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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. He's always ready to go along.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hanson. It comes to you from

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Speaker 1: a virtual room filled with some heroes. Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: Oh heroes. It's a spectacular edition of the podcast. The

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Speaker 1: flagship show Halloween Night and uh tricker treat, as they say,

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Speaker 1: Greggy and it was a treat for a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams that had unsung, unheralded backup quarterbacks in big spots. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you, uh were once coached by Adam Gate, you

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Speaker 1: had quite a day. It was a fun It was

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Speaker 1: a fun Sunday. I mean because of the surprising results.

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Speaker 1: Uh and because we got to do it at home,

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Speaker 1: and um that was that was nice get a little

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Speaker 1: tricker treating in while after we watched some of the

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Speaker 1: football is perfect. There is an immense um rager happening

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Speaker 1: at my neighbor's house. I can't decipher what actions are

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Speaker 1: what we did because we all got a chance to

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Speaker 1: take our kids out trick or treating a little bit

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Speaker 1: um amid a wild Sunday night football game, if you

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Speaker 1: want to use that word. But it only capped off

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Speaker 1: not only for the Jets, but other teams a pretty

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Speaker 1: dramatic we gate. Yeah, the Jets are one of those

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Speaker 1: teams that had an unlikely performance from a backup when

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Speaker 1: you say that there's something crazy going on next door.

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Speaker 1: Because Halloween is itself, they're the parties and things of

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Speaker 1: that nature. And yes, my Vincent Vega T shirt did

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Speaker 1: night at an adult Halloween party. But usually it's about

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Speaker 1: the kids on Halloween proper. But you seem to hint

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Speaker 1: little bit more zesty happening next door. Right now I

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Speaker 1: can only you is um. You know the evidence provided

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Speaker 1: audio wise to my ears, and there is UM station

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Speaker 1: gigantic camper that's continually parked there. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: am assuming that, like older sleepy relatives typically inhabit that vehicle.

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Speaker 1: But what I've been hearing um would suggest other events

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Speaker 1: UM not involving old sleepy. So when the air stream

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Speaker 1: saying that's been continuous. There are other things too, but

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Speaker 1: Let's get grave digger in this car, send him over

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Speaker 1: to Settler's house. So we'll continue to track that situation.

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Speaker 1: But yes, there were many a football game played on

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, Halloween Sunday. Let's start a great scene down

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans at the Superdome where the defending champions

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Speaker 1: After P J. Williams intercepted, Tom Brady returned at forty

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Speaker 1: the bad news of Jameis Winston, who got pulled down

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Speaker 1: like Halloween references within each final call of big plays.

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Speaker 1: that first preseason game I remember, yeah, I think that

430
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Speaker 1: was that the Hall of Fame game I don't even remember.

431
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Speaker 1: And here he is showing up like hasn't been huge

432
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Speaker 1: this year. But if he doesn't make that catch, I

433
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,159
Speaker 1: don't know if the Steelers go score another touchdown in

434
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: this game. This was a defensive game. Did you have

435
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 1: there was some There was some Mike Tomlins sound um marketing. Yeah,

436
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: let's let's throw that on there. Let's see it. His mentality.

437
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: He plays like we got no kicker anyway, He's Ohio

438
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,880
Speaker 1: boy man, he trying to win when he comes home. See,

439
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: Like I would just say one thing, I really I

440
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 1: like that. Common reason I wanted to play that was

441
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 1: because he basically said, you know, he said, Big Ben

442
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: plays like we don't have a kicker all the time,

443
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: and this isn't the old Big Ben, but um, it

444
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 1: felt like the old Brown Steelers games to me in

445
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 1: many ways. And back in the past, before we did this,

446
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: I would go after a game like this and watch

447
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 1: like three movies back to back to back in like

448
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: a discount movie theater, you know, and start to think

449
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 1: that there are still great books to read. There are

450
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: still things to do, there are still luscious people out

451
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,400
Speaker 1: on the street. But um, I had a four John

452
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 1: and watched like a Washington football team game in the

453
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 1: middle of this, I was in a hot, irritated mood

454
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: in my garage. I don't want to feel this way again.

455
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: They unplugged me. I'm not doing this again, nobody. Nobody's

456
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 1: gonna have a camper next door. You see what's going on.

457
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go right over there after this. Um, nobody's

458
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: ever gonna feel sorry for us, because we're very lucky

459
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: to do what we do for a living. But I

460
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: will say this, like and Mark, you are just like me, uh,

461
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: super passionate about our team, and it kind of sticks

462
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: with you more than you know. You're a typical sports fan.

463
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: Just put it that way. And when we have a

464
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: particularly bad loss for our teams, like for me last

465
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 1: week with the Patriots Jets game, with this game, when

466
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 1: you have to stay locked in the NFL world for

467
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: another nine hours and talk about it on a podcast

468
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: that people listen to, that is that's the hardest. That

469
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: is the hardest part of an otherwise amazing job. Yeah,

470
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: Like I like I tweeted something that I really felt,

471
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Speaker 1: um in the middle of this nonsense, and also at

472
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Speaker 1: one point I did predict correctly that Jim Nance and

473
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: Tony Romo would be highly annoying. Um. Jim Nance had

474
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: his little Halloween like, is this gonna be a trick

475
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: or a treat for Pittsburgh on a play where they're

476
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: going like forty five yards to the end zone. I mean,

477
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: but I basically said, female assassin, don't walk run because

478
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: this this basically again, I'm not getting involved with this

479
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: team for a long time. I come out there. It

480
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: doesn't imagine Mark doing a trick or treat and I

481
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: with the kids just like, just take the amend joy,

482
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: just take it right work. But I saw. I don't

483
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: know if it's true or if I miss reddicks that

484
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: popped up real quick quick on my tweet deck, but

485
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: I think the Browns are Owen six on robo Nance games.

486
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: I told you like it is it is they are.

487
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: It boils down to this. They try to shove the

488
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: Browns into the big moment and outside of the playoff game,

489
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: they are not ready for the big moment. You gotta

490
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 1: go back and figure out who you are right now.

491
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: You are floating. I think these two teams just quickly

492
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: are similar though, Which is that the a f C

493
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: is a morass right now? This is this like lower

494
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: wild card group is just a big jumble, and they

495
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: all got a shot and probably none of them are

496
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: real super Bowl contenders. And they're both in that mix.

497
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers are now in that mix. You

498
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: can't say that they're morass. Is a great way to

499
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: describe it. So great that an insane person like me

500
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: thinks about my Jets team and I'm like, hey, if

501
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: we could beat the Cults on Thursday, yea sloppy down

502
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 1: to get some magic. Look that you see how quickly

503
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: they wrote me back in. All right, Mark, I'm sorry

504
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: that this game turned out the way it did, but

505
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: hopefully brighter days ahead. Uh, let's toss to a break

506
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: and then get to that. Jets classic takes the snap,

507
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: drops back, looks like, looks laugh, fires in the crop.

508
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: He's got it. That's a Jet touchdown. Tyler croft on alone.

509
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: Mike White finds him for the go ahead scar with

510
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: three unbelievable Oh yeah, Rick, you gave me the fong goes.

511
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm back, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back. I'm back,

512
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: I'm back. I wish I could put you New York Jets.

513
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: Bob was Shusan the call where w E p n

514
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: he's a great played by blay guy. We don't get

515
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 1: the heir a lot from him on the show Mike eight.

516
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: Mike White threw for four hundred and five yards and

517
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: three touchdowns and caught a two point conversion pass on

518
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: a Philly special Marquis Uh the go ahead score and

519
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: two point conversion and the Jets come back from two

520
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: scores down late in the fourth quarter to to beat

521
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: the Bengals thirty four to thirty one at the Meadowlands.

522
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: Another building, it was going off. And I'll tell you

523
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: why that building was going nuts. At MetLife Stadium today

524
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: it has been and I was talking to Keith Hansas

525
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: about this after the game that it was. It was

526
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: the rare, such a special win, uh and memorable one

527
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: that you got a call that it's not just it's

528
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: not a text one, it's a call. And if you

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Speaker 1: aside from the two thousand fifteen Ryan Fitzpatrick ten in

530
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: six season that didn't even produce a playoff bid, that

531
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: was the last time anything like remotely special happened um

532
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: with the Jets, a game that was true memorable. I

533
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: know there were little flickers of hope in the Sam

534
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: Donald earra, but nothing truly memorable for anyone outside of

535
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: Jets fans. This is a straight up, like great, like

536
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: classic Jets win and it's been so long since it's happened.

537
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: And the fact that it was Mike White, a guy

538
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: that's just a complete unknown, a former fifth round pick

539
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: out of a non big time school, bounced around, was

540
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, didn't make that team, lands with the Jets,

541
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: and for him to just kind of be fearless in

542
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: this game, uh, was really something special to watch. Mark.

543
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: You grabbed this game in the draft because I was

544
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: on a break, uh. And that break lasted as long

545
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: as the first Jets strive when they scored their first

546
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: touchdown of the season in the first quarter, and I said, okay,

547
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: they look like they actually showed up to play a

548
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: football game. And that's exactly how it played out and

549
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: they gotta win as a result. Yeah. And I had this,

550
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, late in the fourth quarter at a text

551
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: um the I was gonna send a Dan and said,

552
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: why don't you know, I'm I covered this, and I'm

553
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: happy to chime in, but this is a this is

554
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: something greatst happening here. Do you want to maybe have

555
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: your thoughts out there? Obviously? Um, And then I was like,

556
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: wait when do I send this? Because I waited until

557
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: it was completely over because it was such a bizarre game,

558
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: But I I thought that it had a special feel

559
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: to it early on. By the way, it's supposed to

560
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: be fun watching your team, UM play a sport at

561
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: least once in a while, and the Jets fans have

562
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: made that real tough. But Mike White was kind of like,

563
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: I don't care about the history of the Jets. I

564
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: don't care that no one in Jets history has thrown

565
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: for four hundred yards and three hundred and twenty seven

566
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: games since Vinny Testaverdi did it before the Y two

567
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: K scare. It's like, let's make this thing enjoyable for

568
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: Jets fans. He starts eleven for eleven. At one point

569
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: he hit another nine in a row. He went totally

570
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: off and they pan over to Joe Flack on the sideline.

571
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: It's like, why did you sign that guy? Mike White

572
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: is gonna start on Thursday night number one? He should

573
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: I'd like the idea that Mike lafle Or is up

574
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: in the booth they kept. They kind of said that

575
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: they thought that made a difference in this game, that

576
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: he was just where an O C should be where

577
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: you know, totally get it that when Zach Wilson, a

578
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, is there, he's down on the sideline with

579
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: him and stuff. But it just seemed like the offense

580
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: found a little bit of a comfort zone. I also

581
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,479
Speaker 1: thought real quick that and early goal line stuff by

582
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: the Jets after a Jesse Bates interception where this thing

583
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: could have gone totally off the rails, basically showed me

584
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: that this Jets team is still playing really hard for

585
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: Robert sala Um. The defense I thought showed some spice.

586
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: They made plays down the stretch. Burrow had a killer

587
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: interception late. By the way, that's his fifth fourth quarter

588
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: pick this year. It leads the NFL. He's been awesome,

589
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: but it has been an issue for him. And you know,

590
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: the Bengals could have won this in a variety of

591
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: ways to but the Jets refused to stop fighting. And

592
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: look at they've beaten the Titans, they've beaten the Bengals.

593
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: So when you talk about them is on the fringe

594
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: of the playoff race. It's not because they knocked out

595
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: to total Uh, you know, go most Ham and Eggers

596
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: like they are not they are. Something about them can

597
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: be a little spicy. You'd like it to have been

598
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: with Zach Wilson. It was with Mike White. Take it.

599
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: How about sala After the game, they asked him, you know,

600
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,959
Speaker 1: is what's going on with Mike White going forward? Does

601
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: he have a chance here to to run with this?

602
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: And of course this is not this is Zach Wilson's team,

603
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: But Salad at least said, hey, you never know, well,

604
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna, of course play on Thursday. Anything

605
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: can happen, Anything can happen. Could Mike White be the

606
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: franchise copies like anything can happen? Yeah, I like that answer.

607
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: If it's not gonna, you know, be the case. Most likely,

608
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: maybe Mike White comes down to Earth Greg as soon

609
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: as three days from now. But you can't take away

610
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: in this game from him or the Jets of the fans.

611
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: This is the most first downs they've had the Jets

612
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: in a game since nineteen eighties six I saw, I mean,

613
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: this was completely out of this world. And what does

614
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: it say about Cincinnati, Greg, I mean it says um

615
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: that Spice Rack had a beat on them, being like, oh,

616
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna lose this game. I was like, what it

617
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: was like? You mean cover? Its like now he's they're

618
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: gonna They're gonna lose. I think they're gonna lose straight up.

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00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: They can't handle like a situation like this that that's

620
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: shocking to me. But it's shocking the way it happened

621
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: that they give up over five yards thirty two first

622
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: downs the Jets have. You know, they the Jets lost

623
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: the turnover battle by two and they won the game,

624
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: which is, you know, extremely rare in the NFL and

625
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: usually only happens if you're like a vastly superior operation.

626
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: It's wild. Flacco is so pissed right now. That's all

627
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 1: I could think about it, because in his quotes on Friday,

628
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, I came here to play, And

629
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: I was like, well, you should have come here on

630
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 1: Wednesday then, or you know, right after you got traded,

631
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: because you would have played I think this week if

632
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: he had showed up. But they really, um got some

633
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: good fortune to have Mike White play because we don't.

634
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: We don't need to see Joe Flacco on Thursday night.

635
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: That's for sure. We will not. And yeah, like I said,

636
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium was jumping and they were chanting Mike White,

637
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: Mike White, Mike I you know what, the football gods.

638
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: I feel like a bone was thrown to me and

639
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: many other of Jets fans. Don't give up, hope. Uh,

640
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: you could still have fun watching your team. And I

641
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun watching the Jets bad Bengals,

642
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: because it's one thing. I mean, any of the loss

643
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: to the Jets is bad, but what do they have

644
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: a ten point lead in the fourth quarter At some

645
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: point they were in total control of this game, and

646
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: they just they let it slip away. All right? Now,

647
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: the team that destroyed the Jets last week, Uh, they

648
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,959
Speaker 1: were on the road here in Los Angeles and they

649
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 1: continued to look like a playoff team. Shotgun snap to Herbert,

650
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: is interesting that my Phillips prizes from the tower runts

651
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: left side ten five pick six can sucking an acemption

652
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: of the day. That's a touchdown for the Patriots. I

653
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: like this. We're just rolling through all all our teams

654
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: in our row. Um, Bob Sochy with Zolac grunting like

655
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: a set essention gatorade bottle in the background. W b

656
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: Z safety Adrian Phillips intercepted two passes against this former team,

657
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: returned one of them for the go ahead touchdown. Is

658
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: the Patriots rally to win over the Chargers? You know,

659
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: I felt so good about the Jets that didn't even

660
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: bother me that the Patriots ended my lock streak by

661
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: beating up on the Chargers team that might not be

662
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: actually that good anyway, Greg, It's become the go to cliche.

663
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: That's fine. It's become the go to cliche of the

664
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: post Brady Patriots whenever they have a nice win. Hey,

665
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: that was a vintage Patriots style win for Belichick, but

666
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: this kind of was. It was because, you know, they

667
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: got contributions from all three phases. Their quarterback didn't play well,

668
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: that's not too vince. I thought this was what Mono

669
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: mac Jones is worst games. My My biggest takeaway was

670
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: that they had seventy place for the Chargers before the

671
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: Chargers went on a ten play kind of garbage time drive.

672
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: I guess it's the defense they cooked up. Justin Herbert

673
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: pretty good after a couple of early touchdowns by the Chargers.

674
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: They had four three and outs forced and a four

675
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: and out and two interceptions uh in their neck like

676
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: seven out of the next eight drives. But it wasn't

677
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: like a game I looked at where I felt that

678
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: much different about the Patriots. The two interceptions that they

679
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: had were both either drops or miscommunications by the Chargers.

680
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: Kind of felt like a lucky bounce game relatively not

681
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: to get like not to put too much damper on it,

682
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: but just like they look like the same fine team

683
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: that they've been greg Like, I asked you real quick

684
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: because if you look at I think we all think

685
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: that obviously Justin Herbert is like already a star and

686
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: all those things. But last two games, he's completion percentage,

687
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, three picks. I mean, obviously it troubles against

688
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: Baltimore today, you know, not a pristine effort. Like, does

689
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: does it concern you at all that people are just

690
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: getting more tape on him? Or is it just like

691
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: not at all? Just keep rolling. He's gonna be no

692
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit with how they're you know,

693
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: defending him a lot of like changing the snaps post look,

694
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: a lot of blitzing. Uh. The offensive line did not

695
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: handle like the pressure that they sent. They got after

696
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: Herbert pretty good. But like I said, the two interceptions,

697
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: one was a drop by Ekeler and the other one

698
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: was like the classic Jared Cook play of all Cook plays.

699
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: Like you know, I have like a text thread of

700
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: just like another friend who like finds it funny that

701
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: Cook Cook just like always ruins the teams. He's on

702
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: a couple of games the year, and like there was

703
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: a game where he had a penalty where he took

704
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 1: away the game winning touch done for the Chargers earlier,

705
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: and this was one where he just didn't turn around

706
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: and pretty sure it was on him and that was

707
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: the pick six. Not not to take away what the

708
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: Patriots did well in this game because mac Jones hit

709
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: a couple of throws deep. He really struggled in the

710
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,919
Speaker 1: first half and got it together in the second half,

711
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: which was nice to see because he was eight for

712
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: twenty two at halftime in this game. And they ran

713
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: the ball. They settled on an offensive line, like they

714
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: are a physical team. They know what they want to

715
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: be and there four and four and when they get

716
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: the right game plan defensively, like they can make problems.

717
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: They got Carolina next, Like, that's a chance to go

718
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: to find four. We we talked about, you know, the

719
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: idea of Belichick, um, you know, beginning to trust mac

720
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: Jones more. You saw things earlier in the season and

721
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: how they they gain planned and how they handled certain

722
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: down and distant situations when it was very clear that

723
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: he was a rookie quarterback that they had on a

724
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: tight leash. And this game was interesting to me because

725
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: I feel like they were throwing more than they should,

726
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: especially early in the game, and Mac Jones just didn't

727
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: have it. I think that's why I was kind of

728
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: impressed by the Patriots to be able to go on

729
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: the road, even though it's like forty thou Patriots fans

730
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: at Sophie Stadium, including Ricky Hollywood, to get a kind

731
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: of relatively bad game from your quarterback and still find

732
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: a way to win. That's impressive to me. And I

733
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: think in an a f C, I still think it's

734
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: the Bill's division, Um, even though I don't think they're

735
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: without any concerns right now either, but I think this

736
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: they're gonna win that division. But I think the Patriots

737
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: are absolutely a team that needs to be seriously viewed

738
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: as a wild card contender. And on the Charger side

739
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: of the things, you know, in in four their seven

740
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: games they have twenty points, seventeen points, six points. They

741
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: had twenty four in this game, but it's really seventeen.

742
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: That was a garbage time kind of a miracle catch

743
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: at the end. So it has been a little hot

744
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: and cold at this offense. And of course they the

745
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: game before this two games skid. They put up forty

746
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 1: seven against the Browns and looked invincible. But there's some

747
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: inconsistencies here that if you're a Charger's van, it's on

748
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: your radar at this point. Uh, the offense specifically, it

749
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: took Herbert making some great plays against pressure to get

750
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: those touchdowns early to like there's not much in the

751
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: flow of the offense. You're you're right it. I thought

752
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: the Patriots would wind up blowing this because when it

753
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: was fourteen thirteen or seventeen sixteen Chargers, it was like

754
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: the Patriots felt like they should have been up by twenty.

755
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: They had a first and goal at the two or

756
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: at the four, and then um, you know, third and

757
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: goal at the two. Couldn't get that and kept throwing

758
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: the ball, like you mentioned, had another time inside the

759
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: ten where they settled for a field goal and then

760
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: fumbled the ball on the way into a potential other touchdown.

761
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: It like felt like they should have been steamrolling, and

762
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: yet the Chargers like could not muster anything. I am curious, Ricky,

763
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: you you were at the game. You are, I don't

764
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 1: see you here, But what was what was that experience

765
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: like there? It sounded like a like a Patriots crowd.

766
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: It was a Patriots crowd for sure. The stadium wasn't

767
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: even sold out, and I mean, granted it's such a

768
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: big stadium, but I have a feeling that if it

769
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: was a Rams game, it would have been. Yeah. I

770
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: mean everyone, first of all, everyone talks about how like

771
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: amazing that stadium is, and you you don't realize it

772
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: until you're in it, Like it is absolutely unreal with

773
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: that that screen that they talked about. I mean, there's

774
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: not a bad seat in the house. So I was

775
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: just so blown away by even being in it um

776
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: and it like a Pat's home game. I was super

777
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: excited to see Justin Herbert and like you just sort

778
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: of said, I was like, this kid is like the

779
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: real deal, and it just kind of felt like they

780
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: couldn't get it going, which was great for me. I

781
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: had a ball the best day. He's missed a lot

782
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: of throws lately, He's missed makable throw. Even though the

783
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: two picks weren't on him. In this game, he did not.

784
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: I don't think he played well in this game. Um.

785
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: I don't think it was nice of jet Um to

786
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: keep calling mac Jones fat Jones and that he was

787
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: blowing the Patriots game. And did she text you that?

788
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: Because she was saying that you you were texted. You

789
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: texted me that, but you were probably drunk at the time,

790
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: you know, since yeah, I don't remember, Ricky, Like, what

791
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: did you purchase at the concession stand? Was there any

792
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: notable sort of sofie? Yeah? No, I just got bottled

793
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: water Mark, Yeah, Um bottled water and this and it

794
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: probably was like the glory days of when Ricky was

795
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: a team age. You're watching the fourth quarter because, as

796
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 1: someone who had a front row seat to this hocum

797
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: for years, they get the big play on defense, the

798
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: pick six to to go ahead, and then really they

799
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: go on the four teen play, fifty four yard, seven

800
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: minute field goal drive that ends the game, and they

801
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: do over and over. Just oh, we're staying in bounds,

802
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: were making the right decisions. That was That was that

803
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: was the drive that made me feel good. That was

804
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: like a lot of a lot of running a lot

805
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: of Patriots. That was Yeah, that was very on brand.

806
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: So anyway, if you're a Pats fan, you're feeling good.

807
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: The glory days are gone. They're not coming back because

808
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: Tom's not here. But you have a team. I think

809
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: that's gonna be relevant in December. And if you're a

810
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: Chargers fan, it's okay. I mean, I want to Jude

811
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: on Jersey. I'm just putting that out there. You have

812
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: a what Jude on Jersey? I'm gonna I might go

813
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 1: bar more Man. I love me some Christian Barnment. I'm

814
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: just saying that he is the he is the best

815
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: interior defensive player they have drafted since I don't know,

816
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: at least a decade. I can't think of it. They

817
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: haven't had anyone. He's he's good, he's ricky. I need

818
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: you to go um like the full red sleeves underneath

819
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,760
Speaker 1: the judea on Jersey if you go down that road, Yeah, definitely.

820
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: All right, Let's now move on another uh, Division matchup

821
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: in the NFC Panthers Falcon somebody how to win. We

822
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: can go shopping after we go to Brooks Brothers, Mark

823
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: will be fine. Wilmore and Jackson the corners. Matt Ryan

824
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: in the shotgun with Davis to his left, asked for

825
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: the snap. He's got it. Davis stays into block. Ryan

826
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: hit over the medal. Gilmore at the fifteen yard line.

827
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: Old friend up New England Patriots. Stephan Gilmore makes the

828
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: big play the Panthers and that's mcmixon of w BT

829
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Panthers leaned on their defense to snap a

830
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: nasty losing streaks. Jack Thompson was a star in his

831
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: return to the lineup, and Steph Gilmore had the game

832
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: ceiling interception in his Carolina debut in nineteen win over

833
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: the Falcons. This was a I mean, I wouldn't say

834
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: that I enjoyed this game. And this game was happening

835
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: at the same time as the Jets were playing their

836
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: first like fun game and about you know, thirty seven

837
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: years uh So was I enthralled by what was going

838
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: on in Atlanta? No, but I was tracking it. And

839
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: I will give Carolina credit here for getting off the

840
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: mat here and like I said, it's because there d

841
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: because Sam Donald he goes out with a concussion in

842
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: this game. But they're not really moving the ball uh

843
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: much at all, at least through the air. Uh. They

844
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: lean on their run ground that went over a run

845
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: game that went over two hundred yards uh, led by

846
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: Chuba Hubbard who overcame an early fumble and finished with

847
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: eighty two yards and a touchdown. Donald had sixty six

848
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: yards himself. But yes, it was the defense that shut

849
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: down the Falcons. I mean, this is Matt Ryan's one

850
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: of the worst games I've seen from Matt Ryan ever.

851
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: A hundred and forty six yards passing. He was sacked

852
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: three times, he got his hand stepped on. It was

853
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: gushing blood at one point. Super gross and HALLOWEENI and

854
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: the Falcons finished finished Mark with two d and thirteen

855
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: yards of total offense. So Caroline is d steps up

856
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: and gets it done. You know, I wonder like with

857
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: Atlanta Limited, because you've got Calvin Ridley out and he

858
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, he's tweeted about the fact that he's dealing

859
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: with um, you know, working on some mental health stuff's

860
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: he's been unavailable and they don't know when he's gonna

861
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: come back. That obviously helped UM put an extra guy

862
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: on Kyle Pitts, like his torrid pace slowed down a

863
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: little bit. And when you mentioned like Carolina is just

864
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: gonna need to win with their defense, and you know,

865
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 1: like Shack Thompson coming back just the way he's been playing.

866
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: I look at some of their that you know, they

867
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,959
Speaker 1: were coming off a four game losing streak. They lost

868
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: to the Eagles, UM, a pretty junkie team by three points.

869
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: They got nipped by the Vikings at the end. I

870
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: just wonder if their fortunes be a little it different

871
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: if he had been available, because he wasn't in in

872
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: those games. UM. But yeah, I think you are what

873
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: you are with the with the pandas at this point

874
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: because when before Donald left with was it a concussion?

875
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: Like you know, he didn't have the ugly turnovers, but

876
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: you're still getting the Donald experience. With the endless wide

877
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: receiver drops, they're not helping him at all. Nine yards

878
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,760
Speaker 1: with four throws, they ran the ball forty seven times

879
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: and through it, which I think rule basically said that

880
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: it was a close game. You know it, rule said

881
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: after the game, this is what I should have done

882
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: last week, so you knew he's desperate to get away

883
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: from Sam Donald and you know, uh so that's just

884
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: where they are now since the Falcons. And if you

885
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: have that defense, and if you have Zane Gonzalez hitting

886
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: fifty yard bombs over and over, it was kind of

887
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: a kicker game. Coo coo missed a short one. Yeah,

888
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: And you know, Christian McCaffrey I believe is eligible to

889
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: come off uh the injured reserve next week. So if

890
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: if he's back, you know, with Stephan Gilmore now on

891
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: this defense, with Shaq Oompson back from the foot injury

892
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: and playing well, you can again start to look at

893
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: Caroline as a team that maybe has a run in

894
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: them and and can go for a playoff spot. But

895
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 1: that's where I stand on them. I don't they don't

896
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: while me, they don't excite me. Uh and Donald keeps

897
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: the ceiling on this thing. But hopefully he's okay and

898
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: they get back on track here. Atlanta, I mean we

899
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: I think you set it up Mark on our TV

900
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: show on on Saturday that Atlanta was sexy now and

901
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: all this stuff. I tell you, I didn't buy it.

902
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 1: And I said, Arthur name Arthur Smith. I know, but

903
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: you and about they were becoming fun to watch. It

904
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: is all I'm asking for. Apparently not when they play

905
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: the Panthers. I mean is not in there too, But

906
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: I know, but they've been fine with that. Redley, he

907
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: hasn't done anything all year, and I'm just trying to

908
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 1: build a case Greg for you as well. But being

909
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: the Falcons are one of those teams like, all right,

910
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: if you don't have if you cook up a good

911
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: game plan against Matt Ryan at this stage, it can

912
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: get really ugly and things get slowed down and they

913
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: become very hard to watch. So that's where we were again.

914
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: With Atlanta was more like the beginning of the year.

915
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: So I think I just froze up because the TV

916
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: lights were on me. It was too big of a stage,

917
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: and I started to say crazy things. Anyway, Carolina back

918
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: on track. We'll see if Donald will be ready and

919
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey as well when they play again. All right,

920
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: in other realms, let's head to Soldier Field, where the

921
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: Niners are trying to get off a losing schneide. She

922
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: ain soon she a first ate twice. Nothing is shin.

923
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: Jerry Rapatos got a second touchdown of the game, touchdown

924
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: said France, just go here. You gotta see, you know,

925
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: break popping. Tim Ryan for k N b R has

926
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 1: been a lot of fun watching the Niners for large

927
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: swats of this season, so when they get hot like

928
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: they did on Sunday at Soldier Field, you can enjoy it.

929
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo through for three two ran for two touchdowns

930
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 1: the Niners beat Bears team missing their coach Met Naggy

931
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: and other players including Khalil Macko. That ends the four

932
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: game losing streak for the Niners, and San Francisco just

933
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: got scorching hot on offense. This is what we've been

934
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: waiting for. That was expected of San Francisco. I believe

935
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 1: they scored um five straight times in the second half.

936
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: Garoppolo led three touchdown drives in the second half, another

937
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 1: possession ended with a field goal, and when he scored

938
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: on that run um in the fourth quarter to put

939
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: San Francisco head thirty two, he fired the ball up

940
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: in the stands and you could tell a wight had

941
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: been lifted. Often because everybody knew the pressure was really

942
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 1: on at this point, and Kyle Shannahan even said as much.

943
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:57,839
Speaker 1: Mark after the game. Uh, Shannah had said coming back home,

944
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: this is Garoppolo's from Illinois, his back against the wall. Uh.

945
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: For him to step up and play the way he

946
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 1: did today was huge. So with Tray Lance maybe waiting

947
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: in the wings, Garoppolo definitely bought himself some more time

948
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup well and maybe limited um. The

949
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: idea that a trade Lance package today like near in

950
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: the red zone running um could become bigger and you know,

951
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: it's something to just become a larger part of the

952
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: offense until he just inevitably starts, and he will. But

953
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: there's something still a little depressing about it because we

954
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: already understand that Jimmy g is you know, he's fading,

955
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: he's on the way out, and it's sort of it's

956
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: it's nice to see him play well and they needed it.

957
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: They needed this. Um. It's still just delays. But I

958
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: mean see when you watch this game, you'll see there's

959
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: it was huge because it wasn't like, you know, a mirrage.

960
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: It felt like, okay, maybe this is because you remember Garoppolo.

961
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: He's always been kind of hot and cold since that

962
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 1: initial Roman San Francisco. But he could get in these

963
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 1: grooves in the Shanahan era where he would look really

964
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: good and be moving the offense. And it kind of

965
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: reminded me a little bit of that. So let's see,

966
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: maybe this is something they build on. Maybe he's healthier now,

967
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: and you know, he wasn't playing in the rain last

968
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: week with a bad calf. Maybe he gets on some

969
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: type of run here. I thought it was extremely um

970
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: big in a again a wide open playoff race. He's

971
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: probably one bad start away from getting benched because Ian

972
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: Ravaport gave him the kiss of death Sunday morning. Uh,

973
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: news bomb. That's like Trey Lance's time maybe coming, which

974
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: is like he's getting benched today if he struggles the

975
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: first three quarters. Uh. You know he did get you know,

976
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: an a d yard touchdown on like a swing pass

977
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: the Deebo Samuel where Debo does all the work. Uh.

978
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: And Samuel is now just putting together a season that's

979
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: relatively under the radar, considering he has more yards in

980
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: his first um what is it seven games than Jerry

981
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,919
Speaker 1: Rice ever had. Uh. And it's just at an outrageous

982
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,879
Speaker 1: pace right now. Like he he is a top three

983
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: receiver in terms of production and just the beast if

984
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: they can just get kittled back, then you know, the

985
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: average over eight yards for play. I know Khalio Mac

986
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: wasn't there, but that's impressive against any NFL defense, especially

987
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: a decent one like the It does sound like it

988
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: was Justin Field's um finest performance. I mean, you know,

989
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: doing kind of everything you'd want Justin Fields to do.

990
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: You saw elements of it. Is that true? Yeah? There

991
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: was a he ran for a hundred yards in this game.

992
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: He had some nice plays as a passer as well.

993
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 1: And of course everybody going nuts on Twitter because Matt Naggy,

994
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 1: he's got the COVID. Uh, So he wasn't around to

995
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: be involved with what was the best start of Justin

996
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: fields pro career to this point. So you kind of

997
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: damned if you do either way because this Yeah, he

998
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: held on his win loss record exactly exactly. But there

999
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: was a there was the first kind of eye opening Okay,

1000
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: here we are this could be something moment, uh, and

1001
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: it got them. It should have tied the game, but

1002
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: there was a missed extra point but it was a

1003
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: fourth and one and uh kind of a botched uh

1004
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: play execution initially, and then Fields with his athleticism was

1005
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: able to dodge some tacklers reverse field and not only

1006
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: convert the uh fourth down on a bus at play,

1007
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: but getting the end zone. And it was just like, WHOA, Okay,

1008
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,720
Speaker 1: this guy, this is why he's special, why he's highly touted,

1009
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: why he was the first round pick. So hopefully there's

1010
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: something to build off there for the Bears, and hopefully

1011
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: Matt Nagy, wherever he was on Sunday, saw the things

1012
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: that worked and so it doesn't didn't work and maybe

1013
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 1: learn from it and it isn't too hard headed about things,

1014
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: although I think he's kind of a hard headed dude.

1015
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens whenever. Naggy Now he's like Kingsbury.

1016
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: He was already working on the next pot. He's very competitive,

1017
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: I think. Any and we we've we had one little

1018
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: running I'm not gonna get into details where he seemed

1019
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 1: a little peeved Matt Nage that another head coach was

1020
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: in the room and just like that guy over there

1021
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: thinks he's so great. It's like, whoa, these guys are

1022
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: you know? There? Um, they're temperamental. But do you think

1023
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: that he actually was doing the Kingsbury thing or was

1024
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: he watching the game like I would just watch the game.

1025
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: But I think you revealed a little too much of

1026
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: that story. But I also we could keep it right

1027
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: there and let people, you know, put a pin in it.

1028
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: I've never I don't even that's that's just do that.

1029
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: It's up you know, Nagat Can. We'll see if he

1030
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,760
Speaker 1: brings it up when he's you know, working at NFL Network.

1031
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: And that sounded means, oh my goodness. All right, let's

1032
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: head back to the a f C East where the

1033
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Bills did battle. Alan Takes gonna throw it

1034
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: down the middle, caught my digs at the five cruisers

1035
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: into the end tone touchdown Buffalo. Stefon digs On nineteen

1036
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 1: yards strike from Josh Allen, touchdown. Bills having an annoying

1037
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 1: fantasy season and I got Stefon Diggs and he's driving

1038
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: me crazy good. He scored tonight at forty yards. Every game?

1039
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: What are we doing? He's supposed to have a hundred

1040
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: nineteen catches for fifteen hundred yards and thirty seven touchdowns

1041
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: for me, That's why I drafted him. He'll save it.

1042
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: I think it's coming. I think the explosions coming. John

1043
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: Murphy with the call w g R. Josh Allen lad

1044
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,240
Speaker 1: the Bills on scoring drives in each of the Bill's

1045
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 1: final I believe five possessions a late flurry of scoring

1046
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: that was more than enough against the feckless Dolphins. Final

1047
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: score Bills twenty six, Fish eleven, Buffalo stays ahead and

1048
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 1: the AFC East. The Dolphins are on a seven game

1049
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,280
Speaker 1: losing streak. All low now in the seller in the division.

1050
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: Greg Buffalo took a while to get going here, but

1051
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: they took care of business. I thought it showed maturity

1052
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen. You know, he keeps checking these boxes

1053
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:25,280
Speaker 1: as he gets older. He they had five first downs

1054
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: in their first five drives. They were dominated. I mean,

1055
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: Miami was handing it to them. H He was so frustrated.

1056
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 1: But after the first drive of the second half, because

1057
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: they just couldn't believe it. Miami should have had a lead.

1058
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: At that point it was still three three. Miami blew

1059
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: some chances, and then he kind of started taking what

1060
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: the defense would give him, whether it was his legs,

1061
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,760
Speaker 1: making good decisions on third and long. Beasley Cole Beasley

1062
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: had a great week. He deleted his Twitter smart uh

1063
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 1: and then he converted a third and fourteen, third and thirteen,

1064
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: got the jab a third and eleven. I don't know, Yeah,

1065
00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: I don't think he got the job. I think that's

1066
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: why the to this twitter he was sick about here.

1067
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: He goes over a hundred yards and it's like just

1068
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,240
Speaker 1: every big play when you thought Miami could get a stop,

1069
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 1: they just don't have a pass rush. Uh without blitzeeing

1070
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, their first round pick hasn't done much and

1071
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: then when they do blitz Alan was figuring it out

1072
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: in the second half, and I just thought it, you know,

1073
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: as bad as it was for the first five drives

1074
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: or so, for him to kind of solve it and

1075
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: then go touchdown, touchdown field, go touchdown to end, it's

1076
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 1: pretty awesome. I view um greg and Cole Beasley as

1077
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: sort of ideological twins, so you know, I thought that

1078
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: it's a nice day for him. Is similar body types,

1079
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: no doubt. That's all I'm offering. No, that's all I'm offering.

1080
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I like I I you know what, the Dolphins,

1081
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 1: I'm a little I'm there there are another team that

1082
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: depresses me right now, and the Bills, like you know,

1083
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: have thumped this Dolphins team. So hard that people were like, oh, well,

1084
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: is it gonna be. It's not a good, great game

1085
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: because it's not thirty five to nothing. It's like, I

1086
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: I respect Buffalo working themselves out of the fix they

1087
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: were in earlier they were they were and it felt different.

1088
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:07,959
Speaker 1: It felt like a game. Even in the fourth quarter,

1089
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: you didn't know how it go and but Buffalo came

1090
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: through and we get you know, we're gonna get to

1091
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: the Texans a little bit later. But since the Dolphins

1092
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:18,280
Speaker 1: are connected directly to everything Deshaun Watson related, the report

1093
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: came out on Sunday morning that now the belief is

1094
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: that Deshaun Watson won't be changing teams ahead of the

1095
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: trade deadline on Tuesday. So just file that away with

1096
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,320
Speaker 1: two uh who will get most likely what he absolutely

1097
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: deserves and what the Dolphins should want, which is a

1098
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 1: full season audition and they're going nowhere there, one and

1099
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: seven now, So at least turned this season now over

1100
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: to a full developmental look at your young quarterback so

1101
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: you could decide what you want to do next, even

1102
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: if that means bringing in a highly problematic pass are

1103
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: currently wasting away in Houston. Um, all right, Buffalo in

1104
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: control of the division in the Pats getting better though,

1105
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: So a little heat there. Uh, let's take a break

1106
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: and then hit the rest of the games. Hurts gives

1107
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: Buster Scott pushing hut Buster Scott, Buster Scott. It's so powerful,

1108
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: all right. Merril reads with the call, Nikki Shook joining

1109
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: us now. Technical difficulties took the man out, but the

1110
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: pipe always finds a way to bash his way back.

1111
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: In Boston, Scott and Jordan Howard each scored two touchdowns

1112
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: on the ground in place of Miles Sanders. Uh and

1113
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles dominated the Lions in a forty four

1114
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: to six win on Sunday. Schookie, we talked about it

1115
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: on the around the NFL broadcast the Boys and I,

1116
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: uh have it was a little weird. Everyone was getting

1117
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: excited about this is the game, the Lions are gonna win.

1118
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: They did not even compete. What happened here? Yeah, I

1119
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: actually picked the Lions to win. That was a big

1120
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: failure on my part. Wasn't alone. I was not alone

1121
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: in that regard. Uh, they didn't really show up. Um,

1122
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, we've looked at this roster all year and

1123
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: seeing that, you know, it's pretty talent poor. They lack weapons. Offensively,

1124
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: they they lack a lot of you know, blue chip

1125
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: level players across the roster, and it totally showed today.

1126
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 1: I mean, not only did they not show up, they

1127
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: had nothing in the tank to really mount much of

1128
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: a comeback effort. I mean, before you know, a halftime

1129
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: at seventeen nothing and it felt like it was thirty

1130
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: five nothing. The Eagles dominated up front. They won the

1131
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,479
Speaker 1: battle of the trenches. A week after letting Kenyan Drake

1132
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: uh run down their throats for a touchdown against the

1133
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: Raiders and and kind of being the Lions in that

1134
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: game and getting you know, falling way behind and never

1135
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: having a chance of coming back. Uh. They then became

1136
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: the team that was the aggressor and just dominated at

1137
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: the point of attack on both sides of the ball.

1138
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: They sacked Yared GoF five times to get to the

1139
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: point in the third quarter. I was like, man, if

1140
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: there was an opportunity to to simulate to the end

1141
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 1: or to forfeit the remainder of this game, this is

1142
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: the game for this to happen. Let's get a running

1143
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: clock or something going. It was that lopsided. It was

1144
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: the worst showing of the Lions mat that Mark to

1145
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: the competition committee. Years we've had we won't we have

1146
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: games for just like a ten minute runoff at the

1147
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: end when they're just this this unfun to watch now

1148
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: and again you couch it Chookie as player safety, that's

1149
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: what it's really about. But what it's really about is

1150
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 1: jabronies like us being able to move on to the

1151
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: next game. Yeah, exactly pretty much. I mean, in a nutshell,

1152
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: it was. It was an unexciting affair. It was inspiring

1153
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: for the Eagles because they didn't have Miles Sanders and

1154
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 1: they ran the ball really well, um and he didn't

1155
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: need too much from Jalen Hurts and he's fun to

1156
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: watch no matter what. So, uh, you know, a nice

1157
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: little bounce back win for them, and I think a

1158
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: low point for these lines. I mean, the Lions have

1159
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: been competitive in the majority of the games they've played.

1160
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 1: Today was not one of them. That's simple. And it's

1161
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: like a week ago they were, you know, tortured by

1162
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Darius Slay had a what a humble touchdown

1163
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: in this um. There was a bit of a narrative

1164
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: killer for the Eagles after you know, we we were

1165
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: gonna run the ball less than any team in NFL history.

1166
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: They had like two hundred and thirty six yards and

1167
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: it was a narrative killer. Uh for the listeners who

1168
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: locked the Lions, Let's get your act together on on

1169
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: these fronts. Let's think about what we're doing this. That's

1170
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: a collective group. There wasn't one single drunk person making

1171
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 1: a terrible, just you know, life decision. There's a group

1172
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: of people that agreed on the Lions. Please. I think

1173
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: we got sucked into and I didn't pick the lines,

1174
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: but I see why it happened, because we got sucked

1175
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: into how hard this team is playing and how they

1176
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: seem to be, you know, playing their hearts out. And

1177
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: the Eagles just seemed like a team that was ripe

1178
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: to be picked off. But that's just not what happened.

1179
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: Chok No, it's it's the exact opposite of what happened.

1180
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: And I was in the same train of thought, and

1181
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: I definitely wasn't drunk. Mark when I sent my in

1182
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday afternoon, give give Fletcher Cox like, uh,

1183
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 1: you know, a little love here, because you know, he

1184
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: basically went after the defensive coordinator Jonathan in and for

1185
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: like not being aggressive, not mixing things up, not blitzing,

1186
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 1: and you know, accordingy of the Philly reporters, they did

1187
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: all of that. So maybe, like maybe, maybe sometimes it

1188
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: takes like a player leader just be like, let's go,

1189
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: let's go, especially a player who's kind of playing out

1190
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: a position in this defensive coordinators scheme. I mean, statistically,

1191
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: it's not like he blew things up, but as a group, yeah,

1192
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: they do. They're gonna they're gonna mess up the score

1193
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: differential thing in the in d v o A with

1194
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: these blowouts because they've now outscored their opponents this year

1195
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: because of week one in this you know by Laden,

1196
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: So you're you're pointing out though some people are slavish

1197
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 1: in their love of uh d v o A, that

1198
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 1: that it could be maipulated by scores that are well

1199
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: they love I love it, loves a big big blowouts.

1200
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: You know there was unsounded, unscientific. Well you gotta go,

1201
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta go. E p A two, you

1202
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: gotta mix it exposed. Last word on this a f

1203
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 1: I'd have last run in this game. Let's just move

1204
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: to the next week for the Lions because it was bad. Yeah.

1205
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 1: Detroit safety Tracy Walker said, if this doesn't get better.

1206
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: We're going to be oh and seventeen ys. All right,

1207
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: let's head to sea at all shotgun formation, play, fake looks,

1208
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 1: far aside, throws, puts the ball up, reaching up making

1209
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: a catch, DK met Jeff touchdown, Shawks, Hey, Hey, Steve

1210
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 1: Rabel k I r O, Gino Smith ran for one

1211
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: score through four a parent touchdown passes the DK metcalf

1212
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks beat up on the jack You are

1213
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 1: thirty one to seven ending they're losing streak, big win

1214
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: and shook for Seattle. It doesn't matter the opponent. They

1215
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 1: needed a w and Gino got it done. Yeah, the

1216
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:43,800
Speaker 1: winds all count the same. I think they looked out

1217
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: getting Jacksonville the week after their most recent loss to

1218
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: the Saints in prime time. But I'll tell you what

1219
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 1: if if you wanna choose a non lock situation to

1220
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: play the prices right losing horn that we're so fond

1221
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: of on this show, play it for me and my

1222
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: game assignments this week, because this one was about as

1223
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: ugly there. It was as about as ugly as that

1224
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: that Eagles Lions. I'm sitting back watching this going, man,

1225
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: I'm just getting all the blow us that was one blowout. Shy,

1226
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: I'm just hitting the trifecta. But um, I mean yeah,

1227
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:15,360
Speaker 1: from from a Seahawks perspective, you're you're happy to see

1228
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: urban Meyer lead his team out of the tunnel, knowing

1229
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: that this is another talent, poor roster that all you

1230
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: gotta do is not screw up too much and you

1231
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: and hopefully Gino plays well enough for you to win

1232
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: a game. Man, it's not like they they dominated on

1233
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 1: the ground. They didn't. They rushed for uh sixty nine

1234
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 1: yards total. But Gino Smith did what pretty much anybody

1235
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: with a brain would do in that situation. Throw the

1236
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 1: ball two dk metcalf when you're inside the opponent's thirty

1237
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 1: yard line. He had two touchdown catches. One was a

1238
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: great catch right in front of the inside pilot on

1239
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: the other one just inside the pilot on the opposite

1240
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: side of the end zone. And they did their job.

1241
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: And and the Jacksonville Jaguars often can't get out of

1242
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: their own way save for that came in London. I mean,

1243
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: they committed twelve penalties today. They had three turnovers on

1244
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: downs uh when they reached Seattle territory. And the funniest

1245
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 1: thing about it is the Seahawks got short olds a lot.

1246
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: As a result of that, their touchdown drives started inside

1247
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: their own thirty. So, you know, the challenge wasn't as

1248
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: great this week. And I know it's any given Sunday

1249
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 1: in this league, and we all know these are the

1250
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: best fourteen hundred football players on the planet, but there

1251
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 1: was quite a talent discrepancy today. Yeah, but everyone was

1252
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 1: ready to just like slam if if it flipped the

1253
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: other way that, you know, blew it. I mean, you're

1254
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: kind of under selling it here. He's thirteen out of

1255
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: his first thirteen for a couple of touchdowns in a

1256
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three yards. And I couldn't help but

1257
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: notice DK metcalf with a little bit of a sub

1258
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: tweet of his starting quarterback after the game saying, you know,

1259
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 1: I haven't you know, talking about the jump ball touchdown

1260
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: that he got, saying like, I haven't really gotten a

1261
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: ball like that since I've gotten here. You know that

1262
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: that takes trust from my quarterback, and I like, I

1263
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: like seeing that. I was like, that's the thing is great.

1264
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: I couldn't get into Gino because this is your thing.

1265
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta we gotta leave some up for

1266
01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: you and Alley you there right, I'm just looking for

1267
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 1: you because you know I haven't closely yet, but I'm

1268
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 1: looking for you to like accurately analyze, you know, what's

1269
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: happening on the football field as Gino Smith just cast

1270
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 1: a check in the NFL. With this performance that's happening,

1271
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: He's gonna make it. He's gonna make it one more

1272
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: year at least. Now he's gonna spend every one of

1273
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: those dollars proudly. And you know what else is gonna

1274
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 1: be happy after this one? Tyler Lockett, who has not

1275
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: really been involved in their offense in recent weeks. He

1276
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: had twelve catches for a hundred forty two yards. He

1277
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 1: probably ended up on a few fantasy benches this week,

1278
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: and myself included are probably like I should have played him.

1279
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: This is the one week but they actually did something

1280
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 1: with him. But you know, it all spends the same.

1281
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 1: I'd like to see Urban Meyer purchase a book on

1282
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: Amazon called Here's what you actually are supposed to do

1283
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 1: during a bye week? I mean they, I mean, how

1284
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: do you come out this stale and this putrid after

1285
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 1: you've had a chance to go tinker with your offensive?

1286
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 1: And put Trevor Lawrence. Yes, well, Dan, you were high

1287
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: on Trevor Lawrence coming into this game that I was

1288
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 1: asked to come up with a thought or type of

1289
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 1: hot take for the taking show that I didn't believe in.

1290
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 1: Um My take is that Urban Meyer is not good

1291
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 1: at this and uh, that's why things didn't work out.

1292
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan Arnold is your leading receiver. I mean,

1293
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: and as I watched it, I was like, man, I

1294
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: don't even know how to really analyze Trevor Lawrence because

1295
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 1: I just don't really believe what he's working with and

1296
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:20,720
Speaker 1: we don't believe in that. I mean, I like Marvin Jones,

1297
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: but I mean, they're they're still lacking a lot. And

1298
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:25,400
Speaker 1: Trevor was very up and down. There were times where

1299
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 1: he misses open throws, guys right in front of him,

1300
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 1: He's putting it in the dirt. Um. I think he's

1301
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: he's in a bit of a Tim Couch situation right now,

1302
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:33,880
Speaker 1: where he's just he's on a team that that lacks,

1303
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, talented players and and this is what it's

1304
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: gonna look like. For a while, it was a it

1305
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:42,400
Speaker 1: was a Pete Carroll and Seahawks fans revenge game against

1306
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: the Darryl Bevil and Brian Schottenheimer like the ghosts of

1307
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: annoying offensive coordinators passed on the opposite sideline. And of

1308
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:55,880
Speaker 1: speaking of d v o A after this game, Seahawks folks,

1309
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly who it was. Somebody from the

1310
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: Seahawks was like, hey, see the d v A numbers

1311
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:02,760
Speaker 1: were pretty good. I think it's Pete Carroll. He was like, yeah,

1312
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 1: it was better than our record shows. Just look at

1313
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 1: d v o A. Carroll said, yeah, he did. It

1314
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: was kind of shocked by that. Yeah. Um, and Greg,

1315
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 1: you're right because Gino failed miserably the first three weeks

1316
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:18,240
Speaker 1: where he's going in. He literally covered the spread three straight.

1317
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:22,760
Speaker 1: He played two great defenses the first if but he

1318
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: needed you could be a rich man, but I know

1319
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: his job is not to cover the spread, Greg, you do.

1320
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: It's like he from a different angle. He's supposed to

1321
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: do a little. Don't let him get you. Mark Seattle

1322
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 1: hits the buy now and then Dangerous probably is going

1323
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: to be back. But we don't know. But probably will,

1324
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: I mean unless they decided to go with Gino because

1325
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 1: he's you know, according to spouting reports, he's the timing

1326
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: couldn't be better. Let's get to the vio Let's get

1327
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson back in there. Have this be the last

1328
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:52,520
Speaker 1: exactly the Gina had one more chance to make sure

1329
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: he was going to stay in the NFL. He did it.

1330
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: So let's let's put the cap on another season of

1331
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 1: everyone's favorite show. And that was another edition of Sipping

1332
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: on Veno. Checking. That means Frags and Her Drop is

1333
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: gonna be back in two as well, and I'm not

1334
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: mad about that, Nick Schuok, thank you. Not only did

1335
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 1: you get two dog games, the tapings different right now

1336
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: because the Halloween night and it's one am where you're

1337
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 1: at and we know we love you, man, We will

1338
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 1: make it up to you somehow. I promise you that. Yeah,

1339
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a little bit of inside

1340
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: baseball here. People watching this, uh, we'll notice that I

1341
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:37,720
Speaker 1: don't have the typical backdrop because it was midnight and

1342
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 1: and honestly I wasn't gonna do everything necessary to set

1343
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 1: the table up to get behind that pretty background when

1344
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 1: this will suffice for right now. But I will say this, Greg,

1345
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 1: once you retire from football and everything, I don't know

1346
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: when that's gonna be retire from football. Are you trying

1347
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 1: to retire? Yeah, you'll still have more hair than me.

1348
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: But you also have a great job opportunity in front

1349
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 1: of you, and that is Geno Smith is gonna run

1350
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:04,240
Speaker 1: for office and you will be his campaign manager. And

1351
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 1: it will be like that retirement job that you're doing

1352
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 1: just because you're bored. Oh, I like that high paid

1353
01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: consultants job. Yeah, I can just imagine Gino you know,

1354
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 1: you know, kissing babies and pressing flesh. Yes, there's one

1355
01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 1: thing I think about Gino. It's like he's a people person.

1356
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 1: He knows how to connect babies the people around him. Um,

1357
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: all right, there you go, Nick Chuck, thank you buddy,

1358
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:31,559
Speaker 1: have a good night, good slumber. There he goes. All right,

1359
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 1: we have two more games. Let's let's hit him quick

1360
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: and say good night. Denver rushes four again. Pinokey steps

1361
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:41,680
Speaker 1: on the pocket, loads it up, home run ball. This

1362
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: is gonna be out of the back of the end zone.

1363
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:48,560
Speaker 1: Incomplete riff. No time left. Let me make sure it

1364
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 1: is over in Happy Halloween. That's three. I think we

1365
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 1: set it at four and a half off mark. So

1366
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: we've got a problem here. Justin Simmons and the Broncos

1367
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: held after a fumble game Washington the ball back with

1368
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:12,759
Speaker 1: a chance to tie the game. The Broncos also blocked

1369
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 1: two field goals. What a set up. You know the

1370
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:17,080
Speaker 1: game's bad when this is the set up for the

1371
01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: game win. They stopped before games losing streak. I feel

1372
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:25,240
Speaker 1: like four teams stopped a four game losing streak today. Anyway, Mark,

1373
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 1: tell me something about this game that's interesting. I would

1374
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 1: point to the reason that they were saying, like, let's

1375
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 1: check if this game is really over, because it should

1376
01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:38,720
Speaker 1: have been over, um a minute or so earlier. And

1377
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 1: I actually, you know, we we in our in our

1378
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 1: channel where we can communicate with each other. I'm not

1379
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:46,760
Speaker 1: allowed to say the actual company's name, I think, but uh,

1380
01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: we will send the play that we want to use

1381
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:50,679
Speaker 1: for the call. And I was gonna be the Justin

1382
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: Simmons interception that ended this thing, but then you know,

1383
01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:58,200
Speaker 1: the this drove me nuts the Broncos and this was

1384
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 1: such a Vic Fongio type of scenario where he was

1385
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:03,680
Speaker 1: going he was very annoyed. But they basically just had

1386
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 1: to get just get a first down or run the

1387
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:10,479
Speaker 1: clock out. And instead Melvin Gordon fumbles the ball like

1388
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:13,799
Speaker 1: within less inside a minute, and this came after Javonta

1389
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 1: Williams fumbled a few plays earlier, recovered it. Then Teddy

1390
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: Bridgewater through a terrible wayward pass on second down that

1391
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: didn't take any time off the clock. They've almost gave

1392
01:11:24,400 --> 01:11:26,600
Speaker 1: the game away. Point being I go watch that just

1393
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: to see how mismanaged that was. But other than that,

1394
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 1: I would say this about the broncos Um, it was

1395
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: an inspired defensive effort for the most part with no

1396
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:37,560
Speaker 1: Von Miller in there. Guys like Shelby Harris So I

1397
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 1: think had both blocks on those field goals played out

1398
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: of his mind, and you got from Teddy Bridgewater outside

1399
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: of you know, that one little last minute which really

1400
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:48,519
Speaker 1: wasn't his fault. Um, it really solid kind of Teddy

1401
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:52,400
Speaker 1: Bridgewater game that you thought you'd get. And Washington, Um,

1402
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 1: the red zone woes hurt them early on. You know,

1403
01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:57,679
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera said after the game, we're basically a team

1404
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: in search of ourselves still, and they are and they're

1405
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: just not there. And the idea that they were gonna,

1406
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 1: like other teams, pick up from where they were a

1407
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:07,720
Speaker 1: year ago. No, Um, this maybe gives you a little

1408
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: bit hope for Denver because if they if they can

1409
01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: get this from Teddy and they can get this from

1410
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 1: the defense, arrow up. But I think you just played

1411
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: another average team. This game felt six and a half

1412
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 1: hours long to me. I mean, yeah, can you can't

1413
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: even give the defense that much love. When I think

1414
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:28,320
Speaker 1: Washington had eight drives that went to the thirty six

1415
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 1: yard line of Denver's or further and they finished with

1416
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: ten points. That's almost impossible to do. So they lived

1417
01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 1: deep in Broncos territory. And then Heinik happened. I mean

1418
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:42,479
Speaker 1: that last couple of I did watch the very end

1419
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 1: of this game, and that's it. The last couple of

1420
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:50,280
Speaker 1: Washington sequences were We're unreal how badly executed they were

1421
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 1: on offense. And I'm sure it was somewhat good defense,

1422
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 1: but it was more just bad offense. It was well,

1423
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: it was better than like the Denver defense that we've

1424
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 1: been watching, though, but it has a lot of right.

1425
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: I just mean, it was it was rough. I know

1426
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 1: we've Heinik's doing his best, but it's tough. It was

1427
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 1: a hard watch. It's a tough sitch. That big stand

1428
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:16,280
Speaker 1: at the end prevented the first windless October for the

1429
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:20,800
Speaker 1: Broncos since nineteen six seven. Let's take a break and

1430
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:23,760
Speaker 1: then close this thing out. Second in ten Stafford from

1431
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 1: the gun, looking right, throwing end zone, Cooper Cups got

1432
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:32,800
Speaker 1: it touchdown l A and eleven yards strike to the

1433
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:38,599
Speaker 1: NFL's leading receiver to put this one on ice. Matt

1434
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 1: Stafford through for three five yards and three touchdowns and

1435
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:45,599
Speaker 1: three quarters. That's J B. Long CASPN with the call,

1436
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:51,479
Speaker 1: by the way, and the Rams dominated the Texans. That

1437
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: doesn't even tell the story. Los Angeles had a thirty

1438
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 1: eight ZIP lead when Sean McVeigh pulled his quarterback from

1439
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 1: the game. So as four straight wins uh for the Rams,

1440
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: seven straight losses for the Texans. Uh. Who are the

1441
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:09,719
Speaker 1: worst team in football. And there's some bad teams in football,

1442
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: there always are, but I think Texans are the worst.

1443
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup continues to be on the record setting pace. Guys.

1444
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:26,800
Speaker 1: It's exciting. No, I mean this is a tough situation. Um,

1445
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: My daughter really enjoyed it. I mean she is. It

1446
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: was fun to be at home and just see how

1447
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,560
Speaker 1: locked in she is the Rams game and she was

1448
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:37,439
Speaker 1: living it. She was dying. She loves the blowouts. She's

1449
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 1: dying when they give up some plays up thirty eight nothing,

1450
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 1: Texans scored twenty two points in the span of six

1451
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: minutes to get one of the all time back door covers.

1452
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,760
Speaker 1: I think the line ended at sixteen and a half.

1453
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: They go for two as if they knew what the

1454
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,560
Speaker 1: line was to cut it to sixteen and get it

1455
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:56,600
Speaker 1: depends when you know you you picked the game. But

1456
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: if you did it like right before game time, that's

1457
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: in all and all timer. Um. I don't know what

1458
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: else to say about that. Yeah, the Texans, I think

1459
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,680
Speaker 1: that what seventy seven yards of offense going into the

1460
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. It's that you're right, how to run the

1461
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:12,360
Speaker 1: clock in. They're the worst. They are the worst team.

1462
01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: I totally safe. We talked about this last week actually

1463
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, off air, but that I totally supported them

1464
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 1: at thirty two despite you know that when they won

1465
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 1: the won win. Yes, so there you go, and uh,

1466
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:30,200
Speaker 1: that is the longest losing streak for the Texans since

1467
01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:34,840
Speaker 1: they lost fourteen games in a row and season. They

1468
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:38,799
Speaker 1: stink and Deshaun Watson will be on that roster until

1469
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 1: the off season. It sounds like that is at least

1470
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 1: the story. I guess if there's anything for the Texans

1471
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,640
Speaker 1: um in terms of a reprieve here, Yes, you're not

1472
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 1: gonna get Deshaun Watson out of your life. But once

1473
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 1: the trade deadline passes and it's now very clear that

1474
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: he is not going to play a snap on the field,

1475
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,519
Speaker 1: it wouldn't make any sense on a number of levels.

1476
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: He this is that stories. I think it's gonna disappear

1477
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 1: and then come back with a vengeance come the off season.

1478
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 1: But Stephen Ross was that I don't know. I still

1479
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:10,840
Speaker 1: but there's nothing I could happen. The story can't run

1480
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 1: forward after the deadline right now, Yeah, we need to

1481
01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 1: pass that deadline. De Sean Jackson will not be on

1482
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: the Rams by the way, by the time we get

1483
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 1: past the deadline. I don't know if they'll find anyone

1484
01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: to trade him, but it sounds like they're just gonna

1485
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:26,000
Speaker 1: cut him. They brought in someone I was not familiar

1486
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 1: with late in this game, Square Neck, who was catching

1487
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 1: passes down the field, and I was like, oh, he

1488
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 1: looks Okay. I guess de Sean Jackson really will never play.

1489
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:37,559
Speaker 1: Problem and for any team that trades for Deshaun Jackson

1490
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 1: is he's He's already passed the window, the two week

1491
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:43,000
Speaker 1: window in September where he's awesome. So I don't know

1492
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:46,240
Speaker 1: unless it resets when he joins a new team and

1493
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:48,720
Speaker 1: you get that first month back, I don't know, or

1494
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 1: or you're building for next September and you just you're

1495
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 1: stashing him. He's gonna get caught. He's gonna sign with

1496
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: someone as a free agent. That was all right. Before

1497
01:16:56,439 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 1: we say goodbye, let's talk the last game that was

1498
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 1: played on on day Sunday Night football from Minneapolis. Do

1499
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:13,559
Speaker 1: not ever count out Cooper Rush Sunday Nights to Lee

1500
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:20,920
Speaker 1: and John Kennedy's hill for the touchdowns Cooper Amari Cooper

1501
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 1: over Cameron Danceler seventy five yards in eight place to

1502
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:33,720
Speaker 1: take the lead. I love this Cowboys team. I do,

1503
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people feel the same way.

1504
01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 1: Even people that hate the Cowboys are like, man, this

1505
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 1: team knows what it's doing. With Dak Prescott sidelined as

1506
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:47,840
Speaker 1: a precaution with that cap injury, Cooper Rush steps in.

1507
01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 1: It looks good. He wasn't perfect. He threw a bad pick,

1508
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,840
Speaker 1: he lost a fumble, but he also threw yards with

1509
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:59,120
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, including that go ahead and score late Tomari

1510
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:02,480
Speaker 1: Cooper after Zeke Elliott had a huge third down conversion.

1511
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 1: Uh and the Cowboys drop of twenty sixteen loss on

1512
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:09,759
Speaker 1: the Vikings Mark. I mean, we'll get to the Vikings.

1513
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 1: It's a brutal loss for the Vikings that really takes

1514
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 1: a lot of wind out of their sales. But for

1515
01:18:14,479 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 1: the Cowboys there six and one and what almost felt

1516
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:18,920
Speaker 1: like a giveaway game and they went and won the

1517
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: damn thing. It's the kind of win that UH makes

1518
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 1: you I I also am really enjoying this Cowboys team.

1519
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: And the ceiling feels completely unknown, just because you know,

1520
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 1: eking out something like this where a Cooper rush didn't

1521
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 1: didn't know, you know, short shortly before the game if

1522
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 1: he was gonna play or not, and you know, they

1523
01:18:40,439 --> 01:18:43,600
Speaker 1: had Dak Prescott doing a variety of workouts for I

1524
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 1: thought he looked Spry looked pretty good. And it's like

1525
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:48,120
Speaker 1: suddenly Cooper rushes in there. And I thought that he

1526
01:18:48,320 --> 01:18:51,160
Speaker 1: grew after a couple he could have had maybe three

1527
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: interceptions in the first half. He had he had one

1528
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: that was you know, ricocheted off someone. I thought he

1529
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:59,240
Speaker 1: grew more comfortable as the game went on. Obviously made

1530
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: some big path US is down down the stretch, uh

1531
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 1: to me, Like the ending was also delightful because, and

1532
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:09,840
Speaker 1: this was from NFL research, the Cooper rush to a

1533
01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 1: Mari Cooper touchdown, and I know everyone was saying Cooper

1534
01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 1: to Cooper. I get it, we all understand that. But

1535
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: it is the first time in NFL history where the

1536
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 1: pastor's first name and a receiver's last name are an

1537
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:23,519
Speaker 1: exact match. Thank to Liz, Thank you to listeners who

1538
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:25,840
Speaker 1: sent that my way. But I just thought it was

1539
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,320
Speaker 1: a win where the Cowboys. I start to think more

1540
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 1: about Mike McCarthy, I start to think more about the

1541
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 1: whole coaching staff, the way that they're able to overcomes

1542
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:37,800
Speaker 1: well until we hit that Cooper Cooper the first time

1543
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:41,800
Speaker 1: in NFL history. That's kind of that's kind of insane, right,

1544
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 1: I mean, you couldn't you could think in your head

1545
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 1: that there would be the last to be totally honest,

1546
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 1: I know, but you know what, there's a pocket of

1547
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:52,679
Speaker 1: our audience, maybe a very small pocket, like that little, tiny,

1548
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: tiny pocket in your jeans where you just put some coins. Yeah,

1549
01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,599
Speaker 1: the little pocket, like some people are like this kind

1550
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 1: of stuff. Greg take it from there, Greg over to you,

1551
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: what what um, what a defensive performance. I mean, I

1552
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:13,880
Speaker 1: think that's that's what we're learning. I know, you know,

1553
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: defense has mattered based on how good the offense is

1554
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 1: that they're playing against sometimes, but these were two top

1555
01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: tennis type defenses coming into the game, and one looked

1556
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: much better, you know, I know Patrick Peterson was missing,

1557
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 1: but one of them gave up four hundred yards to

1558
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:34,120
Speaker 1: Cooper rush and and a game winning touchdown drive when

1559
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:36,720
Speaker 1: all you had to do was at least just stop,

1560
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:38,760
Speaker 1: you know, making a field goal and at least you

1561
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 1: can go to overtime. Zeke Elliott you mentioned runs through

1562
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 1: that tackle by Anthony Barr, Cooper, Mosses Danceler. I mean,

1563
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:48,200
Speaker 1: that was just an awesome play. It was not an

1564
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 1: underrated catch. Everyone knows it was an awesome catch. But

1565
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: that was a difficult catch to win the game. Uh,

1566
01:20:54,160 --> 01:20:56,600
Speaker 1: they held him under three hundred yards. The Viking, the

1567
01:20:57,280 --> 01:21:00,320
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, I think through the ball twenty times for

1568
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:04,640
Speaker 1: seventy nine yards in the second half. It's like, we

1569
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 1: gotta give him love. It's all sorts of dudes up

1570
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:09,040
Speaker 1: front to It's a diggy zoa. Michael Parsons is a

1571
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 1: beast obviously Gregory has been great, but it's a lot

1572
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:13,600
Speaker 1: of guys contributing, and we all have friends that are

1573
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 1: Vikings fans and they are an agitated fan base. And Dan,

1574
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned on the last show how the

1575
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:21,640
Speaker 1: Vikings go to sleep on offense, and we saw that

1576
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,200
Speaker 1: tonight and it was embarrassing. I mean, the same thing

1577
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:26,799
Speaker 1: happened against the Browns a few weeks back. As I recall,

1578
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:29,000
Speaker 1: they go right down the field on the first drive,

1579
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 1: Cousins hits Adam Feeling and you're thinking they're often running

1580
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: and Cooper cup Cooper rushes the other quarterback on the

1581
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:39,200
Speaker 1: other side, and this is gonna be a four quarter

1582
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 1: party for the Vikings, and then just a completely different

1583
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 1: game broke out and I think Cousins was you know,

1584
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:48,720
Speaker 1: he was pretty amped up and agitated throughout this game,

1585
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 1: I thought, and Mike Zimmer looked very annoyed with the offense,

1586
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: uh and how it performed in this game. And when

1587
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 1: you look at you know, the weapons, Dalvin Cook was

1588
01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: held in check. Um. He wasn't bad, but did not

1589
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:03,680
Speaker 1: have a big time game. I thought he would in

1590
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:06,200
Speaker 1: this game. And then you look, you know, Feeling did

1591
01:22:06,320 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 1: some things had the touchdown. But justin Jefferson had two

1592
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 1: catches for twenty one yards and four targets. kJ Osborne,

1593
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:14,880
Speaker 1: who had been talking up, he had two catches, uh

1594
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:17,720
Speaker 1: for ten yards, and there just wasn't anyone else that

1595
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 1: was able to step up and make the big play.

1596
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: So like the and you know, I've been talking about

1597
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:25,280
Speaker 1: the Vikings on this podcast that they're interesting to me.

1598
01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 1: When you have a game like this, it's just like, man,

1599
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:29,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if this team is ever going to

1600
01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 1: figure it out. They might just be one of those

1601
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: one step forward to step back teams all year and

1602
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: then by the time you get to January, you look

1603
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:37,800
Speaker 1: up and they're eight and nine, and being like, I

1604
01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: can't believe we let the season slip away. I'm starting

1605
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:42,639
Speaker 1: to have some real doubts about them after this performance.

1606
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 1: One for thirteen on third down another indicator that they

1607
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:50,320
Speaker 1: can go real, real silent on that side of the ball. Um.

1608
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 1: I think Mike zimmer Um coaches like it's nine still

1609
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: at times it's not, you know, entirely on everyone, but

1610
01:22:57,240 --> 01:22:59,720
Speaker 1: I'm with you. They're an eight win team that or

1611
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 1: they had nine win team that we're gonna we we

1612
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,080
Speaker 1: already you know, how I feel about this, But they're

1613
01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: gonna get hard objector seated out of this situation at

1614
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: some point, and I don't need to put my faith

1615
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 1: into what they're doing. I don't know. I see, I

1616
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: know what you're saying there, Mark. Sometimes that's one thing

1617
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:18,360
Speaker 1: where we just have a different viewpoint on football, where

1618
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:20,639
Speaker 1: you will write off a team if they're not gonna

1619
01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, Like I think not only could

1620
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 1: the Vikings despite what I just said, if they found

1621
01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 1: their way to win a couple of games, I think

1622
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: they could take somebody out in January. I still think

1623
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:32,560
Speaker 1: they are a team that could be a thorn in

1624
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: someone's side and and have a run in them. But

1625
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: this this type of loss is just like, man, are

1626
01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:39,200
Speaker 1: you just never going to figure it out? And maybe

1627
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:41,280
Speaker 1: that's not being fair to the Cowboys, who had an

1628
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 1: awesome performance, especially on defense and what Rush was able

1629
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: to do um, But the frustration is real because you

1630
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:52,759
Speaker 1: know there is a winning team somewhere in that locker

1631
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: room in Minnesota and it just refuses to come out.

1632
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: And if there isn't right, there's some bad luck involved.

1633
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 1: I mean, Cooper Rush did this game winning touchdown drive

1634
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:05,760
Speaker 1: by throwing the ball directly into Bishod Brelan's gut, who

1635
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:08,639
Speaker 1: and then it bounced off the gut into his hand

1636
01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 1: up in the air into Marie Cooper's hands. For like

1637
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:13,320
Speaker 1: the forty yard games, it was like the game was

1638
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:16,600
Speaker 1: over if if Freeland makes that play. But but they

1639
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:19,920
Speaker 1: had seven drives of four players or less. I I

1640
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: we we look at you know, we try not to

1641
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: like think that like it's at this prime time or

1642
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 1: big game thing. But I don't know, man, I've watched

1643
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:30,240
Speaker 1: every Kirk Cousins game this year. This was the worst one,

1644
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, it really was. I know they only had

1645
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: seven points about Cleveland, but this was this was the

1646
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: first one where it was like he he was a

1647
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: big part of the problem. He was he was, he

1648
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:43,120
Speaker 1: was freaking out. I'm glad you mentioned that. He just

1649
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: seemed amped up. It's like it was like the game's bigger,

1650
01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 1: so me and Zimmer are gonna be more amped up.

1651
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem like it helps out that way.

1652
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, amped up doesn't translate unfortunately, where it does

1653
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:56,600
Speaker 1: for some other quarterbacks. There was a there was a

1654
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 1: play in the first half. I think it was maybe

1655
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:03,679
Speaker 1: their third possession, uh, when it was a third down

1656
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: conversion attempt, and they showed it on the replay NBC.

1657
01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:12,599
Speaker 1: Cousins is going through his progressions. Someone flashes I believe

1658
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:15,920
Speaker 1: open over the middle, and the receiver I'm thinking based

1659
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: on the reaction, does something that Cousins didn't want. So

1660
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: Cousins looks away and then dumps it off for a

1661
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: some type of dump out pass that didn't get the

1662
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:28,599
Speaker 1: first down. And he's like screaming and anger as he's

1663
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:31,320
Speaker 1: moving down to the checkdown, and I'm like, who does

1664
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 1: that in the middle of the play, Like he was

1665
01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,960
Speaker 1: so amped up. Uh, maybe the moment did get too

1666
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 1: big for him. I don't know. I don't want to

1667
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: have those Kirk Cousins conversations anymore. I knew they drove

1668
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:44,240
Speaker 1: West crazy as well, But man, I see what you're saying, Greg,

1669
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: he didn't play well with a lot of people watching

1670
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: them tonight. Well how about this? How about right before

1671
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:51,120
Speaker 1: the half when they were trying to get something going

1672
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:53,200
Speaker 1: and they had the seconds for running out and they

1673
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 1: looked like it looked like the second preseason game with

1674
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback that had been in college three months ago.

1675
01:25:58,280 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: They couldn't get the snout. I mean it was just no.

1676
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 1: It was just like hyper disorganized, and it's just the

1677
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:05,880
Speaker 1: ear mark of a team that's gonna get caught off

1678
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:08,639
Speaker 1: guard at some point and it's gonna be bye bye,

1679
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:12,520
Speaker 1: see you later, check you, check you again. In two

1680
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:17,840
Speaker 1: Marks is trying to CROSSLF teams and I it's not

1681
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 1: like a bold take mark. I don't think anybody sees

1682
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:23,320
Speaker 1: the Vikings right now as a Super Bowl team, Like, yes,

1683
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:25,960
Speaker 1: eventually they will be crossed off and you won't have

1684
01:26:26,040 --> 01:26:28,360
Speaker 1: to We're calling them super fun and I think the

1685
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: problem is that if you ask most Vikings fans, it's

1686
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 1: fun for us because we can jump out of it

1687
01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:35,439
Speaker 1: when they suddenly do this. But if you're following this

1688
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,240
Speaker 1: team week to week, you are being driven nuts. It's

1689
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:39,840
Speaker 1: like you're running through a field and you've got like

1690
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:42,639
Speaker 1: eight people shooting arrows at you. You're gonna go down.

1691
01:26:43,320 --> 01:26:46,720
Speaker 1: It's not gonna work out for you. I'm with the man.

1692
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:49,840
Speaker 1: It is fun when they win. It's just really not

1693
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 1: fun when they lose. This team, I don't know. There's

1694
01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 1: the highs are highs and the lows are low. Good

1695
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:56,439
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, though, Man, I got a lot of

1696
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 1: work to do with the power rankings that that be

1697
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 1: now begins tonight after this podcast wraps. I don't know

1698
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:06,760
Speaker 1: what to make of the top ten is like very

1699
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:11,679
Speaker 1: why don't you do something really um like that? Imagine

1700
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:14,720
Speaker 1: there's like twelve people doing power rankings, like if not

1701
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 1: a hundred and twelve people, but like the twelve main

1702
01:27:17,080 --> 01:27:19,800
Speaker 1: guys you're in that group that crew of writers, like

1703
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 1: do something so bizarre that it's like it catches total fire,

1704
01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:28,880
Speaker 1: like illogical Number one. I don't mean, I mean like

1705
01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 1: someone out of remember one upset Pat McAfee. I have

1706
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:36,799
Speaker 1: his trust, so I talked. I remember after last Sunday,

1707
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:39,960
Speaker 1: I was like, put put that Cowboys team number one?

1708
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, put that put that they're looking good, Like

1709
01:27:45,240 --> 01:27:47,439
Speaker 1: you got the Packers at seven and one, the Rams

1710
01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:49,599
Speaker 1: are seven and one, the Cowboys are six and one.

1711
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:52,160
Speaker 1: Probably one of those three teams or number one Arizona

1712
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: is going to drop out of the past number one.

1713
01:27:55,880 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 1: Let's go oh man, all right, Ricky, I'm glad he

1714
01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: had a good time at the game, speaking quickly on

1715
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:09,200
Speaker 1: very quickly, you know, for the New England sports scene.

1716
01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:13,840
Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad to do it, but it's no

1717
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:16,479
Speaker 1: I just wanna say rest in peace to Jerry Remy.

1718
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:20,360
Speaker 1: What what a great broadcaster he was, um for the

1719
01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:24,120
Speaker 1: Red Sox, um just bringing like joy, No one had

1720
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:26,840
Speaker 1: more fun like I am so happy I got to

1721
01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:29,720
Speaker 1: spend like twenty years just listening to him every day

1722
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: because no one had more fun and made sports more

1723
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 1: fun than him listening to him every day. So it's sad.

1724
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 1: Yet he had cancer seven different times and he battled

1725
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: battlet and was on the air for a lot of it. Um,

1726
01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:44,280
Speaker 1: but but lost lost his life today. But what what

1727
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:46,840
Speaker 1: an influence he had for like a bunch of you know,

1728
01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 1: millions and millions of kids in New England watching those games.

1729
01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:52,840
Speaker 1: Sure I remember when I went to uh college and

1730
01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 1: and up in Boston and and you know, the Red

1731
01:28:55,960 --> 01:28:59,360
Speaker 1: Sox are always on in the background, um with all

1732
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:01,799
Speaker 1: the you know, natives of the region at the school.

1733
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 1: And uh you know, even as a Yankees fan, I

1734
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: love I love Remy because he was so it was

1735
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:09,240
Speaker 1: a real dude. He had a sense of humor, he

1736
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 1: had that accent. He was a Massachusetts dude through and

1737
01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 1: through a New England guy. And uh yeah his uh

1738
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:18,840
Speaker 1: his hilarious to legit funny, which almost no one I

1739
01:29:18,960 --> 01:29:21,559
Speaker 1: feel like not made. That's not fair, but like legit

1740
01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:25,600
Speaker 1: funny for that's true. That's true. One of the great broadcasters,

1741
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 1: gone too soon. All right, there we go, week eight.

1742
01:29:31,080 --> 01:29:33,720
Speaker 1: I mean, we're all messed up now, mark because of

1743
01:29:35,280 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 1: the seventeen game season, but we're kind of at the

1744
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:41,679
Speaker 1: halfway point now of the regular season, and that's yeah.

1745
01:29:41,720 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't really week never was really the

1746
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:47,000
Speaker 1: halfway point of anything, and even in the regular just

1747
01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 1: the regular season to begin with last time, because just

1748
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:51,880
Speaker 1: to prevent any tweets or whatever, the end of next

1749
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:54,559
Speaker 1: week would officially be halfway because there's now eighteen weeks

1750
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:57,519
Speaker 1: and next week's week nine. So if we're looking for

1751
01:29:57,600 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 1: a halfway nine eighteen divide, oh man, we gotta go

1752
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:03,439
Speaker 1: through an entire full week just to get to the

1753
01:30:03,479 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 1: halfway point. Now that that's dark, All right, good stuff.

1754
01:30:10,160 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: I hope everybody had a happy and save Halloween, and

1755
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:17,280
Speaker 1: we will be back on Tuesday. It will be the

1756
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:20,839
Speaker 1: trade deadline edition of the Round the NFL Podcorse podcast,

1757
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 1: or maybe just a regular edition of the podcast if

1758
01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:26,920
Speaker 1: nothing notable happens on the trade landscape, But either way,

1759
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:30,599
Speaker 1: we hope you're there listening and thank you for always

1760
01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:34,639
Speaker 1: tuning in. This is Dan Hanson signing off for Quiet Storm,

1761
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:39,639
Speaker 1: the old boss Rookie Hollywood. There's a happy grave digger somewhere.

1762
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:48,080
Speaker 1: The pipe good stuff until Tuesday. He the car. I

1763
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:50,559
Speaker 1: just sat grave bigger, put on the side, Make make

1764
01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:53,600
Speaker 1: it tightens number one. That would be cold that that

1765
01:30:53,600 --> 01:31:00,800
Speaker 1: would be a pay s