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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast has been waiting all day

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Speaker 1: for Sunday night. From the Chris Westling podcast studio, It's

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL. I am Dan Hansis, and I have heroes,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler. It is yes, hard to believe,

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Speaker 1: the tenth season for the Around the NFL Podcast covering

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Speaker 1: our league, and it all starts right here in a

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Speaker 1: lot of ways, with the Week one flagship show. Mark

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Speaker 1: pinch yourself, baby. I have been pinching myself all day,

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Speaker 1: which is was weird. I thought, well, just just saw

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Speaker 1: these sounds of like, oh oh, Mark, I'd like him

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Speaker 1: from the corner. It was a lot. I enjoy it

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Speaker 1: the way I want to. I was studying Mark very

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Speaker 1: closely today Greg, as you know, Uh, this is the

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Speaker 1: first Sunday of football where Mark's not a Browns fan,

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Speaker 1: or so we're being supposedly. So we're going to get

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Speaker 1: into that. We're going to get into the the drama

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Speaker 1: of Week one, a lot of great dishes, a nice

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Speaker 1: start to regular season. But before we get to that,

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Speaker 1: let's get to what I thought was maybe the big

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Speaker 1: statement of Week one. Let us head to the desert,

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Speaker 1: Hardman and Dyer in the back build. At the same

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Speaker 1: time they shuttle touchdown Chancehalls City two drives two touchdowns

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Speaker 1: a play they love to run to Kelsey, they go

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Speaker 1: to Clyde Edwards Hilaire and the Chiefs are on fire

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Speaker 1: in this first quarter of the season. Well said by

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Speaker 1: Mitch Holt is we're gonna all our friends are coming back.

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Speaker 1: Mitch Holt, this is back with us w d A

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Speaker 1: F No Tyreek Hill, no problem for Patrick Mahomes, who

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Speaker 1: threw for three sixty and five touchdowns in the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: over the Cardinals in Arizona, Mark We all felt confident

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Speaker 1: in Andy Reid's ability to move forward without Hill, one

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Speaker 1: of the best playmakers ever, by the way, but it

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Speaker 1: was surprising how immediate and insanely successful they were right

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Speaker 1: out of the shoot. I mean, you can look at

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Speaker 1: this game. I think in two ways. One the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are I think, way better than we would have even expected,

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Speaker 1: and their new offense looks dashing. Or the Cardinals are

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Speaker 1: a hot, gigantic roaming dissolving mess. Um. I am giving

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Speaker 1: first roaming dissolving mess of the season. Yeah, John the box.

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Speaker 1: I just thought Patrick Mahomes. I mean, it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: almost a tiresome exercise to try to describe Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: when he's playing this way. But the offense, which had

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Speaker 1: gone through a transition, it was this whole business like

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Speaker 1: can they possibly mask the loss of Tyreek Hill? They

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Speaker 1: look better to me? And I know they're playing a

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Speaker 1: terrible defense that's compromised at cornerback, but he played a

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Speaker 1: nearly perfect first half. I mean, they could have put

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Speaker 1: up way more points than they did a few little

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Speaker 1: things hadn't happened to them. They lost Harrison Butcker, their

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Speaker 1: he was severely injured. And then he came back too,

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Speaker 1: So they dodged that bullet. But I think if you

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Speaker 1: watched this offense, they're using a lot of two tight

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Speaker 1: looks much more vibrant. I think that's been maybe one

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Speaker 1: I just think this this is the Andy Reid one

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Speaker 1: Greats are entering this season with new supporting casts, with

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Speaker 1: the one cooking up all those grandfather right, He's the

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Speaker 1: one who's doing the Belichick what we think Bow Belichick

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Speaker 1: never heard such a thing. Yeah, And Clyde Edwards Hilaire

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Speaker 1: are we gonna hear it? Okay, but it's fair, it's fair.

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Speaker 1: Everything needs to be kept in that mindset because the preseasons,

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Speaker 1: But he put the ball on the ground. He threw

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Speaker 1: three interceptions, and I think if they get better quarterback

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Speaker 1: playing this game, they do steal it from the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: that in a little bit of practice footage and the

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Speaker 1: preseason that we saw of Barkley that like, wow, that

429
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Speaker 1: lateral explosion, Uh is absolutely back. Another preseason star, Kyle Phillips,

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Speaker 1: who we kept talking up, was the leading receiver the time,

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Speaker 1: by the way, because his numbers looked like he maybe

432
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Speaker 1: stopped finally, you know, indulging in edibles before practicing games.

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Speaker 1: Raylon Burks looked pretty good. I mean, he had a

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Speaker 1: few big catches. He was targeted on another one that

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Speaker 1: that Um didn't come down with, but he looked pretty good.

436
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Speaker 1: Kyle Phillips was pretty good. But Kyle Phillips had a

437
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Speaker 1: almost killer muffed punt which is what set up the

438
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Speaker 1: Amani hook again it but he ran a perfect round minute,

439
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Speaker 1: perfect catch to set up the game winning play and

440
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,359
Speaker 1: that was that was a timing type of throw that

441
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: you have to trust he's gonna be exactly where it was.

442
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,880
Speaker 1: And it gets me to one thing that drives me crazy.

443
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Speaker 1: In the NFL, how badly botched that end of game

444
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Speaker 1: sequence was by Rabo, the head coach of the Year,

445
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Speaker 1: did not play that very well. He they used a

446
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Speaker 1: time out to prevent a delay of game. Ryan Tannehill

447
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 1: had to snap off, but they had already called the

448
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Speaker 1: time out to prevent the delay. I would have rather

449
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Speaker 1: taken five yards at that point than I then I

450
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Speaker 1: wouldn't waste the time out. So use your time out.

451
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Speaker 1: You had two or three plays left there. Instead they

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Speaker 1: back up three or four yards to make big bone.

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Speaker 1: Randy hit it right to Dan's don't I don't know

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Speaker 1: why do this? Don't ever settle for a forty five

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Speaker 1: to forty yards running a quick ur in the moment

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Speaker 1: as well, This is not the guys just stroking it

457
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Speaker 1: in practice. You need to give them more h latitude there.

458
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Speaker 1: And you put your kicker in a bad spot and

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Speaker 1: he failed you. And that's the way it is. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, they also looked like you knew who

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Speaker 1: was gonna miss that kick. Went to look on his face.

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Speaker 1: I just well, look on his face that um, the Titans. Now,

463
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Speaker 1: they do this for a reason, the schedule makers. They

464
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Speaker 1: give you the cookie to start the season at home

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Speaker 1: against the g Men, and then they say, we're giving

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Speaker 1: you the cookie because we're sending you to Buffalo next week.

467
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Speaker 1: And guess what Monday night they have to now play

468
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Speaker 1: the Bills the Titans, and the Giants get the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: So they're potentially set up for a nice start to

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Speaker 1: their season. We're just getting started here. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: break and then we're gonna We're gonna welcome in an

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Speaker 1: old friend, all right, and welcome back. Here we are.

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Speaker 1: I told you a friend was joining us. Mary is

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Speaker 1: a man ready to be married. Now, Nick Shook, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the flagship program. It's another season together in

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Speaker 1: congratulations on your upcoming nuptials. Sir, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: You know, I hate to kill the running podcast bit,

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Speaker 1: but long enough I had to get the job done.

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Speaker 1: You know, how much do you how much credit do

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Speaker 1: you give Dan and and this show question forgetting it done?

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Speaker 1: Because it had been putting pressure on you for a

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Speaker 1: long time. I would give it to get the ball rolling,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, and the other was me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot, right, you know, I know, I'm just

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Speaker 1: kidding you got you guys gave me a little nudge,

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Speaker 1: but it was gonna happen regardless. Uh I was actually

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Speaker 1: waiting to make it real special in l A and

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Speaker 1: then uh I got tired of waiting and just said, well,

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Speaker 1: there's a nice speech on Lake Erie in the sun setting.

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Speaker 1: And I woke up that morning it was just said,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing it today. Would you did you put the

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Speaker 1: ring on a credit card? Or do you have that

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Speaker 1: cash stored away like a wise investor? Funny that you

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Speaker 1: asked that. Interestingly enough, when I first met her, how

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Speaker 1: much I didn't have a sit I didn't have a

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Speaker 1: savings account, and that was my inspiration actually started savings

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Speaker 1: account was because I one day I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think she might be the savings account for that month.

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Speaker 1: All right, congratulations chook. Let's dig in on some a

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Speaker 1: f C North heat, starting with a trip to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: Checking in with the defending American Football Conference champions straight

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Speaker 1: away to kick good snap down kickers on its way

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Speaker 1: that kickers long enough, high en up, and it's good

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Speaker 1: that kicking on the Steelers survive in Cincinnati. Howard happened.

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Speaker 1: It'll take you an hour, me an hour to tell you.

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Speaker 1: Bill He'll grow with it. Called w d V E.

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Speaker 1: That might have been Craig Wolfley yelling in the background.

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Speaker 1: Chris Bobswell kick the fifty three yard field goals time

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Speaker 1: expirering overtime, and the Steelers overcome t J. Watts injury

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Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter to beat the Bengals. It

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Speaker 1: was sloppy from both sides, but at the end shook

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's win. Here felt like a near miracle. You had

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Speaker 1: the Bengals failing to convert a p A T at

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Speaker 1: the end of regulation that would have won the game.

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Speaker 1: Then they have a short field goal blocked at think

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Speaker 1: the snapper was involved in both miss q's here, and

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Speaker 1: that opened the door for Trabinsky and then Boswell to

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Speaker 1: get it done. And we'll get to we'll get to

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Speaker 1: t J. Watt in a second, but first let's focus

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Speaker 1: on what was a gutty win for Pittsburgh. Gutty win

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Speaker 1: powered by their defense. I mean we we we I

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Speaker 1: think Greg would attest to this to the Steelers defense

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Speaker 1: has a reputation for being good, but it wasn't as

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Speaker 1: good as maybe we thought last year. They reversed that narrative.

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Speaker 1: That narrative today. I mean, they came out like Gangbusters.

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Speaker 1: Make a Fitzpatrick picks off, Joe Burrows first past the

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Speaker 1: season for a pick six. T J. Watt jumps up

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Speaker 1: and gets a pick, there's a forced fumble. They're all

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Speaker 1: over him all day. That revamped offensive line struggled, specifically

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Speaker 1: a left guard, and the Steelers took advantage of that.

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Speaker 1: They put them on short fields. Travisky didn't have to

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Speaker 1: do too much offensively because two of their fourth scoring

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Speaker 1: drives started in Cincinnati territory. It wasn't until they actually

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Speaker 1: kicked the game winner that they went close to the

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Speaker 1: length of the field to get in position for that,

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Speaker 1: and that wasn't even close really to the length of

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Speaker 1: the field that they start on their own twenties. So

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Speaker 1: all the credit in the world goes to their defense,

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Speaker 1: their offense to us and steps to take forward. But man,

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Speaker 1: this is a group that made some editions in the

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Speaker 1: off season, and all of those editions really paid off.

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Speaker 1: Cam Sutton had a nice up and down performance where

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Speaker 1: he made some big plays, had some also some big errors,

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Speaker 1: but redeemed himself. If you're a Steelers fan, you gotta

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Speaker 1: feel excited, not because of what you saw necessarily from

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Speaker 1: Mr Bisky, but the fact that that defense is looks

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Speaker 1: like it's back to where you expect it to be.

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Speaker 1: And if it can be like this all year, then

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be in every game you play. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: is it going to be like that without t J

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Speaker 1: Watt He he left for the pectorial injury. The report

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Speaker 1: is that, uh, you know they're they're feeling fearing it's

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Speaker 1: a torn pectorial injury. He was almost seen mouthing I

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Speaker 1: tore my peck, so that that's what they think and

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Speaker 1: that will usually keep you out for much of the season. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And their thin there, And yes, I hear what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching it. But it's pretty rare

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Speaker 1: that you win a game or a game needs to

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Speaker 1: go to overtime. When you win the turnover battle five zero,

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Speaker 1: it's like a little bit of a double edged sword

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Speaker 1: there where you you lost the first down battle thirty

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Speaker 1: two to thirteen. Uh. And it's great that they ended

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Speaker 1: up getting the win there, but you would almost expect

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Speaker 1: that them to win by more in that kind of situation. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they didn't sustain the offense that you wanted. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: Travisky hit some passes that you were like, Okay, look

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Speaker 1: he looks pretty decent. Pat Freremouth down the sideline. Find

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Speaker 1: a couple of different guys down the sideline. But if

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Speaker 1: you look at it statistically, very average twenty one thirty

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Speaker 1: eight of passer rating below eighty. And they lost the

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Speaker 1: time of possession battle in a big way that like

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Speaker 1: you mentioned with the first down difference, they didn't sustain

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Speaker 1: drives for most of the day. Naja Harris was his

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Speaker 1: rushing yards overexpected were in the negative, so they didn't

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Speaker 1: block well enough for him to really He left with

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Speaker 1: the foot injury and he had a Letts let Frank

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Speaker 1: injury and can't choose. So that's concerning. Keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on that. It's the same foot. Yeah, the Bengals at

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Speaker 1: the ball for forty three minutes and forty three seconds.

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Speaker 1: Uh in this game. It did go through overtime to

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Speaker 1: the very end. But yeah, that would be my concern.

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking forward to watching this game because yes,

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Speaker 1: it's a gutty win, maybe a miracle win, but two

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Speaker 1: one yards of total offense and maybe not Johiris down

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Speaker 1: now and now you take out T. J. Watt for

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Speaker 1: maybe the season, maybe into deep into the second half,

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00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: and you you feel like Mark that maybe the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: even with the win today, there's reason to be concerned. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think there's Their offensive line is a major concern.

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Speaker 1: They're lucky that they have Mr Rabinsky. What the assets

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Speaker 1: that you bring his mobility is escapability. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to work themselves out of jams

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Speaker 1: week after week. This this kind of was with the

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Speaker 1: weirdest game. I was watching this from wire to wire

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Speaker 1: and there's one of the weirdest performances. I have to

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Speaker 1: ask you this a thought, Nick, because you look at

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow and I the Bengals all offseason. I feel

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Speaker 1: like they were being disrespected a little bit as and

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Speaker 1: thinking people they might tail off a little bit, but

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was the reason that you had faith they

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Speaker 1: get back to where they were. Uh. Did you come

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Speaker 1: out of this with genuine concern for Joe Burrow? Is

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Speaker 1: it just an off day? It felt more like an

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Speaker 1: off day, some rust, some lack of reps. I mean

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Speaker 1: he did miss miss a good portion of training camp.

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Speaker 1: With that appendix, removal, so it felt like he was

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Speaker 1: kind of shaking off the rust and he made some

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Speaker 1: bad decisions. He was also pressured into some bad decisions.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, the left guard was a huge problem

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Speaker 1: for me watching their offensive line play because that's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be the one weakness that they improved in the

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Speaker 1: off season and it just didn't stand up today. It

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Speaker 1: didn't hold up against the test of the Steelers front.

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Speaker 1: And you give Pittsburgh some credit, but you know, he

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Speaker 1: still made plays. He still got them in situations to

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Speaker 1: be able to score and lead them back. But I

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Speaker 1: mean they they're in the red zone on multiple occasions

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Speaker 1: and struggling to get three yards, struggling to get into

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Speaker 1: the end zone when they're on the doorstep of the

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Speaker 1: goal line. They need fourth down to be able to

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Speaker 1: score the game tying touchdown. They leave points on the

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Speaker 1: board just before halftime because again they're right on the

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Speaker 1: doorstep of the end zone and they don't convert. So

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Speaker 1: their strength with Burrow is down field, but when the

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Speaker 1: field gets shortened, I am a little concerned about their

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Speaker 1: ability to move the football. They're they're not gonna face

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Speaker 1: his defense like this every week. But so I mean

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Speaker 1: to answer your question in kind of a rambling way.

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Speaker 1: It was more rust than anything. I still have confidence,

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Speaker 1: and then he still made the plays. I think he

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00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: just gotta get his feet underneath them. The uh. This

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Speaker 1: was a really fun game to watch. By the end

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00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: of it, it was almost exhausting because those late games

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00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: start and you're like, all right, guys, let's wrap this up.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a little sloppy. My favorite call call,

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Speaker 1: and I think Greg and I both reacted in real

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00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: time to it was Iron Eagle. Boswell won the game

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00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: with a long kick, but he nearly won it earlier

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Speaker 1: and over time with a kick at the last moment

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00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: knuckled and drilled the upright at like eighty seven miles

641
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: per hour. Let's listen in too, Iron Eagle with the

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00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: call from boss Well, Oh god, what is happening here?

643
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: Grave joking, we might wanna trim what is happening here

644
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: for our own show going forward? All right, chook. So

645
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: that's the situation with the Steelers, that's the situation of

646
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: the Bengals. And by the way, go to Dallas to

647
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: get the Cowboys next week at oh and one. Now

648
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: I want to come down there for and you know,

649
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: the I know one last thing on that because it's

650
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: so important. They had the game one on the late

651
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase touchdown as time expired, uh, and they get

652
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: the p A t blocked by who else makea Fitzpatrick.

653
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: And then there was an issue on the snap as

654
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: well on the short field goal kick. What was the

655
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: background there with the snapper and what happened with the

656
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: Bengals the back room was that was not their starting

657
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: long snapper. That was a replacement who was thrown in there?

658
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,719
Speaker 1: And obviously they had that feels like the underrated like

659
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: plot line in football, whether it's a long snapper or

660
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: the kicker, there's nobody behind him you could trust. So

661
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: there there's nothing worse though, like for for a Bengal

662
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: season that was just riding as high as possible until

663
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: the very end last year. To lose to the Steelers

664
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: at home, missing these two types of kicks, that's as

665
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: bad as as bad as it gets. All right, and

666
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: let's now move to listen. We don't know where Mark's

667
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: journey is as a fan, but I know Shookie. He's

668
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: born in Bread, he's Ohio. And the Browns had a

669
00:32:54,160 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: game today against the Carolina Panthers, and it ended well

670
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: up for work. We did snee on the ground at

671
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: killing over the ball back, he's into it, rind end

672
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: On ranting to kick it up and it is hit.

673
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: It is good, Gork, but that seconds the ball game

674
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: great called by Jim Donovan w k r K. Here's

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00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: the quote from Mark Adam Sessler immediately to my left,

676
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: not my middle name, Oh god, Cleveland, just one. What

677
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: does it mean? We're gonna get into that later? What

678
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: was the inflection all about? What was in his professional

679
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: in his head? Rookie Cad York kicked to go ahead

680
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: fifty eight yard field goal of eight seconds to play.

681
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: Cream Hunt scored two times and the Brown said, Baker,

682
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have anybody up vengeance denied win over

683
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: the Panthers for the Browns in Charlotte Chookie. The Browns

684
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: had a messy off off season, to say the least,

685
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: but a dramatic win in the season opener is how

686
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: they wanted to turn the page. Yeah, and part of

687
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: the off season transition included a replacement of color commentator

688
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: in the booth. The person you here screaming and almost

689
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: voice cracking is Nathan's Girv, the senior broadcaster for the

690
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: team commentary debut, shout out to him and understanding that

691
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: he couldn't control his emotions and then usiastic individual. Yeah,

692
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: he certainly is. Uh so, I mean this this is

693
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: a game that result wise surprised me. I had picked

694
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: the Panthers and and got all the heat from the

695
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: Browns fans this week understandably so um and mainly because

696
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: I didn't think the Browns can actually put up this

697
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: many points. Not that is a lot of points, but

698
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: if you watch their offense in this game, they can't

699
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: move the ball very consistently unless it's on the ground.

700
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: They ran the crap out of the football on the ground,

701
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: had over two hundred rushing yards as a team I

702
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: think the finish of two seventeen on the ground. Obviously

703
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb carrying the way with a hundred forty one carries,

704
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: but Kareem Hunt was really the X factor offensively. He

705
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: had a touchdown reception lined up as a full back

706
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: in the eye formation on the goal line, which is

707
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: a dead giveaway fullback flat. Hello, they're gonna throw at

708
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: the Hunt in the flat look out for that. The

709
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 1: Panthers did not but he also ripped that regime. Yeah exactly,

710
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. Not not prepared in the situation, but the

711
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: personnel but that and then Donovan People's Jones made a

712
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: handful of really clutched catches throughout the game. That's the

713
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: guy that the Browns are really gonna need to step

714
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: up offensively. So the story of the game is controlled

715
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: the clock, controlled possession on the ground, and did enough

716
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: defensively to help yourself feel position wise getting situations where

717
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: you can maybe put some points on the board. They

718
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: left a lot of points out there on the field, however,

719
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: which is concerning and goes back to why I picked

720
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 1: them to lose this game. Cookie the and as much

721
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: as we can deride Caroline's coaching staff, the idea that

722
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: anyone thinks that Jacoby were set with that surrounding cast

723
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 1: of playmakers is gonna put up big points. Nobody thinks

724
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: that so was sharp was Caroline is stack in the box?

725
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 1: We have eight nine facing uh these two running backs,

726
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: because that feels like how everyone should be playing the

727
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: Browns and they shouldn't be able to move the at all,

728
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: not in a per down basis. There were times where

729
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: I only saw six guys in the box, and you

730
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,439
Speaker 1: gotta credit the Browns offensive line. The one thing they've

731
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 1: been able to do under Kevin Stefanski is block well

732
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: on outside runs. They were able to do that very

733
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: effectively today and give Nick Chuck just enough room to

734
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: hit that one cut and burst up the field and

735
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: rip off some nice runs. I think I saw a

736
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: graphic late in the game where it was average down

737
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: in distance on third down, the Panthers were something like

738
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,760
Speaker 1: ten plus and the Browns are at six point six.

739
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: And that all goes back to the fact that you

740
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: can stay on schedule in first and second down to

741
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: ruin the football. Even late when they had to get

742
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: in position to kick that game winning field goal, they

743
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: were still going to the run because they knew it

744
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: was their best way to move the football. So they're

745
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: built to be able to win games like this if

746
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: they can get defensive stops. They played a really good

747
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: half defensively until the final possession for the Panthers. They

748
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: had some blown coverages and then the avalanche came. Because

749
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: again they blew some coverages. It looked like Baker Mayfield

750
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: was going to lead a comeback win, but ultimately the

751
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: Browns got something that they never get in this situation,

752
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,479
Speaker 1: which is a clutch kick. Usually they're on the losing

753
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: end of this situation. I'm sitting there watching it bridgets here.

754
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: You know, now, my fiance, no chance he makes this chance,

755
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: he makes this that he's he's not making this field goal.

756
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: They're losing this game, and he drilled it. So the

757
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: turn of events for the brown When the last time

758
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: they won an opener with I mean I mentioned this

759
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: four hundred times on the broadcast, was the first year

760
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: I moved to l A, which is two thousand four.

761
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: That is an absurd um anti streak right there. So

762
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: this was big for the Browns. It sure was Shookie.

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00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: Any other thoughts about Mayfield. Did you think that he

764
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: played well in this game? I know it started off

765
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: extremely slowly, but he really came on and almost stole it.

766
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: He was puture in the first half. A lot of

767
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: the familiar things for Baker, passes, knockdown to the line

768
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, really ugly interception, throwne offense looking out of sync.

769
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: But when guys were open, he did find them and

770
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: he really hit his stride. In the second half, especially

771
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, it looked like a textbook Mayfield

772
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: comeback game, but this time he did not end up

773
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: on the winning end. This was a tough spot. I

774
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: I wanted both of these teams to lose, and not

775
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: that I was a huge Baker fan before the last

776
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, but he completely lost me. So I

777
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: was rooting against him, and then of course rooting against

778
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: the Browns sort of semi permanently. So it was like

779
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: there was no way to win this game. What was

780
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: up with the Christian McCaffrey usage here? Only fourteen touches?

781
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: Is this go back to them now just being so

782
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: paranoid about him getting hurt that they're really trying to

783
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: ease him out of the offense a little bit. Well,

784
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: they tried to get him the ball early, and the

785
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: Browns did a really good job of bottling him up.

786
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: It wasn't until the second half that he really made

787
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: a difference. He had a nice run on third and

788
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: seven where he broke four tackles to move the chains

789
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: on one of their key scoring drives. But yeah, just

790
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: not a big enough of a focal part of the offense.

791
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: And and the big reason was they just had no

792
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: rhythm offensively, They had no opportunity to kind of continuously

793
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: feed him the football because they were constantly behind schedule

794
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: third and long and the Browns knew that the screens

795
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: were coming and it just didn't give a lot of opportunities. Now,

796
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: he did score touchdown going airborne, which I was like, oh, man,

797
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: don't get hurt. Just because of how he's gotten hurt

798
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: in the past, I would anticipate that they work him

799
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: in more because that's their best chance. No matter who

800
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: they haven't receiver and tight end, he's still their best

801
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: chance ago win games. So they have to be feeding

802
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: him more than they did on Sunday. All right, So

803
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: now let's talk, um, Greg, I'll start with you in

804
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: this just me, Um, where did you? Where did you

805
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: see Cessler? I was sessy in the newsroom to you,

806
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: and we've known him for a decade and no one

807
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: loves the Browns more than Mark Sessler and shook you.

808
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: He shook you know, and in the distant rear view,

809
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Nick, like this was this was the Mark

810
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: that we knew was in love. And I thought some

811
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: of the comments he was making maybe spoke to that

812
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: was still inside him, which was my curiosity entering Sunday's act, right,

813
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: I mean it really You can even go back to

814
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: Wednesday or so on our text thread when he found

815
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 1: out that this was Shooks game and he was like,

816
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: what that Shooks gape? That that right, there was the

817
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: early that was an early tale. But it's like you

818
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: can even you can watch it, you can still watch it.

819
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: Well that's kind of the point, right, And then you

820
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: you mentioned that quote that he said, oh god, the

821
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: Browns one, and I'll let you talk about the tone

822
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: of that quote. But one thing I've noticed by the way,

823
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: it PM Eastern when apparently the quarterback for Cleveland did

824
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: something Jacobe were set making a play, right, right, I

825
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: do remember it was a rare sight in. But if

826
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: you kind of just make that a different game, is

827
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: he's saying Kirk Cousins making a play in that situation.

828
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't hear that. Well. So one thing

829
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: I've noticed over the years with Mark though, is post

830
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: Browns game. So I'm gonna take it till the game's over.

831
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: We'll get to you. Mark, just hang on a second

832
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 1: post Browns game following a victory. Um, he'll be really

833
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: excited for the early parts of the next game. He'll

834
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: be super into it. He'll be like really fired up

835
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: about what's happening to Kyler Murray and Patrick Mahomes in

836
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: certain things. If they win, if they lose. Sometimes it's

837
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: a it's a little bit more of a quieter Mark,

838
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And he had a special

839
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: sort of zeal, even a yeah exactly. Everything had a

840
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: little more light to it. So just well, this is

841
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: your impression. Do you have any take on this? And

842
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: think you've been watching from a distance with Mark? I

843
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: think it's Greg summed up best in a text. He

844
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: asked me what my games were for this week, and

845
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: of course I listed the Browns and UH and the Panthers,

846
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: and he texted me back, you will make it easier

847
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: for Mark to give up the Browns, And I said,

848
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: I will bear his cross. That's nice of you all.

849
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: Do you have anything to add about Did you feel anything,

850
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: you know, flicker inside you during that stirring come back

851
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 1: there at the end. I'm trying to explain this to

852
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: you probably twice three times a week. I'm comfortable with

853
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: my decision. And I actually was enjoying football more in

854
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:43,240
Speaker 1: general today because I wasn't emotionally attached to one team

855
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: and like I again, that did not really I know,

856
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: I know what we're attempting to do here, Um Greg,

857
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: I think that I was. I was probably commenting on

858
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: eight or nine games today. Now we have to read

859
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: into that. He's gonna try to camouflage it in as

860
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: we're going to do conversations like this. But the thing

861
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 1: that gets me more than anything is him repeating insistently,

862
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: I feel nothing. It's no different than any other game.

863
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: So how could that even be possible? How could you

864
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: feel nothing? Even if you're somehow landing in the middle.

865
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: You still have all this history you have Baker Mayfield

866
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: was the guy you have de Sean Watson and that

867
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: idea which turned you off so much. You have all

868
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: your years of the Browns, and yet that lands on

869
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: I feel nothing. That doesn't all add up. Even if

870
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: it's confusing, and you surely feel something, that's your psychology

871
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,919
Speaker 1: and this is not I don't want you to see.

872
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: This is ganging up on you. Mark. It's really It's

873
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: an important in terms of the podcast and a character

874
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: study of of someone that we work with very closely

875
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of this, and the investigation

876
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: will continue as the season continue one thing. For for

877
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: Nick and for other people. I am like, I have

878
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: nothing against people that are sticking with the Browns, that

879
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: are longtime, lifelong Browns fans. I'm happy for them when

880
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: they win. It's just I have removed myself from the

881
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: situation than a bridge fortely excited about what's occurring. I'll

882
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: say this as somebody who had many huddle up conversations

883
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: with Cessler in the newsroom back in the day after

884
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: the brown suffered yet another excruciating loss. I find it

885
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 1: hard to believe that he will be able to separate

886
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 1: so easily than to the course of this season. We'll

887
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: leave it at that. Nick Shook from Cleveland checking in.

888
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week, buddy. Thanks guys. All right,

889
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: let's ook you with some quirkers there big time. Let's

890
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: take a break and we'll be right back. All right,

891
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: We say goodbye to Shook and let us head to

892
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 1: the NFC North. Wild stuff going on here. Well that's

893
00:43:40,360 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: strong maybe so right, just starting great call there by

894
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: Paul Allen kf A. And you know we're old enough

895
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: to have seen Randy Moss at his apex with the Vikings,

896
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: and I didn't think I've ever see anybody that could

897
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: approach Mosson probably won't, but the fact that the Vikings

898
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: have another absolute monster stud in his early twenties with

899
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, that's nice. That's that's riches. Justin Jefferson went

900
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: off for four and two touchdowns, leading the Vikings with

901
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins of course, to a seven win over the

902
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: Packers and Kevin O'Connell's debut, and this one is a

903
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: tough way greg for the Packers to begin their defense

904
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: at the NFC North title. No. Looking so hapless on

905
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball was shocking to me. And

906
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: maybe actually I shouldn't be as shocked because as Justin Jefferson,

907
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, like is a big time player, Dalvin

908
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: Cook is a big time player. Daniel Hunter and now

909
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith who had great, great games that both of

910
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: them are big time players. And there's this idea that

911
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 1: the Vikings are just blah, they're boring, they're the same

912
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: team every year and maybe that's where they'll land this year.

913
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: But they do have awesome players at the heart of it.

914
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: If they don't get in their own way. And most

915
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: of the second half was spent with Hansas, who had

916
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: a lot of correct predictions, mid game predictions that went

917
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: well for him today. But what didn't go well with

918
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: him saying, Oh, the Vikings are gonna viking here, and

919
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: this one's gonna keep getting closer, keep getting closer. And

920
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: you know what, it didn't because their defense stood up,

921
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,479
Speaker 1: their offense held the ball enough in the second half,

922
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 1: even if they really only got a couple of field

923
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: goals there. And most importantly, as you mentioned justin Jefferson

924
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: is just outrageous. You can you mentioned he's not gonna

925
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: be another Moss. Well, Randy Moss is the only player

926
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: in NFL history to have as many hundred and fifty

927
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: yard games this young, this stage of his Jeffers, Yeah,

928
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: I mean he it was a fascination to watch him.

929
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: And I think the flip side of this was that

930
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: this was not last year's Packers on offense or the

931
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: year before or the year before, because the Davante Adams

932
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: free Packers, unlike the Chiefs missing Tyreek Hill, did not

933
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: have an answer. And I thought that Aaron Rodgers, you

934
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: know that in the first half especially, they had one

935
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: drive out of seven that went from more than thirteen yards.

936
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: They looked confused. To me, there were big mistakes I

937
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: and we we talked about this too as a group

938
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: that Christian Watson dropped what would have been a home

939
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: run touchdown that would have been that was literally the

940
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: first pass of the season, would have been a seventy

941
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: five yards. They held it up in a way I

942
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: think to send him. I don't know if they dialed

943
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: up to send a message, but they dialed it up

944
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: knowing like, Okay, here's the first play of the season.

945
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: Can we get Watson for seventy five perfect throw by

946
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: Rodgers and yeah, it goes right through his hand. They

947
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: had a J. Dillon stuffed on the goal line in

948
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: a in a possession that would have changed this game,

949
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: because I know what you're saying, Dan, Because the Viking

950
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: were hot and then they cooled down significantly for such

951
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: a long stretch of time that you could see the

952
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: Packers with a wide open door to get back into

953
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: the game. But Aaron Rodgers looked as frustrated as I've

954
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: seen him in a long time, and he looked a

955
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: little banged up at stretches. For me too, he was

956
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,280
Speaker 1: getting hit hard, and this to me was a very

957
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: harbinger of doom for the Packers, although I can think

958
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: remember how they started last year too. I'll use it again.

959
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: It's just week one, so we don't want to get

960
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: too ahead of ourselves, but you're right, it's not a

961
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: great start for them. And I'll tell exactly the moment

962
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: where I was like, Okay, I know the vikings. We

963
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: all know the vikings. We know that the Packers have done,

964
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: especially in the regular season under La Flora, with Rogers

965
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: winning back to back m v ps. They got it,

966
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: they were down twenty nothing. Uh in the second quarter,

967
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: they get they get the touchdown, they finally get on

968
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: the board seven place, seventy five yards. Then they get

969
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: a punt, so now they have the ball back in

970
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: the third quarter down twenty seven, and I'm thinking myself,

971
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna go down the field. They're gonna make it.

972
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: And then that Minnesota offense, which under the prior regime

973
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousin is there, can go to sleep. They

974
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: could be on fire for stretches, and then they can

975
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,959
Speaker 1: go into deep funks when they go into a three

976
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: and out binge. And I thought it was gonna be

977
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 1: a situation where Rogers has the ball down six late

978
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: in the game. And yet credit to Minnesota's defense because

979
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: the fact that Minnesota, despite all this great fireworks from Jefferson,

980
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: they only finished with twenty three points in this game,

981
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 1: but they made its stand up because the Vikings defense

982
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,319
Speaker 1: did not let Aaron Rodgers get things rolling. And you

983
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: definitely felt it. Greg. I mean, I know Davante Adams

984
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: did well with Derrick car statistically today, but you felt

985
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: there were moments in the game where it's like, oh,

986
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: this is where Davante would give him a big pick

987
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: me up. And it's gonna take time, you think, for

988
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: the Packers to find that A J. Dillon was their

989
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 1: leading receiver. And then beyond that, it was nice to

990
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,479
Speaker 1: see Robert touny In back in the mix. He looks good.

991
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 1: Beyond that, they're two leading white Outs where Dubs and

992
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: and Watson two rookies, and so I think it will

993
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: come eventually. Uh you know they Sammy Watkins was in

994
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: this game and didn't make a big differ. Alan Lazard

995
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: hopefully returns. They were missing a lot of players, so

996
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: David Baktier and Elton Jenkins Elkton Jenkins, like it's a

997
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: very hard name to You're just not use both both

998
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: players were cautiously expected to play in this game, and

999
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: so you went and then they neither one of them did.

1000
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: And they also lost Runyon Uh their starting guard during

1001
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 1: the game. So suddenly you're down three offensive lineman. So

1002
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: if you're trying to make this receiver salad kind of work, uh,

1003
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: you at least need to have that really strong offensive line.

1004
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: The combination of the two made it look like their

1005
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: last game that they played, which was against the forty nine,

1006
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: I mean, which was against the forty niners in the playoffs.

1007
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: If you're not protecting them and you don't have those

1008
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: guys out wide, you're just gonna be a total mess.

1009
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: And the Vikings were extremely physical, like Zadarius Smith, DJ

1010
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: want Um Uh Hunter. They all look fresh. And I

1011
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: give their coaching staff um some credit here because it's

1012
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff ed. Donna tells the defensive coordinator

1013
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: he had a play at the goal line that really

1014
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: mixed up Rodgers. I think Greg Olsen, who did a

1015
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: great job in his first game officially as the number

1016
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: one guy, like really explained it and he confused Aaron Rodgers.

1017
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: And they have a new coaching staff on both sides.

1018
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: It was a very common composed game where I think

1019
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins played with a lot of clarity. So if

1020
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: we want to give the coach to some credit, we

1021
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: give it to them. Maybe it's just the players. Either way,

1022
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: it was like a very a very strong opening salvo.

1023
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: If you're if you're O'Connell, I mean you're you're having

1024
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: to deal with the Packers in week one, and like

1025
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: it kind of tells you everything that this journey could

1026
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: be for them. And so I love the win. I

1027
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: mean I get concerned for Aaron Rodgers. There was a

1028
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: play where three Vikings defenders essentially just descended on him

1029
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 1: and destroyed him and it resulted in a fumble. And

1030
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,280
Speaker 1: it's like we Aaron Rodgers has not built like Josh Allen. I.

1031
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: You always just worry about the Aaron Rodgers collar RNE situation.

1032
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: Things like that. He looked uncomfortable and it's just like

1033
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: he also is a kind of guy that if you're

1034
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: gonna get him agitated and frustrated early on, you're gonna

1035
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: hear about it. And I cannot wait to see what

1036
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: his comments are. The Packers get the Bears at home

1037
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football next week. The Vikings get the Eagles

1038
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football next week. That's gonna be a

1039
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,760
Speaker 1: great early school Who miss their lock? Only one person

1040
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: missed their lock this week? Who, well, couldn't not the

1041
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:23,280
Speaker 1: Titans fan hopefully not. Yeah, you know to read digging

1042
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: his own grave, I mean was flying high. He introduced

1043
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: Jessica for the first time really meaningfully into social situation. Yes,

1044
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: we met her briefly at the holiday party, but that

1045
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: was kind of at the point in the relationship where

1046
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: Graver was, you know, we weren't trying to keep it

1047
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 1: on the download a little bit um and it was

1048
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 1: slightly suspicious. That was wonderful and he left just feeling

1049
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: I think great about everything. He's part of the team

1050
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: and is it's great one. At the holiday party, they

1051
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: were in the shadows, right, and I felt like when

1052
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: we got together on the eve of the season, it

1053
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: was stepping into the light and it was a wonderful time.

1054
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: So think about that. They about your relationship and all

1055
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: the good things you have in you. That's what I

1056
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: would say. This is what I would if I were

1057
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: to sing a little song for go ahead. His team lost,

1058
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: He lost his luck. When it rains, it pours but

1059
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: he still has Jessica. You know, we don't get that

1060
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: song with lost right, No, that's not this is my

1061
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: I care about his well being. Like he's saying that

1062
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: song in the back to Uh. He was really like

1063
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: full throadd it was beautiful. Um. And speaking of the

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Speaker 1: vikingsst they have the Eagles on Monday night, but they

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Speaker 1: also have a game in London against the Saints. Saints

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Speaker 1: and we'll be there and we're gonna be doing our

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Speaker 1: live show from London the Thursday, uh, September twenty night.

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Speaker 1: I want to say, let's let's make sure we get

1069
00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: that right. And we tickets are on sale on Ticketmaster

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00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: right and we are we have made some adjustments we

1071
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: have well it's like the Packers offense, they're gonna be

1072
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: need to making some adjustments now. We're not. We're not

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Speaker 1: at that level. We I really want to say thank

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00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: you to all the listeners who have bought tickets. We've

1075
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: had an amazing response, uh and they're going quickly. But

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00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: we also heard from a lot of listeners that thought

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00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: the price point was like a little high. And I

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Speaker 1: get it. We're not like super involved in in all

1079
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: that decision. And I'm just saying we're learning as we go,

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00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: and our relationship with the listeners is paramount to us,

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00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: and so we're learning as we go as we're trying

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Speaker 1: out these new things. And we tickets are free. We know,

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Speaker 1: we did work it out with with Ticketmaster with Live

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00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: Nation that we have twenty five pound tickets now will

1085
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: be available on Ticketmaster as of Monday morning. So we're

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00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: not looking to books anyone out financial like we were.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're just we're just like, okay, tell us

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Speaker 1: what to do, We're gonna do it. And so so

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00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: because we want as many people as possible to come

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Speaker 1: see it, and we heard from a lot of you

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00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: and we want to listen to uh the seats in

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00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: the balcony or we we've opened up some seats in

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Speaker 1: the balcony that will be twenty five pounds, so check

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Speaker 1: them out and Mark will personally meet and greet with

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Speaker 1: each of you in the balcony. All right, let us now,

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Speaker 1: well that's not technically true, but we'll see. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's put that up there, because then it acts. Then

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Speaker 1: we're gonna encounter more ticketmaster dot Com search around the

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Speaker 1: NFL London. Here we go. Let's move on to the

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00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: highest scoring game of Week one and went down at

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Speaker 1: ford Field. Get the grid out hurts thanks to slip.

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00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: He's pumping. He is going out of this foot the

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00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: fourth snline by A J. Brown. He works at four

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00:54:53,320 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 1: across the five fourth class a great Oh, no grave digger. Oh.

1105
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: He brings out the bongos. That's a pro. Give me

1106
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: the Bunages, give me the Bunagles. He's still got Jessica.

1107
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 1: He's still got Jessica. Even though A J. Brown went

1108
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: off today in in a Eagles uniform, that is Meryl

1109
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: Reese w I p with the call. Jalen Hurts three

1110
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: thirty three total yards in a touchdown. A J. Brown

1111
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: a career high, tying a hundred fifty five yards in

1112
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Speaker 1: his debut with the Eggles, and Philly holds on five

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00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: over the Lions at Ford Field. The Eagles scored twenty

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00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: four points in the second quarter. They were up seventeen

1115
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: and the fourth and then Jared Goff in Detroit. They

1116
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: put some lipstick on that piggy greggy. But the Eagles

1117
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: are gonna be a problem for defenses, aren't they. A. J.

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00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: Brown is gonna be a problem. I'm digging the grave

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Speaker 1: of that trade. It was a bad idea. You could

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Speaker 1: have found the money to keep the Okay, Okay, I

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00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: agree with Greg. Should have found the money. They could

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00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: have figured it out. Of course, we don't need to

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Speaker 1: know Justin doesn't go home and then suddenly Jessica is

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Speaker 1: annoyed with him about something off the cuff to he

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Speaker 1: does not need it today. It's a totally fair point.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, A J. Brown was the difference

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Speaker 1: in this game. I believe if A J. Brown was

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Speaker 1: not on this team, if the Eagles had not made

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00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: this trade, they actually lose this game because while some

1130
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: uh parts of this matchup were similar to a year ago,

1131
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: ultimately Philadelphia ran the ball when they needed to. It

1132
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: was not just lipstick on a pig. I mean at

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00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: the very end of the game that Peoples needed to

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Speaker 1: get multiple first downs to assault this game away, and

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00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: they were able to buy running and they took a

1136
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,720
Speaker 1: very gutsy fourth in one call where Jalen Hurts barely

1137
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: got it um or else they would have turned the

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Speaker 1: ball back over the Lions, who might have just won

1139
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: this game the way their offense was going. But A J.

1140
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: Brown's ability to make contested catch is in tight traffic

1141
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,320
Speaker 1: and then make a couple of plays after the catch.

1142
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,839
Speaker 1: After he made those tough catches made Jalen Hurts look

1143
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: better because I think those were the same throws he

1144
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: threw last year and they just went incomplete or they

1145
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,319
Speaker 1: were like a seven yard game. It's the guy that

1146
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: the Eagles have been looking for for years to be

1147
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: that type of guy that makes the quarterback better, and

1148
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Speaker 1: that's what they have in play here right now. What

1149
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: so DeVante Smith, though I'm looking at his line zero yards,

1150
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 1: zero four targets, Brown definitely had most of the attention.

1151
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: I think Smith had a drop in there. Um, I

1152
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't be concerned about that, just because their offense was

1153
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: extremely efficient. This was not a game with a ton

1154
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Speaker 1: of possessions. Considering how many points were scored, I believe

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Speaker 1: including the last drive, which was very effective, they won

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00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: the game on it. They only had ten drives and

1157
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: you put up thirty eight points. That that wasn't a

1158
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: problem Jalen Hurts. His legs also, which I still think

1159
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: are weirdly overlooked, were the other difference too, because early

1160
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: in the game they did not really play well on offense.

1161
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: He was getting confused by blitzes, and yet the Lions

1162
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: were blitzing and getting to Jalen Hurts and he was

1163
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: making them pay with his legs. He ends up with

1164
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: ninety yards on the ground. Very few of those were

1165
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: called runs. He had a couple effective called runs, but

1166
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: most of them were scrambles where it's like, this drive's

1167
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: gonna end unless Jalen Hurts goes and picks up fourteen

1168
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: yards here, let's go pick up for it. I feel

1169
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: very close to Dan Campbell after covering the Hard Knocks

1170
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: season with Colleen Wolfe Um. I do want to hear

1171
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: from UH coach Grit himself after the loss. Let's see

1172
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 1: how Campbell was doing. This is game one and we

1173
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:38,919
Speaker 1: got a long season here, and I said, the good

1174
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: news is that we didn't play very well and we

1175
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: lost by three. That's what you can take away from

1176
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: this now if we just take this whole approach where

1177
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: every week it's like, well we play, you know, we

1178
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: lost by three, Well we lost by three, we lost

1179
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: by three, Then what are we doing? So we gotta

1180
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: clean this up and UH, we gotta be better. We

1181
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: gotta be a lot better in all areas. He's right,

1182
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: because they have now graduated from it being good enough

1183
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: to be competitive. That was last year and that's why

1184
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: everybody liked them, because they they were very easy to

1185
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: root for. But I'm not saying you needed to win

1186
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: this game. But this can't be the story of the

1187
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: Lions again or else it's not really working. I mean,

1188
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,919
Speaker 1: if we look at week one and say, the outcomes

1189
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: are far more variable and bizarre than you're gonna get

1190
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: over the course of other weeks. Typically, they lost to

1191
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: Philadelphia forty four to six a year ago, and that

1192
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: was in the middle of the season, and that by

1193
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: that point the Eagles had figured out what they wanted

1194
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: to be a run heavy jugg or not. But I'd

1195
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: look at this game for the Lions and say, number one,

1196
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,959
Speaker 1: they started off with a great drive out of the gate,

1197
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: and they looked like they kind of did in the

1198
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: preseason to me. I know, they gave up a ton

1199
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Speaker 1: of points, but I think it's a tough team on

1200
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: both sides of the line. They didn't They only got

1201
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: one sack on Hurts today. I mean, he's really well

1202
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: protected by that line in general. But this is not

1203
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: a disaster for Detroit. On any looks great, yes, but

1204
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: I think you're playing in one of the more dangerous

1205
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: offenses around now. I mean, the Lions are one of

1206
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: the worst defenses in the league last year. I think

1207
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: their secondary has potential to be one of the worst

1208
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: in the league. I think at moments they played fairly well,

1209
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: and but Campbell was like, we got to improve in

1210
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:09,160
Speaker 1: all phases. Uh no, your defense is lousy. You need

1211
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: to improve your defense. And I know Goff struggled late

1212
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: in the second quarter. He had like thirteen yards and

1213
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: so they started slow offensively, but they still put up

1214
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: thirty five and Swift had the best game of his career.

1215
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: They were missing two offensive linemen at guard and they

1216
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 1: ran really well. So I don't know, it just seems

1217
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: like a defensive problem to me. Seventeen rushes for Hurts

1218
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: is that it seems a little high. You okay with

1219
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: that the ball that much, it was a lot high.

1220
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: It was not most of them were not called. So

1221
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,919
Speaker 1: you mentioned like there was only one sack. They got

1222
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: free rushers and they blitzed and confused him quite a bit,

1223
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: and then he would just beat the free rushers and that.

1224
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: But it also I think speaks to how teams will

1225
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: attack the Eagles because he They didn't really have a

1226
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: lot of answers passing wise early for that, but his

1227
01:00:55,680 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: his legs were the answer. Let us oh oh oh yes, Markie,

1228
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: you and I you and I both. That's a good

1229
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 1: way to start. We should pick the same team every week.

1230
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound because I can I tell you what.

1231
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: Let's not fight it. Can I tell you why? Because

1232
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: it was agitating Greg. No that it was. It was

1233
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 1: wanted into a psychological jar and we twisted him into

1234
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: like an emotional pretzel and that was fun. It distressed him.

1235
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 1: If you could upset Greg physically or emotionally, then it's like, alright,

1236
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: that that's what I try to do. That's not I

1237
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, Greg, but just knowing it

1238
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: happens occasionally, it's like, oh Greg's human, he feels things

1239
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: and I could can I can connect and physically I'm

1240
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: struggling on this Sunday. It added a nice element to

1241
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: you know, we spend nine ten hours together on Sundays.

1242
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 1: It added in a nice element to um. Yes, Gregg's

1243
01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: gutting through um some he's not feeling great, so we

1244
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: appreciate you not feeling well. And then I asked, is

1245
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: it possible that you're going to be giving us what

1246
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: you have And I'm sitting two feet away from Greg

1247
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: and I didn't get a clear answer on that. Yeah,

1248
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: then we're gonna be locking up something together. We're gonna

1249
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:16,440
Speaker 1: be headlocking Rosenthump from the infirmary. Let's take a brain.

1250
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Let's roll on kenth Play of

1251
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: the drive for the Bears. I formation under center fields,

1252
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: takes and fakes, quit time, lovest quick to the anode, touchdown,

1253
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: touchdown Theirs. He feathered it in their beautif plays, crapped

1254
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: it in the end zone, Jeff Jonny act with a

1255
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: called W B B M. I like that move that

1256
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: econymious st Brown where you catch the touchdown or you

1257
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 1: crossed into the end zone then you fire the ball

1258
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,919
Speaker 1: into the wall. It's always better when it's the era

1259
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: in someone else's building and it's their logo and you

1260
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: hit their logo with the ball. But in this case,

1261
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: he fired into the Chicago Bears logo. And that's fine

1262
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: because everything's fine around the Bears right now because the

1263
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: Eberflus Revolution is upon us. Justin fields through two second

1264
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: half touchdowns, including that go ahead score to equan st Brown,

1265
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson set up TV with an interception, and yes,

1266
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: the Bears beat the Niners nineteen ten on a rainy

1267
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: day in Chicago. A Mark sela, weather is the ultimate equalizer,

1268
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: Am I right? Well, you're dead right, and I'm not

1269
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 1: surprised that you are. But this the rain in this game. Uh,

1270
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,920
Speaker 1: at times it became manageable, but there were moments of

1271
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: intense downpour. I mean, it's certainly it's almost hard to

1272
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: evaluate the quarterback playing. This was gonna be my my

1273
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: follow up question, which is how much do you put

1274
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 1: in this game because of the other how much did

1275
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 1: that play a role or should be given be given?

1276
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 1: Chicago a lot of credit for what happened. I did

1277
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: give them credit just because the Niners, if anything, you

1278
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 1: believe in their defense entirely. And when Justin Fields, who

1279
01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 1: had nineteen yards in the first half and really was

1280
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 1: not a fact or he found holes in the Niner

1281
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: secondary to make some big plays. He had a fifty

1282
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: one yard touchdown strike he had that one do a

1283
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: nick with me as St. Brown, I mean where he

1284
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: had two guys open on that. I thought he saw

1285
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:13,439
Speaker 1: the field field well there, so he made the most

1286
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: of it. Uh. I. Both teams ran the ball thirty

1287
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: seven times, but I think the Niners probably came into

1288
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,120
Speaker 1: the game wanting to do that to begin with. They

1289
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: Trey Lance was not going to the air very early

1290
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:26,640
Speaker 1: on because of the weather. But Trey Lance to me,

1291
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a real week to week journey

1292
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 1: with Trey Lance because he will always do things in

1293
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: a game that make you believe. But there were times

1294
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: when he looked really lost to me, and he generated

1295
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: three points in the second half. They couldn't get out

1296
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: of their own way. It just it's quarterback. Looks like

1297
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:44,480
Speaker 1: it will be a liability at times, but again because

1298
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 1: of the because of the weather, because of the weather,

1299
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: he's been all over the map all summer, and I

1300
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: think it's just it's a lot like they really broke

1301
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: down the fact that, like this Niner's offense, while it's

1302
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 1: quarterback friendly and your it's well coached, the terminology, the

1303
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 1: whole mental process of taking on what what they're asking

1304
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 1: a quarterback to do takes time. It's not easy. And

1305
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 1: this is someone that has not played a lot of

1306
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: football in the past couple of years, and he's got

1307
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 1: the gifts. I mean, I thought there were a couple

1308
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: of times when Trey Lance uh stood up in the

1309
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 1: pocket and made a throw when he could have in

1310
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 1: a different place. If he were a little bit less

1311
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: lower on its maturity at this point on the field,

1312
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: he would have taken off to scramble like I mean,

1313
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 1: he tried to make plays, but they just they this

1314
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: was not their day. And I really thought that some

1315
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:33,919
Speaker 1: of defensive breakdowns led to tray Lander led to Justin

1316
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: Fields saving it for the Bears. This is a big win.

1317
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a Super Bowl type team the Niners,

1318
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: and people were looking at the Bears as a bottom

1319
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 1: five operations. They're clearly rebuilding. I don't think anyone expected

1320
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: this to happen. It's a it's a nice moment for Chicago,

1321
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 1: right They only had two d and four total yards.

1322
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 1: They were outgained by a hundred and twenty seven yards.

1323
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: So it's not a traditional win. But who Caress and

1324
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: the forty Niners in terms of bad whether it's like that,

1325
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 1: that's how they got to the NFC Championship as they

1326
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 1: found a way to win a bad weather game, losing

1327
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell so early in the game. Uh, it did

1328
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: not sound like a back Jeff Wilson came in. But

1329
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't know, to be honest, Like

1330
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 1: it wasn't helpful at all, But isn't it every season

1331
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 1: that are losing running backs? Like but I feel like

1332
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell was so easily the number one most talented

1333
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 1: guy on that team. They could have used George that most.

1334
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: It's not there. And and one thing to watch really

1335
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, and and I will

1336
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 1: when I watch this game, is that they have four

1337
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 1: new offensive line starters, none of them with pedigree, almost

1338
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: none of them with any playing experience, almost none of them,

1339
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: you know, being drafted in the first five rounds. On

1340
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: most teams, that's all anyone would talk about. But because

1341
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: it's the forty niners and they will get mcglinchie back,

1342
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 1: who's hurt, people are just like, well, Shanahan always figures

1343
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: it out. But it's it's something to watch. It is

1344
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 1: and you know, yards and penalties just to sloppy starts

1345
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: of this season. I'm gonna watch this game. I want

1346
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on. I already Bears fans

1347
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 1: getting on me and the mentions because I had the

1348
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 1: Bears at thirty two in the power rankings, like, well,

1349
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:16,919
Speaker 1: we beat your team at number three. Well, yeah, that's

1350
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: that's that's fair. It's a nice win for them. But

1351
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: I do want to see both of these teams on

1352
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: a dry track and see where things are a week

1353
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: from now. But taking nothing away from Chicago, that's a

1354
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: big win. Uh. And again a city that's starving for

1355
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: anything of interest to beat the Niners, who came within

1356
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: a fourth quarter of meltdown of going to the Super

1357
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 1: Bowl last year. Very nice, very nice start, all right,

1358
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 1: let us keep moving on. Let's head to Miami, Miamis.

1359
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: Let's come into got him footballs out touchdown Miami. Ingram

1360
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 1: picked it up on the bounce. Yes that Melvin Ingram,

1361
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 1: no gloves on, doesn't wear the gloves I always like that,

1362
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: no tape. Driss player Jimmy Cephalo w q A M

1363
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: with the call, Safety Brandon Jones screamed off the corner,

1364
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 1: walloped mac Jones. The ensuing fumble scooped up and running

1365
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:17,040
Speaker 1: for a score by Ingram. The signature played for the

1366
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 1: Dolphins in a twenty seven win over the Patriots and

1367
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's debut as head coach of the Dolphins uh

1368
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: to a tongue of voloa through for to seventy and

1369
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:31,719
Speaker 1: a touchdown flash some chemistry Tyreek Hill, who was involved

1370
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 1: early and often. Um, But this was about the defense

1371
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 1: and they were the star in this game. And the

1372
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 1: Patriots managed a single scoring drive on a day that

1373
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 1: ended with mac Jones dipping into an X ray room

1374
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 1: to get his back looked at. They canceled his subsequent

1375
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: um press availability because of that. So as we record this,

1376
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 1: we don't know if that's a serious issue or what.

1377
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 1: But here we are, Gregg, this is where we're at

1378
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 1: right now. I thought that the Patriots the score tells

1379
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 1: you know, you score once and all these drives are

1380
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: not a good day for the offense. The fact that

1381
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:06,120
Speaker 1: Mac Jones could be hurt, that could be a disaster

1382
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 1: for this offense. But I think the second commater night

1383
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:13,640
Speaker 1: night if um, it was the second quarter where they

1384
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 1: let the game go away. The second quarter. When you

1385
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 1: watch this game, you'll say, oh, that's the Patriots offense

1386
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: that we heard about all summer. The rest of the game,

1387
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: they they found they moved the ball at times on

1388
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: the ground, especially, so it wasn't an out and out disaster.

1389
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 1: Um that you might expect, but at the same time,

1390
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:33,439
Speaker 1: results are results, and this is a relatively easy win

1391
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 1: from Miami, despite the fact that it looks like it

1392
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 1: was somewhat close, right, I mean, trying to take some

1393
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 1: sort of moral victory, and I've seen You're not the

1394
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 1: only one positioning it this way. I could. I've seen

1395
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: it sort in some Patriots circles like well, actually, the

1396
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: running game looked pretty professional for most of it. They

1397
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: just had to go away from it and they moved

1398
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:54,560
Speaker 1: the ball. It's like if you're trying to spin positives

1399
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: out of a seven point performance where you lose by

1400
01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: thirteen against a Dolphins team, that's you know, it's not

1401
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 1: seventy two Dolphins here. Uh. That just shows you where

1402
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 1: the bar is right now, and it's at a different

1403
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: level than than I think I can remember in the

1404
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:11,719
Speaker 1: last twenty years. It's concerning they did lose the turnover

1405
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: battle three to nothing that there's no way they're going

1406
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:16,320
Speaker 1: to be able to survive that way that's been there.

1407
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 1: Their most consistent aspect to the Bill Belichick regime is

1408
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 1: turnover margin. Even with Mac Jones last year, it's one

1409
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:25,240
Speaker 1: of the ways they ended up being in the top

1410
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 1: ten in scoring as they had all these short fields

1411
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: and that's that's the way they're gonna have to win

1412
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: this year. And it was the opposite today. The Athletic

1413
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: wrote it this way. The scheme was bad, the receivers

1414
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 1: couldn't get open, the line struggled, a bad day all

1415
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 1: around for the offense. And I guess what I'm concerned

1416
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 1: about a little bit is because I think that we

1417
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:45,920
Speaker 1: were contemplating a reality where like the regular season begins, uh,

1418
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:50,639
Speaker 1: switches flipped in all this summertime, issues, problems, concerns over

1419
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: the offense go away, and it's it seems to me

1420
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:54,680
Speaker 1: to be I don't know. I mean, I've been more

1421
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 1: optimistic others. I didn't even think that would happen. I

1422
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 1: think this is gonna take time. But I don't think

1423
01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:02,600
Speaker 1: it's cold. It's it's not. You can't say it's a

1424
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 1: good start. I want to know, like, who are the

1425
01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 1: playmakers on this team. Kendrick Born led the team in

1426
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: receiving last year, didn't even play until the fourth quarter.

1427
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,680
Speaker 1: He's been in the doghouse. I don't know what can

1428
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: they afford to stuff like And this is maybe he's

1429
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: getting to her like a more broad um insight on

1430
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:20,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots or an attempt at insight that you could

1431
01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 1: us you can get away with that stuff when Tom

1432
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:24,760
Speaker 1: Brady was the quarterback, if born as a guy that

1433
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 1: can make plays, get him on the field, figure out

1434
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: whatever it is, get it worked out, or get him

1435
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: out of the building and find someone else that can

1436
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 1: make those plays. So I wasn't overly uh one over

1437
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:38,600
Speaker 1: by TWA and the offense, yet I know it was

1438
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: an again a nice win. You get, you beat New

1439
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:43,560
Speaker 1: England again, which is becoming a regular thing for the

1440
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: Dolphins lately. But I still need to see more from

1441
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:49,520
Speaker 1: their offense. Will be interesting how they do against Baltimore.

1442
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: In Baltimore. The Ravens played very well against the Jets

1443
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:55,679
Speaker 1: on defense today. But the Patriots, we're gonna see Greggy,

1444
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 1: especially if mac Jones is injured. That's a major problem. Yeah,

1445
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 1: they're early is not easy as well. I do think

1446
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 1: that you can look at certain situations with two uh

1447
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:07,920
Speaker 1: and in this game, you know, first getting the ball

1448
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: that much to Tyreek Hill and letting him make some

1449
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 1: plays after the catch early, but that forty two yard

1450
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,600
Speaker 1: touchdown to Jalen Waddle with eighteen seconds left in the

1451
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: first half. You know, probably the key playing the game

1452
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:21,720
Speaker 1: along with that fumble return for the touchdown that's on

1453
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 1: a fourth and seven in a in an awkward part

1454
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 1: of the field, that with that much time left, there's

1455
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,720
Speaker 1: twenty four seconds left to start to play that if

1456
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: if it's an incompletion there, you know, the Patriots have

1457
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 1: twenty seconds to to go get a field goal. But

1458
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:40,160
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, um, I think showing some stones, showing some

1459
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 1: confidence in his young quarterback. For yeah, we can call

1460
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 1: them stones. I've we've learned what we can talk about.

1461
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: You can talk stones that you know, that's showing something

1462
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:53,560
Speaker 1: that's a that's not a short fourth down to go for,

1463
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: and for him to reward that confidence with a nice

1464
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 1: strike that that Jalen Waddle does the work. That's great.

1465
01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:02,640
Speaker 1: Trying who's on the call for CBS in this game.

1466
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:04,640
Speaker 1: Maybe he was Dan Fouts, Fouts is still there, right,

1467
01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: Fouts gone, I can't remember. Whoever it was was saying, oh,

1468
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: they should not be doing this, they should not be

1469
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 1: going for this fourth down near midfield for the reasons

1470
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:16,400
Speaker 1: Greg said. And then Jalen Wattle catches ball and stride

1471
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:18,719
Speaker 1: and he's gone. So that was kind of a turning

1472
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 1: point in this game, I do. Tyree Hill did speak

1473
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 1: with Adam Arceletta along with Greg Gumbels. He completely it

1474
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 1: was Archiletta who's doubting it, and then Archieletta said, you

1475
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:34,720
Speaker 1: know what that take I take that back anyway, Tyree Hill.

1476
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 1: He was wearing his uh, the viper what are they called,

1477
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 1: pit vipers? Whatever those classes are, it's not gonna age

1478
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:43,759
Speaker 1: well and keeps asking us unanswerable questions. The pit pit vipers?

1479
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Graver? You're young. I got

1480
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 1: thumbs up from people. He's wearing the pit vipers and

1481
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 1: the pit vipers. I just want to let everybody know

1482
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 1: that lived through the early nineties as a teen when

1483
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: stuff like this was popular. It's gonna look really stupid

1484
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,639
Speaker 1: and like ten twelve years I see what I see

1485
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: what you're looking at now. Yeah, that's a hideous choice

1486
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: for He was watching his pit vipers in the locker

1487
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:08,639
Speaker 1: room and talking up Mike McDaniels, who has stones for days.

1488
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,920
Speaker 1: Oh man, I said this outside man like, hey McDaniels,

1489
01:14:14,160 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna need a wheelbarrow man for the can because

1490
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:19,160
Speaker 1: you got a lot of you know what, I'm saying

1491
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: so Gussie called by him we had two um ways

1492
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 1: to describe men's testicles that were bleeped out there, but

1493
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:29,639
Speaker 1: just no, that's what he was referring to. The man's

1494
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: got gumption. He also called Hi McDaniels. I would maybe

1495
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: at some point, because you know, I think a lot

1496
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 1: of writers and others did the same out of the gate.

1497
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: But your your head coach's last name is McDaniel. I'm

1498
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: just gonna let you know. I didn't even realize I

1499
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 1: was stealing Tyreek Hill's bit there, you know, I mean,

1500
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 1: I took his point. I I said that he had

1501
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,360
Speaker 1: I thought you were I thought you were just building tonight.

1502
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: It was a reference to it because we are like

1503
01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:57,679
Speaker 1: um some people that we've worked out over the years.

1504
01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:00,160
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of one in particular who no longer is

1505
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:01,679
Speaker 1: at our company, but we used to do a show

1506
01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:03,599
Speaker 1: with him. If you would say something in a pre

1507
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:06,439
Speaker 1: show meeting, he would always steal whatever your point is

1508
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 1: and then use it on the show. That was kind

1509
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 1: of what I did to Tyreek Hill right there. Well,

1510
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: I think he'll get over it. And by the way,

1511
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,760
Speaker 1: there was a at hard Rock Stadium. There was a

1512
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 1: stadium fire. Someone left on their their grill and then

1513
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: it blew up a bunch of cars. So you can

1514
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 1: connect that to the Patriots and their offense however you want.

1515
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 1: But it was an implosion of some kind for New England.

1516
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: And let's see how they get back on track. If

1517
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: they can, let's move on to another a f C

1518
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 1: East team that once again is trying to get back

1519
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 1: on track. The Jets hosted the Ravens at the Meadow Ends.

1520
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 1: Lamar winding up going deep for Batman. He's got him touchdown.

1521
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: Third touchdown today for Lamar Jackson and that was a

1522
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 1: strike from deep fifty five yards. How long? How long

1523
01:15:57,320 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 1: must we sing this song? Hellong? Hellong? Jerry Sandusky with

1524
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:09,599
Speaker 1: the call w B A L. Lamar Jackson threw three

1525
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:13,320
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, including two to Devonne do Rene. I mean,

1526
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:24,320
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? I touchdowns or whatever? The

1527
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:29,920
Speaker 1: Ravens roll past the Jets on a rainy Sunday, very

1528
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 1: very talented group. Jackson went seventeen of thirty two thirteen

1529
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 1: yards touched under Seoan Bateman through one pick uh. This

1530
01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:44,120
Speaker 1: came after ESPN reported that Jackson had turned down a

1531
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 1: five year extension worth more than two fifty million dollars.

1532
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:49,639
Speaker 1: So he's pulling, he's doing the iron judge move. He's

1533
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:51,760
Speaker 1: betting on himself, and he says, I'm going to be

1534
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 1: the highest paid player in the world after I finished

1535
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,840
Speaker 1: this season. So starting off well for Jackson didn't run

1536
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: much in this game. Uh. In fact, Ravens didn't do

1537
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,599
Speaker 1: much in this game on offense. Initially, the Jets defense

1538
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:08,000
Speaker 1: came out flying around, but the Ravens defense was better

1539
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,519
Speaker 1: because and part of that is Jets don't have Lamar Jackson.

1540
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: The Jets have Joe Flacco and Joe Flacco in front

1541
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 1: of a line that can't really block well right now,

1542
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 1: with George Fans struggling specifically after being moving back to

1543
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:25,800
Speaker 1: left tackle, after being at right tackle, after being at

1544
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:28,599
Speaker 1: left tackle, snip snap, snip snap, and then they lost

1545
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 1: their right tackle right they had a rookie. Uh, they

1546
01:17:31,560 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 1: put in a rookie. I might have missed that. I

1547
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:35,719
Speaker 1: don't know if that if he went out with Anyway,

1548
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: the point is that Jets could not move the ball.

1549
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:41,080
Speaker 1: The Ravens made enough plays and then in the third

1550
01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:43,040
Speaker 1: quarter hit on a couple of big ones and this

1551
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: game was over. So very disappointing if your Jets fan,

1552
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 1: if you're a Ravens fan, it's a big turn the

1553
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 1: page after last year's frustrations and you move on with

1554
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:54,760
Speaker 1: the w in your back pocket you were expecting to get.

1555
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: Are you concerned, I know that you said the defense

1556
01:17:58,080 --> 01:17:59,759
Speaker 1: came out playing well for the Jets. Are you concerned

1557
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,680
Speaker 1: about the coaching overall, the offensive coaching or is it

1558
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: just the Joe Flacco can't do it anymore? Yeah? I don't.

1559
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,880
Speaker 1: I think with Jets fans we're just sick of it.

1560
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: It's just like, come on now, I don't want to

1561
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: hear any excuses. I think Robert Salo and Joe Douglas

1562
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: and and you could say, yeah, sure, Joe Flacco was

1563
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 1: in there, so whatever. But at the same time, we've

1564
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 1: heard some not so great things about Zack Wilson's development

1565
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, and he's coming off a bad rookie year.

1566
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:26,640
Speaker 1: So the idea, now we're gonna switch. You're gonna ask

1567
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:28,800
Speaker 1: Jets fans now to switch from Oh, let's get behind

1568
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. Maybe we'll keep the job too. Oh man,

1569
01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 1: if we could just get Zack Wilson back, we need

1570
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 1: to Flacco more than any people outside the Flacco family. Absolutely,

1571
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 1: so when we're expected, when we're being told by Robert

1572
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: Salo what a great player Joe Flacco still is. And

1573
01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:47,560
Speaker 1: then this is the performance by the offense. Yeah, it's disappointing.

1574
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 1: And it was a sloppy performance overall by the Jets,

1575
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:54,479
Speaker 1: who dropped, drop touchdown passes, fumbled the ball, just didn't

1576
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: play well. And uh, you know, on the raven side,

1577
01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 1: just a great job by their defense, which obviously had

1578
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: a nice assignment in Week one, but they just took

1579
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:06,680
Speaker 1: care of business and they were able on offense to

1580
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 1: get by. We didn't have Ronnie Stanley in this game,

1581
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: the left tackle, but then Juwan James, who the poor

1582
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: guy just can't stay healthy. He goes out again and

1583
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 1: gets carded. So they finished the game with their third

1584
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 1: string left tackle. But they're still moving the ball and

1585
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: scoring points when they need to in this game. So

1586
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:24,599
Speaker 1: they're just two franchises in different places. And if you're

1587
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 1: a Jets fan, it is not too soon to panic

1588
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:29,760
Speaker 1: because this is not supposed to be the way this

1589
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 1: game played out. My dad, Keith Hanss, who was supposed

1590
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 1: to give us a dispatch today, he went to the

1591
01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 1: meadow Lands with some family friends, did the whole tailgating

1592
01:19:39,439 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 1: and went there and got rained on and watched a

1593
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: team no show, and it's just like enough, let's go,

1594
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's start doing something and giving the fans

1595
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: something to at least root for, because again the calendar changes,

1596
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:55,680
Speaker 1: nothing seems to change for the Jets. Good job by

1597
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,799
Speaker 1: oh it sure is. I think I think the Ravens,

1598
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,719
Speaker 1: who are still short some key players. J K. Dobbins

1599
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: was out, you know, we know Gus Edwards is out,

1600
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:09,400
Speaker 1: so Kenyan Drake was there, you know, leading rusher and

1601
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 1: uh well, if you want to call it that, running games.

1602
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: So that's a little that's a little bit of a concern.

1603
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 1: But I think they have to feel good. Granted it's

1604
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: against the Jets, but they have their secondary back and

1605
01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:24,720
Speaker 1: they're like a back to front type of defense. Make

1606
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: the other quarterback hold the ball so that the pressure

1607
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: can get there. And I went into this game, you know,

1608
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: really thinking if there is a weakness on this entire team,

1609
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:34,760
Speaker 1: it's their pass thrush. They did get eleven quarterback hits.

1610
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: I know it's against Joe Flacco throwing the ball fifty

1611
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: nine times. Fifty nine times Joe Flacco through a fifty

1612
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:42,759
Speaker 1: nine times. I know it was. You know that's because

1613
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 1: of the guess the opener against Peyton Manning, like he

1614
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:49,880
Speaker 1: looked really old. And we know that Joe, even in

1615
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:51,600
Speaker 1: the best of times, was never a mobile guy. But

1616
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 1: when you really have these statues behind an offensive line,

1617
01:20:55,280 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: it does remind you, especially in the modern game as

1618
01:20:57,880 --> 01:20:59,880
Speaker 1: fast as it is now, when you have a guy

1619
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,839
Speaker 1: can't make any yardage up, it can evade the pressure

1620
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:07,519
Speaker 1: and turn negatives into um positive plays and scramble and

1621
01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 1: get yards. It just puts you in an even tougher

1622
01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:13,479
Speaker 1: box in terms of your offense. So very poor start.

1623
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: No excuses for Sale or Douglas or anyone else. That's

1624
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 1: enough of this, Like, you need to figure out a

1625
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:22,880
Speaker 1: way to be competitive in your building to start a season.

1626
01:21:22,920 --> 01:21:25,680
Speaker 1: You've got seventy five thousand Jets fans who put up

1627
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: with BS for a decade straight, and that's how you

1628
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:32,400
Speaker 1: started this season. They sat in the rain and waited

1629
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 1: for three and a half hours for something to cheer for,

1630
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:38,480
Speaker 1: and you gave them nothing. This is no longer acceptable.

1631
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 1: It has been acceptable for half a decade. Now we're

1632
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 1: not gonna take it Jets fans are going to boo

1633
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: boo lustily and everyone heads will roll. If this happens again,

1634
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:50,839
Speaker 1: we shall see You're going to You're going to Cleveland

1635
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:54,720
Speaker 1: next week. We'll see how that goes. I don't my

1636
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:57,320
Speaker 1: guard's up about this season. After a performance like that,

1637
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: should we take a break? I think yes? Oh man, unbelievable.

1638
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and uh continue on. All right,

1639
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:12,720
Speaker 1: we're back. Let's get to a great rivalry game. New

1640
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:15,840
Speaker 1: Orleans and Atlanta. They hate each other. Let's see what

1641
01:22:15,920 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: happened in Georgia. Twenty three seconds loft Will Lots, kick

1642
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:26,200
Speaker 1: is down and the kick is good. Well, Lots puts

1643
01:22:26,280 --> 01:22:32,720
Speaker 1: the Saints off top. What's nineteen seconds to playing? Mike

1644
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: Costs with the call w W L Lots. They missed

1645
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 1: Lots last year. Now they got him back. He had

1646
01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 1: a core injury. He kicked a fifty one yard field

1647
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: goal nineteen seconds to play. After Jameis Winston lead a

1648
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:51,560
Speaker 1: pair of late touchdown drives and the SATs steel to

1649
01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: twenty six victory away from the Falcons and Dennis Allen's

1650
01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:59,880
Speaker 1: coaching debut mark. The Saints struggled to get into a

1651
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:03,559
Speaker 1: groove offensively, but they did just in time. This game

1652
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:07,920
Speaker 1: was insane. I think, you know, with twelve minutes to

1653
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 1: go in the final quarter, the Saints were down twenty

1654
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 1: six to ten, and I imagine myself coming on this

1655
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 1: show to talk with you about what I had witnessed,

1656
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:21,479
Speaker 1: and it was all Falcons who put the heat on

1657
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:24,560
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston early on. I had to pivot, but I

1658
01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:27,640
Speaker 1: want to talk about them to start, because you know,

1659
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 1: that's another team that I think people just said bottom

1660
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:32,599
Speaker 1: three material, no skill position players, all sorts of issues

1661
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: on defense. Dean P's came out in this the defensive

1662
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 1: coordinator going after Winston, going after that line, and they

1663
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:43,200
Speaker 1: were winning the battle. And then at some point in

1664
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: that fourth quarter, Jamis Winston turned magical and uh, you know,

1665
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: we we know he can do this kind of thing.

1666
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 1: But he over the course of these two touchdown drives,

1667
01:23:52,640 --> 01:23:55,120
Speaker 1: went eleven for twelve for a hundred and fifty seven

1668
01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:58,719
Speaker 1: hundred fifty seven yards and hitting money two point conversion

1669
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 1: as well. I think that they're receiving Corpsy got will

1670
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:04,599
Speaker 1: Let's back. But Jarvis Lander had a hundred and fourteen

1671
01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: yards and a couple of big plays in this big

1672
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 1: signing for very little for very little. Chris Lavy had

1673
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: got going, Michael Thomas the reson they were not connecting

1674
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 1: early on, and Jamis winstonets and throws that were a

1675
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:19,920
Speaker 1: little bit behind. They got hot towards the end and

1676
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:21,680
Speaker 1: you could just see the chemistry. And it kind of

1677
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:24,360
Speaker 1: for me with New Orleans because I I they're a

1678
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:27,680
Speaker 1: weird team there are They told us all offseason that

1679
01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:29,680
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill was going to be a tight end. We

1680
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 1: just should ever believed him. But he was taking direct

1681
01:24:32,280 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 1: snaps out of the backfield and making all sorts of

1682
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 1: big plays too, And so the Saints, not surprisingly are

1683
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 1: a fun watch, but I was real concerned about him

1684
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,600
Speaker 1: through three plus quarters until they turn it around. And

1685
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:47,640
Speaker 1: if you're the Falcons number one, This Corderrel Patterson thing,

1686
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: which a year ago I thought was just gonna be

1687
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 1: maybe a one year kind of flash in the pan

1688
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 1: undred and twenty yards of twenty two carries, had some

1689
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:56,439
Speaker 1: big plays in this and was taking it to the

1690
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:59,479
Speaker 1: Saints defense as well. Marcus Mariota, He's not perfect, but

1691
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:02,200
Speaker 1: I also think that they're the way the Arthur Smith

1692
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: uses these guys like the Falcons were fun to watch.

1693
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:09,960
Speaker 1: I can not expect This is the worst loss. They

1694
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 1: totally gagged and it is a bad loss. But I

1695
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:16,600
Speaker 1: just think expectations wise though, if we're gonna look at

1696
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:19,599
Speaker 1: them as a middle mid range team, I mean, they

1697
01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 1: can do some things. It is a disappointing loss because

1698
01:25:22,200 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 1: you cannot crumble that way they had the Saints in

1699
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: Week one at home. The fact that it's the Saints,

1700
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:29,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the Saints. I choked before the game.

1701
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: The fact that I didn't draft this game. It's my

1702
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:34,080
Speaker 1: own fault. I've said it so many times on this show.

1703
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:35,599
Speaker 1: You guys are sick of it. This is the best

1704
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 1: rivalry in the NFL because the fans hate each other.

1705
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 1: I think more than any two fan bases hate each other,

1706
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: and the game's always deliver. You might have that you

1707
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: know number eight and you know Fox team on the call,

1708
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: but who cares. This was the best game of the day,

1709
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:54,240
Speaker 1: just just for the insanity that you score seventeen points

1710
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:56,720
Speaker 1: in the last eleven minutes and then you have the

1711
01:25:56,800 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 1: Saints players Duncan on the Falcons like in their press

1712
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:03,439
Speaker 1: cont it's like waving Falcons flags like it's a real rivalry.

1713
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,519
Speaker 1: And to lose it at home in front of your

1714
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 1: stunned fans. It's as bad of a loss as you

1715
01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:14,640
Speaker 1: could have. And for what for Winston? I mean you

1716
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: mentioned it. In those three drives he had one in

1717
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:20,719
Speaker 1: completion in two hundred and thirteen yards in the fourth quarter,

1718
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:23,800
Speaker 1: he was he was like Pique Joe Montana for one

1719
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:26,760
Speaker 1: quarter of his life work. I mean, they're they're very

1720
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:29,680
Speaker 1: solid team. They have a good defense, and they have

1721
01:26:29,760 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 1: a nice running game. And these receivers. Now if this

1722
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: is Landry and Landry's gotta stay healthy. Of course that's

1723
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,200
Speaker 1: been an issue. Michael Thomas of course has to stay healthy.

1724
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:41,280
Speaker 1: But you add those guys on the field, and if

1725
01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: a is a guy that's going to continue to develop. Yeah,

1726
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:47,800
Speaker 1: Thomas was literally foaming at the mouth at one point.

1727
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: Did you see that, Mark? I think it was maybe

1728
01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: after the two points. I think he might need to

1729
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:57,240
Speaker 1: get a Raby ship. He was just so fired up

1730
01:26:57,280 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 1: after scoring. He had two touchdowns that and he was

1731
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:04,760
Speaker 1: just like a guy. It was this trash talking on

1732
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:06,679
Speaker 1: the sideline. I'm not sure to who and then spit

1733
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:10,040
Speaker 1: was all over his own that. I think you've now

1734
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:12,800
Speaker 1: laid out everything that could possibly because like they missed

1735
01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 1: that intensity though, like he one thing I remember from

1736
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:18,080
Speaker 1: that run and he was so young in it back

1737
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 1: in what seventeen when they probably should have won the

1738
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He was like their team leader as a

1739
01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 1: rookie and a second year player. And so if he's healthy,

1740
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 1: I think he adds like a something special even beyond

1741
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,559
Speaker 1: his production. I'll ask you this mark. So I think

1742
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:35,960
Speaker 1: it's great the Cordell Patterson has a chance to, you know,

1743
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 1: put together another really productive season. Here has certainly started

1744
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:42,760
Speaker 1: out well. Mariota's numbers don't look terrible, not overwhelming. Drake

1745
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: London was involved in his first game. But how is

1746
01:27:45,240 --> 01:27:47,880
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts only have two catches for nineteen yards? I

1747
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:51,040
Speaker 1: mean that has to be for this Mariota thing to work,

1748
01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: He's got to have that chemistry with Pitts, who is

1749
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,360
Speaker 1: supposed to be a guy that's putting up big numbers

1750
01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:59,280
Speaker 1: every week. Now is the answers year two? He struggled together.

1751
01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:01,640
Speaker 1: I I if that's more of a Saints matchup thing,

1752
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:03,640
Speaker 1: because I I want to give that more time. But

1753
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:05,559
Speaker 1: you know, this is supposed to be a matchup proof.

1754
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you know credit to Dennis Allen

1755
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:10,600
Speaker 1: and company. There, they took him out. I mean he

1756
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: he had seven targets into two catches. So it wasn't

1757
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: as if Mariotta totally ignored him, just it was not

1758
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 1: a productive day. I like Drake London made a couple

1759
01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 1: of big plays in this too. I mean, I'm just

1760
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:24,800
Speaker 1: saying I get what you're saying that it's the worst loss,

1761
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:29,040
Speaker 1: but the expectations for the Falcons were like five. I

1762
01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: just mean, if you're there and you're a fan, or

1763
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:33,360
Speaker 1: it would suck, but like high that you were at

1764
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 1: with twelve minutes left to losing that games, I thought

1765
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 1: it was promising in the past rush that that we

1766
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 1: thought didn't even exist in Atlanta. Alright, so oh pull

1767
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 1: that one out, bros. The Cincinnati Zoo. They get a

1768
01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:50,200
Speaker 1: lock out of that game. You shouldn't. They should have

1769
01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 1: to give it back, and this is it's a good

1770
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,320
Speaker 1: harbinger for them though, if they can pull this out

1771
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:58,479
Speaker 1: of it. They did a big Crystal Lave a game too,

1772
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 1: and he didn't have give it to him. Then he

1773
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:06,639
Speaker 1: made a key revoked the block try next week, Crystal

1774
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:09,320
Speaker 1: Lovey did not have a big game. I think he

1775
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:11,720
Speaker 1: did help helps set up you know that It's like

1776
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 1: Mark's elaborate sandwich props. You gotta nail all of it.

1777
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:17,240
Speaker 1: You can't leave this horse shoes. This is not a

1778
01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:21,840
Speaker 1: hand grename. All right, Let's move on to Houston. You're

1779
01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:27,880
Speaker 1: smelling upset sort of chip for blankets ship to try

1780
01:29:27,960 --> 01:29:31,439
Speaker 1: to win the game. For the Indianapolis Colts, Hawk is

1781
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:36,719
Speaker 1: the holder, snap is down, the kick is up. It's good.

1782
01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:42,040
Speaker 1: The Texas cocked like a chip messing. That's the sound

1783
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:49,760
Speaker 1: of that kick beering right. Don Rodrigo blakenship blanket and

1784
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 1: yanked it. Lego Man pushed it. Matt Ryan rallied Indianapolis

1785
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:57,759
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter to force overtime against the Texans

1786
01:29:57,840 --> 01:30:02,520
Speaker 1: and his Cults debut, but neither team could score in overtime.

1787
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:06,320
Speaker 1: Both blanked in their two possessions in the extra period,

1788
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:14,000
Speaker 1: blank and Ship, blank and yanked final Houston. Sometimes sometimes

1789
01:30:14,439 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: uh tie is a loss. Sometimes it tie feels like

1790
01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:19,720
Speaker 1: a win. If you're the Texans and Lovey Smith, you're

1791
01:30:19,800 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 1: up twenty to three entering the fourth quarter. But how

1792
01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 1: about let's talk, Greggy. Let's talk Houston punting the ball

1793
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:29,719
Speaker 1: at midfield and overtime and playing for a tie, Because

1794
01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:33,840
Speaker 1: I mean if you want listen, you hire Lovey Smith,

1795
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:38,080
Speaker 1: You're gonna get Lovey Smith things. And we like Lovey Smith,

1796
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:42,080
Speaker 1: but I didn't like who plays for a tie in anything?

1797
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 1: Really weird? Lov Smith plays for a tie? What was

1798
01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 1: the down and distance? It wasn't like fourth and thirty six. No,

1799
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:52,719
Speaker 1: it was fourth and three from the forty nine yard

1800
01:30:52,840 --> 01:30:59,760
Speaker 1: line with seconds. What what are we doing? Fourth and

1801
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:03,640
Speaker 1: read from midfield? Here Here was Lovey Smith's explanation for

1802
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:09,000
Speaker 1: white Beard. These are the announcers talking about it. Okay,

1803
01:31:09,120 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: let's hear it. I mean, if you have nothing to lose,

1804
01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:15,720
Speaker 1: if your love you here, No, they're gonna punt. I mean,

1805
01:31:15,760 --> 01:31:20,200
Speaker 1: this is playing for the tie, but but nothing a

1806
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 1: tie is better than what also from from beyond all

1807
01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:32,080
Speaker 1: of it than what are you telling your locker rooms saying,

1808
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:35,040
Speaker 1: hey man, nobody thought were gonna win, and you know

1809
01:31:35,120 --> 01:31:37,320
Speaker 1: we almost won, but we didn't lose, so we're actually

1810
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: cool with a tie. Fourth and twelve, fourth and fifteen, Okay,

1811
01:31:42,120 --> 01:31:45,479
Speaker 1: I get it. Fourth and three. You're one completion away

1812
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:47,720
Speaker 1: from being in field goal range and scoring one of

1813
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:51,000
Speaker 1: the biggest upsets of Week one that that would stick

1814
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 1: to my ribs as a fan of that team and

1815
01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:57,800
Speaker 1: and he basically said, like a tie is better than

1816
01:31:57,840 --> 01:31:59,920
Speaker 1: a loss. He said, I thought a tie was better

1817
01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: than a potential loss. And uh, he said, we it's

1818
01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:05,960
Speaker 1: not like he also said, in kind of throwing his

1819
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 1: own team under the bus, it's not like we were

1820
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: playing our best defense at the time. We were drained.

1821
01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:13,000
Speaker 1: I would have said, in love his defense, they weren't

1822
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:15,200
Speaker 1: playing the best offense on at the time. They did

1823
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 1: not look like a team that was equally good to

1824
01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 1: the Colts. They were outgained by more than two hundred yards.

1825
01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 1: There were many, uh lucky moments for the Texans in

1826
01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:28,479
Speaker 1: this game. They made a Jerry Hughes made a great

1827
01:32:28,680 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: interception on a screenplay, but that was a little flukey,

1828
01:32:32,600 --> 01:32:36,679
Speaker 1: like Alec Pierce of the Colts dropped a wide open

1829
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:39,600
Speaker 1: touchdown that they ended up getting no points off of

1830
01:32:39,680 --> 01:32:42,000
Speaker 1: the Colts in the first half. That the Colts Rodrigo

1831
01:32:42,080 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 1: Blanketship not only missed that kick, but kicked two kickoffs

1832
01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:49,519
Speaker 1: out of bounds I believe in a row, or at

1833
01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:52,200
Speaker 1: least two out of three in the second half. You

1834
01:32:52,240 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 1: know what the Texans did with those kids, Absolutely nothing.

1835
01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:58,120
Speaker 1: These were the Texans offense at the end of the game.

1836
01:32:58,160 --> 01:33:00,799
Speaker 1: And I think this is what Lovey might have and thinking,

1837
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 1: and he just didn't want to say it. He's saying,

1838
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:05,519
Speaker 1: our defense might be tired. Uh, here was Davis Mills

1839
01:33:05,560 --> 01:33:08,559
Speaker 1: in the second half. Punt fumble, punt, punt, pun, punt,

1840
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:13,120
Speaker 1: and Davis Mills his numbers were fine, thirty seven to

1841
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:16,000
Speaker 1: forty for two. This was an ultimate you gotta watch

1842
01:33:16,080 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 1: the game performance because in key moments he was inaccurate.

1843
01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 1: He made some bad decisions, and I know they just

1844
01:33:23,360 --> 01:33:25,200
Speaker 1: didn't all come back to haunt him, but he just

1845
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:28,840
Speaker 1: he wasn't right, and especially down the stretch of that game,

1846
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:31,120
Speaker 1: they were like hanging on for dear life, and I

1847
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:33,680
Speaker 1: guess they sort of did. I just added up all

1848
01:33:33,760 --> 01:33:36,000
Speaker 1: those second half drives. You mentioned. They had seventy three

1849
01:33:36,040 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 1: total yards in the second half. I am not I

1850
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:40,640
Speaker 1: don't agree with the decision at all, but I mean

1851
01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:43,600
Speaker 1: I can understand a defensive minded love you Smith not

1852
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 1: really trusting this offense today. He was. He was for seeing,

1853
01:33:47,160 --> 01:33:49,720
Speaker 1: let's sit down, saying you gotta make gonna go for it.

1854
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:52,160
Speaker 1: He was seeing a situation where the worst, you know,

1855
01:33:52,280 --> 01:33:56,160
Speaker 1: a terrible game, and he knew what that loss felt

1856
01:33:56,200 --> 01:33:58,560
Speaker 1: like for a second because he was expecting black and

1857
01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:00,360
Speaker 1: Chips kick to go in. They had blown the game,

1858
01:34:00,400 --> 01:34:02,479
Speaker 1: and Frank Reich did the Mike Rabele thing. He kind

1859
01:34:02,520 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 1: of set up for a long blank and chip kick

1860
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 1: instead of keeping the pedal on the gas. There and

1861
01:34:07,520 --> 01:34:12,240
Speaker 1: a real coaching exhibition here. Um, I think you know

1862
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:15,320
Speaker 1: what you're explaining, and I'm gonna watch us tomorrow. Like

1863
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:19,800
Speaker 1: what Lovely Smith can't say is what he feels in

1864
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:22,880
Speaker 1: that situation. And he didn't coach his team last year.

1865
01:34:22,920 --> 01:34:25,400
Speaker 1: He's new. His feeling is my team is not good enough.

1866
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:28,720
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take a tie as as a win

1867
01:34:28,920 --> 01:34:31,599
Speaker 1: for us because we're lucky to even be in this position.

1868
01:34:31,840 --> 01:34:34,000
Speaker 1: But it's just weird when it's that close and it's

1869
01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:37,960
Speaker 1: twenty two three entering the fourth quarter. It's the gutless

1870
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: move the week. It's also like that little time left,

1871
01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:44,880
Speaker 1: like all you there would be under twenty seconds to

1872
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 1: go for you to stop them from getting into field

1873
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 1: goal range. Let's let's have a little confidence. But before

1874
01:34:50,680 --> 01:34:53,240
Speaker 1: moving on quickly, though, I have to give Reich some

1875
01:34:53,439 --> 01:34:57,040
Speaker 1: credit and Jonathan Taylor even more. The Colts are the

1876
01:34:57,160 --> 01:34:59,880
Speaker 1: only team in the NFL who falls down three score

1877
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:04,040
Speaker 1: and catches up with the running game. They stayed very

1878
01:35:04,240 --> 01:35:05,920
Speaker 1: run heavy. In fact, I thought they kind of went

1879
01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:07,640
Speaker 1: away from the run a little too much in the

1880
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:10,680
Speaker 1: third quarter, and as they were making that comeback, it

1881
01:35:10,800 --> 01:35:13,360
Speaker 1: was almost all running. They were down three scores. They

1882
01:35:13,439 --> 01:35:16,160
Speaker 1: took a field goal early in that process to make

1883
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 1: it fourteen points, and I was like, oh, you're taking

1884
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:20,519
Speaker 1: the field goal to make it fourteen And they just

1885
01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:23,040
Speaker 1: kept handing the ball off to Jonathan Taylor, who had

1886
01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 1: thirty one carries for a hundred and sixty one yards

1887
01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:28,960
Speaker 1: and it worked even down three scores. He was the

1888
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:31,559
Speaker 1: key to the company. So he's the man. Matt Ryan

1889
01:35:31,600 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 1: also threw fifty passes. It's Matt Ryan well protected behind

1890
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 1: this line. I kept reading that the first staff especially,

1891
01:35:37,120 --> 01:35:38,760
Speaker 1: he was under a lot of I don't like that.

1892
01:35:38,840 --> 01:35:41,080
Speaker 1: For Matt Ryan. I thought he played okay in this game.

1893
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:43,439
Speaker 1: He was not bad. Uh the first half. He was

1894
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:46,000
Speaker 1: under a lot of pressure. All right, Let's head towards

1895
01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:51,720
Speaker 1: our nation's capital, well near it. On the third and

1896
01:35:51,800 --> 01:36:03,760
Speaker 1: eight jacksonal break six towards to polly Kill. Talk about

1897
01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:05,840
Speaker 1: the rookie faith and he has some of the best

1898
01:36:05,920 --> 01:36:10,840
Speaker 1: hands there are London. We are saying that action Day Weinstein,

1899
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: Julie Donaldson, w B I g with the call. I'll

1900
01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 1: tell you this, if you are a fantasy person, go

1901
01:36:20,240 --> 01:36:24,760
Speaker 1: to your waiverward. Just make sure John Dodson's not, you know,

1902
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 1: accounted for it. If he's not, get him on your

1903
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:29,520
Speaker 1: roster because that guy is gonna be an instant contributor.

1904
01:36:29,800 --> 01:36:32,040
Speaker 1: Nugget was one of my nugs, one of my takeaways

1905
01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 1: from a win for the Commanders who took command in

1906
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:41,720
Speaker 1: Week one, beat the Jaguars and uh Carson Wentz. I'll

1907
01:36:41,720 --> 01:36:44,200
Speaker 1: tell you what. Not a perfect game, not by any stretch.

1908
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:49,880
Speaker 1: He threw interceptions on consecutive plays, and at that point

1909
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:54,240
Speaker 1: the Jaguars took the lead as a result of his mistakes.

1910
01:36:54,840 --> 01:36:58,479
Speaker 1: But he rebounded and he had his first four touchdown

1911
01:36:58,600 --> 01:37:02,080
Speaker 1: game since, A faithful day in his career, a faithful

1912
01:37:02,160 --> 01:37:04,120
Speaker 1: day in the history of the Philadelphia Eagles. The day

1913
01:37:04,200 --> 01:37:06,360
Speaker 1: toris a c l on his left knee while on

1914
01:37:06,439 --> 01:37:10,640
Speaker 1: that scramble in December. So does that mean like this

1915
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:12,120
Speaker 1: is the Wents that's here now, the guy that was

1916
01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:14,080
Speaker 1: gonna win m VP that year before he blew out

1917
01:37:14,080 --> 01:37:16,679
Speaker 1: his knee. No, that he still looks like Carson Wentz

1918
01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:19,240
Speaker 1: uh to me and the good and the bad. But

1919
01:37:19,320 --> 01:37:23,479
Speaker 1: it was a reminder of Wentz, who was a punching

1920
01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 1: bag um really for years now, but especially this summer.

1921
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:28,560
Speaker 1: And it was kind of seen as a joke that

1922
01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:31,400
Speaker 1: Washington could even think it could work with him, that

1923
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 1: when Wentz is feeling it and he can get going

1924
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:36,639
Speaker 1: and he can make plays and he can move an offense.

1925
01:37:36,760 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 1: And that's what he did because this was a game,

1926
01:37:39,160 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: uh mark, where the Jaguars looked like they were gonna

1927
01:37:42,880 --> 01:37:45,640
Speaker 1: take command, like they had taken the punches, they had

1928
01:37:45,680 --> 01:37:48,680
Speaker 1: said thank you Carson Wentz for these gifts, and now

1929
01:37:48,720 --> 01:37:50,639
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a huge win and we're gonna show

1930
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:54,160
Speaker 1: that we're not the same old Jacks. No. Wentz recovered

1931
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:57,240
Speaker 1: and so did Washington and now they're wanted decided to

1932
01:37:57,320 --> 01:38:00,600
Speaker 1: really go ahead and start well. I mean, and you

1933
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:03,559
Speaker 1: know it, Wentz had his mistakes, and that's my thing

1934
01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:05,320
Speaker 1: with Wentz is he's going to be productive. But you're

1935
01:38:05,439 --> 01:38:10,320
Speaker 1: waiting for that killer scenario, that killer action. That's not

1936
01:38:10,439 --> 01:38:13,040
Speaker 1: a perfect quarter at all. But Trevor Lawrence, who you know,

1937
01:38:13,120 --> 01:38:15,799
Speaker 1: we all project to have a big season for the environment,

1938
01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:17,720
Speaker 1: around him. That's so much better at this point. He

1939
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:19,720
Speaker 1: had a terrible interception at the end of this game.

1940
01:38:20,439 --> 01:38:23,160
Speaker 1: He did he did it was a I want to

1941
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:25,200
Speaker 1: think what the down a distance was, but it wasn't

1942
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:28,920
Speaker 1: a um situation where he needed to make the throw

1943
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:30,479
Speaker 1: he did. He kind of threw it up for grabs

1944
01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:33,080
Speaker 1: and under threw it and that was essentially uh the

1945
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 1: end of the game. And this was a team that

1946
01:38:34,760 --> 01:38:39,200
Speaker 1: was last in turnover margin last year minus twenty UM,

1947
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:41,639
Speaker 1: but they were able to force three turnovers in this game,

1948
01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:45,679
Speaker 1: two interceptions and a fumble recovery. Um. The two picks

1949
01:38:45,680 --> 01:38:48,320
Speaker 1: set up ten points, so they you know, tray Von

1950
01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:52,799
Speaker 1: Walker had a interception on a screen pass attempt by Wentz.

1951
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:55,760
Speaker 1: He had a sack as well, so that that was

1952
01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:58,960
Speaker 1: a very good sign um. But now we need Lawrence

1953
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:01,160
Speaker 1: to clean an up a little bit. He was flagged

1954
01:39:01,160 --> 01:39:04,240
Speaker 1: twice for intentional grounding. He had the interception that Mark

1955
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:07,680
Speaker 1: is alluding to. So they didn't show their ability, even

1956
01:39:07,720 --> 01:39:10,280
Speaker 1: with Doug Peterson there to find a way to win

1957
01:39:10,400 --> 01:39:13,559
Speaker 1: a game. But they were right there. They they're just losing.

1958
01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:16,599
Speaker 1: Is such a habit for this team that there's all

1959
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:18,559
Speaker 1: these players that have been around for a few years,

1960
01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:20,599
Speaker 1: and I know there's a new players. I mean, they've

1961
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:23,519
Speaker 1: done more losing than any team in the NFL, and

1962
01:39:23,680 --> 01:39:25,560
Speaker 1: like that's in the DNA. They they're gonna have to

1963
01:39:25,680 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: change it at some point soon. But they did get

1964
01:39:28,160 --> 01:39:30,000
Speaker 1: a lot of production out of you know, Christian Kirk,

1965
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:32,360
Speaker 1: ands A Jones there their free agent pickups and E

1966
01:39:32,479 --> 01:39:34,600
Speaker 1: t N had a decent games in Dropper at a

1967
01:39:34,640 --> 01:39:37,040
Speaker 1: decent game, did have a decent game, but he also

1968
01:39:37,160 --> 01:39:39,600
Speaker 1: dropped a fourth in gold swing pass wide open. It

1969
01:39:39,680 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 1: was a little high. We should have had it and

1970
01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:44,160
Speaker 1: there was right And there was another one where he

1971
01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: was open for a touchdown and Lawrence missed him. So

1972
01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:50,400
Speaker 1: it's those little things that are actually big things. And

1973
01:39:50,439 --> 01:39:52,560
Speaker 1: if you're Washington fan, I mean, this is sort of

1974
01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 1: what you drew up on paper, especially a year ago.

1975
01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:59,280
Speaker 1: But now like Curtis Samuel had a game, like he

1976
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:02,760
Speaker 1: caught eight passes, John Dotson is in the mix, caught

1977
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:05,480
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns, mccoran had one big play. Antonio

1978
01:40:05,560 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 1: Gibson is now the main dude again and puts up

1979
01:40:08,120 --> 01:40:10,080
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty two yards like they have players

1980
01:40:10,160 --> 01:40:14,720
Speaker 1: around Wentz. It's just like against better teams, are those

1981
01:40:14,720 --> 01:40:16,800
Speaker 1: interceptions gonna hurt more? I mean, Graver came down and

1982
01:40:16,840 --> 01:40:19,120
Speaker 1: here I know justin you were watching this game, and

1983
01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:21,800
Speaker 1: it's like he was like, yeah, I thought Wentz played

1984
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:24,640
Speaker 1: pretty well except for those two terrible interception. I just

1985
01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:26,679
Speaker 1: was thinking, like, how many times has that been said

1986
01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:29,440
Speaker 1: about Wentz in his career? That's that's sort of the experience.

1987
01:40:30,120 --> 01:40:33,639
Speaker 1: I will say this. I read this um somewhere after

1988
01:40:33,720 --> 01:40:35,920
Speaker 1: the game and I thought it was interesting because it

1989
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 1: was well, let me say what it is. So Carson

1990
01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:42,360
Speaker 1: Wentz goes to the sideline after throwing the uh second

1991
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:46,160
Speaker 1: interception on consecutive plays, goes there and he looks at

1992
01:40:46,240 --> 01:40:50,000
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera on the sideline head coach, and Rivera says

1993
01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:53,080
Speaker 1: to him, hey, you're gonna have to win this. Wentz responded,

1994
01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:56,760
Speaker 1: I will before walking away. It's dramatic. It's a nice lead.

1995
01:40:56,840 --> 01:40:59,000
Speaker 1: But you know what else it is. It's the opposite

1996
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:03,080
Speaker 1: of Carson Wentz is Indianapolis experience where Frank Reich had

1997
01:41:03,280 --> 01:41:06,200
Speaker 1: no confidence and especially as the season went along and

1998
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:08,559
Speaker 1: you could see I'm thinking of that Saturday December again

1999
01:41:09,080 --> 01:41:11,360
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, or like trying to hold on for

2000
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:13,120
Speaker 1: dear life and wouldn't even let him make a throw.

2001
01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:16,280
Speaker 1: Like if Rivera is a little outside the box and

2002
01:41:16,479 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 1: gives Carson wants a chance, maybe he gets some mojo

2003
01:41:19,280 --> 01:41:23,200
Speaker 1: cooking and Washington surprises people. We'll see one game in.

2004
01:41:23,520 --> 01:41:26,320
Speaker 1: It's a nice day for the Commanders. We got the

2005
01:41:26,360 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz experience, and we're gonna get it again. I

2006
01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:31,200
Speaker 1: mean that, yeah, man, that's fair. But it's also a

2007
01:41:31,280 --> 01:41:34,280
Speaker 1: great example saying I will and then doing it of

2008
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:36,720
Speaker 1: taking command kind of yeah, he's like getting ready to

2009
01:41:36,800 --> 01:41:39,160
Speaker 1: you know, kind of I will. He was alluding to

2010
01:41:39,240 --> 01:41:43,280
Speaker 1: this day. This was it was all building to this moment.

2011
01:41:44,080 --> 01:41:46,040
Speaker 1: All right. We got one more game, Sunday night football.

2012
01:41:46,080 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 1: We sent Greg home not feeling well, but we got

2013
01:41:49,120 --> 01:41:51,880
Speaker 1: some business to get to from Jaral World. A bad

2014
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:59,600
Speaker 1: night at Jaral World for the home team. First of

2015
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:10,080
Speaker 1: go for fun, yes, sir, touchdown Tom Brady to Mike

2016
01:42:10,160 --> 01:42:13,160
Speaker 1: Evans like old times. It was the only touchdown of

2017
01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:15,439
Speaker 1: the game, but throwing a few more field goals and

2018
01:42:15,479 --> 01:42:17,720
Speaker 1: it was more than enough for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2019
01:42:18,200 --> 01:42:20,600
Speaker 1: but begin their season on a winning note nineteen to

2020
01:42:20,840 --> 01:42:25,200
Speaker 1: three over the Cowboys. And if you're the Cowboys or

2021
01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:29,840
Speaker 1: Cowboys fan, this could not have been worse. Dak Prescott

2022
01:42:29,920 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 1: fourteen and thirty four yards, no touchdowns, an interception, bangs

2023
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:39,080
Speaker 1: his hand uh during a pass rush um by the

2024
01:42:39,160 --> 01:42:43,519
Speaker 1: Bucks late in the game, X rays and the worst

2025
01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:46,920
Speaker 1: news the Cowboys could get he needs surgery for an

2026
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:49,920
Speaker 1: injury in the joint above the thumb of his right hand.

2027
01:42:50,080 --> 01:42:53,320
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, team owner, tells reporters shortly after the game,

2028
01:42:53,400 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 1: He's going to be out several weeks. So Mark not

2029
01:42:56,280 --> 01:42:58,439
Speaker 1: only and we'll get to the Bucks, but I think

2030
01:42:58,479 --> 01:43:01,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys of the story coming out of this game,

2031
01:43:01,160 --> 01:43:04,200
Speaker 1: not only do you no show uh in your opener

2032
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:07,360
Speaker 1: at home, you now lose your quarterback. And when you

2033
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:11,200
Speaker 1: combine those two things, it paints a very ominous picture

2034
01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:15,439
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys near and potentially long term future this season. Well,

2035
01:43:15,479 --> 01:43:18,080
Speaker 1: even before this happened, the energy around this team tonight,

2036
01:43:18,120 --> 01:43:21,120
Speaker 1: their performance on offense, what was lacking, what was missing

2037
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: what we thought would be missing, which was wide receiver strength, depth,

2038
01:43:25,360 --> 01:43:27,720
Speaker 1: and it was they cannot win on the outside. And

2039
01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:30,920
Speaker 1: even before Dak Prescott was injured, this was not the

2040
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:33,519
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott were used to seeing. This might have been

2041
01:43:33,560 --> 01:43:36,600
Speaker 1: one of his worst games that I can recall, and

2042
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:38,800
Speaker 1: there were moments where he just was out of sync.

2043
01:43:39,040 --> 01:43:41,200
Speaker 1: We're talking about guys like Ceedee Lamon need to step up.

2044
01:43:41,240 --> 01:43:43,439
Speaker 1: It's just not the case tonight. And so the offense

2045
01:43:43,479 --> 01:43:45,600
Speaker 1: looked lacking. And what is even more concerning because I

2046
01:43:45,640 --> 01:43:48,599
Speaker 1: don't know how long he'll be gone, obviously, but they've

2047
01:43:48,640 --> 01:43:51,200
Speaker 1: got the Bengals, then the Giants, who look a little

2048
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:54,080
Speaker 1: spicy right now, then Washington, and then if it goes

2049
01:43:54,120 --> 01:43:57,080
Speaker 1: on beyond that, the Rams and Eagles, and what I

2050
01:43:57,360 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 1: think what we've seen from Cooper Rush tells you Cooper

2051
01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,320
Speaker 1: Rush is not adequate to come in and win games,

2052
01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:04,760
Speaker 1: and he was. He was a big mess tonight. Yeah,

2053
01:44:04,800 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 1: we need to know more about how long that's going

2054
01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:09,080
Speaker 1: to be out, but it sounds like this is not

2055
01:44:09,160 --> 01:44:12,200
Speaker 1: going to be something. It might be October, who knows,

2056
01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:15,280
Speaker 1: but it's it's a situation that this season is in

2057
01:44:15,439 --> 01:44:18,200
Speaker 1: deep trouble immediately for the Cowboys. I don't think that's

2058
01:44:18,200 --> 01:44:21,439
Speaker 1: an overreaction. And you're right, Dak Prescott before he went

2059
01:44:21,479 --> 01:44:24,439
Speaker 1: out was not having a good game, and Ceedee Lamb

2060
01:44:24,840 --> 01:44:27,400
Speaker 1: he had a bad game. And these are two very

2061
01:44:27,479 --> 01:44:30,640
Speaker 1: good players that need to be great for the Cowboys

2062
01:44:30,760 --> 01:44:33,440
Speaker 1: to win this division and get back to the playoffs.

2063
01:44:34,200 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 1: And one night only neither played well and now one's

2064
01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:40,000
Speaker 1: on the shelf, and it's the most important guy to

2065
01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:42,360
Speaker 1: the team, and so you have to keep an eye

2066
01:44:42,439 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 1: on how the Cowboys handled this because he had Cooper

2067
01:44:45,280 --> 01:44:47,879
Speaker 1: Rush is not one of the better backups in football,

2068
01:44:48,320 --> 01:44:51,000
Speaker 1: and this could be, this could be the recipe. Let's

2069
01:44:51,040 --> 01:44:53,439
Speaker 1: be honest, for one of those oh and three one

2070
01:44:53,520 --> 01:44:56,120
Speaker 1: in five type starts and all of a sudden, it's

2071
01:44:56,120 --> 01:44:59,280
Speaker 1: all over for Dallas. So that that's a devastating setback

2072
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:01,400
Speaker 1: for the team, both from a game and from a

2073
01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:03,400
Speaker 1: long term respect with dak Out on the on the

2074
01:45:03,439 --> 01:45:07,040
Speaker 1: buck side, you know, I thought, even though the scoreboard

2075
01:45:07,640 --> 01:45:10,720
Speaker 1: doesn't tell the story of an exciting game nineteen to three,

2076
01:45:10,760 --> 01:45:13,040
Speaker 1: they only had one touchdown, but they also didn't punt

2077
01:45:13,479 --> 01:45:16,120
Speaker 1: until late in the third quarter. They controlled the flow.

2078
01:45:16,240 --> 01:45:18,960
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette looked great running for a hundred and twenty

2079
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:21,680
Speaker 1: seven yards on six yards to carry. Mike Evans did

2080
01:45:21,760 --> 01:45:25,840
Speaker 1: Mike Evans things. Julio Jones. I know, the thing with

2081
01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:27,439
Speaker 1: him is you can't just view him as, oh, this

2082
01:45:27,560 --> 01:45:29,839
Speaker 1: is who he's gonna be because he can't stay healthy anymore.

2083
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:32,800
Speaker 1: But this version of Julio Jones still looks explosive and

2084
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:34,920
Speaker 1: could be a big time guy for the Bucks. Yeah.

2085
01:45:34,920 --> 01:45:36,800
Speaker 1: I mean they had a Tom Brady. Best throw of

2086
01:45:36,800 --> 01:45:39,479
Speaker 1: the night was that forty eight yard shot to Julio Jones.

2087
01:45:39,720 --> 01:45:43,200
Speaker 1: Great catch, great catch, great throw. There's chemistries are using him.

2088
01:45:43,240 --> 01:45:45,640
Speaker 1: He had two sweeps as well, So I liked the

2089
01:45:45,720 --> 01:45:49,439
Speaker 1: Julio Jones fit in this. They did lose Donovan Smith,

2090
01:45:49,479 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: their tackle. Chris Godwin came in and then left the

2091
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:56,599
Speaker 1: game as well, and it was elo for Donovan Smith,

2092
01:45:56,640 --> 01:45:58,720
Speaker 1: and we'll see, we'll know more about that. So both

2093
01:45:58,800 --> 01:46:01,920
Speaker 1: of these teams cannot use anyone else along the offensive line.

2094
01:46:01,960 --> 01:46:05,599
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys also lost Connor McGovern and Terrence Steele

2095
01:46:05,680 --> 01:46:08,519
Speaker 1: operates as a penalty machine. So I just see concern

2096
01:46:08,640 --> 01:46:11,120
Speaker 1: all all over the place for the Cowboys when it

2097
01:46:11,160 --> 01:46:15,240
Speaker 1: comes to Tampa Bay. You know, they they looked more powerful. Obviously,

2098
01:46:15,400 --> 01:46:17,400
Speaker 1: was not the most watchable game on the planet, but

2099
01:46:17,640 --> 01:46:19,680
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving with much concern. I think there's still

2100
01:46:19,760 --> 01:46:21,840
Speaker 1: the Bucks, the same Bucks were used to Yeah, and

2101
01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:24,160
Speaker 1: I think and obviously Bruce arians is upstairs now he

2102
01:46:24,240 --> 01:46:27,320
Speaker 1: so Himan literally wearing like a Hawaiian shirt. While he's

2103
01:46:27,400 --> 01:46:31,879
Speaker 1: he's cellnically working, he's acknowledging on the telecast and interviews.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, golf two or three times a week. This

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Speaker 1: is a very nice job for Bruce Arians and it's

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Speaker 1: a nice job for Todd Bowls because this team. You

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Speaker 1: could see the way the defense swarmed, and that's another

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Speaker 1: issue with Dallas. The offensive line, which we talked about

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Speaker 1: during the summer, did not look good. They were overmatched

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Speaker 1: in this game. So the Tampa Bay defense looked excellent

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Speaker 1: in this game. And Brady is going to have bigger

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Speaker 1: statistical days, but I didn't see anything to be concerned

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Speaker 1: about him. It's been a kind of a funky, weird

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Speaker 1: offseason for him. I think it's all systems go for

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Speaker 1: the Bucks to uh to, you know, and you know

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Speaker 1: what it's about with Tampa Bay at this point. Stay

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Speaker 1: healthy enough and then win. You're ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen

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Speaker 1: games and see what happens in January. With Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, they're on the right track. The Cowboys the

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Speaker 1: opposite of that, absolutely, And then in the Saints. We'll

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Speaker 1: tangle with the Bucks next week and what happened last season.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see that one very fune. All right,

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Speaker 1: so we'll have more on uh Dak Prescott and where

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Speaker 1: he's at on our Tuesday show when we're all back

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Speaker 1: together and Greg will be hopefully feeling better by then.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Greg Our next a t N show of

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Speaker 1: any kind will be tomorrow night, the Monday night football

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Speaker 1: recap of the final game of Week one, Seahawks versus

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Speaker 1: Broncos RUSS Bowl one, So keep uh stay tuned. Stephen

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Speaker 1: Ruiz joining us for that one. Very nice. We love

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Speaker 1: Stephen Ruiz. He is great, so that would be great conversation,

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Speaker 1: so be there for that again. Go to Ticketmaster around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Live show from London. Uh, we marked down

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Speaker 1: some of the prices for the balcony seats, so we

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Speaker 1: want to make sure you guys are at that show

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Speaker 1: so we can all celebrate football together in London. And

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Speaker 1: that's it. I think we're all done. Great show, mark

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Speaker 1: wrap it up season ten of a t N Season

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Speaker 1: thirteen for us here with the company. Let's make this

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Speaker 1: one the best one yet. Buddy, I planned to great.

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Speaker 1: He the call everybody m