Green Light with Chris Long - Eagles Defeat Rams, Browns Beat Packers & Special Teams Chaos | NFL Week 3 Reactions

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

Special Teams Chaos led the way for week 3 in the NFL. The Philadelphia Eagles had two blocked field goals, one returned by Jordan Davis for a touchdown, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers overcame a blocked field goal also returned for a touchdown (by Will McDonald IV) to beat the New York Jets on a FG as time ran out and the Cleveland Browns blocked a game winning field goal attempt and converted their own to hand the Green Bay Packers their first loss of the season! The fellas run through those special team moments, all the others from Sunday and recap all the action from the NFL! (00:00:00) - Intro: NFL Week 3 Reactions (00:02:55) - SNF: Kansas City Chiefs at New York Giants (00:12:24) - LA Rams at Philadelphia Eagles (00:30:21) - New York Jets at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (00:38:07) - Green Bay Packers at Cleveland Browns (00:49:57) - Cincinnati Bengals at Minnesota Vikings (01:02:55) - Dallas Cowboys at Chicago Bears (01:10:37) - San Francisco 49ers at Arizona Cardinals (01:18:30) - Denver Broncos at LA Chargers (01:27:42) - Houston Texans at Jacksonville Jaguars (01:38:15) - Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots (01:43:00) - New Orleans Saints at Seattle Seahawks (01:47:50) - Las Vegas Raiders at Washington Commanders (01:52:55) - Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans (01:58:16) - Carolina Panthers at Atlanta Falcons (02:00:30) - Locals Landline (02:08:10) - America's Teams (02:19:15) - MNF Preview: Lions vs Ravens Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open. Green Light Hotline: ‪[phone]‬ Also, check out our paddling partners at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Appomattox River Company ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠to get your canoes, kayaks and paddleboards so you're set to hit the river this summer. Green Light's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, where you can catch all the latest GL action: Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And that's three losses to the Eagles in basically a calendar year for the Rams. And I do think they made up ground. But the Eagles, they got that championship DNA, man. I'm not seeing any light at the end of the tunnel here for the Bengals. Neither am I. That's why they're on the fucking grill. Especially when you walk up to the cameras in the end of the end of your life. And that's what happened.

They didn't put it away. Chris Long, what a great take. Mmm. This is a great. Greenlight classic. Oh, that's good. What up, Tanner? I love it.

Damn, son. Where'd you find that one? Where'd you find that one? I thought a beat was about to drop. Greenlight made this one. Oh, thank God. Thank God. Thank you for that.

Welcome to the show, everybody. Very wild Sunday. I actually called 911 last night on the live reaction because I had to report an assault. My betmgm app assaulted me yesterday. Able to get able to get back on Sunday night. Isn't that crazy how it happens? You brag one week about how you take someone to the cleaners and they just make you come right back with that bag of laundry.

Well, thankfully I got my laundry back Sunday night. due to the chiefs. But it was ugly. It was ugly for most of the slate. And it was ugly for a lot of the best teams in the league. I mean, we're going to, some of them didn't play too well yesterday. We're going to talk about all that. Special teams were huge.

I got a list of everything that happened on special teams this week. Front. That's a lot of shit. Oh, it's front and back? Yeah, bro. Would you guys think I was going to sit here in like, in the first half? The Eagles muffed every single Rams kickoff. Holy shit.

that's why I said at the that was I've never seen anything like that I've never seen anything like that like it was like they they didn't rep kickoff return this week bow playing with his hair on the other side of the zoom what's good what's good Chris how are you look lovely thanks man I'm doing great I got Dr. Fax right here you um I got noel I got cowboy reed uh Tanner's working the machines back there. And Charlie's going to be drawing pictures of dicks on a whiteboard. We got the whole crew in here today. So we should probably start with Sunday night football, huh?

Are the Chiefs back? No. Absolutely no. No. No, they're not back. I think they'll be back at some point. They got to keep holding on. They got to keep holding on until they get the full roster back.

Define back. I'm the one who asked. I should define back. Back to me means. Having a losing schedule. Like in the playoffs, maybe? Yeah, like a playoffs. Not one and two.

I think, I think it's if back is being a playoff caliber team, I think, I think there's a chance that they could be back later this season. But everything's a fucking trouble. I think we could even change it, Chris. We can, like, they're back when they're not miserable to watch. you know. Dude, I enjoy watching them. I enjoy watching them. It's kind of there's something. Yeah, because you're a massacist. Yeah, I am. And there's something, there's something interesting about the best quarterback on the planet. I'm only putting that in their quotes because right now he's

not playing like it. I mean, like his resume is that of the best quarterback on the planet actively. But like the godfather of offense, Pacheco ran, Pacheco on a swing pass turned towards the pylon. They were backed up. I was like, What is going on with this offense right now? You got Travis Kelsey and Andy Reid doing round two of their, hey, you touch my stomach with your stomach. That's going to be a problem. I want to see him just fist fight on the sideline.

Like, let's just fucker fight already. Have you guys ever seen this kid on Instagram that picks fights with security? What are you going to do? It's going to be problem. You keep talking, but you ain't doing nothing. It's going to be a big problem. Yeah, it is. Don't touch my stomach.

with your stomach because that's going to be a problem. That's what that reminds. I want you to grab my ball. Okay. I thought you do you. He goes, how are you? How are you my height? I'm 19.

I don't know who the fuck that guy is, but I've got, I've sent that to about 1,400 people. But like, yeah, like, it's just not, um. Might be a wild take, but I don't think Andy Reid is an easy win. Not saying he would, he would. Oh, no, no. He's not an easy win. I'm not saying that he would win that fight, but I don't think he would be an easy win. He's not an easy one.

That grown man strength. Right. He's not an easy win. Grab you up. You don't want to tussle with Andy Reed. But I just fly on the wall for me this week is like what happened at halftime because they came out. And I will do a better job of breaking down that drive out of the half, kind of run out of time on some of this stuff. I mean, we only cover every fucking team in the NFL.

We should do some CFL teams too. What up, bombers? Yeah. So. You know, they come out of the half and they really have probably their best looking drive of the entire season. Of course, they can't sustain that kind of efficiency. But like what happened at the half coming out with a little fire in their belly, man? Like, I think they had to get this one under their belt.

Good for Thornton. There was a moment there where when he dropped that ball, I was like, I feel very sorry for him even in a win because although Pat miss some throws this year. And certainly he's not perfect. You got to catch that football. That's what's expected of you when you've got Patrick Mahomes as your quarterback.

He doesn't catch the ball. Patrick goes right back to him. I'm happy for the guy. New England cast off. Makes a big play. He's actually, and worthy will be back any day now. I think they ruled him out at like noon yesterday.

But he's actually turned into a viable deep threat. For them, the problem is they just don't do anything else with him. Guys need to get on the jugs more just in general. Like, more jugs would be good. I've seen a lot of drop passes. I think we need more jugs. Pro jugs. Pro jugs.

I don't know. It's just like, dude, like, not, I'm not a wide receiver, but it's just, I mean, that's in your job description. Like, you got to snag passes. Quarterbacks need to make good passes, but there's a range, a catch radius where you should be like. Did you watch that Jacksonville game? You've been watching a lot of Jacksonville Jaguars football. We'll get to them in a little bit.

They're the reason why I'm thinking about the jugs, man. The funniest, the funniest part of the entire game, though. And that's what Sunday night is. It's entertainment. Even a game like that was, by the way, Harrison Bucker keeps missing kicks. Yeah, I love that. I think that's great. I'm all for that.

I don't know why. Something about Harrison Bucker, like, just unlikable to me. It's not even his political beliefs or anything like that. Easy, Bo. Don't want you getting fired. Dead ass. Okay, go ahead. Missing those.

I don't like his outfits on the road. That's why I don't like him. What if the SFCC so calls me in there like fire, Bo? No drip. Anti-drip. Negative drip. Shuffing up your ass. Is that just missing picks?

I don't want to say too much about his political beliefs because one of getting Kimballed. Yeah, I don't want to get Kimmeled. Well, we are the boss here, which is. He doesn't have good drip. That's it. He has a horrible swag on the road. That's why he's missing kicks. I don't know why he's missing kicks, but like for a team like this,

the margins are not, or not where they need to be, you know, for your kicker to be missing kicks like this. And like it was a chip shot, field goal he missed. And then of course, you know, he damn near a bunch of people had Kansas City laying six. And that almost ended up being a bad,

bad deal. It was, and it was the Kareem Hunt's throat slash, bro. Yeah. Just like at what point are we going to realize, like, hey, they're going to get you on the throat slash, especially when you walk up to the cameras in the end zone, and you're like, I mean, like, and it backs the extra point up,

and he misses in its 13-point game. And then the fucking Russell Wilson had to throw the ball out of the end zone to save everybody like me. But the funniest part of the entire game to me was, and then we'll move on. They were like, yeah, Chris, after the game, they were like, Chris Jones, you've been trying for years to get Russell Wilson's jersey. Did you get it tonight finally?

And he was like, I don't even want it anymore. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. What happened, big dog? There's a lot of context that we need on that whole situation of like, I don't understand why Russ wouldn't just give him a jersey. If he's been asking all this. He's the superior player.

Yeah. Like when a superior player asks you for your jersey. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. wait, who's his superior play? Chris Jones. When did he ask for this jersey? It doesn't matter when. What's I'm saying?

It doesn't matter when. Was there ever a point? Chris Jones at times has been the best interior defensive lineman in the league not named Aaron Donald, you know? And then Aaron retires and he probably is for a stretch. Would you ever say Russ was one or two? Now the guns pointed at you. No, but we're not going to do this.

We're not. You're the one who stopped me and said, wait, who's this superior player? Because, like, we always do this in their trash and Russell. And Russell's a great player. I'm not saying he's a great player. All I'm, I just made a, uh, he wasn't last night. He was a great player. Can you guys, can you guys, can you guys, can you guys?

To me, I was just, to me, I was just, to me, it's like, if somebody would ask me for my jersey, I'd be like, yeah, yeah, like, tell the equipment, guys. Especially if Julius Peppers walked up to me, it was like, hey, let me get that jersey. Chris Long, I'd be like, how do you know who I am? And then I give him the jersey off the back. But at the same token, I know I'm not Russell Wilson, but I'm just saying like, look, at the same token, you're not obligated. If Julius Pepper came to you, you'd be like, nah, bro, like, I really don't do the jersey swap thing. You can, you have that option to say that, right?

Can you imagine a universe? I'm saying why. Nah, JPEP, I don't need a pepper's jersey in my garage. But I'm just saying. I just want to shout out Justin Smith, who. didn't have to give me a jersey when I asked in like 2011 like sure I was a real good player but Justin Smith was like a much better player and like I walked up to him pregame because he was injured and asked him I'm like and that's a good time to do it sometimes you know Russell probably doesn't

want a guy who loafs as much as Chris Jones jersey okay you know that's I mean the coaching you feel me both I mean I knew you're going to say something about I was just waiting. I was just waiting. The guy's a great player. He just loaves too much. Somebody, this is, I like to play with the chat. Chris Putnik.

Did Fletcher Cox not exist? Chris Jones was never viewed as one of the best inside D-line. Chris. Chris. Drugs are bad, okay? I know I do them. But even I know. Okay.

So anyways. And I love it how we just, it's an Eagles fan, turning into a Fletcher Cox versus, but we're not even in the conversation. Can we just butt out for a second? All right, Sunday night football is over. That's enough on that game. Now let's get to the Eagles.

You're up, Chris Putnik. You're up. You're up, buddy. All right, so here's the deal. Worst playing ride. I'm going to give it out immediately because I saw this segment pop up somewhere else. You know what I'm saying?

I hate to have to put somebody on the no-fly list. You know what I'm saying? Worst plane ride. You know direct flight from Philadelphia to Los Angeles takes approximately five hours, 14 minutes with a total gate-to-gate duration averaging around five hours, 46 minutes. God, please. Of course, you don't have to deal with that shit

if you fly on Stan Cronky, but as you know Bo and Nate it takes a long time for them to load the shit up at the airport and that is like a net seven hour trip from the link after a game where and I'll tell you the truth

I think it was the Rams the Rams chance to to win the game like if you're getting on that plane and you're the Rams and you're McVeigh and your Stafford you're like we lost this game that's the Eagles absolutely came out and earned it in the second half and I'm not making it a binary somebody lost somebody won I mean obviously that's the way it goes but i'm not trying to take anything away from the eagles we'll get to

them in a second the rams had so many opportunities red zone opportunities in the first half to put this thing away third and short staffer was missing throws um obviously getting the second half they just continued i thought at times they play with their food you know being third and one taking a shot you know the third and one shot thing the free play thing's fine but when you're playing a defense like this that's got some playmakers and and and really good interior lineman jordan davis having probably the best game of his career totally um jalen carter inside like then you line up and you run it behind bow limmer after you miss the shot like i i thought mcvay got and i i don't say this often i thought he got out coached a little bit um and they they missed a lot of opportunities it culminated in the two

block field goals so um if you are the rams getting on that flight you feel like man we had a chance to beat a team we've been trying to beat for a calendar year. You know, and that's three losses to the Eagles and basically a calendar year for the Rams. And I do think they made up ground. But the Eagles, they got that championship DNA, man. Like, they might not be the same team as last year. It might be ugly sometimes.

The first half, you might not have any passing yardage. But somehow in the second half, they snap back into form. And I think crisis can be a really good, like a moment for this team, where it's like they have. had to be in crisis they had to be down let's throw the fucking ball let's get the ball to a j brown um in the words of james from philadelphia called our hotline last week they half ass dominated i mean literally half ass dominated they played half the game they were down at one point what was it uh 26 to 26 7 yeah 26 to 7 um and and the rams fall to 107 and 2 since

1984 playoffs included after leading by 19 plus points. The only other loss came in 2004 to the Cowboys. I don't remember that game. I was hurt. First game I was hurt. Chalk it up to that. You know what I'm saying? Didn't have me out there.

So, you know, I'll start by doing this. And I think I've already made some enemies in doing this. And I'm going to make enemies of both fan bases I played. for it because this was like the Chris Longbowl or whatever. I'm not saying it, I'm self-important, but there's two teams I played for. So the Tush-Long Bowl. So the Tush Push needs to be officiated according to the rules.

If not for anything else other than like, if you're an Eagles fan and you can choose to be like, like somebody who's discussing partisan politics and you can gaslight the person arguing on the other side of it, but like, this wasn't like a slow motion thing. we could see that Steen was off early. Now, does he need to be off early?

I don't think he does. I think the Eagles are that fucking good at the play. I don't want to hear people having perfectly reasonable gripes against the Tush Push week after week. I don't want to see the Tush Push go away. I want to see the Tush push continue to be run. I think the Eagles run it better than anybody in the league. That's why, I mean, you watch other teams do it.

That's why the Eagles are who they are. And that's why I don't think the play should be banned. but if they're going to miss false starts, then in that case, we're going to be dealing with the same complaining week after week. And if you, as a Philly fan, just want to gaslight the opposing argument,

then fine. But like, I got to call it how I see it. Now, the other side of this is what I'm about to say. If you're a Rams fan complaining about the fucking officiating in this game, you need to go back and watch it

because that's not the reason you lost the game. I didn't like the Pooka Nukua taunt, but you lost the game because you didn't put this team away and the Eagles are too good not to put away. If you're going to let them hang around, they're still, they have the DNA of that team last year.

And that's what happened. They didn't put it away. Chris Long, what a great take. What did you, what are you? Domico, DeMarco.

Where did you get this shit, bro? I commissioned some beat tags. Where did you get this shit? On Friday, so. Now, if you definitely don't have one of those for facts. There's no facts great take, but we need one of those for all you guys. Okay. But I just want to just hate, hate, hate, hate. I just want to say if you have a problem

with what I just said over the last two minutes of like you're upset with me about that, like then you need to find an adult pot. You need to find a kids podcast because it's an adult podcast or you need to listen to local radio because I'm not just going to sit up here and lie to you like I thought Steen was offside. Yeah. Let them. Let them know, Chris. That's the last thing we'll say. because I do have to deal with, you know, somebody told me in the comments this morning, we put up a social about the Tush put a great job, guys. You're about to get cheese steaks throwing at you. I'm in Virginia.

Can you throw one 500 miles? Okay? And somebody told me, somebody told me they were taking my green card, which means, like, I guess the Eagles fandom card. Dude, do what you got to do. But, I mean, argue the point, which is if you enforce the thing by the rules, people will stop talking about. They'll have nothing to complain about it.

The complaint will then turn into that you're too good at it. Oh, you're too good at it. good at it. How long would you have to be a fan? How long would you have to be a fan to really think that like you can try to bully someone else to not be a fan of the same thing that you cheer for? Or say you can- Can you rephrase that? How long do you have to be a fan? Like the guy who told you that he's going to take your green card. Like how long do you think he's been invested in- Man, you could have been born at the 50-yard line at the link. I'm going to do my fucking job, dude. There's a few fans that think because you played for their team, like they own your takes.

And you have to show allegiance at every turn in the road when you give a take. This isn't a complicated thing, man. They run it better than anybody in the league. They don't need the early start. Just officiate it the right way and we'll stop hearing about it. And I was just going to add. Stop cheating Eagles. It's easy.

Just to add, as an Eagles fan, Eagles fans should want the play to be officiated correctly because if this keeps happening, there's no way it's going to pass another. to vote now next off season. 100% don't give them any fucking. It's a competitive advantage as is and you want to keep it. Like call the false starts. Now I want to, I want to pick the play is not illegal. The play is not cheap.

It's just false starting is illegal. The rather is missing it. Exactly. That's all it is. This whole thing is blown so far to proportion. Like the tush push is as a nose guard, fuck that play. But as a fan of like football and downhill like old school style football,

like let them run it. They're great at it. It's a huge part of their identity. All you got to do is clean up the officiating on it a little bit. That's it. Because I just don't like the low-hanging fruit conversations. I don't like having to go into a game, break a game down, and know that if I don't mention what happened on the tush push, everybody's going to say you're not calling it both ways.

That's my job as an analyst, is to be fair to both fan bases. Okay. Now, to be fair to the Eagles fan base, I want to finish with what we did, the birds did, unless my green card's gone, really fucking well. Okay? I thought there were some heroes out there. Fred Johnson was a hero in this game. You know, at some point when Lane goes out of the game, you can feel it immediately.

Shula attacks, right tackle immediately with pressures. I mean, Jared Verst comes out of the house or comes out of a half. You know, bull, pole, and he's by, he's by, you know, Pryor, who's back there. He was there before. Now he's back. I thought Fred Johnson, when he came in the game, stabilized things. Jalen Hertz, of course, put on, you know, the second half performance, after the first half, you know, the Rams are down a corner.

They start to just say, fuck this shit. At a necessity, we are going to, we can't run the ball right now. It's just not working for whatever reason. We've gone through some of the reasons. They start picking on the corners. You know, you got two of the best receivers in the game. You got Goddard back. You know, you should be able to throw the football.

And I thought he did a great job in the second half. I think as far as mental toughness is concerned, he's as good as anybody in the game. You come out of the half with zero yards pass. or whatever it was like a lot of guys going to his shell he's just he's he's he's tough between the years and then bond was great um but the two big heroes for me were a j brown and jordan davis okay jordan davis third and two running down stafford showing the wheels previewing the wheels for the block field goal at the end of the game the fourth down stuff that was him and then a j brown a jrown is so fucking strong at the catch point to play where he speed bump darius williams backed up

third and 10 like he's the one guy that can get you out of the mud he's the best guy getting you out of the mud in the NFL outside there are maybe guys you could argue are better jimar chase jason jennyson i get it but nobody's better when it's a shit show at bailing you out than a j brown and and i thought he was fantastic the whole second half obviously devonte as well but a j is so fucking strong with the football so those those guys were the heroes for me and then Whatever Fangio did in the second half to put the fire out a little bit in the run game, no catches for DeBonte Adams. Are we going to complain about the offense?

Absolutely. They got to put together four quarters, but give it some time. And a little shout out to Jalen Hertz, seven of nine for ten, on throws of 10 plus air yards in the second off, 154 yards, two touchdowns. People say he's not a top five quarterback, top ten quarterback, whatever, but he delivered when their backs are against the goal against the wall and that's what it is we live in we live in a society we live in a society where we we break things down in such like a like black and white thing where it's like one one two three four five are you elite are you not elite are you

where do you rank let's let's fucking rank the best receivers let's rank the best edge rushers but you know like it's it's just like the eagles i mean the eagles take on his personality where it's like when our backs are against the wall we always have something you know you know in our gut you know where it's like we can we can stand tall we got zero passing guards in the first half we're to come out and wing it you know um i just think his toughness bleeds into the personality of the eagles and i think it's nick syriani too bro it's nick syriani by the way we've got we've got more bad news um not more bad news but it's the first bad news of the show i guess but nick bosa uh has suffered a season ending torn ACL in Sunday's win over Arizona. We're going to talk about the

game in a little bit, but that's really rough, man, because, well, we'll talk about it in the San Francisco game, but, you know, that, that sucks. He was playing at like a DPOI level, and the hits keep coming for San Francisco. So, um, one more little shout out. Um, and this one shouldn't be little, because this is a, uh, Quignamano Bay, uh, shout out, but, um, Devante Adams coming into the game said Quignan Mitchell, you know, hey, he's a great player, but I'm hoping I can show him a few things that had, you know, take him off his game, surprise him a little bit. Mitchell shadowed, shadowed Adams on 27 to 34 routes. 22 times after the snap they matched up. Mitchell allowed two receptions for 12 yards on

five targets. No, it was. Pretty damn impressive. Listen, the touchdown, Devante, Quignan just carrying the vertical and then passing it off the Blankenship, who really is not fast enough to be in the trail. technique with anybody, let alone, I mean, Devante Adams, even though he's 30-something years old, like he just has to be in better position when that happens. But Nekua is the guy that hurt you all day. Nicku is such a fucking stud, man. He's such a stud. So yeah, just a real gutsy win. Whereas like last week, you know, I said, hey, Chiefs, beating the Chiefs right now is not a big deal,

but it's a big deal to go into Arrowhead and win. You know, it doesn't matter. That's a tough game. To beat the Rams, the Rams, I think, are rounding into form to look like one of these elite teams in the NFC. And I think they have gotten better from last year in really subtle ways if Matt Stafford is healthy. I mean, one that's not so subtle as Devante Adams. One that is more subtle would be like, you know, Puna Ford, right? So there's little things that they're doing. And they're down Witherspoon. You could see the coin.

Emmanuel Forbes had to be targeted a bunch of times yesterday. Yep. So big game, big win for the Eagles, the good guys, right? But I do. I root for the Rams as well because I, you know, I'm just a, I'm a big Matthew Stafford appreciator, McVeigh appreciator, Pooka Nakua, the whole thing, the running backs. But I thought Stafford once wanted a lot of those throws back yesterday. It's very uncharacteristic.

If I'd have said, hey, the reason the Rams didn't pull it out is because they were going to miss throws, I'd been a bit surprised. by that. So. Well, look at the first interception of Bonn. I mean, I'm sure that's top of the list of throws that he wants back, man. That was a little atypical. I feel like for Stafford. And then kind of got the birds a hot start early and then they flounder.

The biggest question mark for me after this game, Chris, is this is kind of a double-edged sword, right? Like they got AJ Brown going. He looked very comfortable. Jalen was kind of slinging that thing to him. You could tell everybody at the link was so excited about it. But on the other side of the coin, it's like, what's going on with the run game? You know, that's been such a strength for the Eagles.

I think laying going down is a huge part of that, but also it just feels a little bit like the O-line is kind of not on the same page. And that's very, very atypical of a Jeff Stoutland coached unit. Like I have so much respect for Stout, you know, the O-line that he's built. And then obviously Sequin's an absolute beast. So, I mean, I think they'll get it on track, but that was a little bit of a confusing thing for me. It's like, it's awesome that the passing game is going so well. and AJ's getting those targets and catches, but let's get the run game figured out because I think that's really going to be the bread and butter

for the bird's offense going down the rest of the season here. And we did talk about this last week. Inside zone, they've struggled a little bit more than they're accustomed to. I think that's a byproduct of the interior guys being a little bit fucked up. And then they pivot to outside zone and then Lane leaves a game. And that's a subtle thing too where that can kind of change how you want to approach the passing game too. Totally. When your entire offense, the bread and butter is the inside zone.

That's all your play action looks, all those kinds of things. So I think, yeah, they're figuring out how to build the offense around more outside zone. Agreed. Oh, what are you? Oh, yeah, good, good, good. Good. You know, sometimes I just got to do the ad read. Just like Jalen, I think, called the plays in the second half yesterday.

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at sign up. Then get access to second chance promos, odds, boost, tokens, same game parlayes, bet MGM original bets and so much more. Bet MGM, make it legendary. That was a legendary beat on Rams. I gave out Rams plus three and a half because I thought Eagles went a close one. And, you know, if the birds had just picked the ball up off the ground, then everybody wins. But Jordan Davis just had to show off.

I mean, I was like, Jordan, get down. I'm still happy. A walk off of a block. The game winner into a touchdown is crazy. One of our Greenlight listeners called in and was on the same line, but they were a Rams fan. And he was just like, yeah, that sucked. Goodbye. That was awful.

I'm imagining if I was a Rams fan, like I would probably go to sleep for a day. Look, it's not a big deal. If he makes the kick, I win the bet. If he misses the kick, I win the bet. Worst thing could happen. Wrong. Charlie Murphy, wrong. Okay.

That is funny. And that sets up, this sets up a really good matchup this week. I think Bucks and Eagles, like, it's the one that I've warned you about, right? And if you're an Eagles fan, you know why. You know, we've been warning you about the Bucks matchup. It's because they've owned it the last couple years. The Bucks are down dudes on their offensive line, found a way to win yesterday. You down Mike Evans, too.

Yeah, it might be down Mike Evans with a hamstring. Baker leads a game-winning drive for the third fucking week in the row without three starting offensive linemen and without Mike Evans. Bo, you saw the game. What do you think? Yeah, I mean, you kind of said it, man. The thing, this was a very interesting game. Like, it was not close.

And then all of a sudden you blank and you're like, whoa, this game, like the bucks are down by one with two, what the fuck is going on here? But you said it. Like the thing that is cool for me to watch is the bucks are down. Tristan Wirfs, who I think is a. an incredible player. They've shifted Graham Barton out to left tackle, which people are really taking for granted how good his play has been at left tackle.

He's a center, okay? Like, he is just, it's like, hey, why don't we just plug him in at left tackle? That'll be fine. So I want to give him some love. And then they're really getting a lot out of their run game, which I think has kind of been the most important thing for their team. And then even like Bucky Irving in the past game has been great. But the real, like, leader, like everyone knows this is a Baker-Mayfield team.

Okay, like he, they were down by one point after another block kick touchdown. And you see like, everyone was like, what the fuck? But at the same time, so unconcerned because of a baker and his ability to scramble and like just in those big moments, how clutch he is. And they drive down the field like no problem and kick the field goal. So, I mean, a lot of good things in this game. I think the best thing that I love is actually my Beville Conway Award for my mention would be the cream school jerseys. someone in the chat was asking me about those but the real bevel conway dude i don't know if you saw vita's celebration uh jemel dean had a pick six right before the half and vita did the

i think it's the aura farming that was nuts i don't even know what i don't understand what orah farming is but like canoe it was so sick but um yeah i mean i had a lot of good stuff for this game i'm really liking uh i'm curious to see when chris godwin is going to be back i think it's still going to be a little bit, but I don't know, man, like the bucks are just getting it done. They're gritty. The defense, Yaya Diabi had a nice job. He had a sack, and, you know, there's a windfield sack force fumble that was good, a Dean pick six. Like, the defense is playing well, getting takeaways. I like to see them, like, a little bit better in their explosive, you know, defending explosive plays defensively, especially towards the end of that game. Now, the Jets are the Jets, like they,

they actually fought really hard. I don't think they're great. I think this game wouldn't have been close had it not been for injuries for the bucks, you know, kind of offensively and elsewhere. But I don't know. Basically the bucks are gritty. They're getting it done and it's a huge NFC matchup here coming up on Sunday,

and I'm excited about it. Well, and first of all, it's going to be the Bow Allen Bowl, Bucks Eagles. I just want to point this out. Like, Jamel Dean, man, hats off to him.

That was a huge pick six. You know, when they draft your replacement, when you take a pay cut like sometimes you can get a little sour guys out there making plays that was a huge play and then you know my boy jacob parish who i've been shouting out the guy they got from k state playing slot um four pressures a sack a hit like really being a prototypical bowls db like where you can where you can blitz this guy versatile and and the dean picked six he was he was coming you know that was that was him so

You know, like I think the, for the reason I mentioned, the bucks aren't turning any heads in the ways that they're winning games because they're all close games. But Baker's taking the football down, I think, in each game. Game winning drive. Game winning drive. And, you know, yesterday kind of felt like, okay, we're going to do this. Is it home, you know, like we're playing the Jets. It felt like a formality, but even then down Mike Evans and down all the offensive lines. and that's a serious drive for them.

Well, they're getting a lot of guy, they're getting a lot out of their depth guys. Like Sterling Shepard played really well. Like I said, like Bucca's coming along. Like they just feel like a gritty team. Yeah. They have a ton of play for their three and oh, man. And they're good. Like they're going to be in every game, you know?

And getting Chris back. I think CGL will take a little bit to get going. But like he's a physical dude. It's kind of huge timing with Mike getting hurt. I feel like it kind of sucks. Like Mike has a hamstring injury every year. it feels like. So getting Chris back will be good.

But I think the bottom line is like the bucks are firmly in the driver's seat in the NFC South. Some people from this illustrious podcast named Chris might not be too surprised to hear that. I'm excited about it. People in Tampa are pumped about it. And it'll be a big matchup. Like you said, dude, Bowles has had the Eagles number, especially in Tampa over the last three years.

So I think, you know, hopefully Lane will be healthy for this game. that'll be a fun matchup to watch it's always fun to watch guys like landin dickerson and vita vayas square off against each other because it just feels like a fucking rhino and an elephant you know like somewhere in the safari fighting um but i'm very interested to see how much blitzing todd will do against jalen and this eagle's offense i think that's kind of something i'm very curious about i've got to mention off this game before we bounce kind of piggybacking off the love that bow gave to the buckso line um Bucso line coach Kevin Carberry. I mean, getting this group ready to go. But you talked about Graham Bart and playing left tackle. Both the guards were making their first career start, I think. Elijah Klein and Luke Haggard.

You got your backup tackle at right tackle and Charlie Heck. Baker has only hit once and these guys found 122 yards in the ground. Pretty impressive. Need worse back. Because you mentioned Klein and Haggard. Haggard. Yep. But those guys gave up some pressures yesterday.

Yeah, they weren't perfect. So yeah, but you're keeping it together. Shout out to them, keeping it together. But like if you can get worse back, you got one back. I don't know what's going on with Evans. They're up in that game when he leaves. He looked pissed going in the tunnel. But like maybe they're like, hey, man, don't risk anything this week.

We got the birds next week, which is a huge game. So that would probably be the game of the week this week. All right. So not the game. Hold on before, Chris. Yeah. There's going to be a couple members of the Greenlight podcast at that game as well, which is exciting. Oh, yeah?

Yeah, like your boy B. Really? Going to the game. No shit. I've never been to a box game. Whatever happened to, um, you called me like, never been to a box game one time. You called me four minutes before kick this week and I'm like scrambling to like get bets in

and shit and like run over to the game center. And you're like, hey man, uh, I want to talk to you about next week. I might go to Ireland. Do you want to go to Ireland? I'm like, so no Ireland. Yeah. Okay. No, I mean, it's not a no.

but it's a probably not. Yeah, Kel's hit me up like on Friday and he's like, you want to go to Ireland? We're doing some, we got to do some stuff for garage beer. By the way, I work for garage beer. I'm a creative director. It's a very illustrious position.

Anyway, I don't have my passport. It expired on June 17th. So we're going to get that accomplished. Probably not going to go to Ireland, though. But, you know, we'll see. You get a passport in like a day now, though. Yeah, you can't get it expedited. You got to like.

Yeah, if you're willing to drive to Miami. I was just, I was just about- Is it Miami? It's like, Miami or DC or New York. It's like major, major city. Yeah, I don't know if you can get anywhere in the, yeah. All right. So anyway,

not game of the week this week, but like honestly kind of got lost in the shuffle. You know, you're talking about NFC elites, like really good teams in the NFC. We put the Packers right up there this year. After watching that game, they end up losing to the Browns. There were a couple moments where you're like, man, you could, you could have won this game. um however i just want the lead for me is jim schwartz has got this defensive line playing fast he's got the whole defense playing fast like i he he coached our 17 defense this defense is pretty fucking good this d line's pretty fucking good like i the young guys are playing well is a swessinger

the um yep the young the young the young linebacker looks like a stud mason graham continues to impress dude 43% pass rush win rate i think bow probably speak for you as well like he wins a lot of rushes he plays with his hands he plays with good technique he looks quicker at the pro level to me than he did in college yeah he's not super sexy you know no no if it's just because it's his face or what is a rookie or i don't know what it is it's his face it is his face i said to chris i was like it's his his his body does not look like what his face looks like is what his face looks like oh wow let me fucking look at his guy up quick.

Which is, looks good. He looks good physically. Yeah. That's what I'm trying to say. Well, it was the black shoes, black socks when he rolled in like the first day of like, of camp and, you know, fans are like, oh, he looked bad in the bag drills.

You remember that name? Yeah. He looked bad in the bag drills. Nate put out a whole podcast about how he was growing up and did 30 minutes segment on it. What are you doing? He was like, what are you doing? And he plays his ass off. He looks like he's in great condition.

Him and Malik Collins combined for multiple sacks inside on TT games. Would you say? He does. It looked like a South Park. He looks like a South Park character. A little bit. But I thought he can play ball. He can play, man.

They threw some overload looks at them, caused some confusion. And Shelby Harris, 34 years old. Shout out. Our guy Shelby Harris playing for the Browns, dude. You love ball for the love of the game. You're blocking a field goal. at the end of the game. Yeah, you went to Wisconsin with me for a little bit.

He's a good dude. And then Andrew Barry, who, I mean, if you take away the, if it's not for the little hiccup at quarterback evaluation, or maybe it's quarterback evaluation and like evaluation of how many civil cases the quarterback has, the Browns, they really have compiled a pretty good roster, man. Like, obviously especially defensively. And here's how it played out. Jordan Love average depth of target yesterday, 2.6.

2.6 yards compared to 12.9 last week, I think for a couple of reasons. Number one, they're scared shitless of the rushers. Jordan Morgan had a bad game. You know, Zach Tom comes in, it takes one bull rush from Miles Garrett, and he's not ready. Okay, like, I don't know what happened if he got dinged or what. Like, sorry if I missed it, but they end up down a couple guys on the offensive line. So they got to go a quick game. They've got to go screen.

And Tucker Kraft, to me, now that Jaden reads out, is like one of your best, if not your best, most reliable receiver. Well, when your receiver, your best receiver is a tight end like that, and you're playing a defensive line that you don't match up well with. You're going to have to chip out a lot. You're going to have to keep them into protection. And I think when you play a team that plays as much man as anybody in the league, Jaden Reed's the one guy who you're like, I'm beating man coverage with Jaden Reed. He's not on the field. But the Packers lost this game in two spots for me. third and three up 10-3 with four minutes to go in the game you throw the pick to Delpit you know and and I think it's some form of robber they're in man coverage Delpick kind of looks like he's covering number three and then

and then just kind of sluffs off and makes the play on number two and and Jordan Loves kind of locked on to two to that point and I'm not saying you just lay up on third and three but the Browns drives look like this punt punt punt interception punt punt punt punt punt and a field goal drive that took 12 plays 63 yards 548 off the clock they're up with four minutes to go you got to make cleveland drive the length of the field and score which they were not going to do in a timely fashion so in that scenario i don't know if it's an rPO i don't know if it's a screen i don't know if it's something on the perimeter like whatever you do don't do that now this is the thing for me where it's like not as many people are paying attention to this play but

i'll say it Matthew golden out of the end zone they're backed up you hit Matthew on the red line a good throw you have to throw him away from the safety right so you know the ball is trailing towards the sideline this guy supposedly runs like a four two okay if you freeze frame where he catches the ball that has to end up being a house call or you've got to cross the 50 yard line he kind of stumbles out of bounds we looked at the look at that fucking freeze frame right there reed can you put that on the on the feed please for me he's got the football in his hand and he's about 10 feet 12 feet from the sideline and and and delpit's like 13 feet inside of him delpit delpit's running for the pylon because he knows the guy runs four three okay like listen

it's nothing against a young kid i think he's going to be great but like you got to turn this play into something more than that falling out of bounds and and there's dudes on the sideline who are like hands on the head and i'm sorry's like oh yeah we're just like pausing it we're trying to to find LaFleur like that that to me was like you're up 10-0 at that point he should hit his fucking head on the goalpost yep um so we haven't talked about how do i say this kicker's name smit uh i think smite smith smiz smiz smiz smy schmise schmite well you're gonna know his name now in Cleveland i know he he had missed a kick early in the season um something like that people were upset with him but that's a big one and then judkins had a nice game too so smit smit it's

straight up Schmidt. They just decided to spell it the different way. But I'll say this, the Browns deserve a lot of credit out. You make this game about the Packers, but Jim Schwartz, that Brown's defense, the young players, Andrew Barry, the talent, whoever plays quarterback for this team next year is going to be a happy camper because the margins for error are going to be a lot better. And the great thing is about having Miles Garrett in that in that D-line room, it's for a coach, all you have to do is play tape of Miles Garrett and just be like, hey, we haven't been good for a while and just look how hard this guy works every fucking play from the start of the game to the end of the game. And like I talk shit and I give like Chris Jones and some of the better players in the league a hard time.

It's because if you watch tape of guys like Miles Garrett, it's like it's night and day. He plays hard. Like when you can tell if a guy's playing hard every time he steps on the field, no matter what the situation is. and he's a guy who does that. And when you're in a situation, like the Browns have been in the past couple of years where your team's not doing too well, or you might be knocked out of the playoffs after week fucking eight or whatever it is, there's not a lot to play for except for pride and future contracts maybe.

But if you watch a guy like that, it doesn't matter what the situation is. He's playing hard. And that's probably going to bode well for that defense. He's a leader. Yeah, he's a leader. That's leadership. Yep.

That's leadership. And the offense just has to turn it around just a little bit, and it could be a different story. I mean, you can win some games here. I think ultimately winning five, seven games would be the enemy of progress for this team, but tell that to players. Like, I totally respect it. So, STL Memorial, go into this defense.

And I have a few mentions during this game. Sheed Walker, like, bro, hollow man. We're talking about undefeited seasons after two games, and then you get knocked off by the Browns. I pick Green Bay to win the Super Bowl, and I'm happy because this is early in the season. I think this is a good time to get a loss and get it all together. And then a team like the Browns, coaches can really, like, get in your ass this week and, like, really push it and make you guys probably better for the remainder of the season.

But just to be talking about an undefeated season, like, after two games, is absolutely ridiculous. And especially, he's an O. Lyman. O'Liamond, their O'Line didn't play. you know, Mason Grimm, we talked about it. I just, I'm trying to imagine, like, if I heard through the locker room that my, one of my teammates was like a fine, right? Two and O, and he's like, I think we can go undefeated.

Like, I'd be like, yo, what's good, bro? Yeah. Like, what you got going? Like, bro, like, are you just like an unrealistic human being? Like, I think that would be, that was just, I feel like I have wrote that to ask you. Like, I'm like, is that a fine, like, between guys? What's missing?

To be like, bro, like, you really said, like, we're going undefeated after week two? You said that? Like, why? No, and, you know, it's funny, like, when you're Jaden Reed and you're doped up, like, coming off the OR table, you know, and you're coming out of surgery and you're like, yeah, we're going to the bowl. Like, everybody's like, all right.

All right. But it was like, it was like they gave him the happy juice. Mm-hmm. Like, you just can't say things like that. And then my last, my last mention for this game is I'm giving this game the Beville Conway. Come on. I knew you were going to do this. Oh, brown.

Oh, baby. I knew you. Brown helmets, brown jerseys, brown pants. The turds? I fucking love it. Only thing that was missing, they missed a chance to doing a collaboration with Timberlands and if they had some Timberlitz-style cleats, that wheat, that wheat brown, it would have been fire.

I was going to say, when you were talking about Miles Garrett, I was going to say, man, it's incredible that he played as well as he did in the jersey he was wearing. How do you do that? And then Nate's like, nah, I put it on. me, I want the, I want those jerseys. I've said it before in there. I'm a huge fan of the color rush thing scheme, and I think it's maybe just the consistency of having your jersey and your pants

to write the same color. But it's really not terrible. It's amazing. Like, it's brown. It's a lot of brown. And it's fall time. What more than pumpkin spice does that say?

Bo, you got to love that color. That's pumpkin ice. I don't like it. That looks like Joe Flaggillard. looks like something you just pinched off in the toilet i don't know what you mean i don't know what you're eating more in the cream what do you to have orange in your poop oh well not the orange orange is that the um the last thing i want to say it looks like joe burrow just got dropped off at the

pool how about miles garrett like after every game gets up there shirtless and just like stands there in in front of the media like and nobody says a word we're all just like holy shit this guy's big I want Mason Graham to start doing that. I want Mason Graham with his soft body to get up there and start doing press conferences shirtless to control the media. That'd be incredible. The whole Brown's defense. And you got to do it after a win, dude, if you're Mason Graham. So you miss your first opportunity.

Hopefully there's a lot more. How about this for Grant Delpit? His seventh interception at LSU, Jordan Love. His seventh interception in the NFL, Jordan Love. Well, seven. Oh, both of them, seven, seven, seven. Both levels. Interesting.

I don't know. LSU scheduled them? Utah? Yeah. Utah State? Yeah. That's interesting. We don't do that in Virginia.

We don't have any cupcakes. No, we do. All right. So the next one, the next one's going to be Vikings, Bengals. This is not going to be. I mean, I don't know what else. Get the grill out if you want.

Like, I give a fuck. Like last year. Get them. Get them to grill. Last year, I sat here and defended this team for a long time. The only reason I did it was because they had Joe Burrow. You were defending them last week. I was defending them last week.

And I don't see it. And I told him they need to make a move for a quarterback. And Bengals fans told me, I got one for you. Hey, in 2023, we did X, Y, Z with Jake Browning. Jake Browning, oh, sorry. You're going to be sorry. You cut me, all that shit. He forgot that he's probably playing the most.

pissed off team in the NFL this week. I mean, look, you got your chef hat on? What do you got, bro? We got some cooked up bangles. Well, fuck, man, the service takes forever here. Look at this. Bengals are on the grill. Bengals are on the grill.

You want to make sure this is a temperature suits you. Oh, man. Okay. Now, this is the worst loss in Bengals history. Out. You know how hard that is, like, to do? evidently it's not hard when you give up two scores on offense to the same fucking guy by the way

um well around that topic Chris yeah that's my game ball that's the most absurd like first I think it was the first half right he had a pick six he had a forced fumble for a touchdown he forced another fumble Isaiah routers that's an incredible performance from him that's my gay ball I don't think it gets any better than that like he should just retire you know what I mean like just hanging up you're using the cat eating the cats so i just somebody in the chat just said they're eating the cats too so

people are picking up on this i think the conversation now turns to like because they couldn't even run the ball and and you know if you talk about like where was an opportunity for for for the bengals to pick up a win over this next month like you know like on paper you're playing the other backup quarterback in carson went to grew up a viking's fan great moment for him awesome to see my guy he's going to be playing in Ireland this week with red hair. Yep. Take the Vikings. You know, I just,

when we talked about this on the ride over, there's five backup quarterbacks playing yesterday. All right. Terad Taylor, they make that a game. Mariotta, they beat quite possibly the best team in the NFC West, right? We're joking. Mack Jones. Mac Jones, got a win.

And then the other one was, um well carson wince the guy they play got to win for this team as good as they are offensively from a personnel standpoint outside and don't tell me it's got to be the offensive line the offensive line we talk about it all the time do you know how many shitty offensive lines there are every week in the NFL and oCs and coaches find ways to work around them the bucks play with four backups yeah we just talked about the bucks yeah exactly dude i am so tired of zach taylor dude i'm just like I've been tired of him for a couple years now and it's not personal it's nothing like that i just i feel like they've wasted a window and burrow getting hurt is not ideal but when you go on

the road and you just beat the jags and browning started for most of that game you had to do one thing not turn the ball over and what do you do you come out and you just it's a fucking turnover fest i said this about jake browning like just because you're in the meeting room with joe burrow doesn't mean you can do joe burrow things take care of the football, run the football. They couldn't do that. I think they had six yards at the half. So I think that the Bengals are at a crossroads right now because the defense, well, I think they have an opportunity to get better from last year, has not made a huge jump, like to the point where we're like, all right, I can justify seeing how they're going to, they're going to

outscore people. Like with Joe Burrow as quarterback, you could think, oh, he's going to help the defense. The defense is going to have time to get better. Now they actually have to like pitch 20 point performances, 23 point performances and play complimentary football. I don't see it anymore. I'm not going to ride for the Bengals with Jake Browning as the quarterback. I think the big question now is, you know, where do you go? Because me and Nolan talked about this last night for a while. The player in me is always like make a move. You know, like we don't want to rot. We don't want to sit through here. I know the Bengals might look at it like, hey, well, we're out of it. this year. Like, we're just going to punt. Players don't want to punt. So the player in me is like,

go trade. I don't care if it's for fucking James Winston or Jimmy G. who costs like a million dollars. And by the way, the Rams probably wouldn't give them up because they're like, look at the situation you're in. Our quarterback was in a fucking airstream all August. You know, you've got a chance to go get like a Joe Flacco who hasn't played well in Cleveland, but anything would be better than this. And it probably wouldn't take much to get a Joe Flacco. Or Although if you're Cincinnati, you're probably like, I prefer the devil I know. And, you know, it's like buying fucking trail mixes at the airport, dude. They're going to charge you $15.

Like you're going to get bent over in any trade for a quarterback. So I totally understand the sentiment of just punt and start sell pieces for fuck's sake. I know the chargers could use a running back. Send Chase Brown to the charges. Send Trey Hendricks into a team that needs a quarterback. If you're going to punt, punt all the way. or make a move because if you're going to stand pat i have a hard time imagining that they're not going to be like three and six at some point this season yeah yeah well i was just going to add

like so and i totally get the player perspective and it feels like a violation of the ultimate role of competition of like kind of punting on a season but the front office the ownership group they're probably looking at this saying they're starting with the defense and they're like I'm not sure if this group's any better than it was last year, truly. Like your bottom third in the league in success rate, EPA per play, pressure rate, yards per carry allowed. Three of the games you played, one's the Browns, respectfully, the other's a backup led Vikings team.

You know, it's not like these are offenses are putting up the time of points. That's MVP candidate Carson Went. That's right. With Christian Derasaw back. I know. By the way, that was pretty good. But point remains, like defense isn't much better. And you know looking at last year, the sole reason you were in playoff contention at the end of the year was because Burroughs playing out of his mind.

And so to think that, in my opinion, to think that we can plug some other teams back up into this situation and still be in a position where we're back in the playoff hunt in mid-December when Joe's back. It's just hard to see. Well, you know, the one thing you can do by plugging somebody else in is not score 14 points for the other team when you're on offense, things like that. I'm just saying stabilize the situation. By the way, EPA per play, do you have a number in the league or bottom third where are they at? They're like 21st, 22nd? Man, that's an improvement. You see you tried to bottom third me.

How about 27th in success rate? Okay, I'm not, I don't even know what the fuck that is. Okay. But I do think, oh, success rate. I do think, I do think they have a chance. chance to if Joe Burrow was was a quarterback of this team they'd have a chance to ease this defense in but as you mentioned like and if you're going to be on the other side of it and say hey like let's stop let's stop doing this let's just peel the bandaid off then you do have to sell pieces and you have to get yeah but my

question is Chris like why if you're Joe Burrow or if you're if you're going in that direction and selling pieces which I personally think they should do and you know to your point Nolan like as a player you never want to see that happen. Once that starts to happen in your locker room, you're just like, God damn it. Totally. It just sucks. But if you're like, why play,

bro, why play him in December? Well, they might not. That's the, that's the, I don't think they should is kind of what I'm getting. Well, unless they're in it. They won't be in it, man. Look at their roster.

I pulled it up here. Okay, they just lost to the Vikings, 40s to 10, awful showing. Broncos, they're at, they're in Denver. then they're playing the lions than the Packers, then the Steelers. Like not a lot of relief in sight. Okay, let's look at it. Then they're playing the Jets.

Okay. Detroit. Like it's top. Detroit. Detroit. Boat race, Detroit. Okay. Green Bay. Boat race. Green Bay. They could beat the Steelers. They could beat the Steelers. They could beat the Steelers.

They could beat the Jets. They could beat the Bears. Okay. Then they get the Steelers again. Then New England. Okay. So like, the player in me says, fuck, get us some help. help we might be up shits creek for a couple weeks but like that's seven or three if you count those as no i'm not counting them as well okay what i am saying is that like hey these are winnable games 48 to 10 as bad as it is is an outlier it's such an outlier that it's the worst loss in bengal's

history unless you're going to tell me that's who they are every week even in the current form then then i i just how about their front office right now maybe being like see everyone gave a shit about having to pay for Higgins and you wanted us to pay Hendrickson and then this happens and then this happens and we could have had some extra capital so we maybe we could go get a backup QB

they're gonna well they still have capital I mean like to me what would it take to get Joe Flacco a four mid rounder yeah but but to that point but why coming back to your because he's better than Browning but coming back to the points made about even at 75 years old dude

I'm just saying like do you do you one of the best future draft capital how do we know he's throwing to cedric tilman i mean do you want someone in the chat made a great point the the the the the bagels were 98 last year with borough and like no question bad start but like i just don't i'm not seeing any any any light at the end of the tunnel here for the bengals neither my that's why they're on the fucking grill but the player in me the player and me like go go make a move just try something it's early enough to try something yeah and that i guess that can and use some hope into a team like hey at least we're trying you know we're go get we're but like go get

james you know what i mean i think here's just do it for the here's the point zach taylor with all the backup quarterbacks last yesterday and their teams played stable football or they or they made it a game or they won the game this is the fucking result when i think it's a coach thing i think a huge part of it is a coach and so if you're cincinnati not that they fire coaches they they they basically like Like, what's his name? Marvin Lewis had squatters rights, dude. Like it was crazy, dude. It was crazy.

They never would get rid of them. And it's the cheapest organization in football. Like we know that. So if they're sitting up there and they're like, hey, we're going to fire Zach Taylor, then maybe you don't make a move. Yeah. And I think that's, that was the last piece I was going to add from like the front office perspective is seeing how, how unready to play that team was yesterday.

I want to invest future draft capital into this coaching staff this season. That's something else I'm going into. It just sucks to be a player, man. This is my worst seat, by the way, Bengals. It's just, it feels hopeless. It's the worst flight. I mean, we've got all this. A worst flight, too, for sure.

But can we talk about the Vikings real quick? Like, I mean, come on. They look pretty good, man. A lot to be excited about Minnesota with the Vikes. Carson Wentz, I think you get the chance for Jay's, to get healthy a little bit, kind of like sit behind Carson. Carson looked good. The Vikings, I think are a solid team. Like, I don't know. I was happy to see them win. That felt good. No, good for the Vikings. Good for KOC. People were coming at him last week. We were like,

I don't know if it's the easiest place to play, you know, quarterback. Like, I don't know. I don't know. Well, you know, that was a resounding, like, we're pissed off. We're tired of it. And we're going to beat the shit other Bengals. That to me is head coach versus head coach. It's the wrong. It's The roster two, the D.C., the pieces on defense from Minnesota, but it's also like head coach against head coach. Wentz-a-olde-173-2 touchdowns. He threw a quick pass, which is under two and a half seconds on 60% of his pass. Do you know how hard that is to get that guy to do that?

Incredible. Yeah. I mean, that's impressive. Yeah. Impressive. And getting Darisol back is huge. Mm-hmm. You say what?

Love that. It's growth. Yeah, it is growth. You want to talk about growth. you want to talk about growth let's go to the windy city which uh how that game didn't go over i do i have no idea that that total died in the dirt twice in the red zone deck drives the length of the field and i think pickings drop the ball and then joe milton had me like standing on my couch like yeah joe like he's so fucking good

and then he throws a pick in the end zone it was just it was terrible i was on the right side it was terrible. But the lead in this game to me is Caleb Williams. Now, I know a lot of you guys had wise-ass things to say last week when we said he played just fine. He played well. No, oh, he didn't. Oh, the other team scored so many more points. I don't watch the throws. This week I thought Caleb Williams was he put it all together. They put it all together. It's Dallas. We get it. You know, also ran the ball. You know, it just, it just, that's a big confidence. booster for a quarterback like that to have a clean sheet and win a game. You know, like he'll show growth in a bad game like last week where they get their ass kicked and nobody can really see it

because they box score watch or they, you know, they highlight watch or, you know, they judge off the result. Here's a result where he played great four touchdowns, 19 to 28 for 298, didn't get sacked. Zero sacks. Playing on time a little bit more like that's the growth you want to see. So can everybody come down off their soapbox about how bad this kid is. The truth always lies somewhere in between. We overhyped him coming out and now he's underrated. He's going to be fine, dude. He's going to be fine.

I mean, if you can play in NFL games as a quarterback where you don't get sacked, I think everyone is pretty decent enough to play a good statistical game if you're a quarterback. I think, like for most guys, if you're not going to get sacked and you can actually be back there and be a quarterback. I think guys who end up starting an NFL game can make most throws you're supposed to. But it's just the fact of if you're getting rushed off your spot or whatever else it may be. But having to not focus on that and just focus on your reads and hey, I'm not about to get my head knocked off or I'm not, I'm about to get hit blindside or I have

to run up out of the pocket and make a pass at an angle I really don't want to. I think I think guys can play a lot better in obviously that happened for Caleb well burden had kind of a breakout performance um you know adunzei has continued to show growth those two are going to cut play catch for a long time and you know dj more and kaleb are on the on the sideline you know yep this is my buddy here you know like we're friends now it's just the the the winning cures all like this is a good one to get under your belt um and uh you know like great play by tyrant Stevenson. Great play taking the ball away in that in that game early in the game that kind of gets lost in the shuffle. That was huge. Just good for them putting it together. Kind of a get-right

game almost because of the Cowboys Swiss cheese secondary. No question. You know it's a perfect spot. And Ben Johnson said that they felt comfortable dialing up Sunday's flea flicker versus the Cowboys after film study, including the Bears defensive tape from last year when Iber Fluse, the Cowboys DC now, was their head coach. He took things from last year's Bears team and put it and implemented it. And that's a sneaky revenge game. Oh, big time. You know, I don't know how many people on Iber Fluse's staff that might have helped write that Tyler Dune article. But, you know, I think that was a big one for Caleb. And I like the sleeve situation. He went with the long throwing arm sleeve. And I think he had a loose sleeve under on top of it. So like a

little combo slings. And someone noticed. No nail polish. And someone noticed no nail. Well, maybe he just, he's got a manicured today. That's my fly in the wall. My fly in the wall is the call from Caleb's nail tech and Caleb having to tell her or him, hey, I'm not, I'm going to go with bare nails this week.

And now that he did so well, four touchdowns, if you're a superstitious person, that means, Yeah. That means bare nails for the rest of the season. They call that nude. No, nude is the actual color. It's actual color. Oh, really? Oh, God, thank you. So you're matching, you're matching.

I didn't fuck that up. I fucked that up. I was going to say you call it a nude bootleg when he runs a bootleg. You know what I'm saying? Not naked. Flea Fligger was sick. Let's get that toss down, though. Yeah, the toss was a hospital ball.

Yeah. Yeah. No question. I was hanging up for like a punt. The flicker comes second. No, but you don't want to catch half the first. But look, it's what's cool for the for the bears is that up until this point, all the videos and all the outside noise that we hear about the bears when they show highlights is just them.

Just like you said, Caleb and DJ Moore, they're smiling on the bench. But any past videos, it's like Caleb pissed off or DJ Moore pissed off or guys on the bench like looking at Caleb like, what the fuck is this guy doing or whatever it is. And then now they have a couple of videos of them looking, feeling good. I think the scene of them after the win in the locker room and Caleb tossing the ball to Ben Johnson on his first win as a Bears coach. And I think that feels good for guys in the locker room. And obviously that's all you're trying to feel and taste when you're in the NFL locker room is a win, as James would say.

You're trying to eat a win. But when that happens, especially... I'm going to eat a win when we get back to the locker room. Especially when you're on a team in the locker room that's probably not getting the best press. Yeah. This will feel good for this weekend. Obviously, it's a little bit more edge to be like, hey, guys, like, don't you want to feel like that again next week? Yeah.

Let's try to get another win. I'm holding in a piss that is just, I mean, and it's a live show when I leave. Hey, Noel, can you talk about the Cowboys and Philison on the CD Lamb injury while I express? Absolutely. Looks like the latest we have on CD Lamb is going to miss two games, right? Yeah, he suffered a high ankle, and they're going to see how he's doing the next 10 to 14 days before making any further determination. So next week's definitely out. I got a question for you.

Pull trick. Sorry to interrupt your cowboy. Please do. Why are they bringing him in out of the backfield like that? I don't understand it. To me, it's like he played well last week. Like he's explosive as a wide receiver. You bring him in the backfield, you get a little cute, and he gets injured.

What's like, why? I mean, I totally agree. I think, I mean, every opportunity. They don't do it again. Yeah, they're trying to create new looks, trying to create different things to defend. And like, as you know, that's just, it's like a wildcat type thing where it's like, even if they only use it for one play, like, that's going to be some install time. That's going to be something the coach is distressed about, like that whole thing.

So, but yeah, I don't think we'll be seeing the news anymore after that. So. Did I look a little like Miles Garrett running back in here? Yeah. It was quick. Yeah, take your shirt off. That long, which. What did he say?

Take your shirt off. Yeah, take my shirt off. I don't think so. All right. So Niners cards. This was, this was a weird one. watch, man. It was like, let's start here. If the season ended today, and I quiz the guys on this last night, they have maybe a different opinion, but is Kyle Shanahan coach of the year? I think it comes down

to him and Stuyken. There's two ways you can look at this. You know, it's like, oh, Stuyken's unlocked something in Daniel Jones. They're 3 and 0. But the Niners are undefeated, and they keep losing guys. It's like all the things that we warned would happen are happening and they're still winning. So there's something to be said that it went like six yards of play yesterday. Throw into like Tongass and. Ricky Pierceall.

Pierceall. Tight windows. Tight windows. Contested catches. CMC. You know, it's also a credit to like how when CMC's healthy, how much he slants things. You know, and we got a shout out Mac Jones, right? Who?

Mac Jones, game winning drive. For the guys who were on Arizona, that Calais Campbell safety was huge. It made the last drive just so stress-free. The real shame of it is here. Except when C-Mack was making that move to the end zone. Ooh, I was like, guys, guys. Don't score, don't score, don't get him down, dude.

If they pulled a Todd Bowles and just was like, let him score. So anyways I think the thing that I'm coming away from this game wanting to say is And it pains me to say But I'm going to go ahead and like I don't want to say give up on Kyler Murray But I just

Ooh I've seen I've seen Enough To where I'm like Listen this team's going to be fun and erratic to watch The defense I think they've done a really good job of building that thing out. Him and Marvin Harrison, Jr.

can't get on the same page for the life of him. That's the thing. You know, I love Wilson. I think he's a stud, like super steady guy. James Conner's injury is enormous. He's kind of the heartbeat of their team. Treyquan McBride.

Like, they've got, they had some players and they still do. But the quarterback play is just, it leaves so much to be desired. Like nothing is in phase. Like, it's always it's always off kilter and like i don't think of marvin harrison

jristen junior as like a scramble drope wide receiver right you know and and and because of the way he plays like can you marry all your your play action concepts with with the run game you know he he's a waterbug for sure he's tough to sack he makes some amazing plays but like he hasn't shown the growth he's like one of those players that like early in his career we were like oh he can really play and then after a while you watch him you're like he's not getting any better yeah so like baked into the the the he can play in year two or three there's this assumption that he's going to grow and he it's not a it's an unfortunate height thing i'm not saying but like i'm saying that he's just not showing the growth yeah yeah and to me as a passer

it kind of puts and i'm a big fan of what they've done in in in in in in in in in in stocking the defense, some of the talent we've talked about, and I think Gannon's a good coach. I even think their OC's a good offensive coordinator. Rawless has done a good job. I root for this team, but like Kyler, Kyler seems to lower the ceiling on the team. Totally.

And the floor. Yeah. He lowers the ceiling and the floor. Yeah, it's just kind of the same pattern of like, you just see these chunk gains over the middle of the field that he just doesn't take. and you think about it's like all right can we improve the situation the offensive line the guard plays been up and down they haven't run the ball as well this year but i really like you know we'll

get to the patriots like i was watching the patriots yesterday i'm thinking like it's clear and obvious that drake may would benefit immensely from better pass catchers but you can see that delta from where they are to where they would be if he had some high-end playmakers on the outside but when i watch kiler i don't see that kind of delta because it's like it doesn't matter who was running the route if he's not going to take the throw and he just leaves those 12-yard end breakers out there over and over and over and you've seen harrison on cover you've seen wilson uncover in the middle of the field and it's just again with those patterns persisting it's hard to believe shout out to rob what we were talking about last night was insane yeah it was

totally we were sitting there we were sitting there during sunday night football talking about like the ways you can like get out on the highlight of guarantee like can we get him to ride a motorcycle like can we tell him like there's a it's double xp but you got to get to game stop right now and like steal this car and leave a Harley outside you know like or bidwell's got his pilot's license like we start taking take him up take him up and point do the point break thing you know we don't think it's actually going to happen obviously but like imagine if he he Patrick Swayze him brought him up there and it was like Maybe that's why they made that picture

with him and the dog go viral. They were trying to make it get really... You think the Cardinals had some do with that decision? Trying to sway public opinion. Yeah. Let's see if this like... Sabot is the right person off. I'll hear you.

The right person off and send it into a frenzy. And maybe one of our owners will be like, hey, we got to do something about it. I think the lead here, though, is like coming off that conversation that damn near midnight last night. The movie point break doesn't make any sense. because

because Keanu Reeves when faced with a decision of like I can jump out of the airplane without a parachute and chase Patrick Swayze because I don't want to let him get away or I could land the plane myself like somebody when I said this last night like the guys were like but if he lands the plane

himself they're going to get away I'm like why doesn't he land the fucking plane where they land that movie makes no sense to me in so many ways I mean, fuck. And the fact they let Patrick Swayze go surfing at the end

instead of like apprehending him was just, great movie. No, that's the best part in the ending because it's like, I know he's,

no he's not coming back. Yeah. He's just gonna get out out there. Somebody had an interesting. Another win for Robert Sala's defense too. What? Oh, Sala, dude.

Yeah, no. He's a guy I respect a lot. Me too. I've never met him, but I want to play for him. That's what I was saying. That's why I was like,

last year the whole shit with Aaron Rogers. I'm just like, yo, you're a jerk. Like, because you're putting this bad stain on this good coach. He's a good man and a good coach. And it just seems like wherever he goes, the guys he gets, like, they want to play, they want to play hard for him. And, like, he didn't skip a beat. Like, he was quiet.

He left New York with Grace, got a job with his back with his buddy, and it's back to business. And I'm happy for Robert Salo. I do want to say this. A Warriors rage in the chat says. I mean, people are out on Kyler, but Cousins hasn't been to the playoffs and he's still around. He has been to the playoffs. He actually won a playoff game. Just not to nitpick.

And I think the problem with Kirk, it's like, man, you play in structure and that's it. You know, like with Kyler, it's like, all you do is play out of structure. Yeah, Kirk would take the throws that were there. Yes, a young, healthy Kirk. Like, I'm not, I don't want to make it like, yeah, so anyways. All right. So, charges Broncos. We're moving to the ASC right now.

This was an incredible game. I'm sorry, Reed. It was incredible. It had probably one of the best throws you'll ever see. Nick Benito's in his face, two hands. Justin Herbert's rolling to his left. Throws a dot to a heavily covered Keenan Allen. Not an open, heavily covered that Riley Moss swings at with his paw, misses.

Keenan Allen catches it. Touchdown. So on that play, he's smelling Zach Allen's breath, Cooper's breath, and then he's rolling left. And the thing about the Benino, when you freeze that from the end zone

and see Benito's outstretched left arm, he's rolling left and hooks the ball around his outstretched left arm. Insane. So just as good a throw as you're going to see a quarterback make this year. I mean, I don't want to be hyperbolic, but it was a fucking incredible throw.

And maybe, what we could do is freeze that and show people because we can't, God forbid, I show film and grow the game. Oh, cut it. Oh, shit. They're probably going to cease and desist us. Desist. But what I have written down here is this matchup comes down to the quarterbacks. This game comes down to who's playing quarterback on either team.

And for the Broncos, like, all this hype you've got, it kind of feels like a moment where there's this shift in power in the AFC West. and it kind of feels like the moment where Bo Nix realizes and Sean Payton realizes like number one it sucks to play quarterback in the AFC West not just because of Patrick Mahomes but also because of this guy which you should have known that for a while the second part is like maybe we aren't going to be able to catch these guys with the guy under center that we have now I'm not saying it's time to bench Bo Nix or anything like that but the Broncos scored 14 unanswered points the Chargers fumble a kickoff. No, Nicks overthrows Frank. I think it was Franklin in the end zone. And it could be 2110. Instead, it stays one score. They also had first and five at the five up 17, 13.

Instead, it stays one score. And Nicks overthrew a number of touchdowns, probably three or four. Yeah. On Sunday. Yeah, and that's what everybody's talking about. It's literally inches, just outstretched. And the one positive takeaway, I mean, you say it's like the difference in quarterbacks.

One guy makes the improbable play. and another guy misses him. Three or four, but not even improbable. Like, you know, like just why all those throws are wide open. You just step up and make the throw, whether it's like you don't need to crowhop or whatever. You know, it's easy to be the Monday morning quarterback. But one thing that did, you know, one positive as a Broncos fan, you do see Bo Nix on the sideline at the end of the game. And he says, you can read his lips.

He says, I had so many chances today. And then you hear. He knows it. Yeah, he knows it. And in the locker room at the end of the game, the team's getting asked questions, hey, like, what's going on? What do you think?

And the players are like, look, we'll stop you right there. Bo Nix is the guy. He's the guy. We love Bo Nix. We know he can get us there. Him and Cortland have formed a strong bond. You know, you can tell the guys like him. But 16, 17 weeks of this,

and that tune changes a little bit. You know, like it's still early. He's got to make the throat. that are there because nobody's going to blame Sean Peyton. I'm sorry, but if anybody's blaming Sean Payton and not the quarterback, then you're ignoring the context of who Sean Payton is. Nine first downs on the game, you know, two or 13 on third down. Like the quarterback has to, A, hit those throws,

B, find other ways to escape pressure up the middle. I talk about that all the time. But Justin Herbert on the other side of it, pressured 50 plus percent of his throws, led two masterful drives in crunch time. do you remember when the charges used to charger charger was a verb he's he's good enough that he's going to be hopefully the guy that pulls the store he's negating the charger he's negating the charger energy this is an l-a time statistics so if they fucked it up blame them but the charges were winless

in in their last 11 games decided by three points or fewer that was written in december of 2004 that doesn't feel like the same team anymore you know like gadsen made a couple huge catches for them on the last drive. You talk about getting the tight end involved. McConkey is so sure-handed and tough with the football in his hands. And like, you know, Justin Herbert's resilient. He missed that shot to Quentin Johnson at the start of that drive. And what is he too? He just comes back and he's like a serial killer. I want my quarterback like a serial killer at the end of games. And it felt like that's who he was the last two drives. I don't know if he relaxed at the beginning of this season or like, you know, took a sip of beer or something just chilled out. But he did

something. Oh, he's definitely drinking some beer, you know. Oh, that's a great call. That is what what is your take, Bob? What's your football take? I think the most impressive thing to me about this one for the Chargers. I'm fully in on the Chargers. I like the Chargers

a lot. I really like Justin Herbert. He's actually one of my America's teams. Just Justin Herbert. Yeah, it's a good American. I'm fucking on. But he is not like this is a team that's not built to throw the ball 47 times a game, you know?

like that's not what they do that's not what they want to do offensively losing naji harris for them that's a big loss and then for them to kind of shift their game plan have the resiliency to throw the fuck out of the ball with justin herbert and ride their quarterback like that the way they did and get the win against probably the best one and two team in the NFL cowboy like i'm i'm fully in on the charge i think they are one season away from being a super bowl contending team like they're right there they need they're really good and i like that them a lot and I'm absolutely rooting for them. I think that they are missing maybe one or two key pieces, but it's been really fun to watch the development of this squad, especially guys like

Quentin Johnston, who had a lot of problems like literally just catching the ball last year. And now he's such a deep threat and, you know, he's making all these explosive plays. And then it feels like Justin Herbert has been so close here for the last two seasons and now he's putting it together. So like, I'm fully in. Like they're good. They're, they're, they're, they're, they're Definitely going to miss Naji Harris, but I think they're the class of the AFC West right now, which is exciting. Well, they're also mentally tough because they've had to deal with all the injuries. You know, like you got Sawyer and Pipkins playing on the right side. And, you know, I literally are going through playpass and you watch your free agent running back who's like your RB1 fall to the ground on non-contact.

Herbert's carrying out the fake, sees him on the ground as like, oh, we just lost him for the season. Football's an interesting sport, is it not? It's crazy. And then you just keep going. You complete the pass. I also thought two things. Hampton's going to have to step up big. And what do I see from him so far?

Like, I see a guy who's a help. I don't know if he's the solution. He caught the ball to the backfield well yesterday. I also thought two situations on those last couple drives. They really made Denver pay for the double mug looks. You got Hampton in the flat and then he gash him in the run game. And the defense, man, I think if we're talking about a Chargers team that's kind of scored in the low 20s, each of these games. And they'll live there because the defense.

defense does a really good job now the one thing they're going to look at on tape is like how did we get let courtland sutton get behind us you know how we let all these guys get behind us because those opportunities other quarterbacks will make you pay for um but the defense is great i said derwin james is going to show up in pass rush this week he did he bitch troutman and um it looks like a damn defensive end and he's like a missile when you bring him down on second down and you put him on the end and the line of scrimmage he had four tfls 12 tackles i want to shout out tart the the d line the interior D line. I thought the TT stunt that they ran on the Franklin Miss saved the game.

That was E. Boygby. Yeah, hell yeah. I write it out phonetically. But I think the interior defensive line was like kind of an unsung group in this game. Tart's a beast. Along those lines, I love Tart. And he's really good. But dude, this guy, Jammari Caldwell.

Yeah, he's a bad body. He's a fucking dog. I've been watching him. He is so good. really good run defense i think he's what a third or fourth rounder third rounder yeah it's so funny you bring him up i was watching the hall of fame game in the summer and like the hall of fame game and like the hall of fame game and it was like late like third quarter and i'm like oh shit like who's this guy like we got a live one and yeah yeah he's he's i was talking with ham brade about that

yeah uh like a little bit last week we got to eat because and he was talking about him too and like this kid's really good so i'm him and tart and like i'm i'm really bummed about and I call him Mac just exploding his elbow because that front seven is pretty nasty. Yeah, the whole defense is underrated. And I got, they pulled one, a fast one on me because there's some guys that aren't household names on this defense, but they play really well. Miner's doing a great job. We're almost at the flyovers guys, but we got to talk about Jags and Texans. I want to give you.

Duval! Victory Monday for the tags, baby. Run with it. Here we go. Jags in a nice, gritty divisional game against the Houston Texans. The Jags haven't beat the Texans at home in a long time. So this was good to see them fight and get this win out. But let me tell you why I'm excited about the Jags.

Even though the Jags, realistically, they did not play well. They actually play very bad. Still have issues in our wide receiver room. We have the most drops in the whole entire NFL as of today, which is crazy. all these things, but we got the win, guys. We got the win, the AFC South. Yes, we have the Colts who are pulsing and they're doing very, very well, but we're right on their ass.

We right on their ass. Trevor Lawrence, he's keeping confidence in his guys. Brian Thomas Jr. had another abysmal game. Like, yes, he had a catch of 46-yard catch that ultimately set us up for a touchdown to go up 1710. But before that catch, if he did not catch that ball, I don't know statistically, like, if he would have had like the worst couple of weeks as a wide receiver ever. But he ended up catching that pass. We end up winning the game. But I also want to give a shout out.

Jags defense for keeping us in this game. And they're playing very, very, very well. We had Walker and Heinz Allen with pressures all the entire night. Eric Armstead in the middle, pushing the pocket. The Jags at one point at the start of the fourth quarter had four, six, three, and outs by the Texans. And I don't know what's going on with the Texans offense. I don't know if they're missing mixing that bad and they just can't get a run game going that's maybe affecting everything. Were we a little too hype on C.J. Straub for the past couple years?

Oh, no, please no. Don't do it. We can still. Oh, yeah. We got the Titans next week. Please don't do it. Oh, they're on the grill. They're just cooked. No, we're going to wait.

We're going to wait until next week. But I will say this about Houston's defense. Houston's defense, they still played decent, not enough to win. But I just want to give a shout out to Will Anderson and Al Shire. Because those guys, if you like football and you like defense, turn on tape of those guys. They're fun. The way they've run around. they've run and they hit and Al-Shayir hit wait um I think it was brown maybe diamond brown yeah

on a screen play oh my god knocked them out of the game clean hit and then I think I think I think Haynes he got some get back at one point like yeah but it's just like bro like to really to hit someone hard enough to like injure them like cleanly I think I I I don't think that's an easy tasked to do. No, nobody's doing it. And it's not like on purpose or anything like that,

but it just goes to show how fast and physical like this dude Al Shire is playing. That guy's a bullet. He's a heat sicking missile. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And seeing him fly around

and then also, hold on, I can't forget about Lewis from the Jaguars. Also, DB, he's playing absolutely... Underrated cat. Oh, he's been. Very.

Very, very. But I say that, to say this, the Jags, not even close to playing a perfect game or really a subpar game, but we got the win. And in the past, these type of games don't equate wins for us. So we got time to get stuff together.

We still have a lot of penalties, a lot of before the snap penalties. Like I said last week, I don't think the offense as a whole is fully understood by maybe Trevor and all the wide receivers. So maybe when they get all that together, we'll get less pre-snap penalties, illegal formations or whatever that is.

But the biggest thing is catch the ball. We had a series where they had two drop passes in a row and then the next play, Trevor throws a pick and it's just like, does that happen if you guys catch those passes? And in the same breath, Trevor is still sailing the ball on a couple of passes that he probably shouldn't be in missing a few. So Trevor less miss passes, guys a little less misdrop balls and the drags. I think we're going to be. You know what's so funny about that breakdown?

You started out like, we're going to the fucking bowl. And then by the end of it, you're like, yeah, but one more thing and one more thing. And we have to fix all these things. But you are two and one. And like Liam Cohen can coach football. The players have to buy into the scheme. The players have the quarterback has to make the plays. The wide receivers have to catch the fucking football.

Your number one can't have four drops. He had one, he, he had four drop. Yeah, that's not good. Yeah, that's not good. Can I show you what I found on Texans Reddit today? That is unbelievable. That is unbelievable. Not only is it unbelievable, but it's also unbelievable because I don't know if you realize,

but y'all can lose to anybody at this point. Yeah, that's, like, very no slump on it. I was like, I would be so sure. I think Hennessy's looking at y'all. like the i'm not telling anybody i'm doing this the buss the slow like i don't know hey so the texans man every time i looked up yesterday it felt like because i gave him out and they're driving with the ball at the end chance to tie the game and all that shit Tyson campbell baby but but it's like it's every time you look at the tv it's like oh my god i know texans fans are feeling this but like

every time you watch the offense like oh my god they did not just do that. Like he did not just do that. CJ Stroud did not just do that. And it just feels like, it feels like an ugly, ugly time in that building. And you can imagine, I'm not saying they're going to get torn apart or anything from inside. But like,

when you've got defense is playing this well and an offense is holding you back, like eventually there's a tension. And nobody's coming to the rescue. They're one of these teams that like, hey, Joe Mixon might come to the rescue at some point this year. I don't know what the last thing you heard about that is. But, you know, like,

Otherwise, it's the receivers have to grow the fuck up. The quarterback has to erase all the trauma that he's incurred over the last year and three weeks. Ain't coming back? Part of my take did a thing where they're like, since he like big brother, Caleb Williams, his stats went like way downhill and it's pretty fucking hilarious. It's funny. But, but I like in the Texas of this. Who's seen the show 1883 in here?

Have you all seen the show 1883? Of course, nobody's seen it. But somebody in the chat room seen this, I was explaining, have you seen it, Bo? No. Jesus, it's better in Yellowstone. Who's seen Yellowstone? Idiots. I've seen Yellowstone begrudgingly.

Yeah, 1883 is better. But them going, taking the ball and trying to score a touchdown is like the plot of 1883, which is basically they take, there's a bunch of wagons and they got to, it's an Oregon Trail. It's basically like you got to go all the way across the country. And for the few people in the chat that know the fucking show, the offensive lines, the Norwegians were completely outclassed out there on the frontier, just fucking things up. Like they were, they're taking all their Chotchky shit and like when it's time to pack up camp and go.

Like the, you know, um. D'Amico Rans is like, no, you don't need that. No, you don't leave that behind. You don't need that. That's exactly right. C.J. Stroud is basically like the, the, the chick in, in the show that, like, has always done her monologues. Elsa, right?

I even go as far as I even, I get this whole concept written out where it's, It's like Stefan Diggs is the Native American man. She almost wed. And then Tank Dell's the white guy. And they both meet really unfortunate ends in the show. Sam Elliott is Nick Casario. He's been to the ocean before he's seen Oregon. He wants to get back there.

Who's fucking who's who's Tim McGraw? D'Amico Ryan's is Tim McGraw. He's like, we're fucking going. I don't care what the weather is. But it's like, this show is like it literally reminds me of a cross-country trip when they have to go score a touchdown. It reminds me of like some great voyage that, you know, they go two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, one step back.

And they're off on the details. Ursary has not really been consistent through three games. Like, you know, we saw a glimmer of hope last week. The only guy, I think the center might be the only guy on the offensive line who's grading out well. It's a whole thing. And honestly, it's like, I don't know what they were thinking coming out of the offseason. I kind of went along with it.

And I was like, okay, well, Nick Casario knows what to do. He's just going to, like, he's drawing from his experience in New England. But it kind of feels like they took a New England approach, and Tom Brady's not your quarterback, where it's like, we don't have to necessarily fix the offensive line. The quarterback's going to take care of it. We don't, you know, we're going to draft ursary, but we're going to trade out of the first round. And, like, we don't need another wide receiver. Like, we're going to get some young wide receivers, but we don't need, like, a game-changing guy.

We're going to win on defense. and all this shit. And it just feels like they're the same fucking team. If you don't do enough in the off season and there's not like a culture makeover in the offensive line room that completely changes the deal, you're going to be the same team. So 1883 it is, man.

Like seriously, it's like you load up the covered wagon and let's go to Oregon. That's what it looks like every time they take the football. You need to go watch that show if you haven't seen it. Seriously. Jacksonville at San Fran next. And you know what that means, Trev? you're playing against your backup you've got to bring it bro don't let mac jones outperform you

man don't let him outperform you go out there and do your thing let mac jones know like hey bro let him know that's why you're still a backup you know we got shout out one shout out one more guy from the i don't know if you mentioned devon lloyd but he's playing real well okay they they they fucking they fucking didn't pick up his option he throws number zero on he looks a lot better like he's playing better at the point where I'm like, is it just the number? But he actually is playing a lot better. So good for him.

He's motivated. All right, talking about a motivated group, the Steelers, they really needed to win. They got to win. I think coming out of this game, Steelers and Pat's fans alike are probably asking,

like, what am I supposed to feel right now? I know Pat's fans are like, the sky is falling. But in a lot of ways, I'm like, I don't know that it is. It's Rable's third game.

You know, you could have scored third. fucking points in this game. Like, you're going to turn the ball over five times every game? I don't think so. He had 71 plays and outgained the Steelers by 160 yards. I think with 11 minutes to go, they had doubled the Steelers yardage. Like, turnovers are awful.

And there's one guy in Ramadre Stevenson that, to me, has a big enough history where it's like, okay, this isn't an isolated injury incident. I kind of wonder, like, Stevenson's had this issue, he continues to get benefit of the doubt. If he gets the benefit of the doubt this week, I think it says as much about the rookie as it does him. And, you know, so that's, that's a little bit troubling. Like, we haven't really seen Kyle Williams get going. Um, the receiver room as Nolan mentioned is not a great group. They really can't separate. Hunter Henry's your stud. But I do think you have a quarterback that at times looks like the solution. And we have been high on him. Um, you know, like the pick down in the end zone.

I don't know if Douglas fucked up the return route off the motion. Like, you know, he, he kind of motions in and he's supposed to put the brakes on on and then go out to the flat, which would have held Eccles. Yeah, you got to hold the corner. But then Eccles makes the play. So like it's a little detail like that. The fumble late, didn't he fumble late in the red zone? Was it was a fumble? Yeah. Sack fumble. Yeah. He looks right. Pumps. He's got Henry for a touchdown. He's just got the garden center in his lap. So like they're close. They are close. I hated the last play of the game. I don't know if y'all hated as much I did. But like to me, they had numbers. The minute Ramsey crept inside and digs points it out like you check out of that and you get the ball fast the the

flat in a different kind of way they they it just i did not really love that call with the game in the line they also had a call like they ran dive pitch backed up on fourth and one like i'm not really sure sometimes but boy did they look fucking great and red um and defensively like you're seeing brayble kind of hit his limit with a few a few guys um i think alice got bench yesterday Alex Austin, guys that I've called out in film, like, you know, where last week I thought, and through two weeks, intermediate level tackling was terrible. Okay, well, Ellis is missing a lot of tackles. Let's get him out of the game. Alex Austin is kind of getting cooked a little bit. Let's get him out of the game. How the depth pieces are going to do? I don't know, but I love Milton

Williams, love Landry. He's played great. Spillane's played better this week. Chazon's done really, really good. They've had some good reps that they've gotten out of him. The D-line looks stout. Now on the Steelers side of things, you get the win, but I kind of feel like, it kind of feels like, oh, fuck. Like, this is who we are. And it's early, dude. It's early. And I think the one thing that struck me is like, Aaron Rogers looks good running around, right? He looks like better than I thought he'd look.

But the offense, man, like they had a really hot start. And then you started to see the instances like where Friamuth on third and five, he wants him to sit down in the zone. I mentioned Metcalf doing that a week or two ago. he didn't yell at Metcalf, but he fucking yelled it at Friermouth because there's a level of understanding when you play quarterback for two decades in the league, like you could play receiver better than the receivers are playing receivers, you know, versus zone looks and that sort of thing. There's like little nuances in how he wants the game played and he's willing them to do it, but they're not on his page yet. So there's that deal. The offensive line struggled.

You won a game because you've forced a lot of turnovers and I am going to give them their props for that but I come out of this game and I say like do you feel good if you're a Steelers fan like I know a win's a win but do you feel good you got out game two to one basically you had to rely on all those turnovers I know you'll you'll win different ways different weeks in the NFL but like it's a it's a weird game when you come out of that game like both fan bases are probably like it almost feels like a tie I don't want to speak for Steelers fans because they're probably like well we fucking won the game but well and you talk about the missed tackles 14 missed tackles 14 Mistackles a 23.3% mistackle rate.

They're highest in a single game since 2016. Yeah. Doesn't help. No, that's not good. That's not good at all. And that's the thing we pick up on. You know, so Steelers, like, I think Rogers and the receivers are only going to get better, right? But the offensive line, my prediction is the offensive line holds this team back this year.

And if the defense isn't going to play like the $158 million defense, I don't know. So, um, fly over. It's time. 44.13. Jesus, crazy. And flying over Seattle, you can see a team being completely outclassed by their old coach, Quink Kubiak, 44 to 13. Lots of special teams in this game. There was, and you know I'm a hawks guy this year. I'm in on the Seahawks. They ran eight plays offensively and they were up 21-3.

that used to be a scary place to play hopefully it is again because as many times they hand me my ass up there not defense as much but like we lost the game 30 points off a special teams 30 points off special teams prior to this game in the mcdonald era they were three and seven seven at home that is that that should not be the case that is one of the toughest places to play fucking noon game 4 p.m. 7 p.m. game like 8 p.m. game whatever it is whatever time of the day it is like it should be one of the toughest places to play special teams. were great you want to put a team like this away on a short week they're going to play Thursday they did exactly that and I think one of the things that gets hidden in this thing 16% pressure rate sunday seahawks have given up three sacks on the year okay last year the offensive line was abhorrent and part of it was I think sam darnald's a little bit more mobile than people give him credit for we saw another play yesterday where he rolls left gets out of trouble dumps the ball i don't know why i threw it left handed we throws a js n last week he's a

He beat the Blitz in a key moment, kind of escaped Patrick Queen. I think that he's earning the respect. It's a pattern, guys. The guys in Minnesota, they respected him as the year went on. This year, it feels like already the Seahawks players, when you read the quotes are like, they're really into playing with Sam Darnold. So just a big win.

Dary and Kendrick, guys like that making plays, like had to fill in for Witherspoon. I think McDonald's a great coach. This was a big win by them. And you want to put teams away going in a short week. Seahawks are the number one ranked team by DVOA. There's six ranked offense, fifth ranked defense, and number one ranked special teams.

I just voted on our poll here in the chat. Seahawks will, A, make a run in the playoffs, just slide in the playoffs, just miss the playoffs, or struggle the rest of the way. I say, I say, I kind of feel like they get in the playoffs and they're a tough team to play. Yeah, they're going to make a run. I think they're going to win the NFC West.

welcome aboard baby let's go i mean the rams they will win the nfc west if the rams more importantly if matthew stafford is well that that was my that was the caveat i gave is that a favorite day

no it's it's that was the caveat i gave preseason it looks like the rams are the more the more fully formed team like they've been doing this a couple years like remember new oc new quarterback i just think mike's a hell of a coach yep he's a hell of a coach he's a hell of a coach I think the defense is totally underrated, flying under the radar. It's going to take a primetime game where they look really good for people nationally to realize who they are.

Yeah, I do believe that. Totally. But you see what a run game and not throwing the ball 40 times a game does for an offensive line and adding Gray's Abel and all that stuff. But like, we were, those tackles were like when they were healthy, you were like, what's going on? Charles Cross regressed. Hey, Blucus, yada, yada, yada. They slide a new guy in at center, I think. Oh, yeah, Sundell.

Sunnell for the guy that was at Olu. Olu with Timmy. Yeah. He was at Virginia and then Michigan. So they make little moves, but like the big thing is you just dress it up better for that offensive line. You don't ask them to do some. When you got a bad offensive line, you don't drop back and throw the ball fucking 40 times a game. Yeah.

Seattle was really good back in the day. Tom Cable's group was not that talented. They were just, you had a run game. You had a way of doing. things they've moved the pocket russell was tough to tackle and they were tough they weren't great in past pro yeah over the last two weeks you've seen this offense produced in different ways like last week was that physical running game this week they actually didn't have too much support from the rushing attack in the first half eight yards on nine attempts but darned was super efficient i just want to

point out again to a warrior's rage uh keep rage on brother but he says i don't know are we really that high on on on the the seahawks sam darnan was absolutely lost against the line to win to win first place and then was absolutely lost in the playoffs the game was too big for him it's to me that's revisionist history did you see that offensive line i mean it was terrible the offensive line ran him out of town i'll just say that so i am high on the on the seahawks yes commies raiders me explain to me what happened Nate hey i'm starting to fall back on my raiders pick oh no come on listen in september Stick to those guns.

Let me tell you this. If they don't fix out the leaks in the offensive line, it's just one of those things where you can't do. They need flexial bad. Listen, Gentry. He was hit on at or behind the line of scrimmage, 11 of his 17 rushes. I'm not going to start calling Montgomery Gentry.

On 11 of 17 of his rushes. and now he has been hit at the line of scrimmage or behind the line of scrimmage on 57 of all of his rushes, 57% of all of his rushes he's had in the league so far. He's a guy that you pick high in the draft so that he can run the ball efficiently. And if you can't block for him, if he can't get a chance to get a full head of steam, how is he supposed to do that? And that's a offensive line stat. It's like the offensive line isn't getting enough push.

In three games, Gino Smith has now been sacked 12 times on 101 dropbacks. Yeah, this is the part that to me, if you were going to tell me they were going to be this bad up front. That's what I'm saying. I don't know if I'd have been as. And I, in me, they're going to wait. I don't know if I had bet the over alternate win total or whatever it was, like five and a half or six. I kind of want that one back, Nate. I'm not going to blame you for talking me into it.

I was kind of high on the rate. Blame this old line. Blame this O line is rough. And not to take away from the commanders. I just want to say the commanders, if you're a commanders fan, I like Marriota. Obviously, you got Jayden Daniels.

Obviously, you got Jaden Daniels, but to see Marietta in there and putting up 41 point, he's running for touchdowns, he's looking good. He's looking good. I mean, like, look, you get in there and you're operating

with a bunch of guys that you realistically probably don't practice with, like you don't get and I'm just always in all when I see backup quarterbacks be able to come in a game and just do your thing because we watch all these different quarterbacks other places they get their shot they get their chance and it's not always pretty and looking good as mariotta made a look and I think sometimes we forget mariotta was high draft pick and he was a great he is a great player but some time guys they're not always starters in the NFL and they still could be great players so it was good to see it's good to see a guy get a spot start and look like that i would just say it's

it's a vote of confidence for like cliff kingsbury who was supposed to be dead last December everybody was like well he was dead like as soon as he got fired in in Arizona everybody's like well he just he his scheme does again we come back to kailer murray okay this scheme is held up like mariotta won a spot start last week even start he came in in the game and like torched the panthers but i i think it again we'll call back to zach taylor in cincinnati The system was the quarterback. Okay, what happens when the quarterback leaves? And Jane Daniels is a special player.

Yeah. But they still have a system. They have ways that they gain advantages on you. They have nothing to do with the personnel. You know, it's the scheme. And so this is what's supposed to look like when you've got a viable backup quarterback and he comes in the game. And I'm not saying you don't miss a beat every game.

You score 40 points. But like, fuck, man, the delta between what this look like and what it looked like offensively for the Bengals is just, It's awful. I'll give out another. I don't know if I gave out a game ball yet, but Bobby Wagner is still out there doing it and running around. He had two sacks. He's like, like 11 tackles.

And he's just, I feel like he's been in the league forever. He's been hearing his name. Five pressures on seven pass rushes, most by an offball linebacker this season. And so just telling that, too, and no shade to him, but this is an older linebacker guy. And if you're getting that type of pressure in the game, it's like, oh, line, like, get your shit together. But if he was like, yo, Dr. Fax called me an older line. He's got like hanging in his locker. Do you guys see the actual Dan Quinn hit?

No, I didn't. He might be in protocol. It sounds like he's in protocol. His skull bounced off the turf. I mean, that hurt. People made a big deal about the blood. I don't know how he kept to stay out there. Jesus.

Holy J. All right, let's see it. Are we allowed to look at this? This is, oh, this is from the crowd. I'm watching it. Golly. Oh, yeah, the back of the head. That hurt me.

Bad. Ah, shit. That hurts bad, bad. Now, if this was the NBA, I'd be like, well, here's the footage. Mariotta trying to get a couple more starts. Yeah. Maybe coach a forget. That's interesting.

That's interesting. That's an interesting conspiracy theory. Colts Titans. Neal. Miao. Miu. Woo-hoo. Daniel Jones

Daniel Jones Someone said If you just put a silhouette Out there Yeah And put Daniel Jones Highlight And you had to guess who it is

That a lot of people Will mistake him For Josh Allen Come on No they wouldn't Come on Come on Anybody in here

Can you pull up his Passing chart? Bro Yeah Indianapolis Jones in real life We have. He's Indianapolis now.

It's actually Indianapolis. Hey, I get out some mentions for this game, boys. You sure can. All right. We got a little Estesel Memorial for one of my favorite dudes. Jonathan Taylor.

What me pull up his stat line here? I know he had three touchdowns. I think he had like over, what was like 110 yards or something like that. 31 fantasy points. We know that. 17 for 102 yards, three touchdowns from,

one of Wisconsin Badger's finest running backs, Jonathan Taylor. And then I got a best seat for Carly, Ursay, Gordon. Imagine you have the best seat in the house. You're on the sidelines of your team 3 and O with a headset on, privy to all the little information that Shane Stuyen is providing. Not a bad seat.

Carly, enjoy that. I love that. Shout out for you. She's probably an instrumental part of that 3 and O season for the cold. So I would imagine. Probably. How about this? quote from Michael Pitman.

We saw it pregame. We saw the pregame intros. They, they, the Titans, kind of looked like a little sluggish. They were kind of walking around. Nobody's really bouncing. Right then and there, we all sat there and we're like,

they don't want to play today. Wow. Go get them. Well, here's the story that I really liked. I think I read this in The Athletic. This is a terrible attribution, but I didn't write this. Two days ago,

after formally meeting with the Colts media following Friday's practice, Stuyken kept talking after the cameras stopped rolling. He openly theorized about a play for running back Jonathan Taylor that he'd implemented into this week's game plan. If Indianapolis got the right look from Tennessee's defense, Taylor would break one. Stuyken then swore every reporter to secrecy. The guy, he is, and he's talking about the ISO that went for like 40-something yards. Duo.

He was like, I got this fucking crazy play. basic run game. Don't tell him a run. Fuck a duo. Yeah, but he got the underlook. They wash the five down and they get the back on the backer. And now it's Jonathan Taylor in the alley with two safeties.

He makes it look stupid or whatever. But I just think it Stuyken's in his bag and he's feeling himself. And he should because last year we just shit all over my, you know, what do you think happens when you're like, here's a project? You know, like, and the project's not working. How soon we forget that he's maximized the talent he's had at quarterback. And I think use of motion, we've called that early. Look at this.

So use of motion, play action is the very first thing we said coming out of week one. And they are doing both. And doing both at a high level. And you want to play man against these guys. It's hard for the reasons we just mentioned. moving pieces wide receivers that can catch the ball in contested areas breed you know about that no offense from last week yeah um but uh good for you good for you Shane Steichen good for you daniel Jones take a victory lap it's only week three but like you know now the panic meter

hey what's y'all's panic meter on this rigaberto sanchez had to swing his fucking leg this week yeah bad news he had to freak out he had to do his job man is there anybody in america that's that's had to do less at his job in September in America like find me somebody who's got a better gig than the punter doesn't have to work doesn't have to do media

nobody interviews the punters they play video games while we fucking this is what I'm wondering this is what I'm wondering for a punner like this if say they keep running games like this and he doesn't a pun a lot doesn't that fuck up for your

marketing and everything like that you got to you got to do something you got to This is the most attention he's ever gotten in his life. It's the total opposite. No, but I hear that. No one has ever talked about Rigabardo Sanchez as much as we have. What is the,

but if you're a company, though, if you're a company and you want to side someone, you don't want someone who theoretically has a chance to not play, right? So you think he's talking about, bro. I saw a fuck commercial with what's name,

the backup quarterback from, Dan Davido. But he plays, yeah, because he played the whole season. And like, he got, that marketing deal.

He didn't get the deal when he was sitting on the bench not playing. It's a great question and I think Shane should be thinking about that. Okay. Screwing this guy over.

You open the team meeting with we're gonna get you some rest. Guys hand up. This starts with me. Do you think they call him Burt? That's my... Rigo.

Rigo. Rigo. Panthers Falcons. Now I know Bryce didn't light it up. I didn't see this game. but like it looked pretty good to me I you got some help from the defense Michael Pennix yeah not not a great game and I think Bryce Young is nine and 27 but in his

career as a starter but he's three and one against the Falcons who hmm on a dirty birds dirty bird I got like I said I hadn't seen the game yet but yeah I just it was it was a tough day at the office for Pennix I mean you know read mentioned it one play out talk about is the Smith Wade pick six They had a dagger concept on the backside for the listeners. That's an inbreaker from number one, clear out for number two. It was wide open. Part of the reason it's open is a curl flat defender is playing down on the checkdown.

I think teams are seeing through the first few weeks of tape. Pennix loves that checkdown. As soon as he gets to about that three second mark, he's ripping it out to the perimeter, and Smith Wade was all over it. So there's just those little tendencies, I think, could be catching up to him a little bit, but nothing some self-scouting can't fix. We looked at his passing chart last week, and it was all same spots. Yep.

Right outside the hashes, right outside. But nothing, not a lot of risk taken. And yeah, you see the jump on the flat route there. So, yeah, dude, fuck. I can't wait to watch this one because if you're Carolina, like, we're kind of leaving you for debt after two weeks. Yeah. And this is a big division win for them.

And for Atlanta, who is like a hot team, it's just hard to, it makes no sense through three weeks. you're like oh well this team beat that team like this team must not be good this team must not be that good and like just the results are confusing especially when you haven't seen the game so I will check that out I apologize I mean this is saints fans last week I'm doing this to

you know Panthers having a million consequential special teams plays is also a complicating factor look at this list I was like read can you aggregate everything that happened yesterday with special teams and everything happened it had to be printed both sides Yeah, this is like, I don't know what to do with this fucking shit.

I mean, but special teams were huge. So I guess we'll make... We'll hear for some folks. Oh, yeah, we'll hear from some folks here. So we had a number of great callers. Shout out to all you locals for ripping it to us. But here are our voicemails from week three. Well, I see that man coming.

Coming around the bend. I ain't seen this playoff I don't know when it's creepy Two We have men

coming coming around the done We ain't seen the playoffs since I don't know when we saved a man from that life

just to help him God and when I I see that man coming where his name is Danny

Donnie see you boys in Santa Clara Bravo That's very funny I didn't know where we were landing the plane on that one You know

I started thinking about you know the 1883 with thing with Houston Is there any When it comes to the Colts and Danny Dimes It's kind of a pretty woman situation.

Like Danny Dimes is with your gear. Oh. Oh. Who's, who's? The Colts. Okay. They've seen a lot of

grown. Over the past five to seven years playing quarterback. And one is like, you know what? I'm going to take you out to dinner. Let's hang out tomorrow. It's Danny Dimes. Pretty woman's a great movie too, by the way.

Next. Good woman. You, Ricky from Roxborough, calling back in about the birds. First half had me feeling a little bit disgusting. Not establishing the run. Lack of offensive strategies. And third down efficiency was absolutely terrible. Just stupid football.

But Chris, let me tell you something. That second half. How about that man, A.J. Brown. He's a bad man. throw that dude the ball and good things happen and also doctor facts i'm from the two on five that's philadelphia and roxborough not from boston so doctor facts you need to get your facts straight shout out the bird's oh oh kevin petulow iq too low too low roxbury roxborough roxborough roxborough you know the movie night at the roxbury you know the movie night at the rockesbury

You know the movie Night at the Roxbury? Have you seen that? Yeah. Have you consumed that, that bit of white guy culture? What is love? Me? Me? Him?

Me? Him. Have you? That's a good one. You got any more callers? I think we got two more. Okay. Cycling through.

Woo! Good time to be an Eagles fan. I promised to feed my pit bull, Kevin Patulow, after that first day. It was nice to watch my team remember. A.J. Brown was an active member on the roster after the first half. What also were the odds of two field goals getting blocked back to back? Love to know. Also, shout out to this defense, skinny Batman and Jalen Hurts, aka the winner.

All the push-push deniers out there, just know Philadelphia's a city that loves being told what it can't do. And the promo codes, Rams and Chiefs are active with Kleenex right now for an extra 15% off Josh in Jersey. Close the bar, work at five. Love you. Go birds. Josh, my man. That's good. That's great.

Chris is Chris Allen, and I'm here to say, we got to let Brian Day Bowl go. I'm so sick of this dude. I just realized this motherfucker is Canadian. Why the fuck do we have a Canuck coaching the New York Giants?

We can get any union Italian guy up of any project, anywhere around that city to do a better job. Get Daybo out of there. He shouldn't even had a fucking flight back to New York last night.

I don't even know what the fuck they played. He should have not been able to go back with the team. They should have had him a ticket set aside to go back to motherfucking well in Ontario where he belongs. Get an American coaching that goddamn team. Get Malik neighbors the ball.

and get Brian Daybold piece of shit out of there. O and three, unacceptable. Russell Wilson, what the fuck are you doing? With your moon balls falling short, you don't have the leg. I get it. You know what you're doing? And this is what I would be doing. I will be cream pie and Sierra every new to.

You don't have the leg strength anymore. I get it. Stay at home. Your wife's a 12. raised future son put dart in the game get day ball out of there send his ass back to fucking

maple syrup town all right I feel better I don't have therapy anymore he moved to D.C. So every Monday I'm gonna yell into this fucking phone and talk about the Giants because I'm fucking pissed we had that shit

yeah you know I'm gonna stay away from the chapter two of that voice message. As for chapter one. You might have a point. No, we're not doing this.

As for chapter. I like that game plan. Cool, y'all can stand on that. Chapter one for me, as to the nationality of the head coach, I did not know that Brian Dayball was Canadian.

What's wrong with Mark Trassman, bro? What's wrong with? Shout out to Trisman. Great. Do you know when I googled Canadian coaches? By the way, there's a lot.

Matt Canada is a Canadian. I'm changing my name to Chris America Oh my God, dude But honestly You really are done with the Giants Because he was like, where the fuck did they play? You shouldn't even give Daible a Like, you know it's bad when you're going to bed

And you're not watching your team Thank you, Chris, for the voice message Voice message Is that everybody? That's, those are our phone calls And we'll hear from America's number one team, Bet MGM. Yeah, we will.

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Chris America. If we just will the FCC stay away then? All right. So anyways, we've got America's teams, number one, special teams. Now I read the entire sheet of paper.

No, but I mean, we had it was crazy. You had like a million block field goals yesterday. You had four block field goals in the fourth quarter. There it is. One one, one, blocked extra point.

That was in the Giants Chiefs game. Then we had two punt return touchdowns, one of the Seahawks, one of the commanders. And as we mentioned, Harrison Bucker with a couple of missed kicks. The Seahawks had 30, they were responsible, their special teams unit, responsible for 30 points, essentially. It's crazy. Haven't had a game, haven't had a game day with five block kicks since 06.6.

Wow. I haven't seen that in 20 years. That's crazy. Where were you in 06? Doing whatever 9-year-olds do. Graduated high school in 2006. Holy shit. Damn, dude. Crazy, right?

I was flying. Imagine we met Nolan. We're like, you want to like crunch tape with it? We're starting this thing. Oh, my God. Where's your mom? She's got to sign something. Right?

Yeah. Hey, Nolan, you check the huddle out yet? Get any fucking, get some plays down. Yeah. Oh, man. America's team, to add to that to America's team. Yeah. I'm going all special teams coaches.

Because if you're a special teams coach in the NFL, there's not too many weeks. If you guys know week to week, you get about 10 to 15 minutes of full team time. Yeah. But for a special team coach, after a week like this, you actually have. video footage of the bullshit that you preach every week. Yeah. Guys in the room that really aren't listening, they're on their phone, they're not paying attention because they're really not thinking about blocking kicks.

Now you have actual footage of it happening in multiple games in one week and multiple times in one game. So I just feel like for a special team coach, you're actually like foaming out the mouth. You have some video footage. You can actually have stuff to go in there, have your guys engaged this week. or even put the, be able to put the battery and maybe some of these special team guys back to be like, hey, look, you see they did it, we can do it.

And on the other hand, for the coaches that are giving up some of these plays, it's like, hey, what better way to have a guy pay attention to you than embarrass his ass and be like, hey, look. Oh, there's going to be some embarrassing going on. Look, you're just getting your face ran through, get your technique down and get stuff together. So I feel like special team coaches, America's teams, because they're probably going to have an interest in.

week. Do you guys got any other America's teams? I told you mine already and Justin Herbert, he's got it all. He's six foot five. He's got a great smile. He's got some good lettuce, killer arm. He's leading the LA Charters to victory. And he's got a superstar girlfriend. So I mentioned that already. Yeah. This is my other America's team, Chris, people that squat. We got Squattober coming up, Chris. Have I told you a little bit about Swattober? You did. You told me. Let me tell our fans at home. All right, guys. Tell them. you know one thing you might want to know about bow allen is cheeked the fuck up okay and the reason that that is is because i get in the squat rack now

some of us are too cowardly for that at green light i'm not pointing any fingers uh but some people at green light prefer the pit shark others don't work at all work out at all um but we have a select few of you know a select few group of men at greenlight pod who are rising to the challenge in squat tober and i have thrown down the gauntlet offered up one thousand dollars to anybody from Greenlight podcast who completes every rep of squat tober as prescribed. We've got some takers.

So myself, Cowboy Reed, let's get a little camera action on Cowboy. Yeah, maybe get some cheek in there. No, no, no, no. Yeah, you're about to pull a Forrest Gump, weren't you? Ralph and I think Carly,

we're all going to do Squattober. We're going to get strong. Now, there are a couple requirements for this. As I mentioned, if you complete every rep and record it as prescribed, no substitutions, you get $1,000 from your boy BA. If you miss any reps, you miss a day, you're out of the running, and you have to buy your friend Bo a nice meal, dinner, okay? And you might be like, oh, Bo, I have kids.

I don't give a fuck, okay? There was a hurricane coming through Tampa last year, and I still completed every single rep of Squatober. Do you have kids? Exactly. Those who squat. Exactly. If there's a hurricane coming through, you leave.

Oh, what did? You leave or you stop lifting weight. You drive your family. Nine hours in a car at a Boca Raton. You stay with Kyle Long, who by the way is probably the best long. You did? Did you stay with Kyle Long? No, but I stayed right at him at a place of his recommendation.

Oh. Beautiful Boca. And I squatted at the Boca Retone Resort. I hit 435 a bunch. And it was all the goddamn. plates in this bougie-ass resort. And I loved it. I got it all on tape, too.

Check my fucking archives, bro. Good. Have fun, guys. Good luck. And make sure you're sharing. I don't know how to respond. About his, like, it's a whole thing about his butt cheeks. I'm just, I'm staying out.

Yeah. My next American's team is going to University of Virginia football team. That's the one. Three and one, baby. Going into an amazing big time week. We have a Friday night game. in Charlottesville, which is unheard of. I don't know the last time we had a Friday night game,

but we play against FSU. It's going to be an amazing game. We're three and one. We're playing great football right now. Shout out to Tony Elliott. We hired him, I think, for points. And this year, God darn it, we are scoring points.

We got points. I really like the guys on this team. I'm going to be sorry to see many of them go. Yeah, exactly. As is college football. Standard protocol. That's why, hey, that's why the time. Time is now.

We got to take advantage of it. Hopefully we could keep things going. It would be amazing to get a win against Florida State in Charlottesville on a Friday night. That would be very electric. Maybe some students will actually come out. Yeah, maybe. Hey, calm down, Mr. JMU. Don't know that in there.

But America's team. No, it would be nice to fill the stadium at some point. Yeah. No, I just, I hear you. A lot of people around here are like, don't say that out loud. We like the wineries. There's so many wineries around here. But fill the fucking stadium.

Geez. I mean, I might even be there. I was there two weeks ago. Oh, yeah? Yeah, for me to leave the couch. Yeah, we were there. You know? I was there with you.

Yeah, dude. We were there. We were there. We were like, really? We had Robert Quinn. Yeah, Robert Quinn, William Hayes. Who are you with? Yeah.

Yeah, that's what happens when you two. gap for for Virginia for four years. You forget two weeks ago. Two gap and two spot. Uh-huh. Two spot. Yeah. Okay.

That's probably the last America's team. I mean, I got another one. I can keep cooking. Goodness. Grace. Just keep going. I'll try to find one. All right.

Here's a good one. This is for all the, you know, women under the age of 25 in the chat. I know there's probably thousands. America's team, Conrad Fisher. For all of us who have been watching the summer I turn pretty, which, is objectively a horrible show, but it could not stop watching. It's not like I'm a fan of the show. I just started watching it and couldn't stop it.

But the whole thing was there's a love affair between Belly and Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher. Who's she going to pick? Is it going to be Jair? Is it going to be Conrad? Is it going to be Jair? Will they, won't they? What's going on? Conrad Fisher, America's team.

If your team, Jare, fuck you. That's all I got. Check it out. I just saw this smitty thing. You guys sent me, and I'm good. Like, we're good. Um, yeah. Security guards just got busted, though.

Viral moment? My facts viral moment of the week. This may be, I don't know this is my first time doing it. It's going to an MLB player, giving it to Jacob Young. He's of the Nats, right? Yeah. Of the Nats, he had an amazing catch, which looks like he's low-key trying out for the Savannah bananas.

I haven't seen a catch like this where it's in. In his glove, the impact of hitting the wall made it pop out. And he was able to hacky sack the ball back in the air off his foot. Holy shit. And make the catch. Is that guy smoked pot? Crazy play. I don't know.

I'll get a little hacky sack on that. I'll figure out if he smokes pot. Yeah. Do some dive in. You don't really see a lot of hacky sacking anymore. My buddy was at a fish show at the Hampton Coliseum last night. And I bet they were playing hacky sack in the parking lot. but other than that

no it's good pole baseball no shit okay anything else we got a drip king viral moment you I got a drip green I don't know if if Cowboys got that ready we're gonna try to find the image of this

but fired up both who is it search of scrub yeah I mentioned Kyle Long earlier yeah great guy he is a good guy talk about Big Howie for a sec yeah you know your boy was digging deep into the internet archives trying to find a drip king

looking at a lot of tunnel photos of the boys of NFL players from random teams. Nothing really stood out. But what did stand out to me watching Fox yesterday, a nice green suit from that was nice. You see that? Yeah, he looked good, man. He looked really good. I want to make sure that he gets some love for that because he was popping off the screen.

And someone even mentioned in the chat earlier. So you know what? Drip King of the Week, Big Howie. Drip King of the Week, Nate Burleson, who kept on his 70s big on CBS. hours after everybody else was like you know what let me change um and and he was out there with the mutton chops and like a canary yellow suit like three hours after everybody else is like let me go back to the dressing room because i'm not wearing this all day i like Nate burleson a lot you know it's crazy i don't know if it's a Nate thing but if i tried to grow out of full beard

that's what my beard does no shit naturally you should grow it go do it no maybe that should come on it's disgusting that it won't connect in here Do it for the playoffs. Do it for the playoffs. So what do we have to consider tonight as we bet this game? What injuries do we have to consider tonight? Mattabique out. Okay, that's not a good deal for the Ravens.

I think this is a lion's spot. I do. I don't know if they went it outright. They're catching what? Line is Ravens 4.5. It was 4. Now it's 4 and a half. Total is 54.

Matabee. KVN, likely, Ricard, out. The Ricard thing does complicate things. They like using him in every way possible. Yep. How about David Montgomery for two plus touchdowns? Okay.

Who's the long shot first touchdown score gonna be? We got, and with the first touchdown score, if your touchdown score is second, you can get that second chance promotion for betting. Oh, fuck it. I'll just bet a couple.

couple first touchdowns. So Sam Laporteus plus 1,800. We got Jameson Williams at 2000. How about DeAndre Hopkins, 2200? What's Tesla? Plus 2,500. I might, you might. If Tesla scores is the first touchdown tonight

and you hear a scream, that's me. Brock Wright plus 5,000. Can I interest you in a little Brock? Brock, right? Yeah. No, Brock wrong. Brock wrong. But I got the Lions.

I got the Lions tonight. I don't know if I got them winning the game. I'm betting the lines. I have struggled on Monday, Monday night. First touchdown, Jared golf, plus 10,000. Mm, might get it, you know, get down to the one. A little scramble. No, if they get down to the one.

Oh, good. A little TV sneak. A little QB sneak. So anyways, I hope everybody in the chat had a great, great weekend. I know mine was just fine. And we're going to catch you. Tomorrow Wednesday. I kind of get a little bit confused.

with all the programming that we provide our listenership. We might see you tomorrow, but we'll definitely see you Wednesday. Yeah, yeah. A little surprised because we've got a couple guests. Oh, we do have a couple of guests. The surplus of guests this week. One of the guests is one of the biggest, baddest football players of all time. Any guesses?

Big house. I don't want to say who it is. I probably hate on them or something. I mean, I will. Oh. Who do you think it is? I don't want to say it. Is it an active player?

Nope, he's retired. You, Nate, you're tied to this guy with your college. No, your college stats. You were right behind him. Oh, yeah. Defensive tackle, college? End up again! Sue?

That's our guy. Man, Sue came down to the Super Bowl. We hope this interview goes off with that incident. Like there could be an internet issue or scheduling issue. but when sue came to the superl hymn of vita veaa that was fun as fuck sitting in the backyard with vita vaya and sue and beau and myself and fax was back there we were just sitting by the ask ask sue about what we did later that night oh yeah i know what you was one of what i did well and then kyle walked in kyle walked in on that situation and he was like oh hey you and me and then kivade yeah we used to me and you yeah me and you oh oh oh they started they started and then there were bros yeah they were bros yeah they were bros

So yeah, we hope to get Sue out to you this week. And we got another guess, too. Active player. I'm not going to do the guessing game again. Just fucking check your alerts. Take care. Hit the notification bell, like, subscribe, and share.