WEBVTT - Chiefs THROTTLE Broncos, Mahomes RETURNS + NFL Week 1 REACTION | Nick Wright 0:00:03.730 --> 0:00:09.200 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright, episode 502. This 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.280 episode of What's Right with Nick Wright is presented to 0:00:11.340 --> 0:00:17.110 you by Boost Mobile. Everything is right in the world again. 0:00:18.410 --> 0:00:20.590 And listen, it doesn't mean the Chiefs are going to 0:00:20.610 --> 0:00:23.910 win the Super Bowl. I mean, they probably will. But 0:00:26.010 --> 0:00:34.019 be honest, America. Last year felt weird. The Chiefs aren't good. 0:00:34.380 --> 0:00:40.760 The Ravens aren't good. The Bills are good, kind of, 0:00:40.860 --> 0:00:44.990 but can't win their division. The AFC Championship game is 0:00:45.050 --> 0:00:49.990 a 10-7 slog in the snow in Denver between Jared 0:00:50.070 --> 0:00:57.110 Stidham and Drake May. You missed us. You missed us. 0:00:58.810 --> 0:01:03.740 It's all better when Kansas City is still the standard. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.520 And even with a quarterback nine months to the day 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:16.289 of knee reconstruction, we're still the damn standard. The only 0:01:16.370 --> 0:01:20.350 reason the Chiefs didn't have the, oh my God, the Jags, 0:01:20.410 --> 0:01:23.020 they did look great against the Browns. Oh, the Bears 0:01:23.060 --> 0:01:27.119 scored 59. The only reason the Chiefs didn't have the 0:01:27.260 --> 0:01:31.580 biggest blowout of the weekend is because we took knees 0:01:31.620 --> 0:01:35.010 instead of kicking that field goal. 24 would have been 0:01:35.030 --> 0:01:38.870 the high watermark. We took mercy on the Denver Broncos. 0:01:40.930 --> 0:01:44.640 The Chiefs had nine years atop the AFC West. Denver 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.570 had nine months. And now it's back how it's supposed 0:01:49.810 --> 0:01:53.970 to be. Straight to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. 0:01:54.110 --> 0:01:56.170 I don't care about any of these things. Hi, Demondze. 0:01:56.190 --> 0:01:59.110 What's up? Good to see you. Dumb Clippers stuff that 0:01:59.170 --> 0:02:02.730 I don't care about. Bad U.S. Open that I went 0:02:02.770 --> 0:02:06.220 to the semifinal of, but got stuck in traffic for 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.060 two hours because of a wreck, and then the Uber 0:02:08.100 --> 0:02:09.780 driver went the wrong way, and I ended up having 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.540 to get out and run. And I had literally front 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.900 row center court for the U.S. Open, and I got 0:02:14.940 --> 0:02:20.890 there mid-third set. Not great. But who cares? Great to 0:02:20.950 --> 0:02:26.330 see you. If you're new to this program, Tuesdays in football, 0:02:26.650 --> 0:02:30.130 we do hit on every game from the weekend. Every 0:02:30.210 --> 0:02:33.500 single team will be mentioned. Every game will be discussed. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.700 And we don't always lead with Monday night football. But 0:02:37.740 --> 0:02:42.140 when it's the return of Patrick Mahomes and the announcement 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:46.060 of Kenneth Walker and the Chiefs with a running game, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.770 who'd have thunk it? Multiple Super Bowl MVPs on one team. 0:02:51.250 --> 0:02:54.770 That might be good. We are going to lead with 0:02:54.810 --> 0:02:58.450 Monday Night Football. I'll try to keep this to less 0:02:58.490 --> 0:03:04.080 than half the pod, but no promises. Demanze, take it away. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.600 Nine months after tearing his ACL, Patrick Mahomes makes his return. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.740 So there were some oopsies in there, but he came out, ran, 0:03:11.780 --> 0:03:16.260 and got that touchdown. And the defense performed. Your rookies performed. 0:03:16.660 --> 0:03:20.690 And Kenneth Walker. Random into the ground. The floor is yours. 0:03:20.710 --> 0:03:22.620 You haven't been able to speak positively about the Chiefs 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:23.820 in a minute. I know you're excited. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:32.419 Kenneth Walker is micro the big story. The young defense 0:03:33.860 --> 0:03:41.890 is the secondary big story. But the biggest story is, 0:03:41.930 --> 0:03:49.220 of course, Patrick Mahomes. in record time from an ACL, 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.460 no pun intended, with never a doubt in his mind 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.110 that he was going to be on that field for 0:04:00.230 --> 0:04:03.590 week one of the season. He tore his ACL to 0:04:03.610 --> 0:04:10.230 Monza in the 14th game of the year. I just 0:04:10.610 --> 0:04:16.719 want people to understand Mahomes' injury history. 2019, he dislocated 0:04:16.779 --> 0:04:25.010 his kneecap. He missed two games. They won the Super Bowl. 2022, 0:04:25.010 --> 0:04:27.330 he suffered a high ankle sprain in the playoffs. The 0:04:27.390 --> 0:04:31.229 exact injury that currently has A.J. Brown out on the 0:04:31.370 --> 0:04:36.270 IR and out for six weeks. He missed one drive. 0:04:37.930 --> 0:04:40.350 And they won the Super Bowl. And in 2025, he 0:04:40.370 --> 0:04:47.040 tore his ACL. And he missed three games. And now 0:04:47.100 --> 0:04:51.900 he is back. And to announce he is back. And 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.200 also to announce some of the Chiefs issues at wide 0:04:54.250 --> 0:04:58.690 receiver are still not fixed. On the opening drive of 0:04:58.730 --> 0:05:03.170 the game. He ran it in for a touchdown. They 0:05:03.210 --> 0:05:07.289 got a holding penalty. So he ran that son of 0:05:07.330 --> 0:05:13.240 a bitch in again. It could have been no better. 0:05:14.490 --> 0:05:19.750 for one of the defining athletes of the 21st century, 0:05:20.029 --> 0:05:28.120 which he is, to show the world he's not worried 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.260 about that damn knee than against what is supposed to 0:05:32.300 --> 0:05:39.190 be an excellent defense with an undrafted rookie free agent 0:05:39.230 --> 0:05:45.010 protecting his blind side. against one of the Super Bowl favorites, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.460 the defending division champions, and a team that has more 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.760 hope going into this year than they've had since Peyton 0:05:54.779 --> 0:06:03.370 Manning was their quarterback. That he reminds them, guys, it's 0:06:03.430 --> 0:06:10.220 the AFC West. I'm in my prime. I'm already healthy. 0:06:11.850 --> 0:06:14.210 And as has been the case every year of my 0:06:14.310 --> 0:06:22.969 career save one, the division still goes through me. And 0:06:24.980 --> 0:06:35.900 folks can argue all they want about Josh and Lamar 0:06:37.100 --> 0:06:42.669 and Stafford and Joe and these other great quarterbacks. And 0:06:42.710 --> 0:06:49.250 they are great quarterbacks. Or Caleb or Drake or Trevor, 0:06:49.330 --> 0:06:52.330 who I believe are going to be and are turning 0:06:52.370 --> 0:06:58.250 into great quarterbacks. Or Justin Herbert, who in an alternate 0:06:58.310 --> 0:07:05.480 dimension is a great quarterback. But all those people arguing 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:11.110 all that stuff, know that deep down at their core, 0:07:12.050 --> 0:07:17.750 when the chips are down in the biggest spots, there's 0:07:17.810 --> 0:07:20.560 only one choice on who you'd want running your team. 0:07:21.980 --> 0:07:26.360 And it's 15 in Kansas City. And he reminded you 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:31.000 of that last night when even in a game where 0:07:31.060 --> 0:07:34.230 he didn't have it, he starts the game to Monza 0:07:34.230 --> 0:07:39.080 2 of 12. 2 of 12. And everything looks off 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:44.940 in the passing game. And then he finishes 13 of 0:07:44.940 --> 0:07:51.520 15 with one miss and one miscommunication that I thought 0:07:51.540 --> 0:07:54.020 the broadcast did a good job of explaining. Xavier Worthy 0:07:54.100 --> 0:07:56.120 didn't run the right route, but fine. It's a pick. 0:07:56.180 --> 0:08:00.480 It goes on Patrick's resume. A couple touchdown passes. That 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:01.440 touchdown throw. 0:08:04.460 --> 0:08:04.660 And. 0:08:06.190 --> 0:08:11.350 There has been a lot, a lot on Chiefs Twitter 0:08:14.030 --> 0:08:23.050 of Chiefs fans kvetching and complaining about how this team 0:08:24.030 --> 0:08:28.270 went about their offseason. And there has been a lot of, 0:08:28.590 --> 0:08:31.010 and I haven't really, I alluded to this once on 0:08:31.050 --> 0:08:34.689 the TV show, but I've never really discussed it. A 0:08:34.870 --> 0:08:42.710 lot of folks who this offseason... I think the best 0:08:42.750 --> 0:08:47.930 way to put it is turned on me because they 0:08:48.010 --> 0:08:53.360 thought that I was couching my true feelings about how 0:08:53.400 --> 0:09:00.000 the Chiefs approached this offseason because of loyalty to either 0:09:00.100 --> 0:09:06.350 Brett Veach or the organization or some nebulous.... 0:09:08.260 --> 0:09:08.660 Force. 0:09:10.530 --> 0:09:15.550 When in reality, the reason that I supported the way 0:09:15.610 --> 0:09:18.550 the Chiefs built this team this offseason is because I 0:09:18.650 --> 0:09:24.730 fucking agreed with it. I believe if you have Patrick 0:09:24.750 --> 0:09:30.760 Mahomes as your starting quarterback, as frustrating as it can 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:37.210 be to not throw a ton of resources into wide receiver. 0:09:37.750 --> 0:09:42.240 What you've got to have is a defense that can 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.400 get off the field on third down. They threw all 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:50.440 their resources into that. With Patrick Mahomes coming off an injury, 0:09:50.740 --> 0:09:53.800 what you've got to have is a running game that 0:09:53.860 --> 0:09:56.610 has to be respected. They threw their free agent money 0:09:56.660 --> 0:10:04.699 into that. And then see what Magic Patrick can make. Now, 0:10:05.580 --> 0:10:09.380 we'll talk about the receivers in a bit. If that's 0:10:09.420 --> 0:10:12.080 how they're going to look this year, that's not good enough. 0:10:12.940 --> 0:10:15.520 They are going to have to address that during the season. 0:10:16.980 --> 0:10:20.850 But folks talking about This is a reset. This is 0:10:20.890 --> 0:10:27.229 a rebuild. No, it's not. This Chiefs team is going 0:10:27.270 --> 0:10:32.609 to start the year 4-0. They're at home Sunday night 0:10:32.630 --> 0:10:36.080 against the Colts. Then they have brutal road trips in 0:10:36.140 --> 0:10:41.819 Miami and Las Vegas. And then an early bye week, 0:10:42.740 --> 0:10:46.400 home for the Chargers, and then some tough games ahead. 0:10:50.950 --> 0:10:55.510 But they instantly showed the world, you're going to have 0:10:55.550 --> 0:11:01.600 to respect our running game. Our defense, much like 2022, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.340 is very young, but with Spags pulling the trigger, is 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:10.679 going to be at least create splash plays. And Patrick's 0:11:10.900 --> 0:11:15.189 only going to get better. So. 0:11:16.830 --> 0:11:18.929 You think he'll be at full power by the end 0:11:18.950 --> 0:11:20.390 of the season? Do you think he'll ever be able 0:11:20.410 --> 0:11:20.809 to get there? 0:11:23.380 --> 0:11:28.060 I mean, I think by the end of the season, 0:11:28.100 --> 0:11:35.490 there's no doubt. I would imagine Mahomes will be at 100% 0:11:35.490 --> 0:11:43.350 post the bye. I think that they will slowly bleed him, 0:11:43.390 --> 0:11:48.710 but get him rolling. I also think, right, and I 0:11:48.790 --> 0:11:54.650 also think, Demanze, that part of, his shakiness early, a 0:11:54.690 --> 0:12:00.010 little bit was rust, but the other piece was he was, 0:12:00.170 --> 0:12:02.870 and he said it after the game last night, he 0:12:02.910 --> 0:12:06.740 was mostly a one read quarterback because I don't know 0:12:06.790 --> 0:12:11.300 how much he trusted the protection. Yeah. Well, I think 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.300 it was, I mean, kind of about getting hit, but 0:12:13.340 --> 0:12:17.490 really the protection, like undrafted free agent at left tackle was, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.480 first game back from injury, that Broncos pass rush, I 0:12:21.500 --> 0:12:23.199 think he just wanted to get the ball out. He 0:12:23.260 --> 0:12:25.900 clearly was not afraid to get hit because he was 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.620 running the ball. And Andy was not afraid to let 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.670 him get hit. They called a speed option with the 0:12:32.750 --> 0:12:37.809 lead late in the game. Now, here's what I will 0:12:37.850 --> 0:12:40.469 say about Mahomes running, Demonte, before we get to the 0:12:40.530 --> 0:12:49.949 major runner, Kenneth Walker. He When the Chiefs have been 0:12:50.070 --> 0:12:56.910 rolling historically, Mahomes using his legs was one of the 0:12:56.990 --> 0:13:01.429 biggest reasons he is such a playoff riser was because 0:13:01.450 --> 0:13:04.309 it was something he so rarely did in the regular season. 0:13:04.610 --> 0:13:08.270 He would use his legs to escape pressure, like to 0:13:08.309 --> 0:13:12.330 then throw the ball, to roll out, but not as 0:13:12.390 --> 0:13:15.790 a scrambler, not to run down the field. Last year, 0:13:16.270 --> 0:13:21.330 from game one, he was using his legs to get yards. 0:13:21.890 --> 0:13:24.320 And this year game one, he's using his legs to 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:29.270 get yards. I don't love that. I'm consistent on that. I, 0:13:30.020 --> 0:13:36.059 the only quarterback in the league who is physically imposing 0:13:36.140 --> 0:13:42.270 enough to just have you know, quarterback driven runs be 0:13:42.309 --> 0:13:45.230 a huge part of their game regularly. And you don't 0:13:45.290 --> 0:13:48.650 worry about injury is Josh Allen, but even Josh Allen 0:13:48.710 --> 0:13:52.969 last year, evidently broke his foot or dealt with a 0:13:53.030 --> 0:13:55.469 foot injury at the end of the season from the 0:13:55.630 --> 0:13:59.040 residual wear and tear. So I don't love that piece 0:13:59.100 --> 0:14:04.800 of it, but Patrick is a competitor, man. And he's 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:09.340 not going to do any of this half speed. Which 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:15.660 is why him not having to and their ability to 0:14:15.820 --> 0:14:20.460 lean on Kenneth Walker is so critical. So let's talk 0:14:20.500 --> 0:14:20.920 about him. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.830 What does Kenneth Walker bring to the team that you 0:14:23.850 --> 0:14:26.450 guys didn't have before? And do you think that this 0:14:26.510 --> 0:14:28.970 is the new identity? And do you worry about putting 0:14:28.990 --> 0:14:32.470 too many miles on him? 0:14:33.690 --> 0:14:35.430 No, I'm not worried about putting too many miles on 0:14:35.470 --> 0:14:40.700 Kenneth Walker. He got a big contract. That's the, you know, 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.640 he's a running back. He wants to be the bell cow. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.490 I liked the rookie backup running back, Emmitt Johnson, the 0:14:49.510 --> 0:14:52.890 kid out in Nebraska. Both of those guys, I mean, 0:14:52.950 --> 0:14:56.810 Emmitt Johnson is dramatically better as a backup running back 0:14:56.830 --> 0:14:58.690 than any running back we've had on the roster the 0:14:58.710 --> 0:14:59.390 last two years. 0:14:59.750 --> 0:15:01.210 Yeah. 0:15:02.790 --> 0:15:10.270 And so the, the, here is the, the point that 0:15:10.330 --> 0:15:16.780 I was making all off season and folks, I don't 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:26.930 know why people thought I was overstating this. I, I 0:15:26.990 --> 0:15:33.270 was not arguing that Kenneth Walker was the best player 0:15:33.810 --> 0:15:38.310 that changed teams this off season. That was obviously miles Garrett. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.120 And Trent McDuffie's a better player, and he left the Chiefs. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.280 And Jalen Waddell's a hell of a player. DJ Moore's 0:15:46.330 --> 0:15:50.930 a good player. Like, Jalen Phillips is a good player. Like, 0:15:52.930 --> 0:15:59.830 what I was arguing is, no team upgraded any single 0:15:59.930 --> 0:16:07.400 position more than the Chiefs upgraded running back. Even Myles 0:16:07.460 --> 0:16:13.330 Garrett to the Rams, he was traded for Jared Burks. 0:16:13.870 --> 0:16:15.890 And I am here to tell you, as great as 0:16:15.950 --> 0:16:20.510 Myles Garrett, even when he's healthy, is, the gap between 0:16:20.550 --> 0:16:24.020 Jared Burks and Myles Garrett is smaller than the gap 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:30.640 between Isaiah Pacheco post-broken leg and Kenneth Walker. The Chiefs 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:36.390 have not had a running game that opposing teams... respect 0:16:36.710 --> 0:16:41.340 at all since pacheco broke his leg and even with 0:16:41.420 --> 0:16:46.260 pacheco they they weren't terrified of it he's a really 0:16:46.300 --> 0:16:48.520 good story he's a seventh round pick and i like 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:53.530 him and i feel sick um that he you know 0:16:53.570 --> 0:16:56.490 it's now having back surgery in detroit like his body 0:16:56.550 --> 0:17:01.500 is broken down on him and that's awful But teams 0:17:01.580 --> 0:17:04.500 last year simply dared the Chiefs to run, and when 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.420 the Chiefs did run, they couldn't run, even against light boxes, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.240 even against formations that you should be able to run on, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:17.290 which allowed teams to drop extra people in coverage, which 0:17:17.350 --> 0:17:21.830 created muddier throwing windows for Patrick, which when you add 0:17:21.890 --> 0:17:26.790 it to the overwhelmingly disappointing receiver production last year, you 0:17:26.810 --> 0:17:32.350 had an offense that just died on the vines. And now... 0:17:35.290 --> 0:17:40.850 You have a team that if you're... The Colts... Next week, DeMondse... 0:17:41.609 --> 0:17:44.610 Are the Colts spending most... Or this week? Their prep? 0:17:46.390 --> 0:17:48.670 Figuring out how to stop the Chiefs pass or run? 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.020 The fact that that's even a question... The fact that 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:58.000 that's even a question... Makes it so much better for Patrick. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:05.610 And so... And... Shout out to Andy Reid for not 0:18:05.650 --> 0:18:10.000 being conservative early. First drive of the game, went for 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:15.899 a fourth down. Second half, up just a touchdown on 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.439 their own side of the field. Fourth and one at 0:18:19.460 --> 0:18:24.409 the 39. Went for it. And Kenneth Walker pops for 0:18:24.410 --> 0:18:31.510 61 yards. It... Patrick said it at the team luncheon. 0:18:35.590 --> 0:18:39.570 It's going to look different, but we want to dominate 0:18:39.630 --> 0:18:50.300 like the old Chiefs. You're damn right. And they're one 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.460 of two teams that has not had a thousand yard 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:58.619 rusher in the last nine years. Patrick's never had a 0:18:58.660 --> 0:19:02.979 thousand yard rusher. He's never had what you would consider 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.919 a plus plus running back since the first 10 games 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.550 of his career, when cream hunt young cream hunt was 0:19:09.609 --> 0:19:12.750 on the team before they cut him because of the 0:19:12.790 --> 0:19:18.729 domestic violence incident. And so he's been doing it with 0:19:18.790 --> 0:19:24.170 Damian Williams. God bless him. Darren Williams, shady McCoy, old 0:19:24.250 --> 0:19:31.659 shady McCoy, uh, i mean obviously pacheco old kareem hunt 0:19:34.740 --> 0:19:38.139 the the best running back you could argue they the 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.010 the most impactful running back they've had in the last 0:19:41.050 --> 0:19:44.190 five years jerek mckinnon as a pass catcher as a 0:19:44.250 --> 0:19:48.910 receiver out of the backfield and now you've got Kenneth Walker, 0:19:48.970 --> 0:19:51.490 who just ran it right down the Broncos' throats all night. 0:19:54.010 --> 0:19:57.629 All right, let's talk about the defense for a minute, Demaze. 0:19:58.770 --> 0:20:01.710 Yeah, you've been telling everybody about Delane Woods and Thomas. 0:20:01.930 --> 0:20:03.689 Chris Jones came out and said that this was his 0:20:03.820 --> 0:20:06.480 favorite group of rookies. How impressed were you with them 0:20:06.500 --> 0:20:06.860 in this game? 0:20:08.670 --> 0:20:12.550 I mean, Spaggs gets the primary credit. Delane played three snaps, 0:20:13.310 --> 0:20:18.630 got a pick, and then hurt his shoulder. That's a concern. 0:20:19.550 --> 0:20:23.530 He hurt that shoulder in training camp or in the offseason, 0:20:23.570 --> 0:20:26.270 was held out for some of training camp. The fact 0:20:26.290 --> 0:20:29.270 that it is not, the x-ray was clean is good. 0:20:29.530 --> 0:20:33.210 MRI this morning. If you guys see while we're on 0:20:33.250 --> 0:20:39.369 the air any news on the MRI, You know, let 0:20:39.410 --> 0:20:41.570 me know in here or let us know in the chat, 0:20:41.609 --> 0:20:43.990 by the way. Reminder, if you're here in the chat, 0:20:44.410 --> 0:20:49.600 subscribe on YouTube, please. Subscribe on Spotify, on iTunes. Let 0:20:49.619 --> 0:20:52.919 me see where we're at on YouTube. Did we hit 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:56.139 250,000 yet? This is a risky thing I'm doing right now. 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:01.980 We are at 247,000 and change. So subscribing on YouTube 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.610 helps us a ton. iTunes, Spotify helps us a ton 0:21:04.619 --> 0:21:09.169 as well. Okay. And if you see any producers, if 0:21:09.190 --> 0:21:15.090 there's news on Delane's MRI, I'll take it. Peter Woods, 0:21:18.190 --> 0:21:22.150 a year before he was drafted, was projected by some 0:21:22.190 --> 0:21:26.950 to be a top five pick. He then had a 0:21:27.010 --> 0:21:31.010 terrible final year at Clemson. He went 29th. R. Mason 0:21:31.050 --> 0:21:35.440 Thomas has legit burst off the edge and had impact 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:39.780 last night. The Chiefs last year could not get off 0:21:39.820 --> 0:21:46.530 the field on third down. And people were like, oh man, 0:21:46.550 --> 0:21:52.790 defense wasn't that good last year. And you lose Jalen 0:21:52.830 --> 0:21:55.800 Watson in free agency, you trade McDuffie. Let's talk about 0:21:55.820 --> 0:21:58.740 that for a moment. Jalen Watson was a seventh round pick. 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.500 That was an amazing story for Kansas City. Played great, 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.280 very happy. He got that $ 17 million a year from 0:22:06.300 --> 0:22:10.320 the Rams. He gave up two touchdowns in their opening game, 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:13.540 and we'll see how he looks outside of Spag's system. 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:19.970 McDuffie came into the Chiefs and instantly was the best 0:22:20.030 --> 0:22:24.830 slot corner in the NFL. He then, understandably, did not 0:22:24.890 --> 0:22:27.850 want to play in the slot because slot corners don't 0:22:27.869 --> 0:22:32.040 get paid like outside corners. Played on the outside last 0:22:32.100 --> 0:22:35.580 year a lot. Did not play as well as he 0:22:35.619 --> 0:22:38.480 did in the slot. Got traded to the Rams. They 0:22:38.500 --> 0:22:41.720 paid him like an outside corner. He's playing outside corner. 0:22:42.020 --> 0:22:45.580 That's not where he's at his best. I love the player. 0:22:45.820 --> 0:22:48.369 Love the player. He can be the best slot corner 0:22:48.390 --> 0:22:52.649 in football. That's where the Rams should use him. But 0:22:52.690 --> 0:22:57.010 the Chiefs have a history with Spags of getting the 0:22:57.130 --> 0:23:03.020 absolute most out of these secondary guys. And Noel Williams 0:23:03.180 --> 0:23:06.379 was someone they drafted, they believed in, they elevated him. 0:23:06.790 --> 0:23:10.180 Mansoor Delane was the number one corner by a mile 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:17.070 in this draft. Again, three snaps, one pick. Good start. 0:23:17.109 --> 0:23:23.230 Gotta get healthy. And they got LeJarius Sneed back. Old, vintage, 0:23:23.750 --> 0:23:29.580 Belichick Patriots model of. We develop a player... Someone else 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.320 pays him a bunch of money. He is not good 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.900 with them. They cut him. He comes back, and he's 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:40.270 excellent immediately again. I'm a Titans fan. I'm like, you 0:23:40.290 --> 0:23:44.110 got to be kidding me. Jerry Sneed, while he's with 0:23:44.150 --> 0:23:46.510 the Titans, all he had was knee surgery and got 0:23:46.609 --> 0:23:49.260 questioned about an alleged drive-by shooting that he was in 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.020 a car for. They got rid of him, and now 0:23:52.060 --> 0:23:54.900 he's back, and he's just talking shit to Cortland Sutton 0:23:55.240 --> 0:24:01.480 and locking people down. I mean, it's just delightful. And 0:24:01.540 --> 0:24:03.399 if they have a pass rush, they're going to be fine. 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:07.580 Because here's the other thing to Monza. That was supposed 0:24:07.660 --> 0:24:11.700 to be the best offensive line in the NFL. Didn't 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:18.460 look like it yesterday. And so in 2022, the Chiefs 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:22.119 had the youngest defense in the NFL. 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The Polymarket US 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:07.899 app serves as an independent software provider and affiliate of 0:26:07.980 --> 0:26:12.780 Polymarket US and Polymarket Clearing, the CFTC regulated exchange and 0:26:12.859 --> 0:26:13.940 clearing organization. 0:26:13.960 --> 0:26:16.060 All right, Demanze, let's talk Broncos. 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:18.719 You said the Broncos are going to show everybody they 0:26:18.740 --> 0:26:21.940 were due for regression. Was this that, or was this 0:26:21.980 --> 0:26:23.260 just like a week one thing? 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:31.280 If I'm a Broncos fan, I'm very nervous. For a 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:34.159 number of reasons. And again, I picked the Broncos to 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:42.890 make the playoffs. Reason I'm nervous, number one, Demonse. Here's 0:26:42.930 --> 0:26:48.940 the Broncos opening couple months of football. Next week, home 0:26:48.980 --> 0:26:55.000 against the Jags. Then the Rams. Then at the Niners. 0:26:56.740 --> 0:27:00.520 Then at the Chargers. Not that hard. Then home for 0:27:00.540 --> 0:27:09.690 the Seahawks on a short week. That's the first five games. Jags, Rams, Niners, Chargers, Seahawks. Then, theoretically, 0:27:09.730 --> 0:27:14.150 a little respite in Arizona, even though they looked awesome. Yeah. 0:27:15.020 --> 0:27:18.060 And then back at home against Kansas City. Now the 0:27:18.180 --> 0:27:22.520 end of their schedule. After that. It's smooth sailing mostly. 0:27:23.440 --> 0:27:27.010 Got a Bills and a Patriots game late. But this 0:27:27.050 --> 0:27:30.310 thing could get away from them quick. This was a 0:27:30.410 --> 0:27:32.730 very big game for them. And they didn't just lose. 0:27:32.770 --> 0:27:37.530 They got embarrassed. They couldn't tackle. They couldn't exploit the 0:27:37.590 --> 0:27:41.010 undrafted free agent at left tackle. They couldn't run the ball. 0:27:41.350 --> 0:27:42.210 Jalen Waddell. 0:27:43.990 --> 0:27:44.170 Like. 0:27:46.210 --> 0:27:49.530 Someone should tell them they traded for Jalen Waddle. Maybe 0:27:49.570 --> 0:27:56.260 throw him the ball. And Bo Nix looked flustered. Couldn't 0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:59.300 stop dropping the ball. One of them was not called 0:27:59.340 --> 0:28:01.560 a drop. It was called a forward pass. More on 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:03.619 that when we talk about the Lions game. I don't 0:28:03.640 --> 0:28:07.480 know when this god dog rule changed. These things that 0:28:07.500 --> 0:28:10.660 have been quarterback fumbles my whole life. They're like, no, actually... 0:28:11.790 --> 0:28:14.590 We saw his intent in the back of his mind. 0:28:14.650 --> 0:28:16.710 He wanted to throw forward. So how can we call 0:28:16.730 --> 0:28:17.310 it a fumble? 0:28:17.630 --> 0:28:21.330 It's because his hand was diagonal with his head. 0:28:22.470 --> 0:28:25.070 Here's the thing. I know. 0:28:26.609 --> 0:28:27.659 Parallel. Screw it. 0:28:27.690 --> 0:28:31.470 We'll just talk about it now. I know that if 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:35.980 you're going forward and get hit, you only have to 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:38.620 be going forward a tiny bit. And if you get 0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:40.740 hit and the ball goes forward, it's an incomplete pass. 0:28:41.020 --> 0:28:48.250 I know that. But Bo Nix was going forward and 0:28:48.310 --> 0:28:52.130 didn't get hit. The ball got slapped out of his 0:28:52.150 --> 0:28:57.420 hand and went behind him. I honestly feel like this 0:28:57.500 --> 0:29:01.830 is a Berenstain Bears situation. Like where everyone thinks it's 0:29:01.850 --> 0:29:05.550 the Berenstain Bears and we're like, no, it's a Berenstain Bears. 0:29:05.850 --> 0:29:08.090 What's that called, guys? Put it in the doc. The 0:29:08.110 --> 0:29:11.940 Mandela effect. Yeah, when everyone's like, yeah, I remember Nelson 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:14.580 Mandela dying in prison. They're like, no, he didn't actually. 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:18.380 That's wrong. I feel like that's what's happening right now 0:29:18.420 --> 0:29:21.520 with fumbles in the NFL. Where all of us collectively 0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:25.800 are like, that's a fucking fumble. And then the refs 0:29:25.940 --> 0:29:29.340 and Mike Pereira and everyone's like, no, you rubes. 0:29:29.900 --> 0:29:30.940 Like, you rubes. 0:29:31.900 --> 0:29:35.390 The rule has always been whatever the intent in the 0:29:35.450 --> 0:29:38.170 quarterback's heart is, is how we rule it. I'm like, what? 0:29:38.190 --> 0:29:41.250 The ball's behind him. Like, what are you talking about? 0:29:41.730 --> 0:29:45.750 So I thought Bo Nix's was obviously fumble. His hand 0:29:45.810 --> 0:29:49.390 is going forward. And then a Chiefs player doesn't hit him. 0:29:49.410 --> 0:29:51.920 And even if they do hit him, the ball went 0:29:51.940 --> 0:29:53.940 behind him. But they hit the ball. They're like, no, 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:57.220 that's an incomplete pass. What? And the Jared Goff thing 0:29:57.240 --> 0:30:01.310 was even worse. Once again, I'm right about replay. Everyone 0:30:01.330 --> 0:30:04.370 will agree. Every single person watching that game in real 0:30:04.410 --> 0:30:06.130 time when the Jared Goff thing happened, they're like, well, 0:30:06.150 --> 0:30:11.490 that's a fumble. And they're like, no. Goff hadn't even 0:30:11.530 --> 0:30:15.730 brought the ball forward yet. And he threw it backwards. 0:30:16.610 --> 0:30:21.930 They're like, yeah, but in his hopes and dreams, he 0:30:21.950 --> 0:30:23.610 was going to throw a forward pass. So how can 0:30:23.630 --> 0:30:31.410 we not honor that? What? I'm just perplexed. And everyone's like, no, 0:30:31.430 --> 0:30:36.190 this is the rules. I'm pretty good about knowing the 0:30:36.270 --> 0:30:39.990 weird NFL rules. And like, ah, people think. 0:30:39.870 --> 0:30:41.550 It's this, but it's that. 0:30:42.470 --> 0:30:45.750 Yes, but that's not even my problem. My problem is 0:30:45.850 --> 0:30:49.110 I feel like this is a psyop. That they're just like, 0:30:49.410 --> 0:30:54.360 that they just decided like, not only are we changing it, 0:30:55.580 --> 0:30:58.490 we're not going to tell anyone we changed it. And again, 0:30:58.510 --> 0:31:01.930 we're going to, everyone's going to agree. Like, you know what? 0:31:02.930 --> 0:31:08.310 This is what, hot take. I now know what being 0:31:08.650 --> 0:31:11.979 gaslit feels like. I feel like the NFL is gaslighting 0:31:12.040 --> 0:31:17.290 me about what a fumble is. I'm like, and they're 0:31:17.310 --> 0:31:19.950 just saying it's so matter of factly like I'm dumb. 0:31:20.430 --> 0:31:23.780 Like on the Jared Goff play, they're just like, no. 0:31:23.960 --> 0:31:27.080 Like we all know the rule is even if it's 0:31:27.140 --> 0:31:29.820 not moving forward, if he just starts to bring it 0:31:29.920 --> 0:31:33.800 up and he intended to throw it forward, what? And 0:31:33.820 --> 0:31:39.550 they're just like, yeah, that's the rule. And part of me, honestly, 0:31:39.570 --> 0:31:42.680 when I saw the Jared Goff thing, I was so 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:46.620 unsettled by it, by how matter of fact they were about, yeah, 0:31:46.640 --> 0:31:49.330 of course that's the rule, that I almost didn't want 0:31:49.350 --> 0:31:51.810 to talk about it because I was like, is that 0:31:51.850 --> 0:31:56.110 like embarrassing for me? That I didn't know? But then 0:31:56.150 --> 0:31:58.830 I was like, no, I do know. And this is 0:31:58.890 --> 0:32:01.980 not how it's been called. Neither here nor there. 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:02.840 Lighten the gas. 0:32:03.880 --> 0:32:08.920 I am. Do you know, Demondze, where gaslight, the term, 0:32:08.960 --> 0:32:09.380 comes from? 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:13.540 It's from your car, right? It's like, the car actually 0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:15.520 has like 50 miles when the gaslight comes on? 0:32:15.920 --> 0:32:20.620 No, honestly, not a terrible guess. No, it is from 0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:26.270 a movie called Gaslight. Or is it called on? Fact 0:32:26.290 --> 0:32:29.190 check me on that. Movie Gaslight. Yeah, a 1944 movie 0:32:29.210 --> 0:32:29.670 where a man. 0:32:33.300 --> 0:32:37.620 Is basically executing psychological warfare on his wife, and one 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:41.670 of the things he does is he leaves the gas 0:32:41.730 --> 0:32:45.590 burner on, and so she's like, do you smell that? 0:32:45.650 --> 0:32:48.270 He's like, what are you talking about? Like, no, I 0:32:48.310 --> 0:32:49.090 don't smell that. 0:32:49.150 --> 0:32:49.630 How evil. 0:32:49.650 --> 0:32:55.290 Exactly. But that's where the term comes from. A 1944 movie, 0:32:55.730 --> 0:32:58.110 and then it was basically, that term was kind of 0:32:58.190 --> 0:33:03.010 in hibernation for the better part of 80 years, and then... 0:33:04.800 --> 0:33:08.540 I'll just be honest. Therapy speak, brought it back. Now 0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:11.580 everything's gaslighting. Now you're in an argument with your girlfriend 0:33:11.600 --> 0:33:13.420 and you're like, I didn't do that. And she's like, 0:33:13.440 --> 0:33:16.920 you're gaslighting me. And you're like, no, but I literally didn't. Like, 0:33:17.020 --> 0:33:20.300 I'm not like, what do you mean? You're like, why? 0:33:20.980 --> 0:33:22.960 You're like, you left the door open. It's like, no, 0:33:23.050 --> 0:33:26.950 I didn't. I didn't like you. I'm sick of the gaslighting, 0:33:27.210 --> 0:33:29.730 but it made a big comeback. Okay. Let's get focused. 0:33:29.890 --> 0:33:33.970 We wanted to filter. Sorry. I was trying to talk 0:33:33.990 --> 0:33:37.210 about Jared Goff. No, I wasn't. I actually was not. 0:33:37.230 --> 0:33:39.230 I was trying to talk about Bo Nix. I was 0:33:39.250 --> 0:33:43.450 talking about Bo Nix and how shaky he looked. Back 0:33:43.510 --> 0:33:46.770 on topic. Because Bo Nix fumbled three times, and we're 0:33:46.790 --> 0:33:50.470 not even counting that fake one. That wasn't a fake one. Now, 0:33:50.570 --> 0:33:52.630 one of them was a bad snap. He fumbled once 0:33:52.690 --> 0:33:55.390 on the sideline. That would have been scooped and scored, 0:33:55.430 --> 0:33:58.790 but Snead barely stepped out of bounds. He dropped it once. 0:33:59.610 --> 0:34:03.670 He couldn't make a throw. He was 4.7 yards per attempt. 0:34:03.930 --> 0:34:09.120 He was awful. Yeah. That's where that's concerning the only receiver. 0:34:09.239 --> 0:34:11.680 And this is gosh, darn it for the fifth straight year. 0:34:11.719 --> 0:34:15.259 The chiefs just can't cover tight ends. Evan Ingram just 0:34:15.320 --> 0:34:21.259 killing us. Um, but if I, another one of my 0:34:21.340 --> 0:34:24.910 big off season takes to Monza and then we'll get 0:34:24.930 --> 0:34:27.969 to the other games, Jesus, a half hour on this game. Um, 0:34:31.900 --> 0:34:34.490 The best defense last year is not always the best 0:34:34.550 --> 0:34:38.830 defense this year. In fact, it very often changes a lot. Offense, 0:34:39.410 --> 0:34:43.910 very stable, relatively speaking, year to year because it's so 0:34:44.030 --> 0:34:48.480 quarterback based. So the best offenses are, you know, if 0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:50.259 you're a top five offense last year, you got a 0:34:50.280 --> 0:34:52.020 good chance to be in top five offense this year. 0:34:52.080 --> 0:34:56.359 Like that's usually how that goes. Defense, there's so much. 0:34:56.989 --> 0:35:00.350 randomness of do you you know do are they sacks 0:35:00.410 --> 0:35:03.290 or pressure or just pressures do you win the turnover 0:35:03.330 --> 0:35:06.669 battle different what's the opposing quarterback schedule all those things 0:35:07.280 --> 0:35:09.439 and what were the three best defenses in the league 0:35:09.460 --> 0:35:13.200 last year by a lot Seattle well they look pretty 0:35:13.300 --> 0:35:18.120 awesome again Houston couldn't get any pressure on Josh Allen 0:35:18.440 --> 0:35:25.850 the whole game allowed 36 Denver you know Rookie left tackle, undrafted. 0:35:26.170 --> 0:35:33.969 Nick Benito, erased. Allow 31, and they can't tackle anymore. Now, again, 0:35:34.010 --> 0:35:39.420 I think Denver's defense will be better, but defense fluctuates 0:35:39.440 --> 0:35:42.880 a lot year to year. Go ahead. Extra. 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:47.200 But, yeah, just with Nick Benito, it sounded like there 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:49.100 was something. The way they were lining him up wasn't 0:35:49.120 --> 0:35:51.080 letting him be able to work the way he usually 0:35:51.100 --> 0:35:52.719 does is what I got from it. 0:35:54.680 --> 0:36:01.710 You know what, Nick Benito? You got to beat the Chiefs. 0:36:02.770 --> 0:36:07.569 Gosh darn it. This is embarrassing for me. You know what? 0:36:07.680 --> 0:36:10.500 It's more embarrassing for Nick Benito. I was about to say, 0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:12.520 you got to beat. And I was sick of calling 0:36:12.540 --> 0:36:14.700 him an undrafted free agent. So I was like, I 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:16.319 should call him his name. But then I realized I 0:36:16.340 --> 0:36:20.130 forgot his name. Khalil Benson. You got to beat Khalil Benson. 0:36:20.910 --> 0:36:21.009 Um. 0:36:21.930 --> 0:36:24.629 There's one other Broncos thing that has to be discussed here. 0:36:25.290 --> 0:36:27.549 How long until you think Sean Payton takes back the 0:36:27.590 --> 0:36:28.590 reins on the play calling? 0:36:30.430 --> 0:36:38.320 Oh boy. If I'm Davis Webb, I'm a little anxious. 0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:45.740 Keep in mind, here's the timeline of Davis Webb becoming 0:36:45.780 --> 0:36:52.940 the Broncos play caller. Davis Webb had potential head coaching opportunities, 0:36:54.010 --> 0:37:01.310 including possibly the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen. Sean Payton 0:37:01.350 --> 0:37:04.590 did not want to lose him. So Sean Payton said, 0:37:04.610 --> 0:37:08.710 I will, for the first time in my career, give 0:37:08.790 --> 0:37:11.890 up play calling and give it to you. So you 0:37:12.050 --> 0:37:16.260 stay here. So Davis Webb's like, okay, I will forego 0:37:16.340 --> 0:37:22.110 my head coaching opportunities potentially to stay here. At halftime 0:37:22.170 --> 0:37:24.660 of week one, Sean Payton was asked about it and 0:37:24.700 --> 0:37:28.080 couldn't even lie. He was like, ask me after the game, 0:37:28.140 --> 0:37:31.759 but this sucks. He didn't say this sucks part. It 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:38.359 is an absolute non-zero chance that Sean Payton, in short order, 0:37:38.780 --> 0:37:44.990 snatches that back from Davis Webb, which totally neuters his 0:37:46.489 --> 0:37:52.770 head coaching ascension. And then Davis Webb's just like out 0:37:52.810 --> 0:37:53.150 of luck. 0:37:54.050 --> 0:37:55.009 In a tough situation. 0:37:55.650 --> 0:37:56.310 Tough spot. 0:37:56.330 --> 0:37:56.649 This year. 0:37:56.989 --> 0:38:00.709 And it is something to watch. That is absolutely something 0:38:00.730 --> 0:38:04.510 to watch because Sean Payton was not enjoying that. Was 0:38:04.590 --> 0:38:10.930 not enjoying that. All right. We've got 14 other games 0:38:10.969 --> 0:38:14.250 to get to. So let's try to do it as 0:38:14.330 --> 0:38:18.350 quickly as we can. Let's get to probably the best game. 0:38:19.070 --> 0:38:23.080 of Sunday, and probably the most important, Bills-Texans. 0:38:23.980 --> 0:38:27.140 You and America were very excited about this game, Houston-Buffalo 0:38:27.200 --> 0:38:29.620 on Sunday. It was a light show, lived up to 0:38:29.640 --> 0:38:31.680 the hype, but it all came down to a dropped 0:38:32.140 --> 0:38:36.440 pick at the end by Laster there. Is rollercoaster Josh 0:38:36.540 --> 0:38:37.040 Allen back? 0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:43.370 So here's the thing. Probably yes, and I don't think 0:38:43.430 --> 0:38:44.060 that's bad. I. 0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:55.750 So Josh Allen was utterly sensational in this game for 0:38:55.750 --> 0:39:02.570 58 and a half minutes. He's running all over Buffalo. Well, 0:39:03.270 --> 0:39:07.129 one great run. And then he sniped one touchdown from 0:39:07.190 --> 0:39:12.200 James Cook. And I really encourage folks, really encourage folks. 0:39:13.130 --> 0:39:15.069 Because the NFL tweeted it out because it was like 0:39:15.110 --> 0:39:18.200 Josh Allen's 80th or 81st or something rushing touchdown. An 0:39:18.260 --> 0:39:23.800 insane number. Watch James Cook on the Josh Allen quarterback 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:30.910 sneak from the one. He doesn't love it. love it. 0:39:30.910 --> 0:39:34.220 And it's not like Chris Broussard, like, I don't like it. 0:39:34.370 --> 0:39:38.370 I love it. I really don't like it. He didn't 0:39:38.390 --> 0:39:40.570 like it. He's like, that could have been my touchdown. 0:39:41.130 --> 0:39:44.780 I'm getting sick of this shit. But Josh Allen was, again, 0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:48.339 you guys can say I'm being unfair. Watch it. You 0:39:48.360 --> 0:39:51.430 can see it. They snap the ball. He just immediately 0:39:51.469 --> 0:39:55.130 starts walking off the field. He's like, this is outrageous. 0:39:56.930 --> 0:40:02.000 But Josh Allen was great. He was great. His defense 0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:04.200 was not that good. C.J. Stroud looked like a real 0:40:04.239 --> 0:40:08.320 quarterback for the first time in a while. The Bills 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:11.359 offensive line was great, holding up for him against that 0:40:11.480 --> 0:40:16.960 edge rush. But Josh was great. And they were in 0:40:17.020 --> 0:40:25.069 position to win the game. And with a minute 48 0:40:25.070 --> 0:40:30.049 left at the Houston 34, so in field goal range, 0:40:30.110 --> 0:40:36.230 not a chip shot, down one on second and 11 0:40:36.650 --> 0:40:43.879 for no reason whatsoever. He threw up not a 50-50 ball, 0:40:44.780 --> 0:40:49.840 a 90-10 the defense's way ball up to Josh Palmer. 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:54.540 And Kamari Lassiter let it hit him in his chest, 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:59.140 and it fell harmlessly to the ground. And the very 0:40:59.180 --> 0:41:02.910 next play, on third and 11, Josh Allen threw an 0:41:03.210 --> 0:41:08.490 absolute laser beam to Josh Palmer for the game-winning touchdown. 0:41:09.790 --> 0:41:13.489 How different is the discussion if Lassiter catches the ball? 0:41:13.530 --> 0:41:20.279 Well, listen, if Lassiter catches it, Josh is, by some folks... 0:41:21.219 --> 0:41:27.950 getting fairly heavily criticized and by, and by, you know, 0:41:28.050 --> 0:41:29.870 the folks who are supposed to be smarter than the 0:41:29.930 --> 0:41:33.350 rest of us, they're like, well, actually, you know, he 0:41:33.390 --> 0:41:37.049 played so great. Who cares? He threw the game away. Like, 0:41:37.070 --> 0:41:41.810 cause that's a bit that that's about 30% of the 0:41:41.850 --> 0:41:43.989 people covering the NFL thing. It'd be better if we 0:41:44.010 --> 0:41:47.790 didn't fucking keep score. Be like, let's, we can feel 0:41:47.850 --> 0:41:55.380 who deserved the win. And so that is what happened. 0:41:58.160 --> 0:42:00.600 But here's what I will say about what happened that 0:42:00.620 --> 0:42:04.510 I think will surprise people. If I'm a Bills fan, 0:42:04.530 --> 0:42:07.190 I'm totally fine with it. And that's actually the only 0:42:07.250 --> 0:42:11.330 way you're ever going to win a Super Bowl. Let 0:42:11.810 --> 0:42:18.080 full YOLO Josh Allen and just hope he catches a 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:23.299 hot hand in January. And I think Joe Brady is 0:42:23.340 --> 0:42:27.009 going to lean into that. I think Joe Brady got 0:42:27.030 --> 0:42:29.529 the job in part because he's so tight with Josh Allen. 0:42:29.850 --> 0:42:31.850 I think Josh Allen wants to play this way. I 0:42:32.430 --> 0:42:36.629 think the Bills are the scariest this way. Now, that 0:42:37.050 --> 0:42:42.040 is a recipe for potentially you losing in the playoffs 0:42:42.140 --> 0:42:48.420 to an inferior team. with an inferior quarterback like you 0:42:48.440 --> 0:42:52.720 did last year against Bo Nix. But it's also the 0:42:53.010 --> 0:42:59.170 only recipe for you guys beating, I'll just be honest, 0:42:59.489 --> 0:43:03.629 Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs if he's rolling or under 0:43:03.690 --> 0:43:12.150 any circumstances. You've got to let Josh be Josh. Rollercoaster 0:43:12.190 --> 0:43:15.930 be damned. And just hope that in the playoffs they 0:43:15.950 --> 0:43:20.490 drop it. Because you're not going to be good enough 0:43:21.110 --> 0:43:25.170 to win four consecutive playoff games. You don't have a 0:43:25.210 --> 0:43:28.969 dominant defense. You don't have great receivers. You have a 0:43:29.090 --> 0:43:33.219 great running back and a great offensive line and one 0:43:33.239 --> 0:43:35.940 of the most talented quarterbacks in football. You just got 0:43:35.960 --> 0:43:40.259 to hope he gets hot. And that the mistakes don't 0:43:40.300 --> 0:43:44.740 kill you. That's the scariest Bills team. The scariest version 0:43:44.780 --> 0:43:47.779 of the Bills is we're building the whole plane out 0:43:47.820 --> 0:43:55.739 of Josh Allen plus James Cook. And there's going to 0:43:55.780 --> 0:43:59.880 be a lot of variance. But that's just what you 0:43:59.920 --> 0:44:05.430 got to do. So I'm not going to... Listen, I 0:44:05.469 --> 0:44:07.540 thought Josh on the whole... He got away with it. 0:44:08.290 --> 0:44:09.810 And because he got away with it, that was just 0:44:09.850 --> 0:44:22.180 an awesome game. Like sometimes... It just goes your way. And... Bills, Chiefs, Ravens. 0:44:23.870 --> 0:44:27.969 Those are the teams that matter in the AFC. A weekend. 0:44:28.510 --> 0:44:34.370 I don't care. Listen, maybe the Jags will delightfully surprise me. 0:44:35.010 --> 0:44:38.000 Maybe the Chargers, more on them in a bit, will 0:44:38.380 --> 0:44:41.000 surprise me. But it's those three teams. 0:44:42.560 --> 0:44:42.739 And. 0:44:43.980 --> 0:44:50.740 The Bills, I don't feel, I think the Bills' best 0:44:50.820 --> 0:44:54.020 path to beating one or both of those teams in 0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:58.160 the playoffs is Josh just has a monster game and 0:44:58.200 --> 0:45:01.239 gets away with the craziness. It's just who he is. 0:45:01.340 --> 0:45:03.680 It's who he wants to be. I know everybody kills 0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:09.580 me for this. His first playoff game ever tied in overtime, 0:45:10.620 --> 0:45:12.799 he threw a backwards lateral over the back of his head. 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:18.270 For no reason. He's just a wild stallion. Like, you 0:45:18.290 --> 0:45:23.430 just gotta let him be. No, that's a compliment. Yeah, 0:45:23.489 --> 0:45:24.690 I mean, he's just like.... 0:45:26.710 --> 0:45:27.950 Can't tame it. 0:45:29.010 --> 0:45:32.469 Can't tame it. Like, Brew made this comp yesterday to Monzae. 0:45:32.489 --> 0:45:36.540 I think you'll like it. There is some prime, again, prime, 0:45:36.800 --> 0:45:44.550 apex Russell Westbrook to him. Where it's just like, You 0:45:44.590 --> 0:45:45.140 live and die. 0:45:45.160 --> 0:45:46.990 You got to take the bad with the good. Yeah, 0:45:47.010 --> 0:45:48.190 you got to take the bad with the good. And 0:45:48.210 --> 0:45:48.790 the good is great. 0:45:49.410 --> 0:45:52.310 And the good is great. Yeah. So I'm not going 0:45:52.330 --> 0:45:56.510 to kill him for that. They scored 36 on Houston. 0:45:57.070 --> 0:46:00.230 And the last touchdown was a laser beam. Yeah, well, 0:46:00.270 --> 0:46:06.719 so listen. I think Buffalo's offensive line's been underrated. I 0:46:06.739 --> 0:46:09.859 think Houston Stevens will be fine. D'Amico's too good. My 0:46:09.900 --> 0:46:13.190 guess is that's the most points... They'll give up all year. 0:46:14.070 --> 0:46:17.290 If I'm a Texans fan, while the end of the 0:46:17.330 --> 0:46:22.790 game sucked and CJ's fumbles sucked, CJ throwing for 275, 0:46:22.790 --> 0:46:28.270 couple touchdowns. I'm like, okay, we can build on this. 0:46:29.590 --> 0:46:34.550 Like that is not a disappointing. Yeah, it's not a 0:46:34.610 --> 0:46:40.670 disappointing loss. It is disappointing, but it's not a devastating loss. 0:46:42.010 --> 0:46:44.410 And you just assume the defense will be better. And 0:46:44.450 --> 0:46:46.150 if CJ can be anywhere close to that, you're in 0:46:46.170 --> 0:46:47.330 good shape. All right, next game. 0:46:48.469 --> 0:46:51.800 You were skeptical of the Giants all over the offseason 0:46:51.840 --> 0:46:54.120 and loved the moves that Dallas made in the offseason. 0:46:54.620 --> 0:46:57.060 But it was the Giants who performed and came through. 0:46:57.460 --> 0:47:00.960 Harbaugh was obviously first game with the new team. What 0:47:00.980 --> 0:47:04.340 was the bigger story here, the Cowboys' loss or the Giants' win? 0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:08.390 The bigger story was the Cowboys. So we'll get to 0:47:08.430 --> 0:47:11.089 the Giants in a minute. He did look good. Yeah. 0:47:11.620 --> 0:47:16.110 Bigger story was the Cowboys' loss because there were two 0:47:16.230 --> 0:47:22.450 teams to Monzae this offseason that the general media sentiment 0:47:22.489 --> 0:47:28.120 about did not align at all, not at all, with 0:47:28.160 --> 0:47:32.660 the betting odds. And they were in opposite directions. And 0:47:32.700 --> 0:47:36.279 those two teams were the Chiefs and the Cowboys. The 0:47:36.400 --> 0:47:43.090 Chiefs were discussed as an average team that was around 0:47:43.110 --> 0:47:48.089 a coin flip to make the playoffs. And Vegas had 0:47:48.130 --> 0:47:50.989 them with the fifth best odds to win the Super 0:47:51.030 --> 0:47:55.279 Bowl and the favorites to win their division. But that 0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:57.160 is not how they were discussed. I think in the 0:47:57.200 --> 0:48:00.279 whole national media, only me and Barnwell picked them to 0:48:00.320 --> 0:48:06.410 win the Super Bowl. The Cowboys were the opposite. Vegas 0:48:06.430 --> 0:48:11.910 saw the Cowboys as a decidedly mediocre team. around the 0:48:11.950 --> 0:48:18.050 13th best Super Bowl odds, underdogs to win the division, 0:48:19.560 --> 0:48:22.320 slightly better than a coin flip to make the playoffs. 0:48:24.000 --> 0:48:28.540 And they were discussed as a very trendy Super Bowl pick. 0:48:31.000 --> 0:48:37.009 And Dak was a very popular MVP pick. And week one, 0:48:37.030 --> 0:48:43.340 they were bad at everything. Pickens, No showed. CeeDee Lamb 0:48:43.380 --> 0:48:47.560 was fine. Javante Williams' one big play was taunting on 0:48:47.600 --> 0:48:50.960 a touchdown down 14. That cost them the ability to 0:48:51.000 --> 0:48:52.640 go for two if they wanted to, and then they 0:48:52.680 --> 0:48:55.460 missed the extra point. And the defense they poured all 0:48:55.480 --> 0:49:00.140 those resources into, nobody knew what they were doing. I 0:49:00.180 --> 0:49:03.759 thought Chris Collinsworth was going to have a conniption fit. 0:49:04.020 --> 0:49:08.859 Chris Collinsworth's like, they can't cover the flat. He's wide open, 0:49:08.880 --> 0:49:15.560 and he's like, they can't cover... The right flank, not flank, 0:49:15.620 --> 0:49:19.029 but the, you know, midway down the field to the 0:49:19.090 --> 0:49:21.880 right side, they just kept hitting. they it was it 0:49:21.920 --> 0:49:29.460 was playing the Giants Greg Roman and Matt Nagy were 0:49:29.500 --> 0:49:32.739 calling plays like when you play your young cousin on 0:49:32.800 --> 0:49:34.980 Madden and he doesn't know how the coverages work and 0:49:35.000 --> 0:49:36.980 you're like all right I guess we'll just do it 0:49:37.040 --> 0:49:41.140 again that guy's still open Right. You just say, all right, 0:49:42.020 --> 0:49:45.200 I'm going four wide and you're in goal line. He's 0:49:45.260 --> 0:49:50.020 going to be open. Adjust. And the Cowboys couldn't do it. 0:49:51.170 --> 0:49:56.549 So we've talked a lot about, listen, week one can 0:49:56.570 --> 0:50:00.450 be a liar. And we don't know why we're seeing 0:50:00.489 --> 0:50:06.049 what we're seeing in week one. If the Giants are 0:50:06.330 --> 0:50:11.170 just stone excellent. then the Cowboys shouldn't be that worried. 0:50:12.410 --> 0:50:15.319 If the Giants are who I think they are, which 0:50:15.480 --> 0:50:21.820 is going to, you know, struggle to get to 500, 0:50:21.820 --> 0:50:27.320 the Cowboys should be terrified. Now on the Giants side, 0:50:29.340 --> 0:50:33.149 you like Jackson Dart. Danny likes Jackson Dart. He looked 0:50:33.210 --> 0:50:37.750 really good. I credit where it's due. It's first game 0:50:37.790 --> 0:50:44.010 of the second year. I'm still nervous with how often 0:50:44.050 --> 0:50:47.490 they run him and how he runs, but he was effective. 0:50:49.540 --> 0:50:54.880 He was careful with the ball. You know, he was responsible, 0:50:54.980 --> 0:50:59.440 so to speak. So you've got to, you know, I 0:50:59.500 --> 0:51:05.640 have to allow the games and the results, particularly with 0:51:05.739 --> 0:51:11.580 young players, to really matter. And one game in, nothing 0:51:11.640 --> 0:51:18.100 but high marks for Jackson Dart, who was efficient, accurate, 0:51:19.500 --> 0:51:27.759 and good. I still feel like the media is a 0:51:27.800 --> 0:51:33.460 little higher on Cam Scadaboo than his production demands. I 0:51:33.500 --> 0:51:40.219 understand he's a hard-running white dude, and we love that. But, 0:51:40.420 --> 0:51:45.170 I mean, he's fine. Like, I don't totally, you know, 0:51:46.210 --> 0:51:49.650 there is a little, and this is an old reference, 0:51:50.550 --> 0:51:54.290 but there's a little Peyton Hillis and how, you know, 0:51:55.090 --> 0:51:57.770 much people love him. Peyton Hillis to Monza was a 0:51:57.810 --> 0:52:02.940 hard-running white running back for the Browns who was so 0:52:02.960 --> 0:52:08.610 irrationally popular that he one year When they were doing 0:52:08.650 --> 0:52:10.490 it via fan vote. 0:52:11.210 --> 0:52:11.930 You want MVP? 0:52:12.170 --> 0:52:17.850 One. No. Not MVP. No. The cover of Madden. 0:52:19.969 --> 0:52:23.960 I mean. You would rather him get that than like 0:52:24.000 --> 0:52:25.439 an actual accolade. 0:52:25.480 --> 0:52:29.219 No, I understand that. But again, like when I tell 0:52:29.260 --> 0:52:32.640 you he was on the cover of Madden. And when 0:52:32.680 --> 0:52:34.820 I tell you it was because he had. 0:52:34.830 --> 0:52:36.109 He was like the 80th best player in the league. 0:52:36.489 --> 0:52:38.379 I mean, he had 11, listen, he had a really 0:52:38.400 --> 0:52:41.259 good season. He had 1100 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. 0:52:42.200 --> 0:52:45.440 I mean the rest of his career, he had 11 0:52:45.440 --> 0:52:49.200 or 1200 rushing yards and six touchdowns. Like it was 0:52:49.290 --> 0:52:54.870 such an absurd thing that happened. Um, but so I 0:52:54.930 --> 0:52:57.589 get that why this guy's a fan favorite. I think 0:52:57.610 --> 0:53:00.430 he's fine. I don't think he's one of the 15 0:53:00.430 --> 0:53:02.680 best running backs in the NFL, but the giants looked 0:53:02.719 --> 0:53:07.319 really good. And yeah, We now see them against the 0:53:07.380 --> 0:53:11.560 Rams in a game that will tell us a lot 0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:15.560 about both of those teams. All right, let's go on 0:53:15.580 --> 0:53:16.219 to the next game. 0:53:17.100 --> 0:53:19.340 In the highest scoring week one game ever, the Bears 0:53:19.380 --> 0:53:23.980 defeat the Panthers 59-37, and Ben Johnson loves it. Before 0:53:24.040 --> 0:53:26.049 the season, he announced that he wants Chicago to have 0:53:26.070 --> 0:53:29.230 the greatest offense ever, and then he doubled down postgame 0:53:29.270 --> 0:53:31.529 saying that that will always be the goal. We want 0:53:31.550 --> 0:53:33.170 to be the highest scoring. We want to have the 0:53:33.210 --> 0:53:35.540 most wins, and we want to win Super Bowls. But 0:53:35.580 --> 0:53:36.380 what about the defense? 0:53:37.920 --> 0:53:41.799 Yeah, so let's talk about the good first. I mean, 0:53:42.200 --> 0:53:48.509 Caleb was utterly sensational. The Bears threw for 270 and 0:53:48.590 --> 0:53:52.290 ran for 290. You just can't have a better offensive 0:53:52.350 --> 0:53:55.390 day than they had. And they did it, DeMonte, with 0:53:55.430 --> 0:53:56.910 the guy that we all thought was going to be 0:53:56.950 --> 0:54:01.109 their number one receiving option, Colston Loveland. Zero catches. Can 0:54:01.130 --> 0:54:06.650 you imagine if you're a fantasy football player? And you 0:54:06.690 --> 0:54:08.910 have Colston Loveland spent a high draft pick on him. 0:54:08.950 --> 0:54:13.250 The Bears scored 59 points. And you get zero points 0:54:13.270 --> 0:54:16.009 out of it. You're like, what happened? It's like, oh, 0:54:16.030 --> 0:54:19.140 he got hurt? Nope, he was out there the whole game. 0:54:20.340 --> 0:54:24.540 So one of the reasons I'm so bullish on Caleb 0:54:24.760 --> 0:54:29.489 is because the things he needed to improve year one 0:54:29.510 --> 0:54:32.690 to year two, he did. He needed to improve the 0:54:32.770 --> 0:54:36.839 terrible sack rate, And the pre-snap penalties. They cleaned that 0:54:36.880 --> 0:54:40.520 up immediately with Ben. And this year he needs to improve. 0:54:40.640 --> 0:54:44.760 Not dirting easy passes. And he looked to have improved that. 0:54:45.380 --> 0:54:49.960 His best throws are still super elite. He ran. This was. 0:54:50.060 --> 0:54:53.400 I couldn't believe this. DeMondsey. In Caleb's first two years 0:54:53.480 --> 0:54:58.180 in the NFL. He only had three rushing touchdowns. That 0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:02.069 stunned me. I couldn't believe it. And then week one 0:55:02.090 --> 0:55:06.190 he had two. So he is deadly with his legs, 0:55:06.370 --> 0:55:09.830 and he used them. Those were dynamic runs. So the Bears' 0:55:09.930 --> 0:55:15.549 offense looks amazing. That defense looks awful. Now it's possible 0:55:16.650 --> 0:55:18.650 that I'm going to have to eat crow on years 0:55:18.710 --> 0:55:19.830 of Bryce Young takes. 0:55:20.230 --> 0:55:21.450 Yeah, there we go. 0:55:21.489 --> 0:55:22.790 I'm telling you, don't sleep with Carolina, man. 0:55:22.810 --> 0:55:25.109 Listen, Bryce threw for 360, had a 110 rating, three touchdowns. 0:55:31.400 --> 0:55:35.200 Um, so maybe, maybe it finally all clicked for Bryce. 0:55:36.120 --> 0:55:41.300 My concern would be if I'm a bears fan of man, 0:55:41.590 --> 0:55:44.049 if it didn't all just click for Bryce and he's 0:55:44.090 --> 0:55:48.850 the same guy he's been, our defenses really bad, like 0:55:49.190 --> 0:55:55.450 big trouble. Um, and so listen, I think the bears 0:55:55.469 --> 0:55:59.070 are going to be really good. Let me back that up. 0:55:59.870 --> 0:56:03.510 I think the Bears are going to be an awesome offense. Awesome. 0:56:04.850 --> 0:56:08.850 But there's a chance they are the Bengals from two 0:56:08.870 --> 0:56:12.710 years ago. Where they just can't, or the Cowboys from 0:56:12.750 --> 0:56:17.430 last year. Where the defense undoes everything. Like, the defense 0:56:17.489 --> 0:56:20.150 is so bad, it turns every offense they play into 0:56:20.190 --> 0:56:22.770 a top five offense. But if that defense can just 0:56:22.830 --> 0:56:25.630 be average, and maybe they are the team that trades 0:56:25.650 --> 0:56:29.049 for Max Crosby, if the Raiders end up trading. then 0:56:29.070 --> 0:56:34.110 they're a legit threat. I think this team with the 0:56:34.550 --> 0:56:37.259 average defense is a legit threat to make the Super Bowl. 0:56:38.060 --> 0:56:39.700 But I don't know if it's going to have an 0:56:39.760 --> 0:56:46.520 average defense. And listen, I'm skeptical of Carolina's entire operation. Obviously, 0:56:47.020 --> 0:56:52.600 their defense did not look good. But Bryce was great. 0:56:53.520 --> 0:56:56.100 Jalen Coker was awesome. Tep McMillan was good. 0:56:56.160 --> 0:56:56.339 Like. 0:56:58.290 --> 0:57:02.979 So that is, the Panthers don't feel great after being 0-1, 0:57:03.200 --> 0:57:07.600 but that whole division's 0-1. So, you know, it is 0:57:07.660 --> 0:57:09.859 what it is, so to speak. All right, I know 0:57:09.880 --> 0:57:13.420 you guys want to do Nick Wright, public defender. 0:57:14.600 --> 0:57:17.400 So everybody with eyes can see that Caleb played amazingly, 0:57:17.880 --> 0:57:20.830 but you'll be back in the blind. It is time 0:57:20.870 --> 0:57:25.100 for the return for Nick Wright, public defender, counselor. Defend 0:57:25.120 --> 0:57:29.240 PFF saying 19 quarterbacks are better than Caleb Williams. 0:57:32.100 --> 0:57:35.510 Yeah, I actually, you know what? I wrote a letter 0:57:35.550 --> 0:57:40.070 to the bar and I'm resigning my position as public 0:57:40.110 --> 0:57:43.430 defender on this one because I can't. But I do 0:57:43.470 --> 0:57:45.570 want to discuss it. That's why I wanted you to 0:57:45.650 --> 0:57:48.200 do it. But I'm not going to do that. If 0:57:48.240 --> 0:57:50.820 you're new to the pod, the public defender bit is 0:57:50.860 --> 0:57:54.980 where I prove to my sister and my father, both 0:57:55.040 --> 0:57:57.200 of whom have law degrees, that I also could have 0:57:57.220 --> 0:57:59.900 been an attorney. But I, you know, I'm doing the 0:57:59.960 --> 0:58:05.020 far more important work of arguing about sports. And I 0:58:05.180 --> 0:58:08.680 defend an indefensible position. But I don't want to do that. 0:58:09.120 --> 0:58:12.230 I want to actually discuss the PFF thing, especially because 0:58:12.550 --> 0:58:18.090 I'm now been alerted. PFF wrote an article. why Caleb Williams' 0:58:18.150 --> 0:58:24.010 week one PFF grade doesn't match his box score. And 0:58:24.430 --> 0:58:27.070 they included my tweet in the article. I'm reading this 0:58:27.090 --> 0:58:30.680 for the first time. So I'm going to read from 0:58:30.700 --> 0:58:34.100 their article, and we'll hear it together. At the center 0:58:34.120 --> 0:58:36.280 of it all was quarterback Caleb Williams, who finished with 0:58:36.280 --> 0:58:39.080 334 total yards, four touchdowns. He completed 21 of 29 0:58:39.080 --> 0:58:44.540 passes for 269 yards, two scores, no interceptions. a 124 0:58:44.540 --> 0:58:48.880 pass rating while adding 65 yards and two scores on 0:58:48.900 --> 0:58:54.390 the ground. However, Williams earned just a 64 passing grade, 0:58:55.160 --> 0:58:58.790 16th amongst the 30 quarterbacks who threw at least 13 0:58:58.790 --> 0:59:02.390 passes before Monday night. On the surface, those numbers seem 0:59:02.430 --> 0:59:06.510 almost impossible to reconcile. Four touchdowns, no interceptions, 59 points, 0:59:06.550 --> 0:59:09.830 yet only a middling PFF grade. It raises a question 0:59:09.850 --> 0:59:13.300 that gets asked annually. How can a quarterback produce at 0:59:13.360 --> 0:59:16.600 that level without grading accordingly? They then include my tweet. 0:59:18.180 --> 0:59:20.880 They then write, the answer lies in what PFF grades 0:59:20.920 --> 0:59:23.860 are designed to measure. PFF grades were built to be 0:59:23.940 --> 0:59:27.680 box score agnostic. and to capture everything the box score misses. 0:59:28.250 --> 0:59:30.730 Every play is evaluated on what the player did with it, 0:59:30.890 --> 0:59:33.970 independent of what the stat line says happened afterwards, and 0:59:34.010 --> 0:59:37.070 that works in both directions. A quarterback can finish with 0:59:37.110 --> 0:59:40.060 an underwhelming stat line and still grade well if the 0:59:40.140 --> 0:59:43.500 reads were right, the throws were placed well and on time, 0:59:43.840 --> 0:59:46.380 and whatever went wrong did so after the ball left 0:59:46.420 --> 0:59:50.030 his hand. Yeah, we all get that. Another quarterback can 0:59:50.070 --> 0:59:52.770 finish with a pristine stat line and grade more modestly 0:59:52.810 --> 0:59:55.190 if he was asked to make routine throws all afternoon 0:59:55.550 --> 0:59:58.710 and his receivers manufactured most of the production after the catch. Yes, 0:59:58.750 --> 1:00:01.000 we understand that as well. What the grade measures is 1:00:01.040 --> 1:00:04.120 the part of the play the quarterback actually controls. The read, 1:00:04.140 --> 1:00:06.700 the decision, the throw. Not the result that lands in 1:00:06.720 --> 1:00:14.510 the box score. They didn't explain their grading system more thoroughly, 1:00:15.050 --> 1:00:18.080 and so now we'll get to the Caleb part. Williams 1:00:18.100 --> 1:00:21.190 dropped back 40 times against Carolina. 11 of those dropbacks 1:00:21.290 --> 1:00:26.200 earned positive grades, with 8 earning a play grade of. 1:00:26.150 --> 1:00:29.230 5 and 3 earning 1.0. He didn't grade higher than 1:00:29.270 --> 1:00:31.960 that on any play, though that's less a knock than 1:00:32.000 --> 1:00:34.920 it might sound. Before Monday Night Football, one quarterback had 1:00:34.960 --> 1:00:37.360 earned a grade better than 1.0 on any play. 1:00:37.520 --> 1:00:37.780 Okay. 1:00:38.400 --> 1:00:41.040 Another 23 dropbacks earned a 0 grade. Those were the 1:00:41.120 --> 1:00:46.010 expected plays, routine plays. That leaves 6... Negatively graded plays, 1:00:46.130 --> 1:00:52.370 five earned, negative 0.5, relatively minor mistakes. Okay, it keeps going. 1:00:53.070 --> 1:00:56.650 This is a more boring article than I expected. They're 1:00:56.670 --> 1:01:00.150 really explaining their grading system. Got it. 1:01:00.170 --> 1:01:04.270 This PFF think they are, man. Or you guys. 1:01:04.690 --> 1:01:11.890 That is the exact right point. I'm so glad you 1:01:11.910 --> 1:01:20.540 got down to it. Because first of all, Pro Football Focus, 1:01:20.660 --> 1:01:23.900 with respect, you don't know if it's the right read 1:01:23.940 --> 1:01:27.640 or not. You're guessing. It's fine. You all have to 1:01:27.680 --> 1:01:28.440 guess to a degree. 1:01:28.960 --> 1:01:29.419 That's fine. 1:01:31.120 --> 1:01:37.830 And I do understand and appreciate trying to have a 1:01:37.890 --> 1:01:45.370 statistical evaluation that is independent of the box score. I 1:01:45.510 --> 1:01:50.560 get wanting to say, hey, we just talked about Josh 1:01:50.720 --> 1:01:55.860 Allen's potential game-losing interception. That's that bad of a decision, 1:01:55.900 --> 1:01:58.550 whether Lassiter comes down with it or not. We need 1:01:58.570 --> 1:02:02.910 to have a way to evaluate that. I agree with that, okay? 1:02:07.250 --> 1:02:15.060 Where some of these independent evaluators get a little high 1:02:15.360 --> 1:02:24.050 on their own supply is not recognizing that there needs 1:02:24.150 --> 1:02:28.830 to be on any of this because it is not, 1:02:28.990 --> 1:02:33.210 it's not math and it's not an exact science. And 1:02:33.230 --> 1:02:37.010 your formula that you're talking about is just a fucking 1:02:37.110 --> 1:02:44.240 guy given grades. It's not a baseball player's war, which 1:02:44.360 --> 1:02:49.460 is just we're putting the numbers into a formula. The 1:02:49.520 --> 1:02:55.650 numbers are non-debated facts and then spitting it out. There 1:02:55.750 --> 1:02:59.030 is a lot of art to what you're calling science. 1:03:02.430 --> 1:03:10.640 And what I think they consistently fail to recognize is 1:03:12.000 --> 1:03:18.820 there needs to be a common sense factor to, hold 1:03:18.940 --> 1:03:27.240 on a second, guys. I understand that our grader went 1:03:27.280 --> 1:03:32.459 through every play and charted every play and came away 1:03:32.500 --> 1:03:38.320 with this grade. But does it make sense for us 1:03:39.840 --> 1:03:45.150 to put out into the world Is it accurate? Is 1:03:45.270 --> 1:03:51.610 it actually what we're trying to say? That in week one, 1:03:52.590 --> 1:04:03.880 Caleb Williams' play garnered a 62.5 grade, while Sam Darnold, 1:04:05.900 --> 1:04:09.610 who threw three passes and then pulled his butt muscle, 1:04:10.750 --> 1:04:19.800 garnered a 62.3. We good with that? Hey guys, we're 1:04:19.820 --> 1:04:26.320 giving Caleb a 62.5 and Jaden Daniels, who was objectively 1:04:27.040 --> 1:04:34.400 awful for three quarters, we're giving him a 73.5. We 1:04:34.420 --> 1:04:39.780 want to run this through someone else's eyeballs for a second? 1:04:42.400 --> 1:04:48.780 Hey guys, Aaron Rodgers just played football like he's a 1:04:48.800 --> 1:04:51.540 42-year-old man who spent the days leading up to the 1:04:51.580 --> 1:04:54.320 game talking about his fiancée wanting to sleep with other people. 1:04:56.700 --> 1:05:04.180 We're throwing him an 80. Do we think that accurately 1:05:04.260 --> 1:05:09.010 represents the football that was played this weekend? Well, that's 1:05:09.030 --> 1:05:10.150 what our graders say. 1:05:10.730 --> 1:05:11.950 It's just like, what are you watching? 1:05:12.690 --> 1:05:20.240 I And the arrogance with which they're like, oh, you 1:05:20.260 --> 1:05:22.660 guys are looking at the box score. Well, a little. 1:05:25.540 --> 1:05:27.860 I mean, again, I will now go to their exact 1:05:28.240 --> 1:05:37.210 grading of Caleb. They said that in this game, 12 1:05:38.610 --> 1:05:49.070 of his 30 plays were positive scores. I'm sorry, that's incorrect. Sorry. That, 1:05:50.090 --> 1:05:52.120 I don't want to misrepresent because he played way more 1:05:52.140 --> 1:05:57.920 than 30 plays. My apologies. Of the 30 quarterbacks this weekend, 1:05:58.860 --> 1:06:09.770 Caleb had the 12th most positive plays. And the 13th 1:06:09.890 --> 1:06:23.880 most negative plays. What? That he and that he was 1:06:24.460 --> 1:06:30.360 seventh worst this weekend in accurate throws. He was ninth 1:06:30.420 --> 1:06:35.580 worst in perfectly placed throws. He was seventh worst in 1:06:35.680 --> 1:06:46.540 catchable but inaccurate. You're Hold on, let me just read 1:06:46.560 --> 1:06:50.300 this one last thing, the last paragraph. None of this 1:06:50.400 --> 1:06:53.160 is to say Williams played poorly, and his grade isn't 1:06:53.240 --> 1:06:58.850 saying that either. I don't know, bro. Then maybe you 1:06:58.890 --> 1:07:04.570 guys have a messaging issue. But there's 32, as of Sunday, 1:07:04.570 --> 1:07:10.520 30 quarterbacks had played. You had him 20th. He produced 1:07:10.620 --> 1:07:15.090 two big-time throws. Good for a 6.5% big-time throw rate. 1:07:15.430 --> 1:07:23.700 How dare you, folks? You Neanderthals questioning our science? What 1:07:23.720 --> 1:07:28.320 are you, flat earthers? Not believing that we have defined, 1:07:28.840 --> 1:07:34.830 beyond a shadow of a doubt, big-time throw. We've taken 1:07:34.950 --> 1:07:40.430 phrases that guys say to each other, hammered. On Heineken's 1:07:40.510 --> 1:07:43.350 at a bar on Sunday watching Red Zone. That's a 1:07:43.390 --> 1:07:46.690 big time throw. And we've defined it beyond a shadow 1:07:46.730 --> 1:07:54.380 of a doubt. Get the fuck out of here. I mean. 1:07:58.290 --> 1:08:01.190 Williams made high-level plays, largely kept the ball out of 1:08:01.230 --> 1:08:04.290 harm's way, helped lead one of the league's most productive offenses. 1:08:04.590 --> 1:08:06.950 He also missed on roughly a quarter of his throws 1:08:07.510 --> 1:08:10.530 and had one particularly costly mistake that never appeared in 1:08:10.550 --> 1:08:14.430 the interception column. A 64 passing grade reflects that entire 1:08:14.490 --> 1:08:17.189 body of work, not simply the result. The box score 1:08:17.229 --> 1:08:19.950 tells you what happened. The grade is designed to tell 1:08:19.970 --> 1:08:23.809 you how it happened. Well, you know what? Then consider 1:08:23.830 --> 1:08:27.490 that the grade unsuccessful. Because it didn't tell me how 1:08:27.610 --> 1:08:31.520 anything happened. Most weeks, these two stories will look familiar. 1:08:31.880 --> 1:08:34.100 When they don't, as was the case with Williams in 1:08:34.140 --> 1:08:40.200 week one, the play-by-play evaluation helps explain why. Or, listen, 1:08:40.840 --> 1:08:45.019 all makes a lot of sense. Occam's razor. The simplest 1:08:45.060 --> 1:08:47.760 solution is often the correct one. Or are you guys 1:08:47.780 --> 1:08:48.280 just wrong? 1:08:49.280 --> 1:08:51.320 Yeah. 1:08:51.340 --> 1:08:53.559 You know what? On the board as well. 1:08:55.350 --> 1:08:56.490 They're making stuff confusing. 1:08:56.490 --> 1:08:58.420 100%. 1:08:58.420 --> 1:08:58.730 Alright. 1:09:00.290 --> 1:09:02.770 I said we'd get to every team. We've gotten to 1:09:02.800 --> 1:09:06.080 like eight. So we're going to really have to fire 1:09:06.140 --> 1:09:08.240 through these. But first, you ever notice how everything keeps 1:09:08.260 --> 1:09:10.479 going up? Rent's going up. 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All right, Demondze, 1:09:38.510 --> 1:09:40.050 let's do this as quick as we can. 1:09:40.110 --> 1:09:40.470 Go ahead. 1:09:41.210 --> 1:09:44.590 Some embarrassing losses. The Chargers lost to Arizona while being 1:09:44.610 --> 1:09:48.450 nearly double-digit favorites, and Jacoby Brissett starting at quarterback. Green 1:09:48.490 --> 1:09:52.190 Bay allowed 29 unanswered points to Carson Wentz, who a 1:09:52.229 --> 1:09:56.530 double-digit lead, and the Rams and their Australia travel fiasco. 1:09:57.350 --> 1:09:59.670 Who had the most embarrassing loss of the week? 1:10:01.670 --> 1:10:05.380 The most embarrassing loss is the Packers because of the 1:10:05.420 --> 1:10:08.939 way it happened. The most telling loss is the Chargers 1:10:09.140 --> 1:10:13.540 because of the issues they have. And the most concerning 1:10:13.580 --> 1:10:16.340 big picture stuff is the Rams. So I'm going to 1:10:16.360 --> 1:10:18.080 do this as quick as we can because I do 1:10:18.100 --> 1:10:20.600 want to get to every game. And Demondsey's got to 1:10:20.640 --> 1:10:23.380 get to work. And I actually... Demondsey's got to go 1:10:23.439 --> 1:10:27.980 work on Cowherd Show. I have to go on Cowherd Show. So, like, 1:10:28.040 --> 1:10:32.990 we're really... We're up against it. Green Bay collapsing against 1:10:33.030 --> 1:10:37.189 Carson Wentz just can't happen. And Matt LaFleur's seat's got 1:10:37.229 --> 1:10:40.710 to feel a little warm. They keep blowing these double-digit leads. 1:10:40.750 --> 1:10:46.420 They can't win a game without Micah Parsons. It's highly concerning. 1:10:46.820 --> 1:10:48.260 And allowing 27 consecutive points. 1:10:49.830 --> 1:10:54.479 To, was it 27? No, 29. They were up 22-10. 1:10:54.479 --> 1:10:57.320 29 consecutive points in a divisional game that you had 1:10:57.380 --> 1:11:05.500 in hand and that you knocked Kyler Murray out of early. Disastrous. Arizona, listen, Jacoby, 1:11:06.140 --> 1:11:08.200 more than every once in a while, Jacoby Brissett's going 1:11:08.229 --> 1:11:10.150 to show up and be like, I'm a starting quarterback 1:11:10.189 --> 1:11:13.740 in this league. Now, so often also he's going to 1:11:13.780 --> 1:11:15.920 show up and look like the slowest player in the 1:11:16.000 --> 1:11:20.360 entire NFL and just be throwing up picks. But Jacoby 1:11:20.439 --> 1:11:23.540 can look solid, and he's confident, and he's a pro. 1:11:24.000 --> 1:11:29.640 Justin Herbert, on the other hand, once that punt got blocked, 1:11:30.240 --> 1:11:34.100 first of all, you're trailing the Cardinals 16-14 before the 1:11:34.140 --> 1:11:36.540 punt got blocked. No, it's not even his face. It's 1:11:36.560 --> 1:11:41.460 that these are how the three possessions ended. On 1st 1:11:41.540 --> 1:11:46.630 and 10, a bomb to show off that beautiful cannon 1:11:46.689 --> 1:11:51.189 of his to a guy with two defenders around him 1:11:52.450 --> 1:11:57.570 who is 5'8, who had two catches last year. Probably 1:11:57.610 --> 1:12:01.450 not the decision you want to make. Next possession on 1:12:01.729 --> 1:12:05.479 4th down, throws short of the sticks. And the next 1:12:05.520 --> 1:12:10.460 possession on 4th down, throws short of the sticks. The Chargers, 1:12:11.740 --> 1:12:16.750 who play the Raiders next week, DeMondse, who looked good, fine, 1:12:16.830 --> 1:12:21.390 I guess. And then after that, DeMondse, here's the Chargers 1:12:21.810 --> 1:12:27.840 next seven weeks at Buffalo, at Seattle, home for Denver, 1:12:28.260 --> 1:12:31.480 at the Chiefs. at the Rams, home for the Texans, 1:12:31.939 --> 1:12:35.940 at the Ravens. Good night. Good luck. Curious to see 1:12:35.979 --> 1:12:38.740 who the fall guy is this year. My guess is 1:12:39.280 --> 1:12:43.300 we're going to blame Harbaugh for the guard rotation. We're 1:12:43.320 --> 1:12:46.439 going to say, oh my God, that Tyler Biotish injury 1:12:46.500 --> 1:12:49.620 just couldn't overcome. And then they're going to zero in on, 1:12:49.920 --> 1:12:53.460 can Justin Herbert get some wide receivers? Forget the fact 1:12:53.760 --> 1:12:56.170 that The only reason he didn't have Ladd-McConkie in the 1:12:56.229 --> 1:12:58.890 second half of that game was because he threw Ladd-McConkie 1:12:58.910 --> 1:13:02.000 the ultimate hospital ball and got the poor guy's chest 1:13:02.060 --> 1:13:10.140 caved in. Niners-Rams, the Niners looked awesome. Purdy played great. 1:13:11.560 --> 1:13:15.090 They didn't even overuse McCaffrey. But. 1:13:17.710 --> 1:13:21.910 Miles Garrett missed a ton of camp. Everyone ignored it 1:13:21.990 --> 1:13:25.929 except for Greg Rosenthal. Shout out Greg Rosenthal and NFL Daily. 1:13:26.570 --> 1:13:30.269 Because they're like, ah, Stafford missed camp last year. Greg 1:13:30.310 --> 1:13:33.439 seemed concerned. Miles Garrett didn't have the single worst game 1:13:33.479 --> 1:13:38.439 of his career and is now having knee surgery. Jalen Watson, 1:13:38.520 --> 1:13:41.180 I talked about him earlier, one of their big offseason acquisitions, 1:13:41.220 --> 1:13:44.580 got cooked. They're playing Trent McDuffie out of position and 1:13:44.640 --> 1:13:48.540 Matt Stafford looked old. I'm not saying you panic with 1:13:48.580 --> 1:13:53.490 the Rams, but The reason I said I thought they 1:13:53.510 --> 1:13:56.250 were a touch overvalued, now all of a sudden they're like, 1:13:56.390 --> 1:13:58.910 oh my God, we've got to have Aaron Donald. They 1:13:58.950 --> 1:14:01.090 didn't think they were even ever getting Aaron Donald a 1:14:01.130 --> 1:14:03.410 couple months ago, and they were the Super Bowl favorites. 1:14:04.530 --> 1:14:07.890 All right, let's go to the blowouts. 1:14:08.729 --> 1:14:10.570 Your Jags and my Ravens beat up on some bad 1:14:10.610 --> 1:14:12.570 teams this week. We don't know if they're bad yet, 1:14:12.600 --> 1:14:15.540 I guess. Trevor had four touchdowns, and Lamar and Derrick 1:14:15.560 --> 1:14:18.820 Henry looked amazing. How much are you reading into these games? 1:14:20.180 --> 1:14:26.530 Listen, we... We do know the Browns are bad. Yeah, no, 1:14:26.630 --> 1:14:27.990 I was trying to be cheeky there. 1:14:28.229 --> 1:14:29.309 Yeah. 1:14:29.750 --> 1:14:33.389 I want to read you a tweet from quarterback coach, 1:14:34.270 --> 1:14:45.759 and I believe Deshaun Watson, either confidant or coach or whatever, 1:14:46.220 --> 1:14:52.230 Quincy Avery. Quincy Avery... who much like the folks at PFF, 1:14:52.270 --> 1:14:54.910 just understand the game at a higher level than us Rubes, 1:14:57.460 --> 1:15:02.780 tweets yesterday afternoon. I do understand people not liking Deshaun, etc. 1:15:03.340 --> 1:15:06.099 I also don't think you guys watched the same tape. 1:15:06.939 --> 1:15:09.450 I also saw things he definitely needed to do better, 1:15:09.850 --> 1:15:11.229 but the way you guys are talking about it makes 1:15:11.270 --> 1:15:13.650 it obvious you didn't watch it with an honest perspective. 1:15:14.110 --> 1:15:15.950 You know what, Quincy? I'm going to be honest with you. 1:15:16.290 --> 1:15:22.080 We must not have watched the same tape. Correct. If 1:15:22.120 --> 1:15:23.660 you came away from that game and you're like, you 1:15:23.680 --> 1:15:30.820 know what? Some good, some bad from Deshaun. The opening 1:15:30.900 --> 1:15:33.540 drive of their season, he throws a pick. He then 1:15:33.580 --> 1:15:36.820 tries to throw another one. He fumbles the ball and 1:15:36.850 --> 1:15:38.690 then made a few nice plays once they were down 1:15:38.770 --> 1:15:42.130 like 34 to nothing. Get out of here. What are 1:15:42.150 --> 1:15:48.520 we doing? It was just god-awful quarterback play while the 1:15:48.560 --> 1:15:52.120 game was in the balance. That's the tape I saw. Again, 1:15:52.200 --> 1:15:57.809 maybe this is another Berenstain Bears situation. It's like the fumbles. 1:15:58.150 --> 1:16:01.189 Maybe Quincy Avery has access to the tape, the good 1:16:01.210 --> 1:16:04.840 Deshaun Watson tape, and where a fumble's a fumble. I 1:16:04.880 --> 1:16:07.900 have access to awful Deshaun Watson tape and everything I 1:16:07.939 --> 1:16:09.860 thought was a fumble is not a fumble. What do 1:16:09.939 --> 1:16:13.460 I know? Trevor, on the other hand, looked great. And 1:16:13.500 --> 1:16:15.280 that touchdown pass to the back of the end zone 1:16:15.310 --> 1:16:19.929 with four guys around him, oh my. Look for Mahomes 1:16:19.970 --> 1:16:22.450 Mountain today on First Things First. Trevor going to be 1:16:22.510 --> 1:16:26.110 up there. DeMonte, your Ravens looked amazing. 1:16:26.590 --> 1:16:26.850 Yeah. 1:16:26.890 --> 1:16:30.310 Jesse Minter, I really like him. I liked him already. 1:16:30.950 --> 1:16:33.870 Lamar looks spry, willing to run. 1:16:33.890 --> 1:16:34.010 Lamar. 1:16:34.729 --> 1:16:37.550 Eric and defense wasn't rolling over. 1:16:39.630 --> 1:16:41.730 Derek Henry is just one of the best athletes of 1:16:41.760 --> 1:16:47.780 my lifetime. Period, point blank. Like the guy was one 1:16:47.800 --> 1:16:50.740 of those, maybe the most dominant high school running back ever. 1:16:51.080 --> 1:16:53.700 A great college running back comes into the NFL and 1:16:53.740 --> 1:16:57.090 just crushes everyone. And it's still going. 1:16:57.110 --> 1:16:59.430 It's not like a conventional running back either. Like they're 1:16:59.550 --> 1:17:01.170 not normally built like he is. 1:17:02.729 --> 1:17:04.570 It's more like from the seventies and eighties. 1:17:05.390 --> 1:17:05.730 Okay. 1:17:05.770 --> 1:17:07.930 So it is, he is kind of old school and 1:17:07.970 --> 1:17:11.630 like how giant he is. He's still taller than the 1:17:11.710 --> 1:17:14.190 guys from the seventies and eighties, but they did, you know, 1:17:14.290 --> 1:17:16.760 he's so good, man. The rate, listen, I picked the 1:17:16.800 --> 1:17:20.080 Ravens to be the one seed for a reason. Lamar's 1:17:20.100 --> 1:17:21.599 got to prove it to me in the playoffs. Now's 1:17:21.620 --> 1:17:23.540 not the time to talk about that. They look scary 1:17:23.560 --> 1:17:26.000 and really good. And we've talked a lot about these 1:17:26.080 --> 1:17:32.400 teams that have brutal schedules. Ravens, not one of them. Ravens, 1:17:32.520 --> 1:17:36.160 next five. Home for the Saints, in Rio for the Cowboys, 1:17:36.240 --> 1:17:38.970 home for the Titans, at the Falcons, at the Browns, 1:17:39.530 --> 1:17:42.950 before they have to go Bills, Bengals, Jags. So, you know, 1:17:42.970 --> 1:17:47.230 they've got 5-1 at worst, probably 6-0 written all over them. 1:17:47.729 --> 1:17:50.410 All right, let's do the quick hitters. Go ahead. 1:17:50.950 --> 1:17:52.520 Cincinnati defeats Tampa Bay 33-27. 1:17:54.610 --> 1:17:56.580 Listen, Bengals fans, you can call me a hater all 1:17:56.600 --> 1:18:00.460 you want. I am not yet a believer that your 1:18:00.500 --> 1:18:04.719 defense is fixed. I thought Tampa Bay moved the ball, 1:18:05.140 --> 1:18:08.679 and Baker just had some of the most clownish fumbles 1:18:08.720 --> 1:18:11.620 I've ever seen. It was maddening. Does this sound like 1:18:11.660 --> 1:18:16.280 a guy who had Tampa Bay plus three and a half, 1:18:17.439 --> 1:18:22.240 New Orleans plus seven and a half, Jags minus eight 1:18:22.260 --> 1:18:24.780 and a half and the Chiefs money line all tied together. 1:18:24.800 --> 1:18:30.320 It sure does. But I'm still very upset. Baker, not 1:18:30.340 --> 1:18:34.420 a great first game for Baker with the contract. Bengals, though, 1:18:34.439 --> 1:18:36.700 they get off to a 1-0 start despite Burrow not 1:18:36.770 --> 1:18:38.910 playing great. I thought he lost it for him with 1:18:38.930 --> 1:18:41.290 the pick six. So it's a good win, but I'm 1:18:41.330 --> 1:18:46.830 still skeptical of the defense. We'll see. Four sacks, four 1:18:46.870 --> 1:18:51.580 forced fumbles. Really productive. We'll see if it's sustainable. Tampa, 1:18:52.540 --> 1:18:55.939 they're going to kick themselves on that one. Detroit, New Orleans, 1:18:56.640 --> 1:19:01.120 Demond's eight. Detroit is going to be, until they get 1:19:01.140 --> 1:19:04.680 their safeties back, Josh Allen might throw for 500 yards 1:19:04.740 --> 1:19:06.980 if he wants to. Tyler Shuck just threw for 410. 1:19:06.979 --> 1:19:10.040 Their pass defense is going to be a problem. We 1:19:10.060 --> 1:19:12.940 already touched on this game because of the fumble rule thing. 1:19:12.960 --> 1:19:16.059 And anybody arguing that the Saints should have kicked the 1:19:16.120 --> 1:19:18.550 extra point in overtime and just, you can't kick an 1:19:18.590 --> 1:19:21.090 extra point with 90 seconds left in overtime and just 1:19:21.150 --> 1:19:24.530 accept a tie in week one. You have to go 1:19:24.610 --> 1:19:26.910 for it. All right, next game. 1:19:27.979 --> 1:19:29.170 Philly defeats Washington 24-22. 1:19:31.860 --> 1:19:34.840 I was a little underwhelmed by Philly. I thought the 1:19:34.880 --> 1:19:37.760 way they were imposing their will defensively early, they'd be 1:19:37.800 --> 1:19:40.080 able to do it the whole game. Landon Dickerson to 1:19:40.100 --> 1:19:42.860 the IR, that's a big injury for them. But Saquon 1:19:42.880 --> 1:19:45.060 had the one big run. Jalen, to his credit, made 1:19:45.140 --> 1:19:48.950 three huge plays in three big spots. Jaden started really, 1:19:49.070 --> 1:19:52.130 really poorly, like 6 of 18 or something crazy. Got, 1:19:52.390 --> 1:19:54.970 you know, hot late. They blew the two-point conversion. That 1:19:54.990 --> 1:19:57.970 would have been a terrible loss for Philly. Instead, they 1:19:58.010 --> 1:20:00.450 escape with a win. It is what it is. It's 1:20:00.470 --> 1:20:03.900 kind of like a Last couple years, kind of an 1:20:04.080 --> 1:20:07.660 ugly Eagles game, but they end up winning. Next. 1:20:07.720 --> 1:20:09.540 Pittsburgh defeats Atlanta, 2013. 1:20:09.540 --> 1:20:13.400 Yeah, if I'm a Steelers fan, I'm not overwhelmed by 1:20:13.439 --> 1:20:16.020 that win. T.J. Watt had to save the game against 1:20:16.060 --> 1:20:19.680 Cooper Rush. That's an insane pick-six. 1:20:20.300 --> 1:20:22.320 Like, how he ended up where he was, that that 1:20:22.380 --> 1:20:24.120 ended up a touchdown, was crazy. 1:20:24.160 --> 1:20:27.640 Dude, he's such a great player. Such a great, great player. 1:20:29.850 --> 1:20:34.810 I could spend an hour talking about why Aaron Rodgers 1:20:34.850 --> 1:20:38.150 would do that podcast the day before the season on 1:20:38.189 --> 1:20:41.769 his teammates podcast. I just, it just, it seems like 1:20:41.830 --> 1:20:45.650 such a baffling decision that I can't, I can't even 1:20:45.689 --> 1:20:49.020 wrap my mind around it. You had to beat that 1:20:49.340 --> 1:20:53.120 Falcons team with the quarterback situation. The Falcons, I think 1:20:53.200 --> 1:20:55.780 could be a live team. That defense looked better than 1:20:55.920 --> 1:20:59.729 we thought it would. If they get panics back soon, Next. 1:21:00.530 --> 1:21:02.570 Oh, we got the Jets defeating the Titans 23-10. 1:21:02.650 --> 1:21:07.580 Remember when people were like, you know what? It's not 1:21:07.700 --> 1:21:10.860 fair to Cam Ward. He's the number one pick and 1:21:10.979 --> 1:21:13.220 no one talks about him. No one talked about him 1:21:13.260 --> 1:21:16.439 going into the draft. No one's talking about him. Hey, man. 1:21:18.220 --> 1:21:20.929 You know who's really, really happy that no one talks 1:21:20.970 --> 1:21:23.969 about Cam Ward right now? Cam Ward. He is hurtling 1:21:23.990 --> 1:21:26.650 towards like. 1:21:29.979 --> 1:21:32.540 Some biggest bust, like number, like number one pick. 1:21:33.600 --> 1:21:37.200 I mean, I it's early. So I don't want to 1:21:37.320 --> 1:21:39.150 say that, but that's what I was going to say. 1:21:39.240 --> 1:21:45.710 Like he, to Marcus Russell's like looking around, I it's 1:21:45.770 --> 1:21:48.710 not great. And he's got it. Like that was that 1:21:48.810 --> 1:21:52.650 offense had no life whatsoever. Shout out to the jets 1:21:52.689 --> 1:21:56.250 for getting the win. And then lastly, the Raiders beat 1:21:56.270 --> 1:22:01.340 the dolphins 27, 13. Good win for the Raiders. I 1:22:02.180 --> 1:22:05.740 will admit to the audience, I was not locked in 1:22:05.910 --> 1:22:10.309 to Jets, Titans, or Raiders, Dolphins. I thought we did great. 1:22:11.430 --> 1:22:13.250 Thank you to Blue Duck. Thank you to Volume. Thank 1:22:13.270 --> 1:22:15.390 you to Demondze. Thank you to Polymarket. Thank you to 1:22:15.450 --> 1:22:18.190 Boost Mobile. Thank you to any future sponsors that want 1:22:18.210 --> 1:22:20.630 to join us. Thank you to everybody who's watching live. 1:22:21.229 --> 1:22:23.510 I'm late for work. Demondze's late for work. We will 1:22:23.530 --> 1:22:25.229 see you guys on Thursday. What's right.