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Speaker 1: under pads. Welcome to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. That's true. I'll let you guess who it is.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan hansis coming to you from a
Speaker 1: virtual room filled with some heroes, Greg Roseatal and yes
Speaker 1: that man Mark Sesler. What's up? Boys? What a day?
Speaker 1: You know? We came on and Mark gave me that
Speaker 1: kind of like whoa, we had some games today, you know,
Speaker 1: not even on the show. So that that's when you
Speaker 1: know it's a good day. Game. It felt like an
Speaker 1: epically long day. And I don't mean that in a
Speaker 1: negative way, just there was just um a flock of
Speaker 1: games that to the very end, right And last night
Speaker 1: it was Halloween and we in our house, we tried
Speaker 1: very hard to give the boys a nice Halloween. And
Speaker 1: we have a you know, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people have this. They have a little cluster of people
Speaker 1: that are in the trust circle, the COVID Trust circle,
Speaker 1: and and we have two other families with kids, so
Speaker 1: they all came over the house and you know, Daddy's
Speaker 1: gonna get a little loose in that situation. It's been
Speaker 1: a long year. So when daddy gets loose, uh, and
Speaker 1: then you have an NFL Sunday. I'll put it this way.
Speaker 1: When we started this podcast in the bounce back was
Speaker 1: easier than it is in after marriage age progression, COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic, two children. But I'm a warrior. You are right,
Speaker 1: but I and I normally don't like to bring this up.
Speaker 1: But I'm about six and a half seven years older
Speaker 1: than the two of you, and so, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I would just offer that it's seven years, seven years, Um,
Speaker 1: less fun to recover from things like that, and just
Speaker 1: even staying up late, you know. Um. We're here though,
Speaker 1: and we're all five and that's a beautiful thing. Um.
Speaker 1: And why is it always the same teams that the
Speaker 1: heartbreak happens too? Why does it? We're gonna get to it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to all the games in week eight,
Speaker 1: as we reached the midway ish point of another regular season.
Speaker 1: We'll go through every game, but let's start with the
Speaker 1: Premier A f C matchup of the afternoon. And here's
Speaker 1: the snap. He's back steps out, fires for the goal
Speaker 1: line in the passage, broke it up at the goal line,
Speaker 1: and that is terrific. Drop by the Steelers secondary to
Speaker 1: close in on Willie Snead the fourth the ball game
Speaker 1: is over Bill Hillgrove and touch Ilkin with the called
Speaker 1: w d v E Lamar Jackson and he has not
Speaker 1: had the magic this year. The reigning m VPS final
Speaker 1: pass this time expired, fell incomplete, and the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: escaped Baltimore within the Steelers moved to seven and oh
Speaker 1: and now hold a commanding lead in the a f
Speaker 1: C North greg This Dealers defense was too much for
Speaker 1: Lamar and they were They're a defense that has so
Speaker 1: many great players that on a day where they got
Speaker 1: steam rolled a little bit on the ground, you know,
Speaker 1: the Ravens put up two and sixty five yards on
Speaker 1: the ground, uh you know, almost one eight in the
Speaker 1: first half. That they have enough good players that they
Speaker 1: can make enough game changing plays to escape of victory
Speaker 1: in a game that they really shouldn't. And and I
Speaker 1: hate starting with Lamar because he did make a number
Speaker 1: of spectacular plays in this game too, so that there
Speaker 1: were positives and the Ravens offense at times look better
Speaker 1: than it did all year. But you can't get past
Speaker 1: the fact that his first throw of the game was
Speaker 1: a pick six his first throw of the second half.
Speaker 1: I believe it was the first throw was intercepted, and
Speaker 1: that was at a time of the game where the
Speaker 1: Ravens were absolutely dominant. And then he gets the ball
Speaker 1: twice in the last five minutes and the Steelers defense
Speaker 1: does a great job stopping them on fourth down, Uh,
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line. You think that's gonna be it.
Speaker 1: They forced a three and out and then we listened,
Speaker 1: you know to the final sequence where the Ravens almost
Speaker 1: pulled it out again getting into winning position, and you're right,
Speaker 1: they've just been a player too short on a day
Speaker 1: where they had a lot of positives if they had
Speaker 1: just made one more play. This is a devastating loss,
Speaker 1: not just to fall two games back, but to lose
Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley, their left tackle for the season. That is
Speaker 1: a one two punch that I'm sure people in Baltimore
Speaker 1: are pretty depressed about right now. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: this Ravens team, we've been waiting for them to appear
Speaker 1: as they did last year, and they just happened. If
Speaker 1: you told me that on the flip side, that the
Speaker 1: Steelers would have forty eight yards on the ground and
Speaker 1: no one, um other than Juju Smith Schuster crossing fifty
Speaker 1: yards through the air. I would look at that ahead
Speaker 1: of time and think that Baltimore took care of business. Um,
Speaker 1: the Steelers just find a way. And I I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think this is a surprising result.
Speaker 1: Um it was my lock of the week, so you know,
Speaker 1: I went in thinking it could happen. Um. But suddenly
Speaker 1: you just start to look at the Ravens differently. And
Speaker 1: when we came into this season, it was so like
Speaker 1: crystallized to everyone watching football that the Chiefs and the
Speaker 1: Ravens were that upper exchechalant and we didn't really know
Speaker 1: what the Steelers were going to be. And I I
Speaker 1: would flip those two teams. Now the Steelers are right
Speaker 1: up there. I mean, it's it's funny because I remember
Speaker 1: in the summer, people that follow the league very closely,
Speaker 1: people that travel on the road and and did a
Speaker 1: lot of the camp previews. You felt like there was
Speaker 1: a lot of the sentiment out there, watch out for
Speaker 1: the Ravens. They're even better this year, which always struck
Speaker 1: me as a little bit odd because it's so hard
Speaker 1: to do what they did last year, which would just
Speaker 1: be so historically dominant, and that's what made that disappointment
Speaker 1: in January all the more difficult to handle because that
Speaker 1: was such a special year. When you have those special years,
Speaker 1: you want to be able to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: So there's just some you know, pains this year obviously
Speaker 1: that weren't in the picture, uh last year. And you
Speaker 1: know they were in for two d and sixty five
Speaker 1: yards in this game. I mean that is that's a
Speaker 1: huge number. They did that all the times against the
Speaker 1: Steelers and and to not do it. And yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to put everything on Lamar, but listen, when
Speaker 1: you're the defending m v P, much as expected of you.
Speaker 1: If he plays better, they win this game. And the
Speaker 1: a f C North is a lot different right now.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to put all the focus on Lamar,
Speaker 1: but his play and his relative struggles this season are
Speaker 1: a big story around Baltimore. Yeah, and it's relative. I
Speaker 1: still think he's played like a top you know, twelve
Speaker 1: QB this year and including this game. I mean that
Speaker 1: I don't disappointment, No, No, it's a big absolutely and
Speaker 1: the passing game is is the bigger disappointment. Um, But
Speaker 1: I also wouldn't you know, look at the US is like, hey,
Speaker 1: they're done. I mean they're five and two, and they
Speaker 1: just kind of dominated the Steelers, uh in this game.
Speaker 1: And you went into halftime with it being seventeen seven, thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: this is trouble for the Ravens because I mean they
Speaker 1: put one on them. I mean, they absolutely ran them
Speaker 1: up and down. The only seven points in the first
Speaker 1: half was that pick six. It was it was looking
Speaker 1: like varsity and JV to use a Tomlin expression, and
Speaker 1: it's not like even the Steelers comeback felt like they
Speaker 1: were the ones dominated. The Steelers offense is the one
Speaker 1: that looked rather limited. The Ravens defense has played really
Speaker 1: well all year and they played well today. Um, but
Speaker 1: the Ravens aren't making plays in the big moments, at
Speaker 1: least in this game. They haven't had a lot of
Speaker 1: close games. It's been a strange season. They also have
Speaker 1: you know, some people getting upset. Hollywood Brown. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw his tweet that was deleted. He said,
Speaker 1: what's the point of having soldias when you never use them? Parentheses,
Speaker 1: never double exclamation point? Yeah, the double slimmer is what
Speaker 1: got me. And of course soldiers s O you l
Speaker 1: j A s Um. Actually, since you brought it up, Greg, Hey, Ricky,
Speaker 1: I want to check Hollywood Brown's social media accounts to
Speaker 1: see if he is untagged all Ravens content. I'm moving
Speaker 1: to Instagram. Oh stop, all right, I have there. It
Speaker 1: is Twitter. No, he has not removed Ravens related content
Speaker 1: from either of his feeds, so it appears at this
Speaker 1: time he intends to stay with the Ravens beyond the
Speaker 1: trade deadline. This was a classic though, thanks for the
Speaker 1: Ravens Steelers for delivering. I mean, Marcus Brown, he can
Speaker 1: be he can be upset though they'll they'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: But there was like there was five force humbles in
Speaker 1: this game. There were fourth down stops, there were pick
Speaker 1: six is um, it was kind of everything. They were
Speaker 1: like huge hits. There was Ben Roethlisberger saying after the game,
Speaker 1: the one part of the game where their offense looked good,
Speaker 1: they were kind of in that muddle huddle where it's
Speaker 1: like they're not really the lane and they're going five
Speaker 1: wide and they're just playing hard up and he says
Speaker 1: he was just calling plays, like making up the plays
Speaker 1: in the huddle, like that was the only part of
Speaker 1: the game that worked. It was it was fun. That's
Speaker 1: what I do feel about the Steelers. And they seem
Speaker 1: to be just in this wonderful groove. Uh and you
Speaker 1: know they're very dangerous when they get that way. I
Speaker 1: trust this team as much as I trust any team
Speaker 1: in the a f C. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: people have like figured out the Ravens. But to your point, Dan,
Speaker 1: asking for them to be tangibly more dangerous than they
Speaker 1: were when they were fourteen and two and people were
Speaker 1: watching Lamar Jackson every week with literally no antidote on
Speaker 1: how to stop him, Well, there's a whole lot more
Speaker 1: Team four on the ground today. Was that that says
Speaker 1: a lot? All right? Let us move on. Snap looks good,
Speaker 1: holds down, kicks up, and it is through the uprights.
Speaker 1: In the New Orleans Saints are gonna win one and
Speaker 1: over time. Here in Chicago, that is the end of
Speaker 1: the game. The officials a little bit of a glory
Speaker 1: you boy there. We know it's overtime were there were
Speaker 1: multiple possessions in the field. Goal ends the game unnecessary.
Speaker 1: What's the old word in journalism? You know what they're saying, like,
Speaker 1: don't say something in thirty words when you could say
Speaker 1: it in seven sure brevity, maybe the officials, And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get I got some more issues with the officials
Speaker 1: later on, talking about your brownies. That game, all right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Will Lutz went straight down the
Speaker 1: middle from thirty five yards out in overtime, the deciding
Speaker 1: points in the Saints three win over the Bears at
Speaker 1: empty Soldier Field. These empty stadiums, and I know there's
Speaker 1: people and some of them now, I just hate it.
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna get used to it. The Bears wiped
Speaker 1: out a ten point deficit in the second half, a
Speaker 1: minor miracle considering the level of play. They're getting a
Speaker 1: quarterback right now, but the Saint's got to stop in
Speaker 1: ot Then that final drive in overtime to set up
Speaker 1: the game winning field goal. Uh, I don't know. An ugly, sloppy,
Speaker 1: kind of strange game. I thought where it seemed at
Speaker 1: first The Bears got off to um a nice start,
Speaker 1: and then they gave up for the fifth straight game.
Speaker 1: The Saints have a touchdown in the final minute of
Speaker 1: the first half, which is a crazy thing, and uh,
Speaker 1: probably four of them have been inside twenty seconds or something. Insane.
Speaker 1: They gave up an uncontested touchdown to Jared Cooke um
Speaker 1: to narrow the game, and then he got really sloppy
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, including one of the one of
Speaker 1: the worst um acts displays of behavior on the field.
Speaker 1: Did you see this? This was unbelievable. I I am
Speaker 1: still trying to process it. Who is the wide receiver's name,
Speaker 1: Devon wims was who got kicked out of the game. Yeah, he,
Speaker 1: I guess the previous position he stuck his um A
Speaker 1: defender stuck his finger in in Vim's face, and then
Speaker 1: on the on the following drive, he went to grab
Speaker 1: the guy's chain, Gardner Johnson's chain missed that and then
Speaker 1: just two roundhouse punches like and Gardner Johnson's just like,
Speaker 1: what's happening? He never hit back or anything. So it
Speaker 1: was just like this. The game seems to be spiraling
Speaker 1: and Folds couldn't move the offense. Uh So, I guess
Speaker 1: I give them credit, the Bears for getting off the mat,
Speaker 1: because the game once it got to a ten point
Speaker 1: deficit in the second half, it felt like it had
Speaker 1: gotten it had gotten away with from them. But uh
Speaker 1: they even the score, but they don't have any ability
Speaker 1: to um close out this game because it's the same
Speaker 1: old thing. And there's one point where Troy Aikman boys said, uh,
Speaker 1: this is where you miss Mitch Robinsky. That's where we're at.
Speaker 1: That a lot of on Twitter to where suddenly people were,
Speaker 1: you know, suggesting that maybe Trabinsky could be doing things
Speaker 1: that fools was not. I mean, I think if you're
Speaker 1: the Bears defense and the in the whole season rides
Speaker 1: in the Bears defense, and you know, this game was close.
Speaker 1: But Alvin Kamara, I mean, and it's it's not a
Speaker 1: surprise or a stunner. I mean, he is a legit
Speaker 1: premier talent, probably the best back in the league. But
Speaker 1: he lit them up through the air, and I thought
Speaker 1: towards the end, I mean, he just gave them signs
Speaker 1: of life. There was that one huge play that sprung
Speaker 1: them in my My one question for you is like
Speaker 1: with uh, Sean Payton, it's tempting, you know, lining up
Speaker 1: to do the field goal with a minute forty left. Um.
Speaker 1: He said that that was just his gut feeling. I
Speaker 1: don't have a big problem with that, but that was
Speaker 1: a lot of room and time left for the Bears potentially. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was very dumb. Because I believe there's a minute
Speaker 1: forty if they missed the kick. Uh, you give the
Speaker 1: Bears a chance obviously to go down the field rather
Speaker 1: than hey, there, it can accomplish two things. As long
Speaker 1: as you're not terrified of fumbling the ball and having
Speaker 1: a turnover of some kind, you get closer for lots,
Speaker 1: and you effectively can only win or tie the game.
Speaker 1: So they went for it, got away with it. But
Speaker 1: that that was just kind of the game in a nutshell,
Speaker 1: was just a little bit sloppy by all parties. This
Speaker 1: one of the dumbest decisions of the year. He should
Speaker 1: be killed for it, I mean just because just because
Speaker 1: he hits the kick like a Matt not killed. I
Speaker 1: mean like literally, I mean that would be a lot.
Speaker 1: But uh, like I I do think about that, like
Speaker 1: you should. We should almost come with the same energy
Speaker 1: even if you hit the kick when you make a
Speaker 1: ridiculous decision, because just because these coaches all talk about
Speaker 1: doing everything possible to gain the slightest edge in like
Speaker 1: just like having a half a percent chance better chance
Speaker 1: to win the game, and like working in the off
Speaker 1: season doing all this stuff, and you're like literally like
Speaker 1: giving your team a chance to either tie or lose
Speaker 1: that game just by not kneeling. Plus it's stupid, let's
Speaker 1: have missed the twenty seven yard or earlier that game,
Speaker 1: like you have camera, just run the ball three times.
Speaker 1: I mean, kneeling would have been fine there too, and
Speaker 1: running the clock out then I wouldn't I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: saying that he should, you know, be killed or anything
Speaker 1: but that, but run the ball. I mean, I I
Speaker 1: kind of felt like they deserved to blow that one
Speaker 1: at that point. And and this was a game. I'm
Speaker 1: sure if Chris Wrestling was on on this show, and
Speaker 1: I know he was watching somewhat that uh that the
Speaker 1: Drew brees arm strength truths, which of which he's won. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not built for outdoors, you know, in
Speaker 1: the cold, uh in the playoffs. I mean that it
Speaker 1: was rough many times in this game, and he got
Speaker 1: away with a couple I agree with that. This was
Speaker 1: their first outdoor game of the season in fact, And um,
Speaker 1: those some of those throws, the outs when he had
Speaker 1: to push the ball downfield, it just hung up an
Speaker 1: extra second and that's all it takes. In the NFL,
Speaker 1: he got away with a few throws. Actually that could
Speaker 1: have led to total chaos. So it is with the Saints.
Speaker 1: They're five and two now, like realistically, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be hurt by the fact that the games are gonna
Speaker 1: be played in full in front of um sold out
Speaker 1: fan base. And I don't are they still trying to
Speaker 1: move out of the Superdome potentially to play home home games.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that was drama continues on. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna do it, but this team
Speaker 1: needs to have home games in the playoffs because I
Speaker 1: think we could see how it's gonna go if he
Speaker 1: has to go on the road. But tomorrow, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he had almost I think a hundred and sixty yards
Speaker 1: from scrimmage, and it's just it's so free and easy
Speaker 1: with him. He's been their m v P this year,
Speaker 1: and the Bears defense kept being put in tough spots,
Speaker 1: whether it was special teams or turnovers where they're getting
Speaker 1: three and outs and Saints are kicking field goals. Saints
Speaker 1: could have won this, you know, bigger, but they gotta
Speaker 1: be happy they win a game without Emmanuel Sanders, Marcus
Speaker 1: Callaway and Michael Thomas. I mean, that is your it
Speaker 1: is your top three receivers um and just quickly a
Speaker 1: shout out to Alan Robinson, who I feel like it
Speaker 1: is maybe an All Pro and stuck on that team
Speaker 1: like he is. He is a top two or three
Speaker 1: receiver right now. And like I locked this game up,
Speaker 1: and when I did, I thought he was out for
Speaker 1: this game, and he almost was the difference. He kept
Speaker 1: them almost single handed in this game. That's that's funny
Speaker 1: you bring it up because I was gonna say my
Speaker 1: Christmas wish because he's heading towards free agency. Uh is
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence as the Jets quarterback with Alan Robinson and
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims outside and Jameson Crowder in the slot. That
Speaker 1: sounds pretty good to me because this dude, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what crap quarterback he plays with. He puts up
Speaker 1: big numbers. His touchdown catches one of the highest degree
Speaker 1: of difficulty catches. It's the beautiful grab. I like Darryl
Speaker 1: Mooney too. I think that he's, you know, he fits
Speaker 1: with Fulls. But there was this one play towards the
Speaker 1: ani where Fulls, you know, needed to make a throw
Speaker 1: and he's escaping the pocket and it just reminds you
Speaker 1: that Nick Foles. The kind of quarterback the Nick Foles
Speaker 1: is probably just won't exist exactly. And it's like he
Speaker 1: just got ransacked by an active New Orleans pass rush
Speaker 1: and you know that's the game, and his mechanics are
Speaker 1: clunky and he just he's not the same guy was
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 1: Lock rolls to he's right. Lock throws a ball and
Speaker 1: so catch touchdown Denver. No, No, what are they saying?
Speaker 1: kJ Hamler pocked the ball? Now one official? Yes, touchdown?
Speaker 1: Touchdown her Holy mackerel, I mean Dave Logan, good job,
Speaker 1: koa the officials again, kJ Hamler, he makes that catch.
Speaker 1: He gets two butt cheeks down. What he's calling incomplete
Speaker 1: for that's the catch. Drew Lock rolled it to his right,
Speaker 1: found kJ Hamler, who got his butt down as time expired,
Speaker 1: tying the game with the charges. Brendan McManis then hit
Speaker 1: the p T and Denver had locked up a thrilling
Speaker 1: But I shouldn't say locked up because Ricky locked up
Speaker 1: the Chargers over the Chargers at Mile High. Greg. The
Speaker 1: Broncos have been your pet project all year, and that
Speaker 1: they kind of showed all sides of themselves in this one.
Speaker 1: They did. They locked out. They deserved, you know, to
Speaker 1: enjoy um a win. They've had some tough losses. But
Speaker 1: my god, this I'm still recovering from watching this game.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of at just like no, no, what
Speaker 1: are you? What are you doing? Chargers? It was more
Speaker 1: about the Chargers blowing it. I really feel that. Um.
Speaker 1: It was as dominant a game as I've seen. At
Speaker 1: one point it was about three hundred something yards to
Speaker 1: fifty twenty something first downs to two. Uh, the score
Speaker 1: is twenty four to three. It's midway through the third quarter.
Speaker 1: You know. When they booed the most, I think was
Speaker 1: after a Drew Lock interception at the end of the
Speaker 1: third quarter. So Lock, who had been terrible through three quarters.
Speaker 1: To be clear, there one touchdown was off a fifty
Speaker 1: five yard you know, lindsay, uh run, that's where the
Speaker 1: that's where it started, and so that's the Chargers defense.
Speaker 1: And after that Lock throws an interception. So it's not
Speaker 1: even like Lock played well consistently until the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: where they go touchdown, uh, touchdown, touchdown, and one was
Speaker 1: a blown coverage. You know, Herbert has an interception where
Speaker 1: it's a jump ball and it ends up being a
Speaker 1: helmet catch interception. That's some Chargers stuff right there. But
Speaker 1: there's no rule that you have to give up this
Speaker 1: long drive at the end of the game to blow
Speaker 1: it either with a bunch of penalties, and it's just
Speaker 1: like even the offense was moving it throughout. I'm like exasperated,
Speaker 1: even though I, you know, the Broncos in theory where
Speaker 1: this team I was behind, they did not deserve to
Speaker 1: win this game. It's it's something special what the Chargers
Speaker 1: are doing. It's crazy. Three straight games where they've blown
Speaker 1: sixteen point leads, the Chargers, and it's like, we talked
Speaker 1: about this every week because this is who they've been
Speaker 1: for under Anthony Lynn, and it's it's hard because they're
Speaker 1: fun and they're doubly fun with Justin Herbert. I viewed
Speaker 1: them as like one of these teams that forget the
Speaker 1: first two months of the season. If they get hot,
Speaker 1: they could maybe beat anyone, and yet they beat themselves.
Speaker 1: That's who they be. Three straight games. It's four, it's
Speaker 1: actually four, although it's a little bit of a weird
Speaker 1: stat because one of those they won against the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: But it's four straight games. And they also blew an
Speaker 1: eleven point leading the loss to the Chiefs too. That
Speaker 1: doesn't even count that one. So it's outrageous. That's their nature,
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's been Yes, Anthony Lynn has been
Speaker 1: a part of his regime, but like this is Chargers football.
Speaker 1: This has been going on for years and years and years.
Speaker 1: They just they just find a way to do it.
Speaker 1: They you know, they lost lead of eleven points to
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in week two, seventeen points to both the
Speaker 1: Bucks and the Saints, and weeks four and five they
Speaker 1: lost the six point lead to the Jaguars. They won
Speaker 1: that game. And now this, I mean, it just it
Speaker 1: can't happen and they have to find out. I know
Speaker 1: they've been hit hard by injuries on the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, especially, but at the same time, there's
Speaker 1: just no excuse. This cannot be happening. It is a
Speaker 1: reflection on some level of the coaching, for sure, it
Speaker 1: has to be. It's i the look on Anthony Lynn's face,
Speaker 1: you know, just to set up um that game in
Speaker 1: touchdown and they kicked the extra point when no time left.
Speaker 1: The only reason that happened is because there was a
Speaker 1: penalty on the play before that, the Broncos ran for
Speaker 1: about the seven yard like the Broncos mismanaged the two
Speaker 1: minute drill horribly to their like Colin runs in the
Speaker 1: middle of this, and then they ran out of time
Speaker 1: and there's a penalty on that play and Anthony Lynn
Speaker 1: comes running kind of looking down looking at the official
Speaker 1: going no, no, no, And the look on his face
Speaker 1: was like it's like a little child and telling him
Speaker 1: that there wasn't Christmas happening this year. It felt like
Speaker 1: every Chargers fan I don't know. And they ran the
Speaker 1: ball for two hundred plus yards. I mean, so doing
Speaker 1: what Anthony Lynn wants. And if you're running the ball
Speaker 1: that well was like five point five yards per carry,
Speaker 1: you should be able to close out a game with
Speaker 1: a huge lead, right. The thing that's crazy is it's
Speaker 1: not like the offense collapse. There was that helmet catch interception,
Speaker 1: which was you know, a little lucky, but a nice
Speaker 1: played by Bryce Collen, and then Um Herbert went field
Speaker 1: goal field goal and took some time off the clock.
Speaker 1: The only reason why the Chargers won is because these
Speaker 1: drives partly were so quick. They had a who plays
Speaker 1: sixty yard drive that took twenties seven seconds with like
Speaker 1: a blown coverage in the secondary. The Charges look so awesome.
Speaker 1: They're healthier on defense. They have Melvin Inger back, they're
Speaker 1: different within him. They have Justin Jones back. They were
Speaker 1: dominant and I'm thinking, Wow, this Charger's team could be something. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then when this happens, Dan, I did ask for
Speaker 1: the money. Uh in DJ call of the handler touch
Speaker 1: I have not heard it yet, so well, let's see
Speaker 1: if it's good. But let's let's hear it, Ricky and well,
Speaker 1: here it is. This is the game. One second left,
Speaker 1: get in and it will be tied. Lock in the
Speaker 1: shotgun board in the backfield. Fakes the handoff, rolling to
Speaker 1: his right, lock still looking throze caught incomplete, incomplete. He
Speaker 1: was out of bones. And now the referees discussing it.
Speaker 1: Signal on the field is incomplete. Now they say touchdown.
Speaker 1: After a discussion they say touchdown. J J Hamdler, Boy,
Speaker 1: the Chargers have found ways to lose games this season,
Speaker 1: but this is gonna be the most painful of them all.
Speaker 1: In more ways? Can money you know, have to describe
Speaker 1: these This was it though, this was another level. They
Speaker 1: at least the other ones were against good teams and
Speaker 1: they blew the leads earlier. This was next level, a
Speaker 1: division opponent of everything. I've gotten to know Money over
Speaker 1: the past couple of years doing the Power Ranking Show
Speaker 1: with him, and he's like other guys that work in
Speaker 1: the broadcast boost of these teams. They're not homers. But
Speaker 1: also it's just a better gig when the team's winning
Speaker 1: because you're around the team so much, and you know,
Speaker 1: you're kind of part of the whole adventure. Uh So,
Speaker 1: you know, Money and DJ they're going through that loss too,
Speaker 1: and the and the wreckage that comes from it. It
Speaker 1: is just a tough situation. We'll give the final word
Speaker 1: to linebacker Drew Trankle, who didn't play in this game
Speaker 1: with an injury, but he tweeted, insanity is doing the
Speaker 1: same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Speaker 1: Stick with us. We will turn the tide. M charges.
Speaker 1: Fans have been hearing that for about fifty years. Let's
Speaker 1: move on and take the shotgun. Shamp takes it, gonna
Speaker 1: keep it in, run with it. Left side gets good
Speaker 1: yardage inside the fifth ball comes out, loose ball. Who's
Speaker 1: got it? The Bills may have it. It is Buffalo
Speaker 1: ball Cam Newton fumble that the twelve yard line and
Speaker 1: the Bills recovered. Mckmarlow on the bottom of the pile
Speaker 1: comes up of the football. That is the game. Got
Speaker 1: the strip, I believe, and the Bills come up with
Speaker 1: the football with thirty one seconds left. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker with the call from w
Speaker 1: g R. And yes, Ricky being the intrepid producer that
Speaker 1: she has also did pull the Zolac call. But again,
Speaker 1: Zolac is basically incapacitated now during Patriots games. He was
Speaker 1: silent on that Cam Newton play squeeze it cam. The
Speaker 1: Patriots were driving for the go ahead score in the
Speaker 1: final minutes against the Bills, but Buffalo separated Newton from
Speaker 1: the football and fell on the fumble to clinch. At
Speaker 1: Orchard Park, Buffalo snapped a seven game losing streak to
Speaker 1: the Patriots, just barely locking enough for the old Juson Bubbley.
Speaker 1: Nice Mark, How are we feeling about the Bills after
Speaker 1: this one? They're kind of a tough team to peg
Speaker 1: right now. I don't feel a whole lot better about them. Um.
Speaker 1: I think if there, if you want to shine a
Speaker 1: positive light on their offense. Uh, their running game came
Speaker 1: to life with Zack Moss and Devin Singletary Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: The three of them combined for other over two hundred
Speaker 1: yards on the ground. Weather was a little bit of
Speaker 1: a factor in this one. But I look at these
Speaker 1: two teams is sort of uh, which I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: said this a month ago. Is almost mirrors on offense,
Speaker 1: save for the fact that New England lacks uh wide
Speaker 1: receivers that anyone's heard of or who are reliable. I
Speaker 1: mean you you you've got a little more star power
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. But Cam Newton and the Patriots fought so
Speaker 1: hard in this game. They came into it with one
Speaker 1: tight end, Ryan Izzo one and this is a team
Speaker 1: that would probably like to use three if they had
Speaker 1: them half the time. And they in the second half
Speaker 1: they really imposed their well on bum Buffalo. It's their defense.
Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense has me a little more concerned. Uh. Demir
Speaker 1: Bird made a couple of plays with Cam Damien Harris
Speaker 1: was ripping through them, and I really thought that they
Speaker 1: were heading to win this game, and then the Cam
Speaker 1: fumble happened, and it's just like it's an excruciating um
Speaker 1: club to watch because there are no namers on offense,
Speaker 1: which makes me kind of enjoy them more or or
Speaker 1: root for them more from an underdog nature. But Buffalo
Speaker 1: took care of business. But I come out of it, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I'm I'm suspicious of Buffalo. I
Speaker 1: I don't trust them to really be the offense they
Speaker 1: were earlier in the year. They just looked very different
Speaker 1: to me. But they're a classic team to me that's
Speaker 1: six and two and just has to be happy they're
Speaker 1: six and two, that they have the components to be
Speaker 1: better because we've seen it to be the offense. They
Speaker 1: were closer in September than October. If they play like this,
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna lose early in the playoffs. If
Speaker 1: if they make it. I mean, Sean McDermot had a
Speaker 1: quote after the game that said, you know, this win
Speaker 1: made him emotional that he tries to go through it
Speaker 1: one day, one day at a time, process process. But
Speaker 1: we know what this means to our franchise. We wish
Speaker 1: they could have, you know, in our fan base like
Speaker 1: what that we we've been building to this. You know,
Speaker 1: for myself, it's like a validation. It's emotional win for
Speaker 1: the entire city, and it's like, okay, but you got
Speaker 1: But they need to be a lot better than they
Speaker 1: are right now because you're just gonna be a first
Speaker 1: round loser in the places I think they can be,
Speaker 1: Like they have the pieces to be better on defense
Speaker 1: and offense, and they've played. But it's been about a
Speaker 1: month now for the Bills. Yeah, they lost their starting center.
Speaker 1: I don't like that for them. Mitch Morse, well to
Speaker 1: see what goes on with that. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: I like it's in terms of a transformative victory. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was just sort of like they hung on and
Speaker 1: got out of here with a win. Well as some
Speaker 1: of that's had a front row seat for the a
Speaker 1: f C East and the worst way for the last
Speaker 1: couple of decades, I think it is a very notable win.
Speaker 1: Um and the fact that the Bills, according to what
Speaker 1: you're saying, Mark, did not play very well and still
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots. Things. Things have changed in this division,
Speaker 1: and it was something that people that despise the Patriots
Speaker 1: or were just sick of the page Riots waited for
Speaker 1: for years and years and years, but it has happened.
Speaker 1: It's the changing of the guard. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: The only thing that I don't know, and I think
Speaker 1: it's unclear, is like, is this now the Bills Division
Speaker 1: where it's gonna be their realm for a couple of
Speaker 1: years or do they have enough problems where And I
Speaker 1: don't think we should be crowning anybody, uh in that
Speaker 1: division right now, but they have surpassed the Patriots as
Speaker 1: the as the better better team in this division, and
Speaker 1: they have things to work out. But the fact that
Speaker 1: New England is basically now just faded from the picture
Speaker 1: on a four game losing streak is notable. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what I take out of this game that
Speaker 1: once again when the Patriots lose and they're now in
Speaker 1: an extended losing streak in the head coach, the legendary
Speaker 1: head coach Bill Belichick, when he's at the zoom podium,
Speaker 1: he's answering questions week after week about who's starting quarterback?
Speaker 1: Is gonna be like this is all stuff that just
Speaker 1: wasn't happening for decades, And I think it's just notable
Speaker 1: that's where we are now. Well, that's why I think
Speaker 1: if you know your Belichick or Cam Newton, that's why
Speaker 1: that fumbles such a killer because this really was their chance.
Speaker 1: They're they're in field goal range. They have the Jets
Speaker 1: next week. In theory, there's a route to go for
Speaker 1: and for. There's a lot of tough games at the schedter.
Speaker 1: This team does not in any way look like um
Speaker 1: a contender. But if they win this game, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's just the Bills, the Dolphins and them, and someone's
Speaker 1: got to get in and so that's devastating. They've had
Speaker 1: these moral victories like, well, if Cam was healthy against
Speaker 1: Kansas City, what a defensive performance. If Cam, you know,
Speaker 1: gets one extra yard in Seattle, they get a win.
Speaker 1: If this is another game where they had But it's
Speaker 1: not happening for them, and there's not really a big
Speaker 1: reason to think talent wise, they're going to recover. Gilmore
Speaker 1: was out for this game. Julian Edelman is on injured reserve,
Speaker 1: Umickson got hurt. It's not like there's people coming that's
Speaker 1: that's coming to save them. I think the difference between
Speaker 1: the two teams is the front office right now, Frank,
Speaker 1: I mean Buffalo, you know, they're their front office and
Speaker 1: they're coaching staff in Unison, and I know, you know,
Speaker 1: Belichick I'm a career wise is up there with Asie
Speaker 1: Knew some but you'd have to look at the way
Speaker 1: this team is constructed around Cam Newton and say, how
Speaker 1: is any quarterback going to come out of this season
Speaker 1: with five wins? M hm. You wonder if Gilmore was
Speaker 1: sat as a precaution if they are planning to make
Speaker 1: a trade as well with the deadline coming up in
Speaker 1: a couple of days. Uh And one last note and
Speaker 1: we'll you know, study the Bills more um in the
Speaker 1: weeks ahead. But Josh Allen, the first four games, he
Speaker 1: was a leader in the m v P race. He
Speaker 1: had completion percentage averaging three thirty yards per game through
Speaker 1: the air, twelve touchdowns, one pick, passer rating of one.
Speaker 1: The last four games, the completion percentages down almost ten points.
Speaker 1: He's down to two d eleven point five yards per game,
Speaker 1: four touchdowns in four games passing and a passerrating a
Speaker 1: sub eighties. So he has kind of regressed in the
Speaker 1: last four weeks. Back to this being this enigmatic guy
Speaker 1: that nobody really knows, um what to make of him.
Speaker 1: So that is to me one of the big storylines
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. In the A
Speaker 1: f C is like, how does Josh Allen close this season?
Speaker 1: Where are we going to finish up? How are we
Speaker 1: going to see him when the dust settles. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: Car takes a snap, looks in that direction, fires the Rentfro.
Speaker 1: Rend Fro's got out of the end. So Rentfro with
Speaker 1: a touchdown that puts the Writers ahead here in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Playing in miserable weather condition, says Brent Musburger.
Speaker 1: Of course do I even have to say k r
Speaker 1: l v uh playing miserable weather conditions? Derek Carr through
Speaker 1: just one touchdown pass well won the counter anyway, but
Speaker 1: it was enough. In the sixteen six win over the
Speaker 1: Browns in Cleveland, rain, sleet, howling wind, uh whipping round
Speaker 1: at thirty five miles per hour joke, Um, And obviously
Speaker 1: that's gonna inform the pace of play. The brown said
Speaker 1: five drops in this game, the weather played a role.
Speaker 1: I'm sure with that. Not to take any any excuses,
Speaker 1: um and the Raiders used they were just more physical
Speaker 1: than the Browns in this game. This was like a
Speaker 1: it should have been playing to the Browns favor. They're
Speaker 1: the they're at home, they're the the rugged A f
Speaker 1: C North team, but it was the Raiders who ran
Speaker 1: the ball with authority, um, including Josh Jacobs who had
Speaker 1: a hundred yards and thirty one carries. That's the most
Speaker 1: rushes for Raiders running back since two thousand seven. And
Speaker 1: they they just hit harder to play the game was
Speaker 1: slot cornerback LaMarcus Joyner, who laid a clean, punishing hit
Speaker 1: right into the back of Jarvis Landry, was already playing
Speaker 1: with bad ribs to save a touchdown in the final
Speaker 1: minutes and essentially take the drama out of the game
Speaker 1: after a missed field goal shortly thereafter. Um. So good
Speaker 1: on the Raiders for another nice road win. And I
Speaker 1: was texting with Mark Um and we're both on the
Speaker 1: same page here at the the Browns are just okay.
Speaker 1: It seems like they're some They're capable of having good
Speaker 1: weeks like we saw last week, and they're capable of
Speaker 1: having weeks like this, So you don't really know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get week to week, and this was a
Speaker 1: bad week. Yeah. I mean, I was watching this on
Speaker 1: the side and I think this is a Cleveland team
Speaker 1: that you can kind of tell pretty early into the
Speaker 1: game whether they're not they're in their flow because when
Speaker 1: they have been they've been pretty dynamic on offense. Um,
Speaker 1: this was I can't remember too many Browns games where
Speaker 1: Mother Nature wreaked as much havoc to your point, and
Speaker 1: it was like, look at you. You don't have a
Speaker 1: leading receiver for Las Vegas with more than twenty eight yards.
Speaker 1: Cleveland wasn't far from that themselves. There were hideous drops
Speaker 1: Dave and Joe who had one of the I mean,
Speaker 1: you know this is trade bait and you're not helping
Speaker 1: yourself get traded or helping yourself acclimate to a new
Speaker 1: coaching staff in Cleveland with some of his play. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they really miss Wyatt Teller. I think they
Speaker 1: really miss Nick Chubb, who would have been This would
Speaker 1: have been a perfect Nick Chubb kind of even. I
Speaker 1: love Kareem Hunt is a wonderful back, but Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: brings something a little bit different than Kareem Hunt. And
Speaker 1: you know you're missing Austin Hooper. Myles Garrett was out
Speaker 1: for part of this, but no excuses because both teams
Speaker 1: were dealing with totally chaotic weather and the Raiders were
Speaker 1: tougher right. They Raiders found out Sunday that Trent Brown
Speaker 1: couldn't play. They're right, they're great right tackle because of
Speaker 1: a mistake in what was it an injection that Tyrade
Speaker 1: this is crazy situation and he had to go to
Speaker 1: the hospital. He's kind of air in his I V.
Speaker 1: Which is a very dangerous situation. So I I think,
Speaker 1: and this is I guess even more true because Brown
Speaker 1: wasn't there that it has to be disappointed for the
Speaker 1: Browns because of what Dan said that kind of like
Speaker 1: their identity is their offensive line and um kind of
Speaker 1: being a tough, hard nosed running team, and the Raiders
Speaker 1: were better at that. And that's that's to me, that's
Speaker 1: the Raiders identity to I don't think people think about
Speaker 1: them that ways how I think about them. And it
Speaker 1: was a game at seventy in terms of plays, so
Speaker 1: the Raiders kind of controlled that. And I give the
Speaker 1: Raiders a lot of credit at four and three because
Speaker 1: they have had the hardest schedule in the NFL. Um
Speaker 1: according to their opponents like winning percentage and their four
Speaker 1: and three they really are a good four and three team.
Speaker 1: And you know they obviously they didn't play very well
Speaker 1: last week against the Bucks, but everybody that catches the
Speaker 1: Bucks right now is catching hell. But they've sandwiched that
Speaker 1: loss with the win and Arrowhead and then this nice
Speaker 1: win in a tough situation in Cleveland. UM, so good
Speaker 1: on them and bad job by the refs that was.
Speaker 1: This game had three touchdowns that were um led to
Speaker 1: reviews and two of the three were overcalled overturned. Henry
Speaker 1: Ruggs had a touchdown catch where they had a freeze
Speaker 1: frame on the telecast showing probably about it two inches.
Speaker 1: You see blades of grass between the end zone green
Speaker 1: and then the white out of bounds uh boundary, and
Speaker 1: they kept a call in the field ruling it that
Speaker 1: it was not a touchdown like that cannot it cannot
Speaker 1: happen with the technology that we have in the league.
Speaker 1: But the what's at stake on a week to week
Speaker 1: basis in our league. I I just was blown away
Speaker 1: that that call didn't result in a touchdown, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: I didn't love the Landry one either. I I can
Speaker 1: there's a reason you can make a case for the
Speaker 1: Landry one not being a catch, and and that's fine,
Speaker 1: but that's that's different because they didn't have the angle
Speaker 1: on it. You could see the ball starting to move,
Speaker 1: but there was no Zapruder film angle to say, okay,
Speaker 1: it definitely was incomplete. The rugs one was, I don't
Speaker 1: know what somebody's got to answer questions in the New
Speaker 1: York office after that. I don't know what else to
Speaker 1: be said. Myles Garrett was limited in this game. He
Speaker 1: was hell, he was basically a specialist pass rushing specialist,
Speaker 1: and he's getting an m R I on his knee.
Speaker 1: So that is the last thing you want to hear
Speaker 1: because he's obviously the heart and soul of that Brown's defense.
Speaker 1: And yeah, the Cream Hunt thing, I was my last
Speaker 1: thought in the game when Chubb was there and Hunt
Speaker 1: was there. That was because make one of the big
Speaker 1: stories in the NFL, like they have an identity. I
Speaker 1: have a two headed monster. And then even when Chub
Speaker 1: got hurt, it's like you still have a former rushing champion.
Speaker 1: And Hunt hasn't quite played out the way I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people expected. And I know there are
Speaker 1: some challenges with the offensive line injuries and and Baker
Speaker 1: and the Odell injury, but he Hunt has not really
Speaker 1: taken the ball and run with it, uh to use.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's attempted to run with it to take
Speaker 1: the ball and run with it. It's not always work
Speaker 1: to perfection. Yes, all right, let's move on. Grows back inside,
Speaker 1: Paul is caught. It's bed Cap who makes one man? Now?
Speaker 1: Two man miss? Twenty turk up failed, They don't touch him? Touchdown, Shayhawks.
Speaker 1: How in the world did he tiptoe up the sidelines,
Speaker 1: two defenders breaking on him and nobody touched him? All Yeah,
Speaker 1: k deserves the cong music this week. Oh man. Dk
Speaker 1: Meca has that career highs with twelve catches, hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty one yards, two touchdowns, including that unbelievable touchdown uh
Speaker 1: at the end of the first quarter that only a
Speaker 1: few guys in the league can do. When you can
Speaker 1: turn the corner, you know, evades and tacklers, and then
Speaker 1: when everyone else goes out of bounds, he just has
Speaker 1: these afterburners and he just gets the final twenty yards
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. He's unbelievable. Anyway. He led the way
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks in the thirty seven seven romp of
Speaker 1: the Niners at the clink Mark San Francisco. Had some
Speaker 1: did some cosmetic work here to make it look better,
Speaker 1: but this game is all Seahawks. Yeah, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it's tough when you're covering like games with DK Metcalf
Speaker 1: because he does something and you're like, how can I
Speaker 1: continue to describe what this player is doing in a tweet?
Speaker 1: UM to do him justice. I am so impressed with
Speaker 1: he has. He had his six and seven touchdowns touchdowns
Speaker 1: of the season, and the second one was this incredible
Speaker 1: show of fire in might where he ripped the ball
Speaker 1: away from in a one on one match up with
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Moseley and he's just strung. He's just like a
Speaker 1: physical being UM that is gonna kill people in matchups.
Speaker 1: You just can't deal with him and he speed. The
Speaker 1: first touchdown was this incredible dance down the sideline, which
Speaker 1: we listened to UM at the top of this segment.
Speaker 1: I think he's a fascinating player. And it's like, whether
Speaker 1: it's him or Tyler Lockett week to week, UM, you
Speaker 1: can't really double. You can't spend all along doubling either
Speaker 1: one of them because the other will fry you. And
Speaker 1: so it's a pick your poison. And I think that
Speaker 1: probably the Seahawks listened to UM people like me that
Speaker 1: if they're I'm not claiming that they're listening to me,
Speaker 1: but statements, you know, probably they have it hardwired into
Speaker 1: their complex, but you know, saying that, you know that
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan is going to do a better job than
Speaker 1: any coach in the league around injuries and um my
Speaker 1: whole kylhand Shanahan thing, but the bow, this whole mark
Speaker 1: don't don't put it on yourself. This whole podcast was
Speaker 1: drinking the Niners kool aid on Thursday afternoon when we
Speaker 1: recorded our preview show and the Seahawks made a little
Speaker 1: bit of a statement. Yeah, I think they did, and
Speaker 1: it's it was an anti um Shanahan game because there's
Speaker 1: just two they're two banged up on some level, and
Speaker 1: it's they're not the only team in that situation. But
Speaker 1: just uh, this was the game where they ran for
Speaker 1: two point four yards per carry, fifty two yards. Jimmy
Speaker 1: G who you know, and there's there there is gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of Nick Mullins versus Jimmy G were
Speaker 1: back in that world because of what. I don't take
Speaker 1: that seriously at the end of the game, but Nick
Speaker 1: Mullins just sort of does seem to see the field
Speaker 1: a little bit better and Jimmy G through a terrible
Speaker 1: interception on a on an attempted pass to George Kittle
Speaker 1: in this that caused things to get out of hand
Speaker 1: early on, and I feel like they just have to
Speaker 1: play around him and and organize the offense in a
Speaker 1: way where he's given such safe throws and it's just
Speaker 1: not the Jimmy g that I know from before. And
Speaker 1: the other thing that you know, we all like Fred Warner,
Speaker 1: and I think Gregg it was you saying that this
Speaker 1: might be the game where Bobby Wagner maybe takes, uh
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a step down. Bobby Wagner
Speaker 1: was a picture of utter dominance. He was, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he was. I mean he was just All the
Speaker 1: Seahawks pieces that we trust came came today and they
Speaker 1: totally they shined as a group. Um. The defense too,
Speaker 1: I think they kind of said, look at we can
Speaker 1: we can handle our business. I mean, this was not
Speaker 1: this is not go the way that I expected on
Speaker 1: any level. Robably had a big game on defense that
Speaker 1: they've been waiting all and again what happened in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter when the game was already well decided might
Speaker 1: cloud this for some people, but this is to me
Speaker 1: the first game where the defense played an active role
Speaker 1: in them winning. So this is and you have Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams actually returned to practice this week, so that's a
Speaker 1: big guy that could re rented. Re entering the picture,
Speaker 1: Carlos dunlops in the fold. Now like there, I think
Speaker 1: this is a highly encouraging win for Seattle. Right. There's
Speaker 1: that Kevin Clark tweet that always gets retweeted that the
Speaker 1: Seahawks never play a normal This was a normal game.
Speaker 1: They went out there and they they took care of
Speaker 1: business and they put one on them. And yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of Seahawks fans I I did not watch this game,
Speaker 1: but a lot of Seahawks fans in my mentions bringing
Speaker 1: up that whole Wagner Warner thing. Warner's that giving up
Speaker 1: that Wagoners not given up that belt. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no argument to me that Warner has been the best
Speaker 1: middle linebacker in the league the first seven weeks of
Speaker 1: the season. Um, but Wagner's line today, I think he's
Speaker 1: got four QB hits, like three tackles for the last
Speaker 1: couple of seconds. I mean he uh, he put one
Speaker 1: on him and and that's right there, and that them
Speaker 1: having the defensive type of game and It reminds me.
Speaker 1: Division games are just different. You know. It's like, I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots match up well with the Bills, and
Speaker 1: they know the Bills, they know how to beat Like
Speaker 1: that's why they partly even a beat up Patriots team
Speaker 1: are in that game. Uh, division games are different. These
Speaker 1: teams know each other well. The Steelers Ravens like what
Speaker 1: we've seen that. I think it can sometimes. Um, some
Speaker 1: matchups just are closer than you would expect. And right now,
Speaker 1: I think Seattle does. I know they had their troubles
Speaker 1: at points last year with San Francisco, but they know
Speaker 1: how to handle a Kyle Shanahan offense right. And this
Speaker 1: is a rough road ahead for San Francisco because they're
Speaker 1: fourmed for they have to play the Packers on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: George Kittle was hurting this and obviously Jimmy g was hurt.
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman went out. Um, Fred Warner was banged up
Speaker 1: at one point but came back in. I mean, they
Speaker 1: have thirteen players on i R. So it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: not an easy job. The forty Niners are a power
Speaker 1: rankings nightmare. It is so hard to figure out where
Speaker 1: they belong in the NFL landscape because every time you
Speaker 1: think they've turned a corner, something like this happens, and
Speaker 1: every time you write them off, they deliver a big performance.
Speaker 1: But I think it is Yeah, George Kittle had X
Speaker 1: rays on his ankle after the game. It came back negative,
Speaker 1: but obviously he's hobbled. That's not good. And the Jimmy
Speaker 1: G thing is terrible. That is this. He has a
Speaker 1: high ankle sprain and he's trying to play through it. It
Speaker 1: It might be one of those things where he's not
Speaker 1: right again until March. And if that's the situation, like
Speaker 1: this is just gonna be an issue that's gonna lead
Speaker 1: to struggles for him and problems for the Niners. Because
Speaker 1: we again we were drinking that kool aid and we
Speaker 1: were saying that Shanahan is brilliant at the level that
Speaker 1: almost doesn't matter the players. His scheme is so strong. Well,
Speaker 1: when you take away Jimmy G though that that's the quarterback,
Speaker 1: it's it's anything, and it changes things. And he needed
Speaker 1: to win this game to get to five hundred as
Speaker 1: a head coach. And I totally believe in Kyle Shanahan,
Speaker 1: but that his run in San Francisco has injuries have
Speaker 1: been a big storyline there, and it's you know, it
Speaker 1: gets to the point where he can't overcome it, and
Speaker 1: I and I thought that he would and he didn't.
Speaker 1: I think the big takeaway here, though, gentleman, is that
Speaker 1: our words can control outcomes. And that's what I took
Speaker 1: out of it. Intoxicating put me on the locker room
Speaker 1: on you know what is it? What is it? Bulleboard?
Speaker 1: I can't think of It's like nobody still uses bulletin boards.
Speaker 1: But that like the room Halloween drinking, but I have
Speaker 1: not had a drink in many weeks at this point,
Speaker 1: sadly humble brag. All right, let's move on. My body
Speaker 1: is a temple. Greg Burrow fakes Barnards into the ends.
Speaker 1: Touchdown down Tyler Boy, the Bengals score in the red
Speaker 1: zone and late at three to seven red zone touchdowns
Speaker 1: on third down, third down touchdowns in the red zone
Speaker 1: or killer show, you know what? Charlie Weis called him
Speaker 1: four point place? Where was it? Michael Lombardy one of
Speaker 1: those jokers? Dan Hord? What's that nothing? Dan Hord? What
Speaker 1: did you really say? What I think he said? Dan Horde?
Speaker 1: Dave Lapham w C k Y with the caller Choberow
Speaker 1: three yards two touchdowns, including that seven yard connection the
Speaker 1: Tyler board in the fourth quarter of a over the Titans.
Speaker 1: How about that Greg We've talked about how since he
Speaker 1: has been competitive with just about everyone this season. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: they were dominant against the good we think they're good
Speaker 1: Titans team. Yeah, they were so good and off offensively,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow right now is one of the one of
Speaker 1: the better qbs in the league. I think at extending
Speaker 1: plays and making plays on his own. Uh. I see
Speaker 1: this game as like a two part um like takeaway
Speaker 1: in that the Bengals offense really is getting better each
Speaker 1: and every week. If you if you, if you watch him,
Speaker 1: you see it. Tee Higgins is so good and he
Speaker 1: made awesome plays for Burrow. Audent tap made him awesome
Speaker 1: plays for Burrow. But he is getting better. The confidence
Speaker 1: is getting there every week, he said after the game.
Speaker 1: I heard his postgame interview, just like, the game's getting
Speaker 1: real slow for me right now. I mean he's feeling himself.
Speaker 1: But I also think in a game where he would
Speaker 1: you know, drop back, I think over thirty five times.
Speaker 1: The fact that the Titans hit him twice with no sacks,
Speaker 1: and they there was a fourth down play where he
Speaker 1: had about fifteen seconds back there. They had four new
Speaker 1: offensive lineman this week the Bengals that got hurt last week,
Speaker 1: and actually I would say he was protected about as
Speaker 1: well as he has been in any game. So that's
Speaker 1: an indictment on the Titans and a great credit to Burrow.
Speaker 1: Well and Zach Taylor said that the offensive line this
Speaker 1: week brought great energy to the overall effort, which is
Speaker 1: just simply not been the case. There were a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks early on where they looked like the worst
Speaker 1: line in football, and they've been injured and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's almost just um been added to the credit
Speaker 1: to Burrow because there was a play today where I
Speaker 1: saw him zig zagging in between like fifteen would be
Speaker 1: tacklers and he's still he escaped it and he and
Speaker 1: he got away for positive yardage on a run. And
Speaker 1: it's like he sees pressure and he sees behind, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, in dark spots where other people cannot and
Speaker 1: that is just gonna make you You're gonna advance as
Speaker 1: a quarterback at double triple to speed. You know what.
Speaker 1: This game looked like it looked like a game between
Speaker 1: two great offenses, and Tannehill throw his worst play of
Speaker 1: the year in the red zone to start the game
Speaker 1: started them off on a bad note, and the Bengals
Speaker 1: just kept scoring. They had eight drives, they scored uh
Speaker 1: thirty one point on five of them, on five of
Speaker 1: the seven drives, and then they put together a five
Speaker 1: and a half minute drive to end the game. Essentially
Speaker 1: to end it. They got a little break on a
Speaker 1: penalty that overturned to pick, but like they dominated that
Speaker 1: the Titans on the other and ran for two seventeen
Speaker 1: after the first quarter. The Bengals could not stop Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: They averaged seven point five yards of play. They just
Speaker 1: didn't make as many big plays on like third down
Speaker 1: and third and long, and there was that one Tannehill
Speaker 1: pick and the Bengals never let him back in it
Speaker 1: because their offense was just too good. The Titans had
Speaker 1: two QB hits on Burrow bro Sacks, Clowney and Clowney
Speaker 1: had played forty six snaps and had one tackle. Beasilely.
Speaker 1: I don't know where he was. They showed him on
Speaker 1: the sideline at one point. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: was hurt or what he was just kind of looking
Speaker 1: goofy over there. But man, that those their pass rush
Speaker 1: just killing them more like Dave Clown. We don't need
Speaker 1: the e I do think it's a problem. This This
Speaker 1: this defense moving on fest This defense is a would
Speaker 1: be a fatal flaw for them. Their their pass rush.
Speaker 1: They can get a little healthier in the back end.
Speaker 1: That will help. But but the pass rush, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I pray I never see him in person. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen him in person. I don't need that to happen.
Speaker 1: It seems like a bad idea. You probably get injured
Speaker 1: as he's coming to get you. Um offensive Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year race, This is gonna be the best one
Speaker 1: since two thousand twelve Andrew luck Firs r G three, Burrow,
Speaker 1: the Herbert who you got right now, right now. I'd
Speaker 1: give it to Herbert because he played great today too,
Speaker 1: just because he's only played six games and he's just
Speaker 1: he's been on fire. He's been as good. I know
Speaker 1: they've lost games, but it's it's pretty close. How about
Speaker 1: a co winner, you can you can have them both
Speaker 1: stop it, get off the fence. Sessler. No, I would
Speaker 1: go Herbert. I mean, but Burrow, I think is could
Speaker 1: you're coming out he's coming out hard. I think we
Speaker 1: could say he's the best quarterback in the a f
Speaker 1: C North the year from now. I wouldn't say that
Speaker 1: timeline that that journey would not be shocking to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, you think he's already the second best. You
Speaker 1: know what would happen Mark Clowney, who would come after
Speaker 1: you with a full head of steam and then you
Speaker 1: do you know, you're you're a quick guy. You'd make
Speaker 1: a little move, a little juke just to buy enough
Speaker 1: time and you'd escape and then you'd be fine. But
Speaker 1: then everybody would be like, oh yeah, but you know
Speaker 1: David Clowney, he really does put pressure on Like he
Speaker 1: didn't get to Mark, but then just he disrupt He's
Speaker 1: a big time disruptor. And anybody that actually watches football
Speaker 1: and understands knows he did a great job chasing Mark there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he affected Mark's planning and game planning, you know, with
Speaker 1: the with the unseen pressure their only true analytics heads.
Speaker 1: Notice this is more disrespectful than you confusing wife and
Speaker 1: Lombardi earlier. Let's move on, Let's frock. That's it. It's
Speaker 1: a funckle footballs on the round. It's fat giggle going
Speaker 1: to end. So if nobody's gonna catch him up, Dolphins
Speaker 1: take the lead. What he fits a play? I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. If if I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: if it was Charlie Ice where Mike Lombardi bed said it,
Speaker 1: it was probably built ourselves. That that's fair anyway. The
Speaker 1: debut of to a Tongue of Bloa was a big
Speaker 1: story going at the Sunday, but it was Miami's defense
Speaker 1: and special teams that guided the Dolphins to a comfortable
Speaker 1: win over the mistake prone rams Mark. The t A
Speaker 1: show has somewhat obscured the fact here that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are playing as well as anyone over their last three games.
Speaker 1: I think they're playing with incredible confidence, and I think
Speaker 1: that they really are a team that um kind of
Speaker 1: shows you that when your coaches that way. When Brian
Speaker 1: Flores is gonna he's one of these Patriots offshoots that
Speaker 1: seem to have learned the Patriots thing, which is winning
Speaker 1: games in all three phases. And it was the special
Speaker 1: teams today. I this Jeachem Grant had an eighty eight
Speaker 1: yard punt return the longest and franchise history that made
Speaker 1: this thing seven and he had another forty five yard
Speaker 1: kick return. Their defense caused all sorts of problems and
Speaker 1: we can get to we can get to uh to
Speaker 1: on a second, but they really I think remember Brian
Speaker 1: Flores and this was pointed out by by Henry and
Speaker 1: there was a good note that Flora's big guy old
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh and and and uh folds in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and it it looked the same way today. They
Speaker 1: made life very uncomfortable for Jared Goff. Jared Goff needs
Speaker 1: to be getting out of the pocket, rollouts, play action, safe,
Speaker 1: open reads, and he was forced to just drop back
Speaker 1: over and over today and they punished him and he
Speaker 1: looked very uncomfortable. And they climbed back into this later
Speaker 1: on and you know, the score doesn't look as awful
Speaker 1: as it was, but they caused big mistakes from the
Speaker 1: rams and the kind of stuff that we've sort of
Speaker 1: seen happen here and there with Golf over the last
Speaker 1: couple weeks where he's just not right on the same
Speaker 1: page as people, and the line maybe if it's not um,
Speaker 1: you know, pristinely protecting him golf is not looking like
Speaker 1: the first overall pick. I mean neither did uh to
Speaker 1: A look like that either, I mean to A really
Speaker 1: I thought it's it's of an incomplete grade because I
Speaker 1: think they wanted to set him up with first read
Speaker 1: throws and run the ball, but they ran the ball terribly.
Speaker 1: There was a crazy stat in this. There are the
Speaker 1: total plays run, and I gotta just check my sheet here.
Speaker 1: The Rams had ninety two plays, the Dolphins had forty eight.
Speaker 1: The Rams had four hundred and seventy one yards. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins didn't cross a hundred yards of offense until like
Speaker 1: six minutes to go in the fourth quarter of the Rams.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins didn't have more more than one drive over
Speaker 1: fifteen yards, So the offense has a long way to go.
Speaker 1: And they wanted to give t two of these sort
Speaker 1: of first read quick strikes, but it never really got together.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's not like he played terribly. He
Speaker 1: just didn't really wasn't a factor, and it was it
Speaker 1: was not an impressive debut. I'd like to see. I'd
Speaker 1: be concerned about that offense and that whole team with
Speaker 1: two if he plays like this, If they don't get
Speaker 1: all these special plays from their defense and special teams.
Speaker 1: This would have been a Rams win otherwise and pretty convincingly. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it seems like a bit of a flukey game.
Speaker 1: It was, um, you know, you'll you'll almost never see
Speaker 1: a team out gain another four seventy one to one
Speaker 1: forty five, and and the team with eight first downs.
Speaker 1: The whole game was wait ahead. But that also means
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins, you know, could survive being in the
Speaker 1: shell because of those big plays somewhat no matter what though.
Speaker 1: Averaging three yards per play as a disaster for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense, but you're not worried about that if your
Speaker 1: Dolphins spanned too much, because you're just thinking about how
Speaker 1: resourceful this team is, how they're winning different types of ways,
Speaker 1: and that is a reflection of coaching, and that is defense,
Speaker 1: special teams. I mean, that is like the old Patriots
Speaker 1: playbooks sort of you don't know which way you're gonna win.
Speaker 1: You're gonna win all sorts of different ways, and and
Speaker 1: smart teams can do that. Yeah, forty five yards for
Speaker 1: the Miami is the third fewest by any team in
Speaker 1: so having relatively easy win with that level of offensive
Speaker 1: production is that's not gonna happen often. Also, you're the
Speaker 1: opposed team committing four turnovers in the first two quarters.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna usually happen. So yeah, a weird, a
Speaker 1: weird game. Uh. The Rams man that that's they're another team.
Speaker 1: They're not at the level of the Niners. But where
Speaker 1: do you place the Rams when you realize that they
Speaker 1: whipped up on the NFC East, which is one of
Speaker 1: the worst collective divisions in modern football history. Uh, and
Speaker 1: have struggled against teams that are more competitive. I mean
Speaker 1: that it's it's continues to be a narrative that's formed
Speaker 1: around it's a wait and see because I do think
Speaker 1: they've had other quarters or quarters in a row where
Speaker 1: you you look at them with total promise. I love
Speaker 1: Darrell Henderson. He went out with an injury today. UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know how serious that is. Jalen Ramsey did
Speaker 1: not they the Dolphins were squelched on offense and Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey didn't miss the game because of an illness, So
Speaker 1: that should tell you something. UM. I just think there
Speaker 1: are maybe one of these teams in the middle world
Speaker 1: where you're a wild because there's seven playoff teams, they
Speaker 1: could be a wild card team. But do I take
Speaker 1: them that seriously? It's me they're right there. To me,
Speaker 1: they're right there with thet sure and them. Sorry, you
Speaker 1: got to ask in November, what kind of illness does
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey have? Well, no, they so they checked. Um.
Speaker 1: I think they went through all the intense protocols to
Speaker 1: make sure it wasn't Corona from what I read on,
Speaker 1: And it wasn't. But he was not. He was not
Speaker 1: well enough to play. It wasn't. It wasn't today. I
Speaker 1: like them being safe on that because you know, when
Speaker 1: guys are getting sick now they're they're playing it pretty safe,
Speaker 1: which makes sense. Like, let's not be the Los Angeles Dodgers,
Speaker 1: Let's be the Los Angeles Rams. Right that that is true?
Speaker 1: Poor Justin Turner, All right, let's move on. I thought
Speaker 1: it was sad for Justin Turner. Also, bad job here
Speaker 1: comes to Middle Cliffs, confusing pattern near sight to fall
Speaker 1: up the five touchdown Kansas City. Patrick Mahomes was casually
Speaker 1: dominant on Sunday at Arrowhead, throwing from four hundred and
Speaker 1: sixteen yards and five touchdowns and a thirty five nine
Speaker 1: she LACKYI of the Zombified New York Jets. You would
Speaker 1: think that these games hurt me. These games do not
Speaker 1: hurt me. I feel nothing, get that. It's just something
Speaker 1: I expect every Sunday that Jets to lose handily, and
Speaker 1: it happens, and ultimately it's not changing my life one
Speaker 1: way or the other right now. So I've kind of
Speaker 1: gone into cruise control and I'm just waiting for January
Speaker 1: at this point. Um As for Kansas City, this always
Speaker 1: profiled as an ideal get right game for mahomes stat
Speaker 1: sheet because the last two weeks he's been kind of
Speaker 1: held at bay, and a lot of that had to
Speaker 1: do with weather conditions more than anything else. But in
Speaker 1: this game, it was just too easy for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: the the idea that sometimes you don't overthink it. It's like,
Speaker 1: if you have the best quarterback in the world and
Speaker 1: you're against a team that is poor in all areas,
Speaker 1: just let the quarterback absolutely savage the opponent and that's
Speaker 1: how you win that week. Don't don't need to get
Speaker 1: your running games too involved. Just let Mahomes do his thing.
Speaker 1: That's what he did. And I think what I'll remember
Speaker 1: about this game, especially if the Chief's offense starts to
Speaker 1: take off like we're it used to, and I imagine
Speaker 1: that could happen here because all the pieces are in place.
Speaker 1: We'll remember this game is Mahomes in the role of
Speaker 1: mad Bomber returning. He completed five passes of at least
Speaker 1: twenty five yards to four different receivers. Four of those
Speaker 1: completions resulted in touchdowns to to Tyreek Kills, so they
Speaker 1: got that connection going again. And um, I know, a
Speaker 1: big storyline and perhaps the only positive for the Jets
Speaker 1: is that they didn't get humiliated by Levyan Bell, who
Speaker 1: didn't do much at all in this game, but neither
Speaker 1: did Clyde Edwards Hilaire. Like I said, this was really
Speaker 1: all Mahomes thirty five points, five touchdown passes and obviously
Speaker 1: never really in doubt. The Jets actually moved the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit in the first half, didn't even they
Speaker 1: didn't put in the first half. They had three field
Speaker 1: goals in a blocked field goal. But the same old
Speaker 1: story with with Gaze as a head coach. Once the
Speaker 1: two teams go in the locker room, one team adjusts
Speaker 1: and then the Jets get adjusted upon and they just
Speaker 1: do nothing for the final two quarters. Of the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw they had like what to two first downs
Speaker 1: in the second half or something. The Jets. It's a joke.
Speaker 1: It's um, you know. And and I didn't watch a
Speaker 1: lot of this, but Dan, I I haven't gone through
Speaker 1: a one in thirty one streak with the Browns UM
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I think it's perfectly acceptable to
Speaker 1: not um apply your passion to a team that's that
Speaker 1: probably just needs to be broken to be rebuilt. I mean,
Speaker 1: and they're getting there, and so you have to almost
Speaker 1: just root for the worst possible UM finish to the season,
Speaker 1: for what it could for the opportunities that could create.
Speaker 1: We know the same thing every week with the Jets.
Speaker 1: Now there's nothing left to say with them on some
Speaker 1: I mean, there's stuff to talk about the Chiefs, but
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Yeah, you know, things are terrible when the
Speaker 1: opposing quarterback throws for four and five touches and you
Speaker 1: come out of the game as a fan thinking it
Speaker 1: could have gone worse. That's where the Jets are and um.
Speaker 1: Sam Donald is undeniably regressing, and he injured his shoulder
Speaker 1: again in this game. We'll see how he wakes up tomorrow. UM,
Speaker 1: So just everything going wrong, the Chiefs take care of
Speaker 1: business and they will have more competitive games in the future.
Speaker 1: Seven and one looking good for that. I know that
Speaker 1: Steelers are undefeated, but if you look at the chief schedule,
Speaker 1: you know they have a two game stretch in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks at Raiders at bucks Um. But other
Speaker 1: than that, it looks pretty manageable, and so that's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, they would still be my pick to get
Speaker 1: the one seed right now. And remember remember there is
Speaker 1: only one team that gets a buy effective season, so
Speaker 1: getting the number one seed means everything in terms of
Speaker 1: setting yourself up for the playoffs. Let's now welcome in
Speaker 1: the yoked, the eternally yoked, Nick Shook and the body
Speaker 1: they call him, uh, they call him the the enforcer,
Speaker 1: the protector and still not technically in a union with
Speaker 1: his living girlfriend, and we're going to continue to track
Speaker 1: that as the season goes along. You're just roommates right now.
Speaker 1: There's no there's nothing holding you together beyond rent um,
Speaker 1: and maybe that should change at some point. But beautiful background, Shook,
Speaker 1: I see downtown Cleveland behind you. How are you? I'm good?
Speaker 1: Are there other laws about that? I feel like after
Speaker 1: you're you're together in a place for a certain amount
Speaker 1: of time. There's like there's like a common law marriage
Speaker 1: state by state. Yeah, it look sounds like you're looking
Speaker 1: to find out. You're like, it's like what state, state
Speaker 1: by state? But I mean it's not like, hey, we
Speaker 1: were hanging out for five months and now we're like
Speaker 1: legally married. No, no, no, it's not gonna be that long.
Speaker 1: Like I said, there's a plan, we're just not at
Speaker 1: that point of the plan yet. Everything takes time. We're
Speaker 1: following the playbook, the game plan said. We've done are scouting,
Speaker 1: we know about there, and we're ready to proceed forward.
Speaker 1: We're onto two or three years from now. It is
Speaker 1: awkward though, when you do you have to like split,
Speaker 1: like ask her to split the rent, like it's split.
Speaker 1: That just seems strange too. That yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean we've been doing this for like two years now,
Speaker 1: so it's it's very in fact, today is November one,
Speaker 1: today is right? Yeah, Yeah, you better bugger, you better
Speaker 1: bugger to send you know, her half and sorry Nick.
Speaker 1: When I was an aspiring um sportswriter marginally employed from
Speaker 1: time to time in the late auts, I found the
Speaker 1: good way to handle rent with your living girlfriend. Just
Speaker 1: have her pay rent and yeah, that that's clear. That's more.
Speaker 1: There's a client. There's a clear delineation of how that
Speaker 1: that's handled, all right. So if you can get it,
Speaker 1: it's good work. If you can get it all right,
Speaker 1: let's get to it. Chock starting with a surprising outcome
Speaker 1: at Lambeau Field Cousins with a screen left to Dalvin
Speaker 1: gets the fifty, angles right, ambles to the first down,
Speaker 1: cuts right, thirty five, but it's a Packer missdown. Four
Speaker 1: touchdowns today for Dalvin Cook. That's a fifty yard run
Speaker 1: in Minnesota leads. That is one of the best in
Speaker 1: the business. Paul Allen k f A n with the call, Yes,
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, he is an NFL superstar. The Vikings running
Speaker 1: back went nuts against the Packers, putting up two hundred
Speaker 1: putting up over two hundred yards from scrimmage with four
Speaker 1: touchdowns including that catch and run score to eight. His buddies,
Speaker 1: his buddy Kirk Cousins. A stat line there two the
Speaker 1: win at Lambeau shook. Cook really is a special talent, yeah,
Speaker 1: very special. In today's game, I think demonstrated the difference
Speaker 1: between the Vikings with Dalvin Cook and the Vikings without
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. And it's a good thing that they got
Speaker 1: him signed before the season, which we knew was going
Speaker 1: to be kind of a looming issue because obviously he's
Speaker 1: a massive part of this team's future and their success.
Speaker 1: I mean, when they didn't have him Ryer, they had
Speaker 1: no rushing game to speak of and no offensive momentum
Speaker 1: to speak of. Everything was on the shoulders of Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: and we saw how that went today. He carries the
Speaker 1: load and then when he carries the load, Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: looks better, and like you said, he gets his stats
Speaker 1: inflated by a fifty yard screen pass that effectively won
Speaker 1: the game for them. I know he kind of came
Speaker 1: down to a force follower in the last play and
Speaker 1: potentially other Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: it was the Dalvin Cook Show. It was dal Within Today.
Speaker 1: Last week was National tight Ends Day. Today was Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook Day. So I mean, there's there are a lot
Speaker 1: of good running backs in the NFL, but I think
Speaker 1: games like today really put Dalvin Cook in that upper
Speaker 1: tier where you're like, our team depends on this guy
Speaker 1: being on the team being available and utilizing him all
Speaker 1: of his talents as much as he candidated today, I
Speaker 1: think it's him and Kamara. This year and missed a
Speaker 1: couple of games, but this season, I think I think
Speaker 1: those are the two. I mean, it's Mike Zimmer's dream.
Speaker 1: They threw fourteen passes in this game. That's how you
Speaker 1: dial it up if you're Mike Zimmer. Yea because a
Speaker 1: uh touchdowns from scrimmage, which would be the third most
Speaker 1: in a single season in NFL history. And he's missed games.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been this He's having a historically great
Speaker 1: season running back. Yeah, you know it helps them out too,
Speaker 1: because their defense has been pretty bad, especially for a
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer defense has been bad. They dealt with a
Speaker 1: lot of personnel changes. They've got young guys in the
Speaker 1: back end. Today Cam Danceler went out with kind of
Speaker 1: a scary injury. He left on a on a backboard
Speaker 1: and on a stretcher. Um. But they've got they had him,
Speaker 1: and they have Jeff Gladdeney, both very young guys. And
Speaker 1: Jeff Gladney got played a couple of times by Davante
Speaker 1: Adams for touchdowns. So being able to control possession and
Speaker 1: really rely on Dalvin Cook. Gives you a better chance
Speaker 1: to win games because the strength of their team, unlike
Speaker 1: past years, is not the defense. I mean, it leaves me,
Speaker 1: you know, we I looked at the Bucks Packers game.
Speaker 1: Is not an aberration, but you just ran into a
Speaker 1: legit awesome defense. And Green Bay bounced back last week
Speaker 1: and they have nineteen guys on the injury report. They're
Speaker 1: not themselves. I mean they're they're they're banged up. I
Speaker 1: think they miss Aaron Jones a little bit. But that
Speaker 1: hit that Aaron Rodgers took it the end was a
Speaker 1: reminder of how glad I am that I don't play
Speaker 1: sports right now at all, because it's just like I
Speaker 1: don't want my body feeling what he probably was feeling
Speaker 1: as he was bent into two pieces his body separated.
Speaker 1: It looked like it did still the skin was You
Speaker 1: can't you get that? That's news As they say there,
Speaker 1: there was a super slow as he got hit and
Speaker 1: the ball came out where he's got his he's like
Speaker 1: got his chest out because he hit from behind, his
Speaker 1: heads back and he's got this look of like despair
Speaker 1: and it looks like one of those old like Greek
Speaker 1: sculptures where the guy is like, you know, like one
Speaker 1: of the arms is in some artsy like a line,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. That's basically was Aaron Rodgers in
Speaker 1: the final play today. And the thing is as they're right,
Speaker 1: like they didn't have Aaron Jones, and it really showed
Speaker 1: he tried to carry them to a victory. The Packers
Speaker 1: have this issue where when they play good teams and
Speaker 1: I don't even think the Vikings aren't necessarily a good team,
Speaker 1: even though they played like one today, But when they
Speaker 1: play teams that are competitive, that are expected to be
Speaker 1: up at that level that we consider the Packers to
Speaker 1: be at, they all always will. I mean going back
Speaker 1: to last year when they got rolled in the NFC
Speaker 1: title game. They did it against Tampa Bay two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and they did it again today. And the big issue
Speaker 1: is is when they have the ball and they get
Speaker 1: into a little bit of a run, they can't get
Speaker 1: themselves out of it until they look up and it's,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we gotta get going. And they woke
Speaker 1: up too late today and that's why they end up
Speaker 1: losing by six points. It's a beautiful setup for Thursday Night.
Speaker 1: I mean a remap to that NFC championship game. Usually
Speaker 1: in a prime time game, it's like you want the
Speaker 1: team's winning coming in, not not this one. I think
Speaker 1: this is one of the more the bigger games in
Speaker 1: the NFC so far this year. That's a good TNF.
Speaker 1: You know, Jimmy G's a little banged up that Packers.
Speaker 1: There's doubts two out of three, Like this is a
Speaker 1: huge It's a huge game for both teams. Packers Twitter
Speaker 1: is spoiled when when I see them complaining, I tend
Speaker 1: to roll my eyes a little bit for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: They've had so many wonderful things gifted to them over
Speaker 1: the past twenty five years. Uh. Today, a lot of
Speaker 1: Mike Pett and heat out there. People very upset about
Speaker 1: Pett and building in the second year as the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator there, third year, Sorry and uh, I guess this
Speaker 1: game seemed to rile people up again. Pett and he
Speaker 1: existed last year to going into the off season, there
Speaker 1: was some concerned or not concerned, but there were some
Speaker 1: people wondering whether, Hey, is this guy gonna get fired
Speaker 1: and you know you had to get the whole vote
Speaker 1: of confidence, or no, he's gonna stay on our staff
Speaker 1: and everything else. But I thought we were somewhat close
Speaker 1: after that NFC title game to Mike Petton going somewhere
Speaker 1: and building himself a second cabin like he did. You
Speaker 1: got brown. Maybe after games like today he might not
Speaker 1: be that far away. He's a run funnel. And that's
Speaker 1: again why Thursday nights and drigging like he begs the
Speaker 1: other I'm just saying though, it's playing the team that
Speaker 1: ran all over He begs from the side of the
Speaker 1: screen handed to Greg. He begs the other teams to run,
Speaker 1: and then they do it, and they run all over him,
Speaker 1: and it drives you crazy because it's it's a little
Speaker 1: too extreme. All right, Let's head to Ford Field. It's
Speaker 1: picked off by the Colts nall Rich into the end
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. How about that? What pick six for
Speaker 1: the Colts. Matthew Stafford was trying to go left side
Speaker 1: of the near flatted Taymore stepped right in bard of
Speaker 1: the past and cruises down the nearest sideline for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore's pick six was the nail in the coffin
Speaker 1: by the Colts, who overwhelmed the lines down the road.
Speaker 1: Phil Rivers had another efficient performance thrown for two seventy
Speaker 1: nine yards three touchdowns, shook the Colts seemed to be
Speaker 1: finding themselves a little bit here, a little bit, but
Speaker 1: she kind of wonder. I mean, the Colts are. I
Speaker 1: think it's a tale of two teams defensively, because earlier
Speaker 1: in the season we thought about, hey, uh, this is
Speaker 1: a team of statistically, he is one of the best
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And they met the Browns and they
Speaker 1: met him without Darius Leonard and they didn't look like
Speaker 1: that team on defense. Darius Leonard is the key to
Speaker 1: them because he was on the field today. He made
Speaker 1: massive place he forced to fumble that led to a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then before he knew it that Kennymore pick six
Speaker 1: took a game that was a four point gear or
Speaker 1: six point games fourteen to a three score game, and
Speaker 1: it was like that. I mean, that's how quick it was.
Speaker 1: And that's the impact that he has on that team.
Speaker 1: And as long as he's healthy, I think they're, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're a formidable team. But you also can't always
Speaker 1: expect Philip Rivers to play like he did today. It's
Speaker 1: twenty three of thirty three for two and two yards.
Speaker 1: Three touchdowns that are passerading one point five. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is like vintage River stuff from five seven years ago,
Speaker 1: not not two thousand twenty. This is not the straight
Speaker 1: that's too straight. That's great, and that coincides with various
Speaker 1: Leonard I mean, I think it really does go back
Speaker 1: to their defense. Their defense gives them chances. They do capitalize.
Speaker 1: But if you need your offense go in win a game,
Speaker 1: this offense isn't gonna do it. So they're very reliant
Speaker 1: on that guy and on that defense being able to
Speaker 1: be there and help them win games. This core touchdowns
Speaker 1: on five of their last seven drives. It gives me
Speaker 1: a little bit of hope because to me, I thought
Speaker 1: this offense looked like it was heading in completely the
Speaker 1: long direction. A great quote by Rivers afterwards are just
Speaker 1: a very Philip Rivers. Rivers the type quote he said,
Speaker 1: you have moments where you go, dad, gum it, we
Speaker 1: should be seven and oh well there's reasons you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be seven and know also, but uh, you know this
Speaker 1: was a nice move. I am a little Downip Rivers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying it's like I can't think of another human
Speaker 1: being that still says dad gum it, but he he does. Um.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor and DeAndre Swift combined for twenty three yards
Speaker 1: off seventeen attempts. I was like as excited for these
Speaker 1: two rookie backs as running backs as any anyone out there,
Speaker 1: and not happening. Jonathan Taylor, to me, has been underwhelming.
Speaker 1: The key detail mark of those twenty three yards twenty
Speaker 1: two were gained by Jonathan Taylor Deander one yard attempts.
Speaker 1: I was trying to help Swift out there a little bit,
Speaker 1: but uh, you unmasked it. That's rough. Uh. This this
Speaker 1: felt like a doomed day day for Patricia to have
Speaker 1: that sort of defensive game. And Golladay, who to me
Speaker 1: is kind of the their edition of Darius Leonard is
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay on that offense. They are just not the
Speaker 1: same without Kenny Golladay. And he got her Another quote
Speaker 1: from Philip Rivers after this game. I guess he just
Speaker 1: was very quotable. He said, he said, I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how dead it was in there. And in terms
Speaker 1: of the stadium and you're talking about the crowd, dan Um,
Speaker 1: like I talked to uh, to Chris, you know West
Speaker 1: and Keisha's neighbor JB. Long yesterday saw him and you know,
Speaker 1: we walked around a little. He was saying, how unnerving
Speaker 1: he's the voice of the Rams. Yeah, thank you for
Speaker 1: pointing out he said, how unnerving it is. You have
Speaker 1: to keep reminding yourself that this is a big deal,
Speaker 1: because it feels sometimes like a high school game. And
Speaker 1: I think I guess that's what Philip Rivers was talking about.
Speaker 1: That anecdote would have actually been so much better if
Speaker 1: Greig never qualified who he was, that it was just
Speaker 1: Wes's neighbor talking about football, just like Ned who's mowing
Speaker 1: his lawn. And then he takes Ned had a really
Speaker 1: hot take about this stadium environment. Yeah, we talked about
Speaker 1: it on Thursday show. That was a big spot for
Speaker 1: the Lions. And what do they do whenever there's a
Speaker 1: big spot, They let their fan base down because if
Speaker 1: you find a way to win that game at home,
Speaker 1: the schedule lightens up, and that means the three and four.
Speaker 1: So they're still kind of in the mix obviously, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be stunned if a month from now they're
Speaker 1: still on the periphery playoff race. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's like, man, go you know, win a third game
Speaker 1: in a row in your building, get hot, actually give
Speaker 1: your fans something to get excited about. They can't do
Speaker 1: it because some teams just don't know how to do
Speaker 1: these things. Yeah, but you know what, Dan, here's the
Speaker 1: thing in sports, and not necessarily the NFL as much
Speaker 1: as other sports, but you don't want to languish in
Speaker 1: that middle area. And they're kind of in the bottom
Speaker 1: of that middle area. So as as a football fan,
Speaker 1: you almost want them to just prove who they are
Speaker 1: with games like today, is that they can accelerate moving
Speaker 1: on to the next stage and actually working towards being something.
Speaker 1: Because last year the excuse for them was, well, Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford was out for half a year and they were
Speaker 1: really playing good ball before Matt Stafford got hurt. Well
Speaker 1: he's not hurt, and you're still not playing good football.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should make a change. Well, the problem is
Speaker 1: they made about a million changes and that never works either.
Speaker 1: A lot of confis which takes us to thank you
Speaker 1: Mike Chew. Sunday night, what appears to be a live bull.
Speaker 1: Mcclowd's gonna take it all the way to the end zone. Wow.
Speaker 1: When Al Michael's retires whenever that is, that will not
Speaker 1: be the call that he's remembered. But you know, it
Speaker 1: was a weird play. Rodney McLeod scooped up a loose
Speaker 1: ball after after a sack of the great Ben the Lucci.
Speaker 1: He ran it into the end zone. It was essentially
Speaker 1: the game ceiling score for the Eagles and a three
Speaker 1: to nine win over the moribund Dallas Cowboys. Boys this
Speaker 1: we're worried that this was gonna be a terrible game.
Speaker 1: The market was, Yeah, I mean it's it's suddenly we're
Speaker 1: in that zone where we're watching quarterbacks um that we
Speaker 1: simply didn't even know where human beings uh, you know
Speaker 1: a month ago, and Ben d Nuci falls into that category.
Speaker 1: I found it kind of deliciously amazing when they at
Speaker 1: one point they were hanging around and they had that
Speaker 1: one drive where they ran the ball like seven straight times.
Speaker 1: I think denuche has got some you know, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: call them wheels, but he can move a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: So I kind of enjoyed that. But then then it's
Speaker 1: just place. It's not sustainable. I mean it's totally unsustainable.
Speaker 1: And you know, Whence I think he was what over
Speaker 1: for three on passes of twenty plus eight yards, two
Speaker 1: of them for interceptions. I mean, I'm not convinced of
Speaker 1: either one of these teams, but no one was asking
Speaker 1: me to be to be convinced of them, and I
Speaker 1: remain unconvinced. Right, But you thought that maybe the Eagles,
Speaker 1: or I thought, like the end of that Giants game,
Speaker 1: you started putting things together. The craziest, my craziest takeaway
Speaker 1: here is these teams look pretty even, like their quarterbacks
Speaker 1: looked pretty even in terms of how they played. And
Speaker 1: the two teams look pretty even like they got so lucky.
Speaker 1: The Eagles averaged three point eight yards per play tonight.
Speaker 1: So so yes, you turned it over four times and
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz that was a disaster. The only way they
Speaker 1: could have possibly lost this game was Wentz turning the
Speaker 1: ball over and he did it four four times. But
Speaker 1: like with five minutes left to the game, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were out gaining the Eagles and had the ball in
Speaker 1: the red zone with the chance to go ahead. It
Speaker 1: was It was the worst game anyone's had against this
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense by far. Yeah, it's hard to make sense
Speaker 1: of how poor Carson Wentz played in the first half
Speaker 1: of this game. Considering like we've talked about, he's shown
Speaker 1: flashes of snapping out of it, and he's had really
Speaker 1: good stretches the last couple of weeks, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have been historically bad, and they were running the ball
Speaker 1: well the Eagles initially, so it seemed to be well
Speaker 1: set up for Wentz to carve up uh carve up
Speaker 1: d Alice, but he couldn't do it. I mean there,
Speaker 1: I don't think the quarterback play was at the same
Speaker 1: level because the news God blessed he can't make that
Speaker 1: throw the Travis and being the same, which is a
Speaker 1: pretty bad but once played a terrible game here. I mean,
Speaker 1: you cannot. You cannot throw two interceptions and lose two
Speaker 1: fumbles in the first half of a game like that.
Speaker 1: That's just that's just that's just sloppy as hell. And
Speaker 1: they're very lucky the Eagles to come out of this
Speaker 1: game with the win, because this would have been a
Speaker 1: humiliating loss considering that the Cowboys are just such a
Speaker 1: train wreck. Uh So the Eagles should consider themselves lucky
Speaker 1: that their defense was able to step in. What are
Speaker 1: two things I really liked the Greg's ourline kick right
Speaker 1: before the half that looked like, um, like an insane
Speaker 1: like a you know, sinker or something as it's it
Speaker 1: rocketed through the skies. What was that fifty nine yards?
Speaker 1: I thought Mike McCarthy a couple of times was gonna
Speaker 1: completely um, his head was going to explode on some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that was happening to him, you know,
Speaker 1: flipping his hat around and looking like a madman on
Speaker 1: the sideline. And then they mathematically showed that it really
Speaker 1: wouldn't be that impossible for an Eagles team to finish
Speaker 1: for eleven and one and host um a playoff game.
Speaker 1: And I know that's that won't happen. They'll probably get
Speaker 1: to seven wins or something. But uh, it's not that
Speaker 1: crazy of an idea with the team that we saw
Speaker 1: this evening, right they I mean, they're getting healthier, getting
Speaker 1: Jalen Reagor back. Okay, he made a couple of plays
Speaker 1: fulghum is a guy got it was out there, didn't
Speaker 1: didn't do much. Maddox was back. Like you would think
Speaker 1: they would get better, but they haven't shown it. I
Speaker 1: they are the most the luckiest and unluckiest team somehow
Speaker 1: at the exact same time because you know they're unlucky
Speaker 1: with with these injuries. You know, it happens year after year.
Speaker 1: It started during the Super Bowl year and it keeps happening.
Speaker 1: They they're unlucky, but they've pulled these games out of
Speaker 1: their ass. They could be oh and eight very easily.
Speaker 1: I mean, they really have this schedules rough and the
Speaker 1: fact that they're in the NFC East, to me, that's
Speaker 1: lucky too, Like all of this shouldn't really be so meaningful,
Speaker 1: but they're a likely playoff team now, so they're they're
Speaker 1: lucky that they've they've somehow skated by and might survive
Speaker 1: all of this. I love what Patrick Doherty over it
Speaker 1: wrote a world following at roto Pat, he writes a
Speaker 1: great fantasy column, writes a lot of great fantasy stuff.
Speaker 1: But some of you wrote a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: really resonated with me, and then it popped in my
Speaker 1: head again. Uh tonight. He said that right now, Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz operates as an even more demented version of Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: which I just like. I was jealous when I read
Speaker 1: it because it was so perfectly stated. That's where Wentz
Speaker 1: is ines having a really strange season. I don't know
Speaker 1: where it can go. Could get a lot worse. I
Speaker 1: feel like I could get a lot better. Um, But
Speaker 1: Eagles fans are are along for the ride. And he's
Speaker 1: up to twelve interceptions now wild and he leads the
Speaker 1: league in fumble It's this kind of who he is,
Speaker 1: at least with the fumbles. He leads the NFL and
Speaker 1: fumbles since he entered the league. Some of those, that's
Speaker 1: part of the Yeah, that's part of the drill. Holding
Speaker 1: the ball too long, his body caught an awkward position,
Speaker 1: getting smoked like, these are things that rookies, mistakes, rookies make.
Speaker 1: And this guy's played in the league for half a decade. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we never have to watch that game ever. Again, let's
Speaker 1: not even think about it ever. Again, Let's bring in
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood, because that's more important. Hey, Ricky, Um, amazing development.
Speaker 1: You know, this has been quite frankly, um, not just
Speaker 1: in the world, but also for this podcast because of
Speaker 1: what Chris is dealing with, uh with cancer for a
Speaker 1: second time, and he's battling and it's an unreal fight
Speaker 1: that he's up against, and so it was really nice
Speaker 1: to have some good news some joy sprinkled into the
Speaker 1: A T and podcast Realm when you did your Beyonce
Speaker 1: like surprise album drop, the great story article that came
Speaker 1: out in NFL dot com where you spoke about kind
Speaker 1: of the journey you've made um as a gay woman
Speaker 1: and kind of now it's out there to everybody. We
Speaker 1: obviously knew this as long as we've known you just
Speaker 1: about but well not from the first minute. I mean
Speaker 1: when you took us, when you took us to the
Speaker 1: nightclub in London called Gay, I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: think something's going on here. Um, but anyway, we're all
Speaker 1: so proud of you, and Greg wouldn't go that night. Well,
Speaker 1: I was watching the US Open final Osaka, one of
Speaker 1: the most memorable sporting nights. Maybe maybe not so open
Speaker 1: Greg when you think about it, but anyway, Erica, the
Speaker 1: floor is yours. Were so proud of you, and it
Speaker 1: was an awesome read and everybody should check it out. Um.
Speaker 1: I imagine there was a lot of people that got
Speaker 1: in touch with you after you dropped. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: absolutely insane, like overwhelming. I really didn't expect it to
Speaker 1: I figured it would it would be shared and kind
Speaker 1: of that stuff, but on that that scale that it
Speaker 1: was and like I like am getting nervous even like
Speaker 1: talking about it, like it just feels weird. And it
Speaker 1: was also like I feel really good and happy, um,
Speaker 1: but also like just the exposure and like the messages
Speaker 1: from people I've been getting from across the league and
Speaker 1: league offices emailing me, like in our NFL database we
Speaker 1: can have each other's emails and stuff, and I'm hearing
Speaker 1: from people that I didn't know existed, some that I did,
Speaker 1: and it's just a really really flattering it's maybe the
Speaker 1: word humble, Like I don't even really know because I
Speaker 1: don't really feel like I did anything that was like
Speaker 1: this huge thing. But I have like middle school teachers
Speaker 1: reaching out to me that I haven't heard, Like it's
Speaker 1: just it's just it's been really really overwhelming, but but beautiful.
Speaker 1: And I can't thank you guys enough because as you
Speaker 1: read the article, like, you guys have been my backbone
Speaker 1: since the day that we met, and I really love
Speaker 1: and cherish you guys, and you're always championing me and
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. We love you, Ricky. Thank you, Ricky.
Speaker 1: I mean it is it is so exciting, and I
Speaker 1: think you added yourself too as a good writer. Now
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to, uh, like a really good writer.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to start doing bylines a little more regularly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well that's secondly, a big thank you to Mark because
Speaker 1: I he saw the first draft and it came a
Speaker 1: long way. It didn't it didn't start off that way.
Speaker 1: I think that it was great. You tapped into like
Speaker 1: your your heart and your real feelings. I had an
Speaker 1: idea though, I thought that you should make this announcement.
Speaker 1: It would cause such a story. You should make this
Speaker 1: announcement like every Friday, just to like get that that
Speaker 1: that weekend vibe going, because it seems to be quite
Speaker 1: an event. So it was. It was crazy. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean to get the most of the this new found
Speaker 1: writing skill newly discovered. I should say, maybe a little
Speaker 1: Eagles Cowboys what we learned. Yeah, yeah, that sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: You guys, that sounds so much fun. We're proud of you.
Speaker 1: Great job. Rick. Yeah, it's it's I don't know if
Speaker 1: it braves the word, but I don't. I I can't imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, putting yourself out there and they're being obviously
Speaker 1: knowing that you could get positive negative. So well, it
Speaker 1: really hasn't been a lot of negative feedback, which I
Speaker 1: was sort of bracing myself for, um, and it's really
Speaker 1: it's really awesome. A couple of like, oh, so does
Speaker 1: that mean I don't have a chance, like tweets and
Speaker 1: stuff which I'd laughed, but like, come on, be funnier exactly.
Speaker 1: What about the opening line of the piece? And again
Speaker 1: check it out NFL dot com. Uh, and Ricky has
Speaker 1: it posted on her feed and we've all posted it.
Speaker 1: You start with a quote that you, um, someone said
Speaker 1: to you in the break room at NFL Media, Which,
Speaker 1: lucky guy are you bringing to the holiday party? Why
Speaker 1: do you think Mark said that to you? Because that
Speaker 1: sounds like a little out of bounds. Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1: It was. It was weird, you know that just just
Speaker 1: for like the more dim um sided listeners. I actually
Speaker 1: did not say that, just so it was not Mark. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was. That was a very warm, warm The whole
Speaker 1: thing is just like a warm hug because everyone we
Speaker 1: work with, you know, a lot of people reached out
Speaker 1: to you and um, knowing you as well as we
Speaker 1: know you. Obviously, this is special to be able to
Speaker 1: share this with this many people. So good stuff Ricky. Uh,
Speaker 1: and how about more good news to keep on coming in?
Speaker 1: Close this thing out. Uh. Speaking of closing things out,
Speaker 1: it's time to close out today's show. We'll be back
Speaker 1: and is but speaking it back? Does anyone back at
Speaker 1: your apartment? Erica? No no, no, no, no, no no
Speaker 1: no no good good good. You can see the shades
Speaker 1: are closed. Smart. Yeah, so no update on that front.
Speaker 1: That's also good news. See the good news is flowing now. Um.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll be back on Tuesday with another week
Speaker 1: of the Run the NFL podcast as we roll into
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. This is Dan Hansons
Speaker 1: signing off for the Great Ricky Hollywood, the Old Boss,
Speaker 1: and the Quiet Storm. Of course, I still don't know
Speaker 1: his nickname, Nick Shuck until Tuesday.