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Speaker 2: Action Network. All of our odds provided by DraftKings. So
Speaker 2: I'm going to start with one of my strongest plays.
Speaker 2: There's a difference between struggling but competent and struggling the
Speaker 2: Bears plus one and a half at the Colts. I
Speaker 2: had a general manager this week in the league told
Speaker 2: me he looked at Anthony Richardson's film and said, Colin
Speaker 2: is as bad as anything I've ever seen from a
Speaker 2: starting quarterback. Greg Cosell told Ross Tucker on his podcast,
Speaker 2: and he's not prone to hyperbolic statements. He's missing high
Speaker 2: school throws badly. The Bears have been close. The Bears
Speaker 2: have had moments. The Bears have a quarterback who is
Speaker 2: a franchise quarterback. We don't know yet with Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: If you're struggling with Shane Steichen to the point, can't
Speaker 2: hit stuff in the flat, you know, once Keenan Allen
Speaker 2: comes back, I think the Bears will be much better. Anyway.
Speaker 2: I think Bears plus one and a half is the
Speaker 2: play here against a wobbly Colts offense.
Speaker 1: Sharper square, so it is the sharp side.
Speaker 3: The line has moved in that direction right. It was
Speaker 3: started at two, it's now down to one and a half.
Speaker 3: So the wise guys have been coming in on the Bears.
Speaker 3: For me, personally, it's not going to be a spot.
Speaker 3: Everyone I've talked to clear division on this, not because
Speaker 3: of the Bears and not because of Anthony Richardson, but
Speaker 3: because of the spot for the Bears and the spot
Speaker 3: for the Colts, Anthony Richardson at home has been better
Speaker 3: than Anthony Richardson on the road. The Colts got smacked
Speaker 3: by the Packers and their run game. Everybody knew that's
Speaker 3: what they were going to do, and everybody knows that's
Speaker 3: what the Colts cannot stop. The Bears don't have a
Speaker 3: run game at all. And the Bears defense, meanwhile, they
Speaker 3: are great in past coverage, they are great rush in
Speaker 3: the past or top five in both according to football folks,
Speaker 3: they are terrible against the run. And that is what
Speaker 3: the Colts will need to do in order to win
Speaker 3: this game. And by the way, they are desperate for a.
Speaker 1: Win right now.
Speaker 3: I do think that Shane Steikeen is a better coach
Speaker 3: than Matty Erfus. I do think that what he can
Speaker 3: draw up for Anthony Richardson is better than what the
Speaker 3: Bears can draw for Caleb Williams right now.
Speaker 1: So it's a very tricky game. The wise guys took
Speaker 1: the two.
Speaker 3: It's down to one and a half your sharp but
Speaker 3: it's not like there's a boatload of confidence on this
Speaker 3: sharp play.
Speaker 2: We talk about regression to the mean. I love Sam Darnold,
Speaker 2: but I do not believe he's an MVP of this league.
Speaker 2: The Texans only have to give up two. They are
Speaker 2: two to zero and haven't played particularly well. They're a
Speaker 2: young team. Young teams tend to get better. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take Texans minus two. The Vikings slow down a little
Speaker 2: at some point. No Jordan Addison, TJ. Hawkins and banged up.
Speaker 2: They'll pay a price for that.
Speaker 1: Sharper square, yeah, and this one you're totally square.
Speaker 3: Like the Wise Guy have been all over the Vikings
Speaker 3: in this game. It's moved off of a key number.
Speaker 3: I think they've been really impressed with what Brian Flores
Speaker 3: has done defensively.
Speaker 1: CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud has not been as good on the road as
Speaker 3: he has been at home. We even saw it in
Speaker 3: some of the struggles that he had in Week one
Speaker 3: with against the Colts where they needed some help covering
Speaker 3: that game. So I think the challenge here is people
Speaker 3: are trying to figure out is Sam Darnold for real?
Speaker 3: And I have been saying this for about a year.
Speaker 3: I don't think Kevin O'Connell is getting enough credit as
Speaker 3: a being a really good coach. You know, we go
Speaker 3: back two years three years when he and Dayball were
Speaker 3: both rookie head coaches. Day Ball gets all the credit
Speaker 3: for being a great coach. He wins Coach of the Year.
Speaker 3: He goes on the road to Minnesota. They beat Kirk
Speaker 3: Cousins in the playoffs. At Minnesota, Kevin O'Connell sort of
Speaker 3: has looked at as well, why didn't he beat Brian Daball.
Speaker 3: Brian dabel might be better. And then last year, Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 3: has these quarterbacks that he is rotating in and out
Speaker 3: after Kirk Cousins gets hurt and keeps this team in
Speaker 3: contention for the playoffs. Now, all of a sudden, he's
Speaker 3: got Sam Darnold, and this guy has looked all world
Speaker 3: the first two games. You got to give a lot
Speaker 3: of credit to Kevin O'Connell here, which is another reason
Speaker 3: why the wise guys are backing the Vikings.
Speaker 2: I had a rant today, if you look, we always
Speaker 2: think quarterbacks are the most valuable people in the league,
Speaker 2: and they are. After that, I always thought Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 2: and TJ. Watt felt like they really helped their teams
Speaker 2: win numbers. However, this morning, presented to me about AJ
Speaker 2: Brown are stark. Jalen Hurts wins at a Mahomes level
Speaker 2: with him, a Mahomes level twenty eight to eight. Without him,
Speaker 2: He's a slightly better version than Justin Fields. AJ Brown
Speaker 2: is out. The Saints are for real. It's a coordinator story.
Speaker 2: Philadelphia is on a short week. I do not trust
Speaker 2: the back end of that defense in a close game.
Speaker 2: I just don't. I think Kirk Cousins. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was honestly looked. It looked so easy and remedial for Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I was swallow the two and a half and take
Speaker 2: the Saint sharper square.
Speaker 3: Well, not a two and a half. It's not very
Speaker 3: sharp at all. And we've talked about this. There's an
Speaker 3: old axiom embedding you gotta get the best of the number.
Speaker 3: You are not getting even close to the best of
Speaker 3: the number right now. In fact, you're getting the absolute
Speaker 3: worst of the number. You could have had the Saints
Speaker 3: at plus two and a half plus three on Sunday night.
Speaker 3: There's basically been a six point swing in this game.
Speaker 3: So there's a couple factors here. Number one, you're going
Speaker 3: to get the Saints, who are way way overhyped. So
Speaker 3: much inflation on the Saints right now, But you're also
Speaker 3: betting a team when the numbers flip. When a team
Speaker 3: goes from an underdog to a favorite, historically, the new
Speaker 3: underdog is going to cover about a fifty five fifty
Speaker 3: six clip, so that the percentages are better betting the
Speaker 3: Eagles right now despite what you're seeing on the field.
Speaker 2: So the Broncos have had a tough open on the
Speaker 2: road for a rookie against Mike McDonald's defense and maybe
Speaker 2: the loudest stadium in the league. And then they face
Speaker 2: the Steelers, maybe the best defense in the league Tampa.
Speaker 2: Now they're getting six and a half. Tampa's beat up.
Speaker 2: Vitavilla's out six and a half. I mean, for you know,
Speaker 2: Sean wants to win these games. These are the richest
Speaker 2: owners in the league. It'd be great to get a
Speaker 2: year to go three and fourteen, but he needs some ws.
Speaker 2: This number just seems off to me. I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: the Broncos plus six and a half against the Buck
Speaker 2: Sharper square.
Speaker 3: Nah, you're walking into its field of knives.
Speaker 1: It's so sharp.
Speaker 3: Colin, you better watch yourself, because, yeah, the Broncos are
Speaker 3: the side here. And we have this thing called the
Speaker 3: luck Rankings. I've talked about it on the show before.
Speaker 3: It basically gives you indicators of if all things were
Speaker 3: being equal and you took out sort of turnovers, fourth
Speaker 3: down conversions, lack of ability in the red zone. The
Speaker 3: Bucks are the luckiest team in the NFL. The Broncos
Speaker 3: are one of the least lucky teams in the NFL.
Speaker 3: And the Broncos have also faced some pretty good defenses
Speaker 3: up to this point. A lot of people are gonna
Speaker 3: look bad against the Steelers defense, right the Bucks. You
Speaker 3: look at that Lions game. Sure, they beat the Lions
Speaker 3: at home. The Lions were one for seven with touchdowns
Speaker 3: in the red zone. They aggressively outgained the Bucks in
Speaker 3: yardage yards per play. Jared Goff had a terrible game,
Speaker 3: but he was still moving the ball up and down
Speaker 3: the field. He just couldn't get it.
Speaker 1: In the end zone.
Speaker 3: So you combine the challenges that the Bucks have defensively
Speaker 3: with their injuries, with some of the factors that have
Speaker 3: inflated this line, because the Bucks have looked good while
Speaker 3: also looking a little bit lucky, and that's why you
Speaker 3: get a wise guy play on the Broncos.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call for a big upset of the week.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the Falcons plus three and a half
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs. Kansas City is missing when I think
Speaker 2: one of the most underrated players in the league is
Speaker 2: Isaiah Pichecko. I think he is so vital to them
Speaker 2: as they're rebuilding this receiving corps and Travis Kelcey is aging,
Speaker 2: he can disappear. They need a vibrant running game, and
Speaker 2: Isaiah Pacheco runs as hard as almost anybody in this league.
Speaker 2: I think Atlanta's for real. Atlanta's offensive line against Philadelphia
Speaker 2: was decisive. This Atlanta team, you know, we sometimes because
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins is you know, he's as vanilla sort of,
Speaker 2: you know, an envelope. He's just there's nothing, you know.
Speaker 2: He's a really proficient NFL quarterback and behind a good
Speaker 2: offensive line. This is the best old line he's maybe
Speaker 2: played behind. It's passing catch and I just think they'll
Speaker 2: give him time. Without Pacheco, it's an uneven receiving core,
Speaker 2: Hollywood brownout. They don't quite know what worthy is. He's
Speaker 2: sort of a gadget player. Travis Kelcey has been invisible
Speaker 2: for the entire year. That number screwy falcons plus three
Speaker 2: and a half sharper square, totally sharp.
Speaker 3: The wise guys have been moving this. It was at
Speaker 3: four and a half, then to four, now to three
Speaker 3: and a half. Would not be surprised if it gets
Speaker 3: down to three. Two sides of the coin both telling
Speaker 3: the same story, which is fade the Chiefs. On the
Speaker 3: one side, Patrick Mahomes as a favorite of more than
Speaker 3: three points. Historically he is under five hundred. Now, of course,
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes is almost always a favorite, and often times
Speaker 3: a favorite of more than three points. So there is
Speaker 3: some you know, take that with a grin of salt,
Speaker 3: but it is the fact number one, number two. This
Speaker 3: offensive line is in trouble. They have injuries, they are
Speaker 3: sitting starters, They have guys who are causing too many penalties.
Speaker 3: Like you said, there are still some questions at the
Speaker 3: receiver positions, which she rice great, But outside of that,
Speaker 3: what is your downfield threat? We haven't seen it from
Speaker 3: one of the other than some really cool trick plays.
Speaker 1: Pacheco.
Speaker 3: I think is a massive problem being out and the
Speaker 3: homes hasn't looked that good.
Speaker 1: Right, you look at the Chiefs, the.
Speaker 3: Ravens a shoe tow away from being in that game
Speaker 3: and tie in that game. You look at the Bengals
Speaker 3: a fourth down pass interference against a rookie, the Chiefs
Speaker 3: could easily be one in one or zero to two, right,
Speaker 3: So that's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two.
Speaker 3: Their rush defense, as great as Chris Jones is, their
Speaker 3: rush defense is amongst the worst in the league. We
Speaker 3: know the Falcons can run the ball. We just saw
Speaker 3: them do that against the Eagles. And even better than that,
Speaker 3: they're right side of their line, especially their interior center
Speaker 3: and right guard. They are as good at run blocking
Speaker 3: as anybody in football. So now we're going to get
Speaker 3: the possibility that Kirk Cousins could use some play action
Speaker 3: as he was able to do against the Eagles. If
Speaker 3: they can set up Bijon running against a pretty bad
Speaker 3: rush defense, you are correct with the wise guys.
Speaker 1: Atlanta plus three and a half a.
Speaker 2: Team, and we sometimes I sometimes am slow to acknowledge,
Speaker 2: I get confirmation biased, I make picks and I want
Speaker 2: to stick with them. I'm watching Arizona play. They went
Speaker 2: to Buffalo and for big chunks of the game out
Speaker 2: played Buffalo, and I think Buffalo is pretty good. And
Speaker 2: then I watched them dismantle the Rams. Rams were beat up,
Speaker 2: But if you really look at their pieces McBride, Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 2: Connor Kyler, they've been pretty good at pass blocking. Detroit's
Speaker 2: not playing well. You know, there's the old saying strike
Speaker 2: when the iron's hot. Ben Johnson's not off to a
Speaker 2: good start. I've never trusted situationally in close games. Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2: I think he's a culture builder. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: schematically good. He's a little like Mike McCarthy. There's things
Speaker 2: I like about him. Don't trust them in close games.
Speaker 2: Arizona's getting at home a field goal. I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: Arizona Sharper square sharp ish.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like the line is sort of exactly
Speaker 3: where it should be, so there's no huge advantage. If
Speaker 3: the line had been at three and a half, you
Speaker 3: take it. If the line's at two and a half,
Speaker 3: maybe you play the Lions. The big hesitation for the
Speaker 3: professional betters on this is the Cardinals defense.
Speaker 1: Everyone agrees with what you just said about the offense.
Speaker 3: They think they can play with anybody, right, And we
Speaker 3: did see a lot of this against the Bills in
Speaker 3: week one, where they were blowing the Bills out right,
Speaker 3: but the defense slowly but surely let the Bills back
Speaker 3: in the game.
Speaker 1: And nobody looks at the Bills offense and.
Speaker 3: Says, oh, yeah, this is a powerhouse offense right now,
Speaker 3: it's Josh Allen. The problem with the Cardinals is if
Speaker 3: they make one mistake.
Speaker 1: How do they recover. We saw that with the Bills.
Speaker 3: That to me is a better indicator of what this
Speaker 3: team is than what they did this past week against
Speaker 3: a completely beaten up Rams team.
Speaker 1: They made a.
Speaker 3: Mistake, the Bills capitalized, and then the Bills ultimately really
Speaker 3: ran away with that game. I worry that the Cardinals
Speaker 3: don't have the defense that can recover against a mistake
Speaker 3: that the Cardinals offense makes. And the Lions, while they
Speaker 3: are struggling, are still incredibly talented and they are in a.
Speaker 1: Get right situation.
Speaker 3: So the wise guys like the home underdog almost always,
Speaker 3: but it's not like they're rush into the counter.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's always a game I want your opinion on
Speaker 2: and I sort of want you to talk me into it.
Speaker 2: So I like the Ravens against the Cowboys. You could say, well,
Speaker 2: Dallas was humiliated losing to the Raiders at home, Baltimore
Speaker 2: was humiliated. There are a lot of similarities with Dak
Speaker 2: and Lamar. They both have Super Bowl winning coaches, highly compensated,
Speaker 2: high profile, they win their division multiple times. The difference
Speaker 2: is Lamar is really good against good teams in the
Speaker 2: AFC against playoff teams in his career, He's nineteen and
Speaker 2: fourteen Dak and his career against the weaker conference against
Speaker 2: playoff teams is well below fifty percent. In fact, forty
Speaker 2: percent of Dak's wins in his career this is remarkable,
Speaker 2: are against the Giants in Washington, He's twenty three and four.
Speaker 2: In these big games, it's going to come down to
Speaker 2: two competent coaches. Both rosters have holes. I like Lamar
Speaker 2: in spots like this, not Dak and Mike McCarthy Sharper square.
Speaker 1: This is tough one.
Speaker 3: Like this line has been bouncing around telling you that
Speaker 3: there's money come in on the Ravens and then there's
Speaker 3: money come in on the Cowboys. I can't give you
Speaker 3: a consensus. There is no consensus. If I looked at
Speaker 3: Action Network right now and we have the split of
Speaker 3: number of tickets, like the amount of bets on a
Speaker 3: game and the amount of money on a game, you
Speaker 3: would see fifty to fifty to fifty to fifty, Like
Speaker 3: it is completely down the middle. And that's why, that's
Speaker 3: why the game is lined at Ravens minus one. Everything
Speaker 3: you said about Lamar's true. Also, I think against the
Speaker 3: NFC he is something like one, something like that, like
Speaker 3: he's he's great in this spot, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I think you got two teams that are suffering from
Speaker 3: massive identity crises right now. Defensively, the Ravens kind of
Speaker 3: don't know who they are, you know, without Mike McDaniels,
Speaker 3: without I mean Mike McDonald without Patrick Queen. Their secondary
Speaker 3: isn't as good as it was last year. They're struggling
Speaker 3: with their offensive line. Their run game, even with Derrick
Speaker 3: Henry is ish. The Cowboys backfield offensive backfield might be
Speaker 3: one of the worst in the league. C D Lamb
Speaker 3: banged up, has a bad ankle. What are the options
Speaker 3: if you don't have cde Lamb? Their defense has no depth.
Speaker 3: Micah Parsons is talking about he felt like he was
Speaker 3: in amaze against the Saints, like it's a fun game
Speaker 3: to watch. Why do you have to have an opinion
Speaker 3: on it, you know what I mean. It's just a
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Speaker 2: Okay, and then finally, there's always a game I miss
Speaker 2: that you really have a strong opinion about. I love
Speaker 2: this part. I feel like I'm learning something. I do
Speaker 2: like the Chargers. I think they have currently a better
Speaker 2: offensive coach and a better quarterback, and I think their
Speaker 2: offensive tackles are the best handem in the league and
Speaker 2: will keep TJ. Watt quiet. But I'm not sure the
Speaker 2: Chargers can run the ball on Pittsburgh. So I just
Speaker 2: like the under. I think it's going to be the
Speaker 2: lowest scoring game of the weekend. But is there a
Speaker 2: game I missed so.
Speaker 1: Many really and tell me too much?
Speaker 3: I mean, the problem is like they're so gross, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's like I almost feel bad talking about it.
Speaker 3: The Titans, to me are fascinating. We don't know what
Speaker 3: Jordan Love and his status is going to be. He
Speaker 3: did practice yesterday. I don't know if that's so kind
Speaker 3: of like the decoy, because that would be a pretty
Speaker 3: aggressive recovery for the Packers, especially when they have an
Speaker 3: important game in the division coming up the following week.
Speaker 3: But they had the perfect game plan against the Colts.
Speaker 3: You cannot run that same game plan against the Titans.
Speaker 3: Their defense is just it's really good. Like they're good
Speaker 3: in the defensive, backfield, they're good up front. They are
Speaker 3: really good against the run. I think they would cause
Speaker 3: problems for mlik Willis. I think when you have a
Speaker 3: team that's zero to two and has not covered the spread,
Speaker 3: as they have not done with the next game they
Speaker 3: are sixty percent against the spread, I think it sets
Speaker 3: up really well for the Titans. My biggest concern is
Speaker 3: what is Jordan Love's status? And because of that, this
Speaker 3: line has moved. Right, It was a three. The wise
Speaker 3: guys were betting the Titans down to two and a half.
Speaker 3: Then it got down to two, and since Jordan Love
Speaker 3: has been seen practicing, it got down to one and
Speaker 3: a half. My fear, so I would say, if we
Speaker 3: can get some certainty about Jordan Love, you want to
Speaker 3: take the Titans if he's not going to be playing.
Speaker 3: I do like the Titans a ton in this game.
Speaker 3: I also like the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 2: I looked at that game as well, so did I.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I just think. And that's another one.
Speaker 2: Tell the audience what the number is right now?
Speaker 3: The line has been moving. It was it five and
Speaker 3: a half. It's down to five. Actually I think it
Speaker 3: was at six, got down to five and a half,
Speaker 3: now five. The wise guys are also betting on this game.
Speaker 3: It's a huge pros Joe's game, right in gambling parlance,
Speaker 3: the pros are the professional betters. The Joe's are, you know,
Speaker 3: the guys like you and me who don't know anything right,
Speaker 3: and so the pros are showing that they're all on
Speaker 3: the Jaguars. The Joe's are showing that they're on the Bills.
Speaker 3: But this is another really good spot a winless team.
Speaker 3: Talk about luck, talk about the factors that have led
Speaker 3: to the Jaguars being zero to two. Trevor Lawrence has
Speaker 3: not played great, but they outgained the Browns in that game.
Speaker 3: The Browns had a great opening series. Everyone is like, Okay,
Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson might be better. I'm not so sure. I'm
Speaker 3: probably going to be in the Giants this weekend. But
Speaker 3: secondary that game, the Browns go three for three on
Speaker 3: fourth dout conversions. The Jaguars go one for four for
Speaker 3: touchdowns in the red zone, like they are going against
Speaker 3: the Bills team that also has terrible injuries. We talked
Speaker 3: about the Bucks terrible injuries. Forget about Matt Milano, now
Speaker 3: Matt Mlano's replacement. Now, guys in the defensive backfield, we
Speaker 3: still don't know what this team is other than Josh
Speaker 3: Allen is a really good quarterback who can do everything.
Speaker 3: But the Jaguars do have really good aggressive playmakers on
Speaker 3: both edges of the defensive line.
Speaker 1: So a lot of wise guys love for the Jaguars.
Speaker 2: All right, give me one more all right.
Speaker 3: So we talked about Minnesota, we talked about the Jacks,
Speaker 3: we talked about Atlanta. We mentioned the Titans in the Broncos.
Speaker 3: There's two games. They're so gross, Colin like, I hesitate
Speaker 3: to do it. The wise guys love the Panthers. This,
Speaker 3: Oh god, I know nobody wants to talk about it.
Speaker 3: This is the Corner TV game. I'm not even gonna
Speaker 3: go into why. I'm just telling you they have been
Speaker 3: betting on the Panthers. Like the line moved from seven
Speaker 3: to five and a half as soon as Andy Dalton
Speaker 3: was announced as the starter. It has now moved down
Speaker 3: to five. There's a lot of reasons to like Andy
Speaker 3: Dalton as the starter over Bryce Young, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot of reasons to now want to play the Panthers.
Speaker 3: Their offensive line has been playing great. The challenge for
Speaker 3: them has been Bryce Young is just so inaccurate. So
Speaker 3: can you get better offensive production of Andy Dalton?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Are you going against a team that actually isn't playing
Speaker 3: as well as the scores would indicate.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Will the defense for the Panthers potentially improve if the
Speaker 3: field position is better because they're getting better opportunities to
Speaker 3: move the ball down the field, they're at least close
Speaker 3: to their own fifties, so they can punt it, you know,
Speaker 3: and get it further into the opponent's end of the field,
Speaker 3: because I think the opponent's starting field position for the
Speaker 3: Panthers has been at there at the thirty nine yard line.
Speaker 3: Just hard to win games. It's hard to defend when
Speaker 3: that's the case. So they're on the Panthers. I won't
Speaker 3: I won't try to convince you. They're also on the Giants,
Speaker 3: and I guess that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, Daniel Jones was actually pretty solid.
Speaker 1: They like the Giants.
Speaker 3: They're just not sold on to Sean Watson right at all,
Speaker 3: and the Browns still have some injury questions on the
Speaker 3: offensive line. The Giant strength is the interior of their
Speaker 3: defensive line, best interior defensive lineman in the NFL. So
Speaker 3: there is some sentiment that the Giants are the right side.
Speaker 3: And you know, I feel bad. I'm just giving you gross,
Speaker 3: disgusting things to think about. But we're getting at that
Speaker 3: point of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no way I can. I'm just staying away
Speaker 2: from the Packers. I stayed away during the Colts game.
Speaker 2: I'm staying away during the Will Levis, who is in
Speaker 2: the bad Judgment Hall of Fame. I'm just I'm not
Speaker 2: touched in the packers until everybody's healthy, but sharper square
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Speaker 3: How great was that Brian Callahan video of him just
Speaker 3: losing it and then actually just owning it well the
Speaker 3: next day in the press compel Okay.
Speaker 2: So that's my theory is that if you look at
Speaker 2: coaches with young quarterbacks, even when they're awful, they're almost
Speaker 2: apologetic and defend their young quarterbacks. Why is Callahan shredded
Speaker 2: him twice publicly? He doesn't like him, He's trying to
Speaker 2: humble him. And this is my knock. I've told the story.
Speaker 2: I called an NFL coach who I have a relationship with,
Speaker 2: and he asked me about all the quarterbacks and I said,
Speaker 2: Will Levis the gun show. I said, that's just bad.
Speaker 2: And I said he showed bad judgment in college. He
Speaker 2: makes really bad throws. I said, he's got a little
Speaker 2: hitch in his swing. He will not manage. Will's about
Speaker 2: will He will not manage a game is he plays
Speaker 2: hero ball? And I said, Brady managed Mahomes manages about
Speaker 2: eighty percent of this game is we've got a lead,
Speaker 2: get out of here. Let's get on the plane and
Speaker 2: get back home. Bryant Callahan is trying to humble Will Levis,
Speaker 2: and you do that when your quarterback isn't humble. Because
Speaker 2: most of these pro athletes that I've dealt with, these
Speaker 2: young quarterbacks strong dads, coached hard, They've been in a
Speaker 2: very disciplined quarterback lifestyle since they were nine years old.
Speaker 2: Most of these kids come in humble as hell. Even
Speaker 2: the talented ones. You know their dad was often like
Speaker 2: a pro athlete. They know the game. When they come
Speaker 2: into the NFL, you're gonna get coached hard. You gotta
Speaker 2: practice hard, you gotta work hard. And so I think
Speaker 2: most coaches feel kind of lucky when they get these
Speaker 2: young quarterbacks. I mean, see j Stroud had a success,
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson had success. Lamar is an incredibly humble guy.
Speaker 2: Herbert's incredibly humble. For as big a story as Mahomes
Speaker 2: is for a coach to rip somebody publicly, he doesn't
Speaker 2: like him. It's personal to me. That feels very personal.
Speaker 3: That's the most obvious thing ever, that he doesn't like him.
Speaker 3: Here's what's challenging. If you want to be an NFL coach,
Speaker 3: there's only so many jobs. You can always ask yourself,
Speaker 3: why does Dave Canalis take the Panthers job.
Speaker 1: You don't have.
Speaker 3: To be an NFL coach and study every second of
Speaker 3: the all twenty two of every play that Bryce Young
Speaker 3: played to know that he wasn't going to be the guy.
Speaker 3: Kudos to him for dumping them and benching him and deciding, Okay,
Speaker 3: we got a chance. I like what I'm seeing. That's
Speaker 3: what that says. By the way, I'm not flipping to canals,
Speaker 3: but there's a connection here. When he benches Bryce Young
Speaker 3: two games into the season, what he's seeing on film
Speaker 3: is the offensive line is playing great. Receivers are getting
Speaker 3: open when they're not so discouraged they don't run their roots.
Speaker 3: We've got a chance to be a better team if
Speaker 3: we get this guy out and give everybody else a
Speaker 3: little bit more confidence. But between him and Callahan, you're
Speaker 3: stuck because you have to take an NFL job if
Speaker 3: you want to be a head coach, and you know,
Speaker 3: if you're getting that job, you probably have a crappy
Speaker 3: quarterback and there's nothing you can do about it. So
Speaker 3: you're in like the weirdest rock in a hard place
Speaker 3: because you're getting your dream job and you don't even
Speaker 3: know if you can succeed because the guy who is
Speaker 3: quarterback in the team just can't get it done. Oh
Speaker 3: you're not getting that job unless there's a quarterback. Well,
Speaker 3: you can't get it done.
Speaker 2: And Kanalis was a hot coach, so was Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2: Ben Johnson said, no, I'm not going to take it.
Speaker 2: And Detroit has looked like a little off center. So
Speaker 2: the old saying strike when the iron hot, strike when
Speaker 2: the iron's hot. Ben Johnson was hot. He doesn't take
Speaker 2: a job. You come back this year and are like
Speaker 2: Jared Goff doesn't look as good. So I mean this seat,
Speaker 2: it's all situational and seasonal these yeah, I mean even defenses.
Speaker 2: Great defenses disappear the next year because defensive players get
Speaker 2: hurt more often, and so you can have a great defense.
Speaker 2: The Jets had a great defense last year. You look
Speaker 2: at this year like they don't tackle well, they're bad
Speaker 2: in space like Sola's defense, and now they're injury riddle.
Speaker 1: CJ.
Speaker 2: Moseley the guy who's calling plays. So it's like when
Speaker 2: you're an assistant like Canalis. You say, why would you
Speaker 2: take that job, because if Baker Mayfield had a crappy
Speaker 2: year this year, then you're not doing a prospect.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's true. Yeah, it's so. It's so difficult.
Speaker 3: We're going to hand you the best job in the world,
Speaker 3: but by the way, you're also going to have to
Speaker 3: manage the worst quarterback in the.
Speaker 2: NFL with the most impulsive owner. Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 2: not so sure he didn't make the call on Rice Show.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you.
Speaker 3: It would It would be true to form right, everything
Speaker 3: we've heard is that Bryce Young was not the guy
Speaker 3: they wanted to draft, but the owner made them draft him.
Speaker 3: He has not been a guy who has had a
Speaker 3: great reputation amongst fans and people in the media so
Speaker 3: far during his reign. If it's funny you mentioned that,
Speaker 3: because when I heard that he was being benched, I
Speaker 3: thought that is a ballsy move from a brand new
Speaker 3: coach with an owner who was known to have strong
Speaker 3: opinions and medal. It didn't even occur to me that
Speaker 3: he would have pulled the trigger on that.
Speaker 2: It feels too strong, impulsive, and decisive for a young
Speaker 2: coach known as a quarterback whisperer to bail and go
Speaker 2: to an old past his prime, Andy Dalton. It doesn't
Speaker 2: feel like the move you'd make. You'd make that in
Speaker 2: week six or seven, maybe near the trade deadline, dangle
Speaker 2: Bryce Young as a trade.
Speaker 1: Week two, you lost to the Chargers.
Speaker 2: They look excellent. You lost to Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 3: It's okay, See Colin, this is why you are a
Speaker 3: savvy inside media player. You think the next level. I'm
Speaker 3: just a guy sitting in my office in West Harford
Speaker 3: trying to figure it all out, and I just thought,
Speaker 3: good for day Canalis?
Speaker 1: Good? Did he decide to bench this guy? I like
Speaker 1: his courage hard.
Speaker 2: It's easy to have courage when the owner says, bench
Speaker 2: that guy exactly all right, my man, all right, brother,
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