WEBVTT - Super Bowl picks 0:00:04.339 --> 0:00:06.699 NFL Game Deview is a production of the NFL in 0:00:06.779 --> 0:00:08.219 partnership with iHeartRadio. 0:00:08.699 --> 0:00:11.779 Everybody, Welcome to Game Debut twenty twenty four edition, presented 0:00:11.819 --> 0:00:14.579 by Mercedes Benz, Patrick Claybound Here with Greg Rosenthal and 0:00:14.579 --> 0:00:15.299 Cynthia Freeland. 0:00:15.339 --> 0:00:17.179 We are back, Grandy. It is week one. 0:00:17.579 --> 0:00:19.739 Let's do my favorite week of the year. 0:00:19.779 --> 0:00:22.539 Because every team is just a beautiful baby, like you 0:00:22.539 --> 0:00:24.899 don't know what they're gonna bring. They're not gonna disappoint you. 0:00:24.979 --> 0:00:27.419 Yet every game is amazing and being back with you 0:00:27.459 --> 0:00:28.219 too is amazing. 0:00:28.339 --> 0:00:28.619 Guys. 0:00:28.659 --> 0:00:30.419 I missed you. I love you guys. This is my 0:00:30.499 --> 0:00:32.579 favorite show to be on. And you guys behind the 0:00:32.619 --> 0:00:33.139 camera too. 0:00:33.139 --> 0:00:34.219 This is great. Let's get going. 0:00:34.299 --> 0:00:36.539 Yeah, all of you watching, even the babies who turned 0:00:36.539 --> 0:00:39.139 out to disappoint Greg, all of you all right, welcome. 0:00:39.139 --> 0:00:41.579 By speaking of disappointing, what about my finish to the 0:00:41.619 --> 0:00:44.659 picks last season? That's look at the picks of twenty 0:00:44.659 --> 0:00:45.099 twenty three. 0:00:45.219 --> 0:00:46.699 Greg Rose Crowning. 0:00:46.459 --> 0:00:48.139 Put that crowd on one hundred and. 0:00:48.179 --> 0:00:51.099 Eighty of one oh five three games. And Cynthia who 0:00:51.139 --> 0:00:53.699 trouts me as I tried to make a comfort. But Cynthia, 0:00:53.699 --> 0:00:55.979 you have a theory as to what we need to do. 0:00:56.099 --> 0:00:58.099 We both need to take an ugly photo like that. 0:00:58.139 --> 0:01:01.219 Oh that's the cow Dare you I listen? I won 0:01:01.259 --> 0:01:04.059 the year before with a different ugly photo. Back to back, 0:01:04.539 --> 0:01:05.459 Let's make a three. 0:01:05.579 --> 0:01:07.739 You have such a beautiful face. Why are you making 0:01:07.779 --> 0:01:08.859 that terrible look? 0:01:09.619 --> 0:01:11.659 Sometimes you got a sandbag. You know, he's got to 0:01:11.699 --> 0:01:13.579 come down to the rest of us. That's just the 0:01:13.579 --> 0:01:14.339 world that we're living in. 0:01:14.379 --> 0:01:17.059 Let's saw some ball Niners coming up. Just shortened last 0:01:17.139 --> 0:01:17.739 year's Super Bowl. 0:01:17.779 --> 0:01:20.619 Patrick Mahomes found Mikole Hardman for a walk off touchdown 0:01:20.939 --> 0:01:23.299 in overtime. Casey wins it twenty five to twenty two, 0:01:23.619 --> 0:01:24.859 second time in five years. 0:01:24.939 --> 0:01:26.699 Kyle Shanahan's team just. 0:01:26.659 --> 0:01:31.939 Missed out on hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. And we look ahead. 0:01:32.219 --> 0:01:34.659 That was the last game. Now we got a new game. 0:01:34.699 --> 0:01:36.939 It's a new season. The forty nine ers are still 0:01:36.939 --> 0:01:39.139 in that Super Bowl window they open up Monday night 0:01:39.219 --> 0:01:43.659 versus some guy Aaron Aron, what do you see taking place? 0:01:43.939 --> 0:01:46.299 Well, you mentioned a rod and I see the forty 0:01:46.379 --> 0:01:48.899 nine Ers winning this game. Because, as one of our 0:01:48.939 --> 0:01:53.659 great modern philosophers, James Harden once said, I'm not a 0:01:53.699 --> 0:01:54.459 system player. 0:01:54.619 --> 0:01:56.899 I am. The system is Aaron. 0:01:56.659 --> 0:02:00.899 Rodgers is the ultimate system, and I'm just curious what 0:02:01.139 --> 0:02:03.819 system he's gonna be this year. Is he gonna be 0:02:03.859 --> 0:02:06.819 this uttering system that held onto the ball a little 0:02:06.819 --> 0:02:09.139 too long in twenty twenty two when he was a 0:02:09.259 --> 0:02:13.539 pretty average quarterback. He is a guy who likes to 0:02:13.539 --> 0:02:15.899 see what's in front of him and figure it out himself. 0:02:15.939 --> 0:02:18.459 Can he play within the context of the offense. What 0:02:18.499 --> 0:02:20.819 I'm watching for in this game is how quickly the 0:02:20.819 --> 0:02:23.299 ball comes out of Aaron Rodgers's hands, because if he's 0:02:23.339 --> 0:02:25.939 not trusting what he's seeing with Nathaniel Hackett, I think 0:02:25.979 --> 0:02:28.259 he's gonna have a long night. I just trust this 0:02:28.299 --> 0:02:30.979 forty nine Ers defense in this team a little bit more. 0:02:31.139 --> 0:02:33.619 They get the win, but they don't get it by 0:02:33.659 --> 0:02:35.139 four and a half. So I do think the Jets 0:02:35.219 --> 0:02:36.099 covering this one. 0:02:36.179 --> 0:02:38.459 Okay, I also think the forty nine Ers win, but 0:02:38.459 --> 0:02:40.699 I do disagree. I think the forty nine Ers I 0:02:40.739 --> 0:02:43.139 get the win, and that spread not a particular issue 0:02:43.179 --> 0:02:47.419 twenty four to twenty excuse me to eighteen because the 0:02:47.419 --> 0:02:49.579 forty Nineers bring back most of the defense was top 0:02:49.619 --> 0:02:51.619 ten in pressures in twenty twenty three. 0:02:51.739 --> 0:02:53.379 And doing so, they add Leonard Floyd. 0:02:53.459 --> 0:02:55.699 Do you guys know who Leonard Floyd had the most 0:02:55.739 --> 0:02:58.179 sacks against while playing for the Buffalo Bills. 0:02:58.419 --> 0:03:00.579 It's the Need It's the New York Jets. He had 0:03:00.619 --> 0:03:03.219 four to go with five quarterback hits. 0:03:03.379 --> 0:03:06.379 I believe in the Jets, but projecting out over the 0:03:06.379 --> 0:03:08.179 course of the season, this is a tough one for me. 0:03:08.259 --> 0:03:09.179 Niners win twenty four. 0:03:09.299 --> 0:03:10.619 It would have been such a letdown if you were 0:03:10.659 --> 0:03:11.699 like it was the Jaguars. 0:03:12.459 --> 0:03:13.059 What are you doing? 0:03:13.379 --> 0:03:16.299 You guys are I think you're crazy because I actually 0:03:16.379 --> 0:03:19.019 have the Jets taking this all who and not by 0:03:19.019 --> 0:03:21.619 some tricky like you know, only four points, not four 0:03:21.619 --> 0:03:23.899 and a half points. I have it all the way, 0:03:24.059 --> 0:03:25.979 twenty two to twenty one, a very convincing win. 0:03:26.059 --> 0:03:26.819 One whole point. 0:03:27.099 --> 0:03:29.059 When I'm looking at this one, I'm looking at Breese 0:03:29.059 --> 0:03:31.299 Hall and the difference that this O line is going 0:03:31.379 --> 0:03:34.499 to bring to the game. I understand, you know, Aaron 0:03:34.579 --> 0:03:36.259 Rodgers where you have to see what we're gonna get 0:03:36.259 --> 0:03:39.219 from him. That was a major situation with his achilles 0:03:39.299 --> 0:03:41.939 last year. However, you know it wasn't a major situation 0:03:42.099 --> 0:03:44.779 Bree's Hall. This guy had five games with nine or 0:03:44.779 --> 0:03:47.379 more targets last season. Next closest running back had to 0:03:47.779 --> 0:03:50.179 Tyron Smith. He's up front and by the way, he 0:03:50.259 --> 0:03:53.459 had one hundred and forty six rushing yards over expected. 0:03:53.739 --> 0:03:57.219 That ranked number five last season. So come on, guys 0:03:57.259 --> 0:04:00.419 like Breece Hall, He's gonna start your fantasy team off right. 0:04:00.459 --> 0:04:00.819 You got the. 0:04:01.259 --> 0:04:04.819 Fantasy to the fantasy show. This is the reality and. 0:04:04.739 --> 0:04:05.619 You know what the reality is. 0:04:05.979 --> 0:04:09.259 He's going to run you to a fantasy and reality championship. 0:04:09.699 --> 0:04:11.059 We do shoot fantasy live. 0:04:11.179 --> 0:04:13.299 Me and Cynthia sitt actually literally in this room. 0:04:13.459 --> 0:04:16.139 So it could be in theory because Greg, you know, 0:04:16.379 --> 0:04:17.859 built Rottal World brick Pride fiction. 0:04:17.939 --> 0:04:18.419 How at that? 0:04:19.019 --> 0:04:21.139 Moving to the Rams and the Lions teams facing off 0:04:21.139 --> 0:04:24.179 in last year's wildcard round, it was a special moment 0:04:24.219 --> 0:04:27.539 for Cynthia and other Detroit fans. All due respect to 0:04:27.579 --> 0:04:29.419 the nineteen ninety two Lions. We don't have to hear 0:04:29.419 --> 0:04:32.979 about you anymore. The rematch coming up Sunday night, Cynthia 0:04:33.019 --> 0:04:35.579 does the same outcome take place, not the. 0:04:35.579 --> 0:04:38.939 Same score, so twenty nine to twenty three, but Lions 0:04:39.059 --> 0:04:40.059 take this one. 0:04:40.339 --> 0:04:41.219 We're starting off's strong. 0:04:41.299 --> 0:04:43.859 I rarely like I used to not like picking the Lions, but. 0:04:43.859 --> 0:04:47.379 Now I love it. Let's go Rory. That's the mascot. 0:04:47.499 --> 0:04:48.179 You're gonna hear it. 0:04:48.299 --> 0:04:50.979 You're all season long. When I'm looking at Jared Goff 0:04:51.019 --> 0:04:53.539 and what he's done. Okay, sacked on just twelve point 0:04:53.579 --> 0:04:56.459 nine percent of his pressure dropbacks last season, second lowest race. 0:04:56.499 --> 0:04:58.579 So you got to remember, this is an O line. 0:04:58.619 --> 0:05:01.899 They returned four starters, maybe the best O line in football. 0:05:01.939 --> 0:05:04.419 That's how I have them ranked, that's how PFF has 0:05:04.459 --> 0:05:07.579 them ranked, and second highest passer rating when not pressured 0:05:07.659 --> 0:05:10.219 last season. That's going to continue because you know who's 0:05:10.219 --> 0:05:12.299 not there, The man who deserves a lot of respects, 0:05:12.299 --> 0:05:12.779 Aaron Donald. 0:05:12.819 --> 0:05:13.859 But I'm so glad that he. 0:05:14.179 --> 0:05:16.859 Is now on his couch watching with us like a 0:05:16.899 --> 0:05:18.459 normal thank you for that. 0:05:19.499 --> 0:05:21.139 I like the Lions in this game, too, but I 0:05:21.179 --> 0:05:22.739 do not like them by as much. I think it's 0:05:22.779 --> 0:05:25.219 twenty seven twenty three, that's too many points. But when 0:05:25.259 --> 0:05:27.739 you look at this Lions team, Cynthia mentioned it up front. 0:05:27.779 --> 0:05:32.899 The offensive line is the offensive line of Daniel Campbell's dreams. 0:05:33.059 --> 0:05:34.939 I mean, this is it. This is what they've been 0:05:34.979 --> 0:05:37.979 building towards. Every year they get a little bit better. 0:05:38.099 --> 0:05:40.619 The offensive line has the continuity, and Jamier Gibbs was 0:05:40.659 --> 0:05:42.699 great as a rookie. He is going to be even 0:05:42.779 --> 0:05:45.899 better in year two. It's the best second running back 0:05:45.939 --> 0:05:48.019 in David Montgomery in the entire league. And yes, I 0:05:48.019 --> 0:05:49.659 think Gibbs is going to be the true number one. 0:05:49.659 --> 0:05:52.939 And when you look at under center runs old school 0:05:52.979 --> 0:05:55.819 football number three in the NFL last year according to 0:05:55.859 --> 0:05:59.299 Next Gen Stats, the Rams really struggled defending runs in 0:05:59.339 --> 0:06:02.539 that situation. They have seven new starters. So think of 0:06:02.779 --> 0:06:05.459 the continuity that the Lions have up front and think 0:06:05.499 --> 0:06:07.659 of all the new starters. Yeah, the rookies are gonna 0:06:07.659 --> 0:06:09.459 be good, but they've never played a complete game. 0:06:09.459 --> 0:06:10.459 I don't think they're ready for this. 0:06:10.499 --> 0:06:12.539 Did you do this year? Jared Go? 0:06:12.939 --> 0:06:15.499 You gotta do it, Jared GoF. 0:06:15.619 --> 0:06:17.499 I never thought that would have happened when I was 0:06:17.539 --> 0:06:20.579 watching him, kind of like get buried by Sean McVay 0:06:20.579 --> 0:06:21.259 here in LA. 0:06:21.299 --> 0:06:23.899 And that's the thing. It's revenge in multiple aspects. He's 0:06:23.899 --> 0:06:26.219 good enough for Detroit and he's good enough to get 0:06:26.219 --> 0:06:28.219 the win for me. But I also agree that four 0:06:28.219 --> 0:06:30.459 and a half points feels got of rich with the 0:06:30.859 --> 0:06:32.939 with the Rams coming to town. So I have it 0:06:33.019 --> 0:06:37.219 twenty eight to twenty five Rams covering, but they're doing 0:06:37.259 --> 0:06:41.019 so because it's just difficult to watch nine in blue 0:06:41.339 --> 0:06:42.819 throw the ball and not. 0:06:42.819 --> 0:06:43.459 Pick the Rams. 0:06:43.459 --> 0:06:45.819 In fact, over the course of the week, I'm thinking Rams, 0:06:45.899 --> 0:06:48.379 Rams Ram. Yeah, good news about Darius Williams. Start to 0:06:48.379 --> 0:06:50.419 think a little bit harder about this Rams defense. 0:06:50.579 --> 0:06:52.859 Darius Williams changed your pick their foreigner back. 0:06:52.939 --> 0:06:56.499 Okay, yeah, because you gotta stop Jared's Jared golf. But 0:06:57.059 --> 0:07:00.339 Cooper cup Pooka Nakua, Matthew Stafford, they're gonna score points. 0:07:00.339 --> 0:07:04.019 They're gonna have to. But also we're all aboard Mimus Away. 0:07:04.219 --> 0:07:06.819 Everybody in Detroit loves Matthew Stafford too, and everybody in 0:07:06.819 --> 0:07:09.779 Detroit was cheering for Matthew Stafford in the Super Bowl 0:07:09.859 --> 0:07:11.939 and maybe that carried them to victory. But now you know, 0:07:12.299 --> 0:07:14.659 thank you for your service. We love you, Matthew Stafford. 0:07:14.899 --> 0:07:16.259 Glad you don't have Aaron donald sull. 0:07:16.619 --> 0:07:19.419 Best of luck in all your future endeavors other than 0:07:19.459 --> 0:07:22.619 this one playoff rematch should be fun, but also fun 0:07:22.899 --> 0:07:26.379 things we haven't seen before, like Kirk Cousins playing for 0:07:26.499 --> 0:07:27.779 the Atlanta Falcons. 0:07:27.779 --> 0:07:29.099 This was the social. 0:07:28.779 --> 0:07:34.539 Media, just frenzy kirk O chains walking the dirty Birds. 0:07:34.539 --> 0:07:37.059 Then they'd go on and draft Michael Pennox Junior, who 0:07:37.099 --> 0:07:39.939 was actually born two years after Jamal Landerson made that 0:07:40.019 --> 0:07:43.139 dance famous. Funny enough four year, one hundred and eighty 0:07:43.219 --> 0:07:46.859 million dollar contract. Now, kirk Oh's Falcons playhost to Arthur 0:07:47.139 --> 0:07:50.899 Smith's revenge Leyden Pittsburgh Steelers. They have some new quarterbacks 0:07:50.899 --> 0:07:53.219 on their own, Russell Wilson deal with a calf injury. 0:07:53.459 --> 0:07:55.739 I'm gonna kick things off for us here. I like 0:07:55.859 --> 0:07:57.459 Kirk and Atlanta. 0:07:57.139 --> 0:08:01.859 Nineteen to seventeen because we just talked about the rams 0:08:02.059 --> 0:08:05.379 and departure of their defensive coordinator comes over and he 0:08:05.419 --> 0:08:08.419 inherits a defense that was top three in rushing efficiency 0:08:08.419 --> 0:08:11.499 on the defensive side to counter Arthur Smith. And then 0:08:11.579 --> 0:08:14.699 we finally get to see Drake London and Kyle Pitts 0:08:14.779 --> 0:08:17.259 with one of the more accurate passers in the entire 0:08:17.339 --> 0:08:20.299 league despite playing only eight games last year, if Kirk 0:08:20.299 --> 0:08:23.939 Cousins had more touchdown passes, the Atlanta Falcons has his 0:08:24.139 --> 0:08:28.939 entire team this season. I'm going with Kirk and the Falcons, Synthea. 0:08:29.059 --> 0:08:30.979 I like it, and I'm even more convinced than you. 0:08:31.059 --> 0:08:33.659 I have twenty five to twenty in this matchup. I 0:08:33.659 --> 0:08:36.059 want to talk about the Atlanta Falcons defense and some 0:08:36.139 --> 0:08:38.299 things that they did kind of the last minute that 0:08:38.379 --> 0:08:41.379 really shifted their entire season win totals up. And that's 0:08:41.539 --> 0:08:44.139 talking about adding to Jesse Bates, the guy who had 0:08:44.179 --> 0:08:46.179 six interceptions last year, third most. 0:08:46.019 --> 0:08:47.339 In the NFL. Senat A. 0:08:47.419 --> 0:08:51.579 J Terrell, added Justin Simmons, added edge Matthew Judon, plus 0:08:51.699 --> 0:08:55.019 point two wins to their entire season win total in 0:08:55.099 --> 0:08:56.619 twenty four hours. 0:08:56.979 --> 0:08:59.419 That's fantastic. And by the way, if. 0:08:59.299 --> 0:09:02.059 Russell Wilson does play, if he's the one that play action, 0:09:02.219 --> 0:09:04.739 they've got a good play action stopper. Because they allowed 0:09:04.779 --> 0:09:08.739 eleven touchdowns to play action last year, which was high, 0:09:08.779 --> 0:09:11.899 and now they've addressed it by bringing in Simmons adding 0:09:11.939 --> 0:09:13.219 to Bates. 0:09:13.259 --> 0:09:14.499 Come on, you, you don't seem. 0:09:14.299 --> 0:09:16.219 Con it's all exciting, it's. 0:09:16.179 --> 0:09:18.259 Easy new Who wants to be happy? 0:09:18.939 --> 0:09:21.939 No, I want to be right. I'm happy when I'm right. 0:09:21.979 --> 0:09:23.699 I'm going to be right because I'm taking the Steelers 0:09:23.739 --> 0:09:25.499 of this game. I'm going to play a game of 0:09:25.539 --> 0:09:30.059 who do you trust? I trust the Pittsburgh Steelers in 0:09:30.099 --> 0:09:32.339 this game. Let's just go through the other options of 0:09:32.379 --> 0:09:34.779 who you could trust. You know, put the Steelers tape up, 0:09:34.819 --> 0:09:38.139 I want to see it. But talk about the Falcons offense. Okay, 0:09:38.179 --> 0:09:40.379 a guy coming off in Achilles who's been as up 0:09:40.419 --> 0:09:43.619 and down as anyone. Nope, the Falcons defense couldn't really 0:09:43.659 --> 0:09:46.619 do anything all of last year. A bunch of new pieces, Nope, 0:09:46.979 --> 0:09:52.139 Steelers offense, don't really trust them either. I trust these guys, though, TJ. Watt, 0:09:52.419 --> 0:09:55.379 Alex Heismith, let's throw her big in there. We got 0:09:55.459 --> 0:09:58.979 Keanu Benton in the middle, we got Cameron Hayward, Like. 0:09:59.099 --> 0:10:01.539 This is who we trust? 0:10:01.659 --> 0:10:03.659 And yeah, I think it's a big deal coming off 0:10:03.699 --> 0:10:06.139 an Achille for a guy in his mid thirties. 0:10:06.179 --> 0:10:07.499 Everyone's just brushing that aside. 0:10:07.539 --> 0:10:09.739 And Kyle Pitts, Oh, he's gonna be Kyle Pitts again, 0:10:09.819 --> 0:10:12.739 like he's got an injury already. And then I just 0:10:12.779 --> 0:10:16.539 ask you this, viewers, who do you trust? Because back 0:10:16.579 --> 0:10:19.699 to back years I won it, these two didn't. 0:10:20.339 --> 0:10:21.339 Let's do it first. 0:10:21.379 --> 0:10:23.619 Yeah, I'm all year, just greg it up. Take the 0:10:23.619 --> 0:10:24.419 Steelers with me. 0:10:24.539 --> 0:10:24.899 Let's go. 0:10:25.019 --> 0:10:26.059 It's like a political game. 0:10:26.339 --> 0:10:26.939 Yeah that's right. 0:10:27.019 --> 0:10:29.619 Good for me. I'm Greg just Greg. 0:10:29.739 --> 0:10:33.299 I trust Greg, but I mean I liked I like 0:10:33.539 --> 0:10:35.899 the Falcons here we're gonna find out looking forward to that. 0:10:35.899 --> 0:10:37.859 We're just getting started here on game debut. 0:10:37.939 --> 0:10:41.659 More games coming up, including Dak and the Boys heading 0:10:41.659 --> 0:10:43.819 to Cleveland for a date with the Browns, a high 0:10:43.899 --> 0:10:46.979 powered offense. Now he got CD signed, sealed and delivered, 0:10:47.259 --> 0:10:49.779 but the Miles Garritton Company might have something to say 0:10:49.819 --> 0:10:50.139 about that. 0:10:50.179 --> 0:10:53.459 We give our picks. Coming up next, it. 0:10:53.459 --> 0:10:57.579 Is signed from the Drive to Excellence presented by Mercedes Bins. 0:10:57.619 --> 0:11:00.979 The Cowboys and Browns squaring off in Cleveland in Week one, 0:11:01.059 --> 0:11:02.619 Dallas coming off three straight. 0:11:02.379 --> 0:11:05.539 Twelve win seasons. They they kick off twenty twenty four 0:11:05.699 --> 0:11:06.659 with a W grook. 0:11:06.779 --> 0:11:09.379 I say, no, I'm going Browns twenty three, twenty one. 0:11:09.419 --> 0:11:12.139 I don't take the Browns too often, and I struggled 0:11:12.139 --> 0:11:13.939 with this pick, but I took the Browns because I 0:11:13.939 --> 0:11:17.059 thought of Tyler Geitton going up against Miles Garrett and 0:11:17.139 --> 0:11:19.979 this Browns pass rush. You know what they said about 0:11:19.979 --> 0:11:21.579 Guyton coming out of college and he look he looked 0:11:21.579 --> 0:11:23.419 good in training camp in the preseason. They're like, well, 0:11:23.459 --> 0:11:25.699 he's a raw prospect with a lot of tools. He's 0:11:25.699 --> 0:11:28.419 gonna need some time to develop. How about week one 0:11:28.779 --> 0:11:31.499 going up against Miles Garrett and oh yeah, maybe he's 0:11:31.539 --> 0:11:33.379 a Darius Smith. You throw in the mix too. We 0:11:33.459 --> 0:11:36.659 got a center that's also a rookie on the offensive 0:11:36.699 --> 0:11:39.139 line for the Cowboys, Cooper Bebe and I just think 0:11:39.219 --> 0:11:41.419 Jim Schwartz, and this front is going to present a 0:11:41.419 --> 0:11:44.619 lot of issues put back under pressure. This was a 0:11:44.659 --> 0:11:47.299 Cowboys team that didn't have a lot of CD LAMB 0:11:47.299 --> 0:11:48.739 in the training camp. Maybe this is more of a 0:11:48.779 --> 0:11:51.339 preseason game for them. They lose it twenty three to twenty. 0:11:51.499 --> 0:11:53.619 But again, I I have zero confidence and this is 0:11:53.619 --> 0:11:54.379 one I have to admit. 0:11:54.779 --> 0:11:57.299 This is probably my closest one too, Actually it is. 0:11:57.379 --> 0:12:00.019 I just remember that twenty three to twenty two is 0:12:00.099 --> 0:12:02.779 my final score here. But I want to remind everyone 0:12:02.859 --> 0:12:06.299 that this is a nice revenge game for one Amari Cooper, 0:12:06.459 --> 0:12:08.979 who we already know led the Browns last season with 0:12:09.059 --> 0:12:10.379 over twelve hundred yards. 0:12:10.459 --> 0:12:11.979 But by the way, did you know. 0:12:11.939 --> 0:12:14.779 That he ranked second in the NFL in terms of 0:12:14.859 --> 0:12:18.979 vertical route so corner go po post wheel six and 0:12:18.979 --> 0:12:21.499 twenty nine and only Tyreek Hill had more yards than 0:12:21.579 --> 0:12:24.219 him on such routes. Now you have Mike Zimmer on 0:12:24.259 --> 0:12:27.099 that defense, some defensive pieces have changed. He's less of 0:12:27.099 --> 0:12:30.539 a single high guy than Dan Quinn, which means better 0:12:30.699 --> 0:12:34.219 feasting for Amari Cooper averaged over seventeen yards per reception 0:12:34.339 --> 0:12:34.819 last season. 0:12:35.099 --> 0:12:37.619 I like revenge. Ken Dorsey likes revenge. 0:12:37.939 --> 0:12:40.379 Let's go Yeah, a solid number two. 0:12:40.699 --> 0:12:43.299 I mean, wow, I can't the Dallas Cowboys could have 0:12:43.299 --> 0:12:45.419 really used a wide receiver like Amaron Cooper in these 0:12:45.419 --> 0:12:46.979 past couple of years to be on the other side 0:12:47.179 --> 0:12:50.139 of one CD Lamb, who I don't think forgot how 0:12:50.179 --> 0:12:53.059 to play football so unlike Greg, I think Cede Lamb's 0:12:53.099 --> 0:12:55.179 ability is a big part of why I've got the 0:12:55.259 --> 0:12:58.179 Dallas Cowboys getting to win twenty to seventeen here in 0:12:58.219 --> 0:13:00.739 this game, because that can get rid of the ball early. 0:13:00.859 --> 0:13:04.659 And in terms of playing against man coverage, no receiver 0:13:04.779 --> 0:13:08.299 in the NFL had more success against man coverage than 0:13:08.379 --> 0:13:09.899 one ced Lamb. 0:13:09.979 --> 0:13:13.379 He had so much production last year. Dallas gets twenty 0:13:13.699 --> 0:13:15.179 twenty is enough for me. 0:13:16.379 --> 0:13:18.579 I also think Mike Zimmer is gonna fix them, especially 0:13:18.579 --> 0:13:20.419 in the run game, because we saw Green Bay come 0:13:20.459 --> 0:13:23.379 in and absolutely run all over Dallas in the playoffs. 0:13:23.459 --> 0:13:25.939 Dallas still getting punished in the picks for the late 0:13:25.979 --> 0:13:28.419 postseason loss, But did you guys see the Texans against 0:13:28.419 --> 0:13:32.059 the Browns that didn't necessarily go that pretty as well? 0:13:32.099 --> 0:13:34.779 Really looking forward to seeing Dak and the Cowboys come 0:13:34.779 --> 0:13:36.659 out in this one. But a guy I'm even more 0:13:36.739 --> 0:13:40.459 excited to watch Sunday is the reigning offensive. 0:13:40.019 --> 0:13:41.699 Rookie of the Year CJ. Stroud. 0:13:41.779 --> 0:13:42.059 C J. 0:13:42.179 --> 0:13:44.219 Stroud electric in his rookie season. 0:13:44.299 --> 0:13:46.699 Early on Week two of last year, he threw for 0:13:46.739 --> 0:13:49.739 three hundred and seventy four yards but lost greg to 0:13:49.779 --> 0:13:51.819 Athony Richardson, who was back and healthy. 0:13:51.819 --> 0:13:52.779 How do you see this one going? 0:13:52.859 --> 0:13:55.939 I think the Texans win this game thirty to twenty six. 0:13:56.099 --> 0:13:58.979 And look on NFL Daily this week, great new podcast, 0:13:59.019 --> 0:13:59.739 you should check it out. 0:13:59.819 --> 0:14:02.259 Daniel Jeremiah called CJ. 0:14:02.459 --> 0:14:05.539 Stroud similar to Joe Burrow, but maybe even with the 0:14:05.579 --> 0:14:07.939 better arm. Does that get you excited about c J. 0:14:08.059 --> 0:14:10.699 Stroud going into his second year? Think about what Joe 0:14:10.699 --> 0:14:13.059 Burrow did from year one to year two. When you 0:14:13.059 --> 0:14:15.459 think about the smartest quarterbacks in the league, like, yeah, 0:14:15.499 --> 0:14:17.699 he was smart last year figuring me out coverages. That's 0:14:17.739 --> 0:14:19.859 when you take the biggest sleep. I think he can 0:14:19.899 --> 0:14:23.059 go next level. And yeah again this podcast, by the way, 0:14:23.099 --> 0:14:25.619 I'm gonna have stars on every week like Patrick Claybot 0:14:25.619 --> 0:14:28.579 and Cynthia Frieland. They're gonna be improving from year one 0:14:28.619 --> 0:14:30.579 to year two on the podcast. Game, I don't know 0:14:30.619 --> 0:14:31.619 what I'm talking about here. 0:14:31.939 --> 0:14:32.219 C J. 0:14:32.339 --> 0:14:35.739 Stroud, that was gonna pick this Colts defense apart, Cynthia. 0:14:35.779 --> 0:14:38.499 Don't you think he's just got matchup advantages all over 0:14:38.499 --> 0:14:38.899 the place. 0:14:38.939 --> 0:14:41.859 I actually think he wins the NFL's number one passer award, 0:14:41.939 --> 0:14:44.099 so the most passing yards is here, So I completely 0:14:44.139 --> 0:14:45.939 agree with you. And by the way, pod is really 0:14:45.979 --> 0:14:48.419 great even when I'm not on it, which is obviously a. 0:14:48.379 --> 0:14:50.019 Little better when I'm just kidding. 0:14:50.019 --> 0:14:51.619 But I'm looking at this one and I'm looking at 0:14:51.619 --> 0:14:53.899 the Colts secondary and you talk about c J. Stroud 0:14:53.939 --> 0:14:57.059 being an epic passer. The secondary wasn't an area that 0:14:57.099 --> 0:15:00.579 they addressed. Yes, they have great guys up front. Gus 0:15:00.579 --> 0:15:03.779 Bradley can get that sack game, going number five in 0:15:03.819 --> 0:15:06.299 the NFL Bell last season with fifty one four different 0:15:06.299 --> 0:15:08.219 players who had at least eight different sacks. And they 0:15:08.259 --> 0:15:11.619 got Leatu Latu in the draft the first defensive player take, but. 0:15:11.579 --> 0:15:13.099 What about the back end of the defense. 0:15:13.459 --> 0:15:16.419 Nico Collins had one hundred and ninety five yards in 0:15:16.459 --> 0:15:19.659 that matchup against him last year. Pretty big difference here, 0:15:19.699 --> 0:15:21.899 and I don't know if they've done enough to address it. 0:15:22.179 --> 0:15:24.859 Whereas I'm very interested to see how a little bit 0:15:24.899 --> 0:15:27.659 healthier O line from the jump and perhaps a bit 0:15:27.699 --> 0:15:29.259 of a run game can help both sir. 0:15:29.459 --> 0:15:32.459 For the Texans on that four point, I'm a little 0:15:32.459 --> 0:15:35.819 worried though, if Patrick goes meme alert here like a boom, 0:15:35.939 --> 0:15:39.179 really good team that almost beautiful good and she said, 0:15:39.179 --> 0:15:39.579 don't do it. 0:15:39.579 --> 0:15:40.419 Maybe see you don't do it. 0:15:40.419 --> 0:15:41.699 Okay, I won't do it. No, I'm gonna do it. 0:15:41.979 --> 0:15:42.579 Meme away. 0:15:42.699 --> 0:15:46.539 I've got the Houston Texas winning twenty six to twenty three. 0:15:46.579 --> 0:15:48.779 Because Cynthia mentioned is kind of like a tale of 0:15:48.779 --> 0:15:51.419 two types of roster construction and the Colts trying to 0:15:51.459 --> 0:15:53.659 go through the draft and not necessary and the Texans 0:15:53.739 --> 0:15:56.739 just shoving Chippy all like, hey, let's go get steff 0:15:56.779 --> 0:15:59.619 On Diggs, Let's go get Danil Hunter coming off of 0:15:59.659 --> 0:16:02.179 the edge, and he was top five in pressures last 0:16:02.219 --> 0:16:04.059 year going opposite Will Anderson. 0:16:04.699 --> 0:16:07.179 It's the Texans defense and Dimiko's. 0:16:06.739 --> 0:16:09.899 Leadership there that helps take this to the point where 0:16:09.939 --> 0:16:12.659 I'm just I can't pick the Colts at this juncture. 0:16:12.819 --> 0:16:15.619 Twenty six twenty three, tough road win in the division. 0:16:15.659 --> 0:16:19.619 Loved the Week one division games are here. Just all 0:16:19.659 --> 0:16:21.819 in the NFL because that makes it great. Stroud turned 0:16:21.859 --> 0:16:24.059 heads last season now as one of the front runners 0:16:24.059 --> 0:16:27.339 for twenty twenty four NFL MVP according to Caesars Sportsbook, 0:16:27.419 --> 0:16:29.299 who we Know and Love Patrick Mahomes leading the way 0:16:29.499 --> 0:16:32.179 plus four seventy five looking for number three for him, 0:16:32.659 --> 0:16:34.859 Josh Allen right behind him, C J. Stroud, Joe Burrow, 0:16:34.899 --> 0:16:38.299 and then Jalen Hurts at plus fourteen hundred. 0:16:38.899 --> 0:16:42.859 Greg we trust in value the folks at Caesars. Who 0:16:42.939 --> 0:16:44.019