1
00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:06,760
Speaker 1: To you Around the NFL Podcast, America's number one export

2
00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:11,320
Speaker 1: to the UK. Welcome to another edition of the Around

3
00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,200
Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansas, coming to

4
00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:20,280
Speaker 1: you from a room filled with some heroes, a virtual room.

5
00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:26,159
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal, what's up, boys? Yeah, you know,

6
00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,440
Speaker 1: we love the UK, but we we love all the

7
00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,000
Speaker 1: international listeners that are out there. Australia's you know, I've

8
00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:37,760
Speaker 1: been coming strong lately, Canada, all of Europe, Sub Saharan Africa, come,

9
00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,400
Speaker 1: come with us on a journey. This is such a

10
00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,040
Speaker 1: it's become a Greg trope. Every month or so, Greg

11
00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,879
Speaker 1: picks out. This time it was five or six nations,

12
00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,040
Speaker 1: but normally it's one nation that he'll pander too for

13
00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,640
Speaker 1: two or three shows in a row to collect, you know,

14
00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,520
Speaker 1: fandom from said nation. And I see completely through it.

15
00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,720
Speaker 1: And I'm sure any you know, sentient listener will see

16
00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,040
Speaker 1: the this is way on Mark's radar. Remember how Maddie

17
00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,360
Speaker 1: got about the Canada thing. This is well because it

18
00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,280
Speaker 1: was both of you jumped on one of those you

19
00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,440
Speaker 1: give yourself away in what you notice in others. You

20
00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,720
Speaker 1: have all these sort of internal thoughts here and it's like, no,

21
00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,319
Speaker 1: I appreciate our listeners, and you have no you have

22
00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,400
Speaker 1: nothing happening internally in terms of caring for others, So

23
00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,200
Speaker 1: you're giving the way it's utterly absurd, Like I'm just

24
00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,679
Speaker 1: saying the UK. So sometimes I feel bad. I feel bad.

25
00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,000
Speaker 1: It's like there's more than just those Brits. We love

26
00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,640
Speaker 1: the Brits, but there's there's more. Well, I'm sure they'll

27
00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,600
Speaker 1: survive there, you know, it's they've not been mentioned for shows.

28
00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,759
Speaker 1: You know that we've gotten this far al right. Of course,

29
00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,400
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast is presented by the United

30
00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,560
Speaker 1: States Marine Corps because we love America too. We get

31
00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,160
Speaker 1: the whole world. We just want to put our arms

32
00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,960
Speaker 1: around the whole world and give it a hug with football,

33
00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,720
Speaker 1: especially during these trying times for Earth. The whole thing

34
00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:06,280
Speaker 1: with COVID nineteen, and unfortunately it has now officially impacted

35
00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,320
Speaker 1: the season. The Steelers and Titans scheduled to play on Sunday,

36
00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,520
Speaker 1: I've been postponed and definitely so it's up to the

37
00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,240
Speaker 1: schedule makers to figure out how to make that work.

38
00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,840
Speaker 1: And now we just cross our fingers that there are

39
00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,160
Speaker 1: no other issues COVID nineteen related to other teams that

40
00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,760
Speaker 1: might be connected to the steel to the Titans who

41
00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,640
Speaker 1: had multiple positive tests, and it has continued to The

42
00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,840
Speaker 1: numbers continued to grow as the week has progressed all

43
00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,680
Speaker 1: the way into Thursday, which prompted, of course, the decision

44
00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,240
Speaker 1: to postpone as opposed to playing on Monday or Tuesday. Greg,

45
00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,280
Speaker 1: where's your p scale on COVID nineteen? Right now in

46
00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,040
Speaker 1: the NFL season, I think all the rules they have

47
00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,960
Speaker 1: made sense, and this is them following the rules. So

48
00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,760
Speaker 1: if this happened once every month that they had to

49
00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,160
Speaker 1: move a game around and it wasn't a gigantic outbreak.

50
00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,200
Speaker 1: Right now, I think it is it. It's five players

51
00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,600
Speaker 1: and a few more on their staff. I don't know

52
00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,360
Speaker 1: that you have to expect it. It's still happening everywhere

53
00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,880
Speaker 1: around us. You know. One is, your pants are totally dry,

54
00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,280
Speaker 1: no problem? Uh ten pants soaked? Got to get to

55
00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,160
Speaker 1: the bathroom. Hopefully have a change where you at one

56
00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,280
Speaker 1: to ten. I'm gonna say five, just because it's more

57
00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,000
Speaker 1: like a global thing that the postponement of football games

58
00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,920
Speaker 1: and the larger scheme isn't got me, you know, not

59
00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,800
Speaker 1: too much p about that. I've got I got bigger concerns.

60
00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:34,920
Speaker 1: Why you always do that, you always try to like

61
00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,000
Speaker 1: if they move a game around every month, I'm not

62
00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,440
Speaker 1: I'm personally not that worried. If they're doing everything they

63
00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,320
Speaker 1: can to make them say they are, so I'm not,

64
00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,680
Speaker 1: I'm not doing How about I'd put it higher just

65
00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,600
Speaker 1: be you know, for me, it was, it was. It's

66
00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,280
Speaker 1: a gloomy development because the first you know, the training

67
00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:57,000
Speaker 1: camp into a non preseason, you know, rush to week one,

68
00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,760
Speaker 1: week one and week two, week three. Great, then this happened.

69
00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,480
Speaker 1: So I I guess, like to Greg's point, they're following

70
00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,080
Speaker 1: all these protocols and it has worked that this still occurred,

71
00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,520
Speaker 1: and so it becomes a more raging wild card for

72
00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,640
Speaker 1: me than it was. So the pants or the underpants, Um,

73
00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a bathing suit actually right now off camera,

74
00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,520
Speaker 1: but that's you know, there's it's damp, it's damp, but

75
00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,000
Speaker 1: but it is so yeah, right, And to be fair,

76
00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,920
Speaker 1: it it didn't really work that well because at least

77
00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,400
Speaker 1: one and multiple Titans players played that game with the virus.

78
00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,240
Speaker 1: Um so that's that's a problem. My favorite because we

79
00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,800
Speaker 1: missed Chris Westling. We wish he was with us right now.

80
00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,520
Speaker 1: My favorite pre marriage West thing was every once in

81
00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,040
Speaker 1: a while he'd turn up for a podcast like looking dapper,

82
00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,599
Speaker 1: dressed to the nines. He'd be wearing maybe some khakis

83
00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,360
Speaker 1: and a collar shirt with a pullover sweater, just an

84
00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:50,920
Speaker 1: outfit you haven't seen a lot and be like, Wes,

85
00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,200
Speaker 1: why are you so dressed? I was like, oh, all

86
00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,920
Speaker 1: my clothes are dirty and I haven't had a chance

87
00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,240
Speaker 1: to do the laundry, so I had to get my

88
00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:03,440
Speaker 1: fancy clothes out. Thank God for Lakisha. Uh yeah, I

89
00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:08,440
Speaker 1: loves all right. Here we go week for one less game,

90
00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,080
Speaker 1: unfortunately because of what we just discussed, but still plenty

91
00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,640
Speaker 1: of pigskin to dig into here on the Around the

92
00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,719
Speaker 1: NFL podcast. And you know how we do it on

93
00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,480
Speaker 1: the Thursday show. It is draft style and picking first

94
00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:28,120
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. Wow, feels like a no brainer given your

95
00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,960
Speaker 1: fan leanings. But you take the podium and make your announcement.

96
00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who I'm rooting for. The Patriots Chiefs

97
00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,120
Speaker 1: with Tony Romo on the call is the game of

98
00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,720
Speaker 1: the week anyways. I mean, this Patriots team is fascinating

99
00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,080
Speaker 1: and they're so different. Their defense is not playing well,

100
00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,400
Speaker 1: but on paper they kind of have the offense that

101
00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,120
Speaker 1: can take advantage of this Chief's defense. Right now, the

102
00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,000
Speaker 1: Chiefs are struggling against the run. They're very good against

103
00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:54,760
Speaker 1: the past, So what do you do? You you bringing

104
00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots offense that is so diverse in terms of

105
00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,520
Speaker 1: their running game. And oh, by the way, they take

106
00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,000
Speaker 1: Damian Harris off of I R. A lot of people

107
00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,480
Speaker 1: expected him to start at running back for them. James

108
00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,440
Speaker 1: White is now back with them, uh in practice, so

109
00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,720
Speaker 1: we'll see if he returns to the field this week.

110
00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,679
Speaker 1: And you think about what their offensive line is doing

111
00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,240
Speaker 1: right now, it sets up well for that strategy. That's like, well,

112
00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,719
Speaker 1: you gotta shorten the game against Patrick Mahomes. I always

113
00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,960
Speaker 1: thought that's kind of a sucker strategy because you know,

114
00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,520
Speaker 1: like losing shorter is still losing. You have to outscore them,

115
00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,400
Speaker 1: you know, in the number of possessions. That's sort of

116
00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,880
Speaker 1: presuming you're a worst team than the Chiefs. But I guess,

117
00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,720
Speaker 1: I guess that's okay. Most teams should presume they're a

118
00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,080
Speaker 1: worse team than the Chiefs right now. I would just

119
00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,200
Speaker 1: I mean, the Chiefs those score quickly. I mean, it's

120
00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,479
Speaker 1: not like if you go and pull off a six

121
00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,920
Speaker 1: and a half minute drive. If you're the Patriots, that

122
00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,120
Speaker 1: that's really gonna lessen what Kansas City can do. I mean,

123
00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,760
Speaker 1: how many games have we seen them explode for twenty

124
00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:49,680
Speaker 1: one points in eight or nine minutes. I mean, it's

125
00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,159
Speaker 1: just that's who they are. At the same time, I

126
00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,520
Speaker 1: like the match up of New England, like last week,

127
00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,800
Speaker 1: it was such a tell Bill Belichick talking about Darren

128
00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,760
Speaker 1: Waller all week. We didn't get a lot of that

129
00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:01,600
Speaker 1: this time around, but you know, you can tell he's

130
00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,839
Speaker 1: always gonna try to erase some shut down Tyree Kille

131
00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,840
Speaker 1: over the years when they so there you go. I mean,

132
00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,800
Speaker 1: but they're always just gonna be one person he's gonna

133
00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,840
Speaker 1: try to eliminate and you go from there. But I

134
00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,040
Speaker 1: was watching a Belichick game from back in and to

135
00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,720
Speaker 1: Gregg's point on offense, he was using three or four

136
00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,200
Speaker 1: running backs in Cleveland. When I thought it was just

137
00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,760
Speaker 1: one with memory, he was using three, four, five guys.

138
00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,640
Speaker 1: So he's been doing this for a long time. And

139
00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,600
Speaker 1: the way they adjusted against the Raiders last week tells

140
00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,160
Speaker 1: me that they will completely from a mental side, they

141
00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,640
Speaker 1: are the perfect match and showdown with Andy Reid and

142
00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,080
Speaker 1: what he's doing with that cheats offense. Some incredible stuff

143
00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,800
Speaker 1: happened against Baltimore. Here's the difference, Uh, this week and

144
00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,120
Speaker 1: last week of the Patriots. You shut down Darren Waller

145
00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,320
Speaker 1: and you're in good shape against the Raiders. And Matt

146
00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,560
Speaker 1: money Smith on our Power Rankings program this week, pulled

147
00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,240
Speaker 1: up some tape that I loved that shows again how

148
00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,080
Speaker 1: Bellichick is so great at this. He knows the game

149
00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,080
Speaker 1: better than anyone. That they were double team. They were

150
00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,480
Speaker 1: double teaming the check down for Derek Carr because they

151
00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,360
Speaker 1: know that's where Derek car looks almost immediately, especially if

152
00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,320
Speaker 1: Darren Wallers is having troubles. But you can, good luck,

153
00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,160
Speaker 1: good job you. Let's say, hypothetically you take Tyreek Hill

154
00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,840
Speaker 1: out of the game. What's made the Chiefs such a

155
00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,400
Speaker 1: special offense is that that's just one piece of a

156
00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,080
Speaker 1: superstar STU on the Kansas City offense. And what you

157
00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,880
Speaker 1: have with Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, Uh, Travis Kelsey, Nicole Hardman

158
00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,480
Speaker 1: making plays, Uh, Sammy Watkins. You have so many choices

159
00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,320
Speaker 1: for Mahomes and you know he's gonna find it. So

160
00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,120
Speaker 1: I think I think that is the difference there. And

161
00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,880
Speaker 1: then the other point of it is for me, guys?

162
00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,080
Speaker 1: Is that and Greg, I I had my fund in

163
00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,040
Speaker 1: the off season the Patriots aren't special anymore. Well, this

164
00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,800
Speaker 1: is the game, Greg, where if they go into Kansas

165
00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,120
Speaker 1: City and uh beat the Chiefs, I'll throw up the

166
00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,559
Speaker 1: white flag in before leek of October. If they can

167
00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,840
Speaker 1: do that, then I'll know that this is still team

168
00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,920
Speaker 1: that absolutely is in the mix in January. I don't

169
00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,520
Speaker 1: think they're there. I think the Chiefs are gonna have

170
00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:00,800
Speaker 1: their way because I don't think the pay Roots are special.

171
00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000
Speaker 1: But let's see, I agree with you. I think this

172
00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,000
Speaker 1: game came too early for them. I think there's a

173
00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,160
Speaker 1: chance the Patriots evolved into a really dangerous team. I

174
00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,240
Speaker 1: don't think they've expanded their offense enough. And then, oh,

175
00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,360
Speaker 1: by the way, this is the worst defense they've had

176
00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,240
Speaker 1: going up against the Chief teams. So Mahomes is struggled

177
00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,960
Speaker 1: in the past relatively against Belichick, and it's very relative.

178
00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,880
Speaker 1: But right now, Stephen Gilmore struggling. Like Stephen Gilmore had

179
00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:26,720
Speaker 1: the worst two games of his season to end the

180
00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,319
Speaker 1: regular season last year. He has given up a lot

181
00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,920
Speaker 1: of plays This year. He has a number of penalties,

182
00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,240
Speaker 1: but he has penalties on plays where he knew he

183
00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,640
Speaker 1: was beat so Gilmore struggling. They're giving up a lot

184
00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,560
Speaker 1: of plays through the air. They've just been an okay defense,

185
00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,880
Speaker 1: I would say below average defense. Chase one of it

186
00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,520
Speaker 1: is playing well, but it's tough if you don't have

187
00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,320
Speaker 1: a pass rush, I don't care how good your secondary is.

188
00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,800
Speaker 1: And if you're not, you know, getting into situations where

189
00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,679
Speaker 1: they're in third and long and they can blitz, then

190
00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:55,679
Speaker 1: they just don't have many guys other than one of

191
00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,280
Speaker 1: Itch who's fine, that can beat you. And if you

192
00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,719
Speaker 1: give Patrick Mahomes time, it's just you're right, Dan. It's

193
00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:02,839
Speaker 1: just like choosing the way you want to die. And

194
00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,160
Speaker 1: one of the reasons they had to switch to that

195
00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,000
Speaker 1: run heavy attack against the Raiders was they didn't have

196
00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,840
Speaker 1: a wide receiver in that game with more what they

197
00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,840
Speaker 1: had won with more than thirty yards. They do not

198
00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,280
Speaker 1: have a lot of weapons New England at all. That said,

199
00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense has been one of the most generous

200
00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,920
Speaker 1: against running quarterbacks this season, and some of that trail

201
00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,440
Speaker 1: back last year, so it sets up well for Cam Newton,

202
00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,080
Speaker 1: you know, and plus these Patriots. They got little Ernie

203
00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,480
Speaker 1: Adams tucked away in his cave somewhere coming up with

204
00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,320
Speaker 1: something right now. Well, no, it is because it's like

205
00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,559
Speaker 1: we forget about him, and it's like, what, wait, suddenly,

206
00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,720
Speaker 1: how did Bill Belichick with an undermatched roster pull off

207
00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,480
Speaker 1: this upset In Kansas City? There's always Ernie Adams with

208
00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,080
Speaker 1: this little glasses sitting up in a room to buy

209
00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,440
Speaker 1: some plan right now while we're talking away that we

210
00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:47,920
Speaker 1: have no idea what they're gonna do. You would think

211
00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,520
Speaker 1: if Ernie Adams was truly the architect behind the Patriots dynasty,

212
00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,959
Speaker 1: they would do them better than putting them in a cave.

213
00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,679
Speaker 1: I mean, put them up in a some place, a

214
00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,080
Speaker 1: cape cod or something. Get Mark, Now, you don't even

215
00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:00,800
Speaker 1: do something. You don't put him in the lord him.

216
00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,520
Speaker 1: You keep him in the dark because he's just standing

217
00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,839
Speaker 1: with his little computers. Well, that's not how it works here.

218
00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,319
Speaker 1: And one more thing before we move on, Let's give

219
00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,880
Speaker 1: some love to the Chiefs defense, because it's always all

220
00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,120
Speaker 1: about the Chiefs offense. And that's fair because it's uh

221
00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,320
Speaker 1: an iconic level offense led by the best quarterback in

222
00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:24,080
Speaker 1: the world. However, Uh, this Chief's defense held Lamar Jackson

223
00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,040
Speaker 1: over a hundred passing yards the Raven on Monday Night.

224
00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,920
Speaker 1: The UH leading receiver for Baltimore was J. K. Dobbins,

225
00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,160
Speaker 1: who had thirty eight yards and a safety valve role.

226
00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,600
Speaker 1: Uh they kept Lamar got his yards on the ground,

227
00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,480
Speaker 1: but it also they didn't let him run wild. They

228
00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,880
Speaker 1: did a great job of that. The Chiefs defense is good.

229
00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:44,840
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's close to what the offense is,

230
00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:49,320
Speaker 1: but it's good and it's a deadly combination. Stagnolo's got.

231
00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,720
Speaker 1: The history against Belichick hasn't really done, you know, great,

232
00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,960
Speaker 1: I would say in Kansas City against the Patriots. But

233
00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,360
Speaker 1: he's a game plan coach and sometimes he can come

234
00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,280
Speaker 1: up with a game plan that the other team just

235
00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,200
Speaker 1: has no coming for. That was the case last week.

236
00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:07,079
Speaker 1: I've come he's a champion. It sounds like you're getting

237
00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:14,240
Speaker 1: when Eli hoisted the trophy along the competitive Alright, Mark Seso,

238
00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,040
Speaker 1: you're up next now. I teased earlier in the week

239
00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,679
Speaker 1: that you had to be ready because your favorite team,

240
00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,960
Speaker 1: the Browns, are playing the Cowboys, and in the draft

241
00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:30,480
Speaker 1: format of this program, could you risk letting them drop

242
00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,120
Speaker 1: because the old zeuser might need to make a football

243
00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,000
Speaker 1: decision on Sunday and take that and risk the loss

244
00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,800
Speaker 1: of our friendship. So right now you still control the

245
00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,200
Speaker 1: board and the narrative. You're up. Well, you hinted at that,

246
00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,720
Speaker 1: and I took the hint seriously, and I also, you know,

247
00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,600
Speaker 1: I think this is legitly a good game. Right here,

248
00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,920
Speaker 1: Cleveland goes into Dallas, and for me, what I want

249
00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:52,640
Speaker 1: to see is, I think this game tells us a

250
00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,640
Speaker 1: lot about first year Browns coach Kevin Stefanski, because you've

251
00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,200
Speaker 1: won two in a row by playing Brown's football like

252
00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,360
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four. You've got the only two the only

253
00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,280
Speaker 1: team in the league with two backs the two hundred

254
00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,679
Speaker 1: plus yards and Nick chov and Kareem Hunt. They've been great.

255
00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,079
Speaker 1: And now you go into Dallas and the only thing

256
00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,840
Speaker 1: is if you watched what Seattle did Tyler Lockett, dk

257
00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:19,880
Speaker 1: metcalf against the Dallas secondary, aren't you tempted to unleash

258
00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,440
Speaker 1: the ball? Unleash Baker Mayfield after two games where he

259
00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,600
Speaker 1: really hasn't you know? He's been not want I don't

260
00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:26,400
Speaker 1: want to use the word game manager, because I think

261
00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,880
Speaker 1: he's played well, but they have been a run team.

262
00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,439
Speaker 1: Why do you not air it out against the secondary

263
00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,920
Speaker 1: that got absolutely flamed and has been flamed week after week.

264
00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,679
Speaker 1: It might be the game that helps Odell Beckham get

265
00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,000
Speaker 1: back in a really good mood. Jarvis Landry my questions

266
00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,920
Speaker 1: if you can trust Baker Mayfield to have that kind

267
00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:44,880
Speaker 1: of game. I mean, we just haven't seen it this year.

268
00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,680
Speaker 1: He was really clean against the Bengals, but it hasn't

269
00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,440
Speaker 1: been these sort of Matt Ryan four hundred yard performances.

270
00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,680
Speaker 1: This may be the game that begs the breakout because

271
00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,679
Speaker 1: I don't really trust Cleveland's secondary, even if they have

272
00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,440
Speaker 1: Denzel Ward to shut down what I think is the

273
00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,680
Speaker 1: best group of wide receivers in the league in Dallas.

274
00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,079
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think Baker the last two weeks

275
00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,640
Speaker 1: he reminds me it's like his postgame interviews. It's like

276
00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,400
Speaker 1: this buttoned up Baker. The way he's playing the game

277
00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:13,880
Speaker 1: isn't doesn't. It feels like the real Baker is underneath.

278
00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,400
Speaker 1: He's being held down. They're barely throwing the ball fifty

279
00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,280
Speaker 1: times in two weeks is outrageous and the way to

280
00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,480
Speaker 1: take advantage of this Cowboys secondary, which they don't understand

281
00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,000
Speaker 1: what's going on, Like Mike Nolan is running his graduate level.

282
00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:30,000
Speaker 1: All these crazy blitzes and different coverages, and every fifth

283
00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,160
Speaker 1: play there's some huge bust And so you look at that,

284
00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,840
Speaker 1: you're right mark on film and you think we attack, attack, attack,

285
00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,920
Speaker 1: And I think you'll only get so far running it

286
00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,200
Speaker 1: as heavily as they have. They have to get a

287
00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,440
Speaker 1: little more out of their passing game. So it's a

288
00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,120
Speaker 1: big show me game for Baker. I was curious what

289
00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,240
Speaker 1: you guys thought about the Browns in Week three because

290
00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,560
Speaker 1: I watched the game, and Chubb jumps out obviously because

291
00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,440
Speaker 1: he's a star and he's a closer. I didn't think

292
00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,440
Speaker 1: they played that well against Washington and and and they

293
00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,720
Speaker 1: took the they were trailing in the fourth quarter, and

294
00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:04,920
Speaker 1: they got the big plays, and they got the gift

295
00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,440
Speaker 1: of some Dwayne Haskins interceptions. But it's the Cincinnati game

296
00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,360
Speaker 1: of prime time. Was a fun game that got them

297
00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,640
Speaker 1: back on their feet. I was expecting them to kind

298
00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,240
Speaker 1: of trounce uh Washington, and it was way closer and

299
00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,480
Speaker 1: less impressive than I thought it would be. So I

300
00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,520
Speaker 1: think this is a game, and I know the Desert

301
00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,640
Speaker 1: people like the Cowboys a lot as well, uh that

302
00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to play better. And I'm on the

303
00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,320
Speaker 1: same page as both of you guys. To do that,

304
00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to have more balance, especially when you're

305
00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,520
Speaker 1: playing at Dallas offense, as good as they are. If

306
00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,560
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Dak Prescott go up, let's say four

307
00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,000
Speaker 1: teen three, and you can't lean on the two headed

308
00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,960
Speaker 1: monster in the backfield. Is your passing game ready for

309
00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,400
Speaker 1: that challenge? Well? Nor should you. I mean you have

310
00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,840
Speaker 1: Audell Beckham, you have Jarvis Landry, you have a great

311
00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,160
Speaker 1: group of tight ends. You can throw to your Kareem Hunt,

312
00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,040
Speaker 1: you can throw to Nick Chubb two. I mean you've

313
00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,200
Speaker 1: got to diversify that. I am with you on the

314
00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,200
Speaker 1: Washington game. I think what happened a little bit. They

315
00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,360
Speaker 1: had a terrible third quarter. I liked it. They stuck

316
00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,760
Speaker 1: to who they were in the fourth quarter, came back

317
00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,240
Speaker 1: and got the win. They didn't completely lose themselves, which

318
00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,440
Speaker 1: you saw a lot last year and over the last

319
00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,200
Speaker 1: twenty five years. Frankly, but this is an acid test

320
00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,560
Speaker 1: for their offense. So Dan, I think you're right, you

321
00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,080
Speaker 1: need to see more. I would say I watched a

322
00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,920
Speaker 1: little miked up Week three action with Baker Mayfield, and

323
00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't the guy is in front of the press.

324
00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,600
Speaker 1: He was all lit up and talking to people left

325
00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,240
Speaker 1: and right. So I don't think that he's quite I

326
00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,440
Speaker 1: don't think we completely have like a body snatched scenario

327
00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,360
Speaker 1: here from Baker Mayfield. So personality they they have though

328
00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:31,480
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys often. I mean it's been a lot

329
00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,040
Speaker 1: of rust letting rest cook talk this year. How about

330
00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,840
Speaker 1: letting that cook. I mean you could tell Jason Garrett

331
00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:39,120
Speaker 1: is no longer on that staff when they start a

332
00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,080
Speaker 1: game throwing the ball six straight times and he's throwing

333
00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,560
Speaker 1: it fifty times. They have three receivers on pace for

334
00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,080
Speaker 1: more than yards. Michael Gallup might be the best receiver

335
00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,440
Speaker 1: in this game. I mean he is so physical, he

336
00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,160
Speaker 1: is so fast. He is playing as well as Amari

337
00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,920
Speaker 1: Cooper as well as Odell Beckham. Certainly like the way

338
00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,200
Speaker 1: he can get catches at the catchpoint, like in a

339
00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,480
Speaker 1: tough situation, aation. I really love what I'm seeing out

340
00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,960
Speaker 1: of him. When Ceedee Lamb can be your third receiver,

341
00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,800
Speaker 1: that's that's a great situation. Wilson scoring two touchdowns out

342
00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,720
Speaker 1: of the blue, I mean they've got their loaded. Yeah,

343
00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:12,160
Speaker 1: that guy was a fantasy nightmare for people, But good

344
00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,120
Speaker 1: job by him. And yet with the Cowboys, like, here

345
00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,720
Speaker 1: we are again. They're one and two, they're very they're

346
00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,439
Speaker 1: non side kick away from oh and three, and the

347
00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,520
Speaker 1: defense is a has been a travesty so far, and

348
00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,240
Speaker 1: you just you just wonder whether all that summer of

349
00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:30,960
Speaker 1: hype again was talking about an eight and eight team.

350
00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean, they've allowed what about eighty points, seventy eight

351
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,199
Speaker 1: points and close to I believe, eight hundred yards of

352
00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,239
Speaker 1: total offense in the past two weeks alone. They just

353
00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,400
Speaker 1: they need to be so much better than they are

354
00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,560
Speaker 1: right now. They get Tyrann Smith back this week, but

355
00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,959
Speaker 1: you're right, the defense is harder to figure out. They

356
00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:52,359
Speaker 1: have the guys on the defensive line, Jalen Smith, that linebacker,

357
00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,680
Speaker 1: you know, that should be the identity of this defense,

358
00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,960
Speaker 1: and he's struggling. He really misses Layton Vanderesh next to him.

359
00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,520
Speaker 1: So again, it's a game. I think you're gonna have

360
00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,240
Speaker 1: to score if you're the Browns. All right, I am

361
00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:08,800
Speaker 1: up next in the draft, so I will go with, Oh,

362
00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,439
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great late Sunday because not only so,

363
00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna put gonna have two screens up, so I'm

364
00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:21,800
Speaker 1: gonna have Pats Chiefs Romo Nance on the big screen,

365
00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,000
Speaker 1: and then on my monitor, I'm gonna have Bills at Raiders,

366
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,960
Speaker 1: and uh, I think the Bill can look behind it

367
00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,920
Speaker 1: your text scenario over there in handsas manner. Yeah, it's

368
00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,160
Speaker 1: a little peek behind the curtain here in a pandemic essential.

369
00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Bills are kind of musty TV right

370
00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,680
Speaker 1: now because of the way they're playing in the game.

371
00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,760
Speaker 1: They're coming off against the Rams, which was just wild

372
00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,480
Speaker 1: when you watch that game, how they jumped out ahead,

373
00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:51,240
Speaker 1: how things flamed out and then the recovery and uh.

374
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,639
Speaker 1: And I got some heat from Bills fans because I

375
00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,800
Speaker 1: thought it was a little fraudulent to get super pumped

376
00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,720
Speaker 1: up about Josh Allen his final touchdown drive when he

377
00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,680
Speaker 1: was essentially bailed out by a suspect pass interference call.

378
00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,640
Speaker 1: But also that's not necessarily fair because he did convert

379
00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,359
Speaker 1: that third in twenty and then got them on a

380
00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,399
Speaker 1: on a second, third and forever, which he was responsible

381
00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,960
Speaker 1: for with a face mask, but still getting them to

382
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,520
Speaker 1: fourth and eight, which set up the uh the p

383
00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,600
Speaker 1: I call, and then he made the past across. So like, yeah,

384
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,760
Speaker 1: I mean, look what Josh Allen's done. He's still doing

385
00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,160
Speaker 1: the stuff that occasionally drives you crazy, but everything he's

386
00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,800
Speaker 1: just such a they We entered this year like, oh,

387
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,480
Speaker 1: if he could take the next step the Bills, he's

388
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,359
Speaker 1: taking three steps. I mean, let's face it, he's a

389
00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,439
Speaker 1: guy that is to be game planned and feared for.

390
00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,240
Speaker 1: Uh And now you go to the Raiders at at

391
00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,920
Speaker 1: the what do they call it, not the black Hole

392
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,440
Speaker 1: at the Death Star? The Death Star which is which

393
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,080
Speaker 1: is a Star Trek reference, of course, and it's just like,

394
00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,479
Speaker 1: I don't know, uh no, I know market Stars, but

395
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,399
Speaker 1: I just think the Raiders are frisky. They're gonna be

396
00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,439
Speaker 1: frisky in their building this year. It's another test for

397
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,680
Speaker 1: this Bill's team now at three and oh, to continue

398
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,879
Speaker 1: to stack stack wins against the Raiders team where you

399
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,560
Speaker 1: don't really know which team is going to show up.

400
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,879
Speaker 1: You love this Bill's team, Mark, I mean, you can

401
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,600
Speaker 1: just enjoy it. You say, you know, walk your wife,

402
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,720
Speaker 1: you know, take a premature victory, laugh about Josh Allen.

403
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,880
Speaker 1: You know, nothing could go wrong the rest of this season.

404
00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 1: Enjoying I mean premature, premature. I mean, I'll roll with

405
00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,439
Speaker 1: him week to week with the way he's playing. I mean,

406
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 1: I guess, should I be getting more excited about Derek

407
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 1: Carr and the Raiders. Who, Hey, you want a chance

408
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,080
Speaker 1: to beat New England, how about don't turn the ball

409
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 1: over three times, and one of them in the end

410
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,399
Speaker 1: zone when Derek Carr's dropped for a safety, loses the

411
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,520
Speaker 1: ball and it ends up being the game ceiling touchdown

412
00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 1: for New England. The Raiders are an interesting team. You know,

413
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 1: we all know about Darren Waller, I love Josh Jacobs.

414
00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,320
Speaker 1: We've talked about it week after week. But they are

415
00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,439
Speaker 1: not a team that's gonna go in and beat teams

416
00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,920
Speaker 1: like Buffalo in New England with a lot of mistakes.

417
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,040
Speaker 1: They just aren't. And and and if you want to

418
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 1: scout against their offense, you've got three plus decades to

419
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,560
Speaker 1: look at what John Gruden's done on all because it's

420
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,480
Speaker 1: not really changed a bit. Well it's good though, I'm

421
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:11,920
Speaker 1: not worried about I mean exactly when it works, it works.

422
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,159
Speaker 1: When it works, it works. But you can't go and

423
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: put the ball on the carpet three times. They totally melted.

424
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 1: They totally a little flu But part of it is injuries.

425
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 1: And uh, I think that's a huge story in this game,

426
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,000
Speaker 1: Like most of these games this year. UH, the Raiders

427
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,679
Speaker 1: are missing both of their rookie wide receivers. We know

428
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 1: Ruggs is out, We'll see about Brian Edwards, but that

429
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: removes a lot of the speed that they were really

430
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 1: expecting to have. They haven't had Trent Brown in a while.

431
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 1: The right tackle and his replacement, Denzel Good was a

432
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 1: big part of that problem, was a big part of

433
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: those fumbles. Mark, and so you look at that matchup

434
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: and then you you think about can we keep up

435
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 1: scoring against the Bills. Devin Singletary is a guy to

436
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,880
Speaker 1: watch this week. I Mean, everyone got excited about Zack

437
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 1: Moss before the season, but he he has no Devin Singletary.

438
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 1: Singletary just has the vision and the moves that that's rare.

439
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: Like he's not that fast, he's not that sudden, and

440
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 1: yet he is so effective. I think it's because he

441
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 1: just sees the field well. He's like a young, smaller

442
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,879
Speaker 1: Frank Gore and man, he can run well. And uh,

443
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,120
Speaker 1: the Raiders to me, Tony Romo was talking all last week,

444
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 1: Oh wow, they have great effort. That's fine, they don't

445
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 1: have the talent on defense. This is not a good defense.

446
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 1: To Mark's point, to alright, the talent isn't great on

447
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, but they were moving

448
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 1: the ball against the Patriots in New England early on

449
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: in that game. Uh, and just weren't playing clean enough football.

450
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: You can't go to Foxboro and be putting it on

451
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,679
Speaker 1: the carpet and getting drawn off sides on fourth and

452
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 1: two and all that stuff. You just gotta be sharper

453
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,879
Speaker 1: to be the Belichick team. But uh, I love this

454
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 1: game because it's a nice test. It's a litmus test

455
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 1: for the Bills. How good are the Bills Because they

456
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: can go on the road here and not have their

457
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 1: best game and lose, and it's fine, there's three and

458
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 1: one and they'll go on. But if they go there

459
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,719
Speaker 1: and just whip up on the Raiders, it's like, Okay,

460
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 1: we might be actually dealing with a potential superpower in

461
00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: the a f C. Uh So I'm excited to see

462
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 1: how that goes. You want to lock that game up.

463
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: By the way, we just talked about how did you

464
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 1: how did you know that doubt from Josh locking up

465
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: the Bills? Bills Nations, stop Bill's mafia, stop coming at me.

466
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 1: I just locked you all right, there you go. They're

467
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: still gonna come after you. Okay, alright, moving on to

468
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: snakes to the old Zeuser. Alright, so I beautifully set

469
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: up my late afternoon with two really solid games, so

470
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,439
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna take a game of intrigue early. I

471
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 1: also don't have the Jets on my plate dirty out

472
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 1: of the way on Thursday, so nothing to make me depressed.

473
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna love this Sunday. So let's go with the

474
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: two and one Colts at the Chicago Bears, the undefeated Bears,

475
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: that Soldier field with Nick Foles now as the starting quarterback.

476
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 1: And let's let's face it, like nobody bought into the

477
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: start of the season to the Bears when they were

478
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: two and oh, and even last week, you know, they

479
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: get to three and oh. But the Falcons are just

480
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 1: like a morgue of a football team right now, and

481
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: it's just really sad, and they don't know how to

482
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: close games. So a little bit of fortitude there. But

483
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think that Nick Foles makes this team

484
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. Now you spot them three wins, so

485
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: he takes over a team now that's three and oh,

486
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 1: and I don't think they're by any stretch a you know,

487
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: a real difference maker or a team that's a Super

488
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 1: Bowl contender in the NFC. But you can't discount them,

489
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: especially with fowls have shown us in the past, so

490
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: you have foals and the other side of it is

491
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: the Cults, who to me are very interesting because you

492
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: don't really know. We talked about this on Sunday's Last

493
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: Sunday's podcast. Greg, don't really know what to make of

494
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: them so far. They have that kind of old style

495
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: Philip phil Rivers loss in Week one, and the last

496
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: two weeks the schedules lightened up and they've taken care

497
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: of business and been kind of a ball control, defense

498
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: oriented team. Where do you stand on this one, Greg?

499
00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 1: I like the Cults because I like them up front,

500
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 1: but you're right, I don't know who they are offensively.

501
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: That's especially true because they didn't have to do much

502
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: against Minnesota and the Jets. This is a game though,

503
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: where you like the Colts offensive line to win the

504
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: battle against the Bears as best players Khalil Mack, Achem Hicks,

505
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn. They've been a little up and down this year.

506
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: The Bears defense has been good overall, but I think

507
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: you look at that side of the ball in the

508
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: trenches and then you flip it over to the Colts defense.

509
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: You got the forest bucking, you're playing outstanding. This could

510
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: be a team with two top five lines. Like Philip

511
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: Rivers has never done so little to win two games.

512
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: He's loving life and that the football heads tell you

513
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: you'll win the game and the trenches Cessla. That's the

514
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts ways. Listen to those I listened to those

515
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 1: football heads, especially when they when they sound like that. Greg.

516
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: I needed the Bears to become something different than the

517
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,199
Speaker 1: Mitch Drabinsky lad Bears. It's just my personal bias. I

518
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: found them dull um. I still don't know if I

519
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: need this much Cordarold Patterson in my life. I'm not.

520
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: Maybe I need to be higher than on David Montgomery

521
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: than I am. But I tell you what, Nick Foles,

522
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: it wasn't just he came in and beat them. They

523
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: overcame a lot. He threw a bad interception in that game,

524
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: they had some weird calls, they punted a couple of

525
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: times out of the gate. Then he got hot, and

526
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 1: it really reminded me of the Nick Foles when he

527
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,120
Speaker 1: gets that little magic wand touching his head. Suddenly bang,

528
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: he becomes this completely different players. So the Bears arrow

529
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: up on their intrigue. But I'll tell you what, I

530
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: like the way this Cults uh matchup lines up for Indianapolis,

531
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 1: and I have to do this. I have to lock

532
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: up the Indianapolis Cults in this game because I just

533
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: cannot imagine an undefeated Bears team. You know what, I

534
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: thought the same thing last week with the Bears when

535
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: they played the Falcons and the Genius for three and

536
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: a half quarters and they got me. I almost locked

537
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: this one up two Mark. I think it's a really

538
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: solid lock because I think the Colts, especially what they've

539
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: shown on defense, and again small sample size, he got

540
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: a factor in the opposition, but statistically they're the number

541
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: one defense in the league right now. And if Rivers

542
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: can just play smart with Jonathan Taylor, I think they're

543
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: gonna win a lot of games. And the Bears kind

544
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: of like what I was saying with the Bills situation

545
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: this week, if the Bears lose their they're gonna be

546
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: all right. Like they're the sense of I'm not saying

547
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: they have less sense of urgency, but like this feels

548
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: like it sets up well for the Colts to go

549
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: get a w the Bears go home, or they're they're

550
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: still at home. They're like, all right, we're fine with

551
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: three and one, and the Cults are somebody. Now we

552
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: start to talk about as an a f C player,

553
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: cults are thin, though, you know, I'm curious how this

554
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: offense does against a good defense. Now, they're not just

555
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: missing Marlon Mack and they miss him because Jonathan Taylor

556
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: is not quite seen holes. He's having the problems a

557
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: lot of rookie running backs have. The games just moving

558
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: a little fast from there without Paris Campbell, there without

559
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman. So we we were very excited about this

560
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 1: young group of playmakers around Philip Rivers. Three of the

561
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 1: most important ones aren't there right now, so that they're

562
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: a little more limited. And that's why I'm with you, Mark,

563
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: I think the Cults are gonna win. I thought about

564
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: it too as a lot, but I think gonna be

565
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: white knuckling this one. This just feels like a low

566
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: scoring close game that the Colts getting, you know. And yeah,

567
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: and Dan's talking about his multiple TVs and all this

568
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: other stuff at his house and how fun it is

569
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 1: to be watching like five games at once. When I'm

570
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: doing that, and I'm you know, at the same time,

571
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with a lock that's heading in the wrong direction.

572
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: You know, Sundays can get real, they can become a

573
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: bubbling mess. So I need to be happy, enjoy it,

574
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: I know. But according to Dan, that means I have

575
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: no sense of urgency at this point, and I'm just

576
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: sort of walking into a loss. So I'm not worried

577
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: about your urgency level. It doesn't really affect this game.

578
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: But yeah, I I understand why there could be stress

579
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: and locks. We've sat next to you for years in

580
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: that newsroom. Mark. When the lock is on the line,

581
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: there's it gets real for you. So I hope, I

582
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: hope it works out. I'm a competitor. You are, You're

583
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: one of the great, but you're Michael Jordan when it

584
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: comes to NFL locks for meaningless competitions, you are Michael

585
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: Jordan's in. Well, there's like four or five of us

586
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: participating at all, so you know someone has to be

587
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: Time now for a road to victory presented by the

588
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: United States Marine Corps up next draft, Mark Sessler, all right, well,

589
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: you know this game is not something I would have

590
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: probably picked a couple of weeks ago, but I'm gonna

591
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: go Detroit, New Orleans. I am impressed with what Detroit

592
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: did on defense against the Cardinals. You know, we were

593
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: all talking about the Cardinals as the team that had

594
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: arrived and fulfilled the hype, and I think that there's

595
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: a lot to that team. But Detroit, after getting really

596
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: lacerated a couple of weeks in a row, got a

597
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: little healthier in their secondary. Intercepted Kyler Murray three times, gentlemen,

598
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: four first rounder got to pick what it should have

599
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: been for your right, so they really I thought they

600
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: threw Kyler Murray off his access a little bit in

601
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: that game, and so they're not a team however that

602
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: rushes the passer at all and said they don't even

603
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: choose to And that sets up well for Drew Brees,

604
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: who gets you know, Michael Thomas is working this week.

605
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: He's back at practice. Uh. In theory, the offense could

606
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: be completely different with him back in there. So this

607
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: is I just want to see, like with all the

608
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: panics surrounding the Drew Brees and the Saints in general,

609
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: you know, and Sean Payton sound at you know, Sean

610
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: Payton gets agitated when people talk about him or his team,

611
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: and it sounds like he's been agitated and responding to

612
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: some of the criticism. So I didn't get fired up

613
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: Saints team and against the Lions here. I love it

614
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: when he gets fired up at his own coaches. I mean,

615
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: he seems a little agitated about his defensive coordinator, Dennis

616
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: Allen saying that the blown assignments they had last week

617
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: was like watching a high school team. I mean, you know,

618
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: that reminds me of Sean Payton with Greg Williams. It

619
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: reminds me of Sean Payton with Rob Ryan. It's like

620
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: it used to be one of my favorite recurring segments.

621
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: Sean Payton throws his defensive coordinator under the bus. And

622
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: maybe now it's back for a new season. They need

623
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: their starts to play better. Cam Jordan's hasn't done much.

624
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lattimore uh is not playing at the high level

625
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: he did as a rookie. So there's some frustration in

626
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: New Orleans. It makes it fun. I agree. I totally

627
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: agree this frustration. There. There's a sense in building that

628
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: they are way better than what they've showed so far,

629
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I still think this is a

630
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: team that's gonna be okay. I I in my power rankings,

631
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: I dropped them down near the bottom of the top ten.

632
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: But that's still that shows that I think that the

633
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: team that's ready to be a big push, that they're

634
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. And I think it starts here. I

635
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: think the Lions. Yes, I was impressed as well that

636
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: their defense showed up and contain not just Kyler Murray

637
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: through the air with the three picks, but also on

638
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: the ground where he had a bit I think twenty

639
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: nine rushing guards. I mean he almost he took Jeff

640
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: of Cuda Soul on that one touchdown scram within a

641
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: Kuda showing some resiliency, jumps that route and gets a

642
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: big interception that sets up points. So respect to the

643
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: Lions and Matt Patricia, who man, Matt Patricia needed that win,

644
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: that he was staring down the barrel potential. He just

645
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: the one eleven in their last twelve games. Right, It's

646
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: like that is not a streak that Matt Patricia can say, yes,

647
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: but look back on my multiple playoff wins from years.

648
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: He needed he needed that. He absolutely that was a

649
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: much needed win. But I don't think he's gonna follow

650
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: it up with another w I think with especially if

651
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: we got Michael Thomas involved Drew Brees. Everyone is obsessed

652
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: with how far he's throwing the ball, but he was

653
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: moving that offense last week. The defense is gonna wake up.

654
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: Watch out for Cam Jordan to have a monster. I'm

655
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: the leader of this defense team. And when you put

656
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: it all together, it's time to get up. Let's Saints

657
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: get straight, get right. The Falcons absolutely took my soul

658
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: in this uh, in this game UH last week. The

659
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: Saints are gonna get right, get behind good coaching and

660
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: a good roster. It's good luck. I like it. I

661
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: like it. I do want to bring up a new segment.

662
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: I want to introduce to the show. Um, and that's

663
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: something I'm gonna call Mark, Are you still ready to

664
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: die on Taysom Hill? And that's to say, it's a

665
00:32:53,640 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: question till that. That's pure straggling. It's tough for that.

666
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: They Taysom Hill fans out there right now. Well that's

667
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: the whole thing. It's like people like Taysom Hill when

668
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: he you know, made bad games fun and he he

669
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: operated as a completely unpredictable uh. Skill position, talent andlike

670
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: we've seen before. And then it's like just it's very

671
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: Twitter middle school for everyone to turn on him. No

672
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: the minute. The minute he you know, makes a big play,

673
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: it's like the big mistake, it's like, oh, suddenly, like

674
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: everyone knows the secrets on Taysom Hill. We're revealing who

675
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: this player really is. I'm still completely in the camp

676
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: of Taysom Hill. This guy is going to do things

677
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: that we've never thought of before. Down the road, Greg,

678
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: I still like Taysom Hill. They'll dye in on Taysom Hill. Okay,

679
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: that still he's on top of Taysom Hill. Yeah, he

680
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: hasn't really done anything to make the offense better through

681
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: three weeks, and he may have cost him the game

682
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: in week three, but he could still be I'm not

683
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: I I like that you're having fun with Mark and

684
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: getting them fired up here, but I think he could

685
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: still have moments of this offense. Maybe he won't have

686
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: eight touchdowns again or whatever. But Drew Brees needs to

687
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: calm down. If he's behind the scenes chirping that Taysom

688
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: Hill shouldn't be involved with this offense. Not that I

689
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: know he's doing that, but can't you see it? I

690
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: was like, are you breaking some news there? Can't you

691
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 1: see a closed door meeting? All right, Greg, it's up

692
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 1: to you. I'm going Chargers Bucks. I am intrigued about

693
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: this quarterback matchup. I mean, it's got you know, one

694
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: guy who might go to Canton, but it's got another

695
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: guy justin Herbert, who I'm enjoying watching. Yeah, probably wow,

696
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: I think he I'm joking. I mean, he's the greatest

697
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: of all time, but you know what you're gonna get.

698
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: Herbert has been a pleasant surprise to me. I love

699
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: the way he moves. I can't remember a six six

700
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: quarterback this athletic. It almost feels like this is happening

701
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: in every sport. Like there's taller tennis players like Nick

702
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: Curios who are just more athletic than ever. There are

703
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: taller NBA players who are just more athletic than they've

704
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: ever been in. Herbert moves so well. I know he's

705
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: only an inter two taller than Cam Newton, for instance,

706
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: but he's sort of movement skills and some of the

707
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: plays he made a very natural feel in the pocket,

708
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: getting outside, rolling to his left and just flicking at

709
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,240
Speaker 1: sixty yards down the field. That is some Aaron Rodgers stuff,

710
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: and he's made them really fun to watch. I don't

711
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: know if they're a great team, but I think that

712
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 1: he'll make this game entertaining. I'm happy with this pick.

713
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I think some of the taller athletes are

714
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: being made up by much shorter sportswriters. This show includes

715
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: at least two of them, and you know, that's just

716
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: the way humanity works. But I love the fact that

717
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: you know there's there's two plus decades separating these two players,

718
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: and I know Tom Brady is thinking about that. He's like,

719
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go lose to a rookie here, although

720
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: he's not on defense. The problem, I think a little

721
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: bit for the Chargers is the injuries are piling up.

722
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: You've lost Chris Harris. I mean, yeah, you still have

723
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: some you still have some genuine talent up front, but

724
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: it's not the way that they were, that's not the

725
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: way they plan to come into the season. You're just

726
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: you're down a lot of guys and you're basically started

727
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: with the rookie quarterback. I mean, that's that's a the

728
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: Chargers wanted to win games. We talked about it's like

729
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: seventeen to sixteen. The Bucks want to win games thirty

730
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: to twelve. And you know they don't have Chris Godwin.

731
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: That's an issue. Um, you know, they've got injuries of

732
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: their own on offense. But I still think that the

733
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Mike Evans chemistry that did not take long.

734
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: Those two are on the same page. I mean, that

735
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: was very straight. That was a the strangest stat line

736
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: I could ever remember was Sunday for the Bucks against

737
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: the Broncos. Mike Evans two catches for two yards for

738
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. So while they aren't necessarily lighting it up

739
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: at least against Denver, yes, you could tell there's a

740
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: comfort level between those two players that you can look

741
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: at week two also, I mean they've had they've had

742
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: their moments. Ye yeah, I think that it's interesting looking

743
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: at the Bucks on a week to week. They've definitely

744
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: made into incremental gains on offense. But even last week

745
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: they I think they had about fifty total yards and

746
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,919
Speaker 1: three points in the second half against Denver. So they're

747
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 1: not all the way there, but the defense is. And

748
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: you just got to kind of give credit organizationally to

749
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: them understanding what they needed to do in the offseason,

750
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: keeping Jason Pierre Paul and dom Kin, Sue uh Shaq Barrett,

751
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: keeping them all in the building knowing they had Devin

752
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: White and Lavante David and just have this fearsome up

753
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,760
Speaker 1: front seven And I thought it was interesting with Arian

754
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: said after Sunday's win that when they got Tom Brady,

755
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: they were like, Oh, Tom Brady is our savior. He's

756
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: the guy. Now it's gonna take us to the super Bowl.

757
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: They viewed it and his quote was he was Brady

758
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: was icing on the on top of the cake. That

759
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: that was how they view it. They think this defense

760
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: is that what's gonna take them deep, and based on

761
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: what we've seen both this year and how last year closed,

762
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be a lot of trouble and

763
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: they certainly have the look right now, especially if the

764
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 1: Bucks offense continues to grow as a team that's gonna

765
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: be near the top of the standings late into December. Yeah,

766
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: we talked about them, Scory. Remember you're making fun of

767
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: me for saying they were going to score forty points

768
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: on the rag. I think it's what I said, which

769
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: was an absurd thing. Someone twenty years younger than you

770
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: should say, but I stand by it. I with you, Dan,

771
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: This offense is gonna get better and better week after

772
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: we've been good. Though it hasn't been good. It's a

773
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: mediocre offense. There twenty four yards per play there there

774
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 1: below that. I think in net yards per tempt they

775
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: don't have. I don't think he has good chemistry with

776
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: Evans right now at all. He's not really sure what

777
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna do. Scotty Miller is a little banged up

778
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 1: Godwin's and and it almost doesn't matter, Like they don't

779
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: need to have a great offense. They are kind of

780
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: embodying what everyone said about the Bucks a year ago.

781
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 1: They're just like, you know, if Jamis Winston didn't turn

782
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: the ball over four or five times every game, they'd

783
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: win a lot of games. And like that's the Bucks.

784
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: They'll get better. But you're right, it's a defense. It's

785
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: the Bowls of Sons. Give your boys some love, Dan,

786
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls. I mean, he's not my my boy. I

787
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: like Todd Bowles. He was an unsuccessful head coach for

788
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: the Jets, but he's a perfect defensive coordinator, just like

789
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 1: he was in Arizona. And I'll just say this. Greg.

790
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: On the last week on the Around the NFL podcast

791
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: Flagship show on Sunday Night, when we recap all these games,

792
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: you had mentioned the lateral play Keenan Allen to Austin

793
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 1: Ekeler that nearly led to a miracle win for the Chargers.

794
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: That was I can't believe that that did not Was

795
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: it happened? It was it, and it's it's it's it's

796
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: such a Chargers thing. It's such a Chargers thing. There's

797
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: only a handful of franchises that would let the game

798
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: end that way. Maybe Herbert was a little late on

799
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: the throw that led to Keenan Allen how to catch

800
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: it and flip it in one motion, which led to

801
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: the accuracy issue on it. But it was way closer. Oh,

802
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: it's such Oh my god, let's move on, Greg. It's

803
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: snakes to you. Some teams, man, they know how to

804
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: twist the knife on the fans. Alright, Kate. Week four,

805
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: these are these are two teams that need to win badly.

806
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: It's the Vikings and the Texans. And you know how

807
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: about a team that likes to twist the knife on

808
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: their fan. That's that's the Minnesota Vikings. I choose this game,

809
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: even though they haven't won, because there are two playoff

810
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: teams from a year ago that really you to win

811
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: bad and I'm not ready to dig dirt on the grave,

812
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: at least not of the winner of this game. Oh

813
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: and four, though, is a tough hill of the climb

814
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: out of I like the Texans in this game because

815
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: of Deshaun Watson, because of what he showed uh last week,

816
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: and because he's playing this Vikings defense. Even though Minnesota's

817
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: offense has had some moments this year, the defense really hasn't.

818
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: I mean the defensive line, especially on the interior. I

819
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: think the Texans will be able to run a little

820
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 1: more in this game, and I think the Texans passing

821
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: attack has gotten a little better each week. They have

822
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 1: four receivers that they can go to their None of

823
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 1: them are amazing, but you don't need to be amazing

824
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: to take advantage of this Viking secondary right now. And

825
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: so it comes down to like who do you trust,

826
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins or Deshaun Watson. I'm taking Watson. Well. I

827
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: trust Watson as well, and I trust him not dealing

828
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: with you know, Pittsburgh's front front seven like you did

829
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: last week. I just he looked to me. I was like,

830
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: is this guy having any fun in this offense? Because

831
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: he has just taken a lot of punishment and they've

832
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: been on they haven't been as productive. The one thing

833
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: that when when Will Fuller is the kind of guy

834
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: that you can trust for about seven games a year

835
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: before like a hamstring blows up. But he really I

836
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: really like him when he's in there. I think he's

837
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: a difference maker. I'm not sold on the rest of

838
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: the attack right now, though, I am I wrong on this.

839
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: I just Houston defenses in the league. Well that's so,

840
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: I said, Yet so sell so sell me now, I mean,

841
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: because you're running out of time to sell us on anything.

842
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: If you're the Houston Texans. Yeah, well we are at

843
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 1: a point now. Last week we were in the games

844
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: for the Texans and Vikings. That was the cornered animal

845
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: game for both of them. We present that as the

846
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: game where it's a frisky team, a team that should

847
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: be good, that got out of the gate slowly and

848
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,479
Speaker 1: when you put an animal in a corner, you better

849
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: watch out. Well, after two more losses for these teams

850
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: oh and four, there's no coming back from so we

851
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: will call this, they go from the corner, animal cornered animal.

852
00:41:54,719 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: This is the road kill game. Folks do grow look

853
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: away children, because whoever loses this game is scrape them

854
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: off the side of the road. Animal control, do what

855
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: you must. I don't know who. Maybe it's a state trooper.

856
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: I always wondered who has to handle that because it

857
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: seems like gnarly work. Uh, it's all over. Your season

858
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: is over after four weeks. So that's why I think

859
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 1: this is a fascinating game, because neither of these teams,

860
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: to me, are truly oh and four teams, their teams

861
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: that had either schedule problems or some personnel issues on

862
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: the Viking side where they can't get things straightened out

863
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: in time, and now all of a sudden, there against

864
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: each other. So the road kill game. Someone's alive, someone's dead,

865
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: and there's some drama there, some football drama there. I

866
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: like seeing Mike Zimmer snap at a reporter yesterday. I mean,

867
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: I think that they're feeling it. Both these coaches and

868
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: teams were feeling inside this building. So you lose this one, Dan,

869
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 1: and you're right, you're not much better than a squirrel

870
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: that was squashed by a you know, a big mac truck.

871
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: Let's hear that again. I'm just curious, but that would

872
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: sound like gross. Look away, that's the road kill game.

873
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: All right, steaks couldn't be higher, could not mark y'ar

874
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: up next? Alright. I know this might not be the

875
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: popular pick in terms of like to uh two Titans.

876
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,399
Speaker 1: There's one team I really like in this though, the

877
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,959
Speaker 1: Eagles visiting the Niners. And I'll tell you what Kyle

878
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: Shanahan is telling you right now who he is. You

879
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: want to give me seven or eight backup players, I'm

880
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: gonna go into New York two weeks in a row

881
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: and drop sixteen or seventeen a bombs and last week

882
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: against all right, that's fine. But the Giants people thought

883
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: were a little frisky, and a lot of people a

884
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: week go over saying all this Niners team, are they

885
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: gonna get away with all this? You know, all their

886
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 1: guys are gone, their starting quarterback when you're starting quarterbacks,

887
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: and that's a fair complaint. They don't punt the entire game.

888
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: They literally never allowed the Giants to really show a

889
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: sign of life in that. And suddenly Nick Mullins is

890
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: back in our life and he is absolutely looking. He

891
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 1: gets to the point where Shanahan has to answer questions

892
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: this week and say, no, there is absolutely no chance

893
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 1: that Nick Mullins is gonna upstage and up unseat Jimmy

894
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 1: G for the starting position here, because Nick Mullins looked

895
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 1: as good as Jimmy G has in a while. I'm

896
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: just saying, I think that this isn't a really important game. Also,

897
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: and you guys, I'll let you guys handle the Eagles

898
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: drama this, but look at the Niners schedule coming up

899
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: after this game. You got the Dolphins, but then after

900
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: that is a rough stretch of the Rams, Patriots, Seahawks, Packers,

901
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: and Saints. That's like a double playoff runs. So you

902
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: need these games against these wanting, desperate teams, and the

903
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: Eagles feel like a desperate team to me right now, gentlemen.

904
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: For the Niner side of it, absolutely great job taking

905
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: care of business. The Giants and the Jets are the

906
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: two worst teams in football, and you need to win

907
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: those games, and they did, and you having good they

908
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: want them buy a lot and they want them with

909
00:44:55,040 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: like kill backups. That's those games when you of good

910
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: coaching and you have depth on the roster. So good

911
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: job by them, and now you start to get hopefully

912
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 1: you start to get healthy. You lost some guys unfortunately

913
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: for the year in that terrible little stretch of a

914
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: week there. But I you tip the cap to the Niners.

915
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: But then you also wonder, okay, now, what happens when

916
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: you start playing against real NFL teams. That's the only

917
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: thing I'll say about them in terms of couching it

918
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: all due credit for them for do you consider the

919
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: Eagles a real team? I think the Eagles because they're

920
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: a desperate team as well. Right now, I think this

921
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: will be a great test for both teams. I think

922
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: it's a good game. I think it's fascinating. But the

923
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: Eagles aren't playing They're playing like a real defense. I

924
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: like Malik Jackson. The pass rush is totally healthy, by

925
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: the way, and they should be fine, but the the

926
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: offense is terrible. I mean, Carson wentzays double the amount

927
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: of turnover worthy plays according to PFF than any quarterback

928
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: in the league. And by the way, he doesn't have

929
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: any receivers healthy again for this game. Not only is

930
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: ray Or gone and Dallas Goddard's gone now de Sean

931
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: jack Sin's a little banged up too, so we're kind

932
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: of like right back to where we were in the

933
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: playoffs a year ago. And I think as much criticism

934
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: as Wentz is taking, you have to look at Doug Peterson.

935
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: I mean, think of it about this matchup. Would anyone

936
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: in the world rather have Doug Peterson calling plays than

937
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: Kyle Shannon? Do you think Kyle Shanahan would ever let

938
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: a team have twenty nine yards per play thirty three

939
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: weeks into the season. I'm not you know, I'm not

940
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: trying to like be harsh on Peterson, but it's a

941
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: full offensive system that's collapsing right now, and you don't

942
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: see the great offensive coaches allowing that to happen. And

943
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: there are a lot of Eagles fans who like to

944
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: point out the Eagles record since frank Reich left the building.

945
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: Frank Reich has gone to Indianapolis, is one of the

946
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 1: best offensive minds in league. And right now Peterson searching

947
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: because there aren't easy throws out there for one to either.

948
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: And quickly on top of that, I mean the Winz thing,

949
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: it feels like you've had a quarterback that has played,

950
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: you know, touched m v P type level play, has

951
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: passed under this coaching staff. Now he looks mentally broken.

952
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: I mean it looks like a guy that needs like

953
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: a month off. I mean, at least legitimately a week

954
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: off to regather himself. I'm not sure that's how that

955
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: works with starting quarterbacks, but this coaching staff is a

956
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: part of that. What Like they asked Doug Peterson what

957
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: is going on with Carson Wentz and he basically said,

958
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, you need to know. You've got

959
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,280
Speaker 1: to figure this out. Well, that's part of the problem

960
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: with sports, right, like you, Carson Wentz was an m

961
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: v P level guy. He's played at or near that

962
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,439
Speaker 1: level in the time since the A C L tare

963
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: in And I believe he was great for stretches last

964
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: year with a with a supporting cast that wasn't there.

965
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: And there is something wrong with him now and and

966
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. I mean, it's kind of a what

967
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: do you do? Though, It's like you say, you say,

968
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: it's Carson Wentz's fault, Okay, you don't want to put

969
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: it all on him. Now it's Doug Peterson's fault. I

970
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: don't know. All I know is Sanders is streaking down

971
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: the field wide open, and Carson Wentz overthrows him and

972
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: cost the team a touchdown. Is like, that's Doug Peterson's fault. Now,

973
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel like it's a little easy just to

974
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: put it on the coach a combination. You know, he's

975
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: not the Wentz isn't thinking clearly though, and that that

976
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: relationship between Peterson and Wentz is like what you give

977
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: Peterson credit for when things are going well. His mind

978
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 1: is so cloudy. You can see on this last week

979
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: where he just predetermined he's going to throw it to

980
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 1: Deshaan Jackson no matter what, even though there's a guy underneath.

981
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: They do a lot of the r p O s

982
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: right now, and a lot of it I think is

983
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: Wentz making bad decisions when when there looks like there's

984
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: a positive running play available and he holds onto it

985
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: and there isn't anyone open throwing the ball. So I

986
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: think that is partly coaching and unless it's just like

987
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: when's having a total collapse, I think it's a combination

988
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:45,760
Speaker 1: of both. All right, I'm up right. The old zuser

989
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: third person George Kittle back in that game though you mentioned,

990
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: uh you mentioned some people coming back. George Keettles on

991
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: our in Our Lives Sunday Night Football, Deebo Samuel back

992
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: at prat this He's got a couple of weeks before

993
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: we coun see him again. But they are getting healthier.

994
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: Thank you that time. I've been caught by surprise for

995
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:13,439
Speaker 1: some reason. All Right, my choice will be let's go

996
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 1: Seattle at Miami. Uh. Don't see a really great option here,

997
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: so I'll just grab that game. Uh, just because that

998
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: means I get to watch Russell Wilson good. So Russell

999
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: Wilson is on pace for seventy five touchdowns. So in

1000
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: a depressed draft class, if I have a chance to

1001
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: take that guy and watch him, I will. Uh. They

1002
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: have issues though, And I don't know what Jamal Jamal

1003
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: Adams status is after he he tweaked his groin at

1004
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,919
Speaker 1: the end of the game against the Cowboys. But their

1005
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: defense has been terrible with Jamal Adams as well. So

1006
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: if you take him out of the mix or put

1007
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 1: a compromise version of him on the field, you wonder

1008
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: how are they ever gonna get stops? Well, you know,

1009
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: the Dolphins present the challenge because as much as we

1010
00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: want to just disregard Miami as they stank and Ryan

1011
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick's there. He's funny. Look at all that chest cabbage.

1012
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: Then he that he can light people up if you

1013
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: if you give Ryan Fitzpatrick uh time, he will find receivers.

1014
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: So everyone is going to pick the Seattle Seahawks to

1015
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: continue rolling and get all excited about them. But at

1016
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: the same time, would I be totally stunned if this

1017
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: is a game that's very competitive in Miami in the

1018
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: fourth quarter because of all the issues with Seattle's defense,

1019
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: I would not be stunned at all. Yeah, I think

1020
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have done a good job coaching up what

1021
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: they have, and they're a team I think, you know,

1022
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: if Brian Flores is like Bill Belichick, this team is

1023
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: going to be different in November December than they than

1024
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: they are to start the season. But I just don't

1025
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: see the talent, Like I just don't see enough playmakers,

1026
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: even in a game where they control the lead. It's

1027
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: like they sat on that lead a little bit against

1028
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: Jacksonville because they knew that they could stop the Jaguars

1029
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: and against Seattle like good luck. Russell Wilson reminds me

1030
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 1: so much of Ben Roethlisberger at the same age around

1031
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: thirty two thirty one. I thought Roethlisberger, who was like

1032
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer already in my mind, went to

1033
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: another level because like his his mind, Dan uh, you know,

1034
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: caught up with his physical skills. And now it's like

1035
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is so three steps ahead of the defense

1036
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: mentally and he's still got all of his physical skills.

1037
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: It's like that's meeting up in the middle. And I

1038
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: don't know how you stopped that right now. I mean

1039
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: you're going back to like when Bruce arians had enough

1040
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 1: trust and big bend to let him just call series

1041
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: at the time, you know, so that and there's not

1042
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks that are in that situation. So

1043
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: I like that comparison Seattle's offense. Uh, you know what

1044
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: it kind of reminds me of. I don't know if

1045
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: you guys ever dealt with these, but when you were

1046
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: like in your twenties and you'd go to like some

1047
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 1: park and there'd be a bunch of bros with one

1048
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 1: of those like giant sling shots that you put the

1049
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: water balloons in and shoot them like three hundred yards

1050
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: across the park and like hit some girl in the

1051
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: head with the water balloons. Was like what I just

1052
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: want to do? You not, I have never been that

1053
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: sling shots that you could shoot like water balloons or

1054
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: other objects, but it was meant to be safe. But

1055
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 1: I just commercial of that at like three am ones

1056
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: it existed. It existed, and I literally saw a girl

1057
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: get nailed on the head with it. It was not

1058
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,720
Speaker 1: it was not a pretty picture. But um, their offense

1059
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: just is so different than it used to be. And

1060
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 1: they have two legit star wideouts and I don't see

1061
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: how Miami hangs in this game at all. How far

1062
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,320
Speaker 1: the sling shots go? Are we talking like fifty yards

1063
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: or like what was the max? It was like a legit.

1064
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: First time that I saw it was on a college

1065
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: campus and was one of these campuses where there's like

1066
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: eight giant green lawns in a row, and there was

1067
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: like some girls on a towel, like three lawns over,

1068
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,479
Speaker 1: which was like legit hundreds something yards away, and these

1069
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 1: guys kept aiming and hitting like it was when parents

1070
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: are dropping their kids off. So it's hitting kids and

1071
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: little brothers and moms and dads, and it finally hit

1072
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 1: these people sunbathing and sounds like early nineties campus life

1073
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: was like every was like, all right, go to the quad,

1074
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: we'll do some frisbee and then we'll do the balloon

1075
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: launch and then everybody back to the dorm to watch

1076
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: Real World. It was very soft early nineties Franks like

1077
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: I was on the M d M A back at college,

1078
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: so I didn't have this experience. I greg it was

1079
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: a different experience than too Late, and trust me, it was.

1080
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: We weren't wasting time sitting on blankets playing Hackey Sack.

1081
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's move on at uh snakes to the

1082
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: old zeus Er. Let's check in where where Lamar Jackson

1083
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: is after Monday night? Not own? You're kidding me, Bro,

1084
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: I know that was a total team meltdown. We talked

1085
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: about it on the podcast earlier this week. You can't

1086
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: just put everything on the quarterback. But when you're the

1087
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: m v P, uh much as expected, and he did

1088
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: not rise up to the occasion. So now he gets

1089
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: the Washington football team, which is playing now without number

1090
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 1: two overall pick Chase Young, who has a lower body

1091
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: injury I believe a groin. So good news there for

1092
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: Lamar and bad news for Washington. But they could still

1093
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: get after a quarterback even without Chase you wonder, and

1094
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 1: I don't know if Washington is the team to do this.

1095
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: And I don't want to put disrespect on Ron Rivera's name.

1096
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: He's a he's an accomplished defensive coach. But do you

1097
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: take this stuff? You take the tape from Monday night?

1098
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: Did you learn anything from that? What what clearly had

1099
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 1: flummixed the Ravens offense? Was it clearly just the games

1100
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 1: games situation that got them where you got ahead of them,

1101
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 1: which I don't imagine the Redskins, excuse me, the Washington

1102
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: football team are going to be scoring a lot of points.

1103
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: So maybe this is completely out the door, or is

1104
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: there something you could take from it to slow them

1105
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: down after what Kansas City did. That's what I'll be

1106
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: watching for. I think you can take some broader strokes

1107
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: of how to rush them. I don't know if they

1108
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: this was mysterious, that who you need to keep the edge,

1109
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: that maybe don't go totally after him, just kind of

1110
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: lay back and and make him make decisions. But who

1111
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,760
Speaker 1: are the Washington football team right now? I mean, there's

1112
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: supposedly they're right. I mean, they lost Chase Young, but

1113
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: they also last my matt Ionidas for the season, and

1114
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: so I would say he might be there second or

1115
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: third best defensive lineman. You still have Jonathan Allen and

1116
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: Deron Payne and and Sweat like they have players, but

1117
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: they're not nearly the same without those two guys. I

1118
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: think Scott Turner has actually done a pretty good job,

1119
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: you know, scheming up this offense, but Haskins is a

1120
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 1: beat or too late, and the talents not there. Um Like,

1121
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: there's been plays. I think that can work for Washington,

1122
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: and I like Scott Turner so far, but Haskins he

1123
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: needs a bounce back game because he seems to be

1124
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: losing a little faith from his coaches. And I would

1125
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,919
Speaker 1: say that game against Cleveland was as bad a game

1126
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: any quarterback has had this year this season. It was

1127
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: because Dan you you sort of you were right. I

1128
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: think that you thought that, you know, Cleveland could have

1129
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: lost that game. But then then Washington lost Chase Young

1130
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: and their defense was not the same after that, and Haskins,

1131
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: you know, willingly through some of the worst interceptions I've

1132
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: seen in the past, you know, twenty years watching football.

1133
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: It was like he just seemed completely out of his element,

1134
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: and the Browns defense caused I don't think they caused

1135
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: that opinion. No, I mean, yeah, that seems harsh. They

1136
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 1: were just you know, some bad reads. They were really

1137
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: ugly because I just feel like he's not there um

1138
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: neck up right now, like the Cleveland didn't cause those

1139
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:38,919
Speaker 1: by what they were doing to him. I just don't

1140
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: He's not crazy accurate though, He's not crazy accurate or athletic.

1141
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: So you have got for a first round pick quarterback,

1142
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: let's put I think he's probably better than all of

1143
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: this if you if in time. I do, but you

1144
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: can see he has anticipation. But you're right, Mark, I

1145
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: think actually he is a type of quarterback that has

1146
00:56:57,680 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: to win from the neck up, and that in a

1147
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: long term view is the kind of player that he

1148
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: is that can read through the progressions. And you see

1149
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 1: that he does do that a little bit. He's like

1150
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a a safer, not as

1151
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: exciting quarterback. But then it just seems like there's five

1152
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 1: or six plays where he just throws it up and

1153
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: he doesn't see what's what's happening. What we call cessler

1154
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: a bit of a a premonition here that Kyle Allen

1155
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: is playing in this game. In the second half because

1156
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:28,479
Speaker 1: the clock is officially ticking on Haskins. Earlier this week,

1157
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera said there will be a cut off point

1158
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: for Dwayne Haskins and that that is damning when the

1159
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: coach is saying that this is early in the season.

1160
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: He's still a very young quarterback. But all it does

1161
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: is remind you that Ron Rivera had nothing to do

1162
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: with Dwayne Haskins coming into this building. Ron Rivera's tasked

1163
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: with rebooting the entire machine. And usually when you have

1164
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: that responsibility, you're gonna do it with your own quarterback.

1165
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,440
Speaker 1: It seems like Haskins is doomed. And oh, by the way,

1166
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: Rivera went out of his way to bring in Kyle Allen,

1167
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: a quarterback that while he is hardly Patrick Mahomes or

1168
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: even half of that, uh is someone that he knows

1169
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: and knows his abilities. Uh So you imagine he's not

1170
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: gonna have any issues tapping him to come in. You

1171
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: can totally, can't You see the Ravens being at as

1172
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: hell and putting up, you know, twenty eight points in

1173
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: the first half, and with the Washington offense not moving,

1174
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: it's Kyle Allen time in a blowout and then an

1175
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: announcement coming shortly after on Tuesday. For Rivera, it all

1176
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: seems like it's in the stars right now, I can happen, right,

1177
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: I like I like Scott Turner too, but Andy Reid,

1178
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: like completely beguiled Patrick Queen, the rookie linebacker for Baltimore

1179
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: and much of that defense. I don't think that Washington

1180
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: is going to offer that kind of challenge. There's also

1181
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: this like Washington Baltimore rivalry with this game right big

1182
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: time once every four years. One of the great ones

1183
00:58:54,160 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: is Washington fans. There's also there's also of the Baltimore

1184
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: Washington Parkway. I think it's called I don't know which is.

1185
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I only took the train when I area,

1186
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: so I don't know that the actual highway name. But

1187
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: like they don't. There's a legit dislike between these sports

1188
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: and entities in both towns, right and the Ravens Now,

1189
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: I've had the edge there for a while. And Ron Rivera,

1190
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm not saying there tanking, um, but take a time

1191
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: out at the end of these games. He kind of

1192
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 1: just let these games two weeks in a row. He's

1193
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: had to answer some questions and he literally said, like

1194
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: I am worried about guys not getting hurt. It's like

1195
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: you're only down two scores with seven minutes left two

1196
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: straight weeks. I don't know. All right, Mark, all right,

1197
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: let's see here. Where are we gonna go? I like you,

1198
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: I'm caught off guard. Um, you know what I'm gonna do.

1199
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: And this is simply for scheduling reasons, because I don't

1200
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: have a four o'clock game. I'm gonna go Giants at Rams.

1201
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: I also feel like that could be one where you

1202
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: kind of soft track it and maybe I, you know,

1203
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: get a little get a little son in the yard

1204
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: that's kind of like a wrong place that's not doing,

1205
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: that's not doing. The listeners proud they you know, they

1206
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: want they want aggressive watching. I will watch it aggressively. Greg.

1207
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: Thank you for setting me straight. That's why Greg is

1208
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: the old boss. I cannot get away with that here.

1209
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: I mean, imagine if Greg wasn't here to to set

1210
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: us on the right path. This game scares me. You

1211
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 1: got Aaron Donald against Giants offense, the Giants running back situation,

1212
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: I mean DeVonta Freeman thrown in there, thrown into the

1213
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 1: fire right away. They've got Dion Lewis they're just not

1214
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: a balanced offense. I think McVeigh is fired up after

1215
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: that Bill's game. And one thing I like about McVeigh

1216
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: is he if they if the Rams make a mistake

1217
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: of any sort, he basically just says it is absolutely said.

1218
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: I did a terrible job of putting us in really

1219
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: poor situations against the Bills when they got down early.

1220
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: And you know what's lost in that was the real

1221
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: Rams team and the one that h that they can

1222
01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 1: be is the talent the team that climbed back into that.

1223
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: I still think this is one of the more intriguing

1224
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: offenses in the league. Um, nothing about last week changes

1225
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: that for me. They if more anything, it was some

1226
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: of the stuff that happened on defense would have me concerned.

1227
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: I mean, to your point, Dan that Josh Allen that

1228
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: they got lucky, a little bit luckier or whatever it

1229
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: was football god stuff with the call at the end

1230
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen got against the Rams. Defense got them matter

1231
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: some jams too, and there's a third and twenty two

1232
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: play a couple of items like that where I mean,

1233
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 1: that's that's a Ram secondary. You want to trust more

1234
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: than that. So this Rams team, to me, she has

1235
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: no reasons not to go in here and handle this

1236
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 1: with very little concerned with very little concern, because I

1237
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: think they're gonna flex their muscles in a bit of

1238
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 1: an angry contest after coming out of a game they

1239
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: thought the other they should have bought the other New

1240
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: York team last week, and they don't like what happened

1241
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: at all. I feel like good, good defenses right now

1242
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 1: are gonna lose the good offenses. There's only four or

1243
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:55,439
Speaker 1: five defenses I think that really matter and can can

1244
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: clamp you that. I don't think the Rams are going

1245
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: to be that team. They need to play good situationally,

1246
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: and they need to count on Jared Goff doing his

1247
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback thing. That's what he's doing right now,

1248
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: just this time. Um, he's got a nice little running

1249
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: game going. Darrell Henderson has some juice. I mean, the

1250
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: cam Akers injury and might end up being a little

1251
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: bit of a blessing because Wow, Henderson just feels like

1252
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: the game's coming a little slower to him this year.

1253
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: He's making the right reads and he has major juice.

1254
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: That is a fun backfield with Malcolm and they were

1255
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: talking about him doing that last year, like at the

1256
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 1: combine two combines ago and it never really happened. And

1257
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: now he's got like a hundred plus yards two straight games,

1258
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: and everyone wants to talk committee. It still will be

1259
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: a committee, but this off it's it's the removal of

1260
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: this one lead back that takes up one eighth of

1261
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: your salary cap and you have to base the whole

1262
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: Their whole offense is different. Now they're using like his fullbacks.

1263
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: That's how bad that contract was. He's still taking up

1264
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: an eighth of their salary cap. Yeah, to score twenty

1265
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: nine straight points in Buffalo, which the Rams pulled off,

1266
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: wiping out three and then give up third and two

1267
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: and then third in giving up you know, big yardage

1268
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: to set up that p I that that is a

1269
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 1: gut punch loss. And the Giants are the perfect team

1270
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 1: for them at home. This game is over by the

1271
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 1: end of the first quarter. I mean, this is not

1272
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: going to be competitive. And that's why you have to

1273
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: look in the mirror with the locks game, because if

1274
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: you can lock up anything and there are there are

1275
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:26,880
Speaker 1: shows and over there and they just they just lock

1276
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 1: up anything they want and they'll say, oh yeah, the

1277
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: Rams over the Giants is my lock of the week.

1278
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 1: Oh screw off. You can't lock this game up. But

1279
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: there is no game that's more certain in terms of

1280
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: outcome to me than Giants at Rams Week four. I

1281
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 1: don't like the Giants chances if I haven't made myself

1282
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: clear on that. All right, I think we got that, uh, Greg,

1283
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: all right, I think I got a couple of picks

1284
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:57,439
Speaker 1: the Giants. There was that too much? I know. Well,

1285
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 1: let them tell you that I believe in Daniel Joe

1286
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: Owns and that he's coming off one of the worst

1287
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: games he's had. Uh. Here's another reason to be depressed

1288
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 1: if you're a Giants fan. The four tackles were drafted

1289
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: in the top fifteen picks this year. Three of them

1290
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: look pretty great right now. I know it's only three games, um,

1291
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,920
Speaker 1: but Andrew Thomas is not looking great for the Giants.

1292
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: He's been struggling and it doesn't help that the other

1293
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 1: three one of yours, McKay Beckton. You know, the Browns

1294
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: have a nice looking tackle here. But they might have

1295
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 1: they might have missed, they might they might have missed.

1296
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 1: In New York. I'm going to the prime time I'm

1297
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: going to the prime time games. Packers Falcons. I've heard

1298
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: some talk. It's like, oh, why the Falcons in prime time?

1299
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: This is? This is They're a fun team to watch.

1300
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:44,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, like defense isn't I guess. But

1301
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: if you watched Bears Falcons, and if you watched Falcons

1302
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: Cowboys and you had nothing at stake in the game,

1303
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 1: which you know, which I didn't. I worked for the NFL,

1304
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: I was fully entertained. You got a great quarterback in

1305
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:02,320
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, and you great drama and like, how can

1306
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: they possibly lose this game? What a mismatch? When the

1307
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: Packers have the ball. This Falcon's edge rush, which has

1308
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 1: been bad for as long as Quinn's been there, and

1309
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 1: we talked about it every obfouson and it's maybe worse

1310
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: now than it's ever been. So you just don't expect

1311
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 1: Rogers to face a lot of heat in this game,

1312
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: and that should make for a fun Monday night. You know,

1313
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: they can sell this game. I could sell it. What

1314
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:28,919
Speaker 1: do you think, Mark? You know my favorite play from

1315
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:33,959
Speaker 1: the Falcons game was this amazing um moment where Matt

1316
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 1: Ryan just like willingly flung the ball out of bounds

1317
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: and it nailed a neiled one of these like sitting

1318
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: um cameraman like cameraman guys right off the end zone,

1319
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: like sitting with his neil, his knees all bent, and

1320
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 1: he had like a ten tho dollar lens and he

1321
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 1: was just completely removed from reality. The bravest men in America,

1322
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 1: by the way, the guys that sit uh criss cross

1323
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 1: apple sauce is the accepted turn now with their ten

1324
01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: thou dollar camera as these like thorough bread sprint at

1325
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 1: them on like end zone fades. It's pretty impressive that

1326
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: they have the guts that just hang in there. I

1327
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: enjoyed that. But then you know, there was also the

1328
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan that started the fourth that fourth quarter, that

1329
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: critical fourth quarter over seven. You know, then then that

1330
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: kind of opened the door for Folds to shake out

1331
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: of a little mini funk and turn into magic folds.

1332
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: And so I agree with Greg that this is an

1333
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 1: interesting matchup because the Falcon's offense is amazing. I think

1334
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley is everyone. They might get Julio, but you

1335
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: know what with Calvin Ridley, like he is a total luminary.

1336
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I hate people to talk

1337
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 1: about their fantasy team, but I reluctantly drafted him, and

1338
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 1: he is kicking people's butt week after week, would like him.

1339
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 1: They didn't. You read the zeus or Calm that he

1340
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 1: was gonna be joining the Superstar Club. Missed, I missed that.

1341
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: That that data from you. That's on me. Unfortunate, that's

1342
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:57,680
Speaker 1: on me. But fourth time you've referred to yourself in

1343
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: the third person, it's all there is a pointed it out.

1344
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: But we're never going was ready, it was time. We're

1345
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: never going back to the someone else calling him by

1346
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 1: his name. Hell, this is an easy matchup two for

1347
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 1: the Falcons offense. They're they're playing a defense that's also struggling.

1348
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not really much the Green Bay defense

1349
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:19,040
Speaker 1: is doing well right now, um even their best players

1350
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: and Aius Smith maybe not quite as many big plays,

1351
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 1: but it's more of the run defense and in the

1352
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 1: back end. Like there should be points there. Really, there

1353
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 1: really should be plenty of points for the Falcon I

1354
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 1: guess I'm just saying it would have been really fun

1355
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: this game was played in Atlanta. When the Falcons collapse

1356
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, you would get that Aaron Rodgers

1357
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 1: come back. You would have the back and forth action

1358
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 1: earlier in the game. But I think at Lambeau. I

1359
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 1: don't think we get to see the Falcons collapse because

1360
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they get to the point where they

1361
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: can collapse. I like the Packers. I I don't know.

1362
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: Do you think the Falcons still have a soul after

1363
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 1: what happened the last two weeks? These are two in

1364
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 1: terms of early losses back to back. I can't remember

1365
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: another team that. There's never there's never been a team

1366
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:04,959
Speaker 1: that's last two games in a season similarly, much less

1367
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 1: back to back. You're right, but they did come out

1368
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: last week and then started off well, I don't know

1369
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: that's what they do. And you know what, to the

1370
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 1: point of is this gonna be a fun game to

1371
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 1: watch Aaron Rodgers in primetime at Lambeo, even though there's

1372
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: no fans there. That's worth the price of you and

1373
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan playing pretty great too. I mean, this is like,

1374
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: wipe out what's happened and just watch it on its own, enjoyable.

1375
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 1: All right, up next, Greg, it's snakes to you, Okay, Um,

1376
01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 1: what is still left? How about the Jaguars Bengals. I'm

1377
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by this game. Everyone thinks this is the

1378
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:43,639
Speaker 1: spot for Joe Burrow to get his first win. Makes sense.

1379
01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 1: He has not played um a defense as forgiving as Jacksonville.

1380
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: This could be the first game where Joe Burrow theoretically

1381
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 1: gets protection. I think Joe Burrows, coming off his best

1382
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 1: game in Philadelphia really was sharp. He's shown if you

1383
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: protect him, he is gonna be on time, on target,

1384
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,639
Speaker 1: and make good decisions. The deep ball isn't quite there.

1385
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 1: They're still condensed like that. It holds up a little bit.

1386
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: So he doesn't have like the big arm of an

1387
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:12,320
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, certainly, but this is a game you would

1388
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 1: expect him to go up and down the field, and

1389
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: he's hungry for a win. He said it this week,

1390
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 1: he said, we we absolutely need to win this game.

1391
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 1: I think they know their favored It's that I came

1392
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: the last time the Bengals were favored to win this game.

1393
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,759
Speaker 1: You're locking locking it up? Is that easy? I actually

1394
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: think that Jaguars are gonna win this game. Well, what

1395
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: do you say? Yeah? Because the Burrow and you know

1396
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 1: they have to do a better job predecting Brow. He

1397
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:38,719
Speaker 1: got the snot knocked out of him by the Eagles,

1398
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:40,800
Speaker 1: including one shot. And I know you guys know what

1399
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm talking about where it would have put ninety nine

1400
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 1: point three percent of humans into a hospital. And I

1401
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:48,720
Speaker 1: know he got up because he's tough and he's a

1402
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:52,760
Speaker 1: world class athlete. But you continue to get this kid destroyed,

1403
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: He's gonna end up on the I R on the

1404
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 1: other side of We didn't get a chance to talk

1405
01:09:57,040 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 1: about it as a group, but obviously very disappointing performance

1406
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 1: by the Jaguars on offense against the Dolphins last week

1407
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night football. Uh, we're gonna chalk that up

1408
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: mark as just a bad week or a sign that

1409
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:10,640
Speaker 1: this is going to continue to be an up and

1410
01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 1: down offense. Well, I think it's an up and down offense.

1411
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: And I think that Minshew, you know, for all my

1412
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 1: you know, I still am a I'm still a minshu Vin,

1413
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 1: but he may be an up and down quarterback where

1414
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,679
Speaker 1: you're gonna because because if you want to look back

1415
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:24,880
Speaker 1: at last year, he had some of those games. Now,

1416
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think that a lot

1417
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:28,439
Speaker 1: of it had to do with DJ Shark not being

1418
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 1: in the lineup. They have a great connection and that

1419
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 1: changed a lot. And you know, Thursday night football is weird,

1420
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: and I don't I'm not writing off Minshew at all.

1421
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 1: But I think he's capable of that kind of game,

1422
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 1: the same way he's capable of surprising us, you know,

1423
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 1: the first two weeks. So I Flora's cook him up.

1424
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 1: Flora's cooked him up. Is lu on a Rumo gonna

1425
01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: cook him up? He gonna scramble him? I don't know.

1426
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 1: But they're getting they're getting DJ back to I think

1427
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: that's a big part of this. And you know, like

1428
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,639
Speaker 1: I liked them to be frisky. Um to me, can

1429
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:01,360
Speaker 1: you do what the other teams done to borrow who's

1430
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: to your point and has had forty two pressures in

1431
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 1: the past two weeks. That's not cool. I mean, you're

1432
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: gonna you're That's how you get a quarterback at the

1433
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: end of the year, no matter how much promise that

1434
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 1: person had. I mean, they're seeing ghosts and they're they're

1435
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:17,439
Speaker 1: not making good reads and they're learning bad habits. If

1436
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:19,800
Speaker 1: you if that pressure continues, like it's outs like Jonah

1437
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: Williams and for like beefy male strippers that don't have

1438
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:27,520
Speaker 1: any work because strip strip places aren't open at this point.

1439
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:33,080
Speaker 1: A mail strip places are also hard. You're talking about steakhouses, sure,

1440
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:36,679
Speaker 1: luxury steakhouses. Um it, I know it cost him sleep

1441
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 1: Minshew missing that deep throw down the right sideline. I

1442
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,719
Speaker 1: think it was the con ley which would have potentially

1443
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: changed that game completely. That's just the stuff, you know.

1444
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: Everybody misses it throw every once in a while. But

1445
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: the difference with for Minshew is that seemed like a

1446
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:54,559
Speaker 1: setting at home against Miami where he puts together another

1447
01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 1: nice performance and it's like, Okay, look at us. We're

1448
01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 1: we're in October now, and this guy's doing it week

1449
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 1: after week. The fact that he laid down there makes

1450
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:04,800
Speaker 1: you puts the doubt back there. It's like, okay, is

1451
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: he just this guy up and down and that is

1452
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: not the guy that the Jaguars are gonna stick with

1453
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 1: if they have a high draft pick, uh come next spring.

1454
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think this is a good test for

1455
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 1: him to see where he's at, because you don't want

1456
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 1: to stack good game two good games too bad games. Uh,

1457
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. It's not a bad draft pick. This

1458
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: snaps for the Bengals defense, this is always this is

1459
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: my corner. I don't know if you guys know this.

1460
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 1: It's it's the which defense played in an incredible amount

1461
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 1: of snaps the week before and are gonna be tired.

1462
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 1: It's the Bengals defense snaps and the Jaguars have been

1463
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: very rested for this game. I mean that it's a

1464
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:45,880
Speaker 1: good case. I mean that Eagles Bengals game. I mean

1465
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:49,640
Speaker 1: it's it went on for so long and for some

1466
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:51,640
Speaker 1: reason I was tracking on this TV over here. It's

1467
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:55,719
Speaker 1: like this. This feels like, um, like a double feature

1468
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: that is of no interest to the person watching it.

1469
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 1: Why is this? Why is this still? Then they both

1470
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 1: get to overtime and basically say we don't have a

1471
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:05,839
Speaker 1: lot of interest in closing this out in overtime was finished.

1472
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: I don't think I've watched the worst overtime and that

1473
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 1: mark closes out all right, I'm gonna go with the Well,

1474
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 1: there's only one choice left, so it's essentially I don't

1475
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:17,640
Speaker 1: want to call it the what's what do they call

1476
01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 1: the last man in the draft? Mr? Irrelevant? Yeah? I

1477
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:25,639
Speaker 1: think the Panthers have in this pick almost every week? Yeah,

1478
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:28,320
Speaker 1: Mr Irrelevant, Yes, I guess this would this would be

1479
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,760
Speaker 1: I don't agree that this is irrelevant because you know,

1480
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: there's some interesting history to this coaching matchup Cardinals Panthers.

1481
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury Matt Rule. We all saw the stories floating

1482
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:43,559
Speaker 1: around that Kingsbury, like me, thinks a lot of Matt Rule.

1483
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 1: That Matt Rule called him up when Baylor knocked out

1484
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 1: Texas Tech in the game, and it got Kingsbury fired.

1485
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,479
Speaker 1: Look where they are now. I think there two of

1486
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:55,280
Speaker 1: the more interesting coaches in the NFL, and I'm twelve

1487
01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:58,559
Speaker 1: coaches just making the leap to the big game with

1488
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,680
Speaker 1: the big salaries it for them. Look at that. I

1489
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 1: think they were making plenty of money before, they're making

1490
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 1: plenty of money now. But there's a reason they're making

1491
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:11,799
Speaker 1: this money. These jobs. I'd put like like four zeros

1492
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:13,640
Speaker 1: on that and like houses and cars. We don't know

1493
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: about undocumented. But if if we want to talk about

1494
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: the game, um, I think that I want to see

1495
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 1: how Kyler Murray and the Cardinals respond after last week's affair.

1496
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 1: And I think that on the Panthers side, you're starting

1497
01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, they'll go to and fourteen this year,

1498
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: then then the change will happen. Like every other Matt

1499
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 1: Rule team, I don't care about the record. I don't

1500
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: think it'll be great, but I think Teddy Bridgewater is

1501
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,520
Speaker 1: having a good season. Overall, the offense without Christian McCaffrey

1502
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:41,479
Speaker 1: is functional, and the defense has got a little bit

1503
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 1: better each week. A lot of coaches love Mike Davis,

1504
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 1: so I don't know what the tone of voice there is.

1505
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 1: I mean that was that was a celebration of hiss

1506
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: from scrimmage. Okay, I thought it was just like bordering

1507
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: on potentially a little snarky. But I will assume that

1508
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 1: it wasn't. But I don't know. This to me is

1509
01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:03,559
Speaker 1: an interesting matchup. I will be this is what I

1510
01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: won't go to sunbathe in the yard. Right the Panthers

1511
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:11,599
Speaker 1: have been weirdly, uh predictable, like we kind of thought

1512
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:13,840
Speaker 1: before the year, this is gonna the The offense actually

1513
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:15,559
Speaker 1: will be a little frisky. It'll be better than you think.

1514
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: Their twentieth in d v O A right now, So

1515
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: that sounds about right, like Teddy Bridgewater, you could do

1516
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 1: a lot worse. I actually think he'll he'll play better.

1517
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:24,400
Speaker 1: He's been good. I wouldn't say he's great, but he's

1518
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 1: in that like twenty five probably of quarterbacks that's around

1519
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 1: where he is a pff. That sounds about right to me.

1520
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: He's going down the field more and their defense is bad.

1521
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 1: I know they made some plays last week. Brian burns

1522
01:15:35,760 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 1: Um made a number of plays, and your boy dj

1523
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: uh move the sticks. Dan, I should do a podcast.

1524
01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:46,719
Speaker 1: He loves Jeremy Chin, their safety, who made some plays

1525
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:48,839
Speaker 1: last week too. So they got a couple of players.

1526
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:51,680
Speaker 1: But I'm not really to buying into the defense being good.

1527
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,760
Speaker 1: There's still thirtieth right now in efficiency. And you would

1528
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 1: think if the if the Cardinals are rolling offensively and

1529
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins has missed a couple of days of practice,

1530
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 1: this should be a game where they mix up that tempo.

1531
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:05,840
Speaker 1: I'd love how they do that. They speed up and

1532
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:08,679
Speaker 1: they slow down better than any team. Uh, you would

1533
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:10,680
Speaker 1: think the Cardinals offense can go win this game on

1534
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: their own two But then, like who who would have

1535
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: thought that? They would have been stymied by the Lions.

1536
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,639
Speaker 1: I haven't been that impressed with their passing game yet

1537
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: this year. It's been a little erratic, and especially if

1538
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 1: nuke Um isn't a or or he doesn't play, although

1539
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 1: he did finish that game out, so you would expect

1540
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 1: him to play that. Yeah, it's a bit of a concern.

1541
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: Teams that are lacking firepower and their wide receiver room

1542
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: messed up on Robbie Anderson. I include the Jets at

1543
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:40,840
Speaker 1: the top of that list because I never quite understood

1544
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:43,599
Speaker 1: the rush to get him out of the building. That's

1545
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:46,640
Speaker 1: on Joe Douglas because Prashad Perriman has not been an

1546
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,639
Speaker 1: upgrade for them so far. Robbie Ederson has been very

1547
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:53,280
Speaker 1: good in Carolina. He's been a guy he always he's

1548
01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 1: always been a guy that stays healthy. That he had

1549
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 1: been hit with a tag that he takes, plays off

1550
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 1: and is maybe a little bit limited as a route runner.

1551
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 1: But I think he's really helped their offense. And uh,

1552
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: if you remember he not at the level of Cam Newton,

1553
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: but another situation where he was just kind of sitting

1554
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: out there, he ended up signing a very team friendly deal. Uh,

1555
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: and I think he has been a big lift to Bridgewater.

1556
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: Well haven't you always, like, as a Jets fan, had

1557
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: people whispering to you that he was not the first

1558
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:24,800
Speaker 1: guy that the Jets what we're thinking about wanting to,

1559
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:27,639
Speaker 1: you know, give big money to on a multi year

1560
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:29,960
Speaker 1: deal because he had some sort of I would call

1561
01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:33,719
Speaker 1: some knuckle point knucklehead moment he was. He's a he's

1562
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 1: been a knucklehead in the past. He had an arrest

1563
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 1: that was very ugly. Um. But at the same time,

1564
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,599
Speaker 1: he was always a guy that could make big plays.

1565
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 1: And when his when his salary got to the point

1566
01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 1: where anybody could have had him um, and I think

1567
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:51,360
Speaker 1: he signed two years twenty million. Uh. It just jumped

1568
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 1: out to me that, uh A, the Jets didn't have

1569
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:56,000
Speaker 1: didn't think that he was someone that could help him

1570
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:58,720
Speaker 1: at that price and be that there wasn't one other

1571
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 1: team that thought, Okay, maybe that was maybe Mark to

1572
01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 1: your point, I think there was off the field issues

1573
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 1: that just scared teams off. I think that this is

1574
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:09,200
Speaker 1: another Matt Rule difference is that Matt Rule and Robby

1575
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: Anderson knew each other very well and there's a lot

1576
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 1: of trust between them. And I think Matt Rule, like

1577
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 1: when he came on our show in the summer and

1578
01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:18,479
Speaker 1: just openly defended Teddy Bridgewater when we were trying to

1579
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:21,680
Speaker 1: throw some Bridgewater yard per attempt stuff at him, I

1580
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:23,559
Speaker 1: think he's a player's coach and when he likes you,

1581
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 1: he's he's gonna put everything in you. And Robbie Anderson

1582
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:28,320
Speaker 1: is there are players like this. If you're getting the

1583
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 1: wrong system you're gonna have issues if you're in the

1584
01:18:30,439 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: right system. Everyone's asking why everyone what everyone else didn't

1585
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:36,760
Speaker 1: sign Robbie Anderson big came for the Cardinals. Everyone talked

1586
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 1: about like this, look at their schedule and go six

1587
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:42,680
Speaker 1: and oh while they lost that Lions one. Now in

1588
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 1: the NFC West, you cannot fall behind by losing to

1589
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: kind of these mid level teams that if they want

1590
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:49,760
Speaker 1: to keep up in that division, you gotta win games

1591
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 1: like this. All right, there you go. That is the

1592
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 1: preview of week four. Reminder that Sunday night we will

1593
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:01,600
Speaker 1: recap all the games that we just previewed today and

1594
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,880
Speaker 1: if you've missed it, make sure you check out our

1595
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:09,839
Speaker 1: Thursday night mini pod where Cecila and I breakdown Jets

1596
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 1: Broncos speaking of a road kill game. Uh, showdown at

1597
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:20,800
Speaker 1: the Meadowlands. Uh so, plenty of content to enjoy. Uh.

1598
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: This is Dan hands A signing off for the Quiet Storm,

1599
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,759
Speaker 1: the Old Boss or Crnicky Hollywood behind the Virtual Glass

1600
01:19:28,160 --> 01:20:10,000
Speaker 1: until Sunday m m m HM. As