Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, Mrs Hyle and welcome to
Speaker 1: another addition to the Around the NFL Podcast. My name
Speaker 1: is Dan Hansis. I'm joined in the room filled with heroes,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg Roosevelt. What is up? Boys?
Speaker 1: Hey Dan? How is everybody file? The intern is about
Speaker 1: forty two years old at this point, he was under
Speaker 1: our employee. If anyone is still listening to our podcast
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Speaker 1: with us for all six seasons. Thank you awesome and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to tweet out the fact that this
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Speaker 1: can't do it, can't get it going. That ship is sailed.
Speaker 1: The ship is sailed. Guess what. Guess guess what big
Speaker 1: announcement to make? Holding in my hand, everybody knows we're
Speaker 1: going to London and about a week and a half
Speaker 1: I have the information on the live show you all
Speaker 1: knew was coming. Another live show, and unlike last year,
Speaker 1: we will not be putting the tickets on sale in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night like total idiots. I thought
Speaker 1: it was savvy. It really rewarded the most hardcore fans.
Speaker 1: The Underground Fan Club presents Around the NFL Live in
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Speaker 1: Same venue as last year, bigger room though, how about
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Speaker 1: there's a bar to get loose, we'll stay there till
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Speaker 1: But yes, under Underground Fan Club presents the Round of
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast Live in London. Big announcement. I like
Speaker 1: the Curtain Club actually, you know, after last year's crammed
Speaker 1: in room, rebuilding an entirely different space for us this
Speaker 1: time renovation it's appropriate. Yeah, very good. So we're looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. Obviously. We're very excited to head back overseas. UM,
Speaker 1: so please join us, uh and we'll have a pint
Speaker 1: together or three or four? All right, this is the
Speaker 1: week four preview show. Can you believe it? Week four already,
Speaker 1: and we are going to go through each of the
Speaker 1: week war games, with the exception of Thursday Night Football.
Speaker 1: We preview that on Tuesday's show and UM in the
Speaker 1: mini pod that will follow later tonight hopefully. You know,
Speaker 1: there's some technical concerns. Greg is very nervous. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be Wes and Greg handling. I'm not nervous to have
Speaker 1: Eagles Packers game. If it's responsibility, if it doesn't show
Speaker 1: up in your file. Just know that West got confused
Speaker 1: and then Greg washed his hands of it. The process
Speaker 1: not in that order. Oh, Greg's already washed. The process
Speaker 1: seems to require nothing beyond common sense. You're right, You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right. I think we can handle it, Greg, Greg.
Speaker 1: I don't know West. You know like West. When I
Speaker 1: think West, I don't think technological savvy right off the top,
Speaker 1: that's fair. Go in with that chip on your shoulder. West,
Speaker 1: I don't like you being you know, a presumed to
Speaker 1: not be technically oriented sling. I survive in the world
Speaker 1: of two thousand nineteen, so it must be okay when
Speaker 1: it comes to you. Also, gotta have wife is a
Speaker 1: very smart world. She's like borderline millennial. I'm fine. Spice
Speaker 1: Wreck might be there. He obviously could help out if needed.
Speaker 1: I was keeping the party a little slimmer this time. Um, yes,
Speaker 1: so you'll get that. We have Let's figure out who
Speaker 1: we're talking about today. Thirty two teams, two teams on
Speaker 1: by two teams that already talked about teams divide by
Speaker 1: two fourteen games to talk got there? Got there? Everyone?
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks I don't. I'm not going to get there.
Speaker 1: I always get there. Might be a couple of wrong turns,
Speaker 1: but I always get to the destination. I'm concerning myself
Speaker 1: because I was about to tell you that it was
Speaker 1: twenty six teams and you were incorrect. That whole little
Speaker 1: you know part of the show. That's the one part
Speaker 1: of the show I approve of people listening to at
Speaker 1: double speed. You know, otherwise listen to us normally, but
Speaker 1: if you want to speed it up for that, that's
Speaker 1: an authentic moment in the show, and authentic moments are
Speaker 1: always welcome. Um. Yeah, So we're gonna go through all
Speaker 1: the games. We'll do it draft style, uh snake style.
Speaker 1: We're gonna work out the kinks. I you know, as
Speaker 1: the host of the show, bad job by me by
Speaker 1: messing up the draft order. But if some people picked
Speaker 1: up on last week and and put out there on Twitter,
Speaker 1: well we have the guys that built road a world
Speaker 1: brick by brick, guys have been involved with a trillion
Speaker 1: fantasy drafts. Could have could have been the whistleblower here.
Speaker 1: We all should be more aware of this. Whistle blower
Speaker 1: culture is hot right now. And all right, who has
Speaker 1: the first day? All right, west will have the first pick.
Speaker 1: I will say, I will tell you the order. I
Speaker 1: just don't trust you at this point, Wes Mark, Greg Dan,
Speaker 1: that is the order. So with the first overall pick,
Speaker 1: the first game that we're gonna talk today about, Chris
Speaker 1: Westling selects. Sorry, Greg the this this has a lot
Speaker 1: going for it. It's the Romo game. If Romo does
Speaker 1: not qualify for the Safe Way Open this Sunday, in
Speaker 1: which case CBS has Boomer a siasin. If he doesn't
Speaker 1: make the cut, he's playing in the tournament. He's supposed
Speaker 1: to be a long shot that he makes the cut. Tony,
Speaker 1: can we grow up a little bit here? Boomer? And
Speaker 1: this apparently I was reading in Andrew marshawn article on
Speaker 1: the New York Post, And if this goes well for Boomer,
Speaker 1: again a long shot that he gets the chance. But
Speaker 1: there's a chance that Romo could leave CBS after the year.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a free agent and ESPN or
Speaker 1: NBC or somebody could break the bank for Romo. He
Speaker 1: wants to, you know, I don't know if he wants
Speaker 1: to be the highest paid broadcaster ever, but he's going
Speaker 1: to be. As we tape right now, he is even
Speaker 1: through twelve holes in the first round, but that that
Speaker 1: puts him seven shots back already. Let's we like talking
Speaker 1: about this, So before we get into the game, Tony
Speaker 1: Romo goes free agent. CBS offers obviously the a f
Speaker 1: C and he's got the best game every week, and
Speaker 1: he's got the best playoff games. He's got the Patriots,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Where would he go? He's he's blocked at NBC.
Speaker 1: There's both Al Michael's and well, actually it's called Guy
Speaker 1: Colin's worth Monday Night Football is not the premium spot
Speaker 1: it once was. It's better games to say. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: NBC opens up the vault, they bring in Romo and
Speaker 1: they pair him with Mike Tariko for the pregame show
Speaker 1: of Sunday Night Football. That's how I would handle. There's
Speaker 1: also a stream. I mean, that's what they're doing with
Speaker 1: just Letten. You take the pre eminent color analysts and
Speaker 1: pair him with Tariko to get those game picks out
Speaker 1: before the game. That's a lot amos an ex player.
Speaker 1: He knows he's got used, got his pick, Liam MQ.
Speaker 1: He's gotta you know, Romo has gotta play this negotiation out.
Speaker 1: If he wants to get the most money, He's gonna
Speaker 1: get the most money regardless. Just stay at CBS would
Speaker 1: be my advice to him. You're gonna get paid a
Speaker 1: ton of money and have you know, the best game
Speaker 1: every week and being an institution forty years if you
Speaker 1: want it. I don't know if you wanted this information,
Speaker 1: but I believe John Madden's eight million dollars per year
Speaker 1: contract was the highest ever for I call he'll beat that,
Speaker 1: all right, what you guys, You guys are a little
Speaker 1: crazy with this, like Romo, game is the game I
Speaker 1: want to do first. Most of us, when I say
Speaker 1: most of us people of fall football, have no idea
Speaker 1: what game he's assigned to. So what game are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Well, this has another thing going forward to.
Speaker 1: It's also a four o'clock game. So I get to
Speaker 1: check a couple of boxes. It's the Minnesota Vikings at
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears grass field in the Midwest. That that's
Speaker 1: checking another box. Big piece of steak and watching football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, two yard runs on second and twelve be great.
Speaker 1: I got a text from my bartender friend Paul, who
Speaker 1: you've met Mark, and the text was basically a Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler fever dream. Okay, if Andy Dalton quarterback the Bears,
Speaker 1: they'd be the NFC favorites. So he's that down on
Speaker 1: on Mitchell Trobinsky, As are you. I am. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'd go Andy Dalton, but yeah, I the
Speaker 1: I this. I'm kind of surprised despite Tony Romo, this
Speaker 1: is the game that you're fascinated to see based on
Speaker 1: ne offenses. To me, that feel stuck in a different
Speaker 1: era of football. But that explained. It's outdoor football in
Speaker 1: the Midwest in the fall. It doesn't get any better
Speaker 1: than that. I'll take it in a stadium with a
Speaker 1: lot of history and two teams that are probably going
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. In my mind, it's also, you know,
Speaker 1: it's scoring will be at a premium, you would assume,
Speaker 1: but if you like watching defense, it should be fun
Speaker 1: to watch. And it's two coordinators that are probably gonna
Speaker 1: make the opposing quarterbook look quarterback look bad. I think
Speaker 1: we know who Kirk Cousins is, though. These are two
Speaker 1: teams almost trying to hide their quarterback on some level,
Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins is fine. Rabinsky is a tougher guy
Speaker 1: to put your finger on what he's gonna do week
Speaker 1: to week, and I see him as more likely to implode,
Speaker 1: especially because the Vikings now have that pass rush duo
Speaker 1: and Everson Griffin and Daniel Hunter again that they had
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Everson Griffin, who was had a
Speaker 1: really down year last year, also missed some time because
Speaker 1: of off off the field issues, um with his mental illness.
Speaker 1: He's playing out standing. So now you have those two
Speaker 1: guys against the Bears line that I don't think is
Speaker 1: quite as good as maybe people people think they are,
Speaker 1: and I think that's trouble for Drabinsky. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: Kyle Long in particular has got off to the worst
Speaker 1: start of his career injuries. Yeah, I think that Mr
Speaker 1: Drobisky is gonna be okay in his building in a
Speaker 1: game like this on the road against the contender. I
Speaker 1: will never feel comfortable I think about Drabinsky at this
Speaker 1: stage right now, but I could see him building on
Speaker 1: Monday night a little bit. And Cousins the quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: fascinating in this game because this is another test for Cousins.
Speaker 1: The last time we had a huge division challenge for him,
Speaker 1: he could not have shrunk more against the Packers and
Speaker 1: cost him that game. Uh, Kirk Cousins cost him that game. Um,
Speaker 1: he gets another chance here in a high profile spot
Speaker 1: in a late game in Week four. One thing I
Speaker 1: love about this game in this in this Bears team,
Speaker 1: because I would have predicted this to go totally south.
Speaker 1: Chuck Pagano taking over Vic Fonio's defense. That felt to
Speaker 1: me like the kind of job you don't want to
Speaker 1: take because someone has totally maximized and done the best
Speaker 1: thing you could have done with Chicago's defense. It's obviously
Speaker 1: gonna be worse. So we talked all offseason all these variables,
Speaker 1: the turnovers, the pick six is the funnel. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen again. Well it is happening again, and it
Speaker 1: makes me also feel like Vick Fonio also has people
Speaker 1: to look at Vick fon Jo and say, you're getting
Speaker 1: Chuck Paganod here. He's coming in and doing what you
Speaker 1: couldn't do. And now you're in Denver and you have
Speaker 1: a sack. You did it, but you went to Denver
Speaker 1: and you can't even do. But I'm happy for Chuck mcgonnalugh.
Speaker 1: I think they'll they'll probably dominate this game. I don't
Speaker 1: think they've been as good this year overall, certainly in
Speaker 1: the Denver game, but they their talent is just overwhelming.
Speaker 1: The difference is Cousins also has more support. I mean,
Speaker 1: Trabisky doesn't have digs and theeling on the outside. And
Speaker 1: more importantly, he doesn't have Dalvin Cook, who is making
Speaker 1: that sandwich prop I put up of him, you know,
Speaker 1: beating all the other big name running back. The yard
Speaker 1: from scrimmage look pretty good right now. He is the
Speaker 1: NFL leader in yards from scrimmage. He is the NFL
Speaker 1: leader in yards per carry, in rushing yards, and when
Speaker 1: they bring an out Alexander Madison for seven or eight
Speaker 1: carries a game, look, he looks like a baller too. Sorry.
Speaker 1: I think cousins job is ultimately a little easier in
Speaker 1: this game. But there's pressure on the Bears because wasn't
Speaker 1: it Matt Neegy was meant to come in and take
Speaker 1: whoever is in the soup and turn that offense into
Speaker 1: something watchable and totally fun. In the front office went
Speaker 1: crazy to take Trabinsky where they did in the draft,
Speaker 1: ahead of Deshaun Watson, ahead of Patrick Mahomes. And I
Speaker 1: see a team with a lot of pressure building if
Speaker 1: they if they get dropped in their own building. Here
Speaker 1: and Robinsky struggles on your Dalvin Cook point, this is
Speaker 1: his team now, that's his offense is even though Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins through for yards last year and you have those stars,
Speaker 1: Cook is the engine. And it even plays out and
Speaker 1: extends to their pregame introductions effective last week, Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: is now the last guy introduced, not like Michael Gordon's. Wow.
Speaker 1: Well you hear the way they talk about him. Feeling
Speaker 1: says that every game we were winning because of Dalvin Cook. Well,
Speaker 1: they are they are really ruddy in nineties offense. They
Speaker 1: are under center eight percent of the time. The next
Speaker 1: closest team is something around six, and so they're they
Speaker 1: don't they're not in shotgun. The Bears are trying to
Speaker 1: play two thousand nineteen offense. I just don't know if
Speaker 1: they have you know, the quarterbacks for it. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: let's pick this game, by the way, because this is
Speaker 1: I'm Vikings. I am too the Vikings. I think the
Speaker 1: Vikings are one of those home road teams, and I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna go undefeated at home, but I think
Speaker 1: they're totally different on the road. I'm picking the Bears.
Speaker 1: I am gonna go against what I normally feel about
Speaker 1: the Bears. I think they're gonna win eighteen to sixteen
Speaker 1: at home. There a defense is going to score eighteen points.
Speaker 1: The second overall pick goes to Mark Sessler. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna also take one of these four o'clock games because
Speaker 1: it is a large chunk of time in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: and by the time we get back to me, they'll
Speaker 1: all be gone. But it's not just simply that kind
Speaker 1: of like, well, it's little shaking the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Now you're here, you see the one thing that the
Speaker 1: one area that you're completely wrong on is there were
Speaker 1: three late game in the first week. I had no assignment.
Speaker 1: I roamed the building. I went home for forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: You're completely wrong in terms of strategy, and my drafts
Speaker 1: have been pristine. Jacksonville at Denver, I'm taking it. I
Speaker 1: had not. Well, you can you can say what you want.
Speaker 1: There are two things happening here that I like. Jacksonville
Speaker 1: Denver number two overall pick Well. I'm not a huge
Speaker 1: fan of the Tampa Bay Blake Bords or the Bears.
Speaker 1: Took Mitchell Trobiski about that, but I'm gonna say that
Speaker 1: I'm excited about Gardner Minshew going continuing what's he what
Speaker 1: he's done with an offense that a lot has changed
Speaker 1: since compared to what we thought would happen here. A
Speaker 1: lot has changed already against the Denver defense just mentioned
Speaker 1: with Vick Fongio, no sacks, they're not doing what everyone
Speaker 1: would have thought capably. That would have been no issue
Speaker 1: with Bradley Chubb, with your with the entire defense you
Speaker 1: have there, I thought Bradley chub was going to be
Speaker 1: off to a Miles Garrett like defensive player of the
Speaker 1: Year type thing. Nothing is happening there on that defense.
Speaker 1: In the offense, I know, Greg, you point out how
Speaker 1: many how manny, how much yardage they're piling up there
Speaker 1: to me and not an exciting offense to watch it all.
Speaker 1: But Gardner Minshew and we all, it feels like a
Speaker 1: long time against that Titans team. This Jaguars team lost
Speaker 1: Nick Foles down on the quarterback position. Up goes Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 1: I thought that they were gonna go through a lightened
Speaker 1: up tougher Leonard four Nette. He to me is entirely down,
Speaker 1: outside of one run last week that completely changed a
Speaker 1: box score that would fool you if he went and
Speaker 1: looked at it afterwards. He was an absolute disaster against
Speaker 1: the Titans. DDI Westbrook is hurting the team with drops,
Speaker 1: had a killer drop in the end zone and hurting
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, whose line every week would look a lot
Speaker 1: better if he did what he could do. But DJ Shark,
Speaker 1: I think is someone that has already shown a ton
Speaker 1: of chemistry with Minshew. I think they can go in
Speaker 1: and beat the Broncos. I think it's gonna happen. And
Speaker 1: if it does, the Jaguars sitting at two and two
Speaker 1: doing something no one would have thought once Nick Foles
Speaker 1: went down, that would be the more interesting result. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is as tough a game I thought
Speaker 1: there was on the schedule to pick, uh when I
Speaker 1: picked the games on NFL like I took the Broncos though,
Speaker 1: because I just feel like they not that they deserve
Speaker 1: a win, but that they're a little better than the record.
Speaker 1: And here's a very lukewarm take. Joe Flacco hasn't been
Speaker 1: terrible as much as you know. He's made a couple
Speaker 1: of big mistakes, but he's not their biggest problem there.
Speaker 1: Tackles are the right now the worst tackles situation in
Speaker 1: the league, and so you don't want Joe Flacco back
Speaker 1: there behind it. But there's a reason to me that
Speaker 1: he's ranked ninth right now in QBR and he's fourteenth
Speaker 1: or fifteen in PF. He's just fine. He's not helping
Speaker 1: them in any way. I feel like I'm an ELI
Speaker 1: defender right now. They just have other big problems the team.
Speaker 1: He's not helping them in any way. No, he's not.
Speaker 1: He's a mid level. He's the starting quarterback between the twenties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they are number one in the NFL and plays per
Speaker 1: drive number three, in time of possession for drive number seven,
Speaker 1: in yards per drive number thirteen, and drive success rate.
Speaker 1: They are moving the ball to the red zone and
Speaker 1: then running into a brick. That's what happens when we
Speaker 1: have no big play. They have no big plays. They
Speaker 1: should have more. Courtland Sun is kind of having that
Speaker 1: breakout year. The running game looks awesome last week. I
Speaker 1: do think there are some underlying parts of this team
Speaker 1: that just aren't that bad, especially without Jalen Ramsey, who
Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned is expected to miss the game with
Speaker 1: for the birth of the daughter. They're the stranger. So
Speaker 1: in three team, I can remember all those offensive numbers
Speaker 1: I just said, but they're also number twenty nine and
Speaker 1: average starting field position. Because their defense, which has stars
Speaker 1: on it, is the first defense is since the SACS
Speaker 1: statistic came official to have zero sax and zero turnovers
Speaker 1: in three straights. The defense is the bigger problem is
Speaker 1: It's kind of my point, Well, I see what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and West has the numbers to back it up. But
Speaker 1: watching them, Joe Flacco offense. It's hard work. He's not
Speaker 1: going down. He's also played the Bears and the Packers
Speaker 1: and weeks. That's a tough skin. And now he's got
Speaker 1: the Jacks, which isn't much easier. It's hard work. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't expect them to turn turn into a
Speaker 1: totally different offense with a week or defense and the
Speaker 1: Jacks is a tough challenge even without Jalen Ramsey. I
Speaker 1: just don't. I don't think he's the answer, just like
Speaker 1: Eli mcmanning wasn't the answers not New York. But they
Speaker 1: don't have anybody to turn to right now. They just
Speaker 1: feel more like a six and ten team than a
Speaker 1: than a three and and you're gonna get those six
Speaker 1: wins sometimes in home games against teams like the jack
Speaker 1: there's a time sometimes when you want to just like
Speaker 1: pretend it's one and look back on the Broncos, so
Speaker 1: look back on the fill in the blank team and
Speaker 1: be like, we could spend all week long, you know,
Speaker 1: spinning the numbers and telling you why they're effected between
Speaker 1: the twenties. But it was a botched operation to think
Speaker 1: And maybe I'll be wrong, but the roncept of Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco taking on the Broncos. There, ow and three. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna finish about five and eleven, six and ten,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna move on very quickly. Yeah, I get Flacco.
Speaker 1: To me, isn't the problem though, It's not drafting a
Speaker 1: quarterback higher, or it's Drew Lock, or it's their tackles,
Speaker 1: like they needed to have a real quarterback to build around.
Speaker 1: By the way, Jalen Ramsey, our prayers are answered, it
Speaker 1: looks like he's looks like he's better. It looks like
Speaker 1: the illness us that had gripped him and dropped him
Speaker 1: to his knees has moved on. Now he's got the
Speaker 1: back injury comes in, and the and the hamstrings, his
Speaker 1: body shutting down. Well, all that stuff is in the background,
Speaker 1: and now he's got a baby coming with you, sister.
Speaker 1: Given credit, he covers his bases, his deniability skyrocket and
Speaker 1: from flu to back stiffness to having a baby. It's
Speaker 1: so true because flew obvious bs and nobody took it seriously.
Speaker 1: Doug Brown literally laughed at a press conference when asked
Speaker 1: about it. Back injury overly suspicious because it's the one
Speaker 1: injury a player can say he's dealing with that. They
Speaker 1: can't diagnose. It's the diagnosing back injuries is very difficult.
Speaker 1: So but it's still it didn't pass the smell test.
Speaker 1: Now baby on the way, Who can say anything about that?
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to What do you mean I didn't
Speaker 1: say anything. He's saying you cannot say anything. You could
Speaker 1: call obvious bs And he's a selfish player to me
Speaker 1: on back injury, um having vomit issues or whatever. He
Speaker 1: was dealing with the baby thing. Now he's he's found away.
Speaker 1: Clear Now how long does he get to stay away?
Speaker 1: There are people in this building for paternity leave that
Speaker 1: disappear for like six weeks and they use every day.
Speaker 1: The NFL will allow. Will Jalen Ramsey go this route?
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole thing is not a good look.
Speaker 1: And I don't care what anybody says. You talk about
Speaker 1: guys you want in your locker room, guys you want
Speaker 1: as leaders. Jalen Ramsey's an amazing player. This is not
Speaker 1: This has been an ugly, ugly show. I don't that's
Speaker 1: I know, Greg, you totally disagree with me. I just
Speaker 1: don't think it's a new found and it's different. The
Speaker 1: part that I disagree with is that this is some
Speaker 1: new found phenomenon with players now Mike Dicka begged to be,
Speaker 1: you know, traded from his team. I can name five
Speaker 1: Patriots who have forced their way out with big time
Speaker 1: fights and contracts. Half of them Santy Samuel Richard Seymour.
Speaker 1: It's like this happens, this has been happening throughout NFL history.
Speaker 1: Did they stop practicing when that happened? They quit in
Speaker 1: the middle of the so, but that doesn't make this. No,
Speaker 1: it's like you're saying it's not I'm not history, but
Speaker 1: it's tedious if you're a fan of the team, or
Speaker 1: if you're trying to run a defense and your players
Speaker 1: not practicing, or if it's your teammate and he's the
Speaker 1: best player on your team. Well, we'll continue this in
Speaker 1: the Melvin Gordon discussion when we get to the charges.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on with the number three overall pick.
Speaker 1: It's the first time all year I've been nervous while
Speaker 1: other people were predicting picking game because I really wanted
Speaker 1: the Pats bills early and so I'm gonna take that. Uh,
Speaker 1: this will be the first game I got to watch
Speaker 1: the Patriots live all year and it's a really great
Speaker 1: way to test this defense. Thank you, thank you, you
Speaker 1: know too. Three and no teams that I think needs
Speaker 1: to be tested the Patriots defense. We've only given up
Speaker 1: six points this year. They've they've scored twelve. Everyone to
Speaker 1: point out they haven't played anyone. I don't care. That's
Speaker 1: still impressive. I mean, you're you're you're playing NFL teams
Speaker 1: and looting the Steelers. It goes back to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and it's just the way they're doing it. They're playing
Speaker 1: nineteen guys over fifteen twenty snaps a week. I I
Speaker 1: kind of think that's been slept on. It's almost it's
Speaker 1: unpreced I mean, Michael Bennett is making noise when he's
Speaker 1: out there. He's playing twenty snaps a week. We got
Speaker 1: John Simon out there making noise playing twenty like their
Speaker 1: their depth is is wild. It reminds me of like
Speaker 1: a supercharged version of what the Eagles did a few
Speaker 1: years ago. I wonder if they're so rested now that
Speaker 1: it's a tougher game, maybe they start whittling that group
Speaker 1: down when they need it. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: they will need it this Sunday because they're playing a
Speaker 1: guy and Josh Allen, who I think also needs to
Speaker 1: be tested. I think he's gotten a way too much
Speaker 1: credit um for beating three really bad defenses and in
Speaker 1: those games accounting for five total touchdowns with seven combined
Speaker 1: interceptions and fumbles, and having a lot of bad places.
Speaker 1: I mean he makes a good places too. He's kind
Speaker 1: of fun to watch, not saying that he's not entertaining
Speaker 1: that he's not a little better, but I want to
Speaker 1: see it against a really good defense. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: he had a terrible turnover against the Bengals, but what
Speaker 1: I think he's done is he's progressed from last year
Speaker 1: and that was the first thing they wanted to see.
Speaker 1: I think he's the right quarter a little bit though.
Speaker 1: I think that that's where I want to see him.
Speaker 1: Like his his short throws, he has no touch on him.
Speaker 1: He he throws it a hundred miles an hour, six
Speaker 1: ft six yards away, and I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you coach that or who knows how long
Speaker 1: he'll be there, But I honestly think he's he's he's
Speaker 1: an okay fit for them right now, and they found
Speaker 1: the right people around him with Cole Beasley and John Brown.
Speaker 1: I don't like their matchup for their offense. I mean
Speaker 1: any team's offense against the Patriots defense, but they particularly
Speaker 1: don't feel like they were they're set to go off.
Speaker 1: They they should have scored more points in all these
Speaker 1: other games. They are not an explosive attack. They they're
Speaker 1: playing the right teams while he develops until now. This
Speaker 1: is this is the litmus test. But I do think
Speaker 1: the one area where it's obvious that they're much improved
Speaker 1: is the three announced are gone. That's fair. They're a
Speaker 1: very chaotic offense because of the style of play he has,
Speaker 1: which to me is very entertaining, but the three announces
Speaker 1: are out of their lives. I think it's a big
Speaker 1: test too for the Patriots offense, who I think also
Speaker 1: maybe gotten a little too much credit when their offensive
Speaker 1: line is clearly struggling, especially in the running game. Shack Mason,
Speaker 1: who's kind of there, you know, benchmark there, has probably
Speaker 1: had the worst three game stretch of his career. Plus
Speaker 1: they've had big time injuries there. Josh Gordon and Tom
Speaker 1: Brady aren't really in SAT. Gordon makes highlight real plays,
Speaker 1: but that's been a little up and down in this
Speaker 1: is just a much, much tougher test against a really
Speaker 1: good beat. I never thought i'd say this in teen,
Speaker 1: but they lost their fullback James Devlin, who I r.
Speaker 1: I think that matters for that. That's one team where
Speaker 1: that matters. That wipes out one of their formations they use. Well,
Speaker 1: that just played Jacob Johnson instead of Devlin, right maybe
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, part of me doesn't mind it, just
Speaker 1: because you know, devil and has had a terrible start
Speaker 1: of the year and whenever they've run that package with Michelle,
Speaker 1: they're not doing very well. And now I think you
Speaker 1: put Philip door Set on the field more often, maybe
Speaker 1: put Jacobi Meyers on the field more often, and that
Speaker 1: to is the way to go. The Dorset is really playing.
Speaker 1: This could be a Dorset a breakout here for Dorset.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady thirty and three against the Bills. Now that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything on Sunday, but that's pretty incredible, just
Speaker 1: that number in a vacuum. I think it's one of
Speaker 1: the It's one of those stats where I would say
Speaker 1: it always means something against the Bills because he and
Speaker 1: the same coach and a lot of the same people
Speaker 1: have gone and done this and thumped Buffalo over and over.
Speaker 1: He has more wins in Buffalo Stadium than any Bills quarterback.
Speaker 1: Mc dermott hasn't tacked him off yet, which I think
Speaker 1: is significant. And it's another ex Patriots coach, Brian Dable
Speaker 1: calling the plays for the Bill's offense. So it's like
Speaker 1: every week it seems like they're playing. They played him
Speaker 1: tough on money and I football, lst, you're very tough.
Speaker 1: Do you know how to get in Tom Brady's head? Uh?
Speaker 1: Pass rush up the middle, up the middle, make him uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: get him moving, get him Hey, you blitz him so much,
Speaker 1: he'll pick you apart. But if you can manufacture something
Speaker 1: in the front flour, especially right in the middle, right
Speaker 1: up in his face mask, really cracked the coat here,
Speaker 1: Dom don't like that. Yeah, for that exact reason. He's
Speaker 1: the only nephew. Who who are we doing here, Carl
Speaker 1: frances So going back to Week sixteen of last year,
Speaker 1: I can't hold all of these great Patriots teams in
Speaker 1: my memory, but they are eight and oh with an
Speaker 1: average score of thirty two to twelve and have a
Speaker 1: plus twenty sec differential. I think this is up there
Speaker 1: with the two thousand seven Patriots is the best stretch
Speaker 1: they've ever had. As as we're talking about I didn't
Speaker 1: even consider this, but I'm gonna lock this game up
Speaker 1: in the Battle of three, and I forgot about Locks.
Speaker 1: Nice to pick the Patriots for once. I would think
Speaker 1: at a certain point, you remember Locks. It's been years. No, no,
Speaker 1: I remembered it. I was just thinking another game. But
Speaker 1: as we're talking about it, sometimes the spirit moved literally
Speaker 1: loud to lock up the Patriots. About locking them up.
Speaker 1: I've never locked him up in my life. I can't
Speaker 1: look at me, I can't look at the mirror, and
Speaker 1: I come, well, I've been known to switch mine, but
Speaker 1: I didn't realize we're allowed locked the Patriots up. I
Speaker 1: mean all all I've heard in the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: including from me, is how competitive the Bills are. And
Speaker 1: they are and it's on the road. I mean, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what we say. We don't have to look.
Speaker 1: I mean, this game needs to look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: You live with myself all weekend. We're talking up a guy.
Speaker 1: It's thirty and three. We have a little rule. It's basically,
Speaker 1: if it's predicted to be a one possession game. That's
Speaker 1: the rule I play by because I think you need
Speaker 1: to have rules in life. If it's picked to be
Speaker 1: a one possession game or not, then it's okay if
Speaker 1: I you know, if I know, they don't bother me
Speaker 1: about the lad here, do they just know you're the
Speaker 1: good thing about going by that rule less is you
Speaker 1: don't have to look in the mirror. I know. He
Speaker 1: just hey, I got a rule. It's all right, all right,
Speaker 1: so Greg locks up the Pats. I I have a
Speaker 1: terrible suspicion this is gonna be a huge letdown game,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be thirty six to six Patriots, but
Speaker 1: it would be a lot of fun. There hasn't been
Speaker 1: a huge home game in Western New York in a
Speaker 1: long time. This will be that's gonna be. Don't even
Speaker 1: feel that confident about it, even though, okay, well that's
Speaker 1: a nice spin, all right, uh it is. I have
Speaker 1: the next two picks. Um, while you guys get like
Speaker 1: super excited about who's in the broadcast booth or whether
Speaker 1: the game is played on grass or under a roof.
Speaker 1: If I have a chance to take Patrick Mahomes right now,
Speaker 1: I'm taking Patrick Mahomes and I'm watching him. I'm spending
Speaker 1: part of my Sunday watching Patrick Mahomes playing quarterback. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the UH. Although it's a technicality because
Speaker 1: you know, we all know who the Lions are, even
Speaker 1: if their fans don't know it yet. This is two
Speaker 1: undefeated teams, the three in Kansas City Chiefs at the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, who of course are to zero and one
Speaker 1: the game at Ford Field. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: buzz brewing um Mark the last few days of people
Speaker 1: getting really excited that Patrick Mahomes, as incredible as he
Speaker 1: is as as a the superpower of all superpowers at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position right now, has never played a game
Speaker 1: in a dome, and the idea that that will somehow
Speaker 1: unlock even more furious terror in his game. I'm I
Speaker 1: I don't know if I buy that. In fact, I
Speaker 1: don't buy that, but I'm just it's gonna be fun
Speaker 1: I get to watch it. I guess you could well.
Speaker 1: I think you've you've picked an exciting event to UH
Speaker 1: to track. I mean, he's on pace to throw first
Speaker 1: sixty yards, so I don't know what it means when
Speaker 1: we unlock Patrick Mahomes at this point it becomes something
Speaker 1: gay sort of human achievement. And we talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: the Bears and the Vikings are offenses from the nineties,
Speaker 1: and we're kind of like bagging on them when we
Speaker 1: say that. But when I watched the Chiefs, and I,
Speaker 1: you know, initially on Sundays, it's through highlight packages because
Speaker 1: I haven't covered them, and you're watching all they do
Speaker 1: and like in a flurry of movements in three or
Speaker 1: four minutes. It reminds me of those eighty nine Niners team,
Speaker 1: like the team, like the ninety four Niners, that just
Speaker 1: team the growing up on the East Coast, you never
Speaker 1: would watch them. They would just be they'd be something
Speaker 1: you just get high lights up. And it was NonStop
Speaker 1: aerial assault and destroying people doing things that no other
Speaker 1: team was doing. With the coaching staff that was doing
Speaker 1: stuff that no one else was doing, and a Joe
Speaker 1: Montane Tanna figure who was doing things now other quarterback
Speaker 1: was doing thirty something years later. Bang Patrick Mahomes doing
Speaker 1: it all over again. They're dropping a hammer. It's a
Speaker 1: traveling show. They're gonna go into Detroit and do it again.
Speaker 1: I always feel bad for like Jeff Greenholtz in our
Speaker 1: research department because Patrick Mahomes maked him. He just makes
Speaker 1: them waste more ink every week. It charges up the
Speaker 1: record books, every single keeps busy. Yeah. So my thoughts
Speaker 1: on this game a little dig on the Lions. Lions
Speaker 1: fans have been coming after me pretty hard on the
Speaker 1: power rankings because I won't give them what they think
Speaker 1: they deserve, which is a top ten ranking. But I
Speaker 1: will give them credit. You know, they closed out these
Speaker 1: last two games. They got some help. Uh, they caught
Speaker 1: I believe the Eagles at the exact perfect time where
Speaker 1: they are injury wise. Uh. And the Chargers kind of chargers.
Speaker 1: They charged that game. Um. But the Lines deserve credit
Speaker 1: for finding a way to win those two games. UM.
Speaker 1: So I just think this as all the recipe of
Speaker 1: the by coming up from Detroit of a come down
Speaker 1: to Earth game. And Matt Matthew Stafford is playing very
Speaker 1: well right now. And and I think, um that the
Speaker 1: idea that they're at home, maybe they keep things frisky,
Speaker 1: but I just don't think they have the firepower to
Speaker 1: keep up with the Chiefs. I don't think anybody does,
Speaker 1: and I certainly don't think the Lions do. I think
Speaker 1: they're in the stage of their rebuilding where their starters
Speaker 1: are pretty good. They're good enough to hang in games
Speaker 1: and not be embarrassed. But if if they get injuries
Speaker 1: and a few key positions, they're done because they have
Speaker 1: no depth whatsoever. Well, they could be like they were
Speaker 1: a few years back when they made the playoffs with Caldwell.
Speaker 1: With a little breaks, I think they could be a
Speaker 1: team that wins ten games. Sure that team had in
Speaker 1: Dominican Sue and Calvin Johnson in their primes. This this
Speaker 1: has a team that's that's fair. They're not as talented defensively,
Speaker 1: but I think the team defense and Patricia's ability to
Speaker 1: game plan shut down Zach Ertz, we could go Justin
Speaker 1: Coleman right now might be the best slot cornerback in
Speaker 1: the league. Darius Slay is playing really well. The defensive
Speaker 1: line gives them an identity. It's not superstars, but Trey
Speaker 1: Flowers is getting like a little better each week. Ashan
Speaker 1: Robinson's good gas is there. It's they have players, and
Speaker 1: I could just see them being a little better than
Speaker 1: the some of their parts. And and if they can
Speaker 1: win the a lot of times, that sixth way wild
Speaker 1: card spot comes down to who wins close games, you know,
Speaker 1: who goes five and two and one score game, mean Slade,
Speaker 1: I hope he's available. He's he's been limited and he's
Speaker 1: been hamstring entry would be Mike Daniels may not be
Speaker 1: in there. But then I flip over to the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and they don't have Tyreek Hill and we talked about it.
Speaker 1: You know, since he's been gone, they don't really miss him.
Speaker 1: They keep filling in the blank with new playmakers. And
Speaker 1: it's not just stopping Travis Kelsey and the Chiefs. It's
Speaker 1: now Nicole Hardman, It's it's it's multiple Mason. Andy Reid
Speaker 1: told the Beard and the Birds in the Making Andy
Speaker 1: Reid in September is a phenomenon. It's like you could
Speaker 1: have you bought a down payment on a house in
Speaker 1: l A betting on Andy Read in September. The last
Speaker 1: four with Alex Smith, this is totally different. They come
Speaker 1: out and they just they just they just have an
Speaker 1: advantage where the league hasn't caught up to whatever they're
Speaker 1: doing yet. A lot of intensity in the studio right now, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is what we need if you're a Lions fan.
Speaker 1: In the next three weeks, Chiefs at Green Bay Vikings
Speaker 1: win one of those games. It's not gonna be easy,
Speaker 1: but find a way to those they will. They're not
Speaker 1: they're not They're not the old Lions in the sense
Speaker 1: that they're going to totally collapse. All right, Well that's
Speaker 1: that's three quarters of the least. Well, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: they have no depth. Five picks up. Can we get
Speaker 1: riggy next week? Effective next week? And nice like a
Speaker 1: snake sound effect when we snake? Yeah, that sounds kind
Speaker 1: of gross. You really want that little like something first
Speaker 1: four a in two grotesque sounds clips. You can just
Speaker 1: do it for today down that'll be great. Alright, So, yes,
Speaker 1: I took an early game. Now, strategy wise, I feel
Speaker 1: somewhat confident, Um that you guys both having we have
Speaker 1: two people that have picked late games. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get left out in the cold here, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stick Greg with the all early slate and grab
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay at l a rams a late game. And I, um,
Speaker 1: I'm really into this game actually, so it kind of
Speaker 1: works out. Um. One takeaway I had from watching The
Speaker 1: Bucks Giants and you know, Danny Dines stole that show
Speaker 1: with good reason. Um, but jamis Winston was really fun
Speaker 1: in that game. And you know, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's an even a discussion anymore. Jameis Winston against
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota. I think James playing the worst dens in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And you're, hey, you have some grand takeaway
Speaker 1: from it. My grand takeaway is that he pushes the
Speaker 1: ball down field. He's he's not boring his l and
Speaker 1: uh and he is a much more dynamic downfield thrower
Speaker 1: than your boy Mariota. Everybody's a more welcome welcome to
Speaker 1: Davis Winston Island at this point. Now I've got some
Speaker 1: stuff for him later. Now, Winston, yes, he's very much
Speaker 1: still a question mark in the in the organization. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying yes. And you made the good points that
Speaker 1: generics Jenkins got absolutely torched by Mike Evans in this
Speaker 1: game last week. But this is that was a good
Speaker 1: game for Winston to to build on. And if Matt
Speaker 1: Gay doesn't blow that game, that forty four yard reception
Speaker 1: at the end of regulation would have been a massive
Speaker 1: building block for the Bucks. So I kind of I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see how they follow that game. Now they
Speaker 1: got to travel and play the Rams, who are the Rams,
Speaker 1: and they're a good defensive. If Winston reverts back to
Speaker 1: a turnover machine and a guy that doesn't move the
Speaker 1: ball consistently, Um, you'll look good, West, I'll look bad.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna say that maybe for a few years.
Speaker 1: Maybe we we talked about on this show last week, Um,
Speaker 1: you know what's going on. Bruce Arians came out of
Speaker 1: came out of retirement to watch Todd Bowles get all
Speaker 1: the shine on the sideline. Well, nice little building block
Speaker 1: last week. Let's see what they do against the Rams.
Speaker 1: I'm more I'm also worried. Not worried, but how good
Speaker 1: is this Bucks defense gonna be? Week after week? We've
Speaker 1: kind of seen teams use, uh, the Bears model from
Speaker 1: a year ago to help slow down that Rams offense.
Speaker 1: The Patriots used it where you have kind of six
Speaker 1: guys on the line of scrimmage, you have a safety
Speaker 1: you know on these crossers trying to shut those down.
Speaker 1: You're trying to shut down the outside zone. And it's
Speaker 1: been pretty effective. You know. Sean mcveigh's tried to adjust
Speaker 1: and they've had incremental improvement. But all the talk of
Speaker 1: how the Rams don't look the same in the Rams
Speaker 1: and look at well, that's true about the offense and
Speaker 1: the special teams. Their defense is two better their fourth
Speaker 1: right now in defensive efficiency. Wade Phillips adds, you know
Speaker 1: Eric Weddle and Clay Matthews, and this defense is is
Speaker 1: pretty wild. It was a lot of out there all
Speaker 1: in rams last year, which I thought was phony. They
Speaker 1: are kind of all in on their defense right now.
Speaker 1: Here are the free agents on their team next year,
Speaker 1: Michael Brocker's keep to leave, Marcus Peters, Dante Fowler, and
Speaker 1: then you know, Weddll and Matthews are on these deals
Speaker 1: where they may be here or not. I mean that
Speaker 1: that this is a veteran, grown man team. I think
Speaker 1: they're ready to just win some games for the some
Speaker 1: of those guys I wouldn't I don't mind moving on
Speaker 1: from and finding younger pieces to fit in. But looking
Speaker 1: what Aaron Donald did last week to Cleveland, and he's
Speaker 1: and and and Winston is not the same guy. And
Speaker 1: we've seen then this throughout when you're suddenly putting heavy
Speaker 1: pressure on him and he's forced to make Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: type decisions, and I would love to see how he
Speaker 1: survives this matchup with with with Aaron Donald coming at him,
Speaker 1: and I guess from Dan the litmus test when it
Speaker 1: comes to Jamis Winston. It's fine to say and I
Speaker 1: you know, he's having a game here there on someone
Speaker 1: else's team. If I were a fan of a team
Speaker 1: and he were my quarterback, I would not be signing
Speaker 1: up for that at all. Based on the body of work,
Speaker 1: I'd want him out. The Rams defense, I think is
Speaker 1: right there behind the forty Niners and Packards for most
Speaker 1: improved in the entire league. And their offense. We spent
Speaker 1: Tuesday asking when case Keenan was gonna be replaced. We
Speaker 1: spent the early portion of this show wondering when Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco is gonna be replaced. Both of those quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: a higher drive success rate this year than the Rams offense. Well, well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take it the step further. When are we
Speaker 1: gonna see Blake Bortles replaced? But I guess not. What
Speaker 1: is this is a big game for well, two more
Speaker 1: players I'm looking to see in this game. Shaq Barrett.
Speaker 1: He's got eight sacks going at how many sacks had
Speaker 1: less two weeks? Seven seven sacks. Well, let's see what
Speaker 1: he does against the Rams O line. That's been a
Speaker 1: little up and down. And uh, the other thing Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: you know again Sean McVeigh this week is addressing his workload,
Speaker 1: whether he's on a on a pitch count or whatever.
Speaker 1: He denies it all. Gurley has not been had a
Speaker 1: big Todd Gurley week yet this season. And this comes
Speaker 1: on the heels of an off season or we wondered
Speaker 1: if Todd a he was gone forever. If he doesn't
Speaker 1: do anything against his Bucks defense at home and what
Speaker 1: seems like a good spot, I'm gonna start wondering if
Speaker 1: if this is just what it is now he he
Speaker 1: doesn't seem that he's special enough at this moment to
Speaker 1: overcome the situation around him, which isn't good. Their offensive
Speaker 1: line has been pretty bad. I think Andrew Whitworth starts
Speaker 1: of the year might be the number one concerned deep
Speaker 1: in the hearts of Ram's headquarters, because this is one
Speaker 1: of the best left tackles in the league. Who's what
Speaker 1: thirty nine or forty and he's getting beaten week after week. Now.
Speaker 1: He's played some good opponents, but that it's just surprising
Speaker 1: to see. I'd be stunned at the Rams fall in
Speaker 1: this game. They've been on the road twice and been
Speaker 1: really resilient in tough games, and they've got Wade Phillips
Speaker 1: and I when when it comes to Shack Barrett, I
Speaker 1: love these early season explosions from players because I would
Speaker 1: almost put a sandwich on it that he ends up
Speaker 1: with nine sacks. He has eight right now and he
Speaker 1: finishes the year with nine because that I'm not it's
Speaker 1: not an anti Shack, but it's not an anti Shack
Speaker 1: Barrett take. It's just that that stuff happens in the
Speaker 1: NFL all the time, where there was these little explosions,
Speaker 1: and it's a little anti Shack Barrett. He's the he's
Speaker 1: he's the person in the slot. I'm talking about it.
Speaker 1: Just this stuff happens. And you know, I always check Barrett,
Speaker 1: by the way, in the Super Bowl that we went to,
Speaker 1: had a great game as the third guy behind the
Speaker 1: Marcus ware and on Miller, and here he is now
Speaker 1: five years later being a star. Mark. I'm conceding our
Speaker 1: gardner minshow Josh Debs, Josh Dobbs sandwich, I need to
Speaker 1: make up some ground. Let's make it ten sacks. What
Speaker 1: was the context of gardeners Josh Dobbs would start at
Speaker 1: least more fools comes back, not because of an injury,
Speaker 1: and I'm waving the white flag on that, okay, but
Speaker 1: I went in on Shack Barrett and I'll give you ten,
Speaker 1: not nine like legitimately not Shaq Barrett related. It's just
Speaker 1: that early season stat explosions that everyone clean. No, you're
Speaker 1: not going to get in on it at all. I'll
Speaker 1: try that. One last thing. Hated the play calling by
Speaker 1: the Bucks at the end of that game. They should
Speaker 1: have that game should have been sealed up. They got
Speaker 1: very conservative. Maybe that again goes back to they don't
Speaker 1: trust Jamis Win. You mean giving the field goal kicker
Speaker 1: a longer kick or just everything the leading up to that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I hit a fifty two yard
Speaker 1: or in that game, it's worth stop letting McKay off
Speaker 1: the hook. He also missed an extra point another one,
Speaker 1: but he not only did he did uh did arians
Speaker 1: take the delay of game when they did the move
Speaker 1: to to line it up. That was another negative two yards.
Speaker 1: They backed up seven. Yeah, I don't know why that anything,
Speaker 1: but missed. But they their last two possessions they went
Speaker 1: um three runs and out punt back to the Giants.
Speaker 1: Giants did nothing and then went uh eight yard run
Speaker 1: on first down, one yard run on third down, and
Speaker 1: then a really crappy tight end swing pass that went
Speaker 1: for nothing. You have Mike Evans who cannot be covered.
Speaker 1: Go win the ball game anyway. Let's move on, Greg,
Speaker 1: You're up. I'm just gonna take Greg's up. I am,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna take the last four o'clock gamer man,
Speaker 1: And even though no one else would, would probably take
Speaker 1: it just because I'm interested to watch this matchup of
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson. Kyler Murray has been up
Speaker 1: and down. You know their twenty nine right now in
Speaker 1: yards per play. It would look better last week if
Speaker 1: they had caught a couple of his nice deep throws.
Speaker 1: But this Cardinals team is still searching. They cut Michael
Speaker 1: Crabtree this week. I'm really watching this game because Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is balling out and he's fun to watch right now.
Speaker 1: He's kind of having that season reminds me a little
Speaker 1: bit of Ben Roethlisberger in the middle of his career,
Speaker 1: where his mental experience and command of the game now
Speaker 1: matches his athleticism, where his his physical prowess is at
Speaker 1: his peak. His mental side of it is at his peak.
Speaker 1: And if he was working for a different organization or
Speaker 1: a different coordinator, I mean he'd be an m v
Speaker 1: P candidate. I mean, maybe he will be in the
Speaker 1: long run anyways, if he keeps up this space. But
Speaker 1: he he is playing lights out. I don't know how
Speaker 1: much that you're basing on the scene scheme, but I
Speaker 1: thought he did some amazing things in a game where
Speaker 1: they were down twenty seven to seven at one point.
Speaker 1: All three weeks, he's really looked great. Yeah, he's and
Speaker 1: you you described it really well where he's at in
Speaker 1: his career. And I'm interested to see what happens with
Speaker 1: Chris Carson because he's I imagine Chris Carson on another team,
Speaker 1: imagine him on Bill Belichick's Patriots, where you've lost three fumbles,
Speaker 1: you've hurt the team every week. But he is a
Speaker 1: good player who Pete Carroll has shown faith in again
Speaker 1: this week. But it wasn't just the fumbles. Last week.
Speaker 1: He was terrible all around and looks slow and lead footed,
Speaker 1: And maybe it was the shoes in the rain because
Speaker 1: he had no footing. He switched his cleats in the
Speaker 1: middle of that, he looked awful and the Saints. I
Speaker 1: thought the Saints beat him up. But this but Seattle
Speaker 1: to me, uh, they're They're so fun to watch no
Speaker 1: matter what's going on. I mean they to me. The
Speaker 1: one killer mistake they would have been in that game
Speaker 1: last week had they taken a time out before the
Speaker 1: past to dk metcalf right before the half where he
Speaker 1: catches like a fifty four yard or sets them up
Speaker 1: to take a shot at the end zone or kick
Speaker 1: a field goal, and they don't. That was a weird
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll move that hurt them in the second half.
Speaker 1: And there's there. How many Seahawks games are there where
Speaker 1: you're having to score twenty one points in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter to climb back in out of a slow start.
Speaker 1: They continue to start really slow. Russell Wilson is a
Speaker 1: bit of a feaster famine quarterback the way his style is,
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks are one of only four teams that
Speaker 1: have at least thirteen drives where they punted or turned
Speaker 1: the ball over without picking up a first down. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of negative drives. The Cardinals are one
Speaker 1: of the other. A lot of it though, is because
Speaker 1: he's always in third and long because you know they're
Speaker 1: running on first and second down and they're running and
Speaker 1: they're run blocking his thirty. According to football outsiders, they've
Speaker 1: they've taken a big step back. You would think this
Speaker 1: would be a get right game for their offense. But
Speaker 1: I thought Murray last was last week was the one
Speaker 1: game where he threw a couple terrible picks where he
Speaker 1: hurt them with with weird wayward passes. Not just the offense,
Speaker 1: not you know, living up to its height. It was
Speaker 1: a weird game because about three three and a half
Speaker 1: quarters in, I was thinking myself, they're making some progress
Speaker 1: here a little bit this, they're moving the ball, David
Speaker 1: Johnson looks really good. And then the wheels came off
Speaker 1: hideously in the fourth quarter for the Cardinals and it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, they're kind of and they're using Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray to run a little bit last week, which was
Speaker 1: fun to see. And Russell Wilson's running a lot this year.
Speaker 1: I little matchup of under six foot quarterbacks. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm taking it short, guys, what up? I mean? I
Speaker 1: feel like every time I see him, he's not the
Speaker 1: same size as Greg and I at least not body
Speaker 1: mass index. He's gonna be like three ft and there
Speaker 1: there are some like a helmet like running around tiny
Speaker 1: feet underneath. Like I I go to, you know, my
Speaker 1: daughter's elementary school, and there are some girls in that
Speaker 1: school that are like the Frosty san alright. Next up
Speaker 1: is Mark Seler. I mean, I'm gonna go Cleveland at Baltimore,
Speaker 1: which I you know, another year I would have just
Speaker 1: taken with my first pick, and I'm getting what would
Speaker 1: have been my first pick with the eighth pick here.
Speaker 1: I thought about taking it. You don't think I would
Speaker 1: like why in that game, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: get this thing. That's the thing, that's that's the mind game.
Speaker 1: I played the alets that I thought no one would
Speaker 1: take the Browns game from me, and I was going
Speaker 1: to take Bills. New England didn't take you for you.
Speaker 1: So we're operating in unison. I am going to drop
Speaker 1: Cleveland at some point here if they continue along the
Speaker 1: current trajectory, drop picking them like my Sunday watch and
Speaker 1: use you know, watch them in the middle of the
Speaker 1: nothing like a team that you support. I mean, there
Speaker 1: have been arguments for that along the way. Weird, I
Speaker 1: guess it would I'm not about to do that as
Speaker 1: a fan, but I you know, and I would say,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I was suspicious dating through the
Speaker 1: entire summer, and I never bought into this media creation
Speaker 1: that they're going to soar into the super Bowl with
Speaker 1: a coach that's never coached the Super Bowl. I did
Speaker 1: that as a as a total. That's all I have.
Speaker 1: I have said over and over that there were concerns,
Speaker 1: and it's played out entirely, and it's it's at this
Speaker 1: point when you say, what is it that's wrong with them?
Speaker 1: You could point to so many different things. It could
Speaker 1: be the experience of Freddie Kitchens. It could be an
Speaker 1: offense that I look at. I went back and watched
Speaker 1: two games from last year, one where they absolutely thumped
Speaker 1: the Falcons, and I don't see the same offense. They're
Speaker 1: not running the same place. They're not using their wide
Speaker 1: receivers the same way. The wide receivers based on whether
Speaker 1: it's third and four or second and eight or third
Speaker 1: and eighteen or not running routes that make a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. Nick Chubb has I love this offense when
Speaker 1: it went through and funneled through Nick Chubb, and they
Speaker 1: they've gone. Although he played a ton of snaps against
Speaker 1: the Rams, that wasn't what was happening there. Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: obviously is getting absolutely destroyed in the press for what
Speaker 1: he's saying in press conferences and his field play. On
Speaker 1: the field, Yes, he looks very confused. I still believe
Speaker 1: him as a quarterback, but he is having a really
Speaker 1: rough start, and I think it's the offense around him.
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes is doing a great job with the defense.
Speaker 1: That's gonna been completely lost in. What everyone talks about
Speaker 1: is a team that needs their defense to hold someone
Speaker 1: else to twelve points to win a game. I I've
Speaker 1: watched Bad Brown's offenses before where you feel like they're
Speaker 1: stuck and they cannot get out of their own way.
Speaker 1: This feels that as much as any other that I
Speaker 1: can remember. Because of who's on the field. It's really
Speaker 1: depressing to watch. I can't believe I'm saying that compared
Speaker 1: to what we thought in the summer in the off season.
Speaker 1: But they're playing the right defense to get well. The
Speaker 1: Ravens secondary. They gave up three fifty yards the Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: who hasn't done anything versus any other defense, and they
Speaker 1: looked bad last week against Mahomes. Everybody looks bad against Mahomes.
Speaker 1: But they're injured a little bit in the secondary, They're
Speaker 1: not getting much pass rush and people are passing all
Speaker 1: over this defense. Yeah, I think they miss c J.
Speaker 1: Mosley and Tavon Young, who is their slot cornerback, both
Speaker 1: a lot because Jimmy Smith's been out. Teams are killing
Speaker 1: them in the slot. I think it's what Anthony Everett,
Speaker 1: and then they they miss Moseley a lot that the
Speaker 1: middle linebacker. Teams are throwing all over them. And and
Speaker 1: I kind of want to see Earl Thomas get a
Speaker 1: little more comfortable here. He hasn't really made a difference.
Speaker 1: That was my big question that I wrote down for
Speaker 1: this game, just how much has the Ravens defense decline,
Speaker 1: Because I think it's it's fair to say it's declined.
Speaker 1: They've lost some talent, but they've played teams at such
Speaker 1: opposite extremes with the Dolphins and the Cardinals and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs that I actually think this is a good test
Speaker 1: because I think if you are a pretty good defense,
Speaker 1: this Brown's offense is very stoppable. But I think it's
Speaker 1: a test on both sides that that actually it's not
Speaker 1: a bad matchup. On the subject of solidarity, it did
Speaker 1: cross my mind to lock up the Ravens in this game,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to go that route because we
Speaker 1: sit next to each other market downstairs on Sundays. I mean,
Speaker 1: I locked up against the Browns last year. I know
Speaker 1: where you're coming from. Yeah, but it did cross my
Speaker 1: mind that it would make sense because I do. I
Speaker 1: love the Ravens at home in this game, and I
Speaker 1: think the Browns they could certainly I put them same
Speaker 1: level favorites as Patriots Bills. By the way, I well,
Speaker 1: I just brown looked at some stats a few minutes ago,
Speaker 1: and they it would not have been a lockable game
Speaker 1: from what I saw. The Browns are a team that
Speaker 1: I absolutely can see getting it together at some point.
Speaker 1: Let's hope they do. Otherwise it's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: the bigger bus seasons of the decade. Um. I think
Speaker 1: they will put it together. I just don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be this week. I think it's a bad matchup
Speaker 1: and bad timing for them, and I I like the
Speaker 1: Ravens a lot in this game. Sometimes it's it's about
Speaker 1: who you play early in the season. And what they
Speaker 1: show on film. And I think the coordinators, and this
Speaker 1: has been written about Steve and Ruiz did a good
Speaker 1: piece on for the win, have shown Babe. You've been
Speaker 1: disguising coverages for Baker Mayfield, showing them a lot of
Speaker 1: different looks than changing after a snap, and that's just worked.
Speaker 1: So all three teams have just kind of done that
Speaker 1: and he doesn't know what he's seeing. He's just not confident.
Speaker 1: I mean, he played his old d C. He played
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips. Now I've got the Ravens coming in and
Speaker 1: I it's not been a good draw for the team
Speaker 1: you're playing this week for the Browns either. But Mayfield
Speaker 1: is another example that these quarterbacks are not going to
Speaker 1: be made in seven or eight games. There's Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: but then there's like nine percent of the population. Cleveland's
Speaker 1: got two cornerbacks that they might not play again. In
Speaker 1: Denzil a Ward and reading it's like, I just I
Speaker 1: it's not a good set of breaking news. The NFL
Speaker 1: just dropped a tweet announcing the Super Bowl forty four.
Speaker 1: What are wet CLXI four halftime show? It is j
Speaker 1: Lo and Shakira and a co headline I like that.
Speaker 1: Tread carefully boys your thoughts. I think you were right
Speaker 1: when you save forty four. No, I mean Shakira ish
Speaker 1: of the now. Hey, we're in Miami, it makes sense, Jlo.
Speaker 1: Is she an owner? I don't think she's. I don't think,
Speaker 1: but I think you know, with the musical roots in
Speaker 1: that city, Jlo, Shakira, there's been worse ones that we've covered.
Speaker 1: It is a very same You're gonna, you know, go
Speaker 1: go trot out the Who with their walkers again. It's
Speaker 1: a very safe pick. And I'll tell you why. First
Speaker 1: of all, this is the first rock nation they're involved
Speaker 1: with this. Now, Um, you got killed. You were in
Speaker 1: one of the all time American cities for hip hop
Speaker 1: last year and you booked Maroon five and that was
Speaker 1: that was out to move. They work, You got you.
Speaker 1: You you shipped in a big boy to get a
Speaker 1: verse in, but otherwise it was just not the right field.
Speaker 1: So now we're in Miami, which has of course a
Speaker 1: strong Latino vibe to it. So you get uh, j Low,
Speaker 1: you get to get Shakira with the Colombian mix. Where
Speaker 1: I get where they're going with this. You're killing perfect.
Speaker 1: It's a perfect I mean, there's nothing to argue about.
Speaker 1: Hips don't like come on, I mean you you tell me.
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler is not going to be damn. I think
Speaker 1: it's very good for you know, going and seeing hustlers.
Speaker 1: J Low's right now, you're ahead of the saw on
Speaker 1: Friday to Mark. Don't worry. They combined them. They have
Speaker 1: multiple bangers. And I think I remember, this is a
Speaker 1: halftime show for a football game. Let's not overthink it.
Speaker 1: People are going to kill the half top show no
Speaker 1: matter what. Now you're gonna have two beautiful women doing
Speaker 1: their already. Of people that don't watch football, they watch
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl for the halftime show. And I think
Speaker 1: that this is a widely strong This is a good pick.
Speaker 1: Good pick. And made peace with the fact never going
Speaker 1: to be the Super four million dollars worth of fireworks
Speaker 1: in like eight seconds of eight minutes of music. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna beat justin Timberlake. But this is this is
Speaker 1: good for Miami. I like it all right, West, you're
Speaker 1: up well there, this is a steel It is late
Speaker 1: in the draft, but Carolina Panthers at Houston Texans. Nice pick,
Speaker 1: thank you, and you're coming around of the Texans, so
Speaker 1: nice job and Deshaun Watson so fun to watch, And
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be funny if Bill O'Brien and his pastor
Speaker 1: friends started getting some pop for Executive of the Year
Speaker 1: Stop easter be Look, he's got Carlos hidingeld got Kenny Stills,
Speaker 1: who was you know, the afterthought and the Larry Larry
Speaker 1: Tunsil trade making big plays every week. There's only a
Speaker 1: handful of players in the NFL with more big plays
Speaker 1: than Kenny Stills this year. At wide receiver, you got
Speaker 1: the rookies on the old line, both of them start
Speaker 1: did last week. Both of the guys they drafted started
Speaker 1: last week, tight As Howard and Max Sharping, and they
Speaker 1: had the best pass pass protection to Shaun Watson's had
Speaker 1: this year. To me that the Texans look like the
Speaker 1: class of the a f C sat They completely on
Speaker 1: the fly after Lamar Miller blew out his knee. Not
Speaker 1: terrible for him, but maybe the best thing that happened
Speaker 1: to their backfield because they had to, basically on the fly,
Speaker 1: come up with a new uh set up and you
Speaker 1: get Duke Johnson and Carlos Hide over the course of
Speaker 1: what like ten days or whatever it was, and they're
Speaker 1: nice pairing and uh, yeah, I'm I'm totally with you
Speaker 1: West that I think that. Yeah, everything, everything's working with
Speaker 1: them right now. And I could see them getting hot
Speaker 1: and let me just say something West, And I don't
Speaker 1: want to steal your thunder here, but I'm off to
Speaker 1: an oh and three starting the locks, and I I
Speaker 1: have to remember where I came from. What saved me
Speaker 1: last year, what kept me in the running was getting
Speaker 1: behind my Texans and going for a ride with them
Speaker 1: during their winning streak. So I'm gonna do it right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock up the Texans. We are too intent
Speaker 1: as a group so far. I'm gonna lock up the Texans.
Speaker 1: Uh And I know, um, there will be some people
Speaker 1: that are gonna say Kyle, Kyle Murray and Kyle Allen, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Kyle all is named by Sunday Night, that he'll come
Speaker 1: in and he'll throw four more touchdowns and all that. Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's see you do it against J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: and Whitney Merciless. That's fine. I would I would say
Speaker 1: one thing though, Kyle Allen's some of these like burst
Speaker 1: out of the gate starts feel a little flukey and
Speaker 1: it would even have been fair to You want to
Speaker 1: see three or four weeks of Gardner Minsho or three
Speaker 1: or four years, that's fine with Kyle Allen. And I
Speaker 1: never put anything into the week seventeen start from last year.
Speaker 1: But if you combine what he's done over to operations
Speaker 1: to two full starts, he's been great. And the way
Speaker 1: through the ball and the way the offense came to life.
Speaker 1: I thought the passing game with him last week it's
Speaker 1: I get that the whole Cam Newton discussion is for
Speaker 1: another time, but he was doing stuff that Cam Newton
Speaker 1: was not doing previously. And I think they're they're more
Speaker 1: dangerous with him in there if he doesn't flip the
Speaker 1: switch and turn into something letely different. If he plays
Speaker 1: like that unlike min Minshew, I want to see more
Speaker 1: of Kyle Allen kind of looks like a guy who
Speaker 1: was a five star recruit and was ranked as the
Speaker 1: number one high school recruit in the country, beat out
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray once for a starting quarterback job. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a crazy route that he's had that he's ultimately
Speaker 1: playing better now than he did at Houston, which was
Speaker 1: the final place he went to college. He came out early,
Speaker 1: even though he only played four games there before he
Speaker 1: was benched. It's it's just crazy, it's just wild. But
Speaker 1: he doesn't look like a guy who's like overachieving. He
Speaker 1: looks like a guy that belongs. He has great touch,
Speaker 1: great rhythm. Um. I've been impressed with that. To me,
Speaker 1: the key matchup is that defensive line for the Texans,
Speaker 1: and there's a guy, a fifth round rookie they drafted
Speaker 1: named Charles and Mena Hugh who's on that defensive line
Speaker 1: and has really played well early in a rotational rule.
Speaker 1: In addition to DJ reader J J. Watt, Whitney merciless
Speaker 1: against the Panthers offensive line that really has struggled sometimes
Speaker 1: to pass protection. I think Alan and the Texans O
Speaker 1: line were maybe the two most surprising evelatory moments of
Speaker 1: last week, and now they're kind of going against each
Speaker 1: other back. I like this lock for you, Dan I,
Speaker 1: and I'm with you that the Texans are certainly the
Speaker 1: most talented team in the a f C South, and
Speaker 1: I think they certainly should be the favorite. As much
Speaker 1: as I like the Colts, the Texans, if they're firing
Speaker 1: on all cylinders, they're better. We talked about the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that are have replaced their starters On Tuesday's show, who
Speaker 1: is the most likely to hold on to the job
Speaker 1: if they got got hot, like legit hot over a
Speaker 1: course of a month, would it be Alan? There's no
Speaker 1: way that that Minshew would take nick foles job, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why we'd say
Speaker 1: no way with anyone, but the money. The money with
Speaker 1: Nick Foles problematic, but I wouldn't say no way with anyone.
Speaker 1: I think I'm Newton presents some issues. I think Minshew
Speaker 1: would have a better chance than Kyle Allen in less
Speaker 1: Allen's having like an m v P type of season
Speaker 1: where he's clearly a top five NFL quarterback. I think
Speaker 1: Newton just gets his job back. Whereas if Minshew's keeping
Speaker 1: the train rolling and they're winning and he's good, they
Speaker 1: might they might ride. Then you're selling tickets right now.
Speaker 1: They Nick Foles has like what ten snaps in his
Speaker 1: Jaguar's career, and Cam Newton has an m v P
Speaker 1: and his Panther's career. Mark makes a good point, though
Speaker 1: there's no absolutes. I mean, if Kyle Allen goes seven
Speaker 1: and one and has twenty four touchdowns in one pick.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know, you're not gonna take them out.
Speaker 1: It's just wild. Can I ask a snake related question?
Speaker 1: How is this going this way? Are we out of
Speaker 1: order again? I was? I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: it's under control. So I go again here, Yes, it's
Speaker 1: Snake's West. Okay, keep up everybody. Oh okay, I thought
Speaker 1: that you picked. You just locked again. It's not. I
Speaker 1: didn't say, I don't. I also don't claim to know
Speaker 1: how the way that I know that I'm right has
Speaker 1: actually wrote it out now, so I track it picked
Speaker 1: by pick. Then no more questions. West, You're up again.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna be able to pay much attention
Speaker 1: to this game. Ye see what happens? Oh, somebody blew it?
Speaker 1: See what happens? No, I mean that's all of us.
Speaker 1: We are second game for for a certain time slot.
Speaker 1: You can't I can do to keep an eye on two.
Speaker 1: Dan has better powers of concentration and just football tape
Speaker 1: watching the year. My TV game is always going to
Speaker 1: be number one, and then I have my casting on
Speaker 1: my laptop game, which is not going to get the
Speaker 1: same amount of But by the end of the game.
Speaker 1: I could tell you what happened, but the key is
Speaker 1: that you turn the volume up to levels on both
Speaker 1: TVs that drowns out everyone else's. So that's that's one
Speaker 1: way to that works. That works. Well, what you are
Speaker 1: my TV is too loud. I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to change my ways. We know that.
Speaker 1: Actually it is you bring it up anytime. Let's say
Speaker 1: I change the channel and it's the volume spikes and
Speaker 1: it has not. It's not my fault that just challenge changes.
Speaker 1: Marcos like this well, because so just if people now
Speaker 1: that we're visual, the cubicle wall between you and me
Speaker 1: is right here, and Dan has literally two interests from
Speaker 1: my ear and he plays the TV at volume like
Speaker 1: and it's and I'm not the only one that's I
Speaker 1: never even said, don you thingcause I knew it would
Speaker 1: get so critiqued. It's like volume eight next like an
Speaker 1: inchrom my ear. Part of me doesn't hate it actually
Speaker 1: because I kind of hear, um, what's not what I
Speaker 1: want to do? Okay, everyone, you know, if you listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast, this is the part of the show.
Speaker 1: To just fast forward to video section the previous minute.
Speaker 1: Listen to you know me, I got a journalism, grew
Speaker 1: up in a newsroom. Okay, newsroom is not a quiet place.
Speaker 1: It's not a library. It's always gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit amplified. I make no apologies. We we we fully
Speaker 1: understand that you embrace that self concept. Pick West, I'm
Speaker 1: going back and forth here. I'm gonna settle on the
Speaker 1: Titans versus the Falcons. Done me a favor. I know
Speaker 1: I did everyone a favor there because I wanted. It's
Speaker 1: not it's terrible game with two teams that are hard
Speaker 1: to watch. I know that was the point. I see
Speaker 1: your strategy. Yeah, I want to see if this is
Speaker 1: the last death throws of Marcus Mariota's career. May get
Speaker 1: a little QB switch. It's a big challenge room here.
Speaker 1: They are dead last in past protection according to Football Outsiders.
Speaker 1: They've they lost both of their starting guards in the
Speaker 1: off season, and they only signed one guy, Roger Staffold,
Speaker 1: to replace those two guards. They've been missing Taylor Lawan.
Speaker 1: Now that's one thing we know. The past protection is terrible,
Speaker 1: But Marcus Mariotta turns pressure into sacks at the highest
Speaker 1: rate of any quarterback in the NFL. It's a bad
Speaker 1: combination with enough blame to go around. Where a guy
Speaker 1: like Corey Davis, who was drafted in the top five
Speaker 1: picks of the draft, has four touchdowns in like thirtysomething
Speaker 1: career games. Their receivers are not very good, their offensive
Speaker 1: line is not very good, the running game isn't on track,
Speaker 1: their play caller isn't very good. UM and Marcus Mariota,
Speaker 1: this stat, I think really defines who he is. In
Speaker 1: twenty two of his fifty eight career starts, he has
Speaker 1: zero touchdowns, zero passing touchdowns. That is the highest rate
Speaker 1: of anybody since he's been in the league. Eli Manning
Speaker 1: his second and he just got benched. Um And it's
Speaker 1: the highest rate for any quarterback in his first fifty
Speaker 1: eight starts over the past twenty years. He just doesn't
Speaker 1: throw enough touchdowns. And that's the job. They've thrown a
Speaker 1: lot of coordinators at him too. I mean, maybe none
Speaker 1: of them are Sean McVeigh, but after four coordinators or
Speaker 1: whatever it's been, I mean, what that comment. That's a
Speaker 1: great way to break it down with. But you could also,
Speaker 1: just as you try to build a case for Marks Marioti,
Speaker 1: you look at his numbers career wise, every year it's
Speaker 1: like thirteen touchdowns, fourteen touches. I mean, this is two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen. This is not anymore. Mike Sando from The
Speaker 1: Athletic had a quote from an NFL executive who says,
Speaker 1: you look at some of his numbers and they're okay,
Speaker 1: and then you look again and they're just not okay.
Speaker 1: Doesn't enough, he doesn't pass the eye test. And in
Speaker 1: a game where the Falcons defensive line I think is
Speaker 1: deeper this year and plays better at home, at least
Speaker 1: the one time they've been at home, they played with
Speaker 1: their hair on fire. And you you're going up against
Speaker 1: a real professional offense. I'm not really that worried about
Speaker 1: the Alkins. I think they're gonna be in the mix
Speaker 1: as even though they're a little boring. I think they're
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be very much in the mix
Speaker 1: this year. Mason Rudolph had his many possessions by the
Speaker 1: middle of the second quarter, as Matt Ryan had in
Speaker 1: the entire game. List right six possessions out tied for
Speaker 1: the fewest. I made research look this up because I'm
Speaker 1: into possessions. It's only about Mendoza. He was happy to
Speaker 1: do it. He said, well, three teams. I heard what
Speaker 1: he said in the cubicle when I walked by, and
Speaker 1: the way to the only three other teams is in
Speaker 1: the last twenty years had had that few amount of possessions.
Speaker 1: Technically it was seven. Technically, yeah, they exclude Neil downs.
Speaker 1: The Officially, I wouldn't put the Falcons in the same
Speaker 1: category of unwatchable, uh problematics. As as the Titans feel
Speaker 1: like an I got you gotta win this game. I
Speaker 1: thought the big game for these two teams. They came
Speaker 1: into the season rather faceless and it takes a little
Speaker 1: bit of work to get for me to get out
Speaker 1: of that zone with me. There's like five or six
Speaker 1: teams like that. But watching them against the Colts like
Speaker 1: not Ryan, He's gonna throw a killer interception in the game,
Speaker 1: and then he's going to do five or six things
Speaker 1: involving Julio Jones that phenomenal he got super right, was
Speaker 1: thinking was nine for nine or ten for ten at
Speaker 1: one point as they climb back into that he's a
Speaker 1: good quarterback. I don't know why people always picking at him. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's because in the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: I think the coordinator switches have hurt Matt Ryan more
Speaker 1: than Marcus Mariota because I don't know. He's going to
Speaker 1: Theay Matt Ryan, He's going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: He's got a shot, he's got an m v P,
Speaker 1: and he years a little I don't know, are going
Speaker 1: to be out of this world. By the time he's retires,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be one of the most. He might break
Speaker 1: all of Brady and breezes past. He could really use
Speaker 1: another January moment. Yeah, no, I agree with that, but
Speaker 1: he's got an m v P. He's been a top
Speaker 1: five quarterback heck of a lot more times than than
Speaker 1: Eli or some other It is similar though when his number, Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but its second baseball. When you look at steroid rain
Speaker 1: now with the ball juice, home run guys aren't what
Speaker 1: they used to be. Is Matt Ryan going to be um?
Speaker 1: It will be held against them that he put up
Speaker 1: great numbers, but in an era where a lot of
Speaker 1: guys had great numbers. And then he's like, all right,
Speaker 1: what else did he do this area? He might have
Speaker 1: six good years left all pros, So he's got a
Speaker 1: wild They got that they don't get hit as much anymore.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, that was the Snake pick with Chris
Speaker 1: Westling mark your final pick of the draft, and thank you,
Speaker 1: and I apologize for not necessary for two items, questioning
Speaker 1: that anyone knew how the Snake Draft worked, and secondly,
Speaker 1: you can watch your games anyway you please on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We've been doing you guys. So funny that that we've
Speaker 1: been doing this for like seven or eight years downstairs
Speaker 1: and it comes up for the first time because I
Speaker 1: would say, I would say it was something that was
Speaker 1: not It was very a low level issue because we've
Speaker 1: laughed about once or twice because we're friends and it's
Speaker 1: just a funny little thing. I don't know that we
Speaker 1: not have no one really uh can't. It's not some
Speaker 1: burning issue. We don't know. You know, when you're when
Speaker 1: your friends, you know, you drive each other a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little around. You're missing the point that it didn't
Speaker 1: come up for eight years because it was I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say it was even an issue until a year ago
Speaker 1: or two years ago. My hearing is going, I don't
Speaker 1: know all I'm taking and I don't need to see
Speaker 1: one of these teams ever again. But I like who
Speaker 1: they're playing. I'm taking the Redskins at the Giants. I
Speaker 1: I actually watched the Redskins game in real time on
Speaker 1: Monday night. Maybe you all did too. I questioned that
Speaker 1: decision after uh, they are They're tough on the eyes
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and they are heading in the wrong direction,
Speaker 1: and I don't like the organization. I think it's hopeful
Speaker 1: that Colt McCoy was a full participant participant practice this week.
Speaker 1: Case Keenum is practicing too, but he's in a walking move.
Speaker 1: But I would much rather like to see a little
Speaker 1: bit of cult McCoy on Sunday. If Case mckenham gets
Speaker 1: battered and destroyed the way he was on Monday night
Speaker 1: against the Bears. It feels like every time you hit
Speaker 1: case Keenum hard, he's gonna lose the ball. He fumbles
Speaker 1: the ball, it gets knocked out of his hands. But
Speaker 1: if you don't hit him to get like the Dante
Speaker 1: Moncrief of quarterbacks, it's too much. It's too much. You're
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. The Cults to me are sorry. The
Speaker 1: Giants to me, we've already discussed this on the Tuesday Show.
Speaker 1: They this is the game I think would have been
Speaker 1: the dead easy last pick in this draft when they
Speaker 1: had Eli Manning there obviously intriguing still out there, I
Speaker 1: already know that's my game. Well, there's some stinkers, but
Speaker 1: this is you know, I think people felt safe to
Speaker 1: wait on this one. The Giants without Sequon Barkley. I
Speaker 1: I don't know, like they are Giants fans able to
Speaker 1: watch this team now and say I don't really care
Speaker 1: about Odell Beckham not being on this team either. Maybe
Speaker 1: with this quarterback and the way that certain quarterbacks come
Speaker 1: in and just make the parts that are there in
Speaker 1: place work kind of reminds me of like Jacoby percent
Speaker 1: with the Cults, where you lose a bunch of people,
Speaker 1: but you just make it worth work with what's around you.
Speaker 1: That that's the Giants. Last week I talk about Kyle Allen.
Speaker 1: I want to see game two. I want to see
Speaker 1: game two of this It's exciting. But if I'm a
Speaker 1: Giants fan, I want to see Daniel Jones with Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram and Sterling Chef. I. I that seems like
Speaker 1: a better idea. I do too, But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you don't mean you're a fan of the team. You're
Speaker 1: not stuck in those decisions anymore. If this quarterback works out,
Speaker 1: it's a better way to put it in. And um,
Speaker 1: two things that I noticed. I watched it this morning,
Speaker 1: so I love all the all the lab work you're
Speaker 1: doing this year. Evan Evan ingram Uh is going to
Speaker 1: be the next giant superstar attention that touchdown, the catch,
Speaker 1: and then the run. He also had a one handed
Speaker 1: catch in this game. But that catching run, my goodness,
Speaker 1: my own that is that is superstar stuff. He like
Speaker 1: jumps off the screen, so he could be the guy
Speaker 1: essentially replaces Beckham because he is kind of like a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. He's going to be the next thousand yard
Speaker 1: tight end and there aren't that many of those in history.
Speaker 1: And then my other thought was Danny Dimes. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a perfect game by the way. He bubbled the ball
Speaker 1: twice and he should have thrown an interception that was dropped.
Speaker 1: So it was in a lot of other ways. It
Speaker 1: was an incredible game, but it was not a perfect
Speaker 1: piece of artwork. Kyle Allen had probably a better game,
Speaker 1: and I think he Kyle Allen definitely had a better
Speaker 1: game and clean, cleaner. The team, super exciting, but there
Speaker 1: is there is room for growth. It wasn't like he
Speaker 1: delivered an absolute masterpiece. It was just more like a
Speaker 1: rollicking good time, more just allowing giants fans to you know,
Speaker 1: bathe in it because of what they've been through. Well,
Speaker 1: he also had a ton of pressure on him, you know.
Speaker 1: Next Gen stat said he he had more yards under
Speaker 1: pressure than any quarterback in a game since Tom Brady
Speaker 1: of Week three of two thousand seventeen. So a lot
Speaker 1: of those throws were on the move. I really love
Speaker 1: you know, a right handed guy who can throw on
Speaker 1: the move to his left with ease multiple times in
Speaker 1: that game is pretty rare. It was that it was
Speaker 1: the splash plays that got you so excited like that,
Speaker 1: the low percentage for most quarterbacks types of throws that
Speaker 1: he put out. I wonder if he's going to have
Speaker 1: a ton of fun plays this year, but a ton
Speaker 1: of turnovers too. I could see Shepherd back helped a
Speaker 1: lot in in defensive eland. Shepherd is a big time layer.
Speaker 1: And so when you have him and you know, what
Speaker 1: do they say in fantasy A league winner, Evan Ingram's
Speaker 1: a league winner. If you drafted Evan Ingram, He's the
Speaker 1: type of guy that wins you a fantasy league. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, up next, Greg, Oh yeah, let's let's go
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins in the Charger. I am surprised you are.
Speaker 1: I'm with West when it's the backup. Turn it down
Speaker 1: that volume for you on Sunday. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: When it's the backup game, you know, I would never
Speaker 1: take the Dolphins, Greg, I don't care if it's the backup.
Speaker 1: I just wanna who knows if they stay, if they
Speaker 1: stay competitive, somehow it becomes it becomes more interesting. And
Speaker 1: they're playing a team in the Chargers that I don't
Speaker 1: mind watching. Keenan Allen right now is maybe the best
Speaker 1: receiver in the league. He's certainly right up there. When
Speaker 1: you have an office that's just Philip Rivers trying to
Speaker 1: find Keenan Allen while he's being pressured, and it still
Speaker 1: moves the ball fairly well. It's that you can't really
Speaker 1: build an offense around that, and yet they still put
Speaker 1: up like three of the yards. I mean, their offense
Speaker 1: is still better than what the Packers roll out every week.
Speaker 1: And it's basically those two guys playing pitch and catch.
Speaker 1: I feel like a guy on death row that just
Speaker 1: got pardoned by the governor while I'm strapped into the chair. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I've also watched. The cults are out
Speaker 1: there and I've watched them every single week, and so
Speaker 1: you want to you want to mix him up. I
Speaker 1: do love the cults, but I'll save him. This feels
Speaker 1: like the Joey Bosa Melvin Ingram start your season. Have
Speaker 1: the big, big, big performance. Should you would you would hope.
Speaker 1: So they've been pretty quiet. You're underselling Austin Ekeler, who
Speaker 1: in the last week's game against the Texans just showed
Speaker 1: that he's leaps and bounds a better player at what
Speaker 1: he does than Duke Johnson. My bad. It's really a
Speaker 1: three man offense and he's Duke Johnson is known as
Speaker 1: a passing down back, and in Austin Ekeler is so
Speaker 1: much better than him. I think Ekeler is a He's
Speaker 1: just a running back. Like I guess, he's smaller, and
Speaker 1: so maybe we want to give him three fifty carries,
Speaker 1: but he absolutely deserves to have the ball two seven
Speaker 1: five times this year. And I think even with Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon coming back, which we haven't mentioned, he is, you know,
Speaker 1: returning to the team. You have to keep giving the
Speaker 1: ball a lot every every good offense. And this this
Speaker 1: jumped out to me in the season opener Patriots Steelers game.
Speaker 1: You gotta have a linebacker beater coming out of your backfield,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots have two of them in Birkhead and
Speaker 1: James White, where the Steelers had none. The Chargers have
Speaker 1: a linebacker beater and Ekeler you go, you go to
Speaker 1: him when you need a big play, and he does
Speaker 1: it because he can beat them off the line with
Speaker 1: his route running and then if you get him the
Speaker 1: ball into space. What separates all these running backs immediately
Speaker 1: the agility to make the first guy miss. And he
Speaker 1: does it almost every time. All right, our final non
Speaker 1: prime time game, we forgot to mention Melvin Gordon and
Speaker 1: in his holdout, we're in there. He wants play this week. Um,
Speaker 1: poor Dolphins, you know, poor holdout. They don't even get mentioned.
Speaker 1: I actually, now that we have a circle back here,
Speaker 1: Henry Hotson did show me this link from Gridiron Magazine,
Speaker 1: UK only product who had an exclusive with UH to
Speaker 1: a from Alabama who said he's not worrying about the
Speaker 1: whole You know, he hears about it a lot. He's
Speaker 1: not worried. He thinks it's fine. You know, he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't seem like he's gonna, you know, try to
Speaker 1: pull an Eli Manning, you know, and get his way
Speaker 1: out of there. That's the Alabama he's But what's the connection.
Speaker 1: The Alabama is basically been tanking this. I mean, Miami's
Speaker 1: tanking to draft him. I don't think he's gonna win
Speaker 1: out like a flock of agents and representation. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like Eli Manning, you know, you get on people out.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he was just like, I know about it.
Speaker 1: It's cool, it's fine. Found another way to come after Eli.
Speaker 1: That was a good one. I mean you said that
Speaker 1: that wasn't really a show of leadership there. Charges weren't
Speaker 1: even a bad organization. They had one down year and
Speaker 1: Eli said I'm not going there. Um, all right, let's
Speaker 1: say that for We'll have that conversation at that point.
Speaker 1: All right. The final pick then is the Raiders at
Speaker 1: the Cults. Uh do you know this? I know what
Speaker 1: I'm getting, Just like you said saying, Greg, the Cults
Speaker 1: are going to deliver a solid, workman like performance at
Speaker 1: home against the Raiders team that's not gonna win many
Speaker 1: games on the road. I see this as a to
Speaker 1: a two score game in favor of the Colts, and
Speaker 1: um from the Raiders side of things, I guess I'm
Speaker 1: something had been tracking since Hard Knocks was what's going
Speaker 1: on in the future with Derek Carr. Um. You know
Speaker 1: that Jon Gruen is not going anywhere. He's in the
Speaker 1: second year of a ten year deal. Um. But for
Speaker 1: Derek carr, I think this is game four of an
Speaker 1: audition that will decide whether he stays there. And I
Speaker 1: think at this point I would be very surprising if
Speaker 1: he's there at quarterback next year. I mean I asked
Speaker 1: the same question. I think it was. I I thought,
Speaker 1: on this three game sample, that's overreacting that he's exactly
Speaker 1: what they would have expected. I think he's played fine.
Speaker 1: Is that what John Griden wants? Maybe not, but I
Speaker 1: guess I don't it to begin with, I don't feel
Speaker 1: any differently after these three games than I did before.
Speaker 1: But then here's Dan. I'm totally with you because I
Speaker 1: just think the experience of Derek carr you know, okay,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna get a couple of the things you
Speaker 1: got last week against the Vikings, which was one of
Speaker 1: the worst interceptions I saw all week on a terrible
Speaker 1: overthrow and you know there he's asking receivers to leap
Speaker 1: their full extent in the year to grab balls that
Speaker 1: are high he's is it going to improve? I just
Speaker 1: don't know. Like I'm with Danna, I'm a little worried
Speaker 1: as a as a Cults backer, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: a team you can trust to beat anyone easily. Just
Speaker 1: talent wise. They could be without t Y Hilton, they
Speaker 1: could be without Darius Leonard. They are going to be
Speaker 1: without Malik Hooker. They are going to be It is
Speaker 1: just man for a team. It wasn't, you know, the
Speaker 1: most talent in the entire league. They've had taken a
Speaker 1: lot of hits. Hilton, especially if he's out, is kind
Speaker 1: of I would think, um with the Chiefs coming up
Speaker 1: next week and Hilton having a pull himself out of
Speaker 1: that game reaggravating the quad, that they would probably be
Speaker 1: very careful about playing him in this game. But you're right,
Speaker 1: take him out of the equation. He's been their number
Speaker 1: one receiver and perhaps the Colts have a major firepower issue.
Speaker 1: Nice matchup here for the running back connoisseurs. Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: who's running, I mean, looked head and shoulders better than
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman. And last week's game, I thought they didn't
Speaker 1: even look like they were playing the same position. Marlon
Speaker 1: much better. Freeman isn't making anyone missing space that that
Speaker 1: would bother me if I'm a Falcon fan. No, the
Speaker 1: Chuck Pagano. No, it was Chuck Pagano who glowed over
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack a couple off season ago, said this guy
Speaker 1: is going to be an absolute star, and he's maybe
Speaker 1: not there yet, but he is the engine to that offense.
Speaker 1: Post Andrew Pallard. Ballard kind of said when they didn't
Speaker 1: take anyone, it's because they believe in Mac. We should
Speaker 1: have we should have listened. Chuck Strong, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I'm just backing up at previous point. Looked really good,
Speaker 1: and I know his stats didn't look good, but he's
Speaker 1: looked phenomenal all years SOFFO, and he was playing through
Speaker 1: what a calf injury or something last week perfectly healthy
Speaker 1: to me. Uh. Sunday Night Football, the Dallas Cowboys three
Speaker 1: and OH travel to the Superdome to face the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. Oh. This is a good matchup. The Saints
Speaker 1: two and one have that great complete victory against the
Speaker 1: Seahawks in Seattle, so they they have confidence. Uh Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater um showed came along a little bit in that game,
Speaker 1: but still has work to do. The Cowboys, meanwhile, West
Speaker 1: are clicking on all cylinders with those triplets uh Dak Coope,
Speaker 1: Zeke and the defense. Some of this has to do
Speaker 1: with opponent, but that Cowboys are on pace for a
Speaker 1: hundred and seven passes a fifteen or more yards this
Speaker 1: year compared to sixty eight last year and fifty three
Speaker 1: and two thousand and seventeen. This is a totally different
Speaker 1: offense that the Cowboys are putting out there, and I
Speaker 1: think it's outplayed their defense, which one which is in
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league. Yeah, it nice
Speaker 1: to see them play a real team though you know,
Speaker 1: I know they don't have Teddy Drew Brees the Saints,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys have maybe played the three worst teams
Speaker 1: in the league in succession, Redskins, Giants, and Dolphins, specially
Speaker 1: Giants with with the Eli Man and so I think
Speaker 1: on both sides they had to be really happy with
Speaker 1: what they got out of Robert Quinn. I think DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence has looked more like himself each week. Uh, and
Speaker 1: they're just they're more talented. I mean, this is kind
Speaker 1: of a sneaky rivalry because of Sean Payton's friendship with
Speaker 1: the Jones, is because of all those rumors over the years,
Speaker 1: because Sean Payton really is the number one coaching mentor
Speaker 1: to Jason Garrett. Uh, you know, they were very close
Speaker 1: from their time together with the Giants, and and Payton's
Speaker 1: kind of put it on him. But last year, I
Speaker 1: remember I was in your house, West when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: shut the Saints down, and that kind of started the
Speaker 1: Saints downfall, and it really started this love affair between
Speaker 1: West and and the Cowboys and West and one of
Speaker 1: their linebackers, oh Layton Vanderesh. I think both their lines Well,
Speaker 1: I like them so much that I'm locking up the
Speaker 1: Cowboys a good one until I'm gonna keep locking them
Speaker 1: up until until Dan puts them ahead of the Rams
Speaker 1: and his power ranking. All right, all right, you know
Speaker 1: what if they go to New Orleans and kick some ass?
Speaker 1: What is it about these Rams that has you think?
Speaker 1: And they're the third best team in the NFL, Like
Speaker 1: they're pretty damn good. The Rams. I like the Rams,
Speaker 1: but it's close. I think they're very close. Good though.
Speaker 1: I don't have the mirror on that one, and the
Speaker 1: reflections coming right back at you. I Greg looks at
Speaker 1: the mirror, there's nothing. I am fine to be the
Speaker 1: one that comes out of this with a wind, though,
Speaker 1: and we won't be discussed. He'll have w at what
Speaker 1: costs though. I think Saints fans are rightfully a little
Speaker 1: worried about they're playing. They're playing an undefeated team you
Speaker 1: don't believe in. I don't. That's why I'm blocking against
Speaker 1: so But I'm saying, like, you don't even think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be close. I think it's weird. I think the
Speaker 1: Bills are a playoff team, I really do. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna win ten or eleven games. And this is
Speaker 1: a road game. Why are we looking at this? Who cared?
Speaker 1: This is why this game is stupid. Have if you're
Speaker 1: gonna play a game, to play a game, but does matter?
Speaker 1: There are rules you just you're playing by your own rules.
Speaker 1: My rules are if it's a touchdown spread or less,
Speaker 1: then why are you so uncomfortable looking in the mirror?
Speaker 1: I mean because it alter his decision. No matter how
Speaker 1: much pressure you put on him or lights, it's not
Speaker 1: going to change. I mean I was think getting either
Speaker 1: that or the Chiefs. So either way, well that's uh. Finally,
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, the Cincinnati ben Gulls travel to Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: to face the Steelers. Even when they made the schedule,
Speaker 1: this one was always gonna be iffy, and now it's
Speaker 1: turned into a worst case scenario. Two oh and three teams,
Speaker 1: one of them, uh the Steelers without their franchise quarterback
Speaker 1: Big Ben out for the year with elbow surgery. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean we talked about last year last week mark
Speaker 1: a cornered animal game for the Steelers. Well now they're
Speaker 1: just they're kind of laying on the floor, they're twitching,
Speaker 1: They're they're probably dead. Uh. If not, they will soon expire.
Speaker 1: Uh So the Bengals are gonna go up to to
Speaker 1: the rotting corpse and sniff it and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Not a good place to be if you're an animal,
Speaker 1: that is what you described there. Not a good place.
Speaker 1: I am locking up the Steelers, let's start right there. Good.
Speaker 1: I don't particularly believe in the Steelers, but it's what
Speaker 1: what what I think is it's one of these classic Uh,
Speaker 1: it just feels like what's going to happen on Monday Night.
Speaker 1: I've already in my mind I see a Minka Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: pick six where they can spend fifteen minutes telling you
Speaker 1: how great it was that they made the trade for.
Speaker 1: It's just all these little Monday night things are gonna happen.
Speaker 1: The game is begging for me to watch it on
Speaker 1: condensed mode much later in the week. But we will
Speaker 1: see about that. My problem with the Bengals is that
Speaker 1: week after week they've found a a to kill themselves
Speaker 1: with killer turnovers. And be honest, you have a lot
Speaker 1: more problems with than that with the Bengals. But the
Speaker 1: Bengal this is they this is their shot to go
Speaker 1: steal a win two from the Steelers. But be guess
Speaker 1: you're about to say something critical of Andy Dalton. No,
Speaker 1: I think Andy Dalton is not the only problem. They're
Speaker 1: just they are the worst run blocks. You should be
Speaker 1: thrilled when you thought the Brown schedule was going to
Speaker 1: be so tough, and it has been part of it
Speaker 1: is that we thought the division was gonna be good.
Speaker 1: This is a stinker and these teams It's not like
Speaker 1: they've lucked into you know, they've had bad luck to
Speaker 1: get to go on three. These are the two worst
Speaker 1: teams in the entire NFL if you don't count uh,
Speaker 1: the team that's tanking according to Football Outsiders, you know,
Speaker 1: efficiency these are thirty and thirty one, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I just I don't, to be honest, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I care about that stuff three weeks into the
Speaker 1: seasons because what I what I have seen is Pittsburgh's
Speaker 1: when they feel like if their pass rush destroy people
Speaker 1: and the Bengals oh line has looked really bad, and
Speaker 1: they to me, that's the week's where Pittsburgh is gonna
Speaker 1: have like one of these four or five takedowns of
Speaker 1: Dalton and it will that a fault. No, but that's
Speaker 1: the that's the self destruct button for Cincinnati. I think
Speaker 1: you hit on the key to this matchup that the
Speaker 1: Bengals can't block the Steelers and the Steelers have to
Speaker 1: take the training wheels off of Mason Rudolph. The only
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league throwing shorter passes than Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: is Teddy Bridgewater. I've got a theory though, for this
Speaker 1: game it's a little bit of like the the Fenway
Speaker 1: Park vibe when it's a bad uh Patriots, a Red
Speaker 1: Sox team, or there's a lot of like proud franchises.
Speaker 1: There's a point where you've had such a proud franchise
Speaker 1: that a home game, if they're down seven three at
Speaker 1: the middle of the second quarter, just the vibes are
Speaker 1: gonna be terrible. I don't think it's much of a
Speaker 1: home field advantage because the Steelers fans are not used
Speaker 1: to their team being one of the worst teams in
Speaker 1: the league. Yeah, but that could go the exact opposite way,
Speaker 1: where they throttle Andy Dalton and you're they're playing renegade
Speaker 1: at full volume in that stadium and the whole place
Speaker 1: is rock and the terrible towels are at and then
Speaker 1: they go thirteen and three. Yeah, this was since he's
Speaker 1: tonight before like they don't The Bengals have never fared
Speaker 1: well against the Steelers, and not in Pittsburgh. Dan and
Speaker 1: I stuck our nuck out and picked up Steelers last
Speaker 1: week and they wronged us. So now I've turned up.
Speaker 1: This is a terrible effort by them last week. Before
Speaker 1: we go Ryan Barlett, where are we at with Tony Romo,
Speaker 1: who's playing a some amateur golf tournament, decide whether he
Speaker 1: works or not this weekend. I mean it's a it's
Speaker 1: a PGA event. I have a update for you if
Speaker 1: you want. Unless you got it one under par through seventeen.
Speaker 1: He's got to make the cut. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: now that happened. Now you don't know. Here's Mark Brady,
Speaker 1: he's the golfer. Oh yeah, Mark Brady, a Shadowy League figure.
Speaker 1: Tony Romo is one under voice. So he's playing in
Speaker 1: a PGA Tour event. I mean, that's exactly what Ryan said.
Speaker 1: An interesting note here. He is currently ahead of Phil Mickelson,
Speaker 1: has only played two holes thought field and announced the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. I mean he's a big charges fan actually,
Speaker 1: so he want to do that. He's one if he's
Speaker 1: got one hole to go here at this space, he's
Speaker 1: making the cut. It's it's early. He has the whole
Speaker 1: second round to go. It's top ties there. Just keep
Speaker 1: talking that any of us doing this is the Shadowy
Speaker 1: League figure, or at least one of the shadows over
Speaker 1: the years. The only reason why I'm here is the
Speaker 1: track Tony Romo's progress for the show. Otherwise I'm useless. Well,
Speaker 1: so is he going to make the cut? Yes or no?
Speaker 1: Answer A smart please. I do not believe he will
Speaker 1: make the cup. But he is a superior golfer, and
Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing that he can actually compete with these
Speaker 1: guys in the PGA. Not if he keeps up this work.
Speaker 1: If held up his space, he's got a shot. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like if if Wes and I were playing in
Speaker 1: our softball on the softball team the Shield, and there
Speaker 1: was some type of like tournament, and we decided, hey,
Speaker 1: if we advance in this round, we're not coming to
Speaker 1: work on Sunday because we want to, you know, go
Speaker 1: play this next round of the softball tournament. No, be
Speaker 1: a professional, the stakes are equal, they kind of are.
Speaker 1: What's what need to do with professional golf? He's he's
Speaker 1: a former football player. Ask him that question. I think
Speaker 1: he would probably say it gives him, you know, more
Speaker 1: fulfillment than probably anything else he could possibly do in
Speaker 1: his life. That maybe his kids. But do that, say CBS.
Speaker 1: I've loved the opportunity, I've really enjoyed it. But you
Speaker 1: know what my real passion post NFL is golf. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put all my attention and that will be
Speaker 1: my full time job. You really want to lose him
Speaker 1: like that? I don't, But I'm saying maybe at some
Speaker 1: point you just have to make a decision. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: good enough. Maybe this brings Boomers Sison back into your
Speaker 1: life on a primetime level. Din. There's different rules for
Speaker 1: different levels of talent, Like, hey, Lawrence Taylor, you know
Speaker 1: you want to have some booger sugar before the game. Sure,
Speaker 1: you're a Hall of Famer. You let Tony Romo play
Speaker 1: at the golf golf event. All right, that's it, we'll
Speaker 1: be back tonight. Well again, Greg has already washed his
Speaker 1: hands of this. He's washing He's in the bad through
Speaker 1: washing his hands in the mirror the recording process of
Speaker 1: the game. Here's the thing. I'm I'm crazy enough. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm happy. If we want, I'll work, I'll stay here
Speaker 1: and we'll just do it in the professional studio. That's
Speaker 1: that's even doubling down on washing your hands up because
Speaker 1: you're presenting a scenario in audio recording formats saying that
Speaker 1: you already came up with a plan to not do
Speaker 1: this if it doesn't work At West you're working against
Speaker 1: West and away here now it's all on West to
Speaker 1: nail this. Well, I'm coming over. I know he prefers that.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to have any responsibility, uh, because
Speaker 1: I'll I'm operating about six steps ahead of Greg. I
Speaker 1: know that that recording equipment represents our freedom, and if
Speaker 1: we learn how to use it correctly, it means so
Speaker 1: many more things in the future. It gives us so
Speaker 1: much leeway. It gives us options, and I want that
Speaker 1: teach a child to fish, thank you. I want the options. Well, Greg,
Speaker 1: get on board. Greg examulating, I'm comment that's going to
Speaker 1: destroy one of us. So I'm I love it, and
Speaker 1: I just want to make it clear. I'm riding your
Speaker 1: guys coattails on this, particularly Will. Yeah, I'll be back
Speaker 1: in hands's manner. So this is this is you guys
Speaker 1: working together for the greater good. Yeah, I'm washing my
Speaker 1: hands up it. That is for certain, all right. So yes, tonight,
Speaker 1: maybe you'll get a recap of a tremendous Thursday night
Speaker 1: football game. So guys, come on, get it together, and
Speaker 1: then you'll hear from the four of us Sunday night
Speaker 1: where we'll recap every game we just previewed that will
Speaker 1: be played on Sunday. Good stuff. Thanks everybody behind the glass.
Speaker 1: The video show very smooth operation. Right Varlett looks great.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on our social for more Curtain Club
Speaker 1: ticket announcement. Yes, make sure we're coming to London, baby
Speaker 1: Till Sunday. S