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Speaker 1: Week fourteen. I'm game preview guy breaking down each and
Speaker 1: every game with a recap of our ten person prediction
Speaker 1: panels votes. We begin this week in the NFC East.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. The Giants are at home this week
Speaker 1: classic NFC East face off. If they get the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles sitting on top of the NFL mountain, it's fun
Speaker 1: up there, isn't it fly? Eagles fly stomping teams with
Speaker 1: ease bro Giants taking on the Giants of the NFL
Speaker 1: right now, Hey, let's do that tag arm Let's didn't
Speaker 1: tag on? Titans are the a f C South Kings
Speaker 1: against Philly last week they get dropped thirty five to ten.
Speaker 1: No offense, But this Eagles team doesn't need to on
Speaker 1: those stairs. They are not the Balboa in this story
Speaker 1: Sanders who walks in touchdown? Philadelphia, Man, they are good.
Speaker 1: This will be New York's first look at Philadelphia's mystique
Speaker 1: like offense. Eagles faced a team that was good at
Speaker 1: stopping the run last week, not as good stopping the
Speaker 1: past tuck away play a very unbelievable A J. Brown
Speaker 1: ran through Tennessee like he knew the joint. Two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: eight catches, hundred and nineteen yards, just walk on in
Speaker 1: their A J. Now he's going to deep to A J. Brown,
Speaker 1: the catches and walks in for a touchdown, walks in
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Davante Smith also a good game, five catches,
Speaker 1: a hundred two yards and a score. Last week. Again
Speaker 1: all day going deep for the end zone. He's got it,
Speaker 1: Smith in for the touchdown. Guy throwing them the ball.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts so good right, twenty nine thirty nine yards.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's ridiculous. Three touchdowns, a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: point three rating. He now hurts is rolling, hurtsas looking,
Speaker 1: Kurchas running, Kurtas scoring kill and Hurts just out and
Speaker 1: runs everybody. Week before that, Philly played a team that
Speaker 1: had issues stopping runners. So what did they do? They
Speaker 1: ran for three hundred and sixty three yards versus Green
Speaker 1: Bay mile sand is. All he's got to do is
Speaker 1: staying behind those black jerseys and followed him all the
Speaker 1: way to the end zone. On paper, the Giants are
Speaker 1: more of a cheese team along the ground anyway. Defensively,
Speaker 1: five yards per carry allowed to quarterbacks, five point one
Speaker 1: yards per to running backs in ninety six yards four
Speaker 1: point six to Brian Robinson last week off Robinson's great
Speaker 1: hole off the left side of for the fifty love
Speaker 1: and d at the twenty two yard line. That's two yards.
Speaker 1: Don't want to give up. The Giants pass defense is
Speaker 1: coming off a shaky outing relative to their body of work.
Speaker 1: Gave up two hundred and seventy five yards, two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks, a hundred one point to rating to Taylor
Speaker 1: Heineke open at the church like Quarner, fifties stanch to
Speaker 1: the dead. He's going in on catching rock like Dotson,
Speaker 1: Sias nickelback Kilpark this top of fives, chockstrap on that place.
Speaker 1: That was despite one of their best pass rush showings
Speaker 1: five sacks, ten QB hits. How do you not block
Speaker 1: the streak for Hurts getting sacked? Continued, So now he's
Speaker 1: eleven and one in games where he's been sacked, and
Speaker 1: let's go get one. Let's go get Daniel Jones, also
Speaker 1: a disjointed fan, sees the grass on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: took four sacks last week. Has been bagged up at
Speaker 1: a very high rate this season. That's reason number one.
Speaker 1: He would rather not have to rely on his arm
Speaker 1: this week. Joe's got him plows it down at the
Speaker 1: thirty five Giant What did you do? Reason number two.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has dudes like Josh Sweat, Fletcher Cox, Javon Hargrave,
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick, Brandon Graham. Those dudes literally shared a six
Speaker 1: or last week. Ross pressure comes. This pastor has just
Speaker 1: eating up this Titan's offensive a live Reason number three.
Speaker 1: The Eagles secondary in those corners best in two fires Scott.
Speaker 1: It's well known the Giants like to keep things low key.
Speaker 1: It's the Sae Juan Barkley d J Show. And I'll
Speaker 1: break one. I've been Nilla big down all right. Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones got back to taking off in week thirteen. It
Speaker 1: sparked their offense. It just seems like a necessary component
Speaker 1: for them. He ran for seventy one yards five point
Speaker 1: nine to carry in their tie. I guess they got
Speaker 1: caught up in World Cup group play. I guess Rolls
Speaker 1: was right. He's gonna want decide let's get the first
Speaker 1: down and that stepped out about a tent for Jones
Speaker 1: in the first down giant. The Eagles let Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: go for thirty four yards on three carries. That's eleven
Speaker 1: point three a run. I'm not saying that it mattered
Speaker 1: in that game, but they have given up six point
Speaker 1: one to run to quarterbacks, so it hasn't been a
Speaker 1: strong point. Look, you can't find any one else gonna
Speaker 1: take off first down in more Hill. They also give
Speaker 1: up four point five to running backs. Not great, but
Speaker 1: they come in off a game where they held the
Speaker 1: Mighty King to two point seven per run. Gives up
Speaker 1: to Henry, and Henry has brought down to get a
Speaker 1: fu lot of struggles. Now they get Barkley. He scored
Speaker 1: last week, ran hard and off Barkley put down. You
Speaker 1: hit that where you hit the turball, Barger, You've got
Speaker 1: right through there. He also finished with just three point
Speaker 1: five a carry four of his last five games. Now
Speaker 1: he's been under three point six and off the Barkley
Speaker 1: and you get Eran Payne. As you'd expect, most of
Speaker 1: our voters went to Philadelphia. Nine of them, Adam Rank
Speaker 1: the only one bold enough to give it the You're
Speaker 1: my boy Blue treatment. Big a FC East showdown, the
Speaker 1: Jets making the Interstate truk to Buffalo. The Bills, hoping
Speaker 1: home for advantage helps them split the series with New York.
Speaker 1: Allen tosses t fall on the way and complained Gabe
Speaker 1: Davis the intended target have the Jets will witt It's
Speaker 1: Week nine. Jets pulled out that seventeen win over the
Speaker 1: Bills in large thanks to their defense. They picked off
Speaker 1: Josh Allen twice all it has time intercepted Sauce cartears cut.
Speaker 1: They were also able to blow him up five times
Speaker 1: behind the line of scrimmage. That when really made people
Speaker 1: take notice of just how good New York's defense is.
Speaker 1: And how about the closing speed put Josh Allen that
Speaker 1: that Jamaine Johnson just flashed right there. That game was
Speaker 1: also the game when Alan hurt his elbow, and he
Speaker 1: hasn't been the same since. He was solid versus New
Speaker 1: England in Week thirteen, couple touchdowns no I N T
Speaker 1: s rating over a hundred t D. Pass he made
Speaker 1: to Gabe Davis a real buke. Clark just goes airborne
Speaker 1: before he goes out the bounds and throws back against
Speaker 1: the the butt. While Davis scored just two catches seven
Speaker 1: targets fifteen yards and he's a big play artist and turn.
Speaker 1: Alan comes into this week on a five game streak
Speaker 1: made of under eight yard per attempt outings. Against New England,
Speaker 1: just one pass went for twenty plus yards and it
Speaker 1: was to a running back off balance. Strow's thought tackled
Speaker 1: at the twenty one yard line is James Cook and
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs caught Alan's other week thirteen touchdown led the
Speaker 1: team and targets as usual seven catches ninety two yards
Speaker 1: did average over thirteen yards per reception action fires Store
Speaker 1: in the Store, New York had Sauce Gardner on Diggs
Speaker 1: to start the game. When they first met, Diggs responded
Speaker 1: with a quick come on, bro, But remember what happened later?
Speaker 1: They put DJ Read on him. In the second half,
Speaker 1: Diggs didn't catch another ball and what we call the
Speaker 1: moment of truth when the ball arrives has its head
Speaker 1: around that mets a playoff the football. DJ and the
Speaker 1: Sauce held core versus Mass out to last week as well,
Speaker 1: held Kirk Cousins to just a hundred and seventy three
Speaker 1: yards under five yards per attempt on thirty five throws.
Speaker 1: They gave up a touchdown to Justin Jefferson, but held
Speaker 1: him to just forty five yards on seven catch ups.
Speaker 1: Cousin sells it and it bounces off the hands of
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson at a matchup with d J. New York's
Speaker 1: pass rush is just as potent as it was in
Speaker 1: round one two Quinn and Williams his ninth sack. In
Speaker 1: Week thirteen. Jets got to Cousins twice, hit him nine times,
Speaker 1: and look at this pass rush. Come Holp with the
Speaker 1: power move and the bull rush, and then from the
Speaker 1: backside laws it with the big platt. New York's defense
Speaker 1: wasn't the issue in their Week thirteam loss. They were
Speaker 1: a little shaky versus the run, but they were on
Speaker 1: the field a lot, and that's because the Magic Mike
Speaker 1: Show went limp biscuit. Jets made it to the red
Speaker 1: zone over and over and could not finish just enough
Speaker 1: to throw it off because Garrett Wilson's right there. The
Speaker 1: coverage is good, but the ball is pretty dark close.
Speaker 1: White was not able to follow up his big showing
Speaker 1: versus the Bears, Minnesota, not a team with a strong secondary.
Speaker 1: He threw fifty seven times, a rating under ninety just
Speaker 1: six point five a throw in the red zone six
Speaker 1: or seventeen rating of nineteen point five. An interception was
Speaker 1: picked twice overall when Charles popped up in the air
Speaker 1: and Tromplte still three hundred and sixty nine yards is
Speaker 1: a lot of yards, and he made some nice throws.
Speaker 1: He put them in a spot to win. At least.
Speaker 1: If New York ever tries to pull White, Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: will hit them with a laanakane Noop eight catches a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two yards after his ninety five yard
Speaker 1: to t d performance the week before, the job in
Speaker 1: the pocket of beautiful throw, and how about the catch
Speaker 1: by Wilson, he will not have it easy. Versus Buffalo secondary,
Speaker 1: the Bill's past defense has been strong all year, nothing different.
Speaker 1: In Week thirteen held Mac Jones under two hundred yards
Speaker 1: under five and a half yards per attempt, a rating
Speaker 1: under eighty five Jones at deep drafts. That's Bills rush
Speaker 1: defense gave up five point four a run to Remander
Speaker 1: Stevenson four point two to running backs on the year,
Speaker 1: though now they get their first look at Bam Bam rubble.
Speaker 1: Zanovan Knight trying to prove his debut wasn't a Fluke
Speaker 1: went for sixty nine yards four point nine per versus
Speaker 1: the Bears. Then versus the Vikings ninety yards on six
Speaker 1: a run. Give it to night pass some rule night
Speaker 1: working the sidelines side of a night. Three of the
Speaker 1: voters on our panel don't want to pay up. They
Speaker 1: went New York. The other seven took the bills. The
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions were at home writing some lightning. I guess,
Speaker 1: winners of four of their last five, they get the
Speaker 1: second best record in football. The Vikings can think their
Speaker 1: defense for their latest win, that was pretty clutch. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm stamping plays like that with from now on.
Speaker 1: It gets the funny dude in the commercial Award. Pretty
Speaker 1: clutch Vikings defense and not only going up big on
Speaker 1: the last play of that game last week, but doing
Speaker 1: it all game long. Vikings secondaries had its struggles in two,
Speaker 1: but versus Mike White, who had all that buzz going
Speaker 1: in they faced fifty seven pass attempts, held him to
Speaker 1: a sub sixty rating just six point five a throw
Speaker 1: looked up in the air, had intercepted and in the
Speaker 1: red zone. As good as it gets for the most part,
Speaker 1: held the magic Mike showed a six for seventeen rating
Speaker 1: of nineteen point five. Picked him off, they intercepted him
Speaker 1: twice overall to the Vikings defense, he was no Channing
Speaker 1: Tatum held the Jets to three for sixteen on third
Speaker 1: down separation d Jett to Wilson. So you've got a
Speaker 1: confident Vikings defense versus a confident, feeling Lions offense. Jared
Speaker 1: Goff last week versus a d that had played the
Speaker 1: past solid in two one three forty yards two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: rating over one fifteen. His quickness is just so dangerous.
Speaker 1: Amanrah st Brown twice as many targets as anyone on
Speaker 1: the team last week. Why not? He must have looked
Speaker 1: like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree in that metal tree lot.
Speaker 1: He really stuck out, you know, golf through to st
Speaker 1: Brown twelve times in week thirteen. He caught eleven of
Speaker 1: those targets a hundred and fourteen yards, two touchdowns a
Speaker 1: hundred and ten plus yards, and three of his last four.
Speaker 1: Now look at the concentration here for mom and Ross
Speaker 1: St Brown Golf will want to sharpen his wear's waldo skills.
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson in no way has the red and white
Speaker 1: hat On Vikings gave up a lot of yards to
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson, a hundred and sixty two of them on
Speaker 1: eight catches. A Kaleb Evans last week allowed a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty one yards. If st. Brown and Golf can
Speaker 1: find him, well, you know how the game works. Watch
Speaker 1: how Garrett Wilson works inside. It's Evans hits turned the
Speaker 1: wrong way. Lyon's own defense also comes in with some swagger.
Speaker 1: Held Jacksonville the fourteen points last week, shut him down
Speaker 1: on third down, they were just three for twelve against them, delayed,
Speaker 1: blitz protected. But Justin Jefferson, yeah, he grittied again last week.
Speaker 1: Energy chance and you know a lot he should be
Speaker 1: in the conversation. However, the Jets held him to seven catches,
Speaker 1: forty five yards and it bounces off the hands of
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. Very few good times for JJ in week thirteen.
Speaker 1: We can't dismiss the secondary cousins and JJ face this
Speaker 1: week based on their season numbers. Detroit just held Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence to a hundred seventy nine yards just five point
Speaker 1: eight per attempt. The last five weeks, they're holding quarterbacks
Speaker 1: to a sub seventy five rating. Cornerbacks Jerry Jacobs and
Speaker 1: Jeff Okuda don't get a lot of pub but they're
Speaker 1: giving the pride hope. That's why it was runner up
Speaker 1: in the Heisman last year. And it's plays like that.
Speaker 1: Vikings have a better sack total. Goff is hard to sack.
Speaker 1: Cousins not so much. But Lions only leave with a
Speaker 1: few items when they shop, so they don't leave with
Speaker 1: many backs. Time for Lawrence going deep for cart He's
Speaker 1: got it. Detroit will be focused on stopping the run
Speaker 1: this week a running backs Cipically, they have given up
Speaker 1: four point seven a carry to that position. Not great,
Speaker 1: so maybe get something closer to Last week. They held
Speaker 1: Travis et In to four point to a carry, not terrible.
Speaker 1: Paul came out as he was hit around the thirty
Speaker 1: seven yard lock. This week they get Dalvin Cook eighty
Speaker 1: six yards four point three a run, a touchdown versus
Speaker 1: the Jets. It was warrior kind of yardage though that
Speaker 1: defense is for real stutter stuff. He's a touchs down Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The Lions run game has been doing. Jamal Williams loves
Speaker 1: him that paint another touchdown last week, rushing TV leader
Speaker 1: in DeAndre Swift the more explosive in week thirteen, sixty
Speaker 1: two yards, four point four a carry in a touchdown.
Speaker 1: He should have been tackled for a three yard loss
Speaker 1: on that one, but he just made everybody miss. Vikings
Speaker 1: holding running backs to three point nine a run. They
Speaker 1: didn't play like that last week, though, gave up six
Speaker 1: a run to on of a Night ninety yards. What
Speaker 1: did Robert Solo called that? Juicy running up Bam Night.
Speaker 1: This is round two of this series. Round one was
Speaker 1: a long time ago, good game. Vikings came back with
Speaker 1: fourteen points in the fourth to win it. Jefferson was
Speaker 1: very quiet that game. The defense played golf well. Cousins
Speaker 1: and Cook had good games. Pussen's he's got a touch there.
Speaker 1: We checked that box. Either no respect for Minnesota or
Speaker 1: tons for Detroit. The panel was split down the middle
Speaker 1: on this game, five to five. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: head west this week TV twelve, back to his old
Speaker 1: stomping ground to face a quarterback who was born just
Speaker 1: months before Brady was drafted. He's gonna throw out right,
Speaker 1: Why don't put check toucht se Cisco from Mr Irrelevant
Speaker 1: to Mr Very very relevant. Rock Party Now the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback for the first place forty Niners facing Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for the first place Buccaneers. Entire vibe
Speaker 1: of this team and this preview being altered in a
Speaker 1: five minute span. Looking right at those football It's called
Speaker 1: touch stops away horsad like touch stop their fire. The
Speaker 1: catt Rady was a dark t rassad, White fetishers fire.
Speaker 1: The cannon's faithful, just hoping the last five minutes a
Speaker 1: week thirteen carry over to this week. They will need
Speaker 1: nothing less if they hope to put points on the
Speaker 1: board against the defense they face forty Niners, number one
Speaker 1: in points per game allowed and yards per games to
Speaker 1: under pressure get sacks by Nick Parsa, the best quarterback
Speaker 1: in the land in two came through their house last week.
Speaker 1: He had never started and finished a game this season
Speaker 1: with a loss or a sub ninety rating. The Niners
Speaker 1: handed him both. Good one gets accepted, just a bad
Speaker 1: throw behind a wind open hill. Every snap Brady takes,
Speaker 1: he'll have to wonder when is st Nick going to arrive?
Speaker 1: Not talking clause, we're talking Bosa. He's act two or
Speaker 1: three times clinched it with a sack fumble, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna step out here, trip behind the ballasade and is
Speaker 1: picked up the right by Dry three lasso X. That's
Speaker 1: three sacks on the day proposta. The forty Niners dominated
Speaker 1: one of the best passing attacks the NFL has to offer.
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers passing attack is not even close to that dash.
Speaker 1: Up until the five minute marking the fourth Last week,
Speaker 1: Brady and his boys pretty much looked like they have
Speaker 1: all year, which is to say not good. Failing in
Speaker 1: the red zone, failing on third down over and over again.
Speaker 1: Even with the late surge, Brady finished with a sub
Speaker 1: ninety ratings start down at eight Brady downfield and a
Speaker 1: diving attempt by Julio Jones out of his reach and
Speaker 1: the only averaged five point to per pass attempt. He
Speaker 1: threw the ball fifty four times. One pass went for
Speaker 1: twenty plus yards, but on second and twenty a gain
Speaker 1: of just three. It was dump off after dump off,
Speaker 1: and he had his entire complement of pass catchers to
Speaker 1: work with. The quick pass, though, might be the best
Speaker 1: way to do damage against the forty Niners. No quarterback
Speaker 1: gets rid of the ball and under two point five
Speaker 1: seconds more often than Brady fifty five point nine percent
Speaker 1: of his passes are gone and under two point five
Speaker 1: quick throw pass caught first Don Scotty Miller. And while
Speaker 1: the forty Niners have been stalwarts against the pass overall
Speaker 1: holding quarterbacks to a low eighties rating, they have allowed
Speaker 1: a ninety four point six rate on passes made under
Speaker 1: the two point five mark. Another quick throw behind time
Speaker 1: right kill. So how much pressure will San Francisco's defense
Speaker 1: be under to keep the score low. Seeing the last
Speaker 1: pick in a draft come in off the bench complete
Speaker 1: over sixty of his passes, a couple of touchdowns over
Speaker 1: two hundred yards respectable eighty eight point eight rating. As
Speaker 1: a fake, Miley Cyrus would have put it, it was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Tighter windows, but a man comes free. Joan
Speaker 1: Jennings BCB managed things. Well, yeah, that's what George Kittle
Speaker 1: calls him. Yep, big clock Brock. Maybe he wears a
Speaker 1: big clock like Flavor. Flav got rid of this one
Speaker 1: as he was head and found kettle. I want to
Speaker 1: throw from Brock. Purty, who had chill and phillips all
Speaker 1: over him from the start. Helps when you're surrounded by
Speaker 1: high end skilled players. He understood an easy way to
Speaker 1: look good. Take the easy stuff hit, see him c
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, let him do the rest. McCaffrey
Speaker 1: got targeted ten times last week. Eight catches, eighty yards
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Pretty under nag putt the touchdown. It's McCaffrey
Speaker 1: second touchdown. Throw off of the bench for Purty. Based
Speaker 1: on how Tampa Bay has played running backs as pass catchers,
Speaker 1: could see a lot more of that. Bucks have given
Speaker 1: up a one oh two point seven rating to backs
Speaker 1: as receivers, as Dalton finds Ingram whose spins looking for
Speaker 1: the first down. A good tight end is usually a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback's best friend. George Kittle is a good tight end,
Speaker 1: probably makes a really good best friend too. Back to
Speaker 1: back games though he's finished with less than thirty yards.
Speaker 1: Might he snapped that mini streak against the Tampa defense
Speaker 1: that has allowed a one oh eight point five rating.
Speaker 1: Too tight ends a plump fake and then to the
Speaker 1: near side hill take some of hill touchdown niners. Receivers
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayup Deebo Samuel both fifty yard per game types
Speaker 1: in two as first down Brandon aiyou Cabina's best year.
Speaker 1: It's Samuel block in front from U s Chack Lord
Speaker 1: de shoulder and got kimbaught at a bounce. Of course,
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan could elect to load up on McCaffrey the
Speaker 1: runner to mitigate things. Back to McCaffrey. Christen McCaffrey cresses
Speaker 1: forward for a game of e. CMC is not coming
Speaker 1: in hot though, under four yards per carry last week,
Speaker 1: under four in three of his last four games. There
Speaker 1: here it is Christon Wilkins. Tampa Bay hasn't played the
Speaker 1: ground game great in two but last week they shut
Speaker 1: down the Saints to the tune of two point six
Speaker 1: a run. Three Tampa Bay defenders converged maybe one yard.
Speaker 1: Lavonte David was the first guy in there. Only three
Speaker 1: of the ten voters went with the goat seven, liking
Speaker 1: Brock to win his first NFL start over Brady. This
Speaker 1: is the game they flexed into the Sunday night football slot.
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins coming in off a loss to Brock
Speaker 1: Purty gonna throw on the rod it is. They take
Speaker 1: on the Chargers, returning to l A from Vegas, feeling
Speaker 1: very much like Mikey did and Jacobs. That's the first
Speaker 1: tut of the hole jap to Still, it's a great
Speaker 1: matchup between two of the best young qubis in the game.
Speaker 1: Both teams have a lot on the line. Both try
Speaker 1: and beat you through the air. Both had trouble doing
Speaker 1: that last week for different reasons. Hoe collapses, Herbert has
Speaker 1: swallowed up. They just they cannot protect it. Finally happened
Speaker 1: to have met his match. Chargers get him off a
Speaker 1: game he started and finished and lost two picks. Rating
Speaker 1: under eighty versus San Francisco. You want to get supted,
Speaker 1: just a bad throw behind a wind open hill too,
Speaker 1: hadn't left a full game with a rating under ninety.
Speaker 1: He was up against the best defense in football. The
Speaker 1: Chargers not only need top notch secondary play like two
Speaker 1: effaced with the forty niners, they also needed Nick Bosa,
Speaker 1: part of the reason to a struggled last week. Dolphins
Speaker 1: line gave both of the v I p treatment allowed
Speaker 1: him to sack two of three times. One the nail
Speaker 1: in the coffin, so we're gonna step by behind the
Speaker 1: baside and is picked up. Three lost. That's three sacks
Speaker 1: on the day. For post Miami fans, I see you
Speaker 1: comments section last week, lots of fins up, faithful worried
Speaker 1: about what the loss of Tehran Armstead might mean Chargers
Speaker 1: passed rush, not one sack versus the Raiders. They sure
Speaker 1: miss Joey Bosa, so this sets up as a Cartman
Speaker 1: versus Kyle sl fight. Not so hard. Look how long
Speaker 1: this play takes to develop. Car can just sit there,
Speaker 1: step up and fire it. Dolphins own pass rush and
Speaker 1: pass defense will also be in the forefront. Chargers line
Speaker 1: is also hurting, played a big role in their loss
Speaker 1: to Vegas. Herbert went down five times last week to
Speaker 1: the Raiders, the team that had not gotten home very
Speaker 1: often in two He's been sacked fourteen times in the
Speaker 1: last three games. No place to go and he goes
Speaker 1: down now. He asked to deal with the Dolphins team
Speaker 1: that picked up four bags in week thirteen. Hit the
Speaker 1: QB ten times, good day at the office, thirty turns
Speaker 1: right into the defense and Melvin Ingram slams and down.
Speaker 1: Herbert had a solid stat line in their most recent loss.
Speaker 1: Three hundred and thirty five yards a touch down, no
Speaker 1: picks under pressure, steps up throws. That's a completion across
Speaker 1: midfield adjusted. Herbert so good in these moments. Not enough
Speaker 1: of that production came on third down. The Chargers were
Speaker 1: just five a sixteen trouble get and goes down the
Speaker 1: other problem. They'll try and correct Herbert's connection with Keenan Allen. Look,
Speaker 1: six catches eighty eight yards touchdown, that's good fantasy stuff.
Speaker 1: Throws on the run down the sideline Allen for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Fourteen targets so eight in completions. Dude, it wasn't my fault.
Speaker 1: We lost that pickup game. I put up twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you took every shot. That's the idea. Anyway, Vegas made
Speaker 1: it art on Allan. Chargers offense sputtered because of it.
Speaker 1: That makes the one on one between Allen and Xavien
Speaker 1: Howard Key. Howard had a rough start to his two
Speaker 1: but as he put it in the past weeks, ten
Speaker 1: on holding quarterbacks to a sixty five rating picked off
Speaker 1: a pass last week. Howard comes up with the pick,
Speaker 1: first one of the year for Xavier Howard. Dolphins have
Speaker 1: not played the past great this season, but they've held
Speaker 1: wide receivers to a sub ninety rating the near sideline
Speaker 1: and that is incomplete. The Chargers all so haven't played
Speaker 1: the past rate in mid nineties rating. Aloud gave up
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty yards to Derek Carr. The most
Speaker 1: troubling aspect of that showing may bleed over to this game.
Speaker 1: They gave up eight catches a hundred and seventy seven
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns to Davante Adams. Good to throw
Speaker 1: it Dawn touchdown Assante Samuel one of the dudes who
Speaker 1: couldn't cover him too, gave up hundred yards last week
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Bolt up fans, you ever listened to
Speaker 1: Iron Maidens touchdown? Now the Chargers have to try and
Speaker 1: slow down Tyreek Hill. Nine catches a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: six yards for him last week, a touchdown versus a
Speaker 1: top ranked past defense. Here's a perfectly dropped in touchdown. Dolphins,
Speaker 1: the third part of their three ring circus comes in
Speaker 1: as cold as his habitat no waddling. Last week, Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle got dinged up five targets, one catch just nine yards,
Speaker 1: lofts one too tall for a wattle. Chargers are terrible
Speaker 1: against running backs. Josh Jacobs can attest still the worst
Speaker 1: defense when it comes to stopping rbs. This is just
Speaker 1: such a wonderful piece of running how he sees this
Speaker 1: Dolphins rush attempts. Ferris absentee record that's a lot of
Speaker 1: days missed, not a lot of Russia attempts. Can you
Speaker 1: commit to the run without being stubborn about it? Nine
Speaker 1: of the ten voters we pulled take the Dolphins NFL
Speaker 1: dot Com writer Grant Gordon the loan Chargers pick the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Head to Pittsburgh this week. They take on
Speaker 1: a Steeler squad doing everything it can to try and
Speaker 1: keep their head coaches streak alive. Accepted, that's Patrick, He'll
Speaker 1: just we can throw the records out right. This is
Speaker 1: Japanese Wagoo caliber NFL beef. It's Kenny Pickett's first time
Speaker 1: getting a taste of it too. He comes into this
Speaker 1: game off his first ninety plus rating game of his career.
Speaker 1: Pick it a chas at the FOURT, turns it up
Speaker 1: field that picks up the first out pickets pass a.
Speaker 1: Rating has gone up five straight games now too. He's
Speaker 1: not putting up massive yards, but he's avoided throwing an
Speaker 1: I n T since Week eight, looking the other way
Speaker 1: throwing en touchdown. Also comes in off a game where
Speaker 1: he didn't get sacked once. They'll be hard pressed to
Speaker 1: do that again. Baltimore has gotten home thirty seven times
Speaker 1: this season. That's top five status mess. What's goes down
Speaker 1: that it tends to rely heavily on his tight end
Speaker 1: Pat Friar Muth seventy six yards versus the Falcons. He's
Speaker 1: got kid on third down and he stays at his stake.
Speaker 1: He could have an even bigger impact this week if
Speaker 1: Baltimore doesn't figure some things out. Hundred fourteen point three
Speaker 1: rating allowed to tight ends gave up eighty five yards
Speaker 1: to one last week. It's suck it and six till
Speaker 1: six down field plock down by Queen Ravens have handled
Speaker 1: write outs better. Eighty nine point five rating allowed to
Speaker 1: that group. The Steeler whiteout that will receive most of
Speaker 1: their attention this week. Deonte Johnson five catches sixty yards
Speaker 1: in week thirteen, but eleven targets and he's only averaging
Speaker 1: forty seven yards per game, so he's had a lot
Speaker 1: of who hum games like that. That ball needs to
Speaker 1: be up, but since it's not there when it comes
Speaker 1: back inside, the arms got just a little short. The
Speaker 1: battle along the ground. Nausey Harris eighty six yards five
Speaker 1: point one to carry in week thirteen. Eighty five plus
Speaker 1: yards four point five or better in three of his
Speaker 1: last four games. Harris's sorry, He's up against a top
Speaker 1: five run defense, the Baltimore just three point eight to
Speaker 1: run to ball carriers, holding running backs to the same figure.
Speaker 1: Well Ship again raps some about then tring him down.
Speaker 1: Ravens defense may have extra pressure to keep the score low.
Speaker 1: They have to roll with Tyler Huntley this week at quarterback.
Speaker 1: He came off the bench when Lamar Jackson hurt his knee,
Speaker 1: ended the game with no touchdowns, one pick, rating seventy
Speaker 1: eight under six yards per attens by pop Uncles pucked
Speaker 1: off on the play by sevens also went twenty seven
Speaker 1: of thirty two, drove them down the field late and
Speaker 1: scored the game winner himself. Takes to himself pack and
Speaker 1: I touched off. He knows the offense well and he
Speaker 1: fits it well enough. Defending the tight end position will
Speaker 1: also be a paramount for Pittsburgh's defense. Mark Andrews and
Speaker 1: Isaiah Likely they accounted for eleven targets last week, eight
Speaker 1: catches eighty three yards combined. Andrews currently also through the
Speaker 1: Devon DuVernay and to Marcus Robinson fourteen times total connected,
Speaker 1: thirteen of those outside. It goes with only seventy five
Speaker 1: yards combined Ravens with just one pass a twenty plus
Speaker 1: yards last week. Overall, Pittsburgh is holding quarterbacks to a
Speaker 1: sub ninety rating, low sixties completion percentate, and as it's floating,
Speaker 1: it gives camp setting the chance to turner out, to
Speaker 1: locate the ball, and to make a play against tight
Speaker 1: ends one point nine rating allowed respectable. They're also going
Speaker 1: to make it tough on the Ravens ground game, just
Speaker 1: four yards per carry allowed to quarterbacks, four point two
Speaker 1: to running backs, fell and thrown down. Larry oakin Shopie
Speaker 1: makes the play. The panel was split on this game,
Speaker 1: six votes Pittsburgh's way for Baltimore's. The Cleveland Browns are
Speaker 1: heading into the Battle of Ohio with the number one
Speaker 1: fantasy scoring defense from last week A second and ten.
Speaker 1: Allen just trying to get him some creating room football
Speaker 1: scored it out. It's picked up Cleveland, Zoe Daslward. It
Speaker 1: was Houston. I bet a lot of people screamed them,
Speaker 1: but they aren't in Kansas anymore or Houston. This is
Speaker 1: the Jungle Baby where even the Mighty Chiefs. You know what,
Speaker 1: Axel says that that's just the PI episode, it's a
Speaker 1: touch stoff. Have to admit Joe Burrow is the right
Speaker 1: front man for a team of the stadium tied to
Speaker 1: G and R. I bet he's on time though. He's
Speaker 1: got the Bengals on a four game win streak. They've
Speaker 1: won six of their last seven. Burrow last week, beating
Speaker 1: Kansas City and Mahomes for the third time in a row. Overall,
Speaker 1: he went twenty five for thirty one two eighty six yards,
Speaker 1: a couple touchdowns, a rating over one. He is making
Speaker 1: it look so easy. Indeed, back peddling press he got
Speaker 1: chased back Jamaar seven catches ninety seven yards and his
Speaker 1: return chas Browns have to deal with te Higgins and
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd as well. Pair accounted for close to a
Speaker 1: hundred yards in a score last week for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Nothing against Houston or Kyle Allen, but bringing up how
Speaker 1: Cleveland did against them in week thirteen is like asking
Speaker 1: the globetrotters how they fared against the General's last night.
Speaker 1: So let's just lay out the big picture. They have
Speaker 1: allowed at one oh two point four rate to white
Speaker 1: out nice route here by Niko College just got a
Speaker 1: quick look in on time and pretty good throw there
Speaker 1: by Kyle Allen. They have also allowed a ninety six
Speaker 1: point three rating to running back. What a maneuver by
Speaker 1: p Orse that cats and run. That's relevant because Burrow
Speaker 1: uses his backs his pass catchers a lot of some
Speaker 1: g p Rhyans six catches forty nine yards last week,
Speaker 1: back to back games with seven targets. What's up first,
Speaker 1: Dollard Ryan? So many tackles he Rhyns started again in
Speaker 1: place of Joe Mixing. Even if Joe is healthy. P
Speaker 1: Ryan probably earned some more touches with the way he
Speaker 1: looked against k c A hundred and six yards five
Speaker 1: a carry, dars ten bungles. Aren't a run first kind
Speaker 1: of team usually, but no, the Browns are bottom five
Speaker 1: when it comes to yards per carry allowed to running back.
Speaker 1: Very good vision by Piers to hit the cutback and
Speaker 1: then play for four yards. He's a tough, physical runner.
Speaker 1: It was special teams and the defense that scored the
Speaker 1: only Brown's TVs versus Houston, and that's because the debut
Speaker 1: of Deshaun Watson. How to best put it, kind of
Speaker 1: like the turkey Catherine made for the Griswold family Christmas dinner.
Speaker 1: It was nice and orange, looked like it would be incredible,
Speaker 1: and then faking to show it to the egg zone.
Speaker 1: It's picked off. Pat Ray Eddie may be cool with it.
Speaker 1: Dog Pound felt like Clark. We waited all this time
Speaker 1: for that twelve or two hundred and thirty one yards
Speaker 1: six in attempt fifty three point four rating, one pick,
Speaker 1: no touchdowns against a one win team. Watson's past patted
Speaker 1: down at the line of scrimmage. Watson connected on one
Speaker 1: pass at twenty plus yards. You know what everyone was
Speaker 1: saying after Peanuts, adult mumbo jumbo about rust or whatever.
Speaker 1: But now Watson is facing an even tougher past defense
Speaker 1: than he faced last week. At least they aren't wearing
Speaker 1: helmets with his old logo on them. Bengal season numbers
Speaker 1: against the past are great. They were part of an
Speaker 1: Ali pray you're about. Last week held Mahomes to two
Speaker 1: d and twenty three yards. He averages three seventeen A
Speaker 1: games A good job. Hell coming in. You can't catch
Speaker 1: him what you got his arm in there here? It's
Speaker 1: perfect Browns run game, of course, Nick Chubb Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 1: Each dude went for four point seven or better last week.
Speaker 1: Browns almost could have won that game without throwing a pass.
Speaker 1: Very patient, watch him weight on Joel Patonio and then
Speaker 1: see the whole and cut back in it that he
Speaker 1: has the explosion and the power to keep running such
Speaker 1: an all around back. Bengals may not play the run
Speaker 1: great overall, but against running backs only giving up four
Speaker 1: point one to carry, that's respect. It's just getting get
Speaker 1: back to the lottest. River said. The Bengals have won
Speaker 1: six of seven, one loss in that span to the Browns.
Speaker 1: They smacked him in the face along the ground, chubb
Speaker 1: led the way the next thrown touchdown. La Bread and
Speaker 1: their defenders made regular visits to Burrow's house. They sacked
Speaker 1: him five times. The whole Burrow can win while getting
Speaker 1: a Hulk Hogan leg draw isn't holding up in two.
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett got him one and a half times in
Speaker 1: that game. Miles Garrett, of course, that's nothing for him.
Speaker 1: He sees that every day. Burrow hasn't won a game
Speaker 1: this season when he's planted five plus times. There oh
Speaker 1: and three Burrows Jersey last week awful clean only one
Speaker 1: sack when QB hit. They haven't given up more than
Speaker 1: two sacks in their last four. They can live with
Speaker 1: that Beatles eight days a week. They're attacking it multiple
Speaker 1: ways that this is where their schemes really changed for
Speaker 1: the early brother year. Everyone on the panel shows the
Speaker 1: Orange Ohio team. Two of them took the Browns to
Speaker 1: the other eight Cincinnati. The Jacksonville Jaguars are on the
Speaker 1: road again this week, this time in Tennessee. Both teams
Speaker 1: coming off disappointing losses. The Titans l stinging a little
Speaker 1: more though for multiple reasons to play Avery a score
Speaker 1: of the game one in five. That's Tennessee's record in
Speaker 1: two now versus over five hundred teams. Lucky for them,
Speaker 1: I guess this week they're playing a team with more
Speaker 1: losses than wins. Jaguars faced a four win team last
Speaker 1: week and gave up forty points. It looks both teams
Speaker 1: defenses last week were lit not the right way. Both
Speaker 1: offenses Ratchet Jags only managed fourteen points, Tennessee just ten.
Speaker 1: So both basically have to try and fix almost everything
Speaker 1: this week, like we're gonna make mistakes whatever number one
Speaker 1: item on Tennessee's honeydew list mow the lawn. To do that,
Speaker 1: they got to get King Henry to tear up the
Speaker 1: grass with those tree trunks. Their ability to win games
Speaker 1: without Derek doing a lot on the ground came to
Speaker 1: an end last week thirty yards two point seven a run.
Speaker 1: He has had nowhere to go for the last months.
Speaker 1: The King four straight games under three point to a carry,
Speaker 1: three of the four under three per attempt. That's not
Speaker 1: Royalty or the Titans form you left. We talked at
Speaker 1: the open about his kind of mini slum. It's becoming
Speaker 1: real now on paper. He's not gonna have an easy
Speaker 1: time getting back on track against the Jaguars. They're holding
Speaker 1: running backs to a respectable four yards per carry. City's
Speaker 1: going nowhere, as Roy Robertson Harris is the first Degredo
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's top project this week, make sure Trevor Lawrence gets
Speaker 1: some one on one time with Mr Hand at the CASA.
Speaker 1: I like it. I've got a messed up Lawrence was
Speaker 1: back to looking like a dude rolling out of a
Speaker 1: van late for class versus the Lions. Remember that's not
Speaker 1: a team with a great past defense. They held him
Speaker 1: to a hundred and seventy nine yards a rating under
Speaker 1: eighty five, just five point eight yards per attempt. He
Speaker 1: throws it down there incomplete intended for Marvin Jones. Lawrence
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for that snap. Lawrence's play is vital to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's odds of winning. He has six one plus rating
Speaker 1: games Jaguars four and two in those contests, Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: that christ j Krk for the score. Lawrence tends to
Speaker 1: rely on his whiteouts. Christian Kirk comes in off a
Speaker 1: night showing hundred plus yards for him last week. Cat
Speaker 1: by Christian Kirk right open at the za. Jones, who
Speaker 1: starred in week twelve, did not in week thirteen. Seven targets,
Speaker 1: just two catches sixteen yards. The manswer Jones. That's the
Speaker 1: third time he's had a drop. Titans secondary specifically tightened
Speaker 1: secondary versus wide receivers a hundred eight point one rating
Speaker 1: allowed to the w R position seventeen touchdowns too bad.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville doesn't have any key ex Titan pass catchers. They'll
Speaker 1: lay down the welcome home matt for you, like literally
Speaker 1: deep again, rod Is plenty catches he's gonna locke backwards.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville secondary sort of laid down last week to let
Speaker 1: Jared Goff complete thirty one of forty one of his
Speaker 1: past attempts for three hundred forty yards, two touchdowns, a
Speaker 1: rating over one fifteen. Now they take on Ryan Tannehill.
Speaker 1: He didn't throw and he picks in week thirteen a
Speaker 1: touchdown high nineties rating rights it sprinting fra inside. The
Speaker 1: problem is what if Trailing Burke's isn't available. He made
Speaker 1: what I think is one of the most amazing TV
Speaker 1: catches you'll ever see it. Burns took up brutal hit
Speaker 1: in the end zone. Forget the one handed glove grabs.
Speaker 1: He was going dark ball in hand and not only
Speaker 1: didn't drop it, he put his other hand on the
Speaker 1: ball as he was going down. It wasn't just the
Speaker 1: tightening of his muscles from the impact. I say he
Speaker 1: pulled off superhero type stuff. He knew don't drop it.
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see if he can make it
Speaker 1: back for this week's game. Lawrence and Jaguars running back
Speaker 1: Travis Etn combined for eighty six yards on seventeen carries
Speaker 1: last week. Etn has put up a number of big
Speaker 1: outings in two It'll be tough to put one up
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. They held Pladelphia at a two point eight
Speaker 1: to run. They're one of the elites versus ground games
Speaker 1: in Sanders trying to get going nothing doing there. Three
Speaker 1: of the ten voters on our panel believe Jacksonville will
Speaker 1: bounce back with the win this week, the other seven
Speaker 1: siding with the Titans. The Denver Broncos are at home
Speaker 1: after successfully making it through another round of limbo. They're
Speaker 1: proving to be pretty good at that game. They welcome
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs to town, setting up a nice
Speaker 1: showdown between one of the premier secondaries and one of
Speaker 1: the game's best aerial attacks. Webside right there, Messrs goes
Speaker 1: against Hilton runs a great road. That aerial attack left
Speaker 1: a little to be desired in Kansas City has lost
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. Patrick Mahomes with a solid, if underwhelming performance
Speaker 1: eight point one yards per attempt, ninety eight point to
Speaker 1: rating No. I and t s compleat from the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Just one touchdown for the guy who leads the league
Speaker 1: on that front, though only two twenty three yards for
Speaker 1: a guy that was averaging over three almost that's a
Speaker 1: really risky throw. What made it so tough The Bengals
Speaker 1: have been one of the toughest teams to pass on.
Speaker 1: Homes got to see that firsthand. Now he could see
Speaker 1: it again a second time. Monco's coming off a stout
Speaker 1: showing against a mostly Lamar Jackson less Raven squad. Sure
Speaker 1: it was a lot of Tyler Huntley, but the QB
Speaker 1: hasn't mattered much to them this season. They've dominated most
Speaker 1: signal callers. Comes Martin, there goes raw At almost up
Speaker 1: For all the issues Denver has had winning their three
Speaker 1: football games, it's hard to blame the defense. The third
Speaker 1: and passing yards allowed, third and total yards allowed in
Speaker 1: second and points first, stop passes in the air picked
Speaker 1: off by product. This will be a test, though, Kansas
Speaker 1: City leading the league with more than three hundred yards
Speaker 1: a game, and obviously with so many weapons, that's a
Speaker 1: challenge for any defense. This team is the biggest big
Speaker 1: plates even the league, and they do it even against
Speaker 1: all out press. Travis Kelsey is Mahome's favorite and most
Speaker 1: reliable target six in the NFL and receiving yards among
Speaker 1: all positions, three hundred more yards than the second most
Speaker 1: prolific tight end. The average is a first down every
Speaker 1: time he touches the football and is tied for first
Speaker 1: in the league for touchdowns. Mahomes comes in over the
Speaker 1: middle cut twenty yard line in the fifteen Kelsey touched.
Speaker 1: Stopping him is no easy feet and even if you do,
Speaker 1: then there's Marques Valdis, Scantling and Juju smith Schuster. Reliable
Speaker 1: targets who don't find the end zone is often as Kelsey,
Speaker 1: but reliably keep the Chiefs chains moving first and ten
Speaker 1: threats it Smith Schuster another first down by d battle
Speaker 1: for it. Scantling has another catch at this quarter at
Speaker 1: The Broncos pass rush has been solid, if not spectacular
Speaker 1: this year thirty total sacks, though based on how often
Speaker 1: they're trailing opponents, there's not much of a reason for
Speaker 1: posing teams to pass that often. When it comes to
Speaker 1: running the football, Kansas City did tally a four point
Speaker 1: five yard per carry average against the Bengals with McKenny.
Speaker 1: What a whole that was. Zender did not have any
Speaker 1: problems with Baltimore's rushing attack, though just three point seven
Speaker 1: yards per play. There got a first hand out them
Speaker 1: them Sentence came like a torpedo and put him down.
Speaker 1: The Broncos have any hope of coming out on top
Speaker 1: in this game, it'll likely mean that defense, yet again
Speaker 1: has to carry the load. And that means getting Kansas
Speaker 1: City off the field on third downs, an area where
Speaker 1: the Broncos excel, allowing opponents to convert less than thirty
Speaker 1: two percent of thirds, third best in the league. Pers
Speaker 1: On clap bull bessing outside juvenile, not enough for the
Speaker 1: first they get to the forty sevends, the City's conversion
Speaker 1: rate is above fifty percent, putting them second best league.
Speaker 1: Want to cross did they break the playing first? He
Speaker 1: did that, Michael Jordan a top only Broncos fans could
Speaker 1: feel confident a solid defensive out and truly helps their
Speaker 1: a chance of getting a W. They just held a
Speaker 1: team to ten points and lost. Moving Russell Wilson moving
Speaker 1: him around so he's not just the sitting target that time,
Speaker 1: not able to make the complete Russell Wilson had one
Speaker 1: of his best games as a Bronco last week's seventeen
Speaker 1: for twenty two, averaging more than eight and a half
Speaker 1: yards per attempt, no picks, yet no touchdowns either. Three
Speaker 1: Brandon manis Field goals, the fourth attempt short on what
Speaker 1: would have been a walk off winner. It felt very symbolic.
Speaker 1: Put down kickings away shirts, then chief secondary Wilson faces
Speaker 1: didn't handle Joe Burrow very well. That showing fits how
Speaker 1: they fared against most signal callers. Preddling right over. That's
Speaker 1: a touchdown for Tress Evans. They do get after the quarterback,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, leading the way most games thirty six sacks
Speaker 1: so far as a team, tied for fifth best in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's hit and he's spun to the turf
Speaker 1: back at the forty six yard line. Wilson seems to
Speaker 1: end up spe ending a lot of time writing with
Speaker 1: cheech and chong to his face, ends up in the
Speaker 1: grass a lot. Denver is allowed the fourth most sacks
Speaker 1: will suit under pressing room. He goes no shock. Ten
Speaker 1: votes came in, all of them for the Chiefs. The
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals are at home this week for Monday Night
Speaker 1: Football after their week off. They host the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: who still have something to play for, but who need
Speaker 1: their offense to get back on track before it's too late.
Speaker 1: Now you sit right there, you see the cuss words
Speaker 1: come out, but he's also expressing himself, saying throw the
Speaker 1: ball down the fields. See that, Matt Patricia. That was
Speaker 1: Mac expressing himself and he didn't need thirty seven pieces
Speaker 1: of flair to do it. We'll have to see if
Speaker 1: that tirade leads to more downfield throws by Jones. This
Speaker 1: week the perfectly to the Bills. Stevenson could say that
Speaker 1: Mac was bothered that he was getting handcuffed versus the Bills.
Speaker 1: His frustration tied to the play calling. Wasn't a fan
Speaker 1: of the short quick pass strategy. He ended the night
Speaker 1: averaging five point for a throw sitting John Swindon. Jones
Speaker 1: and company were up against a tough Bill secondary, so
Speaker 1: maybe that was the excuse. This week, though Mac facing
Speaker 1: one of the worst past defenses in the league. Arizona
Speaker 1: has allowed a one oh one rate, sixty nine point
Speaker 1: to completion percentage twenty four touchdowns. They've been getting lit
Speaker 1: up through the skies worse than Clark Griswold's Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: After the cat was done, there was a block to
Speaker 1: mirror by Kelly Filodo the touchdown carter one position. They've
Speaker 1: held their own against white outs, holding them under a
Speaker 1: ninety rating, but to running backs a one oh five
Speaker 1: point one rate four touchdowns and Hunter Henry listen up.
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense has given up a hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: point three rating to tight ends. Nine touchdowns allowed, zero
Speaker 1: picks down the fiddle touchdown. How did charts cattle star there?
Speaker 1: Maybe the Cardinals can harass Jones with their blitz. They've
Speaker 1: sent extra heat over thirty of pass attempts, one of
Speaker 1: the highest rates in the game. The Cardinals like to
Speaker 1: bring press, so they bring blitz. They drop back, so
Speaker 1: you don't have that quick or that hot throw when
Speaker 1: the presser comes on you quickly. Jones versus five plus
Speaker 1: pass rushers seventy six point eight rating a touchdown, two
Speaker 1: picks here they come. Jones retreating floating end zone, picked up,
Speaker 1: come free in the end zone. The third down battle
Speaker 1: on this side of things is noteworthy as well. It
Speaker 1: says something has to give battle. Patriots offense one of
Speaker 1: the worst at keeping the sticks moving. That bit them
Speaker 1: in the butt versus Buffalo as well. They were three
Speaker 1: for twelve last week. He comes straight back and then
Speaker 1: he has to move to his right, not quite on
Speaker 1: the same page at a critical time here early to game.
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense on paper the team to get right against.
Speaker 1: They're one of the worst teams at forcing punts, which
Speaker 1: is also why their defense sports one of the highest
Speaker 1: points per game allowed. Figures in the NFL that facts
Speaker 1: the flower in the end zone feet down. Let's Patriots
Speaker 1: defense doesn't have a points problem. Gave up twenty four
Speaker 1: to Buffalo, but that was under their season average, holding
Speaker 1: teams to eighteen a game that's top ten filing a
Speaker 1: lot of traffic, and the late Tyler and company haven't
Speaker 1: been masters of putting points on the board. Murray's two
Speaker 1: has been a letdown. However, Murray does have all three
Speaker 1: of his key whiteouts to attack with. Well, they haven't
Speaker 1: had these two together all year. In the first play,
Speaker 1: they put him stacks on top of each other, DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins and Markey's Brown right behind. Hollywood came back right
Speaker 1: before thereby cost six Carls for forty six yards. He's
Speaker 1: sitting on seventy five receiving yards per game in his
Speaker 1: limited action. Murray and lud New England didn't shut down
Speaker 1: Josh Allen by any means in Week thirteen, but they
Speaker 1: didn't really play him in his past catchers poorly either,
Speaker 1: and they rank high in most key metrics almost Murray
Speaker 1: will also be up against a ballroom blitz type of defense.
Speaker 1: Arizona has given up thirty one sacks Murray hasn't had
Speaker 1: a zero sack game one to cut her. What's on
Speaker 1: the side? Pick got him? They got him. If New
Speaker 1: England sticks descending the house at him, He's fared well
Speaker 1: versus five bus pass rushers in a hundred and four ratings,
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns against one pick. What's his on down the
Speaker 1: d ends got the right of the Hopkins with the
Speaker 1: stunning token tackle tuch Tom Carrolls. Slitzing him also invites
Speaker 1: him to take off averages six runs of game, six
Speaker 1: point three yards per carry, five yards per game touchdown.
Speaker 1: They're traditional runner. James Conner only three point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry for the year, but the last time we
Speaker 1: saw him hit for a hundred and twenty yards got
Speaker 1: a nice rock eighteen yards pick up on the play
Speaker 1: catches l A's run defense versus running backs the worst
Speaker 1: in the NFL defense, Conner faces this week one of
Speaker 1: the best New England holding backs to just three point
Speaker 1: seven a run. Including Cardinals are on the other side
Speaker 1: of the spectrum, giving up four points six a carry
Speaker 1: to RBS Walker break free. Look like he was gonna
Speaker 1: get stopped. Just kept turning those legs, So maybe that
Speaker 1: leads to a big game from Ramandre Stevenson four point
Speaker 1: six a carry for the year, fifty four yards five
Speaker 1: point four per last week. You've got I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got some great players, but the problem is, look how
Speaker 1: high they're going in on. Somebody better grab those big
Speaker 1: legs to bring him down. Seven votes went to Pat's
Speaker 1: Way three on our panel, taking Arizona. It is time
Speaker 1: for the battle for the Governor's Cup. Yeah, that's a thing.
Speaker 1: It's awarded the winner of games between the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: and their in state rival, the Dallas Cowboys. So this
Speaker 1: year's Cup will be fought over by a one win
Speaker 1: team and a team that dropped fifty plus points last week. Touchdown.
Speaker 1: Dallas Texans haven't been close to a second win in weeks.
Speaker 1: Dallas scored thirty three points in the fourth quarter alone
Speaker 1: against the Colts mismatch much high steps to the five
Speaker 1: yard lost. Dallas just pouring it on here and having
Speaker 1: some fun. The Cowboys have had their up and down
Speaker 1: moments so far this year, but it's been far more
Speaker 1: ups than downs. Offensively, they don't dominate games from a
Speaker 1: yardage perspective, but they continually find ways to the end zone.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven points a game tied for third most in
Speaker 1: the league. Cut me back inside to the end zone
Speaker 1: for another Cowboy touchdown, and that's after Dak Prescott missed
Speaker 1: five games. In fact, they lead the league in point differential,
Speaker 1: and boy are they on a roll lately. Point differential
Speaker 1: in their last three games is a whopping twenty six
Speaker 1: point seven higher than the per games scoring average of
Speaker 1: all but four NFL teams. Throws lofty head zone. It
Speaker 1: is caught for the touchound, don't you Sults? So Dallas
Speaker 1: comes in very much in the holiday spirit. Dack didn't
Speaker 1: have to work two hard versus Indy, but he was
Speaker 1: in on the action. Three TV passes too by Michael Gallup.
Speaker 1: Got it Dallas touchdown and if or Ceedee Lamb found
Speaker 1: the paint as well, Ceedee Lamb. Was he down? They say, no,
Speaker 1: Frew's into the end zone for a touchdown. It was
Speaker 1: a barrage and the Dallas ground game did plenty of barraging,
Speaker 1: taling two and twenty yards on the ground. Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: and Zeke back to acting in unison. Jack, We'll get
Speaker 1: it to Pollardy walk too for the touchdown. He's got
Speaker 1: it and he's got it. Talliott touchdown stopping runners. That's
Speaker 1: not really Houston's thing, especially if they are running backs.
Speaker 1: Giving up five point one a run to those chaps.
Speaker 1: Tacklers will push that tile all the way to the
Speaker 1: thirty yard line. Forest full rhyme movie. So how did
Speaker 1: the Texans pull off an upset? Aside from hoping the
Speaker 1: Cowboys get lost somewhere between Frisco and a T and
Speaker 1: T Stadium in Arlington on game day? That pass afflicted
Speaker 1: the Maybe like a forty carry game for Damien Pierce.
Speaker 1: They bleed the clock on every snap, convert third downs
Speaker 1: along the way at a much higher rate than they
Speaker 1: normally have on the ground game. This is Pierce getting
Speaker 1: to the second level. Hey, the Cowboys run defense gives
Speaker 1: up four point five or run to running backs, so
Speaker 1: that's an opening. Good job by Taylor to escape the
Speaker 1: tackle get into the second We don't have to bring
Speaker 1: up They just held Jonathan Taylor under four a run?
Speaker 1: Do we Taylor? And nothing there? That was read right
Speaker 1: away by Jaron Curse. Texans still have good numbers against
Speaker 1: the past, holding QBS to a sub eight five rating,
Speaker 1: so maybe they turn in a top notch defensive performance
Speaker 1: that keeps the score low to the end zone, it's
Speaker 1: picked off Patrie and maybe Santa Claus fills in at quarterback.
Speaker 1: He is real, so anything can happen. Houston's passing game
Speaker 1: could really use an early Christmas present for this game.
Speaker 1: They've played a lot of games with Cole and the
Speaker 1: Stocking at quarterback, so to speak. Towards the end zone
Speaker 1: back corn right, it will be incomplete. Cowboys defense very
Speaker 1: grinchy last week took the ball away five times, one
Speaker 1: of them all the way back to Mount Crumpets. Football
Speaker 1: gifts are covered by Dallas ay Coocker against his old
Speaker 1: team again touchdown. Dallas No One took Houston on the
Speaker 1: ten person panel, everyone taking the Cowboys. The Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: are back in action after their week off off to
Speaker 1: the Northwest this week to take on the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: meaning they have to solve the geno equation throws for
Speaker 1: the ends on it is to go. He came metcalfs.
Speaker 1: I told you last week that man is into those
Speaker 1: Burger king commercials. D K had his way with the
Speaker 1: Rams secondary that game winner part of his best overall
Speaker 1: two outing in a way eight targets, eight catches, a
Speaker 1: d seven yards Smith loading up for Metcalf down the sideline,
Speaker 1: drops it in came Metcalf. Smith also relies on Tye law.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone calls him that, but Tyler
Speaker 1: Lockett also rolls and off the c note Game nine
Speaker 1: catches a d twenty eight yards and a touchdown for
Speaker 1: him in week thirteen, but his lock it down the
Speaker 1: sideline inside the ten cuts back touchdown sat dinging. Carolina's
Speaker 1: defense successfully dependent on Gino locating Waldo. Panthers up held
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to a sub ninety rating. Really low yard per
Speaker 1: attempt and yard per completion figures. Great prove it all
Speaker 1: the way back to the one yard line. Sam Franklin
Speaker 1: beats the blocker makes a play, Smith will watch the tape. J. C.
Speaker 1: Horn will be on someone no reason to test him
Speaker 1: too often. Probably the most underrated corner of launches one
Speaker 1: deep down feel the less picked off at the thirty
Speaker 1: seven yard live Horne. Why not just find the guy
Speaker 1: with the red and white hat worn by C. J.
Speaker 1: Henderson most games. Whoever he's trying to cover. Gino may
Speaker 1: load up on. He's given up a rating of one
Speaker 1: oh nine, almost sixteen points higher than Horns for contact.
Speaker 1: Take it a shot any back stick catch Smith should
Speaker 1: expect eating the kitchen. Panthers have a pressure rate over
Speaker 1: the magic thirty line. Brian Burns at least one sack
Speaker 1: and four straight. He's still the Panther's primary pass rush threat.
Speaker 1: Has ten bats. Brian Burns coming around the edge here
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get that hand in there. Panthers create
Speaker 1: that heat with the art of the blitz. They send
Speaker 1: an extra man over thirty five percent of the time.
Speaker 1: GINO versus five plus a hundred point five rating five
Speaker 1: t ds not bad. A Jino Smith held it just
Speaker 1: long enough to cut that thing lose before taking a hit.
Speaker 1: Panther's offense now sure seems to work best when it's
Speaker 1: a Foreman show. Not eric Don Deonte. Last game he
Speaker 1: played over hundred yards rushing. Panthers one foreman with four
Speaker 1: one hundred plus rush yard games now Carolina three and
Speaker 1: one in those contests to the outside with run and
Speaker 1: into the end zone touch the So the Hawks need
Speaker 1: to be able to play running backs like they did
Speaker 1: in Week thirteen, more so than they have in four
Speaker 1: point six A run allowed to running backs overall last
Speaker 1: week held both backs they faced to three point five
Speaker 1: or lower third one not gonna get there. What a
Speaker 1: push by l Wood's up front. If Seattle can bottle
Speaker 1: forming up forced the action to the passing game that
Speaker 1: forces it to Sam Donald. He helped beat the Broncos
Speaker 1: in his first two game. No. I n T S
Speaker 1: one touchdown A plus one hundred ratings. Darnald d J Moore.
Speaker 1: D J Moore was relevant with Sammy d slinging it
Speaker 1: four catches a hundred and three yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: in eleven Darnald for the end zone. D J Moore
Speaker 1: has it. That's a Panther touchdown, means he gets Seattle
Speaker 1: cornerback Tarek Woolen. He grabbed pick number six last week.
Speaker 1: That's number one in the NFL in trouble and it's intercepted.
Speaker 1: Tarek wool pick number six. Yeah it was against John Wolford,
Speaker 1: but he's still an NFL quarterback. And then Channon Wosu
Speaker 1: sacked that in NFL QB twice. He has nine on
Speaker 1: the year. Now in Trouble wolf down he goes Luo
Speaker 1: Sue and Brian mo They got to the quarterback. There
Speaker 1: are other aspects to this matchup. A vanished Hawks rush
Speaker 1: attack Kenneth Walker had a nice run last week, then
Speaker 1: got her. They've struggled along the ground over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. Tony Jones the running back, and Jones doesn't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. Give this the X factor stamp. Then the
Speaker 1: Panthers against the ground game. They've been prepping for Christmas
Speaker 1: all season long, giving out four point six yards per
Speaker 1: carry overall, even more generous to running backs four point
Speaker 1: eight yards pers off and running. Seattle Blue got nine
Speaker 1: of the votes from our ten person panel. DJ Daniel
Speaker 1: Jeremiah the one that goes bold. He's got the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers in an upset NFL game. Debut is a production
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