Green Light with Chris Long - Jay Cutler! NFL WK1 Breakdown, Best QB Situations, Justin Fields, Phillip Rivers & Nashville

Episode Date: September 13, 2023

Jay Cutler joins Inside the NFL Teammate Chris Long to talk about the biggest QB storylines from WK1 in the NFL season. Justin Fields' poor showing in the WK1 loss to the Packers, Brock Purdy's surprise return, Jay's rivalry with Phillip Rivers and Jay's SB prediction. And of course, Jay talks up his love of Nashville! (1:16) - Best Team Situation for a QB and Which NFL Team Jay Would Join Today? (8:20) - Current Gunslinging QBs (20:00) - Memories from the Chicago Bears (25:45) - Nashville (30:20) - SB Prediction This podcast is brought to you by Cash App. With multiple tools for saving, spending, and sending, Cash App is the easy way to stay in control of your money. Cash App is a financial platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Make sure to check out Fax and the King every Wednesday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaxAndTheKing 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]‬ Send any Talent Search submissions to: [e-mail] Include any video of your talents, takes and bits as well as a little bit about yourself. Love hearing from the Green Light fans. 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. https://paddleva.com/ Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b   Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42   Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GreenLightTube1   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

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What do I. Welcome to the Green Light podcast. Cowboy, take me away. A great episode for you today. It's two inside the NFL buddies, Jay Cutler, Chris Long, hanging out in Studio Jay. They're going to talk a little recap from NFL week one. Jay's going to run through some of the best situations for a young quarterback in the NFL. Talk of you storylines.

Jay tells a couple stories from his years in the league. All while being a passenger in a car in New York City. It was downpouring while Jay was on the phone with us. He was in transit, but we made it work. Y'all please enjoy. We'll be back on Friday with a great freak show for you. See you when we see you. I hate buying tickets.

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media shit, dude, because it's like a rookie wall we've hit. I'm in the middle of New York in dead stop traffic and it's raining and I've got to go to Jersey to do the show with you tomorrow. and it's, I don't know. Let's get a helicopter. Yeah, you got to get a helicopter, man. That would be dope. And then you could take me to Charlottesville on your way back to Nashville. Just it's kind of like along the way.

So anyways, I want to talk to you about the current NFL landscape with quarterbacks, man. The number one question I have for you is like with all these rookie QBs, and I feel like with the dudes that just retired, there's this big turnover. want to see who's going to be carrying the mantle of the next 10 years or whatever. What system do you think is the most quarterback friendly to enter for one of these rookie QBs? I mean, we've got Carolina. We've got some other ones. Which one would young Jay Cutler want to join?

None of them, you know. I got lucky because I was 11th and Shanahan was at Denver. So they traded. They were in the AFC championship game. So, I mean, that's kind of, we were, I just did this show with, you know, Danny Connell and Steve and these guys. and it's, you look at some of these teams, and it doesn't matter who your quarterback is. Like, you're screwed. It doesn't matter your system. You're screwed. Like, you just don't have enough talent on your side of the ball. I mean, unless your defense is great, you're not

going to be successful. So for the, you know, for Bryce and CJ, I mean, Anthony Richardson, he's more of an athlete than those guys, and I think his team's a little bit better. Yeah, that would be the one place I would want to go if I was any of those three. But if I had a choice, I wouldn't go to any of them. one of them is with our guy Josh McCown in Carolina. He's got that going for him in Bryce Young. I mean, what do you think? You had a bunch of quarterback coaches, I'm sure,

and I can remember looking at my boys like Bradford and them and seeing them go through all these different coordinators and on top of it, QB coaches. And if I learned anything in D-Line rooms, like all position coaches are not created equal. There are some guys who are definitely faking it until they make it. and I'm wondering if that's a big problem, you know, not having that Josh McCown in there

and what difference it makes to have one. It's going to help because Josh has been there. He's done it. He's very patient. He's detail-oriented. And he cares. He cares so much. And that's what you want.

That's what you enjoy your coach. You want your coach to put you in the best position and you want him to care. That's kind of who Josh is at a core. I mean, I remember when he first got to Chicago and, you know, he had had a lengthy career at that point already and he was so genuine. I'm kind of looking around the room.

I'm like, is this guy? Is he really, is he actually this guy? And then more he around him, that's exactly who he is. So he's going to help Bryce, but like we were just talking about, unless they get some more dudes in there to help Bryce on the field, it doesn't really matter what happened to the meeting. Yeah. Well, I mean, one of the guys, not a rookie, but a guy that,

a lot of excitement around him in Justin Fields. And obviously, you play in Chicago. You know what the pressure's like, all that. What do you see from him and like if you've had a chance to look at that game, what can they do differently? Is there an effect in week one where it's not totally a full picture, you know, what you've worked to become as a team? Like, can you just truly flush stuff?

You know, like New York wants to flush that game. How different can it be? And what are the things that keep week one from looking like who you really are? You know that as well. You know that's all about quarterbacks evolve as the year goes on. I watched that game with my oldest son because he thinks that the Bears are going to those. Super Bowl. Obviously, he was mistaken.

But I know, me too. He was devastated. But watching that game, you can tell, you can tell that Justin, he, you know, Lash was kind of one-two run. And this year, he kind of tried to stock it, try to build over the ball. And you're just kind of looking at them going, go, go, go, use your legs more. I think he only had 30 or 40 yards rushing where it's just the way that an offense is built and the way he has a player, you know, you want him to run.

especially early on in the year and get his feet led and kind of develop into the quarterback. It's not going to happen one year to the next. You know, when it comes to Chicago, or you have the belief that, you know, you stock the room with talent around him immediately if you're like a GM because some of the Bears fans are like, oh, we need to be careful. Like you want to save some draft capital in case he's not the guy. I kind of feel like you've got to throw everything at a young quarterback to find out if he's the guy because if he doesn't have the pieces around him,

you're not really getting a full look. Oh, totally great. I mean, you've got to get guys around them. You know, when I was in Denver with Mike, I think the next, I mean, we drafts with, we had B with me, we had tight-in with me. The next year they drafted a left tackle. We brought an offensive line guys.

We brought in more tied-in. We brought the slot receivers. Like, it was offense, offense, offense, like, he was going to give me the best possible chance to go out. So, Chicago, I mean, they need to help them out. I mean, if you're going to let him go out there with half an offense, he's not going to do very well.

Do you like seeing DJ more decking a guy for Justin Fields? Was that like, did Brandon do that sometimes for you? Brandon definitely did that. He was actually looking for a fight. So I like to see it, you know, as a coach, you go back and forth on it. You're like, all right, that's great. We're protecting our teammates.

But we've done it once. You've got his back. Let's not do it again. When it comes to quarterbacks now, Is there somebody that reminds you a Jay Cutler? That's a slippery slope to get into. Because you know, I don't know. Is there a guy with the balls that Jay Cutler had on the field right now that you're like, I identify with that guy?

You know, I think there's a lot of dudes out there that really sling it and let it fly. I think, you know, more past friendly NFL world than it was whenever I played and you played. It was more take care of the ball, fundamentals, one hitch, two hits throw the ball. Now you look at these guys, and there's no rules. And they can't get hit. So we were just talking about it in the studio. It's like they're showing late hits on quarterbacks. And the guys was like, that was completely legal whenever we were playing.

So it's just a different game. I think it's good for the game. The fans obviously like it. But I think there's a hand, actually there's a lot of dudes out there that can sling it. All right. So you were saying that the rules have changed. Obviously, y'all used to get decked. It was like a totally different game. I look back at some of the highlights from like the early years that I was playing, even in like 08 in 2010 and the stuff we would have got fined for is crazy. Who was like the scariest dude, maybe out in that AFC West when you played there and then when you got in the NFC North that you actually had to think about on game day? Oh, gosh. I remember my second year. It was we were playing jazz.

Jacksonville and they had Stroud and who was the other guy? In Jacksonville, I'm trying to think. So this would have been 2007 or something, yeah, 2007. Henderson, Stroud and Henderson. Oh, the guy that got slapped in the face. He used to get slapped in the face before the game. And they were both like six foot seven, six, eight. They played one in three technique.

And like you just dropped back the pass and they were just like volleyball players. And then if they got a hold of you, it was game over. It was curtains. Yeah, I figured, you know, you probably got hit. Yeah, the Ravens. The Ravens. The Ravens defense. Paul Molo, the Steelers, you know, he's playing covered two from Agap.

That was always like this insanity. How about, you know, I asked you who's a guy that reminds you, that's a tougher one. But like, how about a guy that you respect right now that maybe not the best quarterback, but that you're like, that guy's got the deck stack. against them and he just keeps answering the bell. Well, I think if you look at 49ers quarterback, he came from nowhere, won a bunch of games, tore his arm up, and so now you're thinking he's got a free had to do. He's going to be the same guy.

Trey was there. They drafted high with him. And then he goes out there and puts on a public performance in a week one. I think it's a testament of Shannon. But that's off the testament to, you know, what kind of. kid that kid, what kind of kid that is, what kind of character he has. Stafford, like, has really earned, I think, a lot of people's respect. I think his career has gone on, yeah. I've always had a lot of respect for him being in the choice. He used to get his, he used to get kicked in every week.

But he can sling it and he would, he was tough as nails. He would go out there every single week, played through a lot of injuries. I'm happy to see him to get his Super Bowl and continue to keep playing. Yeah, well, yesterday I was shocked. I mean, like, I got a lot of respect for the guy, but I keep waiting for the bottom to fall out because he has been hit a lot. And, you know, there have been injuries over the last couple of years. And I guess I wonder, like, as you were an older quarterback, what are the little things that dictate where that slope is? Because we as fans and as even D-Lyman, I can't see it. You don't know if a quarterback's going to show up and that ledge is pretty steep. So, like, what are the things that kind of fall apart on you that people might not think about?

Well, I think it's your hips. But, I mean, I think he's such a natural freak show thrower that he can play forever because he can just sit back there and sling it. I mean, his arm is never really going to go away unless he just kind of stops using it. So, and mentally, he's going to be smarter and smarter each year. So it's one of those things that's how much do you want to keep putting up with a headache? How much do you want to keep going to training camp? How much do you actually like the grind of week in a week out? I don't think it's ever really going to be a physical or down thing. I mean, obviously, when he gets into 40s and late 40s or whatever, if it gets it that far. I mean, And Brady did it, but he wasn't even close to physically count today as staff it is.

Were you surprised Brady was able to do it so long? I feel like that's such a chalky question, but I never hear a quarterback answer it candidly. He never got hit that much. Yeah. I mean, that offensive line was really good. He got rid of the ball really, really fast. He had talented, he had talented players. Defense was always really, really good.

I mean, it was a perfect fit. I mean, he could make the most of it, absolutely. But he also was super healthy. I mean, you know all about his, that regimen that he was on. But he just didn't get hit a lot. Yeah. Well, you talked about, you know, Stafford in division with you. Obviously, you have a lot of respect for him.

You and Rivers, jawing back and forth. I forgot about this whole thing. Were you in Rivers actually, like, were y'all, did y'all have beef for real? We didn't really like each other. I don't think we'd really ever met off the field, but we definitely did not like each other until those couple years. And they beat us, they beat it.

We beat them early in the season in my third year, and then they beat us late in the season with the playoffs. But we did not like that team, and they did not like us. They were a lot better defensive than we are. That was when like Merriman was playing, a bunch of those guys. So, I mean, they had some juice.

But we, before my, third year we we we pressed against uh Dallas yeah and we we were we it was the sole reason was because they were in the same defense as San Diego and we just game playing for San Diego versus Dallas and we just run and play to see what we work I mean we did not like those boys at all yeah well I heard merriman merriman was just on a some podcast I've I knew it I'd credit it but um it was uh one of these Instagram rails and he was talking about the 06 charles Rogers and he said that's the best team to not win a Super Bowl in NFL history possibly. Do you buy that? Well, yeah, LT was on it. Phil was on it. He was unblockable. I mean, for whatever reason you want

to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was a beast, though. I mean, whatever was going on, it was, he had a run, man. It was crazy. Oh, it was literally unblockable. I mean, my first year, we didn't have tackle. Then we had Brian Krody came in and kind of slowed down. But they were good. Secondary was good. It was a really, really good team. And for some reason, they just couldn't put it together. Like we, there was actually a poll that just came out and Chargers fans were ranked pretty, pretty low, I think, as far as like the most disliked fan bases.

And it had me thinking, what's, like, for a quarterback, what's the actual toughest place to play? maybe not the loudest, but where people are actually just like insufferable and they get in your head a little bit. Well, the old Oakland Stadium was brutal. Did you ever play there? Yeah, yeah, but yeah. And you tried to not like hit the ground around the 50 yard line because you were in the fucking infield. And the locker room was about, the locker room was about this SUV I'm in right now. Yeah, no question.

And then the fans, like you'd come in because we were division rivals and you'd come in and you'd have little kids giving you a finger. you'd have them chucking beer cans off the bus. It just stopped to go there. The stadium was in the middle of nowhere and open. I'd never really like playing in New Orleans because it was so loud and rowdy. Casey was Casey. I loved Casey.

Small locker room. Yeah, but I felt like it was the closest thing to college. Yep, yep. It's one of my favorites. One of my favorite stadiums. Yeah, hated in Detroit, just because it felt like you were playing in an empty warehouse. They were good a couple.

The fans came out a couple of times, but for the most part, it was cold and quiet, and you had to kind of figure out a way to hype yourself up. Like, so you hate the Packers, because every time the Packers get brought up, Kyle's, like, I have to say something nice about the Packers. He's, like, afraid to say anything about him. Yeah. But, like, the Lions, are you excited to watch them, like, kind of enjoy some success, even though they were in division with you and that sort of thing?

I am. I mean, I think that I love the coach. I love the way he coaches. I love the way. I mean, you talked about last week. I love the way he motivates. He cares. You can tell he cares.

No, I mean, that city deserves it. They've been through the ring here for a long-ass time. Yeah, and with the NFC North and Rogers leaving and that sort of thing, you were giving me a little bit of shit about my Jets Super Bowl pick. You know, you were kind of educating me on the things that might pop up in your first year as a quarterback. And, like, what are those things for people that might not know? Well, I mean, you're just moving town.

You've got a whole different support system. You've got to get to know all these new guys. Like Aaron, I mean, they had the same group of people around him for however he needs to do there, 17, 18 years, however long he was there. So you're into your comfort zone. You can't really be bothered. And now he's in a new city. I mean, he's older, so I mean, he can handle it. But there's all these little nuances that, you know, you got to find, if he had someone cooked for, you got to find that.

You got to find a different drive-thinner. You've got to find all these different things. A new eye applaud. deal with this. A new what? A Waska plug. Exactly. You got to find a new guy.

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He's just so high energy and positive. Yeah, he's just down to earth. and what was it like playing with him and Briggs and those guys like were they just absolute dogs kind of ran the locker room? Oh my gosh. Oh, ran the locker room. They were in the building.

Yeah. They did literally whatever they wanted. We were preseason one of the years, one of our first couple years, Lance, knock on door, he's like, we're going out. And I'm like, I mean, I came from Mike Shannon. Like, that's not fine.

And I'm like, it was a preseason. We weren't even playing in the game. It might have been first one. forget. And I'm like, I think this is a really bad idea. He's like, I go security and stuff. He's like, no. So we go out the side door, go down these stairs and like, security's waiting for us. And I'm like, here we go. We're now we're in trouble. And they're like, all right, Lance, where we're going? And I'm like, what is happening right now? Lange is like, well, they're going to, they're going to go with us. So nothing bad happens. I go, okay, I guess, guess we're doing this.

But those guys That's unbelievable Those guys I mean they would I mean it was really just two coverages Cover two and cover three And they played the shit out of it And they and they played it so much

That they knew exactly where Where they could get hurt And they knew they would just run the same plays Against that defense over and over again Because all the two and three beaters And they knew where they were they get hurt They knew where they had to cover their asses And I mean they were they were incredible

Well we talk about it now with like Fred Warren and how much three they could play in San Francisco and that sort of thing. How does a linebacker help you play those coverages, somebody like Erlacher who's fast enough and long enough? And it was so long that he could play two, he could play the run. And Lance was so good that in two, like he could play that weak hook,

and he could also play the middle of lack left. And Lance was an absolute machine in the run game on that weak side. I mean, he would fill a gap in, split second. And we always had good one and three techniques. You know, they, that was always something that they drafted. They made sure that they had those guys because the only way to play that defense is to have some guys up front. Then we got PEP on the edge. We had some dudes. Yeah, y'all did. Y'all really did. There was somebody else I was going to ask you about on your defense. Tillman. Tillman, yeah. I mean, like, just ball aware, just as good in coverage,

or what made him great? I mean, everybody knows about the peanut punch, but watching him work, you know, like day to day, what made him great? Well, I mean, I think he was kind of, we were covered two guys, and then we started playing a lot more three, and he just kind of developed.

He was long, too, and lengthy, and he was smart. They watched film. They knew what guys were going to run. And, you know, they weren't playing a ton of coverages. They didn't have to worry about playing real man. They knew they were going to play three. they were going to play two. They knew where their zones were of where they had to be,

and they excelled at it. And they were really, really talented players on top of it. So they didn't, they didn't make it hard. Is Olin Crude's one of the baddest men on the planet? He is, yes. And if he's not, he believes he is. Half the battle, dude. Oh, it was half. I mean, he owned it. I mean, I wouldn't mess with them. No one messed with them. Um, an unbelievable center. Like, literally, he's, He studied a ton of film too. And there was a point, like, I didn't have to really make any calls. Like, he was doing everything.

And then we lost him. So I had to kind of take over. But he was, he was on it. He was a bad dude. And he was football, too. Really good, really smart for a little player. Yeah, you could tell he was smart. I mean, I only played him against him a couple times.

You got everybody lined up. I noticed that off the rip. With Miles Garrett, does he remind you any of Peppers? Because to me, he kind of reminds me. It's like, that's the closest comp to him I can find. Yeah. I think Pep might have been a little bit lengthier. Yeah, he's a little lengthier.

A little lengthier, but same body type, same physical giveness. I think that's a really comparable thing. Pep just, he didn't speak to anybody. But then I talked to him at the Super Bowl, and he was so cool. He was like the most chill down-earth guy. Oh, nice, nicest guy in the entire world. You know, he's just, you got to open the conversation. Maybe not a podcast, yes.

I don't know. He might have changed. I don't know, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't count on it. I'd still get them on just to see him on Zoom. So, yeah, like, we were just talking about training camp. You had the whole thing dialed in. What did you, what did you have? Do you have her hyperbaric chamber? Were you just more like tasty snacks? I, no, I had my, I had the art machine back then. I had, I had, I'd had, I'd have him bringing in a big refrigerator. And I, you know, I'd keep all kinds of drinks. I had a blender, all my vitamins. I'd have a bigger TV brought in. I usually would bring, I would usually bring, like,

had one of those, like, Japan or China made video games where you play Super Nintendo and I would have, we would have Tequemusper Bowl and Tectmo Bowl. So we would rock out to those. There's only so much stuff you can put in a 10 by 10 little cell. I have a cool fan air filter thing.

I had a lot of time. junk. Yeah. So you bring all this stuff. Yeah, you, you, uh, bring all this stuff and he used like 25% of it. All right. Well, enough football. I just want to ask you about, you, you're the best guy that could probably explain it to me. But can you explain Nashville to me? Can you explain? Yeah, here we go. Now, I can tell. That's the right question. Can you explain the city to me? Is it Hollywood? Is it like something like Hollywood now? What is it? Everybody's famous there. there's a lot of people that have moved there um depends where you go so downtown Nashville now is just it's just straight tourists yeah um there's bachelor parties bachelor parties

all those things are happening on a daily base bars are open at nine o'clock in the morning there's live music at every single one of them i tell you what we have gotten we've gotten a lot better restaurants we've got a lot better hotels um so that's a plus for sure just you're, I mean, it's just not what it used to be. And I mean, I've been there since 01, so I've seen the full change. I mean, there's, there's, there's, there's good and that's that's so many people now moving that getting crowded, there's lines, there's traffic. But like I said, there's a lot more opportunities to go out there and have fun. So it's fun. And then if you go down farther south, everyone's moving south, house prices, land prices

through the roof. The airport expanded. What a fucking breakdown on Nashville. Yeah. They're getting a new new new stadium is coming for the Titans. I don't know about that indoor stadium shit, Jay. I know you like it. I hate it.

Really? I want to play outside on grass every time. Oh my God. Why? Tell me. Because I hate turf. I think it's bad for you. I hate the rubber.

It's just not football. Let's play outside. Let's play in grass and let's figure it out. Oh, I love it. I love to hear that from a quarterback. That's music for my ears. Yeah, because I think all these new stadiums are ugly. Oh, yeah.

And I just saw it's one of those, it's a country where soccer is Norway or something, sweet and that, but they just banned that rubber stuff and turf. They're usually right about stuff. Yeah, all those, all the goalies are getting like cancer at young age from diving around on that stuff all the time. Yikes, dude. I used to pick that stuff.

I used to blow snot rock. It's 12 hours after the game and you'd have that rubber stuff in there. Black stuff. Yeah, dude. I mean, it's ground up tires. Nothing wrong with a little ground up tire in your nasal cavity. Some guys who have done worse. But we were talking about Nashville with UVA.

I like my driver. We're taking things their own manner. There we go. We're going bike lane. There we go. I love it. And we're back. And so with Nashville, Vanderbilt, obviously, the home team with college.

And Virginia is a very frustrating place to watch your alma mater play. Like, we lost JMU the other day. I feel like people think of us as a very academic school. There's not like this football kind of like, I don't know, association with it, the way you'd have in the SEC or even some schools in the ACC. And I'm kind of wondering how you cope with the same thing. Now, this year you're two and one. so things are totally different.

But is Virginia kind of Vanderbilt? Because I've always thought that. For sure. I mean, I've been down there in a while. Like, there's just no, there's not a lot of, well, it blew the stadium up, so it's a train wreck down there right now. But there's just not a lot of incentive to take my boys down there. Like this, I don't want them to be like,

associate this with football. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So where are you taking them? We've been to Tennessee. We go up to the Bears games. I'm just like, we go to, like, fun places. Like, so you have fun going back to Chicago?

Chicago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we, I try to take the boys every year to a game. We were just up there a couple months ago. We went to a Cubs game. I actually like the stadium a lot. I think stadium's beautiful. I think it's beautiful down there by the river,

or the lake there or not the river. But I kind of think Denver would be the best place to play. Denver was awesome. I love playing in Denver. And you know what? You never had that noon game. yeah right so you're so you're always playing that four o'clock kickoff but it's two there oh shit yeah that's something and and you know what like being in the Midwest was a little bit better uh for me because we'd

be we'd be done a little earlier in that sort of thing so you play you play that two o'clock game you're done at five yeah that's nice that's really nice love okay so before i let you go i want to i want to ask you about uh what you think for the for the the big prediction uh yeah i think i gave you my Super Bowl pick. I don't think I got it from you. You know, Casey took a tough one. Chris Jones is bad. Oh, he signed? Yeah, while y'all were doing the show. Oh, really? How much? Yeah. Not as much as he wanted. He went to the stadium with those agent guys and sat in between him and postured and the whole thing. Like, they look like they might be in the mafia. And then he's like, I'll take less. You can't do that after that. No, you've got to hold out then. Yeah, you got to hold out. But I think,

But I think they realized, I think you probably realized that they weren't going to pay him. Yeah. This was going to come to it. He was just going to lose a year of NFL. Yeah, yeah, and they really need them. So you think it's the chiefs? I still like the chiefs. I think this year is going to be a little crazy.

I mean, I think they've been there. They've done it. In Kansas City, is there a chance that receivers get a lot better through a year? Yeah, I think so. In your experience, because they got Andy and Pat and the whole thing. They're definitely going to get better. And getting Travis back is going to take some pressure off those guys. You know, some of those jobs were, I mean, they're just flukes.

Those weren't who those players are or they wouldn't be on that team. So I think they're going to be fine. If anything, it's just going to piss those guys off and more to go out and play. But I think until Casey, until, you know, something happens to the pad or Andrew Reeves decides to step down, I think you've got to put them number one. Every year. All right. So you heard it.

Who's in the NFC? Any idea? NFC. There we go. It's good, yeah. I don't even know if anybody. Everybody thinks Niners, Cowboys. Yeah, I put the Niners in there.

Yeah, Niners for sure. Eagles for sure. I mean, that's without question, one of the best teams in the league. Yeah, it's just going to be whether, I mean, they didn't look that, Eagles didn't look that great week one. That's a good defense, though, dude.

I mean, like, I really do feel, I feel like they got the people the people to take away the middle of the field, and that was hard on Jalen. And then, you know, I don't think they played that well. But if you're in New England, you kind of, and Mack Jones is salvageable, I feel like. So, you know. Well, it's, so with some of the thing that you got to fashion, like, some of these quarterbacks, like, they run the ball a lot. And then as they get older, they stop, they stop running. Like, I want to throw, I want to throw. I want to throw. So it's like one of those things that, you know, is Jalen going to keep running? Are all these quarterbacks going to keep running the ball as much as they've done in the past? Or are they going to try to be drop-back quarterbacks? Well, Anthony Richardson took a huge hit yesterday at the goal line and his day ended with like a bruise on his knee or something.

It's not a big deal, but it's like this is week one of a career that they're probably going to run them a lot. And I didn't know you were almost a safety and a tight end and all that shit. So you almost were running quarterback. I don't know why you didn't run around more out there. Because I started playing faster and faster guys. that's not the nice of all right well jay color my inside the NFL teammate check us out on Tuesday nights on the cw 8 7 central and uh enjoyed having you on man come back again i appreciate it