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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition to the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hanson is coming to you from
Speaker 1: a virtual room filled with heroes just near those starting
Speaker 1: to get weirder. Yeah, Greg Rosental, Mark Sessler, Ricky Hollywood,
Speaker 1: what's up? Gare? I guess? Matt Money Smith? I wasn't
Speaker 1: aware of my trip to Lallapalooza. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What a memorable deuce that must have been years and
Speaker 1: years later. Uh And and I don't know if she
Speaker 1: wants to join the show anymore. But again for the
Speaker 1: second consecutive week, hit it, Ricky, It is the Great
Speaker 1: Unstoppable Queen's NFL Network. Colleen Wolf, Yeah, welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast. I can't do my lounge
Speaker 1: singer here. That act doesn't work with this music. That's fair,
Speaker 1: that's fair. But I know it's within you. It's always
Speaker 1: within you. How are you always here? Well? I feel
Speaker 1: I feel like a lounge singer with this giant microphone.
Speaker 1: I feel like I must handle the microphone. I don't
Speaker 1: know why is it so prominent? Why is it so
Speaker 1: in your face or any now, because I'm on my couch.
Speaker 1: I don't have anywhere else to put it. I don't
Speaker 1: have a professional setup like you guys. How's the move gone?
Speaker 1: How's the move gone? You're now in a different part
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Speaker 1: come over. I wouldn't call that standing invitation. It is
Speaker 1: l somehow, I mean dress. Let's google it right now
Speaker 1: and find out whether it's within the limits. Okay, here
Speaker 1: it is, ready, everyone's coming over. Thank you Colleen for
Speaker 1: joining us again. It's so fun to have you here
Speaker 1: in the Chris Westling chair for the Tuesday edition of
Speaker 1: the show. Um all through off to a you know,
Speaker 1: a bit of a filthy start, but we are um
Speaker 1: excited to be with you, and we have a lot
Speaker 1: to talk about, um including Latvia. What was that Latvia
Speaker 1: talking about? I still don't know that why. I haven't
Speaker 1: pieced that one together yet, but I know, but I
Speaker 1: know that the a certain two powerhouses of the NFL
Speaker 1: squared off on Monday Night football, So we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into Chiefs Ravens. We're also going to talk about Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen has reared its ugly head once again, and
Speaker 1: we're still finding out as things go along here on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: how that could affect week four and and beyond. We'll
Speaker 1: get into that. Also, a little fun game, little game show.
Speaker 1: We haven't done a game show in a while. Connie's here.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. And of course, uh the the
Speaker 1: well unbreakable. So the Samuel L. Jackson character to Bruce
Speaker 1: Willis's character, which is Jets Broncos Thursday night preview will
Speaker 1: hit that as well. Uh So, let's get going. So
Speaker 1: much to do, starting with Monday Night football. Here's my Homes,
Speaker 1: got some pressure man in his face, got Hardman wide
Speaker 1: open for the touchdown. McCole Hardman and Mahomes paid the price,
Speaker 1: hit by Marlon Humphrey. Touchdown Chief. Oh my god, Patrick
Speaker 1: moms shukas so so so picking come Chiefs over the
Speaker 1: Ravens in Baltimore. And it really didn't even feel that close.
Speaker 1: Patrick Hoomes completely out of his mind. Two yards, four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: passing one touchdown on the ground, averaging over nine yards
Speaker 1: of attempt, hundred and thirty three and a half passer rating,
Speaker 1: absolutely outplays Lamar Jackson. And we'll start right there. Greg
Speaker 1: Rosenthal um with yes, we knew the Chiefs are great,
Speaker 1: they're the defending champs. They haven't lost since last November ten. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody should be surprised if they
Speaker 1: came out firing and delivered a great performance. I think
Speaker 1: the takeaway for everyone here is WHOA, what happened to
Speaker 1: the Ravens and this increasing narrative that's building. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I know that Lamar Jackson sometimes he got certain people defense,
Speaker 1: and that Jackson, for all of his greatness, and he's
Speaker 1: the reigning MVP, seems to struggle when adversity hits. And
Speaker 1: when it hit on Monday night, he had no answers. Well,
Speaker 1: their entire team didn't. I think that's right. I think
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are the story just as much, um because
Speaker 1: coming into this game, we they hadn't been playing as well.
Speaker 1: We all thought the Ravens were gonna win game. A
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of people did. It's stupid. It
Speaker 1: was a reminder a never pick against Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: and b that the you know, don't get too carried
Speaker 1: away with the first two weeks of the season. Look
Speaker 1: at the larger body work. What you're pointing to with
Speaker 1: the Ravens are that when they lose, they do it
Speaker 1: hard and it's a full team. I mean, they really do.
Speaker 1: They got blown out by the by the Titans. They
Speaker 1: didn't show up for three quarters against the Chargers in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, even when they lost to the Browns last year,
Speaker 1: that that was not a close game. When they've lost,
Speaker 1: everyone on their team has been terrible, including Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: That was the worst game of Jackson's career. I wasn't
Speaker 1: surprised to see that Hollywood Brown and Mark Andrews actually
Speaker 1: at the two lowest grades of anyone on their offense.
Speaker 1: They dropped five passes between them. I counted three drives
Speaker 1: that essentially ended because of their drops. The offensive line
Speaker 1: had penalties, you know, sloppy throughout. Hardbach kind of started
Speaker 1: with a weird uh tempo setter that he goes for
Speaker 1: a field goal right off the bat uh and then
Speaker 1: Lamar starts fumbling. Can't get everyone set up well, So
Speaker 1: there is something weird. I think it's and the defense
Speaker 1: was terrible to I think there is something to be
Speaker 1: said that when the Ravens have gotten some push in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, that they're not close, like
Speaker 1: they haven't been competitive the score was more competitive in
Speaker 1: this game, uh than I really thought it was between
Speaker 1: these two. It was a disappointment, Connie. Don't you think
Speaker 1: this game was a letdown. It was because it was
Speaker 1: all Chiefs from the jump and the Ravens offense they
Speaker 1: just looked completely out of sorts. And it really reminded
Speaker 1: me of when they played the Titans in the A
Speaker 1: f C H and the playoffs there, because it was
Speaker 1: the same type of thing. They fell behind, and then
Speaker 1: that's what everybody talks about with their offense. They just
Speaker 1: don't have what it takes to get back in once
Speaker 1: they're behind, once they're kind of trying to crawl back.
Speaker 1: And I really thought that they were going to get
Speaker 1: back in the game. When Devor DuVernay scored on that
Speaker 1: kick return, they made a three point game. Then the
Speaker 1: defense they stopped Mahomes, but the Ravens they just they
Speaker 1: couldn't handle it. And the Homes, my goodness, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: he scored basically every single way. All of the passes
Speaker 1: that he had, it was either you know, a dime,
Speaker 1: it was that little underhand shovel pass he's throwing. Eric Fisher.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a big man touchdown that was fantastic.
Speaker 1: So it was a fun game, but it really was
Speaker 1: kind of disappointing to see yeah, not doing this looked
Speaker 1: like I mean, they'd more than double their yardage. It
Speaker 1: did not feel like a competitive game. I mean, aren't
Speaker 1: you I don't know. It's just weird to see the
Speaker 1: Ravens look so good though normally, and then completely outclassed. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean the Ravens there with Lamar Jackson there twenty
Speaker 1: one and one in the regular season and oh and
Speaker 1: three with Lamar Jackson versus the Chiefs, and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: pointed out that you know, the Chiefs have been his kryptonite,
Speaker 1: um that they thought that the Chiefs he said that,
Speaker 1: I'm not not you right, But that's my whole point
Speaker 1: would be that rivalries have a very human element to them.
Speaker 1: And when you think about a team that tries to
Speaker 1: get over the hump against another team, especially in the NBA,
Speaker 1: but in the NFL too, there is definitely a psychological
Speaker 1: block that's the lesser team must get past. And this
Speaker 1: is a Chiefs team the Ravens have struggled against. And
Speaker 1: I put it all on Andy Reid, and we already
Speaker 1: knew that Andy Reid was, you know, genius level playmaker,
Speaker 1: but some of the stuff that they do week to week,
Speaker 1: you know what, You're right, Greg that it's early in
Speaker 1: the season to judge any of these teams, But the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have a way to look different on offense week
Speaker 1: after week. You know, They've got a bevy of weapons,
Speaker 1: so you're not sure it's gonna not gonna funnel through
Speaker 1: one guy. I love what our friend Connor Or wrote
Speaker 1: um when he when he reported on this game, saying,
Speaker 1: how do you study film on the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: when the director of that film is a madman? And
Speaker 1: that is Andy Reid right now? And I think that
Speaker 1: part of the equation is that we keep you know,
Speaker 1: and correctly we clumped the Ravens and Chiefs together as
Speaker 1: the two teams in the a f C competing for
Speaker 1: this precious solo by well, there was a total differentiator
Speaker 1: last night, and I'm not sure that there is a
Speaker 1: clumping of two teams. Not right now. The game was
Speaker 1: pretty much decided by this point, but that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of a particular play. I believe it was about third
Speaker 1: and four, late in the fourth quarter, and they did
Speaker 1: a good job on the telecast illustrating it where the
Speaker 1: Chiefs could have just runned into the line and probably
Speaker 1: get a couple of yards and then punted or go
Speaker 1: for a long field goal, but instead they call pass
Speaker 1: and they have uh three guys lining up left going right,
Speaker 1: and then they have a they have Kelsey lined up
Speaker 1: as a tight end heading uh towards heading left, and
Speaker 1: then the running back sneaks out from the backfield and
Speaker 1: makes the catch and goes seven yards and the game
Speaker 1: is basically officially over at that point. You know it's
Speaker 1: It reminded me and I tweeted about it that like
Speaker 1: when you are if you root for a team that
Speaker 1: has a bad offensive scheme, bad head coach, uh, bad
Speaker 1: personnel handling of their personnel, games like these blowing mind
Speaker 1: because you're like, WHOA, what what's this? What are they doing?
Speaker 1: Like what sport am I watching here? And that's why
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are such a special team and
Speaker 1: a team that has the chance to, uh to just
Speaker 1: be around for a long time, because it's kind of
Speaker 1: a perfect storm situation. You're just like, in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, it was a perfect storm with Brady and
Speaker 1: Belichick and the run they went on I'm not saying
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are gonna do the same thing, because that
Speaker 1: thing that happens maybe once every hundred years. But to have,
Speaker 1: you know, arguably the most physically talented, gifted quarterback ever
Speaker 1: at twenty four years old. You have Andy Reid with
Speaker 1: all this wisdom and ability to stay current and stay
Speaker 1: on top of the league on offense, all these skill players.
Speaker 1: They are doing a good job behind the scenes building
Speaker 1: the roster. I mean, when does it end? When do
Speaker 1: they even lose? And now the defense is looking better
Speaker 1: to Chris Jones, he was on it last night in
Speaker 1: the first half. He had four tackles, two sacks. I
Speaker 1: feel like this defense they just continue to kind of
Speaker 1: come into their own and that's really scary for the
Speaker 1: rest of the league. Well, the Ravens should have a
Speaker 1: defined identity, but the Chiefs take him out of it,
Speaker 1: whereas the Chiefs do what they want. I mean, Andy
Speaker 1: Reid is amazing. No one's a bigger fan of him
Speaker 1: than me. But maybe there maybe one human of that's
Speaker 1: it's use of exaggeration. I've said he's a Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer for a long time, but there's only one Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and he's so hard to get to the ground,
Speaker 1: Like there's you're almost running out of things that are
Speaker 1: new to say about him. But I think that's underrated.
Speaker 1: Like how many times they did get rushers to him.
Speaker 1: I mean they tried to blitz, they tried to change
Speaker 1: up what they blitz all the time, and it's just
Speaker 1: not gonna work against him. He killed them with his
Speaker 1: legs in terms of running. And then there's no defense
Speaker 1: for an eleven yard drop out of shotgun where he
Speaker 1: sees where the blitz is coming, so he just starts
Speaker 1: dropping diagonally to the left. I mean, no coach would
Speaker 1: ever tell you to do that. No coach would ever
Speaker 1: tell you to take an eleven step drop out of shotgun.
Speaker 1: It's insane, but that's because no one has the arm
Speaker 1: and the ability to deliver it like Mahomes does. So
Speaker 1: they're doing what they do. But the Ravens get crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, Harbor was a whimp on the fourth downs
Speaker 1: and and the second they fell behind. After starting the
Speaker 1: game well running the ball. They passed it thirteen times
Speaker 1: and ran it twice for the rest of the first half.
Speaker 1: It's like you can run the ball and catch up.
Speaker 1: The Rams did it on Sunday, the whole team was
Speaker 1: on tilt. And I agree with you. They could have
Speaker 1: stuck with their game plan, which is ground and pound
Speaker 1: and you use your running backs and use Lamar's legs
Speaker 1: and you mix in the past and they probably had
Speaker 1: a better chance of getting back into this game. But
Speaker 1: just circling back to to the beginning before before we
Speaker 1: move on, Greg, I just have to say, yes, it
Speaker 1: was a bad night for the Ravens as a team,
Speaker 1: was a bad night for John Harbaugh. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: Andy Reid tons of praise for this game plan. We
Speaker 1: should probably give the losing coach some heat as well
Speaker 1: for the team playing so poorly. But Lamar's at the
Speaker 1: front of it. And Lamar is the reigning m v P.
Speaker 1: And if I'm a Ravens fan, I'm alarmed. I'm lamarmed.
Speaker 1: But it's his worst game. I would say it's his
Speaker 1: worst game by far. There's a pattern heresy since the
Speaker 1: old everybody has a plan until they get punched in
Speaker 1: the mouth, and when the Ravens get punched in the mouth,
Speaker 1: they have not responded well. I thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: because I was over at our colleague Omar Ruiz's house
Speaker 1: because He also lives close to me watching the game,
Speaker 1: and he has a bunch of friends that are Ravens fans,
Speaker 1: and they were crushing John Harball for his decisions during
Speaker 1: the game. And I was just thinking back to when
Speaker 1: that was Andy Reid with the Eagles, because that's all
Speaker 1: it used to be, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it is just like Andy Reid. He just manages everything
Speaker 1: so well, like look at his clock management, look at
Speaker 1: him go. The Chiefs did something in that game that
Speaker 1: other defenses tried to do. I know the Patriots certainly
Speaker 1: tried to unsuccessfully, but they basically didn't rush him, and
Speaker 1: I think that's the way to do it is you
Speaker 1: just try to keep them from going to the outside
Speaker 1: and you send different looks. But it was almost like like,
Speaker 1: we don't want to try to sack you. Well, they
Speaker 1: talked about that. You know, they're putting their cornerbacks, you know,
Speaker 1: back in the back in their scheme and bringing the
Speaker 1: safeties up and basically saying, we know you're gonna run it,
Speaker 1: we know this is what you want to do. You had,
Speaker 1: you know, And they really didn't run the ball that
Speaker 1: well against the Browns in Week one. They certainly did
Speaker 1: in week two. They did not last night. And another
Speaker 1: thing Lamar Jackson said along with the kryptonite comment, was
Speaker 1: that he thought that the Chiefs employed a very similar
Speaker 1: strategy to the Titans in the playoffs. So is there
Speaker 1: a scheme out there that coaches will try to copy
Speaker 1: and paste to take out this run heavy attack? We
Speaker 1: will see, all right, So we'll continue to follow this
Speaker 1: and remember, yes, there's only one by and now the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have the head to head tiebreaker, which means that
Speaker 1: the Ravens already get that number one seed. They have
Speaker 1: to finish a game ahead of the Chiefs in the standings.
Speaker 1: Did it last year? Really? What would have finished to
Speaker 1: ahead if they didn't rest their starters? So it is possible,
Speaker 1: but it does feel somehow even tougher this time around.
Speaker 1: But it can't be a nice trip for an opposing
Speaker 1: a f C team to fly into Charmed City as
Speaker 1: they call it, and wipe out Baltimore in January for
Speaker 1: the third year in a row. There needs to be
Speaker 1: a new narrative. If you're the Ravens loves it, he was,
Speaker 1: I don't need to love it because it's like nd No.
Speaker 1: But to your point of punching up at teams that
Speaker 1: look like professional entities compared to what we're normally watching.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. I think you have
Speaker 1: a professional team right now. I am referring to the
Speaker 1: past five years. Okay, let's move on. This was a
Speaker 1: bummer to wake up to uh COVID nineteen invading the NFL.
Speaker 1: The Titans closed their facilities until this weekend after three
Speaker 1: players and five team personnel members tested positive for the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: The NFL announced on Tuesday there has been no decision
Speaker 1: made about how to handle this yet about the Titans
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, there scheduled to face the Steelers in Nashville. However,
Speaker 1: a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter the NFL wants and
Speaker 1: intends to have the game played as scheduled. Another contingency
Speaker 1: plan here is possibly moving the game to Monday night.
Speaker 1: And the eight new positive tests for the Titans all
Speaker 1: confirmed after additional testing, according to ESPN, asymptomatic are these
Speaker 1: people as of Tuesday morning. Roger Goodell said in a
Speaker 1: statement or in a memo, this is not unexpected. There
Speaker 1: will be players and staff who will test positive during
Speaker 1: the season. UH you know, Colleen, that's uh, that is
Speaker 1: a sad truth that there was no way we were
Speaker 1: gonna go through this whole season without any of this drama,
Speaker 1: and now here we are. No we knew it was
Speaker 1: going to happen. It's a point I'm frankly sort of
Speaker 1: surprised that we got this far without something like this
Speaker 1: happening yet. So it will be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: they kind of kind of adapt to it and and
Speaker 1: respond to it. I wonder if one of the things
Speaker 1: that's going to happen is if they'll have testing on
Speaker 1: Sundays now too, because it's the only day of the
Speaker 1: week that they're not testing. And I know part of
Speaker 1: the reason is because of the PCR test, they take
Speaker 1: a little bit longer to get results back. But I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure why they don't do the rapid test
Speaker 1: the POC tests there um, because that at least you
Speaker 1: would be able to get results turned around in the
Speaker 1: same day, and maybe that would have helped contain some
Speaker 1: of the positives that they had on Monday. We're taping
Speaker 1: this Tuesday afternoon. It's just too early in the weeks
Speaker 1: to know much. Because the fact that the none of
Speaker 1: the vikings have tested positive means nothing at this point.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't have tested positive if you know, necessarily yet
Speaker 1: if they'd contracted it, and we don't, we don't know.
Speaker 1: We've seen in baseball, and I think they should use
Speaker 1: that as an example, like a team coming back too quickly.
Speaker 1: That was the Cardinals. The reality is it's a reminder
Speaker 1: that testing can't can't save them, can't stop it. That.
Speaker 1: The reality is, the facts show us players a number
Speaker 1: of players were in that game on Sunday, um having
Speaker 1: coronavirus and so and and and you can test that,
Speaker 1: you know, as much as you want, and that's that's
Speaker 1: what the fact, that's what the test results kind of
Speaker 1: point us to. I know they didn't test positive until Monday,
Speaker 1: but it started on Saturday. Players are playing in that
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. You can kind of do the map.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's no simple solution to this,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think it's very much up in
Speaker 1: the air, even though they want to play the game,
Speaker 1: whether this game is going to be played, there's also
Speaker 1: some backpedaling because you know, they're requiring everyone in what
Speaker 1: they call the Tier one, two and three of NFL employees,
Speaker 1: which would include players and coaches. I'm assuming, I mean
Speaker 1: it does. Um they wear these connects on proximity recording
Speaker 1: tracking devices and then they look at um they know
Speaker 1: who tested positive? We don't right now. That's the other part.
Speaker 1: We don't know who this is. But where were they
Speaker 1: on the field? How close did they get to anyone else?
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot more investigation work to be
Speaker 1: done here. I mean I would also say that the
Speaker 1: you know behind door number two is are these positives
Speaker 1: from the same position group? Is it four cornerbacks? Is
Speaker 1: it for offensive linemen? That completely changes the scope of
Speaker 1: whether or not, you know, a game on you know,
Speaker 1: in a couple of days, is even viable. Right And
Speaker 1: what we do know is on Saturday, Titans linebackers coach
Speaker 1: Shane bow And he tested positive, so he didn't make
Speaker 1: the trip and that's sort of where it started. But
Speaker 1: we have no idea how contained the outbreak is because
Speaker 1: it can take up to five to seven days for
Speaker 1: an infection to really show up on any of these tests.
Speaker 1: Was not at the Kickers club, Dan, That's my one concern.
Speaker 1: You still have this vibrant um positional club, you know,
Speaker 1: open until two in the morning night after night, acting
Speaker 1: like it's or something very wrong. We have testing that
Speaker 1: the rest of you people don't have access to. I'll
Speaker 1: just leave it at that. It was like super rapid test,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, so obviously we're gonna track that
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it more, I'm sure on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and hopefully not uh in a setup where we're talking
Speaker 1: about games being postponed or rescheduled. My goodness, what a
Speaker 1: mess that would be. All right, Mark, before we get
Speaker 1: into our game show, real quick. I know by the
Speaker 1: time people listen to this, it will have already began.
Speaker 1: But I'd like a quick, you know, maybe sixty seconds
Speaker 1: or left less preview of the opening round playoff matchup
Speaker 1: between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Raise,
Speaker 1: the American League East champions forty and twenty. Uh go ahead, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm really interested that the Blue Jays did
Speaker 1: something a litterally typical here. They've got this some picture
Speaker 1: shoemaker who has been out of the loop, he's been
Speaker 1: injured it and he's suddenly going to be starting Game
Speaker 1: one against the Rays. M I'm not a big fan
Speaker 1: of the city of Tampa or the state of Florida,
Speaker 1: for no particular reason other than they're in my way
Speaker 1: right now. And the Blue Jays. All I asked for
Speaker 1: when I think I was on a TEX thread with
Speaker 1: you guys, was I want to root for a team
Speaker 1: that um. I don't want some dominant team that takes
Speaker 1: the whole thing yawn. I want a scrappy team that
Speaker 1: fights their way into the playoffs. They are the eight
Speaker 1: and final playoff team in their conference. If you want
Speaker 1: to call it that, UM league would be different American League.
Speaker 1: I am very excited for this Blue Jays contest. It
Speaker 1: begins in twenty eight minutes if I'm not mistaken, and
Speaker 1: I would like to wrap up this show in time
Speaker 1: if we could. Wow. Look at that. So I was concise,
Speaker 1: idew you said, you said to keep it quick. That's
Speaker 1: also about as much as I know, all right, more
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Speaker 1: a really bad test taker, all I know you are.
Speaker 1: Sometimes person thinks they're stating in the truth when it
Speaker 1: is in fact an opinion. And that's when it falls
Speaker 1: upon me, the old zeuster the judge, to let you
Speaker 1: know what is truth and what is opinion? Wait a minute, alright,
Speaker 1: what just it just feels I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: you know there have been multiple exercises where uh, it
Speaker 1: basically boils down to what who dan us to win?
Speaker 1: But we're all gonna play along. Let's see how this goes. Well, please,
Speaker 1: you got your blue Jay's preview and everything's gravy for
Speaker 1: you from now on. Well you'll see what sort of
Speaker 1: effort you get from me. All right, here we go, Ricky,
Speaker 1: you're going to be the unofficial scorekeeper. And also, you know,
Speaker 1: just you are, Erica. Before we get going, I want
Speaker 1: is there something you can share with the audience. We've
Speaker 1: kind of teased it for a little bit since we're
Speaker 1: doing a game show right now, to let people know
Speaker 1: what is going on in your life. Yeah, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been brushing up on some trivia and happened to
Speaker 1: be cast in the game show Weakest Link that airs tonight.
Speaker 1: Um wait, this is real. Yeah you didn't. What do
Speaker 1: you think we're just texting about the Weakest Link. But
Speaker 1: it was secret, it was keeping it quiet. Everyone is like,
Speaker 1: I'm on top of every minute of our show. Something Colleen,
Speaker 1: short term memory isn't what it once was at that
Speaker 1: So you were on the Weakest Link? Did you win?
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to say, come on you can tell
Speaker 1: us I did, Yeah, I did sign an n d
Speaker 1: A um, but let's just say it's worth watching the show.
Speaker 1: WHOA what? Alright? So NDA, of course is a nondisclosure agreement.
Speaker 1: What what can the producers of the Weakest Link do
Speaker 1: to you if you break the terms of the NDA
Speaker 1: on our podcast? Well, if I did win and I
Speaker 1: said that publicly, they could take the winnings away. Oh
Speaker 1: that means she must have won, right otherwise? True? So
Speaker 1: we're playing today for Tamposey's winnings. Is that what this
Speaker 1: game is actually about? Yeah? Yeah, the winner of this
Speaker 1: winnings and if she did not win, then it comes
Speaker 1: out of her parents pocket up there. In either way,
Speaker 1: it's coming out of a tampose bank account sample pockets
Speaker 1: from what I understand. Yeah, sorry, I can't hear you.
Speaker 1: Jane Lynch is just yeah, go get me another cup
Speaker 1: of coffee. We're good, We're good. Jane Lynch of course,
Speaker 1: the host of the reboot. Although I missed the old
Speaker 1: British lady, we'll out that old bag. I liked her
Speaker 1: right well, I asked you, Dan if that was who
Speaker 1: was returning to, you know, host the show again, and
Speaker 1: you inform me that she's about I don't even know
Speaker 1: she's alive. I bet she'd be amazing. Yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: get her out here. Anyway, Good luck to Jane Lynch
Speaker 1: and of course Erica, who's already either one or lost horribly.
Speaker 1: And either way, it's gonna be a lot of fun
Speaker 1: for us. Where the real victors. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into it again. I asked the question, raise your hand.
Speaker 1: That will count as a buzzer weight to be called on.
Speaker 1: Here we go, question number one? Who question number one
Speaker 1: of opinion or truth? Who is the next starting quarterback
Speaker 1: to be sent to the bench by coaches decision? Mm
Speaker 1: hmm right, all right, I'm gonna go with Dwayne Haskins
Speaker 1: because Ron Rivera. Now he's answering the question every week
Speaker 1: about it, and he's not really providing much many promises.
Speaker 1: That's a bad sign this early. That is the correct answer.
Speaker 1: Please put it down. Okay, Well, I had a suggestion,
Speaker 1: but I will keep it myself. Don't need it, don't
Speaker 1: need your suggestions. Just worry about the game. You gotta
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna change um. Yes, Dwayne Haskins is the
Speaker 1: correct answer. In fact, Ron Rivera. Yes, as Greg stated
Speaker 1: in that Monday press conference, uh made some fairly damning comments.
Speaker 1: It seemed like what was it. It It was something like
Speaker 1: he said that like like he basically his play needs
Speaker 1: to be more for the rest of the players on
Speaker 1: the team. I mean, and said that there's a stopping
Speaker 1: point that brown close to that cut off point. If
Speaker 1: there was another game like that, that was a rough
Speaker 1: That was a rough day for joint. Colleen, did you
Speaker 1: have another not that discounts towards the points system? Did
Speaker 1: you have another option that you were going to buzz
Speaker 1: in with? Well, Jeff driscoll is um getting benched. You
Speaker 1: know NF preview coming up that actually correct though you are,
Speaker 1: you are factually correct, but it's about things that might
Speaker 1: happen in the future. I said, I don't understand this game. Okay,
Speaker 1: got it, got it alright? So Greg, that's one point
Speaker 1: for Greg. Greg, you do not control the board. I
Speaker 1: know in some games the person who gets the question
Speaker 1: right controls the board. No control at all for you,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Question number two, who has been the most
Speaker 1: disappointing player in the NFL through Week three? Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: Carson wentz alright, Colleen got to raise the hand Why
Speaker 1: why Carson Wentz um Because have you seen him play?
Speaker 1: He He's made like one good throw a game, like
Speaker 1: last week. Sure we saw him dive into the end
Speaker 1: zone for a touchdown. That's great. We're gonna need a
Speaker 1: lot more of that for the Eagles to be anywhere
Speaker 1: this year. It's been an absolute disaster out there. He's
Speaker 1: been so disappointing to start the year, Kelly, and that
Speaker 1: is the correct answer. Carson Wentz has been more disappointing
Speaker 1: than any player in the NFL through Week three. I
Speaker 1: mean the amount of plays he's leaving on the field,
Speaker 1: including in an obvious get right situation for the Bengals. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: the way an NFL season structure, these things are supposed
Speaker 1: to be preordained. You're supposed to start oh and two
Speaker 1: and be in a funk, and then the Bengals come
Speaker 1: to your building and you you just kicked their ass
Speaker 1: and you win thirty five to seventeen. But the fact
Speaker 1: that they couldn't do that, and he's missing Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: with a gimme touchdowns and he's just been scattershot. He
Speaker 1: already has Dwayne excuse me not Dwayne Haskins. He's playing
Speaker 1: like Carson Wentz has six interceptions in three games. He
Speaker 1: had seven and sixteen games last year when he carried
Speaker 1: the Eagles to the postseason. I mean, how do you
Speaker 1: make sense of a Connie You don't? You don't. I
Speaker 1: was listening a little bit to sports talk radio. It
Speaker 1: felt very cathartic in Philadelphia, and it sounds like they
Speaker 1: don't really want Carson Wentz in there anymore. It sounds
Speaker 1: like they're calling for Jalen Hurts. But I am not.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that's way too early right now. Everybody's slow
Speaker 1: your role sure tying the Bengals was not ideal. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens next week. And you know, if longtime
Speaker 1: listeners of the show no, and I don't think I'm alone.
Speaker 1: I hate ties, I hate the ruins of symmetry NFL
Speaker 1: standings and when you throw in that ugly hyphen in
Speaker 1: one and I feel like the Phillies are the Eagles
Speaker 1: and the Bengals have tied every season for the past
Speaker 1: thirty years now, and they just mess up, mess up
Speaker 1: the look of the standings. Anyway, good start, guys. Two
Speaker 1: questions to correct answers up next, If you could reboot
Speaker 1: your fandom and choose any team right now? Who's the
Speaker 1: best pick? Mark Sessler? Well, I mean I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1: Greg raised his hand first, so very honest. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the judges. Let's go to the judges. Nope, they say, Mark,
Speaker 1: you raise your hand first. Well for me, it's for me.
Speaker 1: It's the Chiefs because number one, I like if I
Speaker 1: like a team with deep historical backstory and they have
Speaker 1: that um number two to your point, Dan that you
Speaker 1: mentioned before, they're not Brady and Belichick, but they might
Speaker 1: be the closest thing we have going forward for the
Speaker 1: next ten fifteen years. And why sign up for any
Speaker 1: other team that the one that will probably win four
Speaker 1: to five Super Bowls? You know, I'll just buy a
Speaker 1: bunch of red and yellow and white clothing and act
Speaker 1: like I've been here the whole time. I'm sorry, Mark,
Speaker 1: that is opinion. Anybody want to buzz in? Alright? Greg, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Green Bay Packers because, as
Speaker 1: you know, our host has pointed out that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: gonna be an All Pro this year. Um, so that
Speaker 1: means he's gonna be playing at like an m v
Speaker 1: P level, and it's been a while since the Packers
Speaker 1: have won a Super Bowl, so it would be fun.
Speaker 1: They're almost like a resurgence story. And the history, as
Speaker 1: Mark likes to point out, is that they'll have another
Speaker 1: great quarterback for another twenty years. So whether you know
Speaker 1: it'll be Jordan's love, I guess, but whoever it'll be,
Speaker 1: it'll be a nice handoff and you'll enjoy the title
Speaker 1: of the Packers this, we'll enjoy yourself in the least
Speaker 1: diverse NFL town on the entire map. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: in l A. I'm not going there. That is the
Speaker 1: correct answer. Yes, Yes, the Packers. What a great story
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. It's a you know, every so often
Speaker 1: a player comes along that you'll talk to your grandchildren about.
Speaker 1: Rodgers is one of those players. Patrick Mahomes flash in
Speaker 1: the pan, Aaron Rodgers, a true great flash. I don't
Speaker 1: know what about the Bills. Yeah, the Bills, No, no,
Speaker 1: no love for them. I feel like that would be
Speaker 1: that's a great one, great great organizational history there. All right,
Speaker 1: So um, after one round, Greg, you have two points,
Speaker 1: excuse me, three points, Colleen to Mark, sitting at negative one,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Let's move on to round two, and guess what, Mark,
Speaker 1: there is an avenue to for you to get to
Speaker 1: the finals, just like the Toronto Blue Jays. All points
Speaker 1: where double in round two. I'm sure to be very
Speaker 1: smooth avenue. All right, what which under the radar under
Speaker 1: the radar star understudy drama has the most legs in
Speaker 1: the NFL moving forward? M hmm, understudy drama. I just
Speaker 1: feel like it's Colleen's turn, so I'm waiting for her. Well,
Speaker 1: I already I already talked about Jalen Hurts. I feel
Speaker 1: like that that. I feel like my mind all automatically
Speaker 1: goes to the quarterback position when you're talking about an
Speaker 1: understudy role. And I think about the two quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: we've already talked about on the show today, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz, the two high profile quarterbacks that got
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks drafted this year. So that can't be one.
Speaker 1: So my mind, I'm basically philibus during figure out. Another
Speaker 1: situation is at Taysom Hill. I don't know that is
Speaker 1: a draft of time out of time. I believe Greg
Speaker 1: had his hand up. Okay, um, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels and Bill Belichick. You know this has been
Speaker 1: going on for a long time. You didn't see this coming. Um.
Speaker 1: Will Bill ever leave? You know, will Josh ever ever
Speaker 1: get that chance? Or will he just sitting that job
Speaker 1: running plays for Bill um until Bill hands it off
Speaker 1: to his son. Uh. In a succession like backstabbing move
Speaker 1: where Steve Belichick takes over incorrect that his opinion marks
Speaker 1: to learn, well, I was gonna I was gonna go. Uh,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and Sam Donald. I don't like the situation.
Speaker 1: But the idea that's Trevor Lawrence monster now could be
Speaker 1: will be someone's quarterback? And could it be the quarterback? Four?
Speaker 1: Right now? The team that looks like it will finish
Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick. Well, if you cannot
Speaker 1: be you could not be more wrong number one. It's
Speaker 1: an opinion by you, and uh, just enjoy your little
Speaker 1: game manager. That five ft seven passer in Cleveland while
Speaker 1: the good times last here, that is actually negative four points, okay?
Speaker 1: Uh the correct answer, by the way, I would have
Speaker 1: accepted too, So unfortunately that nobody came up with it.
Speaker 1: One was justin Herbert, Jimmy g and Nick Mullins. I
Speaker 1: mean you've talked about how you wonder and when Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan lays in bed at night, if he feels like
Speaker 1: his offense is uh is being run at the highest
Speaker 1: level with Jimmy g and Nick Mullins. You know, I
Speaker 1: know it was against the Giants. I know it was
Speaker 1: against the Giants, but he played excellent. They held the
Speaker 1: ball for almost forty minutes. They didn't punt for the
Speaker 1: first time a Ninus team didn't punt in the game
Speaker 1: in almost twenty seven years. And uh, I'm not saying.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying there's a quarterback controversy, but give it
Speaker 1: a week or two. I like this. I haven't even
Speaker 1: thought about that. Yeah, that's spicy. And I've seen Nick
Speaker 1: Mullins be successful before on Thursday Night Football. What was
Speaker 1: that two years ago against the Raiders. It's been a while,
Speaker 1: it's been a minute, but you get it, Colleen, you
Speaker 1: host like one of the most highest rated shows in
Speaker 1: the world on Thursday Bingo. I would have also accepted
Speaker 1: Al Michaels and Mike Tarico after on Sunday Night Star
Speaker 1: understudy drama. Okay, moving right along. Given pandemic uncertainties, economic
Speaker 1: realities of a too home household, two and come household
Speaker 1: and stubborn record level pricing in the Los Angeles market.
Speaker 1: Will my wife and I own our own home by mark?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. That's correct, that's absolutely correct. Two points. You've
Speaker 1: got to speak it into existence, Stan, next question. I mean,
Speaker 1: I will tell you that the six the six counties
Speaker 1: that comprise Los Angeles, the median price of homes reached
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars in August, up twelve point one from
Speaker 1: a year earlier, according to data Relate released by d
Speaker 1: Q News. Here's a quote from Sid Lebovich, president of
Speaker 1: Rodeo Real Realty. Uh, we had I think they prefer
Speaker 1: there used to be there, used to be Rodeo. I know,
Speaker 1: Greg thinks he's so smart. There used to be It
Speaker 1: was a joke. It's a joke because it's negative twenty
Speaker 1: points for Greg. That a Rodeo Boulevard also in West
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, which has now since been renamed Obama Boulevard anyway,
Speaker 1: so they could have been on that that street as well. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Here's the quote. We have had houses with fifty offers.
Speaker 1: It's just bizarre, unbelievable. That's why none of us own
Speaker 1: homes out here, all right here we go moving forward,
Speaker 1: which head coach is the hottest butt as we approach October?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I have to say this,
Speaker 1: but it's it's Adam Gaze. That's I feel like that's
Speaker 1: not even I don't even need to expand on that,
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll get to that on Thursday Night Football Talk.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of percolations in the air that
Speaker 1: Gates has to beat an undrafted free agent quarterback at
Speaker 1: home to keep his job and avoid falling to own four.
Speaker 1: So that is two points, actually double points for Connie
Speaker 1: four points alright, final question of the round. I think
Speaker 1: that was wrong. The Lions got that week five by
Speaker 1: they lose this week? Who knows? My big got a
Speaker 1: wet help. Lions move slow as molasses. They'll fire mat Patricia,
Speaker 1: you know, seven thousand days from now if they have
Speaker 1: their preference. Also, Falcons fans are raising their hands and
Speaker 1: saying dan Quinn, what a mess? All right? Finally, who
Speaker 1: is the NFL m v P after three weeks? Wait? Sorry,
Speaker 1: dragging ups on Twitter. We're not allowed to have that conversation.
Speaker 1: So that is the final round. I had an answer.
Speaker 1: It's more just like hey, like he's an m v
Speaker 1: P contender. It's like, okay, like i'd be like talking
Speaker 1: about the baseball m v P in the middle of April.
Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, just wait, we can wait.
Speaker 1: What is it? It's like at this point last year
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett was Coach of the Year. That's what That's
Speaker 1: the type of quality of conversation you get. Right, Sorry,
Speaker 1: we're excited, take our joy away, Greg. What's the equivalent
Speaker 1: you're you're better at meth than I am. What's the
Speaker 1: equivalent of three weeks out of sixteen in in a
Speaker 1: Major League baseball season that would probably take you into
Speaker 1: June or something, and which which would be? It would
Speaker 1: be like mid May mid May. Why can't you just
Speaker 1: let people have fun? You can have fun, put rules
Speaker 1: on things. You can do what you want. You're allowed
Speaker 1: to do whatever you want. I'm just saying you can
Speaker 1: mock the people can right, fair enough, And I look
Speaker 1: at my score. It's a little bit jumbled, but it
Speaker 1: appears that Colleen Wolf advances to the finals a chance
Speaker 1: to win twenty five thousand dollars. What an unlikely result.
Speaker 1: The way I look at this game, though, it's more
Speaker 1: just you want to avoid being the one loser. And
Speaker 1: I feel like the scoreboard says, at least I came
Speaker 1: in second. I'm not in last. I feel good about that.
Speaker 1: Whatever makes you feel, you know, happy about your path
Speaker 1: in life. Greg, I, I hope you did come in second,
Speaker 1: if that's gonna mean that much to you. It always does.
Speaker 1: A game like this always fosters hard feelings, and that's
Speaker 1: why I like it so much. All Right, well, it's fraudulent,
Speaker 1: but beyond that, you know, I loved it. Here we go, Colleen,
Speaker 1: here's your chance dollars either Erica's winnings uh from that
Speaker 1: dopey game show she was on, or uh, right out
Speaker 1: of the trust fund, the Tampas trush. Perfect Erica, you
Speaker 1: okay with us? By that? We haven't we haven't cleared this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure she'll sign off on it. I yeah, I
Speaker 1: like you know, we talked about this over the summer.
Speaker 1: The sort of narrative that we're putting out there, I'm
Speaker 1: not necessarily for it, Okay, not comfortable with that. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: that is truth. That is not a bit that this
Speaker 1: is truth? What is that's the game here? I'm saying,
Speaker 1: this isn't a narrative. It's not opinion, right, it's not opinion,
Speaker 1: but I'm uncomfortable with it. Well that too, Yeah, that's too.
Speaker 1: But you have your sailboats, so that's the most important thing.
Speaker 1: I'm also I'm also assuming that you want Erica, because
Speaker 1: there's no way you're such a smart woman and that
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna come to you hitting up
Speaker 1: your parents for the money. It's a shoeing that you want,
Speaker 1: I would imagine, just based on you versus you know,
Speaker 1: anyone else in a maybe she'll have that down payment
Speaker 1: for her own house before. Yeah, it's not just tell us, Erica,
Speaker 1: did you win? I cannot say. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: watch it all right? We will. Here we go, Colleen.
Speaker 1: This is your chance to be the grand champion of
Speaker 1: opinion or truth. Eric Erica, We're gonna put fifteen seconds
Speaker 1: on the clock. I'm happy that Colleen ended up in
Speaker 1: the finals because I know putting a timing element on
Speaker 1: this is going to fry the brain. And I'm sweating.
Speaker 1: I just started to sweat. What is happening? This game
Speaker 1: is still going on. I thought it was over certain people.
Speaker 1: You're a trade final Jeopardy basically, here. Certain people react
Speaker 1: in different ways to a clock counting down to zero,
Speaker 1: and I believe this could be a problem for you.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, maybe you'll shock the world.
Speaker 1: Here we go, Erica, fifteen seconds on the clock and
Speaker 1: please started As soon as I finished this sentence, Colleen
Speaker 1: Wolf Dollars say one nice thing about each of the
Speaker 1: teams in the NFC East. Yeah. God, okay, Um. I
Speaker 1: love Ron Rivera in Washington. I think he's an amazing
Speaker 1: head coach. Joe Judge he grew up with my cousin
Speaker 1: down the street in Warrington, Pennsylvania. He's also a good one.
Speaker 1: And the Dallas Cowboys have very classic uniforms that work.
Speaker 1: Oh and the Eagles. I still to do the Eagles too.
Speaker 1: Um God. Yeah. Doug Peterson, he's going to turn it around,
Speaker 1: and I have faith in him. I'll throw it to
Speaker 1: Greg and Mark the judges to decide whether that counts.
Speaker 1: I don't think it. The full answer didn't really get in.
Speaker 1: She just kind of said Doug. Doug Peterson's name also
Speaker 1: has Joe Judge. Being friends with someone you know a compliment.
Speaker 1: I don't know it's it is. It's a compliment because
Speaker 1: it is her birthday today. She's a wonderful person. She
Speaker 1: only surrounds herself with amazing people, So that is where
Speaker 1: that came from. That may be authentic. I found the
Speaker 1: Cowboys portion um a tad disingenuous, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that you got the Eagles answer into Greg's point before
Speaker 1: the buzzer, so I would go no, a big no. Alright, sorry,
Speaker 1: Colleen Erica. Good news for you. You get to keep
Speaker 1: those twenty five thousand dollars. I blew it. I can't
Speaker 1: believe I blew it. Possible winnings on the weakest link
Speaker 1: before we say goodbye? Hey, Now had that game go?
Speaker 1: By the way? Is that all? It was fun? I
Speaker 1: think that was good. Little rough around the edges, but
Speaker 1: little rough we got there once we figured it out.
Speaker 1: I don't know what, Why are you after all the
Speaker 1: stuff I'm going through, Mark with the Jets, Why would
Speaker 1: you hit out at me like that? How did I
Speaker 1: know it's got to be? You know, it's got to
Speaker 1: be a really hard situation for Jets fans, and you
Speaker 1: know me well how much I love the team to
Speaker 1: do a Trevor Lawrence sam Donald answer that one. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that I'm hoping for that or advocating that it,
Speaker 1: you know, rushers into existence. But there people are already.
Speaker 1: I think Jets fans are already New York tabloids discussing
Speaker 1: this topic. So I it's not I'm not powering it.
Speaker 1: At what costs? Were you looking for the win? There? Mark? Well,
Speaker 1: I already I think we all, every sentient human listening
Speaker 1: to this knows that I was not going to win
Speaker 1: that game show, no matter what path I took. So
Speaker 1: cause as much harm and chaos as you can along
Speaker 1: the way if anyone was meant to win the game show. No,
Speaker 1: all right, here we go, Colleen. You are the host
Speaker 1: of Thursday Night Football, the pregame halftime postgame show on
Speaker 1: NFL Network. This is, I believe, either the final one
Speaker 1: for the season, you tell me, or the final one
Speaker 1: for a bit that is broadcast only on NFL Network. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the this is the last exclusive until December.
Speaker 1: There you go. So you have the oh and three
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos who made a quarterback change on Monday, moving
Speaker 1: away from Jeff Driscoll after one failed start and onto
Speaker 1: Mark Rippean, Rippean Rippean, Brent Rippon. According to you know
Speaker 1: you vocabulary, heads, his own coach that can't get the
Speaker 1: name right. He called his own coach, called him Mark
Speaker 1: Rippen today vocabulary heads. Um, he is, I believe, the
Speaker 1: nephew of Super Bowl winning quarterback Mark Rippon and Rippian Rippon.
Speaker 1: He is an undrafted free agent. And listen, we don't
Speaker 1: need to pat ourselves on the back about this one.
Speaker 1: We already hit We already kind of touched on it
Speaker 1: last week on this podcast that John Ellwie deserves exactly
Speaker 1: what he's getting right now. Uh, he left that backup,
Speaker 1: uh quarterback room, you know, in a state of disarray
Speaker 1: and just said, all right, okay, Drew Lock is gonna
Speaker 1: be my guy, and he's gonna take the next step.
Speaker 1: And but never factored in what happens if forget about it,
Speaker 1: whether he's in effective or effective Lock, what would happen
Speaker 1: if he got hurt, which is of course exactly what happened. Uh,
Speaker 1: Driscoll can't play the guitar in his start. And now
Speaker 1: it is Rippian who travels to the metal ends to
Speaker 1: face the Jets, who I think everyone can agree, including
Speaker 1: in the latest power rankings on NFL dot com, are
Speaker 1: the worst team in football. And um, we could start
Speaker 1: there and maybe finished there. That this is a matchup
Speaker 1: of two teams that have found their seasons essentially shipwrecked
Speaker 1: and obliterated before the calendar turns October. But perhaps the
Speaker 1: real drama here is if Adam Gates, who has been
Speaker 1: branded a genius by his own owner or acting owner,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call him, UH, can't find a
Speaker 1: way to beat Brett Rippian in Week four at home
Speaker 1: in prime time. This could be the end of the
Speaker 1: Gates era. And I think that's what most people see
Speaker 1: as the stakes in this. Beyond that, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to take from it. Well, if you're a huge
Speaker 1: Broncos fan, you're hoping Lock comes back, but most of
Speaker 1: the other players aren't coming back, and who know, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they could get in the mix at some point
Speaker 1: and be frisky down the line. But they're not just
Speaker 1: missing their quarterback, they're missing their starting retackled They're now
Speaker 1: onto their third right tackle, Darrell Casey since we last talked,
Speaker 1: I think is either out for the season or out
Speaker 1: for a while. Kareem Jackson is hurt. Shelby Harris, who
Speaker 1: was playing really well UH, is also hurt. So they
Speaker 1: are among the most injured teams in the league. The
Speaker 1: Jets get a few players back this week, but I
Speaker 1: still think it's kind of a toss up because Gaye
Speaker 1: doesn't like Gaye. I don't know. It's like the run
Speaker 1: pass ratio really bothers me with the Jets because it
Speaker 1: feels like they're not totally trying to win, that they're
Speaker 1: just trying to end the game a little bit like
Speaker 1: the Washington team a year ago that they're like splitting
Speaker 1: run past evenly and running on first and second down
Speaker 1: when they're down by like twenty points. Is I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's a bad it's a bad looks as the kids say, Well,
Speaker 1: the Jets, they have a minus fifty seven point differential
Speaker 1: right now, so it's not going great. But Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: he's obviously coming off his one of his worst games
Speaker 1: of his career. But who does he have out there there?
Speaker 1: I mean, no Levian Bell, no Jamison Crowdershot Perryman, no
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims, crowder back this week, I think more so
Speaker 1: they're leaning more, sort more towards crowder Um he missed
Speaker 1: those two games. I don't know about Perriman if they're
Speaker 1: going to get him back for sure, But I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's been brutal and these last three games they've
Speaker 1: lost by double digits. I mean, but Denver obviously isn't
Speaker 1: any better because they've been outscored by twenty five points.
Speaker 1: But Brettie Rimini, he came in this game and he
Speaker 1: completed passes to six different receivers. He only had one
Speaker 1: in completion at the end that was obviously the interception.
Speaker 1: But he I thought kind of showed a little bit
Speaker 1: of spark, brought like a little bit of life to
Speaker 1: that offense. I mean, the Broncos, they they're just in
Speaker 1: Week one, they were a team that I couldn't have
Speaker 1: been more excited about. And it's a study and what
Speaker 1: how quickly teams can become shipwrecked um in an NFL
Speaker 1: season In both cases here and I the Jets. To me,
Speaker 1: it's on Adam Gates to put a competitive team on
Speaker 1: the field. And Greg, I like what you say about
Speaker 1: the run pass ratio. I also think part of it
Speaker 1: is Adam Gates just um for for the flurry of
Speaker 1: supporters he has around the league. Because he does have them, um,
Speaker 1: he keeps getting interviews, he keeps getting opportunities, seems behind
Speaker 1: everyone else when it comes to organizing and scheming offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just talked about Andy Reid and the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and in other weeks you could talk about the Ravens
Speaker 1: and how that they you know, they build flexible systems
Speaker 1: around their strengths. And Adam Gaze feels like the one
Speaker 1: coach out there that goes out of his way to
Speaker 1: take his better players and put them in positions that
Speaker 1: create distressing, low octane results. I wonder. I wonder because
Speaker 1: every once in a while a head coach and gig
Speaker 1: goes so sideways that it could really impact the coach's
Speaker 1: stock to the point where he becomes toxic. And I'm
Speaker 1: not wishing this upon Gaye because he doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: a tear guy. He just seems overmatched and not the
Speaker 1: right temperament for this type of job. I wonder if
Speaker 1: he still has allies and a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are gonna be knocking on his door for any type
Speaker 1: of job. Once this is mercifully over, Colleen, let's close
Speaker 1: it this way. Great job by the whole TNF team,
Speaker 1: including yourself. With Ryan Fitzpatrick last week, everybody thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be meanshow, and that was something to be
Speaker 1: excited about. But then fits magic went off and then
Speaker 1: you had the amazing Paisley shirt with all the chest
Speaker 1: cabbage and the beard which is just completely malformed at
Speaker 1: this point. That was so much fun. Who is your
Speaker 1: dream postgame guests this week on Thursday Night? If you
Speaker 1: got to pick a scenario how a game plays out
Speaker 1: and have any player, who would it be. I can't
Speaker 1: believe you're asking me this question because I was going
Speaker 1: to end asking you this very question, because, um, I
Speaker 1: guess the potential stars would be Sam Donald, Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 1: I've got one for you. I've got one for you.
Speaker 1: I've got one for you. How about Quinn and Williams.
Speaker 1: He's a good interview. He made a couple of plays
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. The Denver offensive line has
Speaker 1: been struggling. This feels like a Greg Williams game where
Speaker 1: he sends a lot at them. They've been struggling to
Speaker 1: stop blitz is and it'd be nice to see Quentin
Speaker 1: William's make some plays and have a big night, because
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of under the radar, as you know,
Speaker 1: a slow start to his career, and this feels like
Speaker 1: an ugly game where maybe the if the Jets are
Speaker 1: gonna win, it's its defense. And he's a fun interview.
Speaker 1: He's a fun guy to talk to, at least so
Speaker 1: entertainment wise, I would think he would be a good choice.
Speaker 1: I wish if you would if you were still traveling
Speaker 1: for Thursday night football and hopefully we'll be doing it
Speaker 1: again next fall. Um, I would have said McKay Beckton,
Speaker 1: who by the way, they got Jets got some good
Speaker 1: news uh this season because the shoulder injury that took
Speaker 1: him out of the game on Sunday doesn't appear serious.
Speaker 1: He might even play on Thursday, you know how, Like
Speaker 1: when we see Colleen next to the giant Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame guy like at league events. What's that guy's name again,
Speaker 1: David David Baker, that gargantuan man. Uh, And it's just
Speaker 1: the funniest thing in the world because Connie Box is
Speaker 1: so tiny. Um, that would be fun to see the
Speaker 1: big ticket right next to the tiny box. That would
Speaker 1: make for great television. But since we don't have that,
Speaker 1: give me Sam Donald because if you, if anybody saw
Speaker 1: his press conference zoom conference after the loss, he seemed
Speaker 1: like a lost kid in a reminder, he is still
Speaker 1: the second youngest quarterback in the NFL. He's been through
Speaker 1: a lot in the last three years. If he had
Speaker 1: a nice game, three touchdowns, a hundred passer rating, a win,
Speaker 1: and he got to go do a positive interview for
Speaker 1: a big audience. Oh, I'd love that for Sam. I
Speaker 1: would love it. Um, we'll see if it happens. I'm
Speaker 1: pulling for you. Dan. That all right, good stuff, Colleen,
Speaker 1: you've said it all. Congratulations. You didn't win the big prize.
Speaker 1: The judges kind of nailed you on that, but I
Speaker 1: thought it could have went either way. It really could have.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that some of the judges maybe
Speaker 1: weren't quite fair. But what are you gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be a sore loser, so now calling
Speaker 1: you'll be Now Ricky can keep her money. All she
Speaker 1: has to do is not blow it. She's just got
Speaker 1: to come through and get that money. Erica, what is
Speaker 1: the come back Ricky? Um? What is the level at
Speaker 1: which we could have fun about your upcoming appearance? Because
Speaker 1: we don't and this is this is an all honesty
Speaker 1: with the audience, We don't know how it went. We
Speaker 1: have not seen any footage Erica, has she stayed with
Speaker 1: the terms of the n d A be aware of that.
Speaker 1: People over at the Weakest Link. We don't know anything
Speaker 1: if things go sideways on that program. If they go
Speaker 1: you know, Sam Donald week three against the Cult sideways,
Speaker 1: Are we allowed to have fun with you? Or is
Speaker 1: it gonna be uh situation where back off? I think
Speaker 1: I'll be a good sport about it. I think I'll
Speaker 1: be all right, um, no matter what the outcome as well,
Speaker 1: it sounds like it was a good outcome. Can't can't
Speaker 1: step into the arena unless you're ready to face, you know,
Speaker 1: to take the appreciation or the criticism either way. That's
Speaker 1: that's what being cast in the Weakest Link is all about.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna let the people know, Erica when your
Speaker 1: appearance is Yes, Um, I think I don't know when
Speaker 1: it's gonna air. I mean the commercials that they've been
Speaker 1: playing during Sunday Night Football and all that stuff have
Speaker 1: been the same, so I think. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: less secretive when they were trying to kill Bin Laden
Speaker 1: than they are with this program. And also I should
Speaker 1: I be concerned that you don't appear in that commercial. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's just the first week, like I will be.
Speaker 1: It'll be very funny to see if I'm in a
Speaker 1: commercial on Sunday Night Football in the near If you
Speaker 1: just think that if you were like a runaway, if
Speaker 1: you were a runaway hit on the show, that they
Speaker 1: would probably there'd be people thinking, you know, let's feature her,
Speaker 1: let's get that face out there, but not a not
Speaker 1: a hint of you and Lynch. For instance, if Lynch
Speaker 1: season two comes around and Lynch is asking for too
Speaker 1: much and they're like, we need a younger, cheaper alternative, well,
Speaker 1: if Ricky slays it in her appearance, maybe that's of
Speaker 1: course she's She's the strongest link. So let's plus pus
Speaker 1: like this thing. How many like huge Hollywood careers um
Speaker 1: have been launched by being guests on game shows. It's legit, guys.
Speaker 1: We can't wait. Erica, oh my god, I cannot wait
Speaker 1: to watch this show. Can we do a viewing party? Yes,
Speaker 1: socially distance viewing party in my backyard. Everybody comes over.
Speaker 1: That sounds so much fun. I'll totally remember. All right,
Speaker 1: good stuff. Reminder that you'll hear from us again on
Speaker 1: Thursday with two shows, one previewing every game. Uh in
Speaker 1: week four to come, and then Thursday night, I believe
Speaker 1: Me and the Sizzler will recap Denver Broncos, New York Jets. Uh.
Speaker 1: And also a reminder television reminder that the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL broadcast air Saturday is on NFL Network with a
Speaker 1: preview of the week ahead as well, so make sure
Speaker 1: you check it out. Connie, thank you and your your
Speaker 1: den looks glorious and I hope to get the invite
Speaker 1: to your place as well anytime. Love you guys, You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Seven days a week alright most of the time. Seven
Speaker 1: days a week most of the time. This is Dan
Speaker 1: Hands a signing off for the Tiny Box, the Quiet Storm,
Speaker 1: the Old Boss, and Ricky Hollywood behind the Glass virtually
Speaker 1: until Thursday, M. S. S.