's talk about Brian Dable getting fired, who I think
Speaker 1: would get a job, you know, within the year. But
Speaker 1: you know, you start you start looking around when you
Speaker 1: give up a player like Saquon Barkley to a division rival.
Speaker 1: If he'd caught that ball tonight in a touchdown, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're a if you're a Giant Staffer, New York
Speaker 1: Giant Stafford. Thank god Saquon Barkley dropped that tonight. He
Speaker 1: would have had the game winning touchdown, so he had
Speaker 1: he had. It's clearly a dimension to Philadelphia. So I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good a good football game. Two
Speaker 1: good offensive lines, a lot of good running backs are
Speaker 1: real resurgent and running backs over the weekends. JK. Dobbins,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara. I mean there's, you know, everything cyclical in
Speaker 1: sports and in the NFL. I mean six months ago,
Speaker 1: nine months ago, we were talking about running backs don't
Speaker 1: get paid. Eventually, with all these young quarterbacks playing right,
Speaker 1: you probably going forward are going to need a stronger
Speaker 1: run game. I mean, obviously, you know with JK. Dobbins
Speaker 1: and hardbass style, he's going to run him extensively. But
Speaker 1: Atlanta looks like a team with Kirk Cousins limitations run team.
Speaker 1: I think the Lions are not running it enough with
Speaker 1: Montgomery and Gibbs. I mean, there are some teams in
Speaker 1: this league that I think are going to run over
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the time, or at least should, and
Speaker 1: Atlanta's one of them. So nice win for the Falcons.
Speaker 1: How about that division? The NFC South, Atlanta's a real team,
Speaker 1: Saints look like a completely different franchise, Baker and Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Carolina is trash, but the NFC South, I don't know,
Speaker 1: looks pretty good. And everybody's beating Carolina twice. So those
Speaker 1: are two w's right there. Speaking of the NFC, the
Speaker 1: last four undefeated teams in the NFC, the Vikings, the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: the Bucks, and the Saints. Just like everybody predicted that
Speaker 1: this league is so great by the way, Saints veteran quarterback,
Speaker 1: Bucks veteran quarterback, Seahawks veteran quarterback, Vikings veteran quarterback. That
Speaker 1: goes back to what we talked about the preseason. These
Speaker 1: teams in the NFC that are starting strong, we don't
Speaker 1: know how they'll finish. There may be ceilings for Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold and Derek Carr and Baker Mayfield and Gino Smith,
Speaker 1: but it is an advantage having you know, one thousand
Speaker 1: reps in this league. In the first two to three
Speaker 1: weeks of the NFL season, that's very clear that a
Speaker 1: lot of these veteran guys who have bounced around the
Speaker 1: league are off to really nice starts. They feel like they,
Speaker 1: you know, they might not be masters of the position,
Speaker 1: but they're miles ahead of these rookie quarterbacks and younger
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that just don't have the time in the league.
Speaker 1: All Right, a couple of college football games, I like
Speaker 1: Tennessee minus seven to win and cover at number fifteen Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Tennessee might be the best college football team in the country.
Speaker 1: I'm counting Georgia, Texas. Josh Haipel returned to Oklahoma. He
Speaker 1: led Oklahoma to their last national championship twenty four years ago.
Speaker 1: He's spent eleven years at Oklahoma as an assistant coach.
Speaker 1: It's the SEC opener for both teams. Tennessee first in
Speaker 1: the nation in points. It's their defense, though. Tennessee's defense
Speaker 1: has gone four straight games without allowing a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: I don't think Oklahoma's offense has the fire power even
Speaker 1: at home to put up drive after drive because Tennessee's
Speaker 1: going to score. The Sooners under Brett Venables are one
Speaker 1: and two against top fifteen teams. Now they're living. They're
Speaker 1: feasting on takeaways. They're tied for the most in the country.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma is with ten unless they get turnal against the
Speaker 1: pretty slick Tennessee offense. I don't think they can keep
Speaker 1: up Sooners quarterback Jackson Arnold has not been impressive against
Speaker 1: Houston or Tulane. I think Tennessee is probably the most
Speaker 1: underrated team in the country. I think Oklahoma's fine, They're
Speaker 1: gonna find out they can't move the football against this
Speaker 1: Tennessee defense. You can if you're an elite at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma is not. I think Tennessee wins by two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I like USC to beat Michigan. The spreads five and
Speaker 1: a half. I think USC wins by about six to seven.
Speaker 1: First Big Ten game of the season for both Now,
Speaker 1: Michigan has struggled. When they played a really good team,
Speaker 1: they got rolled. They have a new quarterback, Alex Orgy.
Speaker 1: What do we know? Not much, but they're not running
Speaker 1: the football. They lost so many playmakers and offensive line
Speaker 1: studs from a year ago. The only way they can
Speaker 1: win is low scoring. And USC has a top twenty
Speaker 1: five rush defense. But what's really really good about USC
Speaker 1: right now that surprised people. Miller Moss is significantly more
Speaker 1: accurate and efficient than Kayleb Williams, top ten quarterback according
Speaker 1: to PFF, seventy three percent completion percentage. USC is stacked
Speaker 1: at wide receiver, four different sophomores that contribute. I think
Speaker 1: USC and this will be a low scoring football game.
Speaker 1: I think you have two of the top ten defenses
Speaker 1: in the country. Michigan at home can only win a
Speaker 1: low scoring game, and they know it. The Wolverines do
Speaker 1: have maybe the two best defensive linemen in college football.
Speaker 1: So USC is going to struggle to run and you're
Speaker 1: asking Miller Moss, a first year starter on the road,
Speaker 1: to go to the air against a pretty good pass
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Speaker 1: John Middelkoff Our Week two reaction, Let's start Kansas City, Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: You know it's funny. I've argued this forever that Bill
Speaker 1: Parcells used to ride Phil Simms, Phil throw it down
Speaker 1: the field. Okay, I'm not interested in you know one interception.
Speaker 1: No picks. You know today Mahomes has two ugly picks,
Speaker 1: almost had three, Burrow has none, and Kansas City wins.
Speaker 1: And by the way, in this opener against Baltimore was
Speaker 1: one of the ugliest picks not named will Levis Mahomes
Speaker 1: against Baltimore. And it's funny about Kansas City is that,
Speaker 1: you know, we we think of Kansas City as so efficient,
Speaker 1: but they make a lot of mistakes. John, they are vulnerable.
Speaker 1: They give you opportunities, but they're always usually good starting
Speaker 1: a game and finishing in the middle of it. It
Speaker 1: can get but once again late like against Baltimore, they
Speaker 1: finished Cincinnati off. I felt terrible for Cincinnati in a
Speaker 1: way because at one point in this game, they put
Speaker 1: up a graphic that the last six matchup between these
Speaker 1: two teams Bengals Chiefs, they'd each scored one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty points. Like great is so even? But I guess
Speaker 1: my takeaway is Cincinnati can go toe to toe with
Speaker 1: Kansas City forever. But Kansas City has this ability to
Speaker 1: start and end quickly. And they're a flawed team right
Speaker 1: like they're they're I mean, when I watch them, I
Speaker 1: think God, they give you opportunities, don't they.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, big picture, I don't know how Kansas City,
Speaker 3: after winning back to back Super Bowls can take these
Speaker 3: type games week in and week out without eventually run
Speaker 3: out of juice. I mean that felt like a playoff game,
Speaker 3: didn't it. The intensity, the physicality that that was I
Speaker 3: had because the Arizona LA game ended so fast. I
Speaker 3: mean I think it was over five minutes into the game.
Speaker 3: The Steelers versus the Broncos on one TV and the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: it was like two different sports in those two games.
Speaker 3: I do think for whatever reason, that graphic kind of
Speaker 3: illustrated it. Cincinnati plays this team better than anyone. I mean,
Speaker 3: they've beat him in the playoffs. They went toe to
Speaker 3: toe with him a couple of years ago. Easily could
Speaker 3: have beat him again in the playoffs. Probably, you know
Speaker 3: they're gonna be kicking themselves. Should have won this game.
Speaker 3: I hate to see the game decided on a late penalty,
Speaker 3: but it is what it is. I just think at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, the Chiefs culture completely flipped
Speaker 3: when they traded Tyreek Hill, and they have this physical
Speaker 3: kind of I mean they're a defensive team. I mean,
Speaker 3: Spactola is just brilliant. They are going through some growing
Speaker 3: pains starting a rookie left tackle. I mean, because so
Speaker 3: many teams now you just watch around the NFL. Even
Speaker 3: the bad teams have pass rushers and they move him around.
Speaker 3: They're gonna put him over that kid every single week.
Speaker 3: And Mahomes, luckily, he's a great scrambler. You know, Kelsey
Speaker 3: looks his age, he's no longer and he's kind of
Speaker 3: saving himself for the end of the season. And they
Speaker 3: did that again last year. But god, he's he's no longer.
Speaker 3: I would say the week in, week out dominant player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I wrote down four plays three plays
Speaker 1: in this game because I started. Really it was a
Speaker 1: close game, so I'm like, I'm gonna write down the
Speaker 1: big plays. In the fourth quarter. Mahomes de Kelsey, huge gainer,
Speaker 1: third and six, trailing twenty five, twenty three, Kansas City
Speaker 1: gets that spags blitz sack, late flag on Cincinnati. The
Speaker 1: three big plays to me, all went in Kansas City's favor.
Speaker 1: They remind me a little bit like an old KG boxer,
Speaker 1: like Sugar Ray Leonard out of his prime. They win
Speaker 1: the end of the round like you get shots at him.
Speaker 1: You may knock them down. It's not always aesthetically pleasing,
Speaker 1: but they kind of figure out how to manipulate the judges,
Speaker 1: manipulate the game. You see this in the NBA with
Speaker 1: old teams that they just have a way of figuring
Speaker 1: out how to play the game late. There there's an
Speaker 1: art to football at the end of a game and
Speaker 1: using your timeouts and field position that the Chiefs do
Speaker 1: not give you a ten on out of ten ten performance. Boy,
Speaker 1: but in the big moments, John, that's where Kelsey's last
Speaker 1: year in the playoffs, he was huge in the red zone,
Speaker 1: huge on third or fourth down. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what they are. They they they as they go through
Speaker 1: growing pains, they're still the great closing team in this sport.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Niners. You know him well. My favorite bet
Speaker 1: of the week was Minnesota at home getting points. I
Speaker 1: think Kevin O'Connell is I said this last week. He's
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski. Before everybody realized how good Stefanski was dealing
Speaker 1: with all that Cleveland nonsense, and he just continues to
Speaker 1: put out good game plans. Again, they didn't ask a
Speaker 1: ton of Darnold seventeen to twenty six two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy yards. He had five rushes. You know, Fred Warner
Speaker 1: made a great play because he's Fred Warner on an
Speaker 1: interception like that's not a great interception, but again it Fred,
Speaker 1: You know, that wouldn't have been picked off by ninety
Speaker 1: five percent of the linebackers in the league. Might be
Speaker 1: the only guy, but yeah, I mean it was a
Speaker 1: great play. But what I looked at was the time
Speaker 1: of possession thirty five minutes to twenty five. Minnesota controlled
Speaker 1: the football. I mean it could have been now if
Speaker 1: you take away the fumble by Minnesota and the great
Speaker 1: Fred Warner picked John, this could have been a blowout.
Speaker 1: It could have been a blood bath Nighters.
Speaker 3: He got worked, they got killed. K that was and
Speaker 3: he has one or two of these a year. I mean,
Speaker 3: it was a bad rough day for Kyle special teams.
Speaker 3: They had a punt block Yep Flores was taking him
Speaker 3: to the woodshed, getting free guys all over Purty Perty
Speaker 3: had a bad pick, could have probably thrown another one. Defensively,
Speaker 3: they had some heirors. But the story of the game
Speaker 3: and one of the stories of the early year, sam Donold,
Speaker 3: I mean that throw he made the touchdown, Oh Jesus
Speaker 3: to Justin Jefferson. I mean, is seventy yards in the air.
Speaker 3: I mean you see the arm strength, but the accuracy,
Speaker 3: and you think back to the Fred Warner play. I
Speaker 3: think those are the plays early on in his career
Speaker 3: where he just kind of melts yes. And to me,
Speaker 3: whatever happened last year with Kyle and they talked about
Speaker 3: it with Purdy, the maturation of just learning how to study.
Speaker 3: He just kind of feels like a different guy. And
Speaker 3: I think we have an example with Baker Mayfield. Some
Speaker 3: people mature at slower rates, whether it be football wise
Speaker 3: or personally and physically. His talent obviously, the touchdown to
Speaker 3: Jefferson is going to be all over social media. He
Speaker 3: made some other throws on third down that were just like,
Speaker 3: I mean, he was slicing to that he was the
Speaker 3: better quarterback on the field today. He was awesome. And
Speaker 3: then there was another play is his second touchdown while
Speaker 3: it was wide open. Those are plays maybe early in
Speaker 3: his career, maybe he airmails, maybe he freaks out, like
Speaker 3: he just feels very very under control. And I didn't
Speaker 3: think the Vikings were going to be very good, even
Speaker 3: though I thought it would probably go pretty well for him.
Speaker 3: You start two to zero, all of a sudden, there's
Speaker 3: a path for you to get to nine to ten wins.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is and that home field advantage, right,
Speaker 3: you'd have to say that Minnesota has one of the
Speaker 3: better ones in the league. And that's like you said,
Speaker 3: that wasn't just a win. You're playing the Niners, who's
Speaker 3: coming off a short week. That wasn't ass kicking.
Speaker 1: Ass kicking. I want to talk about Chargers Panthers. First
Speaker 1: of all, Bryce Young has an offensive coach and better weapons.
Speaker 1: He may not be able to play one for twelve
Speaker 1: on third down sixty nine passing yards. He moves well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't throw well. But here's what was a big
Speaker 1: moment in this game. So the Chargers were favored by
Speaker 1: about six. They blew him out. So once again, it
Speaker 1: is exactly what we expected. Justin Herbert goes fourteen to twenty,
Speaker 1: has about a half dozen rushes, so you know they
Speaker 1: get Joe Alt now they have the elite tackle play,
Speaker 1: elite edge rusher play, and we worried about they don't
Speaker 1: have a number one. Well, Quinton Johnson today had five
Speaker 1: catches and two touchdowns. So Quentin's the guy they got
Speaker 1: out of TCU. Brandon Staley didn't know how to develop him.
Speaker 1: He was a disaster last year. I'm not sure if.
Speaker 3: He lost his confidence. They had thrown him to the side.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just I didn't even target him
Speaker 1: last year. He made any heck of a catch day
Speaker 1: for a touchdown if he hits. So now you got
Speaker 1: the slot kit out of Georgia. JK. Dobbins is like
Speaker 1: a You see that flip into the end zone like
Speaker 1: he's a different.
Speaker 3: It looks like a top five or six running back
Speaker 3: in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So now I've got a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 1: I've got a top five coach, JK. Dobbin I have
Speaker 1: a run game, elite tackles, elite edge rushers. If Quinton
Speaker 1: Johnson along with their slot guy out of Georgia, okay,
Speaker 1: now you do have a weapon because he was a
Speaker 1: big kid. But he reminded me last year a little
Speaker 1: bit of Stephen Hill the bus for the Jets years ago.
Speaker 1: The wide receiver, the guy that just could run fast,
Speaker 1: look great in the hotel lobby. But you're like, what
Speaker 1: is it not today? I thought it's amazing john Their
Speaker 1: time of possession advantage was thirty six to twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's so hardball, it's so Michigan. But I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm looking around at these teams. This
Speaker 1: team could be a twelve win team. John elite tackles,
Speaker 1: elite quarterback, elite coach, elite edge rushers now a star back,
Speaker 1: time of possession dominance. Now we know the Raiders are
Speaker 1: better than we thought.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was kicking myself because that game was over
Speaker 3: fast that I get Jim Harbaugh against this panther situation
Speaker 3: and didn't bet the mortgage, Like what was I doing?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: You know Jim, and we've been talking about this. I
Speaker 3: was in the car this week when he when he
Speaker 3: came on with you. His personality is dramatically different than
Speaker 3: the guy I remember when I was around in San
Speaker 3: Francisco who had this huge chip on his shoulder and
Speaker 3: was tight. It felt like the way the last couple
Speaker 3: of years in Michigan, proving like, hey guys, I'm one
Speaker 3: of the best in the business. I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's been the weight's been lifted off his shoulders, but
Speaker 3: I know this, and I think Jim might have said
Speaker 3: this to you or I heard him say this somewhere,
Speaker 3: is that his dad was at a training camp practice
Speaker 3: and looked at him and said, I think JK looks
Speaker 3: like the guy a couple of years ago before he
Speaker 3: got injured. If you give Jim Harbaugh a top end
Speaker 3: running back, because we know he's always gonna have a
Speaker 3: good offensive lines, why he you know, everyone thought he
Speaker 3: was nuts, like he's gonna take a wide receiver, Like, no, guys,
Speaker 3: he's gonna take a offensive lineman. And then he calls
Speaker 3: them skill positions. Their defense is always going to be solid.
Speaker 3: Why one, he's just an elite hier like he hires
Speaker 3: well so like and John does too. They hire good
Speaker 3: defensive coaches, so their defense is gonna be well coached,
Speaker 3: even if they're gonna be better personnel wise in a
Speaker 3: couple of years. But like what he does translates, he
Speaker 3: controls the line of scrimmage on offense, which even if
Speaker 3: you have a way better offense than him, he keeps
Speaker 3: you off the field, and that wasn't the case today.
Speaker 3: But he can just run it down your throat. So
Speaker 3: if he can run it down your throat, Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 3: is a lock to win double digit games in college
Speaker 3: or the Pros, and clearly the Broncos are not going
Speaker 3: to be very good. I still think the raid one
Speaker 3: advantage the Raiders had. The Ravens offensive line is not
Speaker 3: good and the Raiders do have a good defensive line.
Speaker 3: They were down ten in the fourth quarter and came
Speaker 3: storm but it was an impressive win on the road.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: But to me, the Ravens I got I got red flagged.
Speaker 3: I mean, they got some weird stuff going on. But
Speaker 3: I think Jim Harbaugh can finish second in this division
Speaker 3: with ten or eleven wins and be in the playoffs. No,
Speaker 3: I don't think he can beat the Chiefs. Their team
Speaker 3: is not good enough maybe in an individual game.
Speaker 1: Like but they are built to beat Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Well, they're built to plan an ugly you know, twenty
Speaker 3: three twenty game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Their time of possessions so far this season are
Speaker 1: really impressive. And it's just it's it's it's funny because
Speaker 1: just think about this. Six months ago, before the national
Speaker 1: before the college football playoffs, seventy percent of fans and
Speaker 1: media were still doubting Jim Harball. He was getting crushed.
Speaker 1: He couldn't coach. In the Penn State game, he's overrated,
Speaker 1: and now you look at him and you're like like, stop, stop, media, stop.
Speaker 1: This guy is absolutely phenomenal. This team almost reminds me.
Speaker 3: Well, he's not very but he's not even hateable anymore.
Speaker 3: The way he carries himself, the way he interacts. He's
Speaker 3: actually much more lovable now because he used to have
Speaker 3: like this aggressive he was tough on the press, definitely publicly.
Speaker 3: He could befriend him off, this version of Jim Harbaugh,
Speaker 3: and I didn't fall him this closely like in Michigan
Speaker 3: part of it. He was suspended a couple times last
Speaker 3: year just in terms of his daily press conferences. He's
Speaker 3: a new man. I mean he's I bet the Spanishes
Speaker 3: are like God, this is incredible, the way he interacts,
Speaker 3: how happy he is, I mean, he's just he feels
Speaker 3: like a different person, maybe sixty now. Life's good. I
Speaker 3: don't know southern California. He feels completely different, yeah, than
Speaker 3: the guy at Stanford at the forty nine ers. And
Speaker 3: I would say early on at Michigan, just his mannerisms,
Speaker 3: his communication, just his just everyday demeanor.
Speaker 1: I want to talk Rams Arizona. Listen to Rams. Don't
Speaker 1: know any players I mean, they're just they're just Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup was limped to day, Pooka is already out. Tyler
Speaker 1: Higgsby's out. Let's talk Marvin Harrison and Kyler So, Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 1: the best college receiver I ever saw was Randy Moss.
Speaker 1: The second was Calvin Johnson. I think Marvin reminds me
Speaker 1: a little of Calvin Johnson. Size, length, hatching, radius, hands.
Speaker 1: He didn't run like Moss, either did Calvin, but you're
Speaker 1: not going to catch him from behind. But now you know,
Speaker 1: the first week Steve Kim told me he watched the
Speaker 1: film on the tape and he said Marvin was nervous.
Speaker 1: He was playing slow. He's not really a burner. But
Speaker 1: in a league you saw it today with the Rams,
Speaker 1: in a league that has a lack of corners, and
Speaker 1: you know, with Kyler's ability to run, you have to
Speaker 1: have a spy. He's going to get some one on
Speaker 1: one man and they run the football well. So it's
Speaker 1: like you start looking at Arizona and you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: we watched Buffalo handle Miami. Buffalo is probably pretty good team.
Speaker 1: They took a big lead on them. Harrison is I mean,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they have two backs. Kyler had
Speaker 1: his best game maybe as a pro. Marvin Harrison and
Speaker 1: I will argue this. I think their coach is good
Speaker 1: on his side of the ball. I think they play
Speaker 1: their ass off defensively. What do you make of Arizona
Speaker 1: and Tyler.
Speaker 3: I don't know where Kyler ranks, you know, one through
Speaker 3: twelve or whatever. He's probably closer ten through twelve than
Speaker 3: he is three or four. But when he's on, there
Speaker 3: can't there's a short list of players that you would
Speaker 3: rather watch. Wow, he is as entertaining as they get.
Speaker 3: Like what Deshaun Watson had has become like no one
Speaker 3: wants to watch him. Kyler's the opposite. It was like,
Speaker 3: this is awesome. He's always gonna have some limitations in
Speaker 3: the pocket just because of height, but just a pure talent.
Speaker 3: You know, you've been watching sports longer than me. He
Speaker 3: has to be one of the great true blue chip
Speaker 3: just talents in the history of sports. To have that
Speaker 3: much capability to do the things he can do at
Speaker 3: five foot nine. I mean his speed, his arm, strength,
Speaker 3: his accuracy on the move. Obviously, Harrison's a really good player.
Speaker 3: One thing I heard in the offseason when he got
Speaker 3: drafted is the one transition part for Marvin Harrison was
Speaker 3: gonna be the overwhelming majority of players he saw in
Speaker 3: college these last couple of years were guys not NFL
Speaker 3: corners for a lot of guys in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3: And he came to the NFL and he's immediately facing
Speaker 3: the first week the Bills. Rasuell Douglas. This guy's making
Speaker 3: ten million dollars a year, probably has a couple kids
Speaker 3: at home, drives a range row that lives in a mansion,
Speaker 3: and he's trying to take your lunch. Yeh, Marvin, it
Speaker 3: was gonna be a wake up moment. And today they
Speaker 3: don't exactly have Jalen Ramsey out there anymore, so you
Speaker 3: get a confidence he gets an early catch. I loved
Speaker 3: from a gambling perspective, betting on Marvin Harrison whatever his
Speaker 3: props were, because last week it was so like it
Speaker 3: was such a big story. You knew they were going
Speaker 3: to try to feed him the ball right to get
Speaker 3: his confidence moving. They have a lot of talent, Like
Speaker 3: if Kyler's just he doesn't need to play like today,
Speaker 3: but if he's playing well, Trey McBride, if you just
Speaker 3: did a draft from scratch, with GMS would be a
Speaker 3: top five touch tight end. YEP, James Connor is a
Speaker 3: running back no one talks about whenever I watched it.
Speaker 3: Even last year, I got this guy could play on
Speaker 3: my team, and he did yes, and like you said,
Speaker 3: my buddies with Philly, I know the way it ended right. Defensively,
Speaker 3: he got a lot of shit. Gannon. They love the
Speaker 3: guy and they and I remember hearing like he might
Speaker 3: be a better head coach than he was a pure
Speaker 3: schematics guy, because how good he is with players, how
Speaker 3: good of a leader he is, right the way he
Speaker 3: carries himself. He's a really smart guy. I don't know
Speaker 3: if they're a playoff team. The one thing with Kyler
Speaker 3: is he can be a very up and down. He's
Speaker 3: like a streaky get banged up exactly like he could
Speaker 3: score thirty in the next game he scores five points
Speaker 3: but liked. But when he's healthy, he is a He's
Speaker 3: He's on a top five list of guys that would
Speaker 3: keep defensive coordinators up throughout the week because he can
Speaker 3: do stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And like Minnesota, we may not love their overall roster,
Speaker 1: but you look at Minnesota's offensive pieces and they don't
Speaker 1: even have Jordan Addison yet It's like Minnesota's got left tackle, back,
Speaker 1: tight end, two receivers, quarterback, coach, like they got dogs.
Speaker 1: I mean Arizona McBride, the two backs, Marvin Harrison, they
Speaker 1: had another kid make a nice catch in the back
Speaker 1: of the end zones like Kyler. I. I just watched
Speaker 1: them today and I'm like, I mean the two teams
Speaker 1: in the league that I've watched and I've went Wow,
Speaker 1: Saints and even though they're one and one, Arizona that
Speaker 1: first half against Buffalo, Buffalo was on the ropes all right.
Speaker 1: Time for Sharper Square, my buddy Chad Millman, CEO Action Network.
Speaker 1: All of our odds provided by DraftKings. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to start with one of my strongest plays. There's a
Speaker 1: difference between struggling but competent and struggling the Bears plus
Speaker 1: one and a half at the Colts. I had a
Speaker 1: general manager this week in the league told me he
Speaker 1: looked at Anthony Richardson's film and said, Colin is as
Speaker 1: bad as anything I've ever seen from a starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: Greg Cosell told Ross Tucker on his podcast, his quot
Speaker 1: and he's not prone to hyperbolic statements. He's missing high
Speaker 1: school throws badly. The Bears have been close. The Bears
Speaker 1: have had moments. The Bears have a quarterback who is
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback. We don't know yet with Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 1: If you're struggling with Shane Steichen to the point, can't
Speaker 1: hit stuff in the flat, you know, once Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: comes back, I think the Bears will be much better. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I think Bears plus one and a half is the
Speaker 1: play here against a wobbly Colts offense.
Speaker 4: Sharper square, so it is the sharp side. The line
Speaker 4: has moved in that direction right. It was started at two,
Speaker 4: it's now down to one and a half. So the
Speaker 4: wise guys have been coming in on the Bears. For me, personally,
Speaker 4: it's not going to be a spot. Everyone I've talked
Speaker 4: to clear division on this, not because of the Bears
Speaker 4: and not because of Anthony Richardson, but because of the
Speaker 4: spot for the Bears and the spot for the Colts.
Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson at home has been better than Anthony Richardson
Speaker 4: on the road. True, the Colts got smacked by the
Speaker 4: Packers and their run game. Everybody knew that's what they
Speaker 4: were going to do, and everybody knows that's what the
Speaker 4: Colts cannot stop. The Bears don't have a run game
Speaker 4: at all. And the Bears defense, meanwhile, they are great
Speaker 4: in pass coverage, they are great rush in the past
Speaker 4: or top five in both according to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 4: they are terrible against the run, and that is what
Speaker 4: the Colts will need to do in order to win
Speaker 4: this game. And by the way, they are desperate for
Speaker 4: a win right now. I do think that Shane Steichen
Speaker 4: is a better coach than Mattybrifus. I do think that
Speaker 4: what he can draw up for Anthony Richardson is better
Speaker 4: than what the Bears can draw up for Caleb Williams
Speaker 4: right now. So it's a very tricky game. The wise
Speaker 4: guys took the two. It's down to one and a half.
Speaker 4: You're sharp, but it's not like there's a boatload of
Speaker 4: confidence on this sharp play.
Speaker 1: We talk about regression of the mean. I love Sam Darnold,
Speaker 1: but I do not believe he's an MVP of this league.
Speaker 1: The Texans only have to give up two. They are
Speaker 1: two to zero and haven't played particularly well. They're a
Speaker 1: young team. Young teams tend to get better. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Texans minus two. The Vikings slow down a little
Speaker 1: at some point. No Jordan Addison, TJ. Hawkins and banged up.
Speaker 1: They'll pay a price for that.
Speaker 4: Sharper square Yeah, and this one you're totally square. Like
Speaker 4: the Wise guys have been all over the Vikings in
Speaker 4: this game. It's moved off of a key number. I
Speaker 4: think they've been really impressed with what Brian Flores has
Speaker 4: done Defensively. CJ. Stroud has not been as good on
Speaker 4: the road as he has been at home. We even
Speaker 4: saw it in some of the struggles that he had
Speaker 4: in Week one with against the Colts where they needed
Speaker 4: some help covering that game. So I think the challenge
Speaker 4: here is people are trying to figure out is Sam
Speaker 4: Darnold for real? And I have been saying this for
Speaker 4: about a year. I don't think Kevin O'Connell is getting
Speaker 4: enough credit as a being a really good coach. You know,
Speaker 4: we go back two years three years when he and
Speaker 4: Dayball were both rookie head coaches. Day Ball gets all
Speaker 4: the credit for being a great coach. He wins Coach
Speaker 4: of the Year. He goes on the road to Minnesota
Speaker 4: they beat Kirk Cousins in the playoffs at Minnesota. Kevin
Speaker 4: O'Connell sort of has looked at as well, why didn't
Speaker 4: he be Brian Dabill. Brian dabel might be better. And
Speaker 4: then last year Kevin O'Connell has these quarterbacks that he
Speaker 4: is rotating in and out after Kirk Cousins gets hurt
Speaker 4: and keeps this team in contention for the playoffs. Now,
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, he's got Sam Darnold, and this
Speaker 4: guy has looked all world the first two games. You
Speaker 4: got to give a lot of credit to Kevin O'Connell here,
Speaker 4: which is another reason why the wise guys are backing
Speaker 4: the Vikings.
Speaker 1: I had a rant today, if you look, we always
Speaker 1: think quarterbacks are the most valuable people in the league,
Speaker 1: and they are. After that, I always thought Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: and TJ. Watt felt like they really helped their teams
Speaker 1: win numbers. However, this morning presented to me about AJ
Speaker 1: Brown are stark. Jalen Hurts wins at a Mahomes level
Speaker 1: with him, on Mahomes level twenty eight to eight. Without him,
Speaker 1: he's a slightly better version than justin fields. AJ Brown
Speaker 1: is out the Saints are for real. It's a coordinator story.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is on a short week. I do not trust
Speaker 1: the back end of that defense in a close game.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I think Kirk Cousins. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was honestly looked. It looked so easy and remedial for Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I would swallow the two and a half and take
Speaker 1: the Saint sharper.
Speaker 4: Square well, not a two and a half. It's not
Speaker 4: very sharp at all. And we've talked about this. There's
Speaker 4: an old axiom embedding you gotta get the best of
Speaker 4: the number. You are not getting even close to the
Speaker 4: best of the number right now. In fact, you're getting
Speaker 4: the absolute worst of the number. You could have had
Speaker 4: the Saints at plus two and a half plus three
Speaker 4: on Sunday night. There's basically been a six point swing
Speaker 4: in this game. So there's a couple factors here. Number one,
Speaker 4: you're going to get the Saints who are way way overhyped.
Speaker 4: So much inflation on the Saints right now. But you're
Speaker 4: also getting a team when the numbers flip, when a
Speaker 4: team goes from an underdog to a favorite, historically, the
Speaker 4: new underdog is going to cover about a fifty five
Speaker 4: to fifty six clip, so that the percentages are better
Speaker 4: betting the Eagles right now, despite what you're seeing on
Speaker 4: the field.
Speaker 1: So the Broncos have had a tough open on the
Speaker 1: road for a rookie against Mike McDonald's defense and maybe
Speaker 1: the loudest stadium in the league. And then they face
Speaker 1: the Steelers, maybe the best defense in the league Tampa.
Speaker 1: Now they're getting six and a half. Tampa's beat up
Speaker 1: via VIA's out six and a half. I mean, for
Speaker 1: you know, Sean wants to win these games. These are
Speaker 1: the richest owners in the league. It'd be great to
Speaker 1: get a year to go three and fourteen, but he
Speaker 1: needs some ws. This number just seems off to me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take the Broncos plus six and a
Speaker 1: half against the Buck Sharper square.
Speaker 4: Naw, you're walking into it's a field of knives. It's
Speaker 4: so sharp. Colin, you better watch yourself, because, yeah, the
Speaker 4: Broncos are the side here. And we have this thing
Speaker 4: called the luck Rankings. I've talked about it on the
Speaker 4: show before. It basically gives you indicators of if all
Speaker 4: things were being equal and you took out sort of turnovers,
Speaker 4: fourth down conversions, lack of ability in the red zone.
Speaker 4: The Bucks are the luckiest team in the NFL. The
Speaker 4: Broncos are one of the least lucky teams in the NFL,
Speaker 4: and the Broncos have also faced some pretty good defenses
Speaker 4: up to this point. A lot of people are going
Speaker 4: to look bad against the Steelers defense, right the Bucks.
Speaker 4: You look at that Lions game. Sure, they beat the
Speaker 4: Lions at home. The Lions were one for seven with
Speaker 4: touchdowns in the red zone. They aggressively outgained the Bucks
Speaker 4: in yardage yards per play. Jared Goff had a terrible game,
Speaker 4: but he was still moving the ball up and down
Speaker 4: the field. He just couldn't get it in the end zone.
Speaker 4: So you combine the challenges that the Bucks have defensively
Speaker 4: with their injuries, with some of the factors that have
Speaker 4: inflated this line. Because the Bucks have looked good while
Speaker 4: also looking a little bit lucky, and that's why you
Speaker 4: get a wise guy play on the Broncos.
Speaker 1: I like the Ravens against the Cowboys. You could say, well,
Speaker 1: Dallas was humiliated losing to the Raiders at home. Baltimore
Speaker 1: was humiliated. There are a lot of similarities with Dak
Speaker 1: and Lamar. They both have Super Bowl winning coaches, highly compensated,
Speaker 1: high profile, they win their division multiple times. The difference
Speaker 1: is Lamar is really good against good teams in the
Speaker 1: AFC against playoff teams in his career, He's nineteen and
Speaker 1: fourteen DAK and his career against the weaker conference against
Speaker 1: playoff teams is well below fifty percent. In fact, forty
Speaker 1: percent of Dak's wins in his career this is remarkable,
Speaker 1: are against the Giants in Washington, He's twenty three and four.
Speaker 1: In these big games, it's gonna come down to two
Speaker 1: component coaches. Both throsters have holes. I like Lamar in
Speaker 1: spots like this, not Dak and Mike McCarthy Sharper square.
Speaker 4: This is a tough one. Like this line has been
Speaker 4: bouncing around telling you that there's money come in on
Speaker 4: the Ravens and then there's money come in on the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: I can't give you a consensus. There is no consensus.
Speaker 4: If I looked at Action Network right now and we
Speaker 4: have the split of number of tickets, like the amount
Speaker 4: of bets on a game and the amount of money
Speaker 4: on a game, you would see fifty to fifty to
Speaker 4: fifty to fifty. Like it is completely down the middle,
Speaker 4: and that's why that's why the game is lined at
Speaker 4: Ravens minus one. Everything you said about Lamar is true.
Speaker 3: Also.
Speaker 4: I think against the na he is something like twenty
Speaker 4: one something like that, Like he's he's great in this spot.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. I think you got two
Speaker 4: teams that are suffering from massive identity crises right now. Defensively,
Speaker 4: the Ravens kind of don't know who they are, you know,
Speaker 4: without Mike McDaniels, without I mean Mike McDonald without Patrick Queen.
Speaker 4: Their secondary isn't as good as it was last year.
Speaker 4: They're struggling with their offensive line. Their run game, even
Speaker 4: with Derrick Henry is ish. The Cowboys backfield offensive backfield
Speaker 4: might be one of the worst in the league. Ceedee
Speaker 4: Lamb banged up, has a bad ankle. What are the
Speaker 4: options if you don't have Ceedee Lamb? Their defense is
Speaker 4: has no depth. Micah Parsons is talking about he felt
Speaker 4: like he was in a maze against the Saints, like,
Speaker 4: like it's a fun game to watch. Why do you
Speaker 4: have to have an opinion on it? You know what
Speaker 4: I mean? It's just hard one to It's a really
Speaker 4: hard one to handicap.
Speaker 1: All right, give me one more.
Speaker 4: All right. So we talked about Minnesota, we talked about
Speaker 4: the Jacks, we talked about Atlanta. We mentioned the Titans
Speaker 4: and the Broncos. There's two games. They're so gross, Colin
Speaker 4: like I hesitate to do it. The wise guys love
Speaker 4: the Panthers. This, Oh god, I know nobody wants to
Speaker 4: talk about it. This is the corner TV game. I'm
Speaker 4: not even gonna go into why. I'm just telling you
Speaker 4: they have been betting on the Panthers. Like the line
Speaker 4: moved from seven to five and a half as soon
Speaker 4: as Andy Dalton was announced as the starter. It has
Speaker 4: now moved down to five. There's a lot of reasons
Speaker 4: to like Andy Dalton as the starter over Bryce Young,
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of reasons to now want to
Speaker 4: play the Panthers. Their offensive line has been playing great.
Speaker 4: The challenge for them has been Bryce Young is just
Speaker 4: so inaccurate. So can you get better offensive production of
Speaker 4: Andy Dalton? Yes? Are you going against a team that
Speaker 4: actually isn't playing as well as the scores would indicate. Yes.
Speaker 4: Will the defense for the Panthers potentially improve if the
Speaker 4: field position is better because they're getting better opportunities to
Speaker 4: move the ball down the field. They are at least
Speaker 4: close to their own fifties, so they can punt it,
Speaker 4: you know, and get it further into the opponent's end
Speaker 4: of the field, because I think the opponent's starting field
Speaker 4: position for the Panthers has been at there at the
Speaker 4: thirty nine yard line. Just hard to win games. It's
Speaker 4: hard to defend when that's the case. So they're on
Speaker 4: the Panthers. I won't I won't try to convince you.
Speaker 4: They're also on the Giants, and I guess that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, Daniel Jones was actually pretty solid.
Speaker 4: They like the Giants. They're just not sold on to
Speaker 4: Sean Watson at all, and the Browns still have some
Speaker 4: injury questions on the offensive line. The Giant strength is
Speaker 4: the interior of their defensive line, best interior defensive lineman
Speaker 4: in the NFL. So there is some sentiment that the
Speaker 4: Giants are the right side. And you know, I feel bad,
Speaker 4: I'm just giving you gross, disgusting things to think about,
Speaker 4: but we're getting to that point of this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no way I can. I'm just staying away
Speaker 1: from the Packers. I stayed away during the Colts game.
Speaker 1: I'm staying away during the Will Levis, who is in
Speaker 1: the bad Judgment Hall of Fame. I'm just I'm not
Speaker 1: touched in the Packers until everybody is healthy, but sharper
Speaker 1: square all odds provided by DraftKings. Good stuff, my friend.
Speaker 4: How great was that Brian Callahan video of him just
Speaker 4: losing it and then actually just owning it well the
Speaker 4: next day in the press ConfL okay.
Speaker 1: So that's my theory is that if you look at
Speaker 1: coaches with young quarterbacks, even when they're awful, they're almost
Speaker 1: apologetic and defend their young quarterbacks. Why is Callahan shredded
Speaker 1: him twice publicly? He doesn't like him, He's trying to
Speaker 1: humble him. And this is my knock. I've told the story.
Speaker 1: I called an NFL coach who I have a relationship with,
Speaker 1: and he asked me about all the quarterbacks and I said,
Speaker 1: Will Levis the gun show. I said, that's just bad judgment.
Speaker 1: And I said he showed bad judgment in college. He
Speaker 1: makes really bad throws. I said, he's got a little
Speaker 1: hitch in his swing. He will not manage Will's about Will.
Speaker 1: He will not manage a game. He plays hero ball.
Speaker 1: And I said Brady managed. Mahomes manages about eighty percent
Speaker 1: of this game is we've got a lead, get out
Speaker 1: of here. Let's get on the plane and get back home.
Speaker 1: Bryant Callahan is trying to humble Will Levis, and you
Speaker 1: do that when your quarterback isn't humble. Because most of
Speaker 1: these pro athletes that I've dealt with, these young quarterbacks
Speaker 1: strong dads, coached hard. They've been in a very disciplined
Speaker 1: quarterback lifestyle since they were nine years old. Most of
Speaker 1: these kids come in hum as hell. Even the talented ones.
Speaker 1: You know, their dad was often like a pro athlete.
Speaker 1: They know the game. When they come into the NFL,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get coached hard. You got to practice hard,
Speaker 1: you gotta work hard. And so I think most coaches
Speaker 1: feel kind of lucky when they get these young quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I mean, cee J. Stroud had a success, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: had success. Lamar is an incredibly humble guy. Herbert's incredibly humble.
Speaker 1: For as big a story as Mahomes is, for a
Speaker 1: coach to rip somebody publicly, he doesn't like him, it's
Speaker 1: personal to me. That feels very personal.
Speaker 4: That's the most obvious thing ever, that he doesn't like him.
Speaker 4: Here's what's challenging. If you want to be an NFL coach,
Speaker 4: there's only so many jobs. You can always ask yourself,
Speaker 4: why does Dave Canalis take the Panther's job. You don't
Speaker 4: have to be an NFL coach and study every second
Speaker 4: of the all twenty two of every play that Bryce
Speaker 4: Young played to know that he wasn't going to be
Speaker 4: the guy. Kudos to him for dumping them and benching
Speaker 4: him and deciding, okay, we got to chance. I like
Speaker 4: what I'm seeing. That's what that says. By the way,
Speaker 4: I'm not flipping to canals, but there's a connection here.
Speaker 4: When he benches Bryce Young two games ind of the season,
Speaker 4: what he's seeing on film is the offensive line is
Speaker 4: playing great. Receivers are getting open when they're not so
Speaker 4: discouraged they don't run their roots. We've got a chance
Speaker 4: to be a better team if we get this guy
Speaker 4: out and give everybody else a little bit more confidence.
Speaker 4: But between him and Calaham, you're stuck because you have
Speaker 4: to take an NFL job if you want to be
Speaker 4: a head coach, and you know, if you're getting that job,
Speaker 4: you probably have a crappy quarterback and there's nothing you
Speaker 4: can do about it. So like you're in like the
Speaker 4: weirdest rock in a hard place because you're getting your
Speaker 4: dream job and you don't even know if you can
Speaker 4: succeed because the guy who is quarterback in the team
Speaker 4: just can't get it done. You're not getting that job
Speaker 4: unless there's a quarterback. Well, you can't get it done.
Speaker 1: And Canalis was a hot coach was Ben Johnson. Ben
Speaker 1: Johnson said, no, I'm not going to take it. And
Speaker 1: Detroit has looked like a little off center. So the
Speaker 1: old saying strike when the iron hot, Strike when the
Speaker 1: iron's hot. Ben Johnson was hot. He doesn't take a job.
Speaker 1: You come back this year and are like Jared Goff
Speaker 1: doesn't look as good. So I mean this seat, it's
Speaker 1: all situational and seasonal these yeah, I mean even defenses.
Speaker 1: Great defenses disappear the next year because defensive players get
Speaker 1: hurt more often, and so you can have a great defense.
Speaker 1: The Jets had a great defense last year. You look
Speaker 1: at this year or like they don't tackle well, they're
Speaker 1: bad in space like Saula's defense, and now they're injury riddle. CJ. Mosley,
Speaker 1: the guy who's calling plays so it's like when you're
Speaker 1: an assistant like Canalis, you say, why would you take
Speaker 1: that job? Because if Baker Mayfield had a crappy year
Speaker 1: this year, then you're not doing a prospect.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so.
Speaker 4: It's so difficult. We're going to hand you the best
Speaker 4: job in the world, but by the way, you're also
Speaker 4: going to have to manage the worst quarterback in the
Speaker 4: enif with.
Speaker 1: The most impulsive owner. Oh my god, I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure he didn't make the call on Brychheng. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you.
Speaker 4: It would It would be true to form right. Everything
Speaker 4: we've heard is that Bryce Young was not the guy
Speaker 4: they wanted to draft, but the owner made them draft him.
Speaker 4: He has not been a guy who has had a
Speaker 4: great reputation amongst fans and people in the media so
Speaker 4: far during his reign. If it's funny you mentioned that,
Speaker 4: because when I heard that he was being benched, I
Speaker 4: thought that is a ballsy move from a brand new
Speaker 4: coach with an owner who was known to have strong
Speaker 4: opinions and medal. It didn't even occur to me that
Speaker 4: he would have pulled the trigger on that.
Speaker 1: It feels too strong, impulsive and decisive for a young
Speaker 1: coach known as a quarterback whisper to bail and go
Speaker 1: to an old past his prime, Andy Dalton, It doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like the movie you'd make. You'd make that in
Speaker 1: week six or seven, maybe near the trade deadline. Dangle
Speaker 1: Bryce Young is a trade piece. Week two. You lost
Speaker 1: to the Chargers. They look excellent. You lost to Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 4: It's okay, See Colin, this is why you are a
Speaker 4: savvy inside media player. You think the next level. I'm
Speaker 4: just a guy sitting in my office in West Hartford
Speaker 4: trying to figure it all out, and I just thought,
Speaker 4: good for day Canalis. Good did he decide to bench
Speaker 4: this guy?
Speaker 1: I like his courage hard. It's easy to have courage
Speaker 1: when the owner says bench that guy exactly.
Speaker 4: All right, my man, all right, brother, I'll see you later.
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