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Speaker 1: All right, that was fun instant reaction. Atlanta twenty two
Speaker 1: to twenty one. So in the off season I picked
Speaker 1: Atlanta to win their division. I thought they could win
Speaker 1: twelve games. I think they're a really good football team.
Speaker 1: I think in Week one Atlanta was at a coaching
Speaker 1: disadvantage because Arthur Smith, their former coach, was now a
Speaker 1: Steelers offensive coordinator. That's a huge advantage. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a really weak one advantage that you're just not going
Speaker 1: to get some insight on personnel. And Pittsburgh's got a
Speaker 1: very very good defense, and they gave kirk Cousins a
Speaker 1: lot of trouble. I thought he had a little more
Speaker 1: spring in his step now. In Week one against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: he was static. He just stayed in the pocket. But
Speaker 1: I thought tonight he moved a little better. He told
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman, he's one hundred percent in the pocket. He's
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent yet. But I think two things
Speaker 1: are very clear about these two teams. Those were two
Speaker 1: good offensive lines and two good run games. And Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts obviously part of Philadelphias run game. But Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty, three hundred and seventy yards, a touchdown,
Speaker 1: no picks, and a great final drive, just pick pick picked,
Speaker 1: nice passes. And by the way, when they paid for
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and they drafted Michael Pennix, I said, you're
Speaker 1: telling me that's a mistake. Look at all the rookie
Speaker 1: quarterbacks right now. They're brutal. You know who isn't Michael
Speaker 1: Pennix sitting behind like Mahomes who sat behind Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix is sitting behind Kirk Cousins and learning the
Speaker 1: game of football, just like a Tom Brady did with
Speaker 1: the Drew bledsoe. He's just sitting on the sidelines and watching.
Speaker 1: That's what Mahomes did, you know, It's what Carson Palmer,
Speaker 1: I believe, did this idea. Lamar Jackson sat for like
Speaker 1: ten games behind Joe Flacco. So this idea that bringing
Speaker 1: in Kirk Cousins to mentor and I said, I think
Speaker 1: they can win the division. I love their personnel at
Speaker 1: Their offensive line's great. They have multiple running backs. John
Speaker 1: Robinson was under used last year. He's fantastic, but you
Speaker 1: just and the Eagles have a good defensive front. They
Speaker 1: pushed him back. Both those offensive lions had their weight tonight.
Speaker 1: So I think Atlanta's a real team. I Philadelphia, you know,
Speaker 1: I know they feel terrible about this loss, but Philadelphia lost.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are upsets? San Francisco just got housed
Speaker 1: by the Vikings. I mean Baltimore's oh and two. The
Speaker 1: Rams season looks like it's over. You know, New England
Speaker 1: beat Cincinnati. Cincinnati should have beaten Kansas City, So I
Speaker 1: think you looked at two teams that will probably or
Speaker 1: at least could The Sames look pretty good, could win
Speaker 1: their division. So you know my take on Philadelphia, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you just lose games. And I mean, hell Atlanta
Speaker 1: with that Drake London, you know, taunting penalty late. Thank
Speaker 1: God they have one of the best kickers in the league,
Speaker 1: or they could have missed that extra point. So you
Speaker 1: know it's it's I don't I don't think Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: a bad football team. I think I think Atlanta and
Speaker 1: Philadelphia could win their divisions. And I think what this
Speaker 1: proves though, at least early as you're watching all these
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, they're completely over their skis bailing water and
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix is just sitting back learning how to play football.
Speaker 1: You're not winning that game with Michael Pennox tonight. You're
Speaker 1: just not. And I thought Cousins, who by the way,
Speaker 1: is four and one in his last five Monday Night
Speaker 1: football games, Big stage. Kirk Cousins, after he started terribly.
Speaker 1: You know, there used to be these discussions he didn't
Speaker 1: like playing like off schedule games. He had a very
Speaker 1: rigid schedule. He preferred the one o'clocks, especially at home.
Speaker 1: I thought he looked really good tonight. And again he's
Speaker 1: not moving much, but Aaron Rodgers doesn't move anymore. Jared
Speaker 1: GoF doesn't move around much. You can win a lot
Speaker 1: of football games that way, especially with that old line
Speaker 1: and that run game. Falcons have three running backs. I
Speaker 1: like two. I really like. You know, I thought Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts by and large played pretty well. I mean, he
Speaker 1: had that last pick because he had pressure in his face.
Speaker 1: But you know Philadelphia, you know these offenses. I got
Speaker 1: this text tonight. I want to read to this. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of discussion about why are the offense
Speaker 1: is so bad? Okay, why are the offense is so bad?
Speaker 1: So few points through two weeks since twenty seventeen, averaging
Speaker 1: forty two points a game combined, fewest touchdown passes through
Speaker 1: two weeks since two thousand and six, eighteen years. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of this is the reluctance to
Speaker 1: play any starters. Now that you've watched Bonix and Caleb
Speaker 1: Williams and Jayden Daniels, couldn't you argue they should have
Speaker 1: played virtually every snap of the preseason, every snap, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean Atlanta played Michael Pennix I think one preseason
Speaker 1: game and said we're done. Now. He didn't have to start.
Speaker 1: But nobody's playing starters, and you've gone from four preseason
Speaker 1: to three preseason games. You're going to go down to
Speaker 1: two once they had an eighteenth game. And so I
Speaker 1: think you just have to look at weeks one and
Speaker 1: two is there's a lot of experimenting going on. There's
Speaker 1: some bad offensive play, and the hardest unit of any
Speaker 1: football team to build cohesion is arguably the most important
Speaker 1: unit of any football team, the offensive line. So I
Speaker 1: think the Jets offense of lines done fine so far,
Speaker 1: but if there's any growth for the Jets that their
Speaker 1: defense falls apart. Is you know, these older offensive linemen
Speaker 1: will play together and their online hasn't been atrocious, but
Speaker 1: it will certainly get better over time. So I think
Speaker 1: it's kind of explainable starters aren't playing snaps on linemen
Speaker 1: aren't playing snaps, especially if they're long in the tooth,
Speaker 1: and the quarterbacks are paying the price they're on their back.
Speaker 1: They're getting hammered. Also, I think because the owners are
Speaker 1: richer than ever, they're willing to fire coaches after one year.
Speaker 1: Coordinators move off quarterbacks early. I also think part of
Speaker 1: the offensive struggle is it's hard to keep cohesion in
Speaker 1: your coaching staff. Owners now will just it's a rounding
Speaker 1: air to write a fifty million dollar check and fire
Speaker 1: coordinators and coaches and staff. They don't care anymore. Used
Speaker 1: to be owners, mate, you know, their net worth was
Speaker 1: six hundred million dollars. Yeah, you know, you don't want
Speaker 1: to write a sixty million dollar check. But when your
Speaker 1: net worth is a you know, nine billion dollars, you'll
Speaker 1: write that check to win games. Because now teams, you know,
Speaker 1: they're all getting three and four one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollar checks annually from the TV deal from the NFL,
Speaker 1: especially since gambling was legalized in the gambling dollars, So
Speaker 1: these owners now were getting massive checks. They're less patient.
Speaker 1: It puts pressure top down in the organizations. You're moving
Speaker 1: through coordinators, quarterbacks and coaches. You're playing quarterbacks earlier. So
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of things that explain it.
Speaker 1: But another one is nobody's playing starters in the preseason
Speaker 1: in the first two weeks. You can tell good for
Speaker 1: at Lanta tonight, I took notes the entire game on
Speaker 1: this and then it came down to the final two drives.
Speaker 1: Pretty boring first quarter, but after that, I thought Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts really got hot in the second half. I thought
Speaker 1: he looked good. And you know, it just goes to
Speaker 1: show sometimes that these moves there's repercussions. Obviously for some
Speaker 1: of these personnel moves. You know, the Giants move off
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. So Saquon's obviously, you know, is a nice
Speaker 1: get for Philadelphia. Now, he dropped that ball at the
Speaker 1: end of the game that would have been a touchdown
Speaker 1: out in the flat. That was a pretty good pass
Speaker 1: and he dropped it. That wasn't one of his shining moments,
Speaker 1: but he's obviously been a huge addition for Philadelphia. He's
Speaker 1: going to win them some football games. Simultaneously, the Giants
Speaker 1: are now zeroing too, and there's talk about Brian Dable
Speaker 1: getting fired, who I think would get a job, you know,
Speaker 1: within the year. But you know, you start you start
Speaker 1: looking around when you give up a player like Saquon
Speaker 1: Barkley to a division rival. If he'd caught that ball
Speaker 1: tonight in a touchdown, I mean, if you're if you're
Speaker 1: a Giant Staffer, New York Giant Stafford. Thank god Saquon
Speaker 1: Barkley dropped that to night. He would have had the
Speaker 1: game winning touchdown, so he adds he had. It's clearly
Speaker 1: a dimension to Philadelphia. So I thought it was a
Speaker 1: good a good football game, two good offensive lines, a
Speaker 1: lot of good running backs are real resurgent and running
Speaker 1: backs over the weekends. JK. Dobbins, Alvin Kamara. I mean there's,
Speaker 1: you know, everything cyclical in sports and in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean six months ago, nine months we were talking
Speaker 1: about running backs don't get paid. Eventually, with all these
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks playing right, you probably going forward are going
Speaker 1: to need a stronger run game. I mean, obviously, you
Speaker 1: know with JK. Dobbins and hardbass style, he's going to
Speaker 1: run him extensively. But Atlanta looks like a team with
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins limitations run team. I think the Lions are
Speaker 1: not running it enough with Montgomery and Gibbs. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's some teams in this league that I think are
Speaker 1: going to run over fifty percent of the time, or
Speaker 1: at least should, and Atlanta's one of them. So nice
Speaker 1: win for the Falcons. How about that division the NFC South,
Speaker 1: Atlanta's a real team, Saints look like a completely different franchise,
Speaker 1: Baker and Tampa Bay. Carolina's trash. But the NFC South,
Speaker 1: I don't know, looks pretty good. And everybody's beating Carolina twice.
Speaker 1: So those are two w's right there. Speaking of the NFC,
Speaker 1: the last four undefeated teams in the NFC, the Vikings,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, the Bucks, and the Saints. Just like everybody
Speaker 1: predicted that this league is so great by the way,
Speaker 1: Saints veteran quarterback, Bucks veteran quarterback, Seahawks veteran quarterback, Vikings
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback. That goes back to what we talked about
Speaker 1: the preseason. These teams in the NFC that are starting strong,
Speaker 1: we don't know how they'll finish. There may be ceilings
Speaker 1: for Sam Darnold and Derek Carr and Baker Mayfield and
Speaker 1: Gino Smith, but it is an advantage having you know,
Speaker 1: one thousand reps in this league. In the first two
Speaker 1: to three weeks of the NFL season, that's very clear
Speaker 1: that a lot of these veteran guys who have bounced
Speaker 1: around the league are off to really nice starts. They
Speaker 1: feel like they you know they might not be masters
Speaker 1: of the position, but they're miles ahead of these rookie
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and younger quarterbacks just don't have the time in
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