WEBVTT - NFL Week 1 Reaction: Bears CHOKE vs. Vikings, Ravens-Bills, Packers NFC FAVORITES? | Nick Wright 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.000 Welcome in What's Driving the Great Episode three sixty three. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.520 This episode as always brought to you by our great 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:14.000 friends at boost Mobile. Demonsey. What a weekend. How about 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:20.840 that teaser crushes? Your teaser won with ease, Buddy, Well, 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:22.919 the Bills was a little bit of a sweat ended 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.800 up not being a sweat. It's weird to have a 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:30.400 team plus nine in a teaser that you're loot like 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.040 they're gonna cost you the teaser, and then they win 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.280 the game outright, But that happened Cleveland, no sweat, Dallas, 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.160 no sweat. I almos, you were on the right side 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.400 of it. I almost talked you out of it because I. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.159 Was saying closer, right, take. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.839 The Philly side. And because you don't think Dallas can win. Dallas, 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.400 of course you know didn't win, but could have there, 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:57.200 so right, teaser great. We It's not quite as good 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.280 of a win, but avoiding a loss is all almost 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.040 as good as a win. I dodged the dance through 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.759 the rain drops on the producers stupid offer this week. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.840 I told you, listen, Travers's gonna throw him one. He's 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:10.600 just gonna throw. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:11.360 Him one, like. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.679 I had no doubt that the Jags are gonna win 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.440 that game, but Trevor's gonna give him one, and so 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:25.200 we avoided that. And despite starting the slate Friday night 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.400 with a loser case minus three for me, and then 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:34.280 Miami plus one just gets absolutely annihilated. And on that note, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.000 I still will to finish the thought still winning weekend. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.480 Cleveland plus five could have won outright, should have won outright. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.720 We'll get to them. Raiders plus two and a half 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:49.680 did win outright Buffalo plus one again, folks, this is 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:55.680 the key to actually getting the right side of the line, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.840 not even the right side of the game. The books 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:04.960 got a nigh laid for Bill's Ravens. Here's why. It 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:10.760 starts Demons Bills minus a point and a half. So 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.320 many people bet it. Hold on, do I have this right? 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.920 So oh yeah, so yes, so many people bet Baltimore 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.320 plus one and a half that it flips all the 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.880 way to Bills to Baltimore. Let me start over, because 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.320 I'm it's gonna be confusing for the audience. It opens 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.240 Buffalo minus one and a half at home. All the 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.440 action comes in on Baltimore getting a point and a 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.959 half enough so the line flips all the way to 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.160 Baltimore minus a point and a half, enough action comes 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:51.200 in on Buffalo plus one and a half that it 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:56.800 settles at Buffalo plus one, and then Buffalo wins by one. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.280 And so because of that, all the early Ravens betters 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.760 getting the Ravens plus a point and a half one, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.519 and all the late Bills betters getting the Bills plus 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.840 a point and a half or plus one one. That's 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:17.359 a that's the worst case scenario for the books. And 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:18.960 by the way, our show brought to you by our 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:23.520 great friends at hard Rock bet that is, you really 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.639 really want to avoid that exact scenario. But it also 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.600 if you liked Buffalo in this game and you bet 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.200 them early, you lost. If you had Buffalo minus a 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.280 point and a half, you lost. Like so, all of 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:42.280 that is noteworthy. Here's the other thing that's noteworthy. I 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:47.080 have a lot invested in the Cults being bad. I 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.280 was flirting with them being you know, having the number 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.440 one pick, certainly them missing the playoffs, and you know, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.440 I have a lot of preseason investment in that, which 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.800 means I now have Demond's a a defact do investment 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:06.440 in the Dolphins better be absolutely horrific Like that game 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.680 needs to have been about how bad Miami is, because 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.920 if Miami's just average, then the Colts are good and 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.320 I'm in trouble. I'm already starting. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.000 To behind the game back. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.440 Yeah, and so yeah, Daniel don't play the game of 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.200 his life. So all right, so all of that coming 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.400 up in the show. Here's how I want to do 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.000 these Tuesday shows. I would like, in theory for us 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.120 to spend at least twenty seconds on every single game 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.719 like that, every game of the week, and will be 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:46.560 addressed now maybe come week ten or eleven, if there's 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.440 a game between two truly out of iderrelevant teams, will 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.360 break that rule. But early in the season, there was 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.320 only one game that I looked at and I was like, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.599 even twenty seconds? Is it too much on this game? 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.039 Do you know game that was? Do you have a 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.839 guess we're both teams? I'm like, do we need to 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:08.360 talk about it? You nailed it, You nailed it. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:14.920 But that will hit this week. I feel like Arizona, Oh, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.560 thank you for saying that. Yeah. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.119 So all of my Survivor picks this week were either 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:27.240 Cardinals or Jags. Most Jags are our team one for 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:34.039 the show was Jags It is so maddening that Brian 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.360 Callahan's the worst coach I've ever seen in the in 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.120 the last decade in the NFL, because forty percent of 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.839 the million dollar pool would have been knocked out with 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:49.880 the Broncos losing. You add seventy five percent of the 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:54.760 pool had either Philly, which could have lost, Denver, which 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:59.920 should have lost, or Cincinnati, which was dying to lose. Instead, 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.799 every favorite one except for the Chiefs, Every big favorite 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.160 one three points or more except for the Chiefs. All 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.800 right straight to voicemail, brought to you by boost Mobile. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.760 Syracuse beat Yukon in overtime and then head coach made 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:22.839 him to win sprints. Okay, Bill Belichick is imploding, is 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:28.559 too strong, but it's not far from what he's doing 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.200 when he talks about I'm not welcome there. Why would 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:32.719 they be welcome here? Because you're trying to get your 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:38.120 guys into the NFL. Bro and Demons question, are you 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.159 reclaiming Daniel Jones or you. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.640 Need to see me claiming Daniel Jones? Okay, Like like 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.760 you said, we got to see what the Colts are 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.039 actually going to be about and what Miami is Uh. Okay, 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.880 I'll be watching him watching them. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:54.880 I'll be honest with you, I don't know that I'll 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.479 be watching him, at least not early on. I don't 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.120 know that they're gonna make the They didn't make the 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.360 I had six games on in front of me and 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.680 the one o'clock window this weekend called Dolphins one one 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.760 of them I did. And so we'll see, all right, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.160 please guys. Oh, by the way, I just got the 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.480 numbers on the pod, like how many listeners we have? 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:22.360 Obviously the YouTube numbers anybody can see. 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In the beginning 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.200 of the game seemed like they were controlling it, even 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.520 JJ McCarthy threw a pick six, but they still turned 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.360 it around and won. So obviously, Caleb Williams loss last night. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.000 What was your biggest takeaway from this game? 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:23.480 All right, I'm officially a little concerned about Caleb. I 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:29.120 was not at any point last year, but the sequence 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:34.160 of the last ninety six hours where I listen, I'm 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.040 a subscriber. I was already a subscriber to Tyler Dunn substack. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:43.560 It's like fifty bucks for the whole year support real journalism. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.360 He is the guy if people are like, I, oh, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.240 let me it's go long TD. Let me see if 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.400 you go to golongtd dot com if that takes you there, 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.280 I actually don't know the answer that no, so hold on, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.880 let me see what the actual so oh no it does. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.199 Oh maybe yeah, golongtd dot com. But it's on substack. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.800 He is the guy who broke the story a year 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:12.520 ago demons that Sean McDermott tried to rally the troops 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.480 by being like the nine to eleven hijackers thing. He 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:22.560 has real sources, he is a real journalist. He's totally independent, 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.400 so I was already a subscriber of his. He has 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:31.160 released a three part book on Caleb's first year with 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:38.880 the Bears, It Ain't Great and it is to me 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:44.439 highly concerning. It also discusses it's a The person who 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.160 comes out looking the worst is Ryan Poles the GM. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.320 Caleb doesn't look great though in it either, and it 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:59.199 talks about a shaky work ethic, not necessarily galvanizing leadership, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:07.120 and in a shocking statement from some of his sources 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:12.360 that there is a belief within the front office that 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.320 was kept from the coaching staff, that Caleb might have 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:23.720 the learning disability dyslexia, which there is obviously no shame 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.480 in that at all. However, one of the ways dyslexia 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:33.400 can manifest itself, obviously is you transpose words or letters, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:39.240 and that one of the reasons they postulate he might 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.600 have trouble translating the play call from his headset to 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.560 his wristband getting it in, getting plays in on time 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:53.400 is a confusion about what he's reading. And that is 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:59.520 not something that is, you know, you can't overcome, but 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.360 it is something that has to be accounted for. And 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.080 the reporting is that the front office kept it from 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.920 his coaches last year. Now, obviously Ben Johnson, one would 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:15.160 think has all this information. And if you watched last night, 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:21.000 you saw most notably that play on the sideline when 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.760 Caleb spun out of trouble, went to the sideline and 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:31.880 then ripped an absolute laser to I don't know if 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.120 it was DJ Moore or Rome. I'm not sure why 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:43.000 the talent demands is undeniable and hypnotizing. It just is 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:48.840 like and you saw that obviously throughout his remarkable collegiate career. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:12:00.720 But his right now deficit on the pre these snap 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:07.520 parts of being an NFL quarterback to me, are going 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:13.840 to slow his development. And you saw that left and 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:18.920 right last night, that getting plays in was still a problem. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.760 Motioning guys when there's a few seconds on the shot 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.640 on the shot clock, on the game clock or play 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:31.520 clock was still a problem. Like some things that he 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.240 really needs to be at this point, in my opinion, 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:41.840 better at those things have become one game in have 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.480 not improved, And. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.160 You don't think his decision making at all improved a 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:49.280 little bit from last year. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.720 So I do think his decision making improved. I'm talking 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:59.520 about the pre snap operation. I'm talking about getting the 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.240 team out of the huddle, conveying the play call in time, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:08.439 doing the things necessary to prevent these five yard pre 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.880 snap penalties. That was brutal. The whole night just was. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.920 And while his decision making I thought was better and 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:23.160 he was quicker getting the ball out, his accuracy was shaky. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.520 He's putting a lot, he missed a lot on them, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.959 putting a lot on the lot on the ball and 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.160 also just missing. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.240 There were a couple spots he missed guys wide open. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:41.560 And so if I am being fair, which I have 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:51.559 to be, I I still believe in Caleb Williams. I 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:59.839 am less certain that superstardom is in his future. And 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.040 I think that is for me as a guy who 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.480 said he would come into the league as a top 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:16.640 ten quarterback. Uh tough pill to swallow, trust me, But. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.760 You don't think it might be a little a little 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.000 early with it being game one, Like if they were 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.560 to go and put it on the Lions, what would 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:25.960 that change stuff immediately? 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.280 Maybe I'm gonna look back on this and say I was, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.160 you know, ten hours after the game in his reactionary. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:39.920 But I am like I am, I understand most of 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.760 the audience has not read the Tyler Dunn story, and again, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.160 his sub stack is golong tv dot com. I highly 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:53.200 encourage people. It's it's worth the six bucks a month. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:58.360 It's less than that four bucks a month. It's worth 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.800 it just to read this story. Totally honest with you. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:13.360 That story shook my faith in a real way. And 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.600 then this game. You of course, listen, he started ten 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:24.200 of ten. It started great, it ended so poorly. And listen, 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:30.760 he's not the only culprit in this, which brings us 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:40.520 to Ben Johnson, where there were I didn't like Ben 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:45.160 Johnson's decision early to not kick the field goal. I 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.680 just think you don't have the Lions team from last year. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.200 You're also playing a team that is going to be 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.200 hard to accumulate points on as evidence by the fact 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.720 your offense, you know, struggled to score points throughout the night. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.200 I know they finished with twenty four. One touchdown came 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.680 with two minutes left and another one was a pick six. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.239 But JJ at that, you know what I mean? There 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.120 was reasona believe JJ would struggle early, and he did. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:20.960 But the bigger problem is, and evidently Peyton Manning peeped 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.160 this on the Manning cast because of course he did. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.760 I was surprised Joe and Troy didn't. But this is 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.160 going to This is a coaching note that is simply 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.760 it listen. Nobody's in the Brian Callahan category. More on 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:40.280 him later. But this was a mistake by Ben. So 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:45.680 here's situation. He understood we've got a score before the 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.120 two minute warning. Caleb almost ran it in before the 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.160 two minute warning at two oh four, two oh five. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.840 They end up ruling him, you know, out of bounds 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.920 at the six inch line. They then do a quick 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:03.600 pass score. They score it two. They have one timeout. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.199 With the two minute warning and one timeout. If you 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.480 force a three and out, you're gonna get the ball 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.520 back without a minute left, down three points and be alive. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.680 Without the two minute warning and one timeout, you're gonna 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.960 get the ball back with about twenty seconds left and 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:24.600 be dead. It's that simple. The two minute warning must 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:29.960 be retained in part because I think Ben challenged a 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:34.800 play because he didn't understand the rule. Now that's a 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.640 tricky rule because so let me back up to it. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.119 The rule is if someone is knee is on the 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:50.480 ground and you touch them, they're down immediately. What Ben 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.240 Saw or his guy in the booth. Saw is, oh, 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.840 we didn't touch the player with who was down. We 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.840 punched the ball, and we punched the ball so cleanly. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:09.119 It did not We never touched the player until the 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:14.239 ball was loose. So is that a fumble? And so 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.320 he challenged it and the answer is no, it's not 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.639 even just touching the ball. When a player is down 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.240 on the ground, he's down. So that's like a nuance 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.600 of the rule. Head coach needs to know that. So 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.640 like that was so that's why they only had one 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.600 time out instead of two. But now we get to 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:43.520 two h two left and Cairo Santos, who missed the 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:48.959 field goal earlier and is not known for the strongest 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:53.160 of legs, Demonse Ben Johnson tells him kick it out 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.560 of the back of the end zone to retain the 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:00.399 two minute warning. Kevin O'Connell tells his guy, if you 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.880 can return it, return it, don't worry about the yardage, 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.840 just return it to burn these two seconds sidebar. No 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:14.080 one's ever done this, but I would encourage it. The 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.920 actual sharpest play there for that returner, if he only 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.520 has to burn two seconds, is to catch it and 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:27.040 run sideways. Staying in the end zone to burn as 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.680 much time as possible and then just step out the 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.760 back of the end zone for a touchback or kneel 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.399 it for a touchback. Then you still get the thirty 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.680 five yard line. You don't risk a fumble, you burn 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.080 more time because the guys have to get to you. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:47.480 But again, that is PhD level coaching, of which you 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:52.520 know not everyone is here yet. That's fine. Kevin O'Connell 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.919 did a great job with it. But here is the 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:01.880 nuanced part that matters, in particular with the new touchback rules. Demonse. 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.359 The new touchback. 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:04.480 Rule is. 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.280 If you kneel it in the end zone. If you 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.159 kick it into the end zone and they kneel it, 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.200 they get it on the thirty five. They did not 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.480 change the fact that if you kick it out of bounds, 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:24.000 you get it at the forty. So if the oh, 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:29.000 if the single most important thing to your team is 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.200 that they not be able to return this kick and 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:37.160 you don't have a cannon legged kicker who can kick 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.520 it out in the back of the end zone on command, 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.240 then you don't ask him to kick it out the 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.560 back of the end zone, which he might not be 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:50.399 able to do. You ask him fire that thing forty 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.840 five degree angle right out of bounds, which everyone can do. 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.639 You give up five yards? Who cares you guarantee? So 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.639 instead the thirty five, it's the forty that doesn't matter. 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:07.000 What matters is now that next play happens at two two. 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:09.760 There's nothing they can do about it. That was a 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:13.640 mistake by Ben Johnson. I saw it in real time. 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.239 Peyton Manning on the Manning cast evidently saw it in 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:24.920 real time, and I and I thought that that was 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.240 a mistake. So listen, I thought, I don't think that 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.040 was like an awful first game by Ben Johnson, but 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:40.280 the bad challenge and the trusting that Cairo Santos can 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:41.639 just boom it out in the back of the end 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.280 zone were very costly mistakes. 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.120 So were you giving him as a greade in his 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:47.720 first game? 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.960 Blew a big lead offense didn't really get going after 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:57.879 the opening script those mistakes C plus C plus C 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.600 plus giving him a C plus. All right, let's spend 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:02.959 a second on JJ. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.520 Yeah, I was about to say, so, after seeing that 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.080 performance by JJ, what do you expect from him moving forward? 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:15.240 Well, listen, I think that the comeback and his role 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:17.880 in it and the confidence he's going to get from it. 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:22.800 You know, if they if they didn't get that comeback 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:24.400 at the end and was just he threw a pick 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:28.119 six and they lose, I think the next few weeks 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:32.720 could be real rough. Instead, a guy whose rep coming 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:40.080 in was just a winner, makes big plays, galvanizing force, 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:42.800 just adds to it in his first ever NFL game. 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:49.600 Pretty good, Like that part is really good. So I 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:52.679 didn't think he was that impressive. I didn't think he 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.960 was that good, but he had the moments which I think, 0:22:57.040 --> 0:23:03.520 are you know, super relevant and super you know, useful, 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.200 And so I want to give him credit for that. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:11.760 Am I am? I sold entirely that, like you know, 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:14.200 he's going to be a franchise quarterback. No, of course 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:18.960 not yet after one game. But for what his rep was, Demons, 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.280 that was an awesome start. 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:31.200 That was description Yes for sure, will you giving let's 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:33.680 go ahead, will Caleb. 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:35.720 Be getting similar treatment to the Prince? You know how 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.120 Trevor had bad coaching and then he had his coach 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:39.800 and that was officially his first year. 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:45.399 Well let's listen. I mean, if Trevor does what the 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.480 Prince did, which is have an awesome second year, make 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:51.600 the playoffs, win a playoff game, then yeah, we can 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:54.960 just say or if Caleb does sorry, if Caleb does 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:58.239 what Trevor did, we can just say, yeah, it was 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:00.199 it was all on Eberflus, and I think a lot 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:03.240 of it was on Bear's dysfunction eber flues. Again, I'm 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:07.879 not saying like I'm out on Kalin. I am saying 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:13.399 that the stuff, some of the stuff that I wanted 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:17.200 him to be just a little tighter on, I didn't see. 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:22.199 And that's just that, just is what it is, all right, 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:25.680 if you guys didn't see it before. 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So Chargers in the Herbert are Chargers in 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:22.200 the Herbert Chargers and Herbert did about everything correctly against 0:26:22.240 --> 0:26:26.920 your Chiefs on Saturday? Was that Friday night? Sorry? Last 0:26:26.920 --> 0:26:29.840 week you said how important this game, how important this 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:32.159 game was with Philly the Super Bowl rematch coming up, 0:26:32.920 --> 0:26:35.919 and you admitted that you weren't as nervous when you 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:38.240 saw how the rest of the AFC played. How are 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:40.399 you feeling out? This is a safe space. If you 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:42.000 want to come out and say that you're a little worried, 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:42.359 you can't. 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:47.760 So I'm not worried about the AFC West. I thought 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:50.919 the Chargers played great. I think the short version of 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:53.679 it is I thought the Chiefs played really poorly. I 0:26:53.720 --> 0:27:01.000 think the Xavier Worthy injury was not having a player 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:05.399 for a month that you know you're not gonna have 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:09.480 is one thing. Losing a player three plays into a 0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:12.840 game when you've built your game plan for that game 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:16.480 around that player's skill set is a different thing, so 0:27:16.600 --> 0:27:18.520 I you know what I mean. I also think there 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:22.159 was a true emotional You've got to be kidding me. 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:26.400 Here we go again. You know, last year, lose Hollywood 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:29.639 Brown before the season starts, Rashi Rice gets hurt in 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:32.960 week four, You're going through it now. Three plays into 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:37.120 the year, Xavier Worthy friendly fire. You know, his shoulder 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:42.000 pops out. So I think all that, you know, played 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:45.960 a part in how the Chiefs looked. My concerns for 0:27:46.119 --> 0:27:51.280 the Chiefs are really like, because Rashi'll be back, and Worthy, 0:27:51.440 --> 0:27:55.760 I believe escaped major injury. I think Worthy could be 0:27:55.840 --> 0:27:58.960 back in two weeks. He's not gonna have surgery. He's 0:27:58.960 --> 0:28:02.520 gonna wear a harness now, he's one hundred and sixty pounds. 0:28:02.640 --> 0:28:05.040 It could happen again, yes, and if it happens again, 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:09.639 he has to have surgery. And so that's the you know, 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:12.960 that's the issue. This is. You know, my take on 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:17.359 skinny football players is sadly. You know, there's a reason 0:28:17.400 --> 0:28:24.000 I have it. The part of the Chiefs. There are 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:27.640 two pieces of the Chiefs game from this from Friday 0:28:27.760 --> 0:28:31.800 night that for them to win the Super Bowl have 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:37.480 to improve. Okay, one is the running game can't be 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:42.080 that bad, just can't be. Pachecko's gotta be better at 0:28:42.120 --> 0:28:45.239 seeing where the blocks are and hitting the hole, and 0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:48.960 I like Isaiah, He's gotta be better. So that's one 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:52.840 piece of it. The other piece of it is that 0:28:53.240 --> 0:28:58.200 the pass rush paired with the secondary got carved up 0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:02.440 in a way I have not seen the Chiefs secondary 0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:07.960 carved up in years. Truly. That has to instantly get 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:11.640 better if they're gonna win a championship, okay, or compete 0:29:11.680 --> 0:29:19.400 for a championship. Those are fair and legitimate. Week one concerns. 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:28.000 What I am truly beside myself about is the commentary 0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:33.360 after that game about Patrick and this is where I 0:29:33.520 --> 0:29:42.480 will die on this goddamn hill. And I apologize if 0:29:42.480 --> 0:29:45.240 it sounds like I'm in reruns here, but I have 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:50.120 to just very quickly give folks the sequence of the 0:29:50.240 --> 0:29:55.320 last twenty six months in the NFL or so and 0:29:55.480 --> 0:30:02.000 how many people just have the total inability to remember 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:13.640 their own opinions. Okay. Going into the twenty twenty two season, 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:21.040 there was legitimate chatter about, ah, will the Chiefs take 0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:24.560 a massive step back without Tyreek Hill? What will Patrick 0:30:24.640 --> 0:30:28.160 look like without Tyreek Hill. How will Patrick and the 0:30:28.240 --> 0:30:32.520 Chiefs respond to not having that weapon and losing the 0:30:32.560 --> 0:30:38.520 AFC Championship game the way they did? He responded by 0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:44.120 winning League MVP, setting the still standing record for most 0:30:44.240 --> 0:30:49.480 total yards in a season, and then in the postseason 0:30:51.960 --> 0:30:55.600 beating the team that beat him the previous year on 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:59.560 a bomb ankle, and then playing a perfect Super Bowl 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:04.000 to the tune of thirty eight points. And then in 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:10.480 February of twenty twenty three, folks said, I can't I 0:31:10.640 --> 0:31:15.680 can't doubt Patrick, two time MVP, two times Super Bowl MVP. Okay, 0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:21.120 that's February of twenty twenty three, it is now. You 0:31:21.160 --> 0:31:25.840 then go to January of twenty twenty four, again not 0:31:26.440 --> 0:31:32.720 ages ago, and the general consensus is this is the 0:31:32.720 --> 0:31:37.000 worst Chiefs team of the Mahomes zero. They are super vulnerable, 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:42.400 They no one can catch the ball. And then and 0:31:42.440 --> 0:31:50.000 they're underdogs in three consecutive playoff games. People look at 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:53.440 the Bills. They have to go to Buffalo, the Bills 0:31:53.480 --> 0:31:57.320 have the better team, and Patrick outplays Josh and wins. 0:31:57.640 --> 0:32:00.520 They have to go to Baltimore. Baltimore as a far 0:32:00.600 --> 0:32:05.760 better team and Patrick out plays Lamar and wins. And 0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:10.160 then in overt in the Super Bowl, executes another ten 0:32:10.200 --> 0:32:14.840 point comeback, plays another perfect fourth quarter in overtime, wins 0:32:14.920 --> 0:32:22.680 the Super Bowl, and in February, February of twenty twenty four, 0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:29.719 everyone agrees, all right, I'm really never doubting Patrick again, 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:39.360 I promise. And then last year happens and the Chiefs 0:32:39.440 --> 0:32:44.920 win games but look funny doing it, and then there 0:32:45.040 --> 0:32:50.400 is real doubt once again. And then the AFC Championship 0:32:50.440 --> 0:32:55.040 Game rolls around and a Chiefs team that hasn't been 0:32:55.040 --> 0:32:59.360 able to score more than thirty points all year puts 0:32:59.440 --> 0:33:05.440 thirty two on Buffalo, and Patrick out plays Josh to 0:33:05.560 --> 0:33:10.760 get to his third straight Super Bowl. And in February 0:33:11.040 --> 0:33:21.200 of this year, two games ago, the universally held consensus 0:33:21.240 --> 0:33:27.040 is the following. Patrick Mahomes is one game away from 0:33:27.240 --> 0:33:31.320 arguably from having a real argument he's the greatest player 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:36.640 of all time because of the three peat. The Chiefs 0:33:37.200 --> 0:33:43.120 are worse than Philadelphia at running back, offensive line, wide receiver, 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:48.440 defensive line defense as a whole. But I'm picking the 0:33:48.520 --> 0:33:52.680 Chiefs because you can't bet against Patrick. They're the favorites 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:58.760 because of that, they're the media pick because of that. 0:33:58.760 --> 0:34:07.040 That's two games go, he walks into that game with 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:11.680 everyone saying, all right, we cant like he's he's elevating. 0:34:11.719 --> 0:34:14.359 He's in a different class than Josh, who's beaten four 0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:17.560 times now Lamar, who had another tough playoff moment, all 0:34:17.600 --> 0:34:22.360 of it two games ago. They then get crushed in 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:28.200 the Super Bowl, have a rough week one, and now 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:31.000 all those same fucking people are like, all right, you know, 0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:36.279 let's be serious. Josh and Lamar, they they've elevated past him. 0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:44.880 Just remember your own goddamn takes. People. It was February 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:52.080 of twenty twenty five that you after they won again 0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:55.600 to get to the third straight Super Bowl for a 0:34:55.719 --> 0:35:00.560 team that everyone acknowledges he's the only player in the 0:35:00.680 --> 0:35:03.920 league that could have won seventeen games with that team 0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:10.640 had that team in the Super Bowl. Everyone said, he's 0:35:10.680 --> 0:35:14.960 in a different class of player, and we are so fickle, 0:35:15.800 --> 0:35:20.560 and so what have you done for me lately? That 0:35:21.239 --> 0:35:24.840 Two games later, one of which, by the way, Demonse 0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:28.080 he was the best player for the chief sint he 0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:32.680 played awesome Friday night, people are like, I'm not sure 0:35:33.719 --> 0:35:39.439 what's wrong with Mahomes. It's gonna drive me insane. Two 0:35:39.480 --> 0:35:42.120 games ago, you thought he was a game away from 0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:46.440 being the goat. Now you have him as the fifth 0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:52.239 best quarterback in football presently. And I come across as 0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:56.680 an apologist because I'm the only person that remembers these things. 0:35:56.760 --> 0:36:02.640 Evidently all of you in the media that picked the 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:07.399 Chiefs in the Super Bowl did it because of him. 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:12.480 You thought the Eagles were better everywhere else, and now 0:36:12.520 --> 0:36:17.279 that same guy, you're like, I don't know. It's embarrassing. 0:36:18.040 --> 0:36:22.919 It's a sad state of affairs. That three games ago, 0:36:23.440 --> 0:36:27.200 folks said, I mean, Josh Patrick, how can you even 0:36:27.200 --> 0:36:33.320 make an argument? And now again, think about that late 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:39.040 January of twenty twenty five. We are in twenty twenty five. 0:36:41.960 --> 0:36:48.200 Everyone set their swords down and said, okay, listen, Patrick's 0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:51.720 best player in the world. And then because he played 0:36:51.719 --> 0:37:01.000 poorly in his fifth Super Bowl, third consecutive and Josh 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:04.719 was playing golf, folks are like, I don't know. And 0:37:04.760 --> 0:37:08.759 then one week, one game, and now it's the general consensus. 0:37:10.239 --> 0:37:16.080 It's a it's a crazy, crazy turn of events. 0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:18.920 Man. You think because it was like a shootout with 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:22.520 Baltimore and Buffalo, everybody's like, oh. 0:37:22.600 --> 0:37:26.759 Yeah, Josh was unbelievable in that game. Lamar was unbelievable 0:37:26.760 --> 0:37:29.800 in that game. I'm not doubting that. I just want. 0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:35.520 I just want people again. I am not Well, what 0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:41.560 I don't want is this. I'm not trying to live 0:37:41.640 --> 0:37:46.920 off twenty eighteen and be like, well, Patrick has a 0:37:46.960 --> 0:37:50.760 Super Bowl from five years ago and Josh and Lamar don't. 0:37:51.200 --> 0:37:57.200 I'm trying to live off this calendar year a few 0:37:57.239 --> 0:38:06.799 games ago. So dumb. It's so so so dumb. And 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:10.600 today spoiler alert on TV on Mahomes Mountain, I'm still 0:38:10.600 --> 0:38:12.919 gonna have Mahomes at the top, and people are gonna 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:17.000 call it outrageous. People are going to say it's outrageous, 0:38:18.239 --> 0:38:20.960 like Colin is saying Josh is the most talented player 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:23.840 he's ever seen. Simmons is saying Josh's best quarterback in 0:38:23.880 --> 0:38:29.520 the league. Again, what were you guys saying two games ago? 0:38:32.239 --> 0:38:35.080 Ask it? Go look check the archives. 0:38:35.760 --> 0:38:41.400 Is talented the same thing as winningest. Oh, Because I 0:38:41.440 --> 0:38:46.120 do feel like Josh Allen has more of the athletic gifts. 0:38:46.640 --> 0:38:49.640 I should say Patrick Mahomes obviously gifted, but. 0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:51.879 Then why does it so? Then? But then but that 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.680 that's to me, I mean, we can we can walk 0:38:54.760 --> 0:38:58.560 down that path But then that's almost an insult to Josh, 0:38:58.600 --> 0:39:02.440 because Josh a few of these games has had the 0:39:02.480 --> 0:39:05.360 better roster. In all of the games, he's had the 0:39:05.360 --> 0:39:08.720 better defense. In one of the games he was at home. 0:39:09.600 --> 0:39:13.919 So if he's the better physical talent, it's a fair 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:23.400 fight teammate wise, why can he not win? It's just like, 0:39:23.480 --> 0:39:28.040 I don't know. I think that's that's I wouldn't if 0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:29.960 I were a Josh Allen fan, I wouldn't want that 0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:33.000 to be the argument. My guy's actually the most talented 0:39:33.440 --> 0:39:38.480 but just can't win like that. I'd rather it be 0:39:39.000 --> 0:39:42.279 my guy's an all time, all time talent. Your guy 0:39:42.480 --> 0:39:47.480 just is superhuman. But I don't. I don't know, all right. 0:39:47.520 --> 0:39:51.600 By the way, I am so excited. I'm going to 0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:56.440 Kansas City on Friday, or I'm going Thursday. We're doing 0:39:56.520 --> 0:40:01.560 the show from Kansas City on Friday and end. I 0:40:01.600 --> 0:40:06.520 think I might stay in town to watch Chiefs Eagles. 0:40:06.920 --> 0:40:10.440 And as you guys know, I don't I'm not a 0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:14.799 I'm not a press pass guy. Now. Would I be 0:40:14.880 --> 0:40:18.160 a you know, the you know Kelsey or Mahomes sweet 0:40:18.200 --> 0:40:22.640 guy if I were invited, sure, maybe, But assuming that invite, 0:40:22.680 --> 0:40:24.920 you know, those those those sweet seats. 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All right, demons, 0:42:09.280 --> 0:42:14.120 let's get to the game of the weekend, Bill's Ravens. 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:18.200 Yeah, so the game didn't disappoint obviously, Buffalo came back 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:23.200 against my Ravens. That fifteen point lead erased harball has 0:42:23.239 --> 0:42:28.200 now blown seventeen double digit second half leads. Bigger story 0:42:28.239 --> 0:42:30.680 here is the Bills win? Or is it the Ravens loss? 0:42:31.480 --> 0:42:33.080 What do you think the bigger story is? 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:38.440 The bigger story here is oh my gosh, the Ravens 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:41.799 gotta stop shooting themselves in the foot. The penalties and 0:42:41.920 --> 0:42:47.000 just the fun. The penalties are just so frustrating the 0:42:47.040 --> 0:42:50.320 penalties and just how we move when we need something. 0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:52.560 The Bills have the momentum, they're coming back, and we're 0:42:52.600 --> 0:42:56.000 running end rounds with Save Flowers just rather get a 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:57.000 first down. 0:42:56.800 --> 0:43:00.520 And well, I'm glad you did you bring up that 0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:05.960 end around with Jay Flowers the because I from what 0:43:06.040 --> 0:43:08.200 I said on the show yesterday, or did that bother 0:43:08.320 --> 0:43:14.840 you organically much? Yeah? That play Demons is like lost 0:43:15.040 --> 0:43:19.520 in the conversation surrounding the game. That was insane, Like 0:43:20.400 --> 0:43:24.480 you need one first down to win the game. Derrick 0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:28.960 Henry is killing them. I understand Henry got stuffed on 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:34.400 first down. You cannot use one of your downs Onsea Flowers, 0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:38.240 You just can't. It's gotta be lamar ball in his hands, 0:43:38.760 --> 0:43:41.080 you know, if see someone open throws it or run 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:44.880 or Derrick Henry. So that I agree with entirely, and 0:43:44.920 --> 0:43:46.560 I also agree with you the biggest stories of the 0:43:46.640 --> 0:43:52.719 Ravens loss because the Bills listen. Josh Allen is an 0:43:52.920 --> 0:43:55.959 unbelievable player, and since he stopped turning the ball over. 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:58.560 He stopped being a roller coaster and I stopped calling 0:43:58.600 --> 0:44:03.200 him one. Like I've been fair about Josh. Josh always 0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:05.960 had this amazing talent. He was a little too high 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:08.840 variants of a player early. He removed some of that 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:13.360 variants and now he's just a killer. So the Bill's 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:17.360 coming back is not that shocking. The Bill's defense looking 0:44:17.400 --> 0:44:20.000 as bad as it did for the vast majority of 0:44:20.040 --> 0:44:23.719 that game is actually a little concerning. Like, weirdly, if 0:44:23.760 --> 0:44:26.919 I were a Bills fandomond, I would be over the moon, 0:44:27.000 --> 0:44:29.719 thrilled about the win. And you have the tiebreaker and 0:44:29.800 --> 0:44:32.359 you have the easier schedule. You've never had the one 0:44:32.400 --> 0:44:35.360 seed since you've been since you've had Josh Allen, you 0:44:35.360 --> 0:44:37.359 now have a real shot at it this year. Like 0:44:37.440 --> 0:44:41.000 all of that is super positive, But deep down I'd 0:44:41.000 --> 0:44:44.560 be like, yikes, that defense like that, that's a bit 0:44:44.600 --> 0:44:48.080 of a concern. But the story is Baltimore once again 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:52.359 inventing a way to lose because they this is what 0:44:52.440 --> 0:44:58.000 they do. And I know Harbaugh. Harbaugh tried to make 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:04.200 the point essentially that at Harbaugh tried to make the 0:45:04.239 --> 0:45:09.560 point that, yeah, we've blown a lot of big leads, 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:13.400 but we have a lot of big leads. Like how fair? 0:45:13.440 --> 0:45:17.200 You know what I mean? Like we we're in this 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:21.719 position more than most. Mike Sando has this these figures. 0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:25.200 I think it's good. Since the start of the twenty 0:45:25.280 --> 0:45:33.279 twenty two season, there are seven teams demanse who have 0:45:33.400 --> 0:45:43.320 had multiple score fourth quarter leads at least twenty times. Okay, 0:45:43.680 --> 0:45:47.040 so seven teams have had multiple score fourth quarter leads 0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:50.239 at least twenty times, and Harbaugh is right that the 0:45:50.360 --> 0:45:53.319 Ravens have the most. Most of them. The Bengals and 0:45:53.400 --> 0:45:56.399 the Bills have twenty one, the Lions have twenty two, 0:45:56.880 --> 0:46:00.800 the Chiefs have twenty four, the Niners have twenty five, 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:04.040 the Eagles have twenty eight, and the Ravens have thirty one. 0:46:04.400 --> 0:46:10.280 So that is a lot. Here's the problem, though, record 0:46:10.560 --> 0:46:16.879 in those games from best to worst, the Chiefs are 0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:21.840 twenty four and oh and honestly, I just did a 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:23.359 whole Mahomes thing. I don't need to do it again. 0:46:23.719 --> 0:46:27.040 That's the least surprising stat in the world. Because while 0:46:27.200 --> 0:46:29.520 it's been a while since the Chiefs have been able 0:46:29.560 --> 0:46:33.600 to generate some big lead, the idea, I can't even 0:46:33.880 --> 0:46:37.319 conceptualize what it would look like for the Chiefs to 0:46:37.360 --> 0:46:40.239 blow a big lead. No, for you know what I mean, 0:46:40.280 --> 0:46:43.280 for the Chiefs to be up thirteen in the fourth 0:46:43.320 --> 0:46:47.320 and lose the like with Patrick. It just doesn't happen. 0:46:47.440 --> 0:46:50.120 Like they're not gonna make those mistakes. And Andy obviously 0:46:50.160 --> 0:46:52.960 deserves credit for that too. But the Chiefs are twenty 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:57.040 four and oh. The next best is the Eagles twenty 0:46:57.120 --> 0:47:02.680 seven and one, then the Line twenty one and one, 0:47:02.840 --> 0:47:08.719 the Bengals twenty and one, the Niners twenty three and two, 0:47:09.960 --> 0:47:14.520 and the second worst is the Bills at nineteen and 0:47:14.760 --> 0:47:21.000 two and then the Ravens at twenty five and six. 0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:26.240 So yes, the Ravens have had more, slightly more opportunities, 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:31.200 but the Chiefs have never lost in the last three 0:47:31.239 --> 0:47:34.440 years in that spot. The Eagles, Lions, and Bengals have 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:39.000 lost once, the Niners and Bills have lost twice, and 0:47:39.040 --> 0:47:43.759 the Ravens have lost six times. That's not nothing. It's 0:47:43.880 --> 0:47:54.799 just not nothing. And I don't I don't know that 0:47:54.920 --> 0:47:57.759 the hardball Lamar combo is gonna get over the hump man. 0:47:58.560 --> 0:48:04.080 I just don't. And it's Lamar's obviously, you know, just 0:48:04.120 --> 0:48:07.759 getting better as a player, getting better in the playoffs, 0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:13.960 like I also thought, demons, how did you feel when 0:48:13.960 --> 0:48:16.440 you saw hardball was punting on fourth and two and 0:48:16.520 --> 0:48:16.920 a half. 0:48:20.520 --> 0:48:23.040 I mean, it's easy to say looking back at the game, like, 0:48:23.200 --> 0:48:26.040 definitely got to go for that, but also we weren't 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:29.560 stopping them, so it probably does make more sense to 0:48:29.600 --> 0:48:31.520 go for it in that situation because the Bills have 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:34.759 just been been doing everything they wanted. So it's it's 0:48:34.760 --> 0:48:35.640 not fourth and five. 0:48:36.800 --> 0:48:39.200 Well, and here's the other piece, and I. 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:41.520 Go Lamar and Derrick Henry and. 0:48:41.440 --> 0:48:44.040 I know Lamar said he was cramping. But what you 0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:47.240 can do there is because the Bills used a timeout. 0:48:47.440 --> 0:48:49.400 They use the timeout, you get two minutes there to 0:48:49.440 --> 0:48:53.080 kind of recover. You then trot your offense out, try 0:48:53.080 --> 0:48:57.319 to draw them off sides forty seconds to recover. If 0:48:57.360 --> 0:49:01.000 you don't call timeout, another two minutes to recover, and 0:49:01.040 --> 0:49:05.880 then you got to go for it because if you 0:49:08.200 --> 0:49:11.479 if you don't get it, you might get the ball back, 0:49:12.080 --> 0:49:13.319 you know what I mean. If you don't get it 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:16.600 and they score, you get the ball back. And if 0:49:16.600 --> 0:49:19.200 you do get it, the game's over. And here's my 0:49:19.400 --> 0:49:22.759 only criticism of Lamar from that game. My only criticism 0:49:24.320 --> 0:49:28.080 when he threw the pass on third and nine where 0:49:28.160 --> 0:49:33.800 he did three yards short of this, I assumed. 0:49:33.200 --> 0:49:36.560 I think it was actually the Hopkins I think and 0:49:36.600 --> 0:49:42.319 talked to him, Yeah it was. Yeah, I assumed he 0:49:42.440 --> 0:49:48.840 threw it there because he like obviously correct, but he 0:49:48.960 --> 0:49:52.120 was comfortable throwing it short of the sticks because it's 0:49:52.120 --> 0:49:54.359 four down territory, you know what I mean? 0:49:54.440 --> 0:49:57.600 Like, that's what I assumed was the case. If you're 0:49:57.680 --> 0:50:00.600 not if you don't know you're going for it, you 0:50:00.719 --> 0:50:03.080 can't and you can't throw short of the sticks there, 0:50:03.560 --> 0:50:06.560 like you've got to try to go get the first down. 0:50:07.400 --> 0:50:09.160 I also have a question for you to want say, 0:50:09.960 --> 0:50:11.799 and if the answer is had nothing to do with 0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:17.000 the game, that's fine. You sent out a tweet an 0:50:17.040 --> 0:50:23.520 hour into the game that said that that had a superhero, 0:50:24.440 --> 0:50:31.320 a bowl of ramen maybe, and then a trophy. Before 0:50:31.360 --> 0:50:34.120 you tell me what that is, I have a question. 0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:39.200 Is that a bowl of ramen in the in the picture. 0:50:39.239 --> 0:50:46.960 It's a it's a ball. It's like, was it specifically? 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:49.359 Are you are you going to tell us what that was? 0:50:51.000 --> 0:50:51.719 I was about to eat. 0:50:52.760 --> 0:50:53.560 I knew it. 0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:59.560 I was good. Yes, we come out and be fair. Yes, yeah, 0:51:00.800 --> 0:51:02.879 everything to do with the game. I was tweeting super 0:51:02.920 --> 0:51:04.919 Bowl Champs. I thought the Bravens is gonna win the game. 0:51:05.440 --> 0:51:06.520 That's why I left it cryptic. 0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:14.720 But super Bowl Champs, it's I had it totally wrong. 0:51:15.920 --> 0:51:20.080 I thought I had it totally wrong, and I thought 0:51:20.080 --> 0:51:25.000 our producers were gonna laugh. What people don't know about 0:51:25.040 --> 0:51:28.520 you is, while you're not what I would call a chef, 0:51:29.120 --> 0:51:34.759 you do consider yourself a bit of like an elite. Yes, 0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:39.440 Like I had eggs and different ramas, and I honestly 0:51:39.600 --> 0:51:43.799 thought you were watching the game and made yourself like 0:51:44.040 --> 0:51:48.200 a great Ramen meal watching it and were like calling 0:51:48.239 --> 0:51:51.640 yourself like the king of making Ramen noodles. I swear 0:51:51.680 --> 0:51:58.040 to god, that's what I thought. I now, super Bowl Champ, 0:51:58.120 --> 0:52:02.920 that's pretty good. All right, that's pretty good. Okay, all right? 0:52:03.200 --> 0:52:05.200 Do you have a you have a Derreck Henry tweet 0:52:05.239 --> 0:52:07.160 for me or to not tweet a question? 0:52:07.600 --> 0:52:12.160 Oh yeah, um yeah, oh yeah. So aside from the fumble, 0:52:12.280 --> 0:52:14.840 Henry looked good as ever. Obviously, he had one hundred 0:52:14.840 --> 0:52:18.359 and sixty nine yards and two touchdowns. Do you think 0:52:18.400 --> 0:52:20.479 that it's safe to say that the cliff isn't coming 0:52:20.480 --> 0:52:22.000 this year? Because you said he was getting a hold. 0:52:21.880 --> 0:52:25.120 Sure, sure doesn't seem like cliffs coming. Holy Moly, that 0:52:25.160 --> 0:52:33.160 guy is unbelievable futures, unbelievable player. Yeah, all right, the 0:52:34.719 --> 0:52:38.400 and I have no problem with Lamar shoving the fan. 0:52:38.440 --> 0:52:41.960 Neither fans shoved him. First, I have no prom not 0:52:42.040 --> 0:52:47.080 only they didn't talk about on the broadcast, Bill's fans 0:52:48.200 --> 0:52:51.759 stop throwing ship on the field. They were the they 0:52:51.760 --> 0:52:54.919 were the originators of throwing sex toys on sporting event 0:52:55.000 --> 0:52:57.799 fields before it caught off, caught fire in the w 0:52:58.000 --> 0:53:01.279 n B A and when Lamar, when Derek Henry was 0:53:01.360 --> 0:53:05.120 running for his touchdown, they threw a water bottle on 0:53:05.160 --> 0:53:09.799 the field. They famously threw snowballs at the Chiefs, like 0:53:10.120 --> 0:53:14.560 icy snow. Like, stop throwing stuff on the field, Like 0:53:14.680 --> 0:53:17.920 I have to listen every year to how Buffalo's got 0:53:17.920 --> 0:53:20.399 the greatest fans in the world because it's cold there 0:53:20.640 --> 0:53:23.280 and they shovel the stadium for him, Like, stop throwing 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:25.960 stuff on the field. All right, let's talk about the 0:53:26.000 --> 0:53:28.040 other biggest game of the weekend before we do quick 0:53:28.080 --> 0:53:29.200 hitters on the rest. 0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:32.640 So Green Bay backed up their preseason hype by dominating 0:53:32.640 --> 0:53:35.719 the Lions thanks to Michael Parsons on defense, at Jordan 0:53:35.760 --> 0:53:39.600 Love on that offense, Michael Parsons was limited though. So 0:53:39.800 --> 0:53:42.640 on the other hand, you had some doubts about Detroit 0:53:42.760 --> 0:53:45.720 in the beginning of the season or preseason, should I say, 0:53:45.920 --> 0:53:48.200 that seemed to come to life. It seemed to be justified. 0:53:48.280 --> 0:53:52.680 Yeah, so to me, listen, Micah was unbelievable. Mike had 0:53:52.680 --> 0:53:57.080 the one sack, but he his pressure caused another sack. 0:53:57.200 --> 0:54:03.600 Another one of his pressures caused the interception. This whole narrative, Well, 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:05.920 Mike is a great pass rusher, but he just kills 0:54:05.960 --> 0:54:08.480 you against the run. The Lions ran for the second 0:54:08.560 --> 0:54:10.759 for the fewest yards they've run for in almost two 0:54:10.760 --> 0:54:15.480 full calendar years. MICHAEH. Parsons is an all time great player, 0:54:16.040 --> 0:54:19.680 and uh well maybe maybe Kenny Clark for Micah, Like 0:54:19.680 --> 0:54:23.319 it's and I ain't. Kenny Clark's an excellent player. And 0:54:23.400 --> 0:54:25.719 the point that I'd been making when people were like, well, 0:54:25.760 --> 0:54:28.000 how you know, Dan Campbell tried to tell the media 0:54:28.080 --> 0:54:30.560 like we were actually happy Kenny Clark got out of there. 0:54:30.640 --> 0:54:34.760 We are more worried about him. Kenny Clark is such 0:54:34.800 --> 0:54:38.520 a good player, and he is I know Kenny Clark. 0:54:38.560 --> 0:54:41.640 I like Kenny Clark. Kenny Clark is such a good 0:54:41.680 --> 0:54:47.640 player that if you attach two first round picks to him, 0:54:48.040 --> 0:54:49.759 you can trade him for a player as good as 0:54:49.800 --> 0:54:53.480 Michah Parsons. That's how good Kenny Clark is. Kenny Clark 0:54:53.560 --> 0:54:56.000 plus two first round picks can get you a Hall 0:54:56.000 --> 0:54:58.840 of Famer like Micah Parsons. So don't like this idea 0:54:59.360 --> 0:55:01.920 that Micah I was gonna have an impact was so stupid. 0:55:02.880 --> 0:55:07.600 And the Packers, if Jordan Love can just take care 0:55:07.640 --> 0:55:10.680 of the ball, is are gonna be really dangerous. The 0:55:10.760 --> 0:55:18.520 story there, though, is the Lions because not a promising 0:55:18.600 --> 0:55:22.840 first game without Ben Johnson, without Aaron Glenn, with the 0:55:22.880 --> 0:55:28.240 new interior of the offensive line and Demonse the five 0:55:28.360 --> 0:55:33.880 teams that everyone thought were gonna be great in no order, Eagles, Lions, Ravens, 0:55:33.920 --> 0:55:37.560 Bill's Chiefs. Every year one of those teams that everyone 0:55:37.600 --> 0:55:40.239 thinks it's gonna be great falls off, has a year 0:55:40.280 --> 0:55:43.399 from hell. Last year it was the Niners, the year 0:55:43.440 --> 0:55:47.360 before it was the Bengals. Like the there's always a 0:55:47.400 --> 0:55:50.440 team now some people listening right now and be like, 0:55:50.480 --> 0:55:53.560 it's gonna be your Chiefs. Maybe we'll see I trust 0:55:53.600 --> 0:55:58.360 reeing Mahomes we'll see. None of the five, oddly, demonse, 0:55:58.880 --> 0:56:02.720 I think, loved their games this weekend. The Eagles certainly 0:56:02.760 --> 0:56:06.000 didn't love how they played. The Ravens loved how they 0:56:06.000 --> 0:56:08.880 played for fifty five minutes, then hated it. The Bills 0:56:08.920 --> 0:56:12.160 feel the best, but don't love how their defense played, 0:56:12.320 --> 0:56:15.320 The Chiefs hate how they played, and the Lions really 0:56:15.360 --> 0:56:17.600 hate how they played. But of those five, I think 0:56:17.640 --> 0:56:20.480 the Lions are in the most jeopardy. I think that, 0:56:20.920 --> 0:56:24.120 and I think golf, you get them off his spot. Man, 0:56:24.920 --> 0:56:28.720 he can struggle, and they got him off his spot consistently. 0:56:31.280 --> 0:56:33.600 I didn't know, go ahead. 0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:35.520 I was gonna say the Lions win total dropped to 0:56:35.560 --> 0:56:37.960 eight and a half. They entered the season at ten 0:56:38.040 --> 0:56:41.279 and a half. Do you think that? 0:56:41.440 --> 0:56:46.879 I think well, I think depending on the book. Some 0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:49.400 books had them enduring the season at nine and a half, 0:56:49.800 --> 0:56:51.960 and then they lose this game, like yeah, I mean, 0:56:52.239 --> 0:56:54.960 the Lions right now are probably a coin flip to 0:56:55.040 --> 0:56:58.040 make the playoffs in Vegas. Like that's I don't. 0:56:57.920 --> 0:57:01.040 Think that's the most reaction in one. 0:57:01.600 --> 0:57:06.120 Green Bay was favored because the game was in Green Bay. 0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:10.200 But still I just but they were faired by like 0:57:10.280 --> 0:57:12.000 one you know what I mean. So that game was 0:57:12.040 --> 0:57:14.200 considered a coin flip. So I don't think it's just 0:57:14.239 --> 0:57:16.840 the loss. I think it's how they looked all right. 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I know Steelers fans want to believe the 0:58:25.480 --> 0:58:28.920 defense letting Justin Fields look like a superstar and allowing 0:58:29.000 --> 0:58:33.360 thirty points thirty that was a fluke. The offense looking amazing, 0:58:33.440 --> 0:58:35.520 that was not a fluke. I think they were both 0:58:35.560 --> 0:58:39.760 a little fluky. And I think that the defense will 0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:42.720 be better the offense will be a little worse. I 0:58:43.760 --> 0:58:46.520 also thought Aaron's comments after the game was like, yeah, 0:58:46.520 --> 0:58:48.520 I was happy to beat everyone in that organization. All 0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:50.560 that organization did for two years was give you every 0:58:50.600 --> 0:58:54.480 single thing you wanted. They hired your buddy, they traded 0:58:54.520 --> 0:58:57.680 for your friends, They did every single thing they could 0:58:57.680 --> 0:59:01.320 do to accommodate you. And you feel scorned because you 0:59:01.400 --> 0:59:04.080 got fired, Like, give me a break, and this whole 0:59:04.080 --> 0:59:06.560 thing of you had me fly out here to be fired. 0:59:06.880 --> 0:59:08.960 If he had fired you over the phone, you would 0:59:08.960 --> 0:59:12.280 have been justice pissed. So no, I am not yet 0:59:12.320 --> 0:59:17.000 buying stock in the Steelers. I did think Justin Fields 0:59:17.000 --> 0:59:17.600 played well. 0:59:17.760 --> 0:59:21.960 Next, your guy Bake show led a game winning drive Atlanta. 0:59:22.120 --> 0:59:25.520 You're young way who missed a field goal to win 0:59:25.600 --> 0:59:27.560 the game, Yah, or to tie the game. I'm sorry. 0:59:27.520 --> 0:59:33.240 Yeah, I didn't think Baker played great, but he did 0:59:33.280 --> 0:59:35.840 play clutch. But the story of that game was a 0:59:35.880 --> 0:59:38.680 Mecha Buka, their first round pick, who was caught the 0:59:38.720 --> 0:59:44.160 game winner and was awesome. Like they they did something 0:59:44.200 --> 0:59:47.160 I think interesting, which is they're like, we're not drafting 0:59:47.240 --> 0:59:50.800 for need, We're drafting best player, and they thought of 0:59:50.880 --> 0:59:53.960 mecha Buka was awesome. Didn't matter that they have Godwin 0:59:54.000 --> 0:59:56.480 at some point coming back and Mike Evans, they drafted 0:59:56.520 --> 0:59:59.080 him anyway, and he made an instant impact. And I 0:59:59.200 --> 1:00:03.919 love right now now. I love Tampa getting that win 1:00:04.040 --> 1:00:07.360 without Tristan Wurfs against the only team in their division 1:00:07.680 --> 1:00:10.480 that could have any chance of competing with them, and 1:00:10.520 --> 1:00:13.160 getting it on the road. That is such a huge win. 1:00:13.640 --> 1:00:14.840 So shout out to Baker. 1:00:14.920 --> 1:00:17.800 Next uh who looked better to you? Bow Nicks are 1:00:17.800 --> 1:00:19.600 the number one pick and cam Ward. 1:00:19.960 --> 1:00:24.840 Listen, Cam Cam just has to stop throwing everything one 1:00:24.880 --> 1:00:26.160 hundred and fifty miles an hour. 1:00:26.240 --> 1:00:26.680 Guards. 1:00:27.200 --> 1:00:30.360 I mean he's throwing it. He's throwing it over the 1:00:30.400 --> 1:00:33.400 middle in front of guys as hard as he can. 1:00:33.560 --> 1:00:37.240 So he's gotta calm down. That bow Nicks looks horrific. 1:00:38.040 --> 1:00:40.400 And he made one good play at the end of 1:00:40.440 --> 1:00:43.160 the half. But the story of that game is Bill 1:00:43.200 --> 1:00:49.600 Callahan or Brian Callahan, pardon me who. It's six', three 1:00:50.480 --> 1:00:54.320 there are forty seconds left in the first, half you 1:00:54.560 --> 1:00:58.360 have the, Lead you're on your own five yard, line And, 1:00:58.480 --> 1:01:02.120 denver and this is the, key only has two. Timeouts 1:01:02.720 --> 1:01:05.880 so if you run the ball three times or even take, 1:01:06.000 --> 1:01:10.200 knees you guarantee that you go into halftime with the. 1:01:10.280 --> 1:01:15.280 Lead guarantee. It, instead he has Bow knicks drop back 1:01:15.280 --> 1:01:17.680 into the. Air i'm, sorry Cam wore dropped back into 1:01:17.760 --> 1:01:23.440 the end, zone almost get. Safety throw throwing completions and 1:01:23.960 --> 1:01:30.320 They denver gets a touchdown before the. Half now somehow 1:01:30.360 --> 1:01:31.880 they had a great kick, return so they got a 1:01:31.880 --> 1:01:35.040 field goal. Anyway but so it's ten to nine before the, 1:01:35.080 --> 1:01:37.280 half And denver feels great instead of being six' to 1:01:37.280 --> 1:01:42.520 three With bow knicks being. A, MESS listen i told 1:01:42.560 --> 1:01:45.440 you GUYS that I thought denver might have a good record. 1:01:45.480 --> 1:01:50.480 Early on they could have lost, that game But the 1:01:50.520 --> 1:01:55.400 denver's offense is not what people have promised you what 1:01:55.480 --> 1:01:58.880 would be their defense Is And sean payton lay in 1:01:58.920 --> 1:02:01.120 the game going for a style points touchdown that could 1:02:01.120 --> 1:02:03.240 have cost him. The, game like IT'S just i do 1:02:03.280 --> 1:02:05.760 not believe In. THE broncos i feel better About my 1:02:05.760 --> 1:02:07.919 broncos fading even after the week. 1:02:07.960 --> 1:02:11.560 One win next only seem to Like. The Broncos your? 1:02:11.640 --> 1:02:14.200 Jags won are you more In? On trevor you wore 1:02:14.240 --> 1:02:14.520 a Heut. 1:02:14.560 --> 1:02:18.840 On bryce trevor. Was fine Bryce was bryce might have 1:02:18.880 --> 1:02:20.080 been the worst quarterback in the league. 1:02:20.120 --> 1:02:22.560 This weekend see a little clips, Of him Sir k 1:02:22.600 --> 1:02:24.760 morale on, the media like he's like watching the. Jumbo 1:02:24.880 --> 1:02:26.480 tron they said he was looking at the mini game 1:02:26.600 --> 1:02:29.120 in the middle of. THE game i. 1:02:29.160 --> 1:02:32.360 DID see I did wilds mention that. To me but 1:02:32.640 --> 1:02:35.200 it was, a, really really really rough Game. For bryce 1:02:35.800 --> 1:02:40.240 and he's the number one overall pick in. Year, three like, 1:02:40.320 --> 1:02:43.680 come on gotta. Be better jags could. BE good i told, 1:02:43.760 --> 1:02:46.560 you Guys. Division jacks jags could. Be good, oh yeah 1:02:46.560 --> 1:02:47.320 that's one of. Your bets. 1:02:47.360 --> 1:02:50.880 Next decision Uh the raiders, look Good pat patriots. Look 1:02:50.920 --> 1:02:52.280 awful what is the biggest? Story? 1:02:52.320 --> 1:02:57.000 HERE listen, I mean jent wasn't the reason gent nineteen 1:02:57.080 --> 1:03:00.800 carries thirty. Eight yards gino stood in that socket and just, 1:03:00.920 --> 1:03:04.280 delivered downfield threw for three to sixty got, you know threw, 1:03:04.320 --> 1:03:08.760 a pick got lit up just through. Delivered Downfield the 1:03:08.800 --> 1:03:10.960 patriots not being able to move the ball And that 1:03:11.080 --> 1:03:16.560 raiders defense is a five alarm. Fire Concern And drake 1:03:16.640 --> 1:03:22.320 may is officially, on Midwatch Like drake may Like not, 1:03:22.440 --> 1:03:27.120 pumpkin watch because that's not the point where he's in. 1:03:27.160 --> 1:03:29.400 His career he is on he might just not be. 1:03:29.440 --> 1:03:36.600 That good and that was a very dispiriting performance From, 1:03:36.640 --> 1:03:40.640 the patriots very dispiriting. For Them. THE raiders i told, 1:03:40.640 --> 1:03:41.680 you Guys the raiders could be. 1:03:41.720 --> 1:03:45.880 Good Though, Next uh cincinnati got bailed Out by cleveland's. 1:03:45.920 --> 1:03:49.360 Crummy Kicking is cincinnati slow starts or they come into? An? 1:03:49.440 --> 1:03:52.000 END no I mean i. THOUGHT this i thought they 1:03:52.040 --> 1:03:53.840 were worse this year than when they Lost In new england. 1:03:53.920 --> 1:03:55.920 Last year if You're, the bengals you have to feel 1:03:55.960 --> 1:03:58.880 sick like you're happy. You won But the browns moved. 1:03:58.920 --> 1:04:01.120 The ball the only And the browns didn't score more 1:04:01.280 --> 1:04:04.320 was Two passes flacco threw off guy's hands that. Got 1:04:04.400 --> 1:04:09.240 picked you Had the bengals had seven yards Yards to 1:04:09.360 --> 1:04:12.400 monsey in the. Second half they had a seven yards, 1:04:12.480 --> 1:04:19.320 second half like and it seems impossible because. They won 1:04:20.040 --> 1:04:24.680 This Is joe burrow was in the exact opposite narrative category, 1:04:24.720 --> 1:04:27.480 of mahomes, where like no matter what happens, with mahomes 1:04:27.480 --> 1:04:28.880 people are gonna find a way to pick. At it 1:04:29.240 --> 1:04:33.480 burrow's in. The opposite last year It for, burrow, was 1:04:33.720 --> 1:04:36.840 well they, don't win but he's, been amazing so what 1:04:36.880 --> 1:04:39.920 are you? Gonna say and then this week he was 1:04:40.120 --> 1:04:43.600 awful but, they won and, they're, like well he didn't, 1:04:43.640 --> 1:04:45.720 play well but, They won so what are you? Gonna, 1:04:45.720 --> 1:04:48.200 SAY like i, don't know we gotta pick one like 1:04:48.600 --> 1:04:53.640 the and SO No. I cincinnati cincinnati had the worst 1:04:53.720 --> 1:04:56.200 win of. The, weekend Okay. 1:04:57.760 --> 1:05:00.680 So dave was Committed to russ for? Week two how 1:05:00.680 --> 1:05:02.360 do you think he should play this if he plans 1:05:02.360 --> 1:05:02.800 on keeping. 1:05:02.840 --> 1:05:05.920 HIS job i actually think he should Go. TO jamis 1:05:07.160 --> 1:05:09.120 i think they don't want to Go to. DART yet 1:05:09.600 --> 1:05:11.480 i think dark they want to give him like four 1:05:11.560 --> 1:05:13.760 or five six weeks before they go. To Him but 1:05:13.880 --> 1:05:18.640 russ is, clearly done so why not Go? To jamis let, 1:05:18.880 --> 1:05:21.840 you Know give jamis a. Few games jamis might have a, 1:05:21.840 --> 1:05:24.600 Big game he'll obviously at some point play himself out, 1:05:24.600 --> 1:05:27.000 of it and then you can Go to dart because 1:05:27.040 --> 1:05:29.680 they don't want To play. DART yet i understand. 1:05:29.200 --> 1:05:32.120 That the giants think they're going. To playoff there's the 1:05:32.120 --> 1:05:35.320 playoff push this year saying like, Why, not Okay Like. 1:05:35.440 --> 1:05:37.960 Jackson, DART no i just think they Think maybe DART'S 1:05:38.000 --> 1:05:40.480 not i. THINK they i think They want dart to 1:05:40.480 --> 1:05:43.600 have another month of, like, practices, meetings film you KNOW what, 1:05:43.680 --> 1:05:46.720 i mean all, that STUFF which. I understand but so 1:05:46.880 --> 1:05:49.760 But if russ can't, Do It malik neighbors is freaking 1:05:49.840 --> 1:05:52.600 out because. Of it that's what You have Jamis For 1:05:52.680 --> 1:05:55.000 next rams Beat. 1:05:55.040 --> 1:05:57.360 The texans what was your biggest? Takeaway There. 1:05:59.360 --> 1:06:02.760 The techon's offense looked a lot Like the texans offhinse, 1:06:02.840 --> 1:06:05.520 last year which was. Not good i'd be A little 1:06:05.800 --> 1:06:09.160 i'd be A little texans, defense Unbelievable but i'd be 1:06:09.160 --> 1:06:12.240 a little WORRIED about cj And that. Texans offense that's my. 1:06:12.280 --> 1:06:16.080 Biggest takeaway and that's a game that was there for 1:06:16.160 --> 1:06:17.520 the taking for them and they couldn't. 1:06:17.520 --> 1:06:21.200 Take it Is Is danny dimes. The next You Know 1:06:21.320 --> 1:06:24.760 smith sam dornold quarterback. Revival, story Here is miami? 1:06:24.880 --> 1:06:29.680 JUST terrible I think miami's. JUST terrible i AM gonna. 1:06:30.440 --> 1:06:33.400 I Listen daniel jones was unbelievable in. THAT game i 1:06:33.400 --> 1:06:38.000 have to give, him CREDIT but i don't think anything 1:06:38.040 --> 1:06:39.560 close to. That sustainable, we'll. 1:06:39.440 --> 1:06:42.800 See, Yeah yeah And Then tula tula came out, and, said, 1:06:42.840 --> 1:06:45.440 like oh like we're still Upset with tyreek kill who 1:06:45.480 --> 1:06:47.360 it needs to Be Begging terry hill to stay on. 1:06:47.400 --> 1:06:51.360 THAT team, I mean miami's got a lot, of Problems 1:06:51.520 --> 1:06:56.240 AND daniel i would be checking, the policy, you know 1:06:56.320 --> 1:07:00.600 the terms of my home or apartment lease to see 1:07:00.760 --> 1:07:03.000 what the penalties for breaking it, early IS because i 1:07:03.000 --> 1:07:05.800 don't know how much more Time in miami he's gonna. 1:07:05.800 --> 1:07:08.160 Have. Next uh the forty nine ers are dealing with 1:07:08.200 --> 1:07:11.880 a handful of, big Injuries. Including party HOW should? I 1:07:11.880 --> 1:07:14.240 Worry Should san francisco fans be that they're looking at 1:07:14.280 --> 1:07:15.040 another season? 1:07:15.080 --> 1:07:17.760 From hell they should, be worried and they also might 1:07:17.800 --> 1:07:20.160 need a new medical or training staff. Or whatever you 1:07:20.200 --> 1:07:22.080 can't be the most injured team every single year in. 1:07:22.120 --> 1:07:24.360 The league. It's, COINCIDENCE like i don't KNOW what i 1:07:24.360 --> 1:07:26.560 don't understand anything about, sports medicine but you can't just 1:07:26.600 --> 1:07:30.080 always have guys pulling groins and calves and hamstrings and 1:07:30.240 --> 1:07:32.360 just keep the. Same trainers that's first, Of all second, of, 1:07:32.400 --> 1:07:37.240 ALL party i will begrudgingly give him credit for the 1:07:37.280 --> 1:07:40.880 final drive six for six in, the touchdown even though 1:07:40.880 --> 1:07:44.600 that touchdown pass should have been picked immediate like. It 1:07:44.680 --> 1:07:47.360 was it was a. Terrible Decision dree wooland had it 1:07:47.400 --> 1:07:48.560 and didn't, get it and that would have been his 1:07:48.600 --> 1:07:51.240 third pick and. They lost purdy was not very good in. 1:07:51.280 --> 1:07:53.000 That game now we find out he was dealing with 1:07:53.040 --> 1:07:57.600 an injury or a, couple injuries but now. NOTHING demonds 1:07:57.840 --> 1:07:59.680 i am all of a sudden about to be A 1:07:59.800 --> 1:08:06.720 Huge ue, niner fan oddly Because Somehow jimmy garoppolo Leaving 1:08:06.760 --> 1:08:11.000 the niners and instantly being terrible for some people didn't. 1:08:11.240 --> 1:08:14.200 Win Me The jimmy garoppolo ARGUMENT that i, Was, like 1:08:14.240 --> 1:08:17.120 hey he's a product Of the. Shanahan system but do 1:08:17.160 --> 1:08:18.599 you know who their backup Quarterback In san. 1:08:18.680 --> 1:08:22.080 Francisco Is It's. 1:08:22.200 --> 1:08:28.560 Mac jones Oh If mac jones starts and, looks great 1:08:28.960 --> 1:08:32.519 then everyone has. To concede i've been right. All Along 1:08:33.040 --> 1:08:36.960 If mac jones comes in and he's awesome or even, 1:08:37.120 --> 1:08:40.680 just fine then that's gotta be my final piece. Of, 1:08:40.720 --> 1:08:44.280 Evidence Also sam darnold fumbled what could have been a 1:08:44.280 --> 1:08:47.559 game winning touchdown pass off his offensive lineman's ass just 1:08:47.720 --> 1:08:51.040 dropped back the ball like nobody. Hit him he was 1:08:51.600 --> 1:08:54.400 he just ran. His hand he. Was terrible they could. 1:08:54.400 --> 1:09:00.120 Have. Won Next Uh. Saints, CARDINALS yeah. 1:09:00.320 --> 1:09:03.479 I did watch SOME because i Had the cardinals. AND 1:09:03.600 --> 1:09:07.840 survivor i wouldn't feel GREAT if i Were. THE cardinals 1:09:07.840 --> 1:09:10.519 i would feel really Bad if I'm. The saints flat. 1:09:11.840 --> 1:09:14.479 All right and by, the Way quick nick's Tennis corner 1:09:14.760 --> 1:09:18.519 carlos alcaz told, you. Guys listen i'm not saying He 1:09:18.640 --> 1:09:22.400 and center aren't a good rivalry. This MOMENT what i 1:09:22.439 --> 1:09:26.439 am saying is he is a different tier and caliber. 1:09:26.479 --> 1:09:30.639 Of player alcarez could end his career in the top 1:09:30.840 --> 1:09:34.680 top top, tier Discussion, and center to me is just 1:09:34.720 --> 1:09:39.759 a tick. Beneath that That's all like rate, Subscribe review 1:09:40.160 --> 1:09:44.559 great job, To you demond's. A, Today also armando is 1:09:44.680 --> 1:09:46.960 asking what time does show Start? On friday at The Power. 1:09:47.080 --> 1:09:50.720 Light district show starts Two. 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