Green Light with Chris Long - NFL Week 1 Recap! Kyler Murray, Chandler Jones, Browns vs Chiefs, Sam Darnold vs Zach Wilson & Jalen Hurts and Carson Wentz. NFL Superlatives: Best/Worst Plane Ride, Hollow Man & Night Cap.

Episode Date: September 13, 2021

(1:48) - Hello, Layup Line, Weekend Review and Bevell Conway Award. (26:00) - Chris and Macon Recap Kansas City Chiefs vs Cleveland Browns and Talk Quarterback Play from the NY Jets vs Carolina Panthers, Miami Dolphins vs NE Patriots, Seattle Seahawks vs Indianapolis Colts, Philadelphia Eagles vs Atlanta Falcons and Kyler Murray and Ryan Tannehill. (54:30) - Chris and Macon’s NFL Week 1 Superlatives: Best and Worst Plane Rides, Hollow Man, Fly on the Wall, Viewing Party, St. Louis Memorial, Game Ball and Introducing 'Night Cap.' (1:37:58) - NFL Week 1 Gambling and Fantasy Football Recap. 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 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. http://bit.ly/chalknetwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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because it's not fair that there are human beings like Kyler Murray out there. Like, why would I want to play, how did I play football with people like that? Tyler Murray made me feel that way today. How was your weekend? Oh, bifurcated. What does that mean? I reckon most accurately. Split two very distinct parts of my weekend.

The whoos? Oh, the whoos were part of Saturday. Yeah. Saturday was last day at the beach and then Sunday was travel day and as you know those can be tough they can be tough especially after you've had

like a great time there's a big emotional hangover after you spend a week at the beach credit to my in-laws really did last day at the beach well and then today began at 545A and here we're coming up on 12A I reckon yeah yeah yeah so it was part of the part of the job it's good to see you're ready

ready to roll. Hey, how was your weekend? My weekend was great. Obviously, who's kicking the dog shit out of somebody on TV. I think their foot is still in the Aligni's ass collectively. We're averaging about 42 points of game. 42.5. Yeah, that's right there.

Split the middle between 42 and 43. This is cool. This Brennan Armstrong guy. He looks like his arm got stronger. Jalani Woods. Jalani Woods. Number 0, 67, 265. He's like a gronk, but better.

Yes. He's like a gronk but better. better. And this is without our other towering wide receiver. Levelle Davis. Lavelle Davis, who's sideline right now. So look out for the who's. Also, beautiful, beautiful to look at, right? Yeah, the who's? Yeah, who's, Aligni.

But Aligni went orange domes and then white on white. That leads me to my next question, Beville Conway Award for this week, the most vibrant, beautiful football scene that you saw on TV. Let me give you a few, but my winner is Texas and Arkansas. Texas and Arkansas, that Oklahoma-looking-ass Arkansas, but it was beautiful. It did look like Texas, Oklahoma. It's a good thing that was at night.

In front of that, jam-packed, I wonder why you're out of hospital bed stadium in Arkansas. You know, don't mean to make light of it. Yeah, no, sure, no. I reckon I did. Sorry to make light of it, but here I go. Ongoing viral pandemic. That looked beautiful.

Utah. You taught BYU. This weekend. I was at a concert. this weekend. Yeah? I'll get to that in a minute. Unmasked?

No, yeah, yeah, yeah. You needed a vaccination card to get in there. I was masked. I love that. Yeah. And then the Stanford Cardinal, I see whites at SC. Ooh. And then I got an NFL for you.

Yeah. New Orleans Green Bay. You liked that. I loved it, especially because New Orleans was at home. I hated that. On the grass. I hated that. It looked super weird.

It did look weird. But New Orleans had the gold helmet, the gold pant, the white jersey, and then Green Bay was Green Bay. my son Luke who alerted me today much to cowboy reid's excitement that he's a broncos fan i'm a broncos uh and waylin alerted me today that he is an eagles and a chargers fan he's got a side team just like that same two teams too it's pretty awesome but reed was at the house unsolicited right read unsolicited and now all three teams are one and oh i feel like every if there's two boys in a family

they should all like split up and take a different team in a division so that they can argue every time the chargers and the Broncos play each other. For instance, I was like guys, I got good news for you. You're going to get to argue a lot. Twice a year. Yeah. Jenks. I was a Broncos fan today too. So I'm also one to know. Yeah, so was I.

We'll talk about gambling later for sure. But yeah, I mean like Beville Conway, dude, for me was Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Okay. Gorgeous. I mean, it was just they were just 90s colors. And it was great to see all those people back there in that state. but they had to keep the dildos in their pockets. We'll talk about that in a little bit.

Buffalo. They waited a whole year for that. And then I saw them emptying the stadium with like, you know, they're down two scores driving. Guys, you ever heard of an onside kick? You just went through a viral pandemic. You got to go out to the old, the Buffalo game. And you left early.

I'm not throwing shade, but, you know, I was expecting pandemonium. I guess you were too from the offense there. We'll talk about that in a bit. I went to New York. That's what I was talking about. I went to New York to see my morning jacket. You did have to show your vaccination card to get in there. Real deal.

Holyfield, there were masks, but it was outdoors. So I, like, not packed so I could sit up high in the Coliseum there. It was gorgeous. I bet you were. Oh, it was. Way up high. Oh, yeah, I was way of high. Yeah, you're just a peach to deal with after a big weekend like that.

But I had a great time. The only thing about New York is, man, there's a lot of people. Yeah, yeah. I don't know that I'm going to be the same with big cities after the the the the the Pandy proper you might have just said it what was the venue uh forest hills the the tennis stadium they were playing the u.s. open oh if you keep up flushing meadows yeah flushing but um jockovic couldn't get the triple crown oh con yeah he couldn't uh couldn't get the uh whatever the hell we're calling of oh you don't know grand slam calendar year grand slam he just

under year. Yeah, I just thought, I, Golden Slam is what we were calling with the Olympics mixed in, but he couldn't do that either. Here's the thing about fucking New York to me. More like Chokevich. Okay.

Here's the thing about New York to me. Love the place, also struggle in the place. And like I said, I don't think I realized how, how poorly I was going to adjust to crowds. And I did adjust poorly. And at night,

you can't sleep. I mean, there's a guy on a motorcycle driving, six straight hours outside, just revving that motherfucker up. But I'm in a room the size of shoebox is loud all night. I had a great weekend. My morning jacket was great. Uh, but crowds.

Yeah, it was more than I thought. It was more than I thought. Here's the kicker on the weekend, though, make. I forgot my suitcase. Got to the airport up there, uh, in New York and, uh, walked out, got in the car. And I was like, is my suitcase in the car? Okay. On the way there.

That's right. You land. I land. You get in the car. Yeah. And then you arrive at your destination. Yeah. And you say, in the bag, please.

Yeah, I'm like, man, I thought I had two bags. I thought I had a backpack and an overnight, like a, you know, a bag that you don't check, a carry on. And it was in your vehicle at the Seville airport. It was all my clothes. And I had to go to Urban Outfitters, like a 23-year-old. I was getting, like, vintage T-shirts that aren't really vintage. And I went to Lulu Lemon and got, you know, just bought out all the size 36-waste bullshit in the whole store. Ooh, you packing on a few or?

No, I'm losing them. Yeah, okay. I was a fowdy before. Yeah. I've lost four inches off my waist size, but there's a gain with that too. Hey, did they play Magita? Good job. Yes, they did, dude.

Of course they did. Did they play, I'm amazed? They did play I'm amazed. I think that's my favorite one. Yeah. Oh, did they play Believe? Yeah, they play Believe. Okay.

Yeah, Dondante, too. What about wonderful? Wonderful. Yeah, they played wonderful. Okay, four for four on my Spotify. by MMJ. They also covered Al Green to perfection, I believe. But it was a tour to force from a band that I haven't seen in multiple years.

So I'm really excited to see they're out playing music again. And I did it with clothes I bought at UO. And which bag were your toiletries? In my backpack. So I was good. Okay. Yeah. Whole nine yards.

Where were your drugs? In my backpack. Everything was good. Everything was good. My wife was like, but you still have your drugs, right? I was like, yeah, I got my drugs. We're good. The real caper to the weekend, we pull out of the neighborhood tonight.

Yeah. And it wasn't planned, but we pull out one in front of the other. And dating back to high school, if we see each other driving, we have to put on our hazards. Oh, yeah, yeah. We used to quote unquote roll hazards. So we were rolling hazards. And golly day, nothing can take me back to 17 quicker than seeing you on the road. because it's like a game of chicken who's going to turn them off.

Who's going to turn them off first? So we went a good mile. A mile and a half, I'd say, with the hazard lights on like we were 17 years old. Nobody turned them off. We went our separate ways. Yes, I did take a different route. Because you bitched up on the hazards. I didn't bitch up.

That's the route I take to get downtown. I was testing you to see if you'd correct me. We shouldn't say bitch up. Oh, really? Yeah, you misogynous pig. You want to say hello? I'm the father of a... Well, that's...

Asheville. Alabama. Oh, you have a daughter. I have a, Hello! No E on that ash, folks. Birthplace. Yeah. Birthplace of John Green. Ooh, John Green. Jacksonville State. Head coach of the Gamecocks of Jacksonville State.

All I know is I was partying Saturday night, and so football Saturday night was not on my brain. Like, although the gambling was going really well, and we'll talk about that later at the tail end of the show, along with fantasy. I don't know if you could look, but I can't get into my fantasy football team right now. Oh, really? Yeah, I'm locked out. I don't have the password. I don't have the email.

I've only access to two of my four fantasy teams. Are you being serious? I'm dead serious. Can you look at Seville Fantasy gentleman's league? No, I've looked at it. I can just tell you. Am I doing all right? Yeah, you're going to lead the league in points this week.

No shit. I think your bench might beat my team. Maybe I should set my line up less. I mean, we'll go. We'll get there. We will. We will be there. But Mostert, Judy, the Gus bus.

I mean, all. Yeah. Oh, we didn't know of that. My team's for sale. We totally, we totally tried to call you after Gus Edwards got hurt to just check on you the other day and you screened our call. I wasn't called. I was texted.

You missed a FaceTime in a normal call. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Indeed. I don't know about that. No, there's multiple people in here that saw. All right.

I was parenting. My bad. Yeah. Oh, the daughter thing. Yep. My bad. All good. Hey, no.

What else are? My bad. All good. Teach them well is what they say, you know? That's right. Can't teach them well if I'm talking about the Gus bus on a podcast. They also say, I could be in trouble. Pick up the phone.

Yeah. You don't know what I was going through. Hey, in-laws. I know I just disappeared for four hours to record a podcast in the basement, but this running back got hurt. So I'm going to have to go back down to the basement. Nice seeing y'all for eight minutes. Yeah, well, it takes some fucking effort to clear redacted cash dollars every year.

It's not like you, who do you think you are? I um hey in-laws uh the ravens just signed levi on bell and they're talking to latavius murray so i'm need to go you know what you should do you should put your fucking foot down and pick up the phone when your friends call if you're at your in-law's house if they have a problem with that maybe they're not that nice to you hey in-laws uh justice hill just got another MRI on his achilles i talked to my in-laws about baseball big jo's a philly's fan i talked to my in-laws about fantasy football i started a league did you start a league for your in-laws that's the whole point though I needed to put in the face time with the in-laws not go back down to the basement

to talk about the burning dumpster that is my fantasy football team. Well it's bad I'm sorry about Gus Edwards and I'm sorry to my dad if he's listening about Austin Echler although actually today he was fine he was fine today he was fine he was productive uh over the Sunday games he was very productive he was very productive but for a day or two it was touch and go my dad auto drafted Austin Eccler he was like what the fuck is this we can I was like let me explain dude it's it's it's a good thing to have host neckler oh he's hurt sorry man I made a tweet yeah tennis

for greater than signs football yeah and then with an e emoji you know like yeah like maybe I shouldn't say that yeah the people didn't really like it but golly day even after a great product that the NFL put out on Thursday night just penalty laden

just just Zeeke got 2.2 yards it was kind of a piss poor game to watch as people were trying to pretend that it was really clean and fun. Well, we knew it wasn't clean, but it wasn't. And then you bounce over to Queens, the U.S. Open. You're damn right. A lovely spectator sport. Yeah, I was there. I don't know how they do, they do concerts and tennis at the same time. Real quick, before we move on to layup line here, what did you think of the Rams, Unis and the end zone? Right now, that game is on, our right now, your last night. Rams, Unis, 10 out of 10, end zones, a little try hard, maybe five out of 10.

Yeah, but it's still, I mean, it pops. You like the end zones? I don't like. I don't like the end zone as much I like the unies. But I wanted to get your opinion. Here's the other one I wanted your opinion on the Bengals Unis debuting on a Sunday. On a real Sunday. It was very strong. I wish we could put them on some natural grass.

That would help. Oh my goodness. But yeah, eight out of ten? I mean, such an improvement. It's hard to look good in that stadium. PFT commenter of part of my take, I'm told, said love is love on their last podcast. So did like a million people

cease and desist seek legal counsel seek legal advice pfd commenter thank you my my entertainment attorney is redacted you can reach them at redacted at redacted.com I don't think they listen to this podcast to be honest well I don't listen to yours so I cannot confirm

nor deny whether you said it but I'm told you said it lay up line I'm going to miss you by the Rolling Stones and I'm just going miss you by the rolling stones because i think that the the titans miss arthur smith now i don't know that that it that it means that the the falcons are going to win a super bowl obviously i can light that fucking playoff pick on fire i just threw that one in there was a total i get one detroit every year i think it's going to be atlanta this year but i can tell you tennessee did not look good that their stars did not look like stars and honestly they look slow like they they were a fast

physical team last year and I thought today would go a lot differently from a standpoint of styles hey I said it Derek Kennedy was gonna have a big day I've underestimated the Cardinals defense or at least their readiness when it came to tackling and disrupting that offense today so a great start for for the Cardinals but I'm thinking in Tennessee they're missing Arthur Smith they're gonna have to write a sad country song about that motherfucker Isaiah Simmons, the Clemson Kid, who we saw up close and in person. Who I looked up at, we were on the sidelines for the ACC.

He walked by and I hadn't watched them a tonne that year. And I was just like, who the fuck? Is that the guy who lines up, you know, in the middle of the field sometimes? Athlete. A.T.H. Leads AZ and tackles today. Second was Buda Baker. Third was Chandler Jones.

Might hear from him later in the program. Oh, yeah. Now, Derek Henry, 3.4 yards per carry. Is this okay, we've reached that mark? We finally fall off the cliff or we need to pump the brakes. I don't know. And this is a perfect time to say it. I don't overreact to anything today.

So try to keep me on task, not overreacting. Guys, if you hear me doing it, just raise your hand. I mean, you know, we're going to talk about the blowout down there in Jacksonville with the Saints emblem of midfield. You know, we see all types of crazy. shit every year week one and people will jump out of the gym for teams and players and I'm not going to do it especially considering like the game I just mentioned the team that won the Super Bowl last year the Tampa Bay Buccaneers you know what they lost the Saints uh by a score of last year 38 to 3 yeah now

I turned the game off today at 38 to 3 so all I'm saying is take from it what you will but take it with a grain of salt things are going to change I'm sure of one thing What? Giants are bad. Yeah, you can be sure of that. And we'll talk about that in a minute. Housekeeping here. We got injuries already, dude.

We got injuries already. I hate that. Every year, you know, like guys bust their ass to get out there, to be healthy. I mean, you're talking about a guy like Ryan Fitzpatrick, who's got a dislocated hip or something like that, which I hear is very painful, as you could probably imagine. Mackay Beckton sounds like he dodged a bullet. you know it's an MCL which is still very tough for a guy of his size especially a big man who changes

direction like him he's not a guard he's a tackle he's a dancing bear i mean these knee injuries are tough for these guys especially on the team that plays on turf and so like whenever he comes back i just hope he's ready and he's right because nobody's in a rush in new york as you can see wishing you well hoping you get back soon mkai beckton and that's bad news for zach wilson But we just talked about it. Fitsy got hurt today. Taylor Heineke, going to try to make the football team great again. Remember when he was going to be Tony Romo last year against the Bucks and the playoffs?

Yeah, today I didn't get that same vibe. Ah, although 11 to 15 for 122 in a touchdown. Yeah, I mean, that's not like fucking explosive offense. How many points did he score? That's right. That's right. Not enough. Not enough, dude.

I mean, that game was fugly. here's the thing. If you talk about that front, and I've been not critical of the front, I've been realistic at times about the front. Like you have to hit a Justin Herbert. You have to affect him if you're going to win football games like that. You cannot be the Washington football team and not win with your D-line.

You're not going to win games if you don't perform up front. And that's unfair for a D-line like that, but that's the way it is. Heavy is the head that wears a crown, and you've got to hit this guy. Chargers 14 of 19 on third down. That's bad. That's bad, especially because when 13,

down comes, that's when we make our money. And that's when it becomes like a feeding frenzy. And these guys didn't quite get to Justin Herbert today. So, you know, like earlier a week ago, I said, hey, the Chargers by virtue of changing coaching staffs and all that stuff and Anthony Lynn departing last off season, that they were going to be winning more games because they weren't going to make stupid mistakes. They made stupid mistakes today. I think they fumbled backed up. I think they threw a red zone pick. You know, like these are mistakes you don't overcome on the road. That's why I feel pretty good about this team.

The things that we said they'd improve based upon them getting rid of, they didn't get rid of and they still beat a very good Washington football team. So what happens with our guy? No idea. It might be surgery. I'm sure by the time this podcast comes out, we'll know more about Ryan Fitzpatrick. But you just got to feel terrible for a dude like that. because as we've talked about year 17 you know never been to the playoffs this looks like a shoe in

opportunity for him especially with the new wild card format that he was going to finally see the playoffs and he probably still has that chance but it's not going according to plan and i'm hoping he gets back soon you know what the worst part about that game was the sewage cascading down over the upper deck onto unsuspecting washington football fans i mean there was poop water actually falling on people who paid good money to spend the afternoon the shittiest NFL stadium. Yeah. What do you expect?

This cements it. And cement is the right word because there is more cement in that stadium. That looks like one of the stadiums that somebody, you know, the program played against, you know, the team from the program played against. What was the name of that team in the program? I don't watch film. That's Eastern State University. It's rightfully that stadium two

Like 50 miles away from Anything Yeah yeah Is it Landover? They've changed it a couple of times I think they go with Landover now It was Hyattsville I think for a little Miami Garden

Routjean Very much a Miami Garden situation Miami Garden situation I don't know why it's there I don't know why they don't knock it down And make a new one There is poop water coming out of the pipes there I saw you win a couple games there

No offense your teams weren't Our teams were cheeks Our teams were cheeks but it's just ugly. It's got no fucking character. It's just like a movie extra of a stadium. And there's poop coming out. So this is the sign from God that we need a new stadium in Washington.

Just start over. New team name, new stadium. Call God. Call God. Call him. Who else got hurt today, Reed? You had Jerry Judy, high ankle sprain, x-rays are negative. But I love my Broncos.

I know. I think he's going to be okay. It's a bummer. Go ahead, read. How many weeks? And how many weeks will he be okay? Six to eight? Six to eight?

It's a high ankle sprain, dude. Those things are fucking gnarly. But Macon, you saw it firsthand today. We have quite the wider receiving core. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'll be all right. KJ. Hamler's got to step up. So six to eight weeks.

Second half of the fantasy season. I would like to right now offer you Jerry Judy. No, I'm good. And a $20 bill for Tyler, lock it. I'm good. Long hair, don't care. I'm good. I got four fantasy teams. I'm up multiple units on the day. Spoiler alert. Like things are good. I don't need Jerry Judy. I don't need him. He's in a walking boot right now. I love the kid. Sounds like it. I do love the kid. I mean, and how did he hurt it? Did he get bent up getting tackled or was it non-contact?

That's right. He got bent up getting tackled. Caught a pass. Had two or three guys on his back. Swarming New York giant defense. It's amazing that he runs routes as explosively and laterally and suddenly, I mean, his footwork is insanely explosive in Bendy. How could he not hurt himself doing that? I was almost sure it was non-contact the way he runs routes. Six for 72 on seven targets for Judy before he went out. Good eye. By you.

Just bad luck. Bad luck. But the Broncos, what happened in that game, Ray? They took it to Macon's Giants. To the G-Men, we got a little dub over here. We played well. We had a couple red zone turnovers. We.

Yeah, no one. Yeah. Good. But, you know, my hope's up. I'm sure it'll come crashing down here pretty soon, but. Is that the Broncos minute with the Cowboys? It was like a Broncos 15 seconds. I like it, though.

Hey, the Broncos made me some money today. And your guys are six and ten is, looks unlikely. Well, especially with the 17 game schedule. Six and 11 looks unlikely. I went four and 13 on our, on our preview pod, tied for the worst record in the league, which looking pretty good. Yeah. I mean, we got Heineke.

on Thursday night. So that unfortunately could be a dove. But hey, number one pick. Y'all find a way to fuck it up. No doubt. I want to shout out Maya Shaka, first African-American female referee in the NFL. She officiated the Jets game.

So trial by fire. God bless her for that. And that's awesome. I think that's great. I mean, we've had Sarah Thomas on here. Sarah Thomas has made a lot of history. Maya Shaka is making history. That's awesome.

That's great. Twitter, we got our shit together. Okay? We got a real handle reflective of the name of the podcast. Guys, we did it. Applaud. And now go follow us at Greenlight. Twitter is at Greenlight.

We also have a new YouTube channel name as well. Greenlight Tube. Hope you guys like that. On their fast. He's around him. Red of Hughes. Kansas City, Cleveland, that was the big showdown today.

Listen, what does it mean? I think more than anything, it means that Cleveland feels legitimate. Like, Cleveland feels dangerous. I don't know. Was that Baker that said he woke up feeling dangerous? I mean, I don't think you realize he wasn't dangerous when he used to say that.

They're dangerous now. So I don't know what he feels like when he wakes up on Sundays, but that was without Odell. They're powerful, they're physical. I think Kansas City is going to have to score a lot of points this year. That's no secret. I think Kansas City has been very good defensively, but in stretches.

And maybe they can go on one of those runs this year and build towards that. But they're regressing to the mean a little bit, especially with Honey Badger out. So Cleveland more physical earlier. And then late, it just became a thing where Mahomes is, he's Jason. I mean, he's like he's sneaking up behind you with a kitchen knife. And like he doesn't have to speed up. I'd almost rather be tied with them the whole game than up. You know, I'd rather, you know, like be down a field goal hanging in there in phase

than being up and having them chase you. Mahomes is now 7 and 4 as the starting quarterback when he's down double digits in the first half. Which is an insane stat. It's an insane stat. And he wasn't even perfect today. A lot of the big plays they made, his playmakers came back to the ball. and adjusted, and it wasn't perfect. And there are issues that late in the game on a third down that was pretty pivotal

or could have been very pivotal. I mean, it's hard to get these guys off the field. One of the biggest risks to them getting off the field is Mahomes drifting in the pocket. I mean, there was a clowny, you know, sandwich there on Mahomes, and that didn't look like it felt very good. Well, that wasn't the offensive line's fault. you know and I think he knows that I mean sometimes you've got to take those chances

and drift a little bit to make the plays he makes but you know those are the things that maybe could pose a threat to them you know the protection's better but I've said this before Mahomes got to protect himself too here's why they're great though

not just Mahomes being literally a serial killer like and I mean that as a compliment he's Michael Jordan and you mean that figuratively yeah yeah yeah well yeah because he's not literally killing people serially. No, but there's a band called the killers. They're not, they don't kill people.

That's right. So, I mean, anyways, I just feel like it's not just the killer instinct that he has, figuratively speaking. It's also that they have leadership. They have playmakers. They have now a soul and identity. Like when a team has won and been the places they've been, it hardens that team. And I think today was like a perfect gut check for them out of the gate.

because they were down. They were getting the ball just run up their ass, figuratively. Chris Jones stepped up. You know, Juan Thornhill stepped up. Third and six late, making a big play. Sorensen stepped up, a guy who's just constantly like the classic,

that guy's really involved in a team I watch play all the time. And maybe he's not the most celebrated player, but he's very important to that team. You know, that Baker burned that turned into a game-sealing pick, Sorensen's the guy who comes in and clips his ankle. And you can say what you want about Baker's decision-making.

It has to be better in that situation. But Kansas City also did a lot of good things late, especially defensively stepping up and stopping the bleeding figuratively. Chris Jones, lining up a defensive end, is a big deal, dude. It is literally a big deal. When Kyle told me over camp, I was like, hey, who rushes for them? He was like, oh, they kick Chris Jones out.

I'm like, they kick him out to defensive end? And it makes perfect sense, dude. I mean, I don't throw the Reggie White name around, but from a mismatch physicality standpoint, let me back up. He's not Reggie White, but what I am saying is that when you put a big body out there that can really run and who's long

and who can hump people figuratively, hump people, push them by, you know, Vita Veigh, the other night was out there on Thursday night, battling with Tyron Smith and the hump move I mean we saw that multiple times in that game with Vita

Chris Jones at defensive end is a fucking problem you get out there right end and Hubbard stand in there and Hubbard weighs about 290 soaking wet Chris Jones is like all of 320 I would imagine and it's twitchy

and he's out there tackles don't like that so I'm excited about that you talk about his speed do you recall his 40 yard dash at the common I think his dick fell out. Did his dick fall out? That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. You really can't get to his 40 time because it was a blur. It was a blur. It was a malfunction. I just want to see the guy run, okay? But anyways, Chris Jones is going to be Chris Jones this year, and that's good news for them. And they get Honey Badger back.

But that division, I cannot wait to see all grown up. Justin Herbert and that Chargers team now coached by Brandon Staley in those two showdowns with Kansas City. Broncos are going to be stable. I'm not saying they're going to beat the chief. Sorry, Reed, they can't keep up. You probably know that. I mean, you've seen this movie, but they're stable. The Raiders, they have offensive upside.

The defense has to improve with Gus Bradley, right? Has to. Just by virtue of them making a change, they're going to improve. That division is going to be a lot of fun. So Baker's got to make better decisions, but they will see them again. Like this is a matchup that we will remember, and this matchup could turn into a little bit of one of these rivalries, which I love.

Unlike Dak and the Bucks, who Dak was like, and God bless that, because he's a fucking hell of a player. He's not the problem in Dallas. He was like, Brady, I'll see you again, and Brady was like, okay, bud. All right, pal. Baker can say this to Pat, and that's not to say that.

that they're equals, but I'm saying the teams are, there should be a trilogy here. From the telecast, Mahomes 11 and 0 in September, 35 touchdowns, zero picks in his career in September. Chargers are at Arrowhead week three, so you won't have to wait long for that one. Oh, it's gonna be great, that's gonna be great. And you know, a house divided, huh?

You know, in the AFC West, my two year old, he likes the Broncos and my five year old, he likes the Chargers, that's his side team. So. And your dad likes those raiders. That's weird. Yeah. It's really weird.

And my brother's on the Chiefs. Wow. You see what I'm saying? A little freaky Friday. It is freaky Friday. Hey, that shove. We haven't talked about it. The shove seen around the world.

Okay. The culprits involved, Ronnie Harrison and Greg Lewis, if you saw it on the sideline, there was a scrum. There was a little extracurricular. Safety Ronnie Harrison from the Browns is attempting to get up. and then finds himself getting shoved by a coach

and then shoves the fuck out of the coach. But that's what happens. I mean, it's a professional athlete. Professional athlete shoves are like seven times a normal guy shove, at least. Anyways, what do you make of that? Because it seemed to be a pretty 50-50 discussion online. Well, my guy, the coach, who's trying to get away jerseys off his guy,

I mean he comes hard in the paint That's what I'm saying He goes like It's not an uppercut It's like a little shiver But it's a forearm shiver It's a fucking it's a fucking Conrad Doebler And it's he's trying to lift

Homeboy up I saw the safety Getting up I saw the back's knee Kind of like when you rock back to get up Or you know extend for somebody to help you up The Chief's ball carrier's knee was in the way The only thing I'm not positive

about is was you know Ronnie Harrison putting a little English on that step over as he grazed buddy's knee but from there what happened was what happened was the chiefs lineman pushes 33 into his friend and 33's foot ends up on his friend's chest

and that's when the coach comes over and decides to be a fucking you know a bouncer at a club and I don't think he's in the wrong either in intent because he's looking at his ball carrier. By the way, he's a running back's coach. His running back is on the ground.

The safety's foot is in his chest, but little does he know it's not the safety's fault. So it's a big misunderstanding. But the reaction is wrong because, of course, we come after the player. And all I have to say is, right wrong or indifferent, if a coach shoves a player, a player should be able to shove the coach back.

I agree with you. Double flags, bro. I agree with you. I'm on Ronnie Harrison's side as far as, like, I don't think it was that egregious and Greg Lewis, I don't even think he was that wrong. I just think it was a big misunderstanding. And the funniest part about it was Dr.

Fax was over at the house watching the games. And Fax had taken this Fax nap through like much of the early part of the 4 PMs. Like out. Like Dr. Fax is comatose, okay? He missed his lines coming back. He missed the overtime game. He had all these parlays he's going to tell us about later that he bet with the windbed app. He wakes up.

He goes, man, check this out. we've been talking about the shove for 30 minutes, bro. Right over his head in front of him, there's there's conversations going on every which way about the shove. My man wakes up like Rip Van Winkle and he's like, check this shit out. This shit's going viral. Y'all should talk about this tonight.

And yet he comes with facts. You know, he's not wrong. He's not wrong. Might be late. He might be late, but he's not wrong. He's not wrong. There were a lot of QB swaps.

Like there were good games. Like the Cleveland, Kansas City game was obviously a marquee. we're going to see this in the playoffs type game. Same thing with maybe a playoff preview if the Steelers can actually get there. With the bills, I mean, again, they've gone back and forth

over the last couple years a couple times. There were some uninteresting games on paper that were boosted by these kind of quarterback storylines. You know, like Darnold and Wilson. That's kind of like, you know, Darnold playing his old team and two ships passing in the night and, you know,

Darnold's looking at Wilson at the handshake out. after like, oh buddy. You see how different it is like elsewhere? And that's the thing. As we evaluate these quarterbacks, whether it's Trevor Lawrence or it could be a veteran like Cam Newton

or it could be any player in the NFL, really, any position group, we do not take enough stock in the context in which that player is performing. And I got to say, Donald looked very good today. He looked very good today, as expected, because I think that offense is efficient and productive. And if you're the Panthers,

you really are probably happy with what you saw today. He was hitting people in the short game, which is, I mean, it seems like an effortless thing. It seems like a thing that's not a skill, but running the short game with efficiency and with quickness and getting the ball out and knowing where to go with it, I'm not trying to pump his tires for no reason.

I really do mean it. He looked good doing that, and he also looked good hitting guys, down the seam in the middle of the field. He looked quick. I think he ran for a touchdown. So it's a good start. It is the Jets, but it's a good start for Sam Darnold in Carolina.

And for Zach Wilson, he's resilient if nothing else. I mean, like, early on, he looks like shit. He plays better late. And that's, I believe, after the Bechton injury. So there's a lot going on for this kid. But at least in New York now, you know you have like, it's not a rudderless ship.

Three running backs, 17 carries 45. yards. That's 2.6 yards of carry for for Zach Wilson. Oh, it's not good. No. It's not good. And if you're the Panthers, maybe you're looking at this thing and going, huh, we needed Sam Darnold to like look like Joe Montana and we needed to fucking switch two linebackers numbers like a day or two before the game to trick dick the Jets to beat the Jets. So I don't know that either of these teams are going places, but I do think it's a positive when you look at Darnold. And if nothing else, I mean, Zach Wilson didn't look like a dumpster fire, you know?

And that's a tough setting not to look like a dumpster fire. I'm not giving them an award for not looking like a dumpster fire, but not bad and entertaining for a game that probably three people were watching and they all lived in like Queens. A lot of Jets and Mets fans up in Queens. By the way, I was up there, obviously, it's 9-11. What an atmosphere up there. I mean, somber, but, you know, people were there in force for, you know,

Metz Yankees. They were there in force for this concert. The city was buzzing and when you in that Forest Hills Stadium and you climb up to the top where I was sitting, I did post on Instagram. Like I never know what to do with a with a 9-11 post. Like it's a tricky situation. You know, because you're like, what do you say? Like why do I need to say something? Like what could I say to actually make things better? But I found the perfect picture because when you're sitting up top of that stadium and you look back in the city and you look at the Twin Towers like kind of memorial with the lights.

I mean, it's one of the most gorgeous and powerful things that you could see. What a resilient city. And Jets and Mets fans, you kind of have my heart. No offense to the Giants. I enjoyed Queens. None taken.

I was going quickly. I thought that was a stock photograph that you posted on. No, no, no, no. On IG. I found, that's a real pick, real AF. So shout out to Queen.

Shout out to the Jets and Mets contingency. See, I met a few of them at this beer garden, which was, of course, outdoors, and everybody was, like, double-vaxed and double-mast and all that stuff. Good, the straws. Yeah, and I was suffocating inside of a trash bag,

just to be safe. Okay. But, yeah, shout out to Jets and Mets fans. Tua and Mack, more AFC East. This was fun, and I want to say this outright. You know I haven't been, like, incredibly high on Tua. I really like him as a kid. I got nothing against them.

I think he's a good player, but I don't think he's as explosive athletically as people think to be as pedestrian as he is in the passing game. And I'm saying that respectfully. He is young. It's year or two. He could improve, but I do see a ceiling when it comes to him.

And when I see Mac, I see a ceiling physically, but I don't see a ceiling for that program in a weird way because I do believe, as I said last week, you're going to be able to pay people around him. He's on a rookie deal. You've got Josh. You've got Bill.

He looked really good. And I think Mack Jones ends up being a better quarterback than Tua in the NFL, which I know is not a hot, hot take. I'm willing to say it. And you can hold me to that. But I do think he looked very good. Mostly look calm. Other than the time, he totally forgot he was facing backwards,

his own end zone. And Mack spiked the ball. And it was a backwards pass. We were watching on TV. It looks so. We didn't know if he made a mistake or not. We were like, hold on. I just don't see guys doing that.

But after that moment, he really settled in. And he was critical of himself in the post game, but I thought he looked good. And it's got to the point now with Tua where you've got guys like J.C. Jackson talking about him throwing picks, and he's going to throw us one and that sort of thing. That's not a good indivision rep to have if guys are willing to say it out loud. So I think he's got some battling to do, Tua does, or else we'll start seeing that hot hand stuff. Jacoby came in for a sneak and I was like, uh-oh, are we doing this again? And then Damien Harris with a with a hollow man entry,

but he's not going to win the award. Fumbling. Cardinal Sin in New England. John Hs Smith fumbled too, but he flipped like a fucking helicopter. I don't even think Bill blames John Hs Smith. Didn't Remandre Stevenson fumble as well? I mean, I believe they turned the ball over several times. I really hope Bill and John who get along.

Those are two guys I really want to get along because I think they're going to use him in a ton of really creative fun ways. But the Damien Harris fumble was tough. It's good to see Van Oye and High Tower back out there, having fun. High Tower back out there for the first time in two years. He'll shake the rust off. You know, Van Oye made a player two. And those are very personal plays for him, having been in Miami last year, the way it ended.

So fun to watch the Pats. I'm just telling you, I would rather watch this Pats team than the Brady Pats team the last year he was there. like hands down because it's just more interesting. It's just more interesting. There's more weapons. Nelly got in the end zone. I like the running back and the defense is going to be a lot of fun.

A lot of fun. Jalen and Carson, I'll be quick. I'm not going to talk about Carson that much because I don't think he was the problem today, but I think he could have been better. And I think more than anything, the Colts could have been a lot better.

They just didn't, they were a little bit underwhelming for me. Unprepared even. And maybe because they had a, a weird August. Yeah. And maybe wait until week two to judge him, but it just, it didn't look like the well-willed machine.

I don't want to overreact. We've come to know from those guys. Yeah, I don't want to overreact. I think they're feeling the way out a little bit. I do think there was one thing that kind of stuck in my crawl a little bit was watching earlier in the game. And they've got this nice drive to start the game out. And they're ready to punch it in for six. And instead, on I believe, fourth and two,

they decide, you know, Frank Reich, who's an aggressive cat, decides we're going to take the points. Now I don't like that. I don't like that because you're playing an offense like Seattle who proved to look very good. Okay, new offense. Look good. It's a little bit late, but they looked very efficient, very good. But what else is new? Early in the season last year, they looked like they were going to win the Super Bowl. You know, the only thing that they didn't have was a defense and now they seem to have some more rushers, you know, develop the kid out of U.S. season, his fourth year. You know, you don't see a lot of teams developing talent. The guy with the Charles Haley neck brace.

had a sack or two. I mean, I really like him. You know, they had some other guys who showed up for them rushing the edge. So I'm excited. You add that to Dunlap? This is going to be a good football team. Lock it, track in the ball. God, he's a wizard when it comes to that.

And what makes them great is when he unloaded on that 69-yard touchdown pass, I didn't even have to panic that it was going to go the right place. Because when he has an opportunity to figuratively, you know, choke the life out of you, you know, step on your throat, figuratively speaking. He does it. That ball falls right where it's supposed to fall. Look at all the aggressive teams today. Broncos went for it on fourth down on their first drive.

I think they went for it on fourth and one on the four. Saints went for it twice on fourth. Cleveland two times. You know, they also went for two right off the bat. Sinci went for it, like, late, because they didn't want to do that tie bullshit again. since he was right there last year against the Eagles, if you remember that game. You know, teams have to be aggressive,

especially when you're playing a Seattle team. I do think they'll be better, and I think the Seahawks might be better than we thought they were, but it's week one. We talked about it on Friday, Indy with a bit of a rough start, home Rams next. Rams currently in a one-score ball game on Sunday night

as we speak right now. As we speak. And then at Titans looking a little easier, at dolphins. We don't know, though. We don't know. Yeah, we don't know. But Indy, we said that's the most volatile first month.

It could look pretty could look ugly and not a great start. And here's the compounding factor. And I paired these guys together like from a talking point standpoint because of course we're watching. It was surreal watching two TVs in the lab. You got Jalen on one TV and Carson on the other. And it's like, hey, these two camps have gone their separate ways. I mean, just a few years ago, we were a Super Bowl championship team. And everybody's gone.

person's gone and Jalen's starting in in Philly and looked very good. I mean, he looked very good. He did exactly. And I want to say this, he looked better than I thought he was going to look. You know, like when he heats up here, don't let me jump on the bandwagon and say I knew it all long. Okay. I'm excited about what I saw, especially because I didn't know he had that in him right out of the gates. Now, grain of salt. It is Atlanta. Atlanta does have guys playing. Playoff bound. Well, I put him in the playoffs. based on their offense. What the fuck was that?

It's like Arthur Stith down there. I'm watching and I'm saying to myself like I know the defense is bad but beautiful touch on the on the ball to Devante Smith friend of the program. You know, Jalen Rager had a Tud. That's great. Arthur Siv.

One of them. The Jalen thing, he looked good. He had touch on the ball in that touchdown. I mean the game plan was friendly for him. Like Seriani I thought would like kind of come in, He was a great deal-in doing his thing, but I thought this was an agreeable game plan for Jalen and for Nick. And he tucked the ball and ran when he was supposed to. He didn't just bail out of pockets. Jordan Milaida got paid this week. Ooh, he got paid. He can buy a lot of fosters with that.

Four for 64. Good Lord, dude. 41 guaranteed. And the Eagles have a big stretch coming up with the Niners, the Cowboys, the Chiefs, the Bucks, the Panthers. Of course, we don't know what that means, but on paper that looks tough so the Colts and the Eagles could have similar records coming out of the first four to six weeks and how is that going to affect the narrative in Indy and in Philly respectively so interesting to keep your eye on that

also it was fun as a side note it's a guy named Stephen Means who played in Philly for a long time if you were a Philly fan like you knew who he was he would come in in the preseason just dominate if you're a Philly player you dreaded practicing against him if you were in O'Limon because you put that big

helmet right in your chest, very powerful, worked his ass off. When he got cut in Philly, I've never seen so many people look like they were going to cry. He's a great guy and he's a really good player. And Atlanta is just the team for him to get like an opportunity. So he's finally like playing on Sunday rather than just, you know, waiting in the wings of the practice squad. Guess who he played against this weekend? Lane Johnson, the very guy who fucking dreaded going against Stephen Means at that hot, humid-ass NovaCare complex down there in South Philly, like every day. Stephen Means to the face.

So really fun to see Stephen Means getting a lot of snaps and pretty surreal to see him playing the Eagles. He was like a preseason god. I remember one time we beat the Jets in the final seconds and he had like a strip sack to win the game as the clock expired and he got up and did his like hammer celebration and there were fireworks. I'll never forget it, bro. Stephen Means.

of Philly Legend. So yeah, Kyler, that's the only other quarterback I really want to talk about before we get to superlatives. I don't know where to put him in superlatives. I don't want to give him the game ball

because I have another one in mine. I was flirting with just making up an award like that kind of signifies how thankful I am to be moving on to my next vocation because it's not fair that there are human beings like Kyler Murray out there.

It's not, I was going to call it the O-A award because that fucking guy from Penn State who's my size and runs a fourth, and he's out there at Gunner on the punt team. Like, why would I want to play, how did I play football with people like that? Tyler Murray made me feel that way today.

Maybe we call it the OA Award. O-E-H. Yeah, but not the O-A, like the show, whatever happened to that show. The O-A. You remember that show? You're thinking of the O-C. No.

The O-A. Yeah, the O-A. Yeah, it was about a girl who had like supernatural instincts and powers. I think that is the O-C. How much you want to bet? the OC there's a girl in there with supernatural powers wasn't that right I don't think so dude okay this is my jurisdiction Chris has this one the OA is the American mystery drama TV series

uh good series from what I remember clicks in 2016 yep I watched it and then I stopped watching it but anyways Kyleor Murray dude fucking I don't know how you rush this guy I would hate like hate to practice all week They put like a wide receiver back there and a penny and just have him run backwards and run around in circles. They used to do this when we play mobile quarterbacks and they put like one of those little practice squad wide outs back there. And his whole job was to make you mad

and make your coach yell at you based on unrealistic rush lane expectations. I say that to say when you tell a guy to get contained, he can't run too high and he can't run too low. Do you know what I mean? like the defensive ends, if you're too tight to your angle, a fast quarterback's going to bail out the back of the pocket. You can also be too high.

And what happens there is a fast quarterback just steps up in that B and takes off, okay? You don't have, like, you don't have an answer for Kyler Murray in the rush. He will bail to 23 yards, 23 yards, and then run around you for 20.

TechMobile. It's TechMobile, dude. In TechMobile, you know, used to run back and forth. I didn't know you could do that also. I thought it was just the thing I was doing. You run all the way back. I thought it was just a skill I had. Hill Murray.

Yeah, well, this motherfucker does it in the real NFL. In 2021, it's not like athletes are getting less athletic. They're getting more athletic, and he's doing something like nobody I've ever seen can do. I mean, Mike Vic could have done it, but Mike Vic didn't bail backwards as much. this kid is ridiculous there was the play in the red zone I don't know what you want a defensive lineman to do

because I know coaches yell at players when they come off the field as if there was an answer there's no answer and then the ball off his back foot like what the fuck is going on like is that it are there going to be quarterbacks

like Tyler Murray all the time now or is it just one Kyleor Murray I'm good dude I'd stop short of saying one of one Yeah, I'm happy to be where I am sitting here in this chair. Like, no thank you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no thank you. Kyler Murray, I guess we'll call it the OA Award.

Round one pick one. Remember when they had Rosen in the fold and it was like, nah, don't care. By the way, he is Rosen. Today, as of today. Like a Jesus joke. It's not a joke. He played in the game today. Oh, we got a Rosen sighting, dude.

We got a Rosen sighting. We got a Rosen t-shirt. Nice. A troubled youth becomes embroiled in the lives of a close-knit group of people in the wealthy upper-class neighborhood of Newport Beach. That's the OC. That's right.

That's not the O. Golly. Hey, we got a really exciting event coming up in Philly on October 3rd. I'll be hosting a Legends tailgate party that you don't want to miss. There'll be food, drinks, and music. Legerrett Blunt is going to be there. Brent Selleck's going to be there. I'm going to be there.

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How about it, dude? You know what the best plane ride was? Me coming home to do this job Sunday night. That's right. Lying home from Gotham City, all those people. Now I get to give out an award. Let's go best plane ride. I'll go Steelers.

Short flight, okay, hear me out, short flight. It's nice out. Like, it is really nice out. It was a little hot down here today. But I think up there it was a little bit cooler. So 1 p.m., short flight, probably 40 minutes wheels up, wheels down. I bet you their equipment, people took a bus,

so you didn't have to wait for the equipment to be loaded. Nate, you know what I'm talking about. Facts, facts. Facts. Like, if you have to sit there like two hours on a plane after a loss, like literally sometimes you'll get on the plane, it'll be two hours. And guys are looking around like, what is the holdup?

Like, we are our own airplane. If we've chartered this motherfucker, we can't leave now, it's always the equipment. So the equipment beats them to Pittsburgh. they get home, four o'clock, they're leaving, they're leaving, they get home,

it's light out, they can go out of drinking. And I feel like Pittsburgh can drink the fuck out of some beer. I feel like that's a beer drinking team. Only problem, the people who drink the most beer on that team should not be drinking any beer today,

and that's the offensive line. So they need to go home and stay sober as fuck. But T.J. Watt should go home and drink a bunch of beer. I got like a beer garden outside because it's probably gorgeous in Pittsburgh and they're one and O.

And like Pittsburgh created their own luck. you know, 20 unanswered points, but a bunch of them were off turnovers. And I think they blocked a punt for a touchdown too, including two fourth downs that the bills couldn't capitalize on. So I'm not going to overact on this bill's thing. The only thing that to me is a little bit like, is Josh Allen missing a lot today. You know, like last year, his accuracy was not a problem. And I hope this isn't some like, hey, last year was the outlier. I hope that's not the case because late last year there was a stretch where I was like he might be the greatest quarterback of all time.

Holy shit. I got the New Orleans Saints. Now this is an unconventional plane ride because sources say it's Jacksonville to Dallas, Fort Worth, not back to New Orleans just yet because of Hurricane Ida. But the Saints, you think about week one, it's a home game, but it's not, golly, we got Aaron Rogers, this is going to be a, this is a tough start to a season. And it's 38 to 3 and it's James and it's five TDs. And it's like, all right.

Yeah, dude. Well, what it goes to show is how great Sean Payton is again. Like, how do you win with fucking Tassum Hill? No Drew Breeze hangover. He's got the new hair. He's got the new hair on top of the dome. He's got a skunk on top of his head. Like, good for him. No, no, listen. Good for him. Good for him. And you know what's really good about him? I thought he was canceled. I heard he got canceled because he was criticized. So I heard he was canceled. But today I saw him on a commercial. I saw him on TV. TV. I saw it. He was everywhere. He did the Urlacker.

So you two can survive cancellation, the big scary boogeyman that doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. He's on TV. He's making a fuck ton of money. I went on a podcast a while back and somebody, you know, like somebody who's, who was, we were having a military discussion. They were like

how do you feel about Drew Brie's getting canceled? I was like, I must have missed that news. Confirm today. Worst plane ride. worst plane ride man oh man this has got to be a bad one jacksonville jacksonville's got to be a bad plane ride not the longest plane ride in the world but like i just want to know does urban mire and shot con like share a row is does shot con have his own plane i assume he probably has his own plane um i think it was just probably super awkward especially in the wake of the jason lock and

for a article that alleges that Urban Myers got a little bit of a temper issue right now in Jacksonville. And that doesn't surprise me at all. He's very frustrated, I'm sure. Like the offense doesn't have any direction. It's not like it's not a secret. People have been like, what is the offense? You've got the number one pick.

That's got to stress you out. It's an incredibly tantalizing thing to have going for you. But at the same time, like it's an incredible, like if you fuck this up, This kid isn't Zach Wilson. This kid is the guy that they've been calling sunshine from Remember the Titans and the kid that is one of the most transcendent quarterbacks we've seen in college football the past 10, 15, 20 years.

So like there's a lot of pressure on Urban Meyer, and he doesn't love pressure. He doesn't love pressure. And I don't know what the boiling point looks like, but it is early to lose the Houston, Texas in a fucking like boat race situation. Dude, like, what do you say on the plane? if you had your little highlighter and you were a Jacksonville fan

like you highlight the games you could win this is a you gotta have it like what do you have for me Urban if you're shot con you're like so how do we beat the rest of the teams because this is the Houston Texans I was told they're the worst team in football history

they're not the St. Louis Rams from 2011 were Tarad Mark Ingram your boy Brandon Cooks might be a plucky bunch I know that's what I mean like low key kind of scrappy

Jags flying home to Jacksonville where the most points they scored a year ago was 27 I did not realize they lost so many games in a row I remember there was one game that they tricked off so bad against the Vikings last year it was unbelievable that was the day I had like food poisoning or something

but I do remember the exact game I had food poisoning because how I felt was what it looked like on TV that like watching the Jacksonville Jaguars is food poisoning. You're football food poisoning. James walks into your home stadium and puts up 38 when you're on the road getting boat race by the Houston Texans.

Oh, yeah. Not a good look. No, it's a bad. It's a bad. You may bring up a great point as far as like they're traveled. Now they've got to go to Dallas and all that sort of stuff. Like Sean Payton is really smart and he knows how to how to get a team to bond.

Like in a lot of times like you can use these opportunities to bring guys. closer like I can remember a lot of our West Coast trips where hey we were playing Seattle one week and then LA the next week I remember Super Bowl year we went up to Seattle and then had to stay out west and like guys were you know it's California so guys are excited but at the same time you want to be home these guys I'm sure want to be home but you came out of it a lot closer so I do think that if they can come out of this like two and oh three and oh before they get home this team is gonna be even closer than they were before it's got purse lips that

that Sean Payton. Yeah, he looks like the guy from Kenny Chesney. And glorious bastards. And the lady from Mama's family. And Mama's Family Lady. What was her name again? Can't come up with him. You used to know it so well.

Hey, and Taylor, as you know, is a big Jags fan, vindictive Jags fan. After the Jags got frowned. He was like, under his breath. He said to read, I hope the Broncos lose. Taylor, tell us what happened in the game because Lord knows we didn't watch it. Taylor's downstairs. but in the Jags game

three interceptions for Trevor Lawrence. They didn't look too good. You can say that again. Say it one more time. Yeah, not good, not good. The other quarterbacks to have three interceptions in their debuts,

Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck. So he's got that going for him. Another bad one, the Vikings are flying home from Cincinnati? The jungle. At 0.1. And it's another one of those Okay, well, we got to be able to count on some Ws

And you thought maybe Joe Burrow first came back from the injury A very young team We kind of know who we are in Minnesota I feel like there's going to be Zimmer fatigue If this goes 0 and 3, O and 4 Which it very well could And also Kurt Cousins fatigue It's like if you're on that roster

Not for me It's like well Sink the boat man, sink the boat sink the Viking ship. I took the under on the wind total, so I was glued to the TV hoping that... I think it's a no-douder for you. Thank you.

Yeah. No, the biggest thing for me with Sinci is that if you're a Cincinnati Bengals fan, like you legitimately have a reason to be excited. Imagine, you know, football Jesus landing, you know, in your city by some act of God. You've got Joe Burrow falling into your lap.

Like, this is one of the surest bets. If Trevor Lawrence is a sure bet, what was Joe Burrow? Like, the kid just has it all, and he's the hometown kid. And if you look at that division, because all windows close, like Cleveland eventually will have to pay everybody, and it'll burn down. Like, they'll have this window, they're going to be, and they won't be quite as good. The Steelers, offensively, like, new era starting soon, the Ravens, you never know, there could be a reset coming there at some point in the next few,

years like I don't know the bangles are going to be good at the right time in that division think about when their success is going to really sink up and after all that happened they had to watch Joe burrow's leg explode for no reason throwing the ball like 50 times a game I mean I'll never forget where I was I felt terrible for him I was where I am every Sunday watching in the in the in the in the lab but I felt terrible for him and if you're a bangles fan you overcame the most bangles thing in the world and he's back out there looking good throwing the ball 27 times today not 40 not 40 still getting sacked five times good news bad news situation good news they're throwing the ball less bad news he's still getting fucking tattooed but at least he's getting tattooed maybe a little bit less

Jamar chase T higgins Tyler boy that's good Jamar chase all as well your guy they put the stripes on the ball maybe the pick the pick you uh the draft pick you hated the most I know I hated him the most and James Coe called my concerns. Okay, viewing party. Okay, I'd have liked to watch that Denver Broncos thrashing of the New York Giants with John Elway. Yeah. Because he's picking dudes, Reed probably has a list, he's picking dudes like Paxton

Lynch to come be the savior. Yeah. And it's Teddy, man. It's Teddy two gloves. He was extremely efficient. sometimes you don't need to draft the 6-7 guy with the cannon who

sprays it all over the field it has grammatical errors on his tattoos oh yeah what was that one again I believe it was live life to it is fullest had me in the first half there I thought it was like love is love

love yeah this is this is more so a feel good for Teddy 28 of 364 and 2 he does lose Judy for a few weeks but no offense K.J. Hamler Tim Patrick. They're going to be okay.

Melvin Gordon out there looking like it's three years ago. They're going to be okay dude. Reed's going to have a good year. Yeah, decent year. The New York Giants are a semi-professional football team though so but they don't get too high fight a lot in camp. Coaches too. Yeah. Coaches are are well-conditioned.

Basically, it's a street fighter situation. Yeah, John L.A., I think the only noise he could probably make that sum it all up would be like, huh. Yeah.

My viewing party for me was, it's the CBS set, okay? Bill Cower recently inducted in the Hall of Fame. So what's he do? The first week,

of course, he's got to show his coworkers as his tradition, my mustard jacket, my gold jacket. Like, I want to see it. I want everybody to see it, and for good reason.

He should be very proud. You wear that shit on TV. Well, guess who was sitting to the left of him? Our friend Nate Burleson, who's doing a great job in the media right now, so don't take this as any shade. But, Nate, what are you doing? Of all the jackets you have at your disposal, you're on, like, Good Morning America, good morning football, like, how many fucking news networks are you on?

And you do this CBS show. You have a million jackets, and you brought a mustard jacket to work today. You brought a mustard jacket to work, Nate. You're one of the most talented, smart people in the world of sports. And you don't have two jackets. I know how this goes. I've been to my dad's work.

They got a bunch of jackets back there. Bill Cowher, I wanted to see his face when Nate Burleson rolled up on set with a matching gold jacket. Sitting right next to you. I mean, how deep does that rack go at Fox? Maybe they didn't have it. Maybe they don't have the Fox rack at CBS. Maybe they didn't have the four years.

I thought it was amazing. I thought it was amazing. I could not believe it's like the ultimate, what the fuck are you wearing, man. Like, really today? With the smile, with Bill Cowher trying to look like he's not pissed off at Nate Burleson,

I think that's probably how it went. And to be fair, I didn't say the name, Brock Osweiler, but it's Brock Osweiler with the grammatically incorrect tattoo. Brock, Brock, nice guy,

good dude. Montana guy. I think he just spent a little time in Montana. Why do I think that? Just bad grammar. Yeah. Well, maybe it was the artist. Just throwing the apostrophe in there.

Fly on the wall. Well, listen, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that Dan Campbell half-time situation. Yeah. I don't have an angle here. I don't know what he said. I don't know what he should have said. But they were down big. They were down 28.

They showed some grit. They did bite some kneecaps. They're down 21 points of the half. I think they're down 28 points at some point in the game. and they actually find a way to battle back and damn near win the or tie the game. They were a touchdown and a two-point conversion away from going to overtime at 41 apiece with the San Francisco 49ers

who people think are like a Super Bowl contender, right? I'm not saying it means anything, but at least they're trying. I mean, if I would imagine what a Dan Campbell team looks like, it wasn't a team that was scoring a fuck ton of points in a two-minute drill situation. in the second half. I mean, I guess anybody can do that. But covering Campbell

is what I'm going to call him this year, because I think he's going to be a backdoor cover SOB, and I am all for it. I think I'm going to, I need a reason to bet the Lions, to root for the Lions, and now that I've seen that he can cover the back door, I'm there, I'm in. Dan Campbell, what did you say at the half? New York Giants, Joe Judge, I'm a broken record, but would you say at any point? I mean, what

what are we saying before the season? What are we saying at halftime? What are we saying after the game? Because this looks bleak. It doesn't look like there's improvement. And okay, fine, it's just year two. And you like the special teams guy. You like the guy himself.

But it just seems like an uphill climb with DJ a quarterback. I mean, we're talking about guys like Kyler Murray, talking about guys like Joe Burrow and Mack Jones. Yeah. Daniel Jones. Yeah, he's fumbled 50 times. Yeah, somebody gave us some insane stat today about how many times he's coughed the ball up.

And threw nine picks against the University of Virginia in three games. Well, while I do. You saw it coming up by the way. Yes. Such a joke. Anybody but him. I don't mean he's a joke.

I just saying that you're a UVA fan and you saw it firsthand and you saw him walk that green mile up to the Meadowlands. And Seekwon doesn't look like Sequan. I just, I don't know what you say to be like, hey, that Denver teams of... The vibes are not good and here's the problem. Like, when you're a hard-ass coach

and I know Joe Judge is and I like Joe Judge, we both said it. We like the guy. I think he does some good things. But like when things aren't working and you're pushing hard-ass stuff, like it is hard to keep a team, especially early in the season. And like this team has some major implosion

capabilities. For sure. Like if this team goes, who do they have next. If they go like a football team on Thursday, they're going to lose that game. They're very much. I don't care who's. I don't know who's going to be under center, but they're going to lose that football game. And if they start like oh and three, oh and four, this could get ugly and you could be tracking. If you're o' and three, it's, it is bad news because it's Broncos football team and Falcons. And if you can't beat any of those.

And here's the problem for you. If they're o'n three after that stretch and you know they're going to be staring down this first pick or second pick or third pick, and here we are. I don't want to overreact, but here we are slotting them in the top five. What do you do? New general manager, all due respect. Yeah. And then trenches, baby, it's always trenches. Who's scoring the points? Oh, worry about the points five years from now. Okay. When Kaivon Tebado, Thibito, there you go, is, is, sign them up. He's getting paid. It's 25 years old. Yeah, I just don't know where they go from here. So Frank Gore Memorial Award is going to be, you know, again, to remind you guys, it's the person who's, I don't know why we changed this to Frank Gore last year.

It should just be the St. Louis Rams Memorial Award to commemorate. Well, we tried to honor Frank Gore. Yeah, well, because he was doing that. Yeah, he was doing it. It was bullshit. Didn't he play for the Jets? He played for the Jets and he'd a big old game against some wild team at one o'clock. Yeah, he fucking bawled out at like noon and nobody was watching.

and he's a Hall of Famer and he's playing for the Jets. Big old game for the love of the game. He's playing for the love of the game. You know who else is playing for the love of the game today? The Houston Texans. So they're going to get my Frank Gore, St. Louis Rams Memorial Award. This is a team that, when we talked about it earlier, when you're on a bad team and you got nothing to lose,

like you've hit rock bottom before the season even starts. Like this is the most sloppy negative offseason in history. If this team gets a couple good vibes going, fuck around and win four games this year. They can fuck around and win four games this year. A lot of people had them at like one, two games, maybe three or four games, maybe five games. You never know.

They're playing for the love of the game. You? Cordarral Patterson. He screwed around and turned 30 years old on us. First round pick out of Tennessee in 2013, been with a few stops for Cordero. screws around once more leads the old falcons

Mike Davis leads the Falcons in rushing today in a 32 to 6 loss Cowboy Reid will tell you this I realize it about his third carry that at the very least I'm going to feel dumb if he

if he gets the rock a lot this year out of the backfield because he was on my fantasy team one of my fantasy teams and I released him to work the waiver wire like this week oh yeah look at you

yeah you know I worked the waiver wire and then I don't set my lineup but I had the guy who's going to get a lot of the fucking carries in Atlanta, and he looks like pretty good running the football. I wouldn't want to play Cordero Patterson. He's going to hit that fucking B-Gap hard, dude. And like he's a tall guy. I think he runs tall,

but I think like arm tackles don't do it with this guy. Not a guy you want to tackle. You played with him, right? You played against him. Yeah. And he probably looks like a big blur going by you. I don't think he has much shake in the box, but. looks like a smaller D-N or like a tight end running down on all the special teams and then

getting the ball on fly sweeps and stuff where when you're out there for a corner or a smaller guy I know for a fact that's not the guy you want to tackle. No, it's not. And in the box, you don't want to tackle him either because he's just, he gets to top speed so fast. That was fucking cool to see him play running back. More 80s number running backs, please. 6-2-220.

Where's 84? seven for 54. Mike Davis did get 15 carries, but was not as effective as as our guy Cordero. We don't want to wear Cordero out early in the season, so we got to load manage him. Hollow Man, the Kevin Bacon Award here.

Who wants to disappear? Well, I got one guy. You want to take a wild fucking guess? Aaron Razors. Dude, I actually, I've never felt bad for somebody who I shouldn't feel bad for before. Has he married Shailene Woodley?

Are we still engaged? I think they're engaged. We're still engaged. I think they're engaged. All right. And I just can't imagine that there's been a rougher day for him in his career. Like with everything that happened and the buildup and the whole like we knew one thing like, hey, and this is early.

I said this before them losing 38 to 3 doesn't mean anything. You win the Super Bowl and lose 383. You can fucking win the Super Bowl and lose 38 to 3 to the, the Saints late in the season like in November. So there's time to fix it. But I just don't think, and I've never thought they were that good of football team. Like I don't think they're that good of football team. I still think they win the NFC North, but I don't think they're that good.

I think they're that good. You think they're that good? Yeah, see, I'm going to flip it on everybody next week. They're the line who I don't care who it is. Oh, I'm going to bet them next week, but I don't think they're a Super Bowl contender. Yeah. No. I don't think they're a Super Bowl contender.

Well, they're not with Aaron Jones at five carries. Aaron Rogers looked real bad today. And coming off of the off season where he cried. He's mad. Where he cried the entire off season. But he got every single thing he wanted. He got every single thing. They gave him Randall Cobb.

If Randall Cobb is everything he wanted. They give him Randall Cobb. One target. You can't get Randall Cobb and turn around and lose 38 to 3 is all I'm saying. One target. And that's what I'm saying. All this stuff for that to happen, for that showing. It's the worst.

For that showing. It's the worst. And I think the stat was he threw three interceptions and he threw five last year and he threw three interceptions. He threw two interceptions and in three plays. Like, I mean, he was just. And granted, he got hit on the first pick and the second one was kind of like, fuck it. but they had the ball like 10 plays the first half. They could not get anything going.

I think this is an aberration a bit, right? But it doesn't take away the sting. Like I stood up. Everybody in the room stood up when Jordan Love came in the game. We were like, oh, my God. And then, you know, that had to be painful for him to sit on the silent because he knows, like, he's a fucking competitor. He also knows he made a big deal this offseason.

Hey, hey, hey, Rogers. Love is love. you poking the bear hey i i got i got to say i really did feel bad for him and i probably shouldn't your parley is going to hit rams are up by 20 let's go congratulations thank you we'll talk about that in a moment erin rogers is probably my hollow man he didn't even put his helmet on which is pretty bossy he stood there with his face like you know facing the cameras hair hair another question are mullets out dude kicker muller yeah he's got like a little bit of of a mullet. He's got flow. At the very least, he's got

cabbage, you've got lettuce. He's got a little bit of a waterfall. Is Mullet Aaron Rodgers not effective? It's not the same. Is it the mullet with him? He's like reverse Sampson. Not a good day for mullets. The punter for the Browns forgot how to catch the ball and then forgot to punt the ball. Jamie Gillen.

Jamie Gillen. His mullet was weighing his brain down. That was bad. Do I need to cut my mullet? He had one punt for 52 yards aside from the tackle on the other punt. And the Baker pick and the chub fumble. They should have won that game. Yeah, they should have won that game. Should have would have coulda though. Hollow Man, I'll stick in the same

T-I-A-A, whatever the hell it is, stadium. Taysam Hill, who probably not too long ago thought he had a good shot at QB1. Knock knock, who's there? James, James, who? James Winston. Oh, there's no joke. All right. James Winston is there. 14 to 21, 48. TDs. He was so high everybody likes James.

Who doesn't like James? James is the guy. Can you taste the W? I mean, he's going to be eating a lot of Ws down there. But there's a lot of other good food besides W's to eat down there. It's New Orleans, the big easy. Tase him.

One completion on one attempt for three yards. He ran the ball twice for one yard. What a fucking flip that is to go from, hey, I get to sit next to Drew Breeze, look attentive, smile, nod a lot. Look like, yeah, I'm learning, I'm learning

to sitting next to James and just being like, fuck this guy, dude. You know what the worst thing for him is? James seems to be a good guy, a good teammate. He picked up Ryan Ramchek's mouthpiece after the game when I'm walking off the field and he ran it over to him. I'm like, dude, this guy is just, he's too good to be true right now. And here's the craziest part.

James is crushing these post-game interviews. Like, he, charisma out the ass, man. And like, he's going to take Drew Breeze's job. He's going to walk off the field and take Drew Breeze's new job. Hey, I want to change something. I know I said Trevor Lawrence about the marketing. Oh, you're going to change. You think it's James.

I think it's James. And the first thing he should get. Publix. No. LASIC. LASIC. Yeah, but then Publix. He's always had the charisma.

But he doesn't have the eyesight. Yeah, that's all? I don't think he should do public because I think they, I think that whole situation was a set up. And you think he was set up by Big Crab. No, I think that publics, the people in there, let him take crabs willingly. And the one time that maybe someone seen it on camera that wasn't supposed to said something. And they didn't stand behind them. They probably could have erased the cameras, did all that.

But it's publics. It's not privates. Good one. And they put them out in the public. Oh, my God. I love Javis Winston, man. Hard not to like. I've told you the story about the time he pushed me, bro.

Like we were, it was a two minute drill. He pushed him. It was the last game. And yeah, it was the last game in St. Louis. We had those neon yellows on. They had those neon reds on. It was a ketchup and mustard color rush. Dumb and dumber fucking dog van scene situation.

And I'm running down the field right next to James Winston. And I'm frustrated because at this point, to be honest, I'm recovering from a little bit of a broken leg and I know I'm getting released in the next few weeks. I'm living in a hotel in St. Louis. Anyways, I'm running down the field next to James and I damn near fall over like I got a trip, but somebody just shoved me and this is like,

the play is over, we're running to the next play. I get up and James Winston's looking back at me with the most shit eating grin of all time. I couldn't even be mad at him. I'm like, you're a scumbag. In the funniest way possible, you're a fucking childish scumbag. But it's impossible not to like you, though,

somehow. Okay, knock knock. Yeah, who's there? James. James. James. Winsden, went and got LASIC, and then he beat the Packers by 35. Now, it'll be better if his last name was like squinted in, but I had to go Winston. That was a Wins. Winst, and. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, got it, got it, got it. Nate says I squint like James a lot. Yeah, you do.

I don't, yeah, maybe I don't see well. Maybe you need LASIC. Yeah, you do. You do. A popular thing on Twitter was that today, Aaron Rogers looked like the old James and James look like the old Aaron Rogers. I don't think James looked like the old Aaron Rogers fax is the only thing I'm saying. All I'm saying is I'm very happy for James.

Numbers wise. As I expected, yes, numbers wise. As I expected, they're going to make things manageable for him. And it's not that he can't. But hold on, bro. Hold on. What's your beef? Yo, he's really good.

I know he's really good. And that was going to be my next statement. But don't say manageable. I feel like when you say that, you're kind of undermining his talent, just a little bit. No, I'm not. He was a number one overall pick. No one's doubting his talent, bro. The problem is he's throwing the ball to the other fucking team for the majority of his career.

So manageable for James is the outcome where he's not throwing the ball to the other team. I got you. You know, he didn't do that today. With LASIC, they like slice your eye and then like pull up some flaps to get to the cornea. So the point is Sean Payton's going to make it manageable for him that he doesn't have to take these stupid shots downfield. I don't care what quarterback you are.

If you take 20 shots downfield, the ball is going to end up in the other team's hands a little bit. Not three, four times a game like James, and I'm sorry to undermine his talent here. But I think you do have to work the underneath stuff. I think you have to work the middle of the field. And it's not like they have anybody that can take the top off the defense

save for some guys that you might not have heard of unless you play fantasy football or Joanne Johnson who caught two fucking touchdowns this week everybody's rushing to the oh this is going to happen every week he did throw a beautiful ball up high where only Joanne Johnson could get it in the red zone and I thought that was a really good sign for him

to make those throws in the red zone so I'm excited for James my game ball this week drum roll goes to Nick Siriani. Head football coach. Head football coach of the Eagles. I have heard things about this guy in Philly that are flattering to him.

I mean, like players who I respect saying, oh, I like this guy. The question is, we'll see what happens when, you know, the figuratively, the bullets fly, right? But we like him. He's got a little swagger. He's got a little, like, he's got a little juice. He's got energy.

Guys respect him. You know, like the first day players know if they're going to like a head coach. Yep. You know, and then from there on, it's like, can you execute? Because we might, I've had coaches I liked, but they couldn't get us wins. I still like them, but they just couldn't put the pieces together. He's got the personal part of it. Can he do the football part of it?

I mean, it's just the Falcons. It's just the team that I picked to go to the wild card round. But it's a win. And they looked very good off. And the craziest part about it is that I don't want to get too far out over our skis here Let's not forget he was nervous during his press conference so that could come back to bite him week two three four What I'm saying is that you're all fucking idiots every time there's a press conference Every time there's a there's a new coach that you don't like you shit on the guy and

I from everything I hear Nick Siriani is a really good dude so you're just shitting on a good dude who surprise is a competent football coach. And I'm not saying that he's a fucking Super Bowl head football coach. I'm not saying that he's going to coach in Philly for 10 years. But what I am saying is it rubbed me a little bit wrong when everybody was like, look at his shaky voice at the press conference. Look at the, like you're all sitting on a computer all day.

Like you don't even talk to real people. This guy's standing in front of a room full of grown men in a city that, no, grown men. He's in a locker room. I thought we were at the press conference. No, I'm talking about trying to win a team over. Like, he's sitting in there in front of a room of grown men trying to get them to buy what he's doing. And then guess what you got to do? And this is how it goes your first day.

You talk to the team, then you go talk to the fucking the press. And guess who the men and women? Guess who the press is in Philly? The toughest press room outside of New York in the United States when it comes to football. In my opinion. I mean, name somewhere, I mean, Chicago maybe. so the guy got a little nervous and you guys wrote him off

you wrote him off because he was nervous and I'm just really excited that he got a big win today and in fact I went to tweet about it and I had a slam dunk tweet and I had a typo and I called him Sirianj so from now on I'm not calling him

Siriani I'm just calling him Sirianjay I just left the tweet up there let it ride game ball to Nick Siriani fuck the press conference now they could go one in 16 so I don't want to overreact but I can say this at the very least

he's liked by his players he's earned their respect he will continue to earn their respect and if he can win football games he'll earn the respect to that city and that's a tough city to earn respect and so congrats to him winning cures everything

yeah winning cures everything I won't belabor it I'll hand out a game ball to Jalen hurts his quarterback Philly Philly through for 264 ran for 62 very impressive Atlanta was a trendy pick there late in the week

Tennessee was kind of the last locked that smelled a little fishy. Hindsight's 2020. Atlanta was another one that, no, Atlanta felt right. Atlanta did feel right. So credit to the Eagles and credit to that quarterback. Jayland looked great.

Spread it around too. And I want to finish with this nightcap. Nightcap is a new award where I use this segment as an excuse to try new whiskey or tequila or gin or a beer I haven't tried before. Me and Fax are going to toast a linement of the week, a rusher of the week, an offensive alignment of the week, every Sunday night. And we're going to take a swig of... Yeah, I want the redemption bourbon. Where do we get this?

It might have been Wookie. Wookie got us the Angels envy. It's not going to be much of a drum roll. There's not going to be much suspense. There's only one guy who could get the nightcap award, the first annual nightcap award. And that's Chandler Jones, man. I remember two years ago I was on Twitter

arguing which is something I don't like doing anymore I was arguing though with a blue check his name's T.J. Lang he's a very very good football player that I used to play against all the time T.J. He's a colorful guy fun but he was just loud and wrong he was loud and wrong about

Chandler Jones I said Chandler Jones was like a top 10 rusher he disagreed and then went on to to put about like 20 buckets in the wind column that year. So I was like, yeah, yeah, T.J. Lang, what the fuck do you know? Would you block them?

Did you block guys like that your whole career or something? I just, I know great pass rushers when I see him. And Chandler Jones is a Hall of Famer in my book, and I'm not being a prisoner of the moment. You asked me this, you know, a year ago, I tell you he's got a shot at it. if he can come back from this injury and look like the old Chandler Jones, he's got another 50 or 60 sacks in him, dude. I'm just telling you,

the guy is an artist. So I'm going to watch the video of his five sacks right now and I'll be back in 30 seconds because I really wanted to make sure these were all earned before I kind of called it a Derek Thomas-esque performance because Derek Thomas has the record with seven sacks. I believe it is. And he was sitting with five in the third quarter.

Like I can remember Antoine Odom, I believe, having five sacks, one game. I remember Ossie Euminaura having four or five sacks. Omenura. Omenura. Omenura. Having Omanura. You should, you know what you should do? You should retire from podcasting, although I'd be very sad and become like the thing on Google

that tells you how to pronounce things. That'd be cool. Yeah. I remember OC had five or so against Winston Justice, I believe, the USC tackle. It was in Philly. I'll never forget where I was for that game. This is impressive right off an injury like this. So I just found this out as I was watching Chandler Jones' magnificent day here. Pops had five sacks. My dad had five. It is so hard.

Three is like the like, wow, insane day. people would love to have a day like that. But four is just otherworldly. And then five is like history books. Like you'll always remember if you pay attention to rushers when somebody had five. Other than obviously I don't remember my dad having five. But dominant. Dominant for him coming off.

And a lot of times when you have five sacks or three sacks or four sacks, a lot of them might have been freebies. You know, like you would see at the end of a Sunday like, damn, that dude had three on the bus a lot, Nate. You know, we would pass back the sheet to see around the league. Like the stats guy would say, oh, this guy had like a lot. And then you go look at the sacks, and there'd be a couple boots, a couple freebies. Chandler Jones' first sack in this game was on a boot.

So when you're a force player like him, depending on the call, your job is to run to the upfield shoulder. You know, now if you're a defensive end in certain defenses, you're supposed to close down line and then when the quarterback boots out, you're supposed to read him and then redirect, which is really hard. Do your job, though. Yeah. He did his job, but then more, which, you know, which means he forced to fumble, which

ends up in points for them. And I was saying this just a second ago, I probably missed that play. Like, I was a real good rusher. I wasn't like, you know, like a lot of times, I've said this, like, I wouldn't a great tackler. Like a lot of times I would miss making a big play. at times especially if i didn't earn it it was like i missed my freebies he doesn't miss his freebies bro in fact he got the ball out um so yeah it's a freebie but that's an athletic play there's no rush

involved second rush play action pass snatching um um taylor lewan down who i said this last week i don't know what he's going to be like this year you know he's 30 years old now he's coming off in acel he's a really good all-round player he was never like a a dancer out there you know what i mean And you're coming off that. I don't know how he's going to look now, but snatch down, second sack, third one. Chandler Jones comes with it, and Chandler Jones is so long,

and he does such a good job of not breaking stride as he goes into his, like, edge rush, his option rushes. That third sack, that tag dip, he goes and tags his inside number, just tags his inside number to stop Taylor-Owan's feet for a millisecond. and then just accelerates around him. Because, by the way, he can also bend down to the ground and dip.

The fourth one, oh, Dennis Kelly gets some too. Power, inside, great timing. And then the fifth one's a game. So you have two kind of gimmies, and Saffel didn't sort the game. But taking you under the hood of five sacks, three of them are extremely proficient rushes. To have five, you've got to have a couple of freebies. Unbelievable afternoon for him, especially coming off an injury.

What's a game? And what's sorting? A game? So oftentimes, like, you know, you'll run an E.T, which is basically end first, tackle second. So, like, if I'm a defensive end, I'm going to come in there. It's a two-man game. It's when two linemen are working in unison to try to confuse the two or three offensive linemen that are in front of them. Now, a lot of times, like, to differentiate it, like a game versus a stunt, like a stunt would be like a run stunt.

A game is like a past game deal. And then I don't know what you do. It would vary depending on, you know, a team you're on, what you would call like a four-man game. You know, a lot of times you'd have the end and the tackle on, say, the right side crash down and then the tackle in the opposite A-gap loop around. And there's all sorts of contingencies in the run game who's balancing up and in the past game and that sort of thing.

The two-man game, in this case, was like an ET, I believe it was. And Chandler Jones comes inside. There's no other way to say it. I'm pretty sure the fucking Titans are pregnant. So Chandler Jones penetrates the V-Gap and knocks into Roger Saffold. Well, Saffold didn't sort the game well enough. A lot of times, like, it depends on what you're doing, you'll switch sometimes. Sometimes you'll pass it off a lot of times.

A lot of times you'll stick on it and man it up. They couldn't sort the game. He ends up with the sack. Game sacks. are not like highly skilled sacks. You know, a lot of times you kind of fall into them. Yeah. You still got to make, you still got to make the play.

You still have to make the play. Like as much as you say that, there's a lot of people, when you watch them run games, they run them very well, but it never hits home. Like, because you miss a tackle or you're a little bit off. So you still have to make the play. Well, absolutely. All I'm saying is you don't have to,

winning a game is not winning. a rush unless the end, hey, ET can look sexy for an end. If you, because I used to love an ET because then you're like, oh, I can actually win this rush. Like, I don't want to just, when I got older, I got smarter and I was like, yeah, sure, Fletch, you can just hit the B gap as fast as you can,

and I'll loop around untouched and get the glory. I want to win the rush, right? But games can be a tremendous way to get a freebie. My man had five sacks, and three of them were highly, highly impressive rushes, especially for a guy coming off an injury like his.

So cheers to Chandler Jones. It looks like you already took your shot of, what the fuck is this again, Reed? Redemption. You know what? This is a redemption arc for Chandler Jones. Shot of redemption here. Cheers, Chandler Jones.

Cheers to Chandler. Hall of Fame, 2034. 97 sacks in his career. Passed Warren Sapp today, 96.5. Oh, that's pretty good. Damn, that's that smooth. Good Lord, that's some good bourbon. Oh my God.

Redemption bourbon. Where do they brew this shit? Probably Kentucky. Gambling, fantasy, and let's get out of here. Make. Talk to me about your fantasy team real quick. Okay, it's bad. I alluded to it earlier, but the Gus bus is hurt.

Jerry Judy's now hurt. Rahim Mosterts hurt. Zeke. Oh boy, I've never been so happy as when Zeke fell to seven in our little draft. And I don't know how many times he's scoring seven this year. You know what I'm saying, fellas? It's a touchdown. Count the point after touchdown.

On the record, when you picked him, I was like bad idea. Dude, okay, he's not going to ever look as bad as he did this season. No, no, no, no. As he did against the box. Week one, dude. Yeah, it's a really good defense and they just said, fuck it. not going to run the football. A lot of snaves for Tony Pollard, a lot of things outside. But no, it's no good. We'll start, the houses will start their defense of the championship

0-1-1, even though we have Lamar going tomorrow night, just to get warm. Just get ready for week two. We're going to, we're going to throw Lamar out there tomorrow night. Yeah, yeah, you're tonight. Yeah. But no, none of it was good. Highest scoring player, who, AJ Brown, and he didn't even have that good of a game. Tennessee scored 13 points. Prayers up. Prayers up to you to the houses. Appreciate that. What is the name the houses about? Sure. Thank you for the question.

Be happy to answer it. TV show thing that I don't watch. No, no, no, no. So I'm in real estate. Oh, got it. And typically I represent buyers and sellers of homes. Didn't think about that. Yeah.

So I'm the houses. Okay. That's all that is? That's all it is. Oh, God. You thought there's something deeper. Well, you know, with my team, the unquestionables. Oh, so we're going to talk about every single one.

one of your teams? No, no, no, no, here's the deal. I just wanted to say one thing. I'm the Liberty cuckolds in your league, but I'm the unquestionables in my league with my in-laws because I love my in-laws. Anyways, Quez Watkins went for like three for 15 yards,

like first quarter, dude. And then? And then he decided to let other people eat. But all I'm saying is I'm saying. Three for 23. You saw that. Yeah. You saw that.

On three targets. He won 100%. And listen, he's a glue guy. So I don't even need to start him. he should get a bonus. He just, he's a locker room glue guy. So big, big ups to Quez Watkins, although he pumped fake me a little bit.

Debo Samuel, I left him on the bench. Gambling is going well. Can I tell you my bets this week? You're going to be like, holy shit. You can. Chris, the Greek. Facts, I gave out Steelers. Chiching, Browns,

cha Ching. I gave out Saints, cha Ching, all of this on Friday. But I was in the great state of North Carolina, so I wasn't allowed to place any, any wagers. I still haven't done that. So I have a confession for an attempt to follow your lead.

For anyone who follows me online because I proceeded to post my bet ticket. Half of it. And lucky for me, I posted the better half of the parlay ticket, but unfortunately, I only got seven out of the nine games. He just fires on these giant parlayes. for like no money and he's like hey man listen i could win 32 000 today so today i missed out on winning 37 000 off of five dollars missed out and um the only games i had wrong were i picked the jets to win and i did it to myself i picked the lines to win

And there's something about the Giants too? That was a different one. But for the nine, for the nine parloralette. I would love to be able to check that out facts, but I'm blocked on Twitter.com from your account. So I'll just keep crossing my fingers that one day that comes through and I can see your next wager. I don't want you to follow my wagers, though, because if I win, I want to win by myself. Yeah, that's true. You might steal his parles.

That makes a lot of sense. We should start facts. We should start sharing a fax parlay of the week. Okay. Because, like, chances are one's going to hit eventually. Eventually. And we could probably buy a new car. You guys want to know, you want to know a good future I have?

What? I have the Houston Texans winning everything for $5 to cash out on $2,500. That's good. And listen to me. The way things are going right now, I think if Aaron Rogers keep playing bad, the Houston Texans might be able to work something out because they don't want Watson and they can, is that his name?

Yeah, Deshawn Watson. Yeah, so they don't want him and they want six picks that they're not going to get, six plus picks that they're not going to get. Doesn't matter, dude. The Tyrod Taylor era has to be gone, dude. So maybe Rogers will be in Houston and we'll get Deshawn Watson in Green Bay.

Houston Texans are the only Houston, The Houston Tekins. The arcade game. They're the only undefeated team in the AFC South. Damn. Also, all of the, after tonight's game, all of the NFC North teams are defeated, and all of the NFC West teams are undefeated.

Yeah, I noticed because some units just hit me in the face on the... Rams won by 20 tonight. win by 20. They throw Justin Fields out there on the first drive and then only give them two more snaps. That'll be that'll be fun. Well that's the thing is the Red Zone thing. It's the Red Zone thing. It's the hey, our young quarterback who's probably

better than our starter. We're going to use him in the Red Zone. Maybe you should get to the red zone more often with the young quarterback. Fax, who'd you start in fantasy? You started Jamis, I reckon? No, unfortunately I did not. And I had Aaron Rogers

and he got me a solid 1.3, 2 points. Yeah. Okay, can I tell you something? At this rate, at this rate, I might quit this job. Like, fucking just quit it. I mean, like, Stanford City, 59%. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, on Friday?

Do the fucking math. Yeah, well, do the math here. First half, Tampa Bay Buccaneers money line, Chiching. Virginia minus 10, Chiching. Virginia and Colorado teaser, Chiching. Iowa State.

Nah. Arkansas plus seven Chiching App State plus eight and a half Chiching Straight bet Drunk 2 a.m. Cardinals over 24 and a half

Hedge that Hedge my Tennessee Titans foolhearted fucking money line bet Chiching Buffalo bills San Francisco 49ers Carolina Panthers

Parley three teams fuck you Josh Allen Never thought I'd say that Tennessee Titans I already said that Houston Texans plus three Chiching Download the win bet

wherever you have your phone app. Miami Dolphins, drunk under, Dolphins Patriots drunk under 2 a.m. Good time to bet the board, 2 a.m. on a Saturday. Just whatever you're doing at 2 a.m. Just bet the board.

Forgot I made the bet. Made it again in the morning. You ever do that? You get a little blackout and make a bet. Can't say a half. And then in the morning you make the same bet. We'll make sure you're on the right side. That's what I did.

Dolphins, Patriots, under, easy money. I'm not done. Hitch to wet. back into Cowboy Reeds team. Denver Broncos, minus three, chiching, and then the 14 parlay that broke Las Vegas is back. I did it, Vegas.

I fucked you. Cleveland, Denver. Miami Dolph is doing Patriots under. How many ways can I bet that? And then the Los Angeles Rams. Bro. That is, one, two, three, four, five, six,

seven, yes, I'm going to count it. Eight, nine. 10, 11 wins, 1, 2, 3, losses. Yeah, that's, do the math. Mighty impressive. Good news, bad news situation though, because our- Well, our presenting sponsor,

you've now bankrupted with all these Ws. Yeah, but see, what we're gonna try to do is I'm gonna take money and then deposit it back in in the way of content. Like we're gonna give them quality content that they can parlay into more money. I'll take out enough money, dude. Because you have more

money. I got a lot of money right now right here in this phone. And you're going to translate that into content. More parles. I'm going to have some more parlays for you. Yeah, we got to get more facts, parlays, and facts. Can't wait to check it out on Twitter, facts. Facts. You can log into my account.

Okay. Hey, Fax. Another thing he did when he woke up from that nap, the 4 p.m. Nap, uh, was alert me that the, the win was trying to buy back his bet. Oh, yeah. Earlier, I, I, I had them scared. I just found out about this whole buyback. Once you bet, if your, if your parlay is doing, is doing well, you have a few wins, they get scared and then they offer you a little bit more

money than you already bet for you to get out. So you don't get the final, the final full total. And I'm sure you took that offer. No, I probably should have. I probably should have. There's no probably about it. The parlay didn't hit. The facts parlay didn't hit. Next. time the wind tries to buy you out, just take their money. I didn't know that was a thing. I mean, I wasn't real. What a great out. Yeah, right?

Little insurance. W-Y-N-N. B-E-T. That's right. Hey, Wednesday. I got, like, I just want to talk to you guys about Wednesdays real quick. Fax will be in for some of it. Makin will be off Wednesday.

All this fall, Wednesday's kind of a Fax day. Friday's kind of a Me and Macon Day. Sunday nights a team, a team, gathering. Wednesday's going to be a lot of non-football guests too which I think is really cool. We're going to have some really fun folks to talk to this

for you to listen to on Wednesdays this year. In fact, I just banked one interview that you're going to hear in a couple weeks that I won't say who it was. I won't say what the subject matter was, but I think it's the best interview we've had all year. I'm not bullshit in you. I was enthralled.

I mean, I can't wait to air that interview. So this Wednesday is no different. Can I tease who it is? It's on the books. We got Ken Burns coming on. Ken Burns is like one of my favorite guys. I talked to him about the country music documentary he did.

So good. It was so good. I didn't want it to end. And so it was the conversation. So we're going to have him back. He's got a Muhammad Ali documentary coming out soon. So he'll be here on Wednesday and you'll hear him. And then Friday we'll be back making an eye in studio.

So this is the formula. It's back in the swing of things. We got a lot of guests. We got a log jam of people that want to come on our show. But tonight we just wanted to make it a home team affair. Football's back, Jack. Faith, family, football. Football.

Drugs. Somewhere in there. Sounds like an SEC football program. Oh, real quick. Real quick. Monday night, what do you want to see Monday night? Oh, I need rugs to have at least 30 points so I can win in fantasy this week. And what's your fantasy?

team's name again? CTE Radio. You don't like that? No, but I mean, like, here's the thing. If somebody ever got mad about us saying CTE, like, were the people who can make that joke. Nobody else can. No, yeah, like, so what?

Yeah. Yeah. If you don't have Tau protein, you can't talk. One thing I am looking forward to when it comes to your tonight's game, Monday night football, which is going to feel so good. It's going to feel so good is I want to hear the crowd. I want to feel the crowd, man. Like people coming from far and wide,

maybe some Oaklanders, maybe some drunk people on vacation, maybe some business people. What does that sound like? It's not gonna sound like the black hole, but can it be exciting? Can it be, can it feel like Raider football? I love the stadium, objectively. I wanna see it full.

So I'm really looking forward to that atmosphere, man. Man. This guy. This guy, man. One time I got caught imitating John Gruden, did I ever tell you that? Yeah, you did. By John Gruden?

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I was at, practice and I used to do a really good John Gruden impersonation. I can't do it anymore. And guys were pressured me to do it and he was right behind me. Then I went in the production meeting and he grilled the fuck out of me like I was a quarterback. It was all in good fun. He likes me. Okay. We're sure about that? Oh, positive. Okay. Yeah. For sure. Maybe Las Vegas Raider Chris Long? Because this is the last year that is possible. I think the pirate ship has sailed on that one. All right. Y'all take care. Love is love.

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