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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan has come to you from a
Speaker 1: virtual room filled with some heroes. Greg Rose with thal
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. What is up, Bullies? What is happening? Another
Speaker 1: Big Thursday? What's going on? Lots to get to you today.
Speaker 1: Gotta love Week two? Gotta love Week two? Uh, there's
Speaker 1: nothing better. And I you know, I am someone who
Speaker 1: can get caught up in week one just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: But it's important to keep some you know, distance and
Speaker 1: understand that it's a long season. So anything that went
Speaker 1: terribly weak one doesn't mean that the season is over
Speaker 1: because everything could change. All the depressing thoughts you've had
Speaker 1: about your favorite team over the past five days that
Speaker 1: could all just disappear with one good performance over three
Speaker 1: hours on Sunday. I would mean to throw this out too,
Speaker 1: that there's another scenario where the depressing thoughts attached to
Speaker 1: your team become deeper and more depressing. I mean, you
Speaker 1: fall into that O and two trap, and history tells
Speaker 1: you you're in You're in hot water, especially if you're
Speaker 1: O in two because you're just functional so you know
Speaker 1: there's both sides of the coin. Here are you talking
Speaker 1: about the brands? The week you attack, Dan, this is
Speaker 1: where you attack if you're if you're into the whole, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, desert situation early in the year, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of like preconceptions people went into with the year,
Speaker 1: and then you saw a week one and people overreact,
Speaker 1: you know, things are a little like loosey goosey. In
Speaker 1: weeks one to three, that's the time to attack. I mean, Greg,
Speaker 1: you have a problem. I think it's very clear at
Speaker 1: this point. I hope it's not going to take down
Speaker 1: your whole family because you've seen it happen in the
Speaker 1: past and it's sad. I work for the NFL. They
Speaker 1: they take care of the solution. You know, I am
Speaker 1: a law abiding NFL. I work for the NFL. They
Speaker 1: take care of the solution that is that is make
Speaker 1: the rules that I can't get into it. I can
Speaker 1: just talk about it, and that actually helps my Sundays
Speaker 1: um be a lot more relaxed. And there are a
Speaker 1: series of waivers that we signed to do the jobs
Speaker 1: that we do in regards to the desert. I know
Speaker 1: that Dan and I signed the manually I have no
Speaker 1: There is no proof that Greg has ever put you
Speaker 1: get those emails if you forget all right, As we
Speaker 1: do every Thursday, it is our spin through the week
Speaker 1: ahead over the weekend. On Thursday nights we release our
Speaker 1: Thursday Night football recap of Brown's Bengals. But today we
Speaker 1: will spin through every game to be played on Sunday
Speaker 1: and Monday. And as always we do it snake style.
Speaker 1: Six Uh. We go one to three, three to one,
Speaker 1: one two three. That's how snake works. And Mark, good
Speaker 1: news for you, buddy. You have drawn the first pick
Speaker 1: in the week to draft. Well, you know it's a
Speaker 1: pre vilege. It's a privilege, you know. In years past,
Speaker 1: I like to do weird things with the first pick,
Speaker 1: to throw everyone kind of off their balance. Not this
Speaker 1: time around. I'm going with I think is what I
Speaker 1: think is the best game on the board. It is
Speaker 1: New England at Seattle. Let's not call it something else.
Speaker 1: This is I don't see that. I don't get this
Speaker 1: Super Bowl rematch thing with so many, you know, so
Speaker 1: many characters in other places. Tom Brady's not there, others
Speaker 1: included Marshawn Lynch. But here's the matchup. I love coming
Speaker 1: out of Week one where Cam Newton and the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots attacked a Dolphins team correctly on the ground,
Speaker 1: because that's what the Dolphins were riped. That's how they
Speaker 1: were right to be dealt with. Very different situation here
Speaker 1: with Seattle. You've got Bobby Wagner Jamal Adams last week,
Speaker 1: who was an absolute terror, throwing Todd Durley around, doing
Speaker 1: all sorts of things, Jamal Adams types of things that
Speaker 1: we've seen in the past. I love the matchup of
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams versus Cam Newton and how will the Patriots
Speaker 1: have to counteract that and maybe show us some things
Speaker 1: they didn't show us last week on offense? Right, I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have to expand the pass the game
Speaker 1: if you're the Patriots as the season goes along. But
Speaker 1: I think they look at this matchup and they think
Speaker 1: we got a mismatch against the Seahawks defensive line. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Patriots know their strengths. It's their offensive line, it's
Speaker 1: the amount of diversity they could put into the running game,
Speaker 1: like right off the bat. That's an impressive job of coaching.
Speaker 1: It's an impressive job of quarterbacking by Cam Newton. That
Speaker 1: he could handle that much. And I think you look
Speaker 1: at Seattle and they kind of got handled by Atlanta
Speaker 1: up front on both sides of the ball. Really. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have so many strengths, but one of them is
Speaker 1: not the defensive line. So I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Patriots are really gonna be ready to start airing it out.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be ground game or bust still
Speaker 1: with this team, I'm really interested to see how Cam
Speaker 1: Newton is used in this game. I the staff that
Speaker 1: jumped out to me the most of out of every
Speaker 1: stat coming out of Week one was that his fifteen
Speaker 1: carries we're the most he's ever had in his career
Speaker 1: in a game that didn't go to overtime, and that
Speaker 1: includes the saladays in Carolina. So now we're gonna see,
Speaker 1: uh if that is indeed how he is going to
Speaker 1: be used. And on the other side, it's just a
Speaker 1: great quarterback matchup because Russell Wilson and the whole narrative
Speaker 1: of let Russ Cook. Is this going to continue now?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be allowed to air the ball out?
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be difficult against the New England secondary,
Speaker 1: which is still very good with one of the best
Speaker 1: corners in the league and stuff on Gilmore. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: totally different situation than dealing with a pretty identity free
Speaker 1: Falcons defense. I think they are I mean, from Brian
Speaker 1: Schottenheimer to Pete Harold, it kind of voice that this
Speaker 1: is what they want to do. You've got DK Metcalf,
Speaker 1: You've got Tyler Lockett. Why not? I think this is
Speaker 1: a new version of the Seahawks, right, But at some
Speaker 1: point the Patriots are just gonna be inviting Chris Carson
Speaker 1: in the Seahawks to run. They're gonna be putting so
Speaker 1: many defensive backs on the field and Seattle, if you
Speaker 1: beg Brian Schottenheimer to run the ball, I think you've
Speaker 1: gotta run the ball. I think you want to do
Speaker 1: that against the Patriots because the strength is in the secondary.
Speaker 1: But but you're right Mark that the Sea change was
Speaker 1: not just like a narrative. I mean they got a
Speaker 1: huge pass interfere because they let Rust throw the ball
Speaker 1: on third and twenty three. They wouldn't know. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: many times have you seen Pete Carroll run the ball
Speaker 1: for four yards on third and twenty three. They scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown on fourth and five. This might even be
Speaker 1: a what timing we got here. We also saw them
Speaker 1: throw the ball up thirteen points on third down like
Speaker 1: late in the game. That all that stuff, I never
Speaker 1: seen it with Pete Carroll. If they did that in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl a little more consistently, they would have
Speaker 1: won it. And this is a revenge game because that's
Speaker 1: the most painful loss in Super Bowl history. Dan, you
Speaker 1: loved it being there that night. Uh sure, I don't.
Speaker 1: You know. That's the past, just like the Patriots of
Speaker 1: the past when you talk about the great teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And I thought that the Patriots a great
Speaker 1: start to the season. Great narrative to spin that Cam
Speaker 1: is Cam again and all that. But I'd be curious, Greg,
Speaker 1: as someone who follows the Patriots very closely, what you
Speaker 1: thought about the rest of the offense. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: like it. Maybe it got a little overlooked. There wasn't
Speaker 1: a dominating effort by any stretch. What did you think
Speaker 1: about the rest of the offense outside of Cam, Well,
Speaker 1: there wasn't much. I mean, dentleman needs to be healthy,
Speaker 1: he's not to kill. Harry made a couple catches. If
Speaker 1: if I could live with myself, I would lock up
Speaker 1: the Seahawks in this game because I think the Patriots
Speaker 1: have a ways to go before they totally developed. Unlike Mark,
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna be, you know, picking against my own team,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna do that. But I think this
Speaker 1: game is a little too early in the season for
Speaker 1: the Patriots to be ready to go on the road
Speaker 1: and win a game. One little nugget in this game.
Speaker 1: Last week with with New England and Miami, they ran
Speaker 1: the Patriots ran the slowest offense in the league. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not a surprise because you're using your quarterback on
Speaker 1: the ground the whole time. But one way to defuse,
Speaker 1: you know this let Russ Cook business is you don't
Speaker 1: let him in the kitchen. You gotta you got you
Speaker 1: You continue just to run the ball NonStop and keep
Speaker 1: you know. Last week was a track was a track
Speaker 1: meet the Falcons in Seattle. I think this could take
Speaker 1: on a different form and forced the Seattle Seahawks to
Speaker 1: do something a little bit different. M hmm. Sounds like
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Good pick, Mark, nice solid number
Speaker 1: one overall draft pick. And now it comes to me
Speaker 1: with the number two pick. Oh, it's a hard I
Speaker 1: always struggle with this, but I will pick the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens at Houston Texans with the second overall pick. You know,
Speaker 1: I am a little bit scared for the rest of
Speaker 1: the NFL because what we saw from Lamar Jackson against
Speaker 1: the Browns. The one the only facet you could pick
Speaker 1: apart a little bit with Jackson last year was some
Speaker 1: of his downfield throwing accuracy where passes over ten yards
Speaker 1: he completed less than fifty percent. That was not a
Speaker 1: problem against the Browns. In fact, he was pretty much
Speaker 1: locked in everything that he threw, found a receiver and
Speaker 1: he was hitting guys in stride and and uh if
Speaker 1: he uh makes that part of his game even better.
Speaker 1: I mean that that is a scary thought. So you
Speaker 1: get to see how he looks in Week two against
Speaker 1: the Texans defense that is not dominant by any stretch.
Speaker 1: But it's also just a great quarterback matchup because Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: I said it on our podcast earlier this week around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast check it out four times a week,
Speaker 1: that I hate when teams get sent It was like
Speaker 1: it's like a lamb to slaughter that Thursday night football
Speaker 1: game and someone else's building that's the defending champion. Now
Speaker 1: let's see where the Texans the Deshaun Watson are are
Speaker 1: are at. It's a great QB matchup and I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really good game. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a tough week to see where they're at two
Speaker 1: because they they're playing maybe the scariest team in the league.
Speaker 1: You're right. I mean that was as good a day
Speaker 1: throwing as Lamar Jackson had. And I think it's a
Speaker 1: way that the Ravens are now taking what the defense
Speaker 1: gives them and teams are gonna try to stop the run,
Speaker 1: and that this Texans defense, I think they're gonna give
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, they got these two inside linebackers
Speaker 1: that are not good in coverage, that get paid huge money.
Speaker 1: And who who did the Ravens pick on more than linebackers.
Speaker 1: It's with their running backs, it's with their tight end.
Speaker 1: I just can't see a scenario where the Ravens aren't
Speaker 1: going up and down the field like they did when
Speaker 1: they dropped forty one on this Texans team last year. Right,
Speaker 1: that game was forty one to seven, So it wasn't
Speaker 1: as if you know, the Texans offense got going either.
Speaker 1: I think the Texans offense. You know, with Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: there's always hope. But to your point on Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Cleveland tried to pressure him. They let him sit in
Speaker 1: the pocket, they let they went all over the place
Speaker 1: with him on play action. The results were the same
Speaker 1: no matter what they did against the Ravens, they just
Speaker 1: imposed their will. They used Mark Andrews at tight end
Speaker 1: more than they have before. I think that's a bad
Speaker 1: scenario for the Texans. And I think this is a
Speaker 1: team the Ravens says, we don't care about your fantasy
Speaker 1: football squad at all. We're gonna use JK. Dobbins near
Speaker 1: the end zone. We're gonna use mark Ingram. They have
Speaker 1: so many different pieces and they're so confident what they're
Speaker 1: doing that you know, you look at that game last
Speaker 1: year and maybe it doesn't carry over seven. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's so different about this Ravens team. They
Speaker 1: seem just more agitated and more you know, revenge seeking
Speaker 1: than before. To erase the past two Januaries and say
Speaker 1: we are the a f c's best team, come at us.
Speaker 1: But to my to my point I was talking about
Speaker 1: earlier the week one, sometimes we get a little bit
Speaker 1: two wrapped up and the and the Browns did not
Speaker 1: show up to play, you know, better than anyone mark
Speaker 1: in that game. So the Aven's looked like they were
Speaker 1: they were the greatest team of all time. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying the Texans are an amazing team either, but I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna pose a bigger challenge. Here's a great
Speaker 1: staff from NFL Media Research. Lamar Jackson is twenty five
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns and just one pick over his last eight
Speaker 1: regular season games. I mean, that's what I mean. This
Speaker 1: guy is out of control. That's why he's the defending
Speaker 1: m v P. I mean, I would lock this game
Speaker 1: up again if I could look in the mirror for it.
Speaker 1: But your boys in in Texas, uh you know you
Speaker 1: love Billy O'Brien. You always got a soft spot for him, Dan,
Speaker 1: but I just don't see it. And again, I know
Speaker 1: it's Week one, but man, that offensive line, which made
Speaker 1: a lot of progress, uh in was about the worst
Speaker 1: offensive line in the league in the opener, and that
Speaker 1: that's a problem. The Ravens are gonna test your communication.
Speaker 1: They're gonna send a lot of blitz. Is I hope
Speaker 1: I'm wrong because I want to watch a fun game
Speaker 1: when it's Watson versus Lamark. I like the dunnyamic of
Speaker 1: Gregg telling us that he might lock up every single
Speaker 1: game that we go through. Well, I know there's all
Speaker 1: these you know how ankers who are saying, no, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't looked it up? Are you looking in the mirror?
Speaker 1: So this thing, you know, I think people would get
Speaker 1: on me with this one, letting people know where I stand.
Speaker 1: I am gonna draft of Falcons and the Cowboys. I
Speaker 1: feel good about this game because, uh, to me, teams
Speaker 1: that are oh and one but actually have a chance
Speaker 1: to matter. That's what Week two matters more for them
Speaker 1: than anyone. And I start this game thinking about draft day.
Speaker 1: Go back to April, when any of the pandemic was
Speaker 1: just starting, and the Falcons reached for cornerback A. J.
Speaker 1: Terrell in the first round, allowing the Cowboys to take
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb one pick later, and you know, fast forward
Speaker 1: to a week one and A. J. Terrell was strug Lane.
Speaker 1: I mean, this secondary was bad overall, but Terrell especially
Speaker 1: got picked on by Russell Wilson. And now this Falcons
Speaker 1: defense and the secondary especially which just doesn't doesn't look great.
Speaker 1: Has to go up against one of the best, if
Speaker 1: not the best wide receiver tandems in the league, and
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb is out there making plays right off the bat.
Speaker 1: Could be big regret city for Thomas the MIT draft
Speaker 1: right off the bat. Yeah, I think, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it is. And it's the kind of thing that
Speaker 1: gets on you know, Falcons fans radars right away, and
Speaker 1: uh they'll cling to it because you know the defense
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. You know, if someone told me last week
Speaker 1: that Matt Ryan was gonna throw for four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards multiple touchdowns, connect with his his top three
Speaker 1: wideouts for nine cast catches a piece, and they were
Speaker 1: gonna get flamed by the Seahawks, that tells you a
Speaker 1: lot about Atlanta's defense. Uh. The one thing I am
Speaker 1: a little nervous about with Dallas though They rated as
Speaker 1: the third worst offensive line in the league last week
Speaker 1: by PFF, and to me, it's you know, they're banged up. Um.
Speaker 1: I think we like to think of Dallas is having
Speaker 1: this stalwart front five. It's just not the case right now.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to survive without that. But the weapons
Speaker 1: and tell me that Zeke Elliott is not running as
Speaker 1: well as you've ever seen. Uh. That guy is on
Speaker 1: my fantasy team. I think that makes me look very
Speaker 1: smart on a week to week basis Dan, So I'm
Speaker 1: flying with that. Yeah, he looked good. The same thought
Speaker 1: went through my mind as I was watching him on
Speaker 1: Sunday that it wasn't a monster game from him. But
Speaker 1: he just seems to be moving fast and he's just
Speaker 1: like that guy could be on my team anyday. The
Speaker 1: tattoo on the stomach, the feed me tattoo. I know
Speaker 1: that's his bit, but that feels, you know, a little,
Speaker 1: a little beyond the pale for me. His mom even
Speaker 1: chined in on Twitter that she was upset about it.
Speaker 1: But listen, it's his body, it's his right. Um. I
Speaker 1: am really high on the Cowboys in this game. Uh.
Speaker 1: And because what happened on Sunday night, the way the
Speaker 1: offense was really shut down uh by Los Angeles. And
Speaker 1: also because I don't think the Falcons have any identity
Speaker 1: on defense. And this is a get right game for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. This is a game where they're gonna score
Speaker 1: a lot of points. And this is what the Cowboys do.
Speaker 1: They build up expectations, they fall on their face everybody
Speaker 1: gets out on them, then they do little monster game.
Speaker 1: People get back on the bus, then they fall off again.
Speaker 1: I mean it's over and over. But this is the
Speaker 1: week where they put up thirty plus points. The Falcons
Speaker 1: can't keep up on the road. And that's why I'm
Speaker 1: locking it up. I'm locking up the couchu uh Dotty
Speaker 1: was coming there. Take this game and and do it
Speaker 1: with ease. I think this is a double digit win
Speaker 1: for Dallas. My one. You don't have Laton vander esh
Speaker 1: Shawn Lee is out. I mean, your linebacking corps is
Speaker 1: an issue, and I mean the one thing Atlanta can
Speaker 1: do is they can go up and down the field
Speaker 1: and score points themselves. So I could see this being
Speaker 1: a juicy shootout. I mean, your lock I think is
Speaker 1: a solid one. Damn, but it might take you down
Speaker 1: to the bitter end to find out if you if
Speaker 1: you prevail. I get what you're saying that Mark, but
Speaker 1: I think that they certain weeks, the Cowboys offense, which
Speaker 1: I'm still bullish about, even if the offensive line struggled
Speaker 1: in Week one, will be able to just run away
Speaker 1: from their problems just by scoring a ton of points.
Speaker 1: And I think this will be one of those weeks.
Speaker 1: M I'm going against you, Dan. I got those picks
Speaker 1: up on NFL dot Com. I like a little road
Speaker 1: upset shootout. Don't feel too strong, but if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick a close game, you might as well make it fun.
Speaker 1: And I liked what I saw at the Falcon's offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that the matchup was potentially favorable
Speaker 1: against that Seahawks defensive line, but they really look like
Speaker 1: a good offensive line. They went over four on fourth
Speaker 1: down or else. The Falcons I think could have put
Speaker 1: up about thirty points. And Mark, you said it like
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys lose players they're thin. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: suddenly starting Joe Thomas, you know, not the old Browns, Mark,
Speaker 1: And you know a linebacker, You're you're suddenly starting Terrence Steel,
Speaker 1: you know, right tackle? Uh, you're starting Dalton Schultz a
Speaker 1: tight end. So it's like, I think this Falcons team
Speaker 1: gotta be a little frisky. They're gonna be frisky this year.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep moving, Greg, you know it works.
Speaker 1: It's snakes back to you your draft pick and yet
Speaker 1: an yet them somehow not really that prepared for the moment.
Speaker 1: Let's take the primetime game. Let's go Saints. Uh Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders opening the new statu Uh this this should
Speaker 1: be pretty fun. But I'm starting thinking about the Saints
Speaker 1: after being on national TV a week ago. They're going
Speaker 1: to be again, and I think this is a get
Speaker 1: right game for them. Regardless of Michael Thomas. This Vegas
Speaker 1: Raiders defense, to me, is the type that Sean Payton
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees can just beat from the neck up.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna dice you, They're gonna slice you. They're
Speaker 1: gonna find seven yard openings and just move the ball
Speaker 1: up and down the field. Because I was hoping maybe
Speaker 1: to see some better um you know, pass rush and
Speaker 1: linebacker play from the Raiders, I didn't see it. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did not play good defense a week ago. And
Speaker 1: it's one game where I think kind of the institutional
Speaker 1: knowledge of the Saints team is at least going to
Speaker 1: be able to score enough points to win this game
Speaker 1: in Vegas. I think one of the best performances that
Speaker 1: I saw last week was Josh Jacobs, and you know
Speaker 1: I watched it after hearing that John Gruden compared him
Speaker 1: to Walter Payton, I thought, hold on, here, come on,
Speaker 1: John Gruden. But then when I went and watched it, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's Walter Payton, but I get what
Speaker 1: Cruden was saying because this is a player that Number
Speaker 1: one ran like a man possessed. But he wasn't really
Speaker 1: a threat as a receiver last year. I think he
Speaker 1: had about twenty catches in this game. Last week he
Speaker 1: was completely different through the air. I think they've got
Speaker 1: a multi weapon back who can do a lot. And
Speaker 1: I know on the flip side, you know, the Bucks
Speaker 1: last week really kept these Saints at bay with two
Speaker 1: point four yards per rush. That's not going to be
Speaker 1: the case this week. Las Vegas is an inviting i
Speaker 1: think front seven to run against. We're going to get
Speaker 1: a real instant look at where this Drew Brees storyline
Speaker 1: is in week two, because it's been a big talking
Speaker 1: point all through the week about the two seventy total
Speaker 1: yards of offense and how Drew Brees maybe is finally
Speaker 1: getting old and all that. Well, let's see, let's see
Speaker 1: how he looks in week two. He is on the road.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're Saints fan, you'd rather him have
Speaker 1: a cushy home matchup. But at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: the Raiders who just gave up thirty plus points uh
Speaker 1: to Teddy Bridgewater Breezes old backup and a Panther's offense,
Speaker 1: which is good but not you know, game changing by
Speaker 1: any stretch. So I think that this will be a
Speaker 1: good test, and I I do like saying I like
Speaker 1: the Saints, and I like Drew Brees with a bounce
Speaker 1: back week because I think he has it in him.
Speaker 1: And I like Alvin Kamara, who didn't get anything going
Speaker 1: on the ground last week, but he was very active
Speaker 1: in the passing game. He's healthy. Obviously Michael Thomas is
Speaker 1: not healthy, so Kamar is gonna have an even bigger
Speaker 1: role than you would even think typically. So I expect
Speaker 1: one of those monster Kamara games, maybe over two yards
Speaker 1: total offense, that type of day. Yeah, keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the on the Raiders offensive line because John Gordon
Speaker 1: is making it clear he's a little annoyed that Trent
Speaker 1: Brown isn't staying in these games. And Trent Brown, to me,
Speaker 1: is kind of the key of that offensive line, almost
Speaker 1: the key of the whole offense, you know, beyond Derek
Speaker 1: car because they they count on leaning on teams with
Speaker 1: that line. That's tough to do against the Saints. It's
Speaker 1: a little old school football. I like that the Raiders
Speaker 1: are playing like nineteen nineties early nineties football. You got
Speaker 1: the Grooden scowls. It's it's perfect for Monday night. I mean,
Speaker 1: the one concern they've leaved labeled this amazing new stadium,
Speaker 1: and I wish we could have a full crowd there
Speaker 1: to see, you know, people coming off the strip after
Speaker 1: being there all day long, rolling into what they're calling
Speaker 1: the Death Star in a high octane format. But the
Speaker 1: Death Star was essentially blown up twice, so I think
Speaker 1: the messaging maybe might be a little often. I know
Speaker 1: that you guys don't get the reference, but it's a
Speaker 1: science fiction from from the seventies and eighties. Stand doesn't
Speaker 1: ring a bell? Is that the one with jar Jar Binks? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: thankfully not. I wish that film never existed. And we've
Speaker 1: gone far too far down this wormhole as it is
Speaker 1: for NFL football in Las Vegas. I never thought we
Speaker 1: live to see the day, and yet here we are
Speaker 1: all right time now for Road to Victory, presented by
Speaker 1: the United States Marine Corps. The draft now heads to me,
Speaker 1: and I will choose the Minnesota Vikings at Indianapolis Cults.
Speaker 1: And I love this game. In fact, what a steel
Speaker 1: for the old Zeuser here in the middle of the draft,
Speaker 1: because these are two teams that you know, fashion themselves
Speaker 1: super Bowl contenders, but look nothing like that in Week one,
Speaker 1: and one of these teams is gonna be oh and
Speaker 1: two and that will be a bitter pill to swallow.
Speaker 1: Uh So I'm two things I'm really interested to see. One,
Speaker 1: how does the Minnesota Vikings defense look after they just
Speaker 1: don't show up against the Packers. They did not show
Speaker 1: up in their building against Aaron Rodgers who shredded them
Speaker 1: for over five hundred yards. Could have been a fifty
Speaker 1: burger if a couple of things went Green Bay's way.
Speaker 1: That's how dominant Rogers was. It was just pitch and
Speaker 1: catch all day long against that young secondary. Without Daniel
Speaker 1: hunter Um, there was no push at the on the
Speaker 1: defensive line for the Vikings. It was just an ugly game.
Speaker 1: So Mike Zimmer is a great defensive coach. They have
Speaker 1: players on this ruster expected better effort here. And on
Speaker 1: the Cult side, everybody knows what happened. It was the
Speaker 1: biggest upset of Week one. The you lose to the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: who we thought were in tank for Trevor mode. And
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers does the Rivers things which he throws ill
Speaker 1: advised passes, allowing uh an inferior team to defeat his team.
Speaker 1: Uh so how does he bounce back from that? This
Speaker 1: is a really interesting game, a Dan, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: This game is that I will I'm a little into
Speaker 1: because I was gonna pick this. Um, you know, do
Speaker 1: the snake draft where I go like eighty two picks
Speaker 1: without with no selections. But um, you've made You've done
Speaker 1: a good job. You look at that Jacksonville game and
Speaker 1: the Colts ran twenty more plays in Jacksonville had two
Speaker 1: hundred more yards. I love the idea that Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: is going to get a lot of work in this game.
Speaker 1: He you know, he had a couple of plays against
Speaker 1: Jacksonville catch and near touchdown that showed his speed. He
Speaker 1: is a phenomenal young running back. Can't wait to see him.
Speaker 1: And for me, I mean the Vikings defense. Can you
Speaker 1: handle a number one writers wide receiver. You had a
Speaker 1: seventh three lead that turned into a twenty seven deficit
Speaker 1: in the blink of an eye, and that is why
Speaker 1: I do believe the Cults are a playoff team and
Speaker 1: our producers know what's coming unlocking this game up. Know
Speaker 1: he did it. Oh my god, you hate the Vikings
Speaker 1: so much, Mark, No, I just have a feeling Greg
Speaker 1: wanted to do what I just did, that's all. And
Speaker 1: this not a ton of conviction yet. Well you know,
Speaker 1: I picked the Colts to make the Super Bowl, which
Speaker 1: is a little out rageous because I know there's ghouls
Speaker 1: like Dan who just want to dig dirt on Philip.
Speaker 1: Go watch that, Go watch that Week one tape. Let's
Speaker 1: go see that the deep out, the strong arm that
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers was throwing. I mean, I was actually encouraged
Speaker 1: by this game. When he makes some throws, it actually
Speaker 1: made me feel better. That's not that you have to
Speaker 1: have a big time arm to be making these throws
Speaker 1: down the field. I feel better about them. I want
Speaker 1: to see their offensive line play a little better, especially
Speaker 1: in short yard situation in the run game. But this
Speaker 1: is the matchup to do it. Because you said the
Speaker 1: Vikings defensive line didn't show up. You said they have players,
Speaker 1: do they at defensive tackle? That's kind of the position
Speaker 1: that they lost the most. That No, one's really paying
Speaker 1: any attention to I think Taylor goes up and down
Speaker 1: the field. You're right, I wanted to do this, Mark,
Speaker 1: I am doing this. I'm locking it up. Well, now
Speaker 1: we gotta say the games ahead of time, because we
Speaker 1: got the graphic and everything. I had a couple that
Speaker 1: you know, we're a little less spice. See this one.
Speaker 1: This one felt nice. You know. The way that Tom
Speaker 1: Coughlin was loyal to Eli Manning and Giants management is
Speaker 1: the way you are the philip Rivers. You will always
Speaker 1: look past all the terrible things he does and say, oh,
Speaker 1: but he had one bullet pass, uh to t Y
Speaker 1: Hilton was seven minutes to play in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: So his arm is still great. No, man, no, that's
Speaker 1: not gonna cut it anymore. He is he cannot do
Speaker 1: what he used to do in his heyday. And you
Speaker 1: see it with these throws that he forces into small windows.
Speaker 1: And because he doesn't have the arm he did and
Speaker 1: it never was a rifle arm, it is now becoming
Speaker 1: a balloon factory, uh for the for the philip Rivers
Speaker 1: era here in the late period here, and I just
Speaker 1: think you can't ignore that he even had a third
Speaker 1: interception that was taken off the board by a penalty.
Speaker 1: You can't ignore that he is a liability at this
Speaker 1: point in his career. I don't know why. Well, I
Speaker 1: means don't have C. J. Henderson first of all, and
Speaker 1: and the Colts to I'm telling you, Jonathan Taylor is
Speaker 1: going to be the guy we're talking about coming in
Speaker 1: this game. People are Jonathan Taylor, but people sleep a
Speaker 1: little bit on Marlon Mack, who was playing really well
Speaker 1: early on in that game as a receiver and as
Speaker 1: a rusher. He blows as Achilles, a terrible setback for him.
Speaker 1: So everyone says, but slide into Jonathan Taylor. He's a superstar. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but it's almost like not getting Marlon Mac the respect
Speaker 1: that he deserves as a I like Mac, the us
Speaker 1: him hines well as well that I mean Paris Campbell's
Speaker 1: coming on. There's a lot of young guys on this offense.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna grow and get better weekly. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that Jonathan Taylor is a big part of
Speaker 1: it now. And it's not a nag on Mac. It's
Speaker 1: just that I really do like what I see from Taylor,
Speaker 1: and not a nug on you. Mark Sessler I was
Speaker 1: just pointing out more that I feel like people just
Speaker 1: brushed the mac injury under the rug, and then all
Speaker 1: the fantasy had just under the rug to the kid,
Speaker 1: you know, and okay, you know there's nothing personal towards you.
Speaker 1: That was the road to victory presented by the United
Speaker 1: States Marine Corps. All right, Mark Snakes, do you you know?
Speaker 1: I already know where I'm going here? And I think
Speaker 1: it says something that I'm picking one team that um
Speaker 1: as a Browns fan, destroyed my childhood thanks to John Elway,
Speaker 1: and another team that continues to destroy my football Sundays
Speaker 1: in the Pittsburgh Steelers. But this matchup is just a
Speaker 1: little too juicy, uh to pass up after what I
Speaker 1: saw on Monday night from both of these teams. Uh.
Speaker 1: I look at Denver and even if they were to
Speaker 1: lose to Pittsburgh and they were owing two, which at
Speaker 1: a time when we can write certain teams off the
Speaker 1: way that this offense is starting to what they're showing
Speaker 1: me and where they are right now and where they're
Speaker 1: going to be when guy like Jerry Judy and Noah Funt,
Speaker 1: but especially Jerry Judy comes into his own, I saw
Speaker 1: a star player on Monday night. I know there were
Speaker 1: some drops, but I think we all saw the same thing.
Speaker 1: A completely different type of wide receiver who completely jumps
Speaker 1: off the page. This is a tough test. Pittsburgh defense
Speaker 1: looks absolutely Uh it's a it's monstrous and the front
Speaker 1: and the front and seven and the t J. What
Speaker 1: t J walk and do that to me? I don't
Speaker 1: love that for Drew Lock, and I don't love Denver's
Speaker 1: offensive line, but I just want to see how they handle. Uh.
Speaker 1: But the strengths of boast boat teams here and you know,
Speaker 1: Big Ben look great, so I think we're looking at
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised that these two met again down
Speaker 1: the road in the playoffs. I want to see where
Speaker 1: they are too. I really believe in Denver as a
Speaker 1: late season sort of berserker type operation. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: Mark loves the berserkers, and this this team is one
Speaker 1: that that could do. I mean, no offense, insane. He
Speaker 1: he just physically after the catch. He might be the
Speaker 1: guy and duty. I mean he's putting people on a
Speaker 1: blender in those clips that they should be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to watch. But we've also never seen Drew
Speaker 1: Lock play a defense like this. That was kind of
Speaker 1: the criticism of his late season run. They certainly didn't
Speaker 1: play a great defense in Week one. He literally has
Speaker 1: never faced a scheme like this, a group of talented
Speaker 1: players like this and teams that can blitz as much
Speaker 1: as this. So I'm really curious to see if Lock
Speaker 1: can avoid the sacks that he's been able to because
Speaker 1: since he's come UH into the starting job, he is
Speaker 1: the toughest quarterback in the league to sack. I mean,
Speaker 1: he gets rid of the ball place. It's one of
Speaker 1: the things that you kind of sleep on on him
Speaker 1: as a young player. I'm sample size. We're doing it
Speaker 1: again with this Drew Lock stuff. It's it's such a
Speaker 1: small sample size. How do we know. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans could not get to the quarterback UH on
Speaker 1: Monday night. But I want to see, let's find out
Speaker 1: about Drew locks ability to avoid sacks after after Sunday.
Speaker 1: This is actually the big one thing. And Broncos fans
Speaker 1: know that I've been kind of holding out on giving
Speaker 1: Drew Lock any type of keys to the kingdom. Yet
Speaker 1: here's the game right here. This is gonna be I
Speaker 1: believe his seventh start. This is going to be coming
Speaker 1: off an oh and one where his he led his
Speaker 1: offense to fourteen points in a loss in Week one,
Speaker 1: and now you're playing a great Pittsburgh defense. If you
Speaker 1: avoid sacks and you make plays and you keep your
Speaker 1: team in this game, or you help win the game,
Speaker 1: I will I will say, Okay, John Elway made the
Speaker 1: right decision by going all in on Drew Lock, but
Speaker 1: I want to see it first, because I really think
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh even didn't didn't even play their a game. I
Speaker 1: didn't think on defense against the Giants, certainly against Kwon
Speaker 1: Barkley they did, but Daniel Jones was able to move
Speaker 1: the ball through the air. Darius Slayton lit them up. Um,
Speaker 1: I think the Pittsburgh Stres have a higher level on
Speaker 1: defense and at home, could we could see it. I
Speaker 1: just I think you're holding out on Drew Loock just
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think we're also we look at
Speaker 1: quarterbacks a little differently young quarterbacks. But and maybe I
Speaker 1: sign up too quickly for some of these guys. But
Speaker 1: I mean, we're still waiting for guys like Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: and Sam Donald to wake up and play consistently that way,
Speaker 1: and no one's talking about not being sold on them
Speaker 1: at some level. I mean, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people are talking about not being sold on those duds.
Speaker 1: I am no, but I'm talking about, like, like the
Speaker 1: idea that Drew Lock has shown a lot in a
Speaker 1: small Sandals size, so why are we selling it down
Speaker 1: the river. It's like he has to prove himself now
Speaker 1: against what might be the best state defense in the league.
Speaker 1: He will I think, yeah, I think he will make
Speaker 1: plays in this game. Watch what he does. I just
Speaker 1: think that the game after game, Drew Lock is aggressive
Speaker 1: and he's got weapons around him. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: see a lot to not like about true Lot. He
Speaker 1: was one of the PFF had him as great at
Speaker 1: as one of the worst quarterbacks a week one. So
Speaker 1: there are other people who're not seeing it. I'm somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle here. I think he's got a long
Speaker 1: way to go, but it's gonna be fun to watch him.
Speaker 1: And on some level, he reminds me a little bit
Speaker 1: of Roethlisberger um with his his creative ability, and that's
Speaker 1: the problem. Lot is gonna have to put up points
Speaker 1: because Roethlisberger has got mismatches all over the field. I know,
Speaker 1: Vick Fongio is great at coaching up cornerbacks. I mean,
Speaker 1: who else could put an undrafted guy and uh, a
Speaker 1: third rounder rookie in against Tennessee and be okay? I
Speaker 1: mean they I think the name of what is it,
Speaker 1: Michael osamudia Bus is his undrafted guy. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's great. You can coach him up as much as
Speaker 1: you want. These are mismatches against Juju and Deonte and
Speaker 1: and really this entire Steeler's wide receiver Crewer's this hard
Speaker 1: to imagine the Steelers not putting up some points in
Speaker 1: this game. As much as I respect your boy, Dan
Speaker 1: vick Fongio, all right, let's move forward. And I'm not
Speaker 1: counting him out. Mark, I'm saying this is a big
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give like your boy Gardner means you, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you some love for your boy a little
Speaker 1: later in the show. Uh. But Drew Lock, come on now,
Speaker 1: let's see him do it first. All right, I'm up next,
Speaker 1: I will go with Oh, this is this is a
Speaker 1: tough one, but I am gonna go with Rams at Eagles. Uh.
Speaker 1: With my next choice. I really liked where I saw
Speaker 1: from the Rams. Really all across the board. In Week
Speaker 1: one Sunday night, I thought that the offense was fun
Speaker 1: to watch, and it was clear that Sean McVeigh, a
Speaker 1: guy that sometimes weirdly now gets overlooked as one of
Speaker 1: the great minds because it's just been a narrative that
Speaker 1: played out a couple of years ago and we've moved
Speaker 1: on on some level, uh in the cogniscenti, but he
Speaker 1: still knows how to do call plays and you could
Speaker 1: tell he was doing things that we're keeping Jared Goff
Speaker 1: in a rhythm, kept them comfortable, more short passes, Adam's
Speaker 1: hand rollouts, uh to keep his issues with mobility at
Speaker 1: Bay Bay, and concerns about the offensive line. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the offensive line, they played a lot better than they
Speaker 1: did last year. And we all were right to have
Speaker 1: concerns about the line after last season, and they still
Speaker 1: might turn out to be a liability, but they're healthy
Speaker 1: right now and we saw that what they could do
Speaker 1: when they're healthy. And then the running game, Uh, we
Speaker 1: don't have Todd Gurley, but that didn't seem to be
Speaker 1: a problem against a very good team in Week one.
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to see the Rams and the
Speaker 1: Eagles they got to clean it up. They got to
Speaker 1: clean it up because that was ugly last week. It
Speaker 1: feels like one of the biggest games for any team
Speaker 1: is this Eagles team try and avoid oh and two
Speaker 1: because they're panicking. Uh in Philadelphia, and with that line
Speaker 1: being banged up, I'd be panicking a little too. With
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald coming to town. I was kicking myself after
Speaker 1: we did our Sunday night recap. Um. I just couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that I didn't mention Aaron Donald, that none of
Speaker 1: us mentioned Aaron Donald. This guy is so amazing that
Speaker 1: we almost take it for granted. But that performance in
Speaker 1: Week one, and I know you're not supposed to take
Speaker 1: you know, football points out of hard knocks necessarily, uh,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to because he was unblockable and hard
Speaker 1: knocks and he was unblockable in Leak one. That was
Speaker 1: the most pressurous he had in the game since eighteen.
Speaker 1: And Jason Kelsey, I know he's healthy, um, but he's
Speaker 1: getting up there in years and that the guards in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: It's just he can wreck a game all on his own.
Speaker 1: I give him the m v P from a week ago.
Speaker 1: He's the reason we're talking about the Rams offense is
Speaker 1: because Aaron Donald held that Cowboys defense down. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean the one thing, though, I
Speaker 1: understand that if the Eagles ever lost this like, Philly
Speaker 1: talk radio is just simply gonna explode from the inside out.
Speaker 1: You know, we've seen it before. Uh, They're not happy
Speaker 1: about much no matter what's going on in Philly. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I mean, when I look at Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: I still saw him make some incredible throws in that
Speaker 1: game to Dallas Goddard, to Jail and Rigor. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no questioning the arm I thinks too, And I
Speaker 1: think some of those eight sacks. You you've got to
Speaker 1: look at the way that Wentz plays and sometimes maybe
Speaker 1: another quarterback could have gotten out of some of that trouble. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, the entire ecosystem was blown up in Philly
Speaker 1: last week thanks to Chase Young and the Washington defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that going to happen again? Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: suggests it might, but I really think Philly is gonna
Speaker 1: have to come out and show something different. If you
Speaker 1: get Miles Sanders back, that helps. I mean, they just
Speaker 1: were off balance all game last week. Yeah, it's hard
Speaker 1: to say that. That's another one of those Week one
Speaker 1: things where it's like, how much do you put into
Speaker 1: a Washington you know, ten weeks from now, if they're
Speaker 1: the most defensive front seven that the league is seen,
Speaker 1: uh this year, it won't seem so bad that the
Speaker 1: Eagles struggled in Week one, which is a tough week
Speaker 1: historically for everyone to get on the same page on
Speaker 1: an offensive line. Or maybe yeah, you're right, the Eagles
Speaker 1: have major issues. Wentz has got to clean it up.
Speaker 1: Was not a good game for him. A lot of
Speaker 1: those sacks are on him, a lot of missed open throws.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just that guy, you know, I know the
Speaker 1: Eagles fans never want to hear, but he reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of McNair, where you know, he's a great quarterback,
Speaker 1: but he misses more gimmes than than other great quarterback.
Speaker 1: And and that's just been the case since since Week
Speaker 1: one of his rookie season. And I don't see that changing.
Speaker 1: And I say this with peace and love to the
Speaker 1: people of Philadelphia, because I know your maniacs over there.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna really feel sorry for where you are as
Speaker 1: a football fan base, right now he's still got the
Speaker 1: Nick Foles glory years right in your rear view. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of other franchises that have nothing. They
Speaker 1: get nothing, they get squat. You had one of the
Speaker 1: best Super Bowl wins in the history of that game.
Speaker 1: So come on, behave better please, Philly. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: welcome back, mark your pick. All right, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go um Washington and Arizona. I really enjoyed watching the
Speaker 1: Cardinals last week. And you know what felt good about it,
Speaker 1: It's this team that um could have been a disappointment
Speaker 1: after being pumped up month after month in the offseason,
Speaker 1: people thinking that Kyler Murray was gonna make a Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson type leap. I think Kyler Murray has me to leap.
Speaker 1: I mean, he played a really good game. You know that,
Speaker 1: both against the Niners. Both teams got off to a
Speaker 1: slow start. But then the DeAndre Hopkins chemistry came into play.
Speaker 1: And I know, we spent all summer saying they didn't
Speaker 1: practice together, didn't have a camp together. It just didn't matter.
Speaker 1: And we spent all summer saying they played four wide
Speaker 1: receiver sets left and right. DeAndre Hopkins is going to
Speaker 1: be drowned out. Well, he just did what he did
Speaker 1: in Houston and days of Old fourteen catches a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one yards what would have been a game
Speaker 1: winning touchdown at the end, but it was stopped at
Speaker 1: the one cent. The team in for the win right
Speaker 1: after that. I just think that Cliff Kingsbury has something here.
Speaker 1: I think coaches around the league gonna start cut copycatting this.
Speaker 1: Now you're playing a really interesting defense based on what
Speaker 1: we saw last week. So it's a very different challenge
Speaker 1: than what the banged up Niners presented last Sunday. Right
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are built though, to stop great defensive lines.
Speaker 1: They did it a week ago because they get rid
Speaker 1: of the ball so quick and because Murray most of
Speaker 1: those runs that we're seeing those were scrambles, they weren't
Speaker 1: called runs, and it's like, there's really no great defense
Speaker 1: to stop that. Murray and Kenyan Drake just break your ankles.
Speaker 1: But this front line, led by Chase Young has a
Speaker 1: shot at least. I mean, I learned some things about Washington.
Speaker 1: I think their secondary is gonna be better with Ron Rivera,
Speaker 1: who always coaches it up. And they were making plays
Speaker 1: on the ball, and I learned that Chase Young is
Speaker 1: gonna be a force. We don't need to wait around,
Speaker 1: and there's not gonna be any warming up. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's a young pick. It's like, no, Chase Young has
Speaker 1: come to play two forced fumbles in his first game.
Speaker 1: He was the best player on that entire team in
Speaker 1: his first game. The energy that he plays with where
Speaker 1: sometimes he's going after the quarterback that he realizes it's
Speaker 1: a screen and he runs down the running back who
Speaker 1: catches the screen. I mean, this guy, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. It's kind of what I wanted out of
Speaker 1: Jadevian Clowney and I love Clowney, but to me, they
Speaker 1: remind me a little bit of each other with the
Speaker 1: energy and the strength that he plays with. Which is
Speaker 1: interesting that you mentioned Clowney because Clowney was the last
Speaker 1: guy that got as much hype entering the draft um
Speaker 1: as Chase Young did. And yeah, like you said, Clowney
Speaker 1: has been a good but not great NFL player. But Young, yeah,
Speaker 1: right away he shows you I am I am the man.
Speaker 1: I am going to be an absolute wrecking ball. And
Speaker 1: when you take him and add him to a defensive
Speaker 1: line that was already quality. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see where things shake out for Washington because
Speaker 1: if Dwayne Haskins can raise his game up and be
Speaker 1: even just like a solid game manager, where they the
Speaker 1: offense is okay with a couple of good weeks here
Speaker 1: and there, if the defense terrorizes quarterbacks week after week
Speaker 1: and forces turnovers and puts other teams in difficult situations,
Speaker 1: and then you look at that division. I'm not getting
Speaker 1: two ahead of myself here, but you're buying some football
Speaker 1: team stock. I'm buying a little bit of stock in
Speaker 1: that football team franchise because the Cowboys are known to
Speaker 1: let us down there already owned one with a tough
Speaker 1: Week two assignment. We know what's going on with the
Speaker 1: gream and and the Eagles are a bit of a
Speaker 1: mess right now. Don't be surprised if Washington's hanging around
Speaker 1: in the NFC East race and a couple of months,
Speaker 1: because they have the pieces to do it. Dan, I
Speaker 1: really like it. There's one thing that you know, this
Speaker 1: is a completely different offense than a year ago under
Speaker 1: Scott's Turner the New l C. They were the seventh
Speaker 1: fastest team a week ago, and last year you remember
Speaker 1: I love their games because they'd be over in about
Speaker 1: a minute and forty an hour and forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: because they run the ball sixty times. They're different, and
Speaker 1: they have young pieces, and I know it's gonna take
Speaker 1: a little bit of time, but you're right. If they
Speaker 1: can manage to score and just you know, consistently put
Speaker 1: some drives together. If this defense looks the way it
Speaker 1: did last week, Ron Rivera is in for an interesting
Speaker 1: first year in Washington. Dan says, don't be surprised. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll be surprised. I think, yeah, They're coaching is better. Man.
Speaker 1: They're left tackle last week was was really struggling there
Speaker 1: on like their third spring left tackle. He's gonna go
Speaker 1: up against Chandler John. I just think this offense is
Speaker 1: gonna have a long way to go, So I'm not
Speaker 1: getting too excited. I am excited to see though, that
Speaker 1: the Cardinals as like a team that you expect to
Speaker 1: win a home game. So go go take care of business, Cardinals. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also like is you know, we cover the league
Speaker 1: breathlessly even in the off season, and we talked about
Speaker 1: all these off season narratives and how the season is
Speaker 1: gonna shake out and then of them seemed to blow
Speaker 1: up in everyone's faces, but DeAndre Hopkins immediately being an
Speaker 1: unbelievable number one wide receiver for Kyler Murray and the
Speaker 1: missing piece in his developed next step in the Lamarian League. Hey,
Speaker 1: that all played out exactly to plan UH in week one,
Speaker 1: So we'll see if that continues. Listen, looks like, you
Speaker 1: know what, we got all the way to week two
Speaker 1: before I messed up the order. But let's try to
Speaker 1: get back on track here, UH, and Greg, why don't
Speaker 1: we snake it up with you? Sorry, guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's let's get on track with the giving the UH
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champion m V peace and respect and
Speaker 1: get him off the board. Now it's it's Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: That's the Chargers, It's UH, it's so Fi Stadium. It's
Speaker 1: the division rival that has given Mahomes the most trouble.
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, the defense did a pretty good
Speaker 1: job against them at times last year, and if Joey
Speaker 1: Bosa is healthy for this game, they certainly still present
Speaker 1: UH some challenges. But I want to see if the
Speaker 1: Chiefs approach from Week one changes, because they quietly were
Speaker 1: very different, not just that they moved the ball up
Speaker 1: and down the field, but they went crazy heavy play action.
Speaker 1: Mahomes is one of the quarterbacks that they almost don't
Speaker 1: use play action at all. It's one of the only
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league that is has been worse on
Speaker 1: play action, which doesn't doesn't really make any sense, and
Speaker 1: they went wild with it against the Texans. It worked
Speaker 1: to some degree. You know, the Chargers are gonna be
Speaker 1: trying to defend that past. They have a nice defensive
Speaker 1: backfield despite the injuries. But I'm just curious if it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a sea change. I think that was Andy
Speaker 1: Reid's a little bit too to surprise the Texans in
Speaker 1: the Week one. It worked to some degree, and we'll
Speaker 1: see if it will work this week. You know. The
Speaker 1: only thing though, and I know that you can't injuries
Speaker 1: or injuries, but how different would it be if this
Speaker 1: defense in this game had Derwin James. You know, they
Speaker 1: lost Drew Tranquil as well. They're already banged up. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I just I you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be pessimistic about the Tyrod Taylor offense. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've hit on that multiple times. I well, I feel it,
Speaker 1: and this is This is a kind of the quest
Speaker 1: with Kansas City is how do you keep up with
Speaker 1: the team that you know, even if you hold them
Speaker 1: down for two quarters, they're gonna have that quarter or
Speaker 1: that spurt where they scored twenty one points. So I
Speaker 1: see a field goal offense with Tyrod Taylor. This is
Speaker 1: on the first four drives last week out of the gate.
Speaker 1: You'd think some of that would be scripted action where
Speaker 1: everyone knew what's coming. Fifty eight yards over the first
Speaker 1: four drives. I mean, just this is against the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 1: and I just helped me believe that this team, the
Speaker 1: way that they're constructed. I love that Anthony Lynn is
Speaker 1: sticking to his convictions. I mean, this guy wants to
Speaker 1: run the ball. He wants the quarterback to run the ball.
Speaker 1: But how do you hang in a game like this
Speaker 1: with one of the most prolific attacks we've ever experienced
Speaker 1: covering the NFL together, I don't think they can. And
Speaker 1: I wish a lot of things about but I wish
Speaker 1: so Fi Stadium for the Chargers debut had seventy people
Speaker 1: in it. Maybe even they wouldn't fill that place out, well,
Speaker 1: it would filled the Chiefs stands probably, but uh, I
Speaker 1: don't think a road matchup is gonna phase this Chief's offense.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's building proof. I think
Speaker 1: it's almost defense proof. I think they're that level of greatness.
Speaker 1: I found it interesting that Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who had
Speaker 1: that big Week one game a thirty eight yards on
Speaker 1: the ground, didn't even have a reception. It's like they
Speaker 1: have so many ways to beat you that they could
Speaker 1: put up thirty four points as they did against Houston
Speaker 1: in Week one and feel like they're only half paying
Speaker 1: attention like there were. I looked this up. I asked
Speaker 1: the NFL media research to look this up. Four teams
Speaker 1: didn't score thirty four points one slast year, and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs did it unlike a C minus game for them.
Speaker 1: So I think they're just at that special level, maybe
Speaker 1: a team that comes across around once every ten twenty years,
Speaker 1: where unless you have an offense that could keep up
Speaker 1: and then get a couple of big plays on defense,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna beat them. And I just don't think
Speaker 1: the Chargers have the firepower right I've picked on Lynn
Speaker 1: for this approach. Now you could say they had a
Speaker 1: certain idea of how they wanted to attack the Bengals
Speaker 1: that they can hang in a low scoring It proved
Speaker 1: proved me wrong. Uh, Anthony Lynn, because you're going up
Speaker 1: against the Chief's cornerbacks. All right, can we name him here?
Speaker 1: Antonio Hamilton's Legarius Sneed, Rashad Fenton. These are these are
Speaker 1: attackable guys. And you didn't see kind of the personnel
Speaker 1: or even the scheme diversity out of the charges that
Speaker 1: you would like to see. Last week. It was kind
Speaker 1: of less rolling the same receivers out there every snap.
Speaker 1: You're going three tight ends. Your whole offense is going
Speaker 1: deep to Mike Williams when you do throw like Tyrod
Speaker 1: can throw it a little bit like I I I'm
Speaker 1: with you guys that you gotta get aggressive because that,
Speaker 1: to me is attacking the weakness of it. It's it's
Speaker 1: that or use your defensive line power to create turnovers.
Speaker 1: There aren't that many games for Patrick Mahomes has multiple turnovers,
Speaker 1: but there's been a couple. I mean, you could think
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl where you're open. Your opponent in
Speaker 1: that game had a chance. You just you have caught
Speaker 1: to cause chaos with your strength, which is Joey Bosa
Speaker 1: and the Pete Melvin Ingram and the people around him.
Speaker 1: But if that doesn't happen, this thing is lights out.
Speaker 1: I could hear our buddy, Matt money Smith, if he
Speaker 1: was watching this or listening to this now, just yelling that, well,
Speaker 1: but you're not giving the Chargers defense enough credit. Even
Speaker 1: without Derwin James, they have that ability. Okay. I just
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs are one in a million type team
Speaker 1: that even if you have a a very good defense, uh,
Speaker 1: if you're not simply great, I don't think you're stopping
Speaker 1: him right now. Maybe maybe we'll be wrong. But the
Speaker 1: good thing is we know Matt money Smith is not
Speaker 1: watching this or listening, so we won't have to have
Speaker 1: that conversation with him. I'm certain I think you're right, Greg.
Speaker 1: It snakes back to you. Okay. You know the fans
Speaker 1: didn't think I was gonna go Bill's Dolphins. Right here.
Speaker 1: They're they're saying it's a reach Rosenthal. They're wrong. They're
Speaker 1: saying that you hate the Bills too, that's what they say. Well,
Speaker 1: that is so not true, New York I. I don't
Speaker 1: believe in Josh Allen long term. The Bills fans are
Speaker 1: coming after one week saying you believe in him? Now,
Speaker 1: it's like no, I mean that that game is a
Speaker 1: game we've seen out of him. I do believe in
Speaker 1: Brian Dable though, and I do believe you can play
Speaker 1: an offensive round Josh Allen strength, which they're no longer
Speaker 1: letting him throw the ball intermediate or deep at all
Speaker 1: because he misses. It's all short stuff. You can't do
Speaker 1: that forever. But it was working. You know, the scheme
Speaker 1: got him open. And they've spent the whole offseason saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna run Josh Allen anymore. That that was
Speaker 1: such a fake out because they ran him more in
Speaker 1: that game than they ever have in terms of called
Speaker 1: designed Josh Allen runs. And you know what, I love it.
Speaker 1: We We've said on this podcast a lot that I
Speaker 1: think in the best case scenario, he's a poor man's
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, and uh that he that's what he looked
Speaker 1: like last week, poor man's Cam news But also if
Speaker 1: you're if you're the Bills, you look at what Cam
Speaker 1: Newton did to the Dolphins and the way that Cam
Speaker 1: Newton had one of his better days, and you know,
Speaker 1: why not just do the same thing and I think
Speaker 1: Brian Dable doesn't get enough credit for being a really
Speaker 1: pretty creative fensive play caller who will switch things up.
Speaker 1: He really did down the stretch last year. He played
Speaker 1: with pace a lot um with the Bills that helped
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I think you're right that they're taking away
Speaker 1: some of those throws that caused him chaos a year ago.
Speaker 1: You know, Miami is way more pieces on defense than
Speaker 1: they did in ten. But I still think they're attackable.
Speaker 1: And I mean, if if Buffalo were to lose this game,
Speaker 1: we'd have to look at it as a thunderous upset
Speaker 1: in my book. And I mean, to me, I've been
Speaker 1: kind of tracking Zack Moss and Devin Singletary. I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the Zack Moss Hello to the
Speaker 1: World game where if you have him on your fantasy team,
Speaker 1: you might think which time to start thinking about starting
Speaker 1: this guy because he's a little bit of a red
Speaker 1: zone Uh he's a red zone weapon and they're gonna
Speaker 1: line them up and have him score touchdowns. I was
Speaker 1: looking for the term what's the one Dan about what
Speaker 1: they called, uh, the one guy who's in the red
Speaker 1: zone vault, the red zone vault if you're gonna be
Speaker 1: a fantasy you know guy suddenly in the one eighty
Speaker 1: turn from Sessler where now he's just dropping fantasy. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's called versatility. It's versatility. That's what i'd
Speaker 1: like to That's what i'd call it. I think the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are not a very good team. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna struggle this year. I think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: one of many losses for them, And so I don't
Speaker 1: even know what I gotta be honest, like with the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: I don't know how invested I'm gonna be in or
Speaker 1: how excited I'm gonna be turning on game pass until
Speaker 1: two it gets involved with that offense. On on the
Speaker 1: Bill's side of it, I thought that Josh Allen poopoo
Speaker 1: platter in Week one was kind of fun to watch
Speaker 1: because you got it all. I mean you got you
Speaker 1: got great plays with his legs. Uh, given the Jets
Speaker 1: defense fits. You had his first three yard game where
Speaker 1: he was pretty accurate on a fair number of throws,
Speaker 1: but then you had some hideous airmails where they should
Speaker 1: have absolutely put away the Jets. Uh. They should have
Speaker 1: turned that game into an absolute embarrassment. Forty Burger style,
Speaker 1: but instead the fourth quarter, the game is still somewhat
Speaker 1: in doubt because he puts the ball in the carpet twice.
Speaker 1: He misses a couple of been touchdown throws. So you
Speaker 1: look at the whole game and it's like, I saw
Speaker 1: really good stuff. I saw more bad stuff. So I
Speaker 1: still feel exactly the same about Josh Allen, even after
Speaker 1: people were like, oh, yeah, he had his best passing
Speaker 1: day ever and he didn't throw an interception. Uh, you
Speaker 1: watched that game and it's still a guy that's a
Speaker 1: little hot and cold. So I really liked them in
Speaker 1: this game. But Josh Allen to me, is still jury
Speaker 1: out as we are now into year three right and then,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphin strength is in the secondary, so I
Speaker 1: don't think they'll throw it again this week. I this
Speaker 1: was another game, but this is my new running team.
Speaker 1: I was gonta lock this up, and I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't know if it would be allowed. Would this game
Speaker 1: have been allowed for I think it would have been
Speaker 1: a bit of a ghostly visage in the mirror if
Speaker 1: you locked up. It's it's early though, and um, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna totally count out the Dolphins from improving. Even
Speaker 1: even though I am very confident the Bills win this game,
Speaker 1: this is a big game for the Dolphins, So flories,
Speaker 1: the worst thing you can do is go into a
Speaker 1: year division to start the year. So if they really
Speaker 1: do want to make stra I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: big time game for the Dolphins. And conversely, Bills, if
Speaker 1: you want us to look at you as a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl contender, go take care of business. Get to know
Speaker 1: what better way to start your season. If schedule makers, Jets, Dolphins,
Speaker 1: come on, Bills, do what you gotta do. All right,
Speaker 1: I am upamama, I'm gonna, I'm gonna let's go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get to watch Aaron Rodgers again on Sunday. I'll
Speaker 1: do that because I did that last week and I
Speaker 1: had the time of my life. Because Aaron Rodgers was
Speaker 1: a beautiful thrower of the football and just ran that
Speaker 1: offense with great precision. So we see if that is
Speaker 1: uh something of an anomaly and he and he goes
Speaker 1: back to being the overly cautious guy. Uh that kind
Speaker 1: of gives you fits as we saw the last two years.
Speaker 1: Or if this is really gonna be a thing, and
Speaker 1: it seems like the script is set up for it
Speaker 1: to to go down again because he's at home. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he's against the Lions, and I don't even know
Speaker 1: where the Lions are at. This is where you really
Speaker 1: need good head coaching. I don't know if the Lions
Speaker 1: have good head coaching. When you lose a game in
Speaker 1: the fashion that the Lions lost to a division rival
Speaker 1: in Week one, uh, the way they blew the lead
Speaker 1: to Mitch Trobinsky of all people in your building, and
Speaker 1: the DeAndre Swift, this guy that you're so high on,
Speaker 1: has one of the most egregious, gnarly drops that I
Speaker 1: remember in a regular season game that literally cost this
Speaker 1: team the game. Like, how do you bounce back from that?
Speaker 1: Now against the defending division champion. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: gut check time and week two for the Lions and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers show continues for Green Bay. If I were
Speaker 1: the Lions, and if I were Darryl Bevillo, I would
Speaker 1: get Swift involved right away because I think he's a
Speaker 1: key part of what you want to do on offense
Speaker 1: down down the road here in Detroit. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: do anything, and you got to just put that, uh
Speaker 1: put what happened last week into the into the rear
Speaker 1: view mirror, and to me, though, it's this Lions secondary.
Speaker 1: I mean they went you know, the injuries hurt them
Speaker 1: last week. They really did a good job against Miss
Speaker 1: Robinsky the defense until the fourth quarter when somehow Mr
Speaker 1: Robinsky like supersized and went nuts and tore them apart.
Speaker 1: And now you're dealing with someone that's not going to
Speaker 1: be streaky like Mitch Drobinsky, but he physically got bigger.
Speaker 1: I think he just got like, you know, like maybe
Speaker 1: added like twenty five pounds of muscle in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter out of nowhere, like built it like just so
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was made of. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I was watching that thing and it just
Speaker 1: surprised me because I really was out on Mr Robinsky
Speaker 1: and like he he was completing some beautiful passes, but
Speaker 1: a lot of it was because Detroit is really banged
Speaker 1: up and they're not you know, they're getting a couple
Speaker 1: of people back, but they're not a lot healthier this week.
Speaker 1: So I don't like the combo there at all. Right,
Speaker 1: Jeff Okudas expected to come back, but he supposedly struggled
Speaker 1: in training camp and wasn't even necessarily going to start
Speaker 1: a top five pick. It doesn't get any uglier than that.
Speaker 1: I think if Patricia loses his job this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it's early, but man, he's oh and five
Speaker 1: against Mr Drobiski. Doesn't get any word than go and
Speaker 1: own five against Trabinsky and blowing at seventeen point lead
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. I mean, we almost undersold what
Speaker 1: a catastrophic loss that is. And I'm with you it
Speaker 1: This is like a week that you learn something about them.
Speaker 1: And look, they can try as hard as they want,
Speaker 1: and they can coach up their offense. Well, um, I
Speaker 1: think they have some advantages maybe when they run the ball.
Speaker 1: The Packers are a little thin right now. Kenny Clark's
Speaker 1: banged up. Their defensive line didn't look very good, so
Speaker 1: I think the lines will be able to run the ball,
Speaker 1: like you said with swift Mark, but you can try
Speaker 1: as hard as you want. That might be a tough
Speaker 1: one to get over. We don't root for these things,
Speaker 1: but we do track them. In fact, we do something
Speaker 1: called the hot Butt rankings on the Around the NFL
Speaker 1: podcast from time to time. If they can't find a
Speaker 1: way to win in Green Bay, the lines would drop
Speaker 1: to OWN two. Then they're back on the road in
Speaker 1: week three at Arizona, another very tough game could be
Speaker 1: owing three. Then they come home to face the Saints,
Speaker 1: one of the true juggernauts of their conference. And then
Speaker 1: the worst part, the worst part of this for Mr
Speaker 1: Patricia bye week. You go owing forward to your bye
Speaker 1: week ownership has a it's unfair motivation to make a
Speaker 1: move there. Yeah, it's unfair because the injuries really work
Speaker 1: key and that includes Kenny Golladay, Like they're just not
Speaker 1: the same offense without them. They're leaning on Peterson and
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson. I mean that kind of slipped under the
Speaker 1: radar too. It's crazy people are that he came in there.
Speaker 1: This should be put on Peterson's Hall of Fame plaque
Speaker 1: that he came to practice for three days in Detroit
Speaker 1: at age thirty five and he beat out DeAndrea, Shift
Speaker 1: Swift and carry on Johnson in those games. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear that those guys are banged up. They're playing.
Speaker 1: They're healthy enough to play. Adrian Peterson's just better. He
Speaker 1: justified it. He looked great. I mean, it's amazing. Ques here.
Speaker 1: I've never actually been to Canton. Do they have plaques?
Speaker 1: I know they have the bust, of course. I mean
Speaker 1: they're a nice little graph. I think unless you totally
Speaker 1: Mr remembering and thinking about Cooper's downbou, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: they've got a nice little paragraph and that's Peterson's paragraph. Well,
Speaker 1: I know Cooper's down Baseball has the plaque and then
Speaker 1: they have the plaque. They got the bust, and they
Speaker 1: got the plaque under. I mean, I've been to Canton
Speaker 1: multiple time. There's there's a lot of plaques. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of bus I think Gregg is confusing some you
Speaker 1: don't even some remembrances here, But that's that's for some
Speaker 1: reason Greg's memory, it just comes in and out for
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know like that. My mom's
Speaker 1: like that too. Yeah, I know what you're trying to say,
Speaker 1: but it's just genetic. Okay, sure, Mark, you're up all right? Well,
Speaker 1: I love where I'm going here. How does this game
Speaker 1: still hanging around Carolina at Tampa Bay? Lots going on here?
Speaker 1: Number one? Uh, Tom Brady value you like to pick
Speaker 1: or you don't like it? It's yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: you know, I I got the weird first overall picks.
Speaker 1: So the second time I'm picking, you're already in hot water.
Speaker 1: But I like this one. I want to see how
Speaker 1: Carolina responds to Tom Brady probably being very agitated about
Speaker 1: every all the talking heads, all the little chucklers saying
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady is not Tom Brady anymore. Here's where
Speaker 1: I give him a break. PFF marked him with six
Speaker 1: big throws. That's up there among all the quarterbacks last week. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know he had the interceptions, but that was there
Speaker 1: was some communic communication breakdown there. Tom Brady doesn't vibe
Speaker 1: to me the same way we talked about young quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Will that happen again? Can you? He's going to have
Speaker 1: that house in order. They're gonna work on that, and
Speaker 1: you're playing a completely different defense here in Carolina. You know,
Speaker 1: I love that they drafted Derek Brown. I think he'll
Speaker 1: be a good player. He did not have a good
Speaker 1: week one. He did not make a big impact last week.
Speaker 1: They've got like seven guys on that defense that we're
Speaker 1: in college a year ago, so that's gonna take time.
Speaker 1: I think this is a bounce back scenario for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: But I like Carolina's offense because what I like about
Speaker 1: it is they didn't try to come in and the
Speaker 1: guys that were there last year and do everything differently.
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey was Christian McCaffrey. Matt Rule told us, you know,
Speaker 1: when he was on our show that he he you know,
Speaker 1: he has a relationship with Robbie Anderson. I know that
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson doesn't know if it's a bear or a
Speaker 1: panther that's dancing in the end zone. I get all that,
Speaker 1: but Robbie Anderson was productive last week, and I think
Speaker 1: that he's a good part of this offense. D J.
Speaker 1: Moore was involved heavily. So I just want to see
Speaker 1: against a very good Bucks defense that shutdown McCaffrey twice
Speaker 1: a year ago. Um, they can find a way out
Speaker 1: of this. This is an interesting matchup. I really think, Carolina,
Speaker 1: I probably have too much faith at this point in
Speaker 1: Matt Rule can be a little bit spicy in these
Speaker 1: types of games. I don't just give this to Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: you know, without thinking about Obviously, Matt Rule has earned
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt in the NFL, so I
Speaker 1: understand that I know you will not like him until
Speaker 1: he has maybe two or three Lombardies on a shelf somewhere.
Speaker 1: But I tell you had a nice he did. You
Speaker 1: gotta admit that, Dan, right? Sure? They were competitive, Yeah,
Speaker 1: their offense. They lost it home to the Raiders, who
Speaker 1: are like an eight and eight team at best. So
Speaker 1: I'm not I am not going to hand out any
Speaker 1: lollipops for that. I'm not gonna hand out lollipops quite yet.
Speaker 1: For Brady Um and Arians working together though, too. I'm
Speaker 1: with you, Mark. Brady made a lot of good throws.
Speaker 1: He didn't play as poorly as people thought. But I
Speaker 1: think tape dogs look at what happened last week and
Speaker 1: they see this blend of Tom Brady's offense. They ran
Speaker 1: some Patriots plays. I mean you could you could recognize
Speaker 1: them with Scotty Miller and in some of the tight ends.
Speaker 1: And then the Arians offense, which is just leave your
Speaker 1: five linemen up there and let your quarterback hang out
Speaker 1: for a while and take some hits, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to figure out that mix that maybe the Arians,
Speaker 1: you know, postgame comments are a little bit about that.
Speaker 1: It's like, how are we gonna win? Are we gonna
Speaker 1: play your way? Are we gonna play my way. These
Speaker 1: are two strong willed guys. Mike Evans didn't know what
Speaker 1: was going on in terms of the sin routes. You
Speaker 1: could tell they weren't on the same page. Like that's
Speaker 1: gonna take time, and I don't know how that plays out.
Speaker 1: It's perfect for Brady though, that they get to this
Speaker 1: Panthers defense and if you look ahead, they really don't
Speaker 1: have a ton of tough defensive matchup, so so that
Speaker 1: might be their number one saving grace as the schedule
Speaker 1: makers just set it up nicely for that. Greg. That
Speaker 1: is a great point because when you think about, like
Speaker 1: when Peyton Manning went to the Broncos, it wasn't hey,
Speaker 1: let's mix five different offensive schemes together. It was Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning's offense from the jump. And was is there a
Speaker 1: disservice on some level when you have Brady for probably
Speaker 1: let's say you have them for two years. Why not
Speaker 1: just give Tom Brady exactly what he's comfortable with. I mean,
Speaker 1: arians has his offense that he's comfortable with and ran
Speaker 1: it with Big Ben and all these other guys too.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I wonder if the mishmash of these
Speaker 1: two schemes is how much time until they get it right.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see a less confused offense um
Speaker 1: from week to week. But can you really blend these
Speaker 1: two schemes together. It does make me think too a
Speaker 1: tough se suation for Tom Brady because Peyton Manning had
Speaker 1: the benefit of the great Adam gaze up there and
Speaker 1: these arians is the guy down in Tampa. But no,
Speaker 1: I I totally I'm on board with what you guys
Speaker 1: are saying. And the other thing, when you were like
Speaker 1: setting this game up, I was sinking, Oh, there's no way,
Speaker 1: there's no way tom Brady starting. Oh and two he's
Speaker 1: at home coming on but this But you know what,
Speaker 1: his head coach isn't Bill Belichick anymore, and he's not
Speaker 1: Tom Brady anymore, or at least the Tom Brady that
Speaker 1: you know became the greatest quarterback ever. So I think
Speaker 1: this game is dicey. I like the Bucks in this game,
Speaker 1: but just assume since Tom Brady is behind center, that
Speaker 1: they are going to get right. This could be a
Speaker 1: tough game. And I kid marked because I know you
Speaker 1: love Matt Rule with every fiber of your being. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was a good start. They got out of the Gate,
Speaker 1: and they were competitive, they put up points. So this
Speaker 1: is not gonna be a Panther's team that is going
Speaker 1: to be a complete team that's gonna roll over for
Speaker 1: the great Tom Brady. This could be could be a
Speaker 1: tough one for Tommy boy. Also, where was Bronk in
Speaker 1: that offense? I no, he, I think he played a
Speaker 1: fair number of snaps compared to the other didn't but
Speaker 1: it didn't look great. We'll he he wasn't moving to
Speaker 1: the Bucks defense though, is why I'm surprised you guys
Speaker 1: think this will be so feisty. Uh. I really believe
Speaker 1: in this Bucks defense being a difference maker, and and
Speaker 1: he gives Brady a nice margin for air. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's a good point too. Alright, Mark Snakes to you,
Speaker 1: It's Snakes to me. I'm gonna go Bucks. Got got
Speaker 1: a lot of one o'clock games here. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a busy Sunday. Might have to just wanted these
Speaker 1: out to Luke and Calton to watch on different television.
Speaker 1: But um, I'm gonna go Giants at Bears. What's that
Speaker 1: good stall tactic there? Yes? Everyone, it absolutely was. Look,
Speaker 1: we got a list, A lot of lists are on
Speaker 1: a laptop. I loved what I saw from the Giants
Speaker 1: on Monday night. They are a very incomplete team. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that they're a great team. I just had
Speaker 1: fun watching them, and I grew up watching the Giants,
Speaker 1: so it's really just probably more dipped in nostalgia than
Speaker 1: it is anything else. Um. You know, they were dealing
Speaker 1: with the Steelers defense that basically said you're not going
Speaker 1: to run the ball at all tonight. Um and everyone,
Speaker 1: you know, fantasy heads who have se Kwan Barkley or like,
Speaker 1: you know, cutting off their arms and legs at this point, well,
Speaker 1: hang around because I think it's gonna get a little
Speaker 1: bit better. I don't float. Don't cut over your fantasy star, right,
Speaker 1: that would be an overreaction. I just want to see
Speaker 1: the growth of Daniel Jones. For as frustrated as I
Speaker 1: get by Mr r Bisky, Um, Daniel Jones makes a
Speaker 1: lot of mistakes too, alright, But for something about him,
Speaker 1: his style, his aggressive nature, his daring do I'm all
Speaker 1: about it. I love it, and I think that like
Speaker 1: the Giants are fun and they you know, you look
Speaker 1: at the end of the game nineteen play drive that
Speaker 1: ended to no points all right, you want to have points.
Speaker 1: We get that, but they follow it up with a
Speaker 1: thirteen play drive for seventy yards in a touchdown. I
Speaker 1: just see an offense that's gonna grow as the year
Speaker 1: goes along. Do I think that Jason Garrett is the
Speaker 1: first person I'd want is my play caller? I don't know,
Speaker 1: not head coach, but I I I'm the jury is
Speaker 1: out on on you know, ruling against him as a
Speaker 1: play caller. I think this. I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of weapons here, and maybe am I am I alone here?
Speaker 1: I think you guys like Daniel Jones too. I just
Speaker 1: think this matchup is interesting. I think the Giants are
Speaker 1: gonna win. I've I'm gonna do a Greg thing here.
Speaker 1: I came very close to locking up the gmn um,
Speaker 1: but well, it felt it's a little bit too like
Speaker 1: what I normally do, which is gets sold into something
Speaker 1: and then on Sunday around five o'clock California time, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what were you smoking back on Thursday when you made
Speaker 1: this pick on a podcast? So I'm sticking with my
Speaker 1: first luck. Well, guess what, Let's bring in our great producer,
Speaker 1: Erica tam Pose, because Ricky she has something she'd like
Speaker 1: to say. She's involved in the locks competition this year.
Speaker 1: She got off to a tough start. I believe, I
Speaker 1: believe she is. Oh and one, she needs a w
Speaker 1: you don't want to start owing. Two and she's got
Speaker 1: something to say. The floor is yours, Erica Mark. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do your confidence for you, and I am gonna
Speaker 1: lock up the Giants because I think you know, the
Speaker 1: Bears really struggled last week until you know, got hot, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And I think you know Sa Kwan didn't get off
Speaker 1: to as big of a start as we expected to.
Speaker 1: And everyone talks about the Bears defense and Khalil Mack
Speaker 1: and all this, and that, no, the Giants are gonna
Speaker 1: take it. Watch. I argue that the offense. You the
Speaker 1: fact that they hung in that Steelers game, and I
Speaker 1: know that the Steelers were clearly the better team and
Speaker 1: the game was kind of decided by the time he
Speaker 1: got into the fourth quarter, The fact that Jones kept
Speaker 1: them interesting and kept the offense moving when C Kwon
Speaker 1: Barkley was having a historically terrible game, there is reason
Speaker 1: to be excited. In fact, as a Jets fan, I
Speaker 1: was a little envious watching how comfortable Jones looked in
Speaker 1: the first game of the second year compared to the
Speaker 1: way Donald looked in the first game of his third year. So,
Speaker 1: Giants fans, don't despair. Now you got Ricky on your side,
Speaker 1: and I feel like now everything And how about how
Speaker 1: about this? How about this? You know, everyone talks about
Speaker 1: the Giants defense like, is there any kind of major
Speaker 1: you know, stars there. They were confusing Big Ben for
Speaker 1: a lot of that game. So and tra Whisky is
Speaker 1: not Big Ben, I think so. I think that they
Speaker 1: were they were making they were putting a little bit
Speaker 1: more pressure on him than we would have expected the
Speaker 1: Giants to do. So tri Wisky is not Big Ben. Okay,
Speaker 1: so imagine what's going to happen? So what right, whatever
Speaker 1: you're saying? How about Trabisky the Giants? I thought the
Speaker 1: Giants defense was gonna get absolutely shredded by the Steelers.
Speaker 1: That didn't quite play out that way. Trabisky has a
Speaker 1: nice set up here greg to string together back to
Speaker 1: back games. Well, at least, he only really played one
Speaker 1: good quarter in Week one, but the Giants defense should
Speaker 1: not be impossible for him to put together a few
Speaker 1: more scoring drives. Man, if you look at the Bear schedule,
Speaker 1: they don't play any good defenses for a long time.
Speaker 1: They barely play any really good defenses all season. It
Speaker 1: is setting up for Rabinsky, the fool of the Bears.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. He was nine for twenty two
Speaker 1: to start that game. Even during that comeback, at one
Speaker 1: point he like threw the ball backwards and if if
Speaker 1: the Lions had just fallen on it, the game was over.
Speaker 1: And that was the blooper play that everyone's talking about.
Speaker 1: So I was not at all convinced in Robinsky. I mean,
Speaker 1: every catch that h Miller and Alan Robinson made seemed
Speaker 1: like they were amazing catches. And uh, I thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting if you listen to Joe Judge this week
Speaker 1: some comments he made about Danny Dimes. Man, he loves
Speaker 1: him some Danny Dimes. He said he loved how he
Speaker 1: stands in the pocket like a man. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a Joe Judge comment. You know, he's like acting like
Speaker 1: a man. And he pointed out, I think that if
Speaker 1: you look at the all time greats, what they had
Speaker 1: around them early in his their career is a commonality.
Speaker 1: He was kind of saying, like, well, we don't really
Speaker 1: have that yet, so like, I'm gonna give this dude
Speaker 1: a break because I think he is special. Um. And
Speaker 1: now it was an interesting thing for Judge to say,
Speaker 1: like he was almost admitting that they're not there yet.
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, Ricky. I do the game picks
Speaker 1: u NFL dot Com game picks. I took the Giants too,
Speaker 1: So we're we're all. We're all on the Giant all right,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ricky. Great to see it. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: we move on. It comes back to me and I
Speaker 1: will do everyone a favor. I will take the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners at the Meadow ends to face the
Speaker 1: New York Jets. And you know this is one of
Speaker 1: those It's turning into yet another Murphy's Law season for
Speaker 1: the Jets. In addition to having all their problems personnel wise,
Speaker 1: head coaching wise, now they're super banged up. Levy On
Speaker 1: Bell moved to injured reserve with a hamstring injury, so
Speaker 1: we won't see him till week five at the soonest uh,
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder has been out of practice this week with
Speaker 1: a hamstring. And if if if they don't have Crowd
Speaker 1: or if they don't have Bell, who if they don't
Speaker 1: have Denzel Mims also on. I r this idea of
Speaker 1: Sam Donald having any chance of success. I just don't
Speaker 1: sit And he played terribly Donald in Week one. On
Speaker 1: top of everything else, he missed throws and he did
Speaker 1: not make the right decisions, and he did the type
Speaker 1: of bone headed mistakes that need to be out of
Speaker 1: his game by now. But again, it's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you expect him to be better when Chris
Speaker 1: Hogan is on the outside. Chris Hogan picked off off
Speaker 1: the street. And I said before the show starts today,
Speaker 1: I honestly think because I played softball with Greg couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, and he moves pretty well for a
Speaker 1: man deep into his forties, I think that Greg would
Speaker 1: do better getting open in the slot than than Hogan
Speaker 1: could on a football field at this stage. And so
Speaker 1: the Jets offense is not going to score a lot
Speaker 1: of points, and it's a perfect setup for the Niners,
Speaker 1: who it's not easy for a West Coast team to
Speaker 1: come fly east and play an early game, which is
Speaker 1: what's happening here. But I mean, come on, Niners, you
Speaker 1: are the defending conference champions. You got humbled a little
Speaker 1: bit in Week one and I know you're dealing with
Speaker 1: your own injury issues because your quarterback, your golden boy,
Speaker 1: Jimmy g went up high on George Kittle and gave
Speaker 1: him a sprain knee, so we don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on with him. Their wide receivers are still banged up,
Speaker 1: of course, but you're the Niners. You should swallow up
Speaker 1: this Jets team with your defense and then making enough plays,
Speaker 1: find a way on offense, and just get out of
Speaker 1: get out of Jersey with a seven to ten win,
Speaker 1: and then get everything back on track. There's no excuses
Speaker 1: here for the Niners, no excuses at all. I would
Speaker 1: like to see Greg get jammed about at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage by Patrick Peterson and see how open he
Speaker 1: got on the field. But beyond that, I mean, that
Speaker 1: was the nicest thing Dan's ever said to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that short area quickly, it seems right. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be, you know, rocking those feet.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you say, you know what, they're
Speaker 1: just moving quickly. No, you got it. You you had
Speaker 1: it right when you said I'm gonna be rocking those feet.
Speaker 1: I won't take it away from you. Different word I
Speaker 1: think this is a big game for whehe must start like, um,
Speaker 1: he had a you know, a couple of big plays
Speaker 1: last week. They've got a lot of good backs, But
Speaker 1: why keep it simple? I mean, you're really banged up. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I just if I'm the Niners, I'm with
Speaker 1: you Dan that there's no excuse not to Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: there's no excuse. And I the one my one concern
Speaker 1: about Sam Donald, and it's this. It's it's overt and
Speaker 1: it's obvious, and it's the same concern I have about
Speaker 1: you know, Cleveland's quarterback and a lot of young quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that get to year three and you're not seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of progress. It's just the mismanagement around him. And
Speaker 1: just I'm I just wish we could have a cleaner
Speaker 1: look into how he's being treated week to week and coached,
Speaker 1: because you really want to see growth, because there are
Speaker 1: these moments from Sam Donald and it's it's streaky, but
Speaker 1: they'll he'll have it sometimes would be like two games
Speaker 1: in a row where everyone's back on board because he
Speaker 1: can do everything that you ask, but then it goes away.
Speaker 1: And so I think some of that is coaching and
Speaker 1: some of that is getting you know, building confidence. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, none of us are quarterback gurus, but you
Speaker 1: know when you watch a player make a leap, a
Speaker 1: lot of it has to do with the ecosystem around him,
Speaker 1: and then the coaches and the people in his ear
Speaker 1: and just the schooling going on along with the physical
Speaker 1: skills that he has. So the concern is what's going
Speaker 1: on around Sam Donald. And that's why I said it's
Speaker 1: Merphy's law because in addition to the questions you have
Speaker 1: and everyone has about Adam Gaze and is this rebuilt
Speaker 1: offensive line gonna take then you just get the Jetsy stuff,
Speaker 1: which is Mims, Bell and Crowd are all banged up.
Speaker 1: It's like this was not a team that had depth
Speaker 1: to start with on offense. And if you take them
Speaker 1: all out of play potentially by week two, well, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you learn anything? Right? It says
Speaker 1: It says everything that Hogan stepped off the street right
Speaker 1: into playing every snap. But you want to see better
Speaker 1: instincts out of Donald and that's and yeah, maybe his
Speaker 1: head is just scrambled. But you know, Baldy had a
Speaker 1: great breakdown this week where he's on the run on
Speaker 1: a play and he's got a receiver deep and that's
Speaker 1: just the scrambled drill. And you haven't seen Donald create
Speaker 1: as much as you would hope when he is on
Speaker 1: the run and things aren't going well. And then you
Speaker 1: get to the stuff that that you mentioned, Dan, which
Speaker 1: is coaching, which is like they're taking delay of games
Speaker 1: after kickoffs. They're like running screens in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field with no time out with seconds left. And
Speaker 1: to me that that is more coaching. You can't put
Speaker 1: that on a third year quarterback. It's just where they
Speaker 1: don't look organized, like, yeah, you want Donald to take
Speaker 1: control of the situation, but that that's ugly and that
Speaker 1: that can't continue or else. Yeah, we see Greg Williams
Speaker 1: as the head coach of this team. I think they
Speaker 1: got a chance in this game. I mean, let's not
Speaker 1: undersell the forty niners injuries. They're missing Richard Sherman. They
Speaker 1: might be missing a killer weatherspoon, they're missing I youk
Speaker 1: right now. De Ford looked like a shell of himself
Speaker 1: when he was on the field last week, did not
Speaker 1: play well like they They are banged up too, So
Speaker 1: I think the Jets have a little bit of a
Speaker 1: chance here. We'll see, all right, we have one more
Speaker 1: game according to my calculations, and Greg, you're picking it
Speaker 1: all right. I got the old Jaguars tight ends kind
Speaker 1: of deserves Yeah, well the Titans. To me, you know
Speaker 1: there'll be a special defense. Um when I see it,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that there are a difference maker on deference.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think the Jaguards, who played efficient
Speaker 1: football last week, are gonna be a problem for Tennessee
Speaker 1: in this game. This this is one of those games, um,
Speaker 1: move the rainmakers tempted to come out. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know, should he just do it? I guess why not.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I like the Jaguars to keep this
Speaker 1: game close. I am surprised that the Titans are being
Speaker 1: viewed as some big time juggernaut favorite in any situation.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've earned that. Their sloppy last week.
Speaker 1: They were a nine and seven team a year ago.
Speaker 1: That that caught fire at the end, But on balance,
Speaker 1: they were a nine and seven team. And I think
Speaker 1: your boy Mark Gardner Minshew and Jay Gruden could be
Speaker 1: a perfect parent and it could be so good that
Speaker 1: it's gonna make them think we should keep these two together.
Speaker 1: I loved what I saw out of them last week,
Speaker 1: and I think the offense that Ruten runs can't Minshew
Speaker 1: just be a better version of Dalton or even maybe
Speaker 1: a similar version to Cousins, but with a little more athleticism.
Speaker 1: I think he can and I think this is the
Speaker 1: offense for him. Yeah. You know the one thing that
Speaker 1: I noticed from Minshew and it it was it was
Speaker 1: happening early last year and you were thinking, is he
Speaker 1: just not having to think too much because he's so
Speaker 1: he's in there and he's so raw that a lot
Speaker 1: of times he used his feet to turn a negative
Speaker 1: play into a positive. I think it's a legit trade
Speaker 1: of his. And you know, I know that if you
Speaker 1: look at that game, part of it is that Philip
Speaker 1: rivers Um is accountable for throwing two interceptions pretty deep
Speaker 1: in Jaguars territory. So two of those, you know, the
Speaker 1: scoring some of the scoring for Jacksonville with short field stuff,
Speaker 1: but the nineteen to twenty isn't because you know, Minshew
Speaker 1: was some sort of gun slinger, you know, whipping the
Speaker 1: ball down field. I think he's well coached by Gruden,
Speaker 1: and West said it on the on our Sunday Night
Speaker 1: Show that he he took what they gave on defense,
Speaker 1: and I'm with you. The Tennessee is not imposing their
Speaker 1: will necessarily yet on outside of the ball. So Jacksonville
Speaker 1: in general kind of James Robinson ran, well, this is
Speaker 1: one of the first, one of the few rookies, undrafted
Speaker 1: rookies to ever start Week one in NFL lore And
Speaker 1: he looked, was he the first? I mean, it's like,
Speaker 1: that's it's it's it's it surprises me that it's that
Speaker 1: better than he did. And I was gonna say one
Speaker 1: thing about Fournett. I think that, like you know, people
Speaker 1: were killing Jacksonville for the for Net pick flaming out,
Speaker 1: and it did. But here's the thing. I think that
Speaker 1: removing for Net opens up that offense to what it
Speaker 1: can be. I'm not saying that they're all there, but
Speaker 1: it was additioned by subtraction. And Robinson doesn't need to
Speaker 1: do what for Net did in some games of old.
Speaker 1: He's a good piece in there. And I got, like C. J.
Speaker 1: Henderson on defense, I just the whole tank thing. There
Speaker 1: are some young players on this team in general that
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of hope. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that this regime should be around to do it for
Speaker 1: the fifth time. But they're not the worst team in
Speaker 1: the NFL at this point. They don't look like it. Mark,
Speaker 1: I have something to say. I you know, I was
Speaker 1: been I've been a little slow to come around on Minshew.
Speaker 1: Part of that was, as you like to say, Twitter
Speaker 1: Middle School was a little bit annoying quite frankly last year.
Speaker 1: And the love affair with all the moxie and the
Speaker 1: the do rag and the hair split down the middle
Speaker 1: and the mustache element of Gardner Minshew and we looked
Speaker 1: past what was a pretty hot and cold first season.
Speaker 1: But I love the and the Andy Dalton uh mentioned there,
Speaker 1: and the fact that it connects directly to Jake Ruden
Speaker 1: he used to coach coach Dalton. I feel like for
Speaker 1: me personally, I'm raising the bar up for Minshew as
Speaker 1: just this novelty guy to someone that has like a
Speaker 1: Dalton type ceiling now, and I know that ceiling is
Speaker 1: probably not a Super Bowl ceiling, but a guy that
Speaker 1: in the right set up with the right coaching Uh.
Speaker 1: He plays differently in the Dalton did, and he certainly
Speaker 1: has more charisma than Dalton did, so he's more exciting
Speaker 1: and that's why he's a huge fan favorite. But he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you could win games with. And it
Speaker 1: it's not just this fluke about the way he looks
Speaker 1: and the things he says in the sound bite. So
Speaker 1: I I was really into the way he played and
Speaker 1: he and I think it's sustainable with Jake Ruden there uh,
Speaker 1: not nineteen for twenty every week. But I'm I get it.
Speaker 1: If you're a Jaguars fan watching that game, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I forget about this tank for Trevor thing,
Speaker 1: let's see how this plays out. Would means you well,
Speaker 1: and I and so the Minshovians dan, we'll take what
Speaker 1: we can get, and I and I honestly appreciate that
Speaker 1: that's an honest appraisal. And here's the thing. If your gardner, Minshew,
Speaker 1: I see a guy that clearly is putting in the work.
Speaker 1: It's not just Hamm running around in a cut off
Speaker 1: shirt in a bandana and my hair is flowing. I
Speaker 1: see someone that has learned a new offense quickly, and
Speaker 1: you know, really last year, probably didn't expect to play
Speaker 1: at all and was learning on the fly. So I'm
Speaker 1: with you that I'm not saying he's you know, Brett
Speaker 1: Farve or something, but Andy Dalton, and he's just a
Speaker 1: little spicier and more interesting than Andy Dalton. It's hard
Speaker 1: not to be UM. So I like a little combination,
Speaker 1: a lot more, a lot more old Andy. You mentioned
Speaker 1: he might not have like if Dalton's the ceiling, which
Speaker 1: seems fair. I think Dalton's had a really solid career, UM,
Speaker 1: but maybe not a super Bowl. My favorite take I
Speaker 1: think I've seen all year, if, like, if we had
Speaker 1: a segment take of the week, I'd give it the
Speaker 1: Mike Renner of PFF who said that the Jaggers could
Speaker 1: have won the Super Bowl with Minshew in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seventeen. And I thought about it, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I really think they could have. I really think
Speaker 1: they could have. Um and and we didn't. We touched
Speaker 1: on this obviously on the Tuesday podcast the when we
Speaker 1: recap the Titans wild win over the Broncos. Stephen Gaskowski
Speaker 1: is still on this team. He's still the kicker of
Speaker 1: the Titans. Mike Rabel got behind him, and that only
Speaker 1: last as long as Week two last and and how
Speaker 1: he kicks in that game, because if he struggles again,
Speaker 1: and I mean miss is one kick from inside, you know,
Speaker 1: forty seven yards. It's probably gonna be a hea gown
Speaker 1: situation to use a Westling is um. And I just wanted,
Speaker 1: while we're here and talking about kickers, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: invite you guys in, although you're not professional, place kickers
Speaker 1: into the Kickers club. Come on in. It's a closed
Speaker 1: door meeting. We're closing the door of the club. We're
Speaker 1: putting the velvet ropes up. No one's allowed in. And
Speaker 1: I just want to say I'm disappointed. And all you guys,
Speaker 1: I know you're better than this. You know you're better
Speaker 1: than this. I mean, Week one was an absolute travesty.
Speaker 1: I have some numbers. Nineteen field goals missed, five miss
Speaker 1: p A t S Packers Vikings was the only game
Speaker 1: that didn't feature a missed kick, the only game. Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Seventy one point six percent field goal percentage,
Speaker 1: the lowest since Week one nine, the most misses in
Speaker 1: almost a decade. That that's the you know, everyone else
Speaker 1: is in a pandemic and and there's no tackling, and
Speaker 1: there's no practices, and they were able to get on
Speaker 1: the field in Week one and deliver your kickers, your
Speaker 1: kickers like you had all the time to practice and
Speaker 1: all you needed was the uprights. And that's how you
Speaker 1: should open week one. You come into the Kicker Club,
Speaker 1: you come with your head held high, but you also
Speaker 1: better come prepared, and you weren't ready in week one.
Speaker 1: This meeting is over, but I do not want to
Speaker 1: have this conversation again in week two. Well it's a
Speaker 1: good it's a good message. They need a stern talking to.
Speaker 1: But Dan, you you know, the kicking in general kind
Speaker 1: of has gone south since you, you know, you raised
Speaker 1: the you You've you created this club. It's a vibrant, um,
Speaker 1: lively night spot for kickers to hang out. Are they
Speaker 1: hanging out at the club too much? Are they there
Speaker 1: too late? Are there are there bodies in shape? You know,
Speaker 1: pre club, we didn't have these issues, so you know,
Speaker 1: just it's it's a factor. Well, plus week we have
Speaker 1: a we have a raging pandemic. Maybe we opened that
Speaker 1: club up a little too early, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of we have contact tracing, We
Speaker 1: have those wrist bands that well you were just sitting there, Greg,
Speaker 1: so you have whatever they had, all right, So there
Speaker 1: you go. That is the full week two previous late.
Speaker 1: Make sure to check out the Thursday night recap of
Speaker 1: Brown's Bengals Mark. Obviously we're taping this before that happens,
Speaker 1: That's why he seems okay right now in that of catatonic.
Speaker 1: And then come back on Sunday for the recap of
Speaker 1: the full UH slate of games that we just previewed
Speaker 1: right here on the Around the NFL Podcast flagship show.
Speaker 1: So thank you for watching, thank you for listening. This
Speaker 1: is Dan Hansons signing off for The Quiet Storm, the
Speaker 1: Old Boss and Rocky Hollywood from West Hollywood until Sunday night.
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