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Speaker 1: Damn right. Welcome to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis. I'm joining in
Speaker 1: the room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and
Speaker 1: Greg Roosetalf. What is up is? Hey? Dan? What a day?
Speaker 1: What a day? Chris Westling was just commenting on the
Speaker 1: way up here, how the football was superior on Sunday
Speaker 1: of Week three two superior to Week two. So okay
Speaker 1: on balance, but much better than the sloppy play of
Speaker 1: Week two of the NFL and the sloppy officiating of
Speaker 1: week the NFL. Okay, you went through a lot on
Speaker 1: game pass last week. I could tell it took something
Speaker 1: out of you. It took Yeah, it really increased my sleep,
Speaker 1: put me to sell it all last week. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm falling asleep because it is eighty nine degrees in
Speaker 1: the studio today. They actually turned the heat up from
Speaker 1: Thursday show. So this is about survival. This episode of
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast also pulling back the curtain
Speaker 1: a little bit. This is the first in the history
Speaker 1: of the show, and we've done about a thousand episodes.
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns are playing on Sunday Night Football. As
Speaker 1: we go through these games, and Mark, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: I mean, number one, let's start it right here. I'm
Speaker 1: a raging professional. My focus is on the show and
Speaker 1: interacting with you about that too. That too, I you know,
Speaker 1: my I W I will turn towards the game when
Speaker 1: we're finished with our jobs here. Our jobs are the
Speaker 1: primary responsibility. I'm really impressed by that answer, really impressed.
Speaker 1: It's mostly true. But you're also part of the Ramilly
Speaker 1: now you've locked up the Rams and you're rooting for
Speaker 1: the fighting Jared Goffs, Well, that's complicated, Like look into
Speaker 1: mark soul this game. So that will be going on
Speaker 1: as we go through every game that was played. Uh
Speaker 1: in Sunday of Week three, Um, you guys want to
Speaker 1: get into it. I I kind of stacked it at
Speaker 1: the top of the show in order of all the
Speaker 1: undefeated teams. So we're gonna go through all the teams
Speaker 1: that are entering week three or entered week three at
Speaker 1: two and oh and see how they fare. Let's get
Speaker 1: going with the marquee matchup of two and oh teams,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens at Arrowhead against the Chiefs. Mahomes right
Speaker 1: foot in front of the left Mahomes pump, Picking's gonna
Speaker 1: throw a screen right Darryll Williams on the plot, He's
Speaker 1: at the head midfield, four star Kansas City. Goodbye Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: Goodbye to go in the game. A screen pass of
Speaker 1: sixteen yards tialed up by Big Red and extuecuted perfectly
Speaker 1: by the NFL m v P Patrick Mahomes. Mitch Holts
Speaker 1: to the Chief's radio network with the call. It was
Speaker 1: his version of the hay is in the barn, go home,
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, because Yeah, just God banged Patrick Mahomes. I
Speaker 1: used the game with that completion to Darryl Williams. Darrell
Speaker 1: Daryl Darryl Williams the final pass and another brilliant afternoon
Speaker 1: for the raigning m VP, who threw for three seventy
Speaker 1: four and three touchdowns in a thirty three win over
Speaker 1: the Ravens, who fall to two and one. Chiefs now
Speaker 1: three and oh and their quarterback might actually be better
Speaker 1: than he was a year ago. Think about that. One
Speaker 1: of the best seasons of all time, and Mahomes is
Speaker 1: just playing the game at a level that no one
Speaker 1: else is sniffing the Ravens. Greg, the Ravens get a
Speaker 1: lollipop here. I know you're watching this game in the cubicle.
Speaker 1: I could hear you Deemin and han and and honking
Speaker 1: about your boy Lament. I don't care what the draft
Speaker 1: of the assignment says. I'm watching that evidently clear you're
Speaker 1: the bad boy of NFL media. The Ravens get a
Speaker 1: lollipop for hanging around in this game, but it never
Speaker 1: really felt in doubt. This was another day for Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes in the Chiefs to keep rolling. I'm taking that
Speaker 1: lollipop away. They were lucky to have the final score
Speaker 1: be this close. The defense, which talked a good game
Speaker 1: before uh this match up in terms of Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: saying they weren't gonna give up Big Place, really didn't
Speaker 1: provide much resistance. The Arrol Thomas was victimized on a
Speaker 1: play where you could see Andy Reid saw a tendency
Speaker 1: where Earl Thomas was gonna jump a route of Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins in the slot and they went over the top
Speaker 1: for um Michael Hardman. Michael Hardman for eighty three yards.
Speaker 1: There was no pass rush. I felt like more than
Speaker 1: any game obviously this season, you could really see them
Speaker 1: missing Terrell Suggs and Zadarius Smith because Patrick Mahomes had
Speaker 1: all day back there. Even though he didn't have his
Speaker 1: left tackle, he had plenty of time, and I felt
Speaker 1: like they could have put up a forty burger or
Speaker 1: more if things had gone a little differently. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's nine point six yards per passed from Mahomes.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned like how he has improved markedly visibly
Speaker 1: on the field, and we mentioned on Sky Sports that
Speaker 1: they talked all offseason now he's more comfortable in the
Speaker 1: offense and a lot of times I read that stuff
Speaker 1: and I say, I don't simply don't really care about
Speaker 1: those kind of assessments in you know, mid July or
Speaker 1: late June. But he looks that much more at home,
Speaker 1: and they don't like Tyreek Hill is not in the lineup.
Speaker 1: But you can't even tell the difference. They have an
Speaker 1: absolute embarrassment of wet, big play weapons. By the end
Speaker 1: of last year, it was a one horse race for
Speaker 1: m v P. And I think he's widen the gap
Speaker 1: between first and second place in the first three games
Speaker 1: this year. The difference is there was some anticipation throws
Speaker 1: on on third down where he's letting go the ball
Speaker 1: well before the receiver makes his break. There was just
Speaker 1: recognition of where the blitzes were coming from where he
Speaker 1: just knew where his hot read was and they just
Speaker 1: had solutions. But the thing I really like today was
Speaker 1: he was getting on his offensive lineman. He got on
Speaker 1: a big red Andy Reid for blowing the clock situation,
Speaker 1: wanting it to be fixed. He he just seems like
Speaker 1: he has such command that he's not afraid now to
Speaker 1: call some people out, and he is just like a
Speaker 1: master of what is happening. And the Ravens, I think
Speaker 1: they could have played this game ten times and the
Speaker 1: Ravens just weren't up to snuff to compete in this one.
Speaker 1: They were missing Eric Fisher, their left tackle, Tyreek Kill,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, Damian Williams, They're starting running back and
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem to matter. Lasawan McCoy sat out
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter with his injury. He reinjured his ankle.
Speaker 1: Uh and on the other side of the ball. This
Speaker 1: is the first game, and you knew this game would
Speaker 1: eventually come, and there's no reason to look too much
Speaker 1: into it. And see it as a major issue going forward.
Speaker 1: But Lamar Jackson for three quarters kind of looked like
Speaker 1: the Lamar Jackson who struggled at times during his rookie year,
Speaker 1: missing on passes, maybe not seeing the field, uh the
Speaker 1: way you need him to. Certainly to stay in a
Speaker 1: game against the Chiefs, they he missed a lot of
Speaker 1: deep throws. I mean there were opportunities to stay in
Speaker 1: this game. I don't think it was an incredible Chiefs
Speaker 1: defensive performance. I can think of three or four down
Speaker 1: the field where he had open receivers he missed it.
Speaker 1: I think it was three for twelve on throws over
Speaker 1: twenty yards, so they were daring him to go deep.
Speaker 1: The running game was good, Ingram was amazing. Lamar ended
Speaker 1: up getting some uh good runs in the second half.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards did pretty well, but he just didn't deliver.
Speaker 1: I guess the toughest stadium to go into and play
Speaker 1: in the league right now. And I don't worry about
Speaker 1: the Ravens at all because I just think that they're
Speaker 1: still so well put together and Ingram, to your point,
Speaker 1: it was the perfect free agent for the right for
Speaker 1: this team, and he's fitting so I think he could
Speaker 1: have gone somewhere else and we wouldn't be talking about
Speaker 1: in week to week. He fits perfectly on the Ravens,
Speaker 1: and I think they'll bounce back big time on it
Speaker 1: from this, and they'll probably meet again. I Mark would
Speaker 1: have seen Earl Thomas said that he expects them to
Speaker 1: meet again after the game. The only thing in this
Speaker 1: a f C though, where it looks awfully similar to
Speaker 1: last year in the beginning. You know, those losses for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Patriots, they there might not be
Speaker 1: that many of them, so they're already if you're a
Speaker 1: Chiefs fan, you're already thinking about getting a buy in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Before we move on, I want to call
Speaker 1: attention to one other aspect of the game that I
Speaker 1: found very interesting. John Harbaugh coached an ultra aggressive game,
Speaker 1: one of the more aggressively coached games I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: and I don't necessarily mean that as a compliment. I
Speaker 1: find it, um, you know, I I call I I
Speaker 1: find it, you know, hanging the onions that way, that's respectable.
Speaker 1: But they went for it on fourth down four times,
Speaker 1: and they went for three for were in that situation.
Speaker 1: They attempted three two point conversions failed all three. Uh
Speaker 1: and when it's a five point loss, and and it
Speaker 1: makes you wonder. It felt to me that he was
Speaker 1: he was somehow trusted his offense too much and maybe
Speaker 1: not enough at the same time. Here's the comments from hardball,
Speaker 1: because the reporters were questioning his strategy after the game.
Speaker 1: And we we had a mindset that we're gonna commit
Speaker 1: and we're gonna try to scores many points as we could.
Speaker 1: So that so what we tried to do, you know,
Speaker 1: and I know, I know we all felt the same way,
Speaker 1: and all Lamar felt the same way. We all did.
Speaker 1: We're we're gonna keeplaying that. We just felt a record.
Speaker 1: So when you write your article, just understand that we'll
Speaker 1: disagree with you know, we're going after it. And that's
Speaker 1: where we're gonna player all year. So West, that's the
Speaker 1: Mahomes effect. It is you're psyched out a little bit
Speaker 1: and knowing that you have to keep up with the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and they did. They had to keep up. It forced
Speaker 1: two punts. The Chiefs scored seven out of nine trips
Speaker 1: that that didn't end. That didn't end the game. So
Speaker 1: he was right, they had to score. I like the
Speaker 1: aggressiveness I mean, it's not always gonna work too with team.
Speaker 1: It was pretty wild. That's one of the best coaches
Speaker 1: in the league. We've been saying that for a long time.
Speaker 1: All Right, another undefeated team. They reside in Western New York.
Speaker 1: To Orchard Park. We go, and Allen's ready to go
Speaker 1: out of the gun again. Three receivers lined up right side.
Speaker 1: There's the staff. Josh looks left, fire's left, got a
Speaker 1: man wide opening his cat by Gawson Knox out of
Speaker 1: midfield on the run, gets past one man trying to
Speaker 1: get past another man bulls him down and he is
Speaker 1: finally knocked out of bounds at the Cincinnati twenty four
Speaker 1: yard line. Johnson Knox running after the catch, knocking down
Speaker 1: Bengals along the way. What a huge play that was,
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Bills Radio Network with the call Yes. Tight
Speaker 1: End Dawson Knox took a Josh Allen pass and turned
Speaker 1: into an evolutionary ground His forty nine yard catching runs
Speaker 1: set up a Francour touchdown that was the difference in
Speaker 1: win over the Bengals and rowdy Orchard Park. The victory
Speaker 1: moves the Bills to three and oh and sets him
Speaker 1: up for a huge week four showdown against the undefeated Patriots.
Speaker 1: Mark Uh, consider this Bills come back another leap forward
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen. Right absolutely. I mean they're not a fluke.
Speaker 1: You know. You get some of these teams that rolled
Speaker 1: to these early nice records and you have to look
Speaker 1: a little deeper and wonder what they really are. What
Speaker 1: the Bills, though, are not is an explosive, big play offense.
Speaker 1: They had fifteen first downs before the Bengals had their first,
Speaker 1: and it it looked that way, but they had a
Speaker 1: lead of sixteen nothing. I mean, they're gonna need to
Speaker 1: find a way to pile up points and find some
Speaker 1: more explosion. I still think John Brown Cole Beasley were
Speaker 1: perfect fits for Josh Allen. Josh Allen is going to
Speaker 1: continue to push the ball downfield. He made a bad
Speaker 1: inter say, had a bad pick in this game. But
Speaker 1: they they you know that they were patient and enough
Speaker 1: for the to wait for the Bengals to make a
Speaker 1: killer mistake of their own with a Dalton interception. But
Speaker 1: they to me with Buffalo, I I give them a
Speaker 1: shot against New England, I really do. Because of their defense.
Speaker 1: They just they're gonna hang around with teams, uh that
Speaker 1: are superior to them because of what they can do
Speaker 1: on defense, they make like very uncomfortable for Cincinnati's attack.
Speaker 1: The step forward for the um Josh Allen experience came
Speaker 1: with five minutes to go in the fourth quarter, so
Speaker 1: that uh, Buffalo had a four teen zip lead in
Speaker 1: this game and Cincinnati scores seventeen nonanswered and that was
Speaker 1: set up perfectly. We've talked about it in real time,
Speaker 1: Mark down in the newsroom. Uh, here's Josh Allen takes over.
Speaker 1: He has plenty of time, they had time outs, and
Speaker 1: what he has to do now show us that he
Speaker 1: can go get the lead back unless he did it
Speaker 1: with ease. They marched down the field and scored. You
Speaker 1: still don't know what you're getting week week to week
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen. And that's to me, that's the reason
Speaker 1: why the Patriots are going to be the heavy favorites
Speaker 1: next week. Mark's right that their defense, the Bill's defense,
Speaker 1: gives them a chance. And when they when they did
Speaker 1: finally take the lead, this is when you know Dan
Speaker 1: was saying, this is a great progress check for Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: And then they took the lead and Marks said, let's
Speaker 1: see if Andy Dalton has anything in his human body.
Speaker 1: At this point, you really thought it was like after years,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, please show me something with the game on
Speaker 1: the yeah, and he and he threw an interception. When
Speaker 1: do you know what it's to me? You go in three?
Speaker 1: You look, we're talking about a FC teams in the
Speaker 1: Ravens and the Patriots and the Chiefs, who are looking
Speaker 1: simply unstoppable. And the Bengals have had as bad of
Speaker 1: a start to the season as they could have imagined.
Speaker 1: After I thought a really frisky performance in Week one,
Speaker 1: they had a chance to win this game and all
Speaker 1: would have required was the offense to do their part,
Speaker 1: and they couldn't. It's a tough ask against Buffalo's defense.
Speaker 1: But for me, I just want to see a few
Speaker 1: more like Dawson Knox. They've compared him to Jeremy Shocky.
Speaker 1: He is an interesting player. I don't know if i'd
Speaker 1: call him Jeremy shock Uh. Not sure about the off
Speaker 1: the field elements, but Josh Allen did responding touchdown in
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl Jeremy Shocky, for you get get slept on.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I like this Bill. They're fun like It's just
Speaker 1: the league needs more, even if they're not a super
Speaker 1: Bowl type team. It's impossible not to enjoy how well
Speaker 1: they're coached and how they've lived up to any sort
Speaker 1: of off seat. They were getting a little buz in
Speaker 1: the off season and they could have gone one and two,
Speaker 1: and we forget about him. It's the opposite. I just
Speaker 1: want to know what Andy Dalton did to poor Mark.
Speaker 1: I mean what he said on air is very professional,
Speaker 1: just like he said going into this show. But the
Speaker 1: invective sentence Salton about the status and you know it
Speaker 1: was international. Well, how it's just the same old story
Speaker 1: from Andy Dalton. Bengals fans can come at me. They're
Speaker 1: all upset that we're too negative about them, but it's
Speaker 1: the same narrative over and over, and you want to different.
Speaker 1: That's so to the Bengals and so the like, this
Speaker 1: is who you've invested in your you're missing your offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: You're there's a lot of we do know who he
Speaker 1: is and he's good enough. At the this time last
Speaker 1: year we were talking about how he won three straight
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comebacks and they that's why they started three
Speaker 1: and one. He was super question, there's a good team around.
Speaker 1: There's little pockets like that from in Dalton. But it's
Speaker 1: just I don't know how if I had Holly Hobby
Speaker 1: at backup, I might throw her in to see what
Speaker 1: could happen in a game. Just maybe something different. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's uh, I don't know who that is. Who's Holly Hobby.
Speaker 1: It's like a child's doll, typically a girl's doll. Boy
Speaker 1: could have the doll too, from what I understand, I
Speaker 1: don't know why you're making eye contact with me, like
Speaker 1: I don't know Hobby dollar, I did not. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a real around, isn't. I mean it
Speaker 1: was it was a it was a thriving article, a
Speaker 1: toy back in the day. Jeremy Shocky that touchdown for
Speaker 1: the Saints? Was it with the Saints? Yes, that was he.
Speaker 1: They had to go ahead touchdown, He had to go
Speaker 1: ahead touch then when they beat the Colts, Okay, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. All right. We mentioned the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots who have the big match up against the Bills,
Speaker 1: but first they had to take care of business against
Speaker 1: a down trodden a FC East quote unquote rival onto
Speaker 1: the throne of sleeves. Michelle the sable back first, Jan
Speaker 1: Kent from the tent five, the ball on the right
Speaker 1: hash stand up under centered parents. But to play fake
Speaker 1: to Michelle, I'll light off a door set of the
Speaker 1: tent right to the five stood again for the score touchdown. Patriots.
Speaker 1: That's Bob Sochi of Patriots Radio Network. We don't need
Speaker 1: to hear from you so lack this week. So like
Speaker 1: what a disgrace last week? Oh hey, kid, pay kid,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brill, welcome to the neighborhood. Kid grow up. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady threw their touchdown passes, including that connection with Philip Dorsett,
Speaker 1: and the Pats didn't allow an offensive touchdown for the
Speaker 1: third straight week and a thirty fourteen win over the
Speaker 1: hapless New York Football Jets. Uh. It was business as
Speaker 1: usual for the Patriots, who rolled to three and oh
Speaker 1: two days after their misguided, uncouth an Tonio Brown experiment
Speaker 1: ended with the wide receiver's release. As expected, this wasn't
Speaker 1: much of a game. Um. You even give the Jets
Speaker 1: credit for at least keeping it from turning into a disaster,
Speaker 1: at least their defense. The Jets offenses as lost as
Speaker 1: an offense could be right now. They had about a
Speaker 1: hundred total yards in this game. Both their scores one
Speaker 1: was on a muffed punt, uh, and the other was
Speaker 1: a pick six by Jamal him. I'm just happy, Jamal
Speaker 1: Adam said something to be happy about. That's where I'm
Speaker 1: at right now. They go into their buy it oh
Speaker 1: and three and hope to have Sam Donald back in
Speaker 1: Week five against the Eagles where they can um kind
Speaker 1: of regroup. As for the Patriots, Uh, very much. Uh,
Speaker 1: business as usual. They they are limited right now on
Speaker 1: offense a little bit because they have the injuries on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. As we said, Antonio Brown is no
Speaker 1: longer in the picture. Um, Julian Edelman leaves this game
Speaker 1: with a chest injury. I believe they did tests and
Speaker 1: it's not believed. It sounds like he's gonna be anything
Speaker 1: too serious. But that's where they are right now. They
Speaker 1: didn't really move the ball too well on the ground.
Speaker 1: Brady started off red hot, cooled off as things went along,
Speaker 1: but at that point the game was already well in hand.
Speaker 1: So the Patriots take care of business. They're gonna evolve
Speaker 1: right now. They're much different than last year, where I
Speaker 1: think Brady is playing lights out and the rest of
Speaker 1: the offense isn't quite there yet. But he's played. He
Speaker 1: played this three game stretch I think was better and
Speaker 1: certainly that the schedule has helped, but better than any
Speaker 1: three game stretch of his personal UH performance during last
Speaker 1: regular season. They also gave up a hundred and five
Speaker 1: yards in this game, which was the lowest in the
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick era. So their defense, it'll be fun to
Speaker 1: watch them against them. You know they're gonna play much
Speaker 1: better competition. But right now, Jamie Collins has been such
Speaker 1: a huge addition for what they do. I mean, a
Speaker 1: year ago Jamie Collins whispers were that he was not
Speaker 1: even trying playing for the Browns, So I don't know,
Speaker 1: obviously they've flipped the switch on him, big surprise. But
Speaker 1: they're up two dred yards to eight heading into the
Speaker 1: second quarter against the Jets, and I you know, it's
Speaker 1: easy to pile them the Jets, But it's the kind
Speaker 1: of season, with the way that it's going right now
Speaker 1: that yes, I realize you don't have Donald in there,
Speaker 1: but it's been about as concerning a six day stretch
Speaker 1: as you could imagine for a team, And and and
Speaker 1: with the way that, depending on this plays out, I
Speaker 1: wonder if Adam Caze gets a second season unless they
Speaker 1: unless they they start to do what you'd think that
Speaker 1: they hired him to do. I mean, the offense is
Speaker 1: de vault them, and you worry about a guy like
Speaker 1: Levy on building. I know I'm not trying again, not
Speaker 1: trying to pile on, but I mean, Dan, am I wrong?
Speaker 1: I feel I believe that it couldn't have gone worse.
Speaker 1: Obviously the first three games of the season. However, he's
Speaker 1: not all to blame. The offensive line, which he didn't
Speaker 1: put together, has been worse than expected. They started their
Speaker 1: third starting quarterback in three weeks. Luke Hawk is not
Speaker 1: an NFL player, and there's nothing If you go to
Speaker 1: New England, the best defense in the league, with a
Speaker 1: quarterback that's on an NFL quarterback, there's no way you're
Speaker 1: gonna move the ball. And that's what happened now. I
Speaker 1: don't want to let Gaze off the hook because, in
Speaker 1: addition to the offensive line being wretched, in the quarterback
Speaker 1: position being a travesty and a horrible situation for the franchise,
Speaker 1: the play calling has been bad. But I don't know
Speaker 1: how much to put into that, because what are you
Speaker 1: supposed to do when you have this type of setup?
Speaker 1: So basically you hit the dynamite, you push down on
Speaker 1: the on the lever, everything explodes. Your season as a contender,
Speaker 1: quote unquote is over. You hope to get Dar back,
Speaker 1: and then I really think Gaze gets a chance to
Speaker 1: say I'm not a joke, I'm not the problem here. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think the pressure is on him as soon
Speaker 1: as they get out of this by to show something
Speaker 1: on offense, and getting Donald back would be a big
Speaker 1: lift for toward that goal. Patriots opponents are oh and
Speaker 1: nine this year. I don't think they've been tested for
Speaker 1: two straight which you can't take anything really out of
Speaker 1: these games. Um. I've been really disheartened by Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: and I've lost so much respect for him in the
Speaker 1: last two or three weeks. Um. The guy who's mantra
Speaker 1: is do your job, treats these press conferences in interviews
Speaker 1: like a child, like an absolute child, who will not
Speaker 1: take any responsibility, who will not answer why they signed
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, who will not answer why they released Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: Just handles it like an absolute child having a fit,
Speaker 1: and you won't explain why you did this. I just
Speaker 1: I have no respect left for him. Yeah, they the interview.
Speaker 1: I think probably that setting off with Dana Jake hup
Speaker 1: Sin before the game. It was tough to watch him
Speaker 1: staring staring her down. The timing of the release. You know,
Speaker 1: they they clearly made a smart move to get rid
Speaker 1: of him based on you know, what's happened even since
Speaker 1: he joined the team. I believe that the leak, which
Speaker 1: was self serving, that they did not know the allegations
Speaker 1: that were about to happen one day after they sign him,
Speaker 1: because of course, why why you would not sign a
Speaker 1: person and give him that sort of money a day
Speaker 1: before that's gonna drop. But the process they went through
Speaker 1: after that fact, uh, to to have him active last
Speaker 1: week was really strange. And it does sound like the
Speaker 1: the text or the d MS that Brown sent to
Speaker 1: his accuser of the Bobby Clemco story Great journalism by
Speaker 1: Robert Klemco was basically what got him cut from the
Speaker 1: Patriots because that happened when he was on. It was
Speaker 1: a little gross just to see everyone from Tom Brady
Speaker 1: on cozy up to him the way they did after
Speaker 1: they knew what was out there. And there are a
Speaker 1: lot of Patriots fans who I'm sure you've heard the same,
Speaker 1: are glad he's not on the team. Anymore. I only
Speaker 1: everyone can be put in the same bundle, and I
Speaker 1: would assume most they're relieved. I mean, and it's not
Speaker 1: lobby Clemco said, journalist is just doing his job. Is
Speaker 1: also getting docks on the internet for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: uh for outing Brown for his creep behavior. But and
Speaker 1: by the way, I could put Philip or Set on
Speaker 1: the field. This guy gets better each and every week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't need Antonio Brown. The thing with Belichick with
Speaker 1: the press conferences, that Jacobson thing was just uncalled for.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what he was going for there,
Speaker 1: but the fact that he would he walked off from
Speaker 1: his last press press conference that came shortly before the release.
Speaker 1: It's as if he believed that because he's Bill, Bill
Speaker 1: Check and because they're the Patriots, he wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: be answering these type of questions, which should have been
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion. If you bring this man into your building,
Speaker 1: that becomes part of your experience as head coach and
Speaker 1: your organization. It almost felt like he thought he was
Speaker 1: above that. But you weren't, Bill to do your job,
Speaker 1: and and which is I think one of the reasons
Speaker 1: they cut him is him having a deal with the
Speaker 1: Patriot It they're okay, they're a great team, they're three
Speaker 1: and oh they're steaming towards January again. But this was
Speaker 1: not a good look for the organization. I don't care
Speaker 1: if they didn't get they don't get hit in the
Speaker 1: wallet on it. It It looks like they'll be able to
Speaker 1: get out of the contract uh and they'll move on
Speaker 1: because they're so good at moving on. But this I
Speaker 1: believe was a boy and one quick thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: Belichick gets too much of a free pass for treating
Speaker 1: the media this way, because if another coach who hadn't
Speaker 1: won as much as he had treated reporters this way,
Speaker 1: it would be a major story. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: get away with that dismissed the behavior. But because it's
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, it's part of it's baked into his charm.
Speaker 1: I guess to some that he dismisses the press this way,
Speaker 1: it's a joke to most and on the and on
Speaker 1: the Antonio Brown front. He then fires off an array
Speaker 1: of tweets on Sunday morning, taking um shots at a
Speaker 1: bunch of people, including Robert Kraft, a reference to his
Speaker 1: UH prostitution arrest. Also um ben Roethlisberger's past issues with women,
Speaker 1: um basically hitting out and then challenge Jing, I guess
Speaker 1: the players association to fight for me because the teams
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to take away my guaranteed money. Well,
Speaker 1: nobody's playing the violin for you, and then deleted business
Speaker 1: a boom as because his agent probably is like you
Speaker 1: are taking money out of no. No one would be
Speaker 1: screen capturing those tweets. You're fined by tweeting, but deleting them.
Speaker 1: All right, let us move on another undefeated team, The
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers slot to the left side. They stacked
Speaker 1: those two receivers in Davante de tatle of tandem from
Speaker 1: the forty jumping into the neutral zone, Rogers says a
Speaker 1: three player, so it appears rainfalls deep. Common Mark quest
Speaker 1: Belles Standley give us down Free Bay forty yard farmb
Speaker 1: Mark Quest Beldess scandling the Great Wayne Laravy for the
Speaker 1: Packers radio network with the call Aaron Rodgers doing Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers things. Rogers drew the Broncos off sides, then delivered
Speaker 1: at forty yard touchdown strike to m v S two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen breakout candidate. The Packers a seven to sixteen
Speaker 1: win at Lambeau. Green Bay moves to three and oh
Speaker 1: under rookie head coach Matt LeFleur. At the Flower I do,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't demand that you do, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you are. I like it. The Broncos falled
Speaker 1: oh and three under their rookie head coach. I don't
Speaker 1: need help with this one. The FASO West give us
Speaker 1: a progress update on the Packers offense. Three weeks out
Speaker 1: and three victories in Packers offense is still feast or famine.
Speaker 1: It really depends, just has it as the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, where whether Aaron Rodgers is hitting these big
Speaker 1: plays or just missing these big plays. This was a
Speaker 1: dominant ball control attack for the Broncos, dominated time and possession.
Speaker 1: But when you play that style to try to keep
Speaker 1: the Packers off the field, you can't turn it over
Speaker 1: three times. And Noah Offense, the rookie tight end who
Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna have a really good career, has
Speaker 1: been one of the most mistake prone players in the NFL.
Speaker 1: For the first three weeks of the season. He had
Speaker 1: a really bad fumble in which Jayra Alexander stripped the ball,
Speaker 1: and speaking of Alexander, the story of this game is
Speaker 1: the Packers defense, specifically the offseason that Brian goodcas add
Speaker 1: the draft, the draft that he had last year, taking
Speaker 1: jayra Ex ound Alexander in the first round. This year
Speaker 1: he comes back with Rashawn Gary, who got his first
Speaker 1: career sack and also had a fumble recovery. Darnell Savage,
Speaker 1: who we've pointed out has been great so far. He
Speaker 1: had a diving interception in this game. Preston Smith and
Speaker 1: sa Darius Smith combined for five sacks today. What they're
Speaker 1: big free agent acquisitions, Goutti is he's having like that
Speaker 1: Bruce arians out in the parking lot. Let's get let's
Speaker 1: get the pickup truck out and beers and let's just
Speaker 1: sell him. He's doing like the Michael Jordan's shoulder shrug
Speaker 1: he walks to the office. That's amazing. Wow. Thirty six
Speaker 1: Russians for their the Broncoes running Philip Lindsay like Phillip
Speaker 1: Lindsay's best game of the year. Royce Freeman lost in
Speaker 1: eighteen yard touchdown to a bad whole team penalty on
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders. Just a really big call by the reps
Speaker 1: on that one. It took a touchdown off the board
Speaker 1: and then Flacole ultimately got sacked on third down in
Speaker 1: that series. Flacco, you know, I don't think he was
Speaker 1: the primary problem. The concentration should be on their defense,
Speaker 1: not on their offense. They don't have a sack or
Speaker 1: a takeaway, and still they do not check. Barrett is
Speaker 1: eight sacks. He was on the roster last year. This
Speaker 1: team is zero. Now. They almost had a Gholston today
Speaker 1: and it was one QB hit for the whole team.
Speaker 1: And the last two weeks everyone saying, well the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: getting the ball out of their hands quickly, that's not
Speaker 1: happening when it's Aaron Rodgers the pastor just for whatever
Speaker 1: reason isn't getting there. But you know it did get there.
Speaker 1: That goody music. I mean, just the tip to the
Speaker 1: guys and girls out there, like if you're if you're
Speaker 1: a significant other, you know in the mood, you know
Speaker 1: you're trying to get them in the mood, just kind
Speaker 1: of things, are going to put this on and just
Speaker 1: lots the magic flat and this is the way. Yes, yes, well,
Speaker 1: before he got into football, this was his his trade.
Speaker 1: He was a hardcore German rapper if I'm a Broncos fan,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe we'll talk to West, maybe turn
Speaker 1: this this experience off and check back in. I don't
Speaker 1: need u thirteen more games of Joe Flatt, I don't.
Speaker 1: I know it's not all Joe Flacco's issues, but there's
Speaker 1: just an I can't imagine. You can't trap a more
Speaker 1: uninspiring scenario to season. To your point, your criticism or
Speaker 1: the idea that Adam Adam Gaze should be criticized, which
Speaker 1: I think is totally fair, isn't Fongio the defensive version
Speaker 1: of that. This guy has a well earned reputation as
Speaker 1: a defensive mastermind. The fact that he would take over
Speaker 1: as a head coach, and Greg you mentioned a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago the difference between going from upstairs that
Speaker 1: down on the sideline and how that changes a lot
Speaker 1: about how you do your job on game days. Maybe
Speaker 1: that will be a story coming up. I mean this
Speaker 1: to have no sacks, to be this ineffective on defense
Speaker 1: with that talent you can the margin for air is
Speaker 1: so small you They did move the ball much better
Speaker 1: than the Bears last week, and they lost in that
Speaker 1: killer past. They did move the ball and hold it
Speaker 1: much better than the on the road. But and they
Speaker 1: moved a second half better than the Raiders in the
Speaker 1: season opener. They have looked good for Spurts, but not overall.
Speaker 1: And what did Emmanuel Sanders say after the game. We're
Speaker 1: in a world of suck right now, as I'm in
Speaker 1: a world of pain and the heat in the studio
Speaker 1: this it is uncomfortable, but we are forging on. We
Speaker 1: are a thirteen billion dollar company. I mean, it doesn't
Speaker 1: help it. You know, off camera there is like asbestos
Speaker 1: falling from the ceiling on us too. So I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure we're gonna get to the the next game.
Speaker 1: Please just second down eight at the Miami nineteen in
Speaker 1: the gun, Elliott goes out in the pattern to the
Speaker 1: right and froze it down to the call O the
Speaker 1: pockets touchdown the Fangio. Two touchouts today for Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: and that was a perfect nineteen yards strike. Frump Crush
Speaker 1: Scott nineteen to nineteen. We've heard a lot from him
Speaker 1: early on this season. He's Brad Sham, the sham god
Speaker 1: of k R L D Dak Prescott through two touchdown
Speaker 1: passes to a MARII Cooper. He also ran for a score,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys they righted themselves after sluggish start, knocking
Speaker 1: off the Dolphins thirty one to six. Mark, if Miami
Speaker 1: executes better in this game, we might actually have something
Speaker 1: approaching an athletic contest in the second half. But they
Speaker 1: did not execute. And uh, you know the Desert people
Speaker 1: who set that really big number, they were right. I
Speaker 1: think Dak Prescott has raised the bar on his own
Speaker 1: performance that what we saw today. People were panicking a
Speaker 1: little bit and concerned about where he was at halftime,
Speaker 1: but a year ago it would have been sort of
Speaker 1: every game we expect from Dak Prescott. They were fine.
Speaker 1: I I think you know, Miami is gonna not lose
Speaker 1: every single contest fifty to nothing. Uh, the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: a little sluggish, but they had two yred yard rushers
Speaker 1: in this game and dominated by the end. Wouldn't be
Speaker 1: concerned if I'm Dallas overall. To me, you just I
Speaker 1: don't know what to take from these Dolphins games. How
Speaker 1: do you self scout when you go out and win
Speaker 1: thirty one to six. It was not Dallas's best performance
Speaker 1: by any stretch of the imagination. Similar to the Jets,
Speaker 1: and Pats, like, did the Cowboys come out of this
Speaker 1: game healthy? They got the win. We knew that was
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Are they okay health wise as they moved forward? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're fine. I mean, it's they took care
Speaker 1: of business. I don't know the Dolphins to me, we've
Speaker 1: already discussed them at length. But I don't know how
Speaker 1: you keep this this locker room engaged because you're you're
Speaker 1: we're trying to. They had the sunniest half they've had
Speaker 1: all year. They were down ten to six after two.
Speaker 1: Quite they were. They were up on the Cowboys about
Speaker 1: fifty total yards. They had two yards. Josh Rosen did
Speaker 1: give them a spark, it sounds like in the first half,
Speaker 1: and then in Kenyan Drake fumbled inside the ten right
Speaker 1: as the first half was ending, and then that would
Speaker 1: seem to be it. Let's put this tank job in perspective.
Speaker 1: Since nineteen fifty, more than half the NFL teams have
Speaker 1: been added to the league starting from scratch as expansion teams.
Speaker 1: Since nineteen fifty, no defense has allowed more than a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three points that the Dolphins have allowed
Speaker 1: in the first three games of the season. Since nineteen fifty,
Speaker 1: no team has had a worse point differential than the
Speaker 1: Dolphins minus one seventeen. Since nineteen fifty, only one team
Speaker 1: has had a worse yards differential than the Dolphins minus
Speaker 1: eight thirty one, and the top four of that list
Speaker 1: is three expansion teams and the two thousand nineteen Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: This is worse than an expansion team. Can't happen. Didn't
Speaker 1: have to be Um the Dallas running game, Zeke who
Speaker 1: still seems to be getting warmed up. Nineteen for Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: This guy can play thirteen for one oh three in
Speaker 1: the touch they had two thirty five yards on the ground.
Speaker 1: I think that's great for the I mean we could
Speaker 1: see Tony Pollard in the preseason looking like a special
Speaker 1: player and someone that was going to have a role,
Speaker 1: and I love how they're using him. He had thirteen
Speaker 1: carries today, Elliott had nineteen. The playmakers coming out of
Speaker 1: their ears, let us move up five seconds on the
Speaker 1: play clock. Quick snap, Propito pro same zone. He cocks,
Speaker 1: team says, get Greg Papa the papa there And that
Speaker 1: was Tim Ryan Cackle, just cackling and happiness and confusion.
Speaker 1: Forty forty Niners Radio Network. Jimmy g threw a five
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass Pettis with one fifteen to play, and
Speaker 1: the Niners overcame five turnovers, including I believe three in
Speaker 1: their red zone in the red zone to beat the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers twenty um. For the Niners it is their
Speaker 1: first three and oh start uh in twenty one years
Speaker 1: and um and for the Steelers their own three and
Speaker 1: talked about on Thursday A show, this felt like the
Speaker 1: type of game that Pittsburgh circles the wagons as they say,
Speaker 1: and the Mike Tomilera and find it, finds a way
Speaker 1: to win. And Chris Westling let me, I'm gonna set
Speaker 1: you up on this one because you had a good
Speaker 1: point on Twitter. First of all, good job with a
Speaker 1: good point. It happens, I'm not yet. When they traded
Speaker 1: for Minca Fitzpatrick, who by the way, had a big
Speaker 1: role in this game. He had an interception I believe
Speaker 1: he forced the fumble as well. Um. It led to
Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about how many first and high
Speaker 1: round picks on defense the Steelers have and Keith Butler
Speaker 1: and defensive coordinator you pointed out, Hey, Keith better make
Speaker 1: this work now well twice. After a slow start by
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph in which he couldn't really get anything going
Speaker 1: on in the first half and it he looked lost,
Speaker 1: he connects on a catch and run touchdown with Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster that covers about ninety yards uh. That puts
Speaker 1: him ahead and a meat the Steelers defense coughs it up.
Speaker 1: Then Rudolph does it again. He takes the Steelers down
Speaker 1: the field, puts them back in the lead in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and at that point the Pittsburgh Steelers defense
Speaker 1: needs to win that game and take it home, but
Speaker 1: they didn't. Jimmy g and credit to the Niners go
Speaker 1: down the field and then three and oh, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of good reason for optimism in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: But that's stunned me that Pittsburgh, in a cornered animal
Speaker 1: game with their season on their line, could not find
Speaker 1: a way to take that game home. They have shown
Speaker 1: the Steelers have shown flashes of dominance on defense this
Speaker 1: year for quarters at a time, but as Gregg has
Speaker 1: pointed out, it's only for quarters at the time, and
Speaker 1: then second halfs of games. You're not stopping anybody. And
Speaker 1: from what I've seen. It's mostly the second area. I
Speaker 1: want to see how well Minca played. Supposedly he was
Speaker 1: making big plays today, but they're still allowing too many
Speaker 1: big plays on their defense, so I really want to
Speaker 1: see that. But you're right that they have way too
Speaker 1: much talent on this defense, and this is an organization
Speaker 1: does not give up first round picks. They will not
Speaker 1: have a first round pick next year for the first
Speaker 1: time since nineteen. Well, the pressure is on. You gotta
Speaker 1: win games or else that pick is gonna be in
Speaker 1: the top five or six. I think Devin Bush and
Speaker 1: Mark Baron, who we talked about going into this game,
Speaker 1: they struggled and covered just in terms of the PFF score,
Speaker 1: we're big time liability again. Baron. Baron's kind of killing them.
Speaker 1: The story though, just looking at this from as far
Speaker 1: as that the forty Niners do have a defense, and
Speaker 1: I know they're playing Mason Rudolf in a struggling offense,
Speaker 1: but the forty Niners had the type of defense that
Speaker 1: would struggle against any offenses. And right now they've played
Speaker 1: three teams who aren't great on offense, the Bucks, the Bengals,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers, and you know what, they've they've shut
Speaker 1: them all down. They give up two thirty nine yards today.
Speaker 1: They kept their team in it despite all the turnovers.
Speaker 1: That is a big time change from a year ago.
Speaker 1: And you know, of course the right it's why they're
Speaker 1: three and o. It's why you know there's reason to
Speaker 1: believe they can stick around in this thing. Their neck
Speaker 1: and neck with the Packers for the most improved defense
Speaker 1: in the league. You're not getting last year's James Conner
Speaker 1: right now at this point. One thing I noticed, and
Speaker 1: I know this stealers and they've seen this in the
Speaker 1: in the stretches where they haven't been dominant on defense
Speaker 1: this year. They got eaten up by the Niners ground game.
Speaker 1: Towards the end of this thing. They were just running
Speaker 1: right up through the belly of Pittsburgh defense. And that
Speaker 1: was concerning to watch. Well, that's gotta be because the
Speaker 1: offense couldn't control the clock at all. Right, defenses out
Speaker 1: there the whole game. And Connor had the turning point
Speaker 1: in the game after the nine has turned it over
Speaker 1: the fifth and final time on another UH fumble deep
Speaker 1: in Steelers territory. It looked like they the Pittsburgh would
Speaker 1: have a chance to run out the clock or at
Speaker 1: least add on some UM insurance points and Connor coughs
Speaker 1: it up, which led to UM the final score. So
Speaker 1: you know, leavy on Bell, that guy held onto the
Speaker 1: ball and you miss him right now. The Steelers miss
Speaker 1: they miss Antonio. Brown's not getting smith Schuster going off.
Speaker 1: You know, week after week it's been the opposite. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, the big Ben's absence, I think is gonna
Speaker 1: put a cap on smith Schuster ceiling there. I mean
Speaker 1: their own three and that's it. They had to win
Speaker 1: this game, and they didn't win this game. Their offense
Speaker 1: doesn't look good at any point really this year. They're
Speaker 1: pretty much done. And uh, that's it for that game.
Speaker 1: Let's keep moving. This could be the ball game. Urts
Speaker 1: has got it back on fourth and fifteen, looks pumps once,
Speaker 1: looks press the comps from behind. Now he throws deep
Speaker 1: down field. Fit is knocked away incomplete, picked up defensive
Speaker 1: play bras Shawn Melton on the past, intended for J
Speaker 1: J Arthago white side and the Lions will take over
Speaker 1: on downs and this thing is over, baby, execute three
Speaker 1: snaps from we out of here. Nice job, Dan Miller
Speaker 1: of Lions Radio and neerk. Although I must I don't
Speaker 1: want to correct Dan, but I will say that it
Speaker 1: wasn't so much of a great defensive play by the
Speaker 1: defensive back, but he dropped another killer drop when you
Speaker 1: watched on replay Dan on Dan cry j j Arthega
Speaker 1: Whiteside had the seventh and most crushing of drops for
Speaker 1: the Eagles on Sunday. He could not hold on to
Speaker 1: a beautifully beautifully thrown Carson Wentz downfield past would have
Speaker 1: put UH the Eagles first and goal essentially at the
Speaker 1: one yard line UH in the final minute of the game. Instead,
Speaker 1: it was dropped fourth down. Game over four, the Lions
Speaker 1: beat the Eagles and in Philly. So I and I
Speaker 1: don't want to um take anything away from the Lions
Speaker 1: because they're undefeated. How about that they they gagged away
Speaker 1: Week one into a tie, but then they found a
Speaker 1: way to be in a Chargers team that shot itself
Speaker 1: in the foot, and the Eagles kind of did the
Speaker 1: same thing in this game. But there's there's something to
Speaker 1: be said for a team that finds a way to
Speaker 1: take advantage of other teams mistakes, and that's what Matt
Speaker 1: Patricia's team has done so far this year. So that
Speaker 1: is my takeaway on the Lions right now that I
Speaker 1: don't believe they are necessarily a good football team. And uh,
Speaker 1: in my power rankings exercise I do weekly, I got
Speaker 1: absolutely slaughtered by Lions fans for putting three NFC North
Speaker 1: teams in the top ten and leaving the lines out
Speaker 1: of the station. I'm not gonna have them zooming into
Speaker 1: the top ten this week either because I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: buy them. But credit where credits? Do you go to
Speaker 1: Philly and beat an undermanned Eagles team? Will you got
Speaker 1: to win? And you deserve something? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if a team in the league has gotten
Speaker 1: not luckier but more fortunate to play in a Chargers
Speaker 1: team last week in the Eagles this week about as
Speaker 1: banged up as they both could be, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: just simply don't have enough people on on the field
Speaker 1: right now. That said, and I hear you, while not
Speaker 1: sticking them in the top ten or anything, I love
Speaker 1: teams more than anything. In September and October, that changed
Speaker 1: my long standing perception of them. Now they haven't entirely
Speaker 1: done that yet the Lions, but they aren't boring getting
Speaker 1: excited about just standing away games. They to me have
Speaker 1: been the most boring team in the NFL since I've
Speaker 1: worked here and over the past ten years. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they're lighting up America at this point, but
Speaker 1: if you're Matt Patricia to be two oh and one
Speaker 1: at this stage, things could be a lot worse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they lighting up America. Here's the thing, though, when you
Speaker 1: start off, you know, maybe not lighting the world on fire,
Speaker 1: but you stack wins. They can get better too. The
Speaker 1: Lions could be a much better team in December, especially
Speaker 1: defensively than they are right now. I think they're a
Speaker 1: better team defense than they are in terms of individual stars.
Speaker 1: They're not really getting stand out players. And the one
Speaker 1: thing that stands out to me is I kind of
Speaker 1: like this Matthew Stafford better than a Jim Bob Cooder
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. This is the Matthew Staffords that's using his
Speaker 1: big arm to throw down the field, that's being a
Speaker 1: little more aggressive, can fire it in there like we
Speaker 1: we liked. We like the Cootter. It helped him out
Speaker 1: for a little while those time and throws, but after
Speaker 1: a while it's like you've got the biggest arm in
Speaker 1: the league. Let's see it, and we've seen it in
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. This is a show, show your
Speaker 1: face team to me. The Lions. So they were dominant
Speaker 1: for three quarters in the opener against the Cardinals, then
Speaker 1: gave up what twenty seven points? That's not good. And
Speaker 1: then against the Chargers, the Chargers are rolling, they're rolling,
Speaker 1: and then two touchdowns get called back, a fumble at
Speaker 1: the goal line they got. The Lions got a lot
Speaker 1: of breaks in that game, and as Mark pointed out,
Speaker 1: the injuries to the opponent. And then this week they
Speaker 1: play a really injured Eagles team. I haven't seen this
Speaker 1: game yet, but I really want the lines. Are they
Speaker 1: gonna be consistent, consistently good or just taking advantage of
Speaker 1: a bad team. That's the NFL, NFL, and it's it's
Speaker 1: such a bar. It's kind of a boring point to make.
Speaker 1: But there's not that much separating most of these teams.
Speaker 1: The Broncos are not that far off from being too
Speaker 1: and one. So many of these teams, the Chargers and
Speaker 1: the Texans, who will talk about later, all three of
Speaker 1: each of their games has come down to the last possession,
Speaker 1: and it's just a couple of little things sometimes. And
Speaker 1: it's the same for the Eagles, who are you know,
Speaker 1: the potential game winning catch falls to the ground last week,
Speaker 1: same thing happens today. You now have a short week
Speaker 1: and have to go play the Packers in Green Bay
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. And this is a team I thought
Speaker 1: the Eagles were gonna start five and one or six
Speaker 1: and oh, and you're staring down one and three if
Speaker 1: you don't take care of business in a tough ask
Speaker 1: in Green Bay. Yeah, they're getting killed with the timing
Speaker 1: here because they are. They lost more players. Jason Peters
Speaker 1: came out of this game with an illness. The offensive line,
Speaker 1: UH is missing multiple players. The fact that they don't
Speaker 1: have Alshon Jeffrey and de Sean Jackson is showing up
Speaker 1: with all these drops. Carson wins. You love. I love
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and he played so great in this game.
Speaker 1: He I loved how he played, even though he was
Speaker 1: imperfect last week, UH in the loss of the Falcons.
Speaker 1: He deserved a much better fate in this game. And
Speaker 1: I'll call attention um when you fire up your game
Speaker 1: pass not you're condensed anymore? Markets Now what Gametrix game
Speaker 1: in forty which you know it's a it's a wonderful product.
Speaker 1: I think it has given some people a sense of
Speaker 1: liberty just to you know, to do a nice chunky
Speaker 1: fifty and twenty seconds after the play ends. I like
Speaker 1: my editing on those games sparse and right down to
Speaker 1: the bone. I want those games to be about thirty
Speaker 1: one minutes. I got too much other stuff going on
Speaker 1: in my life to be spending forty plus minutes on
Speaker 1: these games. I mean, yes, there are other things I
Speaker 1: could be doing and watching. You know, some of these teams,
Speaker 1: I understand some of these teams want were into watchless territory,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna bounce on you. Sorry. That reminds me
Speaker 1: of how was Hustlers. We didn't get the official overview movie. Well,
Speaker 1: now it's solid solid, Well just give it a give
Speaker 1: it a solid B minus. Yeah, that's not Oscar Worthy.
Speaker 1: Everyone's buzzing about ja I like j low in a lot,
Speaker 1: but Oscar Worth. Come on. There are multiple points in
Speaker 1: this game where the Eagles had a chance and it
Speaker 1: seemed like they were gonna just take over. Uh. None
Speaker 1: more so than late in the game one to play
Speaker 1: the Eagles um block Matt Prayers forty six yard field
Speaker 1: goal try. They scoop it up. The Eagles do run
Speaker 1: it back to the twenty two of the Lions and
Speaker 1: so and they're all set up and a legal block
Speaker 1: on Jenkins pushes it back to midfield. It was a
Speaker 1: questionable illegal block. Check it out, West, I'm condensed and
Speaker 1: forty uh A. Darren sprowls fourth and five gets called
Speaker 1: back for O p I and then of course Arthago
Speaker 1: Whiteside blows it. Uh So the Eagles are in a
Speaker 1: tough way and the Lions are un defeated as we
Speaker 1: will enter the last week of September. Who would have
Speaker 1: guessed it. I want to see an NFL game where
Speaker 1: the refs are not allowed to throw a single flag,
Speaker 1: but the players don't know that the refs aren't allowed
Speaker 1: to throw. He may figure it out midway through the
Speaker 1: second quarter. I like this, let's move on. This will
Speaker 1: be a forty four yard field goal or actually thirty
Speaker 1: four yard field goal to win the game for Papa Pinion.
Speaker 1: The holder snap spot kick on its way and it's
Speaker 1: no good. He missed it way missed the kick, and
Speaker 1: the Giants win their first game of the season by
Speaker 1: Papa w f a n with the call Matt gay
Speaker 1: Blewett two s p A T s and that chip
Speaker 1: shot field goal, allowing the Giants to escape with a
Speaker 1: thirty win over the Bucks. Terrible. Also the Bucks great
Speaker 1: comeback for the Giants and the star and the story
Speaker 1: of this game, uh is Danny Dimes, the rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: through for third three thirty six and two touchdowns. Also
Speaker 1: ran for two touchdowns, including the go ahead score with
Speaker 1: one sixteen to play. Giants came back from eighteen down
Speaker 1: in this game. Wes um. We've been waiting to see
Speaker 1: Danny Dimes play in games that matter, Well, we got
Speaker 1: it today. I thought he was impressive from the opening
Speaker 1: drive throughout. There was a bit of a lull uh,
Speaker 1: probably late second quarter where the Giants weren't doing much.
Speaker 1: The Bucks went ahead to ten at halftime, and then
Speaker 1: Evan and Graham seventy five yard touchdown on the first
Speaker 1: play of the second half. Uh. Daniel Jones is another
Speaker 1: forty six yard bomb. I believe in the next series
Speaker 1: that sets up another touchdown and before you know it
Speaker 1: game and this came down to the end. Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: on that game to go ahead drive, just marching down
Speaker 1: the field was decisive. Confident, knew what to do, and
Speaker 1: then you know, the prairie land opened up on that
Speaker 1: touchdown run. I believe he's the first Giants quarterback ever
Speaker 1: with two rushing tds and two passing tds in a game.
Speaker 1: He also led them to their biggest comeback since nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1: He's now want to know when trailing by eighteen or
Speaker 1: more points, Eli Manning. This is not a knock on Eli,
Speaker 1: but oh and forty four in those games, that's just
Speaker 1: how hard it is to come back from eighteen down.
Speaker 1: Take your victory lap, West, It's not well, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a nice world that we live in now where
Speaker 1: West has some palpable excitement about the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: It we have never experienced this at all. I would
Speaker 1: compare it to this when I was going through chemotherapy
Speaker 1: and I couldn't hold anything down. There was one night
Speaker 1: where I was getting brave and I was like Quisia sleeping,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go try out some peanut butter crackers, Like
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the best thing I've eaten in four months.
Speaker 1: I went to eat the peanut butter crackers and they
Speaker 1: were stale. It was like eating you know, soft plaster.
Speaker 1: That's what Manning watching has been for three or four years,
Speaker 1: eating stale crackers every single week. This time the crackers
Speaker 1: head crack crunch. I thought you were going to say
Speaker 1: that that you ate them, and then you threw them
Speaker 1: up and that was like watching Eli Man. No, it's
Speaker 1: just the Yeah, if some stale every single time, you
Speaker 1: know what it's gonna be. You see the like the
Speaker 1: suddenly the Giants have a quarterback who's not athletically limited
Speaker 1: to and they kept mentioning what he can do that
Speaker 1: Eli cant and we all know that elies an iron
Speaker 1: man and and someone that if you're a Giants fan,
Speaker 1: you love Eli Mann in the history of the guy.
Speaker 1: But they've needed this for so long. And Sequon Barkley
Speaker 1: was lost in this game to an ankle injury, and
Speaker 1: it I don't and I mean they they thrived even
Speaker 1: without him. I thought that simply would not have happened
Speaker 1: a week ago. Go watch that Giants Bills game and
Speaker 1: look how limited that attack was. They thrived without say
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley and Daniel Jones succeeded despite Shack Barrett like
Speaker 1: launching and all out campaign on defensive player of the year.
Speaker 1: This guy has eight sacks in three games. What three sacks?
Speaker 1: Last week? I think he was Defensive player of the week.
Speaker 1: They gotta give it to him again this week because
Speaker 1: he had four in this game, two forced fumbles, and
Speaker 1: I think if that's the one thing Giants fans probably
Speaker 1: are a little bit. Actually they don't even care because
Speaker 1: they're riding high right now. But the one thing people
Speaker 1: worried about in the preseason was the ball security for
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and one of the one of the fumbles
Speaker 1: was definitely on him being too casual in the pockets
Speaker 1: they had to The other one was Shack Barrett just
Speaker 1: doing Shack Barrett. It doesn't get any brutal of a
Speaker 1: loss for the Buccaneers in this To lose a twenty
Speaker 1: eight to ten lead is bad enough, but then to
Speaker 1: lose it and then to watch Jamis Winston throw a
Speaker 1: fifty five yard or down the field, puts you inside
Speaker 1: the ten yard line and you think you wanted again.
Speaker 1: And then to lose it, that's like losing it twice.
Speaker 1: That is brutin. And this is the crazy thing. Arians
Speaker 1: takes a five yard delay of game penalty to back
Speaker 1: up his kicker, who who had missed the extra points earlier,
Speaker 1: Matt gay Um. And here was his explanation why he
Speaker 1: did that prior to the game ending miss. What happened
Speaker 1: at the end there when you got the five yard
Speaker 1: penalty delayed What happened there? I just took it on purpose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to feel he's better back. That field goes
Speaker 1: easier back five yards No, no sense, Hurrian, We want
Speaker 1: to move the ball over, put it in the middle
Speaker 1: and uh and make it an easy feel at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Matty, get out of the building. You cannot
Speaker 1: miss that kick. It's it. And everyone listen to podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm always team kicker, and I defend these guys, and
Speaker 1: I don't think kickers get enough credit about how hard
Speaker 1: their job is. But sometimes you just gotta make the
Speaker 1: kick because so many people are affected by you on
Speaker 1: that miss. Bruce Arians on the sideline, Jameis Winston on
Speaker 1: the sideline. It totally changes the course of their season
Speaker 1: potentially because you can't hit a thirty or four yarder.
Speaker 1: And if you're a coach thinks that he needs to
Speaker 1: do things like take penalties to make you more comfortable,
Speaker 1: You're not the guy. You shouldn't be the kicker in
Speaker 1: the first place. I'd like to see the data on
Speaker 1: five yards further back being an easier kick. Yeah, brutal,
Speaker 1: because he did make four kicks in that game. I
Speaker 1: the thing is that Bruce Arians is a savvy guy,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate in general his brutal honesty when asked
Speaker 1: all sorts of typical softball type questions. But when you
Speaker 1: say this, and we're all here mystified by the strategy
Speaker 1: to create a longer attempt for your kicker who is
Speaker 1: not exactly you know, Martin Grammatica times one thousand. If
Speaker 1: that was even a good kicker kick, if you multiplied
Speaker 1: him by a thousand, you would be the greatest. However,
Speaker 1: said by I mean, why put those words out there
Speaker 1: for us to dissect and everyone to dissect all week
Speaker 1: long after a totally brutal, painful loss. Is that, honestly
Speaker 1: what Arians was thinking by taking that penalty. I guess
Speaker 1: you takes good the bed with him, He's going to
Speaker 1: tell you what's on his mind and and what I'm
Speaker 1: a good example of what I'm saying, Like on this
Speaker 1: very show Thursday, Mark, I think it was you was saying,
Speaker 1: is this what you know Bruce Ariens came back for
Speaker 1: to the hope that Tod Bowls defense is gonna take you. Well,
Speaker 1: here's a game where Winston throwser yards and three touchdowns
Speaker 1: and connects with Mike Evans on this huge clutch play
Speaker 1: that should have set the season on a different course.
Speaker 1: In the kicker after a great win over the Panthers,
Speaker 1: that's completely lost. That feels like a thousand yeller at
Speaker 1: this point. This will get lost in the Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: hoop la, but you will not see a more lopsided
Speaker 1: receiver versus cornerback matchup probably all year. Then, Mike Evans
Speaker 1: just taking the soul of Jack Rabbit Jenkins over and
Speaker 1: over and over again. Throughout this game. It was like
Speaker 1: craigy Low trying to guard Michael Jordan's rabbit. Maybe no
Speaker 1: more talking Jack Rabbit, all right, before we move on,
Speaker 1: I gotta hear that, Yeah, that Buck's call of the
Speaker 1: Matt game. Miss, Let's hear it. It comes down to
Speaker 1: a rookie kicker warring green and yellow shoes. Jean Decker
Speaker 1: are better from the twenty four or thirty four yard
Speaker 1: field goals, the spot down kick his hair born. It's
Speaker 1: long enough long enough it is. It is no good
Speaker 1: how the Giants win by one thirty one? What a
Speaker 1: probe DeCross You sounded suspicious of those shoes to begin with. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's check in with the New Orleans Saints. Snap his
Speaker 1: back and the kick is away to high punt but
Speaker 1: short Harris fields it at the forty. It makes two
Speaker 1: Messi's off to the races the forty thirty. Deante Harris
Speaker 1: into the ends on those fags on the field and
Speaker 1: the Saints strikes first on special teams. Deante Harris took
Speaker 1: the punt back fifty three yards to the house, the
Speaker 1: first punt returned for a touchdown all year. Who Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater throw two touchdown passes in his first start in
Speaker 1: place of Drew Brees, and the Saints beat the Seahawks
Speaker 1: thirty three to uh in a game that really wasn't
Speaker 1: that close, Greig, This was a game that uh the
Speaker 1: Saints showed up, balled out. Seattle got a late touchdown,
Speaker 1: but good start all around for a very strange game
Speaker 1: where the Seahawks dominated in the first half. But it
Speaker 1: was kind of an Everything that can go wrong did
Speaker 1: go wrong for the Seahawks. They give up the punt
Speaker 1: return touchdown. They have the fumble return touchdown on a
Speaker 1: Chris Carson fumble that goes back. So the Saints put
Speaker 1: up fourteen points without doing anything on offense, their punters
Speaker 1: having a great game, you know, pinning the Seahawks way
Speaker 1: back Russell Wilson's fourteen for fifteen hundred fifty yards in
Speaker 1: a touchdown, and they're down to seven at the time.
Speaker 1: So on one hand, yeah, it's about a lot of
Speaker 1: bad luck. On the other hand, when the Saints came
Speaker 1: out after halftime, that was their best stretch of the
Speaker 1: game offensively and defensively. They put the game away. And
Speaker 1: you know, for all the talk of you know, running backs,
Speaker 1: you know, don't make that big of a difference. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a huge difference in this game. Chris Carmon
Speaker 1: Carson slipped and fell three different times in the first half,
Speaker 1: and he lost the fumble return for a touchan. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Avan Kamara I asked on the Thursday show, let's see
Speaker 1: an MVP type performance, and this that this was exactly that.
Speaker 1: I think he had a hundred and sixty one yards
Speaker 1: from scrimmage. The rest of the team had a hundred
Speaker 1: and four and so many of those yards were in
Speaker 1: the passing game, breaking tackles after he was hit very hard,
Speaker 1: including by Jadeveon Clowney. When you can run through Jadeveon Clowney,
Speaker 1: you're something special. A huge win for the Saints. I
Speaker 1: I realized the game that's not as close as the score.
Speaker 1: But there was a sequence at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half where the Seahawks had about thirty three seconds
Speaker 1: to play with and decided not to take a time
Speaker 1: out as they were aiming to score, I believe, and
Speaker 1: Will Wilson hit dk Metcalf on a fifty four yard
Speaker 1: or that would have put them in position for at
Speaker 1: least a field goal, if not more, and time just
Speaker 1: ran out because Pete Carroll, one of the smartest coaches
Speaker 1: we've ever watched coach football, did not take a time
Speaker 1: out there. Tony Romo was killing him and I thought
Speaker 1: he was right to. Yeah, he had two times out.
Speaker 1: It was a rough day for Pete. He got hit
Speaker 1: in the face football before the game. Yeah, it left
Speaker 1: a pretty big mark on his nose. They went for
Speaker 1: it on fourth down three different times. Uh So credit
Speaker 1: to him for being aggressive. But the Saints run defense
Speaker 1: and we've talked about their defensive line stepped up in
Speaker 1: all those scenarios. Uh, and then they stopped a past
Speaker 1: that I believe Russell Wilson audibled into with another one.
Speaker 1: So that was three other times that they were stopped
Speaker 1: on fourth down. And it kind of like a resourceful
Speaker 1: win that you would like to see if out of
Speaker 1: a good organization on the road when you really need it.
Speaker 1: That's a I was gonna say. You know, Greg made
Speaker 1: the point Thursday. This is the kind of challenge that
Speaker 1: Sean Payton really loves and he digs his teeth into
Speaker 1: and that's great. They won the game because they played
Speaker 1: as a team, and special teams really matter. But to me,
Speaker 1: I'm looking back to the end of last year and
Speaker 1: still their offense doesn't work unless Alvin Kamara is taking
Speaker 1: over the game and being the best player on the field.
Speaker 1: Do you feel Greg any better about their all fency
Speaker 1: after today? No? I mean, they didn't have a play
Speaker 1: over twenty yards at Teddy Bridgewater who went seventy seven
Speaker 1: and two. Didn't. I don't know if he threw a
Speaker 1: pass over ten yards, I don't remember it. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: there there were some catching runs. He didn't really need to.
Speaker 1: They had five offensive penalties in the first half that
Speaker 1: were not on him, so it certainly wasn't on him
Speaker 1: that that they struggled throughout that first half, but there
Speaker 1: was he looked like the same guy that we've seen
Speaker 1: the last couple of games. It's still early and that
Speaker 1: was only that was really his first real start, and
Speaker 1: there was almost no Tasom Hill. There was less Tasom
Speaker 1: Hill than usual. I wondered about that Payton probably thumbing
Speaker 1: his nose a people, but like, they gotta keep him healthy.
Speaker 1: That was the first Bridgewater starting. He's gonna have several
Speaker 1: more because Drew Brees just had surgery. Of course, Um,
Speaker 1: but I wonder if we're starting to get an idea
Speaker 1: of the Teddy Bridgewater experience where his ceiling is that
Speaker 1: he's not going to be a dynamic guy. He's a
Speaker 1: hold of fourth guy all the way, Uh, because it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like he's a dynamic type player. Well, he's
Speaker 1: only got to start let's say six games. He just
Speaker 1: won one on the road in Seattle. If he can
Speaker 1: win three, if they can win three of those games,
Speaker 1: he's gone and and and it's his teammates that really
Speaker 1: stepped up from his defense, making huge plaz in comary.
Speaker 1: I want to go watch it. But I thought the
Speaker 1: concern last week was that when Bridgewater was on the field,
Speaker 1: Camara dried up entirely. The whole offense lost any sort
Speaker 1: of dynamic traits. And not the case today, although as
Speaker 1: much as much. I mean, the crazy thing is, they
Speaker 1: had I think one of the bottom five yardage games
Speaker 1: in Sean Payton's career last week, and they had less yardage.
Speaker 1: It was a different It was a crazy It was
Speaker 1: a crazy Maybe what I just said sounds completely around Dallas.
Speaker 1: I don't count them out of any game. I just
Speaker 1: think that they'll find ways to be competitive. And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people myself included, who said, oh,
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're going to be kind of just
Speaker 1: another team until Breeze comes back and the South is
Speaker 1: wide open. This was a nice little show on Peyton game.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm still you got the Bucks shooting
Speaker 1: themselves in Matt Gay's foot, extremely rare to Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: never lost a September home game fifteen and oh until today,
Speaker 1: wouldn't be Matt Gay shooting the Bucks. I mean, someone's
Speaker 1: foot was damaged this was also almost the first to
Speaker 1: score loss in the Russell Wilson era at home, but
Speaker 1: he just did you. He stuck it out by touchdown
Speaker 1: as the Bengals almost speed Seattle. I'm expired. Go Hawks.
Speaker 1: Seattle had been fifteen and o at home in September
Speaker 1: since two thousand ten. Did you say that? Well? I
Speaker 1: wanted to repeat, it's a fun little it's a good
Speaker 1: nug six departments and credit that. That's move. Dan did
Speaker 1: that himself. He came up with that study. I've been
Speaker 1: tracking every one of their September home games since I've
Speaker 1: started this company. Yes, into the game, they take a
Speaker 1: screen to him. Was wide. Over the end, Seattle had
Speaker 1: been septillion sold, nothing to go on the first corner.
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Colts Radio Network with a call. Jacoby Brisset
Speaker 1: completed his first sixteen passes through for two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the first half, including that connection to Zachary Pascal, leading
Speaker 1: the Colts to win over the Falcons at l Os
Speaker 1: Lucas Oil stated Jake Briskett led four straight scoring drives,
Speaker 1: didn't have a turnover, closed out the game with a
Speaker 1: big completion to Jack Doyle. It's good to have some
Speaker 1: quarterback depth. Greg Rose Involve. That's right. It's good to
Speaker 1: have a coach that doesn't coach scared Andy Reid and
Speaker 1: his former disciple or not, Frank Reich. I guess it's
Speaker 1: sort of there in the same coaching tree. Both called
Speaker 1: third down passes where they could have called runs with
Speaker 1: under two minutes left in the fourth quarters of their games,
Speaker 1: which would have given the call ball back to the
Speaker 1: other team and forced them to, you know, go the
Speaker 1: whole length of the field. But you know what they did.
Speaker 1: They called passes. They trusted in the play call, and
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle got the big first down t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: left at halftime. I mean Jacobe Brossetta got the ball
Speaker 1: at the end of the third quarter beginning of the fourth.
Speaker 1: He needed to score both times, keep the ball both
Speaker 1: times he had the ball because the Colts defense wasn't
Speaker 1: stopping anyone. The Falcon score touchdowns on every second half possession.
Speaker 1: And you know what Jake Briskett does in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: He scores touchdowns and he delivers clutch drives every week.
Speaker 1: He's a pretty good quarterback. It's not a star, he's
Speaker 1: not really even the key to this team. But he's
Speaker 1: He's part of what I think is kind of a
Speaker 1: team that's coalescing pretty well. Do you know what it is?
Speaker 1: He's better than to hold the fourth guy. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: like right around the Dalton line right or even maybe
Speaker 1: on the right side of it. I think his contract,
Speaker 1: that extension they gave him, tells you he's better than
Speaker 1: to hold the fourth guy. Hold the fourth guys get
Speaker 1: like five to seven million a year. He got fifteen.
Speaker 1: I mean when he when we last got our sample
Speaker 1: size with him and with the Colts, it was when
Speaker 1: their offensive line was not what it is now. And
Speaker 1: it's in a better environment than he was before. But
Speaker 1: for some reason, the Colts kind of remind me of
Speaker 1: the Eagles a little bit, where you know they're gonna
Speaker 1: get banged up and lose players, but the ship doesn't
Speaker 1: entirely sink because they're well coached. Their front office is
Speaker 1: extremely sound, and they've added depth this team, This Colts
Speaker 1: team had no depth under the previous front office. They
Speaker 1: have it all over the place. Now they've got infrastructure.
Speaker 1: When these two teams play, though, I mean, it's one sided.
Speaker 1: There's no more. There's no rivalry in the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL More one sided than Colts Falcons. I mean,
Speaker 1: Falcons fans don't even show up, don't even watch the
Speaker 1: game when you play the Colts. People have been talking
Speaker 1: about the Colts Falcons rivalry for decades. Fifteen wins, two losses.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get more one side. And then that Atlanta
Speaker 1: fix what you're doing. That's that's like once every four years.
Speaker 1: So that's you know that Ryan thirty four three or
Speaker 1: four three touchdowns, one interception, passer rating of one. That
Speaker 1: all looks great, but I mean, I just feel like
Speaker 1: it's the same thing now. It was a strange game.
Speaker 1: Falcons only got six possessions. I'm gonna ask our department
Speaker 1: if that's a record. There was one one play kneel
Speaker 1: down at the end of the first half. They would
Speaker 1: if you're not counting that. They only had six possessions
Speaker 1: and he threw a red zone interdeption in one of them.
Speaker 1: Other than that, they played pretty great on offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: they touchdown Davante Freeman, rand Well. I can't really fault
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan here. They lost Kan O'Neil their strong safety
Speaker 1: for the second straight year. Achilles tear looks like he's
Speaker 1: out for the year, not don't like the energy around
Speaker 1: this Falcons operation right now. There is there is something
Speaker 1: going on here right I'm with you, dark spiritual force,
Speaker 1: and I think it's on. That's where dan Quinn's defense
Speaker 1: needs to make a stop at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: His offense is putting up touchdown after touchdown and they're
Speaker 1: giving up drives to Zach Pascal and Marlon Mack and
Speaker 1: mo Alei Cox. Those are the three guys. All right,
Speaker 1: let's check in Mark. The Browns just fell behind. So far,
Speaker 1: you've been a total pro throughout the broadcast. Does it
Speaker 1: change now? No, I'll continue to operate as an absolute
Speaker 1: pro and show em all okay. But the studio that's
Speaker 1: now up to degrees, that's much higher on my list.
Speaker 1: I'll ask the question though. The listeners are are wondering,
Speaker 1: did you go to Hustlers alone or that did Simone
Speaker 1: come or no? This was on our our Friday is
Speaker 1: typically our day to do what we do, and I
Speaker 1: went to see it on my own because I didn't
Speaker 1: think that was a movie that Simone was going to
Speaker 1: be opening opening day, Hustlers opening day. I like going
Speaker 1: to the movies earlier. I don't like hearing other people
Speaker 1: eat in the movie theater, So I'll typically go to
Speaker 1: like a eleven AM show and sit way up front,
Speaker 1: not near any other human because when I can hear
Speaker 1: someone eating popcorn during a movie, I cannot concentrate at all.
Speaker 1: It throws me completely out of my element. Interesting, Let's
Speaker 1: move on left. Adam is slot left, dig soul alone
Speaker 1: to the right. On first down play action Cousins boot
Speaker 1: like drop to the left, plants to foot deep right. Man,
Speaker 1: they're harddown Cousins. Adam feeling headed? Six zero Minnesota. Paul Allen, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's one of the zero truthers. John Matt money Smith,
Speaker 1: who I do the power ranking show on NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: He always says zero. He never says six nothing. It's
Speaker 1: always zero, and it stops me in my tracks every time.
Speaker 1: Gooseg so Kirk Cousins bounced back from his wolful performance
Speaker 1: last week in Green Bay, playing turnover free football through
Speaker 1: that touchdown past Adam Theineland him is only touchdown pass
Speaker 1: of the day, an easy win over the Raiders. Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook over a hundred yards for the third straight week.
Speaker 1: The Vikings two and one now West home game against
Speaker 1: the Silver and Black. Just what the doctor ordered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we sort of referred to this on Thursday as the
Speaker 1: recipe for Kirk Cousins success home game. Check nailed it.
Speaker 1: Inferior opponent, check nailed it. Not a nationally televised game
Speaker 1: three for three Vikings. This had a lot of it.
Speaker 1: Seemed like the same DNA from the season opener against
Speaker 1: the Falcons, where the Vikings jump out to an early lead,
Speaker 1: run the ball down their opponent's throat, and don't rely
Speaker 1: too much on kirk Cousins. Dalvin Cook once again the
Speaker 1: focal point of this team, and if there was an
Speaker 1: all Pro list for September, he would be the running
Speaker 1: back on it. You could do that. You're happy to
Speaker 1: talk about it on the pod. You'll do at it
Speaker 1: halftime halftime through eight weeks. It's amazing you've been assigned
Speaker 1: to it. I'm sorry. Monday, nine am. When they give
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison the ball, they look pretty good running the
Speaker 1: ball too. They're just a big, good running They're a
Speaker 1: great running team when you can bring him in as
Speaker 1: a bat. They're very close to three and oh if
Speaker 1: they get three and zero, excuse me, if they could
Speaker 1: execute against Green Bay better. Um, I think the vikings
Speaker 1: are okay, but I don't know if it'd be zero
Speaker 1: in the context record it makes sense whole thing, But Wes,
Speaker 1: you so nailed it with the Kirk Cousins thing. If
Speaker 1: those things line up, he will never lose a game.
Speaker 1: He never has lost the game, and he never will.
Speaker 1: The problem is the way sports and the NFL are
Speaker 1: set up is that the deeper you going to the season,
Speaker 1: you lose those elements. He's sort of like slightly better
Speaker 1: than Andy Dalton, right. I think that's where he's always been.
Speaker 1: And you've made a good point the other day where
Speaker 1: there's the people who are anti Cousins and you and
Speaker 1: West sorry that uh you know, people crow when he
Speaker 1: has a bad game, and then the defenders start crowing
Speaker 1: when he has a good game. I think he has
Speaker 1: been in that same area the whole time. About quarterback
Speaker 1: eleven through thirteen depends what the other what other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are around now, there's more good young players that asked him.
Speaker 1: That's just who he is. That's where you're right. But
Speaker 1: I I heard, you know, in all the write ups
Speaker 1: and stuff that this was a good Kirk Cousins performance,
Speaker 1: you know, and reason for encouragement and he through for
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy four yards. Dan, you wanted well,
Speaker 1: and that's this is a Mike Zimmer fever dream where
Speaker 1: you're just gonna run the ball two times and but
Speaker 1: that like we're talking about situations where Cousins is going
Speaker 1: to be put into one of those games where all
Speaker 1: those boxes aren't checked before the kickoff happens. That the
Speaker 1: same thing with Mike Zimmer wanting to run the ball
Speaker 1: thirty times and do nothing through the air. Good luck,
Speaker 1: You're gonna win a couple of games that way, especially
Speaker 1: at home, when you play as well as you do
Speaker 1: in that situation. But that's not how you get through
Speaker 1: a season in I'd i'd be concerned. I want to
Speaker 1: give our listener Mighty Gazelle credit for phrasing the Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins recap from Thursday, So well well done, And one
Speaker 1: question about the do you see any scenario where, like
Speaker 1: the guy nice person, where Derek Carr is the quarterback
Speaker 1: for this Raiders team next September? This experience feels like
Speaker 1: it's going south an buy a house right next door
Speaker 1: to I do know, I don't. I'm disappointed that the
Speaker 1: Raiders couldn't be competitive and that their defense, just because
Speaker 1: that means if we're watching a season worth of them
Speaker 1: not being competitive, that's just making my our Sunday's worst.
Speaker 1: Fontes Burfett got injured today after he tried to punch
Speaker 1: somebody after the play. I don't think the officials saw
Speaker 1: the attempted punch. Oh, but the league will. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: might get a FedEx envelope, but he's he got like
Speaker 1: his own deposit box for FedEx right outside his front door.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been told that Vontelly's perfect has
Speaker 1: been injured about forty seven times in the first three
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. They just like built a FedEx
Speaker 1: can goes next to his house to save the time.
Speaker 1: I think he just moved next door to the fine police.
Speaker 1: Let's move up. I backs, I'm off set to the right.
Speaker 1: Tight line splits Holson in the backfield the block from
Speaker 1: McCaffrey right up the middle, running free to the thirty five.
Speaker 1: The fourties got potential. McCaffrey thirty twenty. He will store
Speaker 1: ten five a lightning boat. Christian McCaffrey Mick Mix and
Speaker 1: Panthers Radio Network. Christiancaffrey ripped off a seventy six yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run. Kyle Allen throws four touchdowns in his first
Speaker 1: start in place of the injured Cam Newton Panther's cruise
Speaker 1: over the Cardinals in Glendale. Mark This was the best
Speaker 1: case scenario for Carolina, who just wanted to survive without
Speaker 1: their injured former m v P. Instead, they thrived with Alan.
Speaker 1: What an encouraging performance on a day where we got
Speaker 1: a couple of quarterbacks in their first starts changing the
Speaker 1: way we feel about certain teams. I loved that Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen came out. He was aggressive from the start. He
Speaker 1: seen you know, like you could tell right away that
Speaker 1: he was just feeling good. He was in the zone.
Speaker 1: He was kind of laughing on the sideline, didn't have, uh,
Speaker 1: that sort of nervous energy that you might expect from someone.
Speaker 1: And I know he played well in Weeks seventeen last year,
Speaker 1: but that I just wanted to see here, you know,
Speaker 1: on the road, how does he come out and do it?
Speaker 1: And they they had more life and energy to their
Speaker 1: passing game than they have all year. And he was
Speaker 1: hitting throws that Cam Newton was not hitting in the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. And that it's funny that they
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. That was one of those. It was a
Speaker 1: touchdown that was not because of Kyle Allen, but he
Speaker 1: made a two or three throws in this game that
Speaker 1: were total Money's tosses, and I enjoyed watching them. And
Speaker 1: I don't think you can count them out because he's
Speaker 1: a quarterback on any level at this point. I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta go out and do it a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. But there was something nothing about
Speaker 1: his game that seemed like crippling limited to me at all.
Speaker 1: It was the opposite. It sounds like it was so
Speaker 1: impressive that not only will you not rush Cam Newton back,
Speaker 1: but you will make sure he's when he comes back.
Speaker 1: I think because you know what, we don't know what
Speaker 1: this team is. There's no reason in general to rush
Speaker 1: Cam Newton back after all the stuff he's been through
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I just would wait to
Speaker 1: perfect scenario. The way today played out. They have that
Speaker 1: um ability now to be patient. They were. This was
Speaker 1: classic corner cornered animal action right here. Yes, it was
Speaker 1: they saved their season that in oh and three Panthers
Speaker 1: team would have a lot of whispers about where the
Speaker 1: coach is going to be the next year, whether Cam
Speaker 1: Newton's eve gonna be on this team next year, all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and you've you've put all that off for
Speaker 1: another week or two. I'm a little confused, Dan, there's
Speaker 1: a caged animal in a cornered dog? Are those two
Speaker 1: different kinds of games? You can put whatever animal you want. Um,
Speaker 1: I love dogs. I don't even like the image of
Speaker 1: imagine the dog corners. But cornered animal or caged animal works.
Speaker 1: This is a step back to it sounds like for
Speaker 1: for Kyler Murray, two forty yards of offense from the
Speaker 1: Cardinals in seventy three plays, so they ran a ton
Speaker 1: of plays and didn't move the ball at all. Well,
Speaker 1: and and we guys should mentioned Dante Jackson who had
Speaker 1: two spectacular interceptions in this game. And it was some
Speaker 1: of the first action where I watched Kylermarly, who I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say was confused out on the field, but he
Speaker 1: threw a couple of terrible balls and Carolina turned two
Speaker 1: of those into those interceptions. He's not tearing the league up.
Speaker 1: That was kind of the although it would have been
Speaker 1: a surprise too because it doesn't happen often. There was
Speaker 1: that hype around Murray that he would come in and
Speaker 1: Kingsbury would come in and they'd be, you know, ripping
Speaker 1: people up. That's not happening right now. So now the
Speaker 1: Cardinals have to do be what they weren't last year,
Speaker 1: which is patient, they and and let this develop as
Speaker 1: a partnership. Because it looks like like Greg said, four
Speaker 1: point zero yards per tempt on forty three passes. This
Speaker 1: is the this is the defense from week one one.
Speaker 1: It's actually been a little bit better for Arizona than
Speaker 1: we expected. This was what we expected. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: move on Chargers at the Houston. Thirty four rivers, shotgun rivers,
Speaker 1: deep drop, firing downfield and tip almost that are safter
Speaker 1: it's in took play and the Texans are gonna win today.
Speaker 1: We'll beat the Chargers today. Mark Vandermere of the Texas
Speaker 1: Radio Network, who I love to get get to get
Speaker 1: to get back and get to get back in the
Speaker 1: Texas stop the Chargers in their last gasp attempt to
Speaker 1: tie the game. Deshaun Watson threw for three fifty one
Speaker 1: through three touchdown passes and J J. Watt the area
Speaker 1: is heating up two of the five sacks for the
Speaker 1: Texans and a seven to twenty win over the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Who watched this game, I did Greg Rose withal Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson every game does athletic things, and once again he
Speaker 1: was on fire. It's the doo of Deshaun. You all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's let this breathe. Yeah, you have to be
Speaker 1: comfortable in the chaos. You are going to invite pass rushers,
Speaker 1: You're gonna invite hits. That's just his style. And all
Speaker 1: the things you like about Deshaun Watson are because of that,
Speaker 1: and and being this game especially, he held onto the
Speaker 1: ball pretty long because his offensive line played better, and
Speaker 1: that the game winning touchdown and the comeback. We're from
Speaker 1: those second level plays where he just does something. He
Speaker 1: He can be comfortable with that, and I think the
Speaker 1: fans have to be comfortable with that too, with him
Speaker 1: getting hit more and taking sex, because that's where he
Speaker 1: makes his magic by it. I'm on Dan's side of
Speaker 1: the Texans ledger. Deshaun Watson has won me over. He's
Speaker 1: so exciting. These two teams I have a hard time
Speaker 1: getting a feel for right now. Both of these teams
Speaker 1: have played to the buzzer basically in all three of
Speaker 1: their games, So they could each be three and oh,
Speaker 1: they could each be oh and three. But I think
Speaker 1: there are some things about the Texans that we can say.
Speaker 1: Whitney merciless, another big game. DJ Reader has made the leap.
Speaker 1: He was a big difference maker today. And the offensive
Speaker 1: line I think has a chance to get better. It
Speaker 1: certainly was better today and I think that's that's a
Speaker 1: big How about Tunsil is he? How did he look
Speaker 1: to Bosa and Melvin Ingram, who have been relatively quiet
Speaker 1: this year? We're relatively quiet once again. Wes you joining
Speaker 1: the Texans bandwagon? Well, I'm not there yet. I'm just
Speaker 1: here to enjoy. I mean, I love Deshaun Watson. I'm
Speaker 1: may not that I'm gonna cornering me out. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: your corner now. Then I loved them from the beginning.
Speaker 1: The Titans lost me and may have lost me forever.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's also positive. And you know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do as a favorite to you, Uh, you're in
Speaker 1: this Devin Sawa Final Destination roller coaster ride with the
Speaker 1: Devil Broncos. Nobody knows what that means. I'm letting you
Speaker 1: off the ride now. Thank you for that. That's very
Speaker 1: magnanimous of you. But I I can't let myself out
Speaker 1: of the penalty box yet. I haven't offered enough. That's awesome,
Speaker 1: that's you're definitely a raised Catholic. Um. By the way,
Speaker 1: there's definitely forty seven people who get that Devin Sawa reference.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean people do underrated movie. Um. All right,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's head to Sunday Night Football. Four down
Speaker 1: and gold from the five. This is week pre may
Speaker 1: feel flus from the pocket, rolling like pro to the
Speaker 1: end zone. It is intercept the ramps taken away on
Speaker 1: the final snap for the Browns offense. It's John Johnson
Speaker 1: with a diving picking the end zone and the Rams
Speaker 1: are gonna come hold at three and oh. Westchester's finest
Speaker 1: J B. Long of the Rams radio network with the call.
Speaker 1: John Johnson the third with the interception in the end
Speaker 1: zone on fourth and goal. The Browns go four and
Speaker 1: out with four shots to potentially tie the game, and
Speaker 1: that was it. The Los Angeles ramsen victors in Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Sunday Night Football. They improved a three and oh.
Speaker 1: The Brownies fault to one and two. Mark Sessler should
Speaker 1: start with you on this one. Um, We're gonna get
Speaker 1: to the Rams in a moment. But you had trepidation
Speaker 1: around this game all week. You've had trepidation around the
Speaker 1: Browns since their Week one clunker against Tennessee. I imagine
Speaker 1: you don't feel any better right now, Writer's block. That's
Speaker 1: sort of how this team feels to me right now,
Speaker 1: when you're trying to produce something and you can't get
Speaker 1: in that flow and you can't get out of your
Speaker 1: own way, um or a relationship stuck in neutral where
Speaker 1: they're just there's something about this team, uh, offensively, especially
Speaker 1: because I thought they played a lights out game on
Speaker 1: defense considering how banged up their secondary is. This is
Speaker 1: in the whole season and I and I'm concerned, like
Speaker 1: at the core about a line that has not protected
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield well. But even when they are, it feels
Speaker 1: like Baker Mayfield has almost been zapped by the early
Speaker 1: season experience a playing behind this line, and and it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to watch because last year a team playing
Speaker 1: with house money down the stretch felt so loose on
Speaker 1: offense that you felt like they could do anything. I
Speaker 1: wanted them to go play the best teams they could
Speaker 1: and challenge those teams with what they had with Freddie
Speaker 1: Kitchens and Baker Mayfield and even pri O'Dell Beckham just
Speaker 1: the rest of their weapons, and they are banged up.
Speaker 1: But I don't really point to any of that as
Speaker 1: what's going on here. I think they just it's I'm
Speaker 1: at a loss for words to some degree, because yes,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a surprise to see how they
Speaker 1: performed on offense tonight. It's been happening all year. I
Speaker 1: don't know the way out. I don't I like your analogies,
Speaker 1: and you might also say kind of like a kicker
Speaker 1: who compensating for his last two misses, where it's stilted
Speaker 1: and it feels like they're thinking about it. Think hesitant
Speaker 1: in pressure situations, and Baker Mayfield not trusting his offensive line,
Speaker 1: and as Greg said we were watching the game, he's
Speaker 1: actually scrambling into pressure, not away from pressure. I mean,
Speaker 1: the last play of the game was emblematic that, not
Speaker 1: that they did a good job project protecting him, just
Speaker 1: that the game ended with him rolling back to his
Speaker 1: right and just throwing it up. Because a lot that
Speaker 1: he's counting on improvising some plays and some of the
Speaker 1: plays that were there. You can nitpick, but it sure
Speaker 1: looked like Jarvis Landry was basically wide open on the
Speaker 1: third down slant, he goes to another he goes to
Speaker 1: the tight end on that play instead, And it's just
Speaker 1: those little decisions. At some point you have to trust
Speaker 1: you're right that for now, this is what this team is.
Speaker 1: The Rams are very similar. They've kind of looked the
Speaker 1: same each week, where their offensive line isn't playing as well,
Speaker 1: but that they get it going in the second half,
Speaker 1: and that the defense has been playing, uh, really well.
Speaker 1: And that's the difference between three and o and one
Speaker 1: and two. The Browns offensive line continues to be an issue,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, Clay Matthews, the whole front seven was getting
Speaker 1: after Mayfield, who, like we said, didn't handle that well either.
Speaker 1: And the play calling is definitely something I'm gonna hear
Speaker 1: a lot about, uh in the hours and days ahead
Speaker 1: around the Browns. Uh. Most famously in this game, or infamously,
Speaker 1: i should say, was the fourth quarter, fourth and nine
Speaker 1: near midfield draw call that got snuffed out after about
Speaker 1: a five or six yard game. Uh. Everyone confused. There
Speaker 1: was a you know, Twitter was a buzz afterwards. Uh,
Speaker 1: ESPN's tracking data. That's the first fourth and nine running
Speaker 1: play that they've tracked in over twenty years and just
Speaker 1: a head scratcher. And after the game, Uh, Freddie Kitchens
Speaker 1: he took ownership of it, but also said it was
Speaker 1: the play he wanted to call, so you figure out that.
Speaker 1: And then again they get the big interception Cleveland of
Speaker 1: Jared Goff who throws high and a pick uh and
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield this right, not looking comfortable, does get them
Speaker 1: down inside the ten after uh, some completions that are
Speaker 1: also a roughing the passer call on Aaron Donald. And
Speaker 1: then on those four straight plays four passes, Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: not targeted once. He was brought here West to be
Speaker 1: a missing final peace guy in that offense, and he
Speaker 1: had that one big play against the Jets last week,
Speaker 1: but in general, this offense has not been able to
Speaker 1: take flight. I think football is so much more complicated
Speaker 1: than everybody's sitting at home once to admit it is,
Speaker 1: but sometimes when you have the best athlete on the field,
Speaker 1: you just have to take a chance and throw it
Speaker 1: up in his direction and let him make a play
Speaker 1: when nothing else is going right. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: look at that Jets game. Everyone wanted to stream the
Speaker 1: highlights of Odell Beckham with the eighty nine yard touchdown,
Speaker 1: but they were struggling to get him open and make
Speaker 1: him productive in that game too, despite the final score
Speaker 1: the final line for him. I really think the Rams
Speaker 1: defense is doing a lot of the carrying on this team,
Speaker 1: and they are much better than last year. Claim Matthews
Speaker 1: already has more sacks than he had last year. Dante
Speaker 1: Fowler has been a regular behind the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: Mark pointed out during the game. Corey Littleton has been
Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers in the NFL this year
Speaker 1: at Taylor rap as a hit as a second round picky.
Speaker 1: They are a better I think Marcus Peters and to
Speaker 1: keep to Leabre playing better and to Cleveland's credit on defense,
Speaker 1: they entered this game missing all four their starting defensive
Speaker 1: backs and they put up a real good fight. I
Speaker 1: mean that Rams warmed up as things went along. They
Speaker 1: actually ended up with two one yard receivers in Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks and Cooper cup who had a huge game two
Speaker 1: touchdowns over a hundred yards. But uh, the Rams had
Speaker 1: what three points at halftime. I mean that that is
Speaker 1: It's a pretty incredible incredible to me if you would
Speaker 1: have told me that after everything we heard about the
Speaker 1: injury issues, that they would get the job done. Uh,
Speaker 1: going into the second half and the offense just not
Speaker 1: able to figure it out. That's to me one of
Speaker 1: the biggest stories of the young season right now is
Speaker 1: how disappointing the Browns have been on the offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's the problem is because it's you know, the
Speaker 1: pressure is gonna get amped up. They are days away
Speaker 1: from having to go deal with the Ravens, who are
Speaker 1: a far superior team playing in sync right now. And
Speaker 1: you know, I total respect to the Rams because in
Speaker 1: in the early year that they've been here, they're three
Speaker 1: and oh and they knocked off Carolina on the road.
Speaker 1: That was a tough game. It's not that was not
Speaker 1: an easy ask. And to go and do it tonight,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the Rams have to be respected entirely. Well.
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens is getting a lot of grief about being
Speaker 1: in and over his head, and I feel like that's
Speaker 1: maybe projecting what he looks like or just they have
Speaker 1: made some curious decisions certainly, and lack of experience. That said,
Speaker 1: good coaching. It's about adjusting your three games into the season.
Speaker 1: What's not It's obvious it's not working right now. He
Speaker 1: needs to figure out how to adjust whatever he came
Speaker 1: into the season planning to do. And it's a new
Speaker 1: experience for him because yeah, he was he was the
Speaker 1: guy calling the plays at the end of last year,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't the head coach at the end of
Speaker 1: last year. That is a big difference. And the the
Speaker 1: guy who's not calling the plays was one of the
Speaker 1: best play callers in the NFL last year, and he
Speaker 1: was the guy dialing up fits magic early last season.
Speaker 1: Todd Monken, Uh, Mark, it's not all bad. You locked
Speaker 1: up your Rammy's. Yeah, you're part of them. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the city of Cleveland can feel great about that, all right.
Speaker 1: I just have it like a couple of questions, Well,
Speaker 1: how long have you lived in Cleveland ever? In your life?
Speaker 1: Like total? How many times have you ever spent there?
Speaker 1: Even I mean I've I've been there a number of times,
Speaker 1: but never I never walked around saying look at me Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, how many years have you now lived
Speaker 1: in l a. Oh, I've been lived in l a
Speaker 1: for fifteen years the Ramily. I don't know. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: calling you home theretion applications. They locked it up for you.
Speaker 1: Today was your official entry into the Ramily. I mean
Speaker 1: I feel no passion around that at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're a big movie guy at all. Sort of makes sense,
Speaker 1: but that has nothing to do with the m guy hustlers,
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the rams. I mean, nice try,
Speaker 1: Hollywood's team, Nice try. All right, Mark, Well, you were
Speaker 1: good sport and you did not go crazy in the studio,
Speaker 1: and you were hyper professional and unbeh happy. The entire
Speaker 1: crew both in front of him behind the glass, we
Speaker 1: thank you for I'm not surprised that I acted like
Speaker 1: a pro. It's good, all right, we'll be back. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on Tuesday with our Monday night football recap,
Speaker 1: and then we start spinning and looking ahead to guess what, guys.
Speaker 1: Week four. The train is out the station and it's rolling.
Speaker 1: I can almost smell London just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: There are absolute agents and the heroes are going to
Speaker 1: London in a couple of weeks. You can't wait for that.
Speaker 1: And we'll have more information on that trip, but that
Speaker 1: will come down the line. All right, Ricky, let's get
Speaker 1: out of here. You're happy. Antonio Brown's not with you anymore.
Speaker 1: The Mailman, the Old Boss, Ricky Holly, Hollywood, Ryan part
Speaker 1: let everybody else till Tuesday. S