Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast is really phoning it in
Speaker 1: at this from the Chris Westling podcast studio, and it
Speaker 1: is the Around the NFL podcast, and and us here
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal here. And it's always a little bit weird
Speaker 1: when the I call him the voice of God of
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast, when he said on the
Speaker 1: show as well, it's almost a little braggy. It's like
Speaker 1: I'm a voice artist, but I'm also an analyst of
Speaker 1: the sport. Matt Money Smith, welcome and uh, and you
Speaker 1: know how much I love giving you guys the business
Speaker 1: and getting the business gift given to me. So a
Speaker 1: tip of the cap to Ricky Hollywood for playing the Uh,
Speaker 1: guys are really phoning it in. When I'm the guy
Speaker 1: that's sitting right, I appreciate it. Be nice to get
Speaker 1: a little live intro read appreciate Money, thank you for
Speaker 1: stepping in. Also the voice of the Chargers of course,
Speaker 1: So you're a very busy man. Big radio show here
Speaker 1: in l as well with Petro's but in the Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler chair for the week four preview show. This is
Speaker 1: the first time we've done this with you. Excited for
Speaker 1: this maiden void. Well, I'm honored obviously. I am mom
Speaker 1: Gonna's used the word obviously twice. I am pointing out
Speaker 1: the obvious. Uh sass. If you're listening, love you, wish
Speaker 1: you the best to get better soon so I don't
Speaker 1: have to keep doing it because I had too much
Speaker 1: on my plate. Quaite too much on my plate. We're
Speaker 1: like Greg the way we are asking people for help. Now.
Speaker 1: We used to be once, by the time, the most
Speaker 1: self contained organism in this entire media group. We never
Speaker 1: asked anybody on the show. We never had guests, we
Speaker 1: never had anything. Now we're like hitting up all our buddies. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think they're starting to get a little annoyed. Right.
Speaker 1: We have Claibon and Weiss are on the A t
Speaker 1: N broadcast this week. People should check that out Saturday
Speaker 1: mornings or Saturday afternoons in the UK. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: is that balance of like, should we ask Claiban two
Speaker 1: or three times to help us this week? Let's let's
Speaker 1: get money to take one of those Claiban spots. It's
Speaker 1: it's a delicate balance, right. It's it's a because I
Speaker 1: want to be invited, I want to be wanted. I
Speaker 1: want you to want me. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I also don't really want to do it. But but
Speaker 1: it's but it truly is, you know, it's the scales
Speaker 1: of justice, and there's a there is a balance, like
Speaker 1: there is there is a time, let's say two weeks
Speaker 1: from now, if I hit up money again, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like zeuster. I wish you could do it. It's
Speaker 1: just at the time, my time is too valuable right now.
Speaker 1: I just can't listen help you out. All I'll say
Speaker 1: is always ask, because you know I don't care if
Speaker 1: I offend you by saying no, So feel free to
Speaker 1: always ask. Um. I know this from the hip. This
Speaker 1: is meaty. I know this is a Meadi show because
Speaker 1: I listen. I love the Around the NFL podcast, so
Speaker 1: I know how how big this one is. It's going
Speaker 1: to take a little while to get through all this,
Speaker 1: and I don't like playing the grab bass to start
Speaker 1: the pod. That just seems like such a you know,
Speaker 1: BS pod cliche, like hey, we're fun, loving god, we've
Speaker 1: been doing it for eight years and you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: do it now. I'm just gonna get and you don't,
Speaker 1: with all due respect, before before you insult somebody, you
Speaker 1: you had to carry the last show because Dan's voice
Speaker 1: was blown out. Yet you guys never shared why his
Speaker 1: voice was blown out. I didn't know. I didn't ask,
Speaker 1: to be honest, Why don't you tell everyone, Dan why
Speaker 1: your voice was blown out? All right? I will, and
Speaker 1: I do appreciate you putting me on the spot. I
Speaker 1: just figured it was the you know, vocal content. Wait
Speaker 1: do you hear this one? Wait? Do you hear this one?
Speaker 1: I blew out my voice on a Saturday afternoon. Come on,
Speaker 1: spit it out there because gian Carlos Stanton hit a
Speaker 1: grand slam over the Green Monster and down Streight. It
Speaker 1: was I mean, it's a disgrace. It is a disgrace.
Speaker 1: I know something big must have happened, because Dan knows
Speaker 1: I don't really follow the baseball so much anymore, but
Speaker 1: he did send me what I suspect was like a
Speaker 1: half drunk text about like how my dad is feeling
Speaker 1: about it? And I was like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: are you even talking about my dad? Like I wasn't
Speaker 1: I didn't, I wasn't aware of the game at that point.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's a big moment. As I told
Speaker 1: that text, that was the first one all season act
Speaker 1: like a professional. Yeah, well no, that was a learning,
Speaker 1: learning lesson. In fact, I woke up Sunday morning and
Speaker 1: I was like, usually it's just it's if I have
Speaker 1: a big screaming sports event, which is good because sometimes
Speaker 1: no it's not. How about we don't scream their exactly
Speaker 1: they're on TV. This is exactly first one. All right,
Speaker 1: choir boy. The one thing I don't like about working
Speaker 1: in sports is all the people like me that grew
Speaker 1: up loving sports all of a sudden are too cool
Speaker 1: for sports, Like why would you ever cheer? Why would
Speaker 1: you ever get excited for a sporting event? I still
Speaker 1: love my teams. I love the Yankees, I love the Nicks,
Speaker 1: I love the Jets, obviously, and sometimes it gets away
Speaker 1: from me, and that was there's just a I will
Speaker 1: learn from it. But also it's just that's also why
Speaker 1: I've worked in this business, because I'm passionate about it.
Speaker 1: Part of me is embarrassed for you, and part of
Speaker 1: me envies you because I am one of those too
Speaker 1: cool to cheer for teams guys, and I have I'm
Speaker 1: not too cool. I get into it. It's more at
Speaker 1: this point like him as tennis and basketball leavel not
Speaker 1: not football as much, but it's more you want to
Speaker 1: be an example for your kids. I was worried, like
Speaker 1: my dad was visiting. I mentioned that, and I was
Speaker 1: praying the Patriots would stomp the Jets because which thank
Speaker 1: you for the context now if he had left at
Speaker 1: that point, but I didn't want him screaming and swearing
Speaker 1: during a bad Patriots game in front of my in
Speaker 1: front of my boy. That's bad. It's bad. That's bad.
Speaker 1: That's good for that for the boys. I definitely do
Speaker 1: watch the swearing. I don't do that, but it's hard
Speaker 1: not to get excited ed s. I knocked it off
Speaker 1: the rails, and I will. I do declare vengeance upon
Speaker 1: you Money. We're bringing that up. It's only about the
Speaker 1: fiftieth time you've declared vengeance upon and guess what, this
Speaker 1: time it's coming. That's right. I declared vengeance on Money
Speaker 1: last week. That's right. When I'm in the makeup chair
Speaker 1: and it's hot down there, they haven't figured out the
Speaker 1: air conditions. A little vengeance. I had a little fan
Speaker 1: on me and then there was someone working on my
Speaker 1: hair and on my face. Was a moment, and then
Speaker 1: he's taken video and Greg, you know that's out of bounds.
Speaker 1: You don't take video in the makeup room to try
Speaker 1: to them know you're right. Gregg doesn't, but I do.
Speaker 1: That's kin a guy. I am. Here we go, get
Speaker 1: to it all right, Here we go week four. You
Speaker 1: know how it goes. I think money. You know how
Speaker 1: it goes. I do. I listen. We'll go through every
Speaker 1: game to come Thursday night football of course, Bengals Jaguars.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be an old Zeuser joint with a secret guest.
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna this song. I'm gonna say who
Speaker 1: the guest is a little Dasha zest to the conversation
Speaker 1: when this particular person open up the cabinet, take something
Speaker 1: out of the cabinet, and then you little dash of it.
Speaker 1: Any particular spice likes at the Italian, just tell me
Speaker 1: and Ricky can beep it out. I just want to
Speaker 1: know you haven't pieced it together. He literally just said,
Speaker 1: spice spice rack. We'll be joining me, Brad Spiceler, Cincinnati
Speaker 1: native Chris Westling, Buddy, there we go, and um the
Speaker 1: Chris Westling Desert Consigliari will be talking Bengals and number
Speaker 1: one draft pick Waterbacks that's coming up later tonight to
Speaker 1: look for that. Let's start first before we get into
Speaker 1: our draft, and Money will participate in the draft, and
Speaker 1: maybe that will be how we get Shooks games sorted out,
Speaker 1: and maybe Patrick will figure all that out without Mark here.
Speaker 1: But before any of that, let's start with the primetime games.
Speaker 1: And where else to start but Sunday Night football and Greg,
Speaker 1: you've you've I know, I know how you are. Greg.
Speaker 1: You have been avoiding this conversation on the show as
Speaker 1: long as you can. And he did a good job,
Speaker 1: and I was distracted with other things too, so I
Speaker 1: didn't really get a chance to drill in on it.
Speaker 1: But this is it. This is what you've been fearing
Speaker 1: your whole life. Tom Brady is coming to Foxboro, and
Speaker 1: not only coming to Foxborough. This is something I feel
Speaker 1: like you brought up last May. You're like and if
Speaker 1: you figure out, you see where his numbers are, it
Speaker 1: might line up that he could break Drew brees is
Speaker 1: passing record. They said it exactly for this purpose. They
Speaker 1: So you had mentioned that I remember a few maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of months back, and that's exactly where we
Speaker 1: are now. After Brady went over for for four hundred
Speaker 1: last week against the Rams. So not only is Tom
Speaker 1: Brady coming back to Foxborrow with Gronk by the way,
Speaker 1: he has a chance to set the record and that's
Speaker 1: a stop down the game situation. I guess I think
Speaker 1: it was for Drew Brees. I don't think so on
Speaker 1: the road and they're not gonna well, this isn't any
Speaker 1: road game, Greg, And that's what this is all about,
Speaker 1: because not only is Brady back, and you know he
Speaker 1: wants to deliver a whipping on his old coach, it's
Speaker 1: at a vulnerable time for the Patriots, like all of
Speaker 1: the fan stuff and the Brady returns and the relationship stuff.
Speaker 1: I almost don't wanna dive into it much. And yet
Speaker 1: the Patriots are so boring right now as a football team,
Speaker 1: and the Bucks are sort of what they are right now.
Speaker 1: They're a one dimensional team that doesn't really run the ball.
Speaker 1: Well that's at this point overrated defensively, and you can
Speaker 1: move the ball against I think it might be Mac
Speaker 1: jones best chance to make some plays is this game,
Speaker 1: because they're so Boomer bust um that I and this
Speaker 1: Patriots team a little boring right now. It's a good
Speaker 1: it's not a great defense. They're a totally disappointing offensive line.
Speaker 1: It's a station to station offense. But it gets kind
Speaker 1: of back to the Tom Brady of So it's crazy
Speaker 1: that he's returning to New England not just as a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion, but as arguably the best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league. And it gets to where Brady was in
Speaker 1: I went to look at their rank, his ranking on
Speaker 1: the QB Index end of the year. It's a good
Speaker 1: it's a good field tenth and eighteen, fourteenth and nineteen.
Speaker 1: And I think about those Patriots teams and I think
Speaker 1: how lame they were at the skill positions. And I
Speaker 1: look at this team again, and I watched them last
Speaker 1: weekendst the Saints, and I was like, this is another
Speaker 1: lame Patriots offense, especially at the skill positions. And it's
Speaker 1: almost like Brady always made those skill positions look better
Speaker 1: than they really are. And they tried to make some
Speaker 1: signings this offseason and they'll probably get better this year.
Speaker 1: But it's it's very similar to me, except now you've
Speaker 1: got a rookie quarterback running instead of one of the
Speaker 1: greatest ever. Well, you know, I I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was you guys, but it seemed like consensus was, oh,
Speaker 1: just you know, think back to those early oots. That's
Speaker 1: the way this is gonna look. Dominant defense, dominant offensive line.
Speaker 1: They're signing Hunter Henry and John hu Smith to be there,
Speaker 1: Rob Ronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, and that's gonna help out
Speaker 1: Mac Jones with which throws to the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: I think we're still waiting for it, you know where
Speaker 1: I think you said it best. You know, look, Damian
Speaker 1: Harris look great in week one, right, I mean outside
Speaker 1: of that fumble, It's like, Okay, this is this is
Speaker 1: what we anticipated. Is their sizzle. Not really a lot,
Speaker 1: but you can win games this way. And Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: you know, and and his ability to coach and and
Speaker 1: to help on those margins, the inches that you have
Speaker 1: to account for. That that gets you twenty one to
Speaker 1: eighteen wins or twenty four to one wins. And I
Speaker 1: just don't know if Mac Jones and the offense is
Speaker 1: good at it's different, is different from two thousand five.
Speaker 1: You've got to score points. I mean, they're better offensively
Speaker 1: than we're when Tom Brady right starter in oh one already,
Speaker 1: that's how bad that offense was one of the worst offenses.
Speaker 1: That's the thing is it's a different era. It's like
Speaker 1: they're trying to play to a different era and their
Speaker 1: defense is not that good. They've played three pretty poor
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in a row. I think up front they've been
Speaker 1: dominated until last week. They were okay. On the defensive line,
Speaker 1: they're an average two maybe better than average offense defense,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't get you very far. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of those and I don't think it's gonna get you
Speaker 1: many stops against Tom Brady. So I do think it's
Speaker 1: interesting because at the end of the Brady era in
Speaker 1: New England, they their skill positions had dried up, and
Speaker 1: we were told it was you know, they had some
Speaker 1: roster maneuvering that made it difficult to get better. This offseason,
Speaker 1: they went out of the way and spent, like we said,
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry Johns, remember all the hype about that when
Speaker 1: they came in Nelson Agilare, which was a signing that
Speaker 1: got and and you're not seeing this and Damien Harrison.
Speaker 1: You know, okay, they can run the football and Damien Harrison.
Speaker 1: Then you read about Damien Harris can't pass protect. So
Speaker 1: that's why may he's not getting on the fields as
Speaker 1: much as again And now now James White is out
Speaker 1: of the lineup for the season, most likely with the
Speaker 1: hip injury. And I guess this is my kind of
Speaker 1: last point on this, Greg that um isn't a little
Speaker 1: bit ironic, Greg that just as above the treetops, now
Speaker 1: you know what? You know what's not rain on your
Speaker 1: wedding thing? No, that is not not Atlantas kind of
Speaker 1: blew that one world before. But um, I have bad luck.
Speaker 1: I had some pie on my face for my hashtag
Speaker 1: gradual decline prediction of Brady and the late teens. Um,
Speaker 1: But guess what didn't It turned out it was the Patriots, Yes,
Speaker 1: that ultimately mis evaluated their own guy. And I think
Speaker 1: it's just telling that the best quarterback in the league,
Speaker 1: arguably two one, is back in New England now where
Speaker 1: this didn't have to be this way. I guess he
Speaker 1: could have been Derek Jeter with the Iggas, could have
Speaker 1: spent his whole career there. We're not relitigating this, but
Speaker 1: it is. It is a part of the story that
Speaker 1: he remained great and the Patriots didn't have the foresight
Speaker 1: to see that or make the relationship what it needed
Speaker 1: to be, and there's no way around it. That's part
Speaker 1: of this game. They they've they've been handling this well,
Speaker 1: Belichick and Brady publicly very well. But the part where
Speaker 1: Belichick was like, well I didn't want him to leave,
Speaker 1: It's like come on, right, It's like, come on, I
Speaker 1: mean to be fair, no one wanted Tom Brady, including
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He got paid about the same
Speaker 1: amount of money as Teddy Bridgewater as a free agent.
Speaker 1: The entire NFL could have come in and given him
Speaker 1: some money, and no one wanted to give him money.
Speaker 1: They gave him basically minimum salary, and even the Bucks
Speaker 1: were like, now we're not gonna go off that, We're
Speaker 1: not gonna go above that. Charges wanted him, wanted him,
Speaker 1: but no one wanted to No one believed that he
Speaker 1: was a difference making quarterback, or they wouldn't have offered
Speaker 1: him a lower salary than Derek. But that's missing the point.
Speaker 1: That's my point Isntory. It should have known. These other
Speaker 1: teams didn't have access to Brady, so they're seeing from
Speaker 1: the outside it looks like he's getting old. New England
Speaker 1: wasn't able to see that This guy could still will
Speaker 1: be incredible if you just get things fixed around him
Speaker 1: and treat him like the legend that he is, not
Speaker 1: like just another guy that's in your life. If that
Speaker 1: would get old, I don't. I don't mean that. I
Speaker 1: don't want this to be hot taking, but I know
Speaker 1: it's going to come out that way. To me. This
Speaker 1: this is so not a big deal, Like it really
Speaker 1: is not. The guy won the freaking Super Bowl, he
Speaker 1: was one of the he was the best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He's one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: This is nothing. This game against Bill Belichick him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think just in general it's it is for this week.
Speaker 1: But in the scheme of things, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like it's I think it means a lot to him.
Speaker 1: But he's saying it's gonna be It's gonna mean a
Speaker 1: lot to Belcheck. It is fast, and he just says
Speaker 1: that someone who loves football to see what he tries
Speaker 1: to do to stop them, because they are traditionally like
Speaker 1: a man to man type of defense. I don't think
Speaker 1: they got you know, they've been played more zone this year.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have. Um, the guys, they really
Speaker 1: missed Stephan Gilmour this week to to go man to man.
Speaker 1: They they you would think they would adopt what the
Speaker 1: Rams tried do and what teams try to do now,
Speaker 1: which is just like put two safeties back there, make
Speaker 1: them worked out up and down the field as slowly
Speaker 1: as possible, and hope he makes a mistake or someone
Speaker 1: else does, which happened last week. Gronk had a couple
Speaker 1: of key drops. There's a couple offensive wine issues, and
Speaker 1: they ended up scoring that many touchdowns. I am fascinated
Speaker 1: to see from like a football angle, But I also
Speaker 1: I'm annoyed by the Patriots fans who have been so
Speaker 1: spoiled by the greatest run in NFL history, and all
Speaker 1: they can do is complain and wine about it. And
Speaker 1: I get it, like you, you wish you kept Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I don't think that Tom Brady on these teams would
Speaker 1: have been the same time Brady, But just like, have
Speaker 1: some gratitude, I mean, just stop complaining about every let
Speaker 1: me we gotta move on. But I do want to
Speaker 1: ask you one question, Greg, what is in your mind
Speaker 1: best case scenario for Sunday night in terms of how
Speaker 1: Brady plays with the score is you know, give it
Speaker 1: what I mean, they can win the game. It's the
Speaker 1: NFL and the Bucks. Of what would would you like
Speaker 1: it to be? Let's say it's not never gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but thirty five three and Belichick schemes up Brady and
Speaker 1: destroys him. Would you want there? Do you want Brady
Speaker 1: to play well, have a nice moment in Boro back
Speaker 1: there and Patriots still win? Obviously? What would you rather?
Speaker 1: I'm just out of curiosity. No, I don't want Brady
Speaker 1: to be embarrassed. I don't want the crowd's not gonna
Speaker 1: boo him. But it would really bother me if if
Speaker 1: they did boo him, or if they went against him.
Speaker 1: I think it's the other way that this is. This
Speaker 1: is a game where you expect the Bucks to win big.
Speaker 1: I think there's been a mutiny building among a lot
Speaker 1: of Patriots fans who have kind of become Bucks fans
Speaker 1: and Brady fans. And the NBC is showing these ads
Speaker 1: where it's saying it's like we're against it. It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's really Boston. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of them are like our friends Burke, and they're very conflicted.
Speaker 1: They've been loving watching Brady so have I because how
Speaker 1: can you not live Tom Brady if you're Patriots fan?
Speaker 1: And uh, they're they're gonna kind of like jump ship
Speaker 1: when the Bucks drop a hammer on the Patriots. And
Speaker 1: that's why I'm locking it up for the buck. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you doing that. I mean, if I've got
Speaker 1: to go oh at three and just be a total mess,
Speaker 1: I might as well make the pick that for the show.
Speaker 1: If the Patriots win, it's good for the show. You're
Speaker 1: coming year old buttocks there because you're oh and three
Speaker 1: and now you're saying you're doing the pick for the show,
Speaker 1: But you gotta do the pick for yourself. Greg. It's
Speaker 1: a good lock though. I mean, that's the Bucks coming
Speaker 1: off a disappointing loss. We gotta move Monday night football.
Speaker 1: It would be faster on everything. Also, James, the offensive
Speaker 1: line is so terrible and James White being out for
Speaker 1: the season kills him. He was their best player, and
Speaker 1: as I said, Damian Harris reports that he's not. He's
Speaker 1: failing in his coverage, I mean, in his blocking assignments.
Speaker 1: That's why he was the best case scenario is it's
Speaker 1: a shootout and Mac Jones looks good and I think
Speaker 1: that's possible, all right, speaking of shootouts, Money, you will
Speaker 1: be on the call across the sidewalk. That's so far,
Speaker 1: so far stadium for Raiders at Chargers. This is a
Speaker 1: great game, not a good game. A great game between
Speaker 1: a three and o Charger Chargers team and a two
Speaker 1: and one three and o Raiders team and a two
Speaker 1: and one Chargers team that everyone is excited about it.
Speaker 1: You know who's more excited than anyone, Money, Brandon Staley.
Speaker 1: I love the way Brandon Staley goes out of his
Speaker 1: way now back to back weeks, once after a loss,
Speaker 1: once after win. The best player on that football field
Speaker 1: is our quarterback. And I know Mike Williams got loved
Speaker 1: this week too, But he's letting everyone know both and
Speaker 1: how he calls games and what he says to the media.
Speaker 1: I have something really special here and that's gonna take
Speaker 1: us far. And he backs it up, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's the difference, right. You can, you can
Speaker 1: say it all you want, but he backs it up.
Speaker 1: He wants the ball in justin Herbert's hands. He wants
Speaker 1: it with six and a half minutes left against the
Speaker 1: Washington Football team he wants it with forty six seconds
Speaker 1: and a fourth and nine against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: And so you don't think that was just about playing
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. You think this is sort of what they're
Speaker 1: gonna be letting justin her I wanted to ask you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's a message. I think it is a
Speaker 1: message because look and and I don't think he would
Speaker 1: say this. This is my own interpretation. I think the
Speaker 1: last four years and I love I really, I really do.
Speaker 1: I loved having Anthony Lean as a head coach. He
Speaker 1: is as good a dude as you could be around
Speaker 1: and was always very forthcoming. But I just think he
Speaker 1: coached scared not the right word. He coached against the clock,
Speaker 1: and I think against situational. With situational football from ten
Speaker 1: years ago, it's like, hey, milk the clock bank him,
Speaker 1: used their time outs and we'll win by two. And man,
Speaker 1: this team for four years, you know the numbers. Nobody
Speaker 1: lost more one score games, nobody lost more three point games.
Speaker 1: And I think it was deflating that that this team
Speaker 1: had an identity crisis of well, we're just waiting for
Speaker 1: the bad thing to happen. Because so so I think
Speaker 1: just saying, like the next you know he's special. He is.
Speaker 1: He is a very very special player. There are throws
Speaker 1: that he has made through three games this year. Particularly
Speaker 1: one that I would point to is go back to
Speaker 1: the Dallas game and watch that freaking rope he threw
Speaker 1: to Keenan Allen thirty yards down the field. It was layered,
Speaker 1: it was a laser and I cannot believe it is
Speaker 1: completed um And I think that's just an indication. I
Speaker 1: think Brandon Staley knows one like a couple of plays
Speaker 1: before that got overturned that was forty five yards on
Speaker 1: the line. Never seen it. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: One to Keenan it was forty five yards on the line.
Speaker 1: I got called back professionally, do you pinch us up?
Speaker 1: Because starting Lassie's and it was Tyrod Taylor and Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: who was not a slam dunk prospect. A lot of
Speaker 1: people were talking down on him. To now be walking
Speaker 1: into it feels like a Dan Reno type talent here.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys know, I'm a college football fan
Speaker 1: and I watched Justin Herbert and Oregon and this is
Speaker 1: not what we saw. This is this is not how
Speaker 1: Mario Christo Ball plays football. He plays not to turn
Speaker 1: the ball over. He believes in his defense, his old line,
Speaker 1: in his run game, he should be taken. He he
Speaker 1: really absolutely should. He absolutely should. They should have won
Speaker 1: a champ national championship if he was able to cut
Speaker 1: him loose instead of the way he chose to use him.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know what the Chargers were getting when
Speaker 1: they drafted him at number six. I thought they were
Speaker 1: getting the guy that I saw at Oregon that would
Speaker 1: you know if his guy wasn't wide open? He talked
Speaker 1: and ran and that doesn't work of the NFL. And man,
Speaker 1: it's turned out to be as special a quarterback as
Speaker 1: we have in the league. Right. Well, we'll get to
Speaker 1: the We've talked a lot of Raiders and this is
Speaker 1: still a Raiders the question. But we don't have money here,
Speaker 1: So I just want to ask because you have a
Speaker 1: good sense of this team facing this Raiders offense where
Speaker 1: four receivers have over two hundred yards receiving. Already, car
Speaker 1: is playing I think even better than Herbert. They're they're
Speaker 1: both like top five level cours, playing the best ever
Speaker 1: played in his career. He's playing this well despite a
Speaker 1: pretty bad offensive line and no running game, which is
Speaker 1: which is wild. How do you feel about this Chargers
Speaker 1: defense after three weeks? And like how they match up here?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know what I think about the Chargers defense.
Speaker 1: So here's what my Here's the way I described the
Speaker 1: Chargers defense is they are operating exactly how they want
Speaker 1: to and people are saying, you can't stop the run
Speaker 1: and four hundred yards and four hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 1: here they figured it out, Like I think, this is
Speaker 1: exactly what they want to do. You've got explosive offenses
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs and the Cowboys. Cowboys just put up
Speaker 1: a forty burger and they dropped twenty nine on the Bucks.
Speaker 1: What do they do against the Chargers? They needed a
Speaker 1: fifty six yard field goal at zero's to get to twenty.
Speaker 1: The Chief's ravage in thirty five a game, what do
Speaker 1: they do? They scored twenty four and they turn the
Speaker 1: ball over four times. This is what they want to do.
Speaker 1: It's you are not this has become a league of
Speaker 1: explosive place you are not going to get your explosive.
Speaker 1: The Raiders are like pretty much the number one team.
Speaker 1: They're almost making me regret picking the Raiders in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's what I think you're gonna see is you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a bunch of yards and people are gonna
Speaker 1: be like, man, I don't know, is this defense for real?
Speaker 1: And then you're not going to see a lot of
Speaker 1: points and that's what they want. That's how they're going
Speaker 1: to play the game. We have an inner office raffle
Speaker 1: for these games at so far Greg one last week,
Speaker 1: by the way, is that right? Yeah, let's uh connect
Speaker 1: some dots about that. You're going to the game on
Speaker 1: It was the butts game, but I gave him to Lakisa,
Speaker 1: so Lakisa got to go with Beautiful. So I figured
Speaker 1: there might be you know, the fix might be in.
Speaker 1: So come at me now for that money. Now, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Um I put in the raffle for tomorrow's Chargers game.
Speaker 1: I would love to see. It's gonna be a foot out.
Speaker 1: The Raiders were talking about their offense eight straight games
Speaker 1: with four total yards. That was the longest active streak.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are the next closest with four. They are
Speaker 1: flirting with history if they if they do it again,
Speaker 1: they tie the two thousand seven Patriots nine So and
Speaker 1: now Josh Jacobs, but I think there's a great chance
Speaker 1: they will. I think they'll get their yards. It's just
Speaker 1: back um potentially for this game as well. Whatever that means.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Josh. What is Josh Jacob. Well,
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be their lead back and he returned
Speaker 1: to practice on Thursday, so that can only give them
Speaker 1: a little more balance. This is a great game, Picket.
Speaker 1: You said you you picked the Raiders the Raiders on
Speaker 1: the website com because you know I'll take the Chargers.
Speaker 1: But I do think the Chargers win this game. To me,
Speaker 1: it's it's Max Crosby versus Storm Norton. I mean every
Speaker 1: it's so funny every team the three weeks that the
Speaker 1: Chargers have played them, they start with Chase Young on
Speaker 1: Rashawn Slater. After one series, they're like, no other side,
Speaker 1: and they dart with Chris Jones on Reshawns. Later two
Speaker 1: snaps and they're like, nope, other side, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: start with Max crosbyond Reshaws later. I'm sure to see
Speaker 1: if he can get the advantage there and they can
Speaker 1: try to crack that code and they're gonna move to
Speaker 1: the other side. So it's gonna be Max Crosby versus
Speaker 1: Storm Norton, and it's gonna be Joey Boss against Alex Favorites.
Speaker 1: The Chargers a little surprised, so that felt like a
Speaker 1: little too rich for me. And then I just went
Speaker 1: the whole the whole month, all right, So get ready,
Speaker 1: this is a fun one. I know. We got to
Speaker 1: speed it up. Let's now the primetime games right before
Speaker 1: we get to the draft. Let's take a break. Right
Speaker 1: here we go, we're back draft time. I got the
Speaker 1: first overall pick, and here we're gonna start. You gotta
Speaker 1: let's be obvious. Here Chardins at Rams. Love it. Great
Speaker 1: a f C West game on Monday night. Great NFC
Speaker 1: West game here. Um, the Rams to me seem like
Speaker 1: a team that's just in a really, really good place
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. The Cardinals, I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to make sense of the Cardinals
Speaker 1: right now. Greg, I see them. Obviously, they're playing winning football. Um,
Speaker 1: but do you see them at the level of these
Speaker 1: other top teams in the NFC right now or do
Speaker 1: they still step beneath that. No, they need to prove that,
Speaker 1: especially on both sides of the all, they've been run
Speaker 1: over too easily the last few weeks, dominated by Minnesota,
Speaker 1: sort of not embarrassing, but just shocking that J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt and this group could steam roll. And then when
Speaker 1: the Jaguars were running on them really well last week,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, maybe this is a problem. So
Speaker 1: normally you would expect Sean McVeigh the outside zone. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's attack that. And so I'm kind of curious if
Speaker 1: that's still part of the Rams arsenal, because the the
Speaker 1: craziest thing about the Rams so far is that they
Speaker 1: don't look anything like the Rams used to. They called
Speaker 1: three play action as last week that used to be
Speaker 1: like the basis of their offense. There's no outside zone.
Speaker 1: They don't even try to run the ball there. We
Speaker 1: are a dropped back shotgun. Let Matthew Stafford throw outside
Speaker 1: the numbers team and it's almost like Sean mcveigh's like
Speaker 1: flex in a little bit, being like, see, I just
Speaker 1: did that because I had to, and we don't have
Speaker 1: to anyone. And remember, you know, it wasn't even was
Speaker 1: I think it was the Bears right that did it
Speaker 1: before the Patriots, or was it the Lions Bears initially
Speaker 1: and so came up with the recipe to stop them.
Speaker 1: And and now it's like, well, here we go again.
Speaker 1: You don't have the code anymore because I got Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: and they may be taking some teams, especially Tampa by
Speaker 1: surprise that it was just like totally gone. Their old
Speaker 1: lines playing great, you know, And that's always been a
Speaker 1: big question because they have no depth there, and there
Speaker 1: is there. The margins are so slim at that at
Speaker 1: that position group and it's held up Matthew Stafford looks fantastic.
Speaker 1: They've got three, i mean four, three unique pass catching options.
Speaker 1: Cooper Cups playing the best of any wide ever in football.
Speaker 1: Robert Woods is such a great blocking wide receiver and
Speaker 1: just does everything well. And obviously you saw last week
Speaker 1: with the Sean Jackson. I think Jefferson, Jefferson, jack Jefferson
Speaker 1: and Higbee are perfect role. And I just think Sean
Speaker 1: McVeigh is, like, It's why so many people like him.
Speaker 1: He's just a kid. He's like, man, I call this stuff,
Speaker 1: Let's go play with it. I got a new toy.
Speaker 1: Let's go play with the toys. You don't sounds like
Speaker 1: you don't think the Cardinals are Uh No, I don't
Speaker 1: like them in this game though. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: one matchup that really jumps out to me is and
Speaker 1: I know that the Cardinals are getting a real impact
Speaker 1: from Ron del Moore, their second round pick, and Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk made some plays last week. But DeAndre Hopkins is
Speaker 1: not right now. He's got that rib issue. He wasn't
Speaker 1: a dynamic player last week. I know he had one
Speaker 1: big play called back, but um, he's gonna be up
Speaker 1: against Dalen Ramsey. So if Hopkins is erased by Ramsey, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: of Christian Kirk Jalen Ramsey because they think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been playing slot more than anything through
Speaker 1: three games, mes and Kirk has been lethal. I mean
Speaker 1: that's kind of been the You're gonna be agree and
Speaker 1: had a little juice last week. They are they are
Speaker 1: dangerous offensively, I mean they are good. I just don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be able to keep up. And you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna be asking a lot a lot of Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray here and and perhaps you can deliver it. But
Speaker 1: I like the Rams I did too. I Again, I'm
Speaker 1: confused by they drafted Isaiah Simmons in the top ten
Speaker 1: and then Zaven Collins in the top fifteen, and they
Speaker 1: can't play those two guys together. They're kind of getting
Speaker 1: They tried to trade Jordan Hicks in the off season,
Speaker 1: and he actually is playing more. I just think they
Speaker 1: have some issues up front, and you have to have
Speaker 1: your defense really on its ps and queues against the
Speaker 1: Rams or else. I don't think you're just gonna get
Speaker 1: in a shootout, and that's hard to money. You were
Speaker 1: up next, al Right, I am going to take. It's tough.
Speaker 1: It is because there's so many good games. We just
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Browns and Vikings. Okay, okay, this is
Speaker 1: a good one. But okay, Stefanski back in Minnesota. And
Speaker 1: part of this is for me to pat myself on
Speaker 1: the back because on our Power Ranking show, we had
Speaker 1: to do a you watch every Tuesday, every Tuesday noon.
Speaker 1: Specific favorite moment of the week is when we get
Speaker 1: I get lunch with like Dan on Tuesday, and there's
Speaker 1: Dan and the huge screen in our in our cafeteria,
Speaker 1: and sometimes like I'll look at that guy up there.
Speaker 1: I'll be talking to Greg and the TV be behind me,
Speaker 1: and then and Greg's just lost, like just like a grimace,
Speaker 1: like what like are always his broadcast husband is chooting
Speaker 1: on him, more like you are staring and you're just
Speaker 1: getting lost in your own eyes. I just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that guy, that guy man, look at that TV magic
Speaker 1: up there, go ahead. You know when everybody was freaking
Speaker 1: out about the Vikings, Oh, Kyle Rudolph taking a shot
Speaker 1: at at Mike Zimmer, Hey Rudolph, shut up, shut there.
Speaker 1: You take a shot at Zim when the Vikings were
Speaker 1: nothing before he got he drafts a bunch of defensive backs.
Speaker 1: I can back he was doing it before anybody else, saying, look,
Speaker 1: this league is all about corners now, and he was
Speaker 1: just loading up on him. You know. Good for Zim
Speaker 1: for figuring that out. I don't like hearing that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff from you, Rudolf. You got it where the
Speaker 1: Giants had now though you know they're scattered throughout the league,
Speaker 1: but you know what, you gotta take your swings and
Speaker 1: figure out which one of them. I'm so listen. I
Speaker 1: love I want to get to the Vikings a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I love that the Browns have a real challenge here.
Speaker 1: I want to figure out, like we mentioned, the power rankings.
Speaker 1: I've I've stuck them at number eight and just left
Speaker 1: them there where I think four or five straight weeks
Speaker 1: now because they're kind of doing exactly what you expect. Um.
Speaker 1: They hung really tight with the Chiefs and and Casey
Speaker 1: got beat took care of business against Houston and Chicago.
Speaker 1: There are moments in both those wins are like or
Speaker 1: performances like yes, this team could be dominant in the
Speaker 1: right spot. But also moments in both of those games
Speaker 1: are it's like, all right, guys, let's your elite right,
Speaker 1: let's see you play that way. So now you go
Speaker 1: to Minnesota to face the Vikings team that could easily
Speaker 1: be three and oh and have an offense very difficult
Speaker 1: to stop. This Greg is a Brown's test that I've
Speaker 1: been waiting for um since Week one. Great game. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's sort of two teams that look in the mirror
Speaker 1: at each other. I think right now, Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: the slightly better version of Baker Mayfield. We put that
Speaker 1: comp on him last year on this show. I think
Speaker 1: that right now they're similar type players. Cousins is just
Speaker 1: playing at a really high level, and to me, there's
Speaker 1: a it may sound crazy because but I don't know
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I mean, I think there's a pretty sizeable
Speaker 1: gap in receiver groups. You know, for for what Kirk
Speaker 1: has thrown to and what Baker is thrown. You'll just
Speaker 1: see Jarvis disappear in games. I don't know if Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham's back yet. He looks good. Jarvis is out this week.
Speaker 1: But you're right, so get your county on Donovan, people's
Speaker 1: exact county on Hooper. But you have that running game
Speaker 1: and that's where like the mirror thing really matches up.
Speaker 1: I mean, Madison did last week, and and I the
Speaker 1: Seahawks were the Sehawks were just terrible last week. But
Speaker 1: like again, it's you said, you're looking in the mirror.
Speaker 1: The schemes the same. You know what they want to do,
Speaker 1: minimize mistakes? Can the quarterback capitalize on all the attention
Speaker 1: we're playing, we're paying to slowing down the world. Difference
Speaker 1: is I kind of talked about how you know the
Speaker 1: Rams aren't doing as much play action. The Vikings aren't
Speaker 1: as much either, and they're definitely going three receivers instead
Speaker 1: of two tight ends. I think losing Rudolph, you're getting
Speaker 1: rid of him, and then IRV Smith got her as
Speaker 1: kind of helped him outr Kyle Rudolf. That's what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I think you put J. J Osborne out there and
Speaker 1: they're a little more dynamic with three receivers on the
Speaker 1: field instead of the two tight ends. But I do
Speaker 1: love that this game. If the Vikings lose, you thought
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer was cranky before, you don't think that ownership
Speaker 1: loved Kevin Stefanski. He was there for a decade. This
Speaker 1: wasn't just like, oh, I came back a little bit.
Speaker 1: And in two thousand and nineteen, if the Vikings had
Speaker 1: a losing record or a bad season, they were absolutely
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of Mike Zimmer. They were absolutely gonna
Speaker 1: elevate Kevin Stefanski. The Wolves love him. It's an open secret.
Speaker 1: But you know what. The Vikings made the playoffs that
Speaker 1: year and Stefanski said, bye. Everyone likes each other, they
Speaker 1: respect and it's got it's got levels to it. Because
Speaker 1: I think Gary Kubiak getting there gave Stefanski basis that
Speaker 1: he has taken with them to Cleveland. And who's Minnesota's
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, Clint que Kubiak, Gary's sun forever, Mike Zimmer.
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer is a very good coach, and I like
Speaker 1: the guy. Like what he doesn't want to lose to
Speaker 1: the little guy that was his buddy. Though. I know,
Speaker 1: but I thought you were intimating that they made a mistake,
Speaker 1: and maybe they did. I think Zimmer's very he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to lose that guy. And I think Clint Kubiak
Speaker 1: nepotism or not, is off to a good start. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what about these Vikings. Oh this is
Speaker 1: dance thing this week, But I love the Vikings. Wow.
Speaker 1: I love him so much that I'm gonna can't. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: I can't lock up against the Browns almost claim On
Speaker 1: told Ricky earlier this week I would, but no, another
Speaker 1: team caught my eye and I had to go in
Speaker 1: another direction. But I liked the part of me. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I wanted to take with my
Speaker 1: number one draft pick is part of me thinks that
Speaker 1: this could be a total Kirk Cousins meltdown game, like
Speaker 1: already hit some a couple of I don't think then
Speaker 1: are that hard to figure out. I'm curious what their
Speaker 1: defense will be like, but I just think they are
Speaker 1: a elite offense and so I'm giving them a slight
Speaker 1: edge because I've just seen them be elite for longer
Speaker 1: than I've seen the Vikings being elite. Office They've been great.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you guys didn't take Panthers. Cowboys Are
Speaker 1: is the one game I really wanted more than any
Speaker 1: on this entire slate early Christian ms healthy, I would
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because if the Cowboys stomp on him, to me,
Speaker 1: that's telling. It's a great um story of what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are doing. And these are just two teams that
Speaker 1: I think are like new Ish because the Cowboys were away.
Speaker 1: This Cowboys defense is different, and the Panthers are different,
Speaker 1: and so I'm fascinated by the teams that are different.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs I know who they are. I think I
Speaker 1: kind of know who the Browns are. These are two
Speaker 1: really interesting stories. I think that Dak right now is
Speaker 1: so good that he's making everyone look better, even like
Speaker 1: future Hall of famers like Tyrone Smith. Tyron Smith is
Speaker 1: over the hill. It's like, now he's great again. Well
Speaker 1: you know why Dak gotten back. You know, Zeke legitimately
Speaker 1: looks better. I think I've thought that since week one.
Speaker 1: But the receivers, everyone. Even the defense looks better with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott going up and down the field, and I
Speaker 1: just think he's playing at such a high level. I
Speaker 1: want to see him challenge, and I think this Panthers
Speaker 1: defense is an incredible challenge. Great offense beats great defense.
Speaker 1: So I like the Cowboys, but I'm really excited to
Speaker 1: watch it. I'm bummed that the secondary is banged up.
Speaker 1: I would have loved to have seen J. C. Horne healthy.
Speaker 1: It just seems like that they got C. J. Henderson.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a huge down. Yeah, he's gonnay.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get why you make that trade for,
Speaker 1: you know, and I just think back to the Combine
Speaker 1: and that draft and how people liked C. J. Anderson
Speaker 1: more than Jeff of Couda. You know, they were a
Speaker 1: handful of those people. So he he's a supposedly he's
Speaker 1: a super athlete, a little bit of a headache according
Speaker 1: to some of his teammates. So I'm not putting that
Speaker 1: out there on my own, but I would say good player,
Speaker 1: you know, I would say that rule is Matt rule
Speaker 1: is uh is someone who can who can I think
Speaker 1: crack sort of that that code if that's what you
Speaker 1: have to do. If he's got all the talent, you
Speaker 1: just got to get the head right. I do have
Speaker 1: faith and Matt Rule. I love the past Rushman, I
Speaker 1: love watching Burns. I think Reddick was a perfect, you know,
Speaker 1: free agent acquisition for him. Shack Thompson slowed down a
Speaker 1: little bit from his his tour and start there early.
Speaker 1: But I'm with you. I think it's just a great
Speaker 1: defense versus offense matchup for those two units. The Panthers
Speaker 1: keep comply, keep up in a high scoring Let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question, greg As, I was going to
Speaker 1: go into that direction. Where Sam Donald on the QB
Speaker 1: and Index this week he comes in at number ulule twenties.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna guess not say oh damn it
Speaker 1: all right um for me? And again it's naughty, it's
Speaker 1: a little, it's too raw. A Jet fan and a
Speaker 1: passionate one blew out his voice rooting for his New
Speaker 1: York sports team this past week. Is it's hard to
Speaker 1: kind of figure out Sam Donald right now. But if
Speaker 1: he goes to Dallas and gets in a shootout with
Speaker 1: DAC and he's able to move the ball without Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else do you need to see to say, oh,
Speaker 1: he's fixed now. He is. Maybe not a great quarterback,
Speaker 1: but fun that Matt Rule is going to have success
Speaker 1: with and they're going to continue to be He's played well.
Speaker 1: I think he's been highly managed, and so I don't
Speaker 1: give him as much credit as quarterbacks that have to
Speaker 1: do more. I think now we have to do more
Speaker 1: because I think I'm keeping an eye on the Caroline
Speaker 1: offensive line in this game. I think the Cowboys win.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're a four and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: I think they win comfortably in the end because their
Speaker 1: offensive line, which I thought was a problem coming into
Speaker 1: the year, and it wasn't the kind of schemed around
Speaker 1: him the first two games. Houston got after them and
Speaker 1: hit Darneld a lot, and so I'm keeping an eye
Speaker 1: on that because I think if you gotta if you
Speaker 1: have bad pass protection, it's gonna be hard to keep up.
Speaker 1: I would say, whatever you do, Sam, and I know
Speaker 1: you're listening to the Around the NFL podcast, Stay away
Speaker 1: from Trevon Diggs. Just yeah, that caught the field in half.
Speaker 1: He's so good. Stay away from it. How many more
Speaker 1: people in the country. Now know who's Trevon Diggs is
Speaker 1: then like two months ago and between hard knocks and
Speaker 1: the big games that he's every week coacious little boy,
Speaker 1: his son um just like kind of in broad strokes.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys playing with a ton of confidence right now,
Speaker 1: looking really good at home, the Panthers three and oh
Speaker 1: could lose and still be okay. It all kind of
Speaker 1: is to me looking like, I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I disagree with you, Greg, I just don't said. I
Speaker 1: just like I like it more than four and a half.
Speaker 1: Put it that way. Caroline is number one almost across
Speaker 1: the board in many defensive metrics. But again, you gotta
Speaker 1: look at who they played, and I'm still not sold
Speaker 1: on the Dallas defense. You know, I I think they
Speaker 1: took advantage of of Storm Norton in that Charger game.
Speaker 1: And I think they took advantage of a beat to
Speaker 1: hell Eagles offensive line in that game as well. But
Speaker 1: the Sam Donald of that CMC going to be and
Speaker 1: by thely, get Robby Anderson involved. Let's take a break,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go, Greg snaked. Oh great, I can
Speaker 1: take my number one. Late game, I had a feeling
Speaker 1: you guys wouldn't Ravens Bronco that was gonna be my
Speaker 1: pick yet, jerk, I mean, you're not even it's the
Speaker 1: a f C West. I gotta pay attention to the
Speaker 1: a f C West. It's a great game. It is
Speaker 1: because we wanted to. Now you're not allowed to watch it.
Speaker 1: Money that is, you're allowed to watch this terrible that's fine,
Speaker 1: what a terrible development. Lamar Jackson's miss don't I agree
Speaker 1: to come over there? So I took the Browns by
Speaker 1: the way, because they're the Charger's opponent next week, so
Speaker 1: it works out perfectly. I am curious to see Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson after he MRS practice twice this week with a
Speaker 1: back injury. They're saying it's not serious, so I'm assuming
Speaker 1: he's playing, but that's a little bit of a concern.
Speaker 1: He also missed some practice last week with an illness,
Speaker 1: which you now wonder was it actually a back injury.
Speaker 1: Who knows with NFL teams the back injury from the
Speaker 1: flip s football don't do flips into the ends. They said, yeah,
Speaker 1: they said that bother hip at the time. Now it's back.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Can the Ravens defense like come and
Speaker 1: go get after Denver, who's missing too starting guards in
Speaker 1: practice this week, who hasn't had a great offensive line.
Speaker 1: Teddy got a lot of hits um and they kind
Speaker 1: of be the group that blitz and they should feel
Speaker 1: better about it now because there's no kJ hammler Uh
Speaker 1: in this game or for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Gonna be a while. And those are the guys who
Speaker 1: like one quickly. But the Ravens secondary like they're not
Speaker 1: as talented as they were either. And you gotta match
Speaker 1: up with the Obui com and fan the tight ends,
Speaker 1: and you still got Sutton and Patrick out there. I
Speaker 1: just think it's a great matchup to see where these
Speaker 1: two teams are at. I think it's about as even
Speaker 1: as it possibly gets. I had a hard time picking
Speaker 1: this one. Yeah, I love that that Courtland Sutton ended
Speaker 1: everybody how good he is. You know, so much attention
Speaker 1: on Jerry Judy an understandable. You know this guy like
Speaker 1: the West Side play. I'm just like West New West
Speaker 1: New right away. The old lines in issue. It's going
Speaker 1: to be an issue this week. I know the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Blitz stats are a little down, but that's because of
Speaker 1: the way they were playing The Chiefs they are still
Speaker 1: going to blitz the living hell out of you, and
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see how Teddy manages that after
Speaker 1: the three defenses that he faced leading up to this point.
Speaker 1: To me, this is a reminder. And I'm sorry, Greg,
Speaker 1: because I know how much you love Teddy b Old,
Speaker 1: Teddy too Gloves, But to me, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a reminder of why this guy is on his fourth team. Well,
Speaker 1: the situation is not nearly as good as it looked
Speaker 1: three weeks ago because of the missing personnel. That's what
Speaker 1: I mean. There's that seven starters between offense and defense,
Speaker 1: including four on offense, and to me, this is this
Speaker 1: is the perfect offense to go against that defense. Right.
Speaker 1: The strength is in the secondary. You can you can
Speaker 1: scheme against Bond Miller just run right at them. That's
Speaker 1: all they want to do is run the hell out
Speaker 1: of the ball. Mhm. Him not being healthy here is
Speaker 1: the biggest thing jumping out to me. If Lamar is
Speaker 1: not Lamar, they're obviously very vulnerable here. And Denver he
Speaker 1: finished that game though, and look, yeah that's true for
Speaker 1: the most part. In that game, I think, and you know,
Speaker 1: Drops will probably take a shot or something and he'll
Speaker 1: be okay. But uh yeah, Denver after that historically soft
Speaker 1: scheduled get a home game here too. So I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a close game. And Vic Fausio, it's
Speaker 1: so it's so good too, he's gonna scheme it up.
Speaker 1: I think the bronc Wis have a shot here. Do
Speaker 1: you think they get a shot? I think they took
Speaker 1: him to win. I think they got more than a shot.
Speaker 1: What no, you was shot to lose. Because when the
Speaker 1: Ravens come to top wait a second, when the Ravens
Speaker 1: roll into the mile I City Black, when Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and Tyson Williams, Hey, you want to take the top
Speaker 1: three runners away from us going into a season where
Speaker 1: we want to run and we want to run him,
Speaker 1: and we want to put a seal here. We want
Speaker 1: to put a seal here. Von Miller, We're coming at you.
Speaker 1: We're coming at you with some zone read. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? You guess right, You're gonna guess wrong.
Speaker 1: Ravens get one. Oh and this guy right here sitting
Speaker 1: in Cessler's chair, it's gonna lock it all. Well, this
Speaker 1: is big for you because you might go like one
Speaker 1: to know or oh and one on the seat. You're
Speaker 1: either gonna win the compet this center being last. Well,
Speaker 1: you said you didn't want to say that. I said,
Speaker 1: I want you to invite that. I want to be
Speaker 1: the decider. Yeah that was Jack Palants, Jack Palance, Jack Palance,
Speaker 1: A little Palants in you there. You gotta do some
Speaker 1: push ups now, number one guy. I I do wonder
Speaker 1: if the BRONC so you you mentioned Brandon Staley just
Speaker 1: quickly on this. You know it's inviting all the teams
Speaker 1: to right. I mean he learned it from the godfather,
Speaker 1: Vic Fonsio. Again, they want you to run the ball.
Speaker 1: They're begging you to run the ball. Normally, the Ravens
Speaker 1: would be the one team that would be like, sure,
Speaker 1: well we'll oblige. Are they that team right now? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think they are. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they are that team right now. They weren't last week
Speaker 1: against Denver, who's a good run I mean Detroit against
Speaker 1: who's a good run defense, and they threw it, and
Speaker 1: they threw it effectively. Lamar is leading the league and
Speaker 1: yards per completion and large per yards per carry, which
Speaker 1: is just the crazy stat that like anyone can do
Speaker 1: that to me. This is a that defense is really good.
Speaker 1: Let's play it safe. Let's do what we do best
Speaker 1: and force them to beat us. All right, that was fun. Really,
Speaker 1: I could trust Jack, my number one guy money. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm up, you're up. I will take Seahawks forty good
Speaker 1: value here. Yeah for people that um, because you know,
Speaker 1: and I feel like we're doing a lot of West here,
Speaker 1: so our apologies to the people about um. The the
Speaker 1: NFC West is weird if you look at the history
Speaker 1: of it. Kyle Shanahan always beats Sean McVeigh. Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: always beats Pete Carroll, and Pete Carroll always beats Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1: It's crazy when you look at the records. I think
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are five and one the last three years
Speaker 1: against the forty Ninersts are like five and one against
Speaker 1: the Rams, and the Rams are like five and one
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. It's the although he mostly loses, has
Speaker 1: beaten the forty regular I think is it's strangest thing.
Speaker 1: And um, the idea that Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and the reigning NFC West champions could start out one
Speaker 1: in three, it just seems crazy to me, and that's
Speaker 1: not the way to analyze a football game. Like you
Speaker 1: know what, Russell Wilson will do something special and it'll
Speaker 1: be a get right game because Jimmy Garoppolo is not
Speaker 1: as good as people are saying they are. And Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan's acting like a weirdo with not playing Trey Lance
Speaker 1: as much as he should because he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: running game working right now to me, like, I'm anxious
Speaker 1: to see how these two guys play each other considering
Speaker 1: the issues that they have right now with what they
Speaker 1: want to do and what's not happening out there through
Speaker 1: three weeks. They're both a little thin in terms of
Speaker 1: their offense, which is surprising, Like you think of Kyle
Speaker 1: Shannon and you think of that Falcons offense and another
Speaker 1: another guy ahead of the times really including five guys
Speaker 1: catching the ball at all time times, so you have
Speaker 1: to defend them all. Seahawks have two guys, forty Niners
Speaker 1: have two guys. They're not getting more help, Like the
Speaker 1: San Francisco running game isn't the same as it was,
Speaker 1: and I don't know who they are. You know, they're
Speaker 1: best runner, as you mentioned kind of on the sideline.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks said that they wanted to play up tempo
Speaker 1: and it just went away after the first week. But
Speaker 1: I'm with you kind of just like in Rest Sweet Trust,
Speaker 1: in this game when it comes down to it, Seahawks
Speaker 1: are so strange right now there. The way they're set up,
Speaker 1: the defense was beyond hard. And I know Minnesota has
Speaker 1: a good offense, but to not even be competitive last
Speaker 1: week is very trump troubling. Six straight quarters. Really, I mean,
Speaker 1: they across the board, they couldn't do anything right. They
Speaker 1: couldn't get off the field, and third, third down, they
Speaker 1: couldn't rush the quarterback, they couldn't stop the run. And
Speaker 1: I would say it's a really bad situation now because
Speaker 1: you've got the forty Niners and Kyle Shannon's gonna exploit
Speaker 1: all that. But I just don't know what to make
Speaker 1: sense of the forty niners on offense and the and
Speaker 1: the other thing is we're saying, we're saying, now, what
Speaker 1: is going on with Kyle jann and just play Tray
Speaker 1: Lance Jimmy Garoppol. He's annoying to watch, and he is
Speaker 1: He's super annoying to watch with all the indecision and
Speaker 1: the padding of the ball, and you just want to
Speaker 1: squeeze him just like throw the ball, make a read,
Speaker 1: get rid of keep going, get rid of the ball. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: I've said my piece, but keep rolling. But maybe if
Speaker 1: we all agree that Kyle Shanahan's a genius, maybe there
Speaker 1: is a reason we haven't seen Trey Lance yet. One
Speaker 1: of the things we talked about in Money you did it.
Speaker 1: I'm short a ton and the lead up to the
Speaker 1: draft was how little reps he actually had in college.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're in a tough spot because Jimmy g is
Speaker 1: not the answer, but Trey Lance isn't ready to be
Speaker 1: the answer. I think that's fair. And you look at
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is first starting that kind of supports that
Speaker 1: the notion that maybe see But I think Trey Lance
Speaker 1: is way ahead of Justin. But just use him in
Speaker 1: the running game? Is all ones running around? Your team
Speaker 1: used to pack them in? Yeah, mix him in. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we uh, we strike out eight straight players near the
Speaker 1: goal line, then we bring in lands and we score score.
Speaker 1: It's like, why don't just bring in Lands on the
Speaker 1: first place? Skip the first thing? Well, I mean Jimmy's
Speaker 1: h defense. There was an end zone drop. That was
Speaker 1: pretty bad there. I agree with you overall um and
Speaker 1: Seattle's defense, I don't just don't know. How does it
Speaker 1: get better? I do? I want to say, is going
Speaker 1: to go one and three lines? Pretty bad? Pretty bad?
Speaker 1: And that there's that weird stat I think I mentioned
Speaker 1: on the pod or maybe the power ranks. You never
Speaker 1: know that they are first in UM expected points per
Speaker 1: drive in the first half of the season and thirty
Speaker 1: second in the second half. What is that about? Is
Speaker 1: that Shane Waldron's fault? Is that Russell Wilson's fault? Is
Speaker 1: that a game script thing? I don't know. Is it
Speaker 1: just an anomaly because it's a guy who never called
Speaker 1: place before. You can script it out and that's fine,
Speaker 1: and then when you got to make your adjustments in
Speaker 1: free lance. This is a big game fan bases. Even
Speaker 1: though the Forts would be two and two if they lost,
Speaker 1: if they lost two straight home game, they would also
Speaker 1: be their sixth straight loss. In Levi's I mean that
Speaker 1: place just does not seem like a home field advantage.
Speaker 1: Whichever team loses this game like their fans are gonna
Speaker 1: be panicky. They put down the wine and cheese and
Speaker 1: pick up the pump bombs. Let's go with my right
Speaker 1: Fort haven't underrated brutal fan base like violent, great great fans,
Speaker 1: but there's something about that stadium. They don't win about it.
Speaker 1: They don't win there. Let's the Raiders took all the heat,
Speaker 1: but I would put ms of like parking lot violence
Speaker 1: up with anyone in the league having called a ton
Speaker 1: of their games. Maybe it's different or now no, well
Speaker 1: let me say this money still an aggressive fan base.
Speaker 1: Mr Chargers. Back in two thousand eight, week four right
Speaker 1: far Its signed with the Jets or was traded to
Speaker 1: the Jets. So me and my buddy Circling took the
Speaker 1: ride down from l A to San Diego and uh
Speaker 1: we sat in the upper deck at the old Wall
Speaker 1: com what it dump? That was, Oh yeah, falling apart um,
Speaker 1: but we're excited. We went up to our seats and
Speaker 1: it was constant harassment and just jerks. Everyone's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There was one guy that just stood in the aisle
Speaker 1: when we were trying to go up the steps, and
Speaker 1: he's probably about four hundred pounds. It looked like he'd
Speaker 1: been in prison maybe six times for various offenses, and
Speaker 1: it just made me think I didn't know. Chargers fans
Speaker 1: were like that is this a California fan? I don't
Speaker 1: know why. But here's my My push back to that
Speaker 1: islet we just wear a polo to the game. Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go again. Sports. You're a jaded sports guy.
Speaker 1: I know, like I think if it's one thing I've
Speaker 1: never understood why you got. I actually to think with
Speaker 1: NFL games, if you're on the road, it's a thought
Speaker 1: that you are going. It's gonna happen in a lot
Speaker 1: of stadiums, So it's a it's a thought like you
Speaker 1: guys sound so ridiculous. Both of you have you guys
Speaker 1: haven't been to a lot of NFL games, Then that's
Speaker 1: what happened. What do you mean NFL games? Of course
Speaker 1: I've been. I was in Broncos like Mile High. We lost.
Speaker 1: Here's all I'm saying. I's like, you gotta get harrassed.
Speaker 1: That's what happened. It's not baseball, it's not basketball. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get harassed. Dudes. Home home field fans put on
Speaker 1: a jersey and they think they're supposed to play football
Speaker 1: leveled of rush and that makes no sense. It's like, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm just here to watch a game with you though,
Speaker 1: it just be be proud, It's just it's fun. Call
Speaker 1: me jaded, I say, I say where the polo enjoy
Speaker 1: the game. And not even a T shirt you gotta
Speaker 1: put on polo whatever where shirt? Just saying like like
Speaker 1: I brought in your jersey with your name on the back.
Speaker 1: It's like, well do you have to wear a jersey? Right?
Speaker 1: Let's go? Uh, you really got to pick it up?
Speaker 1: Yes here comes I'm the worst my pick and I
Speaker 1: will I got a late game, so you got this
Speaker 1: is strategy money. Keep this in mind. Okay, you don't
Speaker 1: want to load up um on one side or the other.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get an early game. Chiefs at Eagles,
Speaker 1: Let's see what's going up? Two teams where the Chiefs
Speaker 1: had money was just like off his rocker and the
Speaker 1: a block of power rankings. Thinking that the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: gonna win like four games this year, Chiefs. That's not sure.
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are gonna be fine. They are
Speaker 1: not well. They are not executing uh in ways that
Speaker 1: you expect them to um. And if you're Chiefs fan,
Speaker 1: you're a little bit nervous now because you're thinking, wait
Speaker 1: a second, we always win these games when it's late
Speaker 1: and close, and then it happens twice in a row.
Speaker 1: And then you look around and you're watching the highlights
Speaker 1: around the league and you look at the standings, like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, my division is now loaded. Maybe and
Speaker 1: we may be lost a little of our magic. Pixie
Speaker 1: Dust and Andy Reid went to the hospital on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Look on, is our season a little bit off? Through
Speaker 1: our first round pick running back that we all summer?
Speaker 1: Oh Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He is unbelievably hot this summer.
Speaker 1: He's working in the passing game. He's gonna be the
Speaker 1: guy they thought last year. Well now he's fumbled two
Speaker 1: weeks ago in a row. All issues. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, you got the
Speaker 1: Eagles who just no showed on Monday Night football and
Speaker 1: made everybody that believes in the Eagles look bad. Um,
Speaker 1: including Greg So while I and Ricky, Ricky has followed
Speaker 1: me down the Eagles, Yeah, I have to is a
Speaker 1: bad take to so join me with the Chiefs. Have
Speaker 1: to get some things straightened out. Money. I believe in
Speaker 1: them to do that. Um, But the fact that they've
Speaker 1: struggled the way they have. You don't just assume it
Speaker 1: happens on the road in Philly. They you know, I
Speaker 1: just they just need Frank clarkback, you know, they need
Speaker 1: they need more pass rush. Like they've got nothing going
Speaker 1: justin Herbert had all day to pick them apart. Their
Speaker 1: secondary's always been a big question mark. Tyran Matthews great,
Speaker 1: but there's not much else back there, and he just
Speaker 1: carved them up. Yeah, I think you can panic about
Speaker 1: the defense. I have zero concerned the offense. Oh no,
Speaker 1: Like you lost a last play game where you lost
Speaker 1: the turnover margin four to nothing. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: keep losing the turnover margin like that. But there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of flukey. If I'm the Chargers, you almost
Speaker 1: want to win by more than that. If you win
Speaker 1: where the one thing I'll say though, that I think
Speaker 1: does come out of that. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: noticed after he fumbled, Clyde Edwards a layer was running
Speaker 1: like this the rest of the game. So it's clearly
Speaker 1: in his head. And everybody's gonna start punching at that thing.
Speaker 1: And if they get a couple more out, even if
Speaker 1: they recover them, I think that could get Sidewayster in
Speaker 1: that backfield, and like, offensively, the Chiefs are missing a
Speaker 1: little bit of the flash play, like the splat. Like
Speaker 1: the numbers look good, but my homes hasn't had the
Speaker 1: big time throws. They kind of came into the league
Speaker 1: talking about that they want to go on these long
Speaker 1: drives because that's how defenses are playing them. But it's like,
Speaker 1: why play into what the defenses are trying to do?
Speaker 1: And and again against the charges eleven play drive, twelve
Speaker 1: play drive, ten play drive, twelve played drive, And it's
Speaker 1: that part of it I don't like. But I also
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be one of the best five offenses
Speaker 1: in the league. So I'm not that concerned unless their
Speaker 1: defense is the very worst or one of the three
Speaker 1: or four worst in the league, and that's on the table.
Speaker 1: I will look. I think that's on the table right
Speaker 1: right now. And but I'm not worried about them in
Speaker 1: Philly and those and those spla as plays that they're
Speaker 1: famous for, whether it's Kelsey going for fifty five in
Speaker 1: this down the seam or of course Tyreek Hill. Not
Speaker 1: only do those, you know, lead to points, it also
Speaker 1: kind of flips momentum of games. It changes the vibe
Speaker 1: of a game when the Chiefs of the Chiefs defense
Speaker 1: is asleep at the switch early in the game, which
Speaker 1: happens all the time, all of a sudden they go
Speaker 1: bang bang, and the whole games different. They need to
Speaker 1: get back to that explosive element. But I'm okay, I'm
Speaker 1: open with the Chiefs right now. Are you gonna lock
Speaker 1: Eagle Eagles for the third straight week, Ricky or Ricky?
Speaker 1: What's your record? By the way, I believe I am
Speaker 1: owen two, So you should thank me for not letting
Speaker 1: you count last week double. Because now that's that's here
Speaker 1: comes the patriarchy. I'm saying that now it's fair. It
Speaker 1: was a more fair solution. And now you're not owing three.
Speaker 1: You know you're just look at it this way, Greg,
Speaker 1: you're pulling every wrong lever possible in the locks. If
Speaker 1: you just went on one along along with that, Ricky
Speaker 1: would be owing three right now, and she would get it. No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want her to. I want a fair, equitable game.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't make sense for it. She's only made two
Speaker 1: off picks. She doesn't deserve to be behind me. I
Speaker 1: should be in last. The patriarchy is here with the
Speaker 1: Lockley's Chief's Chiefs romp. All right, they should the Eagles
Speaker 1: on a short week. By the way, too, there's a
Speaker 1: lot cooking on a short week. Down three offensive lineman, now,
Speaker 1: I mean the whole thing with them was like, well
Speaker 1: the offensive line stays healthy. They're one of the best
Speaker 1: in leak. All Right, you're week four, you've lost three
Speaker 1: of your starters. If the Chiefs. If the Chiefs pass
Speaker 1: rush isn't getting home against the Eagles. We even trust
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts at the stage to pick him apart. We're
Speaker 1: all gonna find out. Let's take a break before we
Speaker 1: snake it. Oh, time for Underdog of the week. So
Speaker 1: you get to go again, Dannis, I do sort snakes
Speaker 1: to me. No, not the pit vipers. Hit vipers are snakes.
Speaker 1: I got the Power rankings every Tuesday, three pm Eastern.
Speaker 1: That's like the eighth mention of it. Yeah, take us.
Speaker 1: Take a slip of your drink. Every time they bring
Speaker 1: up it's like, hey, remember back in the B block,
Speaker 1: Join the evolution A time for Underdog of the Week.
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Speaker 1: it's an underdog this week, it's uh, my New York Jets.
Speaker 1: I will grab this with my next pick, Titans at
Speaker 1: Jets at the Meadow Ends. Now. Um, the Titans very nice,
Speaker 1: very nice performance back to back weeks here getting victories,
Speaker 1: um and leaning on their stars to do it. But
Speaker 1: they have issues here and UM, I have to see
Speaker 1: where they are at with the practice report. But Julio
Speaker 1: Jones and A. J. Brown are both banged up right
Speaker 1: now and there's a chance neither of them plays, so
Speaker 1: they're they're top wide receivers. Luckily, you still have Ryan Tannehill,
Speaker 1: you still have Derrick Henry, two guys who carried you
Speaker 1: to win last week. Uh, and obviously they are heavy
Speaker 1: favorites to take care business at the Meadow Ends. However,
Speaker 1: the thing that disappoints me the most Greg about the
Speaker 1: Jets so far, and they're off to an OH and
Speaker 1: three star for the third straight year, that even the
Speaker 1: ship we don't need that right, it is not on
Speaker 1: in New York City for either team. The thing that
Speaker 1: really sticks in my craw Greg about this OH and
Speaker 1: three start is that it's a boring oh and three.
Speaker 1: They have twenty points in three games half those points
Speaker 1: came in garbage time. And this whole idea, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get rid of Adam Gates, We're gonna bring in Michael Floor,
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring in all these different schemes that we
Speaker 1: haven't heard that Sally Luja. No not, We're not getting
Speaker 1: that till we'll get a w um. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a QB friendly system for this kid. Uh And none
Speaker 1: of that's Elijah Moore was gonna be this breakout star.
Speaker 1: All that has just disappeared, Greg And that's what annoys me.
Speaker 1: It's the offense flat lining out of the gates. And
Speaker 1: I know, and it's only the Jets. They get like
Speaker 1: arguably the best three defenses in the league back to
Speaker 1: back to back to start the season, or just top defenses.
Speaker 1: It softens up now against Tennessee. But I have no
Speaker 1: reason to be confident softens way up. This is a
Speaker 1: big week. It's a winnable game. Even if Julio plays.
Speaker 1: My guests would be he did does just because he
Speaker 1: finished last week's game and Julio missing practices. But Julio
Speaker 1: spent most of the fourth fourth quarter on the bench.
Speaker 1: That's fair, that's fair. But he did play, so just
Speaker 1: based on his history, he is a guy who never practices.
Speaker 1: A j Brown is fully expected to miss this game.
Speaker 1: But you're I think their star heavy system is faulty.
Speaker 1: Ryan Dano is working really hard for yards this year.
Speaker 1: He's having to run. That their receivers after those two
Speaker 1: guys are not impressive. That their defense is easily the
Speaker 1: easiest that Zack Wilson has played. I want to see
Speaker 1: some progress out of Zack Wilson. I want to see
Speaker 1: some layups. I want to see some drives. I think
Speaker 1: it's doable against Tennessee. Like show us something, because if
Speaker 1: you just looked at these stats the Jets have, imagine
Speaker 1: if Adam Gates was coaching this team. I mean people
Speaker 1: would be That's what I mean. We're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: We were supposed to be clear that Adam. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing here, we are. It's not a panic thing.
Speaker 1: Teams changed. But this is the week start showing me something.
Speaker 1: Football Outsiders showed that the Tennessee Titans have one of
Speaker 1: the worst dev o ways of any two and one
Speaker 1: team in history, which isn't a surprise because it got
Speaker 1: blown out Week one. But when you watch them that
Speaker 1: last week was about as as unimpressive of two score
Speaker 1: victory as you could conceivably had. That Titans team has
Speaker 1: a whole lot of issues that Ryan Tannehill and Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry and in theory these receivers make up for because
Speaker 1: the rest of the thirty fifty three man roster. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's not great team. I mean, all I got is
Speaker 1: the Jets are terrible. Like it's hard to watch that
Speaker 1: team play football. And I was defense has been average.
Speaker 1: Actually I think I'm talking to I got'm talking offensively,
Speaker 1: and that I get it. You lose a lot of
Speaker 1: your offensive line, and Beckton's a great left houckle, you
Speaker 1: lose him. And the running games not what we had hoped.
Speaker 1: And I was kind of excited about that running. I
Speaker 1: was sort of excited about this offense, like you said it, Dan,
Speaker 1: and it's just, man, we end up watching it in
Speaker 1: the booth a lot um just because it Edj's relationship
Speaker 1: with with Joe Douglass. So we tend to watch some
Speaker 1: Jets and and I want to see Zach Wilson succeed.
Speaker 1: He was blast to watch it at b y U
Speaker 1: And man, it just he's not making his line. No,
Speaker 1: it is not good and his receiver has had some
Speaker 1: drops last I think it's been a total meltdown. But
Speaker 1: if you're Jets fan listening right now, this is the
Speaker 1: way we need to look at this. Go win this
Speaker 1: game at least well, I don't even need to win it.
Speaker 1: Touchdowns week one to three nightmares. Hit reset and start
Speaker 1: playing a brand of competitive football and score some points
Speaker 1: even if you end up getting beat late. Because I
Speaker 1: love the Jets, says, and they're a touchdown underdog. I
Speaker 1: love them to keep it close. That's why they're the
Speaker 1: underdog of the week. Brought to you by Draft Kings,
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Speaker 1: last pick. My last pick is going to be Lions Bears. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Just from getting that out of the way that we
Speaker 1: don't have to watch it. I just like the drama.
Speaker 1: Bad news. We still have to watch it, Yes I do.
Speaker 1: The Lions are not going to go zero and eleventeen oh,
Speaker 1: Money says zero, not oh, which drives me, not kills me,
Speaker 1: it stops me. Like remember back in the d block
Speaker 1: when you said zero and Tuesday's specific. Um, I just
Speaker 1: I like the drama in this game. I and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna be Andy Dualt, if
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Justin fields. That offensive line is terrible.
Speaker 1: It's not like the Lions had a great game against
Speaker 1: the Ravens, so much of that score was predicated on
Speaker 1: self inflicted wounds and drops by Hollywood Um. At the
Speaker 1: same time, I have been on record, even after their
Speaker 1: victory over the Bengals, I think the Bears are one
Speaker 1: of the worst teams in football this year. I just
Speaker 1: ill offensively, there's no question, and I just think defensively,
Speaker 1: it's too much for them to overcome. Do they The
Speaker 1: defense seems good, but not great or maybe even average.
Speaker 1: And then when you you put this together with the
Speaker 1: offense of what you saw last week, which was not
Speaker 1: just uncompetitive and embarrassing, frankly, with a rookie getting sacked
Speaker 1: nine times, You're get in a situation here, money, where
Speaker 1: you put this kid out there and then you give
Speaker 1: such a poor performance in coaching and offensive line play
Speaker 1: that you worry about were jacking this kid up? Are
Speaker 1: we gonna make him see ghosts? Or some of it
Speaker 1: was his fault? Nasty watching him back. Probably five of
Speaker 1: them were on Justin field. If you put him in
Speaker 1: a situation where that he's not ready, then you're just
Speaker 1: down the line. Did you starting after what happened last week?
Speaker 1: They said Andy Dalton is down and then he was
Speaker 1: limited in practice on Wednesday, And unless they're going out
Speaker 1: of their way to confuse the Lions, when you gotta
Speaker 1: go out of your way to confuse the Lions, and
Speaker 1: then Andy Dalton starting, because if Andy Dalton's healthy. Last
Speaker 1: week's justin fields game was the reason why Naggie said it.
Speaker 1: And you can bang on Naggie all you want, and
Speaker 1: you should, but he's running in Andy Dalton offense, which
Speaker 1: is like quick gay team and get the ball out,
Speaker 1: and that's not really justin fields game. And the Lions
Speaker 1: are built pretty well to stop the run. They stopped Baltimore.
Speaker 1: That's like, it's not a good strategy, but that was
Speaker 1: like what Dan Campbell wanted to do. Draft guys who
Speaker 1: can stop the run, and they do have guys, and
Speaker 1: they got Brockerts like and so I think they'll be
Speaker 1: able to stop Montgomery. And it was in Detroit, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't touch it. But the fact that it's a soldier field,
Speaker 1: all those fans are hot and they're hot at you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's fair or not, I do want to watch
Speaker 1: this game. Might take it bad. This spy their their
Speaker 1: comeback was impressive. Uh, it took a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of hoodspa moxie. They could certainly win this game.
Speaker 1: But I think the Bears defense has been better than
Speaker 1: you guys give him credit for it. They did a
Speaker 1: good job against Baltimore. They did a great job against Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: who only and they got and really swallowed them up.
Speaker 1: And and so I I think their defense might be
Speaker 1: enough to win. You know, Greg, you brought it up
Speaker 1: last week, Um that Lions fans are sneaky, great fans
Speaker 1: and loyal fans and they'll leave him be cheering after
Speaker 1: a would play when it's thirty seventeen against the Packers.
Speaker 1: All true, And it's the first thing that popped in
Speaker 1: my mind when you know, sixty thousand fans went into
Speaker 1: the building last week and watched a sixty six yard
Speaker 1: field goal go off the crossbar and over it after
Speaker 1: a missed delay of game penalty, Like what do we know?
Speaker 1: The ball went to the middle of the field to hey,
Speaker 1: football gods, and you can't smite me. You can't curse
Speaker 1: me because I'm a Jets fan. Do your best? What
Speaker 1: are you doing here? Can we clean it up a
Speaker 1: little bit? Football? Gods? Uh, Greg, we gotta move. Wait
Speaker 1: the Lions they're gonna do it? This what No, Ricky,
Speaker 1: don't do it? Do it. I just have a good feeling.
Speaker 1: How good is the feeling? I love it? You know what?
Speaker 1: I love it? It just like starts tingling, and it's oh,
Speaker 1: wait a second, it starts. I never had that. And
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you look at Dan Campbell and
Speaker 1: all the caffeine he drinks, and you look at them
Speaker 1: biting knee clocks, knee clocks. I just saw that Caps.
Speaker 1: I just saw that Dan Campbell has an in game
Speaker 1: clock manager. Why don't other teams do this? Okay, well
Speaker 1: you guys, my time, tell us more about the knee clocks.
Speaker 1: So my knee clocks are tingling. Guys, I'm going to
Speaker 1: lock up the Lions. I like it, and you need
Speaker 1: a w not as bad as Greg because locking up
Speaker 1: the Bucks over the Patriots, right, He's desperate. It means
Speaker 1: a lot to him. It means a lot to him.
Speaker 1: He needs to win this one. No, I'm done, get
Speaker 1: to that one in three done, get back to respectability.
Speaker 1: He loves me. I'm her best friend for showing her
Speaker 1: how to go. Oh and three like I'm our leader
Speaker 1: right right close out the draft. Okay, then we'll speed
Speaker 1: through the rest of the games, will we there? We'll
Speaker 1: do our better try um Money's like Petro's has been
Speaker 1: doing an hour so far in his own He's like
Speaker 1: ham At, I'll get the Saints game into this early
Speaker 1: block Saints Giants a little more than fifteen years after
Speaker 1: Steve Glee Sin became a household name. This feels like
Speaker 1: the t the game you don't want to draw if
Speaker 1: you're the Giants lay being, there's just gonna be something extra.
Speaker 1: And if you don't think there's gonna be just something extra, hey,
Speaker 1: watch these first three saintschemes. I know they got they
Speaker 1: got blown out eventually against the Panthers, missing seven coaches
Speaker 1: and six players. But if you watch the defense in
Speaker 1: that game, that same Donald team, despite the great field
Speaker 1: position they had, we're stuck on seventeen again and again
Speaker 1: and again. And there's something going on with this Saints
Speaker 1: defense where a little greater than the some of their parts.
Speaker 1: I think this Saints team is a little greater than
Speaker 1: the some of their parts. No, I already locked up
Speaker 1: the bucks. Um, I wouldn't even be allowed to respectable.
Speaker 1: This is actually over the number the Patriots are not,
Speaker 1: so I would happily um. Their coverage in one is
Speaker 1: what is making this defense special. Seed Deuce Marshawn Lattimore,
Speaker 1: Marcus Williams, one of the most underrated safeties in the league.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins is still playing well to Mario Davis. Those
Speaker 1: guys have been together. They passed the receivers off, they
Speaker 1: know how to play zone, they know how to play man.
Speaker 1: I just think they are now. They're just a really
Speaker 1: underrated group right now that I think knows how to
Speaker 1: swallow up mediocre passing games. And that's what the Giants are,
Speaker 1: ultimately mediocre zero and four. Judge Kyle Rudolph, my head
Speaker 1: coach coaches, though he's like one of the most well
Speaker 1: liked playing the graduate Elder High School, the same high
Speaker 1: school where Nick Wesselen being interviewed at in a feature. Um,
Speaker 1: is that right? How do you feel fun about it?
Speaker 1: Once again? Yeah, Wis Westlings. Kyle Rudolph didn't have to
Speaker 1: say that, he could just say I love Joe judge.
Speaker 1: He's a great coach. That's all I gotta do. Instead,
Speaker 1: he's gotta take the shot, and he needs to step
Speaker 1: up because they might not have Shepherd in this game.
Speaker 1: That's a hun might have Slate in their offensive line.
Speaker 1: Um troubling Jamis, I'm gonna make here's my bold predicting
Speaker 1: Jamis goes over a hundred and fifty yards for the
Speaker 1: first time this season. Let's go three hundred and three.
Speaker 1: Let's wipe the floor with them. Let's give him something
Speaker 1: to cheer about. The Giants getting beat by the Falcons
Speaker 1: last week, that that that's curtains for them. I think.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Falcons, let's go there next Washington football
Speaker 1: team at UM. That's amazed Atlanta. I took the Lions Bears.
Speaker 1: He takes his officially over and the Steelers and Packers
Speaker 1: are still on the board. Ye're boring, I know, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying it's the Steelers and the Packers. We're going
Speaker 1: Lions Bears. Were there watching football team at Falcons. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Falcons beat the Giants, but I didn't watch a
Speaker 1: game and think to myself, oh okay, maybe the turn
Speaker 1: in the corner here. I do not think they're very
Speaker 1: good team. I don't think Washington is a good team,
Speaker 1: or they could be. I'm not writing off the football team,
Speaker 1: and I think, in fact, I know they're gonna get
Speaker 1: healthy here. And we've been talking about where's young and sweaty?
Speaker 1: You know, where is this defense? What is going on
Speaker 1: with what we thought this team was gonna be. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, Matt Ryan's a statue back there. This line
Speaker 1: is not going to be able to block the Washington front.
Speaker 1: And guess what, I am locking up the football team.
Speaker 1: Forget about this West Coast bias. That's on East Coast
Speaker 1: bias for you. The football team will get the w
Speaker 1: young and sweaty. Mark my words. You're gonna see Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan eaton fake turf all game long. And anybody have
Speaker 1: a thought in this game, I do. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think those are two of the worst teams in the league.
Speaker 1: One of them. Put down that low. You think they're
Speaker 1: one of the very worst teams. Yeah, I think they
Speaker 1: were one of the worst. Uh, they have one of
Speaker 1: the worst defenses, and that's what they're supposed to be
Speaker 1: based on. So until they stopped playing like one of
Speaker 1: the worst defenses, you have Tyler Heineke's like a little
Speaker 1: better than their quarterbacks last year, but not enough better. Uh,
Speaker 1: they just had And yeah, you're right the falcon, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here out there? Smith? You're turning
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridney into a guy who was averaging eight yards
Speaker 1: per catch, driving me crazy. Pitts is not going not
Speaker 1: been a huge factor. No attempts last week, over twenty yards.
Speaker 1: It's two bad teams, but one of them is gonna
Speaker 1: be two and two, and teams can change, so Washington
Speaker 1: has a much better chance to change. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: with you there. I'm with Bill scored twenty seven points
Speaker 1: in the first half against Washington last week. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: was over three hundred yards passing with nine minutes playing
Speaker 1: the third quarter. That's all bad, but it has to
Speaker 1: turn somewhere. Sometimes just beating up on a bad team
Speaker 1: is what you need to get your confidence going again
Speaker 1: and get the scheme work in the way it should.
Speaker 1: That's what I think up next, Why don't we hit it?
Speaker 1: Since Money mentioned it's Steelers at Packers and you know CBS,
Speaker 1: they said, let's send nance and Romo there. That's we
Speaker 1: got Lambo and the Steelers are going to be a
Speaker 1: powerhouse at the end of it. Well, I don't think
Speaker 1: they are money. I don't think the Steelers are at all.
Speaker 1: And I don't think they have a chance here. Dude, terrible,
Speaker 1: The old line is terrible. Nagy Harris is not explosive
Speaker 1: right now, even though he's getting fifteen targets like of
Speaker 1: receptions per game. There's just not enough juice there, Um,
Speaker 1: big bend. Look it, father time is not friendly man,
Speaker 1: and and typically it does not end how anybody wants
Speaker 1: it to. In this sport, very rarely do you get
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady story or the Jerome Bettist story. It
Speaker 1: typically ends like this, and it feels like this is
Speaker 1: sort of your your standard end to a superstar story
Speaker 1: in an NFL career. Plus, like people are saying, like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's not the type of guy who's gonna age. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like he has aged. Well, he's past that point.
Speaker 1: Now he's aged. It's over. He's like thirty thirty nine.
Speaker 1: He was playing at a very high level at thirty five.
Speaker 1: But that was kind of like the old even as
Speaker 1: recently is the Peyton Manning eras like once you hit
Speaker 1: thirty seven, thirty eight, you were cooked. Now there's more thought.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can get the thirty ninety's not that guy
Speaker 1: that guy, And yeah, I like the Packers to win
Speaker 1: because as much as everyone's enjoying piling on Ben Roethlisberg,
Speaker 1: probably because he hasn't been like that nice of them
Speaker 1: over the years. Like this team has other problems. I
Speaker 1: just mean, nationally beat reporters everyone, um because he blocked
Speaker 1: us on Twitter, Right, that's sort of stuff. It's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he was credibly accused of sexual
Speaker 1: assault multiple times. I think it's okay to mention that
Speaker 1: that he's not like America's favorite bad guy bad guy.
Speaker 1: I'm not covering for Big Ben, but right, that's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He's not the only problem. Can we get, ah,
Speaker 1: I know everyone loves Minca Fitzpatrick. Can we get like
Speaker 1: through one game where multiple touchdowns don't go over his
Speaker 1: head for like sixty yards, because like, I know, I'm
Speaker 1: not like, I'm not like XS and knows I know
Speaker 1: all the safety's assignment. But every Steelers game you watch,
Speaker 1: there are literally multiple touchdowns Patrick is running after the
Speaker 1: receiver as they score a touchdown. So whether that's the
Speaker 1: rest of the secondaries fault or his fault. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I know that, but it's a problem. And their
Speaker 1: offensive lines things too, Like it's not just Ben Route
Speaker 1: this bigger. That's all I'm saying. Darren moving on Texans
Speaker 1: at Bills as we all like, I mean, the Texas trying.
Speaker 1: Texans are trying their best, and they they like Smith
Speaker 1: back in the league. Lovey Smith is doing a nice job.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. It's good to happen back defense.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. But if Josh Allen and I was
Speaker 1: actually surprised as PF grade and that's obviously subjective, but
Speaker 1: was not as high. And I watched a game and
Speaker 1: like that guy, did you factor in PF that he
Speaker 1: was cutting through swirling winds in that building and basically
Speaker 1: doing whatever he wanted. There are things that PF does
Speaker 1: that I probably not probably probably not, probably nicked them
Speaker 1: for a couple of those deep misses. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem happening anyway. The Bills, if they get that Josh
Speaker 1: Allen again, which is no reason to think they won't
Speaker 1: against this Texans defense, even though it's been better than
Speaker 1: expected under Lovely Smith, this feels like a blowout. Tell
Speaker 1: me why it won't be money. They will be Yeah, Greg,
Speaker 1: you wanna you want to know what I'm gonna acknowledge
Speaker 1: here when talking about the Bills. The seventeen and a
Speaker 1: half point spread in this game, how that for a
Speaker 1: seventeen too? That for a week four game. And I'm
Speaker 1: and I still would not take them if I got
Speaker 1: to choose, and I do, I'm taking the Bills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we have to do it. On game picks.
Speaker 1: They put it right above the pick. Now they're keeping scoring.
Speaker 1: I think I'm still taking the Bills. I'm a sucker.
Speaker 1: I am a sucker for the Big ten. And I'm
Speaker 1: very happy to see a j Epanessa rebound from a
Speaker 1: disappointing rookie year to look pretty darn good in his
Speaker 1: sophomore campaign and continuing the wave of pass rushers and
Speaker 1: pressure guys that they have on that front. For Sean McDermott,
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a big problem for the
Speaker 1: a f C the whole season. Davis. I mean, if
Speaker 1: Tyrod's in this game, I'd put it under ten. That's
Speaker 1: how Tyrode might win the m v P just for
Speaker 1: not playing like you. Just this team is unplayable. I
Speaker 1: think with Davis Mills. I mean, he like, look how
Speaker 1: much Zach Wilson and Trevor Lawrence are struggling. Put them
Speaker 1: on the Texans um and then turn them into Davis Mills.
Speaker 1: But because they're much better than Davis Mills. Over under,
Speaker 1: I'll set it at three and a half how much
Speaker 1: the second place team in the a f C finishes
Speaker 1: behind the Bills the a f C a C East. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I don't think that was bold,
Speaker 1: although I'm kind of with you that I would take
Speaker 1: the Bills as the number one seed right now. If
Speaker 1: I had to choose, Uh, what should the over underbe?
Speaker 1: Three and a half? I said it, Oh, under them? Three?
Speaker 1: Three is a lot. I think they're gonna go thirteen
Speaker 1: and four, and I'm not feeling too hot about the
Speaker 1: rest of the division anymore. That's true, but I'm not
Speaker 1: trusting my prognostication skills. And three is just to get
Speaker 1: four games ahead. That's like a lot. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Pats did it probably. I think the Pats seven or eight.
Speaker 1: You know, is it toxic in Miami? You know it is?
Speaker 1: Is it weird as it feels like it's getting Let's
Speaker 1: go to that game, then, all right, is our last game.
Speaker 1: It is the Colts at the Dolphins. The Colts obviously
Speaker 1: you needed them, In fact, many of us expected them
Speaker 1: to get off the mat and what felt like a
Speaker 1: must win against a Titans team that still feels vulnerable,
Speaker 1: and they couldn't do it. They just couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 1: So then you're like, Okay, maybe the Colts just aren't
Speaker 1: any good. We talked about on Tuesday, Greg extreme starts
Speaker 1: that I think you and I are in the same
Speaker 1: boat that they could come back. Well, if they're going to,
Speaker 1: they gotta beat the Dolphins. And by the way, what
Speaker 1: makes this an interesting game is that Dolphins absolutely need
Speaker 1: this game too, because if you look where they are
Speaker 1: schedule wise, if they don't win this game, I believe
Speaker 1: they have the Bucks next week and more trouble after that.
Speaker 1: So their season could be in deep, deep ruin if
Speaker 1: they don't find to win a way to win this game.
Speaker 1: Sneaky high stakes here, Yeah, there. I trust in the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I think they're better than the some of their parts.
Speaker 1: I think they'll win this game. These are the two
Speaker 1: worst past blocking offensive lines according to PFF. Not a
Speaker 1: huge shock if you've watched the Dolphins game, but man,
Speaker 1: that's the opposite of what we expected out of the Colts.
Speaker 1: And they've had injuries and Eric Fisher is just coming back.
Speaker 1: But what are we talking about here if we've got
Speaker 1: one of the worst path stocking offensive lines and Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz can't move. And then the thing that stuck out
Speaker 1: to me and that Titans game is the Colts defensive
Speaker 1: stars aren't the same. Darius Leonard is banged up right
Speaker 1: now and kind of playing through it. Buckner has been quiet.
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore and and is Zavier Rhodes who were playing
Speaker 1: well like they're giving a big play, like there's not
Speaker 1: a lot They have their what is it your hat
Speaker 1: to hang on? They they have not gonna put They're
Speaker 1: just wearing their hat. They're not gonna hang it. They
Speaker 1: just gotta wear it because they got nothing they do
Speaker 1: well right now, the you know, and it it just
Speaker 1: goes back to, hey, we're gonna reunite Jalen Waddle with
Speaker 1: TWA and it's gonna it's gonna unlock him and you're
Speaker 1: gonna see why he's special. Just draft the tackle man,
Speaker 1: Just draft later, draft seol, get the guy protection up
Speaker 1: front and I get it. You already invested in Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson and it got Eichenberg that a lot of teams liked.
Speaker 1: Uh later they the whole line is struggling. It's you know.
Speaker 1: And look, it's worked out to some degree for Burrow,
Speaker 1: he's still getting hit a little too much, a cringe
Speaker 1: every time he takes a shot. But Jamar Chase has
Speaker 1: worked out really well instead of one of the tackles. Right,
Speaker 1: it sounds good until you get to week three and
Speaker 1: you have to Kobe Brissett not having time to get
Speaker 1: the ball to I mean it is terrible. Um, they
Speaker 1: are Dolphins, Let's be honest. There one Damian Harris fumble
Speaker 1: away from being old and through that. And but you
Speaker 1: love the Raiders. They pushed them to overdime. I know
Speaker 1: it took I just got I love having to I
Speaker 1: know it's a short game. We're not talking to lot,
Speaker 1: but I love having Jacobe back. He's great. He's talking
Speaker 1: about a gamer. Talk about a guy who puts his
Speaker 1: lunch pale on. I mean he puts don't know, he's
Speaker 1: like his put hard hat brings this lunch pale. There's
Speaker 1: something about him. Fourth and nine game on the line,
Speaker 1: hits it fourth and one on the goal line, game
Speaker 1: on the line, puts his foot in the dirt and
Speaker 1: makes a guy miss, hits the two point conversion with
Speaker 1: the game online, fourth and twenty on overtime, he hits it.
Speaker 1: There is something about it was almost like having a
Speaker 1: good backup quarterback, as as you don't want him be
Speaker 1: your starter, but he's like he's got like a Frank
Speaker 1: vich Reich vibe, where if you put him in the
Speaker 1: playoff game, I somehow believe that he'll make the keep playing.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I was saying. By the way, at
Speaker 1: the top of this, the Colts obviously owned three. They
Speaker 1: don't beat Miami this week, they're own four and going
Speaker 1: to Baltimore, have a nice season, and enjoy golf in January.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins, if they don't take care of business here,
Speaker 1: if they lose and go to one in three, then
Speaker 1: they're at Tampa and they're one and four. But if
Speaker 1: they win this game, you get beaten Tampa. Okay, you're fine,
Speaker 1: You're right, you're two and three because then you got
Speaker 1: at Jacksonville home Atlanta the next two weeks and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. But don't lose this game, I'll lose it.
Speaker 1: I believe of the four units. Um, Sorry, special teams.
Speaker 1: I know you're an important part, but the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: is the best of the four units, and that should
Speaker 1: be that. Yeah, that should still be the difference in
Speaker 1: this game. Money, you've said it all. I have. I've
Speaker 1: said too much. It's why this pot is an hour. Now.
Speaker 1: This is actually where we're trending in the right direction,
Speaker 1: where this is our shortest Thursday show a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: So we're doing thank you money, um. And in case
Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned it, we have a television show together.
Speaker 1: It's called Power Rankings US on NFL Network Tuesdays at
Speaker 1: three o'clock. Remember in the Blackman, I said the same
Speaker 1: point I'm gonna say now, you could have heard that
Speaker 1: two days earlier. That was all your friends. And if
Speaker 1: you want to hear everything Greg just said on this show,
Speaker 1: watch his what is it the Pick show? Friday afternoon.
Speaker 1: You're the same exact thing he said here, try to
Speaker 1: mix it up. Yeah, Friday evenings, what's the replayed Sunday mornings?
Speaker 1: So like on a balcony? Is that why it's called
Speaker 1: game debut? Because check out this view wanted to change
Speaker 1: the title. We're okay, alright, Well you've said it all,
Speaker 1: You've said it all, Greg, all right, good stuff. Um
Speaker 1: hey little uh go check out the subreddit this weekend,
Speaker 1: everybody around the NFL. That's all we're gonna say. Go
Speaker 1: check it out at least right. Dan Answers signing for
Speaker 1: the old Boss, Ricky Hollywood and money. He's the car