Green Light with Chris Long - NFL WEEK 1 Recap! Dak Prescott Injury, 1 PM Wildness & Time To Panic for Trey Lance & SF?

Episode Date: September 12, 2022

(2:15) - Housekeeping: Miller Lite x Green Light Podcast, Chris in Las Vegas & Winning Bets. (21:40) - NFL WK 1: Dak Prescott Injury, Bad QB Play, Micah Parsons vs Leonard Fournette & Time to Panic on Trey Lance?  (56:45) - 1 PM Wildness: Pittsburgh vs Cincinnati, Colts vs Texans, Browns vs Panthers, Commanders vs Jaguars, Saints vs Falcons, Eagles vs Lions & Coaching Blunders. (1:22:45) - 4 PMs: GB vs Minnesota: Time to Panic for Aaron Rodgers? Chargers vs Raiders & Giants vs Titans. (1:40:50) - Miller Lite Mentions: Best & Worst Plane Ride, Fly on the Wall, Hollow Man, Game Ball & More! 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. https://www.greenlightpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chris, Macon, and Kyle recap all the action from the weekend. We dive in. First, Chris is going to talk about the Vegas trip, some winning bets he had, and our Big Miller Light and Greenlight podcast, co-lab. Then we dive into NFL week one. We talked to Dak Prescott injury, bad quarterback play,

the wildness that was the 1 PM games. Is it time to panic with Trey Lance? Is it time to panic with Aaron Rogers? And mentions return Miller Light mentions for the 2022 NFL season. Y'all enjoy the show. I don't know if you know how hot me and Cowboy Reed just came in. Dude, like people at home, I just want to set the scene. I was summoned by my overlords to Vegas.

Our buddies at Winbet. Shout out to Seth. Shout out to Ian. Took good care of us, as they always do. We were at the win this weekend. Me and Cowboy, we were supposed to be there for. for 36 hours, actually like 33 hours. It was supposed to be like an in-and-out kind of trip.

I didn't unpack. There's shit all over the room. The room smells like room service, you know, where you eat on the run constantly in Vegas, and you forget to put the cart out in the hallway. So your clothes smell like chicken tenders in the morning. Like, that's the kind of life I was living in Vegas. Reed, how many hours of sleep?

Can we go through that? Well, so starting Thursday, you said you got... I got four to six. I got four Thursday. I went back and looked at my text, my drunk text messages. And I think we shut it down. I got four hours Thursday. I think we got three hours Friday.

Seven. Oh, yeah. I got four hours. This is what fucked me the night before I was doing that fridge talk. Right. I stayed up doing fridge talk, which is, of course, going to be every Monday night, including that Thursday night. Oh, that was really good. Yeah, thank you.

I appreciate that. No, I texted you. That's the epitome of your genius right there. I do not know how to take that. I'm being serious. Dude, I enjoyed it as well. Good. That's good.

I hate doing selfie videos. I found myself in the driveway last night trying to implement garage talk. Oh my God. Because I'm in the garage every day. Yeah, garage talk, tool time. And my recording wasn't as good as you are. So to Macon's point, congrats on that. He's so good at that.

I don't like selfie videos, man. I just don't. And I was up doing a fucking selfie video for no reason. Thursday night knowing I had to go to Vegas early Friday. kids are in at 6.30 now like they wake up super early. And so I'm starting, you know, at a deficit. Deficit coming into Vegas. I'm tired. You know, didn't get that nap that I wanted. Friday night. I think we did three hours, three or four hours. I don't even remember what we did Friday night. What we do Friday night, Reed. Well, we started a waterfall. Yeah, I did.

Reid and I never went anywhere in actuality Friday night. We just walked around. We parked it down at the wind and we stared at this big waterfall and wondered how much. much it costs to operate this thing. And when the frog was going to come out of, there was supposedly a frog that goes from the top of the waterfall. Not supposedly. It's true. It's true. I've seen it.

The restaurant. It's a dope restaurant. It's SW. It's the bottom of the wind. There's a big giant waterfall. It's always fucking going off, dude. And this big frog, you know when Paul Rudd and Seth Rogan go to Vegas to see that show? That was me and Reed,

but with a waterfall. And so, we were just we decided not to go get too smashed but i didn't sleep much friday saturday that sounds like the cat who walked on to the field at ls u he might come up again in miller light mentions okay so uh so saturday night went to marshmallow saturday night we weren't even supposed to be in vegas right we made a uh one of us made a late late uh it's like three seconds left on the play clock and i made a check yep i was like bro like we're supposed to do a red I back Saturday night. I'm going to get home at 10 a.m.

You know, back into Charlottesville and have no time. And we're going to just watch football all day. And then wake up for this show. Fuck that. The FOMO was killing me. You met Channing Fry and you were like, I want to hang out with Channing, bro.

He's cool as shit. We went on, um, we went on road tripping, uh, which is a great podcast. Shout out to Allie as well. And Richard Jefferson, they are an awesome group. I really enjoyed my time on that pod. we'll have them on here. But then, you know, like the thought of not watching the game and the sports book sounded so dumb to me.

I'm like, why am I rushing out of Vegas, dude? So we changed the flight. We decided to punt. Sunday night, we do the red eye. I went and saw marshmallow. You know who that is? No. You know who that is?

Yeah, but I don't know what he looks like. No one does. I was wondering if he takes it off when he, like, hooks up with a groupie or if he keeps the marshmallow mask on. Wow. You think there are NDAs involved when he takes the hat off? Probably. So Saturday night, legitimately three hours. I think I'm working on 10, 12 hours sleep the last three nights.

And we red-eyed back tonight. I got two hours. We added it up during the quick little IG live yesterday, and it wasn't much. So this is my Chris Collinsworth game, essentially. That's right. When I heard Chris Collinsworth last night, when you alerted me to listen to Chris Collinsworth, Macon text me, I was like, I was like, I didn't hear it yet. the game started. I turned the volume up and I said oh he was at marshmallow he made me feel sick

I felt sick listening to Al Michaels had to say he doesn't have COVID but terrico it's not trico that'll take a while sorry yeah yeah sorry hey by the way you're feeling great yeah oh I feel great yeah I thought it was a gritty performer I just had to call two games in three days he was he was sliding into into into marshmallow or something like that because that's how I sound when I leave Vegas. I was like me and Chris same guy right now. So this is my Chris Collinsworth game. A lot happened

in Vegas, housekeeping-wise number one, Miller-Light. Miller-Light, the official beer of the Green Light Pod, dude, that felt good. I got to tell you. That's really big. It is big, man. Like, it was beautiful. The Blue Wire Studio there in the wind, like, I always say this. I always

went to the win when I was a player. Me and Sammy B. We'd go there. You and me went. My rookie year. After I got drafted, you took me there. Sort of. Yeah. The infamous pool party that I got carried out of. But we were at the win.

I always loved the win. And now, like, I work for the win. So it's exciting anytime we go into the Blue Wire Studio, it's beautiful. That thing's worth a billion dollars. They built that thing. I mean, like the sound in there's amazing. That's what I want to do in here. I want to duplicate the Blue Wire Studio.

And they have a big jumbo screen. and when you walk in and you see that beautiful white Miller light can you know the most beautiful can is that the Bebble Conway of cans oh maybe so looks not unlike your liquid death right there what was the main character and Power Rangers that was like projected onto the screen that that was like the Miller light can the Miller light can from the Blue Wire studio look to me like the Power Ranger that's projected onto the you were into I just remember that I remember being too cool for power man did you watch power rangers yeah you're talking about Tommy Oliver the Green Ranger okay but which one was like the big bad guy that was up on the thing it was like uh you know uh doctor oh you

know the Oz of they need to they need to reboot power Rangers put it on Netflix I'd watch it's what the Miller like can look like to me but I walked in the studio and the jumbo tron was so gorgeous it had that big white Pilsner and then it had official beer of the green light pot and the See our logo? Like everything we put into this thing, everything y'all put in this thing listening. You know, I don't appeal to the masses a lot, like the listenership. I don't say like, hey, gang, like, you know, we, I don't use like the we a lot. Like, I don't like to break the fourth wall that way, but y'all are like awesome. And you're the reason that we were able to secure the bag and secure the Pilsner.

Miller Light is supporting us. We'll be doing live streams every Sunday. and in the name of Miller Lite. Great taste, less filling, 4.2% alcohol by volume. Drink responsibly. And mixing an athletic green, dude. Athletic greens. I was just on this, I was doing this slingshot thing

where I was doing Miller Light, Athletic Greens. Miller Light, Athletic Greens. You know what's on that logo? It says a fine Pilsner beer. It's a fine Southern Pilsner. We hit the buffet. I was powered by Jake Plummers. mushrooms, the wind buffet, athletic greens, and Miller Light.

I guess I say buffet. Buffet? Buffet? You say buffet? Yeah. That's like umbrella. Yeah. Umbrella. Yeah.

That's weird. You should be saying tournament. You should be talking like hooty the way you say that word. Hey, let's go down to the buffet. Yeah, buffet. Yeah, buffet. I mean, however you want to say it, the wind's got the best buffet around. read read what is it it sounds weird it sounds weird to you 8 a m came early sure enough i was like yeah

it was 4 in the morning i was up so late um saturday night because i had to go get dip you know when you you don't have dip and it's like three in the morning and it's like you know it's like going out on the oregon trail might as well be on mars might as well be on mars it's Vegas like there's no pedestrian like you're trying to walk and it's 40 dollars i can't have on the strip oh it's $40 a ride to the gas station. People are hustling you. Like, so 5 a.m. I come back. I sent Lane Johnson a video chugging a Miller light in my, in my bathrobe at 5 in the

morning. And he responded. He was up. This was on Sunday morning. It was late. Another conversation. So, yeah, this is a funny recap. And I started my job at CBS Sports again this week with another pregame show.

It was a lot of fun. but I texted Chris in the morning, or he texted me in the morning. And I was like, why is he up? Good luck. So I called him and I said, here's the things I'm going to talk about. You said, Kyle, these are all great points. But here's the thing. The guy that you last mentioned just retired.

So you might want to take him out of your opening stage. I was on the fucking ball at 8 a.m. Eastern time. But I said, you know what, Chris? We can't say. I said, Chris, I'm just testing you here. We can't say, dude. I don't want to say it. We're never going to say.

We're not going to say who it was. But I will say. I was ready to roll this segment out. and he was going to talk this guy. I was going to talk a few guys, him being one of the guys. Drew Breeze, was it Drew Bree? Yes, it was Drew Breeze. How about Drew Breeze and yours?

Oh, he said, he said, if it's just an AC separation, tape it up and shoot it up and get back out there. I was like, Jesus, man. I know he's making NIL money, but. Drew listens to Andrew Tate. Who's Andrew Tate? Well, that's good. I like when I don't get it. Tell me.

Yeah. Well, I think he's. He's like one of those, like, uh, pseudo alpha macho men. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm in the business of making motherfuckers. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, see? Yeah.

Stay hard. Yeah, stay hard. That dude sucks, though. He's been banned from like every single. Andrew Tate? Yeah, yeah. But I don't, I won't, there's no David Gagin's slander on here. I like David Gaggons.

Stay hard, motherfucker. One of, he, out of that whole weight class of people that are like, you know, like, your life's too easy. He actually, I believe him. I believe him. I believe it. So anyways, yeah, I was kind of like David Gagins this weekend of binge drinking and not getting a lot of sleep.

So this is my Chris Collinsworth game. There was so much cauliflower ear in fucking Vegas, man, because there were some big fights, bro. There was a big cauliflower ear energy. Like at the marshmallow show, I was like doing some calculations, and I was like maybe a thousand guys in here could beat me up. That's wild.

You know what I mean? I was definitely behaving myself at the nightclub. Like dudes were walking around. I was like, that's a UFC guy. another thing was we met a boxer Reed we met a kid from Norfolk who's going to be fighting in Newark coming up so we got to check him out kishon davis look him up because I work in New York maybe we can get boots on the ground for green light at the Newark fight I'd love to go I mean I would love to go he said he would come on the pod he's seven five he's supposedly going to be one of the dudes now coming up so he might come on the show we got to chop it up with him in the blue wire studio so we're chatting fry you know we're meeting boxers.

Shoshan was a silver medalist at the Olympics. He's an Olympian. Yeah, he's an Olympian. Awesome kid. Kyle. Amazing kid. My wife got a white Tahoe in Norfolk, Virginia. Oh, that's a really good thing to have. I have a white Tahoe as well. Yeah, that makes, you don't have,

yeah, your wife has one. All our wives have white. Our stable, of vehicles. What do you call them, wogs? Wags, wives of green light. Ah, wogs. You know, it was like NFL, Wax. And daughters of Greenlight. Yeah.

That's right. Girl Dad. Yeah. Good for y'all. Yeah. Put it on a T-shirt. So anyways, one more housekeeping item. You know, other athletes interfacing with the Green Light Pod.

Some of y'all are aware. Tommy Alter absolutely fucked me over in fantasy football. You know, gave me a time for the draft. I show up. It wasn't the time. He said, hey, I emailed you. It got messy. He switched the mode of communication.

from text to email. And me, the way I get gaslit in this studio, I kind of figured I was in the wrong because that's just the way I am. But when I found out that everybody was on my side, it was a lot of fun seeing Tommy squirm a little bit. And come to find out, this is the juicy part, the timing of this draft got moved.

And half my team got auto-picked because Alex Caruso had to fly to Paris. So I'm a league with Alex Caruso Among others in the NBA And Caruso had to fly to Paris You got big league I got big leagueed essentially And you got blamed for it

And I got blamed for it Because there has to always be a scapegoat with big leagers And I'm the scapegoat So And maybe Alex Caruso Would come on the show And explain why his fucking flight to Paris Was so important

Prediction You have no idea if your team won or lost I did not set my line up in that fucking league Do they make Wi-Fi on international flight? Have they invented that? I don't think you can do it over the pond. Okay. I don't think you get Wi-Fi over the pond.

But I want to give out one best, I want to give out one Miller-Light mention right now. We're going to be doing Miller-Light mentions after we break down the games in a moment. Best car ride. Me and Cowboy Reed, we got to ride. Eight hours ago, we were in a Rolls-Royce, dude. Wow.

Yeah, they picked this up. We stumbled out into the, you know, under the little... From the tower suites, the Win Encore Hotel, stumbled out... To get to our red eye. This car pulled up

and we were like, man, that'd be... I'm like, who the fuck's getting in that car? That's a nice car. Must be a rapper. Yeah. And then the... This guy walked over. He said, gentlemen, right this way.

I'm like, no way. I can read also on the plane, right? I just want to say this, okay? And I'm not making light of the day. But we just take off. It's dark. It's quiet because it's a red eye, right? Reed's like, you want the window open?

I'm like, yeah, he opens the window. I'm like, oh, look over there. There's some heat lightning. He looks out the window. He sees it. He gets all excited, and he turns to me, and he's like, not in like a bad way, but it looks like, I don't know, it looks like palms are going off.

Oh, my God. And I was like, bro, we cannot say that. Did he mouth it or did he say it? No, he said it. Quietly. In an airplane cabin. On a red eye. You have to speak up a little bit.

On a red eye, dude. over the white noise. When I tell you, I would have acted like I didn't know who that person was. I absolutely would act like I didn't know Reed. You press the flight attendant button. Yeah, I'm like, excuse me, this guy. The steward button. Yeah.

So in my notes, I have Reed said a bad word on the plane. You can't say that word, man. Code break. That's a code break for sure. Another code break in housekeeping, football related as we get into gambling, which, by the way, I didn't include this yesterday. I was on fucking fire, dude. I was on fire.

I was six and one. I saw your quote tweet. Yeah, that was mighty impressive. I had a day. I mean, I dug myself a big hole on college football. I'm just going to stop betting college football this year. Parlay's only. So I'm not digging out of a hole on Sunday.

I think I only had one loss yesterday. Were you gambling? Well, I have to do picks at the end of my show. Yeah. I haven't started. My show. That's my show. Week 1 and team.

Win bet. Win bet help me out because I'd love to get started with that. But I did make picks. I can help you. I didn't pick the bears. and I didn't pick, obviously, a tie between the Colts and the Texans. No, you didn't.

Are you just picking winners? It's just winners. So is that one loss? Is that a one loss? I got to teach you about spreads and teasers and totals. You're going to love it. I'm going to turn you into a real degenerate. Great.

But don't come in here asking for a fucking raise because you're in debt, okay? Like, you got to ride the wave, man. I'll be all right. Yeah, some people have done that. When the wind bed, when the wind bed app gets low. I wasn't a raise. It was a stipend.

A bunch of people like, you got to ride. time this week you got time for a call mowing lawns as of late so i'm stacking up the bucks yeah so reed said a bad word but we made it home we're we're safe and now it's time to fucking roll one last code break here jeff schwartz owes me money from the last playoffs so jeff we love you i know you're listening but send over that five hundo from uh from the from the from the second sorry Kyle from the was it the first no i didn't bet against you in the playoffs i bet against the chiefs in the in the regular season. Sorry, Kyle.

Which game? Against the spread. Bengals. At Cincinnati. The first one. Jamar Chase went for 236? Yeah, the first one. Yeah.

It's over, Kyle's water under the bridge. Tough game. So a couple. Somebody tackle him. For Christ. Hey, two code breaks here. Me betting against your team and Jeff Schwartz not paying me. Come on, Jeff.

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indeed dot com slash blue wire offer good for a limited time claim your seventy five dollar credit now at indeed dot com slash blue wire indeed terms and conditions apply need to hire you need indeed let's start with the big news man first off i'm fucking excited we're all in here this is going to be a lot of fun we're going to do this every monday morning this is so much better than doing this on sunday night making's nodding i'm like how do you know oh mother fucker six weeks with nary a complaint last year before i was booted from the show here's here was the thinking i i don't want i don't want my best player i want to manage my

best players load you know what i mean yeah put you on a pitch count i didn't want you up till you're not a morning person i want you up till three in the morning yes yes morning person but not like my kind of morning person right right less of a and this is nice there's no dread as we watch the games on sunday because there's time to like really digest it and i promise you the show will improve this show might suck didn't sleep a lot been on a plane read said bomb on the plane like things are not yeah things are not like there's multiple we're not a well oiled machine right now but this show's going to be awesome this year because we're going to have a good night sleep. We're going to wake up bright and early and get you this

thing out by midday. Okay? And I know some people are going to say, well, I like to drive to work and I'm going to say like listen to an audio book and you know like. Pick up cigarettes. Take cigarette breaks. Take a lunch break, dude. Take a fucking lunch break. You know what I mean? Get a new hobby. This is a lunch pod. Okay. We're having a lot of fun here. We're going to

have fun all fall. Let's start with a team that's not having fun. Maybe having the least fun of league. maybe they're going to be more talked about than any team this year, and that's the Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys. So my question to y'all is, of course, we saw that Doc Prescott hit his thumb on a helmet, which always scares the shit out of you, right?

It was on an arm. It was on an arm. So he hit it on an arm. I don't know what the injury is, some sort of a break. You know, like you heard where I've been the last eight hours. Six to eight weeks, Jerry was quick. to say it was going to be wild. Boy, he was quick. Yeah. Wasn't he?

He was quick to say what was that making? That it was not good. He would be gone for weeks. Meanwhile, T.J. Watt says he tours pack, but Pittsburgh doesn't say it. Like out loud. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, yeah, bad, broken, weeks. Bro, like, Jerry has the fastest elevator in the world. Like, he got down to the podium. The tech guys need an elevator like he has.

Because he was down there quick to give that news. What do they do, man? Because me and Reed were going through the quarterbacks that were out there. If I was Jerry, to answer my own question, laying up is on the table. This team is not winning a bunch of games this year. It might not be winning with four in there. Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. Like, they're struggling, man.

So whenever they get him back, they're going to be in a hole. Like, you're probably not going to win the East. You don't have everybody to throw two. your offensive line's not that great. McGovern got hurt. Curse got hurt. It's not the worst thing to lay up. This would be the perfect opportunity

for him to crater this team and bury McCarthy righteously. And then maybe Dan Quinn can be an interim and get the next big job or something like that. Sean Payton. Well, Sean Payton's just waiting, bro. Waiting Payton.

Waiting Peyton. And he's waiting and he's waiting to see what Jerry's going to do. And ultimately that's the move. but it's tricky. The whole time the price goes up. Who do you make the interim? Because, like, Dan Quinn's probably going to want to take that job after he's the interim.

But somebody else, an interim would try hard. I think you let Mike McCarthy go five and 12. You let him just, yeah. Top 10 draft pick? Break it clean in the off season. Yeah, that's why he's like 68. Sorry, guys. Yeah.

We'll talk to y'all week nine with more updates. Kellyn Moore, his stock is going to be interesting to watch because this is a guy. that everybody's like oh head coach all this stuff okay have fun kelvin like show us why you're a head coach like you know usually these bright offensive minds they get the job while things are going well things are not going well they were not they will not go well offensively for this team this year and i wonder what that means for kellyn more stock so it's interesting like if you're kellimore more he's kind of like man i should make up a fucking illness or something and take some time away from football Like, you know, take a Brady break.

Yeah, like take a Brady break because his stock's not going to go up. So who do you go out and get? I got some names here. Who do you guys like if you're the Cowboys? Or do you just sit tight? Guys who aren't starting right now, who can you go try to make a play for? You're asking? Well, I mean, guys who have been on the field in recent memory, Nick Foles is a guy I've seen a lot of.

Austin guy. He would probably have no problem going to Dallas. I'm sure no player in the NFL would have an issue going to Dallas, even if it's on a quick, even if it's on a quick one year, hold space between, you know, injuries type deal. Yeah, go get some money. Yeah. Enjoy Dallas.

Do you think Ryan Fitzpatrick might come out of retirement for that? That's interesting. I hadn't thought about that. What are we talking about, though? You just said it. They're not good anyway. But Ryan Fitzpatrick loves playing for teams that aren't good. So this is in his wheelhouse.

But I got a name for you. Go ahead. You first, though, because you said Nick Foles would be a good one. That's not a bad answer. Cooper Rush, just, just, just Dalton Schultz all day long. Dalton Schultz from Cooper Rush. I mean, the season sunk. Zeke did look kind of good, and it was 10 for 52 CD Lamb.

Can't get any separation. By the way, his visor fails inspection every time, dude. That's not, that's 5% tint. Yeah, you look like a Tesla. A limo, yeah. Yeah, dude. That was, that was a. That was a strange scene.

Those helmets in general are spooking me out. Yeah. How about Tyrod Taylor for infusing some electricity? No, thanks. Like what wattage are we talking here? Higher wattage. How slow is my iPad going to charge? Higher wattage.

Not quite a lightning cable, but like the one that you find that works. Yeah, yeah, no question. No question. Fucking guy in a cowboy hat stabs him in the wrong place with a needle. Then what? Those doctors are out there like fucking Clint Eastwood. skin with their devices. He is not.

If I'm Tyrod Taylor, I'm not going anywhere near a doctor with a cowboy hat. And I'm podcasting a cowboy hat. That's great. So Tyrod ain't going to Dallas. I'm going to tell you if I was Dallas and I was really trying to grab a guy of value right now, I go get the Huntley kid in Baltimore. I like him a lot. Another thing, you know, is Minchew would be perfect.

But Philly ain't, ain't doing that. You're not trading people in division. And Baltimore's not doing that with Huntley and the Giants. because there's an elephant in the room in Baltimore is you might need Huntley at some point. I don't know. Same with the Giants and DJ on all those. You could downgrade DJ and get rid of DJ to Dallas.

How about the embarrassment of riches they have in Washington, Taylor Heineke? You know, all I'm saying is I'm playing devil's advocate. If Jerry actually wants to try this thing, there are options out there, but I'd be on team like. That are spark guys. Like when they come in, players around the league have watched a guy like Taylor Hineken come in and infuse a spark into an offense and be like, we've all seen guys like that. Yeah.

Humus beat the bucks in the playoffs. That's all you need, bro. You need a guy like that who's like a playmaker. But again, for what? Because they're not winning games, dude. And that's the problem. At least they got Micah Parsons. I just want to say this.

Michael Parsons, we picked our DPOIs the other day. Like, and when we make these picks a lot of times, I almost think like a game. gambler. I want to put a little hot take on it. DeNeil Hunter, he's going to have a great year. Michael Parsons is maybe one of the best defensive football players in the game. If I had to pick a guy to hit a home run on a big third down, one-on-one, I mean, there's some great rushers who do it by trade, T.J. Watt,

Miles Garrett, guys like that, Khalil Mack yesterday we saw. They'll all be in the conversation. But if they decide to rush him a lot, he could break the sack record. I remember when I first got in the league, Clay Matthews was at the height of his career, and he would line up anywhere. He would line up behind the nose. He would line up opposite end. He would line up wide nine on my side. Sometimes he'd stand up over the guard.

These are the type of things that Micah Parsons does. And better. Yeah, yeah. But you're right. From a schematic standpoint, he's so multiple. You can't prepare for him as one guy. You need to have all five guys and the back and the quarterback on the same. It also makes you gunshot.

Where's Waldo? and with Clay was easy because of fucking hair. White guy long hair, easy to find. Micah, like, I think it's hard to forecast before the season

at this juncture in his young career, like how they're going to use him? Are they going to rush him like a bunch? Is he going to be off ball a bunch? But he has an opportunity if he rushes. I mean, the way he beat Donovan Smith, I mean,

he's one of the few guys that can really dip and just run by people. And then the spin, he's not even stabbing to a spin. He's not chopping to a spin. He's bursting up field like a track star. And on his third step, he's putting his outside foot in the ground. And Donovan and anybody else on planet Earth, with the exception of maybe Lane Johnson can recover.

And it was Joe Hague out there. And Hague was like one of his first series, I think. And he was like, fuck, this guy is just a werewolf. And to spin like that and to be able to recover and not fall down and then run a second hoop to get high up to. Brady, I mean, like, he's so violent in all his movements. I love watching him play. Tom's arm looked good, man.

It looked great. Tom doesn't look old. Tom sounds old. By sounds old, I mean, I feel like he feels like the clock has struck midnight, and maybe he regrets coming back. I'm not, dude, that's just a vibe. I'm not, I don't know anything. I'm not, you know, I'm not hot take artisting.

I'm just saying, like, after the game, when they put the microphone in his face, I just worry he's not having as much fun. I mean, that line's in shambles. There's a lot of questions. They're going to be kind of bad in the red zone. I told Meg, draft Ryan suck up, the kicker. They don't have a, you know, like they lost grunk.

They're not going to be able to finish, bro. Like, that's what kept Dallas in the game. They ran it a lot on first and second down. Yeah. In the red zone. Yeah. And it looked like he enjoyed coaching the fellas up a little bit. I think Hainesie was catching some MFs.

Yeah. Yeah, there's a couple, there's going to be a lot of motherfucking this year. Stood out to me is Julio's involvement early with the Bucks. Obviously you see him in uniform and a Bucks jersey. It's like, what the fuck? That looks so weird. And then people say, oh, he's only got two catches for 26 yards. And then you say, well, look at his rushing yards because a lot of their plays with the

offensive line situation is quick dump offs, quick protection, stuff that D-Lignment hate. And then they have to chase on the edges. Julio had a couple of those. That was great to see. Well, and a lot of people are taking Julio Victory laps, and I'm not saying y'all are. I'm just saying. And Mike Evans was a great lead blocker. Oh, my God.

How about Evans with the swim move release and then that fucking fade in the end zone that he caught, you know, just a jump ball, took it one hand. Was it one hand over digs? I mean, it was a beautiful catch. They have weapons, but can they really exploit, you know, coverage deep? They don't have time to do that. That's what I worry about. And Brady's not mobile. His arm looks great, but I don't know he's getting any more mobile.

I just worry about this team. You know, I did pick the Saints to win the division. And for half the game yesterday, I was like, fuck me. I need to walk this back, huh? A shout out to Hicks, too. Akeem looked good in that jersey. And he's going against one of the best in the league with Zach Martin. And he's going to be big for them.

I saw a great competition in the whole first half. I got a little tired. I went to sleep, but I was happy for a kid. Let me ask you this, though, guys. You remember New England's defense the one year that they weren't so good offensively. and 18. This is my first year out of football and I was on Ryan's show a lot.

And I wasn't great on that show, but there was one thing I was on early was the Patriots defense was overrated. You know, a lot of people thought that that offense, as deficient as it was, could be carried by that defense. This defense is scarier to me

than that past defense. There's better players. That scheme was great in New England and they had Gilmore and they were locking people down. But guys like Devin White, two sacks last night, watch him ad rush.

And they swarmed. They swam, bro. They swam, bro. They're just so fast, bro. They're so fucking fast. Side line and sideline. Top down. They're so fast.

They're so aggressive. Shack had six pressures. They're dominant defensively. So they're going to hang around a while because of that defense. What they lost in salt with Jensen, they get that infusion with Hicks to a certain degree on defense. Now the snap count isn't the same, but he's out there trying to toss guys on piles and stuff.

But Julio's got to stay healthy all year. It's not just one day. That was my point. I know Brady's not used to getting hit, especially from Blindside, but it bears mentioning playoff Lenny was six yards a pop, 21 for 127. Julio, as you mentioned, eight and a half yards of pop, like they were running the ball. Yes, yes. And that's after Donovan Smith went out.

Take a second. I know your rotator cuff is always bad, but pat yourself in the back here. Yeah, thanks. We'll see. Sell high maybe if you want to playoff Lenny share. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Can you trade them? Can you do a cross-league trade? can I give you AJ Dillon who the computer drafted in the fourth round in Tommy Altars League? Lenny also had three yards to carry Before contact.

That's right. He looked really good. That's a good sign for them in the wrong game. Micah tweeted out after the highlight of playoff Lenny hit ribcaging him in pass protection which is an ad. It's a chip.

It's a chip. So as an offensive lineman, some guys like chip help? It's not a pancake. Some guys don't know. It's not a pancake at all. PFF. Some guys, some guys like Chip help. I know you'll do numbers. It's not a pancake. I got you here. Some guys like Chip help because they don't feel confident one-on-one with the guy. Some guys don't like chip help because they feel like the running back will influence the defensive end to do something that will hurt the offensive line. And he won't know. Sometimes they'll

just come up and chip and you can spin inside. What Lenny did was he kept, okay, and I'm watching it here on the screen, Lenny bluffed as if he was looking outside, did a great job of letting the tackle and gauge, finding a target, and then striking it. And that's just, Michael Parsons is going to understand this after this clip, that this is going to be happening. He's going to have his head more on a swivel. And I'm looking forward to seeing the counter from 11 off of this because he's going to see it a lot.

Well, it's a tough look. It's a tough look because a lot of times when you're going to spin off a chip, you want to take that up the field because if you're going to come underneath, you want to be up the field a little bit so you can get back. So you give yourself space to do it. This is a tough look for him. bro it sucks getting chipped and his tweet was super angry at pf and i don't blame him i agree with it you like listen everybody gets got but there's some things that that people celebrate online

that are like that's not a masculine to get chipped like that he's not even looking to say what a bad ass play oh he won that now there was only one player in this game and that was lennar four net the other guy didn't see it but that's football i remember eddie lacey chipped me so fucking hard in preseason i felt like that was a code break dude But this game was ugly. I took the under to cap off the night. It just felt like one of those days, and it was. So Dallas, I don't want to stick a fork in people week one,

but put a stick a fork in these cats. I mean, McGovern was down second series, bro. Yeah, San Francisco. We got to, yeah, I think the prevailing question is, is it time to panic about Trey Lance? And my answer is, because I have people, you know, I picked them to win the division. And, you know, I picked him to go to the Super Bowl,

but more because I have no fucking idea who's going to play in the Super Bowl in the NFC. I'll admit that. I don't know. Like, you know, they're the best team top to bottom in the NFC, evenly distributed talent. With the best mind at the helm. Yep.

And the guy that's the question mark is Trey Lance. And it's a big question mark. But I'll say this. Am I panicking about him? Let me see him throw a dry ball. You know, like, like, I'm not copping out here. I'm not defending a take. I'm not caping.

By the way, I like them keeping Jimmy G. There's a reason, dude. So even if you're panicking on Trey Lance, it's not time to panic yet for that team. The big question for me is, Kyle Shanahan, and I'm a proponent of this, going with the hot hand in a situation like this, when you're in a division race,

another reason why you shouldn't panic is look around. Did you watch the other teams in the NFC West play? these guys are going to be fine. Trey Lance, maybe he'll be fine, maybe he won't, but you bought the insurance and it might be worth it. The thing that I'm worried about is how do you massage the whole like, hey, Jimmy G. comes in. Like yesterday, it was not on the table

to bring Jimmy G into that football game because you've got to give that kid at least the first game, right? Like I think it's probably too early to do stuff like that yesterday. Game three or four, if you need to run a two-minute drill, or something, maybe you put Jimmy G in. And Trey Lance has been told over and over again, he's the guy and they love him. So whether that's true or not, at the very least he feels supported. And I think they could pull that off if they had to. And it's super tough to judge Trey Lance off of that game. I mean, historically Chicago has had the worst playing service in the NFL. It's awful. Matt

Eber Fluse comes in and he says, we need to change the surface. They put new surface in. I know we're going to talk about it later, but the lines were terrible, the lines were terrible pregame. on the sideline like the guy who painted looked like he went over to like a like a shitty little league game and did it yeah um and then you take a look at the field the field itself didn't the field didn't retain water players are out there hopscotching in puddles before the game you expect us to take that performance seriously for tray lance we can't yeah i can't i can't and listen i get it if you're worried about him i get you being worried about him i'm just not going to panic yet like we're going to talk about green bay in a little bit they fucking lost james

and beat the dog shit out of them last year. It's week one. You know, like, things change. And I've learned enough in four years doing this that I'm not going to write teams off except for the Dallas Cowboys in week one. I just don't know yet. And with them, they were so aggressive defensively.

This felt like a tailor-made their type of game. But they got, like, too aggressive. Eufongo was coming downhill. He was fucking people up. You're like, man, this is awesome. Nick Boso looks great, right? He looks like Nick Posa. Yeah, he looks great.

They were top down, they were aggressive. But then eventually this guy, Getzzi, the new guy in Chicago, the OC, that's his name, right? I think I'm terrible with names. Getzzi. Yeah, Getzzi. He opened things up as the game went on. And Justin Fields, you know, things opened up for him. And guys were wide open.

So dropping people in coverage, penalties, that's what killed him. And Trey Lance's pick killed him. You know, Justin Fields threw some bad. ball yesterday early. Eddie Jackson making a big play when they needed it. Bating. That was a guy, his rookie year, people were comparing him to a young Ed Reed. Yeah. Because he makes plays on the football and he scores touchdowns, all that stuff. He was on a milk carton last year. Now he's back. Chicago loves him. I just love the feel of that game. Big plays. Justin Fields making a bunch of big plays with his feet, extending the pocket. That's a tough play he made, bailing out of the back

of the pocket in the rain, making that throw. And by the way, Fields gets it. And Pringle. Chips guy. And by the way, make, I brought you some chips from the win. These are some of the best potato chips.

I put them in my suitcase. These are some of the best potato chips you'll ever eat. You want to have one? No, thanks. It's not even... Kyle, you want one? I love a potato chip. Thank you.

Oh, my God. Misaponiacs. I'm going to have to take a break here for the ASMR people. Maybe scrub 15 seconds. The misophoniacs. Those those Honestly those do look awful Shout out win

Ships are fucking amazing Only problem is it's nine in the morning It's not a good chip time So Am I worried about Trey Lance A little bit But that team's pretty good And ultimately look at the NFC West

The Bears are a rain team bro They look cool as shit in the rain They look cool as fucking the rain Bro and they play well in the rain They're sloppy They play hard They're physical that young

defensive end, 91, made some plays for them. They had 13 quarterback pressures with four or fewer pass rushes. 91 is Robinson, right? Robinson. Yeah, so... Small school kid.

Robinson made a play, and I think you can check me on this, but he said all week in film study, he noticed Trent Williams taps his left foot twice before a pass play instead of once, and this is all hearsay, and it looks good after a sack. Trent Williams kind of didn't finish on the play, And the quarterback had to step up.

There was a sack. Post-game interview, he said, you know, I've been, I studied his move. You don't need to show your work. And I'm like, hey, shut the fuck up. You don't need to show your work. First off, just go get your sack. But you don't mean that mean shut the fuck up. That's like, hey, for your own good.

Shut the off-sex. So I've heard in the military, they say op-sac. When a young guy's talking too much about, it's operational security. It's like, hey, dude, this is great. And there's some other rush or like next week is like, damn, bro. Why'd you tell him that? You told, that guy's so good. had one tell like keep it to yourself somebody on Twitter said uh you know he exposed a

hall of fame left tackles exposed and i and i just responded l-o-l you know what worries me elijah mitchell i don't know what what's going on with him has anybody heard anything about his injury i mean like when the run game dried up they had they had some problems um so i mean it's we'll see injury it's uh timetable is uncertain but it's a second year in a row he's at a knee injury the season opener. So you feel for him. He's a great electric player. Jeff Wilson time. So about the NFC West here, I want to read a stat to you. Three teams had three or more offensive linemen give up three or more pressures. Three's here as the theme. Two of them, Jags and Jets, sound like teams that would do that. The other teams, the Rams. And we haven't talked

to his group since Thursday night. We don't need to go into that. Check out Fridge Talk. But the Rams are in a little bit of trouble. Again, I said on Thursday night, just like I said with the Niners, I'm not writing them off, but there is a health concern with Stafford. And then down in Arizona, there was a thump in yesterday, right? Collar wasn't that efficient. Patrick Mahomes. And the one thing I love about Patrick Mahomes, what I've learned from you is,

and I don't throw this around a lot, but he seems like a Jordan kind of level competitor. 1,000 percent. And there's not a lot of guys like that. And the other guy I compare it to him is like a Tiger Woods in terms of skill set. And I've been reading a lot about Tiger Woods. And I was reading a book about Tiger and Phil

and their competition. And one time Phil came out and Phil was famous for having a big sexy driver that went really far. He hits his driver, crushes it. Tiger comes up with a three wood hits it further than Phil.

They go up to their ball. And as tigers walking past Phil's ball, Phil said, do you always hit your three wood this far? And he said, I usually hit it further. This offseason, Tyreek coming out of Kansas City to Miami, people around the league talked as if the driver was taken out of Andy Leeds bag. You can't drive the ball anymore.

They don't realize Patrick Mahomes is a three wood, 350. Yeah. And that's not only good enough, it's great enough to win another Super Bowl. And I know that's a good analogy because I understand it. Got it. And golf, not my thing. But like, you're right. And there was way too much panic this offseason with Patrick Mahomes.

I heard somebody in the media say he's not a top five. quarterback. I mean, I just, I love that people are saying that because we're going to get to watch angry Patrick Mahomes. I love when he has that look in his eye after he makes a play. Like what, motherfucker? Like what, you know, what more do you want? The difference is his mindset. Yeah, he's just got it. He's been the kid that since a young age, his dad has said, you can do anything that you want to do if you put your mind to it and you work hard. And this is a guy who's in the building. He's in the building before people. He's out of the building after people. He's out of the building after people yeah and he's the most gifted guy there that's a recipe for

success yeah and what went what went well for them yesterday I mean Juju had a nice day it sounded like I was what mainly watching the Green Bay game six or 79 yeah and we said that Juju's gonna be a big pickup for them dude Juju's gonna rejuvenate his whole rejuvenate it rejuvenate rejuvenation print the t-shirts merch um copyright trademark. So Sky Moore, young guy, get to know that name. He's on my fantasy team. They've been talking about him in training camp all summer. If you guys haven't heard the name, he had explosive yesterday. Yeah, he's explosive. There are guys in Andy Reed's toolbox that he feels comfortable throwing to.

Meekul, I'm not sure, is going to be able to, everybody knows me Cole's the fastest guy out there. I don't think he has that sturdiness, that physicality that Tyreek possessed, which you're able to catch a ball over the middle and get a yak for 15 to 20. Yeah, he's a tank. He's a little tank. If D. Cole can be guys on a nine route, which is great, and it threatens the ceiling of the defense. He's a sprinter. He's a sprinter and his purest form. Yep, yep, yep. Nine different ball catchers. We're going to see a lot of good football and interesting football from the Chiefs this year, because I want to see how they, they got to be able to morph into whatever they need to be.

And that's what New England did for a long time. And that's what I think, like, gave them an opportunity to win any game. You have Patrick Mahomes, you got Andy Reid, you got all. you got the tools, you got the three wood, you're fine. You got five offensive linemen that they brought in last, or they brought in five new starters on the offensive linemen, if I'm including Lucas Nyang, who's not playing right now. He got injured at the end within Achilles.

So he's on the mend, but you look at the five guys that are on the field now. The one guy not brought in last year has Super Bowl experience, Andrew Wiley. That offensive line's going to be great all year, and that'll provide the foundation for Andy Reid to be confident in the offense. Patrick to say, hey, you know what, if they're not showing me what I like here, I can give it on these RPO's and have faith that Creed Humphrey, Trace Smith, Joe Tunney, he'll get this job done in the middle.

And Carloftus showed up. Yesterday was disruptive. You know, that front's going to, the defense usually starts slow there. They started fast. That was good. So, Chiefs. Hey, not to be overlooked. Bucker Good from 54.

Four for four and extra points. Tommy Townsend, average 54 a punt. So as we look at specialists all around the league, screwing up left and right. They don't have that problem in Kansas. That's the truth, man. Yesterday was a, well, Dave Toe. Historically, a tremendous special teams coach. He worked with the Bears with Devin Hester

and all those jokers. So he's been there, done that. Yeah. So the West, it's a shit show. We'll see tonight, Reed, if the Seahawks are, you wake up, you might be waking up tomorrow morning saying the NFC West is winless. I mean, probably will.

I don't want Jinks you, Reed, and God's team tonight. The Russell Wilson homecoming. Do we have a prediction there? We don't do Monday night time machine. We're riding. It's all W's. All Ws. So for now, Seattle in first place at O&O. Okay. Maybe not

but tomorrow morning. So a team that I would panic about offensively, we were talking earlier about the Niners, I would panic a little bit of the Pats offensively. Number one, they can't really protect Mac Jones. When they do, guys can't separate. The one image from yesterday, I remember, besides them making

very unpatriot-like mistakes, like Gagel are, you know, the fumble or, you know, not getting rid of that football on the, the ingram touchdown, the fumble, right? The scoop and score? The scoop and score. These are not like Patriot mistakes. I would worry about this offense. And I was talking about somebody about this earlier who I respect their opinion.

And they said, yeah, but it's September. You know, the Patriots always get better as year goes on. And from knowing being up there, they say after Halloween or after Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving. I always fucked this up, which means I wasn't listening, I guess. But I was ready. My season starts in September. They used to say season starts after Thanksgiving or whatever because you, you, you, that's a good mindset. The teams that you're not fully formed as a team in September, I just, they always had great offensive minds. Like they had Josh McDaniels. They had stability there. And if the defense is going to evolve, sure, I trust build a do that. But the offense, like, who's coming to the rescue? So I worry about them. I really do. You know, I have this image yesterday in my head of Mack Jones rolling out. He's actually pretty well protected on this play. He's got a lot of times baking a fucking cake. And he's traffic copping, pointing guys open. They're not getting open. Then he just forces a ball into five people.

And, you know, I'm saying to myself like, damn, they just don't have anybody you can separate. And that's tough. You know, Aguilar's fast, but you don't have a true, like, number one guy. Jacoby Myers is, you know, he's a solid guy, dude. But you need a guy, right? And a young quarterback needs a guy. You need a Christian Kirksey. I don't care if you've got to pay $20 million for him.

Get that guy a guy. Anyways, Odell, I mean, I don't think New England's a hot ticket, free agency. Josh Gordon's on the street. Yeah, yeah, spin the wheel. I will say this about New England. Yeah. They bring in two guys to call the plays or whatever the heck they're doing on offense

with Joe Judge, Matt Patricia, right? It's a shared deal, and I know it all falls on Belichick's shoulders and he said that time and time again, but at what point are you an offensive lineman sitting in that room coached by Matt Patricia saying, you know, what's going on here? What's the deal?

Yeah. And that's my, that's my big thought. Can I answer? Yeah. Now. Yeah. I'm doing it now. Yeah.

Like I'm like, all right. I trust you. But if this thing ain't working out early in season, yeah, some guys might be like, fuck, man. It's hard to trust this process because it's so unorthodox. It's not been done before. So I worry about them. Hey, Mike McDaniel, big day for him. You know, I thought that was really cool.

I know making you, you like the guy. Love him. Listen. I like that he seems to be, it's like a peer-to-peer relationship with his players, which is a new look in the NFL. Gets his own coffee on the way to stadium. Does he? That's what he says.

That's pretty relatable. Pictures of it. Yeah. I mean, you've got to get your drugs somehow. Yeah. 20 yards worth of penalty, zero turnovers for the Mike McDaniel-led Miami Dolphs. Well coached in that fourth and seven, like, you know, he's basically, Mike McDaniel is like if you gave NFL Twitter, like the controls.

to a head coach's brain. So like all the NFL Twitter people are gonna love Mike McDaniel. They already do. Fourth and 70 goes for it, they hit Waddle for a bunch of touchdown. Yeah, he's like, you know, people on NFL Twitter, they're like,

you should always go for it. Like, you know, like this guy's not being aggressive enough. The whole thing, coach, you're never aggressive enough. This guy's gonna be aggressive. And Tyreek said it. He's like, what did he say? You got to put his balls in a wheelbarrow. So actually, I'll put him a new Millerlight mention.

Here is going to be the Mike McDaniel. Brandy Marsh Memorial Award, which means the ballsyest thing that anybody did this weekend. Tua also didn't throw the ball over 20 yards. I just want to point that out. One skipped for 30. He skipped the ball. He almost threw a really bad pick, but he also put the ball on target a lot too.

And listen, this is who they're going to be. They're well coached. Their offensive schemes good. They got a guy who's not going to, they're not going to have to push the ball downfield. It's going to be a yachtery. and they're going to finish second this division. I feel better about that

than I did even when the seat, you know, a week ago. So, um, they don't need Tyreek to take the top off. Exactly. Just the illusion of that. And Tua doesn't have to be spectacular, but he does have to hit some deep balls to stretch that,

to stretch that field a little bit. You know, stretch coverage to scare you into thinking. Even if it's an overthrown play action deep ball that tells the same, oh fuck, they do throw it deep. They didn't take a bunch shots yesterday. Yeah. That could change.

It's just been a hot topic. I wouldn't panic if I was the Patriots offense. Tariq finished eight, 12 targets for 96 yards. You talked about Tua. He's 4-0 against the Patriots right now to start his career. And the last Dolphins coach to hold a Bill Belichick team under 10 points is Nick Sabin. Wow.

So Mike McDaniel to. I'm sure what you're telling us. Alabama. Bill Belichick is going to draft. I'm thinking Mike McDaniels. going to be a legend one day. Bill Belichick's going to draft Quinn yours. Yeah.

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1,800, 889, 9789. All right, so the 1 PMs, this was what football is all about to me, is the 1 PM slate yesterday, just making chicken soup out of chicken shit, man. That's what the NFL does, man. Like, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, and the rain, I mean, that was enough for me. And, you know, not to mention everything,

all the drama going on in that game, I don't care if the quality of play ain't great. I like chaos. there was a point where I looked up and Bengal Steelers are doing what they're doing. You know, you've got Lovie laying up, which we'll talk about in a minute, but it's overtime there. You've got two big kicks going off. Will Lutz and the kid from the Browns who hit from like fucking a million miles away to break Baker's heart. And then you got commies and jags like an entertaining.

It looked electric. It looked electric at that stadium. key one of the most fun football games Carson was yesterday on TV but you know when you have your NFL Sunday thing open if you're watching your laptop like we were we were in the room because I was too fucking hurting to go down to that sports book we had 15 computers

and the TV screen and you look up at one point and it's like the NFL there's this force it's like a Buffalo Wild Wings thing same thing in Chicago where they turn the rain up on Trey Lance they just turned that shit up in the fourth like the rain just started as as soon as they had to

to drive and win, you know, the rain turned up. The NFL, they're at Buffalo Wild Wings and all these games are like, it's a force, man. They all get tight at the same time, bro. One screen you got, you know, this kick. One screen you got, you got this guy driving. And that's why I love football, man. Like, that's why the NFL is king is because every game is so competitive.

And that 1 p.m. slate was a great example of it. The quarterback play in the 1 p.m. slate was atrocious. I tweeted yesterday. Imagine when the quarterback's, play well. Yeah. Because that was like enough dopamine to hold me over for a month and guys couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. So like the 1 PMs, I love that. I love the chaos. I love the madness. And another thing is with less preseason, it would not shock me if generally every week one is going to be awful for offenses because you know this, Kyle. In camp, offenses always lagged behind defense.

You know, there's just more like moving parts. Moving parts. Timing. Yeah, and quarterbacks and that sort of thing. So maybe week one is going to generally be a week that you take the under. You know, taking dogs was the way to go, right? Yesterday, I don't know how that played out, but like week ones in the NFL, they say to bet dogs, you know, the unders might be. And I don't know how the unders did yesterday, but I think they probably did pretty good if you bet every under on the board.

Bengal Steelers, which, you know, I cautioned a lot of people at the sports book. I didn't bet it, but I said, bro, this is a trap. Steelers are a good football team Mitch Chibisky's he's competitive okay by competitive I mean he's going to give you enough you know to keep them in the game they got after Joe Burrow

I do feel this way though after watching that game I almost feel better about the Bengals I did when I woke up on Sunday morning and it didn't it confirmed things I already know one that Joe Burrow has no conscience it's beautiful to see that like I wish as an athlete I had that

where you can fucking throw the ball into a sea of Pittsburgh Steelers and then the next play I'm going right back into a sea of Pittsburgh Steelers. Don't care. And then I'm going to hit Jamar Chase with a dart. He just has a short memory

but they were minus five in turnovers at one point. The last team I think they flashed a graphic up to win with a minus five turnover differential was 2012. So it had been a long time. If Mitchell Wilcox could snap the football he's not the snapper. if Coach Taylor, and I'll let you talk about this, mate,

because you were, he was grinding your gears, predictably, could manage the clock. They'd probably win this game. If Jamar Chase gets in late in the game on first down, you know, he's out of bounds at the inch line, and people are thinking, what a great offense. They're going to score. They're going to go up, that sort of thing.

But that's why you play the next play. They're great offense in space. Yeah, right. Well, you get down there tight, and three plays later, we're looking at a tie ball game. We're going to overtime soon, and it's anybody's ballgame. Well, it's like the ability to run a touchdown,

run a football into the end zone. Statistically gives you such a leg up on the competition. For example, the top four teams, I believe, in the NFL last year in rushing touchdowns, were all in the playoffs. And three of the five teams in the NFL that led the league in rushing yards didn't make the playoffs. Three of the five teams that led to the league.

So that's good because I was about to say usually. Fact check that, but scoring a rushing touchdown is far more important than rushing down the field. Yeah, well, and that's interesting because usually if somebody gives me a, hey, when teams that run the ball are in the playoffs, I'm like, well, they're up. Yeah. Right? Yep. But the fact that it's the touchdown scoring and not the yard is.

If you can burrow and chase your way down to the three yard line and then run it in, that makes your offense that much more. more sharp. And I don't even think you need the stats. I just think like, listen, if I know that you can run the ball in the end zone and you got a big back down there and you got a punishing offensive line, which they don't. And hey, a lot of new moving parts on that offensive line. It's a brand new offensive line. All guys who know how to win, though, which is the most frustrating thing. Well, and Joe Burrow got killed yesterday. So like, you know, I said this to somebody earlier. I was like, man, I feel better about the Bengals. They were like, yeah, but Joe Burrow got killed. I'm like, he got killed all last year they were in the Super Bowl. I guarantee you they're better up front.

If that's sacks 71 times or something. Just give them time. It can't be worse than last year. Yeah. So I feel good about them. The only thing that sucked is at the end of that game, we were in Vegas. CBS cut to the Vegas game like in the middle of overtime. So I was freaking out. Pittsburgh, man, they looked for real, man. They looked like a team that was going to give a lot of teams problems this year. I say looked because I worry about that defense without T.J. Watt. and when the guys walking off the field saying I tore my peck that's one that people kind of know

when that happens when you tear your bicep it rolls up your peck, that sort of thing. Blow your ankle or something? Yeah, I mean, Najee Harris has got an ankle right now. It might be a high boy, high ankle sprain, which is bad, bad, bad, bad.

That hurts. You rather break your ankle. So they've got injuries. Highsmith stepped up. T.J. Watt was such a, there was a moment where he knocked the ball down I think on fourth down in the play before, you know, he had sacked somebody, you know, it was consecutive dominance by him.

And I was thinking to myself, he's just going to win the DPOI. Like, it's just, like, this is, he is establishing himself immediately. He was dominating that game before he got injured, like lining up all over the place. They were doing everything with him. From the very beginning. He was just wrecking the game. He's an amazing football player. And I would say this, man, like, he's as good as brother. Yeah. In their primes?

He may be a, he may be a, he may be a, more efficient pass rusher. He is. And I think JJ was so damn big that he could just be in the throwing lane. Well, JJ also had like a different kind of freedom. Yeah. Where JJ could like freestyle a lot and, you know, backdoor things and all that stuff. And like so could he out on the edge.

But, you know. JJ would let you block him sometimes. Yeah. So they could disrupt the pass. Yeah. T.J. never wants to be blocked. No, no.

If he's going to knock something down, he's like, fuck, I got blocked. But that, that guy's damn near unblockable. I hope he's okay, man. He's just, I mean, he's a hell of a football player. And Mink is the same way. Yep. Wire to wire. The pick, you know, all those plays at the end in the end zone

where he's blowing up Bengals receivers, he gets flagged, you know, because he went up high. Then the next play, he disrupts a pass in the back of the end zone. Same way, walks over the ref, like, you know, you're going to call me for a penalty now. Like, he's just such a football player. It was great seeing him out there balling out. Levi Wallace had a pick

That's more than you thought you'd get out of him Make a block the kick too The extra point Makea blocked the extra point Um Mika played like he showed up in black air forces And they weren't given to him by Coach Tomlin Oh yeah the Air Force thing

Yeah You know I think is that the joke Is that those are really ugly No the joke is like You know we're gonna get some shit done in these shoes Like black Air Force ones Or like utilitarian Air Force ones Yeah they're like Monarchs

They're like the dad shoe Yeah yeah yeah All right well a lot of guys on defense play well for Pittsburgh I think they're going to be tough I think they're going to be tough yeah and in overtime Kyle made a good point

whose call is this but Cincinnati punts it away with 105, 106 on the clock but there were 15 seconds on the play clock the Pittsburgh drive started at 56 seconds at their own 20 so it should have been 41 seconds probably not the head coach but that's where it falls Zach Taylor

is that special teams coach is it the punter himself at some point there needs to be an engagement of a snap count you know like set whoever the upback is set the ball snapped like but you have to you have to know somewhere in that operation prior to that snap you know end of game end of half situations can't get them the ball it's like I got driven crazy by this the app state uncc thing I've already talked about it but a week ago like you know all unccc has to do is recover the onsite kick did nobody tell you it's like did nobody tell you to run the play clock down did nobody tell you you not to run that onside kick in for a touchdown and give abs state a chance to come back and tie the game up like just these basic things that are supposed to be said to players right before they go out on the field like sometimes they're not being said or they're not being received and these

are mistakes they can kill you while we're bitching about coaches I want to bitch about a college coach Sark did a great job right Texas is you know backish competitive but you got to get you got to get a touchdown before the half don't you? they laid up and kicked that field goal on fourth and two or whatever it was down there you got your backup quarterback in there you might not be down there again Sark so while we're bitching a coaches

I want to bitch a sark a little bit and Lovie Smith is a friend of the program here and this is the next game we're talking about but I did not like playing for that tie man I didn't like the call on third and one 20 seconds left to going overtime you were up 20 to 3 on the Colts like you might not be here again

it's the first game this season You can be atop the the AFC South. It's like having a fucking, it's like having a fucking presidential suite at the Hampton Inn. Okay, but you can be there for a night. Third and one at the Indy 47 with 40 seconds to go in OT. Yeah, dude. Okay, you got a chance to, you got a chance to pick up 15 more yards,

kick a field goal, whatever it is. Instead, Rex Burkhead, third and one, not creative, not aggressive. Minus two yards. and three we think about it we punt so you know i don't like that um but there's probably some math there that says you're better off you're safer tying a game than you know i don't do all that i'm a football player okay like i'm being simple here i want to win the game you know um i don't know they had a second and one too so maybe call better plays at second and one and third and one at the indy There's a couple issues at play.

But it's a tough one with only 20 seconds left. I mean, that's, you know, that would be the minus 47. And he's probably not attempting a 71-yard field goal with Rodrigo Blankenship. That's one, two. And he just missed a kick. Maybe he did miss the 42-yard. That's three shots at a 10, 15-yard chunker to make it a manageable field goal. So I don't mind the punt on.

on fourth down, fourth and three. I know what he's afraid of. I don't mind the pun. But my point is you're the Texans. That's right. You can't be afraid. You're not going to win the Super Bowl. Maybe you are.

You're not. Okay. My issue is this, Chris, on running plays, on plays where everybody in the stadium and everybody on TV knows you're running the ball, good offensive lines are able to convert. Right. And that was the difference in the game. They're not good enough up front. But that's what I'm saying.

They're not there yet. So Lovey's like, you know, just chalk it up to a tie. I know, but throw the ball. Yeah. You know, throw the ball. Throw it on third and one. I don't care. You know.

I want to run it twice. So I know you do. But the Colts also got cute early. They were down 23 in the fourth quarter here. Like 14 minutes ago in this ball game. It's a three score game. You find yourself at a three score game in Texas and in Houston. And the Colts got queued early.

I didn't like this call. They could have gone up 10 nothing. They sit in the Wildcat and they get stuffed. Instead, you know, you find yourself down 23, dude. Yeah. I'm never a fan of the Wildcat. Wildcat. tells me you're not confident with what you got that was cool when we were in college but

and the dolphins did it but uh now it's a thing you should just show to fuck to fuck with people just show it yeah and make people prepare for things like that but not on play not in the got-of-it situation and listen uh you know i've i praised frank right for being creative at the end of the half uh in in a game at the goal line right philly special the philly special That's Doug too. The Philly special stuff is great. Yeah. But it only works once in a blue moon and he saved it for the right opportunity.

And I'm not acting like Wildcats, the most exotic thing in the world, but just too cute. I just want to say this about a couple players in this game. Number one, I love Jerry Hughes. He's still balling. He had a pick. He had a sack. TCU. TCU guy.

I love what they do with their hands with the frog thing. Yeah. It's hard for me to do that. Look at all my fingers. It's hard for me. Is that it? Yeah. It's two fingers?

Is it two fingers? Yeah, the frog. Shout out to Coach Mack. But he looked great. On the other side up front, Quitty Pay had two sacks and a big drive. And over time, we said this kid's going to come along.

He's coming along, man. He's the type of body type that really drives an offensive lineman crazy because he doesn't have a lot of surface area. And the service area, he does have his stout. And he's quick twitch. It's a tough guy to get blocked. You know what body type drives the Minnesota receivers coach crazy?

Jalen Rager. Do you hear that quote? We talked about it in the pod. Thick and slim. I loved the special teams analysis. It was the special teams coach. Special teams coach. He's in love with that guy.

So anyways, OJ Howard too, man. Think about how what this says about fits in the NFL. OJ. Howard wasn't good enough to make the bills, right? Like, whether it's the offense or depth, he was pretty good yesterday I mean he's been on the Texans like a week

caught a couple I think he caught a couple touchdowns he looked good I'm happy for him and one more thing on this lovey layup there's a surrender index online have you ever seen this with surrender index

of 72.12 this punt ranks at the 100th percentile of cowardly punts of the 2000s this is a real metric oh yeah and the 99 point six percentile of all punts since 1999. So the punt wasn't great, in my opinion,

and whoever runs that Twitter account, probably Mike McDaniel runs that account. I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that in that situation. Yeah. Well, I would have gone, I would have gone and try to score points. Two big kicks were happening.

We mentioned that, the Baker Bowl, huge pump fake for him. I was kind of bummed because it goes all the way down the field. That offense picked it up late. That's a good sign for them. But, you know, like, you think you win that game, right? You think you win that game. And I don't know if you saw the Brian Burns penalty,

but Brian Burns rough Jacoby Brissette, like slightly. Didn't like it. Didn't like it. I didn't like it either. And you're an offensive lineman saying that. I think that rule should be looked at when somebody's engaged. Like, he's not off of the tackle, right? Wills is on him.

So it's affecting. He's not doing it under his own power. Right. He's trying to navigate somebody that's trying to kill him. Somebody's holding on to him. While he's trying to get the, you know, cleanly. I think he should be able to. I think you should be able to look at that.

Now, I know by the letter of law, that's a foul, and the helmet goes back and everything, but that's what led to that long kick. And I guess they got away with like a fake spike type of thing or a spike type of thing, read. You can no longer fake spike. Yeah, he faked the spike and then spike. Why? Why no more fake spike?

That's my question. Because people get hurt because, you know. People think it plays over. Yeah. I guess so. That's a great. That's a great point. 17 seconds, second one.

So we're going to be looking at a third and one next. to spike it with the clock stoppage gets upset hut fake spike and then he's just what's worse is he doing that or the kneel when you're supposed to spike i don't know but it confuses me and we need it out of our game whatever happened yesterday yeah more so we need that that the roughing call out of the game but aquanoo is a guy man like i don't know if you're do you remember facing your first guy i know with Sue, but that gave you problems. Like, because he rolls out and bad day for rookie tackles as well. We'll get to that.

My first guy that really gave me problems was Gino Adkins. Really? Cincinnati Bengals, we were playing there. It was, he was on turf. I'd been at Soldier Field. We went out there and it was like, this guy can change directions in an instant. He's 300 pounds. He's also six feet tall.

So he's under my armpits as he is. That's the kind of matchups that's like, oh, my fuck there. Well, Aquano is like, man, I just got out of college. I just had a stipend a year ago, and now I'm blocking Miles Garrett and he's mad at Baker Mayfield. And like, yeah, what a draw this is for my first game in the NFL. And that fucking sucks. And he got beat some.

But, you know, that's what you go through. But you know, you go into that matchup knowing that you're going to net positive. If you can just go out there and compete. Yep. That's Miles Garrett. What I will say is, you know, don't let it be the thing that. you're defining your season as. Yeah, no, no, no.

I think you got to have a short memory. We talk about a short memory. You need it. You got to have a short memory too. Because there's no off week. There's a bunch of great rushers. And then, you know, Will Lutz saving me, like saving my bacon, man. Because I got the win totals on, I got over on Houston.

So I got to watch that slip away because Lovie was laying up. And then I'm like, fuck the saints who I picked to win the division. And I got the overwind total on. And I got the underwind total on the falcons. So it's a dumb. double whammy for me for will lutz to hit that kick mike thomas looked happy i almost thought it was like a hostage situation he seemed so happy i was like bro what's gotten into this guy voice is also way different than i thought he's a confusing guy to me he's got a higher voice than i

thought i'm not making fun of the cat i just like i did not think he sounded like uh james winston i was like maria williams higher voice than i ever anticipated really he talked shit to me my first year and he was like, get out of here, 75. I was like, oh my God, Mario. That's what I thought you're going to sound like. Mike Thomas, two fourth quarter reception, touchdown receptions. He was on the field for 83% of pass plays coming off an injury. He was 20, he had 20% target chair. It's a great sign. It's a great sign. So yeah, I mean, James, good game for him, get a winner of the belt. And in commie's Jags, we said it was really interesting. It was like a fun game. The Jags would be a lot of fun if they would just do the things to the full

like that you're supposed to do like catch it hold on to it kick it through the uprights like all the other stuff in football they're actually pretty decent at um you know Trevor missing throws early but uh Doug my favorite thing that you know in the 1 p.m. slate that made me really smile like sitting there in the room was first fourth and four Doug doesn't even fucking blink like he's just like yeah we're going like you know how people think it over you that's the that's the that's You talked to me about Doug before the season because you asked me about Trevor Lawrence and the Jags and I said, I don't know enough about the Jags, but I love Trevor Lawrence. And you said, well, I know about that coach that's coming down there.

They're going to respond well. At the very least, he's confident in his group. He's the perfect rebound guy, man. I mean, like he's the antithesis of Urban Meyer. Fun rebound shake. Yeah. So these dudes down there are going to be super excited to play for him. They just got to take care of that football.

I mean, it was the fourth and four. They had it drawn up perfectly. He's going to walk in the end zone. He just drops the fucking ball. Like falls over on himself backwards, drops the ball. So, yeah, they just got to take care of the football, and they're going to be a little bit more competitive than people think.

Also, Trayvon Walker, good first impression, right? You got the pick. Thank you very much, Carson. Stat, like, powerhouse right there. Stat powerhouse. Read his statistic. They're absurd. Trayvon Walker.

Four total tackles. one sack past deflection interception. Fumble as well. Yeah. Yeah, he's the safest pick there. You know, I got to watch more of Aden yesterday, but Trayvon looks like...

Ready to go. Yeah, he's ready right now. Put him in, coach. He's ready right now. So good day for him and a good win for Carson Wentz, who was up and down, man, but that's him, you know? And when he throws those picks, like the one he threw Trayvon Walker, the way I did Vegas this weekend, that's the way he does his

interceptions all the way like all the way real bad when he's going to do it he's going to do it and you got to eliminate that stuff i want to say this about the birds real quick i'll just run through what i saw in that game the eagles um for our philly fans right here i got to go into my my phone for these notes number one great resolve on this team as soon as they took the field uh down seven nothing got punched in the mouth in detroit a place i think is going to be tough to play right um they responded a j brown the fire in his belly dude you can feel it lane johnson finishing people you know people getting up and hyping each other up like this is a team with a heartbeat i really do believe that offensively right now uh they look pretty good jaylain hurts using his legs even early

when it was a little slow going um that you know that slant game with a j brown got them going but they're down 7-0 early midfield and they go for it. They're being aggressive. Nick Siriani's aggressive. They're on the road. They got punched in the mouth. They go for it. They don't get it. They got a hold or they're going to go down 14-0

at Ford Field. Not a good place to be. I lost the season opener at Ford Field one time. It's fucking tough there. I'm usually there on Thanksgiving. Yeah, you're there Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. But Hertz is one for six at this juncture. You're down seven-nothing.

It could be 14 nothing. What do you do? You get a stop, and then you get the big game to AJ Brown. And they go for it on fourth and goal. It's the right call. And I want to talk about one play for them. Yes. It's a huge play.

And these are new guys, 95. Marlon Tuey Piloto, you got to thank that guy. I mean, I want to thank him right now because this ballgame 7-7. I just talked about how Harry it was. And this guy, e-busses in there, disrupts golf, Kaiser White, tips the ball. Bradbury, all new guys, really. All three guys, new guys. Bradbury picks six. So it goes 14-7 to get some breathing room. And AJ Brown caught a million slants, as I mentioned, but that deep ball looked beautiful from Jalen Hertz, man.

A beautiful drop in the bucket. And A.J. Brown looks scarier and more, I don't know, AJ Brown than he did in Philly. So I'm really excited to see him all year. defense did not tackle well you know and it also shows you how good those backs are you know coming out of camp that was probably a perfect storm to get gashed a little bit because they run the ball well they were hitting them early with like tight end wham stuff a lot of pullers you know they were taking advantage of uh you know guys getting upfield philly's got a good defensive line the defense didn't tackle well those backs are good you don't tackle in in in fucking camp anymore so the beginning of the season like you can get gash and they got gash yesterday

golf man he's getting his confidence back you know i think he was so broke down after l.a it just took time and i'm not going to say he's going to get back to where he was i'm not going to say he's the answer in detroit but he threw some nice balls yesterday man he threw some really nice balls big conversion to shark shark later late in the game how the fuck do i say his name bro shark shark nobody really knows nobody knows um shark shark i'm just going to say shark but he's getting his confidence back and this is the toughest stage of being becoming a good team for the lions like they're in that zone where they're not dog shit anymore there's there's pressure on them to improve people expect things out of them and they have to

learn how to win games and you saw in the preseason they blew a game you know on the david blow drop uh you know snap same thing yesterday is like there there's ways that you can win this game and they were right there um they had miles sanders dead to rights late in the game with an opportunity for another chance and they couldn't tackle you know so there's going to be things that Dan's going to be able to build on there but you got to be better if you want to win football games hey 4 p.m we've spent way too much time on 1 p.m. I'm obsessed with ugly football are we worried about the Packers your Super Bowl pick Vikings they they rolled yesterday it was a thing of beauty yeah how can you not be a little bit worried I mean all we would see all last year is

how Devante Adams can get a free release with just tap dancing for a split second at the line of scrimmage. Yeah, very concerned. I'm not as concerned. I'm not as concerned. I'm not I'm not. Why are you not concerned? I'm not relaxed. I'm not on the relax. I'm not like a panicking. I'm not panicking dude like last year I just said it they got the shit kicked out and by the Saints you know the you know opening weekend and of course they did have Devante Adams at that point who's more than just a past catcher. He was a lot of their run game. You know that quick stuff out on the perimeter.

You know how that is, Kyle, if you can't run the ball sometimes or you want to throw the ball. You have to manufacture a run game. Yeah, and they kind of but they can run the ball. And that's what the problem is like, in the second half, they went a little bit more to the run game. And I feel like they could have done that earlier. Now, it's a totally different game if that kid catches the ball.

Let's talk about that. Christian Watson, who's going to be a hollow man candidate. Christian watching catches that ball. It's his first big target, and he drops it, and it's the quarterback who is known to spite rookies, dude. But he doesn't have a choice this year. That's the difference. Maybe Alain Lazzard's that important.

I mean, I think Lazzard's a good player, but he can't be that good, right? Here's what Rogers found late in the game, and this is why I'm not panicking. Big Romeo. I saw you tweeting about Big Rome. Big Rome. Big Rome got the ball and I was like,

okay, they're gonna be all right. Dude, take Boktiari's not out there. One of the best left tackles in football. Yes. Out. Yep. One of the best left guards in football that we don't know his name.

Elgin Jenkins. A lot of folks don't. Yeah, he's a good player, man. He has had some great matchups with some elite rushers in this. So all I'm saying is they're not at full strength. They're going to learn, dude. And I think the next time they play,

no shade at the Vikings, because I got them in the playoffs too. I love the Vikings. I mean, in fact, both of us are on the wind total now. We're riding together. I have the Vikings winning the NFC or the NFC North. He's got him going to the Super Bowl.

Yeah, I don't have that. So he's Mr. Vikings. But I will say this, you see these guys later in the year outside, and I know they always play the Packers Tough, Kirk Cousins late in the year. Like, I just don't trust them yet the way I trust Aaron Rogers. And I'm not saying I trust Aaron Rogers in the playoffs,

but when it comes to not cutting time to win this division, I think it's going to be a different ball game later in the year. I trust Kevin O'Connell. I trust the office. offensive scheme. I trust that the fact that Mike Zimmer's out and the fact that Kevin O'Connell's in, guys like Aaron Rogers actually have to do their fucking homework

every week. I can tell you how the Vikings play. I haven't played in Chicago since 2019. I can tell you what their double A mug packages on defense and the guys I play with could tell you what their offense is going to do. Now they have to prepare for an offensive-minded Minnesota team

with weapons like Justin Jefferson and Kurt Cousins, and Daven Cook. And the defense is changing. Yes. And the defense is getting, they swarm still. It's a new identity. You know, different, some different players. It's been some time. It's been changed.

Zimmer's gone, but that looked like when Zimmer had that group rolling. There was a two play sequence that my hairs were standing on end. Like, Hicks, my guy from Philly, just tattooed Aaron Rogers. And it was like an ayahuasca sandwich. dude and uh washed that down with like DMT double yeah yeah

so there was that play and I was like damn is he gonna get up it was like the meme all over again with his face mask all fucked up he needs a new chin strap by the way he might I don't know what do you think about the peekie blinders haircut uh I think he went to the store

All Saints and he went a little crazy he went a little he went ham at all yeah I think he uh I think he's going through some I think he knows he's got his work cut out from this year because when you cut your hair a lot of times it's a major life there's something going on got it like whenever i get a big haircut like i'm stressed and i think there's something to that so you at home if you ever really fucking tried a new hairstyle i think a lot of times that's what i do with my

facial hair honestly i'll go from beard to go tea or i'll because you're going through some shit like i need to start fresh yeah and that's what he's doing so he's like i got to do piquet blinders i got nobody this fucking guy's dropping the ball on a nine route it's beautiful ball i got to get a fucked up haircut hangs out of my hat it would bother the hell i love the i love the reverse you know it like hangs out a part of your hat so anyways after the iawasca sandwich next play big z who looks awesome for them maybe he's in the dpo i conversation just truck sticks uh the back and protection and i'm thinking to myself like this group is they're there are a bunch of bullies like they're gonna play like this this year and it's going to be fun so and when the the when the packers tried to run reverse

who was out there lead blocking. It was Aaron Rogers. And who was there to meet him? Zadarius. And you've been in this situation in practice before when a guy you're usually not allowed to hit comes to try to block you. Well, now Zadarius, who was a former teammate of Aaron Rogers,

gets to fucking hit him. Aaron trips while looking back at Zadarius. Like, you motherfucker fucker, falls, they get up, they're talking shit. I'm laughing on the couch at home. Because you know that situation. Kate looks at me and goes, why are you laughing so hard? I said, you don't get it.

You don't get it. Football's back. You love it. when a quarterback tries to block you. It's like funny. And Zadarius has just looked so big over there. James Winston tripped me one time on the way to the next play. Least surprising thing I've ever earned.

Yeah. So, all right, Chargers Raiders, wrapping up these four PMs, man. Return of the Mac. Dude, let me just say this.

He's like, that looked like Khalil Mack in Oakland playing Denver. Sorry, read. Remember that game? where he had five sacks, whatever it was. And he was just running through faces.

And like his ability to run six inches off the ground is incredible. Him and Bosa. Bosa's balance is insane. But Kaleel Mack, when he turns the corner and converts power, it's like a tidal wave, dude. It's like a wave coming off the ocean. He generates force through the ground better than anybody. We talk about rushes being able to bend their ankles to get under guys,

around guys. Kalil Mack puts his back foot in the ground, creates a pole with his inside arm, and puts it on guys' chests, and they cave in. Yeah. I mean, he was dominant. And that's a problem for the Raiders. We talk about their offensive line. Kalil Mack looked awesome. He had three sacks, four quarterback hits. Fumble. Sorry to interrupt. No, this is good. That's a great. Three sacks. And then combined with Joey Bosa, it's 16 pressures, four and a half. sacks, two turnovers. 16 pressures. Some teams didn't have 16 pressures, bro. Crazy. These guys, if they can say healthy,

I mean, after week one, I think Khalil Mack might be the front runner for DPOI. Which is wild. Considering T.J. Watts' injury. Dude, you know, like, and it feels like a revival for him. You know, and closing them out, those two plays in a row, it wasn't just the sack. He forced the fumble. The fumbled the down before his sack, he flushed Derek Carr into that action that forced the fumble. So he closed the fucking game out. And that's a great feeling. And they did it without J.C. Jackson. So this group's going to be even better. You know, Derek Carr, again,

we talk about these situations where you got to go for the kill. You're on the road, even though you're at home, basically, because both LA teams had to go on silent count this week. You got a chance to go up 7-3. He was throwing darts on that first drive. You got Kevin Harlan like fucking screaming, you're hitting Devante Adams, Mack Hollins looks great, like things are rolling. And you get down there and Waller has got an opportunity, I think it's on third and goal. He's got somebody trailing him on a crosser,

and Carr just puts the ball behind him. And that throw right there can be the difference in the game. And I'm not saying, you know, like if you do the math, it's the difference. But momentum's real and playing from ahead is real. That's why I talk about the Christian Watson drop. That's why I talk about the Colts going Wildcat. That's why I talk about this situation.

Because if you go up 7-3 here, the game's different. Instead, you don't take advantage of it. It's 3-3, and you kind of get jumped. So three picks were bad. I mean, the first one, I think he lost Tranquil in the fucking in the logo. He underthrew Devante Adams on a deep ball. And the third one was kind of careless. So not a great day for him, new offense for him, I guess.

And for a team that played mistake-free football in the preseason, they did not yesterday. Herbert, seven guys. He targeted four times a piece compared to Derek Carr targeting Devante 17 times. It feels like to me, like when you're really, really good at NCAA football,

and you say, instead of just throwing to my best player 30 times, I'm going to see how good I really am and I'm going to distribute the ball. I feel like Justin Herbert has challenged himself to not only throw the ball to Keenan Allen, but to distribute to a number of guys. DeAndre Carter, I play with DeAndre Carter. I'm like, I didn't even know he was there, dude.

He was in Houston. you know like he's not a star but he's a star maker Justin Herbert he's a star maker like there's going to be guys on that team that are going to become stars because of Justin Herbert and I'm not taking anything away from those guys but he threw two balls yesterday that perfectly exemplify why he is the biggest must-see TV and football up there with Josh Allen. Him and Josh Allen from a physical gift standpoint or just head and shoulders. that you would pay to watch Lamar.

It's like a circus show, you know. Josh Allen, but Justin Herbert, bro, he was rolling left. I wrote down where he was on the field. I think it's four minutes ago in the first half. He climbs the pocket. He's got great pocket mobility. Good feel for the rush. Rolls left with his eyes down field, pivots his hips.

So he's running left. Squares up. Doesn't even like stop and square up. He has like a torso that kind of like rotates. He has a rotating torso. he like and fucking throws a javelin from the 27 on a rope to the opposite 37 36 yards in the air running full speed left accurate with his torso twisting the other way and and even more amazing throw was to Gerald Ever late in the game the touchdown catch I don't know if you saw

this one Abram the defensive back from from from Vegas yep he's full speed full head of steam coming on a blitz big box big box safety but guys still running probably a four or five I don't know yeah flying he's flying Herbert's not running oh shit got to run got to run backwards oh I think I'll turn and throw the ball running

full speed the opposite way he's running to the fucking concession stand dude and and he finds a way to hit Gerald ever Abram isn't a normal like secondary blitz third level guy that's a guy who's paid to blitz and Phil and so I mean Herbert's amazing did nothing new and i want to say this i know i'll give bevel conway out to like a team or a game i almost gave

gerald gerald everett bevel conway bro he looks so fucking cool in number seven it's disgusting like so many guys are whiffing on their single digits like i'm like bad decision like haircut type thing but gerald he looks awesome that uniform number seven he was bawling out he's a really good player. To jump back, making you made the point about 17 targets for Devante Adams three times as many

as any other receiver running back tight end for the Raiders. Makes, what did you think of the Giants game? I thought it was awesome. First week one win in six years. Feels like about 16 years. Sequan was Sequin, Vented Sequan.

That's why you draft Sequan in your fake football leagues. Tennessee won time of possession. They won the turnover battle. They committed fewer penalties. DJ gave it away at the 11-yard line with several minutes to go in the fourth quarter when it looked like New York would go in and tie it up.

But they just stayed resilient. Defense bent a bunch but didn't break, held the Titans to 3 of 11 on third down. No Aziz Ojalari. No Kavon-Tibato. No problem. It was just a resilient group that was battling out there. Great to see a lot of naked boots, a lot of rollouts for Daniel Jones,

including on fourth and one with two minutes to go, which kept that drive going, what ended up being the game winning drive. 2019, dable, game one goes for two on the road. Love it. Sequan has to fight to get in. That was awesome. I've got a take on the job.

Giants game too. Turns out to be too much time because they get Randy Bullock into field goal range at the 47 but but he pushes it and and the GMEN are 1 and O for the first time and a long time. The stuff you're alluding to getting outside the pocket doing multiple things on offense it starts with a mindset and I've been on a team before where we fired our head coach I think the Giants for the last five years new head coaches if I'm in that locker room and we sign a guy like Brian Daibold we said we've all been at home after our season's over and watch teams coach by this dude.

We have a shot. In the group text, when he gets hired, you text each other, we got a shot. We're going to be a better team. We may not be competing for the Super Bowl, but people are going to know who we are. You go out and to your point, this is the game plan, the things look different. The vibe seems different in New York. I mentioned on our show yesterday at CBS Sports, I said, people seem to forget the superstar that is Sequin Barkley,

because that's how quick the memory is, the short the memory is in the NFL, but Brian Dable didn't forget. One of the best backs I've ever played against. And I'm not saying he's had the best four year, three, four year period because there's been injuries. You know, you'd like to see more production, but it's dog shit around him, and it's finally changing. And I just hope he sees some success. What you said Kyle is really on target. I mean, like being on bad teams is it's, you're like, you don't believe.

And you're almost embarrassed. Like people are like, you play football and you're like, yeah, play for the brer. Yeah. you mumble. Like now you're like, I play for the Giants. Hell yeah. You know, like Brian Dable effect. I'm dancing after the game, dude, all that shit. So, uh, with that's becoming like a new, like, uh, like a political, uh, rally thing. Like, you know, like a, like it's, coaches are going to have to start dancing to be cool. Like, you know, you know, you got to go on the campaign trail. You got to, you got to dance. You got to mix it up. Kiss those babies. You got kiss some babies.

And make and correct me if I'm wrong, but was in this the first winning record since the, boat picture. Oh, that's probably right. Damn, dude, it's been a while. Shout out O'Dell. But Jones pressured 73% of the game, or 72% of the time. And that picture was worth it. The tackles were, well.

73.3% in the first half finished 69% for the game. That's not great. Not great at all. So running left and right, there was a big discrepancy there and how productive they were. Like another young tackle that I want to look at the film, but, you know, I had some comments in preseason. I don't think they were over the top. I think he's going to have to improve.

This is fun, but it also says something about the Titans, too. Yeah. It does, when you look at the box score afterwards, but watching the game, I actually felt better about Tennessee. You felt better? Yeah. Like Jeffrey Simmons was the best player. Monster.

Jeffrey Simmons is so fucking good. They didn't put him, did they not put him in the top 100? Would they snub the fuck out of him? It was amazing. They had him below people. Fuck the top. He was the best defensive player the Chiefs played last year. He was the best player of anybody on defense at the Chiefs played last year.

Jeffrey Simmons is like a top 25 player. And so that D-line, so they pressured Jones 73.3% in the first half. Nine Titans registered a pressure. Jeff Simmons and Bud Dupree combined for 12 pressures, three sacks, and a turnover on 21 pass rushes. I love Bud Dupree, dude. He had a strip sack at midfield. They got up 13-0.

Like they could have busted that wide open. It was very close. It was on a razor's edge. So I think Tennessee, I do think they're still 9 and 8, 8, 8, and 9 and not what they have been. But I don't think it's any cause for concern. Bud Dupree, if you're listening,

sometimes I think he follows green light. Bud Dupree, we need a jersey, bro. I need a Jersey. I need a Bud Dupree, Jersey. Like, I'll send you a jersey if you even want one, but I need a Bud Dupree jersey, like up here. So, yeah, he's one of the most disruptive people in the league. And just to reinforce Sequin, 18 for 164. Most, that's the most rushing yards for

any player week one. He had a rushing touchdown. He added six catches for 30 yards. The game winning two-pointer. He played 82.8% of snaps that's the most by any running back in week one. Again, awesome to see him off his injury. It was his second career game with 150 plus rush yards on fewer than 20 carries. The only other player, Derek Henry. Listen, and he likes tennis. He's your kind of guy. All good things. So I want to give out some mentions.

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fucking awards, people. You know, there It's just a way for us to talk about more football And then we'll get out of here And we'll see you on Wednesday But I'll explain them as we go Obviously we have best plane ride Worst plane ride That's kind of been a staple here

It goes to the teams that had the best And worst plane ride It's pretty fucking simple Now the worst car ride I want to give this out We had best car ride earlier The Royce me and Cowboy Reed The worst car ride

Scott Frost that had to be a tough car ride traffic out of lincoln you're fired especially if he had a company car and he had to take an uber home yeah like sorry a company car is not yours anymore jesse plemmins looking ass wow well he is like a you know but i want to say this though he kind of wins here because he gets the bag he was going to lose out on seven and some change october 7 and a half October 2nd 7.5 that was the difference between him getting fired the first and the second of October and

we made it easily you know Will Compton's like hey man you slide under the garage door that's you know if you got it well Scott Frost slid all easily under the garage door and made that 7.5 like we thought he's hanging out with Coach O he's hanging out of Coach O

gave him the blueprint of how to do this. Did you hear Coach O's interview? He was like one you need me to show me the door show me the door brother Yeah, Scott Frost. I mean, he sounds like a great guy, but it just didn't work out. Nebraska head football coach, Bronco Mendenhall. Come on. Wow.

Can I give a preemptive car ride of the week? What? Worst car ride of the week? Green Bay, Chicago, Sunday night. I'm assuming that the Bears, like they always do, will be driving to Green Bay. Wow. Oh, wow. That's not great.

How long? It's like a three-hour ride on a bus. No, I'd rather ride the bus every time than fly. I'd rather ride the bus. Put me in a quick bus. bro, you spend so much time at the airport just waiting and on the way home from the game You have to wait for the equipment guys to get the

To get the stuff on the plane Like you're just sitting on the fucking tarmac after a loss I'll go best plane ride You know you could say the Saints You could say the Giants I'll wait to hear what you guys have to say But I got App State Oh Leaving Kyle Field

Wish you had a teleporter to be home Bro like to beat Texas A&M They beat you or They should have. They should have beat UNC. I feel like they beat UNC in a 60-point ball game. And then they beat Texas A&M, an SEC team on the road. Unbelievable.

In a game that's like 1712 or whatever it is. And they got paid to do it. A million and a half books. The fun belt, cowboy. I got a best flight. Okay. Who's your best flight? It's the quickest one probably of the NFL week, which was Steelers heading home.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's a good flight. Getting out of there with a steel. of a win. You know, the Bengals turn the ball over a thousand times, and they keep it close,

and you get out of there with a win. And it's the 1 p.m., so you get to party afterwards. That's what I'm saying, bro. Drinks before sundown. Yeah. That's where I went. Baltimore Ravens,

heading home from New York. That's got to be 32 minutes in air. 1 p.m. kick. You're literally probably home by 7.15. That's a great segue, too. After a stress-free win. Stress-free. I'll go to Hollow Man next

because he played in that game could be Christian Watson for dropping that ball he might not see a ball for a while he did later in the game things are going to be okay necessity bro beggars can't be choosers but you know they say live long enough

die a hero live long enough to be I don't remember the rest of it but with Joe Flacco it's like die a hero or live long enough to be booed in New York and hear Mike White chants against your old team and throw the ball 59 times So that to me

He threw the ball a ton, bro. I mean, 59. Holy shit. 37 and 59. How ridiculous is that? And to be like, I am really, I'm a Super Bowl champion, dude. And I'm out here getting booed by Jets fans. They don't even know what that smells like.

And they're booing me. You mean, you should be kissing my feet, dude, as I walk out of the stadium. Instead, I'm getting booed. and you want Mike White in the game? Well, to be fair, I don't blame him. It was electric. Mike White is fucking electric.

But it's got to kind of suck, dude. Hollow Man will be Derek Carr or Kyler Murray. Okay. And I'm going to stick with Kyler Murray. Yeah, because Derek doesn't deserve it going against those two ends. Yeah, this is chalky, but I'll go Wilcox, the snapper. I mean, it was too slow on the first one, and then the second one's too high. By the way, one of them's on a third down.

So if we're going to go to the trouble of being smart to to kick on third down, have your holder know that he can fall on and we can do this over again. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. It's all this stuff. Come on. All this stuff. What are we doing?

I got a hollow man too related to that. Like the holder shouldn't know what's going on. Trent and Gill in Chicago tries to towel down the field. But most people don't. I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. We can do snow off the ground and I've seen that happen in Chicago, but I've never seen the water. advocate nobody knows what that guy looks like the snapper exactly so like it's kind of nice being the

guy like you know of all things to fuck up he's the new long snapper there yeah there's like kind of an excuse like i don't really do that because pat scales was there the last seven years so he had his helmet off on the sideline though pro tip not a good yeah keep that motherfucker on let's go obsec all right so you had worst flight i skipped out order there you had i had dac prescott going to his specialist uh after his injury like imagine having to go get MRIs and x-rays today's the worst when the sky is already falling in Dallas. It's probably James Andrews. It doesn't even matter to the body part.

Yeah. You're going to see Dr. Andrews. We're going to cut it. I'll go Jacksonville Jaguars. One, you're flying back to Jacksonville. No disrespect. I like Jacksonville. Yeah.

It's not a bit. You really don't like Jacksonville? Well, I'm told they got rid of the Hooters on the... Pontevira. If the Hooters at the landing's gone, there's not much. Oh, yeah, they got a TPC. You've been down there. Yeah, I've been down there.

Let's go. I saw us lose. I saw my friend Chris lose a Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. Yeah, fuck it sucked. I think Peter Lollick lost the Gator Bowl. It was tough. That hurry up offense was tough to keep up with. It certainly wasn't Jew Simpson going 95 years.

No, he crushed it, bro. But, yeah, I mean, you should be one and no. There should be a lot of excitement. Maybe there still is in that building. But Carson, the commies come back. Shout out also to the commies. I know it's it's very difficult to turn away from your racist past and in culture and you know birds eye view I think the unies look solid commanders you know people are saying commies

see words it's kind of working you're going to make me calm yeah that's a great meme uh fly on the wall which is of course you know you wish you could you hear the conversation see what happens you know and I Tyson and Kraft sitting together was up there for me like what are they talking about Mike Tyson and Robert Kraft but I'm going to give it to the LSU guy who stood like Forrest Gump

out on the field in Baton Rouge Boomin. Bro, that was, what was he doing? Booming. You think he was on boomers? Yeah. Because he wasn't just drunk. No, no, no. What was he saying to the fucking the cops? He said, operator, won't you put me on through? I gotta send my love down to Baton Rouge

hurry up, I gotta get her I got to talk to my girl just a one more time. And they were like, get the fuck out of here, man. Like, that's not the words. You don't even know the song? No, that guy was standing like Forrest Gump out there in front of 80,000 people. There was a play going on. The hands on the hips.

He looked like he was, yeah, he was just standing there like, yeah, I'm not going to get up. But you know what I'm talking about. And he's just, they're running a play, the Citadel or whoever they're playing is like, by the way, great-looking uniforms. Yeah, Southern. A southern. Yeah, yeah. I didn't distract the troops there.

But yeah, that's my fly on the wall. The guy who was standing like Forrest Gump out there. My fly on the wall has to be, as a former offensive line, having a shitty performance, you go into that meeting. And not only they're going to show all the sacks you gave up and all the hits you gave up, but the Cincinnati offensive line, having that meeting will be in front of the entirety of the offense, maybe even in front of the entire team. And they're going to have a look at that film. I'd love to be a flying.

Well, and baby Jesus, Joe Burroughs. sitting right there and you won't let him down. But he's the type of guy who will look, he'll turn around the meeting and say that one's on me guys. Yeah, no question. He's probably not a bus throng. Yeah. But you just want a block for him,

my bet. You know, it probably hurts you when you're like, you're like, damn it. Yeah. I got Joe killed. Okay. Fly on the wall.

The day the Dallas Cowboys doctor decided to wear that hat every single day for the rest of his life. Yeah. Like when did that? Because you know he's wearing it today too. Yeah. It's not like I'm just, this is just my game day hat.

He's wearing that four. for sure every day. Probably a talk with the significant other because I don't think you're doing that on your own. No, I think that's a, aren't there multiple? Don't they all wear hats there? It's like some sort of a. It's kind of like your zip up making.

That, my what? Your zip up. Your zip up. My little jacket. I feel like every time I see you wear that. You got some little zipper. Winter, summer, spring, or fall. I like zippers.

Nice. You're like cool. You complain about the air being too low everywhere you go. That's what you should. Do you like the AC high or low? I'm always freezing. But that's why I layer up. So I'm cool.

I'm not a complainer, you know? Yeah. No, I've never known you to do that. I, uh, the guy who was on the field with, actually, it wasn't even Dak, Dak ran off. But when he went out to visit whoever, maybe McGovern last night, um, that's the guy I recognize every single time out there. And he's not even, he's not touching a player.

Like the trainers have to help guys off the field, but he's just there in a cowboy hat and a suit. Yeah. A cowboy hat and a suit. He's got done secure in the border. Right. And he's often orthos are in the suit. evaluating guy's hand.

But like, hey, I'm going to wear this today and every day for the rest of my life. Are you sure? I'd like to... Bro, I think it looks pretty fucking cool, as you could tell. There's no reason for me to be wearing a cowboy hat right now. It just feels good. I totally respect the fact that you're like, God, I'm a doctor.

I don't need this hat, but like... Is he in surgery with that thing? Yeah, I think so. The reason that he has that hat is because he can drain up to 10 gallons of his patient's blood. That's really smart, Kyle. Yep.

Right. I think you figured it out. All right. So viewing party is, it's where you, you're interested at the vantage point of the subject of this, this,

this mention. So again, we're Miller Light mentions here. Viewing party for me is Jalen Rager, who has constantly been over his short career compared to Justin Jefferson, unfairly, because he was picked before him in Philly.

And Jefferson, of course, went for like 180. yesterday, but for once, Jalen has to decide if he wants to root for him or not. It was always a simple decision in Philly. He probably was like, I hope that motherfucker like falls down the stairs. Come on. I mean, like, you know, it sounds bad, but you're competitive. You're like, I don't want this guy to fucking do numbers.

They're comparing him to me. Now he gets traded to Minnesota and he's in his meeting room. They're teammates. And they seem to be having fun. You know, I think it's cool. Now he's kind of like, man, yeah, now I can relax and hope Justin goes off because it's good for everybody, right? I'm a Minnesota Viking.

So I want Jalen Rager to have a fresh start. Obviously, a special team's coach really likes him. Yeah, viewing party, Jalen Rager. Viewing party, or as I like to describe, the best seat in the house. Best seat in the house. We're changing it. Good, Kyle. It will be the old bright-minded Mitchell Schwartz, who does not owe any of us money.

He's got a great home setup to watch games. He's got one of those big giant TVs with a, you know, it's got four panels on. it so it looks like four different TVs. It looks like what I would imagine, Stephen A watches football on. I'd love to go watch over there. Can it turn into four different TVs or is always just the one? I think it can. I think he had it on four different games.

It's like a tile. Yeah, it's like a tile. And he's also got a golf simulator over there. Talk about a better, you can't find a better place to watch a game, you know, hit during the commercials, watch football during the game. I'm going to just come in. I'm going to go steal one of his TVs. If his brother don't want to pay me, I'm just going to steal his fucking TV.

Mitch can just teach me about football. That dude is fucking smart. He's very smart. Is he smarter than Jeff, though? Oh. I don't know. They wrote a book called The Schwartzes are smarter than you. Is that the name of the book?

I think, no, no. Jeff's podcast is Jeff Schwartz is smarter than you. Viewing party Cam Acres fantasy managers. Three carries zero yards. Bad. Bad. Bad. It appears Gerald Henderson is RB1, at least for now.

How about Kyle Pitts owners? Or managers, sorry. Yikes. Jesus Christ. I don't think they're very healthy in the middle at the offensive line position in Los Angeles, and I'm going to see if... No, I just want to know if that's going to be something

that could be a repeating trend. I said in Fritz Talk, they might call you. Yeah, well, they ain't calling me. It's not guaranteed money here, Kyle, just so you know. If you skate, I'm not going to be throwing a salary on top of the millions. You're going to make helping Matt Stafford up. All right, so, Hollow Man, we've done that.

Memorial Frank Gore Award, is given to a St. Louis Memorial Award, given to a guy that's toiling in obscurity. We have Jerry Hughes here. I'm going to go with Jerry Hughes because nobody watched that game except for me, various monies on the game, and much respect for Jerry Hughes. So I'll give it to Jerry Hughes.

I don't know if you have one, but all we have left is Bevel and Game Ball. I've got one for the St. Louis Memorial. That's Sam Mustifer, a guy who's been battling adversity in Chicago. Fans, media members have said he's not good enough. He's not big enough. He's not tough enough.

This guy should be in there. Sam's out there. Sam's making blocks. Sam's double teaming guys and climbing to the second level. You look at Herbert getting in, the running back for the Bears. Who's he following? Sam Mustifer. I'm going to say that's a guy who's succeeding in obscurity.

Mustifer. Love it. And his brother's a defensive tackle. He could be watching him in the league. Yeah, check him out. Balling out. James Robinson, 69 yards, two touchdowns. Everybody's talking about ETN.

Most of you cannot pronounce ETN. hearing a lot of Etienne's out there. is pretty easy for me, which is bad. You go to the Clemson Media Guide. I loved it. Pronunciation and parentheses. It was capital E, capital T, capital E.

That's good. Awesome. E.T.N. And yet, James Robinson gets healthy and is out there doing things for the, for the Jags, the N-O-1-Jags, two tutties. Good player, man. Beville Conway, we'll save the game ball for very last. Beville Conway, I'm going to give it to the Fox Set.

Fox set looked beautiful It did That needed an update And I liked it You know like the lights were a little bright But Fox set looked good That looked good up there Guys look happy

So this is just a new look on things Right? No it's like the best looking uniform Matchup Or you know like stadiums This is not a uniform or a stadium But it is Tyreek Hill Being in front of a camera post game

In Kansas City we didn't get to see it We'd always talk to Travis We'd always talk to Patrick We always talk to, you know what I'm saying, E.B. But you're not talking to Tyreek now with him in Miami. So you were just like, man, that's beautiful. It's nice to see him because he's a guy that likes to bust the balls of his teammates. Like when he said the stuff about Tua being more accurate,

it's tongue and cheek. Guys you play with Tariq, no, he's just. So you think him and Pat get along? I'm sure they do. But here's the deal. When you say something like that, Pat remembers it. Yeah, Pat remembers it. But Tyreek thinks it's being funny, but I do like to see Tariq.

you know, with his shades on, with his blockers on, in the locker room talking. That's cool to me. It's a new look for him, and I'm enjoying it. Rebel Conway, beautiful post-game interview. That's the first. You mentioned it. Chargers, Raiders. Gorgeous.

White, baby blue, mustard, and the silver, white, silver. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. It's gorgeous. I think we're at now. Game ball. I think we're at half, and that even feels high, but only half the stadiums in the league with grass and some of those are some of those are indoors sucks so show me an outdoor stadium with

natural grass they're very few soldier field by the way shout out shout out b yu we're gonna get rid of that stadium by the way arlington heights are you going to be alive then i don't know man so so so game ball we're going to go and i'm not to see your thunder if you had him but say quaint to me wins the game ball yeah yeah he's on the list he's one of the few like how many running backs are like the whole thing for a team anymore. He's a, a team is built around the running back. Just wait,

just wait, get Juan Dale healthy. Okay, good, yeah, there's other things. Yeah. But Seekwan,

man, you're happy for him. Seems like a great kid. Other than fact, Kyle thinks he's a camera hog. I think he's just a great kid. He's really handsome and I'm jealous. Say quads.

Can I, can I give one here? Yeah. How about Justin Reed? How nice is it when your kicker goes down that you have a reliable backup? No, I know. And he's getting tackles on kick coverage and also

you call it plays. you call it it secret weapon add that to the green light bingo map mentioning jesson reed yeah we got to add it we got to add it because honestly it keeps coming true stanford guy yeah okay that's good probably learned it there yeah you got anything game ball yeah for game ball i got to go with patrick mahomes um he comes out and does what we've come to know him as doing historically and i don't know why people even take a second to doubt the chiefs because they come out and they put up numbers like they did efficiently you look at his numbers in the first two months of the season. He's damn near flawless. So I'll be riding high on the PM-15

bandwagon for the first quarter of the season at least. Good. Justin Jefferson, nine for 184 and 11 targets, two touchdowns for the Super Bowl winning Minnesota Vikings in week one. He would have had 2.30, but he dropped that one. Could have had. You know which one I'm talking about? You know which one I'm talking about? I was about to tweet, this looks like Jamar Chase versus the chief. But then they were like incomplete.

Also, yeah, you probably end up arguing with Chiefs fans. Phelan's not really feeling. Dalvin wasn't heavily involved in the passing game. It's one guy. It's one guy and they couldn't stop him. He is him, as they say. One of one. One of one.

And we are us. One of three, respectively. Yeah. So catch us every Monday, midday. We'll be earlier, I mean, like you, as you're listening to this, just know next week will be a little better because we won't be getting off a red. eye. We'll be bright and early, ready to deliver some analysis. So, hey, thank you all for

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