Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast, Sugars d a cap. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Handsus and I'm joined by Room
Speaker 1: Felder heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg grows a doll.
Speaker 1: What's up? Boys? Hey Dan, Dan just went around the
Speaker 1: room and touched us with his You your hands touched?
Speaker 1: I didn't, but I'm fine. I couldn't reach you, Mark,
Speaker 1: but I will after the show. Feeling a little clammy
Speaker 1: for a little bit. They were a little clammy, a
Speaker 1: little bit on the clamo side, old clamo hands, Oh,
Speaker 1: sticky fingas hands. This welcome to the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: This is our Week four recap show, and that means
Speaker 1: the quarter pole of the season. Pretty exciting it was.
Speaker 1: It was not a great day of games on paper,
Speaker 1: and yet, as it often happened, Sessler mentioned a lot
Speaker 1: of good games on the field, a lot of excite
Speaker 1: in it. That's true. I mean every week the NFL
Speaker 1: delivers high excitement and this was no different. Uh, Mark,
Speaker 1: you were by the way. Just everyone knows that I
Speaker 1: had clocked at four pm Pacific time. Mark reacted with
Speaker 1: excitement to a Browns game that he was watching officially
Speaker 1: ending Mark's hunger strike against the Browns. What a waste
Speaker 1: of time. My reaction was the game did not end well,
Speaker 1: and getting emotionally invested in this team on any level
Speaker 1: is a disaster move any human. I feel you. I did.
Speaker 1: It did across my mind when that happened that I
Speaker 1: do understand. Again, I don't necessarily support it, but I
Speaker 1: totally get what you're doing here. Well, we can't all
Speaker 1: wake up at like six am Pacific time and watch
Speaker 1: our team just destroy someone else from another country. That's true.
Speaker 1: It was a nice wake up this morning. I woke
Speaker 1: up before my infant son for once, and my wife,
Speaker 1: and with the with the sun not even up yet,
Speaker 1: I got to watch the Jets in London. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to that. A lot of show coming up today
Speaker 1: on the Around the NFL podcast. What do we got
Speaker 1: coming up? We got all the games from week four
Speaker 1: and Greg there, We did the Thursday game, We got
Speaker 1: the Monday night game coming up. We have two teams
Speaker 1: on buy, so we're gonna talk about thirteen games. What
Speaker 1: about the game that was in London early this morning?
Speaker 1: What about it that counts as one of the third Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I just it wasn't in America. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: the rules were with It's a little crazy, but I
Speaker 1: get what you're saying. Yes, we're counting that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that game as well. Also, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: in the studio again our good friend. She's almost like
Speaker 1: an unofficial official member of the Around the NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: She is Connie Fox, better known around these parts Colleen Wolf.
Speaker 1: We'll be back. I mean, if one of us were to,
Speaker 1: you know, die quickly suddenly the show we're around here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you'd be remembered just as long as if
Speaker 1: you were fired or got killed in this environment that
Speaker 1: we're in so quickly shift. You know some that Connie
Speaker 1: Fox takes first, that takes a she's leverage against all
Speaker 1: of us. She's a safe, she's a safety part against
Speaker 1: Trent Smart moved by us to just hand management leverage
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, and you know what Connie Fox too,
Speaker 1: if she wants to be part of the show on
Speaker 1: a full time basis, she knows all she has to
Speaker 1: do is get rid of one of us. So just
Speaker 1: keep that in mind. Maybe we'll bring that up when
Speaker 1: she's in here and then finally we have the Cowboys
Speaker 1: verse Saints Sunday Night football from the super Dome. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get into that. That, of course, the return of
Speaker 1: Drew Brees back in the lineup after missing a week
Speaker 1: with a shoulder injury, and yes, four more quarters of
Speaker 1: Brandon Weeden. Never gets sick of that. So that is
Speaker 1: everything we got coming up today on the show. That
Speaker 1: sounds like a pretty good show. You guys are great,
Speaker 1: pretty full. Yeah, all right, so let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the first game. And uh, the first
Speaker 1: game that we're gonna get to will be a prime
Speaker 1: time or excuse me, a late game in Denver. And
Speaker 1: it's another week and another dominant performance for the Broncos defense.
Speaker 1: Denver sacked Teddy Bridgewater seven times, overcoming another shaky performance
Speaker 1: from Peyton Manning and a twenty three twenty win over
Speaker 1: the Vikings, and uh, a couple of things, A few things.
Speaker 1: First of all, Uh, in case we needed any reminder,
Speaker 1: this Broncos defense is for real. H Teddy Bridgewater, I thought,
Speaker 1: and Greg, I think you made some type of reference
Speaker 1: to this too in the newsroom. The Bridgewater he equitted
Speaker 1: himself pretty well, considering how much pressure he faced all game.
Speaker 1: He did a great job eluding pass rushers throughout the day,
Speaker 1: even though he got sacked seven times UM. And ultimately
Speaker 1: that's what it came down to. And they got a
Speaker 1: nice day from Ronnie Hillman, who had a seventy two
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run in the second quarter that acted as
Speaker 1: two things, the longest touchdown run of the NFL season
Speaker 1: so far, and it officially uh he supplanted C. J.
Speaker 1: Anderson most likely as their number one running back option,
Speaker 1: and he saw it even down the stretch this week
Speaker 1: with Ronnie Hellman Hillman getting carries in a big spot.
Speaker 1: So Hillman stepping up the defense having another monster day
Speaker 1: to Marcus Ware, looks like he's twenty seven years old, UM.
Speaker 1: And Peyton Manning, listen, we know now what we're seeing
Speaker 1: from Peyton Manning on a week to week basis. He
Speaker 1: can still get it done, but he's not going to
Speaker 1: be dominant. I mean, you're you're just not gonna see it.
Speaker 1: So here's my thing and I'll throw it to you
Speaker 1: Greg to get us going here. Peyton Manning just has
Speaker 1: to be a league average quarterback, right and this team
Speaker 1: is gonna win twelve games and be a factor in January.
Speaker 1: Right therefore, and oh with him being a league average quarterback,
Speaker 1: I thought he improved a lot last week. I think
Speaker 1: he played a really good game in Week three. Once
Speaker 1: I got a chance to go watch that again. I
Speaker 1: think for the most part during today's game, he played well.
Speaker 1: But he made that almost rookie type of mistake that
Speaker 1: you're not used to seeing out of peyton Man right
Speaker 1: before half them when he threw the interception, and that
Speaker 1: turned the game around. The kind of mistakes that you
Speaker 1: thought he would not make. When I compared him to
Speaker 1: Farve's final season, that he isn't playing that smart. He's
Speaker 1: that that's true, and he doesn't need to be great
Speaker 1: because this defense every week they find a way to
Speaker 1: come up with the play at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: And I'm into stats, and you guys, sometimes West makes
Speaker 1: fun of me for being like too logical, taking the
Speaker 1: logical you know, a little jealous, But but I do
Speaker 1: believe there is such a thing as mojoe in terms
Speaker 1: of winning close in late games, and this defense especially
Speaker 1: believe they're gonna make the play to win the game
Speaker 1: each week, and they do it, and the play to
Speaker 1: win the game this week was t J Ward late
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of the Vikings, driving down three
Speaker 1: points a sack and strip of Teddy Bridgewater. Von Miller
Speaker 1: falls on the ball game over. I mean, the difference
Speaker 1: with this Broncos team is not just so they're making
Speaker 1: up for Manning's less effective play, Like the defense is
Speaker 1: looking dominant and you know, you take away Hellman's big
Speaker 1: run today. Their running game is not that impressive. But
Speaker 1: if they can shore that up, this is a team
Speaker 1: much better prepared to win later in the year in
Speaker 1: cold weather games and in the playoffs and just having
Speaker 1: to lean on Manning. However, I'm not even more convinced
Speaker 1: that a team with a lesser Manning is a better
Speaker 1: shot to get to the super Bowl. There's a massive
Speaker 1: compromise of play here. Maybe not a better shot, but
Speaker 1: they have a shot therefore, no, and they're just figuring
Speaker 1: things out. I think John Elway deserves a lot of
Speaker 1: credit for rebuilding on the flight. Well, they were worried
Speaker 1: about what's going to happen when Manning's dominant, Well he's
Speaker 1: gone in the game. What happens when January Manning chose up?
Speaker 1: I mean, he's already playing fairly poorly now and it's
Speaker 1: his time a year right. Well, that that's there's two
Speaker 1: ways to look at it. It's either this team is
Speaker 1: better built for January football because they're not leaning on
Speaker 1: Manning to produce like a all Teimer and they're gonna
Speaker 1: lean on their defense more. But if Manning is like
Speaker 1: this now, if he regresses beyond now, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: have a shot because he can't. He can't be a
Speaker 1: lesser player. He kind of has to stay here or
Speaker 1: get better. He can't get worse because he's already right
Speaker 1: at the middle of the pack. Right what ton have
Speaker 1: we ever looked at any Super Bowl hopeful team and
Speaker 1: say the quarterback isn't as good as he was last year,
Speaker 1: so they're a better threat to that. I know you're not,
Speaker 1: but it's just that it's easy to get to that narratile.
Speaker 1: This is a much more playoff, rugged type team. But
Speaker 1: Manning is just gonna do and make and push and
Speaker 1: make mistakes and big spots. Well, then this defense has
Speaker 1: a chance to be truly special, to be a defense
Speaker 1: that is just as dominant as the Seahawks defense has
Speaker 1: been the last couple of years and has carried that
Speaker 1: team I mean seven sacks eleven QB hits today, and
Speaker 1: they're just so deep that that you can see that
Speaker 1: if Manning can just you know, prove a little bit,
Speaker 1: why not does it work? The two games in the
Speaker 1: a f C West, those games count. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: they're way ahead already. Does it worry you at all
Speaker 1: that it took Ronnie Hillman out playing C. J. Anderson
Speaker 1: for three preseason games and four regular season games before
Speaker 1: they turned to Ronnie Hillman? Sure? I mean that I
Speaker 1: guess you could potentially chalk that up to they thought
Speaker 1: so highly of Anderson this year and he has been
Speaker 1: playing through injury. Um On the other side, at the
Speaker 1: running back of the position, I think one of the
Speaker 1: things we're most excited about in terms of matchups this
Speaker 1: week was Adrian Peterson verse the versus the Denver defense,
Speaker 1: and I called it in the right up a draw
Speaker 1: because they did a really good job bottling him up
Speaker 1: for the most part. But on one of the biggest
Speaker 1: players of the game, which was a fourth and one
Speaker 1: from midfield with about nine minutes to play in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Peterson busted through a huge hole, great blocking
Speaker 1: and took it to the house. So that's a big
Speaker 1: impact play. Obviously still has the legs um So yeah,
Speaker 1: Peterson was kind of held in check, held under a
Speaker 1: hundred yards, but also had a big score. So interesting matchup.
Speaker 1: Let's see it again. Each week. Bridgewater disproves the think
Speaker 1: some of the things that were said about him in
Speaker 1: the draft, like his arm wasn't that great. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had a couple of throws where he's getting pulled
Speaker 1: down today where his arm was unbelievable, just one throw
Speaker 1: where he threw it out of bounds, and that he's
Speaker 1: not that greatest game scrambler when he wants to be.
Speaker 1: He is one of the best two or three scrambling
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league. I I think I called this
Speaker 1: like an onion check came for him. He had a
Speaker 1: chance to make a big, big comeback at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, maybe steal a tough game in the road.
Speaker 1: It didn't happen, and he did have the game ending turnover.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna go crazy, but I did see
Speaker 1: things from him today that leaves you still excited about
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater and this I would assume I've never played
Speaker 1: at this level. That's not that you know of that
Speaker 1: you know of, but I would assume this would help
Speaker 1: him dead a line to the Broncos are twenty four
Speaker 1: and two at home since Peyton Manning took over. They
Speaker 1: showed well to make this a game. All right, let's
Speaker 1: move on. Let's talk about some of these Let's just
Speaker 1: go down the line and talk about some undefeated teams.
Speaker 1: Next up the Arizona Cardinals, who had a home date
Speaker 1: against the Rams, looking to go four and four and
Speaker 1: oh but Todd Gurley I had other plans. He exploded
Speaker 1: for a hundred and thirty six yards in the second
Speaker 1: half alone, and the Rams held on for a twenty
Speaker 1: four victory over the Cardinals, knocking Arizona from the ranks
Speaker 1: of the unbeaten. Chris Westling, please explain to me, Mr scientists,
Speaker 1: who are these St. Louis Rams. Well, they This is
Speaker 1: the first time in the Jeff Fisher era where I
Speaker 1: thought they were watchable. This was the bat I thought
Speaker 1: that before us game in the afternoon. I didn't see
Speaker 1: all the games, but it was a fascinating game. Was
Speaker 1: a slugfest between two quality teams, and the Cardinals were
Speaker 1: the better team. The Rams were lucky to get away
Speaker 1: with a win. The third in the corner calling the
Speaker 1: Rams the quality team you got, you were making fun
Speaker 1: team because Todd Gurley emerged as a dominant talent in
Speaker 1: their backfield. They haven't had an offense. He gives them
Speaker 1: an offense. Exploded for a hundred thirty six yards in
Speaker 1: the second half and looked great doing it. Uh and
Speaker 1: showed awareness in the final drive with a couple of
Speaker 1: big runs where he just kind of sat down at
Speaker 1: the end of the run instead of trying for extra yardage.
Speaker 1: You're going out of bound. That's a great trope, by
Speaker 1: the way, announcers calling games where a running back or
Speaker 1: a receiver has the presence to get down and keep
Speaker 1: the clock moving in that score catnet for announcers, like
Speaker 1: all that guy's head is in the game, he's a
Speaker 1: heavy player. Well, I think it was a roundings. He's
Speaker 1: always aware of everything. For him, it was because it
Speaker 1: was his second game, but he knew it and the
Speaker 1: combination of how well he was running too. How about
Speaker 1: the problem with that. We got a lot of tweets,
Speaker 1: let's just let's just confront this. A lot of team
Speaker 1: of a t L cursed tweets wondering one game asks
Speaker 1: preposterous they were the better team today. They were extremely unfortunate.
Speaker 1: They turned the ball over three times. They outgained the
Speaker 1: Rams easily, UM, and it was just a lot of
Speaker 1: bad luck, like Larry Fitzgerald fumbling. UM. Carson Palmer threw
Speaker 1: an interception in the end zone where it was a
Speaker 1: helmet catch, and that's you can't just say that's it's
Speaker 1: bad luck for the When David Tyree cut the ball
Speaker 1: at his helmet, did you think it was lucky? That's
Speaker 1: just raising his voice at you, Greg, that's lucky. Greg,
Speaker 1: You are the boss. You need to take command of
Speaker 1: the situation. Of course, it's a lucky play to catch
Speaker 1: a ball on your helmet first, and then you know
Speaker 1: it's this gently massig. Part of the callback here is
Speaker 1: that the boss. You know. People didn't really buy into this,
Speaker 1: but he talked about the Rams backfield as being one
Speaker 1: of the more washable, intriguing ones around. And listen, if
Speaker 1: if Gurly does this on a weeks week basis, he
Speaker 1: is absolutely right. Who cares what Trede Mason does? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Trade Mason. I guess maybe it's just one of the
Speaker 1: more watchable players. Because Trade Mason only had two carries
Speaker 1: for negative one yards today, Honey Badger echo my sentiment.
Speaker 1: Just watched the tape. By no means did they do
Speaker 1: anything special. We beat ourselves. The Cardinals were the better team,
Speaker 1: and there's still a powerhouse and one of the best
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL, and an extremely unfortunate day, they
Speaker 1: still were easily the better team on the field. But
Speaker 1: that's that's fine. But that's the Rams recipe essentially. I mean,
Speaker 1: they beat the Seahawks this way, they beat the Cardinals
Speaker 1: this way. That's basically who They're gonna be full six
Speaker 1: for three touchdowns and you know, not making huge mistakes,
Speaker 1: the defense making big place. I mean red zone defense
Speaker 1: counts as something. Yards don't count as as much of anything.
Speaker 1: They basically they play the game they wanted. And I
Speaker 1: get it, your first game after being named team of
Speaker 1: at L, you butterflies, you can end up making some
Speaker 1: mistakes that would be deemed on characteristic. I get that,
Speaker 1: but you just need to now now that's out of
Speaker 1: the lay, Now you push forward. There is not even
Speaker 1: a one percent of me that's concerned about this game.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are a very good football team. There was chatter,
Speaker 1: I mean, we heard this, you know, Greg and I
Speaker 1: heard this before work today. A couple of people inside
Speaker 1: the Cardinals locker room. Word did get around that they
Speaker 1: were shows and his team of atl out of pressure.
Speaker 1: This is it's just another thing that Arians that they're scheduled.
Speaker 1: Their schedule is tough. Arians has a lot of issues
Speaker 1: to confront and this is one of them. What kind
Speaker 1: of team are we? Can we handle this pressure? We're
Speaker 1: just gonna mail and and to answer some of the
Speaker 1: people tweeting at me, I'm not I'm not happy that
Speaker 1: the Rams beat the team of at L. Now it's
Speaker 1: the team of ETL. That is, that is everyone's team
Speaker 1: the Rams. They were the team of th h a
Speaker 1: L fall, but now I'm more into the team of
Speaker 1: a Well, speaking of tough schedules, the Rams lost. The
Speaker 1: Rams go to green Bay next week, so that's the
Speaker 1: thing they want this game. The momentum might be short lived, alright,
Speaker 1: So Arizona Cardinals no longer undefeated? How about the Atlanta Falcons?
Speaker 1: Eight town is where they play? About that? All right?
Speaker 1: No one calls it that the Falcons remain undefeated, as
Speaker 1: NFL touchdown leader Devanta Freeman I said that, and it's true.
Speaker 1: Gas to Texans for a hundred and forty nine yards
Speaker 1: and three scores at one blowout victory. Ryan Mallett was
Speaker 1: benched after a miserable first half in a predictable development,
Speaker 1: and I fear that's it. We're not gonna get any more.
Speaker 1: Ryan Mallett. I've enjoyed the arrow waltz last West. This
Speaker 1: you would classify this game. We're just gonna throw it
Speaker 1: out there. Tell me if it's accurate. That's total mismatch.
Speaker 1: It was a boat race. I mean it was forty
Speaker 1: two to nothing, I think by the middle of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, to the point where they just put Freeman,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and Matt Ryan and bubble Rap. Freeman looked great.
Speaker 1: He had the same burst that he had last week.
Speaker 1: The offensive line gave him huge holes. Became the first
Speaker 1: back since the merger with three touchdowns and each of
Speaker 1: his first two career starts, and he looked phenomenal. He
Speaker 1: looks to me like a combination of an early career
Speaker 1: Ray Rice in an early career pr Thomas. I can't
Speaker 1: say enough about Kyle Shanahan. Yes, these are a lot
Speaker 1: of the same players that couldn't have been less fun
Speaker 1: to watch a year ago. Does he and bother you
Speaker 1: that the Browns had. I think that's why why I'm
Speaker 1: seeing now firsthand how important he was to to Cleveland
Speaker 1: last year, because they went from looking like one of
Speaker 1: the most dominant lines with a run game that fit
Speaker 1: their backs perfectly to looking nothing like that now where
Speaker 1: that's what the Falcons are with what was a terrible
Speaker 1: offensive line last They're moving the ball. Kyle and Anne's
Speaker 1: gonna get some head coaching love if this offense keeps up. Well,
Speaker 1: They've scored thirty five points in back to back games
Speaker 1: for the first time since the Super Bowl, and Leonard
Speaker 1: Hankerson is getting over a hundred yards for your team.
Speaker 1: You're doing something right. What about the Browns clean house?
Speaker 1: You get rid of Farmer, who's a bum, let's face it.
Speaker 1: You get rid of Patton Sorry, it's just not working out,
Speaker 1: and you bring back Shaddy the frodigal son under new management,
Speaker 1: head coach. Excuse me, it's a little early to okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Texan side of things, and let's
Speaker 1: hear what and see what Bill O'Brien had to say
Speaker 1: after the game. Taking it very hard. I'm disappointed myself.
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed in me as a head coach. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed him because I don't think I did a
Speaker 1: good job today, and I think I have to do
Speaker 1: a better job of being a head coach and his team.
Speaker 1: It starts with me to go out there and perform
Speaker 1: like that. That's on the head coach. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to do a better job, kind of a transparent,
Speaker 1: uh coach move there. And then he thinks in his
Speaker 1: mind when they write the biography about the Super Bowl season,
Speaker 1: when I put all the pressure and all the struggles
Speaker 1: on my shoulders, that let it let the team be
Speaker 1: themselves and not worry about the outside factors and just
Speaker 1: what was going on between those a hundred yards long
Speaker 1: and three yards across. Well, I think also anyone he
Speaker 1: knows that anyone watching the game tape is going to
Speaker 1: know that he alone is not to blame for this.
Speaker 1: He's right, it's a fault. He's mismanaged the quarterback situation
Speaker 1: pretty pretty well. Now they have a Thursday night game
Speaker 1: coming up against the Colts. They're one in three. He's
Speaker 1: I guess gotta name. There's no way you're turning back
Speaker 1: to mallet all by the way, and the disrespect that
Speaker 1: they show our quarterbacks. I'm tired of it because both
Speaker 1: of those kids can play enough. He was trying to
Speaker 1: talk his coaching staff into it. Maybe the person really
Speaker 1: mismanaged it. Those Rick Smith, yeah, that this was even
Speaker 1: a situation that Bill O'Brien had to deal with. They
Speaker 1: rather have y Ryan Fitzpatrick. Well, those, but those I
Speaker 1: think quarterbacks are over the day Ryan, at least Hoyer.
Speaker 1: And it was a terrible year to try to find
Speaker 1: a quarterback if you didn't have a high trail Arian Foster,
Speaker 1: and you know things aren't going well. When he returns
Speaker 1: for this game, you know he has ten yards and
Speaker 1: eight carries, and one of those carries he fumbled the ball.
Speaker 1: It was returned for a touchdown, and the fumble was
Speaker 1: caused by his own teammate exactly he looked, he looked rusty,
Speaker 1: and Ryan Mallett, I mean, he should never start again.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dave damaged check. But there's no element, there's
Speaker 1: no timing element to this offense because he just stares
Speaker 1: down receivers and tries to throw it through him, as
Speaker 1: we've mentioned before, and he was just incredibly inaccurate. He
Speaker 1: would he would probably beat Donovan NAB's Wormburner record most
Speaker 1: one hoppers to his wide receivers. If he played all
Speaker 1: year Kaepernick today, he might be in the race. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'd be another candidate. We're going to see both of
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks like five more times. That would not be
Speaker 1: absolutely rough to watch. All right, Let's move on another
Speaker 1: undefeated team, the Carolina Panthers. They remain undefeated. Josh Norman
Speaker 1: continued his Mark Sesler revenge to our intercepting to Jameis
Speaker 1: Winston passes running one back for his score and a
Speaker 1: thirty seven twenty three win for the Panthers over the
Speaker 1: Bucks Panthers. Panthers are four no keeping pace of the
Speaker 1: Falcons atop the NFC South. And uh, you know, Josh Norman, listen, Mark,
Speaker 1: you had an unfortunate running. He got banged by our
Speaker 1: bold prediction story that we have to rite every week
Speaker 1: and now becomes part of your I can see. But
Speaker 1: Josh Norman is playing great. I mean, he was good
Speaker 1: for them last year. He's been their best player on
Speaker 1: defense this year. Him and Cam Newton have been the
Speaker 1: two best best players on that team. He leads the
Speaker 1: NFL with four picks. They're probably two and two without
Speaker 1: Josh Norman and has nothing to do with even today
Speaker 1: because the first week in Week three, I mean, he
Speaker 1: was corded them turning the game around. I like to
Speaker 1: think that, you know, if he was lacking that final
Speaker 1: brick of motivation, what is it I need to really
Speaker 1: set my season on fire. It's a completely misters misdirected
Speaker 1: Twitter argument. I actually had nothing to do with, but
Speaker 1: somehow I get swirled into it deeper and deeper by
Speaker 1: a bunch of overs. It's a great and the panthersons
Speaker 1: are very sensitive. As I've said my Cam Newton thing,
Speaker 1: I got swept up in January. Hey, t D after
Speaker 1: the season, when Josh Norman wins Defensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year honors, can we effort getting Josh Norman in the studio?
Speaker 1: Have to make it happen, don't You don't have to
Speaker 1: work too hard on that. Having a bye week even
Speaker 1: get about from the bye week they played the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Coming out of there by week, everyone's excited the Panthers,
Speaker 1: but no one really has taken them that seriously. That's
Speaker 1: for good reason. Their defensives look great. These are the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks they face so far this year. Blake Bortles, Ryan Mallett,
Speaker 1: Luke McCown and Jamis Winston. They've taken care of business
Speaker 1: and on offense, I think they've done better than anyone
Speaker 1: could have possibly hoped for. And Cam Newton is playing
Speaker 1: well overall, but that's Cam Newton. Did not light up
Speaker 1: the box score. But he's doing exactly what he needs
Speaker 1: to be doing for this team right now. He's not
Speaker 1: forcing the issue. He's not gonna throw throw for a
Speaker 1: ton of yards, to throw a lot of touchdowns. But
Speaker 1: he had two scores today. Bolt of Ted Gin by
Speaker 1: the way back from the dead just hangs around in
Speaker 1: the NFL, makes the play every year and a half
Speaker 1: um and then you had, of course uh no interceptions
Speaker 1: and lead the team in rushing. He's their best running back.
Speaker 1: Let's face it. So far this season, Jonathan Stewart hasn't
Speaker 1: really lived up to his promise. So Newton is carrying
Speaker 1: this offense himself. And we don't there's no such thing
Speaker 1: as a quarter pole m VP, but he should be
Speaker 1: in the discussion if there was. He's four and O
Speaker 1: and carrying it to with a crap offense. I think
Speaker 1: this is the best four game stretch of his career,
Speaker 1: all all things considered, but it's it's come against four
Speaker 1: the worst teams in the NFL. I totally disagree, and
Speaker 1: three of his four starts he's in the Gabbard zony.
Speaker 1: I think he's playing well, and but that's a direct
Speaker 1: relations that don't tell the story. But I don't think
Speaker 1: he's playing particularly that much better than he's played for
Speaker 1: other stretches of his career. A couple of a couple
Speaker 1: other things here. Jarn Allen an easy opponents, his Panthers debut,
Speaker 1: one tackle and uh sad story. The kicker for the Bucks,
Speaker 1: Kyle Brindza, you won't hear about him no more. He's
Speaker 1: missed five of his last seven kicks. After they scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown the Bucks in the third quarter to make
Speaker 1: a thirty one sixteen, he got booed as he came
Speaker 1: onto the field for the extra point, made that one,
Speaker 1: but then came on the field again in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter for another extra point, missed that as well, and
Speaker 1: he looked like he was gonna cry afterwards. It was
Speaker 1: a bad week, by the way, bad week for Cable week.
Speaker 1: It's a shame too because his range of seven yards,
Speaker 1: he's got the biggest leg. Yeah, he'll probably resurface somewhere.
Speaker 1: But I mean, this was one of those weeks where
Speaker 1: it seemed like every team had a kicker missing. And
Speaker 1: don't be surprised when that's a big narrative this week
Speaker 1: that the extra point being pushed back has gotten the
Speaker 1: heads of these kickers and they're fragile men. I get that.
Speaker 1: So they like simply wanted to do things that were
Speaker 1: like but there's no we're going to go through it
Speaker 1: in these games. There's some huge missus before he went,
Speaker 1: we hit, he hit. He hited halfway up the net too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he can kick, but not accurately. So that's what's
Speaker 1: going on with the Panthers. A good job, guys. Straight
Speaker 1: home losses for the Bucks. Come on. Winston with four
Speaker 1: picks for them in his second home game after the
Speaker 1: first one was such and the first three of those
Speaker 1: picks resulted in touchdowns for the Panthers twenty four points
Speaker 1: off turnovers. Uh. Let's talk about another undefeated team, the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packer, who usually depend on Aaron Rodgers to
Speaker 1: lead the way, but on Sunday it was the defense
Speaker 1: that did the heavy lifting. A seventeen three. It was
Speaker 1: that's correct, That is correct, Thank you, seventeen three win
Speaker 1: over the forty Niners who have now lost three in
Speaker 1: a row after that Monday night aborition. It must have
Speaker 1: been uh the whole Chris Berman or at the Big
Speaker 1: Bell Bottom that must have got the motivated to the
Speaker 1: point that they were able to get a victory. But
Speaker 1: now they've crashed down to earth. Greg, that was definitely well.
Speaker 1: They were competitive. They were better in the Big Bill
Speaker 1: Bell Bottom today. Yeah, I mean, so the Packers are
Speaker 1: undefeated and the forty Niners are lost, aren't they? With
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick leading the way into the Abyss. They're a
Speaker 1: tough watch and just kind of like last week. I
Speaker 1: thought Sam Bradford's follow up to his absolute horror show
Speaker 1: in week two was almost a bigger, you know, red
Speaker 1: flag because he did it again. This game, to me
Speaker 1: was an even bigger red flag for Kaepernick because now
Speaker 1: you have two games like this in a row. He
Speaker 1: had three plays all day where he completed a past
Speaker 1: longer than five yards or that that went further than
Speaker 1: five yards in the air. They had less than two
Speaker 1: hundred yards of offense. Uh, he held the ball too
Speaker 1: long at times, and then the offensive line was just
Speaker 1: a disaster. Tory Smith after the game was saying, they
Speaker 1: had us in man coverage, zero coverage, essentially no safety back.
Speaker 1: They're blitzing all game long, and they never figured it out.
Speaker 1: So that's on Kaepernick and that's on the entire offensive
Speaker 1: coaching staff. They were just clueless, I mean, coming all day.
Speaker 1: And if you because I had one eye on this
Speaker 1: game as well, and if you watch some of the
Speaker 1: body language TV, you should check this game out because
Speaker 1: I know that's something that you thrive at. Body language
Speaker 1: rain Tori Smith and Klon Bolden visibly frustrated by the
Speaker 1: Kalin Kaepernick display. Well, and you talk to like Bucky
Speaker 1: Brooks and he talks about when you have a new
Speaker 1: coach and everything's new, that you don't have a long
Speaker 1: leash with your players and when you're the forty diners
Speaker 1: that first week win. All right, we were all thrown
Speaker 1: off by that. But what's happened since is what people
Speaker 1: worried might happen to this team and how long? How
Speaker 1: long do they believe? Defense played outstanding and they played
Speaker 1: hard all day and they really could have made this
Speaker 1: a one score game with about five minutes left. The
Speaker 1: only reason the Packers were even ahead by that much
Speaker 1: was because Rogers had an unbelievable third and seven thrown
Speaker 1: at James Jones. I mean, the defense looked they made
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers looked very mortal. But TD, let's show the
Speaker 1: two Kaepernick plays again because I think it just shows
Speaker 1: what Kaepernick was doing wrong today. And on the third
Speaker 1: he had one third and long that that I really remembered,
Speaker 1: where he scans the field and instead of trying to
Speaker 1: make a pass, he ends up just running out of
Speaker 1: bounds for a five yard game. And then the next
Speaker 1: very next drive he has a third and long and
Speaker 1: he's back there. We're watching if you're watching on the video.
Speaker 1: The first third and long, instead of looking for one
Speaker 1: of the receivers, he just runs out of bounds. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not even gonna give that up. The next drive,
Speaker 1: on the third and long, he goes back. He has
Speaker 1: a wide open receiver in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the play. He hesitated for
Speaker 1: no reason, had perfect protection, waits too long, and then
Speaker 1: throws it up and it gets It's one of the
Speaker 1: great mysteries of the NFL. What happened to this guy
Speaker 1: who who took the NFL by storm, almost won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, came within what four or five yards and
Speaker 1: no major injuries, and has just regressed. You don't have
Speaker 1: to hear to the point where he's not even an
Speaker 1: effective NFL start and not even close. And the worst
Speaker 1: news for the forty Niners and their fan base is
Speaker 1: that the backup is probably the worst draft bust in
Speaker 1: the last five years. Blame Gabbert, so they they have
Speaker 1: no way out the band. Well, Kaepernick has paid like
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback, So I think I don't think it
Speaker 1: makes any sense to benjam even though he's playing this bad,
Speaker 1: unless it was a really gonna lose the team. You
Speaker 1: have to you have to just keep playing him and
Speaker 1: figure it out. And if you want to get rid
Speaker 1: of him at the end of the season, I mean
Speaker 1: going to blame Gabbert. What's that kind of try ask
Speaker 1: your question? Because looking that fact that Carlos Hyde, who
Speaker 1: looks so good in the in the opener twenty yards
Speaker 1: off eight rushes and they're running the ball. Kaepernick's leading
Speaker 1: the team in Russia. I just don't like the whole way,
Speaker 1: the whole thing set up. What is going to do
Speaker 1: if they can't pass the ball there. I think teams
Speaker 1: are loading up, like Tory Smith was saying, they're blitzing.
Speaker 1: They have everyone in the box and they can't figure
Speaker 1: out any way to stop. The offensive line was terrible too,
Speaker 1: I mean, Kaepernick was just they were his target practice
Speaker 1: on him all day, which is a good sign for
Speaker 1: the Packers. I know it's an easy matchup, but the
Speaker 1: defense is playing pretty well. Nick Perry, Mike Neil, Julius,
Speaker 1: Peppers play Matthews. They all had big days and relatively
Speaker 1: quiet game from Aaron Rodgers. Relatively, I mean he had
Speaker 1: that one throw which was absolutely insane. The first drive
Speaker 1: of the day. They looked exactly like the Packers took
Speaker 1: a seven nothing lead. Most of the rest of the day.
Speaker 1: The forty Niners defense did a great job getting them
Speaker 1: off the field for touchdowns. Five interceptions since the start
Speaker 1: of last season, sending even in a slow day. He
Speaker 1: didn't make any mistakes, really, any big mistakes. And Kaepernick
Speaker 1: has he been good since defense is caught onto the
Speaker 1: read option. Well, no, that's a fair question. You're right,
Speaker 1: because it's the regression did not come in that first
Speaker 1: season when I think he wasn't even thinking remember before
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, it was so relaxed. We were watching
Speaker 1: on the sideline just at ease. It was like he
Speaker 1: didn't even know what it was multifaceted. It was like
Speaker 1: he could kill you with his legs, with his long strides,
Speaker 1: and nobody threw a better fastball downfield than it. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy looked like a total package. Who knows it's
Speaker 1: a mystery. Tory Smith another move that's not working out
Speaker 1: for any side. The Ravens could desperately use him. Thank
Speaker 1: you for bringing it out and Tory Smith both involved
Speaker 1: a rap. If there is a wide receiver listening to
Speaker 1: the show that is has free agency coming up, and
Speaker 1: you play with a really good quarterback, take less money
Speaker 1: in space. Don't go to a team with a bad quarterback.
Speaker 1: You will end up losing more money because you'll get
Speaker 1: cut in two years. Randall cobrule, or be Justin Blackman
Speaker 1: and get quietly signed by the Packers and go under
Speaker 1: the name James Jones. That's another option. All right, let's
Speaker 1: move on. Let's move on. Let's check back in with
Speaker 1: the ABC East and let's go to London. Mark you've
Speaker 1: mentioned in the past that from England, so you'll be
Speaker 1: especially invested in this game. Chris Ivory set a career
Speaker 1: high with a hundred and sixty six yards and twenty
Speaker 1: nine carries, and the Jets pushed their Miami Dolphins closer
Speaker 1: to the brink to fourteen win at Wembley Stadium. And uh,
Speaker 1: the Jets men have a formula. And then it's this.
Speaker 1: You lean on the defense such as the real deal,
Speaker 1: which we thought it was gonna be before the season,
Speaker 1: and it unlike the Dolphins on the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball, they have backed it up. They are a
Speaker 1: very good defense, top ten, maybe even top five. And
Speaker 1: then you give the ball to Chris Ivey, run the
Speaker 1: offense through him, because when he's healthy, he is a
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say as good as Marshawn Lynch, but
Speaker 1: he's a reasonable fac simile to that guy. And if
Speaker 1: you have a big downhill power back like Ivory and
Speaker 1: a great defense, I know it's not twenty one century football,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna win games and you might get in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So it's everything that Rex Ryan wanted the
Speaker 1: Jets to be the last few years, and it is
Speaker 1: they when they stipped him of every resource he needed
Speaker 1: to be success. Now those resources are back. But then
Speaker 1: there is the wrinkle of they also now have legitimate
Speaker 1: all pro type wide receiver and Brandon Marshall who went
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards for the third Street Game. West,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you up with a quiz here the
Speaker 1: last Jet wide receiver to be named an All Pro
Speaker 1: al tune correct? Now, then, like he's shown the toaster,
Speaker 1: there is a hibernation that's on hiatus, but he just
Speaker 1: shows he's rich. Uh do you know what year? Just
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six? He did it? He led it. That
Speaker 1: was good. West none to millennials, is Nicktoons father? Yes, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Jets have not had an all Pro wide receiver
Speaker 1: since eighty six. Their last Pro Bowl wide receiver was
Speaker 1: Keyshwan in nine. I say this because Brandon Marshall could
Speaker 1: achieve both those um highlights, because he is that good
Speaker 1: this game. Ryan Fitzpatrick cannot throw downfield. We we know that.
Speaker 1: So what do they do in the first play of
Speaker 1: the game. That's set the tone. He lets loosen. Literally,
Speaker 1: if you want to replay, he throws it as hard
Speaker 1: as he can. He cannot throw it any farther than this.
Speaker 1: It travels fifty eight yards, Marshall makes the catch, Ivory
Speaker 1: takes over from there. Ivory was great the Jeff's win
Speaker 1: and guests Greg, well, you well, you forgot one key
Speaker 1: part of their formula when you were going through Make
Speaker 1: the defense drop as many Ryan Fitzpatrick interceptions as well,
Speaker 1: or you gotta throw it so hard that the defense
Speaker 1: has dropped because he had four or five today. But
Speaker 1: the other part of the four the king, you're the
Speaker 1: king that has everything, but can't let a peasant have
Speaker 1: a good thing. You have to shoot it down like
Speaker 1: they were wildly dominant in this game. And the other
Speaker 1: part of the formulas playing the Dolphins. Yes, a defense
Speaker 1: that right now is going to get its coach fired. Well,
Speaker 1: the coach is going to get the coach, well he is,
Speaker 1: but it's like this organized. Let's talk about the Dolphins side,
Speaker 1: because um it's we're hearing reports that Philbin's fate could
Speaker 1: be decided to buy as soon as tomorrow. Who knows,
Speaker 1: you might listen to this, and Joe Filman has fired.
Speaker 1: But this was a team that needed to show up
Speaker 1: in this game in London and look inspired and prepared.
Speaker 1: And for the fourth straight week they went down at
Speaker 1: the They got beat up from the start of the game.
Speaker 1: They went into the halftime losing just an uninspired effort.
Speaker 1: And then I'll just say this, like, so maybe I'll
Speaker 1: get rid of Coil, the defensive coordinator. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's going to fix anything, but this defensive line,
Speaker 1: Sue got sixty million guaranteed. Chris Ivory ran right through
Speaker 1: them for the first touchdown of the game. The entire
Speaker 1: defensive line, remember the defensive line that Sue was going
Speaker 1: to take on all these double triple teams and Cameron
Speaker 1: Wake was gonna have thirty seven sacks and Vernon was
Speaker 1: going to be a stud and everybody was excited. Zero
Speaker 1: sacks combined, four weeks combined. Has any team been as
Speaker 1: consistent as the Dolphins. They've had the same issues in
Speaker 1: every game they've played this year. They were very lucky
Speaker 1: to even be vaguely in this game because I made
Speaker 1: fun of Fitzpatrick. But it was a full scale beat
Speaker 1: down where the score could easily have been forty two seven,
Speaker 1: and that would have reflected how uneven this was. We
Speaker 1: heard some things at NFL Network. We reported Friday and
Speaker 1: Sunday that either Coil could be gone and that there
Speaker 1: was grumbling within the team, some people complaining, for instance,
Speaker 1: that they had to have a three hour long like
Speaker 1: these endless practices, the you know, right before they got
Speaker 1: on the plane, do that they get off the plane
Speaker 1: and do another practice right away to learn that. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if it's even fair, but I
Speaker 1: think it's fair to say that the players think the
Speaker 1: coaches are the problem. That that is the words that
Speaker 1: get around, and when that happens, that's trouble. There was
Speaker 1: a moment today I believe it was Jarvis Landy who
Speaker 1: Jarvis Laner, who led the team in rushing. That's how
Speaker 1: out of whack this offense is. At the same time,
Speaker 1: he's the only guy that scared me in this game.
Speaker 1: And and I mean, the thing is like, well I
Speaker 1: lost my train of thought. Well, there was some trying
Speaker 1: to hold onto a Dolphins player to make a point
Speaker 1: coming off the field and correct him. And I think
Speaker 1: it was he is just pulling away from filming and
Speaker 1: it doesn't want to give him and they all the
Speaker 1: sideline shots of film were disconcerting. And the other thing,
Speaker 1: because I know you like the laser mark. He had
Speaker 1: a terrible game plan in this game too. I mean,
Speaker 1: the only time they moved the balls on three deep
Speaker 1: throws that went for defensive p i s. And how
Speaker 1: many wide receiver screens do you have to run that
Speaker 1: don't work before you stopped throwing wide receiver screens. It's
Speaker 1: and what we like about like Laser is the idea
Speaker 1: that he was going to be the first coach to
Speaker 1: bring this Eagles offense somewhere else, and it's been in
Speaker 1: comprehensive failure. Hannahill is struggling and he can't lift up
Speaker 1: whatever is going on around him. He's just not that.
Speaker 1: He's okay, that's all he is, your boy, Todd Bowls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the blitz calling pupper mask puppet master that Greg
Speaker 1: Williams gets credit for being. Todd Bowles is phenomenal at
Speaker 1: dialing up blitz is with no USh. I saw a
Speaker 1: staff from you reachtweeted and I believe that they had
Speaker 1: more defensive back blitzes in this game than any team
Speaker 1: has had in five years. I think it was like
Speaker 1: twenty three three in a row. They kept sending them.
Speaker 1: This is the thing why this defense is so uh
Speaker 1: well set up. Sometimes it's like they have thirteen guys
Speaker 1: on the field because they could send the house and
Speaker 1: then trust reeve Us and the rest of the secondary
Speaker 1: to cover Heaven nine in the morning. This will look
Speaker 1: like Dan comes strutting in after the Jets game. He's
Speaker 1: got If you see him on the uncars going a
Speaker 1: big Jets T shirt today, big smileness face. Why is
Speaker 1: it big? Are you calling me fat? Is that what
Speaker 1: you're doing? A big smile? No? Big Jets shirt? Why
Speaker 1: have to be big? I can't just regular. It's I
Speaker 1: don't know how to describe it. It's an interesting it's
Speaker 1: an interesting selection that you're wearing. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: it's actually incorrect. They were the Titans in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1: It's true that I like how you guys are trying
Speaker 1: to take me down, but it's not gonna Patrick Stiggs
Speaker 1: Mark's calling me fat. It only remembering the Slates were.
Speaker 1: We just talked about how great they They have the
Speaker 1: fourth best record in the ANC. They do and they're
Speaker 1: definitely a top ten team. Not a morning guy, Dan.
Speaker 1: If they can get you up at six and just
Speaker 1: feeling nice and fresh as a day, well I loved
Speaker 1: it all right. So I got the other New York team.
Speaker 1: The Giants jumped out to an early lead against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Never look back in Orchard Park. The two
Speaker 1: and two Giants have effectively bounced back after those two
Speaker 1: crushing losses to start the season. Mark, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a game where Buffalo, you're at home. The score
Speaker 1: is a little a little bit unindicative of what happened.
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills cannot get out of their own way lead.
Speaker 1: The NFL with like fifty seven penalties had seventeen today
Speaker 1: and the biggest thing they did outside of you know,
Speaker 1: destroying their own chances to win by having two touchdowns
Speaker 1: called back by flags, was extend every Giant's drive in
Speaker 1: the first half, give them chances to win over and over.
Speaker 1: They could have climbed back into this, but they could
Speaker 1: not stop the flags from dropping on them. And that
Speaker 1: in Rex, Ryan, who definantly afterwards said, oh, you know
Speaker 1: what I want a team It just fights. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I I get listen, it's not a Rex friending, but
Speaker 1: he was. He was marta against Rex. Point though that
Speaker 1: oh well, this happened to us in Baltimore. We had
Speaker 1: twenty plus penalties in Baltimore when you were the coach Rex,
Speaker 1: And so if it's happening again, look who we can
Speaker 1: still succeed. This was completely undisciplined football. And that's the
Speaker 1: difference between Todd Bowls in New York and this Bills
Speaker 1: team that could not get out of its own. Players
Speaker 1: love Rex, players play hard for Rex. Rex does come
Speaker 1: into games prepared week after week, but the penalties do
Speaker 1: fly with Rex. And it's the same defiance he showed
Speaker 1: after week two when he trash talked Dion Lewis and
Speaker 1: then it said after the game, Dean Lewis still stinks
Speaker 1: run the ball. There are another hard team to figure
Speaker 1: out because they looked awesome two weeks and terrible two weeks.
Speaker 1: What do you make sense? What do you make of
Speaker 1: the Bills right now? Mark? It's you know, Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: finishes with two d and seventy four yards, but a
Speaker 1: lot of that just came late, like first half thirty
Speaker 1: eight yards passing. And I think part of it is
Speaker 1: I really like Tyrod Taylor overall from what we've seen.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to work with. But is his fourth
Speaker 1: start and the idea that he's just going to roll
Speaker 1: the table and continue to get better every game. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be stops and starts. I think they definitely they
Speaker 1: missed Lashawn McCoy today. They missed right because Harvin Harvin
Speaker 1: is not You cannot center your entire passing game around
Speaker 1: Percy Harvon. They tried to do that today and credits
Speaker 1: to the Giants like a really no name. Defense played
Speaker 1: them well in the first half and then they just
Speaker 1: hung on. Spags defense is performing above. It's wildly low expectations.
Speaker 1: The nightmare scenario d we are hurtling towards Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty Giants Patriots and Spags coaching the game of his life.
Speaker 1: Belichick run out of town and shame and Spags takes
Speaker 1: over the Pats. What the world are you living? And
Speaker 1: Greg jumps off a cliff and that's all Greg. The
Speaker 1: little Flowers sund Up donation, back down from your high Alright, alright, okay, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: it's that time of show. Every Sunday, we welcome in
Speaker 1: a great woman. I mean, listen, I would even go
Speaker 1: and start saying she's the greatest woman. She is a
Speaker 1: really a star contributor on the Game Day Blitz program
Speaker 1: in NFL. Now, Dave Damna check she is the Wolf woman.
Speaker 1: Connie Fox, Colleen Wolf Collen never knows what to do
Speaker 1: on the cameras on her so just to do a
Speaker 1: new gimmick every time it Eventually, eventually you'll hit on
Speaker 1: your you know, Arthur Fonzarelli, and we'll get trying to
Speaker 1: find it. Colleen. As I said, welcome back, Colleen, did
Speaker 1: you might have a podcast? This is turning, This is
Speaker 1: turning into a Brett Varv like iron Man Streak. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You are, of course, uh, internal chatter within this business.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're going. Colleen is talent on
Speaker 1: NFL now Game Day Blitz, but you guys are also
Speaker 1: talent on NFL Now Game Day Blitz less consistently. How
Speaker 1: about that which is a program if if those of
Speaker 1: you have not seen it, in which Dave Damasheck sits
Speaker 1: on a couch with his friends, friends that are paid
Speaker 1: by the NFL. Maybe not real friends, but one within
Speaker 1: the context of the program, there's friends Maurice Jones, Drew
Speaker 1: like Taylor, Yeah, like Taylor, And we were there today
Speaker 1: around the NFL guys stop by from time to time,
Speaker 1: and then Colleen just stucks in and she talks about
Speaker 1: social media stuff and then interjects little bullets of knowledge
Speaker 1: and then a little bit of mirth. Yeah, exactly, that's
Speaker 1: that's well summed up, Dan, Thank you, please don't touch me. Okay,
Speaker 1: So let's we got let's see five, six more games
Speaker 1: to get to uh so, why don't we get going
Speaker 1: right now with another undefeated team. I love talking about
Speaker 1: undefeat of teams, the Cincinnati Bengals who continued they're winning ways,
Speaker 1: moving to four and oh with a thirty over the
Speaker 1: Chiefs uh County Fox. We keep waiting for Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: to crumble, and yet here he is looking like a
Speaker 1: different player. It's weird because he looks really relaxed now,
Speaker 1: like like we haven't really seen him play like this.
Speaker 1: And he keeps finding a j green which should not
Speaker 1: come as a shock, but you can tell that they
Speaker 1: are sort of hitting their stride together. It's the first
Speaker 1: time in his career he has four straight games with
Speaker 1: a passer rating over one. Now. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at he has Jeremy Hill that's doing things now. Before
Speaker 1: Geo Bernard Jeremy Jeremy Hill had three touchdowns. But before
Speaker 1: Geo and Jeremy Hill on the same carries, Geo was
Speaker 1: doing so much better. His productions as far as yards
Speaker 1: per carry, but Hill was the guy today and the
Speaker 1: defense just shut down the Chiefs. That's seven field goals
Speaker 1: in this game. This is this is where you get
Speaker 1: really excited if you're a Cincinnati fan, because if Jeremy
Speaker 1: Hill figures it out and starts running uh downhill and
Speaker 1: running over people and get in the end zone, and
Speaker 1: then you mix in Bernard, which we all everybody in
Speaker 1: this room likes his skill set a lot. That Dalt
Speaker 1: keeps up. Geez, defense Boer. I mean, what one of
Speaker 1: the highlights we just saw is Andy Dalton on a
Speaker 1: full sprint to the right, throwing at fifty yards down
Speaker 1: the field. That's why this four game stretch is different,
Speaker 1: I think than the other Dalton runs because he's leading
Speaker 1: the league in yards per attempt by bombing it down
Speaker 1: the field week after week. He's done it so consistently
Speaker 1: you have to believe it. Yeah, I mean five players
Speaker 1: with twenty seven or more yards on a certain catch,
Speaker 1: I mean they that's what they did last week too.
Speaker 1: They the chunk yards downfield, the big long throws like
Speaker 1: that's what would be missing every third game for the
Speaker 1: Bengals last season. Usually from the neck up with Dalton,
Speaker 1: he does look I think Hugh Jackson is a much
Speaker 1: better play caller than Gruden. Everyone's with this team and
Speaker 1: he's comfortable. It's year two for him and it's not
Speaker 1: completely fake from Dalton. Nothing surprises me about the Bengals
Speaker 1: except for Dalton's confidence. It's hair they have. It looks good.
Speaker 1: His hair looks better because if you're a carrot top um,
Speaker 1: you can either buzz it down and that shows a
Speaker 1: little bit of shame in the carrot, and I don't
Speaker 1: think there should be. When you grow it out, it
Speaker 1: looks literally like a flame atop of your head. It
Speaker 1: looks a little insane, like a comic book villain in
Speaker 1: a way. Don't pick against the Bengals at home. They're
Speaker 1: fifteen two and one at home since it started two
Speaker 1: thou next week against the Seahawks, you're gonna keep that well.
Speaker 1: I'm picking the Bengals on a routine basis, just because
Speaker 1: that's my prerogative. Did you pick against him this week? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'm not gonna put any stock
Speaker 1: in Alex Smith, who had the most Alex Smith's stad ever.
Speaker 1: Today I gave West the choice of a few games
Speaker 1: and he was just like I can't watch Alex. I
Speaker 1: can't watch Alex Smith is back to back week three,
Speaker 1: eight six yards today, the third most ever by a
Speaker 1: quarterback without throwing a touchdown. Wow, he was sacked five
Speaker 1: times today too, right, they got I've never heard of
Speaker 1: twenty one points by it was it seven field goals
Speaker 1: went away from Rob baroniss record. I'm just saying they
Speaker 1: didn't have any time. I mean, that is the most
Speaker 1: Alex Smith type of gaming, Greg, I have to challenge you, right, okay, uh.
Speaker 1: You know one of my favorite pieces every week is
Speaker 1: the QB Index, and I know we have a long,
Speaker 1: stay standing narrative about Andy Dalton about where he fits
Speaker 1: in in the class of NFL quarterbacks. You haven't at
Speaker 1: fourteen entering Sunday, and the people ahead of him to
Speaker 1: get into the top ten entering this week, Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, Peyton Manning and Joe Flacco. Let's be fair.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton right now is a top ten quarterback and
Speaker 1: he deserves to be there. The whole Quarterback Index, you know,
Speaker 1: it's very confusing how it's rated. But the one thing
Speaker 1: I know after four weeks, that's when it's just on
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen alone. I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: unfair to just rank them off of the new season
Speaker 1: only when you only have two or three weeks of play.
Speaker 1: So based on this season Loan, yeah, he'll be in
Speaker 1: the top ten. He'll probably be in the top six
Speaker 1: or seven. Wow, soon for this season alone Thursday, the
Speaker 1: next time you roll out your column, that's correct. Totally
Speaker 1: new territory. It's never even come close. Yes, that's NFL
Speaker 1: dot Com slash QB ranks. Wow, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: plans like it's some high voltage plugging. Speaking of Vanity
Speaker 1: r ls, how about the end around you get that
Speaker 1: we got around? Do we have a backslash Heroes and
Speaker 1: Villains Mark? Probably the same territory that believe Land was,
Speaker 1: which is all Greg. You know Vanity, you were all
Speaker 1: for Greg. Let's get that thing going. Let's get Henry
Speaker 1: on when it comes out someone else's and get like
Speaker 1: you cant asked for what anytime you want and it
Speaker 1: comes out watch rookie Watch. That would have been a
Speaker 1: good idea last year DM dot programming. Hey can I
Speaker 1: get a Vanity you're out for blank, you can get
Speaker 1: it. It It really doesn't make any difference to anything a
Speaker 1: lot of vanity. You are all talk tonight. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get a vanity at l for every we have, every
Speaker 1: article I write from now you can see, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on that. We just moved on from them.
Speaker 1: All that's going through my head is that one one
Speaker 1: iTunes review is like, is this a real a football
Speaker 1: podcast or amateur comedy? That absolutely slaughtered me for two
Speaker 1: straight weeks as I dared to suggest they might only
Speaker 1: win seven games this year? How's your team looking lovely?
Speaker 1: I like it when you do that. Put fans in
Speaker 1: their place. We moved forward. It was a tough day
Speaker 1: for kickers in the NFL, as we said, but Robbie
Speaker 1: Gould drilled fifty yard or with two seconds to play,
Speaker 1: given the Chicago Bears a two to twenty victory over
Speaker 1: the visiting Oakland Raiders. This is a bearrass team that
Speaker 1: had Jake Cutler. Greg This team rally around their leader.
Speaker 1: Is that what happened here? Well, they are much better
Speaker 1: team with Jake Cutler. People will make fun of him,
Speaker 1: but he played. He played pretty well actually this season.
Speaker 1: Other than the two killer interceptions, anything he moved the
Speaker 1: ball against the Packers, he played well to start the
Speaker 1: other game where he got hurt. He made it absolutely huge.
Speaker 1: People hate on Jay Cutler until you have to watch
Speaker 1: Jimmy Clawson right exactly. And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people will be taken away from this game. It says
Speaker 1: more about the Raiders it just seeing on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: think Raiders fans were absolutely furious because they expected this
Speaker 1: is a game that we should win, but they're not
Speaker 1: at that point where they should win any game. They
Speaker 1: were really lucky, I think, to be in the game.
Speaker 1: The Bears outplayed them for most of the game, outgained
Speaker 1: them by a hundred and thirty yards. Uh, and they
Speaker 1: ended up winning. Anthony, we knew it, but the Raiders
Speaker 1: can't have nice things. Well, we knew not to trust them,
Speaker 1: and we trust them anyway. Well, I tried to switch
Speaker 1: this game to the Bears when I found out Cutler
Speaker 1: were starting, but it was already locked onto to the Raiders.
Speaker 1: That was I regretted. That's a pretty big difference from
Speaker 1: class in the Cutler I know color people make fun
Speaker 1: of he's he's a mid level quarterback. What happening with
Speaker 1: the Mari Cooper today? He was four two turnovers, had
Speaker 1: a nice little touchdown catch. But other than that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Marie Cooper, Derek Carr, the whole passing attack
Speaker 1: looked like, you know, a bunch of young players going
Speaker 1: up against the Bears defense that looked to revive. Maybe
Speaker 1: they just got to get rid of Jared Out my
Speaker 1: favorite bench too. Yeah, my favorite part of this game
Speaker 1: was the lateral return at the end. Gabe Jackson try
Speaker 1: to like I did hear our news from Explode during
Speaker 1: I was like watching another game and just wanted to
Speaker 1: blow the room up. Things on a Sunday is like
Speaker 1: one of the one of the best things on a
Speaker 1: Sunday in the newsroom is when something really exciting is
Speaker 1: going on and people look around and what's going on?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Mark just stays at his computer, going Now,
Speaker 1: that's one of the best things, Like at a sports bar,
Speaker 1: that's true. Let's send it went on the return of
Speaker 1: j Color. You know, someone asked them to color to
Speaker 1: criticism like saying, how good good you know you should
Speaker 1: guy back and you won a game. He said. They
Speaker 1: threw rocks at Jesus to Jesus, and Jesus was an
Speaker 1: excellent guy who did a lot of awesome So those
Speaker 1: Bennett brothers are just so witty and smart. They do
Speaker 1: seem to want to top each other every time their mouths.
Speaker 1: So you're saying Jesus didn't do awesome stuff. Might not
Speaker 1: compared Jay Cutler to Jesu's You know, I Kristin Cavalarry
Speaker 1: probably would her personal Jesus. Let's move on. The Jacksonville
Speaker 1: Jaguars had multiple chances to kick for a rare win
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. They couldn't get it done. Matt Hasselbeck helped
Speaker 1: the Colts get to two and two, a sixteen to
Speaker 1: thirteen overtime win. Yuck, Greg if the jag who can't
Speaker 1: be in a forty year old Matt Hasselbeck, This is
Speaker 1: just never gonna happen, isn't. It was really disappointing because
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, I thought played fantastic in the first half,
Speaker 1: really played pretty well throughout the game, but they couldn't
Speaker 1: finish drive to score only thirteen points. They didn't score
Speaker 1: on their last eight drives of the game. They got
Speaker 1: the ball five times in the last eight minutes of
Speaker 1: the game and then in overtime, and you know, all
Speaker 1: these chances to win the game, their kicker missed a
Speaker 1: couple of chances. Chuck Bagano tried to freeze him once
Speaker 1: and he should have been punished by the football for
Speaker 1: doing that because the kicker missed it by twenty yards.
Speaker 1: He came closer the second time around, but still missed it.
Speaker 1: What a depressing loss for that. I didn't like that.
Speaker 1: Blake Border Blake World's apologists qualifier by you there, Greg,
Speaker 1: I thought he looked good. I gotta go into Indie
Speaker 1: and win the game. Here, you play to win the game,
Speaker 1: and you have Matt Hasselbeck starting for Andrew Luck. He's
Speaker 1: missing his first game ever, and you can't get it done.
Speaker 1: Jesus Jacksonville. Yeah, but t j Yelden, he had a
Speaker 1: great game, and so did Alan Hurns. Alan Hurts had
Speaker 1: eight catches in but at the end of the day
Speaker 1: and their kicker missed three if you count the one
Speaker 1: where the Colts called the time not happen in the game,
Speaker 1: winning and regulation and forty eight yards. If you're leaving
Speaker 1: it to a kicker hitting along field goal, there's other
Speaker 1: things at place, including Gus Bradley third and eleven in overtime,
Speaker 1: and they're in position for that field goal and he
Speaker 1: calls a run up the middle instead of trying to
Speaker 1: keep moving the ball. He gets three yards and the
Speaker 1: kicker missed it. You gotta be aggressive. They don't have
Speaker 1: the d n a of winning. I mean Matt Hasselbeck,
Speaker 1: I know he's a hundred and six years old, but
Speaker 1: he does and you let him throw Matt house speck
Speaker 1: if you would have told me he was gonna throw
Speaker 1: forty seven passes and his friend are not and they
Speaker 1: won the game. I mean, this is a game that
Speaker 1: only the Jaguars can lose. It feels like a team
Speaker 1: that is perpetually stuck in neutral and we shouldn't take
Speaker 1: them seriously. It's a franchise. Their quarterback and kicker have
Speaker 1: a combined age of eighty two years old. That's how
Speaker 1: they won the game today at Frank on the goal line. Again,
Speaker 1: good though you saw this game. Is it's safe to
Speaker 1: say that Andrew luck was not the problem with Andre Johnson. No.
Speaker 1: He They tried to get it deep to him. He
Speaker 1: couldn't make a catch that you would have normally seen Andre.
Speaker 1: Zero catch isn't two targets, two targets. He's I guess well,
Speaker 1: Frank played poorly too. Maybe there's something to not sign
Speaker 1: any older players well, and and it wasn't just It
Speaker 1: wasn't just because Hasslebeck is there either. I mean mon
Speaker 1: Creef had seventy five yards, Kobe Fleaner nine free D three.
Speaker 1: I thought Hasselbeck looked really good. There was at least
Speaker 1: six or seven drops by the Colts. I would say,
Speaker 1: two or three by by Frank Gore a couple by
Speaker 1: and he made He threw in a couple of those
Speaker 1: like hey, I'm I'm you know the poor man's Brent five,
Speaker 1: like throws across your addie while you're geting hurt. I
Speaker 1: mean he was having Well, there's something to be said
Speaker 1: for taking like a hundred and eighteen weeks off in
Speaker 1: a row. Well, I don't know, a couple of months.
Speaker 1: Remember when you wanted to well, I saw to take
Speaker 1: four weeks off because O'Dell Beckham did well, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: didn't come off. Sure, come back four years from now
Speaker 1: completely resh. Connie did that. At one point in training camp.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, well, I was like sick. I
Speaker 1: wasn't here for like three weeks at one point. It
Speaker 1: was a while. Moving on, Kirk Cousins showed some life
Speaker 1: on Sunday, leading the Redskins on a fifteen play ninety
Speaker 1: yard game winning touchdown drive in the fourth quarter. It
Speaker 1: led to a win over the Eagles. Collie and the
Speaker 1: Redskins are better than everyone thought. But is this just
Speaker 1: going to be remembered as another bad beat for Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly and the Eagles. The Redskins are better than everybody thought,
Speaker 1: but they're a bad team, so that means the Eagles
Speaker 1: are even worse. Sam Bradford was terrible in the first half.
Speaker 1: He sort of got it together in the second off
Speaker 1: when they finally started to go after Chris Culiver. He
Speaker 1: was burned by two really good touchdowns. I mean, sixty
Speaker 1: two yard passed or Riley Cooper. This was the longest
Speaker 1: play of the year, just the catch there. Then Miles
Speaker 1: Austin had a thirty nine yard touchdown, So you have that.
Speaker 1: The offensive line looks awful. They can't run, block, they
Speaker 1: can't pass protect. You have DeMarco Murray just disappeared. He
Speaker 1: had one good run then he was gone the rest
Speaker 1: of the game. He was complaining after the game and
Speaker 1: he's not getting enough touches. He has forty touches through
Speaker 1: three games. Right now, this is your lead back he
Speaker 1: had eighty three through three last year. Plus in addition
Speaker 1: all of that, the Eagles defense was on the field
Speaker 1: for most of this game. They were so gas that
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins was able to march down the field on
Speaker 1: the final drive of the game and win it for them.
Speaker 1: The time of possession they were on the field for
Speaker 1: forty one minutes and Chip Kelly always says the time
Speaker 1: of possession isn't important, but it definitely was. And Pierre
Speaker 1: Garson with with I think the play of the day
Speaker 1: on that touchdown catch to win it, to to sell
Speaker 1: out and then get blasted on a game winning touchdown catch,
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't get much better in that. I
Speaker 1: love Pierre Garson. We're seeing this a lot with this
Speaker 1: team where you look at the box score and Murray
Speaker 1: has eight carries, Ryan Matthews five, Sprolls four and I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it's just like you want to
Speaker 1: get someone into a flow. And when they did that
Speaker 1: last week with Matthews, they finally had something happened they
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why it was a weird move when
Speaker 1: they signed both those guys in the offseason. You have
Speaker 1: three running backs, it's not normal to have three guys
Speaker 1: that you're trying to get touches like this, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the reason why the offensive line though,
Speaker 1: has been a major issue this. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey right now is the only starter from last year.
Speaker 1: Because Jason Peters got hurt and so did Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: in this game. Well, that's a major, majorge. And if
Speaker 1: the Eagles are like a fantasy team, you would trade
Speaker 1: one of these running backs and clear up the lodjam
Speaker 1: and define some roles and get going on it. But
Speaker 1: this isn't fantasy, Mark, You're right. This is very much
Speaker 1: on the real earth, and this is supposed to be
Speaker 1: an offense that that runs so many plays and it's
Speaker 1: up tempo and it's quick. Washington had seventy nine plays,
Speaker 1: Eagles one. A lot of bios. Austin and Riley Cooper
Speaker 1: are your best playmakers. You're in big trouble. So a
Speaker 1: lot of people in the NFL that are happy about
Speaker 1: this season long development so far because there's no one
Speaker 1: else to blame. Yes, yeah, I mean it's been it's
Speaker 1: been terrible. And uh, Connie, you say that you don't
Speaker 1: think the Redskins are any good at all, so they
Speaker 1: didn't do anything to get you thinking this team is
Speaker 1: a little frisky. I mean, Garson, he came up big,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, he'll be back next week. But I just
Speaker 1: think Kirk Cousins driving the length of the field that
Speaker 1: was just so much. Because the defense was so gassed
Speaker 1: by the end, they were victimized by Kirk Cousins. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If I think the Redskins are like kind of like
Speaker 1: the Texans last year, where people say, oh, it's the
Speaker 1: artist thing to do is to win a game in
Speaker 1: the NFL. No, it's not that hard. Lousy teams win
Speaker 1: the eight or nine games every year, and the Redskins
Speaker 1: seemed like maybe one there'll be one of those teams
Speaker 1: win a game easily and spoke like a man that's
Speaker 1: never played it down to mediocre teams win eight games
Speaker 1: all the time. They just kind of there and they
Speaker 1: get you know, they can you imagine Greg on his
Speaker 1: next big Network hit saying that to Solomon will Alright,
Speaker 1: moving on, alright, Mark, here we go. An offside penalty
Speaker 1: on Brown's cornerback Tremont Williams gave Chargers kicker Josh Lambo
Speaker 1: a second chance at the game winning field goal. It
Speaker 1: was good. San Diego won thirty seven West. We weren't
Speaker 1: expecting a Rivers McCown duel, but guess what, that's what
Speaker 1: we got. They both played great. This was one of
Speaker 1: the best games of Josh McCown's career, including that five
Speaker 1: game stretch talking about right after you gave up on him.
Speaker 1: He showed me an infamous making the leap count of
Speaker 1: eight years ago. But he was making the place that
Speaker 1: I need to make in this game. Absolutely, he was
Speaker 1: under fire to the Chargers, had a pretty good pass
Speaker 1: rush Corn with Jerry how do you say his name?
Speaker 1: And Bird? Yeah? That guy? Uh? How about Dwayne Bow?
Speaker 1: Dropped the only past are saying to West. When Mark
Speaker 1: was outraged by Dwayne Bill, he went to cut immediately,
Speaker 1: if not sooner, I think it sends the wrong message
Speaker 1: to your well, who knows what you put Ray Farmer
Speaker 1: and Dwyne Bow in the same cab and to send
Speaker 1: him out of town? Would you sign off on that Mark?
Speaker 1: Mark likes Ray Farmer? I well't we listen. I don't
Speaker 1: like a lot that's going on in general, because one,
Speaker 1: I don't like teams where you say all offseason, here's
Speaker 1: the two or three things we promise you we're going
Speaker 1: to do well, and through four games it's the three
Speaker 1: things they're not doing well. You can't their offensive line
Speaker 1: is nothing like last year's. They can't run the ball effectively.
Speaker 1: In their defense, which they were sneaky calling a top
Speaker 1: five secondary in the league. Everyone's squawking has been an
Speaker 1: absolute Mark Sessler tweet here five fixes for the Browns.
Speaker 1: One start man Zell to return to zone blocking nice,
Speaker 1: three run endless, no huddle, four resigned prior Herrell prior,
Speaker 1: and last week, play more way more Duke Johnson. That
Speaker 1: paid off. They got Duke Johnson. They did finally on
Speaker 1: earth him. Here's the problem, here's the biggest problem. And
Speaker 1: those are all good fixes. Mark number one, which to
Speaker 1: me is the number one thing they gotta do. This
Speaker 1: game actually hurts that because McCown played well, and Mike
Speaker 1: Patton and his mind is going to be like, justify
Speaker 1: his decision to stick with him. He's a competitive player,
Speaker 1: he's the team is behind him, and he's working real hard.
Speaker 1: So Josh is going to continue to be a starter.
Speaker 1: And it's like, bro, you're not going anywhere. But in
Speaker 1: the kid, wait, why did you just turn pett Into
Speaker 1: like a nineteen fifty eight like Neanderthal from the Inner City.
Speaker 1: You know that. I don't need to explain it. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that was. Does he seem like a
Speaker 1: like a high culture man? I think I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's salt of the Earth's gonna have a lot of
Speaker 1: free time if they don't figure this thing out soon, though,
Speaker 1: because you're one in three, you could have had this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's they're not a very good football team
Speaker 1: and they can't have to be. I had to look
Speaker 1: over at Mark when they met miss, I mean, just
Speaker 1: seeing what's going on over there when they missed when
Speaker 1: they missed the field Bault. But then they called the
Speaker 1: penalty on the Browns and it was just your Greg
Speaker 1: drinking in your misery. No, it wasn't. I it was
Speaker 1: just it was I had too over while my supporting
Speaker 1: was crumbling emotionally. Do you think that when TD goes
Speaker 1: to bed he lays in bed and wondering to himself, Man,
Speaker 1: I really missed out on a great factory of sadness.
Speaker 1: Drop today? Oh at it doesn't drops still work behind
Speaker 1: the glass? Right they do? Yeah? Okay, it's just checking different,
Speaker 1: you know, different. You heard it the drop earlier. That's
Speaker 1: all we got. Now we got the wool. Look at
Speaker 1: how much things change in a year. Nobody's even going
Speaker 1: to talk about the Chargers in this one. Let's hear
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers was spectacular. Um, he had a couple of
Speaker 1: beautiful touch passes to Keenan Allen over French frenchie Pierre
Speaker 1: de Sere. I think it's gonna be He had tight
Speaker 1: coverage on both those plays. Then Danny Woodhead was phenomenal too.
Speaker 1: But Rivers really carried this team. Hit Dontrell inmant On
Speaker 1: a big third down late in the game, and uh
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Look, they were down to two healthy receivers
Speaker 1: by the end of the game, two healthy cornerbacks, three
Speaker 1: other offensive linemen were out and Rivers still carries them
Speaker 1: to victory. Not to mention, Antonio Gates is back next week.
Speaker 1: Good point. You are a factory of sadness, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit late, you know what I mean? We were,
Speaker 1: You know, it's a factory press a button over and over.
Speaker 1: It's all that timing. It's all that timing, all right,
Speaker 1: Colleen Connie Fox, you are one of the I like
Speaker 1: to say, one of the stars of NFL. Now is
Speaker 1: Game Day Blitz, Yes, but you guys are to one
Speaker 1: to seven thirty every Sunday. That's Eastern. We live in Pacific,
Speaker 1: so I don't know why we have to cow tow
Speaker 1: to uh the whole Eastern time zone block ten to
Speaker 1: four thirty's watching Gandhi twice in a row. It's a
Speaker 1: marathon to cover all the games, though, so that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of nice. We've got all the highlights going some
Speaker 1: chatter and you know your old man's in towns. You're
Speaker 1: gonna go get him for dinner after this, and that's
Speaker 1: nice too. So we're happy for you because the bond
Speaker 1: of family is important. It is. Yeah, ed Wolf would
Speaker 1: like that. And I just want to clarify something. I
Speaker 1: said that Colin maybe the greatest woman ever. To clarify
Speaker 1: my my wife. I will probably put her ahead of
Speaker 1: Collin in the power rankings. But there's there's no Colleen's
Speaker 1: not on the Dalton scale. She's not hanging in the
Speaker 1: middle of You're saying there in the same tier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's not really clarification but a massive backtracking whatever
Speaker 1: however you want to look into it. I dug myself out.
Speaker 1: I'm in the clear college job it too, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Hold it off. Yes, there she goes. Here
Speaker 1: comes with all the drops. He's like for six months,
Speaker 1: this thing works all right? Which all right? Now Colleen exits.
Speaker 1: We will you leave? Did you just read that? Somewhere?
Speaker 1: Colleen gets out, and now we dive into Sunday night football.
Speaker 1: Another thriller. A game in which the Dallas Cowboys were
Speaker 1: down seven points of less less than two minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Brandon Weed into Terrence Williams ties it up with a
Speaker 1: beautiful throw in the back of the end zone, and
Speaker 1: then here come the Saints. They take it down the field,
Speaker 1: look like they're gonna win the game easy, but another
Speaker 1: bum kicker blows it. Zach Hawker, whoever you are, buddy,
Speaker 1: you missed a thirty yards field. Not to be a jerk,
Speaker 1: but you gotta make that kick to win the game.
Speaker 1: He misses it. They go to ot and guess what happens.
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is He's done time after time for years,
Speaker 1: saves the Saints hit CJ. Spiller down the sideline in
Speaker 1: a blown coverage of Simon. Spiller does the rest, taking
Speaker 1: it down the sideline untouched eighty yards for the touchdown,
Speaker 1: game over walk off to twenty win for the Saints,
Speaker 1: A big win for the Saints, Mark Sessler, and a
Speaker 1: tough one for the Cowboys who are now two and
Speaker 1: two and oh it's two under Weed. But not his fault,
Speaker 1: not his fault at all. I mean, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Brandon Weeden two games in a row has been competent
Speaker 1: and he's not the reason that they're losing football games
Speaker 1: at all from backup quarterback, and we've gotta be happy
Speaker 1: with what he's done. Well when he's throwing a Bryce
Speaker 1: Butler leading the team in receiving yards, it was all
Speaker 1: on one catch, but he's right there and snaps as
Speaker 1: the number two receiver and snaps along with Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: to Terrence Williams that that's a rough group and yet
Speaker 1: he had them in position to win the game again,
Speaker 1: So you can't really put it on them. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you put it on the defense either. But
Speaker 1: the defense, which we were excited about the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, isn't good enough to win games on its own. Well,
Speaker 1: this is exactly what we thought would happen when you
Speaker 1: lose Tony Romo and Dez Bryant and Tony Romo would
Speaker 1: score more than twenty points against the worst defense in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean, you can say it's not a problem,
Speaker 1: but they lost tonight because the injuries and because Sean
Speaker 1: Lee comes out in his replacement. Damian Wilson is burnt
Speaker 1: by c J's bill are on the game when he
Speaker 1: touched down. Injuries are killing the Cowboys. Have you, guys
Speaker 1: you know this is for West and Dan ever seen
Speaker 1: Mark I have the same look in his eyes as
Speaker 1: he did when the Saints kicker missed it at the
Speaker 1: end of regulation. Well, just to let people in, yeah,
Speaker 1: in a little bit, we finished taping the early part
Speaker 1: of the show, and then we stopped down and watch
Speaker 1: the end of the game, and then we pick it
Speaker 1: back up again and Mark staring at the screen. He
Speaker 1: wants to get out of here. We all want to
Speaker 1: go home, but Mark really wanted to go home because
Speaker 1: when the kick was missed by Zach was it even
Speaker 1: before the miss? When it was on the miss, Mark
Speaker 1: pounds the table and fury. I've never seen you express
Speaker 1: that much rage physically. It was actually before the kick,
Speaker 1: because it was when they got down there and you're
Speaker 1: gonna put it away and what I listen, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to see we got everything going so well here,
Speaker 1: let's sew it up, let's roll out of here. Drew
Speaker 1: Bees did it and c J Spiller thirteen second overtime.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't exactly light up the Cowboys, but
Speaker 1: they moved the ball up and down the field. I
Speaker 1: thought the first drive of the game, that was the
Speaker 1: best drive I've seen from the Saints and Drew Brees
Speaker 1: all season. I thought this shoulder issue was going to
Speaker 1: be a problem, you know, maybe indefinitely, but he looked
Speaker 1: like he was fine, looked like the regular Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he hit as much juice on his throws.
Speaker 1: He hasn't when I don't know, he didn't have a
Speaker 1: ton of He's not a guy who's not He stuck
Speaker 1: a couple of throws in there that showed that he
Speaker 1: could that he could still do it. And this wasn't
Speaker 1: a guy that was gonna be a issue against the team,
Speaker 1: the Dallas running rushing attack. By the way, um lent
Speaker 1: stunnbar was suffered a potentially serious knee injury three for
Speaker 1: fifty four. But then you look at Darren mcfaun ten
Speaker 1: for thirty one, Joseph Randall eleven for six, Christie Michael
Speaker 1: still not getting carries, only one carry for negative one yards.
Speaker 1: That's you know, for all the talk of this is
Speaker 1: a potentially like all time offensive line, this is now.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty clear it's not been as easy as
Speaker 1: they thought to plug in someone in the backfield to
Speaker 1: carry this team on the ground. Yeah. I mean I
Speaker 1: think we also for months, even before the season, the
Speaker 1: hints from the coaching staff and everyone else's would be
Speaker 1: a committee, a group of running backs to try to
Speaker 1: equal what happened last year with mostly one back. Dunbar
Speaker 1: is a big loss for this team if he don't
Speaker 1: know how long he'll what the deal is with him.
Speaker 1: But that is a playmaker stripped right out of this
Speaker 1: running game. He's been a big part of their attack.
Speaker 1: And Collins were said, and I thought the same thing.
Speaker 1: Their offensive line didn't play that well in the second
Speaker 1: half last week against the Land, at least in the
Speaker 1: running game. They were the reason for that. Yeah, But okay,
Speaker 1: what is the reason the Falcon stuck everybody near the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage because they knew in Brandon Weeden was
Speaker 1: going to throw up more than eight yards down the
Speaker 1: so that that's part of it. So their offensive line
Speaker 1: isn't gonna be good enough to make up for that.
Speaker 1: I guess while Weeden is in they are past protecting
Speaker 1: very well. We didn't get rid of the ball so
Speaker 1: quickly because he seems like he doesn't want anything to
Speaker 1: do with the pass thresh. She'll take a seven yard
Speaker 1: game even when it's third and eighteen. But the running
Speaker 1: game is not going to be able to survive, I
Speaker 1: think with Weed in behind center, or I mean, what
Speaker 1: do we expect? I mean, but Dallas isn't gonna face
Speaker 1: the worse defense than this necessarily, So I don't even
Speaker 1: blame Bell. They fought hard. You can't overcome Tony Romo?
Speaker 1: Does Bryan and Sean Lee for the Saints? Is there
Speaker 1: any hope? One in three they get back in the mix,
Speaker 1: their way out of the mix, and the end Gonnavision.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's too bad. You know who else
Speaker 1: is in trouble, by the way, the Cowboys. So they
Speaker 1: lose these two games there two and two verse Patriots,
Speaker 1: so they host the Patriots. They go to New York
Speaker 1: to face the Giants. They host the Seahawks. The Eagles,
Speaker 1: and then it loosens up a little bit at Bucks
Speaker 1: at Dolphins, and then you're getting into the range when
Speaker 1: Romo might get back, and I mean it's gonna it's yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta win those games, and they gotta just hang
Speaker 1: around five and then hope Tony and Dees save the day.
Speaker 1: All right, those are the games on Sunday. By the way,
Speaker 1: this is our our Sunday night show is on YouTube.
Speaker 1: You can see the entire episode on YouTube if you
Speaker 1: go to uh the NFL channel, and I believe there's
Speaker 1: around the NFL has a playlist and you'll find it there.
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you type in the search. We'll put
Speaker 1: our playlist as the little link right under our Twitter profile.
Speaker 1: If anyone, thank you because I tried to find it once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's make it still simplify it. Well, we'll shoot
Speaker 1: you guys the direct link to the playlists. That's all good.
Speaker 1: And of course we have our two other shows during
Speaker 1: the week on Tuesday where you'll hear us next and
Speaker 1: then Thursday, so another week in the book quarter pole
Speaker 1: and by the way, we're gonna check in. Speaking of
Speaker 1: poll or power poll Um update it, what's so funny. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just just know I'm going to sleep the old
Speaker 1: I was just laughing thinking about that. It's power pool
Speaker 1: time again, because get excited when the power powl every
Speaker 1: every four or five weeks, like open it up. It's
Speaker 1: like Christmas four times a year. What have we learned
Speaker 1: by the way, we learned the Jets are three and one.
Speaker 1: We learned Mark gets very fiery about certain elements of
Speaker 1: games at certain times of the night. Yeah, anything after
Speaker 1: nine pm. Wild card scenario, wild card by the sciss
Speaker 1: All right, So that's it. We'll be back on Tuesday
Speaker 1: with another great show with a new producer behind the
Speaker 1: glass to replace the Irishman. Uh So that's it. So
Speaker 1: that's something to get excited for until then. This is
Speaker 1: Dan handsOn signing off of The Quiet Storm, The Mailman,
Speaker 1: the Boss and TV behind the Glass. Until then. M