Speaker 1: Welcome in episode three eighty one of What's Right with
Speaker 1: Nick Wright? And as always, this episode of What's Right
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Speaker 1: let me just say this on the front end, the
Speaker 1: world series is now set basket in fact, just you
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Speaker 1: I pronounced that properly won the Sumo Grand Championship in
Speaker 1: amazing fashion. I really do want to go see sumo
Speaker 1: wrestling in Japan live. When I was in Japan a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I was not able to. I
Speaker 1: think it would be unbelievable to go. I think it's
Speaker 1: super cool. Blue Jay's Dodger World Series is set in
Speaker 1: the NBA season tips off tonight to give a perspective
Speaker 1: of how football centric I am mentally this time of
Speaker 1: year is well. The perspective is given by the fact
Speaker 1: that the World Series being set and the NBA season
Speaker 1: tipping off tonight is missing the cut rather than being
Speaker 1: its own segments. I am during October. I am just
Speaker 1: the football still feels like. I'm just so happy it's back.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, and I'm actually I've actually been really into
Speaker 1: these baseball playoffs. But and I thought the ALCS was
Speaker 1: unbelievable theater, and George Springer put in the dot guys,
Speaker 1: where George Springer ranks in all time playoff home runs,
Speaker 1: It's gotta be crazy. I bet he's top five in
Speaker 1: the history of the sport in post and maybe I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look like a total moron, but in postseason home runs,
Speaker 1: because he had all those playoff runs with the Astros,
Speaker 1: won a World Series MVP, and then last night hit
Speaker 1: one of the sickest home runs in recent baseball history.
Speaker 1: His Blue Jays are going up against Otani's Dodgers, and
Speaker 1: Otani's obviously fresh off maybe the greatest baseball game ever
Speaker 1: played three bombs, ten strikeouts to clincher World Series birth
Speaker 1: and I'm still Oh, Hubbs just text me. Hubbs was
Speaker 1: shout out to the to the first Thing's first crew
Speaker 1: for watching the pod. They said, tied for third. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is big. So Hubbs text me tied for third.
Speaker 1: Daniel says, either tied for third or number two. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna continue to research, all right. So my gut
Speaker 1: was right. Springer is just an all time postseason performer.
Speaker 1: With that said, it's a little unfair. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: like when Babe Ruth was playing, and then through Mickey
Speaker 1: Mantle and some of the all time legends, the only
Speaker 1: playoff series you played was the World Series. You had
Speaker 1: the regular season, then into the World Series you didn't
Speaker 1: have as many opportunities. But still Springer a legend. So
Speaker 1: that's all super exciting. The NBA season starts tonight, that's
Speaker 1: super exciting. Uh. Steven A seems to want to rekindle
Speaker 1: his beef with Lebron that's less exciting. I with all
Speaker 1: that said, I can't get into any of it really,
Speaker 1: And he is tied for third, Thank you guys, Because
Speaker 1: how many home runs does he need for most all time?
Speaker 1: I'm curious. I think he's at twenty three. And who
Speaker 1: is most? In fact, tell me who's first and second?
Speaker 1: Manny Remi is with twenty nine, Holy smokes. Manny, all right,
Speaker 1: so he's not gonna get there. But I'm not doing
Speaker 1: really any of that because I'm so into football right now.
Speaker 1: With that said, and jose Al Tuvey, one of his
Speaker 1: teammates in Houston's in second with twenty seven. With that said,
Speaker 1: I feel like the last forty eight hours a little
Speaker 1: too much football. I'm just getting from nine to thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning London game. Yeah, that was a must
Speaker 1: watch Rams Jags, even though it turned into a laugher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then the one o'clock slate, then the four o'clock slate,
Speaker 1: then a sneaky good Sunday night game Falcons Niners, and
Speaker 1: then last night one of the most important games of
Speaker 1: the year is at seven this is all Eastern in
Speaker 1: Bucks Lions. And then a Hexton Seahawks game that ended
Speaker 1: at one thirty in the morning. We ended at one
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. So let me just do this
Speaker 1: in real time, like it from between nine thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning Sunday morning to one thirty in the morning
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, that is exactly forty hours, right, because nine thirty,
Speaker 1: Yeah it has to be. That's exactly forty hours. Of
Speaker 1: those forty hours nine thirty until eleven thirty. There's fourteen
Speaker 1: and then seven of those forty hours I spent twenty
Speaker 1: and a half of them watching professional football. Call it
Speaker 1: twenty even because the half hour in between Sunday night
Speaker 1: football kicking off and the end of the four of
Speaker 1: thirty games, so nine thirty am Sunday to one thirty
Speaker 1: am Monday night slash Tuesday morning is a forty hour window.
Speaker 1: Twenty hours I'm watching football. It was too much, man
Speaker 1: Texans Seahawks needed to end, and especially because the Texans
Speaker 1: had no interest in competing it well, that's not fair.
Speaker 1: Their defense was interested in competing. Their offense is broken.
Speaker 1: You get more to that, but I just I feel
Speaker 1: like my eye and now part of that also probably
Speaker 1: demands has to do with is as long as you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we are in the waning moments of your
Speaker 1: mother's birthday week, and that can really get ye. It's
Speaker 1: a lot. It's a lot of going.
Speaker 2: Out the daily up look, it's a lot of.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of people in the house. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of women here. It's a lot of can you
Speaker 1: run to Za bars? Can we do this? It's it's
Speaker 1: it's a lot more tequila than I in my older age,
Speaker 1: and you know, typically enjoy it's a lot of wait,
Speaker 1: you're taking a nap just so you can then get
Speaker 1: up and go out and then and so it's been
Speaker 1: it's been a long few days. But luckily one thing
Speaker 1: is back to normal, and that is the Chiefs. Reminder
Speaker 1: everyone like rate, subscribe, review to the pod iTunes, Spotify,
Speaker 1: YouTube demons. The Chiefs are the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, the chief The Chiefs are back in business man,
Speaker 2: So Rashi Rice is back. He dropped two touchdowns. Mahomes
Speaker 2: is thrown for two fifty plus for two straight games.
Speaker 2: The trick plays are back in full effect. Is this
Speaker 2: the version of the Chiefs that we should start expecting
Speaker 2: to see from here throughout?
Speaker 1: Well, listen thirty one nothing and I don't want to
Speaker 1: spend a ton. The Chiefs are so back that I
Speaker 1: almost thought should we even lead with them? Because them
Speaker 1: demolishing the Raiders doesn't even feel super news. A shutout, though,
Speaker 1: but a shutout, first shutout of Andy Reid's career. How
Speaker 1: about that first shutout? Yeah, first shutout for Kansas City
Speaker 1: since twenty eleven, a game against the Raiders. By the way,
Speaker 1: Mahomes has played eight games in his career to Monsey,
Speaker 1: where he beat the opposition by twenty eight or more.
Speaker 1: Five of the eight against the Raiders, the Chiefs had
Speaker 1: thirty first downs, the Raiders ran thirty plays.
Speaker 2: Is eighty three yards of offense the Raiders had.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just awful. And now despite that, nobody
Speaker 1: believes me on this till they go look it up
Speaker 1: and I don't listen. Awful Announcing is probably gonna clip
Speaker 1: this or what I did on TV. They'll clip it,
Speaker 1: and the good people at Pro Football Focus are gonna
Speaker 1: be mad at me. But Pro Football Focus needs to
Speaker 1: have an all hands meeting where they do some real
Speaker 1: soul searching and I will, you know what, let me
Speaker 1: see if I can find the exact story. Charlie Batch.
Speaker 1: Total QBR best game is what I Okay, this is
Speaker 1: so when ESPN, I'm gonna tell a quick story. When
Speaker 1: ESPN first rolled out total QBR, they're proprietary metric that
Speaker 1: was going to basically be like a far greater passer rating. Okay,
Speaker 1: so people get these things confused. Passer rating is not QBR.
Speaker 1: Passer rating is a formula that's existed forever. It's really weird.
Speaker 1: A perfect score is one fifty eight point three. Twenty
Speaker 1: five percent of your score H is based on your
Speaker 1: completion percentage, twenty five percent is based on your yards
Speaker 1: per attempt, twenty five percent is based on your touchdown percentage,
Speaker 1: twenty five percent is based on your interception percentage. That's it.
Speaker 1: It's static. You can you can take any quarterback, any game,
Speaker 1: type it into the formula and it spits out. People
Speaker 1: get that conflated because it's called passer rating or quarterback
Speaker 1: rating with QBR, which is ESPN's proprietary stat that when
Speaker 1: it's proprietary like other people can't recreate it, that is
Speaker 1: supposed to demanda take everything into account basically. So one
Speaker 1: one weakness to passer rating is you get no credit
Speaker 1: for anything you do with your legs, so QBR takes
Speaker 1: that into account, avoiding sacks. It's it's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that.
Speaker 2: Say it again, Oh quickly you're getting the ball or
Speaker 2: is that not mattering?
Speaker 1: No, I think it's albeit prorietary, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it's all of it. And they when they
Speaker 1: first rolled it out ten years ago, people were excited like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a cool new way to grade quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: Florio discovered, to his credit that based on their proprietary
Speaker 1: algorithm that graded every quarterback game played. I think they
Speaker 1: dated you know, they did it. They went retroactive when
Speaker 1: they rolled it out. The single best quarterback performance of
Speaker 1: the two thousands, by the initial version of ESPN's QBR
Speaker 1: was a Charlie Batch game where he threw for one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty six yards and two interceptions. By their
Speaker 1: priet panetary metric, that was the greatest quarterback game played
Speaker 1: on record. And so you know what ESPN did once
Speaker 1: they realized that, they said, hey, there's a flaw in
Speaker 1: our proprietary algorithm. We're gonna pull it back, tweak some
Speaker 1: things and figure out why why that game ended up
Speaker 1: being called the greatest game ever one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: six yards, two touchment or two interceptions, pardon me. And
Speaker 1: that was smart. Like I understand that folks sometimes, like
Speaker 1: we believe in the algorithm, we shouldn't tweak it. But
Speaker 1: if something is so on its face wrong, you have
Speaker 1: to admit there's a problem in your process. I tell
Speaker 1: that long story to say this. I think the people
Speaker 1: at Pro Football Focus in general do good work. I
Speaker 1: think they're valuable if they are not having meetings this
Speaker 1: week where they say, guys, what is wrong with our
Speaker 1: quarterback grading system? Because something must be wrong with it.
Speaker 1: And this is the peace de Mondsey, You're not going.
Speaker 2: To believe.
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focuses quarterback rating system said on Sunday, Geno
Speaker 1: Smith played a better game than Patrick Mahomes. Between they
Speaker 1: published that, they put that out of the world. They said,
Speaker 1: from a passing perspective, on Sunday, Geno was the twelfth
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the league with a sixty seven grade
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes was the sixteen best on Sunday with
Speaker 1: a sixty two grade. It is that single fact means
Speaker 1: the way you're doing it is broken. There is no
Speaker 1: way to massage it or work around to where if
Speaker 1: in a game, in that game you spit out the
Speaker 1: answer that actually, when you really look with a discerning eye,
Speaker 1: Geno through the ball better than Patrick, it means your
Speaker 1: system's broken. And it is important in all facets of life.
Speaker 1: When you are presented with unequivocal evidence that's part of
Speaker 1: your process is wrong to reevaluate your process. And again,
Speaker 1: I like Pro Football Focus in general. One of the
Speaker 1: original PFF guys, Sam Monson, who now does his own thing,
Speaker 1: does a great podcast called Check the Mic. I like
Speaker 1: him a lot. I have a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: these folks, but it will show a organizational and institutional
Speaker 1: arrogance if they don't try to correct course on this.
Speaker 1: And again, I'm not talking about a season long grade.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the way I'm saying this very
Speaker 1: you should have a moment where you say, guys, what's
Speaker 1: going on here? If we're supposed to be the smart
Speaker 1: folks and our information says Gino Smith threw the ball
Speaker 1: better in that game than Patrick Mahomes, And I mean,
Speaker 1: just see if they do it. So there's that now
Speaker 1: to answer your question, is this going to be the
Speaker 1: standard for the Chiefs? And this was so much of
Speaker 1: my frustration about the concern trolling over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years about Kansas City. All Patrick's ever needed is
Speaker 1: an offensive line he trusts and receivers will be in
Speaker 1: the right place. You give him that, and they're the
Speaker 1: best offense in the league, period, point blank. Now, I
Speaker 1: will say, Josh Simmons, the rookie left tackle who's just
Speaker 1: been gone for two weeks now, and Andy Reid is
Speaker 1: giving us no information about it. It's concerning Omar Norman Lott.
Speaker 1: Their second round pick tore his ACL. So that's your
Speaker 1: first round pick who's gone and don't know if and
Speaker 1: when he's coming back, and your second round picks lost
Speaker 1: for the season. That's not ideal. They need pass rush help.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna act like they're a perfect team. Luckily,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be the perfect team to be
Speaker 1: far and away the best team in football. And right
Speaker 1: now they're far and away the best team in football
Speaker 1: because the Detroit Lions last night and we'll get to them,
Speaker 1: looked pretty awesome dealing with all the same defensive injuries
Speaker 1: they had against the Chiefs plus a suspended Brian Branch,
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs beat them handling. So Kansas City is
Speaker 1: deservedly the big favorites now, the favorites and everything DeMont
Speaker 1: s the Super Bowl, the AFC, the AFC West, and
Speaker 1: mahomes the favorite for MVP. And it just feels great
Speaker 1: that we've kind of gotten back to what is equilibrium
Speaker 1: for the NFL in twenty twenty, which is it's the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and then everybody.
Speaker 2: Else just need a running back now, that's all.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to trade for one. I
Speaker 1: think if they trade for anyone, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a d Lineman.
Speaker 2: Well, with Mahomes saying that we want to be better
Speaker 2: with than what we are, now, what improvements would you expect?
Speaker 2: I guess that's the one, yeah, you expected of me.
Speaker 1: I mean, they need to get a better pass rush
Speaker 1: and I'd like a more consistent running game. But the
Speaker 1: reporting is they're not trading for a running back and
Speaker 1: folks are The other thing they want to know is
Speaker 1: what of those what's the best bet right now for
Speaker 1: people jumping on the bandwagon, And the answer is the
Speaker 1: best bets probably one you should have made a few
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Speaker 1: thirteen to one to win the Super Bowl. You could
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Speaker 1: If I were gonna make any if the Chiefs to
Speaker 1: win the AFC West at minus one thirty feels like
Speaker 1: the safest bet of all those. Mahomes at plus one
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Speaker 1: Monday night game.
Speaker 2: So the Lions took care of the Bucks last night.
Speaker 2: As we know, the Bucks are dealing with a bunch
Speaker 2: of injuries. Mike Evans even went down in the game.
Speaker 1: So with that seven big TiAl, just real quick, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Mike Evans. One of the coolest streaks in
Speaker 1: football history is done now. Mike Evans, who it's eleven
Speaker 1: straight years of one thousand yards, came into the league
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, had a thousand yards receiving or more
Speaker 1: every single year and a fu I mean, his fourth year, Demons,
Speaker 1: he had one thousand and one, his seventh year he
Speaker 1: had a thousand and six. Last year he had one
Speaker 1: thousand and four and got it on the final play
Speaker 1: of the season, and they were trying to get it
Speaker 1: for him. It's so funny, he's he's has I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get this exactly right. Eleven straight years with one
Speaker 1: thousand yards. Four of those five of those eleven he
Speaker 1: did not get to eleven hundred and then he had
Speaker 1: two eleven hundred yard seasons, a twelve hundred yard, a
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred yard, a fifteen hundred yard and you know,
Speaker 1: so he had one monster year with the fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: before Brady got there. But he's just been wildly consistent.
Speaker 1: It's now over and his seat. Depending on how bad
Speaker 1: the collar bone break is, his season could be over.
Speaker 1: You gotta hope he can be back for the postseason.
Speaker 1: This is my Super Bowl pick. As good as Abukah's been.
Speaker 1: They need Mike Evans back, so that's important. And they,
Speaker 1: you know, the Bucks, to their credit, dealt with all
Speaker 1: the injuries as well as any team in football could have,
Speaker 1: and it was really important. They got the you know,
Speaker 1: the win against the Seahawks, to win against the Niners
Speaker 1: at the lost. Beating the Lions would have really put
Speaker 1: them in the catbird seat in the NFC. Losing, they're
Speaker 1: still okay.
Speaker 2: And the Saints, I feel like you still did it
Speaker 2: pretty good, like the defense kept them in the game.
Speaker 2: Baker just couldn't really get anything going.
Speaker 1: Getting anything going. And I before I get to the Lions,
Speaker 1: I want to say just one other things.
Speaker 2: What oh I thought nothing? I know Gibbs is carving
Speaker 2: them up, but.
Speaker 1: No, Gibbs is unbelievable. But I want to say something
Speaker 1: about officiating. Okay, because the Lions spent all week crying
Speaker 1: the fans more than the players, but about correctly called
Speaker 1: a correctly called play and Lions media. I got Mike
Speaker 1: Valinti on the ticket in Detroit saying the NFL's wrestling
Speaker 1: and their scriptwriters and all that. And then you saw
Speaker 1: last night where just a horrifically officiated game. And I
Speaker 1: don't blame officials for anything. I'm making an observation, including
Speaker 1: an instance where the referees said, we reviewed a here's
Speaker 1: our ruling. Wait a minute, we're gonna review it a
Speaker 1: second time and in fact change our ruling and tell
Speaker 1: the Lions you're we're gonna give you your challenge and
Speaker 1: time out back. The point I have made for three
Speaker 1: years and I will make again for everyone that hyperventilates
Speaker 1: about the Chiefs and the refs is a very simple one.
Speaker 1: Officiating professional football is very, very, very difficult, and I
Speaker 1: think guys are doing their best, and I can't even
Speaker 1: say they're not good at it. They might be the
Speaker 1: best you can be, but it's hard to do. And
Speaker 1: if you are in a standalone national TV game, you
Speaker 1: are going to see a lot of questionable calls. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs play more standalone national TV games than anyone there
Speaker 1: and they usually win the games. Therefore, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of moments you remember of, oh man, this bad call
Speaker 1: helped Kansas City. And if you look at if you
Speaker 1: change your perspective and just say, is there awful officiating
Speaker 1: in every standalone national TV game, it makes you a
Speaker 1: lot less conspiratorial because last night's officiating was a wreck
Speaker 1: the whole time. And it's just because it's really hard
Speaker 1: to officiate in this league. So the Lions went from
Speaker 1: two weeks ago the Lions are mad or a week
Speaker 1: ago for a correctly called play that they thought they
Speaker 1: got help from New York. On last night they benefited
Speaker 1: from a double review, which I'd never seen. Guys, just
Speaker 1: gonna be happening. It's just officiating in the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: not one team versus another. Now, as far as the
Speaker 1: Lions team goes, that was a great win, Demonsey. If
Speaker 1: they lose there, they've lost to Green Bay and Tampa
Speaker 1: and they have three losses now. Instead of that, they
Speaker 1: have the head to head tiebreaker with Tampa and they're
Speaker 1: just a half game behind green Bay. So that's a
Speaker 1: great win for the Lions. My concern would be this
Speaker 1: does does is it fair? To you, do you think
Speaker 1: it's fair for me to say golf just seems a
Speaker 1: little shakier this year. I know his numbers have been great,
Speaker 1: but it just feels he doesn't feel quite as crisp
Speaker 1: as last year. But Gibbs is unbelievable. I mean, Gibbs
Speaker 1: is an unbelievable player, but that's my my.
Speaker 2: Other guy to me, is ridiculous. He just got a lot.
Speaker 1: Bradholmes serves a ton of credit. They've drafted so well,
Speaker 1: and he's taking unconventional positions for great players. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody killed the Gibbs pick. People didn't love the report
Speaker 1: of awesome. Gibbs is unbelievable, and he's always fresh because
Speaker 1: they use Montgomery. Gibbs is a great football player. All right,
Speaker 1: what's your Packers follow up?
Speaker 2: Here? The four win Packers are somehow the one seed
Speaker 2: after this game? Does that feel kind of weird through
Speaker 2: seven weeks of football?
Speaker 1: It feels weird just from a record perspective that there's
Speaker 1: been seven weeks, they have four wins. They're the one
Speaker 1: seed because they've had a bye and they have a
Speaker 1: tie and there's no other one loss team. But the
Speaker 1: other reason it feels weird is this. I don't feel
Speaker 1: like the Packers have played great post Week one. I
Speaker 1: thought they played amazing and Week one against Detroit and
Speaker 1: since then they've just been okay. And so yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean long season. All right, let's get to the long
Speaker 1: night part of last night, the late game.
Speaker 2: So the Seahawks moved to five and two after taking
Speaker 2: care of the Texans who could not get it done
Speaker 2: on offense. With that said, how seriously should we be
Speaker 2: taking Seattle?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take them seriously at this point, So I
Speaker 1: think here's a take demonse. I'm curious how this lands
Speaker 1: with everyone Seattle. The seriousness that folks some folks are demanding,
Speaker 1: the level of seriousness that some folks are demanding. We
Speaker 1: take the Cults. I will take the Seahawks. I think
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. I understand the Cults are six and one
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks are five and two. I think the
Speaker 1: Seahawks are a more sustainable team and a Ski area
Speaker 1: postseason team than Indy because what the Seahawks have right
Speaker 1: now is just a brilliant defensive coach with a defensive
Speaker 1: front that is just annihilating people. Leonard Williams has been
Speaker 1: unreal all year, a quarterback that's super confident, maybe a
Speaker 1: little too confident at times in Darnold and I, Jackson
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba. Yeah, is is really making a case
Speaker 1: that he is the best receiver in football, Like I
Speaker 1: still would have Jefferson and Chase ahead of him. And
Speaker 1: you know he's right there with Pooka. But every week
Speaker 1: he feels like he's the best. Like that's just based
Speaker 1: on track record. He has been absolutely phenomenal this season.
Speaker 1: So the Seahawks, that defense, that coach, that receiver, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a real team now And by the way,
Speaker 1: like NFC West Demons Rams five and two, Niners five
Speaker 1: and two, Seahawks five and two, Holy smokes.
Speaker 2: You take that right that right now? Plus two seventy five.
Speaker 1: No, I no, I wouldn't. I would take the Rams
Speaker 1: still I would. I would still take the Rams, But
Speaker 1: I don't think let me, I think the Seahawks should.
Speaker 1: They're undervalued at plus two seventy five. I think they're
Speaker 1: more likely to win the division than San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Is.
Speaker 1: I know they lost to San Francisco head to head,
Speaker 1: but the Seahawks now have a bye, then they get
Speaker 1: the Commanders in a game Jaden may or may not play.
Speaker 1: Then it's the Cardinals, then a huge game against the Rams,
Speaker 1: and then they have the Titans. So they're staring at
Speaker 1: very realistically being eight and three going into the stretch run.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I'm taking the Seahawks very seriously. All Right,
Speaker 1: you want to talk about Houston? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who should the finger be pointed out over there in Houston?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I think the GM's got some answering to do. Can't
Speaker 1: figure out the offensive line. I think that the offensive
Speaker 1: line has some answering to do, and I think that CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud has just not been good in a year now,
Speaker 1: and I think he's in a rough position. I understand that,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to kill him because I do
Speaker 1: think the offensive line's really bad and the wide receiver
Speaker 1: corps banged up. I get all that. But last night's game,
Speaker 1: if people didn't watch, the Texans defense did absolutely everything
Speaker 1: you can do to keep your team in a game.
Speaker 1: At they fell down. They fell down fourteen to nothing early.
Speaker 1: Did the Texans? Okay, the Texans offense, by the way,
Speaker 1: had two possessions before they were down fourteen nothing. Those
Speaker 1: two possessions they ran a total of eight plays for
Speaker 1: a total of five yards. The Texans offense, then, after
Speaker 1: being down fourteen nothing, ran another eight plays, this time
Speaker 1: for a total of fourteen yards. The Texans defense then
Speaker 1: gets a pick and sets up a field goal, blocks
Speaker 1: a field goal, sets up another field goal, then gets
Speaker 1: another pick uh and forces a not another pick pardon me,
Speaker 1: then forces a Sam Darnold fumble in the end zone
Speaker 1: for a touchdown, and then late in the game, forces
Speaker 1: a fumble, gets another interception, and the offense just can't
Speaker 1: do anything, and so the Texans defense never quit fighting.
Speaker 1: It was I mean, they forced four turnovers in the game,
Speaker 1: they blocked a kick. They and the Texans offense was
Speaker 1: just I mean, they were two for fifteen on third down.
Speaker 1: They averaged three point eight yards per pass. I mean
Speaker 1: CJ threw the ball forty nine times or two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty yards. And I just think, I think, sadly
Speaker 1: the Texans at this point demons are a right off.
Speaker 1: They have two wins this year. Okay, you agree, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I just don't think they can do it.
Speaker 1: They can't make a postseason run with the stuff that
Speaker 1: they have. No and their two wins were the Titans
Speaker 1: when Brian Allen was a coach in cam Ward and
Speaker 1: they destroyed Cooper Rush and the Ravens. But it's so crazy, though,
Speaker 1: because that defense is allowing twelve points a game. The
Speaker 1: defense has been so good and the offense has just
Speaker 1: been so bad and so and they, by the way,
Speaker 1: games left against teams that are above five hundred niners Broncos, Jags, Bills, Colts, Chiefs, Chargers.
Speaker 1: So you got your two and four with seven games
Speaker 1: left against teams with a winning record. Tough year, man,
Speaker 1: And I just I yeah, I think they are. I
Speaker 1: think Demiico's a really good coach, and I think that
Speaker 1: defense is excellent. That offense is broken. They fired the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator a year this offseason. That hasn't fixed it.
Speaker 1: CJ's got to take some of the ownership of it.
Speaker 1: He just needs to be better. The offensive line needs
Speaker 1: to be better. They're in real They're in real trouble,
Speaker 1: and for a team that's won the division two years
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Speaker 2: To the Eagles. Eagles gotta win twenty eight to twenty
Speaker 2: two over the Vikings. Hurts had a perfect passer rating.
Speaker 2: Aj Brown and Devonte Smith for combined for three hundred
Speaker 2: plus yards and three touchdowns. Seemed like those are the
Speaker 2: only two guys here throwing too.
Speaker 1: Ye is a.
Speaker 2: Concern, Yes, is the concern, quiet and down for Philly.
Speaker 1: It's got to And here's the thing, demon say, I
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be the way they have to
Speaker 1: win games, not him having a perfect passer rating like that.
Speaker 2: I thought that was the dog.
Speaker 1: Yes, I thought that was the best game Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: has ever played. Now it that sounds weird because he's
Speaker 1: played awesome in one Super Bowl and really well in another.
Speaker 1: But if you removed the stakes of the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: if you just said, hey watch this Jalen Hurts game,
Speaker 1: all games have the same stakes. So to see what's
Speaker 1: the best he's ever played, the best he's ever operated,
Speaker 1: I thought it was Sunday. I also think Sunday kind
Speaker 1: of adds to his big game quarterback rep because had
Speaker 1: they lost that team spirally three straight losses, so that
Speaker 1: it wasn't a playoff game, but it felt like it
Speaker 1: had more playoff implication. He's been a regular regular season
Speaker 1: game and he and here's the other piece of it. Sorry,
Speaker 1: if you guys hear those sirens in the background. The
Speaker 1: reason I think they're gonna need it is I just
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to get a good Saquan year.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a slump. I think this
Speaker 1: is who he is this season. Now. I want to
Speaker 1: be very clear with what I'm saying. I am not
Speaker 1: saying Saquon is washed. Washed means you're never gonna be
Speaker 1: good again. What I'm saying is I think this is
Speaker 1: going to be a down year from start to finish.
Speaker 1: Right now, Demons of the forty eight running backs who
Speaker 1: have carried the ball the most this year. He's forty
Speaker 1: seventh in yards per carry. He has no big runs,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's basically almost half the yards per
Speaker 1: carry was last year. And that to me is a
Speaker 1: combination of the offensive line not being as good and
Speaker 1: him being a little beat up from last season. And
Speaker 1: so for Philly to win at a highlight, they're not.
Speaker 1: Their defense is worse than last year. Saquan is nowhere
Speaker 1: close to what he was last year. Their path is
Speaker 1: gonna be their Super Bowl MVP quarterback throwing to the
Speaker 1: stud receivers, like that's what it's gotta be. And we
Speaker 1: can throw up the Eagles schedule. They you know, they
Speaker 1: have a brutal schedule all year, which is why this
Speaker 1: game was so important. They think they now get the Giants,
Speaker 1: and I'm very curious. We'll talking more about the Giants
Speaker 1: in a bit. How the Giants react to that type
Speaker 1: of loss. But the Giants obviously just beat them, and
Speaker 1: then they get their bye, and then it is Green Bay, Detroit, Dallas,
Speaker 1: three really tough games, and so they're going to have
Speaker 1: to win this way. And I give Jaalen a ton
Speaker 1: of credit. I thought he was brilliant on Sunday and
Speaker 1: doing that, by the way, against that defense that never
Speaker 1: allows deep passes. Uh the Flora's defense I thought was
Speaker 1: really really good. All right, what else do you got here?
Speaker 2: Uh? So the touch push a little strange turn in
Speaker 2: Minnesota did a strange little lineup. I think they had
Speaker 2: a guy on all fours.
Speaker 1: The guy laying down. The Chiefs tried this in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl with Chris Jones.
Speaker 2: Whatever its going to do this.
Speaker 1: This just needs to go away. We've spent too much
Speaker 1: time talking about the touch push on this show. It
Speaker 1: this is even more It's just not football play, and
Speaker 1: it just is what it is. All right? What else
Speaker 1: do we have on this game?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Put your so put your ten fold hat on.
Speaker 2: What do you think is going on with JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's hurt, right, but I I you know,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal keeps calling it a soft benching. I think
Speaker 1: that's probably right, but at some point you got to
Speaker 1: put him back out there. I also, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to I'm not trying to cause any b for anything.
Speaker 1: But when I tell you guys, you guys remember, of
Speaker 1: course you remember, But I'm gonna try to find it
Speaker 1: real quick here it is I talk about the injury,
Speaker 1: the injury report inflation that if they say escape major
Speaker 1: injury is gonna be out this if they you know
Speaker 1: that they always put the most optimistic glean on injuries.
Speaker 1: I find this interesting. Schefter after a week two tweet
Speaker 1: it Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy is expected to be sidelined
Speaker 1: two to four weeks with a high ankle spring again,
Speaker 1: Schefter tweeted right after the injury, JJ McCarthy is expected
Speaker 1: to be sidelined two to four weeks with a high
Speaker 1: ankle spring. Okay, Schefter Sunday Morning said and tweeted when
Speaker 1: JJ's McCarthy suffered a high ankle spring, doctors expected it
Speaker 1: to be a six week injury. Nothing has changed. It
Speaker 1: still looks like a six week injury. Buddy, that's not
Speaker 1: what you told us, So I don't see a third
Speaker 1: option here either. The initial reporting was what most of
Speaker 1: these injury reports in quotes are, which is overly optimistic
Speaker 1: for reasons I still don't totally understand. Or something has changed,
Speaker 1: which is either he's not recovering as well as they
Speaker 1: would like, or it's the soft benching of winter was
Speaker 1: playing okay and we're trying to win these games. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I do know that I don't feel great
Speaker 1: about Adam Schefter reporting it's a two to four week injury,
Speaker 1: and then Adam Schefter on Sunday morning going on TV
Speaker 1: and tweeting doctors always expected it to be a six
Speaker 1: week injury. Nothing has changed. Something there does not line up. Guys.
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Speaker 1: to the craziest game of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Giants' age is showing. They let the Denver Broncos score
Speaker 2: thirty three points in the fourth quarter for a comeback.
Speaker 2: We've got NBA teams that don't even drop thirty three
Speaker 2: points in crazy. Yeah, how should the Denver Broncos fan
Speaker 2: base be feeling after this one?
Speaker 1: Oh listen, Denver fans should be thrilled they escaped and
Speaker 1: now it's just so weird. And then I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the Giants like, I'm not gonna be wrong
Speaker 1: about bow Knicks. I I think even the biggest Bronco fans,
Speaker 1: it's everyone except for my buddy poker, Great David Baker
Speaker 1: is recognizing bow Knicks ain't the guy and probably isn't
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy. With that said, he has been
Speaker 1: unbelievable in fourth quarters multiple times. They have been so
Speaker 1: bad the last three games, demanse they have thirteen total
Speaker 1: points quarters one through three, and they're three and up.
Speaker 1: They're averaging four points. Let me put it like this,
Speaker 1: the last three games, they are averaging barely more than
Speaker 1: one point a quarter until the fourth quarter. And they
Speaker 1: came back to beat the Eagles, They held on to
Speaker 1: beat the Jets in an ugly game, and then one
Speaker 1: of the wildest comebacks in NFL history to beat the Giants.
Speaker 1: Now I am mark this and you guys, if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. They are five and two. I am here
Speaker 1: to tell you. I believe they are going to go
Speaker 1: into their by six and five. They have the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: the Texans, the Raiders, and then the Chiefs before the bye.
Speaker 1: I believe they are about to go one in three
Speaker 1: in that stretch and be six and five. We'll see
Speaker 1: if they prove me wrong. And we'll see if they
Speaker 1: prove me wrong make the playoffs. But I am the
Speaker 1: defense is awesome. Bo Nicks is to me not trustworthy.
Speaker 1: With that said, I have to talk about the Giants
Speaker 1: because Brian Dabeles game management at the end of that
Speaker 1: game was so unacceptable. I just want to focus on
Speaker 1: one thing specifically, and then two minor things. You're up
Speaker 1: ten with five minutes left, five thirteen to be exact.
Speaker 1: You run the ball and Denver uses a timeout. It's
Speaker 1: second name. You run the ball again and Denver uses
Speaker 1: a timeout. It's third and five. There's four fifty six left.
Speaker 1: You're up ten. You're on your own thirty five. The
Speaker 1: other team has one timeout remaining. In that scenario, as
Speaker 1: long as you don't turn the ball over, you have
Speaker 1: essentially turned this game into an onside kick game, which
Speaker 1: in the modern NFL, an onside kick game means you
Speaker 1: win so what do I mean by that? What I
Speaker 1: mean is if in third and five you run the ball,
Speaker 1: don't pick up the first down, and Denver uses its timeout,
Speaker 1: they now have none left. They're down two scores. There's
Speaker 1: less than five minutes remaining if you punt the ball,
Speaker 1: and Denver would then get the ball back with about
Speaker 1: four and a half minutes left. No matter what they do,
Speaker 1: unless you allow an an eighty yard one play touchdown,
Speaker 1: even if you let them go get a touchdown, they
Speaker 1: are going to be in a position with no timeouts
Speaker 1: left and less than three minutes remaining where they have
Speaker 1: no choice but to kick an onside kick or the
Speaker 1: game's gonna be over. The fact that Brian Dable, with
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback in his fourth career start, called a
Speaker 1: pass play. There is just such egregious game management that
Speaker 1: you deserve to lose. Now, there were other things after
Speaker 1: that that he screwed up as well. That because you
Speaker 1: threw the pick and then gave up a touchdown so quickly,
Speaker 1: now the next time you have the ball, it's no
Speaker 1: longer an onside kick game, and now you actually do
Speaker 1: need a first down to win the game. And he,
Speaker 1: of course does two straight give up runs and then
Speaker 1: a bomb when a first down ends the game. That
Speaker 1: was a mistake. Then you get let off the hook
Speaker 1: by the bad pass interference call that puts you on
Speaker 1: the goal line when you score that touchdown. I think
Speaker 1: the heavy play would have been since you have a
Speaker 1: backup replacement kicker who's already missed an extra point, you
Speaker 1: actually probably should go for two there. So if you'll go,
Speaker 1: can't beat you, but or tie you, regardless that one
Speaker 1: call calling a pass with your rookie quarterback up ten
Speaker 1: and the other team and this is the important part,
Speaker 1: being down to its last time out, it cost you
Speaker 1: the game. And if you're the Giants when you had
Speaker 1: a chance to get to three and four and instead
Speaker 1: demands the Giants next six Eagles, Niners, Bears, Packers, Lions, Patriots,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many more wins you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: You cannot you you can't make that type of mistake,
Speaker 1: and it just unbelievable. All right, let's oh, you want
Speaker 1: me to rank team?
Speaker 2: Sorry, go ahead, So with that win, Denver joins Indy,
Speaker 2: New England, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo as the AFC teams with
Speaker 2: two or fewer losses. Ranked those five teams in terms
Speaker 2: of how much faith you haven't in.
Speaker 1: I would go Buffalo one, New England two, Indy three,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for Denver five and Indye New England. You could
Speaker 1: convince me to flip flop. Okay, and listen, Buffalo. It's
Speaker 1: just when you have a superstar quarterback who's been there before.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. Now,
Speaker 1: Drake May's playing out of his mind. More on him
Speaker 1: in a second. All right, let's get to our last game.
Speaker 1: We're doing long form before we get to the quick hitters.
Speaker 2: All right, so ceeda came back. He's adding to that
Speaker 2: Polton offense. They are looking good. They beat the Commanders,
Speaker 2: by the way. But you think the biggest story here
Speaker 2: is Jayden Daniels, who has kind of been a little
Speaker 2: injury prone since he said the league a little bit.
Speaker 2: So far, that's always been yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the hamstring is hard to blame on him being
Speaker 1: so skinny. But fact of the matter is he's played
Speaker 1: one of the third NFL seasons. He got knocked out
Speaker 1: of a game with bruised or cracked ribs. He missed
Speaker 1: time with a sprain knee and now he's gonna miss
Speaker 1: time with a hamstring. That's three separate injuries twenty games
Speaker 1: into his career. That's concerning, and I know the Commanders
Speaker 1: are not ruling him out for this week. You know
Speaker 1: who is though? Hard Rock bet that has the Commanders
Speaker 1: as ten point dogs to the Chiefs like the they
Speaker 1: are Vegas saying, we think that's a Marcus Mariota game.
Speaker 1: The other thing that the reason the Cowboys are who.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are DeMont see like they are gonna score
Speaker 1: at will, and there are games that I mean, they
Speaker 1: can beat anyone because of that offense, and they can
Speaker 1: lose to anyone because of that defense. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to watch. They're not trustworthy Dacks playing out of
Speaker 1: his mind. Thus far, I have to give credit. I
Speaker 1: try to be fair. You know, I've not been a
Speaker 1: George Pickens guy. He's been awesome, so but the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to me are not like a real They're a fun team.
Speaker 1: They're just a different version of last year's Bengals. They
Speaker 1: can't do anything substantial, but they can score a bunch
Speaker 1: of points and they're fun to watch. The Commanders are
Speaker 1: in a different boat. I think they're just done. They're three, Like,
Speaker 1: throw up their schedule. They're three and four, and the
Speaker 1: next three are kans City, Seattle, Detroit. Like, I just
Speaker 1: think it's over over? Is that crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean those next three are I'm looking good if
Speaker 2: the other games were maybe reversed, they're they're the three
Speaker 2: they have after that, and then time.
Speaker 1: King City, Seattle, Detroit plus two left against Philly, and
Speaker 1: you already have four losses the Commanders. The Cowboys think
Speaker 1: they're still alive for the playoffs, and they are. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be a playoff team. And
Speaker 1: the Bears are still alive for the playoffs. You've lost
Speaker 1: to the two teams that are fighting for the same
Speaker 1: real estate as you, one of those wild guard spots,
Speaker 1: and back to back weeks. I just think this is
Speaker 1: a very disappointing, very disappointing first half of the year
Speaker 1: for the Commanders. And I don't I don't see it
Speaker 1: getting better. And I am worried about Jayden, and I
Speaker 1: am worried about his inability to stay healthy. Hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: through all the other games of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Quick Hitters Bengals defeed and Steelers thirty three to thirty one.
Speaker 1: That was an awesome game.
Speaker 2: Good game.
Speaker 1: Shout out Joe Flacco for just being like I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna throw Jamar Chase every single time. And shout out
Speaker 1: to Rogers who played really well like that to me,
Speaker 1: the Steelers won a game like this in Week one
Speaker 1: against the Jets thirty four to thirty two, and now
Speaker 1: they lost a game like this against the Bengals thirty
Speaker 1: three thirty one. The Bengals, though sneaky helped the Ravens too,
Speaker 1: but also Bengals a little bit alive.
Speaker 2: Next lond the game Rams defeating the Jags thirty five
Speaker 2: to seven. Jacks are done fraud.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't love it, and Trevor hasn't played
Speaker 1: well this year. There's no way around it.
Speaker 2: I might, Yeah, I was about to say, like what
Speaker 2: the last year ghost?
Speaker 1: I might It might have to be I might meet Trevor.
Speaker 1: Might have to be my Sam Darnold for Colin, which
Speaker 1: is I'll always hold on a little bit and then
Speaker 1: maybe one day he'll get to a functional frame. Guys
Speaker 1: like Trevor Lawrence as the Trevor Lawrence is the I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of twenty twenty eight quarterback for the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, Like maybe that's something like that could be.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's Jacksonville, Let's do it. Do you
Speaker 2: think it's Jacksonville?
Speaker 1: Do you think it's a lot? I don't know. They
Speaker 1: can't figure out how to use Travis Hunter. Try hasn't
Speaker 1: been good enough. I would love the dance.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of teams are probably struggling to
Speaker 2: figure out how to use Trevor. I mean, not Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 2: Travis Hunter.
Speaker 1: He probably wouldn't have traded away the fifth pick in
Speaker 1: the future number one to draft him then, I mean
Speaker 1: they gave up so much to get him. Yes, I'd
Speaker 1: love to see if Trevor gott on the Niners, you
Speaker 1: would cook. But he just hasn't been good, There's no
Speaker 1: way around it.
Speaker 2: Next Patriot, it's defeating the Titans thirty one to thirteen.
Speaker 1: Drake May dealing. Did that ruin your teaser?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It did? Yeah it also Yeah, that job by us there.
Speaker 2: The Titans are just the worst team in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I mean the Jets. That's by the Jets, but they're
Speaker 2: pretty close.
Speaker 1: I mean, but the cam Wards just dropping the ball.
Speaker 1: But listen, Drake May was awesome. Drake May has been
Speaker 1: awesome this year, no way around it. He's been awesome.
Speaker 1: And they don't have great weapons. It hasn't mattered.
Speaker 2: Next, Panthers defeat the Jets thirteen to six.
Speaker 1: There's another loss for me. Here's how I knew I
Speaker 1: was in a bad way. The Jets scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: to go up ten to three, and I said to Deanna,
Speaker 1: who was sitting there with me, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that probably just ends the game. And it was the
Speaker 1: first half. She's like, what do you mean. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Jets can score a touchdown. And
Speaker 1: then when I saw Justin Fields go out, I actually
Speaker 1: got I was like, oh, now they maybe could score
Speaker 1: a touchdown with Entyro. I just started throwing picks. Just
Speaker 1: a disaster.
Speaker 2: Next, Browns defeat the Dolphins thirty one to six.
Speaker 1: That might be a rap, might be a rap on everybody,
Speaker 1: the coach, the quarterback, the GM. That might be assault
Speaker 1: the earth and start over situation.
Speaker 2: Next, Yeah, Bears defeat the Saints twenty six to fourteen.
Speaker 1: Caleb didn't play very well. It didn't matter because Rattler
Speaker 1: was that bad and the running game was that good.
Speaker 1: Bears on a four game winning streak despite Caleb not
Speaker 1: playing great. Now the question is, is Caleb gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: this little blip and he's gonna be better. If that's
Speaker 1: the case, they're dangerous. If he keeps playing at this level,
Speaker 1: then they're they're not as good as the record suggests.
Speaker 2: Next, Colts defeat the Chargers thirty eight to twenty four.
Speaker 1: Colts Dolphins has been unbelievable. Chargers Herbert with a ton
Speaker 1: of yards but a couple backbreaking picks, and the Chargers
Speaker 1: just the Chargers. You know, remember when the Chargers were
Speaker 1: gonna take over the division? I do.
Speaker 2: Next, we got the Colton No, no, we got Packers
Speaker 2: defeeding the Cardinals twenty seven to twenty three.
Speaker 1: Really sharp play by Lafloor fourth and two, two and
Speaker 1: a half minutes left down three, was gonna kick a
Speaker 1: field goal, and then I think thought better of it
Speaker 1: because he realized if I kicked this field goal, my
Speaker 1: best case scenario is overtime. I'm just gonna I make it.
Speaker 1: It's high game. I didn't give Cardinals two and a
Speaker 1: half minutes to drive down, and they were moving the
Speaker 1: ball really well, went for it, Gutsy picked it up,
Speaker 1: and then they held Jacoby out of the end zone when,
Speaker 1: by the way, Jacoby Brissett moved the ball well. Cardinals
Speaker 1: now lost five in a row, all in kind of different,
Speaker 1: excruciating fashion. All right.
Speaker 2: Next, actually we got the forty nine Ers defeating the
Speaker 2: Falcons twenty to ten.
Speaker 1: This was a stone miss by me and Mac was
Speaker 1: not good in this game, and they won anyway. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Robert Salad, no Fred Warner, no Nick Bosa,
Speaker 1: all those injuries and they really shut down a Falcons team.
Speaker 1: It's a tough loss for Atlanta. All the sharps were
Speaker 1: on the Niners. I didn't believe in them. I believe
Speaker 1: the Falcons and the Niners controlled that entire game. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the listener questions.
Speaker 2: Cheese Fans says, everyone blamed Naggy for the poor play calling.
Speaker 2: Now that they are rolling, and did Andy influence the
Speaker 2: play calling or did Naggi bring the creativity?
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I've never been on the like get on
Speaker 1: Matt Naggy train, And first of all, Andy's in charge.
Speaker 1: Second of all, it can't just be when it's bad,
Speaker 1: it's Matt Naggy. When it's good, it's Andy. The offensive
Speaker 1: line is playing well in the receiver course, hellalthy, that's
Speaker 1: what's changed.
Speaker 2: Next, Caleb says, thoughts on Mike McDaniels to the Giants
Speaker 2: to complete the frat guy tro effective of him Darton Scataboo.
Speaker 1: I don't think Darton Scataboo are I don't think Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel's their type of guy. I don't think at Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel's our frat guy. That's not That's not the vibe
Speaker 1: I get from him at all.
Speaker 2: Next Ronnie, Ronnie asked, Nick, are you gonna mend your
Speaker 2: Super Bowl pick? With all the injuries to Tampa? I
Speaker 2: don't know if they can come over them.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm not going to. And I think Tampa.
Speaker 1: Tampa's giving themselves enough of a cushion and has a
Speaker 1: soft enough end of season schedule. I still think they
Speaker 1: can be the one seed and they'll be. I think
Speaker 1: that it's not a lot of season ending injuries for Tampa.
Speaker 1: We'll see about Mike Evans, but no, I still think
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